Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, October 20, 1915, DAILY EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textr AGS TWO DAILY lUXillti 1UVK11 COl'IUKIt wkdnixhay, iktoukh uo, tuts Daily Pwogua River Courier. Ai Independent Republican Jewt Paper. United Press Leased Wire Telegraph yjee 4. S, VOORHIE8, Pub. and Prop. WILFORD ALLEN, Editor Entered at the Grant Pass, Ore ion, Poatofflce at aecond-class wall matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear .15.00 Six Months .J.00 .1.50 Three Moathi One Month Payable ta Advnace, WKDXESaiV, OCTOBKH SO, 1913 OREGON WRATUKR -: f-- ' ' Tonight and Thursday partly cloudy and occasionally threat- f ening weather northwest; gen- 4 erally fair south and east por- -f tlons; southerly winds. . GET THE ACREAGE FIRST. Every community in the Rogue val ley is an ambitious community. That la the reason why Ashland and Med ford and Grants Pass, and all the other towns, have become models of civic beauty and of commercial en terprise and Importance. When it come to the location of a beet sugar factory, involving the expenditure of million dollars as a first invest ment and the paying out of other millions for pay roll, beets, etc., it Is natural to suppoee that any of the communities in the valley would be delighted to have the institution within their precincts. But the mat ter of first Interest Is the building of the factory. By the offer to pay a flat price for beets at any rail point 1 the question of location does not; mean a handicap for any grower. The first thing to do. therefore, is to peral manto received here today sign up the acreage that will guar-! from Petrograd. antee the building of the factory, j This announced to all Russians Then the factory can be placed where jthat Bulgaria had been perfidious to It wiU best serve the interests otiRuM,a thouh Mured of galnln8 A, , , Macedonia through other means than those who are putting their capital on Serbia into the investment. If it Is Grants! RuMjan fegard wUn Pass, every Grant Pass hat will go gorrow the treason of Bulgaria," aald into the air, and every Grants Pass :the statement, "which was so near eoat will be shed when it comes to 'to It unUl these last few days, and the effort to locate the factory. But 'vUh b,e!d,n heart draws the .word first get the acreage. The same spirit should actuate each of the Individual communities In this matter, and that I editorial in the Med ford Sun which the following is an extract i "There is the beet sugar proposl- j tlon, for example. We can conceive of no sane resident of the valley op-1 posing such a venture. We can con-j la(VA tt Via v, a KuUAnt KaIbm , 4 v va av on aiv a rstucui isvi u fj ft lav thing out an enthusiastic advocate for the establishment of Just as many beet sugar factories as the Oregon - Ctah company will build. "Yet we are in receipt of a com-' munlcation today urging us to re-' fuse our support unless Messrs. Nib- ley and Dram well agree to build the factory on the outskirts of Medford. "Of course, we want the factory near Medford, Just as Ashland wants It near Ashland, and Grants Pass ful of the safety of the five suspects, wants it near Grants Pass, and we for the temper of the crowds is such are In favor of working tooth and that lynching seems the only possible .... u i j j v satisfaction for their blood lust, nail to get It nrar Medford: but .. ... . , . , Meantime, soldiers and official shades of the canine in the manger! possw, ,eourel the countryside for we don't want It kicked out of the further trace of LaRoea and his out valley Just because it promises to be ,aw8 wno Participated In yesterday's placed at one spot Instead of the bndllry other. i ) Lithographed fruit box labels at "And if Medford can't sign up the the Courier office. most acreage in fair and open com- ' ' ' petition, then let the community that j rf can sign It up get the factory, tor' V-Oltee that community not only deserves It but that Is where the factory will be most likely to succeed. .r7V?.W.n 7 7 Trd'! first, last and all the time, but we are not for Medford alone. We are also for the Rogue River valley, for Jackson county, for southern Oregon,' and, in the wards of Joshua Perkins, 'the whole dum state.' What we can get we want: what we can't got. we want our neighbors to have. "This isn't any virtue on our part. It Is merely self-interest from, per hsps. an enlightened standpoint." RENTON ROBBERS ESCAPE WITH $1416 TAKEN FROM BANK Seattle, Oct. 20. Efforts to cap ture two heavily armed men who held up and robbed the Cltlxene Bank of Ronton, a suburb of Seattle, yester day afternoon and escaped in an automobile w 1th f 1,4 l' In gold and currency, have utterly tailed