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SOUTHERN OREGON
VOL. XXXIX
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 8 1915
NUMBER 82
Forty Men to Work
At Quarry, Soon
N. A. Scbanen of the Schanen-Blair
Company of Portland returned to
Portland Tuesday after spending
some time at the company's granite
quarry near Ayer's Spur. He In
formed the Tidings representative
that the crew which is now at work
at the quarry had taken out two car
loads of fine quality granite. This
will be shipped to Portland as soon
as a road has been built from the
working.
The ledge is located about a mile
and a half from Ayer's Spur and half
a mile from the county road. It is
in a rough canyon and necessitated
planning a costly road.
The contract for building the road
has been let to Mr. Douglas of that
district and work will go. forward at
once. The contract price Is 2,000
for the road building. Whn complet
ed the road will have a maximum
grade of 22 per cent, over which it
Is possible to handle the granite in
good shape and not too steep to be
too difficult for the returning con
eyances.
Mr. Schanen was called to Portland
to attend to affairs there, but will
return in a few weeks and will put
on a crew of about forty men. This
payroll will be a well appreciated
addition to Ashland's too meager list
of payrolls and may assume far great
er proportions in the future, as the
company believe they have a big
proposition and will develop It. '
martin Case Soon
la Jury's Hands
The trial of Loris Martin is still
occupying the center of the stage at
Jacksonville. Numbers of witnesses
were heard last week and more re
mained to be heard today before the
case could go to the Jury.
The prisoner has lost a great deal
of his equanimity and is palpably
worried over the outcome of the trial.
HI3 mother is a daily attendant at
court, as is also the widow of Warden
Hubbard.
Scores of friends of the defendant
are down from his home country and
are pulling hard for him. A number
of Ashlanders make the trip to the
county seat daily to take In the pro
ceedings.
It is expected that the fate of the
defendant will be put in the jury's
hands tomorrow.
Naughty Moon
Gets Full Twice
Jokemakers have paragraphed at
length concerning the moon's exem
plary behavior in the month of Feb
ruary just passed, for during that
month the moon was at no tiara full
the first time since 1846.
Nov they have the privilege of
putting the reverse English upon the
time-honored wheeze and deplore the
rakish behavior of the moon during
the month of March, fop having
passed February safely. It makes up
for lost time by appearing 4ull twice
within the present month..
Such behavior might perhaps be
forgiven, inasmuch as this is the first
time it has happened in sixty-nine
years and it may not happen again
within the memory of men now liv
ing.
Kirkpatrick to
Lecture at Medford
Bonds Approved, Sold
And Ready For Delivery
Opera Martha at
Vining Tuesday
Seats were put on sale last Satur
day afternoon for the Andrews Opera
Company's production of "Martha,"
on Tuesday evening, March 9. The
seats will continue on sale this after
noon and all day tomorrow. The
opera will be presented under the
auspices of the local Elks lodge and
the newly organized Andrews Opera
Company has secured a cast of sing
ers who are sure to please the Ash
land theatre-going public.
The many years of experience be
hind this well-known company enable
them to know the pathway that leads
to success, one of the first essentials
being to carry none but experienced
and capable people.
An excellent company must have a
vehicle for the display of their tal
ents, and the management of the An
drews Opera Company, after a care
ful consideration of the matter, be
lieve that no better vehicle could
have been selected than Flotow's
tuneful and vlvajious opera of "Mar
tha." The story of the opera is
brought out clearly and considerably
improved In that respect by the bill-
liant dialogue, which bristles with
humor, that was written especially
for them by the noted playwright,
George Droadhurst.
Salvatore Glodano, the great tenor,
formerly of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, will sing the role of Lionel.
The first fifteen thousand dollars
of the Ashland auxiliary water bonds
were sent for collection Friday. The
cash should be back in about a week.
Sixty thousand more are contract
ed to Denver parties for delivery !
March 15. j
One hundred thousand sold to
Smith, Emery & Company's clients,
will be sent to San Francisco for col
lection some time this week.
As soon as these collections are in
the treasurer's hands work on the
physical plant will begin.
