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DAILY EDITION VOL. VI., No. 814. v GIUKTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNT V, OREGOT, j MONDAY, JULY , . V WHOLE KUMBEB JT8. , - . . . No'Otber Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. il i ' r ' Mil, mm III : Ilexicaa Chief Need Not Hurry Up Reply to Uncle Saa If He Dees Net Want to, Says State Department Washington, July 8. "For the bio ttsnt" the United States government will ot press Cttrransa to answer In 4nudi (or a statement to bit attitude on the United States-Mexican relations. ' Tha state department announced tali today, aaylnf the altuatlon It In status quo for the present, and prob ably la flaw of tba rellot of tension by Carrania'a surrender of tba United State priaonera at Chihuahua. At the same time, Secretary Lam ing declared there Is "no change In policy retarding the keeping of the United States forces la 'Mexico, aa far 4U I know'. : The faot that Lansing has made no Sort to extract an answer from Car ransa alnre requesting Mexican Am basaador Arredondo to speed the reply was Interpreted aa meaning that this government has had secret as surance that Carraata will adjust the altuatlon If given tin. Indications from the department's statement were that It will continue to wait upon Carranxa unless there ahould be sinister developments be low the border. The department eald there might be several circumstances undpr which a statement of Car ream's attitude would become al most "Immediately pressing." It wss Indicated, however, that Car raosa's release of the United States troopers had ao greatly relieved the situation that the United States could afford to wait until Carranxa had hsd time to adjust matters at home. The war department explained the abortonlng of General Pershing's lines as based on thoroughly good strategy reasons, chief among which Is the difficulty of sustaining bis forces on the arid land below the bor der. U, S, MARINE KILLED . Ill Washington, July 3. -Three mar ines were wounded and one killed in two fights with revolutionists In San Domingo, the navy department was Informed today by radio. The dis patch was dated Saturday. The man killed was Private Mills of the first company; the wounded were Sergeant P. L. Barrier, right leg; Meut. D. H. Robin and Trumpoter Julius Ooldamlth, RllRhtly. Ono dispatch from Admiral Caper ton said that while a force of marines wan advancing from Porto Plata Into , Santiago It encountered a force of revolutionists 25 miles from Porto Plata. Caperton reported that as the mar ines were advancing from Monte Christie they encountered 100 rebels ' at Old Camlno Real. It was there Private Mills was killed. HUSH ADMINISTRATIONS . ATTACKED IN ltBPORT London, July 3. The findings of the royal commission which Investi gated the recent rebellion In Ire land, made public today, sharply at tacked previous administrations lu Ireland. The main cause of the Dub lin, outbreak, the commission hold, wu's the fart that lawlessness wai allowed to grow la Ireland without being checked, AN DOMINGO f San Diego, July 3. A full regi ment, mors than 1,000 officers and men of Oregon state troops, today Is eucsoiped in and near San Diego. The last to arrive was tbs first battalion, Including companies A, B, C and D, which came yesterday on a special train, Thesef companies", with a sani tary company of 10 men, a supply couipsuy of 16, a mounted detach ment of SO, and the Third regiment band, marched to the old U. 8. cavalry camp near the exposition grounds, Joining companies E, F, O and II. Companies I, K, L and M of the Third Infantry are at San. Ysldoro, a few hundred yards from the border. MIKADO PLACES Pittsburg, July 1. With war or ders from the European countries be ginning to fall off, the mikado's gov ernment stepped to the front today as the biggest foreign buyers In the United States steel markets. Orders approximating 128,000,000 already have been placed by J. Inouyle, J. Kamlmura and others! Westing house, Cambria and allied concerns have secured the majority of the con tracts. Mills and factories here and at Wheeling, Youngatown and Day ton will be rushed. for months. . Most or the steel will be used In construction of Imperial Iron works at Yawata, Japan. The government has appropriated t20.000.000 for construction of the plant. IS AT HIGH STAGE Portland, July 3.- Swollen by melting snow and continued heavy ralna In eastern Oregon, the Colum bia river was at the highest stage of the year today. The Willamette river at Portland, backed up by the Columbia, reached a stage of 23.7 feet early today, and was still rising slowly. Up-river points report the Colum bia falling slowly. Practically no damage has been suffered. 