NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT W1
Butte, Mont., Is Under
Rule of State M ilitia
PLACE ^
UQNEY-
Suit to Recover 50,000
Acres State Land Urged
might have felt pity for the young
man who leaned heavily against the
gate, his burning face pressed upon
his rain soaked sleeve.
W hen C ourtlandt knocked at the
door and was adm itted, he apologized.
"I came back for my um brella.”
"U m brella!" exclaimed the padre.
"Why, we had no um brellas. We came
up in a carriage which is probably
w aiting for us this very m inute by the
po rter’s lodge.”
"Well, I am certainly absent-m ind
ed!"
• "A bsent-m inded!" scoffed Abbott.
“ You never forgot anything in all your
life, unless it was to go to bed. You
wanted an excuse to come back.”
“Any excuse would be a good one
In th at case. I think we’d b etter be
going. Padre. And by th e way, H err
Rosen begged me to present his re
grets. He is leaving Bellaggio in the
m orning.”
Nora turned her face once more to
th e window.
left outside. B ut who can help loving
Nora?" he repeated.
“Who Indeed!”
"And there's not the least chance in
the world for me."
"You never can tell until you put it
to the test.”
"Do you think I have a chance? Is
it possible th at N ora may care a little
for m e?” He turned his head toward
her eagerly.
"W ho know s?” She w anted him to
have it over with, to learn th e tru th
th a t to Nora H arrigan he would never
be more than an am iable comrade. He
would then have none to tu rn to but
her. W hat m attered it if h er own
h eart ached so she m ight soothe the
h u rt in his? She laid a hand upon
his shoulder, so lightly th a t he was
only dimly conscious of the contact.
“It's a rum my old world. H ere I’ve
gone alone all these years . . .*’
“T w enty-six!" smiling.
"Well, th a t's a long time. N ever
bothered my head about a woman.
Selfish, perhaps. Had a good time,
cam e and w ent as I pleased. And
C H A P T E R X II.
then I m et Nora."
"Yes."
T h e Ball at the Villa .
"It is all very petty, my child,” said
“If only she'd been stand-offish, like
the padre. “Life is made up of bigger these other singers, why, I'd have been
things; the little ones should be Ig all right today. But she's such a brick!
nored.”
She's such a good fellow! She tre a ts
To which N ora replied: “To a wom us all alike; sings when we ask her
an the little things are everything; to; alw ays ready for a romp. Think
they are the dally routine, the expect of her making us all take the Kneip-
ed, the necessary things. W hat you cure the other night! And we m arched
call the big things in life are acci around the fountain singing 'Mary had
dents. And, oh! I have pride." She a little lamb.' B arefooted in the grass!
folded her arm s across her heaving W hen a man m arries he doesn’t w ant
bosom; for the padre's directness this u wife half so much as a good com
morning had stirred h er deeply.
rade; somebody to slap him on the
“W ilfulness is called pride by some; back in the m orning to h earten him
and stubbornness. But you know, as up for the day's w ork; and to cuddle
well as I do, th a t yours is resentm ent, him up when he comes home tired,
anger, indignation.
Yes. you have or disappointed, or unsuccessful. No
pride, but it has not been brought into m atter w hat mood he's in. Is my
this affair. Pride is th a t w ithin which English getting away from you?"
prevents us from doing mean or sor
"No; I understand all you say." H er
did acts; and you could not do one or hand rested a trifle heavier upon his
the other if you tried. The sentim ent shoulder.
in you which should be developed
“N ora would be th a t kind of a wife.
'H onor, anger, valor, fire,’ as Steven
“Is m ercy?”
son says. H ang the picture; w hat am
"No; justice, the patience to weigh 1 going to do w ith it?"
the right or w rong of a thing.”
“ ‘Honor, anger, valor, fire,' ” Celeste
“Padre, I have eyes, eyes; I saw .” repeated slowly. “Yes, th a t is N ora.”
He tw irled the middle button of his A b itter little sm ile moved her lips as
cassock.” The eyes see and th e ears she recalled the happenings of the last
hear, but these are only witnesses, two days. B ut no; he m ust find out
laying th e m atter before the court of for him self; he m ust m eet the h u rt
the last resort, which is the mind. It from Nora, not from her. "How long,
ie there we sift the evidence."
Abbott, have you known your friend
“He had the insufferable insolence Mr. C ourtlandt?”
to order H err Rosen to leave,” going
“Boys together,” playing a light ta t
around the barrier of his well-ordered too with his m ahlstlck.
logic.
"How old is h e?’
