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chanic, and gas was ignited blowing
the foreman and ms two companions
out of the bucket on the ground, kill
the third at air SHAFT CONSTRUCTION
at Finches run F. ]. Foye. con-
tractor for Federal Coal and Coke
Company.
Marion, July 81 Joe Kokoski,
Polish. machine runner. was killed
by fall Of slate while cutting coal
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and Don Jones, white American and
negro, bratt!ce man and machine
helper, while cleaning up slate which
had been shot to make height for ~
side track; they were caught by 2
large piece Of slate which had been
lloosened by, shots of the previous
hight and instantly killed at no.
mine Of the Ethel Coal Com pany.
Mercer. July 30Joiah Wilkins.
American, miner. was killed by y
large piece Of slate while digging
coal at Pinnacle mine Of the Ameri-
Ican Coal Company.
OF the above eighteen were Amer
teams and fourteen foreigners: OF the
above twentyseight occurred inside
and four outside.
Susanna for children for fretful
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Siletz OF Dally's lumber
camp watches a stranger mshande his
horse In climbing the ridge and directs
him TO the camp.
CHAPTER II-Walter sandry introduces
himself TO John Daily, foreman. the
Diliingworth Lumber Co.. or most OF IT,"
CHAPTER III-Sandry makes acquaint-
ance with the camp and the work he has
come from the East TO superintend and,
make successful
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CHAPTER vi.
Trouble With the Yellow Pines.

Trouble With the yellow Pines.
Walter Sandry sat in the Office at
the slough's edge, busy with file and
ledger. Two months had passed and
something had lifted from him in
these two months; a weight had light
ened. Where had been a huge dis
gust, almost intolerable in its in
tensity. for this rain-soaked land, there
had crept in an insidious admiration.
Often now he looked down the green
little valley sharply defined between
its binding hills and felt the subtle
charm Of the intimate shadows, the
near white dusk and the great trees
under whose dropping feathery boughs
there lay silence and sense OF ref
ule.
Suddenly there came to him a clam
or of voices. oaths and the throaty
tones Of strong men in anger. Up from
the lower rollway group Of loggers
came stalking In their spiked boots.
Behind them Murphy rocked excitedly
along In the tiny locomotive.
Sandry shut his ledger and stepped,
outdoors.
whats the matter, Collins?" he
asked of huge man in the lead,
perfect type Of the logger Of the great
Northwest, sun-browned. hard-mus-
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but 1t set the man thinking of her.
He had seen alteration in the eyes she
bent on the splendid animal, heard it
In the words stilted and incongruous.
queer youngster," said Sandry to
himself.
That night after supper he came out,
contrary to his custom, from the little
south room with its patchwork quilts,
It's crocheted mat and it's antique
Bible, into the big eating room
He found Ma Daily rocking in the
little chair, her tired old hands lying
comfortably on the Portland Weekly
spread out on her slanting lap. The
wall lamps in their tin reflectors sill
vered her white hair exquisitely and
brought out softly the thousand kindly
creases on her ruddy face.
On the end of the bench drawn up
to the stand Siletz was sitting, weay-
ing mat of long grasses, and her
fingers were deft as an Indians.
BEHIND her on the bench Law Coos
nah, head on paws, eyes blinking
sleepily.
Come in, Mr.. sandry," said the old
lady in her rich voice. Draw up a
chair. We're restin'."
He sat down and bent a smile as
brilliant as his blue eyes on this hardy
old mother Of the wilderness. From
the first he had felt her personality,
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by himself at night in the plain little
room under the dripping caves. They
were nearly always dripping. the pane
behind the spotless curtains was al.
ways black and glittering, there was
nearly always the shut-in silence that
rain imposes-that dense silence. lis
tening and lonesome.
Sometimes, to be sure, II was only a
little Oregon mist that saddened the
night outside, but IL had the same
effect on the young man from the
midst of life in New York.
He was East and he knew il. Also,
the men had known il from that first
speech IN the doorway of the cook
shack. They spoke of him among them
selves as "Dillingworth. accompany
ing the word with grins. tasting its
flavor as delicately as any De-spec-
tacled professor of the East dallying
with new derivative.
