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ter had told him so, the girl with the
were, with glints Of gold, Oh was 1t
green? She herself was as unlike the
raw bOor Of his memory as a noun
tain lily Is like the coarse rock of it's
background. Even u half-sister to
Hardin, as Marshall, their host ut din
ner he week before, had explained
it-no, even that did not explain it.
That any of the Hardin blood should
be shared by the veins of that girl,
why it was incredible! The name
Hardin" suggested crudity, loud
mOuthed Dragging; conceit. He could
understand the failure OF the river
project since the sister had assured
him that IL was the same Tom Hardin
who had gone TO college at Lawrence;
had married Gerty Holmes. Queer
business, life, that he should cross,
even SO remotely, their orbits again.
That was a chapter he liked to skip.
He walked over to the windows,
shielded by bright awnings, and
looked down on the city where the
next few years of his life might be
caught. Comforting TO reflect that an
engineer Is like n soldier, never can
be certain about tomorrow. Time
enough TO know that tomorrow meant
Tucson! What was that ~threadbare
| proverb In the Overland Pacific that
Tod Marshall always keeps his men
until they lose their teeth? That de-
fined the men who made themselves
necessary!
His eyes were resting on the banall-
ties of the modern city that had robbed
"old town" of its flavor. Were it not
for the beauty of the distant hills, the
jar and rumble Of the trains whose
roar called TO nearby pleasure cities,
%twinkling lights and crowded theaters,
stretches of parks and recreation
grounds, he, who loved the thrill and
confinement of an engine, who had
found entlcement In q desert, q chap
ter of adventure In the barrancas of
Mexico. would stifle in Tucson! Amer
lean progress was as yet too thin a
veneer on Mexican Indifference to
make the place endurable-as n city.
I'm good for a lifetime here, If /
want It," his thoughts would work
back to the starting place. IF i
knuckle down 20 It, let him grow TO
depend on me, it's as good ms settled
that / am buried in Tucsonl" Hadn't
he heard Marshall himself say that he
didn't keep a kindergarten-that his
office wasn't a training school for
men!" lie wanted his men to stay |!
That, one of the reasons of the great
mans power; detail rested on the
shoulders of his employees. 1t kept
his own brain clear, receptive to big
achievements.
Perhaps as the work unrolls, as !
see more of what he wants of me. why
he wants me, Il may like it, ] may get
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YOU want me to -fll?" His voice
sounded queer to himself-dry, mock
ing, as il anyone should know what
an absurd thing he was being asked
70 do. He felt Marshalps sharp In
dian eyes OF him, as if detecting a pet
tinesS. Well, he didn't care how Mar
shall interpreted it. That place wasn't
for him.
II want you in control down there"
Richard knew Ire was being appraised.
balanced all over again. 1t made no
difference
I'm sorry" he was beginning, when
Marshall cut in.
"Good Lord, you are not going to
turn it DOWN."
He met Marshall's incredulOus
stare. ITS a job Ed jump at under
most circumstances. But 1 can't so,
sir"
Tom Marshall leaned back the full
| swing of his swivel chair, blankly
astounded. His eyes told Richard
that he had been found wanting-he
had white blood in his veins.
"It Is good OF you to think of me-
pshaw! it is absurd ITO say these
things. You know that l know it is
an honor to be picked out by you for
| such a piece of work. I'd like to
but 1 can't"
The president of railroads, who
knew men, had been watching the
play of feature. "Take your time" he
said. Don't answer too hastily. Take
| your time"
He was playing the fool, or worse.
before Marshall, whom he respected,
whose ~partisanship meant so much.
But he couldn't help it. He couldn't
tell that stOry-he knew that Marshall
would brush 1t aside as a child's cpl
sode. He couldn't make 1t clear to
the man whose stare was balancing
him why he could not GUST Tom Har-
din.
as it a personal ~reason?' Mar
shall's gaze had returned to his ring
making.
Richard admitted 1t was personal.
"Then / don't accept it. / wouldn't
be your friend if i didn't advise you
to. disregard the little thing, to take
the big thing. Maybe you are going
to be married" He did not wait for
Richards vigorous negative. THAT
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can wait. The river won't. There's
a river running away down yonder,
running the valley, raining the homes
of families men have carried in with
them. I've asked you to save them.
There's q debt of honor to be paid.
My promise. l have asked you to pay
1t. There's history being written in
that desert. I've asked you to write
1t. And you say No"
"No! I say yesr' clipped Richard.
The Marshall oratory had swept him
to his feet.
The dramatic moment was chilled
by their Anglo-Saxon seH-conscious-
ness. An awkward silence hung. Then:
when can you goi"
To-day. tomorrow, the first train
out"
SGoodi"
"Any Instructions"
"Just stop that riverI !"
The expense?" demanded the engi-
neer. "How far can i CO."
"D-n the e~xpense!" cried Tod
Marshall. "Just go ahead"
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CHAPTER 10.
A Bit Of oratorY.

