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The Quest o Betty Lancey B y M A .G T> j K r. W E S T Oopyrtzht. 1909 , by W 0 . Chapm»n. Copyright In G rut BrIUla "And hls’n?” CH APTER XVIII. "Mr. Johnson.” **Tf that isn’t a wireless I’m hearin*. "And his?” I never heard one,” quoth Johnny. "Mr. Morris.” The trio had taken refuge below, "Mine’s Paula, and brother’s is W al the rain was falling heavily and there ter Hamley,” announced the child. "We was no cabin accommodation above. "I learned the code, you know, com Just call him Walter, though. He’s aw fully shy, is brother. He doesn’t wear ing over,” he confided to Betty. ‘‘Won mother’s picture any more; he says der what they’re saying? Listen.” Johnny’s knowledge was not very she’s been gone so long that she doesn’t extensive. He deciphered the words love us or else she’d come back. But “Tyoga,” ‘great haste,” "make all ef that isn’t so. Tyoga went away for a long time, but Tyoga came back. Thlj forts to save life,” and ” H. H.” "Well, we're on the trail of the story, is mother, see?” She opened the locket around her anyhow," he cheerfully mused. "That neck and displayed to Betty the now ought to be some consolation." familiar face of Cerlsse Wayne. All night the three were crowded a space not big enough for two of It was such a beautiful, lovely, mock them. The yacht made good time, and ing face, but it wasn’t a good face! when It finally stopped with a jolt, Betty couldn’t held acknowledging that Meta sought them out and bade them to herself even us she made her bow go ashore. to the witchery of the painted features They were landing at the wharf of before her. There was nothing of the what might have been a conventional mother there. English seuport country place. At the “I hate this place,” went on Paula. end of a driveway, over which every "I don’t like the blucks and I don’t 1 Ike body limped except City Editor Bur the quiet that’s always here. Pap«» ton, who Benoni had left tethered in said he’d take us to England, but since the yacht, rambled a pretentious house mother went away he never talks of of Gothic architecture. A modern that any more. Papa doesn’t seem to glass covered piazza was built along love us like he did. He was away, too. one side of the place, and as they He’s Just come home. And so cross! mounted the steps Betty recognized Why, the other day he stepped on one within this enclosure Tyoga in cap and of my guinea pigs and killed it, and apron, in charge of a pair of children, then he killed another and took und approximately 9 and 10 years old. The drowned the whole pen full of them In boy was the larger of the two, a slight the river. He used to be so good.” dark lad, with a petulant expression "Paula, you’ve talked enough,” chid and awkward movements. Later Betty ed the boy. "These folks don’t care.” •aw this awkwardness was caused by Larry proceeded to make friends with a deformity of the hip. The girl was Walter, and Betty and Johnny kept plainer of fdce than her brother, but Paula amused with a wonderful game her figure Jiad the perfect symmetry of of ball that you make out of your all wild things that live in the open handkerchief and twirl around from air. one to another on two hat pins. Tyoga was mending a white gar Gradually Larry and Walter got Into ment, but at sight of the pilgrims she the fun, and the revel was at its height dropped her work and went forward to when Le Mulheureux came into the greet them, leaving the children star room. ing after her. "Le Mulheureux!” cried Betty, and She bowed before Betty and the two stretched out her hand in welcome. other Americans, kissed Meta warmly But the shrouded figure stood aside. on the cheeks, and embraced Benoni "Excuse me, please,” he protested. passionately. When these two were to "So these are your friends? Now they gether the relationship of mother and have found you, I hope they may be son was easily discernible. able to see you safely home again. I "Ah, so you came sufely away,” she will ask of you. too, a favor. W ill you sighed, in a relieved manner. "I was take those two helpless children with so alarmed. Hamley came home this you? They belong to my sister, Mrs. morning. He and the old man had a Hackleye, known to you as Mrs. dreadful argument. They are upstairs Wayne. I wish they may go to their now. It has been frightful. But you father’s people in England. There is must not mind. I do not know what no one else who can take care of them I am going to do with the children. and they mustn’t stay here any long They are getting so old now, I can’t er. No,” rending the question in L a r put them off with fairy tales any long ry’s eyes, "the father is not deud, but er. It is racking.” She turned to Bet he is not well. And It is best for them ty. " I’m glad your friends found you. to go.” Poor child! The struin on you has "When can we go?” blurted Larry, been