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Forty-aeventh Year.
Daily Twelfth Year
MEDFORD. OREGON, ZUON'DAY, OOTOHKli 15, 1017
NO. 176
FINAI fiJIf HEADLESS BODY U. Sl$h:Or
Svfn RV OF SEATTLE GiRL fin War Like 'MmgratM omen BLOWS UP; FELT HALTS PROGRESS
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SCORE 4-2
Chicago Americans Win Sixth and
Final Game From New York
League Pennant Winners Rwl
Faher Pitches Magnificent Game
Giants' Defensive Blows Up in the
Fourth and Errors and Hits Give
Sox Lead Never Overcome.
POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct.
15. The Chicago American leiim
pennant winners marched triumph
antly off with the baseball champion
ship here today. Red Fabcr pitched
a superb fame for his Chicago mates.
Thirty-three thousand and six towns
people saw the Giants' defensive blow
np in the fourth inning, which, with
a couple of sharp hits, pat the Sox in
the lead, and they were never headed.
The Giants garnered their two runs
on a couple of passes and a three
base punch by Ilerzog.
The story of crucial innings fol
lows :
Fourth Inning, First Half.
Zimmerman crabbed Collins'
grounder and threw wildly to the
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smiius, voiniis going 10 secnim. iiaciv
son sent np a high one to Robertson,
who dropped the ball. Eddie Collins
dashed to third, Jackson holding first
when Robertson threw to third, lien-
ton took Fclsch's grounder and run
over to tag Collins, who then tossed
to Zimmerman. The Sox second
baseman was chased across the plate
by Zimmerman, Collins scoriae;. Jack
son and Felsch scored on Gandil's
single to right. Gaadil was thrown
out stretching his hit, Robertson ti
Ilerzog. Weaver llied out to Kaulf.
Scbalk shot a hot single into left. lied
Fuller walked. John Collins struck
at a wide one. Fletcher threw out
VJohn Collins. Three runs, two hits,
Iwo errors. "
Fifth Inning, Second Half.
Nolkc took a trip to the bench on
three pitched balls. Rnriden took a
stroll, making Faher pitch to him.
Wilhoit, the former' Pacific Coast
leaguer, baiting for Benton. Wilhoit
nlsp walked, Faher becoming un
steady. Burns forced Wilhoit, Wea
ver to Eddie Collins, lfaridcn going to
third. Ruriden and Hums scored on
Ilcrzog's three-base bit off the right
field wall. The stands were in a
frenzy. Kauff fouled out to Gundil.
Two runs, one bit, no errors.
Ninth Inning First llnir.
Weaver got a single to the left field
fence. Schnulk fouled to Zimmer
man. On the hit-and-run play Faher
(Continued on page six.)
IP ANVIL
SAX DIEGO, Cab, Oct. ". Jr.
danger of foundering, and with more
than fifty persons aboard, the motor
ship Anvil is reported today in dis
tress down the Lower California
coast and in need of a wnvslilp to .is
sist it back to San Dic.'O. J. H.
Franklin, charterer of the slop, sctubi
word to that effect by way of a fish
ing schooner arriving in the lower
const todnv.
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1 7,
sheriffs posse is today on the trail
of bandits vno at .1:110 o'clock this
morning hMd up a Western Pacific
train enrouto from Salt Lake to Gold
Hill, Nov., robbed tho passengers and
wounded Charles Harher of this city
who attempted reslstaiuc.
iiiiitiij Hi Mjii jiji 1 rr Daiie' 01 ,or a!,w' a ow . . irc vvr, 111 run H i r h nrn v H i , n r.
Decapitated Corpse of Girl Who Has
BccnNMissing for Month Found-
Identified by Note From Brother-
Last Seen When She Left for
Dance With Shipyard Employe.
