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PAGE EIGHT ASHLAND TTDIXG3 Thursday, April 15,1915 if I I. I 1 Program For Sunday Orchestra Concert Lyric Under the Banner ol Victory Von Blon Grand Selection from the Opera Maritana'. ...Wallace Lost Chord Sullivan Serenade Moszkowski Sunday, April 18th starting Promptly at 7:30. No advance in prices 5c and 10c Stennett Friend Of Fiend's Victim Will Experiment With Sudan Grass Alfalfa is to have a trial In the way of Sudan grass, a new forage food imported from Khartum, In the Su dan. Samples oi seed have been re ceived here, on recommendation from Congressman Hawley, from the new and rare seed distribution being made by the department of agriculture. Sudan grass belongs to the sorghum family. It makes a nutritious and palatable hay and "yields better than millet. It aifords three cuttings un der irrigation, and the yield is second only to that of nlfalfa. A test o this new product will bo made on the ranch of J. P. Dodge & Sons, in the Kingsbury Springs district, six miles east oi Ashland. They have received the seed direct from Washington and will maUe the test on i liberal and broad scale, both as to extent of acreage and care which its cultivation demands, their land beins ideal for conducting these experirrents. Recent press dispatches tell of the arrest of a negro by the police of St. Louis who is accused of perpetrating a number of atrocious murders over the middle west the last three years. The St. Louis officers claim they have positive proof that the prisoner is the much dreaded "mad axeman" who bears the peculiar name of Loving Mitchell. , This carnival of axe murders over Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado have all been upon Sunday night, at a certain stage of the moon, and all Inmates of the doomed places were killed apparently with a Bingle blow, the weapon being an axe be longing to the premises, and was al ways left in the house upon the com pletion of the deadly work. In the late spring of 1912 this black fiend is supposed to have en tered the home of J. B. Moore in Vll- lisca, Iowa, and carried out his mad program. The Moore family had at tended Children's Day exercises that fatal Sunday night, and upon leaving the church invited the two young daughters of George Stillinger, a taken of all objects supposed to prominent farmer residing a few have been touched by the murderer, milPB In the country, to co home with especially the axe handle, for thumb them and spend the night. The girls had come to town to attend the exer cises, intending to stay at their grand mother's, but changed their mind upon the request and accompanied the Moores home. The suspicions of a neighbor next door and only a few feet away from the Moore home was aroused next morning by the deserted appearance, and, procuring a brother of the murdered man by telephone, together they entered the house. Ly ing in their several beds with heads cleaved open with a single stroke from the axe blade was Moore, his wife and four children, the youngest a little boy of four years. The two Stillinger girls had met the same fate in another part of the house. All had died without a struggle while asleep. The neighbor, Mrs. Peckham, suffered such a nervous shock at the horrible sight that she died a short time later. The authorities immediately threw a cordon of militia around the place and sent for the famous blood-hounds at Beatrice, Neb. Burns and other detective agencies sent their most able men and the government thumb-print experts. The hounds several times followed the trail as far as the Nod away river, but always lost the scent at the water's edge. Photographs Knew He Had a Ford. Oregon Messenger: A Salem newsie saw the driver of a certain make of automobile throw a blanket over the hood of his car the other day on State street. The boy had heard all, the jokes about this particular brand of antomobile, and decided, to take a shot at it himself. While the man thus carefully tucked the blanket around the hood, the youngster looked at him grinning ly and remarked: "Oh, you don't need to try to hide it. I know what you've got." The Tidings is on sale at Poley's drug store, 17 East Main street. prints which may yet connect Mitchell with the crime. The general belief by both detectives and public was that this wholesale killing was the work of some degenerate, and, owing to the similarity of other axe murders short ly before, that the same party was re sponsible for all of them, and at last the numerous sleuths upon this arch fiend's trail have cornered him and compiled enough evidence to convict, so they say. Mitchell seems to be crazy on kill ing with an axe at a certain condition of the moon, and has disposed In this fashion of twenty-two people besides these eight in Iowa. The Stennett families of this city lived neighbors to the Moores in Vil- lisca a long time before coming here and say they were an exceptionally fine family and were free from having any known foes. L. E. Stennett of 464 Fairview street, now in the employ of the A. J Biegel Hardware Company, was asso ciated for a number of years with J. B. Moore in the hardware business in Villisca. m. .m. - a m m . .... I 1 h f TTTxTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT w v tt T 100 ilHilr ifSSSOS 1 To Sell at Just One-half Price ABSOLUTELY THE CHANCE OF THE SPRINGTIME beautiful linens, voiles, laces and ginghams ranging in price from 12.50 (marked in plain figures) to be sold at just one half price. We must tell these within the next ten days. Cost or value is not considered. One big object in view. Sell the Goods. We have $1.00 to 15 Silk Crepe de Chene Dresses Reduced Dresses worth $15 and $18, all go at. $9.85. Very Snappy,. Up-to-Date Dresses 25 Ladies' Suits Left For $8.85 Every Suit must go. Values up to $25.00. Shepherd plaids, tans, blues, whites, and greys. One price for all. Remember $8.85. Ladies' Coats, Soils, Dresses and Shirt Waists Millinery, Hosiery, Gloves, and Corsets (Go. Misses' and Chil dren's Coats, Suits and Dresses Knit and Muslin Underwear Si? SILK POPLIN DRESSES FOR Small