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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1922)
vQRLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important " Daily Newsltems. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing-. Eight thousand Russian refugees from Vladivostok have arrived at Gen san, Corea. They include White sol diers, civilians and. their families, be sides several hundred sick' and wound ed. " Twenty-five dollars in gold or no crossing of the international line by ' Americans; except on brief visits, was the requirement of the Mexican gov ernment made' effective at Mexican Tuesday. Reuter's Rome correspondent re ports a ; small conflict between the fasclstFitnd communists there Sunday afternoon One person was killed and several, vjeisq, injured. Order was quick ly restored , , , By next Saturday the entire Asiatic fleet of the. United States navy, with the exception of warships at Vladivos tok and some small gunboats in Chinese waters, will be assembled in Manila bay. Because he loved her too much and insisted upon making their married life a "protracted honeymoon," Mrs. Marie Reilly of Chicago has filed suit for divorce against John F. Reilly of Rockford, 111. President Harding has sent the fol lowing birthday message to Emperor Yoshihito of Japan: "I take pleasure in extending to your majeBty cordial greetings on this birthday anniversary ' with assurances of our own high re gard and good will." Effective Wednesday rfhother reduc- tlon of 1 cent a gallon. In the price of gasoline was announced by the Standard Oil company of Indiana, mak ing the Chicago price 18 cents a gal lon at tank wagons and 20 cents at service stations. Suit for $1,000,000 damages was filed in the federal district court at Chicago Tuesday night against the United States shipping board and the Munson steamship line by Captain B. M. Haagensen, former ly employed by the Munson line. Mrs. Merle Brumtleld, widow of Dr. Richard M. Brumfield, murderer of Den nis Russell, was married to Howard Mozona, a laborer, at Seattle, Septem ber 26, 19 days after Dr. Brumfield committed suicide In the Oregon state ponltentlary, it was learned Tuesday, The movement of refrigerator cars to the northwest is going along at a rapid rute, according to. reports re ceived by the American Railway as sociation. Those reports show that ItneB east of Buffalo promised to de- liver 650 and Instead are delivering 1007. With a threat to shoot It any ef fort were made to dislodge him, a man said to be Captain Freeman, own er of the launch Narbethong, took possession of the customs house in Prince Rupert, B. C, Tuesday, holding the building for sevoral hours until he was Induced by officials to yield peace ably. Another request that the United States actively participate with the allied governments la the settlement of European difficulties, this time Involving the establishment of peace between Turkey and the allies, and the status of the Dardanelles and Boephorus straits, was received Sat urday by the Washington government, W, W. 8terrett, an expert accouut ' ant of Devon, neur Philadelphia, who, with his wife, was poisoned Thurs day by a piece of rake mailed to their home, died Monday night In the Bryn Mawr hospital. Mrs. Sterrett, who is In the same Institution, was reported In a critical condition, and attending ' physicians hold little hope for her re covery. The cattlemen ot Argentina, whose Industry Is once more In a critical con dltlon. want the packing business na tlonaltxed and a special law enacted ta-Mnh wnntil pnfnrrA government con trol of packing homes. These pro jects, with the creation ot a bureau to control the meat Industry and the pas sage of an anti-trust law, were advo cated Tuesday night In resolutions unanimously adopted al a large aieet lug ot stock breeders. 50 MINERS KILLED IN BLAST Thirty-one Rescued Men Are Sent to Hospital Bodies Left in Seaft, Spangler, Pa. Between 50 and 60 miners were killed In the Reilly mine of the Reilly Coal company, near here, Monday morning, according to an of ficial estimate made public at mid night by rescue workers and company officials. This estimate was arrived at after rescue workers who had searched the explosion-wrecked mine for two hours reported they believed there were no more survivors In the workings. Thirty-one rescued men were In the Spangler hospital. Officials of the company were still uncertain as to the exact number of men who went to work just a short time before the blast. They believed that the total was between 90 and 95. Rescue men who had attempted to count the bodies they stumbled over in the workings declared they count ed approximately 50, but said it was probably that a few more men perished In the unexplored chambers. Examination of the mine workings by experts caused officials ot the company to announce that the prop erty damage in the explosion was very small. "There are dead miners strewn all along the entries down