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Ashland
"Ashland Grows While Uthfa Flows'
Ashland, Oregon, Llthld Springs ,
"Oregon's Famous Spa'
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City of Sunshine and flowers
ASHLAND. OREGON MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1916
VOL. XLI
NUMBER 58
Hooper Again
Flies the Coop
Horses Killed
Rider Unhurt
More Publicity
From Railroad
Tidings
John Austin Hooper, whose sensa
tional career of gentlemanly crime
ranging from throwing ammonia In
the face of the ttogue River bank
cashier to forcing the manager of the
Hornbrook store and his wife to help
him rob the Jones store, with almost
every kind of holdup and banditry to
his credit up and down the coast,
has again asserted his Independence
and escaped fro the Missouri penl- I
tenMarv. where he was nlaced fori
killing a policeman. Details of the , Cardinell, there are only eight acres
escape have not be"en received, but In Brazil planted to apples, the fruit
Hooper Is thought to be headed for8e"lns there now at $1 a dozen,
the coast. I Witn one ecePtion. a11 tlie mem-
. Hooper did not have any killings of the delegation, which Balls
to his credit on the coast, holding 1 from New York In a few weeks, will
them unnecessary In scientific crime. e made up of Pacific coast fruit
He claimed that at the time of kill- men. On the seventeen-day trip to
Ing the Missouri policeman he ! RI Janeiro the members will have
thought the policeman was going to Portugese tutor to teach them the
hold him up. language.
At the time of his arrest in Mis-1 Horace Cardlnell attended school
sourl Hooper was being sought for,here a timber of years ago and
having escaped from the county jail j moved frora 1,ere to Portland.
at Grants Pass In August, 1915. He
was being held In the jail there upon
the charge of robbery of the South
ern Pacific depot and of a bank at
Rogue River, and was aiso a parole
breaker from Folsom prison In Cali
fornia, where he was under a sen
tence to tne penitentiary lor lire, .us ;tho tourist ambitions of Ashland and
escape from the valley jail was spec- tlle Northwest generally was settled
tacular, and he has been implicated favorably when the interstate rail
In a number of spectacular stunts road commission in session at Chi
Bince leaving Grants Fass, always j cag0 a)0ilshed the differential In
finding some way to escape when t0rlst rates which have heretofore
taken by the officers. Hooper Is con-, made traveling from the east to San
Bidered one of the most daring des- j rranclsco cost $17 more by the route
peradges In the country. through the Northwest than by the
I southern route. A number of public
AUtO Thief FailS ' 8erv'ce '1omm,ssion9' state associa
To Reach Oregon
, A stranger driving a Hudson super-
ix roadster arrived in Montague last
Thursday, says the Siskiyou News of
Yreka, and made an attempt to sell
the car, finally disposing of It to Dr.
Dwinnell for $500, taking $20 in
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" t",cv'"- '" lu
.u rluv..u u, lu:ditlonai cost of railroad fare, will
whom he had offered the car resulted
In the srrlvpl of word that the car
was the personal car of the San
Francisco Hudson dealer and had
been stolen. The man was arrested
and taken to San Francisco for trial.
He was thought to be headed for
Oregon but was out of funds and
could not get gasoline necessary to
make tho mountain.
Wet Throats and Dry
Throats Swell Total
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1J1UUUI 1U1UUIIB 1UIU IBIUUUU UJ -
rnllrnnri freight And exnrpsR Increased :
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almost 100 per cent in November over
the October totals. Two hundred and j
thirty-one quarts were shipped in dur-
ing October for beverage purposes
and 448 during November. In Octo
ber 244 quarts of alcohol were
' freighted inyto the drug stores for
18 quarts in November. The bone
dry law and the fall rains, which have
mnrlA (ha Tra A a nt wGaTl Tiora anrl tllfl
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first California oasis, thirty miles
south, practically impassable in the
Slsklyous, are the main causes to
which the increase is attributed. A
peculiar phase of the proposition lies
in the fact that beer shipments are
increasing despite the cold weather,
all out of proportion to the whiskey
Increase.
