malaria germs Cannot survive three months in the rich ozone i t Ashland. Pure domestic water helps. »2 < T idings ly W Has Aewzpaper Por Nearly Fifty Years “ Wife hervios) ▼ttUXUK te ton «mt-Weakiy Tidings, Vetama 41 ASHLAND. CITY MANAGER« GAME WARDEN ONTON EDITOR SYSTEM W ill nor STOCKS EASE mm END TONIGHT! OF THEWOODS Council W ill A ccept R esig *** Offered ~ T e r e b d b y ^ nation ft Malone QUESTION UP Further Step s Toward Spe cial Bond E lection W ill Be Taken Ashland’s five-month experi ment with the modified city man- • ager form of government w ill end tonight when the city council, by uftanlmous vote, w ill accept the resignation of City Manager Clyde Malone which was submitted to that body*two weeks ago. No successor w ill be appointed. Instead, the council Will repeal the ordinance creating-the office of city manager and the city govern ment will revert to its former councllmanic status. PEACE OFFICERS 10 DEMAND P i m Unable to Agree This action w ill be taken be cause of the inability of Mr. Ma lone and council members to work together In complete harmony. There have been frequent clashes of authority, so both council members and Mr. Malone felt It would be better to discontinue the new plan of government. Mr. Malone .will continue -as head of the city lig h t department. Further action on the water sit uation also Is due for extended de bate and consideration at to- irefoot to Shrine Southern Oregon Auoci&tion A t Klam ath P a lls Takes A&i< ion IS 295 STRANGLER I WOMAN » H I NEAR OAKLAND TAKES ASHLAND D U IS’ M IN G BE TREAT STAND IN HB OWN DEFENSE Nine Members of Camp Fire Group Here Are at Mrs, Mary Nesbit, 48, Victim Bull Run of Fiend In Home State Claims .A gainst Ae- Nine Camp Fire Girls from the L ast N ight cused Slayer tyer Denit ir Denied - Ashland Camp Fire groups are at in AU Respects H U SBA N D BEING HELD tending the last tjvo weeks ses sion at Camp Namanu, Camp Fire H IS VERSION GIVEN Story Held Inaccurate; P o Girls Camp near Bull Run, Ore. Seven o-f the girls traveled to Never . Improperly . Treated lice Have N ew M ystery Portland on the train, where they On Hands JTow Slain Daughter the were met by Miss Mildred Crain, Father Asserts 200,000 Silverwide Trout Pry To Be Liberated This W eek RESORT -.JJ------- L - U f t )AY, AUGUST 17, 1926 Louia Maser, Underworld Character In Grazed Condition 'C L E V E L A N D , Od., Aug. 1 7 . - (tT P )— Louis Maser, Canton un derworld character, charged with the murder of Don R. Mellett, is ready to "spill everything" to sat Isfy his cravings foi> drugs, ac cording to reports from the coun ty M L Maser was first arrested and charged with a violation of the .narcotics laws. The prisoner is "being dented the use of all drug«. He Is now pleading "for just one p ill" on a promise to tell ev erything, the deputy sheriff In charge of the prisoner said. ... ,7 ;• --- — “ I ■ ASHLAR / JM ATB Without the n nedicine cures nine cases ci $ f ten of- asthma. This is a p v / 1 act. POPULAR E astern Brook Also Taken to Lake; Pishing Is Excellent » OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 1 7 .« r W hlle one suspect is held at Santa Bhrhara as the possible mania slsydr of California landladies, the police are searching for another strangler who last night strangled .to death Mrs. Mary Nesbit, aged 48 yeara. The victim ’s clothing had beet ripped from her body, indicating there had been a criminal attack. The murder was reported to the police by Stephen Nesbit, the dead woman’s husband. Police are holding him for investigation as there are several discrepancies to 'his story. . Lake O’ The Woods, w ithin the next few years promises to rival Diamond Lake as Oregon’s pre m ier trout stream as a result of the action of the state game com mission In stocking the lake this Tear w ith many times more tront fry than ever before In history. Roy Parr, deputy state game’ warden, returned laid night from the lake, where he liberated 84,- 000 sllverslde fry from the Butte Palls hatchery. Another 18,000 w ill be liberated In the lake daily until 800,000 sllverslde fry have been liberated. Eastern Brook Not only w ill this popular re sort be stocked with sltverslde, but it likewise w ill be a real brook tro u t stream, according to Mr." Parr. Thug fa r this year 45.000 eastern 'brook fry have been sent BEDDCIIDN IN FARE MADE DERAIL the Ashland High gymn teacher, anti a councillor at Camp Namanu. .Piling Into the back of a truck SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 17.