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T he J acksonville M iner
Volume 2
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, November ¡0, 1933
JIM CANTRALL,
PAUL GODWARD
NEW CITY DADS
‘We One’ Claims
South Precinct at
Noon Vote Here
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Number 45
Controlled Inflation Is
"We one the election" claimed
the election board of south
.JiickHonvIlh' |pr>-< lu< t at ihhiii
Tuesday, city election day.
It seems that, due to the un
usual Interest not being dis
played In the city’s |*olitlcal af
fairs. one lone solitary ballot
hud been marked In the south
ern half of this here town by
about noon, the vote being a
landslide for tho only two run
ning for councilmen to replace
Jim Cuntrall and Punk Dunnlng-
ton.
Tuesday’s election came aa a
surprise to nearly every Jack-
sonvllllan, even the press being
unawsre of its proximity till
City Recorder Ray Coleman hap
pened to think of It the day
before election barely in time
to have the ballots printed.
Chamber of Commerce Presi
dent Duke Lewis even admitted
he knew nothing of the great
day till along towards noon
Tueaday, when Dan’l (Boone)
Hhuss came skipping down the
street humming to himself "I’ve
voted already; I’ve voted al
ready.” JHxn’l was the first, and
only, voter In the city for sev
eral hours after the historic city
hall opened.
The calm and Indifference
with which this week’s election
was received was attributed to
u lack of the usual lailltical fer
vor sometimes displayed In the
old town, which has divided it
self Into enemy camps armed
with sluice box gratings, picks,
shovels, wagon tongues and, in
fact, everything but stink bombs
(the writer not having yet been
Involved in local turmoil).
Jim Cantrall and Paul God-
ward, the two candidates, A ere
said to be leading the vote by
a safe margin In south precinct
at noon time, score standing 1-0.
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STABILIZATION!
FOR MINERS IN
GOLD SALE HERE
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So
out controlled m- |
Savings of Nearly $3 Ounce
flation, gold standards, stable dollars and re-
Expected Aa Result of
Domestic Sides
monetization that the whole mess has become
an impenetrable jumble to most of us.
Every week sees more good news
I for gold miners of southern Ore
We
e mountings out gon and all United States gold pro
sections. Gradual increase In
of moles. I hat is why we often have so much ducing
worth of the metal in silver dollars
bad legislation and worse voting. But there continues, with an expected saving
of nearly 33 an ounce In present
really is nothing very complicated about Presi shipments due to President Roose
’s action in authorizing the Re
dent Roosevelt’s controlled inflation reached by velt
construction Finance corporation
buy gold In place of open sales
way of his gold-purchasing on the world mar to
on world markets.
ket plan.
The method employed a few days
ago reqnired the shipment of gold,
The more dollars Mr. Roosevelt is willing to j after refining, to point of sale, often
ports, with resultant cost.
give for an ounce of gold the less gold value that European
Now delivery of gold to the mint
expense to the producer.
dollar will contain. If he was willing to swap ends
In addition to a saving In hand
30
unce of gold a week ling charges, miners have seen the
red tape accompanying the greater
ago, a dollar was worth one-thirtieth of an I returns cleared somewhat. Miners
who pool small amounts—less than
ounce of gold. If this week the price offered is ■ two
ounces—now are not required
sign affidavits concerning origin
$32, then a dollar is worth one thirty-second I ■ to
of the metal. Shipper's affidavit
alone suffices under the new or
part of an ounce of gold.
z
der, issued a week ago greatly
But that doesn t mean much to we average simplifying preliminaries. Next re
finement in marketing of the
persons. What significance it has, however, will - yellow metal is looked for In a
I hastening of returns to the pro-
mean a lot to us. For example:
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Ray Coleman, recorder
Wo are wondering what Saint
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ducer, who must be content to re
C. C. Chitwood, treasurer . 38
Pete said the first of the week
I hree years ago $200 borrowed money ceive an advance of about $17 an
J. M. Cantrall, councilman M
when he was greeted with "Hello,
ounce, with consignment margin
Paul Godward, councilman M
Sucker!"
