T h e Quest
Betty Lancey
B y M j K C H j K F . W E S T
Osprrizbt. im , by W. 0. Chapaiaa. Copyright la Groat Brttala
light, though when he played on dees
of nights, as he always did, the magic,
mystery and misery in the music made
her heart throb and her eyes All with
tears. It was the wail of a heart and
of a soul In prison, and in despair. All
endeavors to elicit any
Information
from her surroundings having failed.
Betty had resigned herself to the Inev
itable, postponed the finding of the an
swer and estimating her own enfeebled
condition had got down
to taking
things as she found them, reveling In
the salt and sweep of Nature and the
sea-air and the willy-nilly voyage that
had fallen to her lot.
Tim e and Its reckoning had all been
lost. Betty, finding that the compto
meter of the days had slipped from her
mind did not try to retain I t
She
merely rested and waited. But there
were times, occasions and
remarks
that Tyoga and Le Malheureux both
would ofttimes make that caused Betty
to shiver, and forced her once more in
to a wonderment of the wherefore and
the why.
“ Don’t, T y o g a !” she fretted now
“ You make me so unhappy when you
speak like that. I ’m restless, anyway,
and I want to be amused. Take me
some place!”
“ Do you want to go Into my kitch
en,’’ suggested Tyoga, humoring her.
“ Most little girls like to mess in the
kitchen. I f you want to you may go
down and make fudge.”
“ Tyoga,” asked Betty, “ where did
you get that wonderful education of
yours? Tell me. do. Your English is
perfection!”
A shade of pain crossed the negress'
face, and her features set In immobil
ity.
“ Do you want to go Into the kitch
en?" she repeated.
"N o,” replied Betty, Imperiously, “I
want to go see Le Malheureux.
I
don’t like him, Tyoga, he repels me as
much as if he were a horrid beast. But
I feel sorry for him. Take me where
he is.”
(T o be continued.)
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEE
Ooings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Event*
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
A strike o f all union teamsters
Portland seems certain on June 1.
STEAM ER HIT IN FOG.
Eighteen Drown as Vessel
Beneath the Waves.
Plunges
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
Port Huron, Mich., May 25.— Fami
W A ITS ON PU M PING P LA N T .
NEED OF TR A N S -S T A T E LINE
lies and friends of the missing 18 mem
bers of the crew o f the steamer Frank
H. Goodyear, which sank yesterday off Hill Examines Timber in Central Ore Tests o f Oil Wells in Vale Distric
Will Be Made at an Early Date
gon and is Much Pleased.
Point Aux Barques, Lake Huron, after
Drillers
in the Eastern Oregon well
Crescent—
Louis
W.
Hill,
president
being rammed amidships by the steam
in the Vale oil fields have ceased oper
er James B. Wood, tonight practically of the Great Northern Railway com
ations, as they are convinced that they
gave up hope that any of the missing pany, spent one night and a portion of have a flow of oil in commercial quan
one day at Crescent, looking over the tities. One great difficulty in this, aa
persons have been rescued.
The steamer Sir William Siemons, town and the surrounding country. Mr, in all other wells in the Vale district,
H ill’s visit was unheralded and unex is to control the flow o f water. The
said to have picked up some o f the
pected, but the citizens gave him
well has been cased, and as soon aa the
missing crew, passed detour today and cordial welcome and he declared that requisite pumping outfit can be in
made no report o f any survivors he had enjoyed his visit immensely stalled, it is to be emptied o f water,
The party passed through the Klamath that the drillers may be able to deter
aboard.
Four o f the rescued members o f the Indian reservation, where engineers mine the flow o f oil.
it was announced, will shortly be sur
T. W. Davidson, o f Vale, one o f the
crew, including Captain F. P. Hemen-
veying the Oregon Trunk line from heaviest owners in the Eastern Oregon
ger, have gone to the Goodyear’s head its present terminus at the reservation, company, has purchased a pumping
quarters in Cleveland and Mrs. Emma through to Klamath Falls.
He care plant which will be used in drawing
Bassett, the only other survivor, is fully went over the line from this point off the water from the well.
to the reservation, stopping at the
“ On account o f the fine flow o f oil in
still in Port Huron.
camp o f Engineer Kyle, five mile the Eastern Oregon, we have decied to
The collision occurred at 5 :20 in the above this point. He spent some time go no deeper for the present,” said
morning, in a heavy fog. The Good examining the big timber tracts, and Mr. Davidson, “ but w ill install a
year was struck amidships on the star was pleased over the prospects of ton pumping plant anud draw off the wa
board side and the bow o f the Wood nage. He also spoke approvingly of ter. Then we can measurei the exact
Crescent, which will be a freight and flow o f oil in the well. That we have
was punctured.
passenger division point.
oil in a number o f the Vale wells there
In a moment it was seen that the
“ The Oregon Trunk line is expected is no doubt, and every indication points
Goodyear was doomed, as she began to reach Madras by January 1,” said to a commercial flow in several o f the
rapidly to fill with water.
