Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, February 11, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text-I hlviruli, f nr). .n,iV VOI VIII., Kit. im, ST--T- NO DESIRE TO INTERFERE IN AFFAIRS OE EUROPE President Wilson Answers Chancellor Yon Hertling of Germany and Count Czemin of Austria Today and Again Sets Forth America's Peace Terms WmthliiKliiii, Kelt. II. The preal iliMit In addressing congreaa today on abort notice, replied to recent apeerha or Chancellor von Ilertllng and lh Austrian foreUn minister, Count CuernUi. The decision to peek followed a conference with Colonel limine. Congreaalnnat lead er arranged a Joint session and the president commenced speaking at 11 30. He aald von llnrtllng'a atatement waa very vague and confining and laaila to practically no conclusion. Very different In tons from Cternln'a union had a friendly note. He reiterated that the I'nlted fttatea hnd no desire to Interfere In European affalra and would disdain In take advantage of any Internal wnakneiia or disorder, to Impose Ha own will on olhera. Ciernln seem In m-e the fundamental element of pen re with clear eye and doea not neck In oWure them. He wo'ild prnhahly have none much further, had It not tieen for Hie emharras ment of Austria's alliance and d pendance on Germany. The president Indicated that he considered Cxernln's ulteranrea de cidedly more favorable than Hert- A trip through I ho lllluolt valley. In the mm ill end of Josephine coun ty, liiillriitt'd that the mining ae 'tlvlty la increasing ruplilly. Two very lurge gas engines, two Immense screen and two big crushers nre now en l onto to the (iolconda mine, which under the iimnHKi'inent or lessee, It. .1. Itnweil, la ruplill)' tf't t Id k In Mliupe for a large production. A large hoarding house Ih rohi diet ed, a bunk limine, about ready for occupancy, and a second out) rt.irt ed. A number of (eiinia ace buay on road work, gruvidlng the county road at the worst spots. There are 23 men at work now mid a fiiKt ns quarters rnn be provided IT, more men are to bo added to the force. The dally tonnage will pus the son tun mark n soon ns a transpor lutlon tunnel Is completed. They are now In I2.' feet end n rnlse started to bring down the upper ore, and are going aliend ut (ho rata of 10 feet per day. The mill equipment Include four gus engines, . two crushers, throe roll, two Hereon, four cluautf lors, five Jig and four table, and It I eipeoted that with this equipment the recovery will make very clonn tailing. Till mine promise to become a very heavy producer, nnd to provide for more efficient tranaportntlon the road bolng widened nnd bnllnat ed nnd. a new bridge I being plan ned to cro the Althniiso river. I'. H. DISTRICT ATTOHNKY IMPLICATED IX PLOT t,o Angela, Feb, 11. United Stnte District Attorney J, R, O'Con nor and Wllllnm Cavannugh, deputy United States marshal, rye named as Implicated In n plot to equip an Il legal expedition Into Mexico with government arm. IXmWAHT KOH THE WEEK RKtilXNINO FKIIHl'AltV 10 Pacific Const Btntea Rnln Mon day or Tuesday north of .cent ral Cal ifornia, and again Thursday or Fri day; fair southern California; un important temperature chang. II ii a 'i, and aald the lest of whether It la poaallile for belllgerenta to go on comparing view waa aim ply fol IowIhk tha principles that most be applied: Plrat, each party of the final aettlement tniiat ba baaed on essential jiiHtire, to bring permanent penre. Second. eoplea and provlnrea are not to be bartered out Ilka chat tel!, to eatMbllah a balanra of power. Third, territorial aettlement must be for the benefit of people concerned Mid not merely an adjiialment of rival Hiilma. fourth, well defined national aaplratlona niuat be accord ed .eatlafactlon. Theae principles have been accepted by every one ex cept the military autocrat of Germany. WashlnKton. Feb. It. Approval of the prealdent'a addreea waa ex preyed by Senator Heed, democrat, who thought It a ahrewd move to dUsolve Oerinanv and Austria. Sen ator Johnaon, of California, aald he win delighted with moat of the speech and Ita modification of some statement of the prealdent'a war alma address of January 8. He also anld, "Am aura today'a expressions are more rloaely America' thought and bring u nearer peace." Uuuuus Aire, Feb. 11. A gen eral allroad Mr ike waa called