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University of C. win nn FORECAST rOXICHT AND TOMOKUOW RAIN, SOUTH WIXDS. 'WEATHER -Maximum YoMerUuy -11!; M'tiihmiui Todny 12 ."i; Pre. tr. Fortv-elxth Tear. MEDFORD. OKKOOX, THURSDAY. DKCEMIiKR 7. 191li rmiiv h -Eleventh Yoar. NO. '221 ! Medford Mail GdiNS TO SUPPORT L'D-GEORGE Regarded as Certain That New Premier Will Succeed in Organiz ing Ministry, Which Will Have the Support of House Labor Party Agrees to Join New Coalition With Representatives in Cabinet Few Liberals Reconciled. I.OXDOX, Dee. ".It is rcgnvilod this afternoon ns virtually certain that Dnvjd I.loyd-Goorgc will su cood in organizing a ministry which will i.avo t he support of a majority in the liouse of eomnions, tlio labor party has decided to participate in tho milking up of the new cabinet. It is said that (ieo!KO Nic.oll Homes, labor member of parliament lor the Mack Friars' division of Glasgow, and a privy councillor and Arthur Henderson, president of the board of education in the coalition ministry, will be members of the cab inet and that one of them will sit in the war council. In addition, it is also said, three under-seeretarysliips will be allotted to the labor party. It is understood Jlr. Lloyd-George is niming at a cabinet of twelve members, five of them unionists, five liberals and two labor representa tives. From tins number a small war council is to be appointed. The labor parliamentary party to day adopted a resolution expressing; the hope that .''in this supreme crisis aa endeavor will be made by the new lovernmont to settle the Irish n,ucs tion and brine,' about the widest meas ure of co-operation of all forces and energies of the nation and Hie em pire." Iloyrt-Geoi'so Called. I.OXDOX, Dee. 7 It hnvinj; been derided that David Lloyd-George will undertake the formation of a minis try, political circles today were in terested chiefly in the personnel of the new cabinet, and the prospects of the new premier for pelting together a combination Hint will have the sup port of a majority in the house of commons. I'Vw, if any, of the liberal members of Mr. Asqiiith's cabinet nrc likely to accept office, under Mr. Lloyd-George, and some of the union ist members like J. Austen Chamber lain and Lord Robert Cecil are likely to stand aside. However, it is as sumed that at the conference at Huckingham palace they assured the new premier of their benevolent neu trality, thus making his task much simpler. fiive George n. Clinnco Provincial liberal newspapers like the Manchester Guardian and the Liverpool I'ost make, a plea to the liberals to give the government a fair chance, as it is generally assumed that it is the embodiment of British determination to win the war. Ac cording to one estimate, Mr. Lloyd- George can rely on the support of frrtually all the unionist members and of seventy liberals, and hopes to obtain the backing of the labor mem bers, who will come to a final decis ion at a meeting today. It is also re ported that Mr. Lloyd-Gcnrge be lieves he will be able to offer conees- (Continued on Page Three.) SAX AXTfWTn Tex.. Dec. 7. A total of "7.j(! national guard troops now engaged in bonier service was today designated by General Funston lo go home. He acted under orders fim the war department to select between 50(10 and 6000 troops for re lease. A number of New York organiza tions at I'linrr and MeAlIen are in cluded in the list, but it was said at headipiarters that 0,'ieral O'Hyan "ml Headipiarters staff of the New Work division have not been ordered !'nto. However, such nn order is un derstood to be uiidvr consideration. BORDER MILITIA " ORDERED HOI FIRS! PICTURE ARABIA SUNK T Government's Attitude, However, Like That in Marina Case, Is Ex- pressed in Willingness to Make Amends If It Be Shown That a U-Boat Violated Pledges . to U. S. WASHINGTON", Doe. 7. Germany, in a note made public by the state de partment today contends that the