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Mosier Bulletin S N O W COVER S EAST. Northeast Blizzard Sweeping Lakes and The P irate o f M iddle States. Issued Each tridey Chicago, Oct. 13.— W hile the Atlantic M O S IE R .. OREGON and Pacific coasts are basking in sun shine, the M iddle and Middle Western EVENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts of the World. states find comfort in furs. chilly The first blasts o f winter have swept a section from M anitoba to Kansas, and from W est V irgin ia to Colorado. Moat of the states within this radius are cov B ak er County F a rm e rs D o n ’t N eed O u tside Capital. Squatters M ake Filings. Marshflelfl— About 40 men have filed homestead claims in townships 24 and 25, range 9. It was unsurveyed land, the survey o f which tins been accepted, and those who filed were persons who had squatted on the land some years ago. There was little opportunity for new homesteaders, fo r the reason that scrip has been placed on all o f the land b y the Northern Pacific and other large interests. Those who filed for home steads claim that they have a squat to r’s right, and some declare they will take the cases to court to defend their state will take tho lend in planning to Captain de Gerlach, who commanded claims. an A ntarctic expedition in 1907, has be represented in the next three great Stock Roundup C om plete. no doubt that both Cook and Peary w o rld ’s expositions, and the first movo reached the Pole. L a Grande Stockmen from the toward perfecting nn organization for ranges o f W a llo w a and Union counties M ix, the A m erican balloonist who that purpose will be made at a meeting report the fa ll roun^-up about com won the international balloon race in o f the state commission of the Alaska C attle are beginnin g to move exposition tomorrow. pleted. Sw itx -Hand, is about to lose the prise Yukon - Pacific because some peasants dragged him to Governor H ay will be present and out to Portland, and other coast markets. line his views. Several weeks ago Rep The first shipment has been made by the ground for a moment. resentative Slayden, o f Fierce county, W a rre n Chandler and several other Director o f Census Dana Durand be a member o f the commission, outlined a large consignments w ill be made by lieves that college students w ill make a plan to make permanent the W ashing G eorge Chandler. These shippers are excellent census enumerators, and he ton slate exhibit at the exposition. bu yin g in W a llo w a county, and are purposes to suggest that educational loading a ’ Enterprise. They are ship W o m an ’s Oil Firm Fails. institutions gives leaves o f absence in ping to the U n ion stock yards in P ort Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. 13.— A re land. A p ril next tosuch students as may Range conditions have been the care to join the army o f 66,000 enum eeiver for the Sunflower Oil Refining best in years. erators. company, which has a plant at Niotaze, P a p e r R ailroad Is F o rm ed . T a ft immensely enjoyed the beauties Kan., will be named by the United S alem — A rticles o f incorporation o f the Yosem ite valley. States district judge on petition of w ere filed today for the A lban y, L e b Spanish revolutionists predict a rev creditors, it was announced today. The Mi s s Hermann Kaessman, formerly o f anon A Rend ra ilw a y company. olt against K in g A lfonso. Rochester, N. Y., is president of the incorporators are J. C. M ayer, Ed. British and Germ an adm irals shook company. The concern, which is known K ellen berger and G eorge R. W hitcom b, It is nmong the oil men ns the “ w om an’s and the capital ■ took $16,000. hands across the banquet table. company,” has assets o f $560,000, and proposed to build a road from A lbany Glenn H . Curtiss made three sue- liabilities estimated at $200,000. ( ’red to Bend by w ay o f Lebanon. A rticles essful flights in his airsh ip at St. itors recently threw it into involuntary w ere filed today by the O reg o n -W ash Louis. bankruptcy. ington R ailw ay and T im ber company, N e a r-b e e r dealers o f Tennessee w ill capital stock. $1,000,000. Incorporat French Gets North Bank. have to pay a tax o f $1,150 each ors are T. H . W a rd , Ralph E. Moody. Chicago, Oct. 13.