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Dai I d Courier
VOL. X., No. Nil.
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GRANTS I’AHS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON,
MONDAY, DECEMBER li®, 191».
I f ailure of Senate to
of I ne«|>li<ined ('bodied
Residence of Ji'cncli
GLYNN FAVORED RUNNING MATE
Manager Start* Out to Revive the
Bryan lw«*ue>< That Have Done
Duty on Many Occasions
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lug near the vice regal lodge, was
"accidentally killed by a bullet from
his own iMtirol party,” was the ver­
dict found by the Jury in the Inquest
today.
Dublin, Ireland. De«'. 29. Details
of Sunday's shooting affray near the
Vice Regal 'Ix>dge. Phoenix Park,
were given today at the inquest over
the body of lieutenant Boast, offi­
cer of the guard, who was killed at
the same time a civilian was found
in the park shot The firing led to
the belief In some quarters last night
that an attack was being made
against the J«edge. residence of Vis­
count French, lord lieutenant of Ire­
land, whose life was attempts last
week. 'testimony indicated that Ueu-
tenant Boast was killed by shots I
fired by six civilians.
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BANDIT CHIEF TO BE AT HEAD
Ap-
STRIKE PLAN
Washington, Dec. 29.—Norman PRESIDENT'S ¡«DUSTRIAL» COM­
ilapgood is no longer American min­
MISSION MAKES ITS TENTA­
ister to Denmark, It was said today
TIVE REPORT
at the state department.
Officials
explained that the senate failed to
confirm Hapgood’s nomination be­
fore the end of the special session,
and that since then he was not given
a recess appointment, hence his com­
mission automatically expired.
IMt-iwion Sai.i to Have Been Reach<*«l Control of the Mexican Oil
Helds
Federal Workers "Mast Not Quit,’
by the Hriti»l. and French Rep­
M ill Be First Move, and De Facto
and Strikes by Public I tility Em-
CO-EDS EXPRES» THOt («HT ON
resentatives at Pari»
Government M ill Rise
irfoyes Held "Intolerable"
< HEEK-TO-< HEEK DANCING
El Paso, Texas, De«. 29.—Mexi­
can revolutionists are working on a
plan for the unity of military com­
mands and aims with the first step
of setting up of a defacto govern­
ment. according to well defined re­
ports reaching here today. Friends
of Villa said he had been agreed up­
on as leader by the revolutionists on
the east coast of Mexico and by the
southern rebels. It was said the first
military movement would be to ob­
Christiania, Dec. 29.—A conven­ tain control of Mexican oil districts.
tion of the international council of
women, of which 1-ady Aberdeen Is FEW ACCIDENTS OOTIR
preeident, will be held in Christiania
IN ENGLISH AIK TRIlb-l
next September.
Three hundred
delegates, representing 20 nations,
Ijondon, Dec. 29.—The report of
are expected to attend. A eominlt- Major-General F. N. Sykes, control­
tee composed of presiding officers of ler of aviation shows that out of 52,-
various women's organizations will 000 passengers carried in 21,000 air­
meet in Geneva in March to arrange plane triim approximately 303,000
New York. Dec. 29. -Ono of the the program for the convention.
miles, only two deaths have been re­
biggest round-ups of bootleggers and
corded through accidents.
manufacturers of illicit liquor ever
made In this country is impending as
• result of the wave of death and
blindness which hns followed the
sale of poisoned liquor, the super­
vising revenue agent of the New
York district announced today.
STATE TEACHERS MEET
4
< onfirm
St. .Louis, Mo, Dec. 29.—When
young women freshmen of Washing­
Washington, Dec. 29.—Tentative
ton University, numbering 150, were recommendations tor the estabiish-
questioned recently whether they fa­ ment of machinery to prevent or re­
vored cheek-to-cheek dancing they tard labor conflicts in private i nd iis-
overwhelmingly decided it was unaen- try were announced today by the
Itary and should be barred.
One president's Industrial
conference
hundred end forty-five of them de­ with a view to obtaining construe-
cided that ft gave the deadly germ active criticism before a final plan is
chance to do its worst, but there adopted.
were five who voted along the lines
New York. Dec. 29. Harry W.
