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Things Worth Knowing.
The Christiania Social Demokraten
asserts that Norway has provisions for
only one month. Import prospects are
also gloomy, it is said.
The State department was advised
Sunday of the sinking August 23 of
the American schooner Carl F. Creasy,
of Bath, Me., by a submarine. The
crew of seven was saved.
According to information .from Mad­
rid, the Portuguese government em­
ployes in the postal and telegraph
service have gone on strike. Suspen­
sion of all communication has resulted.
Conscientious objectors accepted for
military service were advised by Sec­
retary Baker Tuesday to make no pro­
test until assigned in training camp to
some task particularly violating their
scruples.
According to the Cologne Gazette,
the first step toward the self-govern­
ment cf Poland has been taken. From
now on justice will be administered in
the name of the Polish crown and by
Polish judges.
German airplanes visited the South­
east coast of England Monday night,
dropping bombs at various places, ac­
cording to an official statement.
The Petrograd Council of Work­
men’s and Soldiers’ Deputies Tuesday
adopted a resolution of protest against
the re-establishment of the death pen­
alty at the front. They demanded that
the measure be revoked.
H. W. Griesbach, of Sweet Grass,
Mont., and J. R. Brennan, of Tacoma,
Wash., were listed as killed in action
in the Canadian casualty list issued
Monday. Among the gased is named
R. J. McAdam, Butte, Mont.
Practically one-third of the small
arms ammunition supplied to General
Pershing’s troops in France has been
found defetcive from chemical reaction
set up in the powder after manufac­
ture at the Frankfort arsenal.
German troops appeared for the first
time on the Carso (Italy) front Thurs­
day morning, according to Austrian
prisoners. The Austrians are rushing
reinforcements from the Russo-Rou­
manian front, the prisoners say.
Snow has put out a serious fire near
Gordon Pass, in the Flathead country,
according to reports received at forest
service headquarters at Missoula,
Mont. All fires were abating and con­
trol line have been established every­
where.
The National War Committee an­
nounces a prize essay contest for chil­
dren between the ages of 8 and 18 on
the topic, ‘‘Why America Entered the
War.” The prizes include a $50 Lib­
erty Bond and gold coins of $25, $15
and $10 respectively.
From a concealed position on a
mountainside near Middlesboro, Ky.,
200 shots were fired across the valley
early* Monday at a party of repair
men, proceeding to the mines of the
Lower Lignite Coal company, where a
strike of union coal miners is in prog­
ress.
The Swiss sanitary authorities at
Basel and all along the German fron­
tier are taking measures to prevent
dysentery, typhus and scarlatina,
which prevail in Rhine towns, from
entering Switzerland.
All travelers
coming from Germany are required to
undergo medical examination.
RUSSIANS QUIT RIGA
Big Gulfport Falls Into Hands of Teu-
tons, but Winter May Prevent
Pressing Their Advantage.
Riga, Russia’s big port on the Gulf
of Raig, is in the hands of the Ger­
mans and its garrison and the civilian
population are in retreat eastward.
Following up rapidly the advantage
they gained in driving the Russians
across the Dvina river on both sides of
Uxkrull last Saturday, the Germans
threw bridges across this stream and
soon were on the heels of the former
defenders, some of whom offered re­
sistance, but others of whom showed
the white feather, giving the invaders
no trouble in marching up the eastern
bank of the Dvina toward Riga, 15
miles distant.
With the falling back of the Rus­
sians from the city proper and the ad­
vance of the Germans northward along
both sides of the stream, the Russians
still defending the western bank
around Dahlen seemingly are in danger
of being caught between the two fast­
moving bodies of the enemy and made
prisoner. Behind them the Russians,
in their retreat from Riga, are laying
the country in waste, burning villages
and farms.
Whether the city itself
remains intact has not yet been made
known, but doubtless the guns in the
fortress and the ammunition stores
either were moved or destroyed to pre­
vent them falling into the hands of the
Germans.
