■ '»X MALARIA - GERMS < Oannot mrvive three months in the rich ozone at Ashland. Pure doxneetio water helps. The ; Tidings Has Been Ashland's ILAND CLIMATE the use of medicine «pre« )«« out of ten of asthma. a proven fact s a YOU X U Z to the Semi-Weekly Tldlnga. Volume 44 TEN VIOLENT DEATHS OCCUR IN NORTHWEST Mid-Week Toll of Tragedy Greater Than Over the , Past W eek-lnd SEVERAL IN OREGON M«xlfo«d Mill Worker Cn»Hli<etng shot Serious Blaze Near • ic deaths were reported to the about midnight laat night by her Hildebrand V United Press today. . daughter, Mrs. Charley Warren, "'The (oil by cities follows: Port­ agtd 28. . KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., July land, Charles Vap Wart. &, killed It was believed by police au­ 28.— A large forest fire, covering under auto truck; Oregon City, thorities that Mrs. Warren suf­ an area of 1500 acres, did heavy Mrs. Melissa Bolton shot and fered a temporary fit of insanity damage yesterday and this morn­ killed by her daughter. Mrs. as there was -no possible motive in g to a large stand of pineMlm- Charles Warren; * Medford, Chaa. for the slaying, sj far as they ber northwest. 6f Hildebrand and Garrison, mill worker; crushed could learn. east of Klamath Falla. beneath a pile of lumber; Astor­ Neighbors heard t£e first shot Originating In slashings of the* ia, Raymond Maynard, 11, drown­ but hesitated to enter until they Wheeler Olmstead logging camp, ed; Pasco, Vida and Dorothy heard a second shot. One of the the fire aoon was out of control. Perry, school girls, drowned; Ho­ two bullets struck the woman All efforts of loggers to stem the quiam, 4-year-old son of Max in the stomach. tide of the advancing wall of Hudson, an Indian, drowned; The sheriff was called and flames were of no gvail. » Seattle, George Wataoke, 12, nt found the home barricaded with Yesterday 100 men, supervised Japanese boy, killed by a truck; Mrs. Warren standing guard with by the Klamath Forest Protective Donald, B. C„ a forest fire fight­ a revolver over the body of her er named Lundstrom, trapped and association, fought the big blaze mortally wounded mother. Mrs. burned to death; Spokane, Mrs. throughout the day and last night, Warren's husband is a railroad added by higher humidity and Harry Hunt, drowned. , man and was away a t the time, lower temperature, checked ^.the although their babies were in the blase. , room when the shooting occur­ Damage sustained by the fire red. 1« unknown, according to J. F. The tragic shooting took place Kimball, secretary of-the Klamath Irithe Warren borne a mile south Protective association. of here. Mrs. Warren Is being held in- the county Jail although no formal charge has been placed Evangelist 8ays Damnable against her. XL H. GORE IS GUEST AT BIG BANQUET HERE ASHLAND M B Morgan Let Out of Local Ball Club for Breaking Training Rules He Says Jackson county wlll^ receive ap­ proximately $1,000,000 ins’ead ol 1 the $750,000 ns first believed, as a result of the passage of the Stanfield tax refund bill.’ Thin cheering message was given the people of Ashland last night by W. H. Gore of Medford, honor guest at a banquet given by the Ashland chamber of commerce at the Llthla Springs hatel. It was Mr. bore who was one of the first to conceive the jus­ tice of the federal government re­ imbursing the 18 western Oregjn counties who lost heavily in tax money when the Oregon and Cali­ fornia land grtuit lands reve.-ied to the government. He was one of the leaders in the movement to urge the government to reim­ burse these counties when the matter was first' considered last fall, and when the hill finally was drafted and presented to Congress by Senator Stanfield, it was Mr. Gore wHb haunted the halls of house and senate for weeks, work­ ing day and night for the passage of this measure. _ Appreciation Shown And last night the people of Ashland showed their appreciation of this public spirited work with the testimonial banquet for Mr. Gore. As the chief speaker, Mr. Gore recounted the various s t e p s which had to be taken before final recognition could be pro- ' Johnny Morgan, whose stellar hitting and ijefenslve work aided the Ashland baseball club In its climb to the top of 'the league, Here are five brothers of Dinakl R. Mellett, murdered publisher of the Canton (O.) was given his release yesterday beeauso he refused to keep him­ News. All of them are in hew.spà{>er or magazine work.