" " ,,tn.l S0CWt,l TIH Pull for a bigger, better and more prosperous Roseburg and Douglas County. . THE WEATHER ronlght and Saturday, Probably Bain. HigheBt temp, yesterday. 67 Lowest temp:, last njght 44 The Only Paper in Roseburg Carrying; Associated Press Dispatches "'--- -n in ii k , in . H ii innni inr .VOL. X ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, JO 10 NO. 33 MAYOR HANSON ISSUES AN UIMMATUM TO SEATTLE BOLSHEVISTS E MEWS 8 A. M SATURDAY E People of City Assured of Ample Protection From Mob Violence. ." NO NONSENSE ALLOWED Regulars On Hand to Prod Agitators With Bayonets Car Linos WU1 . Mo Placed In Operation Light Breaking Tacoma, (By Associated Press.) . ULTIMATUM TO STRIKERS. SEATTLE, Feb. 7 That May- or Hansen is ready to deal out Iron-handed justice to the strlk- ers, Is evidence in the ultimat- um served this afternoon on the unionist strike committee that If they did not call of the sym- pathetic strike by 8 o'clock to- morrow morning, he will take steps to operate all esential in- dustries and 'place the city un- der control of the fcdoral gov- ernment. SEATTLE, Feb. 7. Accompanied by an adequate force of heavily arm ed detectives a municipal street car made a trip to Ballard and return to day. The car was placed in com mission by order of Mayor Hansen, who is determined to leave no effort untried to whip the Bolshevist ele ment in charge of the strike and com pel return to peaceful pursuits. The car service will be resumed Just as soon as men can be found to operate them, and competent motormen are being sought out to handle the sys tem. Anticipating that violence may be resorted to' .by. the. strikers, when they see workers returning to their employment and throwing off the yoke of agitators controlling the strike situation, Mayor Hansen Issued a proclamation early today guaran teeing absolute protection to' the citi zens of Seattle in their ordinary busi ness pursuits, and urging the people to resume enterprises. Indicating that the guarantee was good and that the city can adequately take care of and protect its people from violence of strikers. Mayor Hansen said: "We have fifteen hundred police besides fifteen hundred regulars from Camp Lewis, and if necessary Will secure the services of every soldier In the Pacific Northwest to protect the lives, business and property of Seattle peo ple from destruction. The time has come to. show a spirit of true Ameri canism, and anarchists In this com munity shall not be permitted to rule the affairs of Seattle.' ' . TACOMA IS TIED UP. TACQMA, Feb. 7. While Tacoma street cars are idle at present it is expected the company will be able to resume operations shortly. A confer ence between the president of the street railway men's union and' man ager of the Tacoma Railway Power Company was held, and it is now de clared that the cars will be run just as soon as a guarantee of ample pro tection from violence can be given. It Is reported that "Paddy" Morris and a half dozen others of alien birth and sympathies, who have been act ive promoters of the general strike, hastily left the city in automobiles when regular troops arrived from Camp Lewis last night. ARMY OFFICER IN CHARGE. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. Major General John Morrison, commanding the western department of the army, has left here to take charge of the strike' situation at Seattle and Ta coma. BUSINESS RESUMING. TACOMA, Feb. 7 Some of the un ions withdrew from the strike today and the members have returned to their employment. Street car . ser vice will probably be resumed tonight and business in most lines Is being carried on as usual. STRIKE IN BUTTE. BUTTE, Feb. 7. The whole day shift of the Orlu Mine, a Clak prop erty, walked out today due to the announcement of the company yes terday that a reduction of one dollar a day in wages takes effect Imme diately. An I. W. W. mass meeting Is being held In Butte this afternoon discussing the wage situation. STRIKE IS THREATENED. