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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Oil has been discovered in the Tan tium district near Tuxpan, state of Vera Cruz. The United States supreme court announced Monday It would recess from December 10 to January 2. The 13 convicts who escaped from the Kansas state penitentiary late Sunday by burrowing through an abandoned tunnel are still at liberty. Besides having his message to con gress broadcast to the four corners of the United States, President Cool ldge may get -back a permanent record of It registered on a long string of piano wire. The finding of a boy's skeleton, to gether with evidence making identifi cation positive, in a swamp near Gree ley, Pike county, Pennsylvania, brought to an end a search of more than eight years. An unknown man, believed to be a tramp, was burned to death in a tire that destroyed the' farmers' warehouse elevator at Irby, Wash., Tuesday. Loss on the building, which was empty, was fixed at $10,000 to $12,000. Charles Kunkel, internationally known pianist, and ranked nationally as one of the leading music publishers, died in St. Louis Monday at the age of 83 years. ' Mr. Kunkel was a native of Germany. ' i Prohibition agents are not civil of ficers in any strict or constitutional sense, Federal Judge Woodrough of Omaha declared Tuesday in a written opinion. He also stated they are with out lawful authority to serve search .warrants. One of the articles of Tutankha men's funerary state in which mod erns, especially women, will take a sentimental as well as artistic inter est, Is the Pharaoh's great ostrich feather fan, now awaiting treatment In the tomb of Setl II, which has been fitted up as a laboratory. Slgnor Marconi, pioneer in the field of wireless communication, declares his belief that a revolution In the methods employed for communication with distant countries would be pos sible, as the outcome of important tests carried out by himself and C. S. Franklin, the BritlBh expert. A duel with opees, ending In a trickle of blood from one of the rivals' right forearm, and kissing and recon ciliation between the two antagonists, took place Tuesday at Varenne, St. Hlllatre on the Marne, between Slgnor Berottt, a Corslcan statesman, and Henri Omessa, a Corslcan editor.' The work of finding the bodies of the 600 or more victims of the Ber gamo, Italy, flood disaster continues over the extended zone devastated by the waters, but the rescue parties are encountering difficulties. The water has receded, leaving Bergamo valley buried under several feet of mud. Crude oil waste from the Arkansas oil fields, flowing on the surface of the Oulchlta river, Is causing the death of thousands of wild ducks, ac cording to hunters who have been along the stream north of Monroe. The oil gums the feathers of the birds, making it impossible for them either to fly or swim. Broadus White Sox, a senior year ling Aberdeen Angus steer owned by A. A. Armstrong of Camargo, 111., Tuesday was crowned the grand cham pion of the International Livestock show at Chicago. In accordance with the custom, the fate of the grand champion is to be slaughtered for Christmas beof. The tariff commission reported to congress Monday that rate changes on 127 commodities had been applied for thus far undor the flexible pro visions of the tariff law. Thirty-four of the applications were for changes In rates on chemicals. Investigations into rate schedules ordered by the commission number 33. , Mrs. Ethel O. Glliksen of South Portland, Me., placed her 10-months-old daughter on the redhot coals In hor kitchen stove Tuesday, the police said, because she believed that spirits from God had called for the sacrifice of the baby and that she "soon was to follow." Neighbors heard the screams of her other children and rescued the infant CURRENT WEEK DRIVE STARTS IN MEXICO Revolutionists Forming to Advance on Capital of Country. Vera Cruz. The column of revolu tionists, proceeding by way of the lnter-oceanlc railway for Mexjeo City, is taking with It four batteries of 75 mlllimeter guns and four batterieB of machine guns, In addition to sufficient ammunition for both categories. The column was able to Increase its gun power from pieces obtained from the San Juan de Ulua castle and from the warships In the harbor here. Another column of troops, said to be undor the personal command of General Guadalupe Sanchez, is being formed and will go toward the capital by way of the Mexican railway to aid the columns already advancing. Advices from the port of Frontera said that Colonel Vivanio was carry ing out the orders sent him by revolu tionary headquarters here to march on Villa Ilermosa, capital of the state of Tobasco, against Governor Garrldo, a follower of President Obregon. Wireless communication between headquarters In Vera Cruz and' the headquarters of General Enrique Ea trado, commander of the western forces, was being freely carried out. Among the new prisoners who ar rived here Monday from Jalapa, which was captured by the revolutionists Saturday, is Angel Casarln, who was acting governor of the state in the