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i ! VOL. IX., No. 711. 'GRANTS PAHS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OltKOON. gATCIlDAV, FEBHCARV 1, 1019. WHOLE NUMBER 2580. i "0 . ' . t A.' V i ?4 n 4' WILL OPEN FiEW SCENIC WAY ON KLAMATH RIVER lU'MROMrT IXUNTV, WITH VfAh KRAL All). WILL PKNKTRATK . LITTLf' KNOWN SUCTION WILL BE DREAM FOR TOURISTS Ark of Roads Has KimIiImI Indian to Live In I'rliiwrnl Surrounding CndUturbcd W.C.T.U.ARE AFTER Nullonul Ilcodiiiiurtr.rx Announce llitn for 1rtvs Which ()miu on 1 Mnrrli Sal and Clows May 81 Bureka, Cal., Feb. 1. That splen did Isolation that haa kept the upper -water ot the Klamath rlrer almost ts unknown a the doptha of the .Amazon la to be broken, and with 1U paining the Indian with bla dug out eanoe will no longer rare iinoh--wrrod by curloua eye down the "long, swirling raplda of the river. Humboldt county baa entered Into ,a partnership wllb the federal gov rnment whereby ten mllea of road ro to be built Into the 8omea Bar country In the northeastern part of the eounty. With the opening of this highway a passage will be avail able Into Slsklyon county and auto mobile Toyagera through the Sacra nento valley will have a wonderful roelm for adventure opened to them, v An almost entire lack of roada haa enabled the Klamath river Indian to lire In primeval aurroundlnga until the present day and as a result lie la one of the moat Interesting natives to be found in California. The wig wam on the shore, the papoose on the shoulders of the squaw and the tribal rltnala handed down for gene rations still are part of his life. - " Along the majestic sweep of the TCIamath there remain many little Indian settlements where white man can bargain much as In the daya of old. Some knowledge of American his tory has penetrated Into the wilds of the region, one of the most bis arre convictions among the Indiana bnlng that George Washington dl eovored America. Kvanston, III., Fob. 1. Plana for the drive 'by the National Woman's Chrlstlun Temperance Union to raise I , 000,000 and to enlist a million new members In America and Alas ka were announced today by Mrs. Frederick II. Perkins of Michigan, at the national headquarters of the or ganization here. The drive will ojeu March 20 and continue until May SI, the money to be paid by March 20, 1920. The campaign will murk the opening of a' five-year Jubilee program, at the conclusion of which will be a big celebration In honor of the COUi year of the organization's existence. The country haa been divided Into ten districts, each of which will have a national fluid representative. Each state will have aflnanclal director with' assistants in each city and town. "The budget will provide money for work always emphasized by the organisation and especially needed now In the reconstruction and stabil izing period," snld Mrs. Perkins, who la executive secretary of the Jubilee committee and director of publicity. The fund will be apportioned an follows: Child welfare, $160,000; health and morality. $100,000; Am ericanization, $200,000; women In Industry. $30,000; education and In formation, $50,000; world prohibi tion, $300,000; headquarters Evan' ston and Washington, $50,000; equipment and repalra, $20,000; field service, $30,000; administra tion. $70,000. YANKS BACK FURTHER Archangel. Feb. 1. Another vio lent attack by tho nolshevikl on Am erican, Russian and British positions at Tarasevo compelled the hard pressed and outnumbered little al lied column in that soctlon to with draw approximately 40 miles to. the Tilings of Srdirmkrenga. PRETTY AMERICANS TO . t , . ... fV KEEP EYE FIRST REGULAR Dill WINS GREATEST HONOR Lose More Mea Killed in Action Than Any Other American Divisioa-Zoth Loses Most Prisoners ruinous y 1st Loses 1,702 Casualty List 95 Per Cent Complete Washington, Feb. 1. Official tab ulation of casualties by divisions for the American Expeditionary Forces are 85 per cent complete today, the war department announced today. The totals, without the marines, are: Killed In action, 27,7f 2. Died of wounds, 11,386. Missing in action, 14,649. Prisoners, 2,785. Grand total of major casualties. 