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ASHLAND WEEKLY TIDINGS
0L. XLV
ASHLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1921
NO. 12
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OBSCURITY OF
NEW YORK IS
GOOD HP
By LEO T. HEATLEY
(I. N. S. Staff Correspondent)
NEW YORK., Nov. 21. New York
Is big; New York is cosmopolitan
It Is even friendly. But New York
Is also the crucible Into which the
great come only to find that they
have dwindled Into insignificance.
The fame of Napoleon himself could !
not survive other and more immedl
ate questions in this great city.
All this is preliminary to the story
of C. N. Haskell, Oklahoma's first!
governor, a big political gun In that i
state and a national figure until j become a serious menace to the wel
he came to New York Haskell ! fare of the nation, in the opinion of
went back to Oklahoma last month i federaI ottcMa
on his first visit In five years. The
newspapers there got out. special
welcome editions, and the welkin
rang from Altus to Miami, and fromj"dPe peddlers," who appear to have
Guymon to Hugo considerable ter- a perfectly organized, country-wide
rltory. "ring."
In New York Haskell Is chairman' These drug vendors, for the most
of the board of the Middle States j part, obtain their "dope" supplies
Oil company. When he made up his: from Mexico and Canada, although
mind to go to Oklahoma the only! smaller quantities are obtained by
ones to miss him were his stenog
rapher, his office boy and the office
doorman. Outside of these and a, drug smuggling is practiced on both
few friends, no one knew be had 'the Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
ever been In New York, to say noth-j where the drugs arrive on ships ball
ing of his leaving it. Outside of his Ing from the Orient and Europe,
business and social orbit, the taxj The smuggling problem has devel
collector is the only Individual who oped a perplexing situation. It has
has evinced any special Interest In j been ascertained that a large por
hlm. ! tion of the drugs that enter this
Wrote "Denver Platform" ;
In Oklahoma the name of "C. N."
was a household word. President ter manufacture by reputable firms.
Roosevelt thundered at him, andj The belief has been ..expressed
newspapers exposed him. He wrote! 'hat the headquarters of the exten
the Denver platform of democracy, I slve "dope ring" Is located outside
and was the party's national treas-jthe United States and that they ob
urer. taln t'le drugs shipped from this
In New York he has made Just as wintry with the express intention
much of a success in business as he 0' smuggling the "dope" back for
did in Oklahoma (politics. A n i
Oklaboman his name and face were
once familiar to New York. As a
New Yorker well, he still , Is re
membered in Oklahoma. '
When he made this last trip to
the state he was first to rule, he
spoke at the stale fair, and every
body hustled to McAlester and list
ened to him. Publicly they cheered
but privately they asked each other
what he was "up to." They specu
lated as to whether he was about
to return to Oklahoma politics and
give Cherokee Bob Owen another
run for the senate, or was this to be
the opening gun of a national cam
paign? But he fooled them all. He
spoke of national extravagance and
the direct election of fedbral judges.
They went away still cheering and
still puzzled, and he came back to
the Madison avenue offices of the
Middle States Oil company.
Albany Missionaries Convert
Wf000 African Natives Near
Congo Head; New Field Offered
. ALBANY COLLEGE, Albany, Or.,
Nov. 22. Fred W. Neal, graduate
of Albany college, Is now in charge
of a Presbyterian mission field more
than 100 miles In diameter situated
near the head of the Congo basin in
Africa, according to letters received
on the campus. It is a new field
heretofore unoccupied and lies be
tween what was heretofore the
farthest advanced Christian mission
ary field in the interior of Africa,
and a field In which the exponents
of Mohammedanism as working
among the natives.
Rev. and Mrs. Neal, who have ob
tained more than 10,000 conversions
in the first seven years of their
missionary work, opened up this
new field upon their return to Af
rica from their furlough, which was
pent In Portland and other parts
of the Pacific Northwest and which
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$12,009 REPORTED FOR HOTEL"
NUS;
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WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 22.
