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PAGS TWO DAILY llOUUK IUVEH COURIER Till ILHDW, J.INt'AHV BO, 101(1. Daily Rogue River Courier. Independent Republican Newe Paper. United Preea Leased Wire Telegraph Service K. VOORHIES, Pnb. tad Proi, WILFORD ALLEN. Editor Entered at the Grants Pass, Ore ton, Poetoffico as second-class mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . ..5.90 81x Months . Three Months One Month ,.0 ..-1.60 Payable la Advance. TUVRSDAT, JAMJARY 20, 1916. ' OREGON WEATHER Tonight and Friday occasion- -f al rain vest; unsettled, probably f snow and warmer east portion; southwesterly winds, strong near the coast THB OREGON COAL FIELDS. While the -reports from the Port Orford and Coos Bay countries i carding activities In surveying tor railroad lines may have no present significance, for surreys through the " district have been matters of annual occurrence almost since railroad building commenced in the west, something is going to develop in that direction some day. The coal fields that wiU be opened up in the Squaw Basin district will be one of the rea sons for the building of the line, and the other natural resources, min erals. Umber, etc., will not always lie untouched, and a railroad will be necessary to make them available. The coal fields have long been known In the Coos country, and It Is said Iby experts that the new field only 40 miles from Grants Pass is much more extensive, and that the product Is of a superior quality. A recent federal report notes that coal was first noted in the Coos Bay region about 80 years ago, Prof. J. S. New berry having reported in 1855 that the coal deposits of Coos Bay had be gun to attract attention. 1 The first cargo was shipped from the Empire basin, but the discovery of coal near the head of Coos bay soon transferred the point of pro duction to Newport, which remained the principal mine until within the last decade, since the Beaver Hill mine has been more successfully managed and become the chief pro ducer. The first record of coal pro duction is contained in the census report of 1880, when 43,205 short tons were mined. MARLEY li IN. DEVON ZH IN. ARROW COLLARS 2 FOR 25 CENTS OLxnarr KABODr caiNCTsoriot E ESPOH DENT SENDS LETTERS fill Fill IN SALQH1K (Note. Following is tho third in- what hit you. You have au Indefinite, stallment of Wra. O. Shepherd's nn-'ltitense desire to hour tho boom; you feet downward. These roots, in u caying add to the lower strata, leave millions of minute channels through which air and water penetrate and the winter moisture is stored up in the subsoil to feed the crop In the dry season. AGAIN HOLD SPOTLIGHT (By United Press Leased Wire.) London, Jan. 20. The allies have definitely agreed over their future military and diplomatic policies in the Balkans, it was stated today fol lowing the departure of the French members from the allied war council. "Any situation which may arise within the near future will te dealt with firmly, the world may be as sured," was the statement from a well Informed source. Greece, it is understood, was the principal subject of the conference. Athens became the center of military and diplomatic attention with receipt of reports that the kaiser had arrived in the Balkans, presumably to go to the Greek frontier; with Berlin re porting that King Constantino is rest less nnder the economic pressure ex erted by the allies, and with Informa tion that Roumanla Is keeping watch on Athens developments. Berlin Is convinced that the allies nUn Plfhnr t have i-Premler Veni- y BP,ral "PHngS selos head the Greek nation through tne ambulance, except for a slight revolutionary move against King"W wa &,ra081 Ppoie. Constantino, or to force Greece to) Join the allied ranks by cutting off supplies, thus threatening starvation Sofia authorities have notified Ber lin that the situation is particularly critical, hinting at the same time that Blde "Vhe a ,A Roumanla may Join the entente powers should the latter make a suc cessful coup in Greece. censored story of the allied retreat from Serbia. The previous instill ment described the1 picture of Shep herd and other correspondents for the vlnglo-French front in Serbia. Editor.) ' v By Wra. G. Shepherd. Salonlkl, Dec. 11. We smashed up a wagonload of refugees as we went along. It was one of those piti ful cartloads of household goods, with an old woman and a baby sitting on the pile and the younger and stronger members of the family plod ding along in the mud before or alongside the two oxen. As we turned down the road, the perplexed peasants turned the oxen and headed for a roadside ditch. The unusual sight of an automobile seemed to treniy them. A woman and a man stuck the oxen with sticks. The wheels went down with a crash and everybody screamed. The old wo man held up the oaby in her arms. The body of the wagon settled down into the ditch on its side. Gently the old woman and the baby slid off into the mud. Beside the road was a camp of British engineers, and we saw them nocking by