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i V t VOL. IX., No. DO. CLEMENCEAU TO RESUME HIS rilONOlN('i:i OCT OK DANGER AM) WILL IIB HT FOR I)K. BATES AT CONFERENCE . HE T Police Throw Terror Into t'ommun lt Federation llnUeved Ui ExUt at rrl 1'arls, Feb. 21. I'ruiulur Cloinun caau'i condition whs satisfactory and nnchmiKod early today. Ma will rt'Cflve bin colleagues of the supreme council curly lb lit afturnoon to di-t-uas certain Important matters. The doctors now' consider blui out of danger and believe that ha can re sume hit political activities next Monday. The police were busy yesterday on the Cottln caae. They searched the bbuaoi of 30 motnuera o( the com in unlit federation, taking tract and ctrculari. It la believed to be an established fact that a regular Bol abevlk organltatlon exists In Paris, with Important ratifications to be carried out by designated members of the organisation. Paris, Feb. 21. I'remlor Clera nceau's own story of the attack up on htm as be told It to callers U given In the Mafln today as follows: "Yesterday when-1 vwaa passing that spot at tho corner of the Couje vard Delesaert, I remarked a strange silhouetted figure upon the, pave ment showing someone examining me attentively.' I said to myself 'hello, that fellow Is tip to no good.' This morplng at the same spot 1 perceived the same silhouette and Immediately thought 'why, that's the tame fellow.' "I hadn't time to continue the re flection, for the Individual's arm was raised, revolver in band and he aimed at the door of the automobile and bit the window. I didn't reflect that there were perhaps other bul lets In the revolver, and as soon as the first shot was fired I leaned forward to fee. Other shots follow ed rapidly, one after another, and I, felt a sharp pain low down the back of my neck. The pain was so Intense that I could not help crying out; I realized perfectly that ,1 bad been hit." "What followed," continued ' the premier, "paBsed with lightning-like rapidity. The orderly seated beside tho chauffeur on the front of tho au tomobile had at tho first shot, pull ed his revolver out of hla pocket. The chauffeur at the same tlmo put on speed and got us out of range. Then he turned and brought me back home. Now I feel absolutely nothing. The premier pausei! here and then added sarcastically: . "My adversaries are reilly poor shots. Thoy are exceedingly clumay." To Stephen Plchon the foreign minister, he snld: "Am I not n good prophet! Do I not arm n bo things ahead! I had arranged to have no meeting of the conference today so that I could get a little rest. Well, I've got It." I Portland, Ore.,' Feb 21. Lemar Scott's sweetheart rejected him. When her father wouldn't lot him sit in front of the.houe and gaze at' . hor room, he drank poison, He'll probably live. ,. , , , ,."' ' 4 0OOOO RUSSIAN WORKMEN DEMAND KNI OF WAR - ' 4 London, Feb. 21. Sixty f thousand workmen are on 4 strike In Petrograd, demand- . lng the end of civil war and 4 -f the establishment of trade, ac- 4 f cording to a JtusBlan wireless -f dispatch received here'today. (' DUTIES MONDAY HUNGARIANS PRAY FOR ENTENTE HELP Want Allied Troops rk-nt to gave TIiujii Front Dreaded llolhevlm. Wealthy Hire Guards Vienna, Fob. 21. hiving condi tions In Hungary have reached the stage where the only hope of the ar Istrocracy is that the entente powers will send troops to Budapest and to other parts of tho country to save tbem from the dreaded menace of Bolshevism. Many of the former aristocrats have gone to the -country homes and many others would like to go to 8wltxerland but are unabfe to obtain permission to leave the country. The 'streets of Budapest are considered unsafe after dark and wealthy persons employ soldiers to guard their homes. Thousands of unemployed In Bu dapest and other towns are receiv ing from the state 40 to 60 crowns a day, three-fourths of which Is con tributed by manufacturers, who are fast losing all the money tbey made during" the war. One of the largest munition firms, which recently em ployed 80,000 persons is paying tbem 5,000,000 crowns a week. It is asserted that this Is tending to ward the demoralisation of the workmen who prefer to live upon state pay rather than to return to work. I). s. Washington, Feb. 21. With hos tilities at an end, the government Is now laying the basis for one of the greater -of Its peace time tasks the decennial Inventory of the United 8tatea, Its people, lands, Industry, and livestock that Is called the cen sus. Secretary of Commerce Red field the other day signed the order that transferred one of the largest of the temporary war buildings put up In Washington, that formerly housing , tho army's department of aeronautics, to Director of the Cen sus Rogers and his staff. Actually, the government began the job some months ago, assemb ling Its plana and forces. By law, the beginning of the census period of 1920 Is July 1. 