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NEWS OF THE WEEK
WHAT OUR NEIGH
By
IN TABLET FORM.
Conscientious
BORS
ARE
DOING
Correspondents
NO. 15
TRUE TALES OF PIONEERS
A Well Remembered Incident of the Indian War of 1855 Graphi
cally Related by Pioneer Newspaper Man. Fate of Little David
Alfred Fattig, draft evader from
Considerable exeitem nt was caused
i Jackson county, Oregon, has surrender i early Sunday morning when it was
Harris Y’et Unlearned.
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I was a recent visitor in Eagle Point.
Arthur Brown of Medford, repre
senting the Portland Oregonian, was
| in Eagle Point in the interest of his
paper the latter part of last week.
' Misses Emma Lovett and Ruth
Sharpe of Medford passed through
Eagle Point enroute to Trail the be
ginning of the week.
W. R. SPARKS’ HOME
DAMAGED BY FIRE
L umber
C attle , C lay P bopuct »
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY’, OREGON, AUGUST 7. 1920
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ed to authorities at Portland, after hav discovered that the roof of W. R
ing lived in the woods 3 years, subsist Sparks’ residence on Oregon ’street
Through the kindness of Miss Alice travel, lying about forty miles north
ing on wild animials and berries. He was on fire. An alarm was sounded Hanley we are enabled to republish' a of Jacksonville. Mr. Harris was a
was given a sentence of nine months i and a number of citizens responded. narrative of the tragic experiences of worth, industrious citizen, building a
Tourists travel is excepionally heavy
I but before their arrival with the hose [one family in the Indian war of 1855. home for his family who were happy
for draft evasion.
thro Ashlard this year and many out
The serious shortage of rice in China 1 cart the blaze had been extinguished This is but one of many similar epi and contented with the fertile spot
siders are spending the summer here.
has resulted in general disorder and by a garden hose handled by G. W sodes which darkened-the early days, where their weary feet had found rest.
All hotels and apartments are full to
[ for many pioneers and well illustrates 1 The house, a log building, was beauti
rioting. Five women were arrested for Godward and Fred Sparks.
capacity and many extra rooms fitted
The fire was caused by a live spark i the dangers and difficulties confronting fully situated and on every side except
looting in Shanghai. Goverment action
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up in private homes are occupied.
against rice profiteers has been urged. lodging in the shingles, not bv a de them The following story, unlike the south the ground was clean and
Dr Crandall, doctor of osteopathy
Elihu Root presented the British peo fective flue as has been reported. many “thrillers” of less interest, has open. Mr. Harris had felled several
from Ln, Angles has moved to Ashland [
ple with the Saint Gauden’s statue of About ten square feet of the roof 1 the advantage of being absolutely trees in the vicinity of the house and
TRAIL
on the morning of October 9th was
and will be associated with Dr. Bertha
Abraham Lincoln in London as a gift was burned and wall paper and furni true.
engaged
in making boards of their,
ture
slightly
damaged.
Mr.
Sparks
,
Sawyer.
from America. The speech of accep
This narrative was written shortly
Clarence Holmes arrived on a visit tance was delivered by Premier Lloyd estimates that $59 will cover all | after the outbreak by William M. Turn not having the slighest apprehension
Jarnos Sponeer wr,t to Aitoria as
damages.
of immediate danger
delegate from the Ashland Post of the to his sister, Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson, a George.
er, for many years editor of the Jack
Under cover of a large copse of wil
American Legion to the stale conven short time ago. He expects to remain
sonville, Oregon, Sentinel, and an old
Francisco Villa, Mexican bandit, with
Mankins
&
Bell
the balance of the summer.
low
just out of range, a band of fifteen
tion held there.
and highly esteemed resident of Jack-
a force of nearly 500 men engaged in a
twenty warriors, with the warm
Tourists travel in tills section is sharp encounter with government
Merle Robinson, who recently sold
Strike Pay Streak. son county. The tragic incident so or
the Ashland garage, has accepted a unusually heavy this summer.
pathetically related by Mr. Turner is blood of tne murdered Wagoner fam
troops at Sabinas. Villa is holding an
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cunningham American for ransom.
position as mechanician with the A.
