i ADVENTURES OF $
J. RUFUS
WallingforD
(Continued from Pago 2)
us iick up a lew or ttietu. Ana vq
didn't know they were Ills anyway."
'You knew they wcro not your?,"
snnppod Wnlllngford. anil then ho pro
ceeded to show Toad an algebraic
problom. He was relenting. This was
tho first tlnio he had condescended to
arguo tho question.
Tho golden sun desccndeil behind the
fringe of trees, and (.5. W. Slookum sat
gazing Into the glorified west with his
head craned toward the orchard.
"Mr. Tushhian. paw." It was Mri
Slookum, with her hands folded.
"Un-bunal" Slookum grunted when
Pushman declared he'd take up his note.
"Business ptckln' up?" And ho sat
down to bis old bookcase desk.
"Fine!" stated young Pushnian, with
enthusiasm. "1 fouu.l a New York
Jobber to handle my goods, and he's
jccplng me busy. lie takes the ten
ay discount too. Al o.:t nest week I'd
ko to discount that second note."
With a jerk air. Slookum stopped
rltlng. "You don't want to do that?"'
. hastily advised. "You don't want
cramp your prefacing power. I'll
tend this note If you say r.o.'
'No trouble about that." And the
iung manufacturer lit a big cigar.
There was no hope of my getting
joncy lu this town, so I've taken In
.'Utsidc capital Mr. Walllngford."
Slookum's head came up with a jerk.
"You bo careful of that man." he
warned. "He's a skinner."
Just outside the fence of G. W. Sloo
kum's field waited young Jimmy Wal
llngford and Toad Jcssup with their
caps In their hands, and the caps were
filled with walnuts. No such exhibi
tion of patience and spartan fortitude
had ever before been given by this
pair. For nearly an hour they stood,
and occasionally they giggled, and oc
casionally they cast quick glances over
their shoulders at tkfc house, but for the
most part they merely held themselves
In sober waiting with an Intentness
which was little short of businesslike.
At last G. W. Slookum came around
the corner of the house. Though he
had been In plain slsht of the walnut
tree and of the orchard, some uneasy
Instinct tod warned him of the pres
ence of boys. He took off his near
glasses and put on his faraway glasses,
then shrilled. "Ilcy. you. Andy!"
He hurried straight down the walk
nnd out along the road. The farm band
came clomping up from the barn, the
hard, white bull terrier stretching along
ahead of him. The two boys stood
their ground.
"Aha: t caught you at It!" yelled
Slookum.
"Don't you touch us!" warned Toad.
"We're not on your property."
That warning wns Just lu time, for
Slookum had l-e-tu about to lay bands
on them. Ho know thut law of -trespassing
quite well, however. The
white dog knew" it too. lie leaped and
jerked and barked Inside the fence
and ran up and down In punting im
patience, but ho made no move to come
into the road. Andy leaned ou the
fence just behind the boys. He was u
pickled faced man. with an Indiscrimi
nate sort of yellow mustache.
Tut back tbuxc walnuts!" ordered
Andy.
"We don't nave to put em Dacu." im
mediately announced Toad. Jimmy
had. not a word to .say. -He stood
quietly listcnlug to Toad, with a little
half ss-ile. "They're our walnuts."
"You K;ole 'cm!" charged Slookum.
Siiddir-lv tho hlrofl lynd rpnrlipd over
Classified Ads
FGfSale, H3.1t. Wantel, Er.
FOR SALE An apportunity you (
cannot afford to miss whether '
you need a home or are a man
of means that would like to
majse a few hundred dollars on
a small investment. Here it
is-rrA house, lot and barn,
close to the business center of
Springfield for $450. Just
about one half its real value. '
Title perfect. Address J. O.
Richmond, Newport. Oregon.
Vnn R AT,F! Mp.orlv now fl.hnlp
Banquet steel range with hot !
water coil and connections. Al
go two small heating stoves.
See' Beebe at Peery's drug
store.
