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Oregon Historical Boeiei Auditorium Ashland "Ashland Grows While Uthla flows" City of Sunshine and flowers IDINGS Ashland, Oregon, Uthla Springs "Oregon's Famous Spa" VOL. XLIII ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY OCTOBER 7, 1918 NUMBER 40 Violators of Law Given Sentences E. L. Paddock of Klaiiiatli county was triad before Judge Wolverto:i at the special session of the United States court held In Hertford Inst week, on the charge of Belling liquor to Indians, and J. F. Miller, also of Klamath county, charged with per jury, were found guilty and received their sentence Friday. Paddock was given a sentonca of 60 days In the Multoncti county Jail and a $100 fine for giving li quor to the Indians. Miller's sen tence was $1000 fine for commit ting perjury before tho federal grand Jury In Portland In testifying In the Padlock cass., ' Both these men are Southern Pacific railroad men run ning between Weed and Klamath Falls, and that is why they were sentenced In the United States court. District Attorney Ilaney In an ad dress to the court said that while of the two crimes charged Miller's was the far more serious, yet in view of Miller's previous good reputation and long service with the Southern Pacific, together with the fact that be baa a wife and child, be would recommend that no penitentiary or Jail sentence be Imposed. Miller is a conductor, and his wife is at present ill in a Dunsmulr hospital. District Attorney Haney made no recommen dation in the Paddock case. Pad dock Is a brakeman. Both are young men. The testimony showed that Miller and Paddock got Into a poker game with Klamath county Indians and during the course of which Paddock Introduced a quart bottle of whiskey Into the game. The Indians trimmed the two railroaders badly In the game, and later Paddock was arrest' ed for giving them liquor. Storm Tied up . Railroad Traffic A storm of unprecedented ferocity struck northern California and the section between here and Redding last week which delayed traffic dur lng the entire day Wednesday. Nine landslides and two washouts were re ported from the Shasta division of the Southern Pacific lines. Extra crews of railroad workers were sent up the Sacramento canyon early to tip the Sacramento canyon to clear the slides and open the tracks. The storm was accompanied by thunder and lightning. Rain con tinued to tall during the day. Lightning struck the Columbia ho tel, a large two-story Italian hotel belonging to A. Rosolle, at 3 o'clock Wednesday. The resultant fire completely destroyed the building and contents. All the occupants es caped without Injury. The loss Is estimated at $19,000 of which about $10,000 was covered by Insurance. Nearby frame buildings were eas ily saved from the fire because of the heavy rain which was falling. Troop Train Engine Derailed Near City Second section of train No. 15, was delayed a short time last Tuesday morning by the derailment of a trail er truck engine caused by a loose tire. The train stopped within four rail lengths, and no damage result ed. A board of inquiry met Thursday and made the following report: The board is of the opinion that the tire was improperly set at the time of being applied to the wheel, and be came loose on account of continued service. This could not be detected by ordinary inspection. The truck was in good condition. Demonstration in Poultry to Be Made A demonstration in the culling of pullets to pick out the poor layers will be given at the poultry yards of John Dill on North Main street, Wed nesday, October 9th, at 10:00 a. m. Any one who keeps chickens cannot afford to miss this demonstration. A representative from 0. A. C. will be present to conduct the demonstra tion and answer questions or visit in dividual flocks where any one so desires. XOTICK TO PATRONS. The tremendous advance In materials entering into tho production of a newspaper and of Job printing has neces sitated a chango In the char acter of the Tidings. One of two things must bo nccompllBhcd to meet expens es. One Is to materially raise the pvlco to subscribers and advertisers, which seemed to the management Impractical ut this time. The other was to curtail production by dis continuing one Issue a week and maintaining tho Tidings as a weekly instead of a s?ml weekly until conditions change. The last plan has been decided upon. We think by discontinuing one issue each week that expenses can be met, because It will enable the majority owners, Messrs. Greer and Reynolds to do all the work without employing additional labor in the me chanical department. Therefore there will be no Thursday Issue of the Tid ings after this date. The Monday issue will be changed to Tuesday and the next Issue of the Tidings will appear next week, Tuesday, October 15, and will ibe published on that day each week thereafter. The subscription and adver tising rates printed at the top of tho editorial column on the second page will be con tinued until further notice. It is hoped in the near fu ture that conditions will so mend as to enable the Tid ings to appear twice each week as heretofore, and bet ter still that conditions will be so improved as to warrant the publication of a daily In the near future. Registered Men To Be Instructed The county draft board has ap pointed the following as a board of Instruction for the men registered for the draft: Rev. L. Myron Booz er, Captain W. Y. Crowson and Dr, E. II. French. The board's duties will