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VOL. IX., No. 1811.
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I4.HERICK MAYOK BAYS IIUH1I
ARK COMPETENT AND SEEK
INDUSTRIAL ADVANCE
MONEY LOANED TOTHE ENGLISH
Ulm They Could Uue Uio Hunks of
the Shannon With Shipyards If
Given IndcpenuVnce
Limerick, Ireland, June I. The
Irishman's claim to political Inde
pendence la not wholly sentimental,
according to Alphonsus O'Mara,
mayor of Limerick and one of Ite
leading manufacturer. There la,
be say, much more practical aide
to the queetlon. the desire for eco
nomic Independence and the oppor
tunity for Industrial advancement
which the Irishman foels he can
never attain until he 1s permitted to
make hla own laws and deal author
itatively with hie own problems.
"Material advantages hare oome
out of every movement of the Irish
for freedom, hut the main grievance
remains," aald Air. O'Mara. "The
one point Is we are heavily overtax
ed. This year England la making a
profit of twenty million out of us.
That la she te taxing us thirty-five
millions and giving us a government
which coats her no more than fif
teen millions. These figures are not
cure but hers. We have England's
word for It.
''Ireland has Improved its position
In the east years, but we have not
advanced Industrially. We lack cab-
Ital and we lack confidence because
England and England's statesmen
have told u that we are not fit to
govern ourselves, that we lack those
essentials which make for elf-gor-rnment
of the man and therefor
of the Individual. Our farming pop
ulation, absorbing thts sentiment
through oft reiteration, nave wlth
neld their money when K wa need
ed by Irish enterprise. They have
deposited It In hanks, rant sums or
tt, and the money has (been loaned
to Englishmen for the development
xt English Industry,
"Limerick some 75 years ago had
a prosperous mercantile marine.
Now the Shannon bears not on its
"bosom a single ship that can , oall
Limerick it home port
"Also (w had fine textile indue
try, with more textile worker la
Ireland than there were then In Eng
land. But that has gone the way of
the ships,
"We hive here the finest river In
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ROGUE RIVER WILL
NOT GIVE UP ITS DEAD
Arthur Brown, Southern Oregon
representative (or the Oregonlan,'"
who Is in the .city today, elate that
the body of Carl WhUlock, who was
drowned In the Rogue on (Decoration
day, had not yet been recovered.
Oarl was the 13-year-old son of the
proprietor of the Golden (Rule store
at (Med ford.'
The lad waa with a picnic party
nt Jbay Gold on (Decoration day He
waa playing along the edge of the
river and It I 'presumed that he
reached Into the water after a craw
"ftsh when lie lost hie ibalance and
fell In. This was Just above one of
the most dangerous whirlpools on
the river and the body was immedi
ately aucked under.
Blasting powder ha been liber
ally need to raise the body, but to no
avail, Later dummy, : made of
straw and. placed on a board, was
shoved Into the water at the point
where the lad fell in and it, too, was
nicked under and could not be found.
IMoanwhMe, the search for the body
is being continued. '
IRISH
BUSNESSGON
EH
Imnmiioe Revolving Fund Required
to Maintain High Wages of the
. Workmen Agalnnt Reduction
Washington, June S, 'Director
General Hlne 'told the house ap
propriation commute today that
only by Increased rates oaa th gov
ern nient controlled railroads meet
operating erpenses. He 1s opposed
to the Increase at present because It
might advance the cost of necessities.
Mr. lllne asked for $1,200,000,
000 additional for the railroad ad
ministration's revolving fund for
this year. lie aald additional em
ploye' wage have been Increased 53
per rent during government control,
but are only reasonable and fair now.
lie sees no prospect of reducing
them, '
MAV LET MEXICANS PASS
El Paso, Tex., June 3. Mayor
Davis ha received word from Rep
resentative Hudspeth, in Washing
ton, saying that Acting Secretary
of Bute Tolk la reconsidering tb
refusal to allow Mexican troops to
pass through the United State and
may yet give consent. Hudspeth
urged that influence be brought to
bear against granting the .permit.
REPORTS SHOW UGHT
VOTE WILL BE CAST
But little Interest 1 being shown
In the pectal election today. From
reports coming In from the various
precincts it Is learned that tb rot
cast will be smell. At the courthouse
where there were 143 . registered,
only 28 rotes had been Cast up to 2
o'clock thu afternoon. Usually at
this precinct about 75 rote are gen
erally cast up to thla hour.
