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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Governments nd Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing Worth Knowing, Heavy rains in the region north of ' Pueblo, around Wigwam and Buttes, Colo., have sunt tho Fountain river up to where serious damage is fear ed, according to roports. Born while traveling BO miles an hour is the start Eoy Chestor OlBen got on llfo Monday night. Roy first caught Bight of this world while his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chestor Olson, were riding toward Vancouver, Wash., in an automobile driven by Roy Heat er of that city. The French government's reply to the recent British reparations note asserts that France refuses to with draw from the Ruhr except as she is paid, and that she rejects a plan for an international re-estimate of Germany's capacity to pay. Approximately 200,000 tons of Cali fornia's estimated crop of 800,000 tons of grapes have been destroyed by mildew, sunburn and windburn, it was announced Monday by E. M. Sheehan, president of the California Grapo Growers' exchange. The parley' between anthracite operators and miners oyor a new wage contract designed to prevent a cessation of work in the hard coal fields September "16, broke up Tues day. Adjournment was taken sub ject to call of the secretary of the Joint conferences. The government Wednesday began a check-up of every motion picture theater in the southwest and part of the Mississippi valley which exhibits "feature" films or those released on a percentage basis, to determine whether it has been defrauded of taxes on admissions. Omaha laundries, bakeries, barber shops, some restaurants and several other local industries were forced to cIobb down Tuesday when the entire city water Bupply became muddy as a result of a cave-in of a Missouri river bank Just above the intake at the Florence pumping station. Tho Cuban government Wednesday became the first of America's war time dubtors to pay off the total amount of its loan. The second and final payment on the balance of J6, 988,000 owed by Cuba was paid to the treasury by the National City bank of New York, acting for the Cuban government. The newest Japanese submarine, Just returned from a short trial trip, sank Tuesday morning at the Ka wasaki docks at Kobe and 81 mem bers of her crew, missing, are be lieved to have lost thoir lives. The captain, chief officer, five dockyard engineers and four other naval of ficers were saved. Hair dressers, who opened their convention in Chicago Tuesday night, say a wig will be Just as important to the wardrobe this season as a topcoat or a dress for women. The wig enables the bobbed hair woman or girl to wear the new evening gowns and modistes and hair dress ers Bay it is imperative. Tho Barling bomber, world's larg est airplane, took off from Wilbur Wright field at Dayton, Ohio, at 6:18 o'clock Wednesday, after several min utes of preliminary tuning of the six liberty motors by mechanics. The big plane rose from the ground after a comparatively short run and In a tew minutes was about 2000 feet in tho nlr. A calf with two mouths, two faces, two tongues and four eyes was on exhibit at tho homo of W. C. Talcott, on the J. F. Forbls place, Just south of Forest Grove. The calf was born a few days ago and is living and thrlvlug. Tho animal has but two ars. When one of the mouths moves the other moves, as also do tho two tongues. Because she came to work in an automobile, one of the charwomen at the municipal courts building in Detroit hag been discharged, Joseph Martin, commissioner of public works , and custodian of public buildings, in formed tho common council. Ilo said it was the policy of his department to give cleaning work to needy wo men. The council upheld his decision. CURRENT WEEK JOB ON NATRON CUT-OFF LET Work From Crescent to Kirk Award ed - Cost Not Revealed. Contract for construction of the first section of the Eugene-Klamath Falls line of the Southern Faciflc railroad, sometimes roforred to, as the Natron cut-off, was awarded Mon day to John Hampshire, of Grants Pass, Or. The first unit, the one awarded, consists of 31 miles and extends from Kirk to Crescent. It Is the intention of Contractor Hampshire to begin the construction work immediately, and Judging from Hampshire's record, that means Just as soon as he can get equipment on the ground, as he is a fast worker. Southern Pacific officials settled the Kirk-Crescent contract late Mon day and the officials immediately ad vised Klamath Falls of the action. The. compensation for the contract was not announced. In making the award, the long- dreamed-of and much-delayed pro posed line between Eugene and Klamath Falls begins to take material form. For years there has been talk of such a line. The Southern Pacific long ago set aside some $15,000,000 to build, but one interference after another caused delay. The recent de