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Forty-flfth Tenr.
Dully Tenth Yenr.
MEDFOKD. OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1915
NO. J15
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BUILDINGS TORN INTO JECES BY TERRIBLE OHIO CYCLONE
PUT BREACH UP
N SEVERE FIGHT
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BIT OF MEXICO:
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President anil Lanslnn Begin Work
Independently on Reply to Kaiser's
Recent Missive Upon Submarine
Warfare-Will Clearly define the
United States' Position.
WASHINGTON, July 12. Tho sit
uation between Clorninny nrul the
United StatcH Iiiib taken on audi n
Borlons anil critical chnractor that tho
policy of tho Amorlcan government
will rcqulro lengthy nnd dollbcrato
consideration that It may havo tho
firmness which tho clrcuniBtancos
require.
TIiIb wan tho Rlatcmcnt mado to
day In high offlcla Iqunrlors. Secre
tary Lansing Is tithing sovoral daB
to oxamlno tho Cierman reply, may
not go to Cornish, N. II., after all,
to rotifer with President Wilson. Tho
original plan, It was explained, was
for tho president nnd Mr. LanHlng
to confer nnd then havo tho secre
tary of stnto draft a noto to bo sub-
nilttod to tho cabinet on tho prcsl
ilcnt'u roturn to Washington. Now
tho belief Is that tho president nnd
Mr. Lansing, working independently,
will prcpnro memoranda and confer
after their Ideas hnvo matured.
To Soo Hcnistoi-ff
Count von Hcnistorff, tho Gorman
nmbassador, has naked Secretary
Lansing If ho wishes to oco him nnd
tho secretary Is understood to havo
replied that lie does after ho has enro
fully examined tho situation. The
ambassador Is socking information on
tho attitude of tho American govern
ment toward tho German reply. After
Mr. Lansing has consulted President
Wilson, It Is not unlikely that soma
Intimation will bo given to tho Gor
man nmbnssndor of tho seriousness
with which tho United States govern
ment regnrds tho crisis.
Illusion llcglns Work
Secretnry Lansing has begun work
on a draft of it reply to Germany, but
has not given nnyono tho slightest
Inkling of his views. Such Intima
tions, however, ns lias boon receiv
ed from tho white houso nB woli ns
tho stato department point to tho
framing of n policy which will ox
pross even more emphatically than
boforo tho vlows of tho United Stntos
government and tho belief Is growing
that thn next noto may Include somo
Idea of the Intentions of tho Amorl
can government If Its douiunds nro
not mot,
Tho genoral comment In executive
quarters today was that tho next
Amorlcan noto would deflno tho po
sition of tho United Stntos more clonr
ly, so Hint normally'.! subsequent nttl
tudo would definitely dotormlno
whether diplomatic rolutlons woro to
bo continued.
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AT CENTRAL POINT
A railroad grade crossing has cost
another nutomobllo and nearly cost
another life.
J. It. IlobliiBon of Central Point
had a nnrrow oscnpo from death Sat
urday evening, whon a southbound
Southorn Pacific train crashed Into
an auto ho was driving nt a grado
crossing nonr that city. Tho machine
was hurled ton feot in tho air, and
alighted bottom side up. Postmaster
Hnlph Woodford of this city who wit
nessed tho collision appraises the
present valeu of tho maehlno nt twen
ty five cents. Robinson escaped with
out a scratch.
'Woodford nnd Horace Pelton pass
od In front of tho train, nnd passed
Hobinson going in tho opposite di
rection. Pelton shouted a warning
to Hobinson. Woodford looked be
hind him in time t seo the mnchlno In
the nlr. Tho onglno struck tho auto
in the roar. They stoppod tholr
.machine and rushed to the wrock
ago In time to holp the driver orawl
from beneath tho wrecked oar.
There are three grade crossings In
the three miles of tjie Central Point
Tolo soetion of the Pacific highway
on the route adopted by the county
commissioners.
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CROSSING
COSTS
AUTO
Change of Ground at One Important
Point Result of Continuous StruQ
rjlc Wr-;.3d French Position Taken
in Alsace and Evacuated Dead
lock on Polish Frontier Continues.
