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Maybe Now Well Be Better Able to Beer the Depression T he J acksonville M iner Volume 2 Speaking I 5c a Copy But You Really Oughtj Subscribe J Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, April 14, 1933 KIDNAP CHARGE AGAINST BISH LIFTED BY ZELL JOYS OF WARM WEATHER Number 15 MINERS’BATSTO CRACK SUNDAY; SEASON OPENER Stir in Jacksonville The arrival of beer--of the pre prohibition vintage—was marked in this city by very little noise and fury. This may bo traceable to the fact that beer at no time has Easter may' be the s«<us<>n that ever become a novelty In this old murks the coming to lift* of nature In all her glory, l>ut from u nows Frank Happy Again; 5-Legged Home Talent to Match Forces mining camp, and that legal or not. -oids have continued throughout standpoint, Jacksoil county Is just Frog Safely Stored in With Fast Medford Team; the years to quench the parched relaxing into u summer of peace Alcohol Bottle throats of hard rock and placer B. Coffman on Mound ful existence. The miners after a long day's tussle county turmoil Frank Zell's five-legged frog, Th«- Jacksonvflle Mlnera, newly with mother nature. which bus been organized baseball team of home raging here off which caused quite a stir In Jack Although appearing in a modest talent, will match Its wits, slugging quantity of few canes of bottl««d and on for sov««r- sonvllle Inst full when th«* untlqu«- dealer claimed Bill Bishop, playful and early-season fumbles with product. It was lapped up eagerly ul years has fin Medford at 2 p m. Sunday, it was by connlssouers of malt extract ally been at least iissoclnh*. had kIdnuP«-<l the croak Ing freak and wus holding ft for announced yesterday. temporarily quell and curious townspeople, and pro 'd and the awful ransom, was discovered this week. Still in its adolescence, but with nounced “Just as good as ever.” Th«* t oo-mu ny-lim bed frog, how climax of u few an overflowing supply of enthus And Jacksonvillians should know, weeks ago hus ever, evidently croaked for Its last iasm and ambition, the new team for this was one of the last towns tapered off Into a time whop It hopped Into a large has been working out dally on the to surrender to prohibition in Ore humdrum routine of court proced empty wartime cannon shell to get local ball field under the super gon, waiting until the state went ure, technical delays and but u away from nil the curious onlook vision and protecting wing of the dry to close its dozen-odd saloons. very scatlero«! response from Hood I ers who marveled lit the critter's But two establishments, the Nug Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce Above personality portrait, by 8taff Photographer Verne Shang... le, baseball committee composed of get confectionery and the Marble Government congress members. in nit i[>ll< It v uf legs and Its willing Illustrates one of the extreme pleasures of the gladsome season when Leonard Osborne, Donald Dorothy Corner, catered to the thirst of I'erhupa we have more than just ties* to rend th«* ulr with a croak the wonders of nature to be thunk entirely out of proportion with Ils the thermometer starts climbing recklessly, the sun beams down and Vivian Beach. Full equipment, ' quaffers while the supply lasted. modest size. Th«* shell, however, unmercifully and the family, hang it all. Insists on motoring over ' Including suits, bats, mitts and The latter, still fitted with saloon- fill fol this Easter. the steepest hills In southern Oregon. was easier entered than escaped, « e balls has been made available by day equipment, sported a brass rail dignified by age and experience, The Miner, which pioneered the nnd the froit had luln there to? sev- the action of the chamber. and almost extinct swinging doors attack upon the reul I uw I chh ell- ( i-rnl months, probably with Its soull Jess Coleman and J^eonard Os lai stock market, the bottom drop Temperance, however, was the key niont of th« county, has reverted In th«* happy frog ixuid where ull borne have been chosen managers Easter? ped out of almost everything within note of guzzling, the beer appearing this week to the quiet, unassuming good little wnrt givers go a couple dozen feet. Their hole for the .Miners, and already have ! to have a very chering, but not in paper It used to be. Not u scare I The frog, five legs and all. has lined up Ben Coffman as probable was filled, and a phone booth near toxicating effect on happy gulpers _ji«*ii«llln<* In a carload mid, we would been linmi rs«*d in alcohol not th«* by tottered uncertainly on the moundsman for Sunday’s tilt, with who blew suds off steins with a ^^kk«< to add, It Is a relief to iih its 3.2 per cent variety either an«l Don Dorothy snatching ’em off the brink of the cave-in. The hole was Wf'dl as to readers. Its a bsfty job has been placed in the nntlqu«* shop far-away and reminiscent look on later filled and the lot