cision with respect to the Central Pacific under the ruling of the Inter state Commerce commission, however, has cleared the way for the Southern Pacific to act. Six months ago, when the Central Pacific matter was still in doubt, it was believed that if a favorable ruling was handed down the Kugene-Klamath Falls line could not well start inside of a few years. Events have moved quickly, however, and culminated in awarding the first contract. When completed, the Eugene- Klamath Falls line will be used, pre sumably, by the Shasta and other fast trains, as the heavy grades of the Sisklyous will be avoided. John Hampshire is a well-known contractor. He has built some of the most difficult grading Jobs in the Oregon state highway system and now has several road Jobs under way. To Ask Income Tax Cut. Washington, D. C Revision of in come taxes downward all the way from the smallest taxable incomes to the biggest will be proposed to con gress at the December session by Representative Martin Madden, re publican, Illinois, who is slated to continue as chairman of the house committee on appropriations. Following a conference he had with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Monday, Mr. Madden said that his study of the question had convinced him that immediate reduction of taxes is feasible in viow of the economies in the cost of government already achieved and prospective further re trenchment. He asserted that there is no good reason that this reduction should not be accomplished by the new congress at its initial session. Gunmen Shoot at Foster. Chicago. Two thousand persons stampeded for the doors at a meeting of garment workers here Monday night when three gunmen suddonly burst into the meeting hall from a side door, fired three shots at William Z. Foster, head of the Trades Union Educational league, who was speaking from the platform, arid fled down a fire escape. Women screamed and rushed for the exits. Only the quick work of doormen and Foster, who kept talking to qulot the excited women, prevented a crush down the narrow stairways to the street, two floors below. Japanese Cabinet Quits. Toklo. Viscount Yasuya Uchida in stalled Saturday as acting premier to succeed Premier Kato who died Fri day, Sunday presented the resigna tions of members of the Kato cabinet to Crown Prince Hirchito, regent. The regent requested Uchida to continue In office until his successor is chosen, It is expected that it will be some days before the genro (elder states men, advisers to the crown) will reach a decision regarding the new premlur. Dayton, O. -With a new type ot photographic airplane, known as a Dlt-4, B, Lieutenants A. W. Stevens, chief ot the McCook field aerial pho tography section, and John A. Mac- Heady are en route to San Diego, Cal., over which city on September 10 they will attempt to photograph the eclipse of the sun. The photograph is to be taken at an nltitudo ot 20,000 feet and must be accomplished within one min ute, as that Is all the time the shadow will be visible. Tomb Is to Be Fenced. Washington, D. C Tho tomb ot the unknown soldier In Arlington, which has been visited by many thou sands since it was erected in 1921 is to be luclosed in an iron fence to prevent defacement. SPECIAL SESSION ' Legislation Inexpedient, Pres ident Coolidge Says. SENATOR ANSWERED Progress Reported to President in Es tablishing New Intermediate Credit Institutions. Washington, D. C Congressional action to aid the farmers does not Beem expedient, President Coolidge declared In a letter to Senator Cood- Ing, republican, Idaho, made public Saturday. Senator Gooding, a member of the senate agricultural bloc, had tele graphed the president urging him to call an extra session ot congress to aid the farmers, and to consider the coal situation. Concerning the latter, the president took occasion to point out that congress had already created the United States coal commission to deal with the fuel question, but his answer on this phase of the telegram was indefinite and not final. ' The president's letter to Senator Gooding, dated August 14, follows: "Your telegram relative to the agri cultural and coal situations has been received. The congress has already had before it the coal problem and has authorized the investigation and report of the commission, which has been and now is, actively engaged in this work and in mediation between the disagreeing elements in the an thracite fields. "As you know, the congress has been engaged during the past two years, often times in accordance with your own suggestion, in the passage of legislation for the relief of agri culture. It was one ot the first acts of President Harding and one of his last thoughts. I share with you a great solicitude for this Important in terest and a great sympathy for any part of it which may be, temporarily I trust, in any distress. It is my earnest desire to afford every possible relief and listen to every possible