"Ifs The Climate Were Telling The World Come and Enjoy It' v. 4 , : t ) i- VOL. IX., No. iMfl. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE OOUHTT, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 18. 1010. WHOLE NUMBER' 2747. r. RED ARMY 100 SING TO BE simmer n i;Hivi: or h.mal MUTISM POIU'K IS NORTH IK Httl PROVES FA I ll It K Element laviw llulntit'vlkl, W ho Are Mora I'owcrful Than Their Enemy Both In Men anil Artillery Archangel, Auk. 18. The Hrltlah Ruaeliin offensive In North Ruaala, which was Intended thla summer to connect with Ad mini! Kolehak's Si berian army and establish Archangel aa a baa through which allied sup pile might Im handled to all antl ' bolshevik armlea In the fluid, ha mot with unnrtMMted atrong renlat anee on tho Dvlna river at the name time that 'Admiral Kolchuk's armlce have been driven backward Into Si beria. Because of Insufficient force, lark of open aupporl by the allied gov ernnienta and tho fact that natural factors have aided the bolahevlkl, tho expedition, according to military opinion In Archangel at thla time, nay be doomed thla aiimmer to a failure equally aa bud aa that which met luat summer's efforts nnlone large forcra are thrown In at once by the allied government! and a war anal net the ibolahevlkl undertaken 1n oar nest. Throughout the long winter, when the allies and Rtiaalam on the Arch angel front were fighting a hard proiiaed, defonalve 'battle against su perlor force, the allied command wag waiting the arrival of Bummer to take the offensive. The offensive began lute In June, but no far hua advanced only a few mlloa. Kotlaaa la atlll more than a hundred mllos from the RuHalan and Brltlah portions on the (Dvlna, which aro. In fuel, only at about tho same point where the Americana were es tablished hint autumn before the trong iiolxhevlk offensive cauaed thom to withdrawn during the win tor. ' lAJthough compnred with last sum mor'a pitifully small force the pres ent TlrltlHh and IRusalun command Is well equipped, Jt la still fur below the Htrenmh of itho bolahevlkl In both numbers mid artillery. The British gunboats and monitors, or which a largo flotilla was sont for operations on tho Tvlna and Vaga rivers, have for tho most pnrt proved useless bo- ranso of the low water. Rven the British volunteer forfe have been Informed "that they will lm withdrawn from North 'Russia bo foro another winter sots In. All Am ericans and French ire now off the Archangel front, and the newly tral ii oil iRusslan troops, most of whom were secured iby draft, are limited Jo number, the territory W Ing sparsely settled. They are, how ever, woll equipped. At the present time the North "Russian government, which has es tablished, tinder .direction of Gonoral Kolchnk, a "strong" policy to hold up. the discipline In the army and mong the civilian population, Is aeterminea to carry on the war against the bolshevik! to the finish and the people appear anxious to cooperate. ONI,V SIX KIOTO FOR 1ORT'jAX1) FORCED BACK ');': ',: 8an Francisco, Aug. 18. -tPaclflc .' : . coast ports will receive only 48 ves- !k, ' sols from the United States shipping . . board Instead of the 78 originally '' ,' , planned, according to statements made today by shipping board offi cials. A check of the vessels available tor allocation lias reduced the num ber iby '30 bottoms, It was said. Half .if the ships have been assigned, San . v . Tranelsco having received 11, Seat tle eight and Portland six. FARMERS SORE A PRESIDENTWILSON ItflmffMl by Ilia Act in Placing In. (liiMtrlui Production Auovo Farm ' Output) Miiy I'btnl I At, VV'arfhliiglou, Aug. 18. Warning waa given today by representatives of farmera orgaiilzatlona toatlfylng before the house and aonate agri cultural committee that uutoaa preaent disturbed conditions result ing from profiteering "in goods and wagoa" and strike are nettled aoou the country will fu.ee a far worse sit uation from the high cost of living next year than at present. Farmera, they aald, were .prepar ing now for next year'a crops and uftder preaent conditions they could not eall mate whut the probable mar ket would be. Fears wore expreaacd that there would e decreased production botli on thla uocount and on account of rraldent Wllaon'a statement In hia meHsitgo vetoing the repeal of the daylight aaviug law, placing Indus trial production ahoud of farm