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Oregon Historical Society Coup 207 BecouU St Ash TlDl Ashland Grows While Littila flows' City of Sunshine and Dowers Ashland, Oregon, Lit hid Springs "Oregon's famous Spa" ASHLAND. OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916. VOL. XLI NUMBER 57 LAND Chief of Police Porter Resigns In order that he may not be obliged to hold over after January 1, when he expects to tane up other work, Chlet of Police Porter handed In his resignation to the city council Tuesday evening, to take effect Janu ary 1. Included In his resignation was an expression of appreciation for Messrs. Banta and Krohbach were ap the co-operation and gooci-will of the pointed a committee to have a char council In the 'past and an appeal for ter amendment drawn which would the same aid and recognizance for the clarify the power of the council to new police department head, no mat ter whom It may be. Duriug the time that Mr. Porter lias headed the Ashland police depart ment, that branch of tlie city govern ment has made a fine record and has been raised to a much higher stand ard than ever before. M: Porter has Insisted upon a most exact system and has allowed no laxity In appear- ance or conformation to rules among the police department. He has built up a force which has gained the re spect of the entire city and has kept the city In such a way that there Is not a cleaner municipality In Oregon if anywhere. Mr. Porter Installed a system of reports which makes it pos sible for any of the patrolmen to ac count for their presence at any par ticular point at any time and which has proven Invaluable in several cases. .The police records of the city for the pafct four years arj most com plete and will be valued by Mr. Pot ter's successor. Will Establish Billiard Parlors Hum Pracht and Joe Alnutt are preparing to open up billiard parlors In the quarters in the Elks temple vacated by McGee's Btore. Messrs. Pracht and Alnutt recently returned from San Francisco where they se lected the very latest In tables and equipment and the new establish ment is to be fitted up In big city style. Both of these genetlemen have had considerable experience along like business lines and should make a suc cess of the latest addition to Ash land's places of amusement. Mr. Al nutt's cigar factory which manufac tures the Llthla, Tlsit, La Valencia and other well known brands of cig ars, will be established in the rear f the billiard hall. Don't Like to Go To Work in Dark with its foundation for future better- The street lights are to remain j ments, If you place it in the hands turned on until daylight as the re- ot the already overburdened corn suit of n petition of tho night and ' mon council. The mayor appoints day forces at the local railroad shops ! some one of his favorites Buperin and yards who go to work and leave j tendent, and even If the board does between the hours of 5:30 and 6 i not approve of the appointment, a. m. The lights have been turned what can they do but confirm? They off about 5:30 prior to this time, but the lengthening nights leave it dark at this time. City Electrician Strick land states that it is customary to change the time of turning the lights off about this time of the year any way. Students Will Make Comedy The annual anniversary play given by the high school student body is slated for tomorrow evening at the high school gymnasium. This year the play is to be a lively rollicking pomedy, "The Elopement of Ellen", with comical situations and laughs enough to please everyone. The cast is a capable one and has been drilled exceedingly hard. The proceeds are donated to the school reading table and other activities. Snows Make Road About Impassible The road over the Siskiyou moun tains between this city and Horn brook is now almost impassable ow ing to heavy snows which have fallen during the past few days In the high mountains. ' It is still regarded as possible to cross the mountains at night when the ground is frozen should the rains cease. Mrs. Simons will have a ten day sale beginning Saturday, Dee. 9. Any primmed hat $2.00. B7-2t Commercial Club . Committees Named The Commercial Club met Monday evening at the city hall, but beyond the discussion of the proposition of hanging up the surplus mineral wa ters as a Sanitarium bonus and ways and means by which this might be accomplished, little was done. offer the waters owned by the city and which are not needed for drink, ing