taMÍU^i MALARIA GERMS Cannot survive three months in the rich ozone at Ashland. Pure domestic water helps. A shland D aily maa ASHLAND CLIMATE Without the use of medicine cures nine cases out of ten of asthma. This is a proven fact. The Tidings Has Been Ashland's Leading Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years (International News Wire Service) VOL. XLVIII W 5 Successor to th e Semi-Weekly Tidings, Volume 43 no . F f IÍFI l ì Gives Sentence to ÜUÛI L ulu I1LLV Husband Whom She I Wins Fortune After Twenty Y ears IN SOUTH NOTSDeclares ^eat ^er CARAVAN TOURS D’ SO UTH W EST '4 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. t 27. — A woman in Domes- £ tic Relations Court sat in £ judgm ent on her husband £ and achieved w hat ¿ke said £ had been her ambition f<W « Men Held in Mexican City ~ th irty years. Pleas for £ Released from Charge of n mercy, however saved the £ Siskiyou Murder n defendant from a prison £ I n sentence. £ GUARD IS STILL KEPT! n The woman told Judge £ MacNeille th a t her hus- £ O’C onnell T alks W ith Suspects band beat her and th e ir £ and R xhonorates Them from seven children “every tim e £ C onnection in th e Crime he comes home d ru n k .” £ “ Then I’ll let you sent- £ SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 27. — eace him ,” - said th e £ The Southern Pacific announced Court. . jj here today th at special agent The husband promised £ O’Connel had wired inform ation not to beat the children £ to this city th at the two men held or get drunk, and he was £ in Esperanza. Mexico, believed to ordered by the Court to £ be two of the three D’A utrem ont pay hi» wife $14 a week of £ brothers who are wanted for dy his $22 weekly salary. He £ nam iting train No. 13 at tunnel was placed on probation, £ No. 13 in the Siskiyou m ountains for a year. 8 on. October 11, 1923, in w«hich £ £ £ £ 8 £ £ 8 £ £ £ 8 four trainm en were brutally shot and killed, were not the bandits sought. In view of this fact, the prisoners were released from jail today. In a telegram received by the Tidings last night, it was reported th at Dan O’Connell had had »Several talks with the two men, who gave the names of Roy and Ray Burton. O’Connell or dered a strict guard kept over the suspects, all last night, and until It was learned today th a t the two Well Known Druggists Are were not the ones sought. Arrested on Charges of At several different' times re Selling Opium ports have been made of the c a p -' tu re of the brothers, but each PORTLAND, Feb. 2 J,- — Fed time it has turned out in a fake eral and police narcotic officers, alarm. working together, last night a r rested four well-known Portland SCHOOL EXPLOSION druggists on, charges of selling IS NEARLY FATAL paregoric containing opium to A serious explosion occurred known addicts. A rrests were yesterday in the chem istry room made in pharmacies following of the tiigh school, in which one raids. The men were held for the girl narrow ly escaped possible government. Those arrested fol low: death, and several others per Dr. Jam es E. Arnold, Baker m anent .njury. The m aterial ex Drug company, 265 Burnside ploded while mixing a prepara street. tion which was being heated. The R. A. W atson, proprietor of the injured are Lois Hanson, Eliza City Hall Pharm acy, 275 Fifth beth 9tearna, W ebster Chattin street. and Max Crowson. Miss Hanson Frank E. Kline, clerk in City was the m ost seriously injured, Hall Pharmacy. being cut a bad gash on the neck, John M. A. Laue, president and which nearly penetrated to the owner of the Laue-Davis Drug Ju g u lar vein. She was rushed to store, Third and Yamhill streets. the hospital, where she was plac Federal officers declared th at ed under an anas t het ic. Max known users of narcotic drugs Crowson had both hands badly working as stool - pigeons had cut, his thum b split open and a 'm a d e purchases of paregoric at tendon split lengthwise. D o cto rs/th e pharmacies. The paregoric «ay th a t it will not in jure the contained a small quantity of use of his hands, however. The opium, it was said. others were less seriously cut The fact th a t paregoric is be •boat the face and body. They ing sought by addicts is evidence are reported to be doing nicely. th at the supply of opium, cocaine and heroine in Portland is low. Although th ere are paregoric ad F IL E S WORTH $50,000 in M c C lintock case dicts Just as there are opium ad dicts, they are few in num ber, CHICAGO, Feb. 27. — Elim ina but those who have a craiving for tio n of the w ritten record of in opium or its