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0 J DAILY EDITION 'i W vol. vi., No. air. ftRAKTM PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OKKGOJf, THl'IWDAY, JUKE J, 1910. WHOLE NUMBER 1741. No Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. mm ' 4 ts SHIPCIOI III ORE 10 THE EAST Teams Are Hauling Mineral Jo Bins at Kerby, From Which it Will Be Men By Auto Trucks to R. R. ' Josepbln county will becom an Important factor la the production of ebromlo Iron or th present se on. Th first shipments of tb min eral in tbt history of southern Ore gon mining will soon b made over the California 4 Oregon Coast line railroad. , Tht California Manganese com pany, which cam into tbU county early In tba season, that evn or Ight camp distributed through the kill developing chroma .prospect, otn of whloh bar shown up o well that more than 1,000 Ion of ore,of hipping grad ar already opened op. Thl 1 Wing hauled by team from tb camp around Oregon moan lain and other point aurroundlng tht Illinois valley to Kerby a a com mon center. Or bin bare been built at Kerby, and from there the ore will be loaded onto auto truck for trans port to the railroad., now completed tb Water creek. A loading station I being arranged at Water creek to . facilitate loading from tb truck to - the oars. The ohtpment will te made to the east, where the chrome U used In the manufacture of certain blgher grade or steel. It I expected that the output of Josephine county thl year will equal the entire production of the United State for lsst year, the amount then being 1,381 long ton. Thl had a value of 938,74 4. California ha previously been known as th "chromlts state." tout southern Ore ton may now win the right to that name. The Import of thl or laat year were 76,455 long ton, valued at $710,0(1. A. market baa been created to a large extent by the Euro pean war, as chromium la used In the manufacture of armor plate and pro jectile. V. OF O. SENDS MEJf TO THE 1HO PILLMAX MEKT Eugena, June 1. Nine men of the University of Oregon track and field team will go to Pullman, Wash., tomorrow to compete In the North west Intercollegiate track meet. Ore gon, Washington, Oregon Agricul tural college and Washington State college will compete for the north west title. 1IT0GA JOINS THE PHI RANKS 'Vancouver, B. 0 June 1. Mani toba yesterday cast from Its should ers forever th yoke of the licensed saloon and today the new prohibition , legislation goes Into effect. There was little or no celebration In the city of Winnipeg last night as the 76 bar closed their doors, and the police roport that there was leas drunken wes than on an ordinary night. About 500 bartender were thrown . out of employment. Already several hotels In the city have gone out of business, while others are converting their bar room Into lunch places. Official notification that liquor can not be sold except between the hours of 11 a. m, and 10 p. m. during the . continuance of the war, according to , the provisions of the new amend ',. menU to the provincial liquor aot ,-Wbloh. want Into effect' last night, ' -will be given to all hotels and cafes affected fey th authorities in British Columbia today. - ' 1 TEDDY LKAD8 WITH ,TI1R BBTTIXO MEN Chicago, June 1. Sportively Inclined politicians around con ventlon headquarter offered th following betting odd today, on republican presidential candi date: Even money on Roosevelt. Two to one against Hughes. Prom 40 to 100 to on on favorite son and dark hones. Washington, June 1. Louis D. Brandei we confirmed a Justice of the supreme court of the United States this afternoon. The vote was 47 to 11. The vote wa taken in executive session at which majority and min ority reports of the committee that considered the Brandela nomination were submitted.' Newlands was the only democrat who voted against the nomination. LaPollette, Norrls and Poindexter, republicans, voted for Brandei. Sen ators Clapp and Oronna were paired for Brandei. III FUG DAY PARADE Washington. Jus l.Just about the time the democratic national con vention I getting down to Its busi ness of re-nominating him, President Wilson will be marching down Penn sylvania avenue, carrying a Sag. Man agers of the big flag day prepared nea parade obtained the promise from him today. The president will fall In line at the peace monument at the foot of the western entrance of the capltol and hike It with the rest a tar a th post office building. SURRENDER OF HILL 304 BY FRENCH HEAR Berlin, June 1. The French are preparing to surrender Hill 804, last of the strongly fortified heights re maining in their position northwest of Verdun. ' Several French positions on the summit, torn by the pounding Sre of German guns,, already have been eva cuated. The next feneral assault on the position will probably bring It into the hands of the Germans. Prom Haucourt eastward to the Meuse the German front is pressing steadily southward In dally "nibbles" at the Frenoh line. The French are offering desperately tenacious resist ance, hut are steadily falling back upon the Cbarny line. The most furi ous French counter-attacks, deliver ed at heavy sacrifices In men, .have resulted In only temporary successes, the Germans pressing on after each freeh check. The French line hn been stripped of reserves brought up for the de fense of Verdun. Recent concentrations of troops be hind the Anglo-French front Indicate that the British are preparing to take over another atretch of French front, releasing French troops for service at Verdun, . German military critics, comment ing on France's dire need of more men for the defense of her great for tress, asked today what has become of the "great Russian army" which was to have 'halted the German ad vance on th