SEATTLE, Oct. lii.-Knrl O'Brien
of Seattle today identified the head
less body found in the brush here
yesterday as that of Miss Ruth l)e
Merrill, aged J 7, a resilient of Kirk
land, a Seattle suburb. O'Hrien,
whose name was signed to a note
found on the hotly, said she went to
a dance a month ago and has not
been seen since.
Seattle police today planned to
ask aid of the British Columbia offi
cials "to assist them in their efforts
to find the murderer, '
Parts of an almost undecipherable
letter found on the body was signed
Earl O'Brien.
Police said the body apparently
had been lying in the brush about
four weeks. The head was found a
few feet away from the body.
There was nothing in the letter to
show to whom it was written or when
it was sent. The sender, KarJ O'Hrien,
extended an invitation to a Christmas
dinner to the recipient and, added
that his sister's husband had been
called to war.
Mrs. Anna Do Merrltt, mother of
the dead girl, asserted today that her
(laughter never returned from a dance
to which she was taken September 13
by a man known as "Cap" McWlnn,
an employe of a Ballard, W'n., ship
yard. ,
At the time the girl disappeared
the police questioned McWinn but
did not hold him as they said he gave
a good account of himself. Ho as
serted that he saw tho girl to her
room in a Seattle lodging house after
the dance and then left her. The
proprietor of tho lodging house de
clared the girl has not occupied the
room stneo September 12.
SALEM, Or., Oct. .". At least
thirteen county clerks in lhe,stute arc
subject io removal from office by the
governor, under the terms of an act,
passed by the last legislature. Un
dcr the net county clerks are required
to tile with the secretary of state,
within ten days after October l,.lhis
year, and quarterly thereafter, a re
port embodying the following infor
mation Number of law net ions filed in the
circuit court, equity suits other than
divorces filed, divorce suits filed,
criminal actions filed, civil eases
tried by jury, criminal cases rictl by
jury, cquits suits tried by jury, con
tested law actions tried by court
without jury and a number of other
classes of eases, as well as a state
ment as to probate proceedings and
cost of juries in circuit court and
gVund jury work, cost of witnesses
nnd the cost of juries and bailiffs in
the county court.
"Failure on the part of any county
clerk to rentier the report as herein
required shall subject such clerk so
failing to removal from his office by
the governor," states the law. .
Followinir are the thirteen counties
which so far have not rcHirted to
Ihe secretary of state under the law
! Itcnlon, Clackamas, Clatsop, Crook,
Deschutes, Harney, Jackson, Jet Ter
son, Morrow, Tillnmoo!:, Umatilla,
Wheeler.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-.. The entente
allies have increased their shipping,
act-iirtliiii; to the Times, thru the ac
quisition of the Uoytil Mail Steam
Packet company and the Lamport
and Ibdt line, and tie controlling; in
terest in the Anjenliiie Navigation
For Battle, Not for Show, Say Low
ell Mill Workers, Who Are Drilling
Real Women's Battalion for Actual
Service Abroad Officials Back
Up Patriotic Factory Girls.
l)y J. 1IEHHEKT DUCKWOHTIL
LOWELL, Mass., Oct, la
America now has u real girl "Battal
ion of Death" like Russia's, willing
to fight the Germans anil face poison
gas and liquid tire for their country.
It is being drilled here in Lowell
by Captain Eminu Le Clair, .a 'J0-ycar-old
millworker.
It is already nearly lilt) strong.
It is being encouraged by Mayor
O'DonncI and bus the sanction of
Major-General Ames of the Massa
chusetts state guard nnd of the pub
lie safety committee of the state.
Are Working Girls.
These amazons of New England
are not idle society girls looking for
notoriety and excitement. Neither
do they belong to the horned-rim
spectacle class.
They are dead-earnest, young,
healthy patriots, willing to do niiy
dirty job behind the front if not al
lowed to be actual combatants.
"Company A" is no camouflage for
a good time.
I found Miss Le Clair today at the
home of her mother, 712 Cnbot street,
busy answering stacks of letters
from young women nil overv New
England and even from Montreal
and Quebec, Can. who want to en
list in this woman's regiment.