Ten hundred and thirty-five hobos .
v.cu . .
hotel by the police during he put '
mon h the majority remaining over
uigui jii me ijuai LcrB yruviutm. vvuuu
for a stove is furnished.
Three burglaries have been report
ed, the largest amount secured con
sisting of $6 and a quantity of chew
ing gum. But two arrests have been !
made during the month.
One, case of scarlet fever has been
reported by the 'police.. 4 '
Sixteen doors of business houses
were found unlocked by the night pa
trolmen. The summary of liquor importa
tions is bp follows:
By Wells-Pargo Express Company:
Qts.
Bew 195
Whiskey 160
Wine . .
Alcohol
4
1
350
By. Southern Paciflo Company
Beer
96 1
Alcohol
, 18
Total Impcrtatkm. If
Will Teach Fruit
Growing In Brazil
Horace Cardlnell, a former Ash
land boy and a graduate of Oregon
Agricultural College, '1915, who has
been working on local fruit ranches,
has been appointed pomologist of the
Brazilian government at a salary of
$2,400 a year, with transportation
and expenses. He will be assisted by
seven other American fruit experts.
Their work will be to establish the
apple industry in that country.
cording to reports receded by
Ac
Mr. Tourist Rates
Are Equalized
i A matter of vital importance to
tions unu uuimerciai ciuus ui ure-
: gon and Washington joined In the
j protest against the differential.
As the central route is slightly
gnorter , b(J that rateg over tne
jcentra, rout(J may be ,eft 8ghtv
,ower than tho nonhern and gouthern
but t any ratfl the cnance8
" thal , 0t nrnnnrtinn n. tha
, tourist travel which has been kept
away from the Northwest or the ad-
now come or return by the northern
route.
The commission in its investiga
tion found that a passenger travel
ing from Chicago to San Francisco
over one of the central routes and
returning by way-of El Paso and New
Orleans must pay an all-year pas
senger rate of $110 for the round
trip, while if he goes west over a
central line and returns over a north
ern road, or vice versa, the fare
is $128. For summer excursion
d trlp tickets tne are has been
f u.uu uy inv Buuiuuru ruuie ami
$90 If a northern route Is used either
way
1ITV.I1- kl 1 4 . . .1 i -1
tvijijo hub jb iiuo ui ruuuu irii
fares, the commission found that the
one-way fare between Chicago and
San Francisco Is the same whether
by central, southern or the northern
route.
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Shasta Route Only Reason.
Investigation further showed that
ithe $18 discrimination against the
j northern routes was made by the car
.riers in order that the Southern Pa
iciflc might receive $20 from each
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round trip ticket to cover travel over
I the Shasta route, the only rail con-
nectlon Letween Portland and San
Francisco. The railroads at the hear
ing admitted that this was the only
reason for the differential.
The commission found no support
for the railroads' contention that half
tho Palfln Pnnat trflvpl ta hv vdt
M Qn c)
the mogt reliablB ,lgure8 ,t couI(J ob.
thftt from g tQ
from Ch,
San Francisco and return went by
way of the northern routes. This
it held was a clear evidence of dis
crimination in routing.
The commission specifically holds
; that the Southern Pacific cannot elect
U a rtnn ti In Vi lsturAi avonralnn tawo
by its southern route and at the
same time refuse to concur in the
lower excursion fare via its Shasta
route without .violating section 8 of
the interstate commerce act.
Jarvis For Springs
Water Commission
Dr. Jarvis has been ' urged by
many to allow his name to appear on
the ballot as a candidate for springs
water commissioner, and petitions
,.ar, out today and being generally
signed. B. R. Greer is ths retiring
msmber and will tot be candidate.
County Budget ol
16 Mills Adopted
At a meeting of the county court
held Thursday protests were received
from members of the Jackson County
Taxpayers' League concerning the
proposed levy for the coming year.
The recommendations pf the league
are printed elsewhere In this Issue.
The tentative budget was adopted by
the court for the coming year.
