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Investigation of the Dallas (Texas)
office of the veterans' bureau has
been ordered as a result of charges
of Inefficiency made by Representa
tive Rayburn, democrat, Texas.
A children's hospital, said to be the
largest In the world, has Just been
opened at Alexandropol, In the south
ern Caucasus. It Is under the direc
tion of Dr. R. T. Uhls of Fltchburg,
Mass., and has been financed entirely
. with funds senl from America by the
Near East relief.
Flying at an average speed of 130
miles an hour through three storms, a
seaplane, carrying a total load of 1600
pounds, Tuesday made a flight from
Palm Beach, Fla., to New York, a dis
tance of 1210 miles, In 9 hours 66
minutes.
Payment of $19,672,500 by Great
Britain as the second Installment of
the debt of $123,000,000 created by
that government's purchase of silver
during the war was Teported to the
treasury Monday by the federal re
serve bank.
Denver's first public school build
ing, completed April 2, 1873, at a cost
of $51,619, was destroyed Tuesday by
a fire which swept the Lindqulst
building and Bpread to the' Club build
ing, doing property damage estimated
at $200,000.
Joseph Woerndle, former Austrian
consul at Portland, will retain his
American citizenship. Suit argued In
federal court a month ago to declare
him an alien, failed recently when
Judge Bean decided in favor of the
accused man.
Cancellation of all contracts for the
showing of films In which Roscoe
(Fatty) Arbuckle appears, was an
nounced Tuesday night by Will H,
Hays, head of the motion picture pro
ducers' association. This action, he
said, affected nearly 10,000 contracts.
Approval of 84 advances for agricul
tural and livestock purposes aggregat
ing $2,722,000, was announced Tues
day by the War Finance corporation.
Distribution of tho loans included:
Oregon, $1,000,000; California, $131,-
000; Montana, $18,000; Washington,
$13,000, and Wyoming $21,000.
The allied reparations commission,
it was announced Tuesday, has asked
J. P. Morgan & Co. to accept mem
bership on the financial subcomnils-
sion, which will convene in Paris in
a fortnight. The meeting will con
sider the possibility of floating an
international loan for Germany.
Terrlflo storms sweeping eastward
acfoss the country, which in some
parts of the central states became
tornadoes, resulted in at least 32 per
sons killed, two missing, 320 injured
and several millions of dollars' dam
age to property, according to reports
Tuesday night from the stricken
areas.
There is still plenty ot room in
Japan for the Japanese and there 1b
no necessity of their emigrating to
California, Joseph A, Garry, secretary
of the Japanese exclusion league of
California, told the opening session of
the 45th annual grand parlor of the
Native Sons of the Golden West in
Oakland Monday.
An excess of receipts over govern
ment expenditures of about $47,000,
000 as compared with a deficit of about
$24,000,000, indicated in the budget
submitted In December, is apparent
from the latest revised estimates for
the fiscal year 1922, Secretary Mellon
informed Senator McCumber, repub
lican, North Dakota, chairman of the
senate committee, in a letter made
public Tuesday night at the treasury.
Seattle's total of warrant and bond
ed indebtedness at the close ot the
year 1921 was in excess ot $61,000,000
according to the annual report of the
city controller. The report shows $27,
667,400 of utility bonds outstanding,
$16,354,400 of general bonded indebt
edness and $17,592,011 ot warrant In
debtedness. Tho Item of interest on
Seattle's debt paid during 1921 was
$2,519,858.12, and while the city dur
ing the year paid oft $443,000 ot its
general bonds and $185,000 of revenue
bonds, a total of $628,000, It issued
In new bonds $6,383,900.
CURRENT
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SOVIET THREATENS MEETING
Wiping Out of All War Debt Is De
manded at Genoa.
Genoa. Another new twist in the
Russian tangle again has caused in
quietude in conference circles. Seem
ingly the Russlun delegates have de
veloped a new set of proposals. It Is
understood that at the meeting ot the
experts on the Russian question Mon
day afternoon the soviet delegates ar
gued for the complete wiping out of
the war debts and also relinquishment
ot all arrears in interest on pre-war
debts.
