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TWENTY-SEVEN DROWN IN SHIP WRECK ♦»♦»♦«>>»>>>>»<»»»»»»♦»»♦♦♦♦♦< ♦ ♦ < » « > » .................. .... H H I« « ♦ ♦ M i lu » A shland D aily T idings M VOL. XLIII ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1919 NUMBER 10 REGULAR TROOPS TO QUELL RIOTS » M M M IH M M I »> > >♦»»♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ » » « H I M « - ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ > ♦ > » * ......................................................................................................................................................i t . T ■ t . r ,, it FOUR ARE KILLED, (By th e U nited P ress) BOSTON, Sept. 11. — Governor C oolidge today dispatched the fo l lo w in g telegram to the secretary of th e war and the secretary o f the Davy: early settlem en t of th e police strik e. M ayor P eters declared today th a t resto ra tio n of o rd er is th e firs t ob ject to be obtained and th a t the s trik e m a tte r will be tak e n up when th e city is again under control. L eaders of th e s trik in g police have declared th a t th e m en a re as d e te r m ined as ever to hold for recogni tion of th e ir union. "E ntire State Guard o f M assachu s e tts been called out. At present City o f B oston is orderly. T here are ru m ors o f a very general strik e. Wish you w ould hold you rself in readiness (By th e U nited P ress) to render assistan ce w ith th e forces BOSTON, Sept. 11.— W ith m ore und er your com m and im m ediately on th an 6700 sta te gu ard s p atro lin g the apiM*al w hich 1 may lie forced to stre e ts, Boston is virtu ally an arm ed m ak e to th e presid en t.” BOSTON, Sept. 11.— R ioting was renew ed h ere today w hen sta te tro o p s attem p ted to break up throngs of gam blers on Boston Common. R aym ond Barnes, a sailor, was Shot w hen he led an a tta c k on the gu ard sm en . The soldiers were m arc h in g m ore th an a score of the gam blers along th e stre e t w hen a crow d attem p ted to release th e p ris oners. Shots fired into th e a ir failed to Btop th e a tta ck s, and th e crowd was fin a lly dispersed by bayonet charges Follow ing th is renew al of rioting a s a resu lt of th e ex-police strik i G overnor Coolidge asked th e navy a n d w ar d ep artm en ts to be prepared to re n d e r assistance i? necessary. T he governor in his telegram said th e r e w ere “ rum ors of a 'v e ry general B trike.” It is know n th a t union officials a r e p rep a rin g to ta k e votes among th e various organizations of w ork e r s on th e question of a sym pathetic w a lk out. An unknow n young w om an died th is a fte rn o o n from w ounds received w hen th e troops fired in to a mob of lo o te rs last night. T h ere a re no indications of an camp on th e second day of th e po lice strike. The city is quiet, how ever, fol lowing a night of rio tin g in which two looters w ere shot to d eath by the guardsm en and m ore th an a score, including tw o girls, were wounded. Rains, which fell in te rm itte n tly th ro u g h o u t the night, failed to keep the crow ds indoors and rio ts in which th o u san d s of men and boys clashed w ith th e m ilitary, h u rling stones and using clubs, were fre quent. >♦»<♦<♦»>>>»»«>>>>♦>>>♦»♦» By Fred 8. Ferguson, ' (U nited P ress S taff C orrespondent.) (By th e U nited P ress) PA RIS, Sept, 11.— P rem ier B rat- iano. of R um ania, has resigned, ac cording to advices which th e peace conference received today. The suprem e council has also been inform ed th a t th e Serbian cabinet has fallen. As a resu lt th e tim e lim it allow ed th e Serbians to sign th e A ustrian tre a ty m ay be extended CITY IMPROVED COURT HOUSE NOTES Jacksonville, Sept. 10.