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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-23
AIR, GOOD
FOOD AND BATHS
FINEF0R BABIES
Nurses at ChiIdren's Hospital
Tell of Good "Baby Week"
Campaign Will Do

Fresh air, frequent baths, and good
food-these three, according to nurses
at the Children's Hospital, are prime
requisites in movement for healthier
babies.
Many cases came to the hospital"
the authorities there say, which
would have been prevented had
mothers known how to care properly
for the little lives in their infancy"
One Of the things that Honolulu
faces in it's work for lettering babies
lives, these women point out, is Spov-
erty and squaloI.. Many Of the women
in the tenement houses. can not af-
ford to buy fresh milk for their ba-
bies, and have to be content with con-
densed milk Many homes have not
even a table to keep the milk upon.
A great many cases of eye trouble
are brought to the hospital. Some of
these are inherited from diseased par
ents, bat many are caused by improp-
er treatment of the child at birth.
away with by thorough educational
campaign. >..> -" H.. +.
Afraid of Hospitals.
It is also pointed out that an edu-
cational campaign to teach fathers and
mothers not to fear the hospital would
be good thing. Honolulu's mixed
races for the most part are afraid to
bring their children to the hospitals
until the very last stages of disease.
This is common in practically all the
races except the Americans and Port
uguese. ....
Many cases of bone disease could be
prevented, nurses say, by a little
training of the parents. Too many
cases where hard blows have been re-
ceiyed on bone are not given proper
treatment. resulting finally in bone tu-I
berculosis, or something else as bad.
Cases Of crooked spines in children
could be often remedied If brought to
the hospital in time, as these cases
grow worse with each day of delay.
Children also need to be trained to
know what are good and what are dan
gerous toys. Only last Saturday a lit
tie fellow was brought to the hospi-
tai suffering from blow in the eye
through a rock thrown by a thought
less playmate. The little sufferer will
probably never see out OF that eye
again. Training in the right way
might have prevented the accident.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Horses Killed
Rider Unhurt

j. NJ, Dodge of Medford while re
turning from the soda springs above
Ashland Friday evening, very mar
rowly escaped death and suffered the
loss Of his team of horses at cross
ing about a mile this side of Medford
when struck by No. 16. Dodge had
hauled well-drilling outfit to the
springs and was taking his team
home, riding one of the horses. The
horse he was riding was thrown
twenty feet and the other thrown
some distance. Dodge escaped with
out serious injuries and rode the
horse home, distance of nearly a
mile. Upon arriving at home he
tainted. An hour later one of the
horses died and before morning the
other succumbed. The team was val
ued at $4OO.
Dodge stated that he heard the
whistle but thought he had plenty of
time to cross the track. The fact
that he was not killed he attributes
to lighting on soft pile of dirt.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Grabbing Players
At Lyric This Week

A bill of exceptional excellence will
be given at the Lyric theatre on
Wednesday and Thursday nights, De-
cember 1914. The Grabbing Play
ers, composed of former members of
the Orpheum, Sullivan g. Considine
and Pantages circuits, will be heard
in two sensational tabloid dramas
on Wednesday night Vice and the
Woman the play that has created a
furore wherever heard, and on
Thursday night Watch the Watch, "
a comedy which contains a laugh in
every line.
In addition, two complete changes
of vaudeville will be presented Gra-
ham G. Norton, harmony singers (for-
merly of the S. & c. circuit, will
give twelve minutes of splendid song
and rapid-change chatter, while
Kubiak and Vickroy formerly Of the
Orpheum circuit will render violin
and saxophone numbers.
Five reels of photo-plays will
complete the bill-one of the best
that has ever graced the boards of
the Lyric.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Teach Fruit
Growing In Brazil

