Ashland tidings., August 26, 1915, Image 1

Ashland
Tidings
"Ashland Grows While Uthla Flows"
City of Sunshine and flowers
Ashland, Oregon, Lithla Springs
The Carlsbad of America'
VOL. XL
ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1915
NUMBER 27
Fair Premium
List Is Issued
The premium list for the Jackson
County Fair and Fruit Show in Med
ford, September 8 to 11, has Just
been issued and contains many new
and interesting features and good
premiums on everything. Two of the
new free features will be the relay
race for lady riders two and a half
miles each day, changing horses
every half mile, for a purse of $250,
and the ball game between Medford
and Klamath Falls every afternoon
for a purse of $300. There will alsd
be races for Jackson county steppers
and gallopers, pony, hitchup and oth
er races.
The premiums on fruit are larger
than offered at the state fair and it
will pay every fruitgrower to look
them up.
The educational department this
year will be one of the Interesting
features of the fair. There will be
special school exhibits from the vari
ous schools over the county, with In
dividual and special exhibits. Chil
dren, look up this department.
On Friday all children In the coun
ty enrolled In the schools will be ad
mitted free.
The premiums on stock, poultry,
agricultural products, ladles' domes
tic fine arts, culinary and other prod
ucts, floriculture, manufacturing,
mining, etc., are all liberal and are
worthy of your careful inspection.
Get a premium list at once and.
help make this fair the biggest of all.
List can be had by addressing S. I.
Brown, secretary, Medford.
Daredevil Stunt
Shown at Lyric
Irving Cummings, daredevil among
leading men, has rarely done a more
thrilling stunt than that shown in
"The Lure of the Mask," the four
part Mutual Masterpicture founded
upon Harold MacGrath's celebrated
and popular novel. In this drama
Cummings, as the Prince Monte
Bianca, rides madly along the cliff
road, closely pursued by Giovanni.
The two collide. The prince is
stabbed and tumbles to the ground.
The audience, viewing the picture,
holds its breath, for the fall was a
hard one. A moment later, however,
Giovanni dismounts and kicks the
body over the cliff, where it hurtles
down the fifty-foot declivity to the
sand that fringes the shore. "The
Lure of the Mask" will be shown at
the Lyric theatre on Sunday and
Monday evenings.
Electric Light Bonds Are
Overwhelmingly Defeated
Boxing Contest
Fast and Clean
Ussher's Brother
Wounded at Van
The ten-round boxing contest held
at the armory Tuesday night, be
tween "Brud Shamrock" and
"Young" Eaton, the former of Seat
tie and the latter of Ashland, was a
good exhibition of clean, fast box
ing. Eaton carried off the honors of
(he contest, as he succeeded in de
stroying Shamrock's energy the first
round, by delivering to him a sound
rap under the ear.
While the crowd was poor, all de
clared It to hare been a fine contest,
and all are loud in their praises of
both boxers, though Eaton is general
ly recognized to be much the faster
of the two.
The fight was characterized by Its
clean playing, and there was no hit
ting in the clinches, which always
broke clean. The third hit Eaton
landed on Shamrock in the first
round sapped the latter's energy so
that the former had him where he
wanted him through almost every
round. Shamrock was game to the
last, however.
In two weeks the two young fellows
will fight again at Gold Hill, and
there the ability of the two will be
finally shown. Shamrock rants an
other try at it, and at Gold Hill they
are going in for all they are worth,
in a fifteen to twenty round contest.
The preliminaries between Bur
nette and Kitchen came out Just
about a draw, but were exceedingly
Forest Fires
Do Much Damage
W. W. Ussher of this city has re
ceived word that his brother's wife
has been killed at Van, Turkey, and
that bis brother, C. D. Ussher, was
lying In a hospital badly wounded.
The revolt of the Armen'ans was
due to a demand of the Turkish gov
t ernment for 3000 Armenian recruits
to be sent to the front in the present
"European enbrollment, the Inability
of Van to supply them, and the harsh
measures taken by the government
to enforce its demands. Dr. Ussher
accepted the futile office of interces
sor between the two.
Discussing the situation, press dis
patches say: "The 600-year reign
of the Turk has been brought to an '
end. for the present at least. In both
the town and vilayet of Van, which 8nappy and interestIn&
have passed under Russian rule, fol
lowing an Armenian revolt. The vil
ayet of Van has an area of about 15,
000 square miles, with a population
of several hundred thousand.
