Sherman County observer., May 01, 1914, Image 4

FRIDAY
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF OENEMUNTEOEST
Events Occurring
A
Marvelous
HE
HAN
Escape
Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
By RYLANP BELL
S h e A c c e p te d a n U n­
k n o w n Husband
W a n t M a n t a C a ll O w n R e c a ll.
Eugene.— A w rit of mandamus ask­
The Rapid Reader’s Review of ing the circuit court to compel W ll-
ttam Smeed. chairman. W . H . Wood,
member of the school hoard, and W . J.
Recent Report* Rewritten
King, clerk of the W altarville school
district, in thia county, to call a apo­
A new strawberry cannery Is being
d a l -election for the recall of Smeed
built at Hood River and it is expected
and Wood, has been filed. The recall
the plant w ill be in operation in time
was Invoked upon these men some
for the care of this year’s crop.
time ago. but they refused to call the
W ork of remodeling the statehouse election. In their official capacity
at Salem is progressing rapidly and it they were the only ones who could
w ill be completed thia summer, it Is
call such an election, and it la in this
expected.
unsettled state that the m atter has
Halibut fishing at Newport promises remained. The trouble is o v e r th e
to ha a thriving industry thia year. A employment of a teacher and his sal
number of Portland men are Interest­ ary, about which some of the patrons
ed to boats which w ill be used.
of the school complained.
' Bandon Is the scene of some acti­
vity on account of gold being found to
Registration for State la 17S.71S.
paying quantities to black sands.
Salem.— Secretary of State Olcott
W ork la returning «3 to *30 a ton.
announced Monday that the total reg­
W ith the stock show but little more istration as reported to him by the
than a month ahead. Union is making oounty clerks waa 17«,71«. There are
props rMto*»* to hold the annua l event only four days remaining on which to
• a a vast scale.*
register for the primary, and, unless
Bumper crop of strawberries is pre­ there la a big increase on these days,
dicted tor tbe Marion oounty section, tha total w ill not be more than 200.000
the growers seeing no dangers ahead or about 40,000 more (han it waa in
•side from possibility of froeta. Rains 1012, when the women were not en­
titled to vote and tha population of
have not hurt blossoms.
W hat Is said to be a new kind of the state was considerably smaller.
oyster has been discovered to tbe
reefs off Newport. Tbe bivalve la
larger than transplanted eastern va­
riety and resembles the Japanese ■ on the W lllam ette-recinc rauruau, vw-
producL
I tween Marshfield and tha Tenmlle
la event the president Issues a call I lakes, a distance of 17 miles, is pro-
for m ilitia, tha Oregon m ilitia will con- I greasing as fast as labor can hasten
centrate and organise for field service I t Hauser ft Houser, the contractors,
at Clackamas, under plana arranged J have all but three miles and a half of
by tbs m ilitia division of tha w ar da- the right-of-way cleared and it is ex­
p erim ent
t -
I pected the force of about «00 jpen w ill
The damage to the prune crop In a I he doubled- soon.
radius of I I miles from Salem is said
to ba about «300,000 as result of re- I
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Birds Coma Back,
oent heavy rains. If tha sold weather
continues tha loss w ill be heavier,
says Robert Paulus, secretary of tha
Salem fruit union.
RopreeentatlTS Hawley has received I
Klamath F a lls — Not in many years
has the number of geese in tha Klam-
ath country been as large as now.
when the big game birds are returning
for nesting. All d ay and all n ig h t
by parcel poet squared pieces of man-
■aalto of b eau tifu l color iro m Aahland
The committee on agriculture plans
giving the speaker a gavel made of
the honks of flocks are to be heard,
u h the bird« wend their way toward
upper Klamath lake, and steamboat
men aay that the lake is literally
wood from tha* various states ropre- with them.
sauted by its members. Hawley was I
asked to procure the manxanlta.
Ia his Initiative petition, which waa
filed with the secretary of state April
14, W illiam A. Carter, republican can­
didate for governor, estimates that a j
saving of over «500,000 annually will
ba saved tbe taxpayers of tha state
by tbs abolition of certain boards and
commission« and tha consolidation of
others provided for In tha petition.