— The announcement yearly. was made today o f the appointment of Debate Topic Is Chosen. D ew ey says the U . S. navy is by no George B. French to be president of University o f Oregon. Eugene— W ith means a bluff. H e advocates more the Spokane. Portland ft Seattle rail Superintendent A. M. Sanders, of A l road, which James ,1. Hill has built from w arships and a ship subsidy. bany, president, anil Professor E. E. Spokane to Portland, and which is com Decon. o f the mathematical department Accum ulated sew er gaa and waste monly known as the North Bank road. of the University o f Oregon, seeretsrv, from neighboring ga rage s caused a It is understood Mr. French will take the Oregon High School Debating league tremendous explosion in a N e w York up his new duties December I. llis starts on a prosperous year. The league headquarters will be in Portland, and •ew er. now contains practically every four from there it ia understood he will pur year high school in the state. N ebrask a Baptists are much wrought .sue a vigorous and aggressive policy in up because a Mormon convict has been extending mileage and influence A lb an y — One o f the biggest ship appointed chaplain o f the state peni ments o f sheep ever made from the tentiary End Chinsss Autocracy. W illam ette valley was loaded at the D u rin g the absence o f the Am erican representatives, Japan has forced China into a treaty w hereby the open dor i n M anchuria ia closed to all but the Japanese, and serious disagree- ment may follow . Mukden. Ort. 13.— The despotic go v ernment of Chin* will terminate tomar row. A il the legislatures o f the self governing provinces throughout the em pire will hold their first meetings pre- paratorv to the draftin g o f a roust it u * t ion for the empire. B ig Enterprise at Oswego W ill Soon Be Un der W ay. Portland.— Advices have just reached B ak er C ity— B ak er county has more ered with the first snowfall of the win co-operative irrigation projects than There ter, and accompanying the white flakes any other county in Oregon. was a piercing north wind that cut are no large ditch systems, the fa rm L e ss Im portant but N o t L e s s Inter to the bone. ers bein g banded together in small From M anitoba comes the report that esting H appenings fro m Points groups, and co-operating in bu ilding o f the mercury has fallen to near zero; O utside the State. that snow covers a large portion of the inexpensive ditchea and in the division province to the depth of three inches. o f the w ate r therefrom . V ery much The blizzard has raged in Duluth for the same conditions as to the ease with two days. A cutting wind ¡8 driving in T a ft received a great welcome at from Lake Superior, and the constant which w ater ia utilized fo r irrigation Los Angeles. flurries of mixed snow and rain have prevail in E a g le and Pine valleys Two middlemen among the Chicago covered the streets and sidewalks with where a superabundance o f w ate r flows grafters are about to confess. a thin coating of ice, givin g the city a ft om the mountain go rges which has Special Agent Glavis laid a trap for December appearance. In Detroit the in it power enough to run the machin Ballinger, but his own friends fell temperature hovered between 30 and 40 ery o f a sm all empire. The L ow er degrees above zero. A 30 mile wind into it. several systems which prevailed. Points in Ohio, Indiana and Pow d er has A tropical hurricane almost destroyed Illinois report a drop in temperature have been expensive, built by private K ey West, Fla., and did great damage to from 40 to 20 above zero. E very farm ers and corporations, and which in Cuba. In where there is snow. A t Omaha, L in irrig ate tracts o f a lfa lfa land. An 18-year-old boy successfully coln nnd Norfolk, Neb., the mercury B urn t R ive r valley are a number of robbed a Kansas bauk and shot a po stands at 22 above. Des Moines and private ditch companies irrig atin g bot other places in Iowa are covered with tom and foothlil land, which produce liceman. snow, and the northern gale has sent Senator Flint says lie will quit the the thermometer down to between 30 good results but which are com para senate and try to acquire a competency and 22 above the zero mark. In K a n tively inexpensive. The largest irrigation system in fo r old age. sas City, Mo., it stood at 28 aliove. B a k e r county ia that which covers the llearst and Claynor liavo opened the Other places in Missouri report the ar bench lands on the east aide o f Baker N e w Y ork municipal campaign with rival o f winter. Kansas prairies have taken on a robe o f white, and the Sun valley, beginnin g about eight miles violent attacks upon each other. flower state has put up its storm shut above B ak er C ity and extending in a The Cudahy P acking company will ters. Oklahoma nnd the Texas P an northerly direction and term inating at turn over to the government $'.17,777.50 handle are shivering. A ll o f Wisconsin present about five m iles northeast of as fines and unpaid stamp taxes. awoke this morning to sweep paths the city w ith the probability o f it Mrs. Harrim an will receive about through a six-inch Bnow. The tempera bein g extended later and covering the $267,000,000 from her husband’s estate, ture throughout the Badger state ranges whole east side o f the valley. This which will make her the richest woman from 10 to 30 above. A howling north canal has been bu ilt at a large expense, wind raged all night. in the world. h avin g been cut o f solid rock for a con The gale lashed Lakes Superior nnd siderable distance along the mountain United States District Judge A n der Michigan into a fury. The mad waters son says the Panam a libel case is a side. In a distance o f 28 m iles of washed