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mm . . . m$M : . . . ....... rO - . . M DAILY EDITION giiAnts pass," Josephine county, oiieoon, hvsday, sovwunsu u, 1015. WHOLE NUMliEIt 1503. No OthCifown Injho World tbo Size of Grants Pass lias a Paper With Full Leased Wire telegraph Service. V VI., No. 40. V V -i , ,0 r . - I. , r m? ' V - APP GREAT FOR MrBrairiWtH Visits TFfti!e Yalle'y'iinijjScb'iMaiilm'oth :SJrtpI(s CrownThtre-Tbal Smish"Recor:d for' Wci'glit "I law enough good beet land, with' a . ; t r t , 4 , ir I umvlaovy of water for lrrl- ipitlon, In the'Xpplokate valley alone to aupply a sugar factory with beets," ..: .. ... , . "i aald Frank, Dram well on hla re turn from. a flrat vtalt to that dlitrlct i . ,ompanled by Dr. Macy and J. H. WUUama, Waited the' upper Apple- Rate Friday, and on thtlr return Mr. Oram well became an enthualaatto . booater for the district. He waa ea- , peclally Jmprtased with the quality of the aoll for the growth of the beet. and when a H-pounder waa ahown blm said that of the hundreds of . thousands of tone of sugar beeta that . n umw otu iii-cu, no duo never veen m larger one. But Saturday Mr. Ilram well got another shock. From this aame tApplegate valley, In tho Mur phy district, there came a sugar beet that weighed 17 pounds and 3 ounces i . with the top and a part of ttte root gone. , "Of course we do not want to grow , mammoths like that for tho factory," f ,',antd ilr. Dramwell. "nut. the farm er can get the same tonnage from' his acres by growlnn two beets where ; that one waa produced. It ehowg, ' however, that the soil here has mt tho stuff In It to make the siiRnr oeei. i f The eampalKn for acreage during tbo past week has been most satisfac tory to the committee and 1o' Mr. nramwell the most . satisfactory WMk Vt lnff.nl tl.H,.ek tl, .,.L I. t... a .. . mr iriim uun. mt. uramweii tins told the committee that the -(line when Mr. NliMey and bis associates must know definitely whether or not the acreage can be secured la now at hand, for tho bulldlriR of a factory must bo gotten under headway soon to be rendy for the beeta or tho 1918 crop. Tho committee has therefore iV'ntlimi'd on Tage Five.) TURKS PROTEST in r nr m i ire ur ALUU SOIL 1Hy United Proea Ixiased Wire) , Farls.'Nov. IS. Following their -victory at Voles, the allies are trying viciously to pierce the Dujgarlan line GATE GRECIAN Along the Vardar river as the quick est means of aiding the main Sorblan amy wat of Nlab. ' ' ' Oinclal reticence concerning the ' allied landing's at-Salonlkl, however, has caused fears tyiat the forces there are not strong enough to accomplish their purpose of aiding the Serbians and checking tho Austro-Qerman drive for Constantinople, ' ; Superior forces of French artll lory are playing an Important role, mowing down masses of the enemy. While there Is doubt here as to the extent of the Salonlki lnndlngs, there ls ihevort,holeNs' hppnrontly some ap , 'prehension In the Turk and Dulgar capitals, Innsmuch as tho envoys of , thcio nations have protested to Crcere agalnHt tho landings. What course dreoce will .take la doubtful. With her, political situation upscit bv the dissolution of ' the legislature, ,(dlplomatp are.M a loss, to t1tnow. jiaf., ( wnat she win though, they ,anri ' pear confident that there will, bo no ; IrhmcdUte '!hangi 1n rotjWi policy. fivf,WA,jwv,u'',"w'' ' V'C h gIS TI TEUTON KH London, Nov.' 18. Once advancing victoriously almost . without hin drance, Ailntro-Gcrinans aloof too eastern front now are on the dofen slvo.'and IohIok bora and thoro. Russians have dealt them heavy attack! In the Riga, Dvlnsk and Vol hynla regions. The gradual collapse of the, Germans' offensive attri buted ' hire to' withdrawals for the Haitian ' 'campaign, ' and possibly to lnatt'wjUte 'munitions supplies, vammwrn'ahd ""Anting, "In the ShW ifton. 'a'ra' lu 'the' Russians' bands' aftr"e(pvtrf'"day of ' uninter rupted ' UKhVuK, 'Wile ' the" Germans, badly crippled, have been thrown back! to. the west. ' In the lkkul region,' Germans are making a desperate effort to recoup their losses,; , . ' . ' 'fr&ute was paid to the valor of i J'ung ' Lithuanian troops,'' recently t. J ' i J. . 1 1' . !m .... . . M . hurled tnto th Klga hghtln. Oalni In the Dvlnak reiclon were claimed. j With the grip of winter on the eaatern country, the "Oermana now have no chance f accomplishing their lonu-dcalred object of reaching R'8 nd Dvlnak, not at least until the roads have become firmer under the action of the frost. ' -. SHELLED AFTER PASSENGERS 1 U:.'