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0 n-it '-bmm.f -i Aufllfnrl..- rocwJr. UI4 V ASHLAND CLIMATE WITHOUT THE AID OF riliBDICINB WlW. CURB NINE CASES OUT OF TEN OF ASTHMA. ' ' ' ', TT' MALARIA GERMS OANflOT LIVE THREE MONTHS '. IN THE PURE OZONE AT ASHLAND. OUR PURE WATER HELPS. VOL. XLIII ASHLAND. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1919 NUMBER 20 Adjutant General Inspects Company I of Third Infantry Southern Oregon to ; Entertain Editors Story of Indian , Reformer Related United States Troops Oppose Making War on Bolsheviki ! As BANS DINGS Colonel John L. May, the nlew ad jutant general of the state, came to southern Oregon this week to In spect the new companies of the Na tional Cuard recently organized In Ashland and Medford. Captain H. W. Frame of Company I was noti fied by telegraph of the arrival of the adjutant general, who would vis It Ashland Wednesday night to In spect the newly organized company, so Captain Frame Issued Instructions to the company to repair to the ar mory at 8 o'clock for review. Practically the entire company was' present when Adjutant General May inspected the men, assisted by his aide, Major A. A. Hall and Can tata vFrame of the local company. While the men are virtually new to toe service and were mostly attired In the uniform of the state militia with a few In civilian clothes, they made a fine martial appearance, which promises well for the future standing of the company. After the Inspection Adjutant Gen eral May gave an address to the men In which he stated that he was much pleased with the personnel of Com peny I, and related the position tha National Guard held during the great world war. Out of 18 divisions of the National Guard, 16 served on the fields of France, and were among the pick of the soldiers of the Ameri can army. Ashland claims Adjutant General May for one of her sons, and is right proud of the wonderful record he has borne during the late conflict. As he stated Wednesday night, he started his military career In' Ash land many years ago, when as a member of Company B, Oregon In fantry, he served In the .Philippine campaign during the Spanish-American war. During the world war Col. May commanded the Third Oregon Infantry In France, and has only re turned about a month ago. Shortly after his arrival he was appointed adjutant general of the state, the next highest office to the governor. According to the adjutant general the Third Oregon Infantry of which the local company will belong, is being provisionally organized and will be rapidly pushed to completion. He promised the company that soon as he returns to Portland he will send them uniforms and arms, and some time possibly next month a federal officer will Inspect the com pany and Induct it into the regular army. This will be the only mili tary organization In the state, as at the signing of the peace treaty the stae militia will be mustered out. Non-commissioned officers to com plete the list required were appoint ed at the mooting of the company last Monday night and aH? as fol lows. First sergeant, Vern. V. Mills; mess sergeant, Horatio G. Wolcottr duty sergeant, Pter L. Spencer. Wednesday night the following cor porals were appointed: Herbert G. Eastman, Henry T. Elmore, Paul Guiley, Bert H. Hlnthorne, Elmer 8. Morrison. Later on first class pri vates will be appointed which will conclude the organization of the company. Regular drills will be freld Monday and Tuesday nights of each week and military life around tho Ashland armory promises to be main tained with the same interest that was attached to the old First com pany of th1? Coast Artillery that made such a valiant record during the late war. Portland Is to entertain the Na tlonal Editorial Association which, is coming to the coast next August. The route has Wen arranged over tho northern roads for ths aggregation, both coming and going, but Portland devised the scheme of taking In Southern Oregon in the plans of en tertainment, and has pledged $G0OO for an Excursion to this section and Crater Lake, Medford. Ashland and Grants Pass will divide the honors of entertaining these distinguished guests who will be here August 11, and already the matter is being taken up with the. Commercial Clubs of these cities to devise means of amuse ment and entertainment. . Arrange intents will be made to se cure accommodations for the com paany at Crater Lake. As the inn there will not afford sufficient ac commodations for so large a party, Superintendent Sparrow will do what he can to secure government camp equipment. . - The main auditorium of the Pres byterian church was filled Wednes day evening with an eager and ap preciative; audience which listened for over an hour deeply" moved and interested while Mrs. Rachel Nalder related the tragic and heroic talo of Pandlta Ram&bal. She spoke of the early life and sacrifice and suffering of the great Indian reformer, teach er and leader, and of her Interesting and polile work of rescuing child widows and famine orphans. One check for $15 'was voluntarily con tributed to care for one of these foundlings for one year. Mrs. Naldbr has been on the field amid the scenes she d'tcribea and for about 20 years has been traveling around the world telling her story, and thus bringing many people Into helpful touch with the work of Ramabat She Is an In teresting and entertaining speaker, Those who do not go to hear her will