Marshall threw his hat on a chair.
the morning paper on his desk. He
aimed his burned-outscigar at the near
est cuspidor. but II fell foul, the ashes
scattering owe Sans lately secured
linoleum. Instantly there was appear.
nee of settled disorder. Marshall
emptied his pockets of loose papers,
spreading them out on his fiat-top
desk.
"Sit DOWN."
Richard took the chair Mt the other
side of the desk.
Marshall rang a bell. Instantly the
shirt-sleeved clerk entered.
II shall not see anyone" the chief
announced. II don't want to be inter
rupted. Take these to Smythe."
His eyes followed the shutting of
the door. then turned square upon
Rickard. 81 need you. It's a HI OF
a messi"
The engineer wanted to know what
kind of a smcss" 1t was
''Thnt river. It's running away from
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wild river which men had been trying
to put under work harness? Who,
wen among the stay-at-homes, had not
followed the newspaper stories of the
failure to make a meek servant and
water carrier of the Colorado, that
wild steed of mountain and desert?
What engineer, no matter how remote,
would not follow" that spectacular
struggle between men and Titans?
"GOing to send me to SaltonT" he
inquired. The railroad had been kept
jumping to keep its feet dry. His
job to be by that inland sea which
last year had been desert!
mo. Brainerd is there. He can
manage the tracks. I am going to
send you down to the break"
Richard did not answer. He felt
the questioning eyes of his chief.
The break-where those Hardins
were-how in thunder was he going
to get out of that, and save his skin?
Marshall liked his own way
"Wen consider 1t settled, then"
"Who's in charge there?" Richard
was only gaining time. He thought
he knew the name he would hear.
Marshall's first word surprised him.
"No one. Up to a few months ago
Ii was Hardin, Tom Hardin. He was
general manager of the company. He
was allowed 10 resign, to save his
face, as the Chinese say. / may tell
you that it was q case Of firing. He'd
made a terrible fluke down there"
II know" murmured Richard. II
was growing more difficult, more dis
tasteful. If Marshall wanted him Ia
supplant Hardin! Ii had been incrcd.
ible. that mans folly! Reckless gam.
bling, nothing else. Make n cut in the
banks of a wild river, without put
ting in head gates to control 1t; q
child would guess better! 1t was O
problem new. all right; the writer OF
the report he'd just read wasn't the
only one who was prophesying failure
Let the river cut back. and the gov
| eminent works at Laguna would BIZ
| useless; a pickle Hardin had made.
Still to gain time he suggested thai
| Marshall tell him the situation. "rve
| followed only the engineering side OF
1t. ! don't know the relationship o.
| the two companies"
"Where the railroad came In? The
inside Of that stoiys I'm responsible
II guaranteed 10 Faraday the CLOSING
Of that break. There was a big dis
| trict to save, a district that the rail
road tapped-but I'll tell you thai
later" He was leisurely putting blue
perfectly formed rings into the air
his eyes admiring them.
perhaps you've heard how Estrada
the general. took a party OF men into
the desert to sell a mine he owned
After the deal was made he decided
to let 1t slip. He'd found something
bigger to do, more to his liking thar
the sale OF a mine. Estrada vas q
big man. a great man. He had the
idea Powell and others had, of turn
ing the river. of saving the desert. He
dreamed himself OF doing 1t. II sick,
ness hadn't come to him the Colorado
would be meekly carrying water now
instead of flooding a country. Pity
Eduardo. the son Is not like him. He's
like his mother-you never know what
they are dreaming about. Not at al
alike. my wife and Estrada's."
Then 1t came 10 Richard that he
had heard somewhere that Marshall
and General Estrada had married sis
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them. I'm going to send you down to
stop it,"
THE Colorado !" exclaimed Richard.
II was no hose 70 be turned, simply,
off from a garden bed.
"Of curse you've been following 1t?
It's one Of the biggest things that's
happened in this part of the world.
Too big for the men who have been
trying 10 swing 1t. You've followed
it,"
eyes" Queer coincidence. reading
that report just now! 1--WE not been
there. But the engineering papers
used to get to me in Mexico. I've
read all the reports"
His superior's question was unchar-
acteristically superfluous. Who had
not read with thrilled nerves of that
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to shout for Tucson !" II was impos-
sible enough TO smile overl Child's
work. compared to Mexico.
The distinction Of serving Marshall
well certainly had Its drawbacks. He
wanted to sweep on. Whether he had
q definite terminal. a concrete goal,
had he ever stopped to thinkf Spe-
:lalizatlon had always a fascination
for him. 1t was that which had
thrown him out of his i~nstructorship
into the firebox OF a western engine.
It had governed his ours ut college
to know one thing well. and then to
prove that he knew 1t we'll! Content
ed In tho Mexican barracks. here no
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-04-03
When Man and Nature CIaShed.