Nowhere In the world is discern
ment brought to finer point than in
the lumber camps and mills of the
Northwest among that floating gentry
OF the pike and peavey, the knee.laced
boot and the turkey" who pass mere
and there with the seasons. picking
critically at the speech and doings OF
many places.
Also, nowhere is there q stronger
prejudice against any manifestation of
personal superiority. any exploitation
NJ what may lie cast Of tho Cascades
To them the man and the place are
one-East and Fastener.
They felt for him that contempt
which only the seasoned feel for the
inexperienced. And with the quick
ness which was his characteristic. the
new owner sensed the feeling among
them. II only added to that tumble of
sensations and Impressions which had
crowded thick upon him from the first
and which he had had no time to
assert and get under control He had
simply laid them away for future at
tention.
In the meantime he went quickly at
the work of settling himself in the
new environment load OF lumber
was brought up the slough on the
punt from the mill at Toledo and four
men were put to building a small Of
fee. 1t was set at the edge of the
slough, bit below the cook,shack,
where it commanded from its two east.
sern windows and door the track. the
reading donkey, the log-trail and the
rollway, and from the southern one
the winding slough, the rest of the
track and the lower rollway, where
the donkey engine left the logs, its
duty done. After that they rolled
down with much splashing to the mar
row ribbon of water which, with ev-
cry flood tide backed in from the bay,
lifted them high and trundled them,
grinding and groaning, slowly down,
perhaps to the mill at Toledo, perhaps
to be laced together with mammoth
chains, built into a great raft and
towed out to the ocean to voyage
along the coast, down to southern Cal
tfornia or up to Portland. A tiny,
wheezy tug fused about the backwa-
ter for the express purpose Of starting
the monster RATS out on the ebb. >
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vas on a printed letterhead:
Dilllnsworth Lumber Company.


Toledo, Oregon.
Dear Dad: Excelsiori 1 fancy I'm or
| top of the world Wish you could step in
here for an hours chat. The country
would amaze you as II has me with its
mighty bgness. You feel like an atom
crawling on the seas fioor-too small 10
count The hills are like our beloved
CatslSills. only they are their wild cousins
from the wilderness. unkempt and savage.
+. There is wealth here, Dad. untold
wealth and I intend to get handful OF
II. The timber is unsounded. 1t reaches
away TO the Siletz reservation on the
north-and on beyond. These Indians
come into camp once In awhile with
baskets. timid sort OF people, fishers,
not fighters. The stumpage is magnid-
cent. We are the company. though we
have rival. formidable one. the Yellow
Pines. which operates to the south OF us
/ have met none OF their people as yet
but my foreman tells me there u.s. and
always has been. bad blood between us
Well, dear old chap. l must not weary
you. Write me all the happenings that
concern you there. Tell Higgins II he
neglects one thing about YOU | will skin
him alive when come home for flying
trip.
/ hope. sir. YOU are feeling comfortable
and will so into the winter In good shape
When the spring comes on believe we
can bring YOU out here with comfort-th,
Pullman service is smooth as glass across
continent. And 1 know the trip would
benefit you.
As he wrote these words the young
mans bright blue eyes softened like
womans and grim line settled
about his lips. He knew. on the word
of the greatest specialist of two CONT
nonts, that the dignitied old gentleman
to whom they were addressed, white
haired gentleman with the finest bear
ing and the gentlest heart. tied irrevo-
cably to an invalid chair, had at the
most but scant year to live. Yet he
wrote of hope and travel and return
ing health, wrote determinedly with
force that must communicate some
thing of its light to the lonely wreck
left by the tide of life stranded at the
edge Of that mighty, flowing stream,
the metropolis.
He finished the letter with a COM
mendation so tender. so indicative of
great affection, that it did not sound
like a mans, a sons to a father
rather like daughters to an ailing
mother, signed, sealed and stamped 1t,
and sat for many minutes holding 1t in
his hand, staring hard with drawn
brows at the yellow pine of the new
walls. Again the faint shadow of sad
ness, Of regret, flickered from the past
across his features. Then he sighed,
rose with his graceful quickness and
Strengthened his shoulders. As he
closed the desk and stepped from the
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Office he felt that he had gathered up
the reins of the new life.