Simultaneously they asked for as
surances that the powers would grant
loans sufficient to enable Russia to
reorganize her national life.
As, the soviet had previously given
the allies to understand that a scaling
down of the war debts would be ac
cepted, the demand of the delegates
for a protocol canceling these debts
caused great surprise to the represen
tatives of the powers, who reported
to the chiefs of their respective dele
gations that the trend of the meeting
with the bolshevik! indicated the pos
sibility of Insuperable difficulties in
coming to some arrangement with the
soviet.
The Russian request for extensive
loans caused dissatisfaction because
It is recognized that it would be ex
tremely difficult to guarantee credits
to Russia without some reasonable as
surance that they would be handled
by a truly responsible Russian gov
ernment.
The allied chiefs frankly expressed
their opinion that an arrangement
with the soviet will be extremely dif
ficult unless the Russian delegates
show a reasonable attitude. Sir
Laming Worthlngton-Evans, the chair
man of the commission, said he could
not discuss the matter further if the
Soviets adopted such an Impossible at
titude, and therefore must refer the
situation to the respective govern
ments of the allies.
The experts adjourned sine die be
cause of what they termed the exces
sive Russian demands, which pro
posed also that the powers accept non-
restltutlon of the private property of
foreigners.
The Russian delegates declare that
the terms they were willing to grant
were conditional first, on the recog
nition of their government, and, sec
ond, receipt of a loan from foreign
countries, in addition to cancellation
of arrears in Interest on the pre-war
debts themselves.
Age of World Uncertain.
Philadelphia. How old the world is
was tentatively answered at the clos
ing session of the American Philosoph
ical society Sunday. Some differences
existed because of the methods of
calculation, but the estimate placed
the age at between 8,000,000 and 1,700,-
000,000 years The answer of Profes
sor T. C. Chamberlain of tlie Univer
sity of Chicago was between 70,000,000
and 150,000,000 years. He arrived at
his conclusion, he said, by working
with the methods ot a geologist and
presented readings from formation of
the sea ot various geologists.
Many Arrests Ordered.
Manchester, Ky. The arrest of ev
ery person more than 12 years old in
the Mill Creek neighborhood of Clay
county has been ordored by Circuit
Judge Johnson in an effort to break
up lawlessness which culminated last
week In the ambushing of county of
ficers who went into the district to
arrest moonshiners. Two hundred
warrants were issued and orders were
given to confiscate any rifles and. large
calibered pistols.
Air Firemen Predicted.
New York. Fifty years hence, in
New York, fire engines mounted upon
helicopters will hover over blazes and
extinguish them with gases; alarms
will be sounded by radio and rescues
will be made from airships. This fu
ture means of fire fighting was pre
dicted by Fire Chief John Kenlon,
speaking at a dinner given Saturday
night in celebration of the 35th an
niversary ot his entry into the fire
department.
Guard Excludes Ku Klux.
Oklahoma City, Okla. A general or
der, directed specifically against the
Ku Klux Klan and declaring that there
is no room in the Oklahoma national
guard for any officer or man who owes
an allegiance to any power, secret or
ganization or society that might be
come arrayed against the United
States or the state of Oklahoma and
its laws, was Issued here Saturday by
Governor Robertson and made public.
Huron Rushed to China.
Manila, P. I. The flagship Huron of
the Asiatic squadron received rush
orders Monday to sail for China, be
cause of the disturbed conditions
there.
1920 STATE COSTS
RISE ENORMOUSLY
Oregon's Per Capita Expense
Is $2674.
CENSUS REPORT OUT
U. S. Accountants Give Revenue as
$10,845,614 for Fiscal Period
Ending September 30.
Washington, D. C The bureau of
census announced that . the cost ot
government for the state of Oregon
for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1920, amounted to $21,021,269,
which was a per capita cost of $26.74.
