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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The London Dally Mall's Tangier correspondent reports the death of the notorious Moorish chief, RalsuU. It was suspected, according to this dispatch, that Raisuli was poisoned. . Any foreigner who wants to get married in Germany these days is hit something of a staggering financial blow right at the outset. When he goes to' get his license it costs him $36. Ten men were killed Sunday in en gagements in the vicinity of Guad alupe between insurrectionists and federal troops, according to uncon firmed reports received in Juarez Monday. A 68-pound beaver was caught re cently in the Umatilla river near Stanflold, Or. by Murk brothers of Woodland, Wash. The fur stretched 38 Inches in diameter. This is an extra large beaver, William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investfgation of the depart ment of Justice, was on his feet again Tuosday after ten days' confinement to his bed in Ban Francisco, Cal., with an attack of intestinal influenza. ' Twelve awards totaling approxi mately ' $1,000,000 were announced Tuesday morning by the mixed claims commission in favor of Amer ican claimants against Cermany for property losses sustained during the war. Preparations for attack on the transportation act at the present ses sion of congress are being made by the national association of railway and utilities commissioners, the or ganization of state railway commis sioners. Deputy BokanowskI, reporter of the finance committee of the chamber of deputies, in " a statement in Paris Monday on the country's financial situation, claimed that France has made savings all along the line in public expondlture. Grown tired of making home-brew, the American people are giving up their opposition to prohibition and will never permit the return of liquor, ex-Represontatlve ' Volstead told the Minnesota law enforcement conforence at its closing session Tuesday. The four American army aviators who have been selected to attempt to circumnavigate the globe will have a race on their hands if they hope to beat the American navy, reports rocolved in San Diego from Wash ington Monday indicated. Accord ing to the reports, six naval airmen, to be seleutod from the Atlantic and Pacific fleet air forces, will make the race for the navy. A large number of Americans are being detained in Moxlco City by President Obregon for fear that it thoy attempt to leave they may come in contact with rebel forces, accord ing to advices received in San An tonio, Tex., Tuesday by Judge L. B. Camp. The Americans, the advices state, are in no danger. The charred body of Frank Croinp ton, 28, a patient at the Fort Macken zie veterans' hospital at Sheridan, Vyo was found chained to two small Cottonwood trees in a coulee a short distance west of this city Tuesday. The evidence indicated Croinpton burned hlmsolf to death, according to Dr. W. A. StefCen, coroner. The Ecuadorean government Tu3 day roceived a report from the chief of the northern military section ad vising it that the city of Tulcan had been destroyed by the recent violent earthquake. The shock was felt as far south as Ibarra. The latest gazet teer gave Tulcan a population of about 4000. Ibarra Is nearly 50 miles south of Tulcan. Liaison between ocean, canal, rail road and highway transportation to bring the benefits of cheap haulage to the midwest was the subject Tues day of a conference of manufactur ers, agriculturalists and traffic ex perts from throughout the central United Slates, who convened In Omaha under the auspices of the mid dle west trade committee for a two day session. CURRENT WEEK RUSSIA SEEKS RECOGNITION Soviet Appears Hopeful of Receiving Answer to Communication. Washington, D. C. A note from the Russian foreign office making a new bid for recognition of the soviet gov ernment by the United States reached the White House Monday and was re ferred to the state department for consideration. The only comment made in official circles was that the communication, like all others filed with the Washington government, would be studied carefully before a decision was announced. It was add ed that any decision would be made in the light of the well-understood views of officials here as to the neces sity of complete guarantees of sta bility and orderly government in Russia. Moscow. Foreign Minister Tchit cherin's note asking resumption of friendly relations between Russia and America present the first Instance of a member of the soviet government directly addressing the president of the United States. Once, in 1921, the soviet central executive committee sent a communication to the American congress, but previous communica tions from M. Tchitcherin, Litvinoff and other members of the government have been sent to the secretary of state. It appears that the Moscow govern ment is really hopeful of receiving an answer to the present offer. Presi dent Coolldge's reference to Russia in his message to congress,1 while not altogether pleasing to the bolsheviki, was considered in official