Oregon Historical ¡Society
City Hall
NO. 21
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1912
W. R. Garrett and Ancel Gilson was
AGAIN IN TROUBLE
[ criminal docket cleared
in town on business matters Monday.
Miss Mae Lawrence of Gold Hill
Southern Oregon Pioneer Socie commenced her school at Uniontown. W. J. Boosey P.aced Under $300 Twelve Convictions Secured Out
F. Forman made a flying trip to
ty to Meet Here Sept. 26.
Bond Tuesday.
of Sixteen Indictments.
town the other day.
Mr. Frank Cameron was the guest
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The committee on arrangements for Mrs. George Wolf Sunday.
Following renewed trouble between
Out of sixteen indictments returned
the annual meeting of the Southern
Ella Parks commenced teaching at W. J. Boosey and C. S. Sanderson of ( by the recent grand jury twelve con-
Oregon Pioneer Society, which will be Sterling last Monday.
Central Point over a strip of land, a victions were secured, one man was
held here Thursday Sept. 26th, issues
hearing was held before Justice Dox acquitted, two indictments were dis
Joe Goldsby was in town Tuesday.
the following notice.
Tuesday and Boosey was placed under missed and one trial resulted in the
Dr.
and
Mrs.
W.
L.
Cameron
was
“Notice is hereby given that the an
$800 bond to keep the peace.
jury failing to agree. The criminal
seen on the streets last week.
i an This
nual meeting of the Southern Oregon
land has been the cause of much docket was closed Monday, leaving
,
We
are
glad
to
mention
about
two strife and litigation, figuring in the several cases to be brought up at the
Pioneer Society will be held at the
Court House in Jacksonville, Oregon, more telephones on our line which are circuit court a number of times, on next term of court.
on Thursday Sept 26th, 1912. Exer Ancel Gilson, No. 31 F 41, and Joe one occasion Boosey drawing a county
M. W. Dunlap and Peter Lobes, who
Ginett, No. 31 F 15. We don't expect jail sentence for contempt of court.
cises commence at 11:00 a. m.
pleaded guilty to larceny, were each
“All Pioneers are- requested to be to get lonesome up here as long as our
The dispute was renewed Sunday given sentences Monday of three
present, and a general invitation is ex line is in order.
when Sanderson attempted to remove months imprisonment in the county
FOR SALE —Five graded jersey cows, a roll of barb wire from the land in jail, and D. Monk, Thomas Lawrence,
tended to the public.
all giving milk. At J. Goldsby’s.
“Dinner will be served free to all
question, Boosey backing his opinion Richard Moe and Bert Van Sycie were
pioneers by the Native Daughters of
of the proceeding with a gun, Sand- I sentenced to serve indeterminate sen
Jane M'-Cully Cabin No. 1.
erson ran across the field to his house tences of from one to seven years in
UTAH MINERS STRIKE
“All members should come prepared
and returning with a rifle, chased the state penitentiary. They were
to pay their annual dues of $1.00.
Boosy to his own territory. It is also taken to Salem Tuesday in charge of
Matters of importance will come be
said that Boosey swung a gate on Mrs. Ralph Jennings and E. Sutton of Gold
State MilPia May be Called to Sanderson’s rig as she was driving Hill.
fore this meeting.
“By order of committee on Arrang-
through on her way to Central Point.
The case of Jim Ling, the Chinaman
Suppress Troudle.
ments.’’
Roosey has not, as yet, secured bonds accused of assault with a dangerous
Including pioneers, their friends and
men and is being held at the county weapon resulted in the jury failing to
Native Sons and Daughters of Oregon,
agree and he was released on his own
Bingham, Utah, Sept. 18.- Forty- jail.
between 200 and 300 visitors are ex five hundred men employed in the cop
recognizance to appear at the next
pected in Jacksonville on the day of per mines laid down their tools this
term of court.
the reunion, and preparations for their morning after operators had refused Special Panel for U. S. Com I.
