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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
LEAGUE REPLIES TO
FORD'S COMPLAINT

Washington. Sept. 26.-The $780,
600 row between the Navy league and
Henry Ford went 9 step nearer trial
today when. the league replied to
Ford's plea in the libel suit against
the pacificist, The league declared
statements made in the newspaper ad-
vertisements which bore Ford's name
were defamatory and false, The
league declared II is no defense for
Ford to say he thought the substance
Of the advertisements was true. The
fact that the statements were made
by Congressman Tavenner Of Illinois
in the house, the league contended,
does not give Ford right to circulate
such statements, In this connection,
the league pointed out that member
OF congress can not be called into
court for statements he makes on the
floor.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
king
MILL SOON
READY
installation Of Concentrafng
Plant On Grave Creek
Mine WILDE Completed and
in Operation IN 30 Days

B. e. Fluhart. secretary Of the Cop
per King Mining company, Is spend
ing few days in the city In the in
terest of better highways In the
Grave creek district above Golden.
There Is much development In the
upper Grave creek country, and good
roads for the transporting Of machin-
cry and supplies, and for the haul
ing out Of ores and concentrates, are
a necessity that must be met. One
project that is being discussed is the
leyying Of a special tax in the road
district for the construction Of about
three miles of new road, though no
definite action has yet been taken.
The Copper King mine Is installing
a concentrating plant upon it's prop
erty. the mill to be Of 40 tons daily
capacity. The Copper King has been
owned by Seattle parties for about
a year. s. S. Fluhart being the pre-
lsident and B. e. Fluhart secretary.
A car or the ore was shipped to the
smelter at Tacoma for smelter test,
and the returns showed that It yields
lSA per cent copper. There are also
small values in gold and silver that
win go well toward the cost OF min
ing, 4
Development work upon the Cop
per King has demonstrated an ore
chute $50 feet long. the vein being
about six feet in width. and enough
of the mineral is in sight at present
to keep the operators busy for sew
eral years to come. Included in the
machinery now being installed are
crushers and rolls, jigs. concentrators
and fiotation plant. IT will be In
shape for operation in about 80 days.
The mine owners have done a large
amount of road building themselves
to get the heavy machinery in place,
but better roads are now necessary
that the concentrates can be hauled
out without too great an expense. Mr..
Fluhart says that the road on upper
Grave creek will accommodate large
number Of miners and will hold the
district tributary to Wolf Creek and
Josephine county points.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
BRITISH CAPTURE C|TYOF
COMBLES FROM GERMANS
Fall Of Keypoint Of the Teuon Battle Line From Bapaume
to Peronne Is Most Notable Achievement Of the Cam
paign Along the Somme, Where for Three Weeks the
Fight Has Ragged With Unabating Intensity

London. Sept. 26.---Combles, key
point OF the whole German battle line
from Bapaume to Peronne, has been
captured by the British. after is
hours OF most furious battling north
OF the Somme.
General Haig this afternoon an,
nounced that British troops entered
Combles. overcoming German resis.
tance. The enemy's losses. the Off.
cial report said. were severe.
The British victory. achieved after
three weeks OF desperate driving
against the German center. is the
most striking single achievement OF
the Somme offensive. II removes one
OF the last two obstacles to an Anglo
French thrust to squeeze the Ger
mans out Of Peronne. one of the two
objectlves Of the great allied advance.
The capture OF Combles followed a
day and night OF most brilliant allied
successes. including the capture OF
the villages OF Morval and Les Bouefs
by the British. and Rancourt and
Fregicourt by the French.
In summing up the days success.
ful operations. General Haig report.
cd 1900 Germans we're captured by
the British and that more prisoners
are being brought In. The work Of
listing large supplies OF war mate
rlals. also captured, has not been
completed.
Fighting was still going on In
some places in the streets OF Combles
when General Haig's report was fled.
Combles fell after thrusts by both
British and French In yesterdays s
hghting drew moose about the Ger
man garrison, which made their es-
cape almost impossible. For weeks
the Germans had used the town. with
Its wonderful system of Notifications,
as a pivot point from which to swing
attacks. north and south, at the al
lies lines. In the last month OF
fighting the British and French lines
pressed steadily forward on both
sides. until the town was In deep
pocket, II was no longer available
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
BANKERS KICK 1T
FREE EXCHANGE Of
RESERVE CHECKS

