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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
MAYOR EIFERT
DIES SUDDENLY
STRICKEN IN HIS STORE WHILE
ON WAY TO COUNCIL.
HEART FAILURE is The CAUSE
Deceased Was Formerly Member Ash
land Lodge, Ii. p. 0. f., and Has
Many Friends Among Local Elks
Who Mourn His Death.

w. w. Eifert, mayor of Medford,
died suddenly in his place of busi-
ness Tuesday evening. The Sun of
Wednesday morning says:
"The last summons came between
the hours of and o'clock Tues
day night, in the workshop of his
place of business on West Main
street. Heart disease was the cause
of death, as far as a cursory exami-
nation by DR.. r. w. Clancy could
determine. Particularly pathetic is
his sad end. A daughter is on a
honeymoon, and his wife is an in
valid, in poor health, for whom fears
are felt, when the news is broken.
Mayor Eifert left his home at
7:15 o'clock, to attend a regular
meeting of the city council. He
stopped at his tailor shop, and the
Death Angel called. The council ad-
journed after he failed to appear.
The news of his death fell with q
heavy pail on the community.
"The body was discovered at $50
O'Clock by D. Flynn, boy 16 years
old, whose brother, A. A. Flynn, oc-
cupies the same building. He en-
tered the store to telephone and
found Mayor Eifert lying on the floor
by his work bench in the rear o: the
building. Frightened, he called Ser
geant Pat Mego, who investigated,
and called Deputy Coroner John A
Peri. Life was extinct.
Death was painless. He was in
his coat sleeves, his Goa; lying or the
bench, where he had arranged pieces
of cloth. The first attack came when
he was seated on the bench. and,
weakened, he fell 20 the fl)or.
Everything was in order
Tuesday the stricken exeeuti7e
was In good health. At the close of
the day he went to his home, leaving
for the council meeting. The funeral
arrangements Will be made today,
the Elks and other fratcrnai orders
of which he was a member taking
charge of the last sad rites. A proc
lamation will be issued by the city
authorities.
"A large family survives, a wife,
five daughters, Marie, Ethel Mrs.
Frank Isaacs, Mrs. William Barnum,
and Mrs. j. ]. Buehter who is in
San Francisco on honeymoon, he
ing married Sunday, and a son, JUS
tin"
Mr.. Eifert was prominent in fra
ternal circles, having been a Mason
a X. of P. and an Elk He was for
several years a member of Ashland
Lodge, No. 944, B. P. o. E., holding
every office except exalted ruler. lie
was past exalted ruler of Medf0rd
lodge at the time of his death.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Former Ashland Woman Dead a

Ceres.
Mrs. Rufus King hands the It'd
ings a copy of the Ceres, California,
Courier, which recounts the death of
former Ashland woman as follows:
"Mermelva A. Wellman was born
March twenty-fourth, 1S49, in Chau-
tauqua county, New York, where she
lived through childhood, coming west
to Dain county, Wisconsin, in the
year 1865. She was married June
sixteenth, 1866, to Charles 2. Bush
of Dain county, where they lived un-
til the fall of 1866, when they went
to Augusta, Eau Claire county, Wis
consin, where they shared in the
usual early pioneer life with others
in trying to make home. Here one
son, Clifford E., was born to them
on April ninth, 1869. There they re-
sided until December, 1898, when
Mr.. Bush's health broke down, so he
came west to Ashland Oregon, Mrs.
Bush and her son following, where
they remained until April, 1909,
when the family moved to Hughson,
in which vicinity they have resided
until about three months ago they
moved to the Russell ranch, south
west of Ceres, where Mrs. Bush
passed. out of this life July twenty
seventh, 1913, at the age of sixty
four years, four months and three
days" 97
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
MIR. Lininger Resigns
From A. F. & P. A.

M. c. Lininger has resigned as
manager of the Ashland Fruit and
Produce Association and A. C.
Briggs, well-known farmer and
fruit grower residing on the Boule-
ward, has been selected as his sue
cessor and is familiarizing himself
with his new duties. Mr.. Lininger
will for the present devote his atten-
tion to the management of the Ash
land cannery.
The cannery Is now at work drying
peaches and berries and will begin
canning peaches as soon as the Muirs
are ready to pick.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Mr.. Turner VIII Build.

