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VOL. XLIX
Sue
to the 8*al-Weekly Tiding«, Vtoli
41
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS MARRIES;
W ednesday N oon
Locals Overwhelm Visitors,
44 to 7 in Saturday
Night’s Game
REAL SPEED IS SHOWN
Coach Hughes’ Baaketeeru Prove
Too Strong for Klamath
Champa
8
8
8
8
8
8 Jaokson County Republican
Committee Approves
8
Stanfield Plan
8
8
8 COOPERATION IS URG^p
8
Cltlxens and Taxpayers Asked to
8
W ith an abundance of epeed,
plenty o f pep and eplendid team
wdrk, Coach Hughes” Aahland
high school basketbal quintet
overwhelmed K lam ath high school
champions ot Klam ath county, 44
to 7, (at the local armory Satur­
day night.
Mareke, who had taken a slump
in the two Grants Pass games,
came back w ith a bang Saturday
night and shot baskets from every
conceivable angle. He accounted
fo r six field goals, making him
high point winner for the Ash­ Printed Pamphlet of Open­
ing of School is Mailed
land five. Aldo P arr, whose Im ­
From Salem
provement
has
been
steady
throughout the season, came next
Printed announcements of the
w ith five field goals, one of which
form al opening of the Southern
was a spectacular basket.
Oregon normal school In Ash­
Brilliant Guarding
land on June 21 are being m ail­
In fact, the entire Ashland team
ed now from the office of J.
played
exceptional
ball.
The
A. Churchill, president-elect of
guarding was one of the b rillian t
the school.
features of the game, the K lam ­
The folder contains several
ath forwards never getting a good
pages, and in addition to giving
throw at the basket, while many
complete Information concerning
K lam ath passes were broken up
tl,e normal school, the qualifica­
before they got started.
tions of students and all other
Although champions of K lam ­
Information of that character,
ath county, the K lam ath Falls
it likewise has warm praise for
boys were fa r too Inexperienced
Ashland and Its people.
for the Ashland squad. This Is
"The fine civic spirit which
the first year the K lam ath team
was a potent factor in bringing
has
bad
a
gymnasium
in
the
Southern
Oregon normal
which to practice, and w ithin an­
school to Aahland has prompted
other year Dwight French, basket­
Its citizens to show a splendid
ball mentor for K lam ath, ought
spirit o f cooperation in offering
to have a team .which w ill give
pleasant living accommodations
a good account of Itself.
In the homes o f the city to the
Medford high school earlier
students ot the school," reads
last week was able to score hut
the announcement.
(Continued on Page F o ur)
ASHLAND PRAISED
IN NORMAL FOLDER
CONVICT 10 FACE
Robert Scott to be Returned
to Chicago From San
Quentin
•
— —— “
SAN Q U E N T IN . Cal., Mar. J
— Robert Scott, a convict here,
w ill be taken this week to Chi­
cago where he faces a charge
of murdering a drug clerk dur­
ing a robber^.
His brother Is
now serving a life sentence for
the same crime.
Robert 8cott
Is reputed to have confessed to
the murder in an effort to save
his brother from hanging.
ALL COAST HONORS
Oregon Basketball Squad is
Defeated in Final Game
of the Series
B E R K E L E Y , Cal., M ar., 1—
(U .P .)— Critics agree today that
the Pacific coast championship
would be resting In Webfoot
halls had A1 Westergren, Ore­
gon’s all-star guard, been in
the lineup in the series here.
C alifornia won both games. The
Saturday night score was 29 to
23.
I t was a spectacular con­
test frm start to finish.
Less F riction Is
D angers Of K ite
F lyin g Are Told
W ith klte-flylng season now
a t b a n d ,' Chief of tPplIee Mc­
Nabb to d a j issued a warning to
_ youngsters that they be extreme­
ly careful where kltea are flown.
1 i youngsters nowadays use wire In
fashioning their kites, and If
these should be tangled in high
power wires ahort circuits and
possible serious damage might
re s u lt
*T want to warn the young­
sters to get out In open fields
fa r away from any ngnt ane
power wires It they are going to
fly their kites,” said the chief.
H ope Of H oop Fan
A. C. M ien , horticulture com­
missioner of Medford, while in
Ashland
this
morning,
maae
reservations for the Ashland-
Medford basketball game F r i­
day evening.
kft. Allen, who was accompan­
ied by hist son, a member of the
Medford basketball team
for
three years, is an enthusiastic
fan and «*ld he hoped, there
wonld be no evidences of fric ­
tion at the games this week­
end, as he stated occurred dur­
ing previous games
He aald
the
Ashland-:Medford
contests
were the athletic claaals* of
Southern Oregon and that they
should be kept as free of fric­
tion as possible.