would represent about five weeks labor return delayed two weeks or more. Re
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to miners are increasing to
There were no write-ins.
for the average working man. But this money turns
After remembering tho venom
a point where approximately $8
ous feeling held toward strikers by
above former price is being re
when due, say last winter, represented then the ceived.
moat farmers, wo cun readily un ting to be all sound. Judging from
with a steady climb indi
derstand why tho midwestern farm the noise which Jias arisen con
eating miners soon may be getting
equivalent
of
two
or
three
months
labor
—
if
la
strike la called a "holiday.” It Just cerning It.
$10 more than the former average
bor could be found at all. In other words, the t rice of $17 as a direct result of
depends on whose ox Is being tin-
deruold on the market.
So far, the only code we country
Roosevelt’s action.
borrower had agreed to pay back (through a I President
Local miners and prospectors are
i editors have Is accompanied with
Many ties of friendship are clip the sniffles.
and heading for the hills.
medium of exchange) five weeks labor. But rejoicing -----------
ped hy being too snippy.
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One Jacksonville housewife, who
State officials of California re
due to the depression he was forced to pay back
does her own washing, avers there cently issued a warning aguinst re
More Bear Skins
more than twice this amount of labor due whol
should bo no "blue Monday” In a call petition peddlers, who have
Back Up Yams of
uudlat colony.
been working a racket throughout
ly to the fact that the dollar had fluctuated in
the west lately. They generally ac
Applegate Hunters
“Can I dish It out!” boasted the company their pamphlets with the
value simp|y because it had not fluctuated with
sculptor ns he carted a dish-faced request for n dime to cover "ex
There are enough bear stories
bust.
pense.” evidently realizing that one
conditions.
emanating from the Little Apple
who would sign a recall petition is
Many of us, back a few years ago, were in gate section to last until the next
Suggested theme-song for those a sucker anyway.
Ruch Miner Recounts Early
political speeches start. Harold
California nudists who encamped
debted
to
the
limit.
We
had
figured
we
could
Crump
can tell the beat one—how
Days
of
West
When
behind the protection of the Cas-
Many a man. says Jim Owen, who
he played the part of Goldilocks
caues: "The Haro Went Over the never has se«n an Oregon lumber
a Cowpuncher
pay
back
five
weeks
’
income
all
right,
but
when
and broke up a happy bear family.
.Mountain.”
camp can whistlepunk.
Mr. Camp had Just discovered a
Although southern Oregon little the time came we found it necessary to dig up
j mother bear In his trap, when her
There are times, too. when Call
Art (Hie) Powoll of the Central suspected it, she has several men
brought her mate from over
fornla's ego changes to ague.
Point X iiu ii in boastH his remark« In her midst who know as much 10 weeks’ income. A great many people found ! i a growl
hill.
After shooting the pair, Mr.
the
fair
weather
brought
on
about
i1 impossible to do this simply because matters Crump heard a cry of grief up in
And some pad news has leakod Inst week’s rain. Now If Art will ::
tree and discovered cubby, who
out concerning Mae West.
only write a treatise on the de- set down in bookn a series of ar beyond their control had changed, and were a soon
met the fate of his parents.
presston.
tides dealing with buffalo hunt r
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Glenn Saltmarsh trapped a 250-
ing in the southwest has set off i forced to lose their homes, their farms and their
Now we understand why nudists
pound brown bear Monday. Mr.
chose California for their home.
