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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1922)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume- Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing Worth Knotting. A reduction of $1,014,000,000 In the public debt during the flcal year end ed June 20, and a reduction of $175, 000,000 In the debt during the month of June, was announced Monday by the treasury. W. A. White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, and nationally fa mous defender of all kinds of dogs, offered a prize to the boy with the moat dogs In the Fourth of July par ade. Lena Walton, a famous character of the daya of the gold rush to Nome and Council City, who figured In litigation with Charles I). Lane, the mining op erator of California and Alaska, over the Ophlr creek mines, died In Nome Sunday, Howard and Homer Fisher are twins. Doth are drug clerks. Both are In Jail In Los Angeles. Hoth are charged with the Illegal Bale of li quor. "They are as much alike as two pints," said the prohibition enforce ment officers who arrested them. Governor Illalno of Wlsconaln an nounced In an address In Superior Tuesday that he would extend execu tive clemency to every man in Wis consln prlaons "who can trace his plight, directly or Indirectly, to causes arising out of the service to his coun try." James Alexander Hlchardson, 85 yjturs old on his last birthday, and Miss Christina Stafford, who refused to give her age, obtained a license to marry In Vancouver, Wash., Monday Hlchardson gavn his occupation as boatman, ills first wife died several years ago. Probability of n reconciliation and peaceful settlement of their differ ences by Sun Yat Sen, ex-president of the South China republic, and Chen CMtlOl Ming, the military leader who deposed him, waa reported to be brighter than at any time during the past two weeks. Three mutilated mall pouches con talnlng hundreds of opened letters comprising part of the loot obtained by Hoy Gardner, notorious bandit, In the Maricopa, Ariz., mull cur robbery last November, have been fqund, It was announced by the postofflce In in ' tor's office at Phoenix, Ariz. A (night suvlng of from $15 to $25 a car for sheep producers has been effected by the decision of tho Inter state commerce commission reducing tho weight for minimum cars 30 feet uud 7 Inches In length from 22,000 pounds to 18,000 pounds, tho national livestock exchange unnouncod Tues day. Miss Allco Hobertsnn, Oklahoma rc resentatlve In congress, standing on the site whero the first missionary school In the old Indian country was oHtulill 'ied and her mother, a teacher In that school, met her father, opened her campaign at Coweta, Oklu , July 4 fur tlie republican nomination to rep i nt her district. Tim French chamber of deputies Tuesday passed a law authorizing the government to decree tho utilization of a greater percentage of wheat li flour and tho addition of substitutes In preparation for tho expected short age In this year's wheat crop. The crop Is variously estimated at 60,000,- 000 to 100,000,000 bushels short of re iiulremeuls. Tho "Henry Ford for president movement sprend to Chicago Monday and opened headipiarters In Michigan avenue w. F. Kulloy of the Amer lean Mica company, who is In charge of tho organization here, said 5000 circulars were being sent out In Chi cngo "to feel out the sentiment.' "There seems to be a strong under current," he added. The six railway shop crafts unions which went on strike Saturday were outlawed by the United States labor bourd Monday. In a formal resolu lion the hoard declared that the unions, by their action, forfeited nil rights before the board as railway employes nnd that new organizations of shopmen taking the striking men's Jobs should he formed to represent the Bhop employes In disputes before the board. RAILROAD TANK DYNAMITED Strike Guard on iDnty m California Shot Machine Guns Plated. Sacramento, Cal. The Southern Pa cific water tank at Newcastle, Placer county, 30 miles from Sacramento, was dynamited Monday night shortly after 9 o'clock, according to word sent to Sheriff Gum at Roseville. According to the story, five men irove up to the tank in an automo bile, planted the lighted charge be neath the tank and drove quickly away In the direction of Lincoln. Roseville, Cal. An employe of the Pacific Fruit Express company was shot here at 10 o clock as he was working on the Icing platform of the fruit company. He was rushed to the Southern Pacific emergency hospital. Reports were conflicting as to who did the Bhootlng. Strikers were re ported to be stationed at points of vantage overlooking tho loading plat form. Tbey were Bald to be armed. At the hospital the man was recog nized as William Westlake, 21, of San Francisco, .who had been employed as a guard by the express company. Westlake, according to information given out by the Southern Pacific of ficials, was the target for a fusillade of 17 shots fired In rapid succession from some distance. Bloomlngton, 111. Three shots were fired at state troops guarding the Chicago & Alton shops shortly after midnight Monday. No trace of the person shooting was found. Twenty-five men congrgated at a strikers' picket post in front of a gro- ry store at the north end of the shops were ordered to disperse and a machine gun was set up to cover the strike pickets. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Neuman ordered the sentry details doubled and posted additional machine gun units at vantage points. A sentry reported to the lieutenant- Solonel that the Btrlke pickets bad warned two women who passed the store "to get out of the way, for the fireworks are about to start." More than 2000 lined the "dead ne" on the west and north sides of the shops and another 500 gathered ut the depot. Haln which began fall ing shortly before 10 o'clock drove many to shelter. Sentries pacing their posts were Jostled and Jeered by the crowd. At the main west side entrance to the shop 800 men, women and children formed along the sentry line and as fast us the guardBinen passed they crowded across the line. Guns with fixed bayonets were brought into play time and ngaln, held horizontally, to force the jeering throng back. Powder Blast Kills One. Tacoma, Wash. Samuel W. Ilnnna, 32, was killed lnstuntly Monday after noon In un explosion ut the Dupont de Nemours powder factory at Du pont. Wash , near here, which rocked South Tacoma and other nearby dis tricts. No cause for the explosion could bo given by factory officials. The accident occurred In gelatin house No. L where It Is estimated ubout 000 pounds of nitroglycerin was stored awaiting mixing. George Me diae, oil trucker, bad Just delivered n load of oil and wns returning to the oil storehouse with his rubber-tired truck when the explosion took place. Four Girl Bathers Jailed. Chicago. Four young women, romp ing on Chicago's Oak-street bathing beach Sunday In one-piece bathing suits, wero ordered from tho bench by a police woman. They declined to In terrupt their revels In the sand and a big patrol wagon came anil took them away. Monday the quartet filed suit for an injunction against the city, con tending that the upper half of their suits was no more decollete thun that of the usual evening gowns and that the lower half conformed with all the established requirements of 1922 ath letic suits. Chicago's Drouth Ended. Chicago. Chicago's 43-day drouth was ended early Monday, when a heavy rain struck all parts of the city. Some damage was caused by a high wind which accompanied the down pour. The rain followed the hottest day of the summer, the mercury regis tering 92 degrees. Juno was the driest sixth month in 52 years, according to weuthej bureau records, the total pre cipitation amounting to only .14 of an inch. . Unfilled Steel Orders Increase. New York. Tho monthly tonnage report of the United States Steel cor poration, made public Monday, showed 5,6.15,531 tons of unfilled orders on hand June 30. This Is an Increase from May's unfilled orders, which to taled 5,254,228. TROOPS MOBILIZE 10 KEEP Half Dozen States Assemble National Guards. ILLINOIS BOY IS SHOT Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Obtains Order Restraining Strikers Picketing Shops. Chicago The calling out of troops in llllncds, the assembling of soldiers in half a dozen states and the inter vention of the federal courts In the nation-wide strike of railway shop men marked the close of the eighth day of the walkout Saturday night. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad obtained a federal Injunction here restraining picketing at the Aurora shops, while earlier In the day an Injunction was issued at New Orleans restraining strikers from in terfering with trainB on the Southern Pacific and at Council Bluffs, Iowa, the Burlington obtained a temporary restraining order directed against Btriklng shopmen in southern Iowa. ,A half dozen other railroads were ex pected to follow the lead of the Burl ington here. Department of justice officials at Washington were investi gating reports that strike disorders were Interfering with the mails. Lieutenant-Governor Sterling of Il linois ordered troops to Clinton, where an outbreak was threatened following a clash between Illinois Central guards and) strike sympathizers in which a boy was killed and two men, one a striker, were Injured. One bright ray appeared through the threatening strike clouds when D. W. Helt, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, announced that he would withhold strike orders to 14,000 signal men pending the prep aration and submission of a pro gramme to the United States railroad labor board. Mr. Helt's announcement was made following an all-day conference with W. L. McMcnimen, labor member of the board. This was the second time within a week that members of the board have Intervened to stop an ad dition to the strikers' ranks, walkout of 400,000 maintenance of way men having been postponed In this manner a few days