The plan as outlined now contem­
that they Hdn’t care whether the plates the creation of a national in­
Walker, who managed the campaigns
germ work or struck, it was "all dustrial tribunal and regional board«
of William Jennings llryan for pres­
the same to them.”
ident, left today for a tour of New
of injuiry and adjustment, which
York and New England states for the
: would move to the settlement of dis­
announced purpose of interviewing
putes before there was any stoppage
old members of Bryun leagues re­
of production.
Decisions would
garding reviving those organl»«tlons.
have the full force and effect of a
Martin II. Glynn seems to be favored
. trade agreement between the partiee
as Bryan’s running mate, according
1 to the dispute.
to walker
The conference has not yet reach­
»
ed a decision with regard to em­
ployes of public utilities, but it
Oakland, Cal., Dec. 29.—Mrs. An­
known to have been debating ser-
na Hempier, 60 years olu, was found tously whether such workers hav*
destitute and weary from a four
the right to strike, inasmuch as they
months struggle to reach here from
are engaged in public service.
Co yallis. Ore., in the shelter of a
Remarking that »«mu pnLHc utili-
dEorway here recently.
[
ties,
such as railroads, are essential
Failing of funds to make her ac-j
customed yearly trip to the grave of to the very existence of the people,
Roseburg. Ore.. De: . $9. —The
her son here. Mrs. Hempier said she the conference’s tentative statement
Douglas county Jail was depopulated
walked a large part of the distance. expressed the opinion that the "in­
last Saturday night about 11 o’clock
Charitable
organizations are seeking terruption in such essential publie
Chicopee. Mass., Dec. 29.—Search
Copenhagen, Dec. 29.—The Soviet aid for her.
utilities is intolerable."
I IN.
when the four intitules escaped gjter
IS DEAD continued for persons connected ! government at Moscow has sent a
Government employes, the third
•awing their way out of the main
with the traffic in poisonous liquor | formal peace offer to the Polish gov-
i class into which the wage earning
cage and then dropping front a sec­
¡public are divided, should havfe the
9. -Sir whfch resulted in the last few days | eminent 'bv wireless. The message
Oxford, England, Dec.
ond-glory window to the ground. Ait
who in at least 59 deaths and many cases | denies that the bolsheviki is prepar-
William
Osler,
noted
physician
| right to associate for mutual protec-
of the escaped prisoners but one were
has been Hi for several weeks, died of serious illness here and at nearby I ing a new offensive against Poland
i tion, the statement declared, but "no
captured during the day.
places. Fourteen arrests have been rwith the aid of Chinese forces.
I interference by any group with the
According to a story told by one tonight.
made and others are expected.
continuous operation of government
of the men. who Is being held for a
FRENCH RIVERS SWOLLEN
i functions through concerted cessa­
minor offense, a small hack saw that
New York. De.. 29. Three men
RY CONTINUED RAINS
tion of work or threats thereof can
he alleged was left in possession of
faced charges before the Pnited
be ivermitted.”
the prisoners by Mike Zelock. now
Stat commissioner today in connec­
Paris, Dec. 29.—Rivers through-
Salem, Ore., Dec. 29.—Because of
serving u life sentence at Salem for
When the conference reconvenes
tion with spreading wood alcohol as out France, swollen by continued dissatisfaction expressed by consum­
and
who
was
the Scottsburg robbery,
January
12, public hearings will be
whiskey through five states in the rains, threaten disaster to many sec- ers with regard to rates charged by
brought here us a witness against
held
to
obtain
expert advice as to
last ten days, death and blindness tions. Navigation on the Seine is the Douglas County Water & IJght
others of the gang, was the Inst ru­
the
drafting
of
the final recommen­
following in its wake. Investigation already difficult, and if inuindation company a movement is on foot at
i
went used to ent the Btecl bars of
dations
in
the
light of such criti­
is also being undertaken in numer­ continues traffic will be forced to Roseburg to vote bonds in the 9um
the cage In which all of the men were
cism of the tentative report as may
Portland, Ore.. .Dec. 29.— When A. ous other eastern cities.