W hether the prohibition party will
put up a candidate of Its own for
x governor or w ill Indorse one of the
candidates of tha other parties al­
ready. to tha field w ill be tbe most
Important atop to be decided at tha
stats convention of the prohibition
party to be held in Portland May 5
B y E S T H E R V A N D EVE ER .
a crashing Wow to me. I had never
known any o tt r home than the aay-
there « always a dread a t a
change of conffltkm. Moreover, 1 knew
of no way by which I could make a
living ualjea as a servant, and from
w hat I bad beard of a servant’s life It
waa disagreeable.
A few days later I waa called Into a
room nied for meetings of the direct-
o n of the asylum, and there sat a lady,
who aaid to me:
“ M ' work in behalf o f tbe Institution j
is to find husbands tor oar girls who
among the condemned, waiting ner
turn to be executed. Ha could hear have grown to marriageable ages
The matron tells me that we cannot
tbs knife drop every few minutes and
wondered whether or no It bad releaa- j keep yoy here any longer; that your
only wrfy of making a living seems to
ed her from suffering. There were
bo g< tog out to service and that is not
many to be dispatched that day, and
to your llklug.
She farther thinks
since tbe work waa not commenced till
that
you
would
make
soma man an
late in th e afternoon, though the day
excellent wife. I have an application
waa ending. It had not been finished.
fron a farm er In the f a r northwest
Neer the guillotine stood the victims,
with their hands tied ¿ehind their for <>ue of our girts. O f course we
consider no suck applications that are
backs, arranged in three lines, Julie
Le Bran, a girl o f eighteen, in the sec­ net accompanied by vouchers as to
The
ond. Tbe first line had been nearly tbe applicant*’ respectability.
exhausted when tbe ax got caught man I refer to -b la name is N o U n -h a s
above and would not coma down. No ! a fann conslsth< of a good many
one of the officials present waa caps acres-farm s are large in that country
ble of fixing I t nnd a mechanic was —well stoked with farm ing imple-
mente and money in bank. How would
neat for.
W aiting causes disorganisation. The you Ilka to go out there and marry
soldiers lowered their muskets to the him r
pavement and stood at re s t Behind I M y first Impulse was to decline any
them stood the crowd. Now and again su<
cold blooded arraugeraent: my
soma curious person Would push or
I ba pushed forward toward tha prison
I era. The soldiers would order these
Intruders back. There waa consider
able daisy to finding % mechanic, and
when one cams ha did not aeem fam il­
ia r w ith the contrivance by which the
as waa suspended and dropped. Ail
thia took time and tbe day was fading
into darkueaa.
The Wnea o f prisoners became some­
what confused. Tbe soldiers behind
them also become disordered.
The
I prisoners, the soldiers and the rear
I line of prisoner»« at times were lapped.
I Julie dropped back into the third line
and waa at the and o f I t An artisan
to a blue blouae. auxloua to ode tbe
death of an aristocrat, pushed forward
between Julie and tha next prisoner
1 By this she fouud Ix rs e lf as much a
I part of th e crowd as of the prisoners.
I .1 woman of the former waa next to
I her, and Julie sidled behind her. The
to m . and
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roomy garage of Walther-Williams Company. Competent
workman alwayt ready to help you in any way they can at
least expense to you. For any service rendered the charge
will always be reasonable.
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WHEN IN PORTLAND STOP AT
H0T6L
ORGGON
Corner of 7th and Stark 8tre<t
vat was comlti to be marneq.
Oh. heavens! Bad I coma all thia
way to marry this man? I would take
tbe next train back. ’ But 1 could not
do that without funds.
“Tea." I replle«l to a voice scarcely I
audible.
“ You com e th ia way.”
I
H e led me to a side of the station
where stood a two seated wagon and
offered to help me in. but I balked.
“ I ’m going back.” 1 said, “i t was
agreed that if I chose to go back you
would furnish me with a tic k e t”
.
” Uk.
t . U r.
farm."
be replied.
•
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“Ton are not Mr. Nolan T* ■
-N o; 1 Oscar.”
1 breathed thanks to heaven and
stopped into the wagon, experiencing
the relief of one who has been re
prieved from sudden death.
