M alaria germa cannot i
survive three months j
in ths rich ozone at!
Ashland.
The pure
domestic w ater helps.
A shland D aily T idings
Ashland climate, with-1
out the aid of medi-f
I cine, cures nine cases
i out of ten of asthm a.
| This is a proven fact.
(International News Wire Service)
VOLUM E 3 «Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Voi. 43)
ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1921
No.
4 4
6 KILLED IN OREGON TRAIN WRECK
Ashland Delegation To Receive
JURY EXPECTED,
Marshal Foch; 20 Minute Stop OF 0,W. TRAINS
Epy
TWO JAILED FOR
JACKSONVILLE, Or., Dec. 1.— I
The jury in the trial of Jam es
(Shine) Edw ards charged with vio
lation of the prohibition law began
its deliberations at 10:10 o’clock
yesterday morning, and at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon was still out. A
jury in a previous trial disagreed.
I t is the general opinion around
the court house th a t no verdice
MEDFORD, O r, Dec. 1.— On
would be reached iu the present
w arrants sworn out by Gus Larson,
case.
the forem an of the camp, Mose Hall,
At the reconvening of the circuit
aged about 42, ana Anton Olsen,
court the afternoon previous, ^ rs' age J about 19, who were arrested on
F rankie Edw ards took the witness guspicion of being the two bandits
stand and corroborated the te^ti- who held up and robbed the poker
mony of the dafendant, Edw ards, Pa rty Players at th e cement quarry
at Gold Hill last Friday night, were
and other defense witnesses regard
arraigned in Justice Taylor’s court
ing the appearance of one Joe Kidd
in this city Tuesday afternoon.
in front of the house a t 129 North
Hall is part owner and operator
C entral street, Medford, with a
of a placer claim near Gold Hill, and
package which he handed Special
Olsen is also from the Gold Hill
Ambassador to 6000 Garment
Austria Named; Workers Leave
RenewRelations Chicago Shops
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1.-
The form al resum ption • of diplo-
m atic relations w ith A ustria was
announced by the state departm ent
today, when A rth u r F razier was
named as charge d’ affairs a t the
American embassy a t Vienna.
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CHIC4GO, Dec. 1.— Six thossand
garm ent w orkers stru ck today H.n
protest against the installation of
the piece work system. The work-
ers protest th a t the piece work sys-
tem would mean partial idleness
during slack times of business.
S. WiU Aid
Adjustment Of
Money Exchange
WASHINGTON, D. C«, Dec. 1.— I
The United States has accepted the
A gen t G ate,.
From (h e tjm e o f the hold. invitation, extended by the repara- j
S. Stevens,
. up it was generally held th a t local', lions commission to attend the con-
Goodwin were then called as
’ men were guilty of perpetrating th e 'fe re n c e to consider the stabilization
nesses for the defense and gave tes robbery. The charge against Hall of the international money exchange
timony contradictory to th at of the
and Olsen is r o b b e r y while being in connection with the m a tte r of
witnesses for the prosecution
arm ed with a dangerous weapon. German rep aratio n ^p ay m en t, Secre
The prosecution then called as
Their hearing was set for Friday tary of the Treasury Mellon an
witnesses Mrs. Boardman and herj
afternoon at 2 o’clock, and the bail nounced today.
daughter, who own the house on
of cash was set at $2500. Hall fu r
N orth C entral streret where K idd
nished bail. A ttorney George Cod- STORM AGAIN HITS
room s and who w'ere at home the
NORTH; TELEGRAPH
a , / d i n g acted as special sta te ’s attor-
e n tire evening when Kh^d lis
LINES AR E DOWN
, '7, .
ney at the arraignm ent,
leged to have delivered the liquor, Í,
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Gus Larsen and several of the
to Gates. They testified th a t Kidd
Reports from the local telephone
other men who were robbed posi-
was not at home at the hour of the
; tively identify the two men under office and the W estern Union tele
alleged delivery.