the decks of the larger steam political job, and he doubts thu wisdom ers, and anxiety was felt for smaller canal there has been used only about o f thu prosecution. craft, but asido from a few tug and tow 400 feet o f flume, and the work is o f a The Japanese cruiser Jdzuma has ar boats dragging their anchor until they much more substantial nature than is rived at San Francisco with I ’riuce reached the beach, no damage is re ordinarily used in private irrigation works. ___________ Shiinad/.u, a member o f the royal fam ported. Throughout the fruit district o f Colo ily o f Japan, to attend the Portola fe s tival. rado business in the towns is suspended F A IR T O B E B E T T E R . to allow the clerks and other employes Cholera is raging among all classes to help put. the ¡y ,000,000 apple crop in Seoul, Korea. M a k e s Im provem ents in out o f fr o s t ’s way. Last night an over G resh am Buildings fo r C o m in g Display. Tim Santa Fe has obtained track east sky saved the fruit, and by tomor privileges in San Francisco. row the largest part o f the crop will bo G resn am — Multnomah county’s fa ir A huge boycott against Japan has safely stored. promises to be the equal this year o f been unotlicially started in China. the tw o preceding ones. A bo u t $2,000 MRS. H A R R I M A N R IC H E S T W O M A N worth o f the treasury stock has been Crush to see aviation tests in Paris sold since the last fa ir, which has cre caused a riot and wreck on railroad. W izard L e ft *300,000,000, o f Which ated an am ple fund fo r m aking im W illiam Jennings Bryan was greeted $207,000,000 Goes to Her. provements. The sum o f $500 is a v a il by an immense crowd on his arrival in N ew York, Oct. 12.— Mrs. Mnry n a r able out o f the state appropriation fo r Portland. premiums on exh ibits this year, which Tt is reported that Miss Gladys riman, w idow of the Into E dw ard II. Bum w ill be increased by the gate re Kerens, o f St. Louis, w ill wed Prince Harrimnn, is the wealthiest woman in ceipts and the money from sale o f con Schoenberg, o f Saxony. the world. The estate is valued at cessions. The Rock Island railroad has been $300,000,000, according to a statement A large force o f men are at work on mulcted of about $300,000 by over- by a closo friend nnd business associ the new stock buildings and out-of- confidence in one o f its b ig shippers. ate. Out o f this Mrs. H arrim an re doors pavilion. It is intended to UBe Enormously rich deposits of silver ceives $267,000,000, a fortune beside the main exh ibit building for no other and cobalt have been found in Canada, which the wenlth o f Mrs. H etty Green purpose a fte r this than to house the after having been overlooked fo r 30 and Mrs. Russell Sago seems small. displays o f agriculture, horticulture yearB. W ith the exception o f Rockefeller, and art, together w ith exhibits o f bus The new bu ilding w ill The real reason fo r the recall of Rothschild, tho Duke of Westminster iness houses. Charles R. Crane, minister to China, is nnd perhaps one o f tho Gould fortunes. be used as an auditorium and dance said to be indiscreet utterances while Mrs. H arrim n n’g wealth is greater than hall and other public functions. that, of nny other person. in Chicago, The r a w stock pens w ill be ample Tho friend quoted said that M r. Ilar- and commodious and permanent, those It lias been revealed that two Chicago rimnn himself said a day or two before o f last year having been torn down. A aldermen are heads o f one o f the most gigantic g ra ft and corruption systems his death that ho would leave $300,- now fence w ill he built around the ,000,000. Ho continued: ever known. grounds and suitable booths w ill be " M r . Harriman called his w ife nnd W u T ing Fang visited a spiritualist children to him nnd told them o f the erected fo r sm all concessions. meeting in Washington and appeared vast estate he would leave and ho told much interested, and intimated that ho them he would leave most of it to his Bank Issues P aper Money. might attend again. w ife. This meant all but $33,000,000 Eugene.— The First National bank of which he intended to divide among his Eugene will soon put into circulation H earst has accepted the nomination children, a few other relatives and old $33,000 worth o f its bank notes in $5 fo r m ayor o f N e w Y o rk . servants. denomination. On account o f the in “ To each o f his five children ho gave flux o f Eastern people here, who have A trainw reck in K an sas killed 17 $6,000,000 in lmnds and other securities, been in the habit of handling paper laborers and wounded 10 others. and other gifts to members of his im money, and who prefer it to the gold, F re ig h t cars are scarce in the East mediate fnmily, servants, old retainers the hank has planned to meet the de and a serious shortage is predicted be and clerks who hnd stuck faithfully to mand. The exchange requires the sig fore w inter. him, aggregated $3,000,000.