Oregon Historical Society
Comp 207 Second St
iiSHLAND
Ashland Grows While Llthla Flows"
. City of Sunshine and flowers
Ashland, Oregon', Lilhia Springs
"Oregon's Famous Spa"
VOL. XLI
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNK 19, 1910
NUMBERS
IDINGS
Weed and Medford
Will Play Ball Here
"Chl" rierson returiiorl Monday
from an extended automobile trip
through northern California and re
ports that everywhere interest In the
Ashland celebration Is growing by
leaps and bounds. He says that the
little town of Etna Mills, forty miles
from the railroad, will send one hun
dred and fifty.
Mr. Pierson is In charge of the
baseball concession for the three big
days and has signed up the Weed
and Medford teams. These two
tpams seem to be probably the
strongest within a radius of three
hundred miles of Ashland, with the
possible exception of Klamath Falls.
Medford plays Klamath before the
Fourth, however, so a basis for com
parison may be formed.
The Medford team is playing great
ball this year. They are reinforced
by several college men and have not
been defeated. Weed has a team
which would make the best of the
hush league teams hump. Several
Stanford and Oregon players are In
cluded In their lineup. Kenneth
Lilly, Ashland boy who Is develop
ing into a promising ballplayer, Is
one of the mainstays of the Weed ag
gregation with the bat.
The games will be played promptly
at 10 o'clock on each morning of
the 4th, Hth and 6th. The parade
will start at 9 and end at the ball
grounds. The high school grounds
will be put Into shape and additional
bleachers built.
"Big Bill" Tuerck, the University
of Oregon's mainstay in the pitcher's
box, has joined the Weed team, to
gether with Sheehy of the same team.
Medford boasts of the fastest Infield
in the history of baseball in that
city and points with pride to Deputy
Sheriff Curly Wilson, who pinches
everything that comes within the
ne'ghborhood of first base; Shorty
Miles, chubby veteran who has ca
vorted around second since time im
memorial; Rudy Sholtz, star athlete
of the Santa Clara baseball team at
short, and a speed demon by the
name of Moran on third. They will
holster up their outfield with two
heavy hitters, one Jud Pernoll of
Grants Pass, who has done his little
turn on the mound up In the Ameri
can league and may be persuaded to
go into the box in one of the games,
and an extra pitcher. The games will
be the best baseball ever put up in
Ashland and should draw immense
crowds. The entire Weed lumber
force will be over to root for their
team.
Vining Offerings
For the Week
Monday.
Tonight's bill at the Vining brings
a Metro feature, "Her Great Price,"
featuring Mabel Taliaferro. The fea
ture Is in five great acts of thrilling
moments, intense situations, spark
ling comedy and culminates with a
genuine surprise in a startling cli
max. It is a typical Bohemian story
vividly reminding the spectators of
an O. Henry story, and is one of the
most nevel pictures recently released
Tuesday.
"He Fell In Love With HIb Wife"
is, as the title suggests, a story of
heart interest supreme. Florence
Rockwell and Forrest Stanley play
the lead parts in this play of excep
tional appeal. As an extraordinary
feature, fifty votes for King Sulphur
will be given away with every adult
admission to the Vining Theatre
Tuesday evening.
Wednesday.
Hall Caine Is the author of a won
derful feature production, "The
Bondman," featuring the great Wil
Fam Farnum, which comes to tho
Vining Theatre and will attract a ca
pacity crowd on Wednesday night of
this week. Hall Caine has penned
many a brilliant story, but surpasses
himself in this big dramatic success,
pregnant with compellant power and
lifting the audience out of their seats
with its supreme dramatic climaxes.
William Farnum is at his best in the
character of the wrestling champion
of Iceland who falls in love with the
Kovernor's daughter, marries her over
hitter opposition, deserts her, and so
on through a primeval story of
strength and the vast places to a su
preme climax.
Samuel G. Blythe tells us that "ex
aggerated ego" is a "national fail
ing" in Mexico. So different in this
country.