derivatives use pare quiry of W illiam Sheppard, foster goric to satisfy th eir desires father of the late “ Billie” Mc when th e stronger drugs are not Clintock, m illionaire orphan, re obtainable. garding courses in bacteriology, It is believed th a t groundw ork from the filee of the national for last might’s arrests was laid school of applied science, was ; several months ago, for a t th at w orth $50,000 to certain unnam- i time inform ation on th e use of ed persons, it was testified at the paregoric by persons unable to McClintock inquest by one of the obtain coA ine was given officials th re e “surprise” w itnesses round by a woman operative who told of ed np by the police and held in having used it herqelf during a greatest secrecy pending today’s d ru g .fam in e in Portland. session. r .i Ì Fir I I A T i l i? F' Student to Start on L L U IJ L r t 1 U R L Two years' Program NO D EFIN ITE CLOSES AT THE'"1’1' 1!^ '™ “ 1“ REPORT ON THE STATE CAPITOL NORMAL HEAR!) £ £ £ £ £ Session Closes in Salem To £ day After Forty-Six Days £ of Legislation £ £ SPECTATORS ENMASSE £ ¡8 CHICAGO, Feb. 27. — Harold G. O. Hoik, a 38- «a year-old medical student of the University of Chi cago, starts today on a fasting diet th a t will last Is Made Up of Canadian. Telegram Received from Lo for two years. Washington and Oregon cal Delegation at State The object is to deter Citizens mine Just how much food Capitol Today is needed for keen think WILL RETURN TOUR ing. He will eat only when CONFERENCE GRANTED Last F lare Contes W hen House ♦♦ hungry, and will eat very In vitation s to Join W ill be B road. and S en ate A re Jam m ed Over Request Made That No M ere £ l i t t l e , m easuring and C asted Over E n tire IMstrict; V etoed Bill T elegram s be Sent from Here £ weighing every bit taken. L arge Enrollm ent E xpected £ by Those Interested During the period, men SALEM, Feb. 27. With both ! 8 tal tests will be given him, PORTLAND, Feb. 27.— Early houses crowded with spectators, I 8 including A telegram received by Horncf m athematics, in April the Pacific northw est will the Oregon Legislature adjourn- 8 puzzles and typew riting Billings this m orning just before send an autom obile caravan of ed sine die last night at 10:50 8 exercises. For the last two noon from one of the members business men to California. Next after a session la ting 46 days. 8 years he has carried a of the delegation which is i i year Californians will reciprocate The end came peacefully and the £ scales with him to d eter Salem conferring with Govern ? by< coming northw ard in a simi legi ilators today were enroute £ mine the am ount of food Pierce relative to his attitu d e n i lar cara'van. Jau n ts of the n o rth home. The last flare of fighting £ he consumes normally. The 8 the Ashland Normal school bi . erners into the land of perpetual j spirit came yesterday when the £ mental tests showed his This telegram stated that ti.4 sunshine will be made during win , house of the senate was jammed £ normal efficiency. committee had conferred wi: ,< ter or spring. Trips here of the l over the vetoed bill of the 1923 the governor and that they hope < At the end of two years Californians will be made in the i session providing for an addition- to succeed in persuading the chiei the results will be tabulat summer, when Ceilifornia is hot I al circuit judge in Multnomah executive to sign or approve t i n ed and psychology experts and the northw est is cool. ) county. normal bill which wax passed by expect to work out from Directors of the Portland Cham Governor Pierce today appoint- £ them an ideal human ra the legislature a few days ag . ber of Commerce Tuesday ap i c-1 Ashby Dickson, a dem ocrat of £ tion. The telegram also requested th a t proved the new plan of reciprocal ¡-Portland to be th e new c irc u it ¡ £ £ £ £ £ 8 8 £ £ £ £ 8 £ no more telegram s be sent to th«« visits. The m atter was turned ju d g e c re a te d by th e le g is la tu re , j - _________ governor from interested parties over to the publicity departm ent Rumor persisted after c lu in g of in this section relative to the blii. and outdoor recreation commit the session th at tlie tobacco peo-! All Ashland is eagerly aw aitln< tee. These im m ediately began pie intend to invoke referendum j the dutcome of the bill. Some sav BI TTE, M ont., Feb. 2 7 — G eorge Cam pbell Carbon, a m iner of plans for the northw est’s cara th is locality, w h o lias been liv in g in cheap w aterfront lod gin g houses on the cigarette tax law. that the governor must veto t h j