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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1928)
» VOLUME NU. SI COLO H IL U JACKSON COUNTY, ORIG ON. THURSDAY JULY It, 1*28 Glendale Business Section R azed By Afternoon Blaze Rogue Steelhead Corey Opposte* Furnish Plenty o f P k t $ 1 5 .0 0 Fun for Anglers Auto License NUMBBR I t Miner Loses Life In Explosion at Mining Property Pr. Win C. Johnson of Bakersfield Approval by Ihe voter* of Senator anil accompunied by hi* brother U Dunne's initiative measure which C. Johnson unit S. A. Kager two eliminates the tax on motor stages, mcilirul .student» from Jefferson based on seat capacity, and substi- .Medical College of Philadelphia lute* a flat license fee of 815 annu A large portion of the business section of the city to were camped on Ihe Hogue the past ally on each stage operated on the ENTIRE HEAD TORN FROM THE day lie* a mass of ruine as a result of conflagration which week enjoying the splendid steel state highways, would result in a BODY BY THE EXPLOSION— 1 In-ail fishing. The men are just com heavy loss to the state by reduc HOOVER SAYS COUNTRY started in the Meat M arket and soon spread to the nearby i pleting a ten thousand mile trip to ing this source of revenue. WAS WORDING ALONE WHTN OWES HIM NOTHING buildings. ACCIDENT HAPPENED ull the best fishing streams, includ This was the opinion expressed ing the Brule river where Presi here today by H. H. Corey, member 'I'lie w eather has been so dry and the buildings being dent In a telegram to the Republican Coolidge is disporting this sum the public service commission, Convention that haij nominated him for the most part fram e structures m aking ready fuel for mer and they say they have found of George P. Biancnin, 48, a miner of which administers the state trans the flames it was hut a short time until the entire town nothing that compares with the fight portation law. He estimated that for the Presidency, Mr. Hoover Central Point, was instantly killed as follows: at the Bill Nye mine near here Tues- seemed afire. Every available man was rushed into action of tin- Bogue River steel head. They the revenue from motor stages, bas wrote “My country owes me nothing. It dijy by a delayed powder! blast, iu an attem pt to corral the flames hut in vain and before intend to return to this city nent ed on a flat annual license fee of gave me, as it gives every hoy and which completely decapitated him. I.. C. Johnson told the 815, would not be sufficient to pay the fire fiend was put to flight five blocks of dwellings, summer. writer that he had read of the Bogue the administration costs of the rom- girl, a chance. It gave me schooling Funeral services were held yester independence of action, opportunity day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the business houses and outbuildings were but charred heaps. river in eastern magazines and in niiwiion's automotive department. for service and honor. In no other grave in the Medford I. O. O. F. article« in Field and Stream as S tartin g in the City Meat Market at about 6:45 P- ,n- well as the works of Zane Grey. Figures in the offices of the pub land could a hoy from a country Til- cemetery, with Hev. F. W. Black and w ithin two hours every building 1 n main street west However to Bill Isaacs of Medford lic service commission show that age, without inheritance or influ officiating. No inquest will be held. receipts from the seat tax levied ential friends, look forward witli The blast is believed to have taken of the Glendale Pharm acy was in ashes entailing a loss of goes Ihe credit for sending the men the against motor stages during the year unbounded hu|M-. place yesterday forenoon at 11 o' <»r more in slock and buildings, much of which to the Gold Hill waters for the great aggregated $150,000. Mr. Corey said “My whole life taught me what clock when residents of that sec esl of all fresh water fishing. The that under Senator Dunne's plan.re was uninsured. men outfitted themselves with |>oles ceipts from stage licenses would America means. 1 am indebted to tion beard the explosion, which Toduy finds hut four business and s|>oons anil other taekle at the not exceed 840,000 or 845.000 a year, my country beyond any human pow was the last they heard for the day. houses on Glendale's main street, Gold Hill Suppy Co.. Manager Walk which is less than the amount re ei to repay. It conferred upon me Blanchin apparently had set a FIFTY FIFTY FOR SEXES The Glendale Pharmacy, Goehrend er assisting them in choosing the quired for administration purimses. the mission *•> administer America's charge of powder in a pit three feet A Smiths General Merchandise, Cos response to the appeal of afflicted deep and hail come back to ascer- Philosophic observers have long proper lures. Mr. Johnson caught Senator Dunne, in statements nations during the war. it has call- tain why it did not explode. He was tello's Barber Shop and a pool hall two nice steel heads