Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, December 21, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text! 1 I ' 3 DAILY EDITION "VOL. VII., No. Ml. GRANTS PA8H, JOHKPHINK COUNTV. OREGON, THl ItSDAf, DECEMBER 21, 116 WHOLE NUMBER 1MX No Other Town in the World the Size. of Orants Pass Has a Paper With Full leased Wire Telegraph Service. 4 IRRIGATION RECTI JAN. 20 Directors For the Scuthside Project WiU Be Named At Tbt Toe to Proceed With Formulation ol Plan The election for lh selection of -directors of the proposed Irrigation -district for th soutbaide of the river will b held on Saturday, January 30th, the polling- place to be at tba Boy d ton residence at tha turn In tba Crescent City highway. Three dl ractora and treasurer will be elect ad. Property owner who ara other wlaa qualified elector within the district ara eligible aa dlrartora, and nomination can ba made by petition aimed by 10 peraona who ara quaP I fled to vote at tba election. Aa offloera of tha election ' tba county court haa named N. C. Boyn- ton and J. J. Moll aa Judgea, and J. H. Harrla. Geo. Crawford and J. B. Borough aa clerks. Following tha election of tha dl' ractora, they will Investigate tha sup fW of water, coat of tha Irrigation a- V.c and all other details, though li:wn not expend to exceed 10 " canta per'iWfor the landa'in thi proposed dlatrlct for audi prelimin ary work. After tha director have formulated a plan under which It la propoaed to Irrigate the dlatrlct, the plan mint be aiibmltted to tho atate engineer for bla approval. Tha en gineer will than advise aa regordi com of construction, etc., and when all detalla ara ready a final election will b held for tba acceptance or rejection of tha plan. If accepted, bonda will be leaned and thv work 'tf const ruction can proceed. GERMAN PUBLIC FOR Berlin, Dec 11. Tha Oerman pub Ho la determined to carry on the war, In view of Premier Lloyd Oorge's speech. Utterances of the British prime minister have been ex amined alike by tha humblest oltlxen and tha highest official from the grand headquarter to Potsdam. Tha general public's verdict la the warn. The official view point will not ba made known In all probability ' until the racolpt of the official text of tha allies' reply, Even the socialist leader, Dr. Bcheldcmann, declares If Lloyd- 'George expects Germany to publish liar peace conditions aa the next atop, ha will be disappointed. Sohnldemann also remarked Incidentally that the Imperial chattcollor, von Bothmann Hollweg, followed socialistic Ideas In tha making of the proffer of peace, ' Theodora Wolff, writing In tho Tageblatt, says: "Premier ' Lloyd-George rejects overtures of peace, by asking Gor many'i terms, knowing no belllgor nt can publish Its terms." Continuing, lie points out thnt, al though Lloyd-George's statement nay soem to make peace Impossible, the public In Germany lias made It tiolf heard In Oormany, as having taken such a atop, The foregoing story was written, 'of course, before publication of Pres ident Wilson's peace suggestions. Amsterdam, Dec, SI, Police pro hibited a great socialist meeting ai'hedulod In favor of -peace at Iep xn, according to despatches here to lay. ' . CdlEIIT PEACE MOVE New York, Dec. 21. New York newspapers today commented oa President Wilson's nota aa follows: Tribune American Influence for real peace Is now abolished. Today we have become tha agenta and pur veyors of a German peace. Times It Is difficult to sea where It (the note) can do harm. It may serve to turn tha minds of tha bel ligerents to peace. Sun Tha president makea plain bis Intention to labor for tha creation of post-bellum conditions that In In ternational transactions will Involve this country In a manner that It haa hitherto scrupulously avoided. Herald The temptation to be tha president of humanity la great, but It should not permit Mr. Wilson to forget that ha la president of tha I'nlted States, and that to him have been entrusted tha vital Interests of th American people. World President Wilson has tak en a first definite step toward ascer taining tha terms upon which the bel ligerents will consider peace. Ha haa taken It In a manner In which no bel ligerent can well offer objections. Btaats Zellung The nota whleh President Wilson addressed to tha warring natlona may prove to ba a step of quite Incalculable extent In tha Interests of all th peoples In volved In tha fearful war. Ban Francisco Examiner; W be