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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Ex-President Wilson, addressing the third Armistice day delegation that greeted him at his home here, declar ed that the principles lor which ha stood will triumph. Messages received In Berlin Irom Munich says that General Ludendorff was still on parole, but wa3 being Btrictly watched. He had been allow ed to choose his own place of resi dence. A jury in the 18th district court at Cleburne, Tex., Tuesday found T. W. Davis, sheriff of Somervell county, guilty of a charge of accepting a bribe and fixed punishment at four years In the state penitentiary. 1 Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania has sent letters to the governors of 29 anthracite consuming states Inviting them to a conference here November 20 to consider a program of federal leg islation designed to reduce coal prices. President Coolidge conferred Wed nesday with George C. Jewett, general manager of the American Wheat Grow ers' Association, Inc., on the question of agricultural relief. The talk was confined more especially to proposals for helping the wheat farmer. An attempt Is to be made to recover from Lake Nemi, near Rome, the float tag palace of the Emperor Tiberius, consisting of two galleys, which have been burled In the mud for 19 cen turies. They are believed to contain marvels of anclont art equal to those found in the tomb of Tutankhamen. For the first time In a number of years the threshing of grain in the Haines valley, Oregon, was not finish ed by November 1. This condition was partly the result of acreage and yields and partly on account of the growers' fullure to obtain the required help dur ing the harvest and threshing season. Baron Scaimaelpennlck, burgomaster of Doom, assured the correspondent of the Associated Press Tuesday on his word of honor that he was not aware of any intention on the part of ex-Einperor William to leave Doom, The baron addod that he considered that Biich folly as the ex-emperor's re turn to Germany was unbolievable. In a ringing "reaffirmation of faith" iu the "virgin birth of Christ and the apostles' creed," the house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday evening threw down the gauntlet to various churchmen in and out of the ministry who have been casting doubt upon literal Interpretation of the scriptures. Findings and recommendations of the Washington Btate board of bar examiners, holding that William R. Boll, attorney, of Seattle, former su,- perlor court judge, had been guilty of conduct involving morul turpitude and recommending that his license be re voked and that he be disbarred, were filed recently with the clerk of the state Bupreme court. Revision of federal taxos, estimated to reduce the total assessment by 1323,000,000 next year. Is proposed in the program approved by Socretary Mellon for submission to congress. Recommendations are made for a 25 per cent reduction in the taxes on earned Income; reduction of the nor niul taxes on Incomes from 4 per cent and 8 per cent to 3 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Germany has decided to rcpudlote the treaty of Versailles and not to comply with either the reparations clause or any othor of the clauses of the treaty as long as the French and Belgians occupy the Ruhr, says a dls patch to the London Dally Mall from Berlin. This action was taken on the ground that the treaty of Versailles had been vlolutod by France and that therefore it could not be observed by Germany. "The Mate's Watch." From the report of a shipping case: "The steamer proceeded on her way. until 7 or rather later, when a noUo was heard as of a heavy body like an anchor or a chain being dragged alon the dock from the funnel aft. It was the mate's watch." WEEK GOVERNOR WALTON OUSTED Oklahoma Chief Found Guilty on 11 of the 16 Charges. Oklahoma City, Okla. J. C. Walton, fifth governor of Oklahoma, was re moved from office Monday night by unanimous vote of the state senate court of impeachment, after his trial on charges of corruption in office, neglect of duty, moral turpitude and general incompetence. A formal verdict, ordering the re moval, was returned after the execu tive had been found guilty of 11 of the 16 charges presented. The vote was 41 to 0. Six of the original 22 charges con stituting the Impeachment bill were dismissed by order of the court. The court, by a standing vote, denied a motion for a new trial, which Gov ernor Walton's counsel filed imme diately after the verdict was an nounced. The governor's removal, although not formally ordered until after a ver dict had been returned on each charge, was made certain shortly before 4 o'clock, when the court, without a dis senting vote, found him guilty of abus ing his pardon and parole authority. Forty-one senators, lacking only one of the total membership of the body, voted for conviction on the clemency charge, the first to be voted upon. Senator Jack Barker, who has voted consistently