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Oregon Historical Society "Ashland Grows While Llthla flows" City of Sunshine and Flowers Ashland, Oregon, Lithla Springs , "Oregon's Famous Spa' VOL. XLII ASHLAND. OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917 NUMBER 35 Tf TTX "IT T Old Opera House Ruins to Give Way For New Building Soon Active work on Ashland's carbun clo, the old opera house corner on Main street, will actually start with in a week or ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald of Browns baro, Ore, , owners of the old build ing, were in Ashland Wednesday. They Interviewed Mayor Lamkln, who has worked Incessantly for the Active Work Starts On New Addition Active work on the Enders' store who formerly owned the building. It addition was begun Monday morning came into her possession as a part of , by Contractor Prank Jordan and a the estate after his death. crew of men who started the building The old building will be torn down of the framework for the cement and a new concrete business store foundations and reinforcements, will be erected in its place, which on The new construction will have a One Youthful Bootlegger Caught and Two Arrested Last Tuesday Conceit Thursday By Massed Bands Carl Loveland, local band director, is maiuni,' extensive preparation for a William Parslow, aged 17,' and,wlll probably receive a term In tha massea uana oenem concert which Cooks Bennett and Jarvls of Curts' reform school. tLm SZ.? Ch,auU"Q" aU,d'" Hughe." restaurants on A street The men we "".ted early yes- torlura Thursday evening, September , D ter(jay m0rnlng after a. hllnrlnna 27 iwere arrested by Night Policeman . TV hilarious. ' 8Cene had been enacted in the depot uana, wgetner wiuy - .mu 'r ir- aatrlct wMca resembled tll9 daya account of its location will be one of frontage of 82 feet and a depth of : the best musicians of Medford and win Tuesday night on the charges of when Oregon waB wet Two othen the choicest business blocks In the '70 feet, and will be made of brick Central Point, will make a massed j bootlegging and drunkenness. jmen working In the depot sectloa city, and also do away with a public and cement, following the same gen-(band of over forty pieces, which will Dinnnlf n wi A T ...... I I .... - ,1.1 1 . r.,,, ... , uucl.k mm wuivia, uum tueweu were B lent V ImnnrntPrI In tha Honl eyesore which has disgusted pro- eral lines of the present building, jgive a concert which will rival any 'to the eyeballs," were lodged In the but their cases we riittnaort past two years to have the old build- IgressiVe citizens ever since the build- jThere will also be a warehouse built t that residents of the valley have ever local jail Tuesday night; Parslow j Tarslow says that this was his first ing torn down, and an a result he has jlng was gutted by fire six years ago. ;in the rear of the store. The new heard." was kept jn the chief of police office, alterant at bnntWirin ihn,.H, h been placed in command of the new The razing of the present building addition will have a big show win Improvements. Mrs. Archibald is aiand the erection of the new one will 'dow space arranged both In the front daughter of the late Q. F. Stevenson, ! all be done by Ashland contractors. ,and on the side of the building. The Barron Mine to Be Operated Soon Late News From Boys at Stevens (By L. D. Mowat.) Fort Stevens, Ore,., Sept. 16. The camp enjoyed one of those delightful little showers which freshen up the atmosphere so nicely, during the last couple of days of the week. The natives hereabouts tell us that it of ten rains from the last of October to the first of June, steady. Any one posed to be very rich In gold and sil who happened to be out in the sprin- ver deposits. Mr. Salee has unloaded kle the other day without a poncho, a considerable amount of machinery as the rubber capes are called, would at the mine and has started active be decidedly of the opinion that the work on getting things in shape. Sev atmosphere would be some fresh If eral local carpenters are at the rain keeps up all winter at that jwork erecting miners' shacks and rate. However, with the boarded other necessary buildings for the floor tents and the naturally dry lo- working of the mine. Mr. Salee ex cation of the 1st company camp, no pects to have 25 men at work imme- , The concert should prove a 50-iThe former two men were tried bet- local railroad office hnvn hA him cent attraction, but In order that .fore Justice of the Peace Trefren under surveillanco