British steamer Arabia, sunk in the. Mediterranean on November l, was in reality a "transport ship lor troops in the service of the Drillsh govern ment which is to be considered as an aurlliary warship, according to Inter national law, and can therefore he treated like a warship." The German government's attitude, however, llko that In the Marina case, is expressed to he one of readiness to make amends if it be shown that the submarine commander violated Ger many's pledges to the I'nited States. The note, addressed by the Merlin foreign office to Charge drew, in re ply to his inquiries made on instruc tions from Washington, follows: (rcnniiny's Reply. "Foreign Office, Berlin, December 4, 1916. "The undersigned has the honor to inform Mr. Grew, charge d'affaires, of the United States of America, in re ply to the note of the 21st ultimo that the investigation conducted by the German governmen . concerning the sinking of the British steamer Arabia has led to the following results: "On the morning of November G a German submarine encountered a largo steamer coming from the Cor igo straits, one hundred nautical miles west of the island of t'origo. The steamer was painted black and had a black super-structure and not, as is otherwise the case with 1. & O. line super-structures, a light color. The Bteamer, which was identical with the Arabia, was not traveling on the route regularly used by the passenger steamers between Port Said and Malta, as is made plain on the enclosed map, but was taking a zig zag course toward the west 120 nautical miles north of that route. This course, on which the submarine passed three similar steamers at the same spot on the same morning, leads (Continued on Pago Three.) SOUTH DAKOTA 5.070 PIKRITK. S. P., Dee. 7. Charles K. ' Hu:;he.-' official plurality in South Dakota. November 7, was ."if)70, ac cording to figures compiled by the state canvassing board and made public today. The total vole was: I Indies (i-l.-Jiil, Wilson .".0.1(11. t'MiiL're-snieu IHIIon. rep.; Johnson, rep., and Garnly. dein.. were re-elected by pluralities of SSI'S. 12.021 and i:i7:l, respectively. Allan I.. Hen-ou. the sociali-t can didalc for president, polled :i7lill ami .!. Frank llonly, the prohiliitioni-t. polled 1774. AS TRANSPOR GERMANY OF REFUGEES IN CHIHUAHUA FLEEING FROM VILLA AND HIS TGM WASHINGTON", Dec. 7. The first national gathering of women opposed to woman suffrage was opened he.e today with addresses by Major Gen- jeral Leonard Wood, Miss Mabel T. IBoardman, member of the American Red Cross Central Committee and Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York, president of the National Association 'opposed to Woman Suffrage, under ; whose call the convention is held. Cardinal Gibbons sent a special mes sage and former Senator Kllhu Root of 'New. York prepared a palter to be read on the constitutional phases of the prdposed ecpiat suffrage -amend- I ment. In her keynote address, opening to day the national anti-suffrago .con vention, Mrs. Dodge said: "In protesting against the imposi tion of political duties on women we know wo voice tho majority of women of tho United States. After fii years of organized effort, woman suffrage is a minority movement. We believo that woman has more power in up lifting civilization through the home than man has through his voto. "The conservation suffragists have never been able to control the organ ized emotion and radicalism in their ranks. Under our form of govern ment there is groat danger that such an element might cripple wise legisla tion. . "I should like to repeat what we call our creed: 'Wo anti-suffragists stand for the conservation of the best of American womanhood In all condi tions and stations of life, for the preservation of the home, for the re tention of the best idoals of preceding generations adapted to the advantages land opportunities given to them under mbdern conditions. We believe that women, according to their leis ure, opportunity and experience, should take part increasingly In civic and municipal activities. And we be lieve that this can he done best by women without the ballot, as a non partisan body of disinterested work- LONE ROBBER STEALS $20,000 U)S AXOKLKS, Cal.