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DAILY EDITION VOU VII., Nit, 14. KANT PASS, JOSEPHINE OOUITTT, ORBGOM, FRIDAY, JfHB 1, 1017 WHOLE SCMBEB ;-Vi 6 LOST LINES 1 WON AGAIN BY NIEVELLE llAIUtKHT FIGHTING OK TIIK lAV AlWl KlUCNdl KltONT NKAK w tHAMPAGNK OnmUa Artillery Eire and Frequent ' Small Raid Keeps Kranro-tJormjui Unra limited lit Fire Pari, June 1. The official state ment lasued today detail heavy fighting In lha Champagne district whr Ilia French, by violent coun terattacks, drove (he (format) from tba position which they yesterday captured (rum the French, and r eetabllihed tha French Una In Ihalr entirety. To I ha want. In the region lying between Holseona and Rhelmsi there hna been a continuation of tha splr lUtil artillery duels, notably around Vatualllon and l.sffsux. and south of tterry-au-llac tha Germans, for tha Aral tlma In several month car rW out sapping operation. Thl netted tham portlona of trenches rhleh war blowa up. "Qnlla aplrltad artillery action oc--eurred In tha reglona of Vauxlllion. La (faux and want of Rhelnia. In tha region of Hill 1 08. aouth f Berry. it-nat? The- anenir"fciter'h'a'ilS -! ploded aaveral mlnna, occupied aotnii trench elements which had been ahattered by explosive. "Yeaterday five German airplanes 'war hrouitht down by our pilot. Other enemy machines previously re ported aa having been damaged, were In reality destroyed." French Headquarters, June I. Between April 15 and May 24 the French made prisoners of 31,1129 German according to official head quarter lists. "tj Ixitxlmi, Juno I. The admiralty today announced tha submarining of n American bark Plrlgo and the drowning of the mate when the ship went down. Tha Ulrlgo wa attack ail without warning but tho 17 bout "Waa not aubmerged. A bombardment with deck gun wa followed by the rcw of the submarine boarding the Dlrlgo, ransacking her from siom to stern, and then sinking her with bombs placed In her hull. The admiralty alio reports the at tacking and linking of two "wind Jammer," both American, Francis M. and Barbara. The orewe of both vas :mi were landed safely. Hurry Richardson, or Roseburg. I In ilia city today. ALIEN ENEMIES ARE BARRED New York, Juna 1. America' heaviest blow at alien anemle In New York fell today when tha United Slates marshal' order forbidding Oennans to enter20 burred annus around armories and navnl mllltla stations In this olt'y became effective. Hotwcon 111,000 nnd 20,000 male over 14 year if sua re hit, It la oktlmntnd. Tho xono are of half mile radius, Hundred of iinrmlts were Issued to Germans who had lived for yeut In the prohibited dUtrlc.U and bote Ktiod reputations, to persona employ ed thera who could get forceful I: COPPER 7.1 1 N E Pu.YlwMe nf Webb It-uyerty by Strong I'artlm liulilna Another Import ant Adtlltkia to Prmlurem Another mining deal nf more than ordinary Importance haa refilled In tha tranafer of promising' Josephine county property to partlaa who are able and will develop It syslematle ally, thoroughly and promptly. Tha Weibb mine iltuated about even miles south-west from Waldo haa bean taken over by tha Interests that now own tha famotta Greenback mine, Tha bond run from D. L. and U R. Webb Dm, to D. R, Roblnaon. Under tha term of tha deal, tha pro perty niuat be developed continuous ly and vigorously, and all ore taken from tha property la to be anrted and hipped to tha amolter. The purchasers believe that they have obtained what, with proper de velopment, ran be made a heavy pro ducer. They plan audi development. The property conalat of nine claim, on each of which, a good bowing of copper ore haa been din clou!. Over 1&00 feet of thl de velopment work ha been done. The longeat tunnel, 450 feet In length, cuts the main ledge at a dlatanca of 390 feel. At thl point the ledge wa IJ feet In width. Drifting on thl ledge I now under way. Litigation over the ownership of the property for the paat two year ha prevented proper development work. The deal Juat made aettle that litigation and Incure tha pro perty' Joining the rank of Joae pblne county producer. MEKTH AFTKIl IAWO RrXTCHS Vienna. June 1. The Austrian parliament met here today for the first lime since before the war. In Issuing the rail, the government de clared "economic, aortal and financial problems" would be