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B. YOORHIKS, Pah. aad Prop.
WILFORD AIXXN. Uitor
, Catered at tha Grants Paan,Om
ton, Postottce as secoad-claai nail
attar.
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southern republic. In prlrate con
versation, however, he talked moat In
terestingly or affair ta troubled Mex
ico." Re said that the most distress
ing reports vers ancolored, and that
the truth was many times worse than
tha general publto really understood.
And it was rapidly growing worse,
h said. The Mexicans had lost all
fea of the Catted States, and Amer
icans In Mexico occupied a plane little
higher In the public wind than the
peons. But the feature fraught with
greatest danger to the tnlted States,
said this diplomat was the certainty
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SINDAV, OCTOBER 8, IMC
OREGON WKATKKIi
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' Sunday fair; westerly winds.
nation wonld demand protection for
IU cltlsena In Mexico, a protection
that the United States seemed unable
or unwilling to offer. Then there
would be a mighty howl about the
Monroe Doctrine, and grave possibil
ity of war with th European nation.
'Tor It America will not protect her
citizens my nation ts going to see
that those who still claim allegiance
to Its flag get the protection that w
have, under the operation of the Mon
roe Doctrine, looked to this country
COAST HIGHWAY PROBABLS
There seems prospect that the
much discussed highway from Grants
Pass to Crescent City, by way ot the
Elk creek and Smith river route, may ' gu4nuteft
WctAMt asm M f 1 Ik 1 i t r HaWAtltlY
the county court presented the ques
tion ot federal aid In the repair ot
the road over Oregon mountain to the
department, assuming that the road
now in use most be maintained If
there 'was no hope ot action upon the
proposed new highway.
Now comes word from Crescent
City that there is belief that the
Smith river route may soon be estab-i,rBment 1DTth,ng but rdlcuIe.
Ushed. and through state and federal j
aid the road be readily constructed, j
Nothing could please the people of I
Josephine county more than to give
all possible assistance In the making '
f this new highway, which would
eliminate most of the grade on the
This visitor said that the time was
not . far distant when some nation
must step In and bring order out ot
the chaos in Mexico. America had
been given her opportunity, and while
she had stepped In, first at Vera Crux
and later through Jhe Invasion from
the north, each was a farce that fail
ed to impress the Mexican people or
.to bring to the United States gov-
y
HARVEST FESTIVAL
coast road, produce a scenic highway
that could be traveled the year
through, and that would not be ex
pensive to maintain after once con
structed. n"he county court ot Jose-'
j . The Salvation Army Is to hold lu
.annual harvest festival celebration
from October -7 to 13. For this pur
pose Its officers, soldiers, and friends
are now busy collecting all sorts of
pbine.tb.as stated, that H fill co- frum Ma vegetables, . fancy-work,
operate to the fullest' extent, and will groceries, chickens, ducks, guineas,
lead every assistance to Del Norte 'fee and other saleable articles,
county. : Josephine wl even forego not turn down,even gift.
i. i ., 'of sheep, hogs or cattle and, of course.
Its elalm upon fta federal aid in theharf u a,wty lccepttoto lnd
construction of this road, permitting , ometiines preferable. All these ar
it all to go upon that portion of the 'tides are to.be gathered into the Sal
vation Army hall, where they will be
arranged Into an artistic setting and
background for the harvest festival
celebration.
Songs, music, .exercises and ad
dresses will be in keeping with the
road In Del Norte county, and will
construct an equally goodshlghwiy to
the state line at the Elk creek and
Smith river divide. It can well afford
to do this, inasmuch as It will do
away with travel over 'Oregon moun- j occasion and a most joyous and inter
tain and farther expense need not be "lng time I. anticipated. All these
. . A. M services will be open to the public and
put upon that portion of the road. a ,nT,utioIl teB(Jed t0 the
The Del Norte Development aso-' t BUCtion sale which Is the happy
elation has addressed the Commercisl 'closing event of the festival,
club ot this city, asking eo-operatlon ! The Income accruing from the sale
In their efforts to get state aid upon
'and from cash donations is to be used
for the prosecution of Salvation Army
the highway In question. California, Jn Mg M of
Is to vote next month upon a bond brancneg whlch will be assisted by the
Issue of fifteen mlllion.dollars for the harvest festival are Women's Rescue
building of stste highways, and It is work. Children's Homes. Colleges for
already assumed Uhat the Issue will
training Salvation Army officers, sick
and disabled officers, corps and Insti
tutions which are not self-supporting
'P 'and the local Salvation Army work
women's res
cue homes and maternity hospitals,
124 men's industrial homes, 79
Josepmne worvinirnipn' hotels. 16 slum Hosts
carry. Acting upon the assumption,
iV ..... .mil. rm ... nW In TWl '
IHV Slav; ruftium, . " " ' y -
Norte connty preparing to make loca-j Throughout the United States the
Hon surveys of the road up Smith Salvation Army has In operation 946
river, but 'of course there must be the rP n'1 outposts,
assurance that this read will connect
with the highway In
eounty. The president of the Del and nurseries, 2 industrial farms and
N'nrt nclatlon savs that "from In- homes for boys and girls, besides
formation which t have received. I numerous relief departments, free
... ... '.. ,, . 'employment bureaus, free medical
feel ante positive tnai oy con n n ng
n-r. Muii.c i-udi ( v, dispensaries, antl-sulclde bureaus, de-
otJr efforts we can succeed In gettlni? 'partmenti for tracng lost and miss
the road located as desired, thus re- ini friends, orison work and other
llevlng your county of the expense of j helpful activities,
maintaining the mountain road and j
leaving'the way clear for us to bond
for an intercommunicating system of
highways for the county."
