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MALARIA GERMS
Cannot survive three months in
the rich ozone at Ashland. Pure
domestic water helps.
A shland D aily T idings
The Tidings Has Been Ashland's Leading Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years
ASHLAND CLIMATE
Without the use of medicine cures
nine cases out of ten of asthma.
This is a proven fact.
(International News Wire Service)
VOL. XLVII.
Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Volume 48.
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1923
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FREE CHRISTMAS SHOW
CHILD MARRIAGE ENDS
FOR ASHLAND KIDDIES
ON TRAGEDY’S ROCKS
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After Santa Claus has 8
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PORTLAND. Dec. 24.
played his pranks and left 8
8 — Child marriage is break­
stout stockings full of 8
8 ing up on the rocks of
candy and nuts and other 8
8 tragedy with Mrs. Kath-
good things, the kiddies 8Ì
8 line Richards,
17, at
of Ashland can rouse from « I
8 death’s door in a hospital,
their dreamful slumbers 8 ,
8 while Donald C. Richards,
tomorrow morning and
8 21, her husband, is held in
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hurry to dress for the
8 Jail as a material witness
Students and Visitors Ar- n morning matinee which 8 Fluid Taken in Operation
8 with the police demanding
Mr. Hurst has planned for 8 ;
Collections in Oregon in
On Convicted Slayer
8 to know the details. “It
rive in Ashland for
the
children
of
the
city.
8
Last 11 Months Reach
8 was my fault,” the half
In Laboratories
the Holidays
Best of all the program 8 !
$309, 683
8 dead wife murmured to
consists
of
a
Charlie
Chap­
« 9 0 DROPS EXTRACTED
8 the police. “She shot her­
CHRISTMAS SERVICES »
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,« lin picture featuring the «;
ACT EFFECTIVE IN 1913
8 self,” the young husband
Various Churches of City Are Ob- « funny man, who makes 8 Repoi ts of Laboratories May be
8 insisted. He admitted they
1 R evenues to S tate Increased by
kiddies cut up and what 8
Filed Today; Warden Is
serving Occasion With
8 had been quarreling.
C on testing Many Apprais­
could be more ideal than a «
Undecided
8 » » 8 8 8 8 8 8
Special Programs
a ls of E states
g
o
o
d
laugh
Christmas
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morning?
The
program
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SACRAMENTO, Dec. 24. —
The spirit of Christmas has I
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will
start
promptly
at
SALEM, Dec. 24.—Collections
9
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.— Tradi­ in New York— from special theat­ A week before Christmas the Ger­
Whatever
chance Alex A. Kels,
descended upon Ashland. All a-
9
10:30
and
it
behooves
under
the operation of tho so-
8
tion,
handed
down
through
many
Lodi
slayer,
awaiting
the
gallows
round us are the habiliments of
rical attractons to Baclianalian mans bring into the towns and
9
called
inheritance
tax law in Ore­
every
youngster
in
the
8
in Folsom prison, has of a court centuries and Interpreted accord­ revels that seem never to have cities loads of pine and hemlocks
the season. The spirit of the occa­
city
to
attend
the
show.
9
gon
have
aggregated
$2,530,022.-
« i hearing on his sanity is in the ing to individual and national heard of Mr. Volstead nor the until the communities are verit­
sion permeates the air, the stores
8
87,
of
which
amount
$309,683.41
There
is
to
be
music
« hands of three separate labora- tastes
in far-flung lands of Eighteenth Amendment.
and shops, the churches, and the
able forests of evergreens. Each
9
was
returned
to
the
state
during
and
a
rollicking
good
« tories, where as many tubes of Christendom, has developed wide­
homes. Christmas cheer is rad­
“Lamb's Wool”
family must have at leaftt two Five Oregon Companies Are In­
time.