56,502. In killed In action the First Regu lar division leads with 2,303. The First was the only division to lose over 1.000 men who died of wounds. Only three divisions had over a thousand missing In action. . The heaviest losses In prisoners waa Buffered by the 28th, with 601 taken. the 91st division, were 1,702. The lied Cross table of prisoners totaled 5,243, Including 4.857 mili tary prisoners. Forty-eight hundred prisoners were released; 118 died In captivity. The prisoner are now practically all out of Germany. SF.1ELTER HAY BE INSTALLED IB E Former Josephine County Miner Has New Smelter to Treat Various , Low Grade Ore AIRS SAYS HE DID NOT BET ID IS LOYAL Washington, Feb. - 1. General March announced that demobiliza tion of troops has passed the million mark In the past week, with 61,000 officers and 952,000 men actually discharged. Thirty-three generals were honorably discharged, all ex cept four being regulars, who re tuned to tbelr rank in their regular establishment. The total marine corps casualties were: 365 officers and 11,152 men. of which number 1,557 were killed The total of major casualties of 'In action or died of wonnds. Paris, Feb. 1. As a reward for montha of faithful service with the troops at the front, the T. M. C. A. In Paris has sent to Germany a group of charming American girls to serve In the canteens established in the Rhine towns. Many of these young women accompanied the soldiers on the march, witnessing the i historic entry Into Coblenz and the crossing of tho Rhine, December 13. They will remain In Germany with the army of occupation, practically all of them having volunteered, for that as signment when asked It they pre ferred to do that or take charge of leave area work In southern France. A PICTURE THAT WILL NEVER BK DELIVERED With the'Ameflcan Army of Oc cupation, Feb. 1. Theodore Roose velt's death made Impossible the scheme of Lieutenant W. W. Tanney, of Pittsburg, an aviator, to deliver to the one-time president, a picture postal which was circulated widely in war-time Germany, showing "the body of his youngest son. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt lying face upward beside his shattered biplane. The photograph evidently was staged tor propaganda purposes by Boche pho tographers and spread broadcast throuh Germany by the kaiser's mil itary authorities to show the people convincing proof of the death, of one of Mr. Roosevelt's warrior sons, a typical piece of Boche propaganda. MOB BURNS BODY OF MAX WHO MURDERED 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOOD ADMINISTRATION WILL CLOSIS I1V8INE&S Washington, Feb. 1 The food ad ministration will bo closed up with in three weeks, It was announced here today. 100 MEN IDLE WITH OFP.SE. Washington, Fob, 1. General Pershing in an official telosrain to Secretary of War Baker character Ized the sensational reports In the French newspapers of assaults and burglaries committed In Paris by the American soldiers as almost negligi ble, considering tire large number of mon In thnt vicinity. General rer- shlng recommended full refutation of the charges bo put before the Amer ican public ' . . Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 1. The body of John Kelfer, 55 year old bachelor, was burned in the. yard of his home at Deer, ' Ark., yesterday by neighbors, Incensed over the re ported murder of Miss Mary Clay born, 18 yean old, by Kelfer, accord ing to word received here today. Miss Clayborn refused Kelfer's at tention. Kelfer shot her-twice with a . revolver and then slashed her throat with a knife. Kelfer fled to his home and took poison. The mob found the body, and, after saturating it in oil set it afire. Parvln Wright, of the . Wright Steel Foundry company of Seattle, haa written to George Finch of this city, stating that be Is contemplat ing trip to Grants Pas, in the. near future for determining the advisa blllty of Installing an electric furn ace here for the reduction of Tar- Ions ores. Mr. Wright to ' miner and is well acquainted with mining conditions in Josephine eounty. - In speaking of his new electric furn ace, Mr. Wright, says: "Ton have one of the best coun ties (Josephine) In the state for this kind of a furnace, as it will treat chrome, manganeew, lead, copper, gold ores and anything else that will melt The furnace has already done all that we claim for it We made onr first electric smel ter In 1913 and made pig-iron from black sand. Lead ores are reduced rapidly and at a very low tempera ture. The metal comes off in clean bright bars, the. gold and