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BMcony DIED. John Wallace Rogers. John Wallace Rogers, pioneer of southern Oregon, Indian fighter and Civil War veteran, died Thursday morning of pneumonia at his home east of Ashland. "White Wolf," as he was known to the boys of Ashland, could always be counted upon for an enlivening story of Indian fight or pioneer stagecoaching. He is sur vived by his wife and a brother, Tom, who is employed on the George Dunn ranch. Funeral services were held Sunday from the residence, Rev. Blackstone of the Baptist church of ficiating. Interment In Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Rogers' sister is here from Portland. High School Moles i 4- 3. The pupils were given the seats , Escnmillo Elwood Hedberg they are to occupy this semester last Monday morning. This is the earli- Zuniga Aubrey Redifer Morales Milton Fraley est this has been done for several f Pastia Raymond Badger years. Some of the pupils, those who Carmen Alice Becroft registered late and most of the teach-' Frasquita Margaret Ames ers' training class, are without seats. J Mercedes Mary Weisenburger The former sit on whatever chair or.Micaela Prlscilla Carnahan tlesk is handy, but the latter have l)een Installed In the room which was vacated when the grade children were moved out of the building. The Beats are all for six-year-olds, but the class seems to be satisfied. They rail the room "the nursery." The teachers' training pupils were not given seats In the assembly because most of them only have one or two ftudy periods a day and some have none. Th reason for the change in the seating Is the incoming class "rooks." It is quite a large class, if one con siders numbers and not stature. The prevailing style among the "freshles" is knickerbockers. Professor Moore announced, as usual, that these little ones had the highest average of any class which has come before. Of course we do not doubt his 'word. As to the stature of the "rookies," I presume the only thing to be done Is to wait and hope that they grow. There are two or threethat are really up to standard. There are 39 of these newcomers, which Is really a large class for this time of year. Several students who dropped school this year or last have returned to school and seem bent on gaining further knowledge. Among these are Charles Porter, Roy Smith, Adrian Wolf, Lynn Slack, Glenn Young and Gladys Good. LeRoy Ashcraft and Fred Schuerman of last year's gradu ating class have come back to school as "P. Q.'s." They are taking mostly commercial work. Rev. Carnahan visited school Tues day afternoon. Some of the classes are exceedingly large this semester, and one (the eco nomics class) has had to be divided Into two divisions. County Supervisor of Schools Chase spoke before the teachers' training class Wednesday. He told something of his work, what he was trying to do, and told some of his own experiences when he started to tench, In this way bringing up many points which will probably be of ser vice to the students as teachers. J. Ii. Ware also visited school Wednes day afternoon. The hasketba'l game for this week Is to be with the local militia. It is to be played at the armory Thursday evening. Both teams have been working overtime and a very good game is to be expected. The annual staff has been chosen end work will be begun Immediately. The Rogue will not be a monthly this year. Orchestra practice was postponed this week from Wednesday to Friday evening on account of the 111 health of Miss Murphy, the pianist. Morris "Gravy" Plymate, the old basketball, football and baseball standby of the Ashland high school, 1s contemplating a return to school. He has been out practicing with the team quite often lately. The debate between Ashland and Medford Is to be February 7. Ash land is to have the negative of the question, "Reoslved, that the United States should adopt the essential fea tures of the Swiss military system." The cast for "Carmen" as it now stands is as follows: Don Jose Merrill Throne There are a few minor characters yet to be chosen. The choruses were organized last week and about forty girls and twenty-five boys, not in cluding the cast, joined. Of cours3 there are quite a number who have yet to join. Miss Harris expects to have about ninety in the combined choruses before the opera is pre sented. From now on the practices will be many and often. Mrs. Francis Badger, Mrs. Francis Badger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Tavener of this city and wife of Horace Badger of Ashland, died suddenly at Oakland, Cal., Saturday. Mrs. Badger had been In poor health for the past year and a half and had recently under gone two operations, but her condi tion was not thought to be serious and the death comes as a sudden shock to her many Ashland