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Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, January 6, 1933
I
Number I
‘YOU GET JUST WHAT YOU VOTE FOR’
I
YY
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I WILL INSTALL Comic Opera Court
NEW 35-TON Disregards All But
STRAUBE MILL
Grandstand Moves
It probably Is professional dis­
courtesy to cross pens with a coun
ty judge who hus scarcoly hud
time to warm the plush of the
executive roost, but we wish to
disagree with Karl Fehl on one of Present Medford Mill Failure;
Expect Installation Ready
his proposals which ho claims will
"save Oregon taxpayers millions
About February First
of dollars.'*
Spite Proceedings Occupy Time of New County
Judge While Unemployed and
Hungry Wait.
c
ìi.*Pbtlosn|ihpr
l.a*t week we promised to
give you primitive man’s an­
swer to his first question. Sure­
ly a lot of questions confronted
him and, fortunately for us, he
was an inquisitive fellow.
Let’s visit him In his damp
and gloomy cave. Just emerging
from the gray dawn of his in­
telligence. his reasoning powers
were very limited. His existence
surely was a dreary one. It is
doubtful if fire had been dis­
covered and with the wild
beasts roaming the
forests
where he gathered his food, life
was harsh and cruel. Even na­
ture was unkind. Storms or
quakes would crumble his cave­
home, often with fatal results
to the cave group. Hand to hand
combat was his only means of
defense. Naturally he was puz­
zled and asked a lot of ques­
tions—all to be answered by
himself with his own limited
thinking ability.
Naturally his first question
had to do with self-preservation.
When in search of game so
many things happened that he
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WILL SWEAR IN
NEW OFFICERS
TUESDAY NITE
Take Steps to Further Chance
of Reconstruction Aid
on Water Bonds
Fulling to bundle more than a
Jacksonville's
own
political
At present the state census tax,
world will readjust Itself to the
which Is levied in each county und third of It* rated 25 ton capacity,
new year next Tuesday night, when
paid into a generul county school th« Medford mill ln*tull*»d here by
County Judge Lari Fehl yesterday announced that "as far
the new councilman and reelected
fund, culls for the raising of nt tlio Ju»'k*on vllle Gold Minina coin- [
city officers will be sworn in to
least |10 per head for each minor puny, limited. Ia*t »umrner will be as I ant concerned, the county court is adjourned until the
assume their respective duties.
first Wednesday in February.” This was Judge Fehl’s answer '
resident therein between tho ages junked.
Operation of the mill, which wa*
Peter Fick, the only new member
of four and 20 years. Fehl proposes
to
a
question,
put
by
Commissioner
Emmett
Nealon,
as
to
to change the age limit to Include equipped with a regrlixler. plate*. J
of the city council, replacing Os­
whether
the
county
court
was
in
session.
Judge
Fehl
said
the
.
only those of school age—six years (oncentratlnK table, crusher and
car Mwis, will become one of the
to 16- -and thereby believe* ho will three bin*, ceased more than a ¡ matter being heard before him at the time was criminal in
city dads, and Recorder Ray Cole­
suve taxpayers
gigantic
sums week uko and I* not scheduled to i nature, and not a county court proceeding.
man. Treasurer Chitwood and May­
resume until u new unit, u 35-ton
or Hartman will be resworn for
yearly.
Following
Judge
Fehl
’
s
declaration
that
as
far
as
he
was
j
standard Htraube lip-cone mill, I*
the coming term Other council­
I
However, Fehl in his peculiar Installed. It I* expected that Feb [ concerned there was no county court in session. Commission­
men include Clint Itunnington. Jim
ruary
I
will
see
completion
of
re
ers Nealon and Ralph Billings retired to another room and
way of thinking, doe* not realize
Cantrail and Ed Severance, who
he I* putting the cart before the moddinic equipment and inatalla-
also was reelected. Mayor Wesley
formally opened the county [
horse. He can't see that ruttili« <»ff tlon of the new mill, which will be |
Hartman will continue his “it has
court, with Billings acting as ■
the source of supply of school shipped from Seattle,
been moved and seconded” ca­
1 judge in the absence of Judge I
money doe* In no way le**en the
pacity for another two years.
