( I 1□LN r/^o WRATHÄB Fair * i « h t and Thnraday with Newspaper! For Nearly FiftyYeara A shland / EBDAY, OCT. 27, 2926 Tfte People May Know r This State Listed as One in Which They Hope to l l e ct Senator 0AM PAIGNW ARM 8 HP Minority Party Hopes to Procure Control of Congress Thio BY RAYM OND C LAPPB R United News Staff Correspondent ■4 W A SHING TO N, Oct. 17.— Not since the republicans toradd them out to the mercies Qf the raw November blasts on Capitol ’ H ill eight years ago, hard the' demo- erdta hhd their cheats out as now. Control of congress Is at stake In the election next Tuesday and hope springs eternal In the trad democratic breast.. W ith tye election only one week away,, a survey of the sltnatton streng­ thens the prospects of democratic vtatory at the polls, said Repre- sontativeW. A. Old Sold, chairman of the democratic congressional committee, today. H aro Good Chance » “ Wo are ready for the ro te,’* retorts Representative W ill A. Wood, chairman of the republi­ can congressional committee. Democrats have perhaps an oven chance of capturing the senate. a They hare a leaser chaaee of controlling the house. That is about as definite as any­ one cart be without plunging into blind guesses. ■ la ■ the senate the republicans hare a listed m ajority of 14, which Includes Insurgent repub­ licans. T h irty four senators are to he elected In 88 states, ih- cludlag two from Indians, 'Where caudMatoe a r t fh iH lfc * short term to fill out the vacancy loft by Senator Ralston1* death, which A H h y r R .. Re«nson b holding nndor appointment. How I t Stands The seven democrats whose terms enplro.all happen to come from the solid southern states so that there is no probability any w ill be defeated. This leaves 27 republican.edata to be fought for. I f the democrats can take nine of them they w ill obtain clear control of the senate with a m ajority of one vote. Eleven of these republican- held seats are from New England and other almost certain Repub­ lican states. From the remain­ ing sixteen seats In doubtful states n o w . held by republicans the democrats must get th e ir , nine scalps. These states are: H i-Y Club H olds B usiness Session AN OPBN LETTER TO TH« V0TBR8 .. CharlesH. Pieree, who iff'to be Ashland’s next mayor, in strongly in favor of the purchase of the additional 200 acre-feet of water from the Talent Irrigation District. He* was a member of the city council which purchased the original 600 ocre-feet of water and at that time favored the purchase of even more water, believing, as he did, that this would for all time help to solve the city’s water problem. Mr. Pierce, in a signed‘statement to the people of Ashland, today gives a lucid and concise state­ ment of what can be expected through the purchase of this additional water. What he has to say should prove of real interest to the people in helping them to arrive at a decision before they enter the polliug booths next Tuesday. His statement is as follows: hi the negotiations and final purchase of the 600 acre-feet of Hyatt Prairie water from the Talent Irrigation District I was on the council from start to finish and had an important part in all the pro­ ceedings, a fact of which I am still proud. In the early negotiations, five years ago, one member of the conneil thought we. should purchase only 300 acre-feet of the Talent water, but the bal­ ance of the council then favored 400 acre-feet. A year later when the subject came up for final adoption the copneil was a unit in deciding that 600 acre-feet should be the minimum purchase, and more than one councilman favored the purchase of 800 acre-feet or even 900 acre-feet. Except for the fact that this purchase of Talent water was to l»e financed by the issuance of short term notes lwr the city and not by a long-term bond issue, I am sure I should have voted to purchase at least 800 acre-feet of. Talent water. By the terms ’o fthe contract with the Talent Irrigation District, the city of Ashland was placed oh an ekact equality w i|h every rancher and water subscriber, and whenever a shortage occurred, such as that of the pgst ro rated with aa preference to any water user. With only OQh Aere-feat signed for, and Actual detfverieirpncc in a while, as we shall hope, pro rated ta three-fourths the amount due, Ashland would rceive only 400 w r e - f e e t , and that is too little, but with 800 acfe-feet signed for an a similar pro rating, we would Receive 600 feet o f actual delivery in an exceptionally, dry year, t . Ashland will, never at any time have a gallon too much Water in midsummer, and this is the last cheap water the city can. ever hope to obtain. It is certainly worth $22,000 to hold this 200 acre-feet additional of Talent water in reserve. It will be a great mistake not to bfly it now as it should have been included in the original purchase. That we immediately improve bur water distri­ bution system and that we gradually bring the en­ tire city under meter control seems of equal im­ portance with the purchase of this 200 acre-feet of Talent Water, without which, as Engineer Dillard has conclusively shown, the building of a dam in the canyon would be of little benefit. Vote for all the above measures Nov. 2 and save all this work being done over again. Save a lot of valuable time of the new council. Save the cost of more special elections. Let us get down to business at once for water development and set aside all personal feelings. It must be done later if not now. I pledge to yon an efficient business adminis­ tration, and that in any event the expenditure of money x you see fit to vote will be safeguarded by hard, conscientious work of the mayor and council. CHARLES H. PIERCE. The Ashland H l-Y club held their regular* mSeting' In the Y. M. C. A. rooms to the £joneer H all last evening. V. D. M ille r was elected 'business advisor of ♦hit club, and was welcomed aa the giieat of the club last evening. Mr. M iller pledged tho boys his support la* their work sad urghd HOUSTON, Tax.. Oot. 27.