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.VOLUME XVIII
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LA (JRANDl'i OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2:?, 1919.
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NUMBER 99
$50.81 Your Share of
U. S. Money in Circulation
WOULDLEVYTAX
Golden Rule and Hoover
Grocery are Both Fined
FO
ROAD WORK
EX-
DISCUSSED
l'KACIi COXbllKS TO l'l.Y AI TII
OltSHll' OF WAIt AXU
DliCTDK PENALTY.
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE
INDICATES EARLY ACTION
t
Questions Announced fur Jjibcussloii
At SutunJiij's Session of Plenary
C6uikU Allied War Council to
Meet at- Versailles Tomorrow
Paris Press Comments
' PARIS, January 23. The respon
sibility of the 'authors of the war and
tho ponalty which should be inflict
ed upon them will be among the
first questions to be considered when
the plenary session of the peace con
ference meets again Saturday, it is
reported by highly uuthoritive ad
vices. '
It is revealed by an official com
muuique today that the responsibil
ity and penalty will be discussed
wth reference to William Hohenxol
lern, former kaiser and war lord,
of the German empire, and it indi
cated that swift steps will be taken
to bring Hohenzollern to trial if the
conference decides that it Is expedient
In the interests of humanity to take
such action. t
Questions up huturday.
At today's meeting of the Supreme
Council there was liiscuHsion of the
apmda of Saturday's plonary ses
sion, and It was announced that the
following questions will bo taken up:
1. International Labor Legisla
tion. 2. Responsibilities and penalties
In connection with the war.
3. Reparation and damage.
4. Internation Regime of Sea
Ports and controls of Water Ways
and Railways.
The matter of procedure In event
of action a pa ins t the ex-kaiser ilng
taken was also discussed.
Kussian Question First.
Marshall Foch, Generalissimo of
the Allied armies, and the commander-in-chief
of the Italian armies will
attend a meeting of the Allied War
Council at Versailles tomorrow.
Tho Russian problem overshadows
everything hero today. It Is consid
ored likely by some that the Allies
may adopt a polity in connection
with that country lndentlcal with tho
attitude of tho United Btates govern-'
ment toward Mexico, in an effort to
secure a stable government there.
Gmnpers to. Meet Wilson
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
have a , conference with President
Wilson- before the peace congress
gets, down to actual business.
"There is no hiding the fact that
the resolutions adopted at the con
ference with regard to Russia are
painfully important to France," says
the Journal today.
"President Wilson's ideas are
grand and daring," Hays 1-0 Matin,
"but it remains to seen if they are
practical.
GLAUS BILL
.MA Y I i 1 1 S A Y S Wll .Sf N WOl
IIAVK TOO .M it'll roWUIt
I'D
! tares Neither rniilfiit 'Nor
t'uiigrcvt Hu lliu'it to Unfile
in riinl Inttu-try. 9
WA'ilNXlON, An. 23. fel'ru-
S .TYRANNICAL
........ ..u... -w, tneir servenccs, meir noaoioic re
and almost divine authority to en-, Kn ., , ,, immciate dis-
sage in private Jnrtssstry leclsla- ,har ' ,'.lt the ar'mv
fon noWpcndinc." said Levy Mayer,!" (j, " B ' ' a
representing Swift - Company, be vrcif.aTcQ A(3Frfl21
idenl Wilson 9ould b. imcn suprciiic
fore
the House Til"! stato CWimis
on this afternoon. "Bestowaof
such pofJrT is contrar-iy to the laws
of the iand." Mayer IBFrinued. "and
tho bill. cpe-uill.v In licensing cils
fowcr.g ! rannii!
O'Tnncress ItselfOan not encage Jn
private industry," Mayer told the
conrnilso:i. ana nemier can 11 BiW'gix
t-e President power so to do.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 Have you
your $60.81 ? You should have 'that
much if you have your share of the
money in circulation, according to the
annual report of the comptroller of
the currency, John Skclton 'Williams,
made public'yesterday. He says there
is $50,379,400,000 in circulation which
is an increase of $5.07 per capita over
the 1917 report.
vin his review he- suggests legisla
tions making 25 cents the minimum
charge on a bank loan,' so next time
you borrow $10 for 30 days, it will
cost you a quarter. And moreover,
he recommends vacations and rota
tions for bookkeepers.
