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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1931)
$ (ÈrlXtò volumi : xxxiv < ,< >M > H ÎÏ/ l , OREGON, i HÜRSIXA Y, NXJvÌL\lìnri< L\ i t ,u .................... ...................................................................................... N U M BER 31 POSSE HUNTS KILLER HERE Little News and Comment ITEMS OK INTEREST EX- TRACTEI» FROM WORM) HAPPENINGS ANI» BOILED DOWN FOR OUR READERS. SEEK ROGUE CANYON ROAD Const Delegation Visits This Basketball Practice Starts At Local High School; Arhland First Opponent W.th the first game less than three weeks away. Coach Paul Ang- stead is whipping his Gold H ill high school basketball team into shape. Practice started last week and prospects are good fo r u successful season ut the local school. Ashland Junior high school w ill he the opponents in the opener on the locnl court December 4. SCHOOL PLAYS ARE SUCCESS First Offerings ot Year D is Contracta for Irrigation Flumes to Be Let; Work Starts Early in December BELIEVE MEN SURROUNDED W ork of refinancing Gold H ill i r rigation district is w ell underway, i and building operations on ihe flumes w ill begin as soon as con- S w S k t J S S ? ? . B ir d ‘ c y t “ "--------- J A e e le g .1 . D U - A report from Sun Francisco says District; See Road as Link play Real Talent; Funds to Bertha Coy, secretary of Ihe ir tric t Scoured fo r M e n W h o United States Commissioner E. E. Across State rigadon board, this week W illiams lias made a report award Aid School Paper W ith the final investigation of Shot Ashland Officer ing a total of 9325.000 in damage! to ihe d is tric l’s bonds issued in Ihe sufferers from the San Juan sea dis W ith meetings ut Grants Pass and refinancing program and the es “ The Trysting Place” and “ The tablishing of th eir legality, work aster tw o years ago. W illiam s hus Medford this week, agitation hus Gold Hill School A posse of more than 300 men Man In the Bowler Hat," the first can proceed w ithout fu rthe r de hern hearing claims by survivors, been renewed fo r a highway down Shows Fine Growth aided by bloodhounds from Eugene, ny, and this procedure w ill be com relatives of those who lost their lives the Rogue riv e r to the ocean. In Short Period offerings of Gold H ill high school's pleted scoured the district near Birdseye this month. Tlie route is seen, not only as a dramatic club this year, presented and freight shippers, for 14 months. A board meeting was held here Greek, seven miles up the highway means of allowing greater develop Figures in an attendance report Iasi Friday evening at Ihe high Monday nigh, in which final plans The San Juun was sunk by the Stan from this city all day, and late this ment of the lower liogue rive r dis dard Oil tanker S. C. T. Dodd on trict, itself, hut t may also fit in prepared this Week by Superintend ¡chool, were d istinctly successful, and specifications fo r ihe construc afternoon are reported as having according to every member of the the night of August 2D. 1929, w ith w ith a program in w hich it would ent George M eixingir, of the Gold tion w ork were discussed, Assistant nthusiastic audience. surrounded the men who at 11 o’ H ill schools, show a healthy growth serve us an artery feeding coast many lives lost. In spile of the handicap of a lasi- Slate Engineer I). J. McLellan o f Sa clock las, night murdered Police o f in the local schools over the last lem, Attorney Frank Barrel and En • • • ' ship,dug, connecting the heart of minute substitution because of in- four-year period. gineer I. H. Porter of Medford ficer Victor Knott at Ashland. Old Dobbin Is staging a comeback ' lb **“ ,c * “ *' 11 M 1,1 lh i* ur.v Io one member of the cast, the The report includes the two meeting w ith the board a, that time. Ditched Car When Flagged In North Dakota. F or the firs t time M ipporl of eastern Ore- first play, “ The Trysding Place," months of school just past, as fo l The district now serves 1,014 gun may be obtained fo r a cross The men abandoned ih e ir car at in 13 years registrations of the w ith a Well chosen cast, was well lows: North Dakota stallion registration state highway through Lake and iiven, and the players look their acres w ith its irriga tion ditches, but the mouth o f Birdseye creek when The first month of school closed many more are under bond and w ill laiard at the stale agricultural col Harney counties, fo llo w in g t h e •arts admirably, overcoming Ihe w ith an enrollin' nt totaling 254 stu be furnished water when the new flagged by Herbert Hoxie, stale pa lege show an increase over the Bogue to the roust. llffic u lty w ith very good acting. dents. w ith 194 being grade pupils, project is completed. It is said tba) trolman, about four o’clock this A delegation of seven representa previous year. Member of Cast Injured the local district is one o f the ___ best morning. Hoxie became suspicious tives o f (odd Beach and C urry and 0« attending high school. Four The substitution was occasioned n Ihe stale, finances and supply o f because of the great speed at which ounly reached Grants Pass