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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
EUTHANASIA URGED.
Woman Paralytic Asks to Be Put
Out of Misery.

New York.-The legal and moral
issues of euthanasia are presented to
the people of New York state by Mrs.
Sarah Harris, an incurable paralytic,
who asks for the enactment of a law
which would permit a physician to
end her suffering by death.
Mrs. Harris is a patient at the
Audubon Sanitarium. Paralysis has
stricken her every faculty save brain
and speech. Physicians admit their
helplessness in Mrs. Harris case, as
serting it may be years before she
dies.
When brute of the lowest ami
NAL kingdom" says Mrs. Harris, in
her appeal, lis suffering, it is killed
and put out of its misery. But a
cruel order forces human beings to
suffer. | seek a law which would
permit physicians to kill any person
incurably affected, who prefers death
| to life of suffering"
Superintendent Lloyd of the Audu-
bon Sanitarium says he is inclined to
favor the law if it could be safe
guarded and restricted. He feared,
however, it would open an avenue to
make murder easy. Lloyd expressed
deep sympathy for Mrs. Harris.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
Ashland Sufferers Should Take No
Further Risk.

Why will people continue to suffer
the agonies of kidnew complaint,
baekache, urinary disorders, lame
ness. headaches, langour, why allow
themselves to become chronic inva-
lids, when a tested remedy is offered
them?
Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use, because it gives to the kid
neys the help they need to perform
their work.
If you have any, even one, of the
symptoms of kidney disease, cure
yourself now, before gravel, dropsy
or Bright's disease sets in. Can
Ashland residents demand more con-
vincing proof than the following:
Mrs. Henry Mutt. 100 Ishem street
Grants Pass. Ore, says: "A mem
Der of my family suffered greatly
from gravel and pains across the
back. Doan's Kidney Pills complete.
ly, cured the person referred to. We
always keep supply of this remedy
in the house and whenever we have
backache, Doan's Kidney Pills bring
prompt relief. l willingly give
Doan's Kidney Pills my endorse.
ment"
For sale by all dealers Price sc
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
ASHLAND LYCEUM COURSE.
Every Performance of Approaching
Season Star Attraction.

The preparations for the coming
lyceum course are maturing. The
attractions are A l. Every perform
ance a star attraction. The local
committee will in a few days be cir
culating among the good people OF
the city, making the advance sale.
Katharine Ridgway with her con-
cert company play the opening num-
Der in November. In all lyceum cir
cles the name of Ridgway carries
with it extreme satisfaction"
Governor Z. w. Hoch of Kansas
will bring a message that grips the
mind and soul of his hearers. His
fellow-townsman of Topeka, speak
ing of his lecture at Kansas City,
said: His speech at Kansas City
dazzled the natives"
Strickland w. Gillian, humorist,
will be the next number. He says in
his own inimitable way: THE best
thing l ever saw in print about my
work (that | didn't write myself)
was this: 'Gillilans entertainment
makes you love your children better.
That's worth working for"
Next, John B. Ratio, .impersonator.
Character studies from life. 1t is
said of him that he lives every char
acter he studies. Has a rare quality
of popularizing classics, simplifying
them without having to make apollo
gies to their builders. In presenting
each number Mr.. Ratio makes up. "
Next, the Strollers Quartet. Many
enjoyed the Whitney Brothers last
winter We are assured this attrac-
ton will excel the brothers. They
are not musical 'pick-ups." They
are musicians for life. They court
no other calling. To be first in mu-
sic is their one ambition.
Last but not least is Ralph Bing-
ham, entertainer. The only one in
his class. This man will make you
laugh in spite of yourself. You sim
ply can't help it. Your neighbor will
laugh, the woman in front of you will
laugh, the man behind you will be
bubbling over with laughter. The
advice of the committee would be,
just buckle up the belt straps a little
tighter; you will need extra prepara-
tion for this entertainment. 1t will
be worth your while. Everybody
laughs but the crouch, and he laughs
some.
Take it all through, we present
you a very evenly balanced program
for the coming winter. We have
confidence in the folks of Ashland
that it will be well patronized. Sea-
son tickets So. Student tickets $3.50
with reserved seats. We venture the
promise that seats will NOT he sold
the second time for this course.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
LONGEST TUNNEL IN AMERICA.
Southern Pacific Will Bore 10000
Feet Through Sierras.

