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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. One woman was killed and two In jured In Belfast Tuosduy night In a bomb explosion. "The bomb was thrown from a railroad embankment Into the street. Twenty millions of Coreans are be ing reduced "to political and economic serfdom" by Japan, Dr. 1'hlllp Jalsohn, vice-chairman of the Corean commis sion to tho arms conference, asserted Tuesday In an address. Recognition by the United States of the far eastorn republic of Siberia Is hoped for by tho far eastern republic's trade mission to America, which ar rived In Victoria, D. C, Monday on tho steamer Empress of Asia, Skvlr sky, one of tho delegates, declared. Members of several armament dolo gatlons Informally suggested lust week that any thought of adjourning the sosslons for the Christmas holidays be abandoned In the expectation that by adopting such a course the delibera tions could be concluded by the end of December. Declaring willingness to abide by the limitations placed by the agenda on the subjects to be considered by the conference, the Italian delegation through a spokesman Tuesday showed a lively Interest In the possibility of a subsequent economic conference to consider the financial situation of Eu rope. Thirty-one more war law offenders In federal prisons have been uncov ered In the preparation by the depart ment of justice of digests of their cases for the attention of President Harding, Attorney-Genoral Daugherty said Tuesday. Examination of the records have revealed that tho total is 206. Albert Borde, CO, of Jacksonville, Ore., is lying at the point of death as the result of his falling Into a vat of boiling water Sunduy afternoon while helping a neighbor scald hogs. Mr. Dorde had a rope around the carcass of a hog and was dragging it toward the vat when the rope slipped, causing him to topple over backward Into the wator. C. Fred Kohl, San Francisco capi talist and clubman, who ended his life nt Del Monte last week, loft his wi dow, Mrs. Elizabeth 0. Kohl, her choice of $1000 a month for life or $250,000 outright. Ila bequeathed $250,000 and the residue of the estate to a friend, Mrs. Marlon Lord of New York, according to the terms of his will, filed for probate. Socretary Hughes, as chairman of the armament conference, Wednesday received Miss Kate Munieoms of Lon don, who called as representative of the working women of 48 nations par ticipating In tho Geneva conference. She assured Mr. Hughes of the deep gratification of those Bhe represented for the "advanced position taken by the American delegation." Grover C. Bergdoll, convicted draft evader, through his mother, Mrs. Em ma C. Bergdoll, has filed suit In the supreme court of the District of Co lumbia for return of property valued at $750,000, seized by tho government. Tho petition sets forth that Bergdoll Is a citizen of tho United States, re gards his stay In Germany as "tem porary, and expects to return." The Philippine islands should re main In their "present gcueral status" until the poople there "have had time to absorb and thoroughly master the power nlready in their hands," ex-Major-Genorul Leonard Wood, now governor-general, and W. Cameron Forbes, ex-governor-general, say In their report to President Harding, based on their six months' study of conditions In the Islands. Europe Is being treated as a negli gible quantity at the Washington con ference In the opinion of the Deutsche Allgemelne Zeltung, the organ of Hugo Stlnnes, leading German finan cier. It saw evidence in the circum stances that curtailing of naval arma ments has received primary considera tion, and that the Issue of land arma ments was not causing the conference apprehension. This attitude, Bald the newspaper, "gives France an Indefin ite franchise to continue her devasta tion of tho European mainland." WEEK FOUR.POWER ALLIANCE UP United States, Great Britain, France and Jupan Included. Washington, D. C The question of a three or four-power agreement to roplace the Anglo-Jupauese nlllanco la demanding Increased attention among arms delegates whllo they wait for Japan to deflno her posltlou on tho mivul ratio. The latest suggestion contemplating an entente to Include the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France, has developed to the point where a tentative treaty draft Is under consideration In some quarters al though It has not been formally pre sented to the conference, There are Indications that the Jap anese delegates and perhaps the Brit ish, are consulting their homo govern ment on such a proposition while they uro asking for