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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1915)
foettiti Daily Weather Report sass- Knir Tonight anil Tlnirndny. Highest temp, yesterday ...80 Lowest temp, last night ...51 The News For Results - If you have lost or found. If want to buy or Mil, If you want work or workers, V'se The News Classified Ads. liOSKHUlMi, lKA'GLAS COUNTV, O tEGO.V VK1XKS1.YY, Al'd'ST 18, 1013. . Xo. i 111 VOL. VI. TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS TEXAS Property Loss Will Amount to Many Millions TEXAS CITY REPORT 50 SOLDIERS DROWN With Teh-phone and Telegraph Wires Down, Communication is Difficult Death List , May Grow. HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 18. One person is knowii to have been killed here and scores injured while the property loss 511 run Into millions as the result of the terrific gulf storm. Ten thousand telephones are out of commission, and efforts are, being made to restore communica tion v ith Dallas, but the work goes slow. The reports declare that Bay Shore is hard hit, and Seabrook, 25 miles from Houston, is reported as Veing annihilated. A Santa Fe train c.-evr arriving at Smithvillc report- 'at eighteen bod:e3 were found nt Hitchcock, 20 miles from Gal veston. Houston papers reaching Austin, reported that ten houses were blown down in a suburb of Balaiz, with two deaths reported. The news from Galveston is frag mentary, but five are reported dead, and a property damage of millions. Six are reported as being dead 'nt Morgan's Point. Intense Suffering at San Antonio, SAX ANTONIO, Aug. 18. A wire less from the transport Buford at t-alveston said: Considerable suf fering in the city. The water, elec tric light and car systems of the city are all out of commission. No urinhing water and three hundred feet of the causeway has been de stroyed." Death List of Storm Grows. DALLAS, Aug. 18.--Twenty seven are reported as being dead at Hous ton, Hitchcock, Bellaire and Mor gan's Point, from the terrific storm of the past two days. Stories of towns being wiped out and families drowned are beginning to drift in. Relief measures are alreadv started With details lacking, it is feared that a large death roll will be reported when communication is restored, There is grave anxiety that the situ ation at Galveston will develop a dis heartening story. Fifty Soldiers Kejorted Drowned HOUSTON, Aug. 18. Fifty United States soldiers are reported as hav ing been drowned in Texas City, and a property damage of four hundred thousand. One unidentified civilian perished. General Bell reported to the war department that ten sol diers were drowned at Texas City, and a number painfully injured. The city is under martial law. GOVERNOR WILL INVESTIGATE ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 18. Gover nor Harris will investigate the lynch ing of Leo Frank under his person al supervision. The governor is not satisfied with the interest taken in the Frank case by the state prison board. He desired an explanation of the conditions at Milledgeville which resulted in the prison officials offering no resistance to the kidnap ping of Frank. The act km of the po lice of Atlanta in permitting gres.t crowds to view the body uf Tiank In the undertaking establishment ore also to be Investigated. The body of Frank was taken to Brooklyn for burial at midnight. K-Govcmor Makes Statement SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Ex Ciuvernor Slaton, of Georgia, declared yesterday that it was better that Leo Frank was lynched by a mob than if his legal execution had taken place. Mr. Slaton's address, devoted al most entirely to discussion of the Frank case and the lynching of Frank, was delivered in the presence of most of the members of the Cali fornia supreme court and other per sons of prominence at a meeting of the California Civic League. "I would prefer Frank to have been lynched by a mob, Mr. Slaton said, "rather than to have him hang ed by judicial mistake. Kxalted Position of Sex Blamed. One attacks the soul of civiliza tion; the other merely reaches the body. "This has been such a lesson to Georgia that I hope it will never occur again In our civilization. "At the bottom, the horrible out come of the Frank case was the re sult of the exalted position of wo man In Georgia." Mr. Slaton reviewed the hi3tory of the murder of Mary Phagan and Frank's trial to show that the peo ple of Georgia rallied to the cause of what they thought was justice. "There are conditions about the Frank case," Mr. Slaton said, "whic.: constitute a tribute to the srate of Georgia. Approval of Stand Is Fpctid. "No wonder it is hard to open the ears of the people of Georgia to rea son. They forgot the ! ntity of the offender in the msgnitiid'; ol the of fense. "There were lun.ny good people, as good as I, who d': yi'-t ed with me he- cause they said I set aside the ver-' diet of a jury and interfered with; the functions of a duly constituted' court of law. There are thousands of these good people who disagreed j with me. criticised and condemned 1 me. "When these good people find out" the truth of the Frank case, their! general condemnation will turn into general approval and they will say1 to me: As governor of Georgia you i saved th? state from a stain wMch never could havo been eradicated'." 