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Oregon lltolorle? p, THE TIDINGS PREDICTION: Before December 31, 1918, Ashland will have a population exceeding TWELVE THOUSAND It will be brought about by proper and complete utilization of her best resource Mineral Waters Ashland Tidings 'Ashland Grows While Llthla Flows' City of Sunshine and flowers Ashland. Oregon, Llthla Springs Oregon's Famous Spa" VOL. XLI ASHLAND. OREGON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1917 mm " M UMBER 80 i To Start Auto Club Organization Here First Arrest For Bone-Dry Violation Our city Ib the host today to Mr. The first arrest for violation of the J. W. Morris of Portland, who is' rep- bone-dry law was mado la Ashland resenting the Oregon Statu Motor As- j last Saturday morning. A Ford auto Kociatlon. This is a new state-wide truck belonging to two men who gave organization that has taken the place their names as Green and Tennen of the former Portland Automobile baum was shipped from Hornbrook Club, whose activities have hereto-j to Ashland. Chief Atterbury hap fore been largely confined to Port-, pened down around the freight house land and Multnomah county. Reallz-jas the car was being unloaded and ing the netd of a larger field, the! found a small quantity of liquor former club has been reincorporated into an association to cover the en tire state. It starts In with six hundred mem bers from the old club and hopes to build up to several thousand. Its object will be to work in the interest of every man and woman who owns an automobile and ct the same time its work will be toward tho better ment of every resident of the state. It aims to bring about legislation fa vorable to good roads and to assist in every way in the development of good - road building and the exploitation of what Oregon has to offer the tourist as well as its citizens. Tho proper logging and mapping of our roads will be gone into very thoroughly. Proper and legible signs will be placed where needed and a strenuous effort will be made to keep them in place and of good appearance. Mr. Morris has favored Ashland -with his initial effort, believing that as the southern gateway to the state we should mako c very favorable im pression on the stronger. He Is en thusiastic for Jackson county and its forward steps for good roads. Mr. Morris will be with us several days and will arrange a meeting some timo this coming week, at which the active work of organizing a local unit of the Oregon State Motor Asso ciation will be launched. stowed away In the car. The owners were arrested, the boozo confiscated and the men fined before Recorder John Wlmer for violation of the liquor law. Sweeney Wins Road Case From County In a decision handed down by Cir cuit Judge Davis at Portland, the award of Jackson county engineers to J. W. Sweeney, contractor, for con struction work for thirteen milee of the Pacific Highway over the Siskl yous was set aside and an amount more than twice that offered was ad Judged reasonable compensation. Mr. Sweeney got a judgment for 173,262.25. The county awarded him only $35,573.56 Want;City to Curb Jitney Pirates Managers Williamson of the Inter- unban and Irwin of the Valley jitney lines, which operate between Ashland and Medford, appeared before the city council Tuesday evening and made a plea for an ordinance which would license Jitney men and regu late them. These two lines and the Crown line operate on regular sched ules which give the valley practically a half-hour Jitney service during the .day and which have proven very de pendable. According to Mr. Williamson, they will be unable to keep up the high grade service if some method is not found to combat the Inroads of the "jitney pirates" who cut In ahead of the scheduled cars and run whenever they please and refuse to arrange a schedule. Mr. Williamson suggested an ordinance setting a license on cars loading here. This would enable the council to control the service so that all might make a, living and a maxi mum of good service be gained, and at the same time the dangerous Jock eying for passengers on the streets be eliminated. The matter was re ferred to the ordinance committee. Special Election Postponed Until After Next Council Meet A legal question having arisen as I the past on account of the short time to the sufficiency of the notice of allowed voters to familiarize them- election, which It was feared would seriously affect the sale of any bonds that might bo issued with which to purchase the Chautauqua lands, and wishing to eliminate all doubts as to the record, the city council have con- selves with proposed charter amend ments, und which, no doubt, has Caused tho defeat of some very meri torious measures. It is a wise move on the part of the council to allow ample time within which to discuss and explain all changes in the char- eluded, to postpone tho special elec-jter, In order that the voters may be tion, advertised to be held on March fully advised before called upon to 3, 1917, to a later date, to be deter-1 cast their ballot. It is also commend mlned on at the next regular meeting , able in the council to use every means of the council, which will be held on 'possible to make an absolutely cor March 6, at which time an early date irect record, to the end that no legal will be fixed for holding a special election to