Court Hears Last
O f Stillm an Case Judge M cBride Is
P O U 0 H K E E P 8 IE , N. Y ., March
1. _ k (LP) — Supreme Court Jus­
tice Morschauser Saturday signed
an order discontinuing the S till­
man divorce date. Justice Morech-
auser presided over the first suit
In the five years of litigation. **I
hope this Is the last echo of the
Stillman
affair," he continued
when he signed the order of dis­
continuance.
B anquet Speaker
A v*
OFFICIALS IN
RLUffiB SUED
FOR. DAMAGES
REPUBLICANS
French Proposal
G iven Approva^
MANY H O IN
AUTO A C H 1 S
Nine Fatalities Reported on
Pacific Coast Over
Week End
SAN FRANCISCO, CaL, March
1— (U .P .)— The automobile held
the premier place In
tragic
deaths on the Pacific coast over
the week end. Out of 19 fatal­
ities reported, nine were from
motor vehicles, w ith 30 injured
from the same cause.
James J. Shavter, a Portland
student at Oregon A gricultural
college, was drownesd when a
canoe overturned near Corvallis.
*
KLAMATH WILL
Park E lk K illed
START BUREAU
NEAR ASHLAND
War Patti; Y g
.g
DISCUSS PLAN TO
GET CAMP CABINS
BERT HANEHEAVES
M l ION H H
Four)
‘‘Teddy” Goes
NO. 152
“ Teddy,” the big bull
elk at Llthla Park went
John Quincy Adams, nee Betty
on the w v path Satur­
C. Lund of Forbes, Minnesota.
day night and killed the
Rev. Pemberton of the Methodist
two-year-old elk cow, It
church officiated.
Option is Procured on Helm
was report jil this morn-
The bride came to Ashland a District Attorney, Sheriff
Property at Junction
and
Justice
of
the
Peace
ini?
by
park
officials
little more than a month ago to
of Highways . ’
Involved
Teddy has been show­
visit her brother, Leonard Lund.
ing signs of a disagree­
And the romance which culminat­
THOUGHT UNFRIENDLY
IMPRISONMENT
able temper for some
ed .in the marriage began shortly FALSE
days,
It
was
said,
which
after her arrival.
| Action in Invading This Territory
Former County Jail Inm ate
culminated when he k ick ­
Mrs. Adams has returned to
Is Branded Bad Sports­
Makes Accusations A gainst
ed the younger animal to
Minnesota to visit her family and
manship
Officers
death.
get her personal belongings and
This leaves but two
will Join her husband here early
In spite of the fact that It
K L A M A T H FALLS. Ore., Mar.
Elk now In the park.
In May. Mr. Adams is prominent
has beqn branded by other com­
1— Three county officials un­
in the affairs of the Lithlang and
munities as an “ unfriendly act.”
lawfully held John Lewis, labor­
the American Legion.
13149731
the Klamath chamber of com­
er, nearly three months in the
merce has taken up the option
county ja il, it is alleged in a
on the A. D. Helm property at
civil suit filed on behalf of
the junction of the Pacific and
Lewis In the Klamath county
Ashland-Klamath
highways and
circuit court by W illiam Marx,
is now completing plans Tor the
his attorney.
Damages totaling
(5,362 are asked jointly of the North Dakota Lads Admit establishment of Its so-called
tourist Information bureau.
Killing Victim During
defendants.
News to this effect was re­
$3000
Robbery
District Attorney E. L. E llio tt.
ceived
today from Klam ath Falls.
Sheriff Burt E. Hawkins and
CARSON, N. D. Mar. 1. — (LP) The sum of 65100 was subscribed
former acting justice of the
Charges of first degree murder chiefly through the Klamath
Proposal of The Lithians peace, E. X. Kendall, together —
were filed today against Adam chamber of commerce members
w ith Angelo Bocchi, store keep­
WU1 Be Up At Meeting
Horst and W illiam Stroller, both In order to promote the enter­
er, are made defendants in the
Tomorrow Night
youths, who confessed Saturday prise. The Klamath people havo
suit.
to the murder of Fred Stroller, procured a 10-year lease on the
Lewis wbb Jailed November
At their regular monthly meet­
ing In the city hall tomorrow 24 on complaint of Bocchi, but grandfather ot W illiam Stroller. property.
