Ashland tidings., April 21, 1913, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, April 21, 1013.
MURDEROUS OUTLAW FINALLY SLAIN
SEVEN MEN FELL VICTIMS TO MANIAC BEFORE HE WAS KILLED
BY DEPUTY SHERIFF QUIMBY
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Shelton, Wash., April 17. John
Tornow, the outlaw. Is dead. He
was killed yesterday by Deputy Sher
iff Quimby in a battle in which
Charles Lathrop and Louis Blair lost
their lives. The three bodies were
found today in the clearing around
Tornow's cabin in the forest by a
posse which responded to the alarm
sent out by Quimby last nl-iht.
The posse came out from the scene
of Tornow's last stand without the
bodies. Sheriff Mathews said the
trail was so rough it would be use
less to attempt to carry them out
until the trail was made wider. The
bodies were placed in Tornow's cabin
to prevent them being molested by
wild animals. Work will begin at
once in improving the trail.
Blair and Lathrop knew their slay
er well. Lathrop was formerly a
close, friend of Tornow end often
went hunting with him. After Tor
now killed his nephews, the Bauer
twins, and a reward was placed on
his head, Lathrop determined to cap
ture his former friend and win the
reward of $3,000 which ha.i been of
fered. Blair was a close friend of Deputy
Sheriff McKenzie, killed by Tornow a
little more than a year ago.
The finding of Tornow's body sub
stantiated the statement of Deputy
Sheriff Quimby that he say the out
law fall as he fired last but feared
the outlaw was resorting to a ruse
and hurried back to tho camp to
summon help, leaving the bodies of
his comrades where they fell. Lath
rop and Blair died before they had
a chance to (ire a shot.
Tornow was called the "Man Tiger
of the Olympics," and for two years
defied all efforts to captuio him, hid
ing in the wildest country in the
northwest. He was a crack shot, an
experienced woodsman, and of un
sound mind. He was the west's last
bad man.
John Tornow began his murderous
career September 3, 1911, when he
murdered his twin nephaws, John
and Will Bauer, aged 19 years. The
mystery surrounding the death of
these young men may never be clear
ed. About ten days prior to their
death . Sheriff Edward Payette re
ceived word that John Tornow, an
escaped maniac, was seer, in the
neighborhood, his only clothing be
ing made from the hide of an elk.
He was unkempt and his appearance
created considerable excitement.
Tornow had previously escaped from
a private sanitarium in Portland,
and it is presumed that hii nephews
came upon him as he was drying
meat in a shack and when they shot
a large black boar he thought they
were after him and he murdere'd
them. He shot both boys through
the heart and buried their bodies so
cunningly that they would have nev
er been found but for the blood
hounds. In February, 1912, Louis Blair
and Getty, trappers, came across the
carcass of an elk which Tornow had
killed ' and which he was curing.
They notified the sheriff, and Dep
uty Sheriff Colin McKende and Al
V. Elmer started after him. Thir
teen days later their lifeless bodies
were dug from a T-shaped grave in
the wilds of the Ox Bow country,
Tornow having waited in, ambush
for his victims and shot vhem with
out a word of warning. His camp
was a fortress, hidden and protected
by huge trees.
The killing of the two deputies
occurred in the northeastern part of
Chehalis county, 30 miles west of
Shelton, the county seat of Mason
county, and 10 miles from camp No.
5 of the Sampson Logging Company,
in the heart of the Olympics, where
horses cannot travel, owing to the
rough ground and the thick timber
and heavy underbrush.
A posse also went out from Shel
ton this morning to bring in the
bodies of Blair and Lathrop, both of
whom lived at that place. A third
posse has also gone into the woods.
Unclaimed Letters.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the Ashland postoffice for the
week ending April 19, 1913:
Ladies Miss lone Berrett, Brid
get Flamery, Mrs. George R. Myers,
Mrs. Walter Stanton, Miss Violet
Warde.
Gentlemen Charles S. Howatt,
George B. Young.
Mgr. Opera House.
These letters will be sent to the
dead letter office May 3, 1913,
if not called for before. In calling
for the above please say "advertised,"
giving date of list. A charge of one
cent will be made on delivery.
J. R. CASEY, P. M.
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Theodore Roosevelt lunched with
the school children on the east side,
New York city, paying one cent each
for a bowl of bean soup and an egg
sandwich. Colonel Roosevelt is a
strong advocate of school boards fur
nishing lunches at cost to pupils.
What's the matter with a lunch bas
ket from home like we used to
carry?
