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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. A sanguinary battle was reported to be in progress since Tuesday at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, within a league of the Uruguayan border, be tween rebels and Brazilian regular troops. A new island has emerged near the Idzu group, according to the Eastern News Agency, but the report that the province of Oshima in the southorn end of the island of Hokkaido had been submerged is declared to be un true. Great Britain will not abandon her right to reparations or her claims to tho debts which other nations owe her, the Earl of Birkenhead, lord high chancellor in the Lloyd George cab inet, declared in an address in Mon treal Tuesday. The United States government, un der President Coolldge as under Pres ident Harding, will await evldonce of the existence of a government in Rus sia In accord with American standards before granting diplomatic recognition to that country. The delegates of war veterans' as sociations, representing seven allied countries, at their fourth annual con gress In Brussels, adopted a resolu tion Tuesday indorsing the occupation of the Ruhr as a legal means to obtain reparations under the Versailles treaty. William C. Van Fleet, judge of the United States district court in San Francisco, died in his home Monday after a brlut illness. Death was pre ceded by two days of semi-conscious ness following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was at dinner Fri day night. , AH members of the American em bassy BtafI at Toklo are safe. Am- basuador Woods advised the state de partment Tuesday in the first mes sage received from him since the earthquuke that none of the embassy stuff was injured, although all of the embassy buildings were destroyed, With the Red Cross appealing for a relief fund of $5,000,000 and all ex ecutive agoncios of the government devoted to organizing emergency aid in tho fur east, America has fairly em burked Tuesday upon a stupendous undertaking of Buccoriug the millions of victims of the catastrophe In Japan, Tho entire rice crop of California is being held for Japanese relief and there will ha no profiteering during the omoigoucy period, according to an announcement made by Harry M Creech, attorney for the Rice Grow- Mi's' association of California, which controls practically the entire rice crop. Cable orders from Kobe, Japan, for approximately 500,000,000 feet of lum ber for use in the rebuilding of Yoko hama, Toklo and other Japanese cities laid wuato by earthquake and fire were received in San Francisco Tues day, according to statements made by representatives of steamships and northern Pacific mills. Colonel Stephen E. Low of St. Louis, member of tho Red Cross and nt tnched to the near east relief at Corfu, reports that altogether there were 20 Killed by the Italian bombardment prior to tho occupation of tho island Among them were 16 children, most of them killed by shrapnol which was fired among a crowd of Red Cross orphanage children bathing in the Beu. Alter extensive questioning the Sacramento police Monday released Hugo F. Bur, said to be a Belgian puiuter, who was taken Into custody lust Saturday In connection with tho disappearance of "The Entombment of Christ," a masterpiece by Guide Renl, from the K. 1). Crocker art gallery here. The officers declared they were convinced that Bur knew nothing of the theft of tho painting. Under the emergency commandeer ing net now lu operation In Japan food, billding materials, medicaments and vehicles, as well as human labor u ml services, may be commandeered l'refectual governors are authorized to Issue commaudoerlng orders for poods nt a price based on the average market prices. Failure of compllunce will be punished by a heavy fine or throe years' Imprisonment. SUN ECLIPSE FILMED IN FOG Two Savants Succeed While Others Fail - Conditions Unfavorable. Santa Barbara, Cal. Almost perfect photographs of the sun's corona dur ing the total eclipse were made by a party headed by Professor James Worthing of London, a fellow of the American Society for the Advance ment of Science, and Dr. Alfred E. Burton, professor emeritus of astron omy in the Massachusetts institute of technology, in lower Lompoc valley, 60 miles north of here. The photo graphs are believed to be virtually the only satisfactory ones made Mon day, owing to unfavorable weather conditions. Professor Worthing said that he had developed four negatives of the number taken and that the result would be among the best ever made of the corona accompanying a total eclipse. The instrument was a specially built ceolostat with