"Hostilities began April twentieth
with rifle and cannon fire on the bus
iness center and Armenian quarter.
Fifteen Armenian riflemen, rein
forced at times by 1300 youths armed
with pistols or hand grenades,
manned eighty barricaded houses,
connected by trenches and mud walls.
Ammunition was scarce, but Profes
sor Mena"5fcian Effendi, head of the
Normal School 'and a graduate of
Vale's Sheffield School of Science,
cleverly transformed such chemicals
as were at hand and manufactured
emokeless and black powder, while
mechanics turned brass cartridge
shells. Menassian's boys' band
heartened the fighters with continual
music. Women and children carried
ammunition and food and water.
Fourteen-year-old Neville Ussher and
his recently organized boy scouts did
heroic service In extinguishing fires,
reporting and carrying sick and
wounded and enforcing sanitary reg
ulations among 4000 Armenian refu
gees, who were overcrowding the
mission.
"All the American missionaries
worked ceaselessly and effectively.
Miss Caroline Sullivan organized and
took charge of a hospital annex for
cases of measles. Miss Gertrude Rog-
Yesterday'o election went hard
against the proposed contract with
the California-Oregon Power Com
pany, when the voters of the city
turned down the proposition by a
vote of 203 for and 539 against.
Only about one-third of the voting
force of the city made use of their
franchise. Vote by wards is as fol
lows: First, 40 for and 236 against;
Second, 98 for and 149 against;
Third, 67 for and 174 against.
The rather low tide of financial
conditions and the knowledge that
the city was already bonded for quite
a sum, together with the $700 mini
mum clause in the contract with the
California-Oregon Power Company,
were responsible for the turning
down of the proposal.
So many people did not know
about the electric light affairs, and
did not care to Inform themselves,
with the result of staying away from
the polls, that this was a big factor
in their defeat.
While the general degree of elec
tion excitement was rather wanting
during the day, yet hot and stormy
discussions took place. Prediction
during the day generally pointed to
the defeat of the bonds.
Last Monday evening a mass meet
ing was held at the Chautauqua
building, at which about 150 were
present. Mayor Johnson opened the
meeting, and then gave the floor to
Mr. Ware of the electric light com
mittee, who proceeded to explain the
different phases of the situation,
bringing forth the need of more cur
rent, and the lack of a reserve sup
ply of current should the present
$25,000 for a reservoir on the top of
Crowson hill and $25,000 for the
plant itself.
He showed that the city had been
furnishing current to motor liners for
V4 a cent per kilowatt hour, which
cost the city 1.5 to produce. He fur
ther showed that the city had been
losing on the heating rate. All this
from the competition. He produced
the tentative contract with the com
pany, which provided for the sale of
current to the city, so that current
could he sold for heating and motive
power at a profit.
A question was asked concerning
meters, and it was developed that
there was a great deal of waste In
the city, and that, should competition
be eliminated, meters could be uni
versally Installed In the city, thereby
making rates cheaper for almost
everybody and eliminating the pres
ent proposition of one person paying
for another's waste.
Ho stated that the power company
had a business of some $1,100 per
month, which would be turned over
to the city naturally with the sur
render of the business here.
Toward what seemed to be the end
of the meeting Mr. Flynn of the
Rogue River Public Service Corpora
tion asked for the floor, 'adding with
some heat a personal address to Mr.
Ware that the Public Service Corpo
ration had not had a square deal.
Mr. Ware replied with a flat denial of
everything, together with Mr. Flynn's
right to speak. Before seating he
managed to get a few words in edge
ways, purporting that his company's
rates were cheaper, at which Mr. Ma
Hunters Secure
Six Big Deer
On the opening day of the hunting
season for deer, six were killed by
Ashland parties. Anions those that
were lucky were N. M. Long, Profes
sor Milam, Walter Hash, the Wagner
Carter pariy and Peachiy. Walter
Hash got a six-point buck and all
the others were quite large. The
Dead Indian country seems to be the
best hunting territory.