The -youths murdered the aged
For Klamath Only
evening, members of the city the complaint was never sworn
m&n, stole 63000 In currency and
To
put it plainly, Klamath
park board w ill ‘discuss in de­ to, according to Attorney Marx.
then set^fire to his house. Each Fallh wants to divert auto tour*
tail the plan of The Lithians to He was released February 19,
of the boys blames the other for 1st traffic from the Pacific high­
finance the construction of a without having been given a tria l
the actual killing.
The money way to Klamath county. Its In­
group of cottages In the Ashland or prelim inary examination. It Is
was recovered from the Horst formation* booth w ill be devoted
auto park.
The Lithians have alleged.
Bocchi charged that
home where the boys had hidden almost wholly to Klamath propa­
offered to procure finances suf­
It.
(Continued
on
Page
Three)
ganda and scant heed will be
ficient to build 12 double cot­
paid to the claims of other com­
tages.
munities which seek to draw the
i»»
It Is the belief of park hoard
auto tourist travel.
members as well as The Lithians
The' Klamath News, whose
that the cottages could be built
managing
editor claims parent­
cheaper If bids were asked foi
hood
of
the
Information booth
the construction of all the cot­
liticai Situation
Idea, comes out In this manner
tages by one contractor.
These
various features w ill be before Woman Governor of Texas Blank Oartridtre in Rifle In speaking of the project:
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March
thw.board for decision tomorrow
. j Gauses Poison Which.—
pUn* -tor-»et^M»-hlns T»
Will Ask Voters for
1 _ (LP) — Bert Haney has left
Proves Fatal
touflsT bureau at the highway
night.
Her
Re-Election
the capital and hla job as a mem­
junction have been fully gone In­
ber of the shipping board with­
BEND, Ore., Feb. 27— (U .P .) to and held feasible. Money pht
AUSTIN, Tex., Mar. 1. — (IP)
out w aiting for the form ality of
-Warren Bishop, 14, brought to Into the enterprise Is returnable
— Mrs. Miriam Ferguson is going
receiving President Coolidge’s ac­
Bend
from W illow Creek, In in full. The object is to divert
to seek re-election as governor of
ceptance of his resignation, which
Northern
California,
suffering traffic Into Klamath county, and
Texas.
She so announced In a
is effective today.
M r. Haney
public statement to the press. from tetanus, died In the St. to advertise this county.”
and wife le ft for Oregon where
Klamath Is Silent
"M s" Ferguson says her vindica­ Charles hospital Saturday. This
there Is much ta lk of his running
Thus
far no word has been
Is
the
second
death
from
Tetanus
Thirty-Four New Members tion program for husband Jim In Bend In the past year, a
for United States senator.
has not yet been achieved and
(Continued On Page Four)
Taken in at Rousing
she wants to remain as governor woman dying heTe In 1925.
Saturday Session
The boy was brought to Bend,
until the slate Is wiped clean for
n
distance
of 225 mile«, from the
Ashland's Elk's lodge acquired her husband and aide.
California ranch to be given
34 new members at Montague
an antitoxin.
Saturday night when more than
Cause of tetanus which re­
100. officers and members of the
sulted In the boy's death vaa the
local orger journeyed to Monta­
accidental discharge of a *.22
Federal Officials Commend­ gue by special train and staged
blank cartridge.
Red Chinese Army Reported
ed in Action in the
an Initiation which was declared
in Disorders; Troops
Cathrart Case
by all to be a rousing success.
Investigate
A banquet with
appropriate
W A S H IN G TO N , Mar. 1— (U. speech making followed the reg­ Matter Will Be Taken up by
HONO KONG, March 1— ( II,
P .) — " I f a mistake has been ular meeting and initiation. The
* League of Nations Next
P .)— Red Cantonese troops have
made in the ruling excluding special train arrived back In Ash-
Week, is Report
seized the church ana school at
Countess Cathcart, the sent!
f a t 4 o’clock yesterday morn-
ST. PAUL, Minn., March 1— the American mission at Hoi-
G
E
N
E
VA
,
March
1—
(U
P
.)
—
ment we get In hundreds of let­
A rthur N. Jenkins, campaign how on the island of Hainan,
The United States entry into the
ters dally sustains us in
manager for United States Sen­ according to reports received
world court w ill be discussed
error,” W . W . Husband, assist­
ator Thomas D. Schay, Republi­ here today. Five hundred troops
by the league of nations at Its
ant secretary of labor, and a
can of Minnesota, must serve 60 are reported to have entered the
meeting next week If the Amer­
member of the board of review,
days In ja il for crim inally li­ city, shouting “k ill the foreign­
ican note to various members
which decided tb« case adversely
beling former United States Sen­ ers.”
