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Newspaper Page TextOregon Historical Society. prnsTepsivp Ashland SUNNY SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL VOL. XXXVII ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1913 NUMBER 77 Tidings SEPTIC TANK A BONE OF CONTENTION CITY ENGINEER WALKER WAXES WROTH AT CRITICISM OF TANK ON CARTER PROPERTY DESIGNED BY HIM The septic tank (sceptic tank is the way one eastern engineer puts it) which is located on the Carter property near Mountain avenue was again in the spot light at the city council meeting Tuesday evening. There has heen more or less friction or trouble over the tank for some time, Mr. F. H. Walker, who owns the property upon which it is situ ated, declaring that it was not doing its work and that it was in an un sanitary condition, while City En gineer Walker, who designed it and who stands sponsor for it, declared that it was doing all that could be expected of a septic tank. A. J. Biegel was present by re quest and told the council that in his opinion the tank was wrongly con structed, that there should not be baffle walls hung from the top, but that there should be partitions, if any, constructed from the bottom. Mr. Staples also spoke in regard to the matter. Water Commissioner Roseerans told of the repairs made and necessary to be made to the tank. Here City Engineer Walker took the floor, prefacing his remarks with the statement that he was a civil en gineer and knew what he was talk ing about and that none of the oth ers knew anything about septic tanks. He declared that the tank should not have been cleaned out last fall by Mr. Roseerans. When asked as to tha amount of scum which should gather in a year on the tank he said seven inches. A member of the council asked Mr. Rosecrans how much scum there was when they cleaned out the tank, and he eaid seven feet. This nonplused Mr. Walker for a time and he seemed inclined to dispute the accuracy of Mr. Rosecrans, but finally ended by raying that he did not doubt his word but that it was a mystery to him as he had examined the tank only two weeks previously and he tnew at that time there was but about seven inches; he thought that there must have some soiid matter got into the tank trat did not belong to the sewage. Mr. Walker also paid his compli ments to Mr. Carter, declaring that the septic tank was not supposed to PLANADA EXCURSION tVcil A. Townsend to Personally Conduct Excursion to "the City lSeautiful." The excursion to Planada, "the city beautiful," which was to have gone last Tuesday, has been post Kned to Monday, February 24, in order that Mr. Cecil A. Townsend might accompany it in person. By this change a better rate was also secured and the railroad has given a round trip fare of $18.70 for the trip. Planada is a new town in Mer ced county, California, which is be ing built along modern lines. Pic tures of the town and the surround-' ing country are to be given at a free how at the Star Theatre this even nig in addition to the regular four reels of moving pictures. Children will be admitted only when accom panied by their parents. Mr. Townsend is giving this Plan ada excursion his personal attention and will be in his office over the Star Theatre all day Friday, Satur day and Monday, and wishes all in terested to call and talk the matter over with him. This excursion will give anyone interested in California a splendid opportunity to see the famous lands of Merced county and to inspect this beautiful little city of prosperity in the land of sunshine. Mr. Townsend is no stranger to the people of Ashland and in local business matters has shown himself to be a man who does as he agrees, and he stands personally behind any representations he may make. All he asks is that anyone wishing to know more about the best part of California call upon him and talk the matter over and then go for themselves and see whether or not be has misrepresented matters to them. The cost is certainly light enough so that anyone considering a change of location will make no mis take in going on the excursion. Among the new enterprises which are slated for Planada is a large woolen mill which is to employ at least 300 people,, which would give the laboring man an excellent op remove anywhere near all the bac teria, and that to purify the sewage filter beds must also be used. He said that if Mr. Carter; did not know what a septic tank was supposed to do when he permitted it to be placed on his land that was his fault, not the city's; that Mr. Carter's sole aim seemed to be to make the city as much expense and trouble as possi ble. After Mr. Walker got through one of the councilmen asked Mr. Biegel if he still held to Ins original opinion as to the construction of the tank and he said "Suro." The matter was finally disposed of by turning th? management of the lank over to Mr. Walker that he might have every chance to make it worK properly. To Women Voters. C. 11. Gillette of the recorder's of fice has given the Tidings informa tion regarding foreign women vot ing, which question has come up re cently. A single woman who is foreign born must live in the United States one year and take out naturalization papers just as a foreign man must do, before Rhe can vote, but should she marry an American, by the act she becomes an American citizen, with all privileges accorded Ameri can women. If she has come to America with her father, who has been given the right of an American citizen, she is then an American, with voting privileges. Hujh 40 Acre for $t2,(MK). One, of the real