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Newspaper Page TextOregon Historical Soclcfi Ashland SUNNY SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1912 NUMBER 62 Tidings VOL. XXXVII HELD JOINT INSMLATION A. F. & A. M. AND EASTERN' STAR INSTALLED FRIDAY X1G11T. PROGRAM AND BANQUET FOLLOW One of the Pleasantest Social Events of the Season Was the Joint In stallation of Two of Local Masonic Bodies. St. John's Day, a favored anni versary in Masonic circles due to tra dition and legendary lore, was fit tingly observed on the evening of December 17 by a joint installation of the newly-elected officers of Ash land lodge, No. 23, A. F. & A. M., an J Alpha chapter, No. 1, O. E. S. The exercises preceded a banquet served by the ladies of the Eastern Star. Officials installed wer9 pres ent as follows: Ashland lodge, No. 23 Worship ful Master, H. L. Whited; Senior Warden, O. Winter; Junior Warden, F. C. Routledge; Secretary, E. A. Sherwin; Senior Deacon, W. E. Blake; Junior Deacon, Stuart Saun ders; Senior Steward, H. C. Stock; Junior Steward, L. E. Payne; Mar shal, W. B. Penniston; Tyler, Alex McLeod. Alpha Chapter, No. 1 Worthy Matron, Mrs. Nellie Brlggs; Worthy Patron, Dr. J. P. Johnson; Associate Matron, Mrs. Olive Swedenburg; Secretary, Mrs. Leah Caldwell; Treasurer, Miss Lydia McCall; Con ductress, Mrs. Roberta Everton; As sistant Conductress, Mrs. Elsie Churchman; Adah, Mrs. Mabel Jor dan; Ruth, Mrs. Lulu McNair; Esther, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush; Mar tha, Mrs. Mae Burdic; Electa, Mrs. Fannie Blalock; Warden, Mrs. Maud Mix; Chaplain, Mrs. Elizabeth Van Sant; Marshal, Mrs. Emma Coffee; Organist, Mrs. H. C. Stock; Sentinel, W. H. Day. F. D. Wagner, past master, in stalled the officers of Ashland lodge, while Mrs. Bay L. Sherwin. past wor thy grand matron, performed a like service for the Eastern Stars. The ladies reached perfection in the work of the O. E. S. ritual. The banquet was followed by some speeches and musical numbers, nota bly vocal selections by Mesdames Conway and Wolf. Mr. Ussher gave a reading illustrated by stereopticon embellishments, and, acting upon the suggestion of L. E. Payne, a veteran Mason who has been a member of the order for over 60 years, the en tire audience joined in singing the national anthem. A social hour fol lowed the program and banquet, and upon dispersing at the ' midnight hour there was a unanimous expres sion that the St. John's. Day observ ance had proved to be one of the most pleasant reunions of the year. CASTRO DENIED ADMITTANCE. Former Venezuelan President Held at Ellis Island. Washington, Dec. 27. Ex-President Castro of Venezuela, said to have been on the steamer La Tou raine, due at New York Sunday, will be detained at Ellis Island until Sec retary Nagel of the department of commerce has passed on his admis sion to the United States. This un usual course was due to the fact that the state department has requested Secretary Nagel to strictly apply the immigration law to Castro. Castro is the deposed ruler of Ven ezuela and has been the toy of a whimsical fate since his fickle native land cast him aside. He is a man without a country. WIRELESS SPANS COUNTRY. First Christmas Greetings ' Flash From Mare Island to Washington. Washington, Dec. 26. For the first time in history, wireless Christ mas greetings last night were flashed from the Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco to Washing ton. The message was from Captain Mayo, commandant of the Mare Island navy yard, and was received by the giant radio station at Arling ton. It conveyed the wishes of Captain Mayo and other officers at the navy yard to the secretary of the navy and the officers of the navy and marine corps for a "merry Christmas and a happy New Year." Clif Payne makes merry. RIG INCUBATING. Local Station Has Quite a Collection 1 Hatching. The local U. S. Forest Insect Field Station has a choice collection of bugs in incubators at its local labo ratory. There are five species of in sects which kill forest trees in the Cascades and the coast range, and the local station lias specimens of each Incubating in order to tell the rapidity of their increase and so see how badly they will damage the tim ber in a season. Hunt Rockefeller With Subpoena. New York, Dec. 27. Determined to serve a subpoena on William G. Rockefeller to appear before the houce money trust investigation, Ser-geant-at-Arms