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"L '. ' r V DAILY EDITION GRANTS PASS. JOflEPHIXK COUNTY, OREGON, -SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1M6. WHOLE NUMBER 1S03. H)i cr Town in the World the 8izo o( Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wi re Telegraph Service, v 1 v J RpiiipfllCISOII d rBniTC ME Til MUM LOSS AT VERDUN . . ! Financier Leaves For England to Arrange For Credit For British Nation of Quarter of Billion Dollars , jrltory (about 180 square miles), ex- ' ceedlng by 15 kilometers (about nine New York, Sept lO.Alone andean, nilles) the4errltory gained by unregistered, J. P. Morgan sailed to day aboard the American liner New York for Liverpool. , While his firm aald the trip vu largely for pleasure ' purposes Wall atreet firmly believed am is pisnoiuK Q rrauss woiu-' paalon loan to the half billion the all'ss raised here last year. New York, 8ept 30 J. P. Mor gan was booked to sail for England on the American liner New York at boob today to float a new quarter of i. bi llon dollar British war loan, aci cording to reports In flnsncla circles! here. Henry P. OMlaoa, Morgan s par ner. has been In England for sev- L rai weeas, presumaoiy arranging ae- tails of the loan, which la to be cured by collateral consisting mainly of American securities, , v The new loan. If floated, will ciuq as a 'climax to three weeks' bull ao tlvttlcs on the New York stork ex change, started, according to the ac cepted belief of 'Wall atreet, In order to develop a sentiment of optimism and prosperity among Investors such as would facilitate placing the new British bqnds. Twenty consecutive mllllou-share days on the stock exchange have sent prices to new high levels. Bond buy ing has been so heavy that bond brokers report a demand for them in excess of the supply of high grade securities and the boom In Wall street has extended to the curb, where the advances In 8tandsrd Oil subsidiaries have, it Is estimated, made John O. Rockefeller the world's first billion aire. , , While brokers on the streets were betting today that the run of million . share days would exceed the straight victory string of the New York Qlants before the bull movement oomea to a halt, oiures on United fltatea Steel. showed that the comimon stock of the bit . bornoratlon had lnerMa.d In valuation 135,000,000 In a single day.. At the record high of 120 the five million shares of United States 8teel common were valued at 1613.000,000, against $330,000,000 two months ago. During the past five months the American publlo has taken $50,000, 000 in Russian bonds, $100,000,000 French notes, $50,000,000 City of Paris bonds and $250,000,000 British -Collateral notes. The loan which Morgan is now aid to be negotiating would Increase the total flotation la this country In three months to $700,000,000. CALIFORNIA WILL E Sacramento, Sept. 30, What Dr. Charles Keano, state veterinary sur Kron, declares to be one of the Vest laws ever enacted In California be comes effective tomorrow. It Is the pure milk law, and whrni It gets work ing nrnpnrly will insure tho purest milk supply, thim giving protection against much needless dlsonse, In cluding occasion,.: dlsiiHtroiis epi demics, California Is the '.rut state of the union to enact legislation of this kind. A number of cities .havrpure HAVE PUR MIL Grand Headquarters of the French ; Armies, France Bept, 20. In the! flmt 13 weeks of the Soinmo offensive Uio Frueh and British have raptured iiKire ground than has been taken by the Germane In mora than six ! months of battling at Verdun. A survey of the results of the treat : allied drive, halted temporarily yes jterday by a errifio downpour of rain, shows that the allies have conquered ;28G square kilometers of French ter- the Germans at Verdun. Forty-five villages, each one organ ised Into a veritable fortress by the Tnnlnna ' hava fillAn hftfnra tha ht- , nf r.am,h mnA ,lrll,.v -..,... f. .wy MUMf th 0ermin p0ll. tlon was so strong that it hsd to be broken down by shell fire before In fantry, could storm it A total of (1,000 prisoners, 385 cannon, half of which are heavy artil lery nieces, and more than one i thousand machine guns have been Bw,whw from th, Ancr, t0 , cht(M nr,t A wd thfd ,n.. w coinpletelr ht n.ndi of h who th week were rushing through hastily constructed German trencbea for great gains when bad weather halted operations. ' AS A CAMPAIGNER Hornell, N. Y., Sept. 