Horace Cardinell, former Ash
land boy and graduate of Oregon
Agricultural College, 1915, who has
been working on local fruit ranches,
has been appointed pomologist of the
Brazilian government at salary of
$2,400 a year, with transportation
and expenses. He will be assisted by
seven other American fruit experts.
Their work will be to establish the
apple industry in that country. Ac-
cording to reports received by Mr..
Cardinell, there are only eight acres
in Brazil planted to apples, the fruit
selling there now at 81 dozen.
With one exception, all the mem
bers of the delegation, which sails
from New York in few weeks, will
be made up of Pacific coast fruit
men. On the seventeen day trip to
Flo Janeiro the members will have
a Portuguese tutor to teach them the
language.
Horace Cardinell attended school
here a number of years ago and
moved from here to Portland.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Auto Thief Fails
To Reach Oregon

A stranger driving Hudson super
six roadster arrived in Montague last
Thursday, says the Siskiyou News of
Yreka, and made an attempt to sell
the car, finally disposing of it to DR..
Dwinnell for $500, taking $40 in
cash and a check. A wire sent to
San Francisco by another man to
whom he had offered the car resulted
in the arrival of word that the car
was the personal car of the San
Francisco Hudson dealer and had
been stolen. The man was arrested
and taken to San Francisco for trial.
He was thought to be headed for
Oregon but was out of funds and
could not get gasoline necessary to
make the mountain.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Hooper Again
Flies the Coop

John austin Hooper, whose sensa-
tional career of gentlemanly crime
ranging from throwing ammonia in
the face of the Rogue River bank
cashier to forcing the manager of the
Hornbrook store and his wife to help
him rob the Jones store, with almost
every kind of holdup and banditry to
his credit up and down the coast,
has again asserted his independence
and escaped from the Missouri peni-
tentiary, where he was placed for
killing a policeman. Details of the
escape have not been received, but
Hooper is thought to be headed for
the coast.
Hooper did not have any killings
to his credit on the coast, holding
them unnecessary in scientific crime.
He claimed that at the time of kill
ing the Missouri policeman he
thought the policeman was going to
hold him up.
At the time of his arrest in Mis-
souri, Hooper was being sought for
having escaped from the county Jail
at Grants Pass in August, 1915. He
was being held in the jail there upon
the charge of robbery of the South
ern Pacific depot and OF bank at
Rogue River, and was also a parole
breaker from Folsom prison in Cali
fornia, where he was under a SEN
tence to the penitentiary for life. Ills
escape from the valley jail was spec
tacular, and he has been implicated
in a number of spectacular stunts
since leaving Grants Pass, always
finding some way to escape when
taken by the officers. Hooper is con-
sidered one of the most daring des-
peradoes in the country.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
NUMBER So
More Publicity
From Railroad

The Southern Pacific Company is
issuing 10 its agents all along its
lines, both in the big cities and the
smallest villages, letters describing
the things which may be seen from
the Southern Pacific trains between
Portland and San Francisco. Two
of these were issued some time ago
and the third, describing, in the Or
der in which they are seen, the at
fractions which will be seen from
train No. 19, has just been issued.
Ashland is given prominent place
in this letter, receiving the greatest
amount of space of any of the de-
scriptions, which are necessarily
brief, owing to the fact that the let
ter is written on a single sheet Of
letter paper, one-third of which is
taken up with pictures of points Of
interest along the Shasta route. A
picture Of the lithia fountains at the
s. P. station and of the mountain
scenery on the Siskiyou grade are
among the seven views shown.
The letter says of Ashland:
Ashland, railroad division point,
fruit and agricultural center is bet
ter known as 'Oregons Famous Spa.
Mineral springs gush eternal from
mysterious mountain depths, bring
ing message of health and rejuven-
alton to all mankind. Several Of
Ashland's springs play through the
fountains on the Ashland station
grounds, and every passenger must
have at least one drink of refreshing
mineral water.
Ashland Is natural resort, 1890
feet above sea level, with an even,
invigorating climate. Beautiful for
situation at the upper end of the
Rogue River valley and surrounded
by wooded, picturesque mountains"
These letters are guide to every
Southern Pacific agent in describing
the attractions of a trip over the
Shasta route, and Ashland is bound
to receive great deal of publicity
from them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Carload OF Bad
Ones Bound North

