ÍNTER PRISE
reduced some m illio n s, the pnblic j
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An In d ep en d en t—NOT n eu tr a l— new «
paying s lig h tly more than now and i
n i PS ii* ^ u b lU h ed • » * ’■> T hursday,
hy WM H. and A A W H EE LER .
supporters of private schools a great
Wm. H W h eeler, E d itor,
M fl, a a ....
- »
'*■ ,* A W heeler. Uualnesa M a n a s e r , d # a l
,eM-
We have here th e'
- d
N e w , E d itor,
J a o o m .lj o f . class o f people pro.
’SH™ » != » » ’ i testing against being relieved of a
S u b scrip tio n s, »150 < year In ad van ce.
T r a n sie n t a d v ertía m e. 25c an inch; p er portion of th e ir burdens by the J
m a n e n t ad vert leln e, 20c N o d iscou n t
p u b lic treasury.
fo r tim e or apace
In P a id -fo r P aragrap h s," 6c a lin e
o a d v e r tis in g d isg u ise d a s new s.
Increased wages
(to s trike
HALSEY, Linn Co., Ore.. Sept. 14, 192J breaker») over those offered the
s trik in g shopmen by the Union
Pacific is a plea of g u ilty .— Ore
S T R IK E S DON’T PAY
gon Journal.
Do yon
know why
B
store r
R o g o w a y ’s
prices are
lowest .’
Beciute bi» it a c u b «tore.
a T « w i • a‘ haDd W< "* *ellin«
t o ^ J a V" : tj’,nif *Uiran" tJ 25 «*' cent .* „ than at any other place in
O r is . it o n ly an indication that j
John M cParland, president of
the In te rn a tio n a l Typographical a man who wants to earn his
wages is worth more than one
union, says th s t the fight for
44-bour week coat the organixa whose m ain deeire is to give the
tio n $ 8 , 863,848 in the past yem least poa«ible service for them and
aella for cash and gives no premium».
in 521 jurisdictions w ith 42,831 hold on to b ii graft by the use o f
Big stock of all kinds o f fu rn itu re
the strike war clnb?
members.
Strikes are in progress in 124
E very th in g a t low er prices.
“ The utm ost a cigaret can do’ ’
cities, and M r. M cParland says
the immense sum raised fo r the is the opening phrase of a cigaret
purpose “ failed to meet the de advertisement. Nobody yet kuowg
the level, » ea red lands o f'th e Middle
mands fo r free financial assistance. the utm ost a cigaret can do. Cig- .’♦♦>>>X’xe*x*;s>x«x»x»xex»x<
West. The reason Is simply that the
• • • Just so long as there arete have burned stores, factories
wild Ilfs Is practically gone from
exists a disposition to regard the and thousands o f acres o f forest,
these places. But a few places remain
In America where the reign of the
strike fund as an out-of-w ork fund but they bave not reached th eir
wild creatures, during the night hours
i t w ill be impossible to raise lim it.
ROGOW AY
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<111 u l l , , l l l , l rara 4- —
L c_
I
You
should not miss m P this
place
it ¡n
need of a new range or heater this fait.
We have the largest assortm ent of
each in Linn county and can supply v o t i r
wants at a
n
J *
22 H E A T E R
»■ .rtSsm c. ?!.p*^.^t.b0‘te.n,a"d top-re* $19.50
Sixe 20, regular price 121.50
.................... Z Z
$18.50
be , t < n “ »*>» m a t t r e s s e s -............... $6.90
The
Strength
o f the Pines
| Ranges & Heaters!
at least, is still supreme.
ft
M/
\lz
w
oICi
i
$
Saving in Price
Iron B ed s
S p rin g s
M a ttresses
D ressers
C hiffoniers
B ed ro o m S ets
D in in g R o o m S ets
w
w
MJ
V
All at New Low Prices.
BARTCHER & ROHRBAUGH |
ALBANY FURNITURE EXCHANGE
$
A lbany
And Trail's
enough money to satisfy demands. ’
End is one of them.