Bondsmen for E. C. Montgomery,
entertainment are rapidly nearing com last night to meet their demand for an
who is charged with non-support of hiH
pletion. Exercises of the day will be increase in pay of 20 cents a day.
wife, and who failed to appear to stand
The United States District Court has trial, have been instructed to produce
held at the court house, where Rev. Every mine district with one exception
Paul S. Bandy of this city, has been is idle and the strikers are mostly ordered a special panel of 36 jurors to Montgomery in court, and if located
invited -to speak Thursday morning. foreigners and are determined no one be drawn from Josephine and Jackson he will be brought here to be tried at
In the afternoon the pioneers will be shall enter the mines or buildings un Counties to act during the Fall term the next term.
addressed by Harry Lane of Portland,
of court at Medford, which will con
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til their demands are granted. So far
son of General Joseph' Lane, first ter
vene October 1. The list drawn by
there has been little trouble. Seventy-
ritorial governor of Oregon.
five deputies are patrolling the streets Tom Ward, jury commissioner for the PIONEER EDITOR SUICIDES
Dinner will be served to all pioneers tonight and all the saloons are closed. court is as follows:
by the Native Daughters of Jane Mc
H. B. Alverson, Grants Pass; John
Twenty-five deputy sheriffs who
Cully Cabin No. 1, at I. O. O. F. hall. went to the camp last night attempted Ashpole, Eagle Point; H. F. Bailey, Captain Merry, Former Editor
to stop the promiscuous shooting and to Provolt; J. W. Baird, Selma; N. C Bo
of Jacksonville Times Shots
lift the blockade. Their efforts led to gus, Kerby; J. W. Bonar, Medford; T.
This is a Fish Story.
J.
Brinckerhoff,
Galice;
Charles
Burk
the first Woodshed when one df the
Himself.
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de puties shot and slightly wounded a halter, Grants Pass; John W. Collins,
C.
W.
Craig,
Selma;
C.
H.
Medford,
Benj. M. Collins, Roy Ulrich, Albert striker who refused to obey the order
Captain Thomas B. Merry, 77 years
Gangwisch, Charley Dunford and to stop shooting. This brought a Demaray, Grants Pass; F. K. Deuel,
Harry Luy, all of whom have enviable fusilade upon the deputy, who made a Medford; H. V. Doxsee, Grants Pass; old. a steamboat captain and veteran
C. H. Elmore, Apolegate; A. L. Fryer newspaperman, shot himself through
reputations for truth and veracity, say hurried retreat.
that they caught 325 trout while fish
Sheriff Sharp dispatched reinforce Grants Pass: Altpeter George, Grants the heart Monday morning in the wash
ing on Big Applegate Wednesday. The ments to the first squad of deputies, Pass; C. G. Gillette, Grants Pass: N. room under the grandstand at the
largest fish captured measured fifteen and when the officers attempted to go H. Gorham, Grants Pass; G. E. How Country Club race track at Portland
inches, while the smallest would easily to the mines and draw the fires under land, Grants Pass; J. A. Larrabee, after a policeman who had been sent
pass inspection. This may be called a the
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not , proceed
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far Central Point; F. E. Martin, Medford; to find him and return him to his
record eatch and goes to show that j when bullets began to spat on the Hosiah Pardee, Grants Pass; J. E. friends, had asked him to go to the
one need not journey deep into the ground about them and the deputies Peterson, Grants Pass, H. Platt, Med police station. He died instantly.
wilderness to enjoy a day’s sport.
retired and discovered that the miners ford; Chas. Pruett, Central Point; N. Captain Merry is well known among
had thrown up breastworks along the Reynolds, Grants Pass. J. T. Robert the pioneers ot' Southern Oregon and
narrow defile between this place and son, Wonder; C. C. Taylor, Wonder; Northern California, having edited
L. Thompson, Centra) Point; N. P. papers at Jacksonville and Yreka in
Buncom Reports
the mine.
Welch, Central Point; J. R. Wick, the ’70's.
Ashland; J. E. Young, Ashland; T.
The suicide, a climax to days of des
Fine weather in sight,
Dvsenter; is always serious and often a Young, Eagle Point; John A. Martin, pondency over his growing age and in
ability to secure work, was evidently
Fred Coppie was in town the first of dangerous J ¡«case, but ;t can be cured. Medford.—Telegram.
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
the week.
premedidated and the appearance of rhe
Remedy has cured it even when malignant
officer served only as the final event to
Chapman’s for Confectionery.
Hollis Parks was in the city recently. and : < .mic. For sale by all dealers.
hasten the d.-nounment to his res
olution. He had evidently chosen to
seek tile end at. the race track, in re
membrance probably of other days
when, as a sporting writer, he had
“covered" brilliantly many a race
meet of great importance.
in 1871 Captain Merry edited the
Jacksonville Times when Chas. Nickell,
the pioneer newspaper man, was a
“devil" on the same papei. Tribune.