silver con tent In the ore goes with the lead, and requires a different process to separate. . We treated per cent cop per ore, eliminating all the sulphur, slag and waste matter, reducing the weight 85 to 90 per cent, and leav ing a matter containing, all the gold. copper, stiver and other valuable metals. In other words, we put about ten tons of this low grade ore into one ton, at a cost of less than S3 per ton tor electricity." ' ' . If Mr. Wright's furnace 1 all that he claims for It. it would prove wonderfni-thing tor this P&rt of Jo sephine county. We have the elec tricity and the ores we need the smelter. MAKES DE.VIAL OF CHARGES AGAINST HIM, BUT DOVT RE MEMBER MANY THIXG3 8Urted la As Dishwasher and Work- vA Way to Head of Great Mill- ' - tng Concern - ; j WOULD PURCHASE LOWER CALIFORNIA "THE TAIL-END OF All EARTHQUAKE" San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 1. Ro mantic Lower California again has come into prominence mrougn me Introduction In congress of a bill looking to the purchase . of that- unique peninsula. M3aja" California, rejected by the United States after the war with Mexico as "the tall-end of an earth quake." though recognised aa rich In natural resources Is least known, according to the few who have made a scientific study of the peninsula, of any area o,f similar slzp In the westorn hemisphere. I.ower California, romantically styled "The Mother of California," has figured In modern history for 400 years. It was in 1527 thnt the Spanish captain-general, Fernando Cortez, sent one of Balboa's veterans, Alvera de Saavedra from Tehuante- pec, on the west coast or aiexu-u, with Instructions to try to find a In compliance with the ordor of tho recolver, the Pacific & Eastern rew made tholr Inst trip to and from Butte Full Thursday, and operation lias censed, says the Medford Trib une. The mills and logging camps at Butte Falls were closed down and about 100 men who were working thore camo down on the last train. . '.The average dally payroll of those employed Is over 1500 In Butte Falls alone. Medford will suffer as heavi ly, if not more by the shutting down of the local mills and lumber yards and the railroad. . , ; The largest payrolls in the county are wiped out and' await action by JHedfortl for Restoration.. , , 1 50,000 PEOPLE ARE- OF translated Is, "Poor' Lower Califor nia." - Dias's description fits the country just as well aa to Its topographical aspect, and in some other respects. for it Is a jagged peninsula, 760 miles leng," varying in width from 30 to 150 v miles, and traversea throughout -Its length by an Irregular range of barren mountains of vol canic origin, breaking off abruptly on the gulf side and rambling oft in a 'Series of low hills to the. Pacific coast. It has been described ,by its most recent explorer as "A ' land great In its past and lean In Us pres ent. A land whore the rattlesnake and the sidewinder, the tarantula and the scorpln multiply, ana wnore sickness Is unknown and five score years no uncommon span of life. A land of strange contradictions." While a territorial Btate of Mexico, It nowhere touches other , Mexican u Eureka, Cal., Feb. 1. Court ac? tion which grew out of a domestic quarrel over distribution of property has' Just been concluded here in most unexpected manner. The par ties to the suit and the principal witness came to E-ireka from an iso lated 'district where no eases of in fluenza had been, reported.. While the trial was being held here the principals and . the most - Important witness became ill with the influr enza and died within a few days of each other. CLAIM, STATE POLICE L IT STORY OF HIS LIFE Portland, Feb. 1. After J. Henry Albers had taken the stand In fed eral court yesterday and had firmly , ' announced his innocence ot the crime of sedition with which he was charged; had insistently proclaimed that he had never made, under any circumstances, any of the pro-Ger man utterances with which he is charged, and had asserted his belief that he was the victim of a con spiracy, United States . Attorney Ha ney threw a bombshell into the camp of the defense, by asking Mr. Al bers whether he had ever, been a stockholder In the Nachrlchten, a German newspaper of Portland. Mr. Albers asserted that while he had been a stockholder, he was not at this time. ' ' " When did you sell your stock?" demanded