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ROSEItLKG, DOUGLA8 COUNTY, OKEGOX. FKIDAY, IANUAHY, 28, 1010.
VOL. VII.
No. Ill
Startling
ALLIES RETREAT
FROM ALBANIA
Aus'.rians and BulgariansDrive
All Before Them. ;
TEBnIFIC BATTLE WiLL BE FOUGHT SOON
lie-nut Vlt-iy of TVuton Arnibjs
Has Hud Shirked Political
Effect Upon tlio Givok
King and Nation.
ROME, Jan. 2S.--The allies are
evacuating all of Albania excepting
Avlona, in the immediate Hinterland.
The Austrians and Bulgars are ap
proaching Avlona from the north, and
eaat, and the official dispatches indi
cate that one of the most important
battles of the entire Balkan strug
gles may begin within a fortnight.
The Italians are fortifying the city
against the expected attack. It Is
excepted that the Austrian fleet will
bombard Avlona, and a terrific nayal
battle is extremely probable. Within
ten days, the Teutonic occupation of
the entire Balkan peninsula, except
Greece, will be complete. The allies
are determined to hold Avlona like
they have Salonikl, because, of the
great strategic values as bases in
conducting future campaigns.
Jbilutns Evacuate Purazzn.
The Italians are evacuating Du
razzo, and the announcement of the
occupation of the port by the Aus
trians is expected hourly. The Aus
trians are moving toward Plannif,
while a unit of the Bulgars is mov
ing westward in the Elbassan dis
trict. The officials believe that the
rrn.,tnnc, hava nhnnrioned the nropoS-
ed Saloniki assault, until after Avlona
has been attacked. Greece has(
long wanted southern Albania
and hence the Teutonic successes
nave had a marked political effect
on the attitude of Constantine.
Sharp Fishting In West.
Considerable fighting has been
taking place along the entire French
front. Berlin asserts that between
BOO and 600 yards of French trenches
were stormed by the Germans In the
vicinity of Neuville and that French
counter attacks were without result.
In this region, the. French assert,
the Germans were driven from mine
craters they had occupied and were
repulsed in trying, to Tecapture
them; while the British report the
progressive occupation of their men
of mine craters and German listening
pouts In the Neuville region.
Pnris announces that German
trenches in Belgium and north of
the Aisne have been badly hammered
bv the French runs and that the
Germans suffered serious losses In
the Argo'nne. '
All Quiet in I'nlkii.ns.
While considerable fighting has
been going on along the Russian
froiit at various places from Riga to
east Galicla, no Important results
have been attained by either sido.
On the Austro-Italian front, the
Carcasus region and the Balkans
r.;'e.t prevails.
The British report that the Turks
have evacuated their trenclJ-is on
the land side of the Kut el Amara
defenses to about a mile from the
entrenchments occupied by the be
sieged British force. The report says
th?re Is no change in the situation
of the British force marching up the
Tigris river to the relief of Kut el
Amara.
SNOW .-iTOKM CAUSES FATAL
WltKCK NEAR CKLLIO
THE DALLES, Jan. 28. One la
borer was fatally injured, five seri
ously and others bruised in a col
lision between a freight and an out
fit train near Celllo, due to a blind
ing snow storm. Eight of the outfit
cars were crushed and caught fire,
and were with difficulty extinguished.
IIUAXDEIS GIVEN SEAT OX
SUPREME COURT I1EXCH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The
White House announced the appoint
ment of Louis D. Brandeis, of Bos
ton, as associate Justice of the bu-
preme court, succeeding the late Jus
tice Lamar. Brandeis is known as
a radical with strong pro-labor views,
KMl'EKOB OF AUSTHIA
GHOWS GRADUALLY WEAKER
LONDON, Jan. 28. Franz Joseph
suffered a severe chill, and Is grow
ing weaker and depressed, Copen
hagen reported. Archduke Karl Is
in constant attendance at his bed
side.
DEPARTMENT STORE AT t HE-
H.1LIS IIL'HNS; LOSS $15,000
CIIEI1ALIS, Jan.' 25. Fire dam-
in:d the Hartmcn department store
''s,r"nrninpr, with a loss of $15,000.
One of the firemen fell 25 feet and
was badly Injured. The horses at-
'r.ched to the chemical fire apparatus
dashed and ran away wrecking the
machine.
SCHOONER SINKS
E
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. Eight
peraons are believed to have perished
when the steam schooner Aberdeen
was dashed to pieces on the jagged
rocks at the entrance tj the Golden
Gate. The lifesavers are certain that
none have escaped. The Aberdeen
was being used in the Oakland gar
bage service, and was formerly a
Seattle fishing smack. She went to
sea last night to dump garbage and
encountered a terrific storm. She
struck the rocks early this morning
and quickly went to pieces.
