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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1921)
/ I «3t1 Brill l;l!.-'.<HJRUES:- J ACKSONVILl.E:- A M ountain T own W ith A V alley C limate , i ! K À F ruit , M ines , L umber . C attle , C lay P roducts i» •L T T VOL. XV NO 19 JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUN7Y. OREGON, SEPTEMBER 10. 1921 At the County Court House Pert Paragraphs About Public People Brief News Items ot the State The River Fight Doings in Neighboring Communities By B F. Lindas would run the g. I.-let. It would save them hundred» of miles and they were not going to be turned back by fear oi the red-skin. That night they held a counsel of war and finally a plan was suggested that was put into immediate execution. They built a huge raft from the trees about them. On the raft they erected a substantial cabin, or box. built of solid logs with only a loop- lnto hole for hole tor the guns, this box crept the dozen men with instructions not to fire until they were so close that they were sure of their man. The raft was cut loose and slowly they drifted down the stream. All went well with them until that afternoon when they not iced straight ahead of them some strange objects in the river, They appeared in the distance to be huge tubs, but as they got closer they dis covered thtni to be peculiar, circu lar boats loaded with Indians. They stretched almost across the river, There was no stopping now. The men loaded their guns and quietly waited until they were so close to the Indians as to almost touch them, when a volley blazed forth from the raft, It took the red-skins completely by surprise. Some of the Indians tumbled headlong into the water unsetting their frail craft as they fell. Cooly and carefully the white men kept up a steady fire un til nearly every Indian craft had cap sized and at least a hundred Indians were struggling in the water. Some tried to board the raft but the men beat them off with their oars. Only a few of them ever reached the shore alive and after the raft had reached a safe landing around the bend of the river, it was found that not one in this improvised gunboat had I slain. There Is living in Jacksonville to day an old pioneer who engaged in days and we shall see that the animals one of the strangest Indian fights Cjunty Court are properly fed and cared for. If you that, perhaps, even occured in the have no way of getting your exhibit wild and wooly west. He had been The county court with Judge G miner to the fair, please notify us and we one of the earliest settlers in the and Commissioners Owens and Bursell may be able to help you. I Valley and saw the town when it was present met in regjlar monthly sessi. n Admission is free to school children. at the very height of its glory, lie Wednesday, Thursday and Friday ot ' We are asking that the school children knew all the unique characters that this week. Routine business was having a creditable exhibit shall not be made the Oregon gold-fields so dis transacted and bills paid. counted absent if at the fair one day. tinctive in its romance and story, As a club member you have a chance and he stayed, with many of the The county court has issued an order requiring Sheriff Terrill to continue the for the free trip to the Oregon State others, until the lure of more distant sale of real property foreclosed on by Fair and admission to the State Fair fields drew them from the hills and the county for taxes, for 80 days Camp for boys and girls. It is worth valleys of the Rogue. This sale was io have been ruade on 1 aiming for. It was in the sixties when he, with September 10th but. has been unavoid I a number of companions, left Jack ably postponed. About 1000 parcels of sonville to try their luck in the new Assessors Office 'and in various parts of the county are fields of Idaho and Montana. They affeced. Assessor J. B. Coleman states that left in early spring and rode and Improvement work on the Dead : all unsecured persona! property taxes walked for several weeks without any Indian road between Ashlano and L ike unpaid by the 15th inst. will oe certi I adventure befalling them. The In- of the Woods, including 4!. mile cut fied to the sheriff for collection. Per , dians in Oregon were on their good off which reduces ths grade from 24 sonal property taxes collected by Mr. I behavior and in fact they had an ner cent to a maximum of 10 per cent, Ooleman amount to about $15001) approx I Indian guide who led them through has been completed and the road thrown imately half of the am milt due and i the mountain passes and across the open for traffic. i collectable. desert land of Eastern Oregon and Jasten Hartman and sons recently I Assessor.J. B. Coleman county Treas Idaho. completed the construction of three urer A. C. Walker and attorney F. J. But it was not long before they substantial wooden bridges on the Newman of Medford returned Monday I began to hear tales of depredations Green Springs f ................ Mountain Highway | from a two days hunting trip in the [that the red-skins in Montana had ’lum.itk Guatilo between Ashland nnJ and L Klamath Falls. J vicinity of prospect, minus venison. been guilty of. They began to hear Work on that section of the Ashland It is said that the county officials took of isolated settlers being attacked and Klamath Falls highway between the Attorney Newman along with the hope murdered; they heard of prospect summit of Green Springs mountain of smiting the frolicsome buck with a ors being way-laid ,and pioneers and Jennie creek is rapidly nearing death dealing weight of legal lore but massacred, and of the outrages that completion and that section of the the aforsaid animals refused to stay *n usually occured when bands of In one place long enough to serve a sum highway will shortly be thrown open. dian started on the war path, But mons upon them. they forged