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ft r DAILY EDITION VOL. VIII. No. V OBUTI PAM, JOSEPHIHB OODXTT, OnEOOV. THVItftDAY. SEPTEMBER 90, 1917 WHOIJt KCMBEB 1161. II: 17 -Av "v, x a. ' 4 ' X WDIESllivlEJttlSS'PBOflTS if passing SOLDIER BOYS TRAIN UAl OF 1-AIJHHt.MA nucium fw itv ixjal v KKU OHOrM JOLLY, WELL PLEASED Sevan Mails llllUml to Take fare irf , Troops. , Another Contingent Ar. Hvre a Morning The Drat contingent of national army recruits lo atop for a nival al thin city arrived al o'clock Ihli morning, an huur abead of their schedule. The local committee had been Informed to be ready for break fal at 7 o'clock. They actually W Kan serving at 4; 40, Owing to misliiforiiistinn given to railroad authority In California, the nnmlter of ihli firm contingent waa eonsidcrably less than expected. Instesd of 4 to odd rnnn. HM ware actually on (he train. The local ex emption board In aoma of the ("all for ola towns wra dilatory In Ratting their contlngenta off according , lo aclixd ulo. ' The breakfast went off aplttndid ly. All of the boyi seemed wall pleased and the local committees handled their end of the work satis factorily. The boy had 4en as signed lo aquada prior lo their ar rival U this city; csch squad wai assigned to one of tha halla where breakfast waa served and, with uni formed Hoy 8couts as guides, were directed lo the' hulls without delay or confusion. The aervlim of hash by the local committee waa dictum of the rail road aulhnrlllea ordering the meal. The local lied Croai chapter to whom the problem of serving the aoldlera In these contingent! waa turned over, desired to avoid any poaatble odium that might attach to a "haah meal," Insisted upon adding eggi, which were greatly appreciated by tha boys. The Granta Pass band and aj)iim- ner of cltliina were on band to wel come the boya and made them feel that their fellow eltliens appreciated the sacrifices which they were mak ing. More would have been on 'hand had not the train arrived earlier than expected. , The second contingent la expected tomorrow and the aame arrangement will prevail In serving them. Chairman O. S. Blnnchard of the local Red Croa chapter, learning that the rerrulta were travollng without medical 'attendance, nan ar ranged to have a local physician vla It each train whoie passengors are aerved with meals at thla city and offer nny medical advice of auxin tance that may be needed. Dr. J. C. Smith will vlalt the train tomorrow morning and other local physician have volunteered for successive train. rilONOUHAI'ilH AUK IHM'l'LAIt v AMOG IM)VH OP NEW ARMY Several phonographs are in night ly ua at Camp Lewi. .Tarouia peo ple are contributing records to the soldiers. Hoverul northwest towns are reported to be raising funds to buy ntall machines and a. tow, re cord for the men In training., Music I much appreciated. ' vs PLAY WORLDS X Clnolnnatl, 0 Bept. 20-Tho Chi cago White Box totlsy won the toss for, deciding where the opening game of the world's serins of hcinc ball gnmes la to bo played. Their opponents will be tho New York Giant. ' . Sh a A al a a a a a sm. EflST KccrHury of Moor Telia Business Men Thla la .No Tlnne for Insisting I'pwn fat proffu Atlantic City, Sept. , SO, Unpa triotic 'business men seeking an e cesslve profit out of war conditions wore blamed for the spirit of unrest among laboring men by, Secretary of lbor Wilson In addressing the la bor Motion of the . business men's war .convention bare today. "lAbor has been restless,", he said, "because It la reported that Iron and steel men are making from 100 to 400 per cent profile out of war contracts and also because of the 'reports that shipping, mining and other treat Industries are reap ing excessive returns. "This feeling en the part of labor has been more or less Justified. Re cent Investigations have shown that eastern coal oiieratora have. In some Instances, extorted 15 and Id par ton for coal, the total cost of which to them waa ll.fiO. "I recently told laboring men that this waa no time to Insist upon the recognition of unions nor to force change In wage scales or labor standards. I now tell you business men that It la no time to Insist on large profits a many of you have been doing." POItTLAVO flKRMAN PAPER HAH IAMiKI ITM NAME Portland, Sept, go. The Oregon Denlsehe Zeitung today announced that It had changed Ita name to the Portland American; that II em ployeea who were not American cltl sons had been dismissed and that