there," said J. Bourquin, leader of the United States bureau of mine rescue crew, as he came from the head of the mine. We only stopped with the dead long enough to see that the spark of life had fled and then moved on in search of the living," he continued. Quite a bit of mine remained to be explored, but I can say If there are any more live men in there it won't take us long to get to them." Engineer Bourquin and his men passed the greater part of the after noon In the workings. They were equipped with oxygen helmets, and so eager were they to force their way through the gas that they made seven trips without pausing to have the gas tanks recharged. ' Behind a brattice, hastily construct- by the entombed miners to shut out the deadly after-damp from the heading where they had taken refuge, the rescuers found four men alive and one dead. A little later they came across an other brattice, made of mine carB and bearing the legend burned on with a miner's lamp: "There are 29 men be hind this The air was so bad here that "Sally," the bureau's pet canary bird used In testing the air, died. "It was a Bhame," said one of the crew, "We could have saved her If we had retreated to the good air. But where the lives of miners are con cerned I guess Sally would O. K. our act In going ahead." Huge Sum to be Spent. 1 Seattle, Wash. The Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul railway has arrang ed to expend more than $22,500,000 for new cars and locomotives to handle increasing traffic, B. B. Geers of Chi cago, vice-president in charge of opera tions announced here Monday. Orders for new equipment now ready to be placod include 10,000 box and coal cars to be delivered next year, and 100 steam locomotives, to be ready tor operation next spring, according to the announcement. Mr. Geers, who Is in Seattle on a trip of inspection over the railway's Pad tic coast lines, said the car short age situation In the west was being Improved to some extent through the turning over of more cars to eastern roads by eastern lines. Bonus Given Shopmen. Tacoma. Shopmen who refused to go on strike at the South. Tacoma shops ot the Northern Pacific have received a substantial bonus payment, it Is learned here. Foremen who de clined to strike received checks for JS00 In addition to their regular, pay since July 1, and machinists received $500 bonus. The checks came direct from the Northern Pacific headquar ters In St. Paul, aud were not a part of the regular payroll. South Africa Deluged. Capetown, South Africa. Storms ac companled by floods have occurred over a wide range of country at the capo and in the Transvaal. Owing to the storms shipping at Port Elizabeth was obliged to quit the roadstead tor better shelter. The rains will prove beneficial In many parts of the coun try, where they have been much need ed. s . $20,000 In Fure Stolen. Chicago. Nathan Tletlbaum, a mer chant, reported to the police Monday that four armed robbers bound him and his wife and five employes and looted his store ot furs valued at 120,000. The robbers escaped with their booty In a motor truck. TURKS OCCUPY CONSTANTINOPLE Evacuation By Allied Troops Is Demanded. PEACE PACT TORN UP Nationalists Begin Moving Into Cha nak Area and Other Neutral Zones Rioters Slain. Constantinople. The nationalist government has seized control of Con stantinople, Rafet Pasha has been made the new governor and Hamid Bey, the representative of the Angora government, has ordered the allied troops out. In a note to the entente he has demanded evacuation of the allied forces. The Turks have torn up the Mudania armistice convention and have begun advancing into the Chanak area, oc cupied by the British, and other neu tral' zones. Since noon Saturday, the national ist administration is declared to have been established and in celebration of this masses of excited Turks have been engaged in disorders. Students marched against the palace and engaged in such manifestations that It became necessary for the allied police to fire on them, several of the Turks being killed or wounded. The Christians in the Stamboul quarter throughout Saturday night were seeking shelter and protection from what they plainly feared a Turk ish massacre. Sunday, however, the government authorities issued orders that all dis turbances should be rigorously put down. The allied high commissioners accepted the new regime and there was nothing left for the sultan's min istry but resignation. Tewflk Pasha, the grand vizier, realizing that his power had disappear ed, dispatched messages to the repre sentatives of the sublime porte in the various capitols to transfer their archives to the representatives of the Angora government. There seemed danger for a time that the radical forces would gain the upper hand. The sultan was denounc ed, together with monarchy, and Mustapha Kemal Pasha was acclaim ed as "our president." It became nec essary to throw guards of troops around the sultan's palace