Gold Hill news., February 10, 1912, Image 1

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Will Harmon Be R e-Appointed R oadm aster?
Mr. Harmon Put Back $ 9 0 0
Illegally Drawn from the
Hoad fund. Thanks,
Mr. Harmon!
TT a RMON^ T f U M B E j i
| His Friends Have O ffered to B et That Way
Mr. Harmon Paid Himself $ 9 0
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lUegaliy for Salary in Jan­
uary.
Put It
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GOLD HILL, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1912
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Back,
Mr. Harm on!
Harmon Misappropriates $990; Puts Back $900
OUNTY RoadinuHter W. W. Harmon was required Thursday fu Harry Triplett Blows Out
George Davis Quits Com-
restore $990, improperly taken by him from the county road fund.
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This amount represents the county roadtnuster’g salary for September
missionership Because He and October, $3(X) for each month, and November and December. His Brains at Woodville
For each month, with $90 drawn by Mr. Harmon, without a
Last Night; Cause Insanity
Has So Much to Do, Tra-la $130
warrant being issued or without authorization by the county court,
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e a te Business is
H is Reason — L o c a l O p in io n . A nother Innovation Mr. liartnon
T h a t D a v is is “ C o a t " in ha* Introduced la to keep a detailed
Hat of ull monte* received and ex­
M e d fo r d P o litic a l F ra m e -U p
pended. with vouchers for the same.
— Mall Tribune.
Coimly Ci»miiil*l<»n«T Georg»1 1«. Davis
The M all-Trtbune cannot exactly
Thiir-<lay afternoon pnxamuxl hi* reslg- call It an Innovation to have a county
tuubin to liw cimntjf <-"ort, Pi lake effret orrida) put back money diverted from
tlii« m onth. While no olttcial aauuum v-
Ita proper place, but a*ldo from thia
»1. nl I* forthcoming it I» ruiuiavd Unit
one Instance Mr. liartnon appears to
Frank Brown of Eagle Point will tic i hosi a
have been a very prince of Innovators
by the iiiunty court ax hi* xurii'xxor to
from building b ridges' w ithout speci­
eerve until the next general oloetiou.
fications to reporting favorably on
Mi l»»vl* rtiit.il that die rewignatlou
them
before they are completed. A
win the n-xuli of tin' |»r>—“ire of private
tni^ni HM interexl*. wlileh «oreMillaU«! bin few more Innovations like those In
n e u li't eltlier of the eo n n tj'« IUterest or troducad by Mr. H arm on, aided and
of Ui. Kurni, i < A Fruitgrowers lunik, of abetted by the county court, and
Whl h be I* ........ I' llt. lie wuuelei l. il n- Jackson county would need an Inno­
In the shape of a 11.000,000
a n pnlilieau u year ago luut Movembwr vation
b o n d " ¿ 'u * ’to 'p a y ” »ff debt* already
a n d bad three year« yet to nerve.
Frank Brown, who I» luoudnued um Ilia Incurred
mien iuer, I* a »ell known niemtuinl ut
Engl. Point, and 1« tiiiona are already in
eireiilutiou to nom inate him ax county
coinniixaioiier o il the l e p u ii lie u n ticket
for the full eleiiion
Il is the m il. rnl opinion in tinld Hill
th a t heavy p r -<«nr>‘ «a* brought to lieur
from Medford to lore«' Davlx’ rexigu.iilon,
Unix allowing the up|x .iutiuent to UH
vauaiuy of a m a il fra m II j t o Meilford
Frank Brown—and the candidacy of a
Medford man, xlmiigor and aliler than
DsVl- "K II Canon—for a more Im­
portant office, that of county ju d w
Thi* would insure Medford’« liaving
" d in ct m pn » nlaliuM in the county
e o u rt," of which, ax noted by the wall
T ribune, tliat city lias been mnyxirarily
deprived by Davis' rexignaiioii.
How Roadmaster Harmon Got the Money
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D r. Kirschgvagener made a pc> fcssio: al
trip to Trail lart tSmclay.
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JA C K SO N C O U N T Y
BIG PLACER SALE
ON FOOTS CREEK
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G ents
Eastern (M inern liny* Mining Site*
for g'Jtt.l.tHHI — Plan Im m ediate
P lanting of Orchard With
latter Sul*llvl»lon*
COL. RAY SELLS
OUT SOME MORE
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T . T H tr ö in .r a ^ le .