The first work will be completing
the surveys and working out details
of the Improvements and develop
ments about the springs. That will
require about two weeks' time by the
engineers before laborers will be
needed.
In the meantime Mr. Emery is on
the ground and is perfecting his or
ganization so that work will go for
ward in a hurry when started.
On February 10 Dillon, Thomson
& Clay sent certificate covering the
legality of the issue. Last Monday
they wired Recorder Gillette their ap
proval of bond No. 1.
I Certificates of genuineness of sig
natures of the mayor and recorder
.and receipt of the treasurer for the
money may now be forwarded with
the bonds to the banks through
which the bonds are delivered to the
purchasers and that will close up the
whole matter. No further delay
should now be encountered in deliv
ering the bonds and the funds should
all be in the treasurer's hands by
March 15.
It looks now as if the work would
go forwatd and ' be completed by
July 1.
The park end of the enterprise has
not yet been put Into the hands of
the lamlscapers. There are some de
tails still to be worked out before act
ual work Is started on the park, such
as procuring other needed lands, etc.
It will likely be three or four weeks
before actual work will be started on
the park improvements.
The entire bond issue was signed
by Mayor Johnson and Recorder Gil
lette Friday. The only apparent de
lay now will be in making the deliv
eries 1 and getting the money back
into the city treasury.
Big Fire at Weed
Does Great Damage
A fire which threatened the entire
town destroyed 15,000,000 feet of
lumber In yard No. 3 of the Weed
Lumber Company at Weed Thursday.
A special train with fire fighters and
apparatus was rushed from Dunsmulr
and another train was run to Yreka
for explosives to blow up buildings
to check the flames. '
A stretch of open ground saved the
rest of the town after several cot
tages had been destroyed.
The fire is believed to have been
of Incendiary origin. Holes had been
drilled In the fire buckets and the
hose in the yard Is said to have been
cut in many places. A stiff wind
fanned the flames for nearly four
hours before the fire was under con
trol.
The loss is estimated at $300,000
Ashland Wins Championship of-
Southern Half of the State
0. Winter Appointed
Ashland Assessor
Followers of the great war now
raging in Europe and all Interested
In war, which includes almost every
body, will do well to make the trip
to Medford next Thursday evening
and hear George R. Kirkpatrick in
his famous war lecture. Mr. Kirk
patrick is one of the finest of present-day
lecturers "and has received
large amounts of favorable comment
by the San Francisco papers. He is
perhaps best known as the author of
"War, What For?" The lecture will
be held in St. Mark's hall in Medford
and will commence at 8 o'clock.
There will be no admission charged.
Visit the Plant
And Bulb Exchange
Visit the plant and bulb exchange
on Oak street, next door to the elec
tric light office, and get bulbs and
plants for immediate pfantlng. The
exchange is open from 1:30 to 5:30
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days at present and will be open
every day as soon as a big shipment
of plants which Is on the way arrives.
Most men like to trade with an ex
elusive men's store. Mitchell & Whit
tle. G. L. Ferguson, now superintend
ent for the Metropolitan Life Insur
ance Company for the Rogue River
Valley, with headquarters in Med
ford, Is In the city for a few days,
getting acquainted with policy-holders.
Local Agent Purucker is show
ing him about town. ,.
Buy your fresh home-made candy
at Rose Bros.' 500 other people are
J doing the same. 79-lmo.
Dr. Henry Hart and family of Tal
ent have moved to this city.
Depot hotel pays 13 cents a pound
for live fat hens. ' 81-3t
County Assessor W. T. Grieve has
appointed O. Winter assessor for
Ashland. The v.ork is arranged so
that the assessors are not expected
to be on duty longer than two weeks,
although it may take longer in the
Ashland district.
As evidence of the United States
considering war possibilities, Secre
tary Benjamin Olcott has notified Mr.
Grieve to take the census of those of
military age. There has been a law
requiring this, but it has not been
enforced for a number of years.
Call on Walker
. For Advice
Last Thursday the committee for
the city beautiful from the Civic Im
provement Club met with Engineer
Walker of the city, President New-
combe of the Commercial Club and
G. W. Gregg of the schoql board and
talked over street beautlficatlon.
