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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1921)
WORLDHAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The first complete catapult for launching airplanes from a battleship is ready for installation at the Hamp ton Roads air station. Dr. Arturo Artia, chief bacteriolo gist of the Chilean Institute of Hy giene, announced recently that he had succeeded in discovering a method of isolating the bacteria of smallpox. Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania late Monday announced the appoint ment of State Senator William E. Crow of Uniontown as a United States senator. Mr. Crow will succeed the late Philander C. Knox. Five armed and masked men entered the branch of the Bank of Hamilton, OnL, Tuesday, compelled all the men and women employes to lie on the floor, rifled cages and vaults and es caped with $3000 In a motor car. Arrangements of a temporary char acter designed to improve communi cation facilities over the cable from Guam to the island of Yap terminal are rapidly approaching completion, it was announced in Washington Mon day. The Sunshine special, which left El Paso over the Texas & Pacific rail road at 5 o'clock P. M. Monday, for the east, turned over near Vanhorn, Tex., according to reports. Doctors and nurses were rushed to the scene of the accident. Unable to stop his bicycle, which had gotten beyond his control while going down a steep grade, Oscar Stone, 12, Omaha, Neb., collided with a horse which was feeding by the roadside near Council Bluffs, and was kicked to death Sunday. A box containing many official pa pers relating to the congressional in vestigation of the escape of Grover C. Bergdoll, the draft dodger, and some private family documents, was stolen Tuesday night from the office of Rep resentative Johnson, democrat, Ken tucky. The administration's peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary were ratified by the senate Tuesday night, the vote on the first two being GG to 20, or eight more than the neces sary two-thirds and In the case of the Hungarian treaty, due to the absence of three senators, 66 to 17. The schooner City of Papeete, sev eral days overdue, arrived In San Francisco Tuesday carrying 220,000 pounds of codfish and a crew badly in need of food. The stock of pro visions, according to Captain Firth, was exhausted and all aboard had been without food except fish for five days. Princess Chin, mother of the boy emperor of China, Hsuan Tung, ousted from the throne February 12, 1912, died October 1, and it was reported she committed suicide by taking opium. The reason was attributed by reports to a quarrel between Princess Chin and the empress dowager, Prin cess Chun. The threatened railroad strike was recognized in high official circles Tues day as having developed into the first real test of the practicability of the railroad labor board. , The outcome of the negotiations now In progress, it was declared, would determine wheth er an "entirely futile" agency has been created. The proposed Investigation of the Ku Klux Klan by congress blew up Monday. After a 10 minutes' session behind closed doors, the house rules committee, which previously had put William J. Simmons, the klan's im perial wizard, through a rigid examin ation, voted unanimously not to call any more witnesses. Orders closing the Berkeley pre vocatlonal school at Boston, where COO war veterans have been In attendance, were Issued Monday by Director For bes of the veterans' bureau, who said the school had been found to be un sanitary and unhealthy and he was satisfied that It "had been voucherlng the government for services never rendered." EX-KING CHARLES CAPTURED Hungary Confines Fallen Monarch in Castle for Disposition of Allies. Budapest. Ei Emperor Charles and ex-Empress Zita were captured Mon day near Komorn and are confined In the castle at Tata-Tovaros, guarded by two companies of government troops. Colonel Oestenburg's troops cover ing the retreat of the ex-rulers were forced to surrender and are prisoners. The second attempt of Charles to re-establish himself on the throne of Hungary was no more of a success than the first. There is not likely to be a third attempt, for Charles now awaits the pleasure of the allied powers as to his fate. The episode moved so rapidly that the full details have not yet reached the capital As far as is known at the present time Charles managed to push a trainload of troops to Budaor, a short distance from Budapest At first he held his own against the forces of Regent Horthy, but when the Horthy troops were reinforced Charles was compelled to beat a retreat at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, closely fol lowed by the Horthy forces to Her ceghalom. The retreat gained speed when it was learned that Colonel Hejjas was marching to take the Karlists in the rear and by dawn of Monday the army of Charles bad melted away so fast that the