San Francisco. co.-Chairma Robert
S. Lovett of the board of directors
of the Hartman lines discussed,
Friday, details of the long tunnel
the Southern Pacific plans to bore
through the Sierras. To save pull
of about 1000 feet, the company
proposes to build tunnel 10000
feet in length and which will cost
about $10,000,000. 1t will be cut
into the mountains at point be-
tween Blue Canyon, Cal, and
Truckee. According to Judge Low
ett, it will be the longest tunnel on
the continent
Trains propelled by electric power
will be used in the big bore, which
is to be for single track only. Dou-
Bile track systems, however, will ex-
tend from it's western portal clear to
San Francisco Bay, and from the
eastern portal of Omaha, save for
stretches of single tracking in iso-
lated spots. The point selected for
the tunnel will necessitate a big
change in the present line between
Truckee and Blue Canyon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
THE. BURBANK OF THE VALLEY.
Gold Hill Man Working Wonders
With Four Acres.

Wheat straws six feet in length,
90 to 100 springing from one cur
rent kernel, with heads averaging
six inches, presaging a yield of at
least 100 bushels to the acre, is a
possibility for southern Oregon that
has been exclusively demonstrated by
Enoch M. Smith upon his little brush
land farm just west of Gold Hill. By
selective breeding. covering only two
seasons of growth, and by an intui-
tive knowledge of gardening and the
needs of plant life, Gardener Smith
has succeeded in producing such
wheat as this, which he proposes to
distribute among growers really in
terested in the Improvement of wheat
yields. Owing to his limited acreage
upon the little patch of land which
he cultlvates he has not been in a
position to produce seed of this sort
In any considerable quantity, but is
certain that he could repeat the yield
in equal proportion upon any given
area.
Gardener" Smith, as he styles
himself, is So years of age, and for
lifetime has been modestly tinker
ing away at the problems of plant
growth and breeding, utilizing for
the most part land thought to be un-
fit for agricultural purposes, and
making several acres of such soil
produce what the average grower
considers to be a good return upon
many times the acreage. The little
plot near Gold Hill produces such
agricultural marvels as seed and
seedless squash upon one vine, big
yields of garden truck throughout
the entire season upon unirrigated
soil, and is the site of Gardener
Smiths laboratorial labors with vari-
Gus fertilizers of his own devising,
the formula of which he secretly pre-
serves, and which he guarantees to
accelerate plant growth at a rate
never attained since Jack planted the
marvellous bean and went after the
giant.
Mr.. Smiths two sons, John and
James, are we'll known and prosper
Gus ranchers of this locality, follow
ing worthily in the parental furrow
upon their quarter section of fine al
falfa land on Sardine creek. Gar
dener Smith. however, processes that
four acres of Jackson county brush
land is enough to satisfy the most
ardent agriculturist, and is planning
to assist the southern Oregon climate
in producing some really remarkable
and novel yields another season.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
STRANGE FOSSILS SOUGHT.
LaBrea Tar Bed to BE Explored for
Animals of PliOcene Age.

Los Angeles, Sept "A thorough
excavation of the famous LaBrea tar
beds, near Los Angeles, in system
attic search for the skeletons of birds
and animals of the pliocene age, will
be begun here soon, according to
Prof. Reginald c.. Stoner, a graduate
of the University of California. Prof.
Stoner arrived in Los Angeles re-
Gently.
There are few places discovered
in any portion of the globe that have
produced such perfect specimens of
fossil organism as the LaBrea tar
beds" said Prof Stoner. "They may
possibly reveal new features in the
science of palenontology and give us
even more wonderful animals than
the saber-tooth tiger and the mighty
sloth, remains of which have been
taken from LaBrea with little ef-
fort"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
LUMBER PROBE CONTINUES.
Evidence Reveals Control of Whole
salers Over Consumers.

Seattle.-Further evidence of the
pressure brought to bear on the lum-
ber manufacturers and wholesalers
who violated the lumber trades code
of ethics by selling to mail order
houses, ''poachers" or consumers
was given Thursday before Special
Commissioner Palmer, who was TAX
ing testimony in the government
antitrust suit against the retail lum-
bermen's association.
Louis Schwager, of Schwager
Nettleton, wholesalers of Seattle
told how lis company had much cor
respondence with some of their large
customers and with association sec
retaries when they sold lumber to
unethical dealers in North Dakota
He said the practice of selling only
to legitimate dealers was a long-es-
tablished custom and was recognized
by his company.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Progressives Sweep california;.