— with their baggage, they were Wallace Gaines took the witness --------- to tho ...„ electric train station. | 8tand in his own behalf this morn- taken and after eating a hearty break! ing ,n the tr,al charging him with his daughter, Syl fast they joined the Portland girls the murder of k’- A who were liou'hd for camp, board via. He denied there was any ed the cars, and started for Bull thing improper in his conduct to Run. From there they hiked into ward the girl whose bloody and camp, about a mile and a half, beaten body was found on the while all of their baggage was shores of ilake Green on June 17. He gave his version of the hotel brought in by the faithful camp Incident, refuting the state’s Ford truck. claim that he and his daughter At camp they were heartily welcomed by girls and councillors. had occupied the same room. He About noon they were joined by declares he had waited all night the inhabitants of a much worn there for his wife while Sylvia Ford roadster, and the Ashland had slept In an adjoining room. had a — heart at- .. ..r, vvi.ip.viü. — he --- ----- • group was complete. unlit? Jane r'J|- Pol- In the morning Peace officers of O r e g o n, lard ftfcd Loleta Pierson were the - taclç and- waa forced to lie down. > . . .. dvlwlsk m _ J ___ «___ through the Law Enforcement As Sylvia I lay down beside him. She inhabitants sociation o f Southern ' Oregon, The girls soon fell into the rou was fully dressed, he said, Peace Officers, w ill endeavor to Gaines denied the alleged enn- tine of the camp, and found happy have the coming legislature enact to Lake O’ The Woods from the companions among the Portland feselon to Louis Stern, saying that Carriers V olntarilv Lose a law protecting peace officers of Crooker River hatchery, and .more girls. They are having a wonder he never told any person at any Large Sum To Stim u the state from damage suits a n d . of the brook trout w ill be lib erat ful experience, and are thorough time that he would k ill anyone. late Travel o th lr litigation- arising out of! ed there before the end of the Going barefoot is the Mexican woman’s favorite method ly enjoying their classes In crafts He belittled tbe evidence regard their duties as public officers. I summer. of showing that she is peilHent. Here is a barefoot Mexi CHICAGO, Aug. 17.— Voluntary and various sports. They expect ing a policeman finding him In a Altogether therd w ill be nearly. This was the decision reached! park with his daughter. He'said ” <ounclL n at F<üto ,Mt B« ht •< « 300,090 trout fry liberated in this can mother and her bobbed haired flapper daughter. Note railroad fare reductlbns of more to come home full of Camp Fire he was wiping hts windshield pep and enthusiasm, ready to, ’¡ Ï ' •°™ e P «*»® ’nary meeting of the association. Sev- lake during the present year. Last that the flapper is carrying her shoes and stockings and than 856,000,000 a ’year have start another successful Camp Wh,ch haa become murky durlug been made to the traveling public Fire year. | th® drive. * pe* ker’ ? °lnted ° ut that year there were 80,000 sllverslde a fur coat. This picture was taken outside the famous in bargain rates and excursion more rietini» . * n - o n ,er th a t, under present conditions peace o f fry liberated In the lake. Mexican shrine at ViUa (jtiadaiupe, near Mexico City. The girls who are enjoying thorp definite etep. toward the „ cer. are held llabIe fares, a report of the railways Fishing rig h t now la excellent their vacation at Cpmp Namanu special bond election might be made public here reveals. for damages In the event they are at the lake, M r. P arr reported, Arfci Ellen Galey, Nedra Bartlett, taken. The report also points out that sued as the result of th e ir acts as and anglers .are gutting larg« W ent Early Election at the present time there are Luclle Carson. Lydia Smith, Etbel law enforcing officers, and they catches dally, w ith the