9
the
last
11
months,
according
to
his cerbro-spinal fluid was un­ ly varying customs for celebrating
iated from the faces all in their
As inevitable as England’s plum trees, and if a family is too poor
cluded;
Ashland
Unit
Is
the annual report of O. P. Hoff,
dergoing analysis to determine the anniversary of the birth of pudding, famed for its specific his neighbor usually comes to the
hurry and bustle of preparations 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
One of Five
state
treasurer. The report will be
whether there is basis for Warden the Christ child.
for tomorrow.
iravlty, is Ireland’s “Lamb’s rescue and provides a tree or two.
submitted
to the governor for his
J. J. Smith to initiate further ac­
Each incoming train brings' ad­
Between now and the end of Wool,” a drink made by bruising
Good German housewives toil
SALEM,
Dec.
23.—
Oregon’s
consideration.
tion to that end.
ditional visitors to the city and
the year Christmas bells will peal roasted apples and mixing them for days in advance preparing dec­
It was set out in the report that
The tubes of spinal fluid, sent from many church towers and with ale or milk. Long draughts orations for the trees and making five coast artillery companies be­
many families are being reunited
came
artillery
batteris
today
and
in
addition to the inheritance tax
by special delivery mail immed­ carols will be sung in hundreds of this concoction usually are
for the holiday season. From the
the gifts; baking, knitting, sew­ the coast defense of Oregon is returns now' credited to the state
iately following the operation of of tongues, but their manner of
Universities and colleges students
served with liberal slices of Eng­ ing and wrapping their handi-* now the 249th regiment of artil­ $97,026,40 has been received, hut
extracting the fluid from Kels’ chiming and caroling are likely lish plum pudding, for Ireland is
are arriving for the vacation.
work in gay colored paper, with lery. Orders to this effect were has not been officially receipted
spine at Folsom prison Saturday to be in striking contrast to the addicted to the dish also.
Streets are filled with smiling, Charity Being Extended by B.
issued by Adjutant General White because of pending adjustments.
verses attached.
should have been delivered to the yuletide melodes to which we are
hurrying rushing shoppers and
O. E. and Other Organiza­
In England, and in fact thru
Under this order the coast artil­ The cost of collecting inheritance
In
Lapland
laboratores yesterday morning, ac accustomed In America.
vsitors. But tonight, Christmas
tions of City
the British Isles, the groaning
In Lapland reindeer have a lery company at Albany becomes taxes during the present year was
cording to Dr. L. L. Stanley, San
Eve, will bring a slowing down of
There is considerable differ­ board and the brimming bowl are
Battery A, the company at Ash­ $9431. Money received from these
activities and Ashland people will
A visit to the basement of the Quentin prison physician, who ence, also, in the feasting, or lack the chief characteristics of Christ­ somewhat more prosaic task than land Battery B. the Marshfield taxes, after deducting adminis­
they do in more southerly climes
pause, revere and remember the Elks' temple in this city is suf- performed the operation.
of it, the gift-making, and the sup mas celebrations. And if mirth
company Battery C, and the com­ tration expenses, goes into the
May
Report
Today
signiflcance of the morrow
where
their duties consist of one
ficent to convince one that Santa
erstitions that charge the atmos­ and jollity may be measured by
pany at Newport and Toledo is general fund of the state.
The reports from the laborator­
The various churches of the Claus has made that a distribut­
one’s physical fullness, there can night’s work a year— and that Battery D. The coast defense
phere
at
this
time
of
the
year
Act in E ffect in 1»13
city have prepared appropriate ing center for Southern Oregon. ies should be ready today is the
with that vague, indescribable be no doubt of the applicability of spent in dashing gaily over spark­ headquarters at Salem becomes
The
following summary shows
programs and ceremonies to be To behold the activities of a com­ expectation of physicians present
ling, snow capped homes of good t h e headquarters detachment,
“Merrie
England”
during
the
element
which
we
call
“the
the amount of inheritance taxes
staged in their gaily wreathed mittee of members
packing at the test.
children, pausing here and there 249th artillery.
yuletide.