WORKMEN FAVOR
BRISTOL, Eng., Jan. 28. Resolu
tions favoring a reduction in arma
ment and other measures to prevent
future wars, were adopted at the
closing session of the labor conven
tion. The delegates overwhelmingly
approved the entrance of the labor-
ites In the coalition government, and
disapproved the demand of the radic
als for their resignation. By unani
mous resolutions they asked for In
creased Income taxes, the state ac
quisition of railways, mines, ship
ping, insurance, and banking to meet
the cost of the war.
ENGLAND TOTALS
ITS WAR LOSSES
LONDON, Jan. 28. The total
losses of England since the beginning
of the war up to January 9, this
year were 53 9,467, Asqulth announc
ed In the commons today. In France
there were 87,268 killed; 269,207
wounded, and 49,035 missing. In the
the Dardanelles, the list is killed,
28,200; wounded, 78,095; missing,
11,254; elsewhere,' killed, 12,670;
wounded 15,981; missing, 2,707. All
single men between the ages of 27
and 30, who enlisted under the
Derby campaign, are called to the
colors on February 3.
SEX ATE RESOLUTION GIVES
I- IUFXDLY WAR XING TO JAPAN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senator
Sherman introduced a resolution in
the senate this "morning, declaring
that tile senate cannot regard the de
mand' made by Japan upon China
without profound concern, and will
regaij any further pressure as a re
strictive on American rights.
Again It is the Ford. This time
the manager of the Palace theatre
is joking at the car which is so pop
ular that they are thinking of mak
ing them sjiorter, so as to get more
of them In the road. An old dis
carded stove sets outside the theatre
door and passers by may read the
sign: "For Bale at a bargain, or will
trade for a 1916 Ford In good condition."
INQUIRY LIST
RAPIDLY GROWS
Letters Are From All Sections
of the Land.
PEOPLE LOOKING THIS WAT FOR HOMES
They Want to Buy, Trade or Kent
Small Tracts of Cheap nnd
Medium Priced Lands
Are In Demand.
The Commercial Club dally .re
ceived letters, phone calls, and per
sonal calls asking for names and
addresses of Inquirers which have
been published so rar, and will con
tinue the service throughout the
year, if it brings the results sought
for. It has been suggested that tha
privilege be strictly confined to
members of the club and this will
no doubt be adopted in. the near
future, as the low rates made to
farmers and others living outsido
the municipality will induce many
to Join, not only for this feature of
the club work, but In order that
they ! receive other '.benefits of lhe
work contemplated by the club for
the coming year, in which It is strong race for the honor. For near
hoped they will have a prominent 'y ten years he was superintendent
part. Following is list No. 8: . ' tne Grants Pass schools, and was
inmiirv Mn n nrnt. n hi,, anilointed to his nresent nnsitlon of
some cheap land In Douglas county.
Inqutry No. 21. Is interested in
Douglas county acreage. '
Inquiry No. 22. Wants to lease
a piece of garden land for 3 to, 5
years; also wants to care . for or
chard tracts for what he can raise
between the rows.
Inquiry No. 23. Represents sev:
eral families who are looking for
cheap land. They have teams alid
implements. '
Inquiry No. 24. Wants to ex-
LITERARY DIGEST POLL PUTS ROOT AHEAD
jsV
BURTON V t
f J-Wk'.'Vi XT r
ELJHU
Hutrhes. Root. B irtan. Borah, One
of thtse four men i3 the probable
next Republican nom'-e .for the
( Presidency, according to the indica
tion! of the country-wide poll re
cently taken by uie Literary Digest,
.published by Funk & Wagnalls Co.
of New York city.
Justice Huuhes seems to count
bimclf out by his determination not
to draw the Supreme Court into
pnlitKS. Borah, because he is a far
.Westerner, is beinp discounted by
easier n political observers. This
Bn-r.i. the Republican pre-convention
cfiivT'jiurn n contest between Klihu
Jinfi' hihI Theodore Burton, both for
mer I'r.tted state? Senators.
'! rv tin'! was takei. amrfnu RS5 Re
pi.! !ti;in editor, in nractieallv every
dUlru-t nf th,.- United Stat.-s. The
change lots In Los Angeles for place
to raise poultry.
Inquiry No. 25. Interested in
lands tor sale in this county.' No
amount mentioned.
I Inquiry No. 20. Wants to rent a
small place for a year or two, with
privilege of purchase.