INFORMATION WANTEDrCon
qerning the whereabouts of
Iglnjer and Charlie Woods who
Worked at Saginaw during the
summer of 1914 hauling wood
Any.information would be ap
preciated, Address Peder Op
Iujb, Eugene, Ore, Jan. 27-13
LOpK INTO THIS At Once the
y.est fractional block 58,
vest end ofiD street. House
barn, wood shed, boarded well
58 feet deep; worth at least
$1,000. If taken at once $G00.
Writs, to owner E. E. Basey,
Orosi; Calif.
"Look at mi; look at my friend Mr.
Dsw."
the Tcnce cud grabbed the caps out or
the boys hands, lie dung the wal
nuts Inside the Held as far as he could
ami then tossed the caps outside the
fence.
"Now go home or I'll spank you!" he
threatened.
"We don't nave to go home!" Toad's
voice rose In shrl'.l triumph. "This Is
our road! We're part of the public!
We cau stay right here as long us we
want to!"
For the flrrt time Jimmy Walling
ford spoke. lie was not deflaut like
Toad. He was quiet, and at the cor
ners of his lips lurked a smile which
had In It n trace of Insolence.
"You must gtvo us buck our wal
nuts," and his clear eyes gnxed steadi
ly Into the beady ones of O. W.
Slookum.
"What did you say?" crackled Slook
um lu astonishment
"You must give us back our wal
nuts," repeated Jimmy 'irmly. "We
can have you nrreeted for highway
robbery."
"You young thieves!" snorted Slook
um. "Of all the Impudence!"
"We can prove they were our wal
nuts." went on Jimmy, entirely un
valued. thour.h the light of a peculiar
satisfaction began to gleam In his
eyes. "We bought them this morning
at a grocery store, and there were four
people saw us buy them. Here is the
cheek." He produced u pink grocer's
slip, bearing the single Item. "Wal
nuts. 23."
"Give them b'ack their walnuts!" or
dered Slookum savagely.
That was enough. Toad Jessup put
Ills thumb ami his foretlnger in lilt
mouth and filled hlu luuisriml emitted"
a whistle so sdirlll that U. W. Slookum
seemed to raise Html .lit up from the
ground, luxtantly from among the
nhrubbery across the Mde road from
the walnut tree, there emerged the full
n!ght force of bell boys from the Ho
tel Dingle. They came running, and
with a whoop. They sprawled over
the-fence. There wen seven of them,
but they moved so rapidly that they
looked like seventy The hard, white
dug wasted no lime nu consideration,
lie started across the field In u straight
xtrcak. and the tallest bellboy, who
was thirty-two years of age and a re
tired prize lighter, met him with a
minnowselne. and the skirmish line
parted, leaving an astonished dog roll
ing on the ground nnd trying to paw
his way out of that net. The skirmish
line, with wbo'ips and cheers and much
Walllngford Proceeded to Show Toad
an Algebralo Problem.
laughter, charged on tho walnut tree
with lrreslstiblo enthusiasm. Clubs
uud stones flew up among tho branch
es like a bombardment from a gatllug
battnrv. Thn tnllnsh brllhni- nniisnfl
for Inst a momant to "nasto" thn hired '
hand in'the eye with n w1T oiihdnejl
lint. It was tho same eye which Toad
j Jewuip hnd greeted wllh n hnrd. green
walnut.
I
, O. W. Slookum wit nt hN bark door.
Vhe walnut" were gone nnd the nples
' were picked, and there was nothing to
wnteh. Hut he mt there and watch
, Hi It.
"There's a stranger, paw." It was
Mrs. Slookum, but not oven her voice
was meek, in the past two week she
had been aggravated to tho point of re
liellloa ' "Who Is It?" The voice of Mr.
Slookum wa;i particularly harsh. In
the past two weeks ho had strained It
Mrs. Slookum did not oven tell hlin to
go nnd find out for himself. Sho had
' disappeared on tho delivery of her first
I message.
Mumbling and grumbling. O. V.
went into tho horsehair room, and tho
. stranger proved to bo none other than
I Horace O. Daw, who, with his head
bent and his hands clasped behind hU
' bl.iek Prluce Albert, wns stalking dl
1 ugonally across the room.
