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BORS ARE DONG
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 9. 1920
down the large silo that had ’recently
been erected on the property of Wm.
Lewis.
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Walter Wood made a trip to Ash­
land last week to purchase a number
of cattle.
Another big dance land 'supper is
scheduled for Saturday* night Oct. 9
Majestic orchestra will furnish the
music.
Mr and Mrs David Ball of Crescent
City have been visiting the latter’s
sister Mrs Frank Lewis.
Grover Neil of Ashland and Win
Ashpole of Medford were in this vic-
inity looking for beef cattle.
Charles Brown who owns an ordhard
on the Crater Lake road was a bus­
iness visitor in Eagle Point last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitehead were
Eagle Point visitors Wednesday. Mr
Whitehead is manager of the Butte
Creek orchard.
Wm. Lewis, the ’sheep king atten-
ded the fair at Salem last week.
NO. 24
NEWS OF THE WORLD
IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS
the Klamath countrj, and thence east '
to the Humbolt river. Here they met 1
a train of immigrants and brought
back with them one hundred and fifty (
people, the pioneers traveling ahead ,
and making a road over which the wa­
Tersely Told by Conscien­
gons could p iss. They took this tr^in ‘ Wheat prieas droppel below two
safely through to the Willamette val­ dollars th- bi.shel and sugar was quo-
tious Correspondnts
The annual reunion of the Southern ter use. These they shared with the ley. This was the first road in South­ tel at $12 50 per hundred.
France is making a determined etr-
Oregon Pioneers Association held in pioneers. These peas, with wild game, ern Oregon and through the Rogue
River Valley, amt was called ‘‘the* ort to enforce the terms of the treat­
constituted
their
food,
during
their
this city Thursday.is repo rted to have
Southern Oregon wagon road” or later, ies between Germany and Austria and
first winter in Oregon.
ASHLAND
been one of the most enjcyable and
The town of Gervaise now stands on “The Old South Road. ” A great pro-1 prevent a union between those two
successful meetings held ny the asso­ the site of “Old Mission ” This was portion of the population ot Oregon en- i nations
Newton Graham, a Southern Pacific
ciation. ‘ About 200 pioneers and de­ | the beginning of the settlement in the tered by this route.
A Brooklyn man carrying a largo
engineer out of Dunsmuir was greet­
scendents from different sections of I .............................
Willamette valley.
I In 1818 about forty pioneers from the auantitv of dynamite was arrested in
ing old friends in Ashland last week,
Southern Oregon attended tWte ¡exer-| The first white men to set foot in Willamette valley came into the Rogue i
connection with the Wall street explo­
having lived here at one time.
cises and banquet served in the Odd | the Rogue River Valley, of whom we River valley on their way to the gold
Fellows building and were outspoken ; have any authentic record, were some | m’nes in California. They prospected sion investigations.
A number of pioneers from this sec­
Abdul) Mejed, Turkey's crown
in praise of arrangements made for French-Canadian trappers, who came a little while on Rogue River, and also
tion attended the annual reunion at
the comfort and enjoymeet of guests i into the valley to trap for furs for that Ton the stream we now krow as the Ap- prince attempted suicide by drinking
Jacksonville Thursday.
The meeting was called to order by great British monopoly, the Hudson I piegate, and then pushed or. to Cali­ poison. Despair over his country's fut­
The near East Relief committee
Miss Mollie Britt who officiated as a Bay Company. They set their traps fornia. My father and uncle were with ure is said to be the cause.
canvassed the town for cast-off gar
most efficient chairman and the exer­ along the river, but the Indians stole this party also, and the river anil val­ The American Legion in convention
ments last Saturday. They were ably
cises opened with ¡prayer by Rev. A. the traps and the trappers always ley of the Applegate were named for at Washington went on record as
assisted by Boy Scouts.
H. Gammons, followed by a solo ren­ spoke of them as the rogues, the river them.
against Japanese agreement and favor
Mayor Lampkin is again a candi­
dered by Fiet 'her F ish whose musical was the ‘‘river of the rogues,” and the
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rigid exclusion of Japanese.
date for mayor at the fall election
ability is well Known and a very I en­ valley the “valley of the rogues,” and
and petitions to that effect have been
joyable recitation by Mrs Frank Sauls- old pioneers have assured me that this
BUTTE FALLS
circulated recently.
berfy. Mrs’H. H. Sargent the orator was the way by which the Indians, the
Mr. and Mrs. Buel Hildreth are
Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Nelson, who visiting at various points on the coast of the day then delivered an eloquent river and the valley came by the name.
and warmly received address which
have been visiting relatives in this for a couple of weeks.