out put. .NEW YORK cm TIED IP TIGHT New York, Aug. IS. Due to tho traction employes' strike, the city's millions are fighting their way to work In surface cars, or walked In the rain storm.. The subways and the -f elevated are tide up. WOUNDED SOLDIERS . OS STRANDED SMI Seattle, Wash., Aug. 18. Cable advice today stated that the United State shipping board steamer. Heff- ron, with 1,100 wounded Cxeoho-Slo-vaks aboard, waa ashore off Rokuren, KorcaJ strait. They are In no Imme diate danger and veaeals are stand ing by. The lleffron waa bound from Vladivostok to Trieste. Uuidou, Aug. 18. Criminals who rob their victims after giving, them I'driiKh'od cigarettes are attracting the attention of Scotland Yard. In one Instance a man In railway car riage was robbed after he had smok ed a' cigarette given him by a fel low passenger. A discharged, sol dier wus robbed of his money and clothing and loft naked by the road aldo near u suburban village. SAYS AVAR XST 40 U1LLION POUNDS iI,omlon, Aug. 18. -Lloyd George told the house of commons today that tho 'British government accept ed the policy of the state for the I ii r cli nan of milneral rights in coal. He said the war cost forty billion pounds, and that there waa 'an alotmlng trade balance at present. PARCEL POST SALE OF IS Washington, Aug. 18. The par cel post sale of the vast supply of foodstuffs the war department la putting on the market was inaugu rated today. Every postmaster in the country has a price list Indi viduals can order directly from the postmasters, . iPostmaster Quintan 'has received his price list but has not yet recelv. ed definite Information in regatd to the xone rates. This is expected any day, after which (Mr. Qulnlan will is sue a notice to the public, Informing them how: to proceed to place their orders. Each city has been allotted i certain amount of the stores. MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES NEARER A BREAK Army Aviators Held by Mexican Bandits For $15,000 Ransom Will be Paid and Charged to Carranza. Uncle Sam Demands Quick Action by Mexico i:i Paso. Texu. Aug. IS. Some where In Mexico south of the Big Bend district, lieutenant Paul H. Davis and Harold C. Peterson, l". 8. army aviators, are being held by Mexican bandits for ll.i.OOO ran som. The aviators disapeared eignt days ago. Authorities at Marfa, Tex., receiv ed the bandits yesterday. The money is to be paid In gold to Tawklna Kil patrlck at 'andelarlo, Texas, by to night or the Americana will be kill ed. Another message signed by the avlutor asked that the ransom bei paid, and It Is underatood that It wlllU be paid. Waahlngton, Aug. IS. The al ready strained relations with Mexico are regarded acute, due to the avia tors' case. Detention of members of the military force Is considered more serious than had they been private oltlzens. The state department today made vigorous representations to the Mexi can government. U. S. MASSING TANKS ALONG MEXICAN LINE El Paao, Texas. Aug. 18. It be came known today that the largest ordnance depot ra the United States 1s to he established at Fort Bliss within a short time. For the last two weeks large quantities of ord nance supplies have arrived and more coming in .daily. Today's additions to the war stores included 16 heavy tanks of the kind used in the fighting in Europe and it was suid ten more of these trucks are en route liere. Complete equipment of British type of 1917 model British millmeter guns lor two regiments will be part of the ordnance. Monster trailers for transporting artillery supplies each weighing 9S00 pounds have arrived. Seven new steel storehouses are to be erected. A second depot, similar to that at Fort Bliss la being established at Brownsville, Texas. (Army officers today declined to discuss the report that the concen tration of fighting equipment on the Rio iirunde'wiLs due to the tenseness of the 'Mexican situation. Columbus, O., lAug. IS. 