ago. With B. M. Jewell, head of the shop crafts, and the labor board each stand ing firm in the attitude that peace overtures niUBt come from the other, the railroads were girding for the second week of the struggle, deter mined to maintain uninterrupted tran sportation and thus break the strike. British Gold Received. New York. Gold bars, valued at $2,- 500,000, arrived here on the steam ship Berengarla Saturday consigned to J. P. Morgan & Co., for the ac count of the British treasury, of which the Morgan firm Is the fiscal agent in this country. A similar shipment is n the way on another steamer. While tho Morgan firm said it was not ad vised as to the purpose of the ship ment, It Is believed In financial cir cles that tho British government la accumulating a Bupply of gold here for the purpose of using it In part payment of the $125,000,000 Interest on tho war debt due in October. Limited Train Derailed. Topeka, Kan. Tho Golden State limited, westbound, a Hock Island pas senger train, left tho track here at noon Sunday, just us it was leaving the Unlou Puclfic tracks to cross the Rook lslund bridge over the Kansas river. The engine, mall car, baggage car and tho front trucks of a third car left the tracks, but did not overturn. The track was torn up for some dis tance. Tornado Sweeps Farms. Bloomfleld, Neb. Several persons wero Injured, two seriously, Sunday, when a tornado tore a path through the funning community six miles west of here. Tho storm center was at the Hohrer farm, where all the build ings wore wrecked. Tho property damage on this farm Is estlmuted at $12,000. Trees wero torn up and crops badly damaged. Outlaws Take $4000. Los Angeles, Cal. Between $4000 and $5000 was obtained by two young outlaws who late Sunday In an eleva tor in a downtown office building, held up and robbed E. Hamlin nnd F.. C. Harrison. The victims were collect ors for tho Puente Oil company. ELEANOR H. PORTER EIUSTRATIONSBY R.H.LTVINGSTONE. COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H.PORTEP. IN BOSTON 8YNOPSIS.-In a preface Mary Marie explains her apparent "dou ble personality" and Just why Is a "cross-current and a contradic tion"; she also tells her reasons for writing the diary later to be a novel. The diary is commenced at Andersonville. Mary begins with Nurse Sarah's account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly in terested her father, who is a fa mous astronomer, leas than a new star which waa discovered the same nlsht. Her name is a compromise; her mother wanted to call her Viola and her father insisted on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home was in some way different from those of her small friends, and was puzzled thereat. Nurse Farah tells her of her mother's arrival at Anderson ville as a bride and how astonished they ail were at the sight of the dainty eighteen-year-old girl whom the Bedate professor had chosen for a wife. Nurse Sarah makes it plain why the household seemed a strange one to the child and how her fa ther and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding, each too proud to in any way attempt to smooth over the situation. Mary tells of the time spent "out west" where the "perfectly all right and genteel and respectable" divorce was being arranged for. and her mother's (to her) unaccountable be havior. By the court's decree the child is to spend six months of the year with her mother and six months with her father. Boston Is Mother's home. CHAPTER III Continued. 6 Everything seems awfully queer. Maybe because Father Isn't here, for one thing. He wrote very polite and asked us to come to get our things, nnd he said he wus going to New York on business for several days, M Mother need not fear he should unuoy her with his presence. Then, another thing, Mother's queer. This morning she wus singing uwuy at the top of her voice and running all over the house picking up things she wanted; and Seemed so happy. Hut this afternoon I found her down on the lloor In the library crying as if her heart would break, with her head In Father's big chair before the fireplace. But she jumped up the minute I cntne in nnd said, no, no, she didn't want anything. She was Just tired; that's nil. And when I asked her If she was sorry, after all, tbnt she was uoing to Boston to live, she said, no, no, no, Indeed, she guessed she wasn't. She was Just as gltid ns glnd could lie that she was going only she Wished Monday would hurry up and come so we could be gone. And that's all. It's a Suturduy now, and we go just duy after tomorrow. Our trunks ure 'most packed, and Mother says she wishes she'd planned to go today. I've suld good-bye to all the girls, and promised to write loads of letters ubout Boston and every thing. They are almost as excited as I am; and I've promised, "cross my heart and hope to die," thut I won't love those Boston girls better than I do them specially Carrie HeyWOOCj of course, my dearest friend. Nurse Saruh Is hovering around everywhere, usklng to help, and pre