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GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTi", OREOOX, KRIDAY, MAY 12, I9I6
WHOLE NUMBER 1743.
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IRISH REBEL
CONNOLLY
EXECUTED
lies oi Two More Revolu
tionist Leaders Taken After
Coortmartial, Only One of
Seven Signers Being Left
Dublin, May 12. Jauies Connolly,
general of the Irlib republican army,
And S. Macdlarmad, another revolu
tloniit leader, were exeouted thla af
ternoon. It waa officially announced.
The two were convicted by court
martial on Tueiday. Qenoral Sir
John Maxwell approved the sen
tences. Mardlarniad'a exerutlon loaves on
ly Eamon Ceaunt of the aeven sign
ra alive. The others have all been
hot
London, May 12. Premier As
Slth, upon arriving today in Dublin
it take chance of a situation which
la admittedly growing more serious,
Immediately ordered postponement
of rourtmarttaU of rebel leaders
ponding the outcome of his confer
ence with officials.
Tie met General Sir Johu Maxwell,
officers of the British army and civil
authorities, and urged Maxwell to
speedily Inquire into the shooting of
Editor Rkefflngton without trial,
which act aroused Ireland's deepest
Indignation.
Several thousand messages pro
testing against further executions of
revolutionist lenders have reached
Asqulth. Many urged the govern
ment not to sratter the sparks of a
new revolution by severe repressive
measures.
While agreeing with critic's of the
government's policy that the killing
of Skcfflngton was atrocious, Asqulth
approves the execution of the 14
rebel leaders who have fared firing
f' "Iliads. Ho Intimated that S. Mao
flarmad and Ramon Ceaunt, both of
whom signed the Irish proclamation
of Independence, will receive the
death penalty. James Connolly, gen
eral of the Irish rebel army, Is
wounded and In prison, and will
probably be executed.
Newspapers had differences of
opinion as to whether Asqulth would
attempt to establish a measure of
home rule In Ireland on his present
visit. All expressed hope of finding
a way to conciliate hostile Ireland.
flEN.VroH CUMMINS
AT lMWKIltlWl TODAY
Rosoburg. May 1 2. Senator A. B.
Cummins of Iowa, candidate for the
republican presidential nomination,
spoke to a large crowd at the Antlers
I water here at 10 o'clock thts morn
. Later he delivered a short ad-
t dress at the Oregon
'We left at 8 o'clock
'clock this afternoon
for Eugene, where he will speak fo--sdght
AUSTRIAN LINER
SUNK IH ADRIATIC
Berlin, via Wireless to Sayvllle,
May 12. The Austria passenger
ilner Dubrovnlk, unarmed, has been
. aunk by a submarine in the Adriatic
without warning, according to des
patches received today,
Home yestorday announced that an
tstrlan munition transport had
.on submarined. Possibly the Aus
trlnns declared the same vessel to
be a liner. The Dubrovnlk wis of
H238 tons,
FREHCN GAINS Oil
n lies in
IE 11110
Paris, May 1 2. Two heavy Ger
man attacks, aiming at recapture of
Wednesday's French gains on the
western slope of Dead Man'a all),
have been repulsed, the war office an
nounced today. Near Avocourt wood
and In the regions of Douaumont and
Vaux there was heavy cannonading
all night, but the infantrymen kept
In their trenches.
It was officially denied that the
French had once contemplated re
tiring from forts northeast of Ver
dun.
"On the contrary," said the com
munique, "February' 23, two days
after the battle opened, General Do
Cary ordered every point on the right
bank of the Mouse held at all coats.
On the evening of the 24th General
Joffre ordered the commanders to
'hold the front between the Meuse
and Woevre with every v means at
your command.'
"On the evening of the 25th, Gen
eral Joffre, sending General Petatn
to take command, reiterated: 'I or
dered the right bank of the river to
Verdun held. Every commander
who orders a retreat will be court
martialed.' "
PARADE IN NEW YORK
New York, May 12.-One hundred
and fifty thousand New Yorkers will
march tomorrow In a parade design
ed to attract attention to military
and naval preparedness. The first do
tachments of the unprecedented pro
cession, consisting of business men
and women, will start their hike at
9:30 a. m. and thereafter the tramp
of feet will be heard all day until
10 p. m., when the national guards
iiii'ii parade.
