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" DAILY EDITION t. VOL. VI., No. 818. or GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, USE 80, WHOLE 5 UMBER 17M. No Other Towu in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. 'I Q U Statement From the Mexican Foreign Office Makes Denial of Charges in Communica tion From Sec. Lansing Mexico City, June 30.- The Mexi cas foreign office thla afternoon U sued 8,000-word statement In reply to the Lansing note. The statement contain a strenuous denial ot many -charge nude In this communication, -with counter-charge agalnit the (Jailed State, but doee not contain repetition of the demand for tbe withdrawal of U. 8. troop. (Note: Tbe cable despatch doei not make it clear whether tbe itateuient a given out by tbe Mexican foreign . .office la tbe actual anawer of tbe Mex ican government to tbe American mote, or le simply an official com ment, preceding actual delivery of ithe aota.) , Replying to tbe charge that Amer ican lUxas bave been murdered In Mexico, Uie statement points out that fceonuse of Internal disturbance Mexican cltlxena alno bave suffered from the depredation! of bandlta and revolutionary forcea. It declare It nnreasonable to expect that for eigner abould be Immune under auch ctrcumitance. It la alno assorted that In many ases Mexican have been murdered on American toll and that tbetr mur derer have gone unpunished, though the attention of tbe American atate department haa been called to thee crime. . . The foreign office polnta out further that .many of the alleged outrage complained of by the American gov ernment occurred before the United State recognised the Carranta gov ernment and add that In view ot thla fact It I not proper to bring thene complaint to the attention of the de facto government at thla time. The foreign office, reiterate pre vloiu declaration that every effort baa been made by the constitution alist government to punish every per son guilty of outrages agalnit for eigners. The tatement declare the American victim ot the Santa Ysabel massacre were fully warned by con--atltutlonallst military chief that the country In which they were proceed ing wat Infested by Vllllsta bands, ut Insisted on entering the region of danger, despite these protests. The forelcn office further declares that several day before Vllla'a raid upon Columbus, N. M., Mexican mili tary authorities notified the United 'States border officials that Villa was moving toward the border with his tandlts and that ample time elapsed for tho American military command er to safeguard border towns. Tho foreign office resents the charge that constitutionally troops have failed to co-operate with the United States troops in the hunt for Villa, stating that after the raid on Columbus a Mexican force took the field In pursuit of the Vllllstas, scat tering them. The statement that the Carran&n government never gave permission for1 United States troops to enter Mexican territory Is repeated and the blame for the encounter at Parral Is laid upon the commander of the .United State forces, who, the state ment declared, entered the town without permission of the Mexican . authorities. New York, June SO. Captain Hans "Tauscher was found not guilty by a Jury today on the charge of conspir ing to Inaugurate a military move ment against Canada which had as It object destruction or the Wetland -canal. . "'.'' :, WILSON GET NOTE FROM GARRANZA OUARTETTE OF Hill I is Dcmlng, N. M June 30. -With outward apathy, four Vllllstas who e wore In the Columbus raid March 9 were hanged In tbe Jail here early to day. Tbe men were put to death in pairs on a double scaffold. Taurlno Garcia, . still suffering from the wounds be received In the raid, said, just before the trap wa sprung: "I am about to die, and wish my enemies to forgive mo, as I do them." Esuaonio Renters, who with Qarola made up the first pair, smiled and urged bta companion to be brave. Juan Castillo, In tbe second pair with Jose Banget, was defiant A Spanish padre accompanied the four Mexicans to the gallows. The quartette faced death with tbe tame stoicism that characterised tbe exe cution of tbe two Vllllstas June on the same scaffold. All alx were tried In Doming and found guilty of mur der In the first degree for the deaths of Columbus soldiers and civilians In the raid. CENSOR STOPS HEWS OF MILITIA San Antonio. June SO. General Fuoslon today directed preparations for disposing or the V mlUtla . regi ments which will reach tbelr destina tions on the border today and to morrow. The censorship was on re garding the exact plans, but It was learned that competent regular army officer will be on band to give any necessary aid at encampment points. Illinois and New York troops will be tbe first to arrive at tbelr destin ation. Tbe First Illinois, closely fol lowed by the Second and Seventh, will begin arriving at Fort Sam Houston late today. These troops, as well as others ordered to San An tonio, will be held at the fort until drilled to perfection and acclimated. Other mlUtla units, who go to Eagle Pass, .Brownsville and other border points, will get less drill but more actual warfare practice. 