sflveratdo Dodge, Madeline Stevens, Edith Borne of the city orflsUte are more special rates and limited - , . feet they-should lie given better predominating. anxious to have the special elec feres available than at any per Brookmiller, Loleta Pierson, and A six-hole golf course along the protection by the state. Jane Pollard. tion come before the rqgnlar No iod since the war. D istrict Attorney Chaney of shores of the lake Is proving a ad Stato vember election, while others are In 1926 the railroads carried Jackson eonnty spoke on perjury popular addition to the resort, RzUgiot of the opinion that the mass of en 35,963,862,000. passengers one and declared this is one of tho which Is gaining yearly in public There Is an epic of the cedar the man who gave his blood for gineering data and costs cannot In i mile at a rate of .162 cents less favor strongest forces which officers of lumber camps of Coos Bay that a fellow man was himself weak be .assembled in time for an per mile than in 1921. The re the law and the court are forced w ill live for years to corns. ened and he wasforced to his bed. duction In average receipts com e.arller election. I f It were pos ’ PAUL S M IT H S, N. Y .. Aug. 18. to combat In the apprehension A lumberjack was critically in-, The lumberjack lived, but It sible to complete estimates of all and tria l of law breakers. — (U P )— The United States can Jured in* a woods accident. H r Was not for some weeks that It puted on the 1925 basis saved the projects ordered by the council public more than 65,000,000 a*! not interfere In the church con The m eetinr as held at the was taken to the hospital where whs learned the man who saved it is believed an election wonld compared with the rates In 1921. More Floor Space Added to troversy In Mexico, President Klam ath chamber of commerce surgeons held ont but a slight the woodsman’s life was Captain be held in October, but this deci Men’s Store; Dressing Coojidge ruled today. He declar quarters where a banquet was giv chance for his recovery. - H . J. Gallahue of the Salvation sion Will rest entirely with the en en the 45 delegates who attended. ed through the W hite H o u s e Room Changed A blood transfusion was needed A rm y forces of Coos Bay. He was gineering surveys which are now Those going from Ashland were • — —■ spokesman that there is no law i f the life was to be saved. not looking for personal glory. under way. which gives the United States the Chief of Police McNabb, Night Of into the hospital walked a He simply waqted to save a man’s SU SAN VILLE. Calif., Aug. 17. V. D. M iller of M iller’s Toggery Mayor Johnson, members of tbe ficer Charley Clause, Justice of right to Interest -itself in purely quiet, unassuming man. In a few Mfe. has been re-arranging his men’s city council and city officials will the Peace L. A. Roberts and G. M — ( U P ) — Hundreds of Legion domestic problems of another plain words he offered his blood This Coos Bay hero la a visitor naires from all parts of California store this week to accommodate make a personal Inspection of Frost. country. , his patrons better. 'H e has in were arriving here today while to the dying logger. Tests were In Ashland today. W ith his wife Ashland creek canyon all day advance vanguards wqge already made and his blood was found and two children, Captain Galla Activities For . the . Coming creased the store apace by ex Thursday in order to acquaint tisfaetory. Months To Be Taken hue Is in this section for a week’s tending the counters the full established In their headquarters themselves with the situation The transfusion was made and vacation. Up Tonight length of the store and has also as the eighth annual state conven which confronts the city in build widened the space by utilising a tion of the American Legion op ing its new and enlarged water ened. The convention w ill close Reports from Commander John part of the store which formerly system. Thursday. E. Enders and Dr. C. E. Shinn, lo was used fqr storage purposes. Prominent s t a t e , officiate, cal delegates to the state lepton The suit racks have been moved scheduled to address the veterans convention, will be given at a to the front of the store and a meeting of the local post at the new dressing room Is being W ord has reached Ashland of were arriving with the defegstes 8EA TTLE , Aug. 17.