An American destroyer
of the court Is received here by
to Vera, declared toaay.
ator Magnus Johnson, the state has arrived at Hoihow to In­
that time. The league has not
“ Most of the comments have
vestigate recent Inaults to the
yet been advised that the United supreme court ruled recently.
come in as a result of the ba.h-
Timothy
O’Hare
Victim
of
American
flag.
States
has
circularized
<(ourt
tub incident In New York and
T H R E E A VIA TO R S K IL I,ED
Tragic Death at Bend
members inquiring whether the
the party which the countess was
IN SHAM A IR B A TTLE
This Morning
reservations stipulated by the
supposed
to
have
attended,”
senate
are
acceptable.
.Husband said.
M AYEN C E, Germany, March 1
BEND, Ore., March 1— (U .P .)
— A French pilot, his aide and
— Crushed under the trucks of
their mechanician were killed In
a sleeper of his own train, Tim ­
a sham battle today when their
othy O'Hare, 55, Oregon Trunk
plane collided with another ot
passenger brakeman, was almost
the maneuvering squadron. The
Instantly killed here this morn­
crew of the other plane was able 0. 0. Change, Fugitive Crim­
ing,
He gave a signal for the
SALEM, Ore., M ar. 1— (U.
inal, Accused of SlayiUg
to make a safe Ihndlng.
train to back off a siding and
P .) — The state lim e plant will
Offioer
then
stepped on the
track,
be moved from Gold H ill to
where he was caught unawares
BEND, Ore., March 1— (U .P .) NEW ZEALAND VENISON
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Match 1
Salem and w ill - be operated as
COMING TO THIS COUNTRY
when the engineer put the train
-D r. J. G. Vandervert, president
U Chance, ex-con-
a state prison industry.
The
WELLINGTON,
N.
Z
.
March
—
•> /
htow Oregsn BpsHsassn's A n i ­
vlct, was facing a charge o f first
move was suggested last w-
dation, offered a prize In a trap­ 1— Plans to ship New Zealand
degree murder here today as the
and today received the approval
shooting contest here yesterday. venison to San Francisco for dis­
result of his identification ae the
of John Quinland, prison en­ ATTACK ON CALIPATRIA
MAN FATAL; TWO ARRESTED Then he stepped out and won hts tribution In the United States have man who shot and killed M otor­
gineer.
been
launched
here,
owing
to
a
own prise.
cycle Officer O .’ H. G riffin of Sea
“Some prises are hard to take?’ surplus of deer In various parts
C A LIP A T R IA , Calif., March 1
Gabriel on Feb. 7th. Chance was
— Charles Able was found lying declared the chief of the game of the country,
trapped In a rooming house by
in the garden of his home here enthusiasts after the contest.
Sheriff Trseger and deputlee. He
TO
PROTECT
FORESTS
No wonder. He had offered a
last night, apparently the victim
W A SHING TO N, March 1— The was out on parole from the Mon­
of a murderous attack. He died bottle of castor oil.
tana prison as a m urdejer.
Lineberger hill to authorise ap­
while being carried Into his home.
propriation of 61.000,000 over a
A small child, said to Wave
Funeral bervlcss for Mrs. Bina*
period of five years for protec­
been
an
eyewitness
o
r
the
attack
J. Skeen # e re held yesterday
>
Í
tion of national forests In south­ SENATOR JOHNSON AT
——— —
;
from Stock’s chapel, w ith Rev. on Able, has disappeared.
DESK AFTKV
ern
California
was
approved
to­
Washington
and
Ore­
Two men, Lucien Duncan, and
Pemberton of the
Methodist
day by the House agricultural
gon— F air
tonight
and
church officiating.
Mrs. Skeen, Howard Johnson, are under ar­
W ASHING TO N. March 1-
committee.
Tuesday,
becoming
over­
a former Ashland g irl, died at rest.
ator Johnson, Republican.
cast on coas^ Tuesday.
Klam ath Falls last week fol­
St. Johns — Purdy Brush C o .,lfornla/ who bee beei
M o d e r a t e temperature.
Astoria — Greatest lumber
lowing a m ajor operation^ The
makss rubber-set brushes for his home for 10 days by
Gentle,
variable
winds
on
burial waa In the fam ily plot at trade In history of port, pre­
whole Pacific Coast.
¡returned today to the
coast.
dicted for 1926.
Mountain View cemetery.
There was an unusual stir about
the Ashland post office this morn­
ing.
There were smiles and
smirks and grins and whispered
conversation.
Also there was one blushing
f
countenance. I t belonged to John
Quincy Adorns, ma'J carrier and
benedict.
