i* ■ < 1 - 1 B r * ' * *•* ■ -V - p * -• 4M Chalk Up Another For Animal Who Saves Human Life Beauties of This City Told in Portland PARK PROJECT PRAISED . Another editorial, lauding Ash­ land, was carried In the Ore­ gon Journal yesterday: This ddltorlal, a follow up of oite carried several days - ago, In which the natural beauties of Ashland and the surrounding country were told, tells * of the many beautiful buildings, con­ ducive to home life, which havi . HAYW ARD, C at. Sept. 14— (U. P .)— Chajk up one more animal hero— pardon ne, heroine— on the list! Pansy( fox terrier, he­ lon «in« to the _w. e Leggs family. Is now 'worth her weight In gold, platinum or other pre­ » cious substances. Mrs. Leggs was awakened by the dog jumping upon her bed and barking. When the mistress re- fused to gat UP. Pansy ran to her master, woke him with barks and tug­ ged at his hand until lie followed her into the kitchen. Investigation disclosed a broken gas connection out of which the gis was tt pouring. To Call It a Day | » The editorial was written by Prank IrvinC editor of the Ore­ gon Journal, who was a guest of Jesse Wlnburn, at Sap and Salt, several days ago. The editorial follows: One of the most beautiful parka in Oregon is at Ashland. The people there have spent 9290,999 on R. In It are the wonderful Llthla Springs, which yield a mineral water that is aa a beverage. A beautiful lake with graceful swans oa Its surface is a part Of the perspective. Handsome trees, footbridges, walks, flow­ ers, rustic seats, waterfalls' and a running stream are gmung the appointments. Several 'of the few surviving elks In Amer­ ica ere la the park zoo. Close by la the famous Ashland auto- mobile camp, used perhaps bv ■ore tourists than any other eamp In Oregon with the possible exception of tStaJiAftland camp. _ The new AMutad normal pus of nearly 26 acres. presented to the state by the Ashland peo­ ple at a cost of around $25,000. I t occupies a strategic site near the handsome Ashland boulevard, where travelers, noting the park, the normal school building and campus and the nine-story LdrhU hotel, will get a wonderful Im­ pression of the spirit of Ash- A feature of the city Is its education and literary status. Daring the summer months the school buildings are nsed by the state department of educa­ tion in conducting a teachers’ training school. A school of a rt has been established by In­ structors from the famous Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. In Jackson couhty, there aré 12 high schools. Those at Ash­ land and Medford come under the state classification as first -'nr- Two hundred and fifty teachers are employed in the county, and all that la modem in the way of consolidated acbools and* transportation of pn- la In vovne.___________ , In Ashland there, la a splendid community house which was built at a coat of about 920,000 and presented to the city by Jeaee Wlnburn. There is also one of the best appointed hos­ pitals In the state, which Is also S gift to the city of Mr. W ln­ burn. Another public building which exataples the literary and educational spirit of Ashland; la the Chautauqua auditorium. ■ It is much used for lyceum and Chautauqua purposes and la the scene of spectacular pageants. As a home city with appoint­ ments that make for culture, good living and human happi­ ness. Ashland has standards that are a very great appeal. A verill Guest at Meeting oi Klamath Spòrta H. F. Averill, new state gam* warden, waa the guest of honor at a venison dinner, served by the Klamath connty sportsmen'» club Saturday night at the Crooked River fish hatchery. Bill Coleman, state screen and fish ladder man, Roy Farr, deputy game warden and Blaine Cotatnsn and Roy Parr. Jr., were among those who accompanied Averill from Medford to Crook- • ^e date an aggregate of 337 motdr vehicle headlight adjust­ ment stations have been Inspect­ ed and authorised throughout .the state by the traffic division of the department of Secretary of State and CO applications for inspection ere on hand which will probably be Inspected and passed upon by the close of the present week. It Is estimat­ ed that there will b eapproxl- mately between 460 and. 500 ad­ justment stations authorised la the state when a ll application* are In and acted upon. Of thé total number of head* light control devkea submitted by the Secretary of State to the U. S. Bureau of Standards* foe testing, in compliance with the provisions of the headlight ad­ justment law, all haVe been re­ ported upon with the exception of two ppon which reports are peading. An aggregate of 31 devices have been approved by the Secretary of State, acting up­ on the teat reports, from the Bu­ reau of Standards. Every au­ thorised adjusting station In the state la furnished a complete list of those approved devices, which are ‘required to be posted cousplclously In the adjusting plant, and these bulletins must be observed and' followed by the licensed adjustor