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A SH LA N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S. litical
parties. Many people fool that the two leading without exposing themselves to our fire. The river was
¡parties are about alike in their general aims, and they deep and rapid, and for a short distance sòme of the
do not see how the programme of any third party would /smaller animals had to swim. Had we rushed pell-mell
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improve things. They think that the majority of candi- into the stream, as parties sometimes do under such cir­
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dates are principally anxious to get office and that they cumstances, our expedition would probably have come
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they trim and hedge to win favor.
(This crossing was a short distance above where
at th e A shland, Oregon P oetoffice as Second C lass Mail Mather | Many voters also teel that their own little vote will not Grants Pass now is.) “ After crossing we turned up the
help much or make any difference. Many people who river, and the Indians in large numbers came out of the
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stand for those ideas. Unwillingness to vote because it one of their encampments we could see by the sign they
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takes too much trouble is an argument that does no were only a short distance ahead of us. We afterwards
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OCTOBER 6
LIVE RIGHT TODAY:— Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for
thou knowest not w hat a day may bring forth.— Proverbs 27:1.
PRA Y ER:— Thou a rt from everlasting to everlasting God, but
we are as the grass th a t w ithereth.
We come to Thee to live in
Thee because Thou a rt our security and our hope.
Witter, the comedian writer, must be a Republican,
for he makes one of his characters say: “ Honest to
Dawes,” instead of “ Honest to John” (W. Davis.)
A moonshiner entered a plea for clemency on the
grounds of being a destitute. He must have been a poor
business man.
IS THE CAUSE OF
KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 4.—
Source of the mule deer epidemic
in northern California is thought
to be a most stagnant mud in the
bottom of dried-up springs which
the deer consume in lieu of w at­
er. This is the opinion of Dr. W.
Casper, local veterinarian, Coun­
ty Agent C. A. Henderson, and
Game W arden Marion J. Barnes,
after investigating carcasses and
conducting post mortem exam ina­
tions a t Hackamoe springs, 73
miles south of K lam ath Falls.
Hackam ore springs, it was
found, had entirely dried up, due
to long drouth this summer. Iu
the place of the spring was a
mucky, wet, stagnant mud bed,
which by its odor Intur-ated th at
the soil was at feast sour, if not
poisonous. A search of a strip of
land a q u arter of a mile wide and
three-quarters of a mile long cir­
cumventing the spring, revealed
35 dead deer.
Each deer, Mr. Henderson said
was covered with mud up to his
back, and his nose up to his eyes,
with the stagnant mud.
A man is known by the company he keeps, and a com
ANOTHER MENTAL TEST
pany. is known by the men it keeps.—Shoe and Leather
Arthur Brisbane, the most famous newspaper writer Reporter.
in the United States today, gives an example of a mental
test in one of the recent editions of his “ Today” column,
With Keane and Edge as candidates, the senatorial
which demonstrates the technical and trivial methods campaign in New Jersey is developing into a sharp fight.
which have crept into American courts.
—Tampa Tribune.
A youth was being tested as to his mentality, dur­
ing his trial for murder and Brisbane states:
Luther Burbank has produced prunes six inches in
“ Two young men had just come down a chimney. circumference, but politics produces prunes very much
The face of one was clean; the other face was black with larger than that.—Greenville Piedmont.
soot. The man with a jelean face immediately washed his
face. The man with the sooty face did not wash his face,
Pioneering in Southern Oregon
why!”
by O. B. Watson «
Brisbane continues:
“ The young murderer “ tested” gave the right ans­
(Continued from Saturday)
wer immediately. Many average minds won’t give it.
“ June twentieth, 1846, we gathered on the La Cre­
“ The answer is that the clean face man, seeing the
other dirty, thought his face must be dirty and washed it. ole, near where Dallas now stands,' moved up the valley
The man with the sooty face seeing the other clean and encamped for the night on Mary’s river, near where
thought his face was clean also, and, therefore, did not the town or Corvallis has since been built.
wash.”
On June twenty-third, we moved on through the
We have seei some of the brainiest and most success­ grassy oak hills and narrow valleys, to the North Ump­
Classmea ads bring result*.
ful business men tumped when asked to solve a conun­ qua river. The crossing was a rough and dangerous one,
drum, and a test like the above should be graded no higher as the river bed was a mass of loose rocks, and, as we
than the foolish, even if enjoyable, stunt of solving a con­ were crossing, our horses occasionally fell, giving the
undrum.
riders an occasional ducking.
