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9 tante Ines Saite courier VOL. X., No. IM. GRANTH PAMM. JOHEPIIISK <<>! \TV. OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1«, IMO. _________ WHOLE NI MBER 2MM- REJECTION OF ÍIIM STRIKE BANDITS HOLD INTERNMENT NUN LINERS ARE CLOSESCHOOLS OBJECTIONS BÏ 0NLÏ POSTPONED U CITIZEN OF WILHELM IS ANO ALL PUBLIC PRES. WILSON FOR PLACES IN CID Ixtulerw Mate That MalntetiMiicc of M ») Employ«w WHI Walk Out if Npeedy Relief I m Not Given Knie of Former (.ermua Vessels I'ro- ceeding T<xhty Despite Protests and Attempted Injunction Itelroit, Feb. 16. -The proposed l.NOTHEIl AMERICAN IS VICTIM HUKKENDEIt OF THE FORMER ENTENTE DECLINEM TO FOLLOW Washington, Feb. 16.—Despite MAYOB IBM EH PROCLAMATION strike of the railroad maintenance of protests voiced in the senate and PIC ESI DENT'S IDEA IN FIUME OF KIDNAPPERS AT ZACATE- EMPEROR NOT TO BE INSIST A» M HABI KE FOB COM BAT way employes In the United States Is elsewhere, and court proceedings to MATTER HEITLEM ENT GAB, MEXICO ED UPON BY ALLIES TING FMJ EPIDEMIC not cancelled, but merely postponed, stay the action, the shipping board a Unless It was announced today. speedy relief is (given the workers, leaders say, the striko will take place. Coustruction Plno-tl I | m > ii It by Paris Hald to Be Too Muer ping, It Deal« Ing Only With Adriatic Paris, Feb. 16.- Prompt rejection of President Wilson’s objections to u cum prom iso agreement by which England, France and Italy hoped to settle with Jugo-Slavla the question relative to the future status on the Adriatic east coast, 1» re|x>rted In newspa|>en< here. The Wilson note Is said to have Intimated thut the United States would "find It Impos sible to continue to concern itself on European affairs If the allies failed to consult the United States in thia matter.” Washington, Feb 16 ¡The presi dent did not say In his note to the en tente that the United Statua would no longer be able to concern Itself with European affairs if the Fiume settlement was made without con- suiting 'America, it was learned to day. The Interpretation by Paris newspapers is said to be “too sweep ing.’’ Officials said the United Blates would not withdraw from par ticipation in the peace treaty and the league of nations, but would withdraw from any participation in the Flume settlement, including po licing of the Adriatic. Santa iFe. N. IM., Feb. 16.- The New Mexico state legislature met In special session at noon today, in re- •ponse to a call isaued by Governor O. A. lairrazolo. The principal mat ter to come before the assembly is the ratification of the suffrage amendment to the federal constitu tion. In addition to the suffrage amend ment, the legislature was asked by the governor to pass a law io deal with radicate and provide the neces sary funds to enforce the law; to amend the present state Income tax measure and to make valid the pres-, ent soldier settlement act, which the courts have declared naconstitu-J tlonul Unless there has been a radical j change In sentiment during the last . year, which is hardly likely, leading sup|iorters of woman suffrage are of I the opinion that the ai'ieudment will' be ratified without difficulty. received bids today tor 30 former German liners. Spirited bidding de veloped fer certain vessels and groups. The district supreme court took under advisement William Ran dolph Hearts’ application for an in Mexican Trcxqs. .start Out on Hunt for ' Would Hold Him Under Guard at junction to stop the sale, and will Condition I» Not Alarming, ljut Au the Onptive and the Kenegiol** Doorn and Prevent His Further thorities Decided It Best to Stop give a decision Friday. The senate Wlio Are Holding Him Endangering World Peace Pu title Gatherings requested the shipping board to defer the sale until some definite action was taken by the senate on the sub Washington, Feb. 16. Wilson The Hague, Feb. 16.