in the governor's favor throughout . the 16 days of the trial, was absent when the final roll was called. The articles of Impeachment were filed by the lower house of the state legislature, which less than two months ago the executive at the height of his power had dispersed by military force. Upon the removal of Governor Wal ton, Lieutenant-Governor Trapp be came governor of the state, Trapp has been lieutenant-governor during two four-year administrations and has been acting governor since October 23, when the senate suspended Gover nor Walton. The vote on the pardon and parole charge, which determined the removal, followed with surprising suddenness after the examination of the last wit ness. E. W. Marland, president of the Marland Refining company, had barely left the stand when (W. E. Disney, chairman of the house board of managers, which conducted the prosecution, announced that the evi dence was concluded. COURT TIGHTENS BAN ON JAPANESE Washington, D. C The Pacific coast states won a complete victory in the supreme court Monday in their efforts to prevent Japanese from ac quiring any control over or iuterest In agricultural lands. Having a week ago sustained the validity of the alien land laws under which aliens ineligible to citizenship were prohibited from owning or leas lug agricultural land, the court took the final step to make such legisla tion completely effective by holding that In the construction of such laws tho Intention of the states must be carefully considered and that any transaction which would have the ef fect In any reasonable contingency of giving such aliens any control over agricultural lunds equivalent to owner ship and lousing must be construed as prohibited. In testing out the alien land laws of California and Washington, attacks were directed not only through pro posed leases, as in the two cases de cided last week, but also through "cropping" contracts and attempts by Ineligible aliens to acquire stock In companies authorized to buy and sell agricultural lands, When confronted with a contract which J, J. O'Brien proposed to make with J. Inouye, a Japanese, under which the latter was to cultivate agri cultural land ln-Santa Clara county, California, and divide crops with the owner of the hind, the federal district court for northern California could find nothing in the arrangoment con trary to the alien land laws. The same court, however, when Raymond L. Friok proposed to sell to N. Satow stock lu a corporation formed to own and deal In agricultural lands, decided thut the ownership of the stock by an Ineligible alien was prohibited. Both cases were appealed to the supreme court. 1000 Aliens Face Action. Seattle. More thun 1000 Japanese residing in King county will face civil and criminal proceedings as the result of the Vnlted States supreme court decision holding that "cropping" con tracts with aliens are Illegal, declared Deputy Prosecutor Colvin. Mr. Colvln stated that he was.unable to estimate the total number of Japanese within the stute who will face eviction, but assorted that the large Japanese farm colonics will be affected. E OPPOSE RAIL LAW Esch-Dummins Resolution Is Tabled by 2-1 Vote. PRESIDENT REMANED Better Navigation Facilities and Oth er Measures for Corst Ports Are Advocated. The Esch-Cummins railroad law, passed in 1920, Saturday failed to draw the support of the Pacific for eign trade council, which held the final session of Its three days' conference in Portland. A resolution approving the statute and requesting the next congress to allow it to stand, at least "until such time as it has had a fair trial," was tabled by a vote of 2 to 1. Other resolutions asking congres sional action in the solution of various trade and transportation problems were adopted unanimously as present ed by the resolutions committee. The 'only other provision which de veloped discussion was the attack on the extension of the coastwise ship ping provisions to the Philippine is lands. No motion to eliminate this part of the report was made, though a discussion was precipitated. William Pigott of Seattle, who for the past three years has headed the council, was re-elected as president and Edward P. Kemmer of Tacoma was renamed secretary. The 1924 convention will be held in San Francisco, it was decided, that port having made the only organiaed effort to get the next meeting. The resolutions formally adopted advocate the placing of the emergency fleet corporation vessels In the hands of private owners, under a scheme ap proved by ship operators and owners. Sale of such vessels, possible at pres ent, is approved and the contracting of the remainder with American con cerns for the operation of the others proposed, such vessels to be sold at a stipulated price after three years time. During this period agents' com missions would apply to purchase and deficits, to a certain extent, be borne by the shipping board. Improvement of navigation facili ties, Including hydrographic and geo detic survey