van. Announcements and invita in San Francisco, lias been aw arded th e verdict in a tw enty-year bill before tonight. Friday, whip. tions to join will be sent broad court battle, by w hich he w ill receive royalties and dam ages am ount POULTRY MEETING TO others declare th a t the constitu cast over the state and enrollm ent ing to nearly $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 . I nder th e decision passed by th e U nited tional limit is Saturday evening. BE HELD HERE SOON of a large num ber of business S tates C ircuit Court, Carson is e n titled to lo y a ltie s on a m ining de If the governor does not veto ic men and representative citizene vice he declared he conceived and patented nineteen years ago. B ig A meeting of considerable in before the period of lim itation, the copper m in in g in terests are alleged to h a v e sise d th e device for m any is expected by H erbert*C uthbert, years despite Carson’s c la im s He says he w ill con tin u e Ills sim ple terest to all poultry raiser.;, will bill will autom atically become a m anager of the publicity d ep art life. but. is glad he has enough m oney J o continu e his experim ents. law. he held at the city hall, W ednes ment, who will receive the reser day. March 4, at 1 Oa. m. Mr. vations. - H. E. Crosby of O. A. C. will be Burdic Presented Expensive' JOHN COLLMAN t a k p q The Pacific northw est caravan present. The brooding of chicks will be made up of British Col aud other seasonable topics will umbia«, W ashington and Oregon be discussed at this time. All KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 2 7 .__ sections. There will be subdivis SALEM, Feb. 27. — Breaking who can possibly be there, are Sufficiently recovered from ions for cities in» each section. into the routine houste business asked to do so. A large attend wounds Incurred when attacked As the plan Is now form ulated, of the afternoon, Representative ance is desired. by a man, declared by authorities the southbound caravan will be Coffey, yesterday took the chair to be Qua Yorden, a ranch em Í joined by a sim ilar deputation while R epresentative Carkin, in ploye, John Collman, well known PRESIDENT ELBERT’S from Nevada. * behalf of the m em bers of the CONDITION SERIOUS house, presented Representative Klamath rancher, has returned to It is planned th a t the motor Northerners Are Out to Gain Recompense; Locals Are his home, where he L, now con in Best of Shape for Meet. Have Been Going excursion will reach San Francis Denton G. Burdict, speaker of the BERLIN, Feb. 27— President valescing. While Collman is not co on April 12, the day before the Through Gruelling Practice house, with a $400 gold watch, Eberts condition was announced entirely out of danger. It was said official opening of the convention with chimes th a t proclaim the as being “ precarious” , following that his recovery waa nearly as of Pacific coast hotelmen. Num Roseburg High will tangle here to tal to ten straight. Then they j a second serious operation which hour and quarter-hours. sured. Only an infection, setting bers of the hotelmen of the north tomorrow night, and, according j turned rig h t around and lost a “ The membership of this house are expected to join in the cara to reports, are steamed up to give ¡'double bill to Salem. W hat in was made necessary by peritonitis is on a higher plane than those of In would bring a fatal result. which set in after an appendicitis Yorden is being held in Jail van. Sojourners will be urged to thp locals a working-over. The the past and members have) work the world got into them is not operation. under an open charge. When if stick together about five days in season up to date has not been a ed hard both in the committees appears that there is no doubt ax known. Since that tim e they have California, o r until Los Angeles victorious one for the n o rth ern and on. the floor,” Representative to Collman’s recovery, a charge not won a game, except a n easy DILL BILL IS PASSED is reached. Disbandment th en will ers, and all indications have it one from G rants Pass. Carkin said. "T here has been a of assault with intent to kill or BY THE SENATE TODAY be In order, a t least for those who th a t they will attem pt to plunge general expression of individual assault with a dangerous weapon, W hat Coach W alter Hughes has WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— The feelings and little machine poli wish to pursue their own itin er through the gap th a t is now open had to do, and will have yet to do, Dill bill, perm itting