for several days, every one can be given an opportun- yesterday morning, were convicted He made a trln to Horni.rnnU t ( corner of the building will be occu- Ity to attend the concert and help out of receiving Intoxicating liquor in- day, returning by train with two ;pied by the grocery department of the band. It was decided to charge 'side the city limits and fined. Ben- quarts In his possession. One of the stoire and several other business (but 10 cents for chlldre nand 15 jnett was fined 20, which he paid, these he sold to the cooks for $2r irooms will be made in the new Btruc- .cents for adults. The Chautauqua ;and was dismissed; Jarvls was fined later thev stole thB nMmr m.nrt fmm association has donated the services j $,25, which he could not pay), so ho 'him. He Is well known locally, hav of the building for the event. was transferred to the county jail at ing lived hero for many years. Ho There will be no more regular Jacksonville, where he will be housed was heart-broken over his part In band concerts In Llthla park this j for twelve days and a half. Parslow! the affair because of the grief it year, but the band will continue to, appeared before Recorder Wlmer and 'would bring to his widowed mother practice throughout the winter sonfessed that he had brought the I who lives ln this cltv it thnht. that the band can retain its suprem- liquor into the state. As he Is but bv several of th iM nffWr. th. ture. According to present plans, the building will be completed early In November. E. & Smith, local archl- Harvey J. Salee, a prominent min ing operator of Shasta county, has tect, who drew the plans for the purchased the Barron mine, nine Chautauqua auditorium, is the de miles east of Ashland and about two signer of the new addition, miles off the Ashland-Klamath Falls I road. This mine Is one of the oldest in this part of the country and is sup- serious inconvenience was felt. Every evil has some compensation, according to the'old axiom, and the sandy location of our camp Is prov ing a blessing In wet weather. In dry weather the sand gets into every- dlately and will double the force soon. The Mistletoe station .will be used as a shipping point for the ore. A considerable amount of ore is now ready for shipment as a result of for mer workings. It will be sent to thing and blows over everything, but Shasta county smelters. tha rAln nnrkft 1 without mAktaflr Tha mlna haa an IntAreattno' hfa- mud, and pools of water such as W At one time it was leased, the ter IeIser Advertising Company atandtin some of the camps are un- capital furnished and all arrange- known. But then' they tell us that -igenttv were made for -Its operation. Hunt Leases the Vining Theatre George Hunt, manager of the Page Theatre In Medford, has secured a transfer of the lease of the Vining Theatre from Oskar T. Bergner, whoiizatlon now has about thirty mem with Mrs. Bergner has conducted the'bers, but a live committee has been Vining for the past two years. The J appointed and an active "drive" for have acy again next summer. Home Guard Meet In Armory Friday The Home Guards will meet In the armory tomorrow night The organ- 17 years of age, his caso was bound he was made a tool In the hands of over to the Juvenile court and will the other men, to got the booze into be tried at Jacksonville today. He the state; Hoot Mod, Hoot! HooHoo.WhoIsIIe? At last the secret of Officers Pon- ;ter,. Wlmer and Carpenter's success change will take place about the I membership will start soon, middle o October. Miss Venla Grlf-1 The following committees Board Investigates Railroad Wreck The following Is the report of tlio board of inquiry after the luvestlga- at landing bootleggers has come to tlon of the railroad wrck when oc light. They have a special watchman .curred at Zuleka, Cal., Saturday. fin, who has been treasurer of thelbeen appointed by Captain D.elbert wltn a mysterious power for detect-1 The board was composed of Assistant Page Theatre for some time, will : this week; Committee on by-laws, ,nS oooze, who keeps two big glary manage the Vining. Mrsj Bergner will leave soon after the transfer Is made for Los Angeles, where she will visit her parents prior to accepting a position with the Fos- at San Franclscd, where Mr. Bergner has held a responsible position for rules and regulations, C. B. Lamkln, eves nei to the highway all night Henry Enders and Charles Robert- and warns the officers when a car son; membership, J. B, Wlmer, E. J. Kaiser and Roy Anderson. The future meetings will be taken up by about thirty minutes of drill, a short business meeting, and with booze in It approaches. He is nothing more than a common little night owl about as big as the fist of one of the many men whom he has Superintendent Mercler, Division En gineer C. A, Weston, Master Car Re pairer W. J. McEnerney, Mayor Lam kln and Secretary of the Commercial Club F. J. Shinnr "1. Board finds that train second No. 13, consisting of one deadhead spelled doom to with his hoot. He' baggage car, one diner, two tourist September and often October are the when the lessee died. Mr. Salee has , va!"