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DAILY EDITION TOL. Vf., No. 2tH. fillANTB PASS, JOSEPHINE COl'NTY, OREGON, til NDAV, JVLY , 1010. WHOLE NUMBER 1192. Nrn Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass lias a Paper With Full Leased Wi re Telegraph Service. , . . y"f() ' - ' 3 IB IMS CAPTURED BY BANDITS Mexicans Who Crossed Bor der Are Reported to Have Carried Away Trio, Though 14 Invaders Were Killed El Pmo. July I, Three American are reported to have been captured and carried Into Mexico by Mexican bandits who Invaded the United State In the lllg Bend country of Texaa today and attacked the prop erties of the Puerto TtUo Mlnlnc company. The American employe!, with rifles, for a time .stood off the bandlta from a mine shed, but were forced to retreat to the foothills. Three are reported to have been cap tured by the raider. Tom Perrln telephoned from his Anapra, N. M., ranch thla afternoon, claiming he and two employe killed fourteen Mexican out of a party of 40 which croed the Wrier and -drove off half a hundred head of Perrln' cattle. 8U11 a third raid, In which Car ranslstas are aald to have co-operated -with th bandlta, waa reported to nave taken pave at Terllugua, Texa. Whether company . K, Texas mllltla, which waa itatloued at Terllngua. nned the bandlta la not, known "tor m The raider at the Puerto Rico mining place are aald to have set fire to some of the building. El Paso, July Fighting till I In progreu near Baca, midway be tween Jlmlnet and Parral, between a Vlllleta column under fleneral Co treraa and a Carranta force. Three thousand men are engaged on both aide, the CarrantUtaa attempting to check Vllla'a advance on Parral. Omclal announcement of the battle wan made by General Franclco Gon sale, commander at Juarei, aero the river, thl afternoon. Marathon, Texa, July R.Two truck driver, held up by Mexican near Boqnlllas, escaped from the ban dit and hid In the brush, according to report received here today. Their fate I unknown, athey have failed to report at Cable, to which place they were en route from the Del Carmen mine. Kl Paso, July . American truck drivers, employes of the International Mining company, were attacked by Carranxa soldiers near Pnqullln, Mex., but escaped unhurt to the American aide of the bordor, accord ing to a mossago the local office of the mining company received this afternoon, The American returned the fire and retained a truck load of 'bullion they were hauling to the "border. M FFKAGW ASSOCIATION THREATENS MILITANCY New York, July 8. PoBslblllty -that the National American Woman Suffrage association may t decide to become militant was hinted In a state ment Issued today hy Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president. The asso ciation meet nt Atlantic City Sep tember 6 for Its annual convention, Mrs. Catt Intimated that a grent ecntlmont ha developed In favor of carrying on a national political fight for the passage of the Susan II. Anthony amendment or for a federal amendment permitting women to vote, possibly abandoning all other -suffrage movements. A few years ago the association, which always has been known as con servative, broke with the Congres sional union bora use of the latter' militancy la fighting solely for a fed eral amendment. GEN. JACINTO TREYINO. Carrenia Cemmandee Who Ordered Perching Out ef Men lee. San Francisco, July 8. California progressive were urged to aet col lectively In both the democratic and republican pertio by Governor Hiram W. Johnson, In a apeecb at th pro grelf state- conference here tbll afternoon. The governor declared thit It pro gressive did not act In concert, their legislation, won while the party was In power here, might be lout. He aald that while the progressive na tional party ha ceased to exist, pro gresslvelsm Mill live, and that pro gressives will keep fighting until both the old parties are Imbued with their principle. Johnson left the former bull moose adherents to deride for themselves which candidate ilfughes or Wilson to support. He said he would en large on hi personal reasons for up holding Hughes later on. In conclusion, the governor re viewed hi work In office and said be always had done his best in spite of attacks of hla enemies and efforts of "millionaire newspaper owners" and politicians to sway him. The approval of the plain people, he asserted, meant more to him than the advocacy of all the "millionaire newspaper owner," GERMAN TRADE SHIPS ATTACKED Merlin, via Sayvllle, July 8. A submerged enemy submarine attack ed without warning nine peaceful l German trade ships en route to jSwInemunde, July a, but the Ger ,man ships had a lucky escape, said an official statement from the admlr j ally. Tha attack occurred south of 'the iHlnnd of Oeland. j "The torpedo wake was clearly ob served; also two strong whirlpool caused by the firing of the torpedo," snld the statement, Happily the torpedo passed between two ships. Armed patrol boat Immediately went In pursuit of the submarine." A special dispatch from Berlin to day reported indication that Ger many was preparing a record of sub marine attacks on German merchant vessels, possibly with a view to pre senting them to neutral power as a forerunner of the resumption of sub marine activities. T'nltod Press dis patches from Berlin two weeks ago brought the first word or the renewal of agitation In Germany for a re vival of the von Tlrplts policy of submarining. t ,v. "-Vvj - ; If1 f f " ' ,i GOV. HI lOHtlSDN II SUPPORT GIF. Ill IK INCREASE PRiCE F 1911 CROP OF BEETS Bishop C. W. Nibley, of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, in the City From