“ nature of T. G. Hendricks, president, and P. E. Snodgrass, cashier of the Prince Ito, president o f the privy bank, to each note, and the bankers S torm W a s Disastrous. council of Japan, w ill make a long are now busy with the 6600 signatures K oy W est, Fla., Oct. 13.— Chaos tour o f Manchuria. that they must make before the notes reigns in K ey W est today. Homeless P rofessor Fryer, o f C alifo rn ia, says hundreds wander through debris on tho can bo put into circulation. China is preparing to make w a r on en outskirts o f tho city and tearfully gaze croaching foreign powers. upon tho scattered remnants of their wrecked homes. M artial law provails, W r ig h t made his first flight in a go v and the state mllitin is guarding as ernm ent aeroplane and began the in much o f the town as possible. For struction o f signal officers. tunes are buried under tho debris of Congressm an Landis says the navy fallen factories and atoros. Before the Orst peep o f day looters is top-heavy and needs a strong mer had begun their work of pillage. To chant m arine to back it up in time o f night the ja il is filled to overflowing w ar. with negroes and Cubans caught in tho A steam er reports that several thou act o f looting the ruins. sand natives w ere drowned on the is H a y W ould Keep Exhibit. land o f Yucatan by the recent G u lf hurricane. Seattle, Wash., Oet. 13.— Washington W OBK ON CEM ENT PLANT. C O - O P E R A T I V E IR R IG A T IO N . A lban y depot. Approxim ately 2500 sheep were loaded, and the shipment filled 24 single deck cars. A special train will carry the sheep to Port’ snd. The animals were collected in Linn nnd Benton counties by W . D. Brown, o f Corvallis. Portland from S. B. N ew berry, the emi neut cement export, that samples of raw material from which the Portland Cement company will manufacture i RUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND A ^ t& lT Author of “T h o Count at Harvard,” ate, Copyright, 1008. br J. B. Lippincott Company. All rights reserved. >9 ment at its plant at Oswego have stood a tensile strength o f 630 pounds when only seven days old. A t the age o f 28 days, the same product has tested 780 pounds. A n inch cube briquette, con sisting o f one-fourth cement and three fourths sand, tested 280 pounds in ■even days and 392 pounds in four weeks. These tests are regarded re markable, from the fact that no cement in the world, not excepting the foreign manufactured product, will excel this record. The same samples also with stood the ateam boiling test, which is the most severe test that can be made. The Portland Cement company, which consists o f Portland, Salt Lake, Ogden and Los Angeles capitalists, next month w ill begin the construction o f its 1500 barrel plant at Oswego. It is expected that the plant w ill be completed and in. operation In about fifteen months. Its cost, completed, w ill be approximately $ 1 , 000 , 000 . D re d g e It to B e H ired. M arshfield— M ayo r S tra w , o f M arsh field, and some o f the business men are carry in g out a plan to brin g a dredge to Cooa Bay to fill in some o f the low places in the city. The mayor is nego tiatin g w ith a d red ging company which ag rees to send a dredge here provided $25,000 worth o f work is guaranteed. The governm ent dredge Oregon, which w as operated here, filled many o f the low places inthe city but it w as taken aw a y and there are yet other districts which the m ayor and others are an x ious to have filled. F red E. E w a rt P resident. O regon A gricu ltu ra l College, C orval lis Fred E. E w art, tor o f the 1910 o f Portland, edi ju nior annual and colonel o f cadets fo r the ensuing year, w a s elected president o f the senior class. M iss E m ily Rodgers, o f P ort land, w as elected vice-president; John F. K ettels, o f Clackam as, treasu rer; I vs Peterson, o f B eaverton, secretary; A lv in E . Finlay, o f Portland, yell le ad e r; L . B. H ow ey, o f Coquille, m an ager o f ath letics; R. Cady, o f C o r vallis, sergeant-at-arm s. Postal Receipts Gain. C H A P T E R X IX . (Continued.) Rodney thought. "The poor French workingmen, the widows and orphans who had saved and slaved, gave him ev erything they had, because he knew ho» to make money multiply as no one els* did. He drew them pictures of the greal factories and store« and hotels he would build for them with their money, and told them how by adding their Infinite mite* together they might produce something gi gantlc. How about them left without h sou ?” “It was their own lookout,” I tried to argue. “ Well,” said Rodney, "the right and wrong of this sort of thing lie deep, but It may be that a man has no right to use his own imagination to see for other people: that he can build air-castles only for himself.” “Perhaps," I agreed; “but, ss you say, If he had sucreeded, he would have been a hero.” "That’s all the difference. However, he didn’t, and so he’s an outcast." Rodney laughed. “And to think that I ’ve been doing my beat to defend the worst scape grace the market has known in years." I sat