THE QUICKENING
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Copyright, 1906, by Francis Lynda
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C H A P T E R X II.— (Continued.)
I t was on a crisp morning In the s ec­
ond week of January when the pro­
longed agony of suspense drove him to
the mountain. Hls mother was sitting
up, and was rapidly recovering her
strength. Hls father had gone back to
hls work In the Iron plant, and hls un­
cle was preparing to return to hls
charge In South Tredegar.
W ith no
particular destination In view, It was
only natural that hls feet should find
the fam iliar path leading up to the
great boulder under the cedars. He
had not visited the rock of the spring
since the summer day when he and
Nan Rryerson had taken refuge from
the shower in the hollow heart of it,
nor had he seen Nan since their part­
ing at the door of her father’s cabin
under the cliff.
Rumor In Gordonia
had It that Tike Hryerson had been
hunted out by the revenue officers; and,
for reasons which he would have found
It difficult to declare In words, Torn
had been shy about making Inquiries.
For this cause an apparition could
scarcely have startled him more than
did the sight of Nan filling her bucket
at the trickling barrel-spring under the
cliff face of the great rock. He came
on her suddenly at the end of the long
climb up the wooded slopes, at a mo­
ment when— sem i-tropi(jil growth hav­
ing had two full seasons In which to
change the natural aspect of things—
he was half-bewildered with the un­
wonted look of the place. But there
was no doubt about it; It was Nan in
the flesh, a little fuller in the figure,
something less childish In the face,
but with all the fascinating, w ild-crea­
ture beauty o f the child-time promise
to duzzle the eye and breed riot in the
brain of the boy-man.
“ Did you know I was coming? Were
you waiting for me, Nan?” he bubbled,
gazing into the great black eyes as ea­
gerly as a freed dog plunges Into the
first pool that offers.
“ H ow could I be knowin’ to It?" she
asked, taking him seriously, or appear­
ing to. “ I nev’ knowed school let out
this time o’ year.”
“ It’s let out for me, Nan,” he said,
meaningly. “ I came home— for good—
nearly three weeks ago. My mother
has been sick. Didn’t you hear of It?”
She shook her head gravely.
“ Say, Nan; I hope you haven’t got to
hurry home,” he interposed, when sho
stooped to lift the overflowing bucket.
“ I want to talk to you— to tell you
something.”
“ A ir you a man now, Tom -Jeff, or
on’y a boy like you used to be?” she
asked.
“ I ’m big enough to be In my own
way a good deal of the time. I be­
lieve I could muddy Sim Cantrell's back
for him now, at arm-holts.”
’’Where’s your preacher’s coat, Tom-
Jeff? I was allowin’ you’d be wearin’
It nex’ time we met up.”
“ I reckon there isn’t going to be any
preacher’s coat for me, Nan; that’s
one of the things I want to talk to you
about Let’s go over yonder and sit
down In the sun.”
The place he chose for her was a flat
stone half embedded In the up-climb­
ing slope beyond the great boulder.
She sat facing the path and the spring,
listening, while Tom, stretched luxuri­
ously on a bed of dry leaves at her
feet, told her what had befallen; how
he had been turned out of Beersheba,
and what for; how, ull the former
things having passed away, he was
torn und distracted in the struggle to
find a footing in the new order.
“ They-nll up yonder In that school
where you was at haln’t got much
sense, It looks like to me,” was her
comment. “ You’re a man growed now,
Tom -Jeff, and If you want to play
cards or drink whisky, what-all busi­
ness Is it o’ thelr’n?”
“ You stand by your friends, right or
wrong, don’t you. girl?” he said, In
sheerest self-gratulatlon. “ That’s what
I like In you. You asked me a little
while back If I was a man or a boy; 1
believe you could make a man of me,
Nan, If you’d try.”
“ I f you’d said that two year ago,"
she began. In a half-whisper that m elt­
ed the marrow In hls hones. “ But you
was on’ y a boy then; and now I reckon
It’s too late.”
“ You mean that you don’ t care for
me any more. Nan? I know better
than that. You'd back me If I had
come up here to tell you that I’d killed
somebody. Wouldn’t you, now?”
He waited overlong for hls answer
There were sounds In the air: a metal­
lic tapping like the Intermittent drum­
ming of a woodpecker mingled with a
rustling of some small animal scurry­
ing back and forth over the dead
leaves. The girl leaned forward, lis ­
tening Intently. Then three men ap ­
peared In the farther crooking of the
spring path, and at the first glimpse
o f them she slipped from the flat stone
to cower behind Tom. trembling, shak­
ing with terror.
“ Hide me, Tom -Jeff! Oh. hide me.
quick!” she panted. “ Lookee there!”
He looked and saw the three men
walking slowly up the pipe-line which
drained the barrel-spring. They were
too far away to be recognisable to him.
and since they were stopping momen­
tarily to examine the pipe, there was
good hope of an escape unseen.