8ome of them will relieve regular now on border duty, white others will merely reinforce the regulars. Beginning tonight, a constant stream of militiamen will be pouring Into Funston's territory. Most . of them are yet to be fully equipped as regarding horses, supply wagons, etc Each will be supplied a rapidly a possible. The staff at Fort Sam Houston ha plan well outlined. It will be the United States' first test since tbe Spanish-American war In handling a large number ot mobile troops In one army department. There are about 50,000 regulars on duty In Mexico and on the border and the militia ar rivals will aweJl the total to 100,000 at least. ' ' . ES AND TAPT HAVE LOVE FEAST Urldgehampton, L. I., June 80. Candidate Charles IS. Hughes had a two-hour conference today with form er President Taft. Hughes wanted Taft's advice on a number of mat ters connected with the campaign, and, It Is also bolleved, he undertook the part of peacemaker In trying to heal the brulsos Incurred In the per sonal strife between, Taft and Roose velt. Taft was a luncheon guest. Hughes accompanied Taft to the station when he left. Taft said he promised to take an active part In the campaign after spending three months In Canada. He said he had no appointment, to meet Colonel Rciwvelt. IS ilLLA 1MB UGH WZNOMNH CENTER OF AT Austrian Stronghold Is With standing Assaults by Ital ian Troops in New Offen sive Launched by Allies ' ' Berlin, June 30. Breaking out of a new Italian offensive on the isonso front and tbe steadily increasing vio lence of tbe British artillery assaults leaves little doubt In Berlin that the allies are In the early stage of their "grand offensive." Vienna dispatches today announce that tho Italian have launched pow erful attacks around the Austrian stronghold of Gorlts, where no seri ous fighting has occurred for many weeks. : ' The Italian attacka on tbe Tren- tlno front continue. Tbe British are cannonading tbe German front Impartially, bringing a systematic Are to bear upon tbe wbole line southward to the Somme. Tbe same procedure. preceded the allies' offensive last September, when tbe whole German front was bathed in Ore before attacka were launched around Loos and In 'the Champagne. Tbe Vienna dispatches reporting Intent-activity around Oorita and on the Isonxo contained the text 'of the Austrian official statement Issued late last night. "The Italians violently bombarded portions of tbe front on tbe Doberdo plateau (south of Oorlti) in Wednes day's fighting, and in the evening brought heavy batteries to bear upon Monte San Michele and tbe sector ot San Martlno," said tbe official state ment , 'Utter the fire had become moat Intense, enemy Infantry ' ad vanced across the plateau. All ad vances were repulsed. Violent fight ing Is going on at Monte Ban Michele, near San Martlno, and east of Ver mogllano. . "In tbe Trent I no the enemy attack- miss OF IMII01 SMQ TOLD BY Washington, ' June SO. Had trouble threatened with a powerful, aggressive nation Instead ot Mexico, the last tew days would have shown the "Inherent weakness ot the nation al guard system even more striking ly than has been the case," Chairman Chamberlain ot the senate military committee said today in an Interview with the United Press. He had be fore him reports ot guardsmen leav ing for the front short ot horses, mules, supplies, even rifles; of state forces .where sixty per cent ot the men never had fired an army rifle, of large proportions ot national guard companies being disqualified by United States army regulations. "Let me make clear first," he said, "that this Is not an attack on the guards. The guardsmen, faulty as the system has shown Itself, are bet ter prepared than any of the rest of us. Indeed, they are the only men who have Imposed any sacrifice on themselves. "What the failures ot the past ten days ought to do Is to show the Amer ican people their duty the duty ot each one tQ begin to get ready tor whatever situation may come up. "It 1 the American people who are responsible for few machine guns, no aero service to speak of, a lack of horses, an organisation so Inefficient that In ten