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JULY 2 3
BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such a one in the sp irit of meekness; considering
thyself, lest thou also be tem pted.— G alatians 6:1.
Soon California will have to initiate a campaign to
keep tourists at home.
There is no closed season in politics.
A DOUBLE OPPORTUNITY
river and Boise is now either hand, has a irood defense
team ing with population. The ! and -is willing to gamble th at he
Snake river has furnished great can knock any of the present
irrigation projects and what ap- > contenders silly long before the
peared to US' as a veritable desert limit.
is now covered with prosperous
The Greenwich Village fighter
farm ers and happy homes. The is not going to rush into a battle
N orthern Pacific railroad now with Jack Dempsey. He is go-
crosses this plain and the thriv- j ing to go ahead by easy stages,
ing little city of Caldwell is built ; adding m oie weight to his frame,
about eight miles south of Boise, until such time as he thinks he
while the la tte r has grown to : is “rig h t” for the titu la r go. Then
be a city in fact and is no longer Gene plans to force the champion
flouted by an insolent savage ! into th e ring.
hoard such as we found there, i Of course, Tunny’s lofty ain-
It is not my purpose, however, to bition may come a cropper. He
try to depict the progress and may have the wrong dope on
grow th of th e country through beating C arpentier; but American
which we passed. This I may followers of the fistic game feel
tak e up a t some future time. We confident th a t the French idol
traveled over five hundred miles will be easy for th e local boy.
of genuine wilderness, still dom- They figure th a t C arpentier is not
inated by its native wild man and ! the same fighter he was a few
at a time when they were discus- i years ago, when he met Jack
sing an effort to wipe the white , Dempsey in Boyle’s Thirty Acres
race off of the face of the coun- and went hack to France w ithout
try between the Cascade moun- ‘ the toga. Tunney, on the other
tains and the Rocky m ountains. hand, they say, has been coming,
In the capacity of a U. S. Sur- and coming fast. They look for
veyor and in other capacities I : him to finish off C arpentier eas-
have kept in touch with its g ro w -' ily.
th for more than fifty years and
Tunney’s plans after th a t are
have crossed it in many direc- still incomplete. The prohabil-
ities are th a t he may meet Tom
tions.
It was our intention to retu rn Gibbons; or the w inner of the
to Rogue River valley by a route W ills-Firpo set-to. A fter that,
entirely different from our t r i p ' next year — for Dempsey won’t
out and to th a t end crossed cen- be seen in action this year— the
tra l Oregon emerging via the Mc- task of lifting the championship,
Kinzie river a t Eugene in the if he is able.
W illam ette valley. To this jo u r­
ney I will address my self in
subsequent' chapters of this n ar­
rative.
C. B. WATSON,
Ashland July 19, 1924.
To the people of Ashland who recognize the need for I
Interesting Reminiscences By A
new industries and an increased payroll and who desire!
Southern Oregon Pioneer
to invest surplus money in an approved security bearing
guaranteed dividends, the movement to finance a box fac­
Being a series of Interesting articles dealing w ith early day
tory offers a double opportunity.
events and pioneer men and women who made history and
The need for new industries offering employment
builded for sueceeding generations.
I
throughout the year to those who desire to cast their lot
(By C. B. W ATSON)
DETROIT, July 23.— Music and
here has long been recognized by many local citizens, and
the ten m illionth Ford are m ak­
that the box factory will afford more employment and
c h a p te r Ten
ing m erry along the Lincoln High­
See R ogu e R iver Man
way.
increase the local payroll to greater extent than any Boise City, W ith its T h rift and
We found several men from
If it were possible to repro­
other industry, capital invested considered, is a fact rec-, Many B eautiful H om es, Con- Rogue River valley who had come
duce
all the selections th a t have
stitu
ted
a
D
eligh
tfu
l
Change
to Idaho with the wave of m in­
ognized by all. The fact that the factory in itself will af­
NEW YORK, July 23.— Gene ¡greeted the car so far on its event-
From the
W eeks W e
Had ing excitem ent th a t spread a few
ford labor to twenty-five or thirty men is not the only Traveled Through th e W ilder­
years ago. Sam Clayton was a Tunney, pride of Greenwich C il-ifu l trip from New York to San
important factor in connection with the proposed project, n ess.