- L eft-to right, they aro: self In condition. Morgan left at Llpyd Mellett, city editor of the Canton News; Lowell M ellett,‘managing editor of once for the south and will not the Scripps - Howard Alliance of Washington; .1. II. Mellett, Rolund Mellett and John appear in an Ashland uniform ftgaln. Mellett, of Indianapolis. Morgan’s* going will make a permanent ttbrth for “Cholly” S h in y Star D id Curran, one of the moat loyal players on the local club. All sea­ N o t W ork; W earer son long Curran has been shunted about from infield to outfield and L ands in P riso n back again, and has been kept on the bench most of the time as the chief utility player. Curran is a SAN FRANCISCO, J u ly -28. - fast inllelder and during recent Decorajed with a shiny star, Pet- Girl At Lithia Springs Hotel er Evdakimass, 20, Informed a Man in Charge of Canton weeks has been showing morn Recovers Gems for Mrs. number of girfo that ho vrfs a Probe Warned That Others strength nt the bat. May be Slain Morgan was a good ball player Lucile Harris “detention home detective assign­ If he kept himself in condition, ed to protect girls who work at CANTON, O.', July 28.— An- but his work during the past two Because of the honesty of one flig h t.” • , „ , .( onymous letters, each with a cor- weeks has been far below par of the maids at the Lithia Springs Persecution Must Elsie Korrall, 15, was one of • . * , ,, , , , ,, . „ - . aer torn In a peculiar and Identl- simply because he would not take hotel, Mrs. Luclfe B ., Harris, of r»an approached. q n n r n q /'h p J P p fu r n f r a Fori those Peter offered Gome to End cal manner were received Mon- care of -himself. Berkeley, Cal., will within th e w to ( * e her home in his car. In- „ay by D#tecUve Oro T Slater, negt few days recover .valuable With the league season nearing LOS ANGELES. July 28— stead of riding with him, Elsie who is In charge of the Melette Jewelry, including five diamonds, nn end, and with Ashland forced (U P )— In a dramatic appeal for which she misplaced at tbe.locaS had/'Peter arrested. murder Investigation, and Charles to fight every Inch of the way to “Fair ’play,” Atmee Semple- Mc­ Fun« of Ashland’s Lithia E. Morris, the slain edl^pr’s suc­ maintain its slender leud over hostelry a week ago tonight. ’ Pherson today niton Issued a Water Depicted at Normal cessor. School Skit Mrs. Harris was a guest at th- the other clubs. It was deemed (Continued on Page Three) lengthy statement flaying officers, Owens Valley Parmer so hotel last Wednesday night, hav The letters, believed to contain best to keep those players who who have taken part in the inves­ Pleased With Prospects The health-giving qualities of ing arrived on one of the motor important information concerning! would keep themselves in shape at tigation of her alleged kldnaplug. He is Booster Ashland's famed Lithia water stages from the south, enroute to the shooting from ambush of Don nil times and thu? give the club The statement says the time has qere brought to the fore at a clev­ R. Mclette. crusading editor, on I (ho best they have Bellingham. Wash. She placed come for a final show-down. Before many weeks have elaps­ her Jewel box In a dresser draw­ er skit presented at the normal July 18, had been mailed in Can-' “Another persecution of Almee school assembly this morning by ed a large number of O.wens Val- jjr and left the city the next morn Attempt Made on Life of ton. Semple McPherson has come to an lflu __ • . . .. . . _ ley farmoro farmers urlll will arrive <_ in Oregon The letters also are said to ing, forgetting to lake It with he Don Mellett's Widow end and still the gospel rings to the Jackson county club, compos­ from California, drawn here by ed of students who reside In this The maid found the Jewelrv to contain threats against those And Two Children the rafters of Angelus temple,” William V. Dwyer Foun the glowing reports of J. S. Bragg and turned it over to.Manager C. county. . seeking the slayer as well as oth­ reads the statement. “Bn the gos­ Guilty After Sensational of Biahop, Cal., w ho’is .returning 8. Richardton. Dressed as a physician, Mrs. He received a CANTON, O., July 2 8 — (UP) ers connected with (ho sensa­ pel rings because' another dastard­ New York Trial south after an extensive visit letter from Mrs. Harris last night — A gas bomb was hurled at the tional case. ' —x._ _ Bonham established her office on ly attempt to assassinate charact­ -W"" - ’ through the western part of the asking If her Jewels had been home of Don R. Mellett, murdered er and the chastity of a defense­ the assembly room platform and state. NEW YORK, July 28. — (U Thousands Made Homeless