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Nine members of one family died
Tuesday from eating what tliey
thought wore mushrooms. Deaths
from this cause in Berlin within the
last 24 hours total 18.
The present run of humpback salm
on in waters near Everett, Wash., is
exceeding ull records since 1918 and
canneries running to capacity are be
ing forced to reject fish.
Lassen Peak was in eruption for
more than an hour Monday. The
sinoko cloud lingered in the sky long
after the eruption ceased, and was
noted as far south as Chico, 55 miles
distant. Observers said that it was
the biggest eruption of the peak this
year. .
Any discussion in the public press
of a policy looking to the abolition
of war will be welcomed by President
Coolidge, it was said Tuesday at the
White House in connection with the
recent publication of a letter by Pres
ident Harding suggesting such a dis
cussion. Undivided allegiance to the consti
tution and unhesitating obedience to
legislative action were urged upon the
press of the nation by President Cool
idge in a letter to A. G. Newmyer,
president of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers' association, made public
Wodnesday.
A promise of legal protection for
the American publio against dishonest
business was made Wednesday by
Assistant Attorney-General Seymour,
in charge of anti-trust prosecutions of
the department of justice, in address
ing the National Association of Attor
ney-Generals.
A fire, apparently of incendiary
origin and starting about 4 o'clock
Tuesday morning, completely destroy
ed the Columbia Planing Mill com
pany's plant at Astoria, Or., as well
as a machine shop belonging to the
Wilson Shipbuilding company, and
their contents.
Broad made at municipal bakeries
in Omaha soon may be on sale at fire
houses by city firemen. Mayor Dahl
man announced Monday appointment
ot City Commissioner Hopkins, Dean
Noyes and hlmsolf as a committee to
inqulro Into the advisability of mu
nicipally owned bakeries.
One white robed klansman was
killed, another man seriously wounded
and an undetermined number of other
persons hurt during hours of rioting
precipitated by an attempt of Ku
Klux klunsmen to parade through the
villuge of Carnegie, a suburb of Pitts
burg, Sunday night after a spectacular
demonstration on a nearby hill.
John C. Skinner, excivillan chief
of the sales department of the surplus
supply division ot the army quarter
master general's office, who, with
four others, was indicted August 23
for alleged frauds against the govern
ment in connection with the sale ot
surplus supplies, Tuesday pleaded not
guilty and was roleased on $5000 ball.
It is officially announced from
Homo that the entire Italian mission
assigned to the work of establishing
the Albanian-Greek frontiers has boon
massacred by Greeks. A semi-official
note says that the Italian government
already has taken the severe measures
that the extraordinary gravity of the
situation warrants. Intense excite
ment has boon created here over the
Incident.
Because a stomach pump was used
to extract morphine he had swallowed
when government agents arrested him
as an alleged drug peddler, George
Bennett ot San Francisco Wednesday
filed lit federal court a petition for a
writ of habeas corpus. Bennett as
serts he is dotained illegally, since
he was "forced to give evidence
, ntnilnst himself in violation of his
constitutional rights."
Omaha Wednesday started its fight
against typhoid fover and other dis
eases which scientists say menace the
city following its week without water.
The breakdown of the water system
was a tremendous inconvenience, but
the specialists say the city is now
threatened with a calamity in the
form of epidemics of typhoid, dysen
tery and other germ diseases due to
the Impurities carried by tlia water
system last week.
CURRENT
WEEK
ITALY READYTO BOLT LEAGUE
Mussolini Prepared to Withdraw Del
egatesAthens Voices Protest.
Rome. Premier Mussolini, it is un
derstood, is ready to withdraw the
Italian delegates from the Geneva
conference if his viewpoint concern
ing the conflict with Greece is not
shared by the league of nations.
It Italy's viewpoint that the league
of nations 13 incompetent to settle the
Greco-Italian difficulty is not accepted
by the league, Italy, it is understood,
is ready to submit the question of the
league's competency to the interna
tional court at The Hague. This court,
however, if called upon, must give a
decision from an abstract standpoint
without reference to the present
Creco-ltalian conflict.
