Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 20, 1915, SECOND EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text;rr 'woiniiwua Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER VaIi Mat. 70 Mia, m. m Forty-fourth Ttr. t.n Ninth Ytar. MEDFORD, OREGON", SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915 NO. 309 UNCLE SAM BLOTS OUT ROTTEN POLITICS! TERRE HAUTE GANG FACEIPRISBN HOLLAND FILES SHELL FORTS ON T LAW DECLARED TO BE ILLEGAL a i WARSHIPS AGAIN INACTION RULES ALONG UNES OF BATTLE FRONTS MIGRATORY BIRD fflALPROTES DARDANELLES ON EMBARGO 1 Unfavorable Weather Prevents Ac conipllshlnii Much Three of Al lies Ships Lost hy Torpedoes Shell Explodes on Deck of Battle Cruiser Inflexible and Forty Killed. LONDON, March 'JO. -Mix battle ship ro-enloicil tlio Dardanelles blriitH Friday, n iti riling In n Hm imli'li received horn liy llui Renter Telegram company from tlio Island of Ten.odnH. This resumption of tlm Million, nf (r llu loss Tliumdiiv of llu Fiench battleship llnuvol mill Hi" llritlsli bat tleships Irresistible mill Ocean, fnllril to accomplish miylhliig, Tor the ren miii t Ink t tlio iiiifiiviirnlilti weather enmlillous imiilu operations inipoH sible, HimU Hy Tiirimlocn CONSTANTINOPLE, iit llcillii, Mn i li 'JO. An official statement Ih sued froni Turkish heudqunrlerM say the sinking of ItiitMi mid lronrh warships in tin Dardanelles wax title In "torpedoes," ami adds; "A hard seven. hoar fight ended with success foe four fort. Beyond slight iliiiiuiKi' to I ho fnitliwnrkM, no dniuago was iloiio to tlio fortificn- tillllH." !lnttlolili llnjiirol PAULS, March 20. No attempt was iiiiiiln liy the allied fleet to do vctop to tin) fulled extent iln first general tittiu'k on I lie Dardanelles, which wan laiiiii'lii'it Tlittrhilay, says an Athens dipntei to llu I In vim Agency, which quotes a Itritinh of I leer lis authority for the statement. Two thousand shells wen- fired in a six hours' bombardment designed to force u pnssago of Killd llulir mul Chauiik KalcHci. Fire from tlio Tut kith bnllcric wan interrupted ami violent, accord ing to information obtained from other sources, llir Davits forrcspmi ilnil declares. Tlio prow of the French battleship Ontilni wits lunch ril hy n mini', hut tho ditinngo run he repaired in a few days. She left tlio straits mul michuicd at thee Island of Navriu. Th British hutllo omiNor luflox ihlo, which wiih hit on tho how hy shells, also slonmed out of tho straits, convoyed hy two .oruiNors. A shell which exploded on her deck in rcitorl i'il to have kilh'il fotty men ami woiiiiilcil mmiv nlhors. Klvty.flwi Ktirvltor Tho toxt nf tho French communl cation follows; "French tmttlo-hlpH hnil tio honor of nttnrklng tho forts In tho Nnr iowh of tho Dardanelles nt short ruiiKo Murrh to, Thoy accomplished thin tnHk with vigor nml w'oro high ly prnlsod hy tho Hrlthili sailors. Itoar Ailmlrnl (luoprotto (olographs lluil tho honor of tho French flag haw been fully sustnlnod, although ilourly lioiiKht hy tho Iohr of tho llouvot, "Tho number of survivors Ih net tially known to ho 01. Tho miuthnr killed nml wounded on tho othor ships of tho (IIvIhIoii Is nmall." Tho llouvot In times of peace hud a complement of 021 men. U Is tho custom, howovor, to Increaso tho n u in her of men on board essoin of this class In tlmo of wnr. Conse quently tho llouvot mny have had a considerably greater crow when una mot dlsnHtor. LASSEN PEAK AGAMPTO UKDDIN'n, Cal., March 20. Lnn mm Peak bognn its olghty second uruptlon as tho huh roso today. A great column of amoko, na largo nn tho top of tho poak, reached n height of thousands of foot. Ah tho sunlight flashed through tho top of this immense pillar of Hiuako, It produced brilliant, lirlilcs cent colors, farming a billowing can opy of rainbow clouds as tho column uprond nt tho top and flontod gently Houthward disappearing In tho dis tance. Ashoa fell heavily, dropping around tho poak. This eruption Is ono of tho heaviest wltnossod hero, Sclfjo Warfare Replaces Charjies No Decisive Results In Carpathians Germans Still Dotnbard Ossowctz Without Success America May Act as Intermediary. LONDON, March SO.