Art. in his naive manner, refers
automobiles. It is this evil President Roosevelt Saltmarsh was excited yet at the
They heard it was th« Bear State. to us as "that unspanked youngster
of the interview and said that
who poses as a great martyr on ac jnected with the settling of ore- ¡s attempting to correct through devaluing the time
he only was guessing at its weight,
While Roosevelt Is fixing the count of bls connection with an gon or the founding of Jackson- . n
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fluctuation of the dollar, he would unfortunately interrupted horse- vine, there is a close affinity be- dollar to a point where a man indebted today adding that it might have weighed
only 100 pounds. Mrs. Saltmarsh
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confer us a distinct favor if he i whipping episode.” Powell, we tween all western life and exper-
can repay his debt with a like amount of labor confirmed the first theory, how-
also would do something shout Its hear, also has been unlicked—dogs 1 iences regardless of the locale.
j ever. The trap and bait were dis-
Famous as the "Prospector-Poet,"
deuced portability. Or cross a Just never feel thataway about him.
which
he
borrowed.
1 turbed three times before a bear
homelng pigeon with the eagle on
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J. C. Reynolds, 70-year-old Ruch
captured.
the tails side.
With 14 electric servants at their miner, has Jotted down a few lines
Every businessman will agree that a high j was
There are others with a story
.command every day of th« year, In which he editorializes on one
It develops that Weston, Oregon, home-loving Americans are kicking of the most misunderstood points rate of interest will eat up the profits in any to tell, although it was impossible
to make the contacts for this Is
I home of Clark Wood’s Leader) can because the pow/t companies of American history—"bad" In
sue of The Miner. The proud trap
When
the
depression
hit,
many
business
dians,
and
Illuminating
sidelights
raise Homething besides the devil charge almost as nuft'h for a week’s
with Olin Miller down In Georgia. supply as a hired hand could eat on why we whites were taught in were forced to pay not only high interest, but pers are J. T. Lovel, Willis Scott
and Leo Fields.
school to look at them as we do.
Weston is staging a potnto show 1 up in one sitting.
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Reynolds, in his day, has been also had their indebtedness doubled in signifi
over the coming week-end. We
People have gone soft. They ride mixed up in two cattle wars and
knew Editor Wood got a lot of
Medford Legionnaires
to work, burn oil in their stoves, one sheep and cattle war, has been cance if not in numbers of dollars. And as one
starch from somewhere.
use automatic ovens, leave the ra a deputy sheriff, guard on stages
to Present Applegate’s
The question is, if the Iowa farm dio on all day and keep their homes and special deputy on occasions. business after another ran into trouble and fam
ers continue on the rampage, will bright on the darkest nights, yet He has been among 21 Indian ilies—the smallest business venture—hit the Armistic Day Program
j complain because it costs more to tribes, has lived where stage rob
Russia want to recognize us
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live than back in the good old days beries were an almost dally oc- rocks, the nation did the same thing, for the na
Captain O. L Overmeyer, com
We understand Henry Ford would when people didn't have seven^cor- j currence, has seen the rattlesnake
mander of the Medford post of the
like to take General Johnson for a porallons doing all their work for god of a Pueblo tribe, to whom a tion travels on the backs of its people.
American Legion, with 10 or 12 Le
new-born baby was fed once a year,
ride In his v-hate. If they come to I them.
gion members, will present an Ar
When
discrepancies
are
readjusted
and
dol
and Apache Indians who could
blows, however, it Is doubtful
mistice program during the lecture
If an electric light globe uses cover 80 miles a day on foot. He lars are back to pre-depression levels, then the hour at the meeting of the Apple
whether Henry would give Hugh
much of a Lincoln. (Our humor three cents worth of Juice where It has been in every big mining ex-
gate Grange Friday, November 10.
may not be good, but there’s plenty would have taken eight coal-oll i eitement in the west, beginning average American home-owner, farmer and Two of the members who were in
France during the World war will
of low-grade ore for us to work on. lamps full to furnish a dim substi with Ijeadvllie, Colo., In '78.
clear. give
able to see his way clear,
an address on their expe
Reynolds has promised The Min businessman will be able
We can crack pun right after an tute at three times the cost, the
power trust Is robbing 'em blind.
er he will delve into the past every And when they can < do
riences there.
other.)
