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If the Weekly Newspaper Is Read That’s Proof the Daily Is Not All-Sufficient »»•»»»»•»»•»*»»»•» it — ■— 'B 5 I " c a Copy But You Really Should Subscribe Today ss«se»»s ««»«.». »a««»«... ...... .f. ...,. -tTrTt -TTrffT T r r t tr| tl ttt litlllim HHmasm»! H111 U11II111111 till II1UZIUHXIIIH. 111111 r r T he J acksonville miner “The Sheet That’s in the Pink” Volume 3 JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934 JACKSONVILLE AS SOUTHERN OREGON’S HUB Applegate H-E Set to ‘Kidnap Betty’ Next Friday Night Applegaters Giggle At Fouil-Fumbling Peddler Number < City Council Makes Compromise Offer Water Delinquents GAGNON MILL SEEKING NEW SITE IN TOWN Appli-gute people are assured Jacksonville water users tn ar complete evening of entertainment rears may continue to be supplied next Friday, February Hi. when the by the city providing they pay cur By MAUDE POOL Applegate Homo Extension Unit rent bills, and at least a part of! Th« hills of th« Applegate still ! er yet when the efforts exerted back balance each month as a re Imaginary Early-Day Tourist will present "Kidnaping Bely,” a Purudoxlcnliy enough, It I m on« act comedy lasting on« hour, would reverberate with hearty | In that failure have brought the sult of city council action taken i Travels Through Famous congressman with his oar to the which Is entered In the county dra- laughter had the public been per undoing of work already neatly ac- Tuesday night. A half dozen delin ground who seldom gels kickinl in mutlc contest, Applegate competing muted to view the little* comedy I compllshed. Two handsome roost quent users had appeared before Local C of C Cooperating in Old Mining Town th« face with Talent, Central Point, and tranMpiring here a few days ago, ers, one red and the other white, the council to voice their cause, Location of Suitable Lots Eagle Point, In addition to the when an agent found that the other pranced up and down the road, and the arrangement was the re By PAUL 8. EWING We might point out. as a subtle (Hludent In Schoo! of Journalism, play, musical numbers will be of- fellow’s misfortunes are what challenging salesmen or anybody sult. Near City’s Hiway warning, that some damage suits fered, and plans are tx-lng made makes the world laugh, And it’« else to recapture them. University of Oregon) More than $600 In unpaid water' get uwfully buggy at the knees be Realizing that catching roosters rental is on the city’s books, ac-i Industry will be moving to town, Resuming a trip by horseback for u social evening to follow, pos- a cruel world when it wants to cause th«y won’t hold water. out in the wide open spaces is cording to officials, and some ar-1 if the Jacksonville Chamber of to the towns of the new stat« of klbly In th« form of an old fash- laugh. V« lotted dance. A small admission “Then don’t you want to renow something like palling out the rangement must be made to clear Commerce is successful in aiding Parentage can now bn eslabllsh- Oregon In 1859. whose seventy price will be charged. i your subscription?” Implored the ocean, the frustrated agent spied this up. Those users, however, who Joe Gagnon, well-known sawmill fifth anniversary of statehood is <«d by examination of two drops One change has been made in peppy agent whose trailer full of the man of the place close by and do not pay current bills and some* of blood, according to »atest scien being celebrated this February, our th« cast since the publishing of motley, chickens loudly bespoke asked his aid. The salesman was on back balances, if greatly in ar-, operator, to locate suitable site for supposed traveller fa found at Can his Jackson creek outfit. tific data. What an ocean of evi- the names a short time ago, Ed Hucci-sful salesmanship. quickly informed that he wouldn’t rears, will be ordered cut off, city , iletice there should bn us to who yonville. after u trip down the west ward Warford having taken the Gagnon has been cutting timber get any help, and that he “bad fathers decided. “ No. ” replied the housewife very side road from Portland. In a pre really fathered the World war. place of Frances Krause. "Kidnap definitely. "I said that I don't have better get his roosters or tney sure Approximately $60 has been sub-i on the right fork of Jackson creek vious Installment, hfa ride to the « C ing Betty” Is a swift moving com- would be eaten." The situation be serfbed toward an estimated need about one and one-half miles from With the dollar now worth but towns of Milwaukie, Oregon City, <dv tn which Betty, the village time to read the magazines 1 al gan to look futile, yet the help of $200 to grade and scrape sev town for many years, at times em half, we suppose the treasury de Hillsboro, Whltnson, I Hillas. Marys school teacher, shows the world ready take.” ploying as many as 15 men and "Well, there seem to be a lot less salesman had developed an