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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. John Boyd Ddnlop, 81, known as the Inventor ' of the. pneumatic tire, died in Dublin Tuesday. His inven tion wag first introduced in 1888. A verdict in favor of the St. Louis Star wag returned by a jury in circuit court in St. Louis Monday in a $100, 000 libel suit brought by Alexander P. MacAuley of Toronto, Ont Without a record vote Tuesday the senate approved the house proposal increasing from $2000 to $2500 the ex emption to heads of families having net income of $5000 a year or less. General managers of railroads cen tering in New York announced Tues day that a "substantial percentage" of their employes has indicated they would remain at work notwithstanding the strike order. Unemployment as a "world crisis" will be considered at the third inter national labor conference which con vened at Geneva Tuesday, according to cabled advices received at the in ternational Tabor office. The Grand theater, operated at Ban don, Ore., by Mrs. E. A. Hartman and Bon, was burned Tuesday morning early, causing a loss of about $20,000 The Oddfellows hall was located In the theater building and suffered several thousand dollars damage. Postponement of the opening meet ing of the International conference on armament and far eastern af fairs until the morning of November 12 was intimated as probable by high officials Tuesday. More than 1200 girls and women re cently have applied for appointments as foreign missionaries, according to Miss Mabelle Rae McVeigh, candidate secretary of the Woman's American Baptist, Foreign Mission society, of New York. A suit In equity to enjoin the mid west cement credit and statistical bureau from "keeping up an unlawful combination and conspiracy in re straint of interstate trade and com merce in cement" was filed in federal court in Chicago Tuesday by the gov ernment. Newspaper sporting pages attract more of the young women students at Radcllffe college at Cambridge, Mass than the women's pages. Ninety-six per cont of the 600 students have been found by a census to be regular read ers of the newspapers, but only four claimed the women's pages as their favorite department. The Cunard line announced Tuesday that the Aqultanla, bringing Prime Minister Lloyd George and his official party to the armament conference at Washington, would sail from South ampton November 3, two days ahead of regular schedule. The prime mln ister is scheduled to remain in the United States until December 3. An indictment against Ralph II. Cameron, United States senator from Arizona, was returned by the federal grand jury at the last term of the United States district court in Phoe nix, Ariz., according to a brief entry made in the minute book of the court Tuesday. The indictment was on a charge of perjury, according to the entry. The business section of Tampa, Flor ida, is practically flooded under three feet of water as a result of the gulf storm Tuesday, according to advices over crippled transmission lines. No loss of life has been reported, but in dustry is at a standstill. The entire west coast of Florida is feeling the effects of the storm and is virtually isolated Insofar as communication Is concerned. As unexpected as a rainstorm in a desert, regulations permitting manu facture and use of beer for medical purposes were Issued Monday by the treasury department. The new rules cover comprehensively the use of beer, wines and spirituous liquors as medi cines. The amount of beer a physician may prescribe at one time for the use of the same person is limited to 2ft gallons, equivalent to a case, but no arbitrary limit is placed upon the num ber of such prescriptions a physician may write or the same person may obtain within a given period. CURRENT m REVEALS WORLD WAR HERO General Pershing Puts Sergeant Wood- fiU at Head of Valor List. Washington, D. C Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, in the opinion of General Pershing, deserves first place on the list of men who displayed outstanding heroism in action in France. Until Monday little was known of the value of, Sergeant Woodfill, who has been In the regular army for 20 years and who was commissioned a lieutenant during the war and pro moted to captain for heroism in action. On October 12, 1918, near Cunel, France, during the Meuse-Argonne of fensive, Sergeant Woodfill, then a lieutenant, cleaned out three machine gun nests, silencing the guns and killing 19 Germans, including one of ficer, and capturing three others. . Fortune smiled on Woodfill, who escaped without a serious wound, al though he faced four Germans at one time, an unnamed number at another, five in a fourth engagement, finally killing two more with a pick. These engagements followed each other In quick succession. Woodfill had been sent out by his brigade commander to locate the en emy's line. He actually located it when he came