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Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1922-12-13

Football Team to be Feted--
"The crowning event of the even
ing's Entertainment will be the pre-
sentation of the Jackson County
Amusement company to the victor
ious Medford team" says the Med
ford Mail Tribune. Football fans o.
Medford are showing keen Interest
in the big celebration at the pavilion
tonight. The entire football squat
and high school faculty have beer
invited as guests of the pavilion
management, and every effort vii
be made to entertain them royalty.
Big Dance Is Planned
Members of the Ashland football
team, together with the coach and
all of the faculty, have been invited
by the management of the Jackson
Hot Springs dance pavilion to be
present for an evening of fun and
entertainment at the Jackson Springs
Saturday light. A large number OF
people attended the local dance last
week and were well pleased with the
music furnished by the Floyd Dlckey
orchestra. All are urged to come
out and help celebrate with the foot
ball team.
Visiting with Brother
Mrs. Mollie Coolidge, of Portland,
is spending a week as the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. d. l.. Minkler Of c
street, as she Is en- route home from
a visit in southern California. Mrs.
Coolidge is sister of Mr.. Minkler
Budget Is Approved
The county court this morning
passed the Jackson county budget as
printed. This action was made with
out the usual amount of squibblins
that generally is in order.
Visiting In Portland
N. A. Blagdon, of Ashland, IS
among the recent arrivals in the city,
says the Oregon Journal.
Streets Are Icy
A freeze following the snow OF
Wednesday resulted in very Slip
perry surface on the paved highways
and streets of the city. Speed DEM
ons and fast drivers in general we're
forced to take things more slowly,
and in a majority OF cases took the
precaution of claiming the wheels OF
their machines. Bicyclists and horse
drawn vehicles had the hardest time
of all this morning on the grade Just
above the Plaza. The ice became
slush a short time before noon
Visiting IN Klamath Falls
Mr.. and Mrs Eugene Spencer, who
live at the old Chase station. are
visiting friends in klamath Falls for
a few days.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1922-12-13
A. L. Auxiliary to Meet

A. L. Auxiliary to Meet
Members of the Ladies' Auxiliary
Of the American Legion will hold al
important meeting at the Parisl
house, Friday afternoon at 2:S(
o'clock. AS there are only two more
meetings to be held this year, it |!
urged that all those affiliated will
the organization be present.
Leaves for Los Angeles
Mrs. NJ. c. Reed left last night OF
train Is for Los Angeles, where she
will join her husband.
Visits in Ashland
d. NJ. Lowe, of Medford, was
visitor at the Ashland Winter Fail
today.
On Business in Jacksonville
Ralph Billings was a business Wis
itor to the county seat today.
Takes Position at Bakery
Mary Leach has taken position
at the Electric bakery and will serve
the public over the counter with the
electrically baked pastry.
Kicks on Advertising
H. c. Hamaker came TO the It'd
ings office this morning and regis
tered a kick about the results OBJ
tanned from an ad placed in the pa
per few days ago, stating that he
had chickens for sale. Mr.. Hamakel
said the trouble was people contin
ued to come for day or two after
the chickens had been disposed Of
This is generally the only dissatis.
faction found with the Tidlngs want
ads.
Xmas Rates Are Offered
Reduced holiday excursion fares
will be put into effect by the South
ern Pacific for Christmas and New
Years, 1t was announced today by
John M. Scott, general passenger
agent. The reduced rates which
which will be In effect between all
points on the S. p. lines where the
one way fare is $40 or less, will con-
sist OF one fare and a half for the
round trip, or rs per cent reduc-
tion from the double one way fare.
Tickets will be on sale December 22
to January 1. with final return limit
Of January 3.
Here on Business
Harold w. Readon, representing
the Hlcks-Chatten Engraving CON-
pany of Portland. was in We city to-
day on business calling at the high
school in regard to cuts for the high
school annual. MFR. Readon former
ly attended the Oregon Agricultural
college, where he was prominent in
campus activities. particularly in
journalism. He left this afternoon
for Medford.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1922-12-13
Poultry Awards Scattered Over Entire State;
Many Ashland Exhibitors Take Awards at Fair

