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0 PXGE SIX GERMANY PLANS E Teutonic Scheme for War on United States Takes in Russia as Well as Japan Captured Document Fur nishes Proof of Kaiser's Instruc tions to Take in all the World. BY CHARLKS EDWARD Hl'SSrXL. WASHINGTON, Harth 10. The United Smu-s today i like a man a!kinsr on the hist inch of a hu?e pre ijire and dreaming dreams that he is safe. 1 by any possibility Germany wins in tliis war, or if she eomes out of it unbeaten, this country we love has never been in sui-h imminent deadly peril as it will be in then. Not in the Civil war, not at anv other time. The stain;erin(.' revelations of Ger many's plottinKs to embroil us with Mexico and Japan are not half the fctory. It isn't Japan and Mevioo alone, nor Germany, Jagmn and Mexico alone that wc faced in that diabolical ma neuvering. "ie ena n was ijermany, Japan. .Mexico and Russia. Jnin Mean Ituxtta We seem to forpet, in the white house, in congress, in elitorial rooms and elsewhere we seem to forpet tin stujx-ndous fact that in all intema- "iini aiiairs, japan now means Jap an and Kussia. If then, Germany pets away with this war, the real meaninp will be, not Japan and Russia alone, but a ter rifying new triple alliance planned to dominate the world! That most stranpe, sinister eom- rtflct (ho Imafi- nr aii;,.n..H .i.. i.. . Slimmer between Japan and Russia we seem to overlook that. Negotiated by a pro-German administration in Russia and plainly shaped a a pre liminary to another compact wc ov erlook that. The terms of that alliance bind each of the nations in the most astounding way to nuport the other in any for eijm complication we seem to over look that. Any complication with the United State- or anybody else we overlook that. But the men on the inside of things abroad do not. On the memorable day when that terrifyinir treaty was made known in Knpland, such men turned pale and pased. Kor they saw that this new treaty practically knocked out the slender alliance between Japan and Great Britain, it went far beyond , any treaty between Russia and r ranee, it opened the door straipht upon democracy's greatest trapedy ! Autrocrary xn. Ifc-raomvcy For it meant this one thinp as surely as words ran have any sig nificance at all the autocracies of the world lined up against the democ racies in a fipht to a finish, with the vast preponderance of numbers, mil itary resources and strength on the side of the autocracies. I was in Indon when the new came out. N"t a word was said in public about it. Hut men that read not alone with their eyes but with their mind-, looked at the di-.pat. hc and turned sick with the boundless possibilities of black and utter ruin that oened before them. Ail alliance of the autocratic against the democracies ! No more, no le-s. It lias been for years a jiait of the dream of the reactionary cle ment that controls the three leadinp autocracies. The autocracies against the democracies, and the greatc-t of all democracies at once the riche-t nation on earth and the lea-t pre. pared to defend itself. But it is not the lure of that wealth that is the main reason for the new triple alliance. It is something ,-,-. There is the natural in-timts of men sincerely bred in the autocratic faith, the natural fear of parasite for their job menaced always more and more by the spread of democratic ideas. These ideas, the reactionaries firm ly believed, are bred solely in the dem ocracies, and the world ill never know peace nor stability until they are suMued. "tVcollh of World Souitbt But beyond everything ckc. far above and beyond is the vast, dnrrhs almost inconceivable potcntinlit.es oi wealth and strength that lie in the commercial domination of the woild. The nets of German intrigue, mar velously organized and spread thni every considerable country, are pnrtlv revealed to u by the Mciiran story. But they go beyond all this and seem so in-criiiabie and at tunes almo; nprrnatiiral that when voii first pick up some threads of that clever xcav inir yon are nglin-t and amancd. Take but a few of the facts. Germany is nominally at war with TRIPLE ALLIANC I RULE WORLD Russia. Yet