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PAGE TWO. GRANTS PASS D AILY OH III Kit MONDAY, Al'ltlli BM, l10. ERAHTS PASS DAILY COURIER Published Dally Except Sunday a E. VOORHIES. Pub. and Propr. entered at postoffice, QranU Tim, Ore., aa second claas mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Dtoplay apace, per Inch .15c Local-personal column, per Uno..lOc Header, per Una DAILY COURIER By mail or carrier, per year6.00 By mall or carrier, per month .60 WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per year .12.00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press la exclusively , ix) titled to the use tor repuDdcaUou of all news dtspatcnea credited 10 n or all otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights ot republication of spe cial dispatcnea nerem are aise reserved. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1919. 4 OREGON WEATHER , 4 t a- Fair, coojep east portion, q. night with light frost over the 4 southeast portions; gentle west- erly -winds. ''.'' It SHYING AT SHADOWS C. C. Chapman, ot the Oregon Voter,, Imagines that he scents a dark plot that will culminate In a dire calamity to the state ot Oregon. Here to the spectre that worries Chapman and causes him to pass restless nights and rise up in a cold sweat from his pillow after the clock has announced the midnight hour: C. S. Jackson, uf the Oregon Jour nal. Hon. Wm. 0. McAdoo and Fred W. Leadbetter hwe ht!d secret con ferences behind closed doors and their covenants have not been openly arrived at. One of these palavers was held at Santa (Barbara and one later at Portland. Following these two secret sessions, Mr. Jckson announc ed in his paper that Mr. 'McAdoo bad been retained by the Pittock heirs to break the Pittock will. It. is also rumored that Senator Chamberlain may have a small fin ger in the pie and Mr. Chapman rises to ask "what is the democratic 'Plot?" He fears that these democra tic leaders will get possession of the great Oregonian and ever after swing the state of Oregon into the democratic ranks. Piffle! There was a day, perhaps, when the Oregonian could have done such a foul deed, but those days have passed. Nor can any other big daily paper in Oregon take the state by the tail and -with malignity toss it into the maw ot any certain party. The people of Oregon are a reading class. They have been studying lo cal matters and politics and can no longer be aligned up for any prin ciple that the big dallies advocate. They themselves, will do a little "fixing." i. GOD'S VEXGENCE When the Ruler of the Universe said, "Vengance is mine. I will repay," it was not an idle or figura tive speech. He meant exactly wha He said. We fuss and fret, and make our futile finite plans for revenge or punishment; but while we are plan nlng. Divine Justice goes quietly along, and all at once we see 'Divine fulfillment. There has been a feeling, fairly widespread, that Germany escaped too easily because the actual fight ing was not carried onto German soil. But now the Austrianu and Hungarians are doing to one anoth er what common justice seemed to indicate that allied armies should do They are doing it thoroughly, too murdering high and low, fighting, burning houses and towns, laying waste or neglecting fields they should he tilling. And the terror is creeping into Germany. All this without aggression on the part of the allied armies, and with out the loss ot life which must have occurred within our ranks had we carried out the vengance ourselves. In Turkey, too, brigandage is Do you buy ' j!! Just Lemons ' 3 SUNKIST ' Like These KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality Pint ' spreading. Villages already lie wasU, And the cities and the men In authority in them all are menaced. It is the atom fulfillment ot the Pledge from which there is no es cape. And while It sometimes seems as if God's Justice moved far too slowly for man's impatient desire, it moves so surely and with such fit naft that it puts all mortal efforts to shame. THE CHEAPER POLICY The Marshfield Record speaks ot boomerangs. It seems that the Re cord editor was given the cold shoul der and "politely Insulted" by one ot that city's prominent business men. Now the Record editor says he can silently suffer that line of gaff, but adds that he does not forget. And he does not. A few days later that "prominent citizen" got In serious trouble. He tried his best to suppress the "news" and buy the editor off. Nothing do ing. Said citizen was promptly given two columns of "free advertising" and the article was made conspicuous by a flaring headline. It costs lees to be decent and cour teous than it does to be arrogant and disdainful. American observer goes on to say that what really precipitated the movement for liberty was a report that the peace conference In Paris was to adjourn permanently on March 28. and that unless the Ko reans presented their grievances and claims for self-determination before that date, that Koreans forever af ter would he compelled to hold their peace and remain under the yoke of he "oppressor," r GREAT HAUL OF BOOZE IS MADE BY F E The big circus is coming. Of course Daddy will have to go to take Johnny. UPSON IS VICTIM OF! "PRACTICAL JOKERS U. L. Upson was either the victim of practical Jokers Saturday night, or else came near losing his auto mobile by thieves. About 11:30 that night he missed his car from where he had left it standing near the Waldorf dance hall. He Immedi ately notified Chief of Polrce Mc Lane and the search began. Chief McLane had a "hunch" and suggested crossing the Sixth street bridge over Rogue river. A short distance across the river, where the highway turns south to Medford, a car was seen by the side of the road but the lights were extinguished just before the officer approached the ma chine. The parties who took the ma chine had had troubles of their own there was a flat tire and they made their getaway just in time. The officers are of the opinion that it was the work of some of the younger set, ,who wanted to go Joy riding. KOREANS ARE FIGHTING (Continued from page 1) the revolution broke out simultan eously in many parts of Korea, how ever, it took the government almost completely by surprise. "About February 15, some of these Korean agitators had come secretly to their native land and or ganized committees to begin a move ment for establishing the nation's independence. Their work was quiet and effective. Their plan was to be gin a 'passive revolution' in which no property 'was to be damaged or des troyed and no persons, not even Jap anese, to be harmed. If the Koreans were beaten, or imprisoned, they were to take their punisnment with out complaint even suffering death rather than bring reproach on ' the Korean cause." 