1919, though It will not be until a year from April that the enumerators will be set at work. It Is then that every Individ ual in America, or some one acting for the Individual, will be asked the series of questions that must be an swered. MIMHUOI MI 'Thla la Ilia tvnrat nrlma that lan I be perpetrated," said Judge Hamil ton this morning In sentencing Wil liam Langford, convicted of rape. "The jury in this case recommends i leniency," he continued, "but I can not bring my mind to a state ' to grant leniency. Leniency In such a J case is mockory. Either a man Is guilty or he Is hot guilty. If he is guilty, he dosorvcB the limit. It he is ndt guilty, he will not be convict ed. Mr. Langford you have been found guilty by the jury and I am only sorry that the law does not provide aieavler penalty to punish the crime which you have committed. It Is the sentence of this court that you serve-from 10 to 20 years' in the state penitentiary." : . .As' sentence was pronounced the prisoner who Mb appeared ill at ease throughout the entlrf trial, al most collapsed, but quickly recover ed and was led from the court room. His attorney Elbert Hermann was granted 80 days; In which to file an appeal and It is very probable that the matter will be appealed to a higher court. Roseburg News. ' GftAXTS PASS, JOHKrifiyg COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1018. BEAN EATERS F PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO HE AT HIS DESK HEADY FOIt Jll'H- ' INE86 NEXT TIESDAY TO Will Give Only One Wet to C. 8. Affair, Sign Meamirea in Rush and Side-step Governors Washington, Feb, 21. President Wllsonls first home-coming address will be delivered Monday afternoon at Boston. He Is expected to be at his desk here Tuesday. " The battleship North Carolina, returning from' France with troops. Is replacing the battleship New Mex tco, which dropped behind with dis abled machinery. Secretary Daniels announced that President Wilson would embark on the George Washington about March 5 for his return to Europe. The president plans to spend Just one busy week here before again sailing for France. He will leave oa the night of March 4, after signing the last of the measures rushed through congress, which ends at noon on that day. Tentative plans for a conference of the state cover- nors with the president, on unem ployment, may be Interfered with. OVER THE WIRE Detroit, Feb. 21. Mrs. Agnes Ilappaa won an .undisputed victory over a purse snatcber. He seised her purse. She grabbed It-and his hat and coat and waa starting in on his shirt when he left. She retains the trophies. AWAIT SPEECH fill Willi MONTANA, STATE OF STRIKES AMD HIGH PRICES, STRUGGLES WITH H. C. OF L Butte, Mont., Feb. 21. The prof iteer must go, appears to be the uni versal feeling In Montana, a feeling Intensified with the outbreak of the miners' strike In this city follow ing a reduction In the daily wage, which now Is $4.75. Tie unanimity of the Bentlment has been brought out In hearings before a legislative committee and committees appointed at mass meetings of Butte citizens. Montana always has been called a state of high prices, but with that kind of comment, always there was the statement that wages corre- Bndnded. Now nnrh la nnf tho rnoo .: . , ' " test tmony Is correct, and the prof- iteer Is being harassed throughout me staie, out principally in mis . city. .. ', . -. , . ' i The miners' strike beyond a doubt is responsible for the Investigations now under way here Into the high cost of living. 