DAILY EDITION
VOL. VI., No. 178
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COVXTT, OREOdN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1010.
WHOLE NUMBER 1819.
Xo Other Towu in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service.
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ACCEPTED
Representatives of Employes
Announce That Offer of
U. S. Board Is Approved if
Immediate Action Is Taken
New York, Aug. I. Representa
tives of the railroad employe an
onnced thti afternoon that they
would accept the offer of the United
States board of mediation and concil
iation to submit their demands to me
diation, provided action I Immediate
ly taken.
Acceptance of mediation by the em
ployes came as a big surprise. It
las been officially atsted by big
brotherhood officers that they would
discuss with the railroad managers,
but that a third party was unneces
sary. ft Is believed the personal plea of
the members of the United States
board brought about acceptance by
the trainmen. That means at least
postponement of the strike that would
have railed out 400,000 men and tied
up 150,000 mile of railway on 125
railroads of the country.
It was believed by representative!
of both tides that mediation negotts-
. tloni will, start Immediately, a, de
manded by the brotherhoods.
Immediately following the reading
of the decision of the employers, aa
executive meeting of representative!
of the 400,000 train employes was
called to consider the employers'
standing. ,
Representative of the employer!
headed 4y Ellaha Lee, chairman of
the national conference of the rail
ways, started at once to find memb
ers of the federal board of media
tion and conciliation and to present
their tequest for help to them per
sonalis. T
Mexico City, Aug. . Eighty thou
sand Carransa troops are now pat
rollng the northern border states,
Toundlng up and exterminating band
Its as rapidly as possible. War Min
ister Obregon said today. He describ
ed conditions along the iborder as
"satisfactory." '
Both In official and financial circles
It was denied today that the Mexican
government' plans at this time to at
tempt a loan in the United 8talei.
Because Commissioner Caberea li
particularly fitted to dlicuu financial
.and economical questions, It waa ru
mored that the conference between
the Mexican and American commis
sion! would discuss the economic sit
uation and survey the field for a
loan. For the present, officials said,
the commissioners will discuss ' only
questions relating to a solution of the
difficulties between the two countries.
'TEN SECONDS ENOUGH
- FOR JAPANESE WONDER
New York. Aug. O.dleralded' ai
the Japanese wonder, Jalean Car
tuska of Toklo, entered the ring with
Teddy (Hayes, negro middleweight
here last night. He lasted ten seconds.
WHEAT HAS TAKEN
ANOTHER JUMP UPWARD
Chicago, Aug. 9. Wheat Jumped
five and three-eights eonts for Sept
ember and 8 cents for December at
'. the opening of the grain, market,
amid a wild rush to buy) as a result
.of the government's crop report, pre-
dieting a wheat shortage. September
B MI
,00
CARRANZA
OPS
BORDER
-opened at 130 and December at 143.
DRlllDEIS HEADS
IHH HER
COMMISSI
Washington, Aug, 9. -President
Wilson has selected Associate Justice
Louis D. Brandels to head the Am
erican commission, which will confer
with that appointed by General Car
ransa to settle Mexican border ques
tions, It wss authoritatively itated
today; Secretary of the Interior Lane
has been asked to serve and hat ac
cepted. The name of the third ban
haa not yet been announced.
The first subject to be considered
by the commission, It was made olear
by the state department today, will
be the time for withdrawal or United
States troops from Mexico. Ambas
sador Arrendondo and Acting Secre
tary of SUte Polk conferred today
regarding Carransa' last note. Ar-
redondo explained he was authoris
ed to lay the conference meant an ac
ceptance of the American note of
July II.
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IHUII
III GERMAN HANDS
Paris, Aug. 9. German troops
again recaptured Thlaumont work,
northeast of Verdun, In heavy fight
ing last night, the war office an
nounced today. The French repulsed
all other attacks on the Verdun front,
apd made some progress In the vill
age of Fleury.
Norttrnr tne umma tne German
constsntly Counter-attacked through
out the ttlght against new French
positions, finally gaining a foothold
in a single trench from which they
were partly ejected. The battle Is can
tloulng In this region.
The recapture of Thlaumont work
waa accomplished after the Germane
had suffered heavy losses In several
unsuccessful attacks. The French
are still clinging to the outskirts of
the redoubt, which is being bom
barded unceasingly by French artil
lery. "
In the Vaux-Chapltre wood. In the
same region, a German attack was
repulsed.
