Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
WEATHER
Fair Tonight mid Tomorrow.
Mux. 88, Mln. fltt, Hum. no.
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Torty-flfth Year.
Dnlly Tenth Yenr.
MAM
GRODNO
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SLAVS RETREAT
Teutonic Advance in Gallciai Opcra
tions Receive Severe Check on
Stripa River, Out Elsewhere Pushes
Forward French Artillery Demol
ishes Trenches.
" LONDON, Aiif?. 31. Tho Russian
nnuios iilnng the line of tlio upper Mug
niid thu Zlota Lipa arc being with
drawn rapidly nnd apparently with
out grcut loss, as neither Viimna nor
Merlin claims any extensive captures
of prisoners or liooty in thin region.
Kast of Warsaw the invaders con
tinue to make steady progress, while
further north they are advancing
more slowly. Tho fall of I.ipsk
brings the attacking forces nearer
Grodno, the last big fortress on the
front to be retained hv the Htissinns.
Ncnilng Grodno Fortress
Nearer approach by the Gentians
to the Itussiau fortress of Gioduo is
lepoited in today's official statement
from Merlin that they arc moving to
ward tho stronghold from the east
and south as well as from the west,
is indicated by tho diicetiou of the
progress last reported.
The advance on tho Grodno-Vihm
railway is being continued, while the
lieadiiiarters of Prince Leopold and
Field Marshal Von Mnokciisoii both
report thai the Hussians are being
driven back along a wide front.
In the Galieiau operations, recently
lesumrd, the Germans have met with
it check on the Stripa river, where
strong Russian forces counter-attacked
and, according to Merlin, "par
tially stopped" the Austro-Gcrmiiii
pursuit.
Av oiistautinoplc reports the dostruo-
uon iy iuikisii arutiery 01 a posi
tion occupied by the entente nllies
near Seddul Mahr, on thu Gallipot!
peninsula.
On Western l'jtmt
The rrcnelt artillery is sueeons
fully continuing its work of inflict -iug
tlamage upon German trenches,
hheltcis and camps at various points
along the front, tho Paris war otfice
icports. According to Paris these ac
tivities have roiilted in (he destruc
tion of several German trenches.
Constantinople again repot ts heavy
fighting ut the Dardanelles, but the
entente allies are silent in regard (o
their military operations there.
In the Atistro-ltaliau campaign
Home icports the capture of Cima
Citftu, O.'OO feet high. This summit
had eomiiiandod the Italian positions
on Monte Sulubio.
llall.nu Negotiations
Koine also sends optimistic reports
of the progress of the entente- powers
in tho (tiplnmutiu negotiations in the
near east. It is sunt Setbtus piom
isos aio satisfuetorv as'far as they
go, Italian nolitical circles oxnross
( confidence that the Tiirco-lliilgnrian
railroad agreement does not affect
Miilgaiiau neutrality.
IHREE KILLED IN
E
P1NOI.K, Oil., Aug. 31. Thrco
men were killed today when a train
of tin engine and three ears, carrying
70Q0 pounds of dyiiamito ran off the
track between tho plant and maun
riuo htoruhoiikO of the Dupout Pow
der company The dead;
Harold Bennett, engineer.
Hurt Talbott, fireman.
Unidentified laborer.
SUBMARINE DESTROYS f
IDGE
LONDON, Aug. 31.- An A(hen
dikptttoh to the Kxchuugc TuJcgraph
oumpaiiy my that a Mtlmwiriiie of
the Hill en has blown up h portion of
tk bri bttwii CamtUutlHorilc
and tb ulurtt of GalaU. It a net
appMtvitt vlwikar litis is wwraiy an
to af tha nimilgr rjwr f avorul
meekm ajv wrmIi Itrwiclit fart de
nial from CoBitantiuopJo.
DYNIIT
WRECK
WELSH COAL STRIKE
SETTLED BY GIVING
III
s
LONDON, Aug. 31 Official
announcement was uitiilo today
that the dispute which threat
ened another extensive strike in
tho Welsh coal fields had been
" settled. The agreement pro
vides that tho award tnado by
q Walter Riineiinitn, president of
the board of trade, after tho
" previous strike, shall stand. Tho
" mine owners undertake, how
"" ever, to conclude it siipiileinen
"" tal agreement which will give to
"" the engineers and other surface
" workers not included in Mr.
" Itiiiicimiin's nwnrd the samo
"" bonus as that granted to the
" minors.
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HELPS FOREST FIRES
THROUGH STATE
PORTLAND. Auf. 31. Cooler
weather anil slight precipitation In
tho mountains helped linprovo tho
forest tiro situation In Oregon today.