Horthy forces lost all touch with them. When he realized that the fortunes of war were going against him, Charles sent plenipotentiaries to Bu dapest in an endeavor to obtain terms. His efforts were unavailing. Charles' troops, realizing they had been caught between two fires the government troops In front and the forces of Col onel Hejjas behind they became pan ic stricken and Charles soon was left with only two companies of men, who were obliged to surrender. Charles and Zita were captured near Komorn. Zita pleaded plteously to be allowed to go back to her children, but her plea was politely though firmly refused. The former royal couple were taken to the mansion of Count Ester hazy at Tata Varos, where they are being carefully guarded until the pow ers decide what is to be done with them. MAIL TRUCK ROBBED; LOOT IS $1,000,000 New York. Three armed bandits in an automobile forced the driver of a mail truck to stop on lower Broadway late Monday night while they rifled the truck of four pouches of registered mail valued at 1,000,000 by the postal authorities. The truck was on its way from the city hall Btation to the Pennsylvania railroad terminal with 17 pouches of mail, 11 of them containing registered matter. The driver had gone only a few blocks when an automobile con taining three men drew alongside. They confronted him with drawn re volvers and ordered him to Blow down. At Leonard street two men Jumped from the automobile onto the truck and ordered the driver to get down from his seat. One held a revolver to the driver's head, he said, while the other pointed his weapon at his stomach. Forcing the driver to turn over the key, one bandit unlocked the cage and pawed over the pouches Inside. Selecting four, he transferred them to the automobile, which stood at the curb with Us motor running. After threatening to "blow his brains out" If he moved, the driver said, the trio moved off Broadway west through Leonard Btreet and disappeared. War Mother Get Seats. Washington, D. C. The war depart ment announced Monday that 1000 seats, about one-fifth of the total seat ing capacity of the memorial amphi theater at Arlington, Armistice day, had been reserved for gold-star mo thers or other nearest relatives of men who died in the world war. Not more than two seats will be given any applicant. Applications should be addressed to the adjutant-general, Washington, D. C. Home Canning Is Fatal, Walla Walla, Wash. Mrs. Catherine Ebding, 64, Is dead as the result of eating home-canned asparagus. She became ill after eating the vegetable Thursday and passed away Sunday. A portion of the canned asparagus was thrown into the chicken yard and the chickens that ate it died. Mrs. Eb ding is survived by Bix children. Her husband died about a year ago. Negro Lynched By Mob. Allendale, S. C Ed Kirkland, a negro, under arrest charged with kill ing a white farmer during an alter cation over rent, was taken from dep uty sheriffs Monday by a mob and lynched. Later his body was burned. STRIKE DESERTED BY 350,000 IRE Nine Major Rail Unions to Stay on Job October 30. WALKOUT IS DELAYED Clerks, Freight Handlers and Station Employes to Vote Again After Ruling of Labor Board. Chicago. The prospective rail strike, scheduled for October 30, was limited to approximately one-fourth of the na'ion's railroad employes when officials of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, freight Hand lers, Express and Station Employes, representing 350,000 men, voted not to authorize a walkout by their members for the present. The action increased the number of major rail unions which have voted not to strike to nine, and the number of railroad employes bound by such action to about three-fourths of the country's total of approximately 2, 000,000. The vote was taken in a meeting Sunday night in which some officials at first favored a walkout in protest of recent wage cuts. They finally swung over to a "no strike now" policy, but the question of quitting work will be taken up again after the labor board renders a decision on rules and working conditions. Sunday's action by the clerks left the signal men and the telegraphers the only organizations in the 11 "standard" rail unions which may Join the conductors, firemen, engineers, trainmen and switchmen in the strike they have called. The telegraphers tentatively have aligned themselves with the "big five," but officials of this union said that the decision might be changed before October 30. The signal men have not yet voted. While the official statement an nouncing the clerks' action said every thing had been harmonious in the meeting, individual officials declared the decision had been made only after a vigorous debate. The turning point in the debate came,, it was said, when the officials announced that they, like the leaders of the other "standard" unions, had not been able to persuade the brother hoods and the switchmen to agree to support them throughout the