Ashland tidings., February 03, 1913, Image 1

Oregon Historical Society.
Ashland Tidings
SUNNY
SOUTHERN OREGON
ASHLAND
THE BEAUTIFUL
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1913
NUMBER 72
VOL. XXXVII
1
FOREST SUPERVISOR PLEADS GUILTY
ERICKSON ADMITS SHOOTING DUCKS FROM LAUNCH BUT SAYS THE
PROSECUTION IS CAUSED BY SPITE OF ENEMY
Klamath Northwestern: M. L.
Erlckson, a forest supervisor In the
United States Forestry Service sta
tioned at Med ford, was fined $25
and costs yesterday by Justice of the
Peace Gowen on a plea of guilty to
the charge of shooting wild gamejviduals who have been "peeved" at
fowl from a gasoline launch. , i some of his official acts, and that
The infraction of the game laws!tne latter are merely trying to "get
occurred on Agency Lake, in this even by going back over a year to
county, and dates back to November idiS "P a charge which might put a
11, 1911, or over a year. j stigma on his official character.
A fight inside the forestry service
between present or old attaches is
believed to have been the inspiring
cause for the complaint against
Erickson. As a federal forest super
visor it is said t- be as much his
duty to enforce the fish and game
laws of the state, and especially the
latter, as it is that of the game war
dens of this state.
Regardless of th's fact, 'so near
as the facts were obtainable last
night from close-mouthed officials.
Erickson, in company with one of
his assistants during the fall of
1911, came to Klamath county, se
cured a gasoline launch and shot a
number of ducks, which the two are
believed to have divided up.
The law prohibits the use of any
power boat in hunting wild fowl on
Oregon lakes or waterways.
Erick- J
son claims to have been ignorant of
this fact, however.
Not long ago, to the story runs,
Erickson discharged from the fores
try service the man who had been
his companion on the Agency Lake
shooting expedition. It is said that
thi9 discharged employe is the one
responsible for making the com
plaint to Game Warden C. M. Ranis
by, who swore to the complaint
against bim.
Erickson was notified of the com
plaint and immediately came to
Klamath Falls, at no expense to the
state, and confessed his guilt. He!
afterward explained that he had
taken the game la A- from the reverse
side ot his hunting license, which
mad jjo reference to the unlawful
ness pf ejjooting wild fowl from a
power boat. jig produced JUs license
ABOUT THAT FISH BILL!
Ashland and Grants Ia Agree in I
Opposition to tlio "Jan.es
Bill.
i
A reader of the Tidings protested
to the writer that the sportsmen of
this city were needlessly antagoniz
ing Medford and Grants Pass in op
posing the bill presented by Repre
sentative Reames to open the lower
Rogue river to salmon seining. In
quiry among local sportsmen indi
cates that the gentleman was mistak
en so far as Grants Pass is con
cerned. Grants Pass is opposing the,
Reames bill just as strongly, as are
Ashland sportsmen, but for a differ
ent reason. Grants Pass wants the
river either opened to that place or
not at all. That city is working" in
the interests of iU local fishermen
and hitR a plalureason for so doing,
but it, like Ashland, is opposed to
timing the lower part of the river
over to the Hume interests, which
seem to have obtained control of of
fairs in Medford, or at least of cer
tain, parties there, ..
Certainly if tho Hume Interests
are to be allowed td seine the river
at its mouth there, is no fairness in
refusing to permit local fishermen at
Grants Pas to do the same. The,
charge is bpenly made, and is said to
be well founded, that the death ot
salnWm is. caused, not because Uley
ar too. plenty, but by dynbfnUlng by
Jbca fishermen along the river. The
retnedy would seftm 10 be the en
forcement t the law and not the
taking off Of restrictions altogether.
MAKING Ml'CH SPRAY,
Axliland Preserving Company
At It These Days.
Busy
The Ashland Preserving Company,
which took over the business of the
Hyglenol Chemical Company a few
months ago, i's putting out spray so
lutions in large, quantities. They
shipped one car Saturday and two
more today. They report a good de
mand for their produce.
A wireless station has been built
near New York that is expected to
have direct connection with a similar
station near Berlin when the latter
ia finished. - . .
to
prove this.
