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Oregon Historical Society. Ashland ,! Tiding SUNNY SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL VOL. XXXVII ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912 NUMBER 35 ASK SITE FOR A MAUSOLEUM PORTLAND COMPANY WOULD BUILD AT MOUXTAIX VIEW. ROOM FOR AT LEAST 250 TOMBS SK-lal Meeting of City Council Held Tuesday Evening to Consider Re quest Will Be Taken Up at Next Regular. Meting. There was a special meeting called Tuesday evening to consider the ap- plication of the Portland Mausoleum Company for permission to erect a mausoleum in Mountain View ceme tery. Mayor Neil and Councilmen Gowdy, Irwin, Werth and Sanderson were present, Hon. L. L. H. Austin and G. F. Cuthbert of Portland and George L. Treichler and L. W. Zimmerman of Medford were present, the first named gentleman piesening the mat ter to the council. The plan, as outlined to the coun cil Tuesday evening by Mr. Austin, and as carried out in many cities throughout the United States, is the erection of a building to contain 250 or more tombs, also a' chapel and re ceiving valuts. The company, if granted the permit to use the ground, a space of about 50x10 feet being desired, will proceed to canvass the city for the sale of tombs. There will be at least 250 sales necessary to guarantee the con struction of -the building. When these .are sold the company will pro ceed to erect the building, which will be of Bedford stone outside, with re inforced concrete inner walls and marble interior. Not a piece of wood or other perishable material will be used in the construction, and it is claimed that there is no reason why the mausoleums being built now bhould not last as long as the fam ous tombs of Egypt, Greece and oth er ancient countries. Mr. Austin had many pictures representing mausoleums erected in various cities in the Union and stat ed to the council that arrangements had been fully completed in Medford and nearly completed in Grants Pass for the erection of structures in those cities. One is already under process of construction in Salem and other cities In Oregon have them ah ready completed. In addition to the tombs, and oc cupying the center of the building, if erected, will be a handsome chapel, finished in marble, and seating 150 people, together with eight recelv- ing vauus ior tne lemporaiy noiuius j of bodies. The chapel and receiv- i ing vaults will be turned over to the ! city and the council will have the revenue from the rental of the chap el and vaults for the general main' tenance of the cemetery. The main tenance of the mausoleum is provid- ed for by an endowment consisting of $10 for each tomb, which is placed at interest and "the revenue therefrom used for the care of the building. Inasmuch as there is nothing to decay about the building itself, all doors, frames, etc., being of bronze and. all floors of concrete or marble, there should be no cost for repairs for centuries. Under the terms of the contract presented for the consideration of the council, that body, In considera tion of the construction and use of the chapel and receiving vaults, agrees to deed either to the com pany or to the purchasers of the tombs, as desired by the council, Jhe burial rights in the building. The tombs are constructed under special patents owned by the com pany, which provide absolutely dry, safe and sanitary resting places for the dead. Each vault has its ind vidual . disinfecting plant and all gases have to first pass through formaldehyde bath and then through J vegetables eacn month srir,3 the mar si phomhpr fillprl with A inln tort in!? ! kwt opened r."l he had to offer. And cotton before passing out of the building. The plans have been ex amined in use and approved by the United States government health board. Mr. G. F. Cuthbert, formerly of G. F. Cuthbert & Co., of Medford, but now the manager of the Port land Mausoleum Company, In speak ing of the building said: "This gives the people of moderate means a chance to have a place to be burled in a beautiful mausoleum, a thing which only wealthy people have been able to enjoy, with the added advan tage that after all the relatives are gone the building will be just the same instead of being left to care for itself. We reel that Ashland should have a chance to embrace such an opportunity, as well as Medford and Salem, and we hope to be able to build early next spring." If the permit is granted by the city council the work of soliciting the purchase of tombs will be In the hands of Messrs. Treichler and Zim merman of Medford, who havS charge of the same work in that city. Democratic Rally. Dr. Harry Lane, democratic can didate for United States senator, will speak at the auditorium tonight, and will exxplaln to' the voters why, in his opinion, they should support the policies of Mr. Lane and the demo cratic party.' 