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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
M: RESIST THE .
GERMAN ATTEMPT
. TO REACH TURKS

Amsterdam, Nov 30.--Germany
foresees today the prospect Of power
ful assaults against her to prevent
fruition OF her aim to Join hands
with the Turks at Constantinople.
Though the SHOWS are driving bit
terly throughout the southeastern
war theater, Germany anticipates
Balkan attacks. sooner or later. al
follows:
Ono---F'rom the Russians and per-
hnps tho Roumanians on the north.
Russian attempts at landing
on the Bulgarian Black sea coast.
Three onslaughts from the
French. British and remnants OF the
serbians In tho south.
Four--From the Italians and
Montenegrins advancing through Al
bania.
Though some reports suggested the
kaiser's conference with Emperor
FRANK Josef at Vienna dealt with
measures to meet these formidable
prospects. II Ia not Believed here that
defense plans we're talked OF. t,
Moreover. reports that Austria
wants q separate peace are not ere
dited.
Owing TO the severity OF the Bal
kan winters. major lighting from any
OF tho above sources is unlikely un-
Ill spring. Moreover, no German
drive against Egypt Is anticipated
until the kaiser has made his posi-
tion secure In the Balkans--and ex-
perts feel that despite successes for
his arms, he Is still far from having
attained such a position.
In connection with the prospective
attack from Russia and Roumania.
Germany plans to hurl against the
invaders force OF Bulgars. a few
Germans and as many Turks as are
needed to flli the gaps.
To thwart Russian landing at
tempts on the Black sea coast the
Turks will be utilized. while for the
expected smash In the south Turks.
strong German forces and enough
Bulgars to represent Bulgaria's claim
TO possession OF Macedonia will be
thrown into the struggle TO check the
entente forces. Austrian troops will
be charged with the task OF prevent
ing success OF italian and Montene-
grin assaults via Albania.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
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POSTMASTER
At ASHLAND.
/. SHOT
Clerk With Grievance Against
His Chief Commits Deed,
Then Turns Gun Upon Him.
self With Suicidal Intent

Ashland, Ore, iNoy. 30.-Postmas-
ter u. j. Kaiser was. shot and seri-
ousiy wounded here today by William
Greenfield. q postal clerk. who then
shot himself. laKaiser was shot be-
hind the ear. ..... !.
Greenfield died this afternoon. ~
The shooting occurred In the post
ONCE. s,4
Kaiser was sitting at his desk
when Greenfield. without warning.
fred. Greenfield then placed the re-
volver in his own mouth and pulled
the trigger.
The reason for the shooting has
not been ascertained. but II was re-
ported that Kaiser had lodged COM
plant against Greenfield with the
post Office department because OF his
alleged anarchistic views.
Greenfield came to Ashland two
years ago. being transferred from the
New York City post office.
II was understood this afternoon
that during Postmaster Casey's ad-
ministration Greenfield's mental con-
dition was inquired into by post Of.
fee examiners, and that one exam
liner recommended his dismissal. but
Casey asked that he be retained when
he showed improvement.
Miss Merrill, postal clerk, was
the only witness to the shooting.
Kaiser is one Of the most prominent
men In southern Oregon. He was
owner Of the Ashland Record at the
time OF his appointment as post
master.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
BLOWN
TOATON|S|N| !
EXPLOSION
Thirty Persons Lose Their
Lives When Tons Of Powder
in Packing House Of the'
/ Dupont Company Ezpledes

Wilmington. Del, Nov. 3d.
Thirty persons we're killed today In
the explosion Of packing house at
the Du Pont company's big powder
works, according to ofiiciai announce
ment from the company this after
noon. f7FgaN
The company said. however. that
the origin would probably always re-
main a mystery. The DESTROYED
packing house was frame building
|ls by 2o'feet, divided into six rooms.
in which a number OF persons were
engaged in preparing explosives for
shipments.
Foreman ALEX Thaxter was blown
clear across the Brandywine river
and was identifed only by his under
clothing.
Some idea Of the force OF the ex-
plosion may be gained from the fact
that in the little packing house was
an estimated quantity Of 5000
pounds OF pellet prismatic powder.
Bodies of the victims were
mangled badly in many instances.
The explosion was the worst in the
history Of the company, the next lar
| gest number Of victims having been
IA in an accident in 1889. essA0
Elmer Mace. who was killed. drove
q team drawing two cars Of black
powder, Just as he, arrived at the
packing house the terrific explosion
occurred, shaking the earth and
striking terror to the population for
miles around.
No trace of Mace has been found.
50 it is believed that his body was
ground into bits. His horses were
found crushed into atoms. while half
a mile away a horses leg was found
beside the body Of man burned be-
yond recognition.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
S[AvS5 MUST
STAY OlCT0F.
RO(|)MIA|N||||AII ] ! !. !.
Balkan Nation Declines to
Allow Russian Navy to En-
ter Danube, 1Il! Or 70 te.. Permit 3 nit
Troops to Cross Country

