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DAILY EDITION VOL. VI No. 18. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1010. WHOLE NUMBER 172T. 'v No Qther Wo,',; the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. . t ': . . 1 . V., r r- mi s s o j rmH DA Titrm H teman rress terms ue- mands to Submarine Con troversy More ol" Wilson's Bluff;' and Break Not Feared i ' . Berlin. April 21Prcaldcnt WIN on', note demanding the end of Germany's present submarine cam- palgit waa convoyed to the kaiser and the people today. Newspapers print- 4 It 10 full Because this la Good Friday. It was almost Impossible to obtain an ex- presalon of opinion from the foreign office. There Is little likelihood, how- ever, that a reply will be sent berore the end of text week. It waa indicated that there would be no public comment until Imperial Oh.nr.iin, . Ton n.ihminn-Hoilwf returns from his Easter visit to the Icalser and the army on the eastern .-, 8lne the submarine controversy ' -with the United Statea began It has ETHERS MESSENGER , been customary to summon Into con-( . IS SHOT BY BANDIT terence beads of the marine depart- ment, leading bankers and business Shreveport, La., April SI. A men before replying. . This will prob- masked bandit early today shot L. C. ably bo done In (he present easo and Phillips, an express messenger, and ; leading members of the relchstar robbed an express ear on the Loulsl- may also be called In. u Railroad & Navigation train No. "Germany will never ylold to 2. escaping when the csrs reached America because of Wllson'a bluff." Alexandria, It was reported here. The amid the Deutsche Tages Zeltung. scrount said the bandit remalnod on "The attitude of the American press the train for an hour, la In comical contrast to the really1 effoctlve power of that country. The CHARGE THAT GERMANS best methods of advertisement, of, . INSTIGATED RAID which Wilson Is a master, wear thin J : In time. When the sword of Damocles Washington, April SI. Investlga remalns too long suspended , we can Hon of alleged German connection aee It la only a wooden one," j with the Vllllsta raid on Columbus, "We havo heard enough of silly re- N. M., Is awaiting the return of the j proarhea leveled at us by-America's American expedition from Mexico, it ' aoa-golng citizens," said the Berlin was learned authoritatively today. V . . I . A ... Ll-i tln.nk. I. n ' I'ORl , ' l YVRHHMIKIUU Kmim-mru u lleve we have nothing more Important 10 00 tnan 10 invesngaie wiiemrr suy cattlo driver had a lock or his pro-j clous hair ruffled while crossing to, Europe on a munitions ship, then the people in the White" House are riwy mistaken. ny ao Americans choose ships In which they can be hurt. Doos the American govern- meni aeny mere are raania -.uo.ih, America's sonsi ir aucn rascais are paid with English gold to make dan- geroua ocean trips, why should WI1- on make us responsible for tneir Urea? "It Germany should climb down, erloua trouble Is bound to come from within. Germany'a leaders prefer that the trouble should come from without."' ' ; . 1 . The Vosstche Zcltnng assured Its readers that there was no sorlous danger of a break over President Wil son's personal' views, since, It said, there could be no decisive step with out the approval of congress, which la "opposed to any action that might lead to war for England's sake." InrO STORE ALCOHOL RESPONSIBLE FOR JAGS Tendloton, April 81. Purchasers of alcohol heronftcr will have their names printed ' In the local news papers. Police loarnod that out of SI arrests for drunkenness thus far In April, all but throe Jogs wero the result of alcohol bought at drug tores. , I1ATTLESIIIPS ORDERED TO PREPARE TO 8AII Phllndolphla, April 81. Ordors have boon rocclvod at tho navy yard for tho battleships Connecticut and Kansas to get ready to sail within 24 hours, It was reported today. Tho collier Brutus, one of the navy's larg est, left last night for the Pacific Toast. ' II HO AIDED III HOOPER S ESCAPE Gill FREEOLin Salem, April 21. -Governor Withy- , combe today conditionally pardoned Tiflne Cantaceso and Frank Mollno, Cantaceso was committed under tbe name of Joe Conlldge from Jotephlne county September 8, 1915, to serve from thre, t0 ten year, for a1,.ault- Ing an officer and aiding prisoners to escape. Mollno waa committed from Multnomah county. Both will be de ported to Italy. Cantaceso, or Conlldge aa be gave bla name when arrested In Cranta r"' WM ,or " ttenpted mlt upon il-year-old girl. He I.Ua lalail Tnka k aa aa 1 1 aa, TT Ana I aa ,mivr mr t PcUculir escape from the county Jail when Sheriff 8mlth wn uvm puwvrru ruu iikhcu up uj th tw ,Tbf " " cked 00 th "tre?t ew B, u" . but Hooper Is open. Conlldge waa brouh to flal upon the charge of assaulting an officer, and the more charge that of attack upon tbe U-''e"-?!d w" ' broudht lo Issue. The charge still f1"0' Mln"t ,ho mftn' hTlB " D0W De" Ing out for him. j RRVAN TELIS (XNGItKKS IT HOLlS WHIP HAND Waghlngton AprU 2i.Wm. J. . crowded series of con- tcr-(fcrence.