Christmas
spirit."
collected
each year since the law
Ninety drops of fluid were ex­
and candle lighted edifices. Ser­ Christmas baskets is convincing
to toast themselves b e s i d e
The change was made under went into effect in 1913:
There
are
no
distant
echoes
of
While
Britain
gorges
itself
on
vices will be held tonight at the than the good old Saint has selec­ tracted following a puncture in
century on cenury of Christmas some warm chimney. The Lapps authority of the war department 1913 ................ ....... $ 76,036.53
Congregational and B a p t i s t ted Ashland Elks for his lieuten­ the small of Kels’ back with a plum pudding that wouldn’t float
drive their faithful reindeer teams in order to give the Oregon artil­ 1914 ................ ........ 1 14,258.64
churches. At the former the Sun­ ants. As is the custom of that be­ needle at Saturday’s operation in a ’mercury bath, and America tradition in Germany, yet despite
across vast frozen stretches, hitch­ lery units a definite regmental 1915 ................ .......
that
country’s
present
unhappy
65,077.00
devours
flocks
of
turkeys
and
day School will entertain with a nevolent order, Christmas baskets Besides Dr. Stanley, who was
3tatus
that
they
will
not
be
split
1916
.................
ed
to
a
sleigh,
in
order
that
the
........
87.968.97
program, in which the young peo­ are being sent to every needy named by the prison board to mountains of dressing, Sweden economic plight, it is safe to as­
up into replacements for mobile 1917 ................. .......
family
may
attend
the
solmen
75.644.82
sume
that
the
Christmas
spirit
kneels
in
deepest
humility
and
ple of the church will appear. A family in the city and jurisdiction conduct the test, Dr. Jau Don
operations In event of war. aR 1918 ................. ....... 19.^643.03
White Gift Christmas has been of the lodge.’ The baskets this Ball, representing Kels, and Mrs. the Lapps bow meek heads in will roll like a tidal wave over church ceremonials in the distant
1919 ................. ....... 34*276.97
the land— even ^this year— and village. There they listen atten- they were in the past war.
prepared at the Baptist church, year contain coffee, butter, pork Annie Kels his wife; Dr. F. F. solemn homage.
The order also gives Oregon 1920 ................ ........ 214,215.34
While little children in Italy banish for the moment the cares tivly to the oft-repeated, mono­
and will include a program for roast, sugar, beans, potatoes, corn Gundrum, Governor Friend W.
three
regiments, for some time 1921 .................. ....... 209,937.41
members and friends, and those candy nuts, 25-pound sack of Richardson’s personal physician, throng the streets reciting Godly and sorrows of the saddest period toned repitition of how Jesus of
ago
General
White borrowed a 1922 ................. ....... 474.812.18
Nazareth was born.
•
enrolled in the Sunday School. A flour and a standard box of ap­ selected by Dr. Stanley and Dr. verses, the Russians chant the in German annals.
battalion
from
th© 162d infantry, 1923 ................. ...... 309,683.41
Normally there are no merrier
tree well laden with gifts, will al­ ples. These are the articles that Ball, Dr. J. D. Rogers, Folsom myths of the Goddess of the Sun,
long
the
largest
regiment in the
The original inheritance tax
so be a feature of the evening.
(Continued on page 4)
fill up 35 baskets that are being prison physician and Warden and most anything might happen yuletides than those of Germany.
United States, and transferred the law in Oregon was passed by the
M idnight Mass
delivered in Ashland, and in ad­ Smith were present The operation
battalion to the 186th infantry, legislature in 1903 and was cop­
THE TIDINGS FORCE
Midnight High Mass will be dition gifts of dry goods and was simple, speedy and Kels
thus giving that new unit a regi­ ied largely after the act then in
WILL CELEBRATE XMAS
celebrated at the Catholic church clothing are accompanying many showed no ill effects, either last
mental status. Such a course was operation in the state of Illinois.
night
or
to-day.
In keeping with the 8
Special music will be rendered by of the baskets.
suggested by corps headquarters The rate of taxation under the
regular custom, the Tid­
* Next Move Undecided
the choir, directed by Mrs. P. S.