"Ah! Now, how could he send away
“About thirty-tw o or three."
H err Rosen if th a t gentlem an had
“He is very rich?”
really preferred to stay?"
“Oceans of money; throw s it away,
Nora looked confused.
but not fast enough to get rid of it."
“Shall I tell you? I suspected; so
“He is w hat you say in English . . .
I questioned him last night. Had I wild?”
"W ell,” w ith mock gravity, “I
shouldn't like to be the tig er th a t
crossed his path. W ild; th a t's the
word for it.”
“You are laughing. Ah, I know! I
should say dissipated.”
“C ourtlandt? Come, now, C eleste;
does he look dissipated?”
“No-o.”
"H e drinks when he chooses, he
flirts with a p retty woman when he
chooses, he sm okes the finest tobacco
there is when he chooses; and ho
gives them all up when he chooses.
He Is like the seasons; he comes and
he goes, and nobody can change his
h abits.”
“ He has had no affair?”
“Why, C ourtlandt h asn ’t any heart.
It’s a m echanical device to keep his
blood in circulation; th a t's all. I am
the m ost intim ate friend he has, and
yet I know no more th an you how he
lives and w here he goes.”
She let her hand fall from his
shoulder. She was glad th a t he did
not know.
“But look!” she cried in warning.
Abbott looked.
A woman was coming serenely down
the path from the wooded prom ontory,
a woman undeniably handsom e in a
cedar tinted linen dress, exquisitely
fashioned, with a touch of vivid scar
let on her h at and a m ost tantalizing
flash of scarlet ankle. It was Flora
“ Y c u r H ig h n e s s !”
Desimone, fresh from her m orning
beer, in his place, I should have chas bath and a substantial breakfast. The
tised H err Rosen instead of bidding errand th at had brought her from Aix-
les-Bains was confessedly a merciful
him be gone. It was he."
"Positively. The men who guarded one. But she possessed the dram a
you were two actors from one of the tist's instinct to prolong a situation.
theaters. He did not come to Ver Thus, to make her act of mercy seem
sailles because he was being watched. infinitely larger than it was, she was
He was found and sent home the night determ ined first to cast the Apple of
Discord into this charm ing corner of
before your release.”
“Pm sorry. But it was so like him." Eden. The Apple of Discord, as every
The padre spread his hands. “What man knows, is the only thing a woman
a way women have of modifying either can throw with any accuracy.
The a rtist snatched up his brushes,
good or bad im pulses! It would have
been fine of you to have stopped when i and ruined the painting forthw ith, for
all time. The foreground was. in his
you said you were sorry.”
"Padre, one would believe th a t you ' opinion, beyond redem ption; so, with
a savage humor, he rapidly limned in
had taken up his defense!”
"If I had I should have to leave it a score of im possible trees, turned
a fter today. 1 retu rn to Rome tom or midday into sunset, with a riot of col
row and shall not see you again be ors which would have made the Chi
fore you go to America. I have bid nese New Y ear in Canton a drab and
den good by to all save you. My child, sober event in comparison. He hated
my last admonition ie, be p atient; ob Flora Desimone, as all Nora's adher
serve; guard against th a t impulse ents properly did, but with a hatred
born in your blood to move haetily, wholly reflective and adapted to N ora's
to form opinions w ithout solid founda moods.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
tions. Be happy while you are young,
for old age Is happy only in th a t re
flected happiness of recollection. CRADLE OF AMERICAN NATION
W rite to me, here. I retu rn In No- |
vember B enedlcite?” smiling.
T h a t Bro ug ht O v e r on the Mayflo w er
Nora bowed her heard and he put a
M a y P ro p e r ly Be Given
hand upon It.
B utte, Mont.— B utte is under m ar
tial law under a proclam ation issued
by Governor Samuel V. S te w a rt W ed
Salem — C. B. McConnell, a law yer cattle companies.
According to the
nesday.
of Burns, has conferred w ith A ttorney lawyer, the land was obtained several
A proclamation issued by M ajor D. General Craw ford in regard to in sti years ago through the use of dummies
J . Donohue, commanding officer, p re tu tin g su its for the recovery by the and other alleged settlers, who worked
scribed the rules for the conduct of state of large tra c ts of grazing land in in conjunction w ith the company.
The Pacific Livestock company is
Butte. All saloons are ordered closed H arney ami M alheur counties, control fighting the suit of the sta te on the
until fu rth e r notice and public g a th e r , of which Mr. McConnell charges was grounds th a t it obtained the land in a
P rem ier A squith praises th e Belgian
Suit is pending legal way and th a t action by the state
ings o f any ch aracter are forbidden obtained by fraud.
heroism in the house o f commons.
w ithout perm ission of thp commanding ag ain st the Pacific Livestock company should have been started earlier.