U Houghton, general manager
Fehl. Several matters of min­
coat of education In Oregon, He and superintendent of the com-
Last Tuesday night's session,
seem* unable to grasp the fad pany, C. A. Whitney, president, W.
or importance were heard, in­
which was the last for the present
thnt. If revenue from school census m Barrie, secretary, and A. J
cluding the order to withdraw.
council, tabled most action till the
Is lowered a sixth, that that same [ Kochberg, engineer, returned from
Clyde Ward, brother-in-law of L*
following week, but discussed a re­
difference will have to be made up San Francisco Sunday morning,
A Bank*, a* custodian of the coun-[
ply received from the Reconstruc­
In the school district.
where they arranged for the now
ty machinery. Rosebury had refus­
tion Finance corporation relative
"VC
Htraube mill, which carries an ab­
ed to turn over the keys and build-1
to a loan on water bonds and de­
Ing to Ward, as Ward was not
Here's how It would work out solute guarantee with It and is of
cided to further efforts to secure
armed with a regular court order, Emma Alice Ulrich, 69, a former federal aid. Acknowledgment was
In Jacksonville, should Fehl'* prop oroven type and in general usage
and the decision of the county resident of Ja ksonville, passed made of receipt of the application
oMitlon bo written Into Oregon law; throughout the west. Officials of
B t
th** company proceeded on to Se­
court was to clear up the matter. away at her uo.u- in Medford Fri­ a few weeks ago and instructions
Under the law, Rosebury was res­ day morning, Di'cmber 30. after on further steps to be taken were
This year the Jacksonville school nt tie early this week to complete
district will receive, under the the transaction and to start the
ponsible for the machinery and m ilbiess cov^riuf the past three received which were interpreted by
present law, about 13000 from th** heavy unit on Its way to the banks
buildings until such time as he years.
City Attorney Hanna to mean that
*’
was bora in Plymouth, in- Jacksonville will have to show the
census tax raised over tho entire of Jackson creek, where It will be
was properly ordered to leave It.
county.
With
the
age
limits used to reduce ore from the Old
The order of Judge Fehl, without , liar;- January .4, 1463. She came finance group that local wate»-.
changed to Fehl'a plan, but |2.'*00 Town mine, which is under lease
the consent of either commission­ to Jacksonville v-ith her parents at works are self-supporting and that
would be received by tho Jackson­ to the mining company.
er, was not proper authority, ac­ ¡.be .ip.e of 12 ycj -, and was united revenue from the system would re­
i in marriage to William Ulrich tire the bonds.
ville school district
cording to law.
Vnllke the present mill, which
June 4, 1884. later moving to Med­
Nealon
and
Bil-
Commissioners
Is of Medford design and manufac­
It is believed by councilmen that
ford.
She leaves her husband. Wil­
Yet. it is easy to ace, this change ture, the Htraube outfit will utilize
lings instructed Sherfff Gordon liam Ulrich, who is seriously ill at this can be done and another letter
In no way affects expense neces­ heavy balls which will do the ac­
Schermerhorn to inform Ward his
to Washington is expected to be
sary to educate students, and the tual < rushlng of ore, and has th*-
service as custodian of the county the present time, two sons, Leo . prepared some time this week. It
Ulrich. Sheridan, Wyoming; Earl
|*>oo difference would have to be advantage of built in classifiers.
machinery was ended, and to re­
was pointed out that other cities
made up In the Jacksonville dis­ O n will travel from this unit di
move his deputy sheriff’s badge, at Ulrich, Prospect; Mrs. H. E. Car- similar to Jacksonville—and less
nell.
Klamath
Falls;
Mrs.
T.
A.
trict itself or there would be a rectly to amalgam plates and con
least as far a* the county court was
Carlton, Prospect; Mrs. William deserving—have benefited from the
deficit.
concerned.
cent rat Ing table, with no reclas-
Young, Medford, also four grand­ reconstruction funds.
siflrr or regrtnder necossary.