Athens The Italo-Greek situation
is stationary and the announcement
that the British Atlantic fleet is pro
ceeding to Mediterranean waters has
produced a soothing effect, although
the purpose of the move is unknown.
Memorial services were held in all
the Greek churches Monday for the
refugees and others killed during the
Italian bombardment at Corfu. There
were immense congregations every
where and the services were most
impressive.
The government has addressed an
energetic protest to the allies against
the bombardment of unfortified Corfu
and the killing of innocent persons.
The action ot the revolutionary
committee in making arrangements
for elections has eased the internal
situation and has created a good im
pression in diplomatic circles where
certain diplomats have been urging a
return to a parliamentary regime.
The Greek government warns the
public against expecting intervention
of the British fleet at Corfu, and news
from Geneva is accepted as indicating
that no help is coming from the
league of nations. As a result, public
opinion is more bitter and anxious
than ever. There is great disappoint
ment and indignation at the attitude
of the league.
FOOD RIOTS BEGUN
IN STRICKEN DISTRICT
Sun Francisco. Food riots have
broken out in Toklo, according to a
radiogram received by the Radio cor
poration from Iwaki station, 155 miles
from Tokio. The gendarmerie are re
ported in these advices to have exer
cised the most strenuous measures to
suppress the disorders, even attacking
the rioters with their swords.
A number of Coreans were in the
mob, the advices said.
The advices confirmed earlier re
ports of a great fire in Yokohama and
an estimate that there had been at
least 100,000 casualties there.
The fires, the message said, were
caused by or followed by the explo
sion of oil storage tanks in the city,
where reserves of fuel oil for the
merchant and naval marine were kept.
Six Coreans were shot to death by
soldiers making martial law effective
in the devastated area of Toklo, ac
cording to wireless messages received
here at 3 o'clock Monday morning
from Tomioka by the Radio corpora
tion of America.
The same message said the work of
relief was already under way and
provisions were being supplied to
refugees from the Tokio central sta
tion, which was undamaged.
Nogeyuma, a better-class residen
tial section of Yokohama; Iseyama,
another section where stood a notable
statue of Io Nnosuke, prime minister
of the Shogun at the time Japan was
opened to foreign intercourse, and
Kamonyama, a third soction, all were
destroyed, leaving thousands in ex
treme misery.
Many Europeans, visitors and resi
dents of that section, were missing.
Sea Swells Run High.
Los Angeles Ground swells 20 feet
high, larger than any in the experience
ot mariners at Los Angeles harbor,
reached the southern California coast
early Monday morning, the first evi
dence here ot the tidal wave and
earthquake which killod hundreds of
thousands In Japan.
Captain Frank Miller, keeper of the
breakwater lighthouse at the harbor,
reported that the large waves were
first observed at 1 A. M. and rushed
in with increasing intensity all day
long. The swells lifted entirely over
tho 15-toot breakwater and carried
away all loose objects, including boat
tender at the lighthouse and much
planking piled along the shore.
Ons Operator Glvei News.
San Francisco, Cal. Through T.
Yonomura, an obscure Japanese radio
operator and the only human link be
twoeu Japan and the rest ot the world
after Saturday's devastating earth
quake, came the first and subsequent
news of the catastrophe that had
struck the Island empire. Yonemura
Is operator at Tomioka, 144 miles
north of Toklo. By some strange
fronk this station was spared by the
quake.
L
li lip
Final Tragic Touch Is Added
by Terrific Typhoon.
TOKIO'S DEAD 130,000
Landing Party Says Only 40,000 Left
of Yokohama's 423,000-Dead
and Dying Everywhere.
Tokio. The American embassy was
destroyed. Martial law prevails in
all the cities in the devastated area.
Tokio is orderly, although outside re
lief is needpd badly.
Nagasaki. The special bureau
opened for the aid of earthquake vic
tims announces that 350,000 houses
have been destroyed in Tokio and
that the casualties number 130,000.
