1 I " ' .. ' J I id Ashland !j 'Tidings' out VOL. XXXVII ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 29 19P - J. L: NUMBER 18 WILL CLIMB MT. ASHLAND MSKIYOl' CLUIJ MAKING ' LARGE PARTY. IP TO REACH SUMMIT AT SUNRISE Plan is to Leave City Saturday After noon and Kvening, Making Trip From- Long's Cabin By Moon light. The Siskiyou Club of this city is laying plans for the ascent of Mount Ashland next Saturday night, the party to leave here in the afternoon and evening, going as far as Long's cabin in two divisions and making the balance of the trip, to the summit by moonlight.. A cordial invitation is extended to all who wish to join the party, which already is quite large. The plan, as outlined by the club officers, is to leave Ashland in two parties, the first starting at 2 in the afternoon by foot and proceeding as Xar as Long's cabin, where they will rest until midnight. The second party will leave by team about 10 o'clock in the evening, driving to Long's, where the two parties will combine and proceed by moonlight to the summit, arriving in time for the sunrise, which is the most beau tiful period of the day. The view at this hour is said to be magnifi cent. The return will be made leis urely toward evening, Sunday. The full number of the party will be known the latter part of the week. Already more than a dozen have sig nified their intention of going. The number is not restricted. All desir ing to go should notify either C. B. Watson or F. C. Routledge, who have charge of the expedition. Arrange ments may be made for as many as desire to go by team late Saturday night and similar arrangements for the return trip by speaking to the above named gentlemen as early as possible. Arrangements must be completed by Friday evening. The trip by night will be easy on account of the cool air. The moon J'ill furnish ample light to make the "oing safe. From Long's cabin those who have horses may take their own gait, while those who go afoot must submit to the rules of the party and follow the leader. Either Mr. Watson or Mr. Routle'dge will take the lead and will set the pace as he thinks the party can stand, stop ping to rest whenever it is thought necessary. A telescope will be car ried and everyone will be given an opportunity to view the wonders of the surroundings. No arrangements will be made for meals, everyone be ing responsible for his own lunches, but there will be the usual tamp cof fee pot. The trip promises to be a pleas ant one. 1 he party will be made up of both ladies and gentlemen and a jolly good time is promised. It is desired that all who wish to join re port as early asv possible in order that definite arrangements may be made. Scholarships Placed. . The Ladies' Civic Improvement Club announce that they have dis posed of two scholarships pledged for the Polytechnic School last June. The names of the fortunate young people are not given. Men's suits dry cleaned this month for $1.00. Ladies', garments also reduced. Goods called for and delivered. Phone 141. Orres' Tail oring and Cleaning Shop. COMPANY JSDISSOLVED National Packing Company Offices in This City Puss to Swift Change Will Have Little Effect Here. ' The voluntary dissolution of the National Packing Company to con form to the national anti-trust laws' will, have its effect on the industry in Ashland, the change going into effect this morning. Under the con ditions of this dissolution, the stock of the National Packing Company is divided up among the separate stock holders, the Swift company assuming the Pacific coast plants for Its share of stock. From this morning, the local office is no longer an office of the National Packing Company but passes under the control of the Swift Packing Company. There will be no change in the local management, but the products handled will be Swift products after the present stock pf goods of the former company is cleaned up. START XKW TOWX. Site Between Salem and Portland to He Divided. The Armstrong Townsite Company, composed of H. H. Horrman, B, N. Garrett and associates, has pur chased 200 acres on the Oregon Elec tric, 28 miles rrom Portland and midway between Portland and Salem, for the purpose of building a town to be called Armstrong. The new owners report , that the Armstrong Manufacturing Company will build a $15,000 foundry and factory there, employing 200 or 300 men. The company reports that it has an op tion on 500 acres additional, which will be cut into acre tracts. . I I Animals Going Into Mountains Large Numbers. In Game Warden C. M. Ramsby and Henry Stout, who