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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1933)
Too Derned Much Law and Order Say« Jailed Congressman 1 rHE J acksonville M iner Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, March 31, 1933 Volume 2 5c a Copy But You Really Ought« Subscribe Number 13 FEHL INTO MILK WAR Speaking LOCAL RELIEF HEADS CHOSEN FIRST OF WEEK April Fool! This Ain’t Chicago, It’ Our Own Medford Personal Revenge, Not Public Benefit, Object of Price Competition Well, It's gotten to the point whore no n«w> almost I« bud new« Th«« puxt low days headline« huve not been blazing forth announcing Godward, Coleman and Mrs. Hie arrest of additional ballot j Severance Named Relief thieve«, criminal syndicalism*« und i armed "county government re j Under Guise of Readjusting Gap Between Group Jacksonville former«." they nil having been In [ Producer and Consumer County Judge carcerntod xoiue 23 of 'em. on The county relief committee, cjiurgoH ranging from first degree Has Worked Hardship on Both murder on down. headed by (’ Il Braley of Medford, ibis week ap|>olnted Kay Coleman. Revelations of how County Judge Earl H. Fehl hoodwinked And the outcome of the reform G. W. Godward and Mr». Florine move In Jackson county gives a Severance an relief committee for follower-, and citizens of Jackson county into believing he niie:>»ur«» of levity to the apparently Juckr.onvllle. The committee start- really was making a conscientious effort in their behalf were ed functioning Monday. 'wild slutcmenlH we were printing made this week by a Miner reporter investigating the recent a few months ago. At that time it God ward, local storekeeper ami —and still raging—milk price war. was predicted In The Miner that, gold buyer, wax named ux chair unless curbed, the congress activi man, with Mrx. Severance ax nec- I nder the false front of desiring to aid poor anti needy ty would re.ult in bloodshed and retary. Coleman wax placed In families to enjoy a greater supply of wholesome milk at an wholesale crime. Although muny charge of all relief labor, which extremely low price, and to eliminate profiteering, the county agreed with the stories und edl- will be prorat<«d to" qualifying head« judge has fostered and originated a milk war that not only torials. nothing was done or prob- of famlllex In payment for grocery aldy could huve been done— until order« und caxh. Monday afternoon, reduced income to producers—the farmers who voted for the courthouse was broken Into following the appointment«, the Fehl — but which seriously and a peace officer shot. trio met and laid plan« for caring threatened the dairying indus for all hungry and needy famllle« -a * try of southern Oregon. Not But now it Is just about a cai<i In the local district. that all results of the price war of the railroad blues for most of ft wax pointed out by the com those arrested, and a promise of mittee that the relief work, which have been bad. but the selfish Idle time In which to work out a I« a unit in the «tatowtde relief motives which spurred the better method of reforming the program and lx linked with county county judge into launching American plan of government when forces, will replace the county com- the cut-price warfare w’ere ac they get out which two of them mlssary, which being dispensed Chamber Commerce City Dads to Scan tually far from his published probably never will do, alive Al- with this week-end, and wilt re- though families of many of those place Its rather wasteful and dup- reasons. to Discuss Y e a r ’ s Beer Regulation in faclng charges are due much aym Heating effort with a more effl- As has been demonstrated by the March Gold Sales Mark New pathy, It should be remembered, dent, localized organization of judge’s conduct of his office since City Tuesday Nite Work Monday Nite sympathy Is the one thing that has workers closely associated with ap High for Local Mines the first of the year and by the thwarted justice and reul law and plicants for county and state aid. attitude of his newspaper for the Says Godward Jacksonville's powers that be. Jacksonville Chamber of Com order In this country for so many The county commissary had been merce. recently reorganized and headed by Mayor Wesley Hartman, past 10 years, Fehl in launching years. the object of much criticism while enlarged. next Monday night at are scheduled to meet Tuesday the milk war didn’t give a hang The nearest many pepole will — untfei the dictation of County 7:30 o’clock will meet in its room« night in the city hall to consider for the dear downtrodden farmer. ever come to heaven, that is, walk While speaking of sentiment, ! | Judge Earl Fehl, and had been s hotel building. ways and means of licensing sale In fact, as usual, he intended to on streets paved with gold, is to there hux been worry expressed by» taken from his control a few weeks In the old .Many Imixirtant matters concern . of light wines and beer here. It make that very same public whose trod the length of California street Home of the phyxlcal condition of ago. Cooperation with the state been slightly more than 18 case he claimed to be championing in Jacksonville. Mrs. Bunks rexultnlg from her stay to secure additional relief funds ing the welfare of the city, as well j has This surprising fact was re years since foaming schooners