stop.
of approximately $600,000
with lie received.
confined. Before abandoning the Jail
'Hamilton, president of the Oregon
which to install a municipal plant,
lite men broke into the room whore
“Our modern industrial organiza­
according to Claude Cannon, ice
was Stcte School Teachers' Association. |
a lot of confiscated whisk
tion.” the tentative report said, ‘if
culled
the
annual
convention
of
that
I
manufacturer of that city who passed
stored as evidence and help d them*
it is not to become a failure, must
organization to order in the Lincoln
yesterday in Salem conferring with
selves to the liquor They ulso left
yield to the individual a larger sat­
High
s
bool
auditorium
here
today.
members of the Oregon public service
a note to Deputy Sheriff Raffety
isfaction with life. Not only must
| It was estimated that the attend-
commission.
wishing him a ‘ Happy New Year.”
¡unce was the largest in the history
One of the tentative plans under the theory that labor is a commod­
Hastening to the railroad yards.
ity be abandoned, but the concept of
of the organization.
consideration was to pii>e the water
Sheriff Quine toured the place and
leadership must be substituted for
Besides the general sessions of the
from
Rock
creek
to
Winchester,
saw a man approaching whom he
that
of mastership. Human fellow­
convention, which will adjourn 'Wed­
where it would be stored in a large
took to be a trainman, but the “good
nesday evening. December 31. all
Bisbee, Ariz., Dec. 29. —.Mining road train dispatcher and telephone reservoir constructed at a high ele­ ship in industry must either be an
evening” spoken by the fellow proved
departments, such as city superin­ engineers have solved the historic equipment was installed.
vation and later pumped to Rose­ empty phrase or a living fact.
hint to lw Murphy, and the sheriff
tendents, secondary schools, foreign prophot's problem and have literally
"Fending the growth of better re­
quickly nabbed his man. who con-
The work was liegun in the midst burg. Another proposal called for lationships between employers and
languages,
elementary
schools
and
"moved
the
mountain
to
Mohoet.
”
piping
the
water
direct
to
Roseburg.
fidently assured the offl.er that he
vocational education, have prepared Ten million feet of Sacramento Hill, of the war while machinery was
It was Mr. Cannon's opinion that employes, the practical approach to
was Just on his way back to the Jail
hard to obtain and labor difficulties
special programs for discussion.
adjoining
Bisbee,
is
being
shoveled
the
voters of Roseburg would reject the problem is to devise a method of
to report the escape of the gang.
One of the important topics to he by steam and carted away by rail­ were increased by I. W. W. agitators. any proposal that might be submit­ preventing or retarding conflicts by
Hightower, wanted in California,
discussed at the general sessions was road so that the Phelps Dodge cor­ Yet in spite of these handicaps, the ted with regard to purchasing the providing machinery for the adjust­
where he was serving a term at San
proposed reorganization of the pub­ poration can reach 7,000,000 tons of workmen have leveled the top of present plant there and would insist ment of differences. To be success­
Quentin for burglary, was appre-
lic
school system under the county copper ore which is part of the rami­ the hill and removed a large slice upon the installation of a new sys­ ful such tribunals must be so organ­
bended at Eugene early Sunday. He I
from one side of the mountain.
tem. Although no definite report ized as to operate promptly as well
had in his possession 12 quarts of the unit plan. iAn outline of the plan, fications of the Copper Queen mine.
The steaui shovels have not yet had yet been filed by the engineers, as impartially. The plain fact is that
as submitted by Elmer <F. Goodwin,
It
is
a
gigantic
project.
All
the
confiscated whiskey, which he took
principal of the Gresham union high genius of the engineering department reached the rich copper veins of the Mr. Cannon was of the opinion that the public has long been uneasy
from the Roseburg Jail, Hfter break­
school, of Multnomah county, takes of the organization was required to Copper Queen, but they have come $600.000 would not only install the about the power of great employers:
ing the lock of the room where the
up and provides for virtually all the put Into effect the leveling of the into ore containing one half to one water and light plant, but would pro­ it is becoming uneasy about the pow­
liquor was stored How he got to
reforms said to be deaired.
mountain, the work of which began per cent copper. Some day, perhaps, vide considerable electric energy for er of great labor organizations ’’’he
Eugene he did not divulge.