--Willi tho Russian Hliick Hon fleet reported knocking nt tho iloor of tlio Hospho run anil nix allied battleships ronow Iiik tho liomhariliiiout of TurkUh po- Hltlunn on tlio DiirilnuolloN, tlio fnto of Iho Htraltn In tcilny hnimliiK In tho Imlniicc, acuonlltiR to opIulonM freely oxnto-Ni'il In Lniuloii. Novortlioleen report from Turklnh HoiirceH nt 111 iirofenti Miiiirouio conflilenro In tho linprcKiinlilllty of tho ilnfciulInK forU which It Ih cIuIiiiihI, Ihivo mr- ronnfully Nimtnlnoil n honilinrilmvnt eJlemlliu: inuro than '2 1 dnyii. Tlio report or tho llrltlxh ntlnilrnlty kIvIiik now- of thn ulnkliiK of three ImttlcHhlpx, two MrltUh nml one French, In tntlier hny n- to Iho ro tniltH nrhloveil hy UiIh vnertdeo, nml It Riven welfiht lo tho RrowlnR ho Hot that tho Mraltn will not ho won until tho nnvnl oporntlnnii nro miip porteil hy effective Innil forco. Tho liomhiirilment of Frlilny wan Inter tuptrtl hy tmil wcntlior, hut It In nil llclpnteil thill tho operation-, will Ikj piiHhoil na rnplilly nn ponnlhlo. Ainerlrno i InteniKsllnrj' AlthoiiRh Turk lull official roportn inlnlniUn tho effect of tho tiombnnl tuoiit nml iloclnro that Constant! uuplo In not nfruhl, IntolllRcnco re ceived from other nenr enntern polnta loin forth that noRotlatlonn nlrcuily hnvo hcen Iioruii lth tho American win tunny to net as nn Intermediary to snvo tho Ottomnn capital from tlio Hiiiia of tho allied battleships. Iluuiorn of destruction of tho (2er man rnldor Karlsruho received some confirmation hy tho guarded atnte mont of tho Ilritlsh ndmlrnlty. There In every reason to believe thin cruis er wnn sunk In tho West Indies Inst November. Itcartloii I'ivvhIIh Itolatlvo Inaction prevails alonR both bnttlo frontn In ICurope, which nRiiln seem to hnvo relapsed Into tho condition of rIoro war fnro, which prevailed durliiR tho winter. Aus trlnu reports by wny of llerlln claim that tho llussliiu offeiiHlvo tnovo meat In tho Carpathians throiiRh tho Lupkow I 'ass Iiiih resulted In fnlluro but direct roportn from both Vienna and IVtroRrad itRreo Hint Austrlnnn iih well nn Husslann nro mnklnR nt lacks nml counter attacks In tho Car pnthlnnn without nuy declslva re sults. Tlio (Jormnns still nro bombarding Ossowetx without success, ncconllnR to tho llusslnns, who claim to have destroyed tho advanced trenched of their nntngonlstH. Neither side reports nuy Important actions on tho western front during tho past week, T IIOMK. via Paris, March 'JO. Count llulfjy, councillor of tho Aus Irian emhiiKsy to tho Vatican, is quoted hy tlio lilea Niuionalo us do elariue; that u preliminary iiRTconicitt was signed last Sunday at Viennn, under which Austria would cede to Italy that portion of the province of Trent oxtomllno; from tho region of Frulli to tho Isonzo river. Tho news paper thinks, however, that this re port is hoiiiK spread simply to gain time. ANDREWS, THE PAINTER, DEAD AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 20. Kllu pet Frnwor Andrews, who painted several nf tho portraits now in tho white house, including those of Martha Washington mid Dolly Madi son, died hero yesterday after a Ion;; illness. Ho was horn at Steuben ville, 0., in 18.r3. Mr, Andrews wiih fnrineilv lirimtliiiil of Iln, Piiriinrnii ' I -!". v.-.. Svliool of Art here, RUMOR AUS AGREED TO CESSION VlTv f h'V twit M- tmmUKiHHHkHDQHzJI IflH vk' IKKHIfBaMfilHIHHHH It ttjbo aLf r.x , ,' , ,...- :..