Arty woman In the city wishing In
formation as to how far apart to set
trees in the park row, concerning
grading or any other matter which
may come up Is urged to call up En
gineer Walker of the city engineer's
office or at his residence and he will
gladly furnlshNhig advice.
About thirty ladies were present
at the meeting and report enthusias
tic efforts on the part of moBt of the
streets and but Indifference from a
few.
The ladies have maple, linden and
beech trees on hand and have some
Oregon maple and rose settings on
the way.
200 vote in the exixmltlon rontrot
with each new Tidings classified ad
vertisement during March. If the
advertisement amount to 91, 500
extra vote. Must lie paid In advance
to RCt the extra vote.
MaLe it the best clean-up day ever,
Ashland high school won the bas
ketball cup and the championship of
southern and central Oregon when
they defeated Medford high school
Friday and Saturday of last week.
These two victories ,ive Ashland
three out of the four games played
with Medford. The Ashland girls,
after 1 sing to Medford In a hard
fought game a week ago Saturday on
the home floor, were conceded losers
In the last two games but surprised
the fans by taking both of the final
games by close scores, thus winning
the girls' championship. The entire
series was hard fought, Medford hav
ing tifrned out the best teams in the
history of that institution.
Friday Games.
The Ashland high school basket
ball team came into their own on the
Medford floor last Saturday when,
before a crowd of one thousand fans,
they played the game of which they
are really capable and outclassed the
Medford boys. The passing of the
locals was speedy and their basket
shooting wonderful. Jumping into the
lead from the start, they were never
headed and with machine-like regu
larity rolled u? the field baskets
and three fouls for a total of 23
points while holding the Medford
players to 17 points, seven of which
were fouls.
The famous cover-up system was
amply vindicated and Medford's for
wards were obliged to resort to long
shots for their five field goals. Grl
sez started the scoring with a sensa
tional basket from the middle of the
floor and, playing like demons, the
Ashlanders scored time after time.
The Medford defense was unable to
cope with the speedy passing of
Coach Klum's men, who kept up a
rapid passing game followed by ter
rific following up of basket shots.
Grisez played the stellar game for
the champs, throwing six field goals.
Fraley scored twice from the field and
converted three out of seven foul
tries. Plymate was in the game
every second and scored twice. "Cll
max" Delsman played anlnvulnera'
ble defensive game and shut out
Thomas, Lilly doing likewise with
Williamson. Pelouze and Brown
each scored twice for Medford and
Beacom once. Pelouze threw seven
out of eleven foul tries.
The girls' game was the closest
ever played in this section, only one
field basket being scored. Bomar of
Ashland dropped the ball into the
basket from the side line for the win
ning count. Skeen converted one
foul out of several tires and Corum
for Medford did the same. Close
guarding featured the game. Score:
Ashland 3, Medford 1.
About two hundred Medford root
ers enlivened the evening with songs
and yells, while the Ashland rooting
section, while smaller, made up in
spirit what they lacked In numbers.
Rntnrday'M Game.
The final game was Ashland's al
most, from the first whistle. Ash
land scored eight field goals and four
fouls for a total of 22 points, while
Medford was held dovn to two field
baskets and six converted fouls for a
total of 10 points.
As on the previous evening, the
Ashland defense was working almost
perfectly. Grisez was again high
man with four baskets, while Pelouze
scored the two chalked up for the
visitors. The largest crowd of the
season was out and the rooting was
at times terrific.
The Ashland girls came out on the
long end of a five to four score after
another of the exciting finishes which
have marked all four of the games
A field basket by Bomar and three
fouls; averted by Grubb for a total
of five constituted the Ashland score
Two field goals made up the visitors
score, lack of foul throwing ability
losing the game for the Medford
misses. A second before the final
whistle a foul was called on Ashland
giving the lower valley team 1
chance to tie, but the try failed an
the girls' championship went to Ash
land.
The Ashland boys' team lined ui
for the game with Grisez and Fraley
forwards, Plymate center and Lilly
and Delsman guards. Spencer am
Harris played the last few minutes o
the final game.