The battle south of the Son) me Is
extending to the region of Chaulnes,
where a violent bombardment Is re
ported. On this sector the Germans
occupied an advanced French trench
but were thrown out by a bayonet
attack.
ACCIDENT THROWS
. PASSENGERS IX PANIC
New York, Aug. 9. Mowing out
of a transmission box on an electrlo
New York, New Haven It Hartford
train in the village of VanNesa threw
scores of passengers Into a panlo and
resulted In the Injury of one woman,
reports to officials here stated this
afternoon. Many passengers were
suffering from the shock. Ambulances
from three hospitals were hurried to
the scene, but trafflo was resumed
on the line within 15 minutes and the
accident was declared not to he ser
ious. The transmission box blew out
with a loud report as the train was
entering the Westchester yards and
smoke pouring from the car gave rise
to reports of a serious accident. ,
CANADIAN WHEAT CROP
18 REPORTED SHORT
Winnipeg, Aug. 9.- Manitoba, Al
berta and Saskatchewan will yield
270,000,000 bushels of wheat this
year, compared with S70.000.000
bushels last year, . the provincial
bureau of crop estimates declared
today. ' ,n, ,
Thli year'i yield will be: Alberta,
35,000,000 bushels;' Saskatchewan,
175,000,000 .bushels and Manitoba,
60,000,000. . About one-fourth of
western. Canadian wheat is shipped
to the United, SUtes. .
. , ,.,r,. ,
Mn.S. M. Marsh went to Weed
this morning and will visit there for
several weeks.
HlfOIIT
AGAIN
in
Italians Achieve Greatest Victory of tie Present Offensive
Against tie Central Powers, and Open tie Way to
Advance Upon tie City of Trieste, fopturing 10,000
Prisoners Wlen tie Citadel Is Surrendered
London, Aug. 9. The great Aus
trian stronghold of Gorlts which, for
14 months has blocked an Italian
Invasion of Austria from the west
has fallen before the victorious Ital
ian armies.
The Information first, given the
United Press from a London source,
was confirmed a few minutes later
by the receipt of official despatches
from Rome.
The Italians are believed to have
stormed the citadel last night or
early today, only a' few hours after
they had battered their way to vict
ory at the Oorlts bridgehead and
captured Monte San MIchele, over
looking Gorits from the south. '
Ten thousand Austrian prisoners
were taken, according to reports
reaching London. ' News of the Ital
ian stroke, the greatest single vict
ory for the allies since the offensive
against the central empires began,
tu received here an hour after of
ficial word came from Petrograd of
another Russian victory.
Advancing swiftly toward the rail
road city of SUnlslau, the Slavs cap
tared the town of Tysmtenlca'-an ad
vance of alxWles in J 4 hours and
a series of minor villages and fort
ified river heights In the Immediate
vicinity. The capture of 7,400 Aus-tro-German
prisoners In this region
slone was announced by the Petro
grad war office.
On the Somme front only minor
operations were reported iby the Brit
ish and French war office today, In
cluding a alight British advance north
of Poxieres.
The French officially admitted the
recapture of the Thlaumont work by
Germans, northeast of Verdun. '
. News of the fall of .Gorlts came
as no surprise to London after word
of the capture of the bridgehead and
surrounding positions had been re
ceived. A United Press despatch
from Rome this forenoon said that
the fall of Gorlts Itself was a matter
of but a few hours, "if It is not
already In Italian hands."
The taking of Gorltx, the greatest
achievement for Italian arms since
Italy declared war on Austria In May
TWELVE KILLED III
MINE
EXPLOSION
, Michel, B. C, Aug. 9. Twelve men j Washington, Aug. 9. The house
are known to be dead and all mines j today accepted the conferees' report
are closed down, following an ex-!on' the army bill, appropriating $267,
plosion la Mine No. S here today. l000,000 for national defense on land
Lightning struck signal wires and and lowering the age of enlistment
carrying the current down to the, In regular army and national guard
mines, Ignited dust or gas, starting from 11 to 18.
the explosion. Boulders and debris j, The law will empower the United
were thrown a quarter of a mile by
the explosion. Fire starting In one
part of the mine was extinguished
this afternoon.
FORMER SENATOR Till' I WTO V
PASSES AWAY AT OMAHA
Omaha. Neb., Aug. 9. Former
United States Senstor John M. Thurs -
... .
ton, 69, died- here today. ,He has
been In the hbspltal since July
after being4 prostrated by heat.
