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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06

"You don't wast nO-assistance, az
you might sayf"
"Not any, thanks"
81 didn't think you would. Wen, so
long~
Sam took out and opened a bone
handled pocketknife and scraped a
dried piece Of mud from his left boot.
| thought at first he was going to
swear a vendetta on the blade Of it or
reclte "The Gypsys Curse" The few
feuds / had ever seen or read about
usually opened that way. This one
seemed to be presented with new
treatment. Thus offered on the stage
1t would have been hlssed of.
81 wonder" said Sam, with a pro.
foundly thoughtful expression, "if the
cook has any cold beans left oyerw
He called Wash, the negro cook, and,
finding that he had some, ordered him
to heat up the pot and make some
strong coffee. Then we went into
Sans private room, where he slept
and kept his armory, dogs and the
saddles Of his favorlte mounts He
took three or four six-shoOters out Of
a bookcase and began to look them
over. whlstling "The Cowboys La
ment abstractedly. Afterward he or
dered the two best horses on the ranch
saddled and tied to the hitchlng post.
Now, In the feud business in all sec
lions Of the country have observed
that In one particular there is deli
cate but strict etiquette belonging.
You must not mention the word or re
fer to the subject In the presence Of a
feudist. 1t would be more reprehensi-
BILE than commenting upon the mole
on the chin of your rich aunt.
II yet lacked two hours to supper
time, but in twenty minutes Sam and
| were plunglng deep into the reheat-
ed beans. hot coffee and cold beef.
Nothing like good meal before
long ride" said Sam, EAT hearty"
had a sudden suspicion.
"Why did you have two horses sad
dled?' asked.
"0ne, two one, two" said Sam.
"You can count, can't your
His mathematics carried with 1t a
mOmentary qualm and lesson. The
thought had not occurred to him that
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06
Sam gave a meIanehoIy slgh.

Sam gave melancholy sigh.
you don't understand, but he does"
he said. "He knows. Mr.. Tenderfoot,
there's a rule out here among white
men in the Nation that you can't shoot
man when he's with a woman.
never knew It to be broke yet You
can't do 1t. You've got to get him In
gang Of men or by himself. That's
why. He knows 1t too. We all know
So that's Mr.. Ben Tatum! One of the
pretty menr I'll cut him out of the
herd before they leave the hotel.'
After supper the flying pair dlsap-
peared quickly Although Sam haunt
ed lobby and stairway and halls half
the night, In some mysterious way the
fugitiyes eluded him, and in the morn
ing the yelled lady in the brown dress
with the accordion plated skirt and
the dapper young man with the close
cropped hair, and the blackboard with
the praneing nags were gone.
1t is a monotonous story. that Of the
ride, so it shall be curtailed Once
again we overlook them on a road. We
were about fifty yards behind. They
turned in the blackboard and looked at
us, then drove ON without whipping up
their horses Their safety no longer
lay In speed. Ben Tatum knew. He
knew that the only rock of safety left
to him was the code.
So you may perceive that woman. on
occasions, may postpone instead Of pre-
cipitating conflict between man and
man. But not willingly or consciously.
She is Oblivious of codes.
Five miles farther we came upon the
future great western city Of Chandler.
The horses of pursuers and pursued
were starved and weary. There was
one hotel that offered danger to man
and entertainment to beast so the
four of us met again in the dining
room at the ringing Of bell so reso-
nant and large that 1t had cracked the
welkln long ago. The dining room was
not as large as the one at Guthrie.
Just as we were eating apple pie
how Ben Davlses and tragedy implnge
upon each other!-I noticed Sam look
ing with keen lntentness at our quarry
where they were seated at table
across the room. The girl still wore
the brown dress with lace collar and
cuffs and the veil drawn down to her
nose. The man bent over his plate,
with his close cropped head held
low.
There's code" | heard Sam say,
either to me or to himself, that won't
let you shoot man in the company Of
a woman; but, by thunder, there amt
one to keep you from killing a woman
In the company of manw
And quicker than my mind could fol-
low his argument he whipped an auto
matte from under his left arm and
pumped six bullets into the body that
the brown dress cOyered-the brown
dress with the lace collar and cuffs
and the accordion plated skirt
The young person in the dark sack
suit, from whose head and from whose
life womans glory had been clipped,
laid her head on her arms stretched
upon the table, while people came run
ming to raise Ben Tatum from the
door in his feminine masquerade that
had given Sam the opportunity to set
aside, technically, the obligations Of
the code.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06
Uncle Joe Cannon, 80
Tomorrow, Not So Ran
tankerOuS as He Once Was

