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t ' - - . ' - (Vl rf DAILY EDITION ' ,, U. '7, r agSKK i r.-.r- VOI VI., Mo. 80. GRANT I'ASH, JOKKI'IUXK COUNTY, OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1011. whole sr?,:;:;::i i-r?. No Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. RiiJsrs ffearfc? IBbrcs cf lie Ntwly Rcccjtized Covcrcnt:t Attack itair- ! Brownsville, Texas, Oct. SI. Lwui than ft day after Carransa hid I) ecu recognised aa chief executive of tha Mexican da facto government mora than-100 of hit countryman many of them In Carranalsta unlforms--today killed three American soldiers and wounded iU In an attack upon OJo da Agua, (0 mllea front here. Sergeant, Shafer, Troop F. Third cavalry. -' . . ''.'.' ' i Private McConnell, Company D. Signal corps. Private Joyce, Company D, Signal corps. - Tha wounded: f Bergesnt Smith and Corporal Cani en. Company Dj Troopers Rlbley Bonner, Tieh'r and langland, of Com pany 0. .. . I Tha Mexlcana completely surround d tha Tillage. All were well or ganised and seamed to be regular soldiers, for they answsred tugla calls. American outposts discovered them and gave the alarm, after rec ognizing the Mexican call . of charts." ' Eight American aoldlera with rifles and seven only with revolvers went Into the action and defeated them. Tbey fled after a sharp ex change at almost point blank range, leaving five dead and one wounded. These were dressed as. Carranslsla soldiers, Last details aatd that over half of the attacking party waa put out of action. Reinforcements from Mis sion drove the raiders across the river, where they exchangod Volleys, hut without casualties. The Tsnaga ranch, near Sebaatlan, waa burned by other raiders, tut they were driven off toy a posse. .', - . . - Washington, 'Oct 11. G-eneral Puneton'a report of the Mexican raid at OJo de Agua placed the caaualttes at three . Amorlcans killed, eight wounded and five Mexicans killed. RUSSIANS FAIL ; TO HOLD 01 III r RIGA DISTRICT (By United Press Leased Wire.) London, Oct. 21. Oatherlug new strength, Teutonlo Invaders are pressing sharply their fighting in the Riga region. Russia Is ifeoilng again the might of the German offensive and fears It. , ' i The Petrograd official statement received early today aald that fight log "continues" In the region of the Mltau road eouthwost from Riga, while on the Dvtnsk front southeast of Riga the Germans were on the offensive. Their attacks, the state ment clalmod, were repulsed, though the indications are that the Russians are not 'holding their own. ' In the south the fighting, however, Is to the Slavs' advantage. ' There they are continuing to pursue the Auetro-Qerman forces, who are In re treat on the Styr left bank, falling back to the forests. WILL INSTALL BIO i GUNS ON WEST COAST Car United Press Leased Wire,) J Washington, Oct. ll,-HPaolfio coaat army forts will glisten with big guns under plans for coast defense officially announced today. Installs' ation of many big 14-inoh and 16-inob guns is planned. HE MATE 1 PHESIIIT (t)y United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, ; Oct. 2t.Although Carransa has received American rec ognition In Mexico, that country will have no actual president for a year, according to reliable Information to day. Carrauxn win remain M the post aa "chief executive" of the do facto government, so aa to qualify aa candidate for the constitutional presidency when the general, elec tions are held. bn the other hand, It he assumed the "provisional" presidency and was so recognised, he would be disquali fied from enterlug the lists as a pre sidential candidate. Reports now point to the early ex tinction of the VHla movement The' Villa agency here disbands Saturday, and Ita head, Enrique Llorente, will go to New Yorkt Angeles, Chao. Raoul Madero and other VUllstaa In this country will remain here Instead of returning to Mexico, fearing that Carranxa would not grant them Im munity. Nor will they rejoin Villa. State department dispatches show ed dlsbandmcnt of large Villa forces, whose ammunition Is running low. The ragged remnants of once pow erful body are seeking refuge In the mountains of Sonora, whya Villa, the one-time hope of the United States to bring order to Mexico, Is expected to flee ultimstely to this country for asylum. : ,. ."';'.'. " UNCI SAM MI ST PAY ; , MORK FOR WARSinifi ; ' i . ' " y. ' v (By United Press Leased Wire!) Waahlngton, Oct. l; The war in Europe has increased .the cost of navies. The Increase' in naval con struction rates will cost Amerlcs more than f 20,000,000 next year, ex perts today, estimated,' It Secretary Danlela' program is approved. . 8oarlng steel prices, due to the demand from the . allies, . higher wages, and new wrlnklos la construc tion have boosted the cost of super dreadnaughta from 11,000,000 to $11,000,000. -. , - ' . The last destroyers authorized by congress cost 1925,000, while the price now Is 1,80,000. GKRMAN ATTACK MCA II U IlII KIMS HAS FAILED Paris, Oct. 21. The Germans' tre mendous effort to pierce the French line east of Rhetms failed, thevwar office statement today declared. A "violentdense attack" followed heavy bombardment. Three attempts were made along a five-mile front. Artillery and machine guns shot them down bofore they reached the French entanglements. German night ' at tacks at Bols GIvench and also east of Moncel were repulsed. (By United Press Loasod Wire.) San Francisco, Oct. 21.