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Oregon Historical Society. Ashland Tiding SUNNY SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL VOL. XXXVII ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1912 NUMBER 45 V. 0. N. SMITH TAKES HOLD POPULAR ASHLAXDER ACTIXG CASHIER NOVEMBER 1. DURING MR. HARVEYS.ABSENCE! i New Cashier Practical Banker Who ' Worked His Way From Errand Boy to Cashiership in Ottawa, Kansas, Institution. V. O. N. Smith, formerly of the Carson-Smith Lumber Company of this city, will tomorrow assume the duties of acting cashier of the Citi zens' Banking & Trust Company, vice John A. Harvey, who has taken a leave of absence and will leave in a ery short time for the Imperial val ley, California, to spend the winter. Mr. Smith is no novice in the bank ing business, having had twelve years experience in the First Nation al Bank of Ottawa, Kan. Mr. Smith entered the service of that bank at the bottom and worked his way up to the position of cashier, which held for two years, resigning when the lure of the west became too strong to be longer resisted. Since dispos ing of his interests in the Carson Smith Lumber Company some months ago, Mr. Smith has traveled extensively through this part of the west, spending several, weeks in the Willamette valley looking for a loca tion. He was unable, however, to find any place which compared with Ashland as a home town and has re turned to Ashland determined to make this his future home. Mr. Harvey and family expect to leave soon, probably next week, for their ranch in the Imperial valley. They go in part for Mrs. Harvey's health, physicians advising against her remaining in a cool climate dur ing winter, and in part, that Mr. Har vey may still further improve his fine ranch in that valley. The Harvey family are widely known in this sec tion and a host of friends hope to see them return next spring and that Mrs. Harey may fully' recover her health during their sojourn. PREDICTS ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT DR. COE, PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN FOR OREGON, GIVES REASON FOR BELIEF IN ELECTION OF THE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES Dr. Henry sWaldo Coe, national progressive committeeman, is in town from Portland interviewing the local Bull Moose management rela tive to the national political situa tion, and expresses himself as well pleased with what has been and is being done by the progressive lead ers in the campaign in this section. Dr. Coe reports a steady move ment to Roosevelt during the past two weeks all over the country. In a telegram just received from the national committee, Maine, Ver mont, New Hampshire and the New England states are reported as abso lutely safe for Roosevelt and John son. The national committee says a special campaign is this week on in New York and New Jersey and that the best indications point to a progressive victory in both these states. The democrats have sent Wilson out on a rush order talking campaign through his own state, showing their own anxiety over the New Jersey campaign. Governor Fort of New Jersey assures the na tional progressive committee that the state is safe for Roosevelt by 30,000 votes over Wilson. In New York, Straus, who made a masterful address at the' Madison Square Garden meeting last night as the progressive candidate for gov ernor, has turned the Jewish demo cratic vote over to the Bull Moose party to a very large extent, and Tammany is bending every effort to get this vote back into the Wilson column, but all reports received at the progressive headquarters in Port land indicate that this vote has got ten away from Murphy entirely. As New York has more Jews than all the other large cities of the United States combined, the import of this movement is significant. As an example of how the vote is going with the laboring people, a vote taken by some labor papers in Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Spo kane show a total as follows: OLD PUBLICATION DAYS Tidings Reconsiders Change of Day of Publication to Avoid Embar rassing Contemporary. Inasmuch as the publication of the Tidings on Tuesday and Friday would seriously embarrass the Ash land Record inthe effort to gather any heretofore unpublished news, the management has decided to re tain its old publication days. Broth er Wolf called attention to the fact that it would seriously interfere with the Record, and as the Tidings man agement has no desire to be unfair to a competitor, it was decided to re tain the old publication days. Some Suffrage Facts. One million women in the United States have full political rights. Utah, a suffrage state, has the largest proportion of home-owners of any state in the Union. In Denver the women cast 55 per cent of the vote in the large resi dence wards, and only 4 per cent in the slum wards. In most states about 60 or 65 per cent of the men vote. In Wyoming 9 0 per cent of the women vote. In Colorado 80 per cent of