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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
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(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.
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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
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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
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(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,
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