Gold Hill news., May 15, 1915, Image 1

Gold Hill
Jackson Co.
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o f S uot h . m O r . gon i t
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The loss of life caused by the lot*
None of the survivors had aay com
pednea themselves amt the explosions
plaint to maks regarding th* action ot
they caused must have been terribly
the crew. All agree that everything
heavy. The tragic freight of bodies
Mors than half the city of Colon
possible was don* under the
taken to Queenstown bears evidence
was swept by a disastrous Ore.
stances.
of th * havoc wrought. Many of those
taken ashore were seriously Injured
which wont aground at the entrance to
Roslyn Woman and Babes Parish.
and more than a score died after they
the Inland sen of JApan on April 14,
Itoslyn, Wash - Residents of*
were taken to Cork and Queenstown
was floated by th* use of dynamite.
lyn and adjacent coal mining eamps
hospitals.
Tbs Westlnghouae Electric company
Many of the survivors reached fear that Mrs Mary Lambls and bar
of New York, la said to have received
and
l,ttl#
da,lahter«.
»Hxaheth
and
Mary.
shore suffering from Injuries
’> -i :t
an order for 6M.000.SO« Worth of big
w er* lost when the steamship Lim i­
several succumbed to their wounds
gab* tor o m at U e warring nations,
Queenstown — Twenty-three
miles
A cablegram
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t
Philadelphia. — President
Wilson and as result of the new bnslness the Highway Engineer to Become Deputy.
Scares who were wounded
when the tants was torpedoed.
f t * « thia port, aa tba crow files, an
Salem.—Holding that It was the In­
torpedo wrecked the giant liner were ^rorn H erry Rlrcball, also of Roslyn, a gav* te a gathering of <000 naturalised concern’s stocks jumped to 104.
IfTafular smear of flotsam on a calm thrown Into the water and rendered ,ellow P»»*e“ «er, to his rather, told Americans Monday night, the first la
W ith Europe eating up America’s tention of the recent legislature, when
* e «a rk s the era*a of tba Cunsnler
helpless by their Injuries and drowned of h,a aaia4Y a,,d of his Inability te ttaa tle n of what course the United cotton In the form of guncotton by It changed the sU te highway act, to
btallanta, first traoa-Atlantlo liner
find the missing woman nnd her chll Stale* gevernnzeat w ill pursue In the the thousands upon thousands of transfer to the s U U engineer all pow­
rlthout a struggle.
Sunk by a German submarine.
(,ren-
situation resulting from the losg of pounds, farmers through the south­ ers, duties aud responsibilities of the
Oaa hundred and forty-nine of 1200
mors than a hundred American live* west are ptanctng this year to plant sU te highway engineer. Attorney Gen.
•oula who perished with her Ila In
eral Brown In an opinion given at the
Total Number on Board Believed 1901. on U s British Hasr Lusitania
a* much, or more, cotton than hereto­
Improvised morgues In old buildings
request of SU te Engineer Lewis, said
New York — When th* Lusitania left
tfa spoke by Implication, hut his fore.
hordering Queenstown harbor.
E. I. Cantlne, state highway engineer.
New York, May 1, she had on board, hearer* Interpreted his remarks as
The prices of meat animals— bogs,
The 646 survivor* hare are quarter-
according to the latest available In- moaning that whUe the United Stats* cattle, sheep and chickens— to pro- 1 would become Mr. Lewja’ chief deputy
ad In hotela. residences and hospitals,
formation, a total of 1901 persons.
w ill remain at peace it would seek to ducers of 'the " u n lt e Y s u u i on April 7?*“ the Iaw becarae ef,ec,lve’ May
some too badly hart to be moved. The
convince Germany of the Injustice te 16 averaged about 66.69 per hundred­ 22. Mr. Brown said It v.-as apparent
Injuries of aoina are ao serious that
Lusitania Sunk by U-39, Says Rspert. mankind of t> * tragedy.
w eight A year ago the average was that the office of state highway en­
additional death* are expected and
gineer, as a separate office, was abol­
Geneva.— A dispatch from Munich
■ America.” said th« president, ''must 67.49. These figure* were announced
qaarly all are too dated to underataud
says the German submarine U-69 sank have U s consciousness
V th* federal department of agricul­ ished by the consolidation bill.
rutly what haa happened-
He also holds that h e sU te engi­
the Lusitania.