Tom waited breathless for the pro­
pitious Instant when the tapping of the
pipe-men’s hammers should drown the
noise of a dash for effacement. When
It came, he flung himself backward.
W'hlpped Nan over hls head and out of
the line of sight as if she had been
feather-light, and rolled swiftly after
her. Before she could rise he had pick­
ed her up and was drugging her to the
climbing point under the lip of th«>
boulder cave.
“ Up with y ou !” he commanded, mak­
ing a step of hls hand. “Give me your
foot and then climb to my shoulder—
quick!” But she drew back.
“ Oh, I can’t ! ” she gasped. " I — I’ m
too sheered !”
Jumping to catch the lip o f the ca v ­
ern’s mouth, he ascended cat-like, and
g moment later he had drawn her up
after him.
T d like to know what got the m at­
ter with you all at once,” he said, se­
verely, when they were crowded to ­
gether In the narrow rock cell; and
then, without waiting for her answer:
“ You stay here while I drop down and
keep thoee fellows away from this side
• f things.”
But It was too late. The men were
already at the barrel-spring, as an la-
éisilnct murmur o f voices testified. The
girl had another trembling fit when
she heard them, and Tom ’s wonder was
fast lapsing Into contempt or some­
thing like It.
“ O h-h -h!” she shuddered. “ Do you
reckon they saw us, Tom -Jeff?”
“ I shouldn’t wonder,” he whispered
back unfeelingly. “ W e could see them
plain enough.”
“ He’ll kill me, for shore, T o m -J e ff!”
Tom ’s lip^ curled. The wolf does not
mate with* the jackal.
Not all her
beauty could atone for such spiritless
cringing. Love would have pitied her,
but passion is not moved by qualities
opposite to those which have evoked It.
"Then you know them—or one of
them, at least,” he said. “ Who Is he?”
She would not tell; and since the
murmur of voices wras still spalnly au­
dible, she begged in dumb-show for
.silence. Whereupon Tom shut his
mouth and did not open It again until
the sound of the voices had died away
and the fainter tappings of the ham­
mers on the pipe-line advertised the
retreat of the inspection party.
“ T hey’re gone now,” he said, short­
ly. "L e t’s get out of here before we
stifle.”
But a second time ill chance Inter­
vened. Tom had a leg over the brink
and was looking for a soft leaf bed to
drop into, when the baying of a hound
broke on the restored quiet of the
mountain side.
He drew back into
hiding.
The girl’s ague flt of fear had passed,
and she seemed less concerned about
the equivocal situation than a girl
should be; at least, this is the way
Tom ’s thought was shaping itself. * Ho
tried to imagine Ardea in Nan’s place,
but the thing was baldly unimagina­
ble, A daughter of the Dabneys would
never run and cower and beg to be
hidden at the possible cost of her good
name. And Nan’s word did not help
matters.
“ What makes you so cross to me,
Tom -Jeff?” she asked, when he drew
back with an impatient exclamation.
“ I haln’t done nothin’ to make you let
on like you hate me, have I?”
“ I don’t hate you,” said Tom, frow n­
ing. “ I f I did, I shouldn’t care.” Just
then the hound burst out of the laurel
thicket on the brow of the lower slope,
running with its nose to the ground,
and he added: “ That’s Japhe Petti-
grass’ dog; I hope to goodness he isn’t
anywhere behind it.”
But the horse-trader was behind the
dog; so close behind that he came out
on the continuation of the pipe-line
path while the hound was still nosing
among the leaves where Tom had lain
sunning himself und telling his tale of
woe.
“ Good dog— seek him!
W hat is It,
old boy?” PettigraHs came up, patted
the hound, and salt down on the flat
stone to look on curiously while the
dog coursed back and forth among the
dead leaves. "Find him, Caesar; And
him, b o y !” encouraged Japheth; and
Anally the hounded pointed a sensitive'
nose toward the rift in the side o f the
great boulder and yelped conclusively.
“ D’ye reckon he climm up thar’, Cae­
sar?” Pettlgrass unfolded his long legs
and stood up on the flat stone to a t­
tain an eye-level with the interior of
the little cavern. Tom crushed Nan
Into the larthest cranny, and flattened
himself lizard-like against the nearer
side wall.
The horse-trader looked
long and hard, and they could hear
him still talking to the dog.
“ You’re an old fool, Caesar— that’s
about what you are—and Solomon a l­
lowed thar’ wasn’t no fool like an old
one. But you needn’ t to swaller thut
whole, old hoy; I’ ve knowed some
young ones In my tim e—sometimes
gals, sometimes boys, sometimes both.
But thar’ ain’t no ’ possum up yonder,
Caesar; you’ve flew the track this time,
for certain. Come on, old dog; let’s be
gettln’ down the mountain.”