leg- the goat for more of his personal In the county jail. The hope wax resulted In the present statewide us the chamber, are scheduled When the beauty spot being cre I ally slid across a dozen or more villification, persecution and po vealed this week by G. W. God expressed by attorney* this week ! program of localized relief agen litical ambition. ward. local gold buyer, who stated that '.we would get her out ax soon cies In each community and the ated along the highway in this | local bars. that the richest placer deposits on It is not known at this early city is completed by the chamber. It is becoming more and more us possible." We. personally, are abandonment of county coaimls the entire Pacific coast, including It wax announced by officials, ac date just what action will be taken, stiending moat of our worrying! aarles. __ . _ Distribution ... of aid will be tive work will commence In the but It is believed a moderate fee apparent to citizens who have Alaska, probably lie under this time on the pour widow ut Gourga tn the hands of’-peimtms' «mver- formation of a gold rush jubilee ' wflT ho charged, replacing the old' enough grey matter te realize sane city’s main street. Gravel bearing Prescott, who 1« at death a door. Manl with the needs and worthi- committee, and plans for an even ordinance which demanded I *.,Q0 thinking is not untimely in the in excess of $50 to the cubic and whose husband Mrs. Banka neas of applicants, and local mer- greater celebration this summer l»er year. The city of Portland's Jackson county fuss, that Fehl’a gold yard is being found in adjoining aided in murdering. . chants. Instead of the commissary. will be laid. The project last year new license ordinance calls 1_. for long and insistent claim to be the mines at the present time, and the ---- exponent of free press, the concentrated richness of the soil • will distribute groceries and cloth- was highly successful and drew to fees ranging from $7.50 to $37.50 one I Take the D'Autremont boy« for Ing. this city more than 10.000 visitors. per year, depending on type of dis only man who really is interested is contrasted to the many gold example. They still live while a Allowances will be made for each Membership cards will be printed ' tributor, with heaviest fees on res In a reduction of governmental ex fields which yield but six or seven half dozen of their victims met! family on a basis of a set amount within a few days, It was said, and taurants and hotels. It will not be penses and the one leader the com cents per yard of gravel of other their maker years ago Not that the1 for each jierson, ranging from two distributer! to all paid-up members l»ermitted to be sold in pool halls mon man and farmer can safely sections. atute should glory In exacting the' to seven days work per month, or of the chamber. AH are asked to be or card rooms in the northern me look to has been merely a blind to Had it been possible to have extreme |»enalty. but the old law nn equivalent $4.RO to $1880—30 at the meeting and any who have tropolis. cover up his real ambitions and dredged the land upon which the of retribution was set aside by pub- cents ____ _________ passions. Claiming in one breath per hour. .. A _____ strict __________ accounting not already joined the civic body It has been suggested that dis city of Jacksonville is built, it is lie sentiment and the memory- of nil supplies purchased will be are asked to attend and take part tributors be limited in this city to to stand for law and order, justice estimated than an appalling for dulling time element. We believe | kept, and only wholesome neces- In the group's effort to Improve the a comparative few. ennabling them and economy, and in the next at tune could have been removed the surest and most effective way sftlea will he paid for bv the relief and prosperity of the to realize enough from the sale to tempting to feed every follower in within a few weeks. One huge elec of HAVING live* Is In using the agencies. The present schedule appearance town. Dues have been set at the pay license to not only the city, the county regardless of need and trically operated gold dredge, of a extremities of the law when cold calls for definite allowance« of so small figure of 50 cents per year, but the required $25 per year fee establish a new law to his personal itype developed long since the hey- blooded and wanton murder has many eggs, pound« of meat, cof chief revenue being gained from to the federal government, which liking; quoting scriptures by pages t day of Jacksonville’s prime, which b»M>n committed. fee, chocolate and flour per per activities of the chamber. is assessed against every distrib to prove that murder, burglary and is operating on Foots creek has a son. and 25 per Fent of relief work utor who handles beer or wine in common begging are justified, daily capacity of some 80,000 cubic It is a simple mutter to pull n ’ payable In cash if desired, it was Fehl now paints himself as a laud any form. capacity of some 80.000 cubic trigger any high school boy esn announced by the local committee. peace, will have complete charge able champion of the common peo daily While city dads ponder the ques yards of gravel. This yardage, mul do It. The one thing that makes a Procedure to he followed tn gain of this feature. tion. the city's