Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, March 23, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textdaily nociE river commit Till 1WHAY, 1 MARCH fl1. PAGE TWO. Daily Rogue Biver Courier. Am Independent Republican Newt paper. United Preu Leased Wirt Telegraph 8ervice . A. E VOORHIE3, Pub.- and Prop. - v WILFORD ALLEN. Editor Entered t the Grants Pass, Ore gon, Postofflce as second-class mail aatter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear 15.00 Six Months- 3.00 Three Months 1.60 One Month . .SO Payable in Advance. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1918. " ' OREGON WEATHER . f Tonight and Friday partly 4 cloudy; heaTy frost tonight; westerly winds. A SAFE AND SANE INDUSTRY. The coming of the beet sugar in dustry to the Rogue valley fills a need that has been of long standing. The land owner is assured market for a crop that he- can grow to per fection, as experiment has proved. ; Not only has the market been as sured, but the price has been guar anteed for a period of years. More ' than this, the problems that the farmer might hare been forced to face in the way of financing his crop or of finding the. labor to care' for the crop during its growth and har- vest have been assumed by the sugar factory people, something that is true of no other crop that can be put in the ground. The factory interests will furnish the seed and plant, it. furnish the labor It it is needed, and take the expense out of the crop at the end of the season. Or when the farmer has brought his crop along to say halt the season he can draw from the factory upon his account to pay himself and his family for their labor. A more equitable arrange ment would be difficult to conceive. ; With all other crops the farmer must " put his labor and his capital into the game and wait till he had found a market In the fall before realizing upon his effort and his investment. This new plan, however, is coopera- . tlon to the fullest extent It will form the basis of an era In the agrt cultural development of the com munity, and marks a great advance toward solving the question of profits and of prosperity. BOOKS FOR FARMERS. The list of books in the circulating library sent to the office of the county agent includes the following titles: American Poultry Culture, Training and Breaking Horses, Soil Fertility, Rural Hygiene, Handbook for Farm' era and Dairymen, Fungus Diseases of PJnnts, California Fruits, injuri ous Insects, Bee Keeping, The Gar den Library, Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement, Domestic Animals and Plants, Dairy Farming, The Fer tility of the Land, Farm Management, The Spraying of Plants, Manual of Fruit Insects, Manual of Weeds, Irri gation and Drainage, The Farmer's Business Hand Book, Principles of Irrigation Practtes, New Union Cul ture, Melon Culture, Principles and Practice of Stock Judging, Weeds of the Farm and Garden.'- REOPENING OF THE CANAL. Government ships drawing twenty one feet of water passed through the Panama canal on the 15th of this month, and it is officially announced , that the canal will probably be avail able for ships drawing thirty feet on the 15th of April. As the canal will still have tp be deepened several feet, there will be dredges constantly at work for some time, and their operations may some times caiiHOtenipoiftry delays. As, Jn the light of experience, the cnnal authorities oro not likely to make predictions which they have not Rood reason to expect to como true, ' shipowners may probably plnn to be gin using the canal on tho date named with ships of the draft stated. Probably, however, both shippers ' and shipowners will desire all the In formation there Is before Incurring FRIDAY AtlD SATURDAY SPECIAL 2 25c Packages Alber's Flapjack Flour KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality First the danger of another possible inter ruption. As the cut is deepened;, tne , pressure will increase and, with allj due respect to the ability of the gov ernment engineers, the shipping com panies command the services of those of equal ability upon whose advice they will prefer to act. " There has been a special engineer ing commission at the Isthmus, ap- ponted by the president to go inde pendently into all phases of the sub ject. That was so long ago that most people have presumably forgotten that there was such a commission. It must, however, by this time have .made its report. . That, we suppose, is a public docu ment. It Is of great Interest to the public, which would like to read It. The public pays the bills and usee the canal. - And it Is entitled, both as owners and users, to all the Informa- tlon there la. San Francisco Chron icle. L MADE READY AT FRONT Columbus, N. M., via El Paso, Mar. 23. With nearly two score military ambulances concentrated here and a military field hospital, being rushed to completion, the American punitive expedition was today preparing for fighting In the mountainous wastes to the southward. Army men expect ed to wage a long campaign and were making comprehensive preparations. "We expect to be chasing Villa around those mountain peaks next Christmas " said a colonel, point ing to the rocky spires looming through a purple mist south of the border. "Regardless of the views of statesmen, most of the officers be lieve we are in 'for a long trip, and wont stop much this side of Panama. And ail say they're glad, too." The dress parade aspect of the war Is absent from Columbus. Until the raid Columbus was only a lazy bor der cattle town. But now It is the center of the American army. Gold lace and flashing swords were miss ing among the khaki-clad officers. Throughout the town soldiers rushed preparations for fighting Villa. The little telegraph office has been yanked out of its corner In the rail HOSPITA road aiauon. rpe aeywea "w:tak, otlr country fight with me or crowd tne umuea space, transmitting army messages and sending such newspaper copy as the censor and wire limitations will' permit. ' The censor, a young lieutenant, sits in a corner with bis blue pencil poised menacingly over the work of a harried correspondent A bulky cavalryman steps up and bands him a message addressed to his mother In Rochester, N. Y.: "We cross border tonight. Love to all. Don't worry." 