( Dee. 7. A lone robber threw pepper in the face of nn express w:ion guard today in the rcaruf the I'anfie Kleetrie build in, !-eized .fJO.OOO in gold eoin and eurrenry fmm the express wugnti and CMfnped. Hundreds of people were within u few feet of the wuon when tho rob bery took plnee. The robber, who was unmarked, dodged into a jrnr go nearby ami disappeared. Wit nnts tt.ld the puiiee the ninn wo joined by a confederate, at the door of the gurage. The money na in two bags. Y. H. William, the express i;uard, has just placed the hag in the express wn-ron iir delivery to the First Na tional bunk, three bh.ck away. It was the accumulated remittance" of Nojlhern Pacific ticket agents in sunoumling luwus. G- . .... ----- ..- t t if- ;, v.v.v VILLA HANGED Mining Man Killed by Bandits at Par ral All Other Americans Safe and Property Unharmed Gray Shot in Doorway of Home and Then Hang edGerman Consul Escapes. El, PASO, Tex., Dee. 7. Honard (ray, an American mining man at I'arral, ( 'liili 1111 U it n - was killed by Villa hnudils whenthey entered the town on November j, according to a telegram received today by the Alva rado ilining & Milling: The message says all other Ameri cans were safe and American prop erly was unharmed, flrny has a sis ter, Mrs. Howinan, residing in Kl Paso. A. messenger who arrived from Parral shorlly after (he tele gram was made public, said Clray was hanged by order of Villa. Shot to Dentil In Doocwny Gray was shot lo death in the doorway id' iiis home near i'arral. and his body then hanged by a band of Villa bandits from Villa's main column, two foreign refugees who reached here today from Pnrrril re ported. These foreigners saw Kdgnr Kock, Oennnn vice-consul, in Parral be fore they left that cily. He told them he was ordered executed by Villa bandils at Santa Kosalia after being robbed of .f.'iO.flOn worth of sil ver bars belonging to the Alvnrado Milling & Milling Co. The refugees also saw Theodore Iloemuller, a Ger man, before they left Parral. lie was reported lo have been killed, to gether with his wife and family. They said all olhcr foreigners in the Parrel district were safe except a number of Chinese who had been killed. flray was aboul -IS years old and had been !n the Parral district for twi-nty-thrce years. He has a wife and five children liviiur in Parral. Consul Sentenced, KscaiH's. The two foreigners talked with Kd gar Kock only a shoii time in Par ral, as (hey said it was unsafe to talk too much while Villa's men were in eonlrol. Kock told them he was laken out to he shot at Santa Ko salia, and added : "I would not have given a Mexican match for my life." lie was Inter released, he told the refugees. BRINGS $1.75 POUND CHICAGO, Dec 7. California Favorite, awarded tho grand Bteer championship of the International Livestock exposition here, was sold at auction today to a Detroit packing firm for $1,!iO. The price It de clared to he the highest ever paid for beef. The price per pound was Jl.TTi. The steer was raised by the rr;iver!ty of California and the pro ceeds of tho Hale will go to the agri cultural department of thai Institution, HOWARD GRAY AMERICAN $1,808,348 SPENT WASHINGTON", Dec. ".The final report of the democratic national committee on Its campaign receipts and expenditures filed with the liouso todny hIiows total receipts of (1,808,- 34K ana total (lisiuirsenientH ot ?L, 684, SIIO. In addition thero nre: As certained liabilities, $97.