1 income taxes ix central a.mekh a la"' went into effect on April 30, 1915, in Salvador, imposing an In come tax on every one having an an nual income of over $":!. The nor mal tax, to use our American phrase, is 2 per cent and covers all persons recoiving from $73 to $180. - Those receiving from $180 to $3(Jo pay 3 per cent; those receiving from $;; to $550, 4 per cent, and all receiving over $550, 5 per cent. G1VK AWAY SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Fifty thousand pacakages valued at $15, 000 were distributed by exhibitors In the food products palace at the pvncttion today. v' . . l S. SOLDI KRS ENTRENCH AIR SHIPS AGAIN RA1DJNGLAND Ten Killed Many Wounded By Bombs From Aircraft BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK IN AEGEAN SEA Austrian Warships Make Attack t'lMm Italian Port in The Adriatic Sea Are Jtepulsed. LONDON, Aug. IS. German Zep pelins again raided the east coast of Kngland last night, , the admiralty announced. Ten were killed and 30 wounded by the bombs which were hurled from the air craft. This Is the third raid of England within the past two weeks. The admiralty merely suited that a raid had occur red against "the east counties'. The official statement expressed the be lief that the British anti-aircraft guus had damaged the Zeppelins. The bombs were dropped on a church and other buildings. The victims were all civilians. LONDON, Aug. 18. The sinking in the Aegean sea by a German sub marine of the British transport Royal Edward with heavy loss of life has shattered the proud tradition of the British navy of having transported hundreds of thousands of men across the sea without the destruction "of rue troop-laden ship. On two previous occasions trans-' ports have been attacked. The Way farer was torpedoed by a submarine in the Irish sea but the vessel was not sunk and only five lives were lost The Manitou was attacked by a Tu'k ish torpedo boat in the Aegean sea and although the ship was not dam aged 54 lives were lost through the breaking of a rope as a boat was be ing lowered. The los3 of tYe Royal Edward is a serious one at this moment.. The men it carried were not part of a new expedition but were 'rein foremen ta for the 29th division which has been on the Ca lit .oii peninsula since the first landing and which received pi;;- high praise from General Hamilton lr. his report on the initial and sub sequent operations. The news came ?s a shock to the British public who believed the submarine menace in the Aegean had been dealt with cus cssfully. This is the first occasion i WATCHFULLY-WAITING ON THE RIO GRANDE. ,. .r.----J'''.,---r-' ' ' 5 i ED AND READY FOR ACTION O since the sinking of the battleship Majestic on .May 27 by German sub marines which made the long trip to the Dardanelles, have scored a success. Twenty VanlilKi Make Attack. ROME, Aug. 18. Twenty Aus trian warships and one aeroplane at tacked the Island of Pelagosa. in the Adriatic, It is announced. The Ital ian artillery repulsed the cruft, four Italians being killed during the bombardment. GREAT FORTRESS BERLIN, Aug. 18. Kovno, the powerful Russian fortress at the northern end of the line Howards which the Slavs retreated from War saw and the Vistula front, was storm ed and captured by the forces of von Hindenburg last night, the war of fice announced. ovno, . together ; with nil its forts and the war mater ial, not yet counted, is in the hands of the Germans since last night, .the statement said. "More than four hundred cannon were taken. The forts were stormed despite a strong resistance." The capture of Kovno Is the most important German vic- , tory since the fall of Warsaw, and Its oecunation forecasts the surrender by Ihe Slavs of the Kovno-Breat ' Lltovsk line along which the Rus sians planned to make their stand until their armies recovered from the Vistula defeat and obtained more ' ammunition. SUMMER RESORT I SWEPTBY FIRE j ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. IS. The Leland hotel, McCamon's geu,- eral merchandise store, and aoul 20 cottage and other small buildings were destroyed by a fire at Mocllps, a summer rosoi". early this morn ' The (himsge is estimated at $25,000. Mr. S. .laeques. one nf the prom inent residents of Glendale, arrived " the city yesterday afternoon, and after talking a short time with Runs Harness, he made the deal for one of the new 1916, five passenger Ov erlands. Acocmpanles by Mr. Har ness he left for home In the new ma chine this morning. Inside his coat pocket was nlso a receipt for a year sdvance to The News. 4 THE MEXICAN BORDER NO QUARTER IS ASKED OR GIVEN Warfare Without Mercy Being Waged By Turks. BOAST THAT THEY TAKE NO PRISONERS All Turkey Realizes That the Fute of The Ottoman Empire Depends on lloltliiig lHrdaueHc. Uy Heiir)' Wood. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 21--(By Courier to Dedeagatch and thence by mail to New York.) A warfare al most without quarter Is being con ducted by the Turks on the Galllpoll peninsula, according to stories cir culated here. That no prisoners aro being taken Is freely charged. "What becomes of some of the Eng lish and French who fall into the 'I'N r "rks, was unconsciously tipped ff by one of the Turkish wounded recently. Upon his arrival at a hospital at which the American 'ted Cross is in pierce he expressed his amazement nt the resemblance of the American doctor, whose name for obvious reasons I dare not mention, to an English soldier whom his com pany had taken prisoner a few days before and later had killed. "But why did you kill him?" de manded the American Red Cross doc tor. "Why, be was our prisoner,' repli ed the simple-minded