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BARGAIN DAY
T he J acksonville M iner
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, June 23, 1933
Volume 2
Wu think It Is about time thia
hooey of "honor among thieves"
should he spiked for Just what it
Is u lot of sour grapes.
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In some quarters there Is con
demnation of those participants in
lite recent ballot thefts who have
"come clean,” who have decided
to tell the truth about what took
place the night of February 20
when 10,000 ballots were stolen
and destroyed. "Squealers," they
arc classified by aomn. "Yellow
and low,” hiss a few others.
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Take, for example, E. A. Flem
ing of Jacksonville, lie took part
in the thefts, was wrought up po
litically to ii fevered pitch where
he thought ulmost any violence waa
Justified and then, after time to
reflect and cogitate things in a
more leisurely manner, decided he
had been mistaken, that he should
tell the whole truth as he know it
about the entire affair.
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ROY MARTIN IS
REELECTED AS
BOARD MEMBER
Fehl and the Ballot
Theft Trials
Financial Status District No. 1
Improved During Past
Fiscal Year
Meeting In the little red school j
house atop a Jackson villa hill, vol |
era of school district No. I .Monday
night reelected Roy Murtln, Incum
bent board chalrmna, to another
three-year term. Stella W. Bench,
clerk, was reelected to n succeed
ing nne-year term also.
A total of 97 votes was cast at
the election, with one ballot being
thrown out because of error In
marking. Results were as follows,
Including tw() write-in votes:
Hoy Martin
E. H Severance
Stella W. Beach
Mrs. Nellie W. Fick
Mrs. E. S. Severance ....
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Competition in th« election had
Although Fleming baa been, and not been keen and Severance’s en-1
as fur us we know still Is, one of Irani'« Into th« race came as a
pur most bitter enemies In Jack- last-minute development. Martin J
sonviBe, we think lie did the right had Intimated he was not anxious
thin** and a fine thing when he to stand for reelection but waa per-
gave authorities his full confession. I suaded. It was said, to enter the
We simply can’t see where it aver race by friends. The annual fl- J
Is wrong to TELL THE TRUTH. nanclal report for the past fiscal
We also think that a man who can year was read and accepted by the
see his mistakes, admit them and voters and «bowed Jacksonville
reaoiva to straighten himself about . schools to be enjoying good fi-|
has automatically become a good nanclal health, with the board ac
citizen and society has little or tually spending 81489.03 leM than
nothing to gain by further prose I received during that period.
cution.
Indebtedness of the district a
year ago was 82670.76 as compared
There are many aigutnenta that to the lesser sum of 82324.19 for
a caught man should relate the the year juat cloning. Balance on
truth only as it concerns and im hand as of June 19 was 81489.03
plicates himself, that he should and total receipts for the 12-month
leave his comrades or accomplices period were 817.893.65 while dis
out of thi) picture and never squeal bursements totaled 816.404 62. the
on thorn. This argument wills many i report said. Total school census
backers and at one time w« were I for the district—children betweon
susceptible to its false reasoning. the ages of 6 and 16—were just
But in recent years we have been 1900, while actual number of «tud-
growing up and learning things.
enta in school was 261. The dis
trict employed eight teachers full
To say that R is wrong for one time and one part time for the year
criminal to tell on another is to say and furnished students nine months
that It la right to harbor and pro of schooling.
tect crime and criminals. To say
The asseaaed valuation of the
thnt there Is a certain honor among school district was placed at 8620,-
thieves Is to forget about them be 403.96 while the value of the school
ing thieves. There never was. and house Itself was net at 830,000.
never will be, anything honorable Ground« added -2000 to thin total,
about crime. And where, tn a few while the estimated value of fur
Instances, it may appear as though niture and fixtures of the district
crime were almost justified, a
another -8000. all of which
saner and cleansr perspective will In covered by 828,000 insurance.
reveal that there always is an en
Source of the 817.893.65 receipts
tirely honorable and unquestion of the school district wan as fol-!
able way to accomplish things.
lows:
1 And as far aa "honor unions
District tax
87.412.65
thieve«’’ Is concerned, it la our con
County school fund
1,760 48
State school fund
360.00
viction such a thing doesn't exist.