J, $ $ ..$ J $ $
TO C. It. WOLF AM) If. (i.
KXDKICS.
Among other misleading
statements and villainous In
sinuations against the acts of
the springs water commission,
and Mr. Greer !n particular, you
query as to why the commission
does not sue Smith, Kmery &
Co. on their $',0,000 bond. The
reply Is simply because no such
condition as you intimate ex
ists. You are doing your best to
create the suspicion in the pub
lic mind that Bert R. Greer has
grafted in the springs matter.
If this be true, and you have
any evidence, why do you not
sue Greer on his $10,000 bond
and make him como back with
the money? If you are honest
you should apply the same rem
edy to protect the city against
peculations by Greer that you
ask the commission to apply to
Smith, Emery & Co.
The truth Is, gentlemen, you
are purposely misrepresenting
the facts and you know it. You
are simply ins'nuating in the
hope of turning the people
against Greer in the recall elec
tion. rv ,i) t .t f i .$ 4, -l
Ashlander Is
Dental Graduate
Earl It. A'nbett, son of a former
Ashland Methodist minister and
well known in the city, graduated
last month from North Pacific Col
lege of Dentistry and Pharmacy, Port
land, Ore. He was a graduate of the
t'nlversity of Oregon, and the Oregon
Emerald makes the following men
tion in an article concerning the den
tal college commencement:
"Out of a class of some sixty grad
uates In dentistry, Oregon claims two
alumni and three former students.
Earl R. Abbett, class of 1906, won
the distinction of ranking as high
man in the class. He js remembered
by many Oregon folks between the
years of 1S96 to 1906, having taken
both his preparatory and collegiate
work at the varsity. He was active
in college affairs, serving as editor
of the then weekly college paper, and
of his class year-book. The Webfoot,
in his junior year; for five seasons he
sang with the varsity glee club as
baritone soloist and was president of
that organizations for three years;
and In athletics he ran the mile a
couple of seasons."
Leather Pennant
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15 lllUdt fliUillOj
'
One of the most artistic pennants' j
advertising the coming celebration
which has been exhibited around
Ashland vet Is a three-color, all-leath
er nennant. the work of John Volpe.
The pennant is about three feet long
and bears the words "Lithia Springs
Celebration, Ashland, July 4, 5, 6."
Each letter is cut out of leather and
sewed on separately. The background
is of cream colored leather of soft
texture. I
Find Vein of Coal
On MurphyTlace
j tlie most emotional. Holding the
A fifteen-inch vein of good coal center of the picture Is an immense
has been opened up by Messrs. Chap-j tree, one hundred feet In height,
man and Davenport, who are open- which in the daytime appears not lin
ing up a coal prospect on the Murphy like a hundred other trees in tho
place east of Ashland. The vein looks vicinity but which at night is a shlm
promising and Is widening as the niering, transparent cloud of waving
miners get into it. A big coal mine , brilliancy. Scores of light bulbs
near Ashland begins to look like a strung through the branches create
possibility at least.
Episcopal Outing
In P2rkTufisdav
lii & tun a uwuuy i
I
Next Tuesday the mombers of the
local Episcopal church will have a
basket picnic in Lithia Park. Invita
tions have been extended to other
churches of this denomination located
in southern Oregon to participate,
and it is expected that there will be
a good out-of-town attendance.
A local druggist at Roseburg Is ex
perimenting to make perfume distinc
tive of that vicinity.
Judgt
01 the UlltO bll-
preme Court
iLhmmmm
"We, the People, or We, the Judges." is typical of the
the man who wrote it Judge Wana maker.
Judge Wana maker is one of the most popular
jurists in America a man of broad principle and pro
gressive spirit, lie is one of a dozen men of national
character and reputation that are ! being brought to
your Chautauqua.
Read this article by Judge Waninnaker. It is
an article well worth your time.