Everyone Mr. Hill.
“ Work in the canyon is deeper wells in that d is tric t”
on board was supplied with a life pre progressing satisfactorily and I anti
server and every effort was made to cipate we will have no difficulty in
Woodburn-Springfield Line Soon.
man and launch the small boats.
The making Madras on the date set. It
Albany— The Woodburn-Springfield
water poured into the hold so fast that will likely be a year before the road
the heavy hatches were forced from reaches Crescent, but early next sum branch o f the Southern Pacific railway
their frames by the pressure from un mer I believe I may safely say that will be completed and in operation by
June 1. About tour years ago the
derneath and shot into the air in every trains w ill be running through here,
direction, spreading injury and death am not in a position to say when the Santiam river changed its course at
among the terrified crew and passen line w ill be completed to Klamath Crabtree and washed out the railroad
bridge and put the line out o f commis
gers.
v
Falls.”
sion. The interstate commerce com
With his infant child in his arms,
Mr. Hill was not prepared, he said,
Steward Bassett had almost reached to say where the east and west road mission ordered the company to put
safety in one of the lifeboats when one w ill intersect the main line o f the Ore the line in shape and run a schedule of
of the tumbling hatches snatched the gon Trunk through the Deschutes val trains, so a new line was started from
baby from his arms.
The little one ley. He said that his visit to Burns Crabtree to Lebanon to supply the mis
fell into the lake and was drowned, and the eastern part o f the state had sing link, which will be completed
despite the frantic efforts o f its father caused him to reach a determination to within two weeks.
to rescue it.
have an east and west line.
Several
Engine in Lumber Service.
Many of the Goodyear’s crew were lines, he added, w ill be surveyed and
Klamath Falls— A carload o f heavy
killed by the falling hatches before the one best adapted for the needs of
freight wagons received here by the
they had a chance to jump into the wa the company w ill be adopted.
Meadow Lake Lumber company are to
ter.
¡5 5 5
When the Goodyear settled beneath D AK O TAN S COME T O OREGON be used in connection with the big
traction engine in the transportation ef
the surface o f the water it was evi
lumber from the mill near Meadow
dent she was practically broken in two,
Lake to the box factory near the depot.
the action o f the water having com Parties at Intervals Up to July 16
Thousands Are Interested.
The wagons are specially constructed
pleted the destruction begun by the
blow received in the collision.
The
Washington — Dr. H. W. Coe of for this class o f work, and will with
Goodyear was a modern steel steamer Portland, who is here, has a telegram stand the hardest kind o f usage.
This is another step in the direction
436 feet long, and carried a crew o f 23 from Fargo, from F. E. Ball, vice-
men.
president of the Columbia Land corn- o f modernizing the method o f handling
the timber o f this county, and ¡ b indi
pay, saying:
NEW C O M E T T A IL IS SEEN.
“ A party o f 30 le ft yesterday for cative o f what may be expected.
urging her to “ have Just another piece
Glenn H. Curtiss will try to fly from
of this steak, Betty, do.”
Albany to New York with but one stop.
By her side was a small table, neat
ly spread with dainty linen, fragile
A collision between a bark and
china, and exquisite silver, laden with
large steamer in the English channel
a dozen appetizing viands. A negro
cost 22 lives.
woman of hulking build was gently
bathing her temples.
Trouble with the wild tribes o f L i
“ That’s right, child,” said the black
beria is at an end, the leading chiefs
woman, “ open your eyes and you'll feel
having sworn allegiance to that gov
better. Open your lips, too, and taste
ernment.
this broth. It’s so nice! I made it for
One hundred and twenty-five cases of
you, Just the way Mr. Francis likes it
He says it is the nicest he ever ate.”
champagne which were a part o f the
Mention of "Mr. Francis” fetched to
estate o f Harry K. Thaw are missing
mind the shock of an earlier hour to
and cannot be located.
Betty. She suffered herself to be fed,
A delegation of ministers failed to
which the negress did as gently as a
persuade the San Francisco authorities
mother might. With reviving strength
to refuse a permit for the Jeffries
Betty found her tongue again.
She
questioned her servitor closely.
Johnson fight on July 4.
“ Have I been sick or drugged?”