waited for patients to arrive. Be­ found, and this morning ffce Jew­ publisher of the Canton Dnily less woman has fallen by its own And Property Destroyed — William V. Dwyer, the silen Mr. Bragg Is one of those In­ el box was mailed to her. side her restart a large bottle of News, this afternoon from nn au­ wickedness. spectacled master-mind of a $40 in San Domingo Lithia water. terviewed this spring by Arthur , The Jewelry Included a dia­ tomobile which daRhed by loaded ‘‘I will reveal In sequence the 000,000 rum-runntag' ring, ha Foster of the state land settle­ First came Ruby Powell with a mond engagement ring, three dia­ with unidentified men. Mrs. slnster events which will make SAN DOMINGO, July 28. — (LP) been found guilty df conspirac ment bureau. He became inter­ mond brodchs and one brooch cf widow of the slain man, the motive of the whole damnable severe toothache. One drink of.the *— This city has been Isolated to violate the Volstead act afte ested and promised to Investigate diamonds and sapphires. and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lloyd conspiracy known to every person mineral water and she wai cured. from the rest of the world for one of the most sensational trial Then followed Edith Patterson Oregon farm lands. As a result of Mellett, who were sitting on the in the civilized world.” two days owing to the devastating In the history of prohibition. with a hugh wart (temporary) his visit he has decided to buy a porch, were made ill. Two child­ Republican Party Leader E. C. Cohron, one of tjie seve hurricane which has swept the on her nose. Again the Llthla large farm In Lincoln county and Tells Probing Body of ren In the house were overcome West Indies. name'd as co-defendants wit water worked the necessary mir­ will come north shortly to reside Recent Campaign by the fumes. Dwyer was also found guilty by Enormous damage was caused permanently. acle. Came next Ben Vlmont, , CHICAGO, 111., July 28.— (UP) to agriculture and sugar centres federal Jury late Monday nigh both deaf and dumb. Llthla water Enroute back to California yes­ Tale^ of large cash sums handled and, in the Port ow San Pedro while six of the alleged consplra cured him. Grace Brown was quite terday afternoon, Mr. Bragg, vis­ during the Illinois primary were De Macorls, boats were wrecked. tors were acquitted. sick following smallpox vaccina­ ited Mr. Foster at the local cham­ Normal School President related to the senate investigating The town of Hlguey was devastat­ TOPEKA-, Kas.. July 18. — The tion. and It was not until she has ber of commerce offices. He prom­ and Party Spend the committee yesterday afternoon by ed and 1,000 families were made quaffed the Lithia water that her ised that he would lie a real boost­ prohibition question may domin­ Night at Prospect Roy West, secretary of.the repub­ homeless. A famine threatens ate as a political Issue elsewhere, ailments were over. Geneva Hart er for Oregon and would induce lican national committee. After here. but ou£ In Kansas, where It all represented Jhe homely gitl Who many of his neighbors to come J. A. Churchill, president of thp charging Yhat the democrats nnd wanted to become beautiful. north with a view df locating In Southern Oregon state normal Horace Bridgeford of Klam­ started. It simply doesn’t exist. some republicans had conspired to E lk B ecla red T o Again th doctor prescribed the Southern Oregon. ath Falls Saved by This In I he opinion of David W. There will be an Importai school, and wife and party, wer" defeat Senator McKinley, W nt Fellow Official Mulvane, republican national com­ Llthla water and her wish wns meeting of the Wawoklye and W' compelled to spend last night nt granted. . revealed that he received $30,000 mitteeman of Kansan. Prospect on the Crater Lake high­ B e D o in g D am age tomachee groups of the lor KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., July; dom H. I. Green, McKinley's Last but not least came Spark i S ev en A viators camp fire girls at the public 1 Mnlvane, who predicts the re- way as the result of an auto col­ lision beween bis car and a* Cali­ 28.— Horace Bridgeford^ general campaign manager. Werit admlt- brary on Thursday evenlpg i nomlnatlon in the fall of Sena- Plug of funny paper fame. Mrs. P lu n g e to D ea th fornia motorist ’a short distanc, manager of the Pellcari’ Bay Lnm-ifod that his organization had SALEM, Ore., July 28.