'Back water has filled sewers In Portland and flooded many basements. Several diners In a downtown grill were sent scurrying when the floor of the grill was sdddenly covered with several Inches of water. HTH CAVALRY KKTIKNS . fr'HOM CHASE IX MEXICO San Antonio, July, 3. The two troops of the Eighth cavalry under I Captain Kltlnge which crossed the I Rio Grande Into Mexico near Fort I Hancock late Saturday In pursuit of Mexican raiders lost the trail and re turned to the American side. WOOD MAY DIRECT Washington, July 3.- The war de portment today announced a division of the southern department In three sections under the command of Gen eral Funston, General tPershlng and .General Bell. ' , I The readjustment Is said to be pre liminary to appointing a supreme commander tor the three depart ments. GeneralLeonard Wood, now commanding the eastern department, (has asked a, position commensurate , with his rank, and It" Is possible he will be the man selected. REGIMENT U ORDERS COLUMBIA RIVER MEXICAN CAMPAIGN SR1ASH Commander of the English Forces Along the Socme Re ports That Further Progress Has Been Made, Other Teuton Trenches and Positions Captured, and Previous Gains South of Ancre Are Still Maintained London, July 3. -Capture of more German defenses was announced In aa official report from General Half, commander of the British forces, at 8:30 o'clock' tonight , , . U "Heavy fighting at LaBolselle, east of Albert. Is proceeding satisfactorily to us," Halg reported. ."The rem nants of the garrison have surrender ed. On other parts of the battle front we have made further progress, cap turing additional hostile . positions." A number of aerial tattles have oc curred. Along the front six German machines were brought down and fire damaged. Seven British aeroplanes are missing. "South of the Ancre the battle continues, hotly contested," added Halg. "Our gains of yesterday were maintained In today's fighting." London, July 3. Under a bluing July sun, the allied armies are push ing across the rolling farm lands of the Somme region today, la what s rapidly developing lato the greatest battle ia the history of the world. ' - The fighting not only Is growing more intense with the arrival of Ger man reserves but threatens to spread along the whole of the 110-mIIe front from the Somme to the sea. British artillery has been pound ing the German line In Flanders with the most Intense lire for forty-eight hours, said a Rotterdam dispatch to day. The sound of ships' guns has been heard along the Flanders coast. Supposedly, British monitors have Joined in 'the mighty eymphony of artillery, whose rumble may even be heard across the channel In London. Berlin dlspstches to the United Press Saturday, night expressed the belief that the British will deliver their most powerful etroke farther north In Flanders. The gun fire on the Flanders front continued throughout yesterday without cessation, said the Rotterdam dispatches, winch added: "No such tremendous cannonading tor such a long period without a break has been heard since the first coast battle nearly two years ago." The fighting on the 25-mile front over which, the British and French armies are driving eastward toward the Peronne-CambraULIlle rallwsy Is costing huge losses In men, No es timate of the British or French losses has reached London, but the German losses In the first thirty-elx hours are estimated to have been 20,000. In the village bf Doraplerre alone 1,500 German dead were counted after three French regiments had fought their way In with bayonets and bombs. Prisoners said many of tho dead were men wounded by shell fire before the Infantry attack began. The artillery's curtain Are made It Impossible to effect their rescue. They bled to death under the hot sun. ' The Anglo-French offensive, after the first thrust deep Into the German lines, has now resolved Itself into a steady rolling movement, with Per onne and Baupme, apparently, the objectives. The German counter-attacks are hourly growing more vigorous and have checked and bent back the Brit ish left, which advanced rapidly Into the village of Serre when the offen sive opened Saturday morning. The British center,, north of Al bert, Is making slow, methodical gains, though also under terrific Ger man counter-attaok. . East of Albert, where the extreme British right links up with the French left, the bloodiest struggle is going on.' Driven out of LaBolsselle, Frleoourt and Mammets, the ? Ger mans are fighting with desperation to save Important highway lines of fflHU IIS communication, which Imperil both Banpme and Perrone. . South of the Somme the French placed themselves within a bare seven miles of