extension, addition of lighthouse and buoy provisions, was advocated, charging that Insufficiency of these facilities was resulting in numerous accidents. Repeal of section 28 of the merchant marine act was advocated, providing tor import and export rail rates, lower than domestic rates; government ac commodatlons for news communica tions from foreign countries at re duced rates; removal of all federal taxes on telegrams to relieve the com mercial trade, which Is responsible for 95 per cent of the telegraphic com munlcatlon; amendment of the China trade act, so as to place American business there on a parity with other foreign concerns'; opposing the estab lishment of trade agreements with Russia until her condition stabilizes and assaults on American business are discontinued and restituted; and re duction of passport fees from J 10 to $2.50 were among the chief actions taken. Pocket Must Not Bulge. New Orleans, La. O. D. Jackson federal prohibition enforcement agent for Louisiana, Saturday ordered his men to arrest any person with a sus picious bulge in their pockets or who carry a suspicious package. "Place them under arrest, take them to a police station and search them," were the Instructions. "If you find liquor upon them, prefer charges of violating the prohibition law." Greek Rebel Spared. London. Instructions have been Is sued to the Greek military authorities not to execute the sentences of death imposed on the leaders of the recent revolt among the provincial garrison according to an agency dispatch from Athens. The reprlove was said to have followed negotiations between the government and a representative of the Venlzelist party. Cholera Attacks Hogs. Chicago, 111. There Is a serious out break of bog cholera In parts of the corn belt. t Reports received Saturday by a large grain and provision con cern here from 20 points In the west show that In the territory around 11 of these points the cholera Is of a serious character. CONFEREES Irslrine Dale Pioneer By John Fox, Jr. Cwrigbt by ChariM Seribnjr'l Sou CHAPTER XII Continued. 13 "Barbara would not accept your sacrifice nor would any of us, and it Is only fair that I should warn you that some day, if you should change your mind, and I were no longer liv ing, you might be too late." "Please don't, Uncle Harry. It Is done done. Of course, it wasn't fair for me to consider Barbara alone, but she will be fair and you understand. I wish you would regard the whole matter as though I didn't exist." "I can't do that, my boy. I am your steward and when you want anything you have only to let me knowl" Ersklne shook his head. "I don't want anything I need very little, and when I'm In the woods, as "I'd Like to Go to Learn to r-ence." I expect to be most of the time, I need nothing ut all." Colonel Dale rose. "I wish you would go to college at Williamsburg for a year or two to better fit yourself In case " "I'd like to go to learn to fence," smiled the boy, and the colonel smiled too. "You'll certainly need to know that, if you are going to be as reckless as you were today." Erskine's eyes darkened. "Uncle Harry, you may think me foolish, but I don't like or trust Grey. What was he doing with those Eritish traders out in the Northwest? he was not buying furs. It's absurd. Why was he hand in glove with Lord Dun more?" "Lord Dunmore had a daughter," was the dry reply, and Ersklne flung out a gesture that made words un necessary. Colonel Dale crossed the porch and put his hand on the lad's shoulders. "Ersklne," he said, "don't worry and don't give up hope. Be patient, wait, come back to us. Go to William and Mary. Fit yourself to be one of us in nil ways. Then everything may yet come out In the only way that would be fitting and right." The boy blushed, and the colonel went on earnestly: "1 can think of nothing In the world that would make me quite so happy." "It's no use," the boy said trembling ly, "but I'll never forget what you have just said as long as I live, and, no matter what becomes of me, I'll love Barbara as long as I live. But, even If things were otherwise, I'd never risk making her unhappy even by trying. I'm not fit for her nor for this life. I can't get over my life in the woods and among the Indians. I can't explain, but I get choked and I can't breathe such a longing for the woods comes over me and I can't help me. I must go and nothing can hold me." "Your father was that way," said Colonel Dale sadly. "You may get over it, but he never did, And It must be harder for you because of your early associations. Good night, and God bless you." And the kindly gentle man was gone. Ersklne sat where he was. The house was still and there were no noises from the horses and cattle In the barn none from mostlng peacock, turkey, and lien. From the far-away quarters came faintly the merry mel low notes of a fiddle, and farther still the song of some courting negro return ing home. A drowsy bird twittered In an ancient elm at the corner of the house. The flowers drooped In the moonlight