The .Mankins & Bell mining claim yet fresh in the memories of the old ily, who lived two and a half miles
to the southward, yet undried upon
W. Walker Auto company at Medford. who intended to start return trio home
Late reports say that Francisco in the Poorman creek district shows pioneers of Southern Oregon:
their brown hands, stole stealthily to
It happened in early life. A heavy ward the doomed home. Some of
Mahogany camp of Modern Wood some time ago, have been delayed by Villa, Mexican bandit, has surrendered indications of becoming one of the
the
illness
of
Mrs
Cummingham.
really
rich
mines
of
the
country.
cloud had been gathering over the the fiends were probably half crazed
men held their regular session last
and will return to private life. He
Monday evening. A. H. Harris, of Port The camp meeting of the Free Met was restored to full citizenship and Within the past few days a narrow settlers of Southern Oregon. The with liquor, cbtained at the Wagoner
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hodists which have been held for some given a yearly allowance by tne gov streak of quartz has been uncovered fame of the lovely valley lying under ranch, and pressing too eagerly for a
land, district deputy, was present.
at a depth of about 60 feet, which, the snow-capped “Siskiyous, threaded
time
have been well attended.
ernment.
Mrs. A. H. Peachy and daughter of
favorable position for the attack,
Mrs Geo. Week was a recent guest
Portland have been visiting the former’s
Liquor raidB staged in Newark and while samples have not yet been as by sparkling streams, covered with which was made at nine a. nt., were
daughter, Mrs Lee Port at the Star j at the home of Mrs Floyd Hutchinsen. Jersey City, netted federal agents a sayed, experienced miners estimate luxurant grasses, the hiding place of evidently discovered by Mr. Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson and haul of whiskey valued at $115,000. A will run from $500 to $1000 per ton in antelope and deer, surrounded with Leaving his work he walked rapidly
Ranger Station.
guests
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cunning- I nation-wide campaign against illicit gold. This streak while but two or I hills that were yellow with gold” had into the housb, and setting his ax in
About five hundred Odd Fellows and 1
three inches wide at present shows in | attracted attention ano immigration
ham
spent
Friday of last week at Ro- j liquor dealings is believed iminent.
the corner of the room he picked up
Rebekahs from all over the valley I
dications of widening as depth is at | had poured fast into the Rogue River j
gue
River
visiting
among
other
points
attended the reunion held in Ashland
John Bonnell, a sheep-herder and tained. The vein is on a contact be 1 country from California and northern ; his shot gun with out saying a word,
of interest, the Natural Bridge.
park Thursday of last week.
over 1000 sheep were killed in a clash tween porphyry and granite, held to ba Oregon. It was the old frontier story- j stepped to the door and endeavored to
between Colorado cattle men and Utah one of the most promising formations to the white was crowding the red, and I close it. Little Sophia accompanied
The local school district is asking
her father to the door looking in his
sheep men.
for bids or. the installation of four More Interest in
be found in this section of the country the latter was sullen and out of tem
Forest patrol airplanes in Oregon A sample from this mine recent per. Although the government hail face in a wondering, half frightened
additional furnaces in the high school.
way but asked no questions, and just
It was decided to substitute coal I
Hot Lunches. will be equipped with safety parachut ly assayed contained values of over established a reservation in Rogue as they reached the door the Indians
es to be used by the men in case of $100 per ton in gold and samples from River valley and made fair provisions
furnaces for the previous oil burners
poured a volley of at least a dozen
emergency.
because of the prevailing shortage.
the new strike, which lays along side for the Indians: he was jealous of the shots into and through it. Mr. Harris
I Teachers and parents are eommenc-
Three all metal aeroplanes carrying a bodv of quartz averaging about $50 encroachment of the civilization, and was struck fair in the breast by a rifle
Because of the absence of snow in
the mountains, the water supply is ex ing to realize the importance of hot the first trans-continental aerial mail to the ton, is incomparably richer. his discontent was manifested by the ball but stood firmly until he had dis
tremely low in Ashland this year as in school lunches, and the home demon left New York last Thursday. The Missourians who require ocular proof occasional murder of a white traveler charged both barrels of his heavily
other townB. The council is planning stration agents sent out by the United establishment of the regular coast to before believing that real mineral de or prospector. At last the cloud burst, loaded gun; then staggering backward
a new schedule for restricting the States Department of Agriculture and coast mail service will be made on Sep posits are to be found in Southern and it swept over the outlying settle he fell, never again to speak to those
the State colleges are helping to es tember 1st.