. L'u4.: Pt(,r Leated Wire.) ' London, Nov. IS. That" the sub r.arn" aUac!;lng the Italian liner Ancona continued tft Are shells arter the pUHsengcra went overboard was the declaration today of Dr. Decile flrell. of New York, a survivor, af Forryvlllo. Tunis. ho said a shell entered tho port hole of her cabin and killed her '"U -lr- rilni tQ in ..,n 4 - a. . i ... for her CliHM n. Tho dortor rcuched tho ack too Into to get uto a llfQpont, but ho leaped for a launch. The submarine could be seen through i light fog 100 yards away. It con. tinned lta shelling, the shrapnel burnt Inir above the water line. Then she fired tho torpedo that sent the Ancona to tho bottom. MorI of the ! pnssensero, alio sold, were at lunch eon wlun the first shells were fired A wild panic rush for tho'boata fol .lowea as me sliells continued to sweep the decks. She could not clear up the situa tion concornlng the vessel's effort to escape and Just what the situation was with regard to halting. HI1IP8.0N UKK KIUE IUTTI.K WITH KIiKMKNTS ; riy United Press Leased Wire.) fcrie, Pa Nov. IS. Aground In Lake Erie in heavy weather, the coal steamer Philip Armour threatoned to pound to pieces four miles west of here today. fearing that she waa 'about to sink, her crew clambered to tho rig ging and were finally rescued by life savera. The grain steamer Perry waa re ported Bunk, with three of hor crew rescued byllfe savera. ' Shortly before noon the llfe-aaving crew was still battling with the waves In the vicinity of the two ships. I'ltl'W (K)MPKHS TKLI.H ' , OF.FIHF.HATUI MiJOIt i V ) : u ; , - San Francisco'; Nov.' 1 S.-Presldent Oompers addressed the delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention, here today, outlining the history of th organisation elnca Its formation 85,,yeara ago, Ho pdinteu to what 'he tdrmed the growing In fluence of labor In national affairs, vun? toe estauiisiiment or a laDor portfolio Infill cabinet, and tpfent favorable national labor legistatToti. ANCQNA WEN OVERBOARD 10 REDUCE Highway Ccmmission Appor tions $7,000 for Use on Wolf Creek Hill and $18,--000 for Cow Creek ' Road The state highway commission In lta allotment of funds for the prose cution of work In the various coun ties of the atate gare ' Joeephlne 17,000.' all of which Is to be expend ed upon the Pacific highway and on the Wolf Creek hill. Josephine and Douglas counties were alloted $25,- 000 for tise on th highway. The road building that can be prosecuted by use of these funds' will remove the terror of travel through the Cow Creek canyon district, though It will not do all that must be done there to make a perfect road of It. The estimate made by Engineer Cantlne was of $44,000. The' $7,000 given Josephine coun ty will be used to reduce tn grade on the Wolf Creek hill, and will make that stretch of road of an even and low, gradient. Commissioner Llnd appeared before the iboard at Salem, and It waa at hla suggestion that thla'work Is to be done. The high way will be routed through Stage (Bch,pass, which la the present route of tho road as built y Jose phine county. In making; this pass Josephine already, has an excellent aad smooth roadway with a max imum of 11 per cent grade. On the Douglas county aide of tm grade the road Is to follow down Cow creek, unless the county Itself la willing to bear the difference in cost of building by way of Glendale. In any event the Glendale hill, which has terrorized tourists for the past rew yeara la to be eliminated. If the county puts up the amount to corfnect Glendale up with the Pacific high way the road will swing to the left and the grade will be low, though the distance will be somewhat great er4. In compliance with a law passed by the last legislature, Jackson coun ty was given $40,000 for use on the Stsklyon mountain grade. , i 111 Washington, Nov. IS. Evidence obtained by the atate department concerning the activity, of Austrian Consul General Nubor of New York aa leader In alleged antUmerlcan plottlnga baa niado him persona non grata with the administration. The decision aa to what will be done with him lies with Secretary of State Lansing. , .Those facts developed today In the wake of dlsclOBurea by former Aus trian Consul Gorlcar of San Fran cisco that a spy system was fostered In thlstcountry by Nuber and Ger man Ambassador von Bcrnstorff; and announcement that the department of Justice Is probing rocent suspicious bomb explosions and fires In Ameri can munitions of war plants. If Lanslnir takes tho sten hn in re. ported to bolleve warranted by the evldenc,o, be will revoke