I t was twelve miles to the Noiau
farm, and. the roads being bad. we
ware three hour, on the way. 1 could
not refrain from trying to pump out
of Oscar soma information about the
mao I was to m eet but the farm hand
I spoke but little Rogliab, end 1 was
pot very successful.
I asked him
why Mr. Nolan did not come to the
station to meet me. and ba said ba did
not know., Being disposed to borrow
trouble. 1 at once Inferred that ha dm
I not care to show himself till be had
I got me Into a desolate country w h e re
1 would ba at bis mercy.
| - Tha long drive waa at last ended.
I and I drove up to a neat farmhouse,
though plainly built. 1 waa relieved to
see a woman coma out to qaeet me.
She smiled on me kindly and klaaed
C H A S . W R IG H T , P resident
M . C . O IC K IH S O N , M a n a g e r.
It 1» new, and its room s are provided with
runn ing water and lon g distan ce telep h on es.
European plan. R ates $1 per day and up.
WRIGHT-DICKINSON HOTEL COMPANY
NEW HOTEL PERKINS
- P o rtla n d , Oregon.
Eastern Oregon Headquarter».
Positively moat centrally
located
Fifth 8t. cart pass
the doors every few minutes.
Popular Priced Reataurant
HaropMflPiea. ffstes
«od ap
L Q. SWETLAND, Mgr.
D A R N I E L L E B R O S ., Proprietors
The Dalles, Oregon
Headquarters for our Sherman County
friends; prices reasonable; first clasa
restaurant with the hotel
M
am Mrs. Rogers.’’ aba said. I
The Rogue River
“George Nolan’s sister. I Mve a mils I
valley, of which Medford to tha eenter,
down the road sod have coma here to I
oould possibly provide two or more
welcome you. I am sure yob will be j
Greek drama to the original Greek I troops. Another might be raised at
happy
among us."
II
tongue for the first time in the Pa- I
Roseburg.
“But." I stammered, "maybe your II
oifto northwest w ill ba played In Port­
Lieutenant Hennessey came to Port­
brother will not be pleased with me.’
land M ay 1« and 14 by tha students land from Salem, where ha had a
/ “Ob. yea. ba will." she said eonfl
and faculty of Read collage. The An­ conference with Governor West about
dent ly.
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F R E E A U T O B U S T O A N D F R O M A L L T R A IN S
tigone of Sophocles to tha attorn pan I- raising tha regim ent H e found the
“W hy do you think ao F
maat of tha special music written by I I chief executive enthusiastic over tha
“Well, first, bees use you are very j
Mendelssohn is tha drama selected l^ea, even to the point of announcing
lovely."
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This was, to /aay the least, reaaaur
tor production.
hla desire to become a member of the
log.
I t a plan approved by tha local organisation.
“And. secondly?" I asked.
school hoard and tha local dental aa-
“Because ha has seen yon and picked
aoclation to carried oat Pendleton will
Polk Fair Is Under W *X-
yon
out for his wife.”
•e x t year install a free dental clinic
Monmouth— Active 1 preparations
“Seen m a r
ha her puhMe schools for children who have been begun by the pupils in the
“Yes. A year ago. there being no
cannot afford to consult the dentist. schools of this city and othej sections
unmarried women here to choose from,
The board w ill equip an office, and of southern Polk county for the an­
ba went east for a wife. H e saw yon I
E ntirely new, co n v en ien t to business.
tha local dentists w ill donate their nual school children’s industrial fair
and applied
J0*-”
Clean beds, and table the best th e m arket
“ Applied for m e r
I
a m itie s free of charge on certain to be held in Dallas noxt September,
-Yea;
he
was
desperately
smitten
w ill afford. Prices reasonable.
