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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1923)
WQRlD happenings OF Brief Resume Most Importan Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thine Worth Knowing. Two men were killed when the steamer Marlon exploded in the Mon- ongahela river, eight miles south o Morgantown, W. Va., Tuesday. Luther Wizke, convicted during the was a German Bpy and saved from a death sentence by President Wilson, has been ordered released from Leavenworth prison. It was accepted as certain in Paris Tuesday that the entente would sur vive the present crisis, but there was very little enthusiasm for the com promise through which the break was averted. Louis Russanano, of Newark, N. J. was drowned in a vat of wine Tues day when he was overcome by fumes of fermenting grape mash. Samuel Slco, who plunged into the vat to aid him, was rescued by firemen and taken to a hospital. Hampshire sheep raised by Mrs. Minnie Miller of Thousand Springs farm, Wendali, Idaho, captured first, second and third places in virtually ail sneep classes ui mat ureeu, juug- ed at Kansas City, Mo., . Tuesday at the American Royal Livestock show WnrW on thn tnmh of Tnf.nnkhamen was resumed Monday. The final pre parations having been completed, Howard Carter, head of the expedition, removed the outer woodwork and open ed the iron gates, permitting entry into , the passage leading to the antecham ber, which last season was cleared of its royal treasures. , Representative Hawley of Oregon ' has a vacancy to fill at West Point Military academy. He is therefore anxious to hear at once 'from any aspiring boys in the first Oregon dis trict. Applicants will be examined un der civil service rules on January 6 and the one passing highest will re ceive the appointment. A fine of 350 which brought the ' total assessed against him in justice court this week on liquor charges to $1350, was levied against Ace Dobson at Bend, Or. Tuesday, when he was guilty of having liquor in his posses sion. The other two charges on which Dobson was convicted were for Belling, lie will appeal all three., A merry romp in a sand pile Fri day resulted in the death Sunday ot Lenora Myrtle Hedman, 2-yenr-o!d daughter of Carl Hedman of Santa Barbara Cal. Until ber death, seven physicians were unable to diagnose her sudden illness, but an autopsy per formed yesterday showed that she had inhaled sand into her lungs. Saloons and roadhouses are the lono somest places in Germany since the ueciiuu oi uia iimrn una iorceu uie price ot beer up to a point which is beyond the conception and purse of the average rural German. When the price ot a stein of beer rose to ono billion marks or more and continued to rise, the average German lost his thirst. j The steanior Kronos, bound from Stettin, " Cormany, to Petrograd, has been sunk off the island of Oesol in the Baltic and 17 bodies have been washed ashore, according to a news agency dispatch from Holslngfors Tuosdny. Some ot the bodies were badly mutilated, from which the deduc tion was drawn that the steamer was blown up by a mine. An Increase of 40 cents a day In the present minimum wage scalo, tor the purpose ot lessening the spread between the minimum wage and the going wbrh, was approved Wednesday by the board ot directors ot the Loyal Legion of Loggors andLumbermen, the nppeal and legislating body represent ing In equal numbers employers and employes in the lumber industry of the northwest. Secretary Wallace announced Tues day that he had made a demand on Swift & Co., Chicago meat packers, last week, to pormlt auditors of the packers and stockyards administra tion - full access to the compnny's books, accounts, records and memor anda. A similar domnnd is being made on Wilson & Co., and the Cudnhy Pack ing company. The parking companies ore given until November 23 to de cide whether they will grant the per mission, which is requested under the puckers and stockyard act. current URGE PRE-WAR FOOD HABITS Producer of Wheat and Consumer of Products Under Hardship. Washington, D. C. Needless con tinuation of bread-saving habits form ed in war time, department of agri culture officials declared in a state ment issued Monday, is limiting Amer ican wheat consumption to the dis advantage of both producer and con sumer. A return to pre-war food habits in the use of wheat by the public and the feeding of low-grade wheat to live stock, department experts asserted, would help greatly toward solving the wheat problem. The wide disparity between the cost of bread to the consumer and the price received by the producer for the wheat from which it is made is cited by the department as an illustration of the disproportionate relationship which exists between the price of farm prod ucts and the price of things that have gone through a manufacturing process. "The price of bread in cities has not fallen with the price of wheat and flour," says the statement. "A pound loaf of bread, which In Minneapolis In 1913-14 cost 5.3 cents, now costs ap proximately 9 cents, while flour, which in 1913-14 cost $4.43 a barrel, now costs $6.89. Allowing 280 loaves to the barrel, the margin between the flour price and the bread price has increased from $10.40 to $18.30. 