In charge. A survey of the reports re­ ceived from the adjusting sta- IS LONDON, Sept. 14— (U. P . _ The Tientsin corréapondent of ported tojtay that great floods of the Yellow River were sweep­ ing away dikes In that section, and had inundated one thousand villages In the Chow Chang dis­ trict of the Shantung province. Inhabitants of the village* worked frantically for hours to strengthen the dikes. It Is said, but during the night the dikes crumpled away,* pouring an over­ whelming flood ut 200 members of the villages for fifty mtloa aroand sth club and their families have been Inundated. The dis­ present at the dinner, It Is patch estimated that at leist throe thousand ware dead. OUT ON $50 BOND Officer W ho M akes Arrest Oeclares Senator Wan R ioting In As the result of a two day search, /lu rin g which Chief of Police McNabb and D. Ouy Oood carefully searched almost every inch of Llthla Park and the sur­ rounding hills, what the. police declare to be the biggest petty thievery ring every to be un­ covered in the county has been broken up. Mrs. Oesle Bennett end Mrs. Rojr Saxon are now In the connty ja il at Jacksonville on a charge of burglary. Clyde Leer. IT . a brother of the two women Is being held In the city ja il on a similar charge, while Delbert Lhcy, 15. Cyrrll Lacy, Ellis Lacy and Virgil Lacy, together with their mother. Effie Lacy, of 482 Granite street, are la custody, but are not being held In jail. According to the police, this gang has been responsible for a number of email robberies which have been reported daring the pest two months, and on which It has been Impossible to obtain a clue. The home of D. Ouy Oood was robbed Thursday -afternoon. While th e Verne Tempter home on Terrace street was robbed either Wednesday or Thursday, the family being out of town Saturday, Oood and Chief of Po­ lk a McNabb searched the hlllsld-j In the vicinity of the Oood horn«*, and. discovered a number of ar- tides which has Men removed the Lacy borne, and the younger boys were taken Into custody. After several hours of quev- tioning Saturday night, the boys were released, but Sunday morn­ ing they were again taken from their home, and Delbert Lacy confessed to the crimes, impll- eating his older brother, his two married sisters and hla mother^ the police declare. Delbert*told of how be and hla younger brothers. had been In­ timidated by the threats of his sisters and his. older brother, and how, they had been forced to commit the robberies and bring the loot home, where It was stored in the Lacy home. He told of several caches, and when the police investigated his story, they uncovered trunk aftei trunk, rilled with goods which they declared to have been stol­ en. Most of the property stolen nt the Good and Templer resi­ dences has been recovered, but It Is believed there are other caches, where additional loot will be found,____________________ | Sheriff Ralph Jennings was called last night and took the two elder women to Jacksonville. Clyde Lacy, who has been before the courts before, and who la (Continued on Page Four) (Continued On Page Four) Poiketaan at Baker Uses Club to Subdue Senator Entire Family Involved in Thieving Gang, Police Night Police Captures Real Kicky Mule The rPHidenta of Ashland may sl«*ep without fear of be­ ing disturbed by hoboes or prowlers. Hie night police­ man la on the job, watching and petroling the streets, and keeping the city free from the night pests which invade some cities. Like Santa Claim, his namesake, he aeea every­ thing and knows everything. Friday night, a hobo was walking along the streets, looking at the lighta, at the w I i h I o w s , and stopping every once In a while aa if he did not know what it waa all about. The keeper of the city waa on the Job, and soon put the poor hobo under arrest, since he would not, or coaid no* answer the qncatlon put to him. At a little before four o'clock Saturday m om lag, there coaid be seen the faith­ ful keeper of the city coming down Mata street, with hia BAKER, Ore., Sept. 14— (IT. P ,)— The charge against Senator Stanfield, arrested last night and hooked on the charge of drunkenness and disorderly con­ duct. will be pressed only at a disorderly conduct charge, It was declared here today by' Frank C. McCotlock. city attorney. Xd M JB K . CO W f B^KER, Or«.. 8ept. 14— (U. P J — Senator R. N. Stanfield of Oregon, republican, the junior United States senator from this state, was at liberty here today, under a bond of fifty dollars, on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, which has been filed against him In the city court here. Stanfield wan arrested Sunday night, in a cafe here, by Po­ liceman Phil Edens, who de­ clared that Senator Stanfield was throwing things about the cafe. When Edens told Stanfield that he was under arrest, the lat­ ter is said to have hit the officer under the eye. Eden promptly took out his club and subdued Stanfield. The senator spent the night In the city Jail, and at hls preliminary hearing this morning, pleaded 'not guilty to the charge, and was released upon the posting of the fifty dollar bond. fJ E E C H K U Y T . Cullen Landis, screen actor*Jeriously injured in Log Angeles when hia automobile Another car collided. Roy Chapman Andrews, explorSf, who reports finding forty dinosaur e n a in China. Mary Lygo, former Follies girl, la said to be, the reason Gordon G. Thorne, wealthy Chicagoan, haa broken down. Love for his wife and fe a r she thought he still loved Maty sent him to the hospital. Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the United States, and husband o f Gladys VajideibHt, has sailed for Europe. ' “ Go »’long Mule, You’re Through With Serviee Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who will be seventy Sept. 21, will retire on a pension Oct. 1, after fifty-five yearn in the service of the road. W ith • total of 16,222, registration of foreign mffOta vehicles In Oregon for the W M of August, just closed, W M-ffgl 132 In excess of the registratteta for August of 1924, and leaked 4,468 of equalling the legleird tions for the month of Inly, 1925.. The registrations for Aeg- ust of 1923, amounted to 11,121, according to Sam A. Koser, Sae- retary of State. Every state In the United States was represented aMonff Oregon guests for the month of August and there were 241 vie-' (tors from Canada, 19 from Hawaii, four from Alaska, owe from China and one from trails. The total registration lor. the eight months’ period, Jane uary 1 to August 31, Inclusive, amounted to 62.933 as compared to 69.632 for the corresponding period of 1924 and a total Of 75,671 for the entire year of ! 1924. . si ;* lO I The Total of $245,000 to be Pre Seated to Klamath Tribesmen K LAM A TH PALLS, Sept. 14.— A special payment o f^ 200 to each Indian on the Klamath Indian reservation has been authorised by Secretary of -the Interior Hu­ bert Work, according to word re­ ceived here Saturday. Upon receiving verification of reports that the Klamath Indians had experienced 8 consecutive bad years in which poor crops prevail­ ed, the secretary of the interior authorized the 'general payment from the tribal reserve receipts from reservation timber sales. The number of Indians partici­ pating In the special payment will be 1226 and the aggregate pay­ ment which was authorised am­ ounts to 9245,000. It Ci under­ stood that the money will be dis­ bursed to the Indians by federai check Immediately. The treasury deposit credited to the Klamath reservation from which the payment -will bo made now amounts to 9168,000. A con­ stant Income from tribal Umber sales is expected for the next 20 years. Contracts now In force are expected to bring in 9700,000 for next year alone. INQUIRY BOARD 18 NOW APPOINTED United States forest rang- it eps“ at 66 ff tt ff I Wash., station has put up ff with the most pestiferous, ff k M n t a nkerous, balkiest ff tt tt tt tt tt tt 46 il tt mule that ever wagged Its ears, for two long years. Now he demands that thia government mule be ousted from the service. in a complaint to d ta­ trict headquarters here, reading: "Our mule has not yet become tameable and Is still a menace to life and property. Apparently there is no hope for It to reform. It has already crippled one regular sklnnur and eaten up blankets In fits or anger, besides various minor escapades and minor In­ juries which have a de­ moralizing effect on the reet of the string." the ' ‘ Okanogan, * genburg goat, but It may w ell have been an elephant for the excitem ent It caused. The little goat, escaped from its ow ner, dashed down Main . afreet early Saturday evening. In th e dusk, it« col­ o rin g almo:«t Identical with that o f a «leer hundred« who naw it w ere po«ltlve that a faw n or sm all deer, frighten­ e d , by th e sh o ts «luring. ( I k * early part o f d«*er «canon, lia«l Nx-onie bcwlhlrn*«l and came Into town. Down Main str«*et the goat ran, 'alm ost luto the |to«t office door. It wa« frtghter«*d aw ay by the crowd o f peopl«» «landing there, and turned in to Llthla Park, where It dis­ appeared. Those who «aw the goat w ere alm ost positive it wa* a deer — at leant they were positive until It« owner ap­ p ealed on the a v n r looking for It. Then they «l<*clar«*d they knew all the tim e It was a goat, but were «Imply try­ ing to "«poor1 som eone. STEAMER MAY STAY IN ICE ALL WINTER Whitey” Watson, Held f< NAME, Sept. 14.— (U P .) — Theft, Declares welcher The Hudson’s Bay Company steam­ er Baychlmo, caught In the lee Was Friend off Hershchel Island, Is In no ' ----------- ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 14— danger, and may stay there all “Whitey" Watson, Identified as winter, according to reports reach­ one Of the men who robbed the ing here today. EVOLUTION LECTURE HERE IS POSTPONED The lecture "Evolution or the Bible, Which.” which was to have been given at the Baptist church this evening, will be given tomor­ row night by J. J- 81ms. noted «^ttnr sad lecturer. It wds an- Murray, Wlllos and Kelly, wa« very ' much Interested in - the R 0DGBR8 TO START 1 Aurora bank robbery. Several FOR HOME FRIDAY times he asked the local pollc'o ----------- I what reward had been offered HONOLULU, Sept. 14— (U .' (Or the capture of the men P .)