proposed strike. When it was announced that the brotherhoods had informed the offi cials that their men would return to work when their personal grievances had been settled, regardless of the ac tion of other striking unions, the sen timent swung to the "no strike" plan, it was said. It was Intimated by labor board members that the decision on rules and working conditions will not be forthcoming until after October 30, the date set for the proposed strike. Ex-King of Hungary Re ported to Be in Budapest Vienna. Charles, ex-king of Hun gary, entered Budapest Sunday after noon, according to a report telephoned here from Prague. This is not con firmed from other sources. All wires between Vienna and Hungary are cut. An earlier report was to the effect that soldiers supporting ex-Emperor Charles In his second attempt to re gain the throne in Hungary had reached Budaors, four miles from the capital, where sharp fighting was in progress Sunday. Regent Horthy was reported to be leading the troops against Charles. Sound of the guns was audible In Budapest. The situation, however, In Hungary 1b beyond the knowledge of the Austrian foreign office, which Sun day lost communication with Budapest. There have been many rumors, includ ing one reporting the entry of Charles into Budapest, the defection of some government forces .to him, repulse of the monarchist forces and other con flicting information. It is known, however, there has been brisk fighting near Budapest. Orient Trade Unsettled. Washington, D. C Fluctuating for eign trade in the far east was noted in a monthly survey of business and economic conditions issued by the commerce department. Existing ex change rates are an essential factor In fostering China's Importations, but have the reverse effect on China's ex ports. Advices from Toklo declared that the first half of October seemed to Indicate an Improvement in Japan's foreign trade. !:,L or toe ml cowtiw 7920 ax ijrrLe.n&oiMr aav) coPAinr. TO SHOOT OR BLUFF? Synopsis. Warned by his physi cian that be has not more than six months to live. Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, won- dering where he should spend those six months. Memories of his grand lather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous fron tiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennox's son, "Bill," i and daughter, "Snowbird." Their abode is in the Umpqua divide, and there Failing plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. From the first Failings health shows a marked improvement, and in the compan ionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he tits into the woods life as If he had been born to it By quick thinking and a remarkable display of "nerve" he saves Len nox's life and his own when they ' are attacked by a mad coyote. I Lennox declares he is a reincarna tion of his grandfather, Dan Faii- ! lng L whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. Dan learns that an organized band of outlaws, of which Bert Cranston is the leader. Is setting forest fires. Lan dry Hildreth, a former member of the gang, has been induced to turn state's evidence. Cranston shoots Hildreth and leaves him for dead. Whlsperfoot, the mountain Hon, springs on Hildreth and finishes him. I CHAPTER II Continued. 9 And as for Whlsperfoot the terror that choked his heart with blood be gan to wear off In a little while. The man lay so still in the thickets. Be sides, there was a strange, wild smell In the air. Whlsperfoot's stroke had gone home so true there had not even been a fight. The darkness began to lift around him, and a strange exulta tion, a rapture unknown before in all his hunting, began to creep Into his wild blood. Then, as a shadow steals, he went creeping back to his dead. Dan Failing had been studying na ture on the high ridges; and he went home by a back trail that led to old Bald mountain. The trail was Just a narrow serpent In the brush ; and It had not been made by gangs of laborers, working with shovels and picks. Possibly half a dozen white men, in nil, had ever walked along it. It was Just the path of the wild crea tures, .worn down by hoof and paw and cushion since the young days of the world. It was a roundabout trail home, but yet It had Its advantages. It took hiin within two miles of Snowbird's lookout station, and at this hour of day he had been particularly fortunate In finding her at a certain spring on the mountain side. It was rather a sin gular coincidence. Along about four he would usually find himself wander ing up that way. Strangely enough, at the same time, It was true that she had an irresistible Impulse to go down nnd sit In the green ferns beside the same spring. They always seemed to be surprised to see one another. In reality, either of them would have been considerably more surprised had the other failed to put In an appear ance. And always they had long talks, as the afternoon drew to twilight "But I don't think you