Ashland tidings., January 20, 1913, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, January 20, 101.1.
Classified Advertisements
(Continued from Page Three.)
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
FOR SALE Fine mare colt, age 10
months. Address K. F. D., Box 9.
68-3t
FOR SALK Land at safe and sane
prices in one of the finest valleys
in northern California: unim
proved prairie land; will range
from $15 to $25 per arre. Also
snaps in Ashland property. Half
acre lot and two-story. live-room
house, only $550. Nineteen acres,
party in city limits, two-thirds in
full-bearing fruit trees, $5,500.
Nine acres, two miles from post
office in Ashland, nine-room
house, all planted and nearly all
full bearing, price $4,900. A big
bargain in inside business prop
erty. Buy now before the boom
starts in the spring. I am dealing
in snap bargains only. On present
market. See F. G. McWilliams,
175 East Main St. 6S-tf
ASHLAND JHGH SCHOOL
Tersonul Notes That Tell of Activi
ties in the Realm of the
Three It's.
The Junior Minstrels made good
with a vengeance Friday night. Pro
fessor Vining had them drilled to the
minute and everything went off with
a swing. The crowded house showed
its appreciation by loud and pro
longed cheering at different times.
The play opened with a "Medley of
Old-time Melodies" and the opening
chorus, "Alexander's Rag-time
Band." Billie Briggs and Cedric
Myers captured the house in their
stunt, "The Little Chauffeur." Miss
Sonnichsen starred in the chorus,
"Strawberries," while Burdic and
McWilliams manufactured bad poetry
for the delectation of the listeners.
Mr. Burdic need3 only the blacking
to make him an ideal young darkey,
as does Miss Hamlin, who appeared
with Mr. Shinn in "There's a Girl in
Havana," to make her a real black
beauty. Mr. Garrett as "Ole, the
Great I Am," a football hero, fur
nished a good subject for Mr. Briggs'
famoiiB clinic in which the real es
sence of a football player was dis
covered. The first part closed with
a general scramble for "Buckwheat
Cakes" with a sextette and chorus
accompaniment.
The second part was a modern
morality play, entitled "Every City,'
written by Professor Vining himself
It was a clear take-off on the city
of Aohland, with playful allusion to
the sick condition of business as rep
resented by Mr. Briggs, the over
grown tax-baby by Henry Moore, the
passing of the Mysterious Stranger
by Harry Roese, and the unprogres
sive city fathers. Mr. Merrill as
Father Destiny brought these in re
view and gave Fair AEhland, Mildred
Applegate, sound advice as to the
manner in which Prosperity might
be brought back. Wrangling must
Btop and discord cease and all work
together for Fair Ashland. This
play made a hit with the audience as
its pungent darts hit home.
Part of the receipts of the play
will be used by the Juniors to enter
tain the seniors, while the rest will
be turned into the treasury of the
Student Body Association.
Fr'day morning, those who for
various reasons had not appeared on
the literary program during the sem
ester made up a program for the
general assembly. Fay Carver read
a very thorough and scholarly essay
on "Mythology in Art;" Fred Sher
man read a paper on football; An
gola Bomar gave a piano solo; Myr
tle McGee a general jokefest with
lever takeoffs on students and
oachers; Hazel Lowe read an essay,
and Merlin Wilson gave a recitation
The program for examinations will
ko: Tuesday 8 to 10, English; 10
to 12, history; 1:15 to 3:15, mathe
sialic. Wednesday 8 to 10, sei
nee; 10 to 12, lanuguagcs; 1:15 to
J: 15, conflicts will bo made up.
The basketball team will play
Klamath Falls high school on Thurs
day and Friday nights at Klamath
Falls and again on Saturday night at
Ashland. No school will be missed
tm Thursday and Friday will be used
in grading papers and making out
ehed tiles. The team is in good con
dition and well trained. The fact
that the boys broke even on their
orthern trip shows their class, as a
visiting team must be at least 25 per
ent better than the home team to
win over it. Probably, considering
the length of time that they have
practiced, tho team is better even
than last year's, and should give
Ashland some first-class games dur
ing the season. This will be Ash
land's first big game on her own
floor this year.
Phone No. 39 when in need of Job
printing. Work and prices are right.
If you have chickens for sale
all up the depot hotel. CC-3t
WANTED FOR MURDER
Postoffire Thief Captured at Hone
burg Wanted at Vega, Cal.,
for Killing Miller.
