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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S BIG PART
IN LIFE OF CALIFORNIA.
News Bulletin.)

Probably few people fully realize
the part played by the Southern Pa
cific in business, social and industrial
life in California through its employ
ment of labor, its purchase and con-
sumption of home products, its large
payroll and its service.
In San Francisco the Southern Pa
cific employs over 5000 people and
its wage disbursements amount to
more than $5,000,000 a year. More
than 5000 are on its payroll in Oak
land with an annual disbursement of
over 5,000,000-so that in San
Francisco and Oakland more than
10000 families, or the equivalent of
$4,000 people, draw their support di
rectly from the Southern Pacific and
spend over the counters of the bust
ness houses of San Francisco and
Oakland approximately $S,000,000 a
year. -
Sacramento and Roseville, like San
Francisco and Oakland, are but a
short distance apart, and at these two
points nearly 5000 families, or 25,-
600 people, are maintained by the
Southern Pacific payroll, which an
nually amounts to approximately s4,-
100000. In Los Angeles the number
of employees approaches 5000 with a
payroll of $4,500,000 San Jose, $50
employees with payroll of 1885, 900;
Bakersfield, $50 employees with
payroll of over 81 900, 0,OOO Stockton,
400 employees with a payroll of over
100000; San Luis Obispo, $50 en-
ployes with a payroll of over S400,-
600; Dunsmuir, $50 employees with
payroll of over $750,O0O; Fresno,
500 employees with a payroll of over
100000; and Tracy, 4S5 employees
with a payroll of over 100000.
1t will be observed that even in
the twelve cities named the amount
of money disbursed for wages annu-
ally by the Southern Pacific is in ex-
cess of 100000. A careful esti-
mate shows that the Southern Pacific
pays to California labor, and to Cali
fornia business men and producers
for products used in the conduct of
its business, approximately 100000
900 year. All of this in addition to
a class of freight and pas
transportation which places
the producers of California in COM
with the markets of two
hemispheres, affords quick, convei-
lent and safe commercial and social
intercourse, and multiplies and en-
larges the attractiveness of California
to the tourist and investor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16
ASHLAND'S PARK.

One thing that interested us in the
trip to southern Oregon was the pub
lie park at Ashland. All the towns
from here to Ashland have made re-
markable progress and growth, and
many of them have very pretty spots,
but what attracted our attention most
was the pretty park at Ashland,
which was partly finished. 1t is situ-
ated by the side of a hill with a
stream of water flowing through it,
with large shade trees. This has
been turned into an exceedingly pret-
ty spot and beautified with flowers,
waterfalls, rustic seats, camp and pic
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16
Ashland, Ore, Thursday, Sept. 10, 10
MOLE ST. NICHOLAS-WHY WE
WANT TO PROTECT HAITI.

During the war with Spain, Mole
St. Nicholas became a byword, hiss
ing, and the generally accepted CEN
ter of the manufacture of fake news.
The dispatches from Mole st. Nicho-
las seemed to prove that Baron
Munchausen had come to life and
settled in that tropical spot They
were worse than the Medford bunch,
and nearly as bad as klamath corre-
spondents.
But there is a serious side to the
subject of Mole st. Nicholas. 1t is a
point of the most critical importance
when the control of the approaches
to the Panama canal is considered.
Look it up on the map. For 700
miles Cuba stretches to the west
across the path of commerce, and for
half that distance to the east extends
the great island of Haiti. Through
the Windward passage which is the
strait between these islands, so per
cent OF the commerce to and from
the canal passes, and must pass right
under the guns of any forts at Mole
st. Nicholas, or make the immense
circle about either Cuba or Haiti.
The Germans have been trying to
get naval base in the West Indies.
The United States, with perfect pro-
priety, is opposed to any European
nation getting such base. That is
one reason why We uphold the Mon
roe doctrine. Mole st. Nicholas is
the place which Germany wants, in
order that she may place new Hele-
goland on the path of the canal COM
merce and within a short distance
of our own southern coasts.
Such reasons as these explain why
weak governments like those of Mex
leo, Haiti, Guatemala and Others are
dangerous to us. We wish them all
to become so strong that they will
not be tempted to sell coaling sta
tions and naval bases to European or
Asiatic governments.
These reasons also are back of the
note which the United States has sent
to the Haitian government, note
asking is within ten days to place the
country under the protectorate of the
United States for ten years, to give
the United States control Of the
finances and the police, and to agree
not to cede territory to any nation
but the United States
We need Mole st. Nicholas, and we
must, for our own safety, prevent it
from falling into the hands of any
other nation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

