Historical Rnrletr.
Ashland Tiding
SUNNY
SOUTHERN OREGON
ASHLAND
THE BEAUTIFUL
VOL. XXXVII
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1913
NUMBER 80
WAITE GETS THE MINNEY FRANCHISE
S. S. BULLIS OF NEW YORK AND J. G. GRIFFITH OF OKLAHOMA SAID
TO BE BACK OF NEW OWNER v.
Medford Sun: Prospects bright
ened yesterday for a comprehensive
electric interurban system through
out the valley, including the electri
fication of the Bamum railroad, an
extension to the Fterling mine and
a local street car service.
Application has been made for the
incorporation of the Medford & In-,
terurban Railway, and J. G. Griffith
of Oakland, Cal., and 8. 8. Bullis of
New York city arq reported as back
ers of the enterprise.
Mr. Griffith will be in Medford in
a few days and meet with Mr. Bullis,
who is now here, vhen the final ar
rangements will be made.
Although no official report to that
effect has been made, it is generally
understood that Mr. Bullis has an
option on the Bamum railroad, and
bis main object in backing the prop
osition is to secure transportation
facilities for the extensive mining
interests, including the Sterling
mine, he controls west of Medford.
Both Mr. Bullis and Mr. Griffith
are men of large means and well
able to take care of the financing of
the system alone it they should so
desire.
As a step In the preliminary work,
the franchise secured by the Minney
company of Oakland, Cal., from the
city of Medford last January was
transferred to F. iJ. Walte of Rose-
THE ELKS JMTIATE TEN
Ashland Lodge No. 944, B. P. O. E.,
Put Horns on Drove From
Over the Line.
Saturday night was a big night at
the Elks hall. A drove of ten fawn
were given antlers in the good old
fashioned way by the brethren of
No. 944. The candidates were most
ly from over the line in California
and comprised the following: James
G. Catchett, George C; Behnke, M.
H. Neimeyer,. Geo:ge F. "Wilkinson,
W. E. Trebbe, Chester Lowman,
Henry F. Stuhr, H. L. Hefrington,
Weed; M. H. Grover, Jr., Hilt, and
Spratt Wells, of Afhland.
The escort of Elks which brought
a part'bf the bunch over from Weed
Friday put them in a closed cage in
the baggage car and kept them
there until they reached Edgewood,
making them believe that they would
be compelled to come the entire dis
tance to Ashland in that manner. On
Saturday evening a bunch of Elks,
headed by a handorgan, went to the
train to meet those who came on
that day to take in the initiation.
To Build New Bridge.
Grants Pass Courier: The county
tourt is now asking for bids for the
erection of the new steel bridge
across the Rogue on the Galice road.
The steel for this bridge was recent
ly contracted for ly the court at a
cost of $7,800, delivered at Merlin,
'and the transportation of this ma
terial is to be covered in the new
contract. The building of the piers,
retaining walls, etc., are also to be
included in the new contract. The
Coast Bridge Company, which sup
plies the steel, offered at the time
to erect and complete the bridge for
a total of $7,200 in addition to the
A 1 .1 A 1 1 - . 1
cost oi me sieei, or a ioiai oi
00.
Old-Timers Back.
Mr. and Mrs. Gecrge Wimer, who
recently bought the residence at 489
Beach street from Mr. Triplett, ar
rived today from Crook, county and
will take possession of the place. Mr.
Wimer ran the Eagle Mills near this
city in 1867 and 1868 and the mills
at Phoenix in 1870-1875. He also at
one time owned the Barron ranch
east of town. Wimer street in this
city was named after Mr. Wimer,
and they have decided that Ashland
Is the place that they wish to come
to end their days.
The Victim.
x: "Poor Jack, he looks fearfully
woebegone. What's the matter, dis
appointed in love?"
"Yes."
"Who got the girl?" -
AA " Mow York World.. '
The Prince of Wales practices on
Scotch bagpipes dally for the benefit
of his lungs.
, How about that suit ' for the
bdy? See Enders before buying.
burg, who furnished the $2,500 for
fait at that time oud who has been
Interested in the interurban proposi
tion from the first.
W. I. Vawter is engineering the
new company and in all probability
the incorporators will be local men
with Mr. Waite president.
