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The Washington times., 1914-09-20

battle the whole of the CZar's army
will hc free to invade Germany and
march on Berlin.
This morning London hears there have
beer anti-War riots in Austria with
crowds smashing the windows of the
war office in Vienna and tearing up pic
lures OF the aged emperor, the heir to
tha throne and OF the defeated Austrian
generals.
From Rome and other cities in Italy
there are kilograms telling of pro-war
dnmOnstra tiOns and of huge mass meet
in"S. demanding that the government
cast the lot of Italy with France Rus
sa, and England. MObs were march
in9 through the streets cheering the al
lied armies.
Italy = deeply impressed by the tre-
COrrior, de Ualie reporting that the
Princess Frederick. sister-in-law OF the
Grand Duke or Sake -Neiningon. is dy
inC from shock caused by the loss of
hs, husband and son. Prince Ernest. 4
cousin and a nephew also were killed.
Tho house of Lipp has lost three
princes.
Two delegates from Roumania were
received by tnc Italian prime minister
yesterday. and ii is the general opinion
that ROumania is read 10 seize Tran
SylVauia at once If an understanding
with Italy is effected.
Tn" Italian government has eXerted Il
utmost efforts to preserve the CoUntry's
neutrality. but the logic of events and
the spirit of the people are forcing the
nation into war.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20

PARIS. Sept 2o.-Optimism over the
outcome of the greatest battle of his
tory that is raging along the l50-n:ile
line from Noyan to the south Of Neriun
reigns here today.
Official reports from the front show
the allies making slight gains some
times almost imperceptiblo. while tho
Germans are said to he barely holding
their own as they meet assault with
cohnter-assault, fighting with stubborn
ness TO hold their lines of Yesterday.
All through the night the fighting m"n
lay in their water-filled trenches soaked
GO the skin. while the thunder Of the
big guns rolled and the shriek:ng shells
swept over them. While the darkness
lasted the terrific artillery duel con-
tinued. and the bursting shells and
cries of the wounded made the night ar
inferno of horror.
Just at the freak Of dawn came Il
lull in the firing. and all along the great
line the wearicd forces Of the allies
began their desperate assaults. Cav
airy and infantry played their part in
the charges that We're resumed with
unahated feFocity. Time and again
bayonet met bdyonet as the almost ire
sistible attacks were met by the Ger
mans in their trenches. and al several
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
Dodges British For
As Days on Atlantic

BALTIMORE. Sept. o. -AIrer dnd=-
ing back and forth on the Arlanrt,. for
seven weeks, and being several tines
pursued by British ships. the Nor' q
German Lloyd liner N"ckare. one -
ported captured by tn" British. docH" /
here this morning
The NeCkar sailed from Havana a.
August ), after first unloading pas sen
gers from Galveston bound for Fireman.
Who were sent home by anOth'r T.
steamer. With but fifty ions Of coal ~
her bunEers and her crew living on r'-
duced rations, the Neckar made mort
not a day too early. In her present
dress she is scarcely recognizable even
by the steamship officials. for her
upper decks have been painted a dirty
brown and her FUNNEL black. thus ,id-
ing her attempt to keep her identity
@ secret.
Wireless played a large part in TIE
aptain's strategy on the Atlantic Not
once, until he was well within the Vir-
2 MIA Capes. did he dare use his ap-
par2tus for sending messages. Inter
C pting messages between other steam
CTS, and particularly. between the Brit
ish warships, enabled him to keep
ySsted ss 70 their whereabouts.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
NEUTRALITY URGED
BY BISHOP CURR|ER

y ringing appeal for that sincere neu-
rraItv asked by President Wilson in
nIs proclamation 70 Americans, was
lad" by Bishop charles Warren Cur
ncr. Of Matanasas, cuba. this morning
at tn" solemn high mass in Gibbons hall
of m" Catholic University. tuat formal
y "p' h"d the national conference Of
alr".E. charities.
ri'" hundred or more men and women
"l prominence from every quarter OF
IN" nIi"d state attended III" mass
@nd tn" INST session OF the conference
lHat followed
Tn" ma. Was said by the Rt Rev.
.'I.h"p-"!''t Sh&!sau president Of the
unl'ciSllA. assisted by the Pauist
Lath'ls Ci -. Thomas College. The
officers Of tn" mass were. The Rev
J"hH smith. d".U, or. the Rev Francis
Lyon. subd"ar on. and the Rev. Joseph
hulloy. master Of r-rcmOnies The
mus" Of tn" mass was in charge of the
O "m"In"d "hons of the Marist and Holy
'r">S COLLEGES. bishop Curricr dwclt
upon charity and the necessity for the
>.IIctcS- I..IlTa!!tE.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
Allies Held Heights OF
The Aisne, London Hears