You want good advice? Rise early.
Be abstemious. Be frugal. Attend
to your own business, and never trust
to another. Be not afraid to work,
and diligently, too, with your own
hands. Treat everyone with civility
and respect. Good manners insure
success. Accomplish what you under
take. Never be mean-rather give
than take the odd shilling. Honesty
is not only the best policy but the
only policy. Time is money. Make
your own word as good as your bond.
Reckon the hours of the day as so
many dollars, the minutes as so many
cents. Live within your income.
Ninety-nine may say no, the hun
dredth yes. Take off your coat; don't
be afraid of manual labor. America
is large enough for all. Keep out OF
politics unless you are sure to win.
You are never sure to win, so look
out.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Why You Should Patronize Your
Home Merchant.

hOIuC VuClNiidHI.
Support your home merchants.
This is something that every man
ought to be proud to do. Your home
merchants are men who are always
with you. They are men of tried in
tegrity. They are men who have a
livelihood to earn and regulations ia
uphold. They are not in business to-
day and out tomorrow. They do bus
iness at the same old stand day after
day and year after year. You buy an
article of your home merchant and if
| it is not exactly as he represents it to
you, you can always find him, and
more than willing to make his word
good. Besides, he is a man who, no
doubt, has let you have goods time
and again on your promise to pay af-
ter harvest or when the spring
opened and you could get work. This
is something you should think of
when ordering goods of a foreign
firm. Will they carry" you till af-
ter harvest? No, indeed. If you
want their goods you must pay for
them when you get them, and run the
chances of the coffee being half peas
and the sugar half sand. 1t never
pays to patronize any smooth speak
ing stranger who tells you that the
men whom you have known and done
business with for years are swindling
you. He, himself, is not around on
mission of mercy that he may take
place among the throng that will
walk the streets of the New Jerusa-
lem.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

We are pleased to see many of our
citizens taking active interest in i'm
proving their homes and grounds. A
little effort on the part of each citi-
zen would give our town a prominent
position upon the map. Nature has
done much for us in picturesque seem
cry; now let us do much for our
selves along the improvement line.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

fume whose hard-working husband
hasn't had new suit of clothes or
decent meal in five years. Yes, and
many a loafer stands on the street
with sinking pipe in his face, his
tank full of booze and his mouth full
of profanity, whose hard-working
wife hasn't had new dress or kind
word since she was married.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

A perfect town is that in which you
see the farmer patronizing the home
merchants, the laborers spending the
money they earn with their own
tradesmen, and all animated by a
spirit that will not purchase articles
abroad if they can be bought at
home.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

In many towns of this size woman's
clubs are numerous, and while they
are criticised by some, they are GER
tainly beneficial in many ways. The
club has been a special providence to
many weary mother or to the wom-
an of few early advantages and large
aspirations. In our great cities wom-
ems clubs have been the first to in
stitute social reforms and to call pub
lie attention to crying 'evils.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

All honor to the man who earns his
living by honest toll. He it is, above
all others, who is always pulling for
better things. He is always on the
front seat of the community band
wagon He is the first resident to
greet the stranger and tell him that
he is visiting the best town in the
state.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

Every citizen of Ashland should be
interested in its prosperity. One Of
the best ways to help is to speak well
of it, 1t is true patriotism to stand
by your own town, and interests that
affect the town should affect every
citizen.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

In women's fashions. perhaps his
tory is repeating itself With the
higher skirts and the lowering of
necks, the day of the fig leaf may yet
return.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

When the tongue of trade is coat
ed, when the eyes and limbs of the
clerk are dull and languid, when the
raging fever tackles the empty vitals
of the till, when the spider roosts in
the empty cash box, and bouquets OF
decay are on the chandeliers, it is
conclusive that the advertising doctor
has not been consulted.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16
Private School and kindergarten.