male population ple in promoting a cut-price milk tiplied by from $25 to $50 per single T^abor given in payment for nearly to the last man is licking war that has left its scars in the criminally inclined mind hesitate ing county relief by person« not would produce a tidy sum in Is the fact that he. too, might have nlrendy passed on by the former relief may be used anywhere In his chops and watching calendars rural sections of the county—that yard, his life taken front him by the relief forces will bo to make appli this city, ft was announced, and like a spring-fevered school boy. has further burdened an already the short course of a day. netting more than $3.000,000 each 24 hours powers that he. And although he cation to Mrs. E. 8. Severance, at streets, bridges and public prop Speculation is rife as to the real overburdened milk producer. in such pay dirt. ertles probably will receive the may lie anxious to deprive another her horn»- in thin city, between the Earl Fehl’s real reason for start Of course, before a rush is made "kick" contained in the 3.2 per cent greater b?nefit. The city, however, allowance, and there is a sprink ing a milk war in Medford—which of life, he never 1« ready to die hours of Io and 11 a m. every week this city by sourdoughs, it might himself. The punishment should day. A cnse record m»i«t be filled must ftiri'lsh all materials and sup- ling of both pessimists ind those has spread to the entire county— to be well to point out that several equal the crime, else there Is too out and then, if acceptable to the plies. Merchants who honor relief who feel better about 'the pros- was a desire to gain personal re , cubic yards of much leaner gravel much to bo gained by resorting to secretary, an order for the week orders will be paid In cash for the pects. venge against one member of the rests securely atop the richer find, requisitions every 15 days, crime and murder. it was will be issued. which will be hon ----- ------ >----------- jury which returned a $15,000 in addition to buildings and pave K < ored In any local store. One-fourth added, and the system will benefit • Mrs. Albert Young returned to judgment against him in the Roy ment. The extreme richness of the local merchants as well as the un- her Rig Applegate home Wednes- Parr criminal libel case. The mem We ouraelvea were rained ,in a of the allowance may be drawn in California street gravel—the city’s state that does not permit capital' cash t<> apply against rent, light employed and dependent. day. following a serious illness of ber of that jury was Mrs. Myrtle thoroughfare—lies in the fact punishment. We wore schooled and water hills, or the entire I A like committee was appointed six weeks, during which she was at GeBauer, wife of Max GeBauer, main that it once was the channel of a with the horriblenexs of the death amount may be taken tn supplies. for the Apnlegate section, with the Community hospital. owner of a Medford creamery. Fehl sizeable stream centuries gone by. oenalty Imbedded in our minds When available, work will be fur John Pernol). Edwin Taylor, Ber- has resorted to a vindictive atti I The washed boulders of an ancient tlne Elmore and J. Matney named But there Is some quirk of human nished all applicants, on a monthly tude toward every member of the gold-laden river lie some 15 to 35 nnturo which makes us reason one allotment basis, which may be as heads. Applegate applicants for (Corftinued on page two) (Confined on page three» way when the elements involved drawn on weekly. Size of families relief will look to this committee, XlltfIttItItttItirttIflltItttdttitItItllllttllllltIKMt*****"*» are distant and far removed, nnd and total of fixed allowances will and there will be no centralized People don’t care which mnkes us decide In an en determine number of dnys work to agency in Medford as in the past. to hear of the kind The Inside Doings of the Jackson County Court ----------- %----------- tlrely different way when crime ho given, and Ray Coleman, local of troubles you hardware dealer and justice of the • Mrs. Stove Kranitz is very ill (Continued on page two) ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ want to talk about at her home on the Jacksonville The Journal They want to her r As Revealed by Its Legal Voie hill road. Her condition is consid critical by the physician in of the kind you try to conceal. ‘If You Can’t See Gold from 10 Feet Away I’ll ered By JUDGE EARL ITCH FAIL noble gesture, as I have been care attendance. * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ fully building up sympathy among That the people may know (what Give You My Mine,’ Say« Applegate Miner - I would like them to believe your the downtrodden upstanding loyal county commissioners have been citizens. One of them contrary com The Truth Is There if You Look up to. and what I should have been missioners who refuse to be sub A pnn of gold quartz from Ap minc.” one of the partners Is re- dued. er, I mean cooperate, started doing the past week). piegate, which yield« $25 a pan. norted a« saying In describing the The county judge has again spoken in this week's I. your unduly elected and thor- to ask Guntoter why he didn’t take created much Interest when It was vein, which 1 h located In old dig s issue of the Pacific Record Herald—that the people may oughly