JUSTICE, DONT
FEHL JACKSON
COUNTY NOW!
T he J acksonville M iner
But You Really Oughta
Suboc rit»«
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, August 4, 1933
Volume 2
Speaking
5c a Copy
Number 31
APPLEGATE 3C’S
OLD TOWN WILL
IN RETURN GAME Where Jackson
TUNNEL TO NEW
HERE SUNDAY County Fell Down... LEVEL AT MINE
Well, you can never tell just
what Is going to happen venue i
transfer u trial to Klamath Falls, I Minera Embarrassed at Gold
Hill 18*0 When But 8
but we'll bet Judge Fehl la going '
to come back In a Huff
Players Show
And the rumor persists that when
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Hunday,
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m. sharp,
Henrietta wanted to hold a grand
Jacksonville Miners will tangle
uHsembly In the Pelican city the wttll
Heattie Bur Brush Ma
Klumath sheriff told her there were r|neB for the second time. The Ap
just two places for a woman of her pi'.gutj, outfit was defeated here
type, “In the bullpen or at home, Iseveral weeks ago by one run. but
and we have plenty of room in the jas been winning games consis
bullpen." A likely story and. If tently since that date. The Marines
true, we'll bet someone is h Mart in' 'believe the Jacksonville victory was
[all a mistake, but somehow local
It may be because of the pell- lies disagree and are confident to
cans, but somehow the Klamath let the day's results settle the mat
Fallers don’t seem Inclined to look ter.
up to the Good Government con
Lust Hunday the Brush Marines
gress convocation In their city.
defeated Gilmore I Jons 20-6 on the
'W-C
Jacksonville diamond, while the
Ami one of the state's most fre- Miners were away to the wars. Gil
quentiy called witness. Hurley, was more was set down three weeks
on the stand at least Hexton or sev- ago by the Miners after having
unteen times last week.
won two previous games from
'A'P
them. Home runs are a penchant
After reading of Hanks' liberties with the timber army players and
In Eugene, we'd say he Is being they have shown some ability In
housed in the LAME county jail. . giving expression to their desires,
Or maybe they have an "honorable” j For next Sunday's game, how-
sheriff there, ukln to our ’T honor- ____
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„ver, ___
Marvin
Montgomery
lias been
able" grand jury in Jackson county. I M|gnud with the Miners as mounds-
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man Montgomery is the class of
We are beginning to understand 5 (he small town league and lost Sun-
just why the murderer of Prescott day. pitching for Central Point at
has been forestalling sentencing. I Gold Hill, made the heavy hitting
Not because he isn't guilty; not be-|n|ne of that town look like a grade
cause the state erred In his con school accumulation of awkward-1
viction, but because he can have____
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bat Juck Caldwell, former
many of the privileges of home ¡Medford pitcher, has been added
while incarcerated In a county jail Ho •*
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— • being
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the • Ioni)
battery,
real-
instead of state's prison. Funny
I*
dent of this section. Sunday's game,
how these judges find it ..
necessary
—easary 1 which will be played at home,
to coopertae with such a 1 scheme, 1 should furnish once more all that |
too.
any baseball fan could wish for.
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In last Sunday’s game (which:
It would seem that everyone's would have to be brought up. of |
business has become no one's bust- course) Jacksonville's Miners went
ness in this sentencing <>f I*. A down to Ignonlmous defeat to the
Banka, who committed as cold- humiliating score of 18-0 in a seven-1
blooded a murder as haH over been .Inning game. This defeat followed I
perpetrated In Oregon, Whore a 'three straight wins for the locals, I
circuit judge can sentence one man 1 who journeyed to Gold Hill confl-
witliln the same five minutes he dent that they had a good chance I
admits his guilt, he seems to be (O make the day interesting tor the
unable-or unwilling—to sentence | undefeated nine of that city. Ar*
another within three months after 1 rival there disclosed, however, that
his guilt has been established. Now • but eight players showed up. with
draw your own picture.
I three of the stars missing. This
necessitated the changing of the,
For the money that has been lineup in such a manner that more
s|M<nt and the trouble JackHon than half the players were in '
county has gone to lately, she has strange positions and, coupled with .
received pitifully little In results. the freak saucer-bowl diamond with
Of course one can't lay the blame un outfield almost bisected by four
here or there, excepting that one steel rails, tics and gravel embank
can say that something is wrong ment. upset the team to such an
somewhere Take Hoover, for in exleul It waa never able to gather
stance. No one was willing to lay In the *.K>se ends and play its usual '
the blame for the depression en ball. Elmer Ross, crippled Miner
tirely at his door, but when he waa ¡catcher, was put in center field to |
ousted and another man put In his round out the nine. Of course, Gold 1
place, things began picking up j
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right away. Perhaps the same thing ;
might have been true had a circuit i
judge not quite so "satisfactory to Chappell Paint» Jubilee
the defense” been ro|>ed in on a
half dozen criminal trials of Jack- Sign for Main Stem
son county's.