restored to bats—he hopes. It was announced, their faces. to meet dully competition in county window as proof that Ills claims of however, that tryouts for those in Its former appearance. A new shaft It is thought that history, to scandal with a one <luy paper harboring the fr«-ak last fall were will be sunk, “with timbers, you terested in making the team will j many who have appetite for the not false Some townspeople had be welcomed, and applicants are * r I bet,” added the miners. They fig- amber fluid which had been out How««ver, while w«« have the op sniff«*«! when Zell sat down to tell tired the cave-in cover««d about being sought for every position. In lawed here for 18 years, will now about his five-legged frog, but now portuulty which comes only too IfiOO to |700 worth of gold-bearing fact, Head Man Beach made spe be dated A. D. Beer, 1933. At least, cial request that all who even seldom we'd like to hand the Frank Is able to i>oint proudly nt I gravel. know what a baseball is to drop much of the legal history will com paper an Easter bouquet. Rather hl« Jar of alcohol and bo th«, life out to the school field any evening mence from that date, it is re than trailing along several days be of nny party. between the hours of 5 and 7:30 ported. Not that Jacksonville is hind the news iih dlxpenscd by I Zell, an ol<l timer and former Hoss to Scan Dope different from any other comaaun o'clock for an official scrutiny. dally newspapers of the county, In cowpuncher, has been alert to the Although it is not known Just Ity in the nation, however—just a ninny Instances The Miner has trend of popular fancy, and has on Reckies Drivers what performance the locals will bit more frank and honest about scooped th«1 rn by several days and « hanged (h<* old photos In his win Reckless and drunken automo-^ *‘ender fhe game, an interest- her thirst and familiarity with even weeks Just last Issue thin | dows lie now is displaying a pic paper carried an account of the ture of th«* old Jacksonville band, bll<- drivers will be under closer e8’’1?«’""’" tilt Is expected, liquid tidbits. In fact, the only pomp and cele tact thnt liquor hud not b«*«*n stolen taken when the town's city dads scrutiny of state officials after' Do you know why Christians bration of the arrival of the alleg from the courthouse vault In whole were youngsters. Ruch well known 1 June 9, as a result .... of __ changes, ______ observe Easter Sunday? edly wicked spirits occurred Sun Hale quantities. aw claimed by youths as Punk Dunnington. George ' made by the state legislature in | Do you know why we color day. when many southern Oregon Banks' henchmen and a former and Chester Wendt, Sorting, the the operators' code, re [torts Hal E. eggs, don naw clothes and pulpits resounded with sermons on grand jury. This week, four <luys teacher. Charles Thompson. Alfred Hoss, secretary of state. give up thanks to the heavens temperance, the awfulness of the Inter, the Medforti press carried Norris and Earl Heinz, are clearly Every person convicted of oper above at this season? liquor traffic and its kindred evils. accounts of the discovery. visible, dressed In white and grin ating a motor vehicle because of Impetus has been given to W. C. T. If you ’ re interested, and who <*« nlng from behind Instruments near incompetency. driving while intoxi U. organizations, and they are shouldn't be, turn to page two More than a month ago Th«' ly as large as they are. The band, cated. recklessness and hit and run forming rapidly as Deer permits and read what the Philosopher Miner questioned the legality of which was the civic pride of south drivers, regardless of the court are being issued on every hand. has to tell you about the origin l-’chl's Meetton Today an investi ern Oregon way back when, com- having jurisdiction in the matter, ------------- e-------------- of Easter, man’s oldest holiday. gation is afoot to determine just prised of several dozen members, will be reported Immediately to why the county judge was inter-, and many a civic affair was em The Philosopher, who writes the secretary of state for appro Star Station Hive exclusively for The Miner ested in the destruction of ballots belllshed with its rhythmic and priate action in the matter of li weekly, will tell you many Months ago The Miner warned that martial tunes. cense suspensions or revocations, of Activity With other Jthlnga concerning this bloodshed was due to strike if Another picture, of interest to changes In the law require. These Banka wore allowed to continue. old timers and those who have happy observance which will citations of traffic violations are Building Program interest and surprlae you. He Also, this little pink sheet was the r«M«fded here for several year«. Is required from all Oregon courts, will tell you accurately, wisely first to hop onto Editor Banks, re-. a picture of the old rock quarry which will include courts in every The Star ranger