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The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
SEVERAL LOST
 IN BIG FIRE
Masonic Home in Wichita Destroyed and Frozen Fire
 Plugs Meant Death.

WICHITA, KANSAS, Dec. 22.- Twenty of the one hundred inmates of the Kansas Masonic Home are be- lieved to have perished in a fire which destroyed the building last night. The origin of the fire is unknown and as it became general in a very short time the cause may never be learned. One of the saddest facts connected with the tragedy was that eight chilG- ren were entrapped in a wing of the building and all attempts at rescue were found impossible When the fire was at its height it was discov- cred that some of the fire plugs had been frozen and to this fact the loss of the eight children is blamed.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
ALASKA'S ATTORNEY
 GENERAL IN JUNEAU

George B. Grigsby, attorney gener- al of Alaska, as a result of the recent election in the Territory, arrived in Juneau yesterday. Mir. Grigsby will assume his duties as attorney gener- al January first; in the meantime, he will act in the capacity of counsel to the Territory, as successor to attorney John H. Cobb. Mir. Grigsby was busy yesterday conferring with the governor and in locating suitable offices. Mir. Grigsby registered at the Gastineau.-Juneau Dispatch.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
BIG SEASON FOR
 ALASKA MINES 1916

JUNEAU, Dec. l4.-Territorial Mining Inspector William MaIoney, recently in the city, spoke favorably of the Alaska mining industry for the year 1916. All of the camps made good showings due to plenty of available water.
 Mr. Maloney left Juneau June 2&, and went to the interior on the first boat down the river from Whitehorse. He has been spending his time in the Iditarod, Ruby, Fairbanks, Marshall City sections, Hot Springs and Tolo- yana. He reports very successful season in all sections this past sum mer. At first, the water was short in several sections but later rains came in the hills and there was plenty of water.
 At Nome the big cleanup was made by the Pioneer Mining Company mostly from the Portland bench, where that company in working a big hydraulic plant
 "They made a $2OO,OOO cleanup just before l got there" said NIr. Maloney
 "The Marshall City camp is a good one as far as one creek is concerned, but if no other pay is discovered this winter the camp will be practically deserted after next summer.
 "They have one very good creek with about six claims on it, but so far nothing more has been found. There are about 800 men prospecting in the section mostly from the Iditarod and Ruby section and they fully expect to find something before the winter is over."-Dispatch.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22

Six hundred and fourteen men were employed on the Seward division on the 2nd of this month and the force now can be very little less. Figuring the wages for each man at very little more thar $S day we find a daily payroll of two thousand dollars. The following is the report on this division taken in part from the Alaska Railroad Record:
 "Following is the progress report of the Seward Division for the week ending December 2:
 "The force at work on the Kern Creek bridge is making satisfactory progress, despite the cold weather,
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
HOW CONRAD BREEDING
 CAME TO SAD ENDING

The following is a more detailed account of the loss of Senator Con rad Breeding, taken from Seattle paper:
 "Freeding had taken his wife and chad to the springs and left nine day g ago for Taylor Creek, a distance of twelve miles, on foot and alone. A severe blizzard has been raging in the Kougarok, and the temperature has been 30 degrees below zero.
 "The route followed by Breeding from Serpentine Hot Springs to his roadhouse and store on Taylor Creek is across a trackless waste of snow and ice, with no trees for shelter, and all hope that he is alive has been abandoned by his friends, who have been searching for him on snowshoes and skis, accompanied by dog teams
 Breeding was found to be missing by A. E. Hastings, who went to Ser pentine Hot Springs to get the mining man, his wife and child, in accordance with an agreement entered into be- ,ore they left Taylor Creek.
 Hastings learned that Breeding had left the springs a week before on foot, saying that business affairs made it imperative that he be back at Taylor Creek as soon as possible. He started from Serpentine Hot Springs Thanksgiving morning. 1t was 20 degrees below zero at the time he began his journey. Later in the day the wind reached high ve- locity, and the air was filled with snow. In a few hours the tempera- ture had fallen to 50 degrees below zero, and the Kougarok was in the grip of the worst blizzard in years.
 "As soon as Hastings learned that Breeding was missing he gave the alarm and a searching party was or ganized. A score or more of men on snowshoes and skis, with dog teams, went over the trail carefully, but no trace of Breeding could be found. The search continued all day and night without success, the party of men with their dog teams returning to Taylor creek, but determined to re- sume the search as soon as the weather should moderate.
 "Victor Anderson took Breeding and his wife and child to Serpentine Hot Springs two weeks ago, where it was believed the water would benefit Mrs. Breeding, who had been i'll. She is now at Taylor Creek in state of collapse"
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
TOURIST HOTELS TO
 BE BUILT IN ALASKA

