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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1907)
C EN TR AL PO IN T H ERALD . THURSDAY, DECEMBER lit, 1907 Keulls Early Tragedies. -Lfcmea IF. Twogixxl, a pioneer citizen of Boise, Idaho, and one o f the earliest residents o f Jacksonville, writing in the Boise Capital—News o f recent date on the text "Then shalt not kill,” tells the story o f two early-day tragedies in this county that is of interest to many old-timers who are now readers o f the H e r a i . u : ‘ ‘ I will cite two oases irn southern Oregon which happened in the ’50’s. In those times everybody ‘packed’ a gun who was able to own one. K plead guilty to'th e charge myself. It was strapped to a young ooit and nights I slept with it under my head. That was from 1851 to- 1856, during the Rogue river Indian war. “ Simeon Oldham, a sporting m in from Rock Creek, Mo., crossed the plains in the early times and settled in trie Willamette valley. He went out to Yreka, Cal , in the summer of ’52, with a little sorrel race horce that he called the ‘Gold Digger.’ It was truly named, for he could dig out more gold in a quarter mile dash in 20 seconds than most men dig all summer. On his re turn trip the horse got lame and ht- let't him with me at Goose creek. It was there that 1 firat got acquainted with Oldham; as line a man ao one would wish to meet. “ In after years, when southern Or®- gon got more thickly settled, they had a race course near Jacksonville It was Here, on this track, one spring in the 50’s, that Mr. Oldnam got into an alter cation with Dr. Alexander, a noble, good man. Everybody was his friend. Mr. Oldham must have been under the influence of liquor, but that is no excuse. He pulled his gun and shot the doctor dead. He was tried and acquitted by a ‘lower court, ’ but the brand of Cain was placed upon his brow, and, like others, he became a wanderer upon the face of the earth, and never knew what ‘peace on earth, good will to men’ was, ever afterwards. He wandered up here to Boise in the early ‘60’ s and then drifted over to Silver City, where a young man shot him. “ Simeon was a brother o f J. B. Old ham, ex-sheriff of Ada county, whom all the old-timers knew and respected as a man, although a gambler. He was as true as steel and ‘on the square. ’ ever ready to extend the glad hand and share his purse with his fellow man. They don’t make any kinder- hearted men than J. B., but he has gone to his long home. ' “ There was a Captain Abel George, captain of a volunteer company during the Rogue river Indian war of 1855-56. He was a fine-looking man, with a nice family, and was a neighbor o f ours, living 13 miles south o f us. Some time after the war he went out to Jackson ville and g ot full of booze, and went into ('luggage & Drum’s livery stable, where a colored man was getting onto his horse. George jumped on behind, in his wild, crazy fit; they both fell off, and the colored man was dead. George was tried and acquitted by a ‘lower court, ’ but his life was wrecked. “ And there was ‘A ce’ Abbott. In the early ’50’s, when I first knew him, he was a good man but w nething of a b jlier. tie lived south o f us, in the same county, near Kerbyville. He, too, nad to get his man with a gun—I thir.k he was a colored man. Abbott was tried and turnad loose by a ‘lower court,’ but his life was wrecked. “ Billy Abbott carried the mail on horseback, and stopped with us in the fall o f ’55, daring the war. They oil came up here in '63 and settled in G - - den valley. A t Placerville, one day, 'A ce’ got into a shooting scrape with otHers. When the smoke cleared away it was found that he hud killed his brother, Billy. Abbott was again tried by the ‘ lower court’ and swung clear. He sent for me to come up and buy his ranch, in the winter o f 1870. I went up and found two feet of snow and did not purchase the ranch. Abbott sold it in 1871 or ’72, left the country and went to Texas, where he could get rid of his troubles, as he thought, but alas! the poor deluded man found a judg ment hanging over him from a higher court, that said: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ It set him crazy—conscienne would not down, so he passed in his checks, going via the double-barreled shot-gun route. Oh! if men would only stop to think!” Illegal. Ethel—Thut slxteen-yeor-old boy ed me to marry him. Edith—And threw him over? Ethel—Yes; told It was against the law to catch Bters so young.—Judge's Library. *ik you him l*k- G ro w th o f Rocka. Rock? do not grow In the sense that a plant grows. They may Increase by accretion, and they may undergo chem ical change. The old sea bed, being lifted up, becomes sandstone anil lime stone. The volcanic ash aud lava strewn over the plains become tufa, hard enough for building stone. The pebbly shore o f a river becomes con glomerate. Tile simple mineral does grow, however, when It takes a crystal form. The spnrkllng prism of quartz lucrenses from an atom to a crystal as large as a forearm by n process of addition anil assimilation, wonderfully slow but beautifully regular, exactly as crystuls of Ice form on the window pane. C L A S H E D ADVERTISEMENTS Compliments Finally he overcame* his retiring dls position, succeeded In borrowing enough money to pay lib ' fare and went to see the governor. (Original.) He arrived on the day of a great The British government gives its sol parade of the state militia. The gov diers who show great bravery In life ernor was to review the procession. saving a decoration called the Vic Passmore took a position near the toria cross. The