arrest as the robbers, despite the graph office this afternoon indicate
Several character witnesses w ere1
fact th a t the la tte r had th eir faces th at the northern part of the state
called by the prosecution and testi- |
is again gripped in the throes of a
masked with handkerchiefs.
fied unfavorably to the reputation
The robbery is described as fol aw inter storm . Telephone cojnmuni-|
for tru th and veracity of Billie D00-;
cation from Ashland to points north !
lows:
ley and F rankie Edwards. W itness-;
Two masked and arm ed bandits of Albany has been cut off, it was
es who were called by the prosecu
Both th e Postal and Wes-
entered Stagger Inn. boarding house stated
tion to testify to the reputation of
ern
Union
telegraph companies are
I of the Portland Cement company’s
the defendant were not allowed to
quarry at Zacher Friday night and unable to give service beyond G rants
testify by the court.
According to inform ation
broke up a poker game. W hile one Pass.
from
the
Postal Telegraph company i
bandit kept the men covered after
wire
trouble
twelve miles beyond j
NEW PLANET DISCOVERED
they 'w ere ordered to take th eir
stand along the walls, the other col- G rants Pass will be speedily rem e
• BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 1.— The lected the money. Gus Larsen re died, and service will be ‘ as usual”
discovery of a new planet in the ported th a t $500 he had put out of by late this afternoon. The telephone
group of asteroids which revolve be- sight was spared. The hold-up men company is encountering slight dif
tween the orbits of Jupiter and Mars h u rried their operations, one leav- ficulties near G rants Pass
Rain fell in Ashland most of the
was announced by Dr. H artm ann, lug through a window with about
forenoon,
the total precipitation up
director of the observatory of the $65, while the other backed out the
U niversity of La Plata.
door. Some shots were fired, but to noon being one-half inch, Accord
The planet is of the fourteenth no trace of the robbers has been ing to Louis Dodge, local w eather
observer. At noon the streets were
m agnitude, and is seen at present found
flooded, to rren ts of turbid water
from this latitude in the constella-
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pouring down th e gutters from the
tion of Cetus, which lies south of One-half Inch Rain
—
the “ Great Square” of Pegasus, now
One-half inch of rain fell today, hillsides and into the drains. The
rain continued interm ittently until
visible in the evening sky.
up to noon
3 o’clock, considerably increasing
the precipitation. More or less wind
accompanied the rainstorm , but lit
tle damage has been reported. Com
paratively high tem peratures pre
vailed, the result being to decrease
the snow in the m ountains.
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'T h ere Is no intention f t inter-
FOCH TO SPEAK
To double the m erchant’s ek-
p^nse for advertising w ithout in
creasing his business, in its ef
fort to “ get back” at the Tidings,
is the long suit of tlie Ashland
Chamber of Commerce manage
ment. As soon as it was known
th at the Tidings would print a
fine W inter F air edition of the
daily, Fuller and his Chamber of
Commerce backers at once got
busy to get out whaV they called
the “ official” W inter F a ir pub
lication, in the hope of deflecting
business from the Tidings. The
“ secretary' quickly hiked out to
Medford y id made arrangem ents
there to Ijave his “ official” pub
lication printed, and began to
pound the Ashland m erchants on
the back for advertisem ents to
pay the expense. In the mean
time, the m erchants wanted to
patronize the Tidings big effort
because such an issue would be a
good advertisem ent for Ashland,
a n d they felt th a t such “ home”
efforts should be patronized.
