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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1933)
The Jacksonville Miner Pay 1 The Jacksonville Miner rUSIIinve IvvVlIy «1 JACKSONVILLE. OREGON OFFICIAL XtWSSASC» OF JACKSONVILLI The Topic of Conversation WAT l HINO EM A$$EM0LÈ WSE mtoccars flour PeFtKÇ- SCVgEVES fPEflES NO LC^T M c WAI ì&cfrmicw cvtctfikav ELECTRICAL L eOiLPlNO AllJ THE NEXT. ÓENEPAWN 1 \wiatie CUM i $ press ino %>L>kJM(?W (>e NICKY AN0 WAKHCO THE LIGHTS ôc tWinuu kpenttw ■WBILUNÜ MúH PASS IN THE HALL OF SuENCt ANO P1WÌ IH'fWl aunts f BUFFALO DAYS John Mooar and others to haul in NOTICE OF HEARINQ ON FINAL ACCOUNT the hides Notice la hereby given that Man At about the time my compan ions »nd I had left Adobo Wall» M Weeka. Administratrix of t|1(, OI) this hunting trip. John Mooar. Estate of Fred W Weeks, deceas Warren and Jone» wore In Dodge ed. has filed her final account In City after more auppliea for the said estate, and that Friday, tlin now post and rumors wore flying . loth day of November. 1933. at ths that Indiana were leaving the res hour of Eleven o'clock, A. M m ervation» to fight buffalo hunters the County Court Room, In the court house, in the City of Jone» a»kod Warren If ho *»• 'County ( going back and the latter replied. ' Medford, Jackson County, Oregon "No If you and Mooar are fool» has been fixed as the time and enough to go down among the In-1 place tor hearing said account, and dlana. you can go, but I am going all persons having objections to said final account are hereby noti to stay at home." Jones replied, “If you wore born fied io appear and urge said ob to be killed by Indians, you would Jet-lion» In the manner provided by be killed by Indiana If you wont to It v on or before tho time fixed New York That wouldn't make by said court for »aid final bearing e above sot forth any difference." First publication hereof, October John Mooar and Jones loaded and trailed back to Adobe M alls. Sth. 1933 Last publication hereof, October | and on arriving heard reports of Indians on tho range, und accounts 37, 1933. MAE M WEEKS. of encounters. Jones returned to Administratrix Dodge City alone. John Mooar re mained and tho next day Risk camo ALLISON MOULTON, In with tho request for his servlet«» Attoinev for \'linliilstrntrlx. Oct. «13 20 27 I to bring In tho hide» Thue tho dally humdrum of event» moved on to tho buttle of Adobe Walls, marking a crisis, a climax, and a now beginning in tho history of the Panhandle of Toxas. ----------- •----------- (Continued from page one) thrown back the next morning, we looked upon a white world. My buffalo camp was at the point of what was known as Three- Mile Ridge, twelve miles west of Dodge We drove out to the buf falo camp. John stayed ai this camp, getting his first taste of| roughing it. while I traveled back to Dodge with the next load of hides and meat. Here I met my cousin Charles Wright, and since both John and Charles wanted to LEGAL NOTICE get into the buffalo-hunting busi ness. I hired them and Mike Mc NOTICE OF FINAL Cabe at |50 per month; and we SETTLEMENT headed an expedition southeast, jin the County Court of tho County making the crossing of Arkansas of Jackson In and for tho state of River at Fort Dodge and pushing Oregon on for forty miles to Kiowa Creek, tn tho MATTER of tho ESTATE west of Medicine bodge. Here we of MARY SORENSON, deceased. were in camp a month, and took Notice Is hereby given that C. 305 buffalo hides and twenty thous M Rexford, administrator of the and pounds of short-cut hams. The above entitled estate has filed in meat brought two and one-half the above entitled court and mat cents per pound, and I gave half of ter Ills final account and ro|«ort the proceeds to freighters for haul of his administration of said estate ing it to market. The hides I and said court by an order duly hauled myself. These hides were I FUNERAL PARLORS One of the drivers was Bat Mas this time trekking to the Cimarron some years before by Brant's Fort given and entered therein has fix sold to Eugene be Compte for >3.05 Madford. Oregon ed the 4th day of November. 