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ASHLAND
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T ID I N G S |» eede<i «tensions
when practically all other avenues Original California Poppv Chorus with King’s 1925 Revue
Were closed. It now has nearly 40,000 stockholders, most-1
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ly in California. How this has been accomplished by the*
P ublished E very E vening Except Sunday by
the public utilities is best expressed in a quotation fronU'
THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
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(EstabUshed in 1876)
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“ J lie more people a company can persuade to think
iavorably of its business, the faster it will grow’. As a man
thinks, so will he talk and a company with pleased cus
tomers will have more persons working overtime for it
whose names do not appear on the payroll.”
SUGGESTIONS FOR ACCIDENT PREVENTION
Secretary Hoover, in an address before the National
D ISPL A Y A D V E R T ISIN G R A T E S
t u .g l e In se rtio n , p e - inch ______ _____ ?.................... ....................
Conference on Street and Highway Safety, asked fo / the
$ .30
Y early C ontracts
co-operation of all interests in an effort to reduce the now
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.2 7 %
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rapidly increasing number of deaths and injuries due to
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traffic accidents. He stated’that there were 22,000 such
R ates for L egal and M iscellaneous A dvertising
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deaths and 678,000 serious injuries last year and that
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nearly 80 per cent of the highway accidents were due to
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Here is a suggestion for lessening accidents. In the
W H A T C O N ST ITU TES A D V E R T ISIN G
At the VINING TODAY and TOMORROW
“ AU f u tu r e e v e n ts, w h e re a n ad m issio n c h a rg e is m ad e or a old days, a road was rounded up like a railroad grade
t< ttectio n ta k e n Is A d v e rtisin g .
with deep ditches on each side. Probably two teams
No d isc o u n t w ill be allo w e d R elig io u s o r B e n e v o len t o rd e rs.
passed at a pace of about three or four miles an hour mountain and by his acts of brigandage drove the whites
DONATIONS
No d o n a tio n s to c h a ritie s o r o th e rw ise w ill be m ad e in a d v e r tis on every five-mile stretch. Today our modern highway to desperation. The more war-like of the Indians belong
ing o r jo b p r in tin g — o u r c o n trib u tio n s w ill be in cash.
grades are largely the same, with a strip of pavement in ing to each of these savage hands were constantly engaged
the center on which scores of automobiles pass in a mile in effoits to organize all of them into a war of extermina
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE OR EQUAL TAXATION
traveling
at a rate of spee^ varying from 25 to 45 lhiles tion against the whites. This, however, seemed to he op
An eastern bond house specializing in government
bonds has issued an exhaustive statement showing why an hour. With good driving, there are not accidents. posed b\ Sam and Joe, the chiefs of the Rogue Rivers.
Their el forts seem to have been responsible for the
this type of bonds should be tax free. After reading it Misjudgment one way or another, however, and an auto-
horrible massacres of immigrants at Bloody Point and
nil over one is impressed with the fact that the arguments mobel crashes with another ear ro goes in the ditch.
Instead of digging ditches on each side of the road, about I ule lake and the mouth of Lost river, which oc
presented are largely in the interest of the holders of tax-
exempt bonds and not in the interest of the taxpayer who use the same labor and extend the grade and the culvert curred in 1852. Though these points were just south of
must dig up exhorbitant tatxes in order that the income coverings' irom the edge of the pavement at 'za gentle the Oregon line, in California, they necessarily became a
from billions of these bonds outstanding may go abso slope to the fence row on each side. In Qther words, have part of our story. In fact a larger part of the tragedies
the curve of the road more like a street. This is possible of that year were initiated in Northern California, but
lutely tax free.
along
90 per cent of the highways at no additional ex crossed the line by possies in search of the desperados en
The statement claims that taxation of the income de
rived from public bonds would cause a higher interest pense. 1 bus is the tendency for ears to crowd in the gaged in stirring'up trouble with the hands of ‘‘Joe and
center relieved and consequently the danger of accidents Sam” at Table Roek. The immediate cause of the trouble
rate that would have to be paid by every one.
is lessened.