Riddcll of the house and two deputies ai rived here today, to remain until they reach the mil lionaire. Recently Riddeil vainly searched the Standard Oil offices here, Rockefeller's town house, and the estate of John D. Rockefeller at TaTrytown In an endeavor to serve the subpoena. It is believed here that William Rockefeller i3 hiding in the snow bound forests of hie private reserve in the Adirondack mountains. HAVE THEJRJWN CAR O, A. C. Rand Travels in Skh'1hI Car and Is Enjoying the Trip Left Sunday. The Oregon Agricultural College band, which gave a concert at the high school gymnasium Saturday evening under the auspices of the First Company, C. A. C, arrived in the city Saturday forenoon on the motor, to which their car was at tached. The party, which numbers 31, is traveling in a private car and carries its own cook. There are 28 instruments in the band and with them is Drum Major Webster, C. A. Murphy, secretary of the Corvallis Commercial Club, who is business manager, and H. L. Rees of the Ore gon Experiment Station, who is a baritone soloist. The car was parked near the depot and the party left Sunday morning at 7 o'clock for Medford, where they gave a sacred concert Sunday after noon. The young men were a gen tlemanly, soldierly lot of young fel lows, and clad in their drab uni forms made a very pleasing appear ance. They gave i-. delightful parade and band concert in the street at about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Much Unused Salt. Indianapolis News: Fifteen mil lion tons of salt are lying on or near the surface of the ground in Silver Peak marsh, Nevada, waiting for commercial utilization. Silver Peak marsh is a salt playa, or dried-up lane, of prehistoric origin, about 20 miles southwest of Tonopah. Recent explorations in this region were made by Richard B. Dole of the geo logical survey, in search of potash that might be utilized commercially. Little potash was found, however. Practically the entire surface of the playa, 32 miles square, is covered with salt. It is estimated taht not less than 15 square miles of the northeastern part contains a 10-foot saline bed, of which at least 60 per cent is salt. GET THIRTYDAYS EACH Two of Suspects Caught in Car Get Jail Sentence One is Dis charged. Two of the threo men caught in a box car in the Southern Pacific yards by Officer Irwin Christmas night were given sentences of 30 days each in the county jail for larceny by Re corder Hurt. They were Bob Em mett and George Cheney, and were taken to acksonville Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Thornton. The third captive was a lad named Fred Fill more, who gave his age as 17 years. He had none of the stolen property upon his person, and as the others both declared that he had not taken any of the stuff, hd was dismissed by the recorder. It would have been necessary to take him before the county judge because of his youth, and there was so little evidence that this seemed useless. The arrested men claimed to have found the car unlocked when they got into it in Roseburg, and that another party of hoboes got out. It would have been hard to have proved otherwise, so the only charge placed against them was larceny. Dry wood, prompt delivery. City Wood Yard. Phone 420-J. 62tf CITY WATER CONTAINS NO GERMS CITY BOARD OF HEALTH GETS RETURNS FROM SAMPLES OF CITY WATER SENT TO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR ANALYSIS Ashland's city water contains no typhoid fever germs. This is the verdict of the state board of health after examining samples sent them by the local board of health. The returns from the secretary of the board of health were received Satur day afternoon by Dr. Swedenburg of the local board of health. This news is very reassuring as it shows that the danger of infection is not city wide as would be the case had the city water been infected. Dr. Swed TEAM ONJRIP NORTH Ashland High School Basketball Team Left Friday on Trip to the North. The high school basketball team started for a trip to the north Fri day evening. Saturday and Monday nights they will p'.ay at Dallas, and will thereafter play a game each with the following teams: McMinn ville, Philomath College, Company D of Corvallis, Albany, Cottage Grove and Roseburg, arriving in Ashland January 8. Many are anxious to see whether the team will be able to uphold its last year's record, some thinking that this year's team is not so strong, while others maintain that it is equal to last year's team. In this trip they will have a chance to measure them selves against the best teams of the Willamette valley. Those who are making the trip are: Phillips, En ders, Ashcraft, Mills, Plymate, Poor, Bob Spencer, Moody, Mowat (man ager and substitute) and Manion (coach). Cider Delivery. Powell Bros.' pure apple cider de livered to any part of the city. Phone 130. 