In one of the recent articles on Al aska, Frank G. Carpenter, the world renowned writer, who visited Seward a year ago, says that company is being organized at the present time to establish big hotels at Skagway Dawson, Fairbanks and Seward These will be for the purpose of ac- commodating in first class style the tourists whom they hope to steer northward. The plan is to advertise the trip down the Yukon and up to Fairbanks, thence to the coast over the government railroad, with a stop over of a few days in each four places above mentioned, so that the visitors may study conditions and see all the sights.
 While Mir. Carpenters article does not state definitely as to when this plan is to be put into execution, the intimation is that the hotels will be established as soon as the railroad is completed.
 The company is to work in con junction with the transportation com panies and even induce the govern ment to advertise the beauties of the trip over the railroad from the inter- for to the coast.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
.BOTHELL BANK
 ROBBERS FOUND
BLACKSMITH CONFESSES AND IMPLICATES HIS TWO
 COMPANIONS.

SEATTLE, Dec. 22.-Oscar Lowe, 27, a blacksmith, has been arrested in Tocoma hotel and has confessed to the Bothell bank robbery and impli- cated two others. The other two are A. Rounds, a blacksmith also, aged 60, of Auburn, and Walter McDoneId, longshoreman, aged 3S. Both were taken into custody immediately after Loves confession. Lowe says they secured nine hundred dollars each but that he himself lost four hundred while the posse was chasing him in the woods. The robbery was commit ted in broad daylight after the men drove up in an auto driven by a Jap anese chauffeur.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
SEWARD LIQUOR IS
 SEIZED AT SEATTLE
Charles Benson Takes Steps to Force Authorities
 to Let Loose

On the 11th of this month the Dry squad in Seattle went out of it's way to seize liquors consigned to people in Alaska and amongst the cOnsignees is Charles Benson of Seward. Mr. Benson first saw an account of the seizure in the Seattle Times of De- cember 12 and he has now taken up the matter with Attorney L. V. Ray to proceed against the authorities. The liquor was in bond, Mir. Benson has his bill of lading and everything in connection with the shipment was perfectly regular, so that the seizure was a most high-handed and unjust procedure. The following is tie story in the Times telling of the seizure:
 "Dry squad agents yesterday seized hfty-one cases, a carton containing two bottles and a five gallon demi- john of whiskey, all addressed to per sons in Alaska, at the Great North ern freight sheds. The shipment was consigned to Charles A. Benson, Sew ard, and c. A. Smith, Ketchikan. A five gallon keg of claret wine ad- dressed to the Flora Co.,, 421 Twenty fourth avenue Sodth, also was seiz- ed."
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
BRITISH PROTEST AGAINST WILSON'S PROPOSAL
VILLA TAKES TOWN
 AND STILL GOING

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The state department is in receipt of advices that Villa in full possession of Santa Rosaia and is planning great campaign again st TorreOn. The TOrreOn communications have been cut and two hundred foreign refugees fleeing souhward. From ali the information received to be evident that the bandit chief is gaining recruits fast and gradu ally becoming the leader of great army It is also ad mted in official circles that the failure to settle the bo der differences is having the effect of weanng the Mexi from the CaTanza side and crisis expected CT or later.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
SEN. ROMAN WILL PRESENT
 BILL FOR HIGH SCHOOL

Senator Jack Roman has expressed his willingness to introduce in the legislature bill providing for the creation of divisional high schools out of the territorial funds. The plan has been inaugurated here and Seward will be strong applicant for one Of the establishments should they be created.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
PATROLMAN SUSPENDED
 FOR TAKING A BRIDE

SEATTLE, Dec. 22.-Patrolman Hagen has been suspended for re- ceiving bribe from bootleggers but as he was the man who single handed unearthed the evidence of the con spiracy he will probably be reinstat- ed. The evidence that he took the bribe was so strong that he did not attempt to brazen it out.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
OTHER NEUTRALS MAY ACT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The diplomats in Wash igtOn contemplating the possibility of other neu tra nations appealing to the beligerents in manner similar to that of President Wilson, and some believe that if all the neutralS follow the Wilson course it will have strong moral effect on the warning governments. The fact that Wilson has particularly asked the belgeren countries for frank replies believed to approximate the actual opening of negotiations as no reply be frank it is pointed out that does not indicate what each of the alliances would cOncede or claim.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
PARLIAMENT PROROGUES

LONDON, Dec 22.-Parlament prorogued this af- ernoOn and when the time came for the adjournment ali the private members in total ignorance of the ten- Ons of the government with respect to the Wilson note Neither the note nor the German proposal mentioned in the kings speech The speech of the king was the shortest on record and only expressed confidence in ut mate victory and the determination of the allied nations to continue
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
anese chauffeur.

