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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1924)
Republican National to End. Lowden Convention Hall, Cleveland, O, President Coolhlge was nominated Thursday by the republican national convention In a proceeding which wag actually a ratification meeting. Only dissenting votes from Wis consin and North Dakota prevonted the president's nomination by acclam ation and making It unanimous. Nominated by his personul friend, Pr, Marlon Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan, the president received solid blocks of votes from all the states on the final rollcall except from those mentioned. Before the first and only rollcall was bulf completed the story of bis victory had been told, as state by state the votes of solid delegations from east, west, north and south were thrown to his support. CALVIN COOLIDGE Convention Hull, Cleveland, O. Charles 0. Dawes of Illinois, the "Holland-Maria" general, was nominated for tho vice-presidency by the republican national convention Thursday night after It once had nominated Frank 0. ao m ru ii 1 1 cn tO HI til niLLLU BY SHIP BLAST San Pedro, Cal. Two premature ex plosions killed three officers and 45 men of the battleship Mississippi Thursduy and injured a score of : lj jsjWiwiirirBa charles g. dawes others, and the menace of death still hounded the crlpplod dreadnaught as ' she left hor dead and injured behind and headed out to sea to protect har bor life and shipping from the peril ' of a third and imminently expected ; blast. 1 The first explosion occurred at 1 P. M. while the Mississippi was en gaged In target practice off San Clem ente island, 45 miles from hore, sproad- , ing death among the 88 meu in No. i turret. Officers said the premature blast might have boon due to a sailor giving the signal for the electric flnBh igniting the charge In one of the tur ret's 14-lnch rifles bofore the breech was properly closed, or it may have resuueu irom a imre duck, cuusuu when a fresh charge was being loaded iuto the breech. As the stricken ship reached the goal of its race for surgical assist ance the hospital ship Relief, just in- Blue tuo uiuunniuci uuht-t duiiu blast rocked the vossel. The charge 1 in the dumaged turret's second 14-inch ' rifle exploded, hurling the Bteel pro jectilo out to sea. Embassy in Japan Acts on American Boycott Toklo. The boycott on American made motion picture films, due to re sentment because of the recently en acted exclusion of Japanese immi grants from America, has been brought to the attention of the Japanese gov orument by the American embassy hero. The direct causa of the embassy's action was a complaint from repre sentatives of the American film com panies at Kobe, who reported that the boycott movement was progressing In western Japan and asked assistance In combating it. At the same time the boycott hore was breaking down. The police havi announced that full protoction wl Baby Drowns In Pall. Albany, Or. The nlne-months old baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. FlUwater of Stayton was drowned Saturday after noon when it fell into a pall of water selling on the porch. Mrs. Fitiwater left the house to attend to some duties in the yard. The child crawled after her until it was attracted by tho pail. The infant foil bead first into the con tainer and was dead when Us mother returned to the house. Convention Comes Declines to Run. Lowdon, ex-governor of Illinois, and he had refused to accept the place The convention was later adjourned. President Coolldge's nomination was accomplished with only a ripple of dissent from Wisconsin and North Dakota, but the nomination of his run nlng mate came only after tho con vention bad once chosen Lowden and had been forced by his declination to choose another the "Ilell and-Marla" generul. After a short race with Herbert Hoover, who came into the ballottlng after the declination of Lowden, Dawos galloped off with the nomina tion. Motions to make It unanimous and by acclamation were disturbed only by the dissent from Wisconsin and North Dakota. In a brief and spectacular fight In which William Butler, President Cool idge's campaign manager, had said to Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, "It must be Hoover," and Senator Reed had replied, "I can't be done, it musl bo Dawes," the Dawes supporters, after the declination of ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois, marshaled their forces and put the general across for the nomination. ' be given any theater showing Amer lean films and have warned "patriots," as the most active supporters of tli boycott term themselves, not to use Intimidation as a weapon for gaining the assent of the theater owners to plans to bar