Inquiry No. 27. Wants a small
place of 10 acres which will BUpport
hie' family by raising chickens, small
fruit, vegetables, etc.
inquiry No. 2S. Wants a piece of
land 4 to 8 miles from Roseburg for
smnil general farm.
Inquiry No. 29. Wants some
loggcd-off land.
Inn,.t.... M Ort 1tr..n n...n11
piece of 5 to 10 acres medium priced
j land. ,
I .Inquiry No. 31. Represents three
I families who have f 2500 each, and
want to go'lnto mixed farming hore.
.R.TURNERISUP
FOR DELEGATE
R. R. Turner, receiver oi the land
office located in this city, is a can
didate for the position of district
delegate to the democratic national
convention to be held in St. Louis
next June, according to a statement
mnde by htm to a News representa
tive today. Mr. Turner Is well known
over a great portion of this con-
gressional district, and will make a.
Receiver, and moved to the head -
quarters at Roseburg.
He has been a life-long democrat,
and a strong supporter of President
Wilson In his entire political career.
Owing to the fact that the state no
longer' pays the expenses of dele
gates to national conventions, it is
not likely there will be as many as
pirant for these positions as form
erly, and the chances are very fav
orable to Mr. Turner being one of
the delegates from this district. His
JUSTICE WJOH6S
publication of the result inaugurate.!
the Literary Digest's contemporary
history of tne important lillti politi
cal campaign.
The poll covered 34 States. In :W
of these Mr. Root was named hy
certain editors as their .Irst choiea
for the Presidency. Justice Hughes
also received first-choice votes in 'jC
States. Senator Borah was named
in 24 States and Mr. Burton in 21
States, followed by Senator Cum
mins, 15 States; Senator Weeks. 1.1
States; Senator Sherman, 11 Slntes,
and former Vice-President Fair
banks, eight States.
Root received 24!) votes: llic-he.
152: Burton, 1L'2; Borah, KM: .'".l.er
man, 144 (1.12 of them from I Hi.
noic): Cu.nmins. 77; Kuin.nnks. ,'i8j
V.'i cky.
Has Sold to Germany Immense
Amount of Munitions.
WAR HAS ODE MANY MILLIONAIRES
Scniuliiiuvuins E.ioct to He the
World's Seoojid Mnrltimo
Power When the Struggle
Is nt An End.
HyCluis. 1. SCi.'wiut.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 6. (By
mull.) Scandinavia is enjoying n
tremendous war boom. It Is more
or loss common to Sweden, Den
mark and Norway, but so fur as ap
pearances go, It is most pronounced
iu Norway, Sweden has sold to the
belligerents, especially to Germany,
immense amounts of raw and finish
ed products, including war muni
tions, though these latter sales were
not countenanced by ,the Swedish
government. Denmark, being sep
arated from Germany only by an
Imaginary line Instead of a stretch
of tnined and dangeroiiB wator, has
done still better. The lion's share
of the war business, however, has
gone to Norway.
The Norwegians have prqfited, to
601"? extent like Sweden and Den-
mark, by salos of their own goods
to the belligerent nations, especial
ly to Germany, but It has been as
middlemen that the bulk
1usiness has been done.
of their
Norway
was the world's third maritime na -
NORWAY
NJOYS
B G WAR
QOM
tion when the war broke out. Eng- j Inous and with It the Norwegians
land ranker first, Germany second, j speak of making their country, In
England still ranks first, but even the near future,' one of the biggest
the British mercantile marine has j manufacturing nations of the world,
suffered heavily from the destruction Has the Norwegian worklngman
incidental to war. Germany's mer- redetved a. fair share of the war
chant shipping has been out f(of profits No, Norwegians generally
commission altogether since the declare that the belligerents' money
early days of hostilities. This was has gone into few hands. Still, the'
Norway's chance. 'say their country's workers are bet-
Compared with Norway, America's ter paid than those of any other
war boom has been a small affair, j country in Europe. They are hopo
Thls Is speakln.; reiiinvely. of course, j ,i that a better adjustment be-
In actual dollars and cents the Eu-tween tho clauses is not far distant,
ropoan struggle unquestionably has j a concrete reason why Sweden and
been the big gainer. That is, the t Denmark have not gained as much
Norwegians are richer by the strug-: frmn t),0 wnr i,aa Norway unques
gle to the extent of about 200, 000,-1 t0nu,y u08 ln the fact tnftt Nor.
000 In nual cash thus far. To , wlly possessed the one thing needed
propeities they already owned there; to taho advantage of the situation,
has been added a value of approxi
mately as much more. This Is on a
basis of a population of 2,500,000.
