Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, December 23, 1919, Image 1

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    IT’S THE CLIMATE
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WF7RE TELLING THE WORLD
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GRANTS I’AHH, J*)HEPH1NM CfH.’NTT, OREGON,
VOL. X., No. 7W.
TUESDAY, DM EMBER 23, 101*.
WHOLE M MBEK 2MAI
I
Tlifv-r Thousand Miner« Are Thrown
Out of Employ meat In Kan»*« In
Protest to Judge'« Action
Victory Arch on Fifth Avenue. and
Other Marks of War Hays, Are
Being Wrecked
Pittsburg, Kansas, Doc. 23. Rev- THREE CITIES HAVE BI j OODY SOVIET MINISTER OF WAR TO
an teen Kansas coal mines, where ap­
START OFFENSIVE IN SPRING
EXPERIENCES WITH HOLDUP
proximately 3,000 minors are em-
WHO
KII.I»
AND
ROB*
IS REI’OtiT
ployed, are Idle today, The miners
struck In protest against the action
of Federal Judge Anderson at 4n-
dlana|M>)ls. yesterday. In sending
‘Alexander liowat, president of the
9
Kansas dial riet, United Mine Work-
era, to jail
New York, Dec. 23.—The war is
over for New York. Workmen are
now pulling down the great white
"Viotory ATch” at Fifth Avenue and
23rd street, erected that America's’
victorious legions returning from
France might march beneath It In
triumph The ' Welcome to our re­
turning soldiers" signs are being re­
moved from the municipal buildings.
Dc|Mtrtnient Store in Capital City la laitier Are Now Being Recruited at Orders have been given for the re­
Hydraulic Mining Machinery Will Be
the Rate of H.tHMt Ihiily U> Aid in
Robbed and *1500 Taken by
moval from the parks of the many
ln«tallr<l and the Ground Work­
i
i
the Coming Cum i »aigu
Thug
Wtu>
Escapes
I "welfare huts" and other temporary
COMMUNITY < HRIHTMAM
ed Upon an Extensive Stair
TREE PROGRAM AT ASHLAND
edifice« erected by soldier welfare
I organizations.
Geneva, France, Dec. 23.—Prepar-
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 23.—The po­
Ashland, Dee. 23. The Minister­
The big wooden battleship «till
The road that was built down thé
at
ions
tor
a
great
bolshevik
often-
ial
association
Is
planning
a
ooui-
!
lice
today
watched
the
entrances
to
.
"floats"
in the center of Union
Illinois river from Selma to within
about three miles of Oak Flat la to inunlty Oh riet mas tree and song ser­ this city for the bandit who. they sive against Poland next* spring are Square, her Quaker guns dominating
be extended to 'Briggs creek, a mile vice on the «Plaza for Christmas eve. believed, headed this way after leav­ planned by I-eon Trotsky, soviet min­ the reaches of Broadway and Flf-
below Oak Flat, is the announcement The tree will ba decorated and elec­ ing behind him a trail of murder and ister of war, according to a Warsaw 1 teenth street ’but Is being need sole­
of John Dailey, who Is In the city tric lighted and the choirs of the lo­ robbery through Tacoma. Olympia diapat h received by the Ukrainian ly for peace-time recruiting for the
from his place near Anderson, on the cal churches will lead In the song and Puyallup last night. The bandit news bureau here. Chinese troops navy. There is no Indication when
lower river IMr. Italley says thnt service. Short addresses will be given robbed a deimrtment store of »1500 who are being recruited at the rale she will be scrapped as obsolete.
the extending of the rood Is for the by the Revs. Glllanders and Ferris at Olympia, last night, after holding of 8,000 daily are to aid in the cam­
purpose. principally, of
getting and the Scripture reading by the tip six clerks, in the cliuse which paign. it is said.