circles here as a step forward. M. Tchitcherin's note is understood to mean exactly what it says, that "the soviet govern ment is ready to do all in its power so far as the dignity and interests of its country permit to bring about a friendship with the United States." How far Russia is ready to go in this direction in the case of her claim against the United States for the American intervention in Siberia and the Archangel region is not clear, but from unofficial sources it appears that the question of debts would not be considered greatly important in the event negotiations were brought about. It is recalled that Karl Radek, in an article in the official Pravda last year, said Russia was ready to "buy" Amer ican recognition. The soviet government is represent ed as believing that, now more than ever, there is paramount necessity for some stability in Russo-American re lations. Russian co-operatives are said to be operating in the United States, and it is further reported that a syndicate recently was formed there to finance the shipment of American cotton to this country. Singular People Found. New York. Discovery of a tribe whose people he believed to have an tedated the ancient Egyptians was re- ported Monday to the National For eign Trade council by John Giffen Culbertson, a manufacturer of Wichita Falls, Tex., on his return from a South American tour of a year and a half. These people, known as the Machl glna, speak a language very similar in construction to English, he report ed, and they worship trees In the tradition that thoir ancestors escaped extinction In the biblical flood by climbing trees. The tribes live near the headwaters of the Amazon, where Mr. Culbertson said he had invaded forests never before penetrated by white man. Throne Offered Yankee. Rome.-rA member of the Albanian mission in Rome said Monday that a certain American millionaire has Just been offered the throne of Albania, in succession to Prince Wlliam of Wied, in the hope that he can put the coun try on a sound financial basis. It is understood that Harry F. Sinclair, the American oil man, is the prospec tive king of Albania. Several of Mr. Sinclair's confidential agents passed through Rome en route to Tirana last week. They are under the close sur veillance of the political police of sev eral European countries. Many Trees Imparted. Washington, D. C The United States in 11)22 Imported 1,094,865 Christmas trees, according to the de partment of commerce. Toys to the value of $7,668,242 were imported Most of tlte dolls came from Germany, but $79,22S worth came from Japan and $1331 worth from China. Ger many furnished $4,621,S94 of the toys other than dolls, while toys other than dolls from Japan were valued at $454,280. Borah Not Candidate. Washington, D. C Senator Borah of Idaho "is not a candidate for the presidential nomination of any party,' he said Sunday in discussing a pre diction of Frank E. Johnesse at Boise, Idaho, that he would soon announce his candidacy for president on the progressive ticket. Johnesse predict ed that Borah would be in the race in 90 days. STATE NEWS Z IN BRIEF. I Pendleton. Trappers and hunters are applying to the county agent for strychnine and Information about the best methods of hunting, trapping and poisoning coyotes as they never have In previous years. Salem. The Marlon County School Principals' association at a meeting here Saturday went on record indors ing Governor Pierce's move to obtain legislation prohibiting the advertising of cigarettes in the newspapers or on billboards in this state. Astoria. According to unofficial re ports here, deals are in progress for the purchase by the Crown-Willamette Paper company of a tract of several thousand acres of fine fir and spruce timber in Pacific and Wahkiakum counties, Washington, near Cathlamet. Salem. Salem police have attempt ed to identify a man who entered the city hall Saturday afternoon, appar ently in quest of Information. The man cannot talk or write, and all ef forts to elicit his name or. address proved futile. He is about 50 years old and fairly well dressed. Springfield. By resolution of the town council a special election Was held here Monday on an amendment to the city charter to clear the way for an issue of $50,000 refunding bonds to redeem and retire an issue known as "Springfield improvement bonds" of like amount, bearing date of April 1, 1914, and maturing April 1, 1924. Hood River. Basket traps will be utilized by the game commission of Skamania county, Washington, in tak ing beaver in lakes and streams in the vicinity of Stevenson. The animals have become so numerous as to form a nuisance in felling trees and dam ming up lakes and streams. They will be caught and shipped to other parts of the state, it is said. Grants Pass. The Cavemen, boost er organization of Josephine county, will undertake the exploration of the newly discovered caverns in the Ore gon Caves. These caverns, which ex tend for an unknown distance into the mountain, were found on the last day the resort was opened and the guides were taken out before the