( today tol(J memberg of con. KreM UI they werfl free to exerclBe the flnal dcclon wlth regBrd to a ,decUrlit,oll of war. rreBdent wilaon has the power to eyer d,ploniatlo re)atlons, but there h, power endg( Bryan to,d tne lega. ja0r ' Bryan believes a majority In con gress la opposed to war. He Insists that h Is not flghttng Wilson.- 15 ALL FOB I Twin Falls Idaho, April 21. Eight untnstructed delegates to the republican national convention was tho slate completed today by the re publican state convention here. Sen ator William E. Borah heads the delegation. All of the other seven delegates and the eight alternates chosen are known as Borah repub licans. It Is anticipated they will try to start a "Borah for President" boom on tho floor of the national convention at Chicago next June. The convention yestorday promptly squelched n resolution evidently In tended as a direct slnm at Colonel Roosevelt. Tho resolution demand ed that the delegates "vote for and support, only republicans." Here Is tho Idaho delegation! Senator Borah, - Senator Brady, James E. Allshle, of .Qrangevllle; fi ll. Wlttle. of Coeur d'Alene; Stanley Enston, of Wallace; E. P. Dewey, of Nampa; Fred W, Gooding, of Sho shone, and 'John W. Hart, of Menan. D DELEGATION it;, .it flRAH Fill German Attack Repulsed asd the Allies Advance Their Lines on Both Sides of the Heuse River During Day Berlin, April Sl.German trenches In Caurette wood were penetrated by the French In a heavy attack, It was officially admitted today. Elsewhere on the Verdun front all attacks fere heavily repulsed. The Germans are hurling strong counter-attacka against the French occupying tbe Caurette woods and the fighting continues with great ferocity. In the region of Dead Man's bill French assaulta were defeated with alaughter. Paris. April SI. Following a heavy artillery bombardment, the Germans during the night powerfully attacked on a front of more than one mile between Tblaumont and the lake near Vaux, the French official state ment aald today. South of Fort Douaumont the Germans entered the French lines, but later were tamed out by counter-attacks. The French made prisoners of a number of Teu tonYand aelted two quick-firing guns which had been brought forward In the advance. Not only were the Germans re pulsed heavily, said the war office, but It was said the French advanced their lines on both sides of the Me use In a renewal of fighting there. In the region of Dead Man's bill, on the west bank of the Meuse, the French captured a trench at the edge of the Caurette woods, taking prisoners 150 men. On the east bank the French progressed south of Hau- dremont, rescuing several wounded Frenchmen who were lying on the deadly "no man's land" between the trenches and capturing 20 Germans. EXHUUED BODY DECLARED HOT THAT OE THE HUNTED I I I'.. ' ! 4' I i Chihuahua City, April 21. A ban- dlt whoso life was spared by his cap tors has pointed out the lonely grave in the mountains supposed to contain the body of Francisco Villa, it was stated In advices received today, but the corpse when exhumed was de clared not to be that of the' bandit chief. Other reports to United States Consul Letcher asserted Villa is un wounded and is in the state of Durango. .. The general in charge of the cuar tel here announced today that he had received a Carransa order, dated Sat urday, prohibiting aviators from fly ing over cities and barring the Amer ican expedition from using telegraphs and telephones. ' Carranza soldiers and citizens fired a volley at an army flyer Wednesday. At first he appeared to be attempting to land here, but later he flew toward San Antonio. It was believed he came from Satevo. Resentment of both soldiers and populnre agalnBt continued presence of the expedition In Mexico has be come so general that the Carranzlstas doclare they will soon be unable to control the people 'unless the Ameri can troops are withdrawn. Jetcher reported that the fight at Parral was not an Isolated case. He heard that