DAILY EDITION
VOL, VI., No. 270.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1910.
WHOLE NUMBER 1814.
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Xo .i Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service.
P
KILLS 25
Many Homes Are Washed
Away by Waters and Be
sides the Persons Known
Dead, 14 Are
Mtddleaboro, Ky., Aug. . Twenty
five persons were drowned and four
tn otheft are missing the result
of cloudburst la .Barren valloy, Clai
borne county, Tennessee, tod sr.
The dead:
Bob Johnson and wife,
Buck Pergsson, wire and seven
children.
W. P. Zschary, wife and Bra chil
dren. Mrs. D. C. Edmonds, four children
and two grandchildren.
Llllle and Minnie "Wiley, dau in
ters of S. H. Wiley, of Monroe. Mich.,
who were on a visit.
Few of the Sbodlee hare been re
covered, rescue parties waiting until
the flood recedca.
Blair's creek beoame swollen from
a, rain starting at I p. m. yeaterday
nd following a cloudburst at 3 a. tn.
awept everything before It. Nearly
every house within an area of six
miles by one mile was washed away.
About 160 persons lived (n homes
bordering the stream.
V, S. SENATORS CONDEMN
EXECUTION OF CASEMENT
Washington, Aug. 3. "We expect
barbarism from barbarians," declared
Senator Marti ne today, excoriating
Great 'Britain for Its execution of
Roger Casement.
Senator Phelan of California de
clared Casement had done nothing to
condemn him In the eye of the world
and that the refusal of the crown to
reprlove him had been a serious
blunder.
Mexico City, Aug. 3. The Mexican
government today formally appointed
the following aa members of the
Joint commission, which under the
recent Interchange of notes with Pre
sident Wilson Is to meet with Ameri
can representative to adjust the bor
der situation:
Louis Cabrera, president; Ignarlo
Bonlllas and Alberto Panl.. .
As secretary of the commission,
Juan B. Rojo waa named. The party
will start, for the United States as
soon as possible.' Meeting place of
the Joint commissioners will 'be se
lected by them.
RACE WAR DISTURBS
' CITIZENS OP DALLAS
. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 3. The home
of Wm. Connor, a negro, who moved
Into a "restricted" portion of Deere
park, a suburb, was 'badly damaged
by a gunpowder bomb early "today.
Mrs. Connor and her two-children,
who were sleeping In the opposite
room, were unhurt. Connor disap
peared about a week ago, after re
' peated threats from white residents
of the neighborhood. Another negro
who had njoved Into the house occu
pied 'by the Connors was driven away
after a mob threatened him one night.
Although a segregation ordinance was
. passed recently, the police are power
less to hforre It until Its legality
' has !bcn ruled on by the courts.; ;
T. Wallace has returned to his
mine on. Coyote creek,
MEXICO
NAMES
COMMISSIONERS
SLAVS mm
KOVEL-LEMBERG
IWLIIIE
Pctrograd, Aug. 3. The battering
ol Teuton defenses along the Kovel-
Lemberg line showed no signs of
abatement today. Unofficial dispatches
from the front said the Russian
forces were mixing infantry attacks
with heavy artillery, bombardment in
a series of battle at various points.
German counter-attacks in rapid suc
rerrlon are being launched against
th Muscovite columns, ao fat with
out auccesa, except temporarily halt
ing the forward movement of the
Ruaslans.
Press dispatches today said Gen
eral Kaledlne was less than a dosen
mllea from Kovel and continuing his
advance. He Is threatening hourly to
take the , Kovel-Lemberg railway,
spreading still wider the Russian
wedge between the German and Aus
trian forces. This earn wedge threat
ens a turning of the flanks of the
two Teutonic armies.
Marshy terrain Is hampering the
Russian attacks lightly, but the
cur's forces ar so confident of early
victory, and ao encouraged by the
success which has so far attended
their drive, that they are disdainful
of natural obstructions.
T
TRAVEL BY AUTO
" Salem, Aug. 3. Officers believed
this afternoon that the six convicts
who escaped from the atate prison
camp yesterday have stolen the auto
mobile of A. Langley, at 8llverton,
and loaded it with a week's provi
sions. They are alab thought to have
obtained arms and to be seeking aome
hiding place where desperate resist
ance may be offered pursuers.