the women register and 72 per cent vote. In Idaho 40 per cent of the total vote is cast by women, though women are in the minority in that, state. In Colorado in the first eight months after women were enfran chised more books on political econ omy and ethics were sold than in the whole 27 years previous. In Seattle there were never 100 women devoting themselves to the suffrage campaign, but 23,000 wom en registered at the first election. And 80 per cent of the women voting in Seattle this year were married women women 'of the "home.". Where women have voted the longest, divorce is only one-eighth as great as in similar states where they do not vote. About 30,000 women voted in Deaver at the last election, and of these only 4 00 could be connected with any bad element. There is no nation-, no state, no city where women vote where the vote of the undesirable women even remotely approaches that of the women of good repute. Roosevelt 997, Wilson 246, Taft 49, Debs 227 and Chafin 27. As the laboring people have long been claimed by the democrast, the fore going vote is significant. It also forecasts the fact that W'lson is to lose democratic votes both o Debs as well as to Roosevelt. The poll recently taken in Baker City under the auspices of the Baker City Herald tells the same story. This was formerly a democratic stronghold. The totals are: Roose velt 327, Wilson 207, Debs 209', Tft 96, Chaffin 3. ' A vote of one of the Portland G. A. R. posts showed 97 per cent of the votes for Roosevelt, being a condition among the Union veterans similar to the vote among the Confederates down south. The Confederate Vet erans' Union at Ada, Okla., in a test ballot showed 1 vote for Taft, 0 vote for Debs; 28 votes for Wilson and 109 votes for Roosevelt. The move from the labor demo crats is shown by a ballot taken in a Portland cigar factory where the voters were 16 democrats, 1 republi can and 2 socialists, where the teBt ballot showed all but the 2 socialists as for Roosevelt. The biggest surprise is going to be in the south, where a hard fight is being made for Roosevelt. In one county in Georgia more than 2,000 farmers have joined a Roosevelt club. The Portland Commercial Club re cently organized a Roosevelt club of 200 members, which chib is doing work for the head of the ticket, inde pendent of the progressive party committees. At a large banquet giv en at the Commercial Club last week, of which no report was printed in the Portland Taft and Wilson papers, filling the dining room, democrats, republicans and progressive party men made speeches for Roosevelt and Johnson, saying that while they differed in politics, they were all for (Continued on Page Eight.) GEO. W. DUNN'S PLATFORM 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. County credit to be restored and county warrants made worth face value at earliest possible date One dollar's worth of value demanded and obtained for every dollar expended by county. Permanent roads, scientifically and economically built as rapidly as funds are available. Home labor to be employed in construction of public im. provements, so far as possible. Strict observance of law and of will of people in all matters concerning bond issues. Square deal in all respects for each and every section of the county. Rigid, scientific and satisfactory inspection of horticul tural, agricultural and stock interests. Choice of men for appointive offices to be governed ab solutely by their qualifications. Probate records to be systematized and new probate matters carefully supervised. ' , Officials required to give ample bonds and render correct monthly statements. THE BOYSMMFERENCE Sumptuous Banquet Marks Boys' Conference at Central Point Last Week. The First Boys' Conference for Southern Oregon was held at Central Point Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Seventy-two delegates were present, representing Ashland, Talent, Med ford, Phoenix, Central Point and Grants Pass. Among the speakers were Revs. Robert McLean of Grants Pass and H. N. Aldrich of Central Point; H. H. Tuttle, general secretary, Central Point; Secretarys W. E. Wright and I. B. Rhodes, and H. A. Dalzell of Portland. Papers were presented by the fol lowing boys: Nolo Lindley, Med ford; Edward Kahler, Central Point; Frances Bennett, Medford; LeRoy Ashcraft, Ashland; Theodore Kra mer, Jr., Grants Pass. A sumptuous banquet was served by the ladies of Central Point. The following toasts were well re sponded to 1jy the boys and others, and this without a moment's notice as to what their topic should be: "How tall ought a boy to be?" VMctor Mills. "Do you know where you're at?". Secretary Rhodes. "What the point is." Edward Bennett. "How much do you eat when you are at home?" Secretary Wright. "How do you feel when you are hungry?" Edward Thomas. "Why did you leave Medford?" Secretary Tuttle. "What do you know about ap ples?" Director McKillop.' "The ladies." Rev. Gleockner of Porto Rico. The boys acted dike veterans at the banquet and