CHAPTER v.
VIVA Blood and HorsefIesh.

VvuQ DlOOO dHO
The fall drew on apace. Sometime
the austere gloom of the mighty cour
try thrilled Sandry with a strang
compelling; oftener it held him at
dripping window with load of LEAF
on his heart. He had no companions
John Daily, easy. simple. suggesting
tried force, was his only comfort. II
him he found something vaguely fine
as the plain little stone at the bottom
OF clear waters takes on a certain
simple beauty. They spent an occa
sional evening together in the little
Office, talking Of the work, and the new
owner asked and learned many things
Into the ample heart of white-haired
Ma Daily Sandry had stepped that first
night, wholly without intent.
He speaks like man." she opined
decisively, IAN you mark my words
he'll prove himself so, IL his hands are
white"
or the girl Siletz he had scarcely
taken a moments notice. He did not
even know that when she served him
silently at the oilcloth covered table
the two long braids were tied togeth-
er at the nape Of her neck 30 that by
no chance could they fall against his
hand. Neither did he know that the
dog Coosnah watched him always with
pale eyes. or these two he knew less
than OF any others in camp with whom
he had as much to do. As for the girl
herself, she kept away from his vicin-
ity. Oftener they two, the girl and the
dog, silent with a common consent
like wild things of the woods, sought
the wind-swept top of the great stump
on the western ridge. Here Siletz
looked down on the dropping slope
and wondered of the cities and the
sea. He had come from them both
She had never seen a man like him.
His clothes were different His speech
was unlike. So were his hands, white
and fine grained.
Also there was another of his pos
sessions that she knew in every line
and turn, Black Bolt, the splendid
horse that stamped and whinnied with |
Impotence in the lean-to behiRd the |
filing shed. She could no more let him |
alone than she could refrain from lying |
down to drink from mountain riIl.
He called to her blood with irresist-
ible force. Day after day she crept
shyly to the lean-to and dreamed,
the slope and the log-trail.
ooh. you beauty!" she whispered
with soft hand on the arching neck.
'Oh, you beauty OF the world God
made you strong to serve and beauti-
'ul to be loved!"
And at THAI moment, on that par
ocular day, Walter Sandry stepped
INTO the doorway of the lean-to. At
lis foot on the sill the girl whirled
lpon him, her dark eyes wide with
right and confusion.
II" she stammered like a child.
Sandry looked at her for the first
ime keenly.
You are fond of the horse?" he
sked.
But her tongue Glove suddenly to
he roof of her mouth and one OF the
lherent silences that sometimes fell
pom her shut her lips.
She dropped her eyes, twisted her
myers IN Black Bolts name, and then,
18th a gliding motion, soft-footed and
wifi, went past MIN, running toward /,
lie cook-shack.
The incident was nothing in itself,
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Inside the new Office were installe
roll-top desk, case OF books, ma
or two and several chairs, beside
small stove. Here, with the four PIN
walls around him, Walter Sandry a
last looked around and called himsel
at home. The drawers OF the new
desk were full OF documents and mem
oranda, the history, with statistics anc
records down to the minutest detail
of the Dillingworth Lumber company
These he set himself to master as his
! first step toward the vast golden goal
OF the dream that had brought him
west.
Very shrewdly he decided to take
nothing out Of the capable hands OF
his foreman. There had been a sort of
tense pause in the camp pending this
development. When it became appar-
ent that things were to go on as
usual the work went forward as II
line had been loosened.
Big John Daily had gone about dur
ing the few days of uncertainty with
the unruffied calm OF his quiet nature,
though there was small. very small
ache somewhere inside him. Ever
since he could remember, his life had
been cast in Daily's lumber camp
when his father, old John Daily, had
logged with oxen on the eastern slopes
of the Coast range and there was no
jerkwater railroad in to Yaquina bay.
