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DAILY EDITION ' ' VOL. VI., No. 48, GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1018. WHOLE NUMBER 1592. - . '. '. .i T "NoOtiicr Town to the World the Size of Or ants Pass Has a Paper With' Full Leased Wire. Telegraph Service. J',1"" .JSS!SS?S!! l!.J,'!iJLLil !SS!!SSSg!l!?ST!l!rTr? . 111 1 - ' nmm DISSOLVED BY KINS Constants Throws Down Gauntlet to tie War v Party in Greece, and Calls fcr a New Election Next IWk.ifJ: London, Nor. 12. King Constan- tine baa dissolved the Grecian psr- " r J ZZZ. :., kV k llament, thereby Anally throwing ' lf Mtb?r h? own th. gauntlet to the war party. 2 ? " T? Thla action evidently followed J between the Serb. When he took thl. radical .fp. the "J 'be,rh ftf "fugs-Mont.-former Premier Venlieloa'.refuaal to. ,i 0, 1-.-t 4 V t Mt1niiill -wtlttl-tlfMf ' with Ita "benevolently neutral" lead er and Ita Zalmla member. In dlaaolvlng parliament the king did deliberately what Venlselos had declared be f had no power to do la much as, Veulieloi claimed, the question of what stand the nation should take toward war waa settled six months ago when the eountry re turned him to power. ( The king selected December It a the date for the elections, a time earlier than had been expected. king presumably was convinced of a satisfactory result from his stand point from ths handful of electora ( ante to cast the ballot now me army Is mobilised. In fact, "evidences have pointed to a disinclination on Venl ieloa' part to force the people again to go ' on record. It had been be lieved here that lie felt, In a final show-down, the peoplo might remain loyal to the king. J The former premier's course la be- Ing watched anxiously here, how- ever, for It la felt among diplomats that If he rouse the people against the king a revolatlon la probable, i Events In Grecian political affairs . Williams aro in the Provolt dls ' have turned with kaleidoscopic swift- trlct, tbls being the first visit In the neas and variety In the past few Williams country. Mr. Williams is months. especially taking up with the farmers Venlxelos, forced out once, appeal- n the upper Applegate and Williams d to the nation on a platform (rank- valleya the question of transportation, lly pro-ally and pre-war.. He waa re- it being the Intention to establish a turned. Again a show-down came, truck line If enough beeta are plant and Venlselos resigned with his cab- 'ed there to Justify It. Rousing meet Inot. though his henchmen still re- ings were held at Olendale, the farm talned the upper hand In parliament. 4n there being much enthused over Zalmla waa named premier and a the project. Upwards of 200 acres new cabinet waa chosen. The Venl- were' signed Op at that place, and xeloeltes forced Zalmla out. The king more will be added before the week chose Bkouloudls as premier, a man a 0ver. The local committeemen are frankly sympathetic with the allies mucn encouraged over the prospect j and 'benevolently neutral" toward ,d state that If there la no ret up In them, but not so partisan as Venl- the effort or the enthualasm the fsc selos. Behind him wss the same tory will be a aure go. Some of our cabinet personnel, with on excep- people are, now giving their entire lion, as the Zalml ministry. time, to the J move and all the cltliena Th Venlselos opposition apparent- respond In tlTe right spirit when call ' ly continued. Hence, likely, ths king 6a Upon. a It la necessary for the decided on thla final step of dlsso-tCommtttees to visit some of the dls lutlon and an appeal to the nation, trlcta several times, and the services TWO MILLION DOLLARS FOR RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT; Tacoma, Nor. II. Nearly two mil lion dollara will be apent in the northwest for Improrementa by th Oregon-Washington railroad, accord ing to announcement by J. P. O'Brien, vice-president of the com pany, here today. This big expendi ture, which Is being made In port for the Union Paclflo alone, but the bulk of it for the O.