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that
there
will
be
no
Talks also will be given on the
once in a while. His first recount
National Recovery act and other
A good citizen, along about this ing follows:
If Shnkospeare were alive today
more national problem.
national topics. Musical numbers
he might rewrite one of hlH famous time of year, 1 h best defined as
President Roosevelt is following this simple, will be presented by the Medford
By J. C. REYNOLDS
quotations to read, “AU tho world , one who will pay his share of gov
My travels in the west have
Glee club. The lecture hour is open
Is a stage and thoro are too many ernment cost without yowling and
squirming. Although the power brought me into contact with 21 logical plan in his every act, coupled together to the public and the Grange in
bad-actors.”
companies, the railroads and other different Indian tribes, some of with emergency relief pending the completion vites everybody to attend the pro
"Why is It," asked Jack WurtH of public service corporations are whom I have lived among or close
gram, which will begin at 8 o’clock.
Medford the other day, "that all commonly referred to as "loaches by for quite a while. The others, of his slower readjustment in the form of the Grange members will retire for
the homelng-pigeonH seem to have devouring the common people," long enough to become well ac-
their regular meeting after the pro
been born nour my house?" He I h they have a peculiar way of paying quainted, so I consider myself CCC camps, federal building projects and di gram.
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not interested in nitrates, he says, THEIR «hare of the tax bill, which fairly well posted on Indians in rect relief to the farmer in various well-known
and is guano do something about certainly I h large enough, while the general.
WANTED—Second-hand cook stove
the pests if he h«s to turn nlnirod. Buffering herd rants and raves, re
While I will admit that any of I forms. Roosevelt not only is administering to
and heater. Inquire at Lyden
■or
fuses to pay such exhorbltant gov thene tribes were bad enough when
House, Jacksonville.
The American dollar may not bo ernmental charges and buys itself on the war-path, I state without | the results of error, but he also is at the same LOST—Indies’ purse, with name
Quiet Election Comes and Goes
After three years or sleepless
Without Arousing Man
nights wondering what's wrong
Or Beast Here
with the nation, America rudely
awakens to discover that maybe
In oil« of th« quietest and most
things would liuve been different
If only she had been using u liquid obscure city elections to be h«ld
hern In many years, 39 Ja< -kson-
laxative.
v IIII hiih Tuesday nauntorcd Into tho
It la because too many greedy old town ball to l>'lHur<-ly murk
would feather their nests with Ihdr ballotM, exchange greeting«
plumes of the Blue Engle the bird anil go on their way.
City council t«rnm of Jim Can
was born with talons.
trail mid Clint Dunnlngton expire
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Americanism:
Radio stations January 1 and Dunnlngton failed
tumbling over one another to be to run on the new ticket, hl« va
first with new songs and then, cancy being Nought by I’aul God-
after saturating the air with them, ward city Recorder Ray Coleman
racing to first proudly announce mid City Treasurer C. C. Chitwood
“this station does NOT play 'The also were up for reelection. There
wax no opposition to uny vacancy.
l.uat Round-Up*!”
All offfcera-olect will be sworn
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And people have been pinning In Junuary 1, the councilmen to
everything on the Blue Eagle but serve two year terms, city recorder
and treasurer to serve one-year
Itili feathers.
periods. God ward will be the only
What a pity It I m those crooners new member of the city’s official
who murmur “Pin Heading for the staff, all others being Incumbent.
Out of n possible 300-odd list of
I mim I Round-lJp” aren't telling the
registered voters, but 39 found
truth.
their way to the polls In the city
Where there's a will to diet often election Official tabulation by the
election board, composed of Emil
there la too null.! weigh
Britt, E. A. Langley, Jo« B. Wet-
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The way of the transgressing terer, Mrs. Nellie W. Fick and An
na F. Coleman, was as follows:
turkey Is paved with cranberries.
‘BADINJINS’NOT
UNLIKE MODERN
BREED OUTLAWS
too stable, but it certainly is get- a new automobile.
(Continued on page four)
S MATTER POP— Oomp! He Showed One Of Them, Anyhow!
(Continued on page two)
Alice Hoefs. Return for reward.
By C. M. P a YNE