80. Jlcpubll- can Nominee Hughes today finished his twentieth thousand tulles as a presidential campaigner here in his home state of New York. This Is said to establish a record for presidential candidates. - It was estlmsted today that Hughes has talked to 1,600.000 voters since he started seeking votes August 5. After such a record-breaking cam patgn, not yet concluded, It was no wondor today that Hughes showed fatigue In every line of his face. His eyes were ringed with dark circles, n lce aa almost cracked un- I" lne ,tra,n- i Winding up with a big meeting at Buffalo tonight, Hughes will return to New York tomorrow. From then until October 8 there will be little but rest on the 'program for the Hughes family. For thre .days the candidate will remain at the Astor hotel, then-he will go to some secluded spot to rest up for his next stumping tour. ' Washington, Sept 30. The re maining Michigan militia, between 1,500 and 3,000 men, haye been or dered to the border, the war depart ment announced today, milk laws, but the golden state takes the lead In putting It ona broad and sweeping scale. "I predict," said Dr. Keane today, '.'that when other atates observe the good effects of this law thoy will rapidly fall in line with similar legis lation." The law requires the pasteurisation of nil milk sold at retail for human consumption, except when the milk Is froiit cows free from tuborculosls. If a dairyman does not rhoono to have his cows tested, ho will be re quired to have the milk pasteurised. However, tho great number of ap plications show that a big majority of the dairymen will choose the test. This Indicates, ( according to Dr. Keane, that there will not be an nd vnnce In tho prlco of milk. Pas teurized milk brings a higher price, but comparatively few dairymen will chooso pasteurisation. RECORD FOR HUGHES ROOSEVELT POLICIES Ex-President RoughJlides Over the Acts of the Present Administration, and Flays the Chief Executive For Muddling In Mexico. Vacillating In European Affairs, and For Phrasemongering Instead of , Acting Battle Creek, Mich., 8ept. 30. rlous unwarned sinkings by eubniar Ranubllcanlsm'a reserve artillery uM of llnera with Americans aboard, opened her. In behalf of ChVle. E. Hughes by Theodore Roosevelt this afternoon. It waa the ex-presldenl's chief political address of the cam paign. In It he excoriated President Wilson's European and Mexican pol icies rs avoiding public duty "by adroit elocution and by the simple policy of drugging our souls with the narcotic of meaningless phrase mongering," In wblcb "these fine, words have bad, the meaning weasled out of them." Roosevelt devoted more than a third of his speech to decrying the stand taken by the president In the German controversies and In the Mexican situation. He followed with denunciation of the administration's attitude on preparedness. During the last half he went deeply In de tail In criticising the manner In which President Wilson (Verted the nation wide railroad strike. "At the outset," said Roosevelt, "I -wish to say a Word as to protests made by so 1 many people that we must not criticise the president. I did 'stand by the president' for a year and a half. It was with reluctance, however, as I wss forced to the con clusion that to do so longer was In compatible with standing by the in terests of mankind and the honor of the United States. "I, am convinced vthe conscience of. this people has been seared and Its moral sense dulled by the leadership of the administration and congress during the last three years. v "Mr. Wilson's supporters esy we should vote for him for keeping us out of war. It Is worth while to re member this could not have been said In behalf of either George Washing ton or Abraham Lincoln. These men spurned the torjes and copper heads with contemptuous Indigna- tlon as feeble and cowardly folk for urging peaoe-at-any-prlce." Roosevelt recited In detail the va- 1 GERII Ml WITH THE BUDGET Berlin, Sept 80. Chancellor von his relchstag opponents. They rea-Bethmann-Hollweg met with the bud- 1,I-. they satd before today's con get committee of the relchstag today ferenc kth ancellor . , ... waa speaking under the greatest dlf tn a secret session that will have a lth hMtUe ,new8paper, most Important bearing on the future waiting to pounce on' any utterance conduct of the war. and misconstrue it to suit their own The chancellor faced members who ends. , ' . have criticised