The Southern Pacific is* m oving
I be membership meantime de
Bruce dressed slowly. He wouldn’t
waken the two women that slept tn
creased from 74,355 to 68,746. more fre ig h t than ever before,
the next room, he thought. He crept
mu, „ Y ’rnerg' 1)0 yoa know "here
F o u r new unions were chartered, w ith no increase in accidents
“Good-by, Linda." he said, smiling
slowly out Into the gray dawn. He this Hudson Is? ’
which makes the claim of the
She smiled In reply, and her old
but 25 were suspended and 40
mada
straight
for
the
great
pine
that
ihinIv0Ski.e d u ld E,mlra las‘ night. She cheer seemed to return to her. "Good-
AIEA
uniona th a t the equipm ent was g0.
Stood a Short distance from the house thinks she knows. A man told her he
surrendered th e ir charters, a net
lug to the dogs because of the
For reasons unknown to him, the nine hud his trap line on the upper Ump by, Bwovaboo. Be careful."
loss of 61 unions.
"Hl be carefuL And this reminds
had come often Into his dreams, lie qua, and hie main headquarters—yon
shopmen’s strike look lik e a fa iry
A ll th is strike money was paid
had. thought that Its limbs rubbed to know thaL trappers have a string of me of soroatbing."
story.
Autnor of
“What?"
gether and made words—but of the r h 3 * 7 i T a/ «at
by union members; but it bad to
mou,h of
•The Voice of the Pack”
“That
for all the time I’ve been
X m ' bera 8 e , vea b « had ‘ hardly B u t
,
8 ln t0 th e
come first from employers, who
“way—and for all the time I'm going
The com pulsory education law
esuRht the meaning. There was some But ft is a long way from here.
’ ''XW
were obliged to get i t by the in . would relieve eotarians of all the
high message In them, however; and * B,™?® was 81,11 8 moment. “How to be awny now—I haven't done any
thing more—well, more Intimate_
Illustration» by Irwin Myers
the dream had left him with a vague far?" he asked.
crease of prices charged th e ir cue-
than shake your hand."
expense they now bear in g iv in g ^X»I«X»X*X»X»XeX»XeX*X»>X<
curiosity an unexplainable desire to
“Two full days' tramp at the l e a s t -
tornors, so the »10.000,000 was tb e ir young a general education
Her answer was to pout out her lips
light * fOrMt mOnarch ln ‘he day- barring out accidents. But if you
Coorrl(k< br Lite., Brava Co.
In the most natural way ln the world
added to the general H. C. L.
'Ink It lg best—you can start out to-
and leave them Use ao teach dog
Bruce was usually deliberate in his
He found to his delight that the uay. *
The strikea of the coal m iners
SYNOPSIS
ma aa much as they choose.
motions; but all at once his delibera
.
L
WaS
even
raore
lmPcesslve
in
the
Bruce
w
as
a
man
who
made
deci
and the railro ad unions coat a till
tion fell away from him.
There
vhdd
morning
light
than
It
had
been
sions quickly. "Then I'll sta rt-rig h t
‘' ' • / ’•» th o f h l. foster
more m illio n s than than the p rin
seemed to he no Interlude of time be
■t
night.
He
was
constantly
oraed
the't'rintr"
r
°
U
“
“
me
bow
t0
flnd
A P ortland Jo u rn a l headline gays
tween one Dosltlon and another His
ters strikes, and the average c iti-
y the sixe of it. He guessed Its cir
" so u fe 7 > ~ « o
th a t H a ll, aa a gubernatorial
arms went about her, and he kissed
cumference
as
about
twenty-five
feet
“I
can
only
tell
you
to
go
straight
Z3n lias it a ll added to hie bur
her gently on the lips.
The great lower limbs were them north. *
candidate, ' 'hangs lik e a sw ord’ ’ Ilnv
— Bruce I» » ’ Ivid but baf-
den».