Aside from the strategic value of
controlling the Gulf of Riga and of a
base nearer the mouth of the Gulf of
Finland, at the head of which Petro­
grad is situated, for the moment it is
impossible to see the importance of
the German gain, especialy with the
near approach of winter, when milli-
tary operations in this northern region
are almost impossible.
Washington, D. C. — Abandonment
of Riga in the face of the new German
drive into Russia, and even the evacua­
tion of Petrograd itself, have been
forecast as possibilities in confidential
advices to the American government
during the last two weeks.
Such a
development is not regarded with so
much alarm as might be supposed.
With Riga abandoned and German
occupation of Petrograd in prospect,
the seat of the Russian provisional
government undoubtedly will be moved
to Moscow. Much as they regret see­
ing the Russian captisi occupied by a
German army, the forceful thinking
men of Russia, working to set up a
government, may regard it as a bless­
ing in disguise.
There are many advantages in mov­
ing the Russian capital to Moscow. It
is the center of the Conservative group
and commands the sentimental, almost
religious—regard of the Russian popu­
lace as the ancient capital of the old
empire, surrounded with the tradition
of Russia’s greatness, the triumphs of
Alexander, Catherine and Peter the
Great.
Furthermore, some Russians of
the
new government are said to
think that a German occupation of
Riga and even Petrograd, might be a
wholesome object lesson for the Radi­
cal element which has been hampering
the new government, and that an ex­
perience under the military heel of
Germany might convince them of the
need of supporting the government as
now constituted to save their father-
land for Russia.
USE BAYONETS ON STRIKERS
Illinois Guardsmen Disperse Rioting
Mob—Bricks Hurled Freely.
Springfield, Ill.—Charging with fixed
bayonets, Ilinois Guardsmen Monday
night dispersed a mob of more than
1000 streetcar sympathizers who half
an hour before had wrecked four
streetcars and were then attacking the
headquarters of the railway company
intent on wrecking and ransacking the
building.
Dispersed by the soldiers from the
corner in the main business section,
where the cars had been attacked, the
mob headed for the offices of the rail­
road company and the Springfield Gas
& Electric company, subsidiary.
Six soldiers on guard at the building
held the crowd in check for some time,
but bolder ones in the mob finally
started hurling bricks at the plateglass
windows, riddling the front of the
building. As reinforcements arrived
and charged them with the butts of
their guns, the rioters fled in confu­
sion, a few of them being trampled,
but none seriously injured. No shots
were fired by the soldiers.
HERALD,
HERMISTON,
OREGON
outer
NATION-WIDE RAID
MADE ON I. W. W
Department of Justice Orders
Records of Order Seized.
GENERAL MOVE MADE
Action Against Agitator* on Eve of
Report of President’s Investiga-
tor of Western Troubles.
Washington, D. C.—The government
Wednesday took drastic measures to
end the anti-war propaganda conduct­
ed in the name of the Industrial Work­
ers of the World, the Socialist party
and organizations throughout the Uni­
ted States.
On orders from Attorney General
Gregory, United States marshals in
many towns and cities descended at 2
p. m., central time, upon local head­
quarters of the Industrial Workers of
the World, seized books, checks, cor­
respondence and other documents, and
in some instances arrested officials of
the organizations.
In Chicago federal agents took pos­
session of the national headquarters of
the Socialist party, and a warrant au­
thorizing the seizure of its documents
was served upon its counsel.
A statement issued by the depart­
ment of Justice announced that the
seizure of the papers was made in con­
nection with a federal grand jury in­
vestigation of the I. W. W., now pro­
ceeding at Chicago.
The department’s action was taken
on the eve of a report to President
Wilson by Chief Justice Covington, of
the Supreme coust of the District of
Columbia, who was designated recently
by the President to investigate the la­
bor situation in the West.
Judge Covington has completed his
investigation, which lasted several
weeks, and took him to the Pacific
Coast.
Whether the concerted action of
marshals throughout the country was
in any way related to Judge Coving­
ton’s investigation was not disclosed.
It is known, however, that Judge Cov­
ington made a special study of the ac­
tivities of the I. W. W.