be to look after the general mill tary and moral Instruction of the serve without pay. The special duties of Captain Crowson will be to look after gen ehal drilling and military Instruc tion. Rev. Mr. Boozer will pay special attention to the morale and morals ot the men, and Dr. French's specialty is to Instruct in general sanitation and health. . The board will organize the coun ty into districts relative to the reg Istered men, and will arrange for meetings for their instruction. LESLIE W. STANSELL SUCCEEDS SHERIFF The new sheriff of Jackson county is Leslie W. Stansell, who has been serving as chief deputy sheriff under Ralph Jennings' administration. The resignation of Sheriff Jen nlngs, who resigns because of leav ing Sunday to enter the officers training camp at Camp P'lko, Mo., was handed in to the county court last week, and later in the day that board appointed Deputy Stansell as his successor. Jennings' term ex pires January 1st, and Stansell will hold the office until that time. Sheriff Jennings also resigned from the county draft board. It Is understood he recommended that Deputy Sheriff Paul Anderson be appointed as his successor on that board. The appointment to the draft board has not yet been made, and it is not known whether Jennings' rec ommendation will have any effect. Canning Factory Ships Fruit Pits Soldiers are not going without gas masks if Ralph E. Koozer, of Talent, Or., has his way. He is manager of the Bagloy Canning company. He re ports that he has almost 600 pounds of peach pits left from last season, and is ready to ship them for the use of the government in making safety masks to 'protect against the Hun's gas attacks. Nobody will weep for Debs' sen tence. Ten years or thereabouts will give him time to think something ihat he evidently has never done. Enemy Makes Peace Proposals and Asks Allies to name Terms PARIS, Oct. C (Sunday.) Ger many, Austria-Hungary and Turkey have decided to ask President Wll- ,;son, thru neutral representatives of American Interests In thoso coun tries, for a general armistice, prepa ratory to the opening of pence nego tiations, according to a Berne dis patch received here early today. AMSTERDAM, via London, Oct. C Germany, thru her new Imperial chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, tried another peace offensive today. , She lias offered an armistice and peace to the allies. The proposal was made, by the prince In his Inaugural speech before the relchstag. News of It reached here thru dispatches to the newspap er "Tyd" from Its Berlin correspon dent. The prince offered Immediate sus pension of hostilities, and suggest ed that all belligerents send envoys to a neutral place to discuss peace. He asked the allies-to state their terms. Further, the prince proposed that a league of nations, arbitration and disarmament be among the funda mental subjects of discussion at the peace conference. He offered restoration and indem nification of Belgium the first Ger many has offered to Indemnify the outraged little kingdom. Further principal proposals made by the prince In his peace offer were: 1. Autonomy for Alsace-Lorraine. 2. The peace envoys to be em powered to discuss the creation of a federal state of Austria. 3. Self-determination ot the Rus sian frontier states. 4. Return to Germany of all her colonies. Fined $150 For Importing Liquor At the United States court In ses sion In Medford last week Charles F. Snelling, a well known cattleman from near Dorrls, Cal., and his broth er-in-law, D. H. Clinton, a Klamath county rancher, pleaded guilty to the charge of Importing liquor into the state. They were each fined $150 and costs by Judge Wolvertoa. The offense to which Snelling and Clinton pleaded guilty consisted of bringing In from California some time ago two cases of beer for their own use. They were Indicted by the grand Jury in Portland a month or more ago, but were not arraigned until last Wednesday. 4th Liberty Loan Is Slowly Gaining The total amount ot Ashland's Fourth Liberty Loan Voluntary Sub scription Registration up to Satur day night was $144,850 from 894 subscribers. This leaves the sum of $36,850 short of the quota of $181, 600. The Executive Committee for the Ashland District Is up to this time of the opinion that the amount will be forthcoming by the voluntary meth od, and urges all who have not come forth and done their part to do so now. The drastic methods of the state organization can be applied at any time, but the Committee wishes to avoid them it possible to secure the quota. The amount Is now sufficiently close so that with a little effort on the part of the citizens It can easily be brought to the quota. Oil Company Makes Generous Donation The Associated Oil company of San Francisco have annronrlated 3000 of their Fourth Liberty bond subscriptions to Jackson county. Thru the courtesy of their agent, Mr. Hanna, of Medford, $1000 of this amount is allowed to Ashland towards making up its quota. An army cannot march or fight without its home support. Think of what the army is doing In France. Remember that we at home are its support, and subscribe to your limit for the fourth Liberty loan. