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MEDFORD. 0RE(K)X, TrESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1910
NO. 230
BOMB LEFT AT
IUM
FLIES FOR VOTES
PEACE PROPOSAL RESIDENCE OF
y. S. COAST TO
REPEL U-BOATS
L
E
MM ASKS
RUSSIA SPURNS
WARMS OFF
TAINS
ALLIES SEEKING
AN IMMEDIATE
Wl CARRANZA
ASTING PEA
PEACE MEETING FROM PRESIDENT
UTAH GOVERNOR
NEAR AN END
HENDERSON
4 Central Powers Reply to President
. Wilson's Note, Proposing Confer
ence of All Belligerents Be Held in
a Neutral City at Once Exchange
of Views Held Desirable.
BERLIN, Dec. 26. Germany riml
her allies Austria-Hungary, Bul
garia and Turkey today replied to
4'ic note of President Wilson, in
which he asked that the belligerent
nations state the aims tor which they
were fighting. The proposal is made
by the central powers that a confer
ence of the delegates of all the bel
ligerents be held in a neutral city. ;
Tho task of preventing future wars,
tho official statement says, can he
begun only after the cud of the pres
ent struggle. The answer says:
ieinuuiy8 Itieply.
"The high-minded suggestion made
by the president of the United States
of America in order to create a basis
4. for the establishment for a lasting
peace has been received and consid
ered by the imperial government in
tho friendly spirit which was ex
pressed in the president's communi
cation. The president points out that
which he has at heart and leaves open
the choice of road.
"To the imperial government an
immediate exchange of views seems
to be the most appropriate road in
order to reach the desired result.
"It begs, therefore, in the sense of
the declaration made on December
12, which offered a hand for peace
negotiations, to propose an immedi
ate meeting of delegates of the bel
ligerent states at n neutral place.
Preventing Future Wars.
"The imperial government is also
of the opinion that the great work of
preventing further wars can be begun
only after the end of the present
stragulc of the nations.
"It will, when this moment shall
have come, be ready witli pleasure to
collaborale entirely with the United
-.btates in this exalted task."
The answer of the central jxnvcrs
'concludes with the usual diplomatic
terms of politeness.
VILLA PROTECTS
FOREIGNERS LEFT IN
CAPTURED TOUON
WASHINGTON', Dec. 'JO. Villa i
giving protection lo those foreigners
who remained in Torreon after he
took the city, according to official
advices to the state department today
which added that the party of for
eigners who fled with the liritish con
sul before the capture of the city,
were blocked at San Luis l'otosi be
cause the handils bad cut the rail
road lino northward toward Saltillo.
The Villa bands thus have cat Car
ranza's communication by rail with
r. the border. Army men take it as
purl of Villa's plan of campaign.
They now expect Villa to send a force
toward either Saltillo or .Monterey,
while the t'edillo brothers, operating
farther cast, complete the division of
north and south by interrupting traf
fic over the railway between San Luis
l'otosi and Tampico, the line over
which a great part of the oil for the
troop trains is moved.
I'KTKOfJKAO, Dee. 2o. Keeap
ttire by Rumanian font's of one of
tho heights they recently Inst in tin
fighting along the Moldavian frontier
is announced by the war office to
day. The statement rends;
"On the Moldavian frontier, in the
valley of the Iiiver Kasino, Rumanian
troops by n daring attack regained
( one of the heights lost by them yesterday.
Foreign Minister Outlines Program
No Change Between Russia and Al
liesAlliance to Be Perpetuated
Economically War to Be Contin
ued Until Decisive Victory Won.
LONDON', Dee. 0(.Tho Russian
foreign minister, M. I'ukrovski, invit
ed the representatives of the press tit
Petrograd yesterday to an interview
nt which lie outlined his program and
his ideas in regard to the present pol
itical situation. Keuter's I'etrograd
correspondent savri that in general
litis ministerial declaration which
seems to have been meant to take the
place of the usual speeeh before par
liament, consisted of a lew clear
propositions.
Policies Outlined.
First, there had been no change in
the relations between Russia and her
allies.
Second, the minister declared with
firm assurance that after the war
the military alliance of France, Kng
!and and Russia would be consolidat
ed in a close economic union.
Third, the war will be continued,
according to this declaration, until a
decisive victory has been won.