The baying dog and the whistling
man were still within hearing when
Tom swung Nan lightly to the ground
and dropped beside her. No word was
spoken until she had emptied and re­
filled her bucket at the spring, then
Tom said, with the bickering tang still
on hls tongue:
"Say, Nan, I want to know who it Is
that’s going to kill you if he happens
to And you talking to me.”
She shook her head despondently. ” 1
cayn’t nev’ tell you that, Tom -Jeff.”
“ I ’d like to know why you can’t.”
“ Because he’d shore kill me then."
"Then I’ll And out some other way."
"W hat differ’ does it make to you?"
she asked; und again the dark eyes
searched him till he was fain to look
away from her.
“ I reckon It doesn’ t make any d iffe r­
ence, if you don’ t want it to. Hut one
time you were willing enough to tell
me your troubles, and----- "
"And I’ll nev’ do It naree ’nother
time; never, never. And lei me tell
you somethin’ else. Tom -Jeff Gordon:
if you know what’s good for you, don’ t
you nev* come nnlgh me again. One
time we usen to be a boy and a girl
together; you’re nothin’ but a boy yet.
but I —oh, Tom -Jeff I’ m a w om an!”
And with that saying she snatched
her bucket and was gone before he
could And a word wherewith to match
It
C H A P T E R XIII.
The twilight was glooming to dusk
when Silas Crafts came out of the
church and locked the door behind
him. If he were surprised to And Tom
waiting for him, he made no sign. N e i­
ther was Uirre any word of greeting
passed between them when he gather­
ed his coat tails and sat down on the
higher step, self-restraint being a her­
itage which had come down undtmln-
ished from the Covenanter ancestors of
both.
“The way of the transgressor Is hard,
grievously hard. Thomas. I think you
are already finding it so, are you not?”
“That doesn’ t mean what It used to.
to me. Uncle Silas; nothing means the
same any more. It’s Just as If som e­
body had hit that part of me with a
club; It’s all numb and dead. I’ m sure
o f only one thing now: that is. that
I’ m not going to be a hypocrite after
this. If I can help I t ”
"H ave you been that all along.
Thomas?”
"I reckon so"—monotonously. ” At
first It was pertly scare, and pertly be­
cause I knew what mother wanted. But
ever since I’ve been big enough to
think. I’ ve been asking why, and. as
you would say, doubting.”
“ You have come to the years o f dls
I rretlon, Thomas, and you have '**iesen
death rather than life. If you go on
as you have begun, you will bring the
gray hairs of your father and mother
in sorrow to the grave. Leaving your
own soul’s salvation out of the ques­
tion, can you go on and drag an up­
right, honorable name In the dust and
mire of degradation?”
“ N o,” said Tom, defiantly. "And
what’s more, I don’t mean to. I don’t
know what Doctor T ollivar wrote you
about me, and it doesn’t make any d if­
ference now. That's over and done
with. You haven’t been seeing me e v ­
ery day for these three weeks without
knowing that I ’m ashamed of it.”
“ Ashamed of the consequences, you
mean, Thomas. You are not repent­
ant.”
"Yes, I am, Uncle Silas; though m ay­
be not in your way. I don’t allow to
make a fool of m yself again.”
“ Tom, my boy, if any one had told
me a year ago that a short twelve-
month would make you, not only an
apostate to the faith, but a shameless
liar as well----- ”
"H old on, Uncle Silas. That’s mighty
near a fighting word, even between
blood kin. When have you ever caught
me In a lie?”
“ N o w !” thundered
the
accusing
voice; “ this moment! You have been
giving me to uiYlerstand that your sin­
ful rebellion at Beersheba was the
won.t that could be charged agaiflnst
you. Here, at your own home, when
your mother had Just been spared to
you by the mercies of the God whose
commandments you set at naught, you
have been wallowing In sin— in crom e!”
“ I f I can sit here and take that from
you, it’s because it isn’t so.”
“ Wretched boy!
Out of your own
mouth you shall be convicted. Where
were you on Wednesday morning?”
“ I was at home most of the time;
between 10 o’clock and noon I was on
the mountain.”
“ There were three of you: a hard­
ened, degraded boy, a woman no less
wicked and abandoned, and the devil
who tempted you.”
“ It’s a lie! I just happened to meet
Nan Bryerson at the spring under the
big rock. I don’t have to defend m y­
self! I f you can believe I’m that low-
down, you’re welcome to !” Then, ab­
ruptly: “ I reckon we’d better be going
on home; they’ll be waiting dinner for
us at the house.”
He got on hls feet with that, but the
accuser was still confronting him, with
the dark eyes glowing and a monitory
finger pointed to detain him.