Peronne by the capture of Oomplerre, Frieze and Becqulncourt. The. British public, far from be ing Intoxicated by early successes, la prepared for the development of a campaign lasting perhaps several months. Tbe'people of England are content to await a grinding advance, with small gains and heavy losses. They expect heavy German counter-attacks and some allied reverses. General Halg. according to all dis patches from the front. Is carefully conserving his men, preparing the way for each attack' with the most tremendous artillery attack ever seen la any. war. - Critics here unite In declaring that the allies now hare larger munition resources than the Germans. In some spots on the lines shells were bursting at the rate of ninety per minute. They fell In streams la the Tillage of.Thlepval, which waa blown lo pieces. .-. The Germans, waiting In their dug outs for the blow they . knew waa about to come, sent up hundreds of rockets throughout Friday . night. They lighted the whole front In order to catch sight of the first line of the advancing British infantry, The German soldiers, hugging their trenches under the steady torrent of shells that poured overhead, wrote letters home and went to sleep early. They know without being told that the Intensifying of the bombardment meant the orders to attack would oome shortly after dawn. . The British reserves began coming up after dawn, while the artillery suddenly let loose a hellish fire on the Serman works. . 'British and French aeroplanes be- fgan uklng tne ar, disappearing in the clouds of smoke. Then the orders to go forward came. The men leap ed from their trenches and went stumbling toward the enemy. The French moved forward at pre cisely the same time. London, July 3. The arrival of German reinforcements has tempor arily checked the British offensive north of the Somme, except at one point, but the French continue to smash back the German line south of the river. These facts are Indicated In the official dispatches from the German and French war omces ana press ais- patches from headquarters or the British armies in France. l The French forces last night scored ;the most complete success of the last 24 hours of the great allied offensive. They battered In the German lines Jon a three-mile front directly south 1 0f the Somme. The disorganized German regiments were driven rap idly eastward, the French advancing to within five miles of the railway town of Peronne, the Immediate ob jective of their offensive. By oc cupying the town of Herbecourt, French troops advanced their lines eastward nearly two miles. The German official statement this afternoon admitted a German retire ment south of the Somme under heavy bombardment by the British, but announced the repulse of all Anglo-French attacks north of the river with bloody losses. This statement was borne out In a nrqss dispatch from the British army headquarters, claiming the cap ture of a German position near Frle court, but describing the situation on WDHLOS RICHEST III HETTY GREEtl, IS DEM New York, July 8. Mrs. Hetty Green, known as "the richest woman In the world," died today at her home here. Mrs. Green, who was in her eighty- third year, had been III for several weeks. It was reported a week ago that she suffered a stroke of apoplexy In March. This was declared-to be slight, however, and Mrs. Greens physicians said she was doing as well as could Je expected, considering her ago. Mrs. ' Green's fortune exceeded 1100,000,000. Ninety millions of this she made herself, starting with $10,- 000,000 left by her parents. No one ever questioned that Mrs. Green waa the world's greatest woman financier. From the moment Hetty Robinson got a 125 savings account until the moment of her death,, the accumula tion of money was the ruling passion of her life. Until Hetty Robinson was nearly 30 she devoted her time to society and money making. Then Edward Green, for 20 years United States consul at Manila and interested in a big silk Importing house, la which he had made several millions of his own, publicly announced at a New Tork public dinner that he proposed to marry the wealthiest heiress la America. x 1 . Hetty Robtnson, he said, was the woman. Green pledged himself never to touch a penny of his wife's fortune. The Greens bad two children, Syl via and Edward Howtaiid Robinson Green. It was the boy, 'TOddle," as his mother alwaya called him, despite his 350 burly ponnds of huskiaess, that found tbe soft spot In his moth er's heart. Eddie was the only hu man being to whom. Hetty Green never openly begrudged money. Shortly before her marriage to Green, Hetty Robinson Inherited the 110,000,000 from her parents. Just about that time Sylvia