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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1924)
I1 ORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, GoTernmenti end Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. The cabinet hag resigned. This change in the Chinese government be came known in Pekin Tuesday. Petty Officer Flowers of the United States destroyer Sycard was killed Monday in an automobile accident in Calcutta, says a dispatch from that city. " Jewelry estimated at $25,000 in value wag stolen Sunday night from the apartment of B. Charles Ehrman, San Francisco importer, while he and Mrs. Ehrman were out driving. Dates for formal notification of President Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes, republican vice-presidential candidate, of their nomination by the Cleveland convention are fixed for July 24 and 31, respectively. The lower part of Main street in Jacksonville, Fla., Monday was en veloped by a fire which dostroyed the large warehouse building occupied by the Quaker Oats company, the Booth Fisheries and the St. Johns river boat line. The appointment of Kenneth Dur ham of Spokane as director of the de partment of labor and industries was announced by Governor Hart Tuesday. Mr. Durham, who succeeds Edward Clifford, resigned, has been supervisor of industrial insurance for the past year. Blown into Bend, Or. by the storm which passed over the mountains Mon day evening, or coming in answer to a migratory Instinct, swarms of large moths, believed to be of the pandora variety, affixed themselves to the wallB of buildings and telephone poles In the city Monday night. Six persons, including Dr. F. V. Mc Nair, president of the Michigan Col lege of Mines, lost their lives and 17 others were injured Monday when a Bolld mail train on the Chicago, Burl ington & Qulncy road crashed into the rear end of the eastbound passenger train No. 2, from Denver, at Buda, 111 The Rev. George Dougias Byers, an American citizen attached to the Presbyterian mission, was murdered June 24, presumably by bandits at Kuchek, Island of Hainan, according to information received by American Minister Scliurman at Pekln and for warded to the stale department Mon day. The derelict of the tramp steamer Bridgetown, which last cloorcd Bur- badoes in February with a 2,000,0U0 liquor cargo and since was reported on tlte Jersey coast rum row, was report ed Monday by Captain Lainson of the Royal Mull liner Ohio to have been sighted last Wednesday off the Crand Bunks. A lighted lantern, hung below, kept a cougar up a largo cottonwood tree Suturduy night at the home of Gerland HoblnBon, who lives two miles north west of Goldondule. At daybreak Sun day morning the animal was shot by Iloblnson and Otis Morgan, a nearby nolghbor. It measured 6 feet 8 inches from tip to tip and weighed 100 pounds. Proposod consolidation of the South ern Pacific aud 101 Paso & Southwest ern railroad system wag defended in a statemont Issued Tuesduy by Julius Kruttsrhnltt, chairman of the South era Pacltio company. Ho suid the union would insure preservation of dinting routes and channels of trade and commerce In harmouy with the policy of the transportation act. The same bandit who three week ago held up and robbed the North Sacramento branch of the California Trust & Savings bank of 12000 held up the bunk again at 11 o'clock Tues day and took $000. The bandit was identified by the bunk officials as the man who had been there before. 11 was unmasked on both occasions. He operated in tie same manner and fle in an automobile a before. Further evidence of the crafty super mind of Nathan Leopold Jr., who with Ilk-hard Loob, murdered little Robert Franks, came Tuesday when the slot learned of what appears to have been an attempt to shift the blame for the murder to the shoulders ofa fellow student, George Lewis, who was brought In for questioning. Lewis is an ornithologist and had taken one of Leopold's classes on a field trip about the time of the murder. PRESIDENT'S SON IS DEAD Blood Poisoning Proves Fatal to Calvin ' Coolidge, Jr. Washington, D. C Calvin Coolidge Jr., son of the president, died Monday night at Walter Reed hospital of blood poisoning. The end came after the boy had battled with' the utmost bravery and fortitude for five days against a dis ease which had racked his body with pain and sapped the reserve strength of his trail constitution. President and Mrs. Coolidge, who had maintained constant vigil at the hospital, were at his bedside, hope ful and cheering and comforting their son to the last. A sinking spell, the fourth he had suffered in 24 hours, , brought death. Notwithstanding the use of oxygen and other restoratives, the courage which had withstood crisis after crisis and had beaten death off repeatedly was unable to meet the attack. The, col lapse began at 6:30 o'clock and he died at 10:30 oclock. B. T. Clark, the president's per sonal secretary, emerged