American pictures. The leading Toklo theaters plan tc continue using the American, films, Tax Refund to Be Prompt. Washington, D. C. Taxpayers who paid the full amount of their Income tax on March 15 will not have to wait until December for the refund of one fourth of the amount, aa seemed like ly as the result of the failure of the de ficiency appropriation bill in the re cent session of congress. Director of the Budget Lord has ap proved an arrangement by which the treasury will pay the refund out of another appropriation. The deficiency bill carried an appropriation of JIG,- 110,000 for refunds to those who paid the entire amount of their tax on March 15 in advance of the action of congress In the new tax law granting a 25 per cent cut on taxes on incomes of 1923. Congress in the annual treasury department appropriation bill appropriated $105,000,000 for tax re funds in connection with the settle ment of disputed tax cases. Under the arrangement which has now been made the treasury will draw upon the $105,000,000 fund in refunding amounts due to taxpayers who paid In full on March 15. Two Bombs Shake City. Harrisburg, 111. Two dynamite bombs exploded early Sunday, shaking the entire city, and causing the partial destruction of two bouses and break ing tho windows of several other ad Jacent homes. No persons were injur ed by the explosions. The bombs were thought to have been sent by persons opposing re cent liquor raids In Saline county, 111. Isabel, S. D. A tornado which struck Glad valley, in Ziebach county, west of here, late Saturday, caused probably a score of Injuries. Property damage may run over $100,000, ac twrdlng to word received here today. Storm Leaves 12 Dead. Johnson City, Tonn. Twelve known dead, four seriously injured, more than a dosen houses, barns and mills de molished and thousands of acres of farm crops ruined, constitute the toll of the most disastrous cloudburst ever recalled in this section. It appeared to have its center near Hunter, on Little Stoney creek and Blue Springs creek, where a house, in which two families lived, went to pieces, taking nine lives. EXPECT VALUATION REPORTS Commerce Body Likely to Act This Summer on Railroad Values. Washington, D. C. Valuation re ports fixing the final values of Import aut railway systems of tho United States are expected to bo Issued by tho Interstate commerce commission this summer. Tho vuluatlon work hus progressed to the stage where a num ber of reports on large systems may be completed in the next few months The field work of the bureau of valuation, involving investigations made in the fluid by engineers, land appraisers and accountants, has been practically completed. Records of the bureau of valuation show that the underlying reports which are made the basis for tenta tive final valuations have been com pleted as to approximately 95 per cent of the total steam railway mile age in the country. Tentative valuation reports have been completed as to 22 per cent of the mileage. Valuation qf railroads began In 1913, when congressmade an initial appro priation of $100,000. In that year the commission had 31 employes in its bureau of valuation and expended $10, 372.91 for valuation work. By 1915 the expenditures had in creased to $2,183,296, and the nunv ber of employes had increased to 1291. Expenditures and the number of em ployes increased until 1919, when ex penditures totaled $3,500,088 and the number of employes totaled 1530. In 1920 expenditures decreased to $2,989,021 and the number of employes dropped to 990. The following year the expenditures were $2,733,000 and the number of employes 926. In 1922 expenditures further decreased to Jl,- 595,000 and the number of employes declined to 685. At present the bureau of valuation has approximately 250 em ployes and congress has authorized an appropriation of $647,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. Valuation of the railroads was start ed In 1913 with the general expecta tion that it would be completed in about three years. The magnitude of the undertaking was not realized at that time. The work is now in its tenth year and it is estimated that two or three more years will elapse before final valuations have been made on all the railways of the Country, al though officials directly in charge of the work decline to give an estimate at this time as to just how much long er it will be before final valuation re ports have been completed. When the reports have been issued the final values found will have to be brought up to date,, the final values being fixed as of June 30, 1915, 1916 or 1917. Many of the final values fixed by the commission will be contested in the courts by the railroads and liti gation will delay the final establish ment of value