further Instructions ou naval ratio. On tho part of the American gov ernment there apparently Is no dis position to entertain an entente pro posal, at least at present. Later such a suggestion may receive considera tion, provided It includes no require ments counter to American public opinion, Upon high authority It was said that tho naval problem as It was re ferred to Toklo Involved no proposal for a political agreement, but Is con cerned solely with the naval and mili tary aspects of the situation. The American delegation adheres to Its expectation that the naval issue will be settled without conditioning the docislon on a political rearrangement. Admiral Baron Kato of the Japa nese delegation said, however, that the naval question Involved Issues of far-reaching effect upon the national and International life of Japan and upon the policies of great powers for decades to come and perhaps perm anently. These Issues, he said, should be brought to the full knowledge and consideration of his government. May Give Germany More Time Paris. Germany will probably be granted a three years' delay In her cash indemnity payments, the Asso ciated Press Is Informed from the most reliable sources. Negotiations are going on between reparations officials of France and Great Britain, add responsible offi cials of both countries virtually agree that Germany must be given a breath ing spell. All that remains to be done is to work out a scheme acceptable to both countries. The suggestion of a three-year mor atorium has been abandoned at the solicitation of France. The French representatives explained that the word moratorium was offensive to the French people In connection with the indemnity, as It was understood to mean complete suspension of all pay ments. Railway Conditions Improve Chicago. Reports to the railroad labor board show steadily Improving conditions among the railroads, B. W. Hooper, vice-chairman of the board, Bald in a statement Sunday night. He pointed out that the board's decision not to consider wage reductions for any class of employes until working rules for the class had been disposed of, had not delayed consideration of wage disputes on any railroad or for any class of employes. His statement said: "The railroad situation Is more conducive-to optimism than it has been for many months. Absence of any serious general labor disturbance, combined with the disposition of the carriers to make voluntary reductions in freight rates will both contribute to the restoration of souud business conditions. Helium Elevates Blimp. Washington, D. C Naval Blimp C-7, the first airship ever to be Inflated with helium, the non-explosive gas, arrived over Washington Monday and landed at the navy aviation station at Anacostia, a suburb, for inspection by naval officials. The ship left Hamp ton Roads Monday morning and made quick time to Washington. The C-7 contains In her huge sliver envelope virtually the world's available supply of the new gas. x Allen to Be Protected. Washington, D. C. A proclamation has been issued by nationalist leaders lu India calling on loyal natives to assist In protecting all American and European non-combatants "during the revolution expected to break over In dia this month." This la according to Information received by Jtf. Giuse, director of the American commission to promote self-government in India. Washington, D. C Approval of 50 advances for agricultural and live stock purposes aggregating $2,813,000 was announced Monday by the war finance corporation. Washington state received $10,000. FARMER BUYS 111 BUI SELLS CHEAP He Pays $24 for Spuds in Cafe He Gets 60 Cents For. BEEF, WHEAT, SAME Nebraska Commission Trying to Dis cover Who Is Responsible for This Tremendous Spread. Omaha, Nob. A Nebraska state commission Is trying to discover who Is responsible for the tremendous "spread" In the price of farm products from the time they leave the farm to the time they appear on the table of the consumer. For two week the commission has been talcing testi mony and will continue to do so a month or so, The commission has developed some good "stuff." For Instance, It has found a bushel of potatoes, for which the farmer received about 60 cents, sell for $24 when served In a res taurant as baked potatoes. It has developed that coffee, which retails for 29 cents a pound at a gro cery, sells for $2 in a cafe. It has developed that a loaf of bread which costs, to bake, about six or seven cents, and retails for 11 cents, sellB for 90 cents when served as toast. It has developed that a pound of beef which the farmer sold for about 6 cents and which the