Kansas City. Sept. 26.-Free ex-
change is thorn In the side OF the
country banker. This developed to-
day when the country bankers attend
ing the American Bankers associa-
tion adopted a resolution expressing
themselves as In accord with the un-
DERIVING principles OF the federal re-
serve act, but demanding that con-
gress give relief to bankers from the
free clearing Of checks through the
federal reserve bank. II congress
falls to act. the country bankers will
appeal to the courts.
The bankers had hard time to
stick to the subject OF banking. Good
words for woman suffrage and ma
tional prohibition by John Wagner,
OF Larned. Kas.. brought cheers, de-
spite attempts to rule him out Of
order.
A. W. Dawson. OF Davenport, Iowa,
also got of the subject onto politics
when he declared:
Those here who believe every
legislator a moral coward need only
to look back to the closing days of
the late session of congress for veri-
fication Of that idea." he said.
Five minutes Of solid cheering
showed his audience approved his cri-
ticism Of the eight-hour day for rail-
way employees.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
BANDIT BANDS
ARE NEAR BORDER

Jnarez, Mexico. Sept. 26.--Roving
bands OF bandits are reported oper-
atlng less than so miles south OF the
International border today. with
the arrival OF several wounded SOL
diers here yesterday, news OF the
battle Of Samalyuca, 42 miles south
OF this city, spread rapidly causing
apprehension among the townspeople
OF Juaros, According to reports In
the streets and sent to mining men
from the vicinity OF the reported
battle, 800 bandits, believed to be
Villistas, fell upon the sixty dc facto
soldiers garrlsonlng Samalyuca. Part
OF the garrison surrendered and join
cd the bandits Those refusing to
join were slaughtered. The wounded
were left behind and were later
brought north to Juarez.
At military headquarters here q
clash between Carranzlstas and ban
dts was denied, but one officer ad-
mitted there had been an action and
that there was n reason for the hur-
ried departure southwark Yesterday
OF General Gonzales with 500 cavalry.
Warehouses, mills and the superln-
tendent's residence at Esmcrolda
mine, Guggcnhelm property at
Sierra Moiada, Coahuila state, have
been looted and burned by bandits
calling themselves VillIstas, Il was
learned today,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
bULCARS CHECKED
BY FRENCH FIRE

Paris, Sept, 26,--very large Bull
garian forces launched a powerful at
tack against the French near Armen-
ohr, on the right bank of the Broda,
east Of Florlna, but were checked by
French screen Are. II was officially
announced today.
The Bulgars fed In disorder after
sustaining tremendous losses. French
and Russian troops captured nifty
four machine guns.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

Athens. Sept. ?6.--Former Premier
Venizelos will Issue a proclamation
calling for the mobilization OF all
Greek soldiers upon his arrival at the
island OF Crete today. according to
his advisors here. He may take no
further step before visiting Saloniki.
and possibly London. though II is
rumored In some sources that he will
lead revolution at once.
Veniselos plans 10 visit all the
Greek islands where revolutionary
organizations have been formed.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
Other Town the World the Size
VEN|zELOS Off To
ISLAND OF CRETE
TO STIR REVOLT

Athens, Sept 2G.--~Former Premier
Venizelos' sudden departure for the
island OF Crete. held by the reyolu-
t'onlsts, has created new crisis In
the Greek capital. King Constantine
motored to Athens TO consult the
prime minister as soon as he learned
the news. A few hours later. Il was
announced that General Moschpnulos,
chief of the Greek general stan. had
resigned
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

Fort Worth, Texas, Sept 26.-This
county, with population OF 100, 900,
remained In the wet" column today
as result of yesterdays local cleo
tion, by a majority of about SOL,
There was little disorder last night,
there being only about hfty fst fights
and dozen riot calls.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