— (U P ) — stalled near the new suit racks N E W CORK, Aug. 17.— Joe who were prepared to make the armory tonigh't at 8 o’clock. the death In Los Angeles, August Alaska Is entering an era of ro-f MONTEREY, Cal., Aug. 17— The ex-service men also will In order to m ak^ it more conven J u vena ted prosperity, in the opin 11, of Mrs. Julia 8. Roper, widow 1988 meeting a banner affair. Young, known In circus circle» (t lP )— Rouge ig synonymous with outline their fall and winter so ient for purchasers. of the late Fordyce Roper, a t the New state officers w ill be chosen for years as "Professor Jaxbo ion of Charles D. Garfield, secre Icnvork. The alterations were com tomorrow. District ha« succumbed to a hardware diet m irrors even In scleetific cial and post activities, and it is age or 8» years, from a fractured probably tary of the Alaska department o f A closely guarded secret In the H e was a sideshow exhibit as an possible that definite plans will be pleted today, thus giving the store the state chamber of commerce. •¿P- The older residents of Ash meetings have been arranged. "H ere’s a real peach!" world of science was disclosed eater, of nalle, and other metallia Numerous ttophies are to be laid for the annual winter show a roomier and better appearance. Garfield has Just returned from at So exclaimed S. D. Taylor, man land knew the Ropers well when awarded in the three-day session, edibles. An Operation a fte r death hers recently in the polishing of which the local post Is planning during the period from 1886 to tour of the territory. ager ot the fru it association, as the winners |o be announced on disclosed the following conteute the groat 100-lnch m irror of the to stage this year. Other matters 1896, the family resided here anJ- Here are a few of the factors he held up for view a remarkably the closing night. Among the raps In hie stomach: nails, safety pins, largest reflecting telescope In the of Importance also w ill be con ,was prominent In the business which Garfield said will go toward colored ~ J. H. Hale variety of fasteners, world, located on the summit of sidered, Commander Enders said. to one offered by United States A t a corkscrew, paper bringing "good times’’ -hack to peach which was grown in the or and social Ilfs 08 the community. M t. Wllsoq.* torney George J. H atfield of San cellar buttons and buttons. Alaska: chard of E. C. McCormick. The M r. Roper died in 1904 and Mre. The face of the four-ton m irror Francisco to be awarded the Development Is being speeded Roper has made her home for a peach measured 11 and one-ha’ f «as polished in much the same champion Charleston dancer. Two on gigantic placer mining pro number of years, with her daugh ZARA, Dalmatia. Aug. 17.— inches in circumference and manner that a woman applies ter, Mrs. Geo. H. Matthew« (nee are to be awarded by Jack Hous weighed 15 ouneqp. x ' Fishermen who brought up a jects at Fairbanks. rouge to her face, but with this ton, manager of the Legion Nows, One of the biggest salmon shark in their nets offshore here Needless to say, Mr. Taylor lost Carolyn Roper) pt Los Angeles. exception— little squares of resin to be presented to Voltnres of the ’The remains were cremated a n l pecks In Alaska’s history Is now were amased when they found Inj immediate possession of the peach covered with rouge were used In Forty and Bight for exceptional In progress w ith an estimate»» the ashes deposited In the fam ily the stomach of th« fish a pair of a fter he had exhibited It. ASTÒRIA, Aug. 17.— (U P ) — WICHITA, Kah., Aug. 17 — stead ot a puff. The rouge used 1928 production of 8,666.06? cemetery at Bakersflld, Mrs. Rop services given the Legion. woman's, shoes and apparel. like the cosmetic but wo* In preparation of Oregon’s case The Kansas mule « h o rivals his was not — ----- er was native of Ohio. She is brother from Missouri as a beast harder substance for the retention off Sand Islan.1, Oil development activities hav* survived by the following child o f burden la mneh in demand by at the month of the Columbia riv i been given momentum, two heav- ren: Mrs. Geo. B. Landers, A r er, A number of attorneys and of the Mexican government lately. vin, Calif.; Charles A. Roper. ,,3r f,naae* l companies now being F or the lakt teW weeks, mule ficiate today are Inspecting the 1s- actively engaged in drilling. Council, Idaho; Mrs. Geo. ft. Mat auctions have been held here on -, , - Iand a»d studying Its relation to thews, Los Angeles, and Fordyce VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 17. every Wednesday end during that of Oregon and Washing SEATTLE, Wash., Ang. ,17.