Private School and kindergarten.
Private school, morning hours, 8
to u. Kindergarten, afternoon hours,
2 to 4. Good ventilation. Big yard
and best equipment Begins Septem-
Der 6. Call at los First avenue.
Terms reasonable. 2S-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

What need have we now Of mil
lion-dollar aeroplane fleet?" asks an
exchange. Might use em to brush
away dem clouds and help along the
corn crop.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

When a town ceases to grow it
commences to die and the more the
people try to kill off each other in
their business and good name, the
more rapidly will utter ruin come to
all. Stand together for the advance
ment of every citizen. If a man
shows ability do not pull him back
with jealousy or weight him down
with cold Indifference
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

If your watch does not give you
satisfaction take it to Johnson the
jeweler. 97-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

Get your watch repairing done at
Johnson's Jewelry Store. 97-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

Enterprise is planning a sewer sys-
tenn.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

Many a woman goes out shopping
dressed in silk and enveloped in per-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16
TELEPHONE 80

In ordering changes of the paper
always give the old street address or
postoffice as we'll as the new.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-16

Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postoffice as second-class mail mat
ter.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

would give his lawyers plenty of time
to at least prepare for a preliminary
investigation. The pulse Of court
house justice often beats very feebly
when there are plenty of good law
yers to assist in regulating its speed,
and that's one reason among others
why the pulse of the mob huns like
the motor of a high-powered runaway
car when it takes a hand in admins
tering justice or its reverse, as the
case may be. Over in Great Britain
or up in Canada Mendenhall would
either be hanged or finally acquitted
in a few weeks time. 1t may take
years to reach either of those con-
illusions in Florida.-Lakeland Tele-
gram.
Mr.. Mendenhall has plenty of mon
ey. You can't expect the law TO be
unceremonious and disrespectful with
him like it would be with poor man.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13
Day Letter Collect

Washington, d. c., July 2, 1915.
CantaIoupe Receipts: Boston eight
arrivals ponies dollar half seventy-five
stands dollar seventy-five two quarter
quality fair demand slow rainy New
York twenty-four CALIFORNIA; flats
sixty seventy-five few higher two ex-
ira fancy standards three fifty ponies
two seventy-five three fourteen Geor-
gias one Florida dollar quarter few
best dollar half seventy-five fair Phil
adelphia two CALIFORNIA; standards
two two fifty flats ninety dollar three
Southern dollar quarter seventy-five
Pittsburg sixteen CALIFORNIA; stand
ards dollar seventy-five two ponies
dollar fifty sixty-fve one Georgia dol
lar dollar fifty Baltimore one Cali
fornia two quarter three dollars two
Georgias dollar half two quarter fair
to good quality Denver three arrivals
two half Omaha CALIFORNIA; ponies
dollar half seventy-five standards two
quarter half st. Louis two GeOrgias
dollar dollar quarter CALIFORNIA;
wrapped dollar seventy-five uRwrap-
ped dollar half flats mostly seventy
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13
CantalOupe Movement