retail market sells for 12 cents, is passed on to the customer as roast beef at a price of 46 cents as the ultimate consumer walks down the line at a cafeteria, Not only will the commission In vestigate the tremendous spread In farm product prices, but it will In vestigate the profit in clothing, In rents, In meats, in banks, and in all the phases of the cost of living or of doing business. The commission was appointed some time ago by Governor McKelvie and was instructed to get to the very bottom of the question. The commis sion has no power to punish, even though it finds where punishment be deserved. It can, however, make pub lic its findings and leave to the public the matter of punishment. That there are too many hands be tween the producer and the consumer was one of the early developments of the investigation. About ten profits are shown to be taken from the time the farmer sells his wheat until the loaf of bread appears on the table. All along the line, country elevator, railroad, terminal elevator, selling grain commission, purchasing grain commission, miller, jobber of flour, wholesaler of flour, baker, retailer all are shown to take a profit. ARBUCKLE JURY FAILS TO AGREE San Francisco. The Jury in the manslaughter case of Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle was discharged at noon Sunday when it was unable to agree after deliberating more than 41 hours. The final ballot stood 10 to 2, according to an announcement to the court by the jury foreman, but he did not then indicate whether it favored conviction or acquittal. The case was set for retrial January 9. August Fritze, the jury foreman, is sued a signed statement Beveral hours after the jury was discharged, saying that one of the woman jurors wlfo was lu the minority refused to consider the evidence from the beginning and de clared that "she would cast her ballot and would not change it until hell froze over." There were two Jurors who voted for conviction, according to Fritze. Marine Kill Farmer. Shreveport, La. Wylle Clark, a farmer, was Bhot and killed by a marine postal guard Sunday while a Kansas City Southern passonger train was standing at Blanchnrd, Caddo parish. A warrant for Willis was is sued. Willis was said to have con tinued with the train, not knowing the fate of the man he shot. Wit nesses said Clark was standing 12 feet from the train when the marine or dered him to move. 7000 Cotton Bale Burn. Greenwood, Miss. More than 7000 bales of long staple cotton were de stroyed by a fire of undetermined origin In the warehouse of the Green wood Compress & Storage company here Sunday night. The loss was estimated at $750,000. The Voice of t he Pack By CHAPTER I. Continued. 18 Into a little hollow In the bark, on he underside of the log, some hand tad thrust a small roll of papers, ttiey were raln-souked now, und the nit had dimmed and blotted ; but Dun eaiized their slgnillcance. They were lie complete evidence that Hlldreth tad accumulated against tho arson 1ng letters that hau passed back and 'orth between himself and Crunston, t threat of murder from the former if aildreth turned state's evidence, and i signed statement of the arson aetlv tle of the ring by Hlldreth himself. tome Hand Had Thrust a Small Roll of Paper. Chey were not only enough to break ip the ring and send its members to jrlson ; with the nld of the empty shell md other circumstantial evidence, hey could in all probability convict iert Cranston of murder. For a long time he stood with the ihudows of the pines lengthening ibout him, his gray eyes in curious ihndow. For the moment a glimpse vns given him into the deep wells of lie human soul; and understanding rame to him. Was there no balm for intred even in the moment of death? Were men unable to forget the themes tnd motives of their lives, even when lie shadows closed down upon them? 3ildreth had known what hand had itruck him down. And even on the 'rontier of death, his first thought was o hide his evidence where Cranston :ou!d not find It when he searched the ody, but where later It might be louud by the detectives that were sure o come. It was the old creed of a Ife for a life. He wanted his evidence 0 be preserved not that right should e wronged, but so that Cranston vould be prosecuted and convicted ind made to suiter. Ills hatred of anston that had made him turn itate's evidence In the first place had eon carried with him down Into loath. As Dan stood wondering, he thought le heard a twig crack on the trail be llnd him, and he wondered what for sst creature was still lingering on the Idges at the eve of the snows. The snow begun to full In