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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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ALLIES WILL
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GercaPrtfa ef Pea
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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
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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