When a 200-foot fir had tottered out
OF line and sent the old man forever
into silence in the roaring thunder OF
its fall, the boy John, at seventeen,
had picked up the reins of government
in the camp and carried on the work,
abetted and aided by that efficient
general, his mother With the years
of his young manhood he had worked,
following the wilderness as progress
pushed II backward to the bay, seeing
little of the outside world save per
haps for trip, once in three years, to
Portland or down to San Francisco,
and always during the past it had been
the Dillingworth Lumber company
into whose vast holdings the camp had
cut its way.
Always there had been no hand of
power in the hills save his own, no
supervision excepting the annual visits
Of some member of the firm who went
over things, nodded, estimated, took
figures and went away. He had car
lied on his camp himself. fought since |
De could remember with the Yellow |
Pines company, whose holdings were |
'ast as those Of the Dillingworth, and
lad not thought of change.
When Walter Sandry settled quietly
Town with no voice in the doings of
he camp. Daily drew a good breath
nd went ahead once more.
AS for the new timber magnate, he
at down at the new desk on the first
ay of his occupancy of the little Office
IN the slough's edge and wrote his
Irst letter.
II was on printed letterhead:
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CHAPTER ~.
Old RsIns In New Hands.

Old ReIns In New Hands.
The East and the West had met. II
was apparent In every essential that
had to do with Sandry and his men
In common.
II showed when he sat among them
ut the head OF the long table. In the
way he used his hands. his knife and
his food. II glared when he spoke, 1t
paraded In his clothes. and most OF all
It stood forth pitilessly when he sat
Evening star., 1915-04-14
BY 81. C. BYRD.

There is general feeling of optimism
| among those connected with amateur
base ball. 1t seems to be the con-
sensus of opinion that the coming sea
son will be much more successful thar
last, that the character of the play
will be greatly improved. and greater
success realized financially. At the
meeting of the association last night
expressions of confidence as to the
outcome of the year were to be heard
on every hand. and if amateur base ball
fails to measure up to high standard
this season there will be many sur
prsed persons connected with it.
One of the best steps that could have
been taken toward insuring a success
full season was the retention of last
years officers. especially Robert II
Young and c. NJ King While not
minimizing in the least the efforts OF
the other men, these two officials have
perhaps worked harder and accom-
plished more for amateur ball In the
last three or four years than any
others an the District. Both have
labored diligently at all. times. giving
their time and experience to the ad-
vancement of the sport without the
least remuneration other than the ap-
to recognize their valuable offices.
The organizations represented at the
meeting last night were the Depart
mental, East Washington Sunday
Northwest Sunday School. Government,
Potomac and Rosedale Playground.
These will come under the association
this season. with the possibility of
three others. The Home Club League
may join hands with the amateur body.
o. + 10
Marquette circuits will renew their af-
fliation If they are reorganized
Georgetown did not have much trou-
BILE winning from West Virginia Uni
versity yesterday. The Blue and Gray
nine hit the offerings Of Fulton and
Hoffman rather easily and had the
game well in hand after the first in
ming. Fulton was batted hard in the
opening period. four men crossing the
plate as a result of a steal of home, an
error, a hit batsman, wild pitch and
single. After the Hilltoppers had
gotten well in the lead an almost en-
tire substitute nine was placed on the
field.
Connolly and Shugrue led the Blue
and Gray at the bat again. as usual.
Each connected for two safeties. the
former being at bat three times and the
went for two bases. Simon. first base.
and Stoop, right field, for the visitors.
drove the ball into safe territory twice
each.
Georgetown stole bases almost at
will, Connolly having four pliers to his
credit One of Connollys steals was
from third to home.
Western High won from the Army
and Navy Props after being on the
short end of a 5-to-1 score until the
beginning of the seventh. Western
went to bat in the first half Of the
seventh and chased three runs across
the plate. and in the eighth made four.
The A. and n nine outhit Western,
getting ten safeties against eight.
There were several extra base hits in
the game. Maxam and Stearns of
Western connected each for triple.
while Peyton of the same nine got n
two base wallop. Hazelhurst. Sranzen
and Bolton of the Preps each got
two-base hit. -
The Lincoln Athletic Club took the
measure of another high school team
yesterday. when Central went down be-
fore 1t by score of to Z. The Lin
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strong as it has ever been, for it is 2
matter Of fact that McGraw has never
been blessed with a really high-clas:
team, yet has managed to win lot oi
pennants.