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. Labor disturbances in three bay cities today threaten to stop work on all govern ment and private shipbuilding con - tracts. THREATENS A BREAK. PARIS, Feb. 7. The allied pre mies met today to fix new terms to be Imposed upon Germany, whose tac tics of obstruction and reclamation ere reported to have reached a ci 1- MACHINE GUNS PEER ROSEBURG BOYS AT UN10NSTRIKERS ; ON WAY HOME Wicked Looking Weapons Are Sullenly Viewed by the Throng of Idlers. DEATH TO VIOLATORS Mayor Hanson Orders Overseas Veter- ana in Charge of the Batteries to Shoot to Kill Upon the Slight est Disorder Appearing. SEATTLE, Fob. 7. Throughout the first night of the great sympathe tic labor strike there were no overt: acts of violence committed, and the city is comparatively quiet, although the mutterings bf discontent can al-' ready be heard by those who have! meir ear to me giuuuu. x.,uuo&.4D of union men who depend upon the small restaurants and cafes for their meals are going hungry because the cooks and waiters of these places have walked out In response to the strike order. These men will not eat at non-union restaurants, although they stand on the walks in front Of such places and sullenly and hungrily watch less radical citizens enjoy their meals. Armed policemen mingling with the orowds prevent jeering of those who do go into such places, and the throngs have thus far made no hostile demonstration. How- long this situation will continue no one has the least idea, as both union leaders and city officials express confidence in the success of the strike from their respective sides. There is positively no signs of a break in the apposing interests. Union leaders allege they are looking to Piez for a move toward compromising the situation.' There is no attempt today to operate street cars. At the doors of the ipolice station machine guns are mounted. Across the street lounge hundreds of scowl ing strikers just waiting. A single streetcar plleB on the municipal line on Fourth avenue In three or four places it displays large signs, "U. S. Mail." It is her.vily guarded by sol diers with loaded rifles. More than 1000 extra police have been sworn in at the instance of Mayor Hanson, who has declared that the city is ready for any emergency and that its officers have Instructions to shoot'to kill If rioting or destruction of pro perty starts. ( "Shoot on "Sight", is Edict. ' "We will BupresB disorder with an iron hand. Our captains of police are ordered to quell any disorder, no mat ter what the cost. If we should tall, which I hardly anticipate, the Gov ernment still lives and troops will be called. "To the I. W. W. and Bolshevists", exclaimed Mayor Hanson. "I say that any attempt on their part to bring about by force an overthrow of gov ernment will mean their immediate death. I shall give orders to shoot all rioters on sight." That there 1b an element, and a strong one, In the army of strikers which holdB that the day of revolu tion is at hand, and that the general strike in this city is its first stroke In America, is variously evidenced. When an isue of the Post-Intelligencer appeared, carrying a cartoon which depicted the red flag above the Stars and Stripes, hundreds of stri kers congregated at the Labor Temple lifted a cheer. This was before they had read the forceful caption "NOT IN A THOUSAND YEARS." Radical Paper Otrculated. Hints in plenty that the Seattle strike Is expected to produce far reaching and revolutionary results are to be found in the official organ of the strike army, 'The Seattle Union Record". In an issue on the eve of the general strike the Record declar ed, in capitals, 'it Will Lead, No One Knows Where," and coupled this with the prediction that organized labor might find it advisable to take over all industries, "under the manage ment of the appropriate trades.'" Shouting that no newspaiper which carried ''capitalistic ads" would be al lowed to be sold, vendors of the "In ternational Weekly", official publica tion of Washington Socialism, sold thousands of copies foday when the regular afternoon editions failed to max at Weimar, when Chancellor Eb- ert threatened that Germany would break off negotiations with the al lies. FOR EXTRA SESSION. SALEM, Feb. 7. The governor will call a special session of the leg islature as soon as the reconstruc tion commlsloner prepares its pro gram. The legislature will then re fer the program to the electorate for approval at a special election not later than June. , 69th Coast Artillery Regiment Complete Will Land on February 16. TRANSPORT MERCURY Regiment Contains Over Fifty Rose- burg Boys Formerly Members-of the Fourth Company Sta- . tinned In This City. ' a..