In 1917 the per capita cost was $5.82
and in 1914, $6.40, the totals for these
years being $4,379,689 and $4,597,670,
respectively. The per capita costs for
1920 consisted of expenses of general
departments, $8.47; payments for in
terest, 6p cents; and for outlays,
$17.60.
' The total revenue receipts in 1920
were $10,845,614, br $13.79 per capita.
For the fiscal year the per capita ex
cess of governmental costs over reve
nue receipts was, therefore, $12.95.
Property and special taxes consti
tuted the greater part of the revenue
in a majority of states. In Oregon
they represented 38.5 per cent for
1920, 64.6 per cent for 1917, and 74.2
per cent for 1914.
There was a decrease of 15.4 per
cent in the amount of property and
special taxes collected from 1914 to
1917, and an increase of 46.3 per cent
from 1917 to 1920. The per capita
property and special taxes for the
three specified years were $5.30, $3.79
and $4.70, respectively.
Earnings of general departments, or
compensation for services rendered by
state officials, represented 7.1 per cent
of the total revenue for 1920, 10.6 per
cent for 1917 and 5.8 per cent for 1914.
Business and non-business licenses,
which, in previous years included re
ceipts from liquor licenses, constituted
30.4 per cent ot the total revenue for
1920, 11 per cent for .1917 and 7.4 per
cent for 1914. Receipts from business
licenses consist chiefly of taxes exact
ed from Insurance and other incor
porated companies, while those from
non-business licenses comprise taxes
on motor vehicles and amounts paid
for hunting and fishing privileges.
The net indebtedness (funded and
floating debt less sinking fund assets)
of Oregon' was $20.57 per capita for
1920, 66 cents for 1917 and nothing for
1914.
In nearly all states the property
subject to the general property tax
varies in the reported basis of assess
ment, though in most instances the
law requires that property be assessed
at full market value For this reason
the best measure of cost to the prop
erty owner is the per capita tax levy.
The per capita levy for Oregon for
1920 was $5.58.
Road Jobs Approved.
San Francisco California road and
highway projects, calling for an ap
propriation of $1,465,000 from the fed
eral government, have been approved
by the secretary of agriculture, and
work on the projects will begin "in
the near future," it was announced
Friday by Paul G. Redington, district
forester here. The approved projects
Include a trip of 10 miles extending
south from the Oregon line on Cres
cent City-Grant Pass highway, $200,-
000.
Cold Light Is Produced.
Princeton, N. J. Professor E. New
ton Harvey, after eight years of ex
perimental work with luminous bodied
Insects, has discovered the means
through which cold light may be pro
duced, it is announced at the univer
sity. A form bt light giving a continu
ous glow, like that in bodies of the
Insects, has been developed by the
professor. He is making an effort to
intensify and perfect the light so that
it will be of practical use.
Tick Bite Causes Fever.
Canyon City, Or. Spotted fever is
quite prevalent in Grant county at the
present time. This is what is gener
ally known as tick fever and Is caused
by the bite of an infected tick. Among
those afflicted are Mr. Rock Wilson,
Mrs. Gus Berry, Poe Adamson and
Mr. Cummlngs, all of the Mount Ver
non district.
Pair of Twins Fourth.
Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Frank Golda, 35,
of near La Platte, Neb., is the mother
of triplets and four pairs of twins, all
born since 1909. The latest addition
to her family came Friday morning
with the arrival of twin girls born at
the home of a friend in Omaha.
A Now Romance of
CHAPTER Xll-JContlnued.
12
"You mean Just drunk, don't you?
Didn't you try doln' what I told you'
to?"
The boy nodded and shivered again.
"I sure did, but, but"
"But what?" cried Devon.
"I put the stuff In the medicine all
right, but something happened." Reg
inald's voice was low and wavering
is he finished the statement.
"What happened?" repeated Devon
hoarsely. ''Don't sit there like a d d
fool and look as if you'd swallowed
i live eel."