“ Not yet, Thomas Gordon; there Is
a duty laid on me. I had hoped and
prayed that I might find you repent­
ant; you are not repentant Your fath­
er has a letter from Doctor Tollivar;
the doors of Beersheba are open to you
again. I had hoped— ” The pause was
not for effect. It was merely that tha
man and the kinsman in Silas Crafts
had throttled the righteous Judge. “ It
breaks my heart, Thomas, but I must
say it. You have put it out of your
power to say with the Psalmist, ‘I will
wash mine hands in innocency: so will
I compass thine altar, O Ldtd.’ You
must give up all thoughts of going
back to Beersheba.”
"D on’t trouble yourself,” said Tom,
with more bravado. "I wouldn’t go
back there If it was the only place on
earth.” Then suddenly: “ Who was it
that told on me. Uncle Silas.’’
“ N ever mind about that. It was one
who could have no object in misstat­
ing the fact— which you have not de­
nied. Let us go home.”
(T o be continued.)
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Joings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Event!
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
R elief is being sent to the forest fire
sufferers in Minnesota and Canada.
Coal from the Pacific Coast is to be
given a thorough test by the navy.
One death has occurred in the slums
o f New York from a virulent attack of
Asiatic cholera.
Roosevelt made a short flight in an.
aeroplane at St. Louis, and said he en­
joyed it immensely.
The Supreme court is now complete
and will begin
hearing important
cases against the trusts in January.
Soldiers have almost disappeared
from the streets of Lisbon, and con­
ditions are rapidly becoming normal
again.
A bride o f four days set fire to the
house and tried to burn her husband at
Elmhurst, Cal., after they had been
hrving a fam ily quarrel.
Willamette valley shippers have
filed a rebate suit with the Interstate
Commerce commission covering exces­
sive freight rates during the past ten
years.
The town o f Rockville, Md., near
Washington, D. C., is tired o f its rep­
utation as a Mecca for elopers, and
ministers will no longer marry couples
unknown to them.
Latest estimates of casualties in the
Minnesota forets fires place the death
list as high as 2,000.
FAMINE TH R E ATE N S PARIS.
Railroad Employes Strike and Ser­
ious Trouble Follows.
Paris, Oct. 12.— The French govern­
ment is again facing a serious strike.
Employes o f the Northern railroad
went on strike early today, and tonight
the strike spread to the Western rail­
road, which is owned by the state.
Indications are that tomorrow will
see a complete tie-up in Northern
and Western France.
The strike involved about 80,000
men. The strike on the Western road
waa voted this evening by 8,000 men
employed in Paris and suburbs. They
count upon the national unions to tie up
the province.
The movement may possibly extend
to the Eastern and the Paris, Lyons &
Mediterranean railroads.
Paris is threatened with a scarcity
o f food. Tranportation is partly pros­
trated, and the vast army o f working
people in the Northwest quarter are
unable to reach their places o f busi­
ness.
Military engineers are taking the
places of the strikers, and the troops
are guarding various stations and im­
portant sections o f the roads.
Large
military forces were 'distributed when
the strike was declared and additional
troops were ordered out tonight.
The government has decided upon an
important Btep in an attempt to break
the strike on the Northern road. The
Official Journal publishes a decree
calling to the colors about 30,000 em­
ployes o f the Northern railroad.
This
immediately subjects the men to m ili­
tary discipline, under which they may
he ordered to operate the trains.
Officials of the Northern railroad
have issued a statement that wages
on the Northern railroad were in
creased 3,500,000 francs during the
year of 1909-10, and that the increased
cost of operations and the burdens put
upon them by parliament made it im­
possible to meet the demands o f the
men.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
BASS P U T IN K LAM ATH .
SAYS OREGON BEST S TA TE .
Lake Stocked From River Sloughs Railroad Man Here on Visit, Sorry
He Can’t Locate.
Near Portland.
Portland— James H. Carside, one of
Under the supervision o f Robert O.
Stevenson, state game warden, lake the beat known railroad men in the
Klamath has been stocked with 10,000 middle states and for nearly a quarter
baas fry.
The fish were taken from
of a century connected with the A. T.
the Willamette and Columbia sloughs
near Portland to lake Klamath by & S. F. Ry. Co., and the C. R. I. & P.
J. L. Green,
chief deputy game Ry., at Atchison, Kan., is in Portland
warden, and C. T. Evans, a special for a few days visiting.
deputy warden.
This is Mr. Carside’s first trip west
The bass were liberated in the lake
Oregon
after being taken from Portland on o f the Rocky Mountains.
looks
good
to
him,
and
he
says
when
board the Southern Pacific train. The
fish were transported in huge cans in he gets back to dear old Kansas he w ill
the express car.
have to boost for Oregon, whether he
Considering the fact that the fish
wants to or not, for he believes in tell­
were taken in the express car the loss
was small.
