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WILBURTON,, Okla., Jan. 14.
— (LP)— Two hours after McKin
ney crawled out, rescue workers
found Burll Hollis, negro, alive.
He was dragged out and restored
to consciousness by the use of a
pulinotor.
NEW1 YORK. Jan. 14.— (IP) —
Poisoned boose and aloohollsm
toolj a toll of 1,617' lives during
1926, according to /lgurea re
ceived from twenty-fiva leading
cities In the country.
This represents an Increase of
more than 400 over the figure»
%f last year which were obtained
In practically the same diets.
New York leads the list with
in
thv
finst eleven months. The toll for
1924 was 613 for the entire year,
and adds credence to the state
ments of surgeons, attached to
the Bellevue hospital her» that
fewer cases Of poisoned booze
victims are being handled there
because of the better grade of
liquor being sold.
Next on the list is 'Chicago
with 243 victims of alcohoMsm.
most of which were attributed to
poison boose. Last year the mid
west Metrpolls turned In a count
of 161.
. Plttsbnrg was third In line
with 140 deaths wNh Detroit
running a close fifth with 117
casualties ea compared with
101 In 1114. '
Here are tlie principals in the mysterious train of- muAler cases that have terrorized
the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma. At the left is Mrs. John Kenny, white wife of a
full-blooded Indian, whose shooting of Fred Tillman»’ Indian attorney, two months
ago stalled the investigation. She was fteed when sh e claimed he had hypnotized her
—a proceeding, she said, that the murder ring adopted on all of its victims. In the
center is her husband, John Kenny, whom she is seeking to divorce on the charge
that the ring is turning him against her, and right ImHarry Donaldson, foreman of
the federal grand jury that is investigating.
John B ennett Captured A fter
Race A long Pacific
H ighw ay
One of the largest hauls of
Illicit liquor ever taken in Jack-
son county was mads last night
whan j local ► officers captured
John Benneft, alleged rain run
ner, who claims Weed aa his
home, and confiscated 56 gallons
of moonshine and a Cadillac
automobile. The arrest was made
near the junotlpn" of the Ashland
-Klamath > Falls
and
Pacific
highways.
It Is claimed by officers that
Bennett has been making regular
trips from Northern California
into this state, and, although
several traps have been laid for
him, he has always succeeded
in escaping However, last night,
although he attempted to escape
by making a race out of the ar H eavy F all a t Head of Ash
rest, the officers succeeded In'
Land Greek is
overtaking him and crowding
Reported
his automobile into a bank.
Bennett was taken before
Farmers of the Ashland dis
United
States
Commissioner trict were made glad this morn
Chauncey Florey, In «Medford this ing when a light rain started fall
morning for a hearing, and was ing, breaking the cold spell whieh
then taken to the county jail at has continued for almost three
Jacksonville. Bail will . probably weeks.
be set later, and he will await
The precipitation here*, although
trial at the next session of the it was light, will aid materially in
federal court at Medford.
adding moisture to the land, and
Included in the liquor taken also In* clearing away the fog.
were four, ten gallon kegs and
In the higher altitudes, snow
one fifteen gallon keg. Officers has been falling for several hours,'
declare, after an analysis of the reports say. At the head of Ash
liquor, that It was a high grade land Creek, and on Mount Ash
of moonshine.
land, much snow wtjs to be seen
this morning.
On the other hills surrounding
In Phlladelphal 112 died of
this City, a light fall of snow has
alcoholism an Increase of 17 over
been recorded.
the previous year, while Cleve
land turned In a count of 118 an
Increase of 28.
EPISC O PA L CHURCH
Washington, D. C. was more
HOLDS PA R ISH MEET
temperate, twenty-four fatalities
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 14.
being reported, a decrease or — (LP)— Owen "Cannonball” Bak
The annuel pariah meeting of
four. Albany, N. Y. had three er and Harry Sowash, hl-Jackers Trinity Episcopal chnreh wa.« held
deaths in 1926 and a like num and murderers, went to the gnl- at the Perish House on Wed
ber In 1924» *Los Angeles, like lows this morning, to answer for nesday evening, preceded by a-
Hijackers Pay
Penalty For
Two Murders
41 each for 1924 and 1925.
In Dallas, Texas, where drink
ing is confined largely to corn
liquor, no fatalities were report
ed. although five died of alcohol
ism' there In the preceding year.
Milwaukee also passed through
the year without casualltlea.
A loss of 11 in I l f 6- and 3C
In 1924 was Seattle’s record.