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 6. Baron Durlan's new pence note states that ell of President" Wilson's points will be nccepted by Austria-Hungary, ac cording to a Vienna dispatch printed by the Frankfurter Zeltung. The dis patch added that the note was to b published Saturday. PARIS, Oct. C; (Sunday.) A pro posal to '"begin without delay" peace negotiations under the basis of the 14 points of President Wilson's message to congress of January 8, the four points of his speech of Feb ruary 12, and also under his declara tions on September 27, has been sent to President Wilson by Austria-Hungary, according to dispatches Just re ceived. The dispatches recite the Korres pondenza Bureau and reproduce a dispatch which it says was transmit ted to President Wilson thru the Swedish government. It quotes the dispatch as follows: "The Austro-Hungarlan monarchy, which has always made a defensive war and has proved many times its wish to end the bloodshed and to conclude an honorable peace, propos es by this message to President Wil son to conclude Immediately with his allies a general armistice on land and on sea and In the air, and to be gin without delay peace negotiations under the basis of the 14 points of President Wilson's message to con gress ot January 8, the four points ot his speech of February 12, and also President Wilson's declarations of September 27." ; Whether or not the armistice re port Is correct, it Is declared offi cially in Washington, the allies will not consider terms of peace until they are made on German ground with a full surrender of arms. City Court Record "Shows Good Resulas The following comparison as to the results of the working of the former recorder's court and ' the present city court might be of Inter est to the people of Ashland. As there was no monthly report re quired of the recorder's court, it Is only by going over the court docket that we find that said court cleared for the city in the way ot fines for the six months ending April 1, 1918, the date of Its demise, $112.00. In the six months of the existence of the city court, which ended October 1, 1918, the receipts show that the amount of monies deposited with the city treasurer and which Is clear for the city, to be $048.00, an average of $112.00 per month. Evidently the establishment ot file city court was no mistake. J The chief of police says that the success ot the court in putting it over the former one was largely due to the fact that In the handling of the complaints made by the police to the court and in success in convic tion thereof, that everything was done promptly and punishment for violation of ordinance administered Justly and sympathetically. Two-thirds of the monies received from fines was for violation of the booze ordinances, much of which was' from men who had Imbibed on Call-1 fornla whiskey on coming from the. south. Ninety-one quarts of whis key, twenty-seven quarts of beer and one quart of wine have been confis cated and poured Into the sewer by order of the court. From what we can leearn there must be something doing most all the time, and It Is done quickly, quietly and successful ly. Lately the court has followed a court proceedure materially dif ferent from the past in regards hearing complaints against minors. Hereafter when a policeman has trouble with a minor becauso the minor violated an ordinance, the court has instructed the police to make the complaint out against the parent or guardian of the erring one, THEREBY MAKING THE PAR ENTS RESPONSIBLE. It Is the hope of the officers that this proceedure will be morally help ful to both parent and child. When a child once learns that his father- or perhaps his mother, will be charged with his or her misdemeanor or crime, It Is to be hoped that they will hesitate a long time before do ing anything that will get him or her In bad with the police. P esident Campbell Favors Normal Bill "In my Judgment, Oregon now needs more normal schools In order to meet the demand for train 'd teachers for tho elementary and grammar school grades," said P. L. Campbell, President of the Univer sity of Oregon, In endorsing a meas uro establishing two additional nor mal schools In Oregon, and which will bo voted on by the pcoplo at the coming general election. Provision Is 'made In tho measure that one of the schools Is to bo locnted at Ash land, and the other In Eastern Oro- gon, the site for tho latter to lie chosen by the Oregon Normal School Board. -Neither school Is to be built until after the war. "The State divides Itself Into three distinct geographical divisions which lend themselves economically to a plan for three additional normal schools, one In Eastern, one In Wes tern, and ono In Southern Oregon," continued President Campbell. "1 have advocated this plan for many years, and am more fully convinced than ever before that it is the right one. "The particular work of the De partment of Education at the Uni versity of Oregon Is that of train ing teachers for the high schools of the state, declared President Camp bell, in saying that it would not be practical for the University to train teachers for the elementary and grammar schools. "All of the train ing given In this department is de signed to prepare for teaching the various subjects offered thru the high school curricula. The teaching practice that Is given to the seniors under the direction ot this depart ment Is given in the high school. No provision Is made for instruction In elementary and grammar school methods. The preparation of teach ers for all grades below the high school Is the distinctive work of the normal schools, and in my Judg ment should be left under their, con trol. "The experience of practically all the states of the Union seems clear ly to indicate that the organization by which the training of high school