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Chicago will get the republican na
tional convention next June, it was
learned definitely Tuesday.
President Coolldge Issued a procla
mation Sunday calling for observance
of the week beginning November 18
as national education week.
Two masked robbers shot and In
stantly killed Dan McDonald, 48 years
old, Saturday night at Ewana, a lum
ber camp near Chiloquin, Or., when
McDonald attempted to frustrate a
robbery.
' The White Star line steamer Cedrlc
and the Cunard line steamer Scythia
have been in collision in a donse fog,
according to a wireless dispatch from
the Scythia, which is returning to Liv
erpool. Hope that womankind should never
again be called upon to bear the sacri
fices of a great war was expressed by
speakers before the fourth annual con
vuntlon of American War Mothers at
Kansas City, Tuesday.
Captain Phillip Williams, now com
manding the battleship Tennessee, has
boon detailed by Secretary Denby as
governor of the Virgin Islands to suc
ceed Captain Henry II. Hough, who
will be assigned to the naval intelli
gence bureau.
Germany's food situation has reach
ed what was called the "bagman"
stage in the Russian collapse. City
folks must now travel to the country
and get their food stuffs, unless they
want to pay the extortionate prices
asked by food speculators.
State police aided by Berrien coun
ty deputies invaded the House of
David colony at Benton Harbor, Mich.,
Sunday in a fruitless search for Ben
jamin Purnell, missing head of the
cult, sought on a warrant charging
him with a statutory crime. '
Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow
of the late president, will return to
Washington soon after the memorial
services at Marlon, November 2, the
1 anniversary of the birth of Mr. Hard
ing. She indicated that she might
make Washington her home.
Somo 1200 pounds of wild rice is
to be planted in reservoirs and lakos
in the vicinity of Poison, Mont., this
full for the feoding and attraction of
ducks. The Poison Rod and Gun club,
wllh the assistance of the state fish
and game commission, is back of the
move.
Willis Champion, deputy sheriff and
assistant night jailor, and C. E.
Gaines, prisoner, are dead and Tetc
Welle, another prisoner, may die as
the result of a break for liberty which
got no farther than a pitched gun
buttlo on the sixth floor of the Dalles,
Texas, county Jail.
Possibility of development of the
Seven Devils district of west central
Idaho into one of the richest copper
bearing regions of the west Is seen
by Dr. F. S. Lauey, geologist of the
United States geological Burvey and
head of the geology dopartmOut of the
University of Idaho.
A metropolitan reconstruction board,
under the control of the Japanese
prime minister, has been constituted
by the Imperial Japanese government
for the purpose of taking charge of the
work of rehabilitation in the devastat
ed areas of Japan, according to an
official telegram from the Japanese
foreign office to tho embassy.
' Trunsury operations during Septem
ber resulted In a not decrease in the
public debt of $74,414,370, leaving tho
government's total outstanding obli
gations at 122,125,614,247. Tho figures,
compiled Tuesday, revealed, also, that
the general fund, which had sunk to
$252,456,238 at the end of August, had
grown during September to $422,747,
B12. P. S. Burrnge, editor and publisher
of the I.aramlo, Wyo. Republican, an
nounced Sunday the purchase of tho
i Laramie Boomerang, Wyoming's old
est newspaper, founded in 1SS1 by
Edgar William ("Bill") Nye. The
paper will be merged, the name of
the new publication being "The Lar
amie Republican and the Laramie
Boomerang." The Boomerang issued
its final edition Sunduy.
CURRENT
WEEK
RADICAL LEADER IS OUSTED
William Dunne Expelled at Dramatic
Session of A. F. of L.
Portland. Dramatic action was the
order of the day at the American Fed
eration of Labor convention Monday
when the 500 delegates, by almost
unanimous vote, expelled from the
convention hall William F. Dunne of
Butte, self avowed communist and
first lieutenant of William Zane Fos
ter In the "one big union" movement.