Portland, Jan. 16. John Torger
son. who robbed the postoffices of
the Rogue river valley, arrived here
in custody of federal officers this
morning. Torgerson's woman com
panion, Mrs. Archie Dietz, and the
two little children, came also; so
did Postal Inspector S. H. Morse,
Southern Pacific Detective P. E.
Kelly and City Marshal B. Fenton of
Roseburg. The woman is under of
ficial detention as a witness, wheth
er her erstwhile consort is to be
tried for burglary in the federal
court at Portland ot transferred from
that city back to Red Bluff to an
swer to the charge of murdering
Jim Miller at Vina on the night of
December 4 last.
Sheriff Jud W. Boyd of Red Bluff
is also here, endeavoring to have the
authorities turn Torgerson over to
him for prosecution on the charge of
murder. "We have a clear case of
first degree murder against Torger
son," states Boyd, "for killing Jim
Miller at Vega. His murder of Mil
ler was simply a cold-blooded propo
sition, nothing more or less. After
holding up and lobbing a saloon,
Torgerson started into a hotel, re
volver in hand, just as Miller
chanced to be coming out. Miller
saw the revolver, turned around and
started to run, and Torgerson shot
him in the back of the head, killing
him almost instantly."
The woman has confessed that she !
is the wife of A. E. Dietz of Vina,
and that she left California with Tor
gerson, The woman, 22 years old, and
slender and comely, said she was ac-
quainted with Torgerson for some i
time before he committed the mur
der and that Torgerson and her hus
band were close friends. She said
her husband is now under arrest
there as an accomplice in the mur
der with which Torgerson is charged.
She accuses her husband of numer
ous acts of cruelty toward her, and
this, she declared, was the reason
she deserted hirii and ran away with
Torgerson.
In some of her various moods Mrs.
Dietz would refer to her husband a9
"a good, kind-hearted fellow," and is
anxious, she says, to get in commun
ication with him because she feels
sure he will take her back.
"If I were to go back to Califor
nia," said Mrs. Dietz, "I could either
clear Torgerson of the murder
charge or I could at least show up
the true factB in such a way that he
would not be hung. My husband
gave him so much liquor on the night
of the killing that he didn't know
what he was doing. Torgerson fired
two wild shots in the street upon
coming out of a store, and one of
them chanced to hit this man Miller
and kill him. Torgerson didn't
know what he had done until my
husband told him the next morning
In our cabin at the fish camp."
Hoy Scouts to Give Skin to Save
Oklahoma Miss.
Kansas City, Jan. 18. One thou
sand members of the Boy Scouts and
scores of other persons here each
volunteered to give a square inch of
skin to Bave the life of Reba Hainds,
a 10-year-old girl who was badly
burned when her father and mother
and little sister perished in a fire
that destroyed their home at Arnett,
Okla., Christmas eve. The fire in
which the girl was injured occurred
when the father mistook gasoline for
coal oil in kindling a fire. Although
her clothes were burned from her
body, the girl ran half a mile to sum
mon aid. AVhen the neighbors ar
rived at her home the other members
of the family were dead.
Court. Denies Ucleu.se to Cnstro.
New York, Jan. IS. Cipriano
Castro, the "stormy petrel" of Cen
tral American politics, was today de
nied freedom on bail pending the
decision of his appeal to the secre
tary of commerce and labor from
the decision of the Ellis Island board,
which denied him admission to this
country. Counsel for Castro applied
to Judge Holt in the federal district
court to permit him to go free on
bail pending the decision of Secre
tary Nagcl on his appeal.
Railway Shows Spleen, Troojm Oe
enpy Pier.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 18. Acting
under orders of the war department.
Company B, 29th Infantry, stationed
at Fort Porter, took possession of
the Lackawanna rpilroad pier at the
mouth of the Buffalo river. The
troops are camped on the pier. The
government claims the railroad oc
cupies 15 feet frontage on govern
ment land and tho railroad refused
to vacate.
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland !
idings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is $1.50 per year.
HOCH LECTURE IS FINE
Ex-Governor of Kansas Entertains
and Instructs Good-Sized Audi
ence Here.
A fine audience greeted ex-Governor
Hoch of Kansas on Saturday
evening at Elks hall. Many minia
ture sunflowers were in evidence,
worn by natives of Kansas. For an
hour and a half the assembly gave
close attention to the message of the
man from the Sunflower state. He
gave a "heart to heart" talk and his
sincerity carried conviction and left
the impression that here was a man
as "honest as a briar patch." Al
though husky, his voice carried well,
and as he warmed up to his subject
his face became animated and the
heavy lines upon it seemed to have
been brushed away. He spoke with
out hesitating and scarcely paused
when applauded for some witty re
mark or an amusing story. What he
said in the brief time allotted would
fill a volume. He pleaded for toler
ance of opinion, for free discussion,
and exalted the lecture platform.