Washington, May 6-TomOrrow will
be Uncle Joe Cannon Is eightieth birth
day. His political friends and foes in
the house of representatives today cele-
brated the event with an hour of speech
making filled with bouquets and no
brickbats.
"Confidentially, 1 wish they wouldn't
have this celebration, " the ex-speaker
admitted today. at s too much like
bringing flowers to corpse. "
Uncle Joe" is not the extreme par.
tisan he was of old. That s why men
of all parties in the house feel so
friendly toward him. Since his "come-
back" he has kept out OF the lime
light.
Uncle Joe still harbors a deepseated
hatred of political reformers. Every
time he gets chance he hits one on
the head.
~ suppose" said Uncle Joe, ga re-
former has his place. Sometimes think
they get pretty thick. They say their
province is to fight with the Al.
mighty; that the Almighty and one are
q majority.
am NOT mere 10 ABUSE tnem. Near
ly all of them are honest, but once in
while one of them is a hypoerite."
In these days of aeroplanes and sub
Marines Uncle Joe is proud he gave sub.
stantial encouragement to Prof. Lang,
ley, the American, who was jeered when
he tried to fly in hcavier-than-air ma
chine. He helped him get an appropria-
tiOn.
''You know the newspapers pounded
on old Langley and called him a fool, 4"
said Cannon. Going to fly like a
bird screamed the headlines derisively.
They pOked fun at me for befriending
him.
"I didn't mind it. 70 ten the truth
the newspapers have kind of pleased
me. They have given me q notoriety
for profanity and wickedness." "
Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader
Kitchin, Sherwood of Ohio, and Gillette
Of Massachusetts, were the speakers.
Rodenberg, of Illinois, was master of
ceremonies.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06
Six BraVeSt Of New
YOrk'S Finest To Be
Decorated Today

New York, May 6.IThe annual pa
rade of the Police Department and the
presentation of medals for valor will
take place here today. 1t will be led
by Commissioner Woods and reviewed
by Mayor Mitchell.
Six additions to tie medal men of
the department will be made, Mayor
Mitchell pinning the coveted insignia on
the coats of five patrolmen and ser.
geant
The department medal Of honor goes
to Policeman John A. MeCarren, who
captured a burglar at the corner of
BOwery and Houston street.
The policeman was wounded three
times, but, finally making out the form
of the man in dark hall, opened fire.
The man surrendered
Patrolman John c. Caspers will get
the Rhinelander medal for an attempt
to arrest " Andy" Lewis, cocaine ped
lar. Unarmed, Caspers pursued Lewis
after he had been wounded twice by
the fugitive. He failed to make an
arrest because his wounded leg became
paraly2ed.
sergeant Alexander Z. Anderson VIII
get the Isaac Bell medal for rescuing
August Nelson from the icy waters of
the East River, December o. 1915.
The Peter F. Meyer medal will 60 to
Policeman Franklin S. Traver for a
similar rescue of William Williams, a
boatswain's IS mate of the u S. S. Wasp.
The rescued man died of pneumonia.
The medal of the Automobile club
of America will be awarded to Police
man Edward +. Doyle, for valorous con
duet following the explosion of an am
monia plant. He entered the building
after he had been warned that another
explosion was imminent, and although
badly hurt when the explosion occurred
went back for q man he had seen lying
unconscious in the engine room.
Policeman George Hagerty will get
the Brooklyn Citizens medal for the
capture Of man who had mortally
injured another in Hicks street, Brook
lyn. He pursued the man, who was
brandishing revolver, and when the
fugitive hid in a hallway and fired
through the only door leading to it.,
Hagerty forced the door, and captured
the slayer,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06
Nation Wide Protest to
to Mark First Anniversary
Of Lusitania Sinking

