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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1906)
CENTRAL POINT HERALD. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1906, ■ •H -K -H - H - l- î- H - i' !■ M i- H - I - l ' l l- H - J . •i-H-I-K - H - l- I' M ' !' !"!■ ¡ F :- I"1H--K-H-1-H - î -H-1* v 'H ''1 I I ! : l j | | | Á Good investment Humor md Philosophy Promptl) Done PERT PARAGRAPHS. Satisfactiu A square deal uicely rounds out a friendship. May be found in our Residence and Business Property in CENTRAL POINT • • All kinds of Rep«iir Work By DUNCAN N. SMITH ; t m ra u Jeffrs & Peart When you get something for nothing the something Is generally nothing. General Blacksmiths & Woodworkers ¥ HORSESHOEING A. SPECIALTY Having the ceremony performed In an automobile is u case of marrying In haste. We treat you and your h o r s e s r ig h t * * • H -K -H " i / W a r t f * i f \ u f i Ft | Do You Need THE most rapidly growing town in the Rogue River Valley. FURNITURE OR CARPETS ? W eeks & Baker NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST in lots and blocks before the Fall rush of homeseekers have picked out the choice property. Central Point is the most centrally located town in the valley and is the hub of THE RICHEST FRUIT. DAIRYING. FARMING and MINING REGION on the Pacific Coast. Its climatic, commercial, social and educa It Is easier to go to the theater In the rain than it is Jo go to church under like circumstances. What a lovely disposition the weath er must have. It never talks about people, although they are continually talking about it. 'T h e i r G o o d s a r e F i r s t - c l a s s X M E D F O R D O R E G O N •- tional advantages are unsurpassed and at the present low prices, every parcel of our property is a RARE BARGAIN. Somehow the artistic features of autumn leaves do not appeal to the man who lias to rake the lawn. If you really want to know what the wild waves are saying, tame them with some of Mr. Roc-kefeller’s oil and ask them. For the Next 30 Days We are offering choice business [lots'at fromï$150üeachj and’ |up wards ¡’'"and "choice residence property at $50 and upwards. Now isJthe^time_|to invest,.¡before an ad vance in prices is made. Call on or address: CENTRAL POINT TOWNSITE CO. C E N T R A L , P O IN T , —:—:—:—:— [Copyright, 1906, by C. H . Sutcliffe.J Fourteen times the paymaster and his safe and escort passed over his route and returned smiling. When they started out for the fifteenth trip “ Mexican Charlie” had his plans all laid. lie was a Mexican half breed, and when you have such a man look out for deviltry. He was a hanger on around the stage stations for a hun dred miles up and down the line. He was a gambler, a horse thief and sus pected o f murder, and he had the nec essary qualifications to make him a [ leader o f other bad men. He was tw o months making his plans, and they were laid for the complete wipe out of the entire party. He didn't pro pose to leave a single man alive to Identify him afterward. When the roundup was completed the outlaw gang numbered an even twenty men. and all were armed with Winchesters and revolvers. The route was gone over and the spot finally j settled on for the attack was midway j between Forts Davis and Concho j There the rude mountain road wound upward for half, a mile, to pitch sud denly into a ravine with walls fifty feet high and Its length half a mile or more. T o collect nineteen outlaws together, hide them away for a week, hold them steady and fit out a part o f the number with horses and arms was no slight undertaking, but the half breed successfully accomplished It, and that without arousing suspicion. On . the first day o f a certain July the outlaw band was posted in the ravine, and the major left Fort Davis at an hour tr> bring him to the spot at about noon. Whites and Indians were at peace and the country quiet, and the pay master and his escort had not the slightest hint o f the reception the out laws had In store for them. It may have been known to the mountain Indians that the caves and crevices in the walls o f the ravine were Inhabited by wild bees, but It certainly was not to the whites. They had bred and swarmed there for years. On this July day there was an angry buzzing high above the heads of the outlaws, but they gave it no atten tion. The rocks were warming up and the bees getting ready to swarm, grouts had been sent forth to find other rrevlces and report, and thou sands upon thousands o f the hot head ed Insects were ready to swarm out and follow their leaders to new