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HMMMMMHM tt SECOND EDITION WEATHER Itnlu Tonight nnd THcijr, Minimum (It, inlulitiHHt St forty-fifth Ywr. I tally Tfntli Tar MEDFORD OltMIQN, 'ITKnDAY, KKNHrAKY H. lOlti NO. 27.') Medford Mail Tribune AT SEnLEMENT OF Situation Considered at Cabinet Mcctinrj and Pronounced "Very Hopeful" Settlement In Next Few Days to Be Concluded No Official Announcement for Several Days. WASHINGTON, Fill. 8.--Gcr-tunny's latest reply in the Lusitnnin negotiations was characterized ns al most, of not cptito entirely aeceplablo to tlio United States by high official today nftur Secretary Lansing had conferred with l'rchidcnt Wilson morn than nn hour, and the enso had been diseimsed nt tlto cabinet meeting. Tito, whole situation wiih described by nd miniHtrntiim officials as "very iiope ful.' Later today Seoretnry Lansing will confer with Count Von Jlorustorff, the German umbnHBiidor, it is ex pected ho will commniiiuatc to the ambassador the American govern ment's view of the Inlest proposal from Iterliii, which substitute for ttic word "illegal" in the reference to ttic sinking of the Lusitiiniu a declaration that reprisal must not be extended to others than enemy MihjceK ('oVeiiiment.s in Accord. The view reflected by udminislrn- tion officials is that this declaration with the nsiiirances Germany previ ously had given mid with the other features of the Lusitnnin nrgumeiit nlrendy agreed upon, is practically sntihfnotory. With the two governments substan tially in accord, the next step in thu proceedings will be to put the settle ment, when finally agreed upon, in a formal do&iimont to be proi-entcd to the state department in behalf of the Renin foreign office. In addition to thu declaration that reprisals must not be directed nt oth ers than the enemy, indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania nntl a declaration of Germany's de sire to co-operate with the United States to secure freedom on the scum, it is understood that the document will either incorporate or attention will be directed to the nsMinmres Germany gave, in the Arabic ease that liners would not be Junk without warning, provision being made for the safety of those on board, unless they resisted capture or attempted to fleo. Tho inclusion of all these points is understood to embrace everything for which the United States has con tended. Settlement in Sight. Lute today a high administration official mado this anneuncement: "A settlement of the Lusitania onso is in sight, probably within tho im.u few days. Thu United Stntcfi Iihs not iuci cased iU demands; it has not re duced them. You can draw your own uouclusion as to thu biicis of the agreement.'' "The wording proposed by Our tunny nppoam to cover the position of thu Uiiitod States. It is not fair to Mkfeiima that thoie will have to be any fart iVr admissions or concession lrom Itcrlin." Ilo added that tho proposal was "substantially satisfactory." Secretary Lansing said lute today that no announcement would he made utter his cpnferonco with Count Horn stoit'f and not until after ho had conferred nguin with Prosident Wil son, lie indicated no announcement might be made tor several days. BIB IN HA LONDON', Feb s The Weekl World says it hears that Field Mar shal Lord Kitchener It likely to take ovor command of the Hritlsh force in Kgypt and that tho Karl of Der by, tho director of recruiting, will b the new secretary of state for war with a Mat in the cabinet. The World gives no authority for th report, but says It la gossip lOina with raent Intimations that Karl Kllehenar might withdraw from the war mlHiatry to assume mora activo duties. Lord Derliv 1ms just return d to London from a s t to tlio lluti.-ii iokCj Oi'CMuDfe lalutlJirj, AN A S K TCHENER TO LEAD GRAND OPERA SINGER WEDS MOVE STAR 4 ficraidluo Fnrrur NKW YORK, lob dcmliHne Fnrrar, opcrn singer, nnd Lou Telle gon, nctor, wcro married hero todny at tho homo of Miss Farrars pacntu, Mr. and Mrs. Sydnoy Farrar. Tho coromony was porformed by the Itov. Loon A. HflrYox socwjtnrr at the Unl- tnrlnu denomliiutlonal headquarters lit this city. STEPS TAKEN 10 OF HOPI HANS WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Indian service and department of pixtico of ficials with a view of heudmg off n threatened uprising of Ilopi Indians on the western Natujo reservation in Arixouu, sent imdructioiia to Thomas Ilynn, United States ottonicy at Flagstaff, and Sux'riutendont Thnok ery of the I'ima Indian reervntion, to take it posse to Tuba, center of tho trouble, to arrest the policemen ronncelcd with killing