A Chicago scientist has succeeded in
“ You’ve been very sick, my girl. But
isolating and studying an original ion
this sea voyage will put you right
of electricity, and supports the “ ionic
aguin. When you get back from A f
hypothesis” advanced by Faraday in
rica, you’ll----- ”
1830.
"From Africa?” shrieked Betty. “ Oh
where and why and how am I going
An explosion of some mysterious gas
there?
Oh, what has happened
to
during a chemical experiment in New
me?”
York suffocated the experimenting
"Y ou ’re sailing straight for Africa in
chemist and seriously affected two
RUSES OF SUFFRAGISTS.
the most comfortable manner possi
others who witnessed it.
ble,” answered the negress, “ but as I
tell you, you’ll be sent home well and D I m k u I n « « A d o p t e d t o A t t e n d n
Fred Kohler, “ reform” police chief
e r a l M e e tin g In L o n d o n .
safe.”
of Cleveland, Ohio, appointed by May
The precautions taken to exclude suf
Betty sank back quieted and dutiful
or Tom Johnson and hailed by Roose
ly ate for the negress. When she had fragists from the Liberal meeting at velt as “ the country’s best police
finished the black woman went away the Albert Hall recently were effectual chief,” has been charged with habitual
and came back with steamer rugs and the London Dally Graphic says. Tw o drunkenness, gross immorality, incom
wrappings.
o f three men who raised the cry of petency, etc., and will likely be ousted
"M y name is Tyoga,” announced the "Votes for w om en!" were unceremo
from office.
negress, bluntly. Then she set about niously thrown out.
combing Betty’s sadly tangled hair,
Railroads are boosting freight rates
and wound the braids loosely around . A disguised suffragette attempted to on sugar and coffee.
her fevered head. " I ’m going to take get In. She came in the uniform of a
The department o f justice is hunting
you up on deck, now. Mr. Francis says telegraph boy. But a lynx-eyed male
saw by the way her peak cap was for an alleged lumber trust.
you need the air.”
Tall and strong as Betty once had poised that the telegraph “ boy” was
Eighteen persons were hurt in
been the giant negress picked her up only a young woman In disguise. Real
wreck on the Southern railway in V ir
as if she had been a little girl, and izing that she was recognized, the dis
ginia.
bore her to the upper deck and placed
guised one ran down the steps of the
her in a luxuriously arranged steamer
President T a ft has signed a proc
hall amid mingled cheers and Jeers
chair.
lamation reducing the Idaho forest re
and
drove
away
In
a
four
wheeler.
The glare of the sun on the water
serves by 100,000 acres.
Stanfield, Or. Minot sends a special
It was fully expected that at the end
hurt Betty’s eyes terribly, but the salt
Big Cattle Shipment.
A man convicted of sugar frauds and Harvard Group Sees Jet ot Light May 31, Grand Forks a special June 2,
breeze refreshed her and the relief of Thursday's suffragette meeting In
Heppner— One of the largest cattle
Valley City a special to Hermiston
from the smell of sulphur and the the hall gome women would attempt to pardoned has returned voluntarily to
Shooting From Necleus.
sputterlngs of the electrical flashes remain on the premises In readiness testify against the sugar trust.
June 2, and Fargo a special June 7 and shipments ever made from this place
Cambridge, Mass., May 25.— When another July 16.”
was made this week.
The shipment
was unbounded. Tho surface of the
to disturb the Liberal demonstration.
Louis
W.
Hill
and
party
have
com
the
party
at
the
Harvard
astronomical
water was unwrlnkled and sea and sky
Coe says there will be several cars consisted o f three train loads, aggre
The
reason
for
anticipating
this
was
pleted
their
1,500-mile
tour
through
observatory obtained last night for the intervening. The special mentioned gating 2,700 head o f cows and steers.
were Joined without a visible seam at
tho Juncture. The craft on which she that a woman was discovered about 5 Oregon and say that no state contains first time an adequate view o f Hai as having left Fargo was No. 15. The The stock was purchased principally in
greater
possibilities.
o'clock
on
that
afternoon—
that
Is,
was sailing was the oddest Betty had
ley’s comet an interesting discovery landseekers will be taken to Stanfield Grant county. The cattle go to W al
ever seen. Not larger than a com fort prior to the suffragettes’ own display—
The American Aeronautical associa was made by Professor O. C. Wendell. and Hermiston on a six days’ tour, ker, S. D., and will be turned on the
able yacht, it was devoid of rigging, hidden In the organ.
Many women tion has been organized.