mles a great opportunity. ARCHANGEL, April 9. A com- until appealed to by their regimental Armory Can Be . . . . Hade Attractive 'After the inspection of Company I at the armory last Wednesday eve ning Adjutant General May and MaJ. Hall visited Informally with a num ber of the men and gave them much valuable information In regard to the formation of the company, which, according to the adjutant general, Is the largest one he has inspected In the state. Major Hall gave out the good news to the local company that the armory may be outfitted to make It a com fortable and attractive club house. He said the state will furnish canvas for the floor of the armory on which the company can drill. The board floes- mar then be Dlaned and nol- ish.ed to afford a fine dancing floor. The large room up 6talrs may also he fitted up with easy chairs and pleasant, surroundings for a club room, with a piano and other ap purtenances to mak-o it a delightful recreation spot for the boys to while away their spare time. - Large unused rooms In the base ment afford also many opportunities for further attractions to be addaJ to the armory. A shooting gallery already 'exists there, and there will be plenty of rooms to add other at tractions. When the building is fit ted up In this manner th'e company can rent It for various entertain ments and in this manner can add to the exchequer for other Improvements. PRUNE pOOTIK HAS MADE AX APPEARANCE Prune cooties, ' is the name Robert C. Paulus, manager of the Salem Fruit Union, has given to a new prunie pest which has made its appearance in the district south of Salem, he stated this week. The little bug is described as about the width of a hair and about one-eighth of an inch long. A dozen or mote of the 'insects will attack each blossom on prune trees, eating only the white petals and the damage In some or chards already is considerable, Paul us said. The Instact never has been seen here before. Victory Loan Campaign Opened With Whippet Tank Exhibit The advent of a hues camouflag ed whippet tank traveling the streets of ABhland and doing extraordinary stunts awoke the people in this vicinity to the fact that the Victory Loan campaign had started in this city. The tank Is of American mako and is virtually the same as those manufactured by Franco that did such great action in the trenches In the! Victory Campaign Planned in County Company I to Drill Monday Night Only t Owing to the company of the Na tlojnal Guard meeting, three times this week, only one drill will he held next 'week. This will , be Monday night, at which a full attendance Is urged. None will , be hold Tuesday night of next week. According to the statement given out by Adjutant General May Wednesday the officers of Company I will not have to go to Portland for examinations, especial ly those who have held commissions In the National Guard or United States army. '." ; , : From present Indications no en- ...til K 1. 1 A K .. 41.1. ' tapuijjuieub win t-c iioiu uj uic na tional Guard this year. William F. Stilz of Portland, field manager for the Victory Loan campaign , in Southern Oregon, has been visiting the various towns in this vicinity and organizing the field A meeting was held Wednesday af ternoon In Medford when the county organization was perfected with W. N. Campbell as- county chairman. Jackson county's quota will be de termined, and tne committees se lected for the drive to commence April 21. O. Winter has been suggested to act as Ashland's chairman of Ash land's committee, and if he Is pre vailed upon to accept his helpers will be selected In a short time. Altho the rate of Interest of the new five-year loan has not been es tablished, It was made known at the meeting Wednesday that It would not be under four and thrae-quarters. E. V. Carter and V. O. N. Smith represented Ashland at the meeting In Medford Wednesday. world war. It was exhibited here by Private C. C. Liklns' of Portland, whoso wonderful war record granted him th9 crolx de guerre with palm given by a. grateful French nation for his bravery at the front. He was assisted by' Sergeant Chas. 'O. Hendershot from an eastern tank training school, and Corporal Leo C. Alden, recently from overseas.. The- mien who were to exhibit the tank' In Ashland arrived here Wed nesday, but the tank did not ma terialize until yesterday,' so the ex hibit had to be postponed until 4:30 yesterday afternoon. Tho fire whis tle on the city hall announced its ar rival and by th'a time the unwieldly looking machine arrived at the Plaza a large crowd had 'congregated to vSew this dhath-deallng Implement of war. At the gathering on the Plaza where the tank was Inspected the as semblage listened to enthusiastic Vic tory Loan addresses given by E. V. Carter and Supt. 0. A. Briscoe, after which Private Likinc told his experi ence in the tank service In France. A demonstration was then given of hill-climbing by the tank, which was taken to the rear of the Hargrove "absent without leave" from his com manding officer. On November 1, Liklns landed In France with a tank corps unit, left his company without permission and pushed on into the interior by. auto truck and train, begging a lift from a lorry here and there and walking miles of the dis tance. - On the night of November 5, Lik lns came' upon an American unit In the Argonne forest, picked out the tank corps section and attached him self to It. "These were the whippet