terrible, but the snarl is nearing "and where is the father? Didn’t he its end. You shall soon see.” k l ------- ” The Interior of the house was as con Betty threw the ball at Larry, and ventional as Its exterior. Betty, Larry Morris and Johnny felt that the pe It struck him squarely In the mouth, numbra of mystery was at length be Interrupting the question on his lips "Judge not,” cautioned Le Mulheu ing pierced by the return of reason. "But If Mr. Wayne finds these peo reux. "I will dine with you later, after ple her* he may kill them,” objected the children have gone to bed.” The remainder of the day was a Benoni. "He shall not see them,” assured catechism by the children. They de Tyoga. "Nor Hackleye, neither. They voured their strange visitors with and the children must all be out of questions about the country they had sight before he comes down stairs. never seen, wondered If they would Since she is dead Hackleye cannot meet their mother, made a thousand hildlsh pluns for the voyage, and drew abide the sight of the children any more. And all her things—he wants lots ns to which of their pets they them out of sight down here, yet he would take with them. Discussion as lives in her old rooms. Take them to to the relative merits of white mice the north wing, Meta, and I will bring over guinea pigs and peucocks was bordering on belligerency when Tyoga the children.” The north wing had four bedrooms, arried the Juveniles away to the room a sitting room, and a small alcove. It that did duty as a nursery and left was done in English chintz, and several their Impatient elders to await the canaries sung and swung In the win coming of Le Mulheureux. dows. In Betty’s room had been placed CH APTER XIX. garments more conventional than those The clock in the room told ten, and she wore, and a dozen little toilet con veniences, not the least welcome of he was not yet there. The children which wus a box of hairpins In assort slept and Hetty and her companions ed sizes. 8he lingered long at her moved restlessly from room to room dressing—why shouldn’t she have done Had It not been for Johnny, Iairry and so? In all this time she had not be*n sho might have been exchanging a so near the accustomed luxuries of thousand queries ns to "when did you life. The bath tub was a delight, the first begin to love me,” and "do you brushes, creams and powders brought remember that time?” but as It was back visions of civilization, and even they tried to be unselfish and make the makeshifts for fashionable clothing general conversation and, as is usual In were a comfort. True, the skirt laid such cases they only succeeded in hav out was plainly Tyoga’s and needed a ing everybody miserable, Johnny as dozen reefs and tucks; but for a walsr well as themselves. Angry voices sounded from the corri there was an old-fashioned polonaise, and this was better suited to Betty's dor. One, unmistakably that of De size. When she was finished she real Mulheureux, the other that of an older ly felt proud of herself, and awaited and a mode irate man. They extinguished the lights, and the reunion with th* boys in the s it ting room with great anticipation. Betty cautiously stealing to the door They had fared better in the mntter *f put her eye to the keyhole and her clothes, though Johnny’s trousers were eat to the crack. Out in the hall was too long and Larry’s were at half-mast. Le Mulheureux, with him a bent old While they criticised, commented, and man, white-haired and saffron-skin compared the children burst In upon ned. The old man leaned totteringly on a them. The boy limped quietly In, but th* girl stormed through the doors staff. "I hate you. hate you. a thou sand times more than I ever have done like a whirlwind. “ Where you live when you were a before, oh wretched son!” he shrilled. little girl?” sh* flashed at Betty, “ ina "Vile that you are!” "You cannot, father,” Interrupted the they always have something doing harsh voice of Le Mulheureux, In a around that you couldn’t see Into?” “ Of course they did,” said Betty. sorrowful Intonation. “ You have long "Those things always happen when condemned me to tortures. What I am you made me.” you’r* children.” The two walked slowly down th* “ But I don’t believe It was like It Is h*re,” persisted the child. "Here corridor. Motioning to I«arry and Bet things are so funny, they make you ty to await his return Johnny followed creep if you don’t want to. You needn’t In their wake. Through the main scowl, brother, you know It’s true. Any building and across to the south room body can see IL And why did these wing they went, stopping In what was people come here In those skin clothes.’ evidently the old man's sitting room And why has Tyoga been so worried? There the discussion broke out afresh. "I hate you, I say— A thousand And why won't papa see us. and where is mother? Do you—oh. tell me—do times more," repeated the old man. you think our mother's dead?” the "Unfillal son! But I have outwitted child cried, flinging herself In Betty’s you! My cohorts, my good black ne lap. "We had the loveliest mother, and groes. any one of them worth a thou she’s been gone for so long!” sand such sons ns you, hAve found out "What was your mother’s name, your secret castle, the gate to those dear?” questioned Betty, though she bonanza fields where the diamonds lie knew before she asked, and felt asham so closely bedded together that a nee ed of the query. She had the hot little dlepoint could not separate them. 1 am head pressed close to her shoulder and free of you now. forever, free; do you could feel th* rising sobs. The boy understand? That wealth that your had gone over to the window and was mother and young aunt so long de tapping It moodily with his fingers. nied me Is mine, mine and Cerisse's “Sh* was Mrs. Cerlsse Wayne Hack Ah, there Is devotion for you, devotion leye,” replied th* child, "but w* Just for you! She is a girl after my own called her mother.” heart! What vim! What nerve! What Betty’s tears mingled with those *f daring! My Cerlsse! No chicken- th* little girl. "I don't know, dear,** nerved fool like you, and you, my son! sh* answered. "W alt till we g*t a Bah! Now that I have the path to the post and then we’ll know.” mines, now that I need him no longer, "That’s what Tyoga always saya,” Hackley* may go, and his children continued th* child. "But the post nev with him If he wishes. They are but er comes here any mor*. What's your poor offspring for my beautiful daugh game?” ter to own. Small wonder she never "Betty Lancey.” loved them. Nor him either. Her h*ari CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK has Ion* been with one man, and now with all this new wealth she shall have him. Money buys anything! Diamonds are money! Cerlsse shall be rid of this Hackleye. I hate him, too!” Another figure stepped out of the darkness. Johnny recognized the early morning visitor he had trailed from the Desterle home into the Flanders mansion, months before. "Don’t believe that for a moment.' this man rasped. "You blithering old fool you! Cerisse is dead! Do you hear! She’s dead! Dead!” The old man dropped his staff ani fell back into the arms of Le Malheu- ieneral Resume o f Important Event, Presented in Condensed Form reux, who led him to a seat near by. "Hackleye, Hackleye!” wailed the fo r O u r Busy Reeders. old man, "you didn’t—you didn't. You didn’t kill her?” Hackleye pulled a roll of newspaper clippings from his pocket and dangled A negro has been appointed collector them before the old man's eyes, and o f customs at Washington, D. C. spread them out on the table before Stock is reported to be dying on him. With quivering lips the stricken man read, punctuating each sentence Montana ranges on account o f drouth. with a moar He saw the headlines Fire destroyed a North Yakima, only, then flung the papers from him Wash,, clothing store, causing $18,500 and tried to reach Hackleye with his damage. staff. The Forty-seventh annual convention "And you, you—” he malevolently called to Le Mulheureux, "why did you o f the Ancient Order o f Hibernians is not prevent it?” in session in Portland. "How could I?” answered Le Mal- President T a ft visited Eastport, heureux, "and why should I? You know what Cerisse was, father. A mur Maine, in the extreme northeast cor deress at heart, and my own sister. My ner of the United States. mother's daughter!” The First National convention o f the “ Yes, and mine,” snarled the old man. Ancient Order o f Hibernians, Board "Where are those brats of Hackleye’ *? o f Erin, is in session in New York I’ll kill them—kill them, I tell you!” City. Le Malheureux rang sharply on a There is much trouble in Bogota, bell. Benoni entered from the hall, and together they bore the old man from Colombia, caused by feeling against the room. Hackleye gathered up the the American streetcar company oper clippings and with darkening brow ating there. paused before the portrait of the two Agents o f the Russian government children that hung on the wall before him. Opposite was a life size painting allege that the charges o f ill-treatment of the mother, and his wife—radiant, of Russian peasants in the Hawaiian smiling as she had been in her early islands are groundless. girlhood, and when she had listened A motor fishing boat on the fishing to the ardent love-making of her fu grounds at the mouth o f the Columbia ture husband. As the man looked the frown \tn- was seen to capsize and sink with two ished, A breeze stealing in from the men. No help could reach them in window swayed the portrait forward time and both were lost. on the wall. With outstretched hands It is reported that President French, and lips apart the girl in the picture of the North Bank road, has resigned, seemed to move