referred to the street committee for fur
ther consideration, and rejKirt.
J. C. Hopkins and Frank Murphy,
Published Every Wednesday.
A special committee appointed to ex
who were committed to the county jail amine
the brick building on main street,
some weeks ago by Justice A. P. Ham belonging
nonarch of the Amateurs.
to Mrs. De Peatt, made a
mond, to await the action of the grand written report
of the needed alterations
E ditor , . .
jury on a charge of breaking into the to make the building
safe.
P ublisher ,
store of D. L. Minkler Ct Son, have
The sum of $150 was transferred from
P roprietor . effected their escape, and up to press
the
“General” to the “Street” fund.
time, nothing is known of their where
— terms . —
abouts.
An 8:00 o’clock curfew ordinance was
Subscription, One Year.................. $.50.
Regarding the escape of the prison passed, and the city marshal will be
“
Six Months,.................. 25. ers, we give our readers the following lesponsible for its enforcement.
Sample copies mailed freely.
complete and authentic information, fur
The street committee asked for further
nished us by Sheriff' A. S. Barnes:
time
in which to report on the matter
Advertising rates, Made known upon
“
Hopkins
and
Murphy
broke
jail
Sat-,
of
constructing
a sidewalk on 3d street.
Discounts,...........
application.
urdav
night
or
early
Sunday
morning.
A petition from residents on lower
Terms to Agents,
They were locked in the steel cage as Oak street requesting that a two inch
t?T“All ads., notices, etc., when not they have been confined since their com water pipe be laid down said street was
paid in advance, run until ordered out. mitment to the Jackson County jail, and referred to fire and water committee.
as all prisonerr of desperate character
With reference to raising the water
Entered at the post-office at Ashland, have been kept.
rents, F. H. Carter made a motion to
“They managed, with a strip of raw the effect that the charge for each fam
Oregon, as second-class matter.
hide which they took from a raw-hide ily for household ami domestic use from
1 P. FISHER. NEWSPAPER AD- bottom chair kept in the cage, to fish a 34 inch pipe be raised to $1.00 a month,
vertising Agent, 21 Merchant’s out of place a steel staple inserted in the charges for larger sizes to be raised in
Exchange, San Francisco, is our author opening at the end of a heavy steel bar proportion. The motion was seconded
ized agent. The A dvertiser is kept on which secures the steel door of the cage, by w. B. Million. A motion by W. A.
said bar passing through an opening into Patrick, seconded by G. W. Crowson,
file in his office.
an iron box, under lock, on the outside to amend the first motion to include ir
The “ADVERTISER” has the Largest Circulation of the cage.
rigation of not more than
acre of land
of any Amateur Newspaper in the World.
“There is a space of one half inch over in the proposed rates, was voted down
ASHLAND.................. WEDNESDAY, ERB. 3, 1897 the bar at the place of entering the iron by the council.
box, and it is supposed that the prison
The original motion was submitted
ers succeeded finally in passing their to vote. F. H. Carter, W. B. Million
Accident at Siskiyou.
stiff raw-hide string through that open and W.J. Schmidt voted “aye;” C. B.
Miss Pearl Grieves, of Siskiyou, was ing,
hooking it beneath the staple Crisler, G. W. Crowson and tV. A. Pat
brought down to Ashland on Monday used and,
fastening the bar inside of said rick voted “nay;” the mayor voted
night’s freight train, to receive surgical iron in
box,
they threw out of place the “aye,” and declared the motion carried.
treatment for a broken arm. The acci staple, thereby
the bar, which Further consideration of rates was de-
dent occurred Monday evening they could then releasing
easily
draw.
They had ferred until a future meeting.
about 7:30 o’clock. Pearl, with her then only to draw the lower bur,
which
younger sister, was running around the was seldom fastened because considered
The following bills were approved and
house, when she fell over a bank of froz unnecesaary. It removing the staple it ordered paid: ,
en snow, and her sister falling upon her was necessary to pass a hand through Electric Light Co., street lights,. .$115 50
right arm, broke it above the elbow. one of the apertures al>ove the opening Geo. Engle, salary and expenses,. 50 75
Drs. Parson and Songer rendered the in the box through which the bar passes ; | I. C. Dodge, salary,..................... 50 00
necessary treatment to the injured limb. one of the men was capable, as we had C. B. Watson, “ ..................... 10 00
witnessed, of passing his slim hand and Milton Berry, recorder’s fees,.... 28 20
Normal School Notes.
part of his arm through any one of said C. E. Hoofier, lalior on streets,... 32 35
The nearest one that could Norris & Co., lumber,.................. 27 20
Needed—a drum at the Normal. If apertures.
