Grants Pass daily courier., September 06, 1924, Page 2, Image 2

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GRANTS PVSA DAIl.V COURIER
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I toxlcated. It was also wry seldom of going over Mt. Reuben to Grave man got close in and then make him
that one commuted a crime that creek but soon abandbncd that Idea prisoner. He coclfcnd his gun for that
would send h.-m to prison. Ono In­ and »ent on up Rogue ri'or to purpose but as bad luck Mould have
It, accidentally dtechargvd the gun :
stance occurred iu Douglas county, Galice.
i Oregon, where a man by the name
just
as he was going to call to the
Davis, like myself, taking no part
|ot Daniel Levine owned a station on In the rounding up and banging robber to stop. Away went his man
By Dan 1.. Green
About the year 1860 there must I Cow creek where the overland Ore­ scheme, was soon, with his faithful for the second time and tor all time,
have been about 3000 Chinese in gon and California mail stage’chang- little Chinaman, in hot pursuit of escaping with the *400 in coin.
Tom. the main robber, was sent
Josephine county, Oregon, all of ed teams and drivers. Mr. Levine the robbers. It seems that at the
whom with a very few exceptions also kept an eating house and store time that 1 was at the foot of Ml. to the penitentiary front ltougla*
were engaged In mining. For a num­ and employed a Chinese helper about Reubeu at Whiskey creek, the county and died In a short time.
Three of the' principals In
ber of years on that part of Rogue the house, who proved to be quite thieves were coming oft the moun­
River from Hell Gate to Tyee Rar. an expert at robbing a safe. Levine, tain from Reuben creek, with Davis hanging of the innocent Chines*
all of the feasible spots were occu­ it seems, had an old time safe which close behind. The two Chinamen were convicted and fined *100 each
pied by the Chinese miners, by wing locked only by key. The Chinese. went only part way up the mountain i I by the Josephine county circuit
damming the river. This was done 1 being a trusty about the house, man- thence down to the river, following court. Poor Davis. who died on
by building a dam partly across the I aged to get the key long enough to the north bank of the river to Strat­ Grave creek many years ago. claimed
channel of the river thence down the get an impression of it. by which be ton creek, where Indian or Vmpqua that, he never received one dollar (or;
river for enough to drain a good; was able to make a duplicate. He Joe had a patch of potatoes. When all his work in running down the
long space in the river bed. At thej then looted the safe of *7000 in gold Davis arrived here he discovered the robbers.
The county courts of the different
I de­ fugitives had been digging old Joe s
lower end of this dam a sump hole dust and *400 in gold coin. It
was sunk, and what the white miner veloped later that this chink had potatoes, their peculiar tracks tuak- mining counties enacted laws by! l-ivlil Menthol Viarosini lllenln.
called a Chinese pump was put in. | employed another of his race and ing this certain. He also saw that which the Chinese miners were taxed uow high eomnsMiHler of the IliiiiGi
This pump consisted of an endless | gave him the »400 in coin to help
a certain amouwt each year for the (« hiv » in Kgvpi. I h «I ì « kusì < v I with
Joe had a boat there and decided
belt made of heavy canvas usually him escape with the booty. It was that the two were awaiting a chance privilege of mining This was aban- native rule there, lie is trying to
from six to eight inches wide, and! soon discovered that they were con­ to cross the river at that point. He , dotted later on the grounds of ille­ rt store order ami get the government
fuiKtioutng properly again.
across this at intervals of six or cealing themselves in the mountains concluded that they wera in biding gality.
eight inches were nailed one inch on Grave creek in this county.
’ near the potato pdteh.
HORN
square clats of wood. A tube or box
In a short time the woods were
Davis decided that it was time to
DAVIS—To Mr. and
is made of lumber for this box to full of men trying to capture the feql around a little, so carefully go­
Qavls, Thursday, August
run through, a small pulley being at­ thief. Some of the men grabbed ing up Stratton creek.-he soon found
daughter
tached to the lower end of the box for other Chinks and actualy hung sev­ i himself right on their camp, both
l’«u.s Musical Trio WIU He At Rivoli
the belt to run on. It is then sub­ eral of them until they were almost starting to run and make their es-
Monda) Night
merged in the sump hole on an in­ dead, in an effort to make the Chin­
; cape. Davis, armed with a shotgun,
Balas Musical Trio, stringed in­
cline of about 40 degrees, the speed ese divulge what they might know fired at one and knocked him down. I
strumentalists.
