Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, September 21, 1917, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text"v; DAILY EDITION grant pam, MMnrauns county, oreoon, Friday, September si, 1017 WHOLE 1TVMBER IM. irir MFIU In III llill III In 1 11 III 111) I T7T.Tr. - V - :- : VIM VIII., No. 4. , j, TV tirTAIUTTMir mil 7 if 4. HAfG REPORTS LAST BATTLE REAL VICTORY MIJMT IMPORTANT ACHIEVE JIKNT OK VHAR ON WKMTKHM FRONT YESTERDAY jiumis m the day ArUlltwy ltmK Fire I'mwli In-faU-y Advance as llrttUli Troop" Hwmp Acme (irwiml British Front In Kruno and Bel gium, apt. II. During the night th Hrillah forces, with comparstlve ly Hill opposition, consolidated anU Improved Ibtf uow position which they won yesterday In lhi offensive Ml of Ypres. The new Una marks an advance of over a mils. Today, from the newly won trenohea, known aa "Anxac." the Australian flax flutters aa the sym- of the greatest victory on the western front during the paat year, not except lux the great battle ol Messlne. The position raptured yesterday were considered among the strongest on the Oerman front Field Marshal Main's official re port. of yesterday's baitle.aaya .that "North "country and Australian bat talions penetrated the German por tions In the center to a depth of over mile and captured the whole of their objectives. These Include Ham let. Veldhoek and western portion of Polygon wood. "farther north. Xevenkole was raptured and also a few guns. Heavy artillery preparation for days had been going on and extcn-j atve raids In antlctpstlon of a tre mendous Infantry assault and when the British left their trenches they were preceded by row upon row of bar raw fire, reaching Into the Ger man lines to a greater depth than on any previous occasion. Concrete redoubts, hundreds of machine guns, barbed wire entangle ments and marshy ground faced the British In their storming operations, but the heavy guns bad cut down many of the barriers and tha British went forward ateadlly, gaining all their objectives and penetrating the Herman lines In places for a mile or mors. EXHIBIT FOR STATE IGHT Josephine county's exhibit at the Mate fair Is being assembled today and the enr will probably leave to night or In the morning. A J. Green has had charge of the car and has done most of It personally, trav eling between 250 nd 300 miles over tha county within the last few 1kvi collecting rpedmens. The fruit exhibit Is astlsfactory. Generally speaking, the exhibit "of farm products Is below an avorage nd poorer than was shown last year. An exception must be made In the case or corn, Many good ex hibits are being secured or this crop. The county also raised some good .potatoes, but the foest have not yet been 'harvested. HINA PLANS TO HRND TROOPS TO F RANCH Tokto, Sept! 21. China, accord ing to the correspondent or the newspaper Nlcht NIchi, will send 80,000 volunteer troop to France. The force will be tha first detaoh ment of a Chinese expeditionary itrmy to aid the allies. ' LAS GETS LARGEST TAX l4uul Oram Tax I'aymeat to Bring J 1 Molina County One Hundred , Thirty Thousand Dollars Portland, Sept. tl. Josephine county la to receive approximately 1130,000 In back taxes on grant lands, and Klamath county, $311,000 according to Oswald West who has checked the government's lists, Washington, Sept. 21. Secretary l,ano rocommended to congress to day the payment of taxes on lands ssgregatlng ft.604.MI to one Washington and IS Oregon land grant counties. Douglas county receives the high est amount, IS00.132. ., Portland, Sept. 21. Word was received here this morning that the payment of the taxes due on the Oregon A California Railroad grant lands by the government may be de layed temporarily because of a suit brought by 8. W. Williams, special assistant to the United States at torney general, for an accounting of the sums received froiri the sale of the grant lands. The Ferris-Cbaiberlaln bill au thorised a ault to determine what amount shall be paid by tha govern ment tor Ita 12.50 an sera equity In the 2.100,000 acres of . the land grant forfeited.. "" '"ifrom this equity there ttdbe ds-" ducted under the till, money ,. for back; taxes due the 'counties, and money which the railroad company has received for the sale of Ita lands In excess of 12.50 an acre. Just how much has been so received, and ac cordingly how much to deduct, will be determined In Hie suit for an ac counting. IiATH BAVARIAN KINO'S . HEART IN IRON I'RN London, Sept. 1. (lly malll With solemn ceremonies the heart or the late msd King Otto or Bavaria was recently . removed from the Chapel Royal of (Munich, where the remains are burled, to the Church of 'Altosttlngcr near Paasau, where the hearts of all Bavarian kings are kept In gold urns. Owing to the jwar the urn of Otto la Iron. 0 t ', ,' HOMING PIGEONS TO Cleveland, v 0 Sept. 21. The United States Is mobilising Its birds of war. Two. hundred homing pi geons, billed to Fort Wood, N. J left here during. the night as the first unit of an army of 2,600 birds to be transported to France. They are going to be used aa mes-J sengcrs on the righting line where barrage fire wipes out. the use of motorcyclists, ' telephones and wire less, . ' ; , v ATTACK' COMMANDER Petrograd, Sept. 21. A small riot occurred yesterday In the ranks