is assisting him, returned to Klamath Falls Tuesday from a trip into the mountains on the west side of Upper Lake. " Mr. Ramsby states that the deer are quite plentiful in the mountains this year, and from information he has received the woods will be full of hunters when the season opens the first of August. The deer, which come down into the lowlands ear)y in the spring, are beginning to move back into the mountains. "You can say," said the game war den, "that it will be well for the hunters to be careful and not to vio late the deer law in regard to does, for if anybody is caught with a doe they need not be disappointed if they should have to return to Klamath Falls and make an explanation be fore the justice, because we want it distinctly -understood .that there is to be no violation permitted of the deer law, and' want the assistance of all true sportsmen." OIL IN SMS , VALLEY Ranchers Declare They Have Found Sand That Indicates the Pres ence of Product. That the fertile acres of Sam's val ley, dotted with the finest farms and orchards in southern Oregon, are underlaid with mineral wealth in the form of crude petroleum, is the be lief of W. G. Myers of Gold Hill and of those who have shared, in his in vestigations. Although from the natural indica tions and accompaniments of an oil bearing region, namely, the profuse presence of shale, leaf and tree fos sils, and carboniferous formations, Mr. Myers had some time since real ized the possibilities of the situation, it was not until recently, when he discovered an almost certain indica tion of the presence of oil, thai he gave the matter serious thought. Mr. Myers, in partnership with W. T. Ward, is owner of a fine fruit ranch in the north end of the valley, where the first foothills herald the mountains beyond. It was on this ranch, while cutting a road over the hillside, he disclosed' a vein of what appeared to be typical oil sand 18 inches in depth and of unknown ex tent. Samples submitted to experts at San Francisco by Mr. Myers in person were declared to be the real oil sand and indicative of a good wield at no very great depth. Later a competent engineer, k looking over the grounds, assured the pro prietors that oil might possibly be foundat a depth of less than 1.000 feet, and if so discovered it would undoubtedly be a paraffine base oil of the highest grade. Portions of Sam's valley with the surrounding rock walls tally in ideal fashion with the location of some famous gushers, and lignite coal has been found, to further enhance the possibility of a strike. PLACKH GROUND SOLD. Important Deal lut Through Xeur Grants Pass. Another big mining deal, one of the most important ever put through in the district, has just been closed up, whereby the bulk of the placer ground on Grave creek, located about fourteen miles from Grants Pass, passes into the hands of a Cali fornia company. ' The deal is one of considerable magnitude and is destined to revolu tionize mining operations in this sec tion, as the property is to be worked as a dredging proposition and em braces over 3,000 acres of ground situated in the Grave creek district, in this county. It Includes a number of the bes't ranches' in that vicinity and affords ideal conditions for the dredge. The company taking over the property is one of, the most sub stantial of California's big dredging concerns, the Oio Power & Light Company, of Oroville, and it now has its engineer on the ground with drills, and just as fast as the ground is tested out dredges will be in stalled. The property includes most ly virgin soil, being too flat to work with hydraulic outfits. All of the neighboring placers have yielded ex ceedingly well, and it naturally fol lows that this body will return some millions to the investors. Baseball. The Med ford team win play a game with Weed next Sunday at Medford. This is for the championship of this section and promises to be. a close game. At Yreka a week ago the Medford team lost to Weed by a score of 4 to 7 in a ten-Inning game, hotly con tested. A special train will run from Weed and intermediate towns, reaching Mearord at 11 a. m. Mediord holds the championship or southern Oregon . and Weed or northern California. In addition to the championship honors a purse of $500 goes to the victor. The citizens of Sumner, Wash., as a result of a row with the city coun cil, have begun proceedings to have the .town disincorporated and put into the hands of a receiver. Oregon City Is considering the proposition of appointing a business manager for the city in lieu of a