Through It the county would bo in 1917. Care had to be used in a means may be discovered to ex- use in operating the industries of community must be assured against
made the unit of taxation and a<l- blasting to prevent <fa mage to pro- tract this copiter at a profit, Exper- Roseburg and other Douglas county domination by either.
ministration of schools, excepting .party and life in 'Bisbee and Warren iments have beets made in hoap towns.
"The plan which follows does not
those in a district of the Jirst class front boulders hurled down the leaching of low grade ore. which
propose to do away with the ulti­
promises a few cents a ton profit by
employing its own sii|«erlntendents. moun.tin side into the town.
mate right to strike, to discharge, or
HOM' PARIS OPIUM DENS
separating
it into piles for lea hing
A county tax would be levied on all
Where to put the earth covering
to maintain the closed or the open
ADVERTISE
THEIR
M
ARES
taxable property within the county of this mining treasure was another by water aloue.
shop.”
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 2,a. Red and divided between districts of the problem. Warren and Bisbee oc­
In the meantime the steam shovels
The national industrial tribunal,
Parls, Dec. 29 The police have
Shield Inn 1« the name of the new first class and the remainder of the cupy the gulch at the foot of Sacra­ are keeping steadily at work in the
suggested by the conference, would
discovered
a
novel
manner
of
adver
­
$107,000 hotel of the Salvation Army county on a basis of school popula­ mento Hill. It was necessary to hope (hat soon these giant instru­
consist of nine members appointed
at Green«» Park. Camp Lewis, near tion. These sums, according to the build railroad tracks into several ments may be rivalling the Copper tising an opium den. It was the shop by the president, three each repre­
dealer
in
antiques.
When
the
police
here. The three story frame struc­ submitted plans, would be so expend­ spur gulches and because of the nar­ Queen underground miners in the
raided it one of the occupants told senting the employers, employes and
ture, the finest of its kind In the ed 'as to Insure wherever possible row width these had to be single production of copper.
the inspector he was able to identify the public. The tribunal would, in
eonntry, Is artistically nnd comfort­ equal educational opportunities In tracked. To prevent a.cldent. and
This
is
said
to
be
the
first
exper
­
it
as an opium den because all the general, be a board of appeal, whose
ably furnished and Is a gathering all parts of the county, regardless of facilitate continual
movement of iment of its kind in mining and'its •letters "O” in the sign advertising decisions must be unanimous, but
place for both officers and men and the sum raised in any particular sec­ earth from the steam shovels work-
success may mean a revolution in antiques were painted in flaming red provision was made for public ma-
I heir families.
tion.
ing at the hill top, a competent rail- the industry.
while the other letters were gilded
(Continued oe
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Omaha, Neb , Dec. 29 William
Jennings Bryan will speak here Jan­
uary 12th on the "attitude o( the
democratic party for 1920.” Friends
say he plana a tour of several weeks
in whloh he will discuss the league
of nations, the peace treaty nnd oth-
er possible campaign issues
A.
WHOLE NUMBER 2*W»,
pointaient, and No Bec*ss Ac.
(ion, Remove* Him
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Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 2# -Meuten- HOLLAND MILL ItE ASKED TO REVOLUTIONISTS PLAN FOB UN
WILL BEGIN SPEAKING TOUR ON
ant Hout, officer of the guard who Ml RICH N DEH FORMER EMI’ER-
JANUARY IIITH, ON CAM­
ITT OF MILITARY COMMANDS
met death In Sunday night’s shoot-
PAIGN IMBUES
Ofl M ILU ELM
IN NEW DEAL
* ' >
Paris, Dec. 29.—Extradition of the
former Emperor Wiliam will be de-
mantled from Holland as soon as the
peace treaty becomes effective, ac-
ordlng to the decision of the British
and French governments, says the
Echo de 'Paris today.