In addition to the gift baskets
at San Francsco as valuable In original act were found to he too
ings will not be issued to­
Warden Smith to-day declined
Provost. Miss Irene Wehrli will being distributed locally, the
promoting the completion of the l.ow, and during the year 1904
morrow and all members
preside at the organ.
lodge has forwarded money to to say whether he would ask for
41st division in the Northwest.
only $8164.09 was returned to
of the force will celebrate
Cantata Pleases
provide like baskets at Yreka, a court hearing on Kels’ sanity Deal Involves Tracts in Both
the state through the operation
Provident Now Well Provided
Christmas.
Outstanding in the programs of Wagner creek, Talent, Hornbrook if the reports of the spinal fluid
Clackmas and Polk
of
the law. The legislatures of
PRISONER PAROLED AFTER
With Cash to Purchase
On this Christmas Eve
the season was the Christmas and other points within the juris­ test agree that his cerebro-spinal
Counties
1915,
1917 and 1919 increased
SERVING 26 YEARS
Yuletide Presents
the Tidings accepts the oc­
cantata, “Star of Hope”, given diction of Ashland Lodge No. 944. fluid has a syphilitic taint, prefer­
the rates of taxation.
casion to extend to all its
last night at the Methodist
The comimttee in charge of this ring to wait until the laboratory
PORTLAND, Dec. 24.— More
W atch on E states Kept.
CARSON CITY, Nev., Dec. 24.
patrons and friends a
church.. A large audience heard splendid work is composed of reports are received before reach­
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.— Hun­ — After serving twenty-six years
than
$82,000
worth
of
govern­
The
report indicates that the
Merry Christmas.
the production, which is declared Geo. W. Dunn, C. T. Shepherd, J. ing a decision.
dreds of thousands of persons with credits for a sensational practice of the state treasurer in
ment timber in Polk and Clacka­
by all to have been a musical Edwn Thornton, E. A. Kinney, W.
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
here are now receiving their ac­ murder committed in Humbolt contesting valuations fixed upon
mas counties was sold Friday to
treat.
G. Currey, J. P. Wolf, S. A. Pat­ TOWN IN WYOMING IS
cumulated savings from Christ­ County, Nimrod Urie has been pa­ many estates by appraisers and
private owners in the state. The
The choir assisted by soloists terson, J. W. Johnson, and D. Per­
DESTROYED BY FIRE
mas Clubs, to which they have roled from the Nevada state pris­ insisting that the property be ap­
Willamette Valley Lumber com­ SEYMOUR JONES STILL
ists, gave most of the entire pro­ ozzi. The latter is chairman.
ON
POLITICAL
FENCE
been making weekly payments on.
pany purchasd one of the largest
praised at its full cash value has
gram. An alto and tenor duet by
CASPER, Wyo.— The business
The Christmas baskets are pro­
during
the last year.
tracts in Polk county and with the
The crime was of such atrocious increased materially the revenue
Miss Jean Anderson and G. H. vided with funds obtained from section of Lavoye, a town o f-a
SALEM, Dec. 24.— Whether
The installments were paid on character that several previous derived by the state from inheri­
William W. Mitchell company ac-
Yeo was impressive. Miss Ander­ the annual charity show. This thousand population, is a smold­
qnuired another of the large Seymour Jones, ex-8Deaker of the several different plans, ranging attempts by Urie to secure a pa­ tance taxation. Continual watch
son also gave a contralto solo in year’s show was highly success­ ering ruin and a damage estimat­
tracts. The sale was made through house of representatives in the from the “two-cents-a week” role were promptly rejected by it was said, is kept upon the rec­
a pleasing manner. A piano solo ful from a financial standpoint. ed at two hundred thousand dol­
Orgon legislature will be a can­ scheme to thq plan calling for a
C. L. Starr.
the board of pardons and parole. ord of deaths of persons who
by Miss Bernice Yeo and the mix­
Many other organizations of lars as the result of a fire that
weekly
deposit
of
two
dollars.
By
didate
for
United
States
senator
The Wilamette Valley company
Urie is said to have been a mod­ have estates in Oregon, but which
ed quartet, soprano and baritone the city are active in extending was raging for several hours. Tea
added 20,000,000 board feet of at the republican primary election paying two cents the first week, el prisoner during the entire are not probated in the state.
duets and tenor and baritone charity to deserving families. The of the largest buildings including
fir, hemlock, cedar and larch at next May will be determined soon four cents the second week, six period of his long incarceration.
