N E W B E R G GRAPHIC. A D T IB T Iin a I C o lu i. . la ll Column ........... Ngtsssloaal Caída.... I m 4 I i NEWBERG GRAPHIC. BATH. - T v a a tr D alla« ___ .Taa Dolían . O u Dollar i N o t i o n W i l l B o Ia a o rto d a t B o K a ta a f T a a C aata F a r I l i a AdoartlaloB BlUa Collaaoad Maatkly. VOL XIV. BY J. M A U LA R E N COBBAN. * a CH APTER XV. NEWBERG, YAM HILL COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1902. you. As it says, I say: “ You are the murderer of your partner, Mr. Lacroix, and hiB remains will now be found se­ curely locked, whence you can’ t remove them, under that fallen w all!’ ’ His jaw dropped, and his great body trembled for a moment, then as with a sudden impulse of fury he made as if he would crunch me with a bearish hug. when Birley came between us. “ Come, ’ Manuel, none of that. A* I told you, you’e not yet done with law and Lancashire. You’d better go home, or go to our experiments.” “ Fool!” he cried, still glaringat me. “ Idiot! What scrap of proof have you of the ridiculous charge you make?” ■‘ For one thing I have proof that Mr. Lacroix, Before he went to you at the works, called here to see his old uncle.” “ Soh! Has the old idiot found his tongue at last then?" We we all amazed, Steinhardt as much as any, at the electrical effect of this upon the old man. I had casually noticed throughout the scene that he had eagerly though painfully listened. I was smitten with fright, as if I saw a dead man rise to his feet, when he now rose at once to his full towering height —a height which I could not have con­ ceived he possessed as he reclined hud­ dled in his chair— and, quivering with excitement, strove to give utterance. This he could not do, but with light­ ning gesture he pointed with out­ stretched zim to the door. Steinhardt stood and stared open-eyed, when he made as if he would himself compel him to go. “ Go, “ Manuel; go, man!” urged Birley, holding the door open. Steinhardt went without a word, and tho old man fell back In his chair—and was soon rigid in death. As I recall the final episodes of my I had much ado to keep quiet, but I did manage to hold my tongue. I had story so far as they concern the arch­ my eyes fixed on him, however; as he villain Steinhardt, I am so affected again turned to go, his eyes encountered with a shuddering horror that I scarce mine, and, I thought, fell before them. write legibly. Yet they have such a In a moment we heard the door slant fascination that I am drawn to the de­ behind hint, and Louise sank sobbing scription of them, to'the risk of omit­ into a chair. It took all Birley’s efforts ting one or two matters of quieter inter­ and mine to calm her. I think I must est, which are yet vital to my story. Wednesday have become very much engrossed with These I must dispose of. my own efforts, for when at length and Thursday passed away, and the Louise sat composed and I turned to Friday arrived, which to think of even now makes me tremble. It was a dar­ Birley, Birley was gone. “ You will not leave me,” she said, ing experiment we were about to at­ laying her hand on mine, “ till he tempt, and so very little would make it ridiculous! I had taken partly to my cotnes back?’ ’ confidence the big son of the landlady That touch precipitated feeling in (a staunch Lancashire lad of the old me, and the confession which I had not breed). With him I went through the intended I should make for some time j slides of my story several times, and yet. Considering the highly wrought showed him how to manage them with condition of the nerves of both of us, 1 effect. do not think it is surprising that we The evening came and I was almost should then have opened our hearts to sinking under excitement. The place each other. _ of entertainment was that public hall “ I wish,” I said, “ that I need never in which Freeman had de ivered his leave your side again.” famous lecture The kind of thing was On an impulse of shyness she tried ! rather new in the village, and there to withdraw her hand, butl kept it and was a crowded attendance of work peo­ she let it stay. ple, especially of Steinhardt’ s own. “ Louise,” I said, “ do you know | Steinhardt, with his wife and son, sat what that man meant when he accused right in front, where the reflectioon me of seeking to marry an heiress?” from the sheet fell full upon him. “ Yes,” said sl e, with hanging head I When the lights were turned, some out (the beautiful head), “ I think I do. I and others low, Freeman and I crept up C H APTE R X V I. He said something of the same to me behind the sheet, where I waited with Birley remained that night at the at Blackpool.” trembling pulse and sudden creeping cottage. When I left to return to my “ And do you think,” I urged, ‘ that chills till the, to me, uninteresting lodgings I was surprised, even for the if I told that heiress how I loved her, part of the entertainment came to an moment terrified, to see lights across how I had loved her and thought of her end. The curate acted as lecturer, and the stream, hovering about the spot from the first moment I had seen her, 1 explained with fluency