a BHLAND climate, without the aid
« * of medicine, cures nine cases
•u t of ten of asthma. This Is a
Proven fa ct
A shland D aily T idings
(International News Wire Service)
VOLUM E
3
jyiALARIA germi WMftSi iervlve
three months In the fl$h OSQne
at Ashland. The pure domestic wa­
ter helps,
(Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Voi. 43)
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1922
FARM-LABOR BLOCS TO CONTROL POLITICS
Convict Tells of
3 "Love Murders"
Thrilling Tales of
Life in Hear East
FACES PERIOD
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 20.—
Three mysterious slayings, in two
of which women were the victims,
may be solved by the confession th at
County Prosecutor Edward C. Stan­
ton announced William Anderson
had made to him and Captain of D e-1 By ROBERT STARR THORNBURG
tectives George M attowitz from a
T
8 0 SAYS GOVERNOR HARDING state penitentiary cell late Saturday
'
S' Special Correspondent
OF TH E FE D E R A L R ESER V E night.
CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., Feb. 20.
Anderson confessed to the killing Sixty-three years ago John Brown,
BOARD IN H IS ANNUAL R E­
of Miss Gretchen Brandt, Mrs. Elsie • a L°litionist, was hanged to a sour
PORT TO CONGRESS TODAY.
K reinbring, and Santa Lommachio. a PPle tree in the courthouse yard of
In each case the prisoner, who is 45, Charlestown for treason against the
E rasin g o f Credit, More Confident said he killed “ for love.”
United States government.
F e e lin g in Investm ent M arket and
Miss Brandt was beaten and stab­
In April, 1922, two hundred men
Broader P lan s o f B u siness G ener­ bed in her apartm ent in J a n u a ry ,! charged with treason against the
1921; Miss K reinbring was choked to government of W est Virginia, and
a lly Cited a s Favorable F actors.
death on a lonely road in September, other offenses, • will be put on trial
1918, while Santa Lommachio met • here as the result of the arm ed
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 20.—
his death by being hurled from n march of miners last August,
The United States faces a period of bridge in February, 1919.
I The trial of John Brown was one
prosperity of longer duration than
Stanton said the prisoner had told of the ‘ fifteen famous tria ls” fof
th e country has ever known in its him th a t he had loved both women I American history. That of the Unit­
history— a period m arked by sane ¡and wanted in tu rn to m arry each ed Mine W orkers’ officials and their
business methods— Governor H ard -¡b u t could not divorce his wife. T h e ' followers will probably be one of the
ing of the federal reserve board said man slain, he said, had been disposed most rem arkable industrial hearings
in his annual report to congress to- of for strolling with another of the | of modern history.
day.
prisoner’s loves.
Comparing the two cases there is a
H arding’s diagnosis of the nation’s
queer sim ilarity. Brown, a N orther­
business conditions and business
ner, with Theodore P ark er and other
prospects was linked with a review
famous abolitionists, hatched
of the finances which show th a t the
scheme to establish a free negro col­
country has about reached the end
ony in the Virginia m ountains, where
of deflation.
slave liberating forays could be made
E rasing of credit, a more confident
J into the surrounding country.
feeling In the investm ent m arket and
October G, 1859, with 19 comrades
broader plans of business generally
John Brown captured a United States
were cited to congress as favorable
arsenal. Two days later he was
factors now in evidence.
(By International News Service)
wounded and taken prisoner by fed­
LONDON, Feb. 20.— Mormonism eral forces commanded by Robert
is under fire in London, and weird E. Lee
U. 8. CIVIL SERVICE
tales of conditons in those sections,
Brown was convicted of treason in
COMMISSION WANTS
of the United States where the Mor- the historic Charlestown court house
ASSISTANT SURGEON
¡rnons have settled are edifying the and banged December 2. 1859. His
ox *
,
.
English newspaper readers at their body was taken to an old farm house
The United States civil se rv ic e :.
x a ,
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q
breakfast tables,
near North Elba, Jefferson county,
commission announces an acting as- i „ .