He paid a tribute to the women vot
ers and to that citadel of our liber
ties, the ideal home. Declared the
world is growing better, citing the
peace pact between three great na
tions as evidence; also the Men's
Forward Movement and the Associa
tion of Christian Traveling Men,
which has enrolled 10,000 members.
Touching upon religion and the
Bible as being the book of books a
mountain of truth he provoked a
smile by saying that some people
cairired at th storv nf .Tonnh nnH tho
t j
wiiale; but alter he had seen the
skeleton of one of these monsters
of the deep at the World's Fair his
only cause for wonder was that the
whale ever discovered that Jonah was
there. Another smile when he said
Oregon is the Becond best state in
the Union, and the best woman in
the world resides in Marlon, Kan.
His adopted state was eulogized in
respect to laws enacted in the inter
est of the people when he mentioned
the industrial problem, the race
problem, the liquor question, the
twine trust, the oil monopoly, the
school book trust, the white plague,
public drinking cups, gambling, the
cigarette evil, regulation of railroad
traffic, banking laws and others
which are a matter of history. In
closing he appealed to the young
man to get ready for his Job, stating
that the clean young fellow In this
day and age can be anything, and
declared that a good book was the
best company and a good name the
best legacy. He said if his words
had made a rift in the clouds for
any bouI he was well paid, and ended
with quoting the words of the apos
tle Paul in Phil. 4:8.
A number of people tarried in the
hall at the close of the lecture to
congratulate the speaker and to give
him a hearty handshake.
We doff our hat to Hon. E. W.
Hoch of the Sunflower state, and
pray that his tribe may increase.
To Feed the Hungry of Holy Laud.
New York, Jan. 18. Nathan
Straus sailed for the Holy Land to
day to establish 21 soup kitchens in
Jerusalem and to do whatever else
he can to alleviato the suffering of
the Jews in Palestine. Straus said
he intended to devote his entire at
tention hereafter to relieving the
poverty-stricken inhabitants of the
Holy Land. Mrs. Straus, two phy
sicians and four nurses accompanied
him.
Millions for Pleasure at 11)15 Fair.
San Francisco, Jan. 18. The re
vised list of concessions granted by
the management of the Panama-Pacific
Exposition showed the conces
sionaires admitted to date will spend
$1,505,000 In preparing for 1911.
Op(oses Philippine Indcieiidence.
New York, Jan. 18. President
Taft. speaking to the Ohio Society,
came out Btrongly against the bill
before congress providing for the in
dependence of the Philippines in
eight years.
Montana Rooms 191ft Fair.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 17. A bill
appropriating $100,000 for the rep
resentation of Montana at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition was intro
duced in the legislature today.
Flys Harbor Bacteria.
In the congested area of a town
a common fly can harbor from 800,
000 to 500,000.000 bacteria, while
in the suburbs it carries only up
ward of 20,000.
Exports of Motion Pictures.
Fifteen thousand miles of motion
picture films were exported from the
United States in the year ending
with June, and nearly 3,000 miles
were imported.
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular nrlce of Sunset
Magazine is $1.50 per year.
SPEAKIN' OF
WIDDERS
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1912. by Associated Lit
erary I'rcss.
".losiah." said Deacon Truemau at
they sat down in the haytield to take t
rest and a drink from the water Jug
"it is being talked around that you art
sparking the YYidUer Siincoe. It haiu'i
noue o' my business, but you know I'm
living with my fourth wife aud havt
nacherully had some experience witt
the sex.
"A widder woman is a wife whosi
husband has died and left bcr free tc
play the devil with men for ten miles
around.
"Yes. In my courting around I court
ed widder women as well as the othel
kind. I thought it might be Jest as
well to hud n widder with a farm and
plenty of live stock us to take a wo
man with nothing but what she stood
in. I found that widder. There was u
hundred acres of land, a good house
aud burn, and the horses, cattle, sheer
and hogs made my mouth water.
"I didn't let ou that I'd come court
ing. 1 was in the tombstone business
then, and 1 told her I'd called to see
about a stone for her husband. I de
scribed the one I'd put up for my wife
and then we got to telling each other
how lonesome we was. und both agreed
we'd never marry ng'in.
"That's where we both lied and knew
we were lying.
"That widder woman drawed me on
In fifty different ways, but mostly by
tears when she spoke of the departed.
