Isä L iM
bÀüi
Monílrty, Ovtàbcr 1Ú, ÍÓ2Í
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to California in separate trains, among them was the ill-] throughout the eountry, where wv
GROUP INSURANCE
This form of insurance for workers was the inven- fated “ Donner party,” of whom so many perished from iave ' lßlte
ASH LAND DAILY T ID IN G S
(E stab lish ed in 1 8 ? 6 )
tion of an employer. 2,250,000 laborers now enjoy the ben- starvation and exposure on the mountains. The greater
'efits in 8,000 groups, each carrying 50 or more employes, part of the remainder of those gathered at Fort Hall fol-
P ub lished E very E ven in g E xcept Sunday by
THE ASHLAND. PRINTING CO.
The expense in many cases by the wholesale method lowed the old trail down the Snake and Columbia rivers-]
B ert R. Greer ..........................................................................................Editor costs employers about 1 per cent on the payrolls- in many suffering the usual hardships of the trip.. The remainder'
George Madden Green ......—.............................................Business Manager
consisting of forty-two wagons and one hundred and
instances less than 20 cents a week.
OFFICIAL CITY PA PER ...... - ........ -...................................Telephone 39
This kind of insurance is especially beneficial to fifty people took the new route, with the Applegate pilots.|
E ntered a t th e A shland, Oregon P o sto ffice as Second C lass Mall M atter,
women and children, as the census tells u§ we have 8,000,- They could not have dreamed that through that gap across
Subscription P rice, D elivered in City
$ .65 000 women wage earners and 35 per cent of American ern Nevada for want of water and pasturage until they
One Month ...
Three Month«
3 & ¡widows are left in want^ A widow with children considers reached Goose lake, after passing which they entered
Btx Months ...
7.50 $1000 to $5000 insurance carried by the employer a god forests interspersed with glades and here and there!
One Year .......
grassy valleys and an abundance of water. From Goose
Mail and R ural R ou tes
? .65 send.
One Month ........................................................................................
This forward step has been taken by private insur lake to Tule lake they had much roughs rocky country to
Three Months .......................................................................................
*
Six Months .......................................—..... -...........................................
3 50 ance companies for which the taxpayers are not asked to cross but were not interfered with by the Indians, though,
6.50
One Year
as subsequent events showed they were passing through
contribute a penny.
D ISPLA Y ADVERTISING RA TES
In the same way insurance companies are able to a land infested by the most ferocious savages on the coast.
? .30
Single Insertion, per inch ..........................................................
They passed through the “ Lower Klamath lake country,”
Yearly Contracts
.27% carry large groups of employes with casualty insurance
One insertion a week ....................... ...................................- ......
.25
at lower rates and give quicker service than state com dodging marshes, passing around lakes and crossing-
Two insertions a week — .............................................................
.20
streams and sloughs in their approach to the Cascade
Daily insertion ............................... ...................... -............ ...........
missions can.
R a tes for L egal and M iscellaneous A dvertising
mountains where they entered the great forest that lies
F irst insertion, per 8 point line ................................................. $ .10
.05
between the Klamath couhtry and Rogue River valley,
Each subsequent insertion, 8 point line ..... - f - - ..................................
BUSINESS GOES FORWARD
Card of Thanks ................................................................................
.02%
For about three months in the midst of a presidential after crossing the Klamath river. They now had about
O bituaries, per line ............................................. ______________________
election year, stocks and bonds have been advancing, pay forty miles of thia great forest, that had never before
W H AT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING
“All fu ture events, where an admission charge is made or a rolls are on the increase, industries show an upward trend been entered with wagons or white families. The immi
collection taken is Advertising.
and the market price of’farm products has been steadily grants had become skilled to sucli problems as they en
No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
“ —
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—
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improving (Western wheat gone to $1.50 a bushel,) gen countered and they were guided by men of courage- hu
No donations to charities or otherwise will be made In advertis eral conditions in these matters in presidential years manity and spirit, and at last stood at the last summit,
ing or job printing— our contributions will be In cash.
now known as Green Spring Mountain and looked into
heretofore being just the opposite.