of this year of 1852, was the killing of Calvin Woodman
At the present time the difference in the interest rate
All the rules, regulations and laws thal can he passed in Seotts valley by two Indians near Indian creek. This
between tax-exempt bonds and taxable bonds of standard
issues is stated by ‘‘The Bond Buyer” to be only about will he ol little or no avail so long as any man or woman occurred in May or June and caused great excitement
1-2 of 1 per cent. Public bonds could always demand a can buy an automobile one .minute, step into the state among the miners of that region. Two Indians were,
lower rate of interest than private bonds because public licensing department and get a permit to drive the next known to have been guilty of this act. The whites hur
bonds are the safest form of investment and stand as a minute, regardless of his familiarity with the ear, its op riedly gathered at Johnson’s ranch and fired at all Indians
mortgage against all the property in the district where eration or road rules. No other piece of machinery in the coming within their reach, thus making the friendly In
world is operated on such a haphazard basis. The marvel dians of Seotts valley to suffer for the acts of renegade
they are issued
is that instead of 22,000 deaths a vear, there are not 200 - Indians of some other tribe, supposedly Rogue Rivers.
Which is tiie worst: To have a possible slight addi 000
deaths.
These friendly Indians who had always demeaned them
tion in interest rate divided up among 110,000,000 ^people
Remove the cause and you will remove the accidents. selves with moderation and friendliness, were driven to
< r having nearly 110,000,000 people paying millions in
increased taxes in order that a small minority which owns Intermediary measures will he useless. Compulsory auto retaliation, and wounded S. G. Whipple, a deputy sheriff
billions of public bonds, the income from which is tax- mobile accident insurance, or worse yet, monopolistic state who later became a Captain in the Regular Arinv. Old’
exempt, may escape tax free. A democracy will survive automobile accident insurance, a suggested remedy, will Tolo, Tyee John of Seotts valley and Tvee Jim, offered
on a basis of equality and equal taxation, not by build simply encourage recklessness for it will tend to remove themselves as hostages to secure the whites against the
Shastas and accompanied Elija Steele to Yreka where the
ing up special privileges and tax exemptions for a few. restraint from an already careless person. *
real culprits were supposed to be. All were satisfied that’
A war isn’t over'until the coroner gets through with the Shastas Jiad nothing to do with the murder, and that
those who can’t return to normal.
PARTY RESPONSIBILITY
in all probability it was committed by Rogue River In
The issue of economy in publie affairs brought Pres
dians, who, it was claimed had been seen in the vicinity
ident Coolidge more votes from all parties than all the
American dyes may he getting better. For that mat and who had fled north to join Tipsu Tvee, or the hands
«•ther issues combined.
ter, the American colors never did run.
on Rogue river near Table Rock. There was much excite
Coolidge has courageously vetoed supposedly popu
ment about Yreka, and the court then being in session au
lar appropriation bills amounting to billions of dollars
There’s probably no way to find out,.hut we can’t thorized Steele to apprehend the suspected men, which
which were demanded at the hands of powerful organiza help wondering if Adam ever got bald.
it was thought could he easily accomplished.
tions, largely within his own party. But in spite of this,
The undertaking proved‘to be rather bigger job than
his honest and sincere demand for economy won him the
Congress in session again and not a single senator had been anticipated, and an expensive one for Steele
has yet been shot by dry agents.
immense popular vote.
which, lie asserted cost him $2,000, and he could find no
Will the administration in power for the next four
one to pay. However that may he, Steele with eleven
years heed this warning from the people who voted for
Of course the country is more prosperous. xWe have men, one Klickitat Indian and the hostages for the
Coolidge, as well as about 5,000,000 voters who cast their twice as much money and it buys half as much. ‘ • Shastas. proceeded to Rogue river in his search; taking
ballots for the Third Party, doubting both the old parties?
two Indian prisoners on his way. The first of these pris
The need for economy and tax reduction in state and
oners attempted to escape and was killed by the Klieki-'
Pioneering in Southern Oregon
national affairs is upi>ennost in the minds of the people
tat who was sent in pursuit of him. It was’later learned'
by C. B. Watson
and 'unless the two old parties recognize tins vital issue,
Jiat the dead man had been sent out from the Rogue
they will have serious trouble in 1928. *
Rivers to pursuade the Shastas to join in a general upris
(Continued from January 3)-
Consider a few facts: According to Senator Borah, in
ing Against the whites. The other prisoner was well!
