Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, April 11, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EDITION VOL. VI., N. 171. (HUNT PA88, JOHKI'HIXK COUNTY. OltKUOX, : TIKSDAY, APRIL 11, 1916. , WHOLE Kl'MBER 1T18. No Other Town in tho World the Size of Or ants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. - V a U.S.SQLDIERS IN BO Border Is Patrolled by 18, COO More, WhHc Only 2, 000 Are Left to Gcird the Rest oi tie U. S. Donah Washington, April U.-Twelve thousand United 8tate Midler are In Mexico, It u learned officially today. Moat of them are enraged In guarding communications. Eighteen' thouaand more are pa trolling the border. Only 2,000 troop remain la the rest of the country, scattered In little group In 8pokane, San Diego, Alaaka, the lake district and the northwest. The war department baa referred to Preeldent all Inquiries with re gard to the advisability of using the mllltla, If it la necessary to have additional troops. Recruits are not fit for active sorvlce until they have lad at least three months' training. Duplication of the San Qeronlmo dash will be necessary It the Ameri cans hope to overtake Villa, army men declared. He la a full dy or more ahead of General Pershing's m. nut army leaders aald they felt the United States soldiers wore equal to the task. They think the trail Is till warm and that the hunt will soon be successful. ' rOftSK AND niXX))IIOl'NP8 FAIL TO FIND COX BROTHERS Auburn. Cel., April 11. While hundreds of mounted men and a pack of bloodhounds scoured the foothills around the city hunting for James and Albert Cox, who shot and seri ously wounded Constable F. N. De pendenner last 8unday, the fugitives are believed today to have disguised themselves as hobos and ridden on a freight train to Reno. "I believe," said Slierlff McAuley, "that they have Joined the acores of tramps which migrate across Novada all the year round." , TAKENBY GERMANS Berlin, April 11.- More French position northeast of Verdun and southwest of Douaumont hnvo been captured by the ticrmauN, oflklul an nouncement claimed today, .' On tho east hunk of tho Mouse the French made counter-attacks south of Crows foreHt. All were repulsed heavily by sharp German machine gun Ore, 222 prisoners being taken. jNoor Pepper heights, 'tho ofllclnl ntntemcnt said, strong French forces nide a desperate endeavor to recap ture lost positions. They wero tin aulo to do so and foil back In dis order. South of St. I21ol, the war office said, British troops charged, burl ing hnn,d grenades. After a sharp utrugglo tho British, were thrown back Into tholr own defenses, while tho Germans retained their entlro poBjtlon. F1SIIR11MAN I08KS IN ROUT. WITH ROOSTER .Pondloton, April 11. L. A. Me Cllntock Is hors de combat as a re u!t of a fracas with a buff Cochin rooster, , McCllntock was fishing near a barnyard when the rooster attacked him. UnoJble to pierce his 'rubber toots, the rooster plungod Us beak successively in each thigh. The wounds swelled and McCllntock was compelled to summon on automobile 'to got home. , 1 ' FRENCH P0ST1S OF DIAZ EXECUTED Juare. Mex.. April 11. Executed by a firing squad of six Carrtnttataa, Florens Hernandes, Jose Bournol and Nicholas Chavarra paid the pea- alty for their alleged treachery to day. Tboy were lined up against an adobe wall Inside an old cemetery and killed Just at sunrise. Their bodies were left lying as they fell, for the public to view. General Gavlra announced tnet they had confessed that interests close to the Felix Dlas movement paid them money to foment a mutiny in the Juares garrison. It was stated there would be no more executions, although two score others were Im plicated In the plot The trio slain today was charged with being ring- lealers. . CLAIM CAPTURE OF 36,000 FRENCH Berlin, April ft, More than SI, 000 French prisoners have been taken by Germans since the begin ning of the attack on Verdun, It was seml-oOlclelly atated today. On the Meuse west bank German troops captured ten square mllea of territory. A much larger area waa occupied on the east bank. Countering the French statement that the republican troopa planned the evacuation of Betblncourt aa a "strategic move," a emt-offlcJal newt agency published copies of a French army order, found on the battlefield. It urged the French commanders to hold Betblncourt at all costs. FALSE REPORT OF VILLA'S DEATH Columbus, N. M., April 11. Mex ican