Sat urday throuKliout lArrientlna. Im mmllutcly upon quitting work the Mtrlkcr began a wild anarchistic demonstration throiiKhout the coun try. Train were wrecked, (rack de stroyed, cur luden with wheat were burned and wire were cut. prevent ing new from the Interior from reaching thia city. Troop nre brlns i imbed to point of greatest dlsordm. The lars.'1 yard In the outskirts of Itucnos Aires, which covered 22 city block, were set on fire by atrlker who fought off the firemen. Exploding tank car added to the confuta tion. Tbo Htrlke la a fresh outhrcak of the labor trouble which have 'been dormant tlnce last October. In the riot during the llrst dny of the Ktriko the destruction of proper ty In the city of Ilueno Aire alone amounted to 1.000.000 peso. Fully one half of this loss was In wheat, corn and linseed, which was burned Rt the suburb of Sun Martin. Efforts are bolng made to Bpread the Htrlke to all clause of workmen throughout the republic. Groat un easiness la felt because of the danger of hundreds-of thousands of tons of wheat piled and awaiting shipment to the allies. SEAGULLS- LOCATE Ixindon, ,Inn. 25. (Correspon dence). Mow five seagulls were the means or saving u Htea.r.or from des truction was related by the pilot of the ship on arrival at an English port. ;Me noticed five gull perched on a dark object which was bobblnn up Just ahead of the Vessel. Cloner examination revealed Wmt n seflpnll wit sitting an each of the five prong of a floating mine nnd there wn Just tlnifl'to alter the vesnd'a cour.io nnd prevent disaster. DAILY EDITION GRANT PAM, JOfiKPHINB COtUTT, FINLAND IS TORN WITH REVOLUTION 11.1. IMI'lMATM' (MH'IUKIW OV WAV Tit lKnilimit.l AMI lK TAIKKII II V HNMK TrttUky (uiutldrra Mnnish Trouble Aa Iclrat Htep la HiretlliMC IU. ahevlkl Ihnrolutioa Stockholm, Feb. II. All diplo matic courier on their way to Pet rograd have been detained In Stock holm on Instruction received by the Finnish minister here to vise no passport for foreigner. Ira Nelson Morris, tha American minister, haa received Information fromTornea. on the Finnish border, that 'a train had lert there for Pet rograd, but that there was no cer tainty that It would gut through lo tha Russian capital. A Swedish relief boat will leave tomorrow for Manty-J.uoto, taking provisions and money furnished by MlnUter Morris for the American consul at Helslngfora. Scandinavian refugees brought to Stockholm by tha first Swedish relief expedition tell harrowing storle of wholesale murder by the Red Guards In llelslngfor and Tammer for.' In (ha latter city, according to reports, 70 youths were placed against a wall and mowed down with machioe gua fire, while thay wept and pleaded for mercy. Their bodies were then stripped and mutilated. That l-enlne, Trotzky and their associates In Russia regard the Fin nish struggle as a llrst step In spreading the Ilolshevlkl revolution westward la Indicated by ah Inter view with lenlne, published In the local Ilolshevlkl organ, the Polltlken. He declared: "We shall soon dispone of the small states." I'pon the Interview the Polltlken comments thus: "What I going on In Finland now Is only a rehearsal for the Eu ropean drama, of which the curtain shortly la going up." LOUIS MILLER TELLS The following letter from IxmiIb P. Miller, formerly of Grants Pass, who Is "somewhere In France" was re cently received by a friend. Mr. Miller writes. December 16, 1917. I am redeeming a promise which I made to yon some time since to let you know what happened to. me over here. So far, there has not been much opportunity for anything to happen, but things are gradually shaping themselves so that we may got some warm work after alt. We had an uneventful voyage across the ocean; much sea, more seasickness. In fact, my mind was so utterly engrossed with my own petty miseries that I could not com prehend the lurking dangers which might He In our pathway. I doubt If anyone realises or could understand the utter finality of such a catnstro phe, unless It had happened. The thing seemed unreal. I had, of course, steeped my mind In accounts of such disasters, but It was hard to believe that such a thing had hap pened to others, and might happen to me. I have not been here long enough as yet to assimilate my various Im pressions of the country, or properly digest them; and my mind Is In