three mirrors feeding light to four cameras of 17, 14, 9 and 5-foot foci. Foggy conditions and haze from a forest fire burning in the Santa Bar bara national forest prevented suc cessful results at any other point in the Santa Barbara district, although many attempts were made to obtain photographs at various places in the totality zone in the county. The period of greatest obscurity at the Lompoc valley observation sta tion was 2Yi minutes. Los Angeles. Scientific observa tion of Monday s eclipse of the sun generally failed, according to reports received here, except possibly in the case of naval aviators who flew above the clouds and fog at San Diego and took photographs of the phenomenon, Clouds or fog obscured the view at the time of totality at all points from Santa Barbara, Cal., to Ensenada, Mexico., where scientists had made preparations to study the eclipse These points included Avalon, on Santa Catalina island; San Clemente Island, San Diego, Mount Wilson and Point Loma. Scientists who came from all parts of the world and who had worked months on their plans took their de feat gracefully. CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN JAPAN IS DENIED Toklo. Reports of a threatened epidemic of cholera In the region de vastated by the earthquake are un founded, according to the authorities. Sharp earthquake shocks again Sun day night aroused considerable ner vousness but did not interfere with the work of reconstruction, which the end of the first week of Japan's dis aster Bhows to be well under way. Sixty thousand bodies had been re covered in Toklo and Yokohama up to and Including Monday and the po lice estimate that 600,000 persons huve been treated for wounds and sickness as a result of the earth quake. A landing party from the flagship Huron of the United States Asiatic fleet buried the dead from the American naval hospital at Yokohama, All available ships are removing the refugees from the devastated ci ties. The refugees, made more eager to leave by their fear of an epidemic, were crowding all the docks waiting for places on the boats. The Amer ican destroyers are taking refugees of all nationalities from Toklo to the liners at Yokohama. The authorities have established public latrines over Toklo and Yoko hama und are cleaning up all deposits of filth and rubbish. Treasury Wants Cash. Washington, D. C After remaining out of the money market three months the treasury Monday nunounced a new issue of certificates of indebted ness, aggregating J200.000.000 and ma turing six mouths from September 15 The notes will bear 4 V4 per cent in terest. The announcement of the Sep tember financing programme also contained the declaration that no fur ther fiscal operations ore contemplat ed by the government before Decern ber 15. when maturing certificates of Indebtedness will require new bor rowings. Woman, 110, Still Sp-y. Chicago. Anna Russo, who has celebrated her 110th birthday, Is a great-grandmother, but she danced nnd frolicked about Monday, to the envy of women not halt her ago. All the women in her family, which is Sicilian, have lived to bo very old but the men die young. Mrs. llusso'i husband died when he was Co. Her three daughters, tho youngest of whom is GO, are still spry and all of them nro grandmothers to SO or moro, DISASTER COSTS 23 LIVES ist of U. S. Destroyers Is In creased to Seven. MEN SINK IN BUNKS All Fatalities on Vessel Which Upsets Two Minutes After Grounding Cuba Reported Sunk. Santa Barbara, Cal. Seven United States navy destroyers and the Pa cific Mail liner Cuba were wrecked Saturday night, the naval craft off Arguello light, 75 miles north of Santa Barbara, and the steamer on a reef off the southeast end of San Miguel island, 35 miles off this port. Twenty-five sailors lost their lives in the naval disaster and all destroy ers involved were reported total losses. The Cuba was said to have sunk during the night, but all passengers and members of her crew were be lieved to have been landed at Los Angeles by the naval destroyer Reno or to be on the way to San Francisco aboard the Standard Oil tanker W. S. Miller, with the exception of Cap tain C. J. Holland, the purser, the steward and eight seamen who re mained aboard to guard a shipment of $2,500,000 in Bilver bullion. Dense fog was the cause of the disaster. The destroyers Chauncey, Wood bury, Fuller, S. P. Lee, Nicholas, Young and Delphy were all beached within a few mlnues of one another, according to naval officers. The flotilla of which the wrecked craft formed a part was in command of Captain Edward Watson, command ing officer of the Delphy. The dead were all trapped in their bunks on the Young when the