LONDON, .Inly 1'J. -ileuvy fight
ing in several sectors of. the front in
Franco has resulted in u change of
ground at one important point where
tho Oermans won n victory. They
recaptured the cemetery nt Souohoz.
possesion of wliioli 1ms loiij- been
contested.
Gorman liouilquiirters report a
surprise nttnek near Allkiroh, in Al
sace, resulting in the capture ! a
Fieiieh noMtion along n fiOO-vnrd
front. The captors ultimately retired
voluntarily to their old line of
trenches, tin official slntemont says,
Inking some prisoners willi them.
(ionium attnoks which followed
violent onnuonnding in the Woevro
region were repulsed, Pari reports.
Uerlin concedes tli.it the French suc
ceeded in penetrating the (ionium line
in mi nssaultncnr Coinhres, hut de
clares tliey were soon diiven out.
On. Knsloni l-Yont
Teutonic nnd Russian unnios urn in
mi apparent dcmllock south of Lub
lin, whore tho nnithwiird sweep of the
Austro-Gorinnns was hulled last
week, Pctrogrnd repoils continued
fighting along tho front extending
fiom Joscfow nnd Vislulii In Hioh
uwn, approximately thirty miles to
the eastward. Tho AustriaiiR have
ngnin heoomo aggressive here, ue
enrdiug to the Russian statement, but
their attacks were tcpulHcd.
Unoflioiul dispatches from Aits
tiiim Jiendrpiurtors contain the Mnto
iiu'nt that the Teutonio forces halted
north of Krumiik because tho object
of the campaign against Lemberg had
been attained with the capture of
that city ami the establishment of
strong defensive positions to the
north nnil cast.
Italians Hoor( Success
Several successes ulong Hie Aus-tro-Itnliau
front lire reported by Ital
ian nrmv hendiua iters in the dis
tricts where the Itnliirn forces ure en
gaged in an effort to clear the road
to Trieste. Countor-nttneks liv the
Austrian in tiie Isonzn vnlloy have
been lcpulsod, it is declared.
The Turkish war office records tla
hombiiidincnt of (iabn Tope, near the
tip of the (lullipoli poninsiila, by n
cruiser, presumably British, which
protected liv torpedo craft, fired 2011
shells without success. It is declar
ed tho warship was hit and forced to
withdraw.
NEUTRALITY TALK
PARIS, July l'-'.-A Hnvus dos
patch from Madrid filed yosteidny
bays :
"Action of tho government in pro
hibiting the discussion of Spanish
neutrality was severely criticised at
n public mooting today by several
spoukors, who declared the piohihi
tiou was a violation of tho constitu
tion. Pablo A. Iglosins, a socialist
leader, asseitcd violations of the
eonsctitution were common in Spain,
and demanded for each citizen tho
right to discuss the question of nou
trnJily. He attacked the 'phhiv''
attitude of the government regard
ing the local labor agitation which ho
snid might expand into a revolution
ary movement.
Rodrigo Soriano, unolhor radical,
criticised Vusquez Mollny Candida,
the Cailist leader, whom he ehnrgod
with having spoken ill of Great Hrit
uiu in it public speech."
HKIUdN, July 12 The roport
rocontly published that tho Hamburg-American
Stoamshlp company
had failed in consoquenco of hoavy
losses sustained during the war. was
denied here today by tho semi-official
Wolff News agency.
SPAIN
PROHIBITS
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mflHHHrBCsS iwV5" 'frA.ssilMMg HBHiH
kiSBaBgBSa3cSgJsfrk
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After tho cjdoiio had passed
for burled tlctlms.
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PORTLAND, Or., Julv li. The
govornmont's suit lor the forfeiture
of 11(1,000 neros in southorn Oregon,
known as tho Coos Hay wagon mad
grunt, wns dociiled here today in fa
vor of the government m the United
States district court by Judge L. A.
Wolverton.
In dcelariiiL' tho land forfeited to
the government the court followed
the decision of the United Stntos su
preme court 1n the California & Ore
gon land grunt cases.
