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Fair in Southern Oregon 1
and ¿Wednesday. Gentle
Drive slowly near the publie
schools. Help prevent accidents.
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Portland Youths Are Nab
bed by Sheriff Near
Gold HUI
HONEYMOON
BLASTED
Three reputed youthful bandits
from Portland are in the county
Jail at Jacksonville today, while p
17-year-old bride la bemoaning a
blasted honeymoon as the result
of the attempted holdup of the
Sherwood service station a mile
below Gold Hill last night.
The bandit suspects are Earl
Sears, IP; Theodore Rieroon, 17;
Charles McDonald. 20. The bride
of a day is Mrs..Charles McDon
ald, a defiant, flashing-eyed lit
tle mim of 17.
Sheriff Makes Capture
The four were captured near
the junction of the Bams Valley
road and the Pacific highway an
ho Ur after the alleged holdup by
Sheriff Ralph Jennings pad two
deputies, Paul and Lewis Jen
nings.
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Driving a car which they de
clared had been rented from a
Portland garage, the four de
scended on the Sherwood service
station shortly before 8 o'clock.
Sears is alleged to have produced
a revolver and commanded Sher
wood to put ap his hands. Sher
wood remonstrated with
the
youths and insisted he had not
money at the station. It is al
leged that Sears then fired a «M t
at Sherwood as the car speeded
away in the darkness.
The sheriff's office was immed
iately notified and county offic
ial* took up the chase. The re
puted bandit auto took the wrong
road, out of Gold Hill an* oiart/oi
up the Same Valley highway. Af
ter to la s a tow miles they doubl-
ed on their track« and wore head
ed north along the highway whoa
Sheriff Jennings and Ma "two
deputies came upon them and
placed them under arrest. They
submitted without a fight.
Sears Is reported.to have ad
mitted to the sheriff last night
that he had just been paroled by
District Judge Delch in Portland
after being arrested on a bad
check charge. The youngster«
said they had rented the car
from a Portland garage and had
left Portland at 1 o’clock yester
day morning.
Wed nt Roseburg
McDonald said he and bis wife
gpt their license and were mar
ried yesterday at Roseburg, al
though he failed to disclose a
marriage certificate.' On the rear
of the car was a chalked lettering
“Just Married."
The quartet is being held on
an open charge pending a thor
ough investigation of the affair.
Not oply did the Ashland chamber of commerce
accept,a. report of its special committee appointed
to investigate the water bond proposal, but it
likewise went a step further and by unanimous
vote gave approval of the following measures:
Water bond amendment
Littua. pipe line amendment
Fire department bond‘amendment
The report of the special conpnittee will be of
interest to voters generally in guiding them when
they go to the polls next* Tuesday. The report is
as follows:
To The Ashland Chamber of Commerce:
We, your committee, appointed in the matter
of reporting as to the advisability of constructing
a water reservoir in Ashland creek canyon, respect
fully report as fallows:
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We have visited and* examined the situation of
the proposed dam sites in Ashland creek canyon, and
we frankly state that we do not assume to be able to
question the findings and conclusions of skilled en
gineers, whd, for months and years, have carried
on extensive investigations on the -subjects of addi
tional water supply for the city of Ashland.
We know that two subjects should receive the
careful attention of the city authorities, and the
people of our eity, namely, (1) an increase in the
water supply during the dry period having due con
sideration as to the palatabttity'and purity of the
water, and (2) the economical distribution and
use of the wgter supply.
From investigation, we certainly appreciate the
magnitude of the enterprise in constructing a suit
able reservoir, and the heavy expense which will
nec8sarily be incurred to utilise either of the dam
sites proposed. “ '
We would not attempt to pass on the differ
ent sites, as that is a matter for determination by
. the city authorities and the engineers, and we
certainly have groat ooufidenod in Mr. Frank Walker,
our city engineer, who for -several years has made
the water ^wublem a study .and who has accom-
~phshed the major part of the engineering wbrif.
Additional water is necessary. If obtained, it
cannot be done except at a large expense, and
there is no source from which the expenses can be
supplied except from the people and the property
owners of the city of Ashland.
‘
As to further purchase of water from the Talent
Irrigation District, at present we would not be eager
to purchase any additional water supply from that
source unless assured of a more bountiful supply
than was furnished during the season of 1926.
VII.
We are of the opinion that a meeting should
be called, and held at an early date, whereat, the
city engineer and consulting engineers, as well as
the committees of various ciyic organizations of the
city should be present, and question pro and con
be discussed, and considered.
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of October, 1926,
E. D. BRIGGS,
A. E. KINNEY,
A. M. BEAVER, Committee.
Another Essay
Contest Starts
H. A. Stearns Bays Business
And Will Make Some
Improvements
Youth Who Fell Under 8.
