malaria germs
Cannot survive three months in
the rich osons at' Ashland. Fore
domestic water helps.
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The Tidings Has Been Ashland?s
VOL. XLQC
Without
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nine j * & « of ten of asthma^
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\g Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years
ASHLAND, OREGON, SATÜBD.
Flip of Coin
EWides
Suicide Route
Survivors of Two Ill-Fated
Vessels Are Returning
on Rescuing Ships
AM OTHER IN TROUBLE
NBW YORK, Jan. J O - ( U .P )
SAN DftSGO, Calif.,
Jan. 30— Leslie W. Nila-
son. 27, engineer, first-
elaas, attached to , the
destroyer Moodjr, com
mitted suicide in a hotel
room here yesterday by
drinking poison. A note
which he left to his
mother, Mrs. B. L. Nils
son, *232 Pacific street,
Omaha, Nebraska, indl-
c^teyl that despondency
prompted the act.
Another note Which
he left showed that he
tossed a coin to deter
mine the method of sui
cide with heads for hang
ing himself and tills for
poison. The flipped coin
laid on the note tails up.
Np
loor
ini6 ’
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to
the
YREKA, Jnn. 30. — With the
death of Congressman John E.
Raker, aged <3, representative for
Siskiyou in congress, at Wash
ing ton4 D. C., January 22, after
a long illness, a figure unique In
California politics passed and the
question of who will be his suc
cessor will,mart the political pot
boiling In . northern California
even earUerJn the season than
was expected.
Congressman Raker was a
judge In Modoc county when he
was elected to congr^s and he
took office March 4, 1911, which
he held continuously until his
death.
While hie constituency
was overwhelming Republican
political faith, he was always re-
fortable-majorltles, generally with
the endorsement of both Repub^-
llcan and Democratic parties back
of him.
When Congressman Raker came
to Yreka last Jane and, after din
ing with leading business afud
professional men of Yreka, gave
the principal address at the grad
uation exercises at the Yreka
High School. It wAs one of hie
last public appearances. Shortly
after he returned to his home In
Alturas, he was stricken, hut, In
spit, of his physical handicaps,
ha returned to his work at Wash
ington, D. C„ where he underwent
an operation last fall from which
ha never rallied. Two weeks ago.
Speaker Nicholas Longworth want
President Churchill Here in
Interests of
School
STEAL AN AUTOMOBILE
FACULTY IS C H O S E N
"
—The terrible gale, which has
been pounding the Atlantic ship
ping during Hie past 'week, is
reported by vessels still at sea
to be abating today.
The President Roosevelt, with
the survivors of the Autlnoe
disaster aboard, la expected at
Queenstown between six and
eight p. m., today. The Nord
Dqntacher Lloyd liner Rrenen,
with air survivors of the LArls-
tan tragedy. Is due here Mon
day.
The Errlngton Coart, a coal
steamer Which was bound for
New York, has proceeded on Its
way after repairing the dam
ages to her steering- gear, while
the Canadian Settler, a Canadian
government boat, la reported In Eugene Drops Game to Med
ford Toners. Play
trouble out of HaUfax. -
Again Tonight
The ‘New York Red Cross
line steamer
pot
Handicapped by an unfamiliar
back into St.
ind- floor/, one altogether too small
land, after
the for their . style of play, and
> to tired after a terrific game play
ed Thursday night here against
the Eugene high five, the Ash
land high hoopsters laet night
failed to equal the snore made
here against the Merrill tos-
trol
Desperate Prisoners Flee
Roseburg Jail When .
Keeper is Attacked
They still practice polygamy in tne soutneni riiilippines, despite the fact that the
American flag flies over the land. This photo shows a Moro chieftain named Mama,
aad his ten wives. He likes ’em young.