'Can't send that," Bays the censor, running his pencil through the word "tonight." Substitute 'soon,' and it will go." Across the street, at the post oflloe the overworked postmaster is nwamped by the accumulation of mall. Washington may send him an assistant after congress has had time to mull the matter over, he says, but for the present he 1s going It nlone and slowly. In the post office, too, a censorship exists over outgoing malls, moi'.k mkv t1iax womkn havr aitknihcitis Surgeons state men are slightly mnro subject to appendicitis than women. Grants Pasa people should know that a few dones of simple buck thorn bark, glycerine, etc,, as mixed In 'Adler-l-kn, often relievo or pro vent appendicitis. This mixture re mo vcr nui.'h HtirprtHltiK foul matter that ONE SPOON relieves almost ANY CASE constipation, sour Btom ach or gas. The INSTANT, easy ac tion of Adler-1-ka Is surprising., The National Drug Company. 35c $5100,000 LOSS lUUU IN AUGUSTA FIRE Augusta, Ga.. Mar. 23. Flames sweeping Augusta were under control at noon, after having ravaged 1 4 squaremlles, Including 10 business and 20 residence blocks. Three thousand are shelterless. The loss Is estimated at $5,000,000. Several firemen were injured. Augusta. Gn., Mar. 33. One per son was known to be d,cad, hundreds of homeless walked the streets, and Injured people crowded a doxen hos pitals today as the result of tho Ore which swept the business district and residence area of Augusta. Estimates plan-od the damage at upwards of $2,000,000. Business was prostrated. Militiamen pared the ered streets through blocks of blackened ruins that had once been homes, guarding piles of household goods in the gutters. Fire fighters were on the ground from Macon, Atlanta and Savannah. With the flames curbed, the volun teers and regular firemen searched cooling ruins for more dead. Immediate relief for the victims was asked, and thousands of dollars subscribed at once. Starting in the commercial district, the fire destroyed a number of the city's biggest office buildings. When it was thought to be extinguished,' a high wind carried embers two blocks and started the blaze which devoured six blocks of residences. Flames also ate into the cotton warehouse dis trict, where 15,000 bales, worth $500,000, were menaced. 'MEXICO FOR THE Ml Douglas, Ariz., Mar. 23. After the capture of Villa and his band; when the last American soldier has left Mexico, will begin an exodus from the southern republic of thousands of American mining men, engineers and operatots of the huge mines and oil fields now flowing a stream of gold into the United States. "Mexico for the Mexicans!" was the cry Villa shouted all along the route of his retreat from Columbus. "The gringo soldiers are here to jjej Had the American advance not been so rapid, many recruits would have flocked to Villa, because every Mexi can, deep down In his heart, hates the gringo. Americans who have lived all their Sassafras Bark Grandma's old-fashioned Spring Tonic 10c and 2.rc packages Cream Tartar and Sulphur Tablets 10c CLEMENS Sells Drugs MrVPMIC VILLA MCAIUHllO lives along the border arid In Mexico unanimously agree ou this point, - Not so much because Americans took California and Texas and all the western territory. It Is pointed out, but because they are now draining tlit) wealth of the country and ex hauatlug its mineral atoros. On this point all Mexicans are agreed, mining aud railway men say. These men , fear that General Car ranxa, in his effort to stamp out Villa forever, fa about to prevent another revolution by selling ho mines and oil fluids now owned by Americans and other foreigners. ' The action of Governor Callea' of Souora state in proposing to recall all stato grants and revising the status of claims, is only a forerunner to rid Mexico of American financiers who, Mexicans believe, arc sapping the country's wealth. According to de facto government officials working under Calles, federal sranta will not bo affected. . Rut In terested Americans express fear that the system will be spread to all states of Mexico and tho plan of taxes, etc,, will bo such as to make work by Americans Impossible. In order to rid the country of Villa. Carranra, many Mexicans declare, will gladly recognize the demands of Zapata What Zapata wants is 'Mexico for Mexicans, peon an!) clcntlflco alike." F San Antonio, Mar. 23.