MALARIA GERMS
Cannot autvive thr^e months in
the rich osone at Ashland. Pore
domestic water helps.
ASHLAND Cl
W ithout the use y f s *** A cures
nine cases on*
X asthma.
This is a r \’>*&*'9 ,ct.
The Tidings Has Been, Ashland1 s Leading Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years
(UnlteS >*«>« Wire Service)
VOL. XLIX
Successor to the Semi-Weekly TUUagg. Volume 49
Moose GowDies
When Struck
By Locomotive
XMAS PARDON
LIST IS LIGHT
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ASHLAND, OREGON, ^WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1925
As the Dogs Bring the Deer to Bay
PO RTLA N D, Ore., Dec.
23— (U . P i)— Game of
ficials are bemoaning the
loss of a moose co«, one
animal in a herd of five
which was turned loose
In the mountain districts
o f Southern Oregon two
years ago.
The animal broke its
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wa8 hlt train.
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Governor “ M a Ferguson to C arry „
Out Plan of Leniency Daring
Holidays
of leniency toward prisoners
in the state "penitentiary grant
ed eleven fu ll pardons, fourteen
conditional pardons, and seven
restorations to citizenship.*
Governor am Baker of Mis-
in
uhnw
fln tn A n r v
to only “ three or four" of the
convicts now in the state prisffh,
he indicated to the correspon
dent who interviewed him on
the subject this morning.
Only four convicts w ill re
ceive pardons from Governor
Nellie Taylor Ross, woman gov
ernor of Wyoming.
These, she
explained, are very deserving
cases, and she probably would
have acted upon them, Christmas
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Twenty one prison . and
form story inmates have been
paroled by dovernor H artley of
Washington, but no Christmas
pardons are expected f t Mon
tana or from Governor
Pierce of Oregon. In the latter
state, Fred C. Schulte, former
constable at Reedsport, was
freed today after serving three
years of his eight year term for
accepting a bribe, but Pierce
explained, this was a regular
routine matter, and had nc
Christmas gesture.
CAMP FIRE GIRLS TO
AID IN RELIEF WORK
More than 150 was realised
by the Camp Fire girls In their
benefit performance which was
presented at the Ashland High
School last week, it was learned
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in Christmas relief work. Much
of it w ill go to the relief of
needy families, whll a part w ill
be used In purchasing gifts for
those confined to hospitals.
-The performance was staged
by the C am p -F ire girls of the
Senior High school, while the
Junior H igh and Hawthorne
girls aided by selling tickets
and by acting as ushers at the
performance.,
Subscribe F or The Tidings.
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and game wardens found
her.
One bull moose suf-
fered a broken leg early
this f a ll frpm the same
source, but his leg was
successfully mended by
veterinarians."" "
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iif f Dealer
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to Bisr
in Marsh-
ì i i eld Section
The first shipment of hay to
Sixty-five per cent -of the leave Ashland in several years
forest fires in the Siskiyou N a was s e n t o u t o f this city early
tional forest during the 192 S this week by Fred Homes, well
season wtjre man-caused, ac known rancher of the Bellview
cording to figures compiled by district, who shipped two car
the forestry officials.
There loads to the Marshfield district.
were 67 fires handled by the Approximately 30 tone were con-
U t t ta
i . ined
office.
in the forest, which covers an declared.
The hay was con
area o f ’ l.gJO.OOO acres and
signed to A. T. Haines, one of
extends, roughly, from Powers, the largest hay and grain mer
Oregon to ■ a point about 16 chants of the Marshfield. sec
ilea qoujh, of Crescent^ City, tlon.
,
-rial., awd from the aoaut to a
Including the bay which be
few miles west of Orants Pass. has sold locally. Homes said that
Causes of fires were lightning. he has sold approximately 100
1«; campfires, 9; smokers, 10; tons of his crop this year. The
brush burning, 2; Incendiary. 11: price for the hay, baled, has
miscellaneous, 9. The total coat been $15 and |1 6 per ton.
of auppreaaion waa ( 7 7 (4 , which
According to Haines, Homes
represents a direct loss to the stated, the Marshfield dairymen
government.
and others of that ^section who
The peak of the season was use large quantities of hay, pre
reached in the la tte r" half of fer the Rogue River Valley hay
July and the first part of August. to that grown in Eastern Ore
On July 19, the most destructive gon.
