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DAILY EDITION : - : VOL. Vlf., No. M, ' (iRANT PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917 WHOLE NUMBER IMS. No Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. ', '., - ' - - - . .. . . ... CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA KILLS 8 School Hesse Is Wrecked By Twisitr, :d Eight CkiWrea Are Reported Killed b TulM, Ok),, Jan. 4. A country rhool house mm diIIm from Block er, Pittsburg county, Oklahoma, and bout 15 tuilM from McAlostsr, was completely wrecked and eight pr ' aon killed by a eyolono today, ac cording to report thlt afternoon from MeAlester. Telephone wire are down and communication with partlM sent from MrAleater to glv aid li tmpossrbl. All of thoaa reported killed are children, five girls and three boys. ALU KM PROGRAM NOT YKT ACCEPTABLE TO GREECE London, Jan. 4. Indication that tb Oreek altuatlon I by no moan settled wer given In deapatchM from Athana today. King Constan Una' government. It was aald. had demurred M granting oompleta ac julcnc In all allien' demand be cause of "certain current of pu Ho opinion." ,, , , The allied blockade of Greece 4a allll In fore and will remain to un til the Greek govern men t compile with all demand. 1VOMKN STUDENTS AT NAVIGATION SCHOOL Ban Franotico, Jan. 4. Women lav Invaded the science of naviga tion. For ths Brat time la It his tory, th fro public navigation whool 1 to hav atudent of th gentle sex. Ranged In the olaaa alongside tnM 41a aged aeamen and ambttlou youths, will be Ml Barbara Clay and Vivian Anastasta Footer, who nave matriculated for the year and half ooura to qualify aa compe tent mariner.' FALLS POWER LEASE Washington, Jan.. 4. Th houa today took up th Wndesworth bill, authorising the aecratary of war to lea to the companies already using Niagara Fall power to th entire ' twenty thousand cubic feet of water. All grant expire automatically Maroh 4 and la the meantime are revocable at will. An amendment toy Congress- ' man Mann providing an annual charge of 1100 per year per cubic ' feet diverted by, foreign companies wu adopted. GERMANY IB PREPARING NOTE ON WAR OAVNR Amsterdam, Jan, 4. Rebuttal of certain statements a to the war' cause and It development in an ex planatory note to neutral nation li reported to foe under consideration by . the German government according to Berlin advice today. Berlin to itrongly adverse to per mitting a number of claim and state mrats mad by th allle to go un challenged, in official document, NOTHING DOING ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT Pari, Jan. 4. A calm night along ' th vhol western front -was report- ' d In. today' official statement, report ore REPLY TO ALLIES BY THE KAISER London, Jan. I. Persistent re port from Italy and Switzerland to day that Osrmany is to stake a re ply to th alUed refusal of peace term and In that reply will list its demand and concessions, aroused th great Interest her today. Lugano, Switzerland, had report of thl nature. From Rom cam nw that th newspaper Corrlerr Del Tlclno asserted It reoelpt of In formation that On-many was pre parlng a counter-reply which "would be lea ambiguous as to term." Both of th report hav strength ened tb 4eUef recorded In despatch es of yesterday, that Germany I now on th brink of a social and economic breakdown and that her peace prof fer com through absolute neces sity. Ons theory which found sup port In certain quarter today we that UnKod State Ambassador Ger ard' conference with Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, reported yester day, bad to do with a further Ger man note. Reply of the allies to President Wilson's not Is receiving Ha final "polishing off." Probably it will to forwarded to America within th next 48 hour. Apparently the gov ernments concerned are anxious to avoid any of the erUlclam as to I phraaelogy which waa framed In the! allies' reply to th Germany prof-1 for. RUSSIANS REPORT TAKING 4UM URBMAlf PRISONERS Petrograd, Jan. 4. Capture of 400 prisoners, three cannon and mine I thrower and 'bombing mortar from I Teutonic force on th height near1 Botocsv, Rou mania, was announced by th war office today. COMMERCE