mayor. CALKINS DECIDES SAYS COUNTY COULD NOT BUILD ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS The decision of Judge Calkins in the Med ford bridge case was given out this morning. The conclusion reached by the Judge is that the county has not sufficient funds for the construction of the bridge and should therefore be restrained from doing so. The full text of the de cision follows: In the Circuit Court of the state of Oregon in and for Jackson county. Benton Bowers et al. plaintiffs, vs. J. R. Neil et ah, defendants. The record in this case shows that there was on hand in the treasury on January 1, 1912, $6,340.04, and that there has since been received from other sources than 1911 taxes' $6,000; that the general levy of 1.9 mills will produce approximately $72,000, and the road levy will pro duce approximately $76,000. Then the total assets of the county for the purposes of this case are $160,340. 04. The treasurer has paid out of this money for redemption of road warrants, $45,724.80, and for war rants for general purposes, $40,027. 48; that the sheriff has received for taxes, warrants for road purposes. $12,253.40, and for general purposes, $4,510.66, or a total of $102,516.34. This sum has been paid out and is gone, and must be deducted from the assets of the county in order to as certain whether there is any money anywhere for the bridge. It also appears that the running expense of the county is $4,000 per month, and for five months prior to bringing this suit, $20,000 has been appropriated from the general fund by operation of law for this purpose. Then the amount of credit in any fund which the county can apply to the bridge must be reduced bv this item. Or if it be urged that this is a debt and should not be deducted from the available general fund, then we must say that there is no money at all in the general fund, for it has all been appropriated by oper ation of law to pay the oldest out standing warrants, which the record admits amount to upwards Of $20i, 000. involuntarily contracted.' Then from this balance we deduct the warrants issued this year against the road fund, for work done this year, $16,116.62, and the second Twohy Bros, contract, let this year, and prior to the bridge contract, we find we have not enough in aJI of the available resources of the county to build the bridge. The account will stand as follows: Assets. In treasury January 1..$ 6,340.04 From sources other than 1911 taxes 6,000.00 Amount of general fund levy 72,000.00 Amount of road levy. . . 76,000.00 Total assets $160, 340. U4 Liabilities. Paid by treasurer, road warrants $ 45,724.80 Paid by treasurer, gen eral warrants 40,027.48 Received by sheriff lor taxes, road warrants. 12,253.40 Received by sheriff for taxes, general war suits ' ' 4,510.66 General expenses for five months 20,000.00 Warrants issued against 1912 road account... 16,116.62 Twohy Bros., second con tract 5,452.25 Balance applicable to bridge 16.254.83 $160,340.04 This is the most favorable result I can reach lor the bridge. Or if we WIN A SCHOLARSHIP. Two Prizes Offered in Polytechnic School Contest. Extraordinary offer! Wonderful opportunity for young men and young women! The Tidings will give away one scholarship in the Polytechnic College, good for twelve months' schooling and worth $125, to any young man or young woman in Ashland or out of Ashland, who will secure the greatest number of scholarships or students by Septem ber 2. All students secured for the school must be for one year of twelve months, and all scholarships must be sold for $125. The scholar ship obtained by the one winning out can be used by the individual himself or be Bold to some one for $125. Now how many will get in and (frill for this excellent offering by the Tid ings? Another- The Ashland Record will also give away a half scholar ship, good for six months' schooling and worth $75, to any young man or young woman in Ashland or out of Ashland, who will secure the next highest number of scholarships or students by September 2. All stu dents secured for the school must be for one year of twelve months, and all scholarships must be sold for $125. How many will get In line and work for this second valuable prize? All who wish to work for these prizes will see Secretary Day at the Commercial Club rooms or write to him for Information. The Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs has decided to hold Its next annual session at Ellens-burg. AGAINST BRIDGE STRUCTURE WITHOUT INCURRING AND SHOULD BE RESTRAINED look at the matter from another standpoint, we find the treasurer has paid out for road and general war rant redemption, and the sheriff has redenimed in payment or taxes, a to tal of $102,516.34. Of this, the cash on hand and the money received from other sources, $12,340 04 should be deducted, and 'e have $90,176.30, more than one-half of which must be road monev. In the proportion of 20 to 19. But half and half will be sufficient for the purpose, and we find one-half, or $45,088.15, is derived from the road levy. This deducted from the total road levy of $76,000 gives $30,911. 