days we have succeeded In starting only the' mllttla of a few states to tbe border, and those In various degrees of Criminal unpre-paredness. ARRESTED ''' Bandit Who Made Spectacular Escape From Josephine Jail Apprehended at Joplin, Missouri, Is Report San Francisco, ; June SO. That John Austin Hooper, the Oregon ban dit, Is under arrest at Joplin, Mo., under the name of Wilbur Mason, was tbe declaration ot San Francisco police today. Tbey declare the man wa taken Into custody at Joplin June 4 on charges of murder and robbery, and that hla book number there la 681. - ; . '.. ' Hooper was sentenced to a life term at San Quentln several years ago. but was paroled September 1, 111. Portland, June SO. A telegram from the San Francisco police that "Your number 2610 la under arrest at Joplin, Mo., charged with murder," waa not fully explained 'by the Port land police today. "Your No. 2610" 1 John Austin Hooper, probably the moet sensation al and finished highwayman of a de cade. But, in response to a telegram, Joplin authorities wired that they had no record ot Hooper'a arrest. , Local police thought, however, that Hooper might have been arrested nnder an other name and that his real. Iden tity Is unknown la Joplin. Hooper escaped from Jail at Grants Pass a year ago,' after his arrest on a charge of holding up the Southern Pacific station there. A doxen other sensational hold-ups are laid at hla door. ed our new positions between the Kal Smgna and the Adlge valley. We re pulsed attacks near . Monte Zeiba, north ot tbe Poslna valley, Monte Teato and Zugna ridge, taking 200 prisoners." II CURIAM "It waa wrong to expect a small percentage of cltlxens largely un derpaid, largely the butt of gold-laced Jokes, and always with military in terests strictly secondary, to bear our preparedness burden. The system baa shown Its weaknesses, as we should have anticipated. "Neither can the railroads be blamed tor the delays. The people never have suggested that tbe rail roads ought to be prepared as a part ot the nation's military ma chinery. "Industries suddenly called on to give up part of their employes and at the same time to hurry up supplies for them are altogether wrongly blamed. Lately 'Industrial prepared ness' has become a phrase. Up to recently It haa been only that. "We find, most serious ot all, wide physical unpreparedness. Men called from stores, warehouses, offices, or other Indoor and partly aedentary positions, are supposed to be fit. As a matter ot fact, some of' them have fainted when called on to march and drill a few hours In a climate which, compared to Mexico's, Is like a sum mer resort. We find that when cav alry troops had to change mounts the utmost confusion resulted. In one drill a dosen were Injured, one fa tally. "The whole- nation has been a 'lacker.' We have not only refused to do our duty, but even to see It. "Let us thank God It wa only Mexico that waked us up." DID 0.1 SOLDIERS KILLED BY 1 IBM El Paso, June 30. Return of the horses and weapons belonging to the 23 American prisoners released was expected here today to close tbe Car- rlzal Incident . However, the retnrn of tbe negro troopers, their reception by large crowds and their atorles of Carranzlsta soldier killing the American wounded and robbing the captured was still in the American mind here. That be puased several wounded and later aaw them dead, with fresh bullet wounds in their bodies,- was the atatement of Trooper Archie Jones, supported . by Troopers Wm. Gibson and Luther Alexander, who also reported being robbed of several hundred dollar ot their army sav ings and Jewelry. , Alexander, wounded in the shoul der, declared he did not receive prompt or proper medical attention. In tbe transfer ot tbe prisoner to the International bridge, the retnrn ot another Carrtzal hero was almost entirely overlooked by El Fasoans. When the Golden State limited from the west pulled Into union station, an officer In soiled khaki alighted. his arm In a sling. With tears stream ing down her cheeks, and a cry of joy, a little woman, in a dark blue traveling suit, rushed up to him. They embraced, v while score of enriona passengers hesitated as they acnrrled for their trains. Apparently pale and weak from hardships, the officer pat ted the little woman on the back while she kissed him. " He waa Captain Lewis S. Morey of the Tenth cavalry. The little wo man In blue was his wife, wbo was at first Informed that her husband prob ably had been killed. . They were driven to the Paso del Norte hotel, as happy as honeymooner. Tbe Moreys expect to remain here several days before going to San Antonio. According to Lem Spillsbury, American