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T ;w ! DAILY EDITION VOL. VI., No. 1 8. " GHANTH PAA8, J08EPHINB CUNTV. OUKUO.V, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1815. WHOL1 IfUMBEB 1580, No Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass lias a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. E I... Li - i... . !. mi ' ' ' ' - 3 10 KEEP THE TEUTON ON I E RUN French Confident of Ability to Continue the Drive in the West If Good Weather Conditions Prevail Paris, Oct. 1. Franco Intend that her great offensive along tho western frout shall bo driven home. "This la great offensive, but It haa only begun," said Senator Stephen Plchon, former French for eign minister, In an ezclualvo Inter view with tho United Press today. "It will be thrust homo before It .stops.. Until tho present we lacked (naterlals. We had no heavy artil lery and our ammunition supplies were Insufficient. Now wo are amply provided with everything wo need, both In hlg guns and ahclla. If wo are only favored by the weather. I am aure thing will go nicely. "Boucher and poaltlona near VI my are oura. We are ateadlly progress Ing on every front. An occasional slackening, need,not, bo a aurprlae. Tho battlea are not fought a when 100,000 men were a great, army and a fewf houri or a few days sufficed to score e, groat victory. ' f '.'Tho weather la one of tbo groat eat factors. On account ej the. ex treme Importan'o of artillery, hoary rainfall and muddy roada would sort oualy hinder, operations. It haa been demonstrated that' French trOopa, man, fpr man, are superior to (be en emy. And because I know the spirit of. the,, men In the, trenches. I (Irmly believe that the offensive will con tinue Jo a victorious end. Also I feet (hat 'Germany will be unable to aid Turkey because' she needier re ourcea nearer home. '"The allloa drive will relievo the Russian situation very much." Plchon la a powerful ' figure In France! Regarded as an internation al authority on tho iwr,Jjoi ie con serratlvo In hla statements. " ' " EASTERN BUYERS m PURCHASING HORTHWESTAVHEAT Portland, Oct. 1. Export interesta were greatly excited here today when It wa learned on good authority that oaatorn buyers were purchasing Urge quantities of wheat in the northwest. The exporter have a large number of high priced ship charters on their hands and fear that If a distinct rise hould occur In northwest wheat the vetsol owners would absorb moot of tho profit. Ono of tho eastern buyers is said to represent Rbaenbaum & Company, of Chicago and others with equally substantial connections aro reported operating In tho Interior. Although the wheat crop In tho oast, according to the government re- port, la tho grontost In history, it is ; oald to be lacking In quality. This la repqrtod to have necessitated the eastern buyers' presence in tho north western markot, whero the quality is of the finest. NEW WARDEN ASSUMES DUTIES AT THIC 1HN Portlnml, Oct. 1. John W. Mlnto, elected by tho state bonrd of control yesterday to bo warden of tbo ntnto ponltontlary, succeeding his brother Harry, killed Monday night by nn escaped oonvlot, went to Salem to day to enter upon the dutloa of the ofllce. OFFICIALS OF RIGGS IUTII IK IIIITED Washington, Oct. 1. Three of ficers of tbo Rlgg National bank were today Indicted by the federal grand Jury. Tho Indicted men aro: President Charloa B. Glover. Vice-President II. II. Flatter, Vlco-Precldent W. J. Klulher. It was charged that they falsified statements concerning the bank's al lK'd stock operations. The charge la perjury. Tho bnnk Issued a statement, in nntldpatlon of the indictments, say ing that the American Audit com pany of New York had declared the bank'a denial of stock operations was true. Tbo Indictments against the of ficials are an outgrowth of the bank'a action against 8cretary of tho Trea sury McAdoo,' Comptroller of the Currency Williams and United States Treasurer Burke, charging them with attempting to wreck the institution. TAKEN PRISONERS DURING SEPTEMBER Derlin, via flay vlllo,, Oct. . 