friends. She was twenty-five years of age and was one of the most popular of the younger Ashland set. She leaves two sisters, Rose and Victoria, both of whom were in San Francisco at the time of her death. sent for its final rest. The monu ment was erected some years ago and finished with the exception of the date of his death. Mr. Corbett, although ailing for about two weeks, was down in town the day before, making purchases, He camo back home entirely worn out, complaining of excessive fatigue During the afternoon he had called at the Tidings office and also spent a couple of hours with his neighbor, II. G. Gilmore. He went to bed early and was found the next morning asleep' without any apparent stru gle. Thus ended tho life of a good man. The funeral will take place Wed nesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the C. Cunningham residence on Alta avenue. Mrs. June McClaln. Mrs. Jane McClain, mother of Mrs. II. H. Gcarhart, died at the Gearhart residence on Walker avenue last Fri day morning at the age of eighty years, eleven months and ten days. The body was shipped to tho old home at Fremont, Iowa, for burial. Dorothy May Snider. Dorothy May Snider, four-months- old baby of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Snider, living on a ranch in the Cove dis trict east of Ashland, died Friday morning. The baby was found dead in bed and had not been sick, doctors attributing the death to a dislocated neck. The mother discovered the death when the baby failed to awak en at the usual hour in the morning. Jackson Ritchson. Died, in Hornbrook, Cal., January 13, 1916, Jackson Rltchson, a native of New York, aged 02 years, 11 months and 21 days. The funeral took place from his late residence on Front street In that town at 2 p. m January 15. Jackson Ritchson settled in Horn brook a dozen years ago with his family. To cherish his memory he leaves a widow and six children, as follows: Mrs. R. A. Standiford of Dunsmuir; Mrs. H. Moore of Horn brook; Mrs. R. Kennedy of Ashland; Leroy Rltchson of Merrill, Ore.; W, o. of Hornbrook and F. J. Ritchson ot Jackson county, Oregon. Two brothers and a sister reside In the east. Fcrmei Ashland Policeman Kills Some Trains In the East The following from the Lewistown (Pa. Gazette, on the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad system, indicates the remarkable movement of trains in densely populated sec tions, and is interesting from that view: "Figures furnished by A. S. Barth, the first trick signalman at Longfel low tower, show that while there was a large increase in the train move ment over the middle division dur ing the latter half of the year 1915, It still does not compare favorably with the totals of the previous year. According to the figures given by Mr. Barth, which were taken from the train registers daily, there were 66, 470 trains passed that point during the year 1914 and only 55,368 during the year 1915. Or a decrease of 1,102 during the latter year. Trains to the number of 25,091 rolled by during the first half of the year, but on the week ending June 10 an in crease in the number of trains was recorded, and .this gained steadily until the end of the year. In the latter half of the year 30,277 trains passed that point, which was a flat Increase of 5,186 trains during the six months. As this was a slow, steady drag for the better, the indi cations are that it will be permanent and that the coming year will show a still greater gain." Former Ashlander Dead at Portland Portland Oregonian: The funeral services of the late John T. Rogers, an Oregon mining engineer, who died at his homo, 4603 East Seventieth street, on the South Side, at the age of 6S years, were conducted yester day from Lerch's Chapel, East Elev enth and East Clay streets. Rev. J. Staub, pastor of the Sunnyside Congregational church, conducted the services. Interment was in Mount Scott Park cemetery. Mr. Rogers is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Chls- holm and Mrs. Mabel Rogers, of this city. He came to Ashland, Ore., 28 years ago and engaged in mining en gineering and experted many of the mines of the southern district. He moved to Portland eight years ago. Yes, we make ladies' and men's garments in our own shop and give you a perfect fit, at Orres' Tailor Shop. Mi. Sarah J. Barber. Mrs. Sarah J. Barber, mother of W. M. Barber of Ashland, died Fri day afternoon from heart failure af ter a short illness of but one day duration. She had lived in Ashland only a little over a year, her former home being in Cambridge, Ohio, where the remains were Shipped for burial. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the family home on Granite street Rev. W. J. Douglass of the Meth odist church officiating. Deceased was eighty-four years of age and leaves but the one son to mourn her loss, although she has sisters and brothers in Ohio. Rev. Douglass ac companied the remains to the east where he will perform the last rites and lay her to rest In her old home, John Leslie Corbett. -John Leslie Corbett, who went to sleep in the morning of January 22, 1916, was born In Shropshire, Eng land, May 20, 1826, and would have been ninety years old if he had lived until May 20 next. He came to America when eighteen years old; spent most of his life in California in the early days; also lived in Mis souri at Canton and in Butte and Virginia City, Mont.; became a res! dent of Ashland in 1893. During the period h.e was in Montana he was. very active in all lines of civil and mining engineering, inventing and perfecting several instruments for ac curate and rapid work, which enabled him to secure and complete several large governmental and corporation contracts from which he acquired an extended reputation as a surveyor. Many branches of the science, partic ularly geology and meteorology, were his delight, and in which he car ried on observations throughout his life. Companioned by a large library of up--to-date books, Including sci ence, travel and philosophy, he be came, through his excellent memory, a perfect mine of Information. During the Civil War he was a member of a citizens' battalion ill northeast Missouri, organized to drive the guerillas out of that part of the country. That company of loyal Union men were never mustered into or out of the service, but did such effective work that General Lyon complimented them most highly as being more effective in ridding that country of the guerilla bands than a whole regiment of his regular troops. The government recognized their work In these critical times by granting them pensions. He was married twice; his only di rect descendant living is Miss Irene Corbett, now living in Quincy, Mass. Mrs. C. Cunningham is his sister and Mrs. Elmo Neil his niece. There is also a daughter-in-law in Lebanon, Neb., and other relatives in Eng land. His two wives are buried in Canton, Mo., where his body will be J. S. Wilson, former Ashland po liceman, and whose wife and child live in Ashland, shot and killed a bar tender in a Stockton saloon last Sat urday. Few details have been learned concerning the affair. Brief press dispatches state that Wilson entered the saloon carrying a suitcase and soon engaged in a controversy with Fred Funk, a bartender. Funk eject ed Wilson, who returned later, and nking a revolver from his suitcase sent a bullet Into Funk's body. Wil son ran but was caught and is now in the Stockton jail. When exam ined by the district attorney Wilstm said he remembered nothing of the shooting. Wilson was a member of the Ash land police force about a year ago, but was discharged when he attacked Chief Porter as a result of a griev ance, and soon after left the city for Stockton. He was back in Ashland recently and left ,the middle of last week for Stockton. The Pity of It By M. QUAD . Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Big Land Deal Near Montague A. L. Harlow and associates have purchased the holdings of the Mt. Shasta Land and Irrigation Company and the new owners are already pre paring camps for the force of sixty workmen who will be put to work clearing land and running ditches Thousands of dollars will be spent in Improvements. More than 5,000 acres are involved in the deal, the land lying southeast of Montague, SlEklyou county, California. The tract will be subdivided and sold to settlers on long time contracts. what ao you want? A TIdingi rant ad tells it to more than two thousand people in a day. Twenty five cents does the business. Shipping rabbits from Lakeview to San Francisco is a new industry. Classified Advertisements TOO LATH TO CLASSIFY. FOR RENTModern five-room bunga low, furnished, J10 per month. Apply 115 Granite street. 70-tf FOR SALE Eggs for setting from winter laying S. C. Rhode Island Reds. The kind that pay a profit even when feed is high. Mrs. W. D. Booth, 996 Oak street, phone- 291-R. 70-lmo. FOR SALE OR TRADE Car suita ble for powerful one-ton truck. Also car that can be used for pleas ure car or light truck. Will con eider trade for property. H. G. Butterfield, 139 Second street. 70-tf FOR SALE Forty White Maltese and Runt Maltese pigeons. Mated pairs, $3; unmated birds, $1 each or $30 for lot. Also Belgian hares and rabbit hutch. 172 Skidmore. 