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Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHLh Unlit or Bnovv 'JiKwdar. Max. 511, Jlln. ill, Prcdp, .OS roity-flfth Wnr Pnlly Ti-ntli Yfjir. JfEDFORD OREGON, MONDAY. JANUARY 17, 101G NO. 25-Jt ftt I ( FIRSIOF MONTENEGRO SUES FOR PEACE ASSERTS TISZA Hungarian Premier Announces In Parliament That Tiny Kingdom Has Had Enough Fighting Uncondi tional Surrender Demanded Before Discussion of Terms. lllJItLlN, Jan. 17, by wlro lcss. Tho king and tho gov orinnont ot Montenegro on January 13 nskcil n cessation of hostilities and oponlng ot poaco negotiations, It was of ficially ibnouncod today by AiiRtro-Hungarlan hendnuar tois. . ItKItLIX, .Tnn. 17 (by wireless to Sayville). Tho Oversells Xcwh tiKuncy fintioiiiii'ctl today CouniTiurn, tlu Hungarian premier, had an noiiueed in the Hungarian parliament that Montenegro had usked for peace. Monlcneg was asked uncondi tionally to lay down her nnns and bho had accepted, tho premier de clared, nording to the news agency. The Austro-Hungnrinn government replied to Montenegro that peace ne gotiations woronly )wible if the Montenegrin army uneouditionally laid down its arms, the hemlqunrtor statement ns rocoived hero from Vi enna says. Tho Montenegrin gov ernment, adds tho Btatcmont, yester day accepted tho Austrian conditions. The report is ns follews: TI..70?s Statement " 'Montenegro ntnVs for pence,' stated Count Tisau in the Iliingariau iHirIiment. Tiio proceedingti under the first purngMvph of the order of the day had just been completed when Count Tiszu naked permission to internipt tho discussion. He Mut ed that tho kin? find government of Montenegro had asked tho inuugurn kton of poaco negotiations. "Tht announcement caused n great commotion in parliament. "'We asked that boforohnnd Mon tenegro nnconditioiinllyltw down her urnis,' coutimpjd tho premier. "Joyful shouts followed this tnlo mciit. Ann .Sunvndcitil " 'Just at this moment,' continued the prcmior, 'the nofe hns arrived that tho unconditional laying down of arms hit bean accomplished. " 'Since the preliminary condition has been fulfilled,' added tp )remiur. 'peace negotiations will bu altered into imi0diutely.' " Thi aut4hncent, if accurate, murks the firat known definite step taken by any of tho belligerents in the Euiupetui war toward tho making of JK'JK'C, HEAVILY FROM FLOODS LONDON', Jan. 17. Itejiorts from the Dutch frontlor sent by the Am sterdam correspondent of tho Central q.Nwb Indicate that llelgium bai suf fered hoavlly from thdfloods, ospoc (Silly In South Flanders. The river Scheldt has risen several meters and the villages ot Wollen, Gavore Sjn gen, and Shelderode aie completely inundated. o oo SPANISH STEAMER BELGICA SUNK; CREW RESCUED LOXDOXJan? 17. The Snih steamer IMgiea has Bn sunk. Twenty-three wewher nP the crew were saved. The lakt wention of the IMgiea iu aMiiluble loen-antiUi record oi Iter urrnul Ikcnib4)r 12 at Heyshaui, Knjflund, fmnt .Sagunlo, Spain. The -ii-nuier was owntnl bv the Interna- tn'iiul XaMyalmn uiuinv t Itilbao. lur ,i'--. tunuuvv was l0. NTENTE ALLIES. CRUSHED T " K 0 A RAN A Am DRIVEN BACK IN ! TM MESOPOTAMIA lay rWJErs Vmr ' ' 2 'J' S "m,- Ing Nicholas, ngetl 7.'t, rcproents tlHj worldV ohlcl reigning dyiuiMy. Monlencwro history begnn in 1SWO when n Turkish nnny nuiilhllnWNl tlio Ancient Serbian Kingdom. Tho i-e-malnlng Sorbs fled to tho "IllncW inoiintnln, where they set up an In dependent, kingdom and have Mneo maintained their lnricKiidcnry. SEPARATE PEACE 10 ItO.MK, Jan. 17, via Pari1. Auh- tria, according to n press dispatch from Athens, is reported to have of fered n separate peace to Montenegro on tho following