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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1922)
on D HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. A New York dispatch says the state of Oregon's $10,000,000 issue of i per cent soldiers' bonus bonds was bought Tuesday by a syndicate headed by Stacy & Braun. The bid was 100.179. Permission is granted the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad by tne Interstate commerce commission to. issue 130,000,000 in new bonds to pro vide funds for additions and improve ments to its lines. Laden with about 7000 tons of corn and manned by an all-Amerlcan crew, the steamship Western Maid sailed from Baltimore Tuesday for Reval, where the cargo will be unloaded for starving Russians. Plans announced In Rochester, N. Y., Tuesday provide for what local officials think would be the largost single school building In the world. It will cover 3 acres and will have 211 rooms. Its estimated cost is $4, 000,000. Unless Armistice day is specifically agreed upon as a holiday, railroad em ployes must be paid for that day, even if they do not work, under a decision of the United States labor board In a clerks' dispute on the Pere Marquette railroad. The number of idle freight cars in creased by 27,998 between January 1 and January 8, according to reports to the car service division of the Ameri can Railway association. On the lat ter dute the number of idle cars was given as 640,673. Chicago's 52,700,000 municipal repair shops have been closed as a failure, it became known, following an Investi gation by a committee of aldermen. City work done there "cost 300 per cent of what it would have cost" in commercial shops. Bread prlceB were reduced 1 cent in Chicago Tuesday, Russell J. Poole, secretary of the city council commit tee on living costs, announced, Pound loaves heretofore selling for 10 cents were sold for 9 cents and 24-ounce loaves previously sold tor 15 cents went at 14 cents. The Unltod States cruiser Brooklyn, credited with having fired the first shot against Admiral Cervera's fleet In the battle of Santiago during the Spanish-American war, has been sold by the government to nn Oakland, California, firm for Junk. The Brook lyn, now obsolete, was built in 1896. The arrest of Benjamin Orcenherg in Boston, Mass., on charges of at tempting to dispose of bonds alleged to have been part of the loot in a $1, 000,000 robbery at Los Angeles last March was followed Tuesday by of tidal statements indicating that in vestigations were taking a wide range. The proposal of the Lehigh Valley railroad for a reduction in the wages of Us firemen and oilers will be sub mitted to the railroad labor board This was decided at a conference be tween representatives of the men and officials of the company, at which it was found impossible to reach a sot tlement. Severe shocks felt in many sections of Los Angeles Tuesday night, shat tering window glasses In some quar ters and shaking frame dwellings in nine distinct Bluuks between 7:10 and 8:30 o'clock, agitated many residents. The shocks were of such extent in residential sections that from several placet it was reported that people fled from their houses and congregated in the streets. Plastering in many resi dences was cracked. The programme which the American farm bureau will submit to the na tional agricultural conference when It convenes next week will call for early enactment by congress of laws "clear ly defining rights of the farmers to market their products cooperatively In making this announcement, the bureau said Its economic aud legisla tive proposals would be based on the plan adopted at the convention In At lanta, Ga. Also, It was said Informa tion which the department of agricul ture Is collecting on farm tenantry and other problems will be made avail able to the delegates. RELIEF FOR FARMERS URGED President Emphasizes Seriousness of Situation of Agriculturists. Washington, D. C. Immediate re lief must be given farmers in the present agricultural crisis, delegates to the national agricultural conference, which convened Monday, were told by the speakers. President Harding, who epened the conference, Secretary Wal lace, farmers and representatives of Industries dependent on agriculture, emphasized the seriousness of the sit uation and suggested remedies. Remedial measures outlined by the president and subsequently indorsed by many speakers included more ade quate financial facilities, especially working capital, for the farmer on long-time loans to provide for his turnover; extension of co-operative marketing, buying and loan associa tions of farmers; development of waterway transportation and power possibilities; more efficient machinery for collecting and distributing market Information, including the demand and consumptive outlook; development of the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes water way project and assurance to agricul ture of equality of opportunity with all other