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VOL X., No. -JWI.
Dniln Courier
GRANTS PASH. JOSEPH INK COUNTY, OREGON. TVEAOAY, SEPTEMBEB 7. IMO.
ft
JAMES T. NEWTON
CHARLES 80ESCHENSTEIN
ASKED 10 CALL
Bi THE LEAGUE
POLMH-LITHIANIAN IMffl’l TE IS HOTEL HOI.STON IN KI.AMATH
TAKEN VP BY LEAGUE OF
I tl.lX BURNS U2D INNI .
NATIONS
I’ANTH IXM4E
UOVI» llll'll 4X OF INHtTI.ANIi
ANSAIIX FIVE PEU CENT
MEANIBE
MOORE TELLS SENATORS THAT
H'ITSHWIS SOI
BEST OSES
OBTAINABLE
Heath IJ»t Will Be Increased to 1H
Is Belief—Fire Occurred Yester
day Morning
who
after
A warning that a financial quar years of faithful eervice, tendered
antine will be plaoed upon Oregon President Wilson hie resignation
•nd great Injury done to the busl- oommlaolonor of patents.
agricultural Intereets
nest
and
through the enactment of the pro
po«ed 5 i»er cent Interest rate law
if a vigorous campaign of education
Is not carried on against this meas
ure was given the business men ot
Josephine county this afternoon by
Lloyd Riches, secretary of the Ore
gon Atate Editorial association, and I liampion Winn BAX.IMMI by Hi*
knockout of Hilly Miste in Third .
a well known newspaper man of the
Round Yesterday
slate, Mr Riches Is making a
speaking tour ot the state against
this measure and appeared before a
Benton Harbor. Mich., Sept 7.—
gathering at the Granta Paas Cham Jack Dempsey received 155,000 for
ber of Commerce at 4 o'clock this battering Billy Mlske to defeat tn
afternoon
Ham H. Baker, caahler the third round of their bout here
yesterday, according to a statement
of the Josephine County Bank, act of receipts made public by his pro
ed as chairman.
moter. The total attendance was
“The proposed 5 per cent Interest 11.200. The receipts were 2124,000.
rate law la one of the most vicious Miake received 125,000.
measures ever aimed at the business
■ nd economic stability of any state
1n the Union.” said Mr. Riches. "It I
Is a constitutional amendment which
would change the present Interest '
rate laws, reducing the legal rate I
from 6 per cent to 4 per cent and
the maximum contract rate from in
per cent to 5 per cent and specifical
ly providing that the contract rate of
laindon. Sept. 7.-—-Terence Maa-
5 per cent shall be Inclusive of any Sweney, Ix>rd Mayor of Cork, who
•nd all brokerage and commissions has been on a hunger strike since
Mr Riches also rallied attention August 12 in Brixton prison, ts re-
to the menace of the non-partisan ported
appreciably weaker thls
league in Oregon
He said he had morning.
Investigated the league's activities In
the state and placed a conservative
A. J. Price is visiting here with
estimate of the present membership his brother, W J Maalker
Mr.
in the state at 10,000 and told spe Price’s home Is 1n The Dalles, He
cific facts of Investigation to bear is very complimentary on the South
out his estimate.
ern Oregon climate.
Ix>ndon, Sept. 7. The league of
nations is considering the Polish
government'« appeal In the Pollsh-
Mthunian dispute. Unlaae an im
provement occurs In the situation
l*o la nd will be compelled to declare
war on^Jthuania. the appeal states
The communication declared an un
provoked attack had been made on
Polish troops by Lithuanian forces
BRAZIL WILL TRY TO
r
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 7—-Both fed
eral and municipal governments are
about to take action to relieve the
shortage of houses here.
In the chamber of deputies a bill
I m been introduced providing tor a
spe* a! bend Issue of 2 0,000.000
f r 'I'« construction ot fc u*«s for
aurk'ng families. In the, municipal
court'll a measure was presented
providing that all wor'-srs’ houses
built In the next two year* be free
from the usual municipa' taxes
The fedfa. bill proposes the con-
»trictlon, under the municipal ad-
. «In't trat o
vf 20.0 >• houses In
various districts of the capital wher
ever nationally or municipally own
ed ground Is available. It is intend
ed that the houses shall be sold to
heads of working families, payment
being spread over a period of 20
years. In addition, the bill provides
for the construction of two huge
apartment houses, for families and
for bachelors, respectively, with com
mon kitchens and other communal
Installations, the rent being placed
at a very low figure.
