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1 r AGE RIGHT ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, August 18, 1913 Classified Advertisements (Continued from Page Three.) TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FOR SALE A horse, buggy and harness, cheap. Inquire J. A. Bish. 319 Avery St. 24-2t FOR SALE Nearly new Ford car, 1913 model, $600 on easy terms. Apply J. R. Robertson, 340 Al mond St. 24-tf LOST A brown purse between Union St. and the Boulevard and Christian church. Address 549 Fairview St. 24-2t YOi SALE At a bargain, a five roomed modern house and two lots ' on a corner. Address B. C. S., care Tidings. 24-lmo WANTED To buy, a five-passenger Ford auto. Must be in good condi tion and cheap for cash. Address Box 105, Talent, Ore., or call 373-R-2. 24-3t FOU SALE 11,500, balance on easy I payments, 5-roomed house with bath, on 1 Yt acres of ground. Young orchard and strawberry patch. Address X, care Tidings. 24"tf I rOTATOES'FOR SALE I would be pleased to book your order for any quantity, either for immediate or future delivery. Varieties, Early i Rose and Burbanks. Thomas H. I Thompson, 143 Granite St., Ash land, Ore. Phone 267-Y. 24-lmo I Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining uncalled for in the Ashland postoffice for the week ending August 16, 1913: Ladies Miss Ethel Benbow, Miss V. A. Francis, Mrs. Frederick Fick, Miss Hazel Long, Miss Mary McGin nis, Mrs. Nettie Nichols, Miss Babe Rass, Mrs. Walter Swink, Mrs. Daisey Warren. Gentlemen Ray Davis, J. C. Kleiner Co., And. Lindberg, Jhon. Myers, Will or Leland Reed, W. D. Reed, L. G. Spear, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spear, Norman Walling, Grant Elmer Walters. These letters will be sent to the dead letter office August 30, 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. Cooked Food Sale. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold a cooked food sale Saturday, August 23, in the Louis Werth building on North Main street. 23-2t Old papers for sale at the Tidings is M I III I M 1 1 1 1 GRANTS PASS RAILROAD. Contract for City-Owned Unit About to Be Let. Giants Pass, Aug. 15. Matters connected with the building of the new railroad to the coast have been progressing during the past few days, and the city council has approved the making of a contract with the Inter state Construction Company for the building of the first unit to "Wilder ville, which will be the municipally owned portion of the line. This con tract has not yet been fully agreed upon as regards all of its details, but it seems certain that it will be com pleted within a few hours. Under the contract as approved by the coun cil and by Mr. Loftus for the con struction company, the company pur chases the city bond issue and builds the railroad to Wilderville, with Its equipment, upon the basis of the fig ures made by the engineers for the city. The same company is also mak ing plans for the building of the road through from Wilderville to the coast, but this is of course no part of the contract with the city. The promise has been given, however, that when the city and the interests along the lino meet the requests that have been made upon them for help, the road will be built, and the Inter state company is building the ten mile city-owned unit to operate in conjunction with the completed line. The council has approved an option of purchase, whereby the ten-mile unit can be purchased by the coast road people within three years at $200,000, and a lease ha3 likewise been given approval for the opera tion of the ten-mile unit by the coast road people in the Interim. Pending the closing of the contract the city is continuing the work upon the grade a few miles out from town, and the California people who are to build the road through to Crescent City under the imposed conditions have their survey party in the vicin ity of Hays Hills making changes that will eliminate the necessity for the tunnel there. India annually exports about 1,000,000 pounds of fish maws and shark fins for edible purposes, main ly to other oriental lands. An apparatus invented by a Paris scientist hatches chickens and pro tects them from all microbes until they reach a desired age. r? i J ,0 Mi mf "I miliar