eral of the city’s main thorough-! operating box manufacturing equip partment Is telling how ft plowed ville, Monroe, Franklin, Lorane. slie can board where she wishes. unlimited supply of resourcefulness, fares by interested property own Drain, Elkton, Scottsburg, Umpqua people around here — they might of under every other root of all evil. and he asked the man if he would ers. a report disclosed. There is a ment. in addition to a like num City, Gardiner, Oakland, Umpqua, even If she needs to use a little like to read the magazine.” treachery and Inhuman treatment, accept the roosters on a trade. possibility that the city may con ber of men In the hills geting out Winchester, Roseburg and Canyon "I can’t afford to subscribe for not The higher the Ideals, the harder which can wind up In matrimony tribute to the pool, that the streets ' logs, according to J. B. Wetterer, But be would not! ville was told. We now find hint one must full when they coma down chamber secretary, who is a former If necessary. The plays ends with other people," was the considerate With every possibility of S Sol- may be worked after two years of 1 leaving for Jar.isonvlile. reply. to the earth that really is. But employe of Gagnon. a pleasing antl-cllmax furnished by Inattention. ution exhausted, there remained Riding out of hospitable little Betty's father. "Ah. beamed the resourceful fel but one final heroic gesture—to some people merely hitch their Gagnon seeks a location in or City Auditor Iceland J. Knox gave ‘ Canyonville at an early hour, he wnggln’ tongue lo a star. The Applegate (■range may en- low. scanning the porch from top capture the wary roosters by main his report to the meeting, a resume near Jacksonville adjacent to the would push on through the moun to bottom. “ You ’ ll trade me that -a.'*- t«r the dramatic contest also, al force. of which will appear in next week’s Medford-Ruch highway and several The difference between theory tains over the stage road pass and though definite Information con- gas lantern hanging up there.” sites are being scanned. Gagnon Up and down the road and over Miner. down to Rogue river, where he and practice Is that difference be “We might need that lantern If the countryside galloped the cack renting this could not be obtained hopes to re-enter the box shook would have been forced to atop to tween human thought and human the lights should fall, and I would ling roosters and the seething this week. business if he is successful in re rest Ills jaded horse. action. Too many resolves become not want to trade it.” locating his mill, and has joined agent. Neither would give up, but Miners Are Seen dissolves when work or sacrifice “ Then wouldn ’ t you be willing a lumberman’s grading group that once the salesman paused to beg A short ride In the cold, spirit- fa In the offing. to trade that shot gun?” begged the assistance of a crew of Brush would admit his product to regu less mornlng air would have given a ’ the agent. lar wholesale and retail channels. Marines, but the boys must have glimpses of ben-ded. booted him We suppose Clark Wood will a|e '“No. that gun doesn’t belong to seen in their refusal a possibility Joe Gagnon is known near and plaud us when we suggest that miners swinging their picks lustily me.” far throughout southern Oregon as of a chicken dinner, so they «aid : before he reached that inecca of the only time Ills pal Olin, down "Then i’m a poor salesman,” they were very busy. The chase an independent, and a move to In Georgia, waa a guiding light in ¡southern Oregon. Jacksonville. Here came the dismal rejoinder. within Jacksonville limits would was resumed, and for eternities lie would have found, for the first Thomaston, wan when his nose wan work toward the benefit of both “No, It’s not a matter of sales nothing happened. Finally the and last time on hfa trip, the law- shining. the town and the mill, according manship with me." comforted the roosters tired, and the enraged ‘ less. Irresponsible ruffians nnd lady patiently, "it’s simply that I owner, with barely sufficient Former Mine “Engineers” Are to Wetterer. His present mill has What we want to know Is, WBK gamblers that marred the early been completely electrified. have too many magazines now.” strength, hooked them with a pole Indicted for False Front; | history of other western states. the Pair Find 2 Indian Skeletons It the old I »shack case, or ----------- •----------- That was final. Positively the* contrivance which he carried with ! Jacksonville, however, was not Were Unregistered (Continued on page two» Buried on Taylor Ranch end, with nothing else to do but him for that purpose. complaining. Brick stores dotted .