dlacuaaed. HUNT NATION Ali THEATRE OPKNKIt AT WABHINttTON Washington, June I. Bcannlng tha aky for slgna of rain, Washing ton walled today for tha opening to night of the National Blyvan theatre the first playhouse built by the United States government for the. people. The theatre la built In tha open air at tha southern end of the Monu ment grounds. COLLEGE UNITS ARE AT FRB Berkeley. Cal.r June 1. Two units which the University of California ent to the American ambulance aer vice have safoly arrived In France ac cording to a. cablegram received here today. The units left Iterkoley May 4. They arrived In Hordeaux yester day and proceeded at once to Paris, whence they are to be aaslgnAd to their post. Forty-two men, chloMy upper class studonts and graduates of the university, composed the two corps. FROM TWENTY CITY S ARMORIES recommendation from their- em ployers nd to those who tared ruin If unable to enter the xones to con duct their business. Those who obtained special per mission to continue living In the dis tricts cannot be visited by German j friends, as no permits were granted "for aoclnl purposes." The forbid den nroits In some Instances took In German oluba. restaurants and i hotels. Under the rule, enemy aliens can pass through the xones on pub llo conveyances, ibitt cannot alight en route. Germans ' without permits rnught In the barred districts will lir Inlm ntid, - ..' o ANOTHER THREATEN Wcrkcea Desasd Sii-Hcur able Resslatio or a Strike Tycg Up urge Factories ad Eldtisa Wcrks Is Tfcreatt:d I'etrograd. June 1. A aerloua alt- uation has raaulted from tha demand made by many workmen throughout tha empire. If potilble develop ment materialise 120 of RumU'i largest Industrial enterprise may be paralysed. The list Includes many of the largest munition plants. Tha workmen's demand are for a als-bour day and other regulation which art declared wholly Impractic able. They are so complex aa to make but little work poaalble. It I reported here that In some action the workmen have actually gone on atrlka. Maxim Gorky, the noted author, haa created a furore by announcing the detail of an attempt, on the part of the Bulgarian minister to Ger many, D. Rl6w, to enlist Gorky' aid In bringing about a separate peace by Russia. ' . Tlie peace proposals. Gorky de clares, waa delivered to him at Pat rograd In duplicate by two German agents, acting Individually. The provisional government, said Rlxow, must be forced to answer the question: "Who, after three year massacre, gave you the right to con tinue aheddlng Russian blood?" m FOLLOW IE Washington, June 1. President Wilson today issued a proclamation warning slackers that In the attempt to evade registration by leaving the country will ex pom them to rigid prostitution and score penalties up on return. The nation-wide situation In re spect to attempted evasion' of the census law show several weak antl dralt plot with which the govern ment la coping by vigorous action. At Columbus, Ohio, charges of treason, a capital offense, were filed tonight against three men who, with several others, were arrested during the day In connection with anti-draft plotting In Columbus. Each pleaded not guilty and was Jtald under $26,000 bond to await preliminary hearing Saturday. A fed eral grand Jury wilt be assembled Tuesday to investigate the arrest. In western Missouri and Kansas, federal , agent began rounding up persona euapected of -being partici pant in alleged anti-draft 'plot. Four men and one woman were ar rested here, while at Tope k a, Kas., three other men and a woman were taken Into custody. TltOOfM TO VI KlJi 8T1UKK AT ARIZONA OOI'PKH MINK Jerome, Arlx., June 1. A formal request that troops be sent to the Jerome copper district, whore a'bout 1,500 union miners went on strike a week ngo to enforce demnuds for rec ognition of tho union, wn presented Wednesday by Lieutenant-Colonel Jamos J. Hornbrook, Seventeenth U. S. cavalry, by Charles W. Clark, gen eral manager of the United Verde mine. IUHT CA18K8 QUARANTINE AGAINST SEVERAL PLANTS Washington, Juna 1. On account of the white pine blister rust, tha department of agriculture today es tablished a quarantine against all states east of and Including Minne sota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, prohibiting the movoment from these