50-tf The W. C. T. U. will meet next Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock at the Meth odist church for prayer and praise service. 61-2t THIRTY-EIGHT DYNAMITERS ARE CONVICTED Out of Forty Men Accused of Conspiracy to Illegally Transport Dynamite Only Two Are Declared Innocent Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2S. The United States government with stern and decisive swiftness today took into its possession 38 labor union of ficials convicted of conspiracy in pro moting explosions on nonunion work throughout the land, and of aiding in the destruction which brought the loss of life in Los Angeles and carry ing out a "reign of terror" declared to be unparalleled in the history of the country. Almost the entire executive staff of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers were convicted. Only two officials of that union now remain out of jail. At the head of the list of those convicted stands Frank M. Rjan, their president. It was of this union that John J. McNamara was secre tary and treasurer while he conduct ed the dynamitings out of which the present convictions grew. Today's convictions, coming on a scale unprecedented in a federal court, were the aftermath of the Los Angeles Times disaster. McNamara and his brother are convicts in Cali fornia, and his fellow' officials are federal prisoners here awaiting sen tence. Two of those convicted were not affiliated with the ironworkers' union, but they were found guilty of joining with the ironworkers' offi cials in promoting conspiracy. One of these is Olaf A. Tveitmoe of San Francisco, testimony against whom was that he aided in causing the ex plosion in Los Angeles. Hiram R. Kline of Munc.ie, ill., is the other member of another union convicted, and was formerly an or ganizer for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in Detioit. Another result of the Los Angeles explosion came in the conviction of J. E. Munsey, who was charged by the government with harboring J. B. McNamara for two weeks in Salt Lake City while the dynamiter was fleeing from the scent of his crime. Many of those convicted were charged with knowing only of local explosions on work of contractors enburg stated to the Tidings on Sat urday that the board or health were pretty sure that they were on track of the cause of infection, but that for several reasons it was impossible to make the source of infection known for a few days. It is known that samples of water frcyn wells has been sent away for examination, but whether or not these are the only suspected sources of infection the board is unwilling to state at present. HAD NARROW ESCAPE Olin Conwell Comes Near Death While Coasting on Manzaznita Street Thursday. Olin Conwell, the 1-J-year-old son of Jerry Conwell, had a narrow es cape from death while coasting on Thursday afternoon. He with other lads had been coasting on Church street and went from there to Man zanita street. On his first trip down the hill the sled swerved and he plunged head first into a telephone post. He was knocked senseless by the blow and it was thought at first that he was killed. Rev. .Mr. Poor and Mr. Campbell removed him to the latter's house and he rocevered consciousness after a time. The next day he had a pretty sore head, but otherwise was little worse for the accident. Coasting in Ashland seems to be a very dangerous pastime, probably in part because there is not enough of it for the youngsters to learn to properly handle their sleds. Notice to WaU'r Users. The city water will be shut off from all high points on Wednesday to make repairs to system. FRED ROSECRANS, Water Superintendent. -ne-half off on trimmed hats, shapes and fancy feathers, and 25 per Cent off on beavers at Mrs. Simons', 167 East Main. 56-tf who refused to recognize the union, but were thus brought into the gen eral conspiracy. Sixteen minutes was all that was required by the court to receive the jury and read the verdict of "thirty-eight guilty and two not guilty," and