The country's banking power is
I
IFI IS FINISHED
NEWS MOT YKTMI10AUD- IX CA
NADIAN NOF.TIILAXD.
fort McPhcrson, 70 .Miles South of
Artie, Ouo Plnco That Did not
4 Celebrate Prematurely.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 23.
rThcro will be no premature peace
celebration at Fort McJhej-son, Can
ada, .70 .miles south of the Arctic
ocean, Tor Fort McPherson will not
know that the war is over until Jan
uary -26. or thereabouts.
The news will reach this trading
post in the Bemi-annual Artie mail
which left Fort McMurray, proposed
terminal of the Alberta & Great Wa
terways, by dog team on December
1. The- news is Included in 260
pounds ot mail carried by two sled
ges, pulled by 100 dogs each and
driven by veteran, "raushers.",
The distance is 1500 miles as the
crow riles, out consiaorame longer
over the frozen Athabasca and Mack
enzie rivers.
The hardened drivers will rest a
week at Fort McPherson,' then begin
the long trip back to civilization.
The territory traversed inoluaes tne
great barrons deep under snow that
begins falling in September. The
barrens are known for brizzards
which sweep from the frozen sea
across unobstructed leagues of snow
covered and uninhabited wilderness.
SWITZERLAND
WANTS SEA PORT
PARIS, Jan. 23. The views and
desires of the Swiss fcdcrnl council,
which President Gustnv Ador is now
in Paris to present to President Wil
son, Premier Clemenceau and Lloyd
George, and other allied statesmen, in
clude particularly a request for inter
national compacts giving Switzerland
access to the sea by way of tho Rhine
the iRhone and the Po. Switzerland
also desires to obtain the right of traf
fic over important rnilronds to the sea
and to the eastern countries ot .u
rope.
U. S. FARMERS
BIG BORROWERS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 Under the
farm loan system $157,020,000 was
loaned to 67,882 farmers up to Janp-
ary 1. the federal farm loan board re-1
ported Wednesday. This included
507,000 loans to 3525 farmers in De
cember,
Loans closed last month by the vari
ous federal land banks include: Hous
ton. $1,634,000; Spokane, $1,27,000;
St. Paul, $1,550,000;; Omaha, $723,000;
Wichita, $629,000.
Tho board raported that of the 84,-
044,000 due up to January 1 from bor
rowers for interest or payment of
principal, wily $83,000, or 1.8 per cent,
: . ' . ' .. . -I. -
had not Decn paid, ana oniy u,ouu o,
this sum was wiorc than 00 days over-
duo..
B.'iKER PARIHiNs'oiUKCTOHS
H'lTH MILITARY HONORS
WASHINGTON, Janf 23. Secre
tary1 Baker Wednesday ordered t re
lease of 110 conscientious objefion
Fold at F'ort Leaveriorth. .the remiv
r
simi af the Sincxeeuted portions
their sentences, their ."hooble re-
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JPtES IN KANSAS
e
W ICHITA, Kans., fln. 2.1 Mary
: Henderson, 121 years old. believed to
Q the oldest pertin in the cojyity,
' di. ) hprn rnrentlv ShA wns ftfVn in
slavery in Virginia and served through
KNOW
gQrj'O'.ions of the Philip StanleylOOO to $100,000 bridge Or the De-
ily. She was born in V'JiO ichuUj river hai also ? ejihtOsed.1
1 family. She was born in 17MO
nearly two and a half times as great
as m 1890, amounting in June, 1918,
to the staggering total of $39,082,000,
000, an increase of 13 per cent or $4,
609,000,000 over the previous year.
Last year's government bond issues
raised more than six times as much
as was raised during the entire civil
war, at half the interest rate.
National banks for the year made
gross earnings of $813,997,000. The
average earning on capital stock for
all national banks were 19.33 per cent,
the greatest on record.
Legislation limiting loans, making
penalties preventing fraudulent state
ments to national bunks to obtain
loans, and many reforms are urged in
the report.
S WANT 10
COME TO STATES
RUSH MAY BE EXPECTED WHEN
BARS ARE LET DOWN
Senator Johnston of South Dakota
' Claims First-Hand Information
From Prisoners.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. German
soldiers and officers intend to flock
to this country as soon as the bars
are let down, according to testimony
given by Senator Johnson, of South
Dakota, before the house immigration
committee this afternoon, when he ap
peared in support of the l'urnctt bill.
Senator Jonnston said that he based
his statements on cotv-trsations lit
had with German pr.i-o.icrs on his
trip abroad ttmo timo auo.
RED FLAG LAW
LIKELY IN IDAHO
SENATE VOTE ON MEASURE
' WAS UNANIMOUS
Legislature, Indorses Suffrage Amend
ment in Memorial Sent to
Congress.