But It was not at all as they expect
selves like massive tree trunks Its
ot h |B Childhood In an
ITen the thing to do Is to get ready
’hsnage. tiBfore h l. adoption by N ew
The railro ad ahop workers struck over the republican p arty. Per '’n
ed. Because Linda hud not known
, ° P, 8Urp888ed by flfty f <*‘ nn* Pine
ton Duncan, with the <trl U ndo.
v
And
‘h®“
tFy
brin8
H“d-
haps they would ra th e r see him
In the vicinity.
muny kisses, thia little caress beneath
n hack with me—down the valley
against a reduction of wages th a t
CH APTER
A t h is destination,
the pine went very straight home In
haug th a t way than not a t a il.
He felt stilled and calmed. Such cane h
Trail'« End.
* * tber® W® ran 8e* wh»‘
w ould have amounted to »60,000,
deed to them both. They fell apart,
(an he done.
" " J “ *nhflne,nCe- And hp tulned
° ° 0 « y e « r . They have lost »100,-
a start when he saw Linda in the door-
Lfnda smiled rather sadly. "I'm not both o f them suddenly sobered. The
Oregon has »60.000,000 inve st
" ",y;
x
000,000 in wegee and th e ir jobs.
very hopeful. But It's our last chance girl s eyes were tender and lustrous,
but startled too.
'I’ve been talking to the pine—all
-and we might as well make a try
They demanded th a t the r a il ed tn hard-surlaoed road.». P ru
“Good-by, Linda,“ he told her.
dence dictates w atchfu l care o f J i k i i - w!t5 the surrounding», thourh the morning,” he told her
There
Is
no
hope
that
the
secret
to hl» knowledge he ha» never be«n there.
Good-by, Bwovaboo,” she answered
road labor hoard allow them what them .— A lbany Herald.
"But It won t talk to you." she an
agreement will show up In these few
He turned up the trail past the pine.
sw*red. I t talks only to the stare" weeks that remain. We'll get your
they ca ll “ a liv io g wage.’ ’ T hat
Amen I
He did not know that she stood
things together at once ”
liv in g wage was based oil what „
‘o
They breakfasted, and after the watching him a long time, her hands
CHAPTER XII
congressional committee declared
simple meal was finished, Bruce clasped over her breast.
•tornlrPX S L Vi ~ ° r th.* w ar "a'm°n"
“ „ f n y . war,‘* him to give up hla oueat
Bruce
an,l Linda had a long talk packed for the Journev
The two
would he necessury to »upport
and return East. Bruce refu se.
CHAPTER XIII
while the sun climbed up over the women walked with him, out
fa m ily as an American fa m ily
under
. S S " „ ^ b,“ " ' t
b
S8J great ridges to the east and old El the pine.
ought to live.
That the figures
mira cooked their breakfast. There
Bruce shook old Elmira'» scrawny I Miles farther than Linda’s cabin
Needle Trail I "
»»» '-th V a n d of ■'Plne-
clear beyond the end of the trail tha
intôd
k ‘h^n 8be turned back a‘ onee
was
no
passion
In
their
words
this
were grossly exaggerated is proved by the month on F. M. Maxwell farm
Duncan took, past even the hlglies
morning. They had got down to a Into the house. The man felt slngu
by the fact that a ll the production
ridge of Trail's End and in the regloi
P M. MAXWELL. T angent Oregon
basis of cold planning.
arly grateful. He began to credit
Und« hla childhood playm ate, Unda.
of Am erica in a year would fa ll far
where the little rivers that run lute
“Let me refresh my memory ’about
he old woman with a great 'deal of
the Umpqua, have their starting place
CH APTER r x .- T h e airi te ll, him
short of paying th a t figure to all
Intuition, or else memories from her
h few of those little things you told
Will trade a
h e r nÂînHvmTh, , ' â by Bn *nem >' ria™ on
Is a certain lnnd o f Used to Be. Il
me.
Bruce
requested.
"Flrst-
own
girlhood
of
long
and
long
ago
■
He
Am erican
workers,
Am erican
h i i h î ! ’ • th* Boasas la n d s occupied
isn’t a land of the Present Time at aH
andth»h í V Witr* • tolen fro1" «"• Roaeea,
what date does the twentv-vear pe- 'US_ want a wopd alone wfth
workers must live w ith in wbat th eir
r Aunt
u n l ' ^ Elmra?'1?
l m ^ ' T i !, . W,UL
« « ¿ ¿ .P » tlo
¿ S n S of
„.
