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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1909)
met one of C aptain Smith's lieutenants | Colt’s revolvers for close work but BATTLE OF who seemed jolly and I liked to talk ; [ never used them. A pair of blankets, over matters, so I asked him what it : a “pone” of bread, baked in a frying Said he: HUNGRY HILL i all “ meant. pan, two slices of bacon and a tin cup Mike Bushey’s spies have been out unteers were close after them, but OREGON-IDAHO patronage ho will no doubt receive. they came to a very sudden halt, as a Mr. Binns will leave in a few days for DEVELOPMENT CONGRESS Redding California where he wili join dozen guns were discharged and sever al men fell dead. The Indians were his wife. : for coffee that was their outfit. They too smart for them and had every ad The Oregon-Idaho Development Con and found the Injuns. They are all I were told there would be but a 2 hours' vantage. They got down into this gress which will be held in Boise Feb. camped on an open grub-oak flat about : engagement, when they would wipe deep canyon and behind big fir trees, 126-27 shows every sign of being the PLATT-ANGLE WEDDING Story of a Battle Wiih the Rog I eight miles down Grave Creek.” j out the band of redskins! They were while our people stood out on the open | most suce issful convention ever held A BRILLIANT AFFAIR ue River Indians, October 30, These volunteers were all concen called into line at dark, each company top of the ridge. in that city. An excellent program trated a> d after it got dark, so the forming in single file. Then they Captain Smith was a brave man, but 1855, By Uncle James Two , has been made up and several of the Indians could not see their movements started on their lonely march on a nar- 1 he did not possess good judgement for On ■ of the most exquisitely ap good—White Troops Defeat they were going to all march down the ' row trail down Grave Creek. As they an Indian fighter. He stood right out ' most prominent men of Oregon and pointed weddings of the season was j Idaho have agreed to deliver addresses t.iat of Miss Prudence Angle, second creek, aiming to get there just before left I thought and wondered, with a in the open. The bullets were whistl ed. i coming within the scope of the Con daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William daylight, surround the camp and wipe shiver, if they ever came to an engage ing all around him when Bob Hadley, gress. them all out! Thus they were going ment how many of them would ever who crossed the plains with me, step Angle, and Mr. Halett Frank Platt, While the Oregon-Idaho Congress is “Uncle Jimmy” Twogood was an to en I a war where many more whites get back. It must be remembered ped up and told him that there was no aiming to develop both states in a gen which was celebrated at the family that the trail down Grave Creek was use of standing there in the open for a eral way, to encourage irrigation pro residence Tuesday evening in the pre- early settler in Southern Oregon and than Indians had already been killed. ( sence oi a large circle of relatives I looked the young man over, sized very narrow through thick underbrush target. Hadley took him by the shoul has had many battles with the Indians. jects and to advance the commercial der and pulled him into camp, thus interest within the territory embraced, and friends. The Rev. H. D. Cham- J. A. Pinney, referred to in the article him up and saw that he was no tender i and heavy fir timber. saving his life, so that he could be its main object is to build a railroad i bers, Archdeacon of the diocese of rode the bell horse in a pack train foot, and then thought of the old adage: i HAIR-RAISING EPISODE made a general in the war in ’61 in [ from Coos Bay, Oregon, to some point Oregon, residing in Portland, officiat from Jacksonville to Crescent City “Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to | ing. from 1853 to 1863, he is now owner of be wise” -or otherwise! I said to him: i l Two weeks after the first outbreak the east. in Southwestern Idaho, probably Boise. “You arent’s going to kill all the j I went over to Cow Creel:, 10 miles The bride, leaning on the arm of her the Pinney theater in Boise Idaho. “HUNGRY HILL” The plan adopted by the Congress for J north, with a train for a cargo of oats. father, was beautifully gowned in a The P ost takes this means of thank squaws and papooses are vou7” Well, those brave men and pioneers the building of this road is to issue shimmering costume of white messa- “Yes” he said, “all, and knits breed We ran right into the whole band. An ing Mr. Twogood for the kindness he stood and fought those Indians all day bonds on the credit of the people. line with tulle veil and orange blos lice, and we don ’ t propose to leave ox team came down from Smith to has shown the people of Southern on