Buffalo, N. Y. reported «7 dead,
while S t Louis had 29 There
Were no poisoned boose victims
In Ban Francisco daring the year
bnt 17 went to their graves vie
the alcoholic route, It was re
ported. Three victims were re
ported In Tampa, two In Tacoma.
Wash., 26 In Boston, 24 In Kans-
M City and 2 la Denver.
Mystery
Portland Candidate for U .S .
• ‘ Judge Office to
T estify
Increase of 4.7 Mills Over
Last Year Shown in
New Rate
JO H N SO N
RATE OVER 6 PER CENT
FIGHTING
Rennte
Irreronsilables
World Court on Basis
Civil W ar Debts
Nitrogen Elem ent Needed by
Soil of Ashland
D istrict
1 The chief element needed by
’ the Ashland district soil to maki
' It < wdnderfully productive, Is
nitrogen, according to F. C.
1 Reimer, superintendent of the
1 Southern Oregon branch station
1 of the Oregon Agricultural Col-
1 dega Experiment Division.
1 "Reimer. to a letter to C. X
B r o m m e r , m a n a g e r o f the Ash
land Fruit and Produce associ
ation, urges the use of nitrogen
fixing plants and of chemicals
which will furnish the soli with
this element.
A pertoln of Reimer’s letter
TWO ARE H U R T IN
follows:;
BICYCLE ACCIDENT
"In reply to your recent let
ter I wish to state that nitrogen
J. B. Hair, 676 Liberty street,
is the chief element that should
suffered cuts and bruises about
be supplied in fertilizers for
the head last night, when a bi
fruits and * vegetables on the
cycle, ridden by Elliott Mac*
Ashland soils. This fertilizer has
Cracksu, ran into him, on Liberty-
given, us very fin» results on
street.
the light soOs In this territory.
The accident occured when
The fertilizers which supply this
Hair, who was crossing Liberty
are either sulphate of ammonia,
street, was unable to avoid Mac-
nitrate of soda, or sheep guano.
Cracken’s bicycle. He claims
I do not believe that jou need
MaeCracken was riding without
any other fertilizer for the gar
a headlight on his bicycle.
dens and small gruits in that ter
Seven Stitches were required
ritory, with the exception of a
to close the cut on 'H air’s fore
few of the ¿vegetables which re
head, while MaeCracken suffered
quire large quantities of snlfur.
Injuries which required the ser
vices of a physician.
(Continued on Page Four)
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ASHLAND, OREGON THURSDAY, JAN. 14, 1926
First Pictures io Osage
PORTLAND, , Ore.. Jan.
14. «— Delegates to the
Joint convention or Pacific
Coast lea Cream Manu
facturera Association and
the California and South
western States Association
spent this morning visiting
,a dairy products plant In
operation.
A. A. Comep of Los
Angeles, speaking late yes
terday, emphasised the
importance - of newspap
ers In advertising.
"Newspaper
publicity
made ‘Red’ Orange the
most talked of man in
America overnight, and
made him worth in less
than two months time SI*-
000,000," said Mr. Comep.
"Newspaper advertising
made Miami, Pla., practi
cally overnight."
ASHLAND CLIMATE
W ithout the use of medicine cure®,
nine cases out of tea of asthma.
This is,r P r o v e n fa c t
Gillis and his son, of the launch
Beryl G.
Before dawn turned Into day,
they were led to the gallows at
the Oakalla Jell here and hanged.
OIllls and his son, 17, were
slain by hl-Jackers off Turn
Point on Pender Island. Their
boat was foundz later, floating
abont,
bloodstained,
riddled
with bnlletta and deserted.
Charles Norris, a .third man
found guilty of tb» murder, es
caped the death penalty. Hit
sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment.
ly a fter the dinner the Meer,
the Rev. P. K. Hammond, culled
for a report from the church
Treasurer, C- B. Hedberg. which
showed a satisfactory financial
condition. Trinity Guild and the
Auxilalry to the Guild ala« re
ported a good year. Officers for
192« were then nominated and
elected. They are Senior Warden,
Samuel Penniston; Junior Ward,
en, George W. Looaley;* Treas
urer. C. B. Hedberg; Clerk J.
R; Bdwhrde. The ether mem here
of the Vestry ere: William M.
Briggs, Nathan Simpkins, Karl
P. Nlms, Frank Dean and Don
Klamath County votes special Whitney. The reet of the even
$76,000 school bonds, by 6-to-l ing was spent In social festivi
majority.
ties.