LONDON. Sept. o0.-The German
crown princes army is continuing its
retreat, while on the Aisne the Franco
British forces hold all the heights along
the right banks against the enemy.
which is being rc-enforced from Lor-
raine. In the center of the great battle
line, which extords now from Noy"n
to Audincourt, the Germans are strong
" intrenched. ard are merely holding
their own.
Intermittent bui fierce fighting is 90
ing on night and day in the whole
western theateT OF war.
Early this morning te"rlfi" fighting
was resumed rhr huge contendins
struggle. which has lasted now for four
teen DAYS and they arr reCuperaIinE
before coming to grips again.
ord kitchener. who $ hurting r..
forceToHts .o:WarI from England. iS
intent WIth the POSITION Of IN" allied
mice. hut h viii only be satisfied
ler all oi En-iaud's E~w arm'"S -
the field.
In the eaStem ;hea.,r Of w&r II"
ttereG -sG>iraus. reinforced by scE-
al German arm. corps. have rlSt y
.tlenchcd tneG.r.'cs under the 10ril;l-
Ltiuns Of Prem. 81 and CracON. and
le third graf I'll" n Austria / a.
and Ihe RIs.:aT. left wing Is bCfor"
ry'IZysl IL. v"icr.OIs Russian center
advancIn- Dc;y ..ar I.ZeszOw and
Jaroslaw. While - r.1ht wing IS push
ing forward h, forced marches on
Cracow.
II the Russians win this tremendous
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
Did the Russians
TIptoe byLondon?

LONDON Sept 2OFor weeks there has been circulation
report relative the employment of Russian the
teater of which remarkable persistence for nothing
else AT this time the London London offices
split into campshose who sco the Russian and
those who implicitly believe in it.
The reports began unasumng fashion 1t first said
that certain number of Russian staff officers had England
10 get in touch with the military plans of their English and French
allies Then certain small number of spoken Of Before
long these had sweed three army corps
Official denas forthcoming Nevertheless story the
Russians continued ground An correspondent has
personally spoken least dozen who prepared
anything that the Russians here have been here
France None the less frsthand testimony
remarkable for its absence.
In at least two London offices firmly believed that
the Russians going make their appearance the
field crucial In newspaper every possible
of investigation has been tried with the
editor prepared bet $3.50 SIS
any Russian force in England
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
JAPAN RE-ENFORCES
TROOPS At TS|NGTAU

TOKYO, sept. 2o-Another force Of
japanese imperial troops. cooperating
with the Japanese fleet. has landed at
Lanshan bay. northwest of Kiaochov.
according Ia official announcement.
A train on the Shantunp railroad at
klaochow was seized and the presi-
dehI Of the road. who was a passenger.
was made prisoner.
lheTe was no resistance TO the Japan-
csc landing. general attack on Using
tau is thought to be imminent
PEKING. Sept 2O-Accordinp to in
formation received here the first Ger
man officer killed before Tsingtau was
Baron Won Eisenbach. who. previous TO
gong to kia&choW was second secretary
OF the German legation at Peking. He
,let ueatn IN sklrmish September Is,
between advance guards at Iieuting
Postal communication with Tsingtau
was ended bH the Japanese Yesterday,
from Information derived from Chinese
ana other sources in the regions of
Nldochow IL appears that Japanese in
lantry and cavalry are proceeding from
l.ungkau to invest Tsingtau before land
ing siege artillery at some convenient
harbor.
The Japanese legation states that
ROADS must be constructed before heavy
guns can be transported to positions
near the German stronghold
Germans in the kiaocnow district re-
port that an aeroplane successfully
dropped bombs on the japanese troops
north of Ping-Tu, killing fiftv and
w0undinC thirty others
Inc foreign correspondents at Tsing-
tau have been silenced. A correspon-
dent at Chefu reports that members OF
the Chinese Red Cross to the number of
1orty-four have arrived there from
shanghai and have established a hos
pital in a hotel
The Chinese government has instituted
severe measures designated as martial
law in several provinces and many inn
portant cities. The discovery that rebels
IN the capital were preparing to take
advantage of the government7s nresent
and diplomatic difficulties is
scores of arrests and MANY
executions
The Washington times., 1914-09-20