towards the weary but he says he knowns nothing o f it. man, to offer him the roses she held in Forest fires have destroyed the log her hands. The dim lights completed ging camp o f the Slade Lumber com the Illusion. Hackleye sprang forward to embrace the girl in the picture, soft pany, near Elma, Wash. words upon his lips. A Roseburg, Or., man aged 75 years, "Sweetheart, sweetheart,” he cried, shot a panther, and thinking the ani "you’ve come back to me. I know it, mal dead, leaned over to examine it, and you’ll never go again, will you, when it roused up and attacked him dear? Just my girl again, Just mine, and nearly killed him before it was just mine-----” despatched by his companion. He had touched the canvas now and Six persons have lost their lives in its clammy surface woke him from his dream. Hurling it back against the forest fires about Spokane. wall, Hackleye snatched a jeweled Continued reports o f crop failure knife from the table, and slashed the keep the price o f wheat going up. canvas into finest fringe. "And all for love of a woman,” quoth A long drouth in Nevada was broken Johnny to himself, as Hackleye un by a cloudburst, in which one person seeing rushed down the corridor in a was drowned. blind ruge and almost knocked hin; The Washington Coast artillery re over. serves made perfect scores at practice (To be continued.) with 10 and 12 inch guns. doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. TH E PAR AD ISE OF BABIES. Japan ese F in d In CJIvtnif N o T r o n b l e T o o Cerent P lea su re to A ll conductors and trainmen on the Grand Trunk railroad o f Canada, have gone on a strike for advanced wages. C h ild ren . Two men arrested as horsethieves in Japan, the Flowery Land— the Land Sacramento, Cal., have been identified of the Cherry Blossom and the Chrys as men who held up a Southern Pacific anthemum—Is a happy place for the train last April. wee folk to live In. No trouble Is too In a speech at Emporia, Kansas, great for the Japanese If It brings pleasure to the "treasure flowers," as “ Uncle Joe” Cannon says the muck- their babies are called, hence small rakers can’ t make him withdraw from wonder Is It that tears are but seldom the race for speaker. seen. Employers o f labor in Stockton, Cal., Japanese babies never seem to cry, have declared war to the finish upon A ll build writes V. Louise Wrench. Quaint, lit the closed shop principle. tle, sage faced individuals, with shorn ing is at a standstill. heads and obliquely Bet eyes, they re A broken trolley wire fell upon a bi mind us of dolls, the gayest and most cycle rider on Morrison street bridge, delicately embroidered garments en in Portland, but his rubber tireB saved wrapping the tiny limbs, for a moth him from electrocution. er’s first care after her baby is born The W right Brothers have been sued will be Its dress. Each baby’s robe for $40,000 damages for breach of con will have some special color, according tract in connection with the aviation to the month in which It was born, meet at Toronto, just closed. and a mother will spare no expense A Chinaman arrested in Seattle for over the tiniest mite's wardrobe. There seems to be a superstition that the having opium in his possession was gayer the child’s kimono, the better found to have $150,000 in gold, bills and certificates of deposit stowed in chances in life it will have. As soon as any hair appears the two heavy wooden chests in his room. baby has Its head shaved, only a A general strike has been ordered fringe around the forehead and neck, by the National Railroaders’ union of 1th a tiny tuft In the center, being France. left. Then as soon as the mother's Great secrecy over a conference in artistic sense is satisfied she presents the house of lords has alarmed British her baby to Hotel, the god of children, Liberals. who Is one of the seven gods of luck. President T a ft has emphatically de As soon as the hair begins to grow again she shaves it off once more until clared that he will take no part in she has obtained the result she wish state politics. es. Unfortunately, however, this cere Sixty carloads of heavy steel rails mony is not always performed with passed through Portland for the Pacific a clean razor, scrupulous though the & Eastern road at Medford. Ore. Japanese are In many respects, and T a ft has started a movement to re often causes unpleasant sores. The Japanese attribute this to naughtiness, store the Colorado river to its original bed in the Imperial valley of California. which they say lurks beneath the Speaker Cannon, of the house o f rep scalp, and they fancy that If this Ill ness, or deviltry, comes out while the resentatives, wss overcome by heat children are quite young they will ba while speaking before the Chautauqua assembly at Winfield, Kansas. healthier In later life. As soon as the children come to the Despite the wrecking o