T he J acksonville M iner
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The Jacksonville Miner
Published Weekly at
JACKSONVILLE OREGON
Entered as second-class matter
February 19, 1932, at the post office
at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the
act of March 3, 1879.
Wandering Sourdoughs
Dig Up Plural Killing
Ontario. The most recent find of
gold-bearing ores is in northwest
ern Quebec, in a strip of territory
more than 100 miles long and with
a width of from three to 10 miles.
VIEWS
of O ther P eople
IIE KNOWS POOR PEOPLE
I
Medford
Typewriter
Exchange
Edgar Wallace, English author
eral water. Just as I attempted to
do so a disappointed looking lady of more than a hundred mystery
stepped to my side, handing me a novels, was a foundling who was
card which, upon perusing, dis adopted by u London fish porter.
LEONARD HALL. Editor and Publisher
closed different minerals all in this He knows poor people and he loves
MAUDE POOL................. Applegate Editor
one water. Upon taking a generous them because they are so clean-
«waller 1 discovered the taste re spoken and clean-thinking.
Typewriter
"It is the habit to think of the
Address All Communications to Box 138
sembled the odor of a bantam egg
poor
in
terms
of
slumdum,
”
he
Subscription Rates, in Advance:
Specialists
that had been mothered for per
One Year...... $1.00
Six Months.........50c
says, “but there is a poor which
haps
22
days.
Joe
had
butted
in
by
Headquarters:
By W. SMITH BLAIR
this time and 1 asked the lady if lives in shabby streets and cleans
Corner Main and Grap® St«.
THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY
Telephone 162
(Whisker Bill to You)
Medford
she carried sodawater. She did. We its windows and whitens its door
steps. A poor w hose horror is char
Resting at Shasta City 45 min- had soda water (Joe paid for it). ity, and whose haunting fear is
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utes we proceeded merrily on our While sampling this old stand-by that it may la* buried by the parish.
way. When leaving this place we the lady began telling us about A proud, self-reliant poor that
passed block after block of shade some terrible prehistoric animal scorns relief and guards the secret
tree lined highway which was a her neighbors had in their camp of its poverty most jealously. And
Men's and Ladies'
for M iner Readers
treat to the eyes of the most hard beds. Upon further discussion I de these are the vast majority. The
termined this same animal—in my writers of theses never meet these
SHOE REPAIRING
ened sun-tanned sourdough.
We soon passed through Duns youth I had met them—would fill people, ami, if they met them,
Forest Grove, Oregon
in the Modem Way
muir and Costella, two old mining the soles of their feet with air bub would learn nothing, for they do
To the Editor:
bles
and
noiselessly
walk
along
the
A FULL LINE OF SHOE
Just this morning I read in The towns with a past history. An ex ceiling and carefully take aim just not talk about themselves, and re
FINDINGS
Jacksonville Miner the story of the deputy sheriff gave me a touch of to
gard
with
sour
suspicion
those
who
one side of your air course and
song you are selling of Crater lake. past high life that happened at drop.
come
prying
into
their
affairs
.
.
.
the course of time ydu
In some ways it is very much Costella years ago when stage would In
develop
an uneasiness hard Starvation and dirt are not the
coaches
were
yet
in
fashion.
like the song poem I have in my
hallmark of poverty: they are the
1
to
describe.
An old miner worked by the day
S hoe R epair S hop
book, “Under Oregon Sky,” that I
normal
condition of thriftlessness.”
By this lady’s accounts her
Fred
L. Johnson, Proprietor
am getting out. Naturally I like in the placer diggins. He would get neighbor
Wallace
adds
this
tribute,
which
had the largest specimens
the song you have written by Mr. tired of honestly earned money, fix 1 have heard
will
be
recognized
as
the
truth
by
We
Give
S4H Green Stamps
of—bed bugs.
Tengwald and am going to invite himself up an ironclad alibi for his
anyone
who
has
been
poor
and
has
135
West
Main
Medford
Inquiring the distance to Red
him to join the League of Western absence and proceed to hold up a ding,
lived
with
poor
people:
43
miles
away,
I
gave
Joe
a
st; ge when it was carrying a good
W riters.