——* ■ — - . - muster up the courage for the next There are some stories, stranger in Ruch Vicinity I the business section, saloons and Two former Jacksonville "min When It Comes to house. But. courage is hard to find than fiction, that even a sales ing engineers,” John M. Price and gambling joints were fillo«! to over- Records, ’Gate Pigs Further evidence of an Indian on top of a bleak failure, and hard- man will never tell. I flowing, nnd the hastily erected William R. Price, have been charg I tents or frame houses that served burial ground on the Taylor ranch ed by the Jackson county grand Won’t Litter Alone ns sleeping quartern for the gold- at Ruch was found a few days ago jury with unlawful practice of min Possibility for PWA maddened pioneers were growing when Charles Hamilton and C. Yreka Buyers Boost ing engineering in a report filed, Applegate folks have become Johnston discovered two skulls, morning. T. H. Bell. Jr.. rapidly Gold to $26; Local Loan Looms Likely Saturday Ixmflng about the streets and in with thigh bones and other por was foreman of the inquisitorial ■ "pig-conscious” following a re cent publication in the Med the saloons, the traveller would tions of the human skeleton, bur body, before which A. B. Carter, Dust Still Gets $28 Says Wes Hartman state ford Tribune stating that D. have heard much talk of th« dan led three feet underground where board of examiners official, R. Smith of Talent, owner of ger of water shortage in the mines, the men were tunneling on a point sought action. The Prices, who a mother hog and 18 little pigs, Press dispatches in the Siskiyou ehstter of new strikes, and low- of land on the river bank. The That Jacksonville still has a good now are said to be in California, Applegate Prospector-Poet voiced comment on the ever-pres bones, believed to be those of an News. Yreka, state that local banks chance to finance water improve- were permitted to continue at lib felt that a California man had Tells More of Early nothing to boast of when he ent threat of Indian attack. He Indian man and woman, were lo- have settled on a standard price ' ment through PWA funds was the erty on their own recognizance, possessed a big family of 17. would have found that rough, ' rated to Indicate two graves aide of 126 per ounce for newly-mined opinion of Mayor Wesley Hartman the offense being a misdemeanor. Farmington War Both of these records have greedy, often violent miners do not by side, and old residents Ray that gold from Siskiyou and Klamath , this week, following receipt of a According to w Asuiataut uwwwza District V beaten VmAtr right l ei mix well with the Indians, who. It is a well known fart that this county fields, Government price of letter from PWA headquarters ask-’ Attorney George W. Nielson, the on the Applegate, according to By J. C. REYNOLDS |n turn feel that they are being neighborhood was used by the Red gold has been stabilized at $35 per ing additional Information on the brothers cannot be apprehended Nelson Purcel. well known local watershed. outside the state on the minor of The Farmington cattle war took defrauded of their lands and rights, BM n as a burial ground. Slight fine ounce. farmer and sawmill owner, Bonds for exploration, develop fense. but arrest and arraignment Basic price of gold tn Jackson- a tremendous toll In both live« Being unable to get a room and depressions In the earth nearby whose mother hog once ruled and property. At Its close the sur lied In the over-crowded town, he are thought to have been the loca vllle and southern Oregon has re ment of water sources and for the will follow their return to Oregon, a family of 22. Her present mained at 128 per ounce, with gold installation of a cast iron pipeline if they return. The Price brothers viving factions were near to bank would prahably leave the saloons tion of wigwams. litter consists of 17. ruptcy but for u long time after »nd miners and retire to the hay One of the skulls broke after from here averaging between 860 between the large and service res had been classed as million-dol- ----------- •----------- ward were bitter and hostile to mow of some convenient II very discovery, although the other had and 890 points fineness in 1000. ervoirs were voted more than two lar mining engineers” in literature remained in a better state of pres Gold from over the Siskiyou moun years ago. but economic conditions which had been used in other wards each other. It was common stable for the night. ervation. The teeth of both were tains runs about the name, accord had prevented their sale at par, states to promote sale of stock, Glass Float, After 90- Must Carry Supplies In Durango, when any two of the Being a person of strong char- ■.aid to be well worn. A piece of ing to G. W. Godward of this city, a statutory requirement. CWA They had recently been asked to opitoslng sides met on the streets, ___ Day Pacific Crossing, to see them fiercely scowl at each aeter, our traveller, putting aside tusk, carved in a dice shape. and with local miners profiting from funds should enable this city to resign from the mining company other and make threatening ges ! visions of sudden