are known
and
of the belt being regulated by the about the matter, with no success, I the other making his escape. The
praised up and down the coast for
site of the upper drum. It there is the prisoners claiming absolute ig­ wounded man proved to be Tom. the
their work for KLX radio broadcast­
but little water to contend with the norance of the matter.
iChinaman who conceived the rob­ ing station in the Oakland Tribune
pump is run by hand otherwise the
In the meantime a miner named bery, Davis, seeing no sign of the building. Oakland. California. Thia
concern is run by water power with Davis, who lived on Grave creek, em­ money, asked Tom about it. who
organisation recently completed au
an overshot or undershot wheel. The ployed a Chinaman in whom he claimed that he had buried it at a
My little neice has learnt to
engagement with the "Bird of Para­
device is only a water lifter instead placed the utmost confidence to go
sing,
—at lesst she reckons so.
certain spot on Grave creek, Davis, dise” and is one of the most popular
. . . She thinks she’s ketched
of pump.
with him in search of the fugitives. in relating his story to the writer. Trios on the Pacific coast, broad­
the proper swing in that—air
The dam is usually constructed I by Davis and his companion went alone claimed that right at this juncture casting Hawaiian music. Since this
trcmmolo,—she’s spent a for­
building two walls of timbers or and got track of the robbers. They he found himself in a quandry. He organisation was first heard, it has
tune on the thing . . . but . . .
boulders, filled and tamped betwi ecu stayed with it until the principal feared that the wounded man might steadily grown In demand hy the
really, I dunno!
with dirt. These people also con- thief was taken. In order to avoid die at any moment and the other had public, both in theatres, over radio
Most every night when I tune
strutted large wheels and ran them being tracked tho robbers had wrap­ escaped, and no money In sight. He and at private entertainments.
in, I listen at her squall,—the
by the current of the river, to hoist ped their feet in burlap.
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, | decided to send his little Chinaman
Their
demonstration of how
wiggle, wabble, trill an’ screech
water on the low level along the
Being engaged in mining at Galice for help. Night had already set in. stringed music is broadcasted over
—I suffer through ’em all,—but
river.
with my brother, George F. Green, making slow traveling. By noon radio is particularly entertaining and
I’d sooner face a firin' squad—
The Chinese soon became experts and hearing of the robbery, both be­ netfl day, however, he returned with shonld not be missed Miss Darling
my back against the wall! *
at mining in the river beds, a thing came interested, We took an active a party, among whom was Sol Ab­ is au exponent of the Hawaiian hula
It’s turrible—how fur they’ve
that was demonstrated on the Klam­ part in trying to run down the rams, who was largely interested in dance and gives several interesting
led the human voice astray—an’
ath River in California. Some of thieves. It appeared at this time the stolen money. When it was seen native dance interpretations.
twisted an' distorted, in their di­
the most difficult problems of hand­ that there were quite a number of that the wounded man was not ser­
This exceptional act comes to the
abolic way . . . My idea is,
ling the channel of that river have people in the country who labored iously injured they put him on a Rivoli theatre of thia city next Mon­
they’ve murdered it—an' done
been successfully handled by Chinese under the impression that all Qtl- horses and started for Grave creek to day night. September S, only, and
the job fer pay!
skill and labor.
dig
up
the
money.
Mr.
Abrams
of
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nese were doing all they could to aid
will give their entertainment along
But, — we might as well be
An incident occured at Waldo; them in their escape, an opinion fered to pay my brother and myself with the regular picture program.
hopeful, as to try, to raise a
well
if
we
would
capture
the
robber
which
eventually
proved
to
be
false.
where a Chinese miner installed a
fuss; I wouldn't-want my sis-
revolving derrick on rich ground that They went so tar as to gather up all who escaped. We spent the night in
NOTK'K TO 1*1 IÏI.H
tern-law to listen at me cuss
Supplement No. 3 to Public Scr-
had no drain, running the derrick by the Chinese in the northern part of the camp from which he escaped, in
. . . And, Teeny’s finished
pro-
vice
Commission
Order
No.
7,
hydraulic power. He used several Josephine county and herd them on the hope that he might return there.
‘‘trainin' ” so, her voice can't get
viding for a service charge on «Mich
mining cars, and while one was be­ Grave creek. My brother, George,
The next day Davis and his party meter of Sixty Cents ( * 60 i per
much wuss!
ing hoisted another was lowered. and I, taking no stock In this idea returned to this camp and dug up month, becomes effective thirty days
This Chinaman successfully worked and believing that the robbers might the *7000 in gold dust where he and from date.
