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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940 NINE Montana Student Slain bv World War Veteran MISSOULA, Mnut., March 20. (AP) Itobert lloouey, 31-year-old Montana Stale university student, wan shot through the heart and Instantly killed early iutltiy at the homo uf Sylvester C. (Ole) Ward, Hi, a world war veteran. County Attorney Eel ward Das sault said Wait) admitted shooting the youth but claimed he fired in self-defense. Ward was held at the county jail without charge, ponding an inquest Saturday. Dussuull said Gourde Crail, also a university student, reported he mid Ituoncy met Ward at a beer parlor last night and went with him to the Ward home near the edge of town. As they roached the front gate en route home a few minutes later, the prosecutor quot ed Crail us saying, Wurd tried to get them hack Into the house and the shot was fired. Around the County Elkton KLKTON. March 21. Miss Mol lis Hancock was attending to busl mss mutters In Drain Friday. Mrs. Koherl Smith und children, of Kellogg, was visiting the B. S. Adams home Friday. .Miss Kayo Hessea Is home for sprini; vacutipu from Forrest (irove where she is attending school. ,I')hn H. Ten-ill Is cammed at home with ehickenpox. Airs. Carl Hiaman went to Salem Friday for medical treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Hay Snook und family ami Mrs. Wardle Snook, of Portland, are visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Fenlcy. The Snooks nlh.o vis lied the home of Mr. unci Mrs. Norman Luko, of North Iteud. " ' - Mrs. Itclle llershnmh of San - Francisco is visiting the home of her parents. Mr. and .Mrs. Charley Smith, of Kellogg. Warren Cook, who Is attending bchonl at Corvallis, is home for a tew days. Miss Evelyn Hudson returned to school iki Ashland arter spending spring vacation at home. Airs, lua Henderer, Airs. Rose Uenderer and Miss Normnhcllc. Weatherly were Koseburg visitors Saturday. Harry Weatherly has returned home from North ltend where hej was in the hospital lor an append!-1 citis operation. who! Miss Owrelhu 1 unison. teaches school at Hinige, spent iiiOj wenk ena at her home n KJM. Uhi I gun came with Miss Hudson and visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Gruhhe. U-note dales. Vera Haines, Mr tilniii Outes, Lawrence Thomas, Hemic Slat;el mid Mary belle HVn ilerer were attciidlnw; to business puttiers in Kimono Friday. Mrs. .lack Gorman was look hip alter btislness matters in Drain Thursday. Wont was received or the hirtn uf a Hull horn to Mr. and Mrs. tedinoiid .Werner, of I'uyallup. Washlntilon. The babe arrived unity reduced In size to 15" when, March 12 and was named Dwaynefa mile and a half below, and after Kilmond. Mrs. Werner will be re-' a fall during that distance of 1UU remembered as Noma Haines. Mrs.! feet, it- reaches the hydraulics. Walter Haines is at the home of jier aauBiiiur. i. .. rl,.(:..c0,Hl. a,,.nu"1 ba , 'ueL tne t'.iKion ncuoni association wiu,. he held at 8 o'clock the evening of April 20 In the gymnasium of tho high school. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Hucus and family moved to Kugene .over the week-end. Mr. Uncus has work on the Fern Hidge dam. August De Gnath moved (he Iluus family. I're-liHster services Mill be held in the Church of Christ every night this week. Adrian Fraley. pastor of the church, will he tho speaker. Fitty-two boys from Camp Elk ton left lor the east on tho troop train Saiuiduy evening. Melrose MKUtOKE, March 21. Mrs. De Mont and her two daughters, Mar garet and Ardilh. moved a week ugo from Caiiyonville to Klgarose. They will reside in the Cederstraui hunsu with .Mr. and Mrs. Hartley, The girls started to school at Elga- ro.se district last. Monday. Mr. and Mis. .1. W. Hass pur chased an Oakhiml sedan Thursday from a Koseburg dealer. John ltuiHik, who is attending college ut Corvallis. is home for sminu vacatifm..and assisted C. E. Heece In his general merchandise store Sal unlay. Grant ItonebraUe, sun of Mr. and M rs. Fred I lonebrnke. was quite badly injured last week when ho released a brake on a tractor and was struck on the forehead, cutting a deci gash. He was ru.dicd to Koseburg lor medical care and is improving very satisfactorily. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace .Matthews. Mrs. . . Miitthews and Miss Lil lian Matthews i-eii'irnetl home the forepart of last week from a two weeks' trip to eastern Oregon and Washington where Mrs. Matthews visited her brother, Dave Conn, a former Melrose resident. Glen Thaekery and his mother of Myrtle Creek visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lackland and family. Jack Victor, who spent the win ter with his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Hitches, left Saturday to join his mother in California. He at lend id tho lilgarose school. Tiny Conn, son of Mr. und Mrs. Creed Coon, recently cut his iut with an ue quite badly w hile helping John lib -hards sla.slj brush. He is bciu cared for at the Kh h aids home as his parents ate ut the toa-'l Uniting. Weighty Widmes TWIN VALLEV. Minn. There's a lot of weight tu the Widme broth ers. When all nine get together they tip the scoles at il.2:iu pounds, or nearly Jts pounds per man. Jo seph. Twin Valley blacksmith, weight, ". f'beMer. the lamilj lights eight, le a mere 2W. j Hydraulic G?ant Hurls Tons of Vater at Coyote Creek Gravel Elevator in Quest for Gold T 1 jr- t I...... In the picture at upper left M. H. Davis is shown directing a No. 4 hydraulic "giant" at the Davis gold extracting operations on Coyote creek, about thVee miles from the latter (unction with Wolf Creek, in nortJiern Josephine county, not far below the Douglas county line. In the lower left the stream of water from the "giant" is shown playing upon the elevator up which gravel is washed, and through which the lighter material, soil and sand, falls to the flume shown at lower right In this flume, or sluice, riffles are spaced on the floor, behind which the gold lodges and later is recovered. In the picture at upper right is shown the arid expanse of valley floor, left by these hydraulic operations a waste of bare bedrock, and mounds of sterile gravel and stones. Hy PAI L JENKINS The Davis holding extends for a distance of three miles, embracing the narrow valley in which It lies. from slope to slope. It has beeu worked hy this faintly tor nearly fifty years, and on a large scale for time. It is thought to be the largest operation or lis type in me state, Equipment is valued at I40.UO0, emhraciiif? six hydraulic "giants, over a mile and a half of pipeline ih rough which water for the tvash- ing is carried; the heavy elevator; an electric generutiiiK and distrib uting system and various minor types of machinery. To start at the beginning of this stQi-y., metina in tbls cae to start fit 'th& hniifl uf flip vjillev. where water is diverted from the creek, into a 21" pipeline, which is grud- The hydraulic guns, or giants, to dispense with cumbersome quota- Ition marks, through which the wa- ter thus Is forced ut tremendous , ,,", . t,.,n,i,,0 pressure, direct the stream of wa ter at the operator's w ill. Turned into a gravel bank or bar, the ma terial there is blown from Its age old resting place and rolled to the foot of the elevator, in this case I6t) feet from the mouth uf the gun. The i powerful stream then washes it up the elevafor, or chute, at a steep angle, and across a level space ut tiie lop. Hero, all the lighter material, and sand and the dirt and small gravel, fall through slitted openings nud Is conveyed into a riffled flume, where lis con tent of gold lodges. The stream of water leaves the nozzle of the giant ut 1 10 lbs. pres sure, and is so powerful that It will roll boulders weighing many hundred pounds, across and pasL the elevator, S.'iU to 3U0 feet away. Here they collect into a great pile and, w hen it becomes too high, in