the states of tical. Mr. Speaker, you organized will be prosecuted by the district aries, m ake visit.? or otherwise in the Ashland basketball line is som ething trem endous. To pull attorney's office, it was stated yes pause by the way. up. If the results of the last Med- a team out of the hole into W ashington, Idaho, Oregon and the house and appointed the com Montana to enter into an agree- m ittees on the first day of the terday by the dl tric t attorney’s Commercial bodies and civic ford-A shlard contests are being which it has fallen is a task not office. clubs all over the state will be used as a foundation for these re- easily conceivable, and the town “ T ? ,th® disp° sition of i session for the first time in the asked to co-operate in m aking the ports, however, there will be no as a whole is looking forward! with ' 7 V * Ul® Lolumbia rlver and i history of the legislature. You caravan scheme a success. recompense gained by them . ¡’ eagerness to its outcome. It is! W3S pasf3ed today by have been fair in, all your deal- the senate. ings and rulings. W ith a stringent schedule of not fact, however th a t the team ¡ NEW OMNIBUS BILL • training and practice kept all has fallen. It may have simply ' “ Members of the house have be MADE BY CONGRESS week, and with every member of have had a slump. Yet it looks J PLOT REVEALED TO come suspicious of you and have KILL PRES. WILSON decided to put a ‘w atch’ upon you the team back on the floor and in bad. They may have overcome i WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— Con the best of co rd lt'o n the local it by the tim e the game starts ¡ NEW YORK, Feb. 27— How a It is pure gold, keeps active time gress sent a new omnibus bill, quintet expects to really • “ break ' tomorrow. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 27. __ If not, they have a i highly organized group of inter and is not two-faced, which is providing for $65,000,000 wage aw ay,” and regain some of their emblematic of you.”1 Announcement is made here by week before the real .test come? , national anarchists planned* and increases of postal employee^ old time form which they display The house broke Into handclap- the California Highway Commis a week later, when they meet 'n ea rly assassinated President W il-' through enlarged revenues from ed earlier in th e season. This Medford for the final games of son. J. P. Morgan, C h a rle s! p!ng as Representative Carkin sion that, beginning March 1st a | higher postal rates, to the pres form a t the time was subject to the season. At any rate it is go- , Schwab and General Coleman Du- Called Page Rudle to 6:30 p. m., the Pacific Highway, ident for signature. The bill also unlim ited praise by fans, and in the Sacramento R’.ver canyon, ing to be a good game, and a pont, during the year of 1915 watch to the rostrum , provided complete publicity cam promised to bring ai state cham keen interest is being shown in “ I doubt if I have the vitality north of Redding, Shasta count y and how their efforts were frus paign expenditures and contribu pionship to them. Ju st what*hap- it? to slay trated by government w orker „ „ the , things ~ I would like to will be closed to traffic for si « tion,?, with lim ited campaign pened to it, no one really knowd. , , , . , , say,” Speaker Burdick said. "We teen hours dally until May 15th. Rumors th a t Ashland is “done revealed today by , , fnnds for senators and represen Anyway, they had an average of fo r” so far as winning the state Garland, u, was , ., , / ! »re approaching the end of the The closing regulation will Ralph Easley, president of the! x tatives. ,. , • • . . , ,, session and it but a m atter of In force between Half Way Creek. ten clear victories, and up to that^ championship is concerned, are national civic federation. FJasley' q,., , time had not had a game that entirely fictitious. By taking the „ , . * , . „ . lionr8- This is my seventh con- 23 miles north of Redding, a n .| made the statem ent follow ing1 : secutave season and the first that Delta, 27 miles north of Reddln;-. bordered on defeat. Perhaps the next two games, and winning an the announcement of the publi has not ended in turm oil, excite- The gates at either end of th s climaix of their winning streak other to be played on a neutral cation ot the autobiography of I ment and confusion I cannot ex section will be locked at 6:30 was when they made an up-state floor they are eligible to enter the atate (Inals. The winners o( U ... I i’ ’ “ ".'