across the first machine gun nest, but could not be certain and pressed forward after killing the four men commanding that gun. He had just killed five Germans in a third machine gun nest and was about to Jump into the pit with drawn revolver when two other Germans turned their weapons upon him at short range. Falling to kill them with his revolver, Woodfill seized a pick which was lying close by and brained both of the enemy. How Woodfill managed to keep un der cover so long was the subject of much comment around the war de partment recently. He received the congressional medal of honor and was twice- decorated by France and once by Montenegro. His case would not have been brought to public attention now, but for the fact that General Pershing recently completed a series of the war records of the officers and soldiers who served during the war, deciding that the "outstanding heroism of Sergeant Samuel Woodfill entitled him to special mention" in the "report of the commanding general of the first army expeditionary forces on the or ganizations of the first army," which Is soon to be submitted to Secretary of War Weeks, PROCLAIMS THANKSGIVING Washington, D. C President Har ding issued a proclamation Monday night designating Thursday, November 24, as a day of Thanksgiving, devotion and prayer and urging the people to give thanks "for all that has been rendered unto them" and to pray "for a continuance of the divine fortune which has been showered so generous ly upon this nation." The proclamation in part follows: "That season has come when, alike In pursuance of a devout people's time honored custom and in grateful recog nition of favoring national fortunes, It is proper that the president should summon the nation to a day of devo tion, of thanksgiving for blessings be stowed and of prayer for guidance in modes of life, that may deserve con tlnuance of divine favor. "Foremost among our blessings is the return of peace and the approach to normal ways again. The year has brought us into relations of amity with all nations after a long period of struggle and turbulence. In thank fulness, therefore, we may well unite In the hope that providence will vouch safe approval to the things we have done, the aims which have guided us, the aspirations which have inspired us. We shall be prospered as we shall deserve prosperity, seeking not alone for the material things, but for those of the spirit as well; earnestly trying to help others, asking before all else the privilege of service. As we render thanks anew for the exaltation which came to us we may fittingly petition that moderation and wisdom shall be granted to rest upon all who are in authority in the tasks they must dis charge. Their hands will be steadied, their purposes strengthened, in answer to our prayers." Judge Denies Bias Story. Dedham, Mass. Judge Webster Thayer Monday night denounced as "absolutely false" reports that the jury at the trial of Nicolo Sacco and Bar tolomeo Vanzettl, convicted of a double murder during a highway rob bery at South Bralntree last year, was Instructed that it must convict them because they were Italians and radi cals. He Bald the reports had been pub lished overseas. Prague. Rumors are current that the "Duke d'Aosta, tuslo.tKing Vic tor Emmanuel of Italy, will be pro posed as a candidate for the Hun garian throne. E With Radicalism Beaten, Pros pects Are Bright. T0WNLEYISM BROKEN Initiated Measures Also Seem Sure to Have Been Voted at Polls To gether With Recall. Fargo, N. D. The measures to re vise the state government have been passed at the state-wide recall elec tion which also repudiated the Non partisan league. Now the future opens with what the people believe are bright prospects. They feel that they are through with socialists and radical rule. Returns collected at Fargo Saturday night from all but 258 precincts out of 2086 in the state gave the following vote on governor: R. A. Nestos, in dependent, 106,148; Lynn J. Frazier, Non-partisan, 96,866. Nestos' major ity, 9282. The early Nestos lead of 27,000 had been cut down by belated returns from the western "slope" counties, the Non-partisan league strongholds, but the swing away from Townleyism was apparent even in the west, and victory was assured not only for Mr. Nestos, but for his two associates on the in dependent ticket. . -.' Initiated measures, backed by the independents, curbing the frenzied fin anciering of the league administration, also seemed certain to carry. The state where the Non-partisan league was born, where it flourished and ruled with a high and lavish hand for five years, has awakened from feverish dreams of state socialism to face the costly reckoning. R. A. Nestos has been elected gov ernor, Sveinbjorn Johnson attorney general and Joseph A. Kitchen com missioner of agriculture and labor. Important initiated laws appear to have carried, carrying out part of the programme announced by -the inde