hereafter It would be published wholly in the English language. ONLY EIGHT LARGE -TOLL lxndon, Sept. 20. The smallest number of vessels over 1,600 tons. sunk by submarines during any week since Germany commenced her unrestricted submarine campaign last February, was during the past week. This number was eight, according to the admiralty report la- sued yesterday. Twenty ahlpa un ders 1,600 tons were sunk and. one small shipping vessel. ' , Hl'MTTKH TAXES REDUCER ON AtXXM'NT OF. FIRE Maker, Ore., Sept. 20. The coun ty tax equalisation board, after visit ing ' Bumpier, Tuesday, exempted from the tag roll all property des troyed In the recent fire, which cuts the assessment of the property In volved to about 10 per cent of It former valuation. NAlMMMH IN CALIFORNIA TO riWR AM TROOPH LEAVE i ' ' ' Sacramento, Sept. SO. Acting oh a suggestion from the provost .mar shal general at Washington, gov ernor Stephen today Issued an order closing all saloons In California ltln and town during the hour preceding eniralnment of recruits leaving for mobilisation canton ment. . New York, Sept. 20. Mayor, Mit chell won the' republican mayoralty nomination yesterday (by a plurality of approximately 1,100 overWm. Dennett, Mitchell, In addition to the' re publican nomination, Is demooraUc MMon cnuilldate to run against Jonn Mylnn, Tammany's candidate. 1 Dennett lute today announced that he was hot satisfied with ttie an nounced result of the election and would tlomwid .a recount. CA MITCHELL DOMINATED . 'FOS'NEWYORK MAYOR w In 'J I HAIG-STARTS ANOTHER GREAT BELGIAN DRIVE 'I. I .. At Early Dawn Terrifc Offcdve Gelt U:dcr-Way JL;ch ' Makes -.Ifststjbl' Gd JDavisf Day. S-arcs Bases Oa Belgias Ccast Bcliercd to Bq Objectnre , British UaadquarUM U J"rance. General Halg's troops . succeed la and Belgium, Sept. 10. Held alar-1 hoWlag the poalUons already reach shal Halg's offensive began at dawnl' ' y' work. wlU nark one of today oa the Belgian front and Is proceeding with marked success ea lieclally In the crucial sector between Ypres-Roulers railway and Holle beke. The German troops are making the most determined resistance In an effort to retain this vital ground. Their artillery Is retaliating heavily against the big British guns. The German Infantry la pouring a wicked stream of bullets axalnst the advancing Brltiah from machine guna protected and concealed by concrete redoubts. TMS offensive will probably be , artillery Increased its volume of known in the history of the war aa'shots to drumfire several times. At the battle of Melnr road. The Brit ish advance I retarded by deep mud which Is covered with a film of wa- ter; shell boles, some of them par-; Here, too, the expenditure . of am tially filled with soft earth: tangled munition la . great., Especially on the barbed wire and shattered trees. If Xlane and northeast of Verdun. MILLER ADVISES DEVELOPMENT OP CIiiG AND IRRIGATION AS JOSEPHntE COUNTY'S ASSETS ' , Jvr, J H. B. Miller, at one time a promi nent rltisen of southern Oregon and a state senator from Josephine county, whs In the city yesterday for a brief visit with old time frlenda. In reapouae to a query from the Courier, Mr. Miller slated: "The city of Grants Pass la pri marily dependent on two things, first the development of mining, and second, Irrigation. "The mining Industry seems to be going on very satisfactorily and suc cessfully. Continuation of' the de velopment of mining along these lines will be the permanent founda tion for the development of the com munity, i "The other prime necessity Is a complete and thorough development of Irrigation. The gravity system which is pro posed tor the other side Of thoNlver ought to le carried through to per fection. The economy of the sit uation ought to suggest that In put ting In this gravity system, sufficient power should be developed to furn ish a transmission system. "It appears to ma that this can be done. ' A . ! M ' "The.tiaracter of the land i antr country generally seems to be partic ularly, adopted to. the. creation of a central power and transmission sys tem, , which will give to each man who has five acres or more a lyitem of irrigation Iby pumping, If not by gravity. This method, developed to cover all the available land along Rogue river and the Applegate, run ning In many case back Into the hill, would make an enormous area or land ihat I absolutely worthless a It Is, very profitable and produo- tlve. "The O. A C. grant land, which Is' almost