vessel struck and were drowned when the craft cap sized within two minutes after she had struck. More than 500 men were rescued from the wrecked destroyers, which were reported td be pounding to pieces on the rocks, total losses. Of the survivors, 15 of the seriously in jured were brought to the Santa Bar bara county hospital here. One hundred others were cut and bruised in their swim to safety over the jagged rocks. The destroyers were traveling in formation at 20 knots an hour in a heavy sea and dense fog when the leading vessel crashed. Carried ahead by a strong tide, the others piled on the beach in succession. Lying in line along the shore, at intervals of 250 feet, the boats were slowly breaking up. One of them, the Chauncey, was resting high on the rocks. Air Mall Test Planned. Washington, D. C Plans for a test lasting probably a month to determine the feasibility of permanent establish ment of a 24-hour coast-to-coast air mall service are under consideration by postofflce department officials. Postmaster-General New said Sun day that the possibility of such service had been demonstrated during the re cent experiment, but that before recommendations were made by the postofflce department to congress it had been virtually decided that a trial of one month should be made to as certain whether there was sufficient demand for Buch service. He indicat ed that the month's test would be made before bad weather sets in this fall. Claims Treaties Signed. Washington, D. C Two conven tions providing machinery for the ad justment of clnims between the Uni ted States and Mexico were signed Suturday. When ratified by the Uni ted States senate and the Mexican congress, the conventions will lead to the creation of commissions and the payment of claims aggregating mil lions of dollars tor damages sustained in the last halt century. Peak Changed By Quake. Shanghai. A Ninon Dempe news agency dispatch from Osaka states that the summit of Mount Fuji, ap parently as a result of the earthquake, has undergone a most noticeable change, the peak now appearing much (latter than formerly. It was also stated that all the Tokl colleges were destroyed, with the exception of Was- eda and Kelo universities. Washington, D. C The dog family line at the White House will not be broken despite the change In admin istration. Laddie Boy will be Bucceed ed by his half-brother as the White House dog. ERSKINE COUSIN BARBARA SYNOPSIS. 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 is given shelter and attracts the favorable attention of Dave Yandell, a leader among the settlers. The boy warns hia new friends of the coming of a Shawnee war party. The fort la attacked, and only saved by the timely appearance of a party of Virginians. The leader of these Is fatally wounded, but in his dying moments recognizes the fugitive youth as his son. CHAPTER IV The little girl rose startled, but her breeding was too fine for betrayal, and she went to him with hand out stretched. The boy took It as he had taken her father's, limply and with out rising. The father frowned and smiled how could the lad have learned manners? And then he, too, saw the hole in the moccasin, through which the bleeding had started again. "Take him Into the kitchen, Bar bara, and tell Hannah to wash his foot and bandage It." The boy looked uncomfortable and shook his head, but the little girl was smiling and she told him to come "You Go On Back an' Walt for Yo' Company, Little Miss; I'll 'Tend to Him!" with such sweet Imperlousness that he rose helplessly. Old Hannah's eyes made a bewildered start 1 "You go on back an' wait for yo' company, little miss; I'll 'tend to him !" And when the boy still protested, she flared up: "Looky here, son, little miss tell me to wash yo' foot, an' I'se gwinter do It, ef I got to tie you fust; now you keep still. Whur you come from?" His answer wus a somewhat haugh ty grunt that nt once touched the quick instincts of the old negress and checked further question. Swiftly and silently she bound his foot, and with great respect she led him to a little room in one ell of the great house in which was a tub of warm water. "Ole marster sny you been travelln' an' mebbe you like to refresh yo'sef wid a hot bath. Dnr's some o' little marster's clothes on de bed dar, an' a pair o' his shoes, on I know dey'll jus' fit you snug. You'll find all de folks on de front po'ch when you git through." She closed the door. Once, winter and summer, the boy had dally plunged Into the river with his Indian companions, but he htid never had a bath In his life, nnd he did not know what the word meant; yet he had learned so much at the fort that he had no trouble