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PAGE SIX ASHLAND TIDINGS Thursday, November 14, 1912. JACKSON ON M1ENDMENTS SUMMARY OK VOTi: OX VARIOUS MKASl'KKS. ON ELECTRIC LIGHTS City Klectrician Kxplains Reasons for Wishing for Ilond Issue for New Plant. Uncle Sam's New Battleship Ready For Maiden Plunge KIT AT NEW OFFICES OR BOARDS Void's of Jackson County Strong in Opposition lo Kvfi'y Move U t're uto .New Johs Kate Hill and '151 lie Sky" Law Win. The "IUu Sky" law, au ai'icnd lueiit designed to inotect the lmyors of stock from glib and smooth pro moters, won out i:i Jackson county by 37 votes, the closest race in the amendment contests. The bill ran strong in the country, but in the towns and cities there was an in clination against state regulafon of stock sales and promotion. The vote on the official count stood, 2,092 for, 2,052 against. The woman's suffrage vote was 2,794 for, 1,875 against. Those amendments that indicated a chance to curb or inconvenience railroads, banks or corporations won by big majorities. The people also found no favor for those measures that meant the expenditure of state money, or the creation of new offices. For instance, the bill making bank officials liable to depositors for all money won 3,220 to 844. The Med ford rate bill, nothing to enthuse the S. P., won 3,222 to 995. The people did not want a lieutenant governor by a vote of 1,832 to 2,525. The bills to create a state printing board, hotel inspector and state road board lost. The official count on the meas ures is: Woman suffrage For, against, 1,875. Uniform tax bill For, against, 2.525. Graduated tax For, against, 2,289. Tax provision 306 'or, 2,794; 1,832; 1,888; 1.SC3; against, 2,262. Abolishment of emergency tax For, 2,138; against. 2,038. Fixing bank's liability For, 3,220; against, 844. Regulating freight bill For, 2,973; against, 1,263. Creating Cascade county For, 1,092; against, 1,763. Creating O. A. C. regents For, 2.368; against, 1,845. Majority vote on amendments For, 1,397; against, 2,784. . County road bonds regulation For, 1,960; against, 2,351. Creation of state highway depart mentFor, 1,205; against, 3,042. Creation of state printing board For, 1,045; aga'nst, 2,484. Creating hotel inspector For, i27; against. 3,410. Eight hour bill For, 2,699; against, 2,055. Prohibiting convict labor For, 3,094; against, 1,363. Prohibiting convict labor in towns For, 3,019; against. 1,352. Creating state road board For, 1,744 ; against, 2,461. Prohibiting state indebtedness For, 2,000; against, 1.996. County road bond issuance For, 1.660; against, 2,480. County indebtedness bill For 1,881 ; against, 2,119. Consolidation of municipalities For, 1,841; against, 1,815. Income tax For, 1,999 2,037. against, 2.553; 1.739; Tax against Tax exemption For, 1,744. exemption For, against, 2,457. Inheritance tax 1,480; against. 2,429 revision For, Medrord freight bill For, 3,222; against, 992. Home rule bill For, 2,506; against. 1.741. Abolishing state senate For, 1,541; against, 2,437. HAS A UNIQUE RECORD J'. Y. Acklin Han H1mm Carry Suf frage fur W omen in Thive Dif ferent States. There are few men if any in Ash land, or indeed in the United States, with the unique record of T. W. Ack lin, of the Ashland Trading Company, of this city, in the matter of aiding in the securing of woman suffrage. Mr. Acklin was a resident of Colo rado when the question was put up in that state and by his vote aided in giving women the ballot. He moved to Idaho just in time to assist in giving- them the ballot in that state, and then moved to Oregon and voted to give them the ballot in this state. Crescent City. Special facilities for tourist par. ties at the Bay Hotel and annex, .Crescent City. Hot and cold water, baths and rooms en suite. 22-tf Some weeks ago Councilman Gowdy asked the Tidings to boost the proposed bond issue to build an addi tional electric light plant. He was told that the Tidings was not suffi ciently informed as to the proposition to be able to discuss it intelligently,, but that it would publish a brief statement from the city electrician in the matter. Mr. Butterfield has pre pared the following statement, which is published because of that promise. Otherwise the paper would be com pelled to adhere strictly to its rule as recently laid down, to charge for all articles of a political or semi political nature. The Tidings be lieves that the people of Ashland are too intelligent to need it to tell them how to vote on any question. In matters of news' and fact it is its mission to inform the people, but