absence in Mexico City of Governor Tejeda. New Boiler Reduces Electric Cost Half Hartford, Conn. Production of elec tricity for power and lighting purposes at approximately one-halt the present financial cost by the use of the new mercury boiler process, the success of which was recently announced by the Inventor, William Leroy Emmet of the General Electric company, was dem onstrated here before representatives of the press at the Dutch Point plant of the Hartford . Electric Light com pany. Representatives of the com pany, who have been operating the only commercial mercury boiler in existence as part of the local plant, explained the process, which was de scribed by them as revolutionary and the greatest advance in this respect since the invention of the steam tur bine. How soon it will be possible to pass this decrease4 cost of production on to the consumer in form of reduced rates for electricity was said to be dependent entirely on the possibility of producing mercury boilers for com mercial purposes. While still in an experimental stage they stated the operation of the boiler as a unit of the Hartford plant has been entirely suc cessful. The production of enough mercury to take care of the demand which will follow the manufacture of mercury boilers was admitted to be another problem which might enter into the general commercial use of the new process. Bonds to Be Offered. Tacoma, Wash. The Tacoma mu nicipal sinking fund board, composed of Mayor A. V. Fawcett, Commission er J. W. Sliver of the finance depart ment and J. M. Roberts, controller, will meet at the end of ten days and decide on a date for bids on the H 000,000 bond issue for unit No. 2 of the Cushman power project on the Skykomlsh river in Mason county. That there would have been a mar ket among Tacoma citizens for the bonds had the council seen fit to dis pose of $1,000,000 of them in $100 and $500 denominations was asserted by Mayor Fawcett, a number having called on th emayor to say they were disappointed in not having a chance to buy bonds at smaller denomina tions than $1000. Differential Is Upheld. Washington, D. C Transcontinen tal railroads were held justified Mon day by the interstate commerce com mission in refusing to give the same rates on fruits and vegetables shipped from Pacific coast points via Chicago Into the southeast quarters of the United States as are given when traf fic is routed via Memphis, East St. Louis or New Orleans. Although shippers' organizations protested the rates via Chicago, the commission decided that the route was too circuitous to justify the roads in using it without a collection of ex tra freight. Government Loses Suit. Washington, D. C The government tailed in the supreme court Monday in an effort to have quashed a suit won by Edward F. Goltra of St. Louis, by which he recovered control of nine teen barges and four towboats. The craft had been turned over to him by the government soon after the war under a contract which gave him the right to pur chase them at their appraised value. . INTERIOR REVENUES SHOW BIG INCREASE Secretary Work's Department Has Great Record. OIL LEASES PAY WELL Indian Affairs and Patent Office Re ceipts Take Big Jump. Alaska Railroad Improves. Washington, D. C Hubert Work, secretary of the interior, in his annual report to the president, which was transmitted to the congress Saturday, says: My tenure of office as secretary of the interior extends over but a small part of the past fiscal year. I took the oath of office on March S and the fiscal year expired on June 30, 1923. The department of the interior, in cluding its various bureaus and Insti tutions, appears to have a remarkable record during the fiscal year contain ed in this report. The appropriations for its operation fluring the 12 months' period amounted' to $327,931,100.67, which Is a sum $22,584,159 less than was appropriated for its maintenance during the previous fiscal year of 1922. Notwithstanding this large re duction in appropriations to cover its expenses, the receipts of the depart ment have increased from approxi mately $48,612,528.95 in 1922 to ap proximately $63,566,641.08 in 1923, or a gain of $14,954,112.13. Most of this increase came from royalties on oil leases on Indian lands, the gain in receipts in the bureau of Indian affairs during the fiscal year of 1923 over 1922 totaling $14,722,000. The patent office increased its rev enues from applications and from the sale of photo-lithographic copies of patents, trade marks, etc., by the sum of $156,000. The revenues from the Alaska rail road through additional passenger and freight traffic, increased about $191,- 000, followed by the bureau of mines with a gain in receipts of $134,900, the national park services with a gain of $75,800, the geological survey with a gain of $51,000 and the bureau of education with a gain of $1451 in its receipts from sales of its publications. Only three bureaus showed losses in receipts. The functions of the Interior depart ment are both constructive and elee mosynary. Eliminating the eleemosy nary bureaus and institutions and also moneys appropriated for the payment of