worthies . without water; would be equally valuable to the 'best character of, land In . this vicinity If It, bed water provided on an eco nomic, basis. , Until, this Is provided' forarranged and developed, the city of Grants Pass need , not expect a thorough and complete development of Its resources. , . . , "My experience here, covering IB year or more, and my wider experT ienc of living In other parts of tha world,' have convinced ma that there I no. place on earth where people rna live with more eatlafsotlon and oomfort and maintain a mora enjoy We. home life than here,, In tha me moil , remarsaoie .acoieremenis of recent months. ' 1 . It Is believed by observers that this offensive Is a mo to drive the Oerman from the west coast of Bel glum and cut them off from their submarine bases along toe southern Belgian coast , , Berlin apparently is much exer cised over the ever-Increasing vol ume of shell from the British big. guns. From the Houtholst wood, northeast of Ypres, to the river Yys, on Hie Belgo-Prench border, Berlin reports Che British fire has been destructive., Field Marshal Halg's sevetal points from the Alsne valley to Lorraine, the French have made raids Into the German defenses. Rogue river country. We have never lived ao well, nor had such a splen did diversity of production for our table aa we had from our farm here years ago. The central note neces sary for the real substantial de velopment of this community lies In making It a country of splendid home life, where- all of the things necessary to make life enjoyable can be produced on one's own farm or garden. The day is not far distant when Rogue riven will become noted throughout :4he world as a place of charming homes, both, in . country and city, and It Is one of the most Important functions of this- city o organise and develop the natural re sources' whloh they hare to bring this about at the earliest f possible moment ' "Irrigation under the most eco nomic and scientific .methods should be the central thought 'and motto of this city. The community should not wait for promoters and specula tors, but should consider It their spe cial doty to do this work them selves." IS inn Abrdeen, Wash., Sept. 20. -Lumber workers here regard the strike against 10-hour per day lumber in eastern Oregon as practically ended, aa a result of a statement Issued to day by the executive committee of the tlmiber workers' union which, while Insisting that the eight-hour strike was not called off and' the' eight-hour work day securedgrant permission to union members, ' es- peclally married men,' to return to work on the 10-hour basis. ; IXJCKKD RAJL1WXU) MAM 18 KHLATKD LOCALLY GoM Hill, Sept. 20. (Special) BrakemM Basil B. Kellogg, of Dunn tliulr, Cel., who received serious In juries as the result of. a train wreck bear Hilt lastt Saturday, whereby four freight car and the caboose waa demolished, Is a brother of At torney A. E. Kellogg of thla city, and bis mother, (Mr. M. K. Kellogt, resides at Medford. .lEDFOIIK PLAH IS ILLEGAL Supreme Court Kaock Out Coae- promlae Dehfc-ref lustring ' rtaa AdnXel by Neighboring City . Salem, Sept. 20. Tha - supreme court, by a unanimous opinion ren dered last Bight, knocks out tha so called Hanson rebooding plan for Medford and holds that tha Bancroft act is valid and, as the. street Im provements of that city vera ordered and laid under, the provisions orthat act, those provisions most be fol lowed in the payment of tha ass menu therefor. - Mearort paving assessments are largely still outstanding. Is aa ef fort to dean up its Indebtedness and get t be city finances Id ship-shape, the city council employed Col. Han son of Seattle to canvass the situa tion an A devise a la that was at the aame tjjma workable and as fair as possible to all .concerned., tHs plan waa adopted by a vote of the people and called for a general re bonding of the city to retire out atanding paving Improvement bonds. This act U the r one, declared Illegal. which probably, means, ,J&at (he .pro perty owners will be called upon to pay their original assessments in fall. 1 ' "H . " .