85 left of the road levy not already paid out. From this amount if we deduct the warrants Issued against the 1912 road fund, $16,116.52, and the sec ond Twohy Bros, contract, which is prior to the bridge contract, $5,452 -25, we have left $9,343.08 to apply to the building of the bridge. But if we take the most reasonable figures to my mind, we shall arrive at this result: It is stated in de fendant's brief that two-thirds of the taxes have been collected. Jt is seated in the stipulation that all of the moneys were placed in the gen eral fund, and that they have all been paid out of the redemption of warrants. This leaves one-third or the road fund and one-third of the general fund available. The general fund has already all been appropri ated and must be used to pay off the oldest outstanding involuntary In debtedness. Against the bridge fund, $16,116.52 for road purposes in 1912, and Twohy Bros.' second contract tor $5,452.25, is prior to the bridge contract, which leaves us only $3,797.89 to apply to the build ing of the bridge. It is argued that everything "that 'has been done must be considered as having affected only the general fund and that the bridge fund is in tact; but I am unable to see how we can say that when the money is spent and gone, we still have it In hand and can use it. Nor do I know any process whereby we can transfer moneys from.the general fund to the road fund to make up for such def icit. As to the other branch of the case, the right of the county to build a Jj.ifl.'if ti. Medford. 1 have not gone extensively, as it Is not necessary to a determination of the case as I see it. But it would seem to me that a special law, imposing upon a county the duty of building and maintaining j a image, would fall within the pro vision of Article IV, Section 23. It has been often held that thi - .... .MH was amended. But while that would no doubt be true as affecting the city, it would seem that it would not be true, when an attempt was made to throw a burden on the county by a special enactment. I have reached the conclusion that the county cannot carry out the con tract for the bridge without incur ring additional indebtedness, and tutional limitation did not apply to l"K lu,lu lowers or wiiat pur clues, because the control of roads l'01'te(l t0 oe a" account of certain and streets within the city is part of I toutu11 proceedings, to the errect municipal functions, and permitted I 1 at the l'nite' States National Bank by Article XI, Section 2, before it!?"" the Kirst Nt'onal Bank of Ash- ju.i.uiitti i iitici'icu HfPn, ctllU ing to do so. F. M. CALKINS, Judge. We have extended our cut prices on wood ten days. Book your orders now. Sixteen-lnch block wood $2.00, by the load. Phone 420-J. The new fall and winter samples are now on display at Fuller's. Prices cheaper than ever. OX THI? WAV HOMK. Pi-of. William 10. Snyder Will Spend Vacation in Ashland. Friends of Prof. Snyder will be glad to learn that he is on his way to Ashland and will arrive some time this week.. The following clipping is from the Decatur Herald, under date of July 19: "W. E. Snyder, professor of plpe organ and piano playing at the Milll kin Conservatory of Music, will leave the first or the week for the Pacific coast. Prof. Snyder will complete his work at the Millikin summer school Saturday and will make the trip west as a part of the vacation which he will take until the first or September. Me will then return to take up his work with the beginning of the fall term. "Mr. Snyder will be accompanied on his western trip by Everett Dono van. 1222 East Eldorado street, a pupil In the Conservatory of Music. The trip will be made over the Can adian Paciric route and several of the most interesting points will be visited. Mr. Snyder is owner or a fruit ranch near Ashland, Oe., and this will be their destination. The greater part of the summer will he I spent on the ranch and neighboring points in Oregon. They will then travel down the coast and return through Colorado." Newberg