(105; claims subject to audit. $ll!M70 and louiis to ho repaid, (32,000.' Tho report was submitted by Treasurer Wilbur W. Marsh. The largest contributor was Cleveland 'II. Dodge. President Wllsoi) con tributed $2,r.a0. Or .the, contribu tion!!, $41)0,175 were In sums less than $100. The lonns to bo refunded are: Henry S. Priest, St. Louis, $.'10, 000, and V. S. I'eabody, Chicago, $2,000. Another loan by Mr. I'ea body of $30,000 hns already been re funded.. Tho Woodrow Wilson Indepen dence league, through Henry Ilruere, New York treasurer, in its final ro port today acknowledged contribu tions of $17,119 and expenditures amounting to ('111,405, in addition to $7,972 silent for the lenguo by the democratic national committee. The contributions included $2,000 by Charles II. Crane. The 'National Hughes nlllance, through Arch W. Shaw, treasurer, re ported receipts or $1:1,242; disburse, ments, $2 1,289, besides unpaid bills of (8,27:1. William Qulglcy, .lr., who gave $450, was the principal contributor. XKY YOliK, IW. -.--Dividends on I he vjiriuiis ciiT propi-i tics con 1 rolled by the fliiiicnlM'im inlercMs were dec lured today n follows; I'liih Copper, .t'J..')() ipuirlerly mid fl extra, iijiinst $I..'iO mid .f I. fill extra three months d. Chino Copper, .fl.."0 (put rlerly mwl l extrnt nmiin-t .1J." :ind $1 exlni three months iio. Ifny Consolidated, 75 fonts n,tiiir terly and ecnts extm, aiiinl o0 cents and l't cents extra three months ayo, Nevada Copper, eenls cpuirter ly and . 1 extra, ai:ains ,")(( eeiiU and 0 cents extra three nntntbs ao. Dividend rale-, regular and extra on Itulle and Sinierior were un changed at irl.'J.'j quarterly and .5 extra. TRACTION STRIKERS APPEAL TO WILSON WASHINGTON. lice. liein Orr, William Kilr-gcrnld, William ru ber and .liime-i II. I'ahey, repre-enl-ing New York City Mice! ear strik er-, called on lYer-ideiit Wil-on again I today to a-k thai the federal govern, ment inl ervene. OHieijils are doubt ful it' unythiiii: can be ilnno beyond having the dcparlinenl ol labor investigate. BANDIT ARMY AMPLE P OF WATER FOR I Report of U. S. Reclamation Emjin ecrs Shows Dam Wei! Constructed and Sufficient Water Available Details of District Organization Set Forth Exemptions Permitted. The report ol' the Vnited Stat reclamation service engineers ot't'et n complete refutation of the asser lions made by opponents of irri;a tion lo the effect that the Ifnmn Niver Canal company cannot furni.-li the proposed district with n suffi cient (juantity of water and to the as sertion llmt the Fish lake dam was fault ih const rue ted. The Veporl stales in part : lteport of C, S. Kjiftineers. "It is not thouuhl that any serious seepage I rouble will occur, unless it be ulon: llus outlet tuhes, which should be closely observed for liny indication of leakage, purticularly during the Tilling periods of the first few years. Some seepnue is apt to develop nroiuul the south end. but cannot endanger the dam, as lucre is sufficient rock till to insure ils sta bility." Concerniuj: this subject, Ihc engin eers of the canal company have ih sncil the following slalcment : Dmn Troved Watce-Tight, ''The dam held water during the season t!l(i heller than the engineers anticipated. The reservoir was lilleil to the l!l-foot level and then gradu ally lowered to 17'y feel and held there all summer until the reservoir was emptied in the laller pari of Oc tober. The dam is now in perfect condition. The alcs were shut down November Hi and Ihc attendant re ports nine feet nf walcr today over an area of approximately (100 acres. "The Fish lake water-died furn-i.-he-i more water lhau can be stored in the reservoir, as was conclusively demonstrated season, which fact was known before the dam was eon strucled, based on accurate water menMircmcutj which had been kept for years past.. Ample Wilier Supply. "Complete and careful water mcisuremeiits ,,( nl available wafer supplies have been made everv year 'ince lltdH. If any one dniibis the ability of the Cana! company lo Mip ply water for I'O.uiui acres let Iheni (Continued on Pukg Threo.) 10 POOD SPECULATORS CHICAGO, ee. 7.