in the midst of the war, Germany is able, through her unap proachable power of intrigue, to pull down one Russian administration and set up another friendly to herself. She is able to influence the dissi tion of Russian armies. She is able to pull down a huge mis play like that of Rumania and nap the rich advantages of it. She is able to direct the course of King Consiantine and paralyze the allies' advance from Salonika. IK-ulrbtuin All Over World Compared with these things, hat she attempted with Mexico and Japan was simple enough. Kor years this work has been going on in every cor ner of the world. In March, J!il3, the French secret service was able to obtain possession of an authentic document prepared for the guidance of German diplomats and agents in the world-wide war that Germany was then planning. Among the sentence- iu this document were there : "We rou-t stir up trouble in the north of Africa and in Russia. It is a means of keeping the forces of the enemy engaged. . . Risings provok ed in time of r by political agents ne-d to be carefully prepared and bv material means. They must have a controlling head to be found among the influential leaders, religious or po litical. . . . Neither ridiculous shriek ing for revenge bv French eauvinists nor the Engli-hmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn u from our aim of protecting and extending Deutschtum all the world over." Thatis the idea Deutseht um all over the world and the strings al ready laid down to hiII it off. The governing class in Russia has always been German not merely in sympathy but in blood. Struggle Already On tl is perfectly understood in the inner circles of Euroe that Russia of the governing class has never had any heart in this war and that if they control the government it is ready at the iyohuIogical moment of a Ger man success to make a separate jieace and join Germany in the commercial and other division of the world. Nothing else is needed. Russia and Japan have already been bound to. gether by German influence. This is the exact situation. From it there is no possible way out except that the United States shall take its place with the other dem ocracies and bear its part in the work of preserving in the world the dem ocratic principle. It is too late to go fiddling around, talking of pence. The struggle is al ready on and the only choice we have is not between peace and war but be tween duty and annihilation. Which do we want f Annnurn-i-tuciit nt Port Inn.! by Stall Hiliwny CorumiMon.'r S. W--on tliHt the ('mmis-inn lM tint pm rw.se to -jefnd Buy of the fun..- pro . h.im! by the lit an-Harn-tt hill nn the Onit.T Jjike hichway, but internlcd mMcnJ to cniMrurt Tiller nn:l from Tilirr to Trail with the uva of -wii.-hin.- tin Pacific luuhway to thi route, h;w nnmpd Jack-on county to a vijiirint- pmtc-t. Preparation are under way for u fijiht ail alony the line, mile- the coimniion definitely cMimnit-i itM-lt t the ('rater Itke highway. win, d has already been sur veyed, ami t"r which the irovernment ha- ii'jr.H-,1 I., put up h..i.m. in 1!'17 under the Shackeltord bill, pp. . idt-d the -tale put up a similar amount. The I'.ean-Harrett bill ht n itted thU. but Mr. Ken-on -tuted to Will (. M.el Thursday at Pottland that the ei-:T mission did not intend tn spend a cent on this Jiiyhwav. Vnder the di-trirtine plan adopted bv the eoinniU-ion. Com mi-Mum1 r Adam- nt F.i.vnp has this cTi-.rut. He will -K-;tk at Grnnts Pa Monday ewniinr. and at Medford Tue-dty evcniiiL. M rs. Gore, IUus and W.Merhm.1, 'no are attending the rad rally at Vuene Saturday, wired .!:.-.. Mr. Adam- will be here Tue-day and p prepare for n public meeting. At tin- meeting there will be a -how uow n. The pr.poM-d Tiller road i!l cut oft northern Ja.-kon eMinty and ail of J..-ephtne eo'intv from the Paeif highway. It inverses an un-ettled untam re.-i-m, and benefit- no one. etrvpt the o iters of the town-i!e (if Ttllt r and adjacent procrty. The town-ite a-, until rreenlly, the jirop- rty f J. r. Partrura, superii-or of tin rniiNiii.-i national foe-t, who ha- intented the f. -re-try bureau m thi rad. I."MmN. M.,reh 10.