5 00
be
used
for
that purpose was some ten J. P. Sayle, nightwatch,..............
you know’ of one send it out.
Million
&
Sons,
hay
for
pound,
..
12
47
or twelve inches above the entrance of
3 50
Watch out for the new’ play. The said bar into the box. When out of Fox a Hildreth, hauling,.............
2 95
private secretary will take Ashland by cage, they broke from the supports of B. F. Reeser, merchandise,.........
.........
storm.
1 oo
water bowl in the closet, a heavy (alx>ut Kinney <& Provost, “
.J.
W.
Hatcher,
lal>or
on
streets,..
4 00
and one half inches by 38 in.) iron
M iss Anna Nelson, class of ’96, is two
Emil
Peil,
blacksmith
work,
.......
2
10
bar,
which
they
used
in
prying
off
the
spending a quiet winter at her home in fastenings of the outside door.
Jas.
Powell,
wood,
........................
2
05
Gardner.
1 00
“I have lieen ever cautious and w’atch- M. R. Mver, merchandise,..........
Warren
Williams,
lalx>r
on
W.W.
The Misses Wells and their brother, ful of the burglars in question, thinking
75
Mr. Percy, are out of school on account that they would try some means of es Thomas Cary, lalior on streets, ..
60
of the measles.
cape, yet I did not suspect them making
Council adjourned to meet Feb. 8.
an
effort
to
work
the
fastenings
of
the
M ilton B erry , City Recorder.
Miss Dolly Davis, ’96, w’ho is teaching
in Montana, Hends cheerful letters of cage door. I rather looked for them to
to saw their way out, and every night
her work among the Norwegians there. try
The total tax levy of Grant’s Pass this
after feeding them and securing the cage year
is 40 mills.
NI iss Nellie Towne spent Saturday and door, I passed around the outside of the
A sjiecial school tax of ten mills has
Sunday with Phoenix friends. Miss cage and carefully inspected the lattice
been levied in the Gold Hill district.
Tow’ne’s sister will be a Normalite next work.
year.
“I am especially certain that every
The total tax levy for the city of Port
thing
was
secure
on
that
fatal
night
be
land
is 25 mills, one mil! higher than the
The mid-year examinations are at
cause
I
distinctly
remember
that,
after
levy
for
1896.
hand. The students have had compre finishing my usual inspection, when I
Mrs. S. H. Calhoun died at her home
hensive reviews of their studies and
was
about
to
leave
the
jail,
one
of
the
three miles from Merlin last Saturday
seem to feel no fear for the examination.
men asked for a candle, and after I gave night. Funeral services were held at
The advanced elocution class will be it to him, I again tried the door to satis Grant’s Pass yesterday. The remains
gin their indian-club drills. It has been fy myself that the bar w’as secured by were brought up to Ashiand for inter
suggested that the seniors retire from the staple.”
ment in the Hargadine cemetery.
the grounds to spare the expense of
Mr. Brown, who for the past few
City Council Proceedings.
window panes and surgeon’s bills.
weeks has been lingering between life
We wonder if any other Normal was
and death at his home on the place for
MONDAY, FEB. 1.
ever afflicted with a siege of measles and
merly owned by John Grubb, south of
Usual monthly reports of city officers Ashland, died yesterday (Tuesday)
what remedies the unhappy students
found most effective, and if they enjoyed read and approved.
morning at 3:30 o’clock, aged 51 years.
chicken, and how they liked it cooked,
The declaration of vacation of certain
Funeral services W’ill be held to-mor
and if the disease held sway at examina streets in P. H. & N. addition to Ashland row afternoon from the family residence.
tion time.
was reconsidered and the matter again Interment in Hargadine cemetery.
The Ashland Advertiser.
I
Hopkins and Murphy at Liberty.