as a basis for rate mak ing. Japanese Seek Entry. Seattle, Wash. Immigration in spectors examining 238 Japanese who arrived here Monday aboard the Ad miral oriental liner President McKin ley with passports from Japan, found scores who claimed long years of resi dence in this country could not speak a word of English, according to of ficers of the immigration station. Advices received by the department In Seattle asserted that 2700 Japan ese will seek entrance to the United States through this port before July 1, when the Japanese exclusion act be comes effective. Dozens of brides and bridegrooms were among the pas sengers. Warship Hits; Floated. Norfolk, Va. The battleship West Virginia, which went aground soon after leaving Hampton roads for France Monday, was pulled oft. the mud bank, where she had held fast at high water and proceeded to Lynn Haven roads to anchor for minor re pairs. Mine sweepers and tugs pulled the ship free. Aboard were members of the navy contingent of the American Olympic team, whose departure has now been delayed through the crack ing of a condenser head and the los ing of a tower when the West Virginia struck in a dredge channel. Stolen "Treasure" Lead. Reno, Nev.-rSix bars of bullion, stolen last Friday from a railroad at Gorlaeh, Washoe county, Nevada, and supposed to be worth $6000, were really 97 per cent lead, according to a dispatch received from a special agent by Chief Kirkley of the Reno police. One man, under arrest here, confessed the theft of the "treasure" and it was being searched for in San Francisco, Sacramento and bther places. The value of the bars is $60. St. Paul, Minn. Magnus Johnson, Minnesota's "dirt farmer" senator, was renominated on the farmer-labor ticket by an overwhelming plurality in Mon day's statewide primary, returns avail able at 10:30 r. M. showed. He de feated two opponents. TTH CojrtjXe.fc, The D.ik-HSwUfo. SSisS THE RED LOCK SYNOPSIS. On the banks of the Wabash atand Texle Colin and Jack Warhops, young and very much In love. Texle Is the only daughter of old Pap Simon, rich man and money-lender. Jack l the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate. At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the girl's missing brother. Then Jack says that In ten days his servitude will he over, that he will rkrie out Into the big world to seek his fortune, Both know what that will mean to them. Texle and Jack talk of the red lock of "Red Colin," In herited by Ken. And Jack says he's coming back as soon as he finds gold In California. Then arrives the new preacher, Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon Intro duces the villagers to the new preach'er, who was a college mate of Ken. CHAPTER III Continued. "Really, Miss Colin, there Is very little to tell. Tour brother was the ah most puzzling psychological prob lem that I ever tried to solve. He could have been one of the most bril liant scholars the institution ever turned out. He literally drank up ev erything the college bad to give, and that without apparent effort as the desert drinks the dew. His penman ship; his drawing; Ills command of English very remarkable. I ,was his roommate and classmate, and yet I never saw him apply himself seri ously to study. I don't think he did. And that was probably his limitation learning came too easy to him. It can, you know." He stopped, as If he had no more to say; stared at his napkin and folded It with careful precision. "The president's letter said that that J" . The girl seemed unable to finish the questftn, but the preacher guessed what sl'e wanted to know. He again fumbled his napkin, unfolded It, and looked around the table. It was an embarrassing moment. "With all due respect to you, his family" he glanced at Mrs. Curry and the woodsman "and friends, though I would rather not speak of it at all, and should not do so, only that It is niy duty' as your minister to tell you the truth Kenwood Colin was a very severe trial to the college authorities. His talent for learning was equaled only by his talent for mischief. Yet, wild as he was known to be, nobody thought that he would ever have forged his father's name. He was deeply in debt before his very clever forgeries were even suspected, much less detected. "Then came his sensational killing of a gambler over a card game, and his subsequent escape somewhere into the great underworld of the city. Since that, nothing more seems to have been heard of him." There was a moment's silence. The girl leaned forward; her lips apart; her eyes wide. "Fore Ken 1" she said softly. "He couldn't he'p beln' what 'e was. It was the red lock." The preacner raised his spectacled eyes np from his plate and stared at the girl curiously. "Bed lock?" "Didn't you know 'e had it?" . The preacher looked his bewilder ment "Then please, please, don't mention that you know ltl Please, don't ever! I "lowed you knowed, beln' his room mate, or I wouldn't 'a' told. He was that 'shamed 'e had it, and alw'ys kep' it combed under so's it didn't show," The banker had been staring at the tablecloth. He lifted his face. "The 'curse of Colin,'" he com mented thoughtfully. "He was a sea pirate In the days of Queen Elizabeth. 