Ward, besides being a brother- children. Maxine and Erlene Young
An interesting sidelight on Jack­
We are afraid Little Karl's
Th*> term “lip-cone” comes from
in-law to Editor Banks, to whom and Thayer and Tommy Carlton.
sonville’s gold mining proclivities
"horse sense” bad jumped the hal­ the fact that Interior of the mill,
Emmett Nealon, appointed to
Judge Fehl owe* a political debt,
Funeral services were conducted was brought out when it was re­
ter and was out In the pasture a cylinder, is fitted with huge
fill the vacancy caused by the
ha* served for several years as from the Sacred Heart Catholic ported to city officials that a bit
when he penned hie suggestion
resignation
of
County
Commis
­
cones which return too-coarse ore
foreman of the Suncrest orchards, church in Medford Monday morn­ of the yellow riches was tiltering
thnt young E*l Kelly use his in­ to the center of the mill for fur­
sioner Barneburg, was the un­
of which Banks is the chief owner ing. January 2, at 10 o’clcok, Father down into the city treasury from
fluence to put such legislation In
intentional
cause
of
a
county
ther reduction as the entire ap­
and manager.
tho statute books
Francis Black officiating. Inter­ a lease to local miners. Note for
tong war. Ever since his choice
paratus revolves
Screen classi­
Ward was placed ln charge of ment was in the Medford I. O. O. F. payment of cemetery lots was ex­
w w
by the retiring court county
fiers
are
located
at
the
lip
of
the
tended for a year upon receipt ot
the shops, according to Judge Fehl, cemetery.
And here’s another angle to look cone, where ore ground to the de­
officers have been fighting
interest.
at. It taken tho entire county to
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on
page
four)
hammer
and
tong.
The special session next Tues­
make Copco what It la, yet the sired mesh travels through the
day night, January 10, will handle
Prospect and Gold Ray districts screen and onto amalgum plates.
all new business, including selec­
reap the benefits of the public utili­ Much heavier and larger than the
tion of marshal, water auu street
ties whereas the rest of the coun­ equipment now In place In the mill
commissioner and other mstteis
ty. which pays Uxht bills just the shed, the Straube mill should In­
crease
handling
of
ore
several
fold.
Ruch residents glimpsed an in­ concerning the city’s business.
name, in almost left out in the cold
teresting cross-section of the pe­ There arc several applications for
when it comes to obtaining funds The mill to be junked hss been
By LLEWELLYN A. BUNKS
culiarities of life a few days ago the marshal and water positions,
from public works located In other handling atiout eight tons dally of
when a young colporteur and his -■ hlch might be split into two sit­
school districts
Under the pres­ Its rated 25-ton ability.
Not only had the first mill in­
bride trudged through the village uations.
ent taxation scheme, the census
in the pouring rain, both bearing
tax Is about the only means of stalled failed to handle Its adver­
upon their backs the necessities of
distributing a fraction of the Copco tised capacity, or a fraction there­
GOOD DEED IS NOT
everyday living.
contributions to all districts of the of, but ft also was temperamental,
not
being
adapted
to
cold
weather
Neither
their
destination
nor
the
FORGOTTEN AT XMAS
Please,
Mr.
Hogwallow
Blatter
editor,
please!
Our
pride!!
county.
when water was wont to freeze on
beginning of their journey was re­
You ain't polite a'tall to a brother editor. Just because we vealed to onlookers, but their un­ The old quotation. “Give and ye
If Fehl’s suggestion were put to classifier screens outside the unit.
law. this county wide distribution Failure of the Medford mill hnd discovered you had no copyright on certain journalistic breach­ tiring efforts in spreading the Gos­ shall be given.” proved true for
would bo even less, (>ur attorta been freely predicted by local min­ es is no reason why you should paint a glowing picture of pel was evident, and many were two Applegate men at Christmas
toward redistribution of tax money ing men experienced in milling wealth, financial backing and subsidies which we simply can't the remarks concerning the lot time, when Santa Claus appeared
this young couple had chosen. They In spirit, if not exactly in person,
should be In the opposite direction, gold.
live up to.
left behind curiosity as to their with a supply of provisions. There
fut although Prospect and Gold
Why, we’re not only hog-tied by the Mail Tribune job de­ plans when nightfall should come, was pumpkin pie, fruit cake, cook
OREGON CITY—(Special)—Re­
Ray have the actual power plants,
the entire county makes their erec­ sult* of banding tree* with medi­ partment but we re also (worse luck) indebted to it. S. Sumpter yet they trod confidently down the ies. candy, steak, bread and but­
cated codling moth tree bands in i Smith, that innocent-as-a-lamb Medford power, as you charac­ road in the rain, probably secure ter and sweet potatoes. The re­
tion and operation itosaible.
in the faith which their calling ceivers were filled with the delight
an orchard where worms were kept [
*. *
that a little child feels over some
But don't ever let anyone kid you under good control this year were terize him. certainly has strings on The Jacksonville Miner. had taught them.