Wednesday government prison
car passed through Ashland from San
Francisco en- route to McNeaPs
Island The windows of the steel
car were covered by iron bars. The
transport prison was comfortably
filled with opium smugglers, white
slavers and others charged with de-
frauding U, s. postoffices. The pris-
oners were safely shackled and the
car was well guarded. The unfor-
tunates included all colors from
white men to negroes and Chinese.
One "chink" who commanded atten-
tion was over six feet tall
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
H0lStein Bull
Sells For $2l,500

Finderne Mutual Fayne Valdness,
"a junior yearling Holstein bull, con-
signed by Bernhard Meyer of Fin
derne, N. j., Friday sold in the ring
at the sixth Pacific International
Livestock Show at Portland for $21,-
500, the highest price ever paid on
the Pacific coast for a single ami
NAL He was purchased by John Won
Herberg, owner of ninety head Of
pure Holsteins at Kent, Wash.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Chaplin and Sweet
At vining Tuesday

Charlie Chaplin in THE Vaga-
bond" and Blanche Sweet in Public
Opinion" will be the two pictures
which will combine to make an eX-
ceptionally big and good show at the
Vining theatre Tuesday night. Char
lie needs no introduction and as the
vagabond he is at his best. Miss
Sweet appears in an exceptionally
gripping and appealing film play.
Tonight.
A road show, not motion picture,
is at the Vining tonight. THE Win
ming of Barbara Worth" from the
famous Harold Bell Wright novel,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Firemen Pass
Engineer Exam

At the examination held last week
in Superintendent Metcalf's office at
Dunsmuir, the following firemen sue
cessfully answered all questions and
we're promoted to engineers of the
Shasta division: T. Lafferty, G. F.
Irvine, E. F. Young, ]. a. Carey, S.
R. Stanley, E. P. Webster and ]. NJ.
Rogers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
County Budget OF
l6 Mills Adopted

At a meeting of the county court
held Thursday protests were received
from members of the Jackson County
Taxpayers League concerning the
proposed levy for the coming year.
The recommendation of the league
are printed elsewhere in this issue.
The tentative budget was adopted by
the court for the coming year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
representatives
Confer at Pass

The Jackson county representa-
tives are in Grants Pass today meet
ing with the other southern Oregon
solons in a conference from which
much good is expected to emanate.
The closing of the Rogue river and
many other questions will be dis
cussed, and 1t is said that the repre-
sentatives from this section will also
decide upon the stand which they
will take in the fight for the speak
ership of the house.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Lithia Bakery
Changes Hands

R. c. Jorgensen, baker at the
Lithia bakery, and who is well known
in this city, where he has made his
home during the past seven years,
has purchased the Lithia bakery and
restaurant and took charge last
week. Messrs. Rinehart & Taylor,
the former owners, are undecided as
to future plans. Mr.. Jorgensen's
ability as a baker and cook is too
we'll known to require introduction,
and patrons of the Lithia are assured
of even better service and food in
the future than in the past.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Medf0rd District
Election Dec. II

The election to establish the Med
ford irrigation district has been
called for December 27 and an active
campaign is being waged by the ir-
rigationists of the valley. The news
papers of the valley are a unit in
recognizing the necessity of irriga-
ton Medford has been practically
insured of a beet sugar factory
should the district be formed and
water placed on the land.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
MAIL CHRISTMAS PACKAGES
EARLY.

10 Here are the rules which pa 9
9 irons of the postoffice are re- o
o quested to observe in preparing o
o their Christmas packages for 9
9 mailing: o
% Prepay postage fully on all o
8 parcels. o
Q Address parcels fully and o
9 plainly. o
o Place name and address of o
o sender on all matter. o
o Pack articles carefully and @
o wrap them securely, but do not o
o seal them, as sealed parcels are o
@ subject to postage at the letter @
o rate. O.
o Mail parcels early. They may o
Q be marked do not open until o
o Christmas" o
@ Insure valuable parcels. o
O Written inscriptions such as .
@ Merry Christmas" Happy o
Q New Year." with Best Wish @
o es,' and numbers, names or let o
Q ters for purpose of description o
@ are permissible additions to o
o fourth class (parcel post) mail. o
o Books may bear simple dedica- .
o tory inscriptions not of a per- .
. sonal nature. other written ad- =
. ditions subject parcels to letter .
. postage, as@ tff ' =
o. .
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Taxpayers League
Recommends Changes

