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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE.
Sadie P. Osenbrugge, Plaintiff,

Sadie P. Osenbrugge, Plaintiff,
VS..
]. o.. Talent and Ina D. Talent, his
wife, Defendants.
BY virtue of an Execution dated
the 9th day of March, 1915, a De-
cree and an Order of Sale duly issued
out of and under the seal of the Cir
cult Court of the State of Oregon,
in and for the County Of Jackson in
a certain cause therein, wherein
Sadie P. Osenbrugge as plaintiff re-
covered on the 18th day of March,
1915, e. judgment against j. o. Tai
ent and Ina d. Talent, his wife, for
the sum of Eleven Hundred Sixty-one
and 75-100 ($1,161.75) Dollars,
with interest thereon at the rate OF
per cent per annum from the Sth
day of February, 1915, and the fur
ther sum of One Hundred Sixteen
($116.00) Dollars attorneys fees,
and the further sum of $1,000 costs,
which said judgment was enrolled
and docketed in the Clerks office OF
said Court on the 18th day of March,
1915, and is Of record in Volume 22
OF tne circuit court journal dI pages
447 and 44S thereof.
l am commanded by said Execu-
ton and Order OF sale to make sale
of the hereinafter real property to
satisfy the judgment above men
toned, together with attorneys fees
costs and accruing costs of sale.
will therefore on Saturday, the Isl
day of May, 1915, at the hour of 10
o'clock a. m. at the front door OF the
Court House in Jacksonville, Jackson
county, Oregon, offer for sale and will
sell to the highest bidder for cash
subject to redemption as is by law
provided, all the right, title and In
terest of the defendants, j. o. Talent
and Ina d. Talent, his wife, in ant
to the following described real prop
erty, lying and being situated II
Jackson County, Oregon, to-wit:
Lot number Two CD of Jackson''
subdivision, in Jackson County, Ore
gon, according to official plat there
of, now of record.
All OF said above described rea
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08

Too bad, old nature has done so
much for Ashland, and its citizens so
little. Her natural resources, devel-
oped along right lines, and appeals
made to the right people, justify a
population of fifty thousand retired
citizens, besides all the laboring men
such population will give employment.
Let's wake up and go after what ma
ture prepared us for. Our mineral
waters and environment loom big
our future looms great if we embrace
fully our opportunities. Get in the
Commercial club and let's go.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08

powers of the sense must be acquired by
careful study practice and must be exer-
cised with all the attention with which
strong will can direct them: but even
all this is only part of scientific obser-
walton, which must include, besides, an
habitual constant watchfulness, to take
notice of all conditions in which objects
or events are found; their concurrence,
their sequences, their mutual relations,
and all their variations.-Sir James Paget
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08
Journal at pages $50 and 554 there.

am commanded by said execution
to make sale of the hereinafter de-
scribed real property, to satisfy the
judgment in favor of the plaintiff and
against the defendant. l will there
fore on Saturday, the 1st day of
May, 1915, at the hour of 10 o'clock
a. m. at the front door of the Court
House in Jacksonville, Oregon, offer
for sale and will sell to the highest
bidder for cash. subject to redemp-
tion as is by law provided, all the
right, title and interest of the de-
fendant above named, in and to the
following described real property, sit
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08
lated in Jackson County, Oregon, to-

uated in Jackson County, Oregon, to-
wit:
Southeast quarter of Section 3,
Township "a South of Range East
of the Willamette Meridian, in Jack
son County, Oregon.
All of the above described real
property will be sold at said time and
place in the manner provided by law
for the sale of real property to sat
isfy the several causes of actions
above mentioned, together with the
costs and accruing costs of this sale.
Dated March goth, 1915.
w. H. SINGLER, Sheriff.
By g. w. Wilson, Deputy.
S9-5t-Thur.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08
Officials Regulate
Hotel Rates at S. F.