TO inspect Trails
District Forester George II. Cecil
arrived this morning from Portland
and left at once for the caves with
Supervisor Macduff Of the local for
estry Office. After visiting the caves
an inspection trip of the trails In that
vicinity will be made. They expect
to be gone about two days.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
MGDFOI,D BOY INJURED
BY DYNAMITE CAPS

Medrord, Sept 26.---Terribly lncer-
ated by an explosion of dynamite caps,
Coylc Johnson, aged o. u schoolboy,
was near death today Tho caps woro
In HIS Nlp pockot when they burst,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

Clyde +, Niles, OF the Leonard
orchards company, left last night for
Salem. to spend about two weeks at
the state fair, where he has several
exhibits
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

Berlin. via Sayville, Sept. 26.-The
loss Of villages to the allied forces
under one Of the most terrific attacks
OF the whole Somme offensive was
officially admitted this afternoon.
"The allied infantry, after a four
day artillery duel. launched uniform
attack between the Ancre and the
Somme." the war office stated. "The
fighting commenced at noon and went
on last night with the same fury.
Between the Ancre and Eaucourt
LAbbaye the hostile thrust was
stified by our fire and broke down
with bloody losses before our lines.
The successes obtained by the enemy
east OF Eaucourt L'Abbaye and the
conquest of villages on the line Of
Geudecourt- -Bouchavesnes must be
recognized. but before all we must
think OF our heroic troops who face
the united Anglo-French principal
forces and massed employment of the
whole worlds war industries. pre-
pared for many months. Near Bou-
chavesnes and further south to the
Somme repeated French charges fall
ed under the heaviest losses"
The German official statement that
the allies have conquered villages on
the line of Guedecourt- Bouchavesnes
is seemingly admission that Combles
has been captured by the allies. The
villages of Les Bouefs, Morval and
Combles lie on the line indicated.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

for the Germans as a pivotal point,
but 1t still held out, buttresslng the
German line and blocking further
allied advance.
The British not only gained this
important victory but pressed for
ward in their drive toward Bapaume
last night and early today. A strong
redoubt between Les Bouefs and
Guerdecourt fell before British at.
tack.
The French also swept forward
again last night, carrying Fregicour,
village. and later repulsing German
attacks against positions won yester.
day.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26
DELAY SENTENCE Of BILLINGS THAT
NEW EVIDENCE MAY Be PRODUCED

San Francisco, Sept, 26.--Superior
Judge Dunno this morning granted
the petition of Attorney Maxwell Nc
Mutt to defer the sentencing of War
rem X. Billings until Saturday,
McNutt asked for the stay of SEN
tence on the ground that he has dis
covered new evidence. He declared
he will produce in court the mysteri-
Gus photographer who went to the
roof OF the building at 72l Market
street shortly before the explosion of
the bomb which killed 10 persons on
July 22.
This is the man, McNutt claims.
who was mistaken by some OF the
states witnesses for Billings.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-26

San Francisco, Sept. 80 Facing
life Imprisonment for the prepared
ness parade bomb murders, Warren
X. Billings today began his publicity
campaign by issuing q signed state
ment denying emphatically that he
has confessed the crime or has offered
to confess.
He said:
ANY statement TO the effect that
have offered any confession or have
succumbed to any inducements or
threats offered me by the district at
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-01-07
Theda Bara Has Muscular Sys-
TEN of A Serpent


By Emil H. Vaught, New York Soc
iety Phrenologist and Physicogomist.
| write this with a photograph
of Theda Bara, the William Fox
Vampire" before me. Never in
all my experience as a profess
ional character reader have ]
gazed into a face portraying
such wickedness and evil-such
characteristics of the vampire
and the sorceress.
Theda Bara belongs to what we
term the wide-faced, muscular
type of people, whose bones are
slender and small, and who are
governed by the same muscular
system as the serpent. They are
sinuous like the serpent, and, as
if the characteristics of a reptile
were not enough, they have a
feline temperament, deliberately
taking pains to inflict suffering
on others.
AS | study the features of this
unusual woman, whom Mr.. Fox
introduced to America, l note
particularly the width of her
head and face and the express
ion of her eyes. They denote in
tellect, a keen mind, and a re-
sponsive nature. That she is no
what her facial characteristics
would indicate, that is, a YAM.
pire off the screen as well an on
is shown by the height of hel
head above the eyes.
In other words, Theda Bare
has a very wicked, cruel and evi
face, but she is not wicked, crue
and evil. Unlike the gullible, who
never scent evil, she has a sense
of evil. This, evidently, is a gift
which the motion picture produ.
GERS failed to recognize.
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5000 Murders a Year in Amer.