mem ber of the old pioneer fam ­ lage, is going after big game. Not Francisco, the world wou’.d be
for once the factory is established and placed in opera­
ily of th a t name who had settled this year, for Gene does not be­ given a phonographic record
tion the local demand for lumber will be such that many The Town W as F illed . W ith In ­ in the earlier days a t Clayton lieve th a t th e tim e is ripe for which would make the modern
to pluck the laurels now held jazz orchestra green with envy,
small sawmills will follow, each employing from twenty dians in B u ck sk in and F ea th ­ creek four or five miles southeast him
of the
ers, Im pudent and Saucy and of Ashland. Myers, Cardwell and by Jack Dempsey, but next year according to accounts
to thirty men during the greater part of the year. It is D oing as T hey P leased , N ot­
will
be
another
year.
tour.
There
would
be
recorded
a
alrad were acquainted
with
not unreasonable to predict that with the box factory un­ w ith stan d in g th e Gari^son o f W
Gene
has
got
a
little
set-to
with
!
great
medley
of
airs,
produced
by
Clayton. So well pleased were
der successful operation that within a very few years the Troops Stationed There.
Clayton and his fam ily a t seeing Georges C arpenter, to be staged ; a big variety of instrum ents and
-Si—
combined lumbering industry will employ not less than
friends from th eir old home th a t shortly. He is confident of the punctuated by frequent bursts of
result. He also is willing to meet song, continual honking of auto
one hundred and fty men, exceeding by far the payroll As we approached Boise City they gave a dance in our honor the
winner of the H arry Wallis- horns and blasts of factory
from the great sage plains spread at th eir ranch three or four miles
of any other loci industry.
Luis
Firpo fight, and thus leap | whistles.
to the south we cheered with out in the country. It was a reg­
The need for ‘w industries is made apparent by the out
another
step forward in his am ­
There have been parades and
the prospect of again enjoying a u la r pioneer occasion with all the
bition
to
be
crow’ned
w
orld's
receptions with large bands, small
many people who arrive in Ashland, become enamored of season of civilization. How quiet necessary accessories.
heavyweight
champion.
bands and even orchestras. Men's
W
riter
G
ets
E
m
ploym
ent
its beauty, the climate, productivity of soil and its splen­ and peaceful it looked as we ap­
Gene
is
ju
st
oozing
with
confi­
did type of citizenship, yet are compelled to move on be­ proached it. The river was span­ Our whole party 'was not need­ dence these days. Also, the Vil­
to look after the horses so I
cause of inability to find employment with which to pro­ ned by a.very good bridge and as ed
we entered th e city of perhaps concluded to vary th e employ­ lage Pride does not think much !
vide themselves and families with the necessities of life. three thousand people, we were m ent by getting som ething else of the fighting abilities of e ith e r ,
J. W. Frazier
This condition has obtained here since the early history delighted with th rifty young or­ to do. My first attem p t took me Champion Jack, Luis Firpo, or i
of the town. Nothing will be gained by dodging the issue chards and splendid gardens. to a saw-mill a few miles out other contenders for the le ad in g 1
and Son
title.
where
I
was
set
at
“
off-bearing”
Along
the
side
of
every
street
and the earlier we realize the necessity of securing new
Tunney has it all figured out
th e saw. I t proved too
industries and creating opportunities for laboring men was a canal carrying an abund­ from
how
he is going to he the next
of w ater and every lot sup­ heavy a job fo r me and I only
3 cars of second cutting alfalfa
the quicker will we attain the growth that natural re­ ance
champion.
He figures th a t any
plied w ith a water-wheel which lasted two days. I then secured
hay
and 2 cars of grain hay
sources entitle us to enjoy.
scooped up the w ater and poured a job with a th resh in g machine man with a good one, two punch
ju st arrived. Hay is going up
be down the ladder very
. From an investment standpoint there is no reason it into the gardens. Looking be­ with which I stayed until the won’t
in
price. Now is the t:i e to
long.