tanks, carrying two men,' said Lik lns, "and the only one that I could "tt wasn't manned needed a gunter'on. It,' so 1 climbed on. Away we went and in the next three days I went over the top three times Three drivers were killed on my tank right alongside of me, during those three days." And on the last day the tank got in one of the Huns' slimy shell hole3 from which. It could not be extri cated and tho men bad to abandon the sputtering little sister of the Berthas, remove the machine gun and "carry on" with the gun, about 150 yards in advance of the infantry. But the -sharpshooters were work ing well that day and Liklns' buddy wart shlttt. It was impossible for him to carry the heavy gun alone and go so back toward the main body of the advancing Americans he started. It was for the bravery shown In ad vancing the machine gun fire after the tank was abandoned that Liklns was awarded the crolx de guerre, to which was added the palm for car rying a wounded soldier to a first pany of American troops recently showed some hesitation in returning to tho fighting front south of Arch angel, declaring that the war with Germuny was over and that the United States was not at. war with the Bolslievikl. The regimental com mander, In a epeech, said that they were fighting a desperate defensive battle, and appealed to them to stick It out. The company then left for the front. The situation arose when the com pany named was ordered back to the front after a rest period at Archan gel. The officers were Informed that the men did not want to go to the front again. They asked to have their arguments answered. The mon contended that they were draft men selected for the war with Germany, which was finished now, that America was not at war with the Bolslievikl, that the entire Bolslievikl situation was the subject of much political debate and Indecision In the United States and that so far as they were concerned, they were un able to see why they should be fight ing If there was no war. The regimental commander said that, perhaps, their own lives de pended on the fighting on this front and then' made his successful appeal, reciting to the men traditions of the American army, " WASHINGTON. April 10. An of ficial report to the war department on dlij'ontent among American troops in northern Russia is under stood to contain about the ' samo facts related In the Associated Press despatches received! Itodity describ ing the unwillingness of an American company to return to the firing line commander. iRonattyr Johnson of California, Republican, In a statement today re newed his denunciation of continued American participation in the fight ing around Archangel and cited thttt situation as a parallel of what might happen under a League of Nations. "This Is not a question of Bolshe vlsm or of fighting the horrible doc trines of Lenino and Trotsky," ho said. "This Is waging a war with American blood on a foreign soil a war undeclared by America but de creed by a foreign council. It points concretely to tho League of Na-tlons." ARCHANGEL, April 9. In vlow of the situation which has developed among the American troops In Arch angel, official circles are Impressed with the necessity of promptly re lieving the American soldiers who now are In north Russia. The soldiers haVd interpreted the Washington statement that they would be relieved at tho earliest mo ment possible as meaning not later than June first, which Is the time they believe navigation. at Archangel probably will be open and while out of a spirit of loyalty to their officers and to American traditions they ex press a willingness to stick It -out until that date, they ana exceedingly reluctant to go to the front and risk their lives. This incident was only the outcrop ping of'what seemg to be the general feellnf among the AnVerican troops. officers as well as men. Because of this feeling, it is admitted more or less .generally that the troops now here probably will be of little use after June 1. STIU KE I XSURAXCE MAY HE WRITTEN" IX STATE ' Insurance ,. companies writing fetrlke insurance are expecjed to 1 matfe their appearance In Oregon before long. Just how soon depends unon the progress made In that branch of Insurance In the Eastern states. Insurance Commissioner Harvey Wells yesterday recelvej an inquiry from an Eastern company asking If this class of insurance in permitted under the Oregon laws, and a scrutiny of tho Insurance laws of the state shows that It Is not barred. Contract Let For ; Concrete Garage Washington Man Dies Aboard Train lot on East Main street where It aid station under fire, climbed and descended the 25-footJ The palm, conferred with the crol embankment. : Tn mafdng th de scent Sergeant Hendershot struck his GERMANY MUST PAY 5 KILLIOX DOLLARS - The preliminary peace treaty will require Gtermany to make an Imme diate indemnity payment on ac count of 25,000,000,000 francs or $5,000,000,000 In cash and raw ma terials, according to the Echo de Paris. The treaty, It declares, will not leave uncertain the total amount which Germany Is to , pay, as that amount will be written Into the docn meitt. head against the turret of the tank and was painfully Injured. He was taken to Poley's drug store where first aid was given to him, and wa3 afterward admitted to a local hos pital for a few days'" treatment. Prlvlte Liklns Is the young mnn who passed thru Ashland two weeks ago accompanying the Victory