civilian scout and inter preter in the Carrizal fight, the bodies ot the slain American soldiers were afterward cremated on the Held of battle . by the 1 Mexican troops. It Splllsbury's belief 1 trne. It will be impossible to recover the bodies and inter them in Arlington cemetery at Washington, as suggested. Their ashes and bones may be found on the battlefield, however. NEW JAP MINISTER " IS SENT TO CHINA " v Baron Hayashahl Toklo, June 30 has been appointed Japanese minis ter to China, it was announced today. It wa expected he will make an effort to bring a settlement to the warring factions in China. HIE ARMY IN MEXICO Buenos Ayres, June 30. Argentine would not give serious consideration! to a proposal to send in army to Mex- j ico to co-operate with the U. S. army and armed forces ot other Latin American republics In restoring or der. This much was learned today. United Press dispatches from Washington reporting such a plan under discussion, , were printed at length today by LaNaclon, a leading paper of South America. The news papers thus far have not commented. Argentine's objection to such a plan, it may be stated on good au thority, Is that Argentine might be come unduly Involved In affairs ot the North American continent. Simply to carry out the Idea ot co-operation, she might consent to send a single Argentine officer to accompany the American forces. It la believed here that other South American republics would follow the tame course, except that perhaps Brasll would be willing to send peveral thousand men., IR OAflR BROWS LESS While Pressure Is Tezssr- ar3y ReEevedJcr the fra the MoYecccl cf Trccpis to Border Is Ccnthud Washington, June SO. Danger of war with Mexico 1 waning fast, o31 data believed today a President Wil- -son awaits the reply from Carranxa to hi note threatening ''grave con sequences" if the United State ex pedition Is attacked. ' ' ' . But, despite this belief, militiamen, continued to pour steadily southward toward the border. The administra tion I by no mean certain that It mar not have early need for the troop. A United Press dispatch from Mex ico City stating that Carranxa' reply was' about completed was read with. Interest at the White House. The president hopes to have the communi cation in his hands, possibly before he addresses the New York City Press dub tonight i . The Mexico City dispatches report ing the belief that the Carranxa reply will avert war buoyed up hopes for a peaceful settlement..-- The. arrival, of the United States prisoner In 1 Paso and the expressed willingness of tbe Mexican authorities to return the bodies of the Carrizal dead were other optimistic factors. Officials awaited with interest the detailed story ot the U. S. troops, while re fusing all comment on the story of Lem Spillstrary, Mormon scout, who placed the blame for the Carrizal battle upon the American officer. As for the possibility of further dashes, much depends upon the at titude of Carranxa in his forthcom ing reply.' Should It be conciliatory offering the basis for friendly co operation between the two nations there were few here today who doubted the president would go to the extreme in relieving Carranxa as much a possible ot the Irritating In fluences attached to the presence ot American troops In Mexico. While the president will not with draw the troops In Mexico, new or- Iders may be expected to cover the movement8 ot Pershlng's column. making a recurrence of the Carrizal fight Impossible. ; . Some reports indicated Pershing already may have received new or ders perhaps to get clear ot towns where trouble might occur. . Reports lndtcate at least that the general is shortening his lines somewhat. Tbe president early In his admin istration announced an Ideal on which be hoped to work out the Mex ican problem. That was to let Mex ico work It out herself, lie has clung w . Z " cumiuuo 10 uo bu, wuaicver iuo vi uif Ism against It. . "It is not easy to think first ot what America, if she loves Justice, ought to do in the field of interna tional affairs," the president said yes terday at Philadelphia. "She can not Insist on other people treating her with justice and respect unless she ia willing to act in the same manner towards them. That I am ready to fight for at any cost, myself." There were none in the audience who did not believe tbe president had In mind his policy toward the Mexican people. In the meantime, however, mllttla movements toward, the border will continue. VANDERBILT'S REGIMENT 'EN ROUTE TO MEXICO Dallas, Texas, June 30. Colonel Vanderbllt'e -regiment ot the Mew York! national guard passed through here en route to Mexico today.. .