Reports received by tho United States
district forester nnd Jiy tho Oregon
I'oroHt Mro association hero today
from all parts of tho stato Indicated
that, with tho exception of thoso In
northeastern Oregon, all of tho num
erous fires were under control.
In Union and Walla Wnlla counties
In Northeastern Oregon, several fires
are raging. In Union county flvo
largo fires nro still uncontrolled.
Warden Lowell Williamson dispatch
ed ninny men to combat them today.
Flvo tulles north of litigant, 1500
acres was burned over boforo tho
flames wcor controlled this morning.
At Shainbaugh Meadows, 10 miles
south of La (irniigo, a flro Is burning
on .Smith's mountain and two on
Mlnam river, Boutli of Mliiani. Sov-
oral other smaller flros nro report
ed north of Mlnam and on Cabin
creek.
Tho worst fires on tho west sldo
of tho Cascades nro located wlOtln
n rndlus of 30 miles from Mt. Hood.
Hero threo conflagrations, ono near
Shell rock, another at llarnoy Mead
ows and n third on Salmon river, nro
still threatening to spread, hut It wns
believed that unless wcathor condi
tions change they will bo extinguished
without further damngo.
RIVAL OFFERS FOR
BULGARIAN HELP
MF.HLIN, Aug. 31. -The cone
spondent nt Sofia of tho Vossiseho
Xcitting telegraphed today an outline
of the proposals made to Miilgnria on
both sides of tho diplomatic contest.
His dispatch fays;
"The conditions which tho quad
ruple entente impofcd on Mulgnrin in
return for territorial concessions in
Macedonia stipulated that Bulgaria
obligate itself to declare war on Tur
key. "Tho central powers nnd Turkey,
for their part, demanded from Bul
garia in return for cession of n por
tion of Turkish Thrace, nn extension
of tho hitherto existing benevolent
neutrality. What this consists of had
best bo kept silent for tho moment. It
will make lhelf apparent later ns
soon ns event., on tho Danube front
haw advanced far enough,"
BUSH LOSSES BY
E
E
LONDON, Aug 31 Lloyd's quar
terly report for tho poriod ending
August 1! slvos th loss to Ilrltish
shipping from submarine and othar
hoitllo eraft and from mlnos, as 68
ftteamers with an aggregate grow ton
nage at U.T1I, and nine hIUbk vm
sets.
COOLER
MM
MEDFORD.
BODIES FOUND!
ABOARDSUNKEN
SUBMARINE F-4
Underneath Debris in Resurrected
, Vessel One Body Too Badly De
composed for identification Is Lo
catedHoles In Hulk Permitted
Destruction of Remains.
HONOLULU, T. If., Aug. 111. A
number of bodies of tho twenty-two
men who went down in the submit
line F-l March 'J.' wero found today
entangled in the wreckage of the in
terior. One body was removed. The
others were in such a poor state of
preservation that the work of uncov
ering them is being dono slowly. Not
unv have been identified.
The finding of the bodies was an
nounced olfiuiullv' by Hear Admiial
('. J. Housh.
A hole was ordered cut in the for
ward compartment of the siibmatinc,
which so far has been inaccessible.
Preparations have been made to
embalm the bodies as soon as they
nrc taken out. If permission is grant
ed front Washington, tho United
States cruiser Maryland, duo to sail
today, will bo held hero to take the
bodies recovered to the United Stutes.
Vessel in
HONOLULU, T.
Dry Dock-
II., Aug. lit. The
hulk of tho submarine F-l, lost in
Honolulu harbor March 'J.'i with her
crow of twentv-two men nnd raised
and played in drydoek yesterday, to
day lies exposed to view, the work
of pumping out the drydoek nnd rais
ing the shattered and torn subma
rine from tho waters of the harbor
having been completed during the
night.
Tho craft has not yet yielded up
its secret. No bodies have been dis
covered, nor has tho brief examina
tion thrown any light on the cause of
the accident that caused the diver to
sink and fail to come up again.
Tho F-l lies on her staiboard side
in tho drydoek. When the exumining
board, composed of Hear Admiral 0.
J. Moush, Lieutenant Commander
Julius A. Furier, nnd Lieutenant
Kirby M. Crittenden, entered the ves
sel they found the slut board side and
bottom filled with debris, battery
plates and some sand and mud.
