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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1924)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, ex-minister to Denmark, died at bis home in Brooklyn late Monday. The democratic national convention will be held at New York city begin ning Tuesday, June 24, following the republican convention at Cleveland June 10. Discovery of a serum for scarlet fever was announced Tuesday night by Dr. A. It. Doches, assistant profes sor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia university. Permission to build 32 miles of rail road from Crane to Burns in the Ore gon timber section was granted the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navi gation company Tuesday by the inter state commerce commission. The new soldiers' bonus measure was introduced in the senate Monday by Senator Copeland, democrat, New York, who proposed to pay $1.25. for each day of active Bervice. He esti mated the entire cost at about $1,500, 000,000. Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, who was the center of an attack over the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve in the senate Tuesday by . Senator ' Caraway of Ark ansas, is ill at a New Orleans hotel and unable to receive visitors. Judge Jacob Trieber Tuesday in structed a jury in United States dis trict court In Jonesboro, Ark., to re turn a verdict of not guilty in the case of Dr. Mary E. Lecocq, practitioner of the Abrams method of diagnosis, who had been charged with using the mails to defraud. Ramsay MacDonald, English parlia mentary labor leader and probably the next prime minister, In a remark able speech In the house of commons Tuesday declared for a foreign policy that will restore the Influence of Great Britain in Europe in favor of peace and order. A word chosen from more than 25, 000 suggestions as the one best calcu lated to "Btab and awake the con science of the lawless drinker," was announced in Boston by Deloevnre King of Qulncy, who offered a prize of $200 for the most suitable epithet. The word is "scofflaw." Congress, faced with the task of evolving a mothod of aiding the farm er, received Tuesday another proposal to add to the list already in hand when the McNary-Haugen bill, pro posing a $200,000,000 federal agricul tural export corporation, was Intro duced in the senate and house. The 12,000 workers In district No 26 In Nova Scotia of the United Mine Workers of America walked out Tues day. Nine thousand of them quit be cause of the failure cf wage negotia tions, followed by the British Empire Stool corporation's 20 per cent cut In the scale and 3000 others struck In sympathy. Drastic measures to meet the finan cial crisis caused by the abrupt plungo of the frnno wore taken by the cabinet Tuesday the most momentous meas ure affecting internal affairs decided upon by the Polncare government since it assumed power. The steps announced were: A 20 per cent in crease in all the French tax rolls, ef fective immediately. Four years of national prohibitum have brought happiness into thou sands of American homes, helped solve unemployment problems, in creased consumption of home-made products, lengthened terms of educa tion Rnd cleaned up "Main street," Prohibition Commissioner Ilaynes de clared Tuesday night on the eve of the fourth anniversary of constitu tional prohibition. The Amorlcan Legion executive committee after sotting September 15 to 19, inclusive, aa the dates for tho 1924 national convention to be held In St. Paul, Wednesday started an ag . greselve campaign in support of ad justed compensation for world war veterans and went on rocord as op posed to the substitution of ordinary headstones for the crosses that stand at 'the head of the grave ot every American soldier In European ceme teries. The executive meeting closed Wednesday night CURRENT WEEK AB0RITES WIN IN ENGLAND New Government First in History of Country Asquith Supports. London. The conservative govern ment, headed by Stanley Baldwin, met defeat in the house of commons Mon day night and for the first time in the history of England a labor government will probably take office. The labor amendment to the ad dress in reply to the speech from the throne introduced in the house by John Robert Clynes, deputy leader of the parliamentary labor,- on January 17, was adopted by a vote of 328 to 256, J. Ramsay MacDonald, the labor leader, himself moving closure, which was agreed to. The amendment reads: "Be it our duty respectfully to sub mit to your majesty that your ma jesty's present advisors have not the confidence of the house." The labor party had the support of Herbert H. Asquith, former premier and leader of the united liberals. Premier Baldwin will present his resignation to the king and the king will summon J. Ramsay MacDonald to form a new government. " For a prime minister about to suffer extinction Mr. Baldwin was in excel lent vein. Remarking that labor was about to be put into office by the votes of a progressive