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MEPFORD. OIJEOOX, T1IUWSDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1910
NO. 238
GERMAN PEACE
Fl
10 PRESIDENT
Pn..f..l O - I . f!.l ,
PLANS COMBED
j ucnuui rowers obck ioniiuemiai
Exchange of Broad Tentative
Terms Through United States,
Should It Become Necessary to In
sure Gathering of Peace Delegates.
WASHINGTON', Dec. 2S. (Icr
many, it was made known lure tuday,
will not permit the mad to peaee ne-
'jntialions to be blocked liy u refusal
C the enlenlc belligerents to enter a
conference without prior knowledge
of her terms. It has-been forecast
that the entente powers would base
u refusal on such a condition.
" The central powers are represented
as willing to permit a confidential ex
change, of broad tentative terms
through President Wilson, should it
become necessary to do so, to bridge
the gap which threalens to prevent a
Kiitherin of pence delegates. There
"ere broad intimations todav that a
statement of this position by Ger
many either had been communicated
to the United States government or
soon would be. The official text, of
Germany's reply to President Wil
son's note arrived today and it was
declared that no confidential com
ntunicntion from Ambassador Gerard
accompanied it. There are indii
tions, however, that a confidential
statement of Germany's position, if
made, would come through the am
bassador. It has been announced in
advance, however, that it would not
be made public, and it is not likelv
that its receipt even would be admit
ted.
Looks to Villlcd Stales.
Germany, it was said today, is
looking to the United States In malic
every effort to bring1 about a peace
conference, and to lhat end is ready
to consider any suggestions from (he
president. As the ease stands now.
the German government considers it
has met all the suggestions in the
president's note, and a statement to
that effect has been made by Count
Von Ucrnstorff, the German ambas
sador. 'Germany, it is slated authoritative
ly, never bus believed lhat acting
alone she would be able to bring
about a conference, and now thai t
influence of, neutrals bus be
brought to bear for one. flic German
officials have taken their view a slc
further and believe thev cannot he
successful without assistance of the
United States. Thev believe that the
United States, in view of its vital in
terest in the settlement of the war.
would not be adverse to participating,
because it has been represented as
desiring most of all to see the peace
terms make provision tor the future
security of the world. Without par
ticipation by the United States in that
phase, it is felt Hie results would be
without effect.
SLAIN BY VILLISTAS
KL PASO, Tex., Dec. 28. General
I. ills Herrera, Colonel Manuel Orozco,
C'urranza officers, and Villa's secre
tary, a man named Garcia, were re
ported here today to have been killed
personally by Vlila after the recent
occupation of Torcon.
Garcia, who Is understood here to
have been at one time with a band of
Industrial Workers of the World In
California, was said to have been
killed for destroying property of for
eigners at Dermcjillo, against Villa's
orders. Herrera una Orozco were
among the prisoners captured.
LOSS IN FORESTS
SALKM. Or., Ice. 2S.-Stan.iinL:
timber in Oregon suffered fire los-e-nniountinjr
fti but $!Hi."i,7."i during the
recent .summer fire seain, accordim:
to the minimi report of F. A. Klli"t.
state forester, submitted here today.
There were UUO forest fires reported.
Loir-, lotrymij equipment, build ini:
' nnd oilier improvement-; were damni:
e to tin. extent of -fl'litil.
128 SHIPS, TOTAL
AMSTERDAM. Dec. 2S. An-
nouncement Is made In the Her-
tin newspapers that tho order
of merit hns been conferred on
Captain Valentiner, commander
of u German submarine, for
sinking 12S ships of a total ton-
nage of 2S2.0U0.
POLITE REFUSAL
10 STATE TERMS
OP PEACE TREATY
J'AIilS, Ik-c. 'JS The morning
newspapers toihiy are unanimous, in
pronouncing the German answer to
l're-h!en Wilson's note lo the bellig
erent a polite refusal to comply with
hi sueMions.