station on Big veal his real dishonesty and crook on the Ruch highway Just out of, and without prejudice, coloring city and town. Previously only jus Applegate is taking on the ap- edness. tell <>f bls shameful past I town where seven or eight workers or religious bias. tice courts, district courts and cir pearance of a city under construc- and expose his motives In falsely, were accidentally killed while cuit ourts were required to forward tion this week, with eight men em «-lalnUoa th« "xux" had tbrolUod breaking up rock to be used <m the the Information. ployed on a building program, county politics. Again the paper flrat paved unit of the Pacific high ‘Kingdom for Timber’) which is being enforced at thin launrh«*d the opening guns In the wsy running through Medford. This Crv Miner* at Dicnnna time partly aa a relief move. ___ >;• Miss Mary Sellers of Medford. was paved about 1907-R, and wan lYliner» as LAIgginS «■pose of Judge Fehl. Mr. Dickey of Medford is em bva in on the Applegate, is scoffs«) at by Portland and San I C I ■* r eave in rromiscously wen .aklng known an actlve pa„ in **The ployed sb chief carpenter, and F. ' Not that we particularly are anx ' Francisco. Pleasurites,” Medford young peo Lieb of Klamath Falls was expect loua to brag, but there has been "And where do you think you’re "What? No Timbers?” or, "Scram and it has been rumored that, ___ | _ if ed this week to take over the much criticism of The Miner In the paved slab will connect with?” i fellas, here she comes!" have been 1 ples’ organization, which holds past because of Its activities In the they derided In the metropoll. , familiar phrases which have re-' regular meetings at the Y. W. C. A. the Saturday night dancers don't plumbing supervision. The program building. Miss Sellers is chairman exhaust the supply, fans will be will include a bunk bouse for sum county-wide war. When we cau ’’With Canada and Mexico” was placed the customary greeting tioned that Banks was committing the enthusiastic an<l proud reply among miners of “How'j she pay- of the recreational group which able to see fielders loping after the mer employes, a barn, storage makes Bible study one of its ob high ones with a foaming mug of shed and septic tanks for the ran criminal syndicalism we wore told! of southern Oregon. The present , In'?*' In Jacksonville. jectives. beer in one hand and a horsehide ger station and the fire camp. The to “lav off" latter Circuit Judge pavml highway from nation to na Early this week several back glove in the other. This plan, how-i workmen have their tent pitched Norton advised grand jurors that. tion proves the wisdom of their yard mines have decided to fold r--------------------- •--------- ever, has met with chilly recep on the scene, and meals are pre the air had been full of criminal foresight and aggressiveness. ' up and take a rest, notably those on the part of the managers, pared by an expert cook. About syndicalism for weeks. We recelvtMl Severn! faces atlll fnmlllar to lining California street, where the And Fehl Lies On! tion who feel players might pay a bit six more men will be added to the threatening letters through the valley folk are seen In the group I precaution of timbering drifts had j more attention to the well-being staff of workmen when plumbing mail, wore advised that our court of workmen, aa well ax thoae who not been fUken. But, like all rules, I We noticed In last evening's testimony "had bettor agree" with were killed a short time after the the cave-in move of terra not so Pacific Record Herald that the I of their bubbling stein than the operations commence. Ranger L. C. Port, overseer of statements made by congroasm<*n. | photo was taken when an Impa county judge is up to all his old I probable course of a rapidly mov flrma has its exception in the pur ing baseball. ) the work, said that ___ he hopes ____ to _ and found It necessary to go, tient workman tamped dynamite posely caved-fn St. Clair diggins on tricks In a more violent form The Medford aggregation, which have the buildings completed in a (Continued on page two) with a crowbar. than ever. Lies, silly charges the Haight property here. thst Constable ~ ~ Prescott and appeared here last season several month, or before summer activi- St. Clair and C. Gaddy, who had times. is reputed to be on the war- Des begin, State Police Officer O’Brien been working the producer for ---------------- path for some good red Jackson-1 Maybe God Made Trees, But Who in !