SEATTLE, Dec. 22.-Albert Wolf, married realty operator, has been arrested for planning the Bothell bank robbery which was executed by others. It is supposed that the ar rested robbers gave him away.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22

E. M. Gibson, whose leg was ampu- tated yesterday, is progressing very nicely.
 E. K. Irving is now able to get out of bed and walk without difficulty. The doctors say man can live with half liver and Irving has a lot more than that left.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
BRITISH FIGHT ON TIGRIS

LONDON, Dec 22-British aerOplanes successfully bombarded the Turkish river craft west of KuteAmara on Sunday night. On Wednesday made strong recon nosances west of the Saumran bend the Tgris The renewal of activity in that region by the British has ceat ed belief here that this government has decided to wipe out the stain of the surrender of Townsend by victory over the Turks.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
MARPOSA AT ? A. M.

The steamship Mariposa is due to arrive here at o'clock tomorrow morning. She has 52 tons of freigh, for Seward.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
EXAMINING EYES OF
 THE SCHOOL CHILDREN

Mir. Simpson, the Juneau Opto- metrist, is examining the eyes of the school children today by engagement with the school board.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
BREAK DOWN RUSSIAN ATTACKS

BERLIN Dec. P. - The Teutons yesterday broke down four determined Russian attacks the Stritza rv- CT and several Russian attacks in Vohyna have suffered a similar ending.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22

WICHITA, Dec 22.-It was later learned that only five people were lost in the fire. They include a wait ress. The loss is three hundred thousand dollars.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
RUSSIANS WIN HEIGHTS

PETROGRAD, Dec. 22-The Russians yesterday won positions from the enemy the heights near Kmp Olung Roumania The attempts of the Teutons to ad- vance on the Zelota and Lpa rivers have been frus- trated Violent battles are proceeding in Dobrudja
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
SAY THEY ELECTED BRITISH

BERLIN, Dec. p. - North of Arras by counter at tacks have eected the British from advanced German positions which the enemy had succeeded in entering No other fighting is reported from the west
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
614 MEN ON SEWARD
 DIVISION DEC. 2

as are the station gangs between Kern and Glacier Creeks. The sec ton crews at Mile 45 and Mile B have been laid off for the winter. Work on the railroad approach to the Seward dock has again been resumed.
 "The force report of this Division on December ? was as follows:
 Headquarters Office .......... 10 Engineering .................... 50 Shops and Yards .............. 40 Stores and Dock .............. 20 Track, Grade, Ballast and bridges 256 Stationmen and Laborers ......259
 Grand total all employees Sew
 ard division .....,,.,.,,.'....' '6l4
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
BAD WEATHER IN MACEDONIA

PARIS, Dec 22-Rain and snow are falling on the Macedonian front and only intermittent artillery fighting is possible.
The Seward gateway., 1916-12-22
INTERIOR MAIL COMES

Eleven sacks of mail arrived last night on the train from the interior
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02

+. w. Wilson is an active, progress
sive and capable young man, and
stands for a rigid enforcement of all
the laws.
He is finishing his fourth year as
deputy in charge of the sheriff's Of
flee and is pre-eminently qualified to
discharge the duties of that office in
a highly satisfactory manner, ana
by reason of his experience and abil.
ity the cost of the office should be
reduced to the lowest figure in the
history of Jackson county.
1t is universally conceded that the
sheriff's office is being conducted in
a highly efficient manner, and the
election of Mr.. Wilson means con-
tinuance in its present condition.
An excerpt from the certified pub
lie accountants report to the County
Court, filed March 4, 1916, contains
the following:
"All of these collections have been
promptly deposited in the treasury.
The sheriff is observing the law re-
quiring all delinquent taxes to be
brought forward'on the current rolls
and entered on the tax receipts. This
is huge task, and they are doing
the work as diligently as possible
during the stress of heavy tax col
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
Worthy and Well Qualified