RAIDER New York, Jan. 4. Report of a Gorman commerce raider In the At lantic were given added color today by etorle of officer and passengers who arrived on the French liner B pagne. They told of the ship' chang ing It course suddenly when en tering the hay of Biscay, after hav ing sighted an unidentified vessel at night. All lights aboard were extinguish ed when the unknown ship began asking the liner' nam and destina tion. Full tpeed was ordered. Th Hner pursued a ilg-sag course for some tint, finally losing her pursu er astern. In addition to th cuttomary no tice regarding lifeboat on th Ks- pagn. additional notice give dia gram of ths boats. Each pas senger' teat In lifeboats waa Identi fied In th chart. LEAK CHARGE PROBE STARTS TOMORROW Washington, Jan, 4. Investigation by the house rule committee of th not leak charges will start tomor row with Representative Wood, In d la n a, a th first witness, th rule committee announced today, follow. Ing a two-hour's tosslon. ' Wood Introduced th original re' olutlon demanding the probe of re port that "high administration of Octal or v relative of high official profited In Wall street through ad vane Information of th president' not to 'belligerent." Thorns W. Lawson, who charged there wat a 160,000,000 clean-up in Wall street, wilt be summoned by wire. nun li STICK Rcsga Ri&j Ccbel Still (ht 0s3 Presided izi Will Ftzfct A2t Wiba Ecdsrs&est New Tork, Jan. 4. -Republican senator will hav th support of Colonel Roosevelt la their . fight against President Wilson' note to belligerent. Two month of silence have not resulted la any loss of Roosevelt' power of Invective, nor baa th result of November 7 chanc ed hi unyielding antagonism to Wil son, aa shown by a vigorous state ment toy th colonel today attacking Wllson'a note and its handling. "Fog of obscurity," "profoundly mischievous," "profoundly immoral," "wickedly false," "cation and im moral falsehood." "preposterous ab surdity," and "nervously backing away," wer some of th phraseo logical bombshells with which th former president embellished his at tack on WUaon. He aanouned hi support of Sen ator Lodge's fight against endorse ment by the senate of the president's peace ote.T The iolonrt's sarcastic floodgates wer unloosened at the Idea of Secretary Lansing Interpret ing the Wilson not in two different way within six hours, representing, hs aald, a rather longer interval than uaual between the "changes of mind of th administration." Roosevelt held the phrase 'circular not" was correct la application to the Wilton peace message. The ad jective "otrcular" can be- accepted with both IU explicit and Implicit Im plied significance, Roosevelt declar ed. He savagely assailed the state ment that both aide were fighting for th same thing as "palpably false," "wickedly false," "not only a falsehood, but a wicked and callous falsehood," and Cited again Ger many's Belgium oppressions. "But perhaps th most preposter ous absurdity," h continued, "to th statement that the United State I ready and eager to guarantee th peace of th world. Th spectacle of the president tiring, toy the aid of Messrs. Daniel and Baker to guar antee th peace of any alngl nation under th ua against a slngl power ful aad resolute foe, I as comic as anything that was ever written by Artemua Ward. "Let th president keep th prom ises he mad In Th Hague con vention and let him bend all his energies to secure th Ideal of uni versal obligatory mtUtary training . ... for our young men before, In th Interest of th nation that has wronged Belgium and murdered our clttsen -. . . a make prora- laes whloh he 'could not fulfill and fulminate threat which, when hi own aecrotary of state take them seriously ao frighten Wall street that th same secretary to forced Im mediately to announce that hi In terpretation was mistaken . . " BRITISH FIRM UNUKRMDS AMERICAN TOMPAN1KS Washington, Jan. 4. In spite of Increasing demand upon British mu nttton plant, a British company ha underbid American companlea by wide margin tor th manufacture or armor piercing, 16 and 14 Inohrpro jeotlle for bi American navy. , The lowest bidder to th navy la afternoon Ik Hadfleld. Limited, which agreed