'Forty eight one-man nrmored tanks of the whilst type have been shipped from the army reserve depot from East Columbus to army posts near the Mexican border, during the last two days, officers in chatge of the depot admitted today. Half of the ship ment went to iEI iPaso, the other half to San Antonio. UKK.lt &KASON STARTS ' OFF IX 8AMR OI,l WAY Eureka, Cal., Aug. ,18. Mistaken tor a deer Roderick Mcdeod a ranch er was shot and killed iby George Dickson at Dyerville, near here last night. The deer season in Hum boldt county had 'been open only 12 hours when McLeod met 'Ills death SAYS AVAlt WILL IIRSIXT GIVING JAPAN CONTROL Washington, Aug. 18. Thomas Millard, American writer attached to the Chinese peace delegation, tolu tlhe foreign relations committee It was the unanimous opinion of Amer ican experts on Far Eastern affairs at Versailles, that war must result from the treaty provision giving Japan control of Shantung. Waahlngton, Aug. 18. The Am erican embassy at 'Mexico City has been instructed to call upon the Mexican government for quick ac tion. The ransom is to be paid to day, . The United Stiles will either furnish the sum and charge It against the Carranza government, or call upon the Mexican government to pay It direct. Secretary Ba&er said there was some uncertainty whether the two .aviators landed In Mexico by mis- or. as they claimed, landed on the American side and were captur ed there. They were on border pa trol duty. Portland, Ore., Aug. 18. Lieuten ant Davis, held by the bandits, en listed from Portland and was sent to Ban Antonio to train soon after the war started, and was kept there as instructor. His parents live at Strathmore, Cal. His age is 23, and he was a sophomore at Stanford. E TO AMERICAN LEGION R. J. Boyd is in the city today in the interest of the American Le gion tbe boya whrf fought for Am erica In the great war. Mr. Boyd says that the state organizer for the society, W. iB. Follett of Portland, will arrived In Grants Pass Wed nesday and on Wednesday evening will hold a meeting here for the pur pose of perfecting an organization. The preamble of the constitution of the American Legion reads as follows: "For God and Country we asso ciate ourselves together for the fol-j lowing purposes: To uphold and de fend the Constitution of the United. States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent American ism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association In the Great War; ' to Inculcate a sen66 of Individual obligation to the com munity, state, and nation; to com bat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the prin ciples of 'justice, freedom, and de mocracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness." Organisations have already been perfected In 19 cities of Oregon, says Mr. Soyd, and it Is the Intention to have the state rank first In the union by September 1st. Any man who has seen service in any 'branch of the U. S. army during the late war is eligible to join. Mr. 'Boyd can be found at the Josephine hotel and will be glad to give any of the ex- service men further Information In regard to the organization. AMERICAN ARMY OFFICER SrFFER HEAVILY IN WAR Wshlngton, Aug. 15. Analysis of the "final" casualty report received from the central records office In France ehows that the European war was the most sanguinary in history. Battle deaths among American en listed men avera&ed eight per thou sand, among emergency officers, 11 per thousand, and among regular army officers 14. Of every 1,000 officers landed in France more than 330 were killed or wounded. Battle deaths were 27 per thousand for graduates of West Point against IS for non-graduates. ' LATEST ARTILLERY FOR O.A.C:CADETS Ninety War Horses W11 lie Furnish ed, Five-ton Tractor to fraw 1Ug French Gun Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis. August 18. A battery of four three-Inch guns, one G. P. Fll- loux 155 mm. field piece and a mo dified British bored to seat Ameri can and French, ammunition, have been forwarded by the war depart ment to the agricultural college for the new field artillery nnlt author ized. Two carriages each dralwn by six horses constitute each of the fire sections of tbe three-inch battery. Four of tbe sections are made np of the un and its caisson, . and the fifth by a store wagori. and -battery wagon with additional stores. It takes 80 heavy artillery horses and 28 cavalry mounts for the officers and non-commissioned officers. Nine ty animals will be forwarded soon. The big French gnu is drawn by a 6 ton tractor under war condi tions 10 ton. Ammunition is served by steel tracks. Two 5 ton and two 2H ton tractors have already reach ed the college. For fun drill sub-caliber charges are fired through a shell model with rifls bore. The .bullet will strike the target 600 yards distant just as the heavy projectile, if fired, would have struck Its target. Without this device gun drill could not 'be had be cause of the great range and heavy projectile of the guns. Two year of basic drill will be required of all students in the artil lery courses, and two , additional years will be offered candidates for reserve officer training corps posi tions. CHOPPING HELPS HAT Corvallls. Ore., Aug. 18. "You will save 25 to SO per cent hy run- Ing your hay through a cutter this year." says E. I Westover, U.