-rount Von Peni-ti-rt (, forn er to-nnan amba-a- hr a' W.i-hiti-tnn. arrived at Chn-- tiama thi- it,m uum iw ordih-,' to ;m K ii.uiye T.-ieraph di-paleh from Copiuuageu, MTDFOftD MATL TKFBUNT:, PAID IN WAGES Hy W. W. WATSON. The payroll at the Blue Ledu mine now amounts practically to fi,OiK) a month, while preliminary work for general operation has only bejrun. In deed, such of the preparatory' activity is outdoor employment ; and the weather ha- rather discouraged that ciais of work because it can be done more rapidly and with much better result when there are no now and ice to embarrass propre.-s. The Hlue Ledj;e mine is not the only proj-erty in that di-trict that has "shipping ore'' ready for shipment; but the likelihood is that no arrange ment for s-hippinj; fnm other mines in that vicinity will lie made now be cause of the obvious re-u!ts of a ale of the Hlue Lfdt:c and the evident purpose of the puivha.-inr eoinany to supply every facility fur operation of the property as a real mine, capa ble of an output of millions of dollars annually. An extensive tunnel sys tem in a va-t body of rich ore, like that of the Blue Ledjre mine, would enable the operators to put out a ton naj.'e annually that they could not af ford to hold on the dump for lack of transportation facilities. HeneeF the value of the on output would justify the con-tract i(.n of a railroad at once. Thiit is what other operators in other properties are waiting for. j 'hy Njwwk in Million? I A man (more or le-s iTiorant of anything that requires profound in dividual thought, and therefore, a man whose opinions are jreneraHy not naU') said ye-terday: 'Vou fellows talk in millions about these mining propositions. Why not talk in terms that others can under stand?" A million dollars or a million anv- thixifr else is beyond his knowledge of computation. Biff fijnires frighten him. Ignorance of what thev mean or how to count them is the cause. For instance: Shasta county, Cali fornia, jn-t over the hill from the Blue Ledj.'e mine, put out 40.000.000 pounds of copKr last year and an equal amount the year before. That is worth, at pre-ent copper prices, $14,000,000. That is a very simple problem in millions. Calaveras coun tv has put out l,."0o.ooo each year for two year?. So has Plumas coun ty. The properties tein mined for that aeirrei.'ate of millions of dollars are not extensive ore bodies like the Blue Ledge is known to be. On the other hand, they are retarded by min ing operators as small properties; and the averHire values of the ore is le.-s than that already demonstrated to exi.-t in any one of three biftre bodies in the Blue Ledee district. The fact is that few people who are really concerned over the ojera tion of our local mines h;ve an ade quate conception of their bii:ne-. When, they are carried in fiirures yond a 00 pro-jtect hide, they art lost in amazement and unbelief. Ijtwtir H-xltof Move- Slowly. The Blue LedL'e mine has Ion been too bifr for the old-time ox-team miner. It has been held all these years bv a company that unfortu nately for us. had other immense proHrties on which its opratiii forces were centered. It was the ct fects of the bandit rv in Mexico that turned lare attention to the Blue IavIl'c in recent months. We are in debted to the "i;rea-er.' more than to any concerted effort we have mad for pre-ent activity in that di-triet at thi- time. But larje bodies move -lowly. Thi- i- a dcnion-tratcd in stance. It is so everywhere. The projertie- in the California counti, - to whit-h n terenec was ju-t made, have !oiil' In-en known a- rich copjier projition-. It ha- taken -ar- t" obtain knowledge of their ex tent and value- and to obtain recog nition from the mining world. The h"le -eeret of this tardine is found in lack of tnm-portation. liapid de vtlopment was. therefore. ini ib!e. So it bus been in our ca-e. (mly no are railroad facilities bein.' pnidcJ for the-e mines the annual output ha for two years been f 17.ftiMi.Ooo. It has Uen di tnri-t ratel that the copper valuer of the Blue Led-e di--inct an- yn-ater thaji thoe in the district- mentioned; and it is ju-t wii i: -hon that the ore bodies an va-ily more extensive. Adetpiate tran-p-. nation facilities con-tit He the next jirii!rm to le sulvel. The ruirchn-tm company on which we now wait ha the capital to oxrate the Blue Le.'