C om ­
county. Valuable prises in livestock
with yon. H e has seen you once since
Thousands of voters of Oregon are and cash are on the list. -
m ercial trade solicited .
then.”
debating tha question of tha affect More than «600 In prises has bean
• When?" -
that waaaaa suffrage to this state w ill offered by altruistic citizens of tha
!' “ I will call him and let him apeak I
have upoa tha prohibition election
for himself. H e asked me to receive
next fall. Many taka tha view that
Manslaughter Is Alexander V erd ict
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I you and tell you before meeting him
tha woman w ill vote upon this propo­
Grants Pass.— W illiam Alexander, a
that be has loved you ever since yon
sition aa their husbands and brothers 76-year-old prospector, waa convicted
showed him through tbe asylum. It
do. Others argue that tha woman w ill by a Jury in tha circuit court of man­
oaly remains for yon to make np yonr
mind whether yon will remain ae his
to aaaay instances take upon them­ slaughter.
Alexander .w as charged
wife. Meanwhile you can come to my
selves tha responsibility of voting as with the murder of John Norllng and
boose and be my guest"
W . C. R U T L E D G E , Proprietor.
they think beat
Curtis Masterson in a cabin on Backer
She called bqr brother. H a came
President Wilson has bean asked to croak on J a n u a ry 13, and tha present
w ith a smile, and I sew the man with
aanettoa tha organisation to Portland trial waa for the killing of Norllng.
whom 1 bad parted only a few hours
a( a regiment of prospectors and min­ he not having yet been on tria l for tha
N e a re s t H o tel to Business C e n te r, B a n k
before. 1 married him and wrote to
ers to taka tha field to Mexico. Thia killing of Masterson.
my former friends a t tbe aaylura
an d Depot. C ourteous T r e a tm e n t, C lean
arms, carried her Into a aid« street the one to go out to service, the other thanking them for providing a hus­
regiment would ha composed of man
Dreading
least
some
of
that
da«a
that
to
go
to
the
farmer.
I
f
1
chose
the
|
Beds an d T a b le th e best th e m a r k e t w ill
who are aocuatomed to tha outdoor
band for me with whom 1 waa more
To Dismiss Baker Cassa. .
was crying for blood would suspect latter course, unless 1 found the man
Ufa, sad their ability to g*ve good ao-
Baker.— Tbs case against all city
than well pleased-
affo rd .
oount of themselves, either In field or officials of Copperfield, indicted fol­ and atop them, they crawled uuobaerv- ao ogre. I should toel constrained to
V e rla in e and th a Bw rqlare.
ed under tho front step« of a house marry him—If ha wanted m«—rather
moeatain, under any sad all circum- lowing tbe crusade by Governor Want,
According to a contemporary, a Par­
S U N D A Y D IN N E R S 3 5 C .
sad there remained till the night hud than put him to so much expanse for
atanoaa. to their chief claim for recog- w ill ba dismissed. D istrict Attorney
fully nettled and Jnlie had recovered nothing. Nevertheless 1 had the op- ts beggar, seeing an old man about to
Godwin has announced, following tbe froui her exhaustion. Then they aal tlon to decline him, and It waa this give him a halfpenny, showed his con­
Representative 8 In not t has Intro­ acquittal of Mayor W illiam Stowart tied forth and walked leisurely till that decided me. 1 accepted his offer, tempt for the gift by taking a silver
duced a bill conveying to Klamath on a charge of violating liquor laws, they had reached one of tbe city gates I We hear a great deal about the bride coin from his own pocket and bestow
tog It on tha almagivar. Let us hope
PUUs a ll tbs nnanrveyed lands on by a Jury la five mlantaa.
and. having satisfied the guards that- adorned to go to the bridegroom, happy
tbs recipient fared better than Paul
they were ordinary persons going 1 nuptials, boneyradeus. and all that,
Lake Rwauna for a public park. Ha
Verlaine did under somewhat similar
home, went forth free.
j My departure to » s e t my expected
has also anbmlttad to the committee
circumstances. Ona night tha poet
Tbe
lovers
walked
all
the.
way
to
husband
was
more
like
going
to
my
aa public lands an amendment to tha i
woke up to find a couple of borgthra
coal land leasing bill, providing that 1 of killing John K elly a t Henryville, Boulogne, where they sncceedad In » Own funeral. I okaag to tbe matron,
to hie room. Shortly before he had
persuading
-the
captain
of
a
vessel
the
only
mother
I
had
known,
and
leasees pay all the state and county was Indicted by tha Coon oounty grand
about to crass tbe channel to R aglan! I needed all her encouragement to In­ been driven by poverty to sell every
taxes oa leaseholds. This, be tblaka, Jury at Coquille for first-degree mur­
stick of furniture and waa reduced to
to take them aboard.