Several AshlandeTs returned from
the exposition at San Francisco have
criticised the fair management and
the San Francisco hotelmen for al
legged overcharging in hotel rates. A
letter recently received from the fair
officials states that the matter has
been looked into and remedied and
that exposition visitors are now as
sured OF hotel rates on the same basis
as before the exposition opened. They
say:
The exposition authorities have
been busy during the past week call
ing down few hotels which started
to overcharge, but word was suffi-
cient. The exposition has an official
hotel bureau that is for the benefit
of the people of the United States, y
declared George Hough Perry, direct
or of exploitation, yesterday. "The
visitor has but to write to this bureau
and he will be given information free
of cost as regards to what the city
has to offer in the matter of hotels.
The rates are not half as high as they
were in Chicago or st. Louis and no
more so now than they are in any
other city at the present time. OF
course if a man wants suite with a
private bath and three or four serv-
ants he will have to pay for it as he
will anywhere else. The exposition
officials are determined that no over
charge shall be made"
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property will be sold at said time
and place in the manner provided by
law for the sale of real property un-
der execution to satisfy the judgment
in favor of the plaintiff, together
with the attorneys fees above named,
costs and accruing costs of this sale.
Dated this 29th day of March,
1915. w. H. SINGLER, Sheriff.
By e. w. Wilson, Deputy.
S9-5t-Thur.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-08
The Power of Accurate OBJ

servation.-By accurate observation
we mean not merely to exercise the
senses, not merely to see, hear or touch
think, with some levity of thinking
about it; not even the keenest use of the
eye cultivated in microscopic work, or of
the ear-hearing sounds that to the un-
educated sense would be inaudible, or
the use of the finger with the most re-
fined detective touch. All these higher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18
Persian TIGER Hunts.

~H HE people of different countrie,
u have different ways OF hunting tn
tiger. Traps. pitfalls. spring-guns ant
nets are called into play. The Chinesi
are said to employ the mirror to Leaf
the animal into a trap. The tiger
curiosity is excited when he sees hi
image in the glass, and he immediatel.
proceeds to investigate the mystery
The Persian manner of conducting tns
hunt is more sportsmanlike.
A spherical, strongly woven Dam oe
cage, with intervals of few meme.
between the bars, is erected IN SOM
spot near the haunts of the tiger. Ihii
ca ee is firmly and securely plcketed 'o
the ground Inside, man PROVIDED
with several sharp and powerful stap'
bing spears, or with keen and pointet
sword. takes his post at night. with
dog or a goat as his companion: There
he wraps himself in his blanket ahe
goes to sleep.
In due time the tiger makes his APP
nearance. the man is walked by hu
four-footed companion. and. after vain
Nv snufing and prowling round tnt
cage to find an entrance. the tieei
resrs against the walls. The man in'
stantly takes advantage of the brutea
position. and with reso.
lutte stroke of the spear or SWORD pue'
him to death.
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factor in this whole problem, says
Mr.. McChord. lis the personal equation
The failure of the man at the critical
moment is the thing to be guarded
against, and this involves generally
reformation in methods of discipline
and rules of operation.
Great possibilities in the direction
of a solution of the problem lie in the
organization of so-called safety COM
mittees. These are now features in the
administration of many prominent
roads. and the slogan safety first has
become watchword in the details of
their operation
Safety first" Is the text. then. from
which Chairman McChord is constantly
preaching Into the movement this
virile Kentuckian has thrown the
whole force of his fighting personality.
But, it Is to be noted, he campaigns
only on knowledge of the field on
which he is to fight. He is cautious
general, for his fifty-four years or
active life have taught him that true
reforms are not brought about by TIT
ing at windmills.
Investiga ting Analysing, studying
ALWAYS he is conducting his campaign
on scientific lines. And bit by bit. as
the cold figures in the statistics OF
railroad accidents show, he is getting
results It is safer to ride on Ameri-
can railway trains that II ever was De-
fore.
But Chairman McChord insists that
rail travel must be still more safe
He has a habit of getting what he m
sists on having. That is the Scotch'
Irish In him. ASHMCN BROWN.
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The RuSe.