party, which elicited liberal cheers, he created roars of laughter by turning the tables thus: "Yes, but progress is not necessarily forward," and then quoted figures showing the gradual diminution of strength of the liberals in the com mons from 376 in 1906 to 115 in 1922, adding: "And .you only got bigger numbers at the last elections by appealing to the voters to keep the socialist party out." Mr. Baldwin, in his speech, took the sole blame for the protectionist policy, which he believed would solve the un employment problem. He paid his respects to ex-Premier Asquith, leader of the united liberals, who had turned the support of that party to the labor ites, by comparing Mr. Asquith with 'an obstetrician about to bring a child into the world with the intention to smother it should it fail to meet his expectations," and declared: "I think infanticide is worse than suicide." His government, he said, had been accused of committing suicide, but, he exclaimed, "there are worse crimes than Buicide!" The prime minister predicted that the future lay between the conserva tives and the labor party, and to ring ing ministerial cheers he added: "Do we look like a beaten party? we are ready to take up the challenge from 'any party whensoever and by whomsoever it is thrown down." In his general remarks about labor's policy Mr. MacDonald declared that socialism had no hard and favored doctrines. The man or nation that found & easy way to lay hands on capital for any purpose except specific economic purposes, In his belief, was going into bankruptcy. China's Downfall Laid to Man Jongg Chicago, 111. Muh Jongg is rospon slble for the present corruption in China, the Rev. Ceorge Stens,,a mis sionary In China for 30 years, declared Sunday at St. Mary's mission house at Techny, 111., whore he is studying American educational methods. "The bandits who rob at night in China gamble at niah jongg by day," he said. "Government officials sit throuKh the night playing with off! cers. employes and underlings In of fice. They lose in the end. Their regular duties are neglected, and when it comes to paying tholr losses they resort to all kinds of rascality. "In China there is a saying that the victim of the hnblt can no longer be trusted. I know men and women in China who have lost their entire pos sessions playing this game. There are fow games so contagious and I am sorry to Bee it getting such a hold in America." Train Service Crippled. London. Although the strike In augurated at midnight Sunday night by the members of the Associated So cieties ot Locomotive Engineers and Firemen has failed thus fur to tie up the country's rail communication enormous Inconvenience has been caused to all classes throughout the country. In London the situation was aggravated In tho afternoon and night by a steady downpour of rain. It is difficult at present to ascertain to what extent the strike is affecting the general train services, War Declared on "Fags." Salem, Or. Local police announced Monday that an aggressive campaign will be launched here to enforce the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors. U was said that this law has been violated by many tobacco dealers In Salem, with the result that numerous complaints have been filed with the police department. The local courts, It is said, have promised to co operate with the police In enforcement ot the cigarette law. TROOPS IN U.S.TERRITORY ederals Allowed to Go Through Two States. UAREZ DESTINATION Commander and 1500 Men Expect to Re-enter Own Country by Way of El Paso, Texas. Naco, Ariz. While" hundreds of citi zens ot Mexico and the United States looked on Sunday afternoon, Mexican federal troops crossed the internation al boundary at this little town, en trained in special cars waiting for them, and began their journey to Juarez, Mexico. There was no demonstration. Fif teen hundred Mayo Indians made up the command. General Jesus Maria Aguirre, in charge, hoped to effect a crossing of the border at El Paso, Tex., under cover of darkness. In their trip to Juarez, the Mexican soldiers will cross portions of the states of Arizona and New Mexico. The troopers eventually will be sent to Jalisco, Coahuila, where the forces of President Obregon are battling to quell the revolution. A special ttrain of the Elt Paso & Southwestern railway carried the troops. It left Naco at 1:15 o'clock. United States immigration guards are accompanying the troops to El Paso. Passage of the Mexican sol diers into the United States was ac complished in the presence of United States immigration authorities. It was a long, tiresome process. Each sol dier was required to register his name as he entered the United States. More than four hours- were required to in spect and register the entire contin gent. The Mexican officials desire, to send the troops across in a body, but American immigration officers ex plained this was impossible. Most of the train which carried the troops was composed of freight cars, the officers riding ahead in coaches. Fifty