Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, January 10, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmesa DAILY EDITION VOL. VI., No, OS. GRANTS PA8,,0!Kl,HINE COVXTY, OUIXJOX. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1010. WHOLE NUMBER 1639. "iu. " r J,,'" Town the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Hull Leased JtVire Telegraph Service. i 1 All Telegraph and Telephone Wires Are Down, and Rail road Traffic Is Delayed by Blockades in Mountains The west coaat la pretty nearly snowbound today, and practically very telegraph and telephone line In the northwest ti down, Not a tick of the telegraph instrument lias brought the newt of the world to the Courier and to the other newspapers that' depend upon anything abort of wireless for tyiclr acrvlee, the tie-up being the moat complete recorded In years. All wlrea north and "south are down, one lone railroad wire through from Ogden, Utah, being the tlrst connection with the outside world to be established. Late In the afternoon the United Press wire wai opened through to Ban Francisco, and the Courier re cti red service from that direction. The snowfall In southern Oregon la one of the heaviest of recent years, being especially heavy through the Cow Creek canyon and over the Siski you range, whore most of the dam age Is reported. More than Arc feet f snow fell In the Cow creek country, the report from Tunnel 9 being of five feet two Inches on the level. At Grants Pass, Weather Observer Paddock states that 5 94 Inches of anow had fallen In 4 hours, but' U settled rapidly It did not show,that depth at any one time, and hatfalso been slowly melting. It was'tnotst and heavy, however, and wan,aen- ee to a number of barn roofs- U'utJ tier not built to wlthatandtjffe weight. A section of the flias, roof of one of the groenho8ca at ' $A. Mayer's was broken dojfn.py the -weight of snow, this btluf.tpo'oiUf report of damage. Today li ,arm aun Is fast melting tyt jd'ew, iUiS Observer raddock prod U:te 'that (twill Treoxe tonight It it4 Jutf socles r. This will check' any rapid thaw,' and do away with dangor of flooding waters. ' There Is no frost In the ground, and most of the water from the melting snow Is going Into the Ground. . i The snowfall at all hlglior eleva tions Is much greater than along the Rogue. The train on tho now rall Toad was delayed an hour In reaching the Waters creek terminal this morn ing, there being 16 Inches of snow at Waters creek. As It was moist and heavy, It was continually banking up In front of the engine, and It wan no ressary on a nunrbor of occasions to' Wok up and take a run at the bank to get through, thb nglno not being quipped with a snow plow. On the top of Hays lilll about thrpe foot of mow was reported, and the utages from the coast and from Illin ois "valley points are delayed. Sev eral of the Jurors callod to report for duty at the circuit court this morn ing were unable to reach the court room when their names wore called, those from the distant places In the country experiencing much trouble In getting through. II THE. CHAMPAGNE tny United Press Lcnsod Wire.) , Paris, Jnn, 10.- Gorman forces bo ican'a violent offensive in tho Cham ' prnjiio ypHtenloV, following a 'bom ,'bnrdinnnt with asphyxiating ens sholls, the war offlno announced to , day. Tlioy wero, however, checked, -except for occupying portions of ad vanced trenches at -two points."' ' ' GERMANS ADVANCE Moscow, Idaho, Jan. 10. At the annual meeting of the stockholders ofithe MjUio National Harvester com nany today contracts tendered for manufacture of war munitions were rejocted. The company declined to cpnyrt its harvester plant to turn out shrapnel, torpedo caps and other war accessories. The Idaho National Harvester com pany U the largest exclusively com bine harvester plant In the world. Tho machine Is an Idaho product in vented by Idaho men and financed principally by State Senator Jerome J. ,Day. ,of Moscow, one . of tbe own ers of the, famous Horculos lead-silver mine and the Tamarac-Custer mine In the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho; head of the new smelter being rebuilt at Northport, Wash., and of tho refining and reduction works Just purchased at Pittsburg, Pa. The Idaho plant's produot is de signed for harvesting grain on side bills as well as level ground; one op eration cutting, threshing and lack ing the grain. Two men and eight horses operate the machine at an ex pense of tl an acre. LfMTfl TARE JOHN BULL TO ACCOUH (By United Press Leased Wire. Washington, Jan. 10. The central powers having evacuated diplomatic positions threatening the United States In submarine matters, this government is now planning a diplo matic drive against the allies. full adjustment of the Lusttanla and Ferula destruction cases is ex pected ' this week. Meantime the sU'4 department Is preparing a new complaint to England against : her auieures of American merohandtao, and' a vigorous protest against 'the contraband lltU of the allies. . 