1 Enders will give away $1,000 In premiums in the' next six months. Save your coupons and get your share of the premiums. VOLCANO IX KUUITIOX. Sit. Wrangell Again Throwing Out Smoke and Lava. Seaftle. Sept. 26. Mail advices from Valdez, Alaska, say Mt. Wran gell, the most widely known of the smoking volcanoes of Alaska, is again in eruption. Lieutenant Pros- ser of the signal corps, who returned to Valdez from a trip of inspection along the military telegraph line be tween Valdez and Fairbanks, report ed that Mt. Wrangell is throwing out large volumes of smoke and lava. Instead of one crater there are now "at least seven vents, and with the aid of field glasses lava can be seen issuing from the openings and flowing down across the glaciers. This is believed to be the explana tion of the high water in the streams draining thaj district. f rom Kotsena it is reported tnai sulpherous fumes are so strong that miners working near Kotsena glacier have been driven out. Contractor A. W. Docksteader has begun work on the new $100,000 First National Bank building at Al bany. The new bank will have a made-in-Oregon equipment through out. ' Scale receipts at Tidings office. BARN AND HAY BURNED George Owen Suffers Lkh of Struc- i occupied. The exhibits are s6 num ture and Contents Partially jerous and so uniformly good that it itiKiiroi ,8 impossible to particularize except The large hay barn on the ranch of George Owens, on' the East Main street road, about two and one-half miles from this city, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. The fire was discovered about 5 o'clock, at which time the entire barn was ablaze. The hired man and family were kept busy for a time looking after the burning brands which fell upon and around the stock barn and residence, but succeeded in saving them from damage. The building, which was a large one, surrounded by lean-tos on three sides, was filled with hay, the last having been put in Monday after noon. The man in charge states that there had been no smoking while put ting in the hay, and that the hay was so dry that spontaneous combustion seems impossible. The theory held by him is either that a hobo crawled into the shed to sleep and dropped a ; match or fire from his pipe, or that the blaze was the work of an incen diary. There is estimated to have been from 140 tons of hav nnwards. in the barn, the hay being part grain hay and part alfalfa, and was worth from $12 to $15 per ton. The barn was built about six years ago and was worth probably $1,000. There was $."i(IP insurance nunti the hnrn in tho Bining8 agency, but it is reported that theTe wag none upon tne con. tents At the time of the fire Mr. Owen was at his Dead Indian ranch, where he had gone the day previous for a bunch of beef cattle. , Quite a number of Ashland people, , aroused by the fire alarm, went out to the ranch, but could do nothing but look on and see the property de stroyed, as there was no water avail able. A pathetic feature of the fire was the action of some of the pigeons liv ing in the barn. A large number of young squabB were destroyed and the mother doves would keep circling around the burning hay after the building fell, at times almost going into the flames in their anxiety after their lost little ones. It was a beau tiful and touching display of mother love. lieiins From the Aztec Ruins. An example of what a market gar dener can do in a short time, and what the Medford public market has made possible, is shown by,- O. J. Ames, who from a small garden on I Rogue river bottoms, two miles north a!f Tol. sold over $100 worth , of he ' i-een in the vy:ley since January. Mr. Ames took sweepstakes prize of $50 for vegetables at the Jackson county fair, displaying 48 varieties of vegetables. . All of the common vegetables find some uncommon are shown. Perhaps the most Interesting veg etable sIiowl is a bean,, the seed of which was discovered in a crevice of a cliff-dwellers' home in the Aztec ruins of Arizona. The original bean had lain there probably for hundreds of years, perhaps thousands. It was shown that the germinating qualities still survived. From the first crop of the original bean the present dis play was grown. It is similar to the lima bean, white, but more prolific. There are thousands of acres in the valley that are available for just such Intensive cultivation as is done by Mr. Ames. The Village Cutup. The village wit seats himself at the Easter