Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, September 03, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextT Hi..tnMm.rtai.jt (ft t' DAILY EDITION VOU VI., No. 800. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUMTi. OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 116. whole: number ism. No Other Town in the World the Sifce of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. VSM Wi J4 . f , i : 1 1 , ,.. a Senate Passes the Adamson Bill, Without Amendmect, by a Vote of 43 to 28, and Cancellation ol the Strike Order Issued by Trainmen Will Follow Immediately Upon Its Signature by President Wilson Washington, Sept. J. The (our fcrothsrhood leaders announced tuey would meet at 7 p. ., at their hotel to determine when they would tend out the notice cancelling the strike order. Washington, Sept. 8. The house Uht-hoiir ra'hoad hill passed the "iini tonluht. killing In embryo the nation! transportation strike sche duled (or Monday. Cancellation of the atrlke order waa expected before morning, al though the brotherhood leaders had planned to wait until President WIN "l ' eon actually signed the bill tomorrow, j- The vote waa 43 to 28. A. !). Uarrotson, spokesman for the biff four brotherhoods, and hla oonfireen. who have borne the brunt of the negotiation over hour and pay for 400,000 railroad workers. were outside the annate chamber when the vote was taktm. They planned to adjourn at oucu to the National hotel headquarters to deride the time of sending out the cancel la tlon nioMeaice and the hint waa (hat the hall would be tailed forthwith. Those voting nny were; Horali, Brady, lironilcm-c, Clnpp, Clarke of Arkansas. Colt, Cummins, Curtis, nil llngham, DuPont, Galllngcr, Qronna, Ilardwick, Jones, Kenyon, McCum ber, McLean, Nelson. Norrls, Oliver, Penrose, Sherman, Smith of Mich I Kan 8 moot, Sterling, Wads worth, Warren. Weeks. Those voting in the amrmatlve ( 7 were: Ashurst, llankhond, DiH-khnm, Bryan. Chamberlain, Chilton, Culber aon, Fletcher, Hitchcock. Hughes. Hustlng, Johnson of South Dakota, Kern, MFollotto, Iwine, l,ea, Uo, Jxwis, Martlne, Myers, Ncwl'ands, Overman. I'helan, Plttman, Pom erene, Ranadnll, Reed, Hoblnson, 8nulsbury, Shcpperd, Shields, Sim mons, Smith of Arizona, Smith of Maryland. Smith of South Carolina Stone, Swanson, Taggart, . Thomas Thomas Thompson, Underwood, Var daman, Walsh, Williams. The bill waa taken to the house Immediately and Sieaker Clark sign ed It at 6:08 p. m. It wna returned to the senate, where Sonator Clarke of Arkansas (president pro torn In the absence of Vice-President Mar shall) afterwards affixed hla signa ture. The senate adjourned at 1 1 o'clock ( I Inst night without having finished Its I work on the bill. Demands for ' vota at that time were nverrnma hv senators who wished to talk today. The full galleries and the tenso at mosphere of lout night were not dup licated when the session opened to day, but there were ronsons to be lieve the crowds would gather again to witness the dosing hours of de- j liberation and the history-making j vote There was to be two-hours of gen eral debate, with SO minute speeches, I tor reports. September was un oglnnlng at noon. Voting on amend-!chanRe(l l 86 K December s up tnents was to start at four o'clock.!1 at 13. and May up at 76 At krn a n. . -' Oats continued firm an hrlalr Ira,!. , ui uoivivi u p. in,, iu ; - - .. the number of amendments the senate aml tronKth In the other strains, will vote on the biy Itself, which pro .j8ltember was up at 45 ; Decem vldes (or an eight-hour day at the UCT "I' nt 48 nd May up at Present rate or tav. and aminlntmant of a commission to' Investigate and repbrt within six to eight months on the financial results or the operation of the law, I The Adamson measure was given i i . . . . preuuuuuce in me sonaie wnen no on- Jeotion was made to consideration of th, house measure In place of the longer .ml imore comprehensive bill prepared by the senate Interstate com- merco committee. Senator 8hafroth opened the de bate today by moving to change Sen ator Underwood's Amendment so that K would be specifically stated no em ploy affected by the bill would be compelled by It terms to work, that stopping of work would not consti tute "delaying or obstructing opera tion of trains," for which the emend- ment provides a fine of IS.000 or one year's Imprisonment. "Suppose," said Senator Ilardwick, "the railroad presidents came to us snd said 'legislate us Increased freight and passenger rates, or we will stop operating all trains in this country!' What