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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1924)
S OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments end Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing Worth Knowing. C. W. Horner, proprietor of a store at the Roseburg, Ore., camp ground, Tuesday received through the mall his wife's wedding ring and a highly priz ed booch stolen from his home 11 years ago. Caught In a 60-mile gale In Lake Superior Sunday, the wooden steamer Orinoco foundered and went down with a loss of four of her crew. The chlorine gas treatment for colda, one of the discoveries of the chemical warfare service, was taken by Presi dent Coolldge Tuesday in an effort to remove the remaining traces of the bronchial infection which confined him to the White House last Saturday and Sunday and since has troubled him slightly. - The ruins of an old synagogue in Capernaum, the Palestinian village where Jesus first preached to the Jews, were unearthed Tuesday, ac cording to a cable from Haifa, from the Danish scholar, Dr. Sommerfield, who is carrying on excavations In that region. ' The right of women to a voice in the government in the Presbyterian church in the United States was sus tained by the 64th general assembly at San Antonio, Tex., Tuesday. The assembly voted to permit women to be elected to Important executive com mittees. Another record has been added to the list of achievements of Oregon bred Jersey cattle by the long-distance swim performed recently by four helfor calves belonging to Sam Car son of Hormlaton. The four swam a distance of nine miles down an Irri gation ditch. Lieutenant Bossoutrot, French avia tor, broke the altitude record for a plane carrying 3000 kilograms in his flight on Saturday, it was officially confirmed Tuoaday. He rose 1942 motors, breaking the record of 1629 ' motors set by Lieutenant II. Harris of the" United States. The Indictment of Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, by a fedoral grand Jury In his own state was justified by the evidence, Senator Sterling, repub lican, South Dakota, a member of tin special senate Investigating com mittee, asserted in a minority report read Monday to the senate. The lifting of restrictions in the Mothodlst church law against amuse ments, Including only "diversions which cannot be taken in the flame of the Lord Jesus," wore rocommond ed by a standing committee of the Mothodlst Episcopal general confer ence In Springfield, Mass., Monday. That a superior court judge ns a peace officer has the right to carry a weapon was the contention ot Super ior Judge Struckmoyer ot Maricopa county, Arizona, Tuesday, who dis missed a complaint against Superior Judge Abbey of Final county, charg ing the jurist with carrying a pistol. Republican members ot the senate foreign relations committee were told by President Coolldga t the White House conference Tuosdny that his position with reference to the world court question was the same as In dicated In his message on the subject and in various statements since made. The Gooding bill, restricting the In torstate commerce commission in its application ot the long and short haul of the Interstate commerce act, was passed by the senate Monday, 54 to 23. The bill is the first important one on railroad questions passed at this session by tho sonate and concludes a fight carried on more than 20 yoars by the lntermountaln rate territories. The measure hud been under debute tor a week. The $10,000,000 agricultural credit corporation, originally tentatively formed In Chicago at the suggestion ot President Coolldge for the relief of the agricultural northwest, already has come to the relief ot more than 150 banks In North and South Dakota Montana, Iowa end Minnesota, It was disclosed Tuesday by James R, How ard, a vice-president of the organiza tion and president ot the National Transportation institute. The corpora tion baa been In actual operation scarcely more than a month. ORLD HAPPENING CURRENT WEEK SIGNS JAP EXCLUSION BILL Coolldge Decides on Measure as Whole Approval Is Reluctant. Washington, D. C. President Cool ldge deploring Its provision for Jap anese exclusion, but heartily approv ing its main features, Monday signed the immigration bill. Steps were taken immediately by the department of labor to prepare for administration of the law, which pro vides for further restriction of immi gration after June 30 when the exist ing quotation law expires and for total exclusion of Japanese immigration after that date. The president approved the bill re luctantly, issuing a statement after he had affixed his signature in which he said he regretted the impossibility of severing from the measure the ex clusion provision which he and Secre tary Hughes had opposed strongly dur ing the course' of the legislation through congress. 