a chaotlo state, wherein many different viewpoints are fighting tor mastery. This seems to be a land of many and DF ROMANCE LANG OREGON. MOM) IV, r KIIIU AHY S 132 OREGON rim wiin DcpnD Aiiomn uii mo lALrUU Huoinu-nuno H A II lM I.AKKI AT AN' KM) AMI A KM IKS A It 10 OltfiKltKU TO UK MKMOHIMZKI HiiMklan Hflngatea Hlgn No Peause TrMtly, Hut Thry Aniuiunro That llie W'nr l (her fur Ituaala Amsterdam, Feb. 11. Russia ha derided a state of war to be at an end and haa ordered demobilization of Russian forces on all fronts, ac cording to Drest-Mtovik dispatches of yesterday. It la reported that the president of the Russian delegation ha stated that while Russia waa de sisting from signing a formal peace treaty, It declares war ended with Atistro-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria and Germany and will completely demobilise Immediately. Amsterdam, Feb. 11. Russia has declared herself out of the war, with t'kralne making peace and Ru mania Isolated and helpless. The whole eastern front la peaceful. The I'kranlan republic Is said to have granted the central powers facilities for development of mineral land In return for a large loan. UKli HOOKKVKI.T IS IlKPOUTKII IMPROVING New York, , Feb. 11. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who underwent an operation here recently, la report ed to be Improving today. COIitMiXK (ATHKDIIAI. I IK IX MKI-TKH KtHt WAR ITKI'OSKS Amsterdam. Feb. 11. The great bell of Cologne cathedral ('Maria Glorlosa'l was rung for the last time on New Years eve,' and metal which weighs several will be used for war purposes. The bell was first rung on the tons the birthday of William I, on March 22 1S77, and waa cast from French guns captured In 1 870-7 1 . DF IMPRESSIONS i in startling contrast, of gigantic cranes and derricks shouldering crumbling ruins, of smiling skies and weeping women, of peaceful priests and fighting men; everything strangely intermingled; all thrown pell-mell into Inextricable confusion. The country itself Is one of singu lar fascination. Lons, winding drive ways (your Frenchman abhors con ventional designs), bordered by an cient villas and shodawy hedge row. Everything betrays a sense of the ar tistic. Imagine a wall bounding some wealthy citizen's private gar den, covered with fragments of brok en glass, all of the same dark green color and approximately the same size. Even In a thing so bold and uncompromising as broken gins on a wall, things must be as proper as possible. To the right and left as one wan ders down the lane, dim vistas open, disclosing shaded driveways and covered bowers, with some ancient thatched ropf house discernible In the distance, all combining to lend an air of enchantment and to carry one back over the years to the time when these things were new and throbbing with life. One almost ex pected to see the dim shades of some Bayard or D'Artagnau of old, stnlk Ing through the aisles. Intent on keeping a rendezvous, or perchance (Continued on page I.) ROUMAHIA ISOLATED-HELPLESS NOW WAR II, 1018 m Ray of Hope Is Girea la the Fact That Nazes cf 345 Are Not Yet Reported While 110 Are Definitely Listed as Lost Washington, Feb. II. Thirty-two Oregon men who were aboard the TuHcanla were not lilted a surviv or. . None of these 22 men, however, I necessarily to be classed as lost, but the Hat a checked make absolutely certain that none other than th 12 will be added to the list of unac counted for. A complete check waa made with the sailing Hit of the Ttiicanla, and of the names of survivors already cabled from England. There wer 345 men aboard the transport whose names have not as yet been sent In as survivors. There were approxi mately 110 Americans lost, so of th; 345 not yet reported as saved, ap proximately 235 are yet to be so re ported. Names of additional Oregon men will possibly be received when addi tional list of survivors are sent from England. The work of check ing will be resumed today. On this basis other Oregon men still unaccounted for Include: Peter A. Agren, Jewell.' Harry O. Bates, Baker. Sidney W. Bernltt. Marshfleld. George N. BJork. St. Helens. Verner O. Branland. Colton. Edwin J. Burgess, Notl. Hand M. Erickson, Beaverton. Hallle M. Hoselton, Coburg. Elmer A. Houston. Held. IS 10 BE E New York, Feb. 11. 