&*)(!?! some were drunk at the time of the time, decided they wanted a I ville blood, and the local boys, • P. J. Sullivan, elderly miner of officer's slaying, and other de ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ slush pond without having to dig mented imaginings, fill bía most of whom actually are miners Squaw creek, was removed to the one. so they promptly drew straws during the week, have different Sacred Heart hospital Sunday. Mr. Invented Smudging, Ask Cleaning Housewives to see who would go below and paper. ideas about the slaughter. "If we Sullivan, who owned several small Already the judge has his fol- knock out the heavy timbers which can’t outplay ’em. we can at least copper claims, is suffering from a lowers, who allegedly took part Springtime may be the glorious at large, when the philosophy of had been seeing to It that tunnel outtalk ’em. and that’s something,” lingering illness, and had been in the ballot thefts, bragging season of chirping birds, budding trusting to the elements was celling and floor did not m«*et. boasted one of the leather lunged cared for during recent weeks by that they didn’t “really confess” f1ow«>rs and blossoming trees to preached. However, Investigation Gaddy won—or lost—the honors, Jacksonville players, who is ac I Ed Fawcett, a neighbor. and that they were going to »ome folk, hut to housewives who revealed that the preacher of this ' and went below. "That’s one time customed to yelling “haul her up" make "revelations" when they didn’t go at things backwards, already have started their house philosophy, although he didn't him- II 1 six days a week from the bottom come to trial. Fehl ’ s paper Is an cleaning. It Is just one big black self smudge, relied on the raised : however.” remind«»d Gaddy, still: of a mine shaft in competition with accumulation of innuendo, fal mark against the fruit industry— temperatures of his neighbors' alive and whole-skinned. "I sure a putt-putting pump engine. sification and ignorant malice. or th«> lace curtains that were Just smudge pots to save his own fruit. didn't paint, er de-timber. myself Sore thumbs, tired feet and hap Every time yoe He Is attempting to resow the laundered before Sunday morning's On every Ride he was surrounded into a corner. I went to the far end py faces are expected at Sunday’s get a law passed same propaganda that built up the tunnel and let ’ em go as I of by orchardlsts who did clutter up smudge. If you please. you a«k. to the the already intolerable condi game, and the springtime chirp of Although It Is expected that if the air with black greasy smoke. retreated toward the shaft. Lotsa tions in Jackson county. But birds will be punctuated with the number of office an«l who not only saved their own I fun, and didn’t smash my fingers ' crack of bats and clatter of cleated pear trees, cause of all the crude through it all is discernible that holders yon have fruit, but also had to watch their, once.” shoes scampering over the field. A Fehl characteristic of yellow oil oxidation, could talk, they'd life-saving heat units waft over* They now have an ample sunken to pay. Somebody has to take free Easter egg is promised every and shiftiness. He writes para charge t that law. sing the praises of fruitgrowers onto their slacker neighbor’s prop- garden in which they are btiRily , home run hitter of the day. , . planting * tailings from another) graphs about The Miner's story who, when Jack Frost blows hfs erty. as to where he spent his time liut to get hack Inside southern «haft on the same property. Nearby chilling breath over the valley, pull a jtrntectlng curtain of dense Oregon homes, where the greatesther miners had a similar exper-- while In hiding from the law, Waal, I Reckon She’s As Good As Ever, Say blnck. oily smoke overhead and annoyance is caused by the low- fence, hut not purposely. They hadi but hasn’t manhood enough to come out and even so much as ¥¥¥¥¥¥**« rale«» the temperature of the great hanging pal), It is interesting to just ' * completed pumping out of their deny that he spent about two open spaces several degrees to note that, year after year, many water-filled, untimbered tunnel and Jacksonvillians As New Beer Samples Arrive days at the Gore ranch. where tender buds will be safe women start their spring house were preparing to descend for the day ’ s work when, like the proverb- from harm. But then, if fruit trees cleaning with the advent of the His evasive answer Is "t did A hit-and-miss survey of Jack It’s a mighty good drink—just as not come from the home of any could talk, they’d probably be able first robin, nnd then find It neces sonville, following the advent of good aa before prohibition. to listen, which wouldn’t be so sary to repeat the process when friend or friends In Jackson GABBY GERTIE legal beer, resulted in a rather rar good for them when southern Ore the smudging season has passed. county.” We knew that all the Mrs. Ray Wilson: I don’t gen led result, but for the moat part erally care for beer, but I like the gon wives awaken mornings to Then there are the women who time. Fehl spent the latter part view the darkened nostrils of hus hang out clean linen nnd allow it of the night before his appear the new 3.2 per cent brew has new legal brew. bands. their own oily complexion to flutter In the night breez.ee so ance in court in a Medford ho been