Mr. Haney. Maybe a -month or 'three week ago," replied Albers. Insistently, Mr. Haney urged Mr. Albers to admit that he had made bets that Germany' would "win the war," "lick the world," and other profession of a confidence In the ul timate victory ot that country. Just as insistently Mr. Albers de nied. "Did you not bet with. Jack Noyes and. Mr. Cnshing along the lines. I have Indicates?" Mr. Haney queried. Mr. Albers replied:. "No." ' "I don't want to trap you, Mr. Al bers.", said' Haney. "I want to be perfectly fair with you. . Refresh your memory. Did you never bet concerning the arrival of the Ger mans in Paris', or the fact that they could lick the world.'" (Continued on page 5T strait supposed at that time to form soil, being separated from the main- link In a route from Mexico, oriland by the waters of the Colorado a New Spain, as It was then known, to the newly discovered Spice Islands known to Inter generations as the Philippines. river and the Gulf of California. In 1910- the population ot the entire peninsula was given at 62,244. There Is but one railroad In the country, Salem, Feb.. 1. The house nas passed a bill legalizing the expendl- 'turn nf R9? hv thA ftihfrennrv board during the past year. Of the total expenditure $222,731 was ex pended for, the Oregon military po lice. Several representatives In vot-' ing explained that they would not have favored allowing the military police that amount had the question been brought before the legislature, as they considered : it a "political or ganization." '" ' . .' BET HUNS WOULD WIN Portland, Ore., Feb. 1. John H. Noyes, of the Globe Milling com pany, testified here today that John. Albers made two bets with him that Germany would win the war. Argu ments In the case began today. Court has' adjourned until Monday. The case will" probably go to the jury sometime Tuesday. the aside from "wheezy" mine tram- Chicago, 111., Feb. 1. -An indict ment was returned here today against 13 promoters of the Pan Mo tor company, with a plant at St. Cloud,, Minn. It. Is said that over $5,000,000 were fraudulently obtain ed and 60,000 persons were victim ized by buying stock In th,e company. T7 rtAna Mma Anwn fft present there have passed In review ways, and that one, from Mexican to through the pages of Lower Calif or-'Yuma, but 63 miles In length, the nla's history Spanish conquerors, "camlnos or roads, of the mission Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans, days have fallen into wretcnea state and plunderers from many lands; nd In many places have been prac- Cnlted States troops during the war tlcany obliterated. with Mexico, filibusters intent on The peninsula Is rich in mineral setting up an. Independent govern- wealth, at least one of ' Its silver ment, .and lastly the contending fac- mines In the southern district, hav- tlons for supremacy in Mexico's na- Ing been operated since 1748. Gold, tlonal administration since the over-'silver, copper, iron, coal, lead gypr throw of Porflrlo Dlas as president. I sum and salt are found,; valuable . It was Dlas who bestowed on Low-'marble for building is everywhere er Callfornla.'a title of "pobre Baja .abundant. Mining experts , agree California," , descriptive of , her con-1 that the mineral resources have, d'.tloh in recent years and which hardly been scratched. AT SAN FRANCISCO SIDELIGHTS ON STATE E MEASURE San Francisco, Cal.,' Feb. L Two hundred . botlermakers in shops out side the shipyards went on strike to day after voting down a compromise. Four shops granted demands - and the men returned.- It is not believed that the' strike will spread. Salem, Ore., Feb. 1. The propos ed constitutional amendment by Representative Gallagher ot Harney and Malheur counties, to authorize the state to guarantee district recla mation bonds, contemplates that the state snail guarantee both the prin cipal and interest on bonds issued. A bill accompanying the resolution for the amendment would create a commission to pass on . the . bonds and make it optional after lnvestlga- ' tion of a project to be reclaimed. whether the state shall guarantee the bonds. The commission would be composed of the governor, secretary ot state, state treasurer, superintend ent of banks and state engineer. All expense incurred in determining whether a project Is feasible' and a good investment wbuld be home by the district.-