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DAILY EDITION TCWU VI., No. J 80. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. ' TUESDAY, APRIL 18,11. WHOLE NUMBER 1721. No Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. So Announcement Hade by Gen eral Funston That 2,300 Additional American Sol diers Are to Cross Border San Antonio, April 18. Goneral Funston'a headquarters announced today that 2,300 addlttooal troopa would b ent Into Mexico. El Paso, April 18. Hunting for VlUa la a aeoondary matter with the, military authorities today. Protec tion of the American expedition in Mexico Is the main thing. General Pershing is understood toador Gerard in Berlin has also re have reported tbua to General Fun-( ported new detatls of the feeling stem. The question as to whether manifested by the German preas. tbe body exhumed by Carranzlstaa la There was a strong belief, however, really that of Villa la considered lm- that the note would be on Its way portant, but the safety of the expe-j within 14 hours. , dltlon, following the Parral clash J Bernstorff's visit to Lansing can and the Mexican request that It with-( not alter the situation with regard to draw, is uppermost in the minds of the submarine Issue, it was officially jinny men on the border. stated before the conference. Pershing has returned to Naml-j iuipa, midway along the communlca- tion lines, where be wlll be able to MP f PIEI IVflQ . wstch the situation more closely ana Twtter direct the army. o aiuoti--cans are believed to be south of Santa . . Crus, . V , If Villa is alive and has gone Into Durango as reported, tbe pursuit Is apparently halted. If the exhumedj WashingtonApril 18. -Frederick corpse Is not that of Villa, neither Dudley, chief of the railroad division American nor Mexican authorities of the general land office, testifying "have any adequate Idea of his where In the government's suit to recover about, they admitted. 1 valuable oil territory In southern Cal- Mexlcans, the only persons who lfornla from the railroads, declared professed to have direct knowledge today that tbe Southern Pacific that Villa's body had been diifg up, could easily have deceived the gov clalmed that the telegraph wires ernment with regard to the value of were down and that this prevented tbe land, because congress accepted the receipt of further Information. Ite affidavits concerning the property While their failure rapidly to pro- and did not provide auffictent in duce the body for American Identi- spec-tors properly to verify them. Hcstlon Increased the skepticism t This evidence was given at the ses tiere, the delay may possibly be due slon here of the United States dis to natural causes, like slow trans 'trict court for the Southern district TPortatton. It waa pointed out that of California, which convened in the Carranzlstas may be honest In Washington 'because many wltnesiea their claim that they have found were here. '"'''. ? ;;.' "Villa's remains, and yet may them- Lieutenant-Commander Richard selves be hoaxed or laboring under gem continued his testimony, support 's mliapprehenslon. ' lag the contention that the value of In connection with the precautions oil as a fuel was known prior to the to Insure safety of the American ex- congressional granta which gave ra.lt pedltlon, army men pointed out that roads title to the public landa. The Intervention advocates were anxloua Southern Pacific now is using mil to prevent a withdrawal and that lions of barrels of oil monthly for they had circulated exaggerated and fuel. ' t .ilarmlng reports of the destruction Hoke Smtth, senator rrom Georgia, of American property In Chihuahua tod former secretary of the Interior, sjtate). . ' . t I will be witness tomorrow. Consul Garcia said that he had no -. " fresh hews from Cuslhulrachlc with MRS. HULAND MAY NOT regard to the body reported to be, RK OREGON CANDIDATE that of Villa. He saw no reason, 1e , . ald, for changing the belief that the; Portland, April 18. Can a woman ' corpse waa really Villa's. Garcia legally run for office in Oregon ' if ; asserted that Carlos Carranza found her husband Is a registered voter in the remains from 80 to 50 miles, from Washington state? This question is the railroad, In a region reached only pussllng county officials today. "Mrs. by rough trails. The removal was o. u Buland is a candidate tor most difficult delegate-ai-large, to