"MOONSHINE" WHISKEY
SEIZED IVOKLAHOMA
Durant. Okla., Aug. 3. Revenue
officers and deputy sherilfa seised
1,500 gallons of "moonshine"
whiskey tn raids on two stills near
here. Eight hundred gallons were
confiscated frqm a still located three
miles east of Swlnk. The remainder
was taken from a still 12 miles north
of Fort Towson. Each still was of
50 gallons capacity.
John Adams, Prank Stevena'and
John Stevens were arrested tn con
nection with the Swlnk still raid. The
two former pleaded guilty of violation
of the revenue laws when arraigned
before Federal Commissioner Shafer
at Hugo. The latter i pleaded not
guilty. All three were held to action
by the federal grand Jury in October.
EXPECTS CONGRESS TO
ADJOl'RN SEPT. 1ST,
Washington. Aug. 3. After a con
ference with President Wilson to
day, Senator Lewis predicted ad
journment of congress between Sep
tember 1 and 5.
FRISCO MERCHANTS
Ifl RflAlT
San Francisco, . Aug. 3.-Several
hundred merchants, representing the
San Francisco' chamber of commerce,
will participate In the wholesale trade
excursion 10 yoos uay ana nguiimiu
Oregon during the present month.
A special train bearing them will
leave here Aiigunt 19, and between
that date ' and 'AugiiBt 27 they will
visit JPiitrnn rtlf ttrahAnlfl Vnpth Rnnil.
Coqullle)' BprVigfleld, Cottage Grove,
Grants Pass, "'Medforjl and Ashland,
Ore. From Coqullle the merchants
will go to Dandon In a specially char
tered boil', wHlle the trip from Med
ford to Ashlaad will be made In nnto.
mobiles.
ESCAPED
cits
TOUR
HILL
BY BRITISH
Sir'Roger Casement Put to
Death for Activities in Re
cent Uprising" in Ireland
Against English Crown
London, 'Aug. 3. Roger Casement
paid the penalty for treason today
with his life. He was hanged at Pen-
tonvllle prison at 9:07 a. m. Ten
minutes later his body was cut down,
life being pronounced, extinct. The
Irish leader's last words, spoken
while be waited fearlessly for the
drop to be sprung, were:
"I die for my country."
The Rochdale barber, Ellis, the
prison's regular executioner, sprung
the drop after he had adjusted the
hempen noose not the silken oord
which the former knlgbt hsd hoped
up to a tew weeks ago would be
granted as his Instrument of death,
In accordance with the ancient British
privilege granted men of his title.
The banging waa witnessed only
by officials of the prison. A large
crowd waited outside the grim goal
and when the bell tolled announcing
the law's satisfaction, there were a
few cheers Intermixed with , groans,
Several Irish women, standing at the
rear of the Jail, attempted a demon
stration, led by an Irish member of
parliament, but were quickly hustled
off the scene by guards.
It waa said Casement went calmly
to bis death, led by a Catholic clergy
man, who ministered to him when he
retired last night for the last time
at 10:30, and when he arose early
today. The Irish leader haa only
been recently converted to Catholic
ism,
Two Catholic priests, Fathers Ring
(Continued on page 2)
OEUTSCHLAttD SAFELY PASSES TIE
. ALLIED PATROL OFF EAST COAST
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 8. Somewhere
in the direction of Germany, safely
past the allied warships' patrol, the
German submarine freighter Deutsch
land Is boring her way through the
Atlantic toward her home port of
Bremen. Reports coming Into Hamp
ton Roads indicate the pioneer sub
marine blockade runner' has not
poked her periscope above the water
since she, submerged near the Vir
ginia capes last night. At that time
the nearest British warship was five
miles distant, according to the tug
Thomas F. Tlmmons, which accom
panied the Deutschland aa far as the
capes, i .
Expectation of a thrilling chase and
perhaps some sort of a fight In con
nection with the Deutschland'a de
parture was disappointed. Folks on
shore saw nothing and sightseers who
filled 'big and little harbor craft saw
little more.
In the dark of" the night the
Deutschland slipped out to the boun
dary edge ot the United States terrl'
torlal waters, ducked under and dis
appeared. That was all.
From Cape Henry came the word
long after sunrise that no sign had
been seen -of ,the Deutschland. A
single disappointed British dog of war
lay off Cape Henry1 light, and not an
other vesael was In" sight.
Weather conditions favor the allied
patrol, however, not the Deutsch
land. The cape obscrvef reports a
clear sky nnd only a slight brcexe.