fortress, It la authori tatively stated here that not a single one of the few thousand Russians re ported tq have been landed at Mar tellies haa'toe. In action. on th western1 front. " SENATE COimS HUSK SUPREME COURT I OR IIS TO LEAVE in no Costest a! Chicago Settles Down to Two Leaders, Is View Expressed by Repi licans at Ccavectica City Chicago, June 1. Dark torses and favorite eon still maintained tope thl afternoon, but along candidate' row the republican pre-oonventlon contest apparently had narrowed down to two men Theodore Roose velt and Justioe Charles E. Hughes. "It's Roosevelt or Hughes,'! dels gate after delegate said when pinned to a definite answer under pledge of confidence. The gun of the Roose velt republican and the anti-Hughe' standpatters swung Into position side by side this afternoon for a broad side on the Hughe camp. A tetter, purporting to have been written by Justice Hughe May B0, 1916. In which th Justice declined to be a candidate, was sprung by Hughes' foes this afternoon. It was written to Hon." E. O. Stokes, at the Mechanics' National bank, at Tren ton, N. J., and read as follows: "Tour letter of May 1? has been received. I think my statement cov er th ground "It sounds to me very clear that, as a member of the su preme court, I have no right to be a candidate, either openly or passively. I can not remain working here and hold an equivocal position before the country. I must ask, therefore, thai no steps bs aken to bring my name before the convention." " ' ITALIANS EVACUATE . TOWN OF ASIAGO . London, June 1. Italian troops have evacuated, the fortified town of Aelago before the advancing. Aus trian, according to the Rome cor respondent of the London Times. Chicago, June 1. "So far as 1 know, there Is not a single contest before us that Involves votes for any presidential candidate," Chairman Hllles of the republican national com mittee announced today, as the com mittee went Into session to decide forty contests involving 62 seats. . "The contest Involved are merely technical fights for state control. Bach contest will be decided on Its merits," continued Hllles. Chicago, June 1.- The O. O. P. national committee today began to untangle the situation resulting from 40 separate contests, Involving sixty- two delegates from southern state. Although Secretary Reynolds of the committee declared the fights In volved were merely battles for local control and the usual fights between the "black and tans" and the "Illy whites," campaign managers tor Hughes, Roosevelt and , Senator Weeks were watching the contests closely. ' ' The same rules, In substance, that governed th contests In 1 SI 2 were to be adopted by the national com mittees at the beginning of the hear ings at 10:80 a, m. , As In 1912. the proceedings will ,b ,only leml-pubHc, with press as sociation men th only reporters ad uiii h ami it Adrisistratioa Not to Order Withdrawal as Requested by Carranza, but Will Later Seed Hh a Wiba Note Washington, June 1. There will be no withdrawal of American troop from Mexico at Carr ansa's request Instead the administration will Issue a statement, probably within a week or 10 days, Informing Oarranxa of rejection of his request, and calling attention to mis-statements of fact about the Mexican situation contain ed In bis latest withdrawal demand. In framing the tatement, officials will go on the theory that the general tenor of the not 1 fiercer than th actual convention . text; that It V chiefly a document for home con sumption. It irill take Issue with Carranxa's clahn that the Mexican government did not know American force were crossing th boundary In pursuit of Villa until day after the hunt started. " T It will declare there waa no agree ment between General Scott and Obregon not to send a second expe dition after (he Bouqulllas and Glenn Springs raider. , In this connection TT UJ atm.t-m .111 tV.IT.A ranta ha not been properly , co operating with the United States bor der troops. President Wilson's absence from town tomorrow will delay cabinet consideration of the question until Tuesday. One of the first step in consider ation of the situation today was a conference between Counselor Polk of the state department and General tScott. Judge Douglas, attorney for jthe embassy here, Just back from a .visit to Carranea, declared Carransa i and his backer do not want a claah j with the United States, realising that It would mark the end of their rule in Mexico. I COIUITTEE EST OF DELEGATES mitted. Hughes' managers were ex pected to watch closely the contest from Georgia, , affecting seventeen delegates. One delegation, headed by National Committeeman Henry S. Jackson, la aligned with the Old Guard and is ordered to vote for Senator Weeks on the first ballot, It seated. The contesting delegation, backed by State Chairman Walter Johnson, Is believed to be aligned with Hughes. The Louisiana contest, Involving twelve delegates, also has possibili ties of a fight among Hughes, Roose velt and the Old Guard. This con test is based on the inability of ne groes to gain entrance to the New Orleans hotel, whore the whites met. There are two warring delegations in Georgia, a tangle in Texas involv ing the technical point of the right of districts to send two delegates, and in Virginia, where one Rich mond district Is Involved, It Is a fight between the "black and tans'" and "Illy whites." , . . I Six delegates-at-large and one dis trict delegate are involved In the Alabama contest, probably the first to be taken up. The regulars In this contest are claimed by Hughes. In Oklahoma, where four district delegates are involved, It is believed to be a Hughes. ' case of Roosevelt against IiAXD CRAXT BILL PASSED BV SEX ATE Washington, June 1. The