back on my conch and clasped my hands about my knees. "W h at must we do now?” I asked al length. "Give him u p ; deliver hia precious self and bis treasure chest to the blood hounds.” I shook my head. "N o, I can’t do that. W e ’ve been too clo6e together. They may take him, but I can t nave a hand in it." Rodney sat staring out of the window. "W ell,” said he. " I don’t believe 1 can either, though as a broker I see my duty- plain enough. I can’t do it, I simply can- not do it.” W e sat silent for some time, each intent on hie own thoughts. ’’Ought we to tell him that we know?” Rodney said finally. " I was wondering. Perhaps we should, but I don’t believe we can. When you face him and look into those clear black eyes and hear that voice I doubt if there'll be anything to do but keep your mouth shut.” "Yet we must do something,” objected Rodney, “for I must be off for New York in two hours from now, to try and straighten out my losses." "Suppose we go down and look at him," I suggested. "Possibly we can think of something then.’ W e went down-stairs and looked in the dining-room, the hallway, and the kitch en. In the kitchen we found Charles drowsing. W e could find no trace of Du- pouceau. I waked Charles and question ed him. Corvallis— The postal receipts o f this city fo r the quarter ending Septem ber 30 Bhows a gain o f 16.2 per cent over the receipts fo r the corresponding’quar- ter o f 1908. The gain fo r the quarter ending Septem ber 30, 1908 over that o f the year previous w as 23 per cent. The fa llin g off in the percentage of gain thia year is attributed to the fact “ When did yon last see Monsieur Du that O. A. C. began its w ork a little ponceau ?” later this fa ll. T he receipts fo r the Charles rose and pulled a paper from his pocket. quarter ju st ended w ere $3,512.82. “Only a couple of minutes ago, Mr. Felix," he said, "he gave me this note for Income T a x Is Fought. you and told me not to disturb you, but S a le m - A rgum ents were heard be to give it to you when you asked for fore Judge Burnett in Circuit court in him." the case of the State vs. the W e lls - I opened the paper and read It to Rod F a rg o Express company. The express ney. company is resisting the payments o f “My ship has come at last. I am go the income tax, and the defendant’s de Ing on board. I can get there alone; no m urrer w ill be taken under advisem ent one could help me. I f you knew all, per by the court. chance you would not wish to help me. I have done sufficient harm without tak ing you and the others farther. Ask E ugene— A Y o u n g M en ’s Christian mademoiselle to pray for me. Good-by.” I looked up at Rodney in blank amaze Association has been organized at the E ugene high school. The officers o f ment; and as we stood so, a shot catoe W e turned and made the new organization a re : Francis from the beach. for the stairs. Yoran, president; H arold Y oun g, vice- presiden t; Ernest Scott, secretary; C H A P T E R XX. C harles Hard, treasu rer; Ernest A rm From the balcony we sighted a schoon strong, editor. er lying between the beach and the Shift Y . M. C . A. F o rm s in High S ch oo l. PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. ing Shoal. A long-boat was in the water, and men were hurriedly manning it. Below us on the beach stood Duponnceau, a pistol in either hand, fronting a half- doien of his enemies, who were between him and the cottage. I would hav? leap ed to his help, but a glance told me that the matter was too far gone for that. Duppnceau fired quickly, steadily, then wheeled and ran for the dunes. Bullets chased him, ploughed into the sand be hind him, whizzed past him, but by some miracle failed to hit him. He reached the nearest sand-wall, and was hidden from us. A moment later and we saw him appear, his pistols reloaded, and watched him stand again at bay and shoot. Then again he fled for ohe next dune up the beach, and the pursuers, tern porarily stayed, were after him again. It was to be a running fight, stand and deliver, then hide, until the long-boat should ground upon Hie beach and the fugitive spring into it. I looked to the boat and prayed that It might come quick ly, but the distance was long, and the sea ruffled and choppy. Again Duponceau appeared, and again the enemy were held at bay, and dropped and ducked and dodged as his bullets flew among them. W h eat— Track prices: Bluestem, 98c; club, 89c; red Russian, 87% c; valley, 91c; fife, 89c; Turkey red, 89c; fo rty fold. 92c. Harley— Feed, $26.50; browing, $27.50 (7728 per ton. Oats— No. 1 white. $27.50(7728 per ton. Corn— Whole, $35; cracked, $36 per ton. H ay —-Timothy, W illam ette valley. $14(7717 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18(77 19; alfalfa. $14; clover, $14; cheat, $13 (n l4.50; grain hay, $14(7715. Butter— City creamery, extras, 36c; fancy outside creamery, 33(7736c per pound; store, 22Rj(7?24c. (B u tter pat prices average IV j C per pound under regular butter prices.) E ggs— Oregon, 33(i?34c per dozen; Eastern, 28(7730c per dozen. Poultry— Hens, 14(7714V&c; springs, 14o; roosters. 