Omon Hlitorictl SocUty, 107 Second 8t" ASHLAND LITHIA SPRINGS, ORE. Th Land of Delirnts. Wheie Uv Pine and the Palm Meet. The Greatest "Inland Life Saving Station" In the World Today. ASHLAND IJTHIA SPRINGS, ORE. "JSVtl910 rt OI Tour Itinerary 1?I li'-fUte You Glow Healthy and DINGS VOL. XXXVIII ASHLAND. OREGON vMON DAY, MAY 11, 1914 NUMBER 100 LAND Springs Mass Meeting Friday Night a Rouser THE LARGEST, MOST ENTHUSIASTIC AND HARMONIOUS PUBLIC MEETING EVER HELD IN ASHLAND In answer to the rail of the mineral springs development committee for a mass meeting to be held at the Chau tauqua building on Friday night for the purpose of advising the commit tee how to proceed with the bond election and for handling the springs project after the bonds are issued, an audience variously estimated at from nine to fifteen hundred citizens and taxpayers gathered in the most en thusiastic and harmonious meeting ever held in the history of Ashland. The spirit of unity and co-operation permeated the meeting and not a dis cordant note was heard. Everybody there was for the project, heart and soul, their only interest being to shape up the enterprise so as to make it the great success that the splendid mineral waters Justify. After the ob jects of the meeting were explained by the committee the meeting was Riven into the hands of the taxpay ers, who freely discussed the proper methods to be applied to make the venture a success. The committee announced the splendid donation made by Messrs. Butler and Perozzi and what it meant to the city park as well as the springs enterprise, and the audience went wild with enthusi astic applause. The spirit of com munity interest and forward move ment was there stronger than it had ever been exemplified in Ashland be fore. There was a total absence of self-interest; every mind and heart centered on the big thing, for the fu ture of Ashland. There was no bick ering, no reflection on anybody. The mayor and most of the councilmen were there and joined the crowd heartily in the plans for a greater Ashland, each pledging bis hearty support and co-operation in forward ing the movement. The Following Resolution was read and adopted by unanimous vote: "Whereas, The piping of the min eral waters to our city park and es tablishing Ashland as a watering and health resort is, and ought to be, considered separate and apart from the regular routine business of the city, on account of its many peculiar problems and complications, and must be handled with deliberate and careful thought if it is to be made successful, and "Whereas, The necessary legal pro cedures whereby the bonds are to be voted and the springs project is to be bandied to completion are to be pre pared under the direction of the pres ent mineral springs development com mittee, and "Whereas. The said committee has expressed a desire for suggestions and advice from the taxpayers as to how the plans shall be laid, before tire proper legal steps are taken, and Ticket Endorsed By Prohibitionists The following candidates for state offices were nominated by the state convention of the prohibition party: party: United States senator, H. S. Stine of Medford. Governor, W. S. U'Ren (indepen dent) of Oregon City. State treasurer, B. Lee Paget of Oak Grove. Supreme court justices, C. J. Bright of The Dalles and Judge William M. Ramsey (democrat) of McMinnville. Congress: FirBt district, W. H. Meredith (democrat) of Curry coun ty; Second district, George L. Cleaver of Union county; Third district, Ar thur L. Moulton (progressive) of Portland. Labor commissioner, Mrs. Lucia Faxon Addlton of Portland. Railroad commissioner, Frank J. : Miller (republican) of Linn county. ' Attorney-general, William 11. Trin 5' die of Salem. V State superintendent of public In struction, Curtis P. Coe of McMinn ville. State engineer, John II. Lewis (re publican) of Salem. Circuit Judge, Department No. 6, Multnomah county, John Van Zant'e (democrat) of Portland. Admiral Howard seems able to prove an alibi In case of that incen diary fire at Manzanillo. have called this meeting of taxpayers for the purpose of receiving such ad vice, therefore, "He it resolved. That it is the sense of the taxpayers of the city of Ash land, in mass meeting assembled, that the said development committee is hereby advised as follows: "First That the bond election be so provided that the funds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be used for the mineral springs project and for no other purpose, and shall he made a special fund separate and apart from all other city funds for the purpose; that said funds bo de posited in the city treasury in said separate fund, and that same cannot be paid out by the city treasurer ex cept upon special mineral springs vouchers showing that the specific amounts are paid for labor performed or supplies furnished, in strict pursu ance of the construction and forward ing of the mineral springs enterprise. "Second That the necessary legal procedure be followed so that a spec ial commission, composed of three members, shall take charge of the mineral springs and park develop ment and completion, entirely sep arate and independent from the city council, and that the said commission be elected at the same time the bonds are voted. "Third That no other matter or issue be presented to the voters at the election for said bonds but that neces sary in carrying out the objects here in set forth. "And te it further resolved. That in the employment of labor and pur chase