Isä L iM bÀüi Monílrty, Ovtàbcr 1Ú, ÍÓ2Í ®«Í6Ü 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. “ — — — — - — — — 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. . * / 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