bo far today. In spite of the fact that several posses started after the rob bers almost within a minute after they Bed from Renton, all trace of them at the point near Bryn Mawr, where they leaped from the car, driven by Harry Anderson, ordering the terror-stricken chauffeur to drive on without summoning the police, under penalty of death, has teen lost. Stanley Reese, SO years old, who was shot In the leg fey one of the robbers as they were fleeing from Renton, la recovering from a painful wound. The shots of the bandits were pro- j voked when O. P. Stone, proprietor of a laundry, opened fire at them with, a rifle, instantly one of the men stood up In the automobile and fired direct ly at Reeee and another man, who were atandlng on a corner. Inside the bank they covered Cashier R. W. Gllham and Miss Susan Woods, bookkeeper, with revolvers and ordered Gilham to give them "that money" or be killed. BULGAR'S ACT IS TREASON SAYS THE SLAV MANIFESTO London. Oct. 20. With "bleeding heart" the Slavs have been forced to draw the sword against their one time friend. Bulgaria, said an lru- against ner, leaving me isie oi lav betrayer of the Slav cause to the Just punishment of God." ."TEH MEXICANS PAY PENALTY FOR "FRISCO" HOLDUP j , , . an . I Brownsville, Texas, Oct. 20. Their 'wrata klndled by tne dar,ng nold.up !0f a "Frisco" train yesterday, cltlxens here today for the most part had the law in their own hands, prepared to deal summarily with any Mexican who faed to g,ve a good account of himself. Already ten Mexicans have been killed fcy Americans as a direct rwu,t of lne hold-up and five others are held prisoner in the Brownsville Jail. Authorities, however, are doubt- A liquified smile, a fra grant cup of Schilling's Best Cof fee-as a hopeful SCnd-off to the (lay's work. In airtixU tins, evenly grt mid and practically chafiless. Moncback, of course. Schilling's Best Webeter't Worthless Area. Daniel Webster was surely ft great orator when he uttered the peroration f his reply to ll.iym. aud a great statesman when lie formulated the Ashburtou treaty, but ho failed as a prophet wheu In the United States somite he denounced a proposition to establish a mall route from Indcpcn- fence, Mo., to tho mouth of the Colum bia river. "What." said the godlike Daniel, "do we want with this worth- ls urea! Thla region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting amls aud whirlwind of dust, of cac tus and prnlrlo dogs) To wort Ui could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, Impenetrable and covered to their very Use with eternal snow What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 8,000 miles, rock bound, cheerless, uninviting and nut a harbor on It Mr. President, I will uever vote one cent from the pub lic treasury to place the Pacific coast one Inch nearer to Boston than it now IsExcbange, Cast Indian Traders. The native of India Is a keen trader. none too scrupulous, and does bustueas on ft small margin. It la said that he retails goods so close that his profit la made by Belling the packing box. Na tives become laudlords by the purchase of piano shipping case. Thla would be divided Into two compartments by a board. The lower section wootd be rented for ft few cents ft month to ft silversmith; the upper leased to a dbur tle or native shirt maker, while on top a cap merchant displayed bis wares. Incomes are so small that the Indi vidual who owna ft "nubble bubble" or water pip has several rubber tubes connected with It, and for ft "pice." one-elxteenth of a cent, allows patrons to have one puff. I mention these facta to give a real glimpse of condi tions. Despite this, I know this mar ket hi worthy of our best efforts. W. E. Aughlnbaugh In Leslie's. Greased the Wheels. Some years ago an American busi ness man, wishing to get freight through a Russian port, approached the government agent with a request for; expedition, lie was told delivery uilgb, be made tn some weeks. The Amer ican protested that be uiust have those goods Immediately. "Have a cigar," said the Russian offi cial, pushing a box toward the Amer ican and leavlug the room. The Amer ican opened the box. found It empty and dropped in fifty rubles. The Rus sian came back, looked at the box. pushed It toward the visitor and. as be again left the room, remarked, "Have another cigar." The American dropped fifty more ru bles In the box. The Russian official returned, looked at the cigar box aud politely remarked. "Tour goods will lie delivered tomorrow. alr."