When interviewed last night Mr.
Bullis said:
"I did say I would build half the
road if someone else would build the
other half. Building and financing
small railroads and electric lines is
my business. But I don't like this
Minney franchise. It isn't fair. The
actual operation is very remote,
therefore, and as far as I am con
cerned any definite announcement is
unauthorized. I am here primarily
to look after the Sterling mine and
put in the improvements planned. I
am interested in an interurban road,
however, and hope one will be
built."
Overheard at Luncheon.
"That's the' tenth can of 3ardines
you have ordered," said the railway
magnate. "Aren't you afraid you
will make yourself sick?"
"I'm not eating then," replied the
employe with inventive genius. "I
think I'm on the track of a way to
get more people into a street car."
Washington Star.
TEMPLARSATMEDFORD
Malta Commandery and Grants Pas
Commandery Unite in Eaater
Worship at Medford.
The members of Malta Command
ery No. 4, K. T., journeyed to Med
ford Sunday for their faster ser
vices. They went by train and by
automobile in response to an invita
tion from the members of the com
mandery living in that city and from
Rev. Weston F. Shields, pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Medford and
a member of Malta Commandery to
attend service at that church. The
Knights of Malta Commandery went
to the depot at Medford and met the
Grants Pbsb commandery and escort
ed it to the church where the ser
vices were held. After the services
refreshments werp served by the
Knights Templar residing in Med
ford. There were about 100 knights
in line and a very enjoyable and
profitable time was had.
A Better Way to Put It.
President Wilson in his inaugural
says: "We shall restore, not de
stroy." The republican party would
express it differently. "We are con
struct'vi. Jiot destructive." In the
past the democratic party has fa
vored r acy things that it no longer
mentions. Does it propose to restore
any of the old conditions that it
once defended in vain, or any of Its
issues that the people have rejected?
Every champion of wrong who re
gains power is ready to restore. But
the' capacity to build, lo originate
wisely, is far more rare, than the
desire to restore. The republican
party has been a builder, with so
many achievements to its credit that
to name the most important would
take columns. !'We build, we do not
destroy," i,s the republican version,
and as the American people are high
ly constructive it is safe to predict
that they will not change to the
merely restorative unless they feel
that they have lost , something of
value.
If the democratic national plat
form is carried out it will be de
structive of the protective system,
which it declares to be unconstitu
tional. But when the party was
trusted with national control twenty
years ago it failed to stand by its
platform or a line of action that the
president of its own choice could ap
prove. It restored nothing.. It de
stroyed prosperity, and it would be
a great calamity if the hard times
that followed were restored. No
party that is not constructive can
long satisfy the American spirit.
What a restorative party signifies
depends on what It tries to restore.
The present democratic assumption is
that the people have been deprived
of something of consequence. They
have undoubtedly lost for a time toe
guiding services ttt a constructive
party. They know little about a re
storative party, and must await the
definition of the term.
YOUNG IIOROE8 TAKEN.
Three Youths Picked Out of Burglar
ized Car Friday.
On Friday Chief Oien picked three
young tramps out of a car of house
hold goods which was found open
when it reached here. The boxes of
merchandise had been torn open and
the stuff thrown around the car and
some of it apparently destroyed in a
fire that had been built in the center
of the car. They claimed that they
did not do the damage but that it
had been done before they got in by
some other tramps who left the car
at Roseburg.
According to a recently passed fed
eral law, it becomefi a federal offense
to break into a car engaged in inter
state commerce, and the boys may be
turned over to the federal officers
for trial in the United States court, j
Meanwhile Judge Tou Velle has or-I
dered them held in Jacksonville Jail
and is endeavoring to communicate
with their parents. The lads gave
the names of George Goodwin and
Mynda Goodman of Vancouver, B. C,
and Ralph Hall of Three Rivers.
!Mich. Two of the. lads gave their
ages as 17 and the other as 16.
Coming By Auto From Oklahoma.