‘
'
sides It touches elbow* and touches ture.
The survivors do not agree aa to
neer shall have all the duties and re­
An
arbitration
award
advancing
to
heart
w
tU
all
nations
ot
mankind.
The
Whether the aubaaariaa fired one or
sponsibilities fixed In contracts now
Armed Move on China Cancelled.
example of America must be a special some extent the rates of par ot 64.090
twe torpedoea. A few aay they aaw
Toklo.— The Japanese government example and must be an example not locomotive engineers, firemen and In effect, or to become effective, spe­
Qte periscopes. Many attest to tracing
announced that the naval and m ilitary mdroly of- peaoe because I t v lll
hostler* employed on 140,000 m ile* of cial reference being made to the Mit-
t*w> wake of foam aa a projectile came
oheU Point section.
movements
In
connection
with
the
fight, but because peace Is a healing line of 96 western railroads in the
Ipprard the roaaal.
Chinese situation had been cancelled. nnd elevating Influence of U e WdVll, great area ot the United States and
f
Llfebeata’ Davits Smashed.
Canada bounded on the east by the W aterway Session Elect* Officers.
and strife-la n o t
'
• ■ ■ ■
The only pointe In which all concur
Astoria.— The sixth annual conven­
"There is such a thing as a man Illinois Central and the Great Lakes,
I* that the torpedo atruck the veaael
tion of the Columbia and Snake River
was
signed
at
Chicago.
being too proud to fig h t There in such
a vital blow amldahlpa, caualng her
W aterway congress was held here.
German Blame fo r Loss of Life le a, *hlng an a nation being so right that
to Hat almost Immediately to the atar
Its final action was the selection of
It"
does
not
need
to
convince
others
by
Laid on Britain.
hoard
In thia careening fashion ah*
Pendleton as the place at which the
fo.ee that It Is rig h t”
plowed forward some distance, smash­
next convention w ill be held, the time
Washington.— W hile official Wash
The president made no direct refer-
ing the lifeboats' davits as she did ao
Ington waited for the word from Presl
to be named by the executive com­
and making the launching of boats
dent Wilson a* to what Is to be the * nCe tO
Lu,Uanla tragedy, but th *
mittee.
wall nigh Impossible until headway
pollcy of the United g utes In the audience did not heslute to rend the
Officers elected to serve during the
crisis resulting from the sinking of appllcat,OB of hls eUtement.
had ceased.
ensuing year are: President, Eugene
Katlmatea of the time she remained
The sentiment expressed in the
the LusiUnla, Count Bernstorff, the
A. Cox, Lewiston; first vice president,
hfloat range from eight to 20 minutes
German ambassador, called at the president’s speech was epitomised
F. J. Walsh, Astoria; second vice pres­
The list to starboard so elevated tho
state department and expressed to later by one ot h l* closest advisers a*
ident, W. D. Lyman, W alla W alla;
lifeboats on the port aide aa soon to
Secretary Bryan his "deep regret that "hnmanlty f ir s t ”
third vice president, H. N. Dyer, Uma­
render them useleaa.
tilla; secretary-treasurer, Wallace R.
Cross marks location on the Irish the events of the war had led to the
It la said only two on that aide were
Struble, Astoria; assistant secretary
coast where the steamship Lusitania loss of so many lives.”
launched. The first of these was
Later press dispatches from Berlin
G. Clifford Barlow, Warrenton. These
was torpedoed and sunk.
tilled with women and children.
