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Moitday, December 20, Í024
A MOVEMENT TO PROMOTE SAFETY
hostiles entered whole-heartedly into the affair, and en-| Major. Late in the evening Captain Scott and T ’Vault
A campaign is under way to enlist'the interest of ¡gaged* them in battle about the 26th of June at a point came in with a small nartv for suDuliPH0 «™^
( )regon motorists m the work of the national safety coun-! on Rogue river several* miles above the mouth of Little ments. Thev reported that the n iiH ta rv h«3 f re-inforce-
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eported that the military had fought two
cil during the coming year, to a larger extent than here­ Butte creek, and- about ten or twelve miles above
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skirmishes with the Indians, one early Monday morning
tofore. With each state motor license issued for 1925 there Rock.
The
two
companies
consisted
ot
one
company
of
.ami
the other late in the afternoon; the Indians after
» » R. Greer ....... ...... ...........................................................................Editor is being sent out a copy of the pledge of the Oregon safe
dragoons
commanded
by
Captain
Stewart
and
a
company
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_ driver s club, which is the organization in this state af- of rifles commanded by Captain Walker. The latter, with wounding Stewart, posted themselves in a dense hum-
mock where they defended themselves for
K;.(erod at the Ashland, Oregon Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter 1
with tile national organization. Tile reverse side his company crossed the river for the purpose of inter­ escaping in the darkness. The Indians had four hours,
suffered se-
of
Subscription Price, Delivered in City
i 'e the . pledge blank carries a letter from Sam A- Kozer, cepting a retreat of Jhe savages if such should be attempt­ verely and several whites had been injured.
I ;■« Month ..................................................................................... $ .65 secretary ot state, indorsing the movement.
“ By
H\’ nine o’clock
.1. at . night
• i , we were on our way, and
ed by them. Captain Stewart dismounted his men and
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The
object
of
the
national
safety
council
and
its
local,
charged upon the Indians who were gathered at a ranch- at two o’clock the next morning, we were in the Major’s
1 t Months
3.75
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7 .5 0 the Oregon safe driver’s club, is to reduce the number of aria. The Indians fled almost at once. Captain Stewart
,.-e Month
By.M“A.^d..Rura5.RoUte8
.651Preventable automobile accidents by.inculcating the sense approached a wounded Indian? who was upon the ground, camp. Here J had the pleasure of meeting mv friends,
Jesse Applegate and Colonel Freaner and others Early
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with
his
revolver
in
his
hand
intending
to
dispatch
him.
in the morning we set out, (soldiers and civilians togeth­
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3-50¡cautions, among individual drivers,
This is the pledge The Indian with great quickness of action fixed and shot
u s a Year
er), proceeding down the river, and on Thursday morning
that thev are asked to sign:
an e«rrow into the Captain’s stomach transfixing one of crossed about seven miles from the fep-y. We soon found
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To drive carefully at all times, observing all safe­ his kjdneys. inflicting a mortal wound. The fight and
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an Indian t/ail leading up a large creek (probably Trail
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ty rules, traffis laws and ordinances.
pursuit soon ended and the troops returned to their en­ creek) and in a short time overtook and charged upon
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campment which was subsequently known as Camp a party of Indians, killing one. The rest made their es­
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To
see
that
the
brakes
on,my
car
are
always
ef­
Stewart. The Captain lived a day’ and retained con­ cape in the dense chaparal. We again pushed rapidly
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sciousness until death. Before dying he said, “ It is too Iorward and late in the evening attacked another party of
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To
approach
all
railway
and
street
car
crossings
bad to have fought through half the battles of the Mex­ Indians, taking twelve women and children and wounding
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with my car under control.
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ican war to be killed here by an Indian.” He was buried several males, who escaped. Here we camped and the
Io signal to the driver behind when turning or with military honors near where the town of Phoenix now
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next day scoured the country to Rogue river, crossing it
stopping.
“ All future events, where an admission charge is made or a
stands,
and
was
subsequently
disinterred
and
being
con­
C» uection taken is A dvertising.
6 To cross all intersections and enter all main ar­ veyed to Washington, D. C., wms buried beside the body at Table Mountain,' (Table Rock and reaching camp at
No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
dark.
teries
of
traffic
with
my
car
under
cojitrol.
of
his
mother.
Gen.