Mon- years ugo, there were only 126 pu vhen Leroy Cameron, cast fo r a A 200 foot slide ut Barview block water being consideerd. lay afternoon for a conference w ith pils in the grades, showing an in Ihe inen were driving. They jumped rlncipal part in the play, injured ed the Oregon coast highway am! lie Josephine county commission cr,,,,sP of 66. or 53 per cent. The from their car, q fte r slowing it iLs fool on Saturday preceding the the Southern Pacific railroad In k high school has increased its En O consider I he routing of (he road, plays, and on Tuesday it was Iearn- 712 Register for Jobs down considerably, and, running Tllamook last week. The slide was suggested by the low er riv e r dele rollment lot) j»cr cent, only 30 be d that he would be unable to take from five to fifty feet sleep ami il gates. On New Courthouse along the bank of the Rogue, dodged ing enrolled four years ago. under Birdseye bridge, follow ing part. At this late date B ill Hammers- took four or five days before the Agreement on the principle of a During the second m o n t h of ly joined Ihe cast, and took the role the creek up into ths hills, where highway could be cleared. South Figures compiled by Ihe cle ik of "oad down Hie Bogue river, w ith school six more students joined the very well. the posse has been spread ail day, ern Pacific tracks were cleared in Jackson county court show that 712 die assistance of and jo in t use for high school ranks, and the grades and now are believed to be ho, on tw o days. The play depicted the difficulties men have registered for employ th eir tra il. Coos county, was given the dele also raised their number by six, of a young man, infatuated w ith gates ut the meeting Monday after making a total of 20© in Ihe lower young w idow ; his sister in love ment* on the new Jackson county The k illin g of O fficer Knott oc O fficials at Pendleton are won noon, which also included represen- division, and 266 in all. courthouse at Medford and the w jih a boy who is not wealthy, like curred when, w ith O fficer Layman, dering whether the unemployment '.dives of the ehamin r of commerce W ith this recorer enrollment, ■ their mother, also a widow, who is pioposed emergency road relief they were patrolling the packing situation is, ns had us it tins been nd Gruñís Bass city adm inistration. fine attendance record has also been •vt rk. pictured. T w enty-four men were Following die session some o f the made. 138 pupils being neither ab being courted by her girlhood F o rty men are now employed on plant district in a prow l car. Re offered highway jobs paying 99 a '.¡old Beach men went on Io Med « nt nor tardy the firs t month, and sweetheart. The situation becomes the Pacific highway in the SDkiyou ports vary, but it is said by Lay day. Only rig ht accepted. The other ford to talk w ith die Jackson coun- 122 during the second month at involved when all choose the same niountains and more are expected man (hat two men hailed the car, sun parlor in th eir hotel as a ren to star, w ork soon. and when it drew to a halt, they 1(1 had varied excuses for declining v court and chamber o f commerce taining a sim ilar distinction. dezvous w ith their lover, which re the work. One man declared he had in the plan. immediately began shooting, k illin g Excavating fo r the new- There are 116 boys and 150 girls sults in eavesdropping on each oih court- Knotl w ith three wounds before the hail Io move the day before ano house w ill start this week. In die Granls Bass meeting, Mel attending Gold H ill schools this officers could draw th eir guns, and was not rested enough to go to l.ewis of die Siskiyou Forest head year, w ith the ratio of boys and er, when the young men hide be hind chairs as the mother approach w ork. then dodged among piles of lumber quarters, told die join t meeting dial girls being even closer in die high • • • es fo r her meeting w ith her sweet Odd Fellows Suspend Io escape. Layman go, out of the die best route for such a Bogue school alone, where the student heart. Entertainments to Plan When H arry McCabe, depul > 1 Canyon highway would fo llo w the car and shot at them bu, they es body includes 30 boys and 31 girls. Another eavesdropper is an un sheriff, and bass d ru m m ir of the river rather Ilian keeping Io the caped down a dark street, and he For Big Jubilee Meet known friend of the younger w id Roseburg m unicipal band assumes high ridges, and would go down die returned ,0 rush Knott to a hospi ow, who had arrived al the scene the role of musician, he docs not Bogue all die way ralher Ilian en Gun Club Organized tal, but he died before reaching _ At the I. O. O. F. regular meeting before any of the couples, and who there. neglect his w ork. As a result. Ed tering d iffic u lt country below the At Gold HUI; W ill threatens to disclose each one's af November 17, il was decided ,0 ward (i. Collins, of Crescent City. end of die present wagon road. Tools and Gans in Car have no more entertainments u n til M eet Again Monday fair. Archie W right, Seattle, and Sam In discussing die proposed routes, It was later discovered that the