BOISE, Mn., Jan. 2.". Indorsement
of the. Susan B. Anthony suffrage
amendment was given, yesterday by
the stato senate by unanimous vote in
a memorial to congress asking passage
of tho measure. Approval will be giv
en by tho house probably this week.
The senate passed, by unanimous
vote, the Robertson bill, which makes
the display of a red flag a felony in
this state. The act is aimed directly
at the Holshcviki and will block any
attempt by agitators to create unrest
in Idaho against the government. Sen
ator iRobertson said that there was
but one flag to be recognized in the
stato of Idaho and anyone who should
not salute the Stars and Stripes could
icavc the state and country.
County division played an import
ant part in the legislature's proceed
ings. The senate passed the Jerome
county division bill by a vote of 28 to
12. The measure creates a new coun
ty out 01 MIllldoKa, nooning am. i. -
coin counties, with Jerome as tne
county scat.
MANY MINERS ON
STRIKE IN GERMANY
THE HAGUE,
thobsand German
J n. 23.- finven
i,: rikeis are on
.t,r!bn ill Hi mlnr.u In Kivesin. rfeeori
.,...,,",' ..
In was cut off from communication
with the outside world for a pMoil people who use the roads should pay;Ht v,ndon, while en route to Salem to
of elgh'tees Imurs, on acfonnt of tint. for thcrfi. ' luttend the session,
strike. ' The only difference o opinion exist- Mr jjtalmar, died at the family
. ,ing on the road program are the f-' home In Gold Beach without learning
NVW (iUHAN AUSK.MHI.Y
WILk MELT AT HKIVAH
COI'ElIIAGES...Ian. 23 The nc
German national assembly will rwrtW" " iw-ouwi .
ft Weinfar. capital f th. Grand
- . - . ... .
Duchy of .Ssxe-WeSnifl-.Eiscm.ch, ae-
l.-ding to Hi Berlin I-okal Ar-acVr.j
'Miiifcwas fe-cinerf upon inai conference;
between irman government represrn-;
utuM wirt me I'russian m n sltv. nl
ter they tod agreedftat the sesfiwi
'oughJBto U hcW in a non-Prussian
town."
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The Dnlks-
hlcven mrles !etwccfj"i mv conv is are saiu 10 nave awnco
. . . (3) . .!... . -.1. I 1 S L
i Ketiferi ami O lesehules riv
er1! lie
30 $80, -
built at cost in 15!l,0ijtj.
j-hntej river ha. also iQq
SENATOR PIERCE INTRODUCES
MEASURE A'j1 SALEM
Would Collect From All I'ersong Hav
ing Income or Over $1000 a
Year, to Fix Highways.
SALEM, Jan. 23. Admitting thatj
he has an income of $20,000 a year,
Senator Pierce has introduced a state
income tux measure, which he believes
will raise between $1,600,000 and $2,
000,000 a year. All of this income tax
Senator Pierce wants devoted for road
building. The senator is probably the
only member of the legislature who is
voicing objection to a bond issue for
the construction of roads, and he is
wilting to raise revenue from any
source available to secure cash rather
than suffer u bond issue.
'Unless the legislature adopts n
state income tax, asserts tho senator
from Uipon and Wa.lowa, the people
will enact one through the initiative
some day, and the legislature may as
well accept one carefully drawn, such
as he has submitted.
Bonds for Roads Opposed.
All incomes above $4000 a year arc
taxed under the provisions of the bill,
and exemptions are few. If a husband
ami wife have a joint income of more
than $4000, the tax must be paid.
tBonds for roads are strongly op
posed by Senator Pierce, albeit prac
tically every other member of the leg
islature favors a bond issue for roads
the automobile license, fee to be used
for meeting charges of interest and
principal.
Instead of having bonds, Senator
Pierce proposes four methods of rais
ing money" for roads. - The main prop
in his program is the income tax
which ho says, at a. minimum, will
produce $1,500,000. Then he wants to
double tho automobile license, which
he says will develop $500,000. .
Gasoline Tax Suggested
t-A thirtl source of revenue Is ft tax
on gasoline, which he contends will
add $400,000 more, depending on the
I amount of tax placed on the petrol
per gallon., The fourth source is in
creasing the road tax mil la go from
one-fourth to a full mill, and this, es
timates Senator Pierce, will add $750,
000 more to the sum. raised by the
present quarter-mill. These various
devices are calculated to bring in ap
proximately $3,200,000 a yenr, ready
money.