9(7710ef ducks, 15(7716c; geese, 9(ri 10c; turkeys, 17(771 Sc; squabs, $1.75(772 per dozen. P ork — Fancy, 8U>(779c per pound. V e a l— Extra, 10(7?10Vjc per pound. Fresh Fruits-—A pples, new. $1.25(77 2.50 per box; pears, $ 1 (771.73 per box; pearlies, 75c(77$l per crate; cantaloupes,! $1(771.50 per crate; watermelons, 1c perl A moment’s stand, and he was hidden pound; grapes, 75c(77$1.10 per crate, I in the next dune, loading, making ready 1007 15c per basket; casabas. $1.25(771.50 for another dash. It was breathless, per dozen; quinces, $1(771.25 per box; speechless work. Rodney and I gripped cranberries. $9 per barrel; huckleber our glasses, shut our teeth, watched and ries. 9(7710e per pound. hoped and prayed. Again the enemy were Potatoes— B uying prices: Oregon. 60 on, after him, gaining fast, and again he (7765c per sack; sweet potatoes, 2e per shot out from the dunes, and, a lone fig pound. ure, fronted and scattered them with his Sack Vegetables— Turnips, 75o(7?$1 fire. A man went down with a bullet in per sack; carrots, $1; beets. $1.25; ruts his leg, and Duponceau had gained an bagas. $1.25 per sack. other breastwork. Onions— New. $1.25 per sack. Now the boat from the schooner was Vegetables— Cabbage, per coming closer In. I caught an agonise*) pound; cauliflower, 50e(77$l per dozen; celery, 50(7775c per dozen; corn, $1(7? glance from Duponceau In its direction, 1.25 per dozen; eggplant. $1.25 per box: then his gyes returned to his foes, and he garlic, 10c per pound; horseradish. 9(t7 was shooting, ducking, and squirming in 10c pet dozen; peppers, 5(776e pet to the sand-wall. It was a pitiful chase, pound: pumpkins, KTMVje; radishes, like Chat of a hare hy hounds, but It was 15c per dozen; sprouts, 8(779e per also heroic, for the man made a noble pound; squash, H 4 < ii1 «ic; tomatoes, 50 quarry, and the hounds were more than fearful of his fire. (7? fl(V. "H e's dow n!" cried Rodney. True, Cattle— Steers, top quality. $4.25(77 4.35; fa ir to good. $4: common, $3.50<i? Duponceau had fallen, but on the second 3.75; rows, top, $3.25(773.35; fa ir to he was up and on again, and now he had good. $3(773.10; common to medium, found the last dune, and he muet stand the unprotected $2.50(772.73; calves. top, $."((75.23; there or dash screes heavv. $3.50(774; bulls. $27(72.25; stags. beach. $2.50(773.50. "Come o n !" W e fled down the stairs, Hogs— Best, $7.25(778; fa ir to good, through the open door, and hard np the Now sre could see another ele $7.30(777.75; Stockers, $6 .(7 ; China fats, shore. $ 7.50(77«. ment of danger. Fome of the enemy had Sheep— Top wethers, $4(774.25; fa ir stolen through the pines, and were firing to good. $3.50(773.75; ewes, ViC less on at Ihipcnceau down the length of his all grades; yearlings, best. $4(774.25; dune. fa ir to good. $3.50(773.73; spring lambs, "lo o k 2* I muttered. We stopped, $5(775.50. breathleee. panting, wide-eyed. Dupon W o ol— 1909 W illam ette valley. 20(7? ceau burst out from the done, whirled 24c; Eastern Oregon, 20<7?23e; mohair, about, fired back at the hidden foe. wheel 1909, 23<7724c. ed and shot at the men who were fallow ng him up the beach, and, turning, head ’d straight for the Ship. "R u n !” I murmured, and Rodney echoed me: "Run, Duponceau, run, and may Heaven help!” I have seen men run, but never as Du- poD ceau rjn that day. H e seemed to skim, almost to fly, across that open space, and behind him came his enemies, no longer firing, no longer cursing, match ing their speed against his frantic flight. The Frenchman neared the rocks, was on them, was up and clambering over the Ship’s side. Then came a sharp report, and I could see Dupponceau quiver and hang useless— worse than useless, for he was only half over the vessel’s rail. “ He's done!’’ I breathed. But as he hung there Barbara sudden ly appeared beside him and pulled him inboard, supported him across the deck, nnd got him as fat as C e cabin door be fore he collapsed on the boards. Barhara disappeared, and then reap peared with something in hec. arms. "Tile chest!” I muttered. "H e couldn’t forego that!” I saw Barbara lift and steady Dupon ceau on his feet, saw him clutch t-he box with one hand, while he held a revolver in the other. He staggered across the deck. “Come o n !” I breathed, and we were off for the Ship. The long-boat was half way in when a new shout threatened to sound Dupon- ceati’s death-knell. Men came out on the cliff and stood high above him, ready to fire down upon him. There was a ring about him now— enemies on the rocks, on the cliff, and men already scrambling through the water to lay their hands on him. “Look !” cried Rodney. I saw Barbara whisper in Duponoeau’s ear, saw him straighten up to his full height and fire at the men above him. One bullet ripped into the cliff, another shattered an arm. W e stood now on the rocks, a stone's throw off. Duponceau looked seaward and gave a cry. With terrible