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fflfttli VOL. I V., No. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL S.1, 1910. WHOLE NUMBER 2031. J , mi BOUND E TOW BMWI1IS L AND BONE DRY WHETHER OH NOT DRINK IM IV TOXK'ATIN'M, IT Ml HT NOT UK lnill4,l IV Fills Knyi With World Ux-klng America (or Food, Having In Niwvanary to New York, Apr. 25. The govern ment prnpnac a literal enforcement of the war-time prohibition act, In cluding ft ban on production and tale of ft) I beer nd win, whether or not they are IntoidcatltiK, the depart ment of Justice announced through poclul ropreseutatlve In the federal court toduy. While no steps will he taken to prevent brewliiR, pending ft court de terinlnutlon of the Inw'i constitution llty rained by brewer of the New York district, manufacturer will op orate In peril of future prosecution according to the statement of Wll llfttn C. Fltta, epeclul conn no I appear lntc for Attorney General Palmer In the beer litigation. The attorney adviaed JudKe A. N Hard, who hoard arguments on the government' motion to dismiss the ult broiiKht on behalf of tho nation 1 brewing interest by Jacob lloff mann Brewing; company to restrain tho federal authorities from interfer ing with lt production of two and throe-quarter per cent beer, that the department of Justice did not know and did not rare whether the strength Indicated was Intoxicating The law prohibited sale after June 30 of dlatllled beverages an well manufacture after April 20, and anle after June 30 of "beer, wine an other Intoxicating malt or vinous liquor for beverage purposes," pend Ins the demobilization of the mill tary forces, he said. The words 'beer" and "wine" were not quail' fled In. the opinion of the govern ment, he added, and the apparent congressional Intention to stop th "waste" of grains and fruit In thel production In any strength would be enforced. With "half the world" looking to America tor food, Mr. Flits contend ed, the necessity of Its conservation was greater "even than on the of Chateau Thierry" and It ' equally essential that liquor withhold from' public sale while the army and navy were undergoing de mobilisation. Aahlund, Oregon., Apr..25. A. B. Foster, proprietor 0f the drug store in the Angela Hotel, early today shot and killed John ljftwrence Ooodoll, night clerk at the hotel, and after ward fired five shot Into his own atxlomcn, due to Jealousy over a woman living at the hotel. Foster will probably die. Police man George Kaney, who entered th hotel during the trouble, was held up by foster who took the police man' gun. day was be HATCHET IN MONTANA CAUSE OF MURDER irtigglnt, Through fehur. Kills Mnn, IMrm I'ollc-Mmin, and Turn Gun on HIiiim-K ONH YEAH AGO TODAY Germans sweep against the British lines south of the Som me. Kaiser Wllhelm visits his vie. toriou trooiw on the Flanders front. TALIS FOR ABA BUT AGAINST PRESIDENT W PEACE HOT BEFORE IM 1ST Dove With OUve Branch Will Not Apiiear On Horizon For Muny . Weeks Vet Lloyd George and Clemenceau Try to Poor Oil on Troubled Waters Danzig To Be Free Port Serious Clash Imminent ia Hungary Page Quits it o - Hindonburg' hordes, wipe the out VI Hers Bretonneux front door to (Amiens. America's few - thousand troop deluged with poison gas near Caste. 4 Subscribe now to the Victory liberty loan what you would have paid for victory then. 4 SCHELL BEGINS WORK OF. lyondon, Apr. 25. 'Although Pre- mler Orlando left Paris with two; other member ot the Italian dele gation, the latent Part, advice do not give the Idea that the move meaa cessation of Italy' participa tion In the) conference. Italy, If all her delegate leave, will be represented at the conference by England and France. Lloyd George and Clemenceau trlod yesterday to find middle ground between Premier Orlando and Pres ident Wilson, -but there Is no evt dunce of success. It Is reiwrted that the conference has doslded to make Danzig ft free city, under a sort of Polish protec torate. Poland would be given use of the dock and wharves, and con trol of the Vistula river route and corridor leading from the former Polish frontier to the sea. Conditions in Hungary are very grave, and the Roumanian advance continues, the French aiding. The entente have troop on the Danube below budapest, as reserves for the Roumanians. Cxecho-Slovak troops are reported iy Vienna to be at tacking Waitxen, 20 mile northeast of Budapest. President Wilson baa recognized the British protectorate over Egypt. 