estate deals just closed is the purchase through C. D. Hoy of a 40-acre farm four miles north of Med ford by J. D. Berg of Chicago for $12,000. The place is set to one-year-old trees and is nice ly improved, having two bungalows thereon. Mr. Berg likes this valley very much and shows his faith in the same by making investments here. The Artist's Dream, a poem in pantomime, is one of the attractions the Wednesday Afternoon Club has to offer for Saturday evening at Me morial hall, February 22. portunity to make a living and pay for a home. In addition to "the city beautiful" itself the Planada Development Com pany owns a large tract of land sur rounding the site of the young city which is being subdivided into small tracts and which will be sold to pur chasers who will Improve them on easy terms. The entire tract is to be irrigated by a system of concrete pipes which conserve all the water, permitting no waste and at the same time prevents the breeding of mos quitoes and the spreading of malaria, which so often accompanies the use of open irrigation ditches, especially where the land is comparatively level. " The Planada Development Com pany has some handsome advertis ing matter showing the attractive ness of the country and its possibili ties Irom a home-making and finan cial standing, which can be had by calling on Mr. Townsend. who has personally visited Planada and who personally recommends tho country to anyone who desires a climate that is summer all the year around. Oranges, figs and other tropical and semi-torpieal fruits are raised in profusion in this section of Cali fornia, and grain, alfalfa and stock also do excellently. In fact, there is scarcely a product which, Mr. Town send states, cannot be successfully grown in Merced county. It is also in easy reach of the markets of the state; being on tho main line of the Satita Fe railway, with the Southern Pacific passing within a very short distance of the town plat, and cross ing the Planada Development Com pany's tracts. j Many n Laugh. Pleasing the people has been a trade with the Schubert Symphony Club and Lady Quartette for many year3, an dlheir program contains lots of fun of a refined nature, as well as a wealth of fine music. Hear them at the Baptist church, Febru ary 21. Seats at Rose Brothers'. Did you ever love a widow? It's just like trading at Enders' you' can't overdo it KIXK m'XCII OF FISH. Party From Ashland (Jets Fine lnt of Trout. A party of Airland disciples of Isar.k Walton, consisting of Harry Hostler Kim Mnnv: anil EVt.,1 Pfijc sojourned to the Rogue river below the Ray Gold dam on Tuesday, and one envious sportsman declared that they did not even leave the holes the fish came out of. The catch amount ed to over 200 pounds, mostly steel head trout, there being a few cut throats in the bunch. The largest single fish was caught by Sim Mor ris and weighed twelve pounds. The next largest, weighing nine pounds, fell victim to the skill of Harry Hostler. The fish were on exhibi tion at the cigar store of Mr. Hostler that evening, filling the entire win dow, and attracted a large number of people. t I i t !t It t Vote for the Do not fail to get out and vote for the interurban franchise tomorrow. It means a great deal to Ashland to have this road, and it would be an unmistakable evidence that Ashland does not wel come outside capital to develop the city and surrounding country to vote it down. Overconftdence that it will pasi might defeat it. Do not fail ii vote if you favor it. A MILL AND SMELTER Cecil A. Townsencl Arrange") to In stall One for Custom Work in This City. Cecil A. Townsend, the real estate and raining man, is making arrange ments to put in a stamp mill and smelter in this city which will do custom crushing and smelting for the various mines and mining men in and around the Rogue river val ley. Mr. Townsend and Mr. Dozier, who will have charge of the plant for Mr. Townsend are negotiating for a five-stamp mill which is now at Yreka and expect to install it ad joining the"SshTah"J7r6ri'"VdfkS. I Mr. Townsend has also arranged with the Ashland Iron Works to erect for him a smelter having a minimum capacity of T00 pounds to a charge and which can be continu ously operated, thus giving it a ca pacity of several tons of ore per day. This will be of great advantage to owners and prospective purchasers of quartz claims, as it will permit j actual mill tests of the ore, which are much more reliable than assays, and which have heretofore been al most prohibitive because of the ne cessity to ship to distant points to get ore crushed and smelted. -The Billings Agency will have the tax roll March 1, so you can pay your taxes without the expense of a trip to Jacksonville. POET OF SIERRAS DEAD AT OAKLAND JOAQUIN MILLER DIED MONDAY AFTER AN ILLNESS OF TV0 YEARS -FAMOUS MAN WAS OVER SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE San Francisco, Feb. 17. Joaquin Miller, "The Poet of the Sierras." died this afternoon in Oakland. His daughter, Juanita, and wife were with him. Miller died in hrs one-room cabin which he built with his own hands in Piednront hills many years ago. Death came slowly to the venerable poet, who became unconscious Thurs day after a lingering illness which began two years ago when he was stricken with paralysis. Since then, though he has worked at times, he rarely ventured from "The Heights," as he called his re treat. Since his collapse Thursday he has gained consciousness several times. This morning he realized he could not. survive the da'y. At noon life was barely diacernable and three