industries. Demand for reduction of freight rates was voiced generally by the farmers and a reduction in retail prices also was suggested as a neces sary step to start increased consump tion of farm products. Depression in agriculture, which was declared by speakers from five leading farm regions to be general in the United States, is reflected In in dustries intimately connected with and dependent on a prosperous agri culture, it was asserted by representa tives of the milling, packing, fertilizer and implement industries. Each of the latter pledged full co-operation with agriculture in any effort looking to restoration of normal conditions. Secretary Wallace outlined the pur pose of the conference after President Harding had delivered his address and Representative Anderson of Minne sota was made permanent chairman, while 12 major committees were ap pointed to study problems with the view of submitting recommendations. W. J. Bryan late in the afternoon described the conference as one of the most Important held in this coun try in a long time. Agriculture, he said, was In the worst condition In 30 years and he could not see how there could be any general prosperity until the condition of the farmer was im proved. Touching on other questions he de clared that the present congress had done more than previous ones "be cause I think It's more scared than other congresses." Praising the agricultural bloc, he said it was different from other blocs because Its members had "acted open ly and the others acted secretly." New Pope Slated to Act. Washington, D. C Some under standing between the Catholic church and the orthodox church of Russia may be an act of the next pope. Bene dict XV, entering into negotiations with Lenine, obtained the liberation of the archbishop Monsignor Edward de Ropp, who has been hejd a prison er by the bolshevlkl. Once the Ice was brokou, Benedict continued to negotiate for the release of Russian and Pulish ecclesiastics. Pacific Cable Repaired. San Francisco. The break in the commercial Pacific cable near Midway island has been repaired, according to word received Monday by the foreign trade department of the San Francisco chamber of commerce, the work hav ing been done by the cable company's staff at Midway. The staff went out six miles in smalt boats, raised the cable by hand and put in a temporary splice. Grain Moving to Russia. Washington, D. C Since the con gressional appropriation of $20,000,000 for Russian famine relief was passed, 12 food cargoes consisting of 3,000,000 bushels of grain have been shipped from this country, Secretary Hoover said Monday. Ho added that 18 ves sels are loading more than 3,000,000 bushels of grain. Coins to Be Memorial. Washington, D. C Authority for the director of the mint to direct coin age of the Grand Memorial gold dollar and silver half, was granted In a bill house. The measure provides for the coinage of 10,000 gold dollars and 250, 000 silver half dollars. Loaf of Bread 1 Cent. Great Falls, Mont At a result of a continuation of the price war between local bakeries, bread was selling at most retail ttoret here Monday for 1 cent a loaf. The loaves weigh 16 ounces. POPE LOSES L BATTLE FOR LIFE Death Takes Pontiff at Six Sunday Morning. NO HOPE AT MIDNIGHT Holy Father Remains Cheerful During Illness Household at Bedside Until End Comes. Rome. Pope Benedict died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. The end had been expected for sev eral hours. The attending physicians, Cardinal Gasparrl and other members of the pope's household were present at the bedside. Prom midnight all hope had been abandoned and at 2 o'clock Dr. Bat tistlni had announced that the pope could not live longer than four hours at the maximum. At 3 o'clock Dr. Cherublni, Cardinal Glorgi and the pope's nephew gath ered around the bedside, the end seemingly being near. The pope ap peared to be in considerable distress. His extremities then were becoming cold. After the publication of the bulletin announcing that all hope had been given up, Monsignor Nigone, Father Basil and Dr. Battistlni also remained by the bedside. After a time the doc tor told his holiness that they were praying for the peace of the world, to which the pope replied: "I would willingly offer my life for the peace of the world." He then turned on his side and lay watching those near him. At 2 A. M. the first definite symp toms of approaching death were marked. At one lucid period the pope was able to partake of nourishment; he then instructed the major domo to wake him in time for mass, to be cele brated at 5:30 A. M. in his chapel, adjoining the bedroom. There had been moments Saturday when it was feared the end had come, but stimulants revived the pontiff, and his natural powers of resistance carried him through the turning point temporarily. He seemed to cling to life as did Pope Plus X in 1914 when the final outsome was in doubt for many hours. Saturday was a day of great un certainty in Rome