pensions, its annual cash receipts exceed its expenditures. In addition a campaign of rigid governmental economy is being conducted. Nine Killed In Train Crash. Erie, Pa. Nine persons were killed and seven others injured, two prob ably fatally, when the third section of the Twentieth Century limited of the New York Central railroad, west bound, telescoped the first section near Forsythe, N. Y 35 miles, east of here, Sunday morning. The second section, which had gone ahead of the first section Vt Albany, when It encountered engine trouble, struck an abandoned automobile at the Forsythe crossing. The train was stopped to determine it any casualties had resulted, and after placing dan ger signals at the crossing the second suction proceeded. The first section stopped to investigate the signals and the third section crashed Into the rear cars. Worker's Vision Is Poor. New York Fully 25,000,000 gain fully employed Americans are suffer ing from defective vision, it was an nounced Saturday by the eyesight conservation council of America in making public a partial report of Its survey of eyesight needs in the na tion's industry. In the Detroit plant of the Ford Motor Car company, says the report, 29,000 out of 60,000 -workers have de fective vision. Crisis Looms In Vienna. Vienna. A governmental crisis has arisen over the insistent demands of the postal, telephone and telegraph employes for increased pay. Chan cellor Selpel met a threat of a general strike by saying that in such an event his ministry would resign. The gov ernment insists it is unable to meet the demands. German Treaty Signed. Washington, D. C. The new com mercial treaty between the United States and Germany was signed Sat urday by Secretary Hughes and Am bassador Wiedfeldt. The pact takes the place of that abrogated during the world war. ERSKINE CHAPTER XVI 16 Up the James rode Erskine, hiding in the woods by day and slipping cau tiously along the samly road by night, circling about Tarleton's campflres, or dashing at full speed past some careless sentinel. Often he was fired at, often chased, but with a clear road In front of him he had no fear of capture. On the third morning he came upon a ragged sentinel an American. Ten minutes later he got his first- glimpse of Lafayette, and then he was hailed joyfully by none other than Dave Yandell, Capt. Dave Yandell, shorn of his woodsman's dress and panoplied in the trappings of war. Cornwallls was coming on. The boy, he wrote, cannot escape me. But the boy Lafayette did, and In time pursued and forced the Englishman Into a cul-de-sac. "I have given his lordship the disgrace of a retreat," said Lafayette. And so Yorktown! Late in August came ' the message that put Washington's great "soul in arms." Rochainbeau had landed six thousand soldiers in, Connecticut, and now Count de Grasse and a French fleet had soiled for the Chesapeake. General Washington at once resorted to camouflage. He laid out camps os tentatiously opposite New York and in plain sight of the enemy. He made a feigned attack on their posts. Ro chambeau moved south and reached the Delaware before the British grasped the Yankee trick. Then ,lt was too late. The windows of Phil adelphia were filled with ladles wav ing handkerchiefs and crying bravoes when the tattered Continentals, their clothes thick with dust but hats plumed with sprigs of green, marched through amid their torn battle flags and rumbling cannon. Behind fol lowed the French In "gay white uni forms faced with green," and martial music throbbed the air. Down the Chesapeake they went In transports and were concentrated at Williams burg before the close of September. Cornwallls had erected works against the boy, for he knew nothing of Wash ington and Count de Grasse, nor Mad Anthony and General Nelson, who were south of the James to prevent escape Into North Carolina. "To your goodness," the boy wrote to Washington, "I am owning the most beautiful prospect I may ever behold." Then came De Grasse, who drove off the British fleet, and the mouth, of the net was closed. Cornwallls heard the cannon and sent Clinton to appeal for help, but the answer was Washington himself at the head of his army. And then the joyous march. "'Tis our first campaign!" cried the French gayly, and the Continen tals joyfully answered : "'Tls our last!" At Williamsburg the allies gathered, and with Washington's army came Colonel Dale, now a general, ,and young Capt. Harry Dale, who had brought news from Philadelphia that was of great Interest to Erskine Dale. In that town Dane Grey had been a close Intimate of Andre, and that in timacy had been the cause of much speculation since. He had told Dave of bis mother and Early Morn, and Dave had told him gravely that he must go get them after the campaign was over and bring them to the fort in Kentucky. If Early Morn still re fused to come, then he must bring his mother, and he reckoned grimly that no mouth would open In a word that could offend her. Erskine also told of Red Oaks and Dane Grey, but Dave must tell nothing to the Dales not yet, If, ever. They marched next morning at day break. At sunset of the second