R. Clay Chappell. Jacksonville
lukit month Jackson county puld painter, scribe and long-time resi
to one ballot theft defendant and dent, yesterday saw the results of
bls family the neat sum of >159.80 | many hours of effort swung across ■
just so he could aid in acquitting California street between the hard-1
his accomplices. He was C. Jean ware store and drug store build-1
Connors, who once confessed. The Ings. It reads, “Gold Rush Jubilee, j
wife of one of the convicted de a Hot Time. August 19," and is
fendants, Mrs. J. A. l.a I lieu, was embellished with flames licking at 1
paid >71.89 during July. Yet they the “hot time” phrase.
all are members of the crowd that
The sign has been well handled
tore around from one meeting to and was sewed to supporting rop<*e
another last fall yelling their heads that It may endure till after the
big day here.
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Jacksonville Miner Learns How to Become Life
¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥
of Party as He Flashes $40 Nugget on Friends
It seems that L. A. Banks, convicted mur
derer of George Prescott, has been receiv
ing courtesies at the hands of the Lane
county sheriff. Soon three months will have
passed since his trial, yet he has not been
sentenced to the penitentiary, where a jury
declared he belonged for life.
All of this after weeks of expensive trial
charged up to Jackson county. We gave an
officer’s life and a king’s ransom to put a
fiendish political schemer and community
disrupter where he belongs, but the “law”
seems to have developed into a curse in
stead of a remedy.
The “law” seems to be overly fearful
that some insignificant injustice will be
done to the murderer—that his sensitive na
ture might be offended. And the blame,
perhaps, can be laid directly at the door of
Jackson county people for not taking Llew
ellyn A. Banks’ OWN ADVICE concern
ing himself.
Last winter, when the tiff between The
M iner and the Medford Daily News was at
its height, Mr. Banks wrote accordingly of
charges this paper made against him, and
which charges later were proven true:
“If the statements contained in any of
these articles regarding the publisher of the
News were true, then in very truth the
grand jury when it convenes should indict
Llewellyn A. Banks for the crimes he has
been charged with.
“He should be sent to the penitentiary
for the balance of his days or tarred and
feathered and ridden out of Jackson county
on a rail.
“In fact, he should be hanged in a public
place where all citizens could witness the
hanging.
“A shining example should be made of
any man guilty of the fiendish crimes
charged against Llewellyn A. Banks by
The Jacksonville Miner.”
Yet, on top of all this, Banks added mur
der—cold blooded, deliberate and wanton,
and Jackson county stood aside to idly
watch.
We always maintained the former News
editor had a few good ideas in his head and
his paragraphs reprinted above, we believe,
will prove our contention. It is Jackson
county’s citizens who have fallen down on
their part in cleaning up the political tur
moil, even according to the words of Banks
himself!
May we live and learn—and not make
the same mistake twice.
Do you lack that "certain some that yarn.” was the general reac-I
thing" that makes you the life of tlon. "Sometimes you make us |
think Paul Bunyan musta been a,
the party?
Do you sit around and envy those amateur."
“Oh yeah?” Carrier would snap Chamber of Commerce
who always seem to be the center
hack. “Then just drop into God
or attraction and conversation?
ward’s and take a look at the nug Meeting Monday Nite
Would you like to be the most get I just sold him. If it don’t
sought after man in town?
weigh nearly $40 worth I’ll give
The next regular meeting of the
Then just take a tip from Tom you the difference in cash.” Al Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce
Carrier, locnl miner who discover though moat of his friends had a will be held next Monday evening
ed the Open Sesame to public ac premonition Tom was kidding at 7:30 p. m. and. due to the ap
claim and recognition when he them, nevertheless a few of them proach of August 19, should be well
lived up to the old saw that “a sauntered nonchalantly into the attended and an important meet
minor Is a liar with a hole In the mercantile establishment on one ing. It will be the last scheduled
ground.” But Tom, although strain pretext or another and cynically meeting till after the Gold Rush
ing the truth a bit. had the evidence glanced over the gold scale case 1 Jubilee,
to back up his claims.