'There is scarcely any ground for disagreement as to the result we want, but this method of securing it is un necessary and deplorable at this time," the president said with reference to the exclusion Bection. "If the exclu sion provision stood alone I should disapprove it without hesitation, If sought in this way at this time." The president pointed out that the bill put before him was a compre hensive act dealing with the whole subject of immigration and Betting up Improved administrative machinery and also that the existing act. auto matically expires June 30. "I must, therefore, consider the bill as a whole and the imperative need ot the country for legislation of this general character," he added. "For this reason the bill is approved." Occasion was taken by tlie president In his statement to declare that he gladly recognized that the enactment of the exclusion provision "does not Imply any change in our sentiment of admiration and cordial friendship for the Japanese people, a sentiment vhicli has had and will continue to have abundant manifestation." Secretary Hughes, who had opposed vigorously the proposal to exclude Japanese immigrants by law, holding that exclusion should be accomplish ed by diplomatic arrangement, con ferred with tho president just before the bl was approved. Proponents of Japanese exclusion in congress expressed gratification over the signature of the bill by the presi dent, although they had held that should the executive veto the measure they could command sufficient strength to pass it over his veto. Chair man Johnson of the house immigration committee, one of the strongest of the exclusion advocates, called at the White House after the bill was ap proved and was presented with the pen with which the president had signed the measure. Mnsanao Hanlhnra, the Japanese ambassador, whose note ot April 11 suggesting the possibility of "grave consequences" if the exclusion sec tion was adopted had the effect of making an issuo of the exclusion clause, called at the state department nftijr tho president had signed the bill. Tho ambassador was furnished with a copy of the presidents statement, but at the Japanese embassy it was said ho would, have no statement to make "at this time. TAX COMPROMISE VOTED BY HOUSE Washington, YK C Tho tax reduc tion bill was put up to President Cool ldge for final enactment into law Mon day by congress. Like tho senate, the house, by an overwhelming majority, approved, the conference compromise on the main provisions. The vote was 376 to 9. An early decision by the president was forecast by those close to him on the basis of his insistent demands that congress hasten action on tax re duction. Tho bill provides for a 25 per cent reduction 'on income taxes payable this year; permanent revision down ward of the Income, miscellaneous and excise taxes; additional reduction after this year ot 25 per cent on earn ed incomes of 10,000 and under, and numerous changes la tho udmiuistra tkm provisions, most ot which were proposed by the treasury. Although carrying the democratic proposal for reductions in the Income rates, the bill was acclaimed by lend ers ot both parties in tho house, ns was done also in the senate, as "fair and just." Sentence Given Girl. Dakerstleld, Cul. Eleanor Walling, 20, who confessed to being a principal in the holdup ot the State bank ot Taft, was sentenced to serve an In determinate term at San Quentln peni tentiary by Judge II. A. Peairs Mon day. In her confession Miss Walling implicated "Scotty" Taylor and Bill Crockott as being the two who entered the bank March 13 and at the muiales ot guns relieved employes of $5700. Taylor lias confessed. NESE U. 5. ARMY FLIERS Trans-Pacific Flight Declared Epochal by Japs. MEN EAGER TO BE OFF Next Few Days to Be Passed in Tun ing Up Craft for Leap Over Sea to Chinese Coast.' Tokio. The American army around- the-world fliers, after a busy round of entertainment in Tokio, during which they received much praise for their achievement in crossing the Pacific, left Sunday by rail for Kasumigaura with the announcement that they would be glad to "get back to work" in preparation for the resumption of their flight. ' Japanese, British and American of ficials joined in paying tribute to the aviators after their arrival here from Kasumigaura, where they landed Thursday. Their planes were left at Kasumigaura, The aviators said they expected to spend four or five days overhauling their craft and to hop off from Kushimoto next Friday or Satur day. An elaborate Japanese banquet at the famous Maple club, at which Lieu tenant-General Yasumitsu, chairman of the joint army and navy reception