They may have their code of ethics
County elementary
but we’ll bet they are maintained
school fund ............ 1,102.62
only through an inbuilt cowardice
High school tuition
fund
anil not by any sense of respect or
3,624.13
honesty. The course of least re
199.80
O. and C. money
sistance almost always keeps al Other sources
1,050.20
crook from doing the very thing to
another of his kind that he fears I All bonded indebtedness of the
most himself. This thieves’ honor district, the first ever formed in
is nothing more nor less than a .Jackson county, has been paid off
custom of seif-protection for the and present indebtedness of a little
underworld conceived and enforced i over 82000 is in the form of war
by itself.
rants. The annual election next
year will provide for a similar re-
When we get right down to fun ' placement of personnel, there be
damentals. criminal prosecution Is ing three board members who serve
purely and simply a means to an for three years each, but whose
end. not the end itself. Theoretical ¡terms expire concurrently. The
ly we send men to prison to correct ¡clerk's position is filled annually
evils and to straighten them out and the reelection of Mrs. Beach
mentally. If this can be accom marks her second term.
plished without actual Incarcera
The school board, following the
tion in penitentiaries, so much the election, met in its regular month
better. There are some who need ly session. Besides Chairman Mar
this type of punishment and again itin, members Include Paul God
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ward and Zola Fick.
Gold Rush Jubilee Will Show Yrekans What
As the ballot theft defendants are con
victed one by one, people the county over
wonder what the fate of the alleged king
pin, Earl Fehl, will be.
Although we know no more about the
probable outcome of the trials than anyone
else, observation of the cases so far reminds
us of the most recent fad, jig-saw puzzles.
Those who have worked the darned
things, or those who even have suffered jig
saw puzzles in the family, realize how the
hardest part always comes first. The more
puzzle worked, the less difficult to make
progress.
Slowly but surely the state of Oregon is
closing in on the ballot stealing cases. Some
one had to steal the ballots and someone
had to engineer the thefts. Assistant Attor
ney General Ralph Moody has started with
the lesser parts of the puzzle and gradually
but surely is working toward its comple
tion.
And just as surely as there can be no mis
take about where the last piece of a jig-saw
puzzle belongs, there will be no doubt as
to what part Earl Fehl had in the ballot
thefts.
ITie puzzle will be built around him with
accuracy and precision. There will be but
one hole left, and one unit left on the board.
Even the merest child could do the rest!
Brush Marine
Camp Is Eden
Camp Applegate Becoming Model of Order
and System; More Than 200 Marines
Are Stationed on River Shore
By MAUDE POOL
Number 25
TABLE ROCKERS
TO PLAY DOUBLE
HEADER SUNDAY
Jacksonville Midgets to Tangle
With Visitors* Kids;
Start at 12:30
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NEW HAT NEEDED
To the Editor:
Your column in the issue of
The Miner for Muy 26 headed
‘‘Just Trains” has Just come to
my
attention,
having
been
passed around by our various
officers as result of letter from
Mr. Rosenbaum of Medford,
I just wanted to say that this
Is a beautifully written column
and one which certainly gives
the atmosphere of the railroad
as well as calling attention to
some of our problems which
worry all In the railroad busi
ness. We certainly appreciate
your sympathetic treatment.
Hope when you are In San
Farnclsco next you will drop in
and give me the opportunity to
meet you personally.
Yours very truly,
Baseball will assume double
header Importance in Jacksonville
Sunday when Table Rock invades
this city for a game, bringing with
1 them their little brothers, who will
tangle with the local youngsters |
io the opening game.
Is-feating the Miners last week-:
end 7-8, the Table Rock warwhoop-!
F. Q. TREDWAY,
era will leave their Sams Valley (
General Advertising Manager,
sandlot, sometimes naively called
Southern Pacific Company.
basebal diamond, for the fast Jack
San Francisco, June 14.
sonville field, where the locals
y
hope the results will be somewhat --
different. The youngsters, under
the tutelage of Joe Nee, have been
working out lately with an eye to
showing the big boys how to win
a game once in a while and are all
Chaplain Willis Bergen of Port
hopped up over their first seasonal
tiff.
land, officer of the reserves, who
The juniors, who formerly were is on duty as district chaplain of
champion nine-inch ball players, the C. C. C. headquarters stationed
| having won 19 out of 22 games, at Medford, spent the week-end at
l«» 111 crack
z, Zt L first
W A 8 bats
V. Z, 8 <■ at
— ♦ 12:30 sharp
A, M n Camp Applegate. Chaplain Bergen
will
¡Sunday, with the Miners’ game to motored out with a carload of ath
follow. “We’re gonna lick ’em," letic supplies.
(said one of the smaller players yes-
New officers arriving in camp
i terday, "and if the Miners don’t last week include Sergeant Chas.
send the grown-ups home losers Seyler and Corporal Ady Austin,
too. we’re gonna challenge them to both of Company C, 7th Infantry,
a game,” he boasted.