Bucket Dredge to B e Installed und
Hydraulics W ill Waali Down
Upper Bench««
Twenty-one hundred acre* of pla­
cer ground on Foots creek ha* been
■old to an eastern concern, represent­
ed by Alet Hall and W. H. Go*», for
>292,000. The plan of the company
la to dregde the land, reclaim It and
plant th e same to orchard a* fast as
th e dredging work Is completed.
Work on the property will begin
w lthltr the next few week*, when
d rillings will be made on the prop­
erty. A large bucket dredge has been
ordered In the cast and will he In­
stalled. This will begin on the lower
end of the property and work up­
stream . working th e bunks of the
st res in and the little valley, barge
hydraulics will wash tho upper
benchoa down to the dredge, which
will he worked and filled In back of
th e dredge. In th is m anner the land
will not he washed away and left
barren. Following the leveling of the
land the property will bo planted to
npple and pear trees, according to the
prom otara, and will probably be of­
fered for sale In sm all tracts.
This process has been applied with
success In California.
The company is enthusiastic over
th e proapect, as tho property Is ro-
from the road fund in hia custody, in payment of eighteen days’ sal-
ary for January, 'hree warrant* of $300 euch, with checks attached,
drawn by Mr. Harmon in favor of himself, were presented to County
Clerk Coleman for cancellation. Clerk Coleman returned them to the
county court with his refusal to cancel them, saying that such a pro­
cedure would be illegal,*aa the warrants should not have been paid
from the county road fund, but should have waited to have been paid
from the general fund in thetr regular turn. The county court con’
ettrred in thia view and agreed that it was up to Mr. Harmon to
return the amount involved to the county road fund
Another little Harmony
C oroner K e llo g g M a y H o ld I n ­
Mr. Harmon hax built the best
quest to Q u ie t N e ig h b o rh o o d
roads in Jackson county.— Mail T rib ­
Gossip; T r ip le tt C a rr ie d G an
une.
C e n s ta n tly ; W as F in e d fo r I t
Hut h as he? How about the Derby
road th a t was completed and ap-
Harry Triplett, storekeeper at Wimer,
P">'ed by him, with fake atone cul- on Evans creek, eight mile* from Wood­
have been? Too bad th a t the road* ville, blew out hi* brain* with a revolver
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ar(. tO(j
t()(j ba<1
ba(j for ,be Mai) Tribune’s laxt night, hi* body being found in an
- tu ff photographer to get out and get alley at Woodville this morning. Insan­
ity was undnulitedly the cause. Friends
Mr. Harmon gave hia personal check for $900.
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,,f those m asterpiece* and neighbors hail believed for years
However, Mr. Harmon did NOT return the $90 that he j(.,lti(ii. bitihwaVJ. However, it will ■tluJt ,le * " not rig^1 ” «’n,ally, and of
drew for eighteen days’ salary in January, 1912, without a war- be impossible to get pictures o f those | . late la- bail been . yr ,wing worse. He
rant being issued, and for which he wrote a check in favor of veneer Harmon culverts, «« the road ,a<
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Coroner Kellogg, who wax calk'd this
himself on the county road fund intrusted to his custody by the
‘d i'u ie 'u r n 'ie , ’re ­ morning, may conduct an inquest, so
county Court.
placing them with culvert* o f the that any neighborhood fai-tionul f i l ling
may not shape itself in an accu­
Although he was equally guilty of misappropriation of Ai-uai type, such » allow the p assage i existing
sation of murder.
funds in this instance as in the case of the three checks am ount-, "X m iH e"'.'rn an e '-1 no d o u b t1 l-a*t spring, as a result of a neighbor­
ing to $900, he was not required by the county court to restore
uibuted' sXwhnt” io the to ta l of hood row, Triplett wa* arrested and tined
r Hannon innnvatinti whi.li the f}ie ^90
Attain the inevitable question, WHY?
4(1,000 which M-. IIarni<»:>
u a s for carrying concealed weapons. After
tfiat lie won- hi* gun under hi* arm nn a
Mail Tribune m I mhi M not overlook iw Mr.
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Iliinii.tii'H hrtmioniniH hwbit <>( paying
PUT IT BACK, MR. HARMON, PUT IT BACK!
belt slung about his neck.
r* in 1011.
Iiimsell.
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Triplett liail been running a store at
• I Wimer for years, lint of late bis business
liad fallen off gn-atly. Thi* is believed
to have maile him despondent. How-
, ever, >250 wa* found on the body.
