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Historical Society. Oregon ASHLAI Tiding SUNNY SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL VOL. XXXVII ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1913 NUMBER 7G s SHRINERS GO TO THE NOBLES OF HILLAH TEMPLE CEREMONIAL TO BE E. D. Briggs, illustrious potentate of Hillah Temple, has just returned from Klamath Falls, where lie went several days ago c.n legal business. While in that city he took up the matter of the proposed pilgrimage of Hillah Temple to Klamath Falls and called a meeting cf the Shriners of that city, which was held Friday evening. At that meeting it was de cided to hold tho ceremonial upon the evening of Saturday, June 28, 1913. The Shriners will journey to Klam ath Falls by train and automobile F. A. K0RMANN IS HURT Chemist Fell From Tank at Ashland Preserving Company's Spray Milking riant. F. A. Korm.in, -fie chemist for the Ashland Preserving Company, was seriously injured Friday evening. The Preserving coupany, which is manufacturing lime and sulphur spray for the use of orchardists, had been out of lime for a couple of days. It got in a cupply Friday and put cn a night crew in order to fin ish some hurry up orders. Mr. Kor man, who was in the office with a friend, went out to the works to show the men about something and apparently fell fror.i one of the tanks, suffering a wound on the head which caused him to become unconscious and so remain fcr a number of hours. He was taken to his home on a stretcher and physicians were called, who declared his condition serious. Mr. Korman hp.s apparently been followed by a fu'.l-sized and very ac tive hoodoo ever since he came to Ashland a little less than a year ago. At the time of the fire at the Swe denburg block last summer, caused by an explosion in the laboratory of the Hygienol Cheiaical Company, Mr. Korman w'as overcome with the fumes of the sulphuric acid while trying to save the books of the con cern, and several physicians worked over him an hour cr more before he was brought back to consciousness. A few months ago wLile working in the laboratory a test tube explod ed and injured one of his eyes, and scarcely had he recovered from this when he was attacked by gallstones and had to undergj an operation for the trouble. Now comes the prerent accident, which seems to be the most nerious of all. Mr. Kormann is- much better to day and is able to be out, having recovered rapidly from the injury to his head nd spine. A host of friends ;are :glad to know that the results of the injury were not as serious as was feireJ at first. He states that he made a mis-step and fell from the tank. The very finest of Klamath dry land potatoes, the best that can be produced, and .every sack guaran teed. $1.00 per 100 pounds, at Ashland-Klamath Exchange. Phone 4. T-t-tr-M. A new German electrical device to enable a moving train to set a sig nal irakes use of a "slight sinking of a rail as a train passes over it. CAN NOT JHAKE DICE City Officials Notify C2r Stands and Billiard Halls .to Ieave Tliis Pnwtiee. The police department of the' city on Friday served notice upon the proprietors of the various cigar stores, billiard rwlors, ?tc, that shaking dice for cigars, 4tc, must stop. There seems to be no disposi tion to fight the edict, though there is some talk of starting a movement to compel the stooping of bridge and five hundred games where prizes are gifen. Mayor Johnson was elected upon a platform of strict enforcement of the laws and the Tidings can see nothing for him to consistently do but to take the action he has done in the matter of dice shaking., The action to be taken by those who propose to j!0 to the (extreme limit, and as to what attitude the mayor will take in the matter are stiri Jn doubt. ' Ladies' button shoes in tan and black for 13,75 at Cobiirn's, 7C-tf , . . iii 1 1 . .7 '' ' ; ' KLAMATH IN JUNE TO JOURNEY TO LAKE SHORES FOR HELD ON JUNE 28TH and on Sunday following the cere monial the visitim? Shriners will be given a trip around Klamath Lake. The Elks are planning a '"Rodeo," or bucking contes', to be held early in the summer, and arrangements are being made to hold it, if possible, on the tame day as the Shriners pil grimage. Even Exchange. Eggs and produce taken in ex change for dry goods, shoes, gro ceries, etc., at the Ashland Trading Company. 