-Wall Street Journal A Famous Statue. The great templo of Zeus Olymplos at Olympla. Greece, was 354 feet long and 171 wide. The columns of this fa mous shrine were sixty feet in height and six and u half feet In diameter uud are the lairct which now remain of ancient architecture In marble. Slxtecu of the wouderful columns are still staudlug and are anrnug ttie moot Im posing In the world. In this letnpl stood the colossal statue of Zeus, forty feet high, ou a pedestal of twenty. This statue was the masterpiece of Phidias, the world's greatest artist, and so famous was It that It was consider ed a calamity to die without seelug It The Immortal work was removed to Constantinople by Theodoslus 1. and was destroyed by fire in the year 475 A. D. Blackwsll's Island. The price of Blaekwell'a Island when It was purchased by New York city was R0.0O0. paid to Robert Blackwell. the owner, who had married the daughter of the English captain Man ning, who lu 1073 surrendered New fork city to the Dutch. When the English resumed control Manning re tired to Black well's Inland, then known as Uog Island, and after bla death it became the prorty of his daughter nnd son-in-law. It was sold in 1S3S to New York city and since has becu In use for various correctional and char itable institutions. Ventilation. Changing of the air In a room once or twice day ts not sufficient. Ven tilating a room while It la not occupied la not sufficient either. Two or three occupants of a closed room will vitiate the air In it lu ft few minutes. Venti lation should be most active while room Is occupied by people. An Important Consideration. -Poverty." said Mr. Dusln Stsx. "to no disgrace." "No." replied Mr. Groweber. "Pov erty Is like wealth In one way. The amount of respect attached to It de pends entirely on bow yon came by It" Washington Star. Exceptions. "A soft answer turns away wrath." "Don't you believe It. My wire ask ed me yeotenlay how I liked her tit cults, and I said they were miub."--Baltimore) American. Folio One Another. Things always bring with thetu their own philosophy that Is. prudence. ! man acquires projwrty without acquir ing with It also a little arithmetic-Emerson. MANY LIVES LOST III TUBE BUILDING Mora Killed In Construction Work Than Passengers. EIGHT PERISH IN CAVE-IN, Record of Subway lulldlng In New York Rtplete With Dlssster, While For Years Millions) Have Trcvsled In Completed Tubea With Compara tively I. tie Lot of Life. Subway construction In New York has been fraught with more acvldeuts in which fatalities were recorded than the actual operation of tralus In the completed tubes, exclusive of persous run down by trains. Disasters were frequent lu tbe building of the Inter borough until It waa opeucd eleven years ago.. iSluee that time there has becu only one accident of importance that of Jan. 0, In which BOO persona groped their way In the tunnel through gasea, and In which one life was lost This caused several bearings before the public service commission, at which testimony was given regarding the con nection between the accident at Broad way and Fifty-third street aud the piercing of cable by drill eleven blocks downtown, where work for the new Seveuth Avenue subway was go ing on. Two accidents marked the building of the tnterborough. The first waa tn Jauuary. 11X12. when six persons were killed by an explosion at Forty-first street and Park aveuue aud the Grand Union and Murray Hill hotels were damaged. Two months later two houses on Park avenue at Thirty-fifth street caved lu. On Dec. 2S. 1011. two laborer lost their lives lu a cave-In In Fourth ave uue, Brooklyn. Feurteen More Killed. Eight act-klcnta have occurred In con atructlou work In New York within the last thrve aud one-half years, In which fourteen lives were lost The first was on March 11. 1012. wueii four weti were burled lu Fifty-seventh strvvt. west of LextngUm aveuue. Oue of these lost his life. A small landslide occur red In the excavation where the men were at work uud the four fell twvuty six feet. Two weeks later Lexington avenue, between Eighty-seventh and Eighty eighth streets, collapsed from curb to curb, and tbe street surface dropped forty feet. This followed an extra heavy blast and a stm t car tbe rails being supported by large lennis nar rowly esctied the fate of tbe Seventh avenue trolley which fell Into the exca v a tlon. The most serious accident occurred on June 14. 1013. when ten permits were killed by tons of curtti aud bowl ders hurled upon litem lu a rnve-ln at Lexington avenue nnd Fifty-sixth street Another explosion nt One 11 uu Ured and Twentieth street and I.exlnu ton aveuue followed h font minutes later. Psrithoa In a Cave-in. Oue laborer died In a cave-lu on Jan. 3. 1014, at Lexington avenue ami Sixty first street, and two other were hurt Similar to the manner lu which it was conteuded that the Jauuary. 