from the sickroom at 10 o'clock and told those waiting outBlde.that the patient was sinking, but that his stamina was re sisting every backward Btep. Neither President Coolidge nor Mrs. Coolidge came out, and the physicians remained to minister to the suffering boy's last minutes. The White House, where a staff had been kept busy while the presi dential, residence was temporarily re moved to Walter Reed hospital, ceas ed to function for the time, and Secre tary Slemp and others rushed to the hospital. In other parts of the city, where the illness of the boy had grip ped public Interest to the exclusion of almost everything else, there were anxious inquiries as to hia condition and expressions of sympathy for the parents. Announcement that death had final ly ended the sufferings of the frail boy was made by Mr. Clark, He walk ed slowly from the room and those who were gathered there knew from his demeanor that the end had come, The infection developed from a broken blister on the right foot, sua talned during a tennis match with his brother John on the White House courts lunt Monday. At first paying no attontion to it, the youth developed an alarming condition by Wednesday night and physicians were summoned The poison, however, once started, had spread so rapidly that medical skill was without avail. A number of specialists were called to act with White House physicians on the case and a desperate fight for life was made by tho boy, who struggled in great pain and with high fever. Church Asks Freedom. Decorah, Iowa. Resolutions call ing for freedom of religious worship and absolute separation of church and state were adopted Monday at the closing session here of the fifth an nual district convention of the Nor weglnn Lutheran church of America, Anothor resolution adopted declar ed "it is the duty of all citizens to oboy luws enacted by the govern ment." The Lutherans iu still another resolution deplored war and' welcom ed Its banishment, but declared jhey stood ready to "sacrifice even our lives whenever the government, In order to presorve the common welfare summons us to the field of battle." Tunnel Plan Abandoned. London. Prime Minister MacDonald announced Monday In the house of commons that the British government hnd decided against the construction of a tunnel under the English chan nel. Mr. MacDonald declared that tli government had accepted the advice of the committee on Imperial defense that the advantages of the tunnel were not commensurate with its disadvan tages from a defense viewpoint. Cyclone Stops Air Mail. Omaha. Frank Yager, air mull pilot flying between Cheyenne and Omaha, was forced down at Chappell Neb., about 25 miles north of Jules- burg, Colo., by what air mail officials termed a "young cyclone" at 8: IS Mon duy night. A relief plane piloted by Jack Knight was sent from the Omaha field to pick up Yager's cargo. Keno Forest In Flames. Klamath Falls, Or. Lightning caus ed a serious forest fire in the Keno section, 14 miles west of Klamath Fulls, Sunday and local tire-fighters have been unable so fur to get the flames under control. The fire has spread over a front of three miles and threatens an Immense area ot Weye hausor Timber company pine. Accused Cowboys Free. 1 tendon, Kngland. Court summons which had been Issued against Tex Austin and other promoters ot the rodeo In the Wembley stadium and cowboys participating in It, charging cruelty to animals in the steer-roping J contest, were dismissed Monday. F 0 NEW m IN I Follettee Candidacy mally Indorsed. For- 0NFERENCE ENDED All Elements at Cleveland Convention Reported in Full Accord at Conclusion. Cleveland, O. r After indorsing Robert M. La Follette as a presidential candidate and providing for the organ ization of a new political party next January, the conference for progres sive political action wound up its con vention early Saturday night. The conference empowered its na tional committee to select a vice-presidential candidate after conference with the "La Follette-for-president committee." La Follette was Indorsed as a candi date on his own platform. The con vention then adopted for itself a plat form embodying the ideas contained the Wisconsin document and in the statement of principles issued at the St. Louis session of the confer ence last February. The final day of the gathering work ed out strictly according to plans of the leaders and without appreciable opposition. But just before adjourn ment some of the delegates, dazed by the rapidity of events, had to be as sured by the chair that La Follette actually had been "nominated" and that definite provision had been made for the new party. The 'confusion arose from the fact that the report of the committee on organization recommended this action and that no separate motion of in dorsement was offered. The report Itself was adopted without a dissent ing vote, but the significance of this action did not dawn on either dele