New York, May Gone year ago
tomorrow the Lusitania was torpedoed
and sunk by German submarine, with
the loss of $50 American citizens.
New York and other cities in the
East and Middle West tomorrow will
conduit services "of AN impressive
and dignified nature, somewhat in the
nature of protest., according to a
statement issued by the Americans
Rights committee.
The meeting in this city will be aeld
in Carnegie Hall 1t is not the pur-
pose of those in charge of the exercises
to turn them into an active attack up
on the administration, but rather to
use them as a memorial for the Ameri-
can dead who never have been aveng-
ed.
Schenectady and Philadelphia have
Already completed plans for similar
services as have Chicago, Cleveland
and other American cities.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06
Emma Goldman, Out Of
Prison, Will Continue Birth
Control Speeches
(By United Press

New York, May 6.-'In the cause of
her motherhood l am still proud and
glad to be a criminal, " said Emma
Goldman today when she had completed
her 10 days and walked out of the work
house ON Blackwell s Island.
Miss Goldman was prisoner here
just % years ago, too. This time she
went up for publicity advocating birth
control.
She pleaded her own case, lost and
bad her choice of a 800 fine or prison.
81 prefer to go to the workhouse, "
she said. 81 won t buy my way out of
anything"
"I shall go right on distributing
birth control propaganda, " she said to-
day
al teach it for the sake of joyous
childhood and glorified motherhood,' -
she said. "There are 100000 half
starved women who need the informa.
tion-what kind Of children do you
think theirs would be9 If this is
crime, | am willing to be criminal. /
have as fellow criminals the greatest
men and women of the world. -
Assistant District Attorney Unger
said Miss Goldman s speech had been
simply "indecency in the guise of
birth control.
'"The police of this office is not to
limit in any way, shape or form the
discussion of vital propaganda such as
that of birth control. But the law
eompels us to and it is our intention to
put an end to indeeencies. The address
was made in an impure and indecent
fashion to a mixed audience of men,
women and children Of tender years.
Among those who helped defend
Emma Goldman and who met her on
her release today were; Rose Pastor
Stokes, Leonard d. Abbott, Mrs. J.
Sergeant Cram, Mrs. John Sloan, Ben
Reitman, George Bellows and Mrs.
Robert Henri.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-06

this shortage, the government is now
advertising in 1000 papers in the
United States for $4,000 laborers.
They find there is no chance of get
ting this number Of men, and have
announced that from 5000 to 5000
is the greatest number that can be
obtained.
"The recognition cf this shortage
and the efforts of the government to
meet the situation by bringing men
from the United States is contra
diction Of the statement at meeting
in Montreal a short time ago by Cen.
Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia,
that the enlistment in the west was
not causing any shortage of labor.
Every true Canadian realizes that
Canada must ultimately send her
last man and spend her last dollar to-
enable the empire and her allies tOI
bring the war to a victorious termi-
nation, but why enlist men before
they can be used?
IT is now recognized that under
the most favorable circumstances itl
will be the end of the year before ALI
the men now enlisted can be trans
ported across the Atlantic, and after
that only 10000 men a month can bel
sent. Many Of the battalions now
authorized are much below full
strength, and it will be months be-
fore they will enlist their full quota.
"Of the men already enlisted,
western Canada has provided more
than its share on the basis of popu-
lation. We are proud of that fact,
but why drive a willing horse off its
feet?" &