71-tf COWARDICE THE CAUSE Every Reason to Believe That the Fuel of the Kcott Company Had Hern Taken. Christ Church, New Zealand, Feb. 15. Suspicions that some story of cowardice or fhame lieR behind the deaths of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his men on their south polar expedition are current here to day as a consequence of the reti cence of Commander Evans of the Itira Nova and other members of tiie Scott party. Evans and the Scott Survivors are still on the Terra Nova, which lies at. Port Lyttleton, the seaport of Christ Church. Evans declares the records of the Scott expedition will not be published unless they are given to the world by the families of the victims and he also laid the remainder of the Scott party under strict injunction not to talk. The last message of Captain Scott saio ne couia not accoun'. lor a shortage of fuel which hindered his retnrn to shelter and which practi cally cost his life and the lives of Dr. Wilson, Captain Oates and Lieu tenant Bowers. If the diaries of Wilson, Oates and Bowers make a similar comment it is intimated that their families may demand a gov ernment investigation as to the identity of those who removed fuel from the caches and thus left Scott and his companions to freeze to death at the end of their terrible journey back from the pole. Cbmmander Evans has absolutely refused to distils the deaths of Scott and his companions or to give any hint as to the cause of the ab sence of the fuel on which their lives hung. Birth of a Ix-tter of the Alphalwt. Printers and language makers of the latter part of the sixteenth cen tury began to recognize the fact that there was a sound in spoken English which was without a representative in the shape of an alphabetical sign or character, as in the first sound in the word "wet," srors the Fourth Es- tate. Prior to that time it had al - ways been spelled as "vet," the v havirg the long sound of u or of two n's together. In order to convey an idea of the new sound they began to spell such words as "wet," "weather," "web," etc., with two u's, and as the u of that date was :i typical v tho three words looked like this: "wet," "went her," "web." After a while the typefounders recognized the fact that the double u had come to stay, so they joined the two u's together and made the character now so well known as w. There are books in whk-h ihree forms of the w are gien. The first is an old double- v (vv), the next is one in which the last stroke of the first 1 crosses the Tirst siroke of the second, and the third is the common w wo use today. Mother Merely A anted to Know. The daughter ci the house had Just returned from a visit with her Wentern cousins, during which she had become engaged to a rising young rancher whom she had met at the home of her relatives. To her mother she was extolling the virtues of her Intended. "Oh, mother!" she exclaimed, "be'3 just grand. So square, so up right! So highly polished! Why, even in his notes there is such a sympathetic tone that sometimes I wonder if I am not reading the mu sic of the gods!" "Mercy's sake, child!" interrupted mother, "are you talking about a young man or a piano?" Life. Phone job orderg to the Tidings. IOlLTRY RAISING. Southern Pacific Issues Neat Booklet on This Subject. Cnder the title. "Poultry Profits in Western Oregon," the Southern Pacific has recently gotten out a handsome 32-pag3 booklet dealing with the question of beEt methods in raising chicks. This pamphlet is finely illustrated, and contains num erous suggestions regarding the poultry industry. It also contains maps defining the boundaries of the Willamette, I'mpqr.a and Rogue Riv er valleys, with summaries of weath er records, 1911-1912, in the fore going territory. Under "the caption, "What Others Have Done," appears figures from D. M. Lowe of this vi cinity, concerning the record made by his Plymouth Pock and ..Minorca hens during the first four months of 1912. A limited number of these book lets have been received by the Com mercial Club for free distribution.. FIXING UP OFFICE. W. 1). Hodgson Rearranging Office He is Moving Into. W. D. Hodgson is rearranging the office formerly occupied by C. B. Larakin. The room adjoining is be ing arranged for a private office and for the accommodation of the insur ance department of the business. In Thursday's paper a slight typo graphical error which escaped the eye of the editor made the announce ment read