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ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1916
VOL. XL
NUMBER 09
IDINGS
Council Meeting
Attracts Crowd
The bi-weekly council meetings are
getting to be looked-forward-to
vents In Ashland high life, and on
Tuesday night attracted a crowd
which Jammed the city hall. The
greater portion of the crowd were at
tracted by rumors of a mix over the
setting of the salaries of the city em
ployes and of removing rtie license
upon billiard halls and theatres. A
few left early In the evening, but the
majority remained through the entire
program.
After the reading of the minutes
the mayor filled several appointive
positions as is reported elsewhere.
The report of the springs water
commission, as published, was ap
proved and filed, as was also the year
ly report of Superintendent Russlll of
the light plant.
Several bills were read and ordered
paid.
A communication from Attorneys
McAllister and Vallandlgham regard
ing claims made in connection with
closing up the auxiliary water system
were referred to the city attorney.
Several petitions were read and
acted upon as elsewhere reported.
A committee recently appointed to
investigate the best method of repair
ing the cornice on the city hall, which
has been breaking off, recommended
that a metal cornice with mitered
corners be put up to replace the pres
ent cement cornice, which the com
mittee decided was impracticable to
maintain against the depredations of
the weather. The report was accept
ed and the same committee instructed
' to have the metal cornice constructed.
A requisition from the electrical
department for material aggregating
a cost of approximately $140. was fa
vorably taken care of, as was also a
requisition for material from the city
power house.
Mr. Banta reported on the White
land proposition which has come up
several times before. After consider
able discussion the city attorney was
Instructed to close a deal by which
the city pays Mr. White $5 and takes
over a fractional piece of land. An
offer from Mr. Perozzl for the land
was then talked over and laid over
until the next meeting.
The ordinance placing the salary of
the city employes was read and dis
cussed as elsewhere reported.
The ordinance outlining the rules
of order and order of the meeting
was passed. The big mix of the even
ing came when the ordinances regu
lating licenses came before the coun
cil as elsewhere reported.
A gentleman appeared before the
council with a request that the city
light the Fourth Street Mission free
of charge. He outlined the work done
by the hard workers who nightly give
their time to the mission work.
The mayor took this opportunity to
state that the police force 'had on
several occasions had a little trouble
In gathering up the transient hobo
element and asked the co-operation
of the Mission people in handling this
element, and requested that while
they were trying to save souls they be
careful to turn the transients over to
the police on demand.
J. W. Flnnell stated that at no
time since he had established that
place had the doors been open later
than 9 o'clock, and outlined some of
the good which had resulted from the
Mission work. The mayor made his
position plain in stating that what he
wished to guard against was the Mis
sion people keeping the undesirables
in the Mission until late and then
turning them out to wander about
town when they should have been
rounded up with the rest In the
Fourth street refuge maintained by
the city. The request for free lights
was referred to the proper committee
with power to act.
After half an hour spent in discus
sion of the billiard halls, the meeting
dissolved into executive session.
Taxpayers To Meet
At Medford Saturday
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Jackson County Taxpayers'
League will be held at the Medford
public library Saturday afternoon,
January 22. All members of the
board are urgently requested to be
present and all taxpayers are Invited
to attend. The heaviest taxpayers
are the ones most vitally interested
In the work being done by the league
and should be present to discuss and
help in the work.
Jackson county's annual taxes for
all purposes will aggregate close to
$ lOlfl POLITICAL CALENDAR 4
This Is to be a year of politics
so remember these dates:
April 18 Last day to file
petitions or declatlons for nom
inations for county offices, dis
trict 'and justice of the peace.
May 19 Primary election.
Polls open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
May 20 Reopening of regis
tration. June 4 Last day for candi
dates to file statements of ex
penditures of primaries.
September 28 Last day to
file certificate of nomination by
political party or assembly for
county and district.
October 7 Last day to regis
ter for general election.
October 13 Last day to file
certificate of nomination by in
dividual electors for county, dis
trict and precincts.
November 7 General elec
tion. Polls open from 8 a. m.
to 8 p. m.
November 22 Last day for
candidates to file statement of
expenditures.
