Oregon Historical Society
Ashland
"Ashland Grows While Llthla flows"
f City of Sunshine and flowers
Ashland. Oregon, Lithla Springs
"Oregon's famous Spa"
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916
VOL. XLI
NUMBER 22
Lithia Park Makes
Upon Editors of
Editors and their wives to the total
number of 140 were guoBts of Ash
land In Lithia park last Friday even
ing, and It will not be long before
typewriters are hammering out and
pencils are scribbling the glories of
Lithia park and the beauties of Ash
land all over the state. The editorial
party were taken over the high
drives early Friday afternoon and
then over the magnificent Siskiyou
Highway to the summit of the Siski
yous. To a man the visitors pro
claimed the SiBkiyou Highway to be
the greatest mountain road they had
ever traveled. 1
Returning to Ashland, the party
nas taken up through Lithia park to
the picnic grounds, where a unique
luncheon In the form of a box lunch
was served on' the tables beneath the
trees. Coffee was served by a bevy
of charming young ladies of Ashland.
Mayor Johnson welcomed the ed
itors with a brief address in which he
told some of the hlsttyry of the Ash
land park system and invited and
urged the visitors to visit all parts
of the park and the "original camp
ground" particularly. .Phil Bates re
sponded in a brief witty manner. . E.
B. Piper of the Oregonian praised
the hospitable welcome which had
been extended and stated that
"southern Oregon has exceeded all
my expectations." He told two or
three stories of which Major Patton
of Hoqulam, Wash., was the butt, the
major getting even a few minutes
later when he was called upon to
speak. V. B. Jessup, president of
the Washington State Press Associa
tion, gave a short and interesting
talk.
The party then M-oke up to walk
over the park and admire its night
beauties. Practically all of the party
visited the auto camp and all drank
lithia water at the fountains. The
Oakland boys' band in concert enter
tained the visitors for an hour and
many remained for the dance which
followed at the Bungalow,' About
four thousand people thronged the
park for the concert, the crowd mak
ing a lasting Impression as being in
dicative of the, drawing power of the
park.
Every one of the visitors was
charmed with the entertainment pro
vided and amazed at the wonders of
Lithia park, As a matter of fact
Lithia park, next to Crater Lake, was
the sensation of the trip to the ed
itors, and more talk of Ashland and
Lithia park was heard around the
lobbies where the visitors congregat
ed in Medford than of any other fea
ture of the southern Oregon conven
tion, which Is conceded to have been
the "red-letter" convention of the as
sociation In every way.
The city council aided in the enter
tainment of the editors by donating
$50. Arrangements were in the
hands of a committee consisting of
H. 0. Frohbach, E. J. Kaiser, Fred
Wagner and Frank Jordan, and
thanks are due the Commercial Club,
the committee and the ladles who as
sisted in serving.
James McNair
Passes Away
James McNair died yesterday at
5:15 p. m. at the home of his son-in-law,
Howard Rose, in Ashland, at
the age of 77 years, one month and
four days. Mr. McNair was born in
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
on the 2nd day of July, 1839, and
came to High Point, Mo., with his
parents in March, 1860. He, came to
Ashland nine years ago. He leaves
five sons, Hal, Sam and James of
Ashland, Sydney of Santa Monica and
Walton of North Yakima, and two
daughters, Mrs. F, L. Fry of Astoria
and Mrs. Howard Rose of Ashland.
The remains ' were shipped to Ver
sailles, Mo., this afternoon after pri
vate services were held at the under
taking parlors for the Immediate fam
ily. The remains were accompanied
to the depot by a Masonic escort. The
funeral in Versailles will be held un
der the auspices of the Masonic lodge,
of which the deceased was a secret
tary for thirty-two years. Hal Mc:
Nalr is traveling in the east and will
be in Versailles for the funeral. Mrs.
P. L. Fry and her husband of Astpria
will accompany the remains east. ,
wninhrandt succeeds L. A
Luai ica "
Fernsworth as editor of the Banks
Herald, the latter having gone io
serve his country on the Mexican bolder.
Great Impression
the State Papers
. IH.YIK riCXIC.
Q All former residents of the -v ;
y southern states are urged to at- $
? tend the Dixie Day picnic in v
$ Lithia Park next Wednesday, .