Queen E lizabeth, of Belgium, with
for th e recovery of 27,000 acres of
C ircuit Judge H arris recently, in the
officer. Women are not perm itted on school land. The company has entered Hyde-Benson school land case, which
her children, has arriv ed in Englcnd.
the stre e ts a fte r 8 p. m. nor before 6 su it to prevent the adjudication of is sim ilar to the one against the live- 1
Tacoma
suffers a $150,000 fire, o ’clock in the morning.
w ater rig h ts on th e Silves river, and stock company, decided th a t the state
which destroyed a large packing plant.
Even the courts are closed, and it is it was while m aking investigation of would have to show a good excuse for
P ic tu re s
The Germans have imposed a fine of commanded th a t all cases of law vio its allegations th a t Mr. McConnell says its delay in bringing suit. The a tto r
$300,000 on th e Belgian town of C har lations will be tried by th e m ilitary ho found th a t about 50,000 other acres ney general has appealed on the
au thorities, the court to be presided had been obtained through fraud.
leroi.
ground th a t laches do not apply to the
over
by Major Jesse B. Koote, as ad
This land, he said, is largely held by state.
A report from A ntw erp says the
ju ta n t general.
F rench defeated 50,000 G erm ans in
The proclam ations
w ere spread £ u g e n e Light and Power
Burns, Or., Fire Destroys
b attle.
broadcast and it was announced th a t
Companies in Rate War
A Japanese liner was chased into the N ational guard would tak e up th e ir
$60,000 Worth ot Property
port a t San Francisco, by a German positions throughout the city. They
Eugene — A long-anticipated rate
B urns—The w orst fire in the history
gunboat.
are in control now according to the
w ar betw een th e m unicipal power plant of Burns began Monday a t m idnight
A sm all German cruiser which ran comm anding officer, but the laws of
13
and th e Oregon Pow er company was and in th ree hours a large num
ashore in a fog, w as blown up by the th e sta te require a 24-hour notice by
ber of business
houses
were in
C H A P T E R X I — Con tinued.
proclam
ation
of
m
artial
law
before
the
opened
here
th
is
week
w
ith
the
an
Russians.
ruin. The blaze was started in th e hay
Nora, w ithout relaxing the false
soldiers actually march into the stre e ts nouncement by th e power company loft of M cKinnon’s livery barn, sup
smile, suddenly found em ptiness In
More than 4000 prisoners w ere taken of the city.
th a t it will not only m eet but will un posedly by someone sleeping there, and everything.
by th e Russians in b a ttle w ith the
“Sing!" said H err Rosen.
dercut th e reduction announced by the it quickly spread to every building in
A ustrians.
th a t block, including the Hotel French
"I am too tired. Some other tim e."
j
city
plant.
The Russian arm y is reported crush
and a large tw o-story building contain
He did not press her. Instead, he
The p riv ate company has filed its ing a pool hall and living rooms. w hispered In his own tongue: “You
ing th e P russians and m aking headway
tow ard Berlin.
new schedule of ra te s w ith th e S tate Three sm all dw ellings in the block to are the most adorable woman In the
W ashington, D. C.—A German vic railroad commission, declining to an- the east were burned and the flames w orld!"
A bout 30,000 Grand Army veterans
spread to the block to th e south. They
And N ora turned upon him a pair
are holding the 48th national encam p tory a t A ltenstein, in which three j nounce th e e x ten t of the cut.
Russian corps were d efeated and 70,-
The c ity ’s reduction am ounted to 11 jum ped the H arney County N ational of eyes blank with astonishm ent. It
m ent a t D etroit, Mich.
000 prisoners, including tw o Russian per cent and before th e cut was made bank, which is of stone, and caught in w as as though she had been asleep
The conclave of cardinals to elect a commanding generals w ere taken, was the m aximum ra te of 9 cents for lig h t tw o
fram e buildings, which were and he had rudely aw akened her.
new pope was inaugurated in Rome reported Wednesday to th e German ing and 5 cents fo r power was lower quickly destroyed.