-,... ,-,v, ,.FihJiiiULMtmA r ' Four of the eiditv-eiehl satellite of Maor Dunn M. Knlicrt-. SEIZED STEAMERS SAIL FOR ENGLAND WITH BRITISH CREWS NKW YOUK. Mnrrh 20. The Aiuerlcnr steamer Lorenzo anil the Norwegian hteamer Thor, eaplured laht September hy a llritisli ernier in Wi'Ht luilian waters, while they were di'liverinp; supplies ti the Ger man raider Karlsruhe, sailed .March 5 ami U for KiiRland with Ilritixh crows aboard, mtiMinliiiK '" pahxeu- ers of the hteamer l'ariiiia. which reached hero today from Iho Wert In dies. l'liKHemrer ami officers of tho l'a riiiia, nuMiniod in view of the depart ure of the two captured vessels, that they had been sohl by order of the prize court, although positive nifor mation was lackiiit; on this point. The two steamers, it was said, were to ho taken first to Trinidad for overhaul ill);. Tho Lorenxo mul Thor sailed trom SI. I.onis, wncro thoy were tnken hy tho cruiser which captured them. The Lonw.o is one of four vessels named in nn indictment recently found in this city a;aiiit officials nml employes of the lliinihurj;-Amor-ifnn lino here, charuiiif,' con-piracy to defraud tho United States in clearing from this port to faUe des tinations vessels laden with supplies to ho delivered to (lermaii warships at sea, E K. W. Llljegrnm has prepared an Ingenious map showing tho fish, game, nml recreation districts of tho upper Horuo river vnlloy, drawn from tho United States Topographic al Quadrangle survey. Tlio princi pal palntB of tho valley, mountains, roads, rivers nml Crater Lnko nro shown, with distances, direction, 'etc., nppomled. Tho territory cm braced in tho map is from Grants i'nss to Ashland ami Crater Lnko drawn trinuguarly, Tho elevation of kill points Is also shown, ami charac ter of tho gnmo secured stntod. WOMEN CALL FOR PEACE CONFERENCE CHICAGO, March 20.- Formal eall for the women's international peace uoufereuco at Tho Hague was issued nt the national headiiuarters hero to day. "As women equally with men pneifiuists, wo understand that planned-for, legalised, wholesale hu man slaughter is today be sum of nil villainy' rends tlio cull, T Terre lliuitc. who lime plemleil kuiIIv to con-iiiracv to defraud t Stnti'M election. From left to riht, Joe (lauuoii mul William Crank, ehrouic rcpcntcru; O-e.ir .Suratl ami Krue-.t Silvers eaptaiiiH of repeater!. FRENCH SEEK TO F GERMAN WIRELESS TUKNTON. N. J., March 20. Tho German corporation vHck owns tlio wireless station at Tuckcrton, X. J., today naked tho court of chancery to dismiss tho suit brought by n French corporation to gain possession of tho Tuckcrton station and tho wireless station at Kilvcsc, Prussia, The French company charges that tho Gorman concern beforo tho Kuropcnn Mnr started had agreed to sell tho Tuckcrton station to it. Tho papers filed hy tho German corporation to day nro In tho form of nn answer to tho suit. They nsk tlio court to dis miss tho suit or withhold action in tho enso pending tlio outcomo of the wnr. Tho nnawer further states that nny steps taken by tho court nt this tlmo would bo incompatible with tho neutrality of tho United Sates. Tho French corporation is known us Compagnlo Unlversollo do Tolo- graphlo ot do Telephone Sans Fll, with offices In Paris. Tho German corporation is tho llochfrcqiicnz- '.Maschlnen Aktlcngessollesclinft Fur Prnhlloso Telegraphic of llerlln. Tho United Stntes Service corporation, now In control of tho Tuckcrton sta tion, Is also n defendant. Tlio United Stntes government took charge of tho sending and receiving of messages at tho Tuckcrton station on September 9, 1911, in order to prevent violations ot tho American neutrality regulations. Tho Gorman company In its answer says tho Tuckcrton stntlon Is used by tho government in communicat ing with tho Gcrmnn ambassador In Washington nml further that tho Veal object of thu suit is to stop com munication between Germany and tho United States. GERMANS SEIZE CARGO OF OIL LONDON, March 20. A cargo of oil aboard the Danish steamship Hryssel has been confiscated hy tho German aiitboiities in the Uomcrnu- an seaport of Swinemuiule, nceord- ing- to a dispatch from Copenhagen to tho Exchange Telegraph com pany, Tho vessel wns released. Tho feeliiiR at Copenhagen, the dispatch adds, is that thu fact that Germnny needs oil does not justify tho soijiuro of tho Uryssel's cargo. Tho Bryssel was bound from Phila delphia for Stockholm with n cargo of oil mul was stopped in tho Hnltlo on March 11 hy n Qerninn cruiser, aml token to Swiiiciuinulo, GAIN POSSESSION 0 ezar of he I'niteil BOTTLE OPENER TO