The Jackson County Taxpayers
League met last Thursday at Med
ford and presented the following rec
concentrations to the county court,
who placed them upon file, receiving
them with thoughtful considerations
To the County Court, Jackson Coun-
ty, Ore.
Gentlemen: We, the budget com
mittee of the Jackson Coutny Tax
payers League, to whom has ben re-
ferred the matter of tax levies as ad-
vertised in your budget for 1916, ask
that special consideration be given
by you to the matters herein suggest
ed, with view to reduce the tax
levy for this year.
The financial condition of the
county and of the individual property
owners is such that taxes are heavy
burden and must be reduced to a
miniLldm.
We believe from our investigation
that the following recommendation
will meet general approval of tax
payers:
While it appears that county
school, high school, general road, tax
collecting and assessors expense is
in excess of what should be required,
we believe the levies advertised can
we'll be reduced below the amount
asked for.
For circuit court expense we find
the actual expense has been below
$4,000 and recommend that this levy
be reduced to this amount.
For county court general expense
and travelling expenses we believe
reduction of 81, 900 should be made.
For Juvenile court expense also a re-
duction Of $1,000. We believe by
rigid curtailment of expenditures
these amounts can be saved to the
taxpayers.
For county advertising purposes
we recommend the elimination of
$1,000 for promotion expense.
The levy for the care of the poor
should be materially reduced. We
recommend the adoption of methods
by which saving can be made, and
suggest that this levy be reduced at
least $4,000.
Court house expense can be re-
duced by the reduction on incidental
expenses and by the consolidation of
janitor and jailor. We recommend |
that this be done and that this levy |
be reduced at least $500.
We ask that a reduction of at least |
$500 be made in the levy for county
surveyor, $1,000 for school superin-
tendent's expense, and 81 900 for the
enforcement of the prohibition law.
While there is vague possibility
Of a special election being called dur
ing the year, such an election is very
We believe the levy of
$4,000 for this purpose should be
Very respectfully,
THE TAXPAYERS BUDGET
COMMITTEE,
By Benton Bowers, Chairman.
Medford, Ore, Dec. 7. 1916.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Tourist Rates
Are Equalized

A matter of vital importance to
the tourist ambitions of Ashland and
the Northwest generally was settled
favorably when the interstate rail
road commission in session at Chi
cago abolished the differential in
tourist rates which have heretofore
made travelling from the east to San
Francisco cost SIT more by the route
through the Northwest than by the
southern route. A number of public
service commissions, state associa
tions and Commercial clubs of Ore
gon and Washington Joined in the
protest against the differential.
AS the central route is slightly
shorter it may be that rates over the
central route may be left slightly
lower than the northern and southern
routes, but at any rate the chances
are that great proportion of the
tourist travel which has been kept
away from the Northwest b. the ad-
ditional cost of railroad fare, will
now come or return by the northern
route.
The commission in its investiga-
tion found that a passenger travel
ing from Chicago to San Francisco
over one of the central routes and
returning by way-of Ell Paso and New
Orleans must pay an all-year pas
senger rate of $40 for the round
trip, while if he goes west over a
central line and returns over north
ern road, or vice versa, the fare
is $12S. For summer excursion
round trip tickets the fare has been
$3.50 by the southern route and
$50 if northern route is used either
way.
While this is true of round trip
fares, the commission found that the
one-way fare between Chicago and |
San Francisco is the same whether |
by central, southern or the northern
route.
Shasta Route Only Reason.
Investigation further showed that |
the $1S discrimination against the
northern routes was made by the car
riers in order that the Southern Pa
cific might receive $40 from each
round trip ticket to cover travel over
the Shasta route, the only rail con-
nection between Portland and San
Francisco. The railroads at the hear
ing admitted that this was the only
reason for the differentiaT.
The commission found no support
FOR the railroads contention that half
the Pacific Coast travel is by way
Of northern roads. On the contrary,
The most reliable figures it could OBJ
tain that only from to Is per cent
Of travellers going from Chicago to
San Francisco and return went by
way of the northern routes. This
It held was a clear evidence of dis
in routing.
The commission specifically holds
hat the Southern Pacific cannot elect
% concur in the lower excursion fare
by its southern route and at the
same time refuse to concur in the s
over excursion fare via its Shasta
quite without violating section of
he interstate commerce act.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11