term: "Austrin agreed to guarantee Mon tenegro all territorial right h in Scu tari in oxchungo for tho cosbion of Mount Lovccn to AuMriu." Official announcement wns mado by tho Montenegrin uuthoritios on Satur day that Montenegro had never ad hered to or intended to ndhcro to any M'lwrnti' proposal of peace or to any unnistici with Air-tun. IIEKLIX, Jan. 17 (by wireless to Sayvilie). "Tho Auhtro-Hungnrian government has entered a verbal pro test with the American ambassador at Vienna, P. C. Penfiold, against tho oe uupation by Froucli and Ilritish do- tnehmoutH of the Island of Corfu, Which is u srunt violation of tho hondon tresfte of 1SU3 and 1801," tays tho Overscan Kews agunoy. "I ho Austro-IIunitanuii govern ment points out tiiat Great Hritain and Fnince ngnin havo manifested their disregard of the general i)rinci- lIes of international law. Tho Ameri can nmliashudor hat been asked to communicate the protest to Great Hntam and Frnntv." EAT RLNDISI. Italy, Jun. Ifi, via Rome. Forty members of tho Seib iun government have arriu'd hero from Scutari, accompanied by diplo mats of the allied power accredited to King Uater. ROJIK, Jan. 10, iu Iari. Jan. 17. Tiro Idea Xasiouale says the Sorb ian goemment will have headquar ters at Hrindisi for souio time. Pre mier Puchitch, Iijoulm Jovanovitch, minister of the interior; M. Drach- l.. :...u t . .- . nutuvu, iniuiMicr oi nuiHifl works, and h number of other goveniweut officials urc at Dimdui $3iOoo,ooo EryIjock FOR PUGET SOlfMD ASKED jr WASIHXGTO.V. Jan. 17. bj ealling: for u j.'i.tMtO.Ooo did-k at the I'uget Siuiiiil hiiw .ird wus (fy tiuilut i-J tod.i ,j tnuiot' J'jIhs, AUSTRIA F MONTENEGRO mm protest SEIZURE OF CORFU British Capture Positions at Waddl Russian Attacks. Force Turkish Back in tho Caucasus Artillery Dud on West Front and Activity in East Hampered by Snow Storms. LOXDOX, Jan. 17. Announce ment wns made in the hotiKO of com mons today that tlio Turkwh forces in Mesopotamia have fallen back to within hix miles of Kut-ol-Amara. The announcement wns made by J. AtiHtcn Chamberlain, secretary for India, who said tho Turks hud re treated as tho result of another Brit ish victory. Tho Turkish positions nt Waddi, ho said, were carried on Sat urday by the Ilrittoh. TJiirltiMi Forces Itetjcnt I1KIIMX, Jan. 17 (by wireless to Sayville). After delaying for a week the advance of strong Russian forces in the Caucasus, tho Turks havo withdrawn their advanced posts sev eral miles at homo points, according to tho Turkish offieinl statement of toduy, received hero from Constanti nople. The statement follews: "In tho Caucasus tho Russians con tinued their uttuoffk against Turkish positions on both sides of tho Arnsa, suffering heavy lossos, especially iu tho district between tlio Arnsa and tho Inid valley. Hero Turkish nd- vAnuud posts retired some kilometers nfter hnving dolnycd strong enemy forces for ono week." Regarding operations in Moeopotn mia tho statflkient says: "Thero linn) been iutcrmiltoaVi artil lery firo near Kut-el-Amuru." Llttlo IKiIng in Fronts IH2IW.IX, Jan. 17, vki liondou. Anny hcniuartcrs today issued tho following statement: "western frent: In tho town of LoAK sixteen inhabitants were killed or wooded by artillery fire of tho enetny. "Kastcni fient: Military activity is hampered by miow storms !ong a groat part of the front. Thcro wcro engngemeuts oelwceu jwitrols nt bomc point '' T KANSAS CITY, Jan. 17. Jess Wlllard, heavyweight champion pu gilist, arrived horo today to talk over with Tom Jones, his manager, bids submitted yesterday for a fight bo twoon tho ohgynplon and Frank Mo rsi of Pittsburg. Jones told friends ho wanted a "couplo of days to think things