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SOUTHERN OREGON
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ASHLAND
THE BEAUTIFUL
VOL. XXXVII
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1913
NUMBER 88
Tidings
OHIO VALLEY-CITIES ARE IN DANGER
FLOODS ARE REACHING LOWER VALLEY AND MUCH DAMAGE IS
THREATENED, THOUGH WARNING WILL PREVENT LIFE LOSS
Cincinnati, March 29.. With near
ly 15,000 persons in towns on the
Kentucky, side of the Ohio river
driven from their homes and with
3,500 homes altogether or partially
submerged, the flood situation in
this vicinity istassuming graver pro
portions hourly.
In this city buildings on the water
front are partly under water, with
great damage. Newport and Cov
ington, opposite, are virtually sur
rounded by water. Conditions there
are worse than elsewhere with near
ly 10,000 driven from their homes.
Relief measures are adequate, but
the danger lies in a stoppage of sew
ers and from decomposing vegetable
and animal matter. There are sim
ilar conditions in a number of other
towns on both sides of the river.
The railway service is virtually at a
standstill.
Dayton, March 29. The work of
rehabilitation began today under im
proved weather conditions, but the
anitation authorities fear the warm
weather may cause trouble by de
composing animal and vegetable
matter. Secretary of War Garrison
conferred with various officials and
beads of committees and wired Pres
ident Wilson the death list would not
Teach 500. He departed for Cincin
nati this afternoon and may go to
Columbus tomorrow.
W. E. Blackwell is in charge of
the morgues and estimates the death
list at 250. Members of the citizens'
relief are apprehensive of a water
famine as the water mains in many
places are broken.
An appeal has been issued to all
cities to send as much bottled water
as possible, and medical supplies are
expected from Washington. Major
Dupuy issued a statement attacking
the coterie of undertakers "trying to
work a hold-up game on. the helpless
friends and relatives of those who
have lost their lives."
An embargo has been put on mere
sightseers. Few bodies' were recov
ered from the buildings and indica
SEC. OF WARIN CHARGE
Government Official Arrives in Day
ton and Takes Command of
R-escue Work.
Washington, March 29. Secretary
of War Garrison today sent the fol
lowing report froni Dayton to Presi
dent Wilson:
"Majors Normyle and Logan have
the situation well in hand. The flood
is receding in the smaller cities, but
the Ohio is rising at Cincinnati,
where it is now 63 feet, and is threat
ening the towns below there. Offi
cials have been spent down the
stream to observe and report to Lo
gan at Cincinnati."
Secretary Garrison states the fa
talities are greatly overestimated.
Dayton, March 29. Secretary of
War Garrison, General Leonard
Woods, chief of staff of the United
States army, and Captain Rhoads and
Captain McCoy arrived here at 12:30
o'clock this afternoon. They imme
diately conferred with Mayor Phil
lips, John Patterson, head of the Na
tional Cash Register Company, and
a committee of citizens. After in
specting the flood districts, Secre
tary Garrison wired a report of con
ditions to President Wilson.
At the request of Governor Cox,
Secretary Garrison took full charge
of the local situation. The city prob
ably will be divided into five health
districts with a government expert
in charge of each district. '
Start Referendum Against Univers
ity. Salem, Ore., March 29. Accord
ing to reliable information today, a
movement to invoke the referendum
against all the state university- im
provement appropriations; made by
the recent legislature is ready to be
launched next week. The petition
will probably be put in circulation
within the next two or tbreq days.
H. J. Parkinson of Portland . is re
ported to be the active leader of the
movement. . i
The camera is of great value in
training athletes to point out the
defects of form. ,
, Shoes to close before May li at
less than cost. C. J. Coburn. 82-tf
tions are that most of those drowned
were pedestrians or persons fleeting
from their homes and overwhelmed
by the waters.
It is expected many bodies will be
found down the Miami river lodged
in the debris. Persons reported
scores of bodies sighted floating
down the river.
Thousands scoffed the idea' the
flood would endanger the city and,
unprepared, were caught in the rush
ing waters. The sanitary department
reports dozens of bodies in the de
bris in one sec-lion of the city. In
many instances arms and legs are
visible, but it may be impossible to
reach them for several days. Naval
reserves from the United States ship
Essex have arrived. A relief train
Thursday rescued 970 persons.