suggestion. The most experienced legislators with whom I have consult ed have not yet been able to offer any plan for legislative action which seems to be practicable. "Our department of agriculture is digesting every plan that is offered for relief in the hope that some meth od of procedure may be found which would afford a helpful remedy. I can assure you that no effort is being spared in this direction, but up to the present time congressional action has not seemed expedient." Discussion of the agricultural situ ation was taken up Saturday by Pres ident Coolidge and members of the farm loan board at the White House, when the president was informed that the law by which the board was cre ated is operating satisfactorily. Prog ress was reported to the president regarding the establishment of the 12 new intermediate credit banks set up throughout the country. An op timistic outlook was given the presi dent by the board members, who told him there would be no difficulty in providing adequate credits for the marketing of crops by use of the banks. Salary Will Be Given. Washington, D. C Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, according to lnimem orial custom, will receive the salary that would have gone to President Harding had he lived for the remain der of his salary year, which, includ Ing back salary which Mr. Harding had not drawn, will amount to more than $65,000. In addition Mrs. Hard ing may receive from congress a $5000 annuity and the franking priv ileges for life. Glider Record Broken. Berlin. The world's glider record, hitherto held by France, was captured Saturday afternoon by Herr Martens, German pioneer glider and aviator, when he floated 12 kilometers in the Rhine gliding contest. This exceeds the world's record, held by Captain Maneyrol, by ono kilometer. Herr Martens mounted from the Rhine field, soaring to the Fulda-Gersheim railway line. Train Goes Into Ditch. Chariton, la. A westbound mail train on the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad plunged Into the ditch at Russell, near here, early Saturday when one of the trucks of the coal tender was derailed and tore up a section of track. The entire train, with the exception of the rear mall car, left the rails. None of the train crew or mall clerks was Injured. ERSKINE "PALEFACE!" "Here's a story of pioneer days in early American history that contain! vivid picture! of momentoui events from Kas kaskia to Yorktown and of famous American fighting men from George Rogers Clark to George Washington. The story revolves about a striking figure -the son of a blueblooded Vir ginian, stolen and brought up by the Indians and reclaimed by his kindred only in the end to hear the call of the wild and become a pioneer in Kentucky. But he escaped from the wilder ness a breech-pouted savage. He went back to the wilderness a civilized white man, with the best gift of civilization a love ly American bride. John Fox, Jr., is the author of this story. Patriotically American, he won fame with stories of Kentucky, his native state "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and the like. "Ertkine Dale Pioneer" is his latest and last. CHAPTER I Streaks of red ran upward, and In answer the great gray eye of the wil derness lifted Its mist-fringed lid. From the green depths came the flut ing of a lone wood-thrush. A cougar leaped from the low limb of nn oak, ndssed, and a shuddering deer streaked through a forest aisle, bounded into a little dealing, stopped rigid, sniffed a deadlier enemy, and whirled into the wilderness ngain. Still deeper in the depths a boy with a bow and arrow and naked, except for sealp-Iock and breech-clout, sprang from sleep and again took flight along a buffalo trail. Again, not far behind him, three grunting savages were tak ing up the print ot his moccasined feet. ! An hour before a red flare rose within the staked enclosure that was reared In the center of the little clear ing, and above It smoke was seen ris ing. Before the first glimmer of day the gates yawned a little and three dim shapes appeared and moved leis urely for the woods each innn with a long flintlock rifle In the hollow of his arm, a hunting knife In his belt, and a coonskln cap on his head. At either end of the stockade a watch-tower of oak became visible and in each a sleepy sentinel yawned and sniffed the welcome smell of frying venison below him. 1 Ono sentinel rose towering to the full of his stature, stretched his mighty arms with a yawn, and lightly leaped, rifle In hand, Into the en closure. A girl climbing the rude lad der to the tower stopped midway. "Mornln", Dave !" i "Mornin', Polly I" "You don't seem to have much use for this ladder." "Not unless I'm goin' up ; and I iwouldn't then If I could jump ns high as I can fall." He went toward her to jhelp her down. I "I wouldn't climb very high," she I said, and scorning his hand with a jtantalizing little grimace she leaped as