It
announced that the foreign office had
officers also constitute the executive
atruck the water unevenly, capsizing
cabled to the embassy a note to be
committee.
and throwing Its 60 occupants Into the
presented to the sU te department, ex
sea. The Lusitania even then wan
pressing "deepest sympathy with the
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making considerable headway nnd the
loss of liv e , on board th . LusiUnla," I WtU|
torpedoing of the LualU ll.
women and little children were swept
but placing the responsibility on the ta. four American* who stood at the
Dedication and T ra n s W of Property
to death In spite of the attempts of j
British government's plan of "s u rv top of their several lines of activity
at Oregon City Falls Made.
two stokers to rescue them. These'
Ing the civilian population of Ger- went to a watery grave.
Oregon City.— The free navigation
Queenstown.
—
Ninety
two
passen­
heroic men, according to the pasaen
many.”
of the W illam ette river, a dream of 60
There was Elbert Hubbard. editor
gers of tin Cunard line steamer Lust
gers, were drowned.
years, was realized here when the
I of The Philistine, sage of East Aurora,
After that
several
boats wert tanla who formed part of that pitiful
Oregon City locks were transferred
Dorothy
Connor,
of
Medford,
OrM
Safe,
called
F
ra
Elbertus
by
hU
followers
handful
of
maimed,
dead
anil
dying
launched successfully, but the steam
formally from private to public con­
New York.— Among the LusiU nla Charles Frohman. perhaps America’s
e r’a llat grew more perilous, the decks brought ashore with the survivors of
trol.
the
disaster
that
followed
the
s
tu
c
k
surylvors,
accogding
to
dispatches.
Is
Kreal*e
t
theatrical
manager;
Charles
slanting to such an angle that It was
Eight thousand persons witnessed
Imperative for all to cling to the rail. on the vessel by a German submarine! Miss Dorothy Connor, whose name ap- Kiel», one of this country's leading
the transfer. From a score of towns
pears
on
the
passenger
list
as
from
Play»rights,
and
Alfred
O.
Vanderbilt,
were
buried
with
services
that
have,
Many by thia time had donned life
up the W illam ette valley and from Port­
New York. This probably refers t o ' member of one of the beat known
belts and Jumped for It. Several life­ no parallel In history.
land they came to assist in the cele­
American families.
Under a sky In which not a single Miss Connor, of Medford, Or.
boats broke adrift unoccupied and the
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, ene of the bration. Special cars were run on the
cloud
floated
and
to
the
strains
o
l
!
Elbert
Hubbard
was
born
at
Bloom
sea became a froth of oars, chairs, de­
hymns played by British soldiers, they Woman is Hacked With Ax In Homs. lngton- n l- June 19- 1869- aBd received prominent American* who went down 1 Portland-Oregon City interurban line;
bris and human bodies.
on the Lusitania.
I the Cherrians, 50 strong and headed
were laid to rest two miles behind I La G ran d e.-M rs . J W . Moon. 30 , a common 8cho° l education.
Flrat Cabin Loss Heavy.
by a band, came down from Salem and
Alfred
Gwynne
Vanderbilt
was
a
Queenstown.
years old. wife of one of the partners
The heavy loss of life among the
there were delegations here from Mc-
Queenstown
never
sensed
the
full
in
one
of
the
largest
bakeries
In
La
Breat
«rand8on
Commodore
Cor-
flrat cabin passengers Is believed to
■ Minnville, Albany, Corvallis and Eu-
have been due to the calmness and horror o f the LusiUnla disaster until Grande, was attacked in her home and n<’liu8 VanderbiU, founder of the Van-
j gene.
derbilt fortune.
self-possession they displayed In fact; Monday. Up to tho time that the long terribly hacked about the head with
The formal transfer took place on
He was born at New York, October
of danger. Moat of them were at lun­ stream of coffins began to disappeai an ax. Hours of Investigating result­
the court house steps where the speak-
20, 1877, and was married twloe. In
cheon when the steamer received her over the hill behind the town there ed In the arrest of E, S. Moon, the wo­
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ers were assembled. Franklin T . Grif-
1901 to Elsie French of Newport, R.
death blow and declined to ’oln the was about the affair, what with the man’s father-in-law, who is held in
I., and In 1911 to Margaret M cKlm of
Kinsale, Ireland .— The coroner's nth’ Pre8tdent of the Portland Rail
rush for the boats and life belts. They continued searches for survivors and the county jail pending further In­
London.