vote on amendments to the charter. There has been much criticism in objections may be Interposed which would in any way interfere with a prompt and advantageous sale of the bonds. Roundup Directors And Oificers Named The stockholders of the Ashland- Celebration Funds Campaign March 1 On Thursday, March 1, will start S.P. Section Men To Get $2 Per Day Section men on the Southern Pa cific system have just been advised that on March 1 their wages will lie advanced from $1.75 to 2 for a ten hour day. Maintenance of way work ers are also given the Increase with tho exception of Mexican laborers, who receive but $1.50 as heretofore. For the first five months prior to November 1 lust, section men were paid $2 per day, but on that date were put back to the old scale. The raise affects several thousand work ers from Portland to El Paso. Rogue River Roundup Association . the campaign for funds for the 1917 held another of their rousing meet ings at Ashland last Wednesday even ing and the following members wcro Says Wool Outlook Is Very Promising elected as a board of directors: A. C. Nininger, M. E. Brlggs, Dr. J. L. Helms, J. J. Murphy, L. F. Ferguson, A. A. Chisholm, Lec Hall, Fred Hor rln and J. X. Nisbct, The board of directors met at the Hotel Austin parlors Saturday even ing and elected the following offic ers: A. Q. Nininger, president; A. Austin Chisholm, vice president; Monte Briggs, cecretary; Lee Hall, treasurer. The company will be stocked this year for $5,000 cash, that being the sum necessary to se cure the grounds, seats and for Inci dental expense in the undertaking necessary before the show Is held.; The association is laying the founds celebration. The committee will mail ajclrcular of information as to cele bration affairs to about five hundred I decided to throw it away. The next morning when It came time to go out FourteenlChickens Turn Up Their Toes Fourteen chickens belonging to .Mrs. J. II. McGco died a noble death as martyrs to a cause last week. Home-canned asparagus and its dan gerous properties is the cause. Mrs. McGee opened a can of home-canned asparagus and poured the liquid from the can over a bucket of chicken scraps. The asparagus did not look very healthy and Mrs. McGee wisely I'palriAnta U'hn In thai, lnHomnn, rt I financially able to asisst. Naturally there will be some, no doubt, over looked, but that will not in any way interfere with making a subscription. The committee will be more than pleased to receive unsolicited funds. The committee wishes to establish a record for southern Oregon for the largest amount of money subscribed for any purpose within twenty-four hours from the time the notices were mailed with subBcrlption blanks. When you get your notice do not lay it aside, but sign up right away and mall i?:n the return envelope or take it' to-the office of the Commercial Club. You're going to mako a sub suit for $114,861.35. Mr. Sweeney had been paid $156,000, and brought the action to recover a balance due and losses he maintained were owing to constructive fraudB perpetrated by subordinates of ex, State Highway En gineer H. L. Bowlby. Judge Davis' decision was given one year to'the day from the date of the opening of the trial In his court. The case opened February 21, 1916, and continued until April 1, 1916. In July, Judge Davis went over tho ground in Jackson county personally. The last brief to be submitted in the ease, a reply, was received ten days ago. The case has cost the county many thousands of dollars. The suit was one of the most lengthy and Involved to be tried in Portland courts.- The transcript of testimony covered 2,600 pages. There were between 400 and 500 exhibits offered and expert testimony was giv en by fourteen construction engineers. J. D. Welch of the Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse Company ol Port land was in the city Saturday, meet ing with local sheepmen and cattle men. Mr. Welch represents a firm which handles wool on consignment He asked in hisjand also deals In cattle. The Colum bia Basin company is endeavoring, by furnishing loans on wool and flocks, to tide the sheepmen over periods when ready money is at a premium, and, according to Mr. Welch, Is en deavoring to promote a movement to place the Pacific coast at the front as a cattle and sheep section. He states that throughout Oregon the tendency seems to be toward better stock and better husbandry of stock, and that the outlook is very promis ing. tion for larger show even than last isoriptlon later, so why not do it now? year. A meeting of the stockholders All this la for a purpose. If we can will be held at the Austin Tuesday 'establish this record we can get every evening at 7:30, at which time the .'dally paper in Portlrnd to print same matter of stock and other preliml- as a news Item, and at the same time naries will be discussed. jit Is free advertising for our celebra- tion. Can you help? So let's work together. and gather the eggs fourteen chick ens with toes turned skywards bore mute testimony to the wiseness of the disposal of the asparagus. The incident calls to mind a case In the east when a family was pois oned by home-canned asparagus. Doctors informed the family that as paragu canned at home Is very liable to be poisonous. The canneries al ways put the vegetable through a bleaching process which turns it white and. removes the poison, before canning It. Hence "bought" cang are much safer than tho home-canned variety. Moser of Portland Aids Normal Bill It is rumored that H. O. Puruckcr Is to leave Ashland in about ten days for North Yakima, whero he will ac cept the Buperintcndency of that dis trict for a life insurance company. DR. JAItVIS ON MINERAL ? 