social table. "One oyster two soups," he gur gles to the waitress. Now, the ' waitress has her own opinion of him and the joke. With out going to the kitchen to give the order, she raises her voice so that it is heard all over the hall, and re marks: v "One lobster two soups." L. W. Robinson and associates have started a state bank at Molalla. Capital, $15,000. The bank fixtures should be made in Oregon. DISTRICT FAIR A GREAT SUCCESS EXHIBITS FAR EXCEED ANY PREVIOUS EFFORT IN VALLEY AND AT TENDANCE IS GOOD-ALL SHOULD ATTEND The District Fair which opened in the Natatorium yesterday is by far the biggest in Point of exhibits ever held in southern Oregon, says Su perintendent liOwe, It not only ex ceeds any in the valley, but any this side of Eugene. When visited by a Tidings repre sentative Wednesday morning the "Nat" was a very busy place, many' people being at work putting delayed exhibits in place. The needlework, art exhibits, culi nary exhibits, floral exhibits and col lection of curios, together with that portion of the children's Industrial contest comprising gardening and fruit raising, manual training and domestic economy, are accommodat ed on the main or dancing floor of the building- The pressed flowers, drawing exhibits, needlework, etc., I of the children's contest are to be found on the gallery of the dancing floor. The basketball floor and adjacent walks are devoted to the horticul tural and agricultural exhibits. The various exhibits or business firms are 1 I .... 1 . . iU. . . 1 1...M J! I aisiriDuiea ii'iuugnoui me uuuuinK, ! and every available foot of space is J in case of exceptional uniqueness in tne an exnioii is a aispiay or the Crater Lake paintings of Miss Russell, including the one sent to Washington for exhibition to con gress, and which was instrumental in securing the appropriation for Cra ter Lake by the national govern ment. The work of placing the exhibits was barely complete this morning and the judges were gathering this forenoon to place the ribbons on the winning exhibits. Qne of the unique exhibitions is one of farm products by D. M. LoWe. These occupy a booth by themselves and comprise 234 distinct produc tions raised or made on his farm north of Bear creek. The exhibit was entered as 220 varieties, but more were added later, and runs from beans and bread and butter down the line of products through grain, vegetables and fruit. A nota ble feature of the exhibit is that all the products of the soil were grown without irrigation. The Ashland Nursery Company has a handsome exhibit of flowers and of i nursery stock, a feature of which is ! branch. 35. Inches long containing TEACHERS OF TWO COUNTIES ARE IN SESSION Josephine and Jackson Joist Institute Now in Session at High School Building Many Eminent Speakers Present The first day 0f the Teachers' In stitute for Josephine and Jackson -unties opened with an attendance of about 300. The incoming teach ers were met by a reception commit tee or Ashland teachers who escorted them to the high school and later found rooming places for them. The assembly room of the high school building was crowded to its capacity for the speeches of the day, over 300 teachers and towns people attending. The first session began at 10 o'clock, the teachers assembling to register. After several songs by the assem blage and a piano solo by Miss Edna Daughertr, Superintendent Briscoe and Dr. Winship 0f Boston addressed the teachers. From 1:30 to 2:10 department sessions were held. The primary department listened to a reading by Mamie L. Fulkerson. In the abEence of Superintendent Alder-man, the In termediate and advanced divisions discussed current events. The su super'intendent, principal and high l school sections considered "High School Contests The leader. Mr. Rnwmnn nrincinnl nf the Medford i high school, outlined the things that can reasonably he expected of high school contests, the abuses to which they are liable, and suggested reme dies. Mr. Manlon of the Ashland high school gave his observations of eastern athletics and showed how the west may benent by the experience of the east. Mr. St. John of Ashland outlined a pian for a local debating league, in addition to the state league, and also for a local oratorical league. The aim could he to give as many students as possible training in public speaking with the least pos sible expense to the school. After these meetings Dr. Winship again addressed the assembled teachers. In the evening the Ashland teach ers entertained the visitors In the canyon above the park, with a feed of "hot dogs." buns and coffee. Su perintendent Greenleaf gave several readings, songs were