and somewhat puzzled Turk. No doubt exists any longer in the mind of any Turk that the existence -" t ie Ottoman rrnt- N nt stake In tbo fighting now going on at the Dardanelles. This is believed to ex plain to a large degree the manner in which the last men of tho em pire are still coming forward to fight and in which the government Is per mitted .without protest to drain the entire country of its last resource for the conduct of the war. Not a day passes at Constanti nople that the trains and boats do not bring in small but fresh contingents of men from the farthest the empire. As a rule each lot does not number more than 50 or they come regularly every day if not several times a day. For the most part now they are old men with gray hair and gray 'boards. They march Btolidly Into town, clad In rags with which they left their herds or vil lages, and proceed to the commissary headquarters. There they are fitted out with uniforms and arms and a few days later march out again for tho Dardanelles. In equal manner every incoming train pud ship brings its Utile quota of food for tlie army. For the most part, this consists of a herd of sheep. It is driven through tho streets of the'clty from the train or boat thatj brought It in, to the army slaughter' house, and the next day it too Is ....1,1 to the Dardanelles In the form of fresh meat. To secure food . supplies for the army tho government has adopted the rule of requisitioning everything it needs. Only a very few Instances has even a small portion of the price been paid in cash. The rule Is to give a receipt which stales that the government at some Indefinite time in tho future will pay. In snmge contrast to tho offlrlnl announcements of continued sue cesse.n by the Turkish troops on t ho Jienlnsula ;'ls hn arrival of the wounded, liven without tnc offii.lal announf'n- ;it that an tngn genie nt had taken place 1 ho population of Constantinople would know It In 2 I hours by the arrival of wounded. When the approach-of a hospltnl ARE THEY PLAYING FOOTBALL GAME? I)NI)ON, Auk. IS. A K.iln of five hundred yards for tho HrltUii in Ihp Sulvn May rrcioii of tho Diirdan illi's, in riortpd liy (lencral Hamil ton. Th Turkish tranches wvrc fitonnod. transport Is signalled all of the pub lic cans are ordered to the .water front to bring the soldiers up to tbe ihosiitals. , Street cars flying tho flags, of the Turkish Red Crescent Society are also used. One night this Interminable cortege of wound ed began passing my botel at 10:39 In the evening. At 4:30 in the morn ing It was still passing. In aa far as possible the wounded are made to arrive at night. It makes less Im pression on the public. It Is now believed that there are not loss than 100.000 at Constantinople but tiwy are all soldiers with slight wounds as tho most seriously Injured are kept at Hodosto whore more prompt attention can be given them. In an effort to raise additional revenues for tho war the duty on Imports has been raised to 30 per cent. This does not apply to things which can bo used In the conduct of war.- They come In without duty, the government reserving the rlr-lit to requisition them as soon as they ar rive. The restrictions, for tho govern ment of foretellers still living In Turkey have been redoubled. To quit tho empire, a special permit must be dtvuifd from the police. To have this it is necessary to give 48 hours notico of tho intention to leave. Then nfter the police have secured all in formation poBSilile from outside sources, the applicant must present himself personally and submit to an interrogation. If he can convince tho Jpollco that his Intentions for leaving are purely legitimate he Is granted the "veclka" or permit. PORTLAND, Aug. 18. Studies of the effect of harbor development upon business, is being mado by the rivers and 'harbors comirlttee of conRro.i-j rivh arrived here this morning from California. Tho com mittee has been inspecting the pro posed work at Crescent City and la prepared to act at the opening of the next congress. WHILE DIVING PORTLAND, Aug. 18. Earl H. Schultz. aged 2i, a clerk in the post office, died here from a broken neck, received when he dove Into shallow water In the river. iAWHEXCK GOODItl lLV WINS T K WIN ' 1 1' A M I M H 1 1 1 1 , Lawrence Goorib:np. Hat night von tim city tennis championship over Grant Osborne nt the tournament held at the C'hiistlan church tenn'a club grounds, In straight sets 6-3 and fi-1!. Although much outclassed, Ofhorne d'd not play &s steady -r sun: ine as lie d'd duriiu the 'limln;n Ion matches, his poor show ing probubly h'jjng due lo his fatigue caused by the great number of sets in which ho played during tho day. Goodburn played a senHallonal game, bis returns being swift and well placed, while his .service was almost impossible of return. Osborn0'1 games were won by well placed re turns, which kepe his opponent play ing over the entire court. In the doubles, Osborne and Good burn dVfealed ' Horning mid Ftfz- ick straingbt sets 0-4 6-2. KENDALLS DELIMITED OVER ItKSl LT OF IH XTEIt CASE Pittsburg. Fa., Aug. 17. Hon. O. P, Coshow, Roseburg. Oregon. We r re very much delighted with meHsjiges of the With, advising us that Hunter case was decided In fav or of the city. Wo will arrange for location of right of way from Oak creek to Rock creek at very early dato. Kindly give our best wishes to all our good friends In Roseburg. S. A. KENDALL. Miss Jessie Hogan, of Los An geles, Is visiting with Mrs. E. R. Palm In this city, storim-d.