Investigation yesterday tended ,to
confirm the estimates of fewer than
500 deaths in the floods that swept
a score of cit'es in Ohio and Indiana
last week as the waters receded from
Dayton, Columbus and other places,
leaving a thick coating of mud.
'. Alarm is caused by the rapid rise
of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
inundating parts of the cities along
their banks.
There is not much danger of loss
of life in these places, however, as
the inhabitants have a hill to flee to.
Soldiers Shoot Looters of Ruins.
ColumbuB, Ohio, March 29. A
squad of soldiers detailed to hunt
looters on the West Side here today
shot and killed Edward McKinley
and Edward White. Residents near
Greenlawn had complained that their
homes were being robbed.
Both McKinley and White were
caught, looting, each carrying a sack
filled with valuables.
Seed Potatoes.
Early Vermont . Btock, grown in
Klamath county, $1 a hundred. Ash
land Klamath Exchange. -88-lt
Bicycles and bicycle- sundries at
cost at Settles' Harness Shop. 87-tf
PRESIDENTJN CHARGE
Wood row Wilson May Take Personal
Charge of Work of Rescue
and Relief.
Washington, March 2". President
Wilson has determined to go to the
flooded district of Ohio, if his pres
ence there can do any good. The
president will await word from Sec
retary Garrison and decide whether
to join the aid party.
Secretary Garrison, of the War
Department, left Washington for the
flood district to take personal charge
of helief measures and personally
represent President Wilson.
Secretary McAdoo today placed all
the United States life-saving stations
in the vicinity of the flooded district
at the disposal of Governor Cox of
O-hio and Governor Ralston of Indi
'anaana, ordering the crews to re
spond immediately and directly to
the request of the state executives.
The lighthouse tender Goldenrod,
near Louisville, capable of navigat
ing the swollen rivers and with re
lief accommodations for 300 persons,
has been ordered into the flooded
l district by Secretary Redfield. All
J lighthouse .service employes of the
fourteenth district have been ordered
to take available small boats and do
relief work.
Meetings to Continue.
The revival meetings being con
ducted jointly by the Free Methodist
and Nazarine churches will be con
tinued this week at the Nazarine
church. Good interest is' reported
and the members of these churches
are much pleased with the results.
. Messrs. Julius Hart, L. J. Trefren,
Thomas E. Hadfield, Jr., H. Adams
and O. E. Ehrmann made a fishing
party to Rogue River Sunday, going
down in Mr. Hart's auto. The re
port a good time end fair luck, Mr.
Adams carrying off the honors. ,
There are 247 newspapers pub
lished in South Africa, in which $7,
500,000 is invested.' They give em
ployment to 4,000 ' Europeans and
650 colored people. .
Minnesotans in 1911 paid $8,802,
669.80 in premiums to old-line life
insurance companies.
FAVORS EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Teddy Reiterate His Belief in Sex
Equality.
Madison, Wis., March 29. In re
sponse to a telegram sent by Rich
ard Lloyd Jones, aeking that he tele
graph Governor McGovern his posi
tion on woman suffrage, Theodore
Roosevelt telegraphed the Governor
today as follows:
"I earnestly hope that all pro
gressives in the Wisconsin legislature
will support the suffrage amend
ment. We, in America, should lead
the way in this movement. We do
not have to point to what has been
done abroad. The Pacific coast and
the Rocky mountain states have
tried the experiment and it has
worked admirably. There is no dif
ference between the work of the best
women and the best men, and it
seems to me sheer nonsense, when
both are doing the highest kind of
work for good citizenship, that the
artificial line of sex should be drawn,
as regards one form and only one
form of that work, the exercise of
the right of suffrage.
Quartz lamps tre experimentally
in use in the streets of Chicago, and
are said to put the other electric
lamps in the shade.
VALLEY ISJN DANGER
Ohio River on Rampage and Much
More Damage is Threat-
ened.