Nubor'a exe quaturs and terminate his ofllclal status. . . , .. ... ' Otherwlso, if the socretary con- eludes that larger diplomatic mat ters with Austria would be compli cated by such a stop, he will probably let the matter rest, trusting1 that the department of Justice will circumvent injure piouings auegea against Minting ! information . U tftat mm in IDE Ifl 10 WORK ON III I. Conpleh'oa of line to Hays HUI WiQ Be Rusted -and ' Rails Will Be laid to End of Grade "by -Decoter Another crew of 25 men la to be put at work upon "the new railroad this week to "surface" the -grade as fast aa the train crew dumps the bal lasting' material. This work la to be done under the direction of Barney O'Toole, woo cornea here from Med ford (Medford'Sun please note), to take charge of this portion "of the building of the new railroad. The surfacing. crew follows the train that dumps the decomposed granite along the right-of-way," tamps the (ballast around the ties and levela up the tracks. The track laying crew will be rushed along the coming week, this consisting also of 25 men, under the foremanshlp of Frank '' Kowalsky. "Big Frank," as his associates best know him, came from Med ford (Med ford Sun please note) more than a year ago, " and has been ' associated with the building of the road since ground was first broken. .The ralla will be to Waters creek during the week, when the materials for the small bridge over that stream will be delivered on the cars and the bridge rapidly constructed. It was stated at tho office of the railroad company In this city Saturday that the bridge would be In and the rails laid to the end of the grade at Hays Hill by the 1st day of December. Besides the track-laying crew and the surfacing crew, the payroll of the company Includes also the steam shovel and the train crew, these be ing occupied in scooping up the gran ite for ballast from the Jerome Prairie hump and delivering It along the tracks. The grade nt the hump la being Kreatl reduced through the taking out of this (ballast, and will be down to a sufficiently low gradient when the work la completed. H1.1. Nuber has-been Intimately associated with a halt dosen schemes to embar rass this government, ranging from passport frauds to tlelng up export of munitions. President Gompers of the Amerl can Federation of Labor disclosed to the administration that a foreign agent approached a "high federation official" with an offer of $200,000 to cause a general strike of long shoremen. . Following this statement, the Gorlcar disclosures and other cor roborative Incidents, the government Investigation haa been redoubled. Federal Attorney Marshall of New York, in charge of the Robert Fay bomb plot prosecutions In New York, arrived here today and conferred with Assistant Attorney , General Warren over the sUuatlon. Attorney General Gregory sought to o.uls Gorlcar, but tho Providence Journal, which printed his story, in formed Gregory that tho former Aus trian diplomat .will not be "avail able" for several days. ' ' " Mrs, John Lawlor and Mrs. L. B. Eadea loft Saturday' afternoon for Sisson by rail and the men of the family leave today by team, for Sis- son, expecting to locate tber for th Winter ' ' ' , . " i. I, AUSTIN HOOPER Portland, Nor. 13. The police were convinced today that John Aus tin Hooper, alleged outlaw, want ed In California and Oregon, who broke parole In the former state, and broke jail in the latter, holds them In utter contempt. Special (Agent Lou Wagner, of the local traction company, - received a letter from Hooper postmarked Min neapolis, 'and on the corner of -the envelope waa written "Return In 10 days to' John Austin Hooper, or Out laws' Ranch." In the envelope was some advertising matter. Hooper es caped Jail several months ago . at Granta Pass, where he waa awaiting trial on the charge of robbing the Southern Pacific depot 1 Later be was arrested c In Mil waukee under an assumed name, but was released after former Governor MoGovern is aald to have Touched for him. "The Oregon authorities charge that Hooper was responsible for a num. iber of 'bold robberies in this state and California. CALIFORNIA PAVS BIG.EHD OF SALARy, -1! San Francisco. Nov. 13. Califor nia pays 12 per cent of the officers1 salaries of the Vella"Fargo" Express company. The conipany operates in nearly every state of the union, but business in this state is charged. 