Old acquaintances of Erickson
living in this city declare emphatic
ally that he is the victim of petty
maliciousness on tne part of indi-
Much disappointment is felt
among Erickson's friends that he
even pleaded guilty and did not al
low this alleged maliciousness to be
shown up. They assert that the state
game officers admit that they could
not have secured a conviction had he
not frankly confessed his guilt. It
is even claimed tnat the law under
which Erickson wes prosecuted was
not even on the statute books at the
time he shot the ducks.
Want Roys and Girls Paid to Work.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 31. Fol
lowing the same kind of reform
which suggested the introduction of
a bill providing pay for convicts, to
provide against differing in their
families due to their incarceration.
Superintendent Fred C. Nells of the
Whittier State Reformatory is urging
today that a bill be introduced pro
viding pay for the work of the boys
and girls in his charge and in other
reformatories.
Senator Cogswell and Assembly
man Johnstone have already intro
duced bills demanding the better
ment of reform school conditions,
and acting on Neil's suggestion, bills
which would pay these delinquents
for their work ara being prepared.
So that it can be used in the dark
a fountain pen has been equipped
with a tiny electric searchlight and :
a storage battery by its English
in-
veutor.
Camden has placed a $5,000 -mon-j
ument to mark the spot in Valley j
Forge where New Jerseymen camped ;
during the Revolutionary War. I
WM. HEVENER IS DEAD
Well - Klion Ashland Resident Diet,?
.j -iiier an nun's ol
Some Weeks.
William Ilevener, well-known resi
dent of Ashland, died at his home
on the Boulevard, Friday evening, of
heait trouble. Had he lived until
March 19 he would have been 79
years of age. Mr. Hevener was born :
in Pennsylvania and in 1854 was
united in marriage to Mary C. Deni
son, who survives him. To them
were born seven children, one of
to Justice of the Peace Gowen
whom, Mrs. L. George, dioj In tnisN'brk In bookkeeping and the special
city a few years ago. The others j typewriting in the office, she has
who survive him are Mrs,
Mary li.
Lamb of Mazeppa, Mlnn.i Charles
p. Hevener of North Bend, Ore.;
Mrs. Florence Strluton of Ashland;
Mrs. 3. L. Roberts of Spokane, i
Wash.; W. W. Hevener of Newport, t
Ore., and Mrs. A. Butler of As-ii'iaml. j ;
Mr. and Mrs. Hevener moved Irani
Pennsylvania to Minnesota, wherv
they lived some years and t li.-n re
moved to South Dakota, vheiv they
rr&iiied 10 years, re-vlnft t0 Ash
land' 21 years cqv they Lave
since resident.
Mr. lieveDer ha."' a host of friends
in this c'ty and thu bereaved family
have, the sympathy of all.
"Funeral arrangements have not
been announced, as they are waiting
I the arrival of Charles and William
Hefner and Mrs. S. L. Roberts
The Skating Rink Reopened.
The Natatorium skating rink,
which was closed down recently, Va's
reopened Saturday night under the
management of W. A. Gibson, who
will have charge in the future.
There will be skating Tuesday and
Saturday of each week, afternoons
and evenings. On Wednesdays and
Thursdays the floor will be devoted
to beginners, and a good time is as
sured all, as the best deportment
will be observed.
From spruce wood pulp a French
inventor has made a fabric resem
bling cotton and equally capable of
bleaching and dyeing.
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
idings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine Is $1.50 per year.
AFTER COMMERCIAL TRADE.
Columbia Hotel to Go After This
Class of Patronage.
F. S. Billings hns taken over the
lease of the Hotel Columbia hereto
fore run by Mrs. Billings, formerly
Mrs. E. G. Hadley, and they will
continue to manage the business
jointly. The building formerly oc
cupied by the White Sewing Machine
Agency, just east of the Columbia,
has been leased and will be fitted up
as a first-class commercial t-ample
room, and the hotel will make, a
specialty of catering to the commer
cial and transient trade. They have
put on a carriage to meet all trains
and will undoubtedly get their share
of the patronage.
NEW LITM SPRINGS
Report FYom .Med ford of Discovery
of New Mineral Springs on
Emigrant Creek.
Medford, Jan. 31. A second lithia
spring has been discovered about
six miles east from Ashland in the
Emigrant creek district. A test has
been made and 'the water found to
be fully as strong in lithia as the old
spring that has existed there for the
past fifty years. A southern Cali
fornia company has already taken an
option on the spring, together with
110 acres of land surrounding it, and
at the spring will build a large hotel
to accommodate the people they ex
pect to send there from their resort
in the southern country.