— Zealously guarded by phy- alcians and friends, Commander fobn Rodgera and hla flying mates of the PN-9-1, continued to recuperate today from their experiences during the 919 hours whteh they ware adrift at sea. Rodgers w ill leave Friday to? California on the U. S. B. Call- ferula. Whether his four mates will sail with him Is uncertain. 679t 16,- 943; Colorado, 968; Connecticut, 46; Delaware. 4; Florida, 194; Georgia. 9; Idaho. 3,191; Illinois, 648; Indiana. 263; Iowa, 477; Kansas, * 534; Kentucky, 96 Louisiana, 61; Maine, 14; Maa sachusetts, 94; Maryland, 27 Michigan. 353; Minnesota, 299; Mississippi, 34; Missouri, 977 Nebraska, 477 Visitors who attend the Jack- Montana, 745 ff WASHINGTON». 8ept. 14. — (U . P J — Secretary of Navy W ilbur today announced the per- sonnet of the court of inquiry Which la to investigate the Shen- Aurora State bank last October, amioah disaster. The board will was a pal of Philip Carson, who ■abt at Lakehurst as soon as tippe^ officers on Tom Murray possible, possibly this week. The a few weeks ago, Watson told of- board constats of Rear Admiral fleers before ba was taken to H ilary P. j Jones, Captain P a u l; Salem - Friday to await trial in Foley, Captain Frank A. C lark,1 the Marlon county circuit court Captain Lewis B. MeBrtdga, Com-J for his allege«? part In the bank mender John H. Towers, Lieuten- robbery. ant Commander Ralph C. Penney- — -------■ “ ■ —— or and Lieutenant Commander M. Carson, when he was In Ash- 1, Pierce. land, **,°rtly after the capture of by states. Alabama, 21; Arisons, * Arkansas. 79; California, at Jackson 31 81 registrations, ' for the eight months period, I January 1. to August 31, inclu­ sive, follows: who held up the bank, and upon onn occasion remarked: "That Isn't enough. I f they offered more, | could bring the man in." officers at that time paid little u r no attention to Car- yon'a- remarks cducernlug the 'Aurora robbery. since It was felt that ha was simply endeavoring, ease of I to air hia Importance over having taken up aids« la the «apturc of Murray, expected son County Industrial Fair, Med­ ford, September 19 to 19, will have an opportunity of seeing a larger and finer fruit ex­ hibit than shown at any other fair In the country this year. While fair patrons will be sur­ prised and marvel at the many fine attractions at this year's show, no sight will prove more impressive than the many ex­ hibits of perfect fruit that will greet the eye In the agricultural pavilion: There will be the out­ standing varieties of pears from the two and one-half million dol­ lar crop this year as well as scores of other varieties of fyult and vegetabes too numerous to mention^ With the fair season close at hand the management is makirg preparations for the biggest pear show In years. Enough entrlej already have been assured to nearly tax the capacity of the pavilion and- entry lists do not close until September 14. Re­ gardless <>r-H»a number of en­ tries every exhibit entered will Nevada. 312; New Hampshire. 12; Nevv.Jersey. 106; New Mex­ ico, 108; New York. 380; North Carolina, 23; North Dakota. 197; Ohio, 425; Oklahoma, 460; Pennsylvania, 223; Rhode Island, 19; South Carolina, 8; South Dakota, 181; Tennessee, 89; Texas, 480; Utah, 719; Vermont, 16; ■ Virginia, 47; Washington. 12,430; Washington. D. C., 16; Wisconsin. 235; Wyoming, 279. The registrations, by stations, for the eight months period, January 1 to August 21, In­ clusive. follows: Albany, 955; Ashland, 19.047; Astoria, 322; Baker. 1,279; Bend, 553; Corvallis, 411; Eugene. 1.685; Gold Beach. 222; Grants Pass, 4,942; Hood River, 493; Klamath Falla. 2,879; La Grande, 954; Lakeview. 71; Marshfield. 169; Medford. 9.992; Mlltofl-Freewater, 799; Newport, 10; North Bend. 51; Nyaaa. 799; Ontario, 2.984; Oregon City. 291; Pendleton, 1,454; Portland, 6,- 841; Roseburg. 1,660; Salem, 3.027; Seaside. 195; The Dalles. 1,627; Vale. 40; Inspectors, 30. at Chamber Luncheon Tomorrow; Congressman W. C. Hawley, Oregon congressman, will be the main speaker at the Chamber of commerce forum luncheon, to ba held at the Llthla Springs hotel tomorrow, J. H. Fuller, secrotary of the chamber announced to­ day. Hawley is the second Ms speaker to appear at the tarns luncheons since the sumador per­ iod during which no luncheons were held. Secretary of State Sam. A. Koser was the speaker at the opentpg luncheon throe weeks ago. Last Tuesday no luncheon was held, since Monday was a holiday and It was Impossible to reach the members of the cham­ ber. Senator Stanfield had heea arranged as the speaker at thia luncheon, bnt ho appeared Mon­ day evening nt a dinner gtvee here la his honor.