M. Pokrovski then discussed the
three great questions of , the day
the German peace proposals, Presi
dent Wilson's note and the altitude
of Greece. After recalling the recent
duma declarations in regard to the
German peace note, M. Pokrovski
passed to the action of President
Wil.-ou, saying , Russia- appreciated
highly the good will and the lofty, hu
mane motives of the president's note,
bul he declared it could alter in no
way the political situation created by
''the false and hypocritical moves of
the licrliu government' as the note
coincided with the German proposals,
he said, the ideas of the Russian gov
ernment in regard to Mr. Wilson's ac
tion were almost analogous with
Ihose which had been set forth by the
Russian press that is to say, the
government's attitude toward both
ipiestions was one complete refusal.
, Allies (o Itcply,
Nevertheless, the allied govern
ments would reply with all possible
fullness. They would rehernle, M.
Pokrovski said, that they would con
tinue the war until t lie ravaged terri
tories had been restored and until
there had been created a state of affair.-,
in which the existence of small
nations would be assured and in
which a new world-wide conflagra
tion would be impossible.
Sneaking of Greece, M. Pokrovski
reiterated that the entente would not
tolerate for a moment anv attitude on
the part of that country that would
affect their military interests seri
ously. He said measures already had
been taken and that others of a mili
tary nature shortly wouhfTe carried
out which would put an cud once for
all to Greece vacillation.
Commenting ' the declaration of
the foreign minister, the Novoe Yretn
ya of Petrograd says it is very op
portune and gives a faithful idea of
the reolv of the allies to Germany and
the I'uiUd States.
10 REVISE NOTE
AMSTKRDAM. Dec. !. The Tel
e'jraaf wiys it has reason to believe
that Germany's reply to Holland's
note regarding the deportation v' Del
mil workmen is framed in such term:
that it would he inadvisable to com
munieale it to the Dutch parliament
and the government has requested
Berlin to alter the note in such man
ner that it may be pre-entcd to the
parliament.
The Dutch '.-overnmenf last montli
ini rui'ted its Merlin representative to
notifv Geiinanv that the P.elgiun de-
portntio".-. had eau-ed a painful im
pr-Mn in Holland. A Rotterdnn
di.-pateh to the l.itndoii Time on De
cember 5 Miid Germany hail re-pond
til in wrd- which were tantamount
o mi iii'.r : "Mind your own bu-iness.'
Reward of $1000 Offered for Perpe
tratorAnother Bomb Exploded at
Home of Capitalist Six Suspects,
Friends of Joseph Hillstrom, I. W.
W. Agitator, Under Arrest.
SALT LAKE CITY, Hah, Dee. 2i.
With a reward of $1000 offered for
the man or men who placed an in
fernal machine at the residence of
Governor Spry and .$."00 reward of
fered for any or all those in "any
way connected' with either the at
tempt on the governor's life or that
of James E. Jennings, a capitalist,
every police officer and detective in
the city today is searching for the
perpetrator of the Christmas out
rage. Six Suspects AiTested.
Six suspects were arrested yester
day. They were C. Eselius, Y. Ksel
ius, J. Eselius, Ed Eselius, A. Erick
son and Robert Erickson.
It was at the Eselius home that
Joseph Hillstrom, executed for the
murder of John G. Morrison, a gro
cer, and his son, J. Arling Morrison,
was captured, January l.'l, 11)14.
Hillstrom xvas a Swede and it was
the interference of the Swedish gov
ernment that caused the state board
of pardons, to reprieve Hillstrom for
a secret period.' All six of the men
arrested are Swedes. The man who
came to the police station and identi
fied them today as having been near
the'governor's home on Christmas
eve is fearful of an attempt upon his
life and asked that his name be with
held. The explosion of a bomb on Sun
day night at the residence of James
E. Jennings, wealthy capitalist, 42.")
East South Temple street, followed
Christmas morning by the finding of
a nitro-glycerine device of death
dealing potentiality, has thrown Salt
Lake into a veritable panic.
Reward is Ottered.
The chief of police late yesterday
announced that friends of Governor
Spry had offered $"()( reward for in
formation leading to the arrest of the
person or persons who placed the
bomb at his home.
Today the city commission added
"'0(1 to this sum with the sweeping
offer of payment for information
leading to the arrest of any one con
nected with either outrage.