- Convinced that Mrs. Mary Pamloa lone hacked up the body of Michael Wetnsteln, her crippled wooer, after decapitating him, as she confessed, police today turned tholr attention to unraveling a few unanswered questions In the bloody mystery. . They still wanted-to know why, It tho .murder' was in soli defense, after the Atlantlo City fruit dealer had attacked her, she had a new trunk: In 4he house. It was hinted that they believed this might have been intended for the same purpose for which she used the Ibox couch- to hide the torso. Alienists d'JTcfed as to the girl wife's mentality lald she was sub-normal jid committed the mur der In cold blood, Instead of In self- defense.. ,. v . .'' .v.. - -. Another st'4 slie'was very possibly normal. . Still another aneulst ventured the SEEK REASON FOR SLAYING OF CRIPPLE BY SAtf FRANCISCO WOMAH SUM OF CYPRUS Bait Held Out by Great Bri tain to Tempt' the Balkan Kingdom to Come to As sistance of Allies in War London, Octf 21.Hoplng to tempt Greece from her present position In the Balkan situation, tho entente allies have offered her tho Island of Cyprus, CO miles from the coast of Asia Minor, the third largest Island In the Mediterranean, according to the Telegraph today, v : v This newspaper stated that this offer followed in the wake of notice that the allies can not tolerato Greece's equivocal position. The proffer Is a direct pledge, said the Telegraph to give this Island the moment she turns her forces to the aid of beleaguered Serbia. f The Dally Mail aald today that the allies will eend an ultimatum to Greece, asking that 4she , define her position. ' ;'vi'- ALLIES WILL SEND TQ AID SERBIANS (By United Pross Leased Wire.) London, Oct. 21. At leasi 400,000 Franco-British troops will be sent to help the Serbians and to invade Tur key and Bulgaria, It was reliably learned today. . This decision was re ported reached In a conference fce tween French Minister of War Mlller and and the military authorities of England. ; ' ,. ,t,". '. ; V ,. In addition, It Is inped that the offer of the island of Cyprus to Greece for her aid, bocked, by an al lied ultimatum requiring an explicit statement from Athens concerning hor attitude, will win over Greece with her 400,000 more troop. Roumanla's Joining the allies is deemed an Increasing possibility. PltUburg, Oct. 21. Explanation of today's sudden advance In Bethle hem Stocl was given hero today when It was learned a noted millionaire, former partner of . Carnegie, was caught 10,000 shares short, and of fered as high as 600 at private sales. He lost a million dollars., .' opinion that the girl Is a soml tmbeclle. He declared that a person killing In solt-dfense would not at tempt to, hack up a body after the killing, but Instead would promptly notify the police,, knowing they had a good excuse. The girl explained that her hus band wanted her to go to Los Angolos and that, for this reason, she had bought the mysterious trunk. As to why some, of Welnsteln's clothes were found In the murder room, she said that he had left her bofore the killing and then had re turned partially disrobed. ; The girl will not be arraigned for nrobably a week. In the meantime her mentality may be tested by ex ports, as there is some doubt that she Is mentally normal. Some authorities inclinedto think that tho -extremes to which hor slaying went Indicated more than merely self dofenae and subsequent fear of the law which she pleaded as her" exouse. 400,000 SIR PERCY SCOTT. Admiral In Chare of Defenses Aqo na Air Craft In London. t : V I ' ft" : J I ,1 1 9 IBS 111 PEN Fort Smith. Ark.. Oct. 121. Nine: years and three days in Leavenworth prison, plus a 133,000 fine, were Im posed today upon John Caspar, Kan sas City distiller, who pleaded guilty to an Indictment In the government's "million dollar k moonBhJne conV splracy""case here." , t Caspar waa connected with a dis tillery here which It was claimed, did busiuess after being sealed by the government, without paying prop er revenue, m this case revenue en and gangers wcrelnvolved. Sentence was also pronounced on others who pleaded guilty. V ; Other sentences were: Henry Brown, Harrison, Ark., former government guager, two years in Leavenworth and 114,000 fine.' N. Li Williams, Win ton-Salem, N. C., former revenue agent, one year aud one day In Leavenworth and $1,000 fine. Charles Brewbacker and George H. Hartmanj Kansas City, the game. John Coffey, of Fort Smith, six months in the local jail and 1.000 fine.