him for his alleged! The chancellor's speech today was failure to wage more energetic war confined to a frank talk In private to on England and men who still ad vocated a resumption of vigorous sub' marine warfare, Supported by a re newed outburst of editorial opposi tion, and by attacks on American neu trallty appearing In yesterday's news papers, they pressed the chancellor for more explicit pledges than were contained In his relchstag speech on Thursday. On the outcome of this conference will depend whother Dethmann-' jllollweg's opponents will continue to safety at the Puget Sound Mills A wage open war on htm when the Timber company's logging camp No. relchstag re-convenes next, week. . 0 yesterday. Though several newspaper critics Many of the men were blistered, attacked tho chancellor for falling to temporarily uilnded, and slck'trdhi outline more specifically the govern- breathing the smoke when they ar gent's Intentions toward England in rived here. They had fought the his relchntag speech, these sentiments raging flames for 36 hours, only to were not shared by the majority of Isee It destroy eighteen buildings. OF He referral to the LusltanU atUcb as the "most colossal slngli Instance of the murder of non-combatants, In eluding men. women and children, that has been perpetrated by any power calling Itself civilized for over a century. He declared the president had full notice as to what vu to be done, and that be erred In not taking action that would have stopped it "And after it," said Roosevelt, his voice raised to high falsetto, "he only spoke. He said, something about be ing too proud to fight Imagine George Washington saying that after the battle of Lexington or Lincoln making such a statement after Sump ter waa fired on.' Roosevelt said the president has vacillated and reversed himself, even when he did finally act. He said the administration refused to recognise Hnerta because "his title was based cn intrigue and assassination," but that Colonel Benavldes waa recog niied as president of Pern, "although Benavldes imprisoned the president and assassinated the minister of war and various others." The former president said recog nition of Carransa was "the acid test In view of the, Indictment of Carransa by the president's own secretary of state, Mr. Lansing." He called the preaent Mexlcan-Amertean negotia tions "humiliating and disgraceful." He said America bas "earned the de rision of mankind by our' policy of mixed bluster, hypocrisy and unpre paredneas." As to the way in which the presi dent met the railroad crisis, Roose velt'declared it a "surrender to brute force" He went into great detail regarding his settlement of the an thracite coal strike, and satd the ad ministration "erred In not Insisting on a full hearing and giving every one the complete facts, and then sub- mltttng the cue to a special com- mission." CaiiiETS the rqlchstag, and his friends believed he would silence the attacks of the majority of his critics. FIRE FIGHTERS ESCAPE OVKH BURNING BRIDGE j , Port Angeles. Wash., Sept 80. Ftly fort nre fighters, hemmed in botween two burning bridges, mount- ed an engine and rode through flames and smoke over a biasing bridge to 11 VILLA III HUP a ran on us El Paso, Sept. JO. Villa and his forces are encamped at the proper ties of the four American-owned mines near Cuslhulrlachlc, following Wednesday's battle -with de facto troops, according to the latest reports received here today. Carranzlsta authorities claim two victories for de faptoftroopa, nut de tails of Wednesday's fighting re ceived by United States secret agents here Indicate that both organised forces had retreated and the battle was without result Led by Villa himself, a detachment of three hundred Villlstas, said the report, attacked "Cusi" Wednesday and captured the town, with but little bloodrhed. Part of the garrison re volted and Joined the bandits. The others, including the officers, were given an opportunity to Join the VII- llstaa and, when they tefused tbey were flogged and sent back to tell General Trevlno at Cblbuahua'Ctty that Villa had captnred the town, The officers fleeing from "Cusl'f car- mlA A.il l Cananl Dimna nnlT A r :rr. 7,.r.;. "vTriv amcaed thTn wh 7cW of elght hundred men. villa nastuy withdrew Into the mouth of a nearbv canyon, and aet a trap for the Car ranxlstas. As the de facto forces fol lowed the bandlU Into the canyon they were met by a heavy