I "Sir." said Horace O. Daw, "I am n
much abused man!" and ho deliberately
bent tho cud of his spiked mustache
nnd Inserted It between his teeth.
"Uu-hunh!" agreed Slookum. nud ho
grinned.
"1 am the victim of Injustice!" rant
ed Mr. Daw. tousling his black hair
down over bis forehead. "I am bent
0:1 revenge! Ilerengo. Mr. Slookutul
Hovcuge on that scoundrel. J. Itufus
Wr.lllngford!"
"t'n-bunh!" agreed Slookum. But
there was more animation lu Ids tone.
"Have you or have you nit two tuort.
gngc notes against the Pushman Klteu- j
en Utensil comimny, each Tor 51.000 J
and luterestV" 1
Mr. Slookum studied Hlacklo Daw
slowly.
"What about It?" he asked, rubblug
his clawlikc hands over each other as
If ho were trying to wring an Idea from
them.
"Listen!" IJlacklo Daw stopped and
held one hand aloft. "I wish to pur
chase those notes."
Again loug nud deliberate thought on
the part of Mr. Slookum.
"Why?" ho nskod.
"Will you sell me tho notes If I toll
you?"
"Well, maybe."
"Then here It Is. Those notes nru lu
the name of Pushmnn Kitchen Ufft))slbl
company. That company has grow,n
out of existence, having been merged
Into The Pushman Kitchen Utensil
company, now Incorporated. Since the
original company docs not exist It can
not take up those notes, and you can
refuse settlement from any other jver
son. The mortgnge can still stand as
a lien, however, against the absorbing
company and cau be held until such
time us that company might be In tem
porary dltlicnltles. Then, by thunder,
I can make trouble with them!"
"That's dang nonsense." crackled
Slookum. "You don't know the law,
or you wouldn't think up u scheino llko
that. I tried it once."
It was Hlackle Daw's time to pause,
and he did It most crestfallculy.
"You're cocksure 1 can't do that?"
"As sure as gospel!"
"Then there's only one other way."
Olackle now sat down, with his hands
on his knee and his neck bolt upright.
"I'll have to buy enough stock In the
Fushmau Kitchen Utensil company to
vote myicuemy out of office."
Mr. Slookum, who was an excellent
listener, cocked his head sideways nt j
that. ;
"How much money would that
take?" ,
"Fifty-one thousand dollars or more."
Blncklu's reply was prompt and sharpy
"The company s Incorporated for n
hundred thousand, and Fushman has
'be sale of the stock. They're snap
ping It up like hot cakes around town
today because the company In my suit
against them showed a profit even on
100.000 capitalization of over 130 per
cent a year."
Ci. W. Slookum gulped, and a spasm
of pain twitched nt all his wrinkles.
"Yes. 1 figured that out myself," he
corroborated.
"Well, Pushman don't like Walling
ford." "I'll simply get Pushman lo sell mp
31 per cent of that stock as soon as
my money gets here next week. Then
I'll call a meeting and vote Walling
ford out of olllco. make nivself tircsl- I
dent and vote inyielf u big enough sal- j
ary to eat tip nil the. prodts except C or
7 per cent. That's enough for stock-
holders. I'll $how that fellow Walling- j
ford!" And Ulackle, Jumping from his
chair, slapped his bauds behind him ;
and stalked ngltntedly across and
across the room.
Again there was n mug pause. In
which G. W. Slookum speculated.
'You suy you dou't get your money
until next week?'' bo presently ob
served. "Not until then." said fllackle.
.
The olllco of tho Pushman Kitchen
Utensil company waa n revelation
when the cautious G, W. Slookum paid
that thriving establishment a visit.
Express wagons wero being loaded
high with cases of egg' bcatcrd. There
was a fresh coat of paint on tho front,
nnd at the windows wero loco curtains
and new shade with tassels. Slookum
saw all this from across the street.
loaflpg nonchnlautly In "the shade, (f.
the hallway' of- a family" .suioonf
wutched Jt patiently until he saw .1.