or the woman' "Battalion or Death" at Moscow. The riot took the form or an attack by some of the girls upon Vara Butchkareff, , the . regi ment's twice-wounded commander. Infantrymen rescued the comman der. , The 'cause of the attack la un known, . . DOUG BERNSTORFF HAD FUNDS FOR PARTICULAR USE I i i ii hii V viTc'',"' 'N Pepartcest of State Eakes Public' Intercepted Message Fro Forcer Acbassadsr to Hcze GoTercrszt Askisg for AUowbce to kfsecce Ccsgresszen Wain. ton. 8pt. 21. Secretary of Stale Lansing today made public an astounding addition tq the series of disclosures showing Oerman In trigue In America and elsewhere. A message from Count Bern storlT. formerly Oerman ambassador here, sent January 22 of this )ear to tha Oerman foreign office, Berlin, re quested authority to pay fSu.OOO to Influence members of congress through an un-nanfed organisation, apparently known 1 Berlin. Beru storff Indicated that money had there tofore been paid In this organi sation to perform similar work. ' "I request authority to pay up to 150,000 In order, as on former occa sions, to influencu congress through the organisation you know of, "vhl.h can perhaps prevent a declaration of war. "Am (beginning meantime to act accordingly, in the above circum stances, a public, official declaration by Oermany In favor or Ireland Is highly desirable in order to gain the support of Irish Influence here,.'- It la not assumed In any quartera here that the money which Bern atorff Indicated he wanted, was to ST. PAUL AUDIEIiCE HISSES LAFOLLETTE St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 21. Sena tor LaFollett was repeatedly Inter rupted by cries of "yellow" and "put him out," during the course of a speech made here last night. "I have just come from Washing ton, where, with a little handful or men, 1 have been .waging a light de manding that taxation should be paid according to the ability to pay. I waa not , in favor of beginning this war. We had no grievance. The German government had Interfered with our rights to travel on the high eeaa-r-as passengers on the mu nition ships or England. , "On these grievances, which were Insignificant, considering the rights and consequences Involved, we went to war. We had a right to ship mu nltlons, but I was hot In favor ol riding." Cries of "Yellow" stopped the sen ator. ' He hard hardly got started again when some one called: "What ot the UislUnla" and the din was on again, Governor Frailer or North Dakota, chairman of the meeting, assisted In quelling the dis turbance. - McNAB REPRESENTS V. 8. IN STRIKE CONFERENCE Washington, Sept. 21. Oavln iMcNab, a San Francisco attorney has' been named special representa tive or the redral shipping board In negotiations looking toward the set tlement of the strike of 25,000 worker In the San Francisco bay shipyards. RKKT SI GAR EMPLOYEES RECEIVE WAGE INCREASE Chlno, Cel., Sept. 21. A live cent an hour lnorease today was given all southern California em ployees of the American Beet Sugar company. To many field laborers working II hour dally the Increase means ,14.20 a week additional. , be used In bribing members of eon gress. It waa pointed out that such a sum would go but a very short way Indeed In actually baying con gressional support. , But the money might do much In the way of paying the agents of the propoKsnda machine Bernstorff built up here, to promote peace talk throw Interference In the way of the administration's plans and for ., es pionage purposes. Some local publicists think that Bernstorff waa referring to peace so cieties when mentioning "organisa tions" in hia communication. -His reference to "avoiding war" Indicates that Bernstorff knew .In advanre, of Germany's Intention to proclaim, on January 23, her merci less aubmarlne warfare, although at the time he' emphatically denied having any such knowledge. Representative , Heflln. of Ala bama, said on tha floor of the house late this afternoon that If permitted, he could name 13 or 14 congressman who ' acted suspiciously" and who ought to be Investigated as a result of the disclosures made In Bem- storff's letter. HOUSE STANDS OUT FOR HIGHER TAXES Washington, Sept. 21. The house conferee on the, war tat bill late yesterday Insisted upon increasing the provisions ot the bill respect ing war profit taxes and by so doing have delayed and somewhat compli cated the passage or the measure. Coincident with the adjournment or the conference, a meeting of the house ways and means committee, which drew 'the original bill, waa called tor, today to discuss the' sit uation. It was explained that the ways and means committee would try to In duce the house conferees to accept the larger figure, but should this rail, hlh tax advocates declared they would carry the contest to the floor of the house. They said that recent announcements that approxi mately $2,500,000,000 more money would toe needed this year than al ready provided makes It certain that unless a start Is made now to fur ther Increase taxea, the country will be swamped with bonds. APPLE BOX SHORTAGE Portland, Sept. 21. J. B. Knapp, representing Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, believes that the shortage of apple box for " the northwest crop 'has been solved. Only the co-operation ot the Individual apple growers is