A 16-foot candle, to cost $1,500
and which will burn nine months if
constantly lighted, is to be placed in
the Vatican in honor of J. Pierpont
Morgan. It is only intended, to light
it on important feast day v and it is
expected that it will last many years.
The Southern Pacific made a good
start at fixing the grounds at the
motor depot, but 6eems to have had
that tired feeling and left the work
unfinished.
labor is more exhausting than physi
cal. That is probably one reason
why the laborer's home is often more
neatly k,ept in its surroundingsg than
that of the business man. The latter
is often more exhausted than the for
mer at the end of the dayV. work.
If you did not get around to clean
up your yard today do not think you
can't do it till next spring. Better
late than never, and better never
late.
In fact, we are all apt to think
the other fellow has an easier job
than we have, when perhaps if we
knew all about it we would not
cnange places with him. All are
more or less like the Spartan youth,
keeping the fox that is gnawing our
itals from the knowledge of the
world.
If we remembered this we would
all be more charitable to others. We
can excuse our own shortcomings be
cause we know what errors of dispo
sition, what besetting sins, we have
to contend with, but we fail to know,
or realize if we do know, the things
our neighbor has to contend with.
Old-timers here say never before
have so many of the fruit trees been
in bloom at the same time as this
spring, and the result is certainly
most beautlfut. The hillsides look
like immense bouquets of pink and
white.
Because Governor Hadlcy of Mis
sourl wore a green tie when having
his picture painted and insisted on
having it painted blue and white,
"Just like Teddy's." a New York art
ist avers she was not able to do
good work and should be paid-for a
portrait the purchasing committee
refused to accept.
Every indication seems to point to
a revival of business not only in Ash
land and the Rogue River Valley,
but elsewhere, there being a much
better feeling than a few months
ago, and after all it Is mostly a mat
ter of feeling. It is seldom that the
masses of the people are as hard up
as they think th'ey are.
Many people make the mistake of
thinking that the man or woman who
does not do manual labor does not
work, but any man or woman who
bas done both will agree that mental
State Superintendent Alderman.
city superintendent-elect of Portland,
says he Is going to aim to clve the
children of Portland an education
which will enable them to meet the
hard knocks of life. Then let him
teach them to work and work and
then work some more. The trouble
of later years' developments in edu
cation Is that the tendency has been
to avoid making the pupils work in
the lower grades, and then load them
with useless studies and fads in the
upper grades and high schools.
DEPENDABLE SHOES AT EXACTLY HALF PRICE
After May 1st I will handle no more eastern made shoes. My efforts will be ex
pended entirely on custom work. I have about 500 pairs of dependable Men's, Ladies'
and Glildrens' shoes still on hand. I am going to move farther down town May 1st and
1 do not intend to take a single pair of eastern made shoes with me. So here they go
to the slaughter house where BOTH LIVER AND LIGHTS ARE GUT OUT
OF PRICES. ,
The assortment Is not large. Make your selection quick before your sizes and I
the style you like are gobbled up. Our slaughter prices is the lowest on high grade f
shoes you ever heard of. Gome and see.
150 PAIRS OF MEN'S LOW SHOES
Regular $5.00 shoe in this sale $2.50
Regular $4.00 shoe until May 1st $2.00
Regular $3.00 shoe until May 1st $1.50
Regular $2.50 shoe, this week only $1.00
150 PAIRS OF MEN'S HIGH SHOES
The$5.00 kind next week at " $2.50
The $4.00 kind until May 1st at $2.00
The $3.00 kind this week at r $1.50
Some better to sell at - $3.25
100 PAIRS LADIES HIGH SHOES
2.50 values and up some of them
bough to sell as high as $4.00 at $1.50
125 PAIRS LADIES' LOW SHOES
To close at 50 and 75 cents
A FEW CHILDRENS SHOES LEFT
They go at from 25 cents to $1.00
A few pairs of boys light summer shoes
These Shoes are Such Values You Can Afford to Buy Now Even if You Will Not Wear
Them For a Year to Come
This is not the biggest shoe sale ever held in Ashland, but it is the biggest values for
your money that you have ever been offered here. THE LAST PAIR MUST BE
OUT BY MAY FIRST. If you get the splendid money saving benefits of this sale
you must come quick.
STAR SHOE FACTORY
I 383 East Main
C. J. COBURN, Proprietor
ASHLAND
383 East Main
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FIGHT FOR THE BIRDS
Audubon Societies Waging Fight on
Trade in Plumage of Birds
Throughout World.
