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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1895)
Ashland Advertiser. The Monarch of the Amateurs. A»HL*XI>. OKM.OS, TTKDXKKDAT, JI LT 17, IH»*. T.I, III. X». ». FIKE IN THE FOOT-HILLS. SATISFIED AT LAST. MIGHT IIAVK RKMVI.TKH D1HAST KOI'BLY BUT It is an old saying that the farmer is a hard man to please ami satisfy; no sooner is he thoroughly complaining of t/M> much rain than the necessity for ir rigation stares him in the fare, and starts him investigating the latest practical ami profitable methods. Experience now «'onfirms the claim that a Hercules Gasoline Gas Engine solves the problem <4 ec«>nomi«*al, reliable power; ami for om r the farmer is suite«!, for a Palmer <k Rev Pumping Plant so ope*rated gives him a <4ian«-e of clearing his overflown lauds, ami, later on. of flixsling his {»arched fields, l»*sidvs using his engine lor rutting fee«!, sawing wool ami run churns, etc. FOR TIMKLl AKKKRT. A forest fire of no small extent was raging in the foothills bouth <4 Ashland last Thunulav afternoon and night, and fora t»ine, the flames were «langerouslv near the rvsidemvof G. Y. Heaton and the firemen were called to save it. The men worked with a will, and after boms of hard work, succeeded in saving the dwelling, A stream of w ater wai* con tinually played uimhi the building to lessen the danger from flying Bfiarks. The flaim-s cr«»*sr<! the road s< -vend times and started conflagrations on the timlvrlandofO.il. Blount, hut were extinguished Indore anv damage was done. CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY. The fin* was w'atched all through Thuradav night, ami it was by the cl«»s- The third annual Chautauqua Asssm- est attention to duty that Mr. Blounts I mm was prevented from Iving fired by Id vof Southern Orvgoii, now in session in Ashland, is pr«»vii:g a grand sucivss in flying s|«arks. By F riday night th»* fire was nearlv all every resj«e«*i, Toe lectures are all first out, leaving a blackened piece of barren class and never fail to draw a full house, ground, when», the day Indore grew am! for the last two nights the isles had to Iv filled with seats for the accommoda green foliage. 1 he fire was sup|M»s<»d to have Invn tion of the audiemv All express themselves well pleased started bv some camp-fire carelessly left burning by some of the campers along with the entertainments. am! a large attemlamv for future Assemblies is as Ashland creek. sure«!. ANOTHER BLAZE. A tramp has just worked out his fine The rapid ringing of th»* fire Indi last on the streets of our city, ns a penalty Thursday night brought the fln men to fur making threats ami frightening wo their jm>st and sent them spinning «low n men an«! children when refuse«! “meals Oak street to the rvsidemv of ('apt. J. L. to order.” What the city wants for such May, to find his chicken hour»* ablaze fellow s as he, is m ru»ue pile and the re ami presenting a threatening attitude quirement to break a given amount of toward neighboring buildings. stone before they are fed. We would Ry quirk an«l determine«! work, the 1 then have pulverised stone enough to fire was put out l»eforv further damage put our streets into fine condition. w as «lone. The origin of the hlaxe is laid tn a The Ashland woolen mills will Ivgin tramp, who, having Invn refused a meal at the late hour of eleven o’clock, took operation August 1st, using al>out 1,000 |K»undsof wool per «lav. Besides other this means of “getting even.” improve*! machinery, there w ill be in op 1. N. Towne, General Traffic Manager eration, an improve«! extractor that will and Vi«v President of the Southern Pac dry as much wool in an hour as the old ific R. R. Co., is dead. style could drv in twentvfour hours. - ■ I U.H —II ■■ ■■ lllMfc Wl. I