Medford District
Election Dec. 27
The election to establish the Med
ford Irrigation district has been junior yearling Holstein bull, con
called for December 27 and an active j signed by Dernhard Meyer of Fln-
cnmiiBtLMi Ir helne wacetl bv the lr-
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i ifcaiiumoia ui me ioiicj,
unit In
Park Lighting
Bill Problem;
Who will pay for the lighting of
the paiko, Is the question with which
the council wrestled over a half hour
Tuesday night and finally dropped
until after election. The present ar
rangement includes leaving a few
lights on around the Butler-Perozzl
fountain and the drinking fountains
and one or two down through Chau
tauqua park.
Briefly stated, the situation In re
gard to park ilghtlng is as follows:
The electric light department has
papers of the valley are a unit In Livestock Show at Portland for $21,
recognlzlng the necessity of lrrlga-!500, the highest price ever paid on
tion. Medford has been practically j the Pacific coast for a single ant
insured of a beet sugar factory mal. lie was purchased by John von
should the district be formed and ! Herherg, owner of ninety head of
water placed on the land. pure Ilolsteins at Kent, Wash.
charged the lighting up to the park that special consideration be given
board until, to quote Superintendent by you to the matters herein suggest
Strlckland, the light department isjed, with a view to reduce the tax
"the goat to the extent of $750." The j levy for this year,
park board has refused to pay this! The financial condition of the
and, according to Mr. Ashcraft, threw county and of the Individual property
the keys down in the office and re-1 owners is such that taxes are a heavy
rusea to nave anyming to qo wun;
the park lighting. A motion to
charge the park lighting to the gen-
eral fun'i was lost because it was that the following recommendations
deemed that the general fund would j will meet general approval' of tax
have a hard time meeting Its other i payers:
obligations. The light department
therefore remains "the goat" until
after election, when things will have
settled down so that a definite ar
rangement can be made.
Lights are necessary at the foun
tains so that vandals will not steal
the money from the jcup venders or
break the glass. The Butler-Perozzi
land was deeded to the city and the
fountain erected with the provision
that the fountain he lighted, and the
donors state that rather than run the
risk of having vandals mutilate the
fountain, they will fence the whole
works up. Residents of the Granite
street neighborhood go home at night
through the park and, as Mr. Lamb
expressed it, "put up an awful how-1
when the lights were turned off alto
gether." Mr. Stricklajid stated that the
lights could be turned off at 10
o'clock, after a suggestion by Mr.
Banta, by installation of an automatic
switch, thus effecting a small saving,
but Mr. Poot called the council's at
tention to the fact that the switch
would cost more than the saving
made between now and election. Mr.
Banta in the course of the discussion
ventured the opinion that "anyone
who went up there after 10 o'clock
wouldn't want lights."
At present standing most all of the
lights in the park are turned off and
enough burning to protect the- foun
tain and light the main patch. The
cost of the current Is about $13 per
month under the present arrange
ment.
The whole argument revolved
around the fact that the park board
had refused to pay for the lighting
and that the electric light department
was determined not to be "the goat,"
since it was the goat last year for
several thousand dolalrs of street
lights and the impression was liable
to be gained that it does not cost artfSp
thing to manufacture current. I
Mr. Nlninger made a positive stand
on the matter, advocating "since the
park board had agreed to run the
park for a two-mill levy, make them
do it."
The school board of Paisley, Ore.,
has let the contract for a $36,000
school. ' .
Oregon City has contributed $8,
000 toward building a $16,000 arm-
Firemen Pass
Engineer Exam
At the examination held last week
In Superintendent Metcalf's office at
Dunsmuir, the following firemen suc
cessfully answered all questions and
were promoted to engineers of the
Shasta division: T. Lafferty, G. F.
Irvine, E. F. Young. J. A. Carey, S.
R. Stanley, E. P. Webster and J. M.
Rogers.
Holstein Bull
Sells For $21,500
Flnderne Mutual Fayno Valdness,
Morno V I c.i,io,- in ,.il
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Taxpayers' League
Recommends Changes
The Jackson County Taxpayers'
League met last Thursday at Med-
i ford and presented the following rec-
ommemlatlons to the county court,
who placed them upon file, receiving
them with thoughtful consideration:
To the County Court, Jackson Coun
ty, Ore.
Gentlemen: We, the budget com
mittee of the Jackson Coutny Tux
payers' League, to whom has ben re
ferred the matter of tax levies as ad
vertised In your budget for 1916, ask
burden end must be reduced to a
mlnliuum
We believe from our investigation.