— Business not very brisk today. Board of E qualization is in ses sion th is week and not a kick en tered the last two days. County Judge G ardner w as out ■»n the Pacific highw ay today inspect- in grade crossings w ith a rep resen tative of th e sta te highw ay com mission. T re a s u re r’s sem i-annual rep o rts for th e last tw elve m onths w ere filed the 8th and will be published soon. County C ourt holds a session F r i day. “ A shland is th e busiest little city of its size I have seen on my trip ,” rem arked Miss B lanche Hicks, pub lic lib ra ria n on re tu rn in g th is week from a m o n th ’s vacation which ex tended as fa r n o rth as V ancouver, B. C. “ I can already see a m arked change for th e b e tte r in th e m onth I was away. It tak e s absence from A shland to recognize its grow th and business advantages, and in ju st one m onth th e re have been m any im provem ents.” This Treaty or None Declares President ’ By H ugh Baillie ¡(United P ress Staff C orrespondent.) BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. 11.— ^Thousands of M ontana ran ch ers and th e ir women folks, som e of whom h a d driven m ud sp a tte re d autom o b ile s for m iles and slept on th e roads e n ro u te, crow ded today to h e a r P re sid e n t W ilson explain th e tre a ty In Billings. W hen th e president stepped from h is priv ate c ar th is m orning he heard a ch e er th a t b rought a broad sm ile to h is face. T he tow n was filled w ith people in a holiday sp irit and was flag be decked. T he crowd a t W oren, tw enty m iles o u tsid e of Billings, w here the tra in stopped for some tim e, m ade such a no ise outside his car th a t W ilson a ro s e and w ent out to shake hands w ith scores. " I t is th is tre a ty or none,” P resi d e n t W ilson declared. Speaking to h is f irs t M ontana audience he w a rn e d th a t it was “ unw ise for p a r lia m e n ts o r congress “ to tam p er with th e tre a ty and said th a t th e tre a ty 's o p p o n en ts who say it is too h ard on G erm any w ere outspoken ag ain st G erm any d u rin g th e w ar. He c h a r acterized them as “ pitiless th en and pitiful now .” “ If A m erica stays o ut and plays a lone h a n d ,” said W ilson, " th a t hand m ust be on th e h an d le of a sw ord and the n a tio ’s youth m ust be tra in ed to a rm s.” He declared th a t we m ust be an in d u stria l dem ocracy, as well as a political dem ocracy, calling a tte n tio n to th e labor fe a tu re of th e tre a ty . He said th a t m onopoly m ust be wiped out to in su re in d u stria l de m ocracy, and repeated his w arning of bolshevism sp reading th ro u g h A m erica unless w orld conditions are stabilized. “ T here a re apostles of Lenlne in our m id st,” he cried and m um ur « sw ept over th e crowd. (By th e U nited P ress) PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 11.— County com m issioners of th e states of W ashington and Oregon sta rte d a jo in t three-day session here today, it prom ising to be the biggest g a th ering of county com m issioners ever SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— F o l held in th e U nited States. low ing are m ark et qu o tatio n s: V ancouver, W ash., will be th e BU TTER— E x tras. 64c. scene of som e of th e sessions of th e EGGS— E x tras, 68c; firsts, 57*£c, county officials. N early 600 a re ex p u lle ts, 57 % c. pected to be in a tte n d an c e before the POULTRY— B roilers, 33c; hens, day is over. > 7c, CA TTLE— Top sheers, 1 0 ’¿ c ; sec FOOD D E A L E R S INDICTED onds, 8 H e ; cows, heifers, 8 Vic; calves, 13 H e. (By th e U nited P ress) HOGS— Top, 16 Vic. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 11.— Be S H E E P — Ewes, 7c; w ethers, 9c; tw een th irty and fo rty Indianapolis |am bs, 10c. food d ealers w ere indicted by th e BARLEY— Feed, >3.12 Vi; ship- grand ju ry here today charged w ith l i n g , - >3.12 Vic. dealing out sh o rt w eights. FRI Every tea c h e r in Jackson county last year joined th e Oregon T each e rs ’ association. A fter a b rief expla nation of w hat th e association Is a t tem p tin g to do fo r them , ab o u t 80 percent of all teach ers in th e en tire county filled out application blanks w ith th e fee of >1.00 atta ch e d . An effo rt will be m ade a t th e m eeting today to check over th e lists from each school and to enroll th e re m aining few who w ere undecided or