empty stomachs, and so it was Each county will issue bonds in its own Oregon by sending the article which anything that will breed. Vos dot so?” take Redfield’s family away and had called the battle of “Hungry Hill.” name for its share of the road or else soms and carried one white carnation in a white kid prayer book, the gift of “Yes” said I, “there is a little got about 200 yards from the house follows: The result was that there were some a railroad district similar to the well In the great battle of Hungry Hill ' squaw among them who used to live when we looked back and here came 30 whites killed and wounded and per known irrigation districts of the west the groom. The parlors were decorated with with the Rogue River Indians, October here with George W. Harris and the whole band. Over a spur of the haps they killed three Indians, but no will be be created and bonded for the festoons of ivy and smilax, while the 30, 1855, seven or eight companies of I family. Sophy Hains and she are mountain here appeared about 80 bucks one ever knew that. building of the road passing through bow window in which the ceremony volunteers and one company of regu about of an age and great chums.” each stripped to the waist, with only Captain Smith concluded that that it. This is not only a simple but it is was performed, was furnished with (Harris was killed at his home the first a britch-clout, and each carrying a lars were pitted against 80 well armed an absolutely sure way of building rail would never do so he at dark ordered warriors and they got “licked”. day of the outbreak, October 10.) I rifle. They gave ore of their blood- all the men, who were also supperless, roads. Such bonds will find a ready white rui'.i and white satin cushions, and in the center was suspended a “ Well Lucy is a bright little girl and ( i curdling war whoops that raised our Whenever anyone tells you that the market in any money center in the handsome wedding bell of white ___ In five minutes the house was to camp right there, and to sleep on Rogues, Grave Creeks and Urnpquas talks good English. If she is killed ■ hair, I United States and it ,will not be a lien chrysanthemums and smilax. The will you kindly bring me a lock of her in flames. The bullets commenced their arms. were not fighters, he is way oIT! | on the land of any county to exceed STAMPEDED hair? ” library was also in green, and from whistling all around making beautiful I was one of the first settlers among ' 50 cents or 75 cents per acre. a punch booth in one corner, deco- The next morning as soon as it was music, but on such a high key that we “Oh, certainly ” he answered, them in 1851, and claim to know what Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa and Wis corated with Oregon grape and red could not enjoy it! About that time light enough to see to charge and rout I am talking about. A braver set nev 1 thought sure that he would not. consin built their first railroads in this roses, Misses Ida Lee Kentner and we were doing the kind of traveling them he had planned to rout them out [ er existed. Of caurse they never A SURPRISE PLANNED way. These states were in the grasp ' Maude Nichols dispensed this deli- that would put to shame the autoino- of that canyon, for he vowed not to ( came out in the open and stood up to Well, it seems that all the companies bile of today. We had many very leave that field without a few scalps. I of a single railroad corporation just as | cious beverage. their work, like white folks, but al The dining room was a bower of all arrangements made to start close calls, but all got in safely. I Result No. 2 was that Mr. Indian had, Oregon and Idaho are in the grasp of had ways got behind a log or tree or in the in the meantime, made different ar Mr. Harriman. They found that bona beauty. Festoons of smilax were down the creek as soon as it became will probably write this up some day bush. fide promoters could not borrow money In the great Chicago massacre at dark. There were all the cavalry com it was the most thrilling adventure of rangements, and before daylight, from to build railroads in those states re carried from the ceiling to the four corners of the table and the lights my life. the top of the hill began shooting the panies, but they left all their horses Fort Dearborn in 1812, those indians I gardless of how valuable the roads Well, to get back to Grave Creek, soldiers, who were so completely sur might be after having been construct ■ were delicately softened by violet were mere squaws in comparison to and detailed guards for them. There shades. A large bowl of violets was Captain Labon Buoy, Jonathan these hardy volunteers, after stumbl prised that they all became demoraliz our western Indians. ed The credit of the proposed railroad piece. The engagement was opened by a Keeny, Joe Bailey from Willamette; ing along all night over a rough