The list of accidents has already
begun to enlarge, as one party has
already been killed and another In
jured by hunters' bullets. A man
by the name of Hoover was killed by
his brother near Klamath Lake
Springs, the brother firing at what
seemed to be a moving animal In the
brush, and instantly killed his own
brother. Another man, whose name
is not reported, was brought to Med
ford the opening day of the season
with a bullet through his thigh.
The Beautiful
Hazel Dawn
plant become disabled through acci
dent or lack of water In the creek. I lone. took he P6rt of the California'
Mr. Ware stated that the council wasj0regon P"'er Company and succeed
unanimous in their wish to adopt the ed ,p delivering a short address be-
contract proposal with the California- !fr be'ns requested not to start a
Oregon Power Company, anI that 'ree-ror-aii. Mr. Bianchard, attorney
they looked forward to the passing of for Mr- Flynn, gave a short address,
the bonds.
He stated that the cost of building
an auxiliary plant lower down the
but was ruled down by the chairman,
Mr. Ware.
The meeting broke up very peace-
creek would be some $50,000, being' ably at about 11 o'clock.
Advertising Stunt
Makes Hit
Forest fires are very numerous,
owing to the hot weather of the past
week. Fire destroyed some 200 acres
of good timber southeast of the Sterl
ing mine Sunday afternoon, only tak
ing a period of four hourse to do its
destruction. A hign wind was re
sponsible for its rapid spread. A
great many men were rushed from
Medford to the scene, and It was un
der control within a few hours. Fire
fighters were paid at the rate of 25
cents an hour from the time of hiring.
A big fire was reported In the
Butte Falls district last Monday but
is well controlled at present.
West of Talent a small fire started
on the mountain, but was soon
checked. On the south side of the
Sisklyous, along Foots and Evans
creeks, fires have been raging. The
Cow Creek canyon country is also
suffering.
Not only forest fires have been re
ported, however, for a big grass fire
got a good start on the east side of
Bear creek about three miles north
of Ashland last Friday. Many fire
fighters worked at It to keep the
flames from taking fences and homes,
and as a result only a half mile of
fence on the Louis Werth place was
ers and Miss Elizabeth Ussher helped burned up. It really resulted In a
The publicity department Is send
ing copies of the new glass of water
booklet to all the commercial organ
izations of Washington, Oregon and
California. The following letter from
the secretary of the Bellingham
Chamber of Commerce of Belling
ham, Wash., indicates something of
the impression this new piece of ad
vertising literature is making wher
ever It is sent:
"We are just In receipt of your let
ter of the 21st, enclosing a glass of
Ashland mineral water, and wish to
say it is a very unique way of adver
tising what you have. It 1b gotten up
in splendid style and snould bring
you a lot of good hard dollars what
we are after these days. Same has
been placed on our reading table, and
will surely attract attention.
"With best wishes for your organ
ization and city, we wish to remain,
"Sincerely yours,
'BELLINGHAM CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
(Signed) "W. H. Campbell, Sec."
Miss Bond, superintendent of the hos
pital, where there were always 150
patients for a fifty-patient capacity.
Mr. Yar'ow discharged a multitude
of administrative duties, assisted by
Mrs. Yarrow and Mrs. J. C. Raynolds,
the veteran of the station, ' having
lived there fortyfour years without
Blackening energy or enthusiasm.
Besides these there were, aa sharers
of the dangers and toils of the siege,
the eight children of the Usshers and
Yarrows and Miss Knapp, a visitor
from the Bltlis mission.
"In spite of the day and night
bombardment from the Imposing fort-
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great deal of good, for It destroyed
a great deal of foxtail seed and
burned off a lot of poison oak.
Classes at St. Mary's Academy,
Medford, Ore., will reopen September
7. Both boarders and day pupils are
received. Full high school course.
Individual attention in primary and
grammar grades. Exceptional advan
tages In art, music, china painting
and modern languages. Excellent
commercial course. For particulars
address Sister Superior, , 27-4t
Ashland Is Made
Validating Point
In accordance with the Southern
Pacific's promises to get behind Ash
land in the springs deal, Ashland has
been made a validating point for
transcontinental tickets. This makes
Portland, Ashland and Eugene the
only validating points in the state of
Oregon. This means that tourists
can stop at Ashland, have their tick
ets validated and go east direct with
out stopping at Portland or San Francisco.