.
to doubt the stability of the project. Every detail has been yond thd town up and down the band had been sold o u t and our He opines th a t Firpo, if he had lay in your w inter suppi), ah
we saw attractive farms. It p arty ready to retu rn , when I
thoroughly investigated by some of the substantial busi­ river
kinds of grain and mill feed
had th a t one, two punch, would
was harvest tim e and we noticed joined them.
is w orth more by the car load
have
been
the
champion
today.
ness men of the city ,who without exception, have given the appearance of promise of When I left Ashland it was not
than we are retailing it at.
it their stamp of approval. It is their judgment that the abundant crops.
my expectation to retu rn . I had Tunney said th a t the fact th at
Firpo
is
not
such
a
puncher
will
Our present prices can’t stay
planned to go from Helena down
prime promoter has sufficient assets to cover the $20,-
Indians in W ar P ain t
the Missouri river home. T h is ,! spell defeat for him when he
where they are many days,
As we approached the business
000 of preferred stock, and they are firmly convinced that
meets
H
arry
Wills,
negro
cham
p­
come in and see us and bring
I w ould have done if
the plant will be so operated that eight per cent dividends streets we were startled with the doubtless
ion,
your grocery order.
We de­
we
had
gone
to
H
elena
as
we
of a large body of
Tunney declared th a t Jack
will be assured. Tirus we have a clean-cut proposition, appearance
planned.
The
“
Indian
scare”
liver.
Indians in paint, buckskin and
which has stood the acid test of thorough inspection, feathers doing about as they thus, perhaps changed the whole Dempsey would have some diffi­
in overcoming a good one,
guaranteeing eight per cent dividends and backed by suf­ pleased. Many of them were on course of my life. W e were in culty
two
puncher,
especially a fighter
J. W. Frazier
out of Boise fo r about six
ficient assets to make it sound. This ought to appeal to horseback doing what white men and
who
has
a
kick
with
the
blows.
weeks during which tim e we sold
and Son
the man or woman with funds to invest as being far su­ would have been arrested for all of our stock except our riding Not immodestly, Gene figures
As they were not disturbed we
perior to schemes daily offered by strangers.
We th a t he has all these attributes.
3 5 8 E. MAIN
PHONE 2 1 4
were curious to know something horses and pack anim als.
PIPES GREET FORD
GENE TUNNEY HAS
EYES ON DEMPSEY’S
EIGHT
about it. We were told th a t the seemed to m ake many
A GOOD AMERICAN—SOMETIMES
! Indians had been acting suspic- who expressed regTets a t
parture.
H. F. Phillips
Aecording to liis own story, Gus Peterson’s program!ious and wlthin two weeks had very genial, jolly fellow
life consists of working long enough to get money for
* 'ai? e banhd “f horse! a^ ay excellent salesm an.
of
a first-class drunk, quitting the job and buying poor! bnTQ through to Helena, Mon-
liquor. When he sobers up. he is always without money, tana. In fact two such hands
and, being a wanderer, usually is told to “ get out of had been taken th at season and
the people in charge of them had
town.” Occasionally he gets a short jail sentence.
been killed. When they learned
A few days ago he quit a job with the Califoruia- th
a t our destination was Helena,
Oregon power company, got drunk in Medford, was fined we were urged to give up the
$15, and still intoxicated, was taken out of the city and idea of going fu rth er east than
told to travel. He came to Ashland, drank some canned we then were; th a t it was almost
heat, and was arrested iu the act of tearing down the certain death to us and, at least,
of our band. N otw ithstand­
door of a home that sheltered a terrified widow and two loss
ing th a t there was a garrison of
small children.
troops at Boise, a good deal of ex­
When sober, Peterson is a quiet, reserved Swede. citem ent prevailed among the
When drunk, he is a raging beast, a menace to civiliza­ people, and they avoided giving
tion, best quieted with a blackjack. He is typical of al­ offense to the natives. Of course
Indians were not blind to the
most the entire floating population, a good worker, a good the
fact th a t the whites were afraid
potential American, when he is unable to get liquor.
and this tended to make the sav­
When prohibition becomes what it was intended to ages insolent. The Indians were
be, a law which makes obtaining intoxicants absolutely greatly interested in our beautiful
band of horses and seemed to
impossible, there will be more sober Gus Petersons, and know
th a t we were coming. They
the United States will move on a higher plane.
asked us many questions, to wit;
the price of this horse and that.