R esult: The m erchants paid
twice as much for advertising as
they would have done had the
Cham ber of Commerce desired
to patronize Ashland instead of
Medford industries. Yet, they say
“ By Ashland trade is A shland
made ” Well, I ’ll be darned if
th a t isn’t going some. W onder if
Ashland m erchants won’t get sick ? In spite of the very light crop I association is handling about fifty-
fering w ith private affairs ok to
of th a t pretty soon.
act as a collection agency. P ost
of apples in the eastern and middle five car of apples this year, nearly
HAZ
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all of which w'ere consigned to a
m asters will scrutinize and investi
western states, dealers have encoun
New York dealer, who advanced $1
gate carefully each case reported to
tered difficulty in moving the north per box on each car shipped. This
them, and when convinced of its
western apple crop, due to the de dealer has_handled Ashland apples
genuineness will make such inquir
G rants Pass, Ore., Dec. 1.— Al
pressed prices of farm crops and for several years, paying last year
ies of other postm asters as the cir bert Borde, 60, of Jacksonville, is
unsatisfactory business conditions. | $2 a box for the bulk of the crop,
cum stances may w arrant, and ad lying at the point of death as the re
generally, according to A. C. Briggs,¡A ll these apples go out under a la-
vise the interested relative or sult of his falling into a vat of boil
m anager of the Ashland F ru it and bel on which “ A shland” is the mos>
friend.”
ing w ater Sunday—afternoon w’hile
Produce association. This organiza-j prom inent w'ord, resulting in much
helping a neighbor scald hogs. Mr.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 1.— tion, which is composed of local j favorable advertising for this region,
W INTER ROAD M AP P R E P A R E D Brode has a rope around the car-
A. W. Thomas, whose ranch is
SALEM, Or., Dec. 1.— A so-called cass of a hog and was dragging it to- Six arm ed men w ith, shojguns held growers, has given orchardists a;
b
etter
deal
than
they
have
been
able
about
eight miles east of Ashland
w inter map of the Pacific highway ward the vat when the rope slipped I up the A rgonaut mine a t Jackson
for the season 1921-1922 has been i causing him to topple over backward today, blew open the safe and es- to obtain elsewhere. A Medford on the highway, raised the largest
caped in an automobile. Their loot dealer obtained on consignm ent, and finest crop of apples in this
prepared by the state highway de- into the w ater,
partm ent
The maps will be dis- i
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consisted of gold bullion worth $65,- about fifteen cars of Ashland ap- district this year, in the opinion of
000, according to the- report re pies, for which a cash advance was I Mr. Briggs, who says th a t Mr. Thom-
tributecJ throughout the en tire state. Parent-Teachers Meeting— y
made only sufficient to cover pick- j as brought in over 6000 boxes, moat
The map shows th e conditions of
The Parent-T eachers’ association ceived here.
ing and packing charges, according ly Newtowns, of most excellent ap-
the roads from P ortland to the Cali will hold th eir reg u lar business
to one of the growers whose apples pies
This orchardist combines
fornia line, together with many of m eeting a n d program this evening at I DEADLOCK OF IR ISH AND
the highways connecting w ith the the Ju n io r high school a t 7:30
BRITISH PEACE CONFERENCE were handled by this dealer. An- • dairying with fruit growing and
other Ashland orcharcKst consigned makes a success of both businesses,
main tru n k route. Two editions of o’clock this evening. The principal
th e map have been issued, one for speaker will be E. E E lliott, direc
LONDON, Dec. 1.— E ither a dead two or three carloads of apples to Marsh W agner, whose orchard is in
pocket reference, and the other for to r of the state vocational educa lock or th e complete suspension of a different Medford dealer, who ad the Valley View district, had about
posting in offices. The approved tional system, who will talk on a the Irish peace conference now ap vanced 75 cents per box on the ship the same-sized crop of apples th is
year, hut was not so successful in
routes and th e ir condition are “ Man’s W ay of Looking a t Home- pears Inevitable, th e Standard An ment,
The Ashland F ru it and Produce t com batting the codling moth.
shown.
m aking.”
nounced today*
I
Postoffice Department to Aid
National Searches for Missing
Thousands Who Disappear
The post office departm ent in ad-i
dition to its other m ultifarious d u
ties, has now added a hum anitarian
and sentim ental feature— th a t of
having its many thousands of em
ployes aid in locating missing peo
ple. Postm aster K aiser has ju st re
ceived the following order from
W ill H. Hays, postm aster general,
which has been sent to all post
m asters:
" It is my wish th a t the machinery
of the postal service be placed at
th e disposal of those searching for
loved ones who have dropped from
sight. Every year thousands in this
country are reported missing; chil-
dr en, young men, young women,
husbands and wives, some never to
be heard of again by th eir distressed
fam ilies and friends. The post of
fice departm ent w ith its organized
facilities, reaching into every corner
of the land may be of practical serv
ice to the distressed.
