CRATER PARK ASHLAND ÄIHOISIS ONE SUSPECT
FIRES ! ■
m fire urn ARRESTED IN
UNCONTROLLED
DOVERY CASE
LOCAL POLICE NAB
LOCAL.
YOUNG FUGITIVES
KILLED UNDER
COUNTY JAIL
TRAIN WHEELS
OUT OF FIGHT
Bovs Sentenced to State B e
fo
~ ' ' A * re Caught
form School
A fter Escape
Edward J. Stride Meet*
Death Under Freight
■ - in Siskiyou Tunnel
Richard ^Courtland, aged
13,
and .Lloyd Douglas, aged 16, did
not like the idea of going to the
D ETA ILS NOT KNOW N state, reform school, so they escap
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■
ed from the Juvenile ward of the
Trafili
Unit Body When Search county ja (l at Jacksonville last
night.
Made;
Panerai
Tomorrow
Poot-weary and travel-worn the
two boys were apprehended near
Edward J. Stride, 24-year- the local Southern Pacific station
old Ashland, youth, was this morning by Chief of Police
aim or t instantly killed at McNabb and were held until the
Siskiyou tnnnel No. 1, a few arrival o r deputy sheriffs to take
miles south of here late yes them back to Jacksonville.
The two boys are runaway
terday afternoon when he
youngsters from Clatsop county.
was mangled beneath the They had been in Medford for sev
wheels of a freight train on
days and had been engaged
which he and his half-broth eral
In petty pilfering, according to
er, Otis Howell, were riding. their own stories. They were ay-
The two young men had rested in the act of stealing wa
lwarded the south - bound termelons
from a Medford store.
freight, in the local yards, in They were
sentenced to the re
tending to go to California. form school, but tried to escape
Members of the train crew the Institution by walking out of
saw them climb aboard, and their quarters last nigh. The
after the train p a s s e d boys had walked to Ashland and
through the Kmnel it was were headed south when Chief
brought to a halt as the McNabb got them. .
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Mayor
Johnson Sits as Police
Judge and Assesses $5
Penalties
U nited S tates N ot to in * up
in Catholic-Mexican
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N i igrer
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B lase Proves
M ost Stubborn of All,
States Report
Acting under authority of the
city charter, Mayor Johnson last
night donned judloial robes and
officiated
as police judge in cases
SITUATION IS HOPEFUL
.a g a in s t two local motorists who
Condition* In Oth-r Parte fo Ore were charged with falling to give
the city fire truck the right of
gon Better Than in Long
way.
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Tim e
W. H. Clark, motor truck oper
ator, and Jim Elder, a mechanic,
PORTLAND, Ore., July 27.
Fire fighters li'T 'ra te r National both answered charges of violat
forest of Southern.Oregon had a ing the city traffic ordinance, and
bad day of it yest^day, but today Mayor Johnson, as Police Judge
all fires In that »ecticti are under Johonson, fined each of the de
control, with the exception of fendants 35 and coats, with a
that at Nigger Bend. Encourag warning that similar violations in
ing reports were received at tho Aite future on the part of any lg -
tolat would meet with a much
federal forest offices today.
The fires on Windy Peak, 8tor more .severe penalty.
When The council a few weeks
Gulch, Rogue river, Lyman creek
and Butte Falls are now finder ago abolished the salary of tho
complete control and no other ser police judge and plaead the office
ious, outbreaks are expected In on a fee Rystem, Judge Front re
Mayor Johnson will
these sectlonsh. Twenty men are signed.
fighting the Nigger Bend blase, serve In the dual role of mayor
which is proving one of the most and police judge until a new ap
pointee is named and confirmed
stubborn in Oregon.
Except for these fires, the for by the council.
Controversy
HANDfl-O FF
ATTITUDE
Position of Officials Explained
Today at National
Capital
W A SHING TO N, D. C. July 27.
— ( U P )— The United States gov
ernment w ill maintain a hands-
o ff policy toward the Cathollc-
Mexlcan diapnte, it b e c a m e
known In official clrclea here to-
day. »______
Unless religious property owned
by Americans Is confiscated the
government w ill not Interfere In
the religions and political tur
moil which Is now seething below
the border.
The new ruling which* eaused
the church dispute in Mexico was
pointed out here today as hold
ing that all ehnrch property be
longs to the nation. I t also speci
fied that priests must be native
Mexicans and are prohibited from
all political activity.