and deep anxiety among those who watched and prayed at the Vatican, for virtually all hope of the pope's recovery had been aban doned even In early morning. Exports Take Big Drop. Washington, D. C Exports of man ufacturers fell off by $2,000,000,000, shipments out of the country of raw materials dropped by nearly $1,000, 000,000, and foodstuffs exports de clined by about $500,000,000 during 1921, the commerce department an nounced Saturday. Imports showed similar declines In the various groups of commodities. During 1921 exports of manufactur ers aggregated $2,025,000,000, com pared with $4,163,000,000 during 1920, while Imports aggregated $962,000,000 (luring 1921, as against $1,689,000,000 the previous year. Raw materials exported In 1921 amounted to $984,000,000, as compared with $1,970,000,000 in 1920, while im ports totaled $863,000,00, against $1,- 751,000,000 during 1920. Shipments of foodstuffs during the past year aggregated $1,461,000,000, as compared with $2,033,000,000 during 1920, while imports totaled $672,000, 000, against $1,815,000,000 during 1920. Pope's Memorial Plan, New York. The Knights of Colum bus will undertake a million-dollar welfare work in Italy as a memorial to Pope Benedict XV, James H. Fla herty announced here. "The death of Pope Benedict," be said, "is a personal loss to every one of the 800,000 mem bers of the Knights of Columbus. He was the first supreme pontiff person ally to commission the Knights of Columbus to perform a definite work and we shall make that work a mem orlal to him." Rentalt Still Soar. Washington, D. C Additional evi dence of soaring rental charges here was given Saturday to the senate by Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, who said that the owners of the building which houses the department of Jus tice had proposed an increase of "only some 400 or 600 per vent" when the lease expires In June. Senator King, democrat, Utah, suggested that the government appeal the case to the district rent commission. OF THE lit j MM COPYPKfT. 79ZO SV LI TrLE. CHAPTER III Continued. 23 He was rlsKlng everything for the lake of speed. He gave no heed to the fallen timber that might have torn the (reb of his snow shoes to shreds. Be- :ause he shut out all thought of it, he and no feeling of fatigue. The fight with Cranston had been a frightful strain on muscle aud nerve; but he icarcely remembered it now. His whole purpose was to return to Snow- Mrd before the wolves lost the last of their cowardice. The jerked venison that he had oaunched had brought him back much f his strength. He was wholly uncon idous of his heavy pack. Never did he glide so swiftly, so softly, with mch unerring step; and it was noth ing more or less than a perfect expres lion of the iron-clad control that his Bteel nerves had over his muscles. Then, through the silence, he heard the shout of the pack as the wolf had leaped at Snowbird. He knew what it meant. The wolves were attacking then, and a great flood of black, hating bitterness poured over him at the thought he had been too late. It had all been in vain, and before the thought could fully go home, he heard the dim, far-off crack of a pistol. Was that the first of the three shots, the one she might expend on the wolves, or had the first two already been spent and was she taking the last gateway of escape? Perhaps even now Lennox was lying still on the sled, and she was standing before the ruin of her fire, praying that her soul might have wings. He shouted with all the power of his lungs across the snow. But Snowbird only heard the soft glide of the wolves in the snow. The wind was blowing toward Dan; and while he had heard the loud chorus of the pack, one of the most far-carrying cries, and the penetrating crack of a pistol, she couldn't hear his answering shout. In fact, the wilderness seemed preternaturally still. All was breath less, heavy with suspense, and she stood, Just as Dan had thought, be tween the ruin of her fire and the sled, and she looked with straight eyes to the oncoming wolves. "Hurry, Snowbird," Lennox was whispering. "Give me the pistol for that last work. We have only a mo ment more." He looked very calm and brave, half raised as he was on the sled, and per haps a half-smile lingered at his beard ed lips. And the bravest thing of all was that to spare her, he was willing to take the little weapon from her hand to use It In its last service. She tried to smile at him, then crept over to his side. The struin was over. They knew what they had to face. She put the pistol in his steady hand. His hand lowered to his side and he sat waiting. The moments passed. The wolves seemed to be waiting, too, for the last flickering tongue of the little fire to die away. The Inst of her fuel was Ignited and burning out; they were crouched and ready to spring if she should venture forth after more. The darkness closed down deeper, and at last only a column of smoke re mained. It was nothing to be afraid of. The great, gray