SOUTHERN OREGON
that mine for some time and finally I ¡try to go down .Rogue river, tried the wounded man had spent a miser­
GAS COMPANY.
sold his Ipase to some white miners other methods. I made
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my way to able night awaiting events. During September 1, 1924.
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for 116,000 and went back to China. Winke
Bar, , —
staying
. —there a short th3t night the escaped robber at-!
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While the Chinese miners all ‘ time. I was soon on my way back to tempted to return to the camp, this
The cocoanut festival is a (tala
drank intoxicating liquors it was Galice, arriving at the foot of Mt. placing Davis in a very bad fix again. day celebrated by the natives of the
seldom that one saw a Chinaman in- Reuben at Whiskey creek. I thought He concluded that be would let the Solomon Islands.
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Americanizing the Garden of Eden
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PROM the Garden of Eden., For many centuries the crudest
| of Edra. whose area obviously was ties, and from thss* radial* sur­
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where Adam and Eve walked : device has been used to regulate
1 cvlttvatod in ancient tlmoa, will be face channel* so that the whole
hand in hand, comes the roar of ! the flow of water from the river
restored te prosperity by aa Amer- garden area la covered with a net­
power machinery and soon the air I into the main channels. A dam is j
lean flrm. th* Hills Brothers work of channel*. The sorter*
will be filled with the explosions built st the river bank and when I
Company, long an importer of eh annals are never in direct *oa-
of a gasoline pumping engine. , the tide has risen the dam is cut1
date* and now about to become a tact with tho mala «hansel. but
These uncanny noises simply mean I to allow the channel to fill. This
grower. Datoq have grown so tn »ooin water percolates through
that the descendants of Adam are requires cutting and patching the!
popularity In thia country that from the latter and that *w*atan*
getting ready to introduce mod­ dam twice a day. Other grower* I
now we consume almost halt the the water. At th* highest point
ern American method* into the pierce the dam with palm log
entire
crop
of
Mesopotamia In the tract of land a gas engine
growing of dates, for which the pipes, which’they plug with mud
whereas a few year* ago wo lm pumps water from the lower level
Garden of Eden is famous the and palm fiber when they wish to
ported only a third.
•nd send* it through the radiating
world over.
»hut out the water. Both meth­
When improvements are eom channel* Donkey or mule power
pleted this tract of land will pre­ 1* now a thing of the past.
Old methods have got to go. ods are laborious and tlme-coh-
sent-a beautiful picture, for the
Two dates must grow where one suming, but they have persisted
Ascertain amount of labor Is
palm* are tall, clean cut and necessary to cultivate th* gardraa,
grew before, and the fertile val- through the centuries.
The
grower
who
has
a
garden
straight, with a crown of leaves at and native labor, while strong, I*
leys at the junction of the Tigris
the top which lends dignity. The notoriously inefficient. It I* a lo­
and Euphrates rivers where the extending some distance back
fruit hang* in large clusters from cal custom to pay a man • wag* of
Shat-el-Arab ("River of the Arab’’; from the river bank fears the
the top of the trees, and aa much thro* rnpee* for working six day*
is formed is the logical place to flooding of the lower levels of his
a* 200 pounds ran be _ gathered a week between dawn and
introduce new methods, tor it is garden and so shuts off the flow
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from * tree in Its twentieth year. a. m. This may seem like a small
here that the date gardens grow of water before it has a chance to
reach
the
end
of
the
channel
In
Th*
volume
of
fruit
is
expected
which have given Mesopotamia
wage, but the laxlnea* of the work-
the higher levels. He Is then
to be even greater when modern •r* makes th* digging over
the name "Land of the Date."
of aa
method* of enltivation are used. acre cost about 300 rupee* Under
Travelers
frequently remark forced to water the date oilshoots,
The palms live to a great age and American management thia has all
that the Garden of Eden, which fruit trees and surface crops by
have been known te bear fruit been changed; day labor has bara
gives the appearance of a desert. hand while using crude lifting de-
only needs water to make It burst1 vicM 1° water the high regions of
when seventy year* old. Doubt- abolished and digging is now put
Into blossom. This is true, for the i h,s Rarden,
leas this gav* rise to the Arabian out at cos tract.
land is fertile. The difficulty lies
To change the system •f hiring
in applying waler to the soil in
labor in a land where tradition
sufficient volume, tor the date
has a strangle hold on the peepis
paltn mu3t have water as well as
Is no small matter. Improvements
intense heat. An Arabian proverb
and innovations are looked upon
,has it that the date palm must
with suspicion and haste in con­
have "its feet in water and its head
cluding any business puts np tho
In fire."
price. I steal ways of doing busi­
For thousands of years the
ness are well Illustrated by th*
Arab* have used the waters of the
tel lowing Uateasenl of aa Amort-
8hat-el-Arab to irrigate their date
can date garden manager.