effort, he leaped to the farther rail, raised himself to plunge— the box still in his arms— into the sea, and sink or swim to help. He balanced, crouched, and then— a clear rpport and he fell, a leg broken, down into the waves. His stand was over, the fight done; his enemies had taken him. A couple of men lifted him from the water nnd carried him to shore: another man followed with the chest. Rodney and I drew near and looked at him ; he was conscious, and only his set teeth showed the agony he suffered. "It's over,” he said. “The boat was late.” Then his eyes lighted on me, and he tried to smile. “Good-by,” he mut tered. “Take my good-by to her.” Carefully the men lifted him and car ried him into the pines. “ He will live.” said Rodney briefly, and I nodded. It was not for Duponceau to surrender easily, though I wondered if now he would not prefer it so. an yw ay; 1 like him for what he triad to do.” Then, after a pause: “ You were always sure something would happen here, weren’t you? So was I. Something had to happen. Do you suppose he came of hie own free will, or because we had wished so bard for an adventure?” "W ishing hard can accomplish almost anything, I've been told." "W h at are you going to do now that everything is over?" she asked presently. I shook my head disconsolately. “ I have barely yet faced the posalbil- Ity of no more teas on the beach, no more sunsets from the cliff, no more adventures on the Ship. It's not a very pleasant prospect, Is It?" “ B u t the beach and the cliff and the Ship will still be here," she answered. I followed her gaze seaward. “A week ago I discovered a curious thing. For years I had lived here and found all the beauty I wan ed in watch ing the changing colors of the waves, and the golden glow through the woods, and the dawn pinks of the sand, and yet all of a sudden I found they had absolutely vanished, that I couldn't posaibly find them any more.” I waited, and finally I caught her low- whispered, “W hy?” “ Something had happened. I couldn’t see them alone; I cotfld see them only when some one else was there to see them, too.” She gave a little sign. “ I know ; I can understand just what you mean.” “The pines show no more armies, and the Ship gives up no more adventures, unless there is some one else here to see and live them with me.” "A n d,” she snid slowly, thoughtfully, “ if there were some one else, would all these wonders still come?” "Surely, for we would be living them all the time we were together.” " P o e t !” she said. "Dreamer I” I waited, fearful and hopeful In one. “ And yet I dream, too,” she said at la st; “and I think that you have shown me more wonderful things than any one else could.’’ “Then do you still think,” I asked, “ that some other man will come who can show you more?” She would not answer my question. "The man we imagined came out of the sea and is gone. I feel as if I'd lived years In a fortnight. Dear old Ship, how I hate to leave h e r!” “ W hy must you? Why not sail on and on in her forever? Why not set sail In her for the Fortunate Isles? Barbara, will you?” She turned and looked into my eyes, and I read her answer. So, with Barbara sitting against tbs mast, our Ship set sail. [ the e n d .] S E A T T L E A P P R E C IA T E D . I o w a n Y ie ld s to Its ( ’h a rm s , B a t D a » d i n e s Its P e c u n ia r y O ffers. I wish all of the Ames people could have been here last evening to have seen the scenery, says a w riter In the Ames, Iowa, Times. I sat up on the rear am bulatory w hile the tired day sank Into the arm s of restful night, when heaven seemed to ebb and then suddenly burst forth with the stars indescribably b right— it seemed like a canopy love had spread over a sleep Ing world. N igh t is here and darkness seems about to surround us aB I re member that w e are high above the great city of Seattle and I look upon It to see a m illion lights, representing every color of the rainbow , and here I sit, apparently suspended between the mechanical lights of earth and the tw inkling, winking, blinking stars of heaven— each seems to outdo the other in beauty, splendor and glory — and then I turn my optics toward Puget Sound and then again I am caused to exclaim : “Oh, Jerusalem ," fo r she In all her glory could not present such a pleasing sight. There were perhaps thirty-five boats steaming In all direc tions, all lighted up with varl-colored lights, and here the great N e w York of the west seemed to be not content with progress on earth, but w as trying to get through the pearly gates on water. A t 12 I laid me down to sleep and slept till the Bun (w h ich seemed to have been In hiding just over on tha other side of the Cascade R a n g e ) was Just casting its beautiful rays across the green carpeted earth, conveying light to a happy race of slaves and kissing the crystal dew drops from the m eadow ’s grassy fruit, Just In time to hear the sweet songs of the bluebirds and the chirp of the robins and the sassy chatter of the blue Jays as