It Is a place that has never grown old.
E t i X
? ”
”>
work produces, and as long as some
“ V e «
‘Then a man passes the last nntpost
^ O n the thirtieth of October, of this
o f them get more than th a t there
or civilization, and the shadows of ths
or something of value I can
been
« 2
w ill be others who work as hard
unbroken woods drop over him. he is
had” d e e d e d n?ouJ tMln» U n d a 'V f a t b îî
use and you can’t
“Not very long. (a |t t Now you M
likely to forget that the year Is nine
and produce as much b u t suffer
?*? ,d M did hl» lande to Matthew Foleer
u ,
UOM M
derstand that on that date they will
teen hundred and twenty, and that
the
whlch would c o n t iti
K. 2, box 79.
have had twenty years of undisputed
from p roverty. The average fa rm
the day before yesterday he had «pen
bÄn " m T
< B ,O Pr°P*r'V. h«« possession
of the land; they will have
er today receives lees than one-
aa airplane passing over his house.
You natne your »alary.
“ ,hot lon« ‘ aD(|
C H APTER
X Brî f * ’î r?ountatn blood E ?
i" ih*
Ih e world seems to have kicked off
th ird what the uniou declares is a
responda ë to
the o i l Of tho blood-feud
Lnd .ha»' I Pr° V,‘n fa'8e between
Its thousand thousand years as a
liv in g wage, w hile selfish, clannish
X
o u t”
”
C“ 't e w dr,ve
warm man at night kicks off covers;
labor untune seize a ll th a t they should you become disabled by any aC
and r II things are Just as they used
‘‘That's
just
right.”
cident or any sickness. See
to be
it it the Young World—a
earn and part o f w hat the farmers
"And the fall term of court doesn't
the blood atonement
world of beasts rather than men. a
DICK
W
RIGHT,
Hotel
Halsey,
S S f ,: " " '
• » » *< • -
earn and ' ‘h o lle r’' fo r more of it.
world vhere the hand of man has not
CHAPTER XI
yet been fett.
He who wing a law suit or a North American Accident Insurance Co,,
I .7 . ' u
’ ‘ • ' • M l Ih«™
On this particular early-September
strike is usually a loser, and the
"Men own the day. but the night la '« to It. Simon told me so the last
FOR RENT
day. tb - age-old drama of the wilder
mass of producers foots a ll the b ill
time
he
talked
to
me."
w ild ' t
"h Ol<1 " ,y ln * "'n o n » , h *
By Edison Marshall
X
House, barn ; small
pasture for rent
GOOD HACK
OATS or PIG
s¿- affi
We pay it,
BOOK TWO
. 400-Acre Farm
T urke y and the la tte r won and now i
hold* a ll of Aaia M in o r th a t
Considered hers before the war.
Greece attem pted to oust the T u rk
from Europe, b ut was prevented by
England. France and Ita ly . Thus
the ‘sick m an,*’ who was to bave
been elim inated in the settlem ent I
of the w orld war, gets a frevb s t a l l 1
instead and continues to fu lfill the
prophocy th a t he who k ills C hris. I
tia n * sh all th in k th a t he i« doing
Got! service.
»u
The s trik in g railro ad shopmen L ,
c la im th a t when they s trike t h e y , ”
rem ain employe» of the e otn pa n ylj
w
11
J. RIBELIN
w d
'"'"‘h '' ‘h *
"f
™ IS ft Q u e s t io n
' o u r c h ild s TPad-
S'»»««»«,
b r in g h im
to
i8*“*
They were free to q u it work, and
they d id eo.
By no »tretch of
im a gin atio n can they be considered
e n title d to re-em ployment, th o u fh
i t is offered to them and they may,
accept.
