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DAILY EDITION YOU HI I., No. uu. - GRANT, f AM, JONEPHIXB COU JOT, OREGON. HI' N DAY, OVK.VI IIF.lt IN, WIT WIIOLK NIMBER Ull. '4 1 lis HOLD! N G UNTIL ALLIED HELP ARRIVES lKM1TK IXTFAhlVK ami ms TMST mUKK, ITALIAN holding viaxk link - FREKCH-BR1T1SH 111 IIP If Italian a Hold Present w Unit t Mill Allie GW Into Action, hay la Sevrd Oi lit Italian from, which ta Ihe only theater In th world war where Intenxlve fighting In Id prngrrna. the Kalian dally continue to stiffen their frjnt from Iba region of l-ak 4 lard a In the Adriatic ea. Nohr have the Teutonic alllea been able In penetrate. thel front for nw tlu of great Importance. All along the Plav n tnrlntia ar tillery action la In progr aul Ital ian alrplanra again hive eoni Into the fray anil are dolnic notable .work In dropping bomb on, the enemy Una. ' toadon, Nor. 17. The British lorrenpomlent accredited to Italian headquarter. In a dputh dnted Thursday, any: "Allied reinforcement are ranch Inn Italy dally In Increasing , num ber. To aave waiting for train on the congealed railroad,' aomo French troop bnva been brought nrom the Alt Oirquglr the. .nqw covered p. The alllea' troop are marching ateaillly forward to their appointed place, In the Itnlliin scheme of defense. "Both, the British and French troop aie In high aplrlt. The are dWighted at the change of ncnnn, and the prowpeui of a new adventure." .Home, Niv. 17. The German troop whli'b forced proline of the Wave river at Snenon, are bulog ntfudlly pushed bark. In oilier ec , tinns, nearly l.nno tlermiln H oner have been taken. Berlin. Nov. 17 The Autro-Sr-maa troop stormed Monte I'raHMila between the lirenln nnd Plav river nd took HOO ftallunn prisoner," DELEGATES f HEAR Seattle, Nor. 17. Three dele gate from the north wextcin tele jihntte striker, twn of them from Portland and one from Seattle, have left for,Han Frnoloo to confer with the lorirriil mcdlntor, They linve no power to niHk n settlement only to report. " -X Mt'Klrr:itKII KII.M THItKK S MWMl Virglnlu, Minn., Nov. 17. Thrue victims of an ex murder wnre dis covered when the poltre found the bodies of Paul Adarm, hU wife nnd ' a boarder, Peter Treplch, In thnlr bone here, spattered with blood and their skulls crushed. FIRSI AtiERiCAfi TO FACE FISiNG SQUAD Washington, Nov. 17. An Ameri can soldier, member of (lenornl .Vnrtthlng's forces, found jiiillty by n ' court mnrtliil of the rhirge of rspe nnd 'murder of n Krcnch wom oin, Ims been exnculnd hy n' flrlnn qnad. All .details of this first dnnth roy alty Imposed slnro the troops Innd ed on Kronen soil are being with hold hy the war department. III SHELL-FIRE IE Gt'rnmiu Hn I'aiiy of Aiuwkaa littratiitutor anil Shell TIhiu Via nmly Hut Without ltrull On Hit llrltlah Krou) In lielgiuui, Nov. 17 -Five members of the party of Ainnrlran iongrrmen and pri vate cltlxnu who spent yterdy Vlaltlnif the llelulnn war xon had a narrow urepe. front" death or In jury whi.'H they wore caught In uddcn burnt of Uerman niachl Kim fir whllo Inspecting front linn treuche near IHxiniide. The Ainnrlcun In dungnr were Congreaamnn C. ('. IHH of flpokau, John F. Miller, Seattle, Albert John on, Hoqulam, Wash., Cha.'ll. Tlm berlake, I'oloraaVo and former con gresman Stout of Montana. Hy n freak of luck no oua wa hit. Seven othar member of the party were lu another section. Later when all were together, the Herman! dronxd n big slwll only ten yard away, endangering th entire part. The German had aeon them and In tentionally at rued tha destruction of th entire party. PRIZE KM SHO NAMED , The Southern Oreeon Corn Show held yenlerday In the rooma of th I not rout ' lmplcuient Co., waa an (I uoquallflfd auccea. lloth. In thejtluj ,mmllnit0B Bnt to be capable numbor of eiUlblt and their nl-1 of . Btoldtnin; out for noma day.' 4 fi fTiii excellence, the hnw U)trw than . JuHtlMed the effort of the W'lnc-j trout Co., the t'alifornla and Oregon! Count railroad,, the (iranta Pan' Hanking Co., and the Jonephlnej