Lane
said,
“
We
have
lost
Captain
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7 To observe school traffic signs, drive carefully Stewart, one of the bravest of the brave. A more gentle­
No donations to charities or otherw ise will be made in ad v ertis­
ing or Job printing— our contributions will be in cash.
where children are playing in streets, and respect manly man never lived; a more daring soldier never fell
queens -of Zeser or of princes of
the rights of pedestrians.
in battle.”
his family. History of the chap­
THE AFTERMATH OF CHRISTMAS
8 To do mv part to reduce the frightful number of
els may be revealed when work
It happened that at the time of* this battle, that Major
Christmas Day, 1924, is history, and with it nine-
automobile wrecks, casualties and fatalities.
is completed on the pyramid
Alvord with" Jesse Applegate as guide was viewing out
tenths of the good spirit, the hearty good fellowship
ruins
lying Just behind. Reports
The driver who signsthis pledge and returns it to the a route for a military road from Scottsburg on the Ump­
say it may be possible to. recon­
which fills the air on that (lay. In all probability, it will headquarters of the Oregon safe drivers’ club, is thereup­
qua
river
to
Rogue
River
valley’,
in
the
interest
of
carry­
struct the facade, with its fluted
) ot be with us again ‘until late in Decmber, 1925. Why on enrolled as a member. The desirability and value of
columns.
ing
supplies
to
the
mines
of
Northern
California.
This
was
this good feeling toward our fellow man cannot continue such a movement are so obvious that it is difficult to im­
The Limestone
Association,
throughout the year is a mystery’, but it certainly does not. agine a motorist declining to participate. Undoubtedly in furtherance of the project of the promoters of employ­ BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 29. __ which is assembling a collection
Christmas is a sort of an armistice, under the terms of there will be general response to this effort to promote ing navigation from the mouth of the Umpqua in the in­ Excavating a t the ne.w.y discov­ of stone representing every perioo
terest of settlers and miners in the interior, stimulated by ered stone chapels near the fam­ of history and every type known,
a hich we agree to let our enemies live for another day. i the safety of the highway’s.
the successful entry’ of the Samubl Roberts, and the enter­ ous Sakkara Pyram ids will be hopes later to obtain specimens
Some few do good fhe entire year. Others of us do good!
prise of Scott and Applegate. They’ were at the moment concluded by early Spring, ac­ from the new find.
only during the holiday season.
GAINED SOMETHING
,
advanced in their work as far as Cow Creek and were cording to inform ation conveyed
Ralph Cole, one of 4hb cleverest human interest
There was a good deal of interest in the recent light­ accompanied by a small military escort, when news of to the Indiana Limestone Quarry- Jailer Dares Prisoner
men’s Association.
i tory writers in the country, but withal a confirmed cynic, ing contest held by electric companies all over the United
To Escape; He Does It
the
Indian
troubles
came
to
them.
z
At
the
same
time
Gen­
High importance is attached to
in an article written under the heading, “ What Christ­ States, and some prizes were won. Knowing a good deal
BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.— With
the find made by the Egyptian
mas Day Means to Me,” strikes a saracastic, almost cruel about human nature, we conclude that those who won eral Joe Lane with a party of haitfy frontiersmen, on their D
epartm ent of A ntiquities while the consent of W arden Claude B.
vein,’still more cruel because of its. truth. Cole’s article prizes are very’ happy and those who did not win prizes way to the mines in Northern California were camped at investigating the pyram idal ruins Sweezey, Thomas Carlton, prison­
the “ canyon” , and were told of this new Indian outbreak,
follows:
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think they failed. It is to the latter we wish to address the tight on Rogue River, and that the Indians were gath­ at Sakkara, fifteen miles south er, escaped from the Maryland
of Cairo. The two royal tombs, Penitentiary. Half an hour lat­
“ Christmas. Good Samaritans, kind ones, Christmas a few remarks.
ering
from
every’
quarter
With
the
evident
intention
of
with th eir fluted columns and er Carlton got the w arden's
tree trimmers, benefit workers, let’s forget for a day
In the first pjace we wore in sympathy with the ef­ exterminating the small forces with which they just had delicate
design, differ completely daughter on the telephone and
lhat we’ve forgotten the whole year ’round there have fort becausq while back of it was the desire to increase
from
the
usual Egyptian archi­ notified her he was “out."
been needy widows and hungry kiddies. The Great Hu­ the consumption of electric juice, carrying with it was engaged in battle. This was all that was needed to put tecture and may prove to be the
Carlton had made good on a
the “ fighting General” on his mettle and with his small
statem
ent to Colonel Sweezey th a t
manitarian smiles upon the world this morning. We want better lights for the homes. Of all the modern improve­
earliest stone buildings in the
band
of
Spartans
he
pushed
on
with
all
possible
speed
for
he
could
get away almost any
world.