-.,.: :. - (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. The sailing from France of five transports with 5700 men most- ly from former National Guard units, is announcedi by the war department today. The trans- port Mercury is due to dock at Newport News, Fej. 16, with the 69th regiment, coast artil- lery complete, bound for Ore- gon. There are about 300 Ore- gon men In the regiment and 4' the rest of them are from the 4 Pacific coast and entrained 4 from Fort Stephens when they 4- were ordered overseas : 4 ' ''' '! The 69th Artillery contains a much larger per centage of Roseburg boys than any other oversea unit as the non-coms of that organization are largely made up from former mem bers of the Fourth Company which left this city at the outbreak of the war. The Fourth Company was put on guard -duty at Astoria and so only four of its men were assigned to the 65th, the company being broken up andj details Bent to various) other companies to act as instructors -foi the recruits which .were received' to make up the 69th regiment. The Roseburg boys with the 69th are: John Busenbark, Delwin Jewett, Har ley Watson, Edgar Rose'r, George Smith, Leo Raipp, Edward Atkins, Harry Mead, Wilbert Nelson, Mark Simpson, Fred Worthlngton, Law rence fKrogel, George Casky, Paul Caskey,. James Dlllard, Charles Giir ney, Chester Main, Avery Roser, Vic tor Sether, Earnest Wilkins, Pirley Wlnkleman, Edward Barton, Nllen Belcher,. Ray Buell, Anton Burslk, Scott Carinony, John Cornutt, Leon ard Foster, Isaac Gilbreath, Hllery Gilham, Frank Holtz, John Huston, Edwin Johnson, William Keller, Frank Lawrence, William Maddox, Alva Matthews, Millard Meridith, Fred Miller, Isaac Moore, Robert Mc Ghehey, Willie Parsons, Ira Poole, Monroe Porter, Worley Ramey, Al bert Rother, Guy Russle, Ralph Sands, Louis Thrush, Ellis Turpin, Bonnie Whitsett, John Whlttlngton, Earl Williams and George H. Wil liams. Several other boys from Douglas county are In the regiment and many relatives are delighted by the news of the sailing of the regiment. appear on the streets. - The Socialistic publication Is con fident that the general strike portends the day of revolution, and says so In Its flaring headlines. "Here in Seattle," it asserts, 'peace fully and without violence may trans pire the rc-olutlonary change in the management of Industry from the present exploiters to the workers." See Bolsheviki Hand. There is little contradiction among Seattle business men of the belief that Bolshevism is bared in tho pres ent Btrike, by whatever name it may be called, and that the radicals who have gained control of organized la bor actually Intend the city to be the first wedge of the "revolution."' For the most part they are confident that the strike will fall. In the moantime they are slowly growing in anger wrath at the disruption of every peaceful pursuit in a cause over which they have no control. Turning back to the original issue, the matter of shipyard wages, they hold that the Macy award was hot high enough in Its minimum wage grant. Despite this sentiment, they declare, they are be ing chastened for a fault that cer tainly Is not theirs. Caught In the tangles of the most significant strike that America ever witnessed, the Seattle public Is all but deprived of Informations With the exception of the Seattle Star, none of the local papers ventured publication today, owing to the newsboys' Btrike and the fact that print paper could not be transported. Heading its first page "Seattle, United StatoB of America," this paper prints a cut of the American flag, with the caption, "Under This Flag the Star Will Continue to Publish." Its extra on the strike reached' the streets In mid-afternoon. L Prominent Speakers Will Be Present at Meeting For 'Laymen's Movement. ' ROSEBURG FORTUNATE Only City Outside of Portland Sche duled for the Convention and In vitations' Are Now Being . : ' '' Sent Broadcast. The Baptist Church of this city is making preparations for. a big con vention to be held here on February 24th and' 25th in support of the Bap tist Laymens movement. This great enterprise has been Inaugurated by the laymen of 'the denomination in order to meet the increasing demands 00 O. A. BROOKS, Chief Speaker at tho Bartist Laymen's Convention. made necessary by the resultB of the war. Roseburg 1b fortunate in being selected as the only city out side of Portland where such a con vention will be held and the lay men' are busy in sending out invita tions as far north as Junction City and as far south as Ashland and as far west as Marshfleld. It Is expect ed that delegates will be present from every Baptist church In south ern Oregon. - Among the chief Breakers at this convention will be C. A. BrookB whose work has been largely among foreign speaking missions. In tho Uni