1 Tbo Germane took 421 Russian officer prisoners and 85,464 men on the eastern front during. September,, It was officially announced today. ..Jt Attacks in tho Artols and Cham pagno regions, Including violent at- tempts, north west pf the Important town of Maaslges, it ' was claimed, were repulsed. ' --. i "The English yesterday, attempted no attacks," said tho statement, "North of Looa our counter-attack! made further progress despite strong resistance. "" ''Enemy monitors have bombarded tombartsyde and Mlddlekerke with- . i.ti 1 i oui resuiis. : ."French attacks failed east of Souchos, north of Neuvllle and north west of Masalgea. At the latte place seven divisions. attacked. '! "The total French prisoners In, the Champagne are 104 officers and 7,019 men. "French positions near Vauquols (Argonne)' were damaged by mining. French aviators bombarded Honln Mutarb, killing eight French civi lians." On the eastern front Field Marshal von Hlndortburg was reported to have stormed a position west of Dvlnak. "Russian attacks east of Madilol and east ' of Smorgon, southeast of VI In a,' failed," the statement con tinued. "Wo took 1,860 prisoners. Bavarians under Prince Leopold re pulsed the enomy's partial attacks and captured 600." 1 KING GEORGE WIRES CONGRATULATIONS TO FRENCH LEADER Paris, Oct. 1. Telegraphed con gratulations which President Potn care and General Joffre received from King George today removed any doubt that the present onslaughts along the western front constitute tho beginning of a great drive. The king mentioned the allies' successes "at the outset of our com mon offensive," and Polncare ropllod slmllnrly, recalling British victories. Tl'ltK KHOItH HATT1C1HK8 HI NIC TOItrKIK) 1JOAT (fly United Press Leased Wlro.) Constantinople, Oct. 1. Turkish shoro biittcrlps sank a torpedo boat , In tbo Durdnnollos Weiliiosdny, It ! was oftlclully announced today. MY RUSSIANS NO IRE $5 1 DEPDSIT ON IS ORDERED PHONE DISSOLVED State Public Service Com mission Issues Order Abol ishing Advance Required of Telephone Patrons (Dy United Press Leased Wire.) Salem, Oct. l. The state public service commission today issued sn order abolishing the 15 advance de posit required of certain patrona of the Pact do Telephone & Telegraph company. It baa always been tbo cus tom of tbo telephone company to re quire applicants for flat rate service to deposit fS, which was to be for feited If tho connection was not re tained one year. The commission's order does away with this, and after November 1, when it goes Into effect, tho only re quirement will be that subscribers psy In advance. ' Except for meter or measured ser vice no deposit shall bo demanded from any customer for service. ' ' ROBERO SUCCEEDS WHITE 1 ' AS STATE HEALTH OFFICER (By United Press Leased Wire.) Portland, Oct 1. Dr. David N. Roberg became state health officer today, succeeding Dr. .Calvin S. White. He was" elected tolbe office jy the state; board pf. .health last way. !l PATH OF S IBy, VPlted, .Prefl Leasod.Wlre.) Baton Rouge. I.jfl.-rual- ty returns ttw syHWu W? swept New Orleans and vlclntty are gaining towWr It ,wssetiraated this afternoon , that- the deed will number '80 and' the injured 100. Fortv-three are reported to haye.teen drowned at i Rigolletta and Lake Catherine. ; No' word has come yet from Houmo. .New Orlensi 1 Oct. l.Twenty lives werer snuffed 'out by thereat Indian Wrlcane .which .bit here Wednesday niornlnj, nd lashed the city and .autskjrta ..until three1 o'ilock Thursday morning, according to estimates late' tnls afternoon; ' At the seine' tlmei $15,000,000 of prop-ertywM-. wrecked. . Two to three feet of water covered the city for a day and.. half, .while the water front suffered heavily. Nine boats sunk in the harbor and several dry docks containing vessels were hurled by the 180-mile gale from one side of the river to the other. Five million dollars damage was done along the river front alone. Illinois Central officials estimated the road's loss at $2,000,000. Most of the dead are negroes, kill ed under the wreckage of sheds and small buildings in which they had sought refuge. Practically every house in the city suffered under the terrible lashing. Five churches were tumbled into ruins, and a score of others were damaged. Schools, theaters and exchanges are closed, (business la at a standstill and tho crescent city Is shut off from tho outstdo world oxrppt by wlrclPRS. niloxl, Miss., Oct. 1. Thirteen porsons porlshod In tho West Indian hurricane' at nittollntta, La., Includ ing nine In one family, according (Ishcrmen arriving here today In a storm-torn rraft, Federal Court at Philadelphia Rules That the Combina tion Is in Violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law (By United Presa Leased Wire.) Philadelphia, Oct. 1. The motion picture trust Is broken. Judge Dickinson, of the federal court, to day ordered this 'big combine dis solved. . The government sued the Motion Picture Patents company, twelve oth er corporations and eleven indivi duals under the Sherman act. The court failed to find proof of the charge that the Melies company was a party; to the alleged combination and dismissed the action1 against It j Tho . government filed Its dissolu tion 'petition August 18,' 1912, nam ing aa defendants the Motion Picture Patents, the General Film, Biograph, Kalem. 