WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments tnd Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Adolph Hitler, the Bavarian fascist leader, arrested after the failure of the recent nationalistic "putsch" In Munich, was reported to have gone on a hunger strike In the Jail at Stadel heim, near here, where he Is confined. . Commander William S. Pye of the navy, commanding destroyer division No. 31, two vessels o which were lost at Point Honda September 8, was ac quitted by a navy court martial late Tuesday on negligence charges grow ing out of that disaster. Three miners were killed Monday . when two boxes of powder exploded In the winze of the 700-foot level of the United American mine at Oatman, Ariz. The bodies of two men were blown to pieces while' a third miner was overcome by fumes and was' found dead in the mine. ' "' ' ''''''' The British government has re quested of its charge d'affaires in Washington a' full report on the cir cumstances surrounding the seizure of the British schooner Tomaka off the New Jersey coast and the British schooner Island Home off the Texas coast by American officials. Differences of opinion on methods of regulating the anthracite coal . in dustry were apparent Tuesday among delegates of anthracite consuming states who met in Harrisburg, Pa., at the invitation of Governor Pinchot to devise a programme of legislation in tended to keep down prices. The Chinese imperial household re cently was sued in the civil court by a Pekln banking house because ot failure, tq meet certain financial obli gations. A representative of the boy emperor appeared and pleaded exten- 1 uating circumstances, but the court ruled that the debt must be paid. While continuing his Investigation ot the contents ot King Tutankha men's mortuary chamber, Howard Carter, head ot the Britflh expedition, Monday was said to have discovered against the outer shrine another huge .bouquet of flowers, faded to a drab Icolor by their long preservation. i Edwin P. Morrow, ;who will retire as governor ot Kentucky next month, Monday accepted appointment by President Coolidge as a member of the railroad labor board, succeeding A. M. Bnrtoi who has resigned. Gov ernor Morrow will enter upon his new duties soon atter December 11 when his term as governor expires. The rum Bchooner Tomako, cap tured by coast guards Monday after an exciting chase six miles off Sea bright, N. J., while flying the BritiBh flag, was seized with the knowledge that her roglstry papers were faulty and that she positively had been iden tified with the landing ot liquor on American Bhqres, government agents announced Tuesday.' . The Northern Pacific railway has a prospective improvement programme for the next three years which calls for an expenditure of $56,000,000, Charlos Donnelly, presldont, told the interstate commerce commission's rail road rate investigating committee in Minneapolis Tuesday. In the last three years and ten months, he said, the Northern Pacific spent 141,000,000. - : Sovon hoavlly armed bandits held up two messengers of the Bank ot California In a limousine at 6:50 o'clock Tuesday at the crowded Inter section ot Second avenue and Jackson street, Seattle,1 handcuffed a special motorcycle policeman following the machine as an escort on his motor cycle, and escaped with a largo quan tity of registered mail said to contain $20,000 worth of negotiable bonds. The German government, it is ex pected in Paris, will bring the agree ments between Franco-Belgians and the Stlnnos group and other Ruhr in dustrials to the notice ot the repara tions commission with a view to com batting any effort by the occupying powers to hold out proceeds from de liveries In kind or payments ot taxes under the arrangements for the pur pose ot meotlng tholr own expenses ot occupation. $910,000 TO IMPROVE RIVERS Funds Are for Improvements of West ern Streams and Harbors. Washington, D. C No additional funds for improvement ot the mouth of the Columbia river were asked by the chief ot army engineers Monday In his annual report to congress, car rying estimates of all financial needs for river and harbor work during the fiscal year 1925. For the Columbia and Willamette rivers below Portland and Vancouver to the mouth of the Columbia $910,000 is asked for operations during the next fiscal year, $250,000 of which would be used In new work, including dike construction and the balance of $660,000 for maintenance. The amount required for maintenance is larger than the average for the last five years because ot the operation of the dredge Clatsop In three shifts; the probable ' operation of a borrowed dredge and the construction of new equipment. No money is asked for the mouth of the Columbia because the unex pended balance is deemed sufficient to continue the present work to June 30, 1925. With reference to the im provement accomplished at the mouth the report says it "has made it pos sible for the largest vessels operating on the Pacific coast to enter and leave at all normal stages of