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GOLD HILL JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915
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NO. 7
Indian Dead Sleep
Near Sleepy Hollow
Mormon Chief Sees
Valley Sugar Beets
A rtlllary Mak«» Movement of Infantry
Denver, Cole.—On charge» of con
tempt of court and conniving to com
mit perjury, Judge Boa Lindsey of the
Juvenile coart wo» arrested on com-
plaints by District Attorney Rush end
Judge John Perry. Ho refused to tell
the court what Neel Wright, 12, son Mormon Finances W ill B uild
of e women on trial for tho killing of
$ 8 0 0 , O O O Factory i f Crop
her husband, told him privately. Rush
is Success; Looks Good
alleges tbe boy committed perjury In
behalf of hla mother.
Workmen Delve in
Forgotten Graves
£xeavalion for Sauver Discloses
H o a rd o f Ancient Relics;
Was it Scale Arm or?
How lung in it «luw the lent burial
chant of Ute K orim * aoamiwl near Gold
Hill? If the memory of pioneer» went
back to the filial entry In the old burial
Krounda of the Sleepy Hollow ranch, the
question might be answered. More than
aixty year» have elapaed, that ia certain.
Woikuieu on tlie ranch, excavating a
•doep newer trench, recenUy nank their
impleinenta Into a veritable treaaure trove
•of rellca—and Ute bonea of the vaniahed
«ribeamvn. Tlie And waa uncovered at
♦he point where Sardine Creek enlera the
Rogue, in Ute high creek hank. No at*
♦enipt waa mail») to aaoertalu the extent
of Ute burial ground, and Uto excavation
has been Ailed up.
Three iliatinct skeletons were disclosed.
One of Utcae hail been retired In Ute
splendor o f a uniform cap, tlie visor of
which alone remained; o v e r thia waa
drawn a copper kettle. Tlie hum's n-pos-
<v| in a prodigal wealth of glare In-aitn—
all culorn and nlaea. Varioun brow hut-
tone—one of the U. 8 . uaval service,
many ol tlte army—were found. The
inldcat button of all, when polished, dia-
vlosed llte nyiulnilical phoenix surrounded
by Annie. It Imre tlie inscription “ Je
Kenai» d e .Men Cendren” and No. 1.
Freely translated the French motto read»,
"I am reborn from my hs I im . " Soldier
huttonn were favorite adornment of ’he
tribe».
A tine granite |untie waa alno dineloneil,
cloae to the nurface and evidently buried
an an afterthought, ft wan npleudidly
proportioned, 17 inches in length, with a
knob and grip of3 Inch length. A »pear
|Miintof dark n il obsidian, (I inchen long,
a n d o f remarkable workmanship, wan
found. By each form rented the runted
lengUi of an old lunhioned rill«—tie- wal
nut Htockn completely fallen to dust ami
decay. A single allot horse* pistol, such
an Kidd might have flourished, wan one
conglomerate of red ruin.
Perhaps the
moat iuterenting relies were peculiar three
lobed platen o f brand, which litted and
overlapped to a nicety. Six or eight of
these were found. Were they |«artn of
ancient Spanish (date armor?
The records run back better than sixty
yearn without disclosing knowledge o f
this burial place. Tradition lias it that
long ago, wheu the Messner» mimed the
land and the elder Meaaner was alive,
there came to tlie ranch a wrinkled In
dian crone of many yearn. She asked for
laTUiission Pi dig. Il was denied her.
For week» she importuned the M e s s n e rs
—then deparp'il, grumbling about buried
dollar». From this somewhat uncertain
ineiilelit has grown up a legend of hidden
treasure.
They shop well, these folks who tim'd
to lie the landlords of the valley. The
sacrilege of their burial ground was un
intentional, and w i l l not Is* repeated
while the Sleepy Hollow remains tinder
its prenent management, now that the
location of the cemetery in known.
Ixmdou.— Artillery action of the
moat tarrlflc character, Initiated Im
m ediately following the French auo-
caas In bending the German llha in
ward southeast or Heburtene, half
way between Arras and the Alans, haa
rendered m ovem ents of Infantry Im
possible and neither army has been
able to progress an Inch, according to
official reports received from Parts.
Berlin claim s the French were
shacked with heavy losses In the close
range fighting to the north of Bcurle
and the French were driven out of the
trenches they previously had captured
from the Oermans. even after twice
bringing up fresh troops to brace the
positions.
Southeast of Heburtene
the Oermans claim to have advanced.