Itufus AValllngfoid am) young Push
man go out for lunch. Then Mr
Slookum hurried over and entered the
otllce. New desks, new chairs, new
railings; at a high desk, keeping the
books, a hnndsomo blue eyed young
lady and at the typewrllor. working
Industriously from tho moment ho had
Btartcd to cross the street,, a JniudijQuie,
brown eyed young lady '. On the desk'
of tlw blue eyed one H.,ta)L..vuBo of
chrysanthemums rind rmmeillntei.v ad
Joining her .another tall desk labeled
Mr. Pushmnn. Ncnr I ho typewriter
was n largo desk labeled "Mr. Wal
llngford." nud on her table ' wait it
bowl of sweetheart roses.
-Mr. Pushninh In?" asked Mr. Sloolt
am. his eyes narrowing,
I'miny Wnrdon went right ot) typing,
hut Violet looked around nt ' him
sweetly.
"No. Rlr," sho said. "He hns gone
to lunch."
"Too bad!" Slookum rubbed his
hand together nnd beamed paternally
on tho blue eyed one. The brown eyed
one turned to him nt t tint moment, nud
he beamed nt her also. "Mr. Push
mnn wanted me to come around and
look nt tho books. Uo wants to sell me
some stock."
Violet looked nt him with wide o.tcn
for a moment, then turned to Fanny
with n troubled brow.
"Do you suppose It w6uld bo nil
rlgbt. Fanny?" sho Inquired, suppress
ing tho triumphant sparkle lu imr
oyes,
I dont kuow,' hesitated l auny.
"I'm afraid Mr. WnlllnRrord might not
llko It."
"Oh. yes. ho will. Mr, Slookum
hastily assured them. "You Just wait."
Penning on them archly, ho Blowly
renrhed a hand . In each coat pocket
nnd as slowly withdrew them. In his
right hand he held a bedraggled llttlo
buaeh of geraniums and In tho othct
n milled bag of peppermints Ho pre
seuted the geraniums to Violet nnd tho
peppermints to Funny. ".Now 1 guess
you two purty young ludlcs will run i
out nud take a little wnlk and let m
take euro of tho otllce,"
They hesitated. They glanced at1
each other dubiously. Then, overcoino
by the tlatterlug attentions of G. W. j
Slookum. they esenped his fatherly ,
pau ou the stioulder aud wctit out
through the factory door and giggled
themselves half sick, wbllo O. W. Slook
'inn plunged feverishly luto tho ofilco
books. Clues he knew how to hnudlo
the ladles, by vtug!
Young PtiHtiman hurried Into tho
apartments of J. Itufus Wnlllugford lu
tho Hotel Dingle, slammed his derby i
on the (able, dropped n bag on tho
A - I ., 1. 1. ,1... I
floor, plumped himself Into the biff
chair, throw back his head and laughed
rind laughed and laughed
"Well, we're clean!" he exulted nnd.
opening tho has. began to draw out
Ha Presented
the Peppermints
Fanny.
to'
nnrUtH'tH nt innnni- iiiul fnMa flii'in on
Um tii'ble.
Wnlllngford. his big pink face wreath. uhijuiii iiimx uxu uu uiy una
ed In smiles, leaned his arms on the CUltles with their high VOltagO
table.
"Xo stock left." he surmised.
"Not n share! Old Slookum couldn't
getjdown to mo pilck enough to beat
Ulackle Luw to It, and he look the entire-
dfty-two I'd held back for him.
Wnlllngford. I tried two years to bring
this business to i point whero I could
unload It on my fellow townsmen, but
I'm an amateur us yet It took that
lawsuit and old Slookum's nosing luto
the books to put those iiogus shipments
beyond question." Ho pushed tho mon
V over to .1. Itufus for distribution,
then
Slooli
t
ma
market still looked good."
"fortnlnlv." cnrrolmrntnil
Wnlllnc-
.,,11
aim was the cautious party. Yes-1 ' , ,n i.n..,,. w :
erday morning he telegraphed your - V"W -
n I'n i.l mill im ;ml r I m nmr lontni" ... n.tw. v..,.uu ...
GOOK
Oregon Power
lorn "I'ollet wTFihT'uhs and I wheTTf
Pallet to order 1.000 worth."