fire from machine - guns -nd mewed -down. Ramos hurriedly withdrew his troops from the .; canyon, re-formed, and marched away to Santa Tiabel. Representatives of the American- owned mutes here doubt If Villa will molest the properties,' as, from all In dications, the bandit leader has ap parently changed his attitude toward Americans. London, Sept 80. British 'mops Improved their positions at Stuff re doubt north of Thlepral, and beat off German counter-attacka at the Has slaa trench last night, General Half reported this morning. ' The fighting at the latter place was very severe, despite a heavy down pour of rain that converted the shell-, wrecked trenches into great pools of mud and water, In which Germans snd British fought The Germans shelled British positions south of the Ancre from the Destremont farm to a point southwest of Le Sara, village, toward which Halg's men are ap proaching. Despite this artillery at tack, the British continued to im prove their positions on the whole Thtepval sector. The French, to day's official Paris report showed, made further progress north of ftan- court last night, but elsewhere were held op by weather conditions. South of Neuvllle St. Vaast the British made a successful raid last night GERMAN GRENADE STARTS OREGON COURT MACHINERY Portland, Sept 30.- Six months ago, In Flanders, a German soldier chucked a hand grenade from his own dugout Into the British trenches As a result tho machinery of Oregon courts was set In motion today. The grenade killed Frank Wilder, owner of property worth $20,000 here. As Wllder's widow, who lives In London, was not qualified to act as executrix, his brother, Richard Wilder, of Port land, filed a petition In the Multno mah court to be appointed special ad' mlnlstrator. The plea will be hoard nhortiy. BRITISH TROOPS M YE II suewi FREIGHTER CAPTURED Tie Bremen Said to Havs Fallen Prey to EcgHtlets aid to Be Hell b Pert w the Ccsst cf Scciri Washington, Sept 30. The - Ger man submarine cargo beat Bremen has been captnred by the BriUsh and is now at the new British naval sta tion, Rosyth; at the month of the river Forth, on the coast of Scotland, according to apparently' reliable re ports reaching Washington today. The source of the Information wan withheld from the public, but ' offl- clala are inclined to give It credence. Although how the Bremen vu cap tured was not told. It ia thought prob able she was caught in one of tho steel nets which the British' admlr- for io.g Brttlab. Ules. U. S. 'FRIEUOLESS Ml . .1111 VI ECOS Milwaukee, Sept 30. "Friendless" and "panic" were the terms nsed by Percy Rockefeller, of New York tty. here today at the annual meeting of the stockholders and board of direc tors of the Chicago, Milwaukee tc St Paul railroad', forecasting condition! In the United States after the Euro pean waf. ".'-- ;V; ( i "The United States will be a friend less nation, And the country, win face the greatest financial disturbances of all times, following tho. close of the European war, said Rockefeller. "About pur nlr hope ia conserva tion," he said. "We have simply got to keep our heads. Every nation will be scrambling for the gold we hare garnered from the world. . They will all be trying to get their hands on it and it Is going to take some, pretty fast thinking .to keep their hands off. "A lot of men thought this country had reached the height of its finan cial power a year ago, but look at this year,., It has exceeded our wildest dreams, and now I am prepared t look for Just as many undreamed things for future years." MlU K''..xV ITALIAIIS ETIDORSE BRITISH STAUD Rome, Sept. 80. "A proper reply to Germany, in view of Bethmaan- , Holrwcg'a speech," waa the Glornale d'ltalta'a characterisation of David Lloyd-George's . statement - to the United 'Press that England waa de termined to carry the. war .to a "knockout." ......... All the Italian newspapers Joined with officials in enthusiastic approval of the British war secretary's deolar- ' atlons. - The Lloyd-George Interview u Interpreted here as a special warning to the United States not to make peace overtures at the present time. It is thought possible this warn ing was Inspired by reports that Am bassador Gerard was carrying to Washington a request from Germany that President Wilson sound out. the bolllgcrents on peace. At the same time It Is believed that Lloyd-George had the Vatican In mtni when he made his pronouncement. IRUn Pb 1TT