»
Sick Man Asks for H eat; Coal
Passed In; Jailer Ixx-ked
Up as They F lee
j
Outsaading Teachers u i Faculty
of Southern Oregon
Normal
$100,000,000 of
Gold Coins
to be Minted
Bellview Organisation
$150 From
Dinner
About 200 persons took advan
tage of the splendid chicken din- **
ner and dance, given last night a
by the Bellview community club.
for the benefit of the building **
fund of the club. Almost $150 **
was realised for the fund by the 8
evening’s entertainment.
$$
The chicken dinner was served - $2
from 2 to 8 p. m., and was fol- 32
lowed Immediately after by danc- 33
ing, which continued until mid- 33
night.
,
»
Many Ashland firms contrlbut-
ed to assist In swelling the fund.
^<r»t ..w >ea tM r,.tan gled -. l*«t H. O. Enders of the Enders’ «
night with the Klamath county Wholesale Grocery, contributed 1
boys on their'hou^e court.' Thb the coffee while the Crown Flour |
score was 40-S,’ with Ashland on company furnished the flour.
Other supplies were contributed Z1
the long end.
Coach Hughes
need
every by the people of the Bellview I
district. The Civic Club donated
man
_ _ be took on the trip, in an the use of their club house.
_
effort to conserve his charges*
Fifty dollars was contributed to \
strength before their tussle with
the building fund by the First Na- i j
the. Klamath high five, to be tional Bank.
**
played In Klamath Falls this eve.
It was announced this mot-n-
nlng.
ing that almost $400 had been W
. ....
Although the Merrill outfit raised through the series of en
,howed <ood team Pl*r. their tertainments which have been
bl* weakneM waa ***** Inability given by the club during the past
t<r hit the basket. Time after three months.
time they would battle under the
It has been decided to postpone Th
the building operations until this coi
(Continued on Page Four)
fall, when the men of the Bell- ele
view district, who will contribute lat
the labor, will not be as busy
as they are at present.
j
The next entertainment to be «p
given wjll be an old fashioned Or,
dance, to be given In the Armory H
on February 19.
’
80,275 Persons
Entered Grater
Park Last Year
to his bedside at Washington to
administer the oath of office.
Burial will be at Alturas, th<
congressman’s
body
leaving
Washington Wednesday for his
former home, where final ar
rangements will be made.
• If Governor Richardson decides
to call an election to fill the va
cancy, Secretary of State Frank
C. Jordan’s office announced that
at least 40 days muBt elapse be
tween the date of the call and
the election in order to give can
didates time in which to circu
late their nomination petitions.
All candidates would run as
Independents rather than as part-
leans, and the election would be
for Raker’s unexplred term, which
A total of 80,275 people is a
conservative
estimate
Crater
National forest officers make
on the number of visitors who
were in or peeked through the
forest during 1925. about the
same as the year before.
Only 18,125 of thfs number
stayed in the ’ forest, the re
maining 52,169 being transients
passing through. Union Creek
led the national forest resorts
with 8,435 campers for the year.
Rocky Point, 'Klamath ' county.
Have made it necessary for Raker
to have been a candidate at the
August primaries.
** Should the governor call an
election, undoubtedly there would
be a Urge field of candidates, most
of whom have been made unsuc
cessful attpmid.s to defeat Raker
at the polls.
, Among the candidates consid
ered likely to seek the office at a
spedlal election are Secretary of
State Frank C. Jordan, Dr. Earn
est'Dollar of Redding, Ivan Park
er of Aabnrn, Georgs W. Root of
Grass Valley, Ernest B. Wood of
Placerville, James T. Matlock of
Red Bluff, Arthur Mathews of
Susanville, and Senator
J.
Powers of Siskiyou and Modoc
counties and Mrs. Raker herself.
Lake of the woods next with
2645. Diamond Lake of course,
was highest in the number of
campers with 20,000, but is In
the Umpqua National forest,.
Oregon residents led the camp
ers with Californians not far
behind, together with many
campers from iwattered states of
the union.
To gain an accurate number
of the motorists passing through
the forest next season, an auto
matic counting device Is to be
erected at Union Creek, the
cars running ovsr. a rod or
other object situated at the right
hand side of the Crater Lake
highway, the main artery of
travel.
DENVER, Colo., Jan.
30—The United Btataa
mint at Denver wlH com
mence immediate produc
tion
of gold
double
eaglet, with an Initial
order for S00,000 coin*,
or >10,000,000, Robert J.