— them to boost their school at a ll time». President Nutter toPpoiaU . (United News)— BI Tex, a hi* ed Horace Dunn and Elffot Hac- Bengal tiffeV In the Hermann park Cracked as a ,■ eppstitotJoh com­ too Tuesday sprang upon a park and - Inflicted serious mittee to serve with the president official wounds before ho was shot and to drawl«« up a suitable constitu­ tion for tho plub. A lively dtoCQS- killed by Hana Nagel, keeper of sioa on “School 8 p lrlt” tons hold. tho too. C. A. Wllsoa, superintendent of The coming football game With Grants Pass, which w ill bO played parks, at M in o t.. N. t>„ ontofwd here this Saturday, camp in fo r' i the 'fast hopaa” of the too today some serious thought abd discus­ la oompany with Nagel and other sion, and an earnest offo^*, will attendants- The door to tho cage be made to gat out a, big er»jrd' to Occupied by BI Tex wad openpd back the local boys at, thia gams. by Nagal and the Mg e»t was staadtog lh. tke doorway. Wilson At> tho meeting next Tuead«/ ovp- etapped hlm 1» the face with his nlng, Bon and J o t H arrsU w ill & hat- Instead of backing a t t > , officially toqiatod into Mto mam- tho tiger sprang upoa Wilson Who berahlp o f tho club. Mt' Htilor, knocked h im 'o ft w ith Ma flat. , newly eloetod advisor Woa k , formed that hla Inltlatloh Would take placa on thia some date. Nerthwedt mills wltì h«*e mar •IVicious Clubber Who Oper­ ated Last Year at Large Again Witness Tells How Rumor of Osegonian Payment Started I TOLEDO, Oct? 1 7.— IUnited District Attorney Accuses PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 27.— News)— The Toledo clubber who lying Perjured Her of Buying (U P ) — W alter Hayes, vice-presi­ terrorised the city last year has Witnesses dent of the National^ Security returaed to beat two women to company, brought the first re­ 1 death within 18 h^ura. ENACT STORMY SCRUB ports to Oregon that The Oregon­ years following his conviction as a sportsmen wonid bare to he car- tailed. | - Mr. Dorris tdok up the argu­ ment from the standpoint of clti- Isens.generally as well aa aporta- fraen. 1 - i Noted for T re at j | “Oregon Is noted throughout the nation for its fish sad game,-*, the saM. “Are we going to r let' | this reputation suffer* Tourists Forward Into Battle! are now coming to Oregon and ¡spending a day or two on one er ¡more of oaf many delightful ¡trout streams. I t they are auc- cosaful they w ill go back home [and brag all winter about tke Death (wonderful flaking they had la Noted Magician Npw Following Appendicitis Attack Oregon. ' They will want to come again and they will cause their friends D ETR O IT, Oct. 27.— (United Ito come. ■ » News)— H arry HoudinI waa still ' “ But If we sHow our trout battling for his life here today, ¡streams to suffer, those same folowlng an operation for appen­ folks are going to come kero and dicitis Monday. j nt>t( catch any fla t. And then they The condition of the master aro goitog home mid tell their magician, which la complicated riiendh that thia tdlk aboat good by peritonitis*, was considered fishing in Oregon la all the grave to a bulletin Iseuad by hla busk." physicians at 8:86 p. m. ! Spertamaa Ware urged by both Houdlnl’s physician« said the i «pcskera to. put In some real hard crisis would «pma in two or campaigning during the next few three day». dayu In order that .the bill might CfMElMUTlEs he defeated. Allison Ifoultoa. Bert Ander­ son and Bill Coleman also spoke. , L i c k GewEKAL- PORTLAND, Oct. 88.— (United News)— B. J. Adams, who served to the capacity of secretary to Sen­ ator Robert Hi Stanfield for five years, is to become private secre­ tary to Frederick StelWer in event of his election ha senator. It was learned from reliable sources in Eugene ’riieeday.' PARIS. Oct. 8,7'— ( United) N o r s ) — Heart Berenger,. French ambassador to tho United St«tee conferred with Foreign Minister Brland Tneeday and the confer­ ence was followed immediately by remore thlit- Hdrongor would retare to tho United Btoteo after tho American elections in Novem­ het for 1, Add'd«* teot tambor ber, Instead of waiting in France Condon — City starts program dally, through Pew Wlggtn T er­ for ratification of the American of rock-surfacing streets. minala, In Boston. debt agreement. E X P L A I N INIQUITIER jlphwimately litp.SSS u U 4 • ' » Ponzi To Serve Prison Sentence Adam s Offered K eeper Injured By B en g a l T iger Job By Steiw er May Come 'J On Debt Harold Clifford and Ben Dorris Meet With County Sportsmen Still Rumors Of Judges in tert Wi dwtota. Back To Jddges la Thè tid in g s ’ letter VIEN N A, OcK 88 —