ought to wait so late before starting home," the girl would always say. "You're not a human hawk, nnd It Is easier to get lost than you think." And this solicitude, Dan rightly fig ured, was a good sign. There was only one objection to It. It resulted In nn unmistnkble Inference that she considered him unable to take care of himself and that was the last thing on enrtb that he wanted her to think. He understood her well enough to know that her standards were the standards of the mountains, valuing strength and self-reliance above all things. . He didn't stop to question why, every day, he trod so many weary miles to be with her. She was as natural as a fawn ; and many times she had quite taken away his breath. And once she did It liter ally. He didn't think that so long as death spared hlra he would ever be able to forget that experience. It was her birthday, and knowing of It In time he had arranged for the delivery of a certain package, dear to a girlish heart, at her father's house. In the trystlng hour he had come tnidglng over the hills with It, and few experi ences In his life had ever yielded such unmitigated pleasure as the sight of her, glowing white and red, as she took off Its wrapping paper. It was a Jolly old gift, he recollected and when she had seen It, she fairly leaped at him. Her warm, round arms around his neck, and. the softest, loveliest Hps In the world pressed his. But In those days he didn't have the strength that be had bow. He felt he could endure the same experience again with no embarrassment whatever. Ills first Im pression then, besides abounding, In credible astonishment, was that she had quite knocked out his breath. But let It be said for him Hint he recov ered with notable promptness. His own arms had gone up and closed around her, and the girl had wriggled free. "But you mustn't do that I" she told him. "But, good Lord, girl I You did it to me I Is there no Justice In women?" "But I did it to thank you for this lovely gift. For remembering me for being so good and considerate. You haven't any cause to thank me." He had many serious difHcultles in thinking It out. And only one con clusion was obtainable that Snowbird kissed as naturally as she did any thing else, and the kiss meant exactly what she said It did and no more. But the fact remained that he would have walked a good muny miles far ther If he thought there was any pos sibility of a repeat. But all at once his fantasies were suddenly and rudely dispelled by the intrusion of realities. Dan had been walking silently himself in the pine needles. As Lennox had wondered at long ago, he knew how by Instinct; and Instinctively he practiced this at tainment as soon as he got out Into the wild. The creature he had heard was fully one hundred yards distant, yet Dan could hear him with entire plainness. And for a while he couldn't even guess what manner of thin:; It might be. A cougar that made so much no'sc would be Immediately expelled from the union. A wolf pack, running by Dan Saw His Purpose. sight, might crack brush as freely; but a wolf pack would also bay to wal e ihe dead. Of course It might be an elk or a steer, and still more likely, a bear. He stood still and listened. The sound grew nearer. Soon It became evident that the crea ture was either walking with two Tegs, or else was a four-footed animal put ting two feet down at the same in stant. Dan had learned to wait. He stood perfectly still. And gradually he came to the conclusion that he was listening to the footfall of an other man. But It was rather hard to imagine what a man might be doing on this lonely hill. Of course It might be a deer hunter; but few were the valley sportsmen who had penetrated to this far land. The footfall was much too heavy for Snowbird. The steps were evidently on another trail that inter sected his own trail one hundred yards farther up the hill. He had only to stand still, and In an Instant the man would come in sight He took one step into the thickets, prepared to conceal himself If It be came necessary. Then he waited. Soon the man stepped out on the trail. Even at the distance of one hundred yards, Dan had no difficulty whatever In recognizing him. He could not mistake this tall, dark form, the soiled, slouchy clothes, the rough hair, the Intent dark features. It was a man about his own age, his own height, but weighing fully twenty pounds more, and the dark, narrow eyes could belong to no one but Bert Cranston. He carried his rifle loosely In his arms. He stopped at the forks In the trail and looked carefully In all directions. Dan had every reason to think that Cranston would see htm at first glance. Only one clump of thicket sheltered him. But because Dan had learned the lesson of standing still, because bis olive-drub sporting dollies blended softly with the colored leaves, Crans ton did not detect him. He turned and strode on down the trail. lie didn't move quite like a man with Innocent