The submarine's actual submersion
was witnessed only by her pilot tug,
STRIKE
Action hy Government to
: Prevent Threatened Walk
out of Railroad Employes
Forecasted fa Appointment
Washington, Aug. 3. Probability
of early government participation In
an effort to prevent the threatened
railroad strike was seen this after
noon in the naming by President Wil
son of O. W. W. Hangar to be a
member of the United States board
of mediation and conciliation, filling
a vacancy that has existed two years.
Hangar formerly was an assistant
commissioner. ,
Washington. Aug. 3. President
Wilson today requested a conference
with Commissioner Chambers of the
United States board of mediation and
conciliation, presumably to discuss
the threatened strike of the "Big
Four" brotherhoods of railway men,
which' would cause a nation-wide tle
np of. transportation. '
Washington, Aug. '3. A problem
"tremendously dangerous in both its
economic and political aspects,' faces
President Wilson In the threatened
strike of 400,000 railroad trainmen,
according to administration circles to
day. , ;
The matter Is now directly before
the president In the form of a letter
from Chairman Wheeler of the rail
way committee of the United Stales
chamber of commerce. The letter
urges an Inquiry on behalf of the ad
ministration to Investigate the Im
pending crisis. Scores of informal
requests for action also have been re
reived. , .. ' ' .. 'K '
(Continued on page 3.)
the Tlmmons, and those aboard the
Tlmmons were not close enough to
be sure they had seen the dive made
until wave after wave ot the heavy
sea had come up and gone down
without the submarine's light again
showing.
The submersion was made about a
mtle-outslde the capes, the Tlmmons'
crew reported when they put into
Norfolk early today.
Captain Hlnseh, ot the interned
German liner Neckar, who was
aboand the Tlmmons, said the last act
of Captain Koenlg and his crew be
fore they went below was to 'give
three cheers for the United Spates and
the American people. This was as
they neared the capes. '
Then all disappeared from the upper
structure of the submarine, Captain
Koenlg toeing last to descend, shout-'
lng a farewell to Hlnseh aa he dis
appeared. ' ''
"That'a the last that will be seen
ot her. until she bobs up In Bremen,"
declared Hlnseh.
Captatn Culllson, of the Tlmmons,
would only say: "I'm glad she's
gone."
It was the most worrisome bit of
piloting Captain Culllson haa had to
handle In many a day." It is under
stood Captain Koenlg planned to
work his way along the coast, north
or south, after submerging, putting
Into some port If forced to do so by
the enemy patrol. He desired to
drive out Into the Atlautlo the mo
ment he was sure the patrol had been
avoided. '
! The United 9tate$ cruiser North
IS VOTE TO
GO TO HUGHES Oil
NOVEMBER 1TH
Denver, Aug. 3. One hundred
thousand dollars and the Influence
of the National Women's party will
be oast Into the balance in favor of
Charlea E. Hughes, and against Pre
sident Wilson, if the democrats fall
to pass the federal suffrage amend
ment at the present session of con-
gress.
Miss Anne Martin, chairman of the
women's party, stated to the United
Press here today:
"We must Judge the democratic
party on Its performance and the re
publican party on Its promises. Just
as we bold President Wilson to a
strict accountability for his suffrage
record, so we will hold Governor
Hughes to his promise of national
suffrage if he is elected.
"The leaders of the woman's party
are no ibebes In the woods. We real-
lie that politics and hope ot victory
may have had a great deal to do with
the change In Hnghes toward favor
ing national suffrage. But we have
not even a promise from the demo
crats. .. . ,''.."
"We have every confidence that as
a leader of his party Hughes . will
keen his word. , The party that se
cures the political freedom ot all wo
men will Inevitably win the undying
loyalty and adherence of the women
voters. Will the democrats give this
great opportunity to the republican
party!" . . a :
Miss Martin Is directing efforts to
raise a f 109,000 campaign rand for
the women's, party.' Anticipating no
satisfactory action from the demo
crats, Miss Martin stated that plans
have been practically completed for
a vigorous campaign by the women's
party In the 12 suffrage states In be
half of the republican party. ... ,
"I myself am a ".democrat? aald
Miss Martin. "I would like to vote
for President Wilson. But as a mem
ber of the women's party my first In
tent Is to secure national women
suffrage."