Jlodlc Under Debris
If uny bodies remain in the F-l
(hey nro underneath tho debris,
Doubt is expressed, however, if nny
will bo found, for the great hides torn
in tho submarine, only part of which
wcro protected by Hints during the
months of raising operations, allowed
tho inarino creatures with which the
waters of Hawaii swann, to enter,
and it is feared the bodies have been
entirely destroyed.
In addition to tho gaping holes in
tho stern of the submarine, u big hole
hns been torn in the foiward pint,
L
GENEVA, Aug. 31 Advices reach
Ing hero from Vienna by way of Zu
rich say tho Austrian minister of tho
Interior gives tho number of cholera
cases In that country as 929.
Although tho number of cholora
cases in Austria has beon abnormally
largo this suiumor on account of con
ditions brought about by tho war, tho
foregoing dispatch Indicates that tho
Austrian sanitary officials nro deal
ing effectively with tho disease
PANArA, Aug. 11 The battle
ships Musoun, Ohio and Wimoii-ih,
with SCO tnidshipiiicn who nic on tho
annual practice enu.o, arrived at
PHiiama today on their return from
the I'annina-Pseific expoitition and
WM.ed through tha canal. Tho
bquadron will rMNin at Colon for
twenty-four honre to take on uiuil
and jriv the eadats an opporUuiity
to tha oaual boforo ratwrning to
the NRval aedoiay at Aunapolw,
OREGON", TUESDAY, AUGUST 31,1915
IT'S AWFUL HARD
IDBDCK.
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L. HnUm MHHHH ' 1
The German ambassador lo (lie United States as lio looks (olay and an
Inset of Ills plctme- a jcac ago, showing how tho worries and troubles of
u year liavo worn him.
SEEKING MEMBERS
OF ARSON RING
STILL AI LARGE
POHTLAND, Aug. ;il. District
Attorney Walter II. Hviins and his
deputies were reticent today about
giving further information of the op
orations of thorson ring, which, ac
cording to the alleged confesnion yes
terday of Saufnrd W. Currier, under
arrest here, has collected insurance
on many binned houses in Pacific
coast cities during the last ten years.
Only u small part of the alleged
confession made by Curlier yester
day was made public by tho district
attorney's office. It was stated that
tho names of other members of the
organization will be withheld until
arrests are made. It became known
today, however, that two of the men
sought nro named Edwards and
Townc, and that they nro charged
with being responsible for burning u
double house in San .lose, Cal., in
101.1, ami u three-room house in
Richmond, Cal., shortly afterward.
Besides Currier and (Jrjint Hawley,
who aro under urrest bore, six or
seven other alleged members of tho
ring aro said to he at large. The dis
trict attorney's office is working on
the case in conjunction with u pti
vato detective agency.
It wiih stated that the iiivaiiable
formula used by tho arson ring gave
tho first clow to tho existenco of an
organization. According to Currior's
alleged confession, turpentine, linseed
oil nnd varnish wero used to start a
fire, us tins combination bud proved
most effective.
SKATTLi:, An. 11. The Alaska
Steamship eompan.v'M big fi eight
steamer IMith, winch wiih iiliauiloited
by her crow oil Capo Hiuehinhrook,
Alaska, has been taken in tow by the
passenger stouiner Mariposa, belong
ing to the saiuo (Miinpauy, and the
Mariposn will endeavor to tow tho
disabled bunt to Cordova. The IMith,
hound south from a voyage to Home,
called at the Lutouehe initio and load
ed copper ooncttutratoe valued nt
.t250,00Q. The crew took to the life
boats and were pickod up by tha
Maripo. The .rripo's caitain
icporU tha Kdith UUn baiilv U rt.
Tho lWiU), funnarly tjje Mritiali
stoamar GUnocail, wa built nt San
deriand, Uugland tWrty-Uueo yaara
'"50.
ON POOR BERNSTORFF
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0R0ZC0 SLAIN BY
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HI, PA.SO, Tex., Aug. 31.--A re
pot t received from nn American sent
to Sierra lllanca, Tex.((o invosligato
a repoit that General Piiscual Oror.oo
has been killed in a light with u
posse of Ainorienns, wtyi:
"I am positive Hint one of the five
Mexicans killed by u posse near
Sierra Mlanea wag General Pusottiil
Oror.cn."
Thu American who identified the
bodv ns that of Orozeo was ono of the
government officials who arrostod
him last June nt Newiunn, N. M.
I.uler icports from tho scene ofthe
shooting stale that the identification
of Orozeo wan made positive by pa
port, a watch and fob found on one
of the bodies. According to this re
port, Orozeo was uliot four times.