Th.i decree onioiiiK tho tniithoru
Oregon company from the wile of tho
lands and relcru the disposilion ol
Die land to congress for notion within
eight months, after which time tho
company may apply to the courts tor
relief ill the event congress should
fnjl to act.
Judge Wolverton held that the
oriLMiial terms of the gnmt had not
boon complied vvilh in regard to wulo
of the lands in lots not to exceed Hi"
in. re (o actual settlers nt a maximum
price ol $U..")0 an aire
WASHINGTON, July 1-'. Navy
department olfieiaU today awaited
respoiisei. from the Hritish steam
ships Houth Head and Ilaron Nay
ior, laden with mule lor the Hiitish
in my ami mw off tho South Atlnu
tio coast, to a warning wirelessed !
them to watch out for bombs in their
holds. Both voxels sailed from
Now Orleans duly Otho Howth Head
for Dublin and Holfjut'via Norfolk,
and tho Ilaron Napior diioct for
Avoumouth.
Tho warning wan flvslioil out over
the son from the Arlington Wilde
station hint night utter the receipt by
Secretary jhmiuU of u toJogruin
from a Now Orleuna ijowwpgpor toll
ing that a letter to tml pupar from
a pemon who signed hiiuxelf as
"Poniee'' fndleatcd that exploive
had boon placed aboard the two voo
feels, '
Tho writer of tho letter nlwi de
clared hie iutentioii of killing ' !'
Morgan and Sir Cecil SprinRiooJ
the Itntwh NtnbfltMAdor, and eoiuplul
ing the woik of KrieJi Mnontor, wljo
oomiuitod kpioidu nweutly xfter
wvuudiug ir Morgan,
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ACRES
SOUTHERN OREGON
GRANT
RFEITEO
MULESHIPSWARNED
BEWARE OF BOMBS
over West .Sixth KtWk't, Cincinnati,
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PROTEST AVERTS
OF
OtTA Y.MAS, Mexlro, .Inly 12. A
general bombardment of (ItinyuuiH by
tho Cnrrnii7a gunboat (luerrero plan
ned for Monday, haH been prevent
ed. Aftor a strong protest by Ad
miral Thomas II. Howard of tho U.
S. crulsor Colorado, nnd foreign con
suls, tho Ciuorroro commander agreed
to fire only upon Southern Pacific
train ontorlng or leaving and tho
Mexican stenmer Ilonitn, anchored In
tho harbor.
Tho commanding officer of tho
(iuerrcro said the trains nnd steamer
Honlta would bo fired upon hocnusu
they havo been used by tho enemy
In tho transportation of troops.
Thn plan for the general bombnrd
iiiont vvns only prevented after Ad
miral Howard and tho French, Cer
man, Drltlsh, Italian and American
consuls railed upon tho Carrimza
commander In Guerrero nnd made a
vigorous protest In tho nnmo of hu
manity. They Hindu tho trip from
tho erulHor Colorado In tho admiral's
barge.
The timo for tho bonibnrdiunnt
lind been set for 0 o'clock Monday
morning, but tho Cuerraro command
er agreed not to open flro upon tho
trains and Honlta until C o'clock Mon
day night.
The Guerrero arrived hero Saturday
and Immediately a blockado was declared-
A schoonor which attempted
to ontor port soon nftor'wnrd was stop
pod and ordered to put to sent nfter
its passonKorH had been permitted to
land- A proto-t against tho blockade
was mado h Admiral Howard and
the foreign consuK
WARSHIPBOMBARDMENT
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FAILS AI GA
CONSTANT INOPM3. July 12, via
wireless to Merlin.- Bombardment of
Turkish positions mi tho Galllpoli
ponlnsulu by a warship again has
proved futile, according to a stnto
munt Issued tonight by tho Turkish
war offUo. Tho communication fol fel fol
eows: "Saturday afternoon nn onemy
arulsor of tho Nelson typo, protaoted
by four torpedo boats., appoared bo
foro Oaba Tepe inuar the tip of tho
peninsula) and flr&d two hundred
shells at our iwsltlgns without sue
co. The Turks lost quo killed and
two wounilwl. Sovoral of our shells
struek the ship and forcod It to withdraw."