With their pointer dog, "Chief,"
Mr., and Mrs. E. E. McKibban left
Muskogee in a Ford roadster this
afternon for a 2,500-mile trip to
Grants Pass, Ore. They will go from
here to Okmulgee and visit a few
days, and then to Oklahoma City,
from which point they will start to
the southwest, following the Santa
Fe trail through New Mexico. . From
there they will motor to California,
stopping at the main cities in the
Golden state, and coing north to Or
egon along the famous Pacific High
way. They will take their time and
expect to reach their destination
about the latter part of May. They
will "put up" at hotels in towns en
route, but have o camping outfit
with them in case they get caught
Between towns. Muskogee (Okla.)
Times-Democrat.
John Angermeyer, keeper of the
St. Louis zoo, had to lance a boil on
the jaw of a bear the other day as
part of his duties. ...
C. L. Tostevin returned Sunday
night from a visit to Roseburg and
vicinity.
MEDFORD VOTERS TURNED DOWN ARMORY BONDS
The Charter Amendment Curtailing Power of Mayor to Suspend
' Officials Is Carried by the People
The people of Medford by a de
cisive vote on Saturday turned down
the proposition to bond that city for
the sum of $25,000 to be applied
jupon a $65,000 armory, $20,000 to
be voted by the county ami $20,000
to be expended by the state. The
fact that the people believed that
taxes were high enough at present,
together with tl.e opposition of the
socialists to any support for soldiery,
were the principal causes cf the de
feat of the hond Issue.
At the same election the people
favorably acted upon the amendment
to the city charter curtailing the
power of the mayor to suspend ap
pointive officials. The charter vest
ed the power of removal in the coun
cil but gave the power of suspension
until the next cpuncil meeting to the
mayor. The council refused to ap
prove Mayor Eifert's suspension of
the market master and the city en
gineer appointed by Mayor Canon,
BACK FROM PORTLAND.
A. L. Lamb Ready to Resume Devel
opments Near Ashland.
A. L. Lamb, of the Lamb or Beula
mine, returned from Portland
Thursday afternoon accompanied by
Mrs. Lamb, after a stay of several
months there. Miss Glen Ellen
Roberts, daughter of Mrs. Lamb, will
remain in Portland with relatives
until the close of the school year
about June 1. Mr. Lamb returned
home to commence work on the dam
for the reservoir which is to im
pound some of the surplus water of
Ashland creek to Irrigate the Sunset
Orchards lying south of the normal.
He says that they have not yet fully
determined when they will resume
work at the mine or mill.
HOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Noted Colored Educator Spoke to
t Full Jlouse Saturday Night.
Booker T. Washington, the fore
most negro educator in the history of
his race, 'delivered an address at the
M. E. church Saturday evening on
the education of his race, which
drew a full house Born in slavery
and rising from an ignorant helper
in a West Virginia coal mine to one
of the leading educators of the
world, regardless cf race, his record
is something to be proud of. He
gave some very Interesting statistics
of the work, telling of the growth
and scope of the work. In speaking
of the work of the Tuskegee Insti
tute Ella Flagg Young, superinten
dent of the public schools of the city
of Chicago, says:
"I went down there to look upon,
as I thought, the teaching of an in
ferior race. I found the problem of
education has been Eettled in a man
ner more nearly ideal than in any
other city that I tnow of. We may
well follow their example in this
city."
Pioneer of Applegate Passes to Rest.
Albert W. Stuffs, aged 78 yea,
3 months and 5 days, die! at his
home one mile west of ftuca, Satur
day afternoon U 3:45 edpek, of
heart trouble. He was a ifative of
Np .v York and had been a resident of
Jackson county for sixty years,
crossing the plains when a boy 'with
ox teams. Ho was one of the oldest
pioneers of the Rogue River , Valley
and had lived for years on his ranch
on the Applegate.
He leaves a wife, Paulina Sturgis,
two sons, Fred of Elks creek and
Riley, of Harney county, O.-cgon, and
one daughter, Mrs. J. J. Ostenbrugge
of Ruch.
The funeral services will be held
at the grave in the Jacksonville cem
etery at 3 p. m. Tuesday, M. Purdin
delivering the funeral oration.
l4id on Heavy, Too.
"I don't believe," said Mrs. Smiley,
"in, these faith cures brought about
by the laying on of hands."
"indeed, I do," returned Mrs.
RileV. "Faith, an didn't I cure my
yonne Aloyslus of cigarette smoking
in tfat very way?" New York
World.
