Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, November 01, 1912, WEEKLY EDITION, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Textfkid.iv, xovi:.miu:k i, 1912. WEEKLY liOGl'E KIVF.R COURIER PAGE THREE ECLUS POLLOCK of Grant Pass, Ore. Regular Republican Nomine for ASSESSOR Present Incumbent. W. M. CHESHIRE of Grants Pass, Ore. Regular Democratic Nominee for SHERIFF Eight years In sheriff's office as deputy. H. S. WOODCOCK liHk'iHMirieiit Cusnlid.it e for COMMISSIONS Josephine County Has been serving the county as com missioner for the past two years. E. E. BLANCHARD Republican Nominee for REPRESENTATIVE of Josephine County. General Election November 5, 1912. JOHN SUMMERS Socialist Nominee fur CLERK of Josephine County. Ticket Agent and Cashier S. P. R. R. for Last Ten Years at Grants Pass. JAMES HOLMAN Republican Nominee for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Of Grants Puss Justice District. General election November .", 101'J. E. J. LIND Republican Nominee for COUNTY COMMISSIONER of Josephine County. General Flection Nov. ."i, 1012. W. R. NIPPER Independent Candidate for COUNTY TREASURER of Josephine County. General Election Nov. 5, 1912. J. A. LEMERY Ashland, Oregon, Prohibition can didate for PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. Am a progressive of the most pro gressive type as understood by the present national and state platforms. I stand for a strict enforcement of all criminal laws, and will not evade my duty in suppressing blind pigs, road houses and other places of vice, and while strictly enforcing the law, I will faithfully guard the In terests of the taxpayers, that no un necessary burden be placed upon them. Have practiced law seven years and a resident of Jackson county five years. JOHN W. CAMI'HKLL Candidate for Congress 1st Diet. PROGRESSIVE PARTY. SERVIAN ARM V WIN i ' lt : VERANJE. Servia. (M. - An official mesfaae from the frontier confirms the rei- rt that the S-rv.an army has oc -upM Ma.ed'.n la. according to announ n,r,t here today. Send ihlsTaP" 'o jonr frds. STORY OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY TOLD BY PIONEER 1 I l( unci Indians liivide Iiitert lu Karly Day So. Oregon Narrative. (Third .f ,rie i.f historical skfti ho f tiu. ,.Urly history of J Josepliiue comity, written for the Courier by A. J. I Ion ell.) j Resuming and concluding my re- view of history of Josephine county, j i win gay that "Bob" Worthington anj John Spurgeon were mining partners on the Althouse. They di vided their money and burled it sep arately In tin cans. In the fall of '34. Worthington buried oue thous and dollars that I knew of. One Sunday, almost a year afterward, he requested me to go prospecting with him. He took me along to see him dig up his deposit. Going a half 'mile he paused at the base of a large sugar pine tree, some thirty yards from which he had burled his treasure under some brushes. Go ing to the place he saw an empty hole where the gold had been. In a worried voice he said, "My God! some one has watched me bury it and stolen It." Worthington was going back to "Pike" in old Missouri, and. now he declared he was ruined. I thought the hole looked gke the work of a small animal, but could not make "Bob" think so. While he was look ing at the ground and bewailing his loss I went down the draw leading away from his safety vault. Kick ing among the leaves and trash, about thirty steps below, I uncovered the can Intact with the gold In It. I called to him, saying, "Here, 'Rob,' is your money." A few long hur ried strides brought the now happy man to his wandering "chlnkamln." In addition to the. larye nuggets already mentioned there was the seventeen pound slug found in l.s.VJ on the left fork by a diminutive Irishman named Matty Collins. The value of the slug was $3,4(iS. Col lins hired another Irishman named Horsey to help him get the big nug get safely out of the country. Dor sey to accompany Collins with It. Horsey carried the gold In a burlap bag thrown over his shoulder. "Walk ahead Horsey," said Collins, "and let me see how ye look." He stood and watched Horsey as he marched with the fortune on his back. Horsey paused when Collins said: "Arrah, Horsey, the devil a one will notice it, go ahead." The "Rich Par" claim one mile below Iirowntown was owned by Church, Mann, Goldsmithtier and the writer. I was foreman. We paid four dollars a day and board for common miners and five for bed rock cleaners. We employed from ten to fourteen men. When shovel ing in we got from one to two ounces to the man and when cleaning bed rock we got as high as seven hun dred dollars per day. "Eight Hollar mountain near Ker by got Its name from trouble with the Hear creek Indians. A party was made up to go on the mountain after Indians supposed to be there. One of the party had bought a pair of eight dollar boots, though they did cost eight dollars they were of poor quality and gave out on the trip. For a joke the boys reported i that the Indians got after the wear er, hastening the wear and tear of the boots very materially. Hence the name Eight Hollar mountain. In May, '53, on my birthday, "Shorty" and I went hunting from the forks of Althouse. There was snow high up on the mountain, on the crust of which we could walk. We hunted up the range. It soon began to snow, and there was fog which hung low. We became sep arated and both got lost. Shorty was out two days and nights be fore he finally reached the Illinois Valley near Waldo. Night came on me. I was wet, cold and hungry. I kept from freezing to death by con stant moving and Jumping about all night. Morning found me on the summit of the main range of the Siskiyou. The sun shining brightly. 