(X TO B ER 1»
The American people seem to have outlived any tear the beautiful valley of Rogue River.
SIN SEPARATES:— Your iniquities have separated between
(To be Continued)
you and your God, a-id your sins have hrd his face from you, th at that business or industries can any longer be seriously af
he will not hear.— Isaiah 59:2.
PRA Y ER:— Dear Lord, we thank Thee th a t when our sin sep fected by national political campaigns.
are not hampered by party pre
arated us from our Heavenly F ather. Thou didst come and make
Where there is full public discussion under our free
judices.
atonem ent for us th at we m ight again be at one with Him.
institutions and an elastic constitution that cannot easily
“ I am interested, first, in peace
be tampered with or overthrown,-our institutions are
and law enforcem ent. The other
OREGON IS PROSPEROUS
parties both are intentionally mis
safeguarded.
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/
leading The People, because they
The statement issued a few days ago, which showed
apparently have no idea of keep
that more than 500 new families had settled in Oregon
The Republicans will not have any national candi
ing th eir pledge. In other words
during September, that retail sales had increased 6.7 dates at all if the other parties’ candidates do not stop
their platform s are meaningless.
per cent, bank deposits jumped 7.83 per cent, postal re demanding the withdrawal of the Republicans.
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 11. — I am appealing to women for the
ceipts showed 13.47 higher than the previous September
“W oman’s place in tlie home is support of an honest cause be
cause as m others they should be
and that the buying power of the farmer has increased
An exchange says the old fashioned bathing suits at not alone th a t of housewife and even
more Interested In It. And
from 10 to 25 per cent, is an indication of the general least looked wetter when the bather came out of the m other; she m ust take an active I do believe they are more anx
p a rt in the affairs of the nation
prosperity and development which this state is expel - water.
in order to make the world a bet ious to have a clean governm ent
iencing and which should continue for many y ears.
te r place to live in.“. So says Mrs. than men.
Oregon is not as thickly settled as the land and op
A western poet begins a recent poem with this line: B urton K. W heeler, wife of the “ I am enjoying my campaign
immensely, m ore than
portunities will justify and it is only a matter of years “ Come, Gay harbinger of the fall!” Ah, yes, she means senator from Montana, who is I activities
can
say.
And one of the chief
campaigning w ith h er husband
until this disparity in population and opportunities will a cold in the head.
reasons is in the superior wo
throughout the United States.
be overcome
“ W omen,” she said, “ a re im manhood backing the campaign
POLITICS, S A YS
WHEELER’S WIFE
• KEEP THE ROAD OPEN
The announcement that the Ashland-Klamath high
way may he kept open throughout the winter can be re
ceived with only one answer: “ Keep it Open.”
Ashland aiid Klamath Falls, two of' the most im
portant cities in southern Oregon, should have an easy
way of communication during all 12 months of the year.
The Ashland-Klamath highway has been improved at
great expense and it should be kept open to traffic
throughout the entire year so that Ashland- and all the
rest of southern Oregon, could easily visit our neighbor
ing city, and vice versa.
(
Pioneering in Southern Oregon
by G. B. Watson
(Continued from Monday)
p o rtan t in politics because they
are fairer, are not inclined to be
prejudiced by offices and are
therefore able to see straight
through to the man himself. They
On the morning of June 29th, we passed over a low
range of hills, from the summit of which we had a splen*
did view of Rogue River valley.” (This is what is now
known as Blackwell’s Hill, where the Pacific Highway
crosses into the main Rogue River valley east of where
Gold Hill now is, and, furnishes one of the finest views
to he had of tliis beautiful region.) Continuing, the nar
rator says: “ It seemed like a great meadow interspersed
with groves of oaks which appeared like vast orchards.
All day we travelled over rich black soil covered with
OUR ' OLICY NON-PARTISAN
rank grass, clover and pea-vine, and at night camped
The Daily T ings has been besieged with articles near the other party on the stream now known as Emi
and psuedo news ories about the various national can grant creek, near the foot of the Siskiyou mountains.
didates for publication.