- , nicest months of the year and the tried to get control of the mine tor' During the time that Mr and Mrs, w'thr Rftt.,rrtflv and toflav ha th nt vn Th wa bergner have had charge of the Vi borne out the assertion. A few days made through Spokane attorneys of lJg tney have brpug:nt many of the ago we observed the Astoria men, the Byron White estate. George who are camped next to us, replacing arron of this city owns one-third of the fifteen-inch tent pegs with poles ,the property. three and four feet long. The Idea of the change, so they Informed us, was to keep the tents from blowing over into eastern Oregon when the first wind comes. They say It Is a common sight to see board sidewalks, roofs and such little trinkets blowing around In the 100-mile wind which finest attractions obtainable to the city. In several cases the Vining .team can be formed later In the sea the rest of the evening will be de- peeps his drowsy, lousy headquarters oars, four standards and one olwerva voted to hand-ball, basket-ball, vol- ,n 0M of tne b8 al(ler tree near the tlon car, in charge of Conductor J. J. ley-bajl and like amusements. There Part ot the roa where the officers .Kelly, with Brakemen J. W. Tripp are a vfjmber of "has-beens" enlisted ake tnelr nightly stand to watch for and W. Herndon, Engineer U. G. in the Home Guard, and it Is prob-iP98'11 caravans which are loaded ( Taylor and Fireman T. T. Ahlstrom, able that 'an excellent basket-ball witn treasure, which they are taking while: moving at a spped of from 10 Active Woik Starts On Billings Hill iTheatre showed big pictures before son. they had been shown any place else ! In the state. Mr. Hunt Is a progressive manager and will probably continue to bring headline attractions to the Vining. Mr. Bergner was one of the lead- Ing men In making the Roundup here Active work started Tuesday on a success during the past two years. plays around Astoria. The wind and ",c " ' - , the sand together make a combina- "truction work on the railroad near tlon which reminds one of the story Billings hill. This is not the which is going the rounds about the '"thought to be" or "rumored" start, recruit who refused to eat the etew actual work was started with a because considerable sand had blown rew of railroad laborers under the Into it. "I joined the army to fight jsupervision of the Southern Pacific j for my country, not to eat It," he .Buperlnlenaenl oi engineering, as declared. !on 88 the plle8 are drlven and con Istructlon work made for the support (Of the railroad track, work on the ex- 1000 Soldiers Fed In Ashland Today The first train load of soldiers of the 7,300 who will stop In Ashland during the next few days arrived In the city at 10:30 this morning. The There Is much talk of cantonments , ,, ' train was composed of eleven cars . , i in i .u . cavation unoeir tne tracn win start, i, . . . . . ... being built In the near future to ,, .... ami carried between four and five . ,, . i j i iso the railroad s part of the careworn ,.. . ,. . . house the Q. A. O. companies during i , , hundred men, half of whom were fed . t iu . iBlllIngs hill question will be com- . 4. . . . . ... .. the winter. It seems sure that two .In the depot hotel, while the otheirs pieiea booii. More Dry Throats Caught This Week of the three regular companies here will leave in the near future for the east, and the barracks thus vacated will probably be occupied by some of the Oregon men.. But then rumors are so many and so conflicting that no one Is willing to bet that we will stay here or go to some training camp already equipped. A new training schedule goes Into effect today, and fh many respects parallels the training given the stu dents at the Coast Artillery training camp at San Francisco, without, of course, the theoretical study. .The officers here, however, get that part of the work In large doses and are busier than the men. All of the work