Saturday morn as a result of a quarter million dol realized Dial one of Ihs-se days men ing and from then on it has been made in favor of the license reduc- ed me into the Cabinets of two in the pit when the unexpected ex lar fire last night when a raging fin- would he rising up to demand their hard to keep him off the riffles so tion on motor stages, contended that Presidents. By these experiences I plosion occurred, blowing his body swept every building on main rights und now it has come. Male well did he enjoy the sport. They much of the loss in license fees have observed the burdens and re- out of the hole to a point approxi- street west of the Glendale Phar Britishers are alarmed at the pros plan on coming later in the season wouhl be offset through the pro- 1 sponsi hili ties of the greatest office ■■lately 15 feet away. Despite a long pect of facing them s* all women macy to till- high school campus. next year when the steel head be posed increase of the gasoline tax in the world. That office touches search. Coroner Conger yesterday from three to five cents a gallon. the happiness of every home. It afternoon could find only one piece The fire started at the City Meat arc enfranchised at Ihe age of 21, gin taking the fly. Mr. Corey said that the increase in deals with the peace of nations. No of the dead man’s scalp, and it was market ns the result of u hot bus giving a feminine majority of 2.IHMI,- 1100 voli-rs. So there is agitated talk the gasoline tax would fall far short man could think of it except in over 30 feet away from the scene on a refrigeration machine. The CRATER LAKE TRAVEL of making up the deficit resulting terms of solemn consecration.” of the blast. 111 a it- had already gained ronsider- of a "sex war” and the most agi OVER SAMS VALLEY ROAD tated mi-iiihi rs of (lie male sex have from the drastic reduction in stage ah'e headway before the alarm was The body was discovered by Rob IS ON RAPID INCREASE license fees. soundr.! and the i.rid condition of organized what they call u "Fifty- ert H. Moore of Central Point, for OREGON DAIRY HERDS the old I aide buildings which coin, fifty League.” TOP NATIONAL LISTS mer Gold Hill merchant, who had The idea is to scare women into posed the greater part of Ihe bus hiked from this city to the mining A remarkable increase in the trav HUMAN SKELETON INSPIRES iness section were easily ignited and submission by threatening them el over the Crater Lake route out property to ascertain why Mr. CHOPIN'S FUNERAL MARCH Oregon with 172 dairy herds in sparks and heal from the raging in with all (lie public responsibilities of Gold Hill via Sams Valley is improvement associations for ,920- Blanchin had not met him with the ferno spread destruction over an heretofore assumed by men, and de becoming very noticeable. The road The dramatic circumstances under 27 made the highest record of the 31 car as agreed. A search of the prop priving women of all the special is in good condition, we are told anJ area of five city blocks. which Chopin was inspired to com states engaged in such work accord erty revealed, first the victims hat I privileges and prerogatives of their many tourists from the north arc pose the Funeral March of his Son ing to a report received from the lying near the pit, which is over Water pressure ill the city water sex. being routed over this highway. A ata in B minor are recounted in United States department of agri 200 yards from the main mine. An mains was very low making fire Thus they demamt thet women be saving of nuiny miles to the motor Ernst Decsey’s collection of music culture by N. C. Jamison, extension other glance around the pit revealed fighting very difficult. made liable to military conscription ist is the result. ians' anecdotes, "Die Spieluhr” (The specialist in dairying at the state the headless body 15 fee, away. Blanchin arrived firs, in southern In the truck of the flames were just like men: that “laws und prac Music Box.) college who is in charge of the Oregon in 1911, hut returned ,0 The Glendale State Bank, Kafer's tices which relieve women of the ec KINCAID NOW IN CHARGE Adolph Zieni, the painter, had de work. Of the Oregon herds in the Shoe Store, Harvey's Hardware, The onomic consequences of their acts” OF GOLD HILL PAVILION rided to present his admired friend, improvement work, 06.2 per cent av France with the outbreak of the war Glendale Log Office, Conifer Lum he annulled: Ihut the marriage laws Chopin, with a new grand piano and eraged above 300 pounds of butter ! to serve his country as an army cap tain and as a result of the war, he ber Go. office, Moreley’s Dry Clean and customs and usages connected Lucius Kincaid of Eagle Point has for that purpose invited the master fat a year. lw ore a silver plate in one side of ing Shop und Barber Simp, Hi'iining- with them which specially safeguard to dinner, together with two other Idaho was next in the list with his head. nnce more assumed charge of the ers