A recent case of importance in­
blended prettily under the direc­ Salvation Army, Red Cross, fra­ a bank and postoffice were con­
a cost of $11,578.11, through the after January 1, Mr. Jones an­ cents the third week, and so on, We was 18 years old when he en­ volved the estate of Eugene E.
tion of G. H. Yeo.
ternal orders and various church­ sumed.
the depositor collects $25.50 at tered the penitentiary, being sen­ Day of Wallace, Idaho, who own­
deal. The Mitchell company got nounced today.
With Other Churches
es are each organized and work­
For several weeks he has been the end of fifty weeks with which
22,000,000 board feet for $57,-
tenced with a man named Tram- ed a l^rge interest in the Portland
The first special program of ing actively to extend Christmas CLASHES OCCURING IN
158.09. All of the sales were for conferring with leading republi­ to do his Christmas shopping.
per for the killing of the Quilicl Hotel company. Though no pro­
the week was presented Friday cheer to every home in Ashland
HUASTECA OIL FIELDS cash and the companies were giv­ cans in different parts of the
Even the most poverty-stricken family at Imlay.
bate proceedings were held in
evening at the Christian church. and the community.
en 10 years in. which to remove state, and it was said that he has child can join a club on the “one-
Oregon, the state collected $10.-
A cantata and special program
received much encouragement. In cent-a-week” basis, which opper-
TAMPICO, Dec. 24— Isolated the timber.
754 in inheritance taxes on his
SETTLERS CROSSING—
were provided and delighted a WILL RETURN HANEY TO
clashes are reported in the Huas­
Oregon holdings.
The other sales were: Two mil­ case Mr. Jones enters the contest ates on the same plan and brings
COUNTRY BY OX TEAM
large audience.
U. 8. SHIPPING BOARD teca oil fields between Panuco lion board feet of timber in he will make a state-wide cam­ a dividend of $12.75 at the end
‘‘Christmas in Toyland” de­
river and Tuxpam. The federáis Clackamas county for $6317.61 paign. He claims to be a dirt of the year. The more ambitious
BAKER, Or., Dec. 24.— Travel­ SICKNESS MAY CLOSE
lighted an audience a t'th e Pres­
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.— E. C. are reported, to be in control of to the Bear Creek Logging com­ farmer and will make a strong persons who undertakes the two-
SCHOOL AT CHEMAWA
byterian church Satruday evening. Plummer, a shipping board mem­ the situation there.
dollar plan gets .$100 plus inter­ ing in a house on wheels, drawn
pany; 750,000 board feet for bid fbr the rural vote.
by oxen, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bar-
The evening was of especial de­ ber, has probably been elevated
est.
$1315 to William M. Stone, Ore­
SALEM, Dec. 23.-—Many cases
rang passed through here this
light to the young folks and«child- to the chairmanship of the board
gon City; 3,000,000 board feet in FORMAL BANK OPENING
NO WORD HAS BEEN HAD
of
small pox and measles have
week en route to Medford, Or.,
ren. The program of the evening , by Coolidge, it was learned. The
ATTEND AT MEDFORD SALVATION ARMY GETS
FROM GIANT DIRGIBLE Clackamas county for $5678.84^(0
been
found at thp Chemawa In­
from Westchester, Conn. They
was brief, permitting those who nomination of two other members
Fred L. Proctor of Sandy.
DONATIONS FOR CHARITY have nyule a leisurely trip across dian school, and it is likely that
attended to return home at an J Of the board, Frederic I. Thomp-
Hundreds of people from Med­
PARIS, Dec. 24.— The Inter-
the continent, taking three years. the institution will be placed un­
early hour.
ford and all parts of Jackson
son of Alabama, and Bert E. French dirgible Dismude, with 50 GRANTS PASS INSANE—
The Salvation Army is not to They carry a canvas tent to pro­ der quarantine. This was announ­
A special service was conducted Haney of Oregon, which was with- | persons aboard. which hus been in
MAN PUTS UP FIGHT County attended the formal open­ be forgotten at Christmas time.
tect the oxen in bad weather. A ced today by Dr. C. E. Cashett,
at the Salvation Army headquar­ drawn when the Senate turned danger for three days over the
ing of the renewed and remodel­
The
Monday
Afternoon
C.