to fnrnlsh 1,000 16 Inch proJeotilM In 16 Vontfli at ISIS and 4,500 14-Inch projectile In 11 month forisn eachr PUBLICITY LOW Presided Now ta Cdbd lleiicza D!;z:cy Wd SecTecy, Fcllowcg Bred Up cf Peace Cczica Washington, Jan. 4. The admin istration today addad Mexican mat ters to It list of diplomatic move shrouded la secrecy. President Wilson himself to now In full charge of the Mexican prob lem, 'the American peace commis sioners having Informed aim that Ms work for a troop withdrawal and border protection protocol was fruR-; son's not. Lodge was hitter in loss. j counselling against senate action "in ; Whys th American plan a meet- 'the dark." He expressed extreme dto ing with their Mexican colleagues ' approval of the fact that th senate this waa understood to b merely a is not In the president' confidence, formal tarewelL Thereafter, accord- H aald h feH th United mates Ing to official indlcatlona, th prest- ought not to try to put a hand in dent will move to send Ambassador j peace affairs, la view of th entente' Fletcher to Mexico City, take step J expressed temper toward peace sug for withdrawal of Pershing's force . geationa, and he suggested that a from Mexico, and then handle the; world peace enforcement league, as situation minus any peace commto- ion. VILLA PREPARES- - NEW GOVERriMENT El Paso, Jan. 4. Adherents of Francisco Villa are already arrang ing details of a Mexican provisional I government to toe set up by the band-1 K chief. Official hav been appoint ed to writ raw and a tentative seat of government ha been chooeen, ac cording to Information in the hands of United States agents here today. Copies of a new proclamation Issued by Villa have been secured toy federal agents her and are now being trans lated. Heavy lighting I still In pro cress at Horoasttaa, about SO miles south of Chihuahua City, according to re ports obtained today by federal de partment agents. Villa I fighting hi way north ward, th reports Indicate. Both aide are nslng artlllsry aad losses have been large. United States agent are investigating recruiting in this city for revolutionary hand of Max- loans, following reoelpt of a letter by a Mexican from Quevedo, leader of band now hovering below Juarea. In th letter it was admitted that 18 men recruited In thl vicinity elud ed government agents, crossed the border below El Paso and are now awaiting orders from Villa to cut th Mexican Central railway lln between Juarea and the northern capital when Villa starts his attack upon Chlhnahoa CMy, BRITISH TRANSPORT HAS BEEN TORPEDOED London, Jan. 4. Th transport Invemla waa submarined In th Med iterranean and 150 of those on hoard her are missing, the admiralty an nounced today. Th Invemla I listed as a vessel of 14,278 tons, built tn 100 and was th property of the Cunard line, tg- ifotered at Liverpool. . i-J - LAWSON "DVOKS" HOI 8K , y PJlOnH OP LEAK SCANDAL New York, Jan. 4.lThoma W Lawson it sailing tor'Europ Satur day" and will not be able to tell the house rules committee what d know about th leak to Wall street, he advised Speaker Clark today. DEER III YILSOII PEACE HOTE SAYS SENATOR LODGE Washington, ... Jan. 4. Senator Lodge, republican, thl afternoon In terpreted President Wilson's not to oelligerent as inroirlng dangerous interference in European potttiea. . Lodge granted th senate not to endorse the message unless Presi dent Wilson openly ask it, aad es pecially not until h take th sen ate into his confidence. ailing th administration for th second time to an many day, he again pointed especially to the secrecy sur rounding all steps that have been taksa. .. Senator Lewis, . democrat, I held Lodge' Interpretation to be unwar ranted. Lewis viewed th not mora as a Justlfible mediation step. Thess opposite views were aired ia harp debate ia the senate over the Hitchcock resolution to andoras Wll- .hinted at by ths admiaatration. would mean throwing the Monroe doctrine overboard. ....... ...... "The United States may find itself without a friend ia the world if It neddlea farther, Lode held. - In cidentally he tempered fete yester day's attack on German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Wilson was tnersly "offering