—The latest ject. !’R4MT j A MATION * Welsh Adams, an American citizen, allied note to 'Holland reverses the ♦ has lieen captured by bandits In Za ♦ At the request of the city and original demands for the surrender catecas, Mexico, and is being held ♦ county health officer^, on ac ♦ of the former emperor, and asks on for 50,000 pesos ransom, the state ♦ count of the epidemic of Span ♦ department was advised. Adams' ly his internment, with the sugges ♦ ish influenza, all public meet wife and child live in I ami Angeles. tion that he be sent perhaps to one ♦ ings and gatherings, both inside ♦ The American embassy at Mexico of the Dutch Islands In the East In- ♦ and out of doors, are hereby ♦ City has been instructed to bring the dies, The Associated Press under- ♦ prohibited after the publication ♦ kidnapping to the attention of Mexi ♦ of this notice in the Grants Pass ♦ can authorities with the request that stands that Holland will offer to in- Montesano, Feb. 16.—Endeavoring Daily Courier, Monday Febru every step tie taken to obtain Adams' tern him at Doorn, and establish a to prove there was much shooting + ary 16, 1920, until further no ♦ release. It is reported that three guard and strict censorship, accept from • Seminary hill during the Ar- ♦ tice. ♦ columns of Mexican troops have been ing full responsibility of preventing mistice day parade at Centralia, the ♦ No schools in the city are to ♦ sent out from Zacatecas trying to lo- him from endangering the peace of state has placed witnesses on the ♦ convene until further notice. ♦ cate Adams and his captors the world. I stand who testified to hearing nu- ♦ Parents are hereby warned to ♦ merous shots from that direction, ♦ keep their children at home and ♦ They said they saw three men run ♦ not allow them upon the streets. ♦ ning with guns from the hill after C. H. DEMARAY. ♦ the shooting. I > Mayor. ♦ STOP SPREAD OF THE DISEASE Buy« Acreage Tract— W. If. Newstrom has today closed Because of the continued spread of a deal for the purchase of the To- the influenza, the city authorities ' meek place, of 17 acres, in the south concluded that the best and the Ixtndon, Feb. 16.—Il Is understood Mexico City, Feb. 16.—The man east portion of the city. Heath & quickest method of dealing with the here that the supreme council has who hunted all over China to no i Herman were the agents who hand- situation was to close all places of decided to permit the sultan to re avail for a dish of chop suey and I led the transaction. public gathering. The order went later remarked that the reason he out Sunday, and under the order the main at Constantinople as the Turk liked the Hawaiian Islands was be- I schools, theaters, and all public ish sovereign, but that the Darda cause there were no ukelelbs there. ! gatherings are under the ban till ! nelles is to be placed under interna would add to his store of knowledge further notice. The schools closed by coming to Mexico because he tional control. Parle, I’M». 16. 'President Wil this morning, it being thought that might scour the republic and would son's note on the Adriatic question j by this action the spread of the never find native-made such “chill is not considered an ultimatum. The disease can be gotten under control Seattle, Wash., Feb. 16.- Three con came” as Americans believe Is official view 1« that the note U sim candidates, Mayor C. B. Fltxgeraid, within a week, and the closing order a Mexican dietary staple. The soupy ply a renewal of direct negotiations Hugh M. Caldwell, former army ma rescinded in another week. The au mixture of ground meat and beans The Idncoln-Washington birthday thorities will insist on the strictest by*the United State«. Premiers Lloyd jor, and James Duncan. labor leader, colored with chill pepper is unknown i entertainment given by General Lo- quarantine during the period, and George and (Miller will reply to the who is described by his opponents as ! gan W. ,R. C. was a social and fra children who are out of school will here. note reaffirming their stand that radl< al, will go before Seattle voters “Ohlni con carne” (chili with ternal success. Jiigo-Rlavla must agree to the allied at a municipal primary election to 1 not be permitted to congregate for At the close of the regular bus i play. In this manner It is believed | meat) is a common dish but It con demands, it is reported here. morrow as aspirants for the post of sists merely of pieces of meat flavor iness meeting a patriotic program, mayor. Washington. Feb. 16.