.r!ttBA,W"Jn "V!? I""0"1
1895 to 1901 and was one of the fore-
most orators In that fcody. His fa -
moua speech In -1898 was largely In -
fluentlal In bringing about the Span-
Ish-Amerlcnn war.
' 3le arose from plowboy and driver
of a delivery wagon to a prominent
position among the leading lawftrs
of the country. .
LO
IS CAPTURED
1915, opens the way for an Italian
advance southward toward Trieste,
one of the principal goals of the
Italians.
Gorlts Is the point of convergence
of important railways and the key
to the whole plain opening up to the
Invasion of Austria from the west.
In earlier attacks on the great Aus
trian stronghold the Italians had sac
rificed many thousands of lives. The
Austrlans. too, have suffered enor
mously In repelling Italian attacks.
The elty of Gorlts has a population
of about 30,000 and Is the capital
of a province. It lies on the east
bank of the Isonso river, surrounded
on three sides by mountain ridges
and peaks which constitute it a na
tural fortress. - Perhaps the most
notable building of the city Is the an
cient castle, formerly occupied by the
counts of Gorltx, but In modern
times converted Into a barracks. The
city has a tamoua fourteenth century
cathedral and a fine museum.
Rome. Aug. 9. Two million of
meCtra battering fiercely along the
Inonio front In a great atruggle cen
tertng about Gorits that may prove
the turning point of the war.
With the Gorlts bridgehead and
surrounding heights strongly In Ital
ian hands, Italian troops are pour
Ing across the river for the assault
on Gorlts Itself, singing as they ad
vance under hot fire.
Scores of great guns already are
pounding the Austrian stronghold
It Is believed certain here that Oor
its will fall before a storming at
tack within a few hours If It is not
already In Italian hands.
The battle Is spreading along the
Isonso. In the first two days of
the great offensive, more than 15,-
000 Austrian prisoners were captur
ed. ' The Austrlans resisted with the
greatest atubbornnes and suffered
heavy losses.
Rome was swept with a tremend
ous wave off enthusiasm today as
fresh despatches from the front
brought fragmentary details of the
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FIX ENLISTMENT ,
AGE AT 18 YEARS
States to enlist Into military service
J boys under 21 without the consent
or against the protest of their par-
ents.
j The bill, if It ibecomes a law, will
i permit iboys of 18 to; enlist in either
the regular army or the guard.
Senator LaFollette today dratted a
bill which he says not only will pre-
. . ni,fm,nt. w whinh win
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iiiswnv ajiiiiiauoai sja aaiioa vaa vofuvivii
ultl omoeri n obtalnlng w.
n.ant
I T1. nM.l(,anf hQ. ,,,,,.., U
wo" th army bill as accepted
conferMS. , ,
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PORTLAND nARREH PICKS
i 1 . POCKETS OF PATRONS
' ' ' , . '.
, , Portland, Aug. 9. George Mover,
a barter, was In Jail today, charged
wtth extracting a marked 110 Wll
ENGLISH COAST
HI OBJECT OF
HlliO
London, Aug. 9. Zeppelins raid
ed the east coast of England early
this morning, and another Zeppelin
raided southeast Scotland without
penetrating far from the coast, the
war office announced today. Four
persons were killed and 14 Injured.
The Zeppelins dropped a nutsbc? of
bombs on certain localities. They
were engaged by coast guards and
driven away from their objective
without doing any damage of military
importance, the statement claimed.
TEN CHIT BREAD
IS "SOD OUTV
Salt Lake City, Aug. 9. The mast
er bakers' association, in resolutions
adopted here today, declared "It
was their sacred duty to the pub
lic" to fix the uniform and minimum
price of a loaf of tread at ten cents.
"Recognizing that the American
public would not be a party to any
lowering of the present high stand
ards of food values." the resolutions
declared that the bakers, "confronted
with unprecedented advances In price
of all materials, labor and overhead
charges," would encourage - every
where the 10 cent loaf "to conserve
the quantity and quality rights of the
public." I' - '
advertising columns
amy press or tne country are to be
used by the national association, to
take the pufbllc into full confidence
regarding the reasons and necessities
for the increased price of bread
"The baking business is a. public
trust," the resolutions said, "and the
bakers must secure a living return
upon their investment'
. "Permanent, general recession In
prices never Is to be expected," the
resolutions declared, after eltlng the
consistent advance In retail prices
of all foodstuffs In recent 'years.