,,
sistan t surgeon examination to fill
P er’odical,y London new spapers, where to this day his grave is m arked
vacancies in the position of acting ° P,en ' re ap° " tbe M° rmOn ’« ’^ " - ¡ b y a huge rock.
, * *
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a lies in England, and for a few
Affair Created Sensation
assistant surgeon, at $480 a year, ■ . o
.
for part time, to »2400 and »3000 a
demand their expulmon from
The affair created a sensation
year for fnll time. United Staten pnb- \
C
„OU,n try - The
com- throughout the north, and while
* °"
and the sympathy was not with Brown for
lic health service, thronghont the
service district- re- new3I>a Pers conducting the siege his treason against the government,
Eleventh
„ ceipt
- int of
rtf applications
onniinoft « to
f close
i
m
. '. have made
M arch
... frantic demands th at the it gave rise to a famous war son
18 1922
¡home office deport all Mormons in which goes:
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,
England, m aking serious charges.
“John Brown’s body lies a-moulder-
For fu rth er inform ation and ap-
O1
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vi
,
.
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xv
“ White Slave Secrets of the Mor-
ing in the grave,
pl,cation blank apply to the secre-
tary. local board of civil service ex-
J nvaslon
311,1 other alluring But his soul goes marching on.’
hmnlinnn
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Trial of the union miners was
am iners, a t any first or second class j headlines catch the newspaper read­
ers’
attention,
but
of
chief
interest
transferred from Logan to Jeffer-
post office, or to the secretary. Elev­
in London are Ihej soa county on plea
the m,nera th>,
enth United States civil service dis­ for Americans
we,rd
s
to
n
e
,
ot
Utah.
W
rite
r,
of
t
h
e
.
,
hey
could
get
„
ta
|r and ,
trict, 303 Post Office building, Seat­
most
exciting
movie
scenarios
have
tta
,
tria
,
ln
Logan
[or
, he reaBon,
tle. W ash.'
been outdone by the w riters on L o n -j,h at moat
the ellglble JurorB h a„
iTeht ™ i T ? era; .
descrlbe<i taken up arm s against the m iners’
night raids by Mormons on western ¡armv
"inches^ and fights between Mor-j The
march was
i
mons who were carrying oU th e . H arnie.. w Va
Augua, Q[
women folks of ranchers, and m ount­
year.
Before the au thorities real-!
ed cowboys.
ized what had happened a big arm y
Salt Lake City is described as a
started a march toward Logan, with
den of iniquity, entirely in the
the avowed intention of unionizing
V E R SA ILL ES, K y., Feb. 2 0 .— clutches of the Mormons, and there
the coal fields there.
Twenty m asked men held up th ree have even been descriptions of pre-
On federal intervention the min-
guards a t the Old Pepper distillery cautions taken by the Mormons to
n e ar heve today and escaped with Prevent the escape of women from
( Continued on Page Four)
th re e large truckloads of bottled ®alt Lake.
-Jfhiskey. The loot was estim ated to
Though taunted on all sides by
he w orth betw een 8 3 0 ,0 0 0 and $ 4 0 ,- m ost sensational statem ents, the
OOO at b o o tleg g ers’ prices.
heads of the Mormon church in Lon-j
NEW YORK, Feb. 2 0 .— W illiam don have been unwavering and have
R u sse ll, a bank m essenger, was held confined their replies to the simple i
up and robbed o f 9 2 2 ,0 0 0 by th ree statem ent t h a t polygamy is
no(
d arin g m otor bandits sh ortly before lonKer practiced by those of the Mor-
:
noon today.
P ed estrian s w atched mon faith-
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If
th e op erations under th e im pression
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th a t it w as a “m o v ie” plot being CRUDE Oil« ON BEACH
film ed.
CAUSES SPECULATION
J
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2 0 .— Soldiers
from th e garrison here report th at
BANDON, Or., Feb. 20.__The
order lias been esta b lish ed a t Ixta- presence of large quantities of what:
palpa a fter a clash betw een m em bers is thought to be an asphaltum or
o f th e agrarian and labor parties, in crude oil extending along the high
JNtiieh three w ere k ille d and 3 0 tideline on the beach between Floras
w ounded. Ixtapalapa is four m iles lake south of Bandon and Cape Ara-
sou th o f M exico City.