'After submitting that up to the time of his departure from Korea the people had religiously observed the covenant of passive resistance, the Omsk, SilHr, Feb. 24. In the revolutionary 16om and sadness prevailing in 'Russia every American who comoa tt :thls unhappy country is cheered hy, 'the humor of Joseph Ray, of Kewaunee, Wis., the Ameri can consular agent tie re. Ray was clerk ot the American embassy in Petrograd and went to Vologda with the embassy when the' Americans quit the Russian capital In Febru ary, 1917. He was sent to Omsk to meet the American Emerson com mission and the bolshevik! blocked his return to Vologda. "So we settled down at Omsk waiting for something to happen," said Mr. Ray. "It did happen to me for I was sleeping In a railway train when a car of dynamite and shrap nel exploded and many were killed. I escaped with a tew bruises. I was frozen out, burned out and eaten Out by bugs. My year of service is up and I hope to get out of Siberia and go home." RAP BY SEN. M'NARY Washington, Apr. 28 Much could be accomplished by scientific agri cultural investigation and experi ments in the Rogue river valley. Senator McNary told the department lot agriculture in a number of con ferences he held with bureau chiefs concerning rural development In Ore gon. Experiments In the Rogue river valley, the senator told the de partment, should be conducted on a comprehensive scale. He urged ac tion without delay, explaining that some agricultural rehabilitation Is necessary in southern Oregon, now that the speculators have taken money for orchards not planted on orchard land and have flown to oth er fields. He reviewed the situation In de tail, explaining that there are many splendid orchards in southern Ore fon but that the entire section of the state has been injured and many of the settlers discouraged' by the operations of thespecutators In the early stages of the intensive develop ment of the Medford and Ashland districts some 10 or 12 years ago. It is a country with & great future, he told the department, but that some federal aid of a scientific char acter is needed to help undo the harm of the real estate speculators. The situation is rapidly righting Itself, Senator McNary believes, as Is i Indicated by the fact that fruit trees I have already been cleared off large j areas of-land never suited to the ap ! pie Industry. It Is probable that the department will take some steps at ; once toward helping the farmers of ' that district to Improve their condi tions. , i PIEZ TO RETIRE Washington, Apr. 28. Charles Plez, director general of the shipping board, and seven other administra tive officials of the Emergency Fleet Corporation will retire May J to re sume private business. The largest booie haul that hus been mude lu this vicinity In a long time was effected early Friday even ing whim Deputy Sheriff Frank Hop kins arrested three Tacoma men traveling in a Hudson super-six as the trio were passing through Cun yon Creek conyou with an Illicit booze cargo consisting ot two 10 gal ion kegs of whiskey and six gunny sacks, each containing 13 quarts of "Old Palmer." To the fact that the "whiskey gate" was locked la direct ly attributable the downfall of the booze traffickers. When the car reached this barrlor, one of the party went to the home ot Deputy Hopkins nearby and requested the officer to give him the key to the gate. It so happened that Mr. Hopkins did not have one la bis possession at the time, and directed tho fellow to a teamster who was engaged In road work there. While the trafficker was on this mission the wily deputy made an examination ot the interior pf the automobile and uncovered the CollosaKboote supply hidden in the tonneati ot the machine. Taking pos session of the automobile and Its liquid treasure. Deputy Hopkins per mitted the three men to go to a ho tel for the night, he feeling sure that his prisoners would not attempt to escape and leave the valuable car and its almost equal in price booze cargo However, the deputy's sup position did not prove out. One of the trio, said to be James Morgan, of Tacoma, after partaking of a hearty supper, departed without even mak ing the fact known to his confeder ates, and his present whereabouts is unknown. The driver of the ma chine, who gave the name of Honry Ftosche, and the third party, K. Stlckney, both of Tacoma, were brought to this city Saturday morn ing, and lodged in the county Jail, as was the liquor, to await develop ments in the case. When interviewed shortly after reaching here this morning, Ftosche stated that MorKan, the man who departed In the folds of the night, had hired the machine at Tacoma for a trip to Portland. After reaching thai cltv according to Ftosche, Mor gan then offered him $20 a day and all expenses if he would continue south. The offer kas accepted and upon reaching Grants Pass the cargo of booze was placed aboard his ma chine, having been brought to the granite city in a Ford car. Flosche said he and Stlckney were In no way responsible for the "wet goods," and all the ihlame for the attempt to grossly evade the prohibition laws was laid at the door of Morgan, who as yet has not been located. ' Notwithstanding that the two men now held here disclaim any owner ship of the confiscated booze, it is a known fact that each of the accused offered Deputy Hopkins $100 as a bribe to allow them their freedom. It goes without saying that the offi cer flatly refused. When arraigned before Justice of the Peace I. B. Riddle, Stlckney and Flosche had secured, the services of Attorney A. N. Orcutt to represent them at the preliminary hearing. This morning the men denied going farther south than Grants Pass, but It came out at the hearing that the trio reached Crescent City, where the booze was purchased. Both Stlckney and his partner, Flosche, place all the blame for their predicament on Morgan, who escaped. The excuse offered proved of no avail, and each man was fined $200 by Judge Rid dle. They asked permission to wire Tacoma friends for funds, which re quest was granted. When you are overworked, foci listless or languid, or when you can't sleep or eat, better take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, livens you up, purifies the blood, soothes and regu lates the stomach, makes yon eat and sleep. A real Spring Medicine, 35c. Tea or Tablets. Sabln's Crng Store Adv. 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