has granted the Ynmhlll Electric Company a 25-vpar fran- cnise which will return income to the city on a percentage basis. The only serious trouble confront ing mankind now is getting the Kan sas crop harvested. should be restrained from att(finnt-ilnelr KEEP WITHIN PARTY. La Follette so Advises All Progres. nive ItepublicAns. Madison, Wis. Bitter denuncia tion or Theodore Roosevelt and a warning to progressives to sacrifice everything to keep the progressive organization within the republican party, is voiced by .Senator Robert M. La Follette in a signed editorial in his magazine. La Follette's Week ly. After asserting that Roosevelt is not a real progressive, La Follette says: "It was not until five months ago that Roosevelt made the so-called declaration of hiB principles. Short ly thereafter he abandoned all at tempts to discuss hiB 'principles.' " Ignoring the issues of progres sivlsm, Roosevelt lured the president into a campaign so bitterly personal that, at the time of the Chicago con vention, the frenzy and passion aroused subordinated everything to a fierce scramble to seat delegates and secure the nomination. Upon this squabble for office it is pro posed to destroy the sound and vital progressive movement." WILL PAY2PER CENT Irfx-al Ranks Offer Interest on Daily -.a lances of City and School Funds. We, the undersigned members of the board of directors oi the Citi zens' Banking & Trust Company or Ashland, Ore., hereby certify that at the regular monthly meeting or said board on June 6, 1912, we decided to allow Interest at the rate or 2 per cent on daily balances on all public funds deposited with this bank H. F. POM I.AND, ' J. P. DODGE, W. F. LOOM IS, C. B. LAMKIN, JOHN A. HARVEY. ' Subscribe 1 and sworn to before me this 29th day of July, 1912 ROY G. WALKER, ' (L. S., Notary Public for Oregon. Cluing and Eng. Probably the most elastic, word in our language today is the word "progressive. ' Statesmen have stretched it to cover every policy and ism yejl promulgated to catch votes, varVniiiv.injr ,0Wly VOte.r m" ' ; u ''r,'0'"' tle opJ ' a.i me virtues ; , " Bier auout the i.iag.c worn. Kven In bus nHK VZTL" n...h' . . . j'lugreHBirenesB rurnisfi muul oimisBuiciii. Ann because vwrtftn riwii w fn. ti.. ... . i. ami to oe progressive In our line I o,i. . e rwi1 Ule clevel' appearing in last IB- j I 1 ... laiui were going to nav uteres! nn city and school funds entrusted to their care. Nothing very amusing about that, you say? But stop! Look! Listen! Tiie article in question, which was signed by the Siamese Twins of local banking, started: "Upon Investiga tion we find that many banks are pn.Miig interest on public money In 'i's. We will therefore, be . . . . ' w ii. ginning with August 1, 1912, pay to the city of Ashland und to School District ,o. u two per cent on such average daily balances as are depos ited with us." Don't you see It yet? After 28 years under one management, Chang suddenly learns that it Is the custom to pay interest on public funds. He communicates the Information to Eng. whereupon they both rush to the local newspaper offices with their startling discovery and, at 10 cents per line, are permitted to announce to the public that hereafter they are going to do what others have long been doing, I. e., paying Interest on public funds deposited with them. ah, now you laugh and I perceive you feel the dint or humor. (My upologles to the late Marc Antony.) Yes, It is amusing. And yet both Chang and Eng doubtless consider themselves progressive, not realizing that, while they were making prog lei's, it is not "progressive" njerely to follow tlje progressive Ideas In augurated by the Citizens Banking & Trust Company. It may occasion some comment that the Twins said nothing about pajing interest on county funds and ail. fl(!M I'PUK nv thK. 1.. ... .!. ...1.1.. . .. I-,lc.1 lu Ule willisana i.i,z4S pounds of pressure lie and furthermore the ninusing in- to the square foot. The test was a ciuent that Inspired this letter is or success in every way and the men got peculiar interest to all. their, money for putting in Just t tne funds or other school districts. I t,l,s "icetlng six of the big lines of Can It be that they already hiiveit,IB country will be represented and these funds In their charge and don't i ,llh ln lailroad circles will be care to waste bait? No use to overdo 1,1 nl tendunce. When asked If there the progressive business, you know! WUK aiO' foundation to the rumor However, we shouldn t expect too much. It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, and