wealth, would pierced for a chain or string, was $2 to $3 per ounce by marketing stop one of the greatest water they represented shortly after con losses during dry months, caused trol was taken over by new finan Reaches Local Museum tures towards their guns. After two again mount his rested horse and found with the bones, leading dis here. Jacksonville and Applegate gold. by condition of present old wooden cial interests, who have placed a of the most prominent lenders. ride on to the pleasant little town coverers to believe that the squaw registered mining engineer in A little round glass ball, airtight, Porte Htocton and his brother Ike, I of Ashland. Here. If he were wise had worn the ornament around her however, have been classed as mains. Councilman E. S. Severance has charge of their Jacksonville oper has finally made its way into the had bee-i killed, hostilities began and listened to the counsel of the neck. It was not learned what Mr. among the better mineral of the Museum of Southern Oregon in grey-bearded pioneer In the . gen- • Ham'lton intends to do with his gold belt on the Pacific coast, and been preparing required informa ations. to taper off considerably. According to Assistant Nielson, Jacksonville. Its last hop overland I ihci I to think a lot of Porte’s eral store, he purchased a stock n«w possessions. although he put may account for a part of the tion for CWA officials. ------------------ •------------------ conviction on the charge would from far-off Japan was made with nephew. He was 17 years old and of food to take with him on hfa them to use the first day to fright spread in prices being paid. At any Editor Hall of The Jacksonville' bring a maximum penalty of $500 the aid of Louis “Scoop Puhi, form a very nice boy. though rather long ride over Dead Indian moun-’ en some unususpectlng person out rate, the same gold will bring the miner 11 per cent more in Jack Miner must have thought of this fine, three months in the county erly of here, and who this week timid, for the raising he had. He tain to Little Butte creek, where of his wits.. sonville than ft will in Yreka, 60 one while reaching for the Ice pitch jail, or both, at the discretion of donated the float, with a brief not happened to be at the ranch the he might share a bed with some miles nearer the mint. er: “The most infernal machine the court. Both John M. and Wil ation. to the museum. O. E. 8. ATTENTION day Porte was killed Porte and adventurous miner who had push ever invented is the alarm clock.” liam R. Price had been well known Made of green glass, about four his wife were at the front gate ed hla way far ahead cf the others.! Hr. Edith I. Phillips associate Mebbe Olin Miller would at least —Weston Leader. in and about Jacksonville. inches in diameter, the fish-net After a hearty breakfast of flap talking when eight riders were ob ----------- •----------- ------------------ •------------------ float originally was used off the jacks and venslon steak, eaten in J grand matron of the Grand Chap- have a one-track mind if he could served coming down the road. "We’re so unlucky that the only east coast of Japan but some time His wife said, "Porte, you bet- i the light of a campfire, he would * ter of Oregon. O. E. S„ will make supply the rolling stock.—Weston four-leaf clover we ever found was MF&H WILL STAGE ago a severe storm released a large ter go Inside.” “Oh no." he re-] have ridden on In the early dawn her official visit to Adarel Chap Leader. ----------- •----------- inhabited by a bumblebee that sat number of the globules, which plied. “I know those boys, they | townrd Ijike of the Woods and ter No. 3. at Jacksonville on Mon Psychologist says that in 100 down on us and pushed."—Olin NINE-CENT SALE found their way to the Oregon are all good fellows.” As they rode , Upper Klamath lake, both of which day night. February 12 at 7:30 p. coast, near Florence, In approxi by, Porte and KI r wife spoke to he would have skirted before he m. All members are requested to yearH people will have nothing to Miller. Not so lucky, either, for the them and were answered pleasant turned back to the north and east ' be present and visiting members laugh at. but some of our quips may polnsoned bumblebee. — Weston SATURDAY MORN mately 90 days. Puhi, while on a Leader. live that long.—Weston Leader. fishing trip, was given the object, on hla long trek over the Gala- will be cordially welcomed. ly enough. Announcement was made this which was among dozens of others, A hundred 'yards past the gate, noon mountains. On the edge of week that one of the most unusual some measuring as large as 30 ail eight of the riders turned In T'nper Klamath lake he would have hardware store sales ever to visit inches in diameter. their snddlee and fired Porte fell spent the night, possibly rolled in S’MATTER POP By C. M. Payne southern Oregon would be held at The Japan current’s idiosyncra dead, Hfa nervy wife rushed Into hla saddle-blanket beside a roar- the Medford Furniture and Hard sies are blamed for the swift pas the hogs«. grabbed up a Winches Ing fire nnd possibly in the rude ware company store Saturday at sage of the floats, which are reg ter and standing In the doorway, log cabin of some tranper. 