As a special ron cession to the bond
advocates, Senator Pierre will agree
t. authorizing the stato highway com
mission to issue such amount of bonds
as may be necessary to match any
federal road money appropriation that
may be available for Oregon, but that
these bonds shall not be issued until
such time and in such amounts as they
uro needed.
Salaried CommisHioner Aim
Senator Pierce insists that there is
no stronger advocate for good roads
than himself, but that it is a problem
which will have to he studied for
years. As u support for this conten
tion, the senator wants to see the
J present state highway commissioners
I eliminated, on the ground that the
Irnpimissinners should devote all their
time to the job and, consequently,
should he rompcn.'tatcd.
In furtherance of this thought, he
lias a bill calling for tho payment of
commissioner in the sum of $4000 U
year and that they must devote their I
time exclusively ti road work. J
While the senator avoids saying the;
personnel of the existing commission
is objectionable to him', he says the
supervision 01 uiu j.,K, am
- ,,; j not hc imMli ovt,r u
retired
mllionairi.Bi nr me who have large
personal interests which occupy a
great part of their attention. .
Bond Issue to Prevail.
Aside from the automobile license
idea, it is not expected that any of
the other suggestions of Senator
I Pierce will jirevail. This session the
I members are friendly to a fargo bond
'issue, to be cared for U automobile
1 license fees, on the theory that the
i Terences or members wno arc seeking
Iflory from the situation.
rinwrnma vuruw
GUARD AND I SCAPE
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"HKG f, Jin. Sheriff "John:
Miller laf Rock L land, III., Jclephed
; me wnrajK, oci iiu nuiciu iww.y
i nigW. that 'fourteen convicts, prole
to work in the lte1' Slates arserV.1
al at IfyKk llar.9,4n4l shot one ift
i'K'r guardsoand rsi-iift-d. A majority
XhemOlviijavith revolvers, and are be
Ticved toXe on their t?Chicn.
The eotivicts art from the JOfiet ptO
Uiitisrv. O
Tho wind up of tho troublo be-Mr.
tween the city and the Golden Rulo
store and the Hooverized Orocery!
came this morning when Police
Jndga Eakln rendored his rosorvodjant to understand that if he wanted
decision on tne runner case, assess-
log Mac Woods, proprietor ft the
Golden Rulo, $10.00 on each of two
cbargeB, on of violating the city's
closing ordinance on January 4th
and tho other for a similar violation
on January ISth.
The court went into tho questions
involved vory thoroughly, citing sov-
oral examples of similar actions from
supreme courts of other states. Tho
Judicial' opinion expressed In tho
ases cited was to ,ho effect that the
court had no right to interfere with
city officials In tho dtccliargo of their
duty Itk regard to such matters. The
stato legislature givos tho govern
ing officials of cities, etc., tho pow-
to promulgate rules considered
necessary for tho safeguarding of tho
public health and looks to thoso of
ficials to soo that lules of such a
naturo are enforced.
Judgo Kakln theroforo stated that
he did not see that it was within his
Jurisdiction to usurp tho powers of
the health board, and that, as the
cine under consideration was admitt
ed to involve violation of the city's
ordinance, ho would. glvo his deci
sion lu favor of tho city. Ho fluod
JOHN B. GRIFFIN DIES AFTER
BEING HIT BY CAR.
Was One of Baker County's IMonccra
and Old-tiinc Mining Man Was
80 Years of Age.
BAKER, Jan. &'). John B. Griffin,
pioneer resident of this county, died
at an early hour yesterday morning
from Injuries received whon a taxi
cab, driven by John Kolly, struck him
about 7:30 o'clock the previous eve
ning. The accident occurred at the corner
of Second and Center streets. Mr.
Griffin started to cross tho street,
failing to see the taxi, which was ap
proaching at a rapid rate of speed, lie
was rendered unconscious by the im
pact and wan immediately taken to
St. Elizabeth's hospital, whore he
passed away without regaining con
sciousness. The cause of death was
given as concussion of the brain.
Mr. Griffin came to Baker when a
young man and engaged in tho min
ing business. At one time he wns con
nected with the Virtue mine and later
wns associated with a number of min
ing properties throughout Baker
counties. Ho knew all the old-timo
mining men and took part in tho busi
ness when it was at its height. Of late
years he had retired from business and
made his home with a niece, Mrs. J. F.
Dooley of Baker.
WOMAN, AGED 25,
WEDS YOUTH, 16
VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 23. Per
hrps the: youngest husband in the
United States, at least, is I.istcon S.