lightly ns had he to the ground. jTwo older women who sat about a jkettle of steaming clothes watched her. i "Look nt Tolly Conrad, won't ye? I Ideclare that gal " I "Lyddy !" cried Tolly, "bring Dave's 'breakfast!" At the door of each log cabin, as jsolidly built as a little fort, a hunter was cleaning a long ritle. At the jwestern angle two men were strength jcnlng the pickets of the palisade. lAbout the fire two mothers were suckling babes at naked breasts. I At the fire a tall girl rose, pushed 'a mnss of sunburned hair from her jhented forehead, and a flush not from 'the fire fused with her smile. "I reckon Dave can walk this far I he don't look very puny." I A voice vibrant with sarcasm rose 'from one of the women about the 'steaming kettle "Honor!" she cried, "Honor San iders!" j In a doorway near, a third girl was framed deep-eyed, deep-breasted, j "Honor!" cried the old woman, "stop wastlri' yo' time with that weav I In in thar an' come out here an' he'p jthese two gnls to git Dave his break fast." Dave Ynndell laughed loudly. "Come on, Honor," he called, but the girl turned and the whir of a loom started again like the humming of bees. I.ydla Noe handed the hunter a pan of deer meat and corn bread, !nd Polly poured hint a cup of steam- :ViT liquid made from sassafras leaves. Dave looked up into Polly's black eyes, shifted to Lydia, swerved to the door whence came the whir of the loom. "You are looking very handsome this morning, Polly." he said gravely, l"and Lydia Is lovelier even than usual, land Honor is a woodland dream." He I shook his head. "No," he said, "I 'really couldn't" ! -"Couldn't what?" asked Polly, though she knew gome nonsense was oiiiIii. DALE PIONEER By JOHN FOX, Jr. "Be happy even with two, If t'other were far away." "I reckon you'll have to try some day with all of us far away," said the gentle I.ydla. "No doubt, no doubt." He full upon his breakfast. "Poor boy !" said Lydia, and Polly looked at her with quickening wonder. Dave gave his hunting knife a pa thetic flourish. "And when the Virginia gallants come, where will poor Dave be?" ' "I wonder," said Lydia, "If they'll have long hair like Dave?" Dave shook his long locks with mock pride. "Yes, hut it won't be their own an' It'll be powdered." "Lord, I'd like to see the first In dian who takes one ot their scalps." Polly laughed, but there was a shud der in Lydia's smile. Dave rose. "I'm going to sleep till dinner don't let anybody wake me," he said, and at once both girls were serious and kind. "We won't, Dave." Cow bells began to clung at the edge of the forest. "There they are," cried Polly. "Come on, Llddy." The young hunter entered a door and within threw himself across a rude bed, face down. "Honor!" cried one of the old wom en, "you go an' git a bucket o' water." The whir stopped instantly, the girl stepped with a sort of slow majesty from the cabin, and entering the next, paused on the threshold as her eyes caught the powerful figure stretched on the bed and already in heavy sleep. She felt the flush In her face and to conceal It she turned her head angrily when she came out. A few minutes later she was at the spring and ladling water Into her pail with a gourd Near by the other two girls were milk ing each with her foreliead against the soft flank of a dun-colored cow whose hoofs were stained with the juice of wild strawberries. Honor dipped lazily. When her bucket was Another Arrow Hurtled Between the Boy's Upraised Arm and His Body and Stuck Quivering in One of Its . Upright Bars. full she fell a-dreamlng, and when the girls were through with their task they turned to find her with deep, un seeing eyes on the dark wilderness. "Boo!" cried Polly, startling her, and then teasingly: "Are you in love with Dave, too, Honor?" The girl reddened. "No," she whipped out, "an' I ain't goin' to be." And then she reddened again angrily as Polly's hearty laugh told her she had given herself away, As Honor turned abruptly for the fort, a shot come from the woods followed by a war-whoop that stopped the blood shuddering in their veins. "Oh, my Cod!" each cried, and catching at their wet skirts they fled In terror through the long grass, They heard the quick commotion in the fort, heard sharp commands, cries of warning, frantic calls for them to hurry, saw strained faces at the gates, snw Dave bound through and rush toward them.v And from the forest there was nothing but Its silence until that was again broken this time by a loud laugh the laugh of a white man. Then at the edge of the wilder ness appeared the fool. Behind him followed the other two who had gone out that morning, one with a deer swung about his shoulders, and all could hear the oaths of both as they cursed the fool In front who had given shot and war-whoop to frighten women and make them run. The sickly smile passed from the face of the fel low, shame took its place, and when he fronted the terrible eyes of old Jerome