Salt Lake Yesterday, Announced a Voluntary and Unsolicited Raise in Schedule, With a Sliding Scale, That Will Swell Profits of the Farmers Bishop C. W. Nibley, head of the great sugar making companies of Utah and other western states, ar rived In Grants Pass from Salt Lake City Saturday morning, accompanied by his two sons, Merrill and Carlyle Nibley, and haa spent the day In looking over the valley. On their arrival here the gentlemen were met by Alex Nibley, manager of the local factory of the Utah-Idaho company. and by Dr. Nibley, and the four sons and the father made a comfortable auto load that held a family reunion as It toured over the Rogue valley highways. The first act of the bishop aa he stepped from the train, and before he had left the depot grounds, was to authorise the Courier to announce a material Increase In the price which the company would pay for beets next season, the Increase being a voluntary one, made possible because of the advances In the price of sugar. The contracts entered Into between the sugar company and the growers estab lished a price of $5 per ton for beets giving IS per cent of sugar. These were for period of five years bat when Manager Cwtier wa here re cently he modified this by reducing the sugar content required under the flat price to 1 1 per cent. Now comes the new proposition of Bishop Nib ley which makes a radical Increase In the price to be paid the grower for beets grown next season, the min imum being raised from 15 to $5.50 SUPER-OFFENSIVE OF THE ALLIED S London, July 8. The super-offensive of the allied armies entere , its second week today with the allies everywhere attacking and maintain ing their early gains at practically every point, despite heavy enemy counter-attacks. A heavy downpour of rain through out yesterday afternoon converted the battle ground on both side of the Soiume Into a great Bea of mud last night and seriously hampered opera tions. Despite this handicap, the French warbfflpe today claimed slight further progress south of the Somme with the taking of 400 prisoners. The British troops north of the Somme, after scoring auccesses against tho Germans In yesterday's fighting, contented themselves last night with Improving their positions. The fighting at the village of Con talmalson reached a deadlock during the night with the British holding the western and the Germans the eastern part of the ruined town. No official estimates of either the German or British losses hove been made by the war office since the of fensive began at 7: SO last Saturday morning, July 1, but the , Germans are unofficially reported to have lost from 30,000 to 40,000 In killed and wounded besides nearly 20,000 taken prlaonora by the British and French. Special despatches from Paris today report that 6,000 Prussian Guards men, the flower of the kaiser's army, were killed In the early days of the fighting, but this may be an exag geration. General Hatg reported that In the last tew days the 'British have cap tured twenty guns, fit machine guns, numerous automatlo rifles, trench mortars, mine throwers and "other war material. ' ' ' HITEJ per, ton for beets giving from 12 to 15 per cent of sugar, while a further concession is the agreement to add 10 cents per ton for each one-half per cent of sugar over 15. In other words, a eliding scale Is established tbat makes beets of 16 per cent sugar content worth $5.70 to the grower, with Increases for each half per cent Beets that will analyze 20 per cent In sugar will return the grower 16.50 per ton. These prices are for the beets at the factory or on board cars at shipping point, except where spe cial arrangementa have been neces sary because of extra long auto or rail haul. After a brief visit to the factory which Is now in process of building In South Grants Pass, Bishop Nibley, ac companied by his four sons and by P. S. Bramwell, field superintendent for the company, left for the upper part of the valley, going by way of Sara's valley, where they Inspected the fields of beets growing; In that district. They later returned from Medford by way of the Applegate val ley west of s Grants Pass. t Merrill NlbUr, who Is assistant general man ager of the Utah-Idaho 'Sugar com pany, with Its 16 factories, will re main In the city for a day or two, hut Bishop Nibley left last evening on his return to Salt Lake City. At the factory site the visitors found a scene of activity. The lesser (Continued on Page Five.) r The operation on the Russian front where the Slav offensive con tinues to spread and develop in power, are being watched with the greatest interest here. London mili tary critics are certain that the re tirement of General von Bothmer's army under Russian pressure In east ern Gal Ida, Is now but a matter of On the other hand, wild rumors that the Austro-Germans have begun a general retreat from Riga to south eastern Gallcla are discredited by all reliable news sources and are not borne out In official despatches from Petrograd. London has blg't hopes for the success of the new Slav offen sive, but does not entertain the be lief that General von Hindenburg's line can be smashed with the same ease as was General Pflanr.er's In Bukovlna, General Halg's report this after noon announced minor engagements on the British .front extending north ward from Ancre brok. At Gommencourt. the icene of heavy fighting at the opening of the allied drive, British field guns and trench mortars bombarded German trenches last night. Near Neuvllle .St. Vaast, north of Arras and north of Rocllncourt the Germans were ac tive yesterday and last night. They .exploded a mine northenct of