trail, ed and all stampeded like a bunch of was not the best and the railroad in- formed an exqusite center while single blossoms were scattered from the Umpqua were Captain J. S. Texas steers. reached their destination before day company of volunteers from Jackson ! terests were always able to prevent over the table and the favors were They all came straggling ville, October 9, 1855, near Table Rock. Rinearson, Sam Gordon, Ed Shefield, light. Oh, how I pitied them if they ' the interested parties from borrowing violets. Chicken sandwiches, coffee, They gave them a scare and they came P. C. Noland and W. W. Chapman; ever came to a show down! I well that were left living being the necessary money to build the rail ice cream, cake and bonbons were from Jackson and Josephine T. Smiley, to get back to Fort Leland, know, from personal experience, that down the river killing and burning as roads which they proposed. The peo served. Harris, with company A, A. S. Welton i there were Indians, Siwash, in that were the most woe-begone, bedraggled, they went. ple of those states therefore decided to The bride is a popular girl pos crestfallen set of men that I ever be with company F; M. T. Alcorn, with band, that would face anything that Governor George L Gur**y mustered I held. The young lieutenant was not bind themselves; county bonds for the sessed of many accomplishments and into service this year, by proclamation, company H: Abei George, with com I wore hair. purpose of building railroads found a has given abundant proof of her un some 10 or 12 companies in Josephine pany L, and “Mike” Bushey’s com Well, Captain Smith had the dif- half as chipper as he had been, but ready market all over the United Stat usual businesss capacity in the manner pany of spies, also Captain A. J. sneaked off to camp and covered him and Jackson counties, four companies ferent companies deployed, part to go es, backed by the credit of the county in the manner she has acceptably filled self in blankets, and didn ’ t get up in the Umpqua valley, under Ed Shef Smith’s company of regulars. south and part to go north, and grad they were a good investment for rich Smith and his company were named ually work up to the center. No one until the next day, when he said: and poor and were readily sold, K an a position as head saleswoman in the field, Sam Gordon, W. W. Champan mercantile establishment of Deuel & “ Yes we got licked. ” and P. C. Noland, and Fort Leland as as the leaders of the gang, Smith act was to fire a gun without orders, and sas, Iowa and Nebraska were in il few Kentner. Hon. John Hailey, Idaho delegate in ing in the capacity of advance agent our place was called was made head they thought it would be a picnic to years gridironed with railroads, It is The groom is one of Medford’s most and captain. John K. Lamerick was pick off each buck as he jumped up out congress and James A. Pinnev, our true that all of these railroads were quarters of the southern battalion. the “gig-e-deer brindle, and John E. of his blankets, but they had “counted ex-mayor, both residents of Boise, not paying investments but they made prosperous and well-to-do citizens. THE ENCAMPMENT The large number of handsome Ross colonel. without their host.” As they closed were in that first day’s engagement. those states the three best developed costly and thoughtfully selected pre I had been to Roseburg for supplies J. H. TWOGOOD. in they simply found 15 or 20 camp- A NIGHT march and richest states in the Central West sents received bespeak ths deep feeling for the Grave Creek house, arriving fires, but not a living thing, They and though unprofitable for a few of interest and esteem felt in the hap home with the train October 30, 1855. I well remember that cold frosty immediately took their trail. years today every mile of road built py couple by their many friends. — I was surprised to see seven or eight bright, moonlight night of October, STATE NORMALS in those states by the aid of the county Medford Mail. AMBUSHED companies of volunteers and Captain when the companies were lined up for GOT NO FUNDS credit is a good paying investment. They had gone over a ridge and A. J. Smith's company of regulars marching orders. Each man had a It is the object of the Oregon-Idaho from Fort Lane, all camped there. I muzzle-loading rifle, and some had down into a deep canyon and the vol- Peanuts, warm and delicious at the Pursuant to the call of the Governor Congress to have passed such a law as a quorum of the Board of Normal will enable the people of Oregon and Boss. School Regents met in the office of Idaho to accomplish the same result. 