after doing business twenty-six and eleven yeurs respect ively wlthoijt paying any Interest on deposits whatever, It rather goes against the grain for the Twins to have to meet competition now. All this emphasizes the fact that the establishment or "The Bank that Helps the People" was a God-send to Ashland, as It was organized with the modern Idea that a bank should be a public convenience and not oper ated entirely in the Interest or Its stockholders. And In conclusion will suy, that we propose to keep up the good work and hope that by progressive compe tition we may force our competitors to become great factors in the up building of Ashland. Respectfully submitted, JOHN A. HARVEY, Cashier. TWO ROBBERIES COMMITTED VAX LKKH AND SAXHERSOX HOMES IXVADKD. WATCHES ANDMONEY ARE TAKEN Police Have Clew to Robbers, Who Are StipKKKl to Have Gone North Thefts Committed Sunday Mom. inie Families Not Awakened. A pair of robbers entered the homes of Councilman Sanderson on the Boulevard and M. S. Van Leer on North Main street early Sunday morn ing and succeeded in getting away with a watch from each place and some money from the Van Leer home. The robberies were commit ted after midnight, the marauders entering through windows and per forming their work so skillfully that no one in the house was disturbed. The families In both cases sleep up stairs and the robbers confined their operations to the lower floor. In the Sanderson home a gold watch and a revolver were taken and in the Van Leer home a lady's gold watch and $15 in money. In the former case the robbers found a charm with Mr. Sanderson's Initials attached. This they dumped, togeth er with the revolver, in the alley at the rear of the house. Mr. Sander son did not know of the robbery un til the discovery or these articles led to an Investigation. Two suspicious characters were seen In the vicinity of the Provost home on Fork street about midnight Saturday night and Night Watchman Hake chased a couple of hoboes north on the track Sunday morning, but was unable to overtake them. It is thought these may be the ones want ed. $iiT A Ml NUT F. Men Paid Lilx-i-ally for Testing New Submarine. Kor "own 200 feet, under the I surraee of Puget Sound in a new sub marine, eight men received $250 apiece, not long ago. This is a ves- i se cniiini iu,i i, ii,., Mn & I'' ' Company for 1 . " tne uovernnieiit. Th .inf oust rating the little craifH ai.nir ' I'wov. j I KCIili- lnlm,t8 r t'- Another submarine or tne same model is to be launched from the same yards in the very near future. Several similar ships are also being built there for the Chilean nuvy. SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT. Jackson County Given $l(l(l,(l(IO.((0 By State Ti-eiiNiii-fi-. Jackson county for the coining school year has been apportioned $156,660.60 by the state treasurer, out of the school funl, which will bo repaid at 6 per cent interest, with sufficient security. The amounts will be divided among the different districts for expenses during 1912 13. The total amount loaned by the state is $5,491,500.13. Gilliam county leads with the sum of $405,129.82, .Umatilla is second with $390,137.80, Marion county is using $291,050.28 of tile scliool money and Multnomah only $119 294.90. OFF FOR JONFERENCE Agent G. N. Kramer left Friday Evening for Portland to Attend Meeting of Railway Officials. Agent (1. N. Kramer left Friday evening for Portland to attend a con ference of lailroad officials on mat ters of vital importance to the com pany's Interests here and elsewhere. Mr. Kramer will be absent several days. While he did not state the ob ject of the mooting, It Is understood it has considerable significance. Or greater importance, however, will be the meeting lu San Francisco August 12, at which Mr. Kramer will lepiesent tills section ot Oregon. At Ulut ln dispatchers would be re- established here, Mr. Kramer said he knew nothing of any such plans on the part or the company. 1'iulalincd letters. List of letters remaining in the Ashland postofflce for the week end ing July 27, 1912: Ladies Lydia S. Allen, Miss Ger trude Brown, Miss Carrie Christina. Miss Mary Christina, Miss P. I. Flynn, Mrs. M. E. Gray. Gentlemen C. T. Anderson (2), John Blodgett, F. M. Campbell, F. H. Chickering, F. G. Roper, Bud Stoddard, Jas. VV. Scully. These letters will be Bent to tha deud-letter ofr Ice August 12, 1912, ir not called tor before. In calling for the above, please say "advertised," giving date of list. A charge of one cent will be made on delivery. JOHN R. CASEY, P. tl. t