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Oregon Historical Society. land- Tiding SUNNY SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL VOL. XXXVII ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1912 NUMBER 38 ASH NEW MILL AT LAMB MINE IT IS AN ALLEN CH1LEAX TYPE ORE MILL. MANY IMPROVEMENTS ARE MADE Over $5,000 Huh Been Expended Thin Season in Developing Well- Known rroperty It is Not a Stock-Selling Proposition. Much advance in the work at the Bula mine, better known as the Lamb mine, has been made this season, though the general public has heard but little of it as it has not been hearalded with trumpets. It came to the knowledge of the Tidings that a new mill for reducing the ore had been put in place and a representa tive was sent to investigate. He found that over $5,000 had been spent the present season in the de velopment of the mine and the con struction of the mill. The mill is placed about a mile and a half from the mine, over the divide from Ashland creek, which was necessary to prevent the pollution of the city's water supply. The mill, which was first started on Tuesday of last week, is an Allen mill, of what is known as the Chilean type. The Chilean type of mill reduces the ore by means of heavy but narrow rolls which are attached to a frame in such a manner that they travel in a circu lar path, the crushed ore being dis tributed under them and being cov ered to a depth of several inches with water. The mill is driven by electric power from the city's plant-on Ash land creek, the mine owners having erected a high tension line to the mine and mill. The capacity of the mill, on hard ore, is estimate at 20 tons per 24 hours, and as, the ore at the Lamb mine is very soft It is expected that when things get to running smoothly it will be possible .to put through at least 30 tons in the day and night. The gold Is being recovered from the crushed ore by amalgamation. Mr. Lamb states, however, that it may be necessary to also resort to the cyanide process to recover all the values. There are at present four or five men employed in the mine and three are employed in the mill, running three shif of eight hours each. Mr. Terrill, formerly with the famous Goldfield Consolidated, one of the largest mills in Nevada, is head mill man. Mr. J. J. Coachman, who has bonded the Buckman interests in the mine, is also one of the mill men. The electrical installation wa3 done by Mr. Coachman, all work being un der the supervision of Mr. Lamb, who has done much in the past seven years to bring this mine to a position to produce ore, and who is confident that it is now where it will more than pay its way. Up to this time there has been about $18,000 expended on the mine since its discovery sixteen years ago, and this mill is the first real attempt to recover the values from the ore, most of the money having been ex pended in developing. There are about 1,000 feet of tunnel and shaft ing on the property, wliich consists of ten claims and about 300 acres of deeded land, making a total of about 500 acres of land in the property. A commodious camp is located on the ridge between the mine and mill and Mr. Lamb keeps his family there most of the time, while maintaining a home in this city. Mr. Lamb is an enthusiast in the mining business and says that the man who produces a dollar's worth of gold is doing more for the commun ity and country than the man who produces a dollar's worth of pota toes, grain or fruit, because the gold can be used time after time and goes on benefitting humanity for years, while the produce can be of benefit but once. However, he Bays the miner is looked on with distrust and disfavor. Mr. Lamb draws the dis tinctions very strongly between the mine promoter and the mine devel oper. He believes the promoter is the worst enemy that the mining in dustry has today. The promoter has rendered capital suspicious of legiti mate investment and has made many people avoid mining investments as they would a plague. Mr. Lamb is an ardent believer in the "blue sky law" which is before the people at the coming election and which would make it impossible to offer mining or other stock for sale in Oregon which did not have value back of it. He believes that the Norehern Cali fornia and Southern Oregon Mining Congress is the best friend the legiti mate miner has, and it should make it its business to assist in hunting down and exposing every wildcat scheme. Mr. Lamb asserts that there are enough undeveloped mineral re sources around Ashland to furnish a payroll of tens of thousands of dol lars per month. The Barron mine is one that he believes has great possi bilities. The kaolin beds, he believes, could be profitably handled by means of an aerial tramway. It is possible, he asserts, to deliver the clay - to the Southern Pacific tracks at a cost of 11 cents per ton, instead of $8 as by hauling. He also is confident that if properly put before the Southern Pacific Railway Company they would, in consideration of the volume of tonnage, make a special rate which would render it profitable to INJURED BY EXPLOSION. Hoboa Hurt in Tunnel- on Southern Pacific Ben Tuiotson and Gardner Mil- lav1 whila hoa trtcr fhoir wnv rrt a'i the victims of a peculiar accident while passing through tunnel No. 13. Tillotson has a severe cut ,on the back of his head, and Millard is suf fering from the shock of- a violent explosion. Both reached Medford on Wednesday