tending she's sorry we're going. But she Isn't sorry. She's glad. I know she Is. She never did appreciate Mother, unil she thinks she'll have ev erything her own wuy now. But she won't. I could tell her a thing or two If I wanted to. But 1 shun t. Father's sister, Aunt Jane Anderson, from St. Paul, is coining to keep house for him, partly on account of Father, and partly on account of me. "If that child Is going to he with her father Blx months of the time, she's got to have some woman there beside a med dling old nurse and u nosey servant girl!" They didn't know 1 beard that. But I did. And now Aunt June is Com ing, My! how mud Nurse Suriili would be if she knew. But she doeW't I guess I'll end this chapter here and begin u fresh one down in Boston. Oh, 1 do so wonder what it'll be like Boston, Mother's home, Grandpa Des inond, and nil the rest. I'm so excited I run berdl) wait. You see, Mother never took me home with btt but once, and then I was a very sinull child. I don't Know why, but I guess Father didn't want me to go. It's safe to sny h didn't, anyway. He never wants ms to do anything, hardly. That's win I suspect him of not wanting me to go down to Grandpa pMHIIIHl'l And If Other didn't go only once, In ages. Now this will h the end. And when I begin again it wlH be In Boston. Duly think of It really, truly Boston' CHAPTER IV. When I Am Marie. Boston. Yes, I'm here. I've been here a week. But this Is the first minute I've hud n chance to write u word. I've btw so imsy just betni ben, And so bus Mother. There's liceu such a lot going on since we came. But I'll try now to begin at the beginning and tell what happened. Well, first we got Into Boston at four o'clock Monday afternoon, and there was Grandpa Desmond to meet us. He's lovely tall and dignified, with grayish hair and merry eyes like Mother's, only his are behiud glasses. At the station he Just kissed Mother and me and said he was glad to see us. and led us to the place where Peter was waiting with the car. (Peter drives Grandpa's automobile, and he's lovely, too.) Mother and Grandpa talked very fast and very lively all the way home. and Mother laughed quite n lot. But In the hall she cried a little, and Grandpa patted her shoulder, and said, "There, there!" and told her how glad he was to get his little girl back, and that they were going to be very happy now and forget the past. And Mother said, yes, yes, Indeed, she knew she was ; and she was so glad to be there, and that everything was going to be just the same, wasn't It? Only then all of a sudden she looked over at me and began to cry again only, of course, things couldn't I "Just the same," she choked, hurrying over to me and putting both arms around me. and crying harder than ever. Then Grandna came and hugged us both, and patted us, nnd said, "There there !" and pulled off his glasses nnd wiped them very fast and very hard. But it wasn't only a minute or two before Mother wus laughing again, and saying, "Nonsense I" and "The Idea !" and this was a pretty way to Introduce her little Marie to her new homo ! Well, First We Got Into Boston at Four O'clock Monday Afternoon, and There Was Grandpa Desmond to Meet Us. Then she hurried me to the dearest little room I ever saw, right out ol hers, and took off my things. Then we went all over the house. And it' Just ns lovely as can be not. nt all like Father's In Andersonville. Oh, Father's Is fine nnd big nnd handsome, and nil that, of course; but not like this. Ills is just a nice place to eat and sleep In, and go to when It rains. But this this you just want to live In all the time. Here there are curtains 'way up and sunshine, and dowers in pots, and magazines, and cozy nooks with cushions everywhere; and books that you've Just been read ing laid down. (All Father's books are In bookcases, uhvnys, except while one's in your hands being read.) Qrandpa'l other daughter, Mother's sister, Huttle, lives here and keeps house for Grandpa. She bus a little boy named Lester, six years old ; and her husband Is dead. They were away for what they called a week-end when we came, but they got here a little after we did Monday afternoon; and they're lovely, too. We have dinner at night here, and I've been to the theater twice already In the afternoon. I've got to go to school next week, Mother says, but so far I've just been having a good time. And so's Mother, Honestly, It has Just seemed us if Mother couldn't crowd the days full enough. She hasn't been still a minute. Lots of her old friends have been to see her; nnd when there hasn't been anybody else around she's taken Peter nnd had him drive us nil over Boston to see things all kinds of things; Bunker hill nnd museums, and moving 1 lctures, and one piny. But we didn't stny at the play. It started out all right, hut pretty soon a man and a woman on the stage began to quarrel. They were married (not really, but In the play, I mean), and I guess It was some more of that In compatibility stuff. Anyhow, as they Sgan to talk