When it became known that Will
liam A. Turner had sold his beauti-
full home on North Main street to
w. w. Caldwell, it was feared by
many that Mr.. Turner was planning
to leave Ashland, and men of his cal
iber, wealth and enterprise a city can
i'll afford to lose. All will be glad
to know that he has purchased the
lot at the corner of North Main and
Bush streets, owned by E. E. Bag
ley, and will erect a beautiful home
thereon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Editor Hosmer Bound Over to Grand
jury for Libel.

Salem, Ore, Sept, 3.-Charged
with criminal libel, for publishing an
article written by Miss Lasenon, who
declared she has escaped from Mount
Angel convent, and accused priests of
that institution with improper con-
duct toward her. ]. e. Hosmer, editor
of the Journal at SilVerton, Ore, was
bound over today to await the action
of the grand jury. He was released
on $500 bond.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
COquille Thinks Streets Are Paved
With Gold.

Coquille, Ore, Sept. 3.-The
streets of this town are paved with
rock that will yield S6.4O in gold to
the ton, it was learned today follow
ing the receipt of an assay af speci-
mems sent to Virginia City, New, by
j. c. Wilson, a minor, who detected
traces of the precious metal in the
paving material. The rock is secured
from quarry five miles from town.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Notice.

Parties holding shares or having
interest in the Jumbo Chief or Gold
bug Butte Mining companies of Lake
view, Ore, are requested to call at
the Citizens Banking and Trust Co.
within the next week. 29-1t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Organize Teachers Training CIas

Organize Teachers Training Class.
A teachers training class has been
organized at the Ashland high school,
the course having been provided for
at the meeting of the board of edu-
cation Tuesday night. All pupils
completing the course are entitled to
a certificate to teach for year and
for a years renewal without exami-
nation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Members Appointed
For Library Board

Mayor Johnson at the regular
meeting of the city council. Tuesday
evening appointed G. G. McAllister,
Prof. W. T. Van Scoy and F. E. Wat
son as members of the Carnegie
Public Library board to succeed c.
H. Vaupel, DR.. Swedenburg and G. G.
Eubanks, whose terms of office had
expired. The appointments were con-
firmed by the city council.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Dogwood, the principal source OF
shuttles for use in cotton mills, is
growing scarcer year by year, and
various substitutes are being tried,
but with no great success.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Washington, Sept. 3.-Administra-
tion officials revealed tonight that
the optimism they have felt the last
few days over the Mexican situation
has been based largely on what they
have construed as the indirect assur-
ances of Huerta's intention to be a
candidate for the presidency of Mex
leo in the October elections.
Much stress is laid at the White
House and other official quarters on
the assertions of Mexican Foreign
Minister Gamboa, in his last note to
John Lind, pointing out Huerta's in
eligibility under the Mexican consti-
tuition.
Some diplomats and constitutional
lists here hold that the constitutional
prohibition against Huerta's candi-
dacy could be evaded by his resign
ing sometime before election.
Unofficial reports continue to reach
Washington that the Huerta govern
ment can't last much longer because
of financial difficulties. The arrival
today of DR.. William Bayard Hale,
personal friend of President Wilson,
who has been studying political con-
ditions in Mexico for three months,
is calculated to add materially to the
presidents information.
Hale said he went to Mexico unof-
ficially and of his own volition, but
any data he gathered would be at the
service of the government. Lind will
remain at Vera Cruz pending orders
from Washington.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Germany VIII, if John Bull VIII.