Grocery, Henson Hotel, Kafer's I women he rectified.” Gold Hill puvilion and lust Saturday Parisian artists, Prince Polignac and 63.2 tier cent above 300 pounds Let the seared men look out. It Blanchin was an accomplished Kosy Kafe. Dewey's Pool Boom, night gave his opening dance in the painter Bieard. Chopin arrived while next in order were Michigan, Posl Office. Wunsrh's (iari ge, Meis- would lie just like British women to the local hilll since acquiring pos late, as ever, after dark. As he Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and musician and very well educated in the universities of France, where he ner's Garage, C o | h * o Offices, The take them at their word, help abol session. The same splendid crowd seemed more depressed than usual, Nebraska. Wisconsin led Ihe states old Glcpdiile News Office, the old ish all feminine privileges, assume was evident again a good time was the three jolly Bohemians tried to in number of herds in the associa is believed to have a sister surviv school buildings, Fred Hilke's Tail- ,hcir 0,11 milllarj anil political re- cheer him up by playing one prank tions, having 2,904, with Michigan ing him in Paris. Her address as yet has no, been learned. or Shop. Insides Ihe residences of 'I'onsiliilities anil then start govern- enjoyed by all.' Mr. Kincaid ex- after another. second. Oregon is fourteenth in The dead man is said to have been Chub Harvey, Chas. Austin Alice ''emhling Englishmen as lied s Io redecorate and remodel the Finally Polignac conceived th e! this list and Georgia last, hall at a very early date. Bedfield. Karl Williams. Geo. Oium *-»’ «1 i»Iiir.en have ever been gov- grotesque idea of dragging a human j The average for the United States more or less careless when handling besiiles making homeless the fainil- '"•med before. skeleton from the adjoining studio' of 11,370 herds in these improve- powder, and always smoked a pipe handling high explosives. A ies of Chas. Kafer, Alvin Henninger, Men, especially Englishmen, can't POSTAL RATE CHANGES and with ludicrous ceremony seat- j ment associations is 7410 pounds of when ’fi-ineh fiis» wh'c*' w-« bum**'', REDUCE MAILING COST ing it at the pianoforte. He grasped J. S. Benson, Walt Meisner, Dr. seem In gel it through their heads | 4 per cent milk per cow or 295 bore mute evidence that the pipe did that men always have been govern Fawcett, and L. C. Basye. the bony hands and ran them over pounds of hutterfat. not cause the blast, but that he had ed by women anil always will be. A 1 'Always put your return address the keys, now softly then louder. Mrs. L C Basye who has been al '"i n is bossed first by his mother 0:1 first class mail, for it will cost The others extinguished the candles 0 clambered down into the pit to find most invalided since a recent sick then by his wife.—Wallace Press >ou three cents to get it once it goes 1 and listened to the gruesome per- MEDFORD BOND out w hy his powder did not explode. spell suffered considerable from Times. ELECTION TO BE DELAYED He had told Moore that he planned to the dead letter office and is re- forniance in breathless silence, shock, Claude Humphreys received — > | usual kiiv pt 1 m * vei ui wee&s ago. turned,” is the advice from the local Suddenly three dull blows rever hums and an u.iidentifieif woman The city council and chamber of postofficc in announcing a number berated through the darkness. Bi CHAMBER OF COMMERCE injured herself in u fall, were the ___ commerce jointly have decided to GOLD RUSH NOT NECESSARY STILL AFTER SWINGING BRIDGE <>f changes in postal rates that be card had i>erpe,rated the lurid joke only casualties as far ns we were TO MAKE TOWN GROW of kicking the chest on which he*sat. dvfer ,hc holding of a special $100,- _____ came effective Sunday, July 1. able to learn. 000 bond election for Medford’s new While the others laughed ,0 ease the Bates of first class sealed mail A, Ihe meeting of the Chamber of A town does no, need a gold rush The entire hurude over district is Commerce, Monday evening the re will remain the same, although post nervous tension., Chopin -dashed ,0 airport until late full or early win within the fire district and when re port of the Swinging bridge com- cards which have required two the piano and dragged from the ter when the Hosehurg tes, decision or an “oil gusher” to attract new built will undoubtedly he construct mi,tee was heard and plans and cents will go for one under the new chair the skeleton, which he pas of the supreme court on Roseburg's residents and new business. Many bond issue for a new airport will be towns have sprung into the limelight ed of fire proof mcterinl. estimates for the construction of regulations, and rates on first class sionately embraced. He then sa, known, and other details relating overnight by the discovery within down and began ,0 play without his all sen, with postage due have rais Many of the buildings swept hv '!M,rae are rounding up well und it ,0 the local issue