'Inc., Vltagraph' of America, J.'A. Borst, Henry Marvin, i. J. Ken nedy, Samuel Long, all of New Tork; Thomas Edison, Inc., Frank L. Dyer, Win. Pelzer, of Orange',1 KJ.; Gas ton Holies, George K. Spoor, W. HI Sellg, George Klelnel Selig Polyscope, Melies ' Manufacturing and Essanay Film - company, 'of Chicago;" Armat Moving Picture, of Washington; t,ub Philadelphia; Albert E. Smith; Brooklyn, and Paths Freres, New Jersey. - Mrs. Myrtle Allen, 98 years ojd, was killed and three children Wore seriously injured in the' collapse. of a home at Long Beach,, Miss. V '" ' Small schooners were 'strewn in splinters along the beach1 and far inland; The shell road along the coast was badly wrecked. 'The trolley line was damaged between here 'and: Piss Christian. The L. ft N. railroad has resumed operations between Mobile and ,ass Christian, but not to New Orleans. A huge, railroad bridge at Bay St Louie is reported destroyed. ' Gulfport reported heavy damage, including destruction, of. a. resin ship and the sweeping out of great piles of lumber when piers were destroyed. Two, vessels' were beached there. New Orleans (By Wireless) , Oct 1. The crescent city today began work of rehsblllatlon in the wake of the West Indian hurricane which is known to have caused 14 deaths, In jured several score and to have done property damage estimated atji, 000,000. Trolley . service on some lines was resumed today, though this, with telephone, light, telegraph and train service was still generally crippled. Outlying districts aro still flooded. Mayor Behrman took charge of the reliof work today and started plans for the work of reconstruction. While no building of any site or Importance was destroyed, few escaped damage. Captain Mengor, manager of the Pittsburg Coal company of Cincin nati, and two negro members of the crew of tho tug Corsair perished when the tug wna blown over Nine Mile Point. Flftoen other members of the crew swam ashore and came hero. Two white men were blown oft the steamer Creole, n white mnn was ashore in the West end; Mike Florlne was drowned In the river when his launch capslxed, and Samuel John- fDSE MAYTOREDA E1.1EU REPUBLIC CHIEF Nogales, Arts.,- Oct. 1. Governor JoBe Maytorena has quit Sonora. He Is after the Mexican presidency. This was learned here on good authority today. Maytorena came over the line last night, accompanied by bis entire staff, ostensibly tn route to the Pan-American confer ence. At present be Is stopping at his wife's house here, closely guard ed by American soldiers. The Yaqul General Urbalejo Is ex pected to make a bid' for the govern orship of Sonora, relinquished; 1y Maytorena. Carlos Randall, state treasurer, is governor pro tern. . It is believed here Maytorena will go direct to Washington for a con ference with General Angeles with respect to a new movement Inas much as Angeles has repeatedly de clared himself Innocent of presiden tial aspirations, it is expected hero the new faction will declare Mar torena president of Mexico and then make a bid for American recognt tlon. - . ' Maytorena is the only constitution al official who has held office during five years of revolution. He can sot proceed to Washington until per mission is received from the Ameri can war department FATE OF BELGIUM HOT DECIDED YET Berlin, via Sayvilie, Oot 1. Ger: many has not determined what dis position she shall make of,Belgiumf Under Foreign Secretary Zimmerman declared today In a newspaper inter view. But she is determined , that Belgium "shall not be England's Tan- guard." '.'Germany -always , haa wanted peace," he said, "and she no w wants guarantees that war will not 'be' re nested." He. added. that Poland's future. too, nas not been .decided, but de clared, that .Germany