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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
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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.