T he J acksonville M iner
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thought only of home. Sleeping,
RUSTIC ROCK GARDEN
The Jacksonville Miner he
NEW TYPE DRESS
he dreamed of trying to wade
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through the hundreds of miles of
With this issue The Jackson­
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
water, which lay between the camp
ville Miner bursts forth in u new
The old Miller home, long u show
and the homeland. He told me of
place of Jacksonville, hus Iwen the t,v|>e dress and, if you look
his old mother back in Alabama,
acene of much activity and focal closely you will notice columns
who
would
not
g*
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e
her
consent
to
point for many loads of natural are a bit wider ami longer.
LEONARD HALL.... Editor and Publisher
her sons enlisting, and how they
rock from surrounding environ«». There are more than 20 inches
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lay
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happell
MAUDE POOL-......... ..... Applegate Editor
had their minister persuade her it
The fine residence, formerly occu­ of additional space beginning
was the duty of her sons to serve
pied by the city’s first gun maker, this week. Bit by bit the oaper
Addreaa All Communication« to Box 138
their country.
11—THE CREATION
boasts the only mature palm trees has been expanding- thunks to
Subscription Rates, in Advance:
He told me of his young wife
One Year____ $1.00
Six Months——,S0c
In the beginning Ka-moo-kum- within many u mile, as well as the splendid support und co­
Headquarters:
back in the old home town. I had chux (God) made the world and some of the most stately poplar operation of ull you readers.
THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY
been ill of yellow fever, and al­ all the animals. But there was yet trees in the valley. And now an­ We’re mighty appreciative for
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though convalescent, was still weak. a sense of incompleteness and the other feature will add to the ex­ our duily bread.
He said to me “we will both die animals were very lonely.
tensive grounds and cause still
here cn this dreadful island if we
[
more tourists to pause in admira­ MEDFORD’S PIONEER STORE
So G m J came to the shore of a tion
of the landmark; a feature that
can’t get away.”
beautiful lake and taking some very expresses the natural beauty of the
WILL H. WILSON, MOVES
Poor Tom. He became very
fine dust mixed it with water ami hill country forming the back­
and was taken to the hospital,
} molded a man in His own likeness ground for this historic pioneer
W ill H. Wilson, 22 yearH in busi­
There has been some comment as diet! before arrangements could
and
placed
the
figure
by
a
great
j
ness
in Medford, now is located at
to just why The Miner offered its made to send him home—died call­ fire to dry.
town.
readers free copies to be sent away. ing over and over in his delirium
At first the development looked a new address, 217 West Main
follow ing morning God found like an everyday rockpile, but after street. Large quarters make it pos­
Some have suggested that it would the name of his little wife, “Julia, the The
man
moving about on all fours careful arrangement and much sible to serve you better.
be a good idea to charge for them. Julia, Julia.”
,
like a bear and bid him arise and labor the mass began to take on an
Friday, February 26 he starts a
The reason for The Miner being
About two weeks after Toni’s stand erect as He did.
irregular, rugged symmetry and gigantic store-wide sale on shoes,
available at The Nugget confec­ death the colonel received a letter
The man at once stood up and displays stones characteristic of clothing, ludies dresses, millinery
tionery for the asking is this: from the old mother down in Ala­ God
said that if he would always this country—moss-covered sand­ and (redding.
Times are hard, money is scarce bama. In it were two little white be obedient
Imagine work shoes $1.25 and
might henceforth stone, granite and quartz. The pile
and the paper is in its infancy. We envelopes, a letter each for her two walk upon two he legs
instead
of
four
cotton
sox, good ones, at five cents
forms
a
fountain,
several
falls,
feel that just now’ there are many sons. She said “I have had no mes­ and that the other legs would be­
at 44 cents
people who would like to read The sage from my boys—I thought may come long and slender so that he pools for fish and a short, stone- a pair, ladies dresHCH
ner
’
ities
two for 15
and
new
1932
lined
race
where
the
shimmering
Miner or send it to friends but, like be the colonel could tell me of could handle the bow.
cents.
water
disappears
under
an
inviting
ourselves, find silver a diet defi­ them.”
Come early Friday ext -'ting to
The man promised to obey in all stone seat. Huge flags are arranged
ciency.
I wonder if sometime, somewhere
see
the greatest bargains in Med­
things
and
God
then
led
him
to
a
as
stepping
stones
from
the
street
There will be a time—soon, we some one will read this little story, |
hope—when conditions are a bit and reading, drop a tear for the wonderful valley where lovely flow- around the rock work to th- en­ ford—you will not be dis ippointed.
improved and then The Jackson­ valiant young soldier who died and • | ers carpeted the ground and lus- trance of the residence, flower gar­
den of choice bulbs to skirt the WHAT SOVIET UNION ( LAIMS
ville Miner will go after its share was buried under the drooping palm ' cious fruits grew in abundance.