It was a day that will linger long
In the minds of the delegates to the
convention. It was the first time that
the federation was forced to expoll
from Its hall a duly accredited repre
sentative from a minor body. There
was much oratory an eloquently
worded and masterful indictment of
Dunne delivered by William Green,
secretary-treasurer of the United Mine
Workers an equally eloquent and
spirited reply from the accused man.
Alone in a hostile hall, Dunne of
fered no apologies for his attacks
on the federation chiefs or the trades
union system; he flung defiance, not
only at Samuel Gompers and the of
ficials, but at the delegates as a whole.
He came well prepared, he expected
such action and, in the words of Scott,
he proceeded
,. "To beard the Hon in his den,
The Douglas In his hall."
There was-drama aplenty. From
the moment when Matthew Woll, vice
president and member of the execu
tive council of the federation, first
called the attention of the delegates
to Dunne's activities, until the mo
ment when Dunne walked from the
hall with the delegates loudly applaud
ing the convention's action, there was
not a dull moment in the day's pro
ceedings. On the platform was Green, one of
the most eloquent men in the federa
tion. For an hour he told the story
of Dunne's activities in the coal fields,
of his attempts to "bore from within"
in the miners' union, of his baseless
attacks on labor heads and of his at
tempts, by insinuation and false
charges, to stir up discontent among
the miners.
"This man who speaks with the
voice of Jacob but who gives us the
hand of Esau," dramatically cried the
speaker.
There was unrest in the hall, both
on the part of the delegates and the
handful of communist supporters who
occupied a small section of the gal
lery. An over-enthusiastic delegate
cried, "Throw him out," when Green
branded Dunne as a traitor to the
cause of labor, but a warning hand
raised by President Gompers forestall
ed such action. Applause on the part
of the spectators brought two re
bukes from Mr. Gompers, who warn
ed the gallery audience that it muBt
remain quiet and show neither ap
proval nor disapproval of any action
on tho floor.
HUGHES PROPOSAL
HELD ONLY HOPE
Montreal. Secretary Hughes' pro
posal, made nearly a year ago, for the
appointment of a commission of ex
perts to determine German's capacity
to pay reparations, was declared by
David Lloyd George Monday night to
be "absolutely the best hope for the
settlement of reparations."
The former British premier made
this assertion when shown press dis
patches from Washington which stat
ed that high American administration
officials believed It was not too late
for acceptance of the plan. His state
ment came after he had delivered his
first public address In Canada In
which he expressed his gratitude for
the resolute and unhesitating part
which the dominion played in the
world war.
Commenting on Secretary Hughes'
plan, Mr. Lloyd George said:
"In my opinion this plan is not too
lute for consideration and it is abso
lutely the best hope for the settlement
of reparations. Of course since the
plan was first broached the ability
of Germany to pay has become much
less. The greater the delay the closer
the situation approaches chaos. I hope
that serious consideration of Mr.
Hughes' plan may be taken up even at
this lute date and I repeat that it is
the best hope for successful settle
ment." The Washington press dispatches
Indicated that iu official opinion that
any acceptance of the plan would rest
with France.
$5000 In Jewels Stolen.
Seattle, Wash. Diamonds valued at
$5000, which Emanuel Secord kept In
a safe in his office while he took a
motor trip, were stolen from him
Monday night while attempting to
take them from the safe to his home
When two blocks away from his home
his automobile broke down and he
started to walk. As he started a man
appeared from bohiud a telephone pole
and covered him with a revolver. The
robber escaped.
U. 3. PARTY BEGINS
MARKETENGAiDTRIP
Special Commission to Go Into
Wheat Country.
CHICAGO FIRST STOP
Detailed Data of Methods Used by
Cotton, Rice and Tobacco Grow
ers Carried by Committee.
Washington, D. C. The special com
mission of government officials, head
ed by Managing Director Meyer of the
war finance corporation, left Wash
ington Sunday to go among the wheat
farmers of the central northwest to
carry out President Coolidge's direc
tion to aid in the promotion of co
operative marketing associations. Mr.
Meyer was accompanied by Frank W.
Mondell, a director of the war finance
corporation, and H. S. Yohe of the
bureau of agricultural economics, de
partment of agriculture, and other
members of the commission and Floyd
R. Harrison, the managing director's
assistant.