1 never saw tears in her eyes that I
didn't want to put my arm around hei
waist aud wipe them away. She said
that man was nu oak tree and woman
only a wilier nd that it was natural
for the wilier to want to lean agin the
oak.
"One day I decided to settle things.
I drove over, und she had the same
smile for me until I began to talk
business. Then she said she guessed
I'd made a mistake in the house, and
hinted that I'd better drive on for a
mile and a half.
"What d'ye s'pose she had done
while appearing to be as innocent and
childish as a spring chicken? Got a
feller to look up my property and
found that I was under mortgage, and
she let go ns if I bud been a hot tater.
Yes. she did. and all the time she wan
telling me that if she ever did marry
ag'In she didn't care how poor the man
was If he only had a manly heart in
his manly bosom, meaning me. If I'd
been courting long 'miff to be head
over heels in love I'd have come home
to hang myself in the barn.
"A widder woman don't hit fair
from the shoulders.
"You don't know when to believe her
and when not to.
"When you think you've got her she's
somewhere else. AVhen you begin to
flatter yourself that you've got all the
other fellers on the run, she's working
her cards to ring In a new bunch.
"One experience with a widder
woman wasn't 'miff for me. It's Jest
like when you git Mowed up with
powder. You know you've been blowed.
but yet you banker to go back to the
spot und look around for the frag
ments. I was buying hay that sum
mer, and I called on another widder
to see if she'd sell nie five tons.
"She wasn't tive minutes finding out
that I was a widower.
"As she knew that I'd quit the tomb
stone business and she would be safe,
she begun to talk about her dead and
gone Moses. He had spilt her life. He
was dead, and she didn't want to talk
ag'In him. but she had to say that he
was a pesky mean man. When she
married itK'in she hoped to marry her
equal and a man who loved her for
herself ulone.
"I went away from that house so
flustrated that I forgot all about the
hay. I'd have bet steers to calves
that the widder was gone on me at
first sight.
"Of course I went back ag'In. Had
to see nlout the hay. No hay for sale,
but we sat down on the shady veranda
and talked, and when we got through
talking I wns asked to cull ng'in.
"It hnlnt no use in denying that 1
thought 1 had struck a good thing.
There was a good farm and a nice
widder woman that could do a Mon
day washing and ironing and be ready
to bake bread on Tuesday. I used to
sit and hold that wldder's hand iu the
moonlight and hear the whippoorwilb
sing and feel Jest ns if 1 could melt
away like butter In July. She kept
drawing me on, and 1 should have
popped the question within two mouths
If she hadn't stopped me ut the crit
ical moment. She seemed to read my
thoughts, and she'd bring me up short
before I could get the word out.
"Then, as In the other case, I went
over one day to lay my manly heart
at her feet. She caught me up before
I could lay It by shedding tears aud
telling me that she must raise $100
or be sued. My Mariar be sued? Never
on this enrth. 1 humped for town nnd
borrowed the money on my note and
carried It to her. and I was to call
next day. when when I didn't. I had
never seen a man spooking around
there, but I learned that she had tive
of us on the string and that she had
borrowed the same amount from each
without security. Can't talk about
security to a woman who's going to
marry you. you know. Yes. sir. made
fools of the whole five of us. nnd that
money paid for her bridal tour with
a wire fence man to whom she had
been engnged for two years. Just got
through paying the last of my huadred
dollar note the other day."
IIMHf
Patronize Home Industry The Ashland Mill
p That is operated with your city electric power, thereby making you X
money in three ways: 1 here you can buy the best mill products
for less money:
100 barrels of Best Bluestem Wheat Flour to be given away as
follows:
1 barrel of Best Royal Rose Bluestem Wheat Flour, guaran
teed, for $5.00, or
1 49-pound sack of this flour with 1 10-pound sack of Farina,
or 1 10-pound sack of Corn Meal, or 1 10-pound sack of Graham,
for $1.C0.
Baled Hay at CO cents per 100 pounds.
Free Delivery ami Sjiot Cash Prices.
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COST OF SCHOOL SUPERVISION
(Continued from Page One.) j
Advocated Ry Many.
The school supervisory law has
been endorsed by the State Grange,
the State Teachers' Association, and
every body of school officers in the
state that has taken a vote on the
question. It is advocated by all
leading educators and writers on
subjects pertaining to rural life. The
rejuvenation of rural life is to come
largely through the improvement of
the rural school. T,he great influx
from the farm to the city is caused
largely because of better school ad
vantages in the city. We hope the
time will come when the country
school will be as attractive and as
well organied as the city schpol.