purposes, to prospective sanltar ium Investors Committee chairmen were assigned as follows. J. W. McCoy, city inter- ests and public policy; F. H. Walker, streets, parks, highways and public 1 improvements; M. C. Reed, Immlgra- - . . ... tion, Information and transportation; j F. I). Wagner, mines and mining; W. !K. N'ewcombe, industries and manu ! factures; Louis Dodge, house details. Pioneer Objects To Amendment (Forum) To the Voters of Ashland, Ore.: I will rsk every citizen of Ashland to stop and ponder well before exer cising their right of franchise on the lftth Ins.., and to also look well Into the future, and at the same time re fer to the past, before casting votes for the proposed charter amendment, whereby they will place the care and control of our city parks In the hands of the common council. This pro posed change emanates from mem bers of the present board, whereby they propose to Increase their pow ers, which are at present almost be yond the will or wishes of the ma jority of the voters. If you ponder over the past, only go back two years and see what re spect the common council have for the wishes of the people. The elec tric light contract for one, which was voted down by a large majority of the voters, and then a time lease was consummated In executive session and brought forth and passed, there by giving us' a lemon. We all concede that our parks are one of our principal assets and should be maintained in proper man ner in future, and the caretakers should be composed of the best ma terial In the city. Do you stop to remember that no surveyor or any other artisan will follow out the plans of a predeces sor? Then just Imagine what will become of the present beautiful park, have no appointive authority as the present charter reads, but must ac cede to his demands, and the new man reconstructs the park to suit his inclinations and you, Mr. Voter, will be powerless to remedy that evil. Why not let the park board con tinue in charge, who have used their best enedavors'ln the past and have a future planned in harmony with the present surroundings? While amending the city charter, why not so change it as to place the appointive power in the hands of the council as a body, with nominating and elective power In a majority of the council? Before voting the authority to grant franchise for the use of city waters, why not have a requirement that the grantees shall erect, main tain and operate said sanitarium 365 days In the year and, if not so done, franchise to terminate immediately? The foregoing is only a few of the futures as seen through the glasses of a voter, if you vote yes to the pro posed placing care of the parks in the common council. A PIONEER. Pelton's Hogs Top the Market Horace Pel ton of Sams valley has sold the record car of hogs at the Portland market, seventy-four hogs bringing $1993, or an average of $27 a bog. Mr. Pelton's livestock always tops the market, and this particular carload broke all Portland records. "Boost for Beets" is to be the slo gan of Grants Pass. Three Charter Amendments To Be On Ballot at Regular City Election Three charter amendments will be on the ballot at the regular city elec- tion on December 19, tho ballot tak ing on tulte steely proportions in view of this fact and that there are six candidates for recorder and prom ise to be at least two for every other "111-. The Amendments One charter TmZnnnl provides ' - , ".fL LV! .Z iui me oi.uimuu ui mo Bl)iii.Bo uuiu- mission and the vesting ot their pow- I . .. .. ... ,, i n me c y counc, one prov ae lor ' par uuhfu and the turning over of all their pow- ers and authority to the city coun- ell; the third provides for the grant - I (nor nnditr net ft a In f oat rot Inn a ir tho ," - " - j council the right to lease, for a term not to exceed twenty-five years, the surplus mineral water beyond the amount reeded for drinking purposes, with the especial proviso that the wa ters shall be leased for use In a sani tarium for drinking, bathing and oth er medicinal purposes. Abolishment. The two amendments calling for the cancelling of the park and Bprlngs commissions were petitioned for by a number of residents of the city at the rl-lit to lease these surplus wa Tuesday's council meeting, it being ters ami a charter amendment Is nec- their request that one amendment abolishing both be passed. Mr. Danta stated that he believed many people In the city were in favo; of putting an end to one of the commissions but not