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j JACKSONVILLE;- A M ountain T own W ith A V alley C limate . I __________________ JACKSONVILLE POST -TT VOL. XIV NO. H JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY. OREG )N, JUNE 26. 1920 NEWS OF THE WEEK WHAT OUR NEIGH IN TABLET FORM. BORS ARE DOING Correspondents INSANE PRISONER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Tersely told By Conscientious TRUE TALES OF PIONEERS C. C. Beekman One of Southern Oregtn’a Most Respected Pion eers. Fin incier and Man of Marked Business Ability. Handled The county jail w is th » scene of <• n- Millions in Gald as Banker and Express Messenger. The schools in Omaha were forced Mrs. A. C. Howlett Wednesday after- to close because of the excessive heat. siderable excitem »nt Tues lay m or-ing The temperature had reached M de- when it win discover.-1 that J. P. noon. ASHLAN1) No history of the pion-ers of Jack Beekman amassed a fortun •, not l y Mrs. J. H. Gay of Central Point and grees each day fur over n week Ono Lundgren, for a snort time an inmate sonville and the Rogue River Valley mist i ly conduct, nor by oppressing the death and two prostrations were re- of that institution, ha I sometime dur- son Louis Gay and wife of Seattle poir; not by taking advantage of the The old Ashland Hotel building on were visitors in Eagle Point Sunday. ported. ' ing the night or early in the morning “which derived its name from the iieicsriiies of I.is fellow men, but by character of its Indi ins ” , would be North Main street wassold to Harrison A carload of aliens, listed as unde ■ attempted to cam nit suicide by gash- Mrs. J. H, Devaney and children left strict ob ervnnce to business principals Bros., ar.d E. H. Pierce of the local for Midville, Idaho, Friday, to join Mr. sirables and anarchists, were deported j mg throat, face, wrists -nd ankles complete without reference to theearlv and a curt I ul management of bis own Ford agency and will be converted into Devaney who preceded them to their on vessels leaving the port of New with a safetv razor blade. Lundgren career oi the late C. C. Beekman, pom affairs As a financier and a man of a moder ng ar age. York Saturday. Another large numb» » was found lying in his cell when jailor I new home. ubili'.y, lie was the peer of any man in Aleca Norris made his rounds Tuesday i express rider, b isiness man an I b inker Southern Oregon. To prove this, if J. R. Lrity, well known freight con i Mr. and Mrs. George Singwald of 1 will be deported this week. Possessed of resolution, ambition ail morning. Dr. Chas. T. Sweeney was ductor who was painfully injured when ! Oakland, Calif., are visiting at the j A large octopus was caught at a proof is necessary, we call attention of he fell from a car at Weed, was taken ' home of the latter's parents, Mr. and1 dock in Newport, Oregon, b/ a man immediately summoned »nd rendered endurance in a m irked degree Ii • was our rea lets to the facts that Mr. Beek to the S. P. hospital at San Francisco, i Mrs. David Cincade. who was fishing. The devil fish meas first aid and the would be suicide was peculiarly weft fit te I to grapple with man was repeatedly elected one of the rushed to the S icred Heart hospital the hardships a il problems of early trustees < f Jacksonville, and for sever accompanied by his wife. ured six feet in diameter. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley of) McNair BroB., druggists, who are ' Butte Falls and Carl Stanley of Lake j An ordinance was passed by the for treatment. While his condition is days and from the time when as ex-' al terms h_i i me honor ible position ot now in their new location near the Creek were business visitors in Eagle Seattle, Wash., city council to increase considered serious, it is believed that press rider he made his lonely and mayor, lie also held the office of he will recover. dangerous trips over the Siskiyou school director for many years, and it post office,-have installed a free phone Point last week. car fares to ten cents for single trips. Lundgren, who is partially insane mountains carrying letters and papers was mainly through his business tact for the convenience of the public. Fuel shortage in New England is due to skull pressure on the brain caus arfd hundreds of thousands of dollars Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Stoddard and The Society Cabaret, which will be children, who have been living near acute. The interstate commerce com ed by an injury received in an accident, worth of gold dust, always traveling at and bis love for educational advance given July,2nd under the auspices of Los Angeles, stopped here on their | mission has ordered all rail roads to was found wandering about near Ash night co lessen the chances of molesta ment that Inis placed the standard of education for the young in Jacksonville First company, will conduct a confetti way to Butte Fails. give cars of coal the right-of-way. land by the chief of police of that city tion by hostile Indians and bad white on a plane that would do credit to a dance as the grand finale of the anter- Mrs. H. M. Daniels and son and 1 A new process of making paper pulp last week and brought to the county men, he was ever among the foremost i larger town. The year 1878 was mem tainment.