Il was but a short time ago that the whoIs nation a thrilled by
new OF a mighty struggle in which mans ingenuity and strength were
ptted against the seemingly irresistible forces Of nature. The Great
Yellow Dragon, as the Indians termed the tricky Colorado river, for
many years had deHed all efforts to control il. Finally IL threatened to
overwheim the rich Imperial valley OF southern California. In a last
desperate battle, man triumphed. The raging waters were curbed. The
valley a saved. Ednah Aiken, a daughter Of the West, realized that
a wonderful story could be woven about this thrilling chapter of western
history and this is the story that she has given to the world in "The
River" II is a story OF the outofdoors, a story Of strong lei who for
get their own differences in the battle for their lives and property a
story of women who place love and loyalty above comfort and co7ver-
fence. and Of other women who, in the snaIIness Of their souls, fat to
meet the test. 1t ia a story that you will enjoy from start to finish
Editors Note.
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GRO BE c~oNTINUED)
Virtue Can Be oxerdone.

Selflessness and complaisance are
beautiful virtues, but do not forget
that a virtue carried to excess may be-
come the most irritating and dificn't
OF failings.
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Richard "goes in" and as he
goes he begins to comprehend
something Of the difficulties of
the job that he has undertaken.
Ho lcarns why the valley dis
trusts the D. r., as the valley
calls the company which Hardin
fathered and which peopied the
desert "Go In" with Richard
in the next instaiiment.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
New POStOMce To Be
Occupied Next Week

The Wailuku postoffice was not able
to take possession of it's handsome
new quarters in the new Bank of
Maui building on the first of the month
as planned owing to the fact that the
electric lighting fixtures have been de-
layed in installing. II is expected,
however, that the transfer will be ac-
complished by the first of next week.
The new postofiice presents very
attractive and handsome appearance.
The fittings, includings partitions
tables, desks, racks, ETC., are all of
pressed steel, not only of exceptional
ly neat design but of far greater dura-
bility than wooden fixtures. The lock
boxes are fitted with combination
locks doing away with the necessity
for keys.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
CALL FOR BIDS ON NEW HIGH
SCHOOL is WITHDRAWN

Because it was found impossible for
contractors to secure prices on ma
terials in the time given, the call for
tenders for constructing the new Mani
high school building were recalled last
week. The bids were to have been
submitted for consideration of the
board of supervisors at the meeting
next week.
1t is expected that the matter will
be taken up at the coming meeting
and some other arrangement made for
getting the work started as soon as
possible. The fact that only a part of
the building could be contracted for
on account of insufficient appropria-
tion also made it necessary to have
the specifications changed, which re-
quires some time.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
LURLlNE DELAYED BY WINDS
COAST MAIL DUE TOMORROW