sung and games played around the bonfires. The teachers c8t formality to the winds andvhad a thoroughly rousing good time. This evening Dr. Winship gives a popular lecture t the high school on "Getting Into the Game." To morrow at 9:20 President J. H. Aek erman of the Oregon Normal School will .address the assembly. Superin tendent Alderman will speak at 11:10, and at 2:40 Dr. A. E. Winship will speak on "Educational Value of Out-of-8chool Life." Everybody Is Invited to these lectures. Superintendent Briscoe opened the session. with an address on "Social 11 large blue Pearmain apples These were grown upon Mr. Thomp son's place on Granite street. The Pennistin Granite Company has a handsome exhibit of rough and cut stone. The Warner Mercantile Company has an effective display of stoves and ranges. The exhibit of stuffed animals and furs at the north end of the main floor is very fine and the showing of Indian relics, blankets, baskets and the like is one of the most brilliant spots in the entire fair. The youngsters have taken great interest in the fair and the exhibits in the children's industrial contest would do credit to adults in many lines. Many of the youngsters have entered chickens, hares, rabbits, etc. The fruit displays are a credit even to so great a fruit section as this. The exhibits of corn are very no ticeable In view of the oft repeated statements that corn cannot be suc cessfully raised in the Rogue River valley. They would be creditable at a northern Iowa fair; though not .. . quite so large as tne corn grown in southern Nebraska and Kansas, that shown is sound and demonstrates that this cereal can be profitably grown in this section The exhibits of squashes and pumpkins are also something re markable, even for this section, and some of the former are certainly monsters. There was a fair attendance this forenoon and a good sized crowd this afternoon. Tomorrow, however, will probably be the big day of the fair. It is Grants Pass Day and our neighbors down the valley are noted for doing things right. Many Ashland people also will attend tomorrow Instead of other days in order to embrace the opportunity to greet Grants Pass friends. No reader of the Tidings who has failed to attend the fair yesterday or today should miss seeing the displays tomorrow or Saturday. Besides, one day is not. enough to carefully exam ine the exhibits, and If possible all should attend more than one day. Equal to Anything. At a Benthnal Green inquest the foreman Jf the jury remarked on the light weight of a child. "I have been a judge of horseflesh for years," he added, "and I ought to know what 8.;hild should weigh." L Unrest," or "Are We Running a Fool Factory?" an answer to the violent attacks made upon the Amer ican public school system by the La dies' Home Journal and other maga zines. Mr. Briscoe stood solidly for the proposition that the schools are not a failure. He pointed out the fact that there Is unrest In every ac tivity and department of life, in poli tics, in the business world, In the medical profession, In the school room. He emphasized the fact that, while he favors vocational training in the schools, and that manual training, agriculture and " domestic science occupy a prominent position in the Ashland school curricula, yet they must be built around the solid core of arithmetic, grammar, history, geometry and physics. The public school cannot be a vocational school, as each student is preparing for a different vocation. Its function is, therefore, to give him the fundamen tals upon which he can afterward build. The schools are .succeeding; they are implanting high Ideals In the minds of the pupils, but these ideals are crushed out by contact with the business and professional world. Dr. AVinship preceded his lecture upon "Education for Efficiency" by a short talk showing the fallacies of the Ladies' Home Journal articles. He then pointed out the ways in which teachers are wasting the time of students, teaching them things which they know already. He plead ed against throwing time away, say ing that "no efficiency depends upon artificiality or traditionally. But," he said, " any Inefficiency does not trouble me when it depends upon universal inefficiency." It took the brightest and best paid railroad en gineers of the world 73 years to learn that wear and tear, with wreckage and loss, came from hav ing the breaks between rails oppo site each other. So, too. the school teacher may Bpend much time in eliminating and outgrowing waste ful methods." In the afternoon Dr. Winship spoke on "Fundamentals of Educa tional Progress. ' "We must learn to think in bigger units, not in terms