Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
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JfEDFORD OREGON, MONDAY. JANUARY 17, 101G
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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
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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
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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
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MONTENEGRO
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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 ''
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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.''
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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"" 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.
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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.
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MEXICO PROPOSED
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