Is the horrible record compiled
by Frederick L. Hoffman, who
has made a study of the reports
of thirty American cities for the
last thirty years. These cities
have a population of 17,416, $40.
The highest murder rate for any
year was that of 1913, when 81
persons were killed for every
100000 persons in the country.
In the decade from 1905 to 1914
inclusive the average was 81
per year. In the ten years be-
fore that the rate was 5, and If
the first decade of the period !
was 4.8. Memphis tops the list
in percentage of murders. In
1914 that city averaged 1872 per-
sons slain for every 100000 ir
the city. Charleston is second
with 1873 Southern cities have
worse records than Northern.
After Charleston comes Savan-
nah, then Atlanta, New Orleans,
Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis,
San Francisco, Cincinnati, Seat
tie, Spokane and Washington.
Manhattan and the Bronx to-
gether stand sixteenth. Their
rate is 81, or less than the aver
age. Chicago's average for 10
years is 9.3.
Slightly over 60 per cent of the
murders were committed with
firearms, and a little more than
10 per cent with knives or other
sharp instruments. All other
styles Of murder are grouped.
Nowhere in the world is muir
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icine yer used by anyone.
Even though not in need of such a
medicine at present, it will pay to OBJ
tain a bottle now at half price. as no
doubt someone in the family will re-
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One bottle makes a full pint (128
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home with one pint Of graduated SUI
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the ordinary, old-fashioned, ready
made kinds Of doubtful merit and also
without a guarantee, like this rem
edy. It is prepared from strictly
harmless plants and is so pleasant
that children like to take it and it can
be given them with perfect safety, as
it positively contains no chloroform
opium, morphine or any other mar
cotic, as do most cough mixtures. Alb
solutely no risk whatever Is run in
buying this remedy on the guarantee
Of the above well-known, reliable
druggists.
If a neighbor or friend would take
and pay for half the bottle, the cost Of
half a pint Of the excellent medicine
would only cost each about IL cents.
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STUBBORN COUGHS, COLDS AND
BRONCHIAL AFFECTIONS RELIEVED
with Best Homemade Remedy-l28 Teaspoonsfui for Is Cents.

If everything was sold in as liberal
and fair a manner as Crenshaw &
Young is selling Schiffmann's New
Concentrated Expectorant, absolutely
no cause for complaint or dissatisfac-
ton could possibly arise from anyone.
These druggists say BUY a bottle Of
this new remedy and try it for Bron-
chitis, Bronchial Asthma, Whooping
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do with DR.. Schiffmann's famous
Asthmador, if it does not give perfect
satisfaction, or il it is not found the
best remedy ever used for any Of
these complaints" In addition to
this guarantee. in order that the pub
lie might try this remedy without fur
Their delay, these druggists announce
that they have decided to make m ex-
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lar so cent size bottles for half price.
Is cents to the first 200 persons who
sign and present the coupon below at
their store. Although they and the
proprietor are losing money on ev.
ery bottle sold at this price, they
both have decided to stand this loss
so as to give those who have not ye'
used this excellent remedy, an oppor.
tunity Of trying it, at their loss
knowing It viii be found the best med
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Stockholders Meeting.