August 9. Bring lunch and cup. 'v
c Coffee will be provided. S
Relatives In
Photo Number 175
Mr. H. R. Canine, living at 561 C
atrpot hrnneht to the Tidincs Office
Saturday a 'picture of the Canine fam
ily taken at Wayland, Ind., in Au
gust, 1913, showing 175 persons as
direct descendants of the family,
with some of their husbands and
wives. The family was established
in that locality In 1826 and this pic
ture was taken near the old church
established there about the year
1830.
"rtie Canine family will hold a re
union on the 17th of this mouth
back at the old home place, but H. R.
Canine will not be able to be pres
ent. He intends remaining in Ash
land over this winter at least.
Liquor Imports
Gain 300 Per Cent
Summer weather, a monster cele
bration and other less important fac
tors contributed to an increase in
the amount of beer shipped into Ash
land of over 200 gallons. The July
shipments included 369 gallons as
against 126 gallons in June, or an
increase of 300 per cent. One hun
dred and fourteen quarts of whiskey
were signed for during the past
month, as against 64 quarts In June.
Alcohol which has not been signed
for in the past was brought in to the
extent of 21 quarts; brandy one
quart and wine one quart. Over half
of this was shipped in within the
first six days of the month, or during
the celebration period, and the police
records show It to have been signed
for mostly by strangers. Many of
the consignees were California people
who either failed to bring a large
enough supply with them or were
afraid that they would be intercepted
and relieved at the border line be
tween the states.
Eleven arrests were made during
the month and nine men who had
drank "not wisely but too well" were
allowed to find accommodations in
the city jail overnight.
Six hundred and nineteen hoboes
were cared for by the police during
July, an average crop. Eighteen
merchants were hauled out in the
early morning hours to come down
and lock doors which they had care
lessly left unlocked. The total ab
sence of any crimes during the cele
bration speaks highly of the efficien
cy of the police.
Travelers May
Register in Hills
District Forester George H. Cecil,
Portland, Ore., has sent to the forest
supervisors of Oregon, Washington
and Alaska a supply of the National
Forest Travelers' Registers, which
were recently issued by the Forest
Service.
These registers will be placed for
use at ranger stations and other
points frequented by tourists, camp
ers, sportsmen and other forest us
ers, to make a permanent record of
travelers on the national forests.
Each page of the register bears the
Forest Service shield, and contains
the following printed notice:
"The national forests are the prop
erty of the people and are adminis
tered and protected for their bene
fit. Care with matches, burning to
bacco and camp fires is essential to
their protection. Tour help is solic
ited. In case of real need, the tele
phone system of the forest is at your
service. If the forest rangers know
where you are going, they may be of
assistance to you. Criticisms or sug
gestions looking to the betterment
of the Forest Service will be appreci
ated if addressed to the District For
ester, U. S. Forest Service, Portland,
Receive Share of
Immense Estate
Zenas iiiul Eugene and Miss Edith
Moody of Ashland are among the
heirs named in the will of the late
-. P. McCornack of Salem who died
recently leaving an estate valued at
over $S0O.0O0. The three Ashland
young people are nephews and niece
of Mr. McCornack's wife. They will
receive $1,000 apiece and a life es
tate in valuable Salem property. '
After making special bequests to
his brothers and sisters, Mr. McCor
nack divided the estate equally
among 2C nephews and nieces. It is
estimated that this gives them $25,
000 each.
The Wocus ranch in Klamath
county, which is scheduled as worth
$175,000, will have a value of $500,
000 when the development work now
going on is completed.
The will directs that Herbert F.
McCornack, brother, and Helen I.
Stevenson, Janet Collier, Agnes M.
Geary and Mary E. McCornack, sis
ter, shall receive $10,000 each; that
nephews Roy, Alexander and William
McCornack and Harold, Frank and
Herbert Wells shall receive $2,500
each. Mrs. Mary Moody shall receive
all household furniture, jewels, sil
verware and articles of all kinds once
the property of Edna Moody McCon
nack, and the sum of $5,000. Dru
silla Moody West and Adelbert, Fran
cis, Zenas, Eugene D. and Edith
Moody, nephews and nieces of Edna
Moody McCornack, are to receive lots
6. 7, 8, 9 and 10, block 83, Salem,
subject to the life estate of Mrs.
