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DAILY EDITION
VIM VII., No. 1'iU.
0 HANTS PAM, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, WKIINKMOAY, FKURl'AHY 21, 117
WHOLE NUMBER IMS.
Xo Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. ,
lite
ADD
MILLIONS
TO
IN THE SENATE
JI.MIMHTRAtVN' MKAHlltK IM
ltKIOllTK Ol'T WITH MANY
ITK.MH AIlKlt
IS NOW HEIRLY HALF A BILLION
Provides fur Immediate 'inipMIti
(if Wamliip ami HtlbiiMriiira
l'mlir ConolruilliNi
Washington, Feb. 2 1. -Increased
liy l2S.O(io,0(Hi niitco u iuuwoiI (ha
house, I lie administration's nun! Itlll
Hid biggest In the 4ilMrv of Hip
country was reported to the senate
thin afternoon by Senator Tillman,
halrmsn or the naval committee.
Th bill, as revised, carries total
vt nearly a halMtllllon dollars and
authorise the president to com
mandeer private alilpyarda and mu
nitions plants In lime of war.
The naval committee struck from
the hill the Mann amendment, re
affirming II tit l tho policy of the
Vnlted States to settle International
disputes by arbitration or mediation.
The $I2M0,000 Increases- a
lant appropriation In Itself - wan ad
dled after greatest pressure from b
evy department and aifter President
Wilson and Secretary Daniels ap
peared In person at the rapllol while
the bill waa In committee.
The hlggeat Hem of Increase In
$115,000,000 for the Immediate com
pletion of war vessela now under
ronatrurtion. Thla Is a reduction
of $35,000,000 from that asked by
Ihe navy department.
It la atlpttlated that $35,000,000
be expended tor completion of the
submarines.
SUNK BY GERMANS
lierlln, via SayvllUt. Feb. 21.
8lnklng In the Mediterranean of a
"crowded Italian transport steamer"
two armed steamers of 3,000 tons
nd 4,r00 lona, tho Italian steamer
Oceana, 4,200 tone, the Krench learn
er Moventnux, 3,200 tons nml the
French kmIIIiik ship Aplirodtte, (100
tons, was announced In nn official
press bureau statement today.
The statement also milled:
'Tapera observe that real suhnutr
lne successes .are undoubtedly much
lat-Ker, since n majority of the tirh
marines have not yet reported, be
tides the imralysli of neutral navi
gation must be taken Into considera
tion." Accord Inn to the prom bureau, the
two armed steamers were loaded
"with an Jmportuiit cargo for Sal
onjkl," and tho Krench tailing ship
with Iron for Italy, -
Lloyd's doea not list an Italian
steamship named Oceana, but there
In a steamship Oceanic of 4,217 tons,
owned by b, Plttnlugun of (ionoa,
which probably Is the one specified
In the Berlin statement, Neither of
thn other ships are listed, nor Is thoro
any name In 'Lloyd's register which
mlRht be mistaken for them.
MOVH Alt I' THUASl ItUHH FROM
ALH.N'N AMI lOltUAIXK
The llaKiio, Fob, 21. Many art
treasures In Alsace and Lorraine have
suddenly been removed to the Gor
man cities or Stuttgart and Munich,
on order from German military head
quarters, according to German newt
papers received here today, The rea
sons were not stated.
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PHILANDER CHASE KNOX.
Former Beoretary of State Elected
fUpublioan Senator From Penn,
i .v:v;?ivrf.:
Phoio by Aintrli-un Pru Association
HOUSEWIVES WILL
E
8an Krsnclaco, Feb. 21 Agitation
by housewives of los Aniteles In
favor of a boycott against vegetables
which, some alleRe, have been held
for a rising market, may spread to
ottoer Pacific coast cities, It was be
lieved today. Although prices of per
ishable foodstuffs In San Francisco
and elsewhere In California do not
compare with those In the oast, they
have still reached unprecedented
figures.
Potatoes today were selling at five
cents a pound, retail, and some fancy
grades at that figure wholesale. On
ions sold at from 1 2 Vfc to 15 cents
a pound, wholesale and lima beans
at 10 to ll cents. Wholesale po
tato prices have advanced 50 rents a
hundred pounds In 36 hours.
Rggs are among the few articles
showing a decline and are now telling
it 3'J cents. Butter was unchanged
at 85 rents. Other prices are:
String beans, 80 to 35; peas, I2i;
sweet potutoeRk $4 per rwt.; Rusih,
3 cents a pound.