Nndrround traffic In drugs, devel-
Pln8 startllngly in recent years, has
The illegitimate traffic in narcot-
les Is conducted by the s6-called
thefts and Illegal transactions with
unscrupulous dealers. Considerable
country through Illicit channels was
shipped from the United States, af-
"legal 8ale-
Use the "Underground"
It is largely through these under
ground channels that the drug ad
dict now obtains hii supply of "hop."
A recent government survey dis
closed the startling fact that the
use of opium and Its alkaloids, for
other than legitimate medical pur
poses, has Increased amazingly in
recent years. About 90 per cent of
the amount of narcotics entered for
consumption In this country Is used
for other than medical purposes, It
has been estimated. Althougn this
estimate is vague, federal officials
have completed a statement show
ing the per capita consumption in
this country and that of European
countries, which discloses that this
country consumes 13 to 72 times as
much opium per capita as is consum
ed in other countries, the records of
which are available. . v
ended about a year ago.
The central station in this new
field is at Edea, and there are eight
substations. A population of many
hundreds of thousands is included
In the district. Rev. Mr. Neal is at
the head of 158 evangelists and
teachers, most of whom are natives
trained at the Elat station, where
Rev. Neal formerly was stationed.
In his supervisory work Rev. Neal
makes the rounds of tli eight sub
stations every four months, travel-1
Ing most of the time on foot. In a '
recent letter received at the college,'
he told of making one of these Jour-;
neys in company with the English
governor-general of the province.
Mrs. Neal Is a graduate nurse and
this training has given her an op
portunity to be of much service in
their work. She superintends the
central mission and dispensary work.
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IF
$9,400
Grants Pass
Irrigation To
Be Extended
GRANTS PASS, Or., Nov. 22.
Three laterals extending the water
service of the Grants Pass irrigation
district will be excavated, bids tor
the work being received Saturday.
One canal, to be known as tbe,Dem
arary lateral, will cover the district
north of town above the present To
kay canal. It will carry about ten
second feet of water, pumped to it
from the Tokay canal, requiring a
lift of 110 feet. The equipment will
consist of a twelve-Inch pump of 150
horse power, and will add 800 acres
to the district.
The Martin canal will back up
from the end of the Tokay canal and
will water several hundred acres.
The Savage lateral wl(l iback up
from the south canal and will cover
acreage in the mouth of Savage
creek and above. Water will be tak
en direct, wltUout Installation of
further equipment.
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Ashland has a wonderful oppor
tunity to become an important air
plane station, In the opinion of A. B.
McKenzle, who is closely In touch
with the air transportation situation.
The landing field just across the
road from tfie Sarsaparilla barn near
Bear creek, is saiil to be ideal. On
account of the wind coming from
the same direction most of the time,!
a much smaller 'field Is needed than
In many other places. Fifteen acres
is considered ample, while the gov
ernment class A field contains 80;
acres, being 1890 by 1500 feet. The
Medford munclpal airplane field con
tains but ten acres and is consld-j
ered too small by aviators.
With a public landing field there!
would be a good prospect local av-i
lators say a certainty of the gov
ernment fire patrol making Ashland
their headquarters, because of the
superiority of the field over Med
ford. Twenty planes were usedthe
past season by the government at
Medford, Eugene and Fort Stevens.
At present the war department is
trying to get the interior depart
ment to pay for patrolling the na
tional forests. Army officials say
It Is not their business to fight fire,
while the interior department claims
they haven't sufficient funds to keep
the filers up in the air. If the state
and private timber owners do not
come to the rescue, Oregon forests
'may be unpatrolled next summer.
iWthln a. month possibly in time
to make an aeronautical exhibit at
the Winter Fair A. B. McKenzie
expects to have a Standard airplane
here from. Portland. William Baker,
former lieutenant in the Canadian
Royal Flying corps, expects to bring
a Curtiss plane here from Idaho a
little later, while E. G. High has a
$13,000 seven-passenger Ansaldo
plane which is scheduled to arrive
from New York before the flying
season opens next spring. '
According to the last named gen-'
tleman, airplanes are supplanting
railroad Jxalns and even autos, at a
rapid rate. With his new Ansaldo,;
Mr. High Dronosea la make dM:
tripe to San Francisco, alipplng-j!
p i mm
AS HEADQUATERS FOR
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IS SUBSCRIBED
Give Settler
Square Deal
Says Thomas
"Give the settler upon the lands
wlthin your new Irrigation project
a square deal; make him satisfied
and aid him in solving the problems
that will confront him," said C. M.