Neu vllle without causing any damage and exploded craters near the Hohensoll (ern redoubt with no advantage, j Northeast of Hulluch a British ' mine destroyed an enemy gallery, i British aeroplanes, gsve valuable service yesterday despite the unfav orable weather. They aided In Im portant reconnaissance work and wrecked an enemy hangar, besides doing other material damage. P 1 WEEK WILLIAM E. BORAH. Senator Prom Idaho Will Campaign Per Hughe. Photo by American Preaa AawcUUloav Bill" CUT DFF BY SUVS Petrograd, July 8. An Austrian i is force, estimated at between 20,000 July 8. Austrian troops have retreat and 30,000, has been cut oft by the ed from their advanced lines la tha . Russians southwest of Kolomea. The bend of the river Styr in Volhynla. be-: Austrian were massed east of the fore greatly superior Russian forces, railway leading southward through said an official. statement from the Jablonlts pass. , The-aud4en,--4aahAnstr1an war office, received er tor of a Russian Intattry ' body ' that' day. , -" X : selxed the railway station of Mikln-1 ' Iczyn, cut off their retreat to the J " Petrograd. July 8. Russian troops south. The right wing of .the same have captured the villages of DoK Russian army advancing westward Jltia, Meruxlatin and Maneritcht, In upon Nadvorna severed their commu-'ithe region of Kolkl, In hot bayonet nlcatlon with the Austrian forces to fighting, the war office announced to the north. " 'day. ' The latest reports to the war of fice said tbat Russian troops were ittemntlnr to soueesA ihp Anfrtrlana against the foothills of the eastern j Carpathians and effect their capture before they can escape through the. mountain passes. j Russian aeroplane scouts report the withdrawal of enemy ; heavy artll-1 lery on the right wing of General von Bothmer's Austro-Oeraan amp. There are other Indications that von Bdthmer hard pressed by the Rus. slans advancing on Nadvorna .nd Stanlslan. is preparing to fall back on the whole Oallclan frontier. Prom the Volhyntan battle ground northward, the Germans continue a ninRr ntnhhnrn defense On the Rta- Dvinsk front in the fighting around Sokul. where the Russians have made further progress, the. Germans are counter-attacking with treat vigor. , j j Yljnnnirn 1 1 U II H I L U OVER ALLIED GAINS! London, newspapers July 8. The London printed several dls- patches from Holland and Denmark today indicating Increased public anxiety In Germany on account of the western and eastern offensives of the allies. The kaiser, one English corres pondent reported, Is traveling from front to front, conferring with his generals, each advising against the reduction of his forces for the benefit of others. Another correspondent wired that the crown prince Is being blamed for persisting In the Verdun offensive while his forces are urgently needed In the Somme. Military circles In Germany, he reported, are discon tented because of Austria's weakness. To complete the picture of pess imism, several English correspond ents agreed that the food situation In Germany Is growing more serious. The Frankfurter Zeltung was quoted as saying that the great fight for vic tory or defeat has onty begun.1 GERMAN RETREAT OF AUSTRIAUS CONTINUES Russians Maintain Their Great Drive Against the Cedral Powers, ad Capture Vil lages acJ Prisoners Petrograd, July - 8. Capture of 1,009 additional prisoners and occu pation of the villages of Letchinevka, Griva and Grevoror was announced by the war office this afternoon. "North of the lower Llpa an Aus trian offensive waa repulsed. In Ga llcla east of Monosterwlska and Koro peti, the Russians continue to presn back the enemy's lines." - , London, July 8. Large number of Austrian troops who were cut off bp the Russian advance Into Bokovlna have crossed Into Roumanla, with arms and equipment, and are Being Interned at Dobruja, the Rome or respondent of the Dally Telegraph re ports. Berlin, via Wireless to BayvUle. East of Baronvitchl the German (Continued on Page 4.) IIOSETTLEHlE OF STRIKE III VIEW Virginia, Minn., July 8. Five thousand striking iron ore miners at Aurora, Blwabik, Mesaba. McKlnley, 2l!)a' Gllbert' Geno' ETeletn. V!p ,ma """ Nwnwau:. momng nd Chrlsholm today seemed little nearer "option of their strike than 0M monh ago. when the differences ,hat h,ve cu8ed defttn nd ,four -. juries started. Practically ev" underground property in the n rn ore range is ciosea. open pits are working a tew men wltn steam shovels, but the majority of mining on the range Is underground. County Attorney Warren Green to- ;un. gam nc wuma cnarge aguaiors or the strike that resulted In the killing on the range with first degree mur der. ; Picketing continued today, with hundreds of miners keeDlnar watch. but without riots. All the vast ter- rltory affected is In one county. The sheriff has 1,000 armed deputies, who fairly well control the situation. Elltabeth Gurley Flynn and other labor leaders. "Big Bill" Haywood and other I. W. W. leaders from Chi cago are expected on the range today. Sheriff Metnlng asked that they not come. The absence of any agitators and the disarmament of all except his 1,000 deputies, he said today, prob ably would solve the difficulties. Miners today asked for a confer ence with operators. They claim they are willing to submit arbitration to a board. Practically every strike leader was in jail at Dultith today. The kitchen and rear of the home of Tom Koblach, a miner who did not ' quit work, was blown away by dyna mite at S a. m. today. Angela Men ana, (Italian striker, was arrestee! on suspicion this afternoon. Kobtach and . hla ' family narrowly escaped death. ' 6 1 J I J