ted States. His picture which Is published In connecetlon with this article shows him to be a man of humor and he stands very high- with the'promlnent Baptists of the country. Another speaker will be Dr. F. A. Agar, who Is an expert In church efficiency. He will probably address the convention on the last evening which will be an open meeting. Other meetings are open to those only who are registered with the committee. WANTS INFORMATION. City Recordor R. L. Whipple, yes terday morning received a communi cation from Joseph M. Berkley, a consulting engineer of Los Angeles, in which he asks for information In regard to the city, and which will be used In a directory of Public Utilities of the Pacific Coast, which he Is com piling. The recorder is asked to re port the population of the city, the bonding capacity, the bonded indebt edness, total tax rate, and whetlior or not the city has gas, water and eleotrlclty and If so, if these plants are privately or municipally owned. - KOAI PROGRAM KNDOIIHIOI). The Roseburg Commercial Club has endorsed the etner- gency clause of the proposed 110,000.000 bond lBsue by the following telegram, a copy of -wiifch-has been sent to the sen- 4 ate and house chairman of the 4 O committee on roads and high- ways: "Business men and tax- 4 payers of Roseburg are unanl- mous for emergency clause for proposed ten million dollar road bond bill. 'Never a time in tho 4 history of our naalon for deter- 4 mined effort as the present Is demanding. Labor must find' employment. Oregon must op- en the way for great develop- ment at once and good roads U the key to the situation. Signed, Roseburg Commercial Club. . ' EXCELLENT OFFER Wants Young Man to Take Up Homestead Land Near Rail , road In This County. HE NEEDS ASSISTANCE In Addition to Clothes, Board and Wages Will Help Right Kind of Young Man to Start a Farm For Himself. The opportunity of a life time awaits an enterprising young man who desires to locate on a firstclass homestead. . The U. S. employment service has tho following offer: A f armor In thlB county will take a young man, glvo him his board', his clothes, washing and a salary and will locate him on a government home stead, within three miles of the rail road, i This homestead is an excellent piece of ground and one which tho farmer had selected for his own son, intending to help hint dofelop it upon his return from service, but the boy has . decided not to return home and as the man desires to see the community settled Is looking for some one to take tho land. He is well acquainted with the land which is open to homestead rights and will help the young man to look over the territory and select a good home stead and will help him get located. In return the young man will be re quired to help with the farm, work for a certain time but will receive fair wages. Dr. Bailey, Buperfntendr ent of the local office, says that the offer is" a golden opportunity for a young man who desires to work for a few years and .come out with a good farm. Anyone interested can obtain further information by applying to iho .US! employment offloo near the. depot, oh Cass street, where he will receive all data . without - expense. There are no charges attached to the services of this office as It is Under the government department of labor and all work is being done in a 'pa triotic effort to see soldiers return ed to steady employment. Dr. Bnlloy stated that only 30 per cent of the returning soldiers need employment and that tlo greater part of those will be oasily provided for. He says that he expects no great unemployed .problem as their has Deen little Immigration in the past five years, while many laborers have returned to their native coun tries in Europe leaving a shortage of labor when conditions return to nor mal.1 He expects It will take a few months for conditions to reach the pre-war state but when this time comes he believes there will bo n shortage of lagorers Instead of an overabundance. . LECTURE FOR WOMEN Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, Dr. Janet Reld will lecture at the High school auditorium to the ladies of Roseburg, giving them a social hy giene mosago on the subject of "Pa triotic Womanhood." This lecture 1b said to bo something that every wo man nnd girl should hear, and will help every one to a better under standing of herseir. There will be no admission charge. Dr. Reld ror presents the commission on training camp activities of the war depart ment, nnd Ib sent out by the Oregon