'It is obvious that such conditions, however caused, work to the disarf vantage of both producers and con sumers. Producers are injured by the restriction Which is caused in the de mand and consumers are injured by high prices which enforce an unecono mic limitation in the use of an essen tial food. All interests in the country, including those of the bakers and mill ers, would be benefited by the restor ation of a more normal ratio between the price ot wheat when it leaves the farmers' hands and its price to the consumer." Fake Army Stores Hit. Washington, D. C. Retailers who represent themselves to be selling army and navy supplies from the Uni ted States government, when in fact they are not so doing, will encounter opposition from the federal trade com mission. An order In the matter was issued Monday by the commission against H. Mailender, an operator of stores in Indiana, requiring him to de sist. The custom was said to secure for the dealer an unfair advantage over competitors, based on misrepre sentations. A retailing custom, exemplified, the commission said, by the Jenkins Knit ting Mills company of Provo, Utah, was also attacked. The concern. was ordered to eliminate from Its corpor ate name the suggestion that It oper ated its own knitting manufactory, be cause in fact it does not do so. Filipino Presents Plea. Washington, D. C President Cool idge was asked Monday by Pedro Guevara, resident commissioner of the Philippine Islands, to include In his message to congress recommendations for the solution of the problem of the islands, particularly that congress proceed to give effect to the Jones act, contemplating ultimate independence of the islands. The commissioner presented his request in accordance with a resolution recently adopted by the Philippine legislature. First Lady Entertains. Washington, D. C Mrs. Coolldge, wife of the president, entertained at tea Monday Mrs. Barclay Warburton ot Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Flynn Law rence of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Worth Ington Scranton of Scranton. Mrs. Warburton Is republican national committee-woman from Pennsylvania and vice-chairman of the state organiza tion, and Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Scranton also are prominent in repub lican politics in Pennsylvania. Quake "Weather Shock." Toklo. The earthquake which shook Toklo Friday Is explained by experts here as a "weather shock." Such shocks follow periods ot Incle ment weather. Despite many rumors that another big earthquake was ex pected Saturday, the day passed with out any. Wooden Conduits Lasted Long. Relics ot ancient wnterplpes, con sisting of the hollow trunks of two very fine elm trees, were recently dug up In London. These wooden conduits, although thoy had boen laid down more than 200 years ago, were still in a wonderful state ot preservation. The Ancient Grudge. Tho only way to rid one's self ot a grudge is simply to let it go. Just drop it and forget where you lost it. If you mark the spot you might some times be tompted to go back and pick It up again. E POINGARE'S POLIGY French Premier Declared on Road to War. RAPS RUHR INVASION Ex-Prime Minister Pleads That Angel of Peace Be Given Chance in Europe. Glasgow. Former Prime Minister Lloyd George declared in a speech here Saturday that Great Britain's re lations with France were never worse. "I doubt whether in living memory they have been so bad as now," he said. Referring to the European develop ments of the last year, he said: "Owing to wht has happened in the last year, the restoration of nor mal trade conditions throughout the vast population of central Europe probably has been postponed, not for a matter of months, but a matter of years." The ex-premier asserted that the liberal party's remedy for unemploy ment was the restoration ot peace In Europe. "Let the angel of peace be given a chance in Europe," he said France was beginning to realize that there were no reparations in her policy, he continued. "A year ago last August," he said, "I told M. Poincare in London that 'if you Invade the Ruhr you will have no cash but wagon loads of trouble.' He has had no cash and has had tons of trouble and there will be more unless he gets out. "He has started on the path that made the .most horrible war ' in his tory. It was the Invasion ot France, the annexation ot French territory, that rankled in the soul of France, creating a temperature which at last broke out into a fever, which spread to Europe, America, Asia and Africa the whole world suffered from it. "The beginning was an attempt by the Germans to annex territory which didn't belong to them. Poincare has committed the world to exactly the same policy now." ' The French peasant, he said, was very shrewd and when he realized he was not getting the reparation to which he was entitled, his common sense would come to the rescue. 