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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1933)
Th« Jacksonville Miner PaCe 3 be unearthed at the trial of Banks. Fing of blood" dig in and prepare for the next accomplished little move towurd overthrowing ail op It has been portrayed for several! but murder and depravity, Just as position, presumably by force, as reasons, chief among which Is the 11 tho local war would have. ample firearms war«, In readiness lesson Jackson county might loam i Ilut, after due reflection and a If It comprehended fully the dia brief scanning of history, at least to carry out such u plan. Rewards of sums of “relief bolical extent to which schemes i Jackson county rebels should give money" totaling us much us |3000 had been laid, and of the condition revolutionists and anarchists of In u lump hud alleged/ been of of almost actual revolution its citi other countries credit for at least fered to followers as payment for zens had permitted to be developed striking at had government and military services by the county by ignoring or minimizing dangers making un effort to replace it with Judge, and other angles, including of criminal syndicalism which had ■i more humane, equitable form Murder to Have Been Start of alms« of the county commissary run rampant and almost uncon J Here In southern Oregon condì hud boon considered. It la alleged, trolled for months. tions were Just reversed. A demo Reign of Anarchy for to strengthen the overthrow organ! It should come homo to Jackson' i «-racy was being attacked and un Jackson County zullon Even bundltry und extor county when the full facts are re scrupulous leaders were attempt- Dan Shuns wearing a straw hat. tion, In addition to the kidnaping vealed that revolution and anarchy Ing to replace it with a crooked. So that’s why it rained every day? (An Editorial) A pint so dluliollcdt, so schcmtng of county officers, hud been con < un still be revolution and anarchy unjust DICTATORSHIP' Three ought to be a law. Those who would scoff at thia and so fanciful us to have been al sidered us tiieutis to finance the I oven though they are culled “good tnovo. Interpretation of the recent politi unurchlstlc government reform" and "reestab most unbellovulilti, uppurontly wus The raw! raw! boys from up Although reading like a distorted llshment of law and order in Jack cal turmoil which resulted In mur th«« underlying motive which pre state have been gone 2 wks. now «Irenm und the wildest Imaginings der, thievery and attempted trea son county." Naturally the soar ......IltuBd the slaying of n peace I and the local mail has come back; officer In Jackson county by of u crazed novelist, the overthrow I «-hints who really plotted the un son against the state of Oregon up to normal. Llewellyn A. Hunks, with the us of the county government move lawful and violent overthrow of should recall that The Miner sev • wus rapidly crystallizing, to the Jackson county’s government mum eral months ago warned them that ulstane«« of his wife. Relieve it or not, your corr. took I bloodshed was ahead, that there complete surprise und amazement bled prayers, claimed "God was Evidence already uncovered, and be ft E A L graft and part in a square dance one night murb more «vldenc« which is ex- <>f most of th« county’s citizens. their helper" and hurled accusa would Having doted for several months HEAD miscarriages of justice if and actually enjoyed the ex per- tions at opposition to dull the IMM'ted to be revealed when the lence. on figures In past history who hud Banks and Fehl were permitted to senses of followers and to keep slayers come to trial, indicates that continue unchecked. The Minor the killing of Officer Prescott while overthrown their own governmnta their minds so occupied they could We heard that our Wed. night attempting to serve u wurrnnt on In u Ilk« fashion, Hunks evidently not recognize their leaders for now reminds them that revolution the man was nut the climax of the pictured himself us another leuder what they really were—anarchists ■ and anarchy which certainly were gatherings at the Vaughn home, program fostered und conceived by of destiny, u man who would ulti I and plain every «lay revolutionists being considered and planned by now Including both boys and girls, the cunning, cruel mind of Editor mutely control ii nutton. Modesty They even fulled to take warning Banks and several of his closest were indecent. Itoes having a party Hanks Rather, it wm io have boon wus not one of his virtues, us has when their honorary president! followers under the guise of “good and good time necessarily mean the spark to net afire the political he«n graphically Illustrated, and openly announced he “would him ' government" - -remote and impos that the younger generation is sible as they have seemed to norm going to the dogs instead of Chris hatreds. tli<> peraonul malice and hla Impressions of grandeur und; self take the field In revolution.’’ th«« petty grievances of an aggra power hnd completely run my; There can be little explanation ally law abiding and government tian Endeavor? No! Several times loving Americans have come No! vute<l following and to have con- with his ambitions. or excuse for those members who e But it wus the man's own fullure condoned such action unless It was mighty close to being a reality and earned th«« regtilur law and order Al Stewart, the music maker, I of the county In Its Its infernal de to curry out his plot to kill both that they were so stupid they be-i not a threat In Jackson county. May the citizens take heed and continues to draw large crowds to , officers who attempted service of lleved anarchy hud to be preached struction. Although It In expected that in u warrant which thwarted the con-! in Russian, and that revolution realize the terrific dangers which the local Bat. dances. • court Banks will plead insanity— summation of plana Immediately! could not be revolution unless at grow out of unscrupulous and un which under the Oregon code following the shooting of Officer tempted in Mexico. They kidded true newspaper editorials, the evils Have you noticed how few times means that he did not know It wan Prescott, Htate Police O’Brien! themselves Into believing that “re of wanton and malicious criminal the word depression has been used raised from a prone position to establishment of law and order by libel and the jtower of the press lately? wrong and criminal to kill a man It in expected that evident« to be glimpse the num In the act of violence and firearms wus some to wreak havoc when the common displayed In court will show that I throwing another shell Into hla thing else—probably a needed rem principles of decency and truth This week saw the changing of have been ignored. man's mind had considered not rifle chamber, take alm and pre edy to end al) the supposed graft. the Sunnyside A. C. to the Shady pare for the second assassination. If you still are not convinced, y th«« killing of on«« officer, but The Miner wonders, as it did side. Rather warm, wasn’t it? also th« taking of hundreds of ! But n surprise move on the part sorn«« three months ago, if Jackson watch closely the revelations which are hound to be made at the trial i of O ’ Brien, who had been in many Ilves If necessary in th« revolu county citizens imagine for one Spring is spring! Cars (?) bear tlon Banka had « announced h<* like situations, threw Bunks off his moment that the anarchists of Rus of Llewellyn A Banks and ’ wife ing Calif, license pits appear every guurd. made him fearful of his own sia, th«« revolutionists of Houth for the murder of George Prescott. I twice in a while loaded to the would "lead himself.” It la known so far that Banka skin and caused him to duck out of America and the traitors of history Weigh the statements which un guards. had. nt the tim«> of th«« murder, range. The surprise came when the were not deceived and fooled by doubtedly will be made, trace their prepared his car for travel, hn<l officer, fa«-e«l with what seemed Just such misleading and untrue authenticity and take warning—a Business seems to be picking up. is in store for you. liackrd a suitcase with hundreds certntn death, drew hla own re-1 propaganda as has been circulated surprise ----------- at least the fire co. answered two \ of rifle and revolver shells and a volver and ruiaed to take u pot in Jackson county for the past 16 complete supply of outdoor .cloth shot ut the man To Llewellyn A. \ years and more particularly in the • Mr. and Mrs. Frances Corthay ing sufficient to last for an extend Banka, THAT was different. It was past three? Can’t they see that the of Seattle are spending a 10-day ed time There are even Inklings quite all right to vpei«d bullets great massacres of Europe probab vacation at the home of Mr. and of Information suggesting to what OPT of the house, but flying lead ly were caused by Just as sincere Mrs. E. H. Taylor. sections Banks planned flight — In HIS direction was not on the n «leslre to correct something or • Mr. and Mrs. George HoJlIngs- where ho could complete plans for program. So he ducked out of sight, other as our local Go«>d Govern worth of Medford spent Friday the overthrow of the county gov refused to further ’’protect bls' ment congressmen claim? It Is visiting the latter's parents, Mr. eminent and If necessary hol«l off home” when O’Brien made an ef superfluous to add that such "spill- and Mrs. Forest Ravenor. any concerted selge by the author!-' fort to crash through the front; f--------------------------------------- ’ ties Ample preparation had been door, or to record the events In hla' / made for a pitched battle and The! notebook, and caused his wife to Hiner woult! n«it he surprised to' phon« the state police that “Banks find that, when his day in court would surrender to either Phil comes, that preliminary arrange Low«! or Schermerhorn." Both of ments ha«l been made for the sup ficers had been sympathetic with plying of quantities of ammunition the anarchistic move and might and dozens of rifles and pistols to have become accessories after the crime. followers and Itodyguards Banks had caused the aas««m- After having been turned down by Sheriff Schermerhorn In his blage of several hundred congress proposal to appoint '100 or lOOo members nearby apparently on an deputies to take over th«, c««unty.’’ other ruse, and doubtless was de It Is believed that Banks planned . pending on their presence to extri to shoot any officer or officers who cate him from the clutches of the appronched him with an arrest law after commission of the warrant, flee to the hills and there ertme However, the wronx group of Inflamed citizens gathered about the house at 1000 West Main and I mutterings of "get a rope” filled th«' air In place of the probably an ticipated won! that "now is the1 time to ssck the courthouse and tuke things over for ourselves" Like Banks* own nerve, the con gressmen failed to come through at the crucial moment. 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