gates or galleries and there was a total absence of demonstration. Repeatedly, Friday as Saturday, the name "La Follette" was the signal tor an outburst of cheering and ap plause. Yet the culmination ot the convention's work, coming In the form of a committee recommendation, did not draw even a pattering of hand clapping. All elements In the convention were Intent on showing they were back of La Follette's candidacy. After losing a fight before the organization com mittee for immediate formation of a new party, the socialists, led by Morris Hillqult of New York, were the first to second the indorsement report. The farmer-labor party elements who backed Parley Christiansen in the 1920 campaign, and who ultto had urged the "third party Idea," then rallied to the support ot La Follette us un independent, Abraham Lefkow- Itz, New York, being their spokesman. Wolves Cause Losses. Klumath Falls, Or. Driven down from the higher mountains by the un usual drought, timber wolves were re ported to bo raising havoc with cattle ranchers on the west shore ot Klamath lake. The wolves killed six calves and oue grown steer at the Douk ranch during the past few days. Two of the wolves have been killed by ranch hands, who report the ani mals more bold than is the usual case during a severe winter. According to the ranchers, Invasions by wolves at this season have never been known before. Bodies of Five Boys Found. Rultlmore, Md. The bodies of five boys, members ot the Baltimore Even ing Sun's newsboy band, and that ot a negro, were found on the hulk of the buy steamer Three Rivers Suuduy whou the remulus ot the vessel, which was burned to tho water line in Chesa peake bay early yesterdny morning, was towed Into Baltimore. This brings the total number ot victims of the fire up to 10 and accounts tor all those known to be missing. Two Jugo-Slavs Slain. Belgrade. An Incident is reported from the Italo-Jugo-Slsv frontier in which two Jugo-Slav customs officers were killed. The version ot the in cident received here says the customs men, while patrollng, met three Italian frontier guards who summoned Ihem to halt. When the customs men pointed out that they were on Jugo slav territory, according to this ac count, the Italians opened fire, killing them and wounding a civilian. JANUARY SV.VW.V.W.'..V.W.W.W The Red Lock A Tale of the Flatwoods By DAVID ANDERSON Author of "Tk St., Moon' Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS Copyright by The Bobbt-Merrill Co. THE FOOTPRINT SYNOPSIS. On the banks of the Wabash stand Texle Colin and Jack Warhofce, young and very much in love. Texle la the only daughter of old Pap Simon, rich man and money-lender. Jack Is the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate. At first Texle and Jack talk Badly of Ken Colin, the girl's missing brother. Then Jack says that in ten days his servitude will be over, that he will ride 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 tho new preacher, Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon in troduces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate of Ken. At supper at the Colin home the preacher tells how the boy killed a gambler and disap peared. His father attributes Ken's fall from grace to his red lock of hair. Then Pap Simon has a sort of stroke, brought on by reading a letter from ien, "somewhere in New York," who curses his father on his death bed, A postscript by another hand says he Is dead. At the vil lage store and post office Loge Belden, a newcomer, says he saw the new parson with his arm around Texie. Jack licks him, shoots a pistol from his hand and makes him say he was mistaken. The preacher and the villagers go fishing. Jack discovers the preacher carries a six-gun. CHAPTER V Continued. "Mud haul " he muttered; "is it far?" 'Mile 'r so," grunted Uncle Nick, as he stooped over the seine, helping spread the meshes straight. . "I really should not remain away from the study so long," the preacher pursued. "I must have time to collect my thoughts somewhat, as I under stand I shall be expected to make a few remarks at tho festival tonight" Uncle Nick leered around at him. "An' them remarks will be few, par son. I 'low y'u nee'n' t' worry y'ur head about them remarks none. Ther'll be another scent In the air t'ulght." The old man winkeVl at Counterman, trudged off down the sundbar to the live box, dragged 1 up along the edge of the stream and hitched It to the stern of the skllT. He had hardly fin ished when Jack and Counterman came with the seine. The preacher came last, his eyes still drawn Irresistibly up the river. "Is there not some other place?" he asked, reluctantly taking his seat In the bow, "some nearer place?" Uncle Nick studied him out of his deep-set eyes. He was a guest, in a Guest and Preacher Though He Was, He Was Still a Tenderfoot sense, and he was the preacher. The old man's fsce became thoughtful; he glanced at Counterman. ' 'Thar's Grassy