A noted prelate of the Catholic
church once said that if they could
teach children until they were ten
years old they cared not what influ
ence was brought to bear later, they
remained true to the first teachings.
This is true. If the schools fall to
teach the need of work In the early
years and make the pleasures and
amusements the chief part of the
school life, what wonder that base
ball, football and class parties are
paramount In the minds of the high
school students or that amusements
are held superior to duties after
leaving school.
Phone news Items to the Tidings.
The destruction of great numbers
of native birds which are the natural
enemies of insects has at last aroused
the law makers. The fight is now
being waged in congress by bird lov
ers, scientists' and farmers on the
one hand and the millinery interests
of New York, Boston and Philadel
phia on the other hand.
The point at issue Is the passage
of a provision in the tariff act which
prohibits the imp&rtation of aigrettes
and the plumage of other wild birds
into this country, except ostrich
plumes and the feathers of domestic
fowls. The ways and meann commit
tee has reported favorably on this
cestion of the tariff act, but the
wholesale milliners have combined
and are using every effort to defeat
it.
The trade in plumage of native
birds is now illegal in some states,
but not in others. As long as the
government permits the importation
of goods which are contraband In
certain states it is practically Impos
sible to prevent the use and sale in
other states.
"""If our school children, teachers
and bird lovers will write immediate
ly to thein senators and congressmen
asking for their assistance In the
passage of this measure we can at
one stroke accomplish one-of the
greatest Bteps in wild bird protec
tion that has ever been taken. We
can save untold numbers of our song,
Insectivorous and plume birds from
one end of the nation to the other,"
said T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of
the National Association of Audubon
Societies.
"The demand for plumage of wild
birds for millinery purposes during
the past 25 years has grown to enor
mous proportions. In an effort to
supply the markets, our woods, fields
and seacoasts have been combed sys
tematically by plume hunters to get
bird wings and breasts to use in the
millinery trade. Many varieties of
birds are in the best plumage during
the breeding season, and they are
killed at this time and the young are
left in the nest to die of starvation."
"The investigations of ihe Biolog
ical Survey of the Department of Ag-
) rlculture show that the greater num
ber of our wild birds are of benefit
in protecting crops," continued Mr.
Pearson. "This fight is clear-cut
and we believe the farmers, fruit
growers and others throughout the
country willraise their voices against
the millinery trust which seeks to
depopulate the bird world."
IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness it Would
Bring to Asldand Homes.
Hard to do housework with an
aching back.
Brings you hours of misery at
leisure of at work.
If women only knew the cause
that
Backache pains often come from
weak kidneys,
'Twould same much needless woe.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys.
Read what an Ashland citizen says:
- Mrs. Byron Cole, 737 Boulevard,
Ashland, Ore., says: "I suffered for
a year with a most distressing kid
ney and bladder complaint. If I
stooped I had a sharp stitch in my
back. Often I could hardly straight
en after one of these attacks. I was
sometimes afflicted with dizziness
and my health was all rn down.
Doan's Kidney Pills were just what
I needed. In less than a week after
I began taking them I Improved In
every way. I steadily got getter and
it wasn't long before I had no more
trouble. My health Is now good."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents.. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name--Doan's
and take no other.
Canaries have proved to be the
most sensitive animal test of the
safety of mine air after explosions.
In recent experiments air containing
0.16 per cent of carbon monoxide
was breathed by, a mouse for an
hour before effects were seen, but a
canary showed distress in three min
utes and fell from its peroh in eight.
Some miners already carry these
birds.
The I. W. W. at Denver 'threaten
a hunger strike. Why not let them
strike? It will save expense not to
have to feed them, and besides the
old adage is, "He who will not work
shall not eat."
Twenty thousand cigars, which
formed part of the Mauna Kea's car
go when lime in the hold burned at
Hilo, Hawaii, will not go up in
smoke, but will be stewed and slash
ed and finally go into a preparation
to kill ants and other insects harm
ful to plants.
With one of 40,000 tons' capacity
at Kiel and a 35.000-ton one at
Hamburg, Germany, claims to have
the largest two drydocks in the
world.
Taking the whole of Europe into
consideration, there are 107 inhab
itants to the square mile.
HSHLHND
Storage and Transfer Co.
C. F. BATES, Proprietor.
Two warehouses near Depot
Goods of all kinds stored at rtasona
ble rates.
A General Transfer Business.
Wood and Bock Springs Coal !
Phone 117.
Of five 99 Oak Street.
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