Berlin, Sept. 3.-Beleved to have
been officially inspired, a news
agency here announced today that if
England finally decides to partici-
pate in the Panama Pacific Exposi-
tion in San Francisco, Germany will.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

other than the knowledge of a raid
on the property a few miles from the
plantation the same night they spent
there, in which bandits killed the
man in charge, appropriating 1000
pesos, and the sight of the body of
an executed rebel on the porch of a
building along the railway The
number of American refugees arriv-
ing here is increasing slowly but
steadily.
Mexico City. Sept. 3.-That Gen
eral Huerta intends resigning the
presidency in favor of General Ge-
ronimo Trevino and become a candi-
date at the October elections is the
statement made tonight by we'll
known Mexicans close to the admin
istration.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Woman Ridden on Rail Asks $780,
900 Damages,

Waukegan, ILL.,, Sept S.-Suit filed
here today by Mrs. Minnie Richard
son asks 100000 damages from six
women OF Volo, who six weeks ago
rode her upon a rail and then forced
her to leave Volo, where her husband,
John Richardson, conducts general
store.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Storms Make Low Record in Forest
Fire Loss.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 3.-The gem
eral storms along the Oregon and
Washington coasts today virtually
ends the forest fire season and the
loss this year in the northwest is the
lightest in history, according to C. ].
Buck, chief clerk in the office of the
district forester. He estimated the
loss in Oregon, Washington and
Alaska at less than $1,000.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Ten New Members Added.

There were ten additional mem
bers added to the Commercial Club
Monday evening. The membership is
steadily growing and the club get
ting in shape to do some good work
for the city.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Grants Pass, Sept. Although
somewhat stunned by the edict of
the state supreme court reversing the
lower court and declaring this city
has no right to issue bonds for the
construction of railroad, Chairman
Gilkey and other of the railroad COM
mission declare the decision will emily
result in some delay in the construc-
tion of the municipality owned por-
tion of the coast road and that an
election will be called Immediately
to so amend the city charter that
bonds can be issued and construction
work continued
Local authorities are convinced
that the court edict places the in
ability to issue bonds upon the
Grants Pass charter and not upon the
state law, and it is held that by vir-
tue of law passed at the last legis-
lature city charter is supreme and
with the proper amendment to the
charter all difficulty will be removed
and the bonds issued again.
The election will probably consume
60 days and the supreme court de-
cision therefore will postpone rail-
road construction on the municipal
portion until next spring, for little
work can be done through the win
ter
The people of Grants Pass are en-
thusastic over the proposed railroad,
however and are determined to build
1t if such thing is possible.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Vera Cruz, Sept 3.-John Lind
and Rear Admiral Fletcher returned
here tonight from the visit to Her
mosa plantation where they went
friend. The trip afforded no thrills
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
Grants Pass Bonds
Declared Illegal

Salem, Ore, Sept. 2.-The supreme
court today handed down but one
opinion, and that was as to the legal
ity of the issuing of bonds by the
city of Grants Pass for the construc-
tion of railroad. The court re-
versed the lower court and held the
city had no right to issue the bonds.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
NIuIhall Wants to Pull Nose of Man
Making Faces.

Washington, Sept. 9.-Testifying
before the house lobby committee to-
day, Martin M. Mulhall of Baltimore,
former agent OF the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, accused James
Kirby, Jr., president of the associa-
ton, of making faces" at him.
Come outside" he yelled at Kir-
by. "and I'll pull your nose"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Utah made a record last year of
mining more than three million tons
of coal for the first time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04
HUERTA SHY FUNDS AND WEAKENS
INDICATIONS ALL POINT TO SUCCESS OF EFFORTS OF WILSON FOR
PEACE IN MEXICO

Washington, Sept. 3.-Administra-
tion officials, declared late tonight
that both Charge O'Shaughnessy of
the American embassy at Mexico City
and John Lind at Vera Cruz were in
frequent communication with the
Huerta officials concerning the new
basis for negotiations through which
it was hoped to bring about peace.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

More than two hundred American
windmills are in operation in Smyr-
ma, Asiatic Turkey.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

The road above mentioned is
planned to extend from Grants Pass
to Crescent City, and is promoted
and backed by DR.. j. F. Reddy of
Medford and Los Angeles. Last
winter the city voted 5000, 900 bonds
to construct the road by large ma
jority, and work of grading is now
under way. What effect the su-
preme court decision will have on
the future plans is unknown.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

There are 5,1S7 steam laundries in
the United States employing 109,4Sl
persons.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Railways of the world at the close
of 1911 represented a total capital
ization of $56,950, ,329,364.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

Prices of mules are reported to be
rising in Missouri.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-22
BY HAROLD D. STROUD