Store and Six $40 6-ft. plate glass mirror-back show cases, each $ 16.50 8100 L. C Smith No. 2 typewriter, in good condition, $ 42.50 $110 National cash register, almost new, - - $ 46.00 $50 roll top desk, 6-foot, - - - - - - $ 20.00 $330 new Cary safe, absolutely fireproof, - - $225.00 Many other bargains equally remarkable. Everything must be sold by SEPTEMBER FIRST Fad ffc 220 ! Mill TO CAMP ONAUGUST 21 1st Co. C. A. C. Will Leave for Ft. ' Stevens That Day for An nual Encampment. Six hundred members of the Ore gon coast artillery corps, consisting of the first company from Ashland, second and third companies from Eu gene, the band and eighth company from Portland, fifth company from Albany, sixth c mpany from Cottage j Grove, fourth company from Rose- Durg, seventh company from Med ford all under the command of Colonel Creed C. Hammond of Eu gene, will go to Ft. Stevens August twenty-second to take part in joint and militia coast defense maneuvers. For ten days, until August thirty first, they will man the big guns, train them upon ships that enter the harbor as imaginary enemies, or aim and shoot at moving targets four, five and even six miles distant. Fort Stevens on the Oreeon side and Forts Columbia and Canby on the Washington side stand guard at the entrance to the Columbia. For nine miles out to sea the guns of these fortifications command the ap proach. A mine company is sta tioned on each side of the river, which is filled with several types of high explosive mines. According to Colonel Hammond, who is now making preparations for the annual maneuvers, the first, fourth, fifth,' sixth, seventh and eighth companies will be assigned to the ten-inch quick firing disappear ing guns, which fire a 605-pound projectile. Their first trajectory fire almost on a straight line will penetrate the steel side of a warship, or batter loose the plates of armor. The second and third companies, of Eugene, have been assigned to a twelve-inch mortar battery. The mortar projectile weighs 1000 pounds, is lifted three and one-half miles into the air, and is hurled nine miles out to sea. . The United States navy now considers mortars the most dangerous guns in all its modern fortifications. The Eugene soldiers will aim the projectile to fall upon the deck of an imaginary ship. "The Japanese army destroyed the Russian warships in the harbor of Port Arthur," relates Colonel Ham mond, "with mortar gun fire. The mortars were located seven miles away behind the high hills. A few days ago, when Secretary of War Garrison visited the coast defenses of Puget Sound, one of the mortar batteries fired at and hit a moving target nine miles away. The target was moving six miles an hour, and high mountains stood between it and the battery. The projectile, weigh ing half a ton, rose three and one half miles in the air and passed over the mountains. "When the coast artillery troops arrived they will go into camp imme diately in the rear of the batteries. , HWWWH4WWHM11 1 ! 1 'Hfl"l 'I' 'I 111! 1 1 1 H I I 1 1 I SSI Office MdDtor Supply WEST MAIN STREET, MEDFORD, OREGON I C 1 V During the first days the men are trained to handle and drill with the big guns. Then subcalibre practice Is held. A steel tube is placed in the gun, reducing the bore, and sev eral hundred rounds of three-inch shells are fired at a target almost three miles at sea. "Service practice comes next. The tug tows a target at sea, while the men in the primary and secondary station range towers, locate the tar get, its range, distance, speed, wind, tide and other factors. This inform ation is telephoned to the platting room near the guns, where it is im mediately charted, as soon as the bat tery commander designates the tar get. "Twenty-two men are needed to load and fire a big gun, but with all the data before them it takes less than a minute. During a certain period every ship that enters the river is picked up, tracked and the oretically destroyed. At night the ship is followed by searchlights. The call to arms is sounded and all guns are immediately manned. "A niKht attack if vorv thiMMino- I The ease with which one of those bO, 000-pound guns trips into bat tery, comes up over the parapet and fires; the recoil and concussion; the screech