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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1933)
TERMS OF PEACE— There can be no peace in Jackson county so long as crooked, scheming political anarchists are permitted to promote criminal syndicalism with the aid of two newspapers, $132,000 of county relief funds and the new courthouse auditorium. If the threatened bloodshed is to be averted, a swift and certain weeding-out process must be started at once and an intensive, truthful educational campaign the remote sections or of tne the county. There of the citizenry is allowed to believe ii< lies, exaggerations carried on in tne 1 nere can be no peace as long as some or ___ selfish ilfish and corrupt objectives have been hidden from their followers followers. There are but and distortions of hoggish and ' ignorant leaders whose ^two alternatives: A war with swift justice and truth as the weapon, or a war with bullets and men’s lives. 1 By ths Way, Was Thera Ever a Man by the Name of Dahack Shot In Thia Here County? — 1 [ he J acksonville M iner Volume 2 7/?e Editor Speaking HISTORIC HALL SHAKES WHEN FIDDLERS PLAY Nubmer 7 Will It Be Thumbs Up, Or GUESSWORK, DUPLICATION AND EXTRAVAGANCE SEEN IN COUNTY COMMISSARY RELIEF DOLE IDEA THUMBS DOWN? Estimate Already $2500 Spent for Wholesale Groceries Alone With Not One Days’ Labor Received in Return By MAUDE POOL . . Four hands across. Gents bow low and ladles bow lower,” and away they went, doing th«« basket swing to tho rollicking tune of a fiddle, at the Odd Fallow'« old- fashioned dance held In Jackson villa Friday evening and Grandfuther, a And speaking of the congress nnd bit Grandmother piqued with the trend of mod Its complexity of membership, it ern dancing, found this a (dace might be well to observe that most it took but tho stirring rhythm of people don't have to go all the wny the "Arkansas Traveler" or the back to their great grandfather to “Buffalo Girls" and the resonant find something to boast about. tones of the culler’s voice to carry < * them once more into the realm of Yea. It is beginning to look AN their youth. There they danced the though tho Greensprung Mountain square dunces to the old familiar boys and tho Rogue River ruffinns calls, such as "My Heel Kept a will hnve to wait until tho Fourth Hocking," “Good-bye, Maudle," and of July for their fireworks "Portland Fhncy.” The young folks I liked to try it too, and luckily the Human nature certainly Is queer. older ones did not scold about mis Ono would never think, to look takes. across the fertile Rogue and Ap- While the quadriIlers were sigh plegnte valleys, that half the nat ing and flourishing handkerchiefs ives living In these sections wore ; In an effort to get rested up for the almost ready to knife their first next one, the musicians gave the cousins over what should be J young folks a break und struck up laughed off as the huge Joko it numerous popular tunes like ronlly In. I "Somebody Loves You,” which the ' moderns Interpreted with the sim- And speaking of jokes, now is j pie walk thut great grandmother the time when a sense of humor ' would think no more imfiortant should be brought out of the moth than the walking she does about balls, aired a bit and put to use. her kitchen every day. For Instance, It would be far bet When D. L. Jones of Little Ap ter for the good and welfare If natives realized that. Instead of a plegate was asked how he thought bor three long years Jackson county has been listening to, newspaper, Banks sent his Stib this <lance compared with tho balls scribers a comic vnlentlne ins! | of other days, he replied with em an<| almost half-believing, unfounded, unproven and unjusti phasis, "Nothing like 'em' No! Do Tuesday you want my reasons? Well, sir,” fied attacks upon its prominent citizens, its institutions and Tn sum It all up, a good nut meat continued Dave, who filled the po- its courts. Like the boy who thinks his "sore” will heal itself the next for the week would be- It Is easier, I sltlon of official caller of the eve- (C’ontlned on page three» and far more graceful, to run to day, Jackson county has been standing idly by watching and jail than make good on a «Illy trusting to the fates to end this foul cancer which has infested threat to shoot an arresting officer, or backwash. Like the soldier, af $30,000 Profits Like the Rogue valley in the form of a paranoiacal, unbalanced, scheming editor who has absolutely no regard for the truth. ter declaring he’d never be cap tured. running to the enemy camp Other Canards, Says And, like the boy with the inconspicuous sore. Jackson and surrendering when he saw de Alleged Get-Rich-Fast county is surprised and dumbfounded now when it is about feat staring him tn the face to lose a limb—because it failed to take the trouble to apply ■ fl A few days ago the Medford remedies when infection began. An irate citizenry becomes The probable question of 1934: Dally News declared, via com- What became of Jackson county's i rniinlcatlon of A. B. Zimmer alarmed and wonders what it can do to save its very life as Colossus who refused to recognize man. that Raymond Reter. the infection spreads, now rapidly and deadly. tho courts last year? member of the mythical "gang” Those good citizens who realize at a late hour the dangers a fl which has been supposed to