BY HAROLD D. STROUD
The City c. Chicago has just fin
ished a three years battle with the
telephone company that has cost the
public thousands of dollars and the
company as much or more than the
city. Expert after expert has been
employed and allowed to use up
great amounts of time and money,
and their reports have been laid
aside, ali except City Expert Bemis'
report.
The rate adjustments that should
have been made effective July, 1909,
were deferred until June, 1913. This
puts the next one, due five years
after, off until 1918, instead of 1914.
The experts report that was ex-
cepted shows purely theoretical re-
auctions that will not bear out in
practice, while on the other hand GER
tain classes of service, such as the
$125 unlimited phones and the 1855
private exchange trunks, have been
cut off for new contracts. Growing
concerns now must pay two cents per
call on all increases in their service.
1t was a good trade for the COM
~pany to make certain theoretical con-
cessions on measured service guar
antees while getting the actual right
to cut off the big users from further
unlimited service. The big users are
beginning to ask questions as they
see their excess call bills mounting
upward each month.
After all the delay and trouble we
are by a good many thousand of dol
lars worse off than before, and real
rate adjustment is still five years off,
unless the State Utilities Commission
acts in the matter after Jan. 1, 1914,
but the experts had some good jobs,
and that may be some satisfaction to
somebody.
Any one who reads the Bemis re-
port is convinced that it is monu-
mental effort at dust throwing Mr.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-22
THE ADJUSTING OF TELEPHONE CHARGES

was paid to investigate. l don't be-
Geve Mr.. Bemis is, but the report is
the result of strong suggestion from
some sources not working in the in
terests of the people who pay the
telephone bills. l am not going into
the details of the report now for lack
of space, but will take one item up at
a time in later letters. only want to
point out this fact, that statisticians
and accountants do not make tele-
phone experts or rate makers. One
must have a sense of right and cut
straight line, no matter who it hurts.
All he needs is to satisfy himself
that he is right (not merely plaus-
ible), and then go ahead and do the
thing that must be done or step aside
and let some one else do it..
Mr.. Bemis knew the cost per tele-
phone call to render service, or
should have. He also ) knew that
some (nearly) 5000 large users were
getting service away below cost.
Why did he compromise by merely
limiting the growth of the unproft-
able service, and still have 80 per cent
of the users paying the loss sustained
by letting the big users continue get
ting service far below what it cost
per call to produce?
Mr.. Bemis had the chance of his
life to make name for himself by
making a clean sweep, charging all
users a base yearly rate equal to
about II per cent on the plant invest
ment involved in each class of SER
vice, then message rate per call
with :. slight discount for large users
based on the number of calls used per
year. Large users having private ex-
changes would pay their II per cent
on the cost of the equipment on their
premises, plus about one and three
fourths cents per call. They would
not pay much more than they do
now, but would pay for every call and
would cut out MANY waste calls The
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
GOVERNOR MARSHALL OF INDIANA
SCORES SUPREME COURT OF HIS
STATE IN LEGISLATIVE MESSAGE

OF as much value to each individual
cltlZen as 1t is to majority of the
cltlzens. What we should clearly
understand and conscientiously pie
serve is the line of demarkation be-
tween private and public social serv-
ice, In a representative democracy,
that line of demarkation may be
charted in this language: 1t is the
right and duty of the state TO nro.
Nlde Tor the case and treatment of
all her unfortunate children who
cannot provide for themselves. IN
Intentionally and unconsciously the
generous impulses of mankind are
lowering the self-respect of the in
diyidual, Abraham Lincoln would
not have been a Biblical and Shake
sperean scholar had he lived in a
town with a Carnegie library. The
constitution of this state provides
for a general and uniform system of
common schools wherein tuition shall
be without charge and equally open
to all. The observations which |
have heretofore made, do not apply
70 this system because the people
needed that right and placed that
duty upon the general assembly. But
they did not provide that books
should be furnished gratuitously to
the pupils in our schools, regardless
of their ability to buy or not to buy
them. have seen these school
books in states where they are
furnished gratuitously TO the pupils
and wish to add that il Dir. Hurry
would permit such books to be used
in Indiana he would cease to be the
enemy of the microbe and would
become the godfather of the germ. !"
Governor Marshall suggests among
other things that a Panama Pacific
exposition commission with women
representation thereon be appointed.
He recommends the enactment of an
inheritance tax law
Legislation to prohibit stock water
ing "and to protect unwary against
investing their money in that which
is not property but mere promise in
those schemes which are ordinarily
known to the business world as
blue sky"
lmmediate enactment of a work
mans compulsory compensation act
Anti-loan shark legislation.
That trust companies be treated
the same as banks and that the
people be protected against pan
les.
Stringent housing laws.
Establishment of state penal
farm for male prisoners.
Strengthening of laws against sale
and use of cocaine and opium.
Revocation of liquor licenses upon
third conviction of their holders.
Ratification Of proposed amend
ment for popular election Of SEN
ators.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
osTEoPATHY