Orozeo was nrroslcd Juno 127 nl
Newman, N. M., together with Gen
eral Viejotiano Huorlii, on chnrges of
conspiracy to violalo United Slates
neutrality laws by attempting to
launch u revolutionary movement in
Mexico. Ho whb roleiucd on $7."00
bail, but win kept under siirvoillnnce
by federal officers. A few nightd
later Oioreo disapiKiared from tho
linuuo whore ho was guarded. Ho
has been reported at various points, in
northern Mexico nnd on tho American
side sinco that tunc, but never dofui
itely located,
BRiiisHllioo
MLHLIN. Aug. :it fbv vviudcs lo
Saville). -The Mriti-h employed
100,000 men in their attacks oil Turk-
I positions on tho Gallipoli pouiii
biila last .Saturday and Sunday, ac
cording to a dispatch from Constan
tinople to tho Frankfurter Zeitung,
and their louses vtro exit finely
heavy. .
The oorreipnifdout estimatos that
since August (I the Mritish loasog huvo
been in excess of 50,000.
Aoordlng to the corrospondont tho
killed among tlib lirttlah troops In
the flglitlng of August 28 and Aug
ust SO Included about COO officers.
A cavalry dlrialon, ho dsolared, was
almost ooinplotoly wiped out. Tho
dispatch centinue:
"HrlllsJi prisoners know nothing of
the fall of Warsaw and other Hiisalun
fortroasoa. Tiier hud been told that
.vvvuuuvuuuW.MUttwuy .
ii AtiVi.ivhvn .v'tHtmivv-'MWA.
AMERICAN
PS
BORDER
FIH
ths ItusaJnns held tho ontranco to tho
llOHphorus and woro working toward
a Ju notion wtb tho UrltUb.
EXGHANGERATES
WILL CURTAIL
English Pound Sterling Touches Low
est Level on Record Situation Re
garded as Almost Desperate Brit
ish Holders Forced to Sell Ameri
can Holdings.
NKW YOniC, Aug. 31. Foreign
cxchniigo rates reached their most
serious stago today with an overnight
break of two and a half cents In ster
ling, tho Kngllsh pound selling In this
market at $t.ri3Mi. closo to the mark
where citrtallinont of big foreign or
ders to tho United States would fol
low, In tho opinion of bankers hero.
Nothing llko tho violent break in
quotations had ever been recorded In
foreign exchange mnrkots hero be
foro. Tho low level reached today
was ono and ono half cents bolovv tho
mark set wooks ago by financiers ns
tho so-cnllcd Irrcdttclblo minimum
which, when reached, would cause
Kngllsli buyors to sock other markets
In which to placo their orders for
such Imports as could bo obtulnod
olsowlioro than In America.
Foodstuffs, manufactured goods
and many other products, In fact nl-
most ovorythlng except actual muni
tions of war wero embraced within
this category.
What llrcnk Menus
Tho big break means that Kngllsli
buyers, in addition to tho top market
prices already paid In this country
for products, will bo called upon to
pay n premium of 28 M cents on
every pound's worth of purchases or
more than flvo per cent. With Lon
don carrying this burden, tho ques
tion In banking circles was how long
England would continue to buy arti
cles, as she is ot compelled to,
"Thoro Is no other world market ot
Importance opon, but moro rigid
economy at homo In all Imported arti
cles and purchases by Great IJrlfnln
from such European neutrals ns had
wares to soil, It was thought, would
follow If oxchango rates should go
lower. This would result In lessoning
to groat extent tho amount of goods
which Amerlran sollers urn sending
abroad, now tho greatest In voliimo In
tho history of tho country.
lowciit Notch Touched
Last night's close of 11.01 was the
lowest value over placed at that tlmo
on tho pound In this country, Tho
situation today was regarded as al
most dosporato. Within an hour aftor
tho opening of tho market, tho rnto
wont still lower, reaching 1 1. S3. It
then rebounded and touched $1.59.
International bankers hero, looking
anxiously across tho Atlantic for re
lief, saw nothing more than they did
yesterday that UrltlHh nnd French
bankers wero preparing to remedy
tho situation.
Tho tlmo for preparing to remedy
tho situation, In tho opinion ot bank
ers hero, Is nearlng Its end and tho
tlmo for doing something to strength
en tho market has arrived. Why
nothing has beon dono, It was bollov-
cd, was becauso Great Mrltaln hud
not fully awakened to the seriousness
of tho situation.