they have permitted to develop pale as they see the extent to t rottle all honest taxpayers I««t week we pointed out, by quoting excerpts from tho Oregon ' „Jr yenrs on end, cleaned up which roots of the cancer of misinformation, distrust and sus code, the personal liability of everv zjBSO.OOO In a single season five picion have reached. And the light is beginning to dawn that, member of the Good Government' years ago here from the poor like a cancer which has been permitted to feast itself unmo orchsrdlsts of the Rogue River congress should any member, or lested. Jackson county’s infestation cannot now be removed group of members, commit any act! valley. An Interview with the traffic of violence All who have signed without leaving a lasting and ugly scar. association official this week membership cards or attended They shudder with horror and look to their neighbor for revealed the following surpris meetings and lent their support an explanation. They are wont to lay the blame at the door would be equally guilty of violence ing Information, which is of under tho Inw, whether they were1 fered as a good sample of of the district attorney, the circuit judge and the legal pro a direct party to It or not, or Editor Banks’ misuse of tho fession. They completely overlook the fact that it is their OWN whether they even were unaware truth: negligence which has created the present state of affairs. The story was absolutely as to who actually committed any true, with the following excep- overt act. True, life in Jackson county the past few months has been tlona: It was not five years exceedingly interesting. At times the ruckus has furnished fine In a like measure. it might he ago; It was last year. It was entertainment, diversion from other troubles and occasional well to point out that all member« not in Medford; it was in Chi comedy relief. But now, when the fracas has extended its ten also would ho liable civilly should cago. It was not Raymond Reter; It was hfs cousin, and property he destroyed. The United tacles to the farthest reaches of the county, and disgusting ho did not make |.?0,000—he State« supreme court has held that publicity has reached even the Atlantic coast, valley folk are lost It. any member of a syndicalistic or beginning to realize the terrific price they have been paying— Mr. Reter said that, outside ganization 1« personally responsible and will continue to pay for years—for the brief respite from for the acts of ANY members of the exceptions above, the story (Continued on page two) was absolutely true. a tranquil existence. Lust For Gold Beginning to Take Toll in Local Mines weight onto the Ixintz shoulders, caromed down his spine, barking skin covering each vertebrae, and lodged comfortably over one of Homer's feet. The victim, fortu- nately, was thrust forward to a Midas' cursing, the lust for treas prone position and a sledge held ured gold, is beginning to take its the crushing weight from the pin- toll of Jacksonville comfort nn<i tied foot. Nathan Smith's trouble occurred well-being. Just last week Homer Lontz and last Saturday, on an upper corner Nathan Smith were victims of the of tho Burdell homestead, where unrulyness of nature, and limped he was working a hole in conjunc home from their buggy ride to bed tion with Don Dorothy. The two rock level on the Burdell property, were attempting to pry loose a formerly known uh the Gopher dig huge Htone when Nate, with reck gin’s. There were no fatal acci less abandon, failed to provide a dents, although Smith fainted from safe grip for one of his thumbs and extreme pain when a huge boulder Irvlted the imps of fate to plunge sat down In no uncertain manner him Into excruciating depths of on his thumb. pain. Either I-ontz and Smith were When the boulder did respond to born under the wrong asteral com the gasping grunts of the laboring binations, or there is a jinx on the pair it retaliated by pinning Burdell lots. Both young miners Smith's finger under its 800 pounds were Injured last week when boul of solidity. When the thumb was ders, which had been whereasing extricated from the trap, Smith was the Inws of gravity for some time, taken uptown to the Dorothy home lost tlw'lr buttle nnd tumbled fur for first aid treatment and. as the ther toward the inner reaches of Saturday night saying goes, this orb. Homer’s back nnd Nate’s "passed out cold." There were no thumb were unfortunate enough to broken bones, but Nathnn appeared he in tho direct path of both boul In town later that day with his en ders. which weighed nearly a tire arm in a sling. It seems that, thousand pounds each. however, he was given choice be Wednesday, it was, when Lontz, tween ridicule and arm discomfort, working with Mike and Jack Bur- nnd In true youthful fashion. Smith dell and L. Boone on the lower end chose the latter. of the Burdell property, crouched Sympathizers have been casting beside one of the dangerously sus about for a wheelchair for Smith pended boulders to light a clgaret. lest ho Injure two fingers the next He had been laboring an entire day time. Both victims, after a week in the tunnel, and had about come end of hot towels, liniment and ap to trust tho huge atone when, while propriate reflections on dropping ha was still in a crouched position, rocks, were able to return to work ouch! Down came the granite Monday. SUCCOR REQUESTED Has anyone an idle wheel chair? If so. please communi cate with Nathan Smith at once. But You Really Ought* Subscribe Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, February 17, 1933 Perhaps “from one good (?) con grnssman to another" should hnve been the opening phrase in t I p Day* of Grandmother Recalled As Caller Jone* Keep« Good Government congress' reso- lution sent to Washington the J'KSer» *n Line other night While speaking of the local con gress and Its officers, possibly we were a hit hasty in criticizing President Henrietta Maybe she got her habits from her husband's Air ways Radio station, which ulwnys Is butting In on a good program. 