Copenhagen. Nov. 30.-Roumania
earnestly wishes to remain neutral;
therefore the Russian navy can not
enter the Danube river, which is
mined. }s9 & 34@
This notice has been sent TO
Russia. according to Bucharest dis
patches today. ~ ~ y
Moreover. II is assumed that the
Roumanians will object even more
strenuously to movement OF Rus
sian troops overland across Rou-
inanian territory. as apparently "a
proposed by the car Of Russia.
While there Is considerable pro-
ally sentiment in Roumania. II Is
reported that patriotic league has
been formed at Bucharest to wrest
Bessarabia from Russia iby joining
the Germans and their allies.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
ADMINISTRATION. MS P|!A|II!'||p| !! / 4. !.
PROGRAM WILDE. |l|L
PREPAREDNESS

Washington. Nov. s30.--Lest rev.
enue questions arise to perplex and
vex administration leaders. the VIII
son program for the new congress
will be preparedness 'first-Arevenues
afterward. It was learned today that
the president has counseled leaders
to hold the revenue subject In abey-
ance until the other problem Is set
tied. thus Concentrating the fire on
the preparedness question without
entangling and endangering 1t with
money matters. .
Congressional leaders, however.
hope to take up the bill extending the
present war tax, expiring in Deem
ber, before consideration of the pre-
paredness issues. They are agree
able, however, to waiting on other
revenue bills, including measures to
continue the sugar tariff. to increase
the productivity OF the income tax.
and totax gasoline and the horse
power of automobile and motorboat
engines.
Meantime. democratic leaders are
working on an inheritance tax mea-
sures Some Of the proposals already
made are regarded as so sweeping
that they would fail Of passage, but
many members Of congress apparent
ly are favorable to a reasonable tax
of this kind.
Postponement OF revenue measures
untiltthe fate Of ship purchase
bill Is determined is known to be
considered. a. 49,. VA -
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
RE|CHSTAG WILL
ASK WHAT GERMANY
X. IS FIGHTING FOR
(By United Press Leased wire)

p Berlin, Nov. 30.---The war and the
nations food supply were the prin-
cipal topics slated for discussion
when the reichstag reconvened to-
day.
AS far as the actual conduct OF the
war is concerned leaders did not ex-
pect there would be much discussion.
but the subject of what the outcome
will be and how II shall be financed
further seemed likely to be extern
sively discussed
That Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg would 'be asked to state
what Germany Is fighting for, and
what are her terms OF peace, was al
most certain.
. A request for more than $4,000
900, ,O0O additional war credit was
anticlpated
Organization and routine business
Occupied the opening session,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
JUNK DEALER GETS OREGON
BUILDING FOR $3.50

San Francisco. Nov. 30.-The state
OF Oregon will receive $1,520 for the
magnificent Oregon building at the
Panama exposition. which cost the
state s6a,O0O to build. II.
As soon as the exposition closes p.
Il. o'Hair, OF n local wrecking con-
cern. will begin wrecking the struc-
ture. The building was sold to
0'Hair. whose bid was the highest
OF six submitted.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
,repare welcome for New Year

Prepare Welcome for New Year
The Moose band is getting ready
to give the old year farewell that
will mark we'll its demise on the
night of the 3lst of December, with
enough of harmony left over to ap-
propriately welcome the coming OF
1915. A program of band concert
with chorus of many voices, and 9TH
er musical features, will be prepared
and announced in due time.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
RUSSIANS STILL GAIN
IN THE RIGA DISTRICT

London, Nov. 3O.-Increase in the
intensity Of fire on the Riga front.
with scattering Russian gains else
where were claimed by the statement
received here today. from Petrograd.
From Dvinsk to the Pripet the
struggle is at more or less of a stand
still.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
LAST PACIFIC SHIP UNDER
AMERICAN REGISTRY TO QUIT

