T he J acksonville M iner
V olume 1
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, May 13, 1932
M’GUIRE OPENS
ASSAY OFFICE
L. H. McGuire, foimerly identi
fied with the Jacksonville Gold
Mining company uh vice president,
trustee ami assayer, *has opened a
commercial assay office in Jackson
ville und already is busily engaged
in running through samples for
both the new mine and other in-
dependnets.
McGuire came here several
months buck from Seattle, Wash.,
where hi* had been ussayer for the
University of Washington for sev
eral years. He is u graduate mining
engineer of many years practicul
experience and has worked in fa
mous locations all over the Pacific
coust His assays are reputed to be
the height of accuracy, all sumples
being run in duplicate to eliminate
uny possibility of error. Equipment
of the Jacksonville Gold Mining
compuny in the transformer house
in buck of the meat market is being
utilized in this work and exper
ienced miners declure this to be a
very up-to-dute and complete lay
out.
McGuire, along with his wife,
mother and father, moved here at
the inception of active work on the
Old Town mine and plans to make
■iis permanent home here. He an
nounces new low prices for all as
say work, which will mean quite a
saving, both in time and money, for
miners of the southern Oregon
field. Gold assays will be run, in
duplicate, for the modest sum of
$1, while A gold and silver assay
totals but $1.25.
GEORGE SUHUMl* DIES;
’ BURIED HERE MONDAY
George Francis Schump, a native
of Jacksonville, bom .December 3,
18X5, died here Saturday atttKdaffe
of 46 years.
For several years he resided in
California and returned here about
three years ago. He leaves besides
his wife, Gena Schump, two daugh
ters, Thelrha’Currigdti^YAKu City*,
CaUf., and Julia Lewis of Oakland,
Calif. Also his mother, Mrs. E.
Band, two brothers and two sistiys,
Charles and John Schump; Mrs. w.
I .arson and Agnes Banff, all of
Medford.
Funeral services were in charge
of Conger Funeral parlors, and
were held at Sacred Heart Catholic
church in Medford at 9 an m. Mon
day. Rev. Father Black ¿>ffiaiatad
and interment was in the Jackson
ville cemetery.
LEGIONNAIRES WIN SECOND
GAME; WITH TALENT HERE
The second American Legion fbn-
Jor league game for the Jackson
ville nine ended Thursday in a sig
nal victory for the loculs, score be
ing at the end of the fifth in
ning, when Talent walked off the
field disgusted, 36-2. The lead was
so great that Joe Beach was sent
in to relieve Hess for an inning,
Joe permitting the losers to make
their two lone scores»
HIGH SCHOOL TROMPS E.P.
By ALVIN REINKING
Jacksonville high school nine de
feated the Eagle Point high school
nine Tuesday afterndon on the
Jacksonville diamond, 14-9.
Andy Smith pitched for the local
team and was relieved by Paul
Hess in the sixth inning. Both boys
had the visitors guessing. Miller of
Eagle Point started in the box but
was replaced by Walton after al
lowing many hits.
The box score:
Jacksonville
Ab H R
Reinking, shortstop.......... 5 4 4
Card, R., center field.. ..... 6 4 4
Gilbert, left field................ 5 1 1
Hess, third base................ 5 3 2
Ward, second base............ 5 1 0
Smith, pitcher .................. 5 3 0
Card, P., first base............ 4 1 0
Forbes, right field.............. 4 0 0
Norman, catcher .............. 4 2 3
Totals................. .'...........37
Eagle Point
Ab
Ashpole, second base
. 4
Dinsmur, catcher.....
. 4
Grow, shortstop.......
. 4
Walton, left field .....
. 3
. 4
Tingleaf, third base..
Young, first base .....
2
Miller, pitcher
. 3
Stanley, right field
3
Myer, center field
. 3
19 14
R
8 3
2 2
1 1
2 2
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 1
II
Totals ............................. 30 10 9
'Try 'This One On
Your Front Porch
SENATE SNIFFS BEAR RAID PIRATES PLAY
EAGLES HERE
By MAI DE POOL
The latest wrinkle in getting
rid of peddlers is to announce
that a reporter is around,
which is what an Applegate
housewife did on the spur of
the moment recently.
“Well, won’t you let me in?”
the salesman madobold to de
mand as he fumbled at the
screen door. Upon gaining ad
mittance, he handed his prob
able customer a book, with the
familiar “anything in my line
today ?”
“No, I have a reporter here,
and I am busy now.”
“Oh, alright,” and away he
went with greater haste than
has ever been known of ped
dlers. (This scheme probably
would work vise versa, but it
has never been tried yet.)