Clif Payne makes rockers.
and he. held that he had power to
suspend them from meeting to meet
ing. The amendment only permits
him to suspend an officer once ex
cept upon written charges filed with
the council.
The following la the vote upon the
bond issue and upon the amend
ments: Armory Bonds.
Ward For. Against.
First- 158 304
Second 204 354
Third 114 267
Totals 476 925
Amendment.
"Ward Fbr. Against.
First 261' 196
Second 316 241
Third 230 153
Totals .. 807 590
Majority for amendment, 217.
Tlie jtotal vote cast was 1,401.
SUICIDED WEDNESDAY.
Lou A. Heberlie Hunjr. Himself at
Grants Pass.
Lou A. .Heberlie, a brother of
Frank Heberlie, formerly of this
place, hanged himself in a shed at
his home in Grants Pass shortly be
fore noon last Wednesday while his
wife had gone to attend the funeral
of a neighbor. Heberlie had been
afflicted with suicidal mania for
about a year, having become de
spondent over the loss of most of his
property through the failure of a
store in G-anta Pass, in which he
had invested. He had. also become
morbid over the less of a child.
Get your violin, banjo, mando
lin and guitar strings at Rose Bros.'
: 86-tf
The annual raln'and snowfall of
tVlfl I'nlfprt Rfntoa'-lc oDttmolo.1 tr.
welsh six trillion terns.
200 ARE KILLED BY
REPORTS OF TERRIBLE STORM IN MISSOURI VALLEY WERE RECEIVED
IN ASHLAND LAST NIGHT AND THIS FORENOON
The city of Omaha, Neb., was
struck late Sunday afternoon by a
terrible cyclone which cost the lives
of 200 people, according to the latest
accounts, and did about $10,000,000
damage to property. The cyclone
was followed by fire which added to
the loss, but the flames were later
quenched by a downpour of rain.
Up to noon today 100 bodies had
been taken from the ruins. Fortu
nately the path of the storm was
slightly north of the main portion of
the city, striking the northern sub
urbs, or the damage would have been
many times as greut.
The city of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
just across the Minsouri river from
Omaha, was also struck by the same
storm and a number of people killed
and much money damage done.
ALLEGED SECRET MEANS
Tillamook Citizens Enjoin Levy For
Paving By Warren Construc
tion Company.
Tillamook. Ore., March 20. A
suit filed by a number of citizens to
enjoin the city council from malting
an assessment on property for sewer
and street pavement, and the failure
of the council to make the assess
ment at a stormy session Monday
night, led the Warren Construction
Company to file suit in the circuit
court yesterday against the mayor
and council to recover $103,524.59
being 80 per cent on account for
grading, paving, curbs and bitulithic
headers and for $37,749.72, being
80 per cent for the sanitary Bewer
system.
It is charged that the company ob
tained the contract by "artful, subtle
or secret means," and the property
owners contend that the pavement
was not laid according to the con
tract. The case will be tried before
Judge Galloway at the April term of
the circuit court.
An AMtIe f Work.
Evening Telegram: Booker T.
Washington, just now visiting Ore
gon, is an apostle of work. Simple
Industry and the science thereof, and
the efficacy of it in bettering not
alone the economic conditions of
men, but their mora) and social con
ditions as well, is with him a ros
pel that has been preached success'
fully to bis own race, and that may
be preached everywhere and to every
one.
Dr. Washington's evangel of work
has' wrought wonders with his own
people, and not only as it has found
demonstration among the young
men ,and young women who have
graduated from the institution so ably
conducted by him at Tuskegee, for
as these have found their places in
the working world they have dissem
inated the Tuskegee influence among
neighbors, friends, associates and
entire communities. The result has
been a fitting to industry of an enor
mous amount of human energy
which undirected or misdirected
would produce vicious and undesir
able conditions.
The greater credit is due to Dr.
Washington because what he has
done has been accomplished with the
handicap of racial prejudice, and
from the further fact that his work
has done more toward the elimina
tion of that prejudice than the work
of all other agencies combined dur
ing the last generation. To his own
people Booker T. Washington is the
embodiment of the spirit of uplift.
To the world at large he is a man of
wisdom teaching a sound and useful
philosophy.