-W. It. & N. and" Oregon Short Lino railroads, was do tlured by railroad men as the best Indication of recent months of the certain Improvement of general ibiml ncHg conditions. O'llrlon snld that onlors had been given for fifty million foot of lumber for tiesrouting approximately $400, '000, Jo bo Biippllod n tho northwest. LINOTYPE OPERATOR II 1,1 It TO FORTUNE Salem, Nov. 12. James Murray, rn, linotype operator, Is heir today to 50,000, part of the estate of an uncle who died on the Isle of Man recently.' ' , HI ARMY 13 FLEEING BEFORE ITS C0II0UERORS Derlln, Tit Wireless to Sayvllle, Nov.12 Spreading their clutches after the fleeing Serbs, the Teuton armies hare captured 1,700 more prisoner!, making a total of (.700 reported la two days. . Today' official announcement told of thla capture, along with 11 can non, In the Rlbard dlxtrlct northwest of Man. The main army of the hard-preued Morara. ' One Austro-German body of troopa WHITE STAR LINER ORETIO IN DEATH ZONE ' New York, Nor. II Steaming their way toward Naples, the White 8tar liner Cretlc, with 1,038 paasen gera, and the Lloyd . Italian liner Caaerta, with ' 1.S00 othera, were thought today to be In the "death tone" where the Italian, liner An cona met her fatebefore an Austrian aubmarlne torpedo. , ' GUILE SIGHS FOR SUGAR BEETS The beet acreage commltteea aro doing great work these days, and if perseverance and energy will got any where, the requirements of the fac- tory builders will e met. Today Messrs. Bramwcll, Dr. Macy and J. of Mr.,.Bramwell, being required in so. many instances, the work can not be 0oge(i up Saturday night ILLINOIS STEEL PLANT WILL HE ENLARGED (By United P,rssi Leased Wire.) Gary, Ind., Nor, 12. Three thous and men , will share in Gary's new prosperity, it is estimated, as a re sult of the Illinois Stool company's proposal to enlarge Its vast works hero at a cost of 97,500,000.' PRESIDENTIAL REE ; RVZZINf FOR RRYAN " Mftrldtnn, Miss., Nov. 12. That former Secretary Bryan was after tho proHtdiMitjnl nomination toxt year Is belinvo'il here from guarded state ments from J. M. Mcnenth, chairman of .the state democratic, committee, nnd J iid o Cochran, prominent demo crat.' Tlvey hlntod Bryan already Is planning to capture the state delega tion In the national democratic con vention and that he will sook the sup portof prohibition and suffrage ad vocates, ,, ACREAGE ALLIES PUSH THRQUGHTO I SERBS, Bulgarian Troops OJerfcg Strong Resistance to Ad vasce cf British snd Freirch Abg a Sxty-tSle Frct Bucharest, Nor. 12. Pushing their way obstinately to the aid of Serbia, th allies, advaaeing from the coast. have met strong resistance from the Bulgars along a 60-mlle front from Velea to southeast of StrumnlUa. Th Bulgars' efforts to check the In vaders, however, have been rain. The allies occupied Gradsko, and the French artillery .clipped off men and silenced guns, clearing the way for the oncoming of th British French infantry and cavalry. The Bulgar retreat northeast of Velea verged Into a rout with; heavy losses. Meantime the allies are re ceiving constant reinforcement from Salonlkl. Bulgarian dead lay In heaps at many points. They have had but little time to cover them with even a layer of earth. f . In the north the Teutons are press ing their invasion, tut, as a jear ago, they are meeting with difficulty from fighting -teethe meuntaUs, known Intimately to the Serb de fenders and affording them a protec tlon and at the same time leaving the invaders largely at their mercy, Several thousand new allied troops were rushed toward Serbia from Sa lonlkt today to augment a force which Is now growing to menacing propor tion. ONLY ONE SEAMAN SAVED FROM TORPEDOED SHIP London, Nov. II. The British steamer Rhlneland, of 1,500 tons', has been sunk by a submarine and only one seaman has been accounted for. The locality of the attack waa with held. ' . FORD JIUSTIII Wsshlngton, Nor. 12.Dr. Josef Gorlcar, former Austrian consul at San Franciaco, waa accused In an Austrian embassy statement today of plotting with Russian and Serbian agents, intent on disseminating dis loyalty among Austro-Hungarlan emlgranta. This' statement Was Issued In re sponse to the Providence Journal's publication today of a story In which Gorlcar waa quoted as saying that the country Is honeycombed with German and Austrian spies, directly under German Ambassador von Bern storft and Austrian Consul General Nubor of New York. Moreover, Oorl oar charged that every AuBtro llungarlan consulate In the country Is "a hot bed of propaganda tor the destruction of munition factories, for the creation of atrikea among labor meu working In such factories and tor every act of violence that Is be ing committed hero having these ob jects In view." f T' , Perhaps the moBlvStarJllnsciMm! was that the naval VWitfio-'eftbe, Austrian embassy i xtlixljloBtott sought last your, whru Gojaj iwai stationed at San Frniki'Vao, 'to, hay him obtain plans of ,ill tho 'rbpUnea tlons and defensos Ffrinolseb harbor and the Paqillo cba8ty JIo claimed, the Journal, ' I10 