Edwin Dunn, son 6f G. W. Dunn
of Ashland, was a member of the
o. A. c. stock-judging team which
won first place in a competitive
stock Judging contest held at the
Pacific International Livestock Expo
aition at Portland. Teams from the
University of Idaho; and Washington
State College competed with the Ore
gon boys.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Jarvis For Springs
Water Commission

DR.. Jarvis has been urged by
many to allow his name to appear on
the ballot as candidate for springs
water commissioner, and petitions
are out today and being generally
signed. 3. r. Greer is the retiring
member and VIII not be q candidate.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Park Lighting
Bill Problem

Who will pay for the lighting of
the parks is the question with which
the council wrestled over half hour
Tuesday night and finally dropped
until after election. The present ar
rangement includes leaving a few
lights on around the utlerPerozzi
fountain and the drinking fountains
and one or two down through Chau-
tauqua park.
Briefly stated, the situation in re-
gard TO park lighting is as follows:
The electric light department has
charged the lighting up to the park
board until, to quote Superintendent
Strickland, the light department is
the goat to the extent of $3.50" The
park board has refused to pay this
and, according to Mr.. Ashcraft, threw
the keys down in the office and re-
fused to have anything to do with
the park lighting. A motion to
charge the park lighting to the gen.
eral fund was lost because it was
deemed that the general fund would
have a hard time meeting it's other
obligations. The light department
therefore remains "the goat" until
after election, when things will have
settled down so that a definite ar
rangement can be made.
Lights are necessary at the foun-
tains so that vandals will not steal
the money from the cup venders or
break the glass. The Butler-Perozzi
land was decided to the city and the
fountain erected with the provision
that the fountain be lighted, and the
donors state that rather than run the
risk of having vandals mutilate the
fountain, they will fence the whole
works up. Residents of the Granite
street neighborhood go home at night
through the park and, as Mr.. Lamb
expressed it, put up an awful howl
when the lights were turned off alto
gether"
Mr.. Strickland stated that the
lights could he turned off at 10
o'clock, after a suggestion by Mr..
Banta, by installation of an automatic
switch, thus effecting small saving,
but Mr.. Poot called the councils at
tention to the fact that the switch
would cost more than the saving
made between now and election Mr..
Banta in the course of the discussion
ventured the opinion that anyone
who went up there after 10 o'clock
wouldn't want lights"
At present standing most all of the
lights in the park are turned off and
burning to protect the foun-
.ain and light the main patch. The
cost of the current is about $13 per
month under the present arrange
ment.
The whole argument revolved
around the fact that the park board
lad refused to pay for the lighting
md that the electric light department
vas determined not to be "the goat"
since it was the goat last year for
everal thousand dolalrs of street
lights and the impression was liable |.
o he gained that it does not cost an
hing to manufacture current. 4
Mr.. Nininger made positive stand {
IN the matter, advocating "since they
park board had agreed to run the
lark for two-mill levy, make them
10 it."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11
Seattle Pastor
Accepts Local Call

Rev. G. S. Brett of Seattle has ac-
cepted a unanimous call to the pas
torate of the First Congregational
church of this city. He will preach
next Sunday morning and evening.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11

Eugenet-ThSb BoOth-Kelly Com
pany has let contracts for 1000, 600
feet Of logs.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11

The school board Of Paisley, Ore,
has let the contract for a $4,000
school.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11

BlachleD Ore, is to erect a large
union graded school .,...---------.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-11

Oregon City has contributed $S,-
OOO toward building q $3.50 arm
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