THS WXATWtt
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
Do your Christmas shopping
early, while the stocks are com
plete.
fains in the » est,.snow or
i the east portion toñight
Leading
A s / t f a n d ’«
(Uhltod Frees Wire Service)
for Over Fifty Years
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(United News W ire Servies)
ASHLAND, OBEflO:
j > The Ashland postoffice did the biggest single
day’s Christmas business m the history of the office,
Three Are Arrested on Var
yesterday* If this is an indication of business Con
iety of Charges In
cluding Murder
ditions in general in the community Ashland merchants
must
be
enjoying
a
good
holiday
trade
this
year.
All
HAYAMA, Dee., 2 1 — (UN)—
< ‘ M E X IC A L I, Mex., Dec. 21.—
On the bleak, snow-swept beach
employees, says Postmaster "Wagner, have entered into
(U N )— As an aftermath to tha
of the wlstor b one o t Bmperor
| discovery of the body of Saburo
a paci4 apparently, to keep the extra work of the
I Maslko, secretary of the Japanese
Yoehlhlte o f Japan, bis Buddhist
holiday rush cleared up and working schedules have
neighbors kneel at prayer while
I Association In a shallow grave
been abolished temporarily, ho that thus far there has
warships nearby await news of hie
near the ruins of the Association
Oommissioiier Landis Makes been no congestion in the «Ashland office. Yesterday «General Andrews Claims building, three men were arrested Democratic Senator Makes
Public Details of Bet-
There is Wot the Usual
Serious Charges Against
Feasibility that th e . emperor
is believed to have been the peak day of this season
here Monday on* suspicion of mur
•
ting, Plan
Liquor Rush
Republicans
mny live now that be has survived
der. arson and grand larceny.
for dispatching Christmas mails but the peak of the
a
,, -*
two weeks with pneumonia has
The building burned to the
receiving
end
is
yet
to
couie
and
the
plans
are
now
to
r
eser
v
e
^
decision
ATTEMPT
GET
SOURCE
renewed the prayers of his «ob
ground about a week ago and BRINGS UP OLD DEATH
centered upon the delivery jend of the service which
jects throughout the
empire.
Maslko subsequently dja»®-
W hile, representatives ot Prince Loadle le Said to Have Received
will be taxed to the utmost to get all the Christmas Lark of Judicial Asslstancs»Makea .Following tb®
tfcgMW'
St
a
t
em
e
nt
From
Dutch
It Necessary to. Oct the
Regent H lre rtte . his heir to the
mails for Ashland folks Tee&ived by Friday night into
Wholesaler
"throne, have visited, the grand
lS H » rd w" .
..» i ad
their hands before the pu|toffice holiday begins at
I that u
\
.. the association
shrine a tle e .b e lje v e ra la the
CHICAGO, Dec. « . — (United
noon on Christmas day.
’
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— (U
Shinto, state religion, as well ns
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.— (U N )— I wore m iblngT
PoasibiHty
Chicago f
Promises
m
CHICAGO, Dec. | 1 , — ( f o b
— Unprecedented speed has been
Press)— T y Cobb, Trie Speaker,
N ) — No inquest waa held over
| The generalissimo ot the Am eri
Maslko’s body was discovered,
promised by State’s Attorney the Buddhist faith, have visited I Joe Wood, and Dutch Leonard
the body of Jeaa Smith, who was
their nearest shrines day and]
can
dry
forces
believes
that
but friends of tjie murdered man
Robert B. Crowe for the prose
{fo u r of the beet known players
found
dead from a gunshot
n ig h t
|
there to no Christmas' rush for claim the signature on the checks
cution of Harold Croarkln, con
in base ball were named today by
wound
In
the apartment of for
The Imperial train to In read!-1
“ holiday liquor,” that the gov was forged.
fessed slayer of six year old
Commissioner Landis In making
mer Attorney General H arry M.
nees
to
probeed
to
Hayama
im
ernment to not after the drinker,
Japanese Vies Consul Kuga ar
W alter Schmits.
I public one of the greatest scandals
Daugherty, early en May 30,
hut the wholesale smuggler, anjl rived here Monday from Los An
"Justice w ill bo done to the mediately the death of his ma- In the history of the pest time.
1»23.
J WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— (U that common sense must be used geles to begin an investigation fol
k ille r of the boy w lth l» IS days," Jeety to made public. Official an I These four men according to Lan-
" It was a plain case of suicide
nouncement of the Imperial hones-1
fIJThe United States copyright in law enforcement.
lowing the arrest of R. Morlshlta,
Idto statement were involved in a
Crowe Bald Monday.
and no inquest to required under
hold department probably would I
Oontond
That
State
Office has refused to issue copy-
In
an
interview
General
Lin-!