ahead, keeping a close watch for any hostile savages until School Supt’s Office County Clerk finally they reached the banks of the The school superintendent’s office Vliss Alice Poor who was taken of the Missouri, that wound its way is. sending the following letter to club suddenly ill while engaged in her duties through the foothills, and the forests members. as deputy in the county Clerk’s office that here and there lined its shores. Dear Club Lasder or Club M“mher: Thu:s lay, is convaliving at her home And there it was they heard de The Ja'kson County Educational in Ashland and it is expected, wdl finite news of the roving bands that Exhibits and Industrial Clut. Contests resume her position in a few days. were causing so much trouble. They are to be held in Medford on Tuesday Miss McIntosh, one of the deputy had a large camp on the banks of and Wednesday, Sept. 20-21. The party from Jacksonville was clerk’s is absent on a weeks vacation. the river not many miles below; they This mean« that your reports m*ed to She expects to return Monday. lined both banks and woe betide the gone for over a year, and they say be finished immediately and sent to hapless adventure who tried to pad that upon their return they were told Corvallis so they may be returned to dle his way down the murky waters that the Indians never molested an- ■ < and registered before the dates Behind the B ars of the Big Muddy. Many men had other traveler on the river. given above. Do not stop short of the alreadyt ried but none had come ....> The survivor of this sensatfonal finish. Awards can gj only to those j back. They had been killed by the encounter is still hale and hearty, Peter F. Strauff, known as “Dutch wi'h complete reDorts. “Come in on Indians as they passed the dense and he will tell you confidentially the home run” and meet us at the fair I Pete” an I Frank Kodat convicted at thicket where the encampment wa.i that of all the places in these early j the May term of court of attempting i with yoar <x .¡bit on that Ti.eiday hidden. • days, there were none with the i to rob she Gold Hill bank on the night Every Club and every in vidul at But this old Oregon pioneer and charm, the good-fellowship and the ! of April 13th last, have withdrawn work on the various projects, corn "his companions were not dismayed hearty spirit of the pioneer as old growing, potate growing, gardening, ' their appeal to the supreme court toi j by the tales they had heard. They Jacksonville. a new trial and will shortly begin serv- poultry raising, pork production, can ning. calf raising, sheep raising, home | j ihg sentences of five years each at the for an extend -d trip with terms to smt making, «wing, cookery, should claim state penitentiary. Strauff and Kodat, purchaser. They will be at home to i apace for the exhibit they have. Plan 1 who have been confined in the county i their friends with one good bahv buggy to have your exhibi- on hand aad in jail since their arrest, a day or tw ■ | after the attempted burglary, stoutly and a few kitchen utensil« after ten place Tuesday morning, Sept. 20. months from date of sale to responsi Watch the paper for tne announce- I maintain that they are not guilty of meat ot the building in Medford which I the crime an I offered testimony that Messrs Mankins & Bell bonded their ble parties and some fifty chickens will be used for the exhibits Let your ! they were in a Medford lodging house ! mine, situated in the Poorman's dis at the time of its commission. It is j trict about three miles from Jackson club leader arr. nge about detail«. Experienced judges will make the said that the two men pin more or less ' ville. to Clark & ' hilders of Medford awards on the last day. From the faith on possible action of the pardon for the sum of $30,000 this week, con exhibits which receive awards select board and th it a number of influential | tracts covering the deal having been ions will be made to go with the car | Medford and Portland people have made Tuesday. of Jackson county exhibits to the State i requested Governor Olcott to investi- ' Considerable development work, con gate the case. Fair. sisting of two shafts and between 250 If you have poultry, rabbits, or live , Because he indulged in an auto ride and 300 feet of tunnel have been done stock, please send feed for the two at Ashland without the car owners con on the mine and a large body of ore sent, Anthony Reardon will be Sheriff estimated to average $50 per ton in Terrill’s guest for 30 davs. Reardon gold unco: ered. has been incarcerated in the county Henry Mankins, one of the former hoosgow for a couple of months past, owners of the property, expressed the waiting trial for the offense. conviction that the mine is destined to James Burke, convicted of forgery become one of the big producers of tbe committed at Medford, was sentenced district. Mankina & Bell valued the this week to two years imprisonment property at a much higher figure but in the state penitentiary at Salem. owing to illness of mewbereof the firm I. L. Coffman, at present spending and the fact that they have other an enforced and unenjoyabie vacation prospects which they desired to develop IGAR at Hotel de Teraiil objects kicks, 1 Clark & Childers offer was closed with. strenuously and justifiably at being The signed agreement stipulates termed a "bootlegger. ’ An indulgane - , that the bonding parlies must s'art in the gentle arc of ", moonshing” not work on tbe mine by the first of Oct “bootlegging,” is tne cause of his in ober and are likewise required to work carceration. Our mistake, Ike. ; a < lew of min at least 20 shifts in each 30 days. It is reported that Clark & Childers ere considering the feasi- “500" Company Oil i bility of erectng a stamp mill on Prospects Promising property in the near future. Mankins Mine Bonded $50,000 ASHLAND Or—-Members of th<- Soldiers’ and Sailors' association oi Southern Oregon and their wives were the guests of honor at a noon luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce at Ashland Tuesday, The dining room was crowded with more than IDO seated. Fifty-seven veter ans of the G. A. R. and their wives also were guests. I The asso- iation has developed f r- ty carload markets during the last temporarily withdrawn its new crop have difficulty in meeting the de mand for Mistland prunes this year on account of the light yield which is expected. PORTLAND, Or.