Reports indicate7 that the vote will
also be light in the country. At
Snlma no rote had been cast np to
1 1 o'clock thle forenoon.
It I a dull day thu far at th
polls, and some of the lady members
sre ibusy with their knitting. One
woman brought a vase and ome
rose, determined to hav something
more attractive to gaze at than mar
man. The polls close tonight at S
o'clock sharp. - .
MILE AND A HALF PAVED
IGlll'i
While 3. 8. Schell and hla crew
of workmen have not been engaged
fh the actual work of laying paring
but (little over a month, they hare
finished one and one-half mile of
the highway between Grants Pans
and the Josephine county line to the
south. ' ;
i Asked ( aa to bow the work wts
progressing,' Mr. Schell aald: "I do
not one how thing could go any
better. We expect to start on the
second contract -from the Josephine
county line to Gold Hill sometime
thl month." '
Workmen have A already begun
opening nip two rock quarries tor
the second stretch of pavement, one
at (Rocky Point and th other imme
diately this side of Rogue River.
SENATE COMMITTEE
WOULD RETURN WIRES
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'Washington, June 3. The senate
Interstate commerce committee to
day 'Unanimously ' recommended a
favorable report on Senator Kel
logg' bill for the immediate return
of the telephone end telegraph wires
to private .. ownership. , - Existing
rates would, "under this bill, continue
60 day. .
HllltS HEEDS ov
BILL!
DOLLARS
ORAVTa PAflg, JOflErUl.VB QOTOTT.
REDS WITH BOMBS MAKE
ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT
Country-Wide Effort Made
Exploded in Many Cities
Anarchist Blown to
Washington, June 3. Police in
spectors believed today that they
have identified the man who was
blown to place last night, In an ef
fort to kill Attorney General Ai
Mitchell Palmer with a bomb, aa an
anarchist of Philadelphia. Th po
lice are confident that a nation-wide
plot against the live of government
officials and prominent business men
had been laid out In Philadelphia.
Widespread explosion last night
were apparently the sequel to th
unsuccessful 'May Day outrage. It
Is believed to be another tep in th
anarchist movement for tb over
throw of the government of th
United State.
Pamphlet were found at Palmer's
bouse, where the bomber apparently
stubbed hi toe and set off the bomb,
blowing himself to bits. Indication
are that a "class war" has been
started. The pamphlets were signed
"The lAnarchlstlte Fighters," and n
doubtedly show that a reign of ter
ror has been started.
There were explosions In New
York. Washington, Cleveland, Pitta-
burg, two in Philadelphia, two In
'Boston, Patterson and Newtonville,
Massachusetts. They were a tittle
mora successful than the May Day
SETH BAILEY "WAITER AIID FIGHTER"
VINNIMG FAf.IE ACROSS THE WATERS
Rex H. Lampman, writing from
Parla to the Oregbnlan, has th fol
lowing to say of Seth 'Bally, of
Grants Pus.
"Writer and fighter, too," is the
line that may be used to describe the
military career of Sergeant Seth T.
Bailey, who waa born at 'Murphy,
Josephine county. Ore., and whose
parents, Mr. and Mr. George N.
Bailey, now Mve t 326 Sherman St,
Portland.
lAs a fighter -he saw nil phases of
the war, wag on every front,, took
part In every major action in which
American troop engaged, from and
Including August, 117, until the ar-
mlstice. waa in the front line on th
last day of the iwar, and went Into
Germany with the army of occupa
tion, reaching the 'Rhine at Cobleni,
December 11.
Aa a writer Sergeant Bailey origi
nated the 'Wear Henry" letter, pur-
portlng to be written by a rough
neck doughboy to hla pal in another
unit in France, ate oegan sending
the letter to th Star and Stripes,
the "of, by and fori' A. E. F. newspa
per, in July, 1918. -They made an
Instant hit and it was recognised that
In "S. T. B.," aa they were signed,
the A. E. TV had found it humorist
a real dougbboy who suffered,
knew and felt all that any dough
boy did, and who saw, everything
that happened through the glass of
a droll and diverting phiUsophy.
(Bailey wa member of th Dal
las company of the Oregon national
guard, and "came across" with the
16 2nd regiment of the '41st or "Sun
set" division. He landed in England
on Christmas, day,, 1917. and in
.France January 1 ' 1918.' lAt Toul he
'became an instructor In' band gre
nade throwing, bayonet-training and
scouting, and wa thus engaged when
he "took bis pen in hand" to write
his first letter to "Dear Henry."