leader of the pack, a wolf that weighed nearly 100 pounds, be gan slowly and deliberately to set his muscles for the spring. It was the same as when the great bull elk comes to bay at the base of the cliffs; usual ly some one wolf, often the great pack leader, wishing to remind his followers of his might, or else some full-grown male proud In his strength, will attack alone. Because this was the noblest game that the pack lind ever faced, the leader chose to make the first leap himself. It was true that these two had neither such horns nor razor edged hoofs as the elk, yet they had eyes that chilled his heart when he tried to look at them. But one was lying almost prone, and the fire wus out Besides, the madness of starva tion, luteiislfled ten times by their ter rible realization of the wound at her hip, was upon the pack as never be fore. The muscles bunched at his lean Banks. But as Snowbird and her father gazed at him In fascinated horror, the great wolf suddenly smashed down In the snow. She was aware of Its curi ous, utter collapse actually before the sound of the rifle shot that occasioned ll had penetrated her consciousness. It was a perfect shot et long lange; and for a long instant her toitured faculties refused to accept the truth. Then the rifle spoke ngnln, and a sec ond woif a large male that crouched on the other tide of the tied fell kick ing In the snow. The pack had leaped forward at the first death; but they halted at the second. And then ter ror came to them when the third wolf suddenly opened It savage Hps and screamed In the death agony. Up to Uils time, except for the re port of the rifle, the attack had beea e BBO WAT. AJVZ made in utter silence. The reason was Just that both breath and nervous force are needed to shout; and Dan Falling could afford to waste neither of these vital forces. He had dropped to his knee, and was firing again and again, his gray eyes looking clear and straight along the barrel, his Angers without jerk or tremor pressing again and again at the trigger, ills hands holding the rifle as In a vise. Every nerve and muscle were completely in his command. The distance was far, yet he shot with deadly, amazing ac curacy. The wolves were within a few feet of the girl, and a fraction's waver in the gun barrel might have sped his bullet toward her. "It's Dan Failing," Lennox shouted as the fourth wolf died. Then Snowbird snatched her pistol from her father's hand and opened fire. The two shells were no longer needed to free herself and her father from the agony of fangs. She took careful aim, and although a pistol is never as ac curate or as powerful as a rifle, she killed one wolf and wounded another. Frenzied in their savagery, three or four of the remaining wolves leaped at the body of one of the wounded; but the others scattered in all direc tions. Still Dan fired with the same un believable accuracy, and still the wolves died in the snow. The girl and the man were screaming now in the frenzied Joy of deliverance. The wolves scurried frantically among the trees; and some of them unknowingly ran full In the face of their enemy, to be shot down without mercy. And few Indeed were those that escaped to collect on a distant ridge, and, per haps, to be haunted In dream by a death that came out of the shadows to blast the pack. Again the pack song would be de spairing and strange in the winter nights that age old chant of Famine and Fear and the long war of exist- "We Will Take It Easy From Now-On." ence with only Death and Darkness In the end. And because It Is the voice of the wilderness Itself, the tender foot that camps In the evergreen for est will listen, and his talk will die at his lips, and he will have the begin nings of knowledge. And perhaps he will wonder If God hag given him the thews and fiber to meet the wilderness breast to breast as Dnn had met it; to remain and to fight and to conquer. And thereby his metal will be tested In the eyes of the Red Gods. Snowbird stood waiting in the snow, arms stretched to her forester as Pun came running through the wood. But his arms were wider yet, and she weut until InM than. BVtU IUIU HH. 11 1. "We will take It easy from now on,1 Dan Failing told them, after the camr was cleared of Its dead and the fire was built high. "We hove plenty of food ; and we will travel a little while each day and make warm camps at night .We'll have friendship fires, Just at sometimes we used to build on the ridge." "But after yon get down In the val leys?" Lennox asked anxiously. "Are you and Snowbird coming up here to liver The tllence fell over their camp ; and a wounded wolf whined in the dark ness. "Do you think I could leave It now T Don asked. By no gift of words could he have explained why; yet he knew that by token of his conquest, hit spirit was wedded to the dark for ests forever. "But heaven knowt what 111 do for a living." Snowbird crept near him, and bar eyes shone in tne bright nre llgnt "I've solved that," sne saia. -iou