tleve the president's brev and manly and opportune appeal to tha nations at war enda the war. It la tha great est and most memorsble Christmas gift that ever waa given. FISH COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT There waa a good attendance at the meeting of the game and fish pro tective association held at th Com mercial club rooms Wednesday night. The special committee that had been appointed at a previous meeting bad Ita report ready for consideration, tha report covering the question of fishing conditions most fully. It In cluded statements froiu health of floera covering the condition of the river during the time that all com mercial ftahlng waa prohibited, and of th men who were employed by the authorities to bury dead salmon thnt accumulated along the river within the city and near and above th water supply Intake. Statements war also Includod showing th val ue of the commercial fishing In dustry to the community, while anglers added their testimony aa to sport flsblpg during open and closed seasons. Tit report recommended that seines and act neta be prohibited from all the waters of the Rogue, and that only the drift net of 84 Inch mesh be permitted. It also en dorsed the establishment of th dead line at the month of th river by the state fish and gam com mission, and asked that the drift net be permitted upon the waters of th upper river during the chlnnnk season, from April Kith to August lMh, with closed water for 1,000 feet below every dam, flsli-way or obstruction, Tha report showed that shortage of fish In th upper river waa caused largely by reason of Inadequate fish ways at Golden Drift and Ray-Gold dams, periods of low water such aa prevailed during th past two sea sons holding many of th fish below the dams., Th committee, composed of Messrs. M. 3. Anderson, Frank Bram well, Geo, Dickinson, Frank McFar lane and Jas. W'erts, that had pre pared the report, waa Instructed to have It prlhted and auppllod to each member of th state legislature. PRESS FIRES 111 Secretary Lansiag Expbias Tkat tic United States Govern ment Is Not Coos: derisg a Cbsge ia its Policy Toward the Belligerents fa Make? a Klore fcr Negotiations btesded to Bring Ecd to Washington, Dec. II. Th United States government Is "not considering any change In It policy of neutral ity," toward tha belligerent nations, Secretary loosing declared this after noon In a formal statement, which, he explained, supplemented tha one ha had made earlier today. This second statement waa made, Lansing aald, oecauee his first had been sub jected to "various constructions tie had not meant to convey."; "How about th first statement Is sued earlier today?" Lansing was asked. "Doe that still aland?" "Why. certainly." Unslng replied. 'The second would be unintelligible without the first." Washington, Dec. 31. In making hia formal effort to get a statement of peace term from th belligerent power and to evolve from the Euro pean war mean of preventing a aim liar word tragedy. President Wilson acted with knowledge that th other world neutral would stand behind him. It was stated today. t - He ha th greatest confidence that hia effort will succeed. Official and diplomatic Washington today scarcely recovered from th startling development of his sending a peace not to all countries, await ing, with anxiety th first response Ident's suggest Ion for peace, deflnl Ident's sggestlon for peace defini tions. Tha president' action cam out of a dear sky. He expressed this coun try's "Intimate Interest" in the war's conclusion thus: "Lest It should presently be too 1st to accomplish th greater things which He beyond tta conclusion. "Lest the situation or neutral na tions, now exceedingly hard to en dure, be rendered although rntoler able, and "Lest n Injury b don civilisa tion Itself which can never be atoned for or repaired." The president has made It clear many time that he would make no such move unless he were assured of tta definitely accomplishing Its pur pose. Determination to launch his pro nouncement waa reached suddenly, although he had contemplated such action for several weeks. In diplomatic circles the presi STOCK MARKET New York, Dec. "2 1. The stock market, which broke two to 13 points during the first hour today, was thrown Into wild excitement and un certainty by the announcement olf Secretary Unslng that President Wil son sent his "peace message" to the belligerents because this country's poslton