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- t .mm t ',1 jim &., .T.i'ijij., jii Ulffl Ml hoV 1 Mil tU1(l! J DAILY EDIITION "VOL. VII., No. 4. 0 RANTS PAH, JOSEPHIIfB COUBfTT, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER If, ft. WHOLE NUMBER 1MO. N' Other Town in the Wdrld the Size of ''Grants Pari Has a Paper With Pull Leased Wire Telegraph Service. I VI LINES : British Military Lesdsr b b West Repcrti tieTtk cf Tested Pcsilioss to tie Dtpti -cf a Vjfo Londou, Nov. 13. General Halg't force struck another lar.tflo blow at the German HnM about tbt Anvr today. After thunderous artillery preparation, the Infantry took Ger man positions to lb depth of a mile, the war office announced thla after aooa. ' ' ' , The British troop, dashing Irre sistibly forward, captured the villages of Beaumont and Ilamrl, Jum north of the bead la the Aaere and about seven .tulles dds west of Bapaume, the objective of the great Kngllsh offsaalva. The Brltlih advance spread to the oath bank of the Aaere toward af ternoon when the British raptured St. Pierre Dlrlnn, about a mile across the rive from Hamel and In ' the direction of feapaume. Press dls patohe from headquarters said that already two thousand German have bean taken prlsouf.V. fhV British alto captured trenehea north of Serre. 'where fighting continues. SERBS PURSUING F London, Nor. IS. Continuing their purtult of retreating Bulgarlaa force which were driven out of Polog, In the Cerna front fighting, 8erMari trooM have recaptured Iven, north of Polog. The lighting la thla motor haa been continuous, night and day. The offl lal statement which told of Iven'i capture aald Bulgarian time after time attacked and occasionally gain' -d a temporary advantage, which they failed, however, to malataln. , righting waa particularly fierce long the Monsatlr-Ftorlna railway TEN AMERICANS 1TVSIFE m n.iauwH Kl Peso, Nov.! lS.-f-he lrgt deflnv It Information pointing to the safety of the 10 Americana at Parral wa obtained today by United Btate gov. rnment offlolali, -A Chinese merch ant, who came overland today from Parral to Chihuahua City, reaohed the American border during the night. He declared to federal .agent that the Vllllataa never entered the town. On the day he left, November 8, he . state he aaw two of th American lallva and believed all the other were jtsfn. The statement wa mad to United Btate Consul Edward, at Juarei, to be transmitted to th Washington frtate department, OKOkn IHHHOLI'TION OF lXm PRODUCT (X)MPANY New York, Nov. 13, Final decree In the Corn Products dissolution suit brought by th fodcral government was refused today by Judge Hand In the foderal district court, ordering attorneys for the corporation to pre pare plana for dissolution and present them for the court's approval with in HO day. ' Al Mnthct of Murphy, returned home after three works visiting In 0 rants Pass. OEABljl, SEflDS INTO OPEfl DRAW 9: v mt U... .-'3 ' YaneoVvei? 11. t'.,- Nov 13. That a dead man anl nine, and possibly eleven persona to their deaths on Sat urday night, when George Smith sent th crowded ' Udner motor slave through the.open draw of the North Ann bridge and plunged oar and freight Into the loy water of the Krajter rivor, I th startling theory suggested today by acquaintance of the chauffeur. j , :, Smith, It appear, suffered from heart disease, and that bi pulse sud denly had ceased Is probably the only rational explanation that will ever be glvrjn of hia aot In rushing hi vehicle onto the bridge with the warning red lights shining clear against him. Smith knew the road and the bridge perfectly and was con sidered a very safe driver. Ills csr was apparently under con irol and it I Incredible, If still alive and conscious he should have failed to have pulled up when he saw the danger signals. The stage was making Its evening trip towards Vancouver when the accident occurred. At Brat It was reported that It carried 13 passen gers, but today th number la placed at 14. When th atage reached the bridge at 7 p. m., the draw was open to let a tug through, and the barri cade, made of ateel bare and stout wire netting, was closed snd pad locked. Regard lew of the red light on th barricade, the atage moved rapidly forward, broke through and dived straight Into the river below. Of th passengers, a little girl, Muriel Kvans, and two men were rea died alive, aeven bodies, Including those of IHtle Muriel' mother and later, have since been recovered, and one, possibly three, are still In the river. '; The dead: Mrs. A. W. Kvans, North Vancouver; her daughter, Uurs Kvans, aged 13 (recovered