,S.
Morlshlta
and
I.
Kuta,
suspect
Meanwhile funeral services tor
Ideal where in Cleveland waa to
I Right to Part of . tlgts to married women using coin C. Andrews, assistant sec- ed by Mexicali police of burning the law In such cases,“ Coroner
the little victim wore conducted. not be made until the mourning “throw” a game to Detroit, on
J. Ramsay Nevitt, who viewed
|h e ir maiden names.
fam
ily
returned
to
the
Imperial
reary of the treasury, In charge! the building and slaying Maslko
“ I want Croarkln hanged.'*
September 2»th, H l » . By so do
the body, told the United News
[ The National Woman's party of prohibition enforcement, ex- i to hide the crime.
palace In Toklo.
exclaimed Mrs. Margaret Schmits,
ing he pointed out. Cleveland
BEND, Ore.. Dee. 21.— (U N )— ¡fias organised a delegation of
today, commenting on the charges
plained that the government “ to
mother of the slain boy.
could not be nosed out ot second Echoes of a coming fight in * the
of Senator H eflin, Alabama dem-s
[Women authors to call at the 11- after the big fellows,” allowing
“ I f this to net a hanging case
place In the American league end state legislature over disposition
ocrat, that. Smith was murdered
brary of congress Monday with a local authorities to handle the
yon may as well abolish capital
would help D etroit finish third.
ot the O. and C. tax refund money Bratest.
for political reasons, because he
blind pigs and close the cabarets
punishment,” Crowe said.
Lendls was quoted In hto state between the various counties and
knew
toe much.
■ The Issue came to a head in the where flask toting Is a regular
The state's attorney, prosecu
ment as saying that he obtained a the state a t Oregon were heard
Heflin renewed hto chargee In
’»ase of Miss V. D. Hyde of Den- practice.
to r In the famous Loeb-Leopold
statement from f x n n .H
The
'T e r , Colo., who fo r nearly twenty
Here to address a closed meet
tria l, said be would seek Indict
statement alleged that Leonard
Senator Jay UUpton of Bond, in
from testimony la a tria l at Mo
ing of malt syrup and hops manu Standard Oil Takes The
ment before a county grand ju ry
and others happened to meet and a, letter to Senator W . B. M ille r of
bile, Alabama, several years ago.
facturers in an attempt to reach
today and would aak criminal Kellar Mabbott Named i I talked about base ball. The De- Grants Pass, aligned himself on
Lead in Price Read-
Unltejl States District Attorney
an understanding with them on
court justices to move the Croar
trolt men said they would like to the side ot those who contend that
justment
Chief Ranger for New
Aubrey Boyle testified that he
the prohibition question, General
kln cnee to the top o t the cal
see their team finish third. Then the state has a right to its share
had been fold by Prank Boykin,
Andrews declared that reports . SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20.—
endar,
v
Speaker said according to tha Loo- ot the O. and C. refund,
a politician In Alabama, the fol
of a holiday rush on Jiquor sup (U N )— The Standard Oil Com
The second Pioneer «lab of the nurd statement, "Don’t worry
A fte r a 20 hour grilling Cro-
“ It would seem to me that there
lowing:
plies are “ bunk," asserting there pany of California has announced
arkln frankly admitted the alay- city was organised last evening about tomorrows game. Cleve- to no Just ground for one unit do-
“You know Secretory Mellon
is no more demand for liquor Increases in the price of gasoline
tng and the wayward son ot a when beys and their leader, Vic lands got second place cinched.’* scribed in the MU to havq ether
loaned the republican national
now than at any other time of at all points on the Pacific coast
wholesale flour merchant bluntly tor Phllpe, met la the Christian Then everyone agreeing that If It units proscribed from Its bene-
committee »5,»00,000. Only »2,-
the year.
to become effective Tuesday.
stated he bad sought the hoy to church and organised the Bear | he a set np, they might es well fits, and that the money obtained
000,000 has been repaid. There
“ W hat my department wants
In the San Francisco bay region
Pioneer club of that church. The get some money out of It. So the from the federal
government
commit an act of degeneracy.
to a deficit of 12,000.000.