bar," he muttered; halt questioned, "au' thar's Yaller branch" Counterman spit out Into the river a preliminary that usually had to be attended to before he spoke. "Grussy bar," he repeated thought fully, rieerlng over his shoulder at the preacher In the bow, as It he too had caught something of Uncle Nick's con slderatluns. "Hit's better ft tpesrln'. An' Yaller branch" h glanced up at the sun ; swept sky and river with his puckered one eye "t'day's too ilary. Hit aln t deep enough. No, I'm f r Mud haul. They'll be serooched In (bar thick ts bees around a haw tree." The decision seemed final. The preacher glanced again up the river, and pulled the faded straw hat farther down over his head as If afraid of sunburn. Is It dreadfully muddy r he mum bled. Guest and preacher though he was, he was still a tenderfoot. Counter man's raucous laugh exposed the huge wad of tobacco between his jaws. Nick took the unllghted pipe from be tween his lips, and his roar wheeled a wisp of sand snipe that happened at the moment to be glancing up the bar. "Not as muddy as It sounds," he chuckled, grabbing a match out of his 1 trousers pocket. That settled It The preacher, ap parently resigned to whatever further hardships fate might have in store for him, sat watching the shore line, with Its witchery of lapping water, Its bor dering fringe of pebbles and white shells, draw slowly by. The fishermen landed. The live box was hitched to a stake as before, the half-reluctant preacher left to hold the brail stick, while the others rowed out and around the fifty yards or more of murky water that lay between the point and the shore. Hardly had - the circuit been com pleted when It began to be apparent that Counterman's Judgment would be amply justified. The final haul proved to be much the best of the day. The good fish were dropped into the live box, the others tossed back into the river, and the fishermen set about preparing to return to the village. The brail sticks were united, the seine rolled up, and the woodsman walked up the bar for the boat. He stooped over the craft, possibly recalling the circumstance of the six gun concealed In the frock coat; laid his hand to the bow to push It off; straightened after a moment, walked some distance farther up the bar and stood gazing Intently toward the nar row upper end of the arm of water where it disappeared under the over lapping branches of trees and tangled vines. Snugged away under the tangle, In a manner that must have made it practically Invisible, except from that one point, lay a small houseboat A trifling circumstance enough houseboats were common on the Wa bash but why there? The place was dark and dank, the bank boggy, and there "was no spring short of Alpine Island, The woodsman turned and motioned to his companions. They had been watching him and at his- sign came trooping up the bar the preacher fagged and lagging be hind and gathered around him. Fol lowing the direction of his finger, they peered In under the overlapping trees, Counterman grinned around at the others after a moment and jerked his thumb back toward the skiff. "S'posln' we row up an' pay 'lm visit? I'd like t' see a man with slch an eye f'r a campln' place." Uncle Nick tossed up his chin, grunt ed, and led the way down the bar to where he had beached the boat. The preacher appeared to be consid erably vexed at the further prolonga tion of a trip that was growing more and more Irksome to him. It might almost have been Imagined that frown milled the studious primness of his brow. But as the skiff glided up the narrowing arm of dead water, he appeared to get himself In hand again. The frown disappeared and his air be came that of a man only mildly Inter ested In what went on about him, There Is little formality among1 men ot the river and the woods a fine enough delicacy, though, when big mo ments come. They brought the bow of the skiff up under the stem of the secluded little craft and climbed aboard. There was both a fore and an aft door to the tiny cabin that occupied the whole mid section of the deck, but no windows on either side. Both doors were heavily padlocked a further proof of the owner's excluslveness. On the dusty boards there were a num ber of footprints, some of them curl ously enough made by a boot that must have been stylish, even dainty. Uncle Nick leaned upon the railing of the forward deck and prodded his pipe, while the one-eyed fisherman gnawed himself a fresh chew from sweaty plug that he clawed up out of his overalls pocket, the two of them generalizing on the circumstance of stylish boot tracks, no windows snd padlocked doors. The preacher bad joined In the dis cussion and was just telling them, In his half-bored drawl, that it might be some naturalist taking unusual pains to preserve his specimens, when Jack Warhope, still standing In the skiff and holding It to the stern of the house boat, picked up one of the shiny boots from the