The delegation will stop In Chicago,
where a series of conferences Is plan
ned by which the itinerary of the trip
thereafter will be determined. The
three officials carried with them de
tailed data of methods in use by the
cotton, rice and tobacco growers of
the south and the fruit growers of
California in co-operative marketing
and are prepared also to explain to
the producers how the government
may aid them in a financial way
either, through direct loans from the
war finance corporation and the new
intermediate credit banks, or Indirect
ly, through loans from commercial
banks in communities where the co
operatives may be organized.
Preparatory to the visit of the com
mission to the spring wheat states,
Managing Director Meyer conferred in
New York last week with representa
tives of leading grain interests, in
cluding, it is understood, Julius H.
Barnes, former head of the United
States Grain corporation; George E.
Marcy of the Armour Grain company
and I. Ogden Armour. The New York
conferences were with respect ;to
measures of relief that might be ut
into effect immediately and witnout
legislation.
The department of agriculture,
through Dr. II. C. Taylor, chief of
its bureau of agricultural economics,
has been engaged in a study of the
wheat situation in the central north
west for the last two weeks. Mr.
Taylor has been in conference with
a number of representatives of his
bureau during a visit to Minnesota,
North Dakota, Washington and sever
al other states.
Simultaneously with the departure
of. the commission headed by Mr.
Meyer the federal farm loan board
made available figures on loans by
the credit banks which disclosed that
more than $2,000,000 had been ad
vanced to co-operative wheat market
ing associations since the banks began
functioning early in June. Approxi
mately $1,500,000 of this money was
put out by the Wichita, Kan., bank,
while most of the remainder was loan
ed by the credit bank of St. Paul, ac
cording to Charles E. Lobdell, the
board's general counsel.
The Wichita and St. Paul banks
and the bank at Seattle have made
commitments to the wheat co-operatives
aggregating something like $87,
000,000, including the money already
paid out. Mr. Lobdell said the board
had given assurance to all co-operatives
of ample funds wherever needed.
Large Caribou Killed.
Wrangell, Alaska. A caribou killed
by D. W. Boll of Williamsport, Pa.,
a member of a party from the eastern
part of the States that had just ar
rived here after a big-game hunt In the
Cassiar country, across the Canadian
boundary from Wrangell, was Satur
day pronounced by experts the larg
est specimen ever seen.
The party brought in more than
100 caribou slain by its members.
Many of these caribou were of un
usual size. R. N. Burns of Boston
killed a moose whose antlers had a
spread of 614 Inches.
Robbers Terrify Town.
Lincoln, Neb. Four robbers, work
ing for two hours, during which time
they kept townspeople in a state of
fear by constant shooting, blew the
vault in the Bank of Barneston, Neb.,
early Sunday and escaped in an auto
mobile. The amount of loot obtained
has not been ascertained, but bank of
ficials reported that not more than
$1500 was in the vault. The robbers
cut all the telephone wires leading
into tho town.
ERSKINE
THE YOUNG CHIEF
BYNOPSIS.-To the Kentucky
wilderness outpost commanded by
Jerome Sanders, In the time Imme
diately preceding the Revolution,
comes a white boy fleeing from a
tribe of Shawnees by whom he had
been captured and adopted as a son
or the chief Kahtoo. He Is given
shelter and attracts the favorable
attention of Dave Yandell, a leader
among the settlers. The boy warns
his new friends of the coming of a
Shawnee war party. The fort Is
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. At Red Oaks,
plantation on the James river, Vir
ginia, Colonel Dale's home, the boy
appears with a message for the
colonel, who after reading It Intro
duces the bearer to his daughter
Barbara as her cousin, Ersklne
Dale. Erskine meets two other
cousinB, Harry Dale and Hugh W1I
loughby. Dueling rapiers on a wall
at Red Oaks attract Erskine's at
tention. He takes his first fencing
lesson from Hugh. Yandell visits
Red Oaks. At the county fair at
Williamsburg Ersklne meets a
youth, Dane Grey, and there at
once arises a bitter antagonism be
tween them. Grey, in liquor, In
sults Erskine, and the latter, for
the moment all Indian, draws his
knife. Yandell disarms him.