who did not have th e fees w ith them yesterday. S u p erintendent G. W. Milam of Phoenix, S u p erin ten d en t J. P. Jew ett of B utte F alls, and Miss Gladys H olm es of Jacksonville w ere ap p o in t ed upon a n om inating com m ittee to nom inate a delegation of th re e teach ers to act as official delegates to th e sta te m eeting w hich will be held in P o rtlan d probably d u rin g th e C hristm as holidays. The com m ittee will m ake th e ir rep o rt a t th e b u si ness session on t h ^ last day of th e in stitu te. T he county is en titled to th re e delegates. One delegate for each hundred o r m ajo r fraction th ereo f of teach ers in th e county. The School M asters and High School T eachers’ club will also se lect a delegate a t th e ir m eeting on F riday. These four delegates to geth er w ith a delegate from each of th e te c h a e rs’ o rganizations in Med ford and A shland and th e county school su p erin ten d en t will m ake a to ta l of seven official delegates to the s ta te association m eeting from Jackson county. (By th e U nited P ress) MIAMI, F la., Sept. 11.— Twenty- seven m em bers of the crew were drow ned when th e W ard line steam er Corydon, carry in g 23,850 bags of BUgar, foundered and sank in B aha m a channel, Tuesday. Nine survivors, clinging to a w a te r logged life boat d rifted ashore near here today. They had been w ithout food and w ater since th e vessel sank. C aptain C hristensen w ent down w ith hip ship and a life boat con ta in in g approxim ately a dozen m em bers of th e crew was pulled under by th e suction of th e sinking steam er. All were lost. CHICAGO, Sept. 11.— Chicago is Interested in the senate opposition to th e peace tre a ty . How lingly in terested . Not since th e day« of 1912 when th e big auditorium here saw the b irth of the Bull Moose p arty has such a vast, excited, wildly cheering th ro n g jam m ed th a t place and sh o u t ed encouragem ent to th e speakers as (By th e U nited P ress) it w orked itself into a dripping pers LONDON, Sept. 11.— A Co- <$• p iration last night in greeting the speeches of Senators Borah, Jo h n logne dispatch today reports th a t m ore th an two hundred ■$> son and McCormick. I t was sw eltering hot, but the persons were in ju red and an un- $> m en took off th e ir coats and th< know n num ber killed in a mu- <$> nitions explosion a t Neuwied, ♦ women wielded fans and they n e a r Coblenz. Many buildings €> jum ped to th e ir feet dem anding the im peachm ent of P resid en t W ilson, w ere dem olished. shaking th e whole house as the> tagged him a " q u itte r.” Senator Johnson left today for In dianapolis, while Borah and McCor mick are following differen t routes confident th a t if the enthusiasm met in Chicago continues th e senate will have com plete backing in m aking the am endm ents an d reserv atio n s ir the tre a ty which th e foreign rela tions com m ittee has recom m ended. The E astern Supply com pany’s A crowd tw ice as g reat as that sto re room was entered by sneak- packing the auditorium was gath thieves last Tuesday r ig h t, and up ered outside and as they left th< w ards of >30 w orth of bicycle parts platform the th re e sen ato rs craw let was carried away. E n tran ce was m ade out on the fire escape and repeate< th ro u g h a back window which the th e ir speeches to the crowd outside in tru d e rs succeeded in opening. S enator Johnson recited th e prin A bout m idnight a wom an living ciples enunciated by P resident Wil across th e stre e t saw some boys try son which he declared were beatei ing to get in th e fro n t door and | and abandoned in P aris. He sail she gave th e alarm . By th e tim e the they were A m erican principles, the night policem an arrived th e boys i As he proceeded, and shouted “ bu had disappeared, and so had the as Clem enceau grim aced or Japai goods, it was discovered th e next shook h er head, who q u it? ” the m orning. crowd jum ped to its feet and yelle< a t him, “ W ilson!” May Abolish Flat Rate On Lights ♦ ---- <0 The electricity question w as