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VI . 1 S' . . . '.' MAPPINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important ' . Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted JPeople, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Judge J. D. Harvey in district court in Houston, Texas, Saturday granted 212 divorces in 245 minutes. C. Lee French, formerly auditor and recorder ot Power county, Idaho, was sentenced to serve from one to ten years in the Idaho penitentiary Satur day in the district court at American Falls, on a charge of embezzlement. The French army of occupation in the Ruhr is to he reinforced by an other fifteen or twenty thousand men, says Le, Matin. It has been decided, the newspaper asserts, to proceed to a still more complete exploitation of the occupied territory. ' A tornado struck the south part of McLean, Texas, Monday afternoon and 'destroyed eight homes. No lives jWerellJStjfind no injuries were report ed, Several farm liouses and barns weredestrbyed. iA heavy hail storm followed: Considerable livestock was RENT WEEK N.J killed, The army transport Morritt sailed ,' "H' ,0 iV.'-fer SanlJfancisco Wednesday with 540 i rrnho -nr r noma in TWflTlUfl " ' four 'Won ths ago. from Vladivostok. Elrtrf. "tarkv their leader, and 50 .rswtll -'remain'' in the islands to j'jjV'ltrV "to eli -the, il ships that brought ;; m jthi-TusBjnuiV, ' '.atansas .counts, ano .possiuiy m iub V' v ' ,.4,i.Uftliea 'States courts, to test the Kan- t vw , jms criminal.. svndicalism law and to i J 5 Ryot'psl()e' an , injunction granted by ;..,f',"'Yu,dge,. Ayei'of Butler' county, Kan- .,..V t. T TIT lir rrr,n nnn. spiring tp .atonwork in the wheat and , :. ' 'V'' .,oll fields.' ', ,' . .', ' ... v-V ' .., An-apparenK-cure for cancer, con sisting' of' a solution of colloidal lead, , ,; ; " whlph) ia dm -enemy of diseased tissues, :" .. .t i Vhhs been discovered by Professor Blair -pell-' of.' Liverpool university. :Dr. L. Moughey .of Concord, Kan., who re . ; ' turned Tuesday after studying surgery i, , abroad, for' several years, made this announcement. , . , ''.' ' ' "William 3'. Bryan was defeated and ; the evolutionists ' scored, a victory ' ' , Tiiesdaywhen the general assembly . of the Presbyterian ciiiirch-of the Uni ted Slates of America' inj Indianapolis defeated the commonor'B resolution to - bar schools permitting the teaching of the evolutionary hypothesis from' use of church funds. 1 President Harilirig of, .the' United States and President Obregon ot Mex ico may signify the resumption of cor dial relations ' bettveenth fw'o na tions by' ch.splng 'Sfahds across the border1 fftliouglaa andyAgui&Prleta. A campaign to thai endiwas'llaunched recently by tho chambers .of ea'm merce of the two tawns,ltA n;;' Former , lVfviUVlonienceau Jias refused a -sehatorshlu (.which'ould i have been .ills, for thp askilig Repre . sentatives t thS differnt,.fafa'"of fered to make I11? tixelr common Choice as successor to .the tj!ia- tor beroux in tBO'iiger s'' OLt;tnpiace,. , tho region ot La Vjndefl,,iIIiere h6 still retains a seasides "rosldohce. , ' ' ji:".: A gift of $200,000 to the fcollege of,' Tuget Sound from Mrs. ;,Chiiles "II Jones was announced 'Totality after noon at the ground-b'realilrlg exercj8e4f)eehutes river May 11 on the site of the new collcfcij campus,, Mrs. Jones announced thwtiieiioney,' will be used for a college, ballflihir iu memory of her'husbnail, a prpmiuent lumberman, who died 8 (few! inoiiths ago. : Some statisticians assert that either the steel industry or the autom6hi(e Imlusry is the largest enterprise,-, hi the Unltfxd States, but other,, Investi gators declare that the greatest ehvle business in this country today, legiti mate and otherwise, Is liquor. iln,ttift number of men engaged and the dity.1 amount ot turnover in cash, it stands,; at the top of all American industries, . Approxlmutoly 1,2510,000 pounds of wool . was sold Saturday to Gpprey Colby, representing the American Woolen Mills, by' J. K. Clinton, wool grower of Boise, Idaho. The sale represents the largest individual sale ever made in the state ot Idaho. The price paid for this wool is understood to have been 43 cents a pound, at. I which figure the price would be $53?, 000. STATE NEWS t IN BRIEF. tfWvVWW WW Medford. Water was turned in Fri day to the new concrete 2,000,000-gal- lon capacity new reservoir of the Med ford city water works department, which cost $3000 and is situated be side the old reservoir. Ilillsboro. Steps to organize a union high school in Ilillsboro, result ing from action taken by the chamber of commerce several months ago, when a committee was appointed to investi gate the