- The presi ed with chili. Beans are not an in arranged by 'Mrs. Mary Browne, was . that all persons who may have been exposed 1n the past will have de- Hitter verbal battles marked the dent will inform the senate empha gredient. listened to toy an appreciative au . veloped the disease at home, and primary campaign and probably will dience for nearly two hours, as fol- that it can be under control. During feature the final fight in which the tically <hat there is no basis for the Proving Up on Homestead— j lows: the past week a number of cases de two who run highest on February 17 report of a secret agreement lietween Harley T. Kevte is in town today Song. America—Everybody, veloped In the school room, thus ex- i will make the deciding race on the shipping 'board and British in making final proof on his homestead Piano solo—Mias Bessie Noble, ' posing many of the children. | March 2. terests, for the sale of 30 former on Taylor creek, near Galice. His Vocal solo—Mrs. Stott. The present incumbent, Mayor German passenger liners, as an- witnesses are Sid Brown and Frank Recitation Master Thomas Stott. I Fitzgerald, sometimes called “Seat- ' | nounced. i Carpenter. Reading—Miss Bertha Calhoun. tie's boy mayor" becanse i of his 3 7 Shuirghal, Feb. 16. W hat is prob Duet—"Comrades” Messrs .(Metcalf < coun- ably China's first labor union has years, was ele ted by the city and ILathrop. 41 when (Mayor Hanson resigned. Just been launched by a group of la Reading—Comrade Metcalf. Fitzgerald has served In the city borers returned from the war sone Reading—"Early Boyhood Days ! I In France. The new organisation Is council for several years. Fltxgerald of U. S. Presidents”—Mrs. Stine-J ran on what he described as a bus- uti outgrowth of two unions of 145,- ba ugh. 000 members, that were formed liiess platform. He urged I charter Recitation apd reading original unu-ndments to put the city business I overseas by Chinese workers, accord Honolulu, Feb. 16.—The Hawaiian poems—(Mrs Abbie Tolin and Mrs. on a real business baa ’ s ing to Shafi Chl-fung, who heads the Sugar Planters’ Association has Lou Hood. The third candidate. Hugh M. new body In Shanghai sh president. abandoned the “watchful waiting’’ Short patriotic addresses were New York. Feb. 16. America, sources and all of these countries The Shanghai organisation, he said, Caldwell, was municipal attorney in the sugar plantation strike which given 'by—Kiel 'Allen, American Le hero beforo lie resigned to enter the with only four months' supply of oil I have adopted policies tending to Is to bo the first of a number of sim began January 19th. and took the army. lie served as major In the In storage (aces the prospect of hav 1 shut out those of other nationalities. gion; Henry G. Hanson, Presbyter initiative by sending 200 strike- ilar units. Joseph Knotts, Methodist; Chas.. . .... Judge advocate’s department at ing to seek oil from foreign sources ■ Director Smith declared that Ameri- ian; ,, T. . v. . , I breakers to the stand plantations. Washlmrton, D. C. Caldwell is a which are now showing “a tendency . can concerns should enter foreign R. Drake. Church of Christ: Ensign' member of the American legion. He j to exclude the United States from [ fields not only with American meth- Strautin. Salvation Army. The "Star Spangled Banner” was has promised to push construction of| purchasing from their fields’’ ac l ods, machinery and brains but also several big projects planned by the cording to Van H. Manning, United with money and financial aid in | sung by ail in closing. city. At the completion of the program! States Director of Mines, In a i>aper operating and control. A “wide Duncan, in his talks, has declared read here today before the 121st an open oil policy for all the world” was all marched to the dining room I that he favors the organization of nual meeting of the American lnsti-i advocated by (Director Manning who where plates were laid for fully 100, unions by iiollcemen nnd firemen, He tute of Mining and Metallurgical En-1 urged the active production of such after the invocation 'by Ensign Strau also advocated the consolidation of glneers. tin. all were seated around the long a policy by citiens and legislators. Ixindon. Fdl>. 