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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1919)
" IT’S THE CLIMATE : : rants b WE’RE TELLING THE WORLD ♦ COME AND ENJOY IT ” >iir- Ubrary fflailg (Lourict GRANTS PAM, JOSEPHINE COl'N TY, OREGON, VOL X.. Ni». 57. • • •. • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 191». I TROOPS OF Ü.S. Hlstc ( 9>iiiiiilsnioii Back* Up anil Fixe« Figure n< UM Per ('ent After H living 7 .«<ed It At 6S » The state tax comtn Isslon has bucked up on it» stand taken after the railroad corporations of the state hud presented their argument, and lias increased the ratio of that coun ty from 45 to 66 per cent. This Is within 2 per cent of the figure set last year, and will cost the county between $2,000 and $3,000 tn reve- nu*« lost over last year. The raise over the arbitrary figure of 45 per I cent as set by the commission after ¡the railroad« had brought their work to bear shows that the delegation from here made a most effective ar gument and overturned the railroad argument upon which the commis- «Ion had first acted. McAdoo, Former Secretary of Treas ury, Say« ('oal Barons Made “Shocking Profit»" E. P. Marshall, Who Was Companion of the Unfortunate Now York, Nov. 24.—Soft coal WHITE COMES FROM ARIZONA mine owners made "shocking and in-! AT REQUEST OF JACKSON Smith, defensible profits,” in 1917, and COUNTY AUTHORITIES there is "grave doubt" that they are The Shots That Killed The Pendleton Men entitled to increased prices because of a proposed increase to miners, Wm. G. McAdoo, former secretary of Portland, Ore., Nov, 24.—Almost years; James Ogle,- an ex-convict the treasury, declared today in a positive identification, according to from the Deer Dodge, Mont., peniten telegram to Fuel Administrator Gar the police, of David Smith, one of tiary and Walter Banaster, a cook. 23 field. the Claremont Tavern bandits, has years old. FaPurr of Th!« Country •” Hatlfy The owners' profits, according toi Will Clear the Situation so Far a* been made by E. >P. Marshall, who Ogle made a confession to Deputy income tax returns examined by him .Alleged Connection of Evans With the Vemalllc» Pesce Treaty Not was one of the companions of State District Attorney Delch, In which he .to (S um * trmy Withdraw nl the Cnee Is Concerned as secretary of the treasury, he said, Highway Commissioner J. N. Bur said he had, while intoxicated agreed showed earnings on the capital stock gess, and George Perrlnger, and has to the holdup, and had been held ranging from 15 to 2000 per cent. j led the Multnomah county deputy dis practically a jrrisoner by the other Parts, Nov. 24. Thu withdrawal | ------------------- W. G. White has returned from trict attorney to make the statement two from that moment until the ar of American lroot* from Coblenz, In Phoenix, Arizona, at the request of “VACATION" OF NEW that In his opinlou Smith fired the rest. th« occupied portion of Germany Is the Jackson county officials, for the YORK PRINTERS ENDS fatal shot that took lives of Bur According to the confession, the not considered in 'American peace purpose of attempting to identity gess and Perrlnger. Marshall's iden bandits planned the robbery two eonfitn-nve circle« as nccosoury in MINER* FAIL TO REIN HIT Lark Evans, the man who was sus New York, Nov. 24.—Book and pected of having been implicated in AT SHERIDAN MINEN tification of Smith was considered nights before It was committed. Fri- eonsoquen*» of th« failure of the complete last night when he gazed day night they took an automobile job compositors bowed to the mand United Miai«» senate to ratify the the White jitney holdup, but who Sheridan, Wyo., Nov. 24.