Fewer than 1,000 were ing the truth, the whole truth and
lost in the transfer. The usual meth­ nothing but the truth.
od o f transportation is a refrigerating
“ Oregon is the best state in the
car. The temperature of the water Union,” Mr. Carside exclaimed en-
should be about 56 degrees. Hundreds
o f pounds o f ice were used in keeping thusiatically. “ I t ’s a dandy. And I
the temperature down. Several stops have seen all the states o f the country
were made for fresh water. A report except those o f the Pacific Northwest.
waa abroad that the state fish hatchery On the way out I had a good opportu­
had stocked Lake Klamath, but this
nity to draw comparisons, and let me
waa erroneous. The work was done by
Game Warden Stevenson and
his tell you that Oregon is the best o f ’em
assistants.
I f an appropriation is all. I know you have a good many
made for stocking the streams and people from Kansas out here, and I
lakes o f the state, Game Warden Stev­ don’ t blame them a bit for remaining.
enson says that he w ill make them I would like to stay here myself.
fairly teem with the gamey fish.
You’ve got the land, the resources,
“ We can stock every
lake and and above all the climate. I never had
stream in the state with baas, ring an idea what wealth had been bestow­
perch, croppies and sunfiah at practi­ ed by nature out here. I have read a
cally no expense,” said Chief Deputy good deal about it and heard it talked
Warden Green. “ These fish we shall of, but could not imagine that it waa
take from the sloughs in the vicinity the truth, but from what I now see
o f Portland. Already we have taken only half was told.”
more than 100,000 from the ponds ad­
jacent to Columbia slough, which are
Law Not Self-Executing.
rapidly drying up.”
Salem — Attorney-General A . M.
Crawford submitted an opinion in
which he holds that the amendments to
A P P L E SHOW T O BE LARGE.
section 16 o f artcile 11 o f the constitu­
State Horticultural Society Receives tion, adopted in 1908, has no effect on
the coming general election.
This
Many Inquiries.
amendment was for the purpose o f
Portland — That the annual apple “ giving the people power to make
show to be given here under the aus­ laws for the election o f public officers
pices o f the Oregon State Horitcultural by majority vote, instead o f plural­
society November 30 and December 1 ities.’ ’
The attorney general con­
and 2 will be the largest affair of the strues thia amendment as merely g iv ­
kind ever held in the state, is the be­ ing power to carry out the law, and
lie f o f Frank W. Power, secretary of that it is pot self-executing.
the society. Mr. Power is in receipt
Registration is 108,693.
daily o f inquiries from fruitgrowers
all over the state for complete details
Salem— Acting Secretary o f State
and premium lists.
Corey has compiled the complete offi­
The special prize o f $250 for the cial registration figures for the pri­
largest and best exhibit, which has mary nomination election. A total
been made open to fruitgrowers o f any registration for the state o f 108,593 ia
district in the Northwest, is creating shown. This is divided as follows:
much interest and Mr. Powers believes Republicans, 74,799; Democrats, 23,-
that a large list o f entries for thia 866; Socialists, 3,508; Prohibitionists,
prize will be received.
1,938; Independents, 3,319; Populists,
The show is receiving support of the 14; refused to state, 1,054; non-par­
Portland Commercial club and that or­ tisan, 141; Insurgents, 2; Liberal, 1;
ganization has voted $100 towards Union, Labor, 1.
the fund to be raised for the sweep­
stakes prize o f $250.
New Sawmill to Start.
Mr. Power announced that the rail­
Portland— A new sawmill, with a
roads have agreed to grant special capacity o f 30,000 feet per day, ia
rates for the show.
With their as­ ready for operation near Bull Run. Ik
sistance it is believed that the atten­ is owned by the Mount Hood Railway
dance thia year will be unusually good. company and will be sawing railroad
ties to capacity in a few days. W il­
liam W illis, o f Sellwood, will taka
’57 FO REST FIRE RECALLED.
charge of the mill.
RO O SEVELT TRIES FLYING .
A Walla Walla grocery man has had
his 15-year-old daughter arrested for
burglarizing his store.
Quickly Accepts Invitation o f Aviator
¡fo r Trip.
A girl highwayman, dressed in men’s
clothes, was captured by an intended
St. Louis, Mo.— Theodore Roosevelt
victim at Wallace. Idaho.
made an aeroplane flight here and said
Taft and Roosevelt have expressed it was the finest experience he had
He traveled twice around
opposite opinions on many points of ever had.
the aviation field at Kinloch, 18 miea
the conservation question.
west of St. Louis, in 3:20. He waved
A fifty-cent rate on lumber from his hand at the crowd of thousands on
the Coast to St. Paul is upheld by the the field below, most o f whom were too
United States Circuit court.
dumbfounded and frightened to move.
With the thermometer near 100, the When the machine alighted easily, a
52 delegates to Arizona’s constitutional few feet from the starting place a
mighty shout o f applause and relief
convention have begun their work.
went up.
