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ASHLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925
NO. 14.3
Chautauqua Building Purchase Bonds Favored
Last Surviving
Lincoln Delegate
in 1860, Dies
His Old Tuxedo
as Office Coat
( Causes Comment
Men and Women in N*ws Spotlight
ROUTINE WORK
OCCUPIES CITY
■COUNCIL MEET
8
CHICAGO, Feb. 18. —
Addison B. Proctor, 87,
8 St. Joseph, Michigan, the
8 last surviving delegate to
81 the Republican national
8 convention
th a t
nomi­
Voters Overwhelmingly in Favor of Chautauqua P u r­ 8 nated Abraham Lincoln
chase, But Refuse to Vote Bonds for Addition to Camp ¡8 8 for president, died here
today at the home of
Grounds in Lithia Park. Other Means Must be De­ 8 early
h k grandson, Richard H.
vised for City Obtaining Extensions.
8 Proctor.
8
On Lincoln’s birthday a
8
few
years ago, Mr. Proctor
Ashland is to have the Chautauqua building as an
8 had addressed 500 chil­
addition to Lithia Park, while the McCormick tract is 8
dren and it lit believed
to either remain with the McCormick estate or be sold 1 8 th at this with other simi
to private individuals.
8 la r addresses made re­
The voters ot the city yesterday decided that city 8 cently had exhausted him.
Mr. Proctor attended
improvement bonds totaling $8,000 shall be issued fo ri*
the convention of 1860 a#
the purchase of the Chautauqua building and site, while
a delegate from Kansas.
the proposition calling for the issuance of $4,500 in city 8 He was only 21 years old
improvement bonds for the purchase of the McCormick 8 then but was head of the
tract to be added to .the present camp ground site in 8 Em poria, K ansas, land of­
8 fice, having moved to th a t
Lithia Park was defeated.
8 state
from
Gloucester,
The vote on the propositions was, Chautauqua pur­ 8 M assachusetts, hlv b irth ­
chase, Yes, 468. No, 253; McCormick tract addition, Yes 8 place. A fter Lincoln's
8 election, Proctor became
284, No, 360.
8 the P resident’s confiden­
Both propositions were given a favorable majority 8
tial agent in a num ber of
at the City Hall polls the voting place for the First P re­ 8 m atters.
n
8
CINCINATTI. O., Feb.
8
13. — Irving S. Cobb is
8 believed to hav* solved the
8 problem of w hat to do
8 with used safety ra to r 8j
8
Members Convention Body 8 blades when he advocated 8
dropping them in to the 8 Resolution Favoring- Denni»
Would Meet and Draw
8 Grand Canyon.
Bill Passage Is Given
8
Up Constitution
8
Now comes City Engin­ 8
Approval
8 eer Frank S. Krug, of 8
VOTED
ON
IN
1930 8 C J^cinnatt >vtth a sug­
8 GARBAGE QUESTION UP
8 gestion an to w hat to do 8
C ow gill’s Rill D efeated by H ou se|
O rdinance Placing M eter User» Ott
8 with old tuxedos. W earing 8
A fter |||> Asks for P assage
F lat R ate B asis for Part of
8 a tuxedo coat, K rug ap­ 8
anil Sem ite A ction
1 e*r I n D efeated
8 peared at a meeting of the 8
8 Rapid Transit Commission. 8
The adoption of a resolution,
S A I. EM. Feb. 18. — With only
8
Business was suspended 8 favoring the passage of the Den­
, the dissenting vote of Senator
8 until he could explain. *’I 8
nis bill by the state legislature,
Zimmerman opposing the meas­
8 am not insane, gentle­ 8
was the main Item of business
ure, the senate today passed the
j. bill approving the constitutional 8 m an,” he began. “ I am 8 acted upon by the city council a t
8 only
ingenious. I could 8 the regular meeting of that body
J ! convention.