f the first age of reason (anywhere between the regular train on the new monorail sys- age of 6 and 10), they begin to leave tem in New York, the damage will be off their l>aby ways, apparently of repaired and the service resumed. their own accord, and at once begin to Flames starting from a surveyors’ take their share of the world's duties. camp have ruined thousands o f acres As soon as a baby Is born it Is handed of timber and many settlers’ homes on over to a sister, who takes care of it, Kellogg Peak near Wallace, Idaho, and It le a common sight In Japan to see little girls of 6 or 7 with sleeping! Three o f England s most prominent babies strapped to their backs like a “ 8UffrRKette8 visit America in knapsack, while a girl with no sisters 'M erest o f woman suffrage, and will probably come to the Pacific coasL or brothers will hare a big doll sub- stltuted. Hence when quite babies Canada and United States will con themselves they are taught to look fer on the establishment o f through after others. freight rates. Little boys In Japan never seem to Many banks are making application be affected with shyness, and they are to be appointed depositories for the extraordinarily polite, always Inter postal savings banks. ested In what Is said, and especially Secretary Ballinger will tour Rai attentive to a stranger should he at tempt to converse with him. There Is nier national park to see what im no scolding and punishing of Japanese provements can be made. children, no shutting them away In The section o f Nicaragua controlled dull nurseries with hirelings to look by Madriz is violently hostile to all after them, but In the land of the foreigners, especially Americana. chrysanthemum children are as wel come as the sunlight, they love and Five Republican, one Democrat, one are loved, the simple, unfettered life Prohibitionist and one Socialist are en- they lead helping them to become gaged in a lively race for the nomina- healthy, morally and physically, and tion for governor o f California under the stern word duty to them Is noth the new primary law o f that state. ing to fear. Forest fires in Idaho are again be yond control. Millions o f dollars I l n i i M i fo r i M f l a i th e C o a a tr y . worth o f timber is being destroyed by A college man has made an Inquiry fires in Washington, Idaho, and Mon aa to why a group of 400 students left tana. the country. Forty per cent of them said there wasn't any money in farm A company o f Spokane men have ar ing. Seventeen per cent left because ranged to spend $2,000,000 on an ir- of the hard work, and another 17 per rigation project in Rogue river valley, cent left because of the lack of social Oregon. advantage* / LABOR WAR IS ENDED. Long Fight Against Buck Stove Com pany Declared Off. Cincinnati — A peace agreement of great importance to organized labor was made here between officers o f the American Federation of Labor and members o f the Stove Founders’ N a tional Defense association. The effect o f the agreement is to end the bitter warfare between the federation of labor and the Buck Stove & Range company of St. Louis. The association and the stove company, through its representatives here, an nounced their withdrawal from the prosecutions against President Gom- pers, Vice President Mitchell and Sec retary Morrison, of the federation of labor, in the contempt case now pend ing against them. While the prosecutions hanging over Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Mor rison, of the federation o f labor, have passed out of the hands o f the stove company which instituted them, and are now pending in the United States Supreme court at Washington, repre sentatives of the stove company and o f the National Defense association, by the articles signed, agree to with draw their attorneys from the case. Whether the appeal of the three men from jail sentences imposed upon them for alleged violation o f an injunction shall be fought to a finish in the Su preme court is said to rest now with Attorney General Wickersham. The five articles o f the agreement are as follows: First— A conference to be held by officers o f the labor organizations in volved and Mr. Van Cleave, o f the stove company, at St. Louis. Second— The agreement in regard to the wages, hours and conditions o f em ployment shall take effect within 90 days, based on wages and conditions existinggin shops o f competitors in the city o f St. Louis, operating union shops. Third— The labor unions w ill make known that the differences between the two organizations have been satisfac torily adjusted. Fourth—The Buck Stove & Range company will withdraw all suits now pending against the labor organiza tions. Fifth — A copy o f this agreement will be published in the journals'of the labor organizations and displayed in the labor departments o f the stove company. S T IL L PERSECUTE JEWS. Russians Expel