scores rrom their tents to the scene of the house hold wreck. By the time we had passed fifty or more of the parties of refugees we knew that somewhere ahead the retreat was under way. As we went along the mountain roads In the French amlbulance, we knew how comfortable a wounded man might be in such a car. In addition to the spring of the pneumatic tires there were the springs of the car It self. The stretcher seats on which we sat were hung by a third series of springs from steel bars which were suspended from the celling of the car The motion of want to have tho thing over with, for as loug as that whlno is in the sky over your head you may be killed at any minute. I am not writing In order to boast that 1 have been under shell Ore, but to point out that being under shell Are Is an alarming thing, and If the experience does not stir up a heavy thrill within you, then you must be a dumb animal that can not under stand the things that are going on around it. Some men say they like this thrill; that the feeling Is pleas ant. Others say they don't like it, and I am among them. It's too much like being In a terrific electrical storm with harder lightning than human be ings ever saw in the sky, any bolt of which means death. But here the shell is In the sky above us. There is a terrible roar. A cloud, bigger than a story building of mud, stones and smoke arise on the hill above us. The shell has burst. Let It be recorded that Richard Harding Davis, John MeCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune, John Bass of the Chicago Dally News, and James Hare, the war photographer, were not hit. Neither was I. I said I did not like it. I had been under shell fire in Russia, in Serbia, on the English front: I had dodged both ally and anti-ally shells, and I had made up my mind months 'before that the next time I was near flying shells I would try to study the work ing of my mind and nerves, and dis cover. If possible, whether I was frightened and whether or not the shaky feeling that comes from know ing that death is somewhere in the sky nearby Is really a pleasant one.', Royal Club Satisfaction Begins With Breakfast and lasts throughout the day. There is no finer Coffee blend than ROYAL CLUU-lt Is a combination of the finest Sumatra and Central Amnrl.-n Coffiw 4-arefullv blended In the green and "neutralised." To properly "neutralise" a blend it is necessary to mix the Jifferent green coffees and let them "age" for a year or more. The small roaster cannot afford to "tie up" his money in this way he must mix his blond and roast it immediately. The green coffees for ROYAL CLUB are bought a year In advanceblended by experts and "aged" into a perfect, smooth, satisfying and distinctive flavor. This and the high qualities we use accounts for ROYAL CLUB superiority and popularity. As one man expressed it, "you havent tasted real coffee until you've tried ROYAL CLUB." Ask Any Grocer Mb. Tin 40c 34b. Tin $1.10 54b. Tin $1.75 LANG & CO. The "Royal Club" Boom Portland. Or. Just when we were marvelling at the comfort at which we were travel ing and comparing our situation with that of the sad line of refugees, there was a terrific explosion at the road- THE BEET THE FARMER'S BONANZA. (Portland Oregonlan.) Prospective building of a beet sugar factory In Rogue River valley to con sume beets to be grown on several thousand acres of land In that section means much to farming throughout southern Oregon. Beet growing, wherever it has been introduced, has been followed by a great Increase in the production of other rotated crops and in the value of land. It has en rlched the soil and enriched the farmer. In order that It may send down Its taproot, the beet requires deep plow ing to open up the subsoil to a depth of three or four feet. As Ferdinand Knauer says In his handbook on "The Sugar Beet," by this means "valuable Inorganic soil constituents were turned to the sun and air, which together made these bodies assimil able by the plant through Increasing decompofiltlon." Removal of stones from the subsoil, which had been avoided by shollow plowing, 1b made compulsory, and thus "a doubly thick tilled soil was created." Use of more draft animals gives the soil more manure, which replaces depleted pot ash. The tops and the pulp from the sugar mills make fodder for rtockr Sub-lrrlgatlon is established by ttorage of surplus moisture In the mbsoll, for, to quote Truman O. almer, deep plowing permits minute fibrous roois to penetrate several A. She Saw It. A youug girl ln hml been bom anil brought up lu u uo.ii.iin;; luuise tituion phere whs suddenly t;;iii.-ilauted lulu wealthy home. After she bad been there u month u frle;nl if her patrone) said: I expert you in'tli e n great differ ence between ymir present and your former stirriniinlUr." Ou. yes." miLI ttie girl. "There when it muu and a girl wnlU out to gether everybody ulway says. "Will he marry lierV" Here tlio;.' say. 