1 State Superintendent Ackerman in While this Congress has in mind now a Salem Wednesday afternoon held a railroad from Coos Bay to Boise yet prolonged discussion of the situation the passage of such laws must be of made a rough draft of a resolution to immeasurable benefit to every city in abolish the normal schools of the state the state. It will enable any section Lots of it in Jacksonville But Daily immediately, but practically agreed ' which feels that it needs and can sup Growing Less. upon a provision that the normal port a railroad to organize itself into a schools wili be permitted to continue i railroad district, issue its bonds and The kidneys cry for help. until the end of the present semester [build the road; after the road is con Not an organ in the whole body so This is one of under private subscription, in order structed it can be leased to the proper delicately constructed. that the senior classes may be grad , parties or it can be sold outright. the numerous Not one so imjiortant to health. uated and receive their diplomas. The citizens ol Oregon and Idaho are spring styles we The kidneys nre the filters of the invited to attend this Congress. Trie ------- ♦-------- Oregon legislature has already passed blood. are showing THE GOVERNOR’3 the necessary legislation and a large When they fail the blood becomes BUSY AXE convention at Boise will make an im foul and poisonous. pression on the Idaho legislature which We have a fine There can be no health where there will aid in the passage of the proposed is poisoned blo-xi. Among a host of bills to be decap bills. line of samples Backache is one of the first indica itated by the governor since the ad Every town in Oregon and Idaho tions of kidney trouble. in the new and journment of the legislature are two of Senator Mulit’s pets, one regard should appoint delegates and have Il is the kidneys cry for help. Heed popuiar shades ing the circulation of false reports in them present at the convention. The it. , regards to banks, and the other leg building of railroads and the develop- Doan's Kidney Pills arc what is ally exempting public bonds from tax I ment of our natural resources will be a wanted. All our suits are panacea for the people of Oregon and ation. Are just what overworked kidneys Idaho and this is the first feasible rail guaranteed all Miller’s bill to increase the salary road scheme which has ever been pre need. of the School Superintendent of wool and we sented to the people. With such iegis- They strengthen and invigorate the Jackson county has also been decapit i lation the people can laugh at Mr. kidneys; help (born to do their work; ated. guarantee a per , Harriman, can cease patitently wait never fails to cure any case of kidney -...... ♦--------- ing for some good promoters to come disease. feet fit here and exploit their own country; PROFESSIONAL BALL Ib id the proof from a Jacksonville , they can take matters into their own citizen. AT MEDFORD ! hands, build their railroads, develop A. D. Houston. Merchant, formerly THERE IS NO PLACE IN AMERICA WHERE ALL We guarantee their own country and make Oregon living in the north part of Jackson WOOL MADE-TO-MEASURE CLOTHES CAN BE HAD the price to be Court Hall of Medford Wednesday and Idaho what they should be, the ville. O ., says; “About a year ago signed a contract with Judge W. W. BIGGEST, RICHEST, and BEST atat- I suffered everely from backache and AT A LOWER PRICE THAN HERE right too. What McCredie of Portland. According to ' es in the Northwest. kidney disease, The action of the the terms of the contract Met,’redie’s more could you kidney secretions was very irr< gular AND THERE IS NO PLACE IN AMERICA WHERE Northwest League team, under the and I was otherwise run down. I pro ask for? THE QUALITY IS HIGHER OR THE WORKMANSHIP leadership of Pearl *Caaey, will put in ANOTHER BUSINESS cured Doan' Kidney Pills at the City two week’s spring practise at Med Drug St c ■ ind dr ■ u ing this re- SO FINE CHANGES HANDS medv ford, beginning March 23. The ball I have not I ad the slightest svm- tossers will remain at Medford until ptom of ki'lnev trouble •rnd have felt ASK FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ALL WOOL LINE. April 12. John Dunningtor, who the latter better in every I am ■> glad to Mr. Hall ir, bi.rk? 1 by the Mulford part of Inst week purchased l .d Blnn’i endorse a rcme< of U'h '.it merit Commercial Club and a number of pub butcher shop, took charge of his nev as Doan’s Kidm Pills.” lic spirited fans. Furals to cover all business Monday morning. This is Fo: '> bv all Dealers. Price 50 the expenses of the undertaking was the third Jacksonville business house I • Foster-Milburn Buffalo, easily secured by a committee in a that has changed hands within the last New York, : ole Ao, ,i < for the Unit single afternoon. Here is a chance two weeks. ed States. for the Jacksonville team to secure a ■T, Mr. Dunnington is well and favoty I’omember the name- Dcon'«-and date with the leaguers. ¡ably known and well deserves the' take no other. CRYING FOR HELP >: ¡ft ft a II ft B it 1 ULRICH BROTHERS, Leading Merchant s