An addition of ?80 per capita to
Norway's vealth in a year and
half has been left emphatically. It
has meant a boom such as the old ;
wor.'il hoe not seen hither to In hi'- j
hi : tiiiis. Millionaires havo l.i-en
l.lUUK' l UUlt-MlllU. illllliy L llli.lll
arc r. Illicnalres only In krone. a
krone being ii the neighborhood of
27 cents but a jump from nothing,
in 18 months, to a fortune of $250,-1
000 to J2.70.000, which has huppen- '
ed in hundreds of cases, Is not so
bad. Tho big old shipping firms i
have profited In actual millions of
dollars. The newly made million-j
aires in Norwegian money are main-;
ly moro clerks in shipping houses, or
working officers of ocean-going craft
who wore able to command a little
credit and branched out ln busi-1
ness for tliemsolves.
Numbers of tho newly-mado mag
nates have never owned a ship. They
have bought vessels In course of
construction or Invested merely In
charters and have boon able to
transfer lelthier their unfinished
craft or their charters, so rapid was
the Incernse In the demand for bot-
toms at huge advances, sometimes
In tho course of no more than a tow
days. War taxes have been high,
but profits have been so much high
er that tho taxes have hardly been
felt. The Norwegians count on be
ing the world's second maritime
power when the war ends. Only Eng
land, they believe, will lead them.
Neither do they bolleve their
boom will burst with tho struggle's
end.
Shipbuilding, with tho exception of
warships, has been practically at a
many friends here In Douglas county,
Irrespective of party affiliations, wlBh
li 1 1 ii a successful campaign.
standstill since fighting begun, they
point out. This means, they say.
that the supply of vessels has not
been kept up in proportion to the
world's Increasing demand. More
than this, emphasis is laid on the
fact that there has been, first and
last, a heavy destruction of ocean
going craft by mines and subma
rines, adding greatly to the shortage
the world already feels and will feel
still more keenly with the post
bellum revival of international trade.
Finally, it Is argued that the ships
which have simply been laid up In.
port boca)U8e ,'they dared not saif
the seas, are Blowly deterioratlnjc
from disuse and will be more and
more nearly worthless the longer the
war lasts. It 'will take years, the
Norwegians maintain, to restore an
equality between the supply and de
mand for ships for purely commer
cial purposes. ,
During all these years Norway ex
pects to contluue gathering in hugo
profits, dwindling, perhaps, as time
progresses, but gradually reaching a
satisfactory normal, without any vlo
lont Bhock and with the Norwegians
finally the world's second nation as
traders on the seas. The recent in
flux; of cash money has had Its ef
fect in all lines. The shipping trade!
has felt It most but mining, manu
facturing and every other line of
Industry has been enormously stim
ulated. An average of a big new
development company daily is float- '
ed in Chrlstianla. Industrially, tho
Scandinavian countries have been
kept back by an Inadequate tuel
supply. , Development of the Spits
bergen coal mines has been begun
with the now capital furnished by
the belligerents, on a large scalo.
Spltzbergen, which seems In the
United States like almost the last
place on earth, is mentioned n
Chrlstianla as if It were no more
remote than Alaska seems to Seat- '
. tie. The coal mined there is do-
jclared to be the best quality bltum-
"'' mid that Swedon and Denmark
did not. ,
Asido from this tho Norwegians
nppoar to have been bettor business
mon than either Swedes or Danos.
They saw their chance and grabbed
It, grabbed it out of tho other
Scandinavian countries' hands.
CHICAGO POLICE
CHICA00( Jun. 28, The noilce'
rai(Je(1 a W0Bt gjde ,lot0, today an(,
ca)tllr0( flve , and thr(!0 womeIli
am, recovore(, $7,8O0 ot tho $lr,,5c,
obtained In the daring holdup of Jakn
.,,,.. ,,nU v,r,,v . .in f,..
V ' '
) a woman brought about tho raid.
when the officers jumped Into tho
quarters of the alleged bandits, they
hurled a box containing currency
from the wndow, and a newsboy be
low seized It. A cordon of officers
with drawn guns surrounded tho
building. Two of tho bandits who
WBr0 hnml(.frcilj attempted to es
cape when thoy reached the criminal
court building. One of them dove
t the officer's feot, while the second
hutted him In the stomach. They
slai ted to' run, but were overtaken.
The gang is believed to have recently
arrived here from Now York.
SEXATOIIS A HE TREATED
TO ANOTIIEU SENSATION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Sonntor
Walsh sprung a sensation by reading
what ho declared were British orders
to the blockading vessels, to obtain
trade secrets Illegally by opening all
American mail.