states to points outside the quarantined area of all five-leaf' ed pines and currant nnd gooseberry plants, L! on ALL RUSSIA Day 2nd Maty Other Uswcrk- Rlxow thereupon makes tha fol lowing concrete proposal: 'Russia to conclude an Immediate armiatlce with bar foaa, twth bellig erent retaining their present fronts, and to summon Immediately Rua afan constituent aesembly with the aim of deciding on peace or war." This, aaya Rlxow, la the , only maana or aavlng the Russian revolu tion from disaster. Ha Invited Gor ky to acknowledge the dispatch and appoint a meeting place by , tele graph to a certain G. Racoff, resid ing In the Stranvag In Stockholm, and auggeeta that ho conceal hla Identity by algning the telegram with hla Christian name Alexe, or by the name Maxim. In hla newspaper, Gorky charac terise RUow's dispatch aa "base and stupid." and declare that his only reply will be Its publication. Aa a counter-part of these reporta la one that there la renewed activity on the part of tha Ruaslana along the Austrian front. "Artillery ac tivity waa dlaplayed along the entire front," reads the report. "Our avi ator bombarded Austrian encamp ment north of the Devol River, In eastern Albania." TRAINING CATnPS TO BE LARGER ANO FEWER Washington, June 1; The war de partment announced that It baa de cided to reduce the number of can tonment camp from 32 to 16. The move is made In the luteipst of economy. It develops that In the consideration of the war appropria tion bill In congress. It is estimated that 32 cantonment camps would cost $150,000,000 while the 16 would cost probably less than $100, 000,000. In so far as Is possible the camps will be established In the aouth, toe cause conditions for training are better than In the north; also the condition which will be encounter ed In France are more akin to those In our aouthern atatea than the northern section of the country. WANT TO MAKE WAR Uuenos Aires, June 1. The Ar gentine view Is that the United States Is going to war rather because she has a good excuse than because she has a good reason. The Argen tines who do think the United States had an adequate reason are also of the opinion that this reason was not the consideration which led her Into war. ' 1 It la generally their Judgment that the United State wanted to fight. They believe the United State to be a victim of the ame sort of psychological Influence which, after the commission of' a sensational crlttio or a suicide, often cause the Incident to Ibet Imitated by others. They call attention to the fact that North Americans are accepting uni versal military service, food control and other big change In the Inter ests of tha national service. The Argentine Idea I thnjt North Amerl can actually want to suffer hard ships and privations because other people are doing so. That la why Argentine Is rather chilly toward the attitude North America has taken. BRITISH FRONT RATHER QUIET Artillery Action la General WUboat Decided Result and Infantry At tack Mad to eel Oat London. Jon 1. Comparative In action marked the day along tba Ger man-British front. General Bale re ported several small local engage ment, resulting la a general better- carat of the British poaltlon but no engagement of real Importance. The report statad that two or three of these engagement amounted to "sjic- ceaafnl raid os portion of the ene my trenches," and that the attack near Loo waa carried forward tin the third line of German trenches wa reached. . A report from Paris tell of the British repulsing a vio lent German counter-attack. Artillery duela break out day and night along the various sectors of the long battle line and there bow pat unnoticed an expenditure of ahells which little more than two month ago would have been conaldered extraordinary. Infantry raids aeem to be "feel era" to Bound out the enemy posi tion, atrength and plan. Both the Germans and British have adopted these attacks. The Germans appear daily to grow more nervous by the present lull. They are watch' Ing the British (with eat-like alert' neaa. The allgbteat alarm during the night aet their gun going and many defensive barrage curtain have been projected nseleaaly In front of the British positions, gome of their air plane also are taking desperate chance In flying low over the line to keep