The bill provides
8 not sell or give th l; coat 8
last night. Other routine m atters
: for the submission of the ques­
8 away. Glancing at myself 8
were acted upon, while several
tion to the peop e for their ra ti­
8 in a m irror the other day, 8
questions of
more importance,
fication or rejection, at the gen-j
8 I noticed th a t my office 8
were referred to the various com­
1 era! election in NbvpnUber 192«
8 coat was positively in 8 mittees.
;
If approved by the electorate,
8 rags. The happy thought 8
The Dennis bill calls for the
i sixty delegates to this convention
8 occurred to me th a t the 8 vote of the people of the state
will be elected. The election for
j choosing these delegates is to be 8 8 old tuxedo would make 8 upon a measure which would the
cn excellent substitute. 8 passage of income and inherit­
held at the same time as the gen­
8 And here I am .”
8
ance tax laws in the state. Four
eral e'eciion An 1928. These dele­
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
members of the council voted fa­
gates. are to he chosen from the
voring the passage of the reso­
same districts, and in the same
lution.
m anner as the members of the
The report of the library board
houtfe of representatives are at
was
ready by City Recorder Blede,
fife *-
b o o t h § i v y $ t . c i / a z i s ^
present selected by the people.
and was approved by the coun­
A •B 52A O Y ' £ JT B D -.E J/
z^zc,:
A fter this, body had convened
cil.
and drafted a new constitution
AM-®’-KrIin leader of the rebellious Moors and military genius,
The finance committee was in­
who has driven Spanish armies almost out of Morocco is reported in for the state, it will be present­
unconfirmed Melilla cables to have been killedI S Lattle Sh^rle? ed to the people for ratification
structed to Investigate the appli­
cation of O. G. Eubanks, city
in the general election in No­
when Eddie Garvie. her leading man, accidentally used a loaded instead vember. 1930.
treasurer, for ani increase in sal­
t h / £ m I n r i 6V°
Cllft0D Se,f’ aUOther a<*°r, through
ary. Although the City T reasurer
Jackson coumty’t pre-prim ary
a N p L
aud‘enc? A fter Hel«n M acK ellar retired as
is elected tQ office, his salary is
S~ r ° f a ..N^ , , T ° k Clty Production because, she declared it was "too
convention hill was today defeat­
off color." W illiam A. B radv. th e p ro d u c er «m im ated
ed by the house. Representative But One Real Bad Spot in fixed by ordinance.
.The application for the closing
Cowgill of Medford asked, before
Road Is Report of
of
Union Street between Auburn
S i a f m f t o ^ r ^ " • Ia,red NeW V o r k ' ^ ' X - l ' i l ’ G ^ d ^
the vote was taken, that the bill
Workmen
and
Iowa was referred to the
only
“ merchant, declared their acquaintance »•», he passed by the house and sent
will have to be issued immediately
street
committee.
The street
KLAMATH FALLS? Feb. 18.—
KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 18—
to the senate for further consid­
in order th a t a representative of
John Taylor, confessed mem­
eration and possible amendment. A shland-Klam ath Falls highway committee was also instructed to
the city may bid in on the build­
ber of the gang which on Ja n u ­
is in good condition and automo­ investigate th e possibilities for
ing a t the tim e it is sold by Sher­
a ry 4, killed Oscar Erickson d u r­
tive
traffic including stage ser­ Improving parking conditions in
BALL FUNERAL TO
iff Jenning on March 7.
The
ing a card room holdup here, was
BE HELD TOMORROW vice is not been held up to any the city, and - to have an ordin­
m atter will have to be rushed
yesterday afternoon sentenced by
extent by the few rough places on ance drawn up, to be presented a t
through, the Ibonds issued and
C ircuit Judge A. L. Leavitt to
Winfield Scott Ball who was the roads, is the report brought the next meeting of the council.
signed, and sold to some bonding
Since several of the members
serve 15 y e ars in the state peni­
born at
Bloomingburg,
Ohio, back to Klam ath by a nurpber of,
house in order th a t the money
tentiary and to pay a fine of
March 26, 1843, died here ar his &und|ay m otorists who took ad­ were opposed to the term s of the
may be available for use at the
>1000.
calling for
placing
home in Ashland Monday m orn­ vantage of bright sunshine t? take ordinance
■ale.