Vancouver Barracks. The two men
Infield for the youngsters will have joined the local company.
. probably include Joe Beach, pitch-
Private first class Robert Mc
er; SI Johnson, catcher; Bud Millan of Company D, 7th Infantry
Mitcbeli, first base; Gale Lusk, returned for duty Thursday of last
second base; Peewee Van Galder, I week from Vancouver Barracks.
third base, and Bill Johnson, short I His place as bead cook had been
stop. Outfield plays bad not been taken by Bert Rippey.
named yet.
A number of the Brush Marines
In last Sunday’s game at Sams spent several days at Hutton Ran
Valley the Milners permitted the ger station, where they received in
Table Rock haytossers to ram structions in requirements of straw
them through with a pitchfork. The bosses in fire fighting from Ran
Miners had taken an early lead ger Lee Port and Albert Young.
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and all seemed well till the Table
Rockers got hold of Hess for a
few binges to gain a one-run lead
the Jacksonvillians couldn’t break.
' Wilson for the winning team gained ,
17 strikeouts while Hess lagged
I with nine. Three Table Rock play-1 Jacksonville Grange kittenball
ers managed to get three hits each leant will journey to Central Point
while the best the Miners could do Sunday to play the Grange team of
was fro four players to get two lhat city. The teams have met once
I hits each. Catcher Ross tore his before, the Jacksonvillians emerg-
hand and was benched to recup- 'n8 victorious and this will be the
erate late in the game
second game of the Grange league
Box scores, which will tell more ^ia year.
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Among the local players who will
than words about the whys and
battle the neighboring Grangers
alibia of the game, follow:
¡will be Henry, John and Otto Nied-
Jacksonville
AB R H F ermeyer, Lewie and Homer Con-
I Hall. rf, cf
4 1 2 q ger, Chet Wendt, Wilbur Yakel.
I Ross, c----
2 1 1 0 Claude Hoover and Ted Sims. Ar-
Relnking, as _
5 1 2 j rangements are being made with
i Hess, p ____
5 1 2 0 Sams Valley Grange for a game
Coffman. If _.
4 0 2 I the following Sunday.
Hunsaker, lb
4 0 0
In order to “strut his stuff,” it
; Lusk. 3b ____
4 1 1 3
Dorothy, 2b. c
4 0 1 0 seems, the aviator must first be
Ward. cf. 2b ...
2 2 0 0 certain that the right stuff is in
—Weston Leader.
I 0 • 0 his struts.
Osborne, rf __
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New Officer* Arrive
at Camp Applegate
Grange Kittenbailer*
to Play Central Point
More than nine acres of rock-strewn brush land at Seattle
B
Query in the Christian Science
Bar, uninhabited for years except by jackrabbits and yelping Totals Table Rock 36 7 11
Monitor: "Does travel broaden the
coyotes, has changed overnight as it were into a tented village
AB R H EjmindT” Dunno; but U does oc-
as neat as your grandmother’s parlor when company came. Hart, ss ......
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5 0 1 1 casionally broaden an obstructing
B 1 2 0 pedestrian.— Weston Leader.
9ver 200 boys in charge of Capt. B. B. McMahan are respon- Hamilton. 2 b______
Swingle, cf ...............
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iible, and whoever thinks that boys are hopeless slovens has C.
Wilson, 3b______
B 0 0 0 3; by H. Wilson. 4. struck out: By
mother guess coming.
Messer, rf ________
2 1 1 0 Hess. 9; by Wilson,
Wilson. IT. Left on
Even midst the general formation of the camp, which nest- Cooper, c ________
5 1 2 0 base: Jacksonville, 8; Table Rock.
les in a bend of the peaceful Applegate river with the timber- Holtz, lb _________
4 2 2 0 12.
4 2 3 0
Score by tnnnlgs
:lad mountains standing close guard, specific details of indi D. Wilson. If _____
4 1 3 0 Jacksonville ______ 412 000 000—7
vidual care and taste on the part of each boy are paramount. H. Wilson, p _____
— Table Rock ____ __ 000 501 20x—8
The entrance to each little
Totals
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Mayor Hartman of Jacksonville
brown tent, wherein from four week. Not only will famished lads j Summary _ —Two-base
__ hita: _ Coff-
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, follow-
umpired. There _____
were ____
many
ilazxn
z\«o
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of ikzv
the team from
this _ city
to eight boys are housed, is be administered unto there, but man. Hall, Ross, Holtz, H. Wilson.! era z>#
a winsome lassie’s heart will ¡Three-base hits: Holtz and Hamil- present at the game, which lasted
marked either by archways many
flutter with excitement in that ton. Walked by pitcher: By Hess,I until nearly 6 p. m.