We were told th a t we would
THE GYPSY URGE
stand
a good show of selling our
Moving day bills make impressive totals. The shift
herd there and advised th a t we go
of population in < 'liicago last year, for illustration, in­ no fu rth er. A fter a careful in­
cluded 367,000 fan dies, say engineers of a gas company. vestigation of the situation we
They base their figures on the number of “ turn on” or­ concluded to take advice and try
ders for gas. If all the families were blessed—or cursed— selling out where we were. In
with worldly goods, and the transfer men levied tribute, pursuance of th a t plan we en­
quired about a suitable range
say $30 on each move, the moving-van hill would amount near
the city and were directed
to more than $11,000,000. And ever}* move goes hard to drive onto the bunch-grass hills
with furniture and furnishings—an additional expendi-' on the north side of the valley
ture of $10,000,000 is reported for new things to put in j This we did. and Put a notice in
new homes. No one has been able to appraise the loss the papers th a t we would drive
in Mondays and Thursdays for
of time from work, or the expenditures for meals outside the
accommodation of buyers. We
the homes.
found th a t our herd was a ttra c t­
Some guessing has been done about the causes of the ing much attention and were soon
Maytime quest for new abodes—high rentals, the perpet­ engaged in selling. As the news
ual juggling to keep income even with outgo, and the spread people come in num bers
and surprised us with the read­
gypsy urge for change have consideration. Lanlords still iness with which they selected
hold a sort of feudal dominion over tenants, and it may and bought.
friends He insists th a t lie can h it with
our de­
was a
and an
F ort B o ise
Those who have read the early
pioneer days will rem em ber th at
F o rt Boise was one of the oldest
fro n tier posts th is side of the
Rocky m ountains and was on the
line of travel of these early ad­
venturers from 1837 to 1847.
Their course from Boise was
w esterly down Boise river to Its
confluence w ith Snake river.
Eoise valley and P ayette valley
were very a ttra ctiv e and so soon
as It appeared safe people settled
there. Much of it was yet un­
settled when we v is ite d . it, but
since th a t day it has become one
of the chief garden spots in this
great interior basin. The great
sage-plain, we crossed between
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bands. Ladies’ bands, and boys' picturesque welcomes at every
bands have participated in greet­ pdint along the route.
ing the car at various places.
Scotch bag pipers were a fea­ From K lam ath Country—
ture along part of the route.
Recent Ashland visitors from
Buglers announed the coming of the Klam ath Country, reported by
the car in some towns and in one the Klamath News, were E. J.
little city a group of pretty girls Buck and Miss Esther Kielsmeier,
riding on a float heralded its
no drove over Sunday and spent
advent with horns. Even call­ the day with friends, ipcnicing in
iopes have at different points ad­ the park. W. F. Jinette and fam ­
ded their fam iliar notes to the ily were other Sunday visitors, as
welcome.
were Mr. and Mrs. H arry Goeller
Play Varied Pieces
and children. Saturday visitors
Numbers rendered have includ­ were M. and Ms. Roy Orem, Mrs.
ed everything from the inspiring Fred Goeller and Miss Pauline
tones of patriotic airs and the , Clift, who visited Dr. Sawyer and
ever appealing swing ol' the march ' Miss C lift’s mother.
to the latest popular jazz fancies !
and a reversion to the more in- I
tim ent tune of “ The Little Old i
Farmers Attention
Ford Rambled Right Along."
Now
traversing
the
great
Fly seasoH will soon be on.
stretches of the. western pari of • Get your Shoo Fly and E. Z.
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the best fly killer made. Gard­
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Utah, the car
en
Hose, and garden tools,
which is telling the interesting ■
fencing and binder twine,
story of the production of ten i mowers and repairs always on
million transportation units by
hand.
the Ford Motor Company, is niov- !
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