would we do? We would not be permitted to be co erced." "Why don't you republicans stop criticising and offer something ' to avert this strike?" quered Hustlng, Wisconsin, ,'x "I think we all agree on the main question, our chief Interest Is to avert this Impending calamity. So we sltall do It In the only possible way 'by leg islation." Senator Sherman, Illinois, bitterly denounced "Rushing the bill Into leg islation ,ln'a few hours, when there should l days of deliberation." "We re doing this under threat," Sherman Mild. To prove his point, Sherman read several telegrams from large labor! unions of the middle west, pleading with him to urge passage of the eight- hour law bill and to oppose any form of compulsory arbitration. "I would rather he a dog and bay at the moon," Sherman said, "than be a senator enslaved by such dic tations and threats. These messages show the. way the wind blows by de manding that I urge government own ership of railroads." "The poor bookkeeper In Chicago gets tho true sense of this whole sit uation, when he wants me to vote against It. He says If congress passes this bill. It will bare to keen on, with other poor bookkeepers, pay- Ing the price." IN WHEAT PRICE -4- unicago, sept. 2. Optimistic, re ports regarding settlement of the rail road strike shot wheat prices up from 3 M rents to 4 Vi cents overnight on the Chicago grain market today. Heavy buying orders flooded the mar ket Just before the close, causing lumps. September closed at 148, 2 V4 up above the high opening. De cember gained three centa at 148, while May advanced $ at 14$. Corn was stondy and higher on the strength In wheat and unfavorable Provisions were higher. ITALIAN' OOVKItNMKNT CONFISCATE (JMt.M.lN SHIPS Rome. Sent. 3 The Nniun irnv. nvntllllllt (nil flu nnnflan.tnJ l.li.. , Gcnman steamer, kerned in 'ports at the beginning of the war. The steamers seised aggregated 1 3 J ,. 000 tons , wu ,onB' ' ADVANCE MADE F The Hague, Sept. 8. Fifty thou- and German troops have arrived at the Transylranlan city of Klausen- burg to check the Roumanian Inva sion The Austrlans have evacuated the city of Marosvasarhely, on the main railway feeding their armies in northeastern Transylvania and are preparing to retire from the sur rounding country, according to ad vices from Berlin. 6 Iondon, Sept. 2. Without serious opposition by the Austrlans, Rou manian trooim rolled steadilv west- ward toward the heart of Transyl vania tcday, while the war clouds drooped !ower over Greece. The cap- tu-f of l Transylvania towns, 1.800 prisoners and large amounts of booty, was announced In an official, state ment from the Roumanian war office. The Austrian war office admitted the surrender of Ilermannstadt. former capital of Transylvania, to the In vaders. 4nd the evacuation of tho town of Sepsl-St. Gyorgy. German residents of Athens have fled from the Greek capital with tho arrival of thirty allied warships and a fleet of transports In Piraeus har bor, only five miles away. An Athens dispatch reported that great 'excite ment was caused in political circles by the appearance of the warships. but carried nothing on the report that King Constantine had abdicated .his .V. f A wireless dispatch from Rome as serted that martial law has been de dared In Athens and Piraeus, pre sumably upon the arrival of allied troops. King Constantine. the dis patch said, is seriously 111. Rome also reported the revolution In north ern Greece spreading through Thes- saly and Eplrns, with the movement for a declaration of war by Greece rapidly gaining strength. In every theater of the war. ex cept south of the Somme, the allied war offices reported victories today. The British war office announced the recapture of ground lost under a heavy German counter-attack Thurs day night. The French admitted the yielding of some ground to the Ger mans south of the Somme. From both Vienna and Petrograd came reports of Russian gains In the new Gallclan offensive. An unofficial dispatch from Athens reported the Serbs driving back the Bulgare right wing. PACIFIC LINE SHIP SEARCHED aan Francisco. Sent. 1 Th teamer Arakan of the Java-Pacific line, en route to San Francisco, was held1 up and searched recently by the uritlsh sloop of war Cadmus, accord ing to a cablegram received 'here to day. Captain von Rankle cabled that all mall destined for America was opened and censored. He says the Arakan wna convoyed to Sandakan, uorneo. , Information Indicates the Arakan '! , , arXa'oleg TXn "aUed : iM JrZ lon7 .1 if Li , , international significance is