needed to put the plan In operation. Agreements have been made with mill, whereby the production will be kept up to full capacity If advance order are re ceived.,. Mr. Knapp said this morn ing that If the Individual grower will place their, order protutply ithe boxes will be forthcoming !irr wsnted. RECRUITS FOR ATHLETICS Commandant of Cantonment Re quires All Men to Participate In Games Aa Part of Training Camp Lewis, 8ept. 21. Troops, parte of the second increment of the new national army, are arriving hourly at the American Lake camp. Today's arrivals are to be 3,750 men. '' Moo Wing, a Chinemaa from Van couver, Wash., one of the new men and the only Chlnemsn, said today that Americana think he cannot cook , well enough for them so he will fight in the trendies. Elghty-dlve athletic teams have al ready been organised. Major Gen eral Greene says that all the men must participate In athletics. One of the . regimental football teams baa already arranged game with the Washington State college team to be played In the - Tacoma stadium on October It. PORTLAND ENGLISH BVLL-DOO HATES GERM AX DACHSHUND Portland, Sept 21. The ten dency of an English bull-dog to lump on a dachshund belong to Mrs. H. Kerstrlng was brought to the no tice ot the police here today. Mr. Karstlng eoamlalned that the bulldog make frequent trips to her back yard and administer pro-ally chewings to the dog from kaiser- land. The police asked the owners of the bulldog to put him in the pro posed dog division If they wanted him to fight E MM Seattle, Sept 21. The committee representing the striking lumber yard . employes In the Washington mill, ' announced today that ' the strike had notsbeen called off des pite the statement made 'yesterday at Aberdeen that timber" worker could return to" work U : they thought it necessary. V ' " E TO SELECT OUARRY Corvallls, Sept. " 21. A meeting of the state lime board will be held In Salem, Thursday, September 27. The board has1 beeu making a care ful survey of all avllable lime rock with a view of establishing a quarry In that location where the fpek can be shipped at the least possible ex pense. Dean Cordley of O. A. C. said today: ''As stated In the call for this board meeting, I think the Information now available Is suffi cient to enable us to select the most favorable location." OREGON CITY INITIATES ' ' FIHH PROHIBITIVE LAW Salem, Sept. 21. Attorney Gen eral Brown has prepared the ballot title for the proposed Initiative bill prohibiting fishing In ' Oregon stream with flshwheel. traps or selns. The bill I being Initiated by Charles C. Balbcock of Oregon City Under a new law the official Fallot title must be prepared and be print ed on an initiative petition before th petition I circulated. - : . MORE IIDY RECRUITS ARE WELL PLEASED LOCAL COaOOTTEBS TBANKBO FOB MANNER TROOPS ARB " HANDLED sEneuneETSCEM TUa Monism's CocOingntt Wan Larger aad Better H died, v Third ADotaaeat Taeaday The second contingent of hungry California recruits to be served breakfast by the local Red Croe chapter, reached Grants Pass at :20 this morning and ten minute later were seated at , well-laden table scattered through the city.. The party numbered 479 and were from Los Angeles, Riverside and vi cinity.,' Unlike the contingent, yes-, terday moining, they were organis ed in companies with temporary company officer In charge and were marched to and from the dining halls In , military i formation, rather . than straggling back and forth, each man for himself. In this way thoee in Charge of the party saw to it that none were missing. At Redding, Cal.. yesterday,' a train had to be toppeT' and ' beM while " an " automobile brought four recruits seven mile up the line, because of their having missed the train. ' ' , The boys seemed to be well pleas ed with the treatment accorded them and suggested a -football excursion from a large college more than a military expedition against a power-' ful enemy.':-' The Courier I In receipt of the following, letter dated at Roseburg yesterday: '. :-','' "The boy ot the Oakland division wish to express their appreciation of the hospitality shown them while In your midst this morning. ' Ta breakfast certainly nit the spot and everyone ot us Is a warm booster for Grants Pas. : J. C. TORMEY. , , 'For the bunch. The Roseburg Review quote L W. Sweetland of the , Oakland divi sion as saying: '' "We ' have been treated royally ever since we , left Oakland. The reception given, os have been surprises and entirely un expected." . The next contingent to be fed here arrives next Tuesday morning and will be handled . a were the first two. EXPLOSION IN GERMAN . ( MUNITION FACTORY FATAL Amsterdam, Sept. 21. At least 24 persons were killed and more than a score injured In an explosion In a German munitions factory near Cologne, said a dispatch received here today. TILL FIGHT IS WON Washington, Sept 21. The for mal pledge of the new Russian re public to remain in the war Until German autocracy 1 crushed, , waa laid before Secretary of Stat Lan sing this afternoon by th Russian ambassador,' Boris Bakhmetleff. ' Details of the momentous meet ing were not divulged but it Is known that the envoy. In most vig orous fashion, denied any possibility of Russia'' concluding a eprt peace with Germany and her allies.