The Ashland girls who played In
the two games were Skeen, Chappell,
Grubb and Hodgson forwards, Bomar
center, and Eske and Gearhart
guard:).
The masterly' refereelng by Harry
Cooper of Corvalllls kept the entire
series entirely free from any hint of
wrangling which so often mars cham
pionship games, and throughout met
with the approval of the players and
the crowds.
Any accusations of rough work
made by outside parties are absolute
ly groundless. The players of both
teams have only good words for their
opponents and at no time indulged
In tactics which could be criticised.
Taken all in all, the series was the
most successful that has ever been
held In the valley and the classy
brand of ball played by both teams
made the games fast and close from
first to last.
Tho Kentner basketball cup comes
Into the permanent possession of
Ashland, the locals having won It
three times in succession.
The games of the past weokB
marked the close of the basketball
season and once again Medford has
failed to "Hang it on Ashland."
Hay ward Writes
Athletic Text Books
High school text books on higher
athletics are to be produced by the
University of Oregon, according to
the announcement of Bill Hayward,
athletic director. They are to be the
first of their kind, It is said.
Hayward i3 to be the author. They
will be written, copyrighted and
printed as any other text book, but
according to the plans they will be
distributed free to the high schools
of the state by the university. The
series will include fifteen books, each
on a separate form of athletics, such
as high jumping, pole vaulting, quar
ter-mile- running, distance running
and so on, through each of the events.
In this manner a distance man will
not get directions for sprinting and
it will not be necessary to send direc
Hons for shot putting to a 130-pound
sprinter. Each book will have a
brief amount of material on general
training and "first aid" and similar
Instruction.
The chief feature of the series is
to be the development of the fine
points Of the game, according to Hay
ward. The development of the much
spoken of and little known "form,'
translated means the method for ob
taining the greatest efficiency , with
the least expenditure of money. And
the form, as Hayward in his years of
training has developed, will form the
chief theme of the books.
Exposition Trip
Worth Good Effort
There are more specials being of
fered this week than at any time dur-
ng the contest. Now is the time to
get your friends to take advantage
f the special offers and patronize
the stores and subscribe for the Tid
ings. The contest is only just start
ed and no contestant should lose hope
as a single day of hard work will
bring the lowest up among the first.
The San Francisco is pronounced to
bo the greatest of all time and the
trip is worth much hard effort.
Watch the contest page and take
advantage of every extra vote offer.
The contest manager desires that all
votes be arranged bo that they may
be counted as fast as possible.
Stores giving votes are requested
to mark the votes as plainly as possible.
The standings of the contestants
are as follows:
Bessie Homes 205,425
Blanche Salsbury 197, .ISO
Madge Putnam 13S,9.rt7
Effie Oslin 131,549
Mapel Payne 95,888
Ruth Hadley 61,911
Elvera Nelson 39,048
Myrtle Dougherty 29,1 06
Mrs. Elslo Churchman 17,G4!"
Ruth Scott 119111
Millie Lowe 9,272
ue 11 1.1 n Caldwell 5,787
Reta Card 5,780
Medford had three fires Saturday
evening. Two residences were de
stroyed.
Get Your Name
On This List
Cattle Men do
Big Business
Burin the past year the firm of
Mitchell & Beeson has shipped over
1,300 head 'of cattile from southern
Oregon. All of the stock was put on
the California market and top-notch
prices vere received. A straight
price of C cents was received for
steers and 5 cents for cows. The
firm Is going Into the stock raising
business more extensively each year
and a material Increase by the end
of 1915 Is anticipated. Six hundred
head of cattle owned by t lie firm,
now being fed in the Applegnte sec
tion, will bo taken to the Ileeson
ranch near Talent this week.
Autos From Gold
Hill to Crater Lake
Gold Hill parties have gained per
mission from the Department of the
Interior to operate automobiles from
that city to and through Crater Lake
park. The auto drivers must comply
with the ruloB and ordinances of tho
park In regard to autos and must pay
a license of $10 annually.
In former years the Medford par-
tits who hauled passengers to the
park had a corner on such travel.