preacher's stack ot clothes In the bow, snd, hidden from the others by the cabin, pressed the heel of It down hard beside one of the heel-prints on the dusty after-deck. The two prints coincided perfectly. CARTER VI Mettle of the Minister. The Buckeye schoolhouse stood on the extreme west side of the village, A plain one-room building ot the gen eral type ot ;he period paint gone weather-beaten ; no belfry; no orna mentation; three windows on each side: a chimney at the back; a pat tered door In front The "festival" In celebration of tin close of school was a distinct event at Buckeye. The pupils' desks had been removed and placed around the walla. A long table extended across the resr. The rest of the room was clear, except for the great box stove that stood In the center of the lioor, rusty red, aod huge enough and deep enough t swallow a stick ot cord-wood whole. Everything was free, each famtfy that sent children to school bringing a well-filled basket And such a feast as the housewives of the neighborhood furnished forth could have been found nowhese else In the land except there In the great Flatwoods that lay, warped and wild, along the north bank of the upper Wabash. Uncle Nick was there which meant that things wera not likely to drag, for he was the wisest, wittiest, and, as he himself said, "the no-accounteat" man In the Flatwoods a free-and- easy, happy-go-lucky, catcn-as-catcn- can sort of man. He had been a great hunter and bor der ranger In his time, having come to the Wabash country when It was still the frontier and the Indians made It dangerous. Nearly forty years before, man in his pride and prime, he had been one of Harrison's most trusted scouts, and had borne an honorable part In the grim and deadly struggle that took place In the early dawn upon Jhat swamp-bound point of woodland on the Tippecanoe. Aunt Liza, the "other half of Uncle Nick, was there too. But If he had an oversupply of jollity In his disposi tion, she had a far greater over supply of grlmness. Aunt Liza was the one person in the world on whom Uncle Nick's wit fell flat In all matters pertaining to their few acres of bottom land, ana in tneir cabin home a little way up Eagle Hol low road, her word was law. Uncle Nick was perched upon one of the desks, his back to the wall, his eyes twinkling merrily, already an In. He Was Raking Over His Scant Stock of Woda for One That Would Fit the Occasion. terested audience around him roaring at his drollery, when Jack Warhope pushed his way through the jam of men and boys at the door and joined the aimlessly sauntering crowd In the schoolhouse. The Reverend Caleb Hopkins ar rived, as he had promised he and Texle and Mrs. Mason. He had been anxiously awaited, since It had long been the custom to have the minister sit at the first table and launch the festival" with a blessing. Zeke Pollck likewise by ancient custom, a sort of self-appointed master of ceremonies his sharp hatchet face scrubbed shiny with home-made soap perfumed with sassafras, pounced on the preacher and hurried him to the head ot the table, with Widow Mason on his right, Miss Martin, the teacher, on his left, and as many pupils as pos sible lined up along the sides of the bounteous board. . The preacher's remarks were short- simple; concise ; every sentence packed with thought ; every gesture alive with grace. No speaker could have asked a better audience. He had been well heralded and expectation was at keen est pitch. And no speaker ever better Improved his opportunity. The speech ended while the audience was still hungry to hear more a trick that many a less brilliant speaker might well copy. He turned back to the table and raised his hand. The two long rows of youngsters stood in awk wardly decorous expectancy. The low tones of the solemn grace fell softly Impressive; the minister resumed his seat; a deep breath swept down the two rows of hungry urchins ; and the "festival" was on. A good length ot the candles In the windows had burned away when Jack, sauntering aimlessly In the crowd, found himself, for the first time that evening, face to face with Texle, where she leaned oer Mrs. Mason's chair. The girl looked up and smiled. He was raking over bis scant stock of words for one that would fit the occa sion words being about the hardest things be bad to reckon with when the young preacher, suave and affable, by odds the most popular man In the house, joined the group. ' Through the mind of Jack Warhope flashed a comparison between the preacher and himself. The compari son showed dead against htm. For the first time in his life he was halt ashamed of his ungainly clothes, ot the great limbs, the mi wire chest and shoulders the "six-foot-three" of bone and brawn upon which' the Flat woods hsd exhausted Its utmost Imag ination, Its ultimate romance, when U bestowed the title: Big Jack. ''The preacher slowly raised an arm and pointed toward the open doer. (TO a COKTUflED.) e