1NRoF. SMALLER MATHEWS of the
II University of Chicago was talking
about his very successful visit to Japan.
One of the objects of this visit was to
foster friendly relations between Japan
and America.
There have been plots to make bad
blood between the two countries. said
Prof. Mathews. but these plots were
all as transparent as the ruse of the
little girl in my native Portland.
This little girls sister was enter.
therefore, was not wanted in the draw
ing room. She knocked and knocked.
but her sister would not admit her.
Finally she thought of q ruse, aud
giving loud and thunderous knock,
she shouted:
""Tain't me now: It's mamma"
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tation. Ever since steamboat naviga-
ton has been factor in commerce In
the United States the federal law has
required the inspection and certif1ca-
ton of marine boilers in use on craft,
but no such inspection and certificate
was required of locomotive boilers.
Still, explosions of locomotive boilers
were a fruitful cause of accidents
why does Uncle Sam, in the inter-
ests of safety. require inspection of
steamboat boilers, which are relatively
few. and let locomotive boilers, which
, are many, go free?" was the pertinent
Congress could not find a good an
swer, and so February II, 1911. the
President gave his approval to a law
requiring such inspection.
These, in brief, are the major enact
ments under which the 'safety-first'
activities of the interstate commerce
commission are conducted.
Go into the safety division of the
commissions Offices and you will find
a great map Of the country ruled off
with red and black lines into districts
and marked in each district with names
of inspectors. 1t indicates the manner
in which the inspection force of the
division is distributed.
Forty inspectors of safety appliances
and eight inspectors under the hours-of-
service law are constantly employed
Always they are at work, travelling on
trains, conducting their Investigations
the instances of the inspectors under
the hours-of-service law, in company
offices.
Last year, for example, they inspect
ed nearly 100000 freight cars. nearly
$1,000 passenger cars and nearly $4,000
locomotives. The percentage found de-
fective, according to the divisions an
nual report, was Exceptionally low"
Indicating progress in insuring safety.
~
During the year penalties aggregat-
Ing $7s,700 were collected from the
railroads for violations of the safety
appliance laws. and $162.422 for viola
tions Of the hours service act.
Still another large activity of the divi-
sion of safety is the conduct of an inyes-
tigation. authorized by law in the au-
tumn of 1913, regarding the use and
necessity for block-signal systems and
devices intended to promote the safety
of railway operations. An engineer
qualified men are conducting an ex-
haustive series Of tests with various
apparatus that has been offered.
Now. as to the results that have been
achieved. Chairman McChord has
mass of statistics on the subject. all of
which tend to uphold this statement
which he makes:
THE improvement in the condition of
safety-appliance equipment resulting
from the enforcement of the law has
brought about a corresponding de-
crease in the number Of accidents to
employees which tho use Of the appli-
ances was designed to prevent. This
decrease Is even more favorable than
at first appears. for it has taken place
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18
TE AusTR1A1s In THE cARRA1H1ANS

Charles Mhord the New Chairman the
General Command of the CagnRad Casualty Roll Now About 210 Persons
Da McChod Tells What
What Yet Be DmeIhe of Problem.
He Advocates Committees of SayA Pointed Asked CongThe Hours
oSerce Law the Railroads and Its Effect the Operation The Reasons
Why We Have Wrecks, According O armn
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w 7HEN one goes to talk with
NAV Charles Caldwell Mechord.
NN the new chairman of the in