tide and in any weather except the most severe storms." Regarding the work done below Portland and Vancouver to the mouth of the Columbia, a project which calls for a 30-foot channel 300 feet wide the full distance, the report says: "The improvement has greatly in creased the draft of vessels that can ascend to Portland at all hours and seldom have to wait for tides. There is a large saving in freights on the commerce handled in'ocean-going ves sels on the lower Columbia and Wil lamette rivers between Portland and Astoria and vice versa. The saving the last calendar year on a total of 4,163,554 tons is estimated to have been $9,867.62. On receipts of oil and gasoline alone (1,129,282 tons in 1922) there was an estimated saving of $3.32 per ton, or a total of $3,749,216." Navy Fliers Die in Air Collision. San Diego, Cal. Three naval air men were killed Monday when two airplanes collided at an altitude of about 1000 feet at a point almost di rectly over the bridge between Coron ado and North Island. The dead are: Lieutenant P. M. Byers, 28, of Cor onado. . Wlllard B. Jackson, 26, aviation chief machinist mate, of San Diego. Thomas B. Entwistle, aviation chief machinist mate, 29, whose widow re sides at Pensacola, Fla. Jackson and Entwistle were flying a J-N-4 ship, familiarly known in the Bervice as a "Jennie," and, making about 50 miles an hour, were Just nosing down preparatory to landing when Lieutenant Byers, who was in a Vought plane, from which the pilot does not have extra good vision, swung along the same course. The Vought hit the slowly moving J-N-4 between the right upper and lower wing sections, the propeller ripping a great gash in the fuselage and shear ing oft the upper wing of the enlisted men's plane. Both airplanes plunged In a dizzy spin. Lieutenant Byers and Entwistle were still breathing when rescuers reached them, near the shore, but Boon died. Jackson was killed outright. Naval Aviators to Dash to Pole. Washington, D. C A dash by air for the north pole will be launched by the navy department during the coming summer. Secretary Donby an nounced Monday that President Cool idge had given his specific approval to the project as "of great practical value." The route, date and method of pro cedure for the trip, however, are still to be decided, a special board ot naval officers, headed by Rear Admiral Wil liam A. Moffett, chief of naval aeron autics, having been appointed by Sec retary Denby to prepare a detailed plan. The project grew out of the desire of Robert A. Bartlett, the explorer who sailed with Roar Admiral Robert E. Peary on the steamer Roosevelt on the expedition of 1908-1909, which saw the stars and Btripes raised over the north pole, again to make that jour ney. Mr. Bartlett proposed to Secre tary Denby some months ago that the Roosevelt, now in commercial service, be repurchased and equipped for polar work. Bank Bondsmen Win. San Francisco. A lower court de cision holding that the bondsmen ot F. L. Stewart, missing cashier ot the defunct Kelso State bank ot Kelso, Wash., were liable to the extent of $25,000 tor loans made by Stewart in the name ot the bank, was reversed Monday by the United States circuit court of appeals. The court held that there was nothing to show that the security given the bank was not am ple at the time the loans were made. 11,666 ARE KILLED BY AUTOS 111 YEAR Increase of 1498 Over 1921 Report Shows. LOST ANGELES WORST City Reports 29.5 Deaths in Accidents for Each 100,000 Population. Oregon State Increases. Washington, D. C Deaths from automobile accidents numbered 11,666 last year in the census registration area of the United States, which con tains 85 per cent of the total popula tion, an increase ot 1498 over the previous year. The total number of killed as shown in census bureau figures Sunday rep resents a death rate of 12. 5 for each 100,000 population, an increase of one for every 100,000 as compared with 1921. In 1917 the rate was 9.0 to 100, 000. California had the highest rate ot the 37 states in the registration area, its total representing 26.0 for each 100,000 population. New York had the second highest rate with 16.7, New Jersey was third with 16.4, and Colorado fourth with 16.3. No other state's rate exceeded 16.0 to a 100,000. Mississippi had the lowest rate with S.4 for each 100,000. The largest increase was shown in Vermont with 11.1 to each 100,000, or 4.6 above 1921. Decreases occurred in Montana, Connecticut, Massachu setts and Virginia, with Washington showing the largest reduction, from 14.5 to 12.3. ' Los Angeles had the highest rate in the 67 cities reporting, showing 29.5 to each 100,000. Camden, N. J., was second with 27.9, and Memphis was third, with 25.0. Sixteen ot the 67 cities had rates of 20 or more for each 100,000. Memphis had the larg est Increase of the cities, with 9.9 over 1921 while New Bedford showed a higher rate of 9.3. Twenty-three ci ties showed a lowering ot the rate, Lowell leading with a decrease of 13.3 for each 100,000 from 1921. Other large