budge Is an unpreten stand aud saw his former general en tious affair made o f guu metal, hut It ter with his suit. He tried to reach Is the most coveted of any British a point on the street lu front of and army honor. In America we have no below the governor’s seat, hut a police such decoration, and when a man man stopped him. bravely rescuss a comrade he must he “ Let me go ou,’’ said Passmore. “ I content with the thanks of the man know the governor personally." he has saved. The policeman looked suspicious, but During the Mexican war a general passed him. Passmore stood directly of brlgude was one day reconnolterlng beneath his old chief, with his hat with an ald-de-cump when be ran full pulled down over his eyes. The pa J are beimr paid to our Fine Foot-Wear upon a nest of Mexicans, who spat tire | rade was late in moving and had not j by many grateful wearera of our Shoes like so many rattlesnakes. The aiil arrived. The governor took out his 1 to-day. The leather and othi?r L.ateri- * ais in these Shoes is of the very best, threw himself before his general and watch Impatiently. covered Ills retreat, receiving a woudi I "This Isn’t the way you moved on j and the foot-wear has been hufit by In the arm and one In the leg. The I the Mexicans, governor,” said Pass- experienced men who thoroughly under general escaped unhurt. When the af- I more, looking up from under his hat. stand how to get comfort into a Slice fair was over aud the two dismounted I The governor glanced down to see without spoiling its outside appearance. lieforo the general's tent he said to his who spoke. W e have all sizes for Men, Women and "You moved on time, governor," aid: Children—all widths, too. You w ill be “ What’ s thut on your belt clasp?" Passmore continued. The aid looked down and pulled “ Ah; yes, my good man. They’ll he surprised at the low prices we ask for away a bullet that had been flattened here directly. They're only ten mln- such splendid Shoes. against the brass clusp. Had it not ■tes late." been stopped on Its way it would have "H a lf an hour.” penetrated the youngster’s stomach, "M y watch says 12:10,” rejoined the and that at that time meant death. governor. "The head of the column S H O E D EA LER S , The general pressed the young man's was to have passed here at 12." "Your watch Is wrong, governor- hand silently. Words would not ex twenty minutes wrong." press what he owed his subordinate. “ What time have you, my friend?" When Lieutenant l ’assmore went home after the wur he took the flat asked the governor. Passmore pulled out the flattened tened bullet with him. He used to call It his medal. A man who Is eip e bullet. If You Arc Waiting. A change came over the governor’* dally adapted for fighting is often use less for anything else, and Passmore face. His eyes were glued to the crudf fulled completely in a business life medal. It brought a far distant mem which he took up on leaving the army. ory. Then he leaned over the rail thut Perhaps the disposition he had shown divided him from the street, grasped to hear another’s burdens was not In Passmore's hat and pulled It off. "Great heavens! Are you Tommy accord with commercialism, where tb« object often Is to outwit those W'ttt Passmore?"’ "That I am, general.” whom one does business. The governor was a large, powerful The poor fellow at last got ragged. His appearance was all the more man. He took Passmore by the collar, slouchy from the wound he had re lifted him clean over the rail aud set ceived In the leg in saving his com him down in a seat beside him. Just mander's life, since It caused him to then there was a hurrah down the limp. He pawned his belongings one street, strains of martial music, and after another. His watch and chain governor and staff assumed that posi he held as long as possible, because tion of attention aud dignity expected they had been given him by his moth of a reviewing party. Then the proces er. When his watch went. In order to sion passed, many wondering who was to sample the very best brands o f Whis kies and Wines, your search will be keep up appearances with Ids chain the shabby man beside the governor. The world is full of Ingratitude, hut satisfied the moment you taste the he took his flattened bullet and wore (he army doesn't foster It. Soldiers kinds we are now offering' to our It where the watch should be. patrons. Both lines are exceptionally Meanwhile the general whose life rarely forget that other life wheu their pure and wholesome; in fact, the sort standards were different. The govern Passmore hud saved hail prospered. that the best physicians recommend to Wo will cull him Wingate. He hail or gave Passmore a lucrative office, their sickly and convalescent patients and when the former went to the sen as a tonic and builder-up of the system. made money, and the prominence aris ing from his wealth and his service In ate Passmore went to Washington Your house ought to have a supply, and you can easily afford it at our prices. with him. war had pluced him In a high position And Passmore hung on to his flatten in politics. He became governor of his Liquors for family Use. ed bullet. Senator Wingate borrowed state. Since he lived In the eastern It, and when he returned It the soft Mail orders given prompt attention. states aud his funner aid-de-camp in metal was Incased and on the case was the west the two were apart. Pass- '49 Inscription stating how the “deco- more after hearing that Wingate had radon” was won. attained so high a position spent six M SB K IC K AGO (JR. H. O. 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