1 thought that to travel toward th? sun would take me to the right fork of Althouse. Instead, however, I found myself on what proved to be the head of Indian creek on the Cal ifornia side, down which I went. Following the creek bank I came up against a hiiKe boulder. looking over the top of It I was amused to te to bla k bear cubs about the size of coons climbing a small fir tree. At the sight of me the cubs becan to chatter In their native t'inL'ue. when, to my horror the mother poked rr heal aro :n I th? rock entirely too near to my to in spire confidence. Her deep growl aud savage look was so menacing tnat I dare not move. My gun, an old fashioned tap lock, was wet and out of commission. 1 drew a sheath knife and Informed her In mute language that it she charged me I would surely use it on her. We eyed each other while the black cubs sat upon the limbs of the little fir, near by. Presently the angry mother's head disappeared, to my great Joy, only to' reappear a moment later at the other side of the rock and nearer than before, having gone around the rock. I quickly reversed engines and prepared for trouble. She now growled louder and deeper and snap ped her teeth at me fiercer than ever. W hen the tension got so great that something must happen she cast her eye up n large tree standing near her and then she Bent another growl and defy In my direction and began to climb the tree, much to my relief, up, up. Slowly and deliber ately she went to a large limb where she perched herself, with another snarl and growl to me. I took her last look to mean, "You get;" and I replied "You bet." I then gladly lit out down the creek. Continuing to the mouth of it, where It enters the Klamath riv er, I saw on the opposite bank of Indian creek an Indian rancherie, made up of men, women nnd children. I made motions for them to come over after me with one of many canoes fastened to the bank. They Ignored me nnd my wishes. I was so hungry that I determined to wade across to them. The water was tip to my arm pits and us" cold as snow could make It. Once over I soon saw that the Indians could talk neither Jargon nor Kngllsh. I made signs of hunger. At her leisure an aged squaw got for mo some dried eel which I proceeded to eat. The time was about 3 p. tn. I then laid down and was fast asleep In stantly. When I awoke In the night the Indians were asleep all nronnd me. I was thirsty, I could not wait for daylight to get a drink. I again made signs when the old squaw, who was lying with head to the flro and whose duty it was to chunk up the fire and keep It from going out, understood me, and picking up her woven cap, which she wore daytimes handed nie the water In It. I never tasted water so good as that was. I then went to sleep again, not wak ing until late in the morning. The Indians were basking in the sun, tip patently oblivious of my presence among them. Again I made a sign for food, and as before the decrepit squaw answer ed my need with a wisp of dried eel. I remained with them all day until late the second morning. I took the breech pin out of my gun barrel and cleaned It, but did not load the gun until I had left their camp. I now found It necessary to cut my boot legs off and make of them a pair of moccasins In which to walk to Urowntown. My boots were so turned oved and dilapidated that I could no longer wear them. The Indians laughed at me while I was making the moccasins. Once more on my feet I ate more dried eel and then on the second day, fol lowing signs made by an old Indian who looked like chief. I started across the mountain. The old chief also made a diagram on the ground of two creeks which I must cross and made sleep signs at the second one of which I understood that I must stay there all night, which I did. My moccasins were better than nothing but I was compelled to use my gun barrel for a walking cane going down the mountain. The second day from the Indian camp I landed at Pages on the Illi nois river (now called Pages gulch.) I bad never met Page. I was almost starving for something I could relish, and asked him If he had anything to eat. He replied that he had not, but would have as soon as he could bake some bread, which he was then mlilng. I told him of having been IobI and my being ir. the Indian camp for two nights. I noticed a kettle on the fire and asked him what It had In it. He said It was grouiip, but was not done. I took the lid off and cut off a leg of the grouse and ate It. Pace treated me kindly, saying after getting bet ter acquainted thf fce was afraid of t::e at first a;!'earan e. His food was superb, for I was half starved, having eaten nothing but dried eel for six days. I stayed with Page one night, when 1 crippled off for Urowntown In my Improvised moccasins. When I came lu sight of Brown town a big crowd of anxious miners were there discussing my prolonegd absence. Capt. "Hob" Williams and "Shorty" among them. "Shorty" had advised that they do not worry adding "that boy will come out somewhere." When they saw me coming they made the welkin ting, yelling like wild men. declaring that the dead had come to life" and "the lost was found." Whtjti I told the boy where aud how I had been In the time gone and that I spent two nights with the mad Klamath Indians Williams and "Shorty" declared that I would never be killed by Indians. They could not understand why those hostile Klamaths had not killed me and taken my gun. as the Indiana were anxious to get guns. The boys were ama.ed