both, and moved that the meas ures be pit on the ballot separately. Some argument as to tho legality of putting on the abrogation of the two bodies separately or together was In dulged in, but finally the petition was granted and an amendment added on Mr. Banta's motion providing for the Mineral Springs Expert Here Dr. G. W. Tape of Los Angeles spent Tuesday in Ashland going over the springs development matters with of Elks will make the children of the city councillors Is the great desider Mr. Greer. Dr. Tape is a water cure i city happy again this year by staging alum, and with a little searching they sanitarium expert and was here to look into the subject and make a report on it to prospective Investors. He has planned many of the water cure sanitariums on the coast, includ ing Hot Lake, Oregon, Byron Springs, California, and was for six years at the head of the Blmlna baths at Los Angeles. He left Tuesday night for San Francisco, where he will meet with investors interested In Ashland. It was hoped to have a meeting of citizens last night to be addressed by Dr. Tape, but on account of the short ness of time in which to publish It and the number of other attractions on for last night, It was thought best not to attempt it. However, Dr. Tape will probably be again In Ashland in a month or so, at which time a meet- ing will be arranged and citizens be given an opportunity to hear a good talk upon a subject in which they are much interested and one in which the doctor is acknowledged to be the best posted man on the coast. Fred Gets Another Fine Wolfhound Fred Ilerrin Tuesday received an other fine Kussinn wolfhound from Williani3, Cal. The great lank beast stands about four feet tall and six feet in length, while a mlllmeter rule would be necessary to ascertain his beam, which approaches zero at the spot where dogs are usually the wid est. The hound is a thoroughbred and was secured for Fred by his brother. The male of the original pair which Fred purchased from the owner at the San Francisco exposi tion, where they captured all prizes, died from some kind of malady soon after arriving here. A fine lot of puppies, themselves monster dogs, are penned up over on the Hefrln ranch. The original pair cost 300 and the puppies are nearly all sold at $75 apiece. . r A Belfast, Ireland, linen manufac turer says flax raising is an Ideal in dustry for Oregon. A million-dollar gold strike Is re ported in the Bon Harrison mine near Baker. Multnomah county $150,000 hospital. Is to erect a drawing un of two senaratfi amend- ments. A special meeting was called for Wednesday night, at which the ue 111 lne l au,80n m0KK- I,pH81le llie resolutions placing the amendments II,,tcl AusUn on 0ak street' at the on the ballot were nassed without ar.icomlnB lon. gument. The amendments provide for specifically Hip same tax not to exceed one mill, for the upkeep of the ; mineral water plant and two mills for I ' the W- " 'th the amendments . council will have complete control of the narks and mineral wn- , ter system. If only one passes the miinpll villi onntrnl that nn If JLTJ " l"eJ Miiural Vntr Amendment, 1 The third amendment was drawn nn nnl I. r " w visum ui luuuc- man Banta and H. O. Frohbach as a committee appointed from the Ash- land Commercial Club. The problem of attracting sanitarium investors to Ashlaml was discussed at some length at Monday evening's club meet and It ..ni rl.w.1 .1.... r, ..1. 1.1 1 - nao u'-.jiii-u iiini nil t'UUIV KI1UUM1 HC made to attract Investor? who were known to have Investigated Ashland j by banning up the surplus mineral j waters over that required by the pub lic, as a bait At present no one has essary to make It possible. Mr. Banta and Mr. Frohbach were appointed a committee to present an amendment to the council. The amendment was offered the council at the special meeting Wednesday and a resolution putting It on the ballot passed with out argument. The amendment loes not bind the council to any particular project, but merely gives a body rep- resenting the people the right to of fer the waters should an advantage I ous chance be offered I Elks Will Stage XfPA lr(Y TfiHriiPc'lut not t,le en1 'tself, as all well 11CC IUI RlUUlCd tried legislators know, sometimes to ' ' their grief and disappointment. A As has been the custom for the well rounded, dependable, energetic, past two years, Ashland lodge 944 'and common-sense endowed body of a Christmas tree and presenting gifts should certainly lie found