F or Postmaster W agner’s force
finally forced a ¿onfesslon from
Aid in Procuring Its _
the unwilling lips of John Quincy.
Passage
The confession related that h j
had stolen a march on his innun j
Endorsemeht of Senator Stan­ erable local friends here a wae c
field’s b ill to procure for Jackson ago today and had become thfe
county approximately (756,000 duly accredited husband of Mrs.
which represents the tax lost when
the .Oregon and California land
grant lan<Js reverted to the gov­
ernment was given by the Jack-
son County Republican Central
Committee at a meeting Satur­
day afternoon.
The resolution urged the sup­
PA R IS, Mar. 1—-(U .P .)— The
port of taxpayers and citizens senate early today approved 81*
“
generally In order that this pay­ nance Minister* Doumer’
ment m ight be procured for the enue project, >68
county during the present session according Premier Brland’s
of congress.
ernment another outstanding
Following is the resolution:
umph.
W H E R E A S , a certain B ill for
Before the vote was taken.
the relief of counties In the State Brland told the United P r e *
of Oregon within whose bound­ "M . Douiper put the question
aries the revested California & of confidence so as to prove
Oregon Railroad Company grant to the world that France Is de­
lands are located, has been intro­ termined to put her house Ip
duced in the Senate of the United order.”
States, and
W H E R E A S , over one-half of the
total area of Oregon Is in the
public domain, about one-half of
which la reserved, but all untax-
able, and
W H E R E A S , the revesting in the
United States of the title to the
Ex - Member of Shiopiae
Oregon & C alifornia Rilroad Com­
Board to Consider Po-’
pany grant lands deprived many
(Oontlnned On
*
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CUPID’S SECRET " i s revealed "
BETTY" G LUND “iS NOW BRIDE
L uncheon Guest
8.
' Governor
W alter
M.
8
Pierce has been asked to
8
speak at the chamber ot
8
commerce luncheon which
8
w ill be held Wednesday
8
Instead
of
tomorrow.
8
Land settlement work In
8 Jackson county w ill be
4 discussed at the luncheon.
8
The governor Is expected
8
to be in the country this
8
week w ith the state bouus
8
commission, which also
8
plays a part In the land'
8 settlement work.
8
Secretary F u ller of the
8 chamber of commerce to-
8 day wired an invitation to
8
Governor Pierce and a te-
8
ply la expected by this
8
evening.
fire Service)
ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY MARCH 1, 1926
P ierce M ay B e
OVER KLAMATH
Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years
The Tidings Has Been Ashland's
(United
ASHLAND CLIMATE
Without the use of medicine cures
nine cases out of tea of asthma.
This is s . »Ten fa ct •
SEEK m
TETANUS IS FATAL
AGAIN TO YOUTH AT BEND
ELKS’ INI W O N
HELD AT MONTAGUE
CANTONESE TROOPS
SEIZE U. S.
O.S. ENTRY INTO
WORLOJURT
This Politician
W ill Go To Jail
FLASK TOTERS NOT
TO GET JAIL TERMS
Dry Law Change Aimed to
Get Big Dealers; Rul­
ing Announced
W ASHING TO N, D. O.. March
1— (U .P .)— Mandatory ja il sen­
tences w ill be applied under the
administration's new dry legis­
lation only to persons convicted
of transporting more than one
gallon of Intoxicants, It- Was
learned today.
Punishment, of
the smaller flask toters would
be left to the court. I t was ex­
plained that the purpose of the
new legislation la to get the
"big fellows.”
Gerald Chapman
G iven R eprieve
U n til A pril 6th
H A R TFO R D , Conn., March 1
__Gerald Chapman, m all bandit
and police killer, has at least
another month to live.
This
was assured yesterday when Gov­
ernor Trumbell signed another
stay of execution, halting the
death penalty nntil A pril 6. This
Is the third reprieve granted
the notorious criminal. H e was
scheduled to have been hanged
next Wednesday.
Chief Justice Thomas McBride
of the Oregon supreme court was
chief speaker at a banquet held
by members of the Southern Ore­
gon bar at Medford
Saturday
night. Others prominent at the
There was an average of about
bench and bar of Oregon were In
6,7,700,000
telephone calls a
attendance. Several Ashland at­
day
In
the
United
States, in 1> 2I.
torneys were In attendance.
w
_______
H A D BRAKEMAN
INSTANTLY KILLED
W ill M ove L im e
P lan t To Prison
Sportsm en’s Head
Says Som e Prizes
Are Hard to Takt1
Mrs. Bina Skeen
Is Laid To Rest
W EATHER
M K T HELD
KS SLAYER OF