Mary Moody, and also $1,000 each.
R. .1. McCornack, brother, Is to re
ceive $10,000 to be invested for
Leathe M. Wells, sister, who shall re
ceive the proceeds, and at her death
the $10,000 shall go to her brother.
The remainder of the estate Bhall
go equally to the following nephews
and nieces: Eugene, R., Kenneth H.,
Walter W., Emily B. Condon C,
Elwin A., Eugene, Mary E., Agnes,
Frank, Robert and Helen McCor
nack; Ruth Stevenson Adlson, Don
ald, Agnes M. and George E. Steven
son; Ethan A., Percy M., Andrew M.,
Alfred C, Charles and Dorothy Col
lier; Everett, Arthur, Edward anu
Roladn Geary.
The will was made January 25,
1915, and provided that Percy M.
Collier should be appointed executor.
Northwestern ,
Inventors
The following patents were just is.
sued to northwestern clients, report
ed by D. Swift & Co., patent lawyers, j
Washington, D. O.:
Montana A. Campbell, Anaconda,
oil and acid feeder; A. L. Edwards,
Lewistown, sewing machine; E. S.
Gregory, Anaconda, ball mill; W. M.
Hartt, Great Falls, feeding device.
Idaho H. J. Ptepgras, Caldwell,
seed separator; W. B. Pusey, Boise,
aeroplane; E. G. Wagner, Lewiston,
valve construction; W. H. Wood, for
est, handsaw set. ,
Washington N.'Asakawa, Seattle,
spinning top; C. W Collins, Seattle,
clothes drying machine; H. S. Hall,
Home Valley, fluid vending machine;
J. V. Kammers, Lamont, automatic
wagon brake.
Oregon D .E. Agnew, Portland,
detachable rim clamp; H. L, Brlggs,
tool-driving attachment for automo
biles; H. E. Brown, Salem, ' animal
trap.
Ford Car Rolls Off
Siskiyou Grade
A Ford car, the owner of which is
unknown, rolled off the Siskiyou
grade yesterday, plunging for three
hundred feet, over and over, down
into the canyon below. No traces
were found of driver or occupants,
and as the nvtmber plate had been
taken, undoubtedly no oue was hurt
and the owner wished to escape pub
licity. The tires and number plate
were taken. There was not enough
left of the car to be worth trying to
salvage. From tracks found by Ash
landers who motored over and saw
the car yesterday, it appeared tjjat
the driver must have been turning
around when the car went over. Ap
parently the occupants must have
jumped. The car waa smashed to
pieces.
A movement 1b on foot to encour
age the establishment of the beet su
gar Industry.
Farmers Hear I
Engineer's Report
The farmers of the Talent-Ashland
irrigation district met last Friday
evening at Talent and heard a very
satisfactory report from Engineer
uiuaru or roruanu, wno is employed t
ny me district. Mr. Dillard s report
covered jus worn during the month
of July. He reported making two
thorough trips over the south Bide of
Ashland butte to the toll gap and a
carenu estimate or tne run-orr or all
the streams which this would tap. !
Vie fllwn rpnnrta koptilncr mosanra. '
ments on Buck lake, Beaver creek,
Osgood's project, Bear creek and, in
fact, all of the streams which are
regarded as likely sources. The di
rectors are mapping out future work
and discussion of the work ahead of
the board was indulged in at the Fri
day meeting.
The board of directors will meet
next Wednesday evening with their
attorneys and a contract mapped out
which will be tentatively submitted
to the promoters of the various proj -
ects.
Mr, McRae submitted a detailed closed up last night ith the repre
report of the Beaver Dam project at sentatlves of the Philomath and Ash
the Friday meeting. land roundup shows nt it Is necessary
The directors of the district are i to change the date of the fair to se
goinR about the big problem of select- j cure the show, placing it, probably,
Ing the best source with a delibera- j one week ahead. This Is to be defl
tlon and thoroughness which assures j nitely decided at a special meeting
the farmers of the district of abso- ; this morning at 9 o'clock. The regn-
lutely the best kind of results. The
directors have their engineer on tin
job all of the time and will keep him
for the coming year. They will keep
accurate measurements of the flood
waters through all of next spring of
all the various sources and will get
absolutely accurate data of all the
water sources before attempting any
expenditure of money or even the
picking out cf any sources as being
better than others. At first it was
planned to do some preliminary work
which would utilize the flood waters
this year, but careful consideration
of all the phases of the matter have
led the board to await the findings
of the year before doing any actual
conduction work. The real work,
which will involve the expenditure of
immense sums and bring water to all
the district from the Phoenix ditch
to the Dunn place above Ashland,
will begin next year providing the
farmers vote favorably on the project
which is finally selected as most feas
ible by the board of directors.