Oregon are invited to call on Messrs. ments like a whirlwind of death.
water privileges.
who sorely needed his protection. The
tablish hot lunches in communities
Mankins & Bell and have their doubts
Alfred
Hubbard,
boy
inventor
of
Se
Murder by prowling bands of Indians daughter was shot through the left
Dr. Maude Hawley, who has been which are alive to their value. Last
had become so frequent that the pa arm by the same volley that wounded
enjoying a month's vacation in Port year these extension workers. who are attle, propelled an eighteen foot boat dispelled.
tience of the whites was exhausted. A her father but the brave little maiden
land and other points in Oregon has trained in home economics, established with four passengers at a good rate of
speed. The motor consumes air as fuel, “Get” Codling Moths Now. company of volunteers had been quiet uttered no cry nor showed the slightest
returned home.
hot lunches in 2,929 schools. The work
ly organized and on the Sth day of sign of pain, but bleeding freely ran
generating
45 horsepower. The demon
A summer school for instruction in will be continued this year on even
The mi in l ody < f tl e second broo October. 1855, they struck the first up stairs and threw herself on the bed.
swimming is in progress. The class larger scale. In some counties a wall stration was successful.
All five of the men who escaped from of codling motns will emerge and get blow on a large band of Indians who 1 Il was now that the courage of the
meets at the Nat plunges on Mondays, of prejudice against the innovation
Wednesdays and Fridays at three has to be broken down before it can the jail at Pendleton, Oregon, including busy ‘‘stinging ” the apples and pears professed the upmost friendship for woman, that splendid quality that
the settlers. Those who survived the
o’clock.
be started. Where this is true, the the murderer of Sheriff Taylor, have of the Willamette vally district about slaughter hastened to the reservation turns the fibers of the most delicate
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Briscoe have success of the hot lunch in one school, been captured and are again in jail. August 5 to 15, reports A. L. Lovett, and persuaded the few who were re- • hearts to cords of steel, that mocks
the valor of the sterner sex, was
Raold Amundsen, discover of the entomologist of the O. A. C. Experi
been visiting their son, Dr. Lance where it has been established, is usu
maining 'here to join, commenced their '
Briscoe in Seattle. Since his discharge ally followed by a demand for some South pole, is in Nome, Alaska, out ment station. The moth will appear work of retaliation at this point, and i sorely tried. Mrs. Harris had observ-
ed her husband’s movements under-
from the medical corps of the army. thing similar in all the adjacent school. fitting for a dash to the north pole. He about five days earlier than this in the then striking down the river continued [......
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stood
them
and at once realized
I lie
Roseburg
district,
he
announces.
plans to be gone five years.
Dr. Briscoe has been head physician of
Some scattering moths will appear and it in their flight, and did it fearfully situation. For a moment only was she
a Seattle hospital.
The yacht Resolute won the deciding
do some mischief a little earlier. well. It is at this point out story com appalled. Instantly recovering tier
Jessie Winburn of New York, who The Country Newspaper. race with thq Shamrock IV in defense Professor Lovett thinks, bnt the stan mences.
; self possession the brave frontier
of America’s cup. Sir Thomas Lipton
recently purchased the hotel Austin,
In July of the same year George W. woman took the weapon frotn the
dard
moth
spray
applied
thoroughly
at
says he will issue another challenge in
j grasp of her dying husband, closed the
intends to remodel the building into a
the times indicated will effect the Harris, with his family, consisting of inner door, and rushing up stairs seized
In commenting on the attack of a
health resort. His personal repre metropolitan daily which attempted to 1922.
maximum results in protection of the his wife and daughter about 11 years an “Allen” revolver lying on the roof
sentative, Miss Anna Kopp, is in Ash
Free radium treatment for sufferers fruit.
of age, and a bright manly boy of i plate and discharged it rap dly in the
belittle the political influence of the
land to superintend the work.
nearly nine, had come from the Wil direction of the assailants through a
country weekly and daily over the from cancer will be administered by
A large shark weighing 4,50 pounds lamette and settled in a little valley ’ hole in the chimney.
land, Harry Hammond, editor of the the New York state institution for th e
was killed by a life guard on the bathing through which passed the main line of
(To be continued next week.)