This company ownes and operates
a health resort at their mineral
springs in the south with hotel ca
pacity of 2,000 rooms. A great num
ber of people come to them annually
who find after their arrival that the
altitude is too low in southern Cali
fornia, and it is for this reason that
this company wants to open up an
other place with a higher altitude so
as to be able to meet the require
ments of all comers on the Pacific
coast. Representatives of this corn-
pany will interview the Minney com
j pany at Oakland to try and interest
them in continuing their line from
Ashland to the spring, which they
have already named the Lynden
Springs. Landscape gardeners will
be employed to beautify the grounds,
POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE NOTES,'
Seven new students have enrolled
within the last week, Four of these
in a special plasg Ja stenography,
rfhich .Miss Bayley conducts from
to 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The students have just begun
practice on a splendid drama under i
the direction of Lynn Purdin.
Final examination on correspond
ence was held last Tuesday for the
class which took up the work in
September,
Cornelia Larsen has begun the
work of finishing the teachers'
course,
In addition to Miss Farnham's
been making copy of many legal pa
pers for Davis and McAllister.
Professor Isaac's class in vocal
music, which meets every Friday
evening at 7:30, is growing ig.io a
class of lar6e Proportions,
'CLAIM CONTRACT
ImEIjFORD MEN CLAIM THAT GREAT NORTHERN HAS LET CONTRACT
i FROM BEND SOUTHWARD
Medford Sufi' Dr. J. L. Helms
returned Thursday night from San
, Francisco, Hvhere he has been on
business tor the last week, and re
ports that rumors of railroad activ
ity 5n southern Oregon the coming
spring and summer are thick around
the. employment offices of the Bay
City. - According to Dr. Helms, a
ivier.d of his an employment agent
told him that enother firm was
trying to secure men for the Utah
Construction Company of Salt Lake
City, to build a railroau from Bend
to Medford. Bend is the central
Orpj-'on terminus of the Hill line, and
a recent press dispatch from there
confirms this report, and that the
contract has been let for the work.
This work would likely mean that
tho Hill lines would build their line
from Bend to Butte Falls and come
into Medford over the Pacific &
Eastern, and proceed westward over
the survey of the Medford & Cres
cent City road to the coast. The
last-named road i3 now engaged in
making a survey down the Apple-
FIXED I P NICELY.
Jolinson Bros.' Jewelry Store In
Bfalling l'pto-Dute Equipment.
Johnson Bros, have moved the par
tition in their jewelry store back
four feet, enlarging the salesroom,
and are fitting the rear room up as
an up-to-date workshop. They are
installing an electro-plating outfit
run by an electric motor. This plant
is designed mainly for replating gold
and silver goods after repairing,
thus entirely covering all traces of
soldering. They tlso expect to re
decorate the storeroom.
Hay for Kale.
I have a quantity of hay for sale
here in the city. Emil Peil. 71-tf
AFORTUNATERUNAWAY
Four Thrown Out nnd Team Run
Three Miles No One Hurt,' Hnt
Rig is Damaged.
A lucky runaway, if any runaway
can be said to be lucky, occurred
Friday afternoon. Mrs. A. H. Con- inK the entire length of the Sacra
ner, Mrs. W. W. Wilson and little j "lento valley from somewhere in the
daughter, and Mrs. F. C. Home' vicinity of Red Bluff southward.
started to go to Kingsbury Springs
with a team from a local livery sta
ble, and when near the Dunn ranch
the team became frightened and ran.
The occupants of the rig were
thrown out when the wheels struck a
culvert right by the Dunn residence,
but fortunately none of them was
hurt. The team, with the rig, turned
up the Neil creek road and was
stopped by some school boys near the
Kincaid pasture. The entire top of
the rig, including the box and seats,
was stripped off, but the running
gear was uninjured.
New Minister Pleases Audience.
As the large audience at the union
services Thursday evening listened
in interested silence to the new min
ister of the Christian church, it
could be seen by the observer that
his hearers had ' forgotten the
thoughts of home, business and the
cares of the world, and was follow
ing in eager and almost breathless
attention every word of the earnest
meaienger.