The young man had frequented trivial fancy.
Into believing that, by reducing obtained this fall on the Luther He not only furnishes the type, paper and press for the pub­
Income, you can save money. The Felker Place at Eagle creek. Five lishing of this sheet, but he also charges REAL MONEY (some­ the Applegate before, and had
Somebody had not forgotten the
place to start thrift Is not at the bands there produced only a total thing you never handle, we believe) for the service. And if we spent much of his time visiting the time not long ago when one of
remote sections of southern Ore­ these men had passed by and had
receiving end but the disbursing of 24 larvae when examined, rang­
point saving Is accomplished by ing from two to eight each. In don’t get our account paid-up pretty soon, it looks as though gon. particularly the coast regions. relieved her, without charge, of her
Previously, he had possessed a unpleasant task of splitting wood.
spending less, not by collecting badly infested orchards hundreds lie'll own a little weekly newspaper.
horse to take him on his mission
less.
of larvae have been captured under
But we regret to inform you. as usual, your paranoiacal de­ work, but 111 luck came along. The • Mrs. A. S. Kleinhammer spent
each band.
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ductions are, like the Jacksonville watershed, just naturally all horse died, leaving him no method Friday at the home of Mrs. Martin
Stevens at Medford.
wet. And if you should ever chance to actually see Mr. Smith of traveling except to walk
Starts Tong War
Former Resident Dies
in Medford Friday
Once Too Often
Trudging in Rain,
Couple Visits Ruch
“Do Two Lies Make One Truth?”
us around on our weekly visit to advertisers, it will
‘What Else Could You Expect be following
on collection day.
And that dinner you mentioned in your prevaricator’s an- Bonfire Atop Hill Not Real;
—we’d like to inform you that the D. H. Ferry you men­
of a Yellou) ?Xl!’ Chants Editor | ntlal
tioned as present was at the time in Seattle, Washington, some
Britt Lights Send Out Greeting
700 miles away; we have never met O. C. Boggs ourselves, and [
The common sense and fair ¡their attorneys, and demanded the
mlndedness of Sheriff Gordon j t wo men appear before him per­
Schermerhorn prevented two re­ sonally. Onlookers In the court-
spectable county citizens being j room scented viciousness In Judge
cast Into prison Wednesday night : Fehl’s order.
when warrants were Issued at
Attorney M. O. Wilkins, of Ash-
County Judge Earl Fehl’* order for I land, was appointed by Judge Fehl
the nrrost of former County Judge [to represent the county court in
C. B. I.nmkln, and former County place of District Attorney George
Commissioner
Victor
Burnell. [Godding. Attorney Wilkins was the
When the warrants were served [ independent candidate for district
yesterday they were found to be attorney who was supported by L.
faulty, as a circuit court seal had i \. Banks in the recent political
been put on a county court sum- [campaign, and the candidate who
mon*.
was denounced by Judge Fehl, dur-
Sheriff Schermerhorn's failure ling the campaign, as unfit to hold
office, and
weak-kneed
to serve the warrants Wednesday [ public
night, and his further refusal to enough to be bossed by the bar
Attorney
William
explain to reporters what, had hap- association.
penod In tho case, drew tho fire of Briggs, representing Lamkin, pro­
L. A. Banka, local editor, who is tested Wilkins’ right to serve the
reported as saying, “Well, what county ns district attorney on
could you expect of that yel­ Judge Fehl’s appointment.
The charge of mutilating public
low ................. !”