day thay bivouacked within two miles of Yorktown and the siege began. The allied line was a crescent, with each tip resting on the water Lafayette commanding the Americans on the right, the French on the left under Rochambeau. De Grasse, with his fleet, was in the bay to cut off ap proach' by water. Washington him self put the match to the first gun, and the mutual cannonade of three or four days began. The scene was "sublime and stupendous." Two British men-of-war lying in the river were struck with hot shot and set on fire, and the result was full of terrible grandeur. The sails caught and the flames ran to the tops of the masts, resembling immense torches. One fled like a mountain of fire to ward the bay and was burned to the water's edge. And then the surrender: The day was the 19th of October. The victors were drawn up In two lines a mile long on the right and left of a road that ran through the autumn fields south of Yorktown. Washington stood at the head of his army on the right, Rochambeau at the head of the French on the left. Be hind on both sides was a great crowd of people to watch the ceremony. Slowly out of Yorktown marched the British colors, cased drums beating a significant English air: "The world turned topsyturvy." Lord Cornwallls was sick. General O'Hara bore my lord's sword. As he approached, Washington saluted and pointed to General Lincoln, who had been treated with indignity at Charles ton. O'Hara handed the sword to Lincoln. Lincoln at once handed it back and the surrender was over. Between the lines the British marched on and stacked arms in a nearby field. Some of them threw their muskets on the ground, and a British colonel bit the hilt of his sword from rage. As Tarleton's legion went by, three pairs of eyes watched eagerly for one DALE By John Fox, Jr. ' Copyright By Cbarlat Scribner'f Boo'i face, hut neither Harry nor Capt. Dave Yandell saw Dune Grey nor did Ersklue Dale. CHAPTER XVII To Horry and Dave, Dane Grey's absence was merely a mystery to Erskine It brought foreboding and sickening fear. General Dale's wound having opened afresh, mode traveling Impossible, and Harry had a slight bayonet thrust In the shoulder. Ers kine determined to save them all the worry possible and to act now as the head of the funilly himself. He an nounced that he must go straight back at once to Kentucky and Cap tain Clark. Hurry stormed unavall ingly and General Dale pleaded with him to stay, but gave reluctant leave. To Dave he told his fears and Dave vehemently declared he, too, would go along, but Erskine would not hear of It and set forth alone. Slowly enough he started, but with every mile suspicion and ear grew the faster and he quickened Firefly's pace. The distance to Williamsburg was soon covered, and skirting the town, he went on swiftly for Red Oaks. Suppose he were too late, but even if he were not too late, what should he do, what could he do? Fire fly was sweeping Into a little hollow now, and above the beating of her hoofs in the sandy road, a clink of metal reached his ears beyond the low hill ahead, and Erskine swerved aside Into the bushes. Some one was coming, and apparently out of the red ball of the sun hanfing over that hill sprang a horseman at a dead run black Ephralm. . , "Stop!" Erskine cried, but the ne gro came thundeng on, as though he meant to ride down anything in his way. Firefly swerved aside, and Ephralm shot by, pulling in with both hands and shouting: "Marse Erskine ! Yassuh, yassuh! Thank Gawd you'se come." When he wheeled he came back at a gullop nor did he stop. "Come on, Marse Erskine !" he cried. "No time to waste. Come on, suh!" With a few leaps Firefly was abreast, and neck and neck they ran, Two British Men-of-War Lying In the River Were Struck With Hot Shot and Set on Fire. while the darky's every word con firmed the Instinct and reason that had led Erskine where he was. "Yassuh, Miss Barbary gwine to run away wld dot mean white man. Yassuh, dls very night." "When did he get here?" "Dls inawnin'. He been pesterln' her an' pleadln' wld her all day an' she been cryln' her heart out, but mammy say she's gwine wid him. 'Pears like she can't he'p herse'f." "Is he alone?" "No, suh, he got an orflcer an' four sojers wid him." "How did they get away?" "He say as how dey was on a scout in' party an' 'scaped." "Does he know that Cornwallls has surrendered?" "Oh, yassuh, he tol' Miss Barbary dat. Dat's why he says he got to git away right now an' she got to go wid him right now." "Did he say anything about General Dale and Mr. Harry?" "Yassuh, he say dat dey's all right an' dat dey an' you will be hot on his tracks. Dat's why mammy tol' me to ride like de debbil an' hurry you on, suh. Dls arternoon," the negro went on, "he went ovah to dat cabin I tol' you 'bout an' got dat American uni form. He gwine to tell folks on de way dat dem udders Is his prisoners an' he takln dem to Richmond. Den dey gwine to sep'rate an' he an' Miss Barbary gwine to git married some whur on de way an' dey goln' on an' sail fer England, fer he say if he git captured folks'U won't let him be prisoner o' war dey'U jes up an' shoot