Them From But Many Return. Kiev, K iev, Russia— The expulsion of Jews from K iev continues at the rate o f 45 a day. From July 4 to July 15, 497 were expelled by what is known as the second method— that is, they were forced to actually leave town. During the same period 1,121 were expelled by the first method, which, in effect, is a warning for their departure, but per mits them time for a settlement of pri vate affairs. In the majority o f cases the latter method proved ineffective, as the Jews in that category are prone to return to K iev after temporary absence. Since May 24, when the imperial edict ordering that all Jews who could not establish a legal right o f residence elsewhere should be returned within the pale of the restricted district o f the Polish provinces and the Ukraine, be came effective, there have been ex pelled from this city, Solemnka and Dmieffka suburbs, 3,011 persons by the second method and 3,641 by the first method. NEW ENGLAND IS AFFECTED . 700 Miles o f Railroad Are Made Idle by Grand Trunk Srrike. Boston—Some 700 miles of railroad in the New England states were made practically idle by the strike o f con ductors and trainmen declared through out the entire Grand Trunk railroad system. About 450 trainmen in New England are involved in the strike. The strike in New England affects 166 miles o f the main line o f the Grand Trunk road. The railroad shops at St. Albans, Vermont, where 350 men are employ ed. have been closed. The shop em ployes adopted resolutions condemning the strike o f the trainmen. Freight traffic is tied up. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE State Engineer Lewis Says Irrigation Work is Revelation. 55,000 Acres o f Rogue River to Be Irrigated, Land Medford— Fifty-five thousand acres Salem— A fte r traveling 1,000 miles through Central and Souhern Oregon, of the Rogue river valley will be irri half of the distance by automobile and gated, at an expenditure o f at least stage, State Engineer John H. Lewis $2,000,000, within the next few years is back at the state captioi and reports as the result o f the closing of a deal that development work and advance whereby the Rogue R iver Valley Canal ment of Carey act projects are a revel company, composed o f a party of Spo kane capitalists, headed by P. Welch, ation to him. “ During the past few years the de acquires ownership o f the property of velopment work has been remarkable,” the Fish Lake Water company. The consideration was not given out he asserts. “ A t Prineville they are expecting a big rush of settlers be by either party to the transaction. cause of the recent opening o f the road Mr. Welch said that his company has land grants and prospects are bright had the property under option nearly for a branch o f the Oregon Trunk up a year and had spent nearly $150,000 in examining the property, making Crooked river. “ A t Laidlaw the indications piont to surveys and in development work. a reorganization o f the Columbia The old company had about 60 miles Southern project and it is probable o f canals and ditches. p| Fred N. Cummings, manager o f the construction work w ill be resumed for the purpose o f reclamation o f 30,000 Rogue River Valley Canal company, said that his company would proceed at acres o f valuable land. “ Irrigation development is causing once to the construction o f additional signal activity at Bend. In addition canals and laterals until there were to this factor, timber, railroad con 100 miles of canals and 400 miles of struction and waterpower development laterals. The company owns reservoir are all opening a great era for that rights in the Fish and Four Mile lakes, already prosperous community. Lots with a storage capacity o f 65,000 acre- that sold for next to nothing on the feet o f water, besides the running wa main street o f the town ten years ago ter in the north and south forks o f L it are now going at $4,000. Many new tle Butte creek. The company owns 7,000 acres o f houses are being erected and a great land in the valley in one body, on which rush o f settlers is expected. “ Forty miles south o f Bend heavy it w ill maintain an experimental farm machinery is being assembled and con in charge o f an expert. Though this struction work is beginning on an irri body o f land the company has dug a ca gation project to water 30,000 acres. nal six feet wide at the bottom and a Development work here is in charge of boulevard 60 feet wide paralleling it. the Deschutes Land company. The GRAINM EN IN COM BINE. mqin line o f the Oregon Trunk w ill go directly through this project and the Natron-Klamath line is to pass within Wheat-Growers to Manufacture and a few hundred feet o f the dam site in Ship Flour. Crescent Lake, which supplies water Portland—-As a test o f their strength for the project. La Pine is the town- in opposing interests which they con site for this