to be quite surprised to see a nug Although the chamber meetings
It seems that one Edgar Nelson get answering Carrier’s description are held the first and third Mon
discovered a $40 nugget in his reposing therein.
days of each month. Jubilee exe
Sterling sluice box last Friday. Nel
From that point on the news cutive committee heads have been
a
habit
of
finding
sizeable
spread
like
wildfire
and
before
half
son has
gathering every Monday night for
nuggets at his Sterling claim, hut the day had passed more than 200 discussion of plans and phases of
this one was a hit larger than usual, miners filed into the grocery store the celebration and but few days
So into town he came on a high to see and lift the nugget. Partner remain for final touches to be
lope to sell his find and tell the ship offers were showered onto added to the program. All towns
details.
Tom, who cannlly refused them all. folk. whether members of the
Edgar, of course, headed straight Offers to buy were numerous and chamber or not. are urged to be
for Godward’s gold scales and took Carrier basked gluttonously in the present Monday night with sugges
his payoff in long green money. It attention he had directed toward tions by President Oscar Lewis.
so happened that the nugget was himself.
Meeting will be held in the chamber
of such admirable weight and pro
For the first time tn their many room of the U. S. hotel.
portions that Storekeeper Godward years here, miners were almost
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showed it to the boys, among whom froced into believing the tales of
was one Tom Carrier, aforemen Carrier. They eyed him with re Lyons Girls Pan Gold
tioned winner of the popularity spect and reverence, for it isn’t I
prize. It boasted little wear, was everyone who can extract $40 in
for Spending Money
rough with a spot or two of quartz, one piece from under their lawn.
and weighed approximately two and It was Mister Carrier from then on
When the daughters of I Conard
one-half ounces.
until the joke was too good to keep
Lyons.
Jacksonville man, are in
Now here’s how Carrier’s feat longer.
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faces -- red when,
was worked. He sized up the nug ui And
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get, recalled his proclivity for story after convincing them that I had row their father’s gold pan and set
telling and set out to do the town. the richest yard in town, they dis to work In their yard with motions
Tom has been mining in his front covered the nugget came from learned by peering over the should
yard for about a year now and has Sterling.” gloated Tom as he ers of more mature miners. And
been doing quite well. But a miner scampered up the street a few last week, after a few days of this
always is rather vain about his jumps ahead of a halt dozen min activity, the little girls traveled in
hole in the ground and Tom was no ers armed with picks and tunnel a solid body to the local gold buyer,
exception. So he dropped tn on timbers. “I could have sold my where they proudly disposed of
every group of miners tn town and place for three times Its value to their yellow treasure.
related how he had just dug up a a dozen suckers,” he panted as the
Their pannings, so closely guard
»40 nugget in his yard. “Aw, Tom, chase ended at the Marble Corner ed as they walked across town,
we know you too well to swaller bar.
netted them 75 cents.
Leo Prefers Home
to Great Outdoors;
Meddlesome Bird
By MAUDE POOL
Leo really is meddlesome; there’s
no getting around that. He wants
Former Drift to Be Cleaned to see what is going on and when
and Worked 300 Feet Below somebody writes a letter he is there
to peer over a shoulder and take
Present Shafts of Mine
a bit of stationery for his own use.
With the return of General Man-1 Hut I<eo never, never tells—the
ager Wm. Houghton to Jackson ’ deepest secrets are safe with him.
ville from Seattle this week, work He is the merry little cherry bird
i Is expected to start on a new lower that flits from room to room at
level at the Old Town mine, prop the home of Mrs. Carrie Pitz in
erty under lease to the Jackson Jacksonville.
A year ago I>eo’s home in a tree
ville Gold Mining company, lim-
lited. Some 300 feet below present i‘oP wa" destroyed and he was
development an old tunnel located [ stranded on a bush, a pitiful fledg-
noar the city’s reservoir on Jack-;110* with a very weak chirp. Miss
| son creek will be cleared and ex- Myrtle Pitz befriended the tiny
j tended to a lower depth of the wa,f and fed him milk from a medi-
same quartz seam which has been cine dropper until be was able to
sto|>ed to the surface. __________ eat bread and milk from a tooth-
Should bulk of ore to be devel-1 Plck- H® would laugh at a tooth
oped average $6 a ton or better, pick now. In fact Leo is quite an
according to estimate, there will be epicurian. preferring wild seeds of
enough blocked out to run present cheeseweed. mustard and milkweed.