8. S. Schell, who has the contract for paving the Pacific highway from Grant Pass to the Jackson county line, began work yesterday on lay ing the asphalt near the city limit. This stretch of the Pacific highway Is to be 1 6 feet wide with two feet of crushed rock on either side of the road. thus- making the highway 20 feet wide. Mr. Srholl has about 40 men em ployed at .present and Is making good headway at the work, due to favorable weather. While this piece of work Is being constructed a cut off road has beep opened from near the south end of the Sixth Street bridge, leading around the present work and connecting with the Pacific highway further south. Rome, Italy, Apr. 25. The Italia say that because he was acquainted with President Wilson' view on Italian claim,' Thomas Nelson Page, American ambassador to Rome, of fered his resignation. Demonstra tor here last night had as their watchword ' "Long Live America Down With Wilson !" ' Paris, Apr. 25. A distinctly more hopeful and less Irreconcilable feel ing prevailed in the Italian head quarter today. Member of the con ference said "all may be settled with in a fortnight." Premier Orlando has gone to Rome to consult parlia ment. Lloyd George, " Clemenceau and President Wilson are to confer today. 1 ' Paris, Apr. 25. Advance courier ot the German delegate arrived at Versailles. The plenary session of the peace conference will be held on Monday to consider the revised league of nations covenant and por tion ot the treaty. The meeting will be open to th public. Paris, Apr. 25. An 'American off!' cer who has arrived here from Flume say that the city is full of Italian soldiers. It Is reported that 14 dl vision of troops hare moved there. FEAR INFLUENZA WILL COME AGAIN Salem, Ore., Apr. 25. lA new out break ot Influenza Is feared In this city. There are now five cases in the Salem and Liberty district. Mrs. J. H. Emery died with the disease yesterday. 12,000 OX LEVA1THAN port Leviathan today brought over 12.000 troops, among the number several unit of the Rainbow divi- alon. 8IHKANE WILILY CHEEKS HOME-COMING SOLDIERS Spokane, Wash., Apr. 25 Citizens here wildly cheered home-coming Washington and Oregon men of the 361st Infantry, en route to Camp New York, Apr. 15. The trans-'Lewis .for discharge. HOOVERTOPUTWORLD ON WAR BREAD BASIS Holena, Mont., Apr. 25. Without esuoclal fanfare, one of the longest and most enduring war in the an nals of the west has closed. When, a few days ago, the wool growers ot Montana, In convention at Miles City votod to Join in a 'body, the stock men' association, also meeting In that city, the hatchot was burled be tween two Industries whose Interests have been conaldored diametrically opposed for decade and whose dif ' ferencos on not a few occasions, have flamed forth in miniature civil war. It was the rane the sheepman and the cattlemen fought over, and the range is almost gone. Hence forth, cattle and sheep will be large ly raised in enclosures and there ia no longer 'real animus between tho two pioneer lines of endoavor. lt Is declared. 1 he f lrt elgn of the truce came n the last (Montana legislature when sheepment and cattlement, for first time, worked side byslde for agri cultural legislation. , Paris, 'Apr,-25. An increase in milling porcentage which will virtu ally put the world back on war bread basis for the next three month 1 ft part of Food Administrator Hoover' program. ' New York, Apr. 25. Federal Wheat Director Julius Barnes said today that Americana will continue to eat white 'bread despite of the re turn of European countries to go back on the war bread basis. HURLEY WILL CANCEL T Wilson On The Fiume Question Washington, Apr. 25. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board, has announced the determination of the board to cancel contracts for addi tional two million tons ot steel ships contracted for during the war, and also said the board was considering the cancellation of all contracts vhe.ro .keel have not actually been laid In order to build at peace prices Instead of high war price. J Paris, Apr. 25. President Wll- son'e official statement uemcreu here Wednesday regarding Italian claims follows: In view ot the capital Importance of the question affected, and lu or der to throw all possible light on what 1 involved In their settlement. I hope that the following statement will contribute to the final formation ot opinion and to a satisfactory solu tion. . When Italy entered -the war she entered upon the basis of a definite, nrlvate understanding ' with Great Britain and France, now known the pact of London. Since that time the whole face ot circumstance has been altered. "Manv other inower. reat and small, have entered the struggle, with no knowledge of that private understanding. The -Austro-Hungar- tan empire, then the enemy of Eu rope, and at whose expense the pact ot London was to be kept in the event of victory has gone to pieces and no longer exists. Not only that, the several parts of that empire, it is now agreed by Italy and all her asso ciate are to (be erected Into Inde pendent states and associated in league'ot nations, not with those who were recently our enemies, but with Italy herself and the powers that stood with Italy in the great war tor liberty. We are to establish this lib erty a well a our own. They are to he among the email states whose Interests are henceforth to be scrup ulously safeguarded a the interest of the' m6t powerful states. "The war was ended, moreover, by proposing to Germany an armistice and peace which should be founded on certain clearly defined principles which should set up a new ordor ot right and Justice. Upon those prln ckples a peace with Germany has been conceived not only but formulated Upon those principles it will be exe cuted. We cannot ask the great pow er to .propose and effect peace with Austria and establish a new basis ot Independence and rights in the states which originally constituted the Aus tro-tHungarlaw empire and in the state ot the Balkan group on the Drinclule of another kind. We must apply the same principle to the set tlement of Europe in those quarters that we have applied in the peace with Germany. It. was upon the ex plicit avowal Of those (principle that the initiative tor ipeace was taken. It Is upon them that the whole struc ture of peace must rest. - ' "It those principle are to be ad hered to, Fiume must serve a the outlet and inlet of the commerce, not only of Italy, but ot the land to the north and northeast of that port: 'Hungary, Bohemia. Roumanla and the state of the new Jugo-Slavic group. "To assign Flume to Italy would be to create the feeling that we had deliberately put the port upon which these countries chiefly depend for their access to the. Mediterranean In the hands ot a power of which it did not form an Integral part and whose sovereignty If set up there imust in evitably seem foreign, not domestic or Identified with the commercial and Industrial life of the regions which the port must serve. It Is for that reason, no doubt, that Fiume was not included in the pact of Lon don but there definitely assigned to the Oroatlans." ... ..... ... - ITALIANS USE STRONG WORDS Paris, Apr. 25. A clause has been drafted for insertion in the peace treaty fixing the date for thsj transi tion to a state of peace 65 day af ter the signing of the treaty. The purpose ot this provision 1 to pre vent confusion among the more than 20 belligerent nations, which might tlx different date in their various ratification. -According to the pres ent, plan each nation will ratify the treaty according to it own laws but all will unite in a common date which will become a universal day of peace. It Is being considered whether the United States, as an associate power, but not an ally, should sign a separ ate treaty ot peace with Germany. It would be the same treaty as that signed by the allies and would be signed at the same time as part of the same ceremony. The German government has offi cially adviaed the allied and asso ciated governments that the German plenipotentiaries -would not leave Berlin before April 28, and that they would reach Versailles May 1, at the earliest. Seven newspapermen will accom pany the plenipotentiaries, ths dis patch added. No final decision has been reach ed as to according freedom of move ment to the Germans, nor regarding possible access by allied newspaper men to the press representatives of the German delegation. . ON THE STREET "FIUME OK DEATH" IS WATCH WORD OF MORE RADICAL WHO LEAD THE PARADES BRITISH ' LABOR FOR WILSON Claim He Is Right la Stand Agaimst Italia, Bat Latter Think They Have Bern Betrayed NOT TO BE COMMERCIAL CARRIERS London, Apr. 25. British experts, seeking to forecast