Akron, Ohio, March 29. A com
pany of militia is rushing from
Athens to Middleport and Pomeroy,
where the Ohio river is on a ram
page, already having broken all flood
records. The crest of the flood is
not expected befoie some time to
morrow.' More than 300 persons who have
sought refuge on roofs at Middle
port are said to be in imminent dan
ger. Indianapolis, Ind., March 29. All
wires into the Wabash valley below
Terre Haute, went-down today and
flood conditions at Vincennes and
Evansville are unknown. Residents
of the lowlying districts, however,
were warned in time to flee to high
ground, and fatalities are not be
lieved to have' occurred. The prop
erty damage will be heavy.
Columbus, Ohio, March 29. Talk
ing from a telephone pole 75 miles
south of Lancaster, C. Brawleg today
informed Governor Cox that the
flood situation at Marietta, Ohio,
could hardly be worse. The river
there, he said,, is six feet higher
than it was in' 1 8S4, when its flood
waters destroyed one-third of the
city. Supplies, Brawleg said, wehe
needed at once.
Reports received here today said
that the entire Ohio- river valley is
in danger. Portsmouth and Ironton
are inundated and the crest of the
flood is yet to come. A 70-foot stage
is expected at both places.
Miami Floods Subside.
The flood waters here and at Day
ton, Zanesville and Piqua are sub
siding rapidly. Governor Cox has
announced that relief has reached
all these points, but that clothing
and more food supplies are still
needed.
Eighty-five corpses had been re
covered here up to 1 o'clock today,
38 identified.. Colonel Barger, com
manding the troops guarding the
flooded districts, still estimates the
dead here at 200. Undertakers who
are fighting for possession of bodies
and removing them to private
morgues are delaying identification.
MONEYNEEDED QUICKLY
Greatest Need Is Money at Once to
Ruy Provisions for the Des
titute. Columbus, Ohio, March 27. That
money by telegraph is the urgent
need of Ohio's flood-swept districts
is the substance of a proclamation
issued by Governor Cox today. He
said it is impossible to get supplies
to the stricken districts because fail
road trains are unable to operate and
that suppplies can best be procured
at the nearest points to the cities
and towns affected.
"Tht situation is critical , and the
need is urgent," said the proclama
tion. Contributions may be- sent to
Governor Cox.
An instrument Las been invented
for determining the intensity of heat
by listening to it.
IXKTORS WOX CASE.
Damage Suit Against Physicians for
$2.-,(HM Decided by Jury.
The damage suit brought in behalf
of a lad named Wood, from' near
Rogue River, against Dr. Wood of
that place, and Dr. Swedenburg of
Ashland, for $25,000 damage for al
leged malpractice in improperly set
ting a limb, was decided by a jury
Friday in favor of the defendants.
Nurses at the hospital and other pa
tients testified that the boy was re
bellious and refused to obey the or
ders of the physicians as to the use
and care of the limb.
Dedicate Stntc-Okned Railroad.
San Francisco, March 29. In the
presence of the governor, the mayor,
meMbers of the state board of har
bor commissiofteis and other nota
ble?, and marked by a military pa
rade, San Francisco's state-owned
belt railroad connecting the docks
with the heart of the city was dedi
cated today. It is expected to carry
the bulk of the 1915 fair traffic.
The celebration began at 11:30
o'clock with a tour of the bay in ihi
army tug Slocum. Following this,
the new docks between Harrison and
Brannan streets were inspected.
These docks are said to the finest
in the world.
At 1:45 o'clock, with the guests of
honor in three coaches, the first
train on the belt line crossed Market
street. At the end of the run the
party as taken to Fort Mason and
then over the exposition grounds.
At the Presidio a military review
was held.
ASH LAM) TOOK LETS.
10,000 Secured by Commercial Club
for Distribution.
The first installment of the 10.000
booklets describing Ashland recently
ordered by the Commercial Club
have been received. If you have any
friends whom you wish to interest
in this city call at the Commercial
Club and get a copy. It sets forth
the possibilities of the country in
good ape.
There are 10,010,304 depositors in
United States savings banks, averag
ing $444 each.
THE DATEJS CHANGED
Polytechnic Play to Be Given Thurs
day Night Instead of Fri
day Night.
Because of the fact that the date
chosen- conflicted with the last num
ber of the lecture course, the play,
"The Stubbornness of Geraldine,"
will be produced at the high school
gym Thursday evening instead of
Friday evening as at first announced.