70-4t WANTED Dressmaking. Prices reasonable. Mrs. J. Morcom, Mrs. J. McDonald. Inquire 263 Second street. ' 70-4t FOR SALE 1915 Overland, good as new. Electrio lights and starter. Bargain if sold at once. For par ticulars apply Murphy Auto Co., Plaza, Ashland. It FOR RENT Five-room flat, close in. Furnished, light and water. Hodg son & Reed. 70-2t Just an even hundred men answered "Here!" as the sergeant called the roll on the morning we awoke beside the Potomac. There was an even hundred as we marched awuy as we took our first turn ut picket us we first sighted the enemy, as we went into battle for the first time. After tho roar of guns had died away and the dead hud been burled, only eighty-nine men answered "Here!" to the sergeant's roll cali In tlie morning. A few weeks wont by, and we stood shoulder to Blioulder in battle Hue again, and when the sergeant culled the roll, now only seventy-eight men answered "Here!" Then came Cold Harbor und the fall ing buck to Mulveru bill. Cannon boomed and musketry crocked ull day long and fur Into the night Wounded men cursed und groaned as they llnrn ed away or fell helpless men pitched forward with but a single cry and died with their faces bidden in the weeds and grass. After Malvern Hill the sergeant called the roll again not the same sergeant us before, for he was lying dead lu the thickets at Fair Oalis-and this time only fifty-two men answered "Here."' And so could you wonder that when recruits came down to us we looked upon them as Intruders, even though they were good meii und true, und bad come to help us win victories? Their names were culled with ours. und we beard them answer "Here!" But they were only with us: they could not be of us. They had come too Into. And nt lust came Appomattox and the surrender and then peace and the return to Washington. We wore ul most a full company uguln ns we turn ed out on the meadows of Arlington for the lust roll call. Upward of sev enty living men could have answered here to their names. "Full in, cotupuny G. Attention to roll cull!" II was not he sergeant who bad ailed the roll after Fredericksburg, fter Chaucellorsville, after Gettys burg. It wus a new man one who had been promoted before his checks had scarcely been burned by the southern sun. hut he had heui-u of the ties which bound tho old veterans together -he realized what this last roll call meant to the survivors. Aud from the musty archives of the past be took the roll of the dead nud called: "Anson, Armstrong, Arwltage!" No one replied. "Berry, Bloomlngdnle, Benson, Bar stoii, Bcuham!' No one replied. "Cary. Cnrter, Carnahan, Cummlngs Comstock!" No one replied. Aud so be called, and so the silence of the deuth roll grew deeper. "Young, Yconians, Yager!" No one replied. "York!" "Here!" And so he of all was the sole survlV' or, the last living man of company G, the only one who had a right to stand there in that line and answer to the last roll cull. The others-ninety and nine were crippled ut borne or sleep ing their last sleep on the hillsides, lu the valleys, In the forests, and the thickets of Virginia. The line cheered htm as be stood apart, the last survivor of a glorious band which had fought in a dozen bat tles, but he turned bis bead away and wept Perhaps no act of war engendered more bitterness than the burning of the bams and houses in the Shenan doab valley under Sheridan's official order. .No warning was given unless the great clouds of smoke rising np here and there to signify destruction were taken as warnings of what was to come. A squad of men galloped up, the women und children were told the substance of the order, and the match was applied. An hour later they sat on the grass houseless and homeless, some of them nuked and dumb lu ter ror. There were tears and prayers and pleadings, but the order bad gone forth. By nnd by, as we rode up to a quaint old farmhouse, half hidden among the fruit trees, a rifle cracked nnd a troop er, shot through the head, fell off his horse. The black pillars of smoke dot ting the valley had told the people what wos coming. Here was one de termined to protect his property one man 'gainst company after company riding up and down and across. Ten minutes later the barn and the stacks were on fire nnd men uuder cover were keeping up a hot fire on the rifle pit Just ns another squad, uttracted by the firing, came up a second man was lilt and grievously wounded. There was no more firing from the pit Some of the scores of bullets tired into it must have found a target There was a msh from all sides and the pit was captured. Fifty men had captured one. Aud that one? It was a lad not a day over fourteen, and one of our carbine bullets had taken his life. And when we laid him on the grass and Baw that be bad come home wounded from some battle up the val leywhen the mother came out to ns from the house and fell on her knees nnd walled and subbed when an old white haired grandfather stood in the door, helpless to come out and look Into our faces, but wailing out as If the sight of the dead boy was break ing bis heart, what conld we say? Nothing! What could we do? Only ride away and bemoan the cruelties of