what the views which I knew was the temporary grave before I guessed that she might be an meant, or told something about the of Mr. Lacroix. In the moving lights heiress—do you think if I said that, it places represented. I cannot tell what I presently saw figures; I heard sounds, would only be because I expected she it was about. At length his series of too— the sounds of a pickaxe. would be rich one day?” views and his lecture were finished. “ They are breaking into the gravel” “ uh, I do not think that at all! There was a moment’ s pause— to me a I exclaimed to myself, and resolved I But,” she said, looking up with a wild throb of anxiety— and then the bass would go and see. bright, uncertain smile (which was so ! voice ol the manager of the lantern I hurriedly picked my way round to winning!— so ravishing!) "bu t I am boomed forth the annoucement: “ A the place. About the fallen wall— the not an heiress.” Lacashire Mystery.” Without another gigantic tomb-slab of Lacroix, which a “ You guess, then, it is you I would word the first picture n in e upon the brawny pickman, naked to the waist, say this to?— that it is you I love and sheet ( I crept to its corner to watch was hewing at— there stood, in silent, have ever thought of?” Steinhardt). It was two men in an stolid expectation, a crowd of thirty or She trembled violently (dear fluttered attitude of quarrel, surrounded by col­ forty men and lads, with two or three heart!) but I still held her hand. ored vapors. The second followed women with shawls over their heads. “ I did not guess,” she murmured, quickly without a word of explanation; Many of the men were in the colored “ until he made me think of it at Black­ the same two men—the one half suffo­ garb of the chemical works. pool. Then I understood why you had cated, struggling to gel out of a vat or . “ Pick on that spot where you ses the been so very good to me, and I — ” bath -f vepore, bile tlm other, with green,” I called to the hewer; I had “ What, I-ouiae? What, dear?” I mouth muffled, held him down. Still hastily come to the conclusion that urged. no word of explanation. Rapidly since I could not hinder the opera­ “ Then I — I think,” she faltered, " I came the third picture— the man one tions I ought to help. began to— Do not make me say i t !” lying dead and dyed before the other, When I said this they all turned and “ To love me a little?” I asked. and beside an open box. Awful whis­ looked at me. “ Do, do say it.” pers began to stir among the spectators, “ You know summat about this, do “ Yes,” "she whispered. Iler face w ho were the more impressed no doubt not yo’ , parson?” asked one. was hid against my shoulder, and my by the silence amid which the pictures "Something,” said I. arms were about her before she added appeared. I ventured to peep at Stein- “ I ’ m thinking, Mr. Unwin,” said an — “ hut not little— very much!” hard ; he was gazing fixedly, with part­ old man, whom I recognized as the It was some moments before either ed lips. The fourth picture called father of the man to whose death bed I of us spoke again. forth an instantaneous cry of horror; it had been summoned months before; “ Do you think,” she said at length, was, perhaps, too realistic. The dead “ I ’ m thinking this that you’ ve shown •it is right that we should have said body lay stripped and quartered before tonight in th’ pictures is th’ same busi­ these things at such a time?— when we the living man, who stooped over it. I ness as my lad raved about. do not yet know anything certain about fancied that at this sight I heard a low Bo my connection with the pictures my dear, dear father?” moan from the front bench, but on had been discovered. "Louise,” I answered, “ darling, I glancing at Steinhardt I saw him sit­ In silence the hewer picked the would, you know, save you the small­ ting as before, as if fixed as much by bricks loose, pausing now and then to est pang of pain. But I think I ought utter astonishment as by horror. The let a comrade throw the debris aside. to say at once, dear, that you must give next picture rapidly blotted out the Soon a space was cleared, and he began up the hope that you have clung to, I gruesomeness of the other; the portions carefully to pick into and loosen the know, in secret, that you might after of-the body lay wrapped in three can­ soil. A shovel was brought into requi­ all find your father alive. He does vas packages, and the man stood by as sition, and the earth and rubbish were not live, I am sure now— indeed I may if pondering. Quickly came the next; thrown aside. And the old ventil­ say I as good as know where he lies the man digging near a ruined build­ ating cowl overhead kept grinding buried, though 1 must not tell you ! ing, with the three packages by him. stiffly and slowly about, with painful, more at present. All we can hope to “ Th’ owd spinning m ill!” some one long-drawn moans, as if it were op­ do then, darling, is to give him a de­ exclaimed aloud; I had not thought the pressed with the spirit of the scene. cent resting place. Then we shall go resemblance was so recognizable. That “ I ’ ve struck on summat!” extlaimed away out of this terrible region of was almost immediately succeeded by the hewer, pausing abruptly and speak­ money grubbing, of horrible toiling the same view of the mill, with the ing in a hurried whisper. ami moiling in smoke and steam and packages gone, the hole covered in, and Several hands were now tearing at poisonous vapors, where the eye cannot the man standing as if pulling a rope the soil, and fearfully sounding it. rest upon one single spot Of nature un­ which pas-ed over the top of the wall. “ I feel a clout,” whispered one man, abused— we shall go away to a place “ The devil!” exclaimed Steinhardt, and he began to tug at it. where the people are poorer and milder, starting suddenly to his feet. But he “ A h ,” I exclaimed in alarm, “ you where we may see clear skies and recollected himself, and sat down again. mustn’ t disturb them— not tonight, at pure water, and trees anil flowers bright At once the last picture of all flashed least!” and wholesome. Won’ t that be a wel­ npon the sheet; tfie wall lay flat on the “ Yea, parson,” said the man, “ but come cnange?— and to get away from ground, and the man stood by with the we mun. We mun see which on us it the constant talk of ‘ brass.’ ” loose rope in his hand! is lie’s done for like this. There’ s Jim “ Oh, yes,” she exclaimed “ that will Up started Steinhardt, and strode Riley gone missing, and Job Kershaw." be sweet. Let us go— do let ns go as down the room, amid an ominous (To bs continued) soon as ever all things are settled, and silence, to w here the big Dick stood by , we have done somet! ing for our dear his apparatus. uncle Birley! We shall do something “ Where the devil,” I heard him ex­ W A N T E D T O C L I M B T H E G A T E , for him— shall we not?” claim, ” d d those horrible pictures We were thus talking when ‘ ‘dear come from? They were not among the Story of Secretary Moody sad haughty Boo- Uncle Birley” came in. He probably lot I bought! Come, nod— d nonsense! ton Woman. suspected the understanding we had You must tell me where you got them. | They are telling a story in Washing­ come to, but, like a kind and discreet Who gave them to you? old gentleman as he is, he said nothing There w as now a wild hubbub of j ton about the new secretary of the then. talk. Dick. 1 was sure, had refused to ! navy. Mr. Moody was riding on one of "Wondered where I ’ ve been, have! toll him anything about them. In the the Boston surface cars, and was stand­ you? W ell, lad, I ’ ve just walked down midst of this the lights flashed forth ing on the platform on the side next to thy lodgings to tell th’ old woman again, and the people began slowly to the gate that protected passengers from A she may go to bed, for thou’ rt to stay disperse, with hushed but earnest cars coming on the cthar track. here the rest of this night— the last speech. Freeman and I slipped out by lady— a Boston lady— came to the door of the car, and, as it stopped, started to night but one, very likely, that I sha.l a side door. be here myself!” I went straight to Jaqnes’ s cottage. move toward the gate, which was hid­ A tear glistened in his eye, and a There I found Birley. In low, anxions den from her by the man standing be­ lump rose into his throat; but, after a voices we began to discuss what would fore it. momentary pause, he talked on, and he (meaning Steinhardt) do now. ' “ Other side, please, lady," said the these signs of emotion disappeared. Louise wished (lie had been there, and conductor. He was ignored as only a We soon went to bed, but I think no Birley had just said it was as well she horn and bred Bostonian can ignore a one of the three slept much. had not, when a heavy foot rapidly ap­ m in. The lady took another step to­ fn the course of an intimate talk proached, the latch was noisily raised, ward the gate. “ You must get off the other side,” with fyouise which I had that fiunday the door was dasl ed open, and Stein- said the conductor. I learned how near I had been to losing hard stood before us. " I wi«h to get off on this side, ’ came “ Soh!” he exclaimed, glaring at Bir­ her while she was at Blackpool, where her vigilant duenna had been a bard, ley and me, “ I have found you, sneaks the answer, in tones that congealed the Re- You think with your official into momentary silence. faithful old German servant of Btein- and cowards! fore he could either explain or expostu­ hardt’ s. It was only gradually that I > fool’s tricks and vour pictures yon will got to know all the anxie’ y, and even annoy me, and spoil me! Piff! You late, Mr. Moody came to bis assistance. “ Stand to one side, gentlemen,” be terror, of those days of detention and are nothing!