VOTING E INDIANAPOLIS. March 20. Joo Kelly, an election Inspector In pre cinct II of tho Sixth ward in Tcrre Haute, testifying in tho Terra Hauto election fraud en so today, said ho did most of tho voting In his precinct himself, working tho keys of tho vot ing machine until ho woro tho skin off tho end of his fingers. Then ho used a beer bottle opener to work tho keys, ho said. The witness also told of tho al leged plan to ndd ono or two nun dred votes to tho returns after tho polls closed, In order to prevent tho defeat of Kll 11. Itcdmnn, a. defend ant and tho democratic candidate for Juge. Kelly said ho refused to carry out the scheme. Kelly has pleaded guilty. Miss Dorn Burr, who held a pool hook nt precinct C of tho Sixth ward, testified that Timothy (Hull) Conway a defendant, ruslicd tlio voters through without giving nny ono tlmo to get tholr names. Sho testified Sheriff Dennis Shea wns thero for a tlmo and told her In angry tenes: "You'll get tired of your Job before tho day is over." Sho said sho wns called "Chicken" by a num- bor ot men nt tho polls. On cross-oxnmlnntlon as to cases of alleged ropeating. Miss Burr said sho did not know personally nny of tho persons eho stated wero not en titled to vote. GERMANS DEW OF I LONDON, March 20. Statistics published In Petrograd concornlng osses to property n Itusslun Poland us a result ot tho German Invasion, forwarded today to Houtor's Tele gram company, glvo tho total number of towns nnd largor vllluges destroy ed as OS,. It is said that 4500 small villages woro dovnsted, 1000 ot thorn having been burned. Tho figureB apply to tho ten Polish provinces, Tlio damngo Is ostlmntod nt moro than $500,000,000. AVERAGE 66.400 A DAY AI SAN l-'RANCISCO, March 20. Tho total attendance nt tho Panama Pacific! exposition, ns unnounced to day, officially for tho four weeks ending Inst night, is uiven ns 1,859, 824, an nverago of approximately 110,100 iv day, This is said to exceed tho ntteiidanco at nny previous ex position for (ho first four week?, OPERATE MA N Blockade Tactics of Allies Apinst Commerce of Neutrals Declared to Have No Precedent in Law Nor in History Fourth State to Protest Reprisal Measures. WASHINGTON, March 2U.-Chcv- alier van Jtiippard, minister from The Netherlands, communicated inform ally to Secretary Hryun todny mi out line of a note sent h the Nether lands government to Great Ilritain and France protesting ugniifrt the embargo on commerce of neutrals with Germnny as having no precedent in Inw or history. Protest Principle The Netherlands note, it wns un derstood, was in the nature of n protest against the principles adopt ed hy Great Britain and France in attempting to secure the objects of n blockade hy detaining nil commerce with Germany. The note nlso nsks for further in fomintion ns to how the llritih or der in council is to he enforced. Tho Dutch government had made nn in quiry before tho order was issued and received an explanation on which further and more ccxplicit in formation is desired. The Dutch minister has been dis cussing the question informally with the United Stntes during tho last week. HoIIaim! Is Fourth Stnto LONDON, Mnreh 20. The govern ment of the Netherlands, according to the correspondent of Renter's Tele gram nt The, Hague, has sent to Great Britain nml France a protest against the British Blockade of Ger many. Holland is the fourth stnto to make formal protest against the reprisal measures adopted hy Great Britain nml France. Denmark. Norwnv and Sweden, the early part of this week, made identical representations io the allied governments ugainst th Anglo- Krcnch policy of reprisals on German commerce. T MARSHALL VISITS SAN FItANCISCO, March 20. Vice-President Thomas B. Marshall arrived today with his pnrty to tnko part in tho formal dedication of tho Panama Pacific exposition ns the representative of President Wilson, nnd Inter to participate in similar ceremonies at tho Panama-California exposition nt San Diego, Cut. In the vice-presidential purty arc Mrs. Marshall, Secretary of