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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1933)
NRA ANt 13 1 IRE MMMM! J ' 1rHE J acksonville M iner Volume 2 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, October 13, 1933 RED TAPE SLOWS GOLD RETURNS FROM U. S. MINT For every "big" mun this country has there uro hundreds of thous ands of "little" men holding him Local Buyers Consignors for together. Small Producers; No Pay Seen Yet There are times when publishing u newspaper hus its advantages. By getting slightly horsewhipped Although President Roosevelt wo have been able to glean ubout rulsod th»* available price of gold as much from the county In witness In late August, to dat»i miners of fees ns from the publication itself. th»* Jacksonvide section have been unable to reap additional benefit. And with the horsewhipping trial Th«! former price udvaneed by (}. over and Henrietta convicted, we W. God ward, local gold buyer—Is all they have been able to got wonder who I* (s)Martln now. ponding sale of their bouillon by th«* federal treasurer. Oh well, as a Medford scribe However, the muchly publicized once said—In a |fi0,0fl0 editorial— greater world prlc»! will be a real "Ring Down the Curtain!" This ity almost any day now says God- week's trial ended the last rem wurd, wtm expects returns from nant of the political stink that p< i th»! Kun Francisco mint soon. meated the county last winter. Thor«! hud been somo delay in That's ONE corner that has been properly signing consignor affi turned, and we are duly thankful! davits concerning origin of ti™ gold shipped and some time waa A stitch In time saves many a lost while papers were being ■ent finger from being pointed In public. buck und forth. About 80 ounces of gold have been consigned to the It seems that guinea pigs have a federal mint by Godward, some rival In prolific propagation In the having been sent tn three weeks Blue Eagle. ago. In one Instance check has been received for silver content of the Pity the poor radio technician, shipment, but gold returns have Just about time he figuren out a not arrived. Godward has advance»! remedy for static in borne receiv- • 17 an ounce pending returns to era along come crooners' local miners. Gold of this section, which ave "It takes nerve to do that," said rages ubout 880 |x>lnts fineness out the throbbing tooth. of a possible 1000. runs about one- »ve eighth silver and is of a quality If beauty Is only skin deep the seldom surpassed anywhere. Silver, world certainly could stand morn at present, sells for approximately shallow people. 40 cents per ounce as compared to the world price of more than J30 an And real ev'ate dealors aren't ounce for gold and this fact ex-1 the only ones who give visitors to I plains why placer gold, unrefined,! southern California a shaking brings somewhat under top price down. paid for refined product. To obtain the world price, since' A choking head cold makes some President Roosevelt's move in far- people slurp soup In plg-latln. or of the mining west, producers v' must fill out and swear to affl-! While Olin Miller of Thomaaton, davits which give the weight, as Georxla. la busy poking fun at Ore say, source and amount of gravel gon we’d like to tell one on him. or tailings from which recovered, When just a lad Olin took hla first of all shipments. The mint will not trip out through the cottonfl»l»l*» accept amounts which will refine of Georgia. He paaaed a plantation to leas than two ounces. This n«»- where a herd of hogs was rooting ceasltates miners saving up their about among the cotton plants, tops gold or. If shipped in leaner of their backa juat visible. Young amounts, to pool with others for Miller WII quite Intcreated and consignment. Godward, the local asked, with awe. "Are those ani gold buyer, and John Pernoil at __ __ J. F. mals over there the boll weevils Applegate, as well as the Hedden company of Medford, have that get tn cotton?" been acting as agents In this ca-l And when the mayor of Weston, pacify. Despite the almost 50 per cent Oregon, wrote Olin in protest to his quip that “a man was found dead Increase In price available, mining in the Weston poRtofflce and, from in Jacksonville and Applegate sec appearances, had been dead about tions is at a low ebb. due mostly three days." Miller thought a fe to lack of water. Ix*ss unemploy male horse was corres|>ondlng i ment. however, also has withdrawn with him. Olin was just having a many from the ranks of the sour dough