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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1924)
E OF Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. . COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thinfg Worth Knowing. More wheat was exported from the Columbia river during December, 1923, than from all of the other ports in the United States combined. Sergeant C. E. Conrad, Kelly field, at San Antonio, Tex., broke the world's record altitude parachute jump Wed nesday. He leaped from 21,500 feet. Twenty-seven Mexican convicts, some of them serving terms for mur der, escaped from the Blue Ridge pris , on farm, 18 miles from Houston, Tex. The escape was staged between 10 and 11 o'clock Wednesday night. Ex-Field Marshal Ludendorf, Adolph Hitler, leader of the Bavarian fascistl, and seven other defendants were placed on trial for their connection with the "putsch" of last November. AH of the defendants except one are charged with high treason. Believed to be of the Neolithic pe riod, or later stone age, a boat 11 feet long and three feet wide, hollowed out of the trunk of an oak tree, has been found in the mud ' at Elmley Ferry marshes, near Sittlngbourne, Kent, England. It is estimated by ex perts to be 6000 years old. ' i Congress laid aside legislative busi ness Wednesday to pay tribute to the memory of Warren G. Harding. The house and senate Joined in a memor ial service, held in the house chamber, with Secretary Hughes as the only speaker and President Coolidge, his cabinet, supreme court Justices and foreign diplomats in attendance. ; Mayor Brown and Alfred H. Lundln were nominated as mayoralty candi dates In the primary election held in Seattle, Wash., Tuesday, according to complete returns from all of the city's 294 precincts. Mayor Brown polled a plurality of 4551 votes over Lundin. The unofficial returns tabulated from tha 294 precincts gave: Brown, 27,692; Lundln, 23,041; Erickson, 17,344. A chemical discovery said to be one of the most Important of the 20th century has just been made at the Fixed Nitrogen Research laboratory at Washington, Professor Arthur B. Lamb, of Harvard announced Tuesday night. f,The discovery is a net catalyst which, will bring about the permanent union of hydrogen and nitrogen atoms and will yield 14 per cent of amm6nia, Professor Lamb said. Further slashes in operating ex penses have been determined upon by President Palmer of the emergency fleet corporation. On top of the re duction of $18,000 In the salaries of the corporation's four vice-presidents, a Blmllar sum will be Baved through elimination of the position of manag ing director of United States lines, made vacant Wednesday by the resig nation of William J. Love. ; Serious Interference with telegra phlo and radio communication is pre dicted by Dr. David Todd, professor emeritus of Amherst college, in a statement in which he announced the discovery of a new outbreak of "sun spots." The area affected, according to Dr, Todd, is about 9000 miles in diameter. He believes the outbreak to be the beginning of a "sun spot period," with auroral displays and con sequent difficulty In electric and radio transmission. President Donnelly of the Northern Pacific railway Tuesday denounced the pending attack on the road's laud grants as "an attempt through some form of congressional action to cir cumvent the decisions of the courts." President Coolidge has asked Chair man Lenroot of the senate public lands committee to look into the situa tion under which the interior depart ment, unless action is taken, will soon be called upon to turn over to the railroad 3,900,000 acres of public lands, some of it including forest reserves. The students' mtllonlum the day when there will be no exams Is com ing on apace, in the view of educators. Speakors before the annual conven tion of the department of superintend ence, National Education association, in Chicago, Tuesday ruled out the periodic examination "and all its moral hazards" as unsound, unscienti fic and "generally meaningless." For the examination mark, it seems, has been proved by yean of testing by educational psychologists to have ab solutely no fixed relation to mental capacity or intellectual ability. WORLD HAPP MUGS CURRENT MORE GRAFT CHARGES MADE Senate to Investigate in Forbes Case- Conference Is Held. Washington, D. C Evidence that "two members of congress" improp erly accepted money, laid before the Chicago grand Jury that Indicted Charles R. Forbes, will be" inquired into