The arguroeut th a t the e tnpul
•o ry education h ill, i f enacted,
w ill increase the burden o f taxa-
lio n ie g re a tly overdone,
The
to ta l coet o i educat too w ould be
ness was in progress. It was a drama
.-.P ntnmed P®’"100« »"d bloodshed,
« r ife and carnage and lust and rap
in e, and it didn't, unfortunately, have
a Particularly happy ending. The
P'av«'’ wore beasts, not men The
nly human being anywhere In the
?i?Ar VlCinlty ’PM ‘h« "Id trapper.
rad» « ’. following down his trap line
on the creek margin on the wav to
hl camp, it (s true that two other
W*’th * rather aatoundlng simi
larity of purpose, were at present com-
ng down two of the long trails that
His Arms Went About Her, and He
led to the region; but as yet the
Kissed Her Gently on the Llpe.
drama w ig hidden from their eyes.
?,m ?K'‘A r' °f thB pl,,es- L« wh«> trrH, "» *** fW° waa Brute, coming
Elmira had gone ln and the c n ,,t was
Jnda s cabin. One was Dave
Turner, approaching from the dlrec-
clear. It wouldn’t come tn his lip»
Hom eatates. Turner was
nora1
8‘rani"‘ ” he eaid. “to
much the nearer. Curiously, both bid
t^ e i
* ’y ,aM ^ « h t- a n d fh£
•m, "" Wl’h tbe “ "hper Hudson
to be leaving •gain/*
** ‘b* pl,y
rato «‘
. J ! ? e’‘o*d t0 bl8 « « “ nlohed Kite d J ? “
creature«
that her lip» trerohled ever so «llghttT «•pm e ii? ^ J
k . *8t*
“ tbe,r aftarnown sleep.
s lona’ L“ bW,n
* » ’’«<+ other T
The does and their little spotted
■ long time, Bwovaboo," ntv» renltrat
«
3 S 5
a ^ P ln » : the Mncktall
«ralght at him “And I hate to hare d r bad not yet sought the feeding
you go away so soon '
yawned In his lair, the w olf dosed In
"But I'll be back—in . few d ay»“
Tou don't know.
x „ o n e 'e v e r » ¿ T * " ’ r * " ,b * P"la"n-people lay
o-adowa oB the hot rocks
knows when they start out In these
An old raccoon wakened from hie
”. T . X ‘h
P ace on a high limb, stretched hlffl-
there s nothing— n oth ln g-th at Simon
t* steal down the limb. He had a long
way to go before dark. Hunting was
He has no rules of fighting
t * “ ln» poor tn thl» part of the woods
M w a ^ n b* ,PoaJd ’r* nd» down
ig a lu l-
rOa1’ * * ewa*
c r e r s l ” nd8° D ' C*®P and lock tor
w ,‘*r
A voyota Is
I
8ml,*d '* h»- ■*» n w ally listed ,b*
among the larger forest
i He
fr° ra b*™
h*1- ’’P* J * ' ”” ** b0‘ a*rty though the hom-
1 M t O 9£ta! cat s n l took her hand.
wa*--aarty, that & for huntt re to bo
von^hTnu1'’
bl8 ,n,era’ ‘ ‘® have
h L J
dE1Bd The Mvln* or|r |n«tM .rou think ao. Rut L in d a -w e mustn't
long and long ago when the world was give up yet We must try ns long as
quite young. Refore that time, likely ""• da, remains, n «eems to me that
^ ° " ’ hd ‘¡?* h*” 1" own,‘<1 both the Hie first thing to do 1« to find the trsp-
day and the night, and you can im .g-
H'*dson—‘be one witness that le
ne them denying m ana euperlortty ore'v " S T a n * m,gbt b* able
Just as long ns possible.
prove to the court that aa my fa-
° ^ OUri*
Myln< ** rid<™ions If L.erronnM r. OW"Pd tbe land ,n ree'".’ -
applied to cities or perhaps even to h* eouldnt possibly hare deeded It
T ram
rtd«e8
re . ^ '
p í o m c iris t. •
“C ”
rara*-.
A A WA AT tr OW«-«.
H a ro ld A lb ro .
M an ufa ctu rin g o p tic ia n .
f
Jay W. Moore,
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