-' . . With pronouncemnt5of these sen tences the government felt it had broken up a ring whose peculations, it is estimated, cheated Uncle Sam out of thousands of dollars in inter nal revenue over a ycrlod of years. GERMAN SUBMARINES STILL ON ACTIVE DUTY Berlin, via Sayvllle, Oct. 21. "The best answer to the British claim that submarine warfare has ceased," ac cording to an official statement to day. "Is contained in the September record of British ships torpedoed. "This showed 29 merchant vessels victims, totalling 103,316 tons; two transports of 19,848 tons; seven trawlers of 1,200. ' ',; ; "; '( "In addition, six merchant vessels, of 20,612 tpna, were wrecked by mines." . . . KENTUCKIAN TO HEAD WASH. STATE COLLEGE Pullman. Wnnh.. Oct. '21. Ernest O. Holland, superintendent of schools at Louisville. Ky., will become presi dent of Washington State college, probably on January 1, 1916, suc ceeding Dr. Enooh A. Bryan, re signed. The board of regonta elected Hol land lost night. ' ; ' UNION PACIFIC HEAD INSPECTS WESTERN LINE Portland, Oct. 21. Judge R. 8, Lovctt, chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pacific, sya- tom, Is in Portland todfly on a tour of Inspection, : He will probably be here three or four days, making short journeys In looking over com pany property In this vicinity. AND $33,000 FIIIE FOR JOOIISHINER '.I. ,. .1 II . fill Fcr first Tne in Histcry the Hunan Vcice Is Car ried From Capital d h Uzted States ta Paris Washington. Oct 21. Eiffel tower wireless station at Paris late today cabled it bad received wireless tele phone messages transmitted last night from the Arlington wireless station. Washington, Oct. 21. The navy department experts lost night at tempted the most Inspiring feat of wireless telephony on record when tbey sought to talk across the ocean to Paris. : From the Arlington station here, wireless officials talked "at" the Eiffel tower station in Paris, where a receiver bad been installed. While there were no transmission seta In the tower, authorities are confident that their chat reached the French station and that they will soon have a cablegram confirming the conver-' satlon. v.; V;V ' f Success had already crowned efforts ii talk by wireless from here to Hono lulu, a greater distance than to Paris, bat In the work of the experts la the darkened sending room at the Arling ton station last night there was some thing that seemed to touch the Imag ination in the thought of chatting with one of the nations at war. WASHINGTON PROSECUTOR :.. ARRESTED AS VIOLATOR (By United Press Leased Wire.) Mount Vernon, Wash., Oct. 21. The ahadea of night were drawing tost, and the moon climbed o'er the waters, but two men kept steadily on the Job of duck hunting, the same being against the law. "Aha!" said. Deputy Game Warden L. P. Munks. And Into the net of the law were entrapped Prosecuting Attorney Reuben I. Nilen and Charles E. Gaches, regent of the University of Washington. Warrants were sworn out today charging them with shoot ing ducks after sundown. - Mrs. Arthur Vineyard and children returned today to Chlloquln, after spending a few weeka here with re latives.--"' ' Parts, Oct.: 21. Field Marshal von Mackonsen's battering ram Is still hammering Its way through the Morava valley, in Serbia, toward Constantinople. ' ' : It is now proceeding a little faster. Everywhere along the northern fron tier for fifty miles east and west of Belgrade there Is more or less fight ing, but the main drive la in the Mor ava valley. .... .''..: ; ' Von Mackensen Is reported to have been heavily reinforced In response jto a reported urgent request for ad ditional forces. Serbians, fighting with an ardor that will go down In hlBtory as a (brilliant feat, are inflicting heavy losses on the Teuton Invaders, out, in turn, the Serbs themselves, are being mowed down In enormous num bers. - Bulgarian forces are across the Serbian frontier at .many points. Their main object Is to cut the Sal -onlkl railroad, Serbia's means of communicating with the outside world and receiving allied aid. Severe fiithttnir proceeds south of Uakub. The number opposing them, besides II LUEIISEII 1FIIIUES TO RADIUM TO FORK CAPITAL KAISER EXPECIS WIS By Carl W. Ackermaa ? , Berlin, Oct, 21. Germany is con fident of biasing her -way through to Bulgaria and Turkey aoon. Then the campaign against England ' will really start. .'. ' , "In a few more weeka," a high of ficial of the foreign office told me to day, "the way will be opened through Serbia to Bulgaria and Turkey, where great quantities of food and raw ma terials are stored. We will have mil the-Anatolian cotton and wool re quired, so that we will not need America's. When communication with Bulgaria and Turkey is estab lished the war against England will really begin. - : . "We have enough of France and Russia already to guarantee satis factory peace terms with them. Our success in the Balkans means men acing the British empire.. Once the way to Constantinople is open to us we can strike the Sues canal and Egypt"!.':--,"'. ",:.:: Count Reventlow, of the Tages Zeitung, emphasized similar views. And. .that the outcome of ..the war practically depends upon the success of the Balkan campaign Is the con sensus 'of opinion among well inform ed men. :."'. ".-.