It will be He saw a je t of light for two or three stopping at North Yakima, Seattle, range to be fattened for the Chicago
machinery, or even sailors so far as had been admitted during the after
entirely
independent
o
f
the
W right minutes projecting toward the south Portland and Hood R iver to show them market this fall. Buying stock in the
the casual eye coirtd note. All around
noon, and she and the others who hid Brothers’ Aero Club of America.
west from the nucleus, that is, some what sort o f country they are going West and fattening it close to market
pervaded that uncanny silence born of
what towards the sun, while the tail into.
themselves In the hall were supposed
is a great improvement.
the dearth of human companionship.
A Marshfield, Oregon, man has
Tyoga pushed a little table covered to be of the number who then entered. raised his own tea supply for several itself was streaming away to the east,
Coe says 600 persons have le ft Fargo
with books close to Betty’s side, tuck She reached her position In the organ years. He says the Pacific Coast can or toward the sun.
New Eugene Hotel Open.
since August and that 1,000 more will
Photometric measurements o f the
ed her round wltfl tho blankets, and at considerable risk, for elaborate
Coe is
Eugene— The new Osburn hotel, re
raise tea just as good as Japan or nucleus in the comet were also made go before the summer ends.
handed her a little bell.
structural precaution had already been
here to offset reports injurious to the cently completed at a cost o f $110,000,
by Professor Wendell, which indicated Umatilla reclamation project, which
"I shall be busy below,” announced taken In view of a recent meeting to China.
has been opened to the public, the first
the negress, “ but if you want
me, prevent any one from approaching the
An anarchist threw a bomb at the that then ucleus was o f 6:57 magni have been carried to the officials. He meal being a luncheon to 200 business
C H A P T E R X.
ring.”
monument erected to victims o f the at tude, that it is slightly below the lim has succeeded in confirming previous men given by the board o f directors o f
organ.
Betty Lancey came back to con
Then she disappeared down a hatch
it o f visibility.
claims that the Umatilla project is one the hotel association.
Failure on the part of the woman to tempt against King Alfonso on his wed
The hotel is
sciousness and the world of things as way. Betty picked up the magazines
The total light o f the comet was set of the best the government has inaug
mortals think they see them, with a listlessly and found in addition sever accomplish the feat In safety would ding day. No one was injured but the
modern in every detail, is five stories
at
two
and
a
half
magnitudes
by
Leon
anarchist
himself,
who
then
committed
urated.
most monstrous smell of sulphur chok al current scientific Journals in French have meant a drop of twenty feet Into
high, and contains 125 rooms. W. F.
Campbell and assistants, who made
ing her. As nearly as she could distin and in German, numerous of ths llght- the seats of the orchestra. She came suicide.
Osburn and w ife are the managers and
special
measurements.
The
tail
is
said
Peach Orchard on Desert Claim.
guish the room was filled with glass
Amerlcan and English periodicals, out voluntarily when discovered— oth
lessees.
In order to win a $4 wager to buy
to be about three degrees long.
globes the circumference of a fair- and a San Franscisco dally of a date
Prineville— William Boegli, of the
erwise there was no room for a man groceries, an Arkansas man leaped
sized musk-melon, and every globe wus several days prior to the murder of
Cove orchard, has taken up a desert
from a 60-foot bridge into the creek
River High at The Dalles.
to get In to force her out.
a -tw ltter with lemon yellow or pale
erlsse Wayne. The yacht, for such
claim adjoining his orchard and has set
Mischief Sinks Drydock?
This one having been found In the below and started to swim ashore, but
The Dalles— The river at this point
violet lights, bathing the room with Betty termed it in tho absence of any
was drowned. The wager was given
Manila, May 24.— In connection with out 1,020 peach trees on a six-acre registers 32.7 feet, which is the high
odd sputtered flashes.
more uccurate knowledge of the nature organ loft, the watchman proceeded
the sinking o f the drydock Dewey, tract. He says the fruit outlook is est ever known at this date except in
Realities
reverted
slowly.
Betty of the craft, made good time through to search the whole building after the to his family.
good, especially for peaches and apri 1894. Many people are predicting a
made out a ceiling, domelike and cor the water. Its soft motion, and the women’s m eeting was over. He found
A severe wind storm did much dam naval officers here say it would be an
rugated. later a floor, and eventually glare of the sun, sea and sky acted us two in n small corridor between the age in Clay county, Kansas.
easy matter for some mischicvious per cots. He is also setting out his toma repetition o f the high water o f that
descried that she was nestling on a
gentle hypnotic and Betty, with
son to tamper with the powerful valves, toes that have become too large for the year, saying conditions are similar
band room and the platform and one
Army engineers approved the plan which are operated by electricity. I f cold frames.