It is estimated that 25,000 women
will participate. Representatives of
1 0d trades and professions are to be
jln line. At night a great white glare
of calcium lights from the tops of
skyscrapers will Illuminate the streets
for the soldiers.
Kleven thousand marchers will
pass a given point every hour of the
demonstration. . Mayor Mltchel and
Major-fleneral Ieonard Wood are to
occupy the only vehicles In line.
There will he no banners or stream
ers carried. The board of aldermen
will march In a body, wearing
derbies.
PLATINUM DEPOSITS
FOUND IN WASHINGTON
Tonasket, Wash., May 12. Farm
er Iester Smoot, while drilling a
well, discovered rich deposits of pla
tinum on his farm here yesterday,
All the farmers In the community at
once set to prospecting.
BANDITS ESCAPE WITH
RANDSniltQ STORE LOOT
San Bernardino, Cat., May 12.
No trace of the bandits who esoaped
with 220,000 In gold currency and
checks from the Randsburg general
store was reported by pursuing posses
this morning. Sheriff McMlnn ex
pressed the belief that two men In
stead of one did the safe-cracking
Job. Tt was stated that the money
taken was not a part of the Yellow
Aster payroll.
ORANGE GROWERS LOSE
"CASE TO RAILROADS
"Washington, May 12. California
orange growers today lost their case
before the Interstate commerce com
mission In which they tried for years
to obtain reparation for alleged over
charges' for pre-coollng and pre-
Icing oranges. .Deciding the Cali
fornia Fruitgrowers Exchange case,
the commission ruled that there was
no claim for reparation.
PREPAREDNESS
iSsofi mm
THE BORDER BRANDEIS
Negotiations Between Obregca
and Scott Are Broken Off,
and 10,000 n Mexican Sol
diers Sent to the Line
Kl Paso, May 12. After negotia
tions between General Hugh Scott
and Alvaro Obregon bad been brok
en off, the latter ordered General
Trevlno to send 10,000 troops into
the region opposite Big Bend, Texas,
and parallel, it .waa learned today.
It was believed that the purpose Is
to prove that the de facto govern
ment la able to control the bandit sit
uation before Washington negotia
tions open. Obregon Is en route back
to Mexico City.
El Paso, May 12. The Mexican
situation reverted to Washington to
day, following the failure of negotia
tions between General Hugh Scott
and General Alvaro Obregon.
Provisional President Carranza's
veto of the tentative agreement gov
erning the occupation of Mexican
territory by American troopa and
steadfast demand for a time limit on
the stay( of the American expedition
split the conference. ....,
Scott was powerless to accept the
time limit proposition and, falling to
find a satisfactory compromise, the
conferees passed the Job along to the
diplomatic forces.
Carranza's diplomats are reported
en route to Washington, with Instruc
tions to negotiate on the formal re
quest for an American 'withdrawal.
Action on this request has been de
ferred In the hope that the confer-
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TIE HONS OVER BIDED
TROUBLE PASSED IIP TO CARRANZA
Washington. May 12. With the
border conferences closed and Gen-!
eral Hugh Scott ordered home, the
administration today cast upon the
Mexican de facto government the bur-
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the presence of United States troops
In Mexico.
The cabinet threshed out the situ
ation at length. No reply to General
Carranza's withdrawal request is ex
pected until Ambassador Designate
Arredondo asks for it. Then the
United States will answer that the
expedition will not withdraw until
the border la considered safe from
further bandit Incursions.
It was learned officially today that
the administration Is none too con'
fldent that, new terms can be ar-
ranged through the diplomats of the
United States and Mexico.
General Alvaro Obregon told Gen
eral Hugh Scott that' he could not
write any agreement placing the de
facto government In the light of con
senting to the American expedition's
stay In Mexico. Officials hope that
the expedition may continue Its work
unmolested by uncontrolled Carrania
bands.
After thecablnet session, one mem
ber said:
"It looks as thoijgh It were their
next move."