5c a Copy Upstanding, law-abiding citizens not only have permitted their own government and community to be shamed, but the respect and good name of the entire state of Oregon has been dragged in the slime and stinking rot of a scheming, dishonest editor’s pen. The state judicial system has been libeled, not only here where we all know and understand the cause and insaneness of the charges, but all over the nation—in remote points where allegations and slurs will go unchallenged and unexplained. Like a dead animal under a house which casts its stench over the entire abode, all of Jackson county has been permeated with the foul and revolting stink of a single roomful of print ing machinery dripping from ugly, misleading lies which have been crammed through it day after day. Yet, ugly and dangerous as the situation has become, Jack- son county does not have to endure the torture and disgrace of its malady. If it chooses, this venomous, insidious parasitical work can be stopped almost immediately*—but NOT by cussing the district attorney or the circuit judge. The American people for 150 years have prided themselves on the democratic form of government they have evolved and perfected. They have swelled with earned satisfaction because autocratic and dictatorial powers have been relegated to no one man—or group of men. They have boasted that the will of the people rules. Yet, when definite, decisive action is needed and needed badly—as is the case in Jackson county today— these same Americans look to their elected officials for a so lution of their problems. The same citizens who chose to strip officials of great power wail when those same officials are unable to rise to the occasion and wield sometimes necessary dictatorial authority. And now, when southern Oregonians are asking each other why the district attorney, the circuit judge or someone hasn't put a stop to this disgraceful morning publication, they forget for the moment that the RULE OF THE PEOPLE STILL HOLDS 1 They proceed to spend years and fortunes devising a government which represents the people, and which cannot act without the help and support of the people, and then wonder that their government can’t step in and take drastic steps just because drastic steps SHOULD be taken. In the case of Jackson county’s trouble, the will of the people is the controlling factor. So long as Jackson county citizens permit a scheming, dishonest editor—or pair of editors (Continued on PM« two) “We feed ’em first and investigate afterwards” is the boast of County Judge Earl Kehl and his head of relief work, Ham ilton Patton. Close observation of the county commissary the past month bears out this statement—and then some. An estimated 5000 people are being fed by Jackson county at present, with nothing in return but PROMISES to work the bill out after the groceries have been consumed. Here’s Thow Kehl's revolutionary scheme works: A man walks into the county commissary, approaches a desk where the “records" are kept. “My name is John Doe and I want groceries. I have a family of six.” His name and address are placed on a blank slip of paper with the quantity of groceries to be given. He proceeds to stand in line at a long counter, where he is served with his allotment. The slip of paper is placed In a box, the man walks out with enough necessities to feed his family for the week, 35-Ton Standard Unit to Re his alleged name and address are place Former Mill Which retained in a file and Jackson Failed in Test Run county’s taxpayers, who thought they were going to get a reduction Showing unusual courage and in taxes, pays the bill with not even an honest hour’s work In re perseverance in their determina tion to erect and successfully oper turn. Businessmen In the near vicinity ate a gold mill here, the Jackson declare expensive and almost new ville Gold .Mining company, limited, cars drive up daily, men smoking lias invested to date close to >6000 long cigars get out and in a few in mill equipment alone. After a few months test run of minutes return with enough gro ceries to feed their Dock entirely a new-type mill manufactured in without effort or money. Out-of-, Medford which proved claims for state cars generally are parked 1 the machine exaggerated, officials around the comer on a side street 1 of the company tore down all equip and drivers and occupants—some-! ment, departed for San Francisco times as many as four to the car— j \ and arranged for the shipment to walk the half block to get their this city of a 35-ton proven type Number 43 Straube rib-cone screen dole from the new county judge. Groceries are given promiscously head