WASHINGTON, Jsn. 14. —XLP)
— The Senate Judiciary commit
tee has summoned Wallace Mc-
Camant of Portland to appeaf in
bis defense of his nomination by
President Coolidge as circuit
judge of the Portland federal dis
trict.
McCamiant has Informed friends
here that he is on his way Bast
to testify befahre the committee.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. — (IP)
— Irreconsibles in the upper house
of Congress, stirred the Senate to
a heated debate toda,y when they
asserted that the World Court
mlglg force the southern states
to pdy some three hundred mil
lion dollars of repudicated con
federacy Civil War debts to Brit
ish bond holders.
Senator Jim Reed. Democrat of
Missouri, declared that he could
prove that the court could assume
jurisdiction over the repudiated
confederacy, ahd the reconstruc
tion bonds, and onjer the south-
«
and rn states to pay.
Small R ainfall Total
Lack of Snow Alarms
Farmers
AsMesse<l Valuation o f Property
W ith in C ity Lim its Ret by *
Assessor at S2.7RO, 1MH.B2
AVIATORS KILLED
W HEN PLANE FALLS
Edwin* Brown, special U. S. at
torney has been sent from Wash
ington to Guthrie, Okla., to in
vestigate the mysterious chain of
murders among the Osage Indians
there.
He has fifty operatives
helping him.
•
Ashland's assessed valuation
for 1925, upon which the taxes
for 1926, which are payable this
year, were based, 13 12,786,188.92
according to figures compiled yes
terday by the. county assessor.
This total shows a slight increase
over the assessed valuation for
1924, upon wh'ich last years taxes
were based. The 1924 valuation
was set at 12,722,816.27. $68,-
372.65 less than the valuation
for 1925.
This assessed valuation Is ap
proximately two thirds the valu
ation of the property in the city.
The city taxes for the year show
an increase of three mills, the
assessor announced. The rate tdi
the city in 1924 was 19.8 mills,
while the rate, npon which the
1925 taxes will be based has been
set at 22.8 mills.
County and city tax rates, mak
ing the total levy for the city,
show an increase of 4.7 mills, the
figures show. The figures upon
which the taxes paid last year
were based were 60.2 mills, while
the rate for the 1026 taxon, which
are payable this year, has been
set at (4.9 mills. Thia mark In
dicates the total levy to be as
sessed against the assessed valu
ation of the property within the
tlty Jimtts.
__
The rate of 64.» mills Is almost
six and one half por cent, one of
the highest tax rates for ary city
in Oregon.
GRANTS PA88, Jan. 14.— Un
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 14.— (LP)—
less there is a big. change In tht
weather In the next few months Two naval aviators were killed
the Rogue valley? Ray bg farw'l here today when the wings of
jby another sutAmef 'Its 'Wy ' a? their plane collapsed /n d the craft
that of 1924, when the Rogur fell into the bay. The dead are Party From Ashland Makes
went to the lowest level in the Lieutenant Frederick Kahn and
Inspection Trip to
Witness«
memory of old residents. With Seaman Burk L. Law.
Summit
an average of 29.29 inches over said the plane was doing a stunt
Wednesday a party of Ashland
a period of 29 years, the rain- when the wings collapsed and
men.
including a representative BAD CHECK ARTIST
tho
Ship
plunged
Into
the
bay.
tall in 1925 fell below the nor
LOCATED IN SOUTH
from
The
Dally Tidings, drove to
mal precipitation by 5.97 Inches
the summit of Siskiyou mountain
while in 1924 th» rainfall wa* NATIONALIZATION OF
H. E. " Poe. wanted here for
12.37 inches under this mark
ENG. M INERS W ANTED to Investigate whether the reports passing a worthless check on the
that the highway over the sum
This winter has been as dry at
Citizens Bank, has recently en
LONDON. Jah. 14. — (LP) — mit is dangerous are true or not.
the one preceding the abnormal
At Stein man Loop on the high deavored to cash checks drawn
year of 1924, with the little rain The nationalization of the British
on a local bank. In Richmond,
which has fallen being absorbed coal mines was proposed today, way the driver of the automobile California, according to word re
as fast as It fell. The situation In n gigantic schejpe, submitted stopped suddenly and pointed to ceived here today.
is regarded as serious to the min by the Miners Federation to the a bush growing alongside the rail
Poe, who was formerly a reel;
lng Industry at the present time, national committee, investigating road right of way near the bridge.
dent
of Prineville, cashed a check
It was a pussy willow bush in
some having been forced to shut the mining industry.
drawn
on a Prineville bank, se
bloom. Many of the buds on the
down. A lack of rain will also be
curing
the
endorsement of a local
bush were fully developed, in
felt seriously by farm lands out GALVESTON PIERS
man.