Speaking In a low, even tone, boy» showed considerable enthus I pool was made, Leonard saying should be divided on the plain
to do,“ he Bald, “ is to get at the and points to the north, the In
“Jess Smith to charged w ith
source o f-th e liquor and stop It crease will be one cent per gallon,
squirming la hie ebnlr m though iasm ns they oetltned their pro as he remembered the rams con- terms of the bills and in aecord-d
getting up that money. The plan
therq. That's why I met alcohol while ln Los Angeles and potato
gram s»d elected their officers tributes were. Leeward, fifteen ance with the public arguments)
cringing from his own thoi
to to have the liquor men, the
dealers in the east and am meet i Inland fr o » .<h«rq „the increoM men in the liquor business and
The effleers elected were: K eller hundred, Cobh two thousand, gad and raneops farniahed fo bring!
e f the tragedy, Ctodrkla to!
ing malt and hops dealers here.” wHl her two cento p a r T u lM h ' '
lnquigltors be had killed tb<
the others two thousand each.
about the passage of that legtola-I
the breweries contribute to this
Arrant,
la a statement announcing the
General Andrews outlined the
J la the testimony token, Cobh tton,” Upton declared.
because “T i e peltee told
official policy of his enforcement changes the Standard Oil stated
ghfl Speaker denied that they wore
“The eounttoe themselves never
“United States attorneys In
W
right,
Treasurer.
Other
mem
Tbkl lhé VO yinglncrtases formed
department.
Implicated.
Cobb
admitted
that
would
have
boon
able
to
secure
trouble wtth a Itttle girl I might
some placet have been arranged
“a
readjustment
of
the
present
bers e f the Hub era. Glena Head, Me knew there was a large sam this legislation without the asslst-
“In our oponlon
the
18th,
get into the penitentiary."
I with. They w ill be expected to
•
amendment was an expression of price structure.**
W ithout changing hie tone he James Spqhcer and Vincent SaW- 6f money wagered on the game ance of the onUre state,** he snld.
(collect the money from the boot-
The new price here will be I f lleggers and contribute a certain
the m ajority opinion that the
The bill Itself was “an unex-
related how he had picked np a Jfo*. Efforts w ill he made at once hut denied having any connection
cents
per
gallon.
hammer and, while little W alter to double the membership o f the * It h it. Spanker also denied being Ipected boon out of a clear sky,”
RED D IN G , Cal., Dec.
21.— saloon evil must be stamped out
portion of It to that fund.”
was locking oat of tha window club. The boys will begin on the present at the alleged conference. I but the principle which was es- Mr. and Mrs.- E. West of Falls and we have endeavored to close
United States District Attorney
of tke riding academy barn, regular Pioneer program under Landls state said, "That these men tabltohed In that measure should City. Ore., was found drowned In the open saloon.
Buckner of New York wrote H ef
the
direction
of
their
lender.
“ Since the law did not increase
being out of base ball, no decision be followed up by additional leg- the Sacramento river two miles
where Croarkln had lMred him,
lin for evidence t a substantiate
wlU. be made unless changed con- {elation which would make It pos north of Castella early today. A the judicial machinery it Is evi
struck him on the head.
his murder charge.
it io n s I n the future require i t ” I Bible for the state to p rofit from Dunsmuir doctor and a tourist dent that the purpose of our de
“That to one reason why they
Portions of a letter w ritten by I its vast ncreas of reserved land, found a large touring car over partment Is to go after the source
»anted, to get Jeee Smith oat of
Cobb to Leonard, dated October Upton paid.
turned in the river with tracks of supply and not the distribu
the w s j,*' H eflin told (he , gen--
enforcement
showing where it skidded from tors. Prohibition
Pte. “R was’ rumored thsft Jess ‘
Marshfield —
»12,000 auto the highway. Searching further has been largely at the wholesale Wealthy Society Man Ser Smith desired fo' mqke b plena
end."
iously Wounded by
storage building to be built here. they found the two bodies.
breast «1 It a l l . ' But he did not.
Paramoor
He died. He wee murdered.”
E M M
0. AND C
J S
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Two Drown When
Car Turns Over
One Hundred Dollai
is Needed to R<
Local Quota
URBANA. Ill , Dec. 21— (Unit
ed News.)— The late Senator W il
liam B. McKinley le ft »100,000 to
hto widow, Mrs. Kats Friable Mc
Kinley, w ith whom he had not
lived for many years.
Hto w ill, made public Monday,
disclosed that the McKinley estate,
to worth considerably more than
»000,000, probably over »1,000,-
000. This ta small, however, con
sidering that the late aenator dur
ing hto lifetim e had made be
quests to charitable sad education
al institutions totaling more than
»0,000,000.
The document, la a measure,
disclosed the relationship between
Senator McKinley and hto wife,
who had been a a Invalid for many
years, and whose fam ily, a t the
time o t her marriage, was said
to have been opposed to McKinley
as a sonAnlaw, because e f hto com
ps rqtive poverty.
McKinley explained the stab o(
the estate he left hto WldOW, by
explaining la the w ill:
“To my wife, Kate F. MOflUnley.