James Kelly of Santa Ana,
w
ater
consumers,
now
on
a
m eter
It was Taylor’s confession th at
ing. Mr. Ball served during ghe a drive on Klam ath state high­
Number
of
Mills
Alraedy
Operating,
While
Remainder
. It was understood th a t some
rate,
upon
a
flat
rate
basis
be­
Calif., H urt When Car
led to the a rrest of Pete Sullivan,
entire Civil W ar in the 20th Ohio ways.
private firm s were intending bid­
Clean Up and Make Preparations for Busy
Plunges Over Grade
Sim Pate and Johnny O’Shea in
Volunteer Infantry.
February
Officials of the state highway tween October l and May 3T1 of
ing upon the building a t the time
connection with the m urder, and
Season of Year
19, 1867- he was m arried at departm ent point out th at the each year, the m easure was vot-
of the sale, but stated th a t should
Jam es Kelly of Santa Ana, Cali- it was largely Taylor’s testim ony
Bloomington, Ohio, to Melissa roadbed has withstood th e ' on­ «ed down, and a now ordinance
the city vote the bonds th e y , fornia is in the Community Hos- in the trials of Sullivan and Pate
KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 18— week and the lumber mill will Larriiner. To this union five slaughts of inclement w eather ordered drawn up to be present­
would not compete with the city pital with a badly broken leg, j th a t led to their conviction.
The period of w inter hiberna­ open about the first of March. children were born, three of whom (thaw ing, raining and freezing) ed at the next meeting.
while his, companions, Claude!
in bidding for the structure.
A resolution, ratifying the ac­
The case of Pete Sullivan will tion for the logging camps and
This company has under con­ survive, Mrs. F. S. Moore of Em fa r better than was expected con- tion of the Mayor and City Re^-
The m ortgage against the Dickson, Howard Dickson. Par-j be appealed and a new trial ask^
lum ber mil»? of the Klam ath dis­ stru ctio n a number of new dwell­ m ett, Idaho, «Mrs. W. II. W enner ! sidering conditions, Only at the
building is held by Richard Bes- ley Heaston and Happy Sim psbn,! ed for, S. E. Jetm ore, Sullivan’s
trict has about reached its close, ing houses for w orkers at Chelsea. of Ashland, and II. M. Ball of Miller rock crusher on Spencer corder ,’.n signing the contract for
wick and it is to satisfy
his all of Santa Ana, m iraculously es- counsel paid yesterday. Ju st when
as spring operations will begin i Two hundred and fifty men will Kansas City, Mo. There are elev- ranch is the road in such con­ power with the California Oregon
claims, and safeguard the money caped serious injury and possible Jetm ore was unable to say, b u t he
Power Company was passed. This
in practically all th e mills and be employed by the Shaw-Bert­ en grandchildren and six great dition th at an automobile might
he has loaned the Southern Ore­ death, as the result of an automo has 60 days in which to appeal
contract
is for the purchase of
camps within the next two or ram company when in full oper­ grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Ball become stuck, and then
only
gon C hautauqua Association that bile accident on the Siskiyous last The appeal will have to be car­
power which is to be sold to the
three weeks. During the period ation.
came to Ashland in 1905 for his when the driver steers out of the
th e building will be sold.
Mr. night.
California
Oregon Box ar/i Lum­
ried before Judge Thom as at Med­ of inactivity repairs have been
The Big Lakes Box company health. They were members of ruts.
The men were driving through ford.
Beswick, according to officials of,
ber Company at their plant, here.
made in the different plants and will start the saw mill next Mon- the local Methodist church.