mill equipment for about 20 years. Even tame seeds gathered from the
Values at this lower depth are ex spinach and radish tops are better
pected to run largely to concen than the prepared birdseed from
trates with little free milling gold. the store. He eats specks of potato
anything
dainty
that —
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offered
The company’s mill, located 1 or
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within the city limits of Jackson- him. Even raw cabbage, but, ah me,
vllle, has been shut down for sev-1 he has been denied that ever since
era! weeks past following comple- overindulgence one time upset his
tlon of a custom ore run. but is digestive system and he had to
expected to be reopened when ad- take liniment in bls drinking water.
ditional custom work has been con-
Sunflower seed? Yes. that is a
traded. One Applegate producer great dish with Leo. He will sac
has promised 20 tons of ore daily rifice his freedom around the house
! for the mill, pending development and allow himself to be enticed
of the company’s own ore. This into bis cage with those morsels.
amount would employ about two His inquisitiveness does get away
shifts daily at the Straube rib-cone with him, then he is lured into his
unit.
cage or locked in the bedroom.
The Jacksonville Gold Mining j This little brown bird with a dash
company, limited, entered the Jack- nf tangerine on his throat and head
sonville goldfields more than a to offset his plainliness is tame,
year ago and has operated mill in- |)U( try to catch him. He will perch
j termittently during that time with On tj|8 mistress’ shoulder and even
j some development of upper levels
p around to see what she is
¡at the Old Town mine being carried preparing for dinner, but his sharp
j on. It was said this week that a black eyes are continually on
well will have to be sunk to pro- guard.
vide the mill with sufficient water
1__ christened
___ - for the
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Leo,
zodiacal
during the remainder of the sum- name of July, the month in which
I mer.
he was adopted, likes his bath and
prefers it in a deep pan. He loves
j to hide in the window curtains or
Irvine Tell» of Old
any place where the family never
Jayville’» Charm would think to look for him. 'When
1 DI—• ¡they call him he comee in a hurry
I
at r ortlana ricmc _jf he feels that way. Leo warbles
a pretty melody, too, but not just
The historic town of Jacksonville now because it’s almost time to
came In for praise and glorifica moult. Does he long to take flight
tion Sunday when Portlanders, who and make his own way? No. Once
hailed from southern Oregon, pic- he
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got outdoors __
by ______________
mistake and he
nicked at Laurelhurst park. B. F. cried up in a treetop all day long
Irvine, former local boy, spoke at
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length on old Jacksonville, as did n
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netcher unn.
Bumper Strip» Telling
Former residents of Jackson, x*,
..
a ■ 1_
Josephine. Klamath and Lake coun- Countryside Of Jubilee
ties living in Portland picnicked
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at I-aurelhurst park Sunday and or-
Five hundred bumper strips, ad-
ganized for future annual reunions vertising Jacksonville’s Gold Rush
under the title of “Southern Ore- Jubilee, are being distributed by
! gon picnic."
various Jacksonville merchants and
The reunion opened at 11 a. m. businessmen. There still are many,
with a business meeting, followed however, available for motorists
by a basket dinner and a speaking who wish to aid the old town in
and musical program. Colonel Rob- telling the world about her plans,
ert A. Miller was chairman. Among
They are painted on long, dur
speakers were B. B. Beekman. K. able cardboard stripe with brass
K. Kubll, B. F. Irvine. Robert G. eyelets for attaching to automobile
Smith. Ben Hur Ijunpman, Joseph bumpers. A supply will be found
Hammersley, B. F. Mulkey and at the Nugget confectionery, the
I David Stearns.
! Basket grocery. Godward Mercan-
The dinner committee consisted tile company, Coleman’s hardware.
of Mrs. K. K. Kubll. Mrs. A. H. the Jackson county museum and
Maegly, Mrs. Ella Dunn Rice, Mrs. the E. S. Severance service station.
Sarah B. Guerin, Mrs. Phil Met-
Ray Wilson and Marshal Jim
schan. Mrs. Agnes Hines, Mrs. Hat Littell expected to leave yesterday
tie Neuber and Mrs. W. A. Fuller. for Klamath county, where they
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will distribute posters telling of
Ere the bargain times go by, go the many features the jubilee will
buy!—Weston Leader.
¡offer this summer.