that Mr. Hodgson was in terested in the Hodgson Realty Com pany of this city, when it should have nead that city, referring to Fargo, N. D., Mr. Hodgson's iormer home. The Hodgson Realty Com pany is one of the big firms of that thriving North Dakota city. Spray. We will spray your orchards, rose bushes and chicken houses with a gasoline power spraying outfit. We do not drive on your lawn or garden, Our references arc the people we have sprayed for. Leave orders with Hemphill & Martin, 517 Boulevard, or telephone 2 87-Y. 73-4tM. Ladies' Oxfords $1 to $1.50 at Coburn's. ' 76-tf TAX ROLLS TURNED OVER TO SHERIFF rOIINTV ritW r.APnVn? AWn ROLLS AND DELIYER THEM TO SHERIFF SINGLER The total assetbed valuation of Jackson county property, realty, per sonal and corporative, is $36,662, 124, according to the tax rolls for 1912, just completed by County Cleric Gardner. Of this amount, $32,041,6S5.01 is assessed to per sonal and realty property, and $4, 620,439 to holdings of corporations. The value as assessed was $36,735,- j)74, and equalized by the county I boar dof equalizers at $36,662,124. The total tax levied is $706,012. 61, with a total apportionment of 29.9 mills for the different depart ments. The levies, the rates and the amounts are: State and county tax at 8.5 mills, $311,630.27. Beet Sugar Cnlture. Incidental to replying to the Southern Pacific's request for stock and crop statistics, A. C. Gieuger, of the Square Deal Orchard property across Bear creek, has the following to say regarding sugar beets: "I have been experimenting with sugar beets, and think this ground will raise a crop with the least care and a better yield than any place I know of, and believe there are 10, 000 acres in this valley that will do as well. We do not expect to farm this place, as our intention is to make a commercial orchard of it, uui Hre wining to iio all in our power to help get a beet sugar fac tory established here, as we believe it would bo a great success both to grower and manufacturer." Speechless. "Why do you say tnat Beatrice and Adelbert are not on speaking terms? I understood they were dead in love with each other." "That's Just Uio reason. They just sit by the hour and gaze at each other." Boston Herald. An electrically driven machine to split kindling woo-.I is a novelty. PUBLIC INVITED. Commerced Club Hold i " meeting Wednesday Evening. , In order to discuss various impor tant matters, the Commercial Club will hold a special meeting on Wed nesday evening of this week, the 19th inst. Questioi.s regarding a fu ture policy in connection with the Polytechnic will come up for dispos al, alto reports from delegates to Salem concerning the status of the normal will be in order. The public la general are invited to attend this meeting and take part in the pro ceedings, and especially are the fed erated clubs urged to be present, in order that all may have a full and free understanding of the several im portant issues involved. At Commercial Club rooms, Wed nesday evening, February 19, S o'clock. Per order trustf.es. , till. LI LAX A RICH HUMORIST. Editor-Poet Draws Good Crowd and Keeps Them in a Roar. The third number of the Ashlan.l Lecture Course, which was the en tertainment given by Strickland V. Gillilan, the humorist, was a success certainly from thy standpoint of en joyment. The aiu:or of "Off Agin, on Agin, Gone Agin Finnigin" is certainly a natural humorist and his humor is intermingled with pathos and sermons in :) manner which shows the touch of the artist. The committee vhicli secured him certainly chose well. Flower Seeds. The following varieties are avail able for free distribution at the Com mercial Club room::, as furnished by the government: Calendula. Chi nese pink, nasturtium, poppy, sweet peas, candytuft, delphinium, morn ing glory, coreopsis, escbseiioltzia, verbena, zinnia, antirrhinum, chrv- j santhenmm, kochia scoparia, kochia, eschscholtzia, ipomea. i No vegetable j seeds, simply flowering varieties, j These will not be. i'ealt nut tr el.il- dfen. Parties debiring an assort ment, please apply in person. Benzol is being pushed as a sub stitute for ganolin'i as auto fuel. UIC ACCIOTAMTO rnnimrrr T.vlwi K't K ch lrize. " t,,fi Sthool tax at 10 mills, $176,- 9S8.47. j Road tax at 1.5 mills, $73,126.30. j Cities and towns at 9.9 mills, i $144,267.57. According to the tax rolls, the levy on real estate in Jackson county is $." 