Owing to delay caused by strong
head winds, the steamer Lurline, due
in Honolulu on Wednesday morning,
did not arrive there until Thursday.
She brought weeks mail from the
coast, Maui's share of which will ar
rive tomorrow morning.
> The Lurline was expected to arrive
in Kahului tomorrow morning, but
owing to her delay in reaching the
Islands she will not come over until
Monday morning. She will take on
about 1000 tons of the new sugar crop
the first to leave Maui About half
of this is from the Maui Agricultural
Co. and the rest from the Hawaiian
Commercial & Sugar Co. She will
also probably take some pineapples
The vessel will get away from Ka-
hului Monday night for Honolulu.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Sunday School Worker
Calls For More Teachers

Lack of teachers is the biggest
handicap of the Sunday Schools of
the territory today, according to Miss
Edna ]. Hill, field worker of the Sun
day school department of the Ha-
waiian Board, who is now on Maui in
connection with her work Miss Hill
is very well known on Maui, having
for a number of years been a mem
Der of the faculty of the Maunaolu
seminary. She is now a resident of
Honolulu.
Miss Hill states that the Sunday
schools all over the territory are liter
ally swamped with pupils for which
no teachers can be found. One school
in Honolulu, she says, has had ac-
tually to lock its doors in order to be
able to tea h the children for which
there are accommodations. She hopes
to be able to stimulate an interest in
this work on Maui and to enlist new
volunteers
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Resist Commission
Government t--Bunker
Woman'S Club Hears InteSeSting
Talks On Vital Problems Pressing
For Solution Educational Work
Chief Hspe Of Future.

The meeting of the Maui Woman's
Club last Monday afternoon at the
Kahului community house, was per-
haps the most interesting of any that
have yet been held by the new or
ganization. 1t was well attended,
some rs ladies from all parts of Maui
being present.
An address by DR.. Frank Bunker,
head of the federal school survey
party, was listened 10 with greatest
attention by all present, and formed
perhaps the chief feature of the meet
ing. DR.. Bunker asked that his re-
marks be not repeated
Much of his talk had to do with
the problems which the territory is
facing in connection with her Oriental
and other alien population. He gave
some significant figures in connection
with this matter, but forbore making
Continued on page Eight, Column 81
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Wailuku Orpheum
Closed AS Unsafe
Discovery That Supports Are Badly
ROtted Causes Action By Manage
ment-New Building Being Plan
ned Hip" Thsater To Be Used

Owing TO the discovery that the
building is unsafe, the Wailuku Orp-
heum was closed on Wednesday and
the announcement made that it is to
be torn down and rebuilt. This deci-
sion was arrived at after the arrival
from Honolulu of II. B. Weller, lessee
of the building, on Tuesday.
Beginning tomorrow night the Orp-
heum pictures will be shown in the
old Hippodrome theater on Market
street.
There had been a rumor current for
a week or more that the Orpheum
building was in a dangerous condition,
and an expert investigation confirmed
this report, Although rebuilt only
three or four years ago, the support
ing posts are so badly rotted that it
is said they are likely to collapse un-
der any undue strain. The roof truss
es are declared also to be weak and
inadequate.
The theater management announces
that plans for a new structure are be-
ing prepared by Dickey q Wood,
architects, in Honolulu.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Food Inspector Says
Maui Was Filthy
Ten Days Investigation Brings To
Light Disgusting Conditions In
Restaurants And Food Stores
Some Closed Some Things Found