‘Waal, of All the Ding Fleabitten Liars/ Roars
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I Bad Eye Pete as Yreka Wildcat Bill Rebuffs
Bad Eye Pete. Jacksonville’s col- so they jest naturally fell to callin’
j orful miner-toreador, rushed into > him Bad Eye. When Pete growed
The Miner office at press time this older and got to boastin' so terrible
I week with the following clipping folks who didn’t know him none be
Applegate to Have
[from the Siskiyou News (Yreka): lieved some of them yarns and got
Relief Can Kitchen Just how good the Yreka Miner’s the idee that he was named Bad
Gold Rush really was last year was Eye cause he was tough, but shaw,
Applegate will have one of the not realized by a lot of people until Pete wouldn’t harm a flea.’’
“Main trouble with Pete,” Bill
five relief canning kitchens of the ¡Jacksonville, the mining metropolis
county, according to plans made 1 of southern Oregon, began prepara sayB, “is that he haint never had
by Mrs. Mabel Mack, home dem tions for their 1933 Gold Rush Ju much learnin’. Lived back there in
onstration agent, who was in the bilee August 19 and fixed the Yreka the foothills all his life, only gettin’
Gold Rush of last year as a mark out to town now and agin. Pete
community a few days ago.
be attained or outdone. Bad Eye never seed nothin much till he
Mrs. Fred Offenbacher will be I ! to
Pete, who appears to be more or
unit chairman of the relief canning less boss of the gold camp around stampeded down here last fall and
again, which will be started about Jacksonville, has been widely quot took in the Gold Rush. But jist
August 15. Whereas unit members ed in southern Oregon papers of like I always said, Pete’s smart:
canned fruit for relief purposes last late as having made dire threats he hot footed it right back and told
year, the needy will be asked to do against his home town's people un the folks what a Gold Rush looks
thetr own canning this season, less they put the 1933 jubilee over like and now he's gonna make ’em
many of the fruits and vegetables in a manner to put the Yreka Min put 'er on right.”
"Course what Pete don’t know is
to come from their own gardens. ers show to shame.
that last year’s Gold Rush was jist
Mrs. Offenbacher will ask a few of
Wildcat Bill, who has had two ex a sort of dress rehearsal on a small
the unit members to assist her tensions
put on the handles of both scale for the coming Gold Rush
with supervision of the work.
guns to accommodate the notches, here September 15, 16 and 17. but
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and who has rid herd on the ten If he gets down here on those dates
derfeet hereabouts for the past 50- this year, it’ll make up for a lot of
Start Construction on ; odd
years, allows, in a communica schoolin’ Pete never got.”
tion to this paper, that Bad Eye
Bad Eye is quoted as say
Anderson Butte House Pete knows a good thing when he ing “Now
that he Is makin’ ample per
sees it and that his desire to bring vision to accommodate us Yrekans
Following plans made last April the Jacksonville show up to the by trainin’ a bunch of chaperones
for construction of a new lookout standards of the Yreka Gold Rush fer tenderfeet. The true facts is
house on Anderson butte, two miles is a laudable ambition.
that those chaperones have cared
east of the Sterling mine, Ross
I ” says Wild- fer Pete since he was a pup and to
“I knowed Bad Eye.
Dickey, foreman of the forest serv cat, “ when his maw used to picket take ’em away from his now would
ice construction, left Wednesday for him out to a pine tree daytimes and be like takin' crutches away from
the mountain top with a crew of bed him down in a piece of old a one-legged man, but Bad Eye
Brush Marines to begin work.
sluice box In the corner of the don't need to worry none, there’ll
A tall growth of timber on the cabin at night, and man and boy, be plenty of Yrekans there to per
north side of the peak makes ad Bad Fye was always boasting about tect him if anything starts durin'
ditional height necessary for the what he was going to do to some the ceremonies."
building which, on that account, body, but he jest naturally never
will rest on a 30-foot tower. Lum gets round to it.” "That name Bad
Declared Pete after he bad
ber and, other building material Eye,” says Wildcat, “is totally mis caught his breath and cooled his
was taken in over the Anderson leadin’ and people shouldn’t ought frontier model Colts off after shoot
creek road. Anderson butte has to get the Idea that Pete’s really ing all the windows out on the
been the location for a secondary bad. That there name was hung street:
lookout for the last two years, mak onto him when he was a young "They seems to be a old acquaint
ing the fifth lookout for the Apple ster, cause he was always makin* ance o’ mine down there in Yrekey
gate country. Cecil Jellison of Med eyse at the gals and his maw kept that has forgot hisself and blowed
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ford has charge of the station.
tellin’ him it was bad to make eyes.