making out what the tub of water was for. For the same reason he feft no surprise when he picked up the clothes; he was only puzzled how to get Into them. He tried, and struggling with the breeches he threw one hand out to the wall to keep from falling and caught a red cord with a bushy red tnssel ; whereat there was a ringing that made him spring away from It. A moment luter there was a knock at his door. "Did you ring, snh?" asked a voice. What that meant be did not know, and he made no answer. The door was opened slightly and a woolly head ap peared, "Do you want anything, suh?" "No." "Den I reckon hit was anudder bell ynssuh." The boy began rutting on his own clothes. Outside Colonel Dale and Barbara had strolled down the big path to the sun-dlnl, the colonel telling the story of the little Kentucky kinsman the little girl listening and wide-eyed. "Is he going to live here with us, papa?" "Perhaps. Yon must be very nice to htm. He baa lived a rude rough life, but I ei.n see he Is very sensi tive." At the bend of the river there was the flash of dripping oars, and the long of the black oarsmen came across the yellow flood. DALE - By John Fox, Jr. Copyright By Chui Scribur't Soa'i "There they come!" cried Barbara. And from his window the little Een tuckian saw the company coming up the path, brave with gay clothes and smiles and gallantries. The colonel walked with a grand lady at the head, behind were the belles and beaux, and bringing up the rear was Barbara, es corted by a youth of his own age, who carried his hat under his arm and bore himself as haughtily as his elders. No sooner did he see them mounting to the porch than there was the sound of a horn In the rear, and looking out of the other window the lad saw a coach and four dash through the gate and swing around the road that encircled the great trees, nnd up to the rear portico, where there was a joyous clamor of greet ings. Where did all those people come from? Were they going to stay there and would he have to be among them? All the men were dressed alike and not one was dressed like him. Panic assailed him, and once more he looked at the clothes on the bed, and then without hesitation "Walked through the hallway, and stopped on the threshold of the front door. A quaint figure he made there, and for the moment the gay talk and laughter quite ceased. The story of him al ready had been told, and already was sweeping from cabin to cabin to the farthest edge of the great plantation. No son of Powhatan could have stood there with more dignity, and young Harry Dale's face broke into a smile of welcome. His father being Indoors he went forward with hand out stretched. "I am your cousin Harry," he said, and taking him by the arm he led him on the round of presentation. "Mrs. Willoughby, may I present my cousin from Kentucky?" "This Is your cousin, Miss Katherlne Dale ; another cousin, Miss Mary ; and this Is your cousin Hugh." And the young ladles- greeted him with frank, eager interest, and the young gentlemen suddenly repressed patronizing smiles and gave him grave greeting, for if ever a rapier flashed from a human head, it flashed from the piercing black eye of that little Kentucky backwoodsman when his cousin Hugh, with a rather whimsical smile, bowed with a politeness that was a trifle too elaborate. Mrs. Gen eral Willoughby guessed how the lad's heart was thumping with the effort to conceal his embarrassment, and when a tinge of color spread on each side of his set mouth and his eyes began to waver uncertainly, her intuition was quick and kind. "Barbara," she asked, "have you shown your cousin your ponies?" The little girl saw her motive and laughed merrily: "Why, I haven't had time to show him anything. Come on, cousin." The boy followed her down the steps In his noiseless moccasins, along a grass path between hedges of an cient box, around an ell, and past the kitchen and toward the stables. At the gate the little girl called Imperi ously : "Ephralm, bring one of my ponies I" And In a moment out came a sturdy little slave whose head was all black skin, black wool and white teeth, lead ing two creamy-white little horses that shook the lad's composure at last, for he knew ponies as far back as he could remember, but he had never seen the like of them. His hand al most trembled when he ran It over their sleek coats, and unconsciously he dropped into his Indian speech and did not know It until the girl asked laughingly: "Why, what are you saying to my ponies?" And he blushed, for the little girl's artless prattling and friendliness were already beglnuing to make him quite human. i "That's Injun talk." Hugh had followed them. "Barbara, your