terfering with the stream of ma terial continually accumulating there, it is played upon by another giant conveniently located, and scattered far and wide. Handling one of these glanl hy-. draullcs is considerable of a chore, calling for skill and patience, and fortitude; also, inasmuch as when an adverse wind blows, the opera tor is subjected to a continuous sweep of cold, driving spray. It is dangerous, too. Many tales are told of unwary operators, or un fortunate one's who have let the lever controlling tho direction of flow, get away, to have lever and .stream of u ulcr install taucon.sly converted into a whirling devil of a thing, destroying I Usui f, aud every- j thing In its vicinity. However, it does the work, inov- ing in this Instance. 'Jofai yards of gravel and rock, each 21 hour pe riod, and it anil ils companion are operated night and day as long as the water holds out. "We are very short of water this winter," Mr. Lavis told nie. . "No snow at all In our watershed, and light rains. We will have to quit early this spring, from all indica tions.' Water Is the llfeblood of a fila cer mine, since It operates entirely hy the action of water In washing the grdd-beariug sands through a flume or sluice, or a whirling pan. Thu gold iu placer deposits, be. in;; heavy, finds the lowest level possible as It Is subjected through the years to the action of the wa ter, flowing In thu streams of the luuuutains. Hence, to recover it, the material uhove It it moved and. In the case of . thy Davis plant, everything Is carried up and through an elevator, as nbov-u and told above. Thu- leaver the terrain, imr wuah a season operating baa ,., -,. , , T,.A., JlH"Mw... passed, a desert, or worse than a desert. "Hut what would you haye," Mr. Davis asked of ine. "This val ley' of ours would be practically wortnicaa, n uscu ior agricultural i purposes. It has little if a,ny,nierch-J autable timber, in the area wo mine. Hut It does have a lot of gold! beneath Us soil. Doesn't it make good sense to take It out? 1 can't see that tho country is then any more worthless to mankind, bar ring the loss of the gold than ' it was before. Can you 7" 1 can't. The Davises work an area of from 5 to 10 acres each winter. During the summer months, when there is insufficient water to ope rate, the plant is moved -lo a, new location. It Is no light task, moving (he elevator, which weighs (i." tons, be-1 ing built of heavy plunking, and bolstered with an Inner shell of steel. It needs to be sturdy, to withstand the constant and cease less battering of the barrage of rock thrown aainst R by the stream of water, and of the terrific torce of that water, itself, Five men are employed at tho mine. "The giants do most of the work," Mr. Davis pointed out. "I can recall that in 1!ii)5, In a creek bed not far from here, 500 China men were at work, pecking away at the gravel, using their old fash ioned methods of panning and washing. We move as much ma terial in one hour here. now. as those ot'O Chinamen then did in twenty-four, hours:" Azalea AZALEA. .March 'Jl.-E. L. Johns was in Koseburg Sat.uiday miming attending to business af fairs. Mr. ami Mrs. J. P. Duncan, Mrs. Goldie Davis and son. liillie, from Grants , Pass were dinner guesis Sunday ut the home -if Mrs. Davis' nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. William .Inntzcr. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kelley visit ed here Sunday afternoon and eve ning with Mr. and Mrs. John .lanter, en routo to their home at Prospect alter visiting: in Kose burg for Severn 1 days with M r. Easter Dance Community Building Canyonville SATURDAY, MARCH 23 Music by Dale King and His Band . Admission: Ladies 10c, Gents 4Qg - ' EVERY 10TH PERSON ADMITTED FREE! Benefit Community Building Fund ' r r iJiujM.ui'in.inn Kelley's mother, Mrs. Francis Kel ley. ' Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith from Onyitc creek visited here Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Halhert