Mr. Kramer, local agent, has been
appointed the agent for the Transcon
tinental Passenger Association, and
will attend to the work of validation.
Funeral Services
Of Delbert Bailey
Thursday morning nearly a half
hundred friends and relatives
climbed the high hill to the homo on
the new scenic drive of Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Bailey to attend the funeral of
their eldest son, Delbert James, who
died August 17, aged 22 years, from
quick consumption brought on by ex
posure last March while driving
horses through the mountains In a
blizzard. The services were conduct
ed by Rev. A. R. Blackstone, pastor
of the Baptist church of Ashland, who
preached a short sermon from the
twenty-third PBalm and other Scrip
tural texts. He spoke feelingly of
tha klndnes3 of the one who had
parsed away, who was thoughtful of
others even in his Inst da;-3 of suffer
In?. "Jesns, Lover of My Soul" and
"Beautiful Isle" were sung by a
chorus. The cauket was covered deep
with beautiful flowers and after the
ceremony the body was borne to Its
last rosting place in Hargadino cemetery.
Hazel Dawn, the queen of the mu
sical comedy Btage, who charmed an
enthusiastic Ashland audience some
time In the past, In "One of Our
Girls" will make her second screen
appearance at the Vining In the de
lightful comedy, "Xiolie," which
made such a decided hit in Portland
last week. The play "Niobe" will be
shown Friday evening, August 27,
and will appear one night only.
In film form the story is one of
the most Ingenious and amusing ever
produced on the screen. The central
theme relates to a marble statue that
is suddenly brought to life, and that
finds Itself, or herself (for the statue
Is none other than Niobe) In the
presence of Peter Amos Dunn, a life
insurance president, who has brought
the statue to his home for safe-keeping.
Mr. Dunn Is a married man,
and when Mrs. Dunn discovers an
extremely attractive and beautiful
woman skating about In her home,
arrayed In abbreviated costume of
the vintage o' 900 B. C, she makes
a terrific howl. Mr. Dunn's deliver
ance from the frightful dilemma he
is thus placed In Is effected in a very
novel and mirth-provoking manner.
Interesting Big
Men In Ashland
Tho publicity department haa
mailed fifty copies of the Tidings of
August 19, containing a reprint of
an article on "Ashland's Plan of
Civic Development" that was written
for the Oregon Stale Grange Bulletin
by the manager, to prominent men in
various parts of the United States.
These were tent to the officers of the
Southern Pacific Company and to
presidents and general passenger
agents of t lie Northern Pacific and
Great Northern railways.
The manager of the department la
a firm believer In the value of per
sonal contact in advertising. During
the next few weii:s he expects to send
out hundreds of personal letters to
prominent men in-various parts of
the country, calling their attention to
our development work and sending1
them a opy of the glass of water
booklet. This work will bring Ash
'nnd and its resources in a most di
rect way to the attention of tho class
of people we want to Interest In our
city as a resort. The manager has a
very wide acquaintance with railroad
officials, with whom he has come in
contact at the big eastern land shows,
and he plans to use that acquaintance
In exploiting Ashland as far as possi
ble. Personal letters, containing
copies of the booklet, will be sent to
the editors of newspapers all over
the northwest. In this way our ad
vertising material will be laid on tho
desks of prominent men in a manner
that can not fall to attract their at
tention to all that we are doing to
make our city rank with the best re
sorts of the country.
Money to I.omi.
Address Box 202, Ashland, Ore.
27-tf
Palmerlee On
Ashland's Resources
Peaches 25 cents a basket at 147
Manzanita street. 27-2t
Dr. F. G. Swedenburg and family,
accompanied by Miss Eanandcr,
daughter of the late Swedish publish
er of Chicago, motored to Crater
Lake last Friday and Saturday, mak
ing the return trip from tho lake on
Sunday. Miss Ehnander has been
paying a short visit to Mr. and Mrs.
Swedenburg on her way to the exposition.
Outing Party Is
Very Successful
F. D. Wagner and family, Mrs. J.
M. Wagner, Mrs. Case and Carroll
Wagner, and Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Car
ter are camping near Deadwood,
about twenty-five miles from here.
The party has had the good for
tune to secure so far a three-point
buck and a trown bear. This reprt
came in last Friday and by this time
no doubt they have added to tho
number. Mr. Carter and Mr. Wagner
motored In for supplies last Friday,
to stay tho rest of this week.