Potomac Yards reports: SO cars, Is
New York Provide nee, 8 PhiladeI-
phia, 6 Boston, = Ba timore, Pitts
burg.
The telegraphic report as to market
conditions released today was based
on the following:
New York, July 2: p CALIFORNIA;,
same flats, sixty, seventy-fve. few
higher; two cars extra fancy stand
ards, three fifty; ponies two seventy
five, three; fourteen Georgias, one
Florida, dollar, dollar quarter; few
best dollar half, seventy-five; fair.
Boston, Mass: Eight cars; quality
fair; slow demand; ponies dollar half,
seventy-fve; standards dollar seventy
five, two quarter
Philadelphia, P:I.: Two CALIFORNIA;,
standards two, two fifty; flats ninety,
dollar; three Southern dollar quarter,
dollar seventy-fve.
Baltimore, Md: One California, two
quarter three; Georgia two, one fifty,
two quarter, quail y fair to good, clear
warm.
Pittsburg, Pa: Arrivals sixteen Cal
ifornias, one Georgia; California
standards selling dollar seventy-fve,
two; ponies dollar half, sixty-five;
Georgia dollar, dollar half; quality
condition.
st. Paul, Mimi: Two cantaloupes,
two and quarter.
Sioux City, Mo-: One fair canta-
loupes, fair demand, two quarter.
st. Louis: Cantaloupes two Geor-
gias, dollar, dollar quarter; large
standards, dollar twenty, thirty; Cali
fornia wrapped, dollar seventy-five
unwrapped dollar fifty; flats mostly
seventy; Missions flats seventy-five
eighty.
Denver: Three cantaloupes two
fifty.
Omaha: California pony canta-
loupes, dollar fifty seevnty-ive, stand
ards two quarter to two half.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

We cannot see, though, why the
state officials allowed the Florida Life
Insurance company, the Florida Fire
and Casualty Insurance company and
the Commercial Bank of Jacksonville,
state institution, to go to the wall
without letting the people know of ex-
listing conditiOns.-Tampa Times.
It's up to the state officials to do
some prompt and lucid explaining.
The failures spoken of by the Times
give their would-be successors some
very effective ammunition for the
coming campaign.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

new judgeship. As the circuit court
business Of the counties affected is
overloaded, and the two new circuits
are needed, it is probable that the
supreme court has decided against the
law on some technicality. There are
so many technicalities that it is al
most impossible for the legislature to
pass any law that will be of real ben
eft to the state. The people of Flor
ida should demand a constitutional
convention, elect their best lawyers to
it, and demand that they draw up
concise and sensible document and
rid the statute books of the mass of
laws that are Of no use except to en-
able pettifoggers to make an easy
living.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13
PENALTIES FOR DOING RIGHT

Tampa Times: The most widely
quoted editorial published in Florida
recently is that of Editor ]. H. Ben
jamin of the Ocala Star, on "This
Wages of Sin Stuff" which was writ
ten in connection with the Menden-
hall Eliot tragedy.
Among the most notable sentences
of this brief philosophic treat is this:
Talking about the wages of sim is
mostly mockery. The sinners are gen
orally the ones most lightly paid. The
burden always falls on the innocent.
Even in this case, Mendenhall will
probably suffer far less than his own
wife and daughter, or than Eliot, the
husband and father of the murdered
women"
Mr.. Benjamin is right. Retribution
always overtakes the wrongdoer in
the long run, but consider the hellish
suffering that he or she injects into
the lives of innocent, duty-adhering
people before and after his or her
career of sin ends.
The crooks suffer in this life, but
they bring infinitely more agony to
clean-minded, God-fearing people, and
in many instances they go out with
cowardly spirit of self-pity complete
ly hiding, from them and oftentimes
from others, the british mental and
physical crimes they have repeatedly
committed.
Truly the most prevalent of dis
eases seems to be moral idiocy, which
completely blinds a hypocrite on the
question of right and wrong, and
which is productive of more suffering
than any other human affiiction.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13
FOR INFORMATION
OF THE FARMERS
Should Have their Names Placed on
the Mailing List by Next
Season
Ocala. Fla. July II. 1915.

Ocala, Fla, July u, 1915.
Editor Star: | herewith hand you a
copy of cantaloupe information, is
sued from Office Of Markets and Rural
Organization. This office is controlled
by the United States department of
agriculture. Please publish the letter
in full for the benefit of the truck
farmers. No doubt a great many
have received the letter thru the
mails. Urge the farmers to express
their appreciation and have their
names placed on the mailing list for
next season.
This information furnished from
Washington, ID. c., is what the Mar
ion County oBard of Trade, thru the
Marketing Bureau, has been trying to
get. Our representatives during the
last session of the legislature failed,
although both of our representatives
were farmers. Very truly,
j. NJ. Meffert.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