San Francisco. Nov. 30.-The last
ship on the Pacific under American
registry. the liner China. will haul
down the stars and stripes when 1t
arrives here late next month, accord
ing to President Look Tin Ell Of the
China Mail Steamship company. The
only thing which will keep the form
er Pacific Mail vessel from foreign
registry. he said. will be repeal by
congress Of the seamen's act.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
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$4,000, 900 MARK PASSED
AT FRISCO EXPOSITION

San Francisco. Nov. 30.-The Pan
anna exposition today started on its
nineteenth million mark in attend
ance. Up to four p. M. yesterday
1S,000.000 persons had passed
through the turnstiles.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
WRITER GIVES VIEWS ON
NEEDS 0F GRANTS PASS DISTRICT

OF the kinks as soon as breathing
spell can be reached. The people
have paved streets, built roads and
bought motor cars until everybody
is ready to call halt and wait a bit.
The people are not discouraged; they
are tired from having raced with
each other. $. e..a p@ $3.50
City Back Railroad
Over In western Josephine county
is a rich valley along the Illinois and
Applegate rivers which has not been
touched because OF It's isolation. Be-
tween the land and Grants Pass val
liable mineral deposits await devel-
opment, because there has been no
profitable method OF extracting the
ore and getting It to market.
The need OF land development and
activity In the mineral belt has be-
come apparent to all the citizens Of
the county, and particularly to the
business men OF Grants Pass. Hence.
1t was that the city undertook to
build railroad TO the coveted field
and actual construction of 10 miles
Of the grade was completed. About
that time the work attracted the at
tention OF Twohy Bros, railroad con-
tractors, who are now finishing Ave
miles more Of the grade and promise
to extend the road to the latent agri-
cultural land and hnally to the coast.
The work is considered of first i'm
portance In this city. a N
Irrigation Must Come
There Is water In Rogue river
with which 10000 acres Of land
might be irrigated, adding Immensely
n the annual production Of the soil
ot Josephine county. The construc-
tlon Of large irrigation system
Continued on pare ~
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30

Elmer Newell and wife. of Red
ding, arrived in the city Monday and
are visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Newell.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30

H. Bigelow. of Kerby, went to
Riddle last night for short stay.
He will also visit Roseburg. 2a
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
BOYS TO-.
!. co TO EUROPE ON
. FORD PEACE SHIP

Eugene, Nov. 30.-officially
chosen to represent the University Of
oregon on the Henry Ford peace
cruise. Lamar Tooze, president OF
the Associated Student body. is en-
route to New York today. Tooze's
home Is in Salem.
|e~,Seattle. Nov. 30.-Emil z. Hurja.
University OF Washington junior,
editor OF the University daily, will
leave Seattle at once as a member
Of Henry Ford's peace party. In
accordance with Ford's request, a
member Of the university student
body was selected by President Henry
Suzzallo. ~ Il
Russell Peterson. a sophomore.
will also make the trip at Ford's in
vitation.
4 alls5 ius 81
PaIo Alto. Cal. Nov. so.-Presi-
dent John G. Branner. Of Stanford.
announced today that his has ap-
pointed A. J. Hettinger. OF Fowler,
Cal, senior in the university. as
Stanford's representative on the Ford
peace ship. Hettinger is a debater
OF prominence. He will leave today.
According to word received at the
university, DR.. David Starr Jordan
will return here within the next ten
or fifteen days and wifi not join the
peace ship, as rumored. He has APP
pointed his secretary. Mrs. A. M.
Clark. to go in his stead.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-30
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\ COMMUNITY NEEDS
4 OF GRANTS PASS

4. Railroad to open country to :
\ Pacific ocean, =
\ Irrigation systems for valley :
\ lands. \
\ Railroad grant lands on tax :
\ rolls. .s4a ..s..o. =
y Large canning and evapor- \
\ ating plant. :
4 Workable system of rural =
\ credits. t,, .t.. l..,s.t..r, y
\ Organization among fruit and !
= vegetable growers. ,vt \
\ Intensive cultivation Of the :
\ soil, M =
4 Factories to utilize yellow and :
4 sugar pine lumber. \
y \ \ \ \ \ 4 4 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
Evening star., 1915-11-28