“! Oo'n p w s' ln whlcb th<!' o clock p. nt. each evening and trip and cleaned up the northern (Continued os Page Four) mnv on» ¡i . v. i ' late labor leader told of activities will not be onened to traffic un part of the state w ithout a loss,. may consider themselves real I . nhn „ t .. ... . °f anrchiists and ol German pro til 10:30 a. m. the following On this they played on floors that c.tnto state champs J a r the first time in ' • tr T , L paganda juisl before and during morning. varied much in sizp, and caused years — if eVer, for schools of | MEDFORD, Feb. 27. — Argu- __ * . , , I the world war. The closing is necessary becaus ♦ [ m ents were begun yesterday therft a great deal of trouble. Once Portland are to compete this year, j of reconstruction work which will they overcame a lead of eight This is made possible by a change : morning in the damage suit of* neces R ate heavy blasting during points in a game th a t looked like in their coaching system, which j Mrs. Viola Blackburn against the the night time and the closing of certain defeat. Yet they won was form erly made up of paid Medford Irrigation district, and the road. The work will be rush from Salem before a huge crowd GRANTS PASS. Feb. 27. — the case is expected to go to the coaches. They now have coaches ed during the next three month* of nearly 2000. They won from E sra Meeker, S eattle’s ninety- 1 ju ry early this afternoon. Mrs. who teach part time, m aking their Eugene, 'th e y won from Roseburg. with the exception th at the h igh four y e a r old pioneer df Old Ore- Blackburn is suing the irrigatibn team s eligible for' the all-state way may be opened for a longer Following this «they won from gon T rail fame and tran-contin- • district for $6440 damages, for KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 27.— period during the season of heavy ental flyer, is tripping along a ; I «tac Newton Shook, aged pion alleged injuries received, in an G rants Pass, bringing th e grand meet. On the serious charge of assault summer travel. little more jauntily these days. eer and prom inent resident of auto accident oa the Pacific high ing his wife, Fannie Gallagher, In making the announcem ent, .The reason Is th a t he has ju st Ashland for the past 25 years, way Ju n e 4, 1922, when t h e c a r MURDER QUIZZING “ Ideals of Americanism, as Il STRIKING SENATORS with attem pt to kill, George Gal the pointed out thi»: welcomed another of his many j died at his home in the Shook in which she was riding passed CONTINUES TODAY RETURN TO CAPITOL lagher was being given a hearing lustrated In the life of George no commission detours will be available descendants into the great country building, this m orning at 6:00 over repair work of the irrig a W ashington,” was the topic of a before United States Comniission- around the work, and that then? he helped to settle. The newcom after an illness of several weeks. tion, district, in installing a cul SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27. — INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 27 — I speech delivered before the Ki- ; er Bert C. Thomas this afternoon. are only limited accommodation* e r is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Funeral arrangem ents will be an vert. Police were continuing their in- Having obtained a promise fro m ; ! wanis luncheon a t noon today by W ilfred G. McDonald. 5015 54th nounced later. The chief contention, of the de- je s tig a tlo n into the alleged plot the republican Readers that a hill The hearing opened a t 2 p. m. i Rev. Judson Oldfield. An ideal, north of Redding and south of Avenue. South. She is Meeker’s The deceased wW born Dec. 25, fens« Isi th a t scores of autoes to /k ill Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick redistricting the state would not I The commission of the alleged ) according tQ him, is a mere castle .Dunsmuir. eighteenth great-grandchild and 1844, and has resided In the city passed over the work w ithout ac Hotaling, prom inent members of be “ forced upon them ,” the re i crime was on December 12, ac : in the air, until It has taken tan-f A sim ilar clo Ing was enforced last Spring w ithout serious incon has been given the name of Mar to r the past forty years. He pass- i eident, and th a t Mrs. Blackburn’s San Francisco society and part calcitrant Indiana senate demo cording to tho'&omplaint. Today, he added, Tomorrow afternoon a t 2 p. m* j gent shape. venience to the public. Every e f garet,* with the approval of her ed away a t the age of 80 years injuries were due to careless driv heirs to the long