L.
S.
C.'
radio set supplies the travelers county health officer. Th? physi­
ters on Saturday evening. A down Farley, of Chicago, will be
It took six men to subdue a led Jackson County bank building having disbanded lately were for­ wtih music and other entertain­ cian said he would make a check
Mediterranean
and
northern
Afrl
Christmas tree and special pro­ sent to the Senate according to
man today after he became vio­ yesterday afternoon and evening, tunate enough to have $2.50 left ment.
of the cases tomorrow and then
gram were features of entertain­ present plans. No opposition to ca, is still missing. It was last
and opinion seemed to be unani­
lently
insane
this
morning.
He
determine what action will he
in the treasury followingt he re­
heard of Sunday, when it was re­
ment.
mous that this new edifice makes moval of all debts.
these appointments will be made
was
living
with
his
parents
on
taken.
ported short of fuel and moving
MIGHT BE “CRAZY,” BUT
in the Senate. Senators McNary
M street and the officers were one of the most attractive banks
The
club
feels
that
no
better
slowly,
with
one
engine
turning.
COURT FINDS HER SANE
NINE PERSONS ARE
and Stanfield, of Oregon, confer­
summoned when hq tried to at­ in the entire state, says the Mail place can be filled by the money
ROSEBURG HOMES ARE
KILLED EVERY HOUR red with Coolidge over the board’s
Tribune. The fixtures and ap­
tack
everybody
in
sight,
says
the
tan to turn it in to the Salva­
RAIDED FOR LIQUOR
FRENCH TO CONTROL
AMARILLO, Texas. Dec. 24.—
personnel, urging the reappoint­
Courier. When the sheriff arrived pliances are of the most conven­ tion Army. Mrs. Wm. Myer, who
RUSSIAN
FINANCES
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.— Nine per­ ment of Haney.
with a large number of helpers, ient and luxurious character, the has been treasurer of the club, Because her husband said she
ROSEBURG. Dec. 23.— Liquor
was crazy for accusing him of giv­
sons an hour are killed by pre­
them an made straight for the general appearance being that of has turned the money over to the
raids
last night brought in more
BERLIN, Dec. 24— A Franco-
ing money to other women and
ventable accidents in the United U. 8. GRAND JURY TO
sheriff and the others of all six a bank in one of the big cities of captain.
than
ten
gallons of wine, taken
her own sister pronounced her
States every hour of the 24 de­
INVESTIGATE “SALE” PLOT Russian agreement, providng for were required to get him down the coast.
Mrs.
Wm.
Denton
has
also
sent
the French control of Russian fi- and tied so that he could be hand­
crazy for marrying her husband fro mthe homes of Carl Berger
clared Richard E. Kropf, supreme
m
,
a
generous
check
to
the
Army
in the first place, Mrs. Mary and Frank Grant. A large* quan-
regent of the Royal Arcanum, to
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 24.__The nanc6s nntif Russia’s debts are led. He was only about 30 years ®
eSunn
h ¡from the east where she is still atj Blackbnrn was tried here before t,ty of nquor als0 was taken froni
a conference of fraternal insur­ United States Grand Jury has paid> has 1,66,1 concluded, it Is of age and weighed some 200
Miss Clara Will is spending her|
Q(
hUBband n
i
Melvin Richardson of Drain. A
ance executives called here to i been asked to investigate the learned here
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a
f
m
a
a
v
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a
f
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xxritn
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pounds. He was taken to the coun­ Christmas vacation with her also understood that other cash the County Court on a charge of crock filled with fig and grape
consider a safety-first campaign. “wife sale” plot in which Elsier
ty jail where he is being held brother John Will, a business man donations will be made today to being crazy.