of more than hundred thousand dollars
If he had kept on he might have made
still more money, but he says he is sat
isfed. He is going back to northern New
York and buy farm.
In fact this Electric Boat stock has
been one of the marvels of the war
bride speculatons. Last year you would
have had hard work to find any one that
ever heard of such stock. About the
time Won kluck was approaching the
Marne, you could have bought any guam
tity of it at thirteen dollars share And
at that period a daring and enthusiastic
curb broker named j. Robinson Duff, who
was sharing in the lean times that had
visited the Street, had hunch that some
thing might happen to Electric Boat He
bought fifty shares. This was before the
war orders had begun to come in
MIR. Duff traded in and out of the mar
ket for few weeks, and finally Electric
Boat began to move upward, very slowly
at first. The broker "pyramided his
winnings. sticking to his one pet stock.
Then. one day. the stock began to speed
ahead. When it reached 500 the broker
set aside cool quarter of million for
his wife, which will give them tidy in
come for the rest of their lives and kept
on going right up with the stock till it
touched 600, where he figures that he is
worth well over half a million dollars.
Another young man was lucky enough
to be private secretary to member of the
syndicate that bought the Electric Boat
Company and turned it over to the Sub
Evening star., 1915-11-28

Ol september Mf. SchWaD
owned 3S.54l shares of
Bethlehem preferred, worth
at that date about $1,000
600. But the amount of
common stock held for him
must be tremendous. and
his total fortune beyond
imagination.
Similarly, such exper-
fenced operators as William
f. Corey. E. c. Converse,
and Allan Ryan have
cleaned up big fortunes in
the present market; and
Isaac l.. Rice. who was pres
ldent of the Electric Boat
Company, quit it midway
in its rise with several mil
lions profit. But the stories
of their successes do not
seize theimagination nearly
SO strongly as a real shoe
string" incident like this:
An artist who had been
employed i'll a New York
advertising agency asked
for an advance in salary,
Evening star., 1915-11-28

marine Corpora
ton. He was not
overwhelmed with
money of his own.
but he went to some
friends and told
them what he knew
of the proposed
deal. and suggested
a small partnership.
To-day the private
secretary is still at
his old job; but.
with fifty thousand
dollars laid away,
and another fifty
Evening star., 1915-11-28

the history of the Street
when so many outsiders
have gone in with little
nest-eggs andcome out with
good-sized fortunes. The
lure of quick money has
attracted to the stock mar
ket in the last few months
thousands of accounts of
persons who never before
took a chance. Stories in
Vulnerable have gone the
rounds of fortunes made
by messenger boys. mani
cure girls, walters, chauf-
feurs. and others of humble
occupations. And, i'll the
main. these stories are
authentic. In most cases
it is impossible to give the
names of the lucky specu-
lators, for two reasons:
first, the houses through
which the protitswere made
do not make il a practice
to divulge them; and Sec
ond. the lucky ones them
SelveS are never partlcu-
Evening star., 1915-11-28

nerve till ii ran up
to over 800. At
that last point he
went to the friendly
broker with tears of
excitement in his
eyes and asked for
advice.
Il don't know Il
blamed thing more
a bout this crazy
market than YOU
do" was the reply.
but you'd better
quit. And the halt
man quit, Il winner
Evening star., 1915-11-28
He Had a Fortune Thrust
Upon Him

ONE of these was Samuel Untermyer,
the great corporation lawyer He was
one of the counsel in the case when Bethle-
hem Steel was organized to take over the
old United States Shipbuilding Company.
He saw reason to believe in the value of
the stock. and is said to have invested in
bought outright $4,000 shares, costing
him about $25 a share. He has made
several million dollars in the present
market.
But another lawyer fell into fortune
against his will. A few years before he
had done some work for a man who was
not able to pay the counsel fee in real
money. The best he could do was to turn
share, a quantity of Bethlehem Steel
stock. The lawyer, figuring that he
couldn't do any better, reluctantly took
the stock as part-payment. The other
day this stock was quoted at AS, and was
still going up, and the attorney woke up
to the fact that the despised stock had
made for him more than a million dollars
while it lay in his desk.
OF course. all the money has not been
made by the "shoestring element About
the biggest killing has come and properly
enough. to Charles NJ Schwab, who may
be said to be the foundation of the present
extraordinary market. since it was his
comings and goings to and from Europe,
and his ceaseless energy in getting war
orders. that started the business There
is no means of knowing the extent of the
enormous fortune that Mr.. Schwab has
gathered from the market. 1t would not
be surprising if the close of the war found
him among the very richest men in the
country. And this is the man whose SER
vices the Steel Trust carelessly dispensed
with only a few years ago. At the close
Evening star., 1915-11-28