formed bv twisted twigs' or bv building on the night of July 4. ] ----------
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’round insignia developed with when a big dance, continuing until'— -
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white rocks. High over one 2 a m.. wiii climax a grand old day J ales of the West and Riding the Range Take
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tent a popular gasoline trade of celebrating on the grounds.
mark flaunts its message to *-)^tRif7he so’uth en7i*igf7i; Minds Off Agony Grinder in Dental Chair
the hill country. Tiny clothes- voted to kitchen, pantry and cook’s
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lines
a i bit r of washing
' *’ To av<,i<1 ’«>"•<»“•’7 heat1 Talk about a newcomer blending
A. bearing
♦ It
i" a iroon
i “Yep.” added the doctor in a
**' ifv to the cleanliness of thejn the mess hall, three field ranges: in with hia surroundings. JackBon- ¡moment of recollection, "one time
young' men in camp.
and a large pastry stove will be vine's latest addition to profes- my horse stepped in a gopher hole
As ft practical Illustration of the Installed In a lean-to on the build- slonal circles certainly should be and threw me to sleep for a half
"Them thar Californylns from we’re going to leave ’em so far
Yreka as copied our jubilee last behind they’ll never catch up,” he primary purpose of the reforesta- Ing. Open pits cose by will be dug awarded some suitable trophy for hour. If the hole had been facing
— - - be a the horse I’d of had to shoot him,
four .................
summer is going to have something concluded amid applause and ap tlon camp, uniform spacing of tents for heating dishwater and f„_.
his background ......................
—which might
nnd buildings has been sacrificed lines of boys will be washing their page from early southern Oregon but fortunately the animmal rolled
purty high to shoot nt.” announced proval of other members.
Bad Eye Pete Monday night as he
And right then and there com to preserve the beauty and shade j dishes in unison. Bold black let- history, but isn't.
over several times uninjured. Was
sauntered his way Into the Cham mitteemen dug up a host of new of the trees. Whether clustered or iters atop the mess hall roof shout
Or. S. C. Peters, who came here I a sight? No skin left on the face,
ber of Commerce meeting behind a stunts and gags to pull during the standing alone, the trees seem to to the world that there is located a few months ago to set up a neck nearly broken, skinned up
trail of terbaccy juice.
one-day hell-raising, which will be have been given a place In camp the camp of the "Brush Marines.” dental office in the old Judge Roe from head to foot and a mouthful
Bad Eye, who was one of the strictly non-politlcal, but hell-rais- as Important as that of the boys 1 The meat cooler has been com- building, has spent several years of good old desert dirt. I under
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Ing nevertheless.
"They
think themselves. The lone pines in par-¡pleted with the exception of In- on
the _____
open _____
range, ____
he related to stood then how the expression,
promlnents here last summer when
they've had a hectic time in this ticular have been emphasized by stalling a windlass to elevate and ¡one of his patients the other day ‘biting the dirt,’ originated.’’
more than 10,000 open-mouthed vis here county this winter," mumbled a mound of soil at the base and lower the dumbwaiter in the cel-¡amid the whirr of his torourous
“Yes. and it was about that time
itors watched he and Ills pa rd shoot Bad Eye later, "but youse guys had some have been encircled with lar shaft.
grinder. The Peters family, af-
up the town, announced to the better show ’em Just what a real white rocks; one has been ____
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given
The 22-foot camp
well, _____
equipped
flicted with
asthma, toured the I decided to get off the range while
chamber
executive
Committee, hard-dririkln*, hard-livin’ lot those the companionship of old-fashioned with a gasoline pump and tower I coast for months in search of re I had enough of me left to at least
which Is handling the arrange old miners were hack in the days flags which have blossomed and with a Happy Hooligan hat reposes lief and finally discovered good old grow older and went to Oregon
ments for the August 19 celebra when millions were being taken out faded. Even a lowly manzanita has blithely in the south suburbs of Jacksonville to possess the most later to seek my fame and fortune.
tion. that either they would outdo of Rich gulch and Jackson creek.” been exalted, and it reigns supreme the camp and is the God-child of healthful climate they had found. Or so Horatio Alger would have
| Arne Carleson, well-known Jay- And the town’s past history made put it. Having become used to
Yreka and show them what a small
"Anything you say, MI8TER," I among its kind.