Ilnrber. HI years old, who was' mar
ried here yesterday to Mrs. Blanche
M. Schneringcr, 25 years of Bgo.
The youth hud the consent of his
parents. It is unusual for a youth of
, n,.i,l h-ri
I '
f,TnC! nrr'Tir
Wll i LUtiS Wr.iJS.
AFTER HUSBAND
f ,
A t KM Jim 23 Word was
:broul!ht U) Salem tonight that Mrs. J.
R. Staanard, wife of the lat Repre
sentative .Stannard, of Curcy county,
succumbed yesterday morning from
pneumonia, following influenza. Rep
resentative Stannnrd died last week
of her husband's, death.
They leave
jfour mll children.
XhLSJHI AI. IMIKST IS
INCHKASINii IN ENGLAND
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J,OM0T. Jan. i:-l,du rul un-
tst throughout e United Kingdom
i on tW- iiirrcK?. In addition to the
reat o'fi (railway stril:0the wjale
1 r,r Kn:fi ii'ja nrni iirouituiy 1,111 uv
' i.f!e, throwing I"0,000 en out of m-
ph ymcrL while preparations line be
; intr maJ in Scotland for
gene
s'.nkeMor a 40-hour week.
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WILSON I WILL (if) 1 BliisSKLS
I PARIS, Jari23. Preside, Wils.
- nrcord'rjr to prcseift plan
I BruilelFieHt Monda;vJi
ns, willo to
27.
AGED RESIDENT
OF BAKER DEAD
Woods 10 on each of tho two
counts above mentlon'ed.
Judgo Eakln was Inclined to be
accommodating and gave the dofend-
iio carry me case to mo supreme
tho case
court ho would fluo him enough to
bring tli case under tho jurlsdlc
tloa of tho higher court. Tho min
imum fine required tor that wouftl
bo $20.00. Mr. Woods had previous
ly slated that ho would fight tho case
baforo tho highest bunch, stated that
as ho was going out of business In
La Grande tho rosults from Buch ac
tion would not Justify the expense
so ho paid tho flno.
Sam Harris, ot tho Hoovorised
Grocery, was alo fined 110.00 by
Judito Kukln, on a similar charge.
Mr. Harris wont on tho Bland in his
own defense Hu paid his fine, also.
Following tho rendering of tho
decision lu favor of tho city, it was
reported that a number of other mer
chants who aro alleged to have vio
lated tho ordinances on January 4th
wilt havo chargos preferred against
thorn at aa early date. Tho allcgod
violations occurred alter tho" city had
notified each of tho ninny stores In
tho city that they should not nllow
crowds to gather lu tholr places of
business. That was when tho stores
wero allowed to reopen whon the
nlno-duy closing period tormlniited.
CLARK WANTS TO
SEE BOYS HOWIE
THINKS, THEY ARE .WASTING
TIME IN EUROPE
Speaker of House Demands That Ev
ery American Soldiers Be With
drawn From Overseas.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.). During
the debate on tho diplomatic and con
sular appropriation bill yesterday,
Speaker Chnmp Clark voiced a do
mand in tho house that every Amer
ican soldier be immediately withdrawn
not only from Russia but from the
rest of Europe, descending from the
speaker's chair to the floor of the
house to defend David Francis, the
American ambassador to Russia,
against attacks by Republican mem
bers. "I gave myHiny to the fighting
over thero like other members of this
house, and I want him back 80 he-can
get his proper start in Hfo. 1 don't
want him to wasto two years helping
to tear down wire fences.
"General Dupont, in a recent inter
view,' said the speaker, ''said our
boys would be kept ovcrscaB for anoth
er two years. Ho made onough money
out of selling powder during tho war
to fill this houso with one-dollar bills,
and ho says our boy will bo needed to
help tear down barbed wno anil poii.u
burepe
"If tho Belgians and l'Vunrh want
the wire torn down, let their, da it
Ihemse'ves After wo licked thevirr-
mans for t'u-n, they surely can police
K'.rono themselves.
The nuHt sens' -
blc thing President -Wilson h-js in d
was that hc was going to bri-rg thu'e
soldiers home."
Coining to the defense of Francis,
Speaker Clark continued:
Some of you Republicans have in-
i ti muted that Francis was afraid of the
Ilolsheviki. Let me tell you that no
,,,. m,,, pavid Francis, who was
born in Kentucky and raised in Mis
souri, Is afraid of tho devil himself."