the republican Perhaps, he said, it might be only national convention frpm Oregon. , necessary to bring In the head. .A She lives with her 'husband at 606 chart of Villa's teeth,, taken at El Maple street. But Mr. Buland Is Paso, may prove Important in Identi 'president of a bank and owner of a I lying the body. ; j shingle-mill at Castle 'Rock, WaBh., ; However, army chiefs in ErPaso; and, spends only his Week-ends at privately exprossod the opinion that mo body bolow Juarez ever hoard of i the discovery of Villa's body. Enrlqnez reported thero was con ; Tlrmatlon at Chihuahua City of the titory that Colonol Carlos Carranza and others had loft for Son Francisco ; ile Borja to locate and recover the vornsp. .'' While latest advices were slmlllar to Sunday's message with regard to l the body, General Gavlra stated that I the word from Enrlques strengthened "his belief that Villa's career was end- efl and the expedition , practically OISPATCH OF THE LATEST I10TE TO KAISER DELAYED Washington, April 18. It appear ed poaalblo today that dispatch of tba lateat and perhaps the last Amer loan note to Germany with regard to submarine activities would be delay ed, following reading of the com raunlcatlon at today's cabinet meet ing. Indications pointed to a bitch, probably in a minor matter, in the plans to send tbe note to Berlin im mediately. There ere still some "un determined elements" in tbe submar ine cane, a high official said. No light on them was to be obtain ed. Whether the dehty was due to the evidence on hand, or the language in the note was in doubt. It is pos sible that final wording of the docu ment awaited tbe outcome ' of the Lanalng-Bernstorff conference this afternoon. It was reported that Bernstorff had received freah Instructions. Ambas UlpULL Ufllll llflU EASY TO DECEIVE home. He is Castle Rock. a registered voter at THAT VILLA !S DEAD El Paso, April ,18. General Gavlra In Juares announced today he had received confirmation of , Francisco Villa's reported death from Governor Esr'.ruo- bf Chihuahua state." GAVIRA CONTENDS i : COBnOiM German Situation Becomes Acute, and tie ffief Executive Will Appear at Joint Session to Present Action Pro posed in the Controversy ment. Diplomatic Break Washington, April 18. -President Wilson will appear tomorrow before a Joint session of the house and sen ate 'to present the action which be proposes to take in the submarine controversy with Germany. This wag the climax this afternoon of day of uncertainties regarding the president's course in the submar ine controversy. Joseph Tumulty, secretary to the president, went to the capltol this af ternoon and conferred with Congress man Rltchln, majority leader in the house, and Senator Stone, chairman of tbe senate foreign relatione com mittee. Later Stone and Kitchln conferred with 8peaker Clark and asked for a joint session at 1 o'clock. Kdtchtn later Introduced " in the house a resolution providing for such joint session, and It waa passed. , Following the psssage of this re solution reports were rife that Pre sident Wilson's action might nean a severance: of diplomatic relations with Germany, i 1 ; .., , ( Later reports that the joint session had been called for discussion of the German situation were officially con firmed. Berlin, April 18. Members of the relchstag who recently led the fight GO.ODD GERMAN SOLDIERS IN EAST OF THE Paris, April IS. German soldiers from five divisions, aggregating 100, QP0 men, participated in yesterday's attack east of tbe Meuse, It waa offi cially announced today. .' The attackers were partially oust ed by French counter-assaults from a first line trench which they pene trated in the Chauffour forest, north west of Douaumont The Germans (attacked violently1 on a tagged front extending from French positions north and north the Meuse southeasterly to the iMS of Verdun have (been captured Douaumont-Ornes road. They pre-! pared tor the assault with 12 hours of gunfire that sounded like a con tinuous rolling of drums. Tbe first onslaught waa delivered in ft ravine southeast of "Pepper" heights. Time and. again the gray Gorman waves swept forward, only to pile up in bloody confusion against the French defenses. Shrap nel from French guns filled the air, sweeping the Teuton ranks, while a rain of bullets from hidden machine guna pattered over every toot of the rugged defile until the