thoroughly enjoyed the spicy speeches that were made. G. F. Billings acted as toastmaster. Rev. Aldrich gave the address after the banquet. The afternoon address and the il lustrated lecture on Oregon in the evening, by Secretary Rhodes, were masterly ones. The Central Point people did every thing to make the convention a suc cess, including the generous enter tainment of the delegates. The peo ple of Central Point could not say enough nice things about the manly bearing of the visiting boy delegates. Ashland and Grants Pass each ex tended a hearty invitation for the 1913 convention. Phone job orders to the Tidings. AAA Jiit.AAil.iTi J Tj I I I I 1 111 hilnfnli JiAAAAitttl r ttttttttti Suffrage Debate C. E. Whisler, of Medford, will debate the pro posed Woman's Suffrage Amendment with Prof. St.John, R. H. Burns and Bert R. Greer, Judge C. B. : Watson acting as referee, at , Memorial Hall FRIDAY .EVENING, NOV. 1st, 7.30 The building will be comfortably heated. Spe cial features. Everybody come. M. T. IS HEADQUARTERS Tou Velle Makes Medford Newspaper Office His Headquarters, Using Their Typewriter, Ktc. Despite the assertion of the sup porters of Mr. Tou Velle that there is no connection between his candi dacy and the Medford Mail Tribune, the Tidings has it on the authority of Medford business men of unim peachable veracity that the genial colonel makes the office of Mr. Put nam's newspaper his headquarters, using their typewriter for his corre spondence and piaettcally directing his campaign from that office. Feast of All Saints at Our Lutfy of the Mountain. Friday the Catholics of the world gather round the altars of their church to honor the great Christian heroes who devoted their lives or laid A em down in blood for the sake of God, of their fellow man or of their conscience. Every day the church honors some one of these no ble dead by name. In baptism every Catholic child is named after some one of these heroic souls in order that they might always have before their minds' eye an ideal for imita tion, but lest some should be forgot ten the church sets aside one day for the honoring of all those souls who have persevered until the end and won heaven. By a special privilege of Most Rev. Archbishop Christie the Holy Sacra ment will be exposed for the adora tion of the faithful from the 8 o'clock mass until the end of the evening service. In the evening a lecture telling why and how Catholics honor the saints will be given. There are many erroneous opinions of this devotion of Catholics, it being one of their practices which is generally in stanced as a proof that they are idol aters. All welcome at services. High mass at 8 a. m. Lecture at S p. in. A Free for AH. Monday night, November 4, the various national political parties will have a love feast in the Chau tauqua Tabernacle. Each party will be represented and an opportunity will lie given to compare planks or exchange them it need be in the middle of the stream. This meeting will be at 8 p. m. and a lively time is expected. C. B. Lamkin is chairman and will hold the various speakers on top of the earth. At least five parties will be represented. SECRETARY. THEY BID HIM GOOD-BYE High School Football Team Steeds Coach Butterfield On Hit Way to Be Married. The attention of everyone around the Plaza Tuesday forenoon was at tracted by the sight of the high school football team carrying some one around on their shoulders. They were headed for the calaboose and those who could not get in reach of the victim were pelting him with rice, flourishing old shoes or giving the high school yell. The victim proved to be H. G. Butterfield, city electrical engineer and coach of the high school football team. The occa sion of the demonstration was his departure for Albany, Ore., where he was united in marriage yesterday to Miss Edna B. Knott, a former teacher in the Ashland public schools. After riding Mr. Butterfield around the Plaza on their shoulders the boys headed for Lane's confectionery, ami from the sounds which issued t here from Mr. Butterfield evidently "set 'em up" to the crowd. As a coach Mr. Butterfield has been exception ally popular with the boys in the high school and has done much to help Ashland take a high position in athletics. Both Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield have a host of friends in this city who will unite with the Tidings in wishing them long life and happi ness. Lecture at (J. A. It. Hall, Monday Xiglit at 7 ::. Mrs. Edith Hill Booker, one of the most magnetic speakers in the United States, will speak in the G. A. R. hall at 7:30 p. m. Monday, No vember 4. Last week she addressed an audience of 2,000 people in Port land. Her speech will be devoted to some of the political questions of the day. Everyone will be welcome, Colonel Wood Speaks. Colonel C. E. S. Wood of Portland addressed the faithful at the Com mercial Club Tuesday evening In be half of the candidacy of Wilson and Marshall. The crowd was smaller than would have