T idings MALARIA GERMS Cannot survive three months fo the rich oaone at Ashland. Pore domestic water helps. The Tidings Has Been Ashland's „Leading Newspaper, For Nearly Fifty Years (United Frese Wire Service)' VOL. XJ4X to the 8ea$*Weekly( Tidings. Volerne 41 it in Explosion, Man iwls to Surface and Freedom 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) ' 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