1 : IS RUSE OF SOLDIERS Paris, Jan. 10. The nearest thing In this war to the famous Horse of Troy Is told of in a French soldier's lottor from a base hospital at the front. Jt was a wdodon cow In this case and thereby hangs the story of how the soldier happened to bo In hospital. , The French tronches at this sol dier's particular part of the front were fifty yards from the German trenches. A harmless old cow re lieved trench monotony each day by grazing between the Hues. The French hd German soldiers finally came to an understanding that the opposing lines SuSuld alternately have the opportunity of milking the cow and be Immune from attack dur ing the operation. This went on for some time, until a French ofllcer sus pected that the Germans were using tholr milking time for spying puN Pobos and ordered the next German milking party to be firod on, s The French soldiers thoreupon built a wooden cow, as near as pos sible a counterpart of the real one, and put a machine gun Inside to awnlt tho German , 'milkmen. The soldier who relates the etory took his station insldo the cow and was suc cessful In slaying throe Germans lis they approached with milk palls, Having fulfilled hla mission the sol dier prepared to slide his wooden cow hack to the trench, whon he was In terrupted' by a terrific shock'. v The cow was smashed to piece's. The sol dier succoedod in escaping, though wounded. That is how he happened ta bo in hospital, m ' ' H Mm Cf BRITISH Ten Thousand English Troops at Kut-EI-Amara Have Been Enveloped, and Retreat of Detachment Is Cut Off Dorlln, via Sayville, Jan. 10. Ten thousand British troops have been surrounded by the Turks at Kut-El-Atnara, Mesopotamia, according to Constantinople advices today. The Turks are attacking the main de fenses at Kut-EI-Amara. ': The 10,000 surrounded British constituted a detachment left behind to, cover tbe main bpdy ofiGeneral Townhend's English forces. By an enveloping movement the Turks cut off the retreat of this detachment MI LKS RESCUED FROM SNOW SLIDE (By United Press Leased Wire.) Yreka, Cel., Jan. 10. Two mules kicked up their heels today from the last of a heavy snowdrift that had buried them since Friday between Sawyers Bar and Aetna Mills, at the same time dissipating a report that their owners, John A. Helgren, John Manbart, and Ben Hits, rural mall carriers, had perished, for It was the carriers who dux them out Animals, mall carriers and mall were caught beneath a snow slide Friday, but the men managed to reach safety in a miner a shack, later returning to res cue the animals and their burden. OPEN GAMBLING IS OX THROUGH CANADA Montreal, Jan, 10. Gambling ma chines, built like giant cash registers, shipped here from Chicago, and placed on street corners here and throughout the province, on which rich and poor alike may place their bets on any one of six current sport ing events, started business today un der government charter. This marks the beginning of unonDosed odcd gambling in Canada. Itctnrnlng to O. A C. Ted Cramer, Dwjght Jewell, Dar win Ingalls and Earl Douglas left Sunday morning for Corvallls to con tinue their studies at the Oregon Agricultural .college. SPEAKER A8GUES THAT TO PREPARE mo idc i r m m (By United Press Leased Wire) Boston, Jan 10. Speaking In Faneull ball this afternoon before the oloBlng session of the conference of the Society to Eliminate Economic Causes of War, Raymond L. Brldg man, publicist, ' declared the most vital purpose of preparedness is not preparedness for war, but prepared ness against war. He ald In part: "Nor ii our purposo preparedness for war, but preparedness against war; not that we may be"able to fight successfully, If we aro forcod, but that we may not be forced. "The present popular crar.e for pre paredness leads tralght to militar ism, Prussian , preparedness, tho very root of modorn militarism, was tho direct causo of' the exhausting armaments of modern European na tions, Mllilorlsm Inevitably perverts national moral bwibo. ;' It