'Red Colin,' they called 'lm. Looks like his blood would 'a' run out b' this time, but It hain't Every three 'r four generations It shows np, pener'ly one child In a family with a lock o' hair as red as fire. jN'obody would think a lock o' hair and a drop o' blood could set a child back hundreds o' genera tions t' what ol' 'Red Colin' must 'a' be'n, but It does. "The minute I saw that red lock on Ken, I knowed 'e was doomed. I've licked 'lm and reasoned with 'lm and prayed over 'lm but I knowed all the time It wouldn't do no good. That's the main reason I sent 'im off t' the kind of a college I did where ther ain't nobody mch but preachers a runnln' It He didn't like t' go f that kind, but I hoped beln' throwed amongst men like that might head off what I knowed was In Mm." The preacher leaned back In his chair; dropped his hands In his lap. "Permit me to lay," he observed In Ms Jerky fashion, "that was as grae a mistake as yon could possibly have made.1 "Mebbe so," the oldman answered. mS BLOfiEf A Tale Of The Flat woods David Af"ivg "But the devil 'imsell couldn't 'a' coped with that boy." The old man beat the tines of bis fork on the table; gazed absently at a candle, reached over and snuffed It." , "Ain't It strange," he went on, "how the past fangs the present the past with its Bins and blunders and Imper fections? Now there's Texle, cradled in the same arms and nursed at the same breast, and she's as different f om Ken as sunshine Is different f'om the wo'st storm that ever wrecked the woods." The preacher put his napkin by. "Heredity plays many a queer trick," be said In a tone of finality. In the silence that followed the old banker took the bunch of still un opened letters from his pocket, laid It on the table and began to sort them, The preacher looked around the room and, noticing the night at the windows, rose. "If you will please excuse me, you remember I promised to run over to the parsonage for a few minutes, and Mrs. Mason probably retires early." The others rose and gathered about him In polite protest, but the preacher Insisted. Mrs. Curry picked up a candle and led trie way into the sitting room, while Texle brought his tall hat from a rack in the corner. He stood gazing about, peering through the open door to the right Into the room where the banker kept his safe and papers; Into the bedroom at the left where the old man slept ; past the fire place and through the open door to the parlor, as if impressed possibly amused by the novelty of a Flat woods home. His eyes, searching the walls, came at last to the portrait of a woman, framed In gilt and bung above' the fireplace. The girl followed his gaze. "My mother," she said softly. "Seven years ago she left us; the very year Ken went off t' college." "She had a serene face," said the preacher as he turned away. The At the Spring the Preacher Suddenly Grasped the Girl's Hand In His Own. banker crossed the flooi-, picked up a key from the mantel and unlocked the door leading from the porch to the parlor. "I 'lowed I'd better show y'u where y'ur room is b'fore y'u go, so's y'u'll know how t' git In If we're in bed when y'u come back. We Flatwoods folks turn in purty early." He took the candle that Mrs. Curry was carrying and led the preacher In across the parlor to the spare bedroom opening from it on the east where the two satchels and umbrella had already been carried. "I 'low this might be called a preach er's room, purt' nigh. Ain't nothin' but preachers slop' in It hardly sence it was built." The old man chuckled as he led the way back to the porch, closed the par lor door, locked It and handed the key to the preacher. The latter stopped a moment on the step and fumbled his tall hat "Miss Colin, won't you please ac company me as far as your ah Whispering spring and show me how to get a drink?" The darkness hid the flush of color that played up Into the girl's face. She glanced at the woodsman ; turned to the preacher and followed him down the steps. The big woodsman stood looking after them, stirred by an unfamiliar emotion to see Texle walk away Into the dark with another man.. At the spring the preacher suddenly grasped the girl's hand in both his own and held It with the same fervid eager ness he had shown that evening In front of the post office. She suffered 'her Mod ' to