by the senate veterans' commit tee. A telegram was sent Monday night to the district attorney at Chicago re questing that he advise the committee as to this evidence, and asking wheth er it Indicated sufficient connection with the veterans' bureau to come within the committee's Jurisdiction. The action followed a conference between President Coolidge and Sen ator Reed, republican, Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee, at which the grand Jury's report was discussed. Whether Immediate action also is to be taken by the executive branch of the government upon matters discuss ed in the report other than the indict ments handed down was not disclosed after the conference. The special report of the grand jury announced that other sensational de velopments involving alleged graft had been developed before it in the course of the Inquiry which led to the indictment of Forbes. These develop ments were not pursued, the grand Jury reported, because they were not within its jurisdiction. The Jury stated that the develop ments included speculation by one or more officials of the government, in volving the use of official information, the payment of certain sums of money to two members of congress and that money was collected by certain per sons, not attorneys, for obtaining per mits for intoxicating liquor. The jury also said it had informa tion indicating that the files of one department were turned over to per sons having no official connection with the department and that money was accepted by persons who were not attorneys, to obtain clemency for prisoners, these persons basing their, efforts upon their intimacy with of ficials. REVENUE IS REDUCED ABOUT $446,000,000 Washington, D. C The tax bill as passed by the house will produce $446, 000,000 less revenue than the existing law, in the opinion of the treasury ac tuaries. It would produce $113,000,000 more, the treasury figures indicate, than the Garner democratic plan. The treasury Burplus under the pres ent rates, according to present esti mates, will be only $323,000,000, so that the house bill if finally enacted, would result in a deficit of $123,000, 000. Losses in revenue under the bill as passed by the house are estimated to be $130,000,000 in normal income taxes, $160,000,000 in surtaxes, $90, 000,000 in earned income and $126, 000,000 in miscellaneous taxes. These same taxes as carried In the Garner plan would have resulted, according to the treasury, In losses from existing amounts of $227,000,000 in normal in come taxes, $171,000,000 in surtaxes, $85,000,000 in earned income and $126, 000,000 in miscellaneous taxes. Provisions of both the Garner plan and the bill as passed by the house would bring $50,000,000 more into the treasury than under existing law un der the capital loss and limited deduc tion section. Parcel Post Is Probed. ' Washington, D. C The postoffice department is conducting an inquiry into its parcel post business, Assist ant Postmaster-General Stewart an-. nounced, to determine whether that service cannot be so reorganized as to bear the cost of increased salaries for postal employes. Mr. Stewart appeared before a joint senate and house committee which is considering a salary bill, but said the department would be unable to formu late recommendations until a report on the parcel post Inquiry was in hand, probably in May. Tax Refunds Are Huge. Washington, D. C Refunds on tax payments totaling $123,992,8211.94 were made by the treasury in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, according to a report by the department. The re funds, made to 263,320 persons, cov ered payments for Beveral years and were made on account of "Illegal or erroneously collected taxes." The re port showed 10,152 persons had re ceived more than $1000 each in re imbursements. Washington, D. C The public debt has been cut more than $4,800,000,000 in the four and a half years since the great war Indebtedness was at its peak, August 31, 1919. Figures made public Monday by the treasury show that at the opening ot business Satur day the national debt was $21,781,966, 852. It has been reduced $933,000,000 In the last year. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Governor Neff ot Texas has issued a proclamation placing an embargo on Importation of livestock from Cali fornia and prohibiting importation from Oregon, Arizona and Nevada ex cept after proper inspection , Klamath Falls. Construction will start soon at Klamath Falls on a new sawmill with a capacity of 70,000 feet per day, 'to be located in the outskirts ot the city near the juncture of the Strahorn and Southern Pacific rail roads. Astoria. The body of a boy baby about one day old was found near Bugby station Monday by Joseph J. Saul of this city. He notified C. O. Botts and H. N. Boyd of the Crossett Western Timber company, who re ported the case to Coroner Hughes. Salem. Governor Pierce, who a week ago underwent an operation for the removal of his gall bladder at a local hospital, probably will be re covered sufficiently to return to his home late this week. This was an nounced by the attending physicians. Pendleton. Purchase of 75,000 as paragus plants with which to plant 15 acres of land in the Hermlston dis trict has been closed with a Walla Walla dealer, according to Fred Ben nion, county agent. Otto Heinl of Hermlston conducted the purchase for a committee of west end growers. Pendleton. Fire of unknown origin practically destroyed a house and con tents on Beauregard street occupied by L. C. Graham Sunday morning at 3 o'clock. The fire was not discovered until it had made considerable head way. Mr. and Mrs. Graham and their children were absent on a visit with relatives in Walla Walla. Hillsboro. The Oregon state dairy men elected the following officers at their annual convention here Friday: C. L. Mulkey, McMinnville, president; C. W. Ltughlin of Astoria, first vice president; H. W. Cooley of Jefferson, second vice-president; P. M. Brandt of Corvallis, secretary-treasurer; Horace Addis of Portland, assistant jecretary. Bend. Earl Denny, 30, stepped off a cliff near Terre Bonne late Satur day night, falling 35 feet and suffering fatal injuries. His skull was frac tured and he lived only 25 minutes after the accident. Denny Is thought to be from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Coroner Nlswonger began efforts to find his friends or relatives in that city. Salem. The Willamette valley lo ganberry crop for the year 1924 will be approximately 70 per cent of nor mal, according to officials of the Dra- ger Fruit company. In some parts of the valley the entire loganberry acre age was destroyed by the frost, while in other sections the crop will be 100 per cent. The average loss will be 30 per cent, officials said. Salem. Approximately 10,000 state income tax returns, representing pay ments of $40,000, have been received at the offices of the Income tax col lecting department here, according to announcement made Saturday by Earl Fisher, state tax commissioner. Mr. Fisher estimated that not less than 75,000 returns will be filed with the department by March 31. Of the 10, 000 returns received up until Friday night 4400 were classified as taxable, while 5600 were non-taxable. Pendleton. Plans are being made to test every milk cow in Umatilla county this year to Insure that the present low rate of tuberculosis is not permitted to show an Increase, accord ing to Fred Bennlon, county agent. The tests conducted in 1923 of 440 herds, consisting of, 2837 head, showed 13 reactors and eight suspects. Dr. G. W. Overhause ot the bureau of animal husbandry, stationed at La Grande, will conduct the tests in Uma tilla county, which are to begin about March 10. ; St. Helens. With the departure of the steamer Multnomah Friday night lumber shipments from St. Helens for the week amounted to about 3,000,000 feet, all shipments being for California ports. The steamer E. H. Meyer, which departed Wednesday afternoon for San Pedro, was laden with 1,016,- 000 feet of lumber, and the steamer Celllo which left Thursday night car ried a 975,000-foot cargo -of lurhber and piling for San Pedro and San Diego. The steamer also had a fair passenger list. Klamath Falls. Before a full gal lery ot Indians the marital difficulties of Sarah Jim and Brick Jim, full- blooded Klamath Indians, were aired in the circuit court here Friday In a contested divorce case, in which Sarah Jim attempted to show she could be freed from marriage ties with Brick Jim, who had chased her on a horse and beat her over the head, Mrs Jim's testimony was taken through an interpreter, since she speaks only the Klamath language. Judge Leavltt denied the divorce. X Ww V -wwwwwww ww CAPTAIN SAZARAC CHAPTER VIII Continued. 