Miss Forrest Walsh, 19, of lxis Angeles—according to re
ports from Winchester, Va/—traveled 3000 miles with her
mother and brother to mafrry Harry K. Thaw, eccentric
millionaire, in answer to what she says was a proposal by
mail. When she reached his home, she says, servants tokl
her he was out of the country.
trainmen intended ordering
them from the train, accord^
ing to a report to the policed
Unable to find young
Stride, members of the crew
—u
walked back into the. tunnel
wl»ere they came upon his
mangled remains. Nobody Convicts Slain a t Lanafaur
witnessed the tragedy, so it Mich.; Official Seriously
Ashland Chamber o f Com
is not known whether he fell
Stabbed
merce to be H ost at
from the train or was brush
H otel Fnnetion
ed from the top of a freight
LANSING, Kansas, July 27..
B oy Injured in A nto Gradi
car when the train entered ^u p ) ~ T w o prisoners at Lansing
Indications point to a satisfac
N ow Has Some Chance
the tunnel entrance. -
state prison were killed and Cap
ry attendance tonight when the
For Recovery
The young man was a na tain R. M. M a n a ti was subbed to
chamber of commerce
tive of Pennsylvania and here last night when six prison Ashland
w ill tender a complimentary ban-
Harold Kincaid, Ashland y oath
was born .July 18, 1902. He er* attem pted to m ake« break for «uet to W . H . Gore • { Medford « t
a severe Wkntt
lived with' his mother, Mrs. liberty. Manatt Is said to lie in the L ith ia Springe hotel. The
tare when his anto want lato the
Mary Howell at 399 Moun- a serions condition.
banquet ia being given as a testi
.tain avenue. Funeral ser The six men overcame Manatt monial of Ashland's appreciation ditch south o f the city “Saturday
vices will be held from the, and were making their way to a of Mr. Gore's aid In procuring pas night, was repofed an being much
Stock undertaking parlors at wall when Guard Edward Lanaon. sage of Senator Stanfield's tax re better thia morning, and hope»
11 o ’clock tomorrow morn colored, opened fire. The two fund bill at the recent session of are now held that he m ay recover.
The boy is confined to the Sacred
ing with burial in.Mountain killed were Ernest Albert Hart congress.
Heart hospital a t Medford, having
View cemetery.
wick, alias "Young Dale Jones,"
Reservations for the banquet
TWO ÄRE KILŒD IN
r banquet wilt
mm im em
BE »
IONBHI KINCAID YOUTH !S
slowly u h m
est fir« situation In Oregon
Is
quiet, and with more favorable*
weather prevailing. It is believed
the serious hazard for the sum
mer Is now over.
This Bootlegger
Is Truthful Man
EARlï SOLUTION DF
SEATTLE, Wash., July 27.—
The spirit of Diogeffes, If an bon-
eat man Is still sought, might well,
hover over. B ill Myers, 46, and
consider him.
Myers was arrested on a charge
T»f dmakaaaeas a A A ta k e » te
hospital to have some minor cuts
and bruises patched.
W hile an attendant, was filling
out a record card Myers was ask
ed his occupation.
• "Bootlegger,” he replied w ith
out hesitancy..
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“T O M E S S
B E I M LOCATELI
More Evidence Near in Slay
ing of Texas Business
Man by Pastor
Los Angeles Officials Have
Damaging Evidence
..... Agaifljit E vangelist
F O h T W O RTH . Tex., July 2T.‘
IKUSKD C8NW
CJS
Tennis Tourney
Now in Progress
ANOTHER MAN SOUGHT
.
Prisoner Clalftis F rank T. Hart,
a Pal, W as Slayer of
P ubllaher
PORTLAND. Ore., July 27.—
(U P )— John W. Owen, alias John
W. Smith, ohe of the two men
wanted on charges ol murdering
Thomas Dovery, publisher of a
weekly newspaper at K e 1 s o^
Wash., on June 49th of last yeaij
arrived here today. He was in
custody of Clarke Studebaker,
former sheriff of Cowlitx county}
and Archie Leonard,
Portland
police detective. -
The officers gave newspaper
men a statement saying that Owen
had confessed that a companion,
Frank T. H art, had killed Dovery
during a hold-up. Owen said tha(
H a rt hit Doverty with a gun and
it accidently exploded during the
scuffle.'“
A t the time of hia arrest Owed
waa working as a dishwasher in a
St. Louis restaurant, and was
traced there through letters he
had written friends in the north
west.