The officers in charge of the Stars
and Stripes lost little tijne in having
the burgeoning humorist transferred
to the staff of the paper in Parle.
That was on August 5, 1M8, and it
looked like Bailey might 'be destined
to spend the treat of therwar, Ilk
," ' . .. '
ORKOOJf, TUESDAY. JUKE 3,
to Murder Officials Bombs
Innocent People Suffer One
Bits By His Own Act
demonstrations. . Two or three were
killed in New York, but their bodies
were so badly Mattered that it is
Impossible to determine Just' how
many were killed.
Attorney General Palmer had been
active against bolshevlsm, but the
authorities cannot understand th
attempted destruction of a church In
Philadelphia.
No persona for whom the bomb
were intended were hurt In any of
the explosion.
WORKMEN QUIT AT
VANCOUVER, B. C.,4
'
f Vancouver, B. C, June 8.
A. general strike was called at 4
4 11 o'clock her today.
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Vancouver, B. C, June 3. A
general walkout did not follow
the strike call. Only the ea-
men, shipyard workers, long-
hormen and iron worker
were out at noon. Some of the
trade wer exempted, while
others refused to answer th 4
f call. - i
many another battle-hungry hero, on
the "Paris front."
But the Star and Stripes did not
propose to cover the war from the
rear, and Bailey was suddenly rush
ed off to the Vesle river, where be
took part In the taking of the towns
or names and gametes, lie wa
gassed and' slightly wounded by
high, explosive R. E th dough,
boy call It in the St. MJMel of.
tensive, me Mat day of the war
found blm on the lArgonne front,
ready to go over the top in the big
drive which the Heinle knew was
coming, and' which knowledge
hastened their signing of an arm Is
"0,ca nountd to unconditlon
al aurernder.
The Stars and Stripes bad more
than one correspondent on the front,
but the same quality that endeared
hi "Henry" letter to the entire A.
E. P. it very doughboyishness
made bis stories of the great bat
tles popular with the boys in khaki.
He wrote not as a - correspondent
who viewed the big game from a
safe distance, but as soldier who
was part and parcel of the game it
self. ; ,;i
iBaJley served on' the (Mexican bor
der with the Oregon boys, and his
newspaper experience includes re
port lal jobs 'on The Oregontan, the
Medrord Sun,' the Dallas, Ore., Ob
server, and the San Francisco Chron
icle.
'Dear Henry" la now out in book
form Under the title of "Henry's
Pal to Henry." with llluetratlon by
Private Aiblan Wallgren ("Wally"),
the young marine cartoonist who has
celebrated the American soldier's ex-
periences In France, in his cartoons
In the Stars and Stripes, from much
the same happy daughboy point of
view occupied toy Sergeant Bailey in
his letters to bis pal "Somewhere in
Franco." ':."'
The first edition of 100,000 copies
printed in Paris, has just come from
the press. It is expected that this
edition will be taken by the soldiers
till overseas and that another edi
tlon will be necessary to supply the
demand in the United States
BUG BRIDGE
F
Mysterious Fire Destroy Bridge at
Merlin, Throwing 13 Freight Cars
Into Jnmp-off-Joe
Due to freight wreck at Merlin,
nine miles north of this city, all
trains were delayed today.
It was a long 'freight train, an
extra, southbound, that came rolling
into Merlin last night about 2 o'clock
with two extra engines to tb rear.
Th little bridge across Jump-off-Joe
creek at the edge of iMertin was
burning brightly, but Engineer lb
W. Crocker and Fireman Conklin, In
the bead locomotive, could not see
It, because of a slight curve, in time
to savs the train. There was a down
grade and tb freight wa making
good headway. Before reaching the
bridge the engineer and , fireman
Jumped, escaping with a few
scratches then cam tb crash.
Th engine In th lead and four
cars got safely across before ths
structure gave way The next 13
ears wore tcramtltng for first place
at the oottom of the shallow crock
bed. Seven of the cars contained
lumber, three were empties, and the
rest were loaded with an assortment
of freight. Four cars witlr their
canro of lum1xr added to tha Mint
But it was a lucky accident, for no
one was badly injured. ,
The wrecking crew from Ashland
were on the job at 7 o'clock this
morning, and tt Is thought that by
evening repairs will be made suf
ficient for the resumption of train
service. A transfer of passengers
was made from Nos. 13 and 14 to
day. , '
Crocker's engine, after passing the
bridge, ran along the ties for 100
yards before stopping snd the way
the wheels chewed np the ties dem
onstrated the tremendous weight of
the monster.