that any white man could thus stay among those redskins and come away alive so soon after the fight with those same Indians. In 1S51. In this year '51 a party of miners came from mntciau to ruamatn river. Capt. Williams, "Shorty" and George Woods were of the party They had a fight with these Indians on the present site of Happy Camp, killing several of them. In the thickest of the battle Captain Wil liams emptied his old fashioned mnzzlo loading gun and Jumped be hind a tree none too large for his protection. An Indian seeing him so poorly shielded made for him with bow and arrow, fully determin ed to take his life before WilllaniB could reload his gun. A squaw, perhaps his w ife, ran with the Indian handing arrow s to him. Leaping and bounding he was shooting arrows at whatever he rould see of Williams, who In turn was dodging first one way and then the other, trying to reloatl his gun. With every shot of an arrow tamo the Indian's quaint I piercing exultant war yell lu high , key on the eve of victory, Yeep! Yeep! Yeep! Zip! Zip! Zip, sang tho arrows as they tore bark from the tree In Captain "Hobs" very face. "Shorty" seeing the peril of his chum and brave companion, and that the Indian was rapidly closing In, making tho escape of Williams im possible, fired at the Indian, and tho squaw with her arrows, being In range, he killed both of them at one shot. Now Is Hob's time, and he Jumped from behind tho tree ns he drew an old fashioned pepper box pistol from his pocket, loaded It, and fired every barrel of It at the head of the Indian, saying as he did so, "You will shoot me, will you . In the fall of '53 old George Woods was prospecting down at tn mouth of Deer creek below Kerby. An old Indian was In the habit or frequenting bis tamp and begging food. Woods had been in all of the Indian troubles In this region and was an avowed Indian hater. One day the Indian was In his camp as usual begging, when Woods gave him some food which he had pre pared with strychnine In It. Soon the poor Indian began smacking bis lips saying "Hlyum-salt; and rais ing to his feet started for the creek mumbling "Nlea tlca hlyu chuck," meaning that he wanted lots of water. Woods got his gun and shot him In the back as he went, dump ing his dead body In the Illinois. Not much was known of this at the time. Such Is history. In conclusion I will say that my narrative of historical events runs back sixty-one years, which Is a long time. I have stated the facts as I remember them. I was young then, and the times that produced this very history of which I have writ ten was so new to me that It made an Indelible Impression on my mind which time ba not effaced. A. J. HOWELL. BERLIN, Oct. 29 While military observers here today are agreed com plete victory In the llalkans is near for the allied states, and that before the week's end Turkey Is likely to admit defeat, no one connected with the government or the army will comment upon the possibility of Europe being generally embroiled. All who have made public state ments scoff at suggestions In the press that England, Frame and Rus sia would successfully attack Ger many now when her ally, Austria, Is engaged In watching the lialkan war with possibility of being Involved therein. mm Adds HeaUhfulOualiliestoihefDod Prot Prescott, of the University of Michigan, testified before the Pure Food Committee of Congress, that the acid of grapes held highest rank as an article of food and he regarded the re sults from baking with cream of tartar baking powder as favorable to health, Royal is the only Baking Powder made 1 from Royal Crape Cream of Tartar, 1U. MARSH litM'ATF.S IN SOUHFUN ORFGOV. Ir. II. R. Marsh, who, with his wife and six children, arrived recent ly from Point Harrow, Alaska, Is lo cated at Wolf Creek, aud will havo charge of the Interests of W. G. Smith during his absence. Mr. Marsh has been n resident of Point Harrow for 15 years past, oc cupying tho position of Presbyterian medical missionary, I'nlted States commissioner, which combined the offices of probate Judge, coroner nnd justice of the peace, and delivered the malls for I'ncle Sam at his far thest north post of lice. There were besides Mr. Marsh nnd his family four other whites nnd LISTEN Illg Chief's Wigwam two timet ns l.lg for 101.1, Great INMl'NS coining. Wuttii little Wigwam, 0I South lth St., Grunt Past, Ore. Money that Dribbles Away in Small Amounti if accumulated can bo made to realizo a hundred fold more in pleasure and possession. The Savings Department of the Grants Pass Banking & Trust Company provides a .safe means of accumulation. When You Sell Your Crop Your Salary DEPOSIT IT IN THE JOSEPHINE COUNTY BANK. Do it even though you want to use a part or all of it. Your earieellcd cheeks will be a safe receipt for bills paid. WE WANTS YOUR BUSINESS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY BANK about r0() natives, and he explains that his numerous duties kept him busy continually. Mr. Marsh has a choice collection of Alaskau curios, many of them having no duplicates In existence as they were connected with the religious rites of the na tives nnd, previous to his appearance nt the Island, they would not pan with them: but later, as they becnni') civilized Mid Christianized, there was no further uso for tho symbols of their old religion. It Is probable that Mr. Marsh will give a series bf lectures during the winter, at which time many of the curios will un doubtedly bo exhibited. Point Harrow, named after Sir John Harrow, Is on the north coast of Alaska nnd tho most northerly spot on tho American mainland.