the offices of this government," Lwl8 said, In defense of the 'president. " Lewis declared President Wilson's secrecy in diplomacy was preferable to President Roosevelt' "diplomacy' as shown in th aetinre of Panama with "a bludgeon." J ' TOURISTS TO SPEND MILLIONS IN 1917 San Francisco, Jan. 4. Northern California hosts and hostesses are beginning today to .prepare for $27, 000,000 tourist money which is ex pected to pour into th state soon. iHere'a the way th railroads figure the amount: . Average number of first class pas sengers coming into th state each day, 800. , Average amount spent by each tourist during his stay, $20 a day. Average length of sojourn at $20 a day, 30 days. During th tourist season, 45,000 will visit northern California, hence, th $17,000,000. These are the figures of railway trafflo managers. Hotel men who are doing th nam sort of figuring place th amount at $80,000,000. -Indlcatlona are that th 117 tourist business In California will ex ceed all previous years except the exposition year. The heaviest travel will com during th next atx weeks. 1,000 PRISONERS TAKEN WHEN,' CITY OF MAOIN FELL - V, Berlin, la SayjrhW Jan.' 4. About 1,000 prisoners were toroufeht In when Maoln and Ylyla wer cap tured yesterday, the Berlin official atstement announced today. ' "Dohrudja Is, thus cleared of th enemy except aTnarrow atrip tpwa Oalati, where there are still sot Russian rear guard hodies.V th state ment said, addlns that Gorman and Bulgarian . soldiers " "ihoulder-lo- ahoulder," captured Aha town whkhJ tssaclously defended. APPROVAL OE LIE AGAIfl POT OFF Scnte Debys Actica ca Ea- dcrtszc efWibcaPcce DcHrer Vndcdicfcry' Washington, Jan. 4. When th senate recessed about 4: SO this after noon. Instead of adjourning on th motion of Senator Hitchcock, It , meant that Senator Works wquld con tinue his valedltory address and that th note . endorsement resolattoa would not be brought sp aatU Works finishes. He has about two hoars more to apeak. Immediately upon Works' caacla don. Senator Hitchcock' motion to discuss his endorsement resolution will be In order. . i Washington, Jan. 4. Memories of TiUmaa's dMIIddIcs anainat Presi dent Roosevelt .wer recalled today when Senator John Downey Works, who will to succeeded toy Hiram Johnson, delivered his valedictory to day. Works declared President Wilson "ha descended to the level of a lob byist,"' as "flagrantly and nawar- raatadly assutned positions that do not belong to the chUf exeentlv," render of Ha : conscientious convlo- (tons. . - ,. -5, y. .. "Never tn the entire history of th country," said Works, "has th pres ident so completely and . defiantly usurped the law-making powers of the government and dictated and forced the course of congress and never has congress been so submis sive or subservient to a power out side itself. "Never in all our history have wa com so aear a despotic government by a dictator aa during the last fonr years. His descent to th level of a common lobbyist has been made In finitely .worse toy the tact that as such Ms office gave him a power tar K all M,mm InKtkvtata "If this kind of executive I per sisted In and submitted to toy con gress then our government to no long er a government toy th people, It la monarchy." ' Work also took a shot at th aea ate. . He aald member were care less regarding attendance. "Th expert enc of a sanator who addrssed that body when tout fonr members and th vtoa-nrealdoat, aB reading newspapers, were present," said Works, "show Just how much attention soma tnember of congress pay to toualn HOIiOR MAN FAILS to nrTiinu IU Lansing, Kas., Jan. 4. Tax Sohap- per, honor man, editor of th prison, newspaper and exponent of th honor system here, had not "com soma" yet, today. Schappner, with sixteen other honor men, was given a holiday par ole which was up at midnight Jan uary 2. 8lxtsen returned a few hours ah'ead of time, Schappner, whoa horn to Galveston, Texas, l( still missing, and prison official wer con sidering today advertising tor Mat a an "escaped convict." Ft 8. Brand, of Medford, waa a Grants Pass visitor today. ' S. K. Ducununun, of Kerby, aad Pete Payne, of Waldo, were Oraala Fan visitors today.