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.
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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-
.
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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
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lambs, choice, $5.5006; fair, $4,750
5.25.