cars were assigned for the trans portation of the soldiers and 12 cars for equipment. The officers occupied the remaining two cars that made up the train. Mexican officials announced 600 additional troopers will arrive in Naco from southern Sonora in a day or two, but the exact time ot the arrival was uncertain, they said. NORTHWEST LEVY ON LOGS TARGET Washington, D. C. Attorney-Gen eral Daugherty has reversed the tariff commission in its first report to the president under flexible provisions of the tariff act. In an opinion Bent to the White House, Mr. Daugherty had ruled that the commission's construction of the section laying import duties on logs of cedar, fir, spruce and western hem lock was incorrect. The president has returned the commission's report, with the opinion, to the commission with Instructions to "proceed in ac cordance therewith." The commission's action, which was overturned by the department ot Jus tice, was taken late In August upon the application ot log buying interests of the Pacific northwest, which sought a reduction of the full 60 per cent permitted by the flexible provisions in the rate of $1 a'thousand board feet on logs of the species mentioned. The law provides that the duty shall not apply It the nation, province or po litical sub-division from which th commodity is imported has imposed any restriction on its exportation within 12 months. . Russia Buys Cotton. New Orleans. The Russian soviet government has purchased a small quantity of American cotton which it is understood Is for shipment directly to Russian ports, according to cotton factors here. The purchases to date, so fur as Is known here, amount to around 20,000 bales. How much Amer ican cotton the Russians have received through Germany there is no way of ascertaining, but It is believed some has reached the soviet republic. $200,000 Cargo Seized. New York. Three thousand cases ot whisky, gin and champagne valued at 1200,000; an ocean-going tug boat valued at 150.000, and six men were seised early Sunday by officers ot the police boat Manhattan after a battle In New York harbor that continued up the North River to the foot ot Cham bers street. No one was wounded Police found that the boat, the Capital No. 1, had been captured twice before. CAPTAIN SAZARAC By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON Copyright by The Bobbi-Merrill Company "JEAN!" SYNOPSIS. Under the name of "Captain Sazarac," and disguised, Jean Lafltte, former freebooter ' ot Baratarla. proscribed, returns to the city of New Orleans. He Is recognized by two of his old companions, Alderman Dominique and Beluche. At the gamins tables Sazarao has won much money from Colonel Carr, Brit ish officer. John Jarvls. the city's first bohemlan of the arts and letters, an oldtlme friend of La fltte, teUs of a woman's face and smile. As his last wager, Carr puts up a woman, presumably a slave. Custom compels Sazarao to accept the stake. He wins. His old associates and Count Raoul de Almonaster accost him aa Lafltte. A project of the youthful adventurers of New Or leans Is the rescue of Napoleon Bonaparte from St. Helena, and a ship, the gpraphine, has been made ready. From De Almonas ter Sazarao learns that the girl he "won" . at the card table la white, of high estate, and that the matter has been made a by word in the city's resorts. Saz arao finds Mademoiselle Lestron, a fellow passenger on a rivei Bteamer a few days before, and with whom he had fallen In love. Is the girl and In chivalry fore goes his revenge against Carr. Jarvls admires Mademoiselle Les tron. He is a witness of the meeting and picks up a camellia which the girl had thrown, un noticed, to Sazarao. Jarvls is dangerous; he talks too much in his cups. CHAPTER IV 5 The Old Sea-Rovers Awaken, At midnight Captain Sazarac turned from the rue de la Levee to the broad pavement that skirted the Place d'Armes, and, for a moment, contemplated the changes which even the few years of the American occupa tion had wrought in the Paris of the New world. A painted iron palisade with ornate grill gates enclosed the square before the cathedral which he had known as a dusty parade-ground over which lazily flapped, now one, now the other the royal standard of Spnln or the fleur-de-lis of France. A portion of the ancient wooden gallows still remained, but about it, now, the children played of mornings, listening to the fearsome tales of Bras Coupe, the terror of the swamps, who preyed on human flesh and was proof to mus ket balls, as the colored nurses had It. In the narrow way between the ca- j thedral and the old Spanish calnboza the exile paused again. Documents of court and avocat were tacked to the wooden doors. Not so many years ngone had not he Jean Lafltte sent' his men up from the pirates' .fortified refuge on Grand Terre Island to bribe for the escape of his brother, Pierre, from this same prison? And time and again had they not both laughed to read, on these same boards, the city's proclamation for their cap ture the law's