is being shaped so as to bring the men Into top-notch physical con dition, and athletics of such nature that the whole company can partici pate, exercises, calesthenics and marchln?. will occupy at least two hours daily. On one day of the week a field march will be taken and the entire day spent away from the fort in meeting actual field conditions. The bunch is looking forward to the first meal,whlch they will cook thpm belves from field rations. Just what part of the new training the 1st com pany will take in has not been an- were marched to the Elks' banquet Chair Doctor Puts rooms, where Easterllng's restaurant i had prepared for the feeding of men (on a large scale. fin a OirAf CJitirlaif' The men are a" ,n clvl,inn c,otheR. UIIC UVCI SlUtlalljas they will not receive their unl- forms until they arrive at American An Interesting trial was held be-;Lake- They came from southern Cal fore Justice of the Peace Trefren this ifrnla communities. They are for morning when Harry Sinclair ap- ,the most Part a llve,y set of typical peered before him to defend himself ( young American men, although men against claims for money made by ,of every nationality were represented Chair Doctor Stanley. jln tne group. After their meal the Stanley recently did some carpet ,men scattered over the cMy to spend beating for Mi Sinclair and demand- a 8nort recreation before their train to the deserts beyond. to 12 miles per hour, sldeswlped rear Officer Wlmer reports that they 'portion of extra 2318 east, In cliargs recently spent four nights straight in of Conductor A. B. Reives, Brakemen searching cars for liquor. On three E. B. Fair; A. Karberg and B. B. Kel of these nights they made captures. !logg, Engines C. Pratt and Fireman During each of these nights they C. A. McCun,e of engino 2590, helper, searched many cars, but always be-' engine, Engineer A. A. Marske and fore a car with booze approached the Fireman G. W. Cash of engine 2318. little be-feather sentinel would utter road engine, and Engineer C. W. Special Agent. R. C. Porter, J. B. L Ber,eg of wola 0n the , ht thatlwint. nnrt FMromnn P M nn nf Wlmer and W. J. Carpenter arrested , . , t no one , . maesty I nmw .fflno Nn . two young Medford men in the vl-'not gpo m to ,,oot once Monday iginer S J. Smith and Fireman J. A. cinity or tne Homes residence east oi tne cuy a..oui nimnisiu. lur iinngmB foum, no j ft wi,reakora It was grow liquor Into the state Tuesday. ,ne ,at. ..Hnth the hoot ow, hoot I,romp Bearcn 01 lne mena car ed?" quothed Agent Porter. "He tlratlon develops the fact that an ar revealed nothing, but Mr. Porter no- Imth not repe(, Wmer. .Then olI ' ya, flt uoka hmkomm M tlced a suspicious looking suitcase in l)g .e flnd e mRht ag K lglven Bufrcent tmo to coml,,y wta the rear of the car The men said It nome .. gpoke up Carpentieri A few ! instruction of the conductor to tha contained tools and refused to open ;niInutM of Bence and Bllddenly there effect that he go east and flag wconi It. A search warrant was fil ed out, ,)roke forth a mot dnfu, ger,eg of go they mm myf ml the suitcase opened and twelve bot- .,.,,, ,.oo! ,loo! hoo,.. from a nearJVrt . ,.,,,, . . ; x kt, mvii "no 111711 uill j l llf night tli,ey senrched car after car, but , Stainbrook of engine 2G28. also nusb er engine, puslior engines ltelng lo cated 41 carB from head end. Inves- tles ot beer thrust their inviting tops out to the midnight air. The men were taken before Jus tice of the Peace Trefren and fined 'hend $25 each. by tree. The men crouched by the main line between switches at Zul.eka. Ashland's Share to Library Fund $250 The local library board held a meeting in the library last night to outline a method of getting Ashland's $250 share In the Library War Serv ice fund. It was decided that they would make no "drive" for the money, be wnysiuo. in uiiomer uiuiuio me, and with which extra 2318 had a lights of a car showed up around a meets Extra consisted of GG cars. The car was stopped; exnm- cnbooeo and four enulnes. and. slnca Ined and a suit case with 12 bottles Riding at Zuleka will hold only 47 of beer was extracted. car8 and spur 10, It was not possible- Yes, the season for hoot owls Is for them to double ow and clear, closed. What? Yes, there's a fine ' Tnvestlention further develops that of $500 for killing owls. Receives Cuts When Bike Hits Auto extra 2318 sawed out first No. 13 and backed In on siding so as to clear on the east end, and while waiting for second No. 13 to be brought up by flagman, who had been