Ashamed of his conduct in the af
fair with Grey, Ersklne leaves Red
Oaks that night, to return to the
wilderness.
CHAPTER VI Continued.
'Harry," said Colonel Dale, "carry
your cousin my apologies and give him
Firefly on condition that he ride him
back some day. Tell him this home is
his" the speaker halted, but went on
gravely and firmly "whenever he
pleases."
"And give him my love," said Bar
bara, holding back her tears.
At the river-gate they turned to
wave a last goodby and disappeared
in the woods. At that hour the boy
far over In the wilderness ahead of
them had cooked a squirrel thnt he
had shot for his breakfast and was
gnawing It to the bones. Soon he rose
and at a trot sped on toward his home
beyond the Cumberland. And with
him, etched with acid on the steel of
his brain, sped two Images Barbara's
face as he lust saw it and the face of
young Dane Grey.
The boy's tracks were easily to be
seen In the sandy road, and from them
Dave judged that he must have left
long before daylight. And he was trav
eling rapidly. At Bunset Dave knew
that they were not far behind him, but
when darkness hid the lad's tracks
Dave stopped for the night. Again
Erskine had got the start by going on
before day, and it was the middle of
the forenoon before Dave, missing the
tracks for a hundred yards, halted and
turned back to where a little stream
crossed the road, and dismounted, lead
ing his horse and scrutinizing the
ground.
"He's seen us tracking him and he's
doubled on us and Is tracking us. I
expect he's looking at us from some
where around here." And he hallooed
at the top of his voice, which rang
down the forest aisles. A war-whoop
answered almost In their ears that
made the blood leap in both the boys.
Even Dave wheeled with cocked rifle,
nnd the lad stepped from behind a
bush scarcely ten feet behind them.
"Well, by gum," shouted Dave,
"fooled us, after all."
A faint grin of triumph was on the
lad's lips, but in his eyes was a wait
ing inquiry directed at Harry and
Hugh. They sprang forward, both of
them with their hands outstretched :
"We're sorry 1"
A few minutes later Hugh was trans
ferring his saddle from Firefly to his
own horse, which had gone a trifle
lame. On Firefly, Harry buckled the
boy's saddle and motioned for him to
climb up. The bewildered lad turned
to Dave, who laughed.
"It's all right."
"He's your horse, cousin," said
Harry. "My father sent him to you
and says his home Is yours whenever
you please.' And Barbara sent her
love."
At almost the same hour In the
great house on the James the old ne
gress was carrying from the boy's
room to Colonel Dale In the library a
kingly deed that the lad had left be
hind him. It was a rude scrawl on a
sheet of paper, signed by the boy's
Indian name and his totem mark a
buffalo pierced by an arrow,
"It make me laugh. I have no use.
I give hole dam plantashun Barbara."
Thus read the scrawl!
CHAPTER VII
Led by Dave, sometimes by the boy,
the four followed the course of rivers,
upward, always except when they de
scended some mountain which they
had to cross, and then it was soon up
ward again. The two Virginia lads
found themselves, much to their cha
grin, as helpless as children, bat they
were apt pupils and soon learned to
make a fire with flint and even with
dry sticks of wood.
Three days' Journeying brought
them to the broad, beautiful Holston
river, passing over the pine-crested,
white-rooked summit of Clinch moun
tain, and came to the last outlying fort
of the western frontier. Next dny they
started on the long, long wilderness
trull toward the Cumberland range.
On the third day therefrom the gray
wall of the Cumberland that ran with
frowning Inaccessibility ou their right
gathered Its flanks Into steep gray
cliffs and dipped suddenly Into Cum
berland gap. Up this they climbed
DALE -
By John Fox, Jr.
Ceprrigbt By Chultl Scriboer'f Sod's
On the summit they went Into camp,
and next morning Dave swept a long
arm toward the wild expanse to the
west.
"Four more days," he cried, "and
we'll be there 1"
The two boys looked with awe on
the limitless stretch of wooded wilds.