San Francisco.-Practically a COM
plete count of returns of yesterday s
state primary indicates the progress
sives have nominated more than so
of the 100 republican party candi-
dates for the legislature as opposed
to Taft republicans, that they are
victorious in five and possibly seven
of the eleven congressional districts.
Phelan of the Wilson wing of the
democrats won easily from Bell OF
the Clark faction throughout the
state.
AS the progressive victory insures
the nomination of presidential elect
ors pledged to Roosevelt, the Taft
leaders have begun a discussion of
plans for placing their candidates on
the November ballot. Their only re-
course is to launch special petitions
each of which must bear the names
of 1000 who did not participate in
the primaries. Even then they will
not be allowed party designation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
CURE FOR INFANT PARALYSIS.
Medical Man Claims He Has Remedy
for This Battling Disease.

Boston-It is confidently expected
that a cure for infantile paralysis
will soon be given to the world.
After four years of study and in
vestigation at the Harvard Medical
School, Dr. Phillip A. T. Sheppard is
convinced that he has isolated the
microscopic infectious virus which at
tacks the spinal cord, causing infan-
tile paralysis, with all its hideous
symptoms.
Now that the virus, a morbid poi
son. has been isolated, it will be COM
paratively easy to find an anti-toxin
to combat it.
DR.. Shepperd, who is investigator
for the state board of health, de-
clares the house fly and dust in par
ticular carry the virus of infantile pa
ralysis and play the most important
part in its propagation and distribu-
tiOn
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Indians Word Good.

Portland, Ore, Sept. THAT he
was worthy of the trust reposed in
him today is proved by George Gray,
klamath Indian. When Gray was
sentenced to 60 days Imprisonment
for giving away liquor on the Klam-
ath Indian reservation he asked
United States District Judge Beau
that the sentence be suspended two
months so that he might return home
and harvest his crops. The court
granted his request and Gray re-
turned at the proper time and gave
himself up. Gray's trouble was the
result of the birth of an heir. He
felt so happy he obtained several gal
Ions of whiskey and shared it with
his neighbors.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
UNUSUAL RECORD.
Thirty-twO Years a Railroad En-
plOye Without the Loss of Day.

Lebanon Sept. 7.=Thirty-two
years of honorable service with the
Southern Pacific Company in Oregon
is the record of James Skelly, sec
tion boss of the Lebanon, branch,
who will be retired under the pen
sion rules of the company shortly
Skelly not only has a record for hon
orable service, but in all of those
years he has never missed a single
days work. He went to work for
the Southern Pacific-known at the
time as the Oregon & Californian
September, 1880.
Shortly after taking employment
with the company he was given
charge of the Lebanon & Albany
branch and he has been the first and
only section boss on that branch.
Skelly has saved a sufficient sum to
enable him to purchase a 1OO-acre
farm two miles west of Jackson and
will begin the life of a farmer as
soon as the pension board authorizes
his pension.
The pension system of the South
ern Pacific Company is absolutely
voluntary. Employees are not re-
quired to contribute to any fund.
When they have reached the age of
70, or have been incapacitated for
work after an honorable service, they
are retired with a pension. On Au-
gust 81, 1912, there were sos pen
sioners on the rolls of this railroad.
These men and women are from all
departments. Some are officials and
many are from the maintenance of
way department. Since the estab-
lishment of the pension department
in September, 1908, the Southern Pa
cific has disbursed $1,0S3,822 in
pensions.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE OF
SALE.

Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of an order of sale
duly made and entered by the Coun-
ty Court of the state of Oregon in
and for the county of Coos, on the
5th day of August, 1912, in the mat
ter of the estate of NJ. j. Moon, de-
ceased, the undersigned administra-
tor shall, from and after the 18th
day of September, 1912, proceed to
sell at private sale for cash, the fol-
lowing particularly described real
property belonging to said estate, or
so much thereof as will be necessary
to pay the funeral charges, expenses
of administration and the claims
against said estate, said real proper
ty lying and being in the county of
Jackson and state of Oregon, and
more particularly described as fol-
lows:
Lot of Section 20, Township 35
South of Range 1 West of the Will
lamette Meridian, in Jackson county,
Oregon, containing 1890 acres of
land. more or less.
The south half of the northeast
quarter of Section A. Township "a
South of Range l West of the VIII
lamette Meridian, in Jackson county,
Oregon, containing 80 acres of land,
more or less.
A parcel of land described as fol-
lows: Beginning at stake on sec
tion line IL rods west from the
southeast corner OF the southwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of
Section 80, Township 80 South, of
Range West of the Willamette Me-
ridian, and running thence north 34
rods to a stake; thence due west
rods, 6 feet and 8 incres to a stake;
thence due south "a rods to a stake
on the south line of said Section 80;
thence east on said section line 8
rods, feet and inches to the place
of beginning, containing acres of
land, in Jackson county, Oregon.
A separate bid must be made for
each distinct parcel of property, and
no bid purporting to be a gross bid
for two or more parcels will be con-
sidered by the administrator
(Signed) N. MOON,
Administrator of the Estate of NJ. ].
Moon, deceased, residing at Marsh
field, Ore
HARRY G. HOY,
Marshfield, Ore, Attorney for
Administrator.
First publication, August 10; last.
September 8, 1912. 22-5t-Mon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
MOBILIZATION AN AID
AIaneuVers Show Improvement in
Militia and Regular Forces
War RumOrs Increase Interest.

Washington, Sept. 7.-Reports
thus far received by officers of the
war department on the recent coun-
try-wide military maneuvers indicate
that the militia establishment of the
nation is more enthusiastic and OF
greater force than since 1898 when
the war with Spain aroused citizen
soldiery.
The regular army, observed in the
same maneuvers, is regarded as a
more effective fighting force because
of the Texas mobilization and its
participation with the militia in ma
neuver camps.
Regular army officers attribute the
greater interest taken in the militia
largly to frequent rumors of trouble
with Mexico and the unrest in Cen
trail America
In the absence of official reports
from the umpires who offlciated at
the various problem maneuvers, in
cluding the attacks on New York and
San Francisco, military experts last
night were not prepared to comment
at length on the lessons learned from
the field exercises. 1t was admitted
however, that the unofficial reports
indicated the analysis of the move
ments against both cities would dis
close defects in their defenses.
The maneuvers, which lasted eight
days, cost close to $2,500,000, OF
which the federal government pro-
vided $1,350,000.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
PARCELS POST REGULATIONS.
Senator Bourne Gives Out Informa-
tiOn Concerning New Law.

In response to many inquiries for
information, Senator Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., chairman of the senate
committee on postoffices and post
roads, has prepared the following
summary of the provisions of the
new parcels post law which will be-
come effective January /, 1913:
Any article is mailable if not over
IL pounds in weight nor more than
~ inches in length and girth COM
bined, nor likely to injure the mails
or postal equipment or employees.
Flat rate of 1 cent per ounce up to
4 ounces regardless of distance.
Above 4 ounces, rates are by the
pound or fraction thereof, and vary
ing with distance as follows:
Rural route and city delivery, first
pound . cents, each additional pound
l cent, IL pounds 15 cents.
5O-mile zone, first pound s. each
additional pound 8, IL pounds 35.
15O-mile zone, first pound 6, each
additional pound 4, Il pounds 46.
3OO-mile zone. first pound 7, each
additional pound 5. IL pounds 81.
6OO-mile zone, first pound s, each
addltlonal pound d, IL pounds 6S.
1,OO0-mile zone, first pound 8,
each additional pound Z, IL pounds
70.
1,400-mile zone, first pound 10,
each additional pound 8, II pounds
$1.0O.
1,SO0-mile zone, first pound IL,
each additional pound 10, IL pounds
Sill.
Over 1900 miles, first pound 12,
each additional pound II, II pounds
$1.32.
The postmaster general may make
provision for indemnity, insurance
and collection on delivery, with ad-
ditional charges for such service, and
may, with the consent of the inter
state commerce commission after in
vestigation, modify rates, weights,
and zone distances, when experience
has demonstrated the need therefor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
COUNTY COURT REPORT
Grind of the jackson County Court
Mostly Routine Work for
Last Week.