God showed him the fruits that walk on the opposite side.
of the world’s legal tender. Till that trees on the hills of Santiago. Al­
The Friends of Soviet Union
happy day arrives we’re content to though it was not a bullet from a were good to eat and they were all
R. H. Toft, present owner of the
go on furnishing copies to those Spanish Mauser rifle which laid I stone fruits like the wild plum. Of house and grounds, has been push­ claim that the Japanese seizure of
who would subscribe if they could him low, he died for his country these the man might eat of all save ing the improvement work and has I Manchuria has been rutified in all
and hope that when valley homes just the same.
one which was reserved for God’s enlisted the efforts of William foreign offices, by the league of
are again filled with the jingle of
use alone.
Warner, expert in matters con­ Nations, and by the American state
happy dollars we won’t be forgot­
There God left the man telling cerning rustic brick and stone con­ department, and that the United
ten.
him to live in peace and happiness struction. Toft, extensive property States, while sending diplomatic
but only three days later God came owner here, has been doing much notes, is shipping munitions and
! upon him sobbing bitterly and cry- toward making Jacksonville a gar- poison gas to Japan, and American
Although, after much sleuthing,
' ing that he could not enjoy life j den spot and point of interest and and Japanese generals are boasting
questioning and guessing we’ve
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the improvement of the already of seizing Siberia.—The Golden
been unable to exactly determine and with one terrible motion dis- alone.
God
was
sorry
for
him
and
prom
­
beautiful
Miller estate will enhance Age.
just who this poem-composing Simp | embowled her as she lay hysterical
ised that if he would lie down and property values in the entire neigji- (
O’Dill is, Santa Claus informed us with fright.
sleep soundly that a companion borhood.
that Simp has been dreaming of a
Naturally enough a crime of this would be brought to him.
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song for Jacksonville. It seems that sort
aroused all the people who had
The man obeyed and while he MINER ADVERTISER HONORED
this theme lyric will follow the known
and loved the poor woman slept God took from each upper
general lines of the tribute to this and, in the
perfectly organized arm and from each thigh one bone.
city published two weeks ago and mob ever to most
Verne Shangle, Medford photo­
gather
in this country, With these as a foundation and
will be put to music—that is, if proceeded to the Yreka
grapher who has been making a bid
jail,
over
­
Sirnp can get any assurance of a powered the deputy in charge and more fine dust moistened with tor Jacksonville business through
water He molded a woman.
welcome for the offering.
columns of The Miner, was this
chiseled away bars to Johnson’s
As proof of this the Indians point week awarded contract for photo­
Personally we liked the verses I cell.
Typewriter
On
their
way
to
the
courthouse
“To Jacksonville” and many com­ a group of the men, knowing that to the fact that the bones of the graphing all fruit illustrations to
Specialists
plimentary comments have been there were no suitable limbs near upper arms and thighs are single be used in the new Pear Export
although
the
forearms
and
legs
still
made, both verbal and written, ask­ for a successful lynching, rode by
Manuel published by the Oregon-
have two bones in each.
Corner Main and Grape Sts.
ing for O’Dill to do as he intimated i the
Washington Pear bureau and dis­
depot,
dismounted
and
should
­
While the woman was drying be­ tributed throughout the world.
Medford
he might—“come again.” If you ask ered a section of steel rail. This
us we’d say Simp is not the ave­ was placed between two trees in the fore a fire God patted her and
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rage rhymster but has a real story I courtyard and served as a beam for smoothed her to make her more
comely than His first crude at­ FARM BOARD LOSS $120,000,000
to tell his readers, a thought preg­ hangmen’s ropes.
tempt and then withdrew among
—
nant with meaning and purpose. I f
for three prisoners who the trees and blew His breath at
To date the farm board has lost
What do you say, shall we throw had Unluckily
committed less ghastly mur­ her.
on its wheat and cotton holdings
out the welcome mat for Simp
ders
they
happened
to
be
in
the
jail
about $120,000,000; but that does
Immediately
she
sprang
to
life
O’Dill?
at the time the mob was organized I and began to talk very fast. This not represent all it has lost. In a
and were included in the cleanup. awakened the man who, seeing the time when some way was sought to .
PAINTING
Had it not been for Johnson’s crime beautiful woman before him, ran to help the struggling farmer the |
O/z
they would undoubtedly have been her and, clasping her in his arms, farm board paid some of its of-:
PAPERHANGING
left to the action of the law. The kissed her passionately.
ficials $50,000 to $75,000 a year.!
four were released, loops placed
ETC.
God, still watching, laughed At least one man, reputed to have
about their necks and led from the heartily, making the couple very received $35,000 a year, an ex-
I building out into the grounds where IIJUVJ1
II1CM, Q11<1
„1C1I H^ told I dominic, never made a success of
Estimates
much ashamed,
and then
A True Story
the mob had prepared the party, them kindly that they must never anything in his life until he got a
Gladly Given
Johnson was the only man who let1 again embrace before others, a job with this institution which was
By Alice Applegate Sargent
out a whimper. In a few minutes command that has ever been re­ intended to do so much for the
Phone 13 or Drop a Cani to
The destruction of the battleship they were lifeless and swinging spected among the redmen.
farmer, but has done so much only
P. O. Box 51, Jacksonville
Maine in the harbor of Havana, high above the ground.