encountered by the American advance forces are circulating false reports of Francisco Villa's death from wounds received at Guerrero to aid his eerape, according to Informa tion brought here today by Lieuten ants Dargue and Gorrell, army avia tors, who arrived from the front in their aeroplanes. Dargue said army men who had been over the scene of the Villa battle at Guerrero, in which the bandit lead er wan reported wounded, believe he was hit In both legs. They admitted reports of his serious wounding might be "Inspired." y The report of his death given Amer ican troops at San Bcrnajc station said ho had died of wdunds and had been burled. Ono wing of Lloiitenant Darguo's aeroplane was punctured by a rlflo bullet when the garrlaon at Chihua hua City volleyed at him when he. first appeared. As ho landed, Dargue declared crowds of angry Mexicans yelled "Kill the gtlng!",biit Carran alutas officers explained the expedi tion's mlHftlon and restored friendli ness. ''..'." Both Dargue. and Gorreil flow SCO miles, from San Antonio to Columbus, In four hours.,. They reported that VIlllBtas looted Santa Rosalia several days ago, tout there were no Ameri cans thore. ' While tho aviators wero not per mitted to tell . the Whereabouts of American' detachments and advance gunrds, they Indicated the United States forces were ongagod In a wide, sweeping movement toward Parral, clearing the Intervening districts of all bandits. ,, - ; SPY EXECUTED IX . , ' TOWrcn OF LONDON Londorv'Aplrl 11, A spy, whose name Is withheld, has been executed In the Tower of jGondon, It was offl cV.ly announced'today. ' SUPPORTERS BY CARRAtlZISTAS FRENCH CHECK ASSAULTS OFCllPICE'SARI Battle at Verdun Confaies a Germans Are Unable to Break Down tie Defenses at Verdun, Though Thousands of Men Are Beisg Sacrificed in the Attempt to Take the London, April 11. Meeting the most savage German attacks with furious counter-assaults and sheets of flame from rapid-fire guns, the French are checking Crown Prince Frledrlch Wllbelm' strongest blow against Verdun today. - : The French offensive rivals that which the crown prince Is launching against Dead Man's bill, where the mash at Verdun has reached Its highest power. Leaping from their trenches to meet the advancing horde of Ger mans', the French fought them to a standstill and halted them every where, except along the barren north eastern rld,ge of . Dead Man's hill, where the Germane gained a foot hold. Hurled back from the French barbed wire entanglements, the tide of spiked helmets receded, leaving a trail of dead and dying, while tons of metal from thundering guns con ceiled In forests and behind hills dropped with tremendous explosions In the midst of the struggling masses. Berlin's statements Indicated that the French lost at least 100,000 men In the defense. It . waa also semi officially claimed tttat more than 28. 000 French prisoners had. been taken. Paris figured German losses in the S 1-day fight at . more than 200,000. Official communiques Indicated that the desperate French resistance was breaking up the German offensive while it is at the crest of Its strength The battle has narrowed to a three mile front around Dead Man's hill, and has Increased greatly In Inten sity, with the German and French commander bringing every gun and every man they can use Into action on that narrow Una. London, April 11.-Under tho most tremendous blows In history, the French line at Verdun is still holding today. ' . 1 '" :". ! Wave after wave of gray-coated Germans has been thrown against the defenders on a slx-mlle front north west of the citadel. Tho French have not only repulsed NEW VERSION OF THE WOUNDING OF VILLA REPORTED FROH EL El Paso," April 11. -American cav alry la reported to havo entered the state of Durango today. v Far in ad vance of the United States torcee, Francisco Villa Is at Tepehuanos, on tho main highway loading to Durango City, it was reported. Besides these unoonflrnied advices, arrivals from Chihuahua City brought a new ver sion of the' circumstances under which Villa was woundod. They say that Andreas Rehnza, a Mexican, shot Villa In the leg at Guerroro Maroh 30, after his daugh ter had boen outraged. VIlllBtas caught Itehaza, who attempted to floe after firing tho shot. He was drag ged bofore Villa. Although suffer ing severely from his injury, the bandit chief put his revolver to Rohar.a's brow and sent a bullet Into his ibraln. . . : , Passengers