they flit through the Interlacing boughs of those fine, stalw art pines In yonder grove, and the cow hells as they clang and clatter on the hillside over there — only to be disturbed by the rum ble of the heavy trucks as they roll to and fro loaded w ith every conceivable kind of m erchandise for the building of a greater Seattle by the erection it the thousands of new homes. Mrs. O 'B rien as w ell as m yself Is en joyin g the very best of health. I w alked to reduce my flesh and have succeeded well, coming down from 212 on Feb. 16 to 182 to-day. but I am h avin g all the fun any man can have, w alking, bathing, fishing, boating, autolng. etc. I have been offered a position In a plaster mill, also a half Interest In a real estate firm, and again a per cent Interest in another real estate con cern. In which George Ashford, son of ex-Sherlf? A shford of Story County, la Interested. A lso a position with a large hardw are concern that employe forty-two clerka. but I don’t think I w ill take It, as I came west to see the eights. C H A P T E R X X I. The long-boat returned to the schoon er, and in a quarter-hour the latter had vanished as silently as she had come. Rodney and I went on board the Ship, and found Barbiy-a sitting against the broken mast, her eyes deep with unshed tears of pity. W e sat there and talked of Duponceau’s flight and capture. “ If It hadn't been for the chest, he would have escaped," said Barbara. "H is face light ed when he had it in his arms again.” It was some little time after this when Rodney stood up. “ I ’m going to the club. I have to pack and catch the next train to New York. May I take you home, Barbara?" The girl’s eyes looked over at the beach regretfully, then roamed over the Ship, standing there all desolate, lapsing again into that silence from which it had just been awakened. I saw a certain wistful ness steal into her eye». “ No, Rodney; I don’t think I'll go home just yet. I'm not in the humor to meet aunt and the people at the club. I ’d like to sit here and think a while.” “ Well,” 9 S>d Rodney, “good-by.” lie shook hands with her. "Good-by, Felix. If yon ever find this place too lonely for you, come and see me in New York. Things do happen there sometimes, though not such things as here in Alastair.” W e shook hands, and I caught a glimpse of some passing regret beneath the smile on the surface of his eyes. As I had watched Duponceau, I watch ed Rodney disappear Into the pines. The cheerful man in tweeds, like the mysteri ous man of the sea, had said farewell to the beach, but each had left a trace of himself there which I should never for get. I turned back to Barbara. “It’s all over,” she said. “They’ve ail come and gone, and it might have been a dream.” "Here's the Ship," I answered, "riding at anchor. Just as she did before.” “That makes It seem more like a dream," »he said ; “that after all that has happened, the Ship is Just the same as on the first day I found her, and the beach”— she turned to face it— “is just as sunny and as desolate.’* "Yet the pirate came,” 1 answered, “a real pirate, a lineal descendant of Cap tain Kidd, and he brought treasure and hid it and dug It up again, and fought like the thorough-going gentleman adven turer he was. Monsieur Pierre Dupon H a a t f C o rrectio n . ceau was no ordinary man." H o ja x — I hear you are engaged old “Tell me what you know abont him," A llow me to congratulate you. ■he commanded, and aettlad down, lean man. Tom dlx— You didn't hear It quit* ing against the mast. “He was an uncommon man,” I began, right, my boy. I ’m married. "but whether an uncommon man becomes H o ja x — Oh, I beg pardon. You have a hero or a scapegrace depends upon the my eympathy. lack of time. Ihiponceau had Ideas that H a r r i e d I t Up. were far about the heads of most men. "D id n 't you propose to her sooner Ideas that some one at ■ later day might use to great ends, or which he himself than you expected?" might have used so had he been given "Y e s ; but you see, old man, I didn’t time. He planned, gathered his cargoes, w ant to exhaust all my topics of con launched bla ships in search of the Gold versation before we were m arried.”— en Fleece, and was on his way to win Life. ning tt when a quartering gala drova his craft upon the rocks. Had the wind veer J o stle«. ed by a needle-point, he might have won. “My w ife and I alw ays settle our He wa* planning to make the poor of little disputes by arbitration.” France well-to-do: Instead hs made them "A n d who la the arbitrator.?" mnch poorer t -an they w ere; and yet "M y wife, of course ’— N ew York those same plana pushed on may succeed when It's too late for the poor investors Tim e*. or for him. Tliat's about the way It A l l Cats H a v e . stands.” The D og— Tell me the story of jtm r Barhara was silent, her eyes watching life. the distant glitter of the sea. T h e Maltese C at— W hich one? I "There's so much lack in things, isn't there?'* the sakl finallx. “I like hia. h a re got nine, you know.