'He was beginning now to realize It. In the next place Italy, which at first sanc tioned the invasion, was against it, and Belgium was growing disillu sioned. But the greatest fact of all was that, for the first time since the retirement ot President Wilson, America was coming in. She was entirely with Great Britain on the settlement of this policy, he declared, and then he asked: "Does anyone mean to tell me that with America and the British empire, the two greatest communities of earth and with Italy agreeing, it there is anyone there who can handle the sit uation firmly, wisely and tenaciously, you cannot impose conditions upon anybody, provided they are just?" Discussing the British credit, the former premier said, it is almost as good as America's, and "had it not been for the foolish settlement of Mr. Baldwin's, it would have been just as good as America's by now." He apparently was referring to the funding ot the British war debt to the United States. WAGE RISE GIVEN 5500 RAIL MEN Chicago. Increases In wages affect ing approximately 6500 railroad teleg raphers and station agents and aggre gating approximately $364,482 were awarded In a decision announced Sun day night by the United States rail road labor board. The board explained that it had at tempted to correct existing inequali ties without attempting standardiza tion and without granting a general Increase. The payment ot a punitive rate of time and one-halt for overtime to telegraphers and station agents also was awarded and a few other changes in rules were authorized. Austria to Get Shilling Vienna. Minister of Finance Klen- boeck informed the national assembly that, subject to its approval, he would Immediately introduce a silver "shil ling" coinage in Austria, the rcpresea- tatlve coin being 10,000 kronen and the value of the others 5000 and 20, 000. The "shilling," the minister de clared, would not represent a new monetary unit, but later would be as sociated with a new currency unit. URGE HITS ERSKINE DALE-PIONEER CHAPTER XIII Continued. 14 "My son spoke words of truth," he proclaimed sonorously. "He warned us against the king over the waters and told us to make friends with the Americans. We did not heed his words, and so he brought the great chief of the Long Knives, who stood without fear among warriors more numerous than leaves and spoke the same words to all. We are friends of the Long Knives. My son is the true prophet. Bring out the false one and Crooked Lightning and Black Wolf, whose life my son saved though the two were enemies. My son shall do with them as he pleases." Many young braves sprang willingly forward and the three were haled be fore Ersklne. Old Kahtoo waved his hand toward; them and sat down. Ers klne rose and fixed his eyes sternly on the cowering prophet: "He shall go forth from the village and shall never return. For his words work mischief, he does foolish things, and his drumming frightens the game. He is a false prophet and he must go." He turned to Crooked Lightning : "The Indians have made peace with the Long Knives and White Arrow would make peace with any Indian, though an enemy. Crooked Lightning shall go or stay, as he pleases. Black Wolf shull stay, for the tribe will need him as a hunter and a warrior against the English foes of the Long Knives. White Arrow does not ask another to spare an enemy's life and then take it away himself." The braves grunted approval. Black Wolf and Crooked Lightning averted their faces and the prophet shambled uneasily away. Again old Kahtoo pro claimed sonorously, "It Is well!" and went back with- Ersklne to his tent. There he sank wearily on a buffalo skin and pleaded with the boy to stay with them as chief In his stead. He was very old, and now that peace was made with the Long Knives he was willing to die. If Ersklne would but give his promise, he would never rise again from where he lay. Ersklne shook his head and the old man sorrowfully turned his face. And yet Ersklne lingered on and on at the village. Of the whrte wom an be had learned little other than that she 'had been bought from an other tribe and adopted by old Kah too; but It was plain that since the threatened burning of her she had been held In high respect by the whole tribe. He began to wonder about her and whether she might not wish to go back to her own people. He had never talked with her, but he never moved about the camp that he did not feel her eyes upon him. And Early Morn's big soft eyes, too, never seemed to leave him. She brought him food, she sat at the door of his tent, she followed him about the vil lage and bore herself openly as his slave. At last old Kahtoo, who would not give up his great lpe, pleaded with him to marry her, and while he was talking the girl stood at the door of the tent and Interrupted