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have been idle.
It is but fa ir that
give them their turn, for they are
e v e ry
Tka
W H K IC L C a
out of money and you are not." Work
was slackening and there was only
enough to go around among those
urli» 'oi . 1 1 .ti a rear la advance.
Advertising. 2oc an inch ; do diacoun
lor urn» or a paca ; do charge for corn
position or c zauges,
la "Pald-foi Paragraphs." Is a Usa.
Ma advertla.ng dlsgultad as Daws.
who were “ broke."
But the grand crash did not come
until the foot and
efforts of the
stamp it out.
officials
failed
to
The state is spending
arge amounts, the federal
govern-
nent has appropriated a million and
AIR 13 STILL FREE
t half, cattle are being slaughtered
<y thousands, but the disease is not
The old fashioned farmer, who de-(
subdued.
pends on Dobbin for motive power
traveling and plowing
disease
broke out among the cattle, and the
Office hoars. 9 to 12 sad 2 to 6 eacepi
Mondays and Friday forenoons.
for
mouth
Panic seized the people.
and all,
They fled
tuffers like other farmers from the
n all directions— anywhere to get out
low price of what he sells and the
■f
the
plague-stricken state.
I.ast
high price of what he buys, but he
veek 800 automobiles were massed at
escapes some troubles and some bur
me time this sine of the Arizona line,
dens as well.
."he authorities of that state would
The automobile and
gasoline
ot admit them until they were put
taxes do not worry him much, and if
hrough a slow process of fumigation
he hat given a neighbor a ride in his
nd sterilization.
chauffeur
license fees and
buggy we have not heard of his be
Many of the refugees were penniless
lng fined for doing so without a li
cense.
>nd without food, and donations of
atables
The more we pr/.gresa in civilization
d to pay a part of the cost of that
In old times whoever chose to run
a stage between Lebanon and Browns
■peration.
Bearding
ville might do so and fix his own
rates for fares or for freight.
are
empty,
he golden state.
a-days an aulo bus line must have a
mission before it can stop, and a
houses
housands of tenements are to let in
Now-
The -C ilifo rn ia boom is as flat as
license before it can start and per
i pancake.
Building permit» in Las
state commission decides what it raoy
A' gele#
n J a n u a ry , F eb ru a ry and
charge for its services.
I t is the same with a railroad com
I t may not build a new line In
O regon w ith o u t permission of th*
powers that be, nor may it discontinue
service over a line nor change its rale
of charges without the same author
ity. An effort is being made to com
pel a railroad rompany to b!uld a lot
of new road in this st-ite, whether it
has the funds or not and whether or
not its managers think there would
be enough business to pay the ex
pense of runnln-f trains over it.
Southern
them from the
ng halted and fumigated and requir-
governed and taxed and fined.
The
sent
Refuges at the Oregon line are be-
the more we are governed and mis
pany.
were
trizona side.
Pacific
company
ubfeh an n ou n ce! tbs withdrawal o'
its daily Lebanon-Brownsville train
because it did not pay expenses, has
Produce has
We are governed 'z-i much.
Thai
save a lot of money if we could be
rid of half or two-thirds of the com
missions and officials and their sec
retaries and
and the
clerks and
legitimate
uiuh.rlings,
business
of the
state would he benotited.
We haven't been taxed for the air
we breathe nor limited in the amount
we may use.
We are still free In
that
provided we
respect,
have a
place on which to stand while doing
the breathing, but a tax has to be paid
on that place, unless it is public or
church property, and we can be de
barred by legal process from standing
even th ere— •' run iu ” as •• ra g s .’
A PUNCTURED BOOM
Southern California has for several
years been experiencing a boom in.
real estate that hag few equals in
history.
Real estate men have made
fortunes, while tracts and Iota, vacant
or occupied, have changed hands ovei
and over again, earh time at a hand
some increase in price over the price
of the preceding sale.
Places far out In the country were
built over and became part of the
nearby cities.
There w a. . constant
flow of building mechanics attracted
by the boom.
Six months ago there began to be
indications the: the crest was being
approached. There w a. . .Hckenlng
in the erection of the larger etruc-
tures, but work went merrily on In
building smaller houses. The slump
plague
-reaks out in this state, but it shuts
ut a good California market for our
the
builders'
coda of ethks.
your wages from the joh.