Then they com His Infatuation blinded him to the
w ith im posing cerem onies.
embassy from Berlin by w ireless via than offered in any city in the W il m unicated to the roof of the stone tru th ; he saw in the look a fem inine
N early 8000 reserves o f Germany Sayville, L. I. The dispatch says:
lam ette valley outside of the vicinity building occupied by the Bedell saloon desire to throw the others off the
“ Official report of the victory at o f Portland. The new schedule of 8 and barber shop and also to another track as to the sentim ent expressed
and A u stria are being held prisoners
A ltenstein shows th a t it was even cents m aximum for lighting and 4J stone building, occupied by the Donne- In his w hispered words.
by th e B ritish in South A frica.
g re a te r than known before.
Three
gan & Logan ab stract office and Frank
The hour passed tolerably well.
Boston will have no grand opera this Russian arm y corps were annihilated. cents m axim um for power, w ith a m in D avies’ and Charles E llis’ law offices. H err Rosen then observed the tim e,
w inter, owing to th e en listm en t of Seventy thousand prisoners were taken, imum of 1.2 cents for 10,000-kilow att The postoffice and H arney County
rose and excused himself. He took
q u an tities, is alm ost half the rates in
many members in th e European war.
including tw o comm anding generals, Eugene tw o years and a half ago, be News office, adjoining these, were the steps leading abruptly down the
B utte, Mont., m iners have th re a t 300 officers and th e com plete artillery fore the entrance of the city plant, saved. In the livery stable 27 horses terrace to the carriage road. He had
ened to lay the city in ashes if the of the Russian arm y .”
come by the other way, the ram bling
which claims th e credit for the reduc were burned to death.
The losses will reach $60,000, w ith stone stairs which began a t the por
sta te o r federal troops a tte m p t to en ter
tion.
the city.
t e r s lodge, back of the villa.
The present ra te w ar w as forecast about $30,000 insurance.
German Monoplanes Drop
Several buildings on th e w est side
“Padre." w hospered Courtlandt, "I
when th e w ater board asked
A m ericans and all o th er foreigners
More Bombs Into Paris recently
the S ta te railroad commission to curb of th e stre e t caught fire, but the am going. Do not follow. I shall ex
in Brussels are safe, according to a
plain to you when we m eet again."
P aris A German monoplane dropped th e a c tiv itie s of th e p riv ate company flames w ere extinguished.
m essage from
A m erican M inister
The owners of the destroyed proper
The padre signified th at he under
several more bombs in th e s tre e ts of and th e la tte r responded w ith a re
W hitlock.
stood. H arrigan protested vigorously,
P aris about 6:30 o ’clock W ednesday quest for u n restricted com petition. ty w ill rebuild.
A rm ies of the allies are b attlin g to night. One fell a t the Rue Michiodere N eith er was wholly granted.
A heroic fight w as made ag ain st the but sm iling and snaking his bead,
save P aris from the Germ ans. A con and the Rue du M atre Septem bre, near
blaze by firemen and citizens. I t was C ourtlandt went away.
flict betw een millions is believed to be th e C redit Lyonnais, and another near
due to this and favorable wind that
N ora ran to the window. She could
Highway Condemnation
in progress.
the en tire city was not wiped out.
St. Lozane station.
see H err Rosen striding along, down
Suits Are Being Tried
One bomb fell in Rue de Hanovre,
the winding road, his head in the air.
It is officially announced th a t the
P resently, from behind a cluster of
R ussians have occupied T ilsit, a town near Avenue de l ’Opera, w ithout doing
St. H elens—A bout 100 farm ers, sev Five Fires Burn Over
60 m iles northeast of K oenigsberg, dam age. A nother in Rue Mail did not eral atto rn ey s and S tate H ighw ay En
Tract ot 2000 Acres m ulberries, the figure of another man
came Into view. H e was going a t a
explode. It broke through th e roof of g in eer Bowlby and his assistan ts, ap
E a st Prussia.
C ottage Grove—N early 2000 acres dog-trot, his hat settled a t an angle
a house, but did m inor dam age. A
The ballot in the C alifornia election bomb fell in the court of a house in peared before the County court in the of the forest reserve was burned over th a t perm itted the rain to beat square
th is fall will be four fe e t long and con Rue Ju b e rt and blew out th e windows, condemnation proceedings for rig h t of in the recent fires in the London coun ly into his face. The next turn in the
try . Probably 200,000 or 300,000 feet road shut them both from sight. But
tain fo rty-eight in itia tiv e and refe re n but did no dam age. A nother bomb way for the Columbia Highway.
Claims for back-hill
places on
dum measures.
N ora did not stir.
has been found in Rue de Moscou.
It logged-off lands have been put in at of tim b er was destroyed.
T here w ere five fires in progress at
H err Rosen stopped and turned.