"Germany," says the -Matin, ''inten
tionaliv reverses the terms of Presi
dent Wilson's note mid requests rep
resent ntives of the nations at war to
sent themselves at a conference table
and talk at random without knowinir
what they intend to say. She knows
me allies win never make peaee on
the terms which she at present is dis
pocd to offer, but during the period
uV temporary slackening in hostilities
she will he able to obtain fresh sup
plies, while secretly pi a mi in r new mil
itary operations, just as she prepared
for mobilization during the diplomatic
conversations of July, It) 1 4.'
Tiie t'etit I'arisien says;
"The reply of Germany and Aus-tnu-Hunjinry
is not a direct loyal an
swer lo the American suggestions.' It
is only a hypocritical evasion. Presi
dent Wilson asks the belligerents to
state their conditions. The central
powers ignore this arid simply offer a
conference, without any preliiuimirk's.
Thiit is a trap in wbielr they very
naively thought to catch the allies."
In the Figaro, Alfred C'apus says:
'Germany in her an.-wer to Presi
dent Wilson proposes a meeting of
delegates at a neutral city. That city,
if it was specified, would remain for
ever famous as the scene of the
greatest trap in history."
I PLAN 10
I
PoliTKAXI), Or.. Dec. 'J8. Dec
larations of itinerants, claiming to be
leader.- of the Industrial Workers of
the World, that the entire western
force of their organization had been
ordered to mobilize in Portland lo
demonstrate against police power, re
sulted in the arrest today of tweiity
mx members of the body. Several
hundred aie already on their way
here from Seattle, the prisoners aid.
The mobilization order was U.ued
when uolice stopped boisterous boy
cotts by Industrial Workers of the
World of several loejd re.-taiirants
whose proprietor- refused to organ
ize their employes along the lines of
the boycott crs' organization. The
rest a ii rant men said their help ' was
already connected witty, the American
federation of Labor.
AUSTRIA REPLIES TO
SWISS PEACE NOTE
HKKId.V. Dec. 27, via London, Dee.
A Vienna dispatch suys that the
Austro-Htingarian government today
answered the Swiss note by transmit
ting a copy of the note sent to Presi
dent Wilson. An accompanying nies
sae assured the Helvetian govern
ment that the "nohle minded sugges
tion of President Wilson met with a
thoroughly sympathetic reception,"
from Austria Hungary. The message
added that the Austro-Hungarian
government regarded the Swiss ac
tion in supporting President Wiyon
as an evidence of the "noble and hu
mane disposition which Switzerland,
since the beniiinins of the war. ha-H
nianife.-tt d toward all the belligerents."
RUIN DEFEAT
COMPLETED BY
TEUTON FORCES
Invaders Repulse Russians, Who At
tempt to Regain Lost Territory,
Taking 3000 Prisoners Across the
Danube Effort Being Made to Clear
Dohrudga of Russians.
ISKlil.lN', Dee. 28.-Tho defeat of
llie Kiisso-Huinaninn forces by the
inviidint; Teutonic anny has been
completed, it is aunouneed officially.
Kussinn troops which attempted to
regain lost ground were thrust buck
and ejected from their new positions
with heavy losses, in yesterday's
fighting1 the Aastro-ticriuan forces
look HUUU prisoners.
Held Marshal Von Mackensen is
continuing his sledge-hammer blows
upon the Russians in northeastern
Wallachia and is rapidly pushing
them back to the line of the liiver
Sereth in Moldavia.
Tlie most recent attack appears to
have scored its greatest success in
(lie region of Himnik-Snrnt, on the
railway seventy miles north of lluzeu.
The Teutonic forces have pushed for
ward beyond Itiinuik-Sarat. The
Austro-Oerinan forces are ndvanoins;
in the direction of the important Ru
manian grain and oil storehouse of
liriiiln on the Danube.