E
ENURE WEST IN
MOST ICY CLASP
SPOKANE, Wn., Dec. 2C A cold
wave has eastern Washington, north
ern Idaho and all of .Montana, Utah
Colorado and as Tar south an the
Texas border in its grasp today
Havre, Montana, reported a tempera
ture of 29 degrees below zero. In
Spokane eight below was registered
by the weather bureau thermometer.
Helena is experiencing the coldest
weather in 2ii years.
The ground is covered with more
than a foot of snow. The snow and
cold has greatly interfered with the
operation of trains from the east. The
trans-continental tdains are running
at least six hours late.
More than twelve inches of snow
has fallen in Utah within the past
twenty-four hours, breaking all pre
vious storm records. Branch rail
roads have suspended schedules and
only the main lines are open to traf
fic. Overland trains are many hours
behind.
NORFOLK, Neb.. Dec. 26. A bliz
zard is headed this way from the
northwest, according to special from
various . points. Wlnier, S. D,, and
Long Pine, Neb., report a heavy
snow fulling with the mercury regis
tering ten degrees below zero at the
latter place. Wires are down be
tween here and the Black f If lis coun
try, i
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. The
coldest day of the winter was exper
ienced here today. Forecaster G. H.
Willfon announced that the teher
mometer registered "ft degrees at 5
a. nt.
m
Mrs. Hornsliy, Chicago su-'fnigist,
n Lakes miring flights in her aero-
phi no in cnmmigii for votes... She
bombarded President Wilson with e.
lit ions ivheti he won on hLs yacht
at the lighting; of ntatuo of lib
crty. E
HEREIN, Dec. 20. In Rumania
ViOO more priouers have been taken
by the Teutonic allies, the war office
announced,
The town of Kilipechli, on the rail
road between Buzeu andHailiu, was
captured at the point ok the bayonet.
Strongly entrenched Russian posi
tiohs on both sides of the villa tro were
stormed, the i-dutcmcnl says.
1 Rosso-Rumanian forces in I)oh
rudju have been repulsed alter a vio
lent battle on Hie whole front from
Lake I'ahadah to Tuerkoatza, say
an official slalcmcnl i.ssued at the
Bulgarian army headquarters. Th
statement rcad:
"In Dobruilja the enemy, after j
violent struggle on the line of Lake
Habada'h, Kaiucoara and TuerkouUa
was repuUed on the whole front
Bulgarian. Genua a and Turkish
troops tool; prisoner !),H" more Rus
sians and captured three machine
Jims.
"Macedonian front: Sucee-sfnl pa
trol advances were made by Bulgar
ian infantry northwest of Monastic
In the bend of the Cerna there has
been artillery firing of varyini vio
lence.'
GRANTS BASS, Or., Dec 2li.
Purlieu who went in search today of
Commodore F!cniin. the We?-t Foik-
Agiie.- mail carrier, missing since
Saturday, and Turn Riles, mi-.-ing in
the same ditrict since Friday, had
not succeeded in finding cither man
so far a reported up to noon. There
was additional -noulall lat night,
and the euld i -evcic in the di-trict
wheie the men are apposed to be.
J. B. Peters living fifteen mile
oiith oj here, has oeeu nursing miicc
hift Friday, when he went huntin1
according to reports i caching here
today. Neighbors have been careh
ing for him. Hi-- t rack were la -t
-ecu in two feel of -noxv, and mot
miow has fallen ,-ince.
Formidable Fleet of Allied Warships
Designed to Protect Commerce
Against Menace of U-Boat Raids,
Sighted on This Side of Atlantic
Are Disguised Warships.
IIOSTOX, Deo. Thi' prosenre
on this side of tin- At!tmtit of n fonji-
iilmile licet nt allicu viu.-hiis was
indicated definitely today. The ves
sels are known officially as cnin
merce nrotectors.
They are heavily armed and dis
guised. Kor ohvious reasons their
exact disposition is ,iot revealed, but
the arrival of this newest unit of
liritish and r'rcncli admiralties was
known from a source that hardly can
be mistaken.
KlKliCcd liy Skippers.
Kor some days skippers of trans-
Atlantic and coastwise steamers have
been bringing to New Knyland ports
reports of strange appearing; eratt
that were making their wnv west
ward. They made no reply to signals
and could not he approached. I liey
steered a vagrant course and were
described variouslv.as of the fashion
nf merchantmen, transports, light
misers and even of submarines.