Saturday night );.W. H., Walker,. Vancouver, engineer of Pacific Milk company, l.adner, married, leaves wife and four children; George Smith, driver, South Vancouver, married, leave wife and Ave children; John Marshall,, North Vernon, Washington; Frank Keene, commercial traveler, Vanoouver; Kenneth Ritchie, ladner, single'; un identified' Chinese. . ' (,, Missing Arnold Wilcox, farm manager. Ladner, believed drowned, known to have been a passenger on that atage, body not recovered yet. In addition there are believed to have been other paaaenger on board. Rescued 'Muriel Kvans, aged 10, North Vanoouver, daughter of Mr. Kvans; Thoma Bhortrend, Edmonds, Burnaby; Henry Hutchinson, Van couver, gave hi address to rescuer aa 131 Dufferln street, but not known at that address. . PROBE SINKING . djTj iri t Ml 'OF London, Nov, 18.- -Further details regarding the sinking by a German aubmarlne of th American-Hawaiian steamer, Columbian (,r,,, expected hourly. Word haa been reeolved here that progress Is being made In the taking of affidavit from member or the Columbian' crew who were land-r-d at Corunna. . Fragmentary . reports on the etorles of these men agree on these fui:ts; During a Inshlng unle the Col umbian whs lirld up ' week agu to- dtty h.f a Herman submnrluo,, which forced , her to throw out sea, ani'hori irml licnvo. ln until the a,tovnv sub- h'i!i (1, After two days of swlimlnit In hoavy scnaffhe sttbinnrlne command er ordered in tiruw to the simill lici'tK, When all were off the sub murine torpedoed the sUaliioi', which ntcr sunk. I fER oralis ; ; new " . i'..ot V;itfi -a a ReprestniiiTTtt cf t Fear Rzi!rc:ds Fd to Ap-ee Ufsi ' a Waa fcr Adi:a Naw York, Nov. H The aecond conrerence between representatives of th four brotherhood and repre sentative of th big railroada ad juurnea iaie toaay . wtutout an agree ment being reached over the Adam- son eight-hour law. Too railroad officials refused to make any concessions. New York. Nov. 13. That the rail way trainmen's light tor the eight hour law may have only begun waa Indicated her this afternoon when brotherhood representative and rail road officials met for a conference over operation of the Adaoiaon law. William 0. Leo, chief of th train men, announced that Ms committee na4 aaaed toe railroad representa tives about Injunction brought or planned against operation of th law. They were told, he aald.. that -anco. action bad been taken by the rail road' legal department without con sulting the railroad head. "So we started to leave," Lee aald. "They suggested we come for another conference. We ar going back as their guests. What w can dlsouss I am sure I ran not aay." The strike vote taken laat summer Is still effective, Lee said, and may be used If neceesary: St. Louis, Nov. 13. B. F. Bush, re ceiver of the Missouri Pacific railroad. today filed a petition aaklng an In junction against federal government official preventing the enforcement of the Adamsoa eight-hour law. Fed era Judge Dyer set November 37 as the date. for the hearing pn the peti tion. Arthur.Ollver, United Statea district attorney, and 10 officials of the various brotherhood are named defendant.. PRESS COMMENT ON I'OTSiElEmOII New York,,fo.'!t'l.,--w,Ybrli newspapers commented today aa fol lows on President Wilson' election: . Herald What la past I past, Let aa tub off th alate and begin all over again, but write on that slate In letter that this time they ran not again be overlooked, the words: "Single presidential terms." A single term of six or seven year would seem the best solution of th prob lem. - - t ' Sun The president elected Is the president not only for those who sup ported him, but of all American. Time If Mr. Roosevelt had been the republican candidate nobody can tell what would hav happened. But Mr. Roosevelt I a genius, a sort of elemental force. Mr. Hughes can not be blnmed for not being a Roosevelt. TrlbunemrThe election demon strated, beyond dispute th non dellvorablllty of the union labor vote, The vote which re-elected Mr Wil son came largely from the rural dis tricts, from states In which labor I only poorly organised, , ,,, World President Wilson will en ter his second term with a clean slate. Tlift old Issues are dead. The old polltlcnl alignments aro broken. Trie president has no friends whom he In under obligations (o reward, lie owes nothing to any political- oigan-lantlen, IVOR PUNfi ,ii- ' Repaid V.mzz n Toward th (kest$cf tie hzznmXtKzxMv HeljfScsjwfccrcTaKacco . viral- Paao, Nov. El Paao, Nov. 13. About 300 mounted Vllllata under Bandit Lead er Quevedo today are proceeding from the vicinity