--Federal offi cial im c-1 i l ini: increa-e in t'ood prices were prepared loday lo con tinue I heir examination Chicago banker-. A prcliminarv inve.-tiat im leventitiL' thai one bank had loaned more than I ..VilljMHt on warelionse rceeioU will lexilt in an el'Joit to de termine ju-t how much money i- ad vanced for the ptirpo-e of airliou eommi-ion blotters in holding foods from the market. NEW 01 III WALLACHIA Rctrcaliiij) Armies Withdrawing to Moldavia, Shortcniny Front to 100 Miles Bucharest Evacuated and City Uninjured Germans Claim to Have Taken 100,000 Rumanians Prisoners Since Hostilities Began Defenders Evidently Escape. ItlUM.IN', Di'... 7,-Tli.. (lH'onU-d liuumnhins v rclrrnlin uliins; th wlmlc I rout , the war uflin nu ninini'cs. 'nu'.Ti-iiinnic h-oops hnvo cniitnivil l'iiiiiiin(i. on tin; nulroml lxt wi.n Ki'nnsliiilt mill 1'lori-lit.i. In vi'sH'i'ilnv's I'itilil inn mom Mian iltltlO li'iiinmiinnri wito i iipt nri'il. LONDON, Doc. 7. Siiu-e Hip lios lililii'M nuniiKt KimiMiiin Instill ltlll, illlll liuiiiiiiiiniH liiivo Ijim'ii brought to fli'i'nifin irison I'liliips, iiivonliug to f'oicnhiiui'n ilisinli-h lo tho V.x I'linnaii 'IVIi'sninli i'oininnv, iiuoting tlw Ili'ilin l.oluil Anzoi'i'i-. Tho pn piT iiltiihulM lo (li'nmin militnry mi tlmrilics Iho bi'liH'.llmt Ihc liuninn inus intonil to wtthilmw tn Jlolilnvia, nhiinilimina- lln wholo of Wnllni'liin. By lliis sli'i limy would hnvo only u lOII-milo front to ilol'i'nil. Tho l.oknl Auzoitji'i' vcpoi'ls Hint prior o ils iMipliiro l.iui'hniyst wjis iii'urlv iliworli'i) iinil I ho oity was nn- injured. Arnili's' l-'nli1 rnUiiown. . -Tho hripf itij ;i I clicv in uhioh (In. .full of lluiduiri'sl wns :i m i on n I'ltl loft in ilouhl I ho I'n I o of Iho Hiinios whii'h Hi'i'o roisliii' Iho iiilvniu'o of , tlui Ti'iilonio invmlor. It is iissiunod in most onlonlo (puirloi's, howovor, Unit thoro iih no "hisl stiind'' liy Iho ItuinnnimiH bo fori; Ihoir I'tipilul mill Knoll nows iirt 1ms Irii-kh'il Ihrounh from Ciormnri soiiroos indionlos Hint lluolinrost wns virtually dosorlid wlion Iho Ti'iitonin foroos onlorod it. Tho oily is said to Iimvo boon found iinin iuiT-d. Almiiilou Wnlltu'liiii. .Mililary oonuiionlaloi'i in oulonto eapilals poim mil tho probaliility that Iho notions just prior to tho capture of l!iicliure.t were l'oiu:hl nierely with a view In ilelayinv: Iho advunoo oC Kiold Mni'shnl 'on Maokonson's foroos ami aidiioj; ill llio osoapo of the iniiiii hodv of li unianians. Tho enp turo of I'loeehli, Iho railway jiniotion :)ll miles uorlli of lluolinrost, however, may have bloeked Hie re! rout of part, of Iho liumanian forces. This oily, moreover, k in Iho oonler of the Rroat rrahovii valley oil di-triot. (termini opinion is expressed lo tho el'IVol Hint the li'ummiians have de cided to ahanilon all of Wallaeliia, Iho main porliou of tho Huimininu kin;;iloin, ii tn retire lo Molilnvia, llioir iiortlionslorii province, whore llio front would be mnlerially shoii cned a ltd where I hey would bo ill close loiicli wilh Ihc ltiisimis. DISTRESS AT SEA ASTOKIA, Or., Dec. 7. -The In Wallula ! II here today lo soareh the -.ens oil' llie Oregon coast lor the: I it roli.a i leemor Sanla llarbarn, ro porli'd in di!ri s when a riui; buoy, bciiiinu' llie vcs,i-r. name, ntlio-hoil to v. mil w:.s believed was. u enbin -top, eatne ashore last ni:;ht nt llri:-'lilon lii'iioh, r., wilh lumber Ihouuht to be pun of llio deck earqo of llie visc. Lumber oaino aslioro also at Nelialein and Manzmiita bejtclics. ScarehiiiL' imrlios on the lif-m-hosi loday found no more wroekao iden lifviii llie vessel in distress. It was estimated r.'.llllll feel of new lumber came ashore i, Maii.anitn beaeb ll was bclieed part of the Simla llarbai.i's deck load slipped over board, nil Imnvli bin moderate sous were reported riinmir.' off the oo.'lsl; yesterday. The Simla llarbara left South llenil, 'a-h., with lumber for Sim liie'jo yi'slerday. ilb a erew of hveaty-one men. She earrit,l no wireless.