1933, each. ? ■># terson. who later gained consider river and remaining there all sum traders. He located his new trad able fame. Years afterward. I was mer. Other outfits Joined us for ing post on this site and called it at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A M . The Great Blizzard at the court room of the above On one of these trips to the hide in New York City, and called at protection against roving bands of Adobe Walls. market at Dodge City. John and I.1 the Astoria Building, inquiring for Indians, who looked with bitter About <0 hunters and teamsters entitled court In the Jackson Coun FREE ENLARGEMENT! ' each driving a team, joined the Bat Masterson . A |>olite clerk an foreboding upon their vanishing In the party erected a stockade cor ty court house nt Medford. Oregon, Nixon freight outfit, loaded with swered that Mr. Masterson was in. meat supply. At that time the Cim ral and built in one corner of the as the time and place for the hear 4x6 Size with Each Roll meat, at Kiowa creek, and traveled and went to inform him that he arron was believed to be the boun corral u storehouse of cottonwood ing of any and all objection» to of Film Printed said account and re|>ort or to any with it to Mulberry Creek, where had a visitor. • dary line between Kansas and the logs. , Item thereof and for the Mettle- In a moment Masterson appear- Indian territory. Gardner Drug Store we struck the old Government road In April. Charles Rath, a com- from Dodge City to Camp Supply. ed and said: “1 Do you want to see Next Farmers & Fruitgrower» Millions Upon Millions l>etitor. moved a branch store down ment thereof. C. M REXFORD. On the way a blinding blizzard of me?" Bank, Medford A general belief grew and pre and built a sod house a short dis Administrator. k______________ _ _________________ “If you are Bat Masterson. I do.” vailed that the great buffalo herd tance south. It faced east, as did wind and snow swooped down from “Well. I'm what's left of him." the north, and men and animals was extinct; but some argued there Myer's store. James Hanrahan then were soon white with frost and “Do you remember being with must be another herd, as the herd built a saloon between the two struggling in an icy gale that be Nixon's wagon train on Jauuary that had gone north consisted en- stores, close to Myer's stockade. 1873?” came a real threat to life itself. | 27, : tirely of prime animals. At last a Tom O'Keefe erected a picket “I was right there.” At Mulberry Creek we had a brief neighbor hunter, John Webb, and 1 house for a blacksmith shop be council and decided to press on to “Who drove the first wagon?" detennined upon a scouting trip to tween Hanrahan's saloon and “Pat Baker.” Dodge City. The Government road ascertain the truth of the situation Rath's store. All were established along here for miles was a wide “No. it was driven by I^evl Rtch- Saddling our favorite mounts, and and doing business by the flrat and deeply beaten trench from one i ardson. Pat Baker was next." carrying no supplies but a sack of of May. to two feet deep. The howling “You are right.” salt and plenty of ammunition, we John and I moved our supply of "Well, who drove the next wa- turned our faces to the unknown hides and meat to Dodge City, and gale drove the snow across this, ?’’ banking it on the other side, and gon I wilderness. our camp to the new trading post “I did.” leaving a plain trail for the teams Our direction of travel was south John, in company with a Mr. War to follow, but at length we came “And who drove the next?" and we crossed the north prong of ren. who had a family In Dodge, to the mouth of the Creek Valley “Columbus.” the North Canadian river, known and a freighter known as Dirty as it debouched into the wide val “Yes. sir; and who came next?” as Beaver creek, at a point about Face Jones, hauled supplies to the ley of the Arkansas, and the trail “Jimmie." 20 miles east of where Beaver City, j new stores at Adobe Walls. Each shallowed, and was soon apparent- “And who was next?” Oklahoma. is now. Continuing drove a six-mule team and two ly lost. “The Mooar brothers.” south across Wolf creek, another I Another council wm held, and it “Right again I am Wright prong of the North Canadian, we wagons. Exchanging Leaden Compliments was agreed to stick together and Mooar, driver of the last wagon.” turned west on the divide between Early in May I made a trip south try to reach John Hunt's ranch a From that moment we two com the North and South Canadian riv to the Canadian river with Mart point on the trail. Here a saloon, rades of the old frontier sat down ers. and somewhere in this lonely' Calloway. Phillip Sisk, I Aim