teachers is assumed by the I'nlver slty, and the training of elementary and grammar school teachers Is as sumed by the normal schools, is the most effective one. Since all teach ers In the public schools should bo required to have training, and since the number runs Into the thousands It has been found that several well organized1 njormal schools in each State constitute the only practicable means of supplying the demand These schools also have the advan tage of bringing the training course home to the student, and of serving as valuable educational centers to the sections where they are located "I sincerely hope that the meas ure pending on the ballot to provld Oregon with two additional Normal schools may carry on November 6 th by a large majority of the electorate of the Btate." Liberty Day to be Observed Saturday Saturday, October 12, is the four hundred and twenty-sixth annlver sary ot the discovery of America President Wilson has proclaimed It Liberty Day and requests the citizens ' every community In the United States city, town, and countryside to celebrate the day. The President, In his proclama tion, says: "Every day the great principles for which we are fighting tafce fresh hold upon our thought and purposes and make it clearer what the end must be and what we must do to achieve It. "We now know more certainly than we ever knew before why free men brought the great Nation and Government we lovo Into existence, because It grqws clearer and clearor what supreme service It Is to be America's privilege to render to the world." U. S. Department Weather Bureau Forecast for the period October 7 to October 12, Inclusive: Pacific coast states: Showers Monday or Tuesday and probably Friday; aea sonable temperature. Its billions for defense or billions for indemnity. Spanish Influenza Reported in City Several cases of that disease known tbruout the country as Spanish In fluenza have been reported In Ash land. Whllo tho epidemic la not prevalent to any great extent, every precaution Is being taken by the phy sicians and loenl board of health to check any spread of tho disease. The so-called Spanish Influenza that haH been particularly prevalent In the cantonments of tho country and has caused lllWs among thous ands of soldiers Is not particularly different from tho epidemics that havo spread over tho country at various times In tho -past. Whllo It is an Infectious disease, It can be con trolled by ordinary precautions, and persons suffering with an attack should be careful about going Into public places and exposing others. Chance Given to Enter Polytechic Until October 12 young men of Oregon may volunteer for induction and entrance Into the next class at the Benson Polytechnic School, In preparation for war duties of a me- chanlcal nature. Volunteers are ac cepted only until a given board's quota Is filled. Entrapment will occur October 15. Only white registrants will be ac cepted. They must have had at least four years of grammar school mechanics. Instruction will be for auto mechanics, blacksmiths, elec tricians, general mechanics, machin ists, carpenters, pipe fitters, radio operators, surveyors and topographi cal draftsmen. Jackson county's quota for this school la tour. Josephine county may send three, Douglas three and Klamath four. Presbyterians Have Secured New Pastor (By H. O. Gllmore.) V The Presbyterian church In this city Is once more on Its ministerial legs, and this time by the coming of the Rev. C. F. Koehler, late of Orcn- co, Ore., a graduate of Bellovue Col- ' lege, Nob. With him are his wife and four sons. The new clergyman has already taken possession of tho1 manse and has created such a good Impression among his newly-acquired congregation by his manly bearing and social good qualities, that all do slre for him years of successful min isterial work in Ashland. Mr. Koehler preached his Initial sermon last evening to a large and appreciative congregation, who rec ognized tho presence ot a pastor thoroly in earnest, with no attempt whatever to appear In the borrowed limelight of reflected glory. The new pastor's sermon was a message on a live subject, well handled. Mow that the vacation season is over and matters generally In Ash land are running In a normal condi tion, It is to be hoped that both In church, Sunday school and choir work strenuous efforts may he mado to have tho" religious affiliation so many consecrnted channels for tho achievement of great beneficial re sults. The officials of the church aro greatly encouraged by the prospects of much work ably done, and invito all who, bo far, have only looked up on the outside of a, consecrated building to step Inside and see what la going on. 4th Liberty Loan Progress Is Slow WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. Official reports of Ll!erty loan subscription gathered by banks up to the close of business last night and compiled lata today by the treasury, showed a to tal ot $1,097,611,650. "While the actual sales thru all agencies probably Is Bomewhat in ex cess of this figure," said the head quarters rovlew, "the results obtain ed in the drive thus far are not high ly encouraging. The campaign now has gone thru seven working days and only twelve more working days remain. Approximately $5,000,000,- 000 in subscriptions still must bo raised If. the total amount asked by Secretary McAdoo Is obtained. The dally average which must be achlev ed between now and October 19 In order to put the loan over the top Is bout $416,000,000.