contested H otal cratic m inority returned to the thousands of these castles have distinguished great-granddaddy. two months aud 2 days. He is ing by Thomas I. Temple. They ing m illion^ According to Ralph Hoosier cap'tal today, ready to the Lang family of the re serv a -! taken shape, in the form of mod fort will be made to handle tr a f tion will be given a prelim inary The fath er .is Meeker's nine- well known* in this district, and also contend th a t Temple failed King, form er policeman, who is answer to the roll call. ern institutions and monuments. fic over the construction work hearing before Mr. Thomas .on during the hours the road is open teenth grandchild. His m other j a member of the Elks lodge, to regard the w arning signs. The said to have, revealed the p lo t,) i several charges which arose out of *Vashoigton was cast in an era and representatives of the high I was a daughter of the pioneer. • He hi survived by a daughter, defence also stresses the fact th a t two gunmen were hired by him ¡a n alleged attem pt to-destroy a iU eatno». There is no h'ghef way departm ent will be on duty The venerable great-grandfather i K athcjing Shook, his wife, and a Mrs. Blackburn won a contest at the instigation of another and A IR F L E E T URGED BY thing we can do, than to live up public document in the offices of to render aid to m otorists, If will be the honor guest a t Christ- step-son, Clyde Payne of Orange, among the bank clerks of Jack- not yet Identified third party to FORMER NAVY HEAD the superintendent of the reser- to the laws and morals th a t were ) needed. ening ceremonies, a t which there : California. son and Josephine counties, nine do th e planned killing. “ Russian set up by him, he declared. ---------- i vation on February 10. The work now under way con- will be an imposing assemblage ) Funeral services will take place months after the accident. Lou” Madison is under arrest, de WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — ! Mrs. Lulu Lang is charged with The Kiwanis quartet, composed eistij of widening and straighten of grrndsons, granddaughters and a t the Dodge Chapel. His going Most of the testim ony was de clared by police to have confess A ircraft will be the key to power attem pting to destroy certain pub- of Carl Loveland, Henry Enders, ing eleven miles between Half great-granddaughters. m arks the passing of another of voted to showing the precautions ed th a t he and a friend had taken i in the next war, Rear A d m iral, lie record? in s. public place and V. D. Miller and H arry Tomlin Way Creek and Dog Creek, a L ittle M argaret McDonald w a s; the old pioneers th a t are yearly) u?2d by the Irrigation ccmpany $3300 fyom King for the propos- horn here last Saturday.— Seattle) becoming fewer and fewer. As a to protect trafile and medtogl «d m urders, but declared th a t thpy Sims, now retired, told the House ( of assaulting another in an at- son, sang several songs, followed part of the 1925 reconstruction Times. ' ' citizen and friend of the commun- testimbny to show the phyficaJ had pever intended keeping their A ircraft Committee today. Sims tem pt to commit a felony. Mrs. in chorus by the entire meeting, program of the commission to be urged development of a great air Lang, her husband, Thomas Lan&,) R- C. Forsythe received the prise, financed with gasoline tax funds. Mrs. McDonald will be rem em -1 ity, he has served loyally, and condition of the plaintiff. fleet by the United States. He Laupella Lang, arid Millard Lang The program for next week was hered here as Grace Presley, his death i i a real loss to the assailed the "conservatives in the are charged in Another com plaint i referred to the attendance com- d a u g h ter 6f Mr. and Mrs. C. C .) community at large and to th at Astoria — Ten miles highway There's a message to The navy who are holding out for with using obscene language in a ' m ittee and several resolutions Presley, now of Seattle. great organization, the pioneers. Tidings Want Ade. between Astoria and Svenson i | TMtogs Want Ada are ge-goiter» ‘precious’ battleships.” public place. ! were passed on. to be widened and resurfaced, FOURPORTLAND DRUGGISTS ARE TAKENCUSTODY Ezra Meeker, Aged AGED RESIDENT PASSES AWAY THIS MORNING HOUSESPEAKER GIVEN WATCH BY ITS MEMBERS ^ av E° ° Ä TÄ ROSEBURG BALL TOSSERS TO MEET LOCALS HERE TOMORROW California Roads Closed to Traffic on New Schedule Arguments Begin in Blackburn Suit for Damage Loss Hearing Given Gallagher Case Before Thomas c OLDFIELD GIVES A D D R E SS AT KIWANIS TODAY