committee ,was host, concluded Tokio's program of entertainment. Of ficers of high rank in the army and navy were present, as were also mem bers of the staff of the United States embassy. General Yasumitsu congratulated the aviators on the success of their flight thus far. American Ambassador Woods also spoke., . Sunday afternon the fliers were re ceived by Prince Kumi, honorary presi dent of the Imperial Aviation society. The prince congratulated the Amer icans in behalf of the imperial family. "Your glory Is shared by the whole ot mankind," the aviators were told this morning by Yoshinao Kozai, presi dent of the .Tokio Imperial university, in an address at the university. The minister of education attended this meeting which was under auspices of the university and the Aeronautical Research association of Japan. Eight Are Drowned in Lake. Spokane, Wash. . Eight persons were drowned in Christina lake, Bri tish Columbia, when a launch in which ten persons were riding broke apart Sunday afternoon, according to word received here. Tho dead are: Daniel Englund and son Danny of Wenat chee; Ruth Sturman, school teacher, Colvllle, Wash.; Axel Carlson, Cas cade, B. C; Ben Johnson, Cascade, B. C; Knute Tnlm, lllltop, B. C; Mc Donald, Kettle Falls, Wash., and Skamds, Cascade, B. C A man nam ed Ferguson and his sister of Kettle Falls were rescued. Englund for ten years was in charge of a 600-acre apple orchard at Ellisford, near Oroville, Wash. Recently he was in charge of an irrigation project at Cascade. I Bogus Coin Plant Found. . Portland, Or. In a liquor raid Sun day night on the h.ome ot W. F. Jen nings, 6430- East Eighty-first street Southeast, members of the police vice squad came upon a complete counter feiters' outfit and arrested five per sons who were turned over to W. S. McSwain, federal agent, pending in vestigation. Those arrested were: Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jennings and Luke Jen nings. Officers reported that all para phernalia necessary for making $10 gold coins, $1 coins and 50-cent and 10 cent pieces was found in the home, In cluding acids, chemicals, moulds and metals of various kinds. The raiding officers found no liquor In the house. Four Burned to Death. Pocatello, Idaho. Mrs. Isaac Ko- vene and her three sons, aged 4, 6 and S, were burned to death early Satur day when their home at Georgetown, Idaho, near Moutpelier, was destroy ed by fire. An infant girl was found by neighbors some distance from the burned home and it is believed Mrs. Koveno carried the baby to safety and then was trapped when she entered the burning home to rescue her sons. Toulouse, France. "Somebody smashed a basket of eggs In front of your store," said a well-dressed strang er to the proprietor of a Jewelry shop in the Place President Wilson Satur day. The jeweler took a broom and went out to clean up the mess. When he returned tho atranger had vanished and so had a case containing 100,000 francs' worth ot Jewels, PA The Red Lock By DAVID ANDERSON Author of "The Blue Moon" ' Copyright bjr The Bobba-Mcrrin Co. THE BOUND BOY Thre generations ag0 if on the bank! ot the, Wabash was the ltf of the frontier of the back woodsof the outposts of civili zation. Life there was simple and strenuous. Men were strong and the primitive emotions swayed them. And this Is a tale of the days of our grandfathers and of those conditions. David Anderson, a native of this region, knows it as few do. His "Blue Moon," which told of the pearl fishers, was a great success. "The Ked Lock" takes up a time a little later when the pearl fishers were giving place to permanent settlers. It Is a tale of the Flatwoods. Yes; we have no canal con struction in this story. The red lock Is a lock of hair recurring In the generations of the Collns an Inheritance from a pirate ances tor who even In those days was regarded as an undesirable citi zen. And this red lock played the mischief with any Colin so adorned. So we have Ken Colin, who mysteriously disappeared, red lock and all; Texle, his pretty and loyal sister; Big Jack bound boy who loves Texle, and various red-blooded pioneer people who are involved In the results of the reappearance of the red lock. Nature lovers and woodsmen will find much here- to interest them. For the author Is close to nature's heart and his pages show his relationship. And Big Jack Is an adept In woodcraft, with an efficient eye for an en emy's trail and the quickness of the wild animal life of the Flat woods. CHAPTER I The Bound Boy. A girl came out of the back yard of a red-roofed cottage at the up-stream edge of Buckeye, passed around a rather tastefully built barn, with Its flanking cribs and pens, crossed the fallow pasture lot In a coiner of which It stood, climbed