The suicide wa* a pioneer of tlie valley,
(Exhibit “A")
liaving lived in this immediate district
nearly all hi* life. Hi* early youth was
spent in Sams Valley. He was about 45
years old, and was unmarried. A brother,
Clabe Triplett, lives in Josephine county.
A Little Harmony
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All P ow er P lants From Grants to
Dunsm uir and Klam ath to
Yreka in Deal
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May Be Col. Itay's Move Toward
Trust Controlling E ntire Pacific
Coast Pow er
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A consolidation of 24 electric light
and power com panies controlled by
the Siskiyou Light and Power com­
pany, and comprising all power plants
and lines from G rants Pass ta Duns­
m uir and K lam ath F alls to Yreka,
has been perfected under the name
of the California and Oregon Power
company, with a capital, stock of
>10,000,000.
The new corporation will tak e over
th e holdings of th e Siskiyou, Rogue
River, K lam ath, Ashland, Dunsmuir
and o th er concerns, control of which
has been secured during the past few
m onths by th e Churchill syndicate of
Yreka. The directors of the new cor­
poration are J. M. Churchill, presi­
dent: J. P. Churchill, vice president;
Alex J. Rosborongh, secretary. Main
offices will be at San Francisco with
branch offices a t Medford, Y reka and
K lam ath Falls.
The deal was consum m ated by Col.
F rank H. Ray. form er ow ner of the
Rogue River E lectric company, and
It Is currently reported to be a move
in his plan of uniting under one cor­
poration or tru st, all power plans on
the coast, from San Diego to G rants
Pass.
•Gents: Please pay me the sum of $3000 to apply on road work ,.County Eng(neer.. Harmon ln ref.
being done by me for the county.
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erance to the supreme court decision
“ Gents” is good. It shows that Mr. Harmon had no time to waste, on the bond issue, says: "It win be a
so busy was he in spending the people's money, in spelling out the great disappointm ent to every live
more formal and more respectful word, “ Gentlemen.” So he cut it c,,l7en ,n the county, in delivering
to “ Gents.” Mr. Harmon made several savings by this. He saved a (y englneer., other.time ..county road
few seconds of his $300-a-month time. He saved wear and tear o n . master,'* has made it easy to separate
the various parts of his typewriter. Provided he dictated to a sten- the progressive sheep from the moss-
ogiapher, he saved her time, too, with another consequent saving of back goats. Dead one3 will please
,j people's money. He saved his voice. He saved the county court’s sUn<1 up and be counte<L
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tim e in considering hi» demand. He saved all around. And he got
Mr. Harmon m ust be judged by the
the money all tho quicker for the roads he vjas building—wherever results he has obtained.------ Mall-
they were, or are, for he doesn’t say in his neat and modest please’ I Tribune.
Ve ry well. Let him be judged by
pay me demand where they are, or are likely to be.
t them alone, regardless of all else.
Mr. Harmon is to be commended for his businesslike brevity. The
people are acting in the capaci­
A. N. Hulbert is In-re from Auburn, Modford Mail Tribune, which for no apparent reason delegated itself The
ties both of judge and Jury.
California, looking afu r Inisiiicssiiuitlers,
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IF IT'S A GOOD THING, PASS IT ALONG.
NEWS' MUCKRAKE BUSY—GIVE IT TIME.
H A R M O N ’S R E P O R T
puted to be one of the richest placer
grounds In this section.
The property comprises the hold­
ings of Howling, Mattis, Lance. Os­
borne and M atthews, whleh nre the
entire holdings of tho west fork of
thd creek. A portion of the ground
at the lower end has been worked
during the past few years by the
owners of the land.
The d ai was consummnt. <1 through
rts of C. C. Inman of Salt
the effort
Luke Cltv, who has been in this city
for several m onths working upon the
project. Mr. Inman will have nn in
eroat in tho company. ,
The News has received a number of communications from
citizens in various parts of Jackson County, telling of alleged
mal-expenditures of county funds, and asking that this paper
investigate the several cases mentioned. Give us time, gentle­
men , give us time. It takes not only time, but money, to
wield the muckrake. The News has as much time as anyone,
but its finances are stretched to the breaking point. However,
it promises to do the best it can, and it trusts that it may be
able to continue along the lines of its present policy until
everything that should be muckraked is muckraked.
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