J. Roger Brunswick and Miss A.
Brunswick, of San Francisco, stop
ped at the Josephine last night while
making a trip north by auto.
Kerrassounde, Anatolia. Turkey,
Sept. " Osman Agha. the newly
designated
governor of Kerras-
•ounde. Is probably the most feared
man on the north coast of Anatolia,
When the nationalists selected Os-
man Agha to improes Greeks, Ar-
menlans. Jews and Turks alike into
Mustapha Kemal's army, they .took
into their camp a man who would
have 'been a terrible menace In op
position ranks and who is merciless
in executing the orders of the An
gora government.
Osman Agha has been for years
the self-constituted boss of Kerrns-
eounde. In office or out of office
he is master of the local situation
Until recently he was onjy mayor of
the little city. .But no provincial
governor could give the old bandit
chief orders. In fact he always man
aged to unseat all provincial offi
cials. He transcended vails, metro
politans and
bishops.
Turk*.
Greeks, Armenians «nd ^lews fear
him alike, but had to oibey his or
ders. He took over property 'which
ho wanted without legal right and
threw anyone Into prison who ques
tloned hie authority.
Osman )Agha wan even a self-con-
stltuted regulator of women’s fash
ions. He hated the high-heeled
■hoes and short skirts which Moslem
women boplod from their French
sisters. Consequently he Issued an
edict that no Mohammedan woman
should wear a heel more than one
Inch high and that their dras««*
should come to the ankle. Then he
Immediately sent word to all
shoemakers and dressmakers
they would be Jailed if they executed
orders In violation of his edict.
He dried up Kerraasounde
methods as direct as those of the
late Carrie Nation, Without warn-
ing he went to all the liquor shops
and poured all the spirits Into the
street. It was being sold in viola-
tlon of Mohammedan teachings. Be
ing a Turk of the old school and a
total abstainer himself, he offered
no explanation whatever to the wine
merchants, who dared not question
his authority.
Immoral women became too con-
Conse-
splcuous in Kerrassounde.
quently he ordered that the heads
of all such women he shaved. Many
of the women left the town, Those
which remained disappeared from
time to time and many of their
bodies were washed up by the sea.
Osman Agha embodies all the tyr
annies which Turkish officials exer
cised over the Christians tn iPontus.
the Black BBK coast of Anatolia,
where Greeks have predominated in
the chief cities for many centuries.
The Greeks of iPontus are buoyed
up by the hope that they may soon
be protected against Turkish oppres
sion, but they dare not show their
Joy at tha, prospect of deliverance.
Until many of the Turkish officials
responsible. Jw massacres and de
portations shall have been punished
there will be no peace and security
foe the Christians in Pontus
Klamath Falls, sept 7—The char
Charles Boeachenstein of Ed
red bodies ot 10 persons have been villa, III., reprecsnt* hla state <
recovered from the ruins of the Democratic national committee.
Houston hotel which burned early
yesterday morning. Two other un
recognizable bodies were found in
the ruins ot the Heiderick apart
ments. bringing the known death
list to 12. It is estimated that at
Chicago, Sept. 7.—The senatorial
committee investigating the cam
paign expenditures. Is not seeking
the best evidence to prove Gover
nor Cox’s charges against the re
publican party. Edmund H. Moore, of
Youngstown, the governor*« personal
I representatives, told the eommittea
I today.
Moore told Senator Kenyon there
(Coatlnued on pace 2.)
were men better able to tell of the
republican plans than either he or
Mr. Cox and asked why Colonel Wil
Xrwailant Sli<e>t* Self After School liam Boyce Thompson, of New York,
chairman of the republican ways and
Girl at San Bruno Is Killed—
means committee, and the “sixty
Girl Was Only 11
men of the paid organization" were
not ailed.
Governor Cox has no evidence In
San Francisco. Sept. 7.—Thelma
support
of his charges outside of
Jack Casey and Jack Maloney, the Ixe, an 11-year-old school girl, was what Moore brought to Chicago with
to
men Injured in a fight at Leland last shot and killed on her way
him. the witness said, unfolding
Tuesday night are reported in no school in San Bruno, a suburb to- massive brief case and taking out a
danger unless complications set in. day. and later Thomas Nelson, a stack of papers.