- daughter, Horace and Margaret, are from cotton fiber has been developed jail to be held while search was being in advancing the development of the orable to him, ton without the slight- Prof. Larimore, noted Chautauqua i enjoying a visit at the home of George and manufacture will be started soon. made for his brother who had evident country in which we live An oil i est effort on his part, he was selected favorite here, will go to San Francisco, ' Givens, Four wholesale grocery houses in ly been taking care Of him- The Ash history of Sou* hern Oregon contains by the republican party from among where he will be prominently engaged J W. C. Johnson, one of the firm of Arkansas have been indicted, charging land officer assured jailor Norris that the following personal mention of Mr. his compeers and placed in nomination n Y. M. C. A. work. he had searched Lundgren and found Beekm an: ; Johnson Bros., who purchased the profiteering in sugar. for governor of Oregon. This was a The bronze memorial tablet, given i Haley place, was a business caller in “He was born in New York city,.)an closely contested and hard fought Experiments are being carried on in nothing but a considerable sum of by the American Legion as a memorial I Eagle Point last Thursday. Vancouver, B. C., towards building of money, consequently no rigid | uary 27, 182«. He received his educa- battle. Mr. Beekman’s popularity was to the boys who died in the late war, J houses from marble dust and saw dust search was male when he arrive ! here cation in the public schools, an I while so gre it that he was supported not has been sunk in a large boulder in: ind a house will be erected of this m,- and he must have had the razor blade ¡yet in his minority learned the carpen- only b.v republicans, but by a large OBITUARY IZthia Airk and the unveiling exer i ’s trade. In the year 185) he sailed number of democrats in Southern Ore eriai. It is claimed that it can be in his possession ever since he had been iter in confinement. ciser will be held on July 4th. | from New York, coming via. the isth gon. He was defeated bv his democrat erected at a cost of six cents a foot. Lundgren is a tine appearing man of mus of Panama, and arrived in San “ ~ opponent, (lov. W. W. Thayer, by Engineer, E. H. Bush and family L-eutenant G. M. Crawford, an about 55 years of age. well educated , Francisco in the fall of that ve ir. He forty-nine votes.” Funeral services of Mrs. Amelia J. went to Portland the first of tbe week, American aviator, succeeded ii sinking to look after their ranch interests in Schmitt, who died st the home of her a bolshevik troop ship in the Dniepei ind evidently possessed of consider- wen' to Sawyer’s Bar, where lie was During later vears Beekman’s Bank engaged as a miner; thence to Yreka ing House, unique among i stituti >ns that viainity and attend the Shriner’s daughter, Mrs. B. E. Haney, in Med river. The American flew low ano ible means. ford, June 13, were held at Jacksonville ewept the ship’s deck with his ma working at his trade, after which we of its kind, was esteemed a sort of convention. the country, there will be conducted •emetery Sunday, June 20, at 2:30 p. m., find him at Scott’s Bar, mining; re-| Mecca by tourists,and until the ti ne of The Union Meat Market near tbe de chine gun till it caught Are and sank. Juring the next two months an exten turning to Yrexii, where, in 1853, he Mr. Beekman's death and subsequent pot has been taken over by William Rev. Wm. B. Hamilton officiating. Two hundred pigeons took the air sive tax drive for the collecti in of de Mrs. Schmit* was 72 years, 10 months entered the employ of Cram, Rogers Hibbs, who formerly cuodocted the closing of the bank no tour of southern Saturday in the annual 500 mile race, linquent sales and other miscellaneous and 17 days of age at the time of bei Co., as express messenger between Oregon was considered complete unless Plaza market. uuder the auspices of the American axes, such as the so-called luxury tax, that pl ice, Jacksonville and Crescent death and was born at Burlington, The creamery and several stores Iowa. When 13 years old she crossed Pigeon Racing Club. It was expected the soft drink tax, the admission tax City. He was often obliged to cross . it ineluJed a trip to Jacksonville to visit tiie o'd building and view the huve been broken into by local boys. the plains with her parents, reaching that the winner would reach the goal the manufacture’s tax, the tax on the Siskiyou mountains under cover of superb collection of nuggets it contain- Several have lieen arrested and fined Jacksonville with them in in 12 hours. jewelry and works of art, and the tax darkness on account of hostile Indians. 