'Whatever' the mo tives of the men said to lead the dis affected element, and whether or not thoy be I. W. W. or anarchistic, It Is agreed that the mass of the miners would not havfl atrncV wr It nnt that rent, food, fuel, clothing- everything they use or require-, have soared so high that even on the former wage existence waa a trial. Tn fnnA a put. nt a ilnllnr a day, under the circumstance, wsb Impossible, miners have testified. ,10 Blm maintain mbi The employing Butte mining cor- lloyer' tnrou8h kept the profit poratlons, quite well realising this. eer off the neck of the employe had long; since set out to try to beat : Now there Is talk of a profit down the profiteer. But apparently . sharing proposal by the Anaconda they have found the matter far from simple. The alleged profiteer, when confronted with his alleged extor- tion, easily points to higher rates and wages; he lays the cause of higher prices tor food and fuel on federal policies in control of the same; he says the wholesaler Is "hogging" it all, and the advances SENATE GIVEN LITTLE NOTICE BY PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WILL MAKE FIRST SPEECH AT BOS TON ROILS SHERMAN Borah Hominies Hla Offensive on Peace League and Says "It's the .Moot Radical Policy" Washington, Feb. 21. Senator Sherman, of Illinois, republican, has Introduced a resolution designed to prevent President Wilson from dis cussing pnblically tbe proposed league of nations nntll be has com municated the details of the plan to tbe senate foreign relations commit tee. The senator declared that such a course would be "unwise, undip lomatic and calculated to promote discord between the government's two treaty making powers." Senator Borah, of Idaho, attacked the proposed leagne, referring to It as "the most radical departure from our policies we hare ever con sidered." MANY CARS OF CLOTHING FOR WESTERN SIBERIA Vladivostok, Feb. 21. Twenty- five freight cars carrying 1410.000 worth of clothing la meet -the most pressing needs of the Russian civil ian population' in Western Siberia has been sent from Vladivostok un der the Joint direction of the Ameri can Red Cross and the -Russian Rail way Service corps. These supplies are intended for refugees la districts where the Red Cross is operating distributing agen cies. other similar reasons. The whole saler has-his own tale of woe and nobody will assume the blame or confess the slightest wrong doing. It has been a matter of common comment In Montana, during many years, that merely raising wages would not solve the perennial "Butte problem." Every raise in scale for the miners has promptly been fol lowed by other trades. In addition, mining .boarding houses, where a large percentage of the miners live, invariably have raised prices. They in turn assert food and fuel dealers, 1 . ... occ, nave raised the prices or neces- and tne deaerg Wame , on the wholegaleri V For a decade or more, the Ana conda. Copper Mining company, whose employes in Butte outnum ber all other workers combined, conducted a large general store. Enemies of the corporation attacked thev institution as undemocratic. They said employes were forced to deal wltli the company. It is a mat- ter ot cota " never aurln8 era ot tne company " re a strik6 of m,ners or tnought of one; "na lUBt wnen xne crai,any arqw ana lerc ine commercial iieia open to the public, unrest soon fol- lowed- Proponents of the company company, with some of Henry Ford's Ideas; some of the principles tried, lt "a'd with success by the Colora do Fuel and .Iron company, with perhaps .either a company store or some' other system by which the cor poration shall see- that the employe Is enabled to buy the necessities of life on reasonable terms. WOULD PROMOTE DISCORD" BANK ROBBERS GET AT Cue Nltro Glycerine on Safe at Tuff Bros. Store and Make Clean Getaway ' Last night about 12 o'clock burg lars blew the safe In Tuffs Bros. general merchandise store at Kerby and obtained between $4,000 and $5,000. Of this amount, about $1,500 was In cash and gold dust and the balance in notes and liberty bonds. Many of the residents of the Kerby neighborhood bad placed their liberty bonds In the safe for safe keeping. A few watches were also taken from the safe. The cracksmen used nltro glycer in and the safe door Is said to have been blown, clear across the , room. The robbers made good their escape and at the present time there is no clew to their identity. Sheriff George Lewis and Lister hurried to Kerby this fore noon and have put In the day in that vicinity. SEC. BAKER TO EXPLAIN I Washington, Feb. 2li Secretary ot War Baker is to be quesUoned by the senate committee on miliurv auairs with regard to bis adminis tration of military Justice, with nnr- tlcular relaUon to the points made oy senator Frelinehuyaen. of Now Jersey, that he has been undulv - vere In dealing- with military .offen- uers wniie extraordinarily lenient to conscientious objeetors. In the entire American armv only- iz men nave been executed twn in . - the American expeditionary fnr. abroad