Thomas, of Medford, who spoke at
the weekly luncheon' of the chamber
of commerce there yesterday noon,
Mr. Thomas has had a wide ex
perience in the development of irrl
gatlon projects in Southern Oregon,
having represented three Jackson
couuty projects in their formative
'period, ar.d he told his audience that
there was work for every man to
do in putting such a project as the
one here Into commission. And he
started right in at the ground floor
by calling for the "square deal" when
the purchaser and prospective set
tler appeared upon the ground; then
he argued that assistance, financial
If need be, be offered the home
builder, and that his problems of
production and of marketing be
made the problems of the commun
ity.
down there at the rate of 150 miles
per hour, two or three hours being
considered ample for the journey.
If this machine were now in opera
tion, it would be possible for Ash
landers to attend the Arbuckle trial
and see the pictures at the Vinlng
each evening. The cost of operating
the big plane is estimated at $35
per hour, which would enable the
owners to compete with railroad
trains and auto busses. Reserva
tions may now be booked for the
first flight to San Francisco.
Haz KiK
I'm hero to tell tha world that
Ashland Ib just the dandiest lit
tle town on he Pacific coast. That
she has as great possibilities as
any other town. Her big chance
is along the tourist anj mineral
resort lines. She needs a blgj
tourist hotel and facilities con
nected with it for the scientific
use of her waters In baths. Wbeu
she gets these she will soon get
on the map. Pretty soon the
bonus committee now working to
get a bonus that will land the big
thing will whip the proposal Into
such sbape as it will get what
Ashland really needs, and then
we wilt all come through on the
bonus and get the grapes.
UAZ KIK.
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PASSENGER
SH PS ON WAY
PLANS MADE FOR
BIGGER
CAMPAIGN
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At the open forum luncheon at
Hotel Ashland today it was voted
on motion made by E. E. Phlpps and
seconded by J. H. McGee to en
large the greater hotel committee
and make a systematic, whirlwind
campaign to finish raising the pro
posed $30,000 bonus for building a
quarter-million tourist hotel in Ash
land. The present committee of
fourteen reported $9400 subscribed,
but in addition to this, representa
tives of Ashland's banks promised
$3000, although no definite sub
scriptions can be made until the ac
tion is taken by the directors. This
makes a total of $12,000, exclusive
of $3500 which was reported from
two subscribers a few weeks ago,
but which has not yet been definitely
secured.
' V. O. N. Smith and others who
have carefully studied the project.
estimate that the building of the
proposed hotel in Ashland will in
crease the value of real estate here
ten per cent, which would alone
amount to $200,000.
Bert Greer called attention to the
fact that Ashland has already spent
$235,000 In providing a park and
mobilizing our unrivalled mineral
waters. He voiced the opinion that
we could well afford to subscribe the
entire amount needed, for a first
class tourist hotel, up to $350,000,
adding that the benefits that will
be derived from such an institution
in the year 1925 alone would justify
the investment, on account of the
Portland fair to be htold in that
year, and the number of outside vis
itors it will attract to the state and
Ashland.
E. T. Staples answered the objec
tion which is met In some quarters
In regard to the proposed hotel hurt
ing the business ot Hotel Ashland,
by stating that In bis opinion such
an institution would result in doub
ling the value of the hotel which
we now have.