decreases were Norfolk with a drop of 9.3; Albany with 8.8 less than 1921, and Spokane with a rate 8.6 lower. " ' ' The death rate for each 100,000 population in states showing de creases and the amount ot the de crease include: Montana 8.1, decrease 0.2, and Washington 12.3, decrease 2.3. The rate in states showing increases and the amount of increase include: California 26.0, increase 1.6, and Oregon 13.9, increase 1.0. The rate in states for which no 1921 statistics are available included: Ida ho 4.6, Wyoming 13.5. The cities having decreases,1 with the rate for each 100,000 and the amount ot decrease include: Portland, Or., 14, decrease 0.3; Seat tle 13.9, decrease 0.1, and Spokane 9.6 and 8.6. Cities showing Increases, with the rate for each 100,000 and the amount in the increase include: Denver 20.9, Increase 4.0; Los Angeles, Cal., 29.5 and 2.4; Oakland 17.6 and 2.1, and San Francisco 22.3 and 4.2. Washington, D. C Tax collections of the internal revenue bureau during the year ending June 30 last, were $2,621,745,227, or 18 per' cent less than those ot the previous year, when they amounted to $3,197,451,0,00. The re ductions, Commissioner Blair said Sunday in his annual report, were due largely to the decreases of tax rates made by law. Income and profits taxation netted the government $1,691,089,000, which was $395,000,000 less than the total collected from these sources the pre vious year. From the various other forms of internal taxes levied on amusements, automobile sales, spirits and the like, there was collected $930, 655,693 against $1,110,532,618 for the year before. The internal revenue taxes on to bacco netted $38,256,108 more than in the previous year, and the tax on automotive products was greater by $39,856,727, but these increases were insufficient to offset the reductions made by new laws in taxation on other products. Cotton Grower Irate. Washington, D. C Readjustment ot the methods used by the govern ment in estimating the cotton crop was recommended at a meeting Sat urday of the newly-organized cotton bloc in congress. Representative Ran kin, democrat, Mississippi, who intro duced the resolution, declared cotton growers had lost more this' year through "misinformation upon ' the crop prepared by the government than from boll weevil and other ravages." mine Dale Pioneer 5s- b7 t i by III Copyright by charles Scri bn Eft s sons - CHAPTER XV Continued. 15 The boy had been two years In the wilds. When he left the Shawnee camp winter was setting in, that ter rible winter of '79 of deep snow and hunger and cold. When he reached Kaskaskla, Captain Clark had gone to Kentucky, and Ersklne found bad news. Hamilton and Hay had taken Vlncennes. There Captain Helm's Cre oles, as soon as they saw the red coats, slipped away from him to sur render their arms to the British, and thus deserted by all, he and the two or three Americans with him had to give up the fort. The French reswore allegiance to Britain. Hamilton con fiscated their liquor and broke up their billiard tables. He let his Indians scatter to their villages, and with his regulars, volunteers, white Indian leaders and red auxiliaries went Into winter quarters. One band of Shaw nees he sent to Ohio to scout and take scalps in the settlements. In the spring he would sweep Kentucky and destroy all the settlements west of the Alleghanles. So Ersklne and Dave went for Clark; and that trip neither ever forgot. Storms had followed each other since late November and the snow lay deep. Cattle and horses perished, deer and elk were found dead In the woods, and buffalo came at nightfall to old Jerome Sanders' fort for food and companionship with his starving herd. . There was no salt or vegetable food; nothing but the flesh of lean wild game. Yet, while the frontiersmen remained crowded In the stockades and the men hunted and the women made clothes of tanned deer hides, buffalo-wool cloth, and nettle-bark linen, and both hollowed "nog gins" out of the knot of a tree, Clark made his amazing march to Vln cennes, recaptured it by the end of February, and sent Hamilton to Wil liamsburg a prisoner. Ersklne pleaded to be allowed to take hlra there, but Clark would not let him go. Perma nent garrisons were placed at Vln cennes and Cahokla, and at Kaskaskla. Ersklne stayed to help make peace with the Indians, punish marauders and hunting bands, so that by the end of the year Clark might sit at the falls of the Ohio as a shield for the West and a sure guarantee that the whites would never be forced to abandon wild Kentucky. The two years In the wilderness had left their mark on Ersklne. He was tall, lean, swarthy, gaunt, and yet he was not all woodsman, for his born Inheritance as gentleman had been more than emphasized by his as sociation with Clark and certain Cre ole officers in the Northwest, who had Improved his French and gratified one pet wish of his life since his last visit to the James they had taught him to fence. His mother he had not seen again, but he had learned that she was