I bequeath »lQO.Ofl» Ifl fJVe per
cent bond», kM w fo g . as 1 4»» feat
she can legally claim more) b»t
also knowing she la just and fair,
and I am satisfied «sko w ill ao-
qulesce la this dlspeeMlon e f my
, The Ashland quota In the sale
of Christmas seals to about »100
abort, cacordlng to Mrs. 8. A.
Robinette, local director of sales
and to help make up this amount,
Mieses Linda Oeder and Helen
Detrick w ill conduct a booth at
the golf sapper and dance nt
the Ashland hotel tonight.
! The seal sale generally has
been exceedingly good, according
to Mrs. Robinette, and with the
final days ef the season devoted
to tke task of raising the re
quired amount locally, It to
thought that 'Ashland w ill ex
perience little difficulty la meet
ing her quota.
“Asleep fa Jusua,** “Does Jetos
Care" and "In the Mrdet By» sad
Bye” wars Whotifulfy'rang by a
quartette. H. 'O. Stock was the
undertaker fa charge. *
tri»*-
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21—
(U N )— Refusal of the Oregon
Trunk railroad to accept use of
Southern Paelpc tracks from
Panning to Klamath Falls, Ore.,
has again put the question of
southern Oregon . railroad de-1
velopment np to the interstate
commerce commission.
The Interstate commerce pre
viously, in considering the. Ore
gon Trank application fo r ex
tension of Ito line from Bend to
Klamath Falls, recommended the
securing of righto for Joint use I
of the track wtth the Southern
Pacific, where the two lines I
would parallel.
Is
announcing the Oregon I
Trunk’s refusal to do this the
Southern . Pacific office» here
stated feat the commission will
be called upon to make farther
recommendation» In the matter.
The following . statement was I
issued by W illiam Bpronle, presi
dent »f the Southern Pacific com-1
B»ny:j
i
■ Souther«, Pacific has offered I
to the Oregon Trunk full sad |
As a Cbrtotmu gift McKinley
I
Refusal of Oregon Trunk to
Use Southern Pacific
Road Delays Work
equal u»e of Cascade line from }
Paunlba to Klamath P ills , with I
full access to. business nlopg the I
line »n terms which Southern I
Vacltto deem Just sad raasoaabla. j
W JbK VoR
C ä V fÖ U «
N EW YORK, Dec. 21— (U N )—
The gloomy prison ward of Bell
ville hospital was the setting to
day of another dramatic Mena In
the love tragedy involving the
two famous Ingersoll families.
Surrounded by criminals ot all
types, W all*»« McLean Probaeco, Dry» Will Hava Important
wealthy society man, lay serious
Confèrent» Early in
ly wounded while Magistrate H ar
January
ry Gordon set up a special homi
W ASHINGTON. Deo. 21. —
cide court in the hospital, and
(U N )— Aa the Christmas Season
fixed hto ball at »12,100.
Offering her home for security approaches, thoughts of wets and
Idrya a lik e appear to tu ra to the
hie estranged wife, -Maud Inger
< i *>
soll Probaeco» daughter of the subject e f Hquor.
famous agnostic “ Bob” Ingersoll,1 SIX representatives of distillers
promptly farniahed the bond. I f ware ta conference with treasury
waa Probasco’a. decision to return department officiato today te per
to hto wife th a t to »aid to hara led fect the proposed MU for erect-
to the shooting Sunday night In ling a government-sponsored eer-
Mrs. Robert H . Ingersoll’s Park pbratiqp to manufacture medteln-
I al whiskey.
Avenue. apartment.
I
Probaeco to uqder a rre a to n a , Dry«, through the Committee of
technical charge of suspicion of 1 1000, announced’a law ebaervance
conference trill be held here Jan
uary 0. ' -
The wet leader la tha house,
Representative HUI, Maryland,
Reauhltona. anhonaeed that oa
Monday he wHt introduce S MU
to modify the Volstead act In line*
¡with the refereartum results la
N»w York sad IRlaoto. I t trauU
»ermlt states fo fix tha fanaxtrnum
alcoholic oeuteut of beverages.
| 'f The Coasulttee e f lOO« f» plan- *
nlpg the arcataci dftve Yet msde
HsmVbril f^ R a |te ry B went out
for tow sntoroeataut They wfl>
Sunday and got two.tguek loads e f urge congress to grant ns much
Interest b Shown
In Two Big Dances
a v erp -eep s.fo cu sed ta decorat
ing (he arqpry
their two big
dan«^i Christian era and Chrint-1
mss night.
indjcatipae *ra,lbat
crowd» vlM attend hath fumdleaa.
on Cfytotmae e ra w ill he gtvua aa
qld-tlme masquerade dsace, while
a modern ju s dnppe w ill be tha
C brtotm u night feature.
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