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Vining Audience
Gets Money's Worth
Anyone who failed to get their
money's worth at last night's show
at the Vining Theatre must have been
suffering from a chronic case of
blues. The vaudeville was snappy and
full of ginger and the five-reel Wil
liam Fox picture, "Regeneration,"
was the strongest feature thrown on
the Vining screen for many weeks
past. Miss Hare of Belmont and
Hare, in "The Man, the Girl and the
Piano," put across a clever mono
logue song which rather took the
audience's breath away in places, but
whose finale dispelled any lingering
doubts as to its fitness. The rest of
the act was passably good. The Ju
venile Kings took the audience by
storm and were brought back time
after time. ThMarlott troupe of
vehicle Jugglers put up a novelty
which was new and speedy. A seven
piece orchestra under the direction of
Carl Loveland opened the program
with two concert numbers and accom.
panied the picture with special music
which added greatly to its effective
ness. "Regeneration" will be shown
again tonight.
Frohbach Heads
Committee for 4th
The committee for the big celebra-
Ition to be pulled off by the citizens
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wl Asiimuu, wim every live wire lrum
Portland to Ashland among the
guests, has been appointed. Presi
dent V. O. N. Smith of the Commer
cial club appointed H. 0. Frobach
as chairman, with the privilege of
selecting his own committee, which
he did as follows:
C. B. Wolf, Harry Hosier, Amos
Nininger, A. H. Pracht, Clarence
Adams, Geo. Owen, Frank Jordan,
Henry Enders, D. D. Norris and C.
A. Malone. As the event is not in
any sense a Commercial club affair,
but a citizens' celebration, many
members of the committee are not
members of the club, but will work
together toward the common end.
Other appointments may be made
later. The committee will meet to
day at 4 o'clock In the club room of
the Elks' Temple for preliminary dis
cussion of plans and possibilities, re
pbrt to be made at the next meeting
of the Commercial club.
Medynski Files
Election Contest
The city election at Medford has
been contested by ex-Councilman
Medynski on the grounds of irregu
larity, the defeated candidate charg
ing that the clerk took home one of
the ballot boxes, and other irregulari
ties. The trial of the contest will be
held tomorrow evening.
Phone Job orders to the Tidings.
three-quarters of a million dollars.
The expenditure of this vast sum
should have the closest co-operation
between taxpayer and taxspender.
Such co-operation la the primary ob
ject of the league.
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The First National Bank is having
the immense chime clock, Ashland's
first timepiece of the kind, hung on
the front of the bank building. The
clock will be in place and running in
a few days. The beautiful timepiece
will not only be a great convenience
but will be an artistic addition to the
downtown section.
The big clocks are operated by
electricity from a master clock inside
the building, In the main banking
room. This is an especially hand
some structure of mahogany and
plate glass construction with a thir-teen-inch
dial, and guaranteed to
keep practically perfect time. Every
minute the hands of the big clocks
are sent ahead one minute by elec
tricity governer by themaster clock
within, the connection between the
Heated Debate Over Repealing
Oi Theatre and
By a vote of four to two at Tues
day's council meeting the city fathers
repealed all ordinances regarding
licenses on billiard halls and theatres
and set new and smaller licenses for
circuses, merry-go-rounds and the
like. The new ordinances came as a
surprise to some of the councilmen
and was bitterly opposed by Council
man Ashcraft, who did not hesitate
to make plain his hatred of billiard
halls and theatres. The mayor stated
that he could not Blgn the ordinance
without investigation because of the
fact that it repealed several ordi
nances, and asked that it be allowed
to take its regular course. The insti
gators of the new ordinance, Messrs.
Banta and Root, were agreeable to
this providing the billiard halls and
theatres be allowed leeway in collec
tion of the licenses now due until the
matter was settled, but Mr. Ashcraft
demanded an immediate vote so that
"the people would know where the
councilmen stood," and the rules were
suspended and the ordinance passed,
Councilmen Ashcraft and Cornelius
voting against it, the latter stating
that he thought the scope of ground
covered by the ordinances repealed
should be investigated before the or
dinance was passed. ;
Discussion of the matter occupied
the major portion of the evening and
was participated In by all of the coun
cil members and some of the spec
tators. The point made' by Its supporters
was that if the businesses were legiti
mate they should no more be licensed
than a grocery store, and If not, they
should be put out of business.
