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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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