Ben Coffman Turn« in Suit; To
Hurl for Visitors
PROSPECTORS
USE COOK; WIN
By running in what was reported
to be a hired pitcher on the Jack
sonville Gold Diggers last Sunday
the Prospect nine won a game
played in that resort town with a
score of 16-7. It has been undeter
mined as to whether they really
earned the victory or were donated
the heavy score by the inability of
Jacksonville’s men to support their
pitcher, “Doc” Gillis, who looked
well ir. the box to his own men and
rather difficult to the Prospectors,
who got possibly two or three gen
uine hits in the entire game. The
pitcher started for the upper
reaches but was knocked out of the
box in a couple of innings and left
with Jacksonville in the lead, 3-2.
It was a different story, however,
when L. Cook, who hurled for
the championship Eagle Point team
last fej^r, wjis run in on the boys.
His fast ball*proved a stickler until
the last Inning, when the local ites
staged a rally, got five runs and a
number- of hits; but fell short of
catching -up with the Crater Lake
neighbors.
The Gold Diggers, however, com
pared favorably with the Prospec
tors and for a few innings it ap
peared ttiat this city’s second vic-
tore of the reason w«ji coming up.
So*4taltars»»*>fans fYdmAere were
prp^enL.to witness the affray and
the Ra.v Hunsaker family, not be
ing satisfied'U ith chaking i»aD- all
over the ball diamond there, halted
for a fishing spree on tfte waj
home. “Mu” Hunsaker reports the
only catch of the day, with both
her minnows getting away.
Oh yes, the baseball game.TTat-
teries for Jacksonville were Dor
othy, catcher; Gillis, pitcher; Ray-
Hunsaker, first; Chuck Ward, sec
ond; Ray Ward, third; Bud Rein
king, shortstop; Michael Burdell,
left field; Harlan Clark, ceAter, afid
Leonard Hall, right. Homer Lontz
relieved Dorothy in the latter part
of the game, as did Bud Reinking
the pitcher. Alfred and Emerson
Babb and Albert Johnson the out
fielders.
To date there has been no game
scheduled for this Sunday.
ENRIGHT MAKING FIGHT
T. J. Enright is making a deter
mined fight to win the republican
nomination for district attorney of
Jackson county and has spent many
hours campaigning through the
county the past week. He has been
very active in the trial practice
during his 11 years of practice and
during this time has actually tried,
in court, upwards of 200 lawsuits.
He has thereby gained experience
and will be able to handle the posi
tion without assistance.
Enright is a past commander of
the American Legion and a mem
ber of Medford post at the present
time. His also is a member of the
Elks and Eagles lodges.
An interesting accomplishment of
the well-known candidate is his le
gal schooling, which was secured
without financial aid and entirely
through his own effort and ambi
tion. He attended Georgetown uni
versity in Washington, D. C., grad
uating therefrom in. 1921, and has
been very actively practicing his
profession ever since. Enright asks
for the support of the republican
voters at the primary election to be
held May 20.
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N umber 20
Above photo, first and exclusive in The Miner, expertly exposed by
Verne Shangle, staff photographer, reveals the senate gesture commit
tee investigating a bear raid in Jacksonville’s Wall alley last week.
Particularly note the evident boldness and complete abandon of the
mean ways committee speaker as he prods Bad Bruin with a long pole
to see if he is ticklish. (Note: The bear was not ticklish and senators
ran pell-mell for cover.)
The Editor Speaking
THE POLITICAL CLEANUP
The Jacksonville Pirates, so-
called because they are furnished
suits and equipment by the local
chamber of commerce but which
embrace only one or two local play
ers, are scheduled to meet with the
Medford Eagles Sunday afternoon
at 2 p. m. for the third Rogue val
ley league game of the season on
the home diamond. The Pirates lost
their first two encounters with the
Grants Pass Climateers and their
standing in the league lineup so far
might be recorded with a handful
of doughnuts.
As result of last Sunday’s game,
ending 8-6 with Grants Pass the
owners of the heavy score, Ben
Coffman, Jacksonvillian who has
had much experience in Los An
geles and southern California in
dustrial and professional baseball
leagues, turned in his suit and re
signed. He will pitch for the Med
ford Eagles against his former bud
dies in the coming game and much
interest has been evidenced in the
unique situation. Coffman, accord
ing to information, was to have
been started in the box this last
game, having been promised the
week before that if he would warm
the bench for that day he would be
the delivery end of the battery on
the home field. It seems that the
promises turned out to be stalls and
when the game was called last
week-end Coffman was not on the
lineup. Hughes, Medfordite who
was used instead, lost the game for
Jacksonville, allowing five runs in
one inning.