up to fortune of 100000 in
the course of a few years specu-
" - lation comes pretty near being
equal to getting possession of the original
Aladdin's lamp. Yet that is the story of
Jesse l.. Lvermore, the "boy wonder"
who broke into Wall Street in 1906 and
set the oldest inhabitants agasp with his
successful operations.
Liyermore was still in his twentieS when
he came to New York. He had been
blackboard boy. marking up quotations
in brokerage house in Boston at maxi
mum salary of six dollars a week. BY
dint of saving his tips. he managed to ac-
cumulate little more than three hundred
dollars, and with that he started out to
conquer the market. In his apprentice
ship at the blackboard he had picked up
few salient points, and he quickly de
veloped a keen Judgment of market prob
abilities After he had accumulated
$4,000 in Boston, he came over to Wall
Street for bigger game.
In 1907 Llvermore was Shrcwd enough
to realize that the oyer-speculation that
had been going on would be followed by
heavy liquidations: and he went short of
mon racine. IttdulHS, ana copper STOCKS.
In a few months his $4,000 had been
stretched to S25O.0OO. He bought a fine
house yacht and string of automo-
bleS, and went to Europe. But Liver
more was just resting.
The following year found this young
fellow, with his boyish face and manner.
back in Wall Street. He looked over the
field. and perceived a fact that none of
the experienced insiders had observed -
the cotton market was oyer-sold. and
nearly every one had sold it short. Liver
more poured every cent he could scrape
into the market and sent the bears sour
rying For few days he actually ran the
cotton market to suit himself When the
rise in the price of cotton finally paused.
Livermore was credited with having
cleaned up at least three millions.
Although nothing quite SO spectac-
uar as the rise of Jesse Livermore has
happened in the present mad rush of spec
uation in war stockS,-"war brides. as
the Street has nicknamed them. there
has probably never been an instance in
Evening star., 1915-11-28
"War Brides'' = and Bridegrooms

thousand profits on paper still in the
maelstrom of the market. he no longer
trembles as the boss passes by
Two big winners in the sky-rocket rise
of Bethlehem Steel stock were not exactly
"shoestring" investors. and yet fortunes
We're practically >howered on them from
above
Evening star., 1915-11-28
By FREEMAN TILDEN

larly fond of becoming identified with
fortunes made in this manner which
fact speaks loudly as to the ethics of
speculation. even in the eyes of those who
profit by it.
There is the case. for instance, of a
former halman in one of the big office
buildings frequented by curb brokers
This man, who had large and growing
family. and a salary not too large to care
for them. was forced to listen. day after
day, to the stories of easy money that was
being made in certain stocks sold only on
the curb, Day after day visions of new
fortunes We're dangled before his eyes,
until he fairly lost his head He had saved
a little money-perhaps $500 at most
He drew it out of the savings bank and
carried it with him twenty-four hours be-
fore he could make up his mind to risk it
Then he contided his plans to one of the
curb brokers who had always been gener-
Gus with tips.
Il wouldn't take any chances with your
roll. if We're in your place. replied the
broker. You cant afford to lose. But
if you've been bitten by this bug. sup
pose you'll do it anyway. This Electric
Boat stock looks good. You may as well
lose it on that as anything else.
Evening star., 1915-11-28
He Knew Enough to Quit

THE mailman bought the stock at %
At 26 he got frightened and sold it;
bought again at 20, took small profit.
then bought again at So. and kept his
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-07-09
A. P. P. C. SUPPER.

Mrs. Herbert Clay gave a leave
taking supper on Friday evening for
Mrs. T. r. Patterson, who goes in a
few days to visit friends in Mime
aDolis and Milwaukee, and for Mrs.
W. a. DuPre, who left on Tuesday
for months visit to the San Fran
cisco exposition.
The wicker tables were set on the
lawn where blue rugs were spread
and the willow chairs were cushion
ed in blue cretonne. Ragged robins,
or bluetts, were used in profusion
and a delicious supper was served.
The party included, beside the guests
OF honor, Mesdames J. H. Boston,
L. N. Trammell, G. P. Reynolds,
Harry DuPre and Miss Evelyn CLAY.