big jubilee meeting December Cast of Play Trutc, Winnipeg. Canada, arc in the Mr. Lewis said dial the forest serv At a meeting held Monday eve 8, in order to concentrate efforts Ashland fru it association and an The cast of this play included county ja il charged w ith transpor ice would lie heller served by a ning in Ihe I. O. O. F. hall the Gold on practice of degree work. Every empty apartment nearby had both tation of liquor. W hile McCabe was road that would lake a higher level, H ill Rifle and Bislol club was o r Wilna Poe as Mrs. Curtis, persistent member is urged to attend the meet been entered, and the discovery of ly pursued by Lancelot Briggs, B ill beating his drum Wednesday night hut that d ii‘ low route would he ganized. A crowd of sixteen enthusi burglar tools and revolver shells in ings before this date fo r practice. during an Armistice day concert on an all-year highway. However, its astic sportsmen attended the meet Hammersly; Mrs. Briggs, his moth Remember that the Grand Master Ihe car ditched near this city, has a street corner, lie saw n car go by cost would exceed $5,000 tier mile, ing and indications point to a live er. was very ably portrayed by Miss Homer Angell of Portland and Chas. definitely connected the occupants Zelda Smith, w ith John Fleming whose springs indicated a heavier taking il out o f die forestry de club being formed. taking the pari of Mr. Ingoldsby, her Poole, Grand Marshal w ill be here w ith the murder, and the hunt has load than its visible contents ju sti partment authority and placing it in Lloyd Lance acted as chairman December 8 when all the lodges of been concentrated here since early fied. Deserting his drum. McCabe Hie hands o f die bureau o f public and Cleo G ilchrist was elected sec former sweetheart; Jessie Briggs, the valley help celebrate the clos (his morning. her daughter, was played by Miss rushed to die nearest telephone, roads. retary pro tem. It is thought the men have a gun ing o f Gold H ill's jubilee contest. Opal Hayes, and Hupert, the poor railed Sheriff V. T. Jackson who Tile Bogue rive r road was once The charter of the organization boy w ith whom she was in love, The score stands Boosters 3445, apiece w ith them in the hills, as started in pursuit of the suspected on the forest service plan, l.ewis i! issued from the National Rifle each had tw o guns when they ac was Leroy Tompkins. V irg il Eding- Maniacs 2335. car. The sheriff overtook the car at lold Hie meeting, at a cost of association w h id i furnishes equip ton was the mysterious voice be costed the officers, and but tw o of Oakland, arrested its occupants and 91.500,1)00, tint was taken o ff be ment io clubs securing ten or more Ihe four were found in Ihe ditched C. OF C. MEETS FRIDAY hind the chair—the friend of Mrs. seized 150 gallons of alcohol. cause die cost ran far above the members. car. Curtis. It is urged that every member of forestry department lim it. M errill Merriman was appointed A leather coat and an aviator’s In “ The Man in the Bowler Hat,” the Chamber of Commerce remem After 13 mouths floating w ith the It was die general opinion of the Io draw up the constitution and by cap were also in the car, and one currents in the Pacific ocean, a bot neeting dial w lial was wanted now laws of the organization and piy~ an exciting time comes to John and ber the meeting at Chas. Kell's ga of the men lost his cap and w rist tle which had drifted 5000 miles J was Io gel die road established, if sen! ¡hem at Ihe next meeting to be Mary, an average middle-aged pair, rage Friday evening, November 20. watch in the brush as they scram has been picked up and its journey I il were only a passable road, not held next Monday evening at the who thought nothing exciting ever Many important matters w ill come bled along the bank of the Rogue hnppened outside of books, when up- reported by the government hydro i more Ilian for one-way tra ffic , 11» Gold H ill News . ffiee. before crossing the highway. shooting, re-united lovers, and an graphic office w hich studies ocean ' first, Inil could be constructed ns Anyone in'e-csled is urged io be irate father, as w ell as someone The car was a dark blue W illys- forts. and attention to detail were currents. The bottle was throw n cheaply 11s possible on w hid should n attendance at the meeting Mun Knighl, bearing Colorado license overboard by a Portland man as be the final survey. If such a route day evening when election of o ffi seeking ihe rajah's ruby, intrude on very evident in the productions. olate 77 824, and it Is thought the Other Numbers Presented chief officer of the Herman Frusch, were provided, laier years ctnild cers w ill ta k j place and arrange th e ir quiet evening at home. Bu, men came ,0 Ashland to avenge the it all turned out to be just a rehear Other features of Ihe evening's o ff Cap Lucas, Lower C alifornia. It bring widening of tin* grad »a and neats w ill be made to make apple sal, when Ihe Man in Ihe Bowler entertainment were numbers by the hanging of James Kingsley on Oc was found o ff the Marshall Island •emovnl of the points and cúrva •all. a