His theme was "Heaven," and the
audience went home gladdened in
heart and life because of the vision
o r. 1 wl wl iU.t V,.i i. V. , l i e i
i?j'irijuiu mm. uu uevii ueiu ufMore
it. -
Mr, Broft'jn; received many ex
pressions ot apitre1 'atis1!!- To those
who asked if he could furnish thenl
a copy of the sermon, he replied that
he had never seen one of his ser- j
mons written out, or even in full j
outline, except as some stenographer!
happened to be present and report
the same to his paper.
If his nennle resnnnd tn his insnir-
ing leadership there is no doubt but
that Mr. Browning's church will go
from conquest to conquest in its bat
tle for righteousness. ' . . i
Club Meets Tonigtit.
The commercial organleation holds
its regular session for February this
evening, with some extra business to
transact.
For up-to-date Job work call up
the Tidings, No. 3D. Prompt service.
an(J Batistact!on guaranteed.
IS LET BY HILL
gate. Another pr.rty is working on
tin- west side of the Siskiyou moun
tains, with the Cook and Green pass
as the objective pc int. This pass is
the lowest elevation of any practical
cut through the mountains.
Colonel Mundy. of the Minney
Itealty Company or Oakland, holders
of a franchise for on electric line In
the Rogue river valley, and Attorney
W. I. Vawter are In San Francisro
arranging the preliminary details for
the beginning of construction work.
It is the concensus of opinion that
much of this development work
hin;;es upon the success of the irri
gation project, and that the Hill in
terests are waiting to see if they
will receive any aid in offering in
ducements to colonists before mak
ing any announcement regarding
their plans.
Other Medford people returning
from the California metropolis said
lat night that the opinion wan
strong in labor circles and around
employment agencies that work
would !be plentiful In the Rogue
river valley this :'car.
HILL TO BUILD EAST OF CASCADES
REPORT FROM PORTLAND IS THAT GREAT NORTHERN WILL PASS
FAR EAST OF THIS SECTION OF OREGON
Portland, Feb. 3. From financial
circles in New York comes a story of
an alliance between Hill and Gould
interests that indicates early entry
of the Hill railroads into California.
The combination was effected some
18 months ago, it is said, for the
purpose of admitting the Hill lines
into California territory in exchange
for allowing the Western Pacific to
meet its competitors on an equal
footing in Portland and Oregon.
According to this information the
route from Portland rs to be by way
of the Willamette valley and up the
McKenzie river to the low pass
through the Cascades, thence along
the high plateau and debouching into
the Sacramento valley through the
Pitt River pass, making the connec
tion with the Western Pacific a short
distance north of Sacramento, sweep-
In Oregon this would probably in
dicate that the announcement made
to Eugene people by an official of
the Hill lines that the tracks extend
ing to that city would not stop there,
had a pretty definite translation in
plans of the system. It would open
up a great timber district on the Mc
Kenzie and reaching the east side of
the range would tap additional tim
ber in the corners of Douglas and
Crook counties and form a junction
with the Hill line south of Bend,
where a contract has recently been
announced for its extension.
Southward it would for a distance
of some 60 or 70 miles follow the
Klamath Falls-Medford line, and the
route would necessarily continue in
a southeasterly direction toward the
Pitt River pass, bisecting the Klam
ath valley, skirting a rich region of
timber and possib;e of agricultural
development just over the California
line, and the Pitt River pass is de
clared by competent engineers to be
the most desirable of all the north
ern gateways into the Sacramento
j valley.
I In seeming confirmation of these
I lll.ina art fnt-fu irafhuru1 fi'mu v..L
. - - - ....... 1 11 ' 11 .tutu lull
CANADA INJHE TOILS
Money Trust Has the Dominion of
Canada in the Firmest of
Grasps.
Ottawa, Ontario, Jan. .'!!. Charg
ing that a score of men practically
dominate the industrial and mon-
ieed activities of all Canada, and
that the baneful influence of the
American "money trust" is easily
paralleled here, Hon. H. R. Emerson,
liberal, attacked the new bank bill
: when it was called up for second
U'eading in the commons today.