over" beforo docldlng. Among tho promotors bidding for the battle who waited hore to ascer tain Jonos' Jloclslon Ooro Jack Cur loy, who mado an offer of 30,000 as Wlllard's uharo of the proceods; Har ney Oldflold, tho automobllo raci who with Jimo Cof froth would take tho contest to Tijuana, Mexico; and Hilly Wollman, roprosenting "Tox" Itlckard of Now York. If Curloy loads the flgrfDho will present it In Now York. IEN MUM BODTY TAKbN BY TURKS IT BIO FOR W1LLARD HGH Iwent on 1 XOPLK, Jaiul". AnWagos an ut issued by nU Turk- s co CONST AXTIXOI official s&toHieut ib war eCflee says; "iJsrdsnelles front : A hostile ship on FiiUajmjyjccysfully shelltsl Sed dul Ilabr. Our seaplanes dropped bombs on ships of thP enemy off Mudrus, on the Maud of I.emnos. "Ae value of the booty captured bv the Turkii.li forces now amounts lp nt kasl L'jUOUjiMJO x,uud- sterling.'' MM 15 RESPONSIBLE Evidence Collected Indicates That Carranza Authorities Assured Wat son That No Escort Was Neces sary Further Investigation Neces sary to Determine Responsibility. WASHIXGTOX, Jan. 17. Kvidcnce collected at Kl I'nso by stato depart ment agents indicates that Carrauzu authorities nt Chihuahua assured C. It. Watson, head of the party of Americans killed near Santu Ysabel, that no escort was necessary 1 that opinion, however, muny of the Americans agreed, although they had suggested to tho authorities tho nd usability of sending troops with tho party. IVrsonnt rnstjiort The advices further stated that tho Carranza govcnior of Chihuahua gavu Watson n personal passport and that tho Carranza iinmiffntiou authorities at J.uartv. gave n general passport for1 tlio whole Watson party. These developments nro taken to point to responsibility of tho Car ranza government for not adequately protecting tho Americans. Stato department officials indicat ed, however, that they did not con sider tho advices us being finally suf ficient to determine the responsibility of tho Carranza government and fur-i thcr investigation will be made. All 1-Vlt ,Srt on Trip Tho stnto department - gave out this paraphraso of its official ad vices from Kl Pase: "Holmes, tho only su-vivor of tho mnssnerc, hitd no knowlodgo ns to whothor WaUnn and Ins companions requosted n military escort or guard for their trip from Chihunhun to Cueihuirnohic. lie states that if they did so tho awlhorities declined to fur uihh an escort or gonrd. Holmes says that all tho members of tho party felt safe in making tho trip. "It is reported by a porsoii con nected with ono of the companies op erating in Chihuahua thnt on the day that tho Amorionns who woro killed started for tho works ho had a con versation with Watson and asked him if a Mexican cacort was to accom pany his pnrty. Watson ropliod that such an escort would not oscort them as ho had talked with the nuthoritie and they told him it was not neeus Miry." A to what nssuinneos, if any, Wntsnn unit his oomjHiuioiw hsjl r uoived from Mexican authoritios tlwt it would bo snfo to losunio opera tions at Cueihuirachie, tint depart ment seys: Promised d'unlMtn "Knowing that the Cusi minot wero Mtvted at Cusi and that fto pur pose of tho return of WiUot and conj)aniotw to Mo.ico was to resemo tho opcrions of those minoa, the im migration authorilius in Juarez, upon cpilication of tho Kl Paso tgdnfrof tho Cusi company, gavo m .lenrral passport to U4 Watson partj'. The govonior of Chihuahua ilso 3'a.u a personal pafcsport to Watson, "Having passports issued bv au thorities and a garrison hnvinc been established wln.'li tlcv understJod to number 1000 men, t!cv had ainp'e as- nir.mroi that it wn.dd bo safe to re- lurai1 tperutions .it ( i.si. PHILADELPHIA SHE PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 17.