full extent of the find could be explored. Dallas. E. G. Erickson, 80, and a pioneer of this vicinity, died here Sat urday night as a result of Injuries suffered in the afternoon when a stick of dynamite exploded in his hand while he was working on his farm three miles northwest of this city. Mr. Erickson was sitting on a box full of dynamite when the explosion occurred but the explosive in the box did not go off. Salem. Activities of the state pro hibition department, created by an act of the 1923 legislature, have re sulted in fines amounting to $87,684.94, according to a report prepared by George L. Cleaver, state prohibition director. The report covers the period March 15 to December 10, and will be submitted to the governor, who was instrumental in having the department created. Grants Pass. The Josephine county budget was cut $19,258.35 by the tax supervising and conservation commis sion at its meeting here. This is a reduction of approximately 4 mills over last year, taking into considera tion the reduction in the state tax of $12,460. The greatest cut was made in the appropriation for roads and bridges in the county, this item amounting to $16,300. Albany. The annual war on rodents in the Ash Swale district netted a total of 3653 pests and settled a con troversy of three years' standing as to the most efficient hunter of rodents in the community. A gold medal was presented to Charles Bowers, captain of one of the hunting teams, for thrice winning the honors in the annual shoot. His brother, E. S. Bowers, captained the opposing team and turned in the next high score. Salem. There were six fatalities in Oregon due to industrial accidents during the week ending December 13 according to a report prepared here by the state industrial accident com mission. The victims included M. R. Westbrook, Lynder, Wash., head rig- german; Harry Andrews, Astoria, grain sampler; J. A. McLean, Ver- nonia, head rigger; John Pilger, Port land, locomotive fireman; C. V. Sims, Rainier, carpenter, and D. B. Emer- Ick, Hillsboro, groundman. Salem. A. E. Burghduff, state game warden, and M. L. Ryckman of Port land have filed application in the of fices of the state engineer covering the construction of a reservoir for the storage of 100 acre-feet of water from Boulder creek and springs and for the appropriation of the stored water for domestio fish culture and develop ment of five theoretical horsepower in Clackamas county. The cost of the proposed development is estimated at $12,000. CAPTAIN SAZARAC "A BARATARIAI LAFITTEl" "I am Lafltte again not Mon aleur Baiarac) Irons, and then the yard-arm for Ihe first fellow who disputes my will. The older heads will not needs bs told. The English woman first after that, as It is Monsieur de Almon aster's honor to his fellow oltl sens of Louisiana for Bona parte. And then " "The seas are wide." grimaced Jarvls with a look at the mas ter whloh drew, In turn, a glance of Impenetrable reserve. This Is a stirring tale of the picturesque days when the young Creole bloods of New Orleans rallied around Lafltte the re doubtable pirate of Baratarla Bay who won Imperishable fame by coming to the aid of Andrew Jackson when that red-headed warrior beat off the British at Naff Orleans and planned the rescue of Napoleon from Bt. Helena. "I have been hailed a hero by the city, pardoned and acclaimed for service In the new Republio, denounced again and harried from the seas, to be once more a fugitive!" says Lafltte and chooses to oome back as "Cap tain Sasarao," only to have his heart stirred by a lovely face which leads him to the Plot Na poleon. The author Charles Tenney Jackson, has achieved a number of dos'ervedly popular and wide read novels. Queerly enough, though he Is by birth and edu cation a northerner, he has re produced most wonderfuly the atmosphere of those New Or leans days before the Yankee came to destroy romance days when fair ladles were still the cause of many a duel and high gambling went with high station. CHAPTER I If Jean Were Here. The affair was one in which, to this point, the yonng Count de Al monaster had taken the slightest in terest But now the name of his aunt, the Baroness Pontalba, was upon the tips of the portly alderman of Old New Orleans; and when, In turn. Beluche, thb swarthy admiral of the Cartagenlan privateers, ad verted to her, the languid aristocrat shook with laughter. "Ho, Monsieur Dominique! You, the fat and prosperous counselor of the American quarter who, they say, finds the city's polities even better picking than were your days of pi racy with Jean Lafltte you, you, then, it was, who enticed my good aunt to giving ten thousand of the new Yankee dollars to build the house In which Napoleon Is to spend his last days on the rue Chartres ! And you Beluche for whom, even today, any flag will serve! A grand scheme, this, to rescue Bonaparte from the Eng lish I What next for us fantastic Cre oles?" "Monsieur! Not so loud, I beg! An affair of state, this, and half the gen try of Louisiana is In It. But the new American governor eh, bleu! At Washington, where