12 per cent of lta salary expense. This testimony was given before the Starr commission, sitting en banc, by John W. Newlan. of New1 York, vice-president and controller of the express company. Newlan testified that the salartes paid the officials were: President, $35,000 a year; first and second vice presidents, $20,000 each; third and fourth vice-presidents', $15,000. OF THE ADMIRALTY GOES TO THE FRONT (By United Press Leased Wire.) v London. Nov. 13. England's "stay at homes" had before them today the example of a man, once a foremost figure in the nation's war affairs, vol untarily, relinquishing an easy gov- ernment berth to Join his regiment. That man is Winston Churchill, one time first lord of the admiralty. Holding that he could not sit in the new war council, accepting its responsibility without a cabinet post commensurate with thla reaponalbill Ity. he resigned. As chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster hla cabinet posi tion was more or less honorary. It brought no responsibility for direct ing Britain's war fortunes. Churchill, as an officer of the Ox ford Yeomanrywlll soon foe at the front. In quitting, he expressed ap preciation for the honor of seeking to have him in the war council. His example fired some of the 'stay at homes" to action. Recruit ing officers hoped it would be an In spiration to others. His resignation, coupled with Lord Derby's threat of conscription If England's young men do tot come forward voluntarily be fore November SO, together with Churchill's example, haa created more talk than any event of recent months. , , , ; : i : England has now come to theTealU tatton that the beads of her affairs mean ' business in their , enlistment program. ' Officials wait anxiously to nitvw iu reiuna or ne realisation (PRESS OFFICERS FORMER FIRST LORD mm BACK AilD 1 Bullbog Eleven Shows ( OH Tne fightcg Spirit ad Jriss Prccdcnal Hjw HarcaBy .Sccre cf 13 to 7 ' New Haven,' Conn., Nov. 13. Un der dogs from the start of the season, maligned of the sporting experts and not conceded an outside chance- to win a week ago, the 'Yale bulldogs "came through", this afternoon and battered thelr 'way to victory over Princeton by a score- of 13 to 1. The- blue. vlctory waa, a personal triumph, lor Tom iBherliu and Gpern aey, the big. fullback with the edu cated toe. Taking bold of the team at the last 'moment 4 after other coaches apparently bad failed to bring order out .'of Yale's athletic chaos, Shevlin taught the tam suffi cient football to defeat the Tigers at their own game. ; To Guernsey went the individual honors of the gamer Th fullback who made th team two years ago, but was not considered good enough for a plaeejast year, dropped two ttautiful field goals and kicked an- other goal after, a touchdown. One of .Guernsey's efforts traveled a dis tance of 50 yards.' the best kick of the season in "big league" football. The oval settled toward the bar aa the crowd held its breath. .It ticked theabar, apparently poised for an in stant and then dropped on the other side. Pandemonium broke loose from the Yale adherents. Only a few minutes later Guernsey sent another shot through between the posts from an easier position. Yale was then six points to the food. Goaded td a frenzy, Princeton re sponded to the pleas of her rooters. Two perfect forward passes netted big gains. Click and Tibbott were sent through the line and around the ends for more yardage. - Down the field swept the black and god. Under their own goal posts Yale held doggedly. Three times GHck and Drlggs were hurled it the line. Each time the ball was stopped within inches of the chalk mark. Drlgg9 was called uoon for a final effor. .'He made good. Princeton then took her turn at vocal Insanity. Tibbott added his "bit"; by negotia ting the goal. Princeton waa ahead 7 to 6. : Yale's unbeatable spirit, aid ed by Dame Fortune, again turned the tide for the blue when one of Guernsey's punts got' away from the Prlnoeton back field and Way recov- (Continned on page 4) CLAIMS THE Ml 1-1 (By United, Press Leased Wire.) New York, Nov. 18. That a Ger man, and not an Austrian, submar-, ine sank the Italian liner Ancona, and that this meant Germany Is at war with Italy without declaration, was claimed . In a Rome dispatch to tho Evening Sun today. An Italian cabinet ofllclal Inform ed the Evening Sun," said the cable gram, "that, a German, and not an Austrian, submarine sank. the. An cona.' Italy regards' the sinking as the opening of' hostilities by Ger many without a declaration of war." ' The story asserted that other Ital ian vessels bad iboen.sunk.by, war- ships, .reported as Austrian, but In GERMAN SUB 'reality German. II. St .; I! !.'. .4 $ ft, i ;:1 MtVWCt1 ' Tit