1860, and one or two are facing jail sentences. where the family made their home. In Fifteen thousand tons of wheat des ■on toilet articles and proprietary medi He retained this position until the fail | ed. As a proof of the confidence reposed Lieutenant W. W. Ussher, of the 1868 she married Adam Schmitt and tined for England have been diverted cines. Reports of laxity on the part of ure of Adams & Co. in 1856, which car N<WV, who has been assigned to the ooth lived to celebrate their golden to Germany to forestall the serious dealers and other persons responsible ried down with it the house of Cram, I ia Mr. Beekman’s integrity by his fel Bremerton Navy yard for some time, wedding August 14, 1913. They were shortage there. tor the re»urn and collectien of these Rogers & Co. He then commenced low pioneers, it might be said that will return to Ashland with his family best known to pur resident« as Papa Two hundred armed Koreans, were taxes have reached the Bureau of In carrying express on liis own account ' when his banking house was closed a number of deposits, consisting prin to spend his vacation. Lieut. U BBher and Mama Schmitt and numbered a defeated when they attempted to cross ternal Revenue from many sources, resuming his perilous trips across tbe cipally of gold dust and ready in >ney, was formerly manager of the local nost of friends in this vicinity. For the frontier into China. Information from the Sales Tax Unit mountains until a stage road was built i was found which dated back almost io telephone exchange. of the Bureau of Internal Revenue is some years Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt con and the stages Jof the old California One man was killed and others in Hillah Temple held a special Shrine ducted a hotel iiere, afterwards resid jured in a run away freight wreck, .n that many dealers in soft drinks and Stage Company put on the route. In the beginning of his career as a Im-ik- session last Friday evening, to qualify ing on Fourth street until Mr. Schmitt’s which 48 cars were derailed and de ice cream either are keeping no record 1863, when Wells, Fargo & Co com er. Early miners, desiring a place of several candidates for the Portland leath a few years ago, since which stroyed by lire near Ellensburg, Wash. of the amount of tax collections from pleted their over.and connections with safe-keeping for their surplus cash, I had placed it in Mr. Beekman’s han s doings this week. lime Mrs. Schmitt has made her home A special grand jury was called for such sales, or that the record is incor Portland, they tendered Mr. Beekman and promptly forgotten it. Much i iffi- with her daughter in Medford. rect or insufficient. the agency at Jacksonville, which he A series of band concerts have been an inquiry into the lynching fray at Mrs. Schmitt was a member of the Duluth, Minn., m which a mob of 5000 It is the intention to conduct as accepted and retained with credit and culty was encountered in finding right arranged on a aemi-weekly basis be ful owners or heirs to this wealth. tween Ashland and Medford. The city Degree of Honor, A. O. U. W., and persons hanged 3 negroes suspected of thorough and as effective a campaign ability. During his term of service as Mr. Beekman’s family; Mrs. Beek for many years was a member of the as possible in such a way as to bring to i express messenger on bis own and authorities will assume two-thirds of an attack on a young white girl. man, formerly Miss Julia Hoffman, a justice willful violators, and cause no ! other’s account, he handled millions of the expense and the Commercial Club Pocahontas Lodge. She leaves to mourn The fossil of a prehistoric whale has embarassment to merchants and busi- , dollars, and, in fact, more than any member of a pioneer family, Mirs her loss one daughter, Mrs. B. E. Haney Club oo<». tfciid. Carrie Beekman ami B. B. Beekman, been found on the Oregon coast, near The Pompadour Mineral Springs Co., of Medtord, Ore., and one son, Julius Newport, by Dr, Earl Packard, pro ness men who honestly try to comply j other man in Southern Oregon; ai d his i now make their ho ne in Portland. A. Schmitt of Hood, Cal., two sisters, with tbe revenue laws. ” f retention and promotion by his employ- of this city is bottling mineral water fessor of geology in the Univeisity of ■ ■ - .... [ erB is a sufficient guarantee of his an-, ------- “ for export. Harry Silver is manager Mrs. T. J. Kinney of Medford, Oregon, Oregon. and Mrs. L. L. Savage of Vallejo, Cal., All work done ir. 1920 spot cash at swerving honesty and integrity. In- As a business l> > »-ter try an a<l in of the-concern. Three United Stales destroyers left W. R. Sparks’. and two brothers, William Ulrich of ¡vesting his