Pekin There are but 40,000 per
sons left in the city of Yokohama, all
the rest being dead or having fled to
places of greater safety, according to
a landing party from the steamer
Korea Maru, whose report on condi
tions was received here Monday.
Yokohama's population as given by
the last enumeration was approxim
ately 423,000.
London. All the Europeans are be
lieved to be safe, both in Tokio and
Yokohama, reads a cable dispatch re
ceived by a London firm from an al
lied company in Japan, according to
the Daily Express.
San Francisco. Every report re
ceived from Japan throughout Mon
day confirmed or increased previous
estimates of the havoc wrought in
death and destruction by the quad
ruple catastrophe which has befallen
the central eastern section of Hondo,
largost of the islands of the Japanese
empire.
Beginning at noon Saturday with a
series of earthquakes which razed
most of the city of Tokio and large
sections ot Yokohama, and other
cities in the vicinity, the disaster was
continued by fires which broke out
in scores of places. Tidal waves fol
lowed, engulfing and washing into the
sea hundreds of buildings. Then
came a typhoon, adding a final and
tragic touch to what is probably the
greatest calamity of modern times.
Topping all previous estimates of
death and ruin, Ujiro Oyama, Japan
ese consul-general in San Francisco,
late Monday received from Shlchitaro
Yada, Japanese consul-general in
Shanghai, a report that 160,000 per
sons were killed and 1,000,000 home
less in the Tokio-Yokohama section.
Previous estimates from various
sources had placed the casualties as
high as 150,000 dead in Tokio alone.
One of these came from the Japanese
minister of marine by way of Osaka.
Other reports told of mountainous
casualties both on land and sea.
AMERICA RUSHES
RELIEF TO JAPAN
Washington, D. C The United
States moved swiftly Monday to bring
the full force of the government and
tho people to the aid of stricken
Japan.
While government executive depart
ments were directed to assist in the
work, the public was urged in an ap
peal issued by President Coolidge to
contribute funds through the Amer
ican Red Cross for aiding the unfor-
tunate and giving relief to the people
of Japan.
Tho Red Cross at once announced
that it had started the fund with
a contribution of $100,000 for the re
lief ot victims ot the earthquake and
In addition had appropriated from its
reserve fund $10,000 for the assistance
of Americans caught in the disaster
zone.
Arrangements were made at the
same time for individual contributions
to be received either through the na
tional headquarters or through any
Red Cross chapters. The funds will
bo sent through the state department
to the Japanese Red Cross, an effi
cient organization.
Wire Offices Burned.
Osaka. According to a report re
coived at the telegraph office here,
the Central Telegraph & Telephone
office in Toklo was completely burn
ed. It is believed the telephone sys
tem can be partly restored soon, but
that full restoration will take more
than a month. Despatched from
Osaka for Tokio with food and water
and another ship is being sent to the
capital from Kobe.
MILLION HOME
Erskine Dale
By John Fox, Jr.
Copyright by Cbmrlei Scribner't Sou
"THAT'S MY SON!"
BYNOPSIS.-To the Kentucky
wilderness outpost commanded by
Jerome Sanders, In the time Immedi
ately preceding the Revolution,
comes a white boy fleeing from a
tribe of Shawnees by whom he had
been captured and adopted as a son
of the chief, Kahtoo. He la given
shelter and attracts the favorable
attention of Dave Yandell, a leader
among the settlers. The youngster
Is naked a breech-clouted savage.
He Bpeaks only bastard French and
Shawnee. But he Bhows a patch of
white skin and proudly taps his
breast. "Paleface white man!"
CHAPTER II
2
Old Jerome and Dave and the older
men gathered In one corner of the
stockade for a council of war. The
boy had made it plain that the attack
ing party was at least two days be
hind the three Indians from whom he
had escaped, so that there was no
danger that day, and they could wait
until night to send messengers to warn
the settlers outside to seek safety
within the fort. Meanwhile, Jerome
would dispatch five men with Dave to
scout for the three Indians who might
be near by in the woods, and the boy,
who saw them slip out the rear gate
of the fort, at once knew their pur
pose, shook his head, and waved his
hand to say that his late friends were
gone back to hurry on the big war
party to the attack, now that the
whites themselves knew their danger.