morning and asked for medical care from the city and county authorities. According to Millard, with a num ber of others they were riding on the "blind baggage." When near the south outlet a violent explosion occurred, Tillotson being hit on the head with a rock from the roof of the tun el and Millard bejns dazed. Others riding on the "blind" noticed the shock, but suffered no ill effects. The two men and their compan ions on the train seem to think that the explosion was caused by a dyna mite cap placed in the timbers of the tunnel and set off by a spark from the locomotive. No damage was done by the explosion to the tunnel. Rail road employes said that in their opinion the c ncussion was caused by gas, if at all. The railroad com pany has been more or less bothered of late by finding of dynamite along the track in tnat district, and this may be one result. FIRE FROMKINDLING Residence Occupied By R. H. Burns Narrow ly Escapes. The residence at 337 Woolen street owned by W. H. Gliils and oc cupied by R. H. Burns caught fire Sunday morning about 2:30 o'clock from some kindling placed near the stove. When the family were aroused by the smoke the flames had made inroads into the wall between the kitchen and library, B. E. Whit more phoned in an alarm, but before the department could reach the place Mr. Burns had extinguished the flames with the garden hose. When the fire was lit Sunday morning the building caught again from a defect in the pipe caused by the first fire. It was almost immediately extin guished, however, without calling out the department. The loss on the building and contents is estimated at about $300 and is fully covered by insurance. That on the contents is in the Staples agency. 45 MILES WITHOUT MOTOR Suierintendent Did It, Though With Aid of Two (Real) Horsepower. By coasting a part of the distance down grades, and receiving an equine tow from Montgomery creek to Red ' ding, County School Superintendent ! Miss Lulu White, who dares all parts j of Shasta county in her roadster, maue rteaaing oaiuruay evening, al ter covering 45 miles without auto propulsion, due to a broken rear axle. The engine ran, but it could not transmit its power. Miss White admits that she was unable to place the trouble, for had she known, a blacksmith at Mont gomery creek could have rendered her assistance in half an hour. The motorist believed she was confronted with an impairment of the car's clutch and so bent all her energies in reaching Redding with its many signals for lame autos. It is slow progress making 45 miles in a car when horses are scarce and showers the greater part of the distance. . The superintendent was on her way home from the Rail river dis trict and was only delayed a day. FOOTBALL SEASON AT O. A. C. Coaches Announce Games Teams to Play Eight Times. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis. The season's schedule of football games for the O. A. C- grid iron men is announced as follows: October a O. A. C. Alumni at Corvallis. October 12 Pacific University at Corvallis. Ociooer 19 Multnomah Club at Portland. October 26 Mt. Angel at Corval lis. November 2 Washington State at Pullman. November 9 University of Wash ington at Portland. November 16 Whitman College at Corvallis. November 28 Occidental College at Los Angeles. The "New Sin" company has sailed from London to open in Chicago. We don't know what this particular sin may be, but we guarantee that it won't be new In Chicago. develop the beds and use the clay. Mr. Lamb has shown his faith in the Lamb mine by working and spending money for years in fts de velopment, and never has a single share of it been placed upon the mar ket. Mr. Coachman, who came from South America last May to look after his orchard interests east of the city, became Interested in the Lamb mine and has bonded the half interest owned by Mrs. Buckman, Mr. Lamb's foster mother, and has spent his summer in assisting in developing the property. The succes of the new mill and their ability to profitably operate the mine will go far toward encouraging the development of oth er properties and prospects around Ashland. BOURNE WILL RUN INDEPENDENT JUNIOR SENATOR HEEDS CALL SIGNED BY 16,000 VOTERS AND WILL ' m" ENTER CONTEST Portland, Oct. 5. United States Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., today accepted an independent nomination for re-election and will go on the of ficial ballot in the November election as a "popular government candi date." Senator Bourne's acceptance of the nomination followed the filing with Secretary of State Olcott at Sa lem of a petition signed by 16,000 Oregon voters urging him to run. The petitions were sirculated and all the signatures were obtained within five days. "Since the people have adopted a constitutional provision," said Sena tor Bourne today, "permitting 8 per cent of the voters to propose a law under the initiative and to demand the referendum upon a measure by petition of 5 per cent of the voters, I feel that this petition of 12 per cent of the voters of Oregon is a call to which I ought to respond." Statement Coming Up. The senator promised to make a more extended statement regarding his candidacy and the platform on which he would stand earyl next week. Senator Bourne's entering the fight for election to the United (States senate was made after he had apparently been eliminated from the senatorial race. He was defeated for the republican nomination in the THEY APPRECIATE ASHLAND. Recent Visitors to the City Write in Its Praise. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sweney of Osage, Iowa, who recently visited at the home of their nephew, B. W. Tal cott, in this city, and who are spend ing some time at San Jose, Cal., were favorably impressed with the Gran ite city. In a letter to relatives here Mrs. Sweney, after telling of a visit to Palo Alto, to Santa Cruz and to the big redwood grove, says: "But nowhere have I seen a prettier place than Ashland nor breathed so fine an air, and hope I may see it again some time." Mr. and Mrs. Sweny were in the Edgewood wreck, September 13, and after recounting the hoodoo sign told of in the Tidings, added that she saw the moon over her left shoulder. That settles the cause of the wreck. AMERICAN MARINES ARE KILLED AND WOUNDED Uncle Sam's Men Meet Death in Preceding American Interests in Nicaragua Rebels Are Defeated by American Troops Washington. Oct. 5. In a gallant assault the American marines and bluejackets yesterday drove the Nic araguan revolutionary leader, Gen eral Zaledon, and his forces from the Coyotepe and Marranca hills near Mayasa, after 37 minutes of fight ing, but in the action four privates of the United States marine corps were killed and a number wounded. The victory of the Americans opened the way for the Nicaraguan govern ment troops to assault the town of Masaya, which they took from the revolutionists and .its starving inhab itants were relieved.,- The revolutionist losses were heavy, while the government lost 100 killed and 100 wounded. Zaledon escaped, but later was cornered and killed by troops of the federal cav alry. One thousand American ma rines and bluejackets under Lieuten ant Colonel Charles G. Long are moving on the city of Leon, the re maining rebel stronghold. Admiral Sutherland's dispatches made it plain the defeat of the rebers was complete. Zaledon is a Niea- UP-TO-DATE SHOPS. Ashland Meat Company Displays Lat. est Style Scales. The Ashland Meat Company has in stalled in its two markets two of the latest scales and of the very best kind obtainable. They are the Tole do Electric Springless and conform to the strictest state and government tests. A unique feature of them is the electric lighting device. By means of this a lamp concealed with in the head of the scales is lighted every time anything is placed on the scale. On the side toward the cus tomer is a dial which shows the weight of the meat, while on the dealer's side is a computing dial which shows the cutter at the glance the price to a cent of the amount of meat or whatever is being weighed at a variety of prices. The scales are well worth a visit to either of their markets, on North Main or on Fourth street, to see them. A Precocious Pullet. J. L. Mattingly has a Plymouth Rock pullet four and one-half months old which he claims will beat any thing heretofore reported. She turned up missing last week but finally was seen coming for feed. She was watched and was found to have stolen her nest and laid a setting of 15 eggs, upon which she had been sitting about a week. Mr. Mattingly expects to have some spring chickens to sell very early in the season. Scale receipts at Tidings office FOR RE-ELECTION state primaries some months ago af ter me most unique camDaign ever made by a candidate for a high of fice. In fact, it was no camuaiirn at all. Before the primaries Senator Bourne astonished Oregon and the nation by announcing that he would make no personal appeal to the vot ers. He asserted that he stood pat on his record as a progressive repub lican and as a competent representa tive of Oregon in the senate. Made No Campaign. "The people of Oregon are on trial, not I," said Bourne. "If the voters want nie, well and good; if not, I shall be satisfied with their verdict at the polls." Senator Bourne during the cam paign preceding the primaries did not enter Oregon. Consequently he was beaten by Ben Selling, a Portland merchant, though he polled a heavy vote. Senator Bourne was prominently mentioned at the state convention of the bull moose party recently in con nection with. the nomination of that party for United States senator. When the bull moose failed to nominate Senator Bourne his friend3 began the circulation of petitions ask ing him to run on an independent ticket. SUFFRAGE RALLY OCTOBER 25. Equal Suffrage Advocates Plan for a Big Demonstration. The officers of the Ashland Equal Suffrage Club met with the newly organized men's section at the Com mercial Club rooms Saturday even ing and laid plans for a big votes for women meeting and parade Friday evening, October 27, along the lines announced in Thursday's Tidings. Other meetings will be held at Neil Creek October 28 and Talent October 30. Xo effort will be spared to make the Ashland meeting the greatest event of the campaign. Probably the English actor who died from wearing corsets was not built along stra'ght front lines. The Tidings for artistic printing. raguan and was formerly a supporter of Zelaya. The shedding of Ameri can blood in Central America is ex- reached by the various Hues interest pected to bring to a climax in con- i ed a few weeks ago to curtail the gress the dispute over the right of j period this fall to 15 days. The in- this government to intervene in Nic aragua. , Less than a month ago Acting Sec retary Huntington Wilson served formal notice upon the Nicaraguan government of the . policy of the United States "to take measures for an adequate legation to guard at Managua, to keep open communica tion and to protect American life and property. The Nicaraguan government has already declared its willingness and even anxiety that the United States should act after finding itself fully engaged in fighting the rebels. State department officials are fully prepared for any adverse criticism of the American naval forces, lltus an swer will probably be given in an elaborate memorandum to be sub mitted to congress by the state de partment at the beginning of the next session. WASH I NGTON I A N BUYS 1IOMI J. V. Edwards Has Purchased Frank Sulsbury ProKrty. . J. W. Edwards of Linden. Wash., who arrived in the city last week with his family, consisting of Mrs. Edwards, two daughters and one son, has decided to make Ashland his fu ture home. He has purchased the Frank Salsbury place on lower Oak street, through the MeWilliams agency. Mr. Edwards also purchased a portion of the stock and other per sonal property of S. J. Wyatt, who has been renting the place. Mr. Wyatt does not as yet know where he will locate. Mr. Edwards' total investment in Ashland is about $3,750. Don't Fail to Kick. If your Tidings is not delivered regularly, or if it is not put where you can find it readily, do not fail to call up No. 39 and register a kick. You will confer a favor on the man agement by doing so. The carriers are instructed to deliver the papers in mail boxes or on porches and should do so.- Market Day. The Standard Bearers will hold a market day at Anderson's Music Store, 89 North Main, Saturday, Oc tober 12. 38-2t SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine is $1.50 per year. LACK OF FRESH AIR. Not One Person in a Hundred Gets Enough, Says Expert. "Probably not more than one per son in every hundred, taking the country as a whole, gets enough fresh air to ward off the ordinary attacks of dangerous infections and contagious diseases," says Dr. Liv ingston Farrand, executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculo sis, in a statement .issued from the association's headquarters in New York. "People," continues Dr. Farrand, "fail to get enough fresh air either because their lungs or other respira-to-y organs are affected, or, more generally, simply because they do not open the windows and doors. For the former class a hpysician is need ed, but for the latter, plain direction on how to live, work, play and sleep in the open air will do more than hospitals and drugs. "Failure to get enough fresh air by working and sleeping in poorly ventilated, overcrowded rooms is one of the most prolific, causes of tuber culosis, and also of a host of other infectious diseases. This free gift of nature is probably the world's best medicine, not only in the treatment but also in the prevention of dis ease." Old papers for sale at the Tidings office. GARDEN HOSE HANDY Many Fires Can Be Checked With It Before the Department Arrives. Many people do not seem to real ize the value and necessity of keeping their garden hose handy as a matter of fire protection. A large propor tion of the fires could be extin guished when first discovered with a stream from the garden hose if it were kept handy. A very good plan is to have a cupboard or box close to the lawn hydrant, or if there are hose bibs in'the house, to keep the hose hanging in a handy spot close to the door. A hose bib where the hose can be attached quickly will in nine times out of ten make the gar den hose as effective whsji the fire is first discovered as the big hose will be by the time the alarm can be turned in, the firemen gather and the truck hauled to the fire, especially in the night time when all are in bed. COLONIST Rl'SH ENPEtTED. Railroads Expect Large Western Movement This Fall. Chicago, Oct. 2. Preliminary re ports received by railroads operating westward from Chicago indicate that colonist travel this fall will be much heavier than last year. .. The so-called colonist period this year began September 25 and will end October 10. The sale of colonist tickets last year extended over a period of 30 days. A decision was fluence of several Pacific coast term! nal lines was responsible for thin change. A report issued by the Rock Island road shows that 127 colonists left over the lines of that company last Tuesday night for Pacific and north Pacific coast points. The one-way colonist fare from Chicago to the Pa cific slope is $38. From St. Louis it is $37 and from Missouri river points $30. In addition to the Rock Island, other roads handling colonist busi ness are the Burlington, Chicago & Northwestern, Santa Fe, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Illinois Cen tral, Chicago dreat Western, Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Wabash. "HONEST INJUN." Old Brave Travels 50 Miles to Pay Debt. Spokane, Wash. "Old John" Hamult, an 80-year-old Indian at Wapato, Wash., made a 50-mile trip on horseback to Eilensbnrg to pay a $5 debt he had contracted seven years ago. When he rode up to the store of T. W. Farrell and deposited a $5 gold piece on the counter, Far rell asked him what he wanted to buy. The merchant had forgotten the loan he had made to the old In dian seven years ago. "Nica chaucq po pay mika. mika chickamun. Oo kook nlka do late, oh nika, nika de late tillicum," said the Indian. What he meant was, "I came to pay you your money, $5. That's all I owe you, my