The Cove orchard is with those of 1894, when high water
couch piled soft and easy with pun few final efforts for the retention of
In a pay box at the entrance. The for free government locks at Oregon
onsclouaness found herself slipping
gent pillows. Barely had she discern
one were so inclined, they say, he situated on Crooked river, near its occurred in Snake and Columbia rivers
suffragettes
allege
that
they
followed
ed these facts when a swaddled per Into a dream of wild unrest. Once It
City.
might easily slip past the guard and mouth. The orchard is 1,660 feet at the same time.
sonage confronted her.
It was tall seemed to her that the Malheureus the man round covertly.
open the valves. A board is investi above the sea level in a canyon 1,000
Jewish
families
to
the
number
of
Some hours later— about 6 o’clock
and garbed in sombre swatchings that stood beside her, and then again T y o
PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS.
gating the sinking, and divers have feet below the level of the surrounding
left the outlines of its great bulk all ga—she had hard shift to differentiate one m orning— the watchman found an 980 have been expelled from several
been at work examining the bottom of country. It is 15 miles west o f Madras.
large
cities
in
Russia.
between them, both were so tall, so other woman In one of the boxes, hid
In doubt.
Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem,
the drydock. The amount o f the dam
“ Ah, that is better,” came the gut- hulking, so sombre. Had she not heard den behind the curtains. He tele
A hundred-million dollar combine of age has not yet been determined. Op Thoroughbred Stock for Wheeler.
86®87c; club, 820/83c; red Russian,
heir voices In a guttural converse
ural comment, “ do you wish
more
Chicago
street
car
lines
and
terminal
phoned to the police to know what to
Fossil— W. J. Edwards has added to 80(</81c; valley, 85c.
erations will begin to raise the craft.
whose syllables she could not dlstln
medicine?”
companies is proposed.
Barley— Feed and brewing, $21.60(d)
the thoroughbred stock on his farm the
gulsh, she would have thought that do with her. They told him to let
“ No, Indeed," she expostulated. “ 1
finest herd o f Hereford cattle fever im 22.50 per ton.
the dual personality was but a trick her go, and she was turned out, as
It is said the death of o f King Ed
Soldiers
Fire
on
Ship.
didn't wish any in the first place. Why
Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $31 ton.
of her rebellious fancy and that only the others had been. Or rather she ward leaves Kaiser Wilhelm in a much
Pensacola, Fla., May 25.— Coming ported to Wheeler county. This herd
did you give it to me?
Where am
Hay— Track prices; Timothy, W il
one person beside herself was aboard would have beep turned out, but on re more prominent light than formerly.
consists o f three bulls, 12 cows and 12
within
the
range
o
f
the
rifles
o
f
a
tar
IT”
this yacht of enchantment or delirium. turning to the waiting room where he
get squad from Fort Barrancas today, calves, and in point of quality is equal lamette valley, $20®>21 per ton; East
The being answered with a shrug
George
Sontag,
ex-train
robber,
des
The golden day faded In a rainbow had put her the man found she had es
“ Pray, calm yourself, my dear Miss
seaman on the schooner John M. to any herd of its size in the United ern Oregon, $22®25; alfalfa, $16.50@
perado and convict, will lecture on the
lash of scarlet and silver, Jasper and caped through a window.
States. These cattle took first prizes 17.50; grain hay, $17®!18.
Lancey.
I only trust the machina
uselessness and folly o f a life o f crime. Kewm was mortally injured and others'
Jade, pink and purple and gold and
Butter— City creamery, extras, 29c
in open competition. On his fine stock
tions of this electrical apparatus will
Still another woman was found In a
aboard
escaped
death
or
serious
injury
green.
Pale evening, star-shot
and
Count Jacques de Lesseps crossed only by quickly secreting themselves ranch about eight miles east o f Fossil, per pound; fancy outside creamery,
not disturb you too much. Do be quiet!
misty followed in its footsteps. A t in dark portion of the building, the credit
Do not excite yourself unduly.”
the English channel in a Blériot mono behind rigging.
Several
minutes Mr. Edwards already had a fine herd 28®29c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices
tervals Betty roused to be fed, only to for the discovery In this case being
“ Oh. but who are you? Where am
average l tjc per pound under regular
fall again into her dreams of things due to the dog which accompanies the plane. He intends to return by the elapsed before the panic-stricken sail of high grade Herefords.
I? And why?” asked Betty. “ There’s
butter prices.
same method.
haotic and things Incomplete. Then ■nan on his rounds.
ors could'attract the attention of the
such a rushing In my head, such a
Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 23® 24c.