Iximlon, Feb. 21. An order-In-council,
nnnouhced today, provides
that vessels carrying goods to and
from enemy ports, nre liable fo rap
ture and condemnation, unless they
call at na allied ort en route to
permit examination of their cargoes,
The blockade of Germany Is ap
parently mad o complete by the, ordei-In-councl),
which Is evidently direct
ed at shipping In tho tlnltlc sea and
the North sea, where commerce Ijc
tween Scandinavian nations and Ger
many lias been more or loss unre
stricted In the iiast. From now on
such shipping must put Into British
or 'Russian ports for examination.
It was explained that the order was
Issued it result of the German
blockade, which the order Itself char
acterlted at a "flagrant contradiction
of International-law."
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HENEY IM BE
IN HE OF
INVESTIGATION
KKIKllAI. Tlt.VIlK CO.UMIHKIOX
NOT TO AWAIT AI'I'ltOPWATlOV
TO HTAItT I'ltOIlK '
IS GRAVEST PROBLEM OF DAI
large Packers Announce Willingness
to Co-operat, and Will (fcwn
, llwnks to (Commission
Washington, Feb. 21. Declaring
the food situation constitutes "one
of the gravest problems of the day,"
the federal trade commission an
nounced today It will not wait for
the $400,000 appropriation from con
gress to probe charges of extortion
ate food orlces.
The commission began today the
actual preliminaries of the probe., It
is said Francis J. Heney, who forced
the newt print paper manufacturers
Into line, will have charge of the
commission's Investigation.
Golncldentally with the facts com
ing to light, the commission today
received "assurances" from many,
targe packers of tb country that taH
"are willing to co-operate In' every
way with the commission."
The psckers wrote the commission
Hist their books would be thrown
open to that body.
Portland, Feb. 21. Potatoes, once
known as the poor man's staple food,
were up to the highest prices on
record in the Portland market to
day. On account of a great demand
from the east, the growers in tome
instances received as high ss $3.25
to $3.40 per cental, an Increase ot
ten to twelve cents over recent prices.
This rate was paid for the spuds In
the fields. Purchasers are shipping
potatoes to Stockton, Cal In ordin
ary freight cart and sacking them In
refrigerator cars there.
Hogs were up to record-smashing
flights In the North Portland yards.
The high price for the week was
$12.60, the stiffest ever known here.
AN UNMANAGEABLE INFANT.
MEETS
FAVOR
IN
IlKKI) A.MKMMKNT TO THK POST
OFFIfK MKA81RK COXtTB.
KiCl) IN V
Would Fotfbid Hendlng Liquor Into
lry WlHtes fur Any Hut Medical
Purposes
Washington, Fett. 21. The house,
321 to 72, today concurred In the
Senator Reed "bone dry" amendment
to the post office appropriation bill.
Six members voted "present."
The house previously hsd defeated
an amendment by Congressman
Small wolch wquld have stricken out
all of the Reed amendments apply
ing to Individual orders for whiskey
sent through the mails.
Many wet men and many members
from wet atatea voted for the Reed
amendment. Many wets claimed the
Reed amendment waa to stringent
that It would retard the cause of
prohibition. In this view some, Brp -
nibttlonlsU concurred.
The Reed amendment forbids the
tending of liquor Into dry states for
any but medical purposes. The effect
is, according to"" the congressional
view, to make ' impossible a "near
dry" atate.
With the Reed amendment there
waa also adopted the Bankhead am
endment, which forbids the use of
malls for solicitation of liquor by
mail in such ststes as prohibit liquor
advertising.
Although the Columbia river sal
mon catch is unusually small, prac
tically all the Bsh are going east,
Packers offer to pay almost any price
demanded and are willing to take
salmon In any quantities, on account
of the east's demand, A short time
ago salmon told In Portland at 10
to 12 cents a pound. Now It costs
IS cents.
RO ORDERS THROUGH MIS
'
Fitiastriok In St. Louis Pest-Dispatoh.
ADMIRAL BENSON.
Suaeoodo Dow as Hood
of Oonoral Board of Nsvy.
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Photo by American Proas Aasocatioo.