earnest at nldnlght great, white flakes that al nost in nn Instant covered the leaves. t was the real beginning of winter, md all living creatures knew it. The volf pack sang to it from the ridge 1 wild and plaintive song that made Bert Cranston, sleeping in a lean-to m the Umpqun side of the Divide, iwear and mutter in his sleep. But he tldn't really waken until Jim Gibbs, me of his gang, returned from his lecret mission. They wasted no words. Bert flung lslde the blankets, lighted a candle md placed it out of the reach of the light wind. His face looked swarthy md deep-lined in its light. "Well?" he demauded. "What did (ou find?" "Notliin'," Jim Gibbs answered gut rurally. "If you ask nie what I found nit, I might have scmctliln' to an iwer." "Then" and Bert, after the man ler of his kind, breathed an oath 'What did you find out?" Ills tone, except for an added note if savagery, remained the same. Yet lis heart was thumping a great toil ouder than he liked to have it. Real's ng that the snows were at hand, he lad sent Gibbs for a last search of he body, to find and recover the evl lence that Hlldreth had against him md which had not been revealed either m Hiliireth's person or in his cabin. 3e had become increasingly appre lenslve pbout those letters he had vrltten Hlldreth, and certain other locuments that had been in his pos lesslon. He didn't understand why liey hadn't turned up. And now tt.e EDISON MARSHALL , snow had started, and Jlin Gibbs hnd returned enipty-hunded, but evidently not empty-minded. Tv tound thut the body' been un coveredand men ure nlreudy search in' for clues. And moreover I think they've found them," Ho paused, weighing the effect of his words. His eyes glittered with cunning. Itnt that he was, he was wondering whether the time had arrived to leave the ship. He had no Intention of continuing to give his services to a man with a rope noose closing about him. And Cruns ton, knowing tills fact, hated htm as he huted tlie buzzard that would claim him in the cud, und tried to hide his apprehension. "Go on. Bint It out," Crunston or dered. "Or else go away and let nie sleep." It was n bluff; but It worked. If Gibbs had gone without speaking, Cranston would have known no sleep thut night. But the man became more fawning. "I'm tellin' yon, fust as I can," he went on, ulmost whining. "I went to the cabin, Just as you said. But I didn't get a chance to search It " "Why not?" Cranston thundered, nis voice re-echoed uniong the snow wet pines. "I'll tell you why I Because some one else evidently a cop was al ready searchlu' It. Both of us know there's nothln' there, anyway. We've gone over It too many times. After a while he went away but I didn't turn back yet. That wouldn't be Jim Gibbs. I shadowed him, just as you'd want me to. And he went straight back to the body." "Yes?" Cranston had hard work curbing his Impatience. Again Gibbs' eyes were full of ominous specula tions. "He stopped at the body, and It was plain he'd been there before. He went crawling through the thickets, looklu' for clues. He done what you and me never thought to do lookln' ail the way between the trail and the body. He'd already found the brass shell you told me to get. At least, It wasn't there when I looked, after he'd gone. You should've thought of It before. But he found somethln' else a whole lot more Important a roll of papers that Hlldreth had chucked into an old pine stump when he was dyln'. It was your fault, Cranston, for not gettln' them that night. This detective stood and read 'em on the trail. And you know Just ns well as I do what they were." "D n you, I went back the next morning, as soon as I could see. And the mountain lion had already been there. 1 went back lots of times since. And that shell nln't nothing but alt the time I supposed I put It in my pocket. You know how It is a fellow throws his empty shell out by habit" Gibbs' eyes grew more intent. What was tills thing? Cranston's tone, In stead of commanding, was almost pleading. But the leader caught him self at once. "I don't see why I need to explain any of that to you. What I want to know is this: why you didn't shoot and get those papers away from him?" For an Instant their eyes battled. But Gibbs had never the strength of his leader. If he had, It would have been asserted long since. He sucked In his breath, and his gaze fell away. It rested on Cranston's rifle, that In some manner had been pulled up across his knees. And at once he was cowed. He was never so fast with a gun as Cranston. "Blood on my hands, eh same as on yours?" he mumbled, looking down. "What do you think I want, a