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sAm DAILY EDITION 1 if- -'. 9 VOL. VI., No. MS. r,ltNTH PASS, JOHEPMNE C0UN1Y, OIIEOO.V, TVESDAT, A1018T 1, 1 , . No Otlicr Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. PEARS BRING $1.65 PER BOX F.ri.n. Market Starts Off With a Rush, and the Grants Pass Growers Make First Sale at Most Satisfactory Price Dartlett pear at $1.60 per box 1. o. b. Grants Pass la the way the market ha opened in ' the Rogue Tiver valley. A telegraphic order for two cart or 5-tlcr fancy Bartletta at that price was accepted by the Orants Pass Fruit association today, the -order to ho filled by the Uth of August. Thla la a moat excellent quotation for the opening of the sea on, and la the cause of much gratl 'flratlon anionic the orcbardtata. Pick ing will commence next week, and thla order, the first to be accepted, will he filled at once. The pears hare keen growing nicely the past week, and the fruit waa never more uni form and handsome than at present. "While the order accepted calli only tor fancy atock, It la expected that the bulk of the local crop will be extra fancy, commanding even a higher figure than 11.65. Thla first sale la wade to the Northwestern Fruit ex change and It la not yet known what the destination of the cant will toe. The local fruit will be packed out under a eperlal label, and the asso elation will maintain the excellence tf thla pack. No pcara that are off in any respect will be packed out. Aa only the mature peara are picked from the tree at a time, and pipings are continued aa the fruit becomes mature, thla grading ran largely bo accomplished In the orchard. auuxy run rmowxs IV THE CAMPOOIA Albany, Ore., Aug. 1. Caught In the swift current of Callpoola river back, of the Masonic cemetery here. George Daggett, 13 years old. waa wept to death today while hl boy companions watched In helpless hor ror. His body has not been found. The boya were hunting hazelnuts and decided to toko a plunge. Daggett was first In and was Immediately car ried away. Ralph Roley, aged 13 years, ran for help. Divers searched the stream thoroughly but have aa yot found no trace of the corpse. txrrrY lives ixxst IN WRECKED 8TEAMKK Santiago, Chile, Aug. 1. The Chilean steamer Ecuador waa wreck ed near Coronei today. Forty per 'ons were drowned. ALLEGIANCE TO MEXICO REQUIRED El Paso, Aug. 1. Foreigners do airing to form stock companies for the purpose of exploring or exploit ing Mexican oil fields must renounce their nationality and swear allegl- '.anee to Mexico. This woe the sub stance of a mossage received here to day from the ministry of Justice In ..Mexico City. Another official report stated that the Mexican government recently pur chased $1,500,000 gold to coin twenty peso pieces and that a new monetary system had been devised to raise Carranxa paper money to the standard desired. Following the military funeral for i John Twomey, killed In yesterday's "'clash with Mexican bandits below Fort Hancock, . the body was to be shipped to his mother In Madison, N. J. . W. MURRAY CRANE. Ca-Mattaehuaatts Senator Notts! Advocate of republican Harmony. 4 IE III Fill II IM TO San Francisco, Aug. 1. Prepared to submit the letter filet kept by Thomas J. Mooney, one of the sus pects in the suit' oase dynamiting caae, District Attorney Flckert will go before the grand Jury tonight and ask the Indictment of Mooney, his wife, Warren Killings, Edward Nolan and Israel Weinberg on charges of murder. Thla announcement waa made by the district attorney today after a careful examination of the letter taken in a visit by the police to the home of Mooney's sister. According to Flckert and Captain Matheaon, of the bomb squad, the letters reveal the plana of the alleged plot. One letter la said to have Indicated that some man In the east, whose name detectives will not reveal, had given Mooney certain sums of money, evidently to further bis plans. An other la declared to have been ad dressed to two men, former associates of Mooney, asking them If they would be "foot loose for a couple of weekaT" Newspaper cuttings refer ring to the recent Martinet and Car olines dynamiting! were Included in .the evidence. I Flckert said that In one letter Mooney aald hla vlewa were "becora I Ing more radical," while In a letter to Billings he urged the latter "above all things, keep your mouth shut." I The most Important additional de velopment during the past 24 hours was the positive ldentl float Ion of Israel Welnburg'a Jitney bus' as the machine which stood in front of 721 Market street, while Billings, Mooney and Mrs. Mooney were there ehortly before the explosion which cost nine lives. j , The dlstrlot attorney says he also has located a Jeweler In Oakland who I declares he sold to Billings four alarm docks like the one found In an unexploded bomb picked up tn San Mateo county recently. KANSAS IS HOLDING PltlMAKY ELNCTIOX TODAY Topeka, Kas., Aug. 1. Today's primary election promised to be the quietest Kansas has known In years. In spite of at cool wave prediction, the vote was, expected to be light. Of the state officials who left Topeka yesterday to vote with the home folks not a one arranged for a telegraphic report of results. , Governor Capper .republican can didate to succeed himself, has no op poHltlon. On the democratic side of the city Ben 9. Galteklll, of Glrnrd, and V, C. .Laivfison, of BatlmV lire after tlie nomination, r V El Gil I BENEATH WAVES FOR H0PJ1E Submarine