futile fury when no ninn durst lay hand upon them, so com pletely did the Grand Terre adven turers awe the town? "How many changes!" mused the wayfarer. "Hailed by the city as a hero, pardoned by the President and acclaimed for service to the new re public denounced again and driven from the seas 1 Yet I walked these streets when no merchant was too proud to traffic for the goods we brought from the gulf privateering. And again the good sea -culls again, again 1" At a sniall door In a high wall of the rue St. Peter, he tapped with his sword hilt. It opened ; he stood within the small garden of the Cafe laiVeau Qui Tete. A dim light showed the wine tuns In the warehouse shadows. Old Dominique, the worthy alder man, lifted a huge pewter mug In greeting. Half a dozen figures arose with smothered exclamations. They were about him, clasping his hands, whispering Joyously. "Thou Captain JeanP came a hoarse voice in the old pntois of the coast Islands. "Here are we all ghosts. Indeed, out of old days!" "Johannesst Old brawler of the ports! I heard they had hanged you for the loot of the Santa iff Grand Isle." The huge seaman laughed his joy. "And thon ! That the British sank thee off Galveston! Hang me? Ah, no! the President's pardon, Jean! I shame to say peddle ducks and deer In the city markets. The very children point me out unci put their Angers to their nosos: "Old Tete John,' they call me I, who sailed with thee!" "Better for you all than swinging at yardarms. Here Is the worthy al derman; Beluche, with a lawful com mission; Nex Coupe, stilt a fugitive In the deep swamp, I am told. And here, Monsieur de Almonaster lH "Eh, well" grunted - Johanness. "Domlulqtie brought the gentleman. l n evntry, say I. Dominique fears to whistle lest It hurt his politics." "We are, Indeed, respectable," smiled the captain. "Only last year, I sin told, my brother, Pierre, now a planter of St. James, was second to Monsieur St. Gome In a duel that Is getting into society Indeed, gentle men!" i "Ponf!" grunted Dominique. Tsar Inches oft my belly and I'd be at sea i again. Only today I argued with the mayor. Roulfflgnac, that the city was better oir when it fattened on the pri vateering. Was it not equal robbery when the Americans under Commo dore Patterson looted our Grand Terre warehouses?" "We should have fought Instead of scuttling out " grumbled Johanness. "The Yankees could not have taken us by storm. Glad they were later to have our fellows aid them. Who did General Jackson turn to but Cap tain Jean's skilled artillerymen when the British' threatened the city? Bah ! I never saw such a lame lot of dogs as our fellows were the day the pom pous governor announced we were all recommended for a pardon ! We stood dangling our cutlasses, listening to lawyers' speeches praising us for sav ing the city, when we should have been to sea again. Captain Jean, thou wert the only wise one of the band departing to the Texas country and seizing Galveston island against the Spaniards. I could curse my heart that I did not enlist again with thee I" "I intended to have the new estab lishment legitimate enough," mur mured Lafltte, "but after the war the politicians lost no chance at Washing ton, nor with the Spanish viceroy at Vera Cruz, to poison all minds against me. When they sacked Galveston, I took young Bowie and went Inland to the Santa Fe. That was my history since, comrades; I came back from the West, drawn by I know not what to tread these streets again;" The old buccaneers watched his calm face In the moonlight. He had taken off the hat and peruke; a bronzed handsome man with dark eyes tinged with melancholy such was Lafltte. "Eh, well," grunted old Dominique, "Pakenham would have taken the city In the rear if you had accepted the "Aye, You Enriched This City,' and You Stand a Fugitive Upon Its Streets!" bribes the British offered you at Bara tarla. And In turn what have the Yankees done' for you, Jean scattered your fortune to the winds!" ' "Aye, you enriched this city, and you stand a fugitive upon Its streets !" The captain raised lils hand grave ly: "I am a citizen of the United States, gentlemen. Proscribed, just now. It Is true but It might be could serve again. There are curious things reported In the Mcxlcoes. Colonel Travis, I recall, and Crockett and young Bowie were hot for me to Join the Texnns In a new republic. And In Kentucky " "Ah, but, my captain," growled old Johanness, "what hast thou to do with their miserable politics ot the day? The sea for us ! D d be this gabble of the town! Look you, what It lins made of Dominique! sitting, twid dling his thumbs on his fat belly 1 And Beluche taking off and putting on his gilt ehapVau, ticklishly, as If fearing to get dust on his gewgaws!" "Cease your spewing," growled the Cnrtagenlnn, "I sail with proper coin- missions, I "would hove you know, from Colombia." "And be d d with your papers!' roared the old man. "Admiral? There does not live one for me! nor coun cilors, nor nobility young sprigs of dandles