The first Greek fluted
to make a showing. Candles burn in many windows and ments, electricity comes first, and anything that makes
the scene of hostilitiies. This quick determination and columns were 2,500 years later, time he wanted to. Sweezey told
holly wreaths hang from the shades. They help make the the home brighter is to he encouraged.
him to try it. Carlton told Miss
movement was characteristic of General Lane, and con-1 archaeol°^ist9 declare,
larce persuasive for a moment and promises to be one of
All these student competitiors have learned some­ sequentlv he appeared on the Ifbgue river in the quickest ’ ° riginal inscriptions have not Sweezey where he was and said
prosperity and good things. '
thing practical trom this contest. Their rewards may not possible time, ready to plunge into the ITqy, though he yet been found. But in hieratic j he would retu rn at once to the
w riting on the columns are the prison. He did so. He escaped
“ Trot out the poor—the widow in her shawl, the lie in the intrinsic value of the gold watches and other
was
only
a
volunteer
without
any
official
authority
civil
names of Egyptian visitors in by hiding under a m otor truck.
little girl who doesn’t own a doll, the broken down ditch merchandise offered as prizes. The real value to them
or
military.
Quoting
his
own
words,
“
On
Sunday
night,
1500 B. C., together with re­
digger with tuberculosis^ the washerwoman with seven comes in the research work they have done and the
Homedale - - C ontract let -for
m arks on the beauty of the
kids. They are necessary’ to keep alive an illusion. Trot thought they have applied to the better lighting of the while picketing out animals, an express rider came, who buildings.
building road to connect with
them out. Mis birthday is at hand. We want to make home. They have had a valuable training in clear think-" informed us* that Major P. Kearney had set-out with his
Egyptologists
associate
the Nyssa-Jordan Valley highway.
command
that
evening
to
make
a
forced
wycl»
through
chapels with periods of the third
?; showing We will buy a pile of wood for the widow, ing and in expressing their thoughts briefly and forcibly.
the
night
and
attack
the
enemy
at
day-light.
In
the
morn­
Bend, Deschutetf county dairy­
dynasty.
This would make them
a doll for the orphan. Bells ring in the churches, cotton
Those who won are to be congratulated, but those ing I set out with the hope of falling in with him, or with older than the great Pyram id of ing has increased 20 per cent
1 atting hangs on the Christmas trees—give them the first who did not figure in theorize lists learned something of
Gizeh of the fourth dynasty. The during the past year.
the
Indians
retreating
from
him.
We
made
a
hard
day’s
page for a day’—we’ve neglected them for a yrear. There practical value which they can apply immediately in im­
chapels a re
near the stepped
will he cartoons of Santa Claus and a manger, and photo­ proving conditions in their own homes. TJiere is no more ride but found no one. On Tuesday I proceeded to Camp Pyramid of Zeser, and are be­ There’s a message In The
graphs of wizened orphans smiling “ Thanks” and of worthy enterprise or one capable of more tangible results. Stewart, but no tidings had been received from the lieved to be tombs either of the Tidings W ant Ads.
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dull, white faced ones kissing our hands. Don’t tell the
real story’ for 50 weeks—but play it up now—while we
Correct this sentence: “ I forgot mv "compact,” she
have the spirit.
said, “ but I won’t need it for just these few hours.”
“ Put the little pretense on the front page. We love
our neighbor. Play up the lie. Do unto others. Let ustfor-
If he talks to her for hours about himself, he loves
ret for the hour that God has been kept in the shadow— her; but not as much <33 he loves himself.
and that His charming words too seldom got into* the re'
cord. Come! Call ofl the winds that have blown our Jiate
And so there is “ less friction” in prohibition en-
away’. \\ e have cheated, stalled, lied, bribed, and dragged forcement. Greasing the palms seems to help.
Him down the wrong road for 19 centuries. T hat’s an
old story.