A Seattle woman is taking a full
Arch Hoxsey, a W right aviator,
course in pharmacy at the university, with whom Colonel Roosevelt made the
where her son is also a prominent stu­ flight, said that the colonel made a
dent.
good fellow-voyageur for the trip, but,
There is great activity among Span­ instead of being afraid, he was having
ish revolutionists at Barcelona, owing such a good time that Hoxsey was
to the complete success o f the Portu­ afraid he would fall out or interfere
with the engine, which was roaring at
guese uprising.
his side.
Colonel Roosevelt declares that the
The colonel waved his hands at the
government should do all it can to re­
crowd below so vigorously that Hoxsey
S T A N D A R D OF L IV IN G .
claim the vast swamp areas o f the
called out to him :
Mississippi valley.
“ Keep your hands on the rail, Col­
I l l a h e r In Iht* U n it e d S ln te n T h a s
A mysterious visit of four Union onel. ” Colonel Roosevelt, who had
In E u r o p e a n C o u n t r ie s .
H a lf the fam ilies of the country live leaders of San Francisco to Los Ange­ forgotten to hold himself in, waved his
in th eir own homes. No great Euro­ les may furnish a clew to the perpe­ hands once more and then obeyed or­
Forest Service to Replant Acreage
pean nation aproaches this proportion trators o f the Times dynamite outrage. ders.
PO R TLA N D M A R K E TS.
Burned 53 Years Ago.
except France. A small part of north­
Descriptions o f the men suspected
Death Takes Wreck Hero.
ern Italy has peasant proprietors; Ire­ o f blowing up the Los Angeles Times
With the coming o f the rainy season
Green Fruits— Apples, new, 60c®
Seattle- Michael J. Heney, the mil­ in Oregon, the forest service has plan­
land may have them under the land have been sent all over the world, as
$1.50 per box; pears, $1@2; peaches,
act. The tenements o f New York com­ the police have practically given up lionaire railroad contractor, is dead in ned the seeding of between 5,000 and
40@65c per crate; grapes, 50c@$1.26
San Francisco, after an illness o f sev­
pare favorably with Liverpool's or catching them on the Coast.
6,000 acreB o f burned-over lands at a per box; 15c per basket; cranberries,
eral months.
Heney built the White
Ileriin's. with their large percentage of
Clarence Mackay, a well known pat­ Pass & Yukon railroad and the Copper coat o f approximately $20,000, 700 $8.10@9.50 per barrel; huckleberries,
one and two room homes, the New
acres being situated at the Bull Run 7@8e per pound; watermelons, $1 per
ron of the University o f Nevada, will Valley railroad in Alaska.
He almost
York W orld says.
take the entire student body to Cali­ perished in the wreck o f the steamship watershed, as an auxiliary to the Port­ hundred; cantaloupes, $1@1.50 per
Our savings bank deposits per in­
crate; casabas, $3.50 per dozen.
fornia to witness the coming football Ohio in Northern British Columbia land water supply.
habitant are surpassed by those of
The largest amount o f planting is to
Vegetables— Beans, 3@5c per pound;
games between the university of Ne­ waters in August, 1909, and had not
Norway, Denmark and Switzerland,
be done in the ML Hebo district, south cabbage, l% @ 2 c; cauliflower, 50c®
vada and the Californians.
been
entirely
well
since
that
time.
He
but this test is almost valueless. Ws
o f Tillamook, and adjacent to the $1.25 per dozen; celery 76<5 90c; com,
Cholera cases in New York are on was carried overboard when the ship dairying district.
have perhaps one-tenth as many pau­
The district was 12® 15c; cucumbers, 25@40c per box;
went
down
and
after
swimming
ashore
pers in proportion as Great Britain. the increase.
burned over in 1857 and has never be­ eggplant, $1@1.2S per crate; garlic,
he
neglected
himself
to
care
for
the
In New York public charity is a big
come reforested.
It is now a mat o f 8® 10c per pound; green onions, 15c
Systematic expulsion o f the monks shipwrecked women'and children.
item. In the budget of Berlin It is from Portugal is now under way.
ferns and underbrush. On most of the per dozen; peppers, 6c; pumpkins,
a big one. W here paupers are plenty
area Eastern hardwoods will be plant­ 1 X e ; radishes, 15®20c per dozen;
Absconder Spoils Plans.
A Tacoma policeman had his pockets
liv in g standards are low.
ed, hickory, white oak and chestnut sprouts, 7@8c; squash, l > i @ l ) i c per
picked
and
lost
nearly
a
month’s
pay.
Los
Angeles—
Officials
o
f
the
Farm­
Am ericans
in cities are better
being the favorites.