othor attacks upon one detachment of tho expedition were believed to have occurred. I "I never did consider the reported EEAREO If! no American Eipedidon on Hcnt for Vffla Is Stalled ad Ad vance Detachment Is With drawn to Escape Traps San Antonio, April 21. General Pershing withdrew the advanced de tachment of the American expedition in order to save it from possible mas sacre at the hands of Carranzlatu, according to staff officers at army headquarters today. Tbe expedition la stalled. Future activities depend upon tbe conference between Gen erals Scott and Funston here. The contents of Pershlng'a reports were not ' revealed,' but It Is understood they detailed the Carranzlstas' atti tude. Columbus, N. M., April 21. The lull In tbe American expedition's Mexican operations extends to the local camp today. Few supplies were sent forward. Only hospital supplies and ambulances came In from El Paso. A battalion of the 24th Infantry de trained here today. They are the yaflguard of the 2,300 reinforcements which General Funston Is sending to strengthen the lines of communica tions. Aviators are testing five new mill tary aeroplanes. Onlyi two of the original eight planes which entered Mexico are still In condition. They will be condemned as soon as new machines arrive for tbe airmen. Portland. April 21. Easter ser vices will be held on March moun tain, one of the largest peaks of the Cascades near the Columbia river. A party of 75 will leave Portland to morrow night to climb the tortuous path leading up. the mountain. Ser vices will be held at sunrise. BANDIT death of Villa, as having any founda tion," said General Gutierrez. In fact, I do not know whether Villa Is alive or dead. ' For days I have been unable to secure anything definite with regard to his whereabouts." Gutierrez would not comment on a report that he was preparing a pro test against an American aviator flying around Chihuahua Wednesday. 1 Letcher's reports said that Villa was probably not in the Guerrero battle) at which he was said to have been wounded. The newspapers have already an nounced an early retirement of the American expedition. "El Demo crata" printed a Washington dispatch saying that the United States had de clared war on Germany and that.lt needed all its forces to fight the Teu tons. Another article stated that Sec retary Lansing was studying plans for an early withdrawal. This article gave Carranza credit for halting the American advance. ' Concentration of Carranzlstas at Parral and south of Parral Is appar ently to oppose the Americans who may attempt to march southward. Mayor . Herrera of Parral was In structed to Inform the Americans that they must not advance beyond Par ral. General Luis Herrera, whose brother-in-law, Colonel Orozco, was killed in the Parral Incident, has gone to that city. It Is understood that 2,000 Carranzlstas from the Continued on Page 8. CHIEFTIII REPORT iTTLE or hi 1 Paso, April zi. An uncon firmed report from mining sources stated today that 200 Carranzlstas bad been killed In an attack by 8an- uto Reyes and his Vllllstas npon de facto troops under General Trevlno between Torreon and Saltlllo. Gen eral Gavlra discredited the story. "Mexico for Mexicans," Is believed to be tbe object of again making public tbe order deporting all for eigners antagonistic to the de facto government. ' Consul Garcia today made public a message from General Ooregon, Mexican war minister, expressing a hope that "our national and Interna tional difficulties will soon be over come." Garlca also announced that the government would establish a gold basis In the Juarex customs house May 1. If the Importers can not pay gold and sell goods for depreciated silver and paper money, its imports will stop if the order Is put Into exe cution. Some charge that the de facto re gime Is trying to placate the Mexi cans' dissatisfaction with economic and Internal conditions by opposing the American expedition. Ant! foreign orders are similarly Inter preted. It was reported that famine had caused much recent banditry. nc iihiiu nuunn ur VOH IGEL'S PAPERS Washington, April 21. The seri ousness with which the German em bassy regards Belzure of Wolf von Igel's papers by secret service agents was revealed today when Counsellor Hatzfeldt, accompanied by an attor ney, called at the state department and demanded their return. This is the fifth time the documents tave been aBked for verbally, and there have been three written demands. The papers are said to throw light on alleged German