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T I D I N G S , the United States and back again, are looking for new were jealousies among the various teachers, they were sur-’found among them many of real noble character and
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'prised and further confused. When they discovered that great natural intelligence. I have talked with them on
They are now asking that the navy department and there were bad white men who were treacherous and these subjects and found their discussions to be reason-
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the president approve plans for the trip across Arctic jcruel they could not understand why this should be so. able and intelligent.
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regions and to the North Pole, abandoned several months Many of the Indians and their chiefs were desirous to live
As we review these‘‘fRogu'e River Wars,” I will to a
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in peace and amity with the whites, but they, too, had large extent follow the accounts as they are given in
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The request does credit to their courage and conf i-i many had Indians whom they could not control. These ¡Rawlings History of Southern Oregon and the accounts
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why should not the navy blimp navigators fly over the .ments and they were not long in discovering that human think to he just acquired by me at first hand from many
nature is much the same among whjtes and Indians, bad [of the old actors of pioneer days. When I first came to
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The army fivers learned valuable lessons both for white men were wronging Indian women and when they Oregon most of the earliest pioneers were still here and
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7.50 the service and for themselves in their recently completed complained they received little satisfaction. Promises I got to know nearly all of them personally, and received
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world voyage, but did that venture justify its heavy fi­ made by white men were broken and this gave had In­ the accounts from their own lips. Rawling’s History of
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dians an excuse for revenge. As we read about the In­ Southern Oregon was published in 1884, just forty years
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It is notorious that our national airplane program has dian raids, and the murder and torture they perpetrated! ago. It was prepared with evident care, with personal
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fallen behind that of all the other great powers; that if the we are not expected to condone, nor to withhold just pun-| interviews with the early actors and from records, many
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supremacy of the air were at stake, Uncle Sam would not ishment but may modify our sentiments of condemnation.* of which are not now available. I rate Rawlings as the
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l e in a much stronger position to defend his rights than In the following pages it will be seen that the Indian was ¡best detailed history of this region that has been written,
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when we entered the war; that congress has been exceed­ not at all times to blame, and we sometimes blush at theiBancrofts Works were published in 1886 and lias many
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ingly laggard in meeting even the most modest requests dastardly acts of white people and cannot wonder at the footnotes of personal interviews and documentary evi-
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for new equipment and enlargement of the aviation corps. horrible acts of retribution. It will be well to think of dence of value. I feel that in this effort to make further
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Consequently it is debatable whether the hundreds of what we would do, if this, our beautiful country, were record and to bring it down to the present time I cannot
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• 02% thousands of dollars used to pay the expenses of the world invaded by hostile foes stronger than we; our lands and do better than avail myself of these excellent works, now
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flight would not have been used to a better advantage in homes were to be taken away and we and our families long out of print.
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“ All future events, where an admission charge is mad* gr a developing our inadequate air defense.
driven into the mountains or forcibly placed on reserva­
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.*1 lection taken is Advertising.
tions.
Me
have
had
recent
evidence
of
the
savagery
of
And
Uncle
Sam
sending
out
blimps
to
the
North
No discount will be allowed R eligious or Benevolent orders.
Pole is almost like a man buying an automobile while ac­ war among so-called civilized people, during which the EXPECT BIG FORTUNE figuring on a conservative basis,
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very refinement of cruelty was practiced that lays the
No donations to charities cr otherwise w'U be made in advertis­ tually depriving himself of the necessities of life.
FROM MUSKRAT FARM it is estim ated th a t at the end
or job printing— or.v contributions will be in cash.
acts of the savages in the shade. We see that so-called ed­
of five years 178,555 m uskrats
We don’t know, when stocks go down, if they ever ucation and refinement does not eliminate, what seems PERRY, N. Y., Nov. 11.— V. H. will have been grown.