According to a decision by the
supreme court of Florida, the acts of
the legislature in creating the twelfth
judicial circuit, out of the counties of
Duval and Nassau, and the new
fourth circuit out of Putnam, st.
Johns and Clay, were not legal, con-
sequently those two needed circuits
will not be added to the judicial ma
chinery of the state. This action of
the supreme court knocks Judge Sam
uel J. Hilburn of Palatka out of his
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

As is usual in the administration of
justice in this country, the first step
in the trial of Mendenhall for the
murder of Mrs. Eliot and her daugh-
ter was to postpone the case. We
don't know whether Mendenhall is
guilty or not and don't feel called on
to express any opinion on the sub
ject, but it would seem that lapse of
ten days after the arrest of the man
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

The Marion County Board of Trade
is in receipt of letters from James P.
Tumulty, secretary to the president,
and from the fourth assistant post
master general, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of resolutions passed by the
Board commencing Postmaster Rog-
ers for his good work in obtaining a
rural auto delivery route for Ocala,
and thanking the department for
granting the postmaster's request.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

Jacksonville has issued an edict that
takers must keep out of its public
parks. This has no reference to bank
wreckers or life insurance thieves or
fire insurance highwaymen, who rob
widows and orphans.-Clearwat
Sun.
They can't be kept out of any place
except Heaven, and to hear most of
them talk one would suppose they be-
lieve they have first mortgages on
that place.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

Our esteemed contemporary, the
Miami Herald, speaking of the failure
of the Commercial Bank of Jackson
vile, the suspension of the Florida
Life Insurance Company, and other
business troubles, denounces what it
calls newspaper trials" One of the
great troubles in this state is that
newspapers do not try half as many
cases as they should. If the news
papers of Florida were as outspoken
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

We hope that when this horrible
fully recognize the iniquity of the
arms and ammunition traffic that they
will quit manufacturing cannon, rifles
and cartridges for anything but home
defense. The Germans never saw
anything wrong in selling munitions
of war till they began to suffer from
the trade.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

as their readers have a right to expect
them to be, there wouldn't be half so
much rascality. As it is, newspaper
trials" are about the only punish
ment that ever is visited on some
premier scoundrels, and the newspa-
per editors and publishers take their
lives and their fortunes in their
hands when they try to administer it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

The regular semi-monthly meeting
of the Marion County Board of Trade
will be held tomorrow evening. There
are number of very important is
sues to come before the board, and it
is highly necessary that as many
members as possible be present.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13
CantalOupe Information
u. D. Dept. of Agriculture,
Office Markets e. Rural Organization,

u. ID. Dept OF agriculture,
Office Markets & Rural Organization,
Washington, July 2, 1915.
Dear Sir: Enclosed find copies OF
our cantaloupe information issued
daily for the use of shippers, commits
sion men, railroad officials and others
who are interested in cantaloupe mar
keting conditions.
This information is issued in the
form of a daily news letter and tele-
grams compiled from telegraphic re-
ports received each morning from the
principal producing areas and the
most important consuming centers.
This news letter mailed each after
noon covers all carload shipments of
the previous day from all sections,
and the receipts and prices in num-
Der of the more important markets.
In case earlier information is desired
this summary or any part of it is
sent by telegraph or day letter, collect,
to any one requesting it.
This market news service in an ex-
pertinent carried on this year for the
first time and with a view to aid in
the marketing and distribution of the
four perishables: strawberries, toma-
toes, peaches and cantaloupes. We
hope this information will be of ser
vice to you or some one in your COM
munity and we shall be very glad to
receive the names of any persons who
wish to subscribe to a daily wire to
be placed on our market news mailing
list. Very truly yours,
Charles J. Brand, Chief.
kilograms, similar to the following,
are prepared each day from informa-
ton received by the Office of Markets
and Rural Organization. Both or any
part of either of these kilograms is
sent, collect, to any person requesting
the same
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-13

What would happen to a fellow who
went into neighbours yard to settle
the neighbours children's squabble p
Florida Metropolis.
Depends on how big the follow is.