Grant, director of the
mint at Washington, an
nounced here today.
Other mints of the
country, Grant said, also
will begin production of
gold coins «to a total
amount of 2100,000.000.
Grant said the mint
ing of gold coins is to
enable the trade to issue
gold certificates which
must have a gold coin
age reserve.
Outlines “ What is Not Ki
During the night one of thp
wanis Ideal” at Meet
17 prisoners in the county jail
Yesterday
became ill and other prisoners
33
33
33
tt
U
y
jj
n
Deserted by his former asso-
elates, with only a few hours to
live, after five weeks of confine-
meat la a hospital tent where no
human being had visited with a
word of cheer, and with the cor-
onor already notified, the coffin
ready for delivery and the grave
already dug, this "Is the* picture
c that Pat Patience, representative
8 of the Western Auto Supply com-
pany who was the main speaker
at the Klwanls luncheon yesterday
8 at noon, outlined as what wps
j not real 100 per ceatK.^merl-
■"*
»
asked for coal with which to
heat water for the sick man.
As the guard opened the cell
door and set a bucket of coal
inside, he was seized, disarmed
and crammed into a cell which
was then locked.
Other prisoners found the
keys which the fugitives drop
ped outside and later released
the guard. Some of the pris
oners are believed to have es
caped In an automobile, which
was stolen and later abandoned
near Myrtle Creek, south of
here.
Jacksorç, Editor
Tidings, Leaves
For California
Lemuel Tittle (above)- tried to
sell hia 13-year-old daughter,
Bertha to Joseph Parr (below)
for 3100, according to police
at Galena, 111., who arrested the
two men. They live at Dubuque,
la.
Parr wanted to marry
Bertha.
Essay Winner to be J
to Speak at Next
Convention
Summer school sessions at the
new Southern Oregon Normal
school her« will be started on
June 21, and will continae for
12 weeks,' according to J. A.
Churchill,
president
of
the
school,, who Is here today.
A full faculty, of perhaps 22
members, will be In charge of
the summer, session.
This U
the number Of faculty members
who will have charge of the
work during the regular school
sessions, he declared. The only
difference in the faculty be
tween the regular and summer
school sessions will be that dur
ing the regular sessions, eight
practice teachers will be em
ployed, while during summer
school, but four will be used.
Churchill declined to make
public the names of his faculty,
although he admitted that he
had already contracted for sev
eral members. “We are work
ing on a small budget, at first,
and it will be difficult to se
cure those who we feel are com
petent, and it will be some time
before we secure a full faculty,*'
Churchill said today.
During the summer school.
certificate and to a two year,
life certificate, will be given,
Churchill indicated.
In addi
tion, history, science, sociology
and mathematics will be taught.
The teaching corps will be about
double that employed during the
summer session last year.
Members of the building com
mittee, of the board of regents
will be here today to confer
with J. H. Fuller, another mem
ber of the committee and
Churchill, relative to some minor
changes to be made In the
building.
Discussion of the
plans for the grounds will also
be held, Churchill declared, r
Patience found these conditions
When he visited the dying man
Educational work, along agri
rx • nd’ even though the man's for-
cultural and marketing line«
1 mer associates would not eome
was decided upon at the semi
1/ forward at the "end of the man's
annual meeting of the executive
game of life,’’ he personally saw
board of the Oregon Bankers as
/ that the unfortunate “fanned, out
sociation, held 1 q Portland,
| man’’ was saved from a burial in
Thursday. J. W. McCoy of this
I the Potter's field.
city Is president of the asso
This illustration was used to
elation.
show what Klwanlanlsm should
It was decided to invite Bar
not be. His subject was “Playing
nard Joy of this city, winner of
the Game or the Value of Friend
the state -championship for a
ship." and he said that the game
marketing essey, to speak at the
_ of life' would not bring the maxi-
annual
convention, to be hold
sf mum enjoyment until it entailed
in
Gearhart,
Oregon, on June
a sacrifice, such as the time and
4 and 6 of this year.
rs effort he made In bringing a little
LONDON, Jan. 30— (U P .)-—
cheeiyto the dying man, as Illus
Banks, both national and
W.