CHAPTER NINE
Scribner’s Magazine for January, in 1913 the state and
mounted, and was proved to he a son of Tipsu Tvee the
federal tax hill was $2,104,000,000 and eight years later The chief troubles with the Indians in 1852, including the savage chief that dwelt in the Siskiyous. They took’him
murder of Calvin Woodman in Seotts valley. Steeles with them and learning* that D ip t •P YUflG •»
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this bill was $7,061,000,000. In 1913, 6.4 per cent of the
national income went for taxes and in 1922 we were tak
ing 12.1 per cent. In 1894, taxes were $12.50 per capita
and in 1923, they were $68 per capital
ture and execution. Uprising against immigrants at for Southern Oregon, by whom Steele was requested to
In the past ten years, state taxes increased from 100
Bloody Point. Ben Wright punishes savages at cam}) at Big Bend where lie had arranged for a confer
to 350 per cent; and the farmer’s tax bill, compared to
Bloody Point; Modocs and Piutes.
his income, amounted to 16.6 per cent of his entire income,
ence of whites and Indians the next day.
t hi top of this, the farmer and livestock man saw railroad
(To be Continued)
The episodes related in the preceding chapter, __
em-
taxes increase from $272 per mile in 1902 to $1,241 ner bracing a short but spirited campaign against the Rogue
mile in 1922.
S teel b rid g e a c ro ss
River Indians, led by Major Kearney and General Joe M ad ras
Lane, followed by a treaty with Govqmor Gaines consti D e sc h u te s riv e r re p la c in g old
w ooden sp an a t L ow er B ridge.
CUSTOMER OWNERSHIP
tuted the main events of 1851, the year of discovery of Gold B each — C u rry c o u n ty
FULLER
This term means ownership of a modem public utility ^old at Rich Gulch, hut ante-dating that event. Later in
a ssessed v a lu a tio n is $5 ,7 3 7 ,9 9 8 ,
Paints, Varnishes and
or other industry by the customers and employes in the that j eai a great rush followed that discovery and threw 415,000 m o re th a n in 1923.
Kalsomines
territory it serves. Customer ownership has brought the Indians into a panic of apprehension, which was great-
applied by good workmen
about tme public ownership by the people most directly b nggiavated by the lawless acts of bad men who always
interested.
guarantee beauty jmd
swarm to the front on such occasions. It will be out of Makes Autos Go 49 Miles
durability
The Southern California Edison Company recently thq question that we should attempt to record all of the
on One Gallon of Gas
offered $10,000,000 of its 7 per cent preferred stock to the lawless acts of both whites and Indians. There were cer SIOUK FA L L S, S. D ak.— J a m e s
people in its territory. To distribute this stock, it relied tain had Indians who kept themselves in the shelter of A. M ay of 1239 L aco tali B ldg.,
h a s p e rfe c te d an a m a z in g new d e
J. O. RIGG
chiefly on the co-operation of its customer partners and the mountains ready to take advantage of any party of vice t h a t c u ts dow n g as co n su m p
the attractiveness of the investment possibilities residing whites that came within their reach. One such band was tio n , rem o v e s a ll c a rb o n , p re v e n ts
s p a rk p lu g tro u b le a n d o v e rh e a t
in Edison shares.
M any c a rs h a v e m ad e o v er
led by a chief called ‘‘Tipsu Tyee,” that occupied the ing.
The Edison management estimates that every seventh deeps of tjie Siskiyou mountains, between the Klamath 49 m iles on a g a llo n . A ny one
in sta ll it in five m in u te s. Mr.
family in Southern and Central California includes an liver and the Rogue River valley, who constantly and can
M ay w a n ts a g e n ts , a n d is o ffe rin g
send one fre e to one a u to ow n-
owner ot Edisoil stock. The average ownership for each stubbornly refused to treat with the whites, and'many to
• r in each lo c a lity .