"The Stubbornness of Geraldine"
is a four-act comedy written by the
late Clyde Fitch, and first produced
with Mary Mannering in the role of
Geraldine. The piece is exceptional
ly clean, free from slang and sensa
tion, and is regarded as one of Mr.
Fitch's best efforts. The students of
the Polytechnic have been working
diligently the past two months and
will be able to give an excellent pro
duction. Tickets are on sale at
Lane's confectionery.
To demonstrate the stability of
the cars it builds, one automobile
concern tilts them with the wheels
on one side four feet higher than
the other without upsetting.
Porto, Ricans are displacing bujl
drawn carts on great estates by auto
mobiles. TAKE OVEOAILROADS
Oliio Governor Jfay (tonunandeer
One or More for Relief
Purposes.
Columbus, Ohio, March 27. That
Governor Cox would commandeer
one or more of the railroad lines in
Ohio and place their operation in the
hands of the military authorities was
announced by the governor tonight.
The governor did not state which
lines will be taken over, but said the
object will be to have a direct route
to carry supplies into Dayton and
also to allow . persons having rela
tives in that city to reach them.
Governor Cox today declared a hol
iday of ten days in order to protect
persons having negotiable paper fall
ing due. '
Latest things in wall paper at
Dickerson's.
J. PEIRPONT MORGAN PASSES AWAY
WORLD RENOUNED FINANCIER PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT IS REPORT
RECEIVED IN ASHLAND THIS MORNING
According to reports received in
this city this morning, J. Pierpont
Morgan, the financier, is read at
Rome. Morgan, who has been very
ill in Egypt, was on his way home
to America when illness compelled
him to stop in Rome, where the end
came.
New York, March 29. J. F. Mor
gan, Jr.. asked tonight in regard to
reports from Rome and from London
that i:is father's condition is pro
gresing unfavorably, said:
"'I received a cable message which,
while it gave no details, gave it that
my father's condition had been less
favorable for the last three days,
and in view of hi years is such as
to give rise to considerable anxiety."
Rome, March 29. J. P. Morgan's
condition is such that his physicians
have prescribed the "rest cure" for
him. This means that he will be de
prived of the privilege of seeing even
SCIOTO YIELDS SIXTY
Coroner Estimates Death List in City
at 20O Nearly 10O Children
of Flood Horn.
Columbus. Ohio, March 28. The
morgues of Columbus filled up slow
ly tonight as the swollen waters of
the Scioto gradually receded. The
number of bodies' recovered from the
flood reached 60.
Through the temporary morgue
hundreds of survivors passed, dread
ing to find their missing loved ones.
Twenty-three bodies lay in a tempo
rary morgue on the east bank of the
Scioto and 20 more were placed in a
recently constructed fire engine
house on the hilltop, ;ust west of the
flood district.
In the West Side morgue the flood
had cut off all electric power and
the volunteer undertaRers worked by
the light of flickering candles and
lamps. Several bedies lay in small
undertaking shops in various parts
of the city. . Reports reached Colum
bus tonight that several bodies had
been seen floating in the river at
Circleville, 25 miles below here. The
authorities believe these were vie-
tims of the Columbus flood and that
bodies of many o those who lost
their lives never will be recovered.
While bodies were picked up wher
ever found today, the energies of the
authorities were directed toward res
cuing the thousands marooned on
upper stories, on roofs and in trees.
For miles along the swollen river
there are great drifts of debris.
Practically all the bodies recovered
have been taken from the edges of
these drifts as the waters receded
and the authorities believe that many
more are buried beneath them. No
attempt can be made to search these
drifts until the water subsides. Cor
oner Benkert tonight said the death
list would reach 200.
Great distress timong the surviv
ors was caused by the separation of
families and the consequent dread
that the missing lad been drowned.
Since the rescue work nearly 100
children of the flood have been born.
The authorities opened a maternity
hospital tonight where the new moth
ers, with their babies, were cared
for.
When the motoiboat rescuers were
forced by darkness to suspend their
work, half a score of blocks in the
worst of the flood district had not
been reached. In the upper floors
of houses in this district were many
survivors who had been without food
since Tuesday. An effort will be
made tomorrow to reach this section.