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go up again, but we always know that gasoline will.
to be, an inherent sentiment tli it makes for savagery and B utts and Claude C urtis have es­ Ordinarily, m uskrat pelts are in
great demand, and oftentim es the
And again the country pauses in its hurried pursuit
brutality 1 am not trying to defend the Indian nor con­ tablished a m uskrat farm south price
ranges from $1.50 to $4.
of this village. The farm has
cf business affairs, pauses for a day to honor the memory
The only use ever made of all that power at Muscle done his acts of brutality, but, rather to point out the been
stocked with
twenty-five Even if the price were but fifty
cf those brave youths, who seven years ago heard the call Shoals was to get Henry Ford a lot of advertising he
tact of natural likeness in both. For more than fiftv vears pairs of breeders. A natural in­ cents a pelt, the owners say th a t
vf their country and responded as only the youth of didn’t need.
crease of not less than ten m usk­ the gross sum would be nearly
I
have
been
more
or
less
among
the
Indians
and
have
America can respond. Again the country pauses to pay
rats to each pair is expected, and, $90,000 at the end of five years.
homage to the memory of those youths, the first to take
Now is the time when people are looking over the
up arms in the cause of righteousness across the Atlantic Christmas presents they got last year to see if any of them
A rain wc pay hemage to the thousands who never return- will do to give to somebody else.
vd, and again we celebrate the anniversary of the end of
the bloodiest war history lias ever known.
Another way to get your husband home early is to
It seems but yesterday that the call went throughout tell him supper is late because you were out at target
th? country, the call to take up arms against the mightiest practice.
army of history. Then followed a year and a half of dark
doubtful days, during which the heart of many a mother
Up in New York they are having literacy tests for the
ielt the wrench, the pain of having a son taken from her. voters. Advanced literary tests for the candidates would
To these mothers we today pay homage. To every mother help a lot.
who had a son in the service, this day commemorates one
Your Committee of stockhold­
the property of the H artm an
States Government, and the Com­
ers
appointed by you to investi­ Syndicate of the Pacific Coast, a
ol the greatest days of her life, the day she knew her son
m ittee finds from the records of
Pioneering in Southern Oregon
gate the affairs of the Company
tru st estate, and were granted a
the Company as well as from lit­
was safe from further harm.
and the facts concerning same
perm it by the Corporation Com­ eratu re published by the Company
by C. B. Watson
To the boys who went over, to return triumphant,
with relation
to the charges
m issioner’s office of the State to
and from the auditors’ report, (a
today means more than to any of the rest of us. It marks
made by Oswald W est and George
sell $350,000.00 of the capital
copy of which was in the hands
(Continued from November 10)
Black in th eir report to Gover­
the end of blood, mud, hardships, dangers and every­
stock of the Corporation.
of Oswald W est) th at the officers
nor W alter M. Pierce, and pub­
FOURTH, the Committee upon
thing which went to make the World War a hell on earth.
of the Company and its salesmen
During this April Session of 1854 several other pre­
lished by them in various news­
full investigation finds th a t the
represented the exact am ount of
Today is the “ Der Tag” of the Hun reversed. But cincts wore established, to-wit: One on Cow Creek, one
papers throughout the State, find only business transactions between
acreage
it owned in fee and the
i t the midst of our celebrating, let us stop for a moment on Butte Creek, one at Galice Creek, and one at Gold
the following are the true facts.
the H artm an Syndicate Inc. and
am ount of acreage it held under
FIRST, the Company was in­
pass a reverent thought for those boys, sleeping beneath Beach.
any of the companies of E. WT. application for lease. The Com­
corporated under the laws of the
H artm an is a contract for the p u r­ m ittee does not fiud th at any of
the stars in Flanc r ’s fields, for those Gold Star Mothers,
We see from this record that within one year after
State of Oregon with a capital
chase
of 26 reto rts from the H art­ the officers or salesmen have
who know their s as gave their last full measure that the its organization, Jackson county had so acquired a popu­
stock of Three Million dollars
man Process Company, and th at
ever represented that the Com­
v orld might he saved from autocracy, and who are proud lation that every part of its extensive territory, covering
composed of 300,000 shares of the
one of said reto rts has already
pany owned 3000 acres of land
Io have been able to offer a son to their country. For those all of what is now Jackson, Josephine, Curry and Coos
par value of Ten dollars per share
been purchased at the actual cost
and that any intim ation or sta te ­
and not th irty thousand shares of
is this day commemorated
of m anufacturing said re to rt by
counties had received the attention of this newly estab­
m ent in the W est-Black re|M>rt to
One H undred dollars per share
the
Buffalo
Foundary
and
Ma­
the effect that m isrepresentation
lished machinery, indicating that in all parts of its ex­
as stated in the W est-Black re­
chinery C o m p a n y
of Buf­ has been m ade is unw arranted
tended domain were active American citizens demand­
port. This fact will appear from
TRACING THE LOST
falo, New York. The Committee
from the facts as disclosed by the
the articles of Incorporation on
ing
not
only
the
protection
of
law,
but
also
the
extention
fu rth er finds th a t no profit or
Probably no other public agency in tlio world goes
records of the Company.