Old Jerome nodded that he under
stood, and nodded to others his appre
ciation of the sense and keenness of
the lad, but he let Uie men go just the
same.
Mother Sanders appeared and cried
to Bud to bring the "Injun" to her
cabin. She had been unearthing
clothes for the "little heathen," and
Bud helped to put them on. In a few
minutes the lad reappeared In fringed
hunting shirt and trousers, wriggling
in them most uncomfortably, for they
made him itch, but at the same time
wearing them proudly.
On the mighty wilderness the sun
sank slowly and old Jerome sat in
the western tower to watch alone. The
silence out there was oppressive and
significant, for it meant that the boy's
theory was right; the three Indians
had gone back to their fellows, and
when darkness came the old man sent
runners to the outlying cabins to warn
the Inmates to take refuge within the
fort. And the gathering was none
too soon. The hooting of owls started
before dawn. A flaming arrow hissed
from the woods, thudded into the roof
of one of the cabins, sputtered feebly
on a dew-drenched ridge-pole, and
went out. Savage war-whoops rent
the air, and the battle was on. All day
the fight went on. There were feints
of attack in front and rushes from the
rear, and there were rushes from all
sides. The women loaded rifles and
cooked and eared for the wounded,
Thrice an Indian reached the wall of
the stockade and set a cabin on Are,
but no one of the three got back to
the woods alive. The stranger boy sat
stoically in the center of the enclosure
watching everything, and making no
effort to take part. Late In the after
noon the ammunition began to run
low and the muddy discoloration of
the river showed that the red men had
begun to tunnel under the walls of the
fort. And yet a last sally was made
just before sunset. A body pushed
against Dave in the tower and Dave
saw the stranger boy at his side with
his bow and arrow. A few minutes
later he heard a yell from the lad
which rang high over the din, and he
saw the feathered tip of an arrow
shaking In the breast of a big Indian
who staggered and fell behind a bush.
Just nt that moment there were yells
from the woods behind the yells of
white men that were answered by
Joyful yells within the fort:
"The Virginians 1 The Virginians!'1
And as the rescuers dashed Into sight
on horse and afoot, Dave suw the lad
leap the wall of the stockade nnd dis
appear behind the fleeing Indians.
"Gone back to 'em," he grunted to
himself. The gates were thrown open
Old Jerome and his men rushed out,
and besieged and rescuers poured all
their fire after the running Indians,
some of whom turned bravely to emp
ty their rifles once more.
"Git In! Git in, quick!" yelled old
Joel. lie knew another volley would
come ns soon as the Indians reached
the cover of thick woods, nnd come
the volley did. Three men fell one
the leader of the Virginians, whose
head flopped forward as he entered
the gate and was caught in old Joel's
arms. Not another sound came from
the woods, but again Dave from the
tower saw the cane-brush rustle nt the
edge of a thicket, saw a hand thrust
upward with the palm of peace
toward the fort, and again the
stranger boy emerged this time with
a bloody scalp dangling In his left
hand. Dave sprang down and met him
at the gate. The boy shook his bow
and arrow proudly, pointed to a criss
cross scar on the scalp, and Dave
made out from his explanation that
once before the lad had tried to kill
his tormentor and that the scar was
the sign. In the center of the enclos
ure the wounded Virginian lay, and
when oil Jerome stripped the shirt
from his breast he shook his head
gravely. The wounded man opened
his eyes Just In time to see and he
smiled.
"I know It," he said faintly, nnd
then his eyes caught the boy with the
Pioneer
scalp, were fixed steadily and began
to widen.
"Who is that boy?" he asked
sharply.
"Never mind now," said old Joel
soothingly, "you must keep still!"