of our own little locality'our state of even our nation, but in world terms. We must not bind the pupil down by rules, but shape the rules to the needs of t)he pupil. New studies demand new methods. If we must have agriculture taught by, an cient history methods, by all means lot us keep the ancient history. New times need new ways and new stud- (Continued on Page Eight.) EGGS OUT OF A IK. Russian Chemist Kays He Is Going to MuKe Them. Chilfago. Dr. Paul Walden of htea, Russia, has predicted here that the next great feat of chemistry would be the making of eggs from air. Dr. Walden, who is president elect of the ninth international con gress of applpled chemistry to be held in St. Petersburg in 1915, fur ther predicted that a variety of ni trogenous foods will be made from the air some day. "I consider it practically certain that at no distant day we will be drawing food supplies from the air," he said. "Professor Beruthsen of Germany already has succeeded in making the simple compound of ni trogen and hydrogen. This shows that we will be able to make more complex compounds. An egg Is a complex compound of nitrogen, oxy gen, sulphur and hydrogen." Rave Time and Money by calling or phoning to East Side Inn your magazine subscriptions or renewals. All orders promptly at tended to. Call and see the new club offers. 33-4t Advance sale in all fall dress goods this week at McGee's. ARRESTGREEKSUSPECTS Chief Oien Made IniKHant Arrests in This City Monday Night. Chief of Police Oien gathered In five Greeks Monday night who were held till next day upon suspicion of complicity in the murder of George Dedaskelous at Medford, Sunday night. The body of Dedaskelous was found under what is known as the Iowa warehouse at Medford on Mon day noon, by George Stokus, a section boss on the Southern Pacific. The Ashland authorities were no tified and took five Greeks into cus tody Monday night. Constable Au gust Singler came up Monday and alter examining the prisoners turned three of them loose and they went on their way rejoicing. Two Greeks, Gils Dermadrakes and George Tuce les, were held and taken back to Medford by Mr. Singler. These two men were the two last seen with the dead man and are thought to have robbed him. Large amounts of money were found on both. Tuceles was carrying a revolver when arrested, and if not held at Medford will' be returned to Ashland on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Two hoboes were also arrested Monday night by the local police, oi of whom Is' sususpected of having stolen a watch in a rooming house in the city, but there was not sufficient evidence to hold him. LAXD OFFICE DISCONTINUED. Office tit Redding to Be Consolidated With Sacramento. That there is no longer any hope of retaining the Bedding land office is settled, says the Redding Search light. Under date of the Cth Instant, in Washington, D. C, the general land office directed the local officers to post notices of the time, and place of a sale of such furniture and fix tures in the Redding office as will not be required by the Sacramento office, and on Tuesday Register Leln inger posted the notices as directed, the sale being set for 10 o'clock a m., September 28. The resignations of Register Leln- Inger and Receiver Carter have not been accepted and they have been di rected to continue in their respective positions until the office is closed tho 30th Inst. It is understood that the depart ment of the interior has caused a craeful investigation to be made of the volume of business now being transacted by the Redding office and of the probable amount that might be expected. It is also known that the representations of the several commercial bodies and Influential citizens, who have made strong ef forts to have -the office retained, have been carefully considered by the department, but that there Is not enough business, eitner present or prospective, to warrant the continu ance of the office. The receipts for the month of August are reported to be the lowest since the land office was moved to Redding, and, as stat ed, there is no probability of any increase. Section 2250, revised statutes of the United States, provides: "Whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands In any land district Is as much as one-third of the whole amount of revenue colected in such district, it may be lawful for tho president, If, in his opinion, not in compatible with the public Interest, to discontinue the land office In such district, and to annex the same to some other adjoining land district." Sunday School Rally. Next Sunday, the 29th, is rally day for the Sunday school of the First Baptist