as a neutral is bocomlnlng in tolerable. An opening hour, of vast stock dumping proportions with the heav iest trading since the day th Lust tanla was sunk was followed by nar row recoveries. This upward move ment continued after Lansing's state ment was carried Into the financial district on news ticker but hesitated broke, and the new market became highly nervous and uncertain shortly after noon, , , Sales to noon were mor than , 1,800,000 shares. the Ecrcpeaa War dent's move waa discussed today with a mixed feeling. There was out spoken optimism at tho German em bassy. : Comment was mad on th "studied language" of th not and It waa pointed out that th president' view on future guarantees squared with those of Lloyd-George. Washington. Dec. II. Plainly hinting that, there Is danger of th I'nlted States being drawn Into the war. Secretary or State Lansing to day aald this was. the real reason be hind President Wilson's message to the belligerents. The situation or th I'nlted States, as a neutral, Is rap Idly becoming intolerable, he said. Therefore, the president haa demand ed a show-down. t Lansing authorised th following statement as being the real purpose behind the Wilson message: "Our rights have been Invaded and the situation I becoming so Intoler able that It cannot go on long. . "More and mor our rights are In vaded by tha belligerent on "both aides, so that th situation 1 be coming Increasingly critical. I mean by that that we are drawing nearer to th verge of war and therefor are entitled to know what each belliger ent aeeka In order that w can regu late our .conduct In th future. "It waa not our material Interest that were concerned 'When we aald the. situation might becpm Intoler able. W have prospered by th war, but our rights have been invaded." Lansing emphasised positively that th Oerman peace proposal and th Lloyd-George speech had nothing to do wltb tha dispatch of th Wilson note, except possibly to delay sending It. On this point he athorlsed a quo tation as follows: "No nation has been sounded on this matter and we did not know In advance what Lloyd-Georg would say. And there waa no consideration of German overtures or th speech or Llyod-George In connection with the formation or this note, "The only thing the Oerman over tures dtd waa possibly to delay the not a few days. -1 "It was not finally decided to send (Continued on Pag I) IN BRITISH WAR TONE London, Dec. 21. Within 48 hours of Premier Lloyd-Uebrge's first speech, England has been unprece dently awakened to the actualities of war. Revolutionary changes have come In such rapid succession ttiat the publlo would not be surprised at any development. If national pro hibition on liquor was announced this afternoon, It probably would evoke nothing more than a sephyr of hostil ity. Actual prohibition may not be no remote, either, esitectally sine It Is reported that liquor will soon be entirely banned In Scotland in order to Increase the outfmt of shipping; not only by permitting mor work by shipbuilding laborers, but by de creasing cargoes of liquor. Th publlo argues that It such a move would augument shipping it would probably also Increase the out put ot shells and foodstuffs In var ious way ir applied rigorously to th entire country, FORD A T PLANT TO CLOSE DOWN in ti Detroit, Dec. II. A a means o'f relieving the railroad congestion now threatening all industries in De troit, th Ford Motor company will suspend operation completely to morrow and remain closed until Jan uary 1. Th announcement waa made today by Frank L. Kllngensmith, gen eral manager. ' Thirty tbousand employe probably will be affected by the order. None will receive pay during the period or suspension. '. The shutdown will mean a loss In wages to the 41,000 employes af fected of more than f 1,470,000. At th same time tha plant will sacrifice its profits on approximately 17,500 cars. The Ford plant Is now turning out about 2,500- machine; dally. "We are doing this from a hu mane standpoint," aald Klingenemlth, "We bar lota or order and could continue shipping our product, bnt we believe the railroads should not jbe congested with commodities that are not necessities or lire. "By closing onr plant we are doing our share to assist the railroads in relieving the congestion now con fronting them. It will save fuel, lab or and cars that might be used for the transportation of freight that I highly necessary to life. . WORLD PEACE IS . . HOPE OF NATION Washington, Dec. 21. The most Influential society this nation could organls would be 2,000,000 to 3. 