He deserves most of the credit for the
showing the Giants have made since he
took hold OF the reins there. and those
who pick him to have an off year ma!
be disappointed, for McGraw has made
game fights and won pennants WITH
teams which were no better than the
present aggregation, and that is say
ing a whole lot.
Very wisely Connie Mack IS not
making any predictions for his team
the coming season. The reason for this
is that Mack has not been able to OBJ
tain a good line on his material A
couple of his young pitchers have shown
to advantage, but he has yet been un-
able to plug up the hole at third base,
and there has been nothing new nearu
from Baker as to what his intentions
When Mack sold Eddie Collins last
winter many of the wise men of base
ball relegated his team to the secona "a
fall into line made the situation look
even worse.
But base ball is an uncertain PROPOSE
ton. and so capable leader as Mack
may be able to do wonders with the
material he has on hand. in which
event he is sure to have a successful
season because he has greatly reduced
his salary list and increased the in
terest If his team can win.
It is to be hoped that the instruc-
tions to the American League umpires
this year will force them to arrange
details of ground rules and other mat
ters hve or ten minutes before the
time for calling the game rolls around
There have been entirely too many
delays by reason Of the umpires TAX
ing up the question Of ground rules
and getting on the lines only after
the game has been announced. There is
no reason for this sort Of thing, for
the patrons of base ball do not favor
delays in starting, any more than they
do long g-drawn-out games.
Evening star., 1915-04-14
BY J. ED GR111o.

Walter johnson and Ray Fisher will
be the opposing pitchers in today's
inaugural of the 1915 base ball sea-
son The Nationals lineup Will in all
probability lack but one Of the regu-
lars. Ray Morgan. who. It Is believed.
viii not be able to all his position
at second. being replaced by Pick.
When President Wilson tosses q new
ball to Walter johnson from his box
at about o'clock the season will have
been ofhcially opened.
II the two pitchers named for the
struggle are In good form hard
fought, close game may be looked for.
Fisher has always proved himself
trouble twirler for the locals, and II
has been several years since New York
has won a game from Walter John
son.
A rscord-breaking crowd Is assured
The entire grandstand was sold out
week or SO ago. and the pavilions
and bleachers will be filled to capacity
before the bell rings for the start OF
play this afternoon. Incidentally. ar
rangements have been made to take
care Of a few hundred fans in tempo
rary seats In front of the grand stand.
In so far as condition is concerned,
III
have quite an advantage over their
opponents The locals showed splen-
did form in their exhibition games OF
last week, and Manager Grimth has
every reason for believing that his
team Is on edge.
The Nationals and Yankees did their
final practicing yesterday, the locals
putting in a couple of hours In the
morning at batting and fielding. while
the Yanks went through similar rou-
Y@h nd
Fisher both took a short workout to
loosen their arms, and both announced
that they were ready to go the route.
Both the American and National
leagues will inaugurate their seasons
today. In addition to the game hero
with New York, Chicago will play at
st. Louis, Cleveland at Detroit and
Boston at Philadelphia
In the National League Philadelphia
opens at Boston. Brooklyn at New
York. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati and St
Louis at Chicago.
Just what the season will have in
store for the Nationals Is a matter of
conjecture. It will be the fourth sea-
son that Clark Griflth has been in
charge here. He has finished second
twice and third once. That the Ma
tionals will be contenders again this
year Is generally conceded, but just
what position they will finish in re-
no predictions made as to this. though
there are those who will not be sur
prtsed II the locals should realize a
long-felt ambition and win pennant.
Barring unforeseen changes in the
form of some OF the players, the Ma
tionals appear to be stronger this year
than ever before. To begin with. Grif-
fifth has materially strengthened his
pitching staff. This in itself should in
crease the teams chances, and there is
al bal 40 hot ~ ~x,fl 1T =,
ter in the coming campaign than il
did in the last Offensive Improvement
cannot but help to make the Nationals
real factors for the flag. for as q field
ing and Intelligent playing team 1t has
no superorA
The race this year is apt to furnish
a lot of surprises. Most of tho critics