nt- tached to the event by some. was In American waters In the Sib- REINFORCEMENTS 0 GERMAN TROOPS TRANSYLVANIA TOWNS CAPTURED I CORD Accepts Renovation as the Candidate of Democracy, and lakes Bid for the Vote xf the Progressives Ixmg Branch, N. J.. Sept. 2. Pre sident Wilson spoke for ills re election today. Before an Immense crowd, massed over the beautiful grounds of Shadow Lawn, the presi dent accepted his renominatlon si the bands of the democratic party. outlined the achievements of his ad ministration, and scored the repub licans as "party ot masterly in activity, standing pat to resist change." ' The democratic party, the presi dent said, holds to very definite Ideals. "We believe the energy and Initia tive of our people should be set free, as we have set them free." and not 'concentrated In the hands ot a few powerful guardians, as our oppon ents have again and again sought to concentrate them." "Th,'day of little Americanism, with Its narrow horiion, when meth ods of 'protection and indnntrtnl nursing were thechlef studies of our provincial statesmen," are past and done, Wilson said. The people, he said, would not re- vn lnoB0 wno nav tuaiiy served them" for "those who are making doubtful and conjectural promises of service." . , . 1 . I ( . V . . ... .1 Ontllnes Party Rerord Outllnlng the legislative record of his party, the president said the democrats have virtually created commercial credit for the farmer, had "given a veritable emancipation" to the working man, had released the children of the country from "hurt ful labor," and, in addition to many other things, had put through na tional defense legislation greater than ever "seriously proposed tfpon the responsibility of an entire poli tical party." "And." President Wilson concluded In this discussion, "we have come very near to carrying out the plat form of the progressive party as well as our own; for we also are pro gressives." The president said his foreign pol n j km uuiii ujuu iwu uiiiuameiuaii principles that property rights can icy waa built upon two fundamental be vindicated by claims for damages. but that "the loss of life is lrrepar-iof able." "I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element amongst ns which puts loy alty to any foreign power before loy alty to the United States," he said. The president advanced his Mexi can policy as an Issue upon which he would stand in the faee of any critic Ism. While admitting the' possibility of mlatakea "Inthia perplexing busi ness." he flayed' those who would have recognised the "unspeakable Huerta." On the platform from which the president spoke were Mrs. Wilson. Senator Ollle James, Chairman Vance McCormlck of tho national commit tee and members of the president's family. Prrimred for Rain Owing to the threatening weather. a huge umbrella which would cover the platform was ready for use In case of emergency. Light spatters of rain continued at Intervals up to the hour of the ceremony. ld by Senator James, the noti fication committee reached Shadow Lawn at I o'clock. Former Governor Glynn and a small group of New Continued on Page 2. RAILROADS HI OFF EMBARGO Chicago, Sept. 2. At noon today, J.' W. Hlgglns, chairman of the Gen eral Manager's association, issued a statement In which lie declared that practically all central and western railroads 'have lifted their embargoes on perisbable freight shipments. "Barring the unexpected, railroads expect to move freight normally," said Hlgglns. 1 Railroad circles this afternoon ac cepted as certain the calling off of the strike. -. "The railroads, however, will con tinue their preparations against a strike. It Is not np to ns whether there will toe a strike. It's np to the brotherhoods," concluded Hlgglns. Meat prices on the local livestock exchange took a big drop today as. a result of favorable strike conditions, indicating all roads will lift the em bargoes. H6rs dropped back to $11 a hundred pounds for choice stock, a decline of 20 cents from yesterday's close- and 50 cents from the high mark. Cattle at 111.20 for beeves, was down 25 cents, while sheep were from 10 to 25 cents lower. GERMANS RETAKE E Paris, Sept. 2 The Germans re occupled a few elements of trenches captured by the French south of Estrees on August 31, in a very vio- lent counter-attack south of the L , . , .. . , ,. , !8T night' U WM offlol&lly ad" !mltted toda'' L ,n theench lin" ilowed by. few 'ur8 4 8imllar M "niCT-tacK on HrtUsn Puom UUIUI VI kUD OVIUUIO) WU11U 1 1 LCU in a slight gain. The purpose of these assaults, it is believed