P. Train to be Buried
Here Wednesday
Positive Identification ot Peter
Jansen as the young transient
who died Bunday aa the result of
injuries abstained when, he toll
from a freight train Saturday,
was made thia morning by hta
widowed mother who arrived
here from Hillsboro. The moth
er broker down as she identified
her son’s body at tha J. P.
Dodge and Bone undertaking par
lors.
The funeral will be held hire
at 2:80 tomorrow afternoon from
the Dodge chapel, with Rev, Hugh
T. Mitchelmore of the 1 Presby
terian church officiating. Burial
will bo in Mountain View ceme
tery.
The boy wee 22 years eld aad
the chief support of bis widowed
mother aad aged grandmother
at Hillsboro. He had been work
ing In California and was beat
ing his way back home la order
to aave hla small horde of money
t o t hl« mother.
Recall Petition«
Are Circulated
Announcement of the purchase
‘ of the Lithie Springs garage
from O. W. Baker wee made this
' morning by H. A. Stearns, well
known Ashland business men.
Mr. Stearns is ’how in charge of
tbe business, located on First,
street above tbs Lithla Springs
hotel.
Mr. Steams said that he is
planning to St up s' first class
garage an* have the beet me
chanics. making it a completely
equipped garage tor general, pur
poses as well as storage.
Arrangements are now being
completed by Mr. S toaru to be-
come local agent tor an h itomo-
bile flrto, formal ennoum
being withheld until the deal la
completed.
WOMAN DROPS DEAD
LOS ANOBLBg. O«t. 2«. - r
Mri. Walter Mulford, 88, opened
the door of her homo to aoeept
a gas bill and dropped dead of
heart failure today.
¿Woman and Two Children
Also Held by Police
Pardons Granted Pour, In
eluding Negro, in Mia-
Pacific Coast Organiser of
Carpenters is under
Arrest
, ALBANY, Oct. I f . — (United
News)— ’‘I » ■ pot perturbed « « -
cernlng the proposed InvesMga-
tlon," Frederick Stelwer. republi
can candidate for the United
States senate said here Monday
wh«n Informed that
Senator
James A. Reed, chairman of the
senate "slush fund” committee,
had ordered a probe of expoadi-
turee during the Oregon primary*
“The charges made by Giyjrgf
W. Putnam, editor of the demo- t
erotic Salem Capital Journal?
will not be taken seriously by the
People. If the investigation were
anything other
than palltiopj
propaganda it would ¿»are beds
People Urged to Take More
ordered long ago, “Stelwer said.
Interest in Political
False Chargee
Affair*
Declaring that the chargee
were merely another step In “the
program of false chargee which <
characterizes the campaign ef-' 1
forts of tome of those supporting »1
my opponents,” Stelwer declared ¡1
that he intended to take the of; f <
fengLve and demand that the la- ft
vestigatlon be made at once, “so 1
that the.people ot Oregon may e
not be deceived/*
Concerning the report 'that the' $
Portland Electric Power company 1
had contributed' 116,000 to the t
Portland Oregonian to oppose u
Senator Stanfield, Stelwer said lie 1<
understood that tbe' power com- «
pany bad supported one o f his v
opponents in the primary, he was e
sure that no contribution had
been made la belief of hia caadl- •
dacy.
«
Clara Ingram of Portland,
In charge of the health work of
the W. O. T. U. spoke entertain
ingly of this branch of the or-
ganlzation's work.
Matters of general interest to
members will be tahen'up by the
local American Legion post at a
regular meeting to be held s i the
pest headquarters in Pioneer Hall
et 8 o’clock th lr evening. Com
PORTLAND, Oct. 5.— (United
mander John B.- Enders urges all News) — John Bond, arrested
members to attend.
earlier In the month at Klamath
Falla for violation of the Harri
First Jog drive of the year, is son act, Monday was sentenced
made on Nortb Fork of Coquille to 18 months at McNeil Island
rivar.
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, 14 by Federal Judge Bean.
Drug Peddler Is
■ Sent To Prison
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.,. Oct.
88.-— (United News) — Freedom
*ae the reward tonight for four
convicts
who came to the assist
P U B L 1 0 IS AROUSED
ance of prison guards during the
Violence Traced to Other«; At brfak for liberty of seven con
tempted Murder la
* victs from the Missouri peniten
tiary Sunday.
Charged
’The pardons were granted on
SAN -FRANCI8CO. Ocb I f . — recommendation or Leslie Ru-
BROOKLYN. Oct. IP— (United
(United News)— Violence which dolph, acting warden.