ent, second cock, first hen, second
pullet; Mrs. F. A. Denzer, Medford,
third cock; ]. l.. Freeman, Central
Point. first cockerel and first pullet.
Indian Runner Ducks-Henry Van
Prooyen, Ashland. all awards.
Wild Mallard Ducks, NJ. Shackel-
ford, Ashland, all awards.
Tolouse Ducks-vern Temple
Ashland, all awards.
Gray Call Ducks-Glenn Head
Ashland, all awards.
Special Premiums
Best exhibit in show, one breed
NJ. NJ. Lower, CASTOR, Or.
Best bird in show-Bert Senter
Hood River, Or.
Best exhibit White Plymouth
Rocks-Bert. Senter. Hood River.
Best exhibit White Wyandottes-
D. B. Gold, Ashland.
Best exhibit Rhode Island Reds
Mrs. w. C. Boliou, Medford.
Best Plymouth Rock cockerel -
Horace Beardsley. Oakland, Calf.
Best White Leghorn cockerel-
A. P. Wheeler, Pleasant Hill, Or.
Best Brown Leghorn cockerel-
Lawrence Wheeler. Pleasant Hill, Or
Best Black MinQrca cockerel--G
w. Speight, Hubbard, Or.
Best laying pen White Leghorn
! (o,d)-G. w. Allen, Ashland.
Best laying pen White Leghorn
! (young)-E. C. Lockwood, Ashland
Best type laying hen r. |. Red
Ernest Webb, Central Point.
Best display White Leghorns-E
0. Smith, Ashland.
Champion Barred Plymouth Rocl
hen-Bruce Wheeler, Goshen, Or.
Best turkey in show--Mrs. j. L
Neil, Ashland.
Best Rhode Island Red hen-Mrf
w. C. Boliou, Medford.
Best pen Barren Plymouth Rock
M. M. Lower CASTOR, Or.
Pen laying most eggs during sho'
C. w. Allen, Ashland.
Best exhibit Anconas-A. McMiI
Ian, Ashland.
Best exhibit Black Minorcas-
John F. Butler, Ashland.
Special ribbons given by Rhod
Island Red club of America - Fo
best shaped cock, Mrs. w. c, Boliol
Medford; best shaped hen, Erne'
Webb, Central Point; best shape
cockerel, Ernest Webb; best shape
pullet. Ernest Webb; best colore
cock, Ernest Webb; best colored hel
Mrs. w. C. Bollou; best colored coci
erel. Fred Johansen. Rainier, Or
best colored pullet, Mrs. w.
Boliou.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1922-12-13

Awards made in the poultry de-
partment at the Southern Oregon
Poultry Association exhibition, in
connection with the Winter Fair,
are as follows:
Barred Plymouth Rocks as birds)
Dark mating-M. M. Lower, Cas-
ton. Or. first cock first and second
hens, second pullet and first young
pen; Mrs. Victor Bursell, Central
Point, Or, second cock, third hen;
Horace Beardsley, Oakland, Calf,
first cockerel, first and third pull
let's; Mrs. Rosa B. Willett. Medford,
Or, second cockerel and third young
pen. ]. v. Miller, Goshen, Or, third
cockerel; e. C. Burt, Ashland, Sec
ond young pen. Light mating-M
M. Lower, first cock, first and third
cockerel, first and third pullet, firs'
young pen; C. Bruce Wheeler, Gosh
en- Or, first hen. second cockerel
second pullet.
White Plymouth Rocks (22 birds)
Jack Bertram, Lents, Or, frs
cock, second hen. first cockerel
third Dullet; Bert Senter, Hood Rivel
Or, second cock, first hen, secont
cockerel first pullet; E. o. Smith
Ashland. third hen; J. Larkin Grubb
Ashland, third cockerel, second pul
let. first young pen.
Partridge Plymouth Rocks e
birds)-All awards to Gus R. Beck
Talent. Or.
Columbian Plymouth Rocks-2;
birds)-All awards to H. r. Dam
mon, Portland. Or.
White Wyandottes (i5 birds)-
d. B. Gold. Ashland, first, second ant
third hen, first and second younl
pen; Eugene Senter, Hood River, Or.
! first cockerel and first pullet.
Partridge Wyandottes-.Mr w. S
Eastman, Ashland, all awards.
Silver Wyandottes-C. B. Wheel
er, Goshen, Or, all awards.
Buff Wyandottes-Ira R. Aldrich
La Grande, Or, all awards.
: Rhode Island Reds (3S birds)-
Ernest Webb, Central Point, frs
cock. second hen, third cockerel
third pullet. second young pen; D. B
. Gold, Ashland, second cock; Mrs. W
: c. Boloiu, Medford first hen, firs
and second pullet, first young pen
first old pen; Tom Johansen, Rainer
!, Or, first and second cockerel.
}, Black Jersey Giants (l1 birds)-
All awards to Theo. P. Cramer Jr
Grants Pass.
Blue Jersey Giants-All awards t
Dexter P. Upham, Bellmar. N. ].
: Light Brahmas 20 birds)-
ard Gear, Ashland, Or, first her
. first cockerel.
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cannibaIistic Sea GuIIs.