the fence and picked her way up the face of tjie cliffs that roughly walled the village on three sides, until she stood at last among the jagged and broken pinnacles at tho top of Black rock, a lighter speck against the gray green background of the Flatwoods. Away beyond the bend where the placid Wabash lost itself among the hills the sun crawled toward the rim of the West' Pendant aboVe the dis tant timber line Its round splendor, burnished bright by the wonder of May, turned a lingering glance at the serene world. But the girl was not watching the sunset. The splendor of the wide spread landscape at her feet was lost on her. Crawling out from under the sunset, halving the village and winding away up the river between cliff tmd bottom, ran the Elver road, the one slim artery that connected Buckeye with the great world outside the Flatwoods. Tha girl's eyes were on the road. Far up the river twenty miles of gravel and gray sand it led to the city. On clear days she had some times made out the hazy whiteness of Its roofs and spires tha gateway of another world a world that the er rant fancies of girlhood peopled with many a wonder. Seven years ago to a day she had stood there and watched the Milford stage carry her brother away to the end of that road through the dim- Svn Years Ago Today Sha Stood There and Watched the Milford Stag Carry Her Brother Away to the End of the Road. aplred gateway and out Into the great world beyond. The East It swallowa up many a man of the West. It had swallowed her brother up. It never gave him back. Tha eyes, grown pensive, turned slowly to the upstanding pinnacle of sandstone, polished smooth by a thou and winds, alive la the bronze glow that struck op from the distant riffle. Thrca names had been rudely carved iWf there, one above the other, so long ago that storm and frost bad begun to ob literate them. The girt picked up a piece of ragged shale and with a sharp corner scraped clean each knife stroke, till the three names stood out clear as the day they were first carved there: KEN TEXIH JACK She dropped the piece of shale; thoughtfully passed her fingers over the names and glanced down at the foot of the upstanding pinnacle. In a sheltered pocket of the great rock, where only the tempered rays of the sun could strike it, lay a tiny bed of leaf mold set with clumps of yellow orchids not yet abloom "lady slip pers," in the quaint and expressive vernacular of the Wabash country that had doubtless been transplanted from the deep woods. The girl stooped above the tiny flow er bed a friendly spot In its setting of stern rocks; plucked away an ob trusive weed or two; let her sobered eyes stray back to the red-roofed cot tage, across a small orchard that lay spread at her feet, and out over the rather pretentious farmstead to which the orchard belonged. Pretentious just that ; a promise of comfort and affluence never fulfilled. There was every evidence that the farmstead had been laid out on a scale much more elaborate than was usual In the Flatwoods, but nothing had been finished an attempt that failed; a dream that never came true. Outlined among the weeds and en croaching brambles lay the extensive foundation of the farmhouse, but It had been carried little beyond the foundation. A few sills huge squared logs, cut and hewed In the upland woods had been laid. Of the few timbers of the superstructure, some had fallen entirely, others had fallen at one end and hung straining, while even the firmest canted far out of plumb. Back of this creaking skeleton of time-blackened timbers, and nearer the cliff, stood a mite of a log cabin, rude ly constructed, where doubtless a man had housed while dreaming his un finished dream of house and barns and happy homestead. Rooted beside the doon and almost completely covering the cabin, a crimson rambler of many years' growth-ra far wanderer that no surroundings can degrade offered a fragrant suggestion that a womijn had shared the dreams of the man. Three horses grazed in the barn lot down near a big elm that stood at the road gate; some geese squatted along the diminutive rivulet leading from the spring; out in the feed lot lolled a bunch of cattle, fine and thrifty as could have been seen the length of the Wabash. The eyes of the girl suddenly waked from brooding; darted to a point a short distance up the cliff; livened. The slouch hat and drab corduroy hunting blouse of a tall young woods man with ant Immense spread of shoul der had flitted past a break In the bushes as he sprang down the steep and rugged path that picked Its way among the rocks froiu the uplands. She was just In time to see him reach up, put his hand on the top rail of the fence and vault over Into the barn lot. The girl missed a breath. Few men