BOMBARDMENT
CITY OF GUAYMAS
Piiotogrnpli shows men searching the
QUIET
PREVAILS
ALONG EiST LINE
;t
ACSTRIAN ARMY HKADOCART
KRS IN GAI.ICIA, Sunday, .Inly PJ.
The relative xultxiilenoo of aetivity
on tho part of tho Teutotiid allies
during tho Inel week may he ex
plained by the fuel that the goal sol
for the Lemhorg campaign uliendy
hiis been attained. This was the io
(tnpturo of tin! city nnd the scouring
of strong defensivo positions to the
onstvviinl mid northward. These po
sitions have now been scouted along
tho line of the .loin I.ipu and Hug
rivers and the ridge to tho uoithwnrd
of Knisnik.
The Russians attempted a counter
offensive from Lublin against tho
AiiMtro-Gerimm positions north of
Krasnik, hiinging up heavy reinforce
ments for thin purpose. Owing to
thin movement the Austrian trooivs,
which had ruxlied beyond the posi
tions originally selected withdrew to
the rid go where they have been huc
cofibfully iosi(ing nil Rmtiiiuu at
tacks. 'I'hoy feel sneiiro in their
proxeul poHilioux nnd it Itf believed
liere they can ho enmly held against
whatever forces Russia enu thiovv
against them.
Indications now point to n period
of tpiiet along the Russo-Gulioiiui
front, while the Teutonio nllfe iue
preparing for operations in other
iiuirtcr.
F
HOC Hi:STi:it. N Y, .Tilly 12.
Funeral services for tho Most Hev.
James Kdwnrd (jiilgloy, Catholic
archbishop of Chicago, who died in
this city Saturday, woro hold today
In St. Patrick's Cathodrnl, whoro a
pontifical uinM of rou.ulom was cele
brated by Illsliop Thomas K. Hlckoy
of Itoihostur.
A delegation or 100 priests and a
iiumbor of layman from Chicago at
tended as well ns priests from Hut
falo, eastern dlocesoti nnd from Can
ada, member of sisterhoods nnd dulo
nations from vailout societies of tho
Catholic church.
Absolution was read over tho body
by four vlsltlnu bishop nnd lllshop
Illokey.
Tho body l to bo takan to Chi
cago on a special train of ton aura
urn! iianttuiilliad til HIsllOll IllckOV
..r "-."'...'.. rr.i
nno oiergy aU q sjiwcihi guuru, ,
ASSERTS
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UNERAL
SERVICE
ELD
UIGLEY
wreckage of what had Ikhmi house.
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RUSSIANS
END
EASTERN
ES
TO
MANILA, dulv 1'-'. Persons who
have arrived hero from Saigcn, enpi
lot of Kreiieh Cochin, China, report
that nil vessels belonging to the Mes
sage Ries Mill-Rimes which .have heoii
engaged in far eastern traffic, ale be
iug transformed into transports to
carry Russian troops to llio Darda
nollos. Whenever a vessel of the
Message Ries fleet roaches Saigon it
is said, the passengers lira trans
ferred mid the freight unloaded, lif
ter which a huge force of carpenters
works ul top speed to make the
iioooHvurv alterations. Tho ships are
then sent to Vladivostok to take oif
troops.
Russia probably would benefit
more than any other nation from
the forming of tho Dardanelles and
the full of Constantinople, but there
have Iteoii no previous reports of an
niithoritiitivo imtuio to the effect
(hat Russian troops would ho scut to
the (lullipoli peninsula to assist the
allies in the operations there.
Notwithstanding the warning given
by District Attorney Kelly last ii.ln
uary that resulted m the removal of
niokcl-iu-tho-slnt iuucIiiiioh from ei
rur stands and saloon, tho gambling
devices have been iustulled again in
tho past few days and aio running
full blast once more.