Howland, aa aunt, also died. Sylvia, Hetty al ways understood, was going to leave her her estate of $ 2,500,000, but the will showed half left to charity and the Income from the other halt to Hetty. A month after learning this Hetty 'Robinson came forward with what she said was a later will, leav ing her the' whole fortune. .In the sensational legal battle that raged up and down the Robinson and Howland families after that Betty was charged with several offenses, one of them be ing forgery. TY COBB FINED FOR OUTBURST OF TEMPER Chicago, July 3. .President John son of the American league today sus pended Ty Cobb for three days and fined htm as the result of Cobb's out burst In yesterday's game with the White Sox when he threw his bat into the grandstand. The amount of the fine was not announced. Cobb was angered when called out In the seventh by Umpire Nallin . The suspension put on Manager Griffith and other players, suspended for the riot last Friday In Washing ton, has not been lifted. the British left wing as unchanged, though "promising." The pause In the British advance on Bapaume was fully expected here. It was realized that following the first advance across German trenches wrecked by artillery the British would encounter row after row of strong German defensive positions, Intact, and backed up by large forces of reserves hurriedly rushed Into action. j The headquarters' reports this af ternoon announcing that British artil lery Is conducting a terrific cannon ading of Thlepval, northeast of Al bert, Is evidence that General Halg is preparing the way for another In jfaptry; attack by blasting in German works. The next British rush may .be delayed many hours, until tha artillery has completed Its work. HURT 1FBI The German Trccps fcrld Back cn a Wide Fret, &i Piiscntrs a:d Gs Are Captered l AEisd Arc? 'j s' A - . '. Pari, July 3. In brilliant attack. that .threw the German back oa a wide front, French troops last night captured the village of. Herbeconrt, advancing to within five miles of the . heart of Peronne, one of the imme diate, objectives of the allied offen- slve. , ". . .. . The advance waa made oa a five kilometer front (about three miles). The French swept forward from tha Mlreaucourt wood, near the Somme, to a point west of the village of Asee villerea. . The combat south of tha Somme were favorable to the French, the war office stated today. During Sunday evening and Sunday night the French artillery occupied oa a' five kilometer front the .two aecoad position German trenches between Mlreaucourt wood and up to . Aase- . vllleres. Between these two point during the course of a brilliant en counter the Frenchcarrled Herbe-. court TUla'ge.'"fr''''if .'Tmjm' rr'.T"v Toward Awre, In the region of -Dancourt, the Deslogea wood wa cleared of the enemy by French grea- ade reconnaissance. '; V "North of the Somme there were no German attacks during the night on our newly gained positions.' The official statement indicated that of about 35,000 German' troops defending the sector of front near Peronne nearly 31.000, forming 31 battalions, suffered heavy losses and were badly disorganised. ' South of Assevllleres the French ' made further progress, spreading their advance on the south bank of the Somme to the village of Entren, j seven miles southwest of Peronne. I ."North of Estres village the French .made important gains, capturing some prisoners and guns," said the 'official statement. 'Information now ' at hand shows that 39 'German battalions took part jin the defense ,of the newly carried positions.. Thirty-one of these bat talions, having sustained the heaviest losses, are completely disorganized. Most of the prisoners captured by our forces on Saturday and Sunday (Continued oa page 3) BOY TO BE SOLDIER Portland, July 8. Mothers of high school boys who went to the Mexican border with the Oregon militia will hold an Indignation meeting today. They want to know why instructors urged the youths to enlist In the mill tla and did not enlist themselves. Mrs. Jf U May, wife of Lieutenant Colonel J. L. May of the Third Oregon Infantry, will preside over the la ' dlgnatlon meeting. I Many boys from Jefferson high school enlisted and were assigned in a body to the machine gun corps of the Third regiment Samuel May. track and field coach, and Frank Man gold, a teacher at Jefferson high, urged the lads to go In for military training. The mothers allego that Mangold and May, learning that they could not secure the training without formally, enlisting In the militia, did not enlist themselves after the boy had Joined. ' " 1 Because the boys were subject to call, May and Mangold even tried to secure discharges for some of them. NOT E