11 "The wind is capital although mak ing English turn we shall have to pull-haul, doubtless. But who can pursue save one of the steamboats und by the time the uproar goes that far Blen ! what of It?" "A shot from an elghteen-pounder and the teakettle will hesitate," growled Gorglo. "All Is ready wait ing Monsieur de Almonaster's word for the river signal." The swarthy-skinned tnarketmen laughed; their roving glances went from the idle croons at the stalls to the load of cabbages under- which there protruded one rusty cutlass hilt which Gorgio now frownlngly pushed back. Then he was on with his dron Ing cry about the dark streets of the Vieux Carre. Meantime, at the Ball d'Orleans, the fun was rising fast. The door, the deep-set windows, the low galleries about the hall, were filled with on lookers ; while to the strains of a waltz from Les Amours du Dlable sensuous women and fiery-tempered men whirled In giddy mazes. Frowned on by the aristocracy, and taboo with the haughty ladles of the Vieux Carre, jet few there were of the young fash ionables who would not steal, now and then, to the revel. There arose the quarrels that led to the duellos out under the Oaks; there, on an Instant, the scene might change from laughing, and men rush together in affray; or two of the hot-tempered dons of the old Spanish or French regime, or some lestless Kentueklans, down-river, would exhange the cards that meant raiders or pistols at sunrise. The young Count de Almonaster was In a chatting coterie at the vestibule. The town hod been agog with this story about him today. "Ho, Rnoul !" cried De Marlgny, "where Is your new house guest?" "Yes Rnoul, the proud, entertain ing this gallant Saz-a-racl Better you had counted the family silver ere you put him to bed! They say Lafltte put out from your hospitality to the Bara tarla swamps and nt once a lady dis iippenrs from her hotel 1" "I am just back from a search my self. It was a shabby trick, but " The laughing gallants crowded nearer. "Lafltte turns up, and at once Louisiana Is In an uproar 1 The Brit ish consul fumes, and Colonel Carr denounces. His lady may well be In the tropics within a week!" "Bah!" shouted the Cheveller de Montrleul, "here Is Alderman Domi nique, who was once buccaneer him self! I say, we are unworthy gal lants! Under the Spanish governors we would all be out seeking to res cue the lady ourselves, rather than leave such romance to the authori ties." De Marlgny twigged Raoul's laced cuff: "Come, we have a new beauty. I shall Introduce you for one of the new contre-danses Anglais." "I," retorted Raoul reservedly, "do not dance here, as you know." "Why so haughty? A round, and we are all oft to the Seraphine." Raoul started. This would never do; the conspirators must seize the clipper before the party assembled on her decks. He was relieved to see Captain Bossiere already chosen to command come on smiling, waving a hand to the merrymakers. "Messieurs! Is it not enough here? We shall make a long night on the Seraphine and discuss affairs. Ah, Monsieur Dominique, I am glad yon are with us ! And Monsieur de Almon aster, who hns been won over at last to support the Napoleon expedition!" Many curious and admiring eyes, Indeed, were leveled on the tall, bronzed young man who followed to the bar. Old Dominique winked again at him. A buzz of talk ran around concerning these two who surely must know something about Lafltte which they chose not to disclose to the au thorities. De Marlgny shouted good-humoredly to Raoul : "We are discussing the flag, Mon sieur I A flag for the Seraphine! La Barre insists it will not be good taste to fly the American colors now, with England and the United States at peace. Under what flag, Captain Bos siere, do we put to sea?" Good Captain Bossiere pulled his whiskers and beamed on the laughing gallants. "That Is to be settled. Also, tonight, who is to be second in com mand." . - "And third!" . "And fourth !" "And," bawled another youth, "I trust to be at least a midshipman !" The flushed and merry Creole blades gathered closer. The costliest cham pagnes were spilling over bar and tables. Under the glitter of the crys tal lamps, where the press was deep est. Captain Bossiere perspired nud tried, In vain, to' address them. From this laughing melee Dominique, the alderman, velvet-clad and rotund, found way and came to De Almonas ter's side. "And tonight," he muttered, "I want der ubout, a respectable official of the city and the sea Is calling. As to Jean," he said with pointed abrupt ness, "wha do you know. Monsieur?" The young aristocrat could not be sure of how much the city conspira tors had Imparted to the complacent Dominique. He therefore shrugged Indifferently: "The old fox is on fa miliar trails. Monsieur Dominique