The man and woman were cre­ for certain individuals.—The Gold­
Cuba, in 1898, was followed by
A Yreka photographer, having an ated equal and shared equally in all en Age.
America’s preparations for war. eye for business, took a photograph things and for a long time they
With a regular army of only 28,183 of the quartet and before breakfast lived very happily.
officers and men America was, as —the lynching occurring shortly
And then one day, while the man
usual, unprepared. A larger force after midnight—had taken orders slept, the wuinau went for a stroll
THIS WEEK’S
was necessary and President Mc­ and collected dollars for more than in the woods. Suddenly she met
Kinley called for 10 regiments of 500 prints, one of which is shown Spooks, a creature who looked like
volunteers, these to be recruited in in this city. The rail used remained a man and talked like one and yet
the south, and to be known as the in the courthouse trees until a few­ was not a man.
Immunes, the belief being that men years ago when one of the syca-
The woman knew this intuitively
rx lz zx urn V? ^zx»» 6 m _
from the south could better endure •MZXMZXO
mores ««me*
was Zllli
cut ♦ to zx s-vs
make
way for im­ but, when Spooks told her of a de­
the heat of the tropics.
provements. John H. Hughes, now licious fruit she had not eaten, she
These Immune regiments were a candidate for nomination in the followed him to the tree. She at
organized and equipped and rushed primaries, was the officer who ar­ once recognized it as God’s own
to Cuba to relieve the regiments rested both Johnson and another of fruit, for the man had shown it to
that had borne the brunt of the the men hanged at the same time. her, but Spooks only laughed and
fighting at El Caney and San Juan
The most significant result of the assured her that her husband had
wholesale lynching is the fact that made a stupid mistake so she
hill.
Among the first of these regi­ to this day there has never been a plucked some.
The moment she tasted it she
ments to reach Santiago was Col­ recurrence of murder in the entire
onel Sargent’s regiment, the Fifth district. And although mob rule is felt like a god herself and, because
Per 1000 Feet
Immunes. With the regiment were« discouraged and prosecuted today God wore two aprons, she hastily
two brothers from Alabama by the’ it proved to be a mighty deterrent made two out of leaves and fas­
name of Mitchell. Tom, the younger to crime in Siskiyou county and the tened them about her own waist.
of the two, was tall and dark and effects of the extreme action are
When she returned home bearing
handsome, with a soldierly bearing, still felt. It is a pity that criminals some of the fruit the man awoke
which attracted the attention of his can’t be shown through the Jack­ and scolded her, saying that they
colonel, who selected him as his sonville museum—what an effect would both lx? punished because of
orderly, and Tom’s tent was placed the pictures might have on trigger her fault and then feeling very cold
r
near the colonel’s on the heights fingers!
he made her give him the aprons
overlooking the camp of the regi­
and make more for herself.
EXTRA SPECIAIv—While it lasts, 40
75 CENTS FOR SEVEN LAMBS
Thus originated the garment
ment.
worn by the Indians when white
At first the excitement and
gallons dark colors standard quality
strangeness of it all brought com­
W. B. Estes, a farmer at Little­ men first came among them.
pensation, but weeks rolled by, ton, Colorado, sold seven lambs to
On His next visit God was very
Heath & Milligan Paints, per gal., 99c
bringing no letters from home. the A. A. Blakely company at Den­ angry for He saw that the pair had
Then came long months when the ver. They were placed with Swift & been quarreling. The man explained
V.
clouds hung low over the moss company for $3.30, and after the what had happened but said that
green hills of Santiago, when the costs of insurance, inspection and he was not to blame as he had been
drenching rain poured down, until commission had been deducted a asleep at the time. So God forgave
the streets in the camp on the hill­ che^k for the balance, 75 cents for the man but with the woman He
tops were deep in mud, when the the s^ven lambs, was sent to Mr. was less merciful. She had been
tents turned black with mold, and Estes. The department of agricul­ created the man’s equal, God re­
the men sickened and died of the ture followed the history of the minded her, but by stealing the
seven lambs and reported that they fruit she had proved herself un­
terrible fever.
It was a time to try the stoutest were sold to consumers for $83.70. worthy and so henceforth she must
hearts, and Tom was overwhelmed In one instance two lamb chops be the man’s servant.
with a wave of homesickness which were sold for 85 cents, which was
And so it was and ever since the
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broke his spirit—it sapped his 10 cents more than Estes received Indian women have been compelled
strength and weakened his will. for his seven lambs. Yet if you say to perform the arduous tasks
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Only those who have experienced anything about a thing like this, among the tribes.
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it can realize the waves of heart and want a better state of affairs,
(To be continued.)
in Southern Oregon
sickness which overwhelms those you are considered un-American.—
who suffer from nostalgia. Awake, The Golden Age.
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