Sugar Company
nffirisK Visit ior the co,,ccrt was one of lhe larBe8t
VlliUai.3 VIi3Hot the Bummeri there being an es-
A Darty of twelve of the people,
prominently identified with the beet
sugar Industry in the valley visited
Ashland last Thursday evening, tak-
ing dinner at the Hotel Austin and
enjoying a visit to Lithia Park andjng, enjoyed the band very much
a drink of llthla water. Those in the
party were Mark Austin, George Aus
tin and wife, David A. Smith, T. R.
Cutler, Miss Cutler, Miss Bagley of j editorial party, (lanced until mid
Salt Lake, E. N. Austin and wife of night to the pepful music furnished
Grants Pass, J. B. Pettlnglll and wife j iy the lads. The boys took up a
of Medfod and Alex Nibley of Port- collection of $26 after the concert.
land. Mr. Pettingill is the local field
man of the company. Mr. Cutler is
vice president and general manager
of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company,
which owns the Grants Pass factory.
Mark Austin is in charge of the com
pany's field operations. The other
gentlemen were officials of the com
pany. The men are Investigating soil con
ditions in the upper end of the valley
and negotiating with a committee
from the Medford Commercial Club
concerning the erection of a factory
between Central Point and Ashland.
Medlord Loses and
Grants Pass Wins
A number of Ashlanders went to
Weed on the special train yesterday.
Weed beat Medford by the over
whelming score of 16 to 2. Tuerck
pitched for Weed, Sieberts, Mclntyre
and Caster for Medford. Grants
Pass won from Hornbrook in a good
game, 5 to 3. Anthony pitched for
Hornbrook and Osborn for Grants
Pass.
Twenty-six men are employed by
the Douglas County Fire Patrol Asso
ciation. Sixty horses and mules are hauling
copper ore from Grants Pass to the
Thakllma smelter.
Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Ashland Is Headquarters for
Land Classification Derations
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COMMERCIAL CI.H5.
The Commercial Club
will
$ meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the i
to elnh rnnm. A full Attonrl.mpp
,B (e8,redi ag maUer8 of vta,
import are to come up.
Ashlanders Aid
Eugene Roundup
A number of the men who fur-1
tilshed stock for the Ashland roundup !
. are negotiating wtih the Lane county j
fair people In regard to furnishing j
! stock for wild west features at the 1
1 fair. The Eugene Register says: j
! "The mutter was not entirely '
lar fair dates are September 22,
and 24."
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Oakland Boys'
Band Pleases
The Oakland boys' band which
camped in Chautauqua park Thurs
day and Friday made a fine impres
sion in Ashland. The lads are not
only fine musicians but a clean, gen,
tlemanly lot of fellows. The boys
arrived Thursday afternoon from
Yreka and marched through the busi
ness section. They pitched their
"dog tents" in Chautauqua park. On
Friday afternoon they again paraded
the streets and on Friday evening
gave a concert at the main bandstand
in Lithia park which would have been
a credit to many a band of profes
sionals. The selections played ranged
from the new marches to selections
from the old familiar operas with
medleys and overtures interspersed.
Thlrtyi-two lads ranging from eight
I to eighteen years of age were In the
band. The crowd which turned out
peclully large number of automobiles
from down the valley. About four
thousand people in all heard the mu
8c. The members of the Stute Ed
Uorlal Association, who were guests
I at a lunch in the park Friday even-
Following the concert the boys staged
a dance at the Bungalow, where a
large crowd, including many of the
The Ashland band gave them $3, the
businessmen contributed $10 nnd the
dance netted over $40. The Oakland
lads went on to Medford Saturday.