—Virtual Into Smith's eyes and declared he from their headquarters at 163 West ate from the executive committee of established an alibi at the time of po;ic« treaty International Typographical his hearing at Medford. It is contqpded that the United ly every coal mine in the Sheridan "could never forget those eye«, that Emerson street to the east sfde of the the St. Johns ferry and cross the Union and ended the eight week Stale« is still one of the allied and district closed today when the miners Is the man.” Mr. White has partially identified Charges of second degree murder river on the last ferry which made “vacation” which has contributed ! failed to report to work. •hsocinted power«. a photo sent him, and a detective have lteen placed against the suspect the passage that night. Before en largely to the general printing tie - ■■ : -................................. who has been working on the cam ed men, and the evidence will go to tering the tavern, they stole a row up here. is stated to have unearth new evi ITALIAN MINISTER the grand jury tomorrow. boat to insure their passage back. dence that will be used should the HAM QUIT Ills JOB The men under arre»t tor the mur They deserted the boat after reach t case be again brought up. Mr. der of Burgess and Perrlnger are ing the east side early yesterday, White was also Informed that trace Rome, Nov. 24. Tomaeso Tittonl, | David Smith, a machinist, aged 23 and went home in their automobile. had been obtained of the Ford auto Italian foreign minister, ha« resign which ths bandit stole from him. and ed, and Viteru ScUloia, minister it was especially in th« hope that without portfolio, ban l>een named this might be recovered and so pay his aucciMwor. Sydney, Australia, Nov. 24. —<A him for his trip that he has return fixed amount covering the ixwit of ed at this time. Sheriff Terrill will living for a man and wife and the Ixmdon, Nov. 24.—'President Wil be in the city tonight for a confer | maintenance of their children is to son ’s illness, says the Saturday Re- ence <lth Mr. White. Mr. White I form the basis from which all rates view, contributes to the delay in the believes that he can readily identify | of Mages will be calculated tn New Bristol, Eng., Nov. 24.—Thomas Cottage Grove. Ore., Nov. 24.—• settlement of the Eastern question, the man who stole his car and left ¡South Wales. Maynard, said to be the first -man A grewsonte find was made late Sat The paper adds that “nothing can be him bound and helplees in the hills ' A bill, embodying this novel married without knowing ft, was more unfortunate than this suspen if he is brought face to face with urday afternoon when the body of a ««heme for ending the "vicious cir summoned to court here by bis wife, I sion, as nothing Is more important him. and in this way the guilt or in- cle" of Increasing living costs and his second wife, charged with deser man, throat gashed by a knife, was Atlants, Ga . Nov. 24. ( State anil j rajBe(j wages, has already passed the tion. Mrs. Maynard told the court found hanging from the limb of a for Britain than to know exactly nocense of Tairk Evans will be clear where we stand i la regard to mili- ly established. Evans maintains that city officials are Iniestlgating __ n * hoax legislative assembly. The scale of her husband had previously been con small tree on the hillside just this tary expenditures. he is anxious for Mr. W’hite to see perpetrated here last night by an living costs is to be formulated by victed on a charge of bigamy. side of Saginaw hill. The discovery him that his connection with the "Will the Americans agree to po unidentified man who telephoned the th* 'board of trade after an inquiry, Maynard explained that a wound was made by Judson Allen. lice a portion of Asia Minor? Why case may be disproved. Evans is now city auditorium where vice President The maintenance of children of work received at the front in France should «they 7 Were we an American working in a garage at Klamath Peculiar circumstances mystify the ers will be mot by payments from a caused a clot of blood to form on the Marshall was speaking, that Preal-' influence, we should stoutly resist Falls. He was released upon the evi- (fund administered by the govern brain. He also Buffered from shell authorities concerning the mall’s dent Wilson was dead. The audience* anv such proposal. America has her dence of a Medford garage man who ment. Employes receiving not more shock, he declared. When convalesc death. He was a stranger about 50 own troubles and difficulties in con maintained that Evans was working wept and filed out slowly, while Mr. than 11.25 above the declared living ing In a hospital at Bristol, Mayn years old and of slight build. nection with democracy, just as Eng tor him upon the day that other wit Marshall ascertained through the A«- wage will be iwiid the full amount ard told the court, a girl took