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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
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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.
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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
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PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO HE AT
HIS DESK HEADY FOIt Jll'H- '
INE86 NEXT TIESDAY
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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.
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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
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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
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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