more and more, Mother It-gan to fidget, and pretty soon I saw she was gathering up our things; and the minute the curtain went down efter the first act, she says: "Come, dear, we're going borne. It It Isn't very warm here." Aa If I didn't know what she was really leaving for! Do old folks hon estly think they are fooling us all the time, I wonder? But even If I hadn't known then, I'd have known It later, for that evening I heard Mother and Aunt Hattle talking In the library. No, I didn't listen. I heard. And that's a very different matter. You listen when you mean to. nd that's sneaking. You hear when you can't help yourself, and that you can't be blamed for. Sometimes it's your good luck, and sometimes it's your bad luck Just according to what you hear! Well, I was In the window-seat In the library reading when Mother and Aunt Hattle came in ; and Mother was saying: "Of course I came out ! Do you sup pose I'd have had that child see that play, after I realized what it was? As If she hasn't had enough of such wretched stuff already In her short life! Oh, Hattle, Hattle, I want that i child to iaugh, to sing, to fairly tingle with the Joy of living every minute that she Is with me. I know so wel what she has had, an what she will have In that tomb. You know In six months she goes hack " Mother saw me then, I know; for she stopped right off short, and after a moment began to talk of something else, very fast. And pretty quick tli went out Into the hall again. Dear little Mother! Bless her old heart! Isn't she the ducky dear to want me to have all the good times possible now so as to make up for the six months I've got to he with Father? Y'ou see, she knows what it is to live with Father even better than I do. But I know now why I've been hav ing such a perfectly beautiful time all this week, and why Mother has been filling every minute so full of fun and good times. Why, even when we're at home here, she's always hunt ing up little Lester nnd getting him to have a romp with us. But of course next week I've got to go to school, and it can't be quite so jolly then. Well, I guess that's all for this time. ABOUT A MONTH LATER I didn't make a chapter of that last. It wasn't long enough. And, really, I don't know us I've got much to add to It now. There's nothing much hap pened. I go to school now, and don't hnve so much time for fun. School's pretty good, and there are two or three girls 'most as nice as the ones at Anderson ville. But not quite. Out of Bchool Mother keeps things Just ns lively as ever, and we have beautiful times. Mother Is having u lovely time with her own friends, too. Seems as If there Is always some one here when I get home, and lots of times there are teas and parties, and people to dinner. There are gentlemen, too. I suppose one of them will be Mother's lover by and by; but of course I don't know which one yet. I'm awf'illy interested In them, though. And of course It's perfectly natural that I should be. Wouldn't yen be Interested In the man that was going to be'your new father? Well, I just guess you would! Any body would. There are quite a lot of them, and they're all different. They'd make very, different kinds of fathers, I'jn sure, nnd I'm afraid I wouldn't like some of them. But, after all, It's Mother that ought to settle which to have not me. She's the one to be pleased. 'Twould be such a pity to have to change again. Though she could, of course, same as she did Father, I sup pose. As I said, they're all different. There are only two that are anywhere near alike, and they aren't quite the same, for one's a lawyer nnd the other's In a bank. But they both carry canes and wear tall silk hats, and part their hair In the middle, and look at you through the kind of big round eye glasses with dark rims that would make you look awfully homely if they didn't make you look so stylish. But I don't think Mother cares very much for either the lawyer or the bank man, nnd I'm glud. I wouldn't like to live with those glasses every day, even if they are stylish. I'd much rather have Father's kind. Then there's the man that paints pictures. He's tall and slim, and wears queer ties nnd long hair. He's always standing back and looking at things with his head on one side, and ex claiming "Oh I nnd "Ah I" with a long breath. He says Mother's coloring Is wonderful. I heard him. And I didn't like It very well, either. Why, It sounded ns If she put It on herself out of a box on her bureau, same as some other ladles do ! "Dr. Anderson Is not a wretch at all. He's an honorable, schol arly gentleman." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Good Books. Even should a man make It a rule to read nothing until he has a definite estimate of Its merit, he will find In the end that he has lost little. For any purpose of the cultivation of the mind or the Imagination the book which Is good to read today Is good to read tomorrow. Arlo Bates. The first separate school for col ored children In Massachusetts was established In 1708.