"They'll have lo be new goodi,".
grinned lllucklo Daw, fondling tile
money. 1 "Kay, do ytiti know we've
shipped Ptishumtrn original thounntid
dollar' wort li of ogg healers to Paul
Pollot and buck iwMityfotir times?"
"And Paul paid vault every time."
chuckled Wnlllugford. "However, the
dividend wo declared Just before wo
Incorporated got its back that money.
Wlmt's here. Pushmnn?"
"Suventy-llvo thounand even."
Wnlllugford shook his head.
Uotteit wo had to well $23,000 for thn
treasury," he worried. "Hut It wouldn't
have been snfo to have set aside any
more promotion stock, l"lit of all,
won tniie out unit .t,uv tor uexi
week's shlpmenl." And he counted tho
Theii wc'i take
mom." lie shoved
money to one side
out $12,000 for expunst
that money to one side. "We won't
count the trlllo we lust when I turned
those mortgage over to the bank this
morning, nor will wo count the $.'1,000
which we nro to pay Ptul Pullet. That
comes out of the expenses. We have
here $00,000 to divide.
After tho settlement hnd Ikmmi mnilo
nnd young Pushman had gone awny
.1. Itufus Walllnuford sat silently on
the arm of the couch, wllh a look id
deep trouble on his brow. Illneklo
Daw. tossing things Into their grips
for n hasty deiwrturo, chatted cheer
fully, as he worked, about tho habits
of the npoofcuyouug. u strange game
llsh which roosted on coral branches . , iiuIcimI t, immml to ninch
a.al could only be enticed by liquor. 1 "l ,,I81 ' . ' c " . L .
Hwelvlng no answer to his Invitation ?'h "."V HtOOknion gO lOlllliy II
to go spjofenyouuglng, Itlnekte sud
denly paused.
".Vow. don't you worry about Utile
Jimmy." he advised. "He's a line kid!"
"Certainly he Is!" agreed Wnlllug
ford. "I can lick anybody who hints that
he Isn't. That kid's only smart!"
"That's right." again agreed Wal
llngford. but he let lllaekle finish the
packing by himself and went out to
joined Fannie Warden, lie seemed to
need comforting.
Another adventure next week.
S.? U,0..,n,lSf0r.d. l!ictl,roo;rrhlay tho 2fith day.of February. 1010.
, nt tho Boll Thoatro Wodnosday
innf TluirSftnv
J
,
POWERFUL TRANSFORMER
INSTALLED AT O. A. C.
I Tho anu.OOO volt transformor
that was on exhibition for dc
Unonstrntioiml purposes at tho
, Panama-Pacillc Exposition, has
been purchased by tho O. A. C.
depnrtiuont of Electrical FJtiglu
eorlngand has boon installed In frnnmor Hb appointed admin-
tho College shops. Tills place of l,,lrn,or Hf iito of l.ucy C. Cran
oloclrlcal nmchlnory excited a ",or- '''" ah persona having
great deal of attention whenever lul,nB "n "Hl 1,10 mM ",Bt0 nro h
it wns operated because of Ub,"' ' " " 1,roMnl ,ho MT' y
remarkable high power and I vrmi" ,wU 1 i' propo-vouchors to
spectacular action In operation. mU imintattor. at tho law
It Is a vorltable.lightning maker :c,llte8 ?, ,J' M; tf,)ovu Ii,,';"0' "r;"
nn.l t nlwnva tin n,1(n,l ' WW, Wllhlll BiX moilthn frOUl" tllO dtttO
a considerable distance from tho
high power circuit. The 3130,000
voltage Is moio than five times
'as great as that of any com
mercial transformer used in I ho
, Pacific Northwest, nud it in con
siderably higher than any on the
entire Pacific Coast with the sin
gle exception of one in Call
lornia. This transformer will be valu
able for tests of insulators and
I other equipment of the power
companies operating commor
daily In tho Northwest
Plans
nro nlronilv miilor wnir n nnu.
I , . . . ,
UUCl le?Bwo Of UIKcroncjio Kini Throinr IW,
transmission lines. A large part
of these investigations will bo
mado by seniors an dgraduato.
students under the direction of
Professor Dearborn, head of the
department, and his assistants.
