MEDFORD MATTJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREOOX. WEDNESDAY. 'AUGUST 8, 1fll7
PAGE Til HEW
FIRST SHIP TO
II
WASHINGTON, Aiiji. 8. Tho first
ship in thill famous bridge of ships
which the United States is to build
across the Atlantic to defeut the
German U-boat campuipi, will be
eomileted in November of this year.
A few more will ho completed in
December of this year and January
and February of lfllS. Tho (rrcnt
bulk of those contracted for will
come in the spring and .summer of
1018.
So it turns out that wltiJc Major
General Uoetlials and William Den
man were having their controversy,
which resulted ill their both ftetlinj;
out, work was nevertheless actually
beiuc dono on the ship-building pro
gram. ' Present Situation.
ftllere are the facts ns they stand
today :
Contracts for 353 ships of all
kinds have actually been signed,
sealed and delivered find work on
many of these is being pushed.
Contracts for 115 more ships of
all kinds nro in complete shape, save
for tho finnl signatures, which will
como very shortly.
And here are tho kinds of ships
Seventy-seven are steel ships
whose tonnage ranges from 5000 to
9100.
Forty-eight are composite wood
and steel ships, whose tonnage aver
ages 3500.
The balance nre wooden ships
whose tonnage is 3500.
One hundred and ten ships of all
kinds have been contracted for on
the Pacific coast.
One hundred and sixty-six ships
have been contracted for in the
south.
Tiiimlier Hold-Up.
The lumber men of the south were
one cause for a slowing up in ship
building. They were under pledge to
irnish lumber at an average price
of $35 per thousand feet. Of the
first 100 ships, lumber has been pro
vided for only sixty-three.
The result is the other day Chair
man R. N. Hurley of the shipping
hoard and Hear Admiral Capps, gen
eral manager of the emergency fleet
corporation, had a meeting with
lumber representatives.
In polite language they told the
lumbermen whero they got off.
Nothing so rude as "commendcer
ing'' was spoken, but tho lumbermen
saw the point and the lumber will be
forthcoming 1,500,000 feet -for
wooden ships.
Cnpp's Ultimatum.
The meeting was interesting for
another reason. Admiral Capps,
who has refused to talk for publica
tion, made his first speech and em
phasized two points:
First That bo and Chairman
Hurley were not going to scrap about
the respective merits of wooden and
steel ships, but were going to try to
build ns many of both ns possible.
Second That he and Hurley both
considered themselves as mere units
ill the great scheme to defeat the V
boats, and would spend their tunc
working and not ipiarreling.
SKATTI.K, Aug. 8 The cxtraor
dinary inroads made upon men eli
gible for military service by the claim
of "dependent wife" has drawn from
three of the ten Seattle exemption
boards u ruling that claim alono will
henceforth he insufficient to exempt
a man. Four claims of exemption on
this ground in one district were re
jectcd yesterday.
One man, accepted for service in
fliitc of his "dciendent wife claim,
nked for discharge on account of
membership in the International
Diblc Students' association, whose
tenets, he declared, forbade partici
pation in war. His ease has not been
decided.
POLES REFUSE TO ENTER
COPENHAGEN', Aug. 8. A Vien
na dispatch to the Berlin Kreus Zcl
tung says that the sentiment ft a
meeting of the Polish eiuo recently
was against the participation of Poles
in the Austrian ministry. Dr. von
Zoldler, the premier, therefore has
)een forced to drop his plan for form
ing a parliamentary ministry from a
bureaucratic cabinet. It Is not ex
pected, the dispatch adds, that the
cabinet will be able to deal with the
reform problem and Its life may be
shortened,
LONG LIST OF SPIES
TO BE PUNISHED
I'KTIiOG HAD, June 30 (corre
spondence of the Associated Press.)
Thirty-three long lists of spies,
informers and agents provacateurs
in ox-Kniperor Nicholas' pay have
been published by tho commission
for securing the new system of gov
ernment, appointed by the provis'
ional government immediately after
the revolution. Fifty more lists may
be expected. The total number of
these secret legionaries of autocracy
is expected to reach 80,000... Those
whose guilt is beyond doubt have
been put in jail, but it is not yet" set
tled whether (hey will be tried and
punished or merely kept in jail until
the peril of n reactionary counter
revolution has passed.
A i revealed l.y these imiuiries, au
tocracy's spies and informers were
much less picturesque and romantic
than they appear in the typical
"nihilist novel." Most belonged to
the more intelligent working class or
to tho minor bourgeoisie. They were
paid badly, the average wage for or
ganizing political prime 'or betraying
accomplices being $20 a month. The
spies were usually instructed to be
eonio members of secret revolution
ary or terrorist organizations, among
these being the social democrat
party, the social revolutionaries with
their fighting committees, the populist-socialists
and the Muximiliks.
On nearly every newspaper was at
least one spy. Ho took part in meet
ings, widened breaches in the. work
of organization and kept the secur
ity department well informed.
In violation of the nihilist novel
tradition, very few women were em
ployed as spies or informers, but a
few noted eases have been exposed.