It was still VIrglnlu, to be sure, but
they felt that once they sturtcd down
they would be leaving their own be
loved stnte for a strange land of un
known beasts and red men who people
that "dark and bloody ground."
Defore sunrise next morning they
were dropping down the steep and
rocky trail. That night tl'ey slept
amid the rocky foot-hills of tlft range,
and next morning looked upon a vast
wilderness stretch of woods that un
dulated to the gentle slopes of the
hills, and that night they were on the
edge of the blue-grass land.
Toward sunset Dave, through a
sixth sense, had the uneasy feeling
that he was not only being followed
but watched from the cliffs alongside,
and he observed that Erskine too had
more than once turned in his suddle
or lifted his eyes searehlngly to the
shaggy flanks of the hills. Neither
spoke to the other, but that night
when the hoot of an owl raised Dave
from his blanket, Erskine too was up
right with his rifle In his hand. For
half an hour they waited, and lay
down again, only to be awakened
again by the snort of a horse, when
both sprang to their feet and crawled
out toward the sound. But the heavy
silence lay unbroken and they brought
the .horses closer to the fire.
"Now I know It was Indians," said
Dave; "that hoss o' mine can smell
one further'n a rattlesnake." The boy
nodded and they took turns on watch
while the two boys slept on till day
light. The trail was broad enough
next morning for them to ride two
abreast Dave and Ersklne In advance.
They had scarcely gone a hundred
yards when an Indian stepped Into the
They Had Scarcely Gone a Hundred
Yards When an Indian Stepped Into
the Path Twenty Yards Ahead.
path twenty yards ahead. Instinctive
ly Dave threw his rifle up, but Ersklne
caught his arm. The Indian had lifted
his hand palm upward. "Shawnee!"
said the lad, as two more appeared
from the bushes. The eyes of the two
tidewater boys grew large, and both
clinched their guns convulsively. The
Indian spokesman paid no heed except
to Erskine and only from the lad's
face, In which surprise was succeeded
by sorrow and then deep thoughtful
ness, could they guess what the gut
tural speech meant, until Ersklne
turned to them.
They were not on the war path
against the whites, he explained. His
foster-father Kahtoo," the big chief,
the king was very ill, and his mes
sage, brought by them, was that Ers
kine should come back to the tribe and
become chief, as the chief's only
daughter was dead and his only son
had been killed by the palefaces. They
knew that in the fight at the fort
Erskine had killed a Shawnee, his tor
mentor, for they knew the arrow,
which Ersklne had not had time to.
withdraw. The dead Shawnee's
brother Crooked Lightning was with
them. He It was who had recognized
the boy the day before, and they had
kept him from killing Ersklne from
the bushes. At that moment a glgan-
tic savage stepped from the brush,
The boys frame quivered, straight
ened, grew rigid, but he met the ma'
levolent glare turned on him with
emotionless face and himself quietly
began to speak while Harry and Hugh
and even Dave watched him en
thralled; for the lad was Indian now
and the old chiefs mantle was about
his shoulders. He sat his horse like a
king and spoke as a king. He thanked
them for holding back Crooked Light
ning's evil hand, but contemptuously
he spat toward the huge savage he
was not to die by that hand. He was
a paleface and the Indians had slain
his white mother. He had forgiven
that, for he loved the old chief and
his foster mother and brother and sis
ter, and the tribe had always been
kind to him. Then they had killed his
white father and he had gone to visit
ills kindred by the big waters, and now
PIONEER
he loved them. He had fled from the
Shuwnpps because of the cruelty of
Crooked Lightning's brother, whom he
had slain. Lui if the Indians were
falling into evil ways nnd foljowing
evil counsels, his heart was sail.
"I will come when the leaves fall,"
he concluded, "but Crooked Lightning
must pitch his lodge In the wilderness
until he can show that his heart is
good." And then with an imperious
gesture he waved his hand toward the
west :
"Now go !"