Most o f these pound; tomatoes, 15®25c per box; car­
dressed to the eye than people abroad,
A German sailor sold a Stradivarius ers & Merchants Nationa bank were so species are now being grown in the rots, $1@1.25 sack; $1.50 hundred;
though the tariff on woolens deprive* violin to a Tacoma pawn broker for )1. well pleased with the work and ability front yards o f the ranchers in that sec­ parsnips, $1®1.25; turnips, $1.
to draw business o f Wilson B. Evans, tion, which gives the Federal officers
many o f warm underclothing. Yet It ¡ b now held at $2,500.
Potatoes— Oregon, $1.15®1.25 per
the absconding assistant teller, whose encouragement in the belief that they
Robert lllalr, education officer for Lon­
hundred; sweet potatoes, 2 ® 2 c
Richard Diener, a gardener near San peculation* are said to have been $50,-
will thrive. The ferns and underbrush per pound.
don, says:
“ Of the 700,000 children
Francisco, has developed a geranium 000, that they planned to promote him
will be cleared away with mattocks so
In Ixmdon schools, approxim ately 60.-
Onions— Oregon, buying price, $1.10
bloom six inches in diameter.
upon
his
return
from
his
vacation.
that seed may be given a chance to per hundred.
000 appear to be necessitous in the
winter season." There Is no such pro­
Aviator Hoxsey in a W right biplane, Now they are very anxious to get hold grow.
W h eat— Track prices: Bluestem,
portion here. For education we spend flew from Springfield, III., to SL o f him to place him behind the bars.
88@89c; club, 83c; red Russian, 81c;
Hood Fruit Fair Nov. 23-26.
He
is
thought
to
be
in
Mexico.
The
much more than other nations— Louis, a distance o f 104 miles, making
valley, 86c; 40-fold, 85c; Turkey red,
Hood R iver— The|board of directors
last day Evans was on duty at the bank
82@88c.
whether with better results than Ger­ a new American record for a single
he secreted a roll of $5,000 on his of the Hood River Fruit Fair associa­
many or Switzerland is disputed.
flight.
Barley— Feed, $22 per ton; brewing,
tion have fixed the date for holding the
person.
$23.
There remains the most vital consid­
annual
fruit
fair
from
November
23
to
Tugs have failed to pull the big
Millstuffs— Bran, $25 per ton; mid­
eration diet. A race insufficiently fed
26. The fair w ill continue for four
Authoress Sues Hearst.
tramp steamer Damara off the rocks at
dlings. $33; shorts, $27; rolled barley,
declines lu size and vigor.
Mulhail
the entrance to the Golden Gate, San
San Francisco — A $10,000 damage days. Thia is one day longer than it $24.50®25.50. •
gives these estimates of annual meat
The
Francisco, and it is feared the vessel suit was filed here in the United States has been held in'previous years.
Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il­
consumption in pounds per Individual:
will be a total loss.
Circuit court againdst William Ran­ late date at which it w ill ;be held this lamette valley, $19®20 per ton; East­
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An explosion in the coal mine o f the ton, of London, for an alleged infringe­ a much finer display than in former ern Oregon, $21®22; alfalfa, new, $15
7 4 ■Sp ain
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France
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Colorado Fuel & Iron company at ment of copyright.
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The complaint years. The fair building will not be
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Com— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton.
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Starkville
has
entombed
over
50
min­
finished
for
this
year’s
display
and
the
recites that “ The American W eekly,”
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Oats — White, $27 per ton; gray,
ers
and
there
is
little
hope
that
any
a weekly paper published here by W il­ use of several o f the largest buildings $26; California, $26<r> 27.
The d i e t of M a s s a c h u s e t t s o p e r a
liam Randolph Hearst, has been run­ in the city ia at the disposal o f the
tlves’ fam ilies is here compared with will be found alive.
Poultry — Hens, 16c; springs, 16;
fair committee.
the Volt minimum standard, and with
Two convicta at the Santa Ana peni­ ning a serial credited to Joseph
ducks, white, 17@17)ic; geese, 11@
O’
Brien,
but
which
was
written
by
the diet of Neapolitan factory hun t tentiary in California at the close of
12Mc; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed,
Dedicate 460,000 Depot.
as given by Manfredi:
22 4@ 26c; squabs, $2 per dozen.
religious services took the jailer and a Miss Hamilton.
Medford— The handsome new pas­
Volt Mill. Naples.
Mass. missionary by surprise, threw them
Butter— City creamery, solid pack,
Suspect Arrested.
Albumen ((train*) . . I t s
TO
ISO-?20 into * cell and escaped, well armed.
senger station o f the Southern Pacific 36c per pound; prints, 3 7 (n S 7 ^ e; out­
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Sacramento, OcL 12.— Sacramento in Medford has been dedicated and ia side creamery, 35®36c; butter fat,
Carbohydrate*
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Spain refuses to recognize the Port­ police today arrested George Wallace, now in use. The building, completed 36c; country store, 24(5 25c.