Vieccd together, these reports fitted
with the suspicion now apparently
confirmed, of shipping men, it is said
the first arrived safely at Halifax,
S., a few days ago, but nothing
then became known generally about
it because of the strict censorship
maintained.
The commerce protectors are de
scribed us large and powerful, but
capable of fair speed.
To Meet V-lUmts.
Thev were designed, it is said, to
meet the German I'-boat danger mid
in anticipation of an attempted raid
off the Canadian const similar to that
made by the I'-.VI off Nantucket on
October 8. At thai lime shipping men
figured that there was not an allied
warship within fiOO miles of the spot
that Captain Hans Hose deliberately
selected in which to operate. Tin1
liritish admiralty, it Is said, deter
mined lo miiko impossible another
such raid, and the fleet of commerce
protectors was the fruition of the
plan then formulated. The arrival of
the disguised win-ships was followed
almost immediately with I In: an
nouncement by the liritish premier,
l.lovd George, of the plan for the na
tionalization of liritish shipping. It
is understood that the commerce pro
tectors will not only lie in wait for
submarines at strategic points, but
tiiat they have appeared in sufficient
number to act as convoys for mer
chantmen through waters in which
undersea boats would be most likely
to operate.
I
After breaking into the rear door
of the .Model Clothing company and
helping themselves to a complete out
fit of clothes and suitcases in which
to carry extra apparel, two floaters
were rounded up a I 4 o'eloek Monday
morning by Night Officer Crawford
and lodged in the city jail. The men,
who gave the names of Win. Norwood
and Kmest Well-, were given u pre
liminary heating lue.-dac morning
and bound over to the grand jury.
The store wa broken into probably
about 1 :'M) Monday morning, the rear
door being jimmied. About .'I o'clock
the men showed up at the Nah hotel
and asked for a room. Wesley Col
leen, the night clerk, refused to ac
commodate them.
Later, Officer Crawford came into
the hotel ami found the men sitting
in the hold bihby. He set out on a
round of the bn-ine-s section and in
a few minute diciivied the open
door at the Model Clothing Co. He
turning to (be hotel, Crawford found
the men had skipped, but he succeed
ed in locating them at the depot n
few minute- later, and they were ar-rc-ted.
Members of Joint Border Commission
Receive No Word From Mexican
First Chief, and Time Limit Set In
Ultimatum Expires Today Session
to Continue Until Tonight.
XKYV YOKK, Dec. '(). The Mex
ican members of tile .joint commis
sion had received no word from Gen
eral Carranza regarding the expect
ed communication this afternoon, it
was stated here by l.uis Cabrera.
Mr. Cabrera was in conference
throughout the day with his associ
ates, Commissioners 1'aui und ISon-
illns. He described tho meeting as
one at which they were discussing im-
ptirtant matters, bul further than that
he declined to say anything definite
except that nothing had been heard
from Mexico City. He said that the
session will continue until tonight and
that any statement concerning re
sults must come from the joint com
mission as u whole.
Negotiation to Knd.
WASHINGTON, Hcc. 2(i. Cnless
General t'ai ranza returns a favor
able answer today to the last com
muiiicatiou made to his commission
ers by the American representatives
u week ago nt Philadelphia, the nego
tiations will come to an end.
When the joint Mexican-American
commission reconvened at Phihulel
phia, Alberto J. Pani, the .Mexican
commissioner who had carried the
protoeal signed at Atlantic City to
tjueretaro lor ratification by Gen
eral Carranza, submitted a counter
proposal. It was in effect a rejection
of the agreement Vmlered into by the1
commissioners, and the substitution
of another protoeal that had been
drafted by the Mexican commission
ers at the direction of Currnnzn.
Nature of I It (malum.
The Americans replied in a written
communication saying that they
could not consider the counter-protocol
and insisting thai the agreement
already made must cither be ratified
or definitely repudiated. Some as-1
pei't of an ultimatum was given the
communication by the insistence that
an answer would be expected by lc
cembcr It was not specifically
stated that failure to ratify the
agreement would result in a final
break in negotiations, but the inti
mation that the Americans would not
continue the debates that already
have extended over three mouths was
clearlv made.
iTRIANS VICT
IN SEA BATTLE
!T ALLIES
TfK KMX, Dec. 2 U T w o allied
patrol boats were sunk and four
other allied warships were damaged
In the recent naval engagement in
the Straits of Atranto, the Uustrlan
admiralty announces. Two Austrian
destroyers were hit.