in a matter like this, where it ia large ly a question of deduct'ons from facts and of opinions as to expedi ency, the Tidings does not feel that it is incumbent upon it to stand the expense of airing the views or ad vancing the interests of any faction or purpose. Mr. lliittcrficld's Statement. Four years ago when the question of a municipal electric light plant was agitated and as a result the plant designed and partly built, the demands for electricity were much less than at the present time. Be cause of the delay in the completion of the plant we find that the demand is equal to and greater than the ca pacity of the plant, even though the plant has been In operation only fif teen months. So the time has come to consider the problem of more power. The capacity of the present plant is from 400 to 450 horse pow er. Our present peak load is about 3S0 horse power during a few hours at night. Because of the fact that the water coming from the water wheel is distributed into two zones for water supply and one of these zones is very much lower than the outlet from the wheel, there is power in the water running from the upper to the lower zone that is not being utilized. An increase in the size of the upper pipe line to a 24-inch all the way to the top of Crowson hill and the construction of a small res ervoir at that point will permit of the generation of 400 to 450 more horse power than is now generated. A power plant of that size can be built at the lower Intake reservoir and by a proper management of the flow of the water into the reservoirs the capacity of the lighting system can be doubled and a constant and steady pressure be maintained on the water supply system. As the de mand for additional power at the present time does not reach 400 horse power a portion of the 24-inch pipe and the reservoir may be omit ted and only that part of the pipe line as is necessary and the power plant be built. Thus an expenditure of $16,000 will give us about 235 horse power, which will be sufficient for several years. The distributing system should extend to all parts of the city limits. There is a constant demand for service by people beyond the end of our present lines. At pres ent all extensions and improvements have to be paid for out of the in come. This income should be Bet aside as a fund to pay the interest on and retire bonds as they become due. There Is income sufficient at this time to pay operating expenses, deprecia tion, and lay aside a sinking fund to pay off the bonds and Interest on the same. So a fund of $9,000 should be provided by bond issue to extend the pole lines and meet all the ex penses Incidental to the extension of the business of selling current. In view or the fact that the plant is supplying current for a street lighting system superior to that of any city between Sacramento and Portland and that the plant is sup porting itself and has been instru mental in reducing the rates one third, so that there is a direct saving" of $10,000 to '$12,000 a year to the citizens, it would appear that the system is a success and that the ex tension of the same would be a good move. Now that Lhasa has succumbed to the advance of the globe trotter, what Is the most inaccessible place in the world outside of the polar regions? The London Tost answers the oasis or Kufra. in the Sahara desert, the home of the Senussl. Birmingham, England,, has a new style of life-saving apparatus for the fire department. Entrapped' persons are rescued in a cage which is raised and lowered to the windows of the burning building. A steel wire has been made for the guys of aeroplanes which is one-fiftieth of an inch in thickness and has a tensile strength of 350,000 pounds a square inch '? k . ' """" "' " ' ..I-.'.. ' I ii :5-' I Photos by American Press Association. UE great battleship New York, gun Sept 11 last year, will be launched in the last part of October at the Brooklyn navy yard. She will be one or the biggest and best fighting ships in the world, costing $0,500,000 without armament or furnishings. It will take 2,400 men nearly two years more to complete her. The New York will have a length or 573 feet, a breadth of ninety-five feet two Inchos. a total displacement or 27.000 tons and engines of 28,000 horse power. Her major armament will consist of teu fourteen-inch guns. She will be one of the first vessels of the navy to be armed with fourteen inch rifles. With a displacement of 5,000 tons more than that of the Florida, the New York v.