terstate commerce commits
sion. about the work Of that powerful
and important body, one should go pre-
pared to absorb a multitude of figures.
Chairman McChord is statistical
minded man.
He sets that iron jaw OF his into a
mass of statistics and worries and
tears and chews them to tatters. When
he gets through with them they are in
what might be termed a predigested
condition, ready for your consumption,
guaranteed to have an entirely bene-
heial effect and not to sit heavily on
your stomach.
But just because Chairman McChord
Is prone to talk in figures. do not get
the idea that he does not talk inter-
estingly. He is not at all garrulous
person, but when you get him warmed
up on his subject he talks freely. force
fully, knowingly. and he does illumi
nate what he talks about, and the fig
ures he throws at you become live and
vital.
And what he talks TO you about is,
for choise, safety first" for Chair
man McChord Is the leading exponent
in official life in the United States of
the effort to make the railroads in the
country less deadly. Twelve years of
service az a member of the Kentucky
railway commission and more than four
years as a member of the interstate
commerce commission have made him
= master OF the subject. His is the
voice of authority.
In the organization of the interstate
commerce commission the work of that
body In it's administration is divided
when he was appointed in December,
1910. was assigned the safety work.
and that includes the administration Of
all the federal laws regarding safety
ployment. inspection OF engines and
equipment. Investigations of wrecks
and the like.
In his four years service he has COM
pleteiy reorganised what is now known
as the division of safety. and built it
up into an effective and far-reaching
arm Of the government. Personal at
tention did this. Safety first" as they
tell il within the commission lis Nc
Chords bug.
II is considerable Of a bug, too. Con.
slider that. according to the statistics
in the division of safety, during the
past twenty-six years 2os.3o3 persons
have been killed and l.7sS,5s8 injured
on American railroads. or an average
of $3.50 year killed and Of 5s.79l
year injured. and you will appreciate
this.
A year or so ago Mr.. McChord in a
public speech, quoting similar statistics.
said:
The ravases Of war pale into insig-
nihcance before these silent indica
tons Of the destruction of human life
accompanying the peaceful operation
of our railroads.
But in the light of recent events in
Europe he would have to modify that
declaration Still, an average Of 30
pessons killed or injured every day
in the year for twenty-six years is
some casualty list.
Why asks the impatient citizen.
American railroads kill and MAIN
so many persons, when the European
railroads kill or MAIN so few" And
he straightway wants to indict the rail-
Dads AS gang of murderers. The
u.ateur reformer will offer n variety
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amendments to the original law have
need.
Excessive hours of continuous en-
ployment by railroad employees was
found to be responsible for many acci-
dents. Hence. in 1910, a law was
passed limiting the hours of trainmen
and telegraph operators. A few months
later in tho same year, after six years
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laws prohibiting pedestrianism on rail-
road tracks. though he has not yet OBJ
tanned the laws. At the annual meet
ing of the National Association of
Hallway Commissioners in Washing
ton last December, he brought the
subject forward. but resolutions de-
claring in favor Of such state laws
were defeated largely by western OPP
position.
I'm many portions of the extreme
west. remarked one railroad commits
sioner, railroad tracks are the only
roads we have. Some of the best citi-
zens-and some of the now wealthiest
my state possesses arrived there car
rying their blankets on their backs
and walking the ties. 1t was the only
way they could come. The west Is not
populated as yet with sufficient density
to warrant closing the tracks to those
who have not the money to pay fare"
and this argument appealed.
So. failing TO get legislation, Mr. Nc
Chord, under the banner of safety
first" is campaigning to educate the
railway mortality tables in the "other
persons" class, to keep out of danger
But while more than half of the rail-
way fatalities are accounted for by in
dividual carelessness. the remainder of
them. for the most part, come under the
head of preventable accidents. These
are the ones that Chairman McChord,
with all the force and power of the in
terstate commerce commission, is seek
ing to eliminate.
Certain accidents" said Mr. McChord,
occur with more or less regularity and
frequency on railroads that may proper
ly be called unavoidable. Such are acct
dents due to exceptional elemental dis
turbances entirely unexpected-land-
slides, or washouts, want of ordinary
precautton on the part of passengers
or employees, malicious tampering with
roadway or equipment, and the like.
So
"There are accidents, however, which
are fairly preventable and against the
occurrence of which travellers and en-
ployes on railroads have a right to de-
mand protection. 1t is important.
these preventable accidents, in order
that proper measures for their pre-
vention may be undertaken. This Ia
what the interstate commerce commits
sion Is doing"
Swiftly Mr.. McChord sketched the
history of the "safety-frst" movement
as applied to railroads, in which move-
ment the commission has been the pio-
neer. Twenty-six years ago the num-
Der of fatal accidents on railroads re-
sulting from the use Of the old, deadly
link-and pin coupler appalled, Edward
A. Moseley. secretary of tho interstate
commerce commission. who then began
an agitation for federal law covering
the matter.
This was obtained in 1893. when the
first federal safety-appliance act was
enacted, requiring the use Of the air
brake and automatic coupling devices,
and the placing OF grab irons on car
ends and sides for the further safety
OF trainmen. From time to time other
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Of agitation, a law was secured author
izinE the interstate commerce commits
sion to investigate the causes Of train
accidents In order to secure first-hand
information and not to be dependent
on railroad authorities for data, al
though law of 1901 required the
roads to report accidents.
In 1911 came another important safe
ty law. also the result Of years of agi-
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The studies that are in progress al
ready have worked large improvements
in train order systems. for the rail-
roads of the country are showing a
genuine desire to avail themselves of
the co-ordinated information on the
subject the interstate commerce COM
mission gathers.
Also they have worked improvements,
for the chemical studies of rails show
that current specifications for the
tests are not adequate to guard against
many of the common type of frac-
ture These and other studies. also,
have resulted in a larger use Of stee.
dangerous wooden cars. And further
benefits are In sight.
"The most difhcult and perplexing
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coincidentally with an expansion OF
business which has resulted in the
the use of heavier equipment and long
er trains, thus introducing an addi-
tional element of risk.
ut may then be safely asserted that
the greater part of the accidents which
now occur are due to the ordinary haz-
ards of the railroad industry
ut is also proper to observe that the
use of these appliances in addition to
greatly reducing accidents to employees
has brought abundant returns to the
railroads in economies Of operation.
<
whether the enforcement of the
hours of-service law has resulted in
any increase of safety in train opera
ton it is impossible to say, as statis-
teal presentation of results cannot be
made. That the law has been of great
benefit to employees, however. is GER
tain. No longer do We hear of train
men being kept on duty forty, fifty or
sixty hours in the ordinary process of
moving their trains over a 100-mile di-
vision of road.
Such excessive periods Of service,
which were formerly quite common, are
now only met with in those extraordi-
innate and excusable reason for excess
service. AS a result, there can be no
doubt that the efficiency and morale of
railroad train service has improved.
Furthermore. the economic results of
the laws operation is believed to be of
benefit to the railroads. Trains are
moved over the road in less time than
formerly. and the number of train miles
run for each trainman employed has
considerably increased since the law
became effective.
But there is yet to be considered a
class of train accidents upon which the
public attention has been centered for
many years, but which continue to &C.
cur with distressing frequency in spite
of all measures thus far taken to pre-
vent them. Collisions and derailments
were responsible for COS deaths. 11.437
injuries and a property loss of $780,
965,1S1 last year. No road can claim
occur on the best equipped and best
managed roads quite as frequently as
on roads less well managed or equip
ped
AS Chairman McChord points out. in
herent weaknesses in train order sys-
plainable weaknesses developed in
rails, wheels and equipment. defective
track and roadway and Just plain,
ordinary human error. in the main
are at the bottom of these acct
dents: Hence the the extensive sa, and
to every branch of the subject. The
block system where used-and it is be-
ing used on a rapidly increasing mile
age-has not always prevented acct
dents of this sort, although it has
greatly minimized them, for even in the
chance for human error.
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Why asks the impatient citizen.
American railroads kill and MAIN
so many persons, when the European
fsilroads kill or MAIN so few" And
he straightway wants to indict the rail-
Dads gang of murderers. The
u.ateur reformer will offer a variety
ii xliA answers to the inquiry. rang
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