1t is not generally realized now great
an enemy the sea gull is to smaller
birds. An observer ventures the opin-
ion that the reason why small mi
grants invariably cross the sea nv
night is that otherwise they would be
simply exterminated by gulls. Some
times it happens that change in the
wind delays the arrival of flights of
spring migrants, so that they fail TO
make landing before daylight. Light
house keepers have then witnessed
scenes of savage slaughter; hundreds
of poor, tired, little songsters being
hunted down by gulls, seized and de-
voured.
Year by year in England gulls work
further and further inland, and in bad
weather may be seen almost anywhere
even in the Midlands. Indeed. on one
occasion number were noticed In
flooded meadow near bennington.
town which claims to be almost the
geographical center of England.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20
CHAPTER II

Before the gray dawn came over the
land Bruce Duncan had started west
ward. He had no self-amazement at
the lightning decision. He was only
strangely and deeply exultant.
The reasons why went too deep
within him to be easily seen. In the
first place, it was adventure
Bruces life had not been very adven-
furious heretofore. Then there was a
sense of Unreasonable relief at his
sudden and unexpected freedom from
the financial problems his father had
left. He would have no more consul
tatiOnS with impatient creditors, no
more would he strive to gather to-
gether the ruins of the business, and
attempt to salvage the small remain
ing fragments of his fathers fortune
He had no plans, he didn't know which
way to turn. All at once, through the
message that Barney had brought him,
he had seen a clear trail ahead 1t
was something to do, something at
last that mattered.
Finally there remained the eminent
fact that this was an answer to his
dream. He was going toward Linda,
at last. The girl had been the one
living creature in his memory that he
had cared for and who cared for him
the one person whose interest in him
was real. Linda, the little "spitfire"
of his boyhood, had suddenly become
the one reality in his world, and as he
thought of her, his memory reviewed
the few impressions he mad retained
of his childhood
First was the Square house-the
orphanage the Woman had
turned him over to the nurse in
charge. Sometimes, when tobacco
smoke was heavy upon him, Bruce
could catch very dim and fleeing
glimpse of the Woman's face. 1t was
only a glimpse, only the faintest blur
in half-tone, and then quite gone. Yet
he never gave up trying.
The few times that her memory
picture did come to him, it brought
number of things with it. One Of
them was a great and overwhelming
realization of some terrible tragedy
and terror the nature of which he
could not even guess.
"Shes been through fire." the nurse
told the doctor when he came in and
the door had closed behind the Woman.
Bruce did remember these words, be-
cause many years elapsed before he
completely puzzled them out. The
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the devils of the deep to see you-the
moment l came here"
Cigarettes on the smoking-stand,"
Bruce said steadily. "And tell away"
But tell me something first. Was
Duncan your real father? If he was,
I'll know I'm up wrong tree. l don't
mean to be personal"
He wasn't. / thought you knew It,
My real father is something like you
something of a mystery"
81 won't be mystery long. He's
not, eh-that's what The old bag said.
Excuse me, old man, for saying 'hag.'
But she was one, if there is any such.
Lord knows who she is, or whether or
not she's relation of yours. But I'll
begin at the beginning. You know
was way back on the Oregon frontier
back in the Cascades. 1 was fishing
for steelhead in a river they call the
Rogue. While way up on the upper
waters heard of place called Trails
End-a place where wise men do not
CO."
And of course you went?"
"Of course. The name sounds silly
now, but it won't if you ever go there.
There are only few families, Bruce,
miles and miles apart, in the whole
region. And it's enormous-no one
knows how big. Just ridge on ridge.
One day my guide stopped at broken
down old cabin on the hillside for a
drink Of water. / was four miles
away in camp. The guide came back
city.
II told him yes, and asked him why
he wanted to know. He said that this
old woman sent word, secretly, to
every stranger that came to fish or
hunt in the region of Trails End,
here. I was the first one that an
swered yes And the guide said
that she wanted me 20 come to her
cabin and see her..
Il went-and won't describe to you
how she looked. I'll let you see for
yourself, If you care to follow out her
instructions. And now the strange
part comes in. The old witch raised
her arm, pointed her cane at me, and
asked me if 1 knew Newton Duncan.
II told her there might be several
Newton Duncans in a city this size.
You should have seen the pain grow
on her face. After so long, after so
longT' she cried, in the queerest, Sob
bling way. Then she took heart and
began again.
"This Newton Duncan had a SON
foster-son-named Bruce she told
me. And then l said knew you.
you can't imagine the change that
came over her. l thought she'd die
Of heart failure. The whole thing,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20
THE KILLERS CHARGE TOO LATE