Reconitruct Waterworks.
when it grew the dark gray dusk, with
When taken out o f their hiding
Socialists at their national congress officers in charge of the squad, which
sounding in my ears, and that swish
Pork— Fancy, 12®)12%c per pound.
tight and shrivelled little quarter of places the women presented a sorry refused to vote at elections where their was done by placing the flag at half
Mount Angel— The water works of
and swash of water—what does it all
Veal— Fancy, 1 0 ^ (ii)llc per pound.
moon above them. Betty heard the
mean? Am I delirious or dreaming?”
sight, being covered with dirt and candidates have been eliminated from masL Col. Allen, commanding the poat the city are being reconstructed and
twang and tinkle of a banjo beside
Lambs— Fancy, 8® 10c per pound.
improvements
to
the
extent
o
f
$3,500
has
ordered
an
investigation.
“ You’ve been both,” replied the fig
the
ticket
through
the
commission
dust. Some had bags of food.
Poultry— Hens, 18®~19c per pound;
being
made
in
them.
About
8,000
ure. "but you’re better now.
Well her, and looking saw Le Malheureux.
form
o
f
city
governments.
Recently the manager of the hall,
eep in tho shadow, picking from the
ducks,
18®23c;
feet of four and six inch steel pipe is broilers, 27®30c;
enough to go into the salon where you
Legislature Boards Cars.
with a large staff of assistants, went
Lrlngs
of
the
instrument
melodies
The World’s Sunday School conven
geese, 12 '-¡.c; turkeys, live, 20®22c;
can rest far more comfortably than in
Baton Rouge, La., May 25.— In a being laid, to replace the wooden pipe,
with all the heartbreak and all the over the huge building thoroughly, tion at Washington elected President
dressed, 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen.
here. As to who I am— well, you may
loul-aoho of the world within their right up to the crown of the roof. N o Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, King George special train o f 14 coaches, including a number o f new hydrants are being
Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, $1.75®)
call me I * Malheureux If you like—It
put in and an electric motor will be in
sleepers
and
baggage
cars,
both
the
measures.
body wns found, but special men were of England, President Diaz of Mexico,
suits me better than any other title,
stalled to pump the water into the .75 per crate; apples, $1.50/1/3 per
As
the
night
darkened
the
music
upper
and
lower
houses
o
f
the
Louis
for I am the unhapplest In all the
placed on the doors leading to the roof and W. J. Bryan as life members.
box; gooseberries, 6c per pound.
grew more weird and from the hatch
iana general assembly started today large town tank.
world! My baptismal name was Fran
Potatoes— Carload buying
prices;
A partly wrecked areoplane was the for Washington, to present claims of
way Joined In T yo ga’s voice,
deep, In order to prevent any unauthorized
cis -Francis the free— but freedom
Oregon, 40® 50c per hundred; new Cal
only accident that marred the aviation New Orleans for the Parama exposi
rich, alluring as the Jungles from person from ascending.
Burn Brick at Redmond.
for m e- never!”
ifornia, 2 Lj® 3c per pound; sweet po
During the afternoon the stewards meet at Sutherlin, Ore.
tion, to be held in 1915. The delega
Redmond— Within four months there
The figure sunk in a heap. Above whence she had come, and the yacht
lied on and on to the south, with engaged for the Liberal meeting ar-
Firemen on the Deleware, Laek- tion ia headed by Governor Sanders. will be 400,000 brick burned within tatoes, 4c.
the sputterlngs of the electrical ap
Betty fast asleep and all unconscious rived, and before that the management auwanna & Western have been given
Vegetables— Artichokes, 60®75c per
paratuses Betty could distinguish the
A t New Orleans the delegation was three and one-half miles o f Redmond
the world-wide search for her, now had made another tour of the lower an increase o f 12 per cent in wages
dozen; Jasparagus, $1.25®2 per box;
swirl of waves, and the surge of deep
joined
by
Mayor
Martin
Behman
and
a
and
placed
on
the
market
here,
accord-
paralleling the mystery of the murder
abbage, 2 ,J® 2 ,-2c per pound;
water. She tried to rise but was too
part of the building especially under
large committee o f citizens.
ing to the statement of C. J. Bean, o f « T Z s
Cerisse Wayne.
/
weak, and reclined once more upon
Thieves stole a package containing
a a _____ r> ___ ._________________ . . $3.50® 4 per crate; head lettuce, 50®
the stalls In the area and the bal
the Advance Construction company, of
her pillows Vainly she endeavored to
cony. where any number of women $32,024 from the express office at Oil
Channel Swallows 22.