While it appears that county
school, high school, general road, tax
collecting and assessor's expense is
in excess of what should be required,
we believe the levies advertised can
well be reduced below the amount
asked for.
For circuit court expense we find
the actual expense has been below
$4,000 and recommend that this levy
be reduced to this amount.
For county court general expense
and traveling expenses we believe a
reduction of $1,000 should be made.
For juvenile court expense also a re-
! ductlon of $1,000.
j rigid curtailment
We believe by a
of expenditures
these amounts can be saved to the
taxpayers.
For county advertising purposes
we recommend the elimination of
$1,000 for promotion expense.
The levy for the care of the poor
should be materially reduced. We
recommend the adoption of methods
by which a saving can be made, and
suggest that this levy be reduced at
least $5,000. '
Court house expense can he re
duced by the reduction on incidental
expenses and by the consolidation of
janitor and jailor. We recommend
that this be done and that this levy
be reduced at least $500.
We ask that a reduction of at least
$800 be made in the levy for county
surveyor, $1,000 for school superin
tendent's expense, and $1,000 for the
enforcement of the prohibition law.
WThlle there is a vague possibility
of a special election being called dur
ing the year, such an election is very
improbable. We believe the levy of
$3,500 for this purpose should be
eliminated.
Vary respectfully,
THE TAXPAYERS' BUDGET
COMMITTEE,
By Benton Cowers, Chairman.
Medford, Ore., Dec
i
7. 1916.
! Edwin Dunn, sonjif G. W. Dunn
of Ashland, was a member Of the
O. A. C. stock-judging team which
won first place in a competitive
stock-judging contest held at the
Paciflo International Livestock Expo-
altlon at Portland. Teams from the
University of Idaho and Washington
State College competed with tha Ore
gon boys.
Blachleyj Or., Is to treat a large
anion graded acbooa..
J. M. Dodge of Medford, while re-
j turning from tho soda springs above
Ashland Friday evening, very nar
rowly escaped death and suffered the
loss of his team of horses at a cross-
lug about a mile this side of Medford the Southern Pacific trains between
when struck by No. 16. Dodge had Portland and San Francisco. Two
hauled a well-drilling outfit to thejof these were Issued some time ago
springs and was taking his team i ami the third, describing, in the or
honie, riding one of the horses. The'der In which they are Feen, the at
horso lie was riding was thrown I tractions which will be seen from
twenty feet and the other thrown ' train No. 13, has just been Issued,
some distance. Dodge escaped with- Ashland Is given a prominent place
out serious injuries and rode the
injurles and rode the
i. i. ... - ,it,....nn t.. i.
mile. Upon arriving at home he
fainted. An hour later one of the
horses died and before morning the
other succumbed. The team was vtfl-
ueo ai 1UU,
Dodge stated that he heard the
whistle but thought ho had plenty of
time to cross the track. The fact
that he was not killed lie attributes
to lighting on a soft pll of dirt.
Grahling Players
At Lyric.This Week
A bill of exceptional excellence will
be given at the Lyric theatre on
Wednesday and Thursday nights, De
cember 13-14. The Granting Play
ers, composed of former members of
the Orpheum, Sullivan &. Considine
and Pantiigcs circuits, will be heard
in two sensational tabloid dramas
on Wednesday night "Vice and the'j
Woman," the play that has created a
furore wherever heard, and on
Thursday night "Watch the Watch,"
a comedy which contains a laugh in
every line.
In addition, two complete changes
of vaudeville will be presented. Gra
ham & Norton, harmony singers (for
merly of the S. & C. circuit), will
give twelve minutes of splendid song
and rapid-change chatter, while
K.ub!ak and Vickroy (formerly of the
Orpheum circuit) will render violin
and saxophone numbers.
Five reels of photo-plays will
complete the bill one of the best
that has ever graced the boards of
the Lyric.
Chaplin and Sweet
At Vining Tuesday
Charlie Chaplin in "The Vaga-
!ond" and Blanche Sweet In "Public
Opinion" will be the two pictures!
which will combine to make an ex
ceptionally bis and good show at the 1
Vining theatre Tuesday night. Char
lie needs no Introduction and as the
vagabond he is at his best. Miss
Sweet appears In an exceptionally
gripping and appealing film play.