of the shell hurtling through the air with the noise of a railroad train, piercing the target, and rico cheting across the waves for miles, is a wonderfully fascinating experi ence. "The big gun, mounted on its car riage, is a wonderful piece of ma chinery, with countless intricate parts. Realize that it takes two sacks of powder, each the size of a fifty-pound sack of flour, to fire the big guns. Imagine the interest for the men In the electric power plants, the powerful sixty-inch searchlights, and the preparation and planting of the submarine mines each contain ing 100 pounds of gun-cotton. "infantry drills, guard mounts, parades, reviews, band concerts and athletic sports are also held by the soldiers. Such is the work of our citizen soldiery at camp to supple ment their armory routine drills. As this country maintains no large standing army, it is the new policy of the government to build up and to increase the efficiency of the mil itia." LOBBY INVESTIGATION. Washington, Aug. 16. The house lobby investigators centered their at tention today on statements of I. H. Michaels, one time chief page of the" house, that Representative James Mc Dermott of Chicago has received about $7,500 for his efforts to defeat the bill affectins local pawnbrokers and loan sharks. After more than five hours hard work the committee was not much nearer a definite con clusion about the $7,500 than when Michaels first made the statement. Michael reiterated today his testi- 1 1 1 Fi&tores Dirt C. L. Cunningham. E. E. Bagley. Cunningham & Co. 175 East Main St. rhone 03. InZB INVITE YOUR PRTRONHCE P. DODGE & SONS House Furnishers 1 Deputy County Coroner i'? 1 1 1 No Hunting Vp the Canyon. There is to be no hunting on the Ashland Watershed. This is official. It was given out some time ago, but many hunters disputed it. Game Warden Hubbard wrote to the attor ney general for information. In Sat urday's Portland Oregonian the fol lowing appeared: "Attorney General Crawford has told Game Warden W. L. Finley in a formal opinion that the Ashland na tional lorest reserve is included in the law which forbids hunting or trapping on any watershed in the Btate. It is pointed out that the tract was set aside as a forest re serve in 1893 by President Cleveland, but that it has since been known as a watershed reserve to supply the city of Ashland with a water supply. "Many inquiries have reached the game warden as to whether this tract actually comes within the scope of the law, and, realizing the fine point, Mr. Finley referred the question to the state legal department. "The attorney general has also ruled that aliens who purchased or dinary hunting or fishing licenses before the enactment of the new law requiring a special gun license are entitled to the right to hunt or fish during the life of that license. The new law prescribes a special 'gun license' costing $25, which must be secured before the ordinary licenses may be taken out." rnony that McDermott told him he got $7,500 in the loan-shark matter and stuck to his story under a severe cross-examination. Former Washington pawnbrokers who quit business when the bill be came a law gave the committee no definite Information connecting Mc Dermott with such a fund or disclos ing that the pawnbrokers ever raised such an amount for any purpose. r? s? r3 Cheap I C(D)0 HIM I AND Undertakers Lady Assistant NOTICE. Please get your items for the Tid ings in the day before date of publi cation, if possible. All matter must hereafter be in type by noon on pub lication day. Even Exchange. Eggs and produce taken In ex change for dry goods, shoes, gro ceries, etc., at the Ashland Trading Company. 71-tf The first steel pen was made in 1830. LOCAL S. P. TIME CARD. Northbound. Leave No. 20 7:00 a.m. Grants Pass motor (main line depot) 9:50 a.m. Grants Pass motof (city depot) 10:00 a.m. Grants Pass motor (main line depot) 3:30 p.m. Grants Pass motor (city depot) 3:35 p.m. No. 16 4:50 p.m. No. 14 5:20 p.m. Southbound. Arrive. No. 19 .12:30 a.m. Grants Pass motor (city depot) 9:30 a.m. Grants Pass motor (main line depot) 9:40 a.m. No. 13 n:35 a.m. Grants Pass motor (city depot) 3:io p.m. Grants Pass motor (main line depot).. 3:20 p.m. No. 15 4:15 p.m. I I I I I U II 1 1 1 1 1 I ) 1 1 0