One of the larg est liners in the w as loaded w ith bullets. T his was evi $500 an acre and for agricultural land
one
tim
e,
th
a
t
on
L
ittle
riv
er,
near
"You called?”
world, th e K aiser W ilhelm der Grosse, dently aim ed a t the St. L a z a rre 'sta th a t is tak en nothing less than $1000
Black
B
utte,
being
the
most
serious.
“Yes.” C ourtlandt had caught up
was sunk by a B ritish cruiser oflf the tion.
an acre is being asked.
F ire Warden F rank Brumbaugh and
coast o f A frica.
As th ere are more than 100 claims, a crew of eight men have this and with him Just as H err Rosen was about
to open the gates. “Ju s t a moment,
7751 Hanks Are National.
the County court w ill tak e several days sm aller fires under control.
I t is said th a t B ritish m arines have
H err Rosen," with a hand upon the
W ashington, D. C.—T here w ere 7751 for th e hearings, a fte r which its decis
occupied Ostend to p revent th e G er
F ire W arden S. P. Shortridge has bars. “I shall not detain you long."
mans from g e ttin g a foothold on the N ational banks doing business in the ion will be given on all claims a t the gained control of th ree fires in the
T here was studied insolence in the
sam
e
tim
e.
U
nited
S
ta
te
s
a
t
the
close
o
f
business
E nglish Channel.
sam e territo ry . The blaze on Wilson tones and the gestures which accom
A ugust 31, according to a statem en t
creek
is
still
burning,
required
a
X avier de Castelnau, th e 12-year-old issued by the controller of the cu r
panied them.
m onth’s fighting w ith crew s ranging
Hour Holds at $5.20.
son of General C astelnau, chief of staff rency. They had an authorized capital
"Be brief, If you please.”
from
th
ree
to
six
men.
F
ive
hundred
The low est wholesale price of flour
of the French arm y, was among the of $1,073,524,175, and circulation out
“My nam e is Edw ard Courtlandt, as
acres
w
ere
burned
over
in
the
three
in the Portland m arket now is $5 a
killed in a recent action.
standing of $877,540,281, of which Imrrel, th e only mill th a t quoted less fires handled by Mr. Shortridge and doubtless you have heard."
"In a large room It Is difficult to
An official statem en t from th e B rit $126,241,760 was secured by other than th a t figure having advanced its about 100,000 fe e t of tim ber de
rem em ber all the introductions.”
ish consulate in Galveston, Tex., says than by U nited S ta te s bonds.
He thinks th a t the fires
price 20 cents only a day or tw o ago. stroyed.
"Precisely. T hat Is why I tak e the
Eleven applications w ere made d u r O ther m ills are asking $5.20 a barrel. handled by Mr. Brumbaugh covered
three B ritish w arships have been sent
liberty of recalling it to you, so th a t
ing
A
ugust
for
conversion
or
reo
rg
an
i
a t full speed to p rotect rotton and oil
It is probable th a t at you will not forget It,” urbanely.
The flour m arket is keeping pace w ith 1500 acres.
zation of S ta te banks as N ational
traffic in the Gulf of Mexico.
the advance in m illing w heat.
Blue- least 200,000 feet of tim ber was lost.
A pause. Dark patches of w ater
banks, and 13 formal applications for stem sold a t $1.03 a bushel, a gain of
Several fires occurred in the Row were spreading across th eir shoulders.
Home Secretary McKenna, of Lon
organization of N ational banks by in
river
country
during
the
past
week.
a cent over a preceding day 's price.
don, said th a t no spies had been shot
L ittle rivulets ran down C ourtlandt's
dividuals not connected w ith sta te or | F arm ers are holding very firm and are
in England. There have been rum ors
arm , raised as it was against the bars.
National institu tio n s.
Ten of the
Two Months' Work Needed.
tak in g advantage of the situation to
th a t many (versons in th e secret em la tte r w ere approved.
“I do not see how It may concern
get all they can for th eir w heat.
ploy of Germany had been executed.