mother wants you," he said, and the little girl turned toward the house. The stranger was III at ease with Hugh and the latter knew It. "It must be very exciting where you live." "How?" "Oh, fighting Indians and shooting deer and turkeys and buffalo. It must be great fun." "Nobody does It for fun It's mighty hard work." "My uncle your father used to tell us about his wonderful adven tures out there." "He had no chance to tell me." "But yours must have been more wonderful than his." The boy gave a little grunt that was a survival of his Indian life, and turned to go back to the house. "But all this, I suppose, Is as strange to you." , "More." Hugh was polite and apparently sin cere In Interest, but the lad was vaguely disturbed and he quickened his step. The porch was empty when they turned the corner of the house, but young Harry Dale fame running down the steps, his honest face alight, and caught the little Kentucklan by the arm. "Get ready for supper, Hugh come on, cousin," he said, and led the stranger to his room and pointed to the clothes on the bed. "Don't they Btr he asked, smiling. "I dont know I dont know how to gtt Into W Young Harry laughed Joyously. PIONEER "Of course not. I wouldn't know how to put yours on either. You just wait," he cried, and disappeared to return quickly with an armful of clothes. 'Take off your war-dress," he said. "and I'll show you." With heart warming to such kind ness, and helpless against it, the lad obeyed like a child and was dressed like a child. "Now, I've got to hurry," said Har ry. "I'll come back for you. Just look at yourself," he called at the door. And the stranger did look at the wonderful vision that a great mirror as tall as himself gave back. His eyes began to sting, and he rubbed them with the back of his hand and looked at the hand curiously. It was moist. He had seen tears in a wom an's eyes, but he did not know that they could come to a man and he felt ashamed. , CHAPTER V The boy stood at a window looking out Into the gathering dusk. The neighing of horses, the lowing of cattle, the piping of roosting turkeys and motherly clutter of roosting hens, the weird songs of negroes, the sounds of busy preparation through the house and from the kitchen all were sounds of peace and plenty, se curity and service. And over In his own wllds at that hour they were driving cows and horses Into the stockade. They were cooking their rude supper In the open. A man had gone to each of the watch-towers. From the blackening woods came the curdling cry of a panther nnd the hooting of owls. Away on over the still westward wilds were the wig wams of squaws, papooses, braves, the red men red In skin, in blood, In henrt, and red with hate against the whites. , Perhaps they were circling a Are at that moment in a frenzied war-dance perhaps the hooting at that moment from the woods around the fort was not the hooting of owls at all. There all was hardship danger; here all was comfort and peace. If they could see him now! See his room, his Are, his bed, his clothes! They had told him to come, and yet he felt now the shame of desertion. He had come, but he would not stay long away. The door opened, he turned, and Harry Dale came eagerly In. "Mother wants to see you." ' The two boys paused In the hall and Harry pointed to a pair of crossed rapiers over the mantelpiece. "Those were your father's," he said j "he was a wonderful fencer." The lad shook his head in Ignorance, and Harry smiled. "I'll show you tomorroft." At a door In the other ell Harry knocked gently, and a voice that was low and sweet but vibrant with Im perlousness called: "Come In !" "Here he Is, mother." The lad stepped Into warmth, subtle fragrance and many candle lights. The great lady was just rising from a "Here He Is, Mother." chair In front of her mirror, brocaded, powdered and starred with jewels. So brilliant a vision almost stunned the little stranger and It took an ef fort for him to lift his eyes to hers. "Why, this Is not the lad you told me of," she said. "Come herel Both of you." They came and the lady scrutinized them compnrlngly. "Actually yon look alike and, Harry, you have no advantage, even If you are my own son. I am glad you are here," she said with sudden soberness, and smiling tenderly she put both hands on his shoulders, drew him to her and kissed him, and again be felt In his eye? that curious sting. "You fight with 'em? I want to learn how to use them!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Lines to Be Remembered. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed of frightened, but go on In fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. R. L. Stevenson,