homes. Stretched on the shelves or posted behind bowlders, the outlaws were waiting for their prey. They got the signal that the escort was coming across the flat: then that It was toiling u p the long hill: then, after a mo- meat's wait, that It was about to enter t h e ravine. The half breed bad tolJ —:—:— O R E d D N .i l * his men over and over to fire to kill, to wipe out every soldier at the first P R O FE SSIO N A L volley, but he told them again. There were twenty bullets for eleven men W M . W . F*. H O L T , M I ) . and every outlaw having a rest for his rifle and a target hot twenty feet P h y s ic ia n a n d S u r g e o n away. EAGLE POINT, OREGONJ Of a sudden one of the bee scouts settled down on the bare hand of one o f the outlaws. He sought to flick it LODGE D IR E C T O R Y off, and the Insect stung him and flew away. It would seem as If It flew up to the others aud warned them o f the trespassers and Incited them to battle. a b l e r o c k l o d g e n o . 8i, a Within a minute a perfect cloud of o. u. w. them descended. They were angry Meets second and fourth Mondays and excited und looking for a fight. o f each month at 7:30 p. m. The outlaws could make no defense Visiting brothers cordially invited. against such an enemy. In thirty sec Hall com er Second and Pine Sts. onds they were almost literally cover W . H. N orcross , W. W. S cott ed and being knifed in a score of Recorder. Master Workman. places, and just as the tw o troopers at the head o f the escort reached the head of the ravine the ambushers tied EN TRAL POINT LODGE NO. 193 down It with shouts and yells of pain and terror. I. O. O. F. Their horses were half n mile below. Meets every Saturday evening at The bees followed the men to the 7:30 p. m. in A. O. U. W. Hall, horses and attacked the latter, and i.i com er Second and Pine Sts. Visit a few seconds there was a wild stam ing brothers are specially invited to pede. Some o f the animals came up meet with us when in town. the ravine, and some went down, and S. A. P attison , L ee W atkins , the shouts o f the outlaws were echoed Secretary. Noble Grand. and re-echoed by the shrill neighs of the half maddened horses. The paymaster could not tell what Bybee Ranches for Sale had taken place, except that the wild bees had come out. lie was forced to order n retreat, and there was no From and after this date, I will sel pause until the outfit had dropped hack a full mile. Then scouts were to the best advantage, and for cash, sent forward and after a time made all or any portion o f those two certain a pretty good guess as to what wa ranches known as the Bybee River up. The bees seemed to bo out lu Ranch, at the Bybee bridge on Rogue millions. The roar o f their wings ns river, consisting o f 1240 acres, and the they buzzed up und down was like a Bybee Antelope Ranch, consisting o f strong wind In the treetops, and a- 1060 acres. With the Bybee River swarm met swarm they fought among themselves until the rocky trail wa < Ranch will be sold that portion o f the crop upon the part purchased. This covered with their bodies. Not until near sundown did the In ranch is partly under irrigation and sects seek their new homes and quiet more can be put under irrigation. down and . a w the escort n chance t 1 Address me at Agate, Oregon. pn-s in ail -d. At the lower end of 12-tf F. E. B ybee . file r a *..ere two dead men—out law v ho had been stung to death Farther down were three men wli Excursion to San francisco. were blind, helpless and raving. Ri fles. belts and ramp outfit had been thrown ' 1 P :•* o f the des T K. Bolton and Fmi] P< ¡1 peradoes h i got sw ay on a h will run another o f thpir popular holi < if 1'. day excursions from Ashland to San The others had gone tearing <■'<T :b ■ Franc isco and return,thi« acanon, leav mountains 11 mail flight. O f the Ilf ing Ashland Wednesday, December 26, teen men who got away nothing wa 1906, on the noon train. Round trip heard again. All were terribly stung. The particulars of the plot wer tickets, $15.00, good for fifteen davs. You should take advantage o f this learned from the three captured aiiv and they got a dose o f military law t opportunity to see the wrecked city. keep them out of mischief for a long Tickets now on sale at Freeman & time after. Each one asserted that he W iley’ s, Central Point. 31d36 would rather have fought three In dians single handed than have en FOR SALE. countered the bees. The half breed had planned well, but he had not taken thp wild bees into oonsl'eration. A fine lot o f full blooded Poland 1* QVAD. I China pigs. Call at the Frail farm, one mile south from Central Point, for pric.