Another story as to the origin of the
we take pleasure in publishing. A
city returned to their home in Sebas-
Sam Hughes has been having ’some duet by Mrs Joe Rader and Fletcher name, is this: That the river was
topol California.
deutal work done io Medford recently. Fish and music by a male quartet called Rouge River, or Red River, by
some French voyagers, on account of
Two carloads of wheat were ¿hipped
Horace Geppert made a business closed the meeting. During the ban­
the cliffs at the mouth of the river be­
to Portland from Ashland vicinity last trip to Eagle Point last week.
quet ¡informal talks were made by
ing of a red color.
week.
Judge
Calvig,
Geo
Dunn
of
Ashland
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman have
By an act of the legislature in 1853-1
Howard Carey, a young Ashland been visiting the latter’s father, A. B. Col Sargent, Chris Ulrich and others.
Rogue River was to be Gold River, but
Mrs
Sargent!*
s;
e
ch
follows;
boy has enlisted in the aviation corps Zimmerman.
it has never been so called.
F riends and P ioneers of S outhern
and reported to San Francisco tor
Many hunting parties have been
The Indians living in this valley were
training.
O
regon
:
passing thro town toward the Blue
a branch of tfie tribe in California
I
feel
it
an
honor
to
have
been
given
Canyon
and
other
grounds.
¡Many
fin
e
♦ Fred Hamlin, who sustained a frac­
this opportunity to speak to you today, whom we now know as the Shasta?.
ture! skuil some time ago is able to? be bucks have been taken out recently.
and I speak for the benefit of the But the original name was not Shasta,
out
A. W. Smith of ¡California is visit-
younger
generation when I tell again but Chesta, they were the • Chesta
A meeting of the Commercial club ing his daughters, Mrs Nellie Trefern the old, old storv of the coming of the Scolons and the Indians living in the ■
was held at Chautauqua hall Thurs­ and Mrs Anderson.
pioneers. I feel it our duty to keep Rogue River ValUy were Chesta
day evening.
Miss (Aline Mahoney has gone to fresh in their minds the story of these Seotons.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Winter have Eugene for a visit with friends.
In 1846 fifteen pioneers from the
courageous women and valiant men
left for their home in Chicago, after a
Mrs Nate 'Anderson ¡was called to to whom they owe so much, the men Willamette valley made their way into
lengthy visit with the formers brother Newburg last week by the illness of and women who were the torch bear­ the Rogue River valley, seeking a
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O. Winter.
her mother.
ers who lighted the way for the thou route by which immigrants could enter
rL‘
Oregon
without
traveling
the
long
sands who have followed in their foot,
District Superintendent Danford,
steps. But how shall I honor them, northern route and down the Columbia >Vi
and Rev. C. A. Edwards, pastor of the
COMMUNICATION
and what words can I speak that will river, as they had com«. Their names
M. E. church, ¡attended the Oregon
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in any degree express our love for were Jesse Applegate, Lindsay Apple­
conference held at McMinnville last
To T he E ditor :— Having seen con­ them, or our pride in the record of gate, Levi Scott, John Scott, Henry
week.
Boygus, Benjamin Birch, John Owens,
A number of Ashland people attend­ siderable comment in various news­ their heroic lives.
ed the state fair at Salem last week. papers concerning the legal status of
Seventy-seven years ago a vast train J Jhn Jones, Robert Smith, Samuel
It is reported that Jackson county had the money which the County Treas­ of canvas-covered wagons stirted out Goodhue, Moses Harris, David Goff,
urer of Jackson County had on deposit from Independence, Missouri, on the Berrit Osborne, William Sportsman
a beautiful fruit exhibit.
George Stannard left for Los Ang­ in the Bank of Jacksonville, and my long, long trail toward Oregon, For and Willia’v Parker.
Each man was equipped with a sad­
eles last week. He intends to enter position relative thereto, I desire to six, seven and even eight long months
explain the same in so far as I am these brave people toiled onward for
dle horse and a pack horse. The In-
the university and study dentistry.
I dians followed them constantly and
"A voice was calling to them from
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. McCoy of concerned.
As a taxpayer and citizen I sincerely
| they had to be on guard day and night;
The unexplored beyond,
Vicksburg Miss, are in Ashland .visit­
trust that if there are not sufficient A wild voice in the mountains calling when they had to pass through heavy
ing the formers brother, J. W. Mc-
assets uncovered and recovered to pay
timber or brush they d amounted and I
Coy.
•Weat,’
all depositors in full that the County
led their horses, carrying their rifles i
Tney heard it in the foothills when
Court will decide to share pra-rata They climbed the Great Divide,
across their arms ready to fire.
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with the others. But since I am re­
CENTRAL POINT
The Indiana were equipped with bows
In the canyon when they faced the
quired by law to offer advice to the
and poisoned arrows, the pioneers with ■
torrents roar.