do you know of any reason for absenting yourself tonight?" "Eh?" queried the alderman darkly. Then, a hand on his shoulder. J arris, the portrait painter of the Vieux Carre, By Charles Tenney Jackson Copyright by The Bobbt-MenlU Company for once cleanly arrayed In velvet, be ruffled stock and a high hat! Jarvis, Incredibly sober. Nodding to Alder man Dominique, ha drew Raoul aside. "The fools found I was right, eh? A lady stolen from our streets and this Sazarac of the packets is my old captain." He smiled with some twitch ing pathos about his nervous lips. "Jean and my lady. Ah, one might have guessed!" He stopped abruptly. "What is It, Jarvis?" Rnoul stared at him. Plainly, he knew nothing of Mademoiselle Lestron's disappearance upon the English bark, tonight slowly beating a way out of the Belize pass to the open Gvlf. "Sober," muttered the Jester. "That Is It. I have vowed to keep sober for her sake from half-past eleven to quite one o'clock ... It was about the hour of the camellia. Ah to a stair case fellow In the moonlight !" His friend laughed curiously, but without understanding. "Every night" continued Jarvis "half-past eleven to one. It is a disastrous intermission, however. I have to arrange all my hours, both at the studio and the grog shops. Romance should keep better hours." He sighed: "Love has come like a flame to my darkness, Monsieur! I who would have laid my dull head as a stone among the other cobbles for her footstep and asked nothing! She has gone . . . they whisper, willingly, perhaps, with him. Ah, to play the part of Saza rac one hour!" "What are you driving at?" queried Raoul. .' "This Sazarac " muttered Jarvis. "I regret he was not himself. I would have had an affair at the Oaks. Can you imagine me, sober, well-arrayed Many Curious and Admiring Eyes, In deed, Were Leveled on the Tall, Bronzed Young Man Who Followed to the Bar. and speared through the stomach be cause of a woman? I cannot. On sec ond thought, of course not. The time, Monsieur " "The time" De Almonaster start ed, shot a suspicious glance at the town's Jester. But Jarvis was not, apparently, In the conspiracy. "To put aside my romance and re sure my bottle. D n! not yet mid night" He turned impatiently and gnawed his cuff. "Jean has taken my lady Eh, well! One's friend is one's friend 1" Raoul watched the mountebank's drawn, hungry face at the end of the crowded bar. Then he wandered to the street vestibule. The time for the attack must be approaching. Some where along the west bank of the Mis sissippi, but a few miles above, the Baratarians must be gathered for the embarkation and the silent drift down stream. Now that he had time to think soberly of It, Raoul's mind stum bled over the uncertainties of the mad venture.' He knew that, about the city, two score of adventurers had armed and awaited secretly to aid the men of Johannes and Nez Coupe from the deep swamp. ' Seizing the unguarded ship at her- moorings, even with the revel about her, would not be difficult. It was the next step when an unfavor ing wind might leave the Seraphine helpless and adrift In the lower reaches of the river. De Almonaster watched the faces of his familiars about the ballroom. He had been chaffed enough for his entertainment of the mysterious Saza rac out of the West.' But even now the heedless youth were forgetting 1L The affair Lafltte was being left lo the authorities. The British Colonel Carr had already been courteously re jected from the gentlemen's company; the gentry, while most of them had but the merest hearsay about what the missing gamester, Sazarac, might have Intended concerning Mademoi selle Lestron, could not endure Can's Infamous jest at Maspero's gaming room. They believed, Indeed, that the lady had fled of her own accord with the adventurer of the river packet, whom rumor said was Jean Lafltte. Eh, blent It was not the first affair of women for Lafltte . . . there was the old story of the governor's lady when the Grand Terre chieftain was at his power. ., , J Raoul saw, in the barroom, a score of tossing glasses upraised to some speech that Bossiere had concluded. "The Seraphine," a dozen voices shouted, "and to the unknown flag she flies !" The goblets clinked and broke; the air was a spray of crystal and cham pagne bubbles; then the laughing groups scattered. But about Captain Bossiere flushed youths clamored on. "Devil take the dances! Monsieur Glrod's banquet awaits us on the Sera phine. Let's finish the night there." And a score of young men