will determine both cases .and, that no .nation , will be able to Impose its will upon 'Ger many. The interview was. granted to the correspondent of the Nleuwe Rotter damsche Coursnt. Zimmerman , as sured him that Germany does not in tend to violate Holland's neutrality nor to attack, her economic, and poli tical independence. ..He t added that Germany appreciates Holland's . neu trality. CREW OF FOUNDERED ' ' ' t ! SPANISH 8HIP LOST (By United Press Leased Wire.) Madrid,' Oct' 1. The crew of the Spanish steamer Mlllan Oarrisco, 6(7 tons, Is reported to have perished when their vessel foundered Thurs day off LuarcS. son was killed when a signal tower tell on him. Two unidentified men were crushed by the collapse of a water tank, and an unidentified negro was killed in Algiers. Fears were felt today for thous ands of people In the levee district south of here, and the death list may be swelled considerably when full re ports from all of Louisiana are in. The immigration station Is hous ing 175 persons, rescued in a big boat by a single attache of the sta tion last night at Lee's Lane. The city Is strewn with debris and workmen began today the work of clearing this. Churches and schools woro hard hit. Tollco and firemen have romlercd valiant service. At one point pollre inen rlHUIng doath in a shaky cigar factory while tho storm raged, took two hundred pnnlrky girls' to places of safety in automobiles and patrol wagons. Willi ALLIES READY TO OCCUPY (UlEDOI Will Also land Troops at Salonika to Aid the Serb ians If Bulgaria Casts Lot With the Austro-Genaans London, Oct x. The allies are not only ready to land troops at Salonika, 'but are considering military oecnpa tlon of 'Serbian Macedonia, bone of contention in; the Balkan situation. If this step Is taken, it wonld be for the purpose of protecting Serbian territory while negotiations between Serbia ' and Bulgaria continue. It would also be undertaken '" for its : moral effect on the Balkan states. As an offset to German financial . influence in the Balkans, the allies are planning to loan to the states to meet the expenses of mobilization. The allies are determined to check mate every German move calculated -to secure Bulgaria's aid. . : - . In some quarters it is not believed , that the Austrc-Germans plan to fight their way'thrbugi l6 Constantinople. ! The SOO.OOVfroops they' naive 'mass-' ed on the 8erblan' frontier are deem-' ed inadequate for such a .thrust There Is e. strong belief among some . .authorities that this massing Is mere ly a plan to terrorize tie Balkan ! neu-" trals so that they will submit to any -scheme for the relief of Turkey -which Germany may devise. . ," t Foreign Minister . .Grey . authorized , the pressi bureau to state: . " "This action is precisely similar to that which' n receded TiirkeVs en trance Into the1 war on the side of our enemies. You remember that German . officers , forced ..Turkey to make en unprovoked , attack upon Russia in 11 4.' . Since the allies are bound to support the states threaten ed by such ' proceedings, the" news from (Bulgaria is regarded ' most gravely." k .The announcement created a sen sation. Everywhere it was taken as an indication "tnai' Bulgaria' has fin ally icast W Jot 'with' the' Anstro- Germans and ' is afboot to' enter:: the world war. ESTIMATE GERMAN FRONT AT 150,000 t (By United Press Leased Wire.) .London",, Oct. l.-rThe seventh, day of the, powerful Anglo-French offen sive on the western front found the allies sweeping closer to the'Vlmy heights and towards the Bosancourt Challerange railway, their two main objectives. With these places In their bauds, the allies would be in a position to administer a crushing iblow to tho enemy. One hundred and fifty thousand in dead, wounded and captured are the estimated losses of the Ger mans since the big new drive started. No accurate figures on the allies' casualties are obtainable, although Berlin sold they had suffered heavily, particularly in tho fighting about Loos. The Paris war office declared the French loft wing is within two miles of the strategic Bazancourt-Challe-range railway, and added that allied shells have made this line useless to the enemy. . The French righ wing Is plunging toward Cernay against a steel resist ance. II. O. Marshall, of Loland, spent the day In town. toss on nn .t .? ' I I 4 ( ' . . i. . i I X i - I f V r