pendents. These laws, if passed, will end . up the Bank of North Dakota, establish a state rural credits system like that of South Dakota, limit state- bond is sues to $7,500,000, except as secured by real estate mortgages, restore the Old law for depositories of public funds and change the membership qf the in dustrial commission. The 'new com mission is to consist of John Steen, state treasurer; Thomas Hall, secre tary of state; and Joseph A. Kitchen, the new commissioner of agriculture and labor. All are independents. UNIONS CALL OFF RAILROAD STRIKE Chicago. The rail strike, scheduled for October 30, was averted Friday night when leaders of the switchmen, trainmen, conductors, engineers and firemen at a joint . meeting adopted resolutions withdrawing authorization of a walkout and officials of the rail road telegraphers' organization an nounced they . would take similar action. These were the only unions which had authorized a strike. The vote in the Individual unions was unusually close, however, the fire men particularly holding lengthy ar guments before agreeing to cancella tion of the strike order, the labor chieftains said. In some of the groups the ballot was described as "the clos est in history on a similar question." All of the differences were, ironed out by the different unions, however, and the final showdown found all of them casting their ballots for "no strike." Mall Put Under Guard. New York. Fifteen motorcycles with sidecar attachments, driven by armed postal employes, were put Into service Saturday to accompany wagons loaded with valuable mail. The ma chines were ordered by Postmaster Morgan at the instance of Postmaster General Hays, because of the mall truck robbery last Monday, in which robbers escaped with $1,500,000 worth of money and securities. Bank Resources Decline. Washington, D. C. Aggregate re sources of the 30,815 banks in the country, amounting to $49,688,839,000, declined by $3,390,269,000 during the last fiscal year, according to a state ment of bank reports for June 30, is sued by the controller of the currency. The 8154 national banks reported showed a reduction In resources of $2,893,391,000. W Bi NORTH nttSltlSMSSMM TTHiie Voice ff ttHie IPacIs By CHAPTER III Continued. 11 It is extremely doubtful if a plains nan would have possessed this knowl dge. But a plainsman has not the mowledge of life itself that the moun alneer has, simply because he does tot see it in the raw. And he has not lalf the intimate knowledge of death, a absolute 'requisite of self-com-Kisure. The mountaineer knows life n Its simple phases with little tradl lon or convention to blur the vision. )eath is a very Intimate acquaintance hat may be met in any snowdrift, on diy rocky trail; and these conditions ire very deadly to any delusions that le has in regard to himself. He ac lulres an ability to see just where he tands, and of course that means self lossesslon. This quality had something o do with the remarkable record that he mountain men, such as that mag- ilflcent warrior from Tennessee, made n the late war. Cranston knew- exactly what Snow ilrd would do; Although of a higher irder, she was a mountain creature, iven as himself. She meant exactly vhat she said. If he hadn't climbed !rom Dan's prone body, she would mve shot quickly and very straight If le tried to attack either of them now, ler finger would press back before he iould blink an eye, and she wouldn't veep any hysterical tears over his lead body. If he kept his distance, she wouldn't shoot at all. He meant 0 keep his distance. But he did know hat he could Insult her without dan ger to himself. , And by now his lips iad' acquired their old curl of scorn. ; "I'll go, Snowbird," he said. "I'll eave you with your sissy. But I guess ou saw what I did to him in two nlnutes." "I saw. But you must remember le's sick. Now go." "If he's sick, let him stay in bed ind have a wet nurse. Maybe you can ethat." The lids drooped halfway over her rray eyes, and the slim finger curled nore tightly about the trigger. "Oh, wish I could shoot you, Bert!" she laid. She didn't whisper It, or hiss It, r hurl It, or do any of the things most people are supposed to do in moments )f violent emotion. She simply said t, and her meaning was all the :learer. "But you can't. And I'll pound that milk-sop of yours to a Jelly every time see him. I'd think, Snowbird, that fou'd want a man." He started up the trail; and then die did a strange thing. "He's more of 1 man than you are, right now, Bert," she told him. "He'll prove it some lay." Then her arm went about Dan's neck and lifted his head upon her ireast; and In Cranston's plain sight, she bent and kissed him, softly, on the Hps. Cranston's answer was an onth. It Jrlpped from hla Hps, more poisonous, nore malicious than the venom of a make. His features seemed to tight en, the dark lips drew away from his teeth. No words' could have made llm such an effective answer as this