"I was going to slip back from the
window sill to the tree," faltered
Reggie, "and Tony's ghost rose up be
fore me' and shoved me clean off the
ledge' and down to the ground!"
Uriah's eyes almost protruded from
his head. Then a slow smile ran
around his lips.
"Rats I" he ejaculated huskily.
"Rats, you fcol! There, ain't 6uch
things as ghests."
"Yes, there Is, Devon," Insisted Reg
gie, in a dreary monotone. "I've seen
one I I've seen Tony, I say, and many
a time she's come so close to my
eyes I could have touched her if she
could have been touched. The fall
made me sick. I've been In bed ever
since."
"And your cousin's still allye, eh?"
Uriah's voice had a snarl in it,
"Still alive," muttered Reggie.
"What you goin' to do nbout It
now?" demanded Devon. "Try it
again?"
. Brown shook his head.
"No, not yet, Riah," he muttered.
"Not Just yet I can't."
"You got to get me a lot of money
some way," Devon came in with.
"I've got to get out of this country,
or I'll be hooked to jail If those Syra
cuse folks find me. You'd better be
getting home and back to bed. Best
take a stiff swing, too, to settle your
nerves." '
lie watched the tall thin boy walk
slowly away In deep meditation. Then
he Inughed and went below to the
cabin.
Almost a week after Reggie's futile
attempt to poison his Cousin Paul,
Tony Devon was sitting in her room,
reading, when a servant appeared and
told her some one wanted to see her
downstairs. Her heart bounded with
delight, for she was sure Philip had
come again and had sent for her. She
rushed to the glass, caught a glimpse
of her rosy face, pushed back K few
stray curls and went downstairs to
the drawing room.
As she stepped inside, she came to
a sudden terrified halt. Her father
was seated in a large chair and his
tyes, red and swollen, were centered
upon her. Then he smiled, thht wick
td smile that always widened his
thick lips when he had succeeded in
some evil thing.
'Hello, Tony," he chuckled. "You've
made a fine nest for yourself, huh?"
Tony only stared at him. She felt
suffocated by his sudden appearance.
"I came to talk to you, kid," he
said, the wheedle coming Into his
tones that always augured bad for
the person addressed. "Sit down."
Tonnibel sat, not because he told
her to, but because she couldn't stand
on her trembling legs. '
"You don't appear to be very tickled
to see your old dad," he threw at
her, a frown wrinkling his face. "Get
up and come over here." Ills wicked
eyes seemed to be swallowing her
whole. In fact Devon could not make
himself believe this beautiful creature
was the Tony who, he thought, had
been drowned in the lake. He felt
a new sensation within him as his
gaze took In every line of the lovely
figure.
"Come over here," he said once
more, "and tell me how you got out
of the lake that night Did you swim
ashore?"
Tonnibel shook her head.
"I'm not going to tell you anything,"
she murmured almost inaudlbly.
"Well, keep it to yourself, then,"
snapped Uriah. "When I get you back
to the 'Dirty M&Ty' I know ways
whlch'll bring out of you what I want
to know. So get your things and
come along home."
Tonnibel felt as if the bottom had
fallen out of the world. Then a boy's
smile, and a boy's words, "Salvation,
little Tony, Is always at hand, for
God Is good," seemed to strike both
her vision and hearing.
Tony believed every word Philip
MacCauley uttered. He couldn't speak
an untruth If he tried. If as he had
said, Salvation was at hand, then she
could be saved at that moment
"I'm busy here, daddy," she man
Aged to say. "I'm doing some nurs
ing, so I can't get away Just nowP
"You'll come Just the same," replied
Devon, getting to his feet.
"Divine Love is everywhere," flash
ed through Tony's mind as she too
struggled up. She dared not scream,
and even If she did, there was no one
la the house who would help her.
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"tho SiotmCoutvtrq
Mrs. Curtis and her daughter would
be delighted to have her gone and
Dr. John was out among his patients.