\ etJ. J. If. P an . vkr . 31 Ml W e hear a good deal about trust bust ing, but were you ever invited to the funeral of a genuine octopus? DEALER IN Cigars, Tobaccos, Confectioneries and Soft Drinks ICE CREAM PARLORS IN CONNECTION Wouldn’ t it be a great joke on us if we were to wake lip some morning anil find that tlie good time coming bad nl ready passed? The Huglcss Waltz. Several light stepping gentlemen who without knowing it are about 33.- 777,328 years ahead of their time, an i who call themselves the Dancing Mas ters’ association, have met and very solemnly pronounced a divorce between the waltz and the hug. Doubtless tlieir intentions are the very best, but If they think that a waltz is a languid conversation over a long distance telephone they have sev eral large and noisy facts concerning human nature to learn. If they think that the spirited young man is to be content to look at his love ly partner through a long distance tele scope as they glide through the mazy waltz they have not had a heart to heart talk with the youth o f America lately. It may be «hat the waltz needs re forming and needs it badly, but tbe only way to do It ii/ to prohibit all those under eighty years from engaging In that dance. Another Guess, Central Point, Oregon Posti Office Bnidlug ■+Æ D o w n in g ¿1 E m r y TTTaTinstate' Ajr«*ntsl C e n tra l P o in t We now have” the” exc]usive[[sale 'o f ¡some fine alfalfa S m s , grain’ and fruit lands, stocky ranches, unimproved timber lands and'gold-bearing quartz' ledges, ¡partly devel oped. Business and residence’ property at reasonable prices. We respectfully solicit;,the Ihcmeseekers’, patronage. Our motto is, “ Small Commission and Square Dealing.” T C G. S/ MOORE Som e congressm en w ho fondly dream T hat they are slated to go back F org et that in our noble scheme T he votera get the latest whack. Tricks of the Memory. Scientists have discovered that the memory is stronger In summer than lu winter. That is easily explained. It is much simpler to remember to bring home a quart of ice cream than a ton o f coal. Most any dub has the price of the Ice cream in his pocket, but It takes a man who is Intimate with high finance to rustle the price o f a ton of coal off hand. Of course It slmplitle* matters If a man has credit with a coal man who has a telephone, but how few o f us have reached that delightful stage In the seventh heaven of bliss. In summer tin* memory lias more out door exercise, while In winter time the task o f dodging Christinas duties Is enough to drive any mild mannered memory to nervous prostration. That may not be the explanation. Memory plays us some queer tricks, but you will notice that seasons do not make much difference on the memory of your creditor«. For Business Reasons. “ He is starting out as a beauty doc tor.** ‘ But a l»eauty doesn’t need a doctor.” “ I know It, but If he called himself • n ugly doctor who would patronize him?” Easy if You Know How. “ fie wan able to save $5,000 a year • lit o f a $3.000 salary.” “ lie must have been a financial genius.” “ No; Just a common politician.” In His Line. The baker had a happy home. B ut thing1! were going slow. O f course he hu<l enough to eat. But h« was kneading dough. Sanderson & Sons k Estimates given on work in all parts o f the valley ^ £ [• , The reasons why you should [contract [w ith us to build Iyour3house are— Our work is exccutedjjwith neatness [ and dispatch and completed in a work- manliketmanner. P lans S p e c if ic a t io n s F u r n is h e d -------- O---------- and CENTRAL POINT OREGON RETAIL DEALER IN WOOD I L>. C . G R I M •• C i t y . D r a y l n ¡ { a n d T r a n s f e r All Kinds o f Hauling Promptly Done. CENTRAL POINT, OR. .¡„H -K -H -H -H -H -P-H -l-H -H H -H -H -I-H H H -H H -H -H -i- WM . A. AITKEN S«N!TAPY I- H P H - M - H - i- H - H - l- i- l"! I ¡ -H - H - ■ ;; Removed to New Building ;; With my fine line of Confectioneries ;; PLUMBING. •• Fruit*, and Fresh Bread. ('¡pcs. Fittings and Plnmbing Supplies. | { „ fira t_clafi8 j j Lunch Counter. W out’ K street,¡opposite depot. F. H. WEBB Eositing. First Dynamiter I may ho called the Orest Awnkener. S -cord Dynamiter I s m more pop nl.sr than that; I am a great aerre speelallft C ontractors and Builders MEDFORD, ORE. FOR SALE. Clean, seed rye. S. M. N ea I / in , Table Rock. K -H -H -i-l-H -i-H -H -H - l I l l-H -I-H F or S a l e —A six-room dwelling Ml Central Point, in good repair. Barn, good water, some fruit. A bargain. Inquire at this office, ti