The
check was for $150.
side the Irrigated districts.
SA ID DESTROYED dicating that It had started
The
authorities
at Richmond
blooming two or more weeks ago.
January, usually the month of
HOUSTON, Jan. 14. — (LP) —
have been Instructed to arrest and
heaviest precipitation^ has seer Damage estimated at nearly a mil
(Continued On Page Fou»)
hold Poe.
exceptionally little rain, only ,C9 lion dollars was caused early to
inch having been recorded. In day when,fire destroyed four piers
January. 1920, the driest on-re at Galveston.
cord, there was .64 inch. The 29
year average is approximately
five Inches. With several weeks
to go yet this month, however
there Is still opportunity for ?
large addition to the present to
tai,
'
There has been no snowfalt ?r
PORTLAND, Jan. 14— Plans berg and McMInville. Wednes
the coast mountains this winter
Members of the Jackson Coun for the 1926 land settlement pro day cooperative work was start-
snow being found only in drift»
ty Bar Association will meet at gram of the Portland chamber of od at Dales and today Foster
and small patches. At Bolon lake
the Medford Hotel In Medford at commerce, affiliated with the will return to* Salem for defi
the forest service has been In
6:80 Saturday evening, accbrdtng Oregon State chamber of com nite land settlement organisa
formed that there Is now only
are
being
discussed tion.
to an announcement made here merce
one foot and »1 Crater Lake
Next week Foster la plannlidt
throughout
the sate with the
this morning.
there is only about four feet
A splendid program has been various country chambers of com on going to Bend, and the lost
At this time of year, the mount
arranged for the meeting by the merce In an effort to concen week of January or the first
ains at Bolon are usually cover
committee. It wilL Include talks trate the work In a state wide week of February will In all
ed to a depth of. about six feet
probability be spent In Southern
from Judge Evans of Portland, cooperative organisation.
and at Crater Lake to a depth or
Arthur Foster, manager of the Oregon, where a harvest of land
E. E. Kelly of Medford, and mem
about 12 to 16 feet. It Is this
bers of the Josephine County Bar. Portland Land Settlement De settlement work was accomplish
lack of snow for storage in the
A report of the library committee partment» stated this week an ed In 1926, and where extensive
mountains which is causing es-
itinerary which will take in a plans are being made for 1»2(.
p s s ls l esa le a a, as th » s a e w i 14
Sometime later In f ie month
An opportunity for open dis personal vi.-dt to (he local cham
depended npon to supply the
cusston will be made, at which bers for preliminary organiza of February. Foster will extend
water In the Rogue and Its trib
time it Is hoped that each attor tion. Later, members of the Land his tour to the coast counties.
utaries for Irrigation and mining
ney will present a matter of prac Settlement Committee will ce Toledo and Newport have al
purposes.
tice* or law upon which there la a ment the program with Joint ready signified that they are
divergence of practice of Ideas meetings of assistance and en anxious to create land settle
ment departments In their or
OAR M INUS BRAKES,
among the members of the bar. couragement.
On Monday Foster attended a ganisations.
DRIVER PA Y S 110 A revised minimum schedule of
filbert meeting at the Ralem
The outlook for the migration
fees, will be also presented
Y. Fuerte of Sacremento, ar
of
new settlers to Oregon Spring
chamber
of
commerce,
(he
ob
Members of th» bar of Jnek:
rested yesterday morning by son, Josephine and Klamath coun ject of which meeting wsa to 1926 Is very bright. Foster states
State Traffic Officer C* P. Tal ties are especially Invited.
.» , create a rural chamber of com that hie records show that hand-
ent, plead guilty to a charge of
merce In Marlon coqnty to be af reds of families are eontempM-
operating an autdmoblle without
filiated with the 8alem chamber. ing coming here this year, g*-*~
brakes, and was fined $10 and
While In the capital Foster dis Treaanrer Kay le In syn
Oregon and Washington
costa by Justice of the Peace L.
cussed the land settlement pro« w ith, the settlement of
— Rain in the west por
A. Roberta here.
gram with the State Treasurer lands and the vast sere
tion, with snow in the
Charges, of driving without sn
Thomas Key and members of logged-off leads, which
Bast. Southerly winds,
const of locality are partfe»,
operator’s license end failure to
the state land .board.
with probably gales along
Tuesday Foster visited the attractive to settler, of «
register en out of state car were
dismissed.
the coast,
chambers of commerce at New-
Bar Association
to Hold Meet
Next Saturday
THE WEATHER