hours later the end came. Miller was one ci: the most pictur esque characters in the literary world of the United States in his day. He was born from Scotch American parents in the Wabash dis trict of Indiana, November 10, 1842. He was scarcely 10 years old when his father emigrated to Oregon, then a wild and sparsely settled country. He received but little education and lived a wild and adventurous Ijfe. Three years later Miller, then a boy of 13, left home to. try his fortune in California. j itULFs for garbage (iKorxns. Sanitary Committee Directed! Formulate KuIck. to , At the meeting Tuesday evenina z:T!:i;::T.,"! of the city clumping grounds. They reported much cprelessnse about i burying c arcasses of animals. The ordinance requires them to be buried "two feet underground." According to one man, this v.as interpreted to mean two of the animal's feet under the dirt and two of them sticking out Ai'ter considerable animated dis cussion the committee was instructed to ' formulate rules covering the grounds and present them to the council. Rest for the sole. John Kelly shoes at H. G. Enrters & .Son's. Franchise I! TWO GOOD SUGGESTIONS! Mayor Johnson Maakes Good Suggcs- lions to City Council Tues day Evening. Mayor Johnson it-ado several good suggestions to the city council Tues day evening, one being that regard ing the keeping of park rows in shape. He believer! if there was not already an ordinance to compel own- ers to keep the strip between the sidewalk and curb in good shape there should be, and if there was one it should be enforced. He said, and truly, that the impression on ctran-gerj- was very bad. He also wanted sonieTegulation of garbage cans so that there might be regular inspection of them and property owners be compelled to keep them in shape. He said there was no use swatting the fly in the house and breeding it in the back yard or alley. . WATER AXI SEWER MAPS, j j Engineer Walker Contracted With to' Make Some. The council Tuesday evening in- ftructed F. H. Walker to make maps j of the city water mains and sewer , system 'at a cost not. to exceed $250, he to be allowed $.ri per day for of fice vork and $G per day for outside work, the city to furnish the paper upon which to draw the maps. Very little of a reliable nature is known of young Miller's life during the seven years he roamed aimlessly through the wilds of northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon. Gold diggers, lumbermen and trappers, Indians and outlaws were his com panions. When he became a "squaw man," sharing the tent of a young Indian woman whose tribe he had joined, he lost caste with the white men altogether. After his return to his home in Oregon he began to study law in the office of George II. Williams at Eu gene. The following year he be came an express messenger in the gold mining districts of Idaho, which position he resigned to become the editor of the Democratic Register, a weekly newspaper in Eugene, Ore. He was well known and bad no difficulty in finding papers or mag azines eager to rvint and liberally pay for his prose and poetry. In 1S73 he published a volume under the title, "Songs of the Sun Lands," and a prose volume entitled "Life Among the Modocs: Unwritten His tory." Since then he has published more than twenty books, poems, nov els, essays and plays. Of the latter, The Danltes" and "'49" became quite popular. The last years of his life he spent on his estate, "The Heights," near Diamond, Cal. MR. CUNNINGHAM j FINANCE COMMITTEE BELIEVE THEY ARE PERFECTLY COMPETENT TO $ the enrs money without publicity At the meeting of the city council Tuesday night Councilman Cunning ham arose and dramatically and ma jestically read the article in the Tid ings of February daring to criticise the method of acting upon bills by wholesale by the city council without reading them. He put especial em phasis upon the word sub rosa as used in the article. Whether or not he knew the meaning of the word he did not say. That is neither here nor there. Mr. Cunningham went into detail as to the time spent by the self-sac-i rificing finance committee in looking over the bills before the council passed upon them. Of course they scrutinized them if thev did their duty. Why shouid they not? Rut that does not change the fact that Tl.l 1 ........ 1 ... ine oiner in ee ineianers oi cue coun 1 cil and the mayor have no certain I knowledge what bills are being voted i upon, not to whom the bills run. Mr. $ I Gillette stated that all bills must J have the "O Iv" of the party buying jthe goods. That's easy. It is the first thing done if there is any iuten- tion of jobbery. Councilman Cunningham stated that he had been on the council since 190S and that the bills had not been acted upon in open meeting in that I t illlU it lL.lt.L-.w1 1..T ft...... mittee. In this connection the citv ! tax levy for the past eight years mav be interesting reading: 190". S mills 190t'. 6 1907 0 190S 14 190!) lei; 1910 14 1911 21 1912 H The years named are the years in which the levies were made, they be ing collected the year following. It is interesting, to note from the files of the Tidings that Councilman Cun ningham . in l'JOS wanted a 10-nvil levy instead of a 14-mill. The Tidings would not contend that the methods .'ollowed in audit ing bills for the past four years are responsible for the entire increase in tax levy (and tax-payers should j remember that the taxable proper ty Lecture on the New Citien, With Salem Side Lights. 