Sheriff Schermerhorn served the records, upon which the warrant
of arrest was served, is based on
summons on Judge Lamkin yester­ tho action of Commissioner Bur-
day, which was found to be faulty. sell and Judge Mmkln ln signing
New warrants were Issued for the the court journal on Tuesday, Jan­
arrest of the two which were given uary 3, for the actions of the county
careful scrutiny by Judge Fehl, and court on last Saturday, the last
were taken out by Sheriff Scher­ day of their term In office. The
merhorn for service. The warrants transcript of the court activity was
ordered Judge Minkin and Bur- not written up until Tuesday, ac­
sell to nppear at 2 o'clock Friday cording to members of the county
for hearing before Judge Fehl on clerk’s staff, due to a last minuto
contempt of court charges.
rush to complete other work, and
Judge Fehl . refused
to allow the Issuance of several hundred re­
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Ijamkln and Bursell to appear by lief payroll checks.
have never walked down the street—any street—as much as 50
Brilliant red flames, which ap­ Emil, contain what is acknowl­
feet with S. S. Smith in our lives. Of course we understand you parently
licked their vicious way edged the state’s most complete
care not what the true situation is. because you know as well to the heavens from atop a Jack­ collection of historic photographs
ps we do ourselves that every statement you have made about sonville hill to motorists leaving of people and scenes.
The Miner and its "powerful financial backing by the Medford Medford on the connecting high
Visitors—who are welcomed by
way proved, as the awed observer
Mail Tribune and the Gang" is falsification and a deliberate lie. neared the old town, to be nothing the Britts—Save found galleries of
rare old portraits preserved in a
You have but one defense for making such untrue accusa- 1 more nor less than gigantic holiday photographic studio kept intact
tions, and that would be your paranoiacal cerebrum, which decorations adorning the stately since the days of Jacksonville’s
evergreen trees on the Britt prop­ prime. Old lenses, cameras, back­
seems to have an unbounded proclivity for thinking "everyone erty here.
grounds and equipment still are
is a crook but me and thee, and I smellest glue on thy finger­
The historic Britt studios, cen­ arranged as though in readiness for
tered
in
the
midst
of
a
veritable
tips.”
a beaming customer in high button
of shrubbery flowers.
p^Ucoats “and Merry
In your extreme egotism, you just simply overlook the fact fairyiand
hedge and trees, have long been xvidow hat who m) ht d
ln from
that our purpose in attacking your Hogwallow Blatter is an one of the show places of southern the bustllng llttle mlnlng center at
honest desire to protect the erstwhile happy Jackson county Oregon, and Emil and Molly I ritt an moment t0 “have her tin type
residents from your poisonous tongue and pen. Your attitude [ in tune with the holiday spirit at tooken.”
Christmas time, several years ago
in this matter is a direct parallel to your conceited appraisal of inaugurated the custom of string­ However, it is sad to note that
your worth to Oregon as a senator. But somehow the rest of ing many-colored electric lights on few of the humans who gazed at
the people in the state always manage to be out of step with the trees fronting the homestead, i the towering lighted trees—first
which are visible for several miles with alarm, then with a glowing
your self-centered plots.
from the floor of the valley.
sense of seasonal cheer—oompre-
And it appears significant to us that any article which
Rislng to a height of many feet, handed the real enchantment and
should treat you as you have treated yout* neighbors should be. the modern decorations brought to history of the surrounding grounds,
in your estimation, “scurrilous, indecent, slanderous and at­ the attention of hundreds foliage or sensed the ghost of years gone
tempted blackmail.’’ Yet our accusations and attacks upon your which was maturing when the by when candle-lighted Japanese
state’s first pan of gold was lanterns replaced the present-day
lopsided nature have just begun, whereas you have been stink­ washed out a few hundred feet electrically-powered globes. Only a
ing Jackson county affairs to the high heavens for three years. below. The electrically-illuminated small fraction of those who noticed
As usual, your alleged tie-up between The Miner and the colored bulbs were a modern con­ the Britt display grasped the sig-
r___ _ .
nlflcance of the Christmas mes-
to the house of photographic!
Mail Tribune is fantastically elaborate and flimsy—and com­ trast
treasurae
the trees
been I sage, and the importance Jackson-
treasurse the
trees have
1
pletely without any proof whatsoever. Your entire case is guarding tor many years. The Britt ville played In the forming of not
founded upon the belief that your only enemy in Jackson coun- studios, operated ln the town's in- only southern Oregon, but the kin­
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fancy by the parent of Molly and i tire state of Oregon.
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