. Tt was announced that no change
In the Mexican policy was contem
plated and that no new troop move
ments had been ordered, and that the
situation so far as American action
was concerned was, the same as be
fore the border conferences. Anti
cipating no trouble. President Wilson
is leaving on his private yacht, the
Mayflower, tor a week-end .trip. '
Senate Cocuziitee Again Takes
Up Investigation Into Qual
ifications of Wilson Nom
inee lor the Justice Bench
Washington, May 12. Testifying
before the senate sub-committee In-
vestlgating the qualifications of
Loufs D.- Brandels as Justice of the
United States supreme court, Louis
Liggett of Boston, declared today
that he employed Brandels to say
whether the proposed merger of the
United Cigar Stores and the Kikker
Hegeman Drag stores was legal be
cause Brandels was known to "lean
backward" In favoring the enforce
ment of anti-trust laws.
"We thought that If we could get
by him we could get by anyone."
said Liggett's attorney, F. E. Snow,
Brandels, they asserted, told them
that the proposed merger was lawful.
The forces opposing the confirmation
of Brandels' nomination sought to
show through Liggett and Snow
jthat Brandels was out of sympathy
with the anti-trust act and that be
approves combines which the govern
ment believes Illegal. ' "' '
Federal District Attorney George
Anderson testified that he thought
the merger Illegal, but said this was
merely an honest difference of op
inion. Llgget said that the department
J of Justice was still suspicious that
the merger might harm competitors
if it wished to do so and that It was
a violation of the trust law, although
no suit had been filed.
The merger waa completed.
Washington, May 12. A situation
more serious than at any time since
the American expedition entered
Mexico confronted the administration
today as a result of failure of the
conference between General Hugh
Scott and General Alvaro Obregon.
Secretary of War Baker directed
Scott to return to Washington and
Funston to return to San Antonio at
his own discretion.
The administration's next step Is
conjectural. It ia feared that Mexi
cans will get the idea that refusal to
withdraw means an intention to do
other than merely break up bandit
bands. '
The authorities believe there is no
'way of diverting Oarransa from his
Insistence on a withdrawal, though
they hope he will be passive In that
demand. Failure of the conference
does not make continuance of the ex
pedition's operations Impossible. It
Is hoped that Mexico will take the
situation calmly, as It has done In
the past. . .
Secretary of War Baker's an
nouncement with regard to. the bor
der conferences said that both sides
earnestly sought an agreement, but
that Inasmuch as they faded, they
left the matter to the diplomats de
partments of the United States and
Mexico. It was understood that Gen
eral Obregon feared the political
prestige of himself and Carranza
would suffer If border conferences
were continued.
As the American - border patrol
stands at present, army men regard
it as sufficient. No orders for fur
ther 'mllltl movements are contem
plated, it was said, unless border con
dltlons become more menacing, ,
nun lie of
THE IflSSI or
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San Francisco, May 12. All hope
that, as time passed, the extent of
the North Pacific liner Roanoke dis
aster might be lessened, was prac
tically abandoned today when boats
which patrolled the scene of the
wreck hunting (or survivors returned
with reports that they had sees no
indication even of floating wreckage.
It is evident that the only survi
vors of the wreck are Quartermaster
Elb and two Mexican firemen, who
drifted ashore In a life boat with
five corpses. The United States des
troyers Hall and Truxton are search
ing the waters which suddenly swal
lowed np the historic old coasting
steamer looking for bodies of the 50
souls that went to death with the
ship.
Fifty men are keeping watch
along the San Luis Obispo coast, ex
pecting that bodies may wash ashore.
Quartermaster Elb's description of
the disaster, supplemented by the
stories of the Mexicans, Is all the
government will have to go on in its
Investigation of the wreck- Elb de
clares that the vessel began tilting
at 2": 20 p. m. Tuesday and that Cap
tain Richard Dickson clung to the
sloping bridge directing the lowering
of life boats from one side of the
liner. Those on the other side were
useless on account of the sharp HbL
Some of the life boats were dropped
from the davits stern first and their
occupants hurled into the water to
drown. Elb believes the ' captain
went down with his ship when It
turned turtle.
Several theories for the wreck have
been advanced. A suggestion that
the Roanoke struck a submerged der
elict or unchartered reef, or that a
time bomb placed among the tons
of dynamite in its hold exploded and
ripped a hole under the water line
Is not taken seriously. It Is gener
ally believed that the disaster was
caused by the cargo shifting while
the Roanoke rolled in a heavy sea.