'By t o'clock this morning a, crowd
bad gathered about the wreck,
watching with interest ths work of
the wrecking crane In clearing the
wy. .
Just bow the fire started is a mys
tery.
GRANTS PASS GIRL
u
Miss Jeannette iMoss of this city
was recently elected president of
the women's athletic association of
ths University of Oregon.
iMlss Aloes is a major in the phys
ical education department. She has
been a member of th athletic asso
ciation during her three years In ths
university and baa taken active part
in the different sports. She was the
head of ths swimming and was ' a
member of the junior swlming team
this year, snd ths leading point win
neron that team.
PETROGRAD REPORTED
' IX HANDS OF FIN'S
Copenhagen, June 3, Esthonian
and Finnish forces have taken Pet
rograd, according to an unconfirmed
dispatch from Vardoe. '. .
KB DM
Washington. June : 5.- Contribu
tions to the American Red Cross
from the date of the entry of the
United States Into the war, on April
6, 1917, to the present are roughly
estimated at about f 350, 000,000.
This emount was raised mainly In
two donation "drives" which brought
In $108,000,000 and, $180,000,000,
resi.cotlvely end two membership
"drives" In Which 42,000,000 mem
bership signatures with a minimum
of II each (many weret for much
larger sums) were obtained. .
: ,V
CAUSE 0
WRECK
WHOLE NUMBER 204.
GERMAN
WILL ARREST
BLAME FRENCH FOR PROPAGAN
DA CHANGES TO BE MADE Uf
TERMS TO GERMANY
AUSTRIAN ANSWER JUKE 17
Chancellor Renner to Discuss Allies
Terms AVith His Cabinet Red
Lose in. Hungary
Berlin, June 3. The German gov
ernment has ordered ths arrest of
Dr. Dorien, president of ths new
Rhenish republic. Germany blames
France for propaganda. -
Parts, June S. Ths Austrian
chancellor. Dr. Renner, is expected
to go to Switzerland today, probably
to the 'Austrian frontier, to meet
members of bis cabinet to discus
Austria' answer. Ths reply is da
Jnns 17. .
Vienna dispatches state thai ths
bolshsrlkl regime in Hungary has
been replaced by government
headed by Herr German, formerly of
the Karolyl cabinet German Is re
ported to have been Invited to go
to Paris to confer with the allies. ,
Paris, June S. The council of
four are considering two changes la'
the German peace terms, one terrl-
, , Paris, June; t, Sweden nd Pen-
mark have notified tha near mnfim.
ence that ther will not loin in th
blockade of Germany. They said
the blockade could be made effective
with their rlolatlnr neutrality
FOffllMEM
ASKS TO BE LOCKED UP
J. '' iM
Thomas Xoves.ll, a man about 45
years of ge, went to the courthouse
today and asked Sheriff Lewis to
lock blm up in the Jail for safe
keeping. Loreall says be Jus rela
tives living at Salem, Ore., but that
he was formerly an inmats of aa la-
sane asylum In Dakota, but was re
cently discharged. , Hi bead has
been injured, and be told the Sheriff
that be felt another "spell", coming
and feared that he iwould . commit
suicide. (He was pleased when the
Sheriff placed blm safely in a cell.
FAE.1
C. M. Leonard, of Chicago,' the
principal member of the Leonard Es
tate company end the Leonard Con
struction company, arrived here last
week snd will spend several weeks
at River Banks farm resting after
the strenuous work of the war time.
Mr. Leonard, with ell his business
activities is a busy man, but as a
member of the financing corpora
tion for the government on the sal
ary of $1 a year, he has been more
than very busy, end for the first
time in five years he is having a
rest looking ! over - his Josephine
county farms. ;'
'Mr.- Leonard has a bait million
aouars invested in Josephine county,
Which included 1,300 acres, the
greater part of whioh is in cultiva
tion and stocked with high grade
and registered animals, i The farm.
under ths management of Clyde E.
Niles is one of the show places of
the county and has won a place in
the list of Oregon up-to-date farms.
The owner is nicely located in one
or the new log bungalows just com
pleted on the farm and is enjoying
a real rest..' . ' . :
RHENISH m