L. George) a prominent
trated above.
state, are working toward a
British
novelist of the modern
'■
He said thatskiwanlans, whose
standardisation of forms, both
f tool, died today from pneu
main principle Is “We Build."
(Continued On Page Four)
monia and heart disease.
■
“ should build encouragement, hope
’• and character Into the game of
n life. That everybody should
>• always be» ready with a smile, a
‘8 word of cheer, a handshake that
showed by the grip that It was
“hitched to the heart”
1-
Comparing life with the game
r, of baseball, he said there were'
r men In every town who had been
t “benched,” had lost out, and that BEESON IS MEMBER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80— "An In the flel
HONORARY SOCIETY
to these mates a word of encour
era of air transportation in this tlon, Mr.
agement should be extended.
Carl Loveland, who has been
country paralleling the growth June, 1925
visiting In Seattle, but who Is
of the automotive Industry ana Commerce
here for a few days, added great-
the r«dio aft awaits primarily Engineering
s or cheer to the meeting by lead
.Federal support In the matter joint comm:
ing in the club songs and also
of airway faculties— their ad- prehenslve
, with two solos, with William
ministration, and the eltmina- omlc aspeett
Brtggs at the piano.
tlon of needless restrictions,” out the w<
'
State Superintendent Churchill,
J. Walter Drake, Assistant See- mend the n
who was introduced by J. H. Ful
retary of Commerce, stated to- encourage
ler as a "guest for the last time,”
day in making public the com- ment of coi
’ said he was looking forward to
'gnttton of good wort dons
plats Uaai »epost. oa «tvU avia- the UaUed
r living In Ashland. He announced
ting or executive work for Mon of *h® Jo,nt Committee °* After can
. that the normal would open June
i publications.
j
tk#
Department of Commerce liable soar
*
• wew f ac n l t y. new
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and
the American Engineering here and th
» equipment and new buildings. A
ID S M A D E ON
I u 11.,
I the Commlti
PERNAMBUCO, Jan. 3 0 - (U. . splendid course of studies, which
The Spanish consul has will be In variance with the
ORT^N TA T. L IN E R S
Pointing out that the develop- that the pro
received a massage from Aviator . oourses In most normal schools In
~
.
- - mant ®* re*l and highway tran5- ‘Ion In the
Franco via Fernando De Nor- l that they will be not only for
t i .
hi i
h aDj
port DtcMtlee during the past tarded by f<
onha, saying ha was proceeding • the purpose of training teachers,
n o u n e d "nr/'hM* h08/ )
d®®ad®* has profoundly changod flcultlos:
In his flight to South America . but will be cultural as well, has
1 for th. sale of the Ad- the •conom,c Mi® of *»
. *’ L,Ck
•n a that all was wall.
, been prepared, he stated,
Oriental Hue under the C0BntriM’ *® tk®,r d" t,nrt ad' ata‘aa and
i . President Hardy announced the
Is
if th e secnnd adOarlUetnen» vantage, Mr. Drake, who
appointment of three past presi
Chairman of the Committee, de Government policy to «
dents of the local club, Harry
clared that the advent of air the civil aad indnatrtgl
Tomlinson, Henry Enders, Jr. and
craft, one of the outstanding aircraft.
Oregon — Ridn in the
J. W. McCoy a« members of the
mechanical heritages or the War,
3. Lack of comm«
west portion; rain and
under-privileged children com-
Introduces a naw and signifi craft and equipment 1
snow In the east portion.
mittee.
cant factor In the commercial «*«1 to profitable eomn
Washington - * Unsettled;
D. R. Baker, district sales man
and business relations of man- eration.
ager of Western Auto Supply,
rein In the west por
kjnd.
Harry Johnson, whom R. J. Woods
tion; probably snow In
Recognising
Introduced
as the “manager of
the tost portion.
(Continue^ On Pegs Four)
portunltles at
Ashland's suburban Western Auto
THE WEATHER