The three survivors will be brought
to San Francisco as soon as they are
able to be moved and will be request
ed to testify at the government probe.
SEATTLE RAID NETS
975,000 WORTH OF BOOZE
Seattle, May 11. Forty policemen
in plain clothes swooped down on
ten drug stores and two storage ware
houses late yesterday and seized liqu
or valued at." $75,000. A parade of
auto trucks carried barrels of whis
key, gin and bottled beer to police
headquarters.
Mayor GUI announced that It would
be dumped into the sewer unless the
right to its possession was proven in
court by the druggists.
BE
TELLING ON HUGHES
New York, May 12. Supporters
of Colonel Roosevelt saw expediency
In EUhu Root's Red Cross speech in
which he announced for prepared
ness.
Among other political items glean
ed today was the fact that John
Stewart, who is fathering the Gen
eral Leonard Wood movement, an
nounced he would soon Issue a state
ment of the republican party's state
of mind on Wood.
The Hughes' boom, which has been
without headquarters because he
frowns on the use of his name, was
received with rumors that Hughes is
now more conciliatory since he re
ceived letters from all parts of the
nation, urging him to beoome a presi
dential candidate,
The Roosevelt advertisement In a
weekly magazine, tt was pointed out,
was an appeal In a new direction,
since it is a bid for peace advocates'
votes, lauding Roosevelt as a peacemaker.
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THINK TIME
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ROANOKE
Disaster That CcstHalfalfcn
dred Lives Off Ccast Be'zi
Probed on Theory. That It
Was Work cf Pktters
San Luis Obispo, Cal., May 12.
Attorney C. H, Sooey, of the North
Pacific line, arrived here today to
investigate a theory that the steamer
Roanoke disaster waa caused by a
time bomb being placed In the dyna
mite cargo when It was transferred
from the ships which brought It from
Puget sound to the Roanoke in port
here. Sooey wonld not divulge the
grounds upon which be based this
suspicion, bnt he declared he Intend
ed to interrogate the three survivors
carefully concerning It .
The survivors. Quartermaster Elb
and two Mexican firemen, are ap
parently recovering from the effects
of their terrible experience. Elb to
day added a number of details to
,hls account of the wreck, chief among
them being a graphic description of
how Carlos Belgrano, Oakland high
, school boy, who had shipped as
freight clerk, came to his end.
I Elb said that Belgrano was la the
.lifeboat with htoJ.whett it w cap
's! zed. Both were plunged into the
jSea and grasped planks. Together
they attempted to keep afloat and
, reach another boat. Elb said that
j Belgrano got a slippery board and
.lost. his hold on it repeatedly, always,
, however, swimming for a moment
and then again grabbing his support
Finally, however, when another
lifeboat was approching through the
heavy sea, the Oakland hoy was over
- whelmed by a big wave and his
frantic grip on the plank was torn
loose for the last time. Belgrano '
, swam desperately for a moment, try
ing to keep his head above water un
til the lifeboat came up, but he dis
appeared under another wave while
rescuers were extending their hands
to him. Elb never saw him again,
i Watchers along the beach, np to
noon, had been unable to discover
any traces of survivors or bodies of
victims. The patrol Is being main
tained, however, in the belief that
corpses will drift ashore. , '
BRITISH SOLDIERS AND ,
GUNS AJRE CAPTURED
Berlin,. May 12. Germans storm
ed and captured several British lines
southeast of the Hohenzollern re
doubt, it was officially announced to
day. The Germans captured 127 Brit
ish and several machine guns. A
counter-attack was repulsed.
PORTLAND FRONT STREET
THREATENED WITH FLOOD
Portland, May 12. Backwater of
the flooded Columbia river today
threatens to submerge Front street
warehouses ' in Portland. Several
Arms are preparing to move their
goods to higher grouna.
BAYLESS SLAYERS
Brownsville, Texas, May 11. A
squadron of American cavalry today
hunted the gang of bandits that yes
terday murdered Curtis Bayless an
American rancher, ' on his grounds
near Mercedes, Texas. The. slaying
occured about 10 miles from the Rio
Grande. Bayless' corpse was found
floating In an irrigation ditch, bullet-riddled.
CAVALRY
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