Jury which has been investigating the way> Llgbt & Power company, late
believed the Cunard liner would re the bustle about the morgue, some quiry. A man said to be a tramp also
Charles Frohman. theatrical man deaths attendant upon the loss of the owners of the locks, presented a three
thing
of
the
unusual
and
theatric.
has been arrested at Kamela.
main afloat until assistance could a r­
ager and producer, got his start in the Lusitania returned the following ver ,oot model of th® canal to W . C. Haw-
When the funeral started, however,
rive.
ley, representative in congress.
show business as a seller of tickets diet;
the
realization
came
that
each
of
these
Road
Knife
Is
Designed.
Apparently every precaution had
"The Jury finds that this appalling
M r Hawley>
turn, presented the
Albany.— A "road knife," which may at Hooley's theatre, Brooklyn.
been taken against a surprise attack cheap coffins held a body and that in
Mr. Frohman was born In 1860 at crime was contrary to International propertr to the people, through Cover-
by a submarine. Lookouts were on the Atlantic, less than 20 miles away, become an important piece of machin­
Sandusky, Ohio.
law and the conventions of all civilix nor Moses Alexander of Idaho. Cov­
the alert constantly as the giant there were more than 1000 others—all ery in road building, has been Invent­
Charles Klein was the author of a ed nations and we therefore charge ernor Wlthycombe, who was to have
ed by Fred A. Ertxon, of Salem. It
steamship speeded toward tho Irish victims of a German submarine.
The townspeople stood hatless near was tried out on road near Albany and score of successful plays but three of the officers of the submarine and the de,tvered the response for the people,
coaat. Difficulty was experienced In
them stand as among the leading suc­ German emperor and the government spent the morning in Vancouver, Wn.
launching the boats because of the ly all forenoon as the coffins were con ts said to have worked well. The new
heavy list of the Lusitania almost Im­ voyed to the cemetery on carts. This machine is designed to fill up holes cesses of the past decade. They are of Germany, under whose orders they
Cooa Bay Line *° Be Ruahed-
and grade the roadbed at the same “The Third Degree,” "The Music Mas­ acted, with the crime of w ilful and
mediately after she was torpedoed. process required hours.
wholesale murder."
Eugene.— Orders to take additional
No Americans, ao far as known, time. Mr. Erixon has applied for a ter" and "The Lion and the Mouse."
Several of the frail craft evldentl)
Captain Turner, of the Lusitania, steps to rush the completion j f the
capsized as they were launched, oi were among those burled. A few ol patent on the machine.
the dead were members of the Lusi
appeared before the coroner and was bridge work on the Coos Bay line have
soon afterwards.
questioned. The coroner asked him followed an inspection made by W il­
Many of the passengers owed their Unla's crew, but the majority of them
TH E M ARKET8
Anti German Riots Force Authorities whether he had received a message liam Hood, chief engineer. This an­
rescue to life belts, which kept them either were unidentified persons. In-
Portland.
to Take Action.
concerning the sinking of a ship off nouncement was made by H. P. Hoey,
afloat until they were picked up by eluding a number of small children
engineer In charge of W illamette-Pa­
and
babes,
or
persons
the
financial
boats. Among this number waR Lady
Victoria, B. C.— Victoria was placed Kinsale by a submarine. He replied cific construction, who returned from
W heat— Club. 6112; bluestem 6118;
that he had not.
relatives
Mackworth, daughter of David A. circumstances of whose
red Russian. 6105; forty-fold, 61-13; under m artial law as the result of at­
Tell us In your own words what Portland prepared to^direct the in­
Thomas, the Welsh "coal king,” and forced thorn to be content with the in­
tacks upon German establishments by
red fife, 61-0*.
creased activities.
Mr. Hoey posi­
happened after passing Fastnet.”
Julian De Ayala, Cuban consul gener­ terment of their loved ones wherever
mobs
T
en
t
upon
revenging
the
sinking
Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, 616;
tively denied the statements made by
It happened to he.