She was adjudged sane. The hus mash was confisticated at the
The fraternal bodies are planning Lamate, is alleged by his wife, LIVES LOST IN BOATS
awq^ting an examination. He was in The Dalles. She will return at the organization.
band, a teamster, had asked the Berger home. Cal Reed also was
a general revival of safety educa­ Helen, to have tried to sell-her to
ON THE MEDITERRANEAN seized only this morning by the the end o f the week to resume her
Court to place- her in an asylum. arrested charged with the sale of
tion drives, it was said.
work in school.
Lou Harris, a wealthy nagro, it
attack.
liquor to state agents.
SALEM IS COMPLETING
was officially stated.
LONDON, Dec. 24— It is feared
Returns
for
Christmas—
i
PLANS FOR CONVENTION KNOWLES SEEKS SEAT
I. C. C. ORDERS G. N.
SHASTAN ENDS LIFE
that two hundred lives were lost
George
Brookmiller
returned
ON SUPREME COURT First Visit in Several Months—
TO DEFER REDUCTIONS Mrs. Phillips Improves—
in the wrecking of many fishing
home
early
this
morning
from
the
SALEM,
Dec.
24.—
Arrange­
- ■
Mss Marie Porter, who is home
REDDING, Cal., Dec. 23.—
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Carter, of boats in the Mediterranean, said
south
end
division
of
the
South­
ments
were
completed
here
today
LA GRANDE, Or., Dec. 24.— with her relatives Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Shade, 30, committed sui­
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — San Francisco, are here to spend
a dispatch from Madrid.
ern
Pacific
and
will
spend
tomor­
for
the
annual
convention
of
According
to announcement made C. O. Porter on Eighth street re-
cide
at
midnight
in
the
home
of
Pending Investigation, the Inter­ the holidays with Mrs. Carter’s
row
with
his
family
at
the
home
county
judges
and
commisisoners
by
friends
of
Judge J. W. Knowles turned this morning for the first
his
mother,
Mrs.
Fanny
Klaukens,
state Commerce Commission has mother, Mrs. L. A. Phillips. Mrs.
on
Liberty
street.
to
be
held
in
Salem
January
10,
REBELS
ATTACK
he
will
be
in
the race for the re- visit in about two years. She is
by cutting his throat with a razor
ordered the Great Northern to Phillips fell and injured her knee
11
and
12.
Many
matters
of
vital
TAMPICO, Dec. 24. — Rebel
publican nomination for justice a student at the University of
His mind had been weakening
withhold until April 24, its pro­ about two weeks ago and has been
importance to the county courts of the supreme court of Oregon at Oregon and one of two girls ma-
posal to put into effect certain ' confined to her couch She is troops in a night attack captured for several months. Shade follow­ At Home—
Mrs. Frank Murphy and son, will be considered at the meet­ the spring primaries, a vacancy Joring in geology. This is her sen-
Puentet Deixtla, on the border of ed mining as a rule.
Increased reductions in rates on ; steadily improving.
Charles have returned from Mon­ ing. Besides the business meet­ on the supreme bench having been *or year.
the states of Mexico and Guer­
fresh fruit and vegetables be-
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La Grande— More than 20 local mouth to spend Christmas with ings there will, be a number of caused by the resignation of Jns-
tween north Pacific points. prin-! Newberg putting in new water rero, It was announcd by dispatch*
radio, fans organize club here.
F. C. Murphy.
entertainment features.
es.
tlce Lawrence T. Harris.
cipally in the stale of Washington, supply from Reynolds springs.
Newport installs fire siren.
CHRISTMAS
SPIRIT IS
REFLECTED
ANALYZING
FLUID FROM
EELS’ SPINE
INHERITANCE
TAXES TOTAL
$ 2 ,5 3 0 ,0 2 2
Yuletide Traditions Differ Widely
in Various Nations of Christendom
ARTILLERf UNITS GET
REGIMEN1AL W
ELKS DISPENSING
TIMBER VALUED AT