Historical Society.
Oregon
ASHLAI
Tiding
SUNNY
SOUTHERN OREGON
ASHLAND
THE BEAUTIFUL
VOL. XXXVII
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1913
NUMBER 7G
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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 , .
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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. '