of material in connection with this enterprise, preference be given to citizens of the city of Ashland. "Ashland. Ore., Hay 8, 1914." The meeting was then open under the head. "The good of the order," and again the spirit of unanimity and optimism was reflected in talks from citizens and city fathers. Then a mo tion was offered and carried unani mously asking the present springs de velopment committee, composed of J. P. Dodge, R. L. Minkler and Bert R. Greer, to stand for election as tile commission proided for in the reso lution just adopted, as a commission to carry out the plans of making Ash land a watering and health resort. Under the Instructions given in the above resolution the development committee will now proceed, in con ference and co-operation with the city council, the park board and city at torney, to prepare the proper legal proceedings to carry into effect the bond election and the commission as provided by the resolution. The city band dispensed splendid mu6ic from 7:30 to 8 at the Chautau qua bandstand, for which thanks are due from the citizens. Water Rights Settled June 15 All the water rights of Jackson and Josephine counties, which have been in the course of adjustment for the last eighteen months, will be adjudi cated by June 15, according to Wrater Commissioner Chlnnock, who is in the city for a few days completing the preliminaries and arranging the final details. The decision will be given by Judne F. M. Calkins of the circuit court, upon the recommenda tions of Commissioner Chlnnock, sub ject to appeal to the supreme court. The final ruling Is awaited with in terest by farmers and growers. Acreage, Irrigated and in course of irrigation, totaling 55,000 acres in the two counties, will be affected, and water rights that have been mud dled up since water first flowed In southern Oregon streams will be straightened out. Some were bo in volved in litigation and technicalities, due to no accurate records, that the labor generally accredited to a Phila delphia lawyer was necessary to find a way to give the rights. One of the most Important and best known sites to be affected by the decision will be the water rights owned by the Sterling mine, now con trolled by the Bullls interests. When we remember that Colorado Is a civilized state It is hard to be lieve the stories published about tho mining war in progress there. Portland Stock Market Good Receipts at Portland for the week have been: Cattle 1,595, calves 34, hogs 3,591, sheep 4,528. Cattle Heavy receipts of cattle at the yards this week, about 55 cars on the market Monday. Few good cows and heifers in the lot and same would find ready sale at steady prices. Prime grain-fed steers would bring $8 to $8.25, hay-fed $7.50 to $7.75. Strong demand for heavy bills and prices would be fully as high as preceding week. Hogs A liberal supply of hogs for the week. One load sold at $8.60 Thursday evening, but market is clos ing Friday around $8.50 to $8.55 for extreme top on best light selected swine. Sheep Orass sheep beginning to show up in good numbers. Best grass wethers $5.25 to $5.50, ewes $4.25 to $4.50, spring lambs $7 to $7.23. Danger Period Past For Fruit in Valley The danger period for fruit in Rogue River Valley has practically passed. Fruit prospects at the present time never have shown up better than this year. The heavy blossom of the earliest spring in, recent years has fallen and spraying has been general in the entire valley for the past two weeks. Those pear growers who had benefited by the experience of the last few years in regard to orchard heating have succeeded in saving an extremely heavy and well-distributed crop of pears and apples. In the Bear Creek. Allen. Daggett, 401, Schuchard, Bingham. George B. Carpenter, Scudder and Kenley, IIol loway, Palmer Potter and Gould, Bar num. Gold Range, Washburn, Fiero, Dr. Dean and Marshall orchards par ticularly is the value of orchard heat ing shown, tp greatest advantage. .... These orcharflists as a rule have had experience in previous years in orchard heating, but this year was the first time heating was resorted to on the Daggett orchards, and the re sults speak for the good work of the grower. The cold night of March 25 caught many growers unawares, but the loss was not so great as at first feared. Apples have been nicely thinned in several orchards where heating was usually considered unnecessary, but -where heating of apples was done in time to prevent freezing the crops are unusually heavy. Thinning of several varieties of pears will be necessary unless cold, rainy weather during the next few weeks causes an unusually heavy drop. Hillcrest orchard, protected naturally from frost by the slope of the land and better drainage, will have as large crop of pears as last year, when about thirty cars were shipped. Propping of Bosc pears will be commenced shortly as the pears are beading under the load already. Ap ple thinning will be in progress with in the next two weeks in a great many orchards. The second spraying for codling moth will be in progress shortly, as first brood codling moths will be hatching by the 20th of May of this year. The first caged moths came out the latter part of last week, but the ma Child's Life Saved By Fall on Awning The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bernard DeVore had an accident Monday evening which might easily have proven fatal, says the Central Point Herald. The child was in a bathroom on the third floor and when left alone for