8 WATERS. V Dr. Jarvls will deliver a talk on mineral waters at the Com- 4 merclal Club meeting which will 3 4 he held at the city hall ono week $ ? from tonight. The meeting will Q be opon to all and a large at- ? tendance is anticipated. It is 4 important that Ashland citizens 4 acquaint themselves with the 3 contents and use of our mineral ? S waters so that they may bo able $ to give a good account to lnquir- 4 ing strangers. A largo audience $ should be present. The characteristic difference In the attitude of tho two houses of the legislature was clearly shown in the treatment accorded the normal school measure, in which all South ern Oregon counties are so exceed ingly interested. While our people appreciate the fact that the repre sentatives from the Willamette val ley and Multnomah county do not have the need of his school brought home to them, as do tho people of Woodpiles Nuisance On Pacific Highway Southern Oregon News: At a point near Talent the highway has been and is being used as a loading 1 station for one or more wood haul ers. Such a practice should not be permitted. If they would select a place where they could pile their wood back from the driveway, either near the fence or along some inter secting road, It would not seem out of the way. But to pile the wood only a few feet from the pavement and leave their teams stand on the pavement while they are loading'and unloading, Eight Measures For Special Ballot Seven Important measures, In addi tion to the $6,000,000 road bond pro posal, will be on the ballot for con sideration of the voters at the special state election on June 4. In authorizing the special bond election the legislature decided also to refer to this election all but two of the constitutional amendments and other questions which otherwise would have gono on the ballot at the Oregon Artillery Ranks As Best City Christian Endeavor Rally Wedneaday will be a big day (a Ashland Christian Endeavor circles. The three societies, Congregational. Christian and Presbyterian, are plan ning for conference at 4 o'clock Wed- nesday afternoon, followed by a ban quot at 6 and then a big rally at 7:30, nil to be held In the Presby terian church on North Main street. The guests of honor will be Mr. C. C. Hamilton, field representative from Boston, Mass., and Mr. Howard Brown, state president of California. Both are "live wires" in Christian Endeavor work. The big mass meeting Wednesday evening la op-n to the public, and at this service all tho young people's societies of Ashland are to be repre sented by full delegations. Mr. Ham llton will bring the principal mes- sage, and Mr. Brown will also address) the young people. Rev. H. A. Carna- han will preside as toastmaster at the? banquet, and there will be responses by Mayor Lamkln, Rev. Mr. Brett, Mrs. Melllnger, Mr. Hamilton and, others. Mr. Hamilton has been In attend ance at tho conventions in La Orando and at Salem, Ore., and goes from here to California to begin a tour of that state under the direction of Mr. Brown, who meets him here in Ash land, and they begin tholr work to gether in California on Thursday of this week. election next November had the spec- so that autos and teams j ial election not been authorized. The have to turn around them, and when : normal bill and a bill regarding the two vehicles meet at this point one ! establishment of a school for delln- has to wait for tho other to get by before they may pass, is wrong. Then, too, should the lights from one car blind the driver of another coming toward him,, and the one on the opposite elde from the woodpile not be able to sec Just where the edge of the pavement wps and crowd to the center of the road, the other driv er would have to hold his breath in iquent children will be let go over until the 1918 regular election. The propositions to bo voted upon at the special election are as follows: State issue of $6,000,000 bonds to begin construction of a comprehen sive system of roads and highways embracing the entire state. Direct expenditure of $100,000 a year for four years to build a new The Eighth company, Coast Artil lery, Oregon .National Guard, of Port land, established the highest merit mark recorded for the 1916 target practice of National Guard big gun companies, according to figures made public at Washington by the war de partment militia bureau. Firing with ten-Inch guns at 10, 137 yards, the company mado three hits out of three shots and was given a mark of 89.72. Oregon's Fifth company of Albany was second with 79.93, and Maine's Fifth company was third. Washington's Ninth company led the six-inch gun class with 18.844 for two hits out of six shots at 5,742 yards. California's Ninth company led the twelve-Inch rifle class with 42.340 for two hits out of two shots at 8,4 60 yards. Three Feet of Snow Since Last Monday Almost three fevt of snow has fall en in Ashland since last Monday! an unprecedented snowfall for this sea ton here. According to Co-operative Observer LouIb Dodge, 33 inches