Tb#
received
Other men
(Continued)
was an Indian fighter. Ue liked to get
December had arrived. The genorol Inside the enemy Hoes and Ila close an’
was having his first great trial Io watch 'em an* mebhe hear what they
hey fear to go on througn our sister keeping nn army about him. Terms
wero talking about. Now an' then he
■tatc.
So even if we had no human er enllatment were expiring. Cold would surprise a British sentinel and
dlsurro him an’ bring him Into camp."
.ympathy for the sufferers, our own weather had come. The camp was un
Mimfortabl», ¡tegtments at the home
Jack wondered that hla friend had
-elfish interests would bring f share sick lads of New Euglnnd were lcav-
never apokan of the capture of prison
f the calamity home to our con- Rig or preparing to leave. Jack and a ere.
M m her of youog mlutatera In the aarv-
“He was a modest man." said the
icioueness.
4re organized a campaign of persua- young scout.
siou and many were prevailed upon
“He didn't want the British to know
THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
•
rwenlist. But hundreds of boys where Solomon Blnkus was at work
were hurrying homeward on the froren tod 1 guess he was wise." said the
A leaf from the first book ever swads.
major. "I advise nxslnst taking the
t e e day Jack was tent for. Ue and chances that he took. It ain't necea
Tinted w ith movable type, • Bible.
Rla company had captured a number of snry. You would he caught much
» in the library of John H. Nash,
is a skirmish.
sooner than he was."
tan Francisoo. Mr. Nash also has
Tfifirtain. you have done well,'' snld
That day Bartlett took Jack over
• «enernl “1 want to make a scout
picture of John Gutenberg, who
ffif you. In our present circumstances Solomon's frail and gave him the iay
ivented the art, manufactured the
of the land and much good advice. A
about the most important, danger-
ype and printed the B ib le from
end difficult work there 1» to be young man of Jack's spirit, however,
Is apt to have a degree of enterprise
• here, expeclelly the work which
vhich this leaf was taken.
M om on Blnkus undertook to do. and self-confidence not easily con
The Zellerbach Paper company has
Where la no other In whom I should trolled by advice. He had been travel
•produced both th# page referred to
ve so much confidence. Major Bart- ing alone for three days when be felt
nd th# finy portrait, in their origi- astt kaowe the part of the line which the need of more exciting action. That
Csdonal Blnkus traversed. Ue will be night he crossed the Charles river on
al colors, and one of the copies can
going out that way tomorrow I should the Ice In a snowstorm and captured a
# seen for a short time in the En- Oka you, air, to go with him. After sentinel and brought him back to
trip I aboil he greatly pleased If camp.
erpr'so office. The editor got Mr.
Soon after that the daring spirit of
»•u are capable of doing lie work
'ector to m ake a fra m e for it and alone."
1 the youth led him Into a great adven-
itends to keep It hanging in the
Orders were delivered and Jsck re < ture. It was on the night of Jnnuary
ving room at his home as one of his ported to Bartlett, an agreeable, mlil- fifth that Jack penetrated the British
41» aged farmer soldier, who had horn Jlnea In a snowstorm and got close to
lost prized possessions.
I scout duty since July. They left an outpost In a strip of forest. There
The first Gutenberg bible to come
nip together next morning an hoar a camp fire was burning. He came
o this country is now in the New* before reveille. They had an unevent close. Hla garments had been whitened
fu l dey, mostly In wooded data and by the storm. The air was thick with
fork public library. I t was offered
ridges, and from the latter looking snow, hla feet were muffled In a foot
'or sale at auct'on in London in 1847. across with a spy glass Into Brutvlnmi, I of It. He sat by a stump scarcely
• mes Lenox instructed his agent, as they called the country held by Die twenty feet from the fire, seeing these
British, and seeing only, now and then, In Its light, but quite Invisible. There
lenry Stevens of Vermont, to buy it.
en enemy picket or distant camps he could distinctly hear tba talk of the
Itevens bid It in for five hundred About midday they tut down in a Britisher*. It related to a proposed
evacuation of the city by Howe.
zounds sterling. Lenox raved at the thicket together for a bite to eat and
'T m weary of sUrvtng to death in
a whispered conference.
‘mad price," but finally took the
•'Blnkus. ns you know, had his own this God foraaken place." said one of
war o f scouting." snld the jialor.
lie them "You can't keep an army with
book.
out meat or vegetables I've eaten fish
There are forty complete and
Mine to
Oregon
when
t
twenty fragm entary coplee
of
l-ast year Dr. A. S. D. Roeenbach
bought one at auction in london for
100 years:
I t had
In 1822 for 1840, in 1844
for I960, in 1868 for 13,070, and in
1887 for lIS J M .