propaganda work in the United States. They were taken when von Igel, formerly secre tary to Captain Franz von Papen, when the latter was a German em bassy attache, was arrested in New Tork in connection with a govern ment bomb plot probe. Ambassador von Bernstorff ia in New York, presumably in the same connection. Whether the state de partment's proposal that the papers be submitted to von Bernstorff for him to select those which are prop erty of the embassy will be accepted by the ambassador ,1s not known. He has demanded all the documents and all the photographs and photographic plates which have been made of them by the United States district attorney. The trap results from von Bern- storff's desire to reclaim the docu ments as embassy papers and yet not admit officially that they are the prop erty of himself or the embassy. If the embassy' refuses papers involving criminal propaganda, the govern ment is free to use them. The docu ments and the evidence of von der Goltz are believed to show that Cap tains von Papen and Boy-Ed, recalled embassy attaches, were not the "highest up" men In the alleged pro paganda plots. Von der Goltz In his statement declared that von Bern storff quashed an alleged plan to in vade Canada. MISSISSIPPI TORNADO WORSE THAN SUBMARINE Debuys, Miss., April 21. A dozen houses were wrecked and two Bteam boats sunk by a tornado here today. A cloudburst filled the streets of Yaryan with ten feet of water. Mo bile, Ala,, reported one woman kill ed there and another injured when their home was destroyed. ncMmin nCTIIDII ULI Huff HIT mm Arrest cf Fcnner Secretary to yon Papen bd Seizure Washington, April 21. German Ambassador von Bernstorff has been caught In a itrap from which he can not escape if the Interpretation placed here today on the last few days' de velopments proves correct " '' . The situation was brought about by the arrest of Wolf von Igel, form er secretary to Captain von Papen. recalled German embassy attache, on bomb plot charges In New York, and the seizure of his papers by secret service agents. Washington has con cluded that the '' German embassy faces the" necessity of admitting Im proper activities or having the facts proved against it " Whether von Bernstorff can show that Washing ton is wrong remains to be seen.' 'Von Igel's papers form the prin cipal basis for this belief. The con fession of Horet Ton der Goltz, the kaiser's alleged secret 'agent, now In custody in this country, is another element. The cabinet has consider ed the situation. ' The department of Justice and the state department have been considering it for several days. How seriously the German em bassy viewed . it was shown when eight demands were made for the re turn of von Igel's papers and for the photographic copies of them taken by the United States district attor ney's office. It was freely predicted that von Bernstorff might be handed bis pass ports for reasons independent of tho submarine controversy. " v...' STOP CAMPAIGNING OF Washington, April 21. America in its note to Berlin demands an im mediate, stop to the present submar ine campaign against merchant ships. When this ia halted the way will ho clear to settle the question of how submarines ,' may proceed against commerce without further' endanger ing friendly relations between-the United States and Germany. This was made clear today in point ing out that the United States will not be satisfied' with assurances that Germany will operate within " tho beunds previously drawn namely, adequate warning to all doomed ships and assured safety for the passengers. Germany's present campaign must be discontinued until the two govern ments can decide what is practicable and legal in the way of conducting submarine operations against enemy commerce. By the term "immediate" in the note the president meant with in a time sufficient for the submarine commanders to be notified to cease their activities. Grave danger now lies in a possible attack upon a neutral vessel, particu larly it there chances to be an Ameri can on board. In such an event, Germany must show that the sub marine commander failed to receive his orders to quit, or a break would be practically automatic. Kansas City, April 21. Definite Information from Stover county. Mis souri, and Bourbon county, Kansas, swept by Wednesday night's cyclones, was lacking today, but it was feared the toll there might be 20 dead. Tho property loss will run Into the mil lions. " cf Papers Develops Evi dence Bad fcr Abassacr SUBMARINES