-lion launched will be the biggest and most powerful fighting ship ever constructed for the United States navy. She and her sister ship, the Texas, will he larger in every way than the Florida, which, it is expected, will soon be nwly to go into commission nt the Brooklyn yard. The New York Is to be built entirely by the construction corps of the navy at the New York nnvy ynnl. t which Commander Robert Stocker, U. S. N., is the head. The great battleship is shown on the ways in the lower photograph, and above is seen a diver examining the ways under water on which the ship will slidu Into its wiitiM-v berth. DEPENDENTjCHILDREN Hoys' and Girls' Aid Society of Ore .gon Asks Donations for Thanks ' giving. All persons who have the welfare of dependent children at heart will have an opportunity of assisting them this Thanksgiving by sending something, however small, to the so ciety that aids such children, and, as its name implies, this reJers to both sexes. The Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon, with its headquarters at Portland, is an institution organized more than a quarter of a century ago for the care and disposition of home less, neglected or abused children, to receive and care for them from any part of the state until suitable homes or employment is found for them, and to continue systematic attention to their condition and treatment un til they arrive at majority. This is the noble work to which the efforts of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon is bent. It receives, cares for and disposes of an average of about 4 00 children each year. Its income is derived from state and county aid and from voluntary sub scriptions, and as Thanksgiving is its harvest and the time of year when nearly all its income is derived from private sources, it is certainly hoped that all friends will come forward and do something to aid this noble work for humanity. An extract from the last annual report shows it had children on hand at the receiving home on April 30, 1911, numb . ins 64; received dur ing the year ending April 3D, 1912, 460. .Placed in homes and otherwise disposed of during the year, 457, leaving on hand at the. receiving home May 1, 1912, 67. These children were committed ironi 21 different counties of the state, including Baker, Benton', Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Crook, Douglas, Hood River, Jackson, Jose phine, Linn, Lane, Malheur, Multno mah, Polk, Tillamook, Umatilla. Union, Wasco, Yamhill ami Wash ington. The public schools as well as in dividuals will be asked to contribute. The railroad and express companies as well as the steamboat companies throughout the state will dead-head all donations sent to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon, Port land, Ore. What Will lie Acceptable. Canned fruit or canned goods of any kind, vegetables, especially pota toes, provisions, poultry and cash; In fact, anything that can be used in sister ship to the Texas, which was be UPTONillSJFTER CUP Willi Conditions Amended Tea Mag nate Would Sjiend Another Mil lion to ('apt me One. Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 11. "If the New Y'ork Yacht Club officials will amend the American cup condi tions and allow me to challenge un der the rating rules now in force in the United States, I shall build two cup challengers for my fourth at tempt to lift the cup in 1914." Cooly, calmly, modestly and with out more emotion or emphasis than if he were discussing the purchase of a couple of cigars, Sir Thomas J. Lipton, three-time challenger for America's cup, thus quietly an nounced his intention of spending at least another million dollars in an effort to capture the emblem of the world's yachting supremacy. Before leaving Victoria, en route to San Francisco, where he will at tend an important conference of yachtsmen, the world's most noted yachtsman and tea merchant out lined his plans for his next attempt to lift the America's cup. These plans are of course all conditional upon the New Y'ork Yacht Club ex ecutive, the present trustees of the cup, withdrawing from the unreason able and unsportsmanlike stand they have assumed for the last two dec ades and agreeing to a change from the sixty-year-old obsolete rules to the ones under which all yacht races in the United States are sailed, but which they have so far refused to allow any British challenger for the precious cup to compete under. Special courses have been added to several German schools to fit women for a new occupation in that coun try, that of aid in laboratories and scientific inst'tutes. SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine is $1.50 per yer.r. The PORTLAND EVENING TELE GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year, $5.00. If it Is Tidings work It is the best. an ordinary household. These things will be received and thankfully ac cepted. Would like the donor to mail a postal card to the superintendent, care of the Boys' and Girls' Aid So ciety, Portland, Ore., saying the arti cle has been sent, so we may be on the lookout for it. "Say, Bill, if that's goin' to be 'Go en do it' when it's finished, you've got the d before the o in 'do." "How can you be a billposter unless you know how to spell?" "What does 'Go en do it' mean anyhow; there aint no sense to that." A Xight of Terror. .Few nights are more terrible than that of a mother looking on her child choking and gasping for breath dur ing an attack of croup, and nothing in the house to relieve it. Many mothers have passed nights of terror in this situation. A little forethought will enable you to avoid all this. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a certain cure for croup and has never been known to fail. Keep it at hand. For sale by Foley's Drug Store. Tomatoes, melons, cucumbers and squashes have In Paris become lux uries beyond the reach of the vast multitude of working people, whose daily earnings do not exceed 80 cents or $1. SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine is $1.50 per year. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROP ERTY BY ADMINISTRATRIX. In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Marion County. In Probate. In the matter of the es tate of Hazel Crook McConnell, deceased. Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of and by virtue of an order made and entered of record in the above entitled estate on the 11th day of November, 1912, directing and empoweirng the undersigned admin istratrix of said estate to sell at pri vate sale for cash in hand, the here inafter described real premises be longing to said estate, I will on and after the 16th day of December, 1912, proceed to sell at private sale for cash in hand, to the highest bidder therefor, the following described real premises, to-wit: An undivided one-eighth interest in and to the following described real premises: Beginning at a point on the northerly side line of Main street in the city of Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon, 80 feet South, 55 degrees 18 minutes East from the Southeast corner of Lot Two (2) as designated, numbered and described on the plat of Michelson's Addition to the city of Ashland; thence South 55 degrees 18 minutes . East, along said' North s'de line of Main street 40 feet more or less, to the Westerly side line of what is commonly known as the Helen Ralph lot, fronting on said Main street; thence Northerly on division line between Lot Four (4) in said Michelson's Addition, Lot One (1), Block Twenty-three (23), Chitwood's Addition to the said city of Ashland, and said Ralph lot, 233 feet to the Northeast corner of said Lot One ( 1 ) ; thence North 67 degrees. West along the Northerly side line of said Lot One (1)41 feet, more or less, to a point which is 170.5 feet from the Northwest corner of said Lot One (1); thence South 34 degrees 12 minutes West to a Doint on . the Nnrtherlv linp nf I.nt Four (4) in said Michelson's Addi-i tion, which point is South 55 degres 18 minutes East, 20 feet from the Northeast corner of Lot Three (3) In said Michelson's Addition; thence South 34 degrees. West 122 feet, more or less, to the place of begin ning. Notice is hereby further given that said sale will be made subject to con firmation by said Court in the man ner provided by law. ANGIE W. McCONNELL, Administratrix of the estate of Hazel Crook McConnell, deceased. 49-5t-Thurs. l.ta.Ta.ti.t iti iTi it it tttTTtTtT1T P. DODGE & AND Undertakers Deputy County Coroner Lady Assistant w What lonfr nerve-racking days ofeon stant torture what sleepless nights of terrible agony itch itch Itch, con stant Itch, until it seemed that I must tear off my very akin then Instant relief my skin cooled, soothed and healed! The very first drops of D.D.D. Pre scription for Eczema stopped that awful Itch instantly: yes. the very moment D.D.D. touched the burning skin the tor ture ceased. D.D.D. has been known for years as the only absolutely reliable eczema McNair Bros.. Druggists Talent Meat Matket P. T. Guyer, Prop. y CHOICE MEATS Tel. 370-J. Ashland Billiard Parlor 10 East Main St. J. P. Sayle & Son STAR STEAM LAUNDRY And Dry Cleaning S. N. 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