them. Her mother's eyes were growing dim, she said. Her mother wanted to talk with White Arrow and look upon his face before her sight should altogether pass. Nor could Ersklne know that the white woman wanted to look Into the eyes of the man she hoped would become her daughter's husband, but Kahtoo did, and he bade Ersklne go. Ills foster mother, coming upon the scene, scowled, but Ersklne rose and went to the white woman's tent. She sat just inside the opening, with a blanket across the lower half of her face, nor did she look at him. In stead she plied him with questions, and listened eagerly to his every word, and drew from him every detail of his life as far back as he could re member. Poor soul, It was the first opportunity for many years that she had had to talk with any white per son who had been in the eastern world, and freely and frankly he held nothing back. All the while the girl had crouched near, looking at Ersklne with doglike eyes, and when he rose to go 'the woman dropped the blanket from her face and got to her feet. Shyly she lifted her hands, took his face be tween them, bent close, and studied it searchlngly: "What is your name?" "Ersklne Dale." Without a word she turned back into her tent. At dusk Ersklne stood by the riv er's brim, with his eyes lifted to a rising moon and his thoughts with Barbara on the bank of the James. Behind him he heard a rustle and, turning, be saw the girl, ber breast throbbing and her eyes burning with a light he bad never seen before. "Black Wolf will kill you," she whispered. "Black Wolf wants Enrly Morn and he knows that Eurly Morn wants White Arrow." Ersklne put both hands on her shoulders and looked down Into her eyes. She trembled, and when his arms went about her she surged closer to him and the touch of her warm, supple hotly went through him like Are. And then with a triumphant smile she sprang back. "Black Wolf will see," she whis pered, and fled. Ersklne sank to the By JOHN FOX, Jr. ground, with his head in his hands. The girl ran back to her tent, and the mother, peering at the flushed face and shining eyes, clove to the truth. She said nothing, but when the girl was asleep and faintly smil ing, the white woman sat staring out into the moonlit woods, softly beat ing her breast. CHAPTER XIV Ersklne had given Black Wolf his life, and the young brave had accept ed the debt and fretted under It sore ly. And when Ersklne had begun to show some heed to Early Morn a fierce jealousy seized the savage, and his old hatred was reborn a thousandfold more strong and that, too, Ersklne now knew. Meat ran low and a hunt ing party went abroad. Game was scarce and only after the second day was there a kill. Ersklne had sight ed a huge buck, had fired quickly and at close range. Wounded, the buck had charged, Ersklne's knife was twisted In his belt, and the buck was upon him before he could get It out. He tried to dart for a tree, stumbled, turned, and caught the infuriated beast by the horns. He uttered no cry, but the angry bellow of the stag reached the ears of Black Wolf through the woods, and he darted to ward the sound. And he came none too soon. Ersklne heard the crack of a rifle, the stag toppled over, and he saw Black Wolf standing over him with a curiously triumphant look on his saturnine face. In Ersklne, when he rose, the white man1 was predom inant, and he thrust out his hand, but Black Wolf Ignored it. "White Arrow gave Black Wolf his life. The debt Is paid." Ersklne looked at his enemy, nod ded, and the two bore the stag away. Instantly a marked " change was plain in Black Wolf. He told the story of the flght with the buck to all. Boldly he threw oft the mantle Ersklne Put Both Hands on Her (moul ders and Looked Down Into Her Eyes. of shame, stalked haughtily through the village, and went back to open enmity with Ersklne. At dusk a day or two later, when he was coming down the path from the white wom an's wigwam, Black Wolf confronted him. scowling. "Early Morn shall belong to Black Wolf," he said Insolently. Ersklne met his baleful, half-drunken eyes scornfully. "We will leave that to Early Morn," he said coolly, nnd then thun dered suddenly: "Out of my way !" Black Wolf hesitated and gave way, but ever thereafter Ersklne was on guard. ' In the white woman, too, Ersklne now saw a change. Once she had en couraged, him to stay with the In dians; now she lost no opportunity to urge against It. She had heard that Hamilton would try to retuke Vin cennes, that he was forming a great force with which to march south, sweep through Kentucky, batter down the wooden forts, and force the Ken tucklnns behind the great mountain wall. Ersklne would be needed by the whites, who would never under stand or trust him If he should stay with the Indians. All this she spoke one day when Ersklne came to her tent to talk. Her face had blanched, she had argued passionately that be must go, and Ersklne was sorely puz zled. The girl, too, had grown rebel lious snd