There seemed to be no escape for her
now. She dared not appeal to the
wenk, sick man upstairs.
Thinking of him made her blurt
out:
"Did you send that awful Brown
feller here to put poison In Dr. Paul's
medicine?"
Uriah glared at her, went white and
put his hand on a chulr to steady
himself.
"I don't know nothln' about any
man or any poison," he growled.
"You'd better be comln' along now."
"'Twos the man you said I had to
link up with. He used to come to the
'Dirty Mary,'" explained Tonnibel,
seeing her words had frightened her
father. "I bet you sent him here."
"Keep your clack shut," growled
Devon, Just as the door opened, and
Mrs. Curtis entered, Tony whirled
and faced her, although she didn't
have the courage to utter a word.
The woman looked from the girl's
agitated face to Devon's, questlonlng-
ly.
"This Is my kid, ma'am," said Uriah,
with a wave of his hand toward Tony.
"I've come to take her home. Get
your duds, brat !"
Tonnibel turned as If to obey, and
Mrs. Curtis cimght her arm.
"Go as you are," she directed, 'TU
send your things after you."
Tony's eyes gathered a belligerent
expression.
"I won't go without saying good-by
to Cousin Paul," she began.
"If she gets up there once," Inter
posed Mrs. Curtis, In an undertone to
Uriah Devon, "you won't see her
again."
Tonnibel had heard the words and
knew they were true. If she could
get upstairs with Doctor Paul and
then lock the door, no one would dare
venture after her.
Devon saw swift intelligence light
up her face. He didn't intend to allow
He Caught Her Roughly.
her out of his sight He caught at
her roughly as Mrs. Curtis barred
her flight to the door.
"Let me alone," she cried. "Let me
alone."
Uriah snatched her hands, Mid Mrs.
Curtis buried her fingers In the dark
curls. As Tonnibel cried out again, the
door suddenly opened, and John Pen
dlehaven walked into the room. Uriah
dropped the girl's hands, and Mrs.
Curtis fell back with a startled ejacu
lation.
"What does this mean?" questioned
Doctor John.
"My father's here," said Tony; her
voice breaking.
"Her father, Cousin John," Mrs.
Curtis repeated.
"I've Come for my girl, mister," said
Uriah, plucking up his courage.
"And she," Pendlehaven kept his
eyes on Tonnibel, "does she want to
go with you?"
"Whether she wants to go or not
she will," ejaculated the other man.
"Nobody can keep a kid from her own
father, I'm a' guessln'."
"Tony, child," broke forth Doctor
John, "don't look so frightened.' No
one's going to hurt you while you're
with me. Come here, my dear."
His voice was so low, so tender,
that Mrs. Curtis ground her teeth in
rage, and Uriah Devon felt his power
ebbing away.
Tonnibel walked swiftly to Doctor
John's side and slipped her hand into
his.
"Those two said I couldn't even say
good-hy to to " She bowed her
head against the kindly term that sup
ported her and for a moment was so
agitated she could not proceed.
"Hush, dear," pleaded Pendlehaven.
"Hush! Do yon want to stay here?"
"Yes, oh, yes, sir, I do, indeed, sir !"
she cried. "But but "
"Then you'll stay," the doctor told
Iht in a voice low-pltchi'd and stern.
"If your falliur thinks"
"I'm gain' to huve my girl," gritted
Urli.li.
"Then you have the law at your
lmnd to UNC,-Mr. Devon," returned th
doctor, "und you, Saruh, I'll osk you
to attend to your own affulrs ufter
this."
"But, Cousin John," argued Mrs.
Curtis, "she's the man's own child.
Surely he has a right to to "
A sound of a' hell pealing through
the house cut off her words. Then
came heavy footsteps In the hall. Be
fore anyone could figure on the cause
of tills commotion, the door burst
open and several uniformed men
came In. When Uriah Devon caught
sight of them, he made a flush for the
window, but two heavy olllcers were
on him before he was half way across
the room. It took but a few minutes
for the officials to expluln to Doctor'
Pendlehaven that they, had been trail
ing Devon for a long time, that he
was wonted for a crime In Syracuse.