- S. ana u. A. c. extension dairy special ists. "The saving is far more than the cost of chopping the hay." TRAVELS BY OX TEAM Prosser, Wash., Aug. 18. Driving an old-fashioned ox-team in a! new- fashioned manrfer, Mr. and Mrs. G W. Dingham have just passed through (Prosser and expect tft reach Spokane the tore part of next week. Mr. and (Mrs. Dingham are en route from Giendale, Ore., to Garwood, Idaho, about 40 miles east of Spo kane. They have already been a month on the road. Mr. and Mts. Dingham created a sensation at the city camp grounds which is filled 'by .transcontinental tourist partise every night. The ox team found accommodation under neath a giant walnut tree alongside a half-dozen high powered automo biles and the contrast between pio neer travel in the days of '51 and the present fashion of eating up the distance between tbe east and the west was very striking. FOREST FIRES Portland, Ore., Aug. 18. Fifteen hundred acres of forest have been burned, and three camps and many donkeys were destroyed by fire near Stlverton. The loss is esttmated at 8350,000. a Tire in tne santiam forest on Dry Creek, five miles west of De troit, is alarming. Government men and loggers are fighting It. . iA rain is needed to stop the fires in the Roseburg section. Near Grants iPass there are several small fires, but none are reported to ibe ibeyond control. - . - NEAR Bom EVACUATING THE UKRAINE SOVIET GOVERNMENT AT HOS COW BIIANIJS KObCHAK AND CABINET AS OUTLAWS ODESSA .CITIZENS OUST REDS Budapest SorialisU Refuse to Ria. cognize Frederick Government Utile Archduke Stcfw Down London, Aug. 18. The bolehevlkl have been driven from Odessa by the population of the city. It Is re ported. The soviet forces are evac uating Kiev and the entire Ukraine. London, Aug. 18. A decree do th. daring Admiral Kokshak and AR-Russlan cabinet at Omsk; to be. outlaws was issued today by the so viet government, a Moscow wireleasr says. j 'Budapest, via Vienna, Aug. 18.- Paul Garami, tbe socialist leader and other socialists announced to day that they would refuse to enter the new government of . SteDhea Fried rich, unless Archduke Joseph Abandoned the" regency. WINS IN TEN MILE SWIM DOWN DELAWARE RIVER Riverton, N J., Aug. 18.-r-Eugene T. (Bolden, a sailor of the Great Lakes naval' tralnlng'statlonr" od the ten mile national swimming " championship in the Delaware river late Saturday, setting a. new record for the event. His time- was 1 hour 59 minutes and 18 seconds. He de feated 28 men, among them some of the best swimmers in America. ADMINISTRATION ASKED TO ADJUST WAGE DEMANDS Washington, Aug. 18. The rail road administration lias been noti fied that the shopmen's strike is at an end, and is urgei to take up the wage demands immediately. ESCAPED CONVICTS SEEN NEAR FREEWATER, ORE. Salem, Ore., Aug. 18. It is re ported that 'Dave Brichoux and E. B. Southwick, escaped convicts, were, seen Friday near Freewater, Umatil la county, in a small automobile headed toward' Walla Walla. OF KILLED Iff MATH Corvallls, Aug.-18 An average of 139 dead grasshoppers was counted for each square foot of poisoned area in the upper marsh district of the Klamath agency as a result of the control campaign recently con ducted by E. H. Thomas, county agent. Many sick hoppers were also found throughout the area. The farmers who spread the poison were mostly stockmen who came so near ly cleaning up the district that they have planned to begin early next year and complete the job. WILL RETAIN OREGON AIRPLANE PATROL Salem, Ore., Aug., 18. Senator MoNary has been assured by the war department that airplane patrols will be retained In Oregon. The Senator has notified Governor Olcott. ' " FORECAST FOR PERIOD OF AUGUST 18 TtJ AUGUST 23 Washington, August 16. Pacific Coast States; 'Generally fair; normal temperature. I