'Means have been found to make transports un stnkable by submarines, according to a statement made by . William L. Saunders, vice-chairman of the naval consulting board, In an address at a dinner of the University of Pennsyl vania alumni in this city. Mr. Saunders said that one of the ships recently commandeered by the government "now lies at an Atlantic port, and in such shape that she cin not be sunk by an exploding torpe do."' ' "I can conceive of no reason why this Information should be with held." he added. "On the contrary. I believe it is well that the enemy may come to realize that the time has been reached when American transports are ready for the trans portation of our troops which the enemy cannot sink. "This ship may have a hole 30 or 40 feet In diameter blown In her side and she will remain afloat. Such a hole would waterlog but one-tenth of the honeycombed airtight cellB." Mr. Saunders described in detail the plan to keep ships afloat after they had been torpedoed and the manner in which It had been de veloped by William Donnelly, a New York marine engineer, working un der authorization of the naval con sulting board. "Of course it will take some time to equip similarly the large number of transports we have," coutlnued Mr,' Saunders. "It Is my belief, how ever that nothing will be left undone by the administration to safeguard the lives of large troop contingent to be moved across the Atlantic." WILL H. HKNN'KTT AIM'OIXTKD STATU I1AXK Sl l'KRIXTKXDKXT Salem. Feb. 11. Will H. IKm nett. cashier of the Citizens' bank of Portland, was today appointed state; bank superintendent by the banking board, the governor nnd Kay voting for Bennett nnd Olcott for Stewart, democrat, of Albany. U IIOI.K M MIIKH 221. IN ARE as no Carl V. Ja.obon, Elk City. Gua Johnson, Keedsport. Clarence A. Knott, Rainier. John A. Laakka, Aatorla. Walter T. I .arson, Warren. Bugler Theodora E. Lewton For- eat prove. George Montray, Grandvlaw. Henry C. Murphy, Wallowa. Riley F. Murray. Eugene. Wilber S. Nutt. Spring Valley. Edward P. Parker, Grants Pass. ,Tamea L, Pierce, Creawell. Roy E. Powelson. Mill City. Joe R. Redfleld, Glendale. Archie D. Roberts, Salem. Lester h. Smith. Gallce. Elvln O. Stephens, Bend. Corporal Terry Tuttrs, Elgin. , Curtis W. Willson, Salem. Lester U Smith, of Gallce, was re ported In Saturday's dispatches aa being In a hospital somewhere la Ireland. There Is no definite Infor mation. Joe R. Redfleld. Glendale. report ed among the missing, waa a former resident of Grants Pass, spending his childhood In this city. Washington. Feb. 11. The war department is straightening out Tua cania name garbled by cable Will Issne a further list when these are cleared np. . Private Thomas Da ven, of Belllngham, has been saved. JO MEET REQUIREfMS Portland, Feb. 11. The first def inite statement that airplane stock sufficient to meet the requirements of this country and Its allies will be supplied, without the vestige of a doubt, was given by Colonel Brlce P. Dlsque, of the I'nlted States signal corps here recently. The production situation now is fully In hand, ac cording to Col. Disque and enongh spruce for airplane use Is in sight to provide every foot necessary to make America and her allies supreme in the air.' Wh'en he was sent to Portland to take charge of the . production of spruce for airplanes, Colonel Dlsque announced It would be necessary to provide for tne government 10,000, 000 feet every month. Tills amount, It Is believed, will be reached very shortly. The production In January the poorest month of the year. Is said to have exceeded that of Decem ber by about 35 per cent. Obstacles which seemed nnsur mountable have been overcome. "We are now assumed of a sup ply sufficient to keep ahead of our requirements," said Colonel Dlsque. "It Is now past the experimental stage and the large increase in pro duction has shown beyond question that It Is the only way to supple ment the normal Industry's output. This does not mean that we do not want every foot that the ordinary operators can produce and all the mills can cut. All they can bring In we want, we have contracts for It and we will continue to buy and re ceive It." L Washington, Feb. 1 1. General Pershing reports four Americans killed, one severely and five slightly wounded and three missing In ac tion during February 7, 8, and 9. None of them from the Pacific coast.