which bathed the great path, streamed across the great river, and on up to Its source In the great yellow disk float ing In majestic serenity high In the cloudless sky. And thnt path, those flowers, thnt house, the barn, the cat tle, sheep, and hugs, those graln-41elds and grassy acres, even those singing black folk, were all ull his If he but said the words. The thought was no temptation It was a mighty wonder that such a thing could be. And that was all It was a wonder to him, but to them It was the world. Without It nil, what would they do? Perhaps Mr. Jefferson might soon solve the problem fur him. Perhaps he might not return from thnt wild campaign against the British and the Indiana he might get killed. And then thought gripped him and held him fait he need not come hack. That mighty wilderness beyond the moun tains was his real home out there was his real life. He need not come back, and they would never know. Then came a thought that almost made him groan. There was a light step In the hall, and Barbara came swiftly out and dropped on the top most step with her chin in both hands. Almost at once she seemed to feel his presence, for she turned her head quickly. "Ersklne!" As quickly he rose, em- barassed beyond speech. "Come herel Why, yon look guilty what have you been thinking?" He was startled by her intuition, but he recovered himself swiftly. I suppose I will always feel guilty if I have made you unhappy." "You haven't made me unhappy. I don't know what you have made me. You saw how I felt If you had killed him, but you don't know how I would have felt If he had killed you. I don t myself." She began patting her hands gently and helplessly together, and again she dropped her chin Into them with her eyes lifted to the moon. "I shall be very unhappy when you are gone. I wish you were not going, but I know that you are you can't help If Again he was startled. "Whenever you look at that moon over In that dark wilderness, I wish you would please think of your little cousin will you?" She turned eagerly and he was too moved to speak he only bowed his head as for a prayer or a benediction. "Xou don't know how often our thoughts will cross, and that will be a great comfort to me. Sometimes I am afraid. There Is a wild strain on my mother's side, and it is in me. Papa knows it and he Is wise so wise I am afraid I may sometimes do something very foolish, and it won't be me at all. It will be somebody that died long ago." She put both her hands over both his and held them tight. "I want you to make me a promise." "Anything," said the boy huskily. "I want you to promise me that, no matter when, no matter where you are, If I need you and send for you you will come." And Indian-like he put his forehead on both her little hands. "Thank you. I must go now." Be wildered and dazed, the boy rose and awkwardly put out his hand. "Kiss me good-by." She put her arms about his neck, and for the first time in his life the boy's lips met a woman's For a moment she put her face against his and at his ear was a whisper. "Good-by, Ersklne!" And she was gone swiftly leaving the boy In a dizzy world of fulling stars through which a white light leaped to heights his soul had never dreamed. CHAPTER XIII With the head of that column of stalwart backwoodsmen went Dave Yandell and Ersklne Dale. A hunting party of four Shawnees heard their coming through the woods, and, lying like snakes In the undergrowth, peered out and saw them pass. Then they rose, and Crooked Lightning looked at Black Wolf and, with a grunt of angry satisfaction, led the way home ward. And to the village they bore the news that White Arrow had made good his word and, side by side with the big chief of the Long Knives, was leading a war party against his tribe and kinsmen. And Early Morn car ried the news to her mother, who lay sick In a wigwam. The miracle went swiftly, and Kas kaskia fell. Stealthily a cordon of hunters surrounded the little town. The rest stole to the walls of the fort. Lights flickered from within, the sounds of violins and dancing feet came through crevice and window. Clark's tall figure stole noiselessly Into the great hall, where the Creoles were making merry and leaned silently with folded arms against the doorpost, look ing on at the revels with a grave smile. The light from the Jorches flickered across his face, and an Indian lying on the floor sprang to his feet with a curdling war-whoop. Women screamed and men rushed toward the door. The stranger stood motionless and his grim smile was unchanged. "Dance on!" he commnnded cour teously, "but remember," he added sternly, "you dance under Virginia und not Great Britain!" There was a great noise behind him. Men dashed Into the fort, and Itoche blave and his officers were prisoners. By daylight Clark had the town dis armed. The French, Clark said next day, could take the oath of allegiance to the republic, or depart with their families In peace. As for their church, he had nothing to do with any church save