Byron, California, Times, one of the study of malignant diseases. Two and beach
at Edgemere, New York.
one
quarter
grams
of
radium
were
pur
livest
and
most
progressive
papers
in
EAGLE POINT
chased at a cost of $225,000.
the country, says:
Hulks ot five former German war.
"‘While the country paper is small, it
Judge Gardner and commissioners, is doing just as much, in its way, for ship assigned to the United States -ar i
Owensand Simpson, were in Eagle the progress and development of the rived in New York harbor last week.
Point Friday. They have been in section it serves as any of the larger They will be open to inspection by the
papers, and in some cases a great public in various ports, but must be
specting the roads in this vicinity.
deal more, because as a rule, the big destroyed within one year.
P. L. Loon of Aberdeen, Wash.,
Indications point to no peace be
ger the paper the more its opinions
was in town a few days while hunting
are dominated from the counting tween Poland and soviet Russia. Ber
for agates, in which business he is
room, something never thought of by lin made an offer to the British to
interested.
the county weekly, whicn boosts its raise an army of 1,500,000 men to fight
Attorney and Mrs. M. Purdin of locality all the time without thought of the bolsheviki in Russia in exchange
for the return to Germany of Posen.
Medford were in town recently. Mr. receiving pay for such service.”
Purdin was on business connected with
Bolsheviki cavalry forces advanced to
the estate of W. W. Taylor.
the Prussian borders. The red army
J. W. Mitchell, Christian Science Children Drink More Milk now menaces Warsaw from the north
and east. Allied troops are being held
practictioner ef Medford, accompanied
near the Prussian boundary.
by a number of Medford friends, spent
Dairy specialists sent out by the
President Wilson’s flock of 48 prize
Thursday in Eagle Point.
United States Departments of Agri sheep which have kept the White Ho-
Mrs. Nate Slusser is visiting friends culture to stimulate through edu- use lawns cut for three summers are
at Ashland for a few days.
cational work with women, the con- to be sold. Each year the wool has
Chas. F. Jones and C. M. Gilmore, sumption of milk and milk products gone to various charities and in 1918,
representing Paul’s Electric store of for human food, report large increases the Red Cross realized $52,000 for the
This is Much Lower Than
Medford, transacted business in Eagle in the use of dairy products in those 98 pounds of wool.
States where milk campaigns have
Point Friday.
They Usually Sell
A route has been mapped out for
H. T. Findley of Medford was in been put on.
the
first
aerial
trip
around
the
world.
A
In Detroit the President of the Dis
town Friday in the interests of the
tributors' association reported an in test flight leaving London and ending
Union Oil Co.
crease in that city ot 10 per cent in the in New York, via Japan ar.d Seattle,
Miss Delia Stelver of Medford is the sale of whole milk, 15 percent in but will be made in an airplane carrying
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols at ter, and 3 per cent in cottage cheese ten passengers.
Lake Creek.
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directly attributable to a milk campaign
Edwin D. Hill, of Napa City, Calif., One Detroit distributing firm has
is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Fred since sold weekly 20,000jmore pounds Poultrymen Active in
Hill of Derby.
Improving Stock.
of butter and 50,000 more quarts of
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman, who milk than it did before the educational
The large rumber of well-bred flocks
have been Eagle Point residents for work on the value of dairy products
of poultry and the skillful methods
some time, removed to Medford was given to the people
During, the campaign 371 lectures used in improving them are becoming
recently.
The Fruit Dealers Ass’n have been were given in schools, factories, and more and move evident with the de
utilizing the P. & E. depot as a work before Women’s clubs and Mother's velopment of the "‘Better sire-better
shop for the manufacturing of fruit meetings. These meeting* were attend stock” campaign. One Florida poultry
i farm, recently enrolled, has 200 cocks
boxes to be used in this section the ed by 70,000 persons.
and 950 hens, all standard bred, single
coming season.
comb White Leghorns. In addition,
W. L. Childreth and family, accom
All work done in 1920 spot cash at they are line bred for high egg pro -
panied by Mrs. Alice Daley rusticated w. R. Sparks’,
duction and the flock has been trap-
in the hills around Butte Falls recent
For Sale—LOCATION NOTICES- nested for 24 years. The owner states
ly-
both quartz and placer. Jacksonville [ that in addition the fowls are ot good
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Mrs. George Brown of Brownsboro pQ8t,
exhibition type.
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