Social Hygiene Society. The society believes that results of education on social hygleno In Orogon nre so well appreciated that all helpful Informa tion upon this subject Is most wel come. No force Is so valuable In tho fight for social hygiene as the mo thers of the Btate. Upon them rests the principle burden or the effort, and properly instructed mothers can edu cate their children as no one else can. A generation of mothers who thor oughly understood and hod the con fidence of their children, would go a long way toward solving the pro blem that the social evil presents to the state and nation. Every woman In Roseburg should hear Dr. Reld nt the High School tomorrow at three o'clock. The many friends of Mrs. A. S. Buell will be glad to learn that the lady Is again able to be up following a sevore Beige of the "flu". It has been about two weeks since Mrs. Buell was stricken with the malady, but she Is said to be convalescing rapidly at this time, and although quite weak, is able to be about the house part of the time. I THAN IN BATTLE Men Landing In Philadelphia Report Terrible Condition In The Camps. SITUATION "DAMNABLE" Hun Prisoners Held In Camps at Port, of Embarkation Receive- Bettor Treatment Than the Walt t ing Soldior Contingents. '' .. ' .' 1 ' PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7. Brest, the American port of embarkation and Camp Pontonzan, hold no happy memories, for the soldiers who arriv ed here on' the transport Havorford. To them their stay from December 27, to January 14, was-a period of misery, and they point, with regret, to the fact that more' deaths of men In the 05th Regiment Coast Artillery took place within that short period from disease contracted- there, than were received in 70 (lays in battle. Officers and men alike complain ed that housing conditions, living conditions, creature comforts and the ever Important itom of food, are In a deplorable condition at Brest. They added that the American soldiers awaiting transport homo are suffering untold hardships. "It was damnable", was the declar ation of one officer. "Of course, 1 am in no position to criticise, but the men can tell you what they suh'ercd there. ; .. .' The roghhont arrived at Camp Pon tenza on December 27. The men were then In wonderful physical condition, according to Major William H. Rock well, the regimental surgeon,- from whom the fact was learned that the regiment had had' but three men killed during Its tour of duty at the. various sectors or the front, and only 99 wounuou. . ; - The men best describe Brest. The officers admitted that they had suf fered many discomforts, but one non commissioned officer, familiar with the workB of the surgeons of the re giment, declared that If the regiment had been In Brest another fortnight under the same conditions, many of the men would have contracted pneu monia and died. Two to three hun dred men dally were On the sick re port. ' ' As It was, four men did die and twelve were left behind In the base hospital and several of these were In such condition that their death was imminent. Nineteen sick men wero on the Ha verford when she docked. These had been under treatment In the hospital bay of the ship during the voyage, across tho Atlantic. 8ix,toen of these were men from the roglment and the other three wore colored' men from the Casual Company. Six wore litter oasis and had to be carried to their pier. These men all contracted pneumonia at Brest. There was not a single wounded man under going surgical treatment on tho boat. The men who had been wounded, had recovered from their wounds, nnd were returning to this country for discharge. ' Actually, the Gorman prisoners got hotter treatment at Brest than wo did", declared one soldier. "It was a terrible place. The regiment had to sleep In tents on ground that had been rained upon for a long while. It rained every day that we were there nnd tho camp was a sea of mud at all timos. , "Tho tentage was poor and tho last night we were there,' they did lot us Into some Incompleted bar racks, but thore wore no flooring In these buildings and they wore but little better than the tents that we had been using, v "Tho food was vory, very poor nnd we had to wade through mud almost up to our knees to get It.