within which Mohammed VI, now caliph only, Is spending fearful hours. Mohammed VI has given no evi dence of conforming to the determin ation of the new government to rid Turkey of the high office of sultan, but the quickly developing popular movement may soon compel him to ac cept the Inevitable. Rafet Pasha sprang the news, of the change In government In a dra matic fashion on the allied generals. The generals had summoned Rafet to discuss the question of the admission of Kemaltst gendarmes to the Galll- poll and Chanak sections. At the termination of the discussion, Rafet, by way of an afterthought, broke the startling news like this: I must Inform your excellencies that, since noon the Constantinople government no longer exists, and have assumed the governorship." Ex-Kalser Weds. Doom, Holland. The German ex- emperor and Princess Hermione or Reuss were married Sunday at the house ot Doom, where the lord abides in exile. This second venture was in Strange contrast with that day In 1881 when, as crown prince, he wedded Augusta Victoria, daughter of Grand Duke Frederick of Schleswlg-Holsteln. Several ot the offspring of that first union were present to set the seal of family approval to the new alliance. There were two ceremonies, a civil contract drawn up and signed by "Wllhelm II" and "Hermione, Reuss,1 as they affixed their names; the sec ond, a religious ceremony, conducted by the ex-court chaplain, Dr. Vogel, according to the Lutheran rites. Reds' Demands Severe. Moscow. Soviet Russia insists on full representation In the Lausanne peace conference upon the same basis as the other participating powers. M, Tchltcherin, the foreign minister, makes this known In a note he has sent to Great Britain, France and Italy, In reply to the Invitation ot the entente that Russia take part only In the discussions relating to the straits. The note also demanded the partlclpa tlon of Ukraine and Georgia. ELEANOR H. PORTER ILLDSTRATIONSBY KH.LWINGSTONE. COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H. PORTER. CHAPTER IX Continued. 22 All the evening I was watching and listening with her eyes and her ears everything he did, everything he said. I so wanted Mother to like him I I so wanted Mother to see how really fine and splendid and noble he was. But that evening Why couldn't he stop talking about the prizes he'd won, and the big racing car he'd Just or dered for next summer? There' was nothing fine and splendid find noble about that. And were his finger nails always so dirty? Why, Mother would think Mother did not stay In the room all the time ; but she was In more or less often to watch the game ; and at half past nine she brought in some little cakes and lemonade as a surprise. I thought It was lovely; but I could have shaken Paul when he pretended to be afraid of It, and asked Mother If there was a stick In It. The Idea Mother! A stick 1 I Just knew Mother wouldn't like that. But If she didn't, she never showed a thing In her face. She Just smiled, and sutd no, there wasn't any stick In It; and passed the cakes. When he had gone I remember I didn't like to meet, Mother's eyes, and I didn't ask her how she liked Paul Mayhew. I kept right on talking fast about something else. Some way, I didn't want Mother to talk then, for fear of what she would say. And Mother didn't say anything about Paul Mayliew then. But only a few days later she told me to in vlte him again to the house (this time to a chafing-dish supper), and te ask Carrie Heywood and Fred Small, too. We had a beautiful time, only again Paul Mayhew didn't "show off" at all In the way I wanted him to though he most emphatically "showed off" in his way! It seemed to me that he bragged even more about himself and his belongings than he had before. And I didn't like at all the way he ate his food. Why, Father didn't eat like that with such a noisy mouth, and such a rattling of the silverware! And so It went wise mother that she was ! Far from prohibiting me to have anything to do wltn Paul May hew, she let me see all I wanted to of him, particularly In my own home. She let me go out with him, properly chaperoned, and she never, by word or manner, hinted that she didn't ad mire his conceit and braggadocio. And It all came out exactly as I suspect she had planned from the be ginning. When Paul Mayhew asked to be my escort to the class reception in June, I declined with thanks, and Im mediately afterward told Fred Small I would go With him. But even when I told Mother nonchalantly, and with carefully averted eyes, that I was go ing to the reception with Fred Small even then her pleasant "Well, that's good!" conveyed only cheery mother Interest; nor did a hasty glance Into her face discover so much as a lifted eyebrow to hint, "I thought you'd come to your senses sometime !" Wise little mother that she was ! In the days and weeks that followed (though nothing was said) I detected a subtle change In certain matters, however. . And as I look