Booth Mrs. Will Damewood from Drain visited here from Friday until Sun- (ia" at 1,10 ult 01 Mr. ami Mrs, Jim Pickett lien Jantzor snent Saturday -in Meiltol'l visiting friends. Ho also visited ut Central Point with air and Mrs. Charlie Jantzer. Hugh McGbau of .lump. Off Joe is bulhl)ing some .logging . road and oniy enlarging tin; mill pond at the Starveout Lumber Co. this llr. and Mik-. John Foldmiller made a trip to; itoseburg Monday to take a load ol turkey eggs to be liAtehed. Mr., and Mr. Nell Tripp tind daughters. Lynn and Sally, from Medford visited here .over ihu week-end With Mr. Tripp'i par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tripp. .Mrs. ; Earl Draut and daughters, Ixds. Let u Mae and- Joanne, ol Yoncalla, and Miss Velnia Wilson from Mnrshi'ield were dinner guests Sunday at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cooke. Mrs. Urunl auci Miss Wilson are nieces of Mrs. Cirdte. Drain DUALS', March 21. W. W. Austin went to Portland Sunday evening to visit a brother who is ill. A son was born March l.'i lo Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jacobs at their home in north Drain. Miss Edna Harlan went to Kose burg Thursday to visit for a few days at the home or her sister. Mrs. V. I. Perry, and other rela tives. Little Patty Cannon has been quite ill lor the past week at her home in south Drain. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Suudburg and children. Donald and Donna, spent tiie week end here at the parental ii. Ijailholomy home. Mr. and Mrs. Theron Hall and children of Portland were visitors at the Mrs. Anna Drain home over the week-end. Ike Monro and family of Glen dale were-recent visitors at- the home of Mrs. L. II. Vandovcrl. Alary LaGiauder, who has beeu ill with r)i fii tm n t i hmi , and out of 3 111 l 3 inaMiii!l i school for the past week, Is able to be nut again. ltev. Fox of Halsey waa the speaker at the morning service of the Methodist church. A politick luncheon was served at noon hi the basement of the jdiurcb. Mrs. Nelson Pruett and two small sons of Port Angeles,, Wash., aro visiting at' the home of Mrs. Pruetl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cooper. Kalph and Xadina Van Kirk ure attending the N. Y. A. school iu Eugene, L. S. Conipton is completing a new brooder house to replace the one destroyed by lire !a tew months ago. Ite has also purchased a new tractor after having sold all -huUouu of his horses. Mrs. Grace Kccelslon bus re turned from an extended visit wilh relatives at Newport and Uruiuer ton, Wash. ' ' Tho Jack Kuach family moved, last week to thu rooms above the store of the Mires estate building. I he Win. Lovett family is uiov lug lo the itnach place in Drain. cast Sutherlin NUTHKKLIN. tm! Mrs Albert March M yers 21. Mr. arrived AND TWO CU 111 II 1 "feMII feS I lJ (111 " "P rtw prtfirtne for br In bstlli or draught, but, ' 1 JBPFR-?" i " - II II if Friday from San Francisco for visit here wllh relative. Mr. and Mrs. lOmmltt Walters of Gtinter, Oregon, visited friends here Saturday. i Mr. aud .Mrs. Jlermait Hugh have purchased the Vein Holgate properly -occupied at present by Mr. ,aud Mrs. Les Heberly. Mr. uud Mrs. Heberly have bought the Hebard house on Second avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Harry ('henoweth and sou. Tommy, wero dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Paul, Trozelle. t Mrs. Mable Ituss returned to her jliotne hero Sunday from Seattle Whcru she has been visit hie tor rsfiVOTuj months. ... uimu-Sunday morning lo spend the Inn-day spring vacation from Sac lameiito Junior college. Mr.' and Mrs. Scott Lander left Sunday for their home ut Kiddle niter a lew days visit ut tho John Mtisgrovn home. .Mrs. Cora Allen, Helen, Juanilu Illl.l f ntflo A llmi ...wl t A hury spent Sunday visiting rclu-i tlves at vvendliiig. 