Across the Danube from Itraila, the
German - I'ulgurian- Turkish force:
made headway in their attack upon
the Mntchin bridgehead, where tin
last remaining Russian forces in Dob
radja are hanging on to the uorthwos
tern corner of. the province.
On the other war fronts the fight
ing bus been of. minor character.
The r'rench on the Sonnne front have
been successful in extensive mining
operations, lierlin, in its report on
the western front lighting.', announces
the loss of eight aeroplanes by the
entente.
IS PROBABLY LOST
XAX'nVKKT, Mass., Dec. 28.
The steamship Maryland was regard
ed as probablv lost today. Search
for the vessel and her crew by the
coast guard cutters Acushnet find
Grcshnni, which was begun after the
Maryland's wireless calls of distress
were suddenly silenced Christmas
night, was abandoned without haying
developed any trace of Ihe steamship
by either. Hope for the safety of the
steamer's fifty-odd men lies in the
possibility that they were picked up
from Ihe ship's boats by a passing
steamer.
The cutters took up the hunt for
another missing vessel, Ihe new
steamer Oznmn of the Clyde line,
bound from Portland, Me., for Xcr
York, without cargo. Since leaving
Portland on Dei-ember 'Jl the steamer
had not hoen reported.
HAKICIt, Ore., Ilec. 2S. West
bound trans-continental railroad traf
fic through here was at a standstill
today as the result of a blizzard re
ported raging in the Green river
country of Wyoming. No trains from
the east have passed through since
last night and none were expected
today.
Not an eastern mall train has gone
by here on time for several days, and
a number have been annulled. An
emergency special was to be started
from Foratello. Idaho, for Portland
today. Ksstbound trains were prac
tically on time. Hotary snow plows
were working today between Maker
and I.a Grande, Oregon, keeping the
tracks clear of snow, which has been
Tailing for several days. The storm
was believed moderating today.
Snow was reported four feet deep
at Mearham and Telocawt, Ore.,
mountain points.
FIELDS DESTROYED
BEFORE RETREAT
l.ONDO.V, Deo. 28. Speak-
lug today at a meeting ot the
Kumaninn consolidated oil fields 4
William M. lluthertord, mem-
ber of parliament from I.Ivor-
4 pool said that probably the val- 4
ue of the oil fields destroyed by
the allies in the Rumanian re-
treat amounted to $K0. 000, 000.
It was a wholesale destruction
he remurked, carried on by a
British military mission netlng
under the instructions of bead-
quarters. This work, he added,
rendered the properly and the
5 stock utterly useless to the foe.
The oil wells of German coin-
panics met a similar fate, 'he 4
said.
.
NEGOTIATIONS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S. Generol
Carranzu's answer to tho request
that he either stKn or repudiate the
protocol which will be delivered late
today to Secretary I.ano by Luis Cab.
rera. chairman of the Mexican com
missioners, is understood to contain
suggestions of modifications which
have been carefully worded to avoid
ending the negotiations.
The character of Carranza's reply
has not been revealed, but It was gen
erally believed It was another sug
gestion for modifications and con
talncd the Insistence that the Amerl
can troops in Mexico bo withdrawn
unconditionally.
It has been understood here for
several days that if General Car
rnnza did not return such an answer
as would warrant a re-assembllng of
the joint commission, the negotla
tions would be declared ended and
that General Carranza's ambassador,
Kliseo Arredondo, would return to
Mexico, leaving the embassy here in
charge of a confidential agent. This
would not amount to a severance of
diplomatic relations because in a
strict sense, there never have been
any. Such a turn, of course, would
prevent sending Henry P. Fletcher,
American ambassador designate, to
Mexico City and In short the situation
would return to the point It occupied
before the commission conferences
began.
Mr... Arredondo today unqualifiedly
denied published reports that he had
been recalled.
"It Is absolutely untrue that I have
been .recalled by my government,'-
said he, "nor do I know if the govr
eminent Is contemplating summon
Ing me. If It should occur as It did
a few weeks ago, It would not be In
tho nature of my withdrawal from
my post."