Portland. Mr. Bean states that ma 60c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 50c®)
C H A P T E R XI.
recall what had passed before. Event
$1 per box; green onions, 16c per doz
City,
Pa.,
while
the
agent
wasn’
t
look
could hide and make themselves heard
chinery
will be shipped at once.
Cowes,
Isle
o
f
Wight,
May
25.—
One
day
Betty,
tired
of
watching
the
after event raced through her brain.
en; radishes 15®20c dozen; rhubarb,
ing.
throughout
the
hall
by
a
megaphone.
nscope
slip
monotonously
by,
sum-
Twenty-two
persona
were
drowned
as
She remembered dimly as a child
2 ^ ® 3 1iic per pound; spinach, 8®10c
It seems the women had offered as
Double Service o f M otor Car.
traces back the progress of an evil pled putting her foot to the deck. The
A woman in San Ana, Cal., went in the result of a collision today between
per pound;
rutabagas,
$1.25®1.50
>uch
of
the
timber
wakened
ambition
much
as
£
200
for
a
seat
at
one
night's
the
steamer
Skerryvore
and
the
Ger
dream the Incidents of her Inst waking
Ashland— The gasolene motor in op- sack; carrots, 85c®$l; beets, $1.50;
sane and another tried to commit suicide
Ithln her, so the second foot slowly meeting.
houra The inquest of Cerlsse Wayne
man bark J. C. Vinnen, in the English j eration on the Southern Pacific lines parsnips, 75c®$l.
through
fear
o
f
the
coming
of
the
the scene In the Directory Hotel, the followed the first. Then Betty made
channel. The Skerryvore sank. Only ; between Ashland and Grants Pass has
comet.
Ilunl n f M
1« lltiftl n e « a .
Onions— Oregon, $2 per hundred;
nother try. and found that she could
quest for the papers, her attempt to
two o f the crew o f the steamer were j proved very popular with the traveling
Count (to the matrimonial a g e n t»-
G
p
of
North ^
$1.50® 1.75 per crate; red,
Interview the mysterious woman, and stand erect—rather tottery. It was true.
rescued, one o f whom died a short time public,
" '
.............
. . . . to in- Bermuda,
and
it
has
been
decided
$i
75 ^
last of all that shuddering fright, that Then she tried to walk, but hardly One other point. 1 am living out of w „ h WM found gu ilty „ f murder in later. The bark put in here but later
fearful, struggling embrace
with
a had she gone half a dozen steps when th . country; my Intended
must be U » first degree fo r poisoning hi. wife left for Southampton. Apparently she crease the reryice. Commencing Sun- 1 Hops- 1909 crop, 12® 15c, accord-
horrible furry being that held her In i T>oga was with her.
motor w ill make two ing to quality; olds, nominal; 1910 con
shipped to me. Are your terms f a b
)llst August,
was not injured. As far as known, no round trips daily,
“Careful, careful." smiled the ns- or do you pay the freight?— Fltegende
grasp from which escape was impossi
tracts, nominal.
passengers were on either vessel.
gress. “ Don’t try too much, and be
ble, endurance Intolerable.
Dlatter.
Wool — Eastern Oregon,
14® 17c
The sugar trust admits it is in mor
this
Berries Ripening Fast.
She glanced at the heap of draperies careful, mighty careful 'round
pound: valley, 16®18c; mohair, choice,
tal fear o f the cartoonists.
Chinese Destroy Church.
by the side of the couch, watched the boat. This is a bad boat. Missy, It
T a e l f «1 T a r t Ira.
Hood River— The warm weather o f 32®33c pound.
swing and sway of the room about her ought to fly the pirate flag.”
Shanghai. May 26.— Native riots oc- the past few days has ripened the ber-
Miss Saphron— Do you sell anything
A Greeley, Colo., man paid up all
Cattle— Beef steers, hay fed, good
Betty shivered. She had grown to
and tried to gather her tortured senses
to restore the complexion?
his old debts so he might die with a curred at Chuan Chia, northwest of ries at a very rapid rate. Pickers are to choice, $5.75®6; fair to medium,
together. Betty Lancey had never had like Tyoga. for the negress had been
Chemist— Restorel
You mean pro- clear conscience when the comet came. Changsha, last Saturday. A consider- coming into the valley in large num- $5.® 5.60; cows and heifers, good to
any imagination, but she was possessed devotion Itself In the services she had
able portion o f the city waa burned, hers, but not near enough have ar- choice, $5/«/ 5.50; fair to medium. $4.25
American
girl. serve, miss
always with the poise o f six men and given to the young
Many farmers in Wisconsin removed
t l>eal to the amount or 17a (4 Im the lightning rods from their buildings The Lutheran church waa destroyed by rived yet to care for the crop.
the common sense of a dozen. She ex Taciturn and commanding. Betty had
®4.75; bulls, $3.50®4.25: stags, 4.50
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her mediately executed.)— Ixmdon Taller. aa a precautionary measure against in- fire. There ia general unrest and anti- '
amined her hands carefully, and found never been aide to evoke from
® 5; calves, light, $6®7; heavy, $4.50
foreign
sentiment
ia
spreading.