development work and sider inimical to the Farmers’ Educa there is now talk o f moving Rossland, tional and Co-operative union, wealthy the old town, to La Pine so that it w ill wheat growers o f Umatilla county and be on the railroad. From La Pine al- the Walla Walla country are going to reay can be heard the sound of blast manufacture flour for export on an ing on the Natron-Klamath line, where extensive scale, according to announce work is being carried on over the ment made in Portland. While the mountain. Every blast is cheerful plans o f organization are not as yet news to the people o f the Deschutes. complete, it is known that they include “ A t Paisley the 12,000-acre Carey the building o f flouring mills, ware act project is being delayed because of houses, power plant, transmission lines conflict in water rights. “ A t Lakeview the dam and main and about 40 miles o f railroad. There is abundance o f capital to canal o f a 50,000-acre private project finance the various enterprises in con are nearly complete and the land under nection with the movement $500,000 the canal sold. “ Perhaps o f all prospective projects having been already subscribed, and in Southern Oregon the one in Warner there is plenty of money, say the pro moters, to insure the carrying out o f Lake valley I found had the more nu merous interesting features. This is the enterprise. 40 miles east o f Lakeview and $30,000 Campers Trek T o Crater Lake. has already been expended in surveys Medford— W ith nearly 50 people en looking to the development o f 100,000 camped at Crater Lake and at Arant acres of land. This valley is 80 miles camp, the season may be said to have long and runs from five to 15 miles in fairly opened. A score o f automobiles width, between rock bluffs 3,000 feet have already been driven to Crater, high. The land here w ill be developed carrying tourists from all parts o f the by the state under the Carey act. The coast. The accommodations this year company doing the work is under $7,- are superior to those o f any previous 000 bonds to make a complete inves season and during the summer work is tigation and is apparently going ahead to be rushed on the construction o f the in good faith, notwithstanding there lodge, which is to stand on the rim o f are immense obstacles blocking the the crater. An automobile stage line path. “ A canal o f 1,000 second-foot capac has been instituted this year, and the ity will have to be constructed for 15 trip can now easily be made. miles aljng an almost vertical rock Will Have Cheese Factory. cliff and three miles o f dikes, 40 to 50 Toledo—Toledo is to have a cheese feet in height, must be constructed across a peat bog, in addition to sever factory. T. B. James began construc al storage sites, long flumes and in tion this week on the building, which is to house the plant, and expects to verted siphons. The tract, however, is very desir be making cheese by August 15. He able, and lies well for irrigation, hav will build the plant on the Wadsworth ing an excellent climate, and with place, and w ill build a wharf out to railroad facilities, which have been deep water so the Wilhelmina can load definitely promised, may prove very the products with convenience. The capacity o f the factory will be 500 gal feasible to irrigate. lons o f milk daily, but this can be in creased to 1,000 gallons. Through Line to Crater Lake. Klamath Falls— L. W. Clapp, stage line operator, has established an auto mobile service between Klamath Falls and Crater Lake. Mr. Clapp has the contract with the Southern Pacific to handle the through passenger service from San Francisco to Crater Lake. Tickets can be purchased either at San Francisco or Portland and way points for the trip directly througth by way o f this great natural wonder. From San Francisco a ticket through will mean that after the arrival here pas sengers can remain over night and the following morning leave in an auto for Santa Hurries to Arctic. the rim o f Crater Lake where they Seattle— Santa Claus is reported to will connect with another line from the make his home in the Arctic Circle, other side. but the pupils and teachers o f the gov ernment schools o f Northern Alaska Will Settle in Coos. would have fared ill next Christmas if Marshfield— W. E. Catterlin, deputy presents, food, clothing and fuel had state food and dairy inspector for not been shipped on the steamer St. Western Oregon, has moved to' Coos Helena, which sailed for Nome and county and will make this part o f the other Arctic ports as far north as Point state his home. He has taken a ten- Hope. Congress was so late this year year lease on the Star ranch in Curry that it was impossible to send the county, near Langlois, and will go in school supplies on a sailing vessel and to the dairy business. The ranch is there was danger that some remote one o f the finest dairy farms in this schools might get no supplies at all. part o f the state and takes in a large tract. Mr. Cattterlin has given out Work on Railroad Begins. that he w ill bring about 20 families Redding, Cal.