disobedient, for the change In her mother was plain also to her, and she could not understand. More over, Ersklne's stubbornness grew, and he began to flame within at the stalk ing insolence of Black Wolf, who slipped through the shadows of day and the dusk to spy on the two whefe ever they came together. And one dny when the sun was midway, and in the open of the village, the clash Copyrighted by Chulet Scribnet'l Sou came. Black Wolf darted forth from his wigwam, his eyes bloodshot with rage and drink, and his hunting knife In his hand. A cry from Early Morn warned Ersklne and he wheeled. As Black VVolf made a vicious slash at him he sprang aside, and with bis flst caught the savage in the jaw. Black -Wolf fell heavily and Ersklne was upon him with his own knife at his enemy's throat. "Stop them!" old Kahtoo cried sternly, but it was the terrified shriek of the white woman that stayed Ers klne's hand. Two young braves dis armed the fallen Indian, and Kahtoo looked inquiringly at his adopted son. ."Turn him loose I" Ersklne scorned. "I have no fear of him. He Is a woman and drunk, but next time I shall kill him." The white woman had run down, caught Early Morn, and was leading her back to her tent. From Inside presently came low, passionate plead ing from the woman and an occasional sob from the girl. And when an hour later, at dusk, Ersklne turned upward toward the tent, the girl gave a hor rifled cry, flashed from the tent, and durted for the high cliff over the river. "Catch her!" cried the mother. "Quick I" Ersklne fled after her, over took her with her hands upraised for the plunge on the very edge of the cliff, and half carried her, struggling and sobbing, back to the tent. With in the girl dropped In a weeping heap,, and with her face covered, and the woman turned to Ersklne, agonized. "I told her," she whispered, "and she was going to kill herself. You are my sonl" ' Still sleepless at dawn, the boy rode Firefly Into the woods. At sunset he came In, gaunt with brooding and hun ger. His foster mother brought him food, but he would not touch it. The Indian woman stared at him with keen suspicion, and presently old Kahtoo, passing slowly, bent on him the same look, but asked no question, Ersklne gave no heed to either, but his mother, watching from her wigwam, under stood .and grew fearful. Quickly she stepped outside and called him, and he rose and went to her bewildered; she was smiling. "They are watching," she said, and Ersklne, too, understood, and kept his back toward the watchers. "I have decided," he said. "You and she must leave here and go with me." His mother pretended much dis pleasure. "She will not leave, and I will not leave her" her lips trembled "and I would have gone long ago but " "I understand," interrupted Ersklne," "but you will go now with your son." The poor woman had to scowl. "No, and you must not tell them. They will never let me go, and they will use me to keep you here. You must go at once. She will never leave this tent as long as you are here, and If you stay she will die, or kill her self. Some day " She turned abruptly and went back Into her tent. Ersklne wheeled and went to old Kah too. "You want Early Morn?" asked the old man. "You shall have her." "No," said the boy, "I am going back to the big chief." "You are my son and I am old and weak." "I am a soldier and must obey the big chief 8 commands, as must you." "I shall live," said the old man wearily, "until you come again." Ersklne nodded and went for his horse. Black Wolf watched him with malignant satisfaction, but said noth ing nor flld Crooked Lightning. Ers klne turned once as he rode away. His mother was standing outside her wigwam. Mournfully she waved her hand. Behind her and within the tent he could see Early Morn with both hands at her breast. CHAPTER XV Dawned 1781. The war was coming Into Virginia at last Virginia falling would thrust a great wedge through the center of the confederacy, feed the British armies and end the fight. Cornwallls wns to drive the wedge, and never had the opening seemed easier. Virginia was drained of her fighting men, and south of the mountains was protected only by a militia. for the most part, of old men and boys. North and south ran despair. The soldiers had no pay, little food, and only old wornout coats, tattered linen overalls, and one blan ket between three men, to protect them from drifting snow and Icy wind. Even the great Washington was near despair, and In foreign help his sole hope lay. Already the traitor, Arnold, had taken Richmond, burned ware houses, and returned, but little har assed, to Portsmouth. Cornwallls was coming on. Tarle ton's white rangers were bedeviling the land, and It was at this time that Ersklne Dale once more rode Firefly to the river James. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Public Time Compulsory. Twenty-four-hour time Is used Id many Latin-American countries and Is compulsory ill Argentina la connection with public document!.