“The clean, decent poor! Their
noiseless wink and we were soon
The correction I have to offer is shipment of gold. He pulled this out
women
are more wonderful than
of this terrible zone. Landed
this: You state that this is the stunt on the Yreka stage once and in Redding
the
daughters
of kings . . . You
just
at
dark.
first musical composition written was recognized.
saw
them
hanging
out the wash
The Yreka sheriff came for him
Driving to the south side of town ing: stout women dying of cancer
about our national parks. This is
an error and in all fairness should and deputized the constable to go we found a fine camp ground—up- and smiling through it. Gripping
PAINTING
be corrected. 1 am enclosing words along to this holdup cabin. The to-date cabins—could lock our car their clothes-pegs in their teeth,
of a song dedicated to Rainier na sheriff knocked on the door, which and load safely up for the night. propping up lines, arresting their
PAPERHANGING
tional park three years ago, set to was opened by Mr. Robber. Greet Joe unjointed a patent camp rocker labors to wipe wet foreheads with
ings
were
exchanged.
The
robber,
he
keeps
on
hand
at
all
times,
say
ETC.
music and sung by Don Raymond,
wetter arms and exchange a jest
who won national fame after he shaking hands with the sheriff, ing you long suffering old gas ped- with the woman next door. Work
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sung it on one of my programs. jerked him inside the door, grabbed daler sit in this chair and rest ing, bearing and dying. The insur
Then, last summer, I featured it in a .45 off a bench and shot him while I get supper. Which I did. ance man calls once a week that
(Radiy Giv( n
a Medford theater with a singer through. The sheriff grappled with Joe knows how to cook—he is an they may make provision for a
robber
to
keep
from
falling,
the
expert with a tea bone steak, but decorous burying -their very am
from Central Point while Don Ray
Phone 13 or Drop a Card to
mond was singing in Fox houses. i the constable shot over the shoul- is a little particular about washing bitions are headed toward the
P. O. Box 51, Jacksonville
I also made this into a picture der of the dying sheriff and killed dishes. I tried to convince him grave.”
which has been written up inter the robber instantly. Two lives one’s system needs a certain
In the reading I have done I
snuffed out in a matter of seconds. amount of coarse food but ail my have
nationally.
never before seen the thought
Will you please run a notice in Such were the gold mining days in pleadings seemed to go in one ear expressed that “burial insurance”
and out the other.
your paper that any author or their prime.
is the poor man's badge of no
CARPENTER AND
From Costella it seemed to me
I must say that Joe is a gentle bility. Millions make weekly pay
writer interested in joining the
we
drifted
downhill
for
miles.
Joe
man from the bottom of his cal ments on policies of $100 and $200,
League of Western Writers to send
CABINET WORK
me their names before convention sat calmly by my side, uttering not ' loused and laminated feet to the because they are determined to pay
a
word
except
when
one
of
those
top of his curly and foliated hair— their own way right into the grave.
in August, to be held in San Fran
Screen Doors, Window
cisco. I have organized a unit in squeaking autos (some people call he insisted 1 have the best bed in That is real character. The way the
them
Ford
coops)
would
pass
us.
the
house,
he
sleeping
on
a
camp
Screens and Bui It-ins
Portland.
poor look after themselves is one
In my new book I have given Then he would make an unmanly cot. Well, anyhow, his job was do of the most tragically beautiful
a Specialty
Jacksonville a full page and will remark to the motormeter, which ing the cooking and mine the gas things in life.—William Feather.
would
go
up
to
twice
blood
heat
peddaling. I hope in his old age he
have a picture of the historic Britt '
Estimates Cheerfully Given
with indignant shame. I kept my j may wear a bright and shining ar
home on the opposite page.
FIND
GOLD
OVER
CANADA
I should like for you people to 12 and a halfs calmly on the gas : gentum crown, symbol AG, atomic
The Canadians seem fortunate
Thos. Laughead
arrange for a showing of my pic pedal—w’hich was the only way to weight 107.78, melting point 1761 in finding gold all over the coun- 1
degrees Fahrenheit.
tures in a hall there as I go get to the next town.
try,
from
the
Yukon
region
and
j
Bex 19.1, Jacksonville
On nearing a roadside camp I
Good night . . .
through to convention. I am sup
British Columbia to Manitoba and
spied
a
sign
reading
“
free
mineral
posed to give a showing in Klam
The boys are just getting
ath Falls if I can enroute. I have ! water.” Setting the air I came to
started on their long trip—
my own projection machine and j a hissing stop. I said, Joe, here is
watch for the next episody.
operator and would like for the where I get a drink of nice min-
citizens there to cooperate and
furnish a hall. This fall my films!
21,000 KRl’PP WORKERS OPT
The Editor Speaking
will be available through O. S. C.
and from my own laboratory for
The Krupp works, normally em
(Continued from page one)
educational purposes.
ploying
74,000 workers, have been
Very truly,
and old who were possessed with a compelled to drop 24,000 from their
AGNES E. HINES.
yen to shoot off fireworks without: payrolls. The losses sustained by
bothering to journey to the out the business last year amounted
skirts. Jim admits being a bit foot to $4,500 000 and were distributed
THE BIG BONUS BOYS
sore from extemporaneous foot over all branches of it.