alive and not yet blind. Of Early Morn he had heard nothing at all. Once a traveler had brought word of Dane Grey. Grey was In Philadelphia and prominent in the gay doings of that city. He had taken part In a brilliant pageant called the "Mlschl anza," which was staged by Andre, mid was reported a close friend of that ill-fated young gentleman. After the fight at Piqua, with Clark Ersklne put forth for old Jerome San ders' fort. He found the hard days of want over. There was not only corn in plenty but wheat, potatoes, pumpkins, turnips, melons. Game was plentiful, and cattle, horses, and hogs had multiplied on cane and buffalo clover. Indeed, it was a comparative ly peaceful fall, and though Clark pleaded with him, Ersklne stubbornly set his face for Virginia. At Williamsburg Ersklne learned many things. Colonel Dale, now a general, was still with Washington and Harry was with him. Hugh was with the Virginia militia and Dave with Lafayette. Tarleton's legion of rangers In their white uniforms were scourging Vir ginia as they had scourged the Car olinas. Through the James River country they bad gone with fire and sword, burning houses, carrying off horses, destroying crops, burning grain In the mills, laying plantations to waste. Barbara's mother was dead. Her neighbors had moved to safety, but Barbara, he heard, still lived with old Mammy and Ephralm at Red Oaks, unless that, too, had been recently put to the torch. Where, then, would he find her? Down the river Ersklne rode with a sad heart. At the place where he hud fought with Grey lie pulled Fire fly to a sudden halt. There was the boundary of Red Oaks and there stiirtetl a desolation that ran as fur us his eye could reach. Red Oaks had not been spared, and he put Fire fly to 8 fast gallop, with eyes strained far ahead and his heart beating with agonized foreboding and savage rage. Soon over a distant clump of trees lie eniild see the chimneys of Bar i RUUWngstone - - $U bara's home his home, he thougl helplessly and perhaps those chli neys were all that was left. Aii then he saw the roof and the uppi windows and the cap of the big cc umns unharmed, untouched, and 1 pulled Firefly in again, with ove whelming relief, and wondered at tl miracle. Again he started and aga pulled in when he caught sight i three horses hitched near the stile Turning quickly from the road, 1 hid Firefly In the underbrush. Vei quietly he slipped along the path 1 the river, and, pushing aside throuj the rose bushes, lay down where u seen he could peer through the close matted hedge. He had not long wait. A white uniform Issued fro the great hall door and another ai another and after them Barbara smiling. The boy's blood ran hot smiling at her enemies. Two office bowed, Barbara courtesied, and thi wheeled on their heels and descendi the steps. The third stayed behind moment, bowed over her hand ai kissed it. The watcher's blood turm then to liquid flre. Great God, what price was that noble old hou left standing? Grimly, swiftly E skine turned, sliding through t bushes like a snake to the edge the road along which they must pai He would fight the three, for his II was worth nothing now. He hea them laughing, talking at the stilt He heard them speak Barban name, and two seemed to be bantt Ing the third, whose answering laui seemed acquiescent and triumphal They were coming now. The boy hi his pistols out, primed and cocke He was rising on his knees, Just abo to leap to his feet and out into t road, when he fell back Into startled, paralyzed, Inactive hes Glimpsed through an opening In t lt n- id sr tr ie in of !S. le ry jy ;h to m id ra ey ed a id ed at se of 39. fe rd 33. 1'S r gh it. ad ;d. ut he a ip. be "Ha Fought One Under Benedict i nold Perhaps He Is Fighting W Him Now." bushes, the leading trooper In the u form of Tarleton's legion was nc other than Dane Grey, and Erskin brain had worked quicker than angry heart. This was a mystt that must be solved before his pist spoke. He rose crouching as 1 troopers rode away. If Tarleto men were around he would bet leave Firefly where he was In 1 woods for a while. A startle! gt behind him made him wheel, pis once more in hand, to find a neg mouth wide open and staring at li from the road. "Marse Ersklne!" he gasped, was Ephralm, the boy who bad Barbara's white ponies out long, If ago, now a tall, muscular lad w an ebony face and dazzling tee "Whut you doln' byeh, suh? Wh yo' hoss? Gawd, I'se sutn'ly glad see yuh." Ersklne pointed to an o "Right by that tree. Put him the stable and feed him." The negro shook his head. "No, Bull. I'll take de feed do to him. Too many redcoats mes: round heah. You bettah go In de bi day dey might see yuh." "Wasn't one of those soldiers v Just rode away Mr. Dane Grey?" The negro hesitated. "Yassuh." nl ne e'a lis iry ls lie a's ter he .sp tol TO, 1m It led ng tth th. ar' to ik. In WD in' ick "What's he doing in a British uni form?" The boy shifted his great shoulders uneasily and looked aside. "I don't know, suh I don't know uuttln." Ersklne