New Cases-W. w. Caldwell VS.. T.
C. Jones ct al, action to recover
money.-Lebanon National Bank VS..
S. C. Carroll ct al, suit to recover
money.-W. w. Damn VS.. A. c. Damn,
divorce. Josephine Marquese VS..
James Marquese, divorce.
Marriage Licenses-C. J. Perrlne
and Marie Albert-F. Tavares and
Anna ]. Silva.-Hiram c. Stainbrook
and Stella NJ. Edmonds.-Earl Britt
san and Nellie Baker.-H. B. james
and Hazel Dolph.
Circuit Court. S. McMurray VS..
Ella McMurray, divorce; default
NJ. E. Young VS.. Al Tate, action for
money; judgment for plaintiff.-W-
C. Hale VS.. Jacob Klippell, action
for money; judgment by default
C tizens Banking & Trust Co. VS..
H. H. Bachtell, action for money;
dismissed r. Casey VS..
Carl Webb, action for damages; dis
missed.-Alton w. Stone VS.. jack
son County ct a. .;dismissed.-C. NJ.
Rexford VS.. Alice Rexford, divorce;
dismissed. Collins VS.. Stan
ley Oicsks, suit to foreclose mort
gage; decree by default.-Willard +.
Church VS.. Mary Church, divorce;
dismissed. NJ. Morse VS.. Geo.
Morse, divorce; dismissed. r..
Hart VS.. Susan c. Hart, divorce; dis
missed owing to plaintiffs death
Lyons G. Patterson vs. Madge Pat
terson, divorce; dismissed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Packer Liable for Poisonous Pork


New York.-In overruling a de-
murrer interposed by Armour &
Company in damage suit brought
by Sophie Kelterer, who alleged that
she had been poisoned by trichinae-
infected pork prepared by the de-
fendant, Judge Noyes, in the United
States district court, ruled that the
packer, not the middleman or re-
taller, is responsible.
The producer should be held re-
sponsible for the result of negligent
acts which he can readily foresee,"
said the court. The iron manufac-
turer who fails to inspect a piece of
iron cannot foresee that it will be
used in a boiler and cause a ship to
sink. But the meat packer who fails
to inspect his products for poisonous
parasites or ingredients knows that
poison will poison and that persons
to be poisoned through his neglect
will be those who eat his products
and no one else"
Armour & Company contended
that manufactures who deals with
the middleman and not directly with
the consumer, owes the latter no
duty whatever, except the duty of re-
training from knowingly and wilfully
inflicting injury.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

In the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for Jackson County.
In the matter of the estate of Hum
phrey e. Stone, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been appointed by the
County Court of Jackson county,
Oregon, sitting in probate, admins
tratriX of the estate of Humphrey E.
Stone, deceased.
All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to settle the same i'm
mediately and those having claims
against said estate will present them
at the office of Geo. w. Trefren, at
Ashland, Ore, with proper vouchers
attached, within six months after the
date of the first publication of this
notice
Dated August 18th. 1912.
MISSOURI h. STONE,
Administrative of the estate of Hum
phrey Il. Stone, deceased.
GEO. w. TREFREN,
Attorney for said estate.
22-5t-Mon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
RooseveIt's Portland Program.

Portland, Ore.-Details of the pro-
gram for the entertainment of
Colonel Roosevelt, presidential NOM
inee of the progressive party, Sep
tember IL, have been announced.
The program calls for two lunch
cons, one street parade, two short
addresses to mothers and children
and one long speech on campaign is
sues. He will be in Portland the
entire day.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Disastrous Fire at California Resort


Los ngeles.-Fire originating
from a defective flue at the Casino
cafe on the pleasure pier at Ocean
Park at o'clock Tuesday night
caused loss of at least one life and
a property damage estimated at So
25O,000. For a time it threatened
to devastate the twin beach resorts
of Ocean Park and Venice, IS miles
from Los Angeles.
A high wind caused the flames to
spread so rapidly that seven men
were caught at the end of the Frazer
pier, on which the Casino was To-
Gated, and were forced to jump into
the breakers. Six of them were res
boats. They were not in time, how
ever, to save the life of E. W. Leach,
chef of the Casino cate.
The flames, spreading rapidly
through the concession district,
swept everything from the Dragon
Gorge, a huge roller coaster, down
toward Venice. The abatement OIL
the wind gave the fire department,
augmented by fire companies from
Los Angeles, an opportunity to get
the fire under control
At the Decatur Hotel, which was
destroyed, there were many thrilling
rescues, and Special Officer Charles
Simpson rescued Mrs. H. c. Lathrop,
an invalid, from the top floor. Pa
irons lost $4,000 in gems, money
and clothing
Nine babies, including one Japan
ese infant, were saved from the
baby incubator on the pier by
Frederick House, the babies being
taken away in metal cases of the in
cubators.