ANNUAL REUNION
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fare for the round trip have been se
ACCIDENT AT WAI KINS
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cured. You will pay full fare to Ash-i
land, taking a receipt therefor from
the agent who sells you your ticket. J. P. Harr, Crushed to Death by
This receipt will be countersigned by !
the Secretary of the institute and you i
Rolling Log
will be able to purchase your return
ticket for one-third the usual rate.
J. P. Harr, a prominent farmer-of
A Reception Committee of Ashland
teachers has been appointed, the mem Watkins, residing about 30 rufilep south
bers of which will advise you relative of this city, was fatally crushed
to securing board and rooms. This ben'eath a heavy log, last Sunday1
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conjmittee will have headquarters at morning.
Mr. Harr and son had felled a tree
the High School Building and members
will meet all incoming trains. If you on the hillside near the ranch, and
wish to ai range for rooms and board were-engaged in sawing it into stove
in advance write to Mr. G. W. Milam, wood, when the log became loosened
Chairman Reception Committee, Ash from the stump behind which it had-
lodged, ar|d started down the hill. Mr.
land, Oregon.
Some of the best institute instructors Harr endeavored to escape from its
and lecturers in the country have been path, but fell and the log passed over
secured, including Dr. A. E. Winship him, crushing him almost beyond
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of Boston, Superintendent of Public recognition.
The funeral was held from the M.,E.
Instruction, L. R. Aiderman. of Salem
S. H. Ackerman^ Pres, of the Oregon church at Jacksonville, Tuesday after
Normal School at Monmouth, and other noon at 2 o’clock, with interment at
noted instructors of the state. We be Jacksonville cemetery. Mr. Harr is
lieve this will be the best institute survived by his wife, two daughters and
one son.
ever held in Southern Oregon.
Yours very truly,
J. Percy Wells. Sup’t. Jackson Co.
Another Forest Fire
Lincoln Savage, Sup’t. Josephine Co.
A forest fire which started in the
territory
lying between Foots creek
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j and Forest creek
burned over about
400 acres Sunday and Monday morn
Headquarters fo1- teachers during j j ing. State Fire Warden Harper whc,
the Teachers’ Institute to be held at J with the aid of farmers of that dis
Ashland, Sept. 25-27 will be at the i | n
ivtq ua
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m
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x reports
uput it>
trict,
extinguished
the
blaze,
Hotel Oregon. Other hotels expecting that the llaina,,e ¡8 8,ighti ag th(J ti|n.
to accomodate teachers are the Colum- ber degtroyed was mo8tly 8eCond-
bia and Bastside Inn. Prices at these | Erowlh. The origin of the fire is un
hotels will be $1.00 per room, two per-I
sons in a reom. Meals will be served i
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at from 25 cents to 50 cents.
It will be well for teachers to make
arrangements for hotel accomodations Rogue River Valley Peanuts.
before arriving in Ashland, because
the hotels will doubtless be crowded I Au experiment in peanut growing at-
on account of the District Fair.
| tempted the present season by Charles
Arrangements are being made to ! Erlwein, of this city, has resulted so
place teachers in homes at 50c. per I successfully that the well known local
day for bed and $1.00 per day for gardener will plant an extensive patch
board.
next year to demonstrate yet another
A committee of Ashland Teachers possibility of the Rogue river valley.
will meet incoming trains Tuesday Mr. Erlwein cultivated a single row of
evening, conducting those coming to the goobers this season, and the plants
boarding places. Those arriving Wed have done remarkably Well, bearing
nesday mornir.g not having hotel ac-1 heavily and producing peanuts of large
comodations will go to the High | Seize and excellent quality. The pea
School building on Iowa Street, and I nut is a legume, the ioli. ge closely re
there report to the entertainment sembling clover or alfalfa, and bearing
committee, who will provide them with a small orange colored bloom.
Each
accomodutions.
blossom, as it matures and falls, sends
C ommittee .
earthward a single sprout which enters
the soil and forms a bulb that in due
course of time became a peanut—holi
day food for elephants or folks. Mr.
Wives Console Each Other.
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Erlwein and his neighbor, George Hol
comb, who has also grown a small
L. B. Rich, a Klamath Falls shoe patch, believe that they haven proven
merchant, is sought by the authorities lhe adaptability of lhe crop to this lo
on the charge that he has two wives. cality, and propose to at least supply
Rich has been living here a year. Gold Hili with its holiday quota of
He married Miss Jessie Layton, wife “fresh roasted" next season. Gold
No. 2, in Grants Pass. Ore., in Novem Hill News.
ber of last year. He opened a siioe
store in this city and the couple had
many friends.