OF Arcola, Mrs. G. T.. Lawrence. .Jr. Of
Plainfeld, Mrs. W. q. Mcdonald of
Dunwoodie. Miss +. pickhardt Of E.nyle-
wood, Miss q. Pickhardt Of Westfeld,
Mrs. Frank Enos of Englewood. Miss
Georgianna Bishop of Brooklawn, Mrs.
w. I. seaman of Richmond county.
Mrs. c.. w. Randall Of Westteld. Mrs.
6. Neeks Of Arcola. Mrs. /. +. F..
Warner Of Essex county. s'iss +, T..
bonohue Of Montclair. Mrs. l.. L.
Blake and Mrs. Betz Of crawford. Mrs.
George u. Doschen Of Spring Lake. Mrs.
+. A Potts of Deal and Mrs. Flor.an
krug of Euglcwood.
The womcu'S tournament at III" club
Will be fulluw"d by the mons fan
tourney, which viii b" holl November
{, . aud Il. Two parties Will motor
here for the contests from Atlantic city.
one Will h. brought 10y Daniel : White
of the TraNmo Hotel and the other
by Harry ;. Leeds of the ,'halfuute.
They Will make the Laurel House their
headquarters while in Lakewood. Many
players are practising for the tourna-
mcnt every day. George j. Gou'd. with
Il. II. Russell and Julian Noycs, played
over the course on Sunday.