You Can Buy
• ‘ ‘ On the morning of the 24th, we left camp early and
QUEER DIVORCE REASONING
moved on about five miles to the south branch of the
Despite the laxity with which American married Umpqua, a, considerable stream, probably sixty yards
folks seem to view marriage, with probably many in7 wide coming from the eastward. Traveling up that stream any Ford car by making
stances of this laxity recorded in his newspaper, an edi­ almost to the place where the old trail crosses the Ump­ a small down-payment
torial writer in The Chicago Tribune, which is ordinarily qua mountains, we encamped for the night opposite the and arranging easy terms
for the balance. Or you
one of the most consistent defenders of American ideals, historic Umpqua canyon.
can buy on the Ford
says:
“ The next morning, June 25th, we entered the can­
“ Society may gradually relax the laws enforcing con­ yon, followed up the little stream that runs through the
tinuance of marriage. It will be awkwardly done. There defile for Jour or five miles, crossing the creek a great WEEKLY PURCHASE
PLAN
will be suffering and blunders. But the signs are that many times, but the canyon become more obstructed with
eustom is gradually changing.
brush and fallen timber, the little trail we were following
g lad ly explain this
“ The two who were murdered as a result of Hight’s turned up the side of the ridge, where the woods were more W e w ill plan
l n d etail
madness for Mr. Sweetin wquld have been better off had open, and wound its way to the top of the mountain. It
their marriage bonds been more easily set aside by law. then bore south along a narrow backbone of the moun­
Many innocent sufferers in other cases would be better tain, the dense thickets and the rocks on either side af­
H A R R IS O N
off. Marriage is sacred. A hard and inflexible law will fording splendid opportunities for ambush. A short time
Brothers, Garage
destroy its sanctity and defeat its fundamental purpose.” before this, a party coming from California, had been at­ Ford, L incoln, Fordson Dealer*
The divorce laws as they stand today verge too close­ tacked on this summit-ridge by the Indians and one of
ly upon “ free love” and, while there may be occasional ¡them had been severely wounded. Several of the horses SHE
instances where divorce is better than continuing a life of had also been shot with arrows. Along this trail we
unfitness, there would be fewer wrecked homes if a di­ picked up a number of broken, shattered arrows. We
vorce was not so easily procured.
could see that a large party of Indians had passed over
QUAIL SEASON
the trail traveling southward only a few days before.
WHEN CLIMATE IS KIND
“ On the morning of the twenty-sixth we divided our
The last day of his life, Joseph Paquet, 83, spent ad- forces, part going back to explore the canyon, while the
OPENED
venturiously hunting on the lakes that fringe the Colum­ remainder stayed to guard the camp and horses. The
bia.
exploring party went back to where we left the canyon
George Washington Boylan, 77, enjoyed a week-end on the little trail the day before, and returning through
trip to Portland before he passed on.
the canyon, came into camp after night, reporting that Success is insured by using
Addison Bennett, 79, would have continued his news­ wagons could be taken through.
paper work until the last moment had it not been for an
“ Making an early start we moved on very cautiously. WINCHESTER SHELLS
accident which a few weeks before his death made it dif­ Whenever the trail passed through thickets we dis
ficult for him to get around.
mounted and led our horses, having our gung in hand
“ Farmer” Smith at 79 had reached the apex of his ready any moment to use them in self defense, for we had
earning power and his activity.
adopted this rule, never to be the aggressors. Towards Simpson's
Israel Putnam at Hebo at the age of 93 was active evening we saw a great many Indians posted along the
Hardware
almost up to the day of his death.
mountainside, and now and then running ahead of us.
In the air, the soil, the scenery, the fruits, the food, As we advanced toward the river (Rogue river), the In­
the water of Oregon, or all together, is some peculiar prop­ dians in large numbers -occupied the river bank near Winchester Store
erty that makes for long life. Work which under climatic where the trail crossed. Having understood that this
extremes elsewhere would be exhausting is here perform­ crossing was a favorite place of attack, we decided as it
ed with little sense of fatigue.
was growing late, to pas8 the night in the prairie.
F razier & S on
Health and strength persist. The tide of life runs
“ In selecting our camp on Rogue river, we observed
high. Body and mind react to a stimulus that is more than the greatest caution. Cutting stakes from the limb of an
wine. Even the daring of youth is seen to persist close old oak that stood in the open ground we picketed our If it is anything in the
to the century mark, as Ezra Me, ker, 94, rises in an air­ horses wtih double stakes as firmly as possible. The FEED line, we have it.
plane for a transcontinental flight.
horses were picketed in the form of a hollow square, out­ Mill run, $1.65. Why pay
The climate o the Oregon country is kind.—Portland side of which we took up our positions. We kept vigil-
more?