on Chihuahua trains also added that Leon Barl, a French merchant of Guerrero, four Arab peddlers, a number of Mexicans, three Americans and two other for eigners were reported to have been murdered at MInaca and Guerrero. Unabated Fay, Bet the Great French Stronghold these repeated attacks but have driven the Germans back In places In savage hand-to-hand lighting on the southern tank of Forges brook. Beginning with the new Infantry assaults Saturday, the battle baa hourly become more violent until now it appears" that It Is about to culminate In a grand German as sault on both banks of the Meuse.. "It the French hold this time, Ver dun la eared beyond a doubt," de clared a prominent English authority today. Twenty thousand Germans have been killed or disabled in two days of the new Verdun attack. Paris el so admitted today that the French losses were very heavy. , : , All day yesterday the Germans charged ceaselessly, one rank dash ing forward, only to be blown to pieces and Immediately succeeded by a fresh rank, rushing Into the same hell of bullets and shrapnel. Division after division was sent against Dead Man's hill, but they only succeeded In penetrating ad vanced . positions, and the French claim that most of these were recap tured y immedUts,.CQunter-ttacka. Encouraged by their success"' In seising Termltten ridge the German commanders ordered a frontal at tack on Hill 304. The Teuton came on In mass formation. They (became lost and confused, however. In bar ren ravines and when the units were more or less demoralized by this, French guns, which had been con-, cealed on all sides, suddenly opened firei Under this punishment from scores of cannon the German attack halted. Aa the kaiser's men retired the French guns dropped dozens of high explosive shells among their huddled masses, lifting groups of shattered men out of the ranks, blow ing them to pieces and biting great holes In the confused crowds. Similar bloody scenes were enacted between Haucourt and Bethincourt. But on the eastern side, where the ravines sheltered the Germans from the French artillery, , the Teutons shattered the French advanced line for more than a quarter of a mile. The latter five were again said to be Dr. Stell, Lee Llndsey and Frank Wood, Americans; Herman Blanken- burg, German, and Donald -McGregor, British. Travelers arriving . here strongly denounced ,th.o Carranzlstas. They charged government troops stepped out of Villa's path after he had de feated them at Guerrero. In Villa's flight from American forces through MInaca, La Junta, El Raneho de San tiago, Clorro Prletp, Satevo and Ojo Amies', he was not at any time op posed by Carranzlstas, according to these travelers. ,: A' The constitutionalists did not march from Chihuahua City after Villa until he was known to be well on his way to Durango. How the Carranzlstas at Durango City will receive Villa Is a question uppermost In the minds of officials. A portion of the garrison, under the Arrleta brothers, was reported op posed to the American "Invasion." This report was not confirmed. Other reports had It that the Arrleta (brother were Villa's personal ene- PAS IllLLBI TO RUN ON TICKET VITH II Ul Washington, April 11. Thomas R. Marshall will be running mate of the democratic presidential nominee, and Senator James Hamilton Lewis will be temporary chairman of the demo cratic national committee, according to prospective arrangements of many democratic leaders gathering here to day for Thursday's conference of state chairmen. There Is some op position to Lewis. The democrats want to elect two senators from Indiana this fall and figure that Marshall's name would be needed on the ticket to aid them. IS LOSS AT VERDUN Paris, April 11. German losses In the battle of Verdun are now more than 200,000,' according to an offi cial French estimate today. . The Third German corpa has lost 22,000 men, half Its total strength and the Eighteenth has lost 17,000. In a recent attack on Vaux the Six teenth and Nineteenth corps lost 60 per cent of their personnel. Half of the Eleventh corps was wiped out In an assault on Avoconrt. Attacking with liquid lire, the Gr- mans captured fragments of trenches on a ridge east of Dead Man's ihHI ' during the hight Elsewhere they were repulsed, the war office com munique aald. , . Debouching from Crows wood, the Teutons were routed by a hot artil lery and Infantry fire. ; East of the Meuse there waa a bloody fight In which Germans at tempting to recapture some lost ground south of Douaumont were heavily checked and thrown Into dis order. ', . ; -. . ' . 