DR., Emily Collar, the osteopathic
physician, has taken offices in the
Ryan & Stenson block. 1915
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
ADJUSTMENTS
Butler Thester

AT the Butler theater this evening
the usual entire change of pictures
will be shown as follows: "The Mys-
terry of Grandfathers Clock Ka-
lem drama featuring Alice Joyce,
pretty scenery, good photography and
splendid acting. when Wealth Tor
ments," a bully comedy by the Es-
sanay company, featuring Francis
Bushman, The Silent Signal" a
Lubin drama of great interest and a
Vitagraph drama, featuring the great
favorite, Lillian Walker, entitled "Ro-
nance of a Rickshaw." At the risk
OF his life young English officer
rescues his sweetheart, abducted by
a rajah of India. He enters the pal
ace with his two companions and
takes her away at the point of a
pistol. Placing her in a rickshaw
and reach safety within the British
military post. The spirit of expect
ancy with which this military drama
is infused fills one with delightful
thrill of anticipation. Tomorrow
Pathe Weekly and Salt Lake City
and its surroundings. Sunday, yellow
Stone National Park.
Next Thursday, Dec, 16, a great
two-reel special release by the Selig
company, The King of the Forest"
@e@
When In need of anything in the
dry goods, ladies' or gents furnish.
ings, shoes or ready to wear lines,
90 to McKims store. Their goods
are the choicest. They are giving
the greatest values to be obtained
anywhere in southern Nevada Come
in and let us show you that we can
deliver the goods. jSti
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
VERDICT IS RETURNED
BY CORONER'S JURY

That the deceased came to his
death by taking carbolic acid, ad-
mlnistered with suicidal intent, was
the verdict Of the coroner's jury
that investigated the demise Of Tom
Murray yesterday afternoon. Coro-
ner Harry Dunseath OBLIGATED at the
inquest. 1t was brought out that
the deceased was aged about 30
years and was native of Ireland
He is survived by a widow and
brother who reside "a this city The
funeral will be held at o'clock this
afternoon.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
Notice of Dividend

AT a meeting of the board of d.
rectors of the Nevada Telephone
Telegraph company of Nevada, held
this day, regular quarterly divi-
dend of ~ per cent was declared,
payable January Is, 1913, to stock
holders Of record January IA, 1913.
T.. G. WATERHOUSE,
Vice President.
Gated Tonopah, Jan. 4, 1913. j4t6
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10

's2 s46Sl
DY, Secty
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
MOTION is DENIED
FOR A NEW TRIAL

Another chapteI to suit filed
during the palmy days of Tonopah
was added last night in the district
court when Judge Averill denied the
motion of the plaintiff for new
trial. The case is entitled the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty com
pany versus f. Marks. ana is the out.
come of the construction of the big
fighting arena that once stood in the
northern part of town, but which was
torn down several years ago.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-01-10
ANNUAL STATEMENT

or the WoIftone Extension Mining co.
for the year ending Dec 81, 1919:
Location Of mine in Manhattan min
lnG district, county OF Nye, state OF
Nevada.
DEBIT
Ian. J, 1919 cash on hand $2,676.70
TO amount received from
other sources. ........ ...+. 1854
CREDIT
Nine expenses in year 1919. none
General expenses In year
: 1912 Observation-Disclosures 1880
payments in suspense. ..,,.. 10000
Bal on hand Dec 81. 1912. .s2.S46.Si
p J. KENNEDY, Sectv.