16. 'Prediction that it.v and county governments. George Otis Smith, director of the Director Smith in his address on I white table, laden with all the deli- According to the Beattie laws, no United States geological survey, at “A Foreign Oil Supply for the Unit | castes and substantiate of the culin a rapidly increasing number of un London. Feb. 16.—Since the in der ground railways would have to be candidate ran be elected at the pri the same meeting, confirmed the ed States," urged a nation-wide thrift ary art, the masterpiece being a auguration of the national scheme built in Ixindon to take care of the mary. ¡Besides choosing the candi statement of the director of mines, campaign in the conservation of fuel large cake made by Mrs. 'Mary Wal- for the employment of disabled men growing traffic was made H>y J.ord dates for city councilinon and for and declared that the position of the oil, gasoline and lubricating oil all llaee decorated with small oval pic last September 9,500 firms have giv Ashfield of iSouthwell t(iJir Albert corporation counsel. United States In regard to its oil sup along the line of production and con tures of Washington and Lincoln, en necessary undertaking to employ Stanley), the Anglo-American rail- ply at the present time is “precar sumption by better methods in locat each framed In a wreath of white and agreed percentage of disabled way magnate, in an address before Will Meet nt I’rovolt— ious.” Mr. Smith estimated the sup ing, drilling, recovery, transporta J frosting, while on each side were men on their staffs. The quota is the lAmerican 'Luncheon Club, It Is understood thnt a meeting is ply still undeveloped, however, at tion, refining and use. He pointed two perfectly colored U. S. flangs. generally '5 per cent, and employ- “London today I h not only the to be held nt Provolt tomorrow af enough for about 20 years. There out that tV® new demand of the ship At the close of the supper Attorney ment has been guaranteed for 97,- greatest aggregation of people,” he ternoon, at 2 o’clock, when the ques are enormous quantities of oil in the ping program alone would call for J. N. Johnston gave a short address 000. There are still 40,000 disabled said, “but It fs also the greatest tion of the highway to the caves, via shale beds in Colorado, Wyoming oil in quantities equivalent to nearly in honor of the oe. aslon. which was men waiting for work and the hos- travelling city of Win world. People the William« < reek route, will be and Utah, ft was explained, but Di one-half the present domestic output. appreciated and applauded by all pitals have many more to discharge. who live ¡In London have really lost ■onsldered. Th« residents of that rector ¡Manning was doubtful wheth Other papers presented at the ses present. Men who have lost a leg are work all (I oh I re to walk any considerable district are anxious thnt the road er economic production of this oil sions included discussions of oil Gen. Logan AV. R. C. with the G. ing as olerks, cabinet-makers, toy distance. Within the next 10 years should go from the Williams ride, Is at present possible. f production In Persia, the Philippines A. R. feel signally honored by the makers, weavers, etc., and men with I Judge that London’s traveling pop >r thnt the entire loo > should ho eon- Latin-America, Great Britain, and Argentine, as well as in Ohio, presence as guests of many leading only one arm are acting a* messen ulation will have In reased to at striated, and w'll consider ways an-' Fran e and the Netherlands, it was Indiana. Kentucky. Tennessee. Penn and influential men, and their wives, gers. watchmen, postmen, inspectors least 6,000.000,000.’’ means at the meeting tomorrow. said, control the main potential sylvania and New York. j of Grants Pass. and teachers. I SALE SAYS PRES. WILSON LONDON FIRMS GIVE JOBS TO DISABLED MEN «