Bridge
Row
River.
them without scratch or bruise. 8he either the object or the direction of
®5.60.
! jury from the effects o f the comeL
S tep bp Step.
felt no soreness of body but a numb their Journey beyond what the negress
! Eugene—The county court laa made
Hogs— Top. $10.25® 10.55; fair to
I
believe
In
Improving
environments,
Twenty-eight bodies have been re-
heaviness of brain, and a confused had told her that first morning. That
Quake Causes Near-Panic.
, a contract for a steel bridge over the medium. $9.25®9 55-
medley o f thought She closed her eyes she had been very ill. Betty knew, and but when we have made the world fit ! covered from the ruins o f the barracks
Reggio. Italy, May 25.— A heavy Row river eaat o f Cottage Grove, with
Sheep— Best wethers $4®4 25- fair
that l«e Malheureux was a physician of for men to liv e In we shall still need at Pinar del Rio, Cuba, which were de
and again dropped Into a numbness.
earth shock occurred here this evening, the Penn Bridge company, for $8.600. to good wethers $3 50® 4 - best ewes
to make men fit to llva la M. — |)ir stroyed by an accidental explosion of
She awakened from dreams o f a high skill she had shrewdly guessed
causing the people to rush into the The company will commence the work $3.2F®3.50; lambs choice $6®7- fair
«4 La R oy’s «U h Larry M arri» j Dotty rarely saw him. never la a bright James Duckworth
dynamite.
streets. No damage was done.
I at once.
$5®6
’
C H A P T E R IX .— (Continued.)
The vlzit of Mr. Franz threw no
hew light on the Wayne murder mya
tery. Aa to the disappearance of Bet
ty Lancey and of the Man-Aperilla
these rlddlea were still at their baffling
Inception.
The police found them
selves up against a polygonal enigma
The murder of Cerlsse W ayne;
the
identity and whereabouts of Hamley
Hackleye;
the unparalleled resem
blance between Mrs. liarcourt and
Mrs. Wayne; the disappearance of
Betty Lancey; and the appearance
And disappearance of the Man-Aperilla
—*11 surrounding the death of Mrs
Wayne.
Larry Morris grew thin and gaunt
as the days passed on, and no tidings
came from the missing Betty. Har
court’s wife had been taken to a sani
tarium and Harcourt was held in Jail
pending her recovery and the clear
ance of the mystery. The copy of the
letter Harcourt had made was pro
nounced by experts to be a disguised
hand, and the signature of
Harold
Harcourt on the hotel register was
found to be almost Identical with the
formation of the Initials H. H. append
•d to the letters found among the ef
fects of the dead
Cerisse
Wayne
Opinion was divided among various
speculations and some thought that
Harcourt had killed Mrs. Wayne, other
theorists held that Harold Harcourt
and Hamley Hackleye were the same
others still, that Harcourt had been
masquerading as Hackleye, and in that
way explained the vanishing of H ack
leye. This left still unaccounted for
the abduction of Betty and the m ys
tery of the Man-Aperilla.
Larry Morris persistently held to it
that it wus only right that an expedl
tlon should be fitted up and sent to
A frica to see if there might be any
further clews picked up there.
His
paper laughed at him, and one editor,
who guessed the condition of Larry’s
heart, called him a “ lovesick fool
Larry fumed until one night late in
August he had a dream about Betty
tie saw her in a jungle, amidst a horde
of llbyans and hideous black men. And
she was standing there stretching out
her hands to him. H er voice, thick
with pain, called out to him, “ Larry!
Oh, L a r ry !” That settled I^arry M or
ris. He threw up his Job the very next
day, and with Johnny Johnson in tow
left for New York. Five days later
Larry had made a tie-up with a press
syndicate to go to Africa, along with
Johnny Johnson, and see what could
be done towards tracing out that end
o f the tale. They had no charts, noth
ing but a few half obliterated post
marks torn from letters found in the
safety deposit box kept with Double
day. Franz A Co., but on these Iaarry
was pinning much faith. It was the
mustard seed he hoped would move
mountain.