— you are beggars'— yoa surveillance, but that day I heard to are dirt! I will have you, Sir Parson, remarked quietly. ” Tbe ledy wants to my horror that the poor girl had been ■ arrested for making calumnious chsrges climb over the gate.” — New York How in his fary had he Times. so wrought upon hr Steinhardt'a repre­ against me!” sentations of her duty to her fathet, of the henionsneea of refusing to fulfil what (Steinhardt declared) had been hia frequently expreased wish, that she was on the point of accepting Frank for a husband w hen he and his father were called away, the one home and the ether to London. BATB1. • s m i l l Month!.... Tkiaa Monika One Year. in advance. HEHR STEINHARDTS NEMESIS CH APTER X IV — Continued. ■ C B S C K IP T IO M Oaa Taai........ committed himself! “ Herr Steinhardt," said I, at once, “ the pictures, so far as I heard, were unaccompanied by a single w,,rd of comment, except what they drew from the people, and no one could say that the flgnrea repretwnted were likeneese«. But your guilty, bleck heart bae charged Spread ef ClvJnitlos. The first Tagalog-Ergllth and Eng- lish-Tagalog dictionary has just been completed. It is the work of Dr. 8 to rupie of New York, who worked en the Tagalog grammar before our war i with Spain. EVENTS OF THE DAY B IG L 0 8 S BY F IR E . NO. 32. NEWS OF THE STATE Nearly $400,009.Worth ef Property Destroy­ ed on Portland's Waterfront. FROM THE FOUR Q U ARTERS OF T H E W ORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Importsat happening! of the Pis« Week. Presented In a Condensed Form, Which Is Most Likely te Prove ef Interest to Our Many Readers Onr exports to Africa are greater than those to all South America. After six weeks, the strike in the anthracite coal fields shows no signs of an early settlement. President Mitchell, of tigs Mine- workers’ Union, is preparing a state­ ment for the public. The Freano, Cal., roundhouse of the Souther Pacific burned, together with 12 locomotives. The loss is estimated to be nearly $200,000. Three tramps wer# killed and seven seriously injured in a freight wreck near Fairbury, Neb. Three of the train crew were slightly injured. The strike situation in the Union Pacific machine shops is becoming serious. The trouble may spread to other branches of the com|iany. Money has been secured for the building of the Denver A Pacific Rail­ road. The new line will shorten the time between Denver and Salt I-ake by 10 hours. The United States government has entered into a contract with the Mar­ coni Wireleps Telegraph Company for the erection of two wireless telegraph stations connecting Fort Gibbon, Alas­ ka, with Bates Rapid, on the Tanana, a distance of 105 miles on an air line. The coal supply throughout the_Kaat is running shoTt. Fire destroyed the business portion of Rugby, North Dakota. Packing companies of the country will form a billion dollar trust. Civil government has besn estab­ lished in Samar, Philippine iflands. The Vatican has accepted Judge Taft’s proposal regarding Philippine friar lands. People have become tir«d ol the trouble caused in Pateriou, N. J., by anarchists and will run them out of town. The feeling is general in the cabinet that legislation iavoring the Panama canal ronte will be passed by the pres­ ent session of congress. Nc trace can bo found of the Am eri­ can teachers who started out from Manila for a day’s outing, and it is feared that they have been killed. A sensation has been caused in Nome by the court finding the United States marshal and a city councilman guilty of fixing juries. They will probably get the limit of the law. The house has passed the general de­ ficiency bill. King Edward’s physicians Hay he must have absolute rest for a few days. A crt.nk called at the White House, but was arrested liefore any damage could be^done. India lias been warned to prepare for a severe drouth this year through­ out the Bombay province. Thirty-one persons were injured in a Guthrie, O. T., fire which was started by an explosion of gasoline. It is said that the National Demo­ crats will offer the 1904 presidential nomination to Grover Cleveland. A Brigham, Ctah boy has been kid­ naped. His abductors say that if they do not get $5,000 reward for his return they will cut off his limbs. Patterson, N. J., is experiencing much difficulty from rioting strikers led by anarchists. They have wrecked several mills and it has been necessary to declare martial law. Four men were struck by lightning and killed near Sherman, Tex. It is rumored that a plot has been discovered to assassinate King Edward. John D. Rockefeller has donated three-quarters of a million dollars to the University of Chicago. Unprecedented told weather prevails throughout Europe and it is feared that crops will lie rained. Venexuelan rebels fired on a Nor­ wegian ahip, killing the captain ami wounding a passenger. American war­ ships have been sent to the scene. A disgraceful scene occurred in the French chamber of deputies. Violent talk and numerous threats led to ar­ rangements for a duel, which will be fought in a day or two. A resolution has been introduced into the house looking to the settlement of ths cost miners strike bjr arbitration. It is also intendedto settle all dispntss in the future. Indian war veterans of the Northwest sen secure their pensions under the new law through their state delegations without going to the needles« expense of hiring pension attorneys. Brasil has a coast line of nearly 6,000 miles, with 52 sea ports. Portland, June 23.