wooded slopes! of the ravine were carpeted with! corpsos and bodies choked the gorge ibelow. ' Defeated in the ravine, the Ger- ( today ready for ft new start in the mans extended the .fighting to their hunt for Francisco Villa. The Parral flanks. A division marching south- incident and the report that Villa's ward along the west bank of the body had boeu found temporarily de Mouse, from Talou heights oame un- layed the chase. ' dor a severe fire and retreated. " ; General Cell, in El Paso, today re- The heaviest blpw was delivered , ported to General Funston 'his belief by the Hermans on the eastern wing, j that the entire story of Villa's body Two divisions were hnrlod Into hoving boen found was manufactured Chauffour nud A'blaln woods, . at-, tn Juarez. ' In dispatches from Chl tomptlng to reach the Douaumont- j huahua City, American Consul Letch Bras road. Tho first attacks -were. er declared that advices from Cnsl boaten by concentrated fire before It hulrachlq failed to mention the flnd reachod the French rifle pits. The Ing of a body, second and heavlor charge carried Earlier advices said that scattered several advanced positions and cap- American detachments were gather tured a French redoubt in an exposed, lng at Satevo for a resumption of the salient northwest of Douaumont. ihunt on a scale conforming to the French coupler-moves, said the communications. With the Kaiser's Govern Being Forecasted for a more rigorous submarine cam paign are preparing to take hand in the German-American crisis. It was learned today. They will strongly oppose further concessions to the United States, and if necessary will break the truce arranged recently and openly criticise the German gov ernment if it Intends to make its policies conform to President Wil son's wishes. The situation has suddenly grown tense with the receipt of reports that President Wilson has framed ft new note without waiting for the exhibits which Foreign Minister' von Jagow forwarded to him In connection with tne Sussex disaster. This was ac cepted fts partially corroborating; re ports that the new note is more dras tic than any previous American com munication. Though the kaiser supports Im perial Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg's desire to maintain friend ship v between Germany , and tne United States, officials are under tbe pressure of publio opinion, which is again growing more hostile toward the United States. The success of tbe new submarine campaign in augurated in March la a strong argu ment in the popular mind against making concessions, T.1EUSE YESTERDAY communique, were successful against the advanced positions which the kaiser's men took yesterday. . Both sides' Josses were very heavy in the hand-to-hand bayonet fight which took place In the shell-wrecked woods during the battle. CERMAXS CAPTURE 1700 FRENCH PRISONERS Berlin, April 18. Important by the Germans, it waa officially an- nounced today. Worka south of Hau dremont farm and 700 yards of heights northwest of Thlaumont farm near Douaumont were taken. The Germans seized 1.700 French .pris oners, READY TO RESUME FOR VILLA , - - ..,., , San Antonio, April 18. The Amer- lean expedition Is toeing the scratch I HUNT nEr. New York, April 18. Wolf von Igle, secretary to Captain Franz von Papen, former attache of the Ger man embassy In Washington, was arrested today In a Wall street office after a lively fight with secret ser vice agents. He Is charged with im plication in a plot to dynamite the Welland canal in Canada. Von Papen was also Indicted, but jbi he return ed to Germany after being declared persona non grata to tbe administra tion. Is beyond the jurisdiction of the American courts. When four agents of tbe Justice department reached the office where voa Igla had been located, the tor- prised him on the point of taking flight He put op a strong fight, but was overpowered. WashingtonApril 18. Wolf Ton Igle, arrested in New York today on bomb plot charges, Is alleged to have been handling the affairs of Captain Frana Ton ' Papen, former German embassy attache, who was recalled by Berlin at the state department's request Von Igle was von Papon's secretary. The government will claim he handled tbe loose ends of plots to blow np merchant ships flying the flags of the entente allies and that he handled von Papen's correspondence with regard to the plot to dynamite the Welland