NO PLACE IN SPAIN
FOR BOLSHEVISM
MADRID, Jan. 23. Tranquility
has bei'n restored at Barcelona.
Premier Itoinanoea announced l,oday
The people there nro respecting the
action of the government In lis deter
mination lu stamp Bolshevism out of
Spain.
CLl tfjmtl-S ARE FEWER
VANOll'VKK. Wiii.h -J.oi. 23
While tbi rrsidition if thvcpidrniic of
influvnsu hfre is improving tho par
tial ban on Soldiers leaving tl post
. , o . , .
has hwl a marked ef
; ber of so1fcera who
daily.'
In the gijiliers' iu
effect On the nunB
come tfownb'Vtf1
munity Service, at'IOS Main
U" over fljJOO soldiers) visited the ekilo
il iwek before last. laBt wees only 2
100 1
1 id
"iicra visited the placie Tho club
n'lar and if a soli
to while aw,y Otd can get
iuis iifcloBte.-ertiiin he will gtAo the
club, where he la welcomed and made
OitftortaWe. O
MAN CONDEMNED AS TRAITOR
MAY BE MADE FIRST
PRESIDENT.
IRELAND BELIEVED ON
EVE OF TRAGIC EVENTS
Twenly-five Members-elect of British
Commons Assemblo in Dublin and
Formally Constitute Themselves a
Parliament for Ireland De Valara,
Rebel Leader, Boomed as President.
Dublin, .Jan, a.'l. "Tile Sinn l.'nln
situation hero lias boon most aerl- .
u, mill Ireland bolieved to bo on
tho ovo of events whirl, will .nn.il.
flltO OHO of tllO most Inicln ehanlnra
In her history," says the Freeman's
rlourunl this morning. "If tho Hlnn
Kelners aro not serious. In their In
tentions thn Irish pooplo will cut n
iduculouN figure in tho oyos of tho
natioim of tho world," it continues.
DoValcrn, a notorious fiiruro. In Ir.
IkIi politic, Is being boomed as tlio
first president of tho Irish republic.
I'onueni ns one of tho leaders of
a recent revolt In Ireland; ho was
captured anil tried on a charge ot
treaaoii and condemned to death.
At present Ire Is lyinrf In Jail await
ing either deatli or deliverance by
his friends.
DUBLIN, Jan. 23. Twenty-five
members of tho Sinn Fein society
elected to the. British house of,com
mons nssemblcd here Tuesday after-'
noon and formally constituted them
selves tho "drill eirenn," which is Irish
Gaelic for "Irish parliament. "
They elected Charles iRurgcss,
whose Irish name is Cathal Brugha, '
speaker. They also adopted a declara
tion of Independence, and an address
to free nations of tho world and 'ap
pointed a committee consisting; of
Count Plunkett, Arthur Griffiths and
Prof. Edward DeValcra, to present the
claims of Ireland to self-determination
to the peace conference at Paris.
Count Plunkett Left Alone.
Tho two last named being in British
prisons only tho venerable Count
I'lunkett can proceed to Paris and then
only provided the British government
consents to give him passports.
Tucsdayls proceedings were con
ducted in tho dead language of the
Irish tongue. This was a tribute to
sentiment, but it was deadening to in
terest. Kew of tho 2000 auditors un
derstood the addresses.
WILL RETAIN U. S.
NAVAL OFFICERS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. All offi
cers it) tho navy will be retained in
tho service until the nnvv dennrtment
jtiIUWn how ninny German and Austrian
vessels aro to be turned over for use
by this country in transporting tho
Yanks from overseas. Secretary Dan
iels announced yesterday. .
riVK PRISONERS CAUGHT
ROCK ISLAND, Jan. 23. Five of
the prisoners who escaped from the
county jail here in the wbolesalo de
livery, have been recaptured.
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SENTENGEUYET
ft EARING OF MOTION FOR NEW
TRIAL DEFERRED.
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Associate Declared That He Expects
to KccrivP a Sentence of Twen
a tf Years. 0
CHICAGO, Jan. 23. Congressman
elect (ctor Bergcr, of Milwaukee, and
his four Socialist associates, recently o
?nviell ona cb'rge a?J espionage,
will not 10 sentenced heforcSaturday.
Consideration of thciP request for a
new triO has ngn postpOied. B
Irwin St. John Tucker, one of thO
kOr has any timcconvictedOmcn, said that he expected
an get dowrvtowOOo draw a sentence of twenty years'
I imprisonment. The nthexs are Adolpn
Germcr, J. Louis Engifshl And Wil-
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