Besides having good Kick at hunt
ing, Mr. Carter reported that they
had picked some sixty quarts of
huckleberries and are going to have
a big enough supply to furnish them
with huckleberry pie for the rest of
the year.
Irrigation Is
Urged at Meeting
Tuesday night a meeting was held
In the rooms of the Commercial Club
to discuss and urge farmers and land
owners to get behind the movement
for Irrigation.
C. M. Thomas of Talent addressed
tho club and spoke convincingly of
the necessity of water for Irrigation,
and the increase in profits to farmers
that such Irrigation would bring.
There was a small attendance, but
those who were there were a bunch
of boosters that counted for more
than a hundred half-Interested peo
ple. The past dry season, with lis
damage to crops, hus convinced farm
ers of the necessity of plenty of wa
ter for Irrigation. It has been dem
onstrated that three crops of alfulfa
are easily possible wtih water, and
that without not more than one or
two croos are available.
Stephen Mather, acsistant secre
tary of the interior, spent Tuesday In
the valley looking It over with a view
to securing data on which to ask for
government aid. He gave the Irrlga
tlon committee encouragement.
The total attendance at Crater
Lake this year, up to August 19, Is
60 per cent larger than last year.
The total attendance to that date was
7,285. In 1914 only 4,823 had vis
ited Crater Lake by August 19.
Henderson to
Leave Today
County Pathologist M. P. Hender
son left for Utah today to take his
position In the Brlgham Young Uni
versity at Provo. Professor Kraus
of O. A. C. having refused to take
the position, the committee of the
Farmers' and Fruitgrowers' League
have decided to retain W. J. Centner,
Professor Henderson's assistant, In
the position at present and until a
permanent pathologist Is secured. Mr.
Centner has had excellent training,
Is familiar with local conditions, and
will be quite competent to handle the
work through the fall and winter.
"The Gows" are coming! 22-tf
Another of Ashland's resources
overlooked and abused and neglected
these many years is none other
than the mountain highway to Cra
ter Lake, the "Dead Indian Road."
Not a name of beauty nor an attract
ive one to be sure, but the road itself
Is far from being what the name
would suggest.
Why not use what we have not
only because we have It, but because
it is the best there is? Why hesi
tate to do what we know needs to
be done, what everyone "wants done,
and a thing we can afford?
Germany can build miles and miles
of paved road to get a fortytwo cen
timeter gun in place to destroy life
and beauty. For a small sum we can
build a road to new life and beauties
that Germany can not buy at any
price.
If a man knew there was a pearl
burled in his back yard he would get
a shovel and get busy. "The Lake
of the Woods" is a pearl six mllea
over the county line, nestled among
the mountains with old Mount Mc
Laughlin, snow-capped and majestic,
In the background. This lake la
about two miles long by three-fourths
mile wide, of clear clean water, Ideal
for boating, bathing and fishing. It
Is surrounded by thousands of acres
of luscious huckleberries, no finer
fruit in the world, no finer place to
camp while picking them. The writ
er would make the whole trip for a
single huckleberry pie, such as moth
er tried to make.
Just go after the road, then those
huckleberries, fish, deer, bear,
grouse, mountain quail, ducks, geese,
and best water In the world, pure air
for a couple of weeks, then back to
work with the wrinkles all Ironed
out, youth renewed and a feeling that
life Is not such a drudgery after all.
I pity some of you who don't know
what a good time Is, when the uni
verse and your very front yard ara
full of it.
The Commercial Club propose to
build the first unit of this road which
runs from the Jackson-Klamath line
to Lake of the Woods. This can be
done at a much less expense than
most people think. The soil Is a nat
ural roadbed, the principal work be
ing to remove the rocks and stumps.
There are no heavy grades to climb
and no expensive grading to be done.
And yet? this road from Ashland to
Crater Lake is not excelled In South
ern Oregon for scenic beauty, no oth
er road can be built and maintained
at so little expense, no other road
affords such excellent camping places
or better hunting and fishing.
Passing Lake of the Woods and
going via Pelican Bay through tho
great upper Klamath Basin to Crater
Lake is the shortest road we have to ,
that great attraction.
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