of Gallego toward the outpost-of General Pershing' American expedition at El Valle, about B0 mile distant; according-to an aonnuncement made by the Mexi can do facto government authorities at Joarea. Thla la th same band that raided a Mexican Central rail way paaaenger train and killed 29 guards while searching for Ameri cans at Laguna recently. The Car ranxlstas, however, do not believe the bandit will hasard aa attack unless they encounter a small reeonnolter ing fore of American, United Statea government official reported today that military train of Camaslataa haa been captured at Fresno, Juet ouUlde of Chihuahua LCIty. by Vllllataa, Th bridge waa burned behind the train, It waa learn ed, and the de facto force Were forced to abandon It. Consul Bravo at Juarei stated that he had heard nothing or such an attack. . . Friends of Captain Scobel, British consul at Chihuahua City, declared today that order hare been received by the consul by a messenger from the British ambassador at Washing ton, advising 8oobel to abandon his poat for the preaent. The consul' wife had Intended leaving Chihuahua City thla week. . . -v: The release of the two Americana held at Joarea waa taken op by Con sul General Garcia again today. : Phoenix, Arix., Nor. 13. Dr. Per- dval Lowell, world famona astron omer, head of the , observatory at Flagstaff. Aria. died late last night of apoplexy, according to word received here today,,' , i, . fl1.4 , r;i:ilJESQTA LEAD re -"I ii,."tl btiJ vir t.id Paul. vWiii&wii?'W ViEtas HOLDING olncta of civilian voters uieaing and the majority of soldier votes not yet counted, Hughea today led Wilson by 350 vote In Minnesota; " The addi tion of Caa county precincts, sup posedly democratic, and some sol dier vote, previously claimed by the democratsboosted Hughes' total two votes to 178,813 and Wilson 178.569. Republican claim this lead' will be maintained. . With, North Dakota definitely In th Wilson column, interest today turned to the formation of the state legislature, which will be completely under the domination of th Farmers' Non-Partisan league.. Candidates eleoted. with i the. endorsement of the farmer' organisation have complete control of th legislature. The league, organised last fall aa an outgrowth of the Equity Co-operative Exchange, had tor Its eolei object state-owned elevators and .marketing of grain direct from the farmer to the miller, eliminating., entirely board of trade speculation In all foodstuffs. . In 8ouhh Dakota, woman's suffrage and the Richards direct primary law seem definitely defeated. The iform or Is 4,455 behind and the latter law, thrown out by the United Stales su preme Tourt twice, l 1,078 votes be WILSON CABINET 3 Washington, Nov. 12. President Harry A. Garfield of Williams col lege, son of President Garfield; Sena tor Waltb of Montana, and Democra tic National Chairman McCormlck were three names centered upon la the discussion here today of the prob able new member of tbe president's fWblnet after. March 4.-v " ' That there will be more than one resignation by present member 1 deemed certain. One new member, tn tbe opinion of Henry Morgentnan, treasurer of tbe democratic national committee. Is likely to come from tbe west. MOrgenthau waa In Washing ton today 'together with' Edward U Doheny. wealthy California oil opera tor, with whom he will depart from Norfolk on a yachting cruise. 'The name or 'Senator' Walsh' ha been given consideration because he la from the west . On tbe other band, there la general belief that he will be Senator Kern's successor as senate leader. - Professor Garfield, unlike his brother, James R., member of Roose velt's cabinet, baa been aa active sup porter of the president aa well as a personal friend. If there ar any changes In the cabinet, they will come aa a reanlt of Insistence by. the cabinet minister himself. Thla waa learned definitely today and waa construed in official circle blow to t porta that th President would remove Secretaries Daniels and Redfield, and waa con sidering a new maa to take the place of Secretary afoAdoo., Th same situation la true with regard to the post of secretary to the . president, now held by Joseph P. Tumulty. It la considered Tumulty will not be replaced unless he strongly requests It .' .' . GERMAN JEP1L0F THE 0;BAULE '..j r fay fit Berlin,' via Sayville; Nov.13. Only group of hostile detachments, "feeling" their way along the Dan ube," have ' attacked General' Hac- kensen's 'extreme left wing" fa "the Dobrudja and those were, forced '-back, the war office announced today la It first detailed account of the recent fighting' at Cerntvds: bridge. Th official account of th struggle for tba ?l.mll pan eroea ihetwo great arms of the Danube and'1 over the" wide, marshy arsa' I between. stated:') f.x.;': h :( t'i ;.. ' S .V twit.