W rite h im
stockholder is from seven to 10 shares. Four thousand acts of barbarity were laid at his door. It was this band lo d ay .
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employes, or the “ backbone of the company,” own $7- that infested the California trail across the Siskiyous,
000,000 of the stock.
and in the mountains between Bear creek and the Apple-
The American Telephone and Telegraph Comprny gate and operating across the mountain to the Klamath
has an investment of $2,500,000,000,. of which one-third river and the mines in the neighborhood of Yreka, This
nas been supplied by stockholders. The twenty-second of hand seemed to operate independently of the other'tribes, I REASONABLE — HOMELIKE
CURED WITHOUT SURGERY
fer to stockholders was made last May, amounting to while at the same time attempting to stir up trouble be
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8151,157,500 par value. Stockholders now number 340,- tween the other tribes and the whites.
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recoginzed as so successful, is non-
i surgical. No inconveniences, embarrass-
000 and the average ownership is 26 shares.
As the year 1852 brought a constant increase of A Good T h in g - D O N n M ISS IT. ! mentsor confinement during treatments
It is estimated that 185 electric light and power com miners and settlers, there also occurred more frequent d})-
One may come and go about his duties J
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as usual. Relief is apparent from th e ! y
panies, supplying 10,878,019 customers, have sold 5 047 - poitunity to cut off small parties, wdio, in the excitement Band your name ami address plainly very
first, and I positively GUARAN- t
written together with 5 cents (and thu
407 shares to 652,910 "stockholders under the customer
TEE to cure any case of Piles or refiind *
•hp)
Chamberlain
Medicine
Co.,JDei
of the times, wandered into the mountains or about the Moines, Iowa, and receive in return > the patient’s fee.
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ownership plan.
valley, without adequate care or protection. The unrest (rial package containing Chamberlain
I f you w ill w rite to me 1 X
Managers of public utility companies, in eight years among the Indians increased and emmissaries were con Cough Remedy for coughs, colds, croup
w ill send you m y F R E E ♦
bronchial, “flu” and whooping coughs
book on Piles and other j
have sold 43,000,000 preferred shares to 81,000 purchasers,’ stantly passing between the Rogue Rivers on the north, and
tickling throat: Chamberlain’« Stom
R ectal and C o lo n disor
43 per cent of whom were customer owners.
ach and Liver Tablet« for stomach trou
ders.
and the Shastas, Seotts river and Klamath river Indians, e^ 1*n*“ 8eatjon, gassy pains that crowc
The Pacific Gas and Electric Coinpahy of San Fran south of the Siskiyous in California. Tipsu Tyee of the ,)*
the heart, -biliousness end constipation
cisco was probably the originator of customer ownership Siskiyous, scoured the mountains and trails between the Chamberlain’s Salve, needed in ever»
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family tor burns, scalds, wounds, pile*
SEA TTLE OFFICES:
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808-812 Sbafar Buildmo T
during the war when it raised millions in this manner for Rogue rivers and the mining camps on both sides of the and skin affections; these valued family
medicines for only 5 cents. Don’t znùb it
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ITALY IN UPROAR SAY
private dispatches
JA C K SO N V IL L E , J a n .
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, CouDty a u th o r itie s u n d e r th e d i
rec tio n of th e s h e riff and th e dfe-
! tr ic t a tto r n e y S a tu rd a y m o rn in g
d u m p ed in to th e sew er a t J a c k
so nville a six m o n th s ’ co llectio n of
liq u o r p s one of th e la s t official
a c ts of th e ir te rm s of office. T his
in clu d es 9S b o ttle s of w h isk ey and
gin fo u n d in th e c a r o f A rth u r
P a g e a f te r itJs d e a th p lu n g e o v er
th e S isk iy o u s last O ctober, and
la rg e b a tc h e s of m o o n sh in e th a t
c a rrie d d e a th a n d w orse In every
b o ttle .