Wil- store, and ranch bouses would af to live again, for a time, the ex- land, now the Panhandle of Texas, son. Dave Campbell and John ford shelter that was rapidly be- j periences of those stirring days, we found the great herd, millions Hughes. coming a necessity if we were to and pay tribute to the faithful upon millions, fattening on the Six men. three teams and three survive. Ice formed on our beards, dumb animals whose unerring grass of those mighty uplands saddle horses composed the group, eyebrows and eyelashes until we sense of direction and surround- Pushing on westward through liv We went down the river to the ings, superior to man's greater ln- ing lanes opening before us as we mouth of Red Deer creek, could scarcely see our way. At last the lead team, driven by 1 telllgence in such an exigency as advanced, and camping at night in the river and went up Red I crossed leer to Levi Richardson, stopped, bringing that of the blizzard, had saved our the midst of browsing, drowsing the head of the Washita, moving the whole cavalcade to a halt. Stag lives. thousands, we came in sight of the on the middle Washita to Gagesby gering back through the howling Mooar Brothers and Wright breaks of Blue river or the South creek. While In camp here, a small gale to the other drivers, he an Mike celebrated our return to Canadian, Tascosa. Texas, la now party of Indians came near the nounced that one of his lead mules Dodge City by getting on a pro at the mouth of Blue river. Here camp, but would not accept an in was frozen to death. John Mooar tracted spree, and was left at we turned north. For five days we ___ __ ____ ___ In. ______ vitation to come and ______ soon saw that Richardson was complete- Dodge, We three boys formed a had ridden through and camped in passed on. The same day wo moved ly blinded by the ice that had form partnership. I loaned my brother a mobile sea of living buffalo. j several miles up the creek and ed on his beard and eyelashes. John and cousin Charles two hun I camped In a wide flat. The Council of War Cupping his hands around his own dred and fifty dollars ecah, to en On our return, the buffalo hunt 1 Next morning, at the first sign mouth and over Richardson’s eyes, ter the firm on an equal footing he blew his warm breath on the with me. Under the new arrange ers held a council and listened to of day, the Indians charged the matted ice until he could brush it ment I shot the game and the our report. Differences of opinion ;camp from the south, lying on the Electricity has taken the "work" out of housework in away and Richardson could see. other boys did the freighting and marked the council. There was con right side of their horses and many homes An electric range does the cooking auto Pat Baker, who was driving the marketing and looked after the siderable doubl as to the govern shooting under their horses' necks second team, volunteered to go for camp. Three men were hired as ment’s attitude toward the hunters at the beds of the hunters as they matically in the absence of the cook ... an electric re- ward and drive the lead team. skinners, and again we turned to should they go out of the Indian galloped through. John Hughes and frgerotor preserves perishable foods in cold storage and territory into Texas, a sovereign I slept on the east side of the east “I can make those blankety- ward Kiowa Creek. freezes ice cubes and desserts ... a ventilatino fon re state. A hunter by the name of wagon in the camp. Hughes was blanked leaders move!” he shouted Spring had come—the spring of moves objectionable odors ond keeps the air clean and above the storm, and a few min 1873. All nature had awakened from Frazier united the council by a pro next to the wagon; his gun was utes later was cracking his black the sleep of winter; the prairies posal that a conference be held standing against a wagon, and my healthful ... an attractive, accurate, electric kitchen snake whip over their backs, But grew green and lush with grass,' with Major Dodge. Frazier and I gun was under the top blanket to clock keeps the housewife on time for appointments . . . they did not move. He then went and sprinkled with flowers; the were chosen as envoys. Returning protect it from dew. At the first a radio loudspeaker, set into the kitchen wall ond con forward and seized one lead mule voice of mighty achievement called to Dodge City, we dressed for