- Actually wo wore better fed while we were In the Hold at tho front than .wo were during our stay at Brest. "Most of the men had no bunks to sleep on and had' to sleep on the bare ground. You can readily Imagine what followed. The hospital was a busy .place, and big as It Is for It ombraces some forty or fifty wnrds It Is not big enough, for thore are thousands of troops there and their men are Just as sick as ours wore. Many of the men slept on boards thoy had gathered up, but everybody could trot get a board. "During the time we wore there, the men answering sick calls, rose from only a dozen or more to the high water mark of 340 on ono day. That Is the proportion of ono out of every six." The higher officers of the regiment docllned to comment on tho condition at Brest. They confirmed the fact that an abnormal number of man hurt been on the sick report during the mux oi mo regiment, out thoy point WALNUT CULTURE Paper Is Submitted By W. C. Harding to Grower's Con. ) vention In'Portland. SUCCESS IS ASSURED Confident That Douglas County Grow ers Will Take Their Places in the Future Culture of these ' Marketable Nuts. The following is a paper submitted by W. C. Harding to the Western Walnut Grower's Association, now In convention at Portland. Mr. Harding was scheduled to address the meeting but on account -of the Illness of his wife he was not able to be In attend ance. The paper gives a summary of the work In this county and will be of interest to all who; are desirous of seeing this Industry established In the community: : There Is sllrjhtly loss than 100 acres of valnuts In the Umpiua Val ley, but a .great doal of lntorest has been manifested recontly In the nut. The river bottom lands present con ditions that are ideal, being very rich, deep, and exceedingly well drained. It Is this type of soil that has made Douglas county famous for her prunes and It is interesting to recall that the Myrtle Creek country Is the only district in the State that still produces Petite prunes. The French prune attains a size- that makes It very prout:.blo. It Is evident that there can be no mistake so far as adaptability, production or growth Is concerned. We are confident that Douglas county will take her placo alongside of her sister counties in the Willamette Val ley In the lutjira culture of nuts.- . The finest yoanf walnut grove In the county Is the young orchard in Garden Valley near Roseburg. There Is 20 acres in Franquette and Mayette walnuts which this last season, their 8th growing ser.son by the way, pro duced 30 pounds to the treo. These nuts sold readily In the local markets at prevailing prices. Tho growth has been so rapid that the apple and ipear fillers must come out within a year or two to make wny for the expansion of the nuts. ' The clrcumferon below the first limb on theso measures 26 Inches. One five acre tract on rich bottom land which has recelvod little care except from Mother Nature haB large walnut trees which have n spread of 60 feet. One of these produced S30 worth of nuts In 1918. These are .10 years old but are covered with moss through the owners neg- ' lect and It Is problematical what the size or profltB would have been with the right sort o attention. It is interesting to note that wal nuts are dolnc well on black mud or sticky soil on the hilsidea wJiere the apples will not prosper. Of course on this type of land where It is flat and extremely wot, no tree will mnke a fortune for its owner. Our experi ence Is that nuts will not stand wot feet. Mr. F. D. Owen of Roseburg has 3 large 20 year old trees which' bore him 50 worth of walnuts lri 1917 md 75 worth In 19-18. Judge Hnm 'Iton has a 17 year old seodllng which yielded 150 pounds In 1917, but after the fashion of seodllnge produced nothing at all in 1918. Other numer ous examples prove beyond a doubt that walnuts will do well on the right kind of soil In Douglas County. Filbert culture has attracted con siderable attention this winter among the fruit growers and a number of small plantings have been made Ono nloneer patch contains about 50 fil bert trees or bushes 25 voars old it 4s the Umpqua Valley experience that wnerevor prunes do best nutB also do woll." , GERMAN PEOPLE ARE READY FOR NEW ORDER (The Associated Press.) , WBIMAR, Feb. 7. The old order of affairs in Germany has now gone beyond recall and the people are de termined to rule themselves, declared Chancellor Ebert, In calling the na tional assembly to order here today. Kbert Bald that' the ''German poo "lo will cnll on the old spirit of Weimar and we will be an empire of justice and truth." ed out that the army and navy wore dealing with an unusual condition at that point and that the very bost that couiu uo uono was oeing none.