The Rogue River Valley
fire for the year occurred. This hay is said to be of* much better
was a man-caused conflagration quality, having smoother straw
on F all Creek, Just a few miles than that grown east of the
southeast of Pearsoll Peak.
It Cascades.
covered 680 acres, or nearly a
Much of this product has been
square mile of territory. A m il shipped from the lower end of
lion feet of timber, conservatlve- the Valley during the past few
ly,valued at 33600 was consumed years, but there has never been
in the blaze. Sixty per cent enough grown to meet the local
of this* was sugar pine.
Heavy demand
and
leave
a
large
rainB In the fore part of Sep enough quantity fo r shipment.
tember permitted the forest ser
More growers are planting
vice to reduce its fire crews hay each year, since It has
to a mere skeleton organization. proven a valuable crop. Homes
There was a long dry spell from stated.
t he latter part ot September to
W ith an open w inter, and a
the first of November that gave large amount of forage avail
the 'service another brief ftre able, the price of hay thia year
aeaBon.
It
was during this la somewhat lower than In past
period that the largest fire oc- years, when heavy snows have
made forage impossible.
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MOONSHINER 7 5 YEARS OLD
FACING PRISON SENTENCE
K L A M A T H FALLS, Dec. 23—
Seventy-five years old and a
term in the state penitentiary.
This 1« what confronts W .
K. Davidson, probabte the old-
est moonshiner in Oregon If not
In the west. Mr. Davidson was
sentenced Monday 'to serve one
year in the state penitentiary
by Judge A. L. Leavitt. He had
entered a plea of guilty before
Judge Leavitt Friday afternoon.
Davidson stands over six feet
tall.
His face is matted with
long whiskers but through them
one con detect a pleasant ex
pression.
His eyes are. keen
and bright.
Davidson was 74 years old
when be was first arrested for
violating the prohibition law In
Klamath.
Hl« case waa an ag
gravated offense but owing to
his age, the Justice court mag
istrate let him off on a nominal
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This uqusual photograph,, taken in France, shows an*old-time deer hunt nearing its
climax. The dogs are racing along the bank to head -pff their quarry, which can .be
seen emerging from the river a t the left a fte r a lo n g ;swim.
REPORT SHOWS LOCAL HAN IS
HAN STARTED SELLING HAY
H O ST F IR E S TO DA1RYHEN
Sixty Five Per Cent of For
est Fires Past Season
Man
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A t that time
the
moon-
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shiner agreed to mend his ways.
He returned to his old home
stead ranch in the Malin dis
trict.
But __ a year later, pro-
hibltion officers heard rumors
“ that he was at It again.” They
decided to Investigate and their
raid on the Davidson place net
ted a sizable still.
Davidson did not know what
to do about bis situation.
He
told officers he would plead
guilty to the Charge. But when
he confronted Judge Leavitt F r i
day afternoon he changed h|g
mind and entered a plea of
not gnilty.
On his way out of
the
court
room
he
again
changed hl smind and returned
to enter a final plea of guilty.
The ancient manufacturer of
liquor w ill be taken to the state
penitentiary within the next few
days, where he w ill begin to
serve his sentence.
BEAUTY HARES
SACRIFICE FOR
CROOK LOVER
Jilted
Tax Warrants Put
in Hands of Sheriff
For Collection
Ten warrants for the collection
of state Income tax, claimed to
be delinquent and due, v e r t
placed in the hands of the sher
iff
tor
collection*
Monday,
against residents of
Jackson
county. .The total amount In
volved. Ifl $261.91.
The names and amounts are
Giant Mastodon
Skeleton Found
at Boise, Idaho
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BOISE, Idaho., D ie. 33
— (U . P .)— The skeleton
of a giant mastodon has
been
found___ In
lava
fields about 25 miles east
ot here.—
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The skeleton was em-
bedded eight feet under
ground in bardpan on
top of the lava flow.
Examination has shown
that the bones are in ex
cellent state of preserva
tion and efforts w ill be
made to remove them
from the hardpan without
breaking up the skeleton.