the sound of the charge, Hughes sat nected to the radio in the living room furnishes the morn by the bridle bits and strove to to the spirit of adventure. For a occasion in new shirts, trousers, up, seized his gun, and shot the ing household radio features ... the electric food mixer drag them around from the drive time all went well, and profits, and hats, and went down to Fort lead horse as he came opposite. of the gale. As he struggled with piled up rapidly. Every day we Dodge, six miles distant from The big ball tore through the horse makes play of preparing salad dressings, desserts ond and his rider, who hung on the op the stubborn animal, he staggered saw some new and thrilling brushi Dodge City, for the interview. foods of all kinds . . . the kitchen sink contains on elec The major was gracious in his posite site, and whistled for more, against a wall—and found that the, with big game. tric dish washer built in os a part of the sink itself . . . reception and fired volleys of ques victims. mules had reached the ranch, and And then the shadow of death' over sink, work table, range and refrigerator a shaded tions at us. We did not get their were standing with their heads hovered near. John was stricken I The rest of the Indians rode fu-i light is installed ond odequote room illumination from against a door! Snow had drifted with pneumonia, and I took him import at the time, but the infor riously by and circled to the west, entirely over it. o central fixture keeps the modern kitchen cheerful and i to the Dodge City hospital, where mation thus obtained later ap taking cover in a thicket and shoot In a short time we were inside, for weeks he struggled in the grip peared in an article on the habits ing at the camp, but were too far bright. and while the teams munched their of the dread disease. At last good and history of the buffalo, written away to do any damage. It was by the major. Finally, I asked the food under the wind breaks, we, medical care and youthful courage still pretty dark but we could see half-frozen, were gathered about and strength prevailed, the shad all-important question. “Major, if < the flash of their guns and replied the fires and steaming food and ow passed on and the outfit which we cross Into Texas, what will be I with deadly precision of trained drinks, inside the houses. Only had been in Dodge for six weeks, the government’s attitude toward marksmen with the best rifle in THE CALIFORNIA OREGON the unerring instinct of the faith waiting for John's recovery, again us?" the world in our hands. This soon "Boys," replied the major, “ if I ful mules had brought us to safety, i turned, to the big-game country,! smoked the Indians out of the POWER COMPANY were a buffalo hunter, I would hunt thicket. But even in the face of buffalo where the buffalo are." such rifle fire, two Indians made a That settled the question. run past the camp, picked up their dead companion’s body and bore Texas or Bust Charley Wright now withdrew It off, Joining their comrades. I from the partnership, and in Sep- Then all rode away and were seen j tember, 1873, John and I, with four no more. Does history furnish any ! teams and 10 men, set out for the real parallel in horsemanship for i wilds of Texas, crossing the Neu- these daringly Ravage Comanche ' tral strip now Beaver county, Okla- and Cheyenne Indians Next day wo crossed tho North ' homa. We hunted a while on the I South Canadian and then turned fork of Red River and camped on i back, pitching camp on the Palo Salt fork. Buffalo were coming i Dura creek in Hansford county. On from the south in great numbers, I this trip to the Canadian we made and 10 days of uninterrupted hunt our own trail, striking four miles ing followed, in which 606 bison west of the old ruins of the John C. hides were taken, and Phillip Sisk Makes Your Hat Freemont and Kit Carson Adobe was sent to Adobe Walls to get Jaunty, Discreet oi Walls. Upon our return to Dodge City, we followed the old Fort Bas- Imposing comb government trail across the Arkansas river. CONGER ^aAL^^TCHEN Your Hair Building Adobe Walls Post .... So passed the winter of 1873. In ; March, 1874, A. C. (Charley) Myers, I Dodge City dealer in hides and hunters’ supplies, bought Hank Sutter’s outfit of eight six-yoke teams and moved a branch store south to Hutchinson county, Texas. 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