It was hard even for Dave to realize
that the lad, to all purposes, was actu
ally then the chief of a powerful tribe,
and even he was a little awed by the
Instant obedience of the savages, who,
without a word, melted into the bushes
and disappeared. Dave recovered him
self with a little chuckle only when
without a word Ersklne clucked Fire
fly forward, quite unonsclously taking
the lead. Nearing sunset, from a
little hill Dave pointed to a thin blue
wisp of smoke rising far ahead from
the green expanse.
"There It Is, boys!" he cried. AH
the horses were tired except Firefly
and with a whoop Ersklne darted for
ward and disappeared. They followed
as fast as they could and they heard
the report of the boy's rifle and the
series of war-whoops with which he
was heralding his approach. Nobody
In the fort was fearful, for plainly It
was no unfriendly coming. All were
gathered at the big gate and there
were many yells nnd cries of welcome
and wonder when the boy swept Into
the clearing on a run, brandishing his
rifle above his head, and pulled his
fiery black horse up In front of them.
"Whar'd you steal that hoss?" shout
ed Bud.
"Look at them clothes!" cried Jack
Sanders. And the women Mother
Sanders, Mother Noe and Lydia and
Honor and Polly Conrad gathered
about him, laughing, welcoming, shak
ing h inds and asking questions.
"Where's Dave?" That was the
chief question nnd asked by several
voices at the same time. The boy
looked grave.
"Dave ain't comln' back," , he said,
and then seeing the look on Lydia's
face, he smiled: "Dave" He had no
further to go, for Dave's rifle crocked
and his voice rose from the woods,
and he nnd Harry and Hugh galloped
Into the Wearing. Then were there
more whooplngs and greetings, and
Lydia's starting tears turned to smiles.
Dave had to tell about his trip and
Erskine's races for the lad would say
nothing and in turn followed stories
of killing buffalo, deer, panther and
wildcat during his absence. Early the
women disappeared, soon the men be
gan to yawn and stretch, and the sen
tinels went to the watch-towers, for
there had been Indian signs that day.
This news thrilled the eastern lads,
and they too turned Into the same bed
built out from the wall of one of the
cabins and covered with bearskins.
And Harry, just before his eyes closed,
saw through the open door Ersklne
seated alone, the connecting-link be-
between the tidewater aristocrats and
these rude pioneers, between these
backwoodsmen and the savage ene
mies out in the black encircling wil
derness. And that boy's brain was in
a turmoil what was to be his fate,
there, here, or out there where he had
promised to go at the next falling of
the leaves?
The green of the wilderness dulled
and burst into the yellow of the buck
eye, the scarlet of maple and the rus
set of oak. This glory In turn dulled
and the leaves, like petals of withered
flowers, began to drift to the earth.
Through the shower of them went
Ersklne and Firefly, who had become
as used to the wilds as to the smiling
banks of the far-away James. And
the two now were one in mutual affec
tion and a mutual understanding that
was uncanny.
The boy was the son of a king again,
and as such was on his way In answer
to the wish of a king. For food he
carried only a little sack of salt, for
his rifle would bring him meat and
the forest would give him nuts and
fruit. When the sun was nearing Its
highest, he "barked" a squirrel from
the trunk of a beech; toward sunset
a fat pheasant fluttered from the
ground to a low limb and he shot its
head off and camped for the night.
On the second day he reached the
broad buffalo trail that led to the salt
licks and on to the river, and tlren
memories came. He remembered a
place where the Indians had camped
after they had captured himself and
his mother. In his mind was a faint
picture of her sitting against a tree
and weeping and of an Indian striking
her to make her stop and of himself
leaping at the savage like a little wild
cat, whereat the others laughed like
children. Farther on, next day, was
the spot where the Indians had sepa
rated them and he saw his mother no
more. They told him that she had
been taken back to the whites, but he
was told later that they had killed
her because In their flight from the
whites she was holding them back too
much. Farther on was a spot where
they had hurried from the trail and
thrust him into a hollow log, barring
the exit with stones, nnd had left him
for a day and a night.
"Black Wolf, son of Crooked
Lightning!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Portugal contains only two ' cities,
Lisbon and Oporto, with populations
in excess of 50,000.
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