TO 1 0 YEARS IN PRISON
US AN'fil-XKS. Cul., I ee. JS.
I u vi Cjiphtn, lii-d of the four alleg
ed dynamiter bnmlit to Irinl for the
destniftioii of tin I-os Anyeles Times
building Oelobcr I, HHO. und I lie
death of twenty men, wns xenteneed
todnv to ten yt-iirs in Sun Jtieiitin
penitentiary on ;i elinrjje ' u" imm-.slitn-hter.
Jud;.'e Frank II. Willi-, who beard
the ciim' in the superior eourt, grunt
ed fnt dan a eertifieate of probable
eaiisr for appeal, which will suspend
execution of sentne ihe maximum
provided for manslaughter, until n
derision upon his expeeti'd appeal.
.Jnde Willis denied a motion for a
new trial upon nhn-h argument were
heard today.
ELWOOD MEAD DECLINES
FARM BANK PRESIDENCY
BKUKKt.KY. Cm... Den. 2S. Kl
wood Mar. International authority
on Irrigation, nan been offered and
has dwlinpfl the presidency of the
Kleventh OiMrtct Farm 1oan Hank,
It beeame known hnre today. The
district embrace California, Nevada,
t'tait and Arizona.
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Bank of England Appointed for Eng
landBank of France and Other
Agents to Be Selected Throughout
Europe Strong Financial Con
cerns to Be Selected.
PAWS, Dee. ''8. The api"intmnt
of the Hank of Knland as njjriil fv
the federal reserve bank of New Vorlt
is likelv lo be followed bv the con
tusion of a similar arrangement with
the Hank of r'rance.
The Journal says this development
lemonstratcs lhat the relations be
tween the I'uilcd States and the en
tente allies are more cordial than
inhjht have been believed al the time
the federal reserve board last month
warned I'nitcd States banks against
the acceptance of treasury notes of
the belligerents, the effect of which
this new development will fio far to
ward obliterating.
Looking to Orient
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. The re
cent authorization given Ihe federal
reserve bank of New York lo appoint
the Hank of Kngland as its agent in
London uud the probable appomlmeiit
of the Hank of France as agent in
Paris and other foreign agents
throu;'h Kurope, in all likelihood ivill
be followed in time by the appoint
ment of strong financial institutions
in similar capacities in Japan, China
and Australia.
Officials are looking lo the Orient
as a fcrlile financial field for the
growth of American business and the
establishment of eonneetioiui there,
while not under formal consideration
at present, is favored by some lucm
bers of the board.
To .Maintain Hollar'.
Operations under such arrange
ments, with banks at London and
elsewhere in Kurope, in Ihe opinion
of officiuls here, will be negligible
during Ihe war compared with opera
tions which will follow afterward. It
was with a view to cipiiimiug the
banks of this country with machinery
which would enable them to maintain
the dollar as Ihe standard of world
exchange nl'lcr the war, that the au
thorization was issued.
A situation directly opposite is said
to obtain with respect to the Orient.
Financial dealings with Japan, China
und Australia, officials here feel,
probably would hv- greater during the
war than afterward unless the ma
chinery to facilitate such operations
will have been established and work
ing when cace is declared. Hankers
in those countries, it is pointed ouf,
are still inakinir their bills of ex
change on London and il is with a
view to divei-timr a part id' this bus
iness to Ihe I'nitcd States that Ihe
establishment of agencies I here is at
present informally, under considera
tion. E
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NKW YOItK, Dei:. 2X. UeHitnip
lion of eoufereneea here today be
tween reprenentu1 tvcn of t ho ratl-
roudK and the employed biothorlioodH
wiih (pilckly term I iiuled. The eoii
ferenee had been in Hension less than
two hour when an adjournment wna
taken and no anoum ement was made
as to whether future meetings would
be held. .Wither lde would be quoted
as to what had taken pliiee. It was
learned, however, that the roads sug
gested that the dispute hetween them
over the application of the Adnmxon
act, If upheld by the supreme eourt,
be settled on the basin of the swlteh
mens' award whl It the. railroad man
agers gave the switchmen on the
roads Involved nine ho'.irs pay for
eight bourn work.