For a distance of 100 feet,
the association,
has been very
The question of leasing the
Sim P ate’s case will also prob­
(Continued on Page F o u r)
in
many
cases
new
m
atchinery
in­
Funeral
services
will
be
held
where
there is a base failure; it city dump ground to one man. and
diay
and
logging
operations
will
lenient in his dealings with the
ably be appealed. W illiam Marx, stalled.
depend upon the w eather, but Thursday afternoon at two oclock is necessary to pull through in giving the leasee the privilege of
association, but finally it was de­
j P ate’s counsel said shortly after
The
Sprague
River
Lumber
will probably start within
30 at the Methodist church. Rev. S. low gear. Aside from thia one collecting "garbage within the city
cided th at in order to insure his I
P ate’s conviction th a t he would
company
at
Chiloquin
has
m
ain­
dayb. Fifty to 60 men will be J. Chaney officiating. Funeral a r­ place, the road 1« in excellent was brought up. After, some dl?-
receiving paym ent of the money
appeal P a te ’s case but no action
tained operations all w inter with employed in the mill. The box rangem ents are in the hands of condition.
loaned the body, it > would be
cusyion it was left to the fire ar.d
hep, been taken by Marx as yet.
the exception of during the ex­ factory has been going all win­ S tocks Parlors.
necessary for him to foreclose on
sanitary committees for inves­
Johnny O’Shea, acquitted of the
(Continued on page four)
trem e cold w eather the last of ter but the force employed will
the mortgage.
tigation.
m urder charge will be tried for
December and early in January. be increased about April 1. The
Briggs and Briggs, local a tto r­
Frank Jordan appeared before
robbery. D istrict A ttorney Gan-
MRS. A. PATTERSON
The logging camp of the Big Lakes company has recently
neys, who have been handling the^
the council, asking th a t an ordin­
ong said yesterday. J u st when,
CALLED BY, DEATH
foreclosure proceedings for Besi-
ance calling for the issuance of
Mr, Ganamg could not state defin­ W heeler-Olmstead Lum ber com­ installed a spliner to make box
Mrs. Amy Patterson died at her!
butflding perm its, an d the ap­
wick, announced several weeks
itely, but he indicated it would pany is in active operation now ends out of waste which is creat­
and
the
mill
starts
today
accord­
home
in
Ashland
yesterday
a
ft­
ing
considerable
interest.
ago th a t they would reduce their
pointment
of a building inspect­
1 be w ithin the next two weeks.
ing to officials of the company.
fee in connection with the work
The Lamm Lum ber company at ernoon. Mrs. Patterson was born!
or be drawn up. The ordinance
The funeral services held for
The Shaw-Bertram
Lumber Modoc Point plans to start the in Carlton. Oregon, but had made I
by fifty per cent should the city
committee was ordered to have
company
is
installing
m
ach’nery
Mrs.
Myra
W.
Homes
on
last
Sun­
mill about the first of March and her home in Newport until about!
decide to purchase the building.
such an ordinance drawn, up, in­
in the new box factory which will logging operations the middle of a month ago when she moved to
corporating fire prevention speci­
Members of the Park Commis­ day m arked the passing of one
open up as soon as complete. Log- March.
sion have not, as yet, announced who was loved by the neighbor­
fications. Thl«. ordinance will l>e
She!
A sceond shift will be Ashland with her family.
ging operations will 3tart next ( added in the mill about April 1. is survived by her husband and!
presented at the next meeting of
their plans for the improvement hood in which she had lived for
the
body.
of the camp grounds, now th at the the past th irty five years.
two small daughter!».
An
active
interest
in
all
tho@e
McCormick tract addition is de­
Councilman Detrick and form ­
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18— All
BLASTS TERRORIZE
MRS. KAHN ELECTED
finitely downed. It may be that about her, a n d 'in world events - KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 18.—
er Mayor Pierce were retained fo
of
America’s
coast
defense
sta­
PITTSBURGH CENTER
TO CONGRESS POST
throughout
the John Coleman, prom inent ranch-
som e other m eans may be found predom inated
tions are "absolutely worthies» audit the books of the R ecorder
years
of
her
invalidism.