-" v "" ', Roumanla and Greece are closely watched, though officialdom is con vinced that they will remain neutral. LOSS MLS E AT L (By United Press Leased Wire.) Berlin, via Tuckerton, Oct 21. Ten thousand Englishmen were killed or wounded in the recent drive around Loos, the Tagea Zeitung said today. They attacked in dense rows of eight sections, affording a. spec tacle of Napoleonic battle not seen since modern weapons were Intro duced. They rushed forward with pontoons to cross the German moats and with cavalry to round up pris oners.'';':, ;'; ' ; , -, '-.;.:'-.- . "They showed admirable bravery,' said the paper, ''but were checked even before they reached the German entanglements, a hundred falling per second." . -'' '" Carl Wlnetrout returned this morn; ing from . Woodland, Wash., where he worked during the summer with a surveying crow. : , ' " the Serb defenders, la unknown, but probably the Franco-British force Is small. Salontkl dispatches said the Bul garians are still on the offensive, though repeatedly repulsed. Wheth er they have taken Vranla, as report ed, or not, it was in the Serbs' hands at latest accounts. North of Vrania, however, the Bul garians held the railroad to Nlah. In the extreme ; northeast, Aua- trlana and Bulgarians are still strug gling In the difficult mountains to ward effecting a Junction. Radeje- vatz, on the Roumantan-Bulgarlan Serbian border, was taken by the Bulgarians,' and Ita Inhabitants fled into iloumania for safety. A response is anxiously awaited to the allies' offer to cede the Island of Cyprus to. Ureece If she will Join them.- ;. i:' -! r There is likewise ft hopeful.curlos- Ity as to the purpose of Roumanian representatives who arrived at Odessa' yesterday, en route to Paris. Optimists believed they are bringing an offer to aid the allies on certain .conditions. Dl DOS GI F T A ! UIUL I III lira iiii Prcdicit Wilcca &ys Th! tis Ptct Year Lh E:ci fcr.iis Pcc;!e cl America Washington, Oct. 21. Calling up on the nation to observe Thanksgiv ing day, November 25, President Wil son today issued a proclamation, characterising the past year one of special blessings, in which the coun try had maintained peace and assert ed itsM-igU. "wtftunit , a 'bn!M,h rt. Hlsrec; 'tfoaff lhjf -f,' ' "It Las loBg t-ea '( WiCred r torn of ourf.MOfil ito' taw fa , fruitful autumn of tb?.j4ar- In prao and thanksgiving to Almighty God for many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. The year that la now drawing to a close on which we last observed our day of national thanks giving, has been, while a year of dis cipline because of the flighty lorcea of war and changes which disturbed the Wl, ilso a year of special blesi- , f Another year of peace has been n--:vf,-Z another year ia !.u'tyr-i'"ourseiVaL and .ffikiov i;oaAl1it w , tf.ragi'-ijsS' us Vf'M. waMwhlch-1 naa; Involved almost the whole of Europe. We have been tble to assert our. rights and the rights of mankind without e. breach of friendship with the great nations with which we have had to deal; and while we have as serted our rights, we have been able also to nerform duties and exercise privileges of succor and helpfulness which should serve to demonstrate our desire to make offices of friend ship the means of a truly disinterest ed and unselfish service. Our ability to serve all who could avail themselves of our services in the midst of this crisis haa been in creased by a gracious Providence by more and more abundant crops, by our ample financial resources, which have enabled ua to steady the mar kets of the world and to facilitate necessary movements of commerce which the war might otherwise have rendered Impossible; and our people have come more and more to a sober realization of the part' they have been called upon to play In a time when all the world is shaken by un paralleled distresses and disasters. "The extraordinary circumstances of such a time have done much to qulckn our national consciousness and to deepen and confirm our con fidence in the principles of peace and freedom whereby we have sought to be guided. Out of darkness aud per plexity have come firmer counsels of politic? and a clearer perception of the essential welfare of the nation. "We have bad prosperity while other peoples were at war, but our prosperity haa been vouchsafed us, we believe, only that we might better ed It Impossible for them to perform. "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow WU-1 son, president of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-fifth of Novem- ber next, as a day or thauksgivtuff and ' prayer, and Invite people . .. l. ..... it... 1 .. ' .AnuA f.AlYI their wonted occupations and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks to Almighty Cod. "In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seat of the United States of America to be fliad. '' .- . " ' "Done at the City of Washington, this 20th day: of October, in tte yi: of our Lord one thousand n1.: t dred fifteen, and of the ladr " ,o of the United States of Amr.l the one hundred fortieth. "WOODROW WILSON, - - - ;-(' ''.'