A storia — C aptain Groves, superin me,” replied H err Rosen finally with
The presen t price of $5 a barrel for tendent of dredges for the P o rt of an insolence more m arked than Court-
P rem ier Asquith and A rth u r J . Bal
Rich Men Save Hnissels.
j flour com pares w ith the quotation of
landt's.
four, one of the lenders of th e opposi
London
A dispatch to th e E xpress j $4.70 on th is d ate last year, $5.10 on Portland commission, says he expects
"In P aris we m et one night, a t the
tion in th e house of commons, are to
about
tw
o
m
onths’
work
w
ith
the
from The Hague says the four richest the sam e date in 1912, $4.95 three
stage entrance of the Opera. 1 pushed
speak in th e historic Guild hall, in the
dredge
Multnomah
w
ill
be
required
men in Belgium have guaranteed the years ago, $5.35 four years ago, $6.25
city of Isindon, this week in an effort
to open up the Tongue Point channel. you aside, not knowing who you were.
paym ent to Germany of the w ar tax five years ago, and $4.85 in 1908.
to encourage recruiting.
The intention is to dig a channel 300 You had offered your services; the
which the G ermans levied ag ain st
feet wide and 25 feet deep from No. 2 door of Miss H arrlgan's limousine.”
The U nited R ailw ays company of Belgium. The four are E rn est Solvay,
Water System for Fair.
"It was you?" scowling.
buoy down, a distance of approxim ate
San Francisco, has inaugurated a plan “ Alkali K in g ;” Baron L am bert, Bel
"I apologize for that. Tomorrow
Salem An independent w ater sys ly 4000 feet.
whereby employes may receive small gium rep resen tativ e of the R othchilds;
tem for the S tate F a ir grounds has
The operation of the dredge entails morning you will leave Hellaggio for
loans from th e company a t 5 per cent Raoul W aroeque, mine owner, and
V arenna
Somewhere betw een nine
been decided U|>on by the board o f d i
a year.
The system is to save em Baron
Kmpnin, railw ay m agnate. rectors, and the drilling of the first an expense of betw een $8000 and $9000 and ten the first train leaves for
a
month,
which
is
being
paid
by
the
ployes from the loan sharks.
"H ad not th is g u arantee been g iv e n ,” well has been started .
Milan "
Commission.
The official press bureau of London, says the correspondent, "B ru ssels
"V arenna! M ilan!"
A ccording to Mr. George E. Scott,
in an announcem ent says the govern would probably have been tre a te d as the contractor, a large riv er flows un
“Exactly. You speak English as
Dahlia .Lovers Exhibit.
Louvain
was.
Big
guns
w
ere
mounted
naturally and fluently as if you were
ment has g ratefully accepted an offer
der th e grounds and Salem , and he ad
W
heeler
—
The
Nehalem
Valley
In
in
front
o
f
the
palace
ready
for
bom
from the people of A lb erta of a h alf
born to the tongue. Thus, you will
vises th a t th e city eventually obtain
dustrial and Floral F a ir a t Nehalem leave for Milan. W hat becomes of
million bushels of c a ts for the arm y b ard m en t.”
its w ater supply from the stream .
| was well attended. The exhibits in- you a fter th at Is of no consequence
and from the governm ent of Quebec of
S ecretary M eredith announced th a t the
I eluded dahlias, vegetables, woodwork, to me. Am 1 m aking myself clear?"
Cotton Men Want Help.
4,000,000 |N>unds of cheese.
cottag e city d is tric t a t the fair
Fort W orth, Tex.
V irtual tak in g grounds would be moved to a tra c t | needlework, cheese and cream ery prod
"V erdam pt! Do I believe my e a rs ? ”
ucts and w ere such as to reflect the furiously. "A re you telling me to leave
Both Germany and G reat B ritain
w est of th e new pavilion before the
grow th of industries in N ehalem val Hellaggio tom orrow m orning?”
have accepted the pro|s>sal of the over of th e 1914 cotton crop by the opening of the fa ir Septem ber 28.
ley.
The dahlias w ere especially
U nited S tates th a t th e w ireless s ta governm ent because of th e m arket
"As directly as 1 can.”
effective, nearly 2500 plants being a r
tions at Tuckerton, N. J ., and S ay ) stagnation caused by th e w ar in Eu-
H err Rosen's face became as red
Ilig
Fstate
Is
Inherited.
l
rope
was
urged
by
prom
inent
planters
ranged
in
the
big
centerpiece.