womens suits $7.95. These are all 1915 models, new and up to the height of fashion, wide skirts, pleated and circular. We have one lot of hats worth up to $6.50 on sale at $2.95. Special on Kid Gloves, 98c. Silk hoot hose, hlk. 25c. Musline Underwear to be closed out regardless of cost on former price. Look for the Red Price Card. .hie Sterling' Company Successors to R. A. Minkler Flags Half Mast In Lincoln's Honor Washington, April 13. President Wilson tonight signed the following Classified, Advertisements (Continued from Page Three.) TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. Loun Wanted. Moderate loan on close in. finely located Medford property, consisting executive order, providing that fitting j of four houses, new, modern. No va- observance be given to the annivers ary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, who died fifty years ago next Thurs day: "As an evidence of the profound affection of the American people for the memory of Abraham Lincoln, It is hereby ordered that the executive offices of the United States shall be closed and that the national flag be displayed at half mast upon all fed eral buildings and at all forts and military posts and naval stations, and on all' vessels of the United States, and that the representatives of the United States in foreign countries shall in like manner pay appropriate tribute to his memory, on Thursday, April 15, 1915, the fiftieth annivers ary of his death. "The ownersnd sailors of all mer chant ships of the United States are requested similarly to display the na tional flag at half mast. "WOODROW WILSON." cancies In two years. Paying 10 per cent on 54,500. Box 50, Tidings. 93-2t WANTED Jiy man and wife, posi tion on ranch. Inqiure at 266 Fifth street. 93-3t WANTED TO EXCHANGE A six room house, large lot, Salem, for Ashland property. Frank Morri son, 1511 South Liberty street. , 93-3t FOR SALE Overland automobile, 1914 model, good as new. Easy terms or bargain for cash. Phone 163. - 93-tf FOR SALE Cabinet folding bed- hardwood, in good condition. Cheap for cash. Anply Mrs.. H. O. Butter'icld, 108 First avenue. 93-2t 15 Ladies' Coats at Reduced Prices Values to $22.50 for, $14.95 Values to $18.00 for $13.45 ' s Values to $1G.50 for $11.35 Values to $13.50 for $ 0.85 Values to $11.00 for $ 7.95 Never before such prices so early in the season J CUT PRICES in our EXCLUSIVE MILLINERY DEPARTMENT ZTfc3 Premium tickets given until May 1st and redeemed until May 22nd. ALL OFF after May 22nd. UUn VSJa UaUUVUlVU . "Where You Do Better" Food Stores Must Equip With Screens In order to comply with a law passed at the last session of the state legislature, all grocery stores, meat markets, restaurants, bakeries and ether establishments in which food or groceries are kept for sale must equip their respective places of business with screen doors and windows. The law becomes effective on May 22. Persons who fall to comply with the law on that date are subject to a heavy fine and imprisonment. The law was passed upon solicita tion of the state health authorities, and Is a sanitary move. Under the provisions of the law It Is the duty of the district attorney to see that the act is enforced. LithJa Water delivered at your door for 15c per gal- on or two for 25c. Phone 294-L or 405-J. .93-lmo. FOR SALE Modern six-room bunga low, half block from library, cheap for cash. 443 Allison street. 93-lmo. WANTED Man and wife to rent fur nished house with garden and take two boarders, who will pay reason able price. Inquire Beaver Realty Co. It IUbrii, Mannger and rrcnldcnt 250 KEARNY ST. Bat. Sutter and Btuh I Ma. I. SAN FRANCISCO A modern, fire-proof, up-to-date Hotel, located in the center oi everything and on direct line to the Exposition Croundi. RATES Detached Bath 11.00, M.50 single H.50. 12 00 double Private Bath 11.50, 12.00 single 12.00, 12.50 double 5 1 50 Roonuoi Solid Comfort Emy Convenience I From Thinl and ToVmend SC Depot, alt or No. I J or 16. From Kerry lke Suiter St. rai, let . v e. il k.li . klL N.k fv. Take a "Universal" Bus direct to Hotel FOR SALE A beautiful Stoddard piano, almost new. Cash, $125. Owner leaving. Phone 219-R. 93-2t FOUND Handbag, corner of Wimer and Main streets. Owner can have same by proving property and pay Ins for this ad. Phone 41 4-L. It FOR SALE BY OWNER Highly im proved and most desirable 8 acres in Ashland. Also beautiful 7-acre meadow, fruit and vegetables, no 'buildings; 3 acres clean meadow; 3l6aores meadow, fruit trees and berries. Above is level and free Irrigated. Twenty acres choice bot tom near Grants Pass, highly Im proved. Rich bottom dairy farm, near the coast, worth $7,500. Fine ly watered and improved. Twenty acres unimproved, near coast city; rail and water transportation. Time and good terms on any -of this. Full information by address ing Box 14 4. Ashland, Ore. No agents or trUlers answered. 93-3mo. July a.t the University of Ore- summer school, at Eugene. Oregon Fxlucators to Meet. The sixth annual seven-day confer ence of Oregon educators will he held during gon Many superintendents and principals are expected. The third annual non denominational conference of minis ters will also be held. During late June the university's new classroom and administration building will be dedicated and the ministerial confer ence will be held in It. The presence of a dozen noted eastern and Pacific coast educators will probably attract sevtral hundred persons to the sum mer session. Get your Sunday dinner meat, veal, chicken or a fine beef roast, at Plaza Market. Telephone 190. You'll like Enders fits. l Horses Waotedl mum. f urn- l-k. 'w r WILL BE IN MEDFORD, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1915 AT DR. HELMS' BARN GRANTS PASS, MONDAY, APRIL 20 AT GRAVLEN STABLES ' ASHLAtfD, TUESDAY, APRIL 20 AT DR. DANEY'S BARN Mares and Geldings fron 1250 to 1500 Pounds; 5 to 9 Years Old. Must be Heavy Boned; Good Flesh; Well Broke and Sound. Cannot use Light Boned or Old Leggy, Thin Horses. Bring in Your Good Ones and Get the i. Highest Cash Prices for Them. DON'T FORGET THE DATES. C. W. TODD, Portland, Oregon