dehce to tell them what YOU knew about
the Russians. People talked about the
Russians over the tea tables and in be-
tween the acts at the thcaters. 1t was
the great enigma. and everybody either
gave or demanded the answer.
Meanwhile details came pouring into
the newspaper offices like a great river
IN flood. bearing on its bosom much fic-
ton. But there was so much evidence
mat at last the most skeptiCal men in
Fleet street declared that il this story
was not true no event in history from
the battle of Actium to the death of
Napoleon could be accepted as true.
stories of Russians in transit came
from reliable correspondents all over the
country. They came from Leith. from
Werwick. from Tewkesbury. from Glou-
cester. from Dorking. from Dover. All
through the heavy troop trains rumbled
along the suburban glades of Herne
Hill. down at Blackwater Station cadets
from Sandhurst saw actual veritabie
Russian soldiers with whiskers. Some
where in north London a suburban resi-
dent found a train pulled up by signals
in cutting at the bottom of his garden
full of Russian soldiers. He gave them
apples, and they replied .Thankovitch,'
or words to that effect in Russian.
There was the DAY whsn the L. y.
w. r. was exclusively occupied by gov
eminent trains and the day wnen ira ms
with blinds drawn rolled continuously
through Watford. At night there were
lights behind the blinds. and 50 they
vanished from the startled eyes Of
Hertfordshire.
About this stage several newspapers
Including the Star submitted more or
less pointed inquiries to the press
bureau. The bur eau responded gallantlE
TO the call. and While it declared that
the eyewitnesses VINO had seen the Rus
slams must be trained lars it gave In
sructions that nothing must Oe pub
lished about Russian troops.
To the trained car of Fleet street
there was a singular lack Of directness
a bout these denials. AS tho great Oh
Ject of the war Office would he to keep
this news-if 1t were true-as long as
possible from the knowledge of the |
Germans, il was not surprising that the ]
bureau should deny 1t. It would oh
viously be idle to pull down the blinds
en- the Cossack troop trains through |
Watford for fear Of German spies send /,
Ing the news to Germany # it were to |
appear in the newspapers for all to |
read and repeat. So Flee: street sat 1
tight as wax anil waited for the day.
II has come at last in this roundabout !
manner. and the stranzest chapter in
The military history of Europe since We
brought Russian troops to Holland to
fight Napoleon in .7E3 has been un-
rolled -
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
B. AND O. TRAIN IN
WRECK At CHESTER

CHESTER. Pa. Sept. :"-A broken
axle on an engine tender vas r-suun-t-
tle for the derailm"nt 4 uass"n-'-
train No. 3. of the BaItimorr and Oi.ro
railroad WoodIyn. one milo cast Of
here, al 10 O'Clock last night
The entire train. two mail cars. a
baggage CAY. a smoker, anu thr"" T. -
mans. left the track. The fact that -
taelTe Of tho passengers received OF.
slight injuries is attributed hy rTllT""d
officials TO the train being OF S;"H "'.:.-
Frruction and equipment thrOUrh""'.
down for Chester when tn" accid' NJ
occurred.
The injuries sustaUei by the pass -
gers consist of brIIs's ard cuts from
broken glass one woman pass"aC'-r
was removed 70 the hospital at Chester
for treatment.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
Accused of Robbing
WOmar's StaterOom

NE.W YORK. Sept. Con- the charge
81 burglary, George Hammer. thirty
Years old. was held In S2.rGr bail for
trial in the TOElUs court this morning
He is charged with having stolen a suit-
case containing articles valued at $50
! "longing 10 Miss Annabelle B Simple.
Il librarian # SOL Chestnut street Phil
adelphia, from her StHtcrOoin O., th.,
New England Steamship Hcmpany's
boat Commonwealth on Saturday night
just before sailing time
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
Edgar H. Cans, Lawyer,
Is Dead at Baltimore

BALTIMORE. Sept. 20-Edrar H.
Cans. one of the leading members OF
the Maryland bar. died at his home
Beaumont. near here today. He was
stricken with heart disease. Friday
morning.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
England Builds Huts for
100000 Reserve Troops

LONDON. Sept. e0-England con-
tinues preparations for long war on
huge scale. Huts are being built at
the military training camps to provide
shelter for 500 600 men.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20

7 Military experts here now state that
/ the positions occupied by the Germans
are of such strength that the battle
of the Aisne may not become decisive in
character for weeks.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
WEATHER REPORT.