1014. ac cident was caused, a drill mishap blocked the subway last March at Times square. Clouds of smoke came from tbe exenvatkm. but no oue was hurt lu the same month a blast shook the windows of Broadway stores at Thirty-eighth street which caused women, thluklng there had been an explosion, to run shrieking through the streets. Two weeks Inter faulty underpinning caused the sidewalk at Broadway and Tweuty-elKhtb street to sluk four feet Tbe K)lIce reserves were- called and found that no one had loen killed, al though several persons were shocked by their fall. In June a wuVr muiu break flooded the new Seveuth avenue excavation at Forty-third street. Eight persons were killed nnd scores Injured when un entire block caved in recently at Seventh avenue and Twenty-fifth street NO COLLAR, NO TUITION. Father Is to Fight This School Rule That 8snt His Sons Home. Because tbe teachers of tbe grammar school of Camden. N. J., for three days In succession bad sent bis small sons borne when they apiwared tn school collarlesa and with tbe neckbands of tbclr shirts turned In Frank V. L. Tar ner. a Philadelphia newspaper man. living In Merchantvllle. la planning le gal action which will determine whetb er the boys must wear collars while women teachers nnd girt pupils wear low necked dresses in hot weather. Mr. Turner has appealed to State Commissioner of Education Kendal! without success, and pnpers have been drawn which will be served on the board of education, principal of the school and teachers. Parrots In Her Coffin. Two et parrots share the coffin of a Staten Island (New York) woman, whose last request was that tbey be chloroformed and burled with ber. pyy ' iimininn 'mux' n mi iTI o II Steel Cut llll III CoWenWcstCoffee UQ3aVI 1 Pound 35c m Ask Your Dealer Order Early Steel Cut Roasted Dally Always Fresh Closset&Deyers The Oldest and Largest Coffee Roasters in the Northwest IT POWDER EXPLOSION TAKES FIFTEEN LIVES Butte, Oct. 20. Fifteen mangled bodies, some of them blown to pieces, and two men dying, stood today as tbe toll of the "giant powder" explo sion at the Granite Mountain mine yesterday afternoon. All had been Identified. Workers prying under debris near the mouth of the mine unearthed a part of a skull and leg and remnants of human flesh, Indicating one more victim, whose name may never be learned. Cause of the explosion has not 1oon determined, for none of those who saw the 500 pounds of powder lbwer ed In the minejlved to tell what hap pened. John Davey, a top carman, had walked away when the blast occur red. Several persons were badly In jured. ITALY CALIJ MOHK TltOOPH TO TIIK V.LOIW Home. Oct. 20. Italy today called to the colors four moro rlassea of re serves, thus completing her mohlll xntlon.. No official explanation was given, hut rumors wrre that the ad ditional forces were Intended for Bal kan service. These reports were rtrengthened by official admission that no more troops are needed at tbe Austrian frontier. ZEPPELINS TO ItELIEVK GERMAN BALTIC KII1ITINO Berlin, via Sayvlllo, Oct. 20. Zep pelins have come to the rescue of German shipping In the Baltic, where British submarines threatened a com plete blockade. Authorities here to day are confident that the aircraft will end tbe British activity in the Baltic. Old-Fashioned Cough Drops Just whatyou need for that ") f7 tickling in the throat L ULt Demaray's !& INVITE TO T Washington. Oct. 20. California's) Invitation to President Wilson to spend his honeymoon on the Pacific 'coast was slated today for publica tion. With It,- ton, was to go a piece of California gold from Dorothy Btarr and a bouquet of California orange, blossoms from Esther Bull. The In vitation Itself was a petition of 300,. 000 names In charge of S. Altha Mc Qiteeny, a 11 -year-old school girl. The dute for the president's wed ding, however,' has not been deter mined, and the president has pre viously indicated ho can not go to tho coast. Miss Margaret Wtyson, the presi dent's daughter, will return here to morrow for the first tlmo since her fatlier'a engagement to Mrs. Norman Cult wss announced. Sho will ho hostess at receptions to Mrs. ('.alt. The presidential yacht Mayflower will arrive next week, having ben overhauled and redecorated at Nor folk. ('Of XT Y THEASVKEU'S CALL FOB. WAIlltANTS All Josephlno County (Tlnk) Road Warrants, protCRted prior to May 1, 1915. Inclusive, are hereby called In, and arc payable at tho Treasurer's Office on or after tho 20th day of October, 1915, at which date Interest will cease. J. E. PETERSON, 10-22-31 County Treasurer. CHICHESTER S PILLS tttfctM.Hatftf.Alwir HtUM.aa m. A a a. lifistsraRwre ery Store PRESIDEN CALIFORNIA HONEYMOON t vj '"". ilt in k.ifew. v M NV 'lk lSc, ttmnf..,,, V I " (It AH. tl.( ii.Tr-