one of the leading topics for discussion at th e ad jo u rn ed m eeting of council last night, when various m ethods were advanced tow ards m eeting th e con sta n t dem ands from citizens who w ant electricity for heating purposes. City E lectrician E a ste rlin g m ade the sta te m e n t th a t by cu ttin g down th e fla t rate on consum ers and e sta b lish ing m eters m ore juice would be saved for h eatin g purposes. He also sug gested th a t c u ttin g o ut porch lights would be an o th e r m ethod of increas ing the am o u n t of electricity. The city atto rn ey was authorized to draw up a resolution affecting th e w iring of residences to establish - m eters as rapidly as possible, and in th is m an n e r conserve th e electricity th a t o th erw ise Is freq u en tly w asted. F W ord was Just sent down from the O skar H uber cam p on th e Siskiyous th a t Chauncey Stoddard w as found dead in his ten t. No p a rticu la rs have been learned, th e w ord com ing in to th e E lks club a few m inutes ago. MINER MURDERED, CHARGE GRANTS PASS, Ore., Sept. 1 ).— The grand ju ry of Josephine county before tu rn in g in its final report retu rn ed an indictm ent a g ain st A1 Zuver, charged w ith second-degree m u rd er. Zuver is accused of killing a m iner nam ed P hilip F rainey, n e a r W aldo, on F e b ru a ry 7, 1919, by b u rn in g him in a cabin. Zuver will have his (ria l th is week before Judge F. M. C alkins and a num ber of w itnesses have been sub poenaed. At th e tim e of F ra in e y ’s death th e theory was advanced by som e th a t he had m et d e a th th ro u g h carelessness on his own p a rt or th ro u g h th e o v e rtu rn in g of a lam p w hile he slept. » ♦< > m D. C. Flem ing, wife and d a u g h te r of S terling, Colo., a re am ong Ash la n d ’s new citizens. MI sb Flem ing Is a tea c h e r in th e H aw thorne school and h e r p a re n ts accom panied her here to spend the w inter. Mr. Flem ing is an old new spaper m an, having been e d ito r and p ro p rieto r of th e S terling Advocate, th e oldest news paper of th a t city, for a num ber of years. He has retire d now, however, and is restin g a t th e present, en- * joying A shland’s sunshine, eating h er su p erio r fru it and d rin k in g her L ith ia w ater. N.G. Members Go to Sfate Fair A com m unication was b ro u g h t to Company B of th e N ational G uard at th e ir la st m eeting p u rp o rtin g th a t th e s ta te had a rra n g e d for each co m pany to send ten m en to th e sta te fair which opens a t Salem, Septem ber 22, to act as guards, tic k e t ta k e rs, etc. L ieu ten an t Grubb appointed five at th e la st m eeting and will la te r nam e th e o th er five. ♦ M l I »»« ONLY TWO MORE DAYS TO SAVE THAT DOLLAR Alter Saturday night at nine o’clock the Tidings w ill be $6.00 the year MASONIC CALENDAR S tated com m unication of A shland Lodge No. 23, th is (T h u rsd a y ) even ing, Septem ber 11; also special com m unication F rid a y evening, Septem b er 12, for work on first degree. The visit o f ’he w orthy grand m a tro n to th e E a'riern .S ta r chapter, scheduled for S atu rd ay evening, Sep tem b er 13, h as b e e -^ p .n c e lled . F u r- them a n n o u n c e m e n t/jte r. m SAVE THAT DOLLAR I There w ill be no farth er extension of the bargain price ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS Ground Floor Camps Building. m m » m m » m m m m m » m m m m m o m m h o w u m Cries of “ im peach him ," " d o n 't give him any m ore pow er,” arose as S enator Borah told of seven thousand A m ericans in Siberia, w ithout a u th o rity of e ith e r congress or th e peo ple. R esponding to th is la tte r cry, Borah shouted, “ L et’s say this, be- fore we try to tak e any pow er out of his hands, le t’s refuse to put any m ore power into his h an d s.” This brought th e biggest dem on stra tio n of the night. Several men ran up and down the aisles, waving th eir h a ts and shouting, while th e •ntire vast th ro n g from th e orches tra pit to the roof rose en m asse >nd shouted, w histled, yelled, ¡tamped, waved th e ir h ats and coats nd with th e aid of a few s tra in s rom the band kept th is up for sev eral m inutes. A VILLA PLOT (By th e U nited P ress) CALEXICO, Cal., Sept. 11.