ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940
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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.
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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
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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
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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 '
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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
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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
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(111 " "P rtw prtfirtne for br In bstlli or draught, but, ' 1 JBPFR-?" i
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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