If the time ever conies, It will come
through close rural school super
vision. The statement in the Mail Tribune
that "all this brigade (superinten
dent and supervisors) has to do is to
inspect and supervise schools and en
force the course of study," is as ab
surd and meaningless as to say that
all the county judge has to do is to
audit and pay the bills of the county.
CO. EDUCATIONAL BOARD,
J. Percy Wells, Chairman.
T. T. Shaw, Secretary,
Mrs. J. C. Pendleton,
Welborn Beeson,
C. P. Briggs.
"I stand pat on the assertion that
the cost of our public school system
is excessive for the results secured.
and that there is a waste of money
for county superintendence," states
County Judge Tou Velle in reply to
the statement issued by the county
educational board, through County
Superintendent J. Percy Wells, its
chairman and creator.
"Mr. Wells is long on words, but
does not stick to the facts. I assert
ed that our county superintendent
can furnish all the supervision nec
essary for the schools outside our in
corporated cities, and that there is
no necessity of two assistant super
intendents, nor a clerk for the super-
tntaTidant it, o.lrll.lnn .V... !
1,1 UUV11LIUI1 LU me VJUUU-
ty's paying his expenses.
$:J.85 For Kach Pupil.
"The county treausrer's books
show that the cost of salaries for
superintending tho country schools
here last year was oves $5,000. The
superintendent's records show there
are 1,377 pupils in the country
schools so superintended though
some are only for a few months in
the year. This makes the cost of
superintending alone $3.85 for each
pupil.
"Since its creation, and until the
last 18 months, one superintendent
has supervised all the schools in
Jackson county and has done it for
$1,000 a year. Mr. Wells himself
was glad to do it for two terms at
that rate. There has been no visible
improvement in the standard of the
students turned out or in the schools
themselves to justify the employment
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Behinciltiief Counter '
Proper display Is
making sales. Even a good salesman can
not get the results in a dark corner that he
can In a well lighted department. People
want to see the goods
light. Don't use an illuminant that gives
wrong color values if you want to hold
your trade. Custom goes to the store
that gains confidence by using the right
Ight electric light.
Ashland Electric Powerand Light Company.
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of two extra superintendents and a
clerk.
Only Criticises Supervision.
"Mr. Wells should not take refuge
behind the skirts o' the school teach
ers. I am not criticising them; I
have made no complaint on salaries
paid teachers. Many of the teachers
may be underpaid, and I would far
rather have the money spent in pro
viding good salaries for teachers who
are needed than for superintendents
who are not, and who are described
by many teachers as pests.
Poor Way to Utopia.
"I repeat the assertion, that had it
been desired, only one supervisor, at
a salary of $1,000 a year need have
been employed to fulfill the law's re
quirement, instead of two at $120 a
month, but this would leave some
work for the superintendent and his
secretary,
"I cannot see how it gives the
country school the advantages of a
city school to hire a few more su
perintendents, nor is it any reason
because the Medford schools cost Is
high why the county's shoult be.
Those are the city's troubles, and
Medford does not ask the county to
foot the bill. Mr. Wells does.
"I do not thing the 'rejuvenation
of rural life' will come from increas
ing the number of school supervisors,
nor will people go back to the farm?
because the county superintendent
has several assistants and a clerk.
Still less do I believe that Utopia
will arrive 'through increased rural
school supervis'on' at the taxpayers
expense." Unclaimed Letters.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the Ashland postoffice for the
week ending January 18, 1913:
Ladies Miss Mattie Farman.
Gentlemen John Cahill, Mr. EI
linger, John Oxford, G. Parry, C. P.
Roberts, F. Smith.
These letters will be sent to the
dead letter office February 1, 1913,
if not called for before. In calling,
for the above please say "advertised,"
giving date of list. A charge of one
cent will be made on delivery. ,
J. R. CASEY, P. M.
Ironworkers Plan Delayed Session
Indianapolis, Jan. 18. The an
nual convention of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Ironwerkers will be held here Febru
ary 24, was announced by Acting
Secretary-Treasurer McClory. The
convention was to have been held in
Milwaukee last September, but was
postponed because of the trials of
labor leaders in the dynamite con
spiracy. Ask Suffrage in Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 17. A fight
to obtain woman's suffrage in North
Carolina was launched today in a
resolution in the house to amend the
constitution so the women will be
permitted to vote. This is the first
measure of the kind ever presented
in a North Carolina legislature.
Phone No. 39 wnen in need of job
printing. Work and prices are right.
absolutely essential In
and see them in the