Be Sure to Hear Judge
Orders for Mobilization of
Oregon Militia Awaited Hourly
Orders to prepare the equipment of
j the Ashland first company of the Ore
! gon Coast Artillery Corps and get In
j touch with all the members as meas
! ures of preparation anticipating or
( ders for mobilization of the Oregon
j militia were received yesterday, and
the Ashland company is in readiness
to get under way within twenty hours
should mobilization orders, which are
I expected hourly, arrive. Rumors
were prevalent yesterday on the
j streets that the Medford company had
' been ordered to Me::ieo and the Ash
i land company to Fort Stevens, but
; without foundation. As far as can
be learned at present, the move con
: templated is a mobilization of the
militia of the state at Clackamas.
The local company would probably go
into service relieving the regulars at
Fort Stevens, should the call come.
The news was received with but
little excitement except among the
younger members of the company.
Illumination Makes Park
Night Vision of Beauty
I Lithia Park at night has been
1 transformed from a place of fearsome
I pitch dark paths whose pitfalls
'caught the feet of the seeker for lithia
! water, into a veritable fairyland of
j beauty. Hundreds of electric lamps,
scattered as if strewn by a comet
shower among the trees of the park,
male Lithia park a land of enchant-
ment whose night beauty will soon
draw larger crowds than its daylight
attractions.
The illumination of Lithia Park
was the last act of the springs water
I commission prior to turning over the
' park to the park board of the city on
June 15.
The path through Chautauqua
' Park, the main foot entrance to
Lithia Park, has been lighted by
strings of bulbs hung from the trees,
and Park avenue is illuminated witn
high-power street lights. This part
of the lighting system Is simply utili
tarian and will be accepted by the
visitor as a matter of course, but
when Lithia Park conies into view a
gasp of wonder is elicited from even
an offset which is simply indescrib
able. The great tree is of no color
which can be named; it evokes re-
mombrance of nothing unless it be
that of a single cloud high in the sky
which 8hi!iimer9 witn ""might as twi-
1)ght as over the earth 0nfl great
arc lamp would produce as much
yf, aa the many bulbs in the
branches of the tree, but as a unlquo
feature the tree Is worth no one
knows how much to the park.
The trails through the park from
the fountain plaza, which is as bright
as day with the brilliant radla
from the circles of lights on the foun
tains and handstand, Invite the visitor
with lights beckoning through the
waving branches. The trails are all
lighted well enough, and yet not too
is publMml in the Satur
day Evening l'ost of June
10th; ThU article entitled,
Wanamaker at Chautauqua
Recruiting will pick up cons'derably
and a record turnout is anticipated at
drill tonight. Captain Wake esti
mates that at present the company
has about fifty-five men available for
immediate service. A call to mobil
ize would mean the taking of men
from almost every business in Ash
land The biggest hole would be made In
the' Ashland postoffice force, which
would.be reduced from eleven to four
should tho company leave. Among
the employes subject to call are As
sistant Postmaster Herbert G. East
man, First Lieutenant Donald M.
Spencer,- Second Lieutenant Millard
W. Gfubb, Corporal Bert Freeman,
Privates H. S. Palmerlee, W. E.
Moore, T. E. Hatfield. This would
leave Postmaster E. J. KaiBer, Misses
Lydla Met all and Helene Casey and
Rural Carrier J. H. Doran as a nu
cleus to carry on Uncle Sam's busi
ness in Ashland.
well. All of the lamps are strung
among the trees, and neither at night
nor during the day are the wires visi
ble, so cleverly was the work done.
Charming scenes are revealed by tho
illumination arrangement, night pic
tures of tumbling waters and stately
trees fringed by the shadows which
always approach but never envelop.