In touch with any movement. PRESIDENT WTLSO BUTYB LIBERTY LOAX BONDS Washington. June 1 Secretary of the Treasury MrAdoo today gave out a letter from the president with which Jie enclosed a check for $10, 000 a his personal subscription to the Liberty loan. The president ex pressed great regret that his sub scription could not be larger. MILLIONAIRE d BY SON'S Springfield. Mo., June 1. Craxed with grief and anxiety over the kid napping of his son, J. H. Keet a millionaire retired banker la today blaming friends tor failure to rescue his iboy from the abductors. Following direction given him by the kidnapers, Keet last night atole away with $6,000 In cash to meet the kidnappers and ransom the (on. Be fore leaving he asked friends not to follow as the letter from the thieves told him that he must come alone with the ranson. Fearing foul play, Keet waa followed all night as be drove on until dawn. The kidnapper did not keep the appointment at the scheduled spot. Keet announced that he Intend hunting the kidnapper again to night. The police fear that others, knowing of his attempt and with the ransom money on hla person, may at tack him. ITALIANS ARE REORGANIZING THEIR LINES PREPARATORY TO Rome, June 1. General Cadorna today halted his advance to permit the bringing up of supplies, prepara tory to a renewed thrust In his cam paign against Trieste. The enemy continues to make strong counter-attacks which the Ital ians are repelling with huge psses, Unit- oxide from this, Cadorna seems to be content with re-fortlfylng the positions won which were badly shat tered by the bombardment of Italian guns. Along the Isonxo line only artillery duel have, been In progress, .oq ac count of bad weatner conditions- LOSS OF LIFE HIKE GIB LARGE MUBOVBJ'al TORS ADO PBOVW MORS DKBTBl CrnVB AS 8ITUA nOJT BB0OHE8 KXOWH HiQl'lCEMCEmra Town Are Wiped OaU sad Teat CXdB for Hovaele Kefngees Bate la : Their Place St Louis, Jan 1. ReviaeeV figure show that 2fi person loot their Uvea and over 100 were lajar- i ed at Zalma, BUlinger county, la last Wednesday's tornado. The tornado evidently cam iaU existence near Salem. Mo., - early Monday, but there waa no loss of life until the storm reached Mineral Point In Waahlictoa county, where four persona were killed and Zt tav Jured. Relief haa been sent tat stricken! points from St. Louis. - A woman wa reported dead at Dongola, and Iboy wa killed at Ad vance. Qjehllt also reported twe deaths. A telegram from Cairo, DX. stated that four negroes were killed In a storm that atruck the souther part of Illinois last night. . Wire were down both from St. LouU and Cairo. , v ' ' Hail accompanied the powerful wind and hall as big a hea'a eggs fU at, M?te potnUc. .The .vdai done to the crops by hall will be enormous. . Mineral Point, In , Washlngtoai county, which wa virtually wiped out took on the appearance of military camp, when hundreds of tents were erected to shelter - the homeleaa refugee. Food and cloth ing I being rushed to the tow. NO FIRE PROTECTION WITH DEPARTMENT ON STRIKB osaaaaiwBasaaa Hoquiam. Wash.. June l.-r-Th entire city tire department went oa strike here today when the city re fused Its demand for a $10 pt month Increase In pay. : The cltj I entirely wtthont fire protection. . TRY NEW METHOD : OF CURING TYPHOID Los Angeles. June 1. Dr. Carl Schultx, representing the naturopath, method of healing, ta engaged in a contest here today with Dr. B. N. Chllds to see whether he can cure typhoid fever faster than It can be cured toy the standard mean.' Dr. Child must cure a certata number of case In half the time Dr. Schultx take to cure an equal num ber, or give $100 to charity. Dr. Sennits, on the other hand, offers to give $200 to charity it he cannot cure 95 per cent of all case turned over to him In their primary atagee. FINAL DASH FOR TRIESTE There has been a renewal of activ ity by the Italian In Albania and some positions have been taken and held against counter-attacks by the Teutonlo allies. . In the main, the Italian ate en gaged In consolidating position! wo and In bringing up their gum tot fur ther operations in their campalga aganst Trieste. It 1b conservatively estimated here that the great Italian offensive haa already cost the Austrlans, In killed, wounded and missing, over 100,00a men. , s-4-- 1 i .