1 II. ('. Wllmot was in Sulherllu on Monday attending t.o business. Those allending the ceumiu sehod In Koseburg Urn ' first of tho week were Miss Helen Allen, Miss I.orelta Arehambcaii, Win. C. DON'T SAY BUm tallttf nd Dtfttributad by Douylda Diotributlng Co., Ruftcbury, Oro. phono 14 Niwi4-I(fvii,iv I'ihihi iilitl Kliuriivinir Woods, Iluxtcr Duvlti, John Mus grove and K. A. Schudelske. The Misses Margaret and Mar lon Slglsmund and David SigiS' niiind left .Monday nu a toii'day trip to lie no, Nevada. V. A. Dlmmlrk, Jr., and Miss Kalhryn Pearl Wagoner were mar ried here Sunday at the home of the groom a parents, Mr. anil Mrs. V. A. Dlmmick. by Kev. Ormal B. Trick. The newly married couple will make their homo In Murfch field. , . , Mr. and Mrs. II. If. Clemens hove been quite III at their homo east of town with the flu. Mr. Clemens has been unable to be at the va riety store for several days. Mrs. Jack Culver Jr.. and Mrs lidna Klueoy shopped aud attonded to business in Koseburg- Tuesday. Good Friday services are to be held Friday evening at the Mutho dlst church at 8 o'clock, Kv. Perry Smith, of Koseburg, is lo he the speaker, and Miss Maiguret Hay will be lh sol.jist. An KuHtec program Is to be pre sented Sunday evening at the Methodist church at 8 o'clock. Tenmile TICNMILrJ, March hi. Mr?. Min nie Lock wood Is spending Iho week at Hear creek cooking- for her two t j ' . . S"U-Wfnhrft Compter, Potilanj, Ofgam Ex-Utility Employee Held on Extortion Charge SPOKANE. March SU.-r-tAFi Aanlnluut U. S. District AUoniey Lyle 1). Kolth buhl todny that W. 1?. McCiaikon, a foiniei' empluye oi the Montana Licht and Power . company of Troy, Mnut., waa ar ipstnil "Homo whom in Mnnuvnu" lnbt night on a charge of attempt eil r xtorttou aKuinut the rcinpany. The cninplHhu, Kulth wild clinrBi'8 McCracken with scndlim a letter to the Spokane head of. Mce or tho company Ui.eiilculiiK In blow up tho Troy pl.n-.t II hs were not re-einployel. "Spocirienlly tho leltor thrent eneil to uso tho nitroglycerine from 2,r.(l0 pounds of dyuanilto IF McCracrken wuan't given a Job," Keith enld. He lidded Ihut fingerprints on the letter and a comparison of handwriting led to the arrest. ii Igloo, Former Portland Home of Alaskans. Burns PORTLAND, Ore., Miirch 20. (AP) The Igloo, u palatini log and fniine home which once serv ed ns heaihiuarteis ror visiting Aluskiin HouriloughH. burned to the ground yesterday. The home, which hail u living room fiO feet long, wus constructed by tho lut .Mrs. Frank W. Swan ton, long-time secretary or the Oregon llumano society und widow of a Nome. Alaska, postmaster. Mrs. Albort (lordon, niece of Mis. Swiiuton. estimated the loss or Hie uninhabited, unfurnished liouso lit WOOD to IIIUDO. The blazo started from the fireplace which she hud kindled preparatory to showing tho place to prospective buyers. Mother, Former Mental Patient, Slays Infant MT. CLKMKNTS, Mich., March 2U.(4l') Wilbur F. Held, ub slstant prosecutor of Macomb county, said today that Mrs. Vivian Mathews, ,1S, mother of three chil dren, had killed her ctaht weeks old baby by placing him between kerosene soaked pillows and ig nlling them iu a small stove. Hold said Mrs. Mathews, brought hero from her homo in nearby Ctlctt, hud signed a confession. Neighbors told police alio hail threatened to kill the baby because It was "Joo much trouble." Tho prosecutor said Mrs. Math owe had undeiRone treutment fpr a mental disorder 10 years ago. . 1 Who's Arrested? "DALLAS A hearsu zlg-zagged down the street. Officers J. W. Ferguson and Dal Leo pursued It. , "Who's dead?" asked Lee. I'Lotsa people. Whatsha think wa got graveyards for?" replied tho driver. "What do you think we've got Jails for?" tho officers countered. They arrested him for drunken drivhig. Hons, Warren and Max. and son In-law. Donald Lakov. who am em ployed at a logging camp, Mrs. Klvu lireitenliucner was t-hopping In Koseburg Monday. Julia Kuthkey Is spending a few days at home with his family duo to a shut down In the mill at Mnrshltcld where he is employed. Wl Mi C5: it I r '