Representatives of tho brother
hoods, It Ik averted, refuse to ac
cept a settlement on sueb ft basis.
They are declared to have pointed In
sistently lo the Adanison act and to
hav demanded that an agreement be
reaehed under the ait. Sioh a sft
tleutent I hey held, would grant them
ten hours pay for eight hours oT
work.
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RANK
0 HAVE AGENTS
FOREIGN LANDS
RETAKEN FROM VILLA
Bl GENERAL MURGIA
SAX ANTONIO, Tex., Doc. 38.
.Mexican Consul Hell ran this
afternoon said he had received
a personal message from Gen-
eral Caranza saying that Gen-
eral Murgula had re-taken Tor-
icon. The message contained
no details.
VILLA PROTECTS
HI. PASO, Tex., Dec. 28. That
Frunclsco Villa has altered his atti
tude toward Americans and other for
eigners found in Mexico is tho belief
of friends of Villa here, who today
announced they had appealed to him
not to kill any more foreigners.
This nppeal was sent Villa during
his occupation of Chihuahua City.
Tho document, It was said, admitted
a number of foreigners there had
been killed, but the fact that no for
eigners were molested ufter Villa's
occupation of Torreon' was cited to
show that Villa has heeded tho ap
peal. Tho message to Villa Informed
him that the world was watching his
movements and urged guarantees to
non-combatants and the protection
of foreign property.
It was said by Villa partisans here
that Torreon would be established as
Villa's provisional hoadipinrtera. Ho
was said to have Increased his com
mand to 10,0110 troops, and It pre
dieted a campaign lor the control of
the entire state ot Chihuahua would
be inaugurated.
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101, PASO, Tex., Dec. 28. After
a personal Investigation, General
Hull, commanding tho border divis
ion here, announced today that the
exchange of rifle shots across the bor
der last night between .Mexican and
American troops started from the
Mexican side lato last night when one
of the Kentucky Infantry outposts
struck a match. No one. was hurt.
General Hell said he would formally
notiry the .luarez military authori
ties of the shooting.
General Jose .Murgula, commander
at .luarez, also Instituted an investi
gation.
"If the firing began on the .Mexl
can side,'' C'urranza Consul llravo
said today, "General Murgula Intends
to put a stop to It at once."
GREECE RECEIVES
PEACE OVERTURES
ATIIKXS, Ilec U.S. - (lanvlt Drop
pcrs lite American tiiini-tcr t
Greece, Inday colniiiuiiicnlcil lo tin
Serbian ami (ireeU l:o cniineiiH the
peace, overtures nt' llr. Vmt llclh
inami-llollwc, tlx (ii-rmun imperial
chancellor, uud nlo the Mi;;uetion
1 1 1 1 1 ' I ' bv I'l'i'-idem Wil-oli I" the bcl-
li'Clcnt llluing them to ilelilie Ih.-jl
aim. King I ''Ui-tant inc U consider
ing the question of pi r-onallv reply
in;,' to the prc-idenf yu'geli"n.
REFUGEES Af LAREDO
I.A It KIM), Tex., I lee. 'JS. NVitrly
IIKIO lehin'e urriwd l"'i'' today
1'roin Siillilln and intrrmedinte puiiiN.
liJiviiiL' lel't Mexico tlirme'lt fear il
re vi dul h'liii ry m t n it ie, they ns
erled. Kt'lnltH to Ini-nle the wife and fa Ml -ilv
nt' (irneiiil Ciiinin.ii at Nuevo
Knredn, where they were reported
ln-t nib to be .s)iimr. wen- ot' 10 1
avnil. (HlieiaU denied the report
ORYS DEFEAT
mm BY
SMALL MARGIN
Creation of Mcdford Irrigation Dis
trict Loses by Ten Votes of Nec
essary 60 Per Cent, Though Re
ceiving a Majority of Votes Cast
Three Favorable Directors Elected.