— A large corps o f sur from Tillamook county, who are com veyors under J. T. Lentell has taken ing to locate in Coos and Curry counties. the field to make permanent surveys for the Humboldt & Eastern railroad, Needs Cherry Pickers. which will connect Eureka with Red La Grande — With the largest crop Bluff or Redding. This work was or o f cherries in the history o f Union dered immediately after the receipt o f county “ dead ripe,” a cry has gone up news from Waahington that the secre for pickers and packers. It is impos tary o f agriculture had consented to sible to get help to harvest the bumper sell 1,000,000,000 feet o f timber in the crop. The crews now at work are Trinity National forest at $1.50 a larger than ever before employed, but thousand. The new railroad will cut notwithstanding this the crop is so across Trinity county, which now has large that the augmented help cannot not a single mile o f railway. handle it fast enough. Unless help is obtained at once the orchardists will Japan Buys Four Airships. sustain heavy losses from lack o f help. Victoria, B. C.— News was brought by the steamship Suveric, which has Wood-Working Plant Established. just arrived from the Orient, that the Redmond— An important industry J apanese government has ordered four recently located at Redmond is the military airships in France. They wood working plant o f L. L. Osborne. are to be built in accordance with As soon as the building is completed, French design, with certain alterations it is the intention to manufacture kit suggested by the Japanese airship in chen cabinets, light furniture, screen vestigation committee. They are ex doors, sash and doors. This is the only pected to b« delivered in Japan late in establishment o f the kind nearer than AugusL Negotiations are under way Prineville. _________ for more air craft. Louisville & Nashville Gives Mors Louisville. Ky. — Four thousand Louisville shop employes o f the Louis ville A Nashville railroad were given a surprise when they opened their pay envelopes and found therein an unaolie- ited increase o f 6 per cent BIG W ATER P R O JE C T ON. S T A T E ’S PROGRESS GREAT. Weston Harvest Starts. Weston— Harvesting is starting in here. A few outfits have alroad) begun work on the lighter lands. Crops around the immediate vicinity o f Wes- ton will be average, from all indica- . m ___ . ., tiona, and of good quality; much bet- ter than last year. Stock Poisoning Charge. Salem — On a charge o f poisoning stock, A1 Hornbuckle was arraigned before Judge George H. Burnett in circuit court. Hornbuckle is from West Stayton and it is alleged he gave poison to animals belonging to neigh bors. He has pleaded not guilty and w ill stand trial. P O R T LA N D M A R K E TS. W h eat— Bluestem, 880 90c; club, 830 84c; red Russian, 81c; valley, 86c. Barley—Feed and brewing, $20022 per ton. Hay— Track prices; Timothy, W il lamette valley, $18019 per ton; East ern Oregon, $20022; alfalfa, new, $13 @14. Com— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 per ton. Oats— No. 1 white, $26027.50 ton. Butter— City creamery, extras, 31c per pound; fancy outside creamery, 30 @31c; store, 23c; butter fat, 31c. Eggs — Oregon candled, 26%@27c per dozen; Eastern, 24025% c. Poultry — Hens, 18@19c; springs, 20c; ducks, 15c; geese, 10011c; tur keys, live, 18020c; dressed, 2 2 % 0 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 12%013c per pound. Veal— Fancy, 12012%c per pound. Green Fruits— Apples, new, $1,250 2.25 per box; Lambert cherries, 12%c per pound; apricots, 5Oc0$l per box; plum9, 60c 0 $1.25; peaches, 50c 0) $1.25; Loganberries. $101.50 per crate; blackberries, $1.5002 per box; watermelons, l% c per pound; canta loupes, $3.50(ii 4.25 per crate. Vegetables— Artichokes, 60075c per dozen; beans, 305c per pound; cab bage, 2 i.,0 2 % c p e r pound; cauliflow er, $1.50 per dozen; celery, 90c; cu cumbers, 50c per box; egg plant, 12%c per pound; green onions, 15c per doz en; peas, 5c per pound; pfpfers, 100 12%c; radishes, 15020c per dozen; carrots, $101.25 per sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, $101.25; turnips, $1. Potatoes—Old Oregon, 75c0$l per hundred; new, 1 *4c per pound. Onions— Walla W alls, $2.50 per sack; Hood River, $2.25. Cattle— Beef steers, good to choice, $5.2005.60; fair to medium $4,250 4.75; cows and heifers, good to choice! $4.2505.10; fair to medium, $3.5004; bulls, $303.75; stags, $3.5004.50; calves, light, $5.7506.75; heavy. $3.5005. Hogs— Top, $10010.25; fair to me- dium. $8.600 9.75 Sheep— Best wethers. $3.7504; fair to good, $303.50; beat 3.50- u .u v , u c a i c ewea, w c o , « $30 O l 'i O iO U , lambs, choice, $5.5006; fair, $4,750 5.25.