purposes. There was something stealthy, something sinister In his stride, and the way he kept such a sharp lookout in all directions. Yet he never glunced to the trail for deer tracks, as he would have done had he been hunting. Without even waiting Jo meditate on the matter, Dan started to shadow him. Before one hundred yards had been traversed, he could better understand the Joy the cougar takes In his hunt ing. It was the same process a cau tious, silent advance In the trail of prey. Ho had to walk with the same caution, he had to take advantage of the thickets. He began to feel a curi ous excitement. Cranston seemed to bo moving more carefully now, examining the brush along the trail. Now and then he glanced up at the tree tops. And all at once he stopped and knelt In the dry shrubbery. At first all that Dan could see was the glitter of a knife blade. Crans ton seemed to be whittling a piece of dead pine Into fine shavings. Now he was gathering pine needles and small twigs, making a little pile of them. And then, Just as Cranston drew his match, Dan saw his purpose. Cranston was at his old trade set ting a forest fire. For two very good reasons, Dan didn't call to him at once. The two reasons were that Cranston had a rifle and that Dan was unarmed. It might be extremely likely thut Cranston would choose the most plausible and effective means of preventing an Inter ruption of his crime, and by the same token, prevent word of the crime ever reaching the authorities. The rifle contained five cartridges, and only one was needed. But the Idea of backing out, unseen, never even occurred to Dan. The fire would have a tremendous headway be fore he could summon help. Although It was near the lookout station, every condition pointed to a disastrous fire. The brush was dry as tinder, not so heavy as to choke the wind, but yet tall enough to carry the flame Into the tree tops. The stiff breeze up the ridge would certainly carry the flame for miles through the parched Divide before help could come. In the mean time stock and lives and homes would be endangered, besides the Irreparable loss of timber. There were many things that Dan might do, but giving up was not one of them. After all, he did the wisest thing of all. He simply came out in plain sight and unconcernedly walked down the trail toward Cranston. At the same instant, the latter struck his match. As Dan was no longer stalking, Cranston Immediately heard his step. He whirled, recognized Dan, and for one long Instant in which the world seemed to have time in plenty to make a complete revolution, he stood per fectly motionless. The match flared In his dark fingers, his eyes full of sin gular conjecturing rested on Dan's face. No Instant of the latter's life had ever been fraught with greater peril. He understood perfectly what was going on In Cranston's mind. The fire-fiend was calmly deciding whether to shoot or whether to bluff it out. One required no more moral courage than the other. It really didn't make a great deal of difference to Cranston. But he decided that the killing was not worth the cartridge. The other course was too easy. He did not even dream that Dan had been shadowing him and had seen his Intention. He would have laughed at the Idea that a "tenderfoot" could thus walk behind him, unheard. Without concern, he scattered with his foot the little heap of kindling, and slipping his pipe Into his mouth, he touched the flaring mntch to It. It was a wholly admir able little piece of acting, nnd would have deceived any one who had not seen his previous preparations. Then he walked on down the trail toward Dan. Dan stopped nnd lighted his own pipe. It was a curious little truce. And then he leaned back against the great gray trunk of a fallen tree. "Well, Cranston," he said civilly. The men had met on previous oc casions, and always there had been the same Invisible war between them. "How do you do, Failing," Cranston replied. No perceptions could be so blunt as to miss the premeditated In sult in the tone. He didn't speak In his own tongue at all, the short, gut tural "Howdy" that Is the greeting of the mountain men. He pronounced all the words with an exaggerated pre cision, an unmistakable mockery of Dan's own tone. In his accent he threw a tone of sickly sweetness, and his Inference was all too plain. He was simply calling Falling a milksop and a whlte-llver; Just as plainly as If he had used the words. The eyes of the two men met. Cranston's lips were slightly curled In an unmlstnkable leer. Dan's were very straight. And In one thing at least, their eyes looked Just the same. The pupils of both pairs had contracted to steel points, bright In the dark gray of the Irises. Cranston's looked some what red; and Dan's were only hard and bright Snowbird to the rescue. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hat to Be Clever. "She's a clever conversationalist" "She has to be, to cover op the breaks her husband makes."