Valley Pioneer
Dies of Old Age
One of the old pioneers of the
Rogue River valley, William Payne,
passed away at the home of his son
Frank Payne in Sams valley last
Thursday, death coming from old
age. The deceased man was one of
the early settlers in the valley and
could tell tales of the Indian days.
His cabin was featured In the south
ern Oregon movies which were shown
at the San Francisco exposition last
year.
Young Reynolds
Goes to the Pen
Merle Reynolds, who was appre
hended at Pasco, Wash., on the
charge of stealing a boat and re
turned to Jacksonville, where he had
been sentenced to serve from two to
twenty years on a charge of forgery
and later released on parole, was
sent to Salem Tuesday by Judge Cal
kins to serve an indeterminate sen
tence of from two to twenty years for
violating his parole.' He was taken
to the penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff
Wilson.
Louis L. Sharp, chief of the field
division cf the general land office,
arrived here last Friday from Port
land and has gone to the camp which
is being established near Pinehurst,
thirty miles east of Ashland on the
Klamath Falls road, to take personal
charge of the commencement of the
work upon the classification of the
Oregon-California land grant lands.
Ten thousand pounds of camp sup
plies have been taken to the camp
headquarters and the crew of men.
who will work under Mr. Sharp are
arriving daily. Thirty cruisers and
surveyors were at the Hotel Austin
Sunday and are being transported to
the camp as fast as possible. The
crew which will commence classifica
tion operations will bo composed of
about one hundred men, sixty of
whom are expert timber cruisers, sui
veyors and land experts. The re
mainder are assistants and camp men.
No men are being hired in Ashland,
the crew being brought In mainly
from Portland.
The workers who are undertaking
the big job of classifying two and a
half mil lion acres of land into min
eral, power and agricultural classifi
cations are the pick of the experts of
the Taclflc coast. Mr. Sharp states
that absolutely no politics were
played in the selection of the men
and every man had to prove that he
could do and had mado a record doz
ing the particular work to which ha
will be assigned.
The crew will commence operations
at the California-Oregon Hue and wilt
work north. Mr. Sharp states that
at present he could not give any defi
nite estimate as to how long the work
will take,' but that no doubt It will
extend over most of two years. The
Jackson county land will be classified
first and may be opened to eutry
within the year.
Mr. Sharp expressed his belief that
the opening of the lands would be a
great thing for the state, but also
stated that he feared that wildcat
stories of fabulously rich land would
bring hordes of people to the land
who would be disappointed because
ine ranches were not to be had on
every hand. He stated that while
Inter he would be nble to tell ruor
definitely, he believed there was
much fine agricultural land nnd tim
ber which the opening of the grant,
lands will open up.
Ashland will be used ns a base of
supplies and headquarters for the
classification crew,
Red Bluff Loses
Division Aug. IS
It has been announced . officially
from railroad headquarters that on
August 15 the southern terminal of
the Shasta division will be changed
from Red Bluff to Gerber, a new
town eight miles south of Red Bluff
and three miles north of Tehama.
CJerber will be the dividing point be
tween the Shasta and Sacramento di
visions.
Tho removal of the division point
from Fled Bluff to Gerber has been
In contemplation for several years.
The change was a railroad necessity.
because the growth of business had
made it impossible to handle division
business expeditiously In the yards
in Red Bluff. Larger yards yards
free from street crossings were
needed imperatively. So the com
pany bought a large track of level
ground at Gerber, and there is to bo
tho division point.
Train crews that have been mak
ing their homes In Red Bluff will in
time move to Gerber. The loss to
Red Bluff Is serious, but It has been
discounted for years. '
Locomotive engineers, firemen and
freight crews running on the south
end of the Shasta division will now
have to cover 112 miles, instead of
104 as before. The Bame crews from
Sacramento will have to cover 124
miles Instead of the 13,2 miles be
tween Red Eluff and the capital.
Prof. H. C. Baughman, wife and
three children leave Ashland tomor
row morning in their automobile for
Prinevllle, where the professor is su
perintendent of the Crook county
high school for the coming year.
They will go by way of Crater Lake.
Prof. Baughman was county school
superintendent of Lane county sever
al years ago before going to eastern
Oregon. He and his family haro
spent some time in Ashland this sum
mer. They like our city very much