PUZZLES GERMANS
Amsterdam, Feb. 21. German of
ficialdom Is Intensely Intereted and
puttied by the conference at Vien
na between American Ambassador
Pen field and the Austrian foreign
minister, according to Berlin reports
today. Astonishment la expressed
that there shbuld be any doubt In the
United States that Austria-Hungary
does not fully approve and support
Germany's declaration of relentless
submarine warfare.
On the contrary, It Is seml-of nclally
declared that Emperor Carl's deter
mination It to accord the most em
phatto support to hit allies.
Participation of Austrian officials In
the conference which decided upon
the submarine warfare was also cited
as evidencing Austria's full sympathy
with the use of a weapon demanded
by the allies' starvation blockade of
the central powers.
Semi-official Vienna dlspatclies re
ceived today, In detailing the text of
the note presented iby Ambassador
I'enflold, holds the American Inquiry
whether Austria still affirms her
promises In the Ancona and Persia
cases "as vague." Officials tske the
position that the statements made In
the notes mentioned, were Intended to
cover those specific cases only, and
not to mark out a future course.
CHlCAtJO lORK PRICE
8MASHKS ALL RKCORIW
Chicago, Feb. SI. Hogs smashed
all previous high prlcet by nearly a
quarter of a dollar today, when the
market opened at $12.95 per hundred
pounds. Pigs sold at $11.00 per hun
dred weight. The prices are the high
est since the civil war.
HAVH THE HTAItM PREDICT
WAR WITH GERMANY
Portland, Feb. 21. Dr. C. Hotline,
Fellow of tho iRoyal Society of Ox
ford, who has made a study or as
trology, declared today that the
stars Indicated war between Ger
many and the United 8tatcs would be
Inevitable by tonight.
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BEET GROWERS
HUNT ACREAGE
FOR PLfllr
COMPANY ORGANIZED AMONG
CITIZENS NOW GETTING LAND
READY FOR SEED
ACREAGE IN VALLEY IS.UL!
Farmers Are Readily Signing ap Con.
tracts, and Are Increasing
Own Planting
The board of directors of the
Grants Past Boat Growing company
met In tba Commercial dun room ,
last night, and transacted such boa
lness as there -was upon the table.
Manaxer Wlnetmnt mnortMl nn tha
pro (rraea of the campaign for acre
age, stating that there 'waa sot the
amount of acreage available for tatt
ing that had appeared Hkely earlier .
In the season, as the land ownerm
were Increasing their plantings, tad
would farm their own lands aa far
as possible. Mr. Wlnetront Has ar-
jw tor a sumner oi tracts, saw -ever,
of the beat lands to he fontd,
and these -will he added to later. Some
land waa being leased in the Apple
gate valley, and the planting there
Mld tnrntte uttmh ' "'.. e
Work Is In progress spoa the lands
now under lease. One tract of It .
acres upon the Eismann ranch down
the river will be ready tot planting
In a few days, having been plowed
during the week. It will ibe the aim
or the company to get its beets plant
ed as early as possible. Seed for
the season la available at the sugar
company offices. The secretary of
the Beet Growing company waa in
ttructed to notify all delinquent sub
scribers to stock of the call for the
20 per cent assessment, 'and to pro
ceed to get it collected In at once.
Only about a third ot the subscrib
ers responded voluntarily to the pub
lished call, and under the law It la
necessary that payments be made up
on til the stock without delay. The
cash is also needed to cover the
costs of leasing the lands and getting
the crop in the ground. 'Parties hav
ing lands for lease are requested to
notify 'Manager Winetront. when the
offerings will be examined and leases
made where the lands are found suit
able. OF
Berlin. Feb. 2L '"We are sure of
success and shall allow nothing and
nobody to wrest this tuocets from
us," declared Secretary or the Trea
sury Helffrlch to the' German agri
cultural council, discussing the tub
marine war.
"(Already the navigation which
links the British Islet with the rest
of the world, has been depressed to
the danger point," he continued, ac
cording to the official press agency
report.
, The tonnage which arrived in Brit
ish ports," Helffrlch continued, "was
In December last only 2,200,000 toni,
net, while the monthly average of
the last year of peace were 4,200,
000 tons.
"Already England's reserve stocks
ot the most Important things needed
for life and warfare are reduced to
such a point that England, more than
ever before,, realises the necessity for
replenishment of her stores.
"This sapping of England will con
tinue until the day dawnt for which
every German heart ardently waltt.
"But already today we art close to
knowledge that England more than
ever hat to rely upon her own toll.'
German toll It now fighting English
toll."