matter, give promise of suc cess. , . : Salem. Five special trains will carry the Oregon National Guard to camps of field instruction the last halt of June, according to detailed sched ules for the movement issued recently by George A. White, adjutant-general of the state. " :' Salem. Fake advertisers and moochers will find 'hard sledding in putting over their schemes in this city. This was announced last Fri day night after the members league had voted to. affiliate with the Port land Ad club. ,,-,', ;V. Newberg. The local cannery, oper ated by the Oregon Canning company, commenced last , week putting up, gooseberries and will start on, straw berries rext week. Officials ot the, company state that they., will put up 50 per cent more fruit this,,year. than last. ; ! ' Salem. President Harding probabty will embark from Portland on his trip to Alaska as originally announced, and will return by way of Seattle. This was indicated in a telegram received here Saturday by Senator C. L. Mc Nary, who is spending the summer in Salem. . . . Pendleton. Luke, Mlnthorn, aged 70, a Cayuse Indian of the Umatilla reser vation, who has been an active leader in Indian affairs for many years, died suddenly Friday at his home. He is survived by his widow, Mary, and' his son Albert, who is the sole heir to the large estate. ' Salem. Whether C. E. Spence, re cently appointed state market agent under a new law enacted at the last session of the legislature, will retire as master of the Oregon state grange, will be determined at the annual meet ing of the grange to be held in New port next month. Prineville A picnic for Oddfellows of all central Oregon and to which the general public will be invited is the plan of Ochoco lodge No. 40, Oddfel lows. This picnic will be held at the picnic grounds on the Ochoco highway at the mouth of Canyon creek on June 17. Tho Mitchell band has been en gaged for the occasion. Salem. The attorney-general Satur day filed a demurrer to the complaint in the case brought by S. R. Dlefen dorf of Portland to restrain the secre tary of state and the state treasurer from issuing a certificate remitting to the city of Astoria taxes assessed. against the municipality for 1923 un der a law enacted at the last session ot the legislature. . Salem. Following the appointment of Wade Malone of Corvallis as a member of tho state highway com mission to Bucceed Robert A. Booth ot .Eugene, speculation has been rife here as to who will be elected state highway engineer. This office car ries a salary of $6000 a year and the appointment of the engineer is in the hands of the highway commission. The Dalles. Indictments were re turned by the grand jury in session here Saturday against 26 men, most of whom fire believed to be residents :of Wasco and Sherman counties, on charges ot rioting and fishing unlaw fully.. The riot charges resulted from an alleged altercation between the 26 named and Deputy District Game Warden ..lladley at a fishway on the Bond. A new lake has made its ap pearance. The lake has no name, but U is tho largest in the Deschutes na tional forest. Damming the Deschutes river at Crane Prairie to accumulate ! . , . ... storage waters ior reclamation oi uie north canal lands and the Powell Butte project has brought the lake in to existence, and in, the last few days its area has spread to more than that ot Odell lake, according to H. L. Plum,l),n6rest supervisor. , , ... ', .Sti'leHi.'Through tlie'iise of a form tilir.-tft;;hich corporations operating "lh" Oregon have been urged, to remit promptly their lieense foes tor next yeari the receipts ot the Btate cor fjorkifioa department have increased Vapidly during tha past few weeks, and are tarlin fcjeess ot the receipts durlnlji ii$it 'period In 1922. On May 23?jf22, the receipts ot the state corporation department aggregated $233, while onMay 23, ot .this year, .the itetlSipts were $2356.50. Friday the recejpts Tjfjhe office totaled $2900, as pfagaiust $300 a year ago.' Ml UNDER Conference Is Formed to Pro tect Public Interest. 