The injured men were found Batur-
carpenter, who was suspected of the
day night in a house on I street
crime,
was surrounded by a police I Elks Will Give Barbecue—
where they had been brought after
posse at a nearby roadhouse and
the trouble.
Elks lodge No. 1168 will give a
According to statement« of Cjmey captured after he had put two bul barbecue Sunday. September 12,
and Maloney to the sheriff. Gene lets into his own head. Inflecting ap which promises to be a big afair. A
little rivalry between a ball team
Reed, of Iceland, is alleged to have parently a fatal wound.
composed of Medford members of
been responsible for their injuries,
The girl died in the arms of the the Elks lodge and Grants Paas
They were all at the Maloney mine
three miles from Leland and the principal of the school, who was Í members will be one of the features
of the day. All Elks from Granta
men say they had been drinking a summoned by several children.
Following the shooting of the girl, Pass intending to be present at th«
little. It can not be learned why the
fight started, but in the melee Casey Nelson is said by the police to have affair must notify C. A. Liuch be
was literally cut to piece« and Ma attempted to hold up Marshall Wad- fore a week from Thursday, as to
loney was cut tn several places tn del, a mechanic, who resisted him the size of their party. Every mem
the back and neck. They would not and then guided the police to Nel- ber of the order sojourning within
the jurisdiction of Lodge No. 1168 la
give many particulars as they say son's hiding place.
| Invited to attend with the members
that several others were there whom
of his household. Efforts will be
they do not wish to bring into the
made to furnish automobile trans
matter.
portation
for all those without cars
Sheriff Lewis talked to 'Reed Sun
of their own. Those without car»
day and got a few more of the de
must give their names to Mr. Linch.
tails from him. Reed denies that he
There will be an initiation and big
was the person who cut either Casey
meeting Thursday night at Medford
or Maloney. He says that Wednes
to make further plans for the occa
day morning, he and his wife went
sion.
back to the mine where they dressed
Rome. Sept, 7.—Marked earth-
the wounds of the two men after quakes were reported at 6 o'clock
they had been all night without at this morning from points in Tus-
F. D. Clark returned to hia horn*
tention.
cany. Casualties resulted from the at Albany this morning after a visit
quake the reports stated, Aid has I in Grants Pass with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Clark.
been sent to the affected district.
An American Rhapsody
Brunstrup In th* Ran Francisco Chronic!*
Rome. Sept. 7.—The spirit of un- Middle Ages provided some ot the
rest has penetrated since the war staunchest soldiers in Europe. The
even to such old world and out of the Sardinians have always considered
way place« as the Island of Sardina. their island the Cinderella’ of Unit
Among these picturesque peasants, ed Italy. They say that they have
many of whom cannot read or write, been alternately neglected and taken
though they are often people of dig advantage of by the central govern
nified manners and strong character, ment. education has been disregard
I
public opinion is diffused by word ot ed. the malarious state of the coun
mouth and a strong party has arisen try has been ignored, few roads or
lately whose motto is “Sardina railways have been provided in or
alone" who think that the Island, der to develop its resources, while
which is the second largest in the government money has never been
Mediterranean would be more pros forthcoming for its needs.
perous if it governed itself and had-
The peasants of Sardinia declare
little or nothing to do with Italy.
that thia is the moment when Sar-
In ancient days Sardina was one d1na might start on the road to re
of the great graneries of the world, generation and reconstruction, mor
supplying first Carthage and later al, commercial and economic but if it
Rome with immense quantities of is. as of old, abandoned to apathy
grain. Now a large proportion of and want of initiative ruin is certain.
the island is uncultivated and about A deep spirit of discontent and irri
one-fifth is covered with forests, tation is prevalent. The Saradinians
chiefly consisting of holm-oaks and call themselves “the Irish of the
cork trees. The most valuable ex Mediterranean" and a large party la
ports however, are from the mines being formed of those who desire to
of lead, zinc, antimony, copper, sil work out their own salvation and at
ver. lignite and anthracite, which if least for a certain time to be entire
only thoroughly developed would be ly Independent of the mother coun
a source of great riched.
try, which they ac-use of having
The Sardinians are a splendid treated them more like the typical
fighting race and not only during stepmother. They ask to be allow
the late world conflict but through ed to take their destiny in their own
out the Napoleonic wars and the hand«.