This night, the Indians having gone to the mountains to
The Tidings would be delighted to publish all of ambush the French company as we afterward learned, we
these if conditions permitted, but this can not be done. were not disturbed. Here our course diverged from that
Thus, a fair and impartial policy of refusing to give|of the other company, they followed the old California
prominence to any candidate lias been carried out by this ¡trail over the Siskiyous, while our route was eastward
newspaper for years and will be continued.
I through an unexplored region several hundreds of mile's.
The owners and employes of Tlie Tidings, of course, [n extent.
have their political affiliations, but the editorial policy]
“ Spending most of the day in examining tlie hills
and news policy of the newspaper is non-partisan.
about the stream now oalled Keene creek, near the sum
mit of the Siskiyou ridge, we moved on down through the
GIVING TRAFFIC SIGNALS
[heavy forest of pine, fir and cedar, and camped early in
That the safety campaign for the education of the ^ie evening, in a little valley, now known as Round
students as to what the traffic rules and regulations re-1 1™™- On the morning of July First, being anxious to
quire is proving beneficial, is evidenced by the fact that | know what we were to find ahead, we made an early start,
youthful bicycle riders in making turns in the down-1 This morning we observed the track of a lone horse lead-
town district have been noticed to give the proper sig-1»« eastward, flunking it had been made by some Indian
horseman, on his way from Rogue river to the Klamath
nais, just like their dads in automobiles give.
It has not been an unusual sight to sec a vontli rid- country, we undertook to follow it. This we had no
ing a bicycle dasli across a street in violation of tlie traf- trouble “ d<lln& as ‘‘ had been made in the spring, while
fic rules or to flagrantly violate the rule requiring an aim »lie ground was damp and was very distinct, until we
signal when thev make a turn. The result has been sev- « “ne to a very rough rocky ndge where we lost it.
’ !
“ On July Third, we appeared to have found a prac
eral accidents when cars would run down the bicycle
tical pass and camped in a small, rich, grassy valley
riders.
The fact that the vonths are taking the campaign through which ran a small stream. Tins valley is now
seriously is commendable and- if all bicycle riders will known as Long Prairie After crossing the summit of
continue to give the proper signals in traffic, accidents the-Cascade ridge, the descent was, m places very rapid.
At noon we came out into a glade where there was water
will be greatly reduced.
Incidentally, it might he well to mention here that and grass and from which we could see the Klamatli river,
entirelv too many older persons are prone to violate these After noon we moved down through an immense forest,
same traffic regulations. In places where the street is principally of yellow pine, to the river; thence up along
narrow and where parked automobiles on each side of the ‘he north bank of the river, through this splendid forest
street leaves only room for ears to pass in the open part lfur several miles when we crossed the stream at some
of the road, which greatly increases the hazard, adults rapids, just below where the present village of Keno
are continuously cutting across tlie street and endanger-stands. From higher ground here, the party had a splen
did view of the ‘Lower Klamath lakes, swamps and coun
ing their lives.
it is not alone the youngsters who should pay s t r i c t e r n a r r a t o r says: It was an exciting moment,
attention to the traffic regulations, hut the adults could I after the many days spent in the dense forests and among
™
I A nn lo m a
r» n
ri /-xl zv
v»4"<r h n n lz A
T Ir w
mountains, and 4- the
whole
party
broke forth i n in cheer n after
take the campaign seriously as well.
cheer.”
We will have occasion to travel more with these ad-
NEWSPAPERS AND CRIME
1 venturers in their effort to find a more suitable route
Some recent statistics show that big metropolitan jn^0 Oregon, and will see them leading the first wagon
newspapers are devoting as high as 31.6 per cent of their train that ever Evaded Southern Oregon. From their
news space to crime.
crossing of Klamath river they turned south along the
Important industrial and world news about progress west side of the “ Lower Klamath lakes” to its southern
and development is crowded out with sensational matter extremity, thence easterly around its southern shore to
that tends to develop more crime.
[Lost river and the Tule lake country where long years
In a southern Illinois town the other day the mer-j afterward were to be enacted that heart breaking series
chants met and asked the local paper to print less about !of tragedies leading up to and terminating with the Modoc
crime and give more constructive news.
war in 1872-3.