Therefore,
they are willingly offered for this
purpose.
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 1.— Six
were killed and twenty-two injured,
early this morning, when trains sev
enteen and twelve, of the Oregon-
W ashington main line, collided head
on near Celilo, ninety-six miles east
| of Portland.
i The dead are: C. J. Y arbrough,
; porter, train seventeen; Mrs. J. W.
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! Wallin, Amity, Or.; A. H McBride,
M arshal Foch, commander of the m arine §uard on train twelve: Ja<*
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, . ‘ Cole, McMinnville, O r ; L. J. K irk,
victorious allied arm ies in the world Joseph Qr . afld George Bristow>
war, will pass through Ashland to- firemani train seventeen.
morrow forenoon on hi3 special;
Of the injured, R. J. Fry, Hepp
ner, Or.; Firem an Thompson, train
twelve;
and
Engineer G ardner,
train seventeen, are the only ones
seriously hurt.
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The collision occurred at 12:30
o’clock this morning, two miles east
of Celilo. Train twelve, due to a
washed out bridge at Eagle creek on
the Oregon side of the Columbia riv
er, was routed over the Spokane,
Portland and Seattle line, when it
left P ortland at 7:30 o'clock last
night. It crossed the Columbia riv
er at Fallbridge and was proceeding
eastw ard on its own tracks on th e
Oregon side, when it rammed into
seventeen, then nine hours late. It
is believed th at the detouring of the
X l
Oregon-W ashington trains caused a
V
confusion of train orders and the
collision.
It was unofficial!^- re
ported th a t train twelve was not
notified th a t the delayed seventeen
was ahead of It.
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The trains collided with such
force th at the locomotives were
wedged together. Two coaches from
MAESHAL FOCH each train were wrecked. Relief
workers, including a score of nurses,
train. Railroad officials report the; I were rushd on board a special train
train will leave Portland tonight at from The Dalles.
11 o’clock a n d wrtl probably reach
After doing all the work possible
Ashland about noon tomorrow. The at the scene of the wreck, the work
American Legion reports th a t the ers took the dead and injured to
train will reach Medford at 8:50 The Dalles The injured were later
o'clock tomorrow morning, and will
brought to Portland.
probably be at Ashland by 10 o’clock
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The roundhouse and fire whistles KLAMATH CO. BUCKAROO
will be blown when the train leaves
BOUND OVER FOR T H E F T
Medford, giving people ample tim e
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to reach the railroad station. A | MEDFO r D, Or., Dec 1 .- L e s t e r
I twenty m inute stop will be made in Hixon & buckar0Q we,j known ia
this city.
Jackson and K lam ath counties, was
The special train, which consists bound over to the grand jury in
of six cars and carries many noted ju stice Taylor’s court Tuesday in
-persons, will be met at the South- $ jooo bond, which he furnished, on
i ern Pacific company station by rep- tbe charge of the larceny of a horse
resentatives of the American Legion, belonging to S. T. Howard J r , front
the G. A. R., city officials and th e itb e Open range near Given’s ranch
north of the city.
(Continued on Page 4)
Ashland Apples Hold Up Well
In Eastern Markets; Ass’n Is
Aid
* I to Growers; Ship 55 Cars •
Jacksonville Hog
Tender Is Scalded
At Point of Death
Robbers Loot
Mine of $65,000
Gold Bullion