Journal.
lant guard during the night, and the next morning could Hay feed $1.50 per sack
see the Indians occupying the same position as at dark. Clieero Egg Mash $3.15
WHY DO NOT VOTERS VOTE?
There had been a very heavy dew and fearing the effect
per sack
(Roseburg News-Review)
of dampness on our fire-arms, which were muzzle-loaders, Oyster Shell $1.50 per
A big campaign is being conducted to get a larger of course, and some of them with flint-locks, we fired
sack
proportion of the voters to the polls at the coming elec­ them off and re-loaded. In moving forward we formed Good Flour $1.95 per 49
tion. The more the figures showing the number of non- two divisions with the pack-horses behind. On reaching
lb. sack
voters are studied, the more astonishing they seem. It is the riverbank the front division fell behind the pack- The best Flour $2.15 per
8 most surprising thing, that the proportion who vote has horses and drove them over, while the rear division faced
49 lb. sack
been steadily growing less. Where only 20 per cent of the brush, with guns in hand, until the front division was We still have some alfalfa
qualified voters failed to vote in 1896, there were 51 per safely over, then they turned about, and the rear division
hay at $20.00 per ton.
cent who thus failed to exercise the suffrage in 1920.
passed under the protection of their rifles. The Indians
Why have the voters thus lost interest! Probably watched the performance from their places of conceal­
in many minds jj is due to a general disgust with all po- ment, but there was no chance for them to make an attack Phone 214— 858 E. Main St.
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OVER TO AUTHORITIES
IN OREGON FO R TRIAL
YREKA, Cal., Oct. 4. — W ith
the authorities of two states
seeking him and his prelim inary
hearing set at Dorris, Charles
Buchter, alias Charles Bushter
and Charles B. C. Barton, was
turned over to Klam ath Falls
authorities.
When Buchter appeared for
hearing at Dorris yesterday,
Lowe of Klam ath County urged
the authorities to surrender him
so th a t he m ight be tried in the
Oregon courts. This was done
with the consent of C. E. John­
son, district attorney of Siskiyou
county.
Always
a warm house
R adiator heat keeps the
house warm no m atter how
cold it is outdoors.
Stoves and other old-fash­
ioned heaters, even when
watched constantly, will not
keep even tem peratures. Steam
hot w ater or vapor heat keeps
even tem peratures on two or
three firings a day.
S ee us and learn how eco­
nom ical it, is to have radiator
heat.
As soon as Buchter has paid
his debt to society in K lam ath
Falls, where he is alleged to have
floated $300 w orth of bad checks
he will be returned to Chico where
a sim ilar charge has been pend-
Truth and Boasting
O regular fellow likes to boast,
1 ~ hut every man should have
courage enough to tell the truth.
This bank believes that it is the
s.mple truth and not boastfulness
uhen it claims that it is equipped
properly to take care of any
amount, large or small.
The Citizens Bank of Ashland
Ashland, Oregon
F or Economical Transportation
100 HOUR
Endurance and
Economy Run
October 7 th to 11th
Starts Promptly
Jerry O’Neal
Plumbing
Heating
207 E. Main
P h on e 138
WRIGLEYS
aftereoerym eal
C le a n s e s m o n th a n d
te e th a n d a id s d ig e s tio n .
R e lie v e s t h a t o v e r ­
e a te n f e e lin g a n d a c id
m o n th .
Its 1 - a - s - t - I- n - g fla v o r
s a tis fie s th e c r a v in g fo r
s w e e ts .
W r l g l e y ’ s Is d o a b le
v a lu e l n th e b e n e lit a n d
p le a s u re I t p ro v id e s . *
ing against him since 1919. Saa
j Francisco authorities also hold a
bad check charge against the man,
filed this Spring. He has been
in the same trouble in Yuba and
j Pluma counties in recent years.
8 a. ni., October 7th
from
Medford from Patton-Robison,
in conjunction with Chevrolet
dealers of the valley.
Automotive Shop
Ashland
S au ltd in it» Purity
P a ck a g i.
Watch this great demonstration of
“ Economical Transportation,” which
will go through Ashland at regular
intervals.
Don’t Be Fooled!
With a made-over heating
stove — imitating in name
and appearance — the
Allen Parlor Furnace
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We are the distributors in our city.
The Parlor Furnace is a brand new heating development—a wonderful stove
that does the work of two or three ordinary stoves or five or six grates. I t ’s a
small Furnace to he placed above the floor. There are many imitations on the
market. As is the usual case many imitations quickly followed the announce­
ment of this important invention in the stove industry. Many stoves made to
look like this are nothing more than made-over heaters—they have none of the
essential features required for heating several connecting rooms the furnace
way,
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We Have It.
FURNACE?
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