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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
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d rBniTC ME Til
MUM LOSS AT VERDUN
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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
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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
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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.
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