back at It now, I am sure I can trace Its origin to my "affair" with Taul Mayhew. Evi dently Mother had no Intention of run ning the risk of any more courtships; also evidently she Intended to know who my friends were. At all events, the old Anderson mansion soon be came the rendezvous of all the boys and girls of my acquaintance. And such good times as we had, with Mother always one of us, and ever pro posing something new and Interesting! And because boys not a boy, but boys were as free to come to the house as were girls, they soon seemed to me as commonplace and matter-of-course and free from sentimental in terest as were the girls. Again, wise little mother 1 But, of course, even this did not prevent my falling In love with some one older than myself, some one quite outside of my own circle of Intimates. My especial attack of this kind came to me when I was barely eigh teen, the spring I was being gradu ated from the Andersonvllle High school. And the visible embodiment of my adoration was the head master, Mr. Harold Hartshorn, a handsome, cleanshaven, well-set-up man of (I should Judge) thirty-five years of age, rather grave, a little stern, and very dignified. But how I adored him t How I hung npon his every word, his every glance ! How I maneuvered to win from him a few minutes' conversation on a Latin verb or a French translation! How I thrilled if he bestowed upon me one of his Infrequent smiles I How I grieved over his stern aloofness 1 Fj the end of a month I had evolved this: his stern aloofness meant that he had been disappointed In lovel his melancholy wis loneliness his heart was breaking. How I longed to help, to heal, to cure 1 How I thrilled at the thought of the love and companionship I could give him somewhere In a rose embowered cottage far from the mad ding crowd ! (He boarded at the An dersonvllle hotel alone now.) If only he could see It as I saw It. Tf only by some sign or token he could know of the warm love that was his but for the asking ! Could he not see that no longer need he pine alone and unap preciated in the Andersonvllle hotel? Why, in just a few weeks I was to be through school. And then On the night before commencement Mr. Harold Hartshorn ascended our front steps, rang the bell, and called for my father. I knew because I was upstairs In my room over the front door ; and I saw him come up the walk and heard him ask for Father. Oh, Joy I Oh, happy day I He knew. He had seen It as I saw It. He had come to gain Father's permission, that he might be a duly accredited suitor for my hand ! During the next ecstatic ten min utes, with my hand pressed against my wildly beating heart, I planned my wedding dress, selected with care and discrimination my trousseau, furnished the rose-embowered cottage far from Jerry Was an Artist, It Seemed. the madding crowd and wondered why Father did not send for me. Then the slam of the screen door downstairs sent me to the window, a sickening terror within me. Was he going without seeing me, his future bride? Impossible!. Father and Mr. Harold nartshorn stood on the front steps below, talking, In another minute Mr. Harold Harts horn had walked away, and Father had turned back on to the pluzza. As soon as I couid control my shak ing knees, I went downstairs. Father was in his favorite rocking chair. I advanced slowly. I did not sit down. "Was that Mr. Hartshorn?" I asked, trying to keep the shake out ot my voice. "Yes." "Mr. H-Hartshorn," I repeated stu pidly. "Yes. He came to see me about the Downer place," nodded Father. "He wants to rent It for next year." "To rent It the Downer place !" (The Downer place was no rose-embowered cottage far from the madding crowd I Why, It was big, and brick, and right next to the hotel I I didn't want to live there.) "Yes for his wife and family. He's going to bring them back with him next year," explained Father. "Ills wife aud family 1" I can luiag Ine about how I gasped out those four words. "Yes. He has five children, I be lieve, and" But I had fled to my room. After all, my recovery was rapid. I was In love with love, you see; not with Mr. Harold Hurtshorn. Besides, the next year I went to college. And It was while I was at college that I met Jerry. Jerry was the brother of my college friend, Helen Weston. Helen's elder sister was a senior in that same col lege, and was graduated at the clone of my freshman yeas. The father, mother and brother enme on to the graduation. And that Is where I met Jerry. If It might be called meeting him, He lifted his hat. bowed, said a polite nothing with his tips, and in Indiffer ent "Oh, some friend of Helen's," with his eyes, end turned to a radiant blonde senior at my side. "And'that was all fur him. Hut for me " All that day I watched him when ever opportunity offered ; and I suspect that I took care that opportunity of fered frequently. I was fascinated. I had never seen any one like him be fore. Tall, handsome, brilliant, at per fect ease, he