lection. 1t is praiseworthy in the
sheriff to find his office admins
tered with no hustle or confusion.
Only expert men are employed in the
office, in the tax collections and 9TH
er departments of the office. And it
is a pleasure to find Jackson county
coming forward as one OF the best
differed counties in the state. I'm
doubtedly it is economy to employ
only efficient men in the office of
tax collector
Il have scanned every tax collec-
tiOn and every fee coming into the
office and find nothing out of place
nor entered wrongly. This is an un-
usually good record"
Mr.. Wilson has by. his own ener-
gies made himself competent Dep
uty Sheriff, and by training and abil-
ity has the necessary qualifications
for Sheriff
JOHN A. WESTERLUND, Med
ford, Ore.
GEO. w. DUNN, Ashland, Ore.
G. F.. BILLINGS, Ashland, Ore.
THOS. H. SIMPSON, Ashland, Ore.
C. B. LAMKIN, Ashland, Ore.
GEO. HILTON, Medford, Ore.
REV. ROBT. A. HUTCHINSON.
REV. T. x. BAILLTE.
(Paid ADVERTISEMENT
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02

sum of Eighteen and 25-100 dol
lars costs and for the disburse-
ments of tLis suit, which judg-
ment was enrolled and docketed
in the Clerks office of said Court
in said County on the 9th day of
October, 1916, and is of record in
Volume % of the Circuit Court
journal.
Public notice is hereby given,
that in compliance with the com
mands of said Execution and Or
der of Sale ] will on Saturday, the
18th day of November, 1916, at
the hour of ten o'clock a. m. at the
front door of the Court House in
Jacksonville, Oregon, offer for
sale and will sell at public auction,
subject to redemption, to the high
est bidder for cash, all of the
right, title and interest that the
defendants above named had on
the date of the mortgage herein
foreclosed or have since acquired
or now have in and to the follow
ing described real property situat-
ed in Jackson County, Oregon, to-
wit:
The lots numbered eight (S),
nine 90, ten (10), eleven CD,
twelve (12), thirteen OBJ and
fourteen (1D, being all of the
west half of block number sixteen
(16) of the amended plat of Oak
dale Park Addition to the city Of
Medford, according to the official
plat thereof, now of record, as the
same is described in Certificate of
Title No. 1914, issued to Henry
d. Taggart. by the Registrar of
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE UN.
DER EXECUTION.

Hattie M. Alden, Plaintiff, VS.. Henry
D. Taggart and Elizabeth Taggart,
his wife, and Jesse Hobson, De-
PENDANTS.
By virtue of an Execution and
Order Of Sale duly issued out Of
and under the seal of the Circuit
Court of the State of Oregon, in
and for the County of Jackson, to
me directed and dated the 10th
day of October, 1916, in a certain
suit therein for the foreclosure of
a mortgage in which the plaintiff,
Hattie M. Alden, recovered judg-
ment against the defendants,
Henry D. Taggart and Elizabeth
Taggart, for the sum of Nine Hun
dred Eighty-nine and no-100 dol
lars, with interest thereon from
said Sth day of August, 1916, at
the rate of per cent per annum,
and Ninety-eight and no-100 dol
lars attorneys fee, and the further
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
Office of Sheriff Was a Busy Place.
(From Ashland Record, April 12,
141Rl

Office of Sheriff Was a Busy Place.
(From Ashland Record, April 12,
1850
The sheriff's office at Jacksonville
was just heaving a sigh of relief last
Thursday when the Record editor
stepped into it. For the ten days
previous it had been one Of the bust
est places in the county. Five men
had been taking care of the first pay
ment of taXes-a job which in for
mer years kept as high as thirteen
people busy. The lessened num-
ber of helpers is largely due to
the efforts of Deputies Harper and
Curly Wilson to establish system.
The whole matter was summed up
by the expert who recently audited
the county books when he said:
THE sheriff's office is administered
with no hustle nor confusion. Only
expert men are employed in the tax
collections and other departments. |
have scanned every tax collection and
every fee coming into tho office and
find nothing out of place nor en-
tered wrongly. This is an unusually
good record"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
NOTICE!