Who do you suppose it was that’ races staged during the day be
said the other day that “the entire, tween culprits and the law, and SCOTCHMEN CAVE DWELLERS
United States lies stricken a prey j avers there are entirely too many
i
to the banker and corporate corners in Jacksonville for prank
Unable
to
afford
house
rents
groups,” and that “the big bonus sters to hide behind. It is strongly many people in Scotland are now
boys of big business who milked suspected, though, that Jim enter living in caves. One elderly man
the stockholders and consumers are ed into the holiday spirit and en has furnished a home for himself
now getting, indirectly, big bonuses joyed games of tag with towns in a cave at the foot of a cliff
from the people’s treasury”? Some people bent on ripping local air which can be entered or left only
anarchist, probably; or some so asunder.
at low tide.
cialist; or some Bolshevist. Guess
again. It was Henry Ward Beer,
The Jacksonville unit of the
RACING SPEEDS RISE
president of the Federal Bar as Shady
Side Athletic club com
sociation of New York, New Jer memorated
the glad event by mov
In nine years speed records for
sey and Connecticut and former ing. with unerring
accuracy,
from
automobile
racers at Daytona have
special assistant United States at- one to tother sidewalk bench as
risen from 146 miles an hour to
torney general.
Old Sol drifted lazily and torridly 253 miles per hour. Five of the
across
the clear summer sky. nine speed records in that time
BYLLESBY MAGAZINE
Chawin’ terbaccy had its usual were by the present holder of the
FEATURES CRATER LAKE good flavor and hay stems were
record.
just as wont to bend when used as
In addition to having a song
as ever. Notes were
STATE TO FISH PEARLS
written about it, “The Crater Lake toothpicks
compared
on
present-day condi
Waltz,” by Victor A. Tengwald, the tions and it was
clear why
Venezuela’s pearl fisheries will
popular phenomena in southern the Indians refuse made
to
take
back the hereafter
be operated by the state.
Oregon received nationwide recog country. Your correspondent
Venezuelan pearls are exception
nition as a result of some splendid the Athletic clubrooms the finds
most ally fine and have found a ready
publicity in the June issue of popular, and by far the most com
Byllesby Management, magazine. fortable, in the city. There’s cer sale in the jewelry markets of the
Hot Dinner Sandwiches
The issue, which features Crater tainly nothing in the world quite world. Many of them are of a deli
cate rose tint.
lake throughout, contains a fine
sittin’ around in the cool shade
article by Katherine Stewart of like
holiday fiends dashing MAKES WALKING STICKS
The California Oregon Power com watching
madly
past
the peak of haste
pany entitled “Jewel of the Cas and heat to in some
LIFETIME INDUSTRY
HEADQUARTERS FOR
secluded spot
cades—Crater Lake,” illustrated where only mosquitos,
ants
and
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with numerous attractive views of poison ivy await them. Such glor
In Snodland, County Kent, Eng
the famous scenic wonder in var ious relaxation and leisure, while land, there is a man who makes a
ious moods. The story, which oc mildly indulging in topics of the living growing walking sticks. He
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cupies the lead position in the day, does things to a person’s soul has been engaged in the business
magazine, shows the result of and puts them in a receptive mood 60 years and is considered the
much careful thought and research for a true appreciation of the won greatest authority on his craft in
and includes a beautiful Indian ders
and abortions of the age. the world.
legend of the forming of Crater Membership
Shady Side has FIND CAVE IN DEATH VALLEY
lake. A double-page spread of un been growing in by the leaps
Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks, Candy, Cigars
and bounds.
usual photographs depicting the
Barber Shop and Pool Hall in Connection
A huge cave has been found in
lake in winter garb adds rrrtich to
the effectiveness of the article.
Famous last words (with apolo Death valley, Calif., and will be
The front cover of the issue also gies to Life, Judge and Moore explored. The entrance is through
SOUND HORN FOR CURB SERVICE
is devoted to Crater lake and pre Hamilton): “Didn’t you know bet an opening 125 feet in diameter.
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sents a striking reproduction of the ter than to stay in the sun so The cave is located in the south
long?”
part of the valley.
Phantom ship.
Being the second of a series
of yarns concerning a search
for the elusive, feelthy lucre
railed gold, by two old Jack
sonville sourdoughs. Although
the narrative is purported to
be true, the management will
not refund any admission
prices.—The Editor.
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