In our to every boy and girl in the city. : midst. The tree will be placed cn the stage! A comparatively new resident In of the Vlning theatre and gifts dis- the person of Mr. John Henry Dill is, tributed by Santa Claus on Christmas at the instigation of a good many night, December 25. A plan of reg-! friends, an aspirant for the councll lstratlon will bo inaugurated by Iorshlp cf the Second ward. Mr. Dill, which every boy and girl Is Bure of " elected, would bring to the per receiving a present. Last year and formance of his duties a rich experl the year before the theatre was ence as banker, broker, and solid crowded with the happiest kind of ( business man, gained in years of ex throng of expectant children, and an . perlence In sections of the southland, even larger crowd Is anticipated this j Mr- Dill has been most successful year. The Elks respond nobly to the . the management of his ranch on call for presents and about a carload j North Main street; In putting simp were distributed last year. j n"d energy, with IiIb associates, In Further announcements regarding tlle co,ul"ct of the Fruit and 1r0,1,,ce norHpnior. riutr-tin,, n,i m,.,p i Association, of which he Is president, details will be made later. The date !ha8 been definitely set for Christmas night in order that other Christmas festivities conflict. may be arranged not to Pine Beetle War Imperative The finance committee of the coun cil reported at Tuesday's meeting that they had made investigation of the problem of destroying the pine beetle infested trees in the city parks and believed that the trees so Infested should be cut at once and turned Into cordwood. A year ago the entomolo gists of the government service made a survey of the park timber and marked the trees found to be infested , by the pest. All the trees marked i are now dead, according to the latest -investigation. Tho council recom-: mended that the committee work In ! conjunction w ith the park board who i have control of the trees, in stamp ing out the pest. Establishes Branch Auto Agency Here A. W. Walker of Modford, southern Oregon asent for the Chalmers, Saxon and Maxwell cars, is establishing a branch agency for the three makes in Ashland and has leased showrooms in the Shook building next to George Mllner's agency, Kenneth McWil llams, who has been with the Over land agency here, has been placed in charge of the new branch. ' Ladies Won't Vote In Hobo Hotel As the result of the agitation start ed by several women voters of the ln? f m,war lnB l"ace wm I Tlie ladl's ol'Ject to voting, and ' many al,slutely refused to vote, at Fo"r,h strect fll'e 8tatlou- whlch is used at night for a hobo hangout. Tl. Mnn ,.t V...l ........ j "l """" lu J"l!,B ",,",u ! two feet of a jail cell and Into a dirty iroom " W,llch I,t'rhaps fifty hobos . . . n( ,, . . , , . . j ' " '" ,"" """ V-a lu pt-ui iu ninny ui i lie iair sex, anu ! quite overcame their ambition to , mak U8e of th , ,)t t , C. B. Wolf broached the matter to the council Tuesday night. The new polling place Is just around the corner from Mann's art store and near the telephone offleo. All voters residing in the First ward vote at the new locntion. I , T'll ti Ll ! JOlHl Illiry Dill (jilt ! V For the Second The days of sound municipal Rardlnnslilp, the electing to office of the very best available civic tim ber within the reach of the electors, is upon us, and no man, ly any man ner of means, should neglect the plain duly imposed upon him of mak ing his citizenship of positive benefit to the community among whom he has cast his lot. Church affiliations and party politics should, as such, have no claim whatsoever upon tho recognition of tho citizen In regard t0 hls individual vote, and he should go to the poll entirely untrammeled, as a free and independent citizen. I The possession of a mayor with every ! virtue to be found In Christendom Is jnot of Itself the determining point In securing ihe Ideal in progressive mu- nicipalship. It's a means to an end, and manifesting no little interest in i aSiilKtlns 10 nut ur Commercial Club firmly on its feet once more, besides associating himself with every under-1 taking calculated, however remotely, to bring rrlst to tho mill of "Ashland I tho Beautiful," soon to become "Ash jland the Great." Mr. Dill has a most agreeable per- sonality, a disposition always to do right between man and man, and a j determination always to lie guided by every u ly prudence and common sense, come what