mill. Heavy machinery has to everyone, based merely on the arrived and is being installed oa simple and unsworn statement that newly poured concrete foundation. the family is in need of aueh-and- Other accessory equipment in such for the week. As result of this cludes a 75-ton crusher, automatic system, one family near Jackson feeders and several new electric ville is reported to have accumu motors, all units to be individually lated four sacks of flour and powered. enough potatoes to last the re L. Houghton, general manager of mainder of the spring. The system the Seattle mining men who hare Invites undeserving and transient east their lot with Jacksonville people to live off the county irre- gold deposits, expects that first gardless of their ability to provide test runs of the new outfit will be for themselves, and the question made about the latter part of next has been raised by many as to just week. where such people, who haven’t The discarded Ellis regrinder the price of a loaf of bread or sack unit was shipped to Scenic, Wash., of flour, get gasoline money, dance where it was installed in the Two tickets and tobacco funds. Jacks mine. It is possible, it was A few days ago one man Is said, that the Medford mill will known to have left the commis be sold to California miners, re sary with an armload of grocer sulting in a minimum loss to the ies and less than 30 minutes later company on equipment which traded the entire allotment for a failed. rifle. A checkback by employes of Weight of the Straube mill alone the commissary has revealed a is about 18 tons. Amalgum plates high percentake of false addresses and concentrating table will handle given, and several have been seen the product of the new reduction to make second and third trips for unit. groceries in a single day under I ------------------- ---------------------- assumed names. It Is thiB lack of • Mrs. I* C. Port entertained system which has been working a eight ladies at a pleasant after hardship not only on the taxpayers, noon party at her home one day but also on the county’s really de- ,__ ____ which was w«a given iveu m last w week in nonur honor serving dependents, who are wil-Albert Yonng'artR (Continued on page four) 11. Garrison. NEW STRAUBE MILL WILL BE READY IN WEEK Mount Mazama's Spewings Start New Local Industry Unsuspectingly, perhaps. Jack cumference, alx miles wide and sonville has become the cradle for several thousand feet deep. Later a new industry! outbursts sent up a secondary peak This new industry, according to, — —v« muuci cone conn — —-wiiiiiu or cinder within this vi«,- crat Fred Sparks, was made possible by er which eventually filled with the the ancient behaviour of Mount most mysterious body of water Mazama. that five-mile high vol- ' known to man. cano which formed the resting All activity, however, contributed place for the most beautiful its share toward the laboratory of breath-taking of all nature’s Fred Sparks and his Jacksonville ations. Crater lake. industry. For nearly every up To go into the history of the new heaval—some of which hurled lava business devised by Sparks about and rock _ __ for _____ almost _ a _______ hundred three months ago—that of manu- miles—produced great quantities facturing novelty souvenirs from of pumice. And. because of Its pe- lava rock—Indian legend must be culiarly light weight, great abras searched for an explanation of the iveness and dramatic origin, has presence in southern Oregon of an never failed to arouse interest and abundance of pumice stone, a pe speculation in humans who view culiar formation of fibrous rock its characteristics and lift its de which defies the laws of gravity ceiving bulk. despite its sometimes huge propor “The only true souvenir of Crater tions. Geologists, scientists and the lake,” as Sparks describes his pro aforementioned Indian legend duct, is about the most accurate (sometimes far more accurate than sales talk which could be evolved one would suspect) agree that at for his pumice novelties, taking the < ' one time what is now Crater lake form of ash trays, nut bowls, floor was a complete, active volcano, lamps, gold nuggets and whatnot, belching forth the fires of hell. actually were belched forth from Towering to perhaps 20,000 feet the very innards that departed to high—or more—the peak WAS make room for the indigo wonder. something, as peaks go in this Starting with an idea while in world of ours. Yet, by some freak the pumice fields near Prospect of nature, due perhaps to the cool this winter. Sparks already has ex Ing and contraction of the earth. panded his novelty business to sur Mount Maxania either extended it prising proportions. Abalone shells, self in one mighty blast—as took sea novelties and other trimmings place a few miles southward on are being shipped from Fort Bragg. Mount lessen several years ago— Calif., to decorate and complete and ripped off its entire upper pre some of the creations manufac ponderance or, in a moment of tured. and design patents for the weakness, simply caved in. Tn "Volcanic Novelties company” are either event, the resultant stub of pending in Washington. Prices on the pumice stone bits mountain, which in itself towers nearly 10.000 feet in places, enclr-- from what was once North Amer- I cled a great crater 30 miles in clr- (Contlnued on page four)