Words
of!
er
and
candidate
for
sheriff
a
t
the
for adding the necessary cabins
LONDON, Feb. 18. — Incindi-
R epresentative La Guardia, re- and City Treasurer.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.—
The application of A rthur Ft i-
to the num ber already in use, but complaint were never heard from i Prim aries last ’May is near death ary dynam ite explosions today D efeating three men, and her
O
.
publican o f -3X4^6 York, testified
ter,
of -th e land settlem ent de­
the Commissioners are doubtful. her, and a gentle good cheer was I at a looal hospital with the back blasted terro r into the center of nearest opponent by more than
Oil M a i l i S t r e e t thiS luoril-,?£ hefdhe 'th e house
partm
ent of the Portland Cham­
They exhausted every other means felt by those who talked with part of his skull cleft and hN? the wholesale d istrict and demol­ two thousand votes. Mrs. F lor­
I aircraft invesCgatlng committee.
face
horribly
cu
t
from
the
blows
her,
w
hether
they
were
young
or
of expansion before the McCor­
ished three buildings with a total ence Kahn will, on March 4, take
La Guardia was a flier ©ver- ber ot Commerce, for an office In
of a hay knife.
The
/
a
r
owned
by
Ben
Dels-,
seas
with
American forces the City Hall was left with th e
mick tra c t purchase plan was old.
Coleman was attacked yester­ loss of $130,000, fire departm ent the se a t in Congress which was man of this city was badly dam-! n
Mrs. Homes came to Ashland
l
,
c ®8' building and realty com m ittee,
made public.
officials stated.
form erly occupied by her late aged .1 while
. . . th at x of . Frank Voss He said be
the „ arm yb coast defenses
*
in 1889, with her husband amd day m orning a t his ranch by a
with power to act.
Firem en are digging into the husband, Julius- Kahn, for many
children, from their home in man declared by police to be Gus
ot
th
e
L
ith
ia
G
a
ra
g
e
w
a
s
a
l'g
h
t-
elie
m
y
a
l
r
>
U
M
k
tow n’s debris, following reports years.
W averly, Illinois, which was the Yorden, an employe on the ranch.
ly smashed up this morning when
th
a t five men m ight be trapped,
"Common horse sense” will
place of her birth as well as of According to Coleman, Yorden
they crashed on the corner of
La Guardia charged the "gen­
attacked him with the hay knife but the owners of the buildings guide h e r course in Congress, Mrs. Oak and Main streets.
her m arried life.
a
re
certain
th
a
t
'no
one
was
Kahn
stated
today,
following
the
eral
staffs of the United States
The ranch homie, south of Ash­ following a m isunderstanding
Voss was traveling toward the
receipt
of
the
news
of
her
elec­
caught
in
the
explosions.
A
black
Plaza on Main street, while Dels-l
" T
' “5
land, has been her home almost over the work to be done about
hand ganig is suspected of the tion.
the
ranch.
man was coming up Main s tre e t.; hoia ;ne h Y t ° pm®nt
wlth
w ithout interm ission, during all
JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 18. —
crime.
MEDFORD,
Feb.
18. — A the years she spent in Oregon,
The la tte r attem pted to turn I d -
„
f ' rO1” C ongre» Infer-
A fter being ^struck with the
Six
true bills and three not tru e
a tio n on a ir bo m b in
hich
LOU TELLEGEN IS
burglary perpetrated last Sunday and many came to know her there, huge knife. Coleman lay on the
to Oak , street, and failing to see, m
ha„
° g g te s ts ’ w ,hlch
bills
were returned by the grand
A PROUD FATHER Vr,,s. smashed broadside into th e ' The commiUM
night ju st came to light publicly and have gone awav with a tend­ ground unconscious fo r some tim e ,
Jury
Monday afternoon, and the
yesterday. It took place about 9 er reverence for her.
before
members of his fa m ily ! BIRTHS EXCEED
»
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18— Lou ¡la tte r's car.
body
then adjourned until this
p. m. a t the home of Mr. and
Mvra Alvira W adham s was born came to his aid. He wa? rushed
DEATHS IN 1924 Tellegen.