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RELIEF WORK
OF SALVATION
ARMY GOES ON
r Many Needy Families to be
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ASHLAND
ACCUSES MA'
OF CRUELTY
L. Smith Brings Divorce
Action Against Marie
Alitha Smith
L. L. Smith of Ashland, filed
suit for divorce in the circuit
court Monday against his wife,
Maris Aleths Smith, alleging
cruel and Inhuman treatment, de
sertlon “and persisting in go
ing about with two certain men
of Ashland, against the will and
wishes of the p lain tiff.”
It Is
also charged that the defendant
went on auto rides with men at
nights, during the' last summer,
and that the names of these In
volved w ill be furnished " if
the defendant so desires.”
Further grounds are cited in
the allegation that while on a
trip to Jasper, Canada, last fall,
the defendant "carried on h
flirtation with one Syd Gee." nn<f
that she has "maintained friend
ships w ith people of doubtiu«
character in the community.’’
Mrs. Smith Is now living in
Albany, Oregon.
DAUGHTER OF LOCAL
MAN GIVEN HONOR
W ord was received here this
morning by Rev. M. 8. Wood-
worth, Das tor o f the
Baptist
church, that h it daughter, C’ar-
m allta
Woodworth
has been
chosen to represent the McMinn
ville chapter of Phi Kappa Delta,
national honorary forensic fra
ternity at the national meet to
b i held In Estes Park, Colorado rt
March. Mips Woodworth will en
ter the contest In extemporaneous
speaking and oratory.
as follows:
H. G. Enders, Ashland...... 937.84
O. H. Glover, Medford........ "4.75
F . 8. Torrey, Medford.................... 3.54
Pinnacle - Packing .. Co.
Medford ................ ~.......... 78-4* FOUR FIREMEN DIE _
Ted Ruseell, Medford........ 1.41
IN HOTEL BLAZE
X. Bartolettl, Ashland.... 8.01
W AYNESBURG , Pa., Dec. 28
Frank Nltkey, Butte ........
3.99
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(U. P .)—A w all collapsed dur
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W . H. Harland, Medford.... 2.13 ing a fire at the Downey Houso
today, killin g four firemen and
O. O. Alendeffer, Med-....
2.10 seriously In juring tw o others.
f6rd
03.40 The fire Started In a restaurant
C. E. Gates, Medford.....
on the ground floor of the Dou(-
.ney House, and spread to a de
Oregon w ill use 80,000 bar partment store, then Jumped
rels of Oil cozt’ng 9460,000. to scrota the street to a church.
oil <80 miles state highway The damage* Is estimated at a
m illion dollars.
in 1926.
Aided by Organization
Here This Year
W ith new cases being brought
to the attention of the officials
of the Salvation Army here daily,
Eroy Schwindei today issued a
call for help from the people of
the city.
Donations of all kinds w ill be
acceptable, according to Envoy
1. Old clothing toys, food,
dishes, in fact, almogt anything
«an be need in alleviating the
suffering of poor families in the
ci ty, S chwind e i d ec l a r e d.-------------
The Salvation Army is endeav
oring tp meet flte needs of every
needy family this Christmas, as it
has in. the past, and the aid of
the people of the city will be
needed to carry out this work, the
Envoy declared.
A ll Contributions
should
be
turned In at the Salvation Army
barracks on Fourth street early
tomorrow.
Those who cannot
leave
their dona* ions should
phone the barracks, and a man
Will call for the package, Schwin
dei stated.
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That all donations be in early
tomorro
wls
emphasized
by
Schwindei, who declares there is
much work to be done on the
packages, nl distributing them to
the right families before Christ
mas, 'and this work will take al
most the entire day tomorrow.
32 DIE AS RESULT
OF PROHI BATTLES
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 28— (U .
P .)— The prohibition war claim
ed 32 lives in the fiscal year
ending June 30, official figures
disclosed
today.
Twenty-five
dry law violators were killed by
agents, am} seven agents were
slain by bootleggers.
VINING WILL GIVE
FREE SHOW XMAS
Santa Claus has come for sure,
say the kiddles. Christmas morn
ing, the Vining Theatre Is to be
host to the children of the city at
a free show, which w ill start at
9:46.