The
ville, L. I., be perm itted to send code
as his name. lie was a brave young
¡of
half
a
dozen
sta
te
s
a
t
th
e
conven
Pendleton
John
Guriado
and
his
prizes w ere evenly divided between the man, but there was danger of an act
m essages to belligerent countries, sub
ject to censorship by A m erican naval tion of the F arm ers’ Educational and sister, Mrs. T u lita Adams, w ife of a exhibitors. The N ehalem contingent ive kind in the blue eyes boring Into
! Co-operative union. C. S B arrett, of laborer, are on th e ir way to Los An of the Tlilamook county boosters band
officers.
his own. If it cam e to a physical con
| Union City, Ga., president, advocated
furnished the music.
test, he realized th at he would get the
The B ritish steam ship Holmwood has an appeal to congress to provide for geles w ith Colonel Jam es A. Raley,
worst of it. He put his hand to his
been sunk by a German cruiser off tin the outright purchase ot the crop and a prom inent attorney of Pendleton, to
Hood
River
Relic
does.
throat; his very im potence was chok
coast o f South A m erica, according to urged th e indorsem ent of a bill in tro claim th e ir shares in the estate of th eir
Hood R iver
The oldest structure
a cablegram received by th e owners of duced by R epresentative H enry, of fath er, John Guriado, who died recen t now standing in Hood River, built 28 ing him.
ly. leaving $150,000 and no will. T heir
"Your H ighness . . ."
the K atherine Bark, a t New York, Texas, w ith this end in view.
identity hns l>eon established, attorneys years ago by Robert Rand, and occu
"H ighness!” H err Rosen stepped
which has the crew of the ship aboard.
say. The elder Guriado anil his w ife pied by th e c ity ’s first bnrber, was back.
The cablegram , which was from Rio
Nome Is Storm-Stricken.
The
quarreled when the children were destroyed by fire W ednesday.
"Yes. Your H ighness will readily
Janeiro, did not sta te the tim e or place
Nome, Alaska
Nome is in the young, and the fam ily became split up, stru ctu re was occupied by a plum bing see the wisdom of my concern for
of the sinking, nor did it give the clutches of a storm th at th re a te n s to
company
and
the
fire
started
in
a
pile
the children going w ith th eir m other.
your hasty departure when I add th at
name of the German cruiser.
of tar-covered ropes. Its fram e walls I know all about the little house in
repeat the destruction w rought by The m other died a few years ago.
were dry as tinder, and the flames Versailles, th at my knowledge Is
An A m erican w arship has been d is the gale w hich d evastated the d istric t
w ere pouring from doors and windows shared by the chief of the Parisian
patched to Turkey, presum ably to last spring. The surf, lashed by a
Scouring Mills Close.
in an instant.
A djoining business police and the m inister of war. If
southeast gale from the sea, had
carry gold to American m issionaries.
Pendleton
A fter a successful sea
T h a t T i t le .
reached the front of the life-saving son covering deals ag g reg atin g over blocks w ere saved by quick work of you annoy Miss H arrigan with your
•
• • • • • •
S ecretary Bryan cabled all American station and m erchants were preparing
the volunteer fire departm ent.
equivocal
attentions
.
.
."
C
eleste
stood
behind
Abbott
and
$500,000
since
March,
the
Pendleton
em bassies and legations in Europe to to move stocks of goods to places out
A tenem ent m ight have sheltered It
"Uott! This is too m uch!"
studied his picture through half-closed,
urge Americans to leave Europe w ith of reach of th e waves. The wind is Scouring Mills have closed down until
Car Line Pays $7t,000.
Still it's A m erica's
"W ait!
I am stronger than you critical eyes. "You have painted It —no palace.
next spring. Edmund J. Burke, head
out delay.
increasing.
Oregon C ity More than $100,000 are
IX) not make me force you to over too many tim es.” Then she birthplace. It's th e cradle of a new
of the concern, paid off all the men
Before the storm reached its present and left for Portland, from w here he was collected Tuesday in the tax col h ear me to the end You have gone looked down at the shapely head. Ah, nation, says the M other's Magazine
A Boulogne dispatch to th e Standard
at London says the tow n of Tournai, stren g th , th e steam ers V ictoria, Cor late r will retu rn to Philadelphia. The lecting departm ent. Tuesday was tne about this intrigue like a blackguard, the longing to put her hands upon It, In an interesting article on cradles.
capital of the D epartm ent of llain au t, win and Bear steam ed out to sea.
m ills employed about 40 men.
The last opportunity for the taxpayers to and th a t 1 know- Your H ighness not to to run her fingers through the tousled Brought over on the Mayflower, It
Belgium, occupied by th e Germans,
output of th e season was 4,000,000 settle th e ir account w ith the county be The m atter Is, you a re young, you hair, to touch it with her lips! But sheltered the first child. P eregrine
Hritish Keep Their Jam.
was compelled to pay an indem nity of
pounds o f wind baled and 1,500,000 w ithout paying the 10 per cent added have always had your way, you have no! "Perhaps you are tired ; perhaps W hite, who was born to the Pilgrim s
$400,00(1 w ithin an hour, the burgol
W ashington. 1). C. W ar on the pounds scoured. Mr. Burke predicted penalty. The Portland Railway. L ight not learnt restraint. Y cur presence you have worked too hard. Why not in Plym outh bay In 1620. Not a bit
m aster being held as a hostage u n ti C ontinent and mobilization in England a b e tte r season next year ami says this A Bower company paid more than here Is an insult to Miss H arrigan. put aside your brushes for a week?" Imposing, is it? But it's a rare nest,
$74,000, the largest amount.