dismiss the jurors. The two not guilty were Herman G. Seifert of Milwaukee and Daniel Buckley of Davenport, Iowa. Judge Anderson set Monday next to mete out punishment. The pris oners who receive terms longer than one year are to be taken to the fed eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan. A special train will go by a secret route. Details as to its leaving In dianapolis and its arrival in Leaven worth are not to be made public. Thirty-nine and one-half years is the maximum punishment for any one prisoner. It may vary from that maxamum to any shorter imprison ment or money fine the court may wish to impose. A motion for anneals are to be nr- gued Monday and counsel said mo tions in behalf of all of the defend ants convicted will be offered. SOUTHERN PACIFIC SHAKEUP. Reported Many Changes Coming Among Auditors. San Francisco, Dec. 27. While A. I). McDonald, auditor of the South ern Pacific, is en route to New York in response to a wire summons for him to come to- headquarters, a per sistent rumor is current here that a big shakeup is due in the entire auditing department of the company. According to Southern Pacific of ficials, the most important changes will affect William Mahl, vice-president and controller; C. B. Seger, formerly aduitor; A. D. McDonald, auditor, and G. E. Bissonett, former ly auditor of passenger accounts. Mahl, It is said, will resign and bo succeeded by Seger. McDonald will succeed Seger and Bissonett will re place McDonald r.b auditor. Many other minor changes also will fol- low. J MEDFORD FIKH BOYS ILL. Several of Them Are on the Sick List. The Medford fire department is on the sick list, with four members confined to their beds and two more complaining. Members of the vol unteer corps have been pressed into service. As both drivers of the auto truck are ill it was necessary to re call Frank Lindley to handle the wheel, he having recently resigned. Chief Amann Is the most seriously ill of the boys. He is suffering an attack of pneumonia. Other mem bers ill are: Driver Ling, Firemen Danielson and Birch. Socialist Ixx-al Meets. The Ashland socialist local met Saturday afternoon at the city hall to ballot on the election of state of ficers of the association. Tha result of the ballot will be sent to head quarters and the final outcome will not be known for some time. The local elected Mrs. E. A. Rowland and William Mowat as members of the socialist county central committee. Basketball Friday night at the Nat. Baracas vs. Central Point Y. M. C. A. G2-2t HAD SPECIAL TRAIN Portland Rosalia ns Pass Through Ashland Sunday on Way to Sunny Southland. A special train of nine cars passed through Ashland shortly after 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon loaded with Rosarians, an organization of Rose City boosters, who were on their way south to exploit Portland and to enjoy some time in various California points. The train was handsomely decorated and General Passenger Agent Scott was in per sonal charge to see that the boys had everything possible clone for their comfort. The train will stop at San Francisco and then go on to Los Angeles, at which point it will be abandoned, the party breaking up and the members returning home on regular trains or by steamer. BEATEN BY DALLAS. Local High School Hoys Ixist First Game on Trip North. The Ashland high school basket ball team had the misfortune to lose the first game on their trip north, being taken into camp at Dallas Sat urday evening in a game which was hard fought from (start to finish, the score being 31 to 21 in favor of Dallas. The teams play again to night and the Ashland boys declare they are going to turn the tables on their opponents. Roseburg will play the local team in the high school gym January 11, being the first team taken on after their return from their northern trip. Going south cn your vacation? Get your suitcasen, traveling bags and trunks at Enders'. Their prices are right. Depot hotel wants chickens of every , kind. Will pay 12 cents a pound. oi-tf MEDFORD FEARS THEM 500 Socialist Votes Registered Out of 2,27:1, With Five Candi dates for .'Mayor. The old-line politicians of Med ford are badly scared just now with the fear that the socialists will elect their mayor at the coming election in January. There are but 2,2 73 votes registered, with 500 of these socialist and the registration books closed. Should the four candidates now