News)—A mother's love proved
The convicts who were liberat
has featured a carpenters' strike
stronger than a father’s generos
of six mouths duration here has ed are Ollie Cooper, negro;'Clyde ity when Sally and Edward Miles,
been traced to high union offic Woods; Artie Booth and George 11 and 10, respectively, stood
iala in* ¿'confession which police McAllister.
before the railing In a crowded
declare has been mtde by two of ■ Cooper displayed unusual cour court today and told Justice
age when he rushed to the defense
the striking carpenters.
of
J. L. Fleeman, guald, who was Mitchell they loved their mother
As the resalt of public senti
beat.
ment aroused by a series of brut being attacked by fire convicts.
The odd family tug-of-war be
al beatings last week, following Cooper drove them off with a gan ten days ago. At that time
which one man died, four men butcher knife.
the Judge* first asked them the
were arrested Monday. Those la . Two convicts were wounded in
question to determine whether
custody
in c lu d e
Archibald the two hour gun battle with the children should be placed In
Mooney, Paelflc coast .organiser prison guards and members of
the custody of their father or
of the United Brotherhood Of the local company of militia.
their mother, divorced, and they
Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
chose their father.
ica, and Paul Clifford, business
Father Unfair
agent of a San Francisco loeal.
But the judge didn't think he
Attempted Murder
had been quite fair to the moth
Mooney, charged with assault
er, inasmuch as the youngsters
to commit murder, was accused
had
just been with their father.
by George Fred man and Jack
So he told the mother to take
Kllran. Fred man haa been iden
Sportsmen of Jackson Ooun the children and return to court
tified as one of the assailants who
ty to Meet at Medford in ten days.
figured in the fatal attack upon
Tonight
Before the children announced
C. W. Campbell last Thursday,
their decision Mrs. Miles told the
while Kllran, with Clifford la
court she had done nothing dur
charged with criminal conspir
ing the ten days to influence the
acy.
children.
Both children chose
The strike began last spring -,n
their
mother
with the under
a protest against the so-called
standing
that
they
would 'get to
American plan of building.
aee their f a t h e r sometimes,
though how often, when and for
bow long was not specified.
Previous Io this, and Jetod
back to the time Mr. end Mrs.
Miles were dlvoroed throe yaan
ego, the father wee to got the
children every sumaser tor eta
weeks. When he failed to return
the ohlldroa at the end ef their
six weeks period thia pest sum
THE DALLES. Oct. 2«. —
mer the toother began the court
(United News) — Officers were
action whleh resulted in her vic
scouring Sherman county and
tory.
the surrounding districts Mon
I Sally, apoka first. “Wo went to
day for R. D. Parks, who broke
live wittk both of them," she said
out of the Sherman county Jail
land Edward nodded.
at Moro about five o’clock Sun
“I'm sorry, but you will have
day afternoon.
Ito
choose one or the other. Mid
Tbe prisoner .was about 21
the Judge.
years of age, of light complex
Sally looked about her, as it
ion and wore light trousers and
undecided.
,
a dark coat.
He I s . said to
I “I gness we would like to live
have been serving time tor a
with mother, please.’* tbe little
lust ice course offense.
girl finally said, her lips tremb
ling. “But please, can’t wo aee
Illinois Officers Now Believe daddy too?**
District Attorney Was
The Judge nodded.
Slain
Edward was next questioned,
and
his mumbled answer was
MARION, III., Oct. 2«.— (UP)
Casting aalde the theory that W. the same as his slater's.
O. Potter, former United States
district attorney, h'ad committed
suicide after killing fire members
of his family, authorities today
started an investigation into tbe
six deaths on the supposition that
the family was murdered by an
outsider.
George Groucup Found in
It was at first supposed that
; Modoc County With
the family bad been killed by i
• Bullet in Head
Potter, who then killed himself
by jumping into a cistern. Doubt I, RBDDINO, Cal., Oct. 18. • —
arose however, when no water (United News) — Modoc county
] officers are Investigating tha
was found in Potter’s Innge.
M jugw T
i death of George Groascup, a hun
L ose AW,
ter whose body has been found
OLPGffL
.near Adla, under mysterious cir
cumstance«.
Groescup’a identity were- learn
ed through a hunter’s license
found In hie pocket Ho bad boon
Mrs. Clara B. Saunders, wife
shot through the heed, aad It
of J. B. Saunders, and a resident
wae believed here ’that he had
of Ashland for many years, died committed suicide.
at the family home, 678 Boule
Cash amounting to 1280 Was
vard, following an illness of
found on tbe body,
more than a year. Arrangements
for the funeral kavg not yet been
completed.
Besides her h u s b a n d , Mrs.
Saunders is survived by three]
children. They are Mre. C. C.
Walters of Medford, Mrs. R. R.
Batemah of this elty and Claude
Saiindori Of this elty. ♦
1
Mrs. Saunders Is
Called By Death
Freezing Weather
Strikes Atlantic
LONDON, Oct >8. — (UP) —
Bnglaad, Frane«, h ely and the
English channel suffered ; severe
damage from eterms today. A
wfnd of hurricane torce was ao-
companted by hait ia tome areas.