- Gar ment workers numbiung about 0000 .went on strike here today J'otr higher d better working condition. Oiiswiueiiee about 250 factories are closed. Nearly alt of the Strik er are women and girls. All of the faotories are cketcd. The demands of the trikrs include a fifty-hour week, a inaxiinuu of four hours a night wheu working nights, a 15 pr cent iuereas iu wages aud a namwym wage of $0 u week for wo men and H foi mcu. MAM ENEGRO. LAY PA LS vJp F bW ' .naaal V tSI 'JaaH HHkk2aaalnsiaaaaaaaaaaBBaaaBBaaaaaaaaaaaaBaBaaW9F n?5? TawBbHBb aaaaaaaaaaaafl nHHViHIHi- - 1 aHllaiilBaaaaaaaaaaaW John I). Itorlcc rcllcr gavo up J?iin, ! (or his (line) the other day Just to meet Hilly Sunday, champion cvangclUt, iu Ijikcvtood, X. !. "It's iv gmii work you'10 doing," said John l. to .Sunday. "He's n girnt old man," wild Sunday r John I), "lie's not like tho Morlcs )ui licar iilMiut him. He's no grouch. S T SlOrX CITY, la., Jan. 17.- An Il linois Central passenger train jump ed tho track tofey near Piagah, Iu., and four persons wero seriously hurt and a. score iiijureil. Tho accident occurred as tlio train was approaching n bridge over 11 creek. The bngango oar is belioved to havo first jumped thu track, pulling tho other five cms from the tniok. Miss Caroline Andrews of Moll ford, Or., a member of tho Ifc Kovcn Kobin Hood Opera company, was among those slightly injurod. Sojr enteon othuni of tho opern company were injured, tho only 0110 seriously hurt being Phil Hronson, tho comed ian, of Xew York, (leorgo Walker of Cherokee, la., aud O. 0. Sn4 con ductor of the tram, weru injured in ternally and may die, it was said by surgeons, Miss Andrews is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed if. Andrews of .Med ford unif well known throughout 'the valley, She joined the company last autumn at Xew York, liar parents received a telegram from her this morning staling that she hud escaped scnou-. inpiey in tho wreck. ALLEGED SPY TAKEN from mm AI SEA NEW YOKK, Jan. 17. -Details of tho seizure by the Ilri(ih cruiser Vindictive of Conrad Muebciistein, an alleged (icnuaii spy, from the stcuiu ship Vuugbau of the tttimport & Holt hue, were told on the latter' arrivul hero today I fun Iiruzd. He is su pc ted bv the lntih, it was snid, of having bi-eii concerned ut inuuitiitu plot-, in S.IU lr.ilici-.ro. FLEE FROM MEXICO KUhPAtft), Tex , Jan I 7 - Twent flve Xermott colonists from the state of CUIhualPua arrived hare late, last night aboard a tralu tmu eaHM by 'way of Juares from Casus Oruiwlea. A nuinlwr of others, it waa aUied. Here coming on a suecial tralu from I'urral due iods, Ml ANDREWS SLIGHTLY mm 1 WRECK S DOWN ITS ARMS s . ' EAST SHIVERING t- ON COLDEST DAY h HELD TO 1 IE WASHIXGTOX, Jan. 17. Tho su premo court today construed tho Washington stnto workmen's com pensation law as abolishing all dam ago actions iu the courts by work men in thu hnxanluua employments covered by the law, whether against employer or ugnins( third persoiiH. The decision was in h case iu which tho widow and children of Henjnmiu 3fese sued the Xortheru Pacific railroad for the alleged uogligont kill ing of Mecsc, an employe of u brow- ery at Seattle, alongside tho railway's tracks. Tho district court huld tho compensation law abollghod nil 110 tioiiH for damages snd dliinissod tho suit, but tho oinmit cojirt of nppciilH hold that it abolished litigation only of employe against thoir employom. Tho supreme court today lydield tho distnot court s interjirotulion and re versed the circuit court of appeals. ARRESTS FALL OFF I HKATTI.K, W.i '1.. Jan. 17- Dur ing tho firt .sixteen duys of January thu police