County bunk. It proinotor and pa-j tron. The iimirdH were a follow: 1 Ytx ihowet ten ear of non-lrrl-j Kiitrd com Klrst, Mr, J. Beve-niiH rlilK",. Hiiro: 'second, J. Christie, (irnnta I'a; third, W. V. Wood- slo k. Frultdale. , . . Kor the beet ten ears of li rlxated corn Klrst, V. II. MniUny, Merlin; siTond, Hayes Bros., Murphy; third. J. K. Howlnnd. Wlldervlllo. Kor the best alnKle ear Flnit. Glenn Provolt, Provolt; second, W. B. Lindiwy. Merlin; third. W. U Mortlnnil, Kogue Illver. Kor the heat ten Htnlk of silage torn Klrst. II. T. Vedder, Murphy; second, taster , Spurlln, Williams; third. C. K. Uontner, Murphr. Kor the best peck of shelled cdrn Klist, J. ChrlttH. Crauts l'as: second. W. K. Woodntpck ; Krult dale; third, Wm, Auslund, Dryden. At th Saturday morning essloo of the show, n corn stringing con test between , teams representing school of the county, was the fea ture, Kach team was to siring three string of ten ear each. Speed, neatness, simclnn and igeneral ac- jpurncy rminted in the scoring. . The team representing Jerome J Prairie school, consisting of Agnes iSmlth and Martha Oclwltx,' won first prise. The second went to the Mer lin school, w hose 'team consisted of Oordon Cochran and , Bland Pru It. Kdna Sundell end Alice Luck of the Dixie chool won third prise. SWiSS FEAR TROOPS m MTO PASS WashlnKton. Nov. 17. The Swiss political department has emphatical ly denied t lie rumor that one set ot bell I go re n Is asked permission of her to inovp troops through her terri tory, Thi four Is expressed that the other hollgcrcnts may use this as 1 prat ex to forcibly do the snine thing, IIKIT1SM M'H I. MAKING ' I'ltlKlltKMS ALONG It I IX J K London, Nov 17, The British hufe made further progress todny along 'the Pnsschenduele ridge. (ERENSKY IS FUGITIVE j UULOIILVIIl IIUUHIIUL Radicals Extend Their Ccr.trcl to Msscow-Preder Deserted By Oncers ad Trccps ad Escapes Dfesd As a Sailor , I'etroKi'Md. Nov. 1". lfeated In batllo by the bolHbevlkl, and deaort d by moat of hla officer and men, former I'remler lerenikr I In flight, hla whereabout unknown. General Nebreakoff, arrexted with other menibera ot Kerenky'a afaff, haa been relened on the ground that be waa only obeying the order of hla auperlor. I'remler Kerenaky, when told that hi officer were again! him, and the men were at the point of denertlng, agreed to come to I'etrograd, but while a guard waa being arranged, tie din appeared. ' General Dukhonin ha aaaucaed temporarily the pot of couimander-In-ohlcf of the Kerenaky force fol lowing the dlKappearanve' of ..Ker enaky, who I reported to have fled, dlagulned ajt aallor. Seven thoiuund military cadet and 1,000 troop are beelged In the Kremlin at Mokcow by g.00 bof- lahevlkl, who are battering the alfograd. elent walla and building with beavj artillery, according to a well thentlcated report received thla evening. " The government troop are aald to have a fairly plentiful aupply of food petitions to make caiifor;w Ran Kraoilsco, Nov. 17.--With ilUiiir i iivtltluD bearlne 40.- 000 uamvs in I.o Angolcs Thursday, bsckers of the Rouiinger antl-biMize bill expect to have 90,000 on tile i.fre the end of the week. Petl- tlona hearing 20.000 names were filed here yesterday. In addition, Oakland petitions bear 11,000 names and 5,000 have been filed in San Jose. The law require 75,000 valid slgnuture to get the .measure on too ballot for the next slate elec tion. AMKKH AX MISSION HAS MtNCH WITH KINO K.KWAKII ? Ixindon, Nov. 17. The members of the American mission to the Inter-allied conference lunched at Buckingham palace this afternoon with the king and queen. . . Kt'NSIAN KIIKKIHI IS CAKItlKI) TO KXTKKMK To show to what ludicrous ex treme Ideas of liberty are running In Russia, a returned traveler says that the Petrograd schoolboys are demanding the right to elect their own teachers and to dismiss any they do not like. Providence Jour nal. N CHINKHK I'HKMIK.U HAS ' RF.SIGNKI) HIS PkHITHN Tokio, Nov. 17. Premier Tuan of iilna has resigned, said a Peking