And soon as the trails along the
creek are followed, blue lights ahead
announce that the visitor Is approach
ing Satan's Sulphur Grotto. A red
radipneo is thrown out apparently
from the hillside, but upon nearer
approach Is seen to come from the
depths of a cave which punctures the
hillside. Mingling with the flood of
red, flaniellke Illumination como the
fumes of sulphur, and imagination
pictures the cave to be watched over
by a giant Satan. The sulphur cave
is the feature of the new park which
has perhaps caused the most comment
of any, and the Sulphur Grotto at
night, with the uncanny lighting ar
rangement, conies nearer affording a
semblance of a visit to the bowels of
the earth than seems possible.
Just beyond Satan's Grotto tho vis
itor bursts upon the triumph of the
electricians. A brilliant sheen of
flashing water spurting out of a
granite cliff tumbles over tho moss
grown rocks iu an effervescent, lum
inous refulgence of beauty. Liko tho
tree, tno rails at night must no seen
to be appreciated. The offect is
gained by Indirect floods of light
from giant searchlights, but that an
effect of such indescribablo beauty
can be gained by purely mechanical
means beggars description. The
great wall of granite, the tumbling
falls, take on a silvery, scintillating
resplendence ,of concentrated moon
light and floods of diamonds.
Lithia Park at night offers an un
explored world to Ashland and to the
valley. No matter if you have ex
ployer every nook and cranny of the
park under the sunlight, the wond
drous beauty of the park at night
transforms the familiar places into
little bits of fairyland. Go up to
night. Lithia Park is well lighted. All
Closing Out Sale
I Is Unprecedented
I 1'niirecpilmiloit crnwila nvp liinmitmr
Jeebo & Kinney's store daily and
caking advantage of the exceptional
bargains which aro being offered in
their sensational closing out sale.
People from all over the valley are
coming to this city to attend the sale,
attracted by the values, and are re
turning and sending their friends af
ter seeing for themselves the slashing
reductions which have carried the
prices on everything down to and be
low wholesale.
This old-established firm has an
immense stock of high quality goods,
but are disposing of it with a speed
which impresses haste if one would
get in on the good things offered.
Dunsmuir Band and
Movies Fill Park
The Dunsmuir band, twenty-five
strong, and sixty picnickers .from
Dunsmuir arrived yesterday morning
and spent tho day in Ashland. The
band rendered a fino conceit in the
afternoon which was enjoyed by the
largest Sunday crowd since April 2.
The valley people were up en masse
and the park was thronged. The
boys' band mado their first appear
ance and pleased greatly. Motion
pictures of the crowds, the bands, the
park attractions, Bungalow and street
and roundup seenoB were taken and
will be used In advertising the com
ing celebration.
Boys' Band Makes
First Appearance
The boys' band, which under the
directorship of Carl Loveland has
been working hard all winter, made
its first appearance Sunday and made
a pleasing impression. It must be
remembered that every one of the
boys was a beginner on his Instru
ment last Christmas, and the munic
produced in view of that fact is most
creditable and would have done credit
to older bands.
J. M. Easterling
Opens Royal Cafe
J. M. Easterjing, experienced res
taurant man, has taken the Royal
Cafe and is opening It today. Ho is
putting In a force of experienced res
taurant workers and will endeavor to
establish an eating place which will
become popular.
Standing of
Contestants
Qticwi.
Prlscilla Carnaha.i
50
Emma Jenkins .2
,000
Glen Roberts
Nell Peachey
Mary Weisenburer 1
Lillian Patterson
Jessie Holt
Edith Colo
300
300
600
150
150
50
Anglo McDonald 2
Kathryn Miller
Josephine Saunders
Florence Erlckson 3
Gertrude Moore 1
King.
O. T. nergner
C. V. Heeler
E. V. Carter
Jean Hustings
C. R Wolf .'
,900
400
150
750
S50
500
950
750
100
250
100
100
750
300
100
50
150
W. W. Vsr.her
R. P. Cornelius
H. G. Enders, Sr
C. W. Nims
Dr. . M. Hrower
Km il Pell
Alex Livingston
H. I'.. Greer
100
With a view to getting exact In
formation not only for hunters and
anglers, but for those carrying on
winter feeding operations as well, tho
state fish and game commission will
prepare a fish and game map of Ore
gon, showing tho fish and game con
ditions in every section.
that remains to be done Is the light
ing of Llthla Tark Drive and the High
Drive, and no doubt this will be at
tended to by the city In tho near fu
ture, so that by the Fourth of July
Ashland can offer the world a night
park unequalled.