been the case had there been more time to advertise it and had there been fewer conflicting attractions. Those present say that he delivered a good address. VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN DIED LAST EVENING James Schoolcraft Sherman, Yice President of the Uuited States, Passed Away at Home in Itica, N. Y., Monday of Bright's Disease Utica, N. Y., Oct. 30. James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice-president of the United States, died tonight at 9:42 p. in. of Bright's disease at his home in this city. He had been sink ing since early this morning and realized that death was a question of only a few hours. There was a slight relief shortly after 7 o'clock, caused by an appar ent improvement in the condition of the kidneys, but it did not prove real or lasHng and at best gave only tem porary hope. At ! o'clock the patient's temper ature rose to 106, and from that time his condition rapidly passed from bad to worse until the end. DEATH OF C. C. l'KYKU. Aged Pioneer Passes at Eagle Point. H. C. Stock drove to Eagle Point with his hearse Sunday to conduct the funeral of the late C. C. Fryer of that place. Mr. Fryer died at his home in Eagle Point Friday after noon at the ripe age of 84 years and was laid to rest at Central Point. Mr. Fryer was one of the pioneers of Jackson county, having come to this county In 1852 and settled on what is now the townsite of Eagle Point. He was well known throughout the county and has many friends' who will grieve to hear of his death. . A Hallowe'en Supper. A Hallowe'en supper consisting of tamales, sweet cider and pumpkin pie will bo served at the Wagner Creek school house Thursday, Octo ber 31, 8 p. m. Admission free. The proceeds of the supper to be for the benefit of the school. All will be welcome. The Epworth League social which was to have been Tuesday evening has been postponed until Friday night. BOY HURT ATSISKIYOU JAM FX tTRRIB STRUCK BY HELP. Kit KXfilNK. RIGHT LEG WAS BADLY BROKEN Lad Had Been to Seattle Seeking Work and Was on Way Back to Oakland, Where People Resided Until Recently. James Currie, a lad 15 years old, lies at the Granite City Hospital with a compound comminuted fracture of both bones of the right leg above the ankle. Currie had been to Seattle seeking work, and not finding it was beating his way back. He was struck Monday night at Siskiyou by a helper engine. The night was stormy and he did not see the engine till too late to get out of the way. The engine crew picked him up and brought him to the city, where he was placed in the hospital. The lad's parents formerly lived at Oakland, but wires to thnt point brought information that they had moved to Uok Angeles. A sister liv ing at San Francisco was located, however, and it is expected to reach the parents through her. Dr. Par sons stated this morning that the boy had a very badly broken leg, and that while the doctors were trying hard to save it, they might yet be compelled to amputate the member. S KM I-A X N U A L K LK THX. Commercial Club Choose Officers Next Monday Evening. On next Monday evening, No vember 4, the commercial organiza tion elects officers for the semi-annual period, in addition to transac tion of the regular order of business. A full attendance is requested. No tices of this meeting will be mailed to Individual members at an early date. W. H. DAY, Sec'y. The W. R. C. will give a dinner at G. A. R. hall Saturday, Novem ber 2, 1912. Price 25 c: 42-4t Sherman was unconscious when the end came and had been in that condition for several hours. All members of the immediate family witnessed the final scone. Besides M.rs. Sherman and her three sons and their wives, It. M. and Thomas Sher man, brothers, and Mrs. L. B. Moore and Mrs. II. J. Cookinghani, sinters of Sherman, were nt the bedside. Soon after Sherman's death Dr. F. N. Peck, the attending physician, issued a statement which, after stat ing the facts concerning the death, concludes: "Jie died in an uraemic coma as a result of Bright disease, heart dineasu uiul aiteric arterior sclerosis." MUSIC CLASS ORGANIZED. PiofesMii- Isaac Organized Class at Polytechnic. Professor Isaac organized a good sized class iu vocal music at tho Polytechnic school Thursday even ing. The class will meet every Thursday evening at the Polytech nic building. There were several children present, and if possible to get enough there will be an after noon class organized for them. Pa rents are requested to communicate with Mr. Isaac or be present next Thursday evening to make arrange ments for having their ch'ldren iu the day class. The Society of Pennsylvanians will hold their fifth annual meeting in the reading room of the Presby terian church in Medford, Ore., on Wednesday, November 6, 1912, at 11 o'clock. Basket lunch at 12 noon. All former residents of the Keystone state and their immediate, relatives f.re cordially Invited. Lillian A. McKellop, Secretary. Phone No. 39 when in need of Job printing. Work and prices are right.