-equipment to the placer ground on Rev. Kodhler, and C. A Edwards and followed he shot and killed E. H.
llrlggs creek, the property having W E Dean, a pioneer pastor of this j Hchnltz, a citizen. It la believed SOVIET FORCEN SURROUND
ANTI-BOIJiHEVIK TRI KIPS
beep recently taken over from Dailey community. will offer •the prayer. I that later the bandit went to Tacoma
where, with an accomplice, he held
and Casey by a company organized , The service «will begla at 7:30.
j up a drug store. Two men. thought
by Hal J. Slaty, of California. The|
Ixmdon. Dec. 23.—Troops of Gen­
. to be the same ones, later fired on
road down the Illinois was construct-’
eral
Petlnra, anti-bolshevik comman­
i
passengers of a Tacoma-Puyallup au­
ed during the war period to get th««-
der
in
the
Ukraine,
have
been
sur
­
tomobile bus, wounding one passen­
London. Dec. 23.—sLaw officers of
chrome ore out from deposits along
ger. Two hours later two men en­ rounded by soviet forces In the Kiev the crown held a consultation with
the river. Its ttulldlnr cost manv1
gaged in a pistol duel wltfi Puyallup province according to a wireless from French and Belgian law officers to­
thousands of dollars, and the botthin .
Moscow-
officers.
day with regard to the former Ger­
fell out <>f the chrome market'
man emi>eror. It is reported that
w
(Continued on pai» 1.)
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! the conferees made out a cast against
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. the former German ruler, and fram-
Washington, Dec. 23. Copies of
I
' ed an indictment.
it letter written by Admiral Aims to
FRAME INDICTMENT
AGAINST EX-KAISER
Salem. Dec. 23 There are a total
of 9*8,759 w rf» of land under Irri­
gation In Oregon, according to a
atalement just prepared by Percy A.
Cirpper, »fate engineer. Of this Irri­
gated area the water rights to 4 7t>.-
479 acres have already been adjudi­
cated, while the rights to the water
used on the remaining 49?,280 acres
are still In the process of determina­
tion.
The waters of more than 50 rivers
and creeks arc appropriated In the
Irrigation uf this immense area, the
Silvles river alone furnishing water
to 87,546 acres In liarnoy county.
Waters from the Klamath river arc
diverted for the Irrigation of 75.OOO
acres In Klamath county and 70.000
acres In «Baker and Union counties
are irrigated from the waters of
Powder river.
MOTHER TELI» CAUSE OF
DEATH OF VIAI D TABOR
lawton. Mich., Dec. 23. A signed
statement accusing Joseph Virgo of
performing an Illegal operation upon
Maud Talior, has been made by Mrs.
Sarah Tabor. 80-year old mother of
the woman ‘whose body was found
In a trunk In the basement of her
homo here, the assistant prosecutor
announced today.
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D<>1 l.Monte, Cal., Dec. 23. lleorge
B. Carpenter, of 'Medford. Ore., has
a "golf hound” that makes ..him the
ent/ of the players on the Del Monte
links.
The dog's name la Tatnmle and ho
Is a little black Scotch terrier. When
Carpenter prepares to make a stroke
Tainmle Is up on his hauches with
his eye on the ball. The ball may
go into the rough or down the fair­
way 20(1 yards but the dog, Carpen­
ter says, never «falls to locate It and
«tend by until his master comes.
During the year Tatnmle has been
on the course here he has never
barked nor violated the rules of the
Knme, according to his admirers.
Secretary Daniels, declining the dec-
' oration awarded him for services as
'commander-in-chief of the American
| naval forces abroad, has been re-
celvert by a number of naval officers
here.
EDUCATE BOYS 10 BE
RAILROAD PRESIDENTS
HEAD OF MINE WORKERS UNION
IS RELEASED FROM PRISON
UPON AGREEMENT
Will Now Join International < KT ¡ciati
in Getting Miner« Back on
Job .Again
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 23.—Alex­
ander Howat, president of the Kan­
sas district of the United Mine Work­
ers has been released from jail.
Howat agreed to join the interna­
tional officers in sending telegrams
to Kansas in an endeavor to end ths
Kansas coal strikes.