.e nunc for all it's worth. That imaii a railroad and, no doubt, a -uielter. With th-e pn.:dfd, the mrn who' afraid ol figure in mi'hou woulo better not undenake an estimate of the rft'pet they w;ll have on the com-' biiied nnnuig intere-t in ou'.hern lrei:..n and nortitern Caiifornia. i J. A. How of riff in rek was a Medfoid buine isiigr Saturday. fEDFOUD. ORFiON. BEGINS NEXT WEEK R. A. Ward, biological fcs-isunt bureau of biological lurrey of tbe V. S. department of agriculture, will be in Jackson county from March 10 to 15 to work in co-operation with Claude C. Cate. county pathologist, in demonstrating tbe bet known methods for the eontrol and eradica tion of moles, gophers, squirrels and jack rabbits. The bureau of biolopi "al survey bas accumulated a Tast amount of information from many years of experimental and investiga tional studies and Mr. Ward will be able to demonstrate In a practical manner some of the best known meth ods for the control of tbe above pests. In connection with this work it U planned to organize community clubs to carry on the work in a co-otterative manner. Mr. Ward will speak at the Med ford library' on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Demonstrations will be conducted in the Table Rock district on Wednesday, and at Talent and Ashland on Thursday. Watch the papers for further anonuncements. Interested parties' confer with some oqe at the county pathologist's of fice. NEW GAME CODE FOR OREGON PASSED BY LEGISLATURE: The last session of tbe legislature 1 adopted a new game code-rio take ef-; feet May 21. I The first change Is w ith reference to ' the law in regard to using docs for the purjse of chasing or bounding deer, j Tbe 1915 law was repealed and the fol-' lowing substituted therefor: ' No per-i son or persons shall make use of a dog in hunting, pursuing or killing any of: the game animals of the state of Ore-: of IMPORTED and DOMESTIC tobaccos-Blended SATriiDAY. MAT. PIT 101917 gon. Any free mnn;cg dog or dogs running at large in territory in habited by deer or found following upon the traUt of any game animal of the state, or any free running dog or dogs run ning at large in any of the fields of tbe state, after the owner has ben du notified in writing by any pame war den or other officer entrusted with the enforcement of the game laws of inn sTate, and if the reputed owner dis claims ownership of the said dog or dogs, the same may be declared pub lic nuisance and may be killed at such time by any game warden or other person entrusted with the enforcement of the game laws without criminal or civil liability." One-half of all flue moneys here after will be forwarded to the state treasurer to be dejosited to the game protection fund. Last year all funds remained in counties where collected. Both men and women are compelled to take out a hunting license, although women are exempt from purchasing a fishing license. The price of a bunt ing license is $1.50 instead of $1.00, and the same is true fir an angling li cense. In Game District No. 1, which in cludes Jackson county, the season on deer oiens August 15 and continues until October 15. It has been until October 31 heretofore. Tbe bag limit has been reduced to two. The open season all over the state on migratory birds hereafter will be from October 1st to January' 15. The Chinese pheasant hen has been protected and it is unlawful to till the same at any time thereafter. In Game IHrict No. i the open sea son on deer begins September 1 and continues through until 'October 31. The bag limit is two instead of three. However, in Klamath County the open season is from August 15 to October 15, with a bag limit of two. The ojen season on sage hens be gins August 1st. instead of July 15, and continues until August 31. The bag limit on trout has been changed throughout the state from 75 to 50 trout, or 35 pounds in any one day. In Game District No. 2, winter fisb InK has been eliminated, except for don't be content with taste alone You hr.d ',3 be up ev.v more. Beojy-.rt'nis n?w Chc;tcnltkl Cigarette not only pleases the Lisle but, in addition, give: cmokers a rc kind of cigarette enjoy ment Chestcnle'ds hi trnt. .