LUMBERMAN ENLISTS ;
FOR BORDER SERVICE
Marsh field, Aug. 3. Stanley F.
Bartlett, one of the best known lum
bermen on the Pacific coast, enlisted
tor service on the Mexican border to
day. Raymond Benham, wealthy
rancher, also enlisted. Captain Ben
ham is here on a recruiting tour.
Carolina, assigned to neutrality duty,
was ordered In from the capea to
day, indicating the belief ot govern
ment officials, at least, that the dan
ger ot neutrality violation had passed.
The Deutschland. appeared In the
bay after spending the day In Tan
gier sound, 35 miles up, just about
sunset and was cutting across toward
the capes as darkness began to tall.
She was displaying red and green
lights close to the water, but soon put
these out. x
'. Approaching the Cape Henry light
ship the submarine moved tn close to
Jhe shore and held back while the
Tlmmons proceeded someVilstance
out, presumably to determine If hos
tile vessels were in sight. Presently
she signalled and the Deutschland
moved on past the cape. This was
about 9 o'clock. . . ' , , ,
The Deutschland drew near enough
to her pilot tug to permit the shout
ing ot farewells and the cheering tor
America and then the rolling water
'began to pile up between them. She
signalled briefly with her periscope
light. Then that blinked out and the
tug turned back to Norfolk.
Captain Hlnseh said the Deutsch
land planned io submerge only dur
ing the day time, when well out to
sea, and tn the day time only when
absolutely necessary.
"She will proceed on the surface
like any other vessel at night as soon
as out ot the danger lone," he said.
' "We expeot to hear from her or
about her before she reaches
Bremen," he added.
FilCDIlE
GAINS AT
VERDUN
Fortress That Has Been tie
Stem Center cf Nsrthrn
France fcr IIc:tb Oars
Interest fa the War Ite
London, Ang. 3. Fighting around.
Verdun today again took the center
ot Interest In the dally war reports.
Frank admission was made In the
Berlin official statement that French,
attacks at three points against the
German lines around the fortress city
have been successful. .
From the Berlin and Paris war
offices reports It appeared that the
French activity In this sector almost
partook of a general offensive move
ment against the German army of the :
crown prince. Berlin admitted
French troops yesterday gained a
footing on Pepper "ridge (La Cote
du Porre); Just below Vaherauvflle,
on the Meuse, at the northern point
ot the German encircling movement.
The same success ot a French, drive
"southwest of Fleury" was admitted.
Today's French' communique men
tioned an artillery duel along Le-
Chapltre ridge and at Cbenois both
points being slightly sooth of Flenry
but declares there was no Infantry
action there. In this same section
lies La u fee forest, where the German
statement admits the French recap
tured a section ot trenches gained by
the Germans recently.;
, Paris also reported violent German
counter-attacks against the trenches
captured yesterday on the right bank
of the Mense, which they asserted had
been repulsed with heavy losses.
Important progress was claimed
south of Fleury. There was appar
ently a slight lull In the fighting
along the Anglo-German front, Gen
eral. Halg merely reporting artillery
firing and stating that the British
were consolidating their positions.
MORE GERMAN I .
BOMBS HIT ENGLAfiD
London, 'Aug. 3." The fourth Ger-
fman air raid on British east counties
occurred early today, and like pre
vious excursions of like character re
sulted in little damage, according to
first official reports. Six or seven
Zeppelins formed the squadron. They
dropped "a considerable number" ot
bombs, according to the war office
statement, but exact reports ot dam
age have not yet been receivedt
British patrols sighted the , Zep
pelins very soon after they reached
pointa over British soil and anti
aircraft guns opened at once. The
dirigibles flew at heights of from
8,000 to 5,000 feet. , -
. In the fourth air raid in less than
seven days British patrols were able
to sight the aerial invaders before
they passed over British soil. Warn
ings were sent broadcast over all the
east coast. counties long before the
dirigibles appeared overhead. t -.
COMMISSION APPROVES.
NEW 8. P. FREIGHT RATES
Salem, Aug.' 3.' The Southern Pa
cific company was authorised Iby the
state public service commission today
to file a new tariff establishing rate
meeting w,ater competition between
Portland and points on the Willam
ette river and Coos Bay, Roseburg
and eastern branches. The tariff pro
vides ' higher rates tor short hauls
than long hauls. A commodity rate
on coal from Beaver Hill, Cedar Point
and Marshfleld is included.