Dllegen, form er husband ofi The running board on the Voss! s e X ^ r y of w “ W M k.'T o’ ^
morning. Bench pvairanti* have
Mrs. Bert Sullivan on North Cen­ on November 17, 1846, and was to n .local hospital for medical
Geraldine F a rra r, opera sin g er.! car was torn completely off. and, 9ent lo ' thw n
been Issued on the six true bills.
tra l avenue, and the police are m arried to Frederic Cleveland treatm ent. The physician in a t­
The stork outspejd! the grim who was m arried secretely many, the rear fenders were^ badly data upon the bombing tests of The three not true bills involved
searching for a burglar with a Homes on July 5, 1871, at W av­ tendance said th a t the rancher
reaper during 1924, according to m onths ago to Isabel Dilworth,! crushed sind bent.
charges of subornation of per­
recently cut hand.
stood, three chances out of four a rep o rt made today by the city Philadelphia heiress, ib the father Delsman’s car was badly smash-1 V irg ir d a ^ ^ X o v e m h « /6 ! oTi 404
erly Illinois.
jury,
obtaining money under false
The vicinity on th at side of the
F o u r children -and five grand­ of recovering.
It
’ revftalpil
health office. D uring the year, of a son. Rex, born in the acto r’s ed. the radiator crushed in. the
pretenses and a statutory offense.
stre e t Is very dark and as Mr. and children survive her, Charles I.
A corps of deputies from the
Florida sum m er home on July fenders bent, and the front w h e e lstim o n y of the highest arm y and The names and charges in the
108
b
irths
were
registered
in
the
Mrs. Sullivan returned home the Homes, Fred C. Homes, Susanne sheriff’s office left for Coleman's
18, 1924, the couple revealed di-lven out oi line.
navy offlcers wag th a t Amerlca.8 true bills are witheld until the
ranch with a w arrant or Yorden’s city, with deaths totaling 82 dur­ today. Mrs. Tellegen is known in
No
responsibility
for
tlie
acci
~
(Continued on pace 4)
(Continued on Page F o u r)
air defense was “absolutely help- bench w arrants are iserved. None
arrest.
ing the sam e period.
theatrical circles as Nina Romano. dent has yet been fixed.
Involve liquor charges, the coun­
I less against an Invasion.
ty clerk says.
cinct. The vote at the City Hall was, Chautauqua build­ 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
ing purchase Yes 299, No 97, a majority of 202; McCor­
mick tract purchase, Yes 169, No 151, a majority of 18
votes in favor of the purchase.
At the Fourth Street Fire Station, the voters favored
the purchase of the Chautauqua, building while the Mc­
Cormick tract purchase was voted down by an over­
whelming majority. The vote was, Chautauqua building
purchase. Yes 169, No 156, a majority of 13 in favor of
the purchase; McCormick tract purchase, Yes 115, No
209, a majority of 94 opposed to the camp ground addition
purchase.
Confessed Member of Hold­
up Gang1 Receives the
The bonds for the purchase of ■
Maximum
the Chautauqua building and site I
ASHLAND-FALLS
HIGHWAY IS IN
TAYLOR GIVEN
IS YEARS AND
FINE OF $ 1 ,0 0 0
HAN SU FFE R S
BROKEN LEG IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
KLAMATH FALLS LUMBER MILLS
PREPARE TO OPEN FOR WORK
MYRA W. HOMES
WAS LOVED BY
ALL COMMUNITY
SOLON STATES
AIR D EFEN SE
IS H ELPLESS
Klam ath Rancher
Radiy Injured in
A ttack by H elper
Cars Are Badly
Damaged in Crash
B urglar H urts His
H and in Entering
Home in Medford
v ,
G. Jury Returns
Six True Bills,
3 Not True B’Us
J