When they were leading him out
muinclcd and deeply enraged, he
turned on Tonnibel.
"I'll get even with yon, miss," he
snapped at her, his eyes full of hate,
"and I'll get even with you too, mis
ter." lie threw the lust half of his
sentence at Doctor John, whose only
reply was a shrug of his shoulders.
During the struggle between the de
tectives nnd Uriah, Mrs. Curtis had
clutched at I'endlehaven's neck, but
he had cast her off without ceremony.
Now the three were alone, Tonnibel,
palpitating and fearful, Mrs. Curtis,
sobbing on the floor, and Doctor John,
looking at her sternly.
'Sarah," he said haughtily, "I saw
the disgraceful way you were pulling
this child's hair when I came In, and
at last, much as I dislike doing It, I
must ask you to leave my house."
"Leave?" Mrs. Curtis screamed.
"Where would I go? I haven't a place
In the world but this."
A careless gesture from Doctor
John told Tonnibel that that fact
didn't Interest hlin. She slipped her
hand Into his. Lifting eyes that were
troubled and dark-circled, she begged :
"Let 'er stay, Cousin John. Mebbe
she didn't know my daddy would have
killed roe if he'd got me back to the
Dirty Mary."
Pendlehaven put his arm around
her, and with a ring of fierceness in
his voice, said:
"There, Sarah, there's pity for you.
If you stay, it's because Tony Devon
pleads for you, not because I have
any sense of duty toward you. I
hope you feel properly grateful."
The doctor strode to the door,
opened It and motioned for her to be
gone. Then weeping, she clattered
away, her sobs audible even after the
door was closed.
For a few moments Tony Devon
wept silently In John Pendlehaven's
arms.
"Oh, It's awful to have daddy taken
away to Jail," she moaned, "but he
won't be good, he just won't !"
"You're much better off to have
him away, little girl," soothed Pendlehaven.
CHAPTER XIII.
Good for Evil.
Thtt night for dinner, five people
sot about the Pendlehaven table. Reg
gie, pale and miserable looking, sat
next to his mother, and Philip Mac
Cauley was opposite Doctor John.
Katherlne, silent and morose, was at
her own place. She had heard her
mother's version of the afternoon's
happening in amazement and anger,
and It only added to her discontent to
hear Cousin John tell the tale to
Philip.
"Sarah thinks," went on the doc
tor, "that we should have tnmely
given her up without a word to to
that brute!"
"I can't see how you can keep a
man's child from him, Cousin John,"
excused Mrs. Curtis, a dull red
mounting to each high cheekbone.
Pendlehaven laughed.
"She wouldn't have been much use
to him in prison, my dear Sarah," was
his answer.
"What're you talking about?" de
manded Reggie, turning red-rimmed
eyes on his mother.
"Your Cousin John insists on keep
ing the daughter of a man named De
von in the house here when her fa
ther wants her home," she replied.
Reggie's face grew a misty gray.
"Devon," he repeated mechanically.
"I didn't know we had any such girl '
here 1"
"She's always with Cousin Paul,"
remarked Katherlne, with a sidelong
glance at Philip. "It does seem sat
isfying, though, to knW who she Is.
Mother says she comes of common
stock."
MacCauley's face grew dark, tnd
Pendlehaven cast a glance of anger
at his young cousin.
"Both Kathie and I," began Mrs.
Curtis. "Why, Reggie, my darling, 1
never saw you look so sick in my
life!"
"Aw, cut It!" growled the boy, un
steadily. "Tell me what became of
the girl's father."
"He's going to Jail for a nice long
res," Interjected Pendlehaven. "It
seems he was mixed up In a theft In
Syracuse."
Reginald got up from the table.
"I don't want anything more to
eat," he growled, as his mother start
ed to remonstrate with him. "I'm go
ing to bed."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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