There has been much dissatis
faction expressed by townsmen
over the situation, as intention of
the commerce body had been to sup
port a team composed of local play
ers. The real team of local players,
the Jacksonville Gold Diggers, how
ever, is entirely without equipment,
having to furnish its own mitts,
bats and whatever can be scraped
together on the spur of the mo
ment. But one or two bonafide
natives of this historic and loyal
old town are ever on the Pirate
lineup and it is suspected that they
are used an inning or so to keep up
appearances and as a lever to hang
onto several hundred dollars worth
of equipment. The managers of the
Pirate outfit on the one hand claim
there are not sufficient players who
will turn out for the nine while on
the other hand the Gold Digger ag
gregation is having di/ficulty in
finding berths for the large num
ber of local basebailers who aver
they’ve never been given a chaace
on the alleged Jacksonville team.
No doubt Sunday’s encounter will
do much to bring the controversy
to a head and some action in the
matter one way or another is ex
pected in the very near future. At
least the supposed mismanagement
of the Pirate team will furnish in
tense interest for the tilt on the
local diamond at 2 <^:lock in the
afternoon this week-end and a large
crowd is anticipated to witness Ben
Coffman, now Eagleite, show the
Pirate crew baseball as is baseball,
having to quit to get off the bench,
where it was intimated friendship
and not lack of ability kept him.
Coffman himself would make no
statement except that he was look
ing forward to the encounter and
liked to play baseball.
Do you ever stop to think of the vast difference be
tween passion and the mind? We don’t mean that
ga-ga hooey that comes in short pants, according to
the younger generation, but that flaming hot, soul
stirring emotion that causes people to forget wisdom
learned through years of struggle and toil and tear
down overnight what has taken countless months of
effort, thought and money to build. We refer to the
contrast between acting as the result of sane, careful
thqyght and carrying out some blanket urge which
sweeps over us periodically.
< We httrtians are peculiar critters anyway—sweet
tunes and rhythmic melodies take us on wings to
•ptfflSSTTt thoughts and happy moods; a crashing march
thrills our martial sense and brings to mind waving
flags, marching men and booming cannon, with all the
accompanying willingness to offer our lives in battle:
arthrilling ball game stirs us to thoughts of how we’d
rock in the pitcher’s box, and what home run drives
we’d like to pole out whencthe score is tied in the ninth
inning; witnessing a moyie we imagine ourselves in
the leading roles and, with the characters, live the
parts for an hpur,
ui’j help catch the villain and kiss the
heroine. out;
But? aiiw'
Ift^h our waves of emotion have stirred
iieruuie.
us and our mina again
a
f motions we realize that, as
ordinary people, we can’ , soar on wings, don’t par-
par
ticularly like to die on tattlefields, couldn’t hit the
broad side of a barn with* a baseball, slap a dead cow
with an oar, give
re Greta Garbo.,a big smack and get SQUATTERS FLOCK TO
away with it or empty
<
40j oulfets from a six-gun into
UPPER CREEK AREAS
some viper at one sitting.
The Applegate country possesses
Yes, our minds were donated to us for the express strong
reminders of the depression
purpose of controlling and directing passions and to era. It has been said that there is
not a vacant shack of any descrip
keep them from engulfing sanity and messing up our tion
left, which is not exaggerating,
lives in general. And now the nation inswept with a owing to the numerous people who
have come from the towns to es
passion of discontent, unrest and dissausfaetfon as a cape
the eternal demand for money
result of generally rotten conditions. Our passrons yell to pay the light, wood and water
Tents are numerous and some
at us to make a change, to uproot the present sy,st;em bills.
have built shanties in which to take
and trade in our political equipment on a new model. refuge until the world in general
Thoughts that everyone is crooked, that all politicians gets back to normal.
Particularly in the Star gulch,
should be drowned and that it’s hell to be an American Sterling
and Forest creek sections
sweep over us like powder over a maiden’s shiny nose. are the depression-struck people
with 35 new families re
But then, when we cool off a bit and crawl under prevalent,
ported in the latter vicinity some
some friendly tree, lazily gaze away into space and time ago, the number having in
creased since. All of these people
notice the little birds chirpingly hop around after fat have
brought their picks and shov
worms and see the warm sun high in the heavens the els and rockers and are seeking
living from the soil, which
thought dawns on us that maybe we’ve been overly their
they think might be gold strewn.
serious in our politics and that it’s rather nice to be In many cases they are said to be
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able to survive on their findings.