It was
shortly after he reached the Northwest
that 27 leaders of the organization
were arrested in Spokane by Idaho
National guardsmen, the day before
the time set for a general strike in
Washington, Oregon, Montana and
Idaho.
The charges against [leaders of the
organization under arrest or whose ar­
rest is contemplated were not made
public here.
It was said at the department of
Justice that these would have to be de­
termined by the grand jury investigat­
ing the organization.
Officials also declined to state if in­
dictments had been found by grand
juries in Chicago or elesewhere against
I. W. W. leaders. It was intimated,
however, that the investigation had
only begun. Indications are that fed­
eral grand juries in other cities will
be called upon also to investigate the
activities of the organization.
CHINA TO SEND PICKED ARMY
15,000 Troops Are to Entrain to Aid
Retreating Russians.
San Francisco — The 24th Chinese
army corps, composed of 15,000 picked
troops from the northern provinces, is
being mobilized in a Chinese city for
immediate departure to Europe, ac­
cording to a cablegram received here
Thursday night by the Chinese Daily
World, venacular newspaper, from its
correspondent in Shanghai.
The dispatch, censored and deleted,
indicated that the troops will be taken
through Siberia to the eastern front,
where the Russians are being pushed
back towards Petrograd. The message
hinted that gap* in the Russian armies
will be filled by these troops, and pos-
sibly by Japanese.
The 24th corps was said to include
several companies of engineers, com-
manded by Chinese graduates from
American colleges.
Five Italian aviators have returned
from a successful flight to Vienna.
Leaving the Italian front the machines
passed over the Austrian lines unob­
served and flew straight to the Aus­
trian capital, where the aviators
dropped pamphlets informing the peo­
ple of the city of the great Italian vic­
tory.
The certificate of death of Kiolegn,
Japanese Ready to Move.
Holland Fears Misery.
an Indian, who died July 7, near Ro­
Berne —In Russian circle* in Berne
Amsterdam —.Representing 150,000
nan, Mont., bn the Flathead Indian
•nd Geneva the fall of Riga was pre­
reservation at the age of 110, has been workers, a trades union congress that
filed with the state board of health. met here Tuesday discussed food prob­ dicted a week ago, when the archive*
lems in connection with the stoppage and treasures were removed to Pskoff,
He was an Oregon Indian.
of import* from America and the un- while most of the ships left Riga for
Membership of the American Red favorable outlook for the home crops, Reval.
Cross has reached the 8,500,000 mark which have been greatly damaged by
Riga was known as a hotbed of
and is increasing at the rate of 26,000 the continuous rain storms. The meet­ Lenine pacifists and also of German
to 100,000 a day, according to a head­ ing adopted a resolution calling upon agents.
quarters announcement.
At the be­ the government to reduce the maxi­
Th* Munich Neuste Nachrichten
ginning of the year the total was 275,- mum prices on food, fuel and shoe says that a large Japanern force is
000,
leather, and to take other measures to concentrated on the Manchurian fron-
tier ready to come to the assistance of
Federal authorities at St. Paul, prevent misery ani want among the
the Russians.
working classes during winter.
after examining John Shoap, who told
Fort Snelling officers that The was a
Two-Platoon Fight is Won.
169 Whales Are Captured.
German spy, announced that the man
Tacoma. Wash. -A two-platoon sys­
Aberdeen, Wash. — A total of 169
was mentally deranged and that he had whale* has been brought in this season tem for the Tacoma fire department
been treated at a hospital for the in­
by th* four whaling ship* of th* Bay was authorised by the City council
sane in Washington state.
City station, fifteen miles west of Thursday.
The present force of 105 men in the
Eleven men pleaded guilty in the here, with five week* of whale-hunting
United States district court in Spo­ remaining. The year’s catch will ap­ fire department will be divided into
two shifts. Although the efficiency of
kane Thursday to having failed to reg­ proximate 250.