The annual meeting of the
stockholders of Traders Bank of
Lexington, Mo-, for the election
of directors for the ensuing
year and the transaction of such
business as may come before the
meeting, will be held in the bank
ing room of Traders Bank in
Lexington, Mo, January the
10th, 1916, between the hours of
ten o'clock in the forenoon and
two o'clock in the afternoon.
w. G. M~cCAUSLAND, Pres.
j. G. CRENSHAW, Sec.
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JUST TRY ONE DOSE of
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Mayr's Wonderful Remedy has been
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Is a Farm Congress.

Columbia, Mo-, December 81
Farmers Week this year is to be
truly a state farm congress,
twenty-three statewide agricul-
tural and live stock organiza-
lions having issued calls for an
nual meetings in Columbia at
that time.
The number of state meetings
stood at unlucky % until today
when the Secretary Of the State
Board Of Agriculture announced
the call for a state convention on
market conditions for Wednes-
day, January 5th, at 200 p. m,
in Columbia.
This convention will include a
conference on marketing that
will take up the vital questions
of farm life today. It will be adj
dressed by state and national
experts dealing in practical ways
and means. P. G. Holden, H. ].
Waters, William Hirth, DR.. E.
H. Bullock, Sam Jordon, w. D.
Mckee and others will take part
in the program.
The agricultural secretary de-
clares that it will pay any far
mer, merchant, banker, minister
or editor interested in country
life to attend Farmers Week
which offers more this year in
the five days than ever before.
both for men and for women. II
will pay in cold dollars and cents.
within ninety days, several times
what it costs to make the trip!
The problems of production
will not be overlooked during the
week, but the blunt needs fol-
distribution and marketing will
come in for a straight share this
year. One of the night speakers
will deal with keeping open the
competitive markets and in
%creasing competition. One night
address is on Missouri agricul-
ture in the world markets fol
lowing the war. Another nat
ional speaker will deal with the
future of the live stock markets.
Another will prove to you that
Missouri is the coming center OF
the dairy industry of the west.
Citizens in different sections OF
the state are getting up Pull
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Notice 10 hereby given to all credi-
tors and other persons interested in
the estate Of Kate NJ. Bacon, deceased,
that the undersigned Executor
will apply to make a final settlement
Of said estate, at the February term,
1916, Of the Probate Court of Lafay-
cite County, Missouri, to be begun
and held at the Probate Court room.
in the City Of Lexington, on the second
Monday IN February, 1916.
DAVID r. MITCHELL.
l-1t5 Executor.
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der so prevalent as in the United
States.
There must be something
wrong with our administration
of justice when such an appall-
ing proportion of tragedies is
accepted without arousing the
public to measures of correction.
Human life is held too cheaply
in the United States, and there
is too much maudlin sympathy
for assassins. There is one
Southern city that has had many
murders, but in which a white
man never was hanged.-Com-
merce and Finance.
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FINAL

Notice is hereby given to all credi-
tors and other persons interested in
the estate of William Devlin deceased,
that the undersigned Administrator
VIII apply to make a final settlement
Of said estate, at the February term,
1916, Of the Probate Court of Lafay,
cite County, Missouri, to be begun
and held at the Probate Court room
in the City of Lexington, on the sec
ond Monday in February, 1916.
ARTHUR F. DEVLIN,
l-ft0 Administrator.
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FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given to all credi-
tors and other persons interested in
the estate of Thomas ]. Bandon, de-
ceased, that the undersigned Execu-
trix and Executor will apply to make
a final settlement of said estate, at
the February term, 1916, Of the Pro
bate Court of Lafayette County, Mis-
souri,, to be begun and held at the
Probate Court room, in the City OF
Lexington, on the second Monday in
February, 1916.
JULIA E. BANDON,
Executrix.
WIN. J.. BANDON,
Ito Executor.
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FINAL SUPERINTENDENT

Notice is hereby given to all cred
itors and other persons interested in
the estate of Rebecca Williams de-
ceased, that the undersigned Admin
~istrator will apply to make a final
settlement of said estate, at the Feb
ruary term, 1916, of the Probate
Court of Lafayette County, Missouri,
to be begun and held at the Probate
Court room, in the City of Lexington.
on the second Monday in February,
1916.
GEORGE H. GREEN,
Ito Administrator.