1 8,766.43 ; personal property, $109,234.93. The operative proper ty of corporations is assessed at $78,011.25. In 1911 the total tax in round numbers was $76S,00(T, about $56, greater than the present levy. For all tax payments paid up to March 15 a rebate of 3 percent will he made. After April 1 a delinquent penalty will be added for all unpaid taxes. Song Service. Professor A. Isaac conducted an enjoyable song service at the Chris tian church Sunday evening. He and the choir were assisted by one or the quartets of the city. Most or the f luis were the old, familiar ones. Mr. Browning told the story connect ed vvith sor:e of them. The service v.-is a splendid beginning. When the new pastor came. lust, two months ...... b f....-i r rtv civ ! voi.es. The audiences have grown accordingly, so nactor and m-nnli' are .,., , , t ,,. more additions at the morning vice. Sunday. Brush Burner a Success. The brush burner designed by Mr. Mender, the superintendent of the Suiicrest ' orchards, and built by the Ashland Iron Woiks, is proving a decided success, according to reports phoned in by Mr, Meader. In A large orchard a burner will save its cwt in one seasov, and as It is all Iron it will last a long time. Though nearly 2,000 years old, a recently discovered Roman mirror, made by attaching lead foil to glass, was as effective ;ts when new. NORMAL SCHOOLS TO GO ON BALLOTS BOTH WESTON AND ASHLAND NORMAL SCHOOL TAX BILLS WILL BE PUT ON THE BALLOTS IN 1914 The bills levying taxes sufficient to maintain the Ashland and the Weston state normal schools will be placed upon the ballots in 1914 un less Governor West should veto them, which he is not expected to do inasmuch as he made his campaign in 1910 on a declaration in favor of their maintenance. The senate passed bills late Satur day night placing both schools upon the ballot by practically unanimous vote, the house having passed the Ashland bill the day previous. SHETLAND PONY FREEIIS BEGGING SYMPATHY The Portland Union Stock. Yards Company Donate Pony for Prize in Juvenile Industrial Contest. Every school boy and girl in the state will be delighted to know that they are going to have an oppor tunity again this year to win a Shet land pony at the State Fair. The Portland Union Sfock Yards Com pany are giving the pony and it will be a nice one. Nothing in nil the prize list at the State Fair last year attracted anything like the attention that the Shetland ponies did. This pony will he given to the boy or gill who makes the best exhibit of livestock at the Sttye Fair next fall. That exhibit must consist of at least one trio or pen of chickens or ducks, two pigs and a sheep. The hoys and girls who compete for the pony will have nn opportunity to compete for several other valuable prizes also. In the poultry contest there will be good prizes for the winning trio of each breed; J. M. Garrison offers $5 cash to the boy or girl making the largest and best ex hibit of poultry; the State Poultry Association gives i fine cup for the best pen of birds (one male and four females); Poultry Life also gives a fine, cup for which they can com pete; Hauser Brothers give an air gun to the child raising the most poultry by .lune 1; and the North west Poultry Journal gives a year's subscription to every prize winner in the poultry department. The boy who fits and shows the best sheep ; one who does this best in the pig i feeding contest, feeding and exhibit- ing two pigs and furnishing an ac count of same, showing cost, profit, etc., will receive a liberal prize j which we will te'l you all about in j another story, and in the prize list which will soon be published. The i total value of prizes offered the chll dren at the State Fair this year will be over $3,000. Now, boys and girls, don t you think it will pay you to try to win this pony and some of th other prizes above mentioned, all of which you can compete fcr while trying for the pony? Get busy with your chickens, pigs, lambs and gardens. ! ! ltaill'"ml l'r""1 K.",',kl to Klamaili Falls. Klamath Falls, Feb. S. Definite steps toward placing before the of- ! ficials of the Hill lines a project I to connect Klamath Falls and i . . ... Kurcka wnn a rniiroiui were taKcn at an open meeting of the directors of I he Chamber of Commerce last niglu. The project was put before the directors by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, director