Horwat had been ordered held in
jail npon a charge of contempt of
court, Judge Anderson, of the fed­
eral court, holding Howat in con­
tempt for violation of the Injunction
Issued out of the court ordering the
union officials to recall the strike
order previously given. The Kansas
minors, to the number of 3,000,
walked out yesterday in protest to
the imprisonment of Howat.
Pit TURES AKE STOLEN FROM
THE PALACE OF SANS SOUCI
Berlin, Dec. 23.—«Burglars have
Have you a boy who wants to be
ixindon, Dec. 23.—Aside from one stolen six paintings, valued at 100,-
a railroad president? If so, here’s or two irreconcilable anti-home rule 000 marks, from the picture gallery
London, Dec. 23.—The University
journals, the Ixindon newspapers of the palace of Sans Souci. accord­
his chance.
of Ix>ndon is planning to build an
ing
to
the
Abend,
Sixty railroad scholarshiim a year this morning give on the whole a
institution of phonetics at a cost of
I will be awarded by the Southern Pa­ favorable reception to the govern-
»600,000 where 70 assistants would
ment's new scheme Tor Irish self
be engaged in research work on the
cific according to a plan announced government. None, however, ex-
1,000 languages of the British Em-
by the railroad today. Appointments presses a genuine expectation of the
[ pi re. The scheme, which originated
will lie made by division superinten­ (dan’s success.
, with Daniel Jones, head of the pho­
dents and the heads of the various
netic department of the university
I calls for the expenditure of »2,500,-
deimrtmvnts of the railroad, who are
The llagiie. Iter. 23. Trails con­
000.
charged with the responsibility of JAZZ HAND PROPRIETORS
FEAR DANCING ROOM FAILURE
ferences bet ween bankers, ‘merchants not alone securing appointmentees
Berwick, Eng., Dec. 23.—The cost
of living in Odessa is about 300 !
and salesmen of the entente coun­ but watching their progress careful­
Ixindon.
Dec.
23.
—
Jazz
band
pro
­
times more than before the war, »ays |
tries and central powers have suc­ ly, and placing them ii|>on gradua­
prietors are somewhat gloomy just Mias Russell, sister of the local food
tion.
Business
man
in
the
various
I
ceeded the mysterious gatherings of
non» fearing that the dancing boom controller, who has just returned
spies In the hotels here and at Ams­ towns along the lines of the South­ may not last much longer.
One i from the Russian city. She lived
ern Pacific will be asked to recom­
terdam. The iron, steel, shoes, ships mend young men between the ages proprietor says that the men he , there for two and one-half years.
A pair of boots, she says, cost front
and sealing wax of commerce are the of 18 and 23 who will be sent to the sends out nightly return with very
topics Instead of the routes of sub­ agency school in San Francisco and gloomy reports. The attendance is ^.000 to 3,000 rubles—a year’s sal-
IxMidon, Dec. 23.—The musket
not so good as recently in the su-
marines. troop ships and «food shiim. there prepared for positions in the • burbs, hut in the west end proprie- ^rv - -and a drees was only to be had said to have been given to Alexander
.at a similar ruinous figure. In Odes­
Whatever may die the «ndnion in freight and passenger departments | tors of large dancing hallf say that sa the day before she left the Eng- Selkirk when he was put ashore on
and the general offices. They will
the island of Juan Ferdanez. 400
America, or England, or France, re­
be paid a nominal sum while being ■the cra^a will last for at least five lisn pound was equivalent to 800 miles off the Chilean coast, has been
years.
garding resumption of business with Instructed.
rubles instead of' less than 10 as in
going the rounds of British muse-
pre-war days.
Germany and Austria, the represen­
Superintendent of Telegraph E. 1..
“The Bolsheviki," she explained, urns, It was Selkirk’s adventures
tatives of the business concerns of King, who has general charge of the
i “are communists and th* principle o«f upon which was based DeFoe’s fa-
those (countries show nothing I but a scholarship^, calls attention to the{
I the communists is everything for inou s story, Robinson Crusoe. The
keen desire for such trade at t the fact that most of the railroad presi-j
I themselves and nothing for the rest. musket is inscribed with the name of
! dents of today began in iHysitjonsI
conferences here.