300 PERSONS GATHER "Progressive Bloc" and Labor Take Part Advocates of Government Ownership Also Join. Chicago. Railroad labor leaders, representatives of the "progressive bloc" in congress, members of various agricultural organizations and propon ents ot government ownership ot the railroads, meeting here Friday, organ ized, the "conference on railroad valu ation" for the announced purpose of promoting and protecting "public in terests in the valuation ot railroad1! property." Approximately 300 invited delegates from all parts of the country, meeting in executive session following a two hour public, gathering in the morning, named' Robert M. La Follette, senator, of Wisconsin (republican), permanent chairman of the conference, and W, T. Logan, ' democratic representative of Squth Carplina; secretary. , The meeting was the outgrowth, Senator La Foltette said, at the pub lic session, of' a conference "of the progressive leaders in the halls of con gress." The purpose of the confer ence, he said, was: "1 To promote and protect public interest in the valuation of railroad property now being made by the in terstate commerce commission, par ticularly for the purpose of prevent ing excessive appraisal of the prop erties which will,, result in unreason able charges -for transportation. "2 To itake, steps, through the in terstate commerce commission and the courts and elsewhere to require the commission to act in strict ac cordance with the provisions of the interstate commerce act in determin ing the valuation of the railroads. "3 To organize, maintain and sup port such proceedings as may be nec essary to accomplish the foregoing alms." Among the delegates are three Uni ted States senators, three governors, 11 congressmen, representatives of railroads or utility commissions of four states, personal representatives of the governors of four additional states, leaders of virtually all railroad labor organizations affiliated with the "big four" brotherhoods and the Amer ican Federation of Labor, sponsors of the Plumb Plan league, and spokes men of, various associations interest ed in transportation. Turkey Now Haremless. (Chicago. Turkey is now haremless. Neither are there any sheiks, because it is all Turkish men can do to get along with one wife. So . says Dr. Fuad Bey, member of the Turkish na tionalist assembly and former minister of health and public works of Turkey, who arrived here Saturday. . . Dr. Bey denied news dispatches that Sultan Mohammed VI abandoned his harem of 67 beauties when he abdicat ed some months ago.' "' , "The only girls the sultain left be hind," he said, with a '-smile, "were servants, housemaids and cooks. There were 15 or' 20 of these, not" 67." ' , , Chicago Debt Five Million. Chicago. Mayor William E. Dever shocked and astounded 200 . ot the city's leading business men Saturday uight with the frank, statement that the municipal government might cease to function because of lack of money. "Instead of the $1,000,000 general ly reported to have been in the city treasury when I took office, a care ful investigation has revealed an ac tual deficit of $5,000,000," the mayor told them. "Unless you men come to my assistance the city administration will slacken and may stop altO: gether." . Stage Drivers Strike. i . . Redding, Cal. Stage drivers em ployed by the Southern Pacifio com pany to transfer train passengers be tween Redding and Pollock as tBe re sult of a tunnel fire recently went on strike here Saturday. The company called for volunteer drivers and. ob tained a sufficient force to continue the work ot transferring passengers.' The drivers were said to have asked for Increased wages and better work ing conditions. Miss "SENORA, ALLOW ME1" STNOPSia-General factotum In trie l-ouee of her sister Ina, wife of Herbert Deacon, In the Bmall town of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads a dull, cramped existence, with which he Is constantly at enmity, though apparently satisfied with her lot To Mr. Deacon comes Bobby Lar kln, recently graduated high-school youth, secretly enamored of Dea con's elder daughter, Diana, an ap plicant for a "Job" around the Deacon house. ' He Is engaged. The family is excited over the news of an approaching visit from Dea con's brother N'lnlan, whom he had not seen for many years. Deacon Jokes with Lulu, with subtle mean ing, concerning the coming meet ing. Lulu is Interested and specu lative, meanwhile watching with something like envy the boy-and-glrl love-making of Bobby and Di ana. Unexpectedly, Ninlan arrives. Thus he - becomes acquainted with Lulu first and In a measure under stands her position in the house. ' To Lulu, Ionian Is a much-traveled , man. of the world, and even the slight interest which he takes , in her' Is appreciated, because It Is something new In her life. And Ninlan appears to like Lulu. II Continued. 