Ha
gardens. Their method is to use
says: "Tbs amount of time. lea.
the action of the tide of the Per­
coffee and cigarettes consumed
sian Gulf, which backs up the
before a ten foot holo can he da*
water in the river. Channels are
would about All it"
. dug leading away from the river,
Channel* are now laid out to
and the water rising twice a day
permit plowing the land tn be­
flows into these channels and so
tween. In tho future an acre of
reaches the roots of the palms,
land can In plowed thirty tfmes
J Water rights are carefully con-
for the cost of on* hand spading,
trolled, each date grower being They’ve done it for centurie». A one manpower device for lifting water
Typical date garden with irrigation eanal. Date palme mutt have and the stee of the data crop will
allowed a certain volume of water
from the river into the irrigation canale.
plenty of water ae w»U ae missus beat.
bo incruased manifold by the com­
for his garden. This simple sys-
bination of steady water snp«ty.
; tern of irrigation is probably the
The date gardens are so cut up wtll make the Garden of Eden, the
der that this sturdy race holds th* tradition that the date palm was surface cultivation and spacing at
oldest mo devised by man and, with Intersecting channels as to same Garden of Eden from which
dato in high esteem and that an tho Tree of Life.
the palms. The water supply win
; strange to any, ha* remained un make the cultivation of the inter­ the ancestors of ancient max were
Under the new system of Irriga­ be assured and lonsra from!
Arabian proverb tells that when
| changed to thia day.
vening land with machinery Im­ expelled, an even more important
God made Adam some of the soil tion water will still be taken from drought or .flood wtll bn attmi-
If the land stretching back from possible. All the work is done data center. And the Arabs of
clung to bls bands and this He tho Rhat el Arab at high tide, but nated.
,’ the river bank were level through­ with a long-handled, small bladed Mesopotamia who wish to increase
a big sluice will allow the water
molded into a date palm.
Western ideas and methods p*m
out the gardens th* simple tide Arabian spade by three men work their date crops will have an ex­
Date gardens represented tangí to flow quickly to tho end of the •trste slowly in the land of Mo
f system of Irrigation would suffice, Ing in unison. It requires from ample to follow in ’this modem
hie wealth centuries ago and were main channel before the gate has hornet, for strong prejudices base
but the land rises, and this causes one to three months to spade over American date garden.
used as security for the borrowing to be closed to keep out the créât to be overcome. Only recently Mas
! the land nearest the river bank to an acre to the required depth, for
of money, as recorded by elsy tab­ of the tide. Another advantage of first windmill made Its appearance
Tho date has always been the
i be flooded while the high lands the diggers can only work between principal food of th* Arab* and
lets and other relics of antiquity. this sluice t* that It allows the and now the modem gas engtnel
J do not get enragh water. The dgyvn and 1C 00 a. m. because of they are able to live for ynontht
The first mortgage of which there hot. salty water to flow back to ha* arrived on the scene. IJttks
| Arab's way of overcoming this dlf- the terrific heat of the day. A with nothing else but milk, because
(Above) The American way of Is any record was on a date garden the river at low tide before the on did Adam and Wre dream, wtintl
' Acuity 1* to use donkey or camel temperature of 130 degrees in the the date contains a form of sugar laying out »arfare c A jimwc / s for ir­ tn Mesopotamia.
rushing water of the new tide they had their first date tn the'
power to raise the water to the shade Is not unusual.
Now after countless centuries blocks Its course.
which is easily assimilated hy the j rtgatinp the new date garden».
Garden of Eden, that
high levels. Sometimes the water
Now comes an American con­ human body and also protein, fat, t (Delow) Harveeting date» in Ale»- the now returns to teach the old.
From the main channel, second­ would return to tmaaform th*
is raised by hand.
cern to introduce methods which lirne, iron and roughage. No won-j opotamia i» no easy job.
and a tract of land In the Garden ary channels are dug at right aa- Garden Uv'n...».
p^agp igtyr
Modern Methods Introduced by Americans Replace
Centuries-Old Practice in the Growing of Dates
in the Home of Adam and Eve.
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