him A few days ago blood was discov land has, and they are grave, more nesses say he was tn Grants Pas« and uoclateil Press that the re[«ort »»» ascertained to be the cost of inaln- out one day for two hours, and mar- ered about 150 yards from where the than enough to occupy her statement when Mr. White was robbed of his i tainlng each child. ried him. unfounded. car. The fund is to lie established bv “You were married without your body was hanging concealed amon«' and their resources of government, Mr. White will return to Phoenix without taking up the quixotic task ■ monthly payments from employers, knowledge.” asked the judge. the trees. The discovery led to an | after the present investigation has of policing Armenia or the Cauca each employer (laying in proportion "Yes, and when I was tried the been disposed of. Mrs. White did I to hl« average daily number of em court said he had never .heard of a alarm on the theory It was evidence sus.” not return with him. ployes. more remarkable case," was the an- of a tragedy. Authorities made a search but no STANFORD FRATERNITIES No iMiymenta are due in respect to «wer. “I was immediately released clew was found save the fact that tha children of employes on strike. after sentence.” ADOPT A NEW PLAN The bill will ajtply to practically Maynard was ordered to maintain where the blood was there were in dications that some one had made all employe« In the state whose earn his wife. Stanford University. Cal., Nov. 24. his bed during the night. ings are not exceeding $2,000 an — Formal bidding of freshmen aftar Seoul, Korea, Nov. 24.—Vice-gov nually. The search was given up by the au I two months of “rushing” to join the HUNGER STItIKES NOT ernor Mlzuno nnnounces in instruc thorities. fraternities at Stanford has been CAUSE LIBERATION TO tion« issued to the provincial gov • Not satisfied, Mr. Allen later con I«ondon. Nov. 24.—The R-38. BOLSHEVIKI CLAIM 1700 adopted by the inter-fraternity con ducted an investigation of his own, ernors now assembled here discrim Great Britain's largest airship, re ference here. The PRISONERS CAPTURED new system su- Dublin. Nov. 24.—Official notice and discovcreij the body. ination between Jaiwnese and Ko percedes the former method of hasty cently sold to the United States, is The body was up a steep incline was given Sunday that no more and indiscriminate ■'rushing,” by capable of travelling 34 hours longer rean offl' lals will be abolished and I . ixtndon. Nov. 24.--Continued ad prisoners will be liberated for hun from where the blood had been found that the salaries will lie |>aid to Ko vance« against General Denikine and ger striking. It is expected that and some little distance from a mass which prospective members were without refueling than the largest called on to make the acquaintances German airship constructed before reans equal to those of their Jap- Admiral Kolchak’s forces is claimed hunger strikes will become numerous of bedding, and a bloody knife. | In Russian soviet communique« re of the fraternities in the first two the armistice. She also embodies an The body was not suspended, the anomi coileague«. Flogging of Ko- ceived here today. other achievement In the aerial con- The bolBheviki and many deaths in prison will Col rope being merely tight enough to I or three weeks of the college term. 'striictors’ art. With her enormous low. retins wlll bo stopped. i The formal bidding day will occur re|>ort claims the capture of 1700 allow the feet to rest on the ground gas capacity of 2,720.000 cubic feet, He says the posts of principals of prisoners. and the body reclined with the rope this year on Sunday. December 7. a third larger than that of the R-34 I ___________ common schools, hitherto exclusively sustaining it. The rope was not sui SOLDIERS' LETTERS FORM of trans-Atlantic fame, the R-38 has held by Japanese will be given to Ko a "lifting” power of 50 tons of cargo. PART OF WAR RECOItl) ficlentl.v tight te cause strangulation, There was not a single trace of reans, also. This is 60 per cent of her total “lift blood on the man's hand, though ing" power. 82 tons. The airship’s Mr. Mlzuno further states that the Paris, Nov. 24. — The state is ask- I there had been profuse bleeding from weight. 