The boy's eyes had begun to shift un
der the scrutiny and lie started away,
'Come back here!" commanded the
wounded man, and still searching the
lad he said sharply again :
"Who is that boy?" Nor would he
have his wound dressed or even take
the cup of water handed to him until
old Joel briefly told the story, when he
lay back on the ground and closed
his eyes.
, Darkness fell. In each tower .a
watcher kept his eyes strained toward
the black silent woods. The dying
man was laid on a rude bed within
one cabin, and old Joel lay on the
floor of it close to the door. The
stranger lad refused to. sleep indoors
and huddled himself in a blanket on
the ground in one corner of the stock
ade. Men, women and children fell
to a deep and weary sleep. An hour
later the boy In the corner threw
aside his blanket, and when, a mo
ment later, Lydia Noe, feverish and
thirsty, rose from her bed to get a
drink of water outside her door, she
stopped short on the threshold. The
lad, stark naked but for Ills breech-
clout and swinging his bloody scalp
over his head, was stamping around
the fire dancing the scalp-dance of
the savage to a low, fierce, guttural
song. The boy saw her, saw her face
In the blaze, stricken white with
friglit and horror, saw her too para
lyzed to move and he stopped, staring
at her a moment with savage rage,
and went on again. Old Joel's body
filled the next doorway. He called out
with a harsh oath, and again the boy
stopped. With another oath and a
threatening gesture Joel motioned to
the corner of the stockade, and with
a flare of defiance In his black eyes
the lad stalked slowly and proudly
away. From behind him the voice of
the wounded man called, and old Joel
turned. There was a ghastly smile on
the Virginian's pallid face.
"I saw it," he said painfully. "That's
that's my son !"
CHAPTER ill
From the sundial on the edge of
the high bank, straight above the brim
of the majestic yellow James, a noble
path of thick grass as broad as a
modern highway ran hundreds of
yards between hedges of roses
straight to the open door of the great
manor-house with its wide verandas
"Who Is That Boy?" He Asked
Sharply.
and mighty pillars set deep back
from the river in a grove of ancient
oaks. Behind the house spread a little
kingdom, divided into fields of grass,
wheat, tobacco, and corn, and dotted
with white-washed cabins filled with
slaves. Already the house had been
built a hundred years of brick
brought from England in the builder's
own ships, it was said, and the second
son of the reigning generation, one
Colonel Dale, sat in the veranda
alone. He was a royalist officer, this
second son, but his elder brother had
the spirit of daring and adventure
that should have been his, nnd he had
been sitting there four years before
when that elder brother came home
from his first pioneering trip Into the
wilds, to tell that his wife was dead
and their only son was a captive
among the Indians. Two years later
still, word came that the father, too,
had met death from the savages, and
the little kingdom passed Into Colonel
Dale's hands.
Indentured servants, as well as
blacks from Africa, had labored on
that rath in front of him; and up
It had once stalked a deputation of
the great Powhatan's red tribes. Up
that path had come members of the
worshipful House ot Burgesses; bluff
planters in silk coats, the governor
and members of the council ; dis
tinguished visitors from England
colonial gentlemen and ladies. And all
was English still books, clothes,
plates, knives, and forks; the church,
the Church of England ; the Governor,
the representative of the King; his
Council, the English Parliament so
cially aristocratic, politically repub
lican. For ancient usage held that all
freemen" should have a voice in the
elections, have ' equal right to say
who the lawmakers and what the law.
The way was open us now. Any man
could get two thousand acres by
service to the colony, could build,
plow, re,ap, save, buy servants, and
roll in Ms own coach to sit as tmrgess.
There was but i-ne seat of learning
at Williamsburg. V.'hnt culture they
had they brought from England or
got from parents or minister. And al
ways they had seemed to preter sworn
and stump to the pen. They hated
towns. At every wharf a long shaky
trestle ran from a warehouse out Into
the river to load ships with tobacco
for England and to get in return all
conveniences and luxuries, and that
was enough. In towns men jostled
and individual freedom was lust, so.