of publicity of the Humboldt development committee of 'Eureka, which is pledged to the suc cess of the proposed line. The plans now on foot comprise concerted action by Eureka. Yreka and this city to place before the Hill officials the desirability of extend- Ing the Great Northern from the s.',-!pi,y t0 ,IB 0,'"an at E,,rektt- U ,s t Known tnat ine mans ot tne mil lines to extend tho Oregon Trunk into Klamath Falls from Bend have already reached the point where def inite action has been taken by the engineering department of the Hill lines toward beginning the work of grading soon, and, the officials or the Hill railroads are looking about for an outlet from this city to the ocean. Splrellii Corsets. Mrs. Myra McNeill, 190 Oak street, phone 344-L, Is the only rep resentative now in Ashland for the very popular flexible, comfortable Spirella corset. lt-Mon. It is now up tj the citizens of ' Ashland and the alumni of the Ash land normal to make a steady and. consistent campaign of education throughout the state in favor of the. bill. If it is left until a few months before election before any attempt is made to direct the attention of the. people of the state to the schools the issue will be so befogged with the mass of initiative and referen dum measures before theni that it will be impossible lo crystalize senti ment in their favor. Now is the time to get busy and to keep busy.' Kellogg's Corn Hake Company Seeks Aid in Boosting Prices of Its Products. Kellogg's Corn Flako Company in sending out lots of printed matter seeking to make the public believe, that they are being persecuted be cause the United states government, seeks to put a stop to their refusal to sell their products to retailers who will not maintain arbitrary prices. They seek to whip tho newspapers into line by trying to make them be lieve that they must uphold the gen eral advertiser in everything he does. They forget that the newspaper owes as much to the consumer and th subscriber as it does to-the advertis er. The specious plea is made that they cannot afford to advertise their product if they ci.nnot control the prices at which it is so'd and thus insure the dealer who handles it u bigger profit than on any other simi lar article. There is nothing in the. attitude of the United States to in terfere with Kellogg selling his corn flakes at any price ho chooses at. retail, but after they are sold they belong to the purchaser and he has and should have a right to sell them at any price he chooses. Kellogg prates of ruinous competition, but all Uncle Sum insists upon is that Kel logg sell to every man at the same, price and that after a man has bought the goods he be privileged to sell them at any price he chooses. The pamphlet alludes to the prose cution of individuals for selling post age stamps at less than face cost. There is no parallel in the two cases. Uncle Sam seeks to punish the sell ing of stamps belcw tho face value principally so as to prevent postol fice thieves successfully getting rid of their ill-gotten gains, and also to discourage the using stamps as n remittance for small sums instead of using money orders or sending drafts. The people are not going to ris up in their wrath against the man who is selling hem something for less than the trust wants him to. They are more likely to rise up and' bless him. For Rent. Good 8-room house on Oak street, ncroHK street from new 'armory. Modern conveniences. Terms reas onable. Inquire of Stuart Saunders at Nims & Saunders'. 75-L't American chewing guiii is now be ing sold in all largo cities in Ger many. OFF F0RM0NTEREY Troops From Boise, Idaho, Being; Transferred to Monterey, Cal., This Week. The horses, baggage wagons and other impedimenta of the third squadron of the first U. S. cavalry, stationed at Boise, Idaho, were iit tho city Saturday on thoir wny to California. Then was a detail of about 30 men with the outfit and they unloaded th?lr stock here, pre sumably that the Malin test for glanders might b3 applied. When seen by a reporter none of the sol diers expressed any opinion as to whether or not tho movo was con nected in any way with the situation in Mexico. The main portion of tho troop went via Ogden, Utah. Hay for Side. I have a quantity of hay for sala here In the city. -Emil Pcil. 71-tf The best cleaning and pressing Is done at Fuller's. Ladies' work a specialty. Phone 119. We call. '