It was thought posslhlo that Ilrlt
ish bankorB permitted ratos to reach
their present low level becausu they
would afford a strong Inducement to
Hrltlsh holders ot American securi
ties to soil their holdings nnd thus
reap tho bonoflt of n flvo per cent
increase In vuluo,
TELLS OF SUFFERING
MONTKF.AL, Aug. 31. J. T. Ar
maiid, n milling broker, arrived hero
today mid told of many hardships bo
ondured dining tho year he said ho
had been a prisoner in Germany. Ar-
initnd loft hero in June, 11)1 1, to visit
his parents at Striuwhuiv. He was
born in Alauce, but in now a Mritisii
subject.
Annum! said he waa held in jail
twenty days at Duhithal, tried on u
charge of beinir a apy and told to "be
ready at 0 o'elook next mortiine;.."
His relatives and friends had tho ease
roopuuid and ho wns lat-r acquitted
of the spy charge and sent to iin in
ternment oarnp at Ituhlubwi. Annand
doaJarotl the onutur wore poor, iU-
vonttlatod and tho food and elothinj-fceureg.
BUY N G R
NO. 138
WAKE UP.CHINA!
IS APPEAL OF
President of Republic Sounds Noto af
Warning People Dallying In Midst
of Calamity No Thought of Fu
ture When Nation Threatened on
All Sides.
PICKING, July 21 (correspondence
of the Associated Press). President
Yuan Shi Kai uttered nt a recent cab
inet meeting nn impressive plea for
united action in China which ma do n
deep impression upon Chincso offic
ials. Its publication in English today
cnttsed much discussion nmong for
eigners.
"Our suzerainty in southern Man
churia has grndunlly gono into tho
hands of foreigners," the president
said. "Tho foreign ngtrrcssor him
como to their doors, but our jtcoplo
nro still dallying in the midst of cal
amities. As I am advanced in ago
and huvo received tho snored nnd
weighty trust from tho Tsing dyn
nsly, how can I let tho country go to
ruin when I am assuming tho dutios
of chief oxecutivo of tho republic!
My nil mentis I must bjivo tho coun
try. To avert tho impending disnstcr
is tho snored duties which lies upon
tho shouldors of every ono of you.
Deplores Situation
"Our country docs not manifest
any ign of instubility, chaos or tho
lack of confidence of other nations,
nnd it is most unlikely that nny na
tion for tho present will luvado or in
sult our country. Mut when wo think
of tho neglect of discipline by our sol
diers tho irregularities in adminis
trative affairs, tho calamities of flood
and drouth throughout tho provinces,
tho selfishness of soino officials nnd
the lack of public spirit nmoug tho
people, wo cannot help realizing tho
fuet (hut wo nro enjoying oursolvcH
wliilo reposing on n lied of straw Avitli
n kindling fire beneath it.
"And whnt pcrccntngo of tho offic
ials nro enthusiastic mid strictly
carry out their duty!
"Some persons say thai on account
of our vast country mid population
the destruction of our country by nn
alien people is a matter of impossi
bility. Look at Korea, (ho nrcn of
which is not much smaller than Ja
pan. Somo Japaneso papers huvo
stated of Into that although China
has changed the inonarohy into n re
publican form of government, Iter in
ternal affairs nro just ns deplorable
now as in tho Into dynasty nnd that
bribory and gambling among officials
still prevail.
Pcoplo Forget Kllimtlon
"During tho Chiiin-Jupancso war
and tho Moxor trouble our pcoplo wcro
greatly stirred up and determined to
'lio on straws and tusto bittornoss' to
prcparo themselves for future emerg
encies. Mut when tho anxious time
was ouco passed they forgot every
thing. It is worth while to note that
when tho imperial government was
gono it wns the dyniisly that passed
nway nnd not the country, Tho now
method of destroying n country now.
ndays is not only to overthrow thu
government, hut also to destroy tho
latigungo of tho pcoplo mid the very
race of the nation.
"Wo cannot bo ignorant of the his.
lory of Poland. During the crisis of
the recent, Cliino-Jupan negotiations
it was a good sign that our pcoplo
woro greatly awakened by tho threat
ened calamity. Should thov nguiu
quickly forgot tho indignity tho coun
try received, tho greater calamity ot
the country is hound to come,"
President Yuan Shi Kni concluded
(Contlnuod on page six)
LANE 10 FATHER
HER POWER BILL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.- rassago
of a general water power bill and a
meajuro to croato a national leasing
system for coal, oil and othor re
sources on public lands will bo recom
mopdod to congress In Secretary
Lane's annual report. Mr. Lane an
nounced today that ho expected both
measures would bo oaacted. They
were passed by the house In the last
congress, but the tenato. fulled to act
on favoraVel reports o( tho bills.
YUAN 1 KAI
A
Kll