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Ashland, Or., June 14.—I). M. Lowe’»
one-farm exhibit in t h e Agricultural
building at the Panama exposition ha»
scored »weeping vicPirien over all exhibits
of Ils class. The exhibit has ison a ward-
ed the medal of honor, highest award
made on the ben t agricultural exhibit,
and the medal of honor for the lx*at one-
farm exhibit. This wo» in competition
with exhibits from the entire world and
are tlie highest awards mode in that de
partment.
In addition to them' award» for tbe col-
lectiva exhibit Mr. LoWe received t h e
gold medal for the best collection of bar
ley, gold ui 'dal for the collection of A70
varieties of products from one farm, gold
medal for the boat collection o f seed»,
bronxe tni'ilat for the collection of grasses
and honorable mention for the collection
of clover and alfalfa.
A letter from tk**K. Freytag, director
of agriculture, highly compliment» Mr.
Lowe on his sweeping success, the expo
sition man saying: “ Your farm is an
immense factor in helping Oregon to take
its place at the pip of tbe agricultural
states."
A letterfrom George M. Hyland, direc
tor of exhibits, says: “ Congratulations
oft awards won by your splendid exhibit
in the agricultural building, uml I wMi
|s-rsomdly to express my appreciation for
your etlorts in helping to make the Ore
gon display a grand »uceere. You arc
needed in Ban Francisco," These awards
reflect great honor upon M r. Lowe and
upon the Ashland district.
Tlie display of processed fruit from this
district which waa processed by II. 0 .
Frohliacli won tlie gold medal award at
tlie exposition in competition witli fruits
from all over the country.
Tlie Bagley Canning company, at Tal
ent, Saturday received a telegram to the
effect that the Bagley apple juice has won
the gold meilal.
These awards are the highest that are
made and place the winning exhibits in
a class by themselves for »piality. With
tlie horticultural grand aw uni which wan
given Oregon in competition with the
world, the state is taking its rightful
place as the the beat fruit slap- in the
world.
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Tbe new light company offers to furnish electricity
upon a contract basis, and at a lower rate than now paid.
The matter has been pending for many months, and
is now at a point where it seems likely to add immediate
impetus to the improvement of the Gold Hill project of
the Public Service corporation. Acceptance of the "pro
posal by Medford would mean this.
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Medford, Or , June 16.—If the farmers
geemen’t Act Puts Treaties at Stake. and landowners of tlie Rogue River val
Washington. — Twenty-one of the
principal nations of the world have
been notified by the United State»
that it intend» to terminate provision»
of existing trestles with those coun
tries which ere in conflict with the
seamen's se t passed by the last con-
Salmon Poachers
“Stand the Gaff"
District Honored
by Big Exposition
Medford, Ore., June 17. —The light committee of the
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passed favorably upon granting a franchise to
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Public Service corporation at the regular
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embraced in an ordinance to be framed by City
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Sugar Factory is
Now Real Chance
Impossible.
Medford Council is Flirting
With Gold Hill Power Plant
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Jackson Co.
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tGENES In famous Toyland concession on the 7x»ne at the Panama-Pa
cific lutenialional Exposition. Hap Francisco. In this great amusement
device, which cover» fourteen acres, toy» are reproduced upon a gigantic
scale, tbe figures here shown being eighty feet in height.
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News Notes of The Mikado at
Valley Towns! Opera House
"If tlx* beet« you have shown u» today
m ainvin the present quality nix week»
from now, yoti can rest- a».niirt-d that a
beet sugar factory will be built iu south
ern Oregon. The only thing necoasary
for you to do Is to secure the acreage and
Let Gold Hill theater goers congratulate
the farmers to raise tliem. The financing
each other upon the approaching presen
will be taken care of by u’ . We have
tation of "Tbe Mikado’* at tlte local opera
made arrangement« for that without local
house. Tlie production 1» title of tlie few
help, boniues or other Hirings.’* This
atandard comedies, which has survived
was tile statement of Joseph ^rnitli, eon-
by real worth and artistry the reams of
corded in l>y C. W. Nibley.
transient slush that flourished for a few
weeks or months. It will lx- given hi this
To assure a beet sugar factory it w ill be
city next Thursday evening, Jnne 24 by
necessary for promoters to know not later
tlie Boston Ideal Opera Company.
than October 1st the amount of acreage,
etc., so that conflicting crops will not be
This opera, as u piece of perfect cowtt-
planted. It is planned to organize a sys
dy, undoubtedly stands alone. It is 'to
tematic campaign, s i m i l a r to those
light opera what “ Hamlet” is to tragi« fy.
launched last spring, as soon as the full
While other works of its kind have cotne
facts of the present test beet patches are
and gone “ The Mikado" remains a stan
known. The lieets a r e lieiiig grown
dard comedy.