The creation of the proposed Med
I'urd irrigation district was dd'eatcit
in yesterday's election by ten votes,
according lo figures compiled from
the unollicial counts made in the five
divisions. The vote stood 187 for and
1 12 against, ten voles being: lacking to
bring the majority to (10 per cent nec
essary for the creation of the dis
trict. The light vide is due to stormy
weather and overrun fidonce on tho
part of Ihe district supporters.
'1 liree pro-irrigulion directors were
lectcd Leonard Cai'ienter, in divis
ion 1, where he defeated J. T. Sulli
van and 0. i.. Scherinerhorn; William
lludge in division Jl, where he defeut-
d K, K. Morrison, whose inline was
written on the nallots liy the opposi
tion, uud Tom Osgood, who defeated
Xeidcrmever in division 4. W. II.
(lore was eleeled treasurer over A. Y.
Stone.
The two opposition directors who
were elected were James iiwens, who
defeated t'. V. t'liinmings in division
1, anil II. ('. Mniiry, who defeuted
George II. Dean in the lilth division.
The official ciinvuss ot the ballots
will he made bv the county court next
Tuesday, when the result of the elec
tion nuiv be changed.
To Contest Klecllon.
The pru-irrigulionp"s have nn-
nouueed their inlcnlion of contesting
a number of ballots, alleging that
some who voled were not holders of
laud in the district, that others who
reside in the district ami who voted
were not entitled lo a vole, und that
others legally entitled lo votes were
refused votes by the election judges.
The contest will be brought to settle
the ipicstion of voters' ipialifications
before another election.
The vote in the various divisions on
the district was :
Division 1, yes 1H, no 2."i; division
2, yes till, no '22; division II, yes oil,
no -I I ; division 4, yes 112, no 112 ; divis
ion .", yes 12, no 22. Totals, JS7 yes,
1 12 no.
Defeat Dry Leaders.
Three directors were up in division
2, I n o for and one against the dis
trict. It was thought by the opposi
tion that the split in Ihe vote would
elect the opposition candidate, G. L.
Schcrnicrhorn. However, the vole
cast for both pro-irrigation candi
dates was higher than for Schonner
hoin, Carpenter receiving 118 votes,
Sullivan 27 and Schcrnicrhorn 21.
I.. Ncidcrnicycr, another leader of
the opposition and candidate for di
rector, was defeuted ill division 4 by
Tom (-gooil, who received 110 votes
against Neidermeyer's 27. ' In divis
ion :i, Budge defeated Morrison, an
cicvculh-liour eaudidale, ot) to 24. In
divi-ion I, Ciuiimius received It) votes
again-l 28 lor Owens. In division o,
Donne received 12 votes to 28 for
Maury.
Two years ago, when the formation
id' Ihe district was first brought up,
the oppo-ilioti was so strong: us to
now under pro-irrigation scnliment
before the mutter could even be pre
sented to the eounly court und an
elect i i .ii asked. The increase in the
use of irrigation in Ihe valley and the
compiiicii of irriuatiou education is
held responsible lor Ihe growth of
sentiment in favor of the creation of
the district as shown by the close
vole in yesterday's election, more
than oil per cent of the fund holders
expressing themselves in favor ut tho
district.
VEN1ZEL0S DECLARES
LETTER A FORGERY
WASHINGTON, lb-. J8. Oeore
t'lit'nudniis, former minister of inter
ior of (irreee, now representing the
Venielns provisional jroVHinim'tit in
lhi iMutntry, todnv declared n pub-li-hed
letter attributed to Former
(render Yeni.c In- i-allinir for extreme
effort lo brinj Greece into the war
on the side of the allies to be 11 form
er v.