R. H. Paxson, the druggist and c. County Court when asked, if I should
the old time muzzle-loading rifle. They |
In the little breeze at dawn,
E. Webb attended the state fair at
be called on for an opinion relative to
made their way through the valley, I
In the hush of eventide;
Salem last week.
this deposit the ethics of my profes­
went
The
voice
which
kept
on
calling
City Recorder J. W. Jacobs has sion and my official responsibilities
before.”
mived his family into tin Msrritt would compel me to state that in my
This was the great immigration of
residence on front street, which he humble opinion the weight of authority
recently purchased.
is to the effect that they would be en­ 1843 and numbered a thousand souls.
Postmaster and Mrs Guy Tex and titled to such a preference but that Picture the scene at the rendezvous at
daughter, who have ¡been enjoying a such a course would entail extensive Independence, Missouri, when the pion­
months vacation at Prospect .have re­ itigation, the result of which is never eers were ready for the great adven­
turned home.
certain,and that it would be fairer, and ture.
One hundred and twenty-five wagons,
Miss Helen Norcross has gone to more equitable and just for the
Eugene where she will attend the county to refuse to take advantage of one thousand head of loose stock,
horses, cattle and sheep, and at night
of this preference.
University.
the gleam of two hundred camp fires.
Respectfully,
W. A. Cowley, who has been here
G. M. R oberts
They came through in detachments.
for a brief visit with his family, left
first detachment, numbering about
The
for Dunsmuir Monday night.
ten families and twenty wagons,
The dance given Saturday night was
Rexall Straw Ballot
reached the Columbia River in Novem­
wfll attended and greatly enjoyed.
ber, after a"six month’s journey. With
Thfe music was renderel by the Imper­
Every northern state in the union is this detachment were the three Ap­
ial orchestra of Medford.
for Harding and every southern state plegate brothers and their families, J.
Con Leever. J. O. Isaacson and Mr but Maryland is for Cox, acording to the W. Nesmith, afterwards senator from
Reynolds went to Medford Tujsday straw ballot now being carried on by Oregon, and Peter H. Burnette, who
night to attend the banquet at the Rexall stores. In the past the Rexall later became governor of California.
Hotel Medford for the park-to-park vote has run very close to the national
Their oxen were jaied and foot­
caravan.
emit.
sore, the snow had fallen deep in the
J. F. Williams and son John return­
No vote is being taken in Medford, mountains, and they decided to leave
ed from Grants Pass accompanied by but the ballots are being received and their animals and wagons in the
Mr Williams daughter, Mrs .Shipley will be posted from day to day by of the Hudsjn Bay Company, who
Roes and babv who will visit relatives Ralph Woodford. The only change thus forts on the river, and go down
here.
far has been in New Mexico which Columbia in boats These boats they
Rev. A. P. Gillett of Canyonville went for Cox then over to Harding built of the diiftwood found on the
visited his son A. A. Gillett a id fam­ chiefly to the womens support of the river’s bank,, and with only an Indian
republican nominee.
ily in Centra) Point last week.
pilot in a little canoe to guide them,
In every state but one 'the womens they started on their perilous voyage.
Luke Peart, who is an S. P, em-
ployee at Chico Calif, is visiting r* la- vote corresponds to the mens vote the During the two or three weeks spent
one exception being West Virginia in building the boats the party lived
fives here.
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where the women vote for Cox ex­
The evangelistic meetings are ■ till ceeds the women’s vote for Harding on dried salmon, which they bought
from the Indians. They navigated the
beimr held ¡i i the brick church and
by ten while the men’s vote for Hard- Columbia to the Willamette, and made
are well attended.
iug is over 300.
their first camp in a heavy forest,
Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Wille of St
The Oregon vote is; For Harding where the city of Portland now stands.
Louis are visiting the latte’s uncle, C. men 869; women 337; for Cox men 470
From there they went up the Wil­
N. Tuttle and family.
women 156. Ohio for Harding men lamette river to a place we now c«li
11,706, women 4307,Cox men 5092, wom­ Old Champoeg, where they left their
en 1717, nearly three to one 1ft favor boats. From Champoeg the party
EAGLE POINT
of the republican nominee.
traveled on foot to a place they called
Mrs W. H. Brown is chairman for
the Old Mission, three log cabins which
the tag day proceedings for the county
had been deserted by the missionaries.
Please Take Notice.
nurse fund today.
Here they spent the winter. Two or
Mr William Von der Hellen attend­ After day and date all work done­ three French-Canadians had cultivated
ed the banquet for the park-to-park positive I y cash, irrespective of per little farms in the neighborhoou of the
caravan in Medford Tuesday night.
sons.
Old Mission, and had grown quantities
The high wind of last ¡.week blew
of peas, which tney had dried for win-
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