5 . The words give no conception of their effect, spoken thus. For there in Warbleton these words are not com monplace. In Warbleton, Europe is never so casually spoken of. "Take a trip abroad" is the phrase, or "Go to Europe" at the very least, and both with empressement. Dwlght had some where noted and deliberately picked up- that "other side" effect, and his Ina knew this, and was proud. Her covert glance about pensively covered her soft triumph. Mrs. Bett, her arm still circling the child Monona, now made her first ob servation. "Pity not to have went while the going was good," she said, and said no more. Nobody knew quite what she meant, and everybody hoped for the best. But Ina frowned. Mamma did these things occasionally when there was company, and she dared. She never sauced Dwiglit in private. And It wasn't fair, It wasn't fair x' Abruptly Nlnian rose and left the room. The dishes were washed. Lulu had washed them nt breakneck speed she could not, or would not, have told why. But no sooner were they finished and set away than Lulu had been attacked by an unconquerable inhibition. And Instead of going to the parlor, she sat down by the kitchen window. She was In her chally gown, with her cameo pin and her string ot coral. Laughter from the parlor mingled with the laughter of Di and Jenny up stairs. Lulu wus now rather shy of Dl. A night or two before, coming home with "extra" cream, she had gone round to the side door and had come full upon Dl and Bobby, seated on the steps. And Dl was saying: "Well, if I marry you, you've simply got to be a great man. I could never marry just anybody. I'd smother." Lulu had heard, stricken. She passed them by, responding only faint ly t,o their greeting. Di was far less tnken aback than Lulu. , Later DI had said to Lulu: "I s'pose you heard what we were saying." ' Lulu, much shaken, had withdrawn from the whole matter by a flat "no. And instead. of Going to the Parlor She' Sat Down by the Kitchen Win dow. - "Because,"' she said to herself, "I couldn't -have beard right." But since then she had looked at Dl S8 if Dl were some one else. Had not Lulu taught her to make buttonholes and to hem oh, no! Lulu could not have heard properly. "Everybody's got somebody to be Lulu By ZONA GALE Copyright by D. Appleton A Company nice to them," she thought now, sit ting by the kitchen window, adult yet Cinderella. She thought that some one would come for her her mother or even Ina. Perhaps they would send Mo nona. She waited at first hopefully, then resentfully. The gray rain wrapped the air. "Nobody cares what becomes of me after they're fed,", she thought, and derived an obscure satisfaction from her phrasing, and thought it again. Ninlan Deacon came into the kitchen. Her first impression was that he had come to see whether the dog had been fed. I fed him," she said, and wished that she had been busy when Ninlan entered. "Who, me?" he asked. "You did that all right. Say, why In time don't you come in the other room?" "Oh, I don't know." "Well, neither do I. I've kept think ing, 'Why don't she come along.' Then I remembered the dishes." He glanced about. "I come to heln wine dishes." Oh!" she laughed so delicately, so delightfully, one wondered where she got it. "They're washed" she caught herself at "long ago." "Well then, what are you doing here?" "Resting." "Rest in there. He bowed, crooked his arm. "Senora," he said his Span ish matched his other assimilations of travel "Senora,' allow me." Lulu rose. On his arm she entered the parlor. Dwlght was narrating and did not observe that entrance. To the Plows It was sufficiently normal. But Ina looked up and said: Well!" In two notes, descending, curving. Lulu did not look at her. Lulu sat in a low rocker. Her starched white skirt, throwing her chally In' ugly lines, revealed a peeping rim of white embroidery. Her lace front wrinkled when she sat, and perpetually she ad justed it. She curled her feet side- wise beneath her chair, her long wrists and veined hands lay along her lap In no relation to her. She was tense. She rocked. i When Dwlght had finished his nar ration, there was a pause, broken at last by Mrs. Bett : , t "You tell that better than you used to when you started In telling it," she observed. "You got in some things I guess you used to clean forget about, Monona, get off my rocker." i , Monona made a little whimpering sound, in pretense to tears. Ina said, "Darling quiet !" chin a little lifted, lower lip revealing lower teeth for the word's completion; and she held it. ! The Plows were asking something about Mexico. Dwlght was wondering if it would let up raining at nil. DI and Jenny came whispering into the room. But all these distractions Nln ian Deacon swept aside. . ,. -f I'Miss Lulu," he said, 'T wanted you to hear about my trip up the Amazon, because I knew how inter-ested you are In travels." , He talked, according to his lights, about the Amazon, , But the person who most enjoyed the recital could not afterward have told two words that he said. . Lulu kept the position which she had taken at first, and she dare not change. She saw the blood In the veins of her hands and wanted to hide them. She