Several Maui restaurants were clos
ed by their proprietors in order to
avoid prosecution, and large number
of other eating houses, bake-shops and
stores were ordered to clean up by
Food Inspector and Analyst M. B.
Bairos, of the board of health, who
has been making a thorough inspec-
ton of all such places on Maui during
the past two weeks. Filthy and un-
sanitary condition of the premises
was the cause of all these orders.
Mr.. Bairos returned to Honolulu on
Wednesday. During his visit he and
Sanitary Inspector George Weight
visited and thoroughly examined some
$50 different places where food is sold
or handled. They covered practically
all of the islands except the Hama dis
trict and about Is other places which
will be attended to very shortly
Besides stores, bake shops and
restaurants, the inspection also includ-
ed all meat markets, poi shops, dairies,
soda water factories, ice cream par
lors, etc. Most of the trouble dis
covered was caused, Mr.. Bairos says,
through neglect, carelessness or ignor-
ance, or all combined. Some in
stances of adulterated food and mis-
branding of food was discovered
MnaL EAaL nasx.1Ha1
A large quantity of food products
Continued on Page Eight Column p
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Heavy Rain Brings
Relief To Farmers

The drought of the past several
weeks, which was becoming exceed
ingly serious in some parts of Maui,
was broken on Wednesday night and
Wednesday morning by heavy kona
rain which lasted for several hours.
In Wailuku the precipitation recorded
was 17S inches, while at Puunene 81
inches are reported.
The rain was heavy throughout the
Kula district, especially around to-
wards Ulupalakua and Kanaio, and
was a big. relief to farmers and stock
men.
Through eastern Makawao the rain
was less heavy. At Camp so inches
fell, and at Hamakuapoko SO inches
were recorded.
While the rain was of immense
value to the plantations and farmers,
il did not last long enough to be of
the greatest value, much of it running
off Immediately. Indication are, how
ever, that the storm is not over, and
that more rain may be expected with
in a few days.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Work Being Pushed
At Fair Ground
Territorial Building Nearing Compile
tiOn-LandScape Work Will Make
Park A Place Of Beauty In Few
Years

A meeting of the Maui County Fair
& Racing Association is being held
this afternon in the chamber of com
merce room, Wailuku, to discuss the
plans for the formal opening of the
new territorial building and for decid-
ing upon details in connection with
the New Years race meet and other
matters in connection with the work
of completing the buildings and
grounds.
Between 20 and so men are still at
work on the buildings and grounds of
the new fair grounds. The larger part
of these are working on the finishing
of the new territorial building.
This building has already had one
coat of paint on the outside and is
partly painted inside 1t is expected
to have it ready to turn over to the
association by ChristT orc
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05
Pineapple Ranch
Brings Good Price
Haiku Homestead Used As Demon
StratiOn Farm Sold For $12,50O
Buyer Sells Crop For $65OO-
Buyer Is Pineapple Man.

Considerable interest centers in the
sale of one of the Kuiaha-P -Pauwela
homestead lots in the Haiku pine
apple district, record of which trans
fer was made last week The lot
was sold by F. G. Krauss and wife to
Luke Hebert, and the price paid was
$12,500. The lot contains between 35
and 40 acres. The price is the high
est yet paid for any pineapple land
in the district
The lot in question is designated
on the map as lot No. 2, and is locally
known as the Patterson lot" 1t is
not the Krauss homestead proper, but
was brought by Mr.. Krauss in 1915
after the original homesteader of the
lot, W. R. Patterson, had, through a
combination of circumstances, made
a failure. The price paid at that time
was $4,000.
Building Up A Farm
Although the price of the recent sale
seems high, Mr.. Hebert has already
sold the growing crop of Is acres on
the place for $4,000, or more than half
of the purchase price Besides this
there is 20 acres of pigeon peas grow
ing which has a high value as stock
feed Mr.. Hebert is superintendent of
the Haiku Fruit & Packing Co.'S can
merry.
In buying the farm four years ago,
Mr.. Krauss, who is director of the Ha-
wall experiment sub-station, used it as
a demonstration farm and spent a
great deal of time and money in build
ing up the soil through rotation crops
and legume crops. In fact he states
cally the same amount of money that
has been put into it. A good many in
teresting experiments were carried out
on the farm, the results of which have
generally been very satisfactory.
The pineapple crop now growing on
the place is said to be the finest in
the district, and is a good illustration
of the benefits gained from scientific
soil management. A portion of this
area in pineapples has also grown
pineapples before The pines harvest
ed last year averaged 20 tons per acre
with only 1/21 part of the fruit class
ed as No. 2.