Ihe forecast for the District of CO.
Iumoia-Fair tonight and Monday; light
10 moderate variable winds.
Maryland-Fair tonight and Monday:
light to moderate variable winds
NIrglnia-Fair tonight and Nond,r
hsht to moderate variable winds.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
THOUSANDS DIE IN BAYONET
CHARGES ON GERMAN LINES

Continued from First Page)
the allies is now threatening the flank
OF the German battle line.
A semi-offiCial statement announces
that this turning movement is now as
suminE definite form.
The Washington times., 1914-09-20

TEMPERATURES
n" ;".1 nature today as re,;s,o,
states Weather Rureau
The Washington times., 1914-09-20
TIDE TART L

Hlsh tide ...... $40 A. m. and SOS -,
'i"e-'.''... -:lb a. m. and 3:S3 n. m
sun TABLE.
sun rises...... 5:45 Sun sets. s.o,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-04-02
HIGHWAY WORK
IN CALIFORNIA

The California State Highway
Commission last Thursday announced
the preparation of bids for the con-
struction of various links in the 270
miles of state highway between
Marysville and the Oregon state line
The bids were to be in within thirty
days and construction work started
Immediately. Among the contracts
was that between Hornbrook and the
Jackson county Oregon highway now
under construction. The others we're
links through Shasta, Tehama and
other Northern California counties.
The commission announced that the
work of building the California state
highway system was delayed one year
by the slowness in marketing the
bonds.
j. w. Sweeney has force of about
100 men at work on the contract for
the grading of the Jackson county
highway over the Siskiyous. They
are lined out in three main camps
The cutting out of the right of way
is completed and the work of excavat-
ing began at Barrons. The first cut
showed that hard rock was abundant.
Mr.. Sweeney will this week receive
two carloads of mules and one car of
horses from his place near Portland,
after which he will increase his work
ing force extensively and push the
work rapidly. ~
Mr.. Sweeney will be one of the
bidders for the California state high
way contract from the state line to
Hornbrook, and as he is on the job
with his well-organized outfit will nc
doubt be successful. The bids will
be opened in about twenty days al
Sacramento.
The camps and cutout right of way
as we'll as the work of excavating, is
easily seen from the railroad and the
passengers take considerable interes,
in knowing that this is a fine piece
of work Jackson county Is contribut
ing to the Pacific Highway, and the
usual comment upon the courage and
enterprise of Jackson county is fre
quently heard from passengers,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-04-02
Does Advertising
Really Pay?

The Shasta grocery advertised soap
in the Tidings Monday. The copy
read ten bars for 30 cents" An er-
ror was made in the printed ad and
it read ten bars for 25 cents"
Since Monday they have been selling
some soap. The Tidings being re-
sponsible for the error, is paying the
difference, rather than leave the re-
Election on our advertiser that he ad-
vertises one price and asks another.
But the big point is that Ashland
people do read advertisements and
know bargain when they see it.
The merchant who spends as much
effort hunting bargains for his GUS
toner and spends what money the
trade will justify in telling the peo-
pie about it through the Tidings will
get the business
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-04-02
AsHLANDERs GOING
TO HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Gold Hill News: D. P. Blue re-
turned during last week from years
absence spent at Honolulu, Hawaii,
came down from Ashland Saturday
and remained until Tuesday with lo-
cal friends. His visit to the Rogue
River Valley at this time is occa-
stoned by the arrangement OF prop
erty interests at Ashland, and he In
tends to return to the islands within
a few weeks. Mrs. Blue and Verne,
the latter being member Of the fac
ulty OF Iolani. school, will not return
for visit with friends In Southern
Oregon until next year, when they
plan to attend the San Francisco ex-
position. Mr.. Blue declares the Ha-
wnilan climate to be SO uniformly
ideal that the sameness soon pals,
and exiles from other cllmes seldom
remain longer than a few years.
Nevertheless. himself and family,
pleasantly and profitably employed.
have not yet determined TO leave the
'land where IL Is always afternoon"
and will remain there for number
Of years. at least.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-04-02
in order to gain the support of a
party machine.
Will Not Be Candidate e.