In the Flatwoods could have made that leap. , Down by the big elm at the road gate one of the horses, a powerful gelding, glossy black save for one white lock In his foretop, raised his head; came trotting up the lot. The big woodsman put his arm about the arched neck ; laid his face agaln&t the glossy mane and stroked the soft nose. "Good ol' Graylock 1" he muttered "bound "r free, t' you a man's a man" A shadow subdued the bold frank ness of his face, as a chance cloud draws across a fair field; he gazed bard at the wind-staggered skeleton ot the unfinished farmhouse. His roving eye, following tha glow of approaching sunset, found the girl upon the rock, ber pliant body softly outlined against the silver-green back ground of the woods.' "Texle w'y 1" In another moment he was racing up the cliff. The girl was waiting for him by the upstanding pinnacle of sandstone, a half sadness In her eyes that gradually subdued the eagerness In his. He laid his big band on her shoulder; slid It down fcer arm and gathered her fingers In his great palm. There was not even a twitch of re sponse. He dropped the fingers, backed away a step and stood study ing ber. "Jack? Do yu know what day this is?" He puzzled to find the answer she doubtless had In mind; finally ven tured the only one he could think ot "Tuesday, May 10th, 1849." She flared around at him. "You know that ain't what 1 mean." The girl pointed to the caqved names on tha monolith ot sandstone. He followed the motion; stepped past her and ran hla hand over the three name, lingering, an Instant over the middle one. . "Por Ken" h muttered, "be oATale of the Flatwoods could 'a' be'n anything he wanted to, a'most." - The girl's eyes flinched and turned back to the dim frayed end ot the road ; the man stood silent "Seven years ago t'day," she mused, "you and me stood up here on Black rock and watched the Milford stage haul 'Im away off yonder to the city, and out in the big world t' college, and then we cut them names" She paused. He seemed to feel that an answer was expected of him, but made none. "Two years we got letters wonder ful ones at first. 1 'low you ain't f'rgot how we use' t' come up here you and me and read 'em." She spoke more to herself than to him. "Then the letters got fewer and farth er b'tween, till fln'ly they got s' tri- flin' ther' wasn't no satisfaction in gittln' 'em. 'Then, y'u know, that terrible one come froin the president of the col lege, tellln' how awful Ken was ear ryln' on, and advlsln' father t' take 'im home. But he never come, and a And What Word Could Alter the Stern Fact That He Was a Bounty Boy Bound Out to Her Own Father. little while afterwards the president writ another letter, tellln' how Kes had killed a man and run away from school, leavtn' all them debts. That was five years ago and the last we ever hear'd " It is curious and Interesting how some of the greatest names of the Anglo-Saxon race have lodged, like river drift, along the byways and wa terways of what was ouce the great American woods. Ken, Texle, Jack the first two Co llns ; the third a Warhope names that have been spread wide on English his tory. And of the two ancient fam ilies, probably no purer strain existed than the far-flung thread that had found lodgment here In this out-of-the-way corner of the earth the great Flatwoods that seventy years ago stretched for many an unbroken mile along the north bank of the upper Wabash. , The man swept a hand toward the distant end of the road. The girl glanced at him. "Ten more days" there was a strained firmness In his voice, as If what he was about to say came hard to hlra "and I'm rldln' out yonder m'self." , He felt her eyes upon him. "Ten more," he went on. "This is the tenth of May. When It's the twentieth, I'll be twenty-one and free. Ten more I be'n countln' 'em." A deep seriousness clouded his face; be stared down at the warped skeleton of the unfinished farmhouse. The girl fumbled the bit of ribbon at her waist. "My father dreamed that dream," he went on. "B'fore it could come true, the Semlnoles bolted their reservation and he dropped everything and rushed away to the head of the rangers. Xou know how he fell at Okechobee." He paused a moment ; gripped his hat and went on. ' "Mother never aaw a well day no more. Xou know how she lingered along down there under the rose vine till I was twelve. When she died, It was found out Pap Simon had a mor'gage on everything. He foreclosed ; had me bound out to 'Im ; and" The girl stole a look at hla face. It was so hard and bitter that she dared not venture a word. And what word could alter the stern fact that he was a bound boy bound out to ber owb father? "Wild and aavage and terrible, Ilk ol' 'Red Colin' must 'a' looked." (TO Bl CONTINUSO.1