Tonight.
A road show, not a motion picture,
Is at the Vlnlng tonight. "Th,e Win
ning of Barbara Worth," from the
famous Harold Bell Wright novel.
Representatives
Confer at Pass
The Jackson county representa
tives are in Grants Pass today meet
ing with the other southern Oregon
solons in a conference from which
much good is expected to emanate.
The closing of the Rogue river and
many other questions will be dis
cussed, and it is said that the repre
sentatives from this section will also
decide upon the stand which they
will take in the fight for the speak
ership of the house.
Lithia Bakery
Changes Hands
R. C. Jorgensen, baker at the
Lithia bakery, and who Is well known
in this city, where he has made his
home during the past seven years,
has purchased the Lithia bakery and
restaurant and took charge last
week. Messrs. Rinebart & Taylor,
the former owners, are undecided as
to future plans. Mr. Jorgensen's
ability as a baker and cook is too
well known to require introduction,
and patrons of the Lithia are assured
of even better service and food in
tha future than in the past.
EugenetT-Theii Booth-Kelly Com
pany hai let contracts for T,000,d00
feet of logs.
The Southern Pacific Company is
Issuing to Its agents all along its
I lines, both in the big cities and the
smallest villages, letters describing
the things which may be seen from
i In this letter, receiving the greatest
In this letter,
amount of space of any of the de-
scriptions, which are necessarily
brief, owing to the fact that the let
ter is written on a single sheet of
letter paper, one-third of which Is
taken up with pictures of points of
Interest along the Shasta route. A
picture of the lit It In fountains at the
S. P. station and of the mountain
scenery on the Siskiyou grade are
among the seven views shown.
The letter says of Ashland:
"Ashland, railroad division point,
fruit and agricultural center, Is bet
ter known as 'Oregons Famous Spa.
.Mineral springs gush eternal from
mysterious mountain depths, bring
ing n message of health pnd rejuven
ation to all mankind. Several of
Ashland's springs play through the
fountains on the Afhland station
grounds, and every passenger must
have at least one drink of refreshing
mineral water.
"Ashland Is a natural resort, 1,890
feet above sea level, with an even.
Invigorating climate. - Beautiful for
situation at the upper end of tha
Rogue River valley and surrounded
by wooded, picturesque mountains."
These letters are a guide to every
Southern Pacific agent in describing
the attractions of a trip over tha
Shasta route, and Ashland Is hound
to receive a great doul of publicity
from them.
Carload of Bad
Ones Bound North
Wednesdny a government prison
enr passed through Ashland frora San
Francisco en route to McNeal's
Island. The windows of the steel
car were covered by iron bars. The
transport prison was comfortably
filled with opium smugglers, white
slavers and others charged with de-
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rtnora wara onfalv ohonLlnH nnrt Hia
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car was well guarded. The unfor
tunates Included all colors front'
white men to negroes and Chinese.
One "chink" who commanded atten
tion was over six feet tall.
Seattle Pastor
Accepts Local Call
Rev. G. S. Brett of Seattle has ac
cepted a unanimous call to the pas
torate of tho First Congregational
church of this city. He will preach
next Sunduy morning and evening.
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trons of the postoffice are re-
3 quested to observe In preparing
? their Christmas packages for S
$ mailing:
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parcels.
$ Address parcels fully and ?
i plainly.
Place name and address ot
sender on all matter.
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wrap them securely, but do not 0
$ seal them, as sealed parcels are
$ subject to postage at the letter
rate.
I
? Mall parcels early. They may $
be marked "Do not open until
Christmas."
Insure valuable parcels.
Written inscriptions such as
"Merry Christmas," "Happy
S New Year," "With Best Wish-
$ es,' and numbers, names or let- S
$ ters for purpose of description
3 are permissible additions to J
i fourth class (parcel post) mail.
4 Books may bear simple dedlca-
tory inscriptions not of a per-
sonal nature. Other written ad- 0
t ditiona subject .parcels to letter
postagay., '
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