An “Our Gang" comedy and a
feature picture w ill be shown.
Christmas and a free show.
W hat more could any kid ask?
M ORE
SHOPPING
DAY
SfctHMg
LOCAL PEOPLE
INDICTED BY
GRAND JURY
New Orleans Society Girl
Goes Into Underworld
as Officer
Mrs. Whelpley Will Face
Arson Count, Brought
as Fire Result
LOVER
0. E. LLOYD IS HELD
IS
SA VED
Joe Lutz, A rrest« I for Theft of
Hmklle, Indicted on Burg
lary Count
Arrested as Shoplifter. Probi
Heads R efuse to Protect Her
. From Crime Result
JT it was necessary to k ill
KANSAS C IT Y , Dec. 23— (U .
P .) — Santa Claus hasn’t a very
full pack of Christmas par
dons ready to be distributed
among the convicts in the r^any
penitentiaries in the west,
cording to reports gathered by
the United Press correspondents.
Governor M iriam A. Ferguson
of Texas,' first woman govern
or, in lieeping w ith he rpollcy
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Mrs. Minnie Whelpley, ar-
N E W ORLEANS, La., Dec. 23
itested here last week* on a
— The lights on the wharves of
charge of arson, arising out of
old New Orleans gleam fitfu lly
the burning of the home of
across the dark flood of the rest
Mrs. Jane McCoy, <• of
Iowa
less Mississippi. They light the
street, was Indicted at the ses
passage o f countless s h ip s —-car
sion of the county grand jury,
riers o f the freight ot a nation’s
held at Jacksonville this morn
inland empire.
And, at times,
ing.
they touch the dark form of one
Mrs. Whelpley will face a
of those ships of night that carry
charge
of arson, returned against
contraband cargo; the ships that
her by the Jury.
slip In silently, laden with trag
Joe Lutz, arrested by Chief of
edy and' evil.
Police McNabb was iq^lcted on
But never have they seen a
a burglary count.
Lutz is ac
more tragic chain of ovents than
cused of stealing a saddle from
those which make up the story
the Dollarhlde place on the Sls-
of Mabel Langford.
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H a had carried the
F or Mabel Langford is the girl
saddle
as
fàr
as Talent when ar-
w h a la f t a home -of wealth and
raBted
by
McNabb,
culture to lose herself In the dark
Two indictments for forgery
byways that hedge In the water
were returned by the grand
front.
She did it because she
ju ry against C. E. Lloyd, for
loved a man; and then, at the
mer Ashland automobile sales
last, she
found that the man
man. Lloyd it Is alleged, cashed
wasn't worth it.
two checks, totaling |7
and
Mabel Langford I b the daugh
drawn on thè Jackson County
ter of an old .Louisiana family
Bank at Medford. It is alleged
living In the northern part of the
he bad no account a<t the bank,
state. She Is a college graduate Mabel I^tngford, who entered the
and had declined on several oc-
and mingled in the most exclus underworld for love.
caslons to take.ap the worthleaa .
ive society elrclas . She was to
paper.
have been married to a young
Don H all waa indicted for the
man who lived in Meriden. Miss.
theft of afi automobile tn Med
Just before the day set for the
ford.
Three weeks ago. Hall
marriage Miss Langford went to
and "Fn gin" McElroy broke j«U
visit her fiance’s family. W hile
at Jacksonville, but wow
she was there, a strange man
captured the following day at
came to call tn her. He was a
Gold HUI.
No Indictment waa
federal narcotic agent.
He told
returned against H all for the
her he wanted to save her from
Jail break.
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disgrace by informing her that
W . L. Blakely waa Indicted
her fiance was a "dope-runner";
on a count o f operating a «till.
thnt the federal agents had suf
ficient evidence to send him to Was Resident of Ashland for
started on
prison.
More Than 50 Years.
J. R. CASEY. OLD
P IO N E E R OF
ASHLAND, DIES
srrr
AUTO LIOENSE LAV*
Funeral Tomorrow
Miss Langford wan a girl of
spirit. She got the federal ngenf
PORTLAND, Dec. 23— (U . P.)