dispatch to tho Nichl-Nlchl todny. ' The same dispatch said the Chi nese' governor of Hunan provlnre. Fn Liang Tsu, has fled. . IS San Kranrjgco, Nov, 17. Kedertil ofllccis here chnrKo t hnt .Mrs. Vio let Pructt, Indicted at Portland ns a niPinber of a hand conniilrlng to smuggle liquor Into Oreuon nnd Washington, was the directing ngent of the entire purty. Aciordlnu to the information of the Aao luted Pre a aenii-olllclal American returning from Moeow, the torie of wholesale looting and burning there have been exaggerat ed. There haa been Indiscriminate firing throughout th city, but alide from th havoc at the Kremlin, there haa been little damage done to property. ' The loaa of life alnce the begin ning of the Insurrection I estimated at from 2.000 to 5,000. General Kaledlnes, upon whoae help the defender of the Kremlin are counting, la reported to bav ent the railway southward to prevent provllona arriving, while he la mov- ing toward Moscow. London, Nov. 17. A belated dis patch from Petrograd to Keuter's Umiled, aaya that 1.50 vCoeaacks were killed r wounded In lighting that occurred near Alexaadrofsky tathin, five mle southeast of Pet- ixindon, Nov. 17. Keuter' corre spondent at Stockholm saya advices received from Haparanda are to the effect that all work haa ceased throughout Finland and no tele grams or train are being dispatch- RED CROSS REFUTES Washington, Nov. 1 7. Following the report of rumor that article made Jor the Red Cross by workers throughout the country, were being sold. General Manager Gibson issued a most positive statement that there was absolutely no vestage of truth in the report. He called attention to the fact that It was impossible to prevent private firms manufacturing . gat. ments similar to those designed for the Red Cross, but that if any In stance wan brought to hla attention of the use of the name of the Red Cross In' either getting them made or In selling the 'same, vigorous prosecution would be commenced at once. , THEATER B PLOT Chicago,. Nov. ,17 Federal agents late today made two arrests in con nection with the placing of a crude bomb In the auditorium theater last night. One of the men is said to be nn employee of the theater. ITS New York, Nov. 16 With two days remaining of the $35,000,000 war fund campaign of tha Y. M. C. A., It was announced from the head quarters of the National War Work council that the grand totul of sub scriptions rniRed throughout the Pnlted Stntes totalled Friday $.'B, 3N0,58. ' " , (ienrge W. Perkins, chairman of .the finance committee, sent broad cast yesterday to the 'army of 300, 000 workers In the campaign au appeal for extra efforts, . The result was a 'general Increase throughout the United States. G0A IVn.lilug's Mem Keep t p Heavy Kx t'liaiige of HlHfll With Tratona, . Hrveral Caaaalrlra Itepnrletl ' ; With American Army In France, Nov. 17. The artillery duel In which American Iroopa form one of -the partle, baa become more fre quent and violent. There have been further rasualtle. A diacharg of hrapnel wounded aome of our met in the trenchea. An enemy ihell hit ilfAnierlcan gan, causing fr ther caauattle. Home of the wounded of the laat two day hnv died. Th American batterie are Im proving In their fire. Their visibil ity has become better. It I believed that their return of the German fire caused more damage and eaari ti tles In the enemy ranks, than the American have suffered. w mm pay EESFECTS TO FOSTER Washington. Nov. 17. President Wilson, menibera of the cabinet and ambassadors of piany foreign' coun tries yesterday afternoon attended the funeral of former Secretary of State John V. Foster, -father-in-law of Secretary Lansing, at the Church of the Covenant. The church wi thronged with other high official of the government. Thej body will be taken to Evansvllle. Ind., for Intern ment. . .. . - CiKRMAX IJKITKJIAJIT . . AT AM'ATKAZ PKIHO.N S San Francisco. Nov. 17. Lieu tenant Wllhllm von Brlcken, former military attache of the German con sulate here, was transferred today to the Alcatrat disciplinary barracks thereby probably establishing perma nently his statu a a military In stead of a civil prisoner. TO 1 II f WashlnKton. Nov. 17. The war automobile commission ot . the war Industries board haa practically com pleted Its program for the curtail ment of the manufacture of pleasure cara. ' The curtailment will take place, by progression. Orders will probably be Issued for a 10 per cent curtailment next month and a 20 per cent curtailment the following month and bo on.