prospector and river sniper, j night mayor, however. Fall rains, when they come, are ex-; ft would be an Applegste Brush pected to send a swarm of gold Marine who journeyed 40 miles to annors Into the hills for the winter. a forest fire to burn himself on a lantern. i ------ *------- Dan Bagshaw of the Zillah. Wash.. Mirror, quotes a Washing ton county judge as declaring the NRA unconstitutional and illegal. Poor Dan. ho still pines for the legal and strictly constitutional doldrums that was ours when the repubs were in power. Jacksonville folk, who knew the publisher when he was at the old Post helm here years ago. declare Bagshaw to have a lot of horse sense, in spite of his present sour grape stand. We can't figure out yet why the Zillah scribe is so opposed to the NBA. His subscribers I both of 'em) must not have paid up yet. He also reprints a Yakima edi torial which deciares that raises In pay and shortening of hours never did really help labor. It must have been a long time since any of the newspaper boys up north worked for a living! Don't ever tell tin money doesn't talk! I-awt week Judge F. L. Tou- Velle of Jacksonville wandered over to Central Point and gave Art (HIc) Powell the price of a year's subscription. And so Editor Powell (of the C. P. American) spouts seven paragraphs of praise in his "Musings of an Innocent Bystand er." From what Art hits been writing about Jacksonville’s wetnoRR dur- Ing tho Gold Hush Jubilee we’d say he's not a very innocent by- slander. (Continued on page two) Three ’Gate Couples Observe Anniversary Time may be cruelly slipping away, but there is one comforting thought: when it brings an anni-: versnry there’s a splendid excuse for taking the day off to celebrate. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Offenbacher, Mr. and Mrs. J-ance Offenbacher; and Mrs. Jack O'Brien celebrated their eighth, ninth and tenth wed ding anniversaries, respectively, last Sunday, each of the anniver saries occurring in early October. Following a dinner at noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. l^eon Offen-1 baeher, several of the guests were 1 Joined by friends for an afternoon I horseback rldo. The novel touch; of the day was added when the men washed the dishes. ------------- •------------- High School Students Thank Businessmen Inasmuch hb there will be no football team at Jacksonville high school this season, the money do-1 natod for a football will be used for basketball equipment. Prof. W. J. Noe announced tills week. Students expressed their grati tude to the following, who made | the fund possible: Coleman’s Hard ware, Banket Grocery, Nugget Con fectionery, Dunnlngton’s Meat Mar ket, Godward Mercantile company, Dunnlngton’s Garage, Severance, Service Station, Amy’s Place, Gol- ! den Rule store and Simon Hart-1 bower. 1 nature about bear tracks, with a It was a very Insignificant forest, ' half-hearted admission that Fort- fl re late In the season, covered 1 , land boys, local boys, or any boys, only 12 acres and was described M ar»? afraid of the friendly creatures being 40 miles from nowhere, yet of the woods The fire occurred It was the most eventful fire of northeast of whiskey Peak. the year, according to stories sift ing down out of the wilderness. Speaking of the repeal vote, it Twenty five Brush Marines, prob occurs to The Jacksonville Miner ably getting their final fire expe rience of the summer, hto'UKht so, that "soon the Blue Eagle can hav<- a red nose.” A not Inappropriate anyway. To begin with. Captain B B Mc beak for its beaker. — Weston Mahon, efficient army official from ' Leader. Camp Applegate, fell over a cliff and hung on a tree just long! "We’ve done a lot of foolish enough to bo dragged back to safe things, but to date we haven't ly again before rotting to the hot- gone and got lost In a balloon, tom of the canyon Albert Young. Olin Miller. Which Is the best thing experienced fireman from the lo- he could do, If he’d only stay lost, cal forest service headquarters, —Weston Leader. Not just because a man was fatally in jured early this week returning from what has been termed . a roadhouse !, but be- _ “ _________ cause all such “roadhouses”—or speak- easies, to be candid, are what ar e—The ‘ they ‘ Miner believes the law enforcement agen cies of Jackson county should take imme diate, decisive action to eliminate these sore spots. It is true that Oregon, along with the greater part of the United States, voted away prohibition, but we believe NO ONE voted for