Sanders at the gate, that face grew white with fear, "Thar ain't an Injun In a hundred miles," he stammered, and then he shrank down as though he were al most going to his knees, when sud denly old Jerome slipped his rifle from bis shoulder and fired past the fel Copyrighted by Chattel Scritnet'i Soni 2 low's head with a simultaneous roar of command: "Git in ever'body git In quick! From a watch-tower, too, a rlllo had cracked. A naked savage had bounded Into u spot of sunlight that quivered on the buffalo trull a hundred yards deen In the forest and leaped llthely aside Into the bushes both rifles hud missed. Deeper from the woods came, two war-whoops real ones and In the silence that followed the gates were swiftly closed and barred, and a keen-eyed rifleman was at every port hole in the fort. From the tower oiu Jerome saw reeds begin to shake In a cane-brake to the left ot the spring. 'Look thar!" he called, and three rifles, with Ids own, covered the spot. A small brown arm was thrust above the shaking reeds, with the palm of the hand toward the fort (he peace sign of the Indian and a moment luter a nuked boy sprung from the cane-brake and ran toward the block house, with a bow and arrow in his left hand and his right stretched above his head, Its pleading palm still outward. 'Don't shoot! don't nobody shoot!" shouted the old man. No shot came from the fort, but from the woods enme yells of rage, and as the boy streaked through the clearing au ur row whistled past his head. "Let him in!" shouted Jerome, and as Dave opened the gates another ar row hurtled between the boy's up raised arm and his body and stuck quivering in one of its upright bars. The boy slid through and stood pant ing, shrinking, wild-eyed. The arrow had grazed his skin, and when Dave lifted his arm and looked at the ooz ing drops of blood he gave a startled oath, for he saw a flash of white un der the loosened breech-clout below. The boy understood. Quickly he pushed the clout aside on his thigh that all might see, nodded gravely, and proudly tapped his breast. "Paleface!" he half grunted, "white man 1" The wilds were quiet. The boy pointed to them and held up three fingers to indicate that there were only three red men there, and shook his head to say there would be no attack from them. Old Jerome studied the little stranger closely, wondering what new trick those red devils were trying now to play. Dave made an impatient gesture for silence. "What's your name?" The boy shook his head and looked eagerly around. "Francals French?" he asked, and in turn the big woodsman shook his head nobody there spoke French. However, Dave knew a little Slnnvnee, a good deul of the sign-language, and the boy seemed to understand a good many words In Knglishj so that the big woodsman pieced out his story with considerable accuracy and turned to tell It to Jerome. The Indians had crossed the Big river, were as many as the leaves, and meant to attack the whites. For the first time they had allowed the boy to go on a war party. Some one had treated him badly he pointed out the bruises of cuffs and kicks on his body. The Indians called him White Arrow, and he knew he was white from the girdle of uu tanncd skin under his breech-clout and because the Indian boys taunted him. Asked why he had come to the fort, he pointed ngain to his bruises, put both hands against his breast, and stretched them wide as though he would seek shelter In the arms of his own race and take them to his heart; and for the first time a smile came to his late that showed him plainly as a curious product of his race and the savage forces that for years had been moulding him. That smile could have never come to the face of an Indian. No Indian would ever have so lost himself in his own emotions. No white man would have used his gestures and the symbols of nature to which lie appealed. Only an Indian could have shown such a cruel, vindictive, merciless fire In his eyes when he told of his wrongs, and when he saw tears in Lydia's eyes, the first burning in his life cnine to his own, and brushing across them with fierce shame he turned Indian stole again and stood with his arms folded over his bow and arrows at his breast, looking neither to right nor left, as though he were waiting for judgment at their hands and cared little what his fate might be. as perfect from head to foot ns a statue of the and ent little god, who, In him, had for saken the couches of love for the tents of war. "I saw it," he said painfully. "That's that's my ion!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Worth Thinking Over. The world will pay you only for the services you render. If your services are mediocre you will receive only a mediocre return. The greater your skill, the greater will be your reward. What are you doing to make yourself worth more to your future employer? Exchange. Lots of highway robberies are pulled off under the guise of financiering.