-.. u cu.u Marshal '' von Mackensen'a army, group of hostile detachment;' feel ing their' way along the " Danube against lb left wing of our position In the 1 northern Dobmdja. were chased.-".' V I T ' V ' - "Cernnvoda was shelled without aucces from the left bank of the Daaba,M'. vo-r,;-, y -.vt;K. . There has been no mention made IB Berlin of the report trqjn Petrograd saying Cbrnavoda was In flames and that Constanta, on Mackensen'a ex treme right, had been fired by a Rus sian sea bombardment 'i : - On Archduka Carl' front,' In the Gyergye mountains, ' Auitro-Oermaa bnttallon captured Dltoa and Ar surller. At that point and on the heights of Belbora, a well as on th east bank of the Putna river, the Rou manians counter-attacked several times, but without success. The en emy met with similar failure on the mountains on both sides of th Ottus pass, where hostile advances were repulsed. Washington,-Nov. 13. The name of Edwin F. Sweet was sent to the president today by Secretary of Com merce Redfield' for re-appolntment as assistant secretary, Sweet resigned to ran for governor of ?,1lcMgan and waa defeated. BMEttS S0OL1EIS DESCUD .311 I!::i$tf Defers .;. By Carl W. Ackeraaa. , ..Somewhere on the 8omme Front. Nor. 10, via Berlin and Wireless to 8ayvHlo, Nov.-13. Germany Is 4s-' reading th Son me with snrisd arta- ' .i;:;;'i,i i'-.V; In their sssaniu the Freaoh'and British ar attacking only the aor- ,( face of the greatest fortifications la ths world.1 Germany bultt a aurprto " for the alii la her wonderful series ' ! ' of srUllexy-proof fortification. These defenses are built so dose, are dog so . deep and cover such a wide area " that what tte allies are ' today tak- ' lag vita lafahtry, tanks and artillery " ar only tas Outskirts 6f a powerful system of underground forts. The bombardment is torrile. Fields, woods and towns are ton to pieces ' toy constantly ' exploding ' shells. But underground nothing is'" ''" fetched."-- AncT It fa -from her ana surface forts that "Germany Is re- . pelUng th alUed attack. For a week I have been over ths Somme battlefield. " From a height near Paronne, ' aid to ths sesth of ' ' Arras, oar party twice peastratad tke shell area, viewing Peroone and Ba- panme. the two immediate objects . of firs.' It marked the first tints sines ths Somme battle began' that ' a' sea trsJ has been permitted to Inspect , tMs.part of ths underground fort- ' fl cations constrneted by th Oersaaa forces. Whfle waiting la ths library' of a castle serving sa ths headqsar-'" tors of one of the eommandlnc gen-" " ' eral, the window rattled and doors- 'J. shook from ths concussion of burst'- ing shells. .' ;, : With these constant explosions la " our eart. and oscortsd by an intelll- ' genes officer, we motored to the heights of Bapanme. TtjSre we watck -sd ths British fire on a town. There was only a church spire and one- chimney atUl standing; Although U approaching ths front ws encountered ' 11. lines of trenches and wire sa- tanglemeats. the Somme battle Is no longer being defended from ths ', ,., trsnches. but wHh buried artillery. for miles, as ws walked, ws pass- ' ed holes tn the ground large enough " 1 for men to crawl Into?" These srer entrenched to thousand of under- -' ground forts which ths Qermaa : have 'built In aa endless chain. Th . underground defenses vary la depth ' ' " from a fbw feet to ai 'mtioh as ' ' " lia, .'.' r.irt ''- .(;(; ...v.- -,. rr' e No cannon yef Invented can pane- ' ' trate them. And this Is ths rsaaoa, . German officers explain, why the English can not destroy ths German. , r L defense. r Not a bouse, a ban or a ' whols tree 1 standing In Arhdpetle. 1 ' - Our automohUs was halted sa routs 1 by soldiers cleaning th road of debrl from th recent bombardment After passing through this village ' -. waa again shelled. Ths bombard- ' 11 msnt was so terrific aa to bs lade- - scrlbable. Our auto party could plainly hoar ths shells .whining by and the hnta of aeroplanes. We stopped at a ploughed field, and sntsrsd an un derground battery. Above ground. In some spot, so many shells had exploded It was impossible to cunt the shell craters. But undergr :inul the ground was nnscratched. La borers were working on a new net work of railway which has been con- , structed back of the 8ommo since ths battle began. Permanent construc tion of roads and railways Is neces- (Contlnssd on page 3) A A