0,00 GERMAN The , Germans tried to use liquid ing was good In view of the inclem flre there also, but their ' ranks were ' ency of the weather, and a number torn (by big gun projectiles belerejot subjects were discussed. A let they could get their flame throwers' ter received by the club from Con In to action. - , , ' greesman Hawley , Indicated that A terrific bombardment thundered there-was competition In the field In all night in the Douaumont, Vaux the effort to get a mining' experiment and Woevre regions, : ' 'station located In tjits district. He ' i inclosed a clipping from a newspaper ASKS SEATTLE CHIEF F POLICE TO RESIGN to get one. He feared that a divi Seattle, April 11. Mayor GUI. in slon of the effort might, lose both for a letter written today, asked for the tQe state, and Inasmuch as his appll- , ,, . . , . '. cation for the station at Grants Pass resignation of Chief of Police Lang. .... ; v t i. .was the first made, he felt that it He is charged with general in- BhonW be g,yen con8ideratlou. He efficiency, i . ;. t. j suggested that data be forwarded No successor has yet been chosen, (backing up the claims of Grants Pass. Donald Olsen, superintendent of. The club directed that the state con the Monroe state reformatory, was gresslonal delegation be asked to offered the position yesterday after-Jglve Its support to Mr. Hawley's re noon, but did not accept It He de-' quest for recognition for southern clared that, the reformatory would I require several more months of his time. : ' ' The mayor's decision to displace Chief Lang was! crystallized yester day after he had Investigated charges that Lang had jailed a young mar ried man Thursday night who would not tell where he purchased two quarts of liquor. mles and that they were entrenching at Durang6 City to give hlra a warm welcome. , ' ... ,,r , , , ' 1 A number of Zalazar sympathizers, including General Marcelo Caravo and General Zaragosa, have been ar rested in El Paso. Department of justice agents, alarmed at Salazar's escape from this country for the an nounced purpose of heading a new revolution In Mexico, are determined to break up all entl-Carranza factions here. There was an unconfirmed re port that Carranzlstas had raided Esqulredo'a ranch at Villa Ahumada. lust OF CLUB IS GUI Re eea ceived at Meeting cfLccal Ccmercial Organization field ca Monday Eve2 The membership of the Grant Pass Commercial club was Increased by 18 when applications to that num ber were received at the regular meeting of the club Monday evening. This marked a new Ugh record for several years past In the number of applications on a aingle evening. The new members received were the fol lowing: . ; t H. D. Nortoncity attorney. 1 H. A. Schell, contractor. R. B. Miller, of Twohy Brothers Co. J. D. MacVIcar, engineer for the Twohy Co. ; V J. L. Schwenk,' proprietor of the Star theater. . .:.; .'. V '". '.' ' .' Clyde E. Miles, manager of the Leonard Orchards Co. v . . . ' H. H. Basleri city auditor. J. C. Williams, of Williams ft De Genault, barbers. ,; CD. Thompson, county agent K. MlzogucM, contractor. B. C Dunlap, manager Josephine hotel.- ' ; , . ,f, 1 Win. Bunch, councilman. - I A- Launer, real estate dealer. ; Bert R. Elliott, dentist . Rev. J. H. Harmon, pastor-Christian church. . - Wilford Cannon, of the Oregon Utah Sugar company.' Ralph E. Riley, assistant secretary Commercial club, t .r, i. J M. C. Dague, manager fruit asso ciation. : , The attendance at the club meet- which stated that Congressman Sln (nott had undertaken to have a sta- tlon established at Baker, and In view of the fact that only three stations were to be established In the United States this year, Hawley said that Oregon would be doing well (Continued on Page 4.) VILLI STAS WO UNO FIVE U. S. TROOPERS San Antonio, April 11. Five United States troopers were wounded fighting Villlstas at San Geronlmo, according to official dispatches re ceived at army headquarters today from General Pershing. He Submit ted the following casualty list: 'Private Thomas Brown, shot la cheek, back and shoulder. Farrier B. P. Melndevllle, two slight wounds. Private Joseph G. Bennett, shot In ankle. . Private Josoph Garbell, shot In. arm.' ' ' 1 i "'';.'. . Private Peter W. Gardner, shot In left arm.