I The others they say have had their "A. Selkirk 1-a.rgo. 1771.” It was
The other dal’, nt one of the such as the students will qualify for.
turn, and they treat them with ruth- purchased by Randoliili Berens, for
Hague hotels the groups ^seated in .1. .1. Miller of San Francisco, will
I less cruelly. Life for the educated »6.25 but the owner has insured it
the lobby, enguged in earnest conver­ I be the instructor.
people is utterly imjiosaible. Those for »10.000.
Selkirk owned a tavern near Cla-
sation on trade subjects, Inchided:
Washington. I>ec. 23. -An expla-, who have money are fast eating in­
OneiEnglish ship owner and direc­
nation of the deportation of the 249 to their capital; those who have not pham, but died in 1723 at sea as a
tor of one of Germany’s biggest tranH i MUSTAPRE KEMAL IIAS
radical Russians on the transport ' are dying of starvation. That also lieutenant aboard a naval vessel.
BEEN UM4AMSINATRD Buford was cabled hv the state de-| is an expensive business, for the cost
Atlantic lines;
Two -Belgian banker and German '
partment today to “various foreign of coffins has reached a prohibitive
automobile manufacturer;
(Rome, Dec. 23. — «Mustaphe Kemal. countries." The message said pre-' figure."
Three - American travelling sales­ leader of the Turkish insurgents in caution had been taken “to request
man and Hungarian genomi fmpor- lAnatolla, and head of Turkish na- for them safe conduct and human’e STORM STO1*S OPERATION
1er.
ttonalists in lAsia Minor, has been treatment at the hands of authori­
Ob' QUICKSILVER MINES
Ml of them so far as the corre- assassinated, according to a Smyrna ties under whose jurisdiction thev
spondent could judge from the frag­ dispatch to the Tempe.
miss en route to soviet .Russia,"
Gold •I'd, Dec. 23.—The recent
nients of their conversation that
storm closed all operations in
Four members of the crew of the
came to his ears, were on «friendly
I <|uicksilver mining in the Gold 1111! steamer South Coast lost their lives
terms and keen for business.
district. Three operators continue«' as the ship was leaving the -wharf
after the war closed until recently, at Crescent City Sunday night,
th« War Eagle Mining company, op­
A lifeboat, containing ttjree men
erating a lottery of two 12-pipe mer­ who were attempting to cast off lines
cury furnaces, and Dr. W. P. Chis­ as the ship was putting out to sea
holm and D. 8. Force, each operating capsized. A second lifeboat started
London, Dec. 23. -A- tendency to­ i
a 12-plpe «furnace. These operators to the rescue but it, too. overturned.
ward large combinations in business
Pasadena. Cal.. Dec. 23.—Secret
New York. Dec. 22. The Ameri­ have «been roasting ores that average Seaman J. W. Johansen and Patil
is becoming evident in England. En­ practice was started by the Univer­ can steamship Firwood. owned by better than 17 per cent mercury, Frank were saved.
terprises In which promoters have sity of Oregon football «team here to­
The ship continued on its way.
the Pacific American fisheries com- taken from the rich- chimneys and
recently been effecting amalgama­ day, In preparation for the ga me
pay chutes which are found In the leaving the men struggling in the
tions are moving picture production with Harvard on January 1st. The I any. burned while ofT the coast of big cinnabar dike extending through water. Two of the six clung to > the
banking, restaurant, linking and con­ plays are kept secret, even from Peru, according to wireless messages this district.
The dike averages small -boats and managed to Ket
fectionery businesses, “chain" cigar many Oregonians.
The program received here today. The crew was about 100 feet in width and a little ashore. Jxical seamen blamed the
and drug stores nnj shoe-making.
calls for two practice periods dally. rescued by a passing learner.
less than 1 per cent mercury.
captain for not cutting the lines.
ALEXANDERSELKIRK’S
OF DEPORTED RADICALS