Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-04

Mrs. Bert Mattern is back from
the Highland mine in the wilds OF
Siskiyou county, During her stay at
the mine, which is in the Salmon
river country, she shot bear and a
big buck. The bear got too familiar
with the camp one day when all the
men folks were away
Arthur Mcdonald, youth Of Trail
Creek, had a narrow escape from
death Saturday afternoon when the
automobile he was driving plunged
over thirty-foot embankment into
the Rogue river. The youth was bad
ly shaken up but escaped serious in
jury. The auto is almost a total
wreck.
Harley Hall, owner of the Look
over prospect, one mile west of Bum
come, has discovered a vein of ore
bearing $40 in gold to the ton. The
vein is said to be several inches
wide. A half interest in the prop
erty has been sold to John Louden,
a well-known mining man of Jack
sonville.
j. W. Warner of Trail, aged 65,
was found dead near his home We'd
nesday. Death was due to heart
failure. lie went in search of horses
in the hills and was stricken. His
son Ray found him dead after an all
night search. The funeral services
will be held today at Trail. He is
survived by a widow and nine chill
dren.
DR.. Boslough spent ten days at
Rochester, Mimi, attending the Mayo
clinic. He returns to Ashland with
greater faith in our possibilities and
greater love for our climate and en-
vironment. All over the east Dr.
Boslough met physicians who had
already heard of the water develop
ment here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer and daughter
of Bandon, Ore, who stopped at the
Ashland auto camp some time ago,
became much enamored OF Ashland,
and after trip to Crater Lake have
returned and will spend the winter
here. NRey are located at the c. w.
Chattin \residence on Hargadine
street.
Tuesday Glen ]. McCaddam was in
Ashland arranging for lyceum
course for the coming season. He
represents the Ellison-White Chau-
tauqua and Lyceum System, the same
company which supplied the bill for
six days of the Ashland Chautauqua
this year. He is interesting the min
sterial alliance in the project.
Mrs. Ed Mccoy of Portland, accom-
panied by her son Louis, stopped with
the G. F. Billings family Tuesday
night. They are returning from an
automobile trip which included both
the San Francisco and San Diego ex-
positions and through a portion of
Old Mexico. Mr.. Mccoy is business
man located near Juneau, Alaska.
William Finley, state geologist,
Jewett of the government forest serv-
ice, and Mr. Horsfall, moving picture
photographer of wild life, all from
Portland, passed through Ashland
last week en- route to the Silver Lake
country, where Mr.. Finley will OBJ
tain pictures of the antelope herds of
that region for his illustrated lecture
on Oregon wild life
Miss Ruby Blair of Stockton,
Mimi, and w. A. Linegar of De Smet,
S. D., came from the east three
months ago to attend the reunion of
the Linegar family at Santa Clara.
They have since taken in both the
fairs and visited over the border in
Mexico. The party stopped off Tues
day to visit j. E. Crowson at his
home on the Boulevard. Mr.. Crow
son was a former neighbor Of the
visitors.
From the Canadian to the Mexican
border in three days, nine hours and
fifteen minutes was the record made
by "Cannonball" Baker on an Indian
motorcycle in a recent test run on
1916 Indian. The distance is 1853
miles. Baker passed through Ash
land on the trip and made the ac-
quaintance Of several local motorcy-
clists.
A Pacific Highway Log" folder
has just been issued, giving distances
over and much information concern
ing that route between Vancouver, b.
c., and San Francisco. The elevation
of Ashland is given as 1873 feet, its
distance from Seattle 526 miles, to
San Francisco 415, and to Portland
327. Sutherlin parties are the orig
inators of this schedule, which gives