— The m utiny of C antu soldiers a t Algo- lones, Low er C alifornia. Septem ber 8, in which fo u r officers were killed, ’ has no significance a t a ll,” Governor C antu of Low er C alifornia, leclared in a statem en t to th e U nited Press today. The governor had been asked r e garding rep o rts th a t th e m utiny was »art of a Villa o r C arranza conspi racy to overthrow him. He said the m utiny was caused by a ¡mall group of ten m en, th a t one if th e th re e leaders had been cap* ured and th a t he expects th e early a p tu re of th e others. »». Report of Minority Urges Ratification By L. C. Martin, (U nited P ress S taff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.— Th. six dem ocratic m em bers of the foi eign relations com m ittee today pre sented to the senate a m inority re port on th e peace tre a ty , urging un qualified adoption of th e pact. The rep o rt replies to th e state mentB m ade in th e m ajo rity repot- filed yesterday and charges th a t th sen ato rs opposing th e League of N: tions, know ing it is invincible in : fa ir fight, a re try in g to defeat it “ b Indirection” th ro u g h th e propose- reservations. These proposed reservations, th< report says, have all th e vices o am endm ents” and in addition th< vice of “ p retending to be w hat the> a re n o t” in te rp re ta tio n s of the cov en an t language. The docum ent sta te s th a t th e dela? in rep o rtin g the tre a ty has resultei in “ governm ent by o b stru ctio n ,” am Am erica tra d e shows th e effects o th is delay. Adoption of th e m ajor ity ’s am endm ents and reservation! m eans th a t th e U nited S tates wil’ los all th e concessions secured from G erm any by the dictated peace. The League of N ations is tie w orld’s only hope of preventing in te rn a tio n a l chaos, t h ^ re p o rt de clares, and th e reservations a re the work of senators determ ined to de stroy th e league and defeat the tre a ty . “ W e deplore,” says th e report “ th e long and unnecessary delay tr which th e tre a ty has been subject ed w hile locked up in a com m itter w hose m ajo rity decisions and rec om m endations were from the s ta rt r foregone conclusion.’* “ The in d u stria l w orld is in a fer m ent and com m erce h a lts w hile this g reat delay in th e peace settlem ent has been caused by a m ajo rity o ' th e com m ittee know n to be out o ' harmony with the majority of the en ate and th e m ajority of th e peo- le. This is governm ent by obstruc- ion, as well as by m inority.’’ “ As fa r as th e tex tu a l am end- aents a re concerned, they have no le rit,” says th e report. “ None of them could by any pos- ibility be accepted even by th e reat nations associated w ith th e ’nited S tates in th e w ar and none <f them could by any possibility be iictated to Germ any. To adopt any >f them , th erefo re, is efuivalent to ejecting th e tre a ty .” “ The suggestion th a t th e am end- nents would not necessitate a roas- em bling of the peacs conference, ecause it is still in session, has no orce, th e . m inority declares, be- ause th e conference has acted final* y on th e tre a ty . N or could the G -nm an delegatee >e recalled to P a ris and forced to ccept am endm ents. The United ’tate s m ust sacrifice all th e benefit* o be derived from th e tre a ty if it s am ended or rejected, ‘he rep o rt isserts. STOLEN CAR TAKEN BACK ROSEBURG, Sept. 11.— J. W. Powell, of Los Angeles, who camo for th e stolen C adillac which was left here follow ing th e a rre s t of Willis E. C arter, took hiB d e p a rtu re with th e c ar last evening on his •eturn trip to C alifornia. Mr. Pow. •11 decided to drive th e c ar in o rd er ’o save th e .expense of sh.pm ent ar.d is he had aw aited until th e rains -eased, he believed he would be able to drive s tra ig h t th ro u g h to Loa Angeles. «> > TH E W EATHER ♦ ♦ Q> F o r Oregon— R a in ,.c o o le r. ♦ ♦ ♦