the English are now so well received. It might be em barrassing this plot " But De Almonaster shouted the louder. The admiral of Cartagena spluttered ; the honest councilor rubbed his velvet-clad paunch and pleaded for silence. The young man's glance went from the two one-time buccaneers out the door of Maspero's exchange to the shining new plaster nnd green shutters of the House Na poleon; hli hand went to the black silk stock at hla neck to check fur ther amusement. Beluche short, dark, restlessly glancing about, his black eyes nar rowing as If he would be done with talk and to sea again growled sur lily. Admiral of the New Granada rebels he might be, but to his old cro nies of the coffee-houses he was still the Baratarlan gunner who fought the pirates' battery on the right of Jack son's line at Chahnette against the British; and he made as wry a face as any of Lafltte's lieutenants when the grateful young republic of the North pardoned the buccaneers en masse. But the worthy Alderman Domi nique sighed. at the younger liana jeers. "We had thought, Monsieur, that being of what Is conceded to be the proudest family of Louisiana you would lend generously to the plot " "riot!" Apart, the Count Raoul mocked as he looked across the cob bles at the fresh paint upon the huge wooden shutters of the Hnse Napo leon; he flung his Jeweled fingers air ily back to the shadowy tap-room: "Ho. fellow! The rum and limes! Be on with them, but tread softly we have a plot!" The two old adventurera gazed at the slender figure In some consterna tion. "Plot I" De Almonaster made the rafters ring with It: "Threescore carpenters, plasterers and whatnot, slaves and free men of color labor nil inminer at this royal domicile ; the very fig sellers of the Place d'Armes mewl away about It to sallormen of every sea I, myself, across the Carib bean, or at Port Royal, am questioned as to what the bravos of New Orleans mean by tilts madness; and when 1 come home I am enticed to a public By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON house, and whispered to of a plot!" "Eh, blent it Is a plot" 'Old Dominique rubbed his noae. "We have the money, the ship, the spirit, the well, everything." "Except the emperor 1 Bonaparte, cooped up on his isle with England watching! Pray, good sirs who will bell the cat r The admiral shrugged and tasted his limed rum of Barbadoes. The young De Almonaster heard two dolo rous sighs. It was, Indeed, a quiet life and a shameful pass when two worthy buccaneers of but a decade agone sat at their drink to be Jibed by an Incredulous aristocrat. "Eh, w;ll " mumbled old Domi nique absently. "If Jean were here he would go rescue Napoleon for these Creoles. Ho, old cutthroat, If the Captain Lafltte walked these streets again there would be an end to chatter! Eh, the old days! The good wine and the plunder down the Baratarla passes I And . I name of God! am now the alderman for the American quarter!" The shadows lengthened- across the cobbles to the pretentious House Na poleon. The dim front barroom of La Bourse de Maspero was quite desert ed, save for a table of provincial planters from the river parishes here and there. But suddenly the drone of voices from the gaming place in the rear was cut off by a slamming door. A man had staggered out. Tall, un couth, of disorderly attire, not at all In the fashion, ragged at the sleeves he stared at them with swollen eyes set In a drink-flushed face. The empty scabbard of a small sword rattled at his muddy boot-tops; his silken-lined cloak and round velvet cap gave him the aspect of a rather solemn and nervous poseur. "Devil take the dice!" He saw the elegant De Almonaster, and came briskly nearer: "Back with me, Raoul watch! An affair, Raoul, that will call me out to the Oaks sleepy-eyed some morning this week. The stran ger, Sazarac, has the English colonel bewitched. A Sazarac! I wish some thing more than drink could draw all eyes to me! A pistoling fellow, eh blen 1" John Jarvls thrust his blinking eyes nearer: "A rapier bully, Messieurs "A Grand Scheme, This, to Rescue Bonaparte From the English I What Next for Us Fantastic Creoles?" such as this Sazarac . . . there's a woman in It without doubt." The town's first bohemiun of the arts and letters, a graceless scribbler, painter wastrel of the wine-shops, for all he was the nephew of the great John Wesley In England. He slept, worked and ate in a dirty studio up on the rue Contl, where, unknown as yet to the world, there labored a young assistant who painted back grounds for Jarvls' portraits, but who was destined for fame when the game sters 'and politicians of the New Or leans of 1821 had been long forgot ten Monsieur Audubon, but lately ar rived from the Indies. Jarvls tipped the table for a drink, looking about to see who might pay the score. "Pistols" he grunted. "I trust this Sazarac wings the Britisher at least, though if he does, I shall see liquor from his veins and not blood. The fellow can drink more than I, which is Intolerable. It reflects on my reputation. ... I shall chal lenge, myself, if Sazarac does