'go. near the mouth of Coos bay, first
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discovered several days following the
LONDON, F eb. 2 0 .— B ritish Coin- recent earthquake shocks, is the
m ission cr B aker w as attack ed , and cause of much speculation here. It
th ree p olice k ille d and th ree w ound- is believed th at the quake may have
ed w4ille d isp ersin g a forbidden [ rent the bed of the ocean at some Ö
m eetin g o f N a tio n a lists at Sylhet, point and allowed a subterranean
th e Irish o ffic e at D ublin announced channel to force oil to the surface.
|
today.
Several local men form erly em-
-"■■■ •
ployed in the California oil fields.
upon examination of the substance
found, declare it to be crude oil that
had not been through a refinery.
A nother theory has been advanced
th at the oil may have been lost from
ia passing vessel, but local steamship
pilots declare to spread oil over a
territo ry of more than 20 miles to
the extent found here would require
more oil than one steam er could
D U BLIN ,
Feb. 2 0 .— L ieuten ant
Mead o f th e B ritish m iltary force«
w as k illed , a B ritish sergeant and,
tftree civ ilia n s w ere w ounded in an
affray in D ublin suburb« la te today,
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______
W ASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2 0 .—
T h e h o u se passed th e resolution . 2 8 0
to 3 « , exten d in g th e p resen t three
per cent restrictive im m igration law
from Ju n e 8 0 , 1 0 2 2 to Ju n e 80, 1023.
carry.
Filled with thrilling remlnscences
of those dark days when the streets
of Urumia ran red with blood of
Russian officers, following the down­
fall of the Slavic army, Mrs. E. T.
Allen, of W alla Walla, W ash., where
Mr. Allen is a member of W hitman
university faculty, is speaking in
and around Portland this month in
the interest of Oregon’s work for the
Near E ast relief.
For several years Mr. and Mrs. Al­
len were stationed at Urumia, Persia,
12 miles from the Turkish border,
and th eir bedroom windrows were
veritable box seats for tragedies
staged in one long continuous per­
formance in the streets below. When
the Bolshevik! had killed off Rus­
sian officers and royalty and the re­
gime settled down to— if not more
sane, at least a more quiet mode of
living, the little group of Americans
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H a z IÇ ik
folks like these for directors of
the Chamber of Commerce next
year: Mrs. Leavitt, H. S. Sterns,
H. P. Holmes, H. B. Plum m er, R.
E. Detrick, Homer Billings, Louis
Dodge, J. H. Dill, Frank Jordan,
O. A. Paulserud, H. O. Anderson,
and E. W. Flackus. Come to
think of it, there are hundreds of
good, forward-looking citizens ca­
pable of m aking fine directors of
a commercial body w ithout ta k ­
ing any of the bankers. Maybe
some of these are not now mem­
bers of the club, because, perhaps,
the club has not been delivering
the goods to justify their mem­
bership. I am not one of those
who feel th at a man is not prog­
ressive simply because he is not
willing to pour money into the
club treasury merely to be dissi­
pated on a secretary’s salary w ith­
out accomplishing any good for
the town. No doubt, when the
commercial body is enlivened into
a real, go-getter organization,
nearly everybody will join.
HAZ KIK.
Ä
FOUR POWER PACT
Ä
ETES BF IM E E
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.__
The first of the conference treaties,
th at which settled the long standing
dispute between the United States
and Japan over the island of Yap,!
was favorably reporred to the senate:
by the foreign relations committee.
The committee voted the treaty
out ten to one. Senator Pittm an,
democrat, cast the only dissenting P I T THE RIGHT MEN IN CON­
GRESS IS TO BE TH E SLOGAN
vote.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.—
H arding informed the senate today
th a t it was "literally impossible” for^
him to furnish the senate with infor­
mation it requested last week re­
garding the negotiations, records and
OF NEW NATIONW IDE POLITI­
data concerning the adoption of the
CAL MOVE INAUGURATED.