here, was to. relieve some of the depression, caused in Germany by the turn of events in the Balkans. . The Germans shelled French posi tions around Maurepos 'heavily and then attacked south of the Somme. Their losses were heavy, the war Office said. In the Champagne region the Russian contingent landed a few months ago again defeated the Ger mans, dispersing a German recon- nalsance south of Tab are. - The Verdun sector was the scene ot heavy fighting last night. Thlau- mont and the region surrounding it came under heavy artillery fire and j - - the Germans attained the village of Fleury. but later were repulsed. West Pont--Mousson (southeast of Ver- dun) the Germans unsuccessfully t- tempted an attack near Fay-en-Haye, but were checked before they left their trenches. GRECIAN REVOLT - FAST SPREADING London, Sept. 2.The revolution in Greece Is spreading rapidly throughout Thessaly and Eplrus, said a Rome wireless despatch today. Martial law has been proclaimed at Athens and Piraeus, the despatch said. , The condition of King Constantine, who la ill, Is reported serious. flKKAT lUTTLR IS OX , , ix ntxmw OF OKSOVA Zurich, Sept. 2. A great oattle Is developing In the region of Orsova, near the Junction of the Transvlvan- im, Serbian and Roumanian frontiers, according to despatches from Aus trian towns today. SQMM TRENCHES Waters Creek, Tcrcisal cf New R. R, Scece cf Gret Activity, With FrdgHt SL certs bcreasha Rapidly About the buaiest place in tha northwest these days is the station ot Waters Creek, the present terminal of the California 4b Oregon Coast rail road. With the scores of teams and auto trucks hauling ore, lumber, cord wood and logs for shipment, there Is almost a congestion of traffle about the stat. n every day, and the scene Is one of life and activity and the whirl of Industry. Ever since the road was" first put" into regular operation by the firm of Twohy Brothers company, who took it over from the city of Grants' Pass a' year ago, the business has been continually increasing until during August tne reora shows that 138 carload shipments were made from the Waters Creek terminal, or, from stations along the 15-mile line. Of this total of 188 carloads, 33 were of ore that had been hauled by team and truck from the mines at Waldo and other Illinois x valley points. Of lumber there were 34 carloads; of cord wood, 21, and rf ' logs an even 60. . Copper and Iron Ores - v ' ; The Queen of Bronxe and Waldo copper mines supplied the ore for 14 carloads during the month, 19 car loads of oftromlo Iron ore being also included in the shipments. The cop per ore was all Wiled to Tacoma, where it is smelted. The ore cars carry from 44 to E5 tons each. v The shipment t the chromic irorf ore is a new industry, made possible, by the demand created for the nrod- uct through the shutting off of Euro pean supplies by the war. Two com panies, the Manganese comnanv nt California and the American Refrac tories company of Danville, Illinois. are the shippers.- The first named company makes Its shipments to Montreal. New York. Bessemer and Duquesne, while the American Re fractories company sends Its ore to Danville. Both companies are hast- -ening the production ot ore as rapid ly as possible, as there is a most ac tive demand among eastern manu facturers at present. Much of the chromic iron Is found in the Oregon mountain district, and Is hauled SO miles by team oefore It Is loaded up- "j on the cars. The copper ore is mil ' mined at Takilma, which will be the terminal ot the next unit of the new railroad to be constructed. Only the best of the ore is brought to Waters Creek, and thousands of tons of the lower grades are being placed upon the dump at the mines tor shipment as soon as the railroad Is constructed that far. This alone will increase the traffic of the line many fold with the laying of the rails into the Illinois valley, which Is expected to be before another season. 1 Sawmills Are Busy Three sawmills are now sending their cut to Waters Creek for ship ment by rail into Grants Pass, the three being Schmltt Bros., Jpaulding Bros., and the Kesterson mill. The box lumber is shipped to the local box factory, where it U manufactured in to boxes for apples, pears, etc, and Is In turn shipped to various Doints throughout the northwest The high er grades of white pine. No, t shOD and better, are shipped to the Frank P. Doe Lumber company at Grants Pass. This company has lust Placed tn operation a planing mill in South Grants Pass, upon the line of the hew (Continued on Page Six) J t ...