'Will she have him?" "-New Yorls Times. Ag. of tho Harp. The ban1, which was suggested by the lute, Is ascribed to .tubal, 3Su B. C, and was King David's' favorite Instrument The burp was used by the Welsh and Saxons and also by the ancient peoples of Ireland. One of the oldest harps In existence Is in the Dublin college museum and originally belonged to Brian ftorollime. king of Ireland Coffee Neither you nor your grocer has facilities to grind coffee so carefully and evenly as we; or to take-but its' bitterish chaff. That's why we grind Schilling's Best our selvesits fine rich flavor could be so easily lessened by poor grinding. Then we send it to you sealed in airtight tins that protect all the flavor. The economy of tlifs coffee lies in its rich ness of flavor it v goes further. ,, Schilling's Best shell drills a tunnel through the air, and through this tunnel the echoes of the whistling of the shell jar and clash and mix In one long whine. The, shell we heard was leaving us. Through the ambulance window we saw first a cloud of smoke and then the outline of a huge gun, which stood at least eight feet above the ground on giant wheels and had a mouth that a man could have' put his head Into. The gTcat cannon stood within IS feet of the road, but It was so cleverly sheltered and hid den by decorations of holly that we had not seen It. "Let's get out and photograph it," Bald one correspondent. "Not hero," said our lieutenant guide. "The Bulgars are across the valley and If wo stop long enough to give them our range they will fire at us sure." The' road was cut along the face of a hill. Below us was the valley of Costorino and four miles away, be yond the valley, were other hills like ours, where the Bulgar artillery was hidden. Just a quarter of a mile further on and we reached the shelter of a turn in the road. The huge English gun behind us kept spitting out Its roar ing challenges anroBs the valley. By the watch It was possible to hear the whine of Its shells for six seconds; the whlno always ended In a deep, dull roar where the shell had broken some five or six miles away. When we tumbled out of the am bulance we saw a narrow ravine run ning behind a hill. There were tents and dug-outs on its sides. This was a secret I could not havo told two weeks ago. But It does not matter now. The Frenchmen have all gone from the ravine. Hill No. Gl (5, which sheltered them, belongs to the Bul garians now and the battlefield of the Valley of Costorino Is quiet and peaceful again, miles behind tho Bul garian battlo line. But now it was a battlefield, A cannon on tho top of the hill roared. Another eannon farther away roar ed. The British cannon behind us roared. They wore all ally cannon. And then canin a different sound. It was a shriek thnt did not grow less with the passaRo of seconds, but loud er. Look Into tho sky above you; you can seo nothing; you feel help less; all around the air Is filled with that growling whine; It may end In a burst near you; If that's the case, you won't hear tho burst, In all like lihood. In common parlnnco, tho llgM will go out and you won't know and I found I did not like the thrills. In the presence of the other war re porters I said that I did not like It. "Well." said Davis. "I'm old enough" he Is almost fifty, and he-s seen a score of wars "I'm old enough to admit, without being ac cused of bravado, that I like it." Which I took to mean that all young reporters are afraid to admit that they like shell fire. I was to have more experience with shell fire before the day was out. Burger, Mra. Mohr'a rival were in the automobile with Dr. Mohr. We were to have killed Dr. Mohr on Saturday night (August 28)." Healls testified, but I lost my nerve and threw In alt the speed on the machine, but Miss Ormsby and Miss Wilson, and not Miss Burgr. were in the tonneau with the doctor. Mrs. Mohr said to me afterward, Why didn't you stop the car? This Is my last chance, because the di vorce rase comes up on the first of the month. You can Just say that It Was a robbery, and Ml give you a good Job driving the car for me. If you get Into trouble, I'll spend my last dollar to help you out.' "The next Tuesday I did stop and they killed the doctor. I recognized Spellman In the ibushes. When 1 ' picked up Miss Burner the side of her head was bloody. As I lifted her, she got another bullet, which came over my ahoulder. "There was not a word, except when Ml; Burger said, 'Oh, doctor.' " Keen Kutter tools and cutlery at the Rogue River Hardware. 149 Mining blanks, Cour!: office. OLD POCHKT KXIVK8 WANTKD as part payment on the pur chase price of a new one. Trice run km a from 10 to 75 cents. noon-: luvi'it lUitmvAiti: NEGRO TESTIFIES IN MOHR TRIAL Providence, It. I., .Ian. 30 Through the evidence of a nosro chauffeur, lioort;o ileal), tho state of Rhode Inland tod;'' sought to prove Mrs. C. Krnnklln Mohr had plotted with UfallH, Cecil V. Drown and Henry Spellman to make away with jher doctor-husband last August. That lsh offered tho three negroes $5,000 for the Job was his claim. 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