the Indian. This was o.Mjcted to quiet the In diana, who, it whs reported, had threatened to hum the Tuba reserva tion buildings. Tubtt is isolated bv deep snows, and offieuiis said it might be several da,t before it was loarned whether the Hit.se's mission were successful. Thackery, it was said, is reted by tho Indians nnd it was bcheted he unit placate the tribe. Officials here were not iuformed ( the nature of the crime of which tV IndlUIl killed ttu- nerilM'd. VISITING IN ITALY I'MtIS, Fell v In explanation of Premier Urland's visit to Italy, the Matin says that the prolongation of Vu- war lad to certain difficulties for the Italian government, which, bow over, realties that if Italy Is to profit by the victory of tho allies she must take an active part in the operation "This will add to Italy's burden." says the Matin, "but will also In crsftM the sdraatago which she Is to reap. Xr. Urland's reputation as a loagheailed statesman is well estab lished la (om. It was he who saw thathe bast way to protect Egypt was to stay at Kalonlkl and the sal vage of Hit- Sej'ii.in urnn wftsgpe to his steadfastness Ilia visits to Italy wifj)a far towarii bringing about al- Koluto political III)!!'. of (lip dlliet, iiji h ,-4nditiuu m .I'tur " QUIET Oil PREMER BRIAND ARMOR BAN THREATEN RA SE N ARMOR PLATE Private Munition Makers Notify Sen ate That They Will Increase Price of Armor Plate $209 a Ton If Gov ernment Decides to Erect or Pur chase Armor Plate Factory. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Private armor plate manufacturers notified the senate imvnl committee today that they would raise the prico of ar mor pinto .f'JOO n ton if congress de cides to erect or purchase nrmor plate factories for tho government. The committee, nevertheless, voted to recommend government plant. After brief consideration tho com mittee ordered favorably reported the bill authorizing expenditure or fr00, 000 to equip Mure Island nnvy yarrt for battleship construction and $100,000 to enlarge facilities of tho Xcw York nnvy ynrd, and the bill to add .'100 midshipmen of the first class at Annapolis next July. These two bills pnssed the house yesterday. I'cnroso Trust Silusiiinn. Senator I'cnroso notified tho com mittee of the stand of nrmor plate manufacturers, those chiefly con cerned being the Ilcthlelieui and Mid valo Steel compunios. " The committee voted, nevertheless, 0 to :i, to rcjwrt favorably Scnntor Tillmun's bill to authorize the secre tary of the navy to provide either by erection or purchase of an nrmor plate factory or both, with capacity of not less than 120,000 tons or armor a year. The hill will appropriate, $1 1,000,000. Senators Penrose, Lodge' mid Smith of Michigan. npub licans,' voted against reporting tho bill. I'hainnnn Tilhnnn, Senntors Swan son, Hryan, Johnson of Maine, Chil ton, I'holaii nnd I'ittman, democrats, and Cllipp nnd Poindcxtcr, tcpublic nns, voted for it. lllnff lit lis to Work. "The threat of the armor plate barons to hold up the government will not n fleet congress," said Senator Tillman. "We were given to under stand that the armor manufacturers would increase their price becnuso got eminent munufacturi! of armor plate would force them to go out of that business and they would charge this enormous increase in order to protido themselves with an amortisa tion fund. Hut I guess wo can find u way to stop the robbers. In time of trouble we could scire their plants nnd operate them by right of emi nent domain." On motion of Senator I'helan of California, tho committee agreed to consider his bill to npproprinto .flO, 000,000 for const runt ion of a naval und aviation ncadcniy within J .10 miles of San Francisco. Senator I'hclun was directed to furnish tho committee with data on the need of uch un academy. benntor Ln Follettc blocked an at tempt to pass immediately the pro posal making available at once $11(10, 000 to equip the navy yards nt Now Yoik nnd Mure Island, although Chairman Tillman asked unanimous consent for its immediate considera tion. "I think the mutter of such import ance (lint we should hate n written report," snid Senator L Follettc, "and I object." CAPTIVE BRITISH LINER APPAM AS SHC LOOK! LYIBG IN tv A 4fc jrfe&WPI tftv hvwmw o 0Cl6"'irH wm . ...mr."iassBsHiBssssr rz-m. .- 'ms.- ""rwmmimumaazAUmua . - ., .i &.:. : - .mmmum.,,. &&& First photor-.i 1...A n ih Hrlti U Imrr V,.j..i Iwng at an' hor m th .ar or at et i-oi News whni ottn landed, NO PL0TT0DESTR0Y T German Consul General at San Fran cisco Indicted by Federal Grand Jury W Conspiracy Twenty Other Indictments,, Including One Arjalnst Turkish Consul. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. German Concul-Gcncrnl Franz Ilopp wub In dicted In San Francisco by n federal grand jury todny In connection with the co-sailed Crowley plot to blow up munitions plants nnd Intcrforc with Interstate commerce In muni tions of wnr, nccordliig to. n report received nt tho department of Jus tice. ' Ilopp wns reported Indicted under tho Shrpiinn anti-trust lnw and un der tho section of tho peunl code which forbids n tonsplrncy to set on foot military expeditions from tho United States against n friendly na tion. I 'I ii ii ned i:pcdltlou. Dotnlls of tho Indictment wcro not sent here, but officials understand that tills section of tho lnw wns re sorted to becnusn of nllcged plnns for an expedition against Cnnndn. Twenty Indictments were returned nlso at Snn Francisco by tho snmo grand Jury In tho steamship .Sacra mento case alleging 'the making of false clearanco papers In connection with thu ship which It was alleged was used to supply Gorman warships nt sen, using San Francisco ns n baso. Tho consul-goncrnl of Turkey wnH among those Indicted In that enso. Tho new Indictment, tho message said, supersedes those previously found In the same cata Trial or tho two cases is not oxpocted beforo late In April. Indictment TliurMlny. SAN FltANCISCO, Feb. 8. Tho reported Indictment of Consul-Gonor-al Ilopp, It was understood hern, probably will be roturncd by tho fed ora! grand Jury when It roconvouos Thursday. It was understood thnt 1 Mr. Ilopp and a ntimoor of other per I sons probably Including foreign gov ' ornmentnl representatives wore tho subject of Indictments agreed upon during the last fow weeks In connec tion with n scries of alleged viola tions of American neutrality. GO 10 SENATE WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. Tln hoiiffu measure to strengthen the nnvy went over to llw senate todav. , One is a bill to provide for adding about 300 midshipmen to the entrance class of Annapolis next July and the other calls for equipping of the uat.t yards at New York mid Mitic Nluud for the construction of huttloahip Nos. .'( and II. Speaker Chump t'lnrk took the lead in urging passage of the two meas ures in the house. Hu was strongly supported by ltcprchuntntito Maun, the minority leader, with the result that party lines were obliterated and 'both measures itasncd the houc with i out u dissontiug vote. -L : "f v' mX fj,' irr 1 ri i ' , MUNTONPLAN AY MEASURES sfpwwrtjEasi""1" ru arsFJsnriMw r imim .jijnmxur ---"", . . , TtasaiiBBMiiifiii GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY Al SAN FRANCISCO 1, 4tMHHsHKsr?c9sssB I'Yiuu Hip, (1011111111 C'nstiI.(;cnon.l at .San I'miicUco. mm AGAN AI POGEI SOUND. SKATTLK, Wiifli., Feb. 8. - An inch of oft snott fell here early this morning. At U if. in. the Iwnpartitme whs III! dcy i ct. About nine iuchoa of snow till lies mi the ground. '.Mod erate temperature is oxiwetod today. The milliner in which the miow is leaving the lower ground Is very sat isfactory, the streams being able to carry away the water, There haw been no general thaw in the mountains so far as known, but the brenknp cannot be postponed much longer. The Milwnukuo track was cleared again lust night, and traniK are now running. The North ern Pacific sort ice has not been in terrupted since last week. Tho flnmt Northern in rout nig its train over the Northern l'ucifie. 1 Two (heat Northern trains were i halted last night by mud slides at i Itiehmoiid Heaeh, ten miles north of Kent He. Tliev will be brought biiek. IMi:mtI5. S. I)., Fell s The first special somIoii of the legislature In the history of South Dakota eonvouod ' here today to consider amendment of the primary olootlou law. No other business Is oxpocted to coma before thu sossIqii. SK3K HARB OR AT NEWPORT NEWS f aii a .udir. jh the ooUi ou' m '"lKt tu iit on ber luxe TRAFFC UID SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE MEETS CONTINENTAL ARMY PLAN DENOUNCED BY GENERAL MILES i WASHINGTON. Feb, K Oppon ents of military prcparodnoss were hoard today by the military commit too of tho houso und senate. Ho foro the house committee LleutonnnU Gouerul Miles, retlrod, donounoed tho Qontlnentnl army. "It would bo n dangerous stop to ward centrnlUntlon that would put a tromondoiiH power lit soma future president," ho said. "It Is un-American. Why try to Gcrmaulxo tho Amorlran people? You can not Ger mnnlie American citizens." General MJIos praised the National Guard, doclured compulsory military sorvloo unnocoMiary, favored throo year eiillstmonts, recommunded a regular