Seven tons, 14,000 pounds, of whale the fire department, will bo seriously
ister under the selective draft law and
impaired, all councilmen agreed, the
were sentenced to from one day to meat, was taken recently from one
of shift* was decided a* the
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six months in jail. Three other men finback, which is the largest amount division
of
meat
furnished
by
any
whale
taken
only
present
solution of a threatened
indicted for having failed to register
strike of all firemen.
this season.
pleaded not guilty.
fastened to trees just within the
circle of firelight Kazan saw the
shadowy forms and gleaming eyes of
his teammates. He stood stiff and mo-
tionless while Thorpe fastened him to
a siedge. Once more he was back
his forests—and In command. His
mistress was laughing and clapping
her hands delightedly In the excite-
ment of the strange and wonderful life
of which she had now become a part.
Thorpe had thrown back the flap of
their tent, and she was entering ahead
of him. She did not look back. She
James
spoke no word to him.
Oliver
and turned his red eyes on McCready.
Ourwood
In the tent Thorpe was saying:
“I’m sorry old Jackpine wouldn’t go
back with us, Issy. He drove me
down, but for love or money I couldn t
Copyright by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. get him to return. He’s a Mission In­
dian, and I’d give a month’s salary to
have you see him handle the dogs. I m
not sure about this man McCready.
BECAUSE OF KAZAN’S DE-
He’s a queer chap, the company's agent
VOT1ON TO HIS NEW MIS-
here tells me, and knows the woods
like a book. But dogs don’t like a
TRESS, HE IS GIVEN A
stranger. Kazan isn’t going to take
FRIGHTFUL AND UNJUST
to him worth a cent !”
BEATING.
Kazan heard the girl’s voice, and
stood rigid and motionless listening to
IL He did not hear or see McCready
Kazan is a huge and vicious
when he came up stealthily behind
Alaskan sledge dog. one-quarter
him. The man’s voice came as sud-
gray wolf. He saves his mas­
denly as a shot at his heels.
ter’s life and is taken along
“Pedro !”
when the master goes to civili­
In an instant Kazan cringed as if
zation to meet his bride and re­
touched by a lash.
turn with her to the frozen
“Got you that time—didn’t I, you old
country. Even the master is
devil!” whispered McCready, his face
afraid to touch the dog, but Iso­
strangely pale in the firelight.
bel, Kazan’s new mistress, wins
“Changed your name, eh? But I got
his Instant devotion. On the
you—didn’t I?”
way northward McCready, a
dog-team driver, joins the party
CHAPTER III.
and immediately Kazan tries to
attack him. Even Isobel finds it
McCready Pay* The Debt
hard to quiet the dog.
For a long time after he had uttered
those words McCready sat in silence
beside the fire. Only for a moment or
CHAPTER II.—Continued.
two at a time did his eyes leave Ka­
Kazan paid no attention to him. An­ zan. After a little, when he was sure
other ferm had approached out of the that Thorpe and Isobel had retired for
night, and stood now in the circle of the night, he went into his own tent
illumination made by the lanterns. It and returned with a flask of whisky.
was McCready, who was to accompany During the next half-hour he drank
Thorpe and his young wife back to the frequently. Then he went over and
lied River camp, where Thorpe was in sat on the edge of the sledge, just be­
charge of the building of the new yond the reach of Kazan’s chain.
"Got you, didn’t I?” he repeated, the
Transcontinental.
The man was
straight, powerfully built and clean- effect of the liquor beginning to show
shaven. His jaw was so square that in the glitter of his eyes. “Wonder
it was brutal, and there was a glow in who .changed your name, Pedro. And
his eyes that was almost like the pas­ how did he come by you? Ho, ho, if
sion in Kazan’s as he looked at Isobel. you could only talk—”
They heard Thorpe’s voice inside the
McCready shifted his gaze, and in­
stantly her hand fell on Kazan’s head. tent. It was followed by a low, girlish
For the first time the dog did not seem peal of laughter, and McCready jerked
to feel her touch. He still snarled himself erect. His face blazed sud-
at McCready, the rumbling menace in
his throat growing deeper. Thorpe’s
wife tugged at the chain.
“Down. Kazan—down !” she com­
manded.
At the sound of her voice he relaxed.