rope around my neck? These hills are big, but the arm of the law has reached up before, and It might again. You might as well know first as last I'm not goin' to do any killin's to cover up your murders." "That comes of not going myself. You fool If he gets that evidence down to the courts you're broken the same as me." "But I wouldn't get more'n a year or so, at most and that's a heap dif ferent from the gallows. I did aim at him" "But you just lacked the guts to pull the trigger!" "I did, and I ain't ashamed of it But besides the snows are here now, and he won't be able to even get word to the valleys for six months. If you want him killed so bad, do It your self." This was a thought Indeed. On the other hand, another murder might not be necessary. Months would pass be fore the road would be opened, and In the meantime Cranston would have a thousand chances to steal back the accusing letters. He didn't believe for an Instant that the man Gibbs had seen wasa detective. He -had kepi too close watch over the roads foi that. "A tall chap. In outing clothes dark -haired and clean-shaven?" "Yesr "Wears a tan hat?" 'That' the man." "I know him and I wish you'd punctured him. That's Falling the tenderfoot that's been staying at Len nox's. He' a lunger." .......iiimimi Copyright, 10M, by Little, Brown & Co. "Ho didn't look like no lunger to me" "But no matter about that it' Just a I thought. And I'll get 'em back mark my little words." In the meantime the best thing to do wa to move at once to his winter trapping grounds n certain neglected region on the lower levels of the North Fork. If at any time within the next few weeks, Dun should attempt to curry word down to the settlement, he would be certain to puss within view of his camp. But he knew thnt the chance of Dan starting upon nny such Journey before tlie snow had melted was not one In a thousand. To IO caught In the Divide In the winter means to be snowod In as completely as tho Itmults of upper Greenland. No word could puss except by man on snowshoes. Yet If the chance did come, if the house should be left unguarded, it might pay Cranston to make tin Im mediate search. Dan would hnve no reuson for supposing that Cranston suspected his possession of the let ters; he would not be particularly watchful, and would probably pigeon hole thein until spring In Lennox's desk. And the truth was that Cranston had reasoned out the situation almost perfectly. When Dan awakened . In the morning, and the snow lay already a foot deep over the wilderness world, he knew that he would have no chance to act upon the Cranston case until the snows melted In tlie spring. So ho pushed all thought of it out of his mind and turned his attention to more pleasant subjects. It was true that he read the documents over twice as M lay In bed. Then he tied them Into a neat packet and put them away where they would be quickly available. Then he thrust his head out of the window and let the great snowflakes sift down upon his face. It was winter at last, the season that he loved. He didn't stir from the house that first day of the storm. Snowbird and he found plenty of pleasant tilings to do and talk about before the roaring fire that he built in the grate. He was glad of the great pile of wood that lay outside the door. It meant life It self, In this season. Then Snowbird led him to the windows, and they watched the white drifts pile Up over the low underbrush. When finally the snowstorm censed, five days later, the whole face of the wilderness was changed. The buck brush was mostly covered, the fences were out of sight; the forest seemed a clear, clean sweep of white, broken only by an occasional tall thicket and by the great, snow-covered trees. When the clouds blew away, and the air grew clear, the temperature began to fall. Dan had no way of knowing how low it went. Thermome ters were hot considered essential at the Lennox home. ' But when his eye lids congealed with the frost, and his "You Just Lacked the Guts to Pull th Trigger." mittens froze to the logs of firewood that he carried through the door, and the pine trees exploded and cracked In the darkness, he was correct in his belief that it was very, very cold. But he loved the cold, and the si lence and austerity that went with It The wilderness claimed him as never before: f-.The rugged breed that were hW ancestors had struggled through such seasons as this and passed a love of tlieni down through the years to him. " (TO CONTINUED.) Wedding Rings Use Much Gold. More than 7,000 pounds of pur gold, say an authority, are required each year to supply the wedding rings for bride.