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.