— F. M. 7:80 o’clock. All members’” i tor Curtis, declares that th er e1 Lisle Gregory and Miss Norma, Brown of Portland, chief deputy these groups are urged to alter this side of Prospect late yester­ ber company, narrowly- escaped i to^nt $159,144.83. will be no political disturbances Reeder were made up for the part. Spark Plug ambled Intp the scene, drowning in the Lake of the: — , state game warden, was In Salem as Important matters are to 1 day afternoon. None of the mem­ lr Kansas In the fall" and nothing, BAGDAD, July 28. — ((_p) __ disconsolate and worn out. He lo quarrel about. bers of either p ^ ty w as’lnjur-'d Woodu yesterday afternoon. Hei CHICAGO, 111., j u|y 28.— (UP) today on his way to the Santiam considered. three ¿ 1 7 ,7 7 , ' T drank deeply of Ashland’s Llth­ Seven persons, including UH cars were slightly darn- was saved from almost certain'— Senator VZIUlftm McKinley, un- district where he'w ill Investigate were killed in the I »a r « w C “7 i la water’ and became as active as British officers, Advertise In fl»« addifez" « in i - XV ’ - I e<*. ‘ J. H. Fuller r Murr of oi the me chamber! cnaiuner death , by E. H. Pike, superintend-[ Nuccessful republican senatorial domplalntai Jthat elk have been crash /xf ................ ft young colt. ' , of the the Pelican Pelican Bay Bay rallL mill.. | candidate, financed his own „„ „ responsible for heavy losses to ______________ j . to _______ > (candidate, flnancod iirtq' * t trlPTof commerce motored Prospect lent t of iralann at tho . , .., the T-rinoui Iiinaldl ehrly Harrison Leer, aged 6, sang carrying airplane this morning and returned ( The two mcn ,,Ad been tak""' ?:!50 00° campaign, his campaign ranchers in that section. Sweet Miss Mary," accompanied airdome. One Inan was seriously the Churchill party to Ashland : to the middle o f the lake and wero . manager. Henry L. Green, told If was reported that the elk THTS IS S U E — ---- , „„„ B Injured. by his sister, Mm-Jorle Leer, and a Tho plane struck stores . ' __________ ' swimming He said m, It HHiu it have destroyed a number of gar- Dn. to u. shore B ,v, when w Bridge- the senate committee. ww.MMm.ice. quartet sang the Llthla chorus an<1 8l,ot,s of th® airdome. The is distributed gratis to the ford began to show signs of dis- was McKinley’s policy not to-^e- fl**11" »“<1 have insisted on spend- , A " ; acciijent — - was - - - the - ...................... worst In the his- D ron s D ea d W hen « .. w„ sank ..„ v below »»,. |ng the nights In grain fields. cuests of Tho Ll’hfs Sprlmr'- “Sparkling Water.” i » tress. He tho sur- mtvo celve conctrlbutlonn In a _ s< nafo All students, were agreed R f y y pf the Royal air force. and Ashland Hotel end to the The elk are protected by law. Two sanltarv and d4hghtfu s ,fjg G(*tS B )'r F i s T v ,ace tw,co ,>efor® bis companion, lal race. was one of the m-'st novel and en- Pike, could roach him. ■ v ■ campers at Lltbla Park and plunges are available to tour - Pike, WHH with arHlUBIT.-Q Bridgeford in In tOW, _ _ Jackson Hot Springs camp tertafolhg assemblies staged dur- nn nw. _ .. „ . f flKC, lets and others who visit Ash- 2 8 -T h o r n s . Po a»k,.«6, caught A« “C a d ie ” Foi* And during vacation dare. Th» grounds— a total of npproxb ing the present summer session., VlVaClOUS G lflS 5 ^ ‘o ‘•“’T a to Leila Atkinson, 22, who died of eugenics at the University of Park, a playground of manv acres, with the main entrance Llthla Park Board Pittsburgh, made this statement Bootleggers brought four skunks ------------------------ ---------------- Following the services the body after an operation by him. Dr. Q. att the Plata, where Nature’e deepest beauties are found Jackson Hot Springs to the city and used them offer- will rest In a cemetery here until Carl McPbeeters. was arrested* Jn a lecture on “Marriage” be­ along the walks that lead yoa through the forest border- „ City of Ashland t'vely to cover the scent of op- the fall when It will be removed lag on Ashland creak. while several other C h a r g e s fore the University of Utah sum­ Talent Irrigation District eratlons. * i to Springfield, 111. against him are being eqnaldered. mer school. - « INSISTS ON UTTING F ffl P U T MURDER OF EDITOR • BRINGS THREATS TO ' DETECTIVE SLATER HONEST HOTEL MAID finds m s left ' T1... ¡T HUMOROUS K H 1 B IV , _ _ _ _ _ _ GIVEN ffl STUDENTS WILL HDIKE OTHEIIS to « to ■r on DEAD EDITOR’S HOME HIM MMffi BWlfGEEB H ET CONWCB BE M IS HUBHMNE TOLL BIS SUM SPENT IN I l Prohibition is . No Kansas Issue in m m ip I T TAKE OF WOODS Camp Fire Groups To Meet Thursda S W IM M IN G Kohert Lincoln Is Laid to Rest Physician Held - In Girl’s Death VISIT LITHIA PARK