32 tons, is reckoned as government is making Investigations ed, in a bill that has been Intro- the threat. I “dead liftage." with a view to granting the Koreans duced in the French senate, to coi- Was the man murdered or was he The sale is attributed to demands local self-government. led some of the most striking letters « suicide? I ' for economy that have been made on 'Referring to t he reform of the po-| written by French soldiers duriug the A small amount of change was the British air ministry. Construc- lice system, the vice-governor re Manila, Nov. 24. One of the most war. The purpose is to form a per- found in the man's pockets. He was Ixindon, Nov. 24.—Here is one tion of the R-38 was begun last ymr mind« the governors that |>ollco pow significant talks given by Governor manont record of every part of the seen on the streets of Cottage Grove Ixjndon police surgeon's tests to de-' at Inchinnan, on the Clyde, where er lias lieen transferred to them and General Francis 1 Burton Harrison battle front and every phase of the Saturday and Sunday by Deputy termlne the oft-disputed question as she IR-34 was built. Her cruising ateks them to endeavor to maintain since he assumed the position of fighting. Sheriff Pitcher. to whether a person is drunk: endurance WTI1 be 45 miles per hour peace and order by checkmating agi chief executive of the Philippine The coroner was called from Eu Walk a straight line, heel and toe,'for nearly nine'days. Tn length she tators' activities. He says the gov Island« In October ■ 1913, was that gene and the body taken to that city. without swaying. is 695 feet. 25 feet longer than the ernment in planning the establish which he delivered I Qi the members Pick up a piece of paper from the. R-34, and her girth is 87 feet six ment of now charity hospitals and of the Manila (Rotary Club on Octo INDUSTRIAL PLANTS (TAME I floor while standing on one foot. , Inches. The airship is equipped with the completion of other sanitary In her 9 In which he gave unqualified THROUGH MIDDLE WEST Say the words "tonsilltis,” artil-i four 350-horsepower Sunbeam Cos stitutions. pledge of government support an-l lery, ‘’British constitution” and sack engines and two 275-horsepow- Washington. Nov. 24. Operators Regarding education, he m . vs the protection for American business In Chicago, Nov. 24. -Industrial “pussyfoot” without a recurrence of er Sunbeam Maori engines. Alto and miners marked time today in government 1» planning the exten terests in the islands. plants over the middle west contin the “•h” sound as tn “slush.”, gether she will develop a horsepower sion i>f the elementary school years, He declared that it was with an negotiating for a new wage scale ued to close today as fuel supplies the Increase of school«, and the es Idea of affording adequate protec while awaiting the decision of Fuel for public utilities were curtailed fur-' ‘The prisoner did these things, but of nearly 2,000. Her speed will be not satisfactorily," explained the 70 miles per hour. tablishment of new higher educa tion to business interests that he Administrator Garfield as to what ther. and regional coal committees' surgeon after recounting his "tests” ft is rumored in English aeronau tional institutions. suggested to a Joint committee of advised individuals to save coal as i before the court trying a man on a tical circles that she will be com portion of any wage advance should The government will encourage the the house and senate In Washington the strike of the coal miners entered cha'rge of drunkeness manded upon her flight to the United study of the Korean language by of that a provision similar to the Platt be passed to the public. They ex upon its 24th day. The only large' ‘M doubt whether .1 could pass that States, after being completed in a ficials, giving special allowances to amendment Tie Included In the Amer- pect the Garfield statement tomor producing center reporting improve-' examination, any time, the case is few months, by Major Scott, who those knowing the language. Ican-Philllppine agreement. row. ment was West Virginia. dismissed,” commented the judge. flew the R-34 to America and back. STATUS HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED SAYS WILL m AUTO BANDIT WALES WAGE SCALE DEAD MAN MYSTERY HOAX PERPETRATED » I____ TESTS FAIL 10 SAM À