— Fire originating in the old Wolff A Zwieker Iron Works Saturday night, swept away nearly six blocks of the East Side water front property, homed down the two east spans of the Madison street bridge, re­ duced East Water street to ruins from Salmon to Jefferson streets, and burned so hotly ataiut the great oil filled tankB of the Standard Oil Com|iany that it looked for a time as i( a terrible explo­ sion would spread the flame- out over the river and along the entire water front. The lots will reach $372,000, much of which ia not covered by insur­ ance. There was no loss of life. One fireman was hurt, but not fatally. It was 10:50 when the alarm was turned in, and before the first engine company could reach the foundry of the Phoenix Iron Works, formerly the Wolff A Zwicker plant, the roof was ablaze, and the dry timbers were carrying the fire in every direction. The wretched water facilities along the streets, and the absence of any means to take the en­ gines to the river, which was directly beneath the roadway, made it impos­ sible to do much more than spit at the fire witli a few 30 foot streams, and in less than a half hour the iron works were in the center of a rapidly widen­ ing zone of flame, which soon extended south beyond Jefferson street, and almost to the Troy Laundry Company, near East Yamhill. Flvery building in the district was either leveled to the ground or left a ennobling ruin. $ 1.00 IT E M S OF IN T E R E S T FROM ALL PA RT8 OF OREGON. Commsrelal and Financial Happening! of Im- portancc-A Brief Review ef the Growth and Improvement! ef th* Many Induitries Throughout Qur Thriving Commonwealth — Latest Market Report. W I L L N O T G IV E UP. Prssitfsst Is Dstcrmissd t* Help Cube and K « P Promises of Uaitfd States. Washington, June 21.— The presi­ dent last night gave a dinner to about a dozen leading Republican senators (irorable to Cuben reciprocity and die- cussed with them the ways and means of securing a reduction of duty on Cuban products in order that the pledges made to Cuba may be re­ deemed. The preeident is firm and steadfast The salmon pack on the Columbia river is much larger than at this time in his determination that in some last year. form or other and at the earliest oppor­ The strawbrery crop around Salem tunity there shall be secured to the will be a third less this year than an new republic of Cuba a substantial re­ average yield. duction of the import tariff on her ex­ The sawmill at Waldport has closed port« to the United Mutes and that a contract for the full output of that their people may feel that this country has kept every promise made them m ill, aggregating 5,000,000 feet. and has done all that coald he fairly Steps have been taken to interest expected to assure the permanent- anil Andrew Carnegie in the library of the prosperity of their newly established University of Oregon at Eugene. government. However, when the re­ About 300 delegates attended the sult w ill be obtained is a matter that district convention, Woodmen of the the president must leave to future de­ World, held in Woodburn. Represen­ velopments, but it can be stated by tatives to the supreme camp were authority that the administration will continue unflinching in its endeavors elected. until it accomplishes Cuban reciprocity A bill has been passed by the house in some form or other. It has not authorizing the sale of the unsold por­ been definitely decided whether this tion of the Umatilla reservation. It is can be brought about earlier by a bill or thought the senate will also take up by a treaty, nor whether good judg­ and pass the measure before adjourn­ ment ami sound policy require that the ment. matter go oier for a time. The meth­ One of the special features of com­ ods and opportunities were canvassed mencement exercises at the Oregon carefully tonight. The presiilent will Agricultural College was the unveiling not content himself with shelving the of a tablet to the memory of Captain question, now that he has urge«! the Geary, ex-commandant at the college, matter on congress in a special mes­ sage, but will take such further steps who lost his life in the Philippines. as may bo «-alculated to secure tha re­ The Southern Oregon district con­ duction he has urged. Whether there vention, Woodmen of the World, met will be an extra session or not, and if R E A D THE R IO T A C T . in Grants Pass last Wednesday. About so, when it shall be nvoked, is alto­ 75 delegates were in attendance and gether problematical. Exciting Demo' itritlon at a Lost Creek representatives to the supreme camp, which meets in Cripple Creek in Au­ Colliery. C 0 8 T O F P H IL IP P IN E W AR. gust, were elected. Shenandoah, Pa., June 24. — There The Oregon Pioneer Association held Ont Hundred and Seventy Millions Have was an exciting demonstration in the its 30th annual session in Portland Been Expended. vicinity of the laihigh Valley CoaP June 18. Thero were fully 1,000 in Washington. June 21.— Secretary Company’s four collieries, two miles the procession. J. C. Moreland, of from Lost Creek, this state. This Multnomah county, was elected presi­ Root t