’ duce me to go even after all arrange-
wfR toad to remove tbe objections to der.
sleeping on a sack. H la visitor! wars
_-
ments had been made to r my golTg-
tha policy of reserving such lands in
STABLE
so touched by this evidence of dire
— "L * . «¿«aa
“T ru e r me," she sal«. "Thu w ill find
public ownership.
poverty that they gave him a franc
E D U C A T IO N .
a good man who w ill love you. and you
apiece and took their departure. "Un
T h e secretary of tbe treasury in-
H
wnrk arx»n marbU M w i
will love him. You w ill bare a home
p j t r r z
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fortunately.” Verlaine bad to admit
flgraw Senator Chamberlain that In
Barn Located near H o te l V in tin
when he related the story, "both tha
fianaation gathered from the depart-
-a
i
m m mm.
happy fam ily.”
Special A tten tio n lor C om m ercial Traveler«
h?ne T ? T S T * . ? " 2 *
I I passed the time during the Journey
meate requiring room ia the federal
pies rimy wiB crum ble mto dust,
wondering what kind of man I should
Transient Team « G iv e n Prom pt Attention
balldiag a t Astoria indicates that a
Do not talk about you
b«l 2 we work upoa M o r t a l
flnd nt the end of tbs route. I fancied
throe story baildtng having MOfi feet
pany. I t can ba done a
minds. 2 we unbue them w A prm-
a
man wlwBe exposure to all
a f ground area w ill be neceaeary. Tbs
satisfactorily after yon
dplea.
with
rim
g
*
fear
at
God
|
kln<j
M
of
weather
bad
mads
him
pro-
east o f sack a battdiag, to ba brick
Upplncott’s.
- ¿i y ••£*' •'
y
•nd lo w ol oar M o w men. we
‘ maturely old
He bad probably Hat
faced aad f*ro proof throughout, w ill
Qeed Feiltlo
enmave oo those table’s «anething
• iome of his hslr. and farmers seldom
G
e
o
r
g
e
E
l
l
a
r
d
,
P ro p rie to r
ba ttSfiftdd. Senator Chamberlain w ill
Good politics should ba
which w il heighten to a l eternity.
taka care of their teeth. He would
tar of good bualneas and
— Hamel Wehater.
walk as If following tto» P*°w.
and ea s te rn Oregon.
H l «««td< «I I !■>♦«»♦*
T b e O b s e rv e r
tfiToHteFSMkTbf ihe car a man reading
a newspaper whose face seamed to be
fam iliar to me. 1 thought I had seen
him aomewhere before until be looked
toward me. when, alnoe be showed no
sign of recognition, 1 concluded that I
was mistaken. Probably 1 bad seen
some one who resembled him.
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A f te r awhile, when there w e re but
few passengers to the car. be offered
me some periodicals to road, and this
furnished him with a pretext to open
conversation. 1 did not know tt then,
but there Is a fa r greater freedom In
the west than In the east between trav­
elers. even those of opposite sex. There
was something pleasing to the man’s
manner, and I should not have bean
»orry to while away the time chatting
with him bad I not been drawing near
the end of my Journey, and my heart
was beginning to sink at tbs prospect
of the meeting in store for me. How­
ever. my new found friend did most
of tbe talking, telling me about the |
country and tbe amount of wheat that
was raised in tbe state, dwelling espe
d a lly on tbe new methods of farming
which were then beginning to attract
the attention of farmers.
H e bad
been to Washington, where be had
gained from the agricultural depart­
ment certain scientific methods of
| making the soil productive. On this
subject be spoke with enthusiasm, bat
I noticed that when our conversation
waa turned on soy other be was dis
I posed to be taciturn. ..
I
One thing about him pleased me
rv e r y m w b. H e a »*e< 'm e no quaa-
I tlon» about where I camo from or
I where I was gplng He left the train
I at a station some ten miles from the
one nt which I would leave i t and my
I mtud. now unoecuided. became filled
1 with terror over the meeting th a t
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