The river fell gradually today with
no indications of further high water.
Did Themselves Credit.
The- Ashland high school orches
tra gave a very enjoyable concert at
the high school gym Friday evening
and also added quite a Bum to the
exchequer of the musical department
of the schools. When the board ad
vanced the means .last fall for the
orchestra to hire instructors it was
with the understanding that the or
chestra was to attempt to pay at
least part of it back. It was for this
purpose that the concert was held.
There was a good sized audience
present and a goodly sum was net
ted the school.
Scale receipts
lngs office. -
his intimate friends, who will be
rigidly excluded from his apartments.
Officially, it is announced that Mr.
Morgan's conditio:! is unchanged,
and that while ho is not suffering
iron) any specific disease, his physi
cian are aiming at strengthening
his entire organism. For this reason
they have ordered complete rest for
their patient. During his first week
in Rome, contrary to the advice of
the doctors, Mr. Morgan rather over
exerted himself.
Herbert L.. Satterlee, his son-in-law,
in answer to inquiries tonight
regarding Mr. Morgan's health, said:
"Mr. Morgan was visited today by
Dr. George A. Dixon of New York
and Professor Ginzeppe Bastianelli,
and both physicians assert that he is
simply over-tired. Mr. Morgan slept
most of the day because, owing to a
great ball held at the hotel where
he is staying, he passed an uncom
fortable night. He enjoyed his meals
today, however, and took abundant
nourishment.
PREPARATIONS RUSHED
Dallas and Other Southwestern Cities
Making Rig Preparations for
Visiting Shriners.
Dallas, Texas. The executive com
mittee of Hella Temple is rushing
preparations for the meeting of the
Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Or
der Nobles Mystic Shrine, in this5
city May 12-15. Advices received
from every temple in Shrinedom in
dicates a large attendance and ar
rangements are being mode accord
ingly. The. 1913 Imperial Shrine
meeting, it is declared, will be
marked by three big features that
will make it live long in history.
These features are the beauty of the
souvenirs to be given Imperial of
ficers representatives and visiting
Nobles, the lavlshness and brilliance
of the street decorations and the va
riety of entertainment features. A
complimentary tour of Texas for vis
iting officers,, representatives and .
their ladies is one of the big enter
tainment features and one that has
occasioned the most favorable com
ment throughout Shrinedom.
The executive committee of Hella
Temple has recently awarded a con- '
tract calling for an outlay of nearly
$20,000 in flags, colors, bunting and
carnival pennants lor street decora
tions. In addition there are to be
hundreds of emblazoned Shrine em
blems used in the general decoration
scheme. All the downtown business
streets and several of the main thor
oughfares leading into the resident
districts are provided for. Mer
chants and business men are co-operating
with the committee on decora
tion and are now closing contracts
for a superb decoration of their own
respective buildings.
The executive committee is with
holding the nature of the souvenirs
to be given visitors as they desire to
have these in the nature of a sur
prise. Judging from the information
given out, they will be of a nature
emblematic of the Order of the Mys
tic Shrine and something that may
bo kept in the years to come 83 a
reminder of Hella Temple and of
Dallas.
Entertainment features galore have
been provided for out of a fund of'
$100,000 subscribed for that purpose
by local businessmen and members
of Hella Temple. Starting off with
Sunday, May 11, the entire week will
be taken up with leature after fea
ture balls, banquets, parades, Mexi
can dinners, receptions, drill con
tests, band concerts, a wild west
round-up, winding up with a thousand-mile
tour of Texas in which the
cities of Austin, San Antonio, Hous
ton and GalveBton will be visited.
In fact, the entire southwest is
Joining hands with Dallas to maku
the 1913 Imperial Shrine meeting a
Biiccess from every standpoint. En
tertainment preparations are being
made at Austin, San Antonio, Hous
ton and Galveston for after the con
vention, while! several Oklahoma cit
ies will endeavor to have the visitors
stop over en route to Dallas so that
they may be gien a sample of Okla
homa hospitality.
The latest dreadnought, the Fuso,
being tyiilt in Japan, vlll be able
to throw a broadside three times
heavier than .that of the original
dreadnought.