000,000 young men under universal military service, Secretary George Hewitt Myers or th Army League de clared today. "The strongest Influence for hon orable peace." he continued, "would be a system of universal military service. Under our present volun teer system, everybody outside th regular army and th national guard expects th other fellow to go when ever there Is any danger ot this conn try being plunged into war. ' "Th average man either says openly or thinks that there will be plenty 61 men or a venturesome spirit to rill up an army. With this Idea In mind. It has been frequently de clared that we could raise a. million men between sun-up and sun-down ir the country was threatened. x "But this doe not prevent men or Jingo proclivities- from demanding j that we rush Into war often without i a. just cause." Myers holds, In common with mili tary men, that If this nation hopes for a world guarantee or peace, it must contribute a larger military share to the guarantee than it can now offer. PORTLAND MAX SHOT BY MASKED CALI.KR Portland, Dec. 21. Police detec tive expected to make an arrest to day In their search for the masked man who railed Nathan Hankln, malt clerk to the door of 'his home and shot htm. The bullet lodged in Han kin's right forearm. Hankln was playing "God Save the King" on a phonograph when he heard a knock.' Opening the door, he waa confronted by th assailant, who cried. "Your" hour has coriie." Hankln slammed the door, but th masked man fired through the panel. Portland, Dec. 21. Lumber Is up $1 a thousand In all northwestern mills today. Th Increase waa neces- I sltated, aay tlmbermen, by the car anortage, which caused man mills to lose money. rnnn irruc run- uu Wttlti ALLIES WILL REPLY TO Nsta hssa GercaPrtfa ef Pea Eictdb CsFrca At E Wiia Kat 48 Dsn Jondon, Dae. 21. England and her allies probably will answer Oar many' peace note within 4S hour. Th Identical replies of th entente nation will be despatched at th same time that U simultaneously; handed to the diplomatic representa tive of neutral power whoa officers were requested by Germany to effect delivery.- Expectation that th allies answer would be ready before Saturday waa baaed on knowledge that day by day conference hav been held oa th text of the reply ever tine pre des patches of Monday a week ago mad known tha general terms of the Oer man proffer and that England baa al so been exchanging view with bar allie on the form the reply waa to tak. It, Is apparent from the. ad vane o.e paten, that tit British censor ha held up all press despatches from tho uUnlted SUte regarding th message Th United Press cabled th not last eight to its clients in both London and Paris. Up to an early hour this afternoon, however, no word of It had been received from Paris. Cable from both Franc and England were silent so far as comment oa the not waa concerned. Obviously no com ment, official or otherwise, will b available In London until th massage 1 realeased by th censor. NAVY DEPARTMENT DESERTS THE STRANDED SUBMARINE Eureka, Cel., Dec 21. The navy department today gave up Its at tempt to salvage the submarine H-I, stranded In th surf off Humboldt bay, and officer departed aboard th monitor Cheyenne,, and th salvager Arcpahoe for San Francisco. A por tion or tbe crew of the Ill-fated sub marine was left on the beach to watch the craft. A contract for salv aging th sbmartn will be let. to some private wrecking corporation, It la believed. KANSAS CONVICTS TO GET 10-DAY "LEAVE OF ABSENCE" Lansing, Kaa., Dec. 21. Fifteen Kansas convict will be given a 10 day parole, on "their honor," to visit their home during th holiday. Th 15 convicts were to leave th prison today, officials said. VM. J. BRYAN ENDORSES , WILSON PEACE MOVB ' V Mlalnla, Fla.. Dec. 21. "Hearty endorsement" of President Wilson' note to the belligerents, was made her today by William Jennlnga Bryan, former secretary of state. "The president has rendeied a dis tinct service In throwing the great In fluence of this country Into th bal ance on the aid or peace," th com moner said. AMERICANS ABOARD ' TORPEDOED STEAMER Washington, Dec. 21. Th Amer ican consul at Malta reported to th stat department today that th Brit ish steamer St. Ursula, with six Am ericans aboard, had been torpedoed without warning. Non or th Am erican were killed. KAISER