Mr. Ashcraft held that the pool
rooms and theatres were a bad Influ
ence and favored licensing them to
help police the town, but made plain
the fact that if he had his way he
would put them entirely out of busi
ness. The discussion at times got away
from the question at band and de
volved Into a discussion of the right
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two Instruments being perfect and attendance wherever it has been dis
Insuring correct time on the large closed, and which ,hns been declared
clocks on the outside as well as on . the most remarkable success the
the master clock inside. American stage has known for twen-
The clock Is attached to the front, ty years,
of the First National Bank building j This is the play that has for Its
at a sufficient elevation to be plainly theme the InsldloiiB inroads of the
v'sible from all parts of the middle .Japanese, not merely in this coun
section of Main street. The clock Is try, but throughout the world. It
nine feet in height by three in width, is a drama of enthralling Interest,
of dark green bronze, with copper ; every character of which Is practl
hood at top and bottom. Both faces cally new to the stage,
of the clock are alike, the dial being Mr. Whiteside appears at Toker
surmointed by the wordB "First Na- 'amo, a young Japanese diplomat en
tional ''ank" In large Illuminated let-: gaged upon a sercet mission In Ber
ters. This fs provided by a sheet of lln, who becomes involved in ah "af-
copper in which are cut the letters,
laid over pure pearl wnite glass, with
crystal plate glass upon the outside.
This dials of the clock are thirty inch-
es in diameter, on pearl white glass,
with crystal glass on the outside.
Billiard Licenses
or wrong of poolrooms and theatres,
nearly all agreeing that if legitimate
they should not be licensed. Argu
ment grew almost heated at times
and Messrs. Root and Banta chal
lenged anyone to bring charges
against the pool halls, stating that if
proved they would be the hardest
fighters to put them out of business.
Rev. Carnahan talked for some
length on the matter and offered the
statement that the churches should
provide some place for the young men
to spend their spare time before try
ing to kill the poolrooms, "bad as
they were."
The mayor will file his reasons for
refusing to sign the ordinance within
five days, and doubtless further ac
tion will come of the matter as some
of the spectators chose to see in the
ordinance the beginning of an at
tempt to gain control of the city by
the so-called "pool hall" element.
Blanche Sweet at
Vining Friday
Blanche Sweet in "The Case of
Becky" is billed by the Vining for
next Friday evening. It is pro
nounced by critics as one of the great
est dramatic successes ever produced
by David Belasco. In "The Case of
Becky" Miss Sweet assumes a dual
personality, that of a young woman
stamped by pre-natal influence with
two characters, one pleasing and hap
py, the other mean and vicious. These
two personalities, Mi the one person,
struggle against each other for mas
tery. Throughout the play Is a theme
of mysticism and hypnotism, subjects
that are handled with all the skill
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Lasky producing force.
Chas. KSpaulding of Salem and
others have formed a new logging
company.
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J The Portland Chamber of
$ Commerce News describes the
men who harm a town as fol-
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3 ments. ' $
$' 2. Thoso who "knock Strang- $
$ crs and who "knock the town i
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$ 4. Those who hate to see
S others succeed.
$ 6. Those who distrust pub-
$ lic-splrlted men.
6. Those who oppose every $
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inate with themselves.
? 7. Those who oppose every
S enterprise that does not appear ?
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8. Those who enjoy the ben- ?
efits that come from the work $
of public-spirited, - broad-mind- ?
i ed men, but who ftive nothing
but criticism in return. 4
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Great Actor Will
Play at Page
Booked for an engagement of only
one night in the Rogue River valley,
Walter Whitesido and his splendid
company will soon be seen at the
Page theatre, Medford, on Wednes
day, January 20, in "The Typhoon"
a play that has set new records for
' fair" with a Berilnese eauty who
encompasses ins destruction nut at
! the sacrifice of her own life at his
hands.
A complete and beautiful produc
tion is carried by Mr. Whiteside,
whose leading woman this season is
Miss Lillian Cavanugh.
This play does not come to Ash
land. shoots spike Buck
And Fined in Hour
What is probably a world's record
for speed in handling a game law
violation case was established in Ash
land yesterday. Chris Gauckel, liv
ing just outside the southern city
limits, shot a spike buck near the
Mountain View cemetery. Someone,
presumably a neighbor, phoned to
Game Warden Walker who was at
Medford and who hurried out to the
Glaucker place equipped with a
search warrant. When asked if he
had any venison on the place Glauck
er replied, "no." Walker Informed
Chris that he would search the place.