took tip the cry. , De Marlgny came crowding to Raoul's side. "Come, there! You Felix, La Barre all of you ! You can dance on the decks but no women, mind ! This is a secret session of the Napoleon plot !" "Yes, and you with us, De Almonas ter! You are a third backer of the enterprise since you took over the baroness' interests." De Almonaster started as the jest ing groups closed about him. It was but eleven o'clock! The conspirators across the river would never dream that the gentlemen-adventurers would quit the ball so early! He began to protest as the youth streamed to the street. But one glance at the gold laced hat of the Seraphlne's com mander now leading the way, and Raoul whirled back and to the court yard where the servants awaited. At his low hall his groom came watchfully. "Teton, the ball Is break ing up! With all speed the word to the market!" The octoroon vanished silently. Raoul turned back through the ball room, his heart beating wildly. He wondered If any saw his perturbation. It was too late to warn the Barata rians that the plans had changed. Al ready, far across the rue Royale past the cathedral to the Place d'Armes, the aristocrats were trooping, un armed, save for their swords of fash Ion, to encounter unsuspectingly the desperate renegades of Lafltte sum moned again from their deep swamp refuges. "Madness!" the young man mut tered. "They are ascending the gang way 1 The plot is lost ! Sazarac will not dare lead his swamp bandits to face the gentlemen of the city already at their banquet seats!" He lingered irresolutely and then went to the Plaza. If he could find one of the spies who had been all eve ning watching the course of events at the revel and passing the word, mouth to mouth, out to the upper levee so that the Baratarians across the river might be apprised, he could, even yet, ward oft a disastrous failure. But nowhere did he find one whom he could trust as being In the con spiracy. The groups of idling mar ket men had scattered from the stalls. The crowd on the rue de la Levee, gathered to watch this outdoor revel of the gentlemen-adventurers of the Napoleon ship, was thickening. Along the roped path between these onlook ers the gold hat of Captain Bossiere moved with the gallants cheering In his wake. The gay rosettes and lan terns festooning the ship's rigging re flected upon the yellow flood murmur ing along her side. "I must be seen with them," mur mured De Almonaster. "It is a sorry joke. Sazarac dare not face this revel to seize a ship no, not for all his loves !" He found his place to the right of Commander Bossiere. De Marlgny had started a song of the day among the flushed youths near him: "Mo l'almtn vou Comma cochon almln la boue!" "Ah!" shouted one, catching sight of De Almonaster; and he translated the doggerel for a young American en sign : " T love you as a little pig loves the mud!' It must be Raoul, seelug that he loves the Baratarla swamps." Raoul smiled; but his glance was out from the quarter-deck awnings to the yellow, silent flood of the mighty river. Big honest Commander Bos siere, a real seaman oddly out of place among the laughing youths, wag un steady from the toasts he had drunk. "And there," cried La Barro, "comos another guest who must love the mud, seeing that he frequently rolls in it !" The guests shouted as another be lated one came unsteadily down the carpeted gangway to the deck, Jarvis, It was, the town's profligate, whose hour's tribute to his lady had rurno-l to Bacchus promptly with the clock. The first bohemlnn of the French quarter raised his hand. In it was a staff with folded colors. And behind him marched six grim fellows In tar paulin hats, red shirts and the new tight pants of the period, cutlassed and pistoled, who, without word, took position along the rail, and came to a salute as Jarvis bawled a mocking order. The flushed aristocrats stared, then cheered, when the mummer pirates broke to hoarse song, a Creole air of the day: "Dl terns M'sleu Lafltte, Ye t menln monde a la baguette " The guests seized it in glee. An other gibe at the smiling Count de Almonaster. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Boots. Father bought a pair of hip boots, in anticipation of the coming fishing season. The boots greatly Interested Ann, his three-year-old daughter, so one day when mother and father were preparing for a Journey downtown, and mother was putting on her Rus sian .boots, Ann turned to father and said: "Daddy, why don't you wear your boots, too?"