Miss Le Clair, who works in the
Lawrence Hosiery Mills, was born
here, llcr parents lire French-Canadians,
who form a large part of;
Lowell's population.
She is n well-built, good-natured j
looking girl, about 5 feet 4 inches in
height and weighing about 1:50 '
pounds. She is not a "nut," cither
intellectually or .scntimct: tally.
"What made you start this bat
talion?" I asked Miss Le Clair.
"Partly from looking at the pic
tures of the liussian women soldiers,"
she answered, "and partly from read
ing of the women's military corps in
Boston and New York.
Not Fashionable Fad.
When I told her that most of the
latter type of organization were
merely fashionable fads, Miss Le
Clair looked surprised and shoeketl.
"Well, then," she went on, "then
my company is something different.
1 used to belong to the Hlanebe de
Castile Guard, but I got out of that
French society business because the
girls in it were not really serious and
merely wanted to wear a chic military
uniform. Then .1 started this regi
ment of my own.
"I felt our girls might be of real
service in the war if properly train,
ed, so I went to the mayor iibout it.
He liked my plan mid gave me a let
ter to Major-General Ames in Boston.
General Ames was most encouraging,
telling me to go nhead and form the
company nnd that he would do what,
be could to help.
"Major Kcyes of the Lowell Home
Guards has promised to give us his
services and some of bis officers for
drills in the armory.
Only Itaclieior aWs.
"I want only bachelor girls, and
they must speak English nnd be pre
pared to go to France anil fight if
necessary.
"limit's misunderstand me. While
Ihe heroic deeds of those wonderful
Russian women have inspired us, we
do not expect that Uncle Sam will
ever be so short of men as to need
our girls for the trenches. Hut we
mean In train to lit ourselves for real
fighting. In the meantime, we un
ready to tin any old work near the
battlefields, or even at home, bill it
nitisl be real soldier's work or we
won't wunt it."
The Russian women wear men's
uniform. The Lowell "Command of
Death" will not go so fur as that,
but n costume modelled after tin
style of a riding habit may be
adopted.
'company, ulilch has a capital of
$10,1100,111111 nnd owns more than :illll
veseN. Three of the leading Fren) h
hues and one Italian shipping com
pany participated in the traduction.
Fir iHljfc$y I
Slltw Fmiiut I.o (.'lair, oiganling Anierlcis first, women's "Battal
ion of Death," and In tho background two women soldiers of the Ilus
slan battalion which Inspired Miss li Clair's act.
I
PEKING, Oct. I."). China and Ja
pan have signed nil agreement con
cerning tilt! lease Kirin-Chang Chun
railway, Manchuria. Japan will, loan
China (i,.jO(l,(Min yen nt .r per cent for
a period of thirty years. The rev
enue of the railway will be held as
seenriry for the property during the
term of Ihe loan Ihe Kirin-Chang
Chun railway will be under the man
agement of the South , Manchuria
Railway company.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
PATRIOTS
Ik
than that, which ought to actuate each citi.cu to help furnh'h a part
of the money which will tie necessary for that purpose. ''-.-.tOHN
S1IAUP WILLIAMS, United Slates Senator from .MIm'.Isi-IiiI.
"Not by Ihe amount of money realized by the sale of Micro
bonds, but liy the number or suii.ncribers to tic loan, by the num
ber of Americans who lend their money to their eiivernmeiit Is the.
Amei'icaai.iiii of the people of the United Stales to lie demonstrat
ed." CAItTKlt (1LAHS, Chairman house commltleo on banking
nnd curi'enry.
"In protecting the credit of tho Untied states coverument you
are protecting your trwn credit, you are proiteiluc your own busi
ness, you are protecting every Intereit you have In life and prop
erly. In lining that you are rendering n pattjotlr service In sup
plying the sinews of war lo your coatitr.'' W. (!. MeAlaui. Sec
retary of the treasury.