the future poten tialities ot aircraft, seem to agree that it Is to the airship of rigid con struction, not to the airplane, that one must look for the maximum of commercial usefulness. The limitations ot airplanes de signed on present' principles are def initely known. Technically, it is an accepted fact that an airplane can not be produced which Is capable of transporting a commercially ade quate load for longer non-stop flight than 1,000 miles. For practical pur poses 500 to 800 miles are regarded as the workable limits. - - But the prospects of airships are much less easy to diagnose. - It is re cognized that rigid 'airships can fly for distances of 2,600 miles carrying a commercial' load of approximately 15 tons and that they are enabled to undertake long flights now be lieved to be Impossible of attainment by airplanes. - ' London, Apr. 25. Public opinion In Italy, according to a wireless message from Rome, is much excited against ths peace conference for re fusing to recognize the Italian claims. Apparently there is a com plete truce in party politics and the newspapers are unanimous in blam ing the allies. It is declared that feeling is running so high that, it might have a disastrous Influence on Anglo-Italian relations. : "The Italians consider that, they hare been betrayed by the allle," the dispatch says. "Ths whole na tion is aroused and ha rallied to the euport of Orlando and Sonnlno. There is a brave army ready to make every sacrifice for ths realization of their program. Many popular dem onstration have taken place and the watchword is "Fiume or death!' If the conference does not accept the Italian - point of view the situation Will become extremely serious." RILLY WIOi REST UNDER 1 HIS OWS APPLE TREE London, Apr. 25 Prominent Brit ish labor, leaders hare sent a tele gram to President Wilson congratu lating him "on your magnificent declaration for peace based on the 14 points" and adding: "We are certain that the Italian workers will .associate themselves with the international workers in supporting you." tA message also was sent to Pre mier Lloyd George, commending htm for the support he was giving to President Wilson and another tele gram was sent to Deputy Turati, leader of the Intransigent socialists at Rome, appealing to the . Italian workers to support the president of the United States. ; .1 ITALIAN PREMIER WANTED ALL ACTIONS KEPT SECRET Portland, lApr. 25. Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist, -will arrive at Hood River Saturday morning and, according to Information that has 'been received toy Henry E. . Reed, manager of the speakers' bureau, will accept appointments tor speak ing dates in behalf ot the Victory loan. Rev. Sunday Is comrng to Oregon tor his annual summer vaca tion, which will be spent at bis beau tiful orchard home in the Hood River valley. Tart, Apr. 25. Premier Orlando and the other member ot the Italian delegation apparently are much an grier over President -Wilson's world wide publication of his position on tbe Adriatic question that over his opposition to their claims and the tact that diplomatic procedure has been violated and what Is termed an insult offered to the Italian govern ment because the president made his position known to the Italian people over the head of the peace delega tion ,.. . .,. . i .t . ;. TO SOLVE H. C. OF L Eugene, Ore., lApr. 25. Thirty- five publishers of Oregon . newspa per convened at the call of C. E. In galls, 'president ot the Oregon State Editorial Association today to dis cuss ' advertising and advertising problems., The conference will be devoted entirely to the business de partment ot newspapers. ' THROWN OFF HIGHWAY Riddle Is to be thrown off the Pa cific highway tbe same as Glendale was, say the Glendale News. : And the probability is Myrtle Creek will get. it in the neck in about another year. The sentiment herd Is just as strongly manifested that Riddle Is getting a rotten deal as it was when Glendale got kicked off. We all feel that the affair, is unjust, in . every sense of the word.. Now the thing tor Riddle, iMyrtle Creek, Glendale, and all the small towns along the Pacific highway to do is to unite and make matters so hot for the rotten ring who are pulling oft such high handed steam-roller deals that, they will find that the snial) communities also have some right over and above the right to dig down and pay taA. I