"The
weather
was
clear,”
Captain
al at Liverpool.
grain hay, 612; alfalfa, 613.60; valley of the Lusitania. After a mob of sev­ Turner answered. "W e were going contractors that the bridges on the
No Warning Qlven.
eral thousand men and boys had
timothy, 612.50.
at a speed oi 18 knots. I was on the Coos Bay llne cannot be finished until
Investigation has failed to reveal
smashed windows In the Phoenix
Butter— Creamery, 26c.
port side and heard Second Officer next year'
that the steamer was given warning
brewery,
the
New
England
hotel,
Kll-
Eggs— Ranch, 19c.
Hefford call out: ‘H ere’s a torpedo.'.
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of the proposed attack by the subma Oar, Chair and Gold Braid on Arm Aid
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 26c; Valley, burger’s jew elry store, Hermann’s I ran to the other side and saw clearly
rlne, which appears to have been lurk­
In Rescue.
Austria and Italy Make Term *.
cleaning
establishment
and
Geiger's
28c.
the wake of a torpedo. Some steam
ing off the Irish coast bent upon de­
Queenstown.— Captain Turner re
Rome.— Austria Is reported to have
plumbing shop, the mayor read the
Mohair— 32 @ 33c,
came up between the last two funnels, j accepted at The eleventh hour all " th^
stroying the largest nnd fastest ship inalned on the Lusitania’s bridge un­
riot act at the corner of Yates and
here was a slight shock. Immediate- demands of Italy, thereby averting
engaged In trans-Atlantic traffic.
til the structure was submerged and
Governor streets and 800 soldiers be­
Seattle.
ly after the first explosion there was war at least for the present,
The lookouts sighted the periscope then climbed up a ladder, as would a
W heat— Bluestem, 6116, club 61-12; gan policing the city.
, t ls known that an Important mes-
of a submersible 1000 yards away and diver from a tank. Whon h« reached
The Phoenix brewery virtually was another report, but that may possibly
red Russian, $1.05; forty-fold, 61.13;
have been Internal.
SaRe arrived from Vjenna an(, wa8 u .
the next Instant they saw the trail left the surface he grasped an oar and
wrecked, the mob doing Its work be­
fife, 61.08.
I at once gave the order to loweT ken Immediately to Foreign Minister
by a torpedo as It flashed on Its then a chair. He clung to the chair
fore the soldiers reached the scene.
Barley— $23 per ton.
the
boats down to the rails and dl- Sonnino by Prince Von Buelow’s sec
course. Thon came a terrific crash nearly two hours and finally when the
Hay— Timothy, 616 per ton; alfalfa, As far as known, no one was injured.
rected that women and children retary. Immediately thereafter It was
as the missile pierced the liner's side,
hair turned over he flung up a gold- 614 per ton.
should get Into them.”
reported that Austria had accepted
followed almost Immediately by an­ braided arm. This was seen by a
Butter— Creamery, 26c.
The quartermaster's department is
other which littered the decks with member of the crew In one of tho I
i Italy's terms. Later the report was
Eggs— 19c.
tailing for tenders for 600,000 feet of
wreckage. The course of th < T in e r honts, nnd thus the commander was ,
semi-offlclally confirmed In German
Oregon lumber for the Philippine Is­
was at once turned shoreward.
saved.
' diplomatic circle*.
land*.
LUSITANIA IS SUNK
BY A SUBMARINE
TONE OF PRESIDENT’S
SPffCH £ P E A f if f f t
Slant L|ner i* Attacked With*
out Warning Off the Irish
Ceast.
Mr. Wils*n indicate* America
Will Net Became Involved
In Conflict.
SHORT NEWS NUGGETS
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERALiNTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
WHERE LUSITANIA SANK
BERLIN OFFERS SYMPATHY
[
92 GF DEAD ARE
-BURIED IN IRELAND
ALFRED G. VANDERBILT
MEN OF NATIONAL
PROMINENCE PERISH
LOCKS GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC
LUSITANIA JURY
BLAMES GERMANS
SOLDIERS POLICE VICTORIA
CAPTAIN STAYS ON BRIDGE