M. C. Reed explained Ithat the
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HOTEL
Nil
Arabian Desert Conquered
By Use of 'Planes'; British
Flying Corps Surveys Waste
By H. K. REYNOLDS
(I. N. S. Staff Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 22
The Arabian desert, which always
was regarded as an Impregnable bar- 'lon of the E'"lr Abdulla, who help
rier to direct communication be- " ln tno building of an advance
tween the Mediterranean sea and' ha at Annian. forty-five miles east
the Persian gulf, has been conquered0' Jerusalem,
by airplane, according to advices to fiiwollne Did II
the army air service. A f'f ' '"' arnlried ca
Instead of attempting to cross tbe! loaned by the British war office, and
desert airplanes heretofore were acldrt t,"d"r9 tltted ut wlth wlre
customed to fly a. semi-circular""'8 telegraph apparatus were as
cours. around Its northern extrem-j Bt-'"blpi( at Anma" t0 beBln thelr
Ity, thereby traveling many miles 8,1 vance ln, the ieprt Tue "rst
further than the distance that act-' 150 miW of t,,e route wa locatei
ually separates the air station. om'wlth '"laratlvely little difficulty,
the eastern and western sides of this1 but 160 mlle" from 11,8 ,tartlns
endle,. expa.se of sand. I r,laoe' tne ioneen 8,ruek Ta,t
The route will be 580 miles long.ftract of roush lava bed"' Enormous
Jt will pass through Anman in . "" were """ered across the
Transjordanla, and Ka.rel A.rak. tr"Ct' The workers were nearly baf
where landing field, have now been fled ln ""'? tnronrt
established, and then will Uke an ,he laTa bed"' when word came b'
almost .tight line across the des- " "rplsne. scouting
iert to Ramadl., en the Euphrates,
UM-.5IUHN
RELEASE
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PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 22. The
terrific sleet and snow storm which
has held the Pacific Northwest in
its grip for the past two days ap
peared to have abated today. Not
wlthsandiug the cessation of the
storm, an additional heavy damage
is expected due to the rapidly ris
ing flood waters. The main line
train service on the Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific, and Spokane, Port
land and Seattle railways leading In
to Portland are still JonioraMzed,
The Portland water system is crip
pled and the supply, It is estimated,
will not last until tomorrow. Nearly
a thousand telephones are out ot
commission here, and the high wa
ter Is menacing the Portland
bridges. It may be found necessary
to close some ot the bridges.
The effect of the "silver thaw"
about Portland and the Columbia
river is showing itself In the malls
for the people of Ashland. The east
ern uiuIIb, when the trains are on
time, arrives in Ashland on train
15 about 11 o'clock p. m., and when
it misses that train it arrives on
train 13 about 10 o'clock a. m.
There has been no eastern mall since
train 15 Saturday evening. Last
night's train 15 brought in practic
ally nothing. Not only is the east
ern mall cut off. .but evervthinr
north o( Portam( apl)ears t0 be a(.
fected, reducing the mail to prac
tically the local mall between Ash
land and Portland.
Direct telegraphic communication
with Portland was still impossible at
a late hour today, and the long dis
tance telephone system Is still at a
i disadvantage in cities north of Al
bany, where seventeen poles were
w.asdo0ut, bjr e ruehlni w.t.ri
vi iuv oaiiuuui river, wuiuu cuuageu
its course yesterday, Inundating a
strip ot land a mile wide.
Although a falling barometer In
dicated more storm last night, the
rain stopped at 7 o'clock this morn
ing. Louis Dodge, government wea
ther observer, states that a rising
barometer today Indicates a cessa
tion ot the storm. The rainfall dur
ing the night amounted to .05 of an
Inch.
' The train schedules are still Irreg
ular. Number 13, due here at 9:45
o'clock this morning, did not arrive
until 1:30 this afternoon. Number
53 from tbe north, due at 4:20
o'clock, Is scheduled to arrive at
6:20 o'clock.
and then to Bagdad.
The survey for the new aerial
pathway was made by the British
Royal Air force, with the co-opera-
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