knew he was lying, but re spected his loyalty. - "Go tell Miss Barbara I'm here and then feed my horse." f TassuK Ephraira went swiftly and Ersklne followed along the hedge and through the rose bushes to the kitchen door. Barbara, standing In the hall door Way, heard his step. "Ersklne I" she cried softly, and she came to meet him, with both hands outstretched, find raised her lovely face to be kisaed. ' What are you do ing here!" "I am on my way to Join General Lafayette." "But you will be captured. It Is dan gerous. The country Is full of British soldiers." "So I know," Ersklne said dryly. "When did you get here!" "Twenty minutes ago. I would not have been welcome Just then. I wait ed In the hedge. I saw you had com pany." "Did you see them?" she faltered. "I even recognized one of them." Barbara sank Into a chair, her elbow on one arm, her chin In her hand, her face turned, her eyes looking outdoors. She said nothing, but the toe of her slipper began to tap the floor gently. There was no further use for Indirec tion or concealment. "Barbara," Ersklne said with some sternness, and his tone quickened the tapping of the slipper and made her little mouth tighten, "what does all this mean?" "Did you see," she answered, with out looking at him, "that the crops were all destroyed and the cattle and horses were all gone?" "Why did tiiey spare the house?" The girl's bosom rose with one quick, defiant Intake of breath, and for a moment she held It. "Dane Grey saved our home." "How?" "He had known Colonel Tarleton In London and had done something for him over there." "How did he get In communication with Colonel Tarleton when he was an officer In the American army?" The girl would not answer. "Was he taken prisoner?" Still she was silent, for the sarcasm, in Ers kine's voice was angering her. "He fought once under Benedict Arnold perhaps he Is fighting with hlra now." "No!" she cried hotly. "Then he must be a " She did not allow him to utter the word. "Why Mr. Grey Is in British uni form Is his secret not mine." "And why he is here is yours." "Exactly 1" she flamed. "You are a soldier. Learn what you want to know from him. You are my cousin, but you are going beyond the rights of blood. I won't stand It I won't stand it from anybody." "I don't understand you, Barbara I don't know you. That last time It was Grey, you and now " He paused and, In spite of herself, her eyes flashed toward the door. Ers klne saw It, drew himself erect, bowed and strode straight out. Nor did the irony of the situation so much as cross his mind that he should be 'turned from his own home by the woman he loved and to whom he had given that home. Nor did he look back lse he might have seen her sink, sobbing, to the floor. When he turned the corner of the house Barbara's old mammy and Ephralm were waiting for him at the kitchen door. "Ephralm," he said as he swung upon Firefly, "you and mammy keep a close watch, and If I'm needed here, come for me yourself and come fust." "Yassuh. Marse Grey is sutn'ly up to some devilmlnt no which side he flghtln' fer. I got a gal oveh on the alge o' de Grey plantation an' she tel' me dat Marse Dane Grey don't wear dat white uniform all de time." ' "What's that what's that?" asked Ersklne. "No, suh. She say he got an udder uniform, same as yose, an' he keeps It at her uncle Sam's cabin an' she's seed him go dar In white an' come out In our uniform, an' al'ays at night, Marse Ersklne al'ays at night" The negro cocked his ear suddenly : "Take to de woods quick, Marse Ersklne. Horses comin' down the road." , But the sound of coming hoofbeats had reached the woodsman's ears some seconds before the black man heard them, and already Ersklne had wheeled away. And Ephralm saw Firefly skim along the edge of a blackened meadow behind Its hedge of low trees. "Gawd I" said the black boy, and he stood watching the road. A band of white-coated troopers was coming in a cloud of dust, and at the head of them rode Dane Grey. "Has Capt. Ersklne Dale been here?" he demanded. Ephralm had his own reason for being on the good side of the ques tioner, and did not even hesitate. "Yassuh he jes' lef 1 Dar he goes now I" With a curse Grey wheeled his troopers. At that moment Firefly, with something like the waving flight of a bluebird, was leaping the meadow fence into the woods. The black boy looked after the troopers' dust. "Gawd !" he said again, with a grin that showed every magnificent tooth in his head. "Jest as well try to ketch a streak o' lightning." And quite undisturbed he turned to tell the news to old mammy. A Tip to the Wise. It was the beginning of the second semester, and we were to have a new Instructor In the English department. I rushed Into the classroom and, seeing a supposed fellow student in one of the seats, said: "Well, I guess we'll have to give the old girl a good wel come this morning, but be rather dumb so she won't expect too much." In a moment the young woman began call ing the roll, proving to be the Instruc tor herself. Chicago Tribune. 1 X