—Arrival in Port land harbor of the bark Berlin with PORTLAND. Or.—Portland will be the season's pack of 53,000 cases of Pacific Coast headquarters for the P. N. Gray Company, Inc., of New salmon from Alaska brought announ York, and the J. Rosenbaum Grein cement from the management of the company, ot Chicago, large wheat Alaska-Portland Packer's association exporting concerns, under the firm that at least half of the cargo will be name of Gray-Rosenbaum Grain Co., immediately to Eastern Inc., of Oregon, according to announ reshipped cement of Charles W. Baum, a mem markets, Salmon is now in brisk de- ber of the firm. maud at current prices of 12.35 a It is the plan of the company to case, compared yith a top price of buy heavily of wheat for export in case, compared with a top price of the Northwest and to ship it through $2 after the slump. Production costs Pacific Northwest ports to foreign were lower this season and a fair pro countries. Announced plans are that fit will be realized from the season's 90 per cent of the wheat the firm operations. The remainder of the exports will be routed through Port go Is expected to he moved at higher land, and that it will move in bulk prices than that part of It which is through the ,000.000-bushel grain to be transshipped at once. elevator at municipal terminal No. 4. The remaining 10 per cent proh- SALEM. Or.—The longest state ably will he shipped through P uget highway in the United States com sound ports. pleted on permanent lines and grades became open along its entire oour.se El'GENE, Or.—The airplane finest Monday when the Oregon highway observers Sunday reported 19 fires on 1 department removed the last obstacle the south patrol and five on the ' in the Columbia River highway at the northern route, the most in a single I point known as Cape Horn, between day since the middle of the summer. The Dalles and the Deschutes river Only one covering 20 acres southwest of Mehama, on the northern patrol, Portland. Or. —Airplane patrol of was said to be serious. Timber an.l the national forests of Oregon and underbrush are reported to he vary dry now and many more fires are Washington will be discontinued looked for during the next few days. September 10, according to an an- . nouncement made by Shirley Huck, unless there is a rain. , head of the operations division of the I United States forest service. HUBBARD, Ore.—From three t.) The patrol has maintained bases four tons of blackberries are now be i at Portland, Eugene and Medford in ing received daily at the local branch . 1 Oregon and at Camp Lewis in Wash- station of the Oregon Packing com- I ' ington. Daily flightB were made pany. The blackberry crop, it is e.i- | I during the fire season, with the »X- tlmated has been bringing in the 1 ception of the time ot the gasoline growers in the Hubbard vicinity a | shortage in August, to locatte fires. year and It is expected that it will ( The record of the patrol, which was $3000. | in its third year, was very good, according to service officials, as the PORTLAND, Or.—Having sold efficiency ot the observers had reach $3.35 a year ago and a low price of ed a point higher than.at any other fifty carloads of the 1921 crop of season, prunes at opening prices, the Oregon I The planes, operated by the army, Growers’ Co-operate association has more than 2,500,000 pounds or nearly will he sent back to Mather field, near Sacramento, as soon as the bases of prunes from the market. I More than 2.500,000 pounds or are broken tip. From forecast! it is nearly fifty carloads were sold at believed that this year will be the opening prices and no more orders last of the air patrol, as congress for future delivery will be booked at failed to apporpriate funds for such ¡operation next year. present. n! H h III! Hi Honey Honey STR New Local Honey O seal in the delicious Burley flavor Once you’ve enjoyed the toasted flavot you will al ways want it Local members of the “500” Co- Operative Oil & Refining Co., which has 501)0 acres of oil lands in Siskiyou County, Cal. under lease, will be plea«, d j to Lain that there if good prospects of striking the fluid that made John D. i t«mous on their Holdings. ! Mr. Hughes the driller in charge reports that the company's first well i is now down over 5<>0 feet and is show ing every indication of the presence of oil. The drillers are working night and day shifts and are sinking from 10 feet to 12 feet every 24 heurs. As expert who made a preliminary •urvey of the company's holdings pre I dicted that oil would be struck in that •cal it v at a depth of about 700 feet. Just in Result Of Home Brew Sim.-body sent the editor of Poketown Gazette a few bottles home brew. The sama day he received for publication a wedding announce, ment and a notire of an auction sale, Here are the results. “Wm. Smith and Miss Lucy Ander son were d'spoeed of at public suction at my farm one mile east of a beauti ful cluster ot roses on her breast and two white calves before a background of farm implements too numerous to mention in the presence of about seven ty guests including two milch cows, six mules and one boh sled. Rev. lacksen tied the nuptial knot with 20<l FOR sALE—One two hor-e spring ( fret of hay r >p • and .the brida. c.upi* wagon, cheap SEE— W. R. Spaik j left on one good John Deere Gang plow Lewis IJhich Pioneer Merchant Jacksonville f lu» MM ' M* • « ■ Oregon HI