“Down !’ she repeated, and her free
hand fell on his head again. He slunk
to her feet. But his lips were still
drawn back. Thorpe was watching
him. He wondered at the deadly ven­
om that shot from the wolfish eyes,
and looked at McCready. The big
guide had uncoiled his long dog-whip.
A strange look had come into his face.
He was staring hard at Kazan. Sud­
denly he leaned forward, with both
hands on his knees, and for a tense
moment or two he seemed to forget
that Isobel Thorpe’s wonderful blue
eyes were looking at him.
“Hoo-koosh, Pedro—charge !”
That one word—charge—was taught
only to the dogs in the service of the
Northwest Mounted police. Kazan did
not move.
McCready straightened,
and, quick as a shot, sent the long lash
of his whip curling out into the night
with a crack like a pistol report
“Charge, Pedro—charge !”
The rumble in Kazan's throat deep­
ened to a snarling growl, but not a
muscle of his body moved. McCready
turned to Thorpe.
“Not Another Blow!”
“I could have sworn that I knew that
dog,” he said. “If it’s Pedro, he's denly red, and he rose to his feet,
bad !”
dropping the flask In his coat pocket,
Thorpe was taking the chain. Only Walking around the fire, he tiptoed
the girl saw the look that came for an cautiously to the shadow of a tree
Instant into McCready’s face. It made close to the tent and stood there for
her shiver. A few minutes before, many minutes listening. His eyes
when the train first stopped at Les burned with a fiery madness when he
Pas, she had offered her hand to this returned to the sledge and Kazan. It
man, and she had seen the same thing was midnight before he went into his
then. But even as she shuddered she own tent
recalled the many things her husband
In the warmth of the fire Kazan's
had told her of the forest people. She eyes slowly closed. He slumbered un­
had grown to love them, to admire easily, and his brain was filled with
their big, rough manhood and loyal troubled pictures. At times he was
hearts, before he had brought her fighting, and his jaws snapped. At
among them ; and suddenly she smiled others he was straining at the end of
at McCready, struggling to overcome his chain, with McCready or his mis­
that thrill of fear and dislike.
tress just out of reach. And then the
“He doesn’t like you,” she laughed picture changed. He was running at
•t him softly. “Won't you make friends the head of a splendid team—six dogs
with him?”
of the Royal Northwest Mounted po­
She drew Kazan toward him, with lice—and his master was calling him
Thorpe holding the end of the chain. Pedro ! The scene shifted. They were
McCready came to her aide as she bent in camp. His master was young and
over the dog. His back was to smooth-faced, and he helped from the
Thorpe as he hupched down. Isobel’* sledge another man whose hands were
bowed head was within a foot of his fastened In front of him by curious
face. He could see the glow in her black rings. Again It was later—and
cheek and the pouting curve of her he was lying before a great fire. His
month a* she quieted the low rumbling master was sitting opposite him, with
In Kazan's throat. Thorpe stood ready his back to a tent, and as he looked,
to pull back on the chain, but for a there came out of the tent the man
moment McCready was between him with the black rings—only now the
and his wife, and he could not see rings were gone and his hands were
McCready’s face. The man’s eye* free, and in one of them he carried a
were not on Kazan. He was staring heavy club. He heard the terrible
at the girl.
blow of the club as it fell on his mas-
“You're brave,” be said. “I don’t ter’s head—and the sound of it aroused
dare do that. He would take off my him from his restless sleep.