7:30 a. m. More than 200 different ular visitors here a few months Crater Lake Unknown fired shot after shot at the riders. items—dozens of each variety— after severe storms along Japanese Then they shot at her, one bul On the thirteenth day. he would will go on sale at that time at fishbeds. let breaking the stock of the Win have ridden high Into the Gala- the surprising price of nine cents. chester and her arm also. The kid poola mountains, through the drin-1 I Rolls of waxed paper, linoleum ‘‘A bunch of Westoners went was so Reared he swum the Anl- nlng forest, and spent the night I blocks, all kinds of kitchen uten goose hunting Saturday. They used on the bank of the ITmnqim river. | rtver which was In flood then mas sils, wooden mixing spoons, indi Clark Wood as a decoy.”—Olin Mil and hid In the huRhcs on the other serenely unconscious of the fact vidual butter molds, sets of three ler. We understand that Thomaston side until he war found throe days thnt hack of him. In those same water tumblers, cup and saucer snipe hunters use Olin to hold the mountains, lay the marvelous beau later. sets, and hundreds of other useful bag.—Weston Leader. The day Ike was shot I had Just ties of Crater Lake, as yet un articles will be included In the got Into Durango and was on my seen bv any white man. After two sale. All is new. quality merchan way to the postofflce when I met more days, he would have skirted dise. say MF&H heads, and clerks Ike Stockton and Bud Cook, both the Coburg hills and arrived in have been busy most of the week of whom I knew. Bud had a 11200 the little town of Coburg late In unpacking and assembling the reward on his head at the time the evening of the fifteenth day. wares for the selling event start for something he had done In Tex- Leaving the foothills the next ing Saturday, and lasting as long as. Right behind them were llar- morning, he would have forded the as stocks last. ney Watson, sheriff, nnd Jim Sul- McKenzie and Willamette and vis A window display will be ready llvan, deputy, nnd I said to my- ited smug, muddy Eugene, a town by today (Friday) showing the self, "I’ll bet there Is something of one thousand, proud of her many wanted articles, and shoppers doing around here before long.” forty-three places of business and are advised to look over selections They had barely turned the cor her two Institutions of higher early tomorrow while selections ner abovo me, when I heard the learning, one college (existing) and are complete. The average article shots nnd ran. I got there tn time one (projected) university. He retails in most stores at 15 cents to see Ike in a light express wag might have spent the night in the or more. on. where he had been hastily "verv excellent hotel conducted by tossed nnd Jim Sullivan standing Heatherly and Bailey" before rid ovor him with gun in hand to keep ing hack to Coburg and on through Lambtongues Hanging the crowd back, and I heard him Brownsville to Ix>banon, where he See the Birdie! say to Ike, "Now you know how would have spent another night. Out As Spring Warmth poor Bert Wilkinson felt.” Bert On the eighteenth days of hiB photographer man Invades J’ville’s Hills to Gus said and the Lizzie, Wilkinson was an 18-year old boy wanderings he would have passed and there and who had been double-crossed and through Scio and Stayton, before then the dream was complste. I-ambtongues, those little native They were married I Joined In betrayed Into the hands of a lynch reaching Silverton. Leaving Silver- flowers that lick up spring sun holy wedlock, as the photograph ing party by Ik* Stockton nnd had ton. he would have ridden to Salem, shine and cause searching parties would been hung without a trial. His the capital of the new state, and prove, and In spite of every late winter, are up and com what Lizzie worst fault van that he had been inspected the machinery of govern ’s Pa said about Gue ing. according to Leonard Osborne, never amounting found in company of vicious char ment. A short ride from Salem to much, ho who Is a member of the survey Is one of the regular acters. I didn’t know till afterward would have put hint In Molalla, readers of party determining boundaries of that Bert’s two uncles and 20 other the last atop of the Journey. Jacksonville's water-shed. I *ate In the evening of the twen- men arrr.rfd with shotguns were The Late last week, according to Os scatterei around town, ready to tv-flrst day. having completed his borne. the flowers were found near-i shoot Ise down in case the «her- sketchy tour of the state and re JACKSONVILLE ly a foot high, some fully budded iff made