was Instructed particularly, ,t j get every possible detail '.tt ,tte operation activities, machine if,' -content! i ld IV1 A Y F 0 R C E T BATTLE England Threatens Ccnscrip- tica Unless Mere Soldiers Are Enlisted, Need fcr Trcc;s Being Presdng; London, Nor. 12. England .was confronted today by an official threat of conscription. Her young men must come forward voluntarily be fore November 20 la answer to the summons "Tour King and Country Need You." else Lord Derby, director of the voluntary enlistment system, will take steps to enforce his threat of using "other means" than requests for filling the army ranks. ' Moreover, men seeking to khteld themselves as In the "married men's class" by weddings since the regis tration day, August 15, will atlll be regarded as single men. - ' Lord Derby has said the single men must volunteer before he would attempt to gather In the married men. ' . ' The conscription threat came in a statement from the press bureau, In which Derby said the premier au thorised him to express surprise that his announcement in, the bouse of commons of an intention to tak the "other means" had been found ambl guoua. Then he set forth the pro nouncement which caused England today to realise that conscription may be extremely near. "Lord Derby Is authorized to state definitely that if young men medical' ly fit and not Indispensable to any business of national Importance or any business conducted for the gen eral good of the community do not come forward voluntarily before November 30, the government after that date will take the necessary steps to redeem the pledge made on November 2 (that 'other and com pulsory' means would be taken be fore married men are called on to fulfill their engagement to serve)." strength of the Bremerton navy yard on Paget Bound. Refusing to get these facts,' the paper said, he was transferred in April, 1214, to Berlin and later on dered to Vienna. Instead, fearing that because of his pro-Qlevis affl nations he would be Imprisoned pr killed, according to the paper, he fled to Rome and later resigned.' 1 . Von Nuber and th German privy counsellor at New York were parti cularly denounced tby Gorlcar, who claimed they were engaged In acti vities dally sufficient to drive them from the country. ' The department of Justice an nounoed that It would Btart an lm mediate Investigation of Goricar's charge that American Correspondent Archibald knew the contents of the papers he carried abroad for Aus trlan Ambassador Dumba which later caused the American request for tho amboasador's withdrawal from this country. Now York, Nov. 12. German Am bassador von Bernstorff Intimated to day that he would Ignore the Provi dence Journal's latest "expose" of Tontonlo, propaganda In America. "I havo nothing to say," he com mented, whon told of the charges of tho former Austrian Consul Gorlcar accusing htm and the New York Austrian consul general with being the center of a spy system honey combing tho United States. CABINET HOLDS FIRST L1EEJIIIG HI MAHY nOHTHS Washington, Nov. 12. Though President Wilson conferred today with Lis cabinet an hour the first time In months It "was positively stated that the session was not due to any crisis over the sinking of the Italian liner Ancona. He will hold the meetings every Tuesday and Fri day hereafter, and they promise to be of vital Importance. Because of the conflicting reports In the Ancona case, the cabinet did not take up this question at all to day. It was understood that the meeting was given up chiefly to the question of the administration, mili tary preparedness program . The pre sident, It was said, presented aa out line of his plans. The president's first message to congress probably will deal almost entirely with the subject of increased appropriations for the army and nary. Meantime, the cabinet has under con sideration what steps shall be takes to raise revenues wherewith to sup ply the large amounts. ' : The absence of Secretary of Com merce Redfleld was at first thought to be due to the difficulties with the president over proposed trade legis lation, trat this suggestion was swept away with the announcement that the secretary is in Georgia. , ' , REVISED LIST 6 Great Bend, Kas., Nov. 12. Six dead stood today as the revised total from the terrific twister which ploughed through here Wednesday night. , In addition three dangerous ly hurt persons were In hospitals. Great Bend handled Its own relief work, asking no outside aid. A re lief committee sought funds from citizens, and the response