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PIONEER RESÖNT
Of COUNTY PASSES
— Evidence of the heretofore
missing "mystery witness'* who
officials bellevp can throw some Lorenio Slepp y.W ho Ore«*,
further light on the slaying of D.
ed Plain»
iln s in 1862, Dies
M ONTERAY, Cal., July 27.—
A t Talent
( U p ) — Captain Herman CUne of E. Chlpps by the Rev. J. F ranki
Norris of the first ikapffrt church
the Los Angeles detective bureau
a week ago, was in the hands of e Lorenzo J. Sleppy, 80 yean
arrived here to assist Deputy Dis
old, whb crossed the plains in
the grand Jury today.
trict Attorney Joe Ryan In com
The missing link in the slaying, 1862, died last night at the fam
pletlng what they believe will be
according to District Attorney R. ily home In Talent from ailments
a solution of the Aimee Semple
K. Hangar, has been located and , incident to advanced age. Funer
McPherson mystery.
the Information long sought is ex al services will be held from the
The two officials went to Salin
pected to Influence the decision Stock chapel at 2 o’clock Thurs
as to question Dennis Collins who
of the investigating grand Jury. day afternoon with burial in the
claimed to have seen Kenneth Or-
Evldei.ee gained by special in Stearns cemetery at W a g a e r
lmstqn, Mrs. McPherson’s radio
• i ’
vestigators acting for the widow creek. '
operator, 10 days after the evan
M r Sleppy had been a resident
of the slain man ha» revealed dis
gelist disappeared at Ocean Park.
crepancies in Norrie’ description of Jackson county for many years
In the intervening 10 days, Ryan
j and waa widely known among the
of the slaying.
believes, Orbnston and Mrs. Mc
I old-time residents.' Thoae who
Pherson occupied a cottage nt
knew him best said he was a
Carmel.
»
splendid neighbor; a man who al
Roland R. Woolley, attorney
ways stood ready to aid those in
for the evangelist, told the Unit
distress.
ed Press today* that he would not
The deceased la survived by his
permit authorities to take finger
widow and two daughters, all of
prints of Mrs. McPherson to com
The Eastern Oregon Live Wires Talent. The daughters are Mra.
pare them with print» found In this morning conducted one of the
R. R. Foster and Mrs. E. C. Gard
the cottage at Carmel. Mra. Mc snappiest assemblies held
thia ner.
Pherson Issued an appeal to Or- summer by students of the South
miston today, asking him to re ern Oregon state normal school.
veal his activities during the tlm0 The club put on a musical pro
she was missing In order that It gram which provoked consider
might clear her name.
able favorable comment. ‘ Charles
Weaver of Halfway, Ore., presi
dent of the club, presided at the
piano, and Mr. Kane played the
cornet.
been removed there Sunday after
serving a 10 to 50 year sentence, have been coming in at a rapid
noon in ordqij (hat x-rajy pictures
and Robert Edwards, serving ten
rate, and with the attendance 11m- might he token. The youth was
years.
Ue dto 100 persona. It is believed injured when he attempted to pass
all tickets w ill be sold by this af anothhrjcjzr without ;gjving a feig
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ternoon/ The banquet w ill start ns!. iTBe other- ci»» swerved to
at 7 o'clock.
the left sad the boy’s auto was
Except for musical selection by fpreed o ff |th a » pavdmenti!. and
Man Serving L ife and Cook
Inquiry B eing Made Into
Harvey and Chester Woods, the struck a telephone pole. He was
at W arden’s Home Make
Death o f Prominent Ma
entire time w ill be allotted to Mr. removed, to ibia hotne where the
Their Escape
One of the largest lists of en Oore in order that he might toll
tron a t La Grande
first examination
revealed the
tries in several years is competing the people of Ashland how the
skull fracture.