Tite members of t h e east are well M arconi Appointed A rm y Lieutenant. under t h e supervision o f Soil Expert
Rome. — Guglielmo Marconi, wire Storey.
known to Medford people.
It includes
Messrs. Smith and Nibley and wives
Ed Andrews, who lias played the part of less Inventor, was appointed a lieu
Ko-Ko more than twelve hundred times, tenant on the staff of General Cador were taken from their private car at Ash
in fact, his reputation as a comedian na, commander-in-chief of the Italian land and driven over the valley, entrain
rust largely upon his performance of this ! armies, and named superintendent of ing again at this city. T h e fleeting
all w ireless operators In the army and glimpse of the valley brought forth strong
part.
praise from President Smith.
Tlie part of Poo Bah, the man of all navy.
officer, one of the best pieces of subtle
“The minute I crossed the Siskivous,”
comedy ever written, will be taken by A. 39 Norwegian Ships Destroyed In War. President Smith said, “ there- flaslied into
C. Burgess. F. W. Walters, the operatic
Copenhagen.—The war Insurance iny mind the stories of mosehackiara I
tenor, will be seen in the port of the bureau announced here that 39 Nor have heard of Oregon. There is no nines
wandering minstrel.
It is the most beautiful snd pro
wegian ships have been destroyed here.
Helen St. Clair is tlte Katasha of the since the war started, including car gressive section I have seen in many a
cast an<l is a conunedienne who will do goes valued at $7,800,000.
day. The nation is o n tlie eve of -k
ample justice to this very funny role. In
! greatest era of prosperity. Then this a c
fact, tlie entire cast is one that has play
tion, somewhat backwards, will neve per-
French T ak e Station.
ed tins opera many times. The public
Paris.—The capture from the Ger ’ iod of rapid development."
may; look for a finished performance.
mans of the railway station leading
The visit of the two financiers left the
“Tlie Mikado" will lie given under tlie Into the town of Souchez, eight miles local backers of a beet sugar factory in
auspices of the Gold Hill hand. Prices of from Arras, is announced in the an optimistic frame o f inhid f o r tlx-
adfiiissioii should be particularly popular French official statem en t
future.
—they are 50 and 25 cents.
B rie f Sketches o f Happenings Popular Comedy Appears Here
o f Week in Best Valley o f
Next Thursday; E d Andrews
P acific Coast
o f M edford as K o-K o
A Foots Creek scribe suggest» tlie wild
sweet-briar rose for hedg** use.
Southern Oregon hogs are bein'» sold
ami shipped to improve the razorback
breed of South Carolina.
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O'ever thieves, whose specialty is steal
ing bulldogs, have bereft several Medford
owners o f prix« bow-wows during the
past Week. Similar losses have been re
ported trom other Oregon cities.
Tin* Bagley canning company, of Tal
ent, has been awarded a gold medal for
the excellence of their product« nt the
Panama-Pacific exposition. Hogue River
valley apple juice, canned fresh by this
company, is one o f the most popular
drinks served on the fair grounds.
Within two weeks’ time eighty-five job
less men hoofed it to Crater Lake, where
they ho|H‘d pi secure employment upon
the government road work. T h e trip
was fruitless. Work of this character
will not open until July 1st, at least.
Thr«e feet of snow still crowns the sum
mit, making the present year the latest
season in many.
The longwinded war waged by W. F.
Arant, of Klamath FaUs, for the super-
inteudeney ef Crater Lake national paik,
ended this week by the final judicial
decision denying his claims. Arant was
deposed two years ago, and W illG . Steel
placed in charge. The name of Arant
Camp, in the park, has lieen changed, by
order of the department of the inp'rior,
to Anne Springs.
T w o Men Hold up Oregon C ity Cars.
Portland.—The Oregon City electric
train which left Portland at 10:30
Canada Mobilizes Aliens.
o'clock Sunday night was held up by
Ottawa,
Ont.— Preparatory to leav
two armed men at 11:10 o'clock be- ,
tween Vlnyard and Glen Echo sta ing for their countries, where they will
tions, about 10 miles south of Port take up arms against Germany and
land and loot estimated at $100 to ( her allies, nearly 6000 Montenegrin
and Italian reservists now in Canada
$500 taken.
will be mobilized at the concentration
camp at Three Rivers, Quebec. Ca
T H E M ARKETS
nadian officers will supervise the
Portland.
training of the reservists.