Come into th#
Enterprise
and see Gutenberg,
the
emy. “I shall have to kill you If you
call or fall Io obey me. Give me the
rifle and go on ahead. When I say gee
go to the right, haw to the left."
So the rapture was made, end on the
way out Jack picked up the sentinel
who stood waiting to he relieved and
took both men Into camp.
From documents on the person of
one of these young Britishers It ap
peared that Genernl d s rk e waa In
command of a brigade behind the lines
which Jack had been watching and
robbing.
When Jack delivered hla report the
chief called him a brave lad and said:
"It Is valuable Information yon have
brought to me. Do not speak of It. Let
me warn you. captain, that from now
on they will try to trap you. Perhaps,
even, you may look for daring enter
prises on that part of their line."
The general waa rig ht The young
scout ran into a most daring and sue
ceasful British enterprise on the twen
Hath of January. The snow had been
swept away In a warm rain and the
ground had frozen bare, or It would
not have been possible. Jack had got
to a strip of woods In a lonely bit of
country near the British lines and was
climbing a tall tree to take observa
tions when he saw a movement on the
ground beneath him.
He stopped
end quickly discovered thet the tree
was surrounded by British soldiers
One of them, who stood with a raised
rlfie. celled to him:
"Irons, I will trouble you to drop
your pistole and come down at once."
Jack saw that he had run Into an
ambush. He dropped hla pistole and
came down. He had disregarded the
wernlng of the general
He should
ha»e been looking out for an ambush
A squad of five men stood about him
with rifles la hand. Among them was
Lionel CSarke, hit righty sleeve empty
"We've got you af fa il— you <f— d
rebel I” M id Clarke.
" I suppose yon need tome one to
eweer n V Jack answered.
"And te (boot at," Clarke suggested.
"I thought that yen would not care
for another match with me,” the young
scout remarked at they began to move
away.
"Hereafter you will be treated like
a rebel and not like a gentleman,"
Clarke answered.
"What do you meant"
*T mean that you will be standing,
blindfolded against a wall."
"That kind of a threat doesn't scare
me," Jack answered. “We have too
many of yonr men in onr hands."
CH APTER X V
.n Boston J a il.
Jack was marched under guard
into the streets of Boston. Church
bells were ringing. I t waa Sunday
morning. Young Clarke came wlfh
the guard beyond the city limits. They
Bad seemed to be very careless In the
control of their prisoner. They gave
him every chance to make a break foe
liberty. Jack waa not fooled.
" I see that you want to get rid of
me," said Jack to the young officer.
"You'd like to have me run a race
with your bullets. That la base in
gratitude, I was careful of you when
we met and you do not Mem to know
It."
" I know hew well you can shoot.”
Clarke answered. “But you do not
know how well I can shoot" -
“And when t learn. I want to have a
fair chance for my life."
Beyond the city limits young Clarke,
who was then a captain, left them,
and Jack proceeded with the others.
The streets were quiet—Indeed al
most deserted. There were no chil
dren playing on the common. A crowd
was coming out of one of the churches.
In the midst of It the prisoner m w
Preston and Lady Hare. They were
so near that lie could have touched
them with h it hand as hs passed. They
did not see him. He noted the name
of the church and its minister. In a
few minutes he waa delivered at the
Jail—a noisome. 111 smelling, badly
ventilated place.
The yard waa an opening walled in
by the main structure and Its two
wlnga and a wooden fence some fif
teen feet high. There was a ragged,
dirty rabble of “rebel" prisoners,
utnong whom was Solomon B lnkus. all
out tor an airing. H ie old scout had
lost flesh and color. He held Jack's
bund and stood for a moment without
speaking.
“I got sick one day an' couldn't hide
'cause I were makiu' tracks In the
snow ao I had to give In," said Solo
mon. “Margaret has been here, but
they won't let 'er come no more 'count
o' the smallpox. Sends me euthln'
tasty ev'ry day er two. I tol' 'er all
'bout ye. I guess the smallpox couldn't
keep 'er 'way If she knowed you was
here. But she won't be 'lowed to know
It. This 'ere Clarke boy hat p'lsoned
the jail. Nobody'll come here 'cept
them that's dragged. He's got It all
fixed fer ye. I wouldn't wonder If
he'd be glad to tee ye rotted up with
smallpox."