the legalization of dives politely termed “speakeasies.” Although prohibi tion, as it worked out, proved to be unde sirable we believe the people were voting against just such disgraces when they junked the Volstead act. Since the state’s dry laws were invali dated and enforcement funds withdrawn, speakeasies (and that is a mighty charitable phrase for some of the bawdy houses now flourishing) have sprung up like mush rooms in every section of southern Oregon. They have taken hundreds of dollars away from legitimate channels of trade and have become a nuisance in more than one neigh borhood. The Miner believes the wets, who con scientiously overthrew prohibition and its impractical way of dealing with the liquor question, would never sanction the new era of speakeasies and “roadhouses” that fill formerly vacant houses with a scarlet glow, flicker and die out only to burst forth in a new location a few days later. Such dis graces threaten the cause of wets and are an insult to the general well-being of south ern Oregon. This paper has no axe to grind with those who like their liquor, but it does believe the place for such things is in the home— not out in some sporting house where im mature youth, reckless and daring, fills its share of the “guest rooms.” There should be some way to handle these speaks pending the formulation of permanent liquor control. Simply because extremeties of the drys have been banned in Oregon is no reason why such nefarious {»laces should be permitted to exist unmo- ested. Why not spend the time and effort it will take to ban penny and nickel slot machines in removing something that has become a real menace to community self-respect and wholesomeness ? STVIATTER POP— A Mouse Take« A Fall Out Of Pop But You Really Ought« Subscribe Number 41 | casually tumbled over a cliff In the' Whiskey Peak and dark, and young Keaaley, a recruit, He Who Lashes Last sustained minor burna from a gas Lashes Best Forest Fires Don’t lantern. Added to the casualty Hat were Mix, Find Fighters 1 Insinuations of a very indefinite Why Tread Lightly With the Speakeasy? 5c a Copy —Sbangie Photo. Henrietta B. Martin, who was convicted Monday night by a Jackson county circuit court jury I for mistaking, last February 25, the editor of The Jacksonville Miner for a horse, Is shown above. f Just Depends Whose Ox Is Being Gored! Six months ago The Miner was criticized for NOT attack ing Fox theater interests in Medford. Today The Miner la condemned FOR mentioning Fox. Which just goes to show you can’t please all the people all the time, so is it not wise to consider the public welfare and let the wallers lean on the box office? Now just who baa changed in a few brief months, anyway? Has it been Fox or the Holly theater? Southern Oregon can welcome the Fox interests with open arms if it likes, or it can turn a cold shoulder. That is up to southern Oregon and is of no particular concern to The Min er, which is interested only in keeping the record straight. Wednesday Soirees to Be Moved to Friday Beginning October 20 By R. CLAY CHAPPELL Dancing, someone has said, la the highest form of all the arts— it translates into motion the very soul of music, it takes the cold marble statue or the still, silent figures of the masters* canvas and gives them life and vivid re ality. Of course this was said of esthetic and interpretative danc ing but it applies just as truly to To the Editor; Just a word of praise for "Buffalo ballroom dancing. The whole universe is atuned to | Days,” running in The Miner. Old stuff for me, as I used to punch .rhythm. The very spheres revolve cows in that section of country in 1 in their appointed time. Daylight ’76 and '77, but tremendously in-! and darkness, the ocean tides, the gentle breezes, the tempestuous teresting nevertheless. storms, the sweet blossoms of In those days buffalo meat and spring, and the luscious harvests antelope steak could be found on. of summer and autumn, all obey the bill of fare at any eating place' the inevitable, the supreme laws and almost everybody owned a buf of rhythmic motion and recurrence. falo robe. Also buffalo shoes made And. in accord with that uni I for winter wear, with the hair side versal law. the oral dancer, sway I turned in. were common. ing smoothly to the melody of In a few years all these robes some sweet, familiar waltz, or trip ' had disappeared. During the 90’s ping lightly to the happy meas II hunted in vain for a robe, high i ures of the foxtrot or one-step, is ; and