welcomed. Ray Wilson: Just like in the and the darker hues of household thnt it will he dry by morning. tel, and we have been led to The general complaint has been, good old days. furnishings. And it would take a Bu<. of course, there are a few believe that the balance of the among the judges of the finer as Alice Hoefs (postmaster): Don't deep-rooted tree to withstand the housewives who hide their time. time, when not In hiding at the pects of malted suds, that the sup drink—a teetotaler. abuse likely when the female of watch the antics of orchnrdists and j Gore ranch, he was at the home ply was too limited to permit ex Mrs. Vivian Beach: My husband the species give fretted looks to the unloading of cars of smudge of a Grants Pass bootlegger— pert testimony. "You just supply gave me a tiny sip of the new ward their long, greasy tresses oil with nn experienced eye, smirk the same who supplies a mem us with plenty of the new product beer, but he doesn’t know I poured that have turned several shades nt neighbors who have become im ber of his defense counsel. and we’ll give you some of the half of that out. Don’t like beer. darker during the night. bued with the springtime mania expertest beer drinking and samp Duke Lewis: Not much of a But what really gets us down Smudging season In southern for cleaning things, nod their heads Is why some persons, who hith ling testimony you ever heard of.” judge of such things, but I don’t Oregon, sometimes quite brief nnd widely an«l attend a matinee while was the general response to a re think the new beer will set the erto have enjoyed the esteem porter’s inquisitiveness here this world on fire. always having an Important hear Mrs. Jones smacks her rugs with and respect of the community, ing on prosperity of the section, la vim and vigor, totally forgetful of week. Several scattered statements Harold Reed (bartender at the voluntarily are a party to Fehl’s one of the necessary evils which the tragedy that awaits her. were collected, which will show a Marble Corner) : There juat aint continuance of such slander and foretell th«« arrival of that short Which just goes to show that, falsification. His printing equip cross-section of the general impres enough of it—that's my only com- perfo«l between cold and warm although Jacksonville I r a small sion the "non-tntoxfcatlng" beer plaint. ment, with which he has done Chris Keegan (who once stole weather, when the weatherman nnd Inconspicuous town from a ha.-« made in this old mining camp: so much damage in the past, takes n whack! nt the aggressive business standpoint, it looms large Punk Dunnington: Haven’t tasted enough M powder from grown-up and which he Is using today to ness of nature In starting her off- as a hnven to women who scour any of the new. beer yet. dern it? pranksters to save the town from continue his mischief, Is being snrfng In the race a bit ahead of and Rcntb, for Its elevation com Dot any samples? a tragic end): Don’t know what to furnished him FREE OF the gun. In simple terms, smudg pletely removes It from the danger Jimmy Guin: Haven’t had enough think yet. but I'm getting mighty CHARGE by the owners of that ing Is the act of manufacturing of Roiling smudge smoke. Orchard- to tell. And anyway I’d just eaten impatient to voice an opinion. machinery. spring nighttime temperatures out Ists In the immediate vicinity, sur Tom Dunnington (a butcher, and Fehl can’t carry on his dam a hearty meal. doors when the thermometer of rounding the upper rim of the John Knight: I’ll be better able of course meat cutters and print aging work alone. It has been ficially drops to below the freezing Rogue River valley, do not find it to tell you later. And as for home ers never drink): No can find very these supposedly disinterested point, and has been found to he necessary to smudge, and this persons who, unpublished, fur brew, that just depends on what much, but very good. I’d say. an integral part of the valley’s fruit town’s situation on the lower flank Vivian Beach (Jeweler, fisher, neighborhood you're In. nish the equipment, subsidy and Industry, critics to the contrary of the Jacksonville hills protects Jim Llttell (city marshal):Tastes prize fight timekeeper, trapshooter, backing to help him pyramid his notwithstanding. It from the black curtain which ignorance and hatred Into a po alright to me. but I didn’t have etc., etc., and beer authority): The “ 'Much Ado About Knotting, was There was a time in Jackson hovers within a few feet of the new brew is all right by me. litical machine which would enough to pass final say. probably suggested by the put-put- county, not long back when cer valley’s floor following each drop Ray Coleman (Justice of the Charlie Dorothy (tonsorialist who soon strangle Jackson county. jting of an outboard motor boat." tain editor-orchardIsta were atlll of the temperatures. (Continued on page four) L J hasn’t cut a throat yet): Dang right [Father