Jsck and Solomon lay for weeks In
this dirty, neleome jail, where their
treatment was welt calculated to
change opinions not deeply rooted in
firm soli. They did not fear the eraell-
poi, as both were Immune. But their
confinement was. as doubtless it wee
Intended to be, memorably punitive.
They were "rebel»"—lawbreakers, hu
man rubbish whose offenses bordered
upon treason
The smallpox patient
was soon taken away, but other coé
dition» were fiot Improved. They slept
oo at raw Infested with vermin. Their
cover and {ond were Insufficient and
"hot fit fer a dog," la the words of
Solomon. Some of the boys gave la
and wove tot free on parole, and there
was one, at I m s L who went to work
la the ranks of the British.
Early one morning shells began to
fall In the city. Suddenly the firing
coseed At nine o'clock all prisoner«
I* the jail wore »eut for, to bo ex
changed. Preston came with the or
der from General How * and nawg of
a truce.
“This means yer army la llghtin'
out," Solomon M id to him.
“The city will bo evacuated," was
the
G utenberg B ib le know n to exist todsv
* little more than 243,000.
employer said: "You hare
Any Girl in Trouble
As the Eugene Register points out,
been told at abetion five timee within
•d that this was dua to an article of
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his may make a better market for
men found that when a Job was com
pleted the contractors shifted men
They learn
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent,
an go to market, for all the neighbor
was felt in the ranks of labor. W ork
•nd they lost their Jobe.
till Fm getting scales on me."
“Colonel Blfflngton says that the
army will leave here within a fort
night," another observed.
It was Important Information which
had come to the ear of the young scout.
The talk wns that of well-bred Eng
lishmen who were probably officers.
•W s ought not to speak of those
matters aloud.’’ one of them remarked.
"Some d—d Yankee may he listening
like the one we captured.”
"He was Amherst's old scout," said
another.
"He swore a blue streak
when we shoved him into Jail. They
may communicate with Ensign Lee of the Salvation Army at the
don't like to be treated like rebels.
W hite Shield Home, 563 M ayhlr avenue, Poitland, Oregon.
They want to be prisoner» of war."
A young man came along with his
rifle on hla shoulder.
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"Hello, BUI t" said one of the men.
The charge» which the Ku Klux jcommerce land se ttle m e n t corn- "Going out on post 7“
" I am.» God help me," the youth an
brought against Ex-Govenor Walton I inittee, are com ing in to the state swered. “It's what I ’d call a h— 1 of
1
to
make
their
homes.
The
oppo
a night."
of Oklahoma have been investigated
The sentinel passed close by Jack on
ud kicked out of court.
A n nents of the incom e tax, who say
Ills way to his post. The latter crept
other w om au was flogged F rid a y it will depopulate the state, are'not away and followed, gradually closing
In upon his quarry. When they were
o ig lit a t T u isa , in th a t state. Of broadcasting tins piece of news.
well away from the fire, Jack came
the 99 indictments at Herrin no fu r
close and called, “BUI I"
ther reports are coming. These are
The idea of the traveling gavel
The sentinel stopped and faced
three prominent points in the week’s ram tioned in the report of Charity about.
"You've forgotten something," said
news about the K. K. K.
¡grange tb ii week is a good one.
Jack, In a genial tone.
Too m ote such organizations fra
"What Is It 7"
A good m any fam ilies, it. is re ternize with each other tiie mere
"Your caution," Jack answered, with
ported by the state cham ber of power th ey oan exert.
his pistol against the breast of hts en-
tates stand in fear ot the scourge.
)regon products, unless the
$35,000
Commercial and Savings account» Solicited
rom the infected and suspected areas
rs w ill not
We could
SU RPLUS
accumulated in the
ot b uy. T o u rist traffic is like-
/ to be cut by half, for many eastern-
is why taxes are so hmh
AN D
lilie s .
Perishable kin d s are sp o il
ng. An embargo Is on.
Nothing
mission to continue the service until
,
Jlay is worth just as much in storage as
you might get for it in case of fire._ T h)
I American Eagle Fire Insurance compari q
[will pay you 85% o f the cash value in case|
of loss by fire.
C A P IT A L
M arch
iutput, for those who cannot sell can-
K. to the change.
Fire Insurance Co.
Halsey, Oregon
this year were 4 per cent in excess
of these for the tam e m onths last
year. Il the cattle plague ie quelled
too*' business m ay settle d own
to eteady prosperity in place* ol
the fiekle boom.
been ordered by the public utility com
that body invesigetes aod gives its 0
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