SALEM, Ore., July 27.— (U P )
LA GRANDE, Ore., July 27.— in the Lithia Park tennis tourna
Stanfield bill was carried th ro u g h
—
Jo^,
Wallace, serving a life sen
(U P )— Authorities today were ment which started this morning
to successful completion.
tence, and Charles Foster, do'ng
atlll investigating the supposed on the park courts. I t was in
Secretary F u ller of the cham
five years, both trusties, escaped
suicide of Mrrf. A. E. Hendrick progress this afternoon and will
ber of commerce said late thia af
from the Oregon state
prison
son Sunday, who was found dead continue until Thursday evening.
ternoon that he could accommo
here
yesterday.
The
two
convicts
In a bath tub with a bullet wound
Following are the results of the date those who had not yet mads
Were missed at a late check-up
In her heart. The husband found preliminaries this morning:
their reservations, and chamber
last evening. A Hudson car also
note In which the wife asked
In the ¿iris’ singles. Miss D. officials are hopeful that a repre
was gone.
him to educate their children, Hughes defeated Miss Detrick
sentative gathering of local resi Jacksonville M a n
is
t
Wallace has been working out
saying life had been a failure for Senior Singles, Ketch
defeated dents will be on hand to welcome
Serve Three Year
side the wall, while Foster has
her.
Mrs.
Hendrickson was Franklin, open singles, Mahan of Mr. Gore.
#
S ta te Prison
been employed as a cook in the
known throughout the northwest Medford, defeated John Beeson,
warden’s
home.
as a poetess and recently had been Oregg defeated Penney of Med
SALEM , Ore., July 27.— (U P )
appointed fine arts chairman for ford. Ramsey defeated -Purdin of
-The Oregon aupreme court to
the Oregon Federation of Wom Medfprd, Bailey of Medford, de
day denied the application of 0.
en's clnbs.
feated Franklin. Junior Singles,
H. Owen for a rehearing on hla
H . Fitch of Medford defeated R.
CANTON,
Od.,
July
27.—
appeal. The court recently af
Beeson of Phoenix.
( U P )— Chief of Police S. A. Len-
firmed
a
decree
In
Jackson
coun
• Word was received yesterday by
gel, who has been criticised for
Mrs. A. L. Harvey, of the death of ty which sentenced Owen to three
the
manner in which he conducted’
>
«
*rs
In
prison
for
aiding
in
the
M
IA
M
I,
Fla.,
July
27.—
(U
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her sister, Mrs. Mollie Houston,
the investigation o f the murder
SE A TTLE, Julx 27. — (U>) __
who died in Portland
Friday. misapplication of funds from the —•The edge of a hurricane swept
of Don R. Mellett, publisher of Some of the boys must have liked
SEA TTLE, Wash., July 27.—
Mrs. Houston will be remembered Jacksonville atote hank. Today’s over Mlama yesterday and tore
the Cahton Dally News, was sus it. but what a wild cat thought
Automobile deaths In Seattle' for
in the valley ae Mise Mollie Mer action marks the end of Owen’s down trees, telegraph and tels-
pended for 80 days by M a y o r of the moonshine which Joe Gay
fight
to
avoid
prison.
this year reached 26 today when
phone
wires
and
battered
pleas
riman. Besides her husband she
A construction forep of approx
Mrs. Dora Lentz, 75, died of In ju r
ure seekers along coast. Travel Swarts today.
nor and James Dolan were alleg
Is survived by two sand, Holland
Ear! Hexamer, safety director, ed to have been making was ex
ies received several days ago in im ately 80 men is now repairing and Wayne Houston of Portland.
boats were dashed to pieces on the
the state highway In the Siskiyous
a collision.
rocka during a gale which gained was appointed acting chief of po pressed in the moet ungracious
lice and will have direct charge whoop which prohibition agents
and w ill be located sooth of Jiere
In fury early last night.
of the Investigation of the Mellett ever heard.
until the fall rains start, It Was In
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murder.
dicated today, . The
pavement
They were watching the ___
still
through the mountains la being
In the wilds of Snohomish county,
la distributed gratis to the
«BATTLE,
Wash.,
July
27.—
repaired at various pointe curves
waiting for its operators, when
guepte of The L ith ia ‘’flpMngi
(U P)-—Pradadhtor Ewing D. Col
are being straightened out and
two
cougars approached and be
SALEM, July 27.— Search for vin and Lake S. May, special in
and Ashland Hotel and to the
other Improvement work Is being
gan
sniffing
the locality.