L AGUI
REPORTED KILLED
1 Paso, Aug. 9. General Aguilar,
commanding the escort of Carranza
troops and a number of soldiers and
passengers, are reported today to have
been killed in an attack by Vllllstas
against a passenger train at Noria
station on the Durango-Torreon line
yesterday. About halt of the 20 Vll
llstas in the band were killed by the
troops In the fight, the Chihuahua
City advices stated.
An unconfirmed report reaching
American military men here was that
Torreon had been captured fcy Vlll
lstas.
PORTLAND FIRM TO
BUILD NEW VESSEL
Portland, Aug. 9. Contracts for
the construction of an auxiliary
power four-masted motor ship tor the
Alaskan trade were today awarded
by LTbby, McNeill ft Llbby, Chicago,
to the Standlfer-Clarkaon company
The vessel will be built In . North
Portland harbor. It will cost 1250,
000. The York shipyards starts the
work Immediately. The firm expects
to employ 100 men at first and rapid
ly enlarge. ' .
Mrs. B. H. Perry left this morning
for Gold Ray. '
from the wallet Of George McTarna
han, while the latter was prostrate
In the chair, his face swathed in tep
id towels. McTarnahan said he pre
viously lost 840 under suspicious
circumstances, so he marked the $10
bill, got shaved, then called the police
Detective Snow alleges he found the
bank note In Mover's possession.
LA
if
Andes ci Central Powers
Forced to Yield Greed,
to AEied Ofedrefa E:ti
tie East zzi tie West
London, Aug. 9. A mighty triple
offensive, with several million mea
and thousands of guns engaged, is '
slowly squeezing in the armies of
the central empires on every front.
Fighting stubbornly and In many
instances with rare bravery, the Aua-
tro-Germans-Tnrklsh forces are giv
ing ground In every theatre of war, .
save the Balkans, where recent skir
mishes were herald the beginning of
another great allied push. - -
In the east, the czar's troops, ex
tending the advantage reported la
an early bulletin yesterday, , have
thrown back the Anstro-Geraans on
a front of thirty miles, extending
from Nadworna and Misaiof. Nad
worna, a railway city of 10,000 haa
been captured. The filar center la
now within a few hours march of the
important city Stanislau. whose cap
ture will materially increase the dan
ger in which General Ton Bothmer'g
army .oftufiad -Itself, .--r-
'The' most striking victory won by .
the Italians since the war began, haa
partly opened the way to Trieste,
the great objective of the Italian
Isonso campaign. The Aostrlaas may
offer desperate resistance at Gorlts,
but the apparent ease with which the
Italians took the fortified GoriU
bridgehead convinces military mea
here that the Austrlans have heea
forced to strip their lines to the dan
ger point to meet the Russian men
ace in eastern Gallcia. .
On the western front, the allies
have won another slice of the German
second line, advancing on a front
of nearly four miles north of the
Somme. . German counter-attacks
caused the French to yield ground'
only slightly In this region last night.
Only on the Verdun front, where
the Germans again re-occupled the
Thlaumont work In heavy fighting
last night, are the Teutonic armies
still on the offensive. The position
has changed hands eight times since
the Verdun campaign began.
Even In the far away Caucasus,
allied troops are again marching vic
toriously. Both the Russian and
Turkish war offices report the be
ginning of a new Russian offensive
In which the Turks admit they have
been forced to yield some ground.
Following successful artillerying.
the Italians also completed the oc
cupation of heights west of Gorltx.
said the official dispatch from Home
Large quantities of arms, ammuni
tion and other material fell Into
Italian hands.
The advancing Italian troops found
trenches and dugouts filled with Aus
trian dead. On Monte San MIchele,
enemy counter-attacks were repuls
ed. More enemy trenches were cap
tured In the region of San Martina.
FLOUR COSTS MORE
. IN PORTLAND MARKET
Portland, Aug. 9. Flour Jumped '
20 cents a barrel on the Portland
market .today, selling for 15.80. A .
further Increase to 86 a barrel Is ex
pected. Market experts said the
present price of wheat justified the
)6 rate, hut It will not be fixed until
big mills agree on It.'
New London, Conn., Aug. ' 9.' -Quantities
of nlckle and rubber said
to have been received here and- the
watery peregrinations of a mysterious
launch off shore, added fuel to the
flames of reports here that the Ger
man submarine Bremen soon will
dock at this point.. " ;
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