uiudu -IUH arrests, as com- puivd with U7I (luring the eorro- Houdiug KMiod of Hecumbcr. Thero have liecn thirty-oue arrests for vio lutin of the iiroliiliitioivjaw. Much liipior is being seised iu hotels and lodging houses. Sseiaurvs and ar rests have been made only where at tempts wes wade to all lipior held over frnn the wet iteriod. S'iure are not made wUeie the or ner i con suming the liUor hiinsilf und not xflllllg it. NEW -YORK PLANS NKW YUltIC, Jan.1 17. -This oily is to have a new $2,000,000 church edi fice. 1'luua for new building for the iwribh of St. Durtholowew's lipisoo- ial church iu iludioa ovmno were made public toduy. They ni Ide for one of the fiuast eholHAe ol Hit-1 it v. to be erected at Park avnmo uud I'Hftieth street. The now1 obureh wdl have a seating capacity of 130J ir- BUll1", COMPENSATION DLISH AMA ACTIONS OF THE SEON Cold Wave Spreads Over RcQton East of Mississippi Heavy Storm Raging in Southern California Traffic Delayed Northwest Still Freezing Another Galo on Coast. "" Tonight and Tncsday Itnin T nr ciiiivv w!t. lillHrllliwI iit-nli. . - ..., ............. ,..- "" ably aim w cast jiortion, wnrmer; "" easterly windg, reaching galo forco near tho coast. WASIIIXOTOX, Jan. 17. The cold wave ovoivprcnd in tho country cast of tho Mississippi today had forced tho fror.on lino down to tho middlo of the Gulf of Mexico coast and tho lino of zero lomporaluroH as far south ns tho Ohio river. Hum and snow, mo.Htly light, prevailed over tho cast and south and sleet has been experi enced as far south ns Mobile. Con tinued cold in promised tonight in tho middle Atlantic Ktatcs with a cold wave extending into Florida. I Cast Is Shivering ' CHICAGO, Jan. 17. Chicago shiv ered today in an icy blast from tho northwest, with the tlionuomctor nt II djrees below zoro. INDIANAPOLIS, Jam 1L Tho coldest day of tho scafcon wan re corded horo today with u tempera ture of 3 degrees holow zero. CliHVKIAND, O., Jan. 17. Tlio mermiry was 4 degrees below zero, according to tho official thermometer here this morning, thu coldest day of thu season. 1 1 DALLAS, Tox., Jan. 17. Tho oold est wonthor of thu winter, with tho temporaluro .'10 degreos nbovo zero, was reported today from tho Texan fruit mid produou district around lirownsvillo. Amplo warning had boon given to grower, however, 'and oxtensivo damage is not feared. Worm In California LOS ANOKLKS, Cal., Jan. 17. Sti-uut oar and railroad tniffiu wn deniomlixed today throughout this oction of southern California na tho rosult of alinVst continual rains siueo Saturday iiiglit. Tho downpour fctill bowed no signs onrly today of stop, ping. Washouts at various point dolnycd all wssengr trains from tlio north und east. WALLA WALLA, WufcIi., Jan. 17. 7 Willi temperature of 7 dogrcos be low aero Saturday night and lust night, Walla Walhi is o.xpuriwiuiug the coldest woHther iu fivo year, und with one exception thu coldest iu 20 years. Thero is moro than a. foot of mow on the ground, howovor, and tlio dsmago to erop will bo inoousidor able. Tcmponitiires of 15 unci 10 bo (Contlnuod on pagoslr) WASIIIXOTOX, Jan. 17.-i:alivb-lihliment of a noutml zono Ju northoru Mexiuo (0 bo jointly policed by tho foroea of Moxieo and thu United Stale unless disordorg nro speedily controlled, is proposod in u resolution, introduced today by Senator Ooro, dwnoomt, of Oklahoma. The resolution reorred to the fur eign relations oomudttea and wctulil HHthorise the United Slates tQ cntor into au agreement with Oenural Cur ranaa t ur trooM to rotoro ordur and make Jjfn secure iu that porttojj ot Msico adjacent to tho Unftod Stalea. There was 110 discussion ou the floor. NEUTRAL ZONE M MEXICO PROPOSED m t m m