Wheat—Club, 90c; bluestem, 90c;
red Russian, 84c; forty-fold, 89c; red
fife, 88c.
lla y — Eastern Oregon timothy, $16;
grain hay, $12; alfalfa, $13.50; valley
timothy, $12.50.
Butter—Creamery, 28c,
Eggs—Ranch, 19c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon. 27c; valley.
28c.
Mohair—31c.
Seattle.
Wheat—Bluestem, 89c; club, 89c;
red Russian, 87c; forty-fold, 89c;
fife, 89c.
Hay—Timothy, $16 per ton; alfalfa,
$14 per ton.
Grant» Paa», Ore., Jnne 16.—Three men
stood before Justice Holman thin morn
ing and heard the guardian of the peace
»peak tlie judgment of the court, meting
out to them the fruit of their transgress
ion« against tbe statute« made for the
guidance of the people.
The three were Ed. Wallace, for the
second time found guilty of violation of
the fishing law s; bi» »on Ted Wallace,
who pleaded guilty of violation of the
same 'aw following his father'» convic
tion, afld llom er Farlow, convicted Sat
urday of illegal fishing. The men had
all been arrested by deputy wardens in a
raid at the Golden Drift dam last week.
The case against Earl Wallace was
dismissed, while Albert Mead, arrested
at the Bame time, will appear before tlie
juvenile court, being too young to appear
in the justice court.
Ed. Wallace was sentenced to pay a
fine of $75 and the costs of tlie pfosecU1
lion; Farlow and Ted Wallace were each
sentenced to pay lines of $50 each, with
the costs of the prosecution added. All
tlie convicted men are now in the county
jail, and if they fail to pay their fines
they will have to remain guests of the
county until their fine and costs have
been liquidated at the rate of $2 per day.
ley will furnish acreage for -ngar beets,
and they c a n be grown successfully,
which the next six weeks will tell, the
question of financing an $800,000 sugar
beet factory will be areured by Joseph
Smith, president of the Mormon church,
the most efficient organisation in the
world, outside of the German military
system, and C. W. Nibley, heed of the
Utah-Idaho Sagar company, director in
a score of banks in the Rocky Mountain
district«, and extensive holder of timber
interests, representing millions in capital.
This was the voluntary assurance given
by tlie two financiers Saturday to W. H.
Gore, president of the Medford National
bank, George B. Carpenter and others
who Saturday t o k the visitors on a fly
ing auto tour of the valley.
Samples of the lieets grown this season
in the valley, collected by Soil Expert 8.
Storey, wen- shown Messrs. Smith and
Nibley
They exceeded expectations,
According to their statements the (qcal
product is 50 peiw nt lartl|t>F advanced
than iq thvif OWft fields.
Pendleton.—Two indictments for
second-degree murder were presented
by the grand jury against Lee Dale
for the shooting of Mr. and Mrs. Chas
Ogilvey, south of Pilot Rock, on June
3. Dale likely will be brought to trial
within three weeks. He will offer
temporary Insanity as his plea, ac
cording to his counsel.
Roy Farnum is Convicted.
R oseburg—After a deliberation of
24 hours a Jury In the circuit court
here returned a verdict of manslaugh-
ter against Roy Farnum, who was
tried on a charge of murdering Edna
Morgan, of Cow Creek valley and
burning her body In a bar«.
Sleepy Hollow Imports Real
Swiss as Best Butter Maker
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The Sleepy Hollow alfalfa is pedigreed. You didn’t
know that? Well, it’s a fa c t The Sleepy Hollow dairy
cows, to whom the task of converting pedigreed alfalfa
into perfect milk is given, have a lineage longer than a
duchess. Managers Ensign and Dixon early determined
that Sleepy Hollow should be a model alfalfa and dairy
ranch.
“Where”, queried Dixon, “are t h e premier butter-
makers!”
“Switzerland,” laconically responded his partner.
They sent to Switzerland. Followed the arrival of
Mr. and Mrs. T. Hurbi, of Thusis—folks of the old Swiss
stock—on Sunday last. They passed through Italy, carry
ing French passports. The husband will have complete
charge of the dairy.
Neither one speaks English—but they need n o in
structions in better butter-making.
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