This criticism is not well founded if aimed at the
Chapter Three
country weeklies i id small city dailies that reach about
The Applegate party continued their exploration of
60 per cent of the people.
To gain circulation and make a little more money by the southern trail eastwardly to Fort Hall, where they
degradation of the reading matter that goes into the home| found a large number of emigrants, which is reported
is a crime in itself against the purity of the thought in | numbered two thousand people, with 470 teams and 1050
the household circle.
[cattle. About half of these people took the Humbolt route
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everywhere. Women who have
never voted before are not only
voting but taking active part. It
is not alone so in the W est but
T H E THEATER BEAUTIFUL
TOMORROW WEDNES
DAY and THURSDAY
Finishing
TODAY
“The
Marriage
Circle”
“Plastigrams”
BENZ SPRINGS
and carry a good assortment in stock
M
These are the best winter
potatoes and undoubtedly
the lowest price we will
have this fall So get your
supply now.
Plaza Market
61 N. Main
WWGlilRS
¿After every meal
A p le a s a n t
an d a g r e e a b le
sw eet and • •
1 -a -s -t-l-n -g
b e n e fit ns
w e ll.
G ood fo r
te e th . b r e a th
a n d d ig e s tio n .
M a k e s th e
n e x t c ig a r
ta s te b e t t e r .
I brought a truck load of bar
gain counter goods from P ort
land la st w eek, all of which
- w i ll be sold accordingly. A uto
R obes, W ade D ragsaw , H a lt
ers, and lots of arm y goods.
Com e in early w h ile they last.
PEIL’S CORNER
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FRAZIER and SON
Hay and Grain
Chicken Feed
Fiour — Groceries
z*
FRAZIER and SON
Phone 214
3 5 3 E. Main Street
SMALL TIMBER OWNERS
Wouldn’t you like to spfend your winter months
*
Profitably?
H A R R IS O N BR O S.
will be glad to show you how you can install a small
FORDSON-DRIVEN sawmill at a nominal cost that
will cut from 5,000 to 10000 feet per day with only
one man to operate it.
We will he glad to give you the details of this
equipment if you will call at our office.
“HINT’S CRATERIAN”
We are Headquarters for the celebrated
I M
$2.25 per 100
5 sack lots $2.15
ANNOUNCE THE OPENING
of
OESER’S ASHLAND SERVICE
STATION
M
TH E ASHLAND FU R N IT U R E
C O M PAN Y•
8 3 N. Main
Geo.
z A. Hunt & ( ’o.
the picture with the third
dimension. You’ll be sur
prised.
Drama
in dark and light finishes
from $15 to $30
Yes, The Best No. 1
Netted Gem Potatoes
Also
Comedy
Cedar Chests
Harrison Bros.
a mighty
Clever
The handiest furniture
about the house
Potatoes
H. A. Stearns
Clasainea a le bring raaults.
THEATRE
Medford, Monday, October 20th
The Famous Star of Stage and Screen
ELLIOTT DEXTER
in the Spoken Drama
THE HAVOC”
A Modern Comedy Drama in Three Acts
By H. S. Sheldon
Prices, the same as San Francisco,
Portland and Seattle
Alemite Greasing
Val voline
Lower Floor, 1st 17 rows $2.75— Next 6, $2.20 Balance
$1.65. Balcony, 1st 2 rows $1.65— Balance $1.10; includes
W ar Tax. Mail Orders accompanied by rem ittance filled in
order of receipt. Seats on sale at Rialto Theatre. Phone 4 90
Dr. Oeser and Son
Curtain 8:15
O
The Two Guards
HEN you have a safety de
posit box at this bank, not
only you are on guard, but the
bank is on guard? A our box can be
unlocked only with both keys. A
safety deposit box in this bank is
the best place for your valuables.
W
HEAT
Is Certain
when you have installed
in your home a
U N IV E R S A L
Heater
one of the surest and
most even-burning heat
ers on the market.
' $5 down and balance on
easy terms
USE YOUR CREDIT
The Citizens Bank of Ashland
Ashland, Oregon
Swenson &
Peebler
FurnitureCo.