coming to pat our hard salted fists I" He glared about, his gaze lingering on Count de Almonaster. "Old man," sold Raoul quietly, "you had better keep your place." "D nP The old sea dog was starting up Lnmte laughingly laid bands upon him. "Sit down, old tar-ears! I shall beg pardon for you. I know I know! Old days old ways It Is hard to put things by." He put his hand affec tionately on Johanness' shoulder. "Do yon remember the time I sent yon with the Ifht-oered barge to conduct Mr. Grymes back to the city after the feasting, roaring week at Grand Terre r 'Aye," interrupted Beluche, "the famous attorney who defended you and Pierre In the first Indictment they issued against you for piracy!" And you sent word, captain, that if the lawyers wished their fee they must come fetch It from our fort at . Grand Terre. The city wagered that Grymes would never return alive, but do you recall the week he ventured? The feasting, dancing, the drinking until the skies rocked, all In our guest's honor I" 'Aye, and me " Johanness beat his hairy chegt : "I, the bo'sun, it was, to whom Captain Jean Intrusted the law yer on the return. By the river we came, eight armed fellows pulling the barge and roaring chanties I At every plantation wharf we stopped, the ad vocate breaking bottles of the finest vintages o' Spain and shouting greet ings. And on the deck, piled In the sun, forty thousand dollars in goia where all might see! Every gentle man's house from English Turn to the city gate must be routed out that Mr. Grymes could gamble against his hosts, so that, when our villains finally haled him Into town, not a dol lar did he have left of all his fee. E-oh! even now they talk of It! Not In all Louisiana such princely hospi tality as the famous attorney found In the house of Lafltte, the pirate !" "Old man," smiled the leader, "1 never liked that word !" . "I know. That Is all I ever held against you, Jean! I recall the day you shot Uamblo ttirougn tne neart for boasting of a bit o' blood he let. You were ever a bit finicky for some o' our fo'cas'le scum, but I swear they loved you, Jean!" : The adventurer looked at the grim faces about the table. The silent Be luche, the complacent Dominique, the hairy bo'sun; and then the slender elegance of the Count de Almonaster. . And to him he spoke gravely. You are hearing much, young sir. The city sleeping, and these old com rades creeping by stealth to greet me here." I've- heard the old tales. I've dreamed " he laughed slightly. "These are dull days. The gallants of the town at their ecarte, or projecting some gentleman s masquerade, or dancing attendance at .the opera. They boast of making, a little Paris of New Orleans; .put who, Monsieur, wishes a little Paris1 after knowing the big one?" : "Your modesty, sir, is refreshing, after these town gallants who make one trip to the Oaks, receive a rapier tip in the arm, and the rest of their days deem themselves bravos who have the ladies in a flutter." "I have been twice abroad," said Raoul. "I saw a bit of pistoling In the Indies during the blacks' revolt. And there, among a shipload of refugees, I met the affair that sobered me made a man of the boy, Monsieur 1" "A woman," smiled Sazarac. i "A child. I fought for her in the flames of her father's house. When I lay wounded they sent her away, or phaned, in the ship captain's charge." He laughed: "That Is all a trifle of adventuring to Jean Lafltte I" "Bah!" growled Johanness, putting hack his long gray hair: "Women!" Then, seeing the figure on the bench that had snored the hour through, he forthwith kicked this hard couch from under It. An uncouth disheveled man struck the stones, rolled over and cursed them all. "Jarvls!" growled the bo'sun. "He has seen more than you, Monsieur de Almonaster, and he has never handled a pistol in his life!" "Jarvls?" Sazarac started back. "You did not tell me!" "He Is utterly drunk.. We did not dare tell him In a public place because of his clattering tongue. Ho, Jurvlsl At the drink again I" The profligate staggered up, rub bing his eyes. "D n ! Old rumheads, mulling away of Baratarla days! Of Jean again " He broke oft staring: "Do I dream still In the liquor!" "It Is I, Jurvls. Come, clear your eyes!" . Jarvls reeled forth. ,"Jean, whom I painted at the famous isle! Jean!" "Not so loud," grunted Dominique. "I henr the watchman whlngwhanglng down the street." "Jean!" The two friends were greeting fondly. "Jean! I knew you lived. Jean of the Petral my hand upon him!" "And what have you done with your genius, lad?" "I have learned to drink," retorted Jarvls, "drink and debt. Into jail and out again. Betimes I belabor Domi nique for a dollar. He gives It with fatherly advice, and hales me to Pere Antolne for reformation. Between the alderman and the priest I am utterly lost." "A pity," murmured De Almonaster. "The best families would befriend him, but he Is oftener In the gutter than elsewhere." "This week the , sensation Is choosing the crew to man the Napoleon ship." (TO BE CONTINUED.)