war! Beautiful Land of Alsace. ' This land of Alsace is In many re spects the most beautiful that I have ever seen. Strung along the horizon, like sentinels wrapped in mantles of? green, the peaks of the Vosges loom against the sky. On the slopes of the ridges, massed In their block battal ions, stand forests of spruce and plna Through peaceful valleys sliver streams meander leisurely, and In the meadows which border them cattle Hand knee deep amid the lush green grass. Tho villages, their tortuous, cobble paved streets, lined on either side by dim arcades, and tho old, old houses, with their turrets nnd balco nies aud steep pitched pottery roofs, give you th6 feeling that they are not real, but: that they are scenery on a stage, and this Illusion is heightened by the men in their jaunty berets nnd wooden sabots, and tho women whoso huge black silk headdresses accentuate the freshuess of their complexions. It Is at once a region of ruggedness and, -majesty and grandeur, of quulntnesst nnd simplicity nnd charm. F. Alex ander Powell In Scrlbner's Magazine. Japan's Dragon Lamps. Japan abounds with sacred places Shintolst and Buddhist formerly re puted for the appearances of tho so called "dragon's lamp." This is n mys terious light that comes out of a pond, lake or sen and alights on n certain tree, mostly on n certain night It was held that the light was dedicated by a dragon dwelling lu tho water to a god whoso shrine stood near the trees. For example, the famous Ityuto of the temple of Avalokltcsvura on Nagim hill, province of KM. made Its annual ascent from the sea to a pine tree In the precincts every ninth night of the seventh monn. At tho midnight of the 10th of every month a ft.vuto en mo from the northeast oiling to the so called "dragon's lamp pine," near the shrine of Mandjusrl nt Klredo, prov ince of Tango, whoreng on the sumo tree another light, named "Celestial lamp," made Its descent from tho heav ens every sixteenth night of the first, fifth and ninth months.-Exchnnge. Last Chance. "It is said." he remarked reflective ly, "that women's hands are growing larger." "Well?" she returned Inquiringly. "Yes," he asserted. "And the worst of it Is that there Is every likelihood that this tendency will continue." "Yes?" she said In the same Inquir ing tone. "Yes," he repeated. "Ynu see. driv ing and golf and tennis und other sports that women have recently tukeii up are responsible for It" "In that case." she said, with a glance at her own dainty hands, "you'd better speak quick if you want a small one," He realized that it was the opportu nity of a lifetime, and be spoke promptly. Chicago Herald. Leaping Treason. King William III. of England was passionately fond of the chase and made it a point never to be outdone in uuy leap, however perilous. A Mr. Cherry, who was devoted to the ex iled Stuarts, took udvantage of this to plan the most remarkable design which was ever formed against a king's life. He regularly Joined tho royal hounds, put himself foremost and took the most desperuto leaps in the hope that William might break his neck In following him. One. day. however, he accomplished one so im minently dangerous that the king when be came to the spot shook bis bead and drew back. It is said that Mr. Cherry at length broko bis own neck and thereby relieved the king from further hazard. Salt In Roumanla. Veritable mountains of salt are to be- seen In some sections of Roumanla, for the salt deposits cover an enor mous area aud have a thickness vary ing from GOO even to 800 feet At Sarat there is a mountain of salt and steam shovels can be used to load tho waiting cars. In other case3 the gal lery system is employed, and elec trically driven machines turn out blocks a cubic yard in size, like great pieces of granite. Not Necessarily. "Yon say this motorist took you to a hospital after he ran you down?" "Yes." "Nothing could be kinder." "Maybe not, but be didn't have to- run me down, did he, Just to show mo he had a kind heart?" Birmingham Age-Herald. The Arabio Language. The Arabic used in the Koran dif fers as much from the Arable used in ordinary conversation nud intercourse In the east a Latin differs from Ital ian. The Koran Arabic is that of tho literary classes; colloquial Arabic is that of the common people. A Helpful Wife. "Now, hubby, I want to be helpful," said the bride. "Bless my little wife!" "So whenever you have any coupons to be clipped you may turn that work over to me." Louisville Courier-Jour nal Not Clear to Paw. Little Lemuel Say, paw, can any one- see through glass? Paw-Certainly, son. Little Lemuel Then why can't Uncle Joe see through his glass eye? Exchange. A Reason. "Why do writers always talk ot angry flames T' "Because, if yon notice, flames are usually pat out"-Baltimore American. ...-at ( mt WAJj: J