-note uou a: smoking they " SA TICFV7 And yet, they're xUd! The b.'cnd is what doer, it the fine and skilful proporiioninrj of the pure, natural i:i".;x-e:i ana uomcstic tobac-c-j:;. And the blend can't bo Try Chesterfielda. Todar. 2010 m a es tern eld CIGARETTES 10 COME BACK. LOSES 34 10 13 A-hhmd failed liit nkht in her at- 1 tT:).i t" "force ba'-k'' and repay Mvd ! f.T.j fur the dcfi-M of Thursday ni-lit, Midf..rd arain takini: the loni; c-nd of a 34 t'. 13 core. The Medfnrd t:ir were defeated by a se'ire (,f s to .", A-hland' vietory beinr due laruely to the work of a left-hander playing j center. J Medford started the pame in a ' confident mood, fpearin;; a couple of ( ba-kets in the firt few minute of! play. With thi lead the local beL-iinj to sluff and in a few minutes the vis itor; tied the svore. Medford thenj woke up and ended the fir.-t half le.id- j I inj: the A-hland squad by o baskets. I The A-hland squad had lost their 1 sieain in the second half and Med t f'-rd piled the seore up fast, the trame ending with Medf'Td -1 jii:ts in the If ad. Sen.-atiorjal longdistance shooting was a feature of the frame. In the . first half Abb.ijt of Ashland heaved J a basket from the center of the floor. ( followed shortly by three horse-shoe ba-kcts by Jones, of Medford. In the second half fork Youns of Medford ;:ot free with the ball and taking: careful aim shot a perfect basket two-thirds the length of the floor. The pir!- p'tme was closely con tested though A-hland was leadinc by two hakets at the end of the first halt The Medford fHrls throughout the fame displayed a disinclination t" mix it and no after the ball. Mcd ford's bn-ket shooting also was inac curate. trout over eighteen inches in lenEth. Game breeders' permits will here after cost the sum of J2 .00, Instead of being issued free as heretofore. to lately. Hut not GERMAN AMBASSADOR IN BAD STORM ON OCEAN LONDON, Mar. 10. The Morning Posts Copenhagen correspondent says the Danish foreign office has been Informed that the steamer Krederik VII! on which Count Berns torff, former German ambassador to the t'nlted States and his party are passengers, was prevented by a snow storm from entering Chrlstiansand and has been ordered to Christlania. The German consul and a large number of Germans, in addition to about 200 journalists of all national ities, says the correspondent are awaiting the arrival of the steamer at Christiansand and great disap pointment and contusion nas Deen caused by diverting her to Christlania TO CONQUER An Unruly Stomach TRY HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters It Helps Nature Wonderfully BEST SEEDS That Grow We have- a choice line of fiardi'ii Seeds, including the Famous Burpees in packages and bulk. 59 varieties of Spencer's Sweet Peas. The Medford Florist and Broadley The Medford Florist and Seed Man Phone 872. Pasteurization Keeps all objectionable bac teria from the butter, ini- proving its keeping qualities. Butter not pasteurized de velops bad flavors very rap dly in warm weather. ; ; Use the best and purest 'Medford Creamery' Butter Ask your grocer. Pasteurized buttermilk and sweet cream for whip ping. SAFETY FlliST. Buy the Products of Home Industry CALITOKMA WASH1MI POWDER, makes the washing easy. For sale by Chas. L. Sehieffelin, Ulrieh & Ryan, Hutchison and Lumsden, Fouts Grocery Co., Warner, Wortman & Gore, Marsh & Bennett, John Brown- lee, C. P. Kribs, J. B. Hibbard, Jones Cash Grocery, De Voe's, V. B. Con ser, W. Stringer, Jackson St, Gro cery, G. W. Dow, C. S. Butterfield, Bungalow Grocery, East Side Grocery, Cort St. Grocery, Laurel St. Grocery, Oakdale Grocery, 0. Verbick Grocery. Factory at Ashland. U MAY B NEXT Call up BOOS for Accident and Health Insurance Orer 100 Mwlfordcrs Chrry A. & H. i-oui'ies Kb, GEO.E. BOOS. Of.'lce Hotel Holland Bldg. Phone 337 or 710, Medford, Ore. Home Phone 58 0-M. P. O. Box 104 J. Pays Claims from the First Dny of Disability. Don't have to Wait 1 Wevk lo get benefits. Should ,30.00 Week.