Follow the crowd and buy John-
ston'B cbocolatea at Rose Bros.'
Next Monday is
Clean-Up Day
Next Monday, March 15, has been
set as clean-up day for Ashland.
Everybody should put forward their
best efforts to make this the most
thorough clean-ii) of all time, as
Ashland has a big year'coming and
must look her best. The ladles of
the city are pushing forward a beau
tlficatlon plan wljlch will do wonders
for the appearances, and it is up to
the people to mnke everything spick
and span. We want a city that will
be a revelation to the crowds of vis
itors who are coming this summer.
Do your part..
All rubbish should bo put In sacks
or boxes and set out In the alley or
street where it will be available to
tho city haulers who will haul the
rubbish to the dump grounds. Get
tha rubbish set out as early as possi
ble Monday,
Do not stop at the front yard, but
clean up the back, and the park row
and sidewalks. Make it a real clean
ing. This is going to be a big year.
The city charges nothing to haul
the rubbish away, but it must be
ready early on Monday, cleaa-up day.
The following members were voted
Into the Commercial Club at the last
weeting. If you are not already a
member have your name added to
this list by the next meeting and
become enrolled among Ashland's
public-spirited citizens. The Com
mercial Club will be Ashland's pub
licity body and needs the support of
every man, woman and child in Ash
land. Join now. Application cards
may be had from the secretary, the
president or any of the members of
the membership committee, who are
Messrs. Jordan, Lamkin, Banta, Trcf
ren, Croxall and Norris. Do not wait
to lie asked, but Join now:
J. N. Nesbet. A. 8. Ames, E. A.
Acklin, Harry L. Sinclair, It. C. Por
ter, E. H. Hunt. 10. J. Nedd, Charles
I). Cain, R. I). Sanford, Edna V.
Jones, Dr. John F. Hart, David 1
Fox, W. J. Dougherty, . W. Ken
nard, J. O. Hanratty, A. D. Burr, O.
A. Swanson, G. T. Salsbury, J. D. M
Klnney, Rev. Father Leo, E. M. Stan
naid, G. W. Hoxlo, C. K. Roy, M. C.
Hast, Emma T. Hclmnn, O. E. Del
bert, James V. Bowers, E. O. Smith,
Marie Vnupel, Charles S. Lebo, O. W.
Leonard, Lydla McCall, C. I). Stod
dard, Lorena McNair, Frank U. Dick
ey. Walter Everton, Will M. Dodge,
Mattie A. Johnson, Charles L. E. Re
belt, Mrs. Frank Jordan, Alexander
McMillan, Interurban Auto Car Co.,
C. J. Bryant, Charles McClaln, O. U.
Wenner, A. I). Jillson, D. Ivy, W. W.
W'ntson, George E. Yatc3, P. H.
Thelss, Earl Hosier, F. L. Rush, Ira
Shoudy, W. I). Carey, W. II. Wenner,
Joseph H. Sander, George Taverner,
William Blair, W. O. Phelps, John If.
Dill, Charles E. Walls, Toddy Pro
vost, Harris Dean, N. Maude Halley,
Delia M. Acklin, W. II. Smith, Inter
ested Party, A. W. Arbuckle, Mrs. O.
Winter, Alice Stubbs, August Scliuer
man, Mrs. B. II. Hatch, P. A. Bonney,
W. D. Foster, Lillian II. Greer, May
Newcotnbe, Wilbur W. Totter, A. C.
Kellnr, George W. Ecott, Arthur M.
Miller.
Dollarhide Would
Sell Toll Road
L. D. Dollarhide, owner, of the toll
road over the Slsklyous, appeared bo
fore the regular meeting of the coun
ty court Wednesday morning and of
fered to sell twelve miles of toll road
extending from the Pacific highway
towards Colestln district for $1,000,
giving the county a deed for the saino.
Tlw proposition was made verbally
and written and was taken under con
sideration by the county court. R011
tlno matters were discussed and bills
for the month taken under considera
tion.
We have a large assortment of
Lilly, Morris and Ferry's package
seeds which we have Just opened up.
For this week we will give 100 extra
votes with each package.