plainly dominated every group of which he was a part. Toward him every face was turned yet he never seemed to know it. (Whatever his faults, Jerry is not conceited. I will give him credit for that!) Tome he did not speak again that day. 1 am not sure that he even looked at me. If he did there must still have been In his eyes only the "Oh, some friend of Helen's," that I had seen at the morning introduction. I did not meet him again for nearly a year; but that did not mean that I did not hear of him. I wonder if . Helen ever noticed how often I used to get her to talk of her home and her family life; and how Interested I was In her gallery of portraits on the man tel there were two fine ones of her brother there. Helen was very fond of her brother. I soon found that she loved to talk about him If she had a good listener. Needless to say she had a very good one In me. Jerry was an artist, It seemed. Ha was twenty-eight years old, and al ready he had won no small distinction. Prizes, medals, honorable mention, and special course abroud all these Helen told me about. She told me, too, about the wonderful success he had Just had with the portrait of a certain New York society woman. She said that It was Just going to "make" Jerry ; that he could have anything he wanted now anything. I saw Jerry myself during the East er vacation of my second year In col lege. Helen Invited me to go home with her, and Mother wrote that I might go. Helen had been home with me for the Christmas vacation, and Mother and Father liked her very much. There was no hesitation, there fore, In their consent that I should visit Helen at Easter time. So I went. Helen lived In New York. Their home was a Fifth avenue mansion with nine servants, four automobiles and two chauffeurs. Naturally such a scale of living was entirely new to me, and correspondingly fascinating. From ths elaborately uniformed footman that opened the door for me to the awe some French maid who "did" my hair, I adored them all, and moved as In a dream of enchantment. Then cams Jerry home from a week-end's trip and I forgot everything else. I knew from the minute his eyes looked Into mine that whatever I had been before, I was now certnlnly no mere "Oh, some friend of Helen's." I was (so his eyes said) "a dencedly pretty girl, and one well worth cul tivating." Whereupon he began at once to do the "cultivating." In less than thirty-six hours I was caught up In the whirlwind of his wooing, and would not have escaped It If I could. When I went back to college he held my promise that If he could gain the consent of Father and Mother, he might put the engagement ring on my finger. Back at college, alone In my own room, I drew a long breath, and began to think. It was the first chance I had had, for even Helen now had become Jerry by reflection. The more I thought, the more fright ened, dismayed, and despairing I be came. In the clear light of calm, nne reasoning, It was all so absurd, so Im possible! Whnt could I hnve been thinking of? I must forget Jerry. I pictured him In Andersonvllle, lo my own home. I tried to picture hliu talking to Father, to Mother. Absurd, What had Jerry to do with learned treatises on stars, or with the humdrum, everyday life of a stupid, small town? For that mutter, what had Father and Mother to do with dancing and motoring and painting society queens' portraits? Nothing. Plainly, even If Jerry, for the sake of the daughter, liked Father and Mother, Father and Mother certainly would not like Jerry. That was cer tain. Of course I cried myself to sleep that night. That was to be expected. Jerry was the world; and the world was lost. There was nothing left ex cept, perhaps, a few remnants and pieces, scarcely worth the counting excepting, of course, Father and Moth er. But one could not always have one's father and mother. There would come a time when Jerry's letter came the next day by special delivery. He had gone straight home from the station end be gun to write to me. (How like Jtrry that was portlcularly the eneclal delivery stamp!) The most of his let ter, aside from the usual lover's rhap sodies, had to do with plans toi the summer what we would do together at the Westons' summer cottage In" Newport. He said he should run up to Andersonvllle early very early; just as soon as I was hack from col lege. In fact, o that he mlght1net Father and Mother, and put that ring on my finger. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 6ome Information. She was an amiable old lady, and volunteered much information to the fair stranger, who had come down to see an Important event In the country town the laying of the foundation stone of the new church. "Ye," prat tled the old lady, "that Is the dnke and duchess, and the couple behind them are the mayor and mayor, and those two on the right atv the vlcr nder vixen." Pearson's Weekly. Mary Queen of Scots had a Inrge collection of wigs, and It In said that she wore one at her execution. V