trophy train and explaining the workings of the French tank aboard. He has been detailed to exhibit this tank oil along the road to Portland, starting out from Ashland. His career In the war reads like a romance. He is one of the very few, if not the only man, who won the rlghest military deco ration of the French army, while de guerre, carries the significance of a second cross, and ranks with the Victoria Cross, the highest military award granted by any of the allies Before Likins reached his regl ment a shell exploded beside him and five days later he recovered con sciousness In a base hospital at Lan gres, France. His skull was frac tured, he had been gassed, h had a dislocated shoulder and his right teg was broken. It was while still In the hospital at Langres that Liklns was decorated December 23. Last evening the tank was driven underl its own power to Medford for exhibition today, after which it will travel north on the train, stopping at all the larger towns along the California Asked, to Drop Jap Bill When you think of GcmhI Paint, think of the Carson-Fowler Lumber Co. . . . i ' 20-tf ' SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 10. A decision not to press to an lmme diate vote the report, of the senate rules committee denying him permis sion to Introduce a bill preventing Japanese leasing (agricultural land in California, was reached by Sena tor Inman In the midst of debate on his demand for a record vote of the senate on the report. ' Inman demahdod a vote on the report following the reading of a caMegrara from Secretary -Lansing saying "it would be particularly un fortunate" to have the bill introduc ed at this time. , Inman stopped the debate by re questing that further consideration of the report be continued until 8:30 o'clock this afternoon. He said there were "reasons for the request" which be "could not ex plain at this time" but that he "par ticularly desired" to have the action deferred temporarily. A cablegram from Secretary of State Robert. Lansing, from Franse, states that It would be extremely un- rortunat to Introduce the anti-Japanese measure In the California legis lature at this time. James Harklns, of Cl'e Wash,, aged 60 years, died on hoard train No. 15 Tuesday evening while on his way from his home to San Diego, Cal. Mr. Harklns became suddenly 111 on the train, and arose from his seat, presumably In an ef fort to gain the train platform, when he dropped In the aisle. He was helped back to his seat, but ex pired almost immediately wlthput re gaining consciousness. Coroner M. E. Rltter was notified and the body was removed from the train here.' A search of the dead A contract was signed yfstday" tiiornlng by Mrs. R. P. Neil ant. Miss Attn. Hargrove for. the erecttan of'a handsome garage on the lot east of the First Notional bank am th'e cor ner of East Main strfcet and South ' Pioneer avenue. This new building will occupy one of the finest vacant building sites In Ashland, and the ' owners expect to erect a structure that will Ike an ornament to the cltv' A. L. Lamb has secured the1 con tract for the erection of this build ing, which will be of reinforced con crete finished in white content. The dimensions of tho garage will be 6 ' feet on Main street and 100 feet on Pioneer, with a truss roof, giving n I clear floor space without pillars or Elum, j PBts. An entrance and an exit will lie made from Main street affording cars an opportunity to leave the building without hocking out. The structure will be In the old mission type, low and massive and will bo particularly adapted to that site. , Coniltractor Lam,t has purchaffcd the lumber In tho old Park Hotel which ho has lieen tearing down dur ing the past week, and will use 't for the form work of the new garage. He will takb out all the lumber and material for use and will clear away the rulirblsh and debris surrounding the plot of tho old building In order to allow the grounds to be put In mon'a 'aflWfa far iha nnrnnnA Of finding his Identity disclosed a bonk ' -..--h- - book on which was written the name opo"8, ' - of James Harkens. Two $100 Llher-j ; ty bonds and $500 In travelers cheques were also found. A telegram wtos immediately sent to the Cle Elum bank for Information as to the disposition of the body. KLAMATH FALLS WILL DEDICATE RAILROAD The Klamath Falls municipal rail road to Dairy will be formally dcdl cated at thiol Elks convention to be held In Klamath Falls August HI and a special excursion will bo run to Dairy for the benteflt of the visitors. At a meeting of the city council, Robert E. Strahorn, the builder, of fered to conduct this excursion with out expense to the city. His offer was quickly accVpled and the city wll co-operate with the Elks lodge n, arranging the details. Ideal logglns and snake proof leather llufcd puttees, at Mitchell's. Schools Plant Trees For Fallen Heroes Commencement day at many col leges will havfa for part of the pro. gram this year the planting of me morial trees In honor of former stu dents who gave their lives or offered their lives to their country lu tlw World War. Arbor Day will be more widely marked this year than ever before, because of memorial tree planting. Globe summer union suits. They stand the rub. Mitchells. . i -! Portland Representatives et sev en coast counties organize publicity campaign for Roosevelt highway pro ject carrying $2,500,000 bond issue for financing the highway. ; . '