- "I believe General Pershing may take over the Mexico Northwestern railroad, oper ating from Casus Grandes toward Cumbre tunnel, although he has not reported to me," said Major-Goneral Funston today. ' "Of course, he must first obtain consent of tho local Mexican com mander," added Funston. . "I under stand the road la in fair condition from Casas Grandes to Cumbre tun nel. The tunnel was wrecked a year ajo by an explosion, and it has not been repaired, and but three cars at a time can operate there on a switch- back." Headquarter officers emphasized the need fur speed south of Casas Grandeu by pointing ont that. the line run where Pershing to moat likely to want troops suddenly. Funston sent a wireless message to Pershing asking a report on the Casas Grandes situation during the past 38 hours, information about Lieutenant Gorrell, army aviator lost, and confirmation of the report that Lioutcnant Willis, the other military airman missing, was safe. Major Sample, commandant Here, reported that the land wire connect ing Columbus and Infantry headquar ters south of Ascension had been re paired, restoring communication with Pershing. The wires were cut by Vllllstas. Funston received a code message from General Bell at El Paso, sup posedly with regard to the Herrera detection. Its contents 'were not made public. Funston denied asking for more troop, intimating that the coming reinforcements were sufficient for present needs. He believed use of the militia will be necessary if the situation grows worse, but he has passed the militia question up to the war department. As far as Secretary of War Baker'i advices showed today, Americans in Mexico had not fired a single shot and there bad been no soldiers killed since the expedition marched from Columbus. Baker had no confirmation of the report that General Luis Herrera abandoned the Carranzlsta cause and took 2,000 followers over to Villa. Baker did not deny he was consider ing calling the militia for duty. ' Besides almost all of the country's mobile army already either in Mexico or on tho border, the government still bns Its coast artillery, Philippine and Alaska forces, and several thousand marines that could be used in an emergency, Tho protocol under which opera tions against Villa are to be conduct ed only awaited Carranza's approval today. APPLEGATE Clin. Mco returned to Central Point Mondny, nfter spending a few days with his parents hero. Jack O'Drlon spent Monday In Med ford learning to drlvo a now Chevro let car. Bitrah Uebb, of Central Point, Is vlulllnar her grandmother, Mrs, Mee, nnd.ntlior relatives on Thompson crenk, The second annual field meet and plcnt? will be held at the Valley Pride T S ROM PERSHING creamery Thursday, May 18. The forenoon will be given to the various competitive stunts of the schools for tho possession of the , silver cup. Basket dinner at noon. In the after noon, speaking, followed by a pro gram of general sports, (or which prises will bo ' given. At night a (lane will be given by the Appleuate school. A company Is bolug organised to enlarge and extend the Offenbacher ditch. It will be extended aliout seven miles and cover approximately 00 acres. Thoso in the company are: Mr, van (.leave, .m. u uuiuwm, Aleo Purvis, John llerriott, T. W. llerrlott, T. It. Mansfield, Geo. W. Harriott, Fred Benedict, and J. D. Knight. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Benedict at tended tho Wlnctrout-HanHcn wed ding at Grauts Pas. A large crowd attended the bnshot- boll game at Rone's hall last week between Grants Peas and Appleitate, The visiting tam whs defeated. Portland, Mar. 23. -Today's mar ket quotations were: Wheat Club, 84(Jf 90; bluestem, 95 1.00. Oats No. 1 white feed, 21.35 fr 4.75. . Barley Feed, 27.5. HogsBest live, .20 5i 9.35. Prime steers, 8.85; fancy cows, 7; best calvoa, 8. . Spring lambs, 10. Butter City creamery, 31; conn try 30 i(t 31. Eggs Selected local extras, 19 31. Hens, 1C; bcollors, 204T2P, geese, iom. Copper. 2HH. . , MYSTERY 81 RIMUXDS ! DEATH OF 3 l NEWYOltK New York, Mar. 23. Following tho -deaths of three wealthy people here, District Attorney. Swann today ordered the arrest of Dr. Arthur Warren Walte. John E. Peck, Grand Rapids mil lionaire, and father-in-law of Dr. Walte, died March 12, supposedly of arsenic poisoning. Mrs. Peck, his wife, died on January 30. Her body was cremated. Both deaths occurred in Dr. Wsite's apartment on Rivor side drive. Mrs. Emma Ring, 60 years old, died yesterday. She left an estate of $400,000. Suspicion waa first aroused by Special PORTLANDjyiARKETS 1 Pound Writing Paper Good Quality This was purchased before advance In price, and we can not duplicate It - Demaray THERE and BACK $ Six months round principal Northwes dena, Orange Empire, Barbara. Stopovers allowed at all points enroute. Panama California exposition open all tho year fljlat San Plogo. Exhibits from all principal countries of the world, See Southern California by eloctrlo cars of the rad flo Electric Railway. "Orango Empire,'? "Bal loon Route," "Old Missions," '.'Trlnnglo," and "Mt. Lowe" trolley trips. . ' . Mi your local fluent or write , John M. Hcott, General I'liNNonger .'Agent, I'ui'tlaiiil, Ore, SOUTHERN PACIFIC GOTHIC an ARROW COLLAR a w ac IT riTt THE CRAVAT eiutrr, f tateov a co. , wm imro mald'a statement. 1 he coroner also received a telephone message) from an unknown source, telling htm ho had better Inquire into the cir cumstances of the tragedies. After Peck died, his son, Percy, in Grand Rapids, received an anony mous telegram suggesting that he de mand an autopsy. JOHN LIND. Wilton's Fsrmsr Envoy to Mexi co Dtniot Mtdtro Plot Story. J. M. TETHEROW Sheet Metal C Works V .- ? Tpw ' Hydraulic 'and Irrigating Hps Galvanised Iron Tanks ' Materi-M and Workmanship . Guaranteed ; 25c Drug and Stationery Store , x f ' V . sr. v x x ' - ' - Sunny Southern California oo from Grants Pass trip tickets on sale from cities to Los Angeles, Pasa Long Beach and Santa .i