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)
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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