tho In terior Franklin K. La no nml Mrs. Lane, Adolph S. Miller, member of tho federal reservo board, nml Mrs. Miller, nml Assistant Secretary of tho Navy Franklin D. Koosevolt nml Mrs. Roosevelt, nnd Senntor Phclan. Tho pavtv will remain in San Fran cisco until next Saturday. During tho eight days, social, military and public functions will fill tho time. Representatives of the government, state, city and exposition greeted tho Marshall party nml necompamed them, under n cnvulry escort, from thu Presidio to their hotel. ROME, via Paris, March 20. Commnndera of tho Anglo-French fleet in tho Adriatic sea, according to advices from Anuona, have been noti fied by their governments that tho transportation of goods of any kind to or from ports on tho Austrian const is prohibited under tho tonus of tho allies' new naval polioy, and that steamers carrying such cargoes iro to bo ewed, IE PREIDEN E S ON EXTEND BLOCKADE TO AUSTRIAN PORTS Judge Pollock of Kansas Holds State Authority Superior to That of Na tlon Case Will Be Appeatal at Once to Federal Supreme Court Blow to Protection of Songsters. TOPKICA, Kan., March 20. The migratory bird law was declared un constitutional by Judge John C. Pol lock in the United States district court here todny. held congress had over the jjamc luw states. Judge Pollock no jurisdiction in nny of tho Fred Robertson, United States dis trict nttorncy, announced tho cam will be appealed to tho United States supremo court. In his decision Judge Pollock said in part: "The act challenged is believed to be tho single Instance in the entire legislative or Judicial history of this nation or tho compoalnK states, in which a contrary view has been ex pressed. Unless a departure, as radical in tho ordinary as it is Im portant In Its effects. Is to be made from fundamental principles long es tablished by our laws, the act question must be held Incapable In ot OP- on support by any provision of the ganlc law ot tho country. "If the act in question shall. any ground or for any reason be up held, It must surely follow the many laws of tho scparato states of this union must hereafter bo held to be Inoperative, for there can be no di vided authority ot tho nation and the several states over the single object matter In Issue, with either safety to the nation or security ot.tbe citi zen.'' PITIABLE STATE OF MEXICANS UPON FARMS IN TEXAS DALLAS. Texas, March 20. The plight ot Mexican tenant farmers la Texas and taxation reforms which might decrease tenantry, were dis cussed today at the land hearing by tho federal commission on Industrial relations. Emlllo Flo res ot San An tonio, president of tho American Pro tective socloty, said: "In their own country, poor and "wretched as they may bo, Mexican farmers are happy and this is better than their condition as tenants on Texas farms. I think tho commis sion should acquaint Mexicans with the real tacts about tho suffering ot Moxican peoplo who come here as tonant farmers aud see that they don't como nny more, rather than try to enact laws to protect them af ter they como. Wo advise them not to como because, as tenants there Is nothing they can expect. They have entirely different ways ot living in their own country and they caunot become desirable cltlxens hero." Mr. Flores blamod employment agencies for part ot tho Mexican troubles. He said ho had known ot a few Instances whon Mexicans were forced to remain on a place by guards armod with shotguns, working out employment agency foes. Those fees, ho said, wero usually $1 per head, "delivered at destination." Ho said In Snn Antonio hundreds ot Mexicans nro led to apply for nat Mrallzatlon papers with no idea they are doing so. Thoy believe merely that they aro "registering," ho said, "and thoy don't know what register ing is." GERMAN LOSSES AT ' I NEUVE CHAPELLE 6.000 BERLIN, March 20. An OffUUl , statomeut Issued today by the Ger man general staff declares th total German losses in the flghtlim la tfc vicinity ot Neuve Cbapety; m num vwv, 3 jt fcr i 'A 3. T M l '$1 ." I w