file in the Corporation Commis­
royalty has been paid to E. W.
SEVENTH,
The
Committee
so far into the highways and ibyways of this earth for lost cf facilities to its many and widely scattered communi­
sioner office of th e State of Ore­
H artm an or will be paid to him or
ties.
We
see
that
in
1854
only
one
year
after
the
organ­
finds
from
a
full
investigation
of
fi iends and relatives as the Salvation Army. Not a day
gon and could have been verified
to any of his companies on the
the property of the Company that
by the W est-Black Committee.
p isses but that some difficulty is reported to the Depart- ization was completed a Territorial United States Court
purchase of the reto rt th a t has
it has developed a large deposit
SECOND, the Committee from
already been delivered. The Com­ of shale which from the geologi­
n ent of Missing Friends; and in one out of three cases the was duly convened at Jacksonville with all its machinery
careful inspection of the books
m ittee fu rth er finds that the
b st person is found. In 1923 the department handled in motion. Thus, within four years the country south of
cal and engineer’s report is of an
of the Company find th a t Mr. E.
H artm an Syndicate Inc. has an
tho
Callipooia
mountains,
to
the
California
line
and
from
enormous tonnage and that the
1 093 cases, of which 419 were satisfactorily settled. From
W. H artm an is in no way con­
agreem ent to purchase the addi­ Company has established at its
January 1, until the last of August, 1924, it found 369 of tho Pacific to the Cascade mountains had gained a pop­
nected w ith the H artm an Syn­
tional reto rts a t an exceedingly
works, Shale City, Oregon, one
ulation
reaching
into
the
thousands.
Every
stream
had
its
dicate
Inc. and has never had
lie 1,060 reported missing.
reasonable price and much below
reto rt and necessary equipment
anything to •» do with the organiza-
the figure at which they are
The Christmas holidays bring most business to the prospectors and most of its valleys had tlieir home-build­ me
for the extraction of oil from
tion.
development
or
m
anagem
ent
quoted to others, plus a royalty of
ers.
The
miners
furnished
a
market
for
the
farmers’
pro­
shale,
which this Committee be­
department. Mothers haunt the offices in search of word
of the Company, and does not
ten
cents
per
barrel
to
the
H
art­
lieves will he capable of operat­
Bora missing sons. Half of the applications corns from duce. Seeds of all kinds were packed in from the Willam-
own one share of stock in this
man Process Company. The Com­ ing successfully on a commercial
Company. The Company fu rth er
outside of America, and many of tho foreign letters are ette and tho Sacramento valleys, by pack horses. The out­
m ittee finds th a t any statem ent in
scale.
finds
from
the
books
and
records
side
world
carried
supplies
by
water
to
the
Umpqua
river
the socalled W est-Black report
of Scandinavian origin who are very forgetful about writ­
EIGHT, the Committee finds
of the Company th a t the Com­
intim
ating
th
a
t
the
H
artm
an
Syn­
and
pack
trains
delivered
the
freight
to
the
miner
and
the
from
a personal inspection of the
ing heme and have a way of changing their names to suit
pany was organized by H. W.
dicate
Inc.
has
been
overcharged
homo-builder.
P lant of the Company, and from
li e convenience of employers.