Notice of Filling Plats of Survey
Rich last month employed architects
in this city to draw plans for a house.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
He sent the plans to wife No. 1 in San
Francisco, it is stated, and wrote sev I U. S. Lanu Office at Roseburg Oregon,
September 10, 1912.
eral letters stating that he would have
Capt. Merry was well and favorably
Notice is hereby given that the fol
a home for her soon.
known to the older inhabitants of this
On Monday night wife No. 1 arrived lowing described lands have been sur-
city. Li the early days, when he had
and hunted up Rich. Wife No. 2 start i veyed, to Wlt:-
charge of the Jacksonville Times, that
ln Tp 29 3, R 1 W, W. M , Sections
led bv the announcement from wife
paper had its offices in a building sit
No. 1, threw her arms around the lat 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35
uated on the corner now occupied by
I and '16.
the Union Livery Stable. This build- ter and wept.
In Tp 38 S, R 3 W, W. M., Sections
Rich threatened at this point, it is
ing was later destroyed by fire, 11 is
charged, to kill wife No. 1 and then ' 6, 7, 8. 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25 aid
said Capt. Merry edited the first paper
end his own life, but lost his nerve. I 36, and SJ. of Sec 12, N1. of Sec 13,
published at Ashland.
The first wife expressed sympathy for ; EJj of Sec 26 and E1/ of Sec 35.
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Plates of survey will be filed in this
the second wife. Both are young girls.
Rich’s store was closed by creditors.— office on October 26, ¡912, at 9 o’clock
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE
a. m., and on and niter such day we
Ashland Tidings.
will be prepared to receive applicatioi s
for entry of the unreserved and un
Will be Held in Ashland Sept.
American Held For Ransom. appropriated lands therein. however,
All persons are warned,
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25-26-27.
that
for lands within any National
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Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 16 — A message J Forest, applications can NOT be re
The Annual Teachers' Institute for received today from El Tigre, an ( ceived except from bona fide settlers
Jackson and Josephine counties will be American mining camp in Sonora, who made settlement prior to the with
held at the High School Building in which was captuied Saturday by rebels drawal for reserve purposes.
Benjamin F. Jones, Rtgisler.
Ashland, commencing at 10 o’clock, a. under General Inez Salazar, said that
George W. Riddle, Receiver.
m. Wednesday, September 25th. 1912, the main body of rebels departed after
looting the company store. Thirty
and continuing for three days.
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It is illegal for any public school in rebels were left in camp to await a re- ;
How’s This?
either of the two counties to be in ply to their demand for ransom and ,
session during the progress of the in- protection money.
The rebels threatened to carry away
stitute, and all teachers in the public
We off r Ont Hundred Dollars Re
schools, and those intending to teach L. R. Budrow, superintendent of the ward for any case olCatarrh that can
mining
company,
and
to
destroy
the
are required by law to attend. Any
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Curs.
F J. ( heiiey A Co., 'loiedo, O.
teacher who closes school for not more company’s $2,000,000 plant unless he
We, the undersigned have kuov n
than three days for the purposes of turned over *100,000 in American
i F. J. Cheney tot the last '6 years, a. d
attending this institute shail not for money. The rebels also threatened to i believe him perfectly honor.'bie in .dl
carry
away
$60,000
in
bullion.
feit his or her salary as teacher for
business transactions and tiiam ia ly
While 400 federate were within six able to carry out any obligation», in., te
such time. For each teacher whose
attendance aggregates at least 16 miles of the camp yesterday, no wore by his firm.
W ai . ding , K innan & M arvin .
| l ours, the district in which such teach- i was received to day of an attempt to
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
er is employed, or shall be employed i retake it.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally,
acting directly upon the blood
, during the current school year, shall! Fifteen Mormons, lhe last of the
be reimbursed in the sum of 15.00 at American residents, reached Douglas , and mucous surfaces of the system.
the time of the next annual apportion-1 late last night from Colonia Morelos, 1 Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
merl of county school funds.
j They report a narrow eicape from a
Take Hall s Family Pills for con-
1 stipation.
Railroad rates of one and one-third bund of General Rojas’ rebels.
Notice to Teachers.
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