'rs- Ala Wallace Unriih will give a lecture Tuesday evening, February 2 CI , in the Baptist church at 7:30 It Roes without saying that 't will be highly interesting. For five consecutive years Mrs. I'nruh has placed before Ashland Chautau qua audiences tho most talented j women speakers in our country. I Last. fall, in Portland, she engi neered to a successful finish a con tention of national women, com posed of 1,000 delegates from every sta e in the union. She so exploited A bland that a number visited our city on their way home. On the rouritr. in Ashian-J, slie was respon sible for one of our prettiest floats. Always a loyr.l admirer of our little city, she has worked hard during the Salem legislature for the ic-estab-lislinient of the Ashland Normal, es pecially among the .Multnomah dele gation. During her day of some weeks ill Salem sir.? worked with the Mothers' Congress for the widows' pension bill. Sin has aided Mrs. Millie Trumbull and others for the establishment of a' industrial home for girls. She expects to tell lis in her lecture what work the new voter can do best and what manner it will be most effective. She has an amus ing way of putting things and will turn the lights on the Salem salons in a manner that will be edifying. As a speaker she is one of the best in Oregon and tho"e will be no wear isome moments. Come out and hear her. Star Jubilee Singers. The Star Jubilee Singers, a col ored male quartet, will give an en tertainment February 28 at Elks Temple, under tlu auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association. The proceeds will be used for fitting up a rest room ilr each of the grade buildings, for tho use of teachers and pupils, irr case of fatigue, illness or accident. The need of such rooms has long been felt. Hay for Sale. I have a quuntity of hay for sale here in the city. Eniil Peil. 71-tf RESENTS CRITICISM has increased as much as the levy has, thus practically doubling the in creased burden upon the people for city purposes 1; it leaves every tax payer to decide, that for hini.-elf or lie rs If. Councilman dowdy, with a gener osity seldom equaled and n. rer sur passed, Kindly informed the Tidings representative that the city council would have no objection if the paper wished to copy the bills and publish them. HIess his dear unsophisticat ed and innocent heart, did he really suppose for a minute that the Tid ings did not know that the records of the recorder's office are public property, subject to the inspection of ihe public? Of course the council men's time is too valuable for thenr j to sit and listen to I .1. . 1 If . , - the reading of the biiis before tiny are voted upon an dtlie city is too poor to base them published so that the tax-pavei s may know where their i:ionej goes. There is tint a "onticil meeting but there in Siinie citizen present ho is interested in a bill before the coun cil, but he niih. be there at every session for a year and not know whether or not. it was acted upon. There are rumors of sales in the past by members of the council to the city, of material at prices higher than were being charged other cus tomers of the same firms, and it is just such method.! of handling bills that foster these suspicions. Some people are just well enough posted irr their Ilihles to remember some thing Jesus said about people who j prefer darkness to light. At the meeting Tuesday evening City Treasurer Eiibanks asked that his books for the oast venr he checked up and he be given a clear ance, aH required by the bonding companies. A motion was made that the finance committee' be. instructed to do thi.-i. Councilman Cunningham objected as he said it would take considerable time and tho members acting should have extra pay. Coun cilman Beaver moved that they be paid therefor. The motion was passed. Now wi.l the finance com mittee audit the bills for this work and will the council past! them with a lot of others i.nsight, unseen? Time will tell. A FAVORABLE REPORT Hill Engineer to Kejxnt. Favorably on Rogue River Valley Inter nrbnn. Medford Sun: N. A. Summer of Portland, one or the Hill engineers, who has been in Medford for the last week investigating conditions for the building of an inter urban line In the Rogue river valley, loft last night for Portland. Mr. Summer stated that he would report favorably to the St. Paul officers of tho Hill lines rela tive to the building of the road. Mr. Summer -iIko mado the fol lowing statement: "in the nast few months I have heard several remarks as to the irrigniio:! project that is about to hi! c;.rri"d out. here. I re garded it as icily an advertisement and boost for the valley, but since my arrival bore I have noticed how much Interest i:j being tr'.ken and can fiee for myself how it would help this valley in never til ways. One is that it will bring prosperity, not to the farmers and fruitgrowers alone, but to every one, and another is that it will bi a great help t0 the induce ment of people; with capital to come into the valley r.nd go ahead with the work of constructing tho pro posed Interurlmi! line and tho gas plant, the cement, plant, etc. "These will all be built in time if the people here cauld show they had something behind thenr. An Irriga tion system would help every one and thin valley would bloom like a rose awoke one fine morning to rind the long drouth was :ii an end." RANKS ( LOSE S.VTt'RDAV. Ashland Financial Institutions Will Honor Washington, The banks of Ashland will be closed all day Saturday, Washing ton's Birthday, in accordance with the law and custom which make that day a holiday. Fuller has moved to Main street and has a new barrel. Come and stand In it.