Tho Austrian announcement fol
lows: "On the night or December 22-2?.
four Austro-1 luugariati destroyers
made a raid In the Otianto strait
and after an engagement sunk two
armed patrol boats. On their wuy
Pack at least six hostile destroyers oT
greater size and speed, evidently of
the Indomlto class, blocked their way.
A violent combat with guns ensued.
One hostile destroyer was set on
fire and three others were hit kcv
eral times at short range. The en
emy's sea forces, among which was
one vessel of a morn powerful and
unknown type were routed.
"One of our destroyers was hit
twice In the funnel slid another was
hit In the superstructure. One man
was killde. There were no wounded."
HEAVY SNOW FALLS
OVER LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGKl.KS, Dee. Heavy
snow fell over the northern part of
the city for the sixth time in Hie forty
year- the weather bureau ha- been
c-tahfi-hed here. melted almost as
rapidly as it fell.
War Must Be Fought Out Until Fu
ture of Democracy Assured and
Imperialism Conquered Cltoice Is
Between Untimely Peace and Per
manent Peace.
PARIS, Dec. 26. In addresses at
i
tho national congress of the French
socialist party, Arthur Henderson,
the British cabinet minister, a net G.
11. Roberts, member of the DrlttsU
parliament both affirmed in i tint en
thusiastic cheers, that the war might
bo roiiKht out until full guarantees
have been obtained for a lasting1
peace.
"In my opinion," said Mr. Hen
derson, "if France and ourselvea were
to outer into negotiations under ex
isting conditions wo should he na
tions in uondnge. Nothing less than
that is the price our enemies would
exact for peace today."
SoeijiJisls for War.
Kmile Vandervclde, the Belgian so
cialist leader Kaid:
"Our comrades who have regained
in invaded Belgium endure German
dominion with admirable firmness.
Nothing hut encouragement reiches
us from thorn, s'j that it would setm
that tho poisons most hostile to war
are those farthest from It."
M. Arandervelde also declared that
tho struggle must be carried on until
Belgium and Serbia are dcllvere.1 and
czarism s laid low.
In his speech Mr. Henderson said:
"In my ont'tion we have now reach
ed the mo'-t diwigerous and difficult
period of the war. Hieing tne next
feyr mouths) th" democracies of 12db- '
land and Franco are going io be
tested i novcr before. Do not mis
understand me. I io rot mean that
the stress and strain r the flhtl.'g
In the field v'.ll he more severe,
though I dj not Ignore such a pos
sibility, but the danger Is of entirely
a different character.
Mortgage tho Future. "
"Our stupendous losses, our un
precedented sacrifices, our horror of
war, our love of peace, may lead un
to mortgage the' future. With such
awful experiences we are apt to for
get the great moral, eternal princi
ples and ideals for which we entered
tho struggle. We are not only fight
ing a negative action against muter-
(Continued on Page Two.)
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WASHINGTON. Dee. 2u Indica
tions accumulated in official quar
ters here today that (he action of
Switzerland in stipnorting the recent
peace move of the Cnitcd States may
be followed by similar action oil the
part of Kuropcan neutrals. Holland,
Spain, the Scandinavian countries
and the pope, it was said, are expect
ed to take some action in the near
future. Or. Caul Hitter, the Swiss
minister, will see President Wilson
within a few days to discus the
peace situation. HV called ut the
hitc Iiuiim; today to get information
on how the Swiss peace note had
been received in this country in or
der to send a report to his govern
ment. Dr. Kitler was concerned over
new-paper report1 that (he action of
the Swi-s government was construed
a- support for the cau-e of the cen
tral putters. He told Secretary Tu
multy the action of his government
was solely in the interest of peace.
Messages from individuals and or
ganization in Holland and other ncu
t ral F.nropcnu tint imi-t continued to
aiaive at the white hou-e today in
large numbers. All eommeiided the
pro-idenl IW his recent note mid in
dicated that strong pres-ure was be
ing brought on the governments of
Kuropeaii nations to take action.
While the Cnited Slates will con
tinue to act alone, supporting action
by oilier nculrat powers, it is said,
will be weboni.-d by President Wilson.