in the field against the social ists evenly divide the strength, the election of a socialist would result. Efforts have been made to secure the withdrawal of at least two of the four other candidates, but each seems inclined to stick. Each, of course, is willing that the others should withdraw In the Interests of harmony, but there does not seemto be any one but who believes he has more strength than has the other fellow. There are reported to have been about four women registered to five men, but the total registration Is lesB than the registration of men for the general election. Those new English lasts in blacks and tans are shown in End ers' Shoe Department. CONCERT WAS AFINE ONE O. A. C. RAND MADE GOOD IV THIS CITY SATURDAY NIGHT ONE OF THE BEST IN THE STATE Program Was Strong and Varied and Was Well Received by an Appro riative Audience College Hoys Deserved larger House. A number of Ashland people missed a rare treat when they stayed away from the concert given at the high school gymnasium Saturday evening by the Oregon Agricultural College band under the auspices of the First Company, C. A. C. The band is one of the best on the coast and probably has not a superior as a school band anywhere in the United States. The program was enthusiastically received by the audience, nearly every number baing encored. The first number, "The O. A. C. Booster" inarch, written by. Captain II. L. Bcurd, director of the band, is a stirring piece with much of the. swing of SoiiKa's famous marches. Next followed the overture, "Sem iramide," by Rossini, which showed the ability of the band in fine shape. It was heartily encored and the band gave "The Roulette Reel," by Lodge, as an encore. "Forest Echoes," by Keisler, the next number, was one of the finest on the program and held the audi ence spellbound. The fine echo ef fect was produced by a trio con sisting of a cornet, trombone and French horn, played outside the building. As an encore they played "The Roulette Reel," by Lodge. "Hear Me, Norma," from the op era "Norma," a duet for cornet and trombone, by Edwin Woodcock, trom bone, and Everett Moses, cornet, was splendidly played and was encored with "Miserere," from "11 TroVa tore," also played as a duet for cor net and trombone. A selection from Wagner's grand opera, "Tannhauser," was so well re ceived that it Was followed by "Oh, You Circus Day," as an encore. For fifteen minutes "Pinto." known off the stage as V. D. Colvin, of Medford, kept the audience inter ested and in tho best of humor with his caricatures and witty sallies. Ho is certainly gifted both as a cartoon ist and as a comedian. The first number on the second half was "Dance of the Serpents," by Boccalari, which wns followed by "Cotton Time," by Daniels, as an encore. H. L. Reec, of the Oregon Experi ment station, san;; tho "Toreador's Song," from the irnnd opera "Car men," in Italian. Mr. Rees has a fine voice and made a decided hit with the audience. As an encore he sang "The Same Old Story," by Arm strong, which was also well received. T!ie "Anvil Chorus," from "II Tro vutoie," was played with great ef fect, the chorus being pluyed in the dark with electrical effects and a real anvil. For an encore to thin number the chorus was repeated. The humorcsqtie, "What's the Mat ter With Father?" by Lampe, was one of the best things of the even in;; from the standpoint of amuse ment. It was a piece descriptive of father on a night out with his Bon's, college '.hums, and the melody was based on the song, "What's the Mat ter With Father? He's All Right," the final chorus being, "What's the matter with father? He's all in." Th audience insisted upon a repetition of the chorus. The Inst number on the program was Sousa's famous maieh, "Sempre Fidealis," after which the band rose and played "The Star Spangled Ban ner." It was an unforlcnate fact in con nection with the entertainment that the public failed to give it proper support, in part because of the fact that the high school is far to onti side of the city. The management of the band generously gave off $2f of their contract price, thus dividing the loss with the local organization. Anniversary Hull. Owing to inability to secure cos tumes, the masquerade dance planned for January 3 by Trinity Church Girls' Club will not be a masque, but will simply be their usual good anniversary ball. Phone No. 39 when in need of job printing. Work and prices are right.