him. An' dat skeer Miss Bar bary inos' to death an' he'p make her go wid him. Mammy heah'd ever' word dey say." Ersklne's brain was working fast, but no plan would come. They would be six against him, but no matter he urged Firefly on. The red ball from which Ephralm had leaped had gone down now. The chill autumn dark PIONEER ness was settling, but the moon was rising full and glorious over the bluck expanse of trees when the lights of Red Oaks first twinkled ahead. The negro turned from the road through a gate, and Erskine heard the thud of his horse's hoofs across the meadow turf. He rode on slow ly, bitched Firefly as close to the edge of the road as was safe, and crept to the edge of the garden, where he could peer through the hedge: The hall door was open and the hallway lighted ; so was the dining room ; and there were lights In Barbara's room. There were no noises, not even of ani mal life, and no figures moving about or in the house. What could he do? One thing at least, no matter what happened to him he could number Dane Grey's days and make this night his last on earth. It would probably be his own last night, too. Impa tiently he crawled back to the edge of the road. More quickly than he ex pected, he saw Ephralm's figure slip ping through the shadows toward him. "Dey's Jus' through supper," he re ported. "Miss Barbary didn't cat wld 'em. She's up In her room. Dit ud der orflcer been stormln' at Marse Grey an' hurryln' him up. Mammy been holdin' de little missus back ull she can. She say she got to mnke like she heppln' her pack." "Ephralm," said Erskine quickly, "go tell Mr. Grey that one of his men wants to see him right away at the sundial. When he starts down the path you run around the hedge ami be on hand In the bushes." "Yassuh," and the boy showed his teeth In a comprehending smile. It was not long before he saw Grey's tall figure easily emerge from the hall door and stop full In the light. He saw Hphraiin slip around the corner and Grey move to the end of the porch, doubtless in answer to the black boy's whispered summons. For a moment the two figures were mo tionless and then Erskine began to tingle acutely from head to foot. Grey came swiftly down the greut path, which was radiant with moonlight. As Grey neared the dial. Erskine moved toward Win, 'keeping In a dark shadow, but Grey saw hlra and called in a low tone but sharply: "Well, what Is it?" With two paces more Erskine stepped out Into the moonlight with his cocked pistol at Grey's breast. "This," he said quietly. "Make no noise and don't move." Grey was startled, but he caught his control In stantly and without fear. i "You are a brave man, Mr. Grey,, and so, for that matter, is Benedict Arnold." 1 "Captain Grey," corrected Grey In solently. "I do not recognize your rank. To me you are merely Traitor Grey." "You are entitled to unusual free dom of speech under the circum stances." "I shall grant you the same free dom," Ersklue replied quickly "In a moment. Twice you have said that you would fight me with anything, any time, any place." Grey bowed slight ly. "I shall ask you to make those words good and I shall accordingly choose the weapons." Grey bowed again, "Ephralm 1" The boy stepped from the thicket. "Ah," breathed Grey, "that black devil !" "Aln' you gwine to shoot him, Marse Erskine?" "Ephraim!" said Erskine, "slip Into the hall very quietly and bring me the two rnpiers on the wall." Erskine addressed Grey. "I know more of your career than you think. Grey. You have been a spy as well as a traitor. And now you are crown ing your Infamy by weaving some spell over my cousin and trying to carry her away in the absence of her father and brother, to what unhappl ness God only can know. I can hardly hope that you appreciate the honor I am doing you." "Not as much as I appreciate your courage and the risk you are taking." Erskine smiled. "The risk is perhaps less than you think." "You have not been idle?" "I have learned more of my fa ther's swords than I knew when we used them last." "I am glad It will be more Inter esting." Erskine looked toward the house and moved impatiently. "My brother officer has dined too well," noted Grey placidly, "and the rest of my er retinue are gambling. We are quite secure." ; "Ah!" Erskine breathed he had seen the black boy run down the steps with something under one arm and presently Ephraim was in the shadow of the thicket : "Give one to Mr. Grey, Ephralm, and the other to me. I believe you said on that other occasion that there was no choice of blades?" "Quite right," Grey answered, skill fully testing his bit of steel. "Keep well out of the way, Eph ralm," warned Erskine, "and take this pistol. You may need it, if 1 am worsted, to protect yourself." "Indeed, yes," returned Grey, "and kindly instruct him not to use It to protect you." For answer Erskine sprang from the shadow discarding formal courtesies. "En garde!" he called sternly. (TO BE CONTINUED.) At It Often Happens. "What's the row?" "The members of the committee are scrapping violently over the selection of a loving cup." With many children In one family no one of them gets overpetted.