disqualified county judge, I that job of plowing he was offered on display at the Medford chamber gings. The miners are camped in have sat in your duly mismanaged last week but I ups and bangs my know what an insincere, hypocritical editor he really is. of commerce a short time ago. The Lime Gulch, and woYkod during the county court every day this week fist on the table and yells “are you mine producing the ore is the prop snow nnd heavy storms last winter. He states “I am ready to be tried at any time before transacting your business — and, trying to thwarth, er thwlt, aw. erty of William Ilrnnt and George An eastern woman interested in a fair and impartial judge and a fair and impartial jury. ” you can believe that or not. Of | wart, er, miscarry justice? Don’t Tucker of Medford nnd two part- the purchase of the property is course I have been unable to ac you know this man’s great-grand He doesn’t bother to explain that he already has done tiers. It Is located on Burton 1 Butte complish anything because the two, father come over in the Pilgrim’s said to he in Medford, and will everything in his power to delay trial and postpone his on Big Applegate. commissioners have me hog-tied Progress?” That sure put ’em in make a trip to the mine on horse- away "If yon can’t stand 10 feet prosecution. He merely complains “at the present time and hamstrung, besides being out their place, and the gallery clapped and soe gold, I’ll give you the, back when weather permits. : 1 am being tried by the newspapers . . . stoolpigeons have rageously independent and with again without me having to give minds of their own. I admit your ’em the nod. been and are being hired to create what is known as • "Wlfnt a waste of electricity” It may interest you to know, at county court has been moving slow an open and shut case against me through trumped up Elks Band to Play was the general comment among ly. but the wheels of the House of this juncture, that I, as your duly and perjured testimony." uninformed last week its they FYiil grind slow but exceedingly dejected county judge of Jackson at School April 21 the The Miner would like to know just what Judge belli passed the nodward mercantile fine and God being my helper, it 1« county, elected to this post as your storo at late hours of the night to blessed to be persecuted. (County head man by an overwhelming ma calls his own accusations in the same paragraph in which Mrx. George Wendt, chairman of see the place flooded with clear, :Ê he complains of other newspapers’ actions. Isn't HE try jority of tampering, er, I mean Court Journal, Chap. 23:4-7.) the Jackxonville Parent-Teacher« white light. Investigation proved, First business transacted last votes, that I have been fighting a ing his case in the newspaper? Is HE waiting for a “fair entertainment committee, an however, that the phenomena came week was the case of Inta Gun-, battle against great odds for the nounced that the Elk« band of Mod- about through the desire of the : trial”? toter. indigent hut loyal congress upbuilding and betterment of your : ford would give a concert at the California Oregon Power company man. He said he was not working tax-ridden county government. As As usual, Fehl is accusing his opposition of the very high Hchool gymnasium. April to demonstrate new type lights : and hadn't put in a day since Gar the Good Book says. "He who is in thing HE is doing — even in the same paragraph! Squawk 21 st at 8 o’olock. The band in- which transform night Into day. : : field ran for the presidency. (Little power is never as big a crook as ing because his case is being tried in the newspapers, : did the other commissioners know what he called his predecessor.” eludes over 25 members, The con- The Oodwards report the results cert will bo varied with numbers highly satisfactory and restful to : as he puts it. he proceeds to try his own case to his own he had been working for L. A. and Why. already I have increased your to please all, Including standard the eves, and are deliberating per 5 specifications. I as bodyguard aTl these weeks, so county court journal—the only : overtures as well as popular num- manent insinuation of the fixtures. I just ups and declares that the manner in which your county court It is to be hoped that the readers of his newspaper berrt. There will bo no charge for • Florence May Severance, stud : 3 worthy poor must be fed and told can speak, except through the col admission nnd nil nre Invited to ent at Oregon State college, re : will have the alert intelligence to see through the under him the revolutionary table was J umns of my newspaper—from a attend. This Is to be the first np-1 turned to Hchool over the week-end lying reasoning used—or lack of it. and thereby under now being spread in the county i mere pittance of scrawny pages penrnnee of the hnnd In this city, | after a short spring vacation spent i : stand the true picture being painted for their benefit, if 3 commissary, the jail having been filled with strict business to a The P.-T. A. will sell homemade with her parents here, Mr. and taken over by raff-riff and our com hefty volume of hundreds of pages. they have eyes to see. (Continued on page four) candy during the evening rades.) The gallery cheered thisi Mrs. E. S. Severance. ?.. 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