a few minutes she climbed upon the sill of an open win dow, lost her balance and fell out ward. Two stories below she struck on an iron rod which holds the awn ing in place and slid down onto the awning roof, where she clung within a few inches of the edge and a fur ther drop of ten feet to the pavement until help came and she was taken down. Beyond some bad bruises the little one is none the worse for the strenuous experience. A co-operative cheese factory is be ing urged by Gold Beach residents. Thirteen Candidates For Governor The election supplies have been sent om by the secretary of state to the counties for distribution and the ballots show a keen competition for nearly all 0f the different offices. The most sought for office is that of governor. For the republican nomination eight men are on the bal lot. They are George ('. Rrownell, William A. Carter, A. M. Crawford, Grant U. Dimick, T. T. Geer. Charles A. Johns, (Jus C. Moser and Jamas With. ouibe. This office is also at tracting most attention in the demo cratic camp, rive being out for the nomination. They are A. S. Bennett, G. A. Cobb, John .Manning, Robert A. Miller and C. J. Smith. The progressives are also in the field with a ticket, but have no can didates out for county offices, their efforts being concentrated on state offices. jority of the larvae that wintered over in their cocoons are still in their winter clothes and have shown no desire to risk our smoky atmosphere. Spraying should be done for both pears and apples by the 21st of May in order to catch the earliest worms of the season, and as the brood prom ises to be very straggling this year a later spray of the arsenate of lead may be necessary about June 1, es pecially should we have any consid erable amount of rain in the mean time. Pests of all kinds seem to be in the minority this year and the year 1914 gives promise of great prosper ity for Rogue River Valley. Will Lecture On Crater Lake Will O. Steel, superintendent of Crater Lake Park, has arranged for a visit of Prof. J. B. Horner, for many years one of the prominent fac ulty members of the Oregon Agricul tural College, Prof. Horner will give his great j illustrated lecture, "The Road From Jerusalem Down to Jericho," in this place Friday evening, May 15. The I lecture will be given in the Chautau j qua building if weather is pleasant; I otherwise in the Methodist church, 7:45 p. m. Admittance free, but a collection will be taken to defray traveling expenses. This lecture was prepured from notes and photographs taken by Prof. i Horner along this historic road dur ing the summer of 1911 and is highly spoken of by the press and those who have heard it. Mr. Steel says that this lecture will be a treat for Ash land people, and Prof. Horner de serves a good hearing. Come and bring your friends. Sheridan's new dog ordinance, re pealing all previous enactments and taking a new start, provides that no tax at all shall be imposed on dogs kept tied up or held In leush when taken upon the street. The elimination of Huerta appears to grow in popularity wit heverybody except Huerta. Store and Home Ruined by Fire The store and home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Duphree, who live at Duphree spur, four miles north of Butte Falls, was completely destroyed by fire Thursday night about 9 o'clock. How the fire started Is not known, but the supposition ls that oil, which was kept in tho store, exploded. No one was at home at the time and the fire was well under way before dis covered. The loss is estimated at $2,000, covered by insurance. Last summer Mr. Duphree lost a large amount of timber by fire and about six months ago his auto was burned In some mysterious manner. Secretary Bryan haH no Intention of resigning. Those who started the rumor must have forgotten that this Is the first, office the colonel bas held In twenty-five years. The Right Spirit Back Of Ashland's Great Enterprise G. S. BUTLER AND D. PEROZZI DONATE LARGE BLOCK OF LAND TO CITY FOR PARK PURPOSES The spirit that spells a greater Ashland was exemplified Thursday when G. S. Butler and I). 1'erozzi do nated the tract, of land at the head of Mill street, which extends up into tho upper park. Already the city owns all of the land on both sides of it, and this being a piece facing S7 feet directly at. the head of Mill street and extending back into the park grounds some five hundred feet, and covering, as it does, a large part of the level ground at that point, it was necessary to the successful laying out of the park that the city acquire that property. Outside of the splendid fountain erected by the Carters in the plaza, the writer has been unable to discov er anything before donated by citi zens to the city for strictly public purposes. The Following Letter Ls Self-Kxplana-torj' s Ashland, Ore., May 7, 1914. Bert R. Greer, Chairman Mineral Springs Develop ment Committee. Dear Sir: In reply to your request for a price on that certain tract of land now owned by us and located at the head of Mill street adjacent to land now owned by the city for park purposes and being about 87 by 500 feet in dimensions and known as the Messenger place, we have the follow ing to offer: We will donate the said property to the city of Ashland for park pur poses, provided that there shall be the sum of $3,000 placed in the hands of a trustee for the erection of a memorial fountain to be built in the park, either upon the land herein donated or some other suitable place In said park, the