H artan; we fu rth e r find from in­
on any equipment it has purchas­ a personal investigation of the
In the meantime the Indians were not idle, though
Most of the cases are traced to simple neglect, but
form ation gathered from officers
ed it unw arranted from the facts.
books of the Company th a t there
and persons fam iliar w ith the
FIFTH , The Committee has
s« me show signs of deliberate intention to drop out of the their depredations had not yet reached the proportions
Is no evidence of extravagance
facts th a t Mr. H. W. H artm an has
carefully examined the circum ­ or m ism anagem ent and th a t any
ken of friends and relatives; and missing persons occas- of war, yet much petty stealing and an occasional killing
never been engaged in sim ilar
stances under which the H artm an
statem ent to th a t effect in the so.
was reported. The treaty between the United States and
it nally show resentment at being discovered.
undertakings and th a t the state ­
Syndicate Inc. took over the prop­ called W est-Black report Is false.
Great Britain was demoralizing to the Hudson Bay Com­
m ent in the W est-Black report
erty of H. W. H artm an and the
NINE,
The Committee finds
to
the
effect
th
a
t
this
Company
pany
and
the
Indians
soon
learned
that
those
to
whom
H artm an Syndicate of the Paci­
WHAT STARTLES YESTERDAY
th a t the Oswald West-Black Com­
was prom oted by E. W. H artm an
fic Coast and issued therefore
they looked as benefactors and friends had lost out. By
m ittee made their report without
IS COMMONPLACE TODAY
and H. W. H artm an is false, as
One
H
undred
and
fifty
thousand
proper investigation of the af­
Dance halls in New York City alone yield to their the same token the American settlers were strengthened
will appear from the records in
shares of the capital stock to
fairs
of the H artm an Syndicate
proprietors $5,000,000, according to an estimate recently and emboldened. The acquisition of California by the
the office of the Company.
Mr. H. W. H artm an, and fifteen
Inc. and th at neither Oswald West
THIRD, your Committee finds
thousand five hundred and forty-
n ade in a New York newspaper. The number of patrons United States tended to strengthen the sentiment of pro­
or George Black or anyone repre­
from
an
inspection
of
the
re
­
two shares to the Trustees of the
prietorship among the settlers all along the coast, and,
in the same period is estimated at 6,000,000.
senting them have ever gone over
cords th a t the Company was orig­
H
artm
an
Syndicate
of
the
Pacific
the hooks and records of the
The noise of the eaxophones and the syneapation of being made known to the Indians still further excited
inally organized by H. W. H a rt­
Coast in full payment for all prop­ Company nor as far as this Com­
C c Jazz tunes find proportionately a greater response to them. Hence it is not strange that a period of devastating
man ae a Common Law T rust, a
erty taken over by the Corpora­ m ittee can learn have either of
form of business organization re .
tion. The Committee finds th a t
ibe r charms in the population of the great metropolis— war should result. At this distance of time we are better
them made an inspection of the
cognized in many of the states of
the property so taken over was
ewing to the large floating population attracted to that able to pass judgment than were the pioneers themselves.
Plant of the Company. The Com­
the Union and th a t such com­
appraised by the incorporators
During
the
stirring
years
that
followed,
notwithstanding
m ittee therefore finds th a t the
oily for amusement purposes only; yet the habit extends
pany was organized upon advice of the H artm an Syndicate Inc. and
said
Oswald W est and George
the
existence
of
bloody
wars
with
the
natives,
the
settle­
itself to every nook and corner of the land.
of the attorney for the Company, the Corporation D epartm ent of the
Black
were not in possession of
Mr. Jam es W esterfelt of Los An­
State of Oregon was fully inform ­ any official inform ation
But it was not so long ago that forms of dancing, ment and improvement of the country continued, to which
upon
geles, California, th at same would
ed and consented to the incor­ which they could base their re ­
which would be looked upon by the average dancer of to­ we will return in a later part of this history. Before tak­
comply with the laws of the State
poration of the said Company port (except report of the auditors
day as dull and slow, were regarded with askance, not ing up the civil and political history of this very interest­
of Oregon, and th a t as such or­
upon the basis of the appraisal
of the Company, a copy of which
a,one by those who hold any kind of dancing as the prim­ ing and important region, we will devote as much of the
ganization it made application to
made by the incorporators, and
was furnished to Oswald West by
the Corporation Commissioner of
rose path to perdition, but as well by all respectable ensuing pages as may be necessary, to an account of the
th a t the perm it to sell $350,000
the Secretary of the Company)
the State of Oregon for a per­
Indian troubles, including the Indian wars of 1835 and
w orth of 3tock was granted after
people.
and this Committee finds that
m it to sell its securities: such
full and complete statem ent of
What horrible things were predieted when the stately 1856, after which time the country rapidly filled and grew
the report of the said Oswald
application being on file w ith the
the affairs of the Company at time
W est and George Black does not
u inuet gave way to the “ immoral” waltz! Did not one to what we now see.