The bear reared snarling NTH wrah but for moment
dared not charge The sudden of the girl and the horse
held him omendry at bay The girl sung to the ground IN
leap fired again. thrust her through the loop OF the bride
then knet at Bruce SIDE The Ue blade that she carried
in her left hand slaShcd at his bonds
The horse pungng seemed to jerk her body back and FORTH
and endless seconds seemed By before the last of the thongs
SeUered In reality the UhOe unbeeua6y SWt
The helped her all he could Upup into the saddle, she
commanded.
Once the pistol cracked Then the horse broke and ran
IN frenzy of terror Bruce full the saddle by then and
at the first leap his swep out to the girl the grou,j
beside him. He Wung her towards him. and the time her
hands caught at the ang back of the saddle Ner had her fine
young strength been put to greater test than hen she pulled
herself up to position of security
The Killers charge had few seconds too late
Here themth grizzly
which dominates than 1.-THE Strength the Pnes
civilized
strength
odds the
him the
is
Medfod He when he
1921 first
His
Pines" and will why his public
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20
By EDISON MARSHALL
Author of 1.-THE Voice of the Pack

what else did she say?" Bruce
asked. He spoke slowly-with evident
difficulty.
Barney answered with the same
slOwness-each word distinct. For
you to come-and she made me swear
TO tell yOu-on the first train. That
there was no time to lose" The mans
voice broke and changed. isn't that
queer, Bruce?"
Bruce slowly stiffened; the only sign
of emotion was one that even Barney's
eyes, trained TO the dimness of the will
derness, failed to see. 1T was just an
ever-tightening clasp of his hands over
the chair arms until the blue veins
stood out. There was nothing else
about him to indicate that the dead
had spoken to him-that one of the
great dreams of his life was coming
true. He spoke rather painfully. did
did You get the idea that the old
woman was Linda?"
II didn't get that idea," Barney an
swered. "She spoke of Linda as she
might young girl"
ana now DO you get there!
"Buy ticket for Deer Creek, in
southern Oregon" There was no need
for Bruce to write the name. 1t was
branded, ineffaceably, in his conscious
ness. ''Then take up the long road
of the Divide, clear to little store
Martins, they call fifty miles back.
Then ask directions from there. Ask,
she told me to tell you. for Mrs. Ross"
Bruce leaped up and turned swiftly
through the door. Barney called a
question TO his vanishing figure. Just
for an instant Bruce curned-his dark
eyes glowing beneath his straight
brOws.
I'm 'phoning-asking for reserva-
tons on the first train west" he an
swered.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20
Mention of the Animals Is Made Many
Times in Pages of the Old
Testament.

Wild asses are mentioned several
times in the Old Testament; for in
stance, in Daniel 5 81. Referring TO
the punishment that came upon King
NebuchadneZZar, it is stated-"And
he was driven from the sons of men;
and his heart was made like the beasts,
and his dwelling was with the wild
asses :" An account of the wild
asses in practically the country over
which NebuchadnezZar reigned, is CIV
en- by an ancient Greek writer who had
been a soldier in Mesopotamia and
Assyria. This writer is Xenophon, who
lived from 430 to 355 B. G.. He was an
officer with the Greek force that Joined
the expedition Of Cyrus the Younger,
king of Persia. When in that coun-
try the officers of the Greek force
were murdered. and taking command of
the ten thousand of his countrymen.
Xenophon led them northward through
a hostile country to the place on the
Black sea now called Trebizond. His
account of this feat is called Anabasis
the up-country march, and is Greek
textbook In our high schools and
colleges.
Writing Of the districts Of Assyria,
Xenophon states that "Of wild crea-
lures the most numerous were wild
asses The asses. when they were
pursued, having gained ground of the
horses, stood still (for they exceeded
the horses much in SPEEDY. and when
the horsemen came up with them,
they did the same thing again. so that
our horsemen could take them by no
other means but by dividing themselves
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20
The Strength Of the Pines

did not know to what city he went,
nor had he any recollection whatever
of the people he met there. But he did
remember, with remarkable clearness,
the perplexing talk that the man and
the superintendent of the Square
house had together on his return.
He won't do" the stranger had
said. 81 tried him out and he won't
fill in in my family. And I've fetched
him back.
II believe in being frank, and I tell
you there's something vicious in that
boys nature. 1t came out the very
first moment he was in the house,
when the Missus was introducing him
to my eight-year-old son. This is lit
tie Turner she said-and this boy
sprang right at him. I'd never let
little Turner learn to fight, and this
boy was on top of him and was pound
ing him with his fists before we could
pull him off. l didn't understand it
at ALL
Nor did the superintendent under
stand; NORM these later years
Bruce either.
He was quite big boy, nearly ten,
when he finally left the Square house.
And there was nothing Pickering or
dim about the memory of this occasion.
A tall, exceedingly slender man sat
beside the window-a man well
dressed but with hard lines about his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20