lttle action of hers. And as he turned ip the trail, he called down to her name that most dreadful epithet that foul tongues have always used to women held in greatest scorn. Dan struggled in her arms. The diss on his Hps, the instant before, had not called him out of his half ;onsetousness.. It had" scarcely seemed real, rather Just an incident in a bliss ful dream. But the word called down the trail shot out clear and vivid from the silence. Just as a physician's face will often leap from the darkness af ter the anesthesia. Something Infinite ly warm and tender was holding him, pressing him back against a holy place thnt throbbed and gave him life and strength ; but he knew that this word had to be answered. And only actions, not other words, could be Its payment. All the voices of his body called to film to UetlU;.:but the. voices of the spirit, those higher, "nobler promptings from which no man, to the glory of the breed from which he sprung, can ever quite escape, were stronger yet He tugged upward, straining. But he aidn't even have the strength to break the hold that the soft arm had about his neck. "Oh, If I could only pull the trig ger I" she was crying. "If I could only kill him" "Let me," he pleaded." "Give me the pistol. Til kill him" And he would. There was no flinch ing in the gray eyes that looked up to her. She leaned forward, as If to put the weapon In his hnnds, but at once drew it back. And then a single sob caught at her throat An instant later they heard Cranston's laughter as he vanished around the turn of the trail. ' - . For long minutes the two of them were still. The girl still held the man's head upon her breast. The pistol had fallen In the pine needles, and her nervous hand plucked strangely at the leaves of a mountain flower. To Dan's eyes, there was something trancelike, a hint of paralysis and Insensibility about her rosture. He had never seen her eyes like this. The light that he had always beheld in them had van EDISON MARSHALL ished. Their utter darkness startled him. He sat up straight, and her arm that had been about his neck felt at her side. He took her hand firmly In his, and their eyes met. "We must go home. Snowbird," he told her simply. "I'm not so badly hurt but that I can make it." She nodded; but otherwise scarcely seemed to hear. Her eyes still flowed with darkness. And then, before his own eyes, their dark pupils began to contract. The hand he held filled and throbbed with life, and the fingers closed around his. She leaned toward him. "Listen, Dan," she said quickly. "You heard didn't you the last thing that he said?" "I couldn't help but hear, Snow bird." Her other hand sought for his. "Then if you heard payment must be made. . You see what I mean, Dan. Maybe you can't see, knowing the girls that live on the plains. You were the cause of his saying it, and you must answer " It seemer to Dan that some stern code of the hills, unwritten except In the hearts of their children, Inexorable as night, was speaking through her lips. This was no personal thing. In some dim, half-understood way, It went back to the basic code of life. "People must fight their own fights, up here," she told him. "The lnws of the courts that the plains people can appeal to are all too far away. There's no one that can do it, except you. Not my father. My father can't fight your battles here, If your honor Is going to stand. It's up to you, Dan. You can't pretend that you didn't hear him. Such as you are, weak and sick "I Guess You Saw What I Did to Him." to be beaten to a pulp In two minutes, you alone will have to make him an swer for it I came to your aid and now yon must come to mine." Her fingers no longer clasped his. Strength had come back to him, and his fingers closed down until the blood went out of hers, but she was wholly unconscious of the pain. In reality, she was conscious of nothing except the growing flame In his face. It- held her eyes In passionate fascination. His pupils were contracting to little bright dots In the gray Irises. The Jaw was setting, as she had never seen it be fore. "Do you think, Snowbird, that you'd even have to ask me?" he demanded. "Don't you think I understand? And it won't be in your defense only my own duty." "But he is so strong and you are so weak "I won't be so weak forever. I nev er really cared much about living be fore. I'll try now, and you'll see oh, Snowbird, wait and trust me: I understand everything, It's my own fight when you kissed me, and he cried down that word In anger and Jealousy, It put the whole thing on me. No one else can make him answer; no one else has the right It's my honor, no one else's, that stands or falls." He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed it again and again. And for the first time he saw the tears gathering In her dark eyes. "But you fought here, didn't you, Dan?" she asked with painful slowness. "You didn't put np your arms or try to run away? I didn't come till he had you done, so I didn't see." She looked at hlra as If her whole joy of life hung on his answer. "Fought! I would have fought till I died ! But that Isn't enough, Snowbird.