town they have down there when was the unanimous reply of com
In camp there still stands thevillite. Camp Applegate would be them feel at home.
punching cattle and bothering them
it comes to jubilees or he would mitteemen. They promptly buckled long dining tables and seats made without water to this day had not
While his patient squirmed and somewhat. I resolved I couldn’t be
make them dance all the way down to work, under the watchful I of rough logs with which the Brush i Captain McMahan and Ross Dickey choked on flying bits of tooth happy unless I continued dehorn
across the SlsklyouH to the tune of I eye of Bad Eye, nnd tilings began i Marines pioneered during their wielded the water witch’s forked enamel. Dr. Peters told of how he ing something or somebody, so I
¡to happen. Lumber for the dance first dnys in camp. The pioneer stick and located moisture first rode the range in eastern Washing took up dentistry. And here I am.
hot lend.
"And 1 got the makln’s of my j pavilion was ordered, details for tables are merely of sentimental t thing right near the river. The at- ton in the early 90s—covered the after more than 30 years of toiling
threat," announced Bad Eye with the entertainment were worked out | Interest and somehow are strange-
strange-, tractive rock garden formation famous ground known as Hell’s, with the tusks of man. in little old
a flourish of hta frontier model and other problems were tackled ly reminiscent of the tall and formed around the well from the Half-Acre, where Ihdlans, desert Jacksonville amid a pioneer stock
Colts. “I kin shoot the pin feathers with vim, vigor and Hly glances at stately Ross Dickey, who doesn’t dirt and rocks excavated blds fair varmints and a handful of home such as I waa raised among when
off'n Emma Casshaer’s hens at 60 the bulging hip of Pete, who said let his appetite bother him. It was ¡to shoot forth creeping mosses and steaders lived: of how he went a lad."
paces, by cracky,” he boasted as he was going to be an ever-present revealed that he is the first man ! brilliant floral specimen most any through the terrible winter of ’92
It was at about this time bls pa
committeemen
scratched
their Incentive till after the jubilee, and at the table and eats until the din- time.
and ’93, when so many cattle died tient managed to swallow ths
heads In an effort to give birth to "too derned much longer to suit era at the last end of the tahle have
The hospital tent stands a silent that the following spring canyons dozen-odd instruments stored in his
newer and funnier ideas which youse if you don’t jist about run finished. Ho still is losing weight, j assistant in the young village and were impassable due to the odor jowls and the conversation was
would not only panic the visitors them Yrekans back Into their but he built the Redwoods hotel at recently all but claimed two vic- of rotting beef.
continued till a new supply could
on that date, but which also would holes!”
As he jabs at a throbbing nerve, be ordered. But, of course, like all
Grants Pass and is head carpenter time within its ominous walls, N. I.
make the Yreka gold ruhs celebra
Competition between Oregon and for the C. C. C. Ross can handle a Huff and F. A. (Whitey) Moore, Dr. Peters can recall days when he cow hands. Dr. Peters can treat
tion look like a kindergarten les California has become traditional, large number of men with astound-.The former was isolated a few used to straddle mounts and ride the hugest of horns, or tusks, with
son In shindigs,
and with the ever-present vigil of Ing success and everybody in camp days as a whooping cough suspect for miles from any outpost of the gentlest of care and promises
"We don’t alm to get our heels Bad Eye Pete, it looks as though swears by him,
and young Moore snagged htmself civilization where the stars above his customers that the rigorous
shot off by no sourdough In from California’s frequent stealing of
The new mess hall, where the In the ear with a fish hook, but and the merciless Indians were his days of his early youth are just a
the hills who hasn’t got but one Crater lake, and last year of the entire recruit of Marines will flock survived the ordeal after extrtca- only companions. Tales of thrilling memory and that he has tamed
eye left just because Yreka thinks Gold Rush Jubilee idea, will be with
wistful expressions three it Ion of the hook by G. I. Jones, rides and painful tumbles are re down somewhat. He even has be
it can throw a good show," an avenged by the old town, which times a day, is practically com-(first aid man.
lated as the dentist yanks out a come sympathetic with patients*
nounced President Duke Lewis. has gone to work in earnest to pleted at the center of the grounds
Although two swimming pools provocative tooth or holds a pa fears of dental chairs, which is a
"They'd better look to their laur give Yreka miners and townspeo end occupancy of the building was will be developed from natural for tient’s tongue and asks him to say sure sign of shame in a former
els down there this summer or ple a lesson in celebrations.
cow hand.
"when.”
expected by the middle of the'
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