In Moscow three sisters named Pul
itsin betrayed scores of workmen,
alter getting confessions from them
by means of simulating love.
POLES IN REVOLT
AGAINST GERMANS
LONDON, Aug. 8. The situation
in Poland is critical, according to in
formation received by the correspon
dent at Iiiiusnnne, Switzerland, of the
Exchange Telegraph company. The
Germans arc said to bo discussing the
possibility of an organized revolt on
the part of the Poles. All German
women in Poland, including the wives
of high military and civil officials,
have returned to Germany.
Martial law, the correspondent
adds, has been declared at Warsaw
nnd in other Polish centers. Riots
which have been suppressed will
much bloodshed in the mining urea,
have been renewed.
TO
CALL ASHLAND GUARD
Ashland has organized a limine
Guard company for the protection of
that city with O. E. Dlcbert, a former
sergeant in the First company, as cap
tain in command. Mayor C. B. Lam
kin has Issued the following signed
proclamation in connection with the
Home Guard organization:
"Those who wish to Join can cnll or
send In their names to the city re
corder, Mr. Wlmer. Any. ono can join
who wIsIicb. Thoro is no obligation
attarhed except to protect tho city. In
case any fires are sot, the city fire
whlstlo will blow 'two long and two
short' whistles. In case of a riot, the
whlstlo will blow 'two long and three
short' whistles. All should then hur
ry to the city hall, where Captain Del-
bert will be In command. In case of
riot, bring any firearms you may have
at home."
RULE
CONVENTION MEETS
DUBLIN. Aug. 8. The Irish home
rule convention re-assembled today
Since it was adjourned July 26,
more sanguine feeling has developed
that the conference will have good re
sults, importance is attarhed here
to the Interview which Sir Horace
Plunkett. the chairman of the conven
tlon, had with King George, it being
taken here to Indicate the royal Inter
est In the proceedings.
The Dublin newspapers today gave
prominence to a letter from Sinclair
Llsburn, a leading Ulster unionist
strongly favoring a home rule settle
ment, Including all of Ireland,
HERE ARE'
V- r"7" -y ' Z ' i
Tommy knows them already, and when Mammy reaches the trendies in France, he, too, Will have to be
come acquainted with them. They're characteristic types of German soldiers captured by the Hritislt in
their latest drive. They're the kind of men the kaiser is shoving ii; front of him to maintain his empire- by
ruthless warfare. Our Sammies will have to conquer them to win the war.
DRIVING GERMANS
' OUT OF AFRICA
LONDON, Aug. 8. Tho beginning
of a forward movement in the Limit
area on the Indian ocean in south
eastern German Africa Is described in
an official statement issued tonight.
The offensive began on August 2,
when the Germans were driven from
their advanced positions on tho Mi
hubla stream, ten miles s,outhwest of
Lindl. On August 3 the enemy's main
positions were assaulted in a frontal
attack by African troops, who made
some progress, but the turning move
ment intended to envelop the Ger
man's right flank encountered strong
ly posted defenses,-concealed in dense
bush. Severe fighting ensued, the en
emy vigorously counter-attacking and
the British, Indian and African forces
fighting with great gallantry.
The action was indecisive, the loss
es on both sides being considerable
The British forces are entrenched on
the ground gained, the statement
says, and the advance will be resumed
soonr
BREEDING CATTLE
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 8. A short
age In fodder has compelled the Ger
mans to undertake a sweeping slaugh
ter of home stocks of cattle. German
buyers In Denmark who last week cut
prices 13 per cent are, according to a
dispatch today from the interior, dis
continuing purchase oltoKothcr until
the surplus at home is utilized.
This has brought about another re
duction In the price of meat in Den
mark and It is said that further cuts
will follow. i
EX-PRESIDENT TAB'S
CLAY CENTER, Kas., Aug. 8.
Tho condition of former President W.
If. Taft, who became suddenly 111 here
Monday night, was improved today,
according to attending physicians,
who decldod, however, that It would
be advlsablo for him to remain In his
room again tbdny, Ho probably will
leave for Lincoln, Nebraska, tomor
row, It was said.
Mr. Taft became III after deliver
ing an address here.
PREPARE TO FLOAT!
NEW YORK, Aug. R. -Preparations
for tho floating of the second liberty
loan to be offered to the public some
time early In the fall were begun here
today by the general loan committee
of the Bccond federal reserve district
Altho the date the second loan will bo
offered to the public and the rate of
Interest It will bear ha'e not been
doflnltoly decided upon, It was said It
would bo about September 15 and not
Octolwr 1.1, as at first reported.
SEVEN NORWEGIAN SHIPS
NINETY MEN LOST IN GALE
LONDON', Aug. 8. Seven Nor
weginn sailing vessels and ninety men
were lot in a heavy gale near Green,
land, according to a di-patdi to the
Central News from ChrUtiuuia,
WHAT OUR SAMMIES MUST CONQUER
E!