church, located on the corner of First and Hargadlne. It Is de sired that alt members of the Sunday school and others Interested, both young and old, be present and enjoy the service. There will be special music and other matters of special presented 3 4-2 1 Wednesday afternoon many of the visiting school teachers were given a pleasant surprise by being really fit with John Kelly shoes. Enders' big store. FIXING DEAD INDIAN ROAD WILL SOON BE IX KINK SHAPK TO KLAMATH FALLS. JACKSON'S PORTION FINISHED II. S. Palmerlee Tells of Good Work Being Done on Demi Indian Road By Jnckson and Klamath Counties in Road Building. H. S. Palmerlee, who has a home stead out in the Dead Indian coun try, informs the Tidings that the road between this city and Klamath Falls is being put into excellent shape for travel both with automo biles and teams. G. W. Jones has finished the work to the county line and a stretch of road in Klamath county, between Clover creek and the Jackson-Klamath county line. Is all that' remains uncompleted. A crew of about 2ft men is now at work under the direc tion of the Klamath county authori ties, and the road should be' com pleted in about two weeks if the weather remains good. When this is completed the Dead Indian road to Klamath Falls will be much better thun the Green Springs road, which has heretofore been principally used betwen that city ail Ashland. Klamath Falls has com pleted a fine automobile road from that city to Pelican bay, and by fol lowing this route Crater Lake can be reached about as easily as by th Rogue river route, thus giving tour ists an opportunity to see'new scen ery each way. The route is highly beautiful and almost if not quite equal to the northern route. The route via Lake of the Woods is a shorter cut, but not as yet good for automobile travel, says Mr. Palm erlee, but should be improved as soon as possible. This portion of the road, however, is entirely in Klamath county. SOME SPECIALS. On account of buying in carload lots direct from the factory, 1 am in postion to offer you some special Inducements on high grade buggies and spring wagons a saving that will amount to $20 to $10 on a rig. 1 make it at point to meet compe tition, not only on quality but ou price of anything in the line of im plements and farmers' supplies. It I can't do as well, I won't be mad because you get it of somebody else. I buy where cash will buy the cheap est, and it is your privilege to do the same. I want to sell you the beBt farm wagon, regardless of price, that has ever been sold in southern Oregon, It hns the points over any other, be ing the product of the latest, most up-to-date and complete wagon fac tory In the world it's the genuine T. G. Mandt wagon. Come In and talk over your needs with me, and 1 will do you some good if I can. E. E. PHIPPS, Implements of ail kinds, 389 East Main St., Ashland, Ore. CREDITABLE ASHLAND NUMBER. Pacific Christian Advooito Devoted Much Space to Conference City. The Pacific Christian Advocate which is the Methodist Episcopal of ficial organ In the northwest, in Its Issue of September 18, devoted much space to articles concerning Ashland. On the front page appeared cuts of the Chautauqua auditorium and oC the Methodist Episcopal church, while an illustrated article on Ash land from the pen of Judge C. B. Watson. "Ashland Methodism" la the theme of Rev. J. S. Smith, who traced briefly tho history of the church here from the time of the preaching of the first sermon in the school bouse here in 1852. An un signed article on the public schools of Ashland Is another of the features of the number. The Southern Ore gon Chautauqua is also the subject of a comprehensive write-up. WILL BUILD BUNGAIAW. II. Dentils Will Erect Fine Home Ou tb Boulevard. J. II. Dennis has purchased of C II. Vaupel the lot on the upper side of the Boulevard, lying between the F. S. Eng!e home and the residence owned by G. W. Milam. Mr. Ueunis expects in the very near future to commence the erection of one of tht finest bungalow homes in the.clty Going to School. Two lads with their books were on the way to school recently. They did not seem enthusiastic, and evi dently one had been arraigning the whole system. "Well," said the other, "yen got tt have an education. If yeh ain't got no education you can't do nothin fer a livin'." The first somewhat sullenly ad mitted the truth of this, and the pair continued on the way to get It. The armory of the Agricultural College at Corvallls has been con verted Into 'a vast auditorium seat ing 6,000 people, and they will ba seated In made-ln-Oregon chairs, ac cording to the tenor of a resolution adopted by the board of regents.