Less and if she was pleasant to you this
the money was paid.
will not ta> allowed to affect th e B rit year was b e tte r than he expected.
"I've a good mind to chuck it into and the most valuable In America, it
than $50,000 will be turned over to the afternoon it was for my benefit. If , the lake. I simply can't paint any i we m easure by history.
ish break fast. Ambassador Page, at
Prince A lbert, King G eorge's second
sheriff's
office
on
the
delinquent
tax
you do not go, 1 shall expose you.” m ore." He (lung down the brushes. J
l.ondon, reported to the S ta te d e p a rt
Not another country in the world
Canadian Company Sued.
son, who has been with th e N orth Sea
list.
C ourtlandt opened the gate.
ment th at exportations of jam and
"I'm a fool. Celeste, a fool. I'm crying can show us th eir cradle. W e ought
Salem A tem porary restrain in g o r
fleet, was recently taken ill w ith ap
"And if l refuse?”
m armalade, an essential p a rt o f the der against the N ational M ercantile
for the moon, th a t's w hat the m atter to feel mighty proud of it. T here's
Huena Vista Clover Poor.
pendicitis. As rest ami q uiet were
"Why. In that case, being the Amer is. W hat's the use of beating about ' som ething a bit im m ortal about these
B ritish b reak fast, had been forbidden company doing business in Oregon was
Buena V ista Clover hulling, which
necessary, th e prince was landed at a by English authorities.
ican th at 1 am, w ithout any particular
sued by C ircuit Judge Galloway. The is in progress in this d istrict, is expos reverence for royalty or nobility, as the bush? You know as well as I do strip s of w icker For the m atter of
port in Scotland. His condition causes
th at It's Nora.”
th at, there Is about all old cradles,
ing
a
poor
yield.
The
midge,
grass-
action was sta rte d by A ttorney G eneral
no anxiety.
it Is known. I prom ise to thrash you
H er heart contracted, and for a little historic or unknown.
500 Are Left Homeless.
Craw ford at the instance of Corpora hopj'ers, and th e long dry spell are roundly tomorrow morning at ten
while she could not see him clearly.
They come down from past genera
The Ix>ndon Chronicle in a long a r
W arsaw. Iml. E tna G reen, a town tion Comm issioner W atson, who al blamed for the noted decrease. From
"B ut what earthly chance have IT" tions. They've seen life. T hey've
ticle w arns the English governm ent of 10 miles w est of here, was burned and leged th a t th e company had not com one bushel to two and one-half bushels o clock. In the dining room. In the
the danger of E ngland's la-coming em 500 residents were made homeless. plied w ith the corporation laws of the are being obtained.
Some grow ers bureau, the draw ing room, wrherever I he w ent on. Innocently but ruthlessly. been rocked for hundreds of years In
"No one can help loving N ora."
old homes. They've been associated
broiled w ith the U nited S tates over L ightning set fire to a railw ay depot, sta te . The company is a foreign cor- report even less than a bushel an acre. may happen to find you "
C ourtlandt turned on hts heel and
"No," In a sm all voice.
w ith g reat business—th e m aking of
questions of contraband of war, and the flames spreading and alm ost every l-oration. having headquarters in V an The Polk county acreage this year is
hurried
hack
to
the
villa.
He
did
not
"It's all rot, this talk about affini men and w-omen who have made h is
argues th a t any estrangem ent la-tween structure in th e hamlet was const]mod, couver, B. C., ansi, according to the said to be the largest yet planted and
th e tw o countries would bo the ex trem e despite a severe rain storm . The dam- corporation comm issioner, is conduct estim ates for its value has been at a look over his shoulder. If he had. ha ties. There s alw ays some poor devil I tory.
of bad m anagement.
| age is estim ated at $150,000.
high m ark.
ing in P ortland a bum business.
Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Brief.
MACGRA'
k
&
CD.
RHODES
M i
GERMAN CAPTURE OF 70,000
RUSSIAN TROOPS REPORTED
$
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