remiffi' slightly lunger than It had before, thin she gently withdrew It. "Miss Texle you will grant me tln privilege of calling you by your llit name, will you not?" She did not answer. "Your brother, my roommate, was very enthusiastic about his pretty sis ter. But even he did not do you Jus tice. You are" He stopped abruptly, stared past bet Into the night, as if groping for wordi to clothe a thpught unusual with him. The look of a tired student came slowly back to his face, and his shoul ders dropped as If weary with bearlna the burdens of others. Mumbling a fur. ther word or two, he turned from her, crossed the foot-log with mincing step, and passed on througli the orchard toward the parsonage. The girl walked bitck up the path and sat down on the porch step. Words were never too plenty wltb the woodsmajn,' even In his most fluenl moments. He leaned against a post and looked down at her. She seemed busy with her thoughts. The sllenci was so deep that the clink of tin dishes, as Mrs. Curry put them away, and the crinkle of the old banker'l letters, as he sat reading them at tin head of the dining-room table, carried to them out on the porch. The man roused himself from thi spell of the silence; stepped off thi porch and sat down by the girl's side "What d' y'u think of him?" sh asked. It was characteristic of the woods man that he should answer by an other question. "What d' you?" The girl laughed a contented little laugh like the lilt of the bappy water at the bridge. "Oh, I think he's" There came a groan from the dining room, and the sound of a heavy fall. They sprang up and dashed Into the house. Just as Mrs. Curry ran In from the kitchen. The money-lender laj sprawled on the floor, In one hand an open letter, In the other an empty envelope. The girl darted across the room and bent above the shrunken figure. "Jack I Jack I" "Texle, no, don't be flustered. It's Just another one o' them falntin' spells. He'll be all right tn a minute." He raised the old man in his great arms and laid him on a sofa at the aide of the room. Mrs. Curry had hurried back to the kitchen for cold water and cloths, and Texle was urging Jack to run for the doctor, when the old banker opened his eyes. "Doctor I" he panted hard for breath. "Who wants a doctor? It's Jlst another one o' them falnty spells. Look there I" He held up the letter. The girl glanced at it carelessly; then, with a quick exclamation, turned it toward the woodsman. And thus holding It between them they read It slowly, word by word. "Somewhere in New York, "May 2, 1849. "Simon Colin, "Buckeye, Ind. "Sir: "I caught a fellow with a card up his sleeve and called him. He beat me on the draw, and here I am. This girl here says I can't last till the ink's dry, and I'm not doubtin' her. She's always played square with me. I reckon you wouldn't allow her inside of your little old synagogue down there in the Flatwoods, but she'd be the whitest one there except Sis. "You've been one h 1 of a father to me. I've beard you pray by the yard, and I've heard cussln' that was more religious. You starved mother's life out, and you're starvin' the life . out of Sis, but you didn't starve my i life out d n you. I've got a drop of i ol Red Colin in me him that brought j all this cussed red lock mess into the family. I've had my fling and that's more than you can say, with all your money that you've wrung out of better men. "I reckon I've got but a few minutes to live. I'd give half of them to see Sis. But If you'd come in right now, I'd try to get up and kick ou out rm dyln' as ol' Red Colin died with my boots on. I'm expecting to meet him and you both In b 1 "KEN CO" "P. S. Mr. Colin Is dead. He died before he could quite finish signing his name. You can see the blot where the pen fell. I am respecting his wishes and sending this letter without any street address, or other marks, where by you might trace him. His confi dence I shall never betray. I will only say that he shall have decent burial. "THE GHtL." "But ain't he some looker Ban-In that killln' rig he's hob bled up in?" (TO BB) CONTINUED.) Strange Mongolian Whisky. A kind of whisky known as airik li distilled from mare's milk by the na tives of Mongolia. This milk, which ll thicker than cow's milk, has a sort ol sour taste even when fresh. After be ing allowed to stand for several dayi H attains the consistency of buttermilk. Then It is put (pto a huge pot and covered wltb what looks like a barrel with both ends knocked out The ves sel is suspended in the middle of thi barrel, a kettle of cold water Is set on the top, and after a few minutes ol boiling in this primitive still the milk la changed into pure spirit In fcilneral wealth, according to het area, Mexico Is reputed to rank first In the whole world,