to protect It from Insult. So that the people who had heard terrible sto ries of the wild woodsmen and who expected to be killed or made slaves, joyfully became Americans. Tbey even gave Clark a volunteer company to march with him upon Cahokla, and that village, too, soon became Ameri can. Father Glboult volnnteered to go to Vlncennes. Vlncennes gathered In the church to hear him, and then flung the Stars and Stripes to the winds of freedom above the fort Dark sent one captain there to take com mand. With a handful of hardy men who could have been controlled only by him, the dauntless one had con quered a land as big at any European kingdom. Now he had to govern and protect It II had to keep loyal an alien rare and hold his own against the British and numerous tribes of In dians, bloodthirsty, treacherous and deeply embittered against all Ameri cans. He was hundreds of miles from any American troops; farther still from the seat of government, and could get no advice or help for per haps a year. And those Indians poured into Ca- hnkla a horde of them from every tribe between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi chiefs and warriors of every Importance : , but not before Clark had formed ;:rd drilled four companies of volunteer Creoles. " "Watch hlml" said Dave, and Ers klne did, marveling at the man's knowledge of the Indian. He did not live in the fort, but always on guard, always seemingly confident, stayed openly in town while the savages, sul len and grotesque, strutted In full war panoply through the straggling streets. Inquisitive and Insolent, their eyes burning with the lust of plunder and murder. For days he sat In the midst of the ringed warriors and listened. On the second day Ersklne saw Kah too in the throng and Crooked Light ning and Black Wolf. After dusk that day he felt the fringe of his hunting shirt plucked, and on Indian, with face hidden in a blanket, whispered as he passed : "Tell the big chief," he said in Shawnee, "to be on guard tomorrow night," He knew it was some kindly tribesman, and he wheeled and went to Clark, who smiled. Already the big chief had guards concealed In his little house, who seized the attacking Indians, while two minutes later the townspeople were under arms. The captives were put in irons, and Ers klne saw among them the crestfallen faces of Black Wolf and Crooked Lightning. The Indians pleaded that they were trying to test the friendship of the French for Clark, but Clark, refusing all requests for their release, remained silent, haughty, indifferent, fearless. He still refused to take ref uge In the fort, and called In a number of ladies and gentlemen to his house, where they danced all night amid the council-fires of the bewildered sav ages. Next morning he stood in the center of their ringed warriors with the tasseled shirts of his riflemen massed behind him, released the cap tive chiefs and handed them the bloody war belt of wampum. "I scorn your hostility and treach ery. You deserve death, but you shall leave in safety. In three days I shall begin war on you. If you Indians do not want your women and children killed stop killing ours. We shall see who can make that war belt the most bloody. While you have been In my camp you have had food and fire water, but now that I have finished, you must depart speedily." The captive chief spoke and so did old Kahtoo, with his eyes fixed sadly but proudly on his adopted son. They hud listened to bad birds and been led astray by the British henceforth they would be friendly with the Americans. But Clark was not satisfied. "I come as a warrior," he said haughtily; "I shall be a friend to the friendly. If you choose war I shall Bend so many warriors from the Thir teen Council-Fires that your lund shall be darkened und you shall hear no sounds but that of the birds who live on blood." And then he handed forth two belts of peace and war, and they eagerly took the belt of pence. The treaty followed next day and "Tell the Big Chief," He Said In Shaw." nee, "to Be on Guard Tomorrow Night" Clark Insisted that two of the prison ers should be put to death ; and us the two selected came forward Ersklne suw Black Wolf was one. He whis pered with Clark and Kahtoo, and Crooked Lightning saw the big chief with his hand on Erskine's shoulder and heard him forgive the two and tell them to depart. And thus peace was won. Straightway old Kahtoo pushed through the warriors and, plucking the big chief by the sleeve, pointed to Ers klne. "Thnt Is my son," he said, "and I want him to go home with me." "He shall go," suld Clark quickly, "but he shall return, whenever It pleases him, to me." And so Ersklne went forth one morning at dawn, and his coming Into the Shawnee camp was like the com ing of a king. Early Morn greeted him with glowing eyes, his foster mother brought him food, looking proudly upon him, and old Kahtoo harangued his braves around the council-pole, while the prophet and Crooked Lightning sulked In their tents. (TO lifi CONTl.STtDJ