will have been their portuls of some natural re friends remarking that it was he. the flames were old structures dal- j *s expected that by Ihe next meet ed ufter the third ounce. ironed ou, and no, hold i, at the source luring men in the quest of The sadness and sweetness of the One change that is material to us ing hack Io the early days of the *n8 concrete plans will be ready for same time as Medford’s special elec wealth; they have come from all music gripped the three friends. Ab City. j Ihe club. Several matters of civic ers of public libraries is the de- tion ,0 vote $100,000 in bomte for corners of the world ,0 places that ruptly the flow of melody ceased A, 1 appeal for fire figldin« equip- ' '"'pm lai’i c were discussed including ! creased rales on books sen, ,0 and repairs ,0 streets which will be held seemed ,0 offer them opportunity of ment was made Io G rants Pass hut " h<,,cl- I ’1" ' 11" « " f trees on Ihe high from the libraries, a change tha, is with a glaring dissonance. The building fortunes. • « . _ Still S' ik.S.I ilk.. . dust I k • St I •» situation. •8a««*8k — - m I How- , . - j estimated ,0 amount ,0 a saving of three friends rushed ,0 the piano on September 10. I way and the none was available. But a ,ow n may have other as and picked up Chopin who had fal II ver no ilrfnite action was tak- : bout $3,500 ,0 patrons of the Ore- sets than oil wells or gold mines. If Before the flames were exlin len from Ihe chair in a swoon RETAIL COSTS PUBLISHED en. A request for scenic pictures 8°n State Library alone, and was the information is broadcast that in guished word of the disaster h. <1 When several months later Chop in and about this eitv were asked brought about by solicitation of li- a town can be found good wages, been received on Ihe nuts'de anil de for by the Pacific Highway Asso- hrgrians of the Stale of Oregon, in played his B minor sonata for the “Operating costs in Retail Mer prosperity, good business and Indus- mand* upon the telegraph office by firs, time in public the third move chandising” is the title of a new fiction of California and Fred Guy t Newspapers can now be mailed the larger newspapers of the state and C. .1. Si.orb were appointed by at the rale of one ceil, for each two ment contained the improvisation nnd press association were made for Chairman W alker Io furnish Ihe pic- ounces or 11 fraction thereof, where heard in Zeini’s studio tha, eventful Extension service which service ulous, despite the fact tha, it lacks particulars. night. And the first person ,0 be which contains the reports submit lures. formerly the cost was two cents. carried ,0 his grave ,0 the strains ted to the five sections of the Ore Ihe lure of gold says the Snoqualmie Parcel post rates will remain the of this march funebre was— Chopin. gon Retail Merchants association a, Valley Record. ROCKNE TO RETURN MANY CHANGES TAKING same for the firs, three sones, the Thus each town has its gold mine, their convention a, Corvallis last its own oil gusher; community pros PLACE AT OMARS AUTO PARK charge being one cent lower in the GOLDEN RULE RUMMAGE SALE Following negoGatio” n...-,. February. Results of surveys in ! other zones. perity always produces “pay dirt.” mediately upon Conch K. K. Bock- The past week, workmen have cluded in the reports were compiled The world will come to a town B is now possible ,0 insure a par- The Grants Pass Golden Rule by the schools of commerce and n r s a r r iv a l th is summer, Ihe f. 111- busy installing shower hut, s cel for 81000 instead of 8100, the tha, has what the world wants, be ous . otre Dame mentor agreed to a, Ihe cabins in Ihe Omer’s Auto registration fee remaining the same Chain Store is prepared ,0 launch a pharmacy for the divisions of de tha, gold, oil, or merely good living leturn Io Oregon next year fir his Park. Pesi les the new shower except thn, it is placed on 11 sliding huge rummage sale, Saturday with partment stores, furniture stores, conditions. r f'K nt”’"') 1 fenll-r.'! baths at (he cabins showers are scale. Be.les for special delivery their usual splendid bargains. This grocery stores, drug stores and Community advertising will at nt Hie state college summer session so being installed in Ihe house. A nkhl and special handling special store is noted for its splendid prices hardware stores ami general stores. tract prosperity! Without advertis id Corvallis. Coach Hocknc says lie new Septic tank is being built an I delivery have been changed some- nnd when they advertise a sale it is ing, a town may have many virtues, always looks foi ward ,0 his wester,, Cement floors were built in all the what, according t0 the announce- a sale. Glance over our advertise H. A. Bailtke C. J, Shnrh nnd Torn Ini, no one will know of them. ment of this store and see what they Shaver were Medford visitors Tues trip with reel pleasure. si.ower baths. inent. Boost the town to the world and the say for themself. day afternoon. « world will boost the town!