- -' ' L V. V. QUARTERS Los Angeles, Sept. 20. Local headquarters 'of the Industrial Work ers of the World were thoroughly wrecked late yesterday , by a crowd of, about 300 soldiers. There was no .disorder.. The three or four me In the headquarters were asked, to leav which thy did. ''' " The men then, entered and mebh odkaily destroyed every- piece of fur niture,: paper and bit of. equipment In. the room and withdrew In an or derly manner. ,. At a later hour tonight no one bad appeared at police headquarters to make complaint and no. warrants pad been Issued foe any of the raid ers. ... TROOP. fuORALE III OEMS CO HEADS Camp Lewis, American N Lake. Wash., Sept.. 20. Uncle Sam Is go ing to make tha finest soldiers In the world at Camp Lewis and the other cantonment camps throughout the country. . . This today la the declaration of the officers in charge of the camp. They are highly pleased with 1 the men brought here under the selec tive service plan. "Physically near perfection, quick to learn, clean and with the fighters' spirit, they will win the war," said, one veteran offi cer. "Not only the physical condition of the men Is fine," said Captain Reynolds, in charge of the. physical examinations, "but the spirit of the men Is excellent. In view of the fact that they are drafted men. There are a few who are attempting to seek rejection In their examinations. It is true, but they are remarkably few." m a American Headquarters In France, Sept. 20, Brigadier General Geo. B. Duncan and Major Campbell King are the first American officers to be decorated with the French war cross. These officer acted as observers In advance posts In the recent Verdun offensive. Owing to a provision in the Am erican constitution It is thougnt questionable whether the . officers will be permitted to accept this decoration. HIGH PRAISE JOSEPHINE CO 17 MIT AID GRAXTS PASS WIS BXOOMa'KS FOB PBOHPT WORK IS RS$ho rail STATE Resolta Prove; (esKllaess es People to Bfpoad to Joat Appeal. Oosa ' ,. amities Helped loyally The, following .telegram, received by tha manager of tha Granta Pas) Chamber of , Commerce . who repre sented the state war library council in organising the war, library fund drive In Josephine county, from the state manager, was A received laat evening: ' :VV'. t Portland,-Oregon. , Sept, 1, HIT. Benjamin C, Sheldon, Grants Pass, Oregon.' Grants Pass has' set a pace that will be hard for any other eity In Oregon to follow.. Oa behalf of the Oregon war. library council,., I .) ex tend to you personally, and to , all your workers my amazed and satis fied congratulations. -. . W. li. BREWSTER." Josephine county is the first coun ty and Grants Pass ths first city to respond to this appeal.. .Thla prais worthy result was made possible by a combination of two facts, the average, citizen of the county appro- Y elates his or , her responalbUiUe and duties .and. responds to aa Just and: proper appeal; and the matter was taken In. band by . about , 20 loyal, energetic women. : ' .'.' - The credit which the county and city will receive In this -matter re flects upon every eltUen;, end their thanks are due to the. splendid group of women who have made it possible. The committee consisted 'of Mrs. W. W. Canby.' Mrs." R. J.; BeatuL" Miss Alma Wolke, Mrs, A; B. Pratt Mrs. Geo.. Eaton, Mrs. D. B. Reynolds, Miss (Maude Barnes,. Mrs. J., ft. Gqjt nlng, Mrs. P. Helmer, Mrs. Joe. Moss, Mrs.' TV. " VT. Walker, Mrs. "Prank eioeckner, Mrs. TU it- Bartlett, Mrs. J. C. Bigger, vMra. O. Bj Blanchard, Mrs. . C 'MlUer, . Mrs. A. . J., , . Green. Mrs. U. U Upson, Mrs. H. T. Hull, Miss Minnie Tuffs. Mrs. C. P, Fer- rin,' (Miss Ethel Bocock, Mrs. Ea telle Howard Mrs. P.' Mashburn, Mrs. W. A. Fern. Mrs.' Jas Hood. -Miss Gladys Hood, Mrs. Zimmerman and Mrs. Geo. Cramer. , i Ml IS'SEIIT'TO LOOX irffO STL"ES Washington,. Sept. 20. President Wilson today appointed a special commission to represent himself per sonally in a trip to the Pacific coast to Investigate the labor troubles in plants working on government ships. Jt la, not known; who the members of the commission are further than that Secretary of Labor Wilson is one. t ' It is thought thst the party will leave lor the Pacific ship yards at once and, that. President. WUaoa will take no action or position relative to these' troubles until he baa before him a report of the Investigations of these men. " FKOERAL ATTORNEY READY FOR O, C LAJTO BCnS ' Portland, Bept. 20. . - W. Wil liams, a special assistant to .United States Attorney .General. Gregory, ar rived la. Portland Tuesday morning to Institute suit In, federal court In connection with the Oregon V Cali fornia land grant case. " The purpose of, the eonilng suit 1 to determine the. amount, of . money due to the railroad for, the. land turned over to the government under the Ferris Chamberlain bill.