El
AMSTEHDAM, Aug. 8. Austria
Hungarian newspapers, according to
a telegram from Vienna, ' view
China's declaration of War as the
work of the entente, especially Pres
ident Wilson. It is turned as a blow
at Gentian tind Aiistro-lliingarian
business interests in China and to
oust two troublesome competitors' by
furnishing tho Chinese with a pre
text not to pay their debts, rescind
their mining concessions to the Teu
tons, confiscate Atistro-German cap
ital invested in the country, seize
their ships and intern their subjects.
Miss Elizabeth Robinson, who re
cently left on a Visit for Sioux City,
Iowa, is expected to return to Med-
ford about September 1. -
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AMSTERDAM, Aug. 8. Lawyers
of Brussels have eloctod Adolphe Max
the heroic burgomaster of Brussels,
imprisoned liy Germans, as president
of tho bar association, according to
news received hore.
Burgomaster Max was arrested at
Brussels September 28,1914, for his
"irreconcilable attitude" and Interned
at Glatz.
LONDON, Aug. 8. Tho Central
News Agency quotes the nowspaper
Bolglsch Dagblad to the effect that
Burgomaster Max of Brussels Is seri
ously ill in prison at Cello, a Prussian
town, 23 miles northeast of Hanover.
King Alfonso of Spain Is said to
have Interfered fruitlessly in behalf of
the imprisoned burgomaster.
TE who hesitates is
lost. But
deliberates over
of Velvet ain't
a long snor.
Think This Over
Kentucky Burley is a good
pipe tobacco. There is no
better. But there are ways
and ways to cure it. There
are quick, man-made pro
cesses and there's Nature's
way two years ageing in
wooden hogsheads.
That's a slow, ex
pensive method,
but it is the best
method. Try
Velvet and taste
that difference.
Sc Rag.
10c Tins 1 lb.
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1 B ill
EGGS AND SALT
AS
E
What would you do if, when alone
out in the mountains, you, were bit
ten by a rattlesnakef Here is what
W. S. Copley did on July 25, ns re
lated ill the last issue of tho Glen
dale Times: ' '
Mr. Copley was alone at tho
mines, being employed ns watchman,
lie had just left the house and step
lied down over a ledge about a foot
high, when he felt a heavy thud and
sharp pain on the outside of. his left
leg just below the knee. Mr. Copley
says he became extremely busy and
did pot lose even n fraction of a sec
ond in widening the distance between
himself and the rattler, which im
mediately recoiled anil prepared for
another strike. However, it was then
Mr. Copley's turn at the bat, and
with n spade ho scored n-complete
knockout on his snakeship. The
snako gave no warning, for the rea
son that- ho had previously lost his
rattles, bjit ho -certainly did strike a
hard blow for his length, being not
over two und a half foot long. His
fangs penetrated Mr. Copley's trous
ers, drawers and hose, and sank deep
enough into the flesh to cnitso blood
to run down into his shoe.
Just what Mr. Copley did, being
out in the mountains alone, should
bo of interest to those who frequent
the mountains. Ho calmly broko an
egg, beat it up, and mixed it Ihiehiy
with salt to form a poultice. This
was placed on the wound for twenty
minutes. When removed, it hud be
come green. Another siniilur poultice
was then placed on tho wound, and
it, too, turned green. A third ponl
tico showed loss green, and the
fourth poultice showed only a faint
streak of -green. Tho egg and salt
did its work well. A cloth saturated
with turpentine was (hen bound on
tho bite, nnd while tho leg and foot
was for a time so swollen Hint -Mr.
Copley could not get his shoo on, he
says he feels no ill effects now from
the bite.
THE
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he who
a pipe
not by
Clau Humidor.
i is n 1
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Thoro Ts a Heap of Kolnco In ndngr.
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For months uMedford readers have
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about tho good work they have done
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of merit?
Mrs. J. II. Gustln, !21 S. Grape St.,
Mcdford, says: "I have been taking
Doan's Kidney Pllla whenover I have
felt tho need of a kidney medicine for
several years and I have always re
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My kidneys seem to be my weakest
spot and every little cold or strain af-
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kidneys become normal and In every
way, I feol as woll and strong as
over."
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There is more nourishment
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Nurmrs
Butter-Nut Bread
Because it's made with milk.
Birr A 15c SIZE
It's better and most for
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Nurmi Baking Go.
For
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use
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market.
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Medford, Oregon, Jan. 18, 191T
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This Is to cortlfjr that I, th un
designed, bad very severe stomach
trouble and had been bothered for
several years and last August was not
expected to live, ana hoarlng of Olm
Chung (whose Horb Store Is at 241
South Front street In Medford) I de
cided to got herbs for my stomach
trouble, and I started to tooling befc.
ter as soon as I used them, and today
am a woll man and can heartily rec
ommend anyone afflicted as 1 was t.
see GIm Chung and try his Herbs.
(Signed) W. R, JOHNSON
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M. A, Andorson, Medford.
8. D. Holmos, Eagle Point.
Frank Lewis, Eagle Point. '
Wm. Lowls, Eagle Point.
W. L. Chlldreth, Engle Point.
C. E. Moore, Eagle Point.
J. V. Mclntyre, Eagle Point.
Cico. M. Von der Hellen, Eagle Point.
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