Corporation Commissioner. We
of incorporation were disclosed to
conform
to the facts as disclosed
English publicist, in bemoaning the nww craze, say the
When we have read the details of this brutal and
therefore find th a t the statem ent
the Corporation Commissioner.
in the auditors report.
in the W est-Black report th a t the
The Committee from Information
fashion now is for
savage war we will not be surprised that 60 strong a feel­
Dated at Ashland, Oregon, on
company
was
originally
organized
gathered from interview s with
strange weediings on one leg and contortions
ing of wrath should have taken possession of the pioneers
this the Irtth day of November
as a Common Law T rust In order
stock holders-does not find there
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fitter for the zenana of an eastern satrap or the
against the savage tribes they were displacing. Their
to circum vent the blue sky law
has been any m isrepresentation
gardens of Mahomet than for the ballroom of
methods of war were not civilized methods because they
made to any of the stockholders
is false, and th a t as a m atter of
.
Respectfully submitted,
fact the company did everything
regarding the am ount of stock
C. A. SCHERER. Portland.
an English weman of quality and virtue?
were not civilized. They w e» operating under the best
In Its power to secure a perm it
th a t was issued to Mr. H. W.
Chairm an
of stockholders’
Could this wr. :er even utter a word for very horror lights they had and their situation was a njost desperate
for the sale of its tru st certificates
Committee.
H artm an or to the trustees for
il he could come to life and see some of the dance styles one. They were not ignorant of the results of the appear­
the certificate holders of the H art­ E. A. EASLY, Portland.
hut were denied a perm it by the
of the present day ?
ance of the whites elsewhere and realized that they were
Corporation Commissioner. We
man Syndicate of the Pacific
GEO. W. PAYNE. McMinnville.
Coast.
MORRIS G. MORRIS, Amity, Ore.
fu rth er find th a t the Trustees and
And yet it was only a few months ago that the Meth­ fighting for the right to exist. The whites desired to
SIXTH,
The
Committee
has
J.
W. WALLING, Amity. Ore.
Officers
of
the
original
Company
odist Episcopal Church took the ban formally out of its teach the Indians a better mode of living, but this in the
carefully investigated the repres­ A. W. LIVINGSTON, Portland.
actin
er
in
good
faith
with
the
Cor­
doctrine, leaving to the conscience of its members a de­ very nature of things could not be done, yet many of the
entations made by the officers and
GEORGE VIESKO, Salem.
poration Commissioner and the
cision on the question of to dance or not to dance.
old missionaries were enthusiastic in their zeal to accom­
the salesmen of the Company re­ CARL ENGSTONE. Salem.
A ttorney General incorporated a
And it is dollars to doughnuts that at least among plish this and were loth to surrender their faith in its
garding the am ount of real prop­ R. D. GIBSON, Salem.
company known as the H artm an
erty
owned by the Company in
L. M. MARCOTT. Shale City.
Syndicate
Incorporated,
and
under
V( linger generation the decision will bo rendered in the accomplishment. The Indians at first listened to the re­
fee
and
the
am
ount
under
appli­
E. E. PH IPPS. Ashland.
agreem
ent
with
the
Corporation
affirmative.
ligious teachings with interest and appreciated the kind­
cation for lease from the United
STUART McKISSICK, Ashland.
Commissioner fook over all of
ness and consideration of the. missionaries, but when they
LET’S PUT OUR MONEY IN EQUIPMENT FIRST discovered that there were sects and diverse opinions
The officers and crew of the Shenandoah, having suc­ among them though they all taught from the same Bible,
cessfully and brilliantly accomplished their flight across they were confused. Whe$ they discovered th%t there
A SH L A N D
in g
Report of Committee of Stockholders of The
Hartman Syndicate on The West-Black Report