a?nt out to flag them, engineer of first No. 13 having called in their flag, and flag man of extra 1318, taking this for a signal for him to return to train, re turned and left extra 2318 east un- A. M. Long, for many years a plumber at Provost BroB.' hardware i ed fifty cents an hour.for his work, i16"- me tra,m did not depart for MVlM they thought that there are ,,,,,,,, . . Iprotected to the past, against west vf. oiii- ,t, i, more than an hour, thna rtvine tha ...i- i.h..j ..i.m.i n.t rc" "' vu" ' oiiiia.ii tuuugiiv buv biiai gen OU ptupiw 111 YH1UU11U WIIU llllun lliuv were unjust, according to prices I"" ample time to rest themselves ,tnev i,ave derived $1 worth of good which other men could be secured to 'before they started on t,helr long way U.om the local public library and would gladly contribute $1 each to help buy books for the countless sol do the same work for, and contested north. Several military officers were the claim. Justice Trefren awarded .ln charge of the group, the case to the chair doctop, which A second train arrived about 2 brings forth another phase of "the o'clock this afternoon. The men were high cost of living." Medford Favors Irrigation Project also from southern California dla- Bame as the first train was. There were 590 men on the second train. Easterllng's have fixed up twenty tables which will accommodate six teen men each in the Elks' building land have about twenty-five men and The vote to organize the Medford 'women employed to take care of the Irrigation district in election there many tables of hungry conscripts, stands 143 for to 47 against. Thel The trains will continue to arrive. nounced as yet, es the various Proposed district .embraces an area two and three a day, until Monday. searchlight and power plant details 01 Z4I-UUU acr m tne nea" or the j As their schedule has been changed are still in the air to some extent. u mver vauey. ine same prop to some extent, It Is Impossible to . , .josltlon was defeated last spring by The 1st company lost another ex-four"Tot,m- " m innlne eame last Thursdays Drouth during the past summer . . . iwas a conclusive argument for lrrl- A as the result of an accident which joccujred Monday afternoon when the I bicycle on which he was riding col lided with the auto delivery car of give the hours that each train will arrive. St.. Heleng The cannery la hand abroad Those who will contribute to Ash land's share can leave any amount they wish to donate with any men ber of the library board, at the public Hbrary, with G. O. Eubanks, ward trains. Second No. 13 ap proached, and not striking any tor pedoes, or being flagged, assumed that the main line was clear and pro ceeded through Zuleka at the usual . . ' . . . ithe Ashland laundry. ....,. diers now on duty both at home and ,nwn hppil of 20 to 25 miles per hour. On -1 A 4 '-.nn-tnf- (ia tiAAf anwtnna rf fha Water street), and as he passed an- " other car he turned his gaze from ln front of him. Clarence Morris, driv ing the delivery car, was coming up tfiA ntpoAt nn tYiA iricrhi atHa nt lha Mayor Lamkln's office or! ono tn tnrrt v, tvtu aa uiuii iv v u a m uia aside so as to avoid a head-on col lision. Mr, Long struck the fender of the car, which threw him forward, causing him to hit a sharp iron edge of the car door, which did the dam age; ' The rear wheel of the bicycle was smashed.. Mr. Long takes all the blame for the aocldent on himself. He was promptly taken to the hos pital, but his injuries are not serious. Motorists will probably find it ad visable to have cotton wool ln their ears on approaching railroad cross ings, as then they will not be both ered by warning whistles. The oor fellows with an Income of a million a year look pretty blue when It is suggested that they rub along through tht war with only those "engines, realizing from tha speed second No. 13 was making that second No. 13 had not been properly flagged, signaled one blast of tha steam whistle (Stop, Rule 14-A) about when the observation car was passing their engine. Thfs signal was not heard by enginemen of sec ond No. 13. Further, when they passed the pusher engines in the ex tra east 2319, which were about J5 feet east of the west switch at Zu leka, the enginemen of these engine realized that something was wrong, and immediately sounded one Mast of the steam whistle for stop, which (Continued on Page Bight.) jgation ling the heavy bean crop here, $500,000. t r y i : Phot new Items to the Tiding. 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