In this way tho men will get val
uable experience in the solution
of problems they will meet later
In their work with the largo
companies.
This piece of equipment
weighs in connection with the oil
installing, drying and testing tho
transformer in the laboratory
WITH
and in ni'oimi'liur Homo Miuctnc-
i tin' dumoiiHlmtioiiH for tho ISu
ylnoorlng show Kubniui'y M mid
15, wlton It inlty bo limpootod
at Ioiik riuigoi howovor, ly tho
public.
Tho (lopnrtinont liopus soon to
add to Hit oqiilpnioiit various
typou of; oscillograph!! iiiul otlior
rollnoinonlH that will iiuiko tho
laboratory of high tension phe
nomena of any In tho Northwest.
FORE8TR ANGERS TO
FEED GAME AND BIRDS
Tim district PoroHlor nt Port
land, Oiu, has issued n circular
ii,.,,.,,, n nn,.Hi nfllcnru nn?
J?"Hl... .J V.. ?. !..U" .1..
'"K thorn to food glllllO nnd bll'dB
M tliell l'0S)0CtlVO lOOUlltlOH (Iwv-
lllg HI 01111 poriotiH,
Tho National Forest appropri
ation Ib llintied to tho care or
IIbIi nnd gamo supplied to stock
tho Forests or tho wrttom there
in, and cannot bo used for tho
mi milium if rnnl fm minwi niwl
,.,.,, t,Jlt.,. m... lu
' . "11. " " " ... X.j .n
jiiiuoi yviiv,i MHU unii;wuiii;
during the year of oxcoptlonnl
HtorniB, and each forout olllcor
Is ured not oply to uho his boHt
effort ti to furnish inw animals
and gntuo aud song birds with
uih vicinity in in) iiiuir pun in
aiding the work.
Colgate's
Perry.
Talcums ICc at
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice In hereby given that tho un
dersigned administrator of tho utitato
of John I). Iiinls, deceusad linn lllud
his dual account with (ho County Clerk
of Lane County, Oregon, nnd that nu
order bun boon mtulo nud nntorod of
irt.w.nl i!lr.irt(m llila iwillftf. iillll Hlilttlll?
at tho hour of 10 o'clock A. M., for tho
hearing of objections, if nny to said
(lnnl account and for tho dual settle
ment of said ostnlo.
SQUUtK 1NNI&,
Administrator of tho iwtnto Of John 11.
Innls, DiiCnsod.
JOHN C. MULhlfiN, Attornoy.
io.r.t-iw
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice Is hereby given that-8. W.
of tho drat publication of thin Sum
mons, to-wlt: within nix months from
tho 31st day of January, A. I)., 1910.
S. W. CHANMUU.
Administrator.
J yi. OKVHIIS.
Attornoy for Kotnto. Jan. ai-Fob.28
NOTICE FOR . PUBLICATION
rJopnrtmont of tho Interior
IT, H. Land Olllco at Itoisoburg, Ore
gon, January D, 1010.
Notice Is hcroby given that Joseph
Wukolluld, of Vlila, Oregon, who on
August 1, 1011, iiiaiio Homeotend Entry
Horial No. 0740G. for tho N of SWtt.
NW'i of BKVl tind Lot 1 of. Section 31.
Township ICS, Jlango 313, Wlllamotto
' Morlilun. linn llloil nntlr nf Intentlnn
Intention
to
establish claim to tho laud above do-
ncrlbod, beforo I. P. Hewitt. U. 8. Com
mission, nt hln olllco ut Eugene, Ore
gon', on tho JSth day of February, 1 DIG.
Claimant names as witnesses: John
Honnlo, Eugene, Oregon: Louis Tate,
of Vldn, Oregon: John Low, of Vlda,
Oregon; Charles Noal, of Vlda, Oregon.
J. M. UPTON,
.Inn. fl-Fob. 10. Register.
The
Springfield Garage
H. SANDGATHE
Proprietor
Repairing a Specialty
Main, bet. Fourth nnd Fifth. Phono 11
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