and SO in this country and mat not one man was executed for a purely military offense. A list of executions In the armv since the United States entered the war has been made available, or the two soldiers executed In France one was an Indian "and the other a negro.' In the United States the re cords ot the Judge advocate' aren- erai s office show that of the 30 Am erican soldiers executed durlne the war 26 were for' murder and four for statutory crimes. Twenty-seven or these soldlea were neeroea and three white men. Thirteen of them were participants Ln the riot at Houston, Tex. In another group were six negroes who were adjudg ed guilty of murder. A third trroun consisted of five "negroes convicted of murder. Two white men at Camn Loean were executed for killing a araard. one white man ln a Texas camp paid the death penalty for attacking a woman, and three negroes at Camp Dodge, Iowa, were executed for the same offense. ' , " Some extreme cases, It is said, are pending, but, none for military of fenses. In scores of cases military courts martial have imposed the death pen alty for military offenses, such as sleeping on post and desertion, but that In every such case the sentence was commuted by the president. While thousands of soldiers have been sentenced to disciplinary bar racks, for periods ranging from a few months to 60 years for military offenses, frequently of a trivial char acter, these sentences all are inde terminate and may be commuted whenever ln the judgment of the sec retary of war the prisoner has re formed. BIO FLOl'R ORDER PLACET BY V. S. AT PORTLAND Portland, Ore., Feb. 21. Pur chase in Portland of 340,000 bar rels of flour for European export was authorised yesterday - by the food administration grain corpora tlon. Nearly $3,600,000 Is Involved in the purchase and approximately 1,5S0",000 bushels of wheat will be required to manufacture the flour, and five 8,800-ton - steel steamers $5,000 KERRY will be needed to transport it. ' WHOLE MMIIEK 2397. in BROS PATENT RIGHT SALEM ATTORNEYS SAID TO AR RIVE AT SUCH CONCLUSION AFTER INVESTIGATION . CANHERY GOODS BILL PASSED Uougtaa Senator Shores Bills, With Clause Attached, Through Sen ate Calls lor $5,000,000 Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 Attorney leu agree, after reading i-.e aajr- ity eflnral's oinlon in regard to the matter, that the Warren Com pany's patent rights to bithullUc, will not hold. The house has passed Martin bill, providing for goods packed by Ore gon canneries must not be labeled as products of any other state, and provides a fine for misbranding. - Senator " Eddy's reconstruction, bill, with a reference clause attached calling f6r the issuance of 15,000, 000 reconstruction bonds,' passed the senate. Three million ot this amount is to be expended for a new penitentiary and a new wing to tbe Eastern Oregon hospital for the In sane, buildings at the educational institutions, armories and land set tlement The other $2,000,090 la to be used at the discretion of the board of control. - BAVARIAN PREKIiER -MURDERED BY COUNT 'London, Feb. 21. Kurt" Eisner,1 Bavarian premier, waa shot and kill ed today by Lieutenant Count Arco Valley, according to an Amsterdam report. The count was severely wounded by the guard and la re ported dying. Eisner was a socialist of more than the radical type. He was a Jew, born In Oallcia, and was once editor of tbe Vorwaerts at Berlin. Chicago, . Feb. 21. The case against R. E. Forsythe, R. E. Dewitt and five other men was called. One man stepped up. ' 'Who's this?" asked the court. "He's them," re plied Officer McGlnnls. "Lock them up," said the court. ONLY 4 AGAINST ROAD BOND BILL Salem, Ore., Feb. 21. The state senate has passed the road bonding bill, only Dimlck, La Follette, Pierce and Strayer voting against the meas ure. -The senate adopted the house joint resolution commending Mayor Ole Hanson tor suppression of the Bolshevik! element during the SeaU tie strike. . The house passed Moser's bill providing for establishment of city planning commissions by municipal ities. The house permanently killed the "morals bill" by a vote of 26 to 18 today. THIXKS CHINA SHOVLD -f . NOT MAKE DEMANDS . ' f Toklo, Feb. 12. Premier -f Hara said in the diet here to- f day that there , was no reason f ' why China should 'demand the f' return ot Tslng- Tao, and added that the race problem at the peace conference would never 4 escape the utmost attention of . 4' "4 the government. - ! i ' ' MAY NOT HOLD