— P. Roper* Lodi, Calif. " - TO K IO . Aug. 17— Mulberry — Decision of the British Colam. ton, preliminary to « h e hearing (U P )— Seattle w ill continue to time more than 8,»00 of the ani wln^ le how a by-product of the big Hotelmen’s association to s*fc to ba'held this month by the mals have been purchased by rep- operate its harbor radio atatlon silk Industry. Chemists have elude Women from Vancouver odin A P iiuniu, a Aug. i i < . i 17.— t . — Tex- United States senate public lands discovered a means ‘ of making even If It tep’t making money. A t rosentathrea o f the Cellos govern SAN ANTONIO, * ' - ) beer parlors was legaly upheld as has a bumper pecan crop this ■ub'co,nlnlttee a recent budget meetlpg repre ment and Shipped to Mexico. wine from the thousands of tons here. - - .M . . ,u> . .. .»w. .■ yaar. One tree, said by botanists' sentatives of private wireless In of mulberries which have hereto Portland foreign cargo ehlo- to be more than 360 years old, SALEM, Ore., Aug. IT — Tbe terests advised the city counetl fore been throw sway after the weekly Industrial report of the ments for first qahrtsr of 1928, hawed to the ground today he to close the station before "soro- silk * worms n a « li s,,k orm* have fed themselves on state shows that one fatality re- OLYMPIA, Wash.. Ang. IT— petltlon puts It out of bnalneee." wer# 889,788 tone; tenth port Iq aeath the weight of Its contrlbu- « « Ib e rry tress Vnltsd Stites. ; tten. The Chelan riv er Irrigation dis J > _______ trict, recently organised, applied SPECIAL SLEEPER to the supervisor of hydraulic* Geo. N. Kramer, local agent for _ Ashland got a slight taste of . . SAN A N TO NIO , A ng. 17— A today for water to e ss on a |4 A - the Soutnern Pacific annanneed rainfall shortly a fter noon today bootlegger here operated a still In 000 irrigation project. today that a special standard' when clouds gathered and a few bis parlor wkUe hts fam ily was While yon are A guest In on The district proposes to take u sleeper w ill be added to train . a «ertale to vllelt Llthia drops descended. The warm forced to live on the front porch. water from thè Chelan riv er àbavo* Nò. 18 on Wednesday evening, for Fhaft, a plapgroend af ma »Ith the main entrane« weather of the past few days al ■t tha Plata, «haro Natu BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Ang. 17 He kepi a goaf in tha kitchen the dam . beantlss are fondd and to ba need over a 1 the benefit of those who are go- along tha «dike that lead so dlsaptoarod and the general -—Bridgeport’s 'phantom atabbsr i the forest bordsr- while hid chMkens roosted in the I large acreage through the neb of ing to Bngene to attend the Troll •ng on Ashland forecast for tomorrow is cooler waa again at large last night and bathroom. , > pumps. J | to R ail celebration. weather and showers. two girla were vittima of his knife. COOLIDGE AGAINST COOS BAY HERO IS VISITOR M A S H L A W fc A VE BLOOD 1 SAVE INJURED LOGGER S I IN ÏM W m r s im r mammons Legionnaires of California Will Hold Convention ŒGION POSI d l l Former Resident of Ashland Dies at Los Angeles Alaska Enjoying Real Prosperity Says Seattle Man Diet of Hardware Rouge Is’Used to Is Fatal At Last Polish Telescope Taylor Exhibits Peach; It Proves Bad Deal for Him Woman Devoured By India Shark Island Litigation Mexicans Buying Up Kansas Mules Vancouver Women Not to Get,Beer A Seattle Plans to Continue Station to Start Shortly Mulberry Wine Is J Japan oy-xroduct Pecan Trees Now 1 WO Centuries Old One Industrial Death Reported Use of Water for Irrigation Asked Slight Rainfall This Moonshiner Had Happy Home Descends Locally th® Phantom Stahber VISIT LITHIA t, at Large Again