may. II. G. GILMORE. Modern Drama To Be Lecture Subject A free lecture on "Modern Drama" will bo given commencing at 8 o'clock on Friday night at the public library, by Dr. Bates of the University of Ore gon extension bureau. This is the first of a scries of lectures which will bo given this winter through the ex tension bureau, and as Mr. Bates has a subject which Is bound to Interest everyone, a good sized crowd Is an ticipated Friday evening. There is no charge of any kind and everyone Is urged to attend. Several carloads of Tillamook cheese are being shipped to the east, the first time In the history of the' Oregon Industry that cheese has been sent from Tillamook to the eastern states. The Albany Democrat tells of the growth of peppermint raising in Linn county and describes this new indus try as becoming; very profitable. Grave Digger Will Delve For Gold V. A. Pinion, caretaker at Moun tain View cemetery, was granted per mission to transfer his digging opera tions to the I'raytor place In Ashland canyon by the council Tuesday night. Mr. Pinion asked permission to delve , for precious metal upon the property j which is owned by the city, and i thro"Kn Mr- the request was handed in to the council. Mr. Ninln ger either knew not, or pretended that he knew not, regarding the ex act location of the vein which Mr. Pinion o::pects to chip gold off, and anxious Inquiries from nil the coun cilmen failed to locate the location. Finally the council granted the per mission with provisions that the pros pecting operations should not dirty up AbIiI, inrt creek and also that all holes left when the gold was hoisted out should be filled. Mr. Lamb stat ed that he was glad to see a revival of mining operations In the vicinity, things having been quite slack In this line of late days. Neither Mr. Ninlngor nor Mr. Cornelius, who sits next to him, were at the special meet ing Wednesday evening, but accord lug to the banks no gold dust or nug gets have been deposited as yet. Thursday and Friday At Yining Theatre The Thursday attraction at tho Vlning theatre is II. B. Wuruur In a strong drama of great scope whicli should he of intense appeal III these war times. "Shell 43" is a big pro duction with Enid Markey vying with Warner for the starship honors. "Shell 43" Is a unique narrative of cunning In the Europeun war. It concerns the adventures of a young man of mystery who possesses papers which prove him to be the corre spondent of a big American newspa per, others establishing him as a Ger man secret service agent, and still others vouching for his commission as a lieutenant in the English' army. The secret of his mission Is not di vulged until the last tragic scene, when the veil of mystery enshroud ing his identity is lifted and he la shown in his true light. Friday. . Friday brings Pauline Frederick, starring as the devoted wife In a Famous Players adaptation of Clydo Fitch's drama, "The Woman In the Case." The story is laid In the Amer ican students' quarters in Paris and has a tremendous emotional appeal. Applegate Votes Special Road Tax By a vote of 26 to 2 4 the Apple gate road district lias voted a special road tax of 3.2 mills which will yield about $3000 for rebuilding of the 'road to the Blue Ledge mine. The county court equals the sum given j and the government will be asked to ! l up the same amount, $6000, that county and district spend, under the new federal road law. 5-S$J$4S'S?aS$'S s mittlTTKK WANT ADVK' The following have been ap- pointed by the Commercial club to consider the advisability of having a celebration in Ashland next summer: P. 1). Wagner, A. C, Nininger, Louis Dodge, II. ? O. Frohbach and F. H. Walker. The committee will meet next Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock to 5 decide this question and to for- mulato their report to the Com- ? merci.il club. The individual members want an expression j? from the citizens of Ashland as ? 'P to whether they are in favor or j ? not of having such an affair again this year, and either a $ postal, letter, telephone or per- $ sonal conversation to tho mem- S hers of the committeo or to the rs secrotary of tho club will. It is ? hoped, bring out the sentiment ? for or against and It will give the committee a basis upon whlch to intelligently decide 3ind make their report to the $ $ Commercial club. $ If you want a Celebration, say $ so, if you object to it, register 3 your objections, but whatever you wish, do so before Friday afternoon. ' "