in order to gain the support of
party machine. .ss-
Will Not Be Candidate
This is but preliminary to saying
that 1 have decided not to become
candidate for the state senate at this
time. / am now engaged in work
that is considered of vast Importance.
not only to my own city but the
whole Rogue River Valley. The city
of Ashland is just now being trans
formed into a watering resort. Min
eral waters OF unusual medicinal
worth are available and the natural
environment is here to make it the
greatest health and home resort in
America. II this can be successfully
accomplished and tourists attracted
here from all parts of the country 1t
will be of vast material benefit to
the whole valley and to every city
in the valley. I have already as
sumed the responsibility of forward
ing this enterprise, having been en-
gagged in the work for the past six
months, and it will take more time
to complete it. | am quite sure,
therefore, that ! can be OF more SER
vice to the Rogue River Valley in
helping to establish this section of
the state as tourist resort than |
could possibly hope to be in the SEN
ate at this time, and / am convinced
that / cannot make a successful po-
litical canvass without neglecting
this important undertaking. There
fore, ! am determined to sacrifice
political ambition in the interest of
this work.
Accept my appreciation of your
kind words, and through your paper
allow me to express thanks to those
business men in Medford, and those
throughout the valley, who by per-
sonal assurance and correspondence
have offered me valuable support
should / decide to make canvass for
state senator.
l am exceedingly grateful to the
Medford Sun for its kind offices in
my behalf. i hope l may prove
worthy of your confidence and be
able in the future, in a measure at
least, to reciprocate the kindness.
Yours for greater Rogue River
Valley BERT r. GREER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-04-02
PARCEL POST BEING
EXTENDED RAPIDLY

Preliminary steps have been taken
by the Postoffice Department to per-
feet its plan for reducing the cost of
products of the farm directly to the
door OF the consumer. This use OF
the parcel post was tried out last
season by an Ashland man--Prof A.
c. Joy-with good success.
Ten cities have been selected by
the government to try out the work
OF establishing direct connection be-
tween producer and consumer, Post
master-G General Burleson having al
ready ISSUED an order permitting the
use OF crates and boxes for butter,
eggs, poultry, vegetables and fruit
shipped by parcel post. Orders went
today 10 the postmasters at Boston,
Atlanta, 81. Louis, San Francisco,
Baltimore, Detroit, La Crosse Wis
consin, Lynn Massachusetts, Rock
Island Illinois and Washington, di-
rectlng them to receive the names
of persons who are willing to supply
farm products in retail quantities by
parcel post"
Printed lists of these names, show
ing kind and quantity OF commodity
available, will be distributed among
town and city patrons.
by the use of the lists. First AS
sistant Postmaster-General Roper
said, "the city consumer will be able
10 get In touch with a farmer who
will fill his weekly orders for butter,
eggs and other farm products. The
consumer will receive the produce
fresh from the country and the per-
sonal relationship established will no
doubt tend. 10 improve the quality.
The farmer will be relieved OF carry
Ing his produce 10 market. as the
rural carrier will make daily collec-
tions at the farmers door OF these
y retail shipments TO city consumers" 4"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-04-02
TO BUILD ON BIG SCALE
Continued from Page one,

in getting suitable quarters for his
family there last season and says the
bungalows built by the Conway Com
pany filled up as fast as completed.
The proposed apartment house
will stand at the corner of Sixth and
Central avenues and will thus be four
blocks from the waterfront on the
main retail street of the city. The
design is typically mission. The
structure will be thre stories high
with English basement. The exterior
will be finished in stucco-with Span
ish tile cornice etcetera-and will be
highly ornate. The cost approximates
$4,000 without the $4,000 lot. The
foundation is now being put in by
the Conway crew-who are also en-
gagged on other work there.
The apartment house will accom-
modate twenty-one families. The
plans show fifty-one rooms in addi-
tion to the dressing rooms, private
halls and twenty-one baths. Each
apartment is the equivalent of three
and five-room bungalows. The build
ing is to be steam heated and bril-
liantly electric lighted throughout
and equipped for gas cooking etc.
The steam heat will be produced by
the latest crude oil furnace-similar
to that in Ashland's fine high school.
Domestic hot water service night and
day, and in fact everything in the
line of modern convenience will be
installed.
Everything that modern ingenuity
has thus far devised in the way of
built-in features will be found in this
splendid building. 1t will have the
Portal Disappearing Oscillating Wall
Beds-whereby' your bed folds up
and disappears into the wall and the
section of wall turns on a pivot mid
way at top and bottom and your side
board enters the room and stands
where your bed was but a moment
before.
The kitchenettes are a dream OF
compactness and onvenience-about
the only thing that doesn't disappear
is the gas range. Cupboards and cool
ing closets are built into the walls.
Laundry trays are hid away under the
draining board. Tables, ironing
boards, bread boards, flour bins and
other household furniture generally
found in the kitchen are all out of
sight except when in use.
Mr.. Conway has been closing up a