the
alleged
abducthra
of
Edith
campers at L ith ia Pgrk and
vestigator, returned home yes
done In order to put the highway
O re good whiff of the stole
Hurst, 8 years old. kidnaped in terday from Portland, refusing to
Jackson Rot Springs camp
CANYON C ITY, July 27— Chief
in first class shape for winter
mash waa all one of the cats could
Portland a few days ago, was re give out the results of their two- Charles Faithful, 90-year-old lead
grounds— a total of approxi
B U F F A L O . N. Y „
•tand.
sumed here today following the day visit .to Portland where hey er 'of the Klamath Indians, was
mately 200 copies each day—
July 27.— Bootleg liquor
’’Wow-e-e-e," It sang out, and
arrival In Salem or H. J. H u n t, sought evidence In the Wallace killed here yesterday when struck
In order that Ashland’s visit
believed by medical au-
made for the brush. Its mate fol
father of the girl. He lives In Gaines murder ease. Gaines It by the rear end of a
ors may know aomethiag of
hayrack
thoritiee to have been con
lowed, not daring to be too In
Los Angeles.
our city.
charged With killing his daughter, which ,the automobile In which he
cocted from wood alcohol,
quisitive
a fter such an ominous
travel.
• j l was riding passed.
had claimed a toll of four
cry.
BURNfcn
TO
DEATH
Ashland Natatorlum
teen victims thrughout the
Grayson Robertson has return
"No wonder It makes the boys
The California Oregon Power
week in Buffalo and Can
ed
lo
Jackson
eonnty
fron»
Yel
M
CM
IN
N
VILLE,
Or».,
July
27.
wild," was the comment of Harvey
Company
adian border towns. Five
lowstone national
park whero — (U P )— Fire of unknown ori
Lithia Springs Hotel
Johnson, government agent.
others are hovering be
since last May, he has token 16,- gin last night burned John Jacob
Hotel Ashland .
W hllo yoa Ara A gasse In our etty, ba certain to riis it L ith ia
tween life and death, two
000,606 trout eggs for distribu son to death at hie home here.
Lithia Park Board
T H E W E A TH E R
Pkrk, a ptoygtound of many O res, with ths main antranee
of them blinded by its
tion In trout streams of the north He wae 66 years old. Tho house
Jackson H ot Sprlnga
Plata, where
deepest
At (h a PteAg,
w n v r e Nature’s u
a a p ijiL beauties
i r e . u u w ara • found
vu»u
Oregon— F air tonight and Wed-
deadly poison.
west. Mr. Robertson left today was a mass of flames before the
City of Ashland
slon gtiM I Walke that load yen through the forési bordsr-
neaday. Warmer In southwest
Ing on À»ihlaad steak.
•for T ra il lake where he w ill take fire waa discovered. He lived
Talent Irrig atio n DlstrJct
Oregon. Oentie variable winds.
alone.
Tidings Advertising Pays.
aalBOa eggs until August 10th.
AUTHORITIES PROBE
John W. Owen, A lleged Ac-
complice. Reaches
ww
cheg Port-
land Under Guard
Live Wires Hold
Snappy Assembly
SUSTAINED BY COURT
Former Ashland
Resident Passes
Hurricane Hits
Close To Tampa
Auto Deaths Now
At 25 in Seattle Repair Highway
Along Siskiyous
Renew Search for
Girl’s Kidnappers
THIS ISSUE
Chief of Police
Of Canton Firéd
Moonshine Makes
Wildcats WUder
Swinging Bridge
Drops; Boys Are
Instantly Killed
C H A R L E 8T 0W N . W. Va„ Jnlj
27.— (U P )— Three boys
war«
killed and scores of persona were
injured when a swinging bridge
over Coal river fell last night
while the erfowd congregated on it
was watching a river carnival, ac
cording to reports received
at
state police headquarters her».
Advertise la Tl»e TMIaga,
Refuse, to Tell
About Evidence
Klamath Indian
Moonshine Kills
Chief is Killed
Fourteen People
Hatchery Agent
IJpck From Park
VISIT LITHIA PARK
S W IM M IN G
TWo sanitary and delighttal
plunges are available to ♦— «-
Ists and othere who visit .
And during vacatioa days.
Ashland Natatorinm, Just
blocks below the new
Springe Hotel hee two
jlunges always available.
At Jackson Hot Springe
large open air plange
babbling mineral water.
Get the habit of a dally
la either of theee plungo
Will keep yoa At during
summer daye.