- It isn't enough just to -fight, In a case like this. A man's got to win ! I would have died If you hadn't come. And that's, another . debt that I have to pay only that -debt I owe to you,". She nodded siowly. The lives of 1 ft sksMMtfl! Copyright, 1920, by Little, Brown & Co. the mountain men are not saved by their women without Incurring obliga tion. She attempted no barren de nials. She made no effort to pretend he had not incurred a tremendous debt when she had come with her pistol. It was an unavoidable fact. A life for a life Is the code of the mountains. "Two things I must do before I can ever dare to die," he told her soberly. "One of them is to pay you ; the other is to pay Cranston for the thing he said. Maybe the chance will never come, for the first of the two ; only I'll pray that It will. Maybe It would be kinder to you to pray that It wouldn't; yet I pray that It will ! Maybe I can pay that debt only by being always ready, always watching for a chance to save you from any danger, always trying to protect you. You didn't come In time to see the fight I made. Besides I lost, and little ,else mat ters. And that debt to you can't be paid until sometime I fight again for you and win." He gasped from his weakness, but went on bravely. "I'll never be able to feel at peace, Snow bird, until I'm tested In the fire before your eyes I I want to show you the things Cranston suld of me are not true that my courage will stand the test. "It wouldn't be the same, perhaps, with an Eastern girl. Other things matter In the valleys. But I see how It Is here; that there Is only one standard for men and by that stand ard they rise or full. Things In the mountains are down to the essen tials." He paused and struggled for strength to continue. "And I know what you said to him," he went on; "Half-unconscious as I was, I remem ber every word. Each word just seems to burn Into me, Snowbird, and I'll make every one of them good. You said I am a better man than he, and sometime It would be proved and it's the truth I Maybe in a month, maybe In a year. I'm not going to die from this malady of mine now, Snowbird. I've got too much to live for too many debts to pay. In the end, I'll prove your words to him." His eyes grew earnest, and the hard fire went out of them. "It's almost as if you were a queen, a real queen of some great kingdom," he told her, tremulous with a great awe that was stealing over him, as a mist steals over water. "And because I had kissed your fingers, for ever and ever I was your subject, living only to fight your fights maybe with a dream In the end to kiss your fingers again. When you bent and kissed me on that hill side for him to see It was the same: that I was sworn to you, and nothing mattered In my life except the service and love I could give you. And It's more than you ever dream, Snowbird. It's nil yours, for your battles and your happiness." The great pines were silent above them, shadowed and dark. , Perhnps they were listening to an age-old story, those vows of service and self gained worth by which the race has struggled upward from the darkness. "But I kissed you once before," she reminded him. The voice was Just a whisper, hardly louder than the stir of the leaves In the wind. "But that kiss didn't count," he told her. "It wasn't at all the same. I loved you then, I think, but It didn't mean what it did today." "And what " she leaned toward him, her eyes full on his, "does It ) mean now?" "All that's worth while In life, all that matters when everything Is said that can be said, and all Is done that can be done. And It means, please God, when the debts are paid; that I may have such a kiss again." "Not until then," she told him, whispering. "Until then, I tnnke oath that I won't even ask It, or receive It if you should give It. It goes too deep, dear estand It means too much." This was their pact. Not until the debts were paid and her word made good would those Hps be his again. There was no need for further words. Both of them knew. In the skies, the gray clouds were gathering swiftly, as always in the mountains. The raindrops were fall ing one and one, over the forest. The summer was done, and fall had come In earnest. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Ancient History. : Ancient history begins with the first recorded history and Extends to the fall of the Roman empire, 476 u D., Including all the historical events in cluded In the Bible. The prehistoric period Is the period about which noth ing is known, either from the Bible or other sources. It has no limits, and scientists, historians and archaeolo gists give varying opinions as to Its probable extent Has 14,000,000 Readers. 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