know vou studied forestry and I told the supervisor at the station how much you knew about it. I wasn t going to tpll vou until until certain things hap pened and now they have happened, I can't wait another Instant. He saia that with a little more study you could get into the forest service take an mrnmlnation and become a ranger. You're a natural forester if one ever lived, and you'd love the work." "Besides." Lennox added, "it would clip my Snowbird's wings to make her ike nn the nlains. My big house will be rebuilt, children. There will be fires in the fire place on the fall nights. There is no use of thinking of the plains." "And there's going to be a smaller house Just a cottage at first right hpsirtft It." Dan replied. He could go back to his forests, after all. He wouldn't have to throw away his birth right, foiiffht for so hard; and it seemed to him no other occupation cnuld offer so much as that or tne ror- est rangers those silent, cool-nerved guardians of the forest and keepers of Its keys. For n lone time Snowbird and he stood toe-ether at the edge of the fire light, their bodies warm from the glow, their hearts brimming with words thev could not utter. Words always come hard to the mountain people. They are folk of action, and Dan, rath er than to words, trusted to the yearn ing of his arms. 'We're made for each other, Snow bird, darling," he told her breathlessly nt Inst. "And at last I can claim what I've been waiting for all these months." Ho claimed it : and in open defiance to all civil law, he collected fully 100 times in the next few minutes. But it didn't narticularly matter, and Snow bird didn't even turn her face. "May be you've forgotten you claimed it when you first came baclj, too," sne said. So he had. It had completely slipped his mind, in the excitement of his fight with the wolf pack. And then while Lennox pretended to be asleep, they sat, breathless with happiness, on the edge of thu sled and watciiea me uawn come out. They had never seen the snow so lovely In the sunlight. THIS END. ECSTASY IN THE SALESROOM Goaded "Prospect" Finally Forced, In Self-Defenae, to Rise to the Occasion Herself. "But this is such a sweet little model, honey Perfect on you. Look at the quality of tills duvetyn, dearie. Now, honey, did you ever see such lines?" There may have been heroes of grand opera who could make love with the fluency and Intensity of a sales girl drawing near to a sale, but no expert exists whose ardor can thus flame when the actual moment of de cision between the higher and the low er comes, writes Marian Storm in the New York Evening Post. "Lots of little girls that buy these little suits Just leave off their little blouses and wear them like little one piece dresses. Now, tills little style, dearie, was made for you. Look, honey, not a wrinkle In back. Isn't it love ly on her?" appeals to another enrap tured creature "Isn't she just the lit tle girl to wear this little model? Of course, not every one can wear this little suit, dearie. It takes a figure, honey, Just like you've g't I wear the same suit myself. "Dearie, in two weeks you couldn't buy this little suit for half the price again. Isn't it lovely on her? I snld, honey, when you came In: There's the girl that can wenr that little spe cial we got today.' Now turn around, dear. You won't have to do a thing to It Length Just right, honey. Sleeves Just right, honey. "Sweetness," she urged, at passion ate cllmnx, "don't let a little chance like this go by I Dearie, it you only "But oh, my beloved," returned the goaded customer half fiercely. "The price I The price!" Barnstable's Old Bell. In the courthouse at Barnstable, Mass., Is nn old bell, cracked and silent which may be, and probably Is, the oldest bell In the United States. So thinks Mr. Alfred Crocker, clerk of courts of Barnstable county. The dnte 1G75 is still plainly visible In the pho tograph recently printed in the Bos ton Evening Transcript By this dnte, however, the old bell bad seen nearly a quarter of a cen tury of life In England before It came to America and began calling wor shipers together In the church at Sandwich town. Gratitude bought the bell In England, for It came as a gift from Mrs. Peter Adolph, whose hus band. Captain Adoiph, was lost In the wreck of his vessel on the Massachu setts const In 1(107 despite the efforts of the people of Sandwich. Drawing an Audience, Trofessor Letterklnk I'm delighted to tee so large a gntherlng In the house. I never spoke to an audience of more than 40 before. Your towns men are Interested in science? The Local Editor Not much. But my compositor In setting up the nd of your lecture on the "Cosmic Force," left the "l" out of "Cosmic" Her Suspicion. Mr. Gotham I see a Brooklyn wom an tint applied to the courts for help from being loved to death b) ier tins hand, who, the says, k luxes her SUO timet a day. Mrs. Goihnm Can't understand how a man can do to many wronj thing that be hat to apologize at tiudi a that