On account of the extraordinary
advances on all kinds of grains and
mill products, we feel that we should
operate our business on the lowest
margin possible and should eliminate
any conditions which prevent this.
As the credit system is necessarily a
more expensive method of doing bus
mess than a cash system, we have
decided to discard our ledger and
henceforth sell only for cash.
Please notice our prices each week;
compare them with other prices here
and the market reports in your daily
paper, and we feel that you will real
ize that we are working for your
interest as well as our own.
Cupid flour, hard wheat, $2.05 per
sack, $50 per Dbl.
Mt. Pitt flour, bluestem, 81 per
sack, 500 per Dbl.
Bear patent flour, S1.05 per sack,
$40 per Dbl.
Whole wheat flour, lb. sack 4Oc,
29 lb. sack $1.1O.
Graham flour, 8 lb. sack 4Oc, 20 lb.
sack Sl.1O.
Corn meal, new, lb. sack 40c.
Extra cream oat flakes, ID. sack
SOC.
Breakfast bran, &c per lb.
Shelled corn, 1925 per 100.
Ground corn, $3.50 per 100.
Hulless barley, S1.00 per 100.
Rolled barley, 70 lb. sack $3.50.
Ground barley, S1.00 per 100.
Bran, 60 h. sack 0Oc.
Millrun bran and shorts, 80 lb.
sack S1.20.
Shorts, so lb. sack S1.30.
Chicken oat flakes, so lb. sack 81.
Mixed egg mash, IS lb. sack $3.50.
Oil meal, 100 lb. sack $2.25.
Soya bean meal, 100 lb. sack
$3.50.
Granulated bone, 100 lb. sack S3.
Best shell, 100 lb. sack $1.5O.
Darling's beef scraps, 100 lb. sack
$i.25.
Shady Brook dairy feed, 100 lb. sack
$1.0O.
Any kind of hay 0Oc per hundred.
Prices subject to change without
notice.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
INTERURBAN AUToCAR co.

Leave Ashland for Medford, Talent
and Phoenix daily except Sunday at
900 a. m. and 100, 200, 400
and 5:15 p. m, Also on Saturday
night at $3.50 and 1920. Sundays
leave at 800 and 100. 4:30, $3.50
and 10:3O p. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland daily ex-
cept Sunday at 500 a. m, 100,
200, 400 and 5:15 p. m. Also on
Saturday at 11:15 p. m. On Sun.
DAYS at 500 and 10:30 a. m, and
1900, 200, $3.50 and $3.50 p. m.
Fare between Medford and Ash
land 20 cents. Round trip, 85 cents.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02

(16) and seventeen (1O, Ashland
Homestead Association, facing
Iowa street.
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
under execution, to satisfy the
judgment herein before mentioned.
And that said sale will be subject
to redemption as is by law provid-
ed. w. H. SINGLER, Sheriff,
By E. w. Wilson, Deputy.
43-5t-Thurs.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

Sunday school at 9;45. Preach
ing service at IL. Christian Endeav-
or Society at $50, Evening service.
song recital by choir. Prayer serv-
ice Wednesday. Choir rehearsal
Thursday. A cordial welcome for.
strangers and pleasant church
home and a place for service to all
without such a home in our city
H. A. Carnahan, d. d., pastor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02

Title No. 1914, issued to Henry
All of the above land will be
sold at said time and place in the
manner provided by law for the
sale of real property under execu-
ton to satisfy the judgment, costs
and accruing costs Of this sale.
Dated at Jacksonville, Oregon,
this 18th day of October, 1916.
w. II. SINGLER, Sheriff.
BY e. w. Wilson, Deputy
41-Thurs-5t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02

NOTICE is hereby given that the
Board of Trustees of the Talent
Irrigation District of Jackson
County, Oregon, will meet in the
offices of said Board in the town
of Talent, Oregon, on Wednesday,
the 18th day of November, 1916,
at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. of
said day, and at the said time and
place opportunity will be given for
a full and complete discussion of
the amount of money proposed to
be raised by taxation for the en-
suing year as published herewith,
by any taxpayer, subject to such
tax levy when made, in favor of or
against the proposed tax levy as
the said Board Of Directors may
deem for the best interests Of said
Talent Irrigation District.
The said levy is made for the
purpose of providing for the pay
ment of warrants of the district,
issued and to be issued by the
Board of Directors of the Talent
Irrigation District in the aggre-
gate sum of $12,000.00 for the
purposes set forth in and under
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-02
Trinity EnisconnI Church.

Vicar, the Rev, P. K. Hammond.
Holy communion at 1880 a m. Sun
day school at 9:45. Holy commun-
ion and sermon at II. Evening
prayer and sermon at 1880. Strang-
ers and visitors cordially welcomed.