O ne b y s ta n d e r to o k a
sw ig of th e gin a n d w as re w a rd
ed w ith a
re p ro a c h fu l
g lan ce
from th e d is tr ic t a tto rn e y , w ho
is now lo o k in g fo r a s e c t'o n of
th e s ta tu te s c o v e rin g th e offense.
P ris o n e rs in th e c o u n ty ja il view
ed th e p ro ce e d in g s from th e b a r
red w indow s a n d so m e oF th e
e ig litse e rs e x p re sse d re g r e t an d
som e rejo ice d .
LONDON, J a n . 6. — P riv a te
advices from Ita ly received to
day said th a t th e in te rn a l s itu
a tio n th e r e w as e x tre m e ly se rio u s
w ith F a s c is ts, - a n d a n ti - F a s
cists in th e s m a lle r to w n s a ro u se d
to a h ig h
p itch. C o n flicts a re
lik e ly to b rea k o u t a n y m in u te,
and it is re p o rte d t h a t P re m ie r
M ussolini p lan s to c re a te a d i
re c to ry th e re to im pose m a rtia l
law to b rin g o r d e r to Ita ly .
A COUGH REM EDY
W ITHOUT OPIATES
M any cough p re p a ra tio n s con
ta in one o r m ore h a rm fu l d ru g s
w hich a re ad d ed to ta k e th e place
ol o p iate s. N one of th e s e n a rc o
tic s u b s titu te s h a v e e v e r been
used in F O L E Y S HONEJY AND
TA R COMPOUND. T he n a m e of
e v e ry in g re d ie n t is p lain ly p r in t- ’
ed on ev e ry c a rto n .
You know
w h a t you a re ta k in g w hen you
ta k e F o le y ’s. I t clin g s to th e
th ro a t. Good fo r old a n d young.
Y ou h a v e a cough, w hy n o t try
it. R e fu se s u b s titu te s .
WET WEATHER
Shoes and Boots
Weyenbergs,
of Course
OVERLAND
Shoe Shop
Meats Differ
in flavor, manner of cut
ting and in other, wavs.
We give the selection and
handling of all meats the
closest attention, which
guarantees the best qual
ity meats when you order
AMERICAN
Hammered Piston Rings
PERFECTION
” Silent Timing Gears
FARR AN-011)
Fan Belts
DETROIT
Springs
MeQUAY-NORRIS
1 iston Pins and Bearings
WHITNEY
Silent Drive Chains
For Every Car
FROM
Eagle Market
LEEDOM’S TIRE and
REPLACEMENT PARTS
SERVICE
A cross fro m th e new
9-.story H otel
ADVICE THAT WILL
SAVE YOU
LOSS
ANEW
Chevrolet
is coming
Many important new fea
tures
Watch for Annuoncement
You must he absolutely
certain that your insur
ance fits your needs; that
you are protected against
every possible loss.
O ur e x p e rts a re rea d y to
give you ju s t th is h e lp . T hey
know th e ris k s a n d h a z a rd s
th a t you face, an d how you
can be sa fe g u a rd e d a g a in s t
loss w ith policies
backed by
th e re so u rc e s of th e H a rtfo rd
F ire In su ra n c e C om pany.
T a lk w ith u s; m a k e c e rta in
y o u r in su ra n c e is rig h t.
Automotive Shop
I
C hevrolet and Dodge
Sale« and Service
Billings Agency
Estab. 1883
Real E state & Real Iaaurance
41 » . Main St.
P hene 211
FOR QUICK SALE
Winchester Shot Gun, 20-guage, fool-proof barrel;
lull choke; in perfect condition; pump action
A SNAP AT-$35.00
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See it at the
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ARMY GOODS STORE
Biggest Little Store in Town
F IR S T
C O N S ID E R A T IO N S
1 <•
. We -strive to give the kind of service that
one friend would naturally render to another
in time of need.
Ours is a friendly establishment. Every
member is here to give you courteous service,
and to make you feel that friendship and good
will are first considerations.
J. P. Dodge & Sons
Fuserai Directors
Day P h o n e 212— N ig h t P h o n e s 255-R an d
M rs. L ouis D odge, L ady A s s ista n t
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