J. R. Casey, 87, one of tho — A suit charging that the Ore
to take her to his superiors. And
with them she made a bargain; pioneers of Ashland, died at gon Motor Vehicle license law
that if they would agree not to the home of his daughter, Mrs. is in fact a toll, and is in
prosecute Her finance, she would Elmer Magnuson, In Santa Mon violation of the federal rural
find out who the real heads of ica yesterday, according to a post road act, and the federal
the narcotic-smuggling ring were telegram rec^ivwl by friends highway act was filed In the
here this morning.
federal court today.
Twenty
and get evidence that would en
For over fifty years, the de
able the government to send them
six separate complaint* were
ceased was a resident of Ash
listed against Sam Kozer, secre
to prison. The officials agreed.
land. He took a prominent part
tary of state.
The complain
And so Mabel Langford loft her
in all the civic activities ot the
ants are seeking an Injunction
home, came down to Now Orleans’
city, and for almost twenty
to prevent the collection of
waterfront byways and mingled
with the*dope peddlers. She fu l years, was postmaster here.
licenses.
Shortly after the close of the
The rural post road set and
filled her promise. , In a short
Civil W ar, during which he
the federal highway acta pro
time she turned In evidence that
served In the Union army, Mr.
hibit the collection of tolls on
sent the leaders to the peniten
Casey moved to Ashland.
At
highways
on
which
federal
tiary.
Her sweetheart was sav
thet time, the hoiuo wnich was
funds
are
applied
for
coc-
ed.
constructed on what is now
structlon.
Many
highways
fn
And<hen he ran away and mnr- Pton**er Avenue, was one of the
Oregon
have
been
built
w
ith
fed
rled anoyier girl!
eral aid.
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Mabel Langford was heartbrok
en. To forget — that was her sole
aim.
So she came to New Or
leans again, this time becoming
a member of the federal prohibi
tion enforcement agency. Down
to the dark waterfront she went
once more.
“ I won myself a placq of confi
dence In the heart of the under
world’s rum rlpg,” she says. “ I
Hurrah, gang, no more school the Night Before Chrlstma«,"
even lived in the old plnntatipji
until
January 4.
Just think, and singing "Jingle Bells.”
mansion, far up town, looking out
eleven
days
vacation,
’nChrlstmas their mind« on anythin? but
over the Mississippi River, where
cargoes of alcohol were token off ’nNew Year’s in between.
This was the cry of young
swift rum boats, and overnight,
America,
as represented by the
with labels! and seals and corks,
Ashland
school
children today.
ere transformed in the rooms
of (hat old mansion Into ‘choice rp TT B w nig ui< e i ugimf-
at the various schools in the
imported liquors.”
city.
F or today, the annual
I learned that one man, known
Christmas
vacation starts.
only to his associates as ’Mr. W .’,
For
almost
two weeks, the
is the rum k in g .o f New Orleans
and directs a traffic totalling mil youngsters w ill be free to do
lions from his home on Broadway, what they w ill, with the excep
In the heart of the rich residen tion ot the lim e they will be their w rk, anxious to get the
running errands, carrying wood i recitations rod the songs over,
tial district. I learned thnt two
brothers-in-law,. posing as weal and doing the other things which sc they «cuid start on their vn-
help ruin such vacation«.
Hdt, catious
thy New Orleans business men,
then, figure most of the young
The first term ot tho
are his lieutenants.
sters, It w ill be only a couple year will not end w ith thia
“ I learned the name of every
of days before Christmas, an,)
vacation, however.
I t w ill to
one of the fleet of six ships that,
bring the liquors and raw afcohol then the annual period of good the middle at H o u r betore
behavior, w hlotw alw ays comes the students
their
from Cuba to New Orleans.
just before CbrWtmaa, will be for Ibt first tevto. and
In that house, the last day I
over.
waa there, was 813,700 worth of
on »he
A t each of the school«, appro
raw alcohol.
In two adjoining
3la m ¡nBw
priate
programs
«Gere given,
with the pupils reciting “ ’Twat
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CHRISTMAS VACATIONS OF
SCHOOLS STARTED TODAY