money to be placed in the State Bank of Ashland as trustee. As soon as the bonds are voted and the funds available for carrying out the mineral springs project wo are ready to execute said deed to the city upon the above condition. Very truly, G. S. BUTLER, D. PEROZZI. The Right Spirit. Beside and above the money value of the land, the spirit of public inter Ashland Pioneer Of 1850 Buried Mrs. Sophia Emory, or "Grandma" Emery" as she was familiarly known to her intimate friends, died Monday, May 3, at the home of her adopted daughter, Mrs. James Davis, of Tolo, aged 94 years, one mouth and eigh teen days. Interment was in Central Point Cemetery, where she was laid to rest by tho side of her husband, who was buried there In 1S91. The funeral services were conducted by the Rebekah lodge of Gold Hill, which lodge she was a member of at the time of her death. She was the oldest living Rebekah in the state, having joined in 1S54. She wns born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1 80. Wheu a young woman she moved to Ash land county, Ohio. She was then Miss Sophia Hoover, and when in Ohio she met Uber Emery, to whom she was married In 1841. They emi grated to Oregon in 18,10. There was nothing out of the ordinary in the life of this young couple, until they came to this state by way of the Isth mus of Panama, which route was then beginning to be used. They traveled overland by pack team. They were destined to become active ly instrumental In the upbuilding of southern Oregon. Mr. Emery being a millwright as welt as a first-class miller, located on the present site of Ashland, Ore., and commenced the erection of a flouring mill in 1851, and a sawmill in 1851 and 1852. He was possessed of considerable means and was count ed among the Influential citizens in this then decldoly new country. He gave to the settlement the name of Ashland from his home county in Ohio. At that time little was thought of tho prosperous town which would afterwards occupy the present site of Ashland, and while many of the present facilities which are enjoyed by tho residents wore hoped for, they were so remote as to est exemplified by two of Ashland's leading citizens means much to the future success or the. springs enter prise, for it is only through such spir it of sacrifice for the public good that the community is brought into that unity absolutely indispensable in working out tho larger things in com munity development. So long a.-t everybody's interest is centered in themselves and each individual citi zen holds back unless there is privato gain to himself, little can he accom plished, but. when every citizen be gins to realize that the best way to help himself is by helping his com munity, the power and force neces sary to community advancement in soon generated and the community in bound to go forward by the very force of that spirit. This gift by Messrs. Butler an.! Perozzi is worth fifty thousand dol lars to Ashland, coming at this timw and with the object of helping in the springs enterprise. The city of Ash land owes a debt of gratitude to thesn gentlemen far beyond tho money value of the gift. Special Pictures Dreamland Tonight The program of pictures shown at the Star Theatre Sunday evening met. with such a splendid response that, they will be reproduced at tlm Dreamland tonight by special request. It is seldom that such interesting and fascinating details get before the pub lic in such a clean and distinct man ner. The two-reel Indian war drama, "The Tiger of the Hills," and "In the Midst of the Jungle" were real heart, pictures and kept every one on tn point of suspense during the entire evening. These pictures met such enthusi asm as to assure a crowded house to night. Although this is a special fea ture picture, the price will remain at ft and 10 cents in order that all may be able to attend. Paint your house. Help make it "Ashland the Beautiful." occupy the thoughts but for a mo ment. Mr. Emery afterwards erected t li Ashland House, which has since been enlarged to a hostelry of no mean proportions, and ft still stands an.l is a monument to the foresight of thin plain couple, who were imbued with that spirit of adventure which lias actuated so many of our American citizens. During the Indian wars companies of cavalry were wont to asseinbltt around the old mill, uud there train for service. After spending several years fn Oregon they went back east in IS.'iS and returned in 1859, and through their reports of the territory others were Induced to visit the new land. Mr. Emery died U) Gold Hill in 1S91, which, when they moved titer, was only a way station on the South ern Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Emery had no chil dren of their own, but reared several adopted children, nmoug them lielttn Mrs. Lulu Davis of Tolo and If. H. Emery of Ashland. They were both devout Christians, being members of the Christian church. Fred Wagner For Legislature The only candidate from the south end of the valley for a statu offkt Is Fred Wagner of Ashland. Sir. Wagner has not made a systematic canvass as his time has been taker up largely by his work. As Fred H one of the native sons of southern Oregon and for many years editor of the Tidings, he Is known person ally to almost every citizen of the) county. He needs no Introduction, as thn past Is as an open book to every citi zen, and the fact that he U a candi date will be all that Is necessary to secure his nomination and election. Phone newg ltm tn TldJngs.