earnings judiciouri/, th; I ost. The local Standard Oil service station Sledford, Ore«”on, and Chris Ulrich of Constantinople, where they have been is in successful operation under M. I, ibis city. on duty, for New York last week. Six Patton, who has been living .in Rose warships will remain in the harbor. burg for a number of years. u The death of Mrs. Margaret Anne Thomas H. Simpson, one of Ashland’s i Matney at her farm home near Ruch popular business men, has been ap Sunday morning, June 20th, marked Jacksonville Gold pointed county Commissioner to fill the the passing of another Oregon pioneer. Discovery Reported. vacancy caused by the death of George Mrs Matney was borti at St, Joe, Mo., W. Owens. March 24, 1845, and at the age of nine The Spokane Spokesman-Review has years crossed the plains with her par Lynn D. Mow at returned Friday the following to say of one of our ents, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Mannin, and from Portland., He will begin work mines: with tbe American City Bureau hter resided at Eugene, Oregon, until 1862, “Recent development work on agold- when she was married to Carrol Matney in tbe Bummer. * and with him settled in the Applegate beariug ledge, which has been known Captain W®. M. Briggs and officers valley, where they were among the for a long time to carry gold values, of First Company left last Monday for first pioneers. Mrs. Matney was highly uncovered rich pay shoots of free mill Camp Lewis, to attend a preliminary respected and esteemed by a wide ing ore. The r.ew find is south of Gold camp of instruction and arrange for circle of friends and her loss will be Hill and west of Jacksonville, the most the annual encampment of the company severely felt. She is survived by 12 accessible point to shipping. It is own- to be held at Camp Lewis in July. living children, 26 grandchildren and 6 bv F. E. Haves, M. G. Womack and great grandchildren. The living child Allen Brackenreed of Medford. It is ren are: Jefferson Matney of Klamath reporte 1 that George Kerns and A. H. Falls, Ore., Frank Matney of Burns, Gunnell of Grants Pass have taken a EAGLE POINT Ore., John Matney and Will Matney of 60-day option on the property in behalf Ruch, Ore., George Matney of Murphy, of E. L. Eskridge, an Alaskan mine Mrs. W. S. Baker, who ha3 been a Oregon, Isaac Matney, Mrs. Harry operator, now located at Grants Pass. patient in a Medford hospital for some Lofland and Miss Nina Matney of Med The lessees will spend considerable time, was brought to Eagle Point ford, Mrs. Charles Hamilton and Mrs. money on the deposit in opening it up. The vein lies east and parallel with Wm. Coppie of Ruch, Oregon, Mrs, Thursday. the old producing Opp mine, and since John Allen and aon, Walter, spent Arthur Lewis of Grants Pass, Oregon, its recent survey seems to be the source some time in town Friday. Mr. Allen and Margaret Matney of Medford, Ore of the placer gold in Jackson creek and gon. ia a well know stockman of Derby. Funeral services and interrment, at anti the site of Jacksonville, where gold Mrs. W. W. Holt and daughters have tended by many friends from different was first uncovered in 1851,” gone to Berkeley, Calif., where they parts of the county, were held at Log This claim is one of the earlv will visit Mrs. Holt's mother, Mrs. town Wednesday, Rev. Bray of li ed- prospects and has been known to Perdue, for the summer. people for years. John Renault, lord officiating. Geo. Klingle of Lake Creek left who worked the claim some year ago, Saturday by auto for various points in reports having found a few pieces of Quiet School Election California, where be intends to spend ore near the mouth of the old tunnel, the snmmer. evidently left then- by some pioneer .Jacksonville O reif on Very little interest was manifested prospector, which when crushed yield- County Judge Gardner, accompanied in the annual school meeting held in by county commissioners James Owens this city Monday afternoon and but ed $ 18.110 in free gold. and T. H. Simpson passed thru here few of our citizens exercised their Thursday on their way to Butte Falls. right to vote. The meeting was called To Collect Sales Taxes They were looking for a place to in for the purpose of electing one school i stall the rock crusher which will pre director for a term of three vears and pare the rock to be used on the road a clerk for a term of one year. Geo. The following statement is issued by between Reese crack and Butte Falls. Launspatch was re-elected to til) the . Collector of Internal Revenue, Milton Mrs. Argeloe Green of Loa Angeles former office and Rev. Albert H. Gam-! A. Miller: and sister, Mrs. Floyd Pierce, visited mons was re-elected clerk. j “In this, as in every other section of ( ] i i I n h h h We have a few pair of Men’s First Quality i OVERALLS selling tor$i.50 p Lewis [Jlrich Pioneer Merchant ft fi h h h h h ft h fi h n fi If* fi h II p