bandr
He sprang to his feet, his spine stif­
H* took the lantern from Thorpe fening and a snarl in his throat The
•nd led the way to a narrow snow- fire had died down, and the camp
path branching off from the track. was in the darker gloom that precedes
Hidden back in the thick spruce was dawn. Through that gloom Kazan
the camp that Thorpe had left a fort­ saw McCready. Again be was stand­
night before. There were two tents ing close to the tent of his mistress,
there now In place of the one that be
Ns guide
KAZAN
He whined,
ana
had used. A be nrojah "Gnb"Yar°Wo.th"the""si.xa”.tor
was burning in front of them. Close rings, ana mat "le was he On ÏÏ
many long days after he had aB
master. McCready heard the menso
his throat and came back qui"'
the fire. He began to whist.'—
draw the half-burned logs ... •
and as the fire blazed up are
shouted to awaken Thorpe
In a few minutes Thorpe
the tent-flap and his wire tolov
out. Her loose hair rippled in
of gold about her shoulders, ana
sat down on the sledge, close"
zan, and began brushing it
came up behind her and
among the packages on the sled»
if by accident one of his hands”
itself for an Instant in the rich
that flowed down her back, sh
not at first feel the caressing
his fingers, and Thorpe’s back
toward them.
Only Kazan saw the stealth»
ment of the hand, the
of the fingers in her hair,
passion burning in the eyes of the
Quicker than a lynx, the dog
leaped the length of his chain
the sledge. McCready sprang back nr
In time, and as Kazan reached the a
of his chain he was jerked backa
that his body struck sidewise aaitX Q
the girl. Thorpe had turned InuJ
to see the end of the leap. He J
lieved that Kazan had sprung at iJ
bel, and In his horror no word or eh
escaped his lips as he dragged hell
from where she had half fallen ori
the sledge. He saw that she was nob
hurt, and he reached for his revolve"
It was in his holster in the tent 3
his feet was McCready’s whip, and iE
the passion of the moment he seized I®
and sprang upon Kazan. The dal
crouched in the snow. He made nog
move to escape or to attack. Only one"
in his life could he remember having"
received a beating like that whie"
Thorpe Inflicted upon him now. Bu"
not a whimper or a growl escaped him"
And then, suddenly, his mistress ml
forward and caught the whip poised"
above Thorpe’s head.
I
“Not another blow !” she cried, and"
something in her voice held him fron"
striking. McCready did not hear what"
she said then, but a strange look came
into Thorpe’s eyes, and without a word
he followed his wife Into their tent I
“Kazan did not leap at me," she
whispered, and she was trembling with
a sudden excitement. Her face was
deathly white. “That man was be A
hind me,” she went on, clutching her
husband by the arm. “I felt him touch
me—and then Kazan sprang. Hal
wouldn’t bife me. It's the mull
There’s something—wrong—"
I
She was almost sobbing, and Thorpe
drew her close in his arms.
I
“I hadn't thought before—but it’s
strange,” he said. “Didn’t McCready I
say something about knowing the dogli
It’s possible. Perhaps he’s had Kazan
before and abused him in a way that
the dog has not forgotten. Tomorrow Gla
I’ll find out But until I know-will
you promise to keep away from Kt
zan?”
Isobel gave the promise. When the
came out from the tent Kazan lifted
his great head. The stinging lash had
closed one of his eyes and his mouth
was dripping blood. Isobel gave a low
sob, but did not go near him. Half
blinded, he knew that his mistress had
stopped his punishment, and he whined
softly, and wagged his thick tall In the
snow.
Never had he felt so miserable ■
through the long hard hours of the day
that followed, when he broke the trail
for his team-mates Into the North. On
of his eyes was closed and filled wit
stinging fire, and his body was sots
from the blows of the caribou lash
But it was not physical pain that 9"
the sullen droop to his head and robbed
his body of that keen quick aleriner
of the lead-dog—the commander of »
mates. It was his spirit. For the ir
time in his life, it was broken. »
Cready had beaten him—long ago,
master had beaten him ; and during
this day their voices were fierce a
vengeful in his ears. But it was,
mistress who hurt him most. She
aloof from him, always beyond nt
reach of his leash; and when W
stopped to rest, and again in camPis
looked at him with strange and “
dering eyes, and did not speak-
too, was ready to beat him. He bell
that, and that night he lurked n
of the deepest shadows about the c
fire and grieved alone. None knew a«
It was grief—unless it was the se
She did not move toward him.
did not speak to him. But she wa T
him closely—and studied him nar
when he was looking at McCready-
and "
The
devil
In McCready get
the upper hand once too
and McCready pays the pene".
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next installment.
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