But the Massachusetts and Naples
suspected o f having been concerned in at a coat o f $50,000, is the finest depot J Eggs — Oregon, candled, 34(585c,
figures are old, the Voit standard uguese Revolutionists.
the Los Angeles Times dynamite ex­ in the state, outside o f Portland. The Eastern, 26(5 32c per dozen.
takes no account o f eliniate or of the
A business block in the heart o f Chi­ plosion.
W allace’s attempt at the building covers 40x164 feet,
with
size o f Individuals, ami Mnlhall's esti­ cago sold for $6,500,000.
Pork— Fancy, 16c per pound.
time of hia arreat to destroy a letter walla o f pebble dash with brick trim­
mates are only approximate. The diet
Veal — Good, average, 1 0 @ llc per
Many provinces o f Portugal are still which, when pieced together, con­ mings and tile roof. In every appoint­ pound.
of the people has undoubtedly been
lowered of late in dis- are-resisting loyal to the king and further trouble is tained veiled reference to the exploe- ment it is strictly modern, containing
Cattle— Beef steers, good to choice,
ion, and the fact that he almost col­ a commodious waiting room with la­ $5®5.50; fair to medium, $4.50(56;
and energy-producing value by high likely.
lapsed when taken into custody, con­ dies' private parlor connecting.
The
choice spayed heifers, $4.50®4.75-
prices o f food, especially meat.
The strike o f thousands of bricklay­
firm the belief o f the detectives that walls are paneled with Oregon fir. good to choice beef cows, $4.25tfi4.60-
W e are better fed still th in Euro­ ers and kindred workers in the East
they Have made an important capture.
The grounds will be handsomely parked. medium to good. $3.50(ff4:’common, $2
pean peoples. Anything like perman­ has been amicably settled.
(n 3.50; bulls, $3.50(54; stags, good to
ent decline In the nation's diet would
Judge Hand, o f the United States
Federal Building Finished.
Homesick, Men Mutiny
choice, $4@4.50; calves, light, $7®
mean decreased efficiency a calamity
court in New York, declares he will
Baker
City—
Postmaster
William
San
Francisco
—
Homesick
in
the
7.50; heavy, $3.75@5.
so spiralling that statesmanship has
not again let smugglers escape with a Arctic, several o f the crew o f the LaChner has received notice from the
Hogs— Top, $10® 10.25; fair to me­
no duty comparable wIth that of avert­
fine, but will sentence them to jail.
whaler Letitia threw the harpoon guna Postoffice department that the custody dium, $9.25@10.
ing It by reform in met hods of dlatrlb
Sheep— Best valley wethers, $3.25®
utlon and by relievin g poverty, at the
Indoor gymnasium work has been overboard and though placed in irons, of the new Federal building will be
cost of wealth, o f the heavy taxation il discontinued at Fort Stevem i, Ore., succeeded in terminating the vessel’* turned over to him early in October. 3.50; fair to good wethers, $3(53.25;
It ia estimated that the work on the best Mt. Adams wethers, $4(54.26;
and the soldiers will hereafter take cruise. The Letitia arrived here with
bears.
their exercise in the open air, regard­ 360 barrels o f oil and 4,700 pounds o f! interior o f the building will be practic­ best valley ewes, $3(53.50; lambs,’
whalebone, all o f which were taken | ally completed by that time and the choice ML Adams, $5.2.V55.50; choice
IS o f C o i u f « » r f In ar.
less o f weather.
postoffice will be changed to the new valley, $5®5.25.
within 16 days.
"D M the minister say anything com­
Nineteen members o f a dinner party
quarters some time before October 30,
forting?” asked the neighbor o f the given at Pendleton, and also the hotel
depending on the time o f the arrival of
Record in Air is Broken.
widow recently bores veil.
proprietor, may be indicted under the
SL Louis— A. L. Welsh, in a Wright the new furniture.
"Indeed, he d id n 't!" was the quick local option law because wine was
biplane, created a new endurance re- i
reply. "H e said my husband was bet­ served at the feasL
Comics Pears Sell High.
cord for America o f 3 hours. 11 min-1
r» i ivy u i n t j t *
ter off."— London Telegraph.
A laborer attempted to cross Sno- utea and 35 seconds.
The previous | Medford— A carload of Comice pears where only one grew before,” g
qualmie river in a row boat, but lost record was made by Ralph Johnstone ] from the Hillcrest orchard has been
the old gentleman with a lawnn
There lives not a man on earth who
one o f his oars and was carried over in the Harvard meet at Atlantic, I •old for $6.70 a box. Thia is the ban­
pausing to wipe his perspiring
has not In him the power to do good. , Snoqualmie falls and dashed to pieces
Mass., September 12, in 3 hours, 5 1 ner price received for Rogue River
could make two muscles grow
B. Lytto
on the rocks 300 feet below.
minutes, 40 seconds.
valley pears this season.
there ia only one now.”