LIVING COSTS JUM P
four-powered Pacific treaty, which
D I RING LAST MONTH D efeat o f Members of C ongress W lio
replaces the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
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A re R egarded as “ R eactionary
The president gave this inform a­
Old H. C. L. has mounted the lad­
tion in a letter replying to the reso­
F orces” Planned, and Seating of
lution the senate adopted calling der again, according to the indus­
Men W ho A re “Friends o f P eople.”
upon the executive for all the infor­ trial review of the M anufacturers’
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.__
mation as to the details of the nego­ and M erchants’ association, which
tiations. “ There were many conver­ reports an advance of 1 per cent in The thoughts of a great army of
I toilers of the farm and the workshop
sations and discussions quite outside living costs the last thirty days.
The price of meat took the biggest are focused upon a conference at
the conference, yet vital to its suc­
cess,” said the president’s letter. jump, being 8 per cent higher than Chicago today of progressive-liberal
“ N aturally these are w ithout rec­ thirty days ago. Groceries have also spokesmen for union labor, agricul-
made slight price advances.
tural and other organizations bent
ords.”
A decrease of 20 per cent in the upon “ electing the right kind of
unemployed is estim ated by the re­ men” in this year’s congressional
HERO, W HOSE BODY THOUGHT
port, which believes there are about elections.
TO COME FROM FRANCE
The formation of a “ farm er-labor
ALIVE AND SENTIM ENTAL 4000 unemployed in Portland at
present. The average wage for day bloc” to conserve the “ best interests
of the producer, the working man
CHICAGO, Feb. 20. — Donald labor is $3 for an eight-hour day.
and the consumer, to bring about
Campbell, believed by his wife to
“an understanding between all peo­
have been buried with m ilitary hon­
ple
who are genuinely interested in
ors last Labor day, a few days after
the public w elfare,” is the purpose
the casket said to contain his body
of the conference which was called
arrived from France was being tried
by some of the foremost leaders of
before a general court m artial board
organized
labor, it was stated.
at Fort Sheridan today on a grave
William H. Johnston, president of
charge.
the International Association of Ma­
A girl friend recently told Mrs.
chinists, and others prominently
Campbell th a t she had met “ the most
By
MAX
KÄSE
I
Identified with the so-called “ pro-
wonderful m an.” A little later Mrs.
I.
N.
S.
Staff
Correspondent
Agressive
wing” of the American Fed-
Campbell discovered th a t it was her
NEW’ YORK, Feb. 20.— Champion- eratlon of Labor, who are taking an
husband.
Exam ination
disclosed
th at the body sent from France was ship aspirations of either Charley active Pa rt in the conference, repud-
White, southpaw lightw eight of Chi- Iated the suggestion that they had
not th a t of Campbell.
cago, or Willie Jackson of this city, the formation of a “ third party” in
will be dashed tonight when the two m ,nd-
FR EA K BEET LOOKS LIK E
Boring from W ithin”
A D R ESSED CHICKEN battlers meet in a fifteen round de­
“
It
is
the intention of those par­
cision bout at Madison Square Gar­
TILLAMOOK, Or., Feb. 20.— A dens. It is possible that Champion ticipating to launch a movement
freak stock beet is on exhibition in Benny Leonard will be signed to rath er for the purpose of ‘boring
from w ithin,’ instead of from with-
the office of County Agent Pine of meet the winner.
This is the first m eeting between out’ botb the repubHcan and demo-
this city, which closely resembles a
i dressed chicken. So close is the re- the pair. W hite, fresh from a victory cratic partles ,n the coming congres-
i semblance th at many observers have over Johnny Dundee, is clam oring sional Primaries and to get behind
to handle the deception to be con­ for a match with Leonard. The Chi- conp'ression;l1 candidates of either
vinced th a t it does not represent a cago southpaw has had more oppor- party who can be dePended «P°n to
real dressed fowl. The tail feathers ‘unities to win the lightw eight *serve the best interests of the corn-
of a real chicken add to the delusion. championship than any other fight- m°n people in either the senate or
The counterfeit bird was brought in er. W hite has fought Ritchie, Welsh bouse’ tbey explained.