had fallen up to this morning, and it has been snowing Intermittently all day. This much snow 1b equal to three end a half inches of rain and is of great benefit. Owing to the fact that the ther mometer has dropped to freezing only for two short periods In the week, the snow has melted fast and only about a foot lleo on the ground. Tim steady molting allows the earth to get the full benefit of the moisture and the snow 13 worth probably twice thn amount of rain. The power lines have given soma little trouble, but ABhlcnd has not been totally without lights owing to the fact that tho city is supplied by the municipal plnnt as well as tha Fall creek and Prospect plants of tho Oregon-Californle company. The street department has man aged to keep the nldewulks opened and slrcets fairly clear. order to go between the woodpile and penitentiary at Salem. the other auto, end then might not To raise pay of legislators from $3 make it, in which event there would a day to $6 a day, extend legislative be a terrible accident. In the event session to fifty days and limit num- of such an accident who would be to her of bills than can be introduced New Ass't Supt. of Shasta Division blame the man who piled the wood there, the county officers who per- Eastern Oregon and Southern Ore- mitted It, or the unfortunate autoist gon, they ought to be open to the representations made by those who know the situation. Mr. Sheldon's work, whereby the measure passed the 60 members of the house with only three dissenting votes, was rendered easier because of the open-minded attitude of the members of the lower house of the legislature. We are reliably Inform ed that our mcausre would never have passed the senate had It not been for the personal interest taken in the matter by Senator Gus Moser, president of the senate. In this mat ter Mr. Moser showed not only his Individual broad minded fairness, but reflected the attitude of the best people of Poitland. who had tho accident? Should some one be killed in such an accident, perhaps some steps would be taken to have the woodpile removed. by each member and each committee. To authorize assessors of western Oregon counties to restore Oregon and California grant lands to tax rolls. Requiring municipalities to hold their primary and general elections Bandon Woolen and employ twenty. mill to operate The wood referred to Is piled at a jon samo day state primaries and gen eral elections are held. To provide for classical assessment of property with graduated rate of property of different V.UI T III iuv ruHu which luuiirs 1L doubly bad. We copied an article from the Ashland Tidings recently wnerein tncy stated that the wood-1 taxation on piles had been removed. We had classes. hoped that it was a permanent move. If the gentlemen who are using the highway in the capacity an bo endarv- gering the lives of people do not; see fit to remove this obstacle, we nope that the county officers will take the matter in hand, as it has been a con stant eyesore and worry, especially to autolsts who pass this way. Toledo Farmers arc working for a cheese factory. To enable port of Portland to build or to subsidize steamships and oper ate line of steamers to foreign and domestic ports. To prevont repeal of any part -of state constitution by Implication. All acts of tho legislature against which the referendum is invoked also will be on the ballot. Trains Collide But Little Damage Done What came near being a serious railroad wreck occurred lat Tuesday afternoon at Doo creek when an ex tra west freight collided head on with a work train. Neither train was urceedlng at a very rapid rate of speed when the collision occurred, the freight traveling at a rate of about twelve miles and the work train at about four miles. . The shock of the collision dam aged the pilot on engine No. 3227, drawing the extra west, while the caboose on the work train was prac tically demolished. The engines were both enabled to drive into Ash land under their own power, the work of clearing the tracks taking only a few minutes. A wrecking J crew was dispatched for the scene A. T. Mercler, until his promotion division engineer r.t I.oa Angeles, haa been made assistant superintendent of the Shasta division, and has al ready assumed his new duties, suc ceeding G. V. Gillette. Mr. Gillette returns to the train service as passenger conductor, and will move from Dunsmnir to Ashland. Asks That Birds Be Given Food A lady called up the Tidings Satur day to request that our readers bo asked to help tide the birds over tho hungry times attendant upon snow- weather by putting out crumbs or food of some kind whllo the snow stays on tho ground. from Roaeburg, but by the time they Rosebnrg Chinese start big truck farm of 250 acres. arrived the debris had been cleared away and the track was opened. The damage will not amount to more than $360. Mrs. H. O. Purucker spent the week end at the home of her mother In Medford. She expects to leave this week for San Diego for a b!x months' stay. Ontario Flour mill projected at Jordan Valley. WKATIIKB ' $ Forecast For the Week Begin- nlng Sunday, Feliuary 2.1. Pacific States General rains probable during week In Wash- ington and Oregon, and reins at S beginning of week In California. Fair In. last named state after 4 Monday. Temperature near nor- 4 mal. a E. H. BOWIE, Forecaster.