fo r a charter. Location fo r p'” roxlm ntely 2000 miles southwest me. but w ork already done on the a rifle range w>l. also ue discussed Hat, who had sat quietly at one side mixed chorus and the g irls’ sextette tober 30, after his conviction o f the through the whole affair, an preceding die plays, w ith a between murder of Policeman Prescott there of Honolulu. u’ vey would not have Io be throw n id 'he meeting and members are last January 14. • • • nounced that it was “ all a little bit away. asked to have th eir suggestions ragged,” but that they would pro act selection by the boys’ glee T rio at Grants Pass Hotel club, all of which were accompanied Governor Pinchot of Pennsyl Gold lie.ieh desires dial Hie Bogue 1 eady. ceed w ith the second act, and called by Mrs. Guy, director of music in Two tough men and a woman, vania has asked Secretary Mellon Canyon p’an be enlarged to permit Tlie club w ill be glad to have fo r the eurtain! Ihe local schools. the men answering the description to nid very m a tiria 'ly in the stab nnslruelion o f a Gold Beach con anyone from nearby towns join. Much Good Acting Other talent on the between act of the killers^ and d rivin g a Colo unemployment relief plan, lie asks nection continuing down the river I liis entire play was very clever program included three especially rado car. were registered two days the loan of a mere m illion In the from the point where the Bowers would have from the start. ly done, w ith Wallace Iverson de good readings by members o f Mr. ago, at Hotel Del Rogue in Grants slate, and says lie w ill subscribe in ; oad would clim b out o f the can Solidification of sentiment in picting very accurately, the aver Meisinger’s public speaking class. Pass, giving the names of Mr. and proportion to other wealthy c iti voil and turn toward.-, Coos Bay. Loo-;, L u rry , Josephine, Jackson and age middle aged business man, and W illard Croft gave ihe first selec Mrs. L. M. W illiams, and Mr. Free zens. Mellon said he would lake it Il was pred'eted that (axis coun Klamath counties was declared nec- under consideration—and there she ty and C urry could work logclhcr ssury to secure construction of Miss Linda W ild giving good sup tion, “ When De Folks Am Gone,” man. Freeman was described as port ns Mary, his w ife. Bernnrd in typical negro style, and Velma short w ith cu rly h air, a d irty red hangs. rn securing die main portion of the die rive r highway. • • • W ild and Miss Lucille Wheatley St. Clair, dressed ns the town s bad in color, wearing a dark suit. He highway w ith Josephine county, The Lakeview to Burns highway, A mother and daughter Saturday nd each taking care of its own '< naeeling w ith the Nyssa-Wine- were the lovers, w ith the, par, of boy, read “ WVitchiif the Spiifffin’," is stoop shouldered. W illiam s was obtained marriage licenses at the ortion of die roule wh: re it would m era highway plan, would lie one the villa in taken by Rill Connor, Jr. of the school teacher, and the old about 5 fee, 11, and 35 years old. Jackson county court house. They divide near llhihe Io go toward Coos uncompleted sje to r of surh a south Robinson assisting him in the role maid of the town. Then came Glen He wore a brown suit and soft were L illy May Burnett and (laugh hay through Bowers and toward rn cross-state route, and the can- of chief bad man. Kenneth Wald, Lingren, minus several teeth and brown hat. The woman was about was Ihe Man in Ihe Bowler Hat, or glorified w ith a red wig, loud shirt 20years of age, stout, w ith a baby ter. Thelma Burnett, both of Ash Cold Beach through Agness. io n between Grants Bass and th r the director of the “ rehearsal.” and gay trousers, who stuttered face, wore hair in long bob and land. Mrs. Burnell married Samuel Isaac Best said he had seen sur sea Ihe second unfinished link. Both these plays were of the un through his selection, “ I f I Can Be was 5 feet 6 inches tall. Wore long W ilburn of AsICand and Thelma veys of lower Bogue mines and I f sentiment in Jackson county Is married Dean Booth, also of Ash hough a new survey would furnish also favorable, it is planned by Ihe usual type, each having a distinct by Her,” to the amusement of all. coat and dress. The, proceeds from the evening’s land. The quartet did not disclose ■ iod economic arguments fo r the coast delegniion io star, a campaign ly clever “ p lot” the interpretation of The trio were notably tough char where they would live but court highway. Il would give small mines for Ihe new highway nt the Rogue which depended greatly upon the entertainment goes to the support acters and the bell boys at the ho house attaches believed they plan mi opportunity to develop and add riv e r bridge dedication at Gold a b ility o f the actors, themselves, and of Ihe school's paper which is be tel admitted they kept them scared much credit is due Iheir director, ing edited this year by members of most of the time they were in the ned to continue livin g in Ashland. to the tra ffic of tourists the route Beach on May 28. Miss Fenwick, whose u n tirin g ef- the typing class. hotel by their surly actions.