standing nrmy of 110.000 to 110.000 men nnd submitted an army reorganization plan of his own, con templating recruiting n forco of 1, 100,000 mun by! expanding the units of organisation. I'rosldent Dorublnser of the Farm ers' t'nlon of Texas, and ropresont Ing, he said, farmers' orgonliatlons of twenty-two states, opposed mili tary service or any lurge Incrwtsu In expendltiiros. Ilo approved a "rea sonable outlay" for coast defense Mabel T. Iloardmau of the Ameri can Ited Cross, before the houso mill tar committee, urged provisions In the army bill for co-ordination of lied Cross work. Authority should be slvmi the secretary of war, she said to detail additional officers to the Ited Cross, to extend greator aid In organization of hospital and sup d columns for mobilisation In war ttms, and to permit the construction of Ited Cross warehouses on govern ment reservations. BY SERVE WASI1INQTON, Feb. 8. -How only 803 tnefl have been bi ought into tho uuvttl rNtrve by laas deoignud to foster such a fottu m told to thu house naval poiumittee today by l(sr Admiral ictor Ittue. Secretary Danu-lx, he said, lm proposal uiui-iiiliiienu Hindi, it wu-. hoped, Wiiilil build up the toice. Whili' tin- naval ic-ene law ltai ht't-n 'li-iipxiiniiiiy in piuiluciug num-Iki-. Ailinniil lllue Mid, it had brought a greater pwiveutage of rc-euli-.tuient, giving the navy a latgu piop'-iHoii nt trained men on its FLOOD WATERS OFWILLAMETTE COVER LOWLAND River Rising Rapidly as Snows Melt, Submcrfjlnrj Portland Docks Houseboats Break Loose, Tiireat cntnrj Vessels Body of Hon Is Picked Up in Stream. I'OHTLANI), Or., Feb. 8. Tho Willnmetlo river, swollen by-thc flood waters of its tributaries, continued to rise rapidly today. A houseboat, breaking uwny from its mooring nt Milwaukie, just nbovo Portland, went tearing through the harbor thin morn ing. Half an hour Inter two similar struelurcB followed it, threatening; teasels moored nt the wharves 03 they whirled by. Tho body of n innn floating in tho river was picked tip by tho govern ment dredge Chinook nnd turned over to the coroner nt .St. Johns, n mib urb. Dredge No. II, which ran aground In tho river last week, wns complete ly submerged today. Up to noon the river here had risen about four i'cet during tho Inst ttin-ty-four hours. The Situ Francisco & Portland Steamship company begnn clearing the freight from tho lower floor of its Ainsworth dock, which will not ho submerged until tho river reaches a stage of 17 feet above low water mnrk. A rise of another foot will flood the docks in tho upper har bor. At Albany the river linH risen 0.1 feet nnd nt Sttlcni 1.7 feet, during the lust twenty-four hours. The Or egon City Transportation compnny warehouse nt Salem is hulf Kiibmcrg cd. The crest has passed Eugene, where the water has fallen three feci. In the Willamette vnl!ox,Houth of Portland, considerable damage is re ported ns n result of thu overflowing of tributary streams. At Albany the Willamette river reached Hie 20-foot singe today and an additional rise of two feet wns predicted by tonight. The Calnpooia river is out of Its banks. Oregon Klcctrio trains ttre cut off from Cortallis by the flood wat ers. The temperature in Portland today hovered around .10 degrees and tho snow continued to melt rapidly. WILSON'S NAME PRIMARY BALLOT INDIANAPOLIS. IniL, Feb. 8.On the authority of Secretary Tumult, President Wilson's name was placed on the Indiaua primary ballot us the only eaudidate for the democratic nomination for president on January 7, the last day for filing by candi dates. The petition to place the nnmo of Preiduut WiUoit on thu ballot had been circulated previously, hut was held up pendiuK word from Washing ton as to the deniru of the prosiduut. No word had been loeoitcd the night heforo the final day for filing peti tions und demourtitiu Icadgrti lieio called Sccrcliiry Tumulty on the long distance telephone. Tho president's secretary uuthoriicd the filing of Mr. WiUon'i. iiHtne and tho petition was bunded the ecreturt of state. The primary will be held Muruh 7. FOR BATTLESHIP NKW YORK. Feb. . -Mavjoiio Steirstt, a llrooklyn girl who started n fund to build a buttleship for Undo Sam by sending a dhnu und writing u letter to u New York newspaper culling upon other child tun to con tribute u like umouiit. is treasuring today a letter from Colouol Thcudut'o Roosevelt in which, hu inclosed tun dimes. Colonel RooneveU saw ymt four of. them wen- tor tour flflBBfritrand chil dren uml the other iflujMiis grand, children's children, "tyjto aro not bom yet." Muriojr- tumi now ttraounU tq GOES UNA i