Tho slot machines puwumo to give
a package of gum for every nickel
played, but this is merely an evas
ion of the law. No gum is given and
tho elniiH-f- are one in a hundred of
winning money hai k. Saloons pay in
check-. .iod tor cigain or drinks.
INCREASED RATES
ON STEEL SUSPENDED
WASHINGTON, July 12 -Tut iff
ot the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
and other milroud naming incremicd
nilcs on structural steel in ouilouds
for Pacific coast points, Portland,
Seattle and souiu interior towns, were
suieuded today until November I'd
b. tin. luliu'fettttc ci'inmereo ooiuniib-i.
DARDANELLES
NCEL-IN-SLOT
MACHINES
BACK
rjhnnccs Improved of Recognition of
Carrnnza Faction, Provided He Can
Acqulro More Territory to tho
North and Reopen Communication
With United States.
WASHINGTON, July IS. Ilricf
dispatches renched the stnto depnit
inont from Mexico City dated before
tho occupation ot the capitol by Cur
ia urn forces describing food condi
tions as almost intolerable, hut offic
ials believed the situation either had
been relieved already by tho ohnne
of authority or would ho remedied
at) soon iih transportation with Vorn
cruz wiih resumed.
Stnto department officials whci
artked today whether the occupat'on
of Mexico City by Carrnnza would
affect tho question of recognition,
declared no definite consideration
had been given to tho subject. Tltuv
Hiiid, however, that il always seemed
more favorable for recognition when
one party in the conflict becomet
dominant.
Waiting for ()poi unity
. Tho American government ha
boon waiting many months for one ol
the factions to get military Miptcht
ney and sol up a provisional govern
ment, giving promiso of stability. The
United Slates now will watch care
fully the nttitude and policy of the
Carran.a authorities in Mexico Citv,
hut there will bo no-decision, it is. be
lieved, for some timo, ns to chnngo of
policy on account of tho prcKsing'nn
in re of tho (Ionium situation. - '
Heretofore possession of Moxini
City has not been regarded of niuMi
importance hv (iffieials liocarixc of.
tho frequent change in authority, hut
there nro now tndionliohTT' that if
General Carranzn can Letter his po
sition by further ncouisJtion-ofttcoU
lory north of the capital nnd rco"
ruing coinmunicatioii with tho Amrr
loan bonier, his chances of obtitinm- '
the moral support of tho Uuit'-d
Stales will mnteriallv improve.
I'Vcdlng the .Starving
Consul General Ilanna nt Monlev
'reported that last Friday he furnish
ed com and American salt polk to
JO.OOn porsons.
Official reports giving detail of
tho capture of Mexico City by Cr
rniizu forces hud not reached the
state department.
Repulse of 2000 Cnmuiim I mops
who attacked the Villa garrison nt
Cnhullniin, Hnnoru, was announced
today by the Villa agency. General
Hoiiiiimlez, Villa commander at Pled,
ins Negrns, telegraphed that Car
riinza forces, altncking Mouelovn,
hud been driven off toward I.ainpn
r.os.
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ROSKIU'RO, Or, Julv 1J. Chi
li. Stimpson, nged 77, was arreted
heio today at (he hospital of the Or
egon Soldiers' home, charged with thi
killing of Alexander Church. 8,' Viin
old, by beating him on the hcaii'with
a cane.
According to the home untlioritio-t
Stimpou asserts that Church Wft
trying to take his slippers. Tld'io
had been hard feelings between the
men, it is said, Stimpson saying thV
peoplo, including Church, had hcu
laughing tit him, mid Church hid
threatened to bent him.
Stimprfou is hardly able to wtV.
because of his age, and Church wit 4
o feeble that he could not walk tin
suppoiteil. Church and Stlm)ion
were both admitted to tho home in
October last year, Church from
Portland and Stimpon irom CW
vulhs, Or.
JOPLIN, July 12. A striko of
nearly 5,000 lead and zinc, minora
which began hero two weeka.ago end
od today when overy mine In the dis
trict rosuiuod otoratlons, There, was
no settlement. Tho men wont back to
the minus and asked for their placqa
at tho old wago scalo. The mhicrs
havo not asked recognition for their
new formed, ujilon,
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