breeds, trenrhory, the policy of frlghtfulness, cruolty, slauRhtcr, the, trampling of treaties ns scraps of pnper, tho sink ing of Lupltnnlas, tho murder of the run i n U IHLfUUIIL flUflllUI session of circuit COURT New Grand Jury Js J)rTO and Men Indicted Are Ar rsugndBeforeJcdgeCalkiss and Tune k Set (or Pleas Oa the convening ,of the circuit court this morning a new grand Jury, to probe into the morals and 'business of the community during the year 1916, was drawn. The members are Jas. Slover, foreman; W. C. Ahlf, G. M. Flint, Jas. M. Dean, A. L. Edger- ton, T. B. Cornell and C. H. Elsmann The grand jury will meet In Its first inquisition on the first Monday of April. . - . ;. r. , . ., A number of parties against whom indictments were returned, by the last grand jury were in court for arraignment, and will appear and en ter their pleas at nine o'clock tomor row morning. Thesa . were Elbert Tucker and Geo. Barlow, indicted up on it charge of having wantonly kill ed a mare, the property of Geo, Farra; Alfred Hutchinson, charged with killing . a calf belonging to an other; W. C. Jackson, charged with assault upon Vm. Soroggina; and W. T. Dunlap and Jas. .Porter, who ace oharged in the indictment with hav ing shot at R. "XL Smith and Ms brother, A. Lincoln Smith. ,31 'McClung, indicted for larceny from a building, the specific charge being the robbery from Bunch Broth' era' .warehouse when a number :Pf trunks and suitcases stored there were cut open and rifled, entered a plea of guilty when arraigned.' Sen tence will be passed later. The of fense carries .with it ,a sentence of from to to five years in the state penitentiary. The first cases upon the docket or trial before a Jury in the circuit court are civil cases, Peakln vs. the Rogue River Irrigation and Power company, being called first. KUI PP WHEEL WORKS AT ESSEX DESTROYED (By ,Unlted Press Leased Wire.) Amsterdam, Jan. 10. -Fire today destroyed the Krupp wheel works at EsseX part of Germany's gigantic munitions system, and damaged other buildings. c nr ipii ipt ii m. n am. ' Armenian nations, the shooting of Edith Cavells. Human nature is tbe same in America as abroad. That is what preparedness lor war will do for us." v Roger Sherman Hoar, ex-asslstant attorney general, who was the next speaker, said: "Let us waste no time trying to stop the present war. That question will be settled by the belligerents themselves. If we would prevent war, we must eliminate tho can bps of war. Cause Bhould be distinguished from occasion. Tho cause Is what builds tho pyre for a world, conflagration, whereas tho occasion Is merely the match that happens to sot it off. The monster wo must blame for laying tho foundation for the present war Is aVkyll-Hydo sort of deity, whose good nnmo Is Patriotism and whose bud name 'is Nationalism. A . few i.c:s years Rgo we owed our alle Siar.? to that stato, today we owe it o the cation, tomorrow we shall owe :t t3 tic inUr-natlon." , - ID inn Sm Washington, Jan. 10. General Scott, chief of. staff of the army, de clared flatly for universal conscrip tion between tbe ages of 18 and 21 in his testimony at the house military committee hearing. He declared that England would have been better off if she had estab lished conscription in peace times. He pointed out that as 700,000 boys reach 18 years of age annually, over 2,000,000 men would to provided under the three-year training sys tem. He said that at least .1,000,000 men would be needed to defend the country. III BRITISH SERVICE . T. M. Ferguson, who recently cams to the Rogue valley from Seattle, and who la now making hla home here, has Just received a letter from his brother, A. Ferguson, who was with the Australian imperial forces In the Dardanelles campaign. The iletter was written on November 2,1, but did not reach Seattle till January 6, when it was forwarded to Mr. Ferguson hr.