It is a matter cf appreciation to
people of thought and progress in
Oregon to be able to get at first
hand the viewpoint of this remark-
table man. Oregonians know of him
and of his work but in an Imper
sonal way; and the fame of the man
and the importance of the work he
is doing make bis visit a matter of
pleasure as well as matter of profit.
It is rather felicitous, also, that so
much of Dr. Washington's time .while
in the state will bo devoted to talk
ing to the young people, the boys
and the girls who are In the schools.
It Is there that the seed he will sow
will be more likely to bring an hun
dred fold.
Have trouble with your feet?
Try Enders' shoes You'll like them.
OMAHAXYCLONE
The same storm or another one
struck Terre Hauto, Ind., about the
same time, and killed ten people and
did many thousands of dollars dam
age. Up to noon today there was only
one wire, that of the United Press,
working into Omaha, and it has been
practically impossible to get any par
ticulars as to damage done in the
country surrounding Omaha, but se
vere storm conditions prevailed
throughout the Missouri and Missis
sippi river valleys end it is not at all
Improbable that there will be many
casualties reported from the middle
west when full communication is re
newed. The first report had it that there
were 2,000 killed in Omoha alone,
but fortunately this proved incorrect.
ABOUT FOREST FIRES
Much Lcxs DuninRfl Done in 1013
Than in 111 Efficient Work
Prevented Greater Ikh.
The Department of Agriculture
has been figuring up the losses by
fires on the national forests for the
calendar year 1912, and finds that
they were the lowest of recent years.
Less than one acre to every thou
sand of timbered landH was burned
over, and the total damage is esti
mated at $75,290, or less than one
dollar to every 2,000 acres of area.
The good record is attributed to,
first, favorable weather conditions
In most localities, and second, the
increased efficiency of the fire-fighting
organization. As congress makes
available the means for extending
the system of communications on the
national forests, the equipment of
trails, roads, telephones and lookout
stations is yearly enlarged and the
fires, it is Bald, are discovered more
quickly and fought more rapidly.
An especially good ahowlngwas
made by the forest officers a-'t ear :
in extinguishing fires outside the na
tional forests before they reached
the forest boundaries. Such fires
constituted more than one-sixth or
all fought by the forest rangers and
guards. About nine-tenths were ex
tinguished before thoy touched the
forests. Of. the fires within the for
est boundaries more than 18 per
cent were on lands In private owner
ship. Nearly one-fourth of. the extra
expenditures due to fighting fires
that is, expenditures outside the time
of the regular forest force was in
curred in flghtin? these fires.
Lightning caused more fires than
any other agency, followed by rail
roads, campers aad incendiaries, in
the order given. The greatest losses
occurred in Arizona, Arkansas and
California, In which states there was
also the largest proportion of fires:
caused by lightning and y incen
diarism. About 27 per ceat of all
the fires were started by lightning,,
and about 38 per cent were due to
carelessness. The proportion in each
case was practically the same as in
the provioua year.
The total number of flies was
2,472, as compared with 3,369 in
1911. They burnoti over, in the ag
gregate, 230,000 acres as against
780,000 in 1911. California led all
states in total number of fires anil
in the number caused by lightning
Arizona stood B?cond In both of
these classifications Arkansas stood
fourth in total number of fires, and
first in those of incendiary origin.
with California secoud. The one na
tional forest in Kansas had only one
fire, which burned over less than ten
acres and cost $1.11 to extinguish.
North Dakota had not fires on its.
one small forest.
Of the 2,472 fires, over 75 per
cent were put out before ten acres
were burned over, and nearly 50 per
cent before one-quarter of an acreV
was covered. Only twelve fires
caused damage of more than $1,000
each.
New Type Mazda Lamps.
We have the new and Improved
60-watt Mazda lamp, same size bulb
as the 40-watt. This new lamp gives
better service than any Mazda ever
made. It will last longer and there
Is less danger of breakage. Call and
see them,, Danfprd Electrical Works.
69 North Main 'street. Phone 118.
Vancouver, B. C, refuses to ac
cept $50,000 for library purposes
from Andrew Carnegie.
Button, button! The Ashland
Trading Co. have the buttons cro
chet buttons and all the new'-'things
In buttons. Phone 122.
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