Pioneering in Southern Oregon
“ But trot out the poor. Give us a chance now. We
- by C. B. Watson
want to tell our little annual lie. We hand ourselves a
valentine today. Cords of \rood, baskets of food, toys and
(Continued from December 27)
clothing and coins—give the poor a headline today’. Let
On June 3rd, a party of thirty-two Oregonians under
’.hern look out of their cracked windows at the crystal blue
night—their little rooms heaped with our little gifts. Dr. James McBride returning from the California mines
Lay off the rest of the year. Remember them today for were attacked at Willow Springs, about six miles north
of where .Jacksonville now is. They were attacked bv a
an hour. Repeat their words: ‘Christmas has come’.”
Why can’t we do away with this “ once a year good­ party of Rogue River Indians under Chief “ Chucklehead”
ness?” Let’s have this holiday good fellowship remain- as he was called by the whites. The whites had seventeen
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guns and fhe Indians about as many; thougli most of the
alive throughout the vear.
Indians were armed with bows and arrows. After a nearly
It is a custom with many business firms and
five hours fight ¿he chief was killed and his followers
THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN
professional men to check up on their stationery and
retreated. The chief was in the act of shooting an arrow
Doubtless many of us are getting various kinds of at James Barlow when A. M. Richardson shot him. Six
printed forms at the end of the year and place an
amusement or diversion out of the controversy between or seven Indians were killed, hut the whites suffered jio
order fo£ a supply for the following year. .
former President Eliot of Harvard university and one casualties, except Barlow who was wounded in the thigh
itidmund J. Brandon of Boston, discussing whether the with an arrow. The Indians got away with four saddle
iiish have been assimilated as Americans. The discussion and pack animals, on one of which was a package con­
may in fact throw some light on the gonsense that is'of­ taining about fifteen hundred'dollars in gold dust.
fered us at various tunes as to the ^assimilation” of
These episodes following one another in .such rapid
.Italians, Germans, Armenians, Russians, French and succession confirmed the general impression of the dan­
others.
gerous and war-like character of these savages and de­
In faet there have been known to be very earnest termined the whites to muster a strong force for the pur­
suggestions made that the most difficult sort of a Euro­ pose of suppressing and punishing them. Fortunately it
pean to “ Americanize” is a Britisher. And tyet, if one happened just at this time that Major P. Kearney of the
has a large and varied stock of paper and is prepared
could go deeply into the Eliot psychology, it would regular army, JJa te r a General in the Union army, killed
doubtless lie found that his primary requisite for a thor­ during the civil war), with a detachment Of two com­
to handle any printed form which you may need.
ough American would be a middle class person, prefer­ panies of regular troops, was on his way from Fort Van­
ably born in mid-England along late in the sixteenth cen­ couver to Benicia, California, guilded by W. G. TWault,
We will be glad to send a representative to talk with
tury- To be sure, there were no “ Britishers” then—the whose name has appeared in former recitals of this his­
you relative to your needs in the printing line.
kingdom of Great Britain being formed in the year 1707. tory. The Major was at once solicited ¿0 aid in the sup­
And it may be those of us who are Irish or Scotch of Ger­ pression of these hostilities. About ¿he same time Gov.
man or French or Jtalian or something else in ouk an­ Gaines being greatly disturbed by the daily reports
cestry do not appreciate the purely monopolistic charact­ leaching him of the activity of these hostile tribes along
er of the Pilgrim Fathers.
the California trail, particularly through the Rogue Riv­
Some day. perhaps, we will have through the attri­ er valley, set out for Southern Oregon with the purpose
tion of minds like those of Eliot and Brandon arrived at of securing treaties of peace; or at least to attempt such
llie truth that ancestry, important as it is, is compara­ a culmination. Fortunately the presence of Major Kear­
tively ineffective in the making of “ Americans” in com­ ney and General Joe Lane, with quite a number of civilian
parison with the conditions under which our Americans adventurers, made the accomplishment of his purpose
are bom. reared, schooled and environed on the‘street, in more probable. Besides his arrival followed the conclu­
social contacts and by industrial conditions. We will have sion of a spirited campaign jrfst concluded by these of­
rejected the notion that only a New England or a Virginia ficers and men, tended very materially to the same end.
or Carolina colonial ancestry makes for Americans, but In faet all hands were agreed that without these fortunate
we will have also .rejected as Americans those, whether circumstances the Governor must in the very nature of
that ot German progress, Irish republicanism or British j things have failed, and probably would have iost his life,
imperial success. M e have enough to do, when we are
Major Kearney with his two companies, when being
blatantly patriotic, to be patriotic for these United States, ¡¡solicited to aid in a demonstration against these militant
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