I Emerson declared that the opndl-
Uon9 bard by.the 1uj luveistl-ft"
yOn in the rutted States are no wnit
wors-e than those which throttle Can
ada. Ho Said;
"Ww Canadians have come to a
eohdition of affairs where 23 men
control our financial, transportation
and industrial institutions. These
23 tiien, as directors, control 121 of
the corporations cf Canada. Nine
i of these men live in Toronto, 13 in
I Montreal and one In Kn
.ind. The
same, evil forces am working here
as in the United States, and thN
measure, if passed, will only tighten
the grip these 'money kings' now
have on the country."
Mlore SuVStntions.
The. weather bureau sub-stations
in the Rogue river valley, for which
equipment was promised some time
ago by the United States Weather
Bureau, will all be In operation with
in a week, two of them beginning
active work Saturday. Tho sub-xtn
tions are located at Hillcrest, Holly
wood. Talent, Central Point and Ta
ble Rock. These sub-stationB are
to report to tho central station bete
and their value during the frost sea
son will bo Immense.
Hillcrest and Hollywood sub-sta
tions begin work Saturday. Equip
nient for tho other stations is on
the wnv and will be installed as
eariy as possible.
Argentine is steadily increasin
its potato crop, importing more than
2,645,000 bushels of seed last year.
Philadelphia Is trying to obtain a
huge new drydock to be built by the
navy department.
ons Fources in Portland, though no
one seems to be authorized to con
frini the details. It is asserted that
the Hiil lines' general offices in St.
Paul have been in possession for
more than three years or detail maps
of surveys through the Pitt river
and McKenzie passes and that the,
California plans were incubated even
before the line- was pushed south of
the Columbia river.
The Southern Pacific Company, on
the other hand, has filed maps show
ing the plans of that company con
templated the building of roads
through these same passes, giving
thereby indications of another rail
road war over rights-'or way in the.
defiles of these gateways.
Another fact thai seems to have a
bearing on the situation is the con
struction of the Modoc Northern
from Fearnley, Nev., to Snsanville.
Cal., the contract on which was
awarded only about a year ago. Now
It is stated that the line will be
opened for traffic June 15, and that.
It will then be pushed through to
Klamath Falls, to which the survey
has been completed and the right of
way acquired for about two years.
This line when completed becomes
a link in the projected Pitt river
line of the Southern Pacific, forming
the southern part of the Natron cut
off, giving the route of easiest
grades into California from the
north and would connect with tho
present main line at Chico, it is
claimed. Apparently the Southern
Pacific is hastening completion of
the line from Fearrley as the cut-oft'
from Klamath Falls to the Central
Pacific, because it forms the part of
the new California line placing it
within striking distance, of the Pitt:
River puss.
Even Exchange.
Eggs unci produce taken in ex
change for dry good, shoes, gro
ceries, etc., at the Ashland Trading
Company. 71-tf
Phone No. 39 wnen in need of job
printing. Work and prices are right.
FOR SIX-YEAR TERM
I'liited States Senate I'ussch Resolu
tion for Amendment Itcgaid
iu Presidential Term.
Washington, Feb. I. After two
days' bitter debate and after votes
had been taken on a half score of
motions . amending his plan, every
one of which was defeated, the con
stitutional amendment fathered by
Senator John D. WorkR of Califor
nia, that the presidential term lie six
years and t Vat. no president may be
re-elected, passed tho senate this af
ternoon by the necessary two-tliirda
vote,
The final vomit stood 41 (lor.. 23'.
against.
The Works, amendment i designed
to become effective immediately on
its ratification by three-fourths of
the states in the Union.
Immediately before the vote Ta
taken on Works' resolution the
amendment by Senator Sutherland.
providing that the president w iu
holds office when the Works amend
ment, becomes effect ivo shall not
servo for more than four jears, was
rejected 3S to 29.
Earth excavated from the Panama
cannl is mime-lent to build 03 pyra
mids the size of that of Cheops.
A man of 20 In good health may
expect to live 4 0 years longer; u
ninn of 4 0, 27.
Every six minutes a new
being is born in New York.
Iiu man
ViK XKW BRIDGE.
County Court Orders One at Tabic
Rock.
The county court has ordered tho
county clerk to pre.iare an advertise
ment calling for bids for the con
struction of a new bridge over
Rogue river at Table Rock to replace
the one that has stood there for 2S
years. The court has ordered a few
repairs but has decided to construct,
the new bridge as soon as possible.
All heavily loaded wagons aro
warned not to a'tempt to cross the
bridge at the present time as it is
unsafe.