low. but none could I find. For whisked for a few brief hours out j a long time I pondered on this of the dull, prosaic world, with all mysterious disappearance of robes. its cares and troubles, into a ¡Then while on a visit to friends in dreamland of peace and happiness. British Columbia I discovered that ____ w»» But, somehow, ... in the ballrooms our old competitors, the Hudson of today there is absent something B*y company, had gobbled up a that made dancing the real enjoy- cool million of them which were ment that it was in the days gone being sold for fancy prices, from by and that It should be In this $•>' for a poor mangy relic to |500 modern age. It is easy to place our or,..th* ,b®tter °?,e“. . , . . . finger upon the cause. It la. in plain Would you call that long-headed- words, the snobbishness and clique- ness or pure hoggishness? When I ness of too many of the present-day hit the west cowboys were the real amusement seekers. article and as riders were scarce with all this in mind the com in some localities, I was given a mittee of the Wednesday night , chance and succeeded in making soirees have attempted to put on good at it. though but a mere kid. a dance bringing back the old-time When I was 14 I owned my own 3Pirit of good fellowship and com- saddle, chaps, lass-rope and guns raderie. Some new and novel idea and was drawing a man’s pay. And to attract the crowd, gold old fash- tW° ^ears I ha(l th® time of my ¡oned music to hold them, perhaps ■ life. a bit of stage entertainment to add Most of the camps were stock- variety and then gradually beauti ; aded in the cattle country and we fying the surroundings, and mak were always on the lookout for ing an atmosphere of hospitality Cheyenne Indians, who raided our and sociability were the corner section every now and then. On stones of the endeavor. three occasions they passed within Because of petty, perevile and two miles of our main camp and illogical local jealousies this Ideal each time our riders, reinforced by has proved Impossible. But the others from neighboring outfits, committee, though rather dis followed in hot pursuit, eventually gruntled with such small town tac catching up with and totally exter tics. is not discouraged or done. minating the hostiles. They have decided to abandon Another young lad and myself the Wednesday night dances but were always elected to guard the instead they will give a Friday camp in the absence of the aveng- night dance alternating with the I Ing party, as we were considered Odd Fellows dance. Therefore, one far too young to be included in week from this Friday there will such strenuous undertakings. be a dance in the old U. S. hotel Such a downright insult always from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. under the 1 made me frightfully angry, as I auspices of the Jacksonville Cham was sincerely convinced that with ber of Commerce. Ladies will be my 18-shot Winchester, .44 caliber admitted free, gentlemen 40 cents. Colt’s (which I still have) and my Beer and pretzels will be served favorite horse, Keno, whom I had and interesting entertainment will trained to lie down and let me be provided. < shoot from behind him, was a What we believe to be the best match for any number of Chey dance orchestra in southern Ore- ennes. gon. the Oregon Lumberjacks, will Many fervent appeals I sent up play. Above all. the committee will to the Lord, begging Him to ar use their utmost endeavor to in range matters so that I might meet troduce real old-time sociability ' up with some Cheyennes sometime and goodfellowsbip into the affair. and have a chance to show the ------------- •------------- I boys how I could clean out a whole FAMOUS ORCHESTRA COMING bunch all by myself. I didn’t have ertough sense those days to be Gene Childers. Medford theater afraid of anything. But the Lord operator, will present Leo Davis failed to answer my prayers, which and bis 11-piece colored orchestra accounts for me being alive at the Monday, October 16, at the Med- present writing. ford Fairgrounds pavllion. There was no nonsense about In Leo Davis and his orchestra Is dian fights. Those Cheyennes would widely known for NBC and Colum- attack right ou. in the open; and bia network radio work and come when they showed up. it meant direct from Sweet’s ballroom in that somebody would have to get San Francisco. The orchestra will (Continued on page four) present many novelty features. Prospector-Poet Lauds ‘Buffalo Days’ Yam in Miner and Tells One By C M. PAYNE