- KX-HF.NATOU PKTTIGItKW MCST KACK INMCTMKNT Chicago, Nov. 17. Representa tive of Richard F. Pettlrrew, for mer United States senator. Thursday filed 'bonds for hla appea ranee In Aberdeen, S. ;D.. where he Is under Indictment for alleged violation . of the espionage act, according to fed eral officials here. As a result, he will not be formally arrested. E BRUSH IHH SEA .tendon, Nov. 17. The ' British light forces engaged' the German Hunt cruisers off Heligoland this morning. The Germans retired and were pursued by the British vessels'. KOVAIMHt KCF.NK OF LATF.ST KKVOLITION' Buenos Aires, Nov. 17, A revnia tlon has broken out In F,cundor. The rebels have taken Pueblo Viejo, Car acaol and Catarain. Many have 'ecn killed and wounded. ' KEXT DRAFT TO BE RASED UPO ALL KHUIHTKKKD MK.X WILL FILL OCT giKHTION LOT OJf QUALIFICATION! mm MD TO ASSIST lrwwl4 of Men for Next Arm WOt Depend I'poa DepeooVsrte ami Work More Thaa Lottery Jamea Martin, clerk of th local registration board, ha received apply of th questionnaire for draft classification. , They will to mailed to tha registered men la tb.lt) district a aooa a practicable, aa4 each man receiving such documeat. 1 required to fill It ont la full aa4 return -within aevea day of H re ceipt. f , Baiem, Or., - Nov. 17. Prowaat Marshal General jCrowder baa re quested Governor Wlthyeombo t call on all member ot the' Orefoa bar to give legal advice to regist rant for the second army draft. The provost marshal general sug gest that th governor appoint a a central committee to plan orgaabta- , tlon of legal advisory board throughout the state, the rice pres ident tor Oregon of American Bar association, the Oregon member of the general council of that 'eeod tlon, the president of the Oregon. Bar aeBtTon,'an4 lb attorn?, tomeral . of the Hate. Th9 sute will be districted and a legal advisory board be named for each district, with county Judge or member of circuit court probably aa chairman. ' They will be associate member of the draft boards. The questionnaire . which I the basis of the new system Is a collec tion of questions bringing out the essential facts upon which all classi fications are made. It is the only printed form . which any registrant needs to use either in making claim or filing proof. Questionnaire are to be mailed by the local board to S per cent ot the registrants each day. . The principal work, or the legal advisory boarda will thus be 'oyer In 20 day,; by which time all the questionnaire should be returned to the boarda.' Every man has seven day in which to return hi questionnaire fully made out. . Tb process of classifi cation will begin about December cation will begin about Decaiaber 15. Eight days later the boards wilt begin the great process of classifi cation.1 which becomes, In the words of the president, "a national war un dertaking of such significance a to challenge he attention and compel the assistance of every America. " FUEL 0l WILL CURTAIL SHOTS Washington, Nov. 17.' Following the announcement that the priority shipping board could ' curtail the shipments ot non-essentials only on the recommendation of the fuel ad ministrator, . It was announced-that fuel ' administrator Garfield would prepare such recommendations. JAPANESE STEALER SNO'iYS UP UiiK'EO Seattle, Nov. 17. The Japanese freighter, Salkl Maru, which was yesterday reported wrecked on the Japanese coast, entered Puget sound today. It Is believed that the name was confused with another steamer in yesterday's report. ' .'''