senate this afternoon passed the Oregon land grant bill with all the amendments asked by .Senator : Chamberlain. ' An amendment by Borah lowers the time of residence required on a claim from lire to three years. El Paso. June 1. Genera Gavlra, Oarranzlst commander in northern Chihuahua, is believed to be carry ing a copy of Carranxa's note to Cases Orandes, where be will confer with General Pershing. Regardless of Pershing's instructions not to dis cuss withdrawal of American troops, Gavlra will make a formal request, in compliance with the terms of th note, it Is understood here. This will be purely a diplomatic move, suggest ed by the Mexican foreign office. .Rumors of Mexican troop move ments , were circulated bore today. Officials at Juares would not confirm these report and insisted that bo significant development have oc curred since the Carransa note was handed to the state department. FOR WOWEU'S VOTE Chicago, June 1. The republican. detnocatlc. progressive and prohibi tion parties are ready to bid for the support of the women's party in the 1916 presidential race, It was learned today. The woman'a party convention, be ginning June 5, will be addressed by speaker from each of these tour parties and a suffrage resolution will be introduced before the resolutions committee of each.. i Chairman Hllles of the republican national committee has tendered a list of five speakers to the suffra gettes. ; Gilford Pinchot will address the convention for th progressives; Dudley Field Malone for the demo crata, and probably former Governor Suiter of New York for the prohibi tionists. , GUI HI IS TO COKFER Willi PERSHIIIG POLITII Senator Borah of Idaho, it waa an- along the water front today. . Henry nounced today, will lead the fight forlM. White, immigration commissioner, a suffrage plank at the republican convention. He has promised Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gatt, president of I the National , American Woman's , Suffrage association, to direct this fight. Mrs. Catt said today. in rciinnc WOMEN'S CLUBS '. v. v,i, ' i t.... Evans Cowles, of Los Angeles, was elected president of the General Fed-, eration of Women's Clubs. Official announcement of Mr. Cowles' elec tion on the balloting yesterday waa made before the convention today. Other new officers are: First vice- president, Miss Georgle A. , Bacon, Massachusetts; second vice-president, Mrs. Eugene Rellly, North Carolina; recording secretary, Mrs. C. McFar land, South Dakota; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Francis D. Everett, Illinois; auditor, Mrs. W. P. Harper,! Washington state. ' I STANDARD OHi MAY . i FACE CONTEMPT ACTION' . . , Washington, June 1. Following a conference between President Wilson and Attorney General Gregory today it was learned contempt proceedings against Standard Oil director for alleged violation of a euprerae court decree ordering the dissolution of th MRS bUWLCOnCHUO "trust" may bs brought. T (E Lcrzsbrecea Seek !H:r WegeadRefcsetoWcrk Till Tkir dzzzzis Are Met, and Vessels Lis San Francisco, June 1. WiUtla six hours after the strike began to day of 6,000 riggers and stevedores) on the San Francisco water front number of employers capitulated to day to half the demand of th striker. ' . It was announced that following a meeting of the Steamship Owners' association It bad been agreed to grant the demands of the men for 55 cents sn tour for a nine-hour working day. Nothing waa said of the demand for $1 an hour for over time in lieu of the present seals of 75 cents an bour. . Secretary Foley of the union this afternoon announced there will be' no settlement of the strike situation to day. On the arrival of the T. K. K. liner Tenyo Mara today only hand. baargage was unloaded by Japanese sailor. No effort has yet been mad to bring the cargo ashore. , More then $2,000,000 worth of silk i on tb boat-.' '. San Francisco, June i. Striking longshoremen today tied up 200 ves sels along the Pacific coast and pre cipitated one of the most serious labor situations in recent years la western America. Nearly 10,000 longshoremen har walked out, their demands for In creased wages being refused. The marine engineers may Join the strik ers. They bare decided to ask a 10 per cent raise in pay. With all Sacra mento river steamers idle, San Fran cisco faces a produce shortaxe. Pickets patrol every dock except the ferry slips, and rumors of non-union labor being imported make the at mosphere more tense hourly. . That the department of Justice wtll send an arbitrator 'here to attempt mediation of th strike was reported is in Seattle at present He went there to try and prevent the walkout - Advices from every port on the) Pacific coast of the United States and from Alaska show that the long- threatened strike is in. full blast Work at th government transport I. stevedores and riggers whatever e?le might , be agreed upon at th end of the fight The Hlnd-Rolph Navigation com- pany and the Rolph Navigation com- Pny.. in which companies Mayor Rolph of San Franolsco is interested. surrendered to the . longshoremen's demands today. The riggers' and stevedores' union asked 55 cents an hour and 75 cent for overtime. - Representative of the big skip companies held a secret meeting to- flay V conBlderlng the strikers' de- l Continued on page 2) TO GO TO CHICAGO Hitsburg, June 1. Colonel Rooee- velt today reiterated emphatically. that he would not go to Chicago, ' "I will not go to CWcaco -that it all I have to say," he told reporter who met him at tne union aepot , Alexander P. Moore, a email onw4 And . th Friar club met th colonel when he stopped for a few minute TIED DP 0 ijhm wers usiavv nuww-aa.. w i sisssniisii n t-.t-vanfMrnx ROOSEVELT NOT en rout to "New York.'