Glaucker replied, "there is the barn,
out there." Walker said, "I guess I
will look in this littlo house first,"
pointing to a smokehouse Glaucker
moaned "my God, but I am unlucky."
The huntsman was brought to
town and fined $27.40, the minimum
fine and costs in Justice Trefreu's
court, tho moat being brought along
for evidence and later taken to the
county poor farm.
Glaucker had paid his fine and was
on his way home before the meat
got cold, tho entire affair being en
compassed In the space of about two
hours.
Hoboes Traveling
North and South
According to Patrolman Wlmer,
the box car transient travel north is
Just as large as the southbound trav
el. This is attributed to conditions
In California and to rumors that the
lumber industry in the northwest is
calling for men. Fourteen guests
were entertained at the hobo hotel on
Fourth street last night. Among
them were several "colored gentle
men." The warm fire In the Fourth
street refuge is welcome to the shiv
ering "boes" on nights like these.
Mineral Vater
Analyses Booklet
The publicity department has Just
issued a littlo sixteen-page booklet
containing a general statement con
cerning the mineral waters of tho
Ashland district and analyses of the
principal springs in uso at the pres
ent time. There Is, also, a brief
statement about the city and Its en
vironment and an analysis of cli
matic conditions.
These books were published for
I the purpose of giving detailed Infor-
minion concerning tho medicinal
lvalue of our waters to physicians and
those who ask for the analysts of any
of the springs now in m;e here.
Copies of it have been mailed to
Southern Pacific officials and the de
partment has received many letters
j commending it very highly. Through
the courtesy of W. W. Ussher, local
manager for the Pucific Telephone &
Telegraph company, copies of the di
rectories of the leading cities of tho
raiific Coast have been secured and
a mailing list of physicians is being1
made up by the department.
Copies of the now book of analyses
and the glass of water book will bo
mailed, with personal letters, to
physicians on this list with a view
to Interesting them In Ashland and
its advantages as a health resort.
The department is getting In touch
with the big tourist, agencies in Now
! York city. Through the courtesy and
I kindness of John M. Scott, general
passenger agent of the Southern Pa
jcific company, a full littt of these has
i been secured. Copies of the various
publications issued by the depart
ment and marked copies of the Tid
ings containing a story about the re
modeling of the Hotel Oregon have)
been mailed to all these agencies call
ing attention to It and asking these
concerns to keep Ashland In mind
when routing their patrons on vaca
tion tours to the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Scott has asked for 1000 or
2000 of the new book of analyses, to
be sent to the Eastern offices of tho
Southern Pacific Company and dls
trlbuled from the Portland offices as
well.
Five thousand of the new book
have been printed. The department
will be glad to furnish copies to any
of our people who desire to sont in
formation concerning the mineral
water contents of our springs to their
friends In other cities.
Citizens Bank
Elects Officers
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of The Citizens Bank of Ash
land was held last Thursday after
noon In the directors' room of the.
bank. The meeting was largely at
tended by the stockholders, of whom
there are fifty-four, and all expressed
satisfaction at tho reports of the
year's business. Three of the direct
ors having requested that they be
relieved from the duties connected
with tho office on account of the
press of personal affairs, the stock
holders took advantage of the oppor
tunlty and amended the by-laws oC
the bank, reducing the number of di
rectors from nine to seven, which
number was conceded to be more ad
vantageous for the efficient perform
ance of the duties of the directorate..
The directors elected wore: J. P.
Dodge, W. F. Loomis, Don B. Smith,
II, F. Pohland, V. M. Poley, C. B.
Lanikin and V. O. N. Smith.
Followiii!; the stockholders' meet
ing the directors met and elected of
ficers for the year, which are as fol
lows: II. V. Pohland, president; J.
P. Dodgo, vice-president; V. O. N.
Smith, cashier; F. S. Engle, assistant
cashier; Ethel L. Davenport, assistant
cashier.
Eclipse of Moon
Visible Here
Although the sky was speckled
with clouds, those who were fortun
ate enough to be awake between tho
hours of 11:30 and 1:30 last night
had an opportunity to see the first
1916 model eclipse of the moon. The
eclipse was not total, but for an
hour almost half of the moon' was ob
scured. The eclipse was not visible
from the lower valley as heavy clouds
hung ovor Medford and from there
north.
France asks for bids on 200,000,
000 feet of lumber from Northwest
mills.