wondered if she might fold her arms, or have one hand to support her chin, gave It nil up and sat motionless, save for the rocking. Then she forgot everything. For the first time In years some one was talking and looking not only at Ina and Dwlght and their guests, but at her. III. June. On a June morning Dwlght Herbert Deacon looked at the sky, and said with his manner of originating it: "How nbout a picnic this after noon?" Ina, with her blank, upward look, exclaimed: "Today?" "First class day, it looks like to me." Come to think of It, Ina didn't know that there was anything to prevent, but mercy, Herbert was so sudden. Lulu began to recite the resources of the house for a lunch. Meanwhile, since the first mention of picnic, the child Monona had been dancing stiffly about the room, kneep stiff, elbows stiff, shoulders Immovable, her straight hair flapping about her face. The sad dance of the child who cannot dance because she never has danced. Dl gave a conservative assent she was at that ager-and then took advantage of the family softness incident to a guest and demanded that Bobby go too. Ina -hesitated, partly because she always hesitated, partly because she was tribal in the extreme. "Just our little family and Uncle Ninlan would have been so nice," she sighed, with her consent. When, at six o'clock, Ina and Dwlght and Nlnian assembled on the porch and Luln came out with the basket, it was seen that she was In a blue cot ton house gown. "Look here," said Ninlan, "aren't you going?" Bett "Me?" said Lulu. "Oh, no." "Why not?" "Oh, I haven't been to a picnic since I can remember." "But why not?" "Oh, I never think of such a thing." Nlnian waited for the family to speak. They did speak. Dwlght said: "Lulu's a regular home body." And Ina advanced kindly with: "Come with ns, Lulu, if you like." "No," said Lulu, and flushed. "Thank you," she added, formally. , Mrs. Bett's voice shrilled from with in, the house, startllngly close just beyond the window blind, in fact: "Go on, Lulie. It'll do you good. You mind me and go on." "Well," said Ninlan, "that's what I say. You hustle for your hat and you come along." ' For the first time this course pre sented itself to Lulu as a possibility. She-stared up at Ninlan. "You can slip on my linen duster, over," Ina said graciously. "Your ' new one?" Dwlght Incredu lously, wished to know. "Oh, no!" Ina laughed at the Idea. "The old one." They were having to wait for Di in any ease--they always had to wait for Dl and at last, hardly believing in "Look Here," Said Ninlan, "Aren't You. Going?" "Me?" Said Lulu. "Oh, No." , her own motions, Lulu was running to make ready. Mrs. Betts hurried to help her, but she took down the wrong things and they were both Irritated. Lulu reappeared in the linen duster and a wide lint. There had Been no time to "tighten up" her hair; she was flushed at the adventure; she had never looked so well. . . They started. Lulu, falling in with Munona, heard for the first time In her life, the step of the pursuing male. choosing to walk beside her and the little girl. Oh, would Ina like that? And what did Lulu care what Ina liked? Monona, -making a silly, semi-' articulate observation, was erjehanted, to have Lulu burst Into laughter and! squeeze her hand. I j Dl contributed her bright presence,' and Bobby Larkln appeared from no-: where, running, with a gigantic bag of fruit. ,''' j "BullylUjah !" he shouted, and Lulu; could have shouted with him. ', j She sought for some utterance. She1 wanted to talk with Ninlan. ; "I 'do hope i we've brought sand-! wiches enough," was all that she could get to say. ; , ' I They chose a spot, that Is to say,! Dwlght Herbert chose a spot, across the river and up the shore where there was at that season a strip of warm beach. Dwlght Herbert declared himself the builder of incomparable Arcs, and made a bad smudge., Nln ian, who was a camper neither by birth nor by adoption, kept offering bright ly to help, could think of nothing to do, and presently, bethinking himself of skipping stones, went and tried to skip them on the flowing river. Ina -cut her hand opening the condensed milk and was obliged to sit under a tree and nurse the wound. Monona" spilled nil the salt and sought diligent ly to recover it. So Lulu did all the work. As for Dl awl Bobby, they had taken the pall and gone for water,.dls cournslng her to the nolnt of tpnro But the two were gone for .so long that, on their return, Dwlght was hun- ' gry and cross and majestic. "While I'm here, I'm going to take you and Ina and Dwlght up to the city." (TO BE CONTINCED.) Fifty thousand tons of soap are osed every year by the power laundries in the United States. 8 ' ' "''