not!" "They are to fight?" queried De Almonaster languidly. "They will. I know the course of these affairs. I attend them all Raoul. I am the black buzzard who is earliest to roost at the Dueling Oaks and wish them bad luck all." The first bohemian of the YIeux Carre nibbed his nose: "Another drink. Monsieur? Walt we shall go In presently when the affair becomes pro vocative. This Sazarac has a steady eye, and Colonel Carr Is bent, upon an insult" De Almonaster shrugged his dis taste: "I was speaking of the new Copyright by The Bebfcs-XenUl Company sugar process ' at Monsieur Bore's" "Oh, no!" returned Jarvls airily. "You were discussing the plot Why sit with Dominique, the alderman, and Beluche, the admiral, save upon our nice intrigue? Ho!" he roared sud denly, so that the glasses quivered: "Be discreet ! our plot Napoleon!" The two former buccaneers looked wryly at him. "The devJJ take you, Jarvls," growled Beluche. "It was of old days, and our vanished captain.' You, yourself, whom Jeau rescued from perdition once " "The plot!" shouted Jarvls so loud ly that even bystnnders across the cobbled way looked Into the shadowy portals of Maspero's. "Ah, I am go ing to my studio, gentlemen! I have an idea! My new assistant Is very clever at painting birds Monsieur r Audubon is crazy to paint birds! He sprinkles salt on their talis to catch them. Now I shall take our plot to the studio, and Monsieur Audubon shall paint salt upon It to catch the Emperor Napoleon." The two worthies glowered upon him. De Almonaster's idle laugh rang out. He, too, arose with Jarvls, and the latter could not resist a last gibe at his cronies. "The alderman and the admiral and in the one picture that I cared about, done down at La fltte's red fort before" the Americans plundered It, I had the bad taste to paint them in with my captain ! What a downfall! from piracy to politics for Dominique; and old Beluche blus tering about having a lawful commis sion 1" He put an unsteady finger on the laughing De Almonaster's sleeve: "Come on, Raoul I There Is no more romance since Lafltte abandoned the town to the steamboat Yankees; and yet, last evening, upon the Esplanade, I saw a woman's face. I Raoul un shaven, dirty, idle looked back at her coach. I, Raoul hanging to a lamp post made her smile!" De Almonaster motioned the jester toward the gaming rooms. "The lady who arrived with the British colonel's party? Of course I am told she had the gallants astir when she drove." Jarvls nodded absently: "They are wishing no bad luck to Colonel Carr beyond that this Sazarac shoots him tomorrow at the Oaks. Eh, well come I" B'rom the door they could see the throng In La Bourse de Maspero. The wide door of the small room was packed with silent, attentive youths. Jarvls twitched the coat of the nearest. "What has happened, De Marlgny? Is the devil still dicing as to which to take?' "Carr loses steadily." Young Ma rlgny had but recently attained fame by naming a street of the Faubourg Marlgny his patrimony now being cut into lots and sold to the Insatiable Americans outside the city walls "Rue de Bagatelle," to commemorate his losses at the game. He therefore parted the skirts of his bottle-green coat thrust his hands upon his breeches of snow-white leather and tapped them significantly: "A ruined man. Eh, blen! The British consul, Langhorne, protested, seemingly very uncomfortable at Colonel Carr's in sistence at play with this Captain Sazarac, who, it Is said, Is a mere professional gambler of the river packets with the manners of a gentle man. I will say he has acted so he tried in every way to avoid Carr's game, but It appears that the British officer Involved himself badly on the way from St. Louis." "How then?" ventured De Almonas ter. "A professional gamester at Mas pero's?" "Carr, himself. Introduced the fel low; the game must continue," young D Marlgny shrugged; "and there la talk of some affair of women between the two!" "The lady who looked back from her coach" mused Jarvls to himself. "I must get me a new waistcoat." A massive silver candelabrum cast a ruby light upon the cloth about which sat a quartette. Langhorne, His Majesty's consul ; a dealer of Mas pero's; Colonel Carr of the newly ar rived British mission en route to the Mextcoes; and the stranger from the West. , "Sazarac" muttered De Marlgny, "whose fame at the cards has over leaped the town in one night. Mark him, Raoul! a peruke, whitened as silver! Where has the fellow been these years as to know not the fash ions?" "Three thousand dollars on the red against the bond girl!" iTO BE CONTINUED.) Argentina. Argentina, or the Argentine Repub lic, has an area of 1,135,840 square miles and a population of about 7,500, 000. The resources include forests of hardwood In the north, pine forests in the Andes region; coal Is found; but the chief sources of wealth are agri culture and the pastures. Large num bers of sheep and cattle are raised; dairying Is important, and the chief crops are wheat, linseed, oats, barley, rye, and Indian corn. In some parts augar cane and fruits are cultivated.