'
"There Is no surer bnr.il btween a man ami his country than
that, lie shall he a bomliiolder of his country. Let. iim see that this
Liberty loan bond Issue Is n bond Issue of the demoi racy.". TIIKO
. IX1HK ROOSIOVELT,
"So mii'-h do common sense and sound business judgment com
mend the Liberty loan bonds as a safe and remunerative. Invest
ment that 1 tan see tie necessity for urging patriotism as a reason
for haying such bonds, altlio I recoifitle the pntrlollc nature of
Ihe In vest men I." THOMAS It.' MARSH ALL, vlie president.
X.lliurtinAA.IIHril'inm
1 . 1
'MS
PETROGRAD, del. i:.-The Fin
nish diet has been culled to meet on
November 1.
The Finnish diet was dissolved by
the provisional Russian gnveruncii'
several weeks ago for its extreme
stand on the question of autonomy
for the province. New elections were
held and completed on October -1,
the unified hiairgcoi.se and the social
democrats receiving 011,01)0 of Ihe
70,01111 votes cast.
f " , . "V I
"America ts privileged to spend her blood
and her might for the prlueiples that, gave her
birth and happiness, ami the peace she has treas
ured." l'HK.SIIIKNT WILSON'.
"The United Slates lias entered upon the great
world conflict, which is to decide whether democ
racy shall ha e a safe place to tho sun on the
earth or not There Is haidlv any duly higher
Nitro-Staich Dry House Explosion at
Powder Works, Gilihstown, N. J.,
Results In Death of Three Ter
rific Force Rocks Skyscrapers 20
Miles Away.
PHILADELPHIA, (let. lo An
explosion in Ihe nilro-stiireb dry
house ut the Du Pont Powder works
at Gilihstown, N. J., resulted in the
in vt n it t death of two workmen. A
third man is missing ami probably
dead. Another mail was seriously in
jured. The ties! roved building was
a small one-story struMuro isolated
from the rest of the plaid., and the
force consisted of four men men
tioned. There was no ether damage.
The Du Polil company says there is
nothing suspicious ihout the explos
ion. The terrific force of the explos
ion shuttered windows in Philadel
phia, twenty miles distant, and sky
scrapers were rocked.
Gilihstown is uu isolated town IS
miles below Camden on Ihe Delaware
river. The Du Pout's uiaiiufacture
great quantities of wnr explosives
there.
Woodbury, N. J., ien miles .from
Gilihstown, reported Hint the explos
ion was the worst over felt here, and
llin. .town has felt many from the
powder section of the lower New Jer
sey nnd Delaware. 'Hundreds of men
employed in the'works live at Wood
bury, and a few telephone messages
from workmen who were unhurt were
received.
Communication to the scene of the
explosion was not possible for a long
period after the ilisnster. The belief
in Woodbury is that the damage nnd
loss of life nre great.
LONDON, Oct. LI. No further in
fantry engagements have occurred on
the front of the llrilish attack in Bel
giiun. In successful raids yesterday
large losses were inflicted' on Hit
Germans, the war office announces.
Heavy artillery fighting is again in
progress on the Flunders front. Lon
don's olTicial report, today speaks of
a strung bombardment of the new
British positions on the main Pass-chcudnclc-Ghcluvfll.
ridge, south of
Broodscilide. In (He liudit of previous
experience this may be viewed as in
dicating licrmaii coullter-haitcrv
1 work aeain-t the inteii-ive British ar
tillery fire in prnercs preparatory to
i another pu-b.
Tlie Itriti-h artillery now has su
jpcrior positions from which lo work,
j as there must by this time have been
; ample opporl unit v for the heavy guns
lo be put in position on the dominat
ing high ground taken in the recent
advances. It, Hum scetns probable
that Field Marshal 11 will not de
lay bis next slroke beyond the time
i when these guns have had an oppor
Itunitv to break such concrete eon
; struetion as tin- Germans Imw- been
I able to build in what they describe a
j their "defensive one."