La Crosse, Wfs.-"Motherhood left
me with a weakness that caused me
TO become very nervous and weak
My back ached, I suffered from dizzi-
ness and fainting spells and my health
was miserably poor. My mother-in-law
advised me to try DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription and 1 can say it is the
best medicine / have ever taken. 1t
relieved me entirely of these ailments
and made me a strong and healthy
person. l can highly recommend
Favorite Prescription as a woman's
medicine. Mrs. Harry Kagel, 424
Loomis Street.
Buy this Prescription" now of your
druggist and you'll find that restored
health brings beauty-and good looks.
Write DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in
Buffalo, n. Y, for free medical advice,
or send 10c for trial pkg. tablets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20

Bruce-if you must know-gave me
the creeps. Tell him to come here
she begged me. Don't lose moment
AS soon as you get home, tell him to
come here
"Of course asked why she hadn't
written to Duncan. The answer was
simple enough-that she didn't know
how to write. Those in the mountains
that could write wouldn't, or couldn't
she was trifie vague on that point
dispatch letter. Something is up,
Bruce, and l don't know what. But
she said-for you to come back and
f1nd-Linda."
Bruce suddenly leaned forward.
The brown face had grown quite
white
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20

mouth and hard eyes. Yet the superin-
tendent seemed particularly anxious
to- please him. you will like this
sturdy fellow" he said, as Bruce was
ushered in.
The mans eyes travelled slowly from
the child's curly head to his rapidly
growing feet; but no CLEAN of inter
est came into the thin face. II sup
pose he'll do-as good as any. 1t was
the wife's idea, anyway, you know.
What about parentage? Anything de-
cent at ALP"
The superintendent seemed to wait
q long time before answering. Little
Bruce, already full of secret conjec-
lures as to his own parentage, thought
that some key might be given him at
last. "There is nothing that we can
tell you, Mr.. Duncan" he said at
last. "a woman brought him here
with an infant girl-when he was
about four. / suppose she was his
mother-and she didn't wait to talk
to me- The nurse said that she wore
outlandish clothes and had plainly had
hard time"
''But she didn't wait"
"She dropped her children and fed"
A cold little smile flickered at the
mans lips. 'It looks rather dam
nable." he said significantly. 'But I'll
take the little beggar, anyway"
And thus Bruce went to the cold
fireside of the Duncans-a house in
great and distant city where, in the
years that had passed, many things
scarcely worth remembering had tran
spired. 1t was a gentleman's house
as far as the meaning of the word
usually goes-and Bruce had been af-
forded a gentleman's education. There
was also, for while, certain amount
of rather doubtful prosperity, wom-
an who died after few months of
casual interest in him, and many,
many hours Of almost overwhelming
loneliness Also there were many
thoughts such as are not especially
good for the spirits of growing boys
The place where the Duncans lived
was house, but under no liberal in
depreciation of the word could it be
called a home. There was nothing
homelike in it TO little Bruce.
The other lasting memory was of
Linda. She represented the one liv-
ing creature in all his assemblage of
phantoms-th one person with whom
he could claim real kinship. He had
done bold thing, after his first few
years with the Duncans. He planned
it long and carried it out with infinite
care as TO details. He wrote to Linda,
in care of the superintendent OF the
orpbanage.
The answer only deepened the
mystery. Linda was missing. Whether
she had run away, or whether some
one had come by in closed car and
carried her off as she, played on the
lawns, the superintendent could not
tell. They had never been able to
trace her. He had been fifteen then,
tall boy with rather unusual muscu-
lar development, and the girl was
eleven And in the year nineteen hun
dred and twenty. ten years after the
reply 10 MS Ieller, bruce naQ near0
no word from her. He had given up
all hope of ever hearing from her
again. ''My little sister," he said
softly to a memory. Then bitterness
"a whole black flood of it-would
come upon him. "Good Lord, / don't
even know that she was my sister,"
But now he was going to find her
and his heart was full of Joy and eager
anticipation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-20
Musical Note.

A very deaf old woman walking
along the street saw an Italian turn
ing a peanut rooster. She stood look
ing at it awhile, shook her head, and
said: mo. shan't give you any
money for such music as that. l can't
hear any of the tunes, and besides it
smells as if there were something burn
ing de."-The COngregationalist.