Train Kills Two-
Year-Old Boy
A most, distressing accident, which
resulted In the death of littlo James
Eugene West, two-year-old son of
.Mrs. Edith West of Winters, Cat., who
is visiting here, occurred Saturday
when tho little fellow strayed from
home, apparently caught bis foot In
the cattle guard at the Laurel street
crossing of the Southern Pacific, and
was cut to pieces beneath the wheel3
of a northbound cattle train.
Tho lad and his mother arrived last
Saturday from Winters, where the
father, Clint West, Is Identified with
a prominent fruit firm, and were vis
iting at the Weaver homo on North
Main street. Saturday morning tho
boy strayed from home and tho moth
er Immediately set out to search for
him. Mrs. Weaver phoned to Mr.
Weaver at the garage and he sent out
Archie Calvert, who found tho baby's
remains on the railroad track. Thn
train was held for twenty minutes
but was finally allowed to proceed.
The accident occurred within the
iyard limits and tho train was proceed
ing slowly, the fact that the boy was
ly'ng down and was dressed In khaki
preventing the enginemen from see
ing him until too ilose to stop tho
heavy train. Engineer Al Spalllnger
and Fireman Miller of Roseburg wero
on the head engine. Tho wheels
passed over tho little body across tho
chest.
The following is the report of tho
coroner's Jury which met Sunday to
investigate the accident:
"We, the coroner's Jury empanelled
to investigate the cause of death of
deceased, James Eugene West, enmo
to his death June 17, 19 Hi, at 9:3."
a. m. by being upon the railroad
track of the Southern Pacific railroad
at the Laurel street crossing In tho
city of Ashland, Ore. That tho said
child was two years and ono week
old, small for his age and dressod in
khaki clothing, and was In a recum
bent position on the cattle guard
that the engineer was unable to dis
cern him until they were within 140
feet of him. When the emergoncy
brakes were applied and every effort
was made to stop the train, and that;
the said accident was, in the opinion
of this Jury, unavoidable. William
H. Day, C. H. Vaupel, J. H. Provost.
r. W. Fraley, W. -L. Rogers, T. W.
Acklin. John A. Perl, coroner."
Coast Nurserymen
Will Visit Park:
Tho fourteenth annul meeting of
tho Pacific Coast Association of
Nurserymen Is scheduled to tako
place at Medford on Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday, June 20, 21.
and 22.
On Thursday Mrs. E. V. Coffin will
be hostess to tho delegates on a visit
to Ashland's new Llthla Park. The
new park should bo of great Interest
to the nurserymen.
The delegates will bo entertained
extensively in Medford, and a very
promising series of addresses and dis
cussions are listed on tho program.
S. P. Grants Low
Rates fromiPortland
. Special round-trip fares from
points iu Oregon and California on
account of tho Ashland Dedication
Celebration havo been announced.
From points In California, Dunsmuir
and north, sale dates. July 3, 4, 5 and
C. From points iu Oregon, Itoseburg
and south, wile dales, July 3, 4, 5
and f. Points north of Ttoseburg to
and Including Portland, July 3, 4
and 5. Final return limit of all tick
ets July 7.
This means that round-trip low
rales have been granted to Ashland
from any point In Oregon up as far ns
Portland.
l
Fire in Oregon
Hotel Basement
A flro started last Saturday even
ing In the basement of the Hotel Ore
gon, but was luckily discovered be
fore It had gained much headway and
was extinguished by Fire Chief Robl
go n and Driver Gulley with the aid
of chemical extinguishers and water..
The alley at the back of the hotel
proved too narrow to allow of admit
tance of the truck and the fighting
w'as done mostly by hand.