, 'flic weather, however, is a decid
edly iinportiiiil element in this con
sideration, as the cuit mini! ion of
1 hard stcinis not tiltlv keeps the
1 ".round in u slate well nich prohibit
' ive of co-iirdinalcd infantry nd
jVHUecs, bill interferes scriuuslv with
i the vital aerial observation work.
EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL
DON M. DICKINSON DEAD
HfcTRIUT. Oct. l.'i. Don M. Dick
inson, postniiisti r ucncral under
Pre-iib tit Cleveland, died at hi- home
in Trenton, a suburb, ludny.
Fighting for Ocsel Island Continues
Russian Naval Forces Reinforce
Patrol, Accept Battle and Enemy
Retires Baltic Fleet Ready to
Carry Out All Orders for Defense.
PHTItOllltAD, Oct. 1,". German
forces which landed on tho Russian.
Island of Oesel, at tho head of the
(Julf of Riga, on Friday, occupied
Arcnsburg, tho capital of the Island,
on Saturday, It was announced today
by tho Russian war office. Arens
bui'K Is on tho southern shore of
Oesol Island.
Tho northern group of Gorman
warships, tho slatomont adds, dls- .
patched u torpedo boat squadron be
tween the islands of Oesel and Dago,
which pressed hack tho Russian pa
trols. Russian naval forces rein
forced tho patrol and accopted battle,
whereupon the Gorman ships retired.
Fighting for Oosel island, the war
office announced, continued all day
yostorday.
A third group of German war
ships, consisting of cruisers and tor
pedo boats, a preached tho southwest
coast of Oesel Island nnd hombnrded
unimportant parts of the coast. Gor
man submarines were observed at va
rious times and places in the Baltic.
,t
. Itultit: Fleet Frepai-eil.
Tho Baltic fleet is ready to carry
out all ordors of the government, ac
cording to Vice-President Ivanoff,
president of tho central fleet, the or
ganization which In tho fleet corres
ponds with tho council of soldiers
and workmen's delegates in Us rela
tion to tho army. Immediately on
receipt of the news of the German
landing the uppeal of the central com
mittee was issued, calling up to the
sailors to forget Internal strife and
take all measures to Improve the
fighting capacity of the fleet. Com
missioners carrying Instructions has
tened to llelslngoors.
"Reports that tho fleet Is not
ready lo moot the cnomy nre not true.
Tho fleet Is full of fighting nrdor and
Is ready to repel the enemy. Stories
of evil Inflticnco exerted by the Bail
ors committees are greatly exaggerat
ed. The near futuro will show how
honnrubly tho fleet will fulfill its
duty to tho country," said Vice
President Ivanoff.
Xowspniiers Show Alarm.
The newspapers exhibit alarm at
the landing of the Germans on Oesel
Island. The Hoarse Gazette says the
situation of tho country is the more
complicated because a solution mUBt
bo found not only of the unsatisfac
tory state of affairs In tho Interior,
but of Ihe problem presented by the
closing of the Gulf of Riga by the
Germans. Tho Itusskaya Volla says:
"We nro being led toward our Cal
vary, hut perhaps we shall find our
resurrection."
The Reich atrlbiiles the disaster
partly to had visibility nnd the unex
ampled political frivolity of leaders
of tho Ruslnu democracy. Tho social
ist press takes the maximalists to
task. Tho Volla Nuroda recalls Pre
mier Kereasky's warning of the dan
ger of a (li-rmnn roup in the Ilaltlc,
which was stigmatized by tho leader
of Hie maximalists as an unworthy
political maneuver. Tho nowspsper
Insists on the necessity of an im
placable Btrugglo against maxlnnil
Ism. Illntno Maximalists.
The Hen declares tho maximalists'
(Continued on pago six.)
LONDON, Oct. IS. Tho Drltlah
mercantile cruiser Champagno has
been funk and tho mine sweeping
sloop Begonia is over-due and re
gardnd as lost, says an official state
ment tonight.