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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
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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
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We have- a choice line of
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Phone 872.
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Keeps all objectionable bac
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Butter not pasteurized de
velops bad flavors very rap
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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.
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