- The brother is with a machine gun Bection, and was landed at Galll poll" peninsula with the ' British troops and had been fighting ,tbe Turks in the campaign prosecuted in an endeavor to force the Dardanelles. He says that as all mail is strictly censored, he can not go into much detail, but from the tone of his letter the young soldier seemed to feel much optimism, though he candidly admitted that the shells sent over the trenches by "Abdul" had him "bluff ed." Hepoke in high praise of the work of the British fleet, and of the terrific execution done by their guns against the Turk hosts. Since the letter was written however, ,the British have withdrawn from the Dardanelles campaign. Mr. Fergu son has two other brothers on Euro pean soil, one having been wounded while with his company in France, while another, of whom he lias not heard lately, is somewhere In Bel gium. . ' v ' .v CHARGE FOUR WITH OP (By United Press Leased Wire.) Providence, R, I., Jan.' 10. Mrs. C. Franklin Mohr and three alleged negro accomplices were to be plaoed on trial in superior court here today on tbe charge of murdering Dr. C. Franklin Mohr as he rode with a young woman in his automobile past a lonely spot near Nyatt, R. I., on the night of August 13, 191b. The Mohr family la wealthy and socially prom inent in the summer colonies here about. Dr. Mohr, of Providence, ' well known in Newport and Now York, was murdered about 9 o'clock. He was shot in the head and ' right shoulder and died at the Rhode Is land hospital a few hours later. With Dr. Mohr at the time of the murder was Miss Emily O. Burger, young and pretty, for several years his housokeeper. 1 She also was shot In the head and right shoulder. She recovered. ; Dr. Mohr and MIsb Burger were on their way to Dr. Mohr's Newport home.' Their ma chine was' oporated by George W. Healls, a negro', who had been In the employ of the doctor a short tlmo. Healls called for help and gave the police the first story of the crime. l R. jT,;Bos.well, of Holland, who has been spending a few days la town, visited Medford Sunday, returning to Crints Pass this morning. RECEIVES MER FROM BROTHER MURDER MOHR mil lid 1 j. . -,r f Gpy. Strong Makes kzrA Report to Secretary cf tie ttericr ca Ccdifcs fa tie Northern Territory Washington, Jan. 10. -"Alaska Is a 'land flowing with milk and honey' like the promised land of the ancient Israelites. But the 'milk' must be sought out and the 'honey' carefully gathered.'' ' The future and possibilities of the territory of Alaska are thus ambigu ously expressed in the annual report to the secretary of the Interior by Geo. J. F. A. Strong, made public to day. - ' : ; : Tbe roseate word picture painted by Governor Strong is baaed on solid facts and figures as to the increased agricultural activities, greater min eral output, and the vast coal fields which await only the coming of the new government railroad to make them big factors, in the coal market Discussing the Alaska coalfields, the report says: "Teats of the Matan uska coal for steaminz Dnrooses were mad- during the "year' nnder the direction of the navy department, and the coal was found eminently "satis factory. This -field, therefore, Bhould supply .the .government with all the coal it needs on the Pacific coast, including Hawaii and the Philippines, for naval and other purposes." That the Pacific coast will find a new market at wch it can pur chase coke, thus Affording it relief from the present situation, is indi cated by the statement that the Alaska coal fields contain -large quan tities of coal suitable for coking pur poses. :-n v.', .... ;'','; Jhe completion qf ,the govern ment system of railroads at the ear liest possible time is a matter of prime importance to th territory," says the report "Many farms are be ing homesteaded in the vicinity of the railroad surveys; the prospectors are abroad on tho hills and in the valleys of the interior and the coastal regions. - As the railroads of the west were the pioneers of civilization, bo will the building of the railroads ; in Alaska cause tbe wilderness and now waste places to bloom and blossom." Although "gold" and "Alaska have been made synonymous almost, the report states .that "probably the most conspicuous feature of mining development in Alaska during the last year is shown 1n the greatly in creased production of copper oreB. "Shipments of copper ore by the Kennecott Mines company have reached as much as a million dollars per month or more, the ore being anippea 10 -iscoma, vvasn., ror treat ment." "The vast possibilities of Alaska industrially, agriculturally and com mercially Justify the prediction that within the next decade the potential greatness of this territory as a pro ducer of natural wealth will have be come 8o flrmly established as to dis pel the last lingering doubts of those who have assumed the expressed or implied attitude of scoffers when Alaska has been under discussion," says the report in conclusion. 1 BOMBARD SOFIA RnlnnlH ' Ton . 1A PnnnM damage was wrought when, French , airmen ,;bombardod .Sofia,; capital of Bulgaria, aocordlng to advices here today. . . RE AIRMEf