The defeat of members of the sen-
from the beet patch of a farm er, who and Leonard many times, but al-
! at first thought he had discovered though possessed of a hefty kick in ate and house who are " y a rd e d as
his left hand, has never been able to “° f tbP reactionary forces” ,s also
a mummified pullet.
put over the decisive punch
He p,anned’ and a nation-wide “drive”
W E E K ’8 W EA TH ER FORECAST came near it in a bout with Leon- ’s to he undertaken, it was stated, to
ard at Benton H arbor two years ago SPaf
both chambers men wbo are
when
he
knocked
th
e
Qightweight
rPal
fr:?nds
nOt on,y ° f the farraer
W eather outlook for the period
February 20 to February 25, 1922, champion out of the ring with one and ° f ’ab° r ’ bnt ° f tbe great maS8eS
inclusive: Pacific coast states— Con- of his well known left hooks, only
siderable cloudiness; rain; normal to be counted out himself as a result
fee tba
tbe react,onary
tem perature.
Rock M ountain and of Leonard’s smashes. Since then forces and sPecial interests which
plateau region— Considerable cloud-, W hite has been yelling for a return
° i ®Very bra" Cb
of
the
government
are pursuing a
ness and occasional snow and rain; 1 battle.
policy
which
has
already
wrecked
normal tem perature.
Jackson has met practically all
American industry and agriculture,
the topnotchers ln the division with
causing widespread bankruptcy and
the exception of Leonard and
nation - wide unemployment, and
White. Jackson has had many op-
which, if not arrested, is destined to
to meet the champion,
j
.
. u fundam
* j
. , principles
, , ,
I ; portunities
...
.
p ’ destroy
the
ental
hut each time appeared reluctant to of liberty upon which this govern­
; take the match. Many years ago the
ment was established,” said Johns­
champion met Jackson in a short ton. “ We have invited to the con­
| bout staged for the benefit of the
ference men and women from all
Red Cross, and gave Jackson a box- groups of American life who we feel
iing lesson.
can best express the hopes and de-
The men will weigh in at 135 sires of those great masess of Amer-
pounds.
lean people who are suffering from
acuta economic and financial dis­
DEATH FROM HUNGER
tress."
About This Time of Year
]□
MAY CHEAT GALLOWS
“ Put R igh t Men In"
“ Put the right kind of men in con­
gress” is to be the slogan of the
CHICAGO, Feb. 18 __ Harvey lcountry’wide P01111081 movement the
Church, whose hanging, scheduled conference is to inaugurate. It Is
for today, was postponed until March planned by the labor and agrarian
3, to allow an insanity hearing, may leaders behlnd tbe conference to con-
cheat the gallows by starving to centrate their forces in certain states
death, physicians believed todav. , where they regard industrial and ag-
Church, who has refused food for r,cultural ’ntrests as especially pro-
a month, and has been growing very pitious for the elect‘on of senatorial
weak, took a turn for the worse to- and congressional candidates who
day. A fever developed.
¡can be counted «P«n to be entirely in
The slayer of the two automobile synipatby with the kind of legisla-
salesmen was reported unconscious. tlon *be Pr°P °sed ‘ ¡arm er-labor
He keeps his eyes closed all the time bloc intends t0 foster.
and never gives anv signs th a t he
An a li’ance between the labor and
knows what is going on.
I agricultural interests would also do
Other jail attaches expressed t h e ‘.muCh the fu rtb er tbe Premised fight
belief th a t Church was dying from between the progressive-liberal and
the “reactionary” forces in this
fright.
year’s
congressional campaign, it
“ He Is so afraid of hanging th at
he is dying,” said a guard. “ He was was predicted, and to prevent the re-
pretty strong and it would take a e,ection of a num ber of senators and
hunger strike of more than a month representatives who have opposed
to wear him down to the weak con­ the “agricultural bloc” movement ln
OF YOUTHFUL SLAYER
dition in which he now is.”
(Continued on Page 4)