Whatever is done, It Is Imperative
that adlon be prompt. As soon as
the votes are counted and the 915,
000,000 of California funds are avail
able, there will be plenty of places to
put the fund, and the Smith river
highway should lie early In the lists.'
FRANCE REJECTED
UNCUS SAM IN MEXICO
, , Recently a diplomat who represents
a great Eropcan power in Mexico
spent some days In Grants F'ass. vDur
Intf his visit here the gentleman was
off duty, but was careful to make no
remarks that could be Interpreted a)
either unfriendly or unneutral In his
discussions of conditions In the
(Continued from page 1.)
any attention to tlie German victories
in Koumanla.
In Berlin there Is some depression,
but the faith In the ability of the
army to hold out Indefinitely has not
been shaken. Every one In Germany
keeps maps of the battle fronts nnd
watches the fighting closely.
The most amazing faith In von illn
denburg and von Mackensen. exists.
The Berlin newspapers emphasize
the shortage of British tonnage. They
declare food prices have advanced as
much in England as In Berlin. Frame,
Berllners believe, has exhausted her
reserves and her army Is weakening
dally more than any other army,
The streets of Berlin, Frankfort,
Bremen and all large German cities
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are full of soldiers all the time, re
futing the oft-repeated statement
that Germany -has exhausted her re
serves. "The allies are losing 5,000 men a
day fn the western front," was the
way one Oerman put it. "I suppose
our losses are great, too, but we can
keep It up as long at they can. We
will hold out until the allies get
enough of It."
ISIIXI.VUH HKNTKXCKD TO
MFK IX IMUSON
San Francisco, Oct. 7. Warren K.
Billings, convicted . of planing the
preparedness parade bomb, was today
denied a new trial by Superior Judge
Dunne and sentenced to life In Kol
som prison,
. A notice of appeal was filed hy At
torney Maxwell McNult.
I
Murine-Nine I iim'iJ In pi (V.lti liliti
Did .von tell linn i m,s ti"IHK tu be
Oj'UTit'd' ti'iu.vie I i' illil Murine
l)ld tie Hk how koiiiiV i ni, we No,
lie nuked how long
At the pri'M'iii ink of liicicNse lu
the consumption of unlive lumber in
.New .eiiluml It Is estlmuled that the
supply of standing timber will lust not
more than thirty years.
IliK'on-And you say your brother
lint settled In Cniindn? Egbert No, I
didn't say so. I think he went there
to get out of suttlliitf.-Yonkers Hliitcs
man.
The natives of New Guinea are thq
shortest lived people In the world, and
tbls result Is attributed to their diet
of tlio larvae or certain beetles and
their prnctlce of drinking sea tviifer,
l.oliiloti Tvleirriipli
Ircb Is the commonest tree la Ira
land. '
An elepbaut's truuk contains 40.000
muscles.
Kadluui Is valued ul nearly tl.OOO.Oun
per pound.
The ulgbt jKilIre of hevlllv itrri
sjiears as of old.
" The Portuguese language U used li)
hoiit :tO.MM'0il persiNia -
An I in It it t It i bone for cutlery nan
tiles In nmile of seaweed
Mica deptnlts itimVlciitly litres to de
velop cilitfTTi twenty slates.
Crime luiTeusrs til the rule of '.V
per cent every twenty years.
Britain hn grown uliroutl to seven
ty-eighr times her area nl, home. '
Moiv I him '.'7.000 ions of lionef an
produced yearly hy the Amerlcsn bee
Ella Age before beauty.
Stella -Von are always getting ahead
of me,
Natives of Algeria bury with thcli
dcud all the medicines uted In their
last llluessk
l.lnen wus tlrst referred to In 171(1
li. C. It man ii fact ure started In Eng.
land lu I'j:kI
The working bee lives six months,
the druiio four months and the femnle
bee four yearn, ( v
i'IioII.v-'J'Iihi dog knows as iniicb as.
I do! Kthul-Well. thnl's enough for
s tiouse dogK fuck,
"Mow louit hnve you been III love
with liliut"
"Kver slurp I rejected lilm "
Tendior-llolili.v, spell "yesterday. "
liobby (with his vyv m (ho calendar)
W e d n e-s-d ii y.- IIohIoii Trntiscrlpt.
ATLANTA WOMAX IS
NOW mn.V t'HAMI'ION
Hoston, Oi l. 7. Miss Alexia Sterl
ing, of Atlanta, Ga won the woman's
national golf title today when she
defeated Miss Mildred Caverley, of
Philadelphia, two-up and one-to-play.
Walnut Creek Tel. While lliten
Ing to the evidence In an automobile-
ste here, the six women Jurors con
tinued their knitting, only pausing
long enough to return a verdict for
tho defendant.
Job printing of every description
t the Courier office.
Joy Theatre
Old Lyceum and
Gaiety Stand
505 G STREET
Starts Monday Evening
Watch For Big Program
In Tomorrow's Paper
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