Ho ! for the great sweeps of land and
the sway of a territorial lord! Eng
lishmen they were of Shakespeare's
time but living in Virginia, and that
Is all they were save that the flower
of liberty was growing faster In the
new-world soil.
Englishmen called It the "Good
Land," and found It "must plentiful,
sweet, wholesome, and fruitful of all
others."
Down it now came a little girl tha
flower of all those dead and gone
and her coming was just as though
one of the flowers about her had
stepped from its gay company on one
or the other side of the path to make
through them a dainty, triumphal
march as the fairest of them all. At
the dial she paused and her impa
tient blue eyes turned to a bend of
the yellow river for the first glimpsa
of n gay barge that soon must come.
At the wharf the song ot negroes rose
as they unloaded the boat just from
Richmond. She wonld go and see If
there was not a package for her moth
er and perhaps a present for herself,
so with another look to the river bend
she turned, but she moved no further.
Instead, she gave a little gasp, in
which there was no fear, though what
she saw was surely startling enough
to have made her wheel in flight. In
stead, she gazed Steadily into a pair
of grave black eyes that were fixed on
her from under a green branch that
overhung the footpath, nnd steadily
she searched the figure standing
there, from the coonskin cap down the
fringed hunting-shirt and fringed
breeches to the moccasined feet. And
still the . strange figure stood arms
folded, motionless and silent. Neither
the attitude nor the silence was quite
pleasing, and the girl's supple slender
ness stiffened, her arms went rigidly
to her sides, and a haughty little snap
sent her undimpled chin upward.
"Who are you and what do you
want?"
It was a new way for a woman to
speak to a man ; he in turn was not
pleased, and a gleam In his eyes
showed it.
"I am the son of a king."
She started to laugh, but grew puz
zled, for she had the blood of Poca
hontas herself.
"You are an Indian?"
He shook his head, scorning to ex
plain, dropped his rifle to the hollow
of .his arm, and, reaching for his belt
where she saw the buckliorn handle
of a hunting-knife, came toward her,
but she did not flinch. Drawing a let
ter from the belt, he handed it to her.
It was so worn and soiled that she
took it daintily and saw on it her
father's name. The boy waved his
hand toward the house fur up tha
path.
"He live here?"
"You wish to see him?"
The boy grunted assent, and with a
shock of resentment the little lady
started up the path with her bead
very high Indeed. The boy slipped
noiselessly after Iter, his face un
moved, but his eyes were darting right
and left to the flowers, trees, nnd
bushes, to every flitting, strange bird,
the gray streak of a scampering squir
rel, and what he could not see, his
ears took In the clanking chains of
work-horses, the whir of a quail, the
screech of a peacock, the songs of
negroes from far-off fields.
On the porch sat a gentleman In
powdered wig and knee-breeches, who,
lifting his eyes from a copy of The
Spectator to give an order to a negro
servant, saw the two coming, nnd the
first look of bewilderment on bis fine
face gave way to a tolerant smile.
He asked no question, for a purpose
very decided and definite was plainly
bringing the little lady on, and he
would not have to question. Swiftly
she ran up the steps, her mouth prim
ly set, and handed him a letter.
"The messenger is the sou of a
king."
"A what?"
"The son of a king," she repeated.
"Ah," suld the gentleman, humoring
her, "ask his highness to be seated."
His highness was looking from one
to the other gravely and keenly. He
did not quite understand, but he knew
gentle fun was being poked at him,
and he dropped sullenly on the edge
of the porch nnd stared In front of
him. The little girl saw that his moc
casins were much worn and that In
one was a hole with the edge blood
stained. And then she began to
watch her father's face, which showed
that the contents of the letter were
astounding him. He rose quickly when
he had finished and put out his hand
to the stranger.
"I am glad to see you, my boy," he
said with great kindness. "Barbara,
this is a little kinsman of ours from
Kentucky. He was the adopted son
of an Indian chief, but by blood he Is
your cousin. His name is Erskine
Dale."
"Mrs. Willoughby, may I
present by cousin from Kentucky?"
(TO BE CONTINUED.!