canal in Canada. .' It will be asserted he was go between in every important slot in which the German official figured. The - state department consented to von Papen's indictment It will re main inoperative, but will permit the government more freedom In prose cuting cases in which von Papen is alleged to have participated. WAGE INCREASES FOB IRON AND STEEL WORKERS New York, April 18. Wage In creases amounting to about 10 ner cent to employes of Its iron and steel companies, effective May 1, were an nounced today by the United States Steel corporation. E NATIVE SCOUTS III MEXICO Columbus, N. M., April 18. Gen eral Pershing's native scouts often lead American troops Into difficult and inaccessible regions where they might easily be ambushed, and re turning motor column, guards said toaay- mat tfcls was the reason Per shing dispensed with Mexican guides and called for more American scouts acquainted with southern Chihuahua. Pershing's hurried return to Ills wireless base was regarded as o indication of tenseness In . Mexico. Following the Parral dash. Pennine is ibelieved to have regarded quick communication as imperative and to have recommended a halt in the southward march until safety of all advanced detachments is assured. TURKS REGAIN SOME OF LOST GROUND London, April 18. General Lake reported today that the British lines had been forced back from 500 to 800 yards in fierce fiKhtins: with Turks on the. south bank of the Tigris. :, , ... :; A few days ago the British attack ed the Turks at that ipoint and gain ed three miles, at some places. The sultan's men, said Lake, made heavy counter-attacks, recapturing some of the conquered territory. General Lake's men are trytns; to cut through the Moslem lines and relieve the besieged British aarrison In Kut-el-Amara. Ml -A L L I E S IV1 U S T H1T0 11 II Davidllsyd-GecrgeTeBs Erit id. Caiinst Success fcr E&ztsk TLretod fcy a Sicrfcge cf Scliicrs 'London, April 18. David Lloyd George, minister of jnunlUosft, toll the British cabinet today that the allies' chances of winning the war were threatened by a. shortage of men. He pointed out that large forces of German reserves were massed op posite the British lines, ftod urged the government to summon Immedi ately to the colors all single and mar ried men who can be spared. ; The possible crisis was delayed at least until tomorrow, when Premier Asqulth will make his expected re-' cruitlng statement postponed from today. In the meantime he la trying to conciliate members of the cabinet who are determined upon , general conscription. PARLOITfJ BE London,' April 18. Dissolution of parliament and a general election on the conscription Issue were predicted in the house of commons' lobbies this evening. , ;;-.;.f , ; ; It . was reported that Premier Aa- quith had failed to conciliate adher ents of the immediate general con scription plan. Experts declared the election would result In a conserva tive cabinet headed by Bonar-Law, with the liberals forming the opposi tion party," ORDER FOR 150 CARS . OF ROSEBURG BROCCOLI Roseburg, April 18. John Nix and Company of Chicago have ordered ISO carloads of broccoli ; (winter cauliflower) from growers in the vi cinity of Roseburg, it was announced today. Forty-nine carloads were shipped last year. ' III E San Francisco, April 18. Federal agents are investigating a report to day that Chinese' parents hare paid from f 500 to $1,000 to hare their children smuggled into the United States so they could hare the advan tages of being brought up here. According to the information thus. far obtainable, the system has 'been tor a Chinese laborer In this country ' to get federal permission to visit his home, representing himself to be a Chinese merchant, and therefore en titled to travel lack and forth. And when he returns he brings with him number of children, which, he claims, are bis own offspring, and so have a right to enter America. These alleged facts came to light during the probe of the case' of Fong San Wing, whom, It Is charged, tried to get permission to visit home, repre senting himself as a merchant when' in realty he was a laborer. Fong Is under arrest on a conspiracy charge. W. H. Cass and H. J. Barling were Indicted today on a charge of being professional witnesses for Chinamen brought before , the . Immigration authorities. DISSOLVED 10 IIIESE FRAUD CHAR .. '. .'.'ki'.-i-V,V''''.1