old friend." Farrell looked up his bo'oks and found the entry of the loan. On questioning "Old John" Hamult he learned that the Indian had not come to Ellens burg for seven years because he had not been able to pay his debt of $5. DESERVES CREDIT. G. A. R. Wishes Tidings to Thank Professor Vlning. The members of the local G. A. R. post request the Tidings to extend their thanks and appreciation to Pro fessor Vining for the assistance so kindly rendered them on Ashland day at the recent Eagle Point re union. Professor Vining delivered two very interesting addresses, one In the afternoon and one in the even ing, and also proved a most enter taining story-teller around the camp fire. The Tidings for artistic printing. ANNA SHAW SPEAKS HERE AMERICA'S GREATEST EQUAL SUFFRAGE ADVOCATE HEARD. LARGE CROWD GREETS HER Suffragist Leader. Discussed Issue at length and Handled tlie Subject in a Most Masterly and Convincing Manner. Ashland is frequently favored with visits from personages of national and international importance, so no great stir was created Saturday af ternoon when Rev. Anna Shaw, the leader of all the equal suffrage advo cates in the western continent, spoke at the Chautauqua tabernacle. It is doubtful, however, if a more logical and convincing argument has ever been presented beneath Chautauqua's classic dome. The average woman reaches her conclusions by intuition rather than reason, and that mental process does not appeal to the aver age man. Rev. Shaw, however, pre sents her arguments as clearly and convincingly as any lawyer, clinching them with the cold logic of reason, welded and copper-riveted with premises and conclusions which sim ply cannot be disputed. The meeting opened with the sing ing of "The New America" and an equal suffrage t;ong written by Uev. Howell Isaac, who led the music. assisted by a number of Ashland's prettiest young lady suffragettes. Dr. Mattie Shaw then introduced the speaker in a few well-chosen remarks upon the subpect of the meeting. Rev. Shaw speaks rapidly and en thusiastically and for over an hour held the applauding interest of the audience. The following is only a brief outline of some of the main points touched upon in the speaker's address: "Equal suffrage is not a woman's question, because any question that is to be voted upon is a man's ques tion. Every argument against wom an suffrage is-just as strong when applied to man.' suffrage. "Every opponent of equal suffrage is au opponent o? democracy and an advocate of an aristocracy, lo ex press a doubt as to the ability of woman to 'vote implies a doubt of humanity, a distruct. of the wisdom of permitting people to govern them selves, . - . .. "The United States Is not a repub lic. Every authority will tell you that a republic is a country governed by representatives elected by the people. Where only part of the peo ple are permitted to elect their rep resentatives the country is called an aristocracy. In this country only half the people have this privilege, which makes the United States an aristocracy. "Our country was first a hierarchy of the church, since no one could vote who was not a member of a certain church. After the Revolutionary war, the privilege of voting was ex tended to all white men who paid taxes upon $250 worth of property,, which constituted an aristocracy of wealth. Thomas Jefferson secured the extension of suffrage to all men, rich and poor, who were white. This was an oligarchy of race or color. After the civil war the color line was wiped out but the sex restriction re tained. Now we have nri aristocracy of sex. Qualifications for citizenship should apply fairly to all. In the United States sex is made an in superable barrier. "Woman suffrage is being extend ed faster in monarchical countries than in our half-republic, because it is easier to manage one man or one parliament than twenty-million men and forty-eight legisliflures. Women have secured other things from con gress and the state legislatures be cause they didn't have to appeal to the voters, as they do for equal suf frage. "Even in the czar's dominions Rus sian women are governed by Russian men, but in our country American women are governed by negro men and men of various other races and colors, ninny of them vastly inferior to the white American women whom they govern through their ballots. Is this justice? "At the recent International suf frage convention at Stock hold twenty-two different nations were repre sented by delegates from woman suffrage organizations. Men are recognizing that pure democracy Is a universal spirit and cannot be con fined to any part of the world. It never enters into the founders of a' new republic, such as Portugal or China, not to grant woman suffrage. "How shall we account for the great moral and religious spirit which pervaded the first convention of the new progressive party? It was because Jane Addams and other women like her were there and lent their influence to the movement. "Our opponents tell us that wom en don't want to vote. True, but we want some things which we cannot get without voting. Wo need the bal lot just as we need a stove to get dinner or as a carpenter needs tools with which to- build a house. "Some men say they fear the bal lot will drag women down. You have already dragged us down to the lev el, politically, of male Idiots, pau pers, lunatics and criminals behind the bars. Granting the right of (Continued on Page Five.)