brought forth more offers of ( homes for the homeless than are needed. . With the water and light supply shut off, the town has been forced to carry its water from wells and to do Its reading by candlelight. Water Is expected to be in the mains tonight. Many strange freaks of the twister were reported today. Under-Sheriff Duncan saved himself by holding to the roots of a rose bush. John Brown tried to out-distance the tor nado in his six-cylinder auto, but it beat him to It and bowled over the car, slightly injuring the occupants. ALLIES HAVE KOW III Monastir, Serbia, Nor. 11 . (Delay ed). The allies are firmly establish ed in southern Serbia. ; ' Monastir, Prilep and the surround ing region were in Imminent danger for a time from the Bulgars, but the French saved these points when they recaptured Veles. Large numbers of Austria's Croa tian and Dalmatian subjects who sympathize with the Serbs are de sorting their cause and are flocking to the Serbs' standard. The kaiser, extending his congratu lations to the Bulgars for their suc cess in capturing Nish,' referred to the Serbs as a "band of brigands." The Teutons know aUlrast that the Sorbs fight with the ferocity of "brigands." i, American doctors escaped from the town of Uskub before the Dulgara arrived there. ; Thoy are due here tonight after taking a roundabout route through Albania. ; That the Bulgars detained Lady Paget is con firmed. . ' GIVES TV7STER ID FOOTHOLD SOUTHER! SERBIA OVERTURES FOR PEACE David Starr Jordan, Delate cf fcternSczd Ccsress, VfcSs Pres. Wibcn WEI a Fb for llcdral Mzzs Washington, Nor. 12. DellniU overtures toward peace from a group of leading neutral nations will be) made by Christmas, Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stan ford Junior university, predicted to day. This optimistic statement fol lowed a visit by Jordan to President Wilson in the capacity of delegate from the International Peace con gress at Saa Francisco to urge the chief executive to Join in creating a neutral nations' commission to fur ther peace. . - f ' ' On December 14 peace delegates from the leading neutrals will meet la Berne, Switzerland. From this session, Jordan said, Is "expected to develop a commission of qnasl official delegates from neutral coun tries who would address a mediation proposal to the belligerents. . He expressed the personal belief that, regardless of America's action toward the proposal the other coun tries weald' "nct.ay : wayf Washington. Nor. 12. Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stan ford university, asked President Wil son today if the United States would unite with other neutrals in a re quest to establish a peace commission to end the war on the basis of inter national Justice. What the president answered was not learned. --.Jordan's advices were Interpreted as being definite overtures from many neutrals, who possibly were inspired by belligerents. ', Jordan, recently delegated by the International Peace conference as its spokesman, said after seeing the pre sident: . ' '. . "I merely called the president's at tention! to onr desire that , he co operate with these neutrals la es tablishing a body to unite on continu ous efforts, toward conciliation. The commission would act as a sort of a clearing house on peace ideas. In a war like this political leaders must save their own faces. All the belli gerents want peace, but do not say so until they tell others than their enemies.".-I y v. ' The commission's Idea was formu lated in the Saa Francisco conven tion. Formal approval of such a plaa has been received from Holland, Den mark,- Switzerland, Norway and Spain. It it is formed, Jordan would suggest that it. meet at The Hague, Copenhagen or Berne about Christ mas.' i' v "This would be a fitting and effec tive time for such a conclave," he commented. ' An Informal meeting of peace ad vocates from neutral nations will be held December 14 at Berne to take preliminary steps toward accomplish ing the alms of the International Peace congress. Jordan added that if the commis sion la successful in ending the war, it would be maintained to work for everlasting peace. "Even If it shortened the war by only-a day," he said, "it would pay for Itself a thousand times." The commissioners from the neu tral nations have no way of binding their home countries, hence their ac tivities are informal. PREMIER'S DAUGHTER WILL WED NOVEMBER 20 . London, Nov. 1 2. -Violet Asqulth, the premier's daughter, will wed Maurice Bonham Carter, Novem ber 20. ' 1 f iw,wl w: he,-- i