Freighter Left Her This Afternoon on the Return Trip to Germany With Cargo of Nickle and Rubber, the Vessel Being Piloted Out by Same Pilot Who Was Aboard on Her Entry Baltimore, Aug. 1. With the Ger man flag flying at her stern and Cap tain Koenlg and Ills sailors on deck, the Deutschland. In tow of the Tlra mona .left ber dock at 6:33 p, m. to day on her return voyage to Ger many. She received a royal send-off from the hundreds of motor boats, tugs and other craft in the harbor. Her escort consisted of the launch Efco, the government tug Wlssa- hlckon and the police boat Lannan. Baltimore, Aug. 1. Germany's first submarine freighter, the Deutschland, left her Patapsco river berth this afternoon en route home. Flanked by vessels to guide her, she turned her nose toward the Vir ginia capes, where' she may await further before dashing to sea. The channel for a hundred yards or more had been dragged lest the submarine come to grief from hidden mines. The managers apparently feared that some of the passing allied Biiii nnu inruwn eucn macnines over board, but the search showed 'nothing. ' , ( During the forenoon harbor' tugs,' 'revenue and pojlce boats had swarm jed near the Deutschland pier; they were to watch for any vessels that I might "accidentally" ram her. At B p. m. two government tugs ES' New York, Aug. 1. Charles Evans Hughes' "keynote" for the coming campaign pleased all republicans to day. Party chiefs who assembled to hear the former Justice- formally ac cept tho nomination last night were unanimous today In praising the striking sentences with which the can didate outlined the IssueB on which the O. O. P. Is to start eviction pro ceedings against Woodrow Wilson and the democratic majority In the senate and house. The fact that 4,000 men and wo men eat for nearly three hours In sweltering, slszllng heat to hear the nominee 'break another one of his famous silences in the meeting at Carnegie hall was looked upon by I republicans today as auguring well for success In November. Moreover, the same sticky, sweating auditors had enough enthusiasm left at the end of that session In the close air of the hall to cheer Hughes vocifer ously. They would have liked to have heard something from Roosevelt, but the former moose, playing "second fiddle" t a political gathering for the first time tn a great many years, hustled out of the hall. 'Hughes' speech pleased today be cause, tn the view of his friends, he supported his harmony plea with a selection of the issues for the cam paign which combine vlewa of re publican standpatters, republican lib erals and progressives. The "old liners" were pleased with a ringing protection declaration on the tariff; the liberals with the labor, conservation and Administration's ef ficiency sections In his upbraiding of the Wilson administration, and the bull moosers with the "Americanism" .creed,. tho preparedness platform and the Mexican dlscusslqn. Republicans and democrats alike today were convinced that Hughes' prtnolpnl Issue In his fight against DEUM Dock at Baltimore Late took positions on either aide of the Deutschland and arrangements were made to give the boat a safe de parture from American waters. The tug Tlmmons, which has been the guardian angel or tho Deutsch land, drew In closer to the submar ine, vne or tne barges that had maintained a screen lor the sub marine waa moved out of the way. ; The large number of motor boats bove to, crowded to the gunwales with sightseers, but the vigilance of the police boata and the government cutter kept them at a safe distance. , BatjUraore. Aog, 1. Owen Cole man, the pilot who brought the sub marine freighter Deutschland safely Into port, will take her out again. Plana of the promoters call for him to pilot her down the bay before night. This was learned authorita tively early today, and It was under stood that Coleman was then at the dock where the Deutschland and the tug Tlmmons He. , : Shortly after the Information con cerning the pilot became known, the tug .T4mmons and the smaller launch Efco started out toward mid-channel, carrying a drag, apparently to pick op any mines or obstructions. Everything was ready for the get- (Contlnued on page 2) Wllnon will be the Mexican situation. The second line offensive will be the 'bombardment along the lines of "adequate" preparedness and the tariff. Nearly eight years ago Hughes ac cepted the gubernatorial nomination In Madison Square garden. At that time and tn the campaign which fol lowed, he was adjudged one of the best campaigners New York had ever seen. Considerably grayer of beard and more bald last night than on that other night of acceptance, Hughes ex hibited no diminution of vigor In hla stumping ability, in the opinion of those who knew him In other days. On his transcontinental trip, start ing Saturday, his supporters expect him to give the country a sample of the sort of campaigning that made him famous tn the gubernatorial raoe. Following is a. symposium of edi torial comment on the acceptance speech of Justice Hughes In New York last night: . New York Tribune One clear note runs through the whole of Mr. Hughes' speech. It is a challenge of lnoapaotty, an indictment of failure. It is rightly an Indictment of Wilson's scattering point of view. 'But it woul be Idle to pretend that portion of the address which deals with the Lusl- faille, massacre is satisfactory to the Tribune. New York Times 'Little that Is new appears In the speech. It will be remembered he wishes to make the Mexican question the burning Issue so that citizens accused of hyphenlsatton 'may have an opportunity to show their patriotism. New York World Mr. Hughes' speech) of. acceptance la public Con fesBlon of a candidate who is without an Issue and without a policy, His policy Is to be one of firmness. But what form is firmness going to takef War? Intervention? SENATOR THOMAS. Wants Suprtm Court Juatieee Barred From Nomination. Washington, Aug. 1. Germany has refused to agree to England's terms tor Polish relief. The answer to Eng land and to the circular note' of the state 4partmant qt July ,7, erea- ing tne nope for a Polish agreement, was cabled from Berlin by Ambassa dor Gerard and given out by the state department today. , Germany places the blame for the food scarcity In Poland on the Rus sian army, which Germany claims de stroyed or confiscated all the food stuffs in Its retreat The note eaid the Germanovern ment had offered all the guarantees regarding Polish relief which were consistent with the requirements of war and that It Is England's fault that the American relief waa required several months ago, as it was in northern France. j As October 1 was the date set for jthe end of any relief agreement made, the note said further negotia tions are devoid of purpose. How ever. Germany claims that the com ing harvest, due to extensive culti vation, will furnish enough food for the civil population of Poland and tmthanla, although some hardship win be felt until the harvest CANADIAN FIRE TAKES HEAVY TOLL Halleybury, Ontario, Aug. 1. As scores of dead in the Are-swept dis trict between Ramore and Cochrane were burled in deep trenches today there was every indication that the toll of life taken by the devastating forest lire never will be known. It Is believed that more than 500 were lost in the forest fire which swept hundreds of square miles in northern Ontario. . Identification waa Impossible as the flames ate up every Identifying mark. Refugees who escaped have been un able to tell how their neighbors fared. The survivors found were' pitifully few. The first train bringing sur vivors carried but forty-seven, of whom three women and 17 men were horribly burned.' v Whole settlements were wiped out Relief workers sent back reports of eight survivors In a village of S08, of 57 bodies ind In a single railway out, 16 f.ad In a pit, 24 found tn one house and of 130 bodies burled In the course of a single morning. For every' "body found along the railway a dozen may be seen lying dead under the ashes of northern Ontario; was the word sent hack by the rescuers. FLOODS FAIL TOSTOPTHE RUSSIANS Slay Hosts Coztbe to Ad vance Against the German Positions to North cfKcvel on the Stocklcd River Petrograd, Aug. 1. Hash swamps, flood fields and barbed wire entanglements, partly submerged have failed to stop the Russian ad vance across the Btockhod river north of KoveL German positions which the Teuton commanders spent months in perfecting are crumbling before the Russian advance. General Kaledine's force have ae gollated the difficult marshes of ta Stockhod, and General Sakharoff's division Is forcing ' the Austrian troops under General Ton Boehm Ermolli westward from Brody. , Between Kovel and Brody Is "kink" In the line. Military authori ties estimate the Teutonic army most retire from this angle If the Russian advance on both sides continues or ftliiA ran fha rtlr nf havln Urn flanV turned . , v t , Judging from tttle front ; dis patches today, the floods on , the Dnelster river have subsided some what; 'permitting General Letchitsky to press forward with greater rapid- Austrian big guns are bombarding Brody in counter-attack, but It is -unofficially stated the fire fs waning. Petrograd, Aug. 1. Continued pursuit of the Turkish forces toward Mos8ul was announced In the war office statement today. Petrograd, Aug. 1.- Charging through marshy lands, some times vatst deep In water, Russian forest drove "back the Teutonic line from the Dnelster river to Kroprieti, and. etsewhere along the eastern front have pressed the Germans and Aos trians hard, according to today's war office statement. . . . v Heavy counter-attacks from Kovel and Lutsk . .were repulsed after the Russians had attacked in the region of Tchekhuv and Dubeneka. Crossing the Dnelster toward Koropleta waa ac complished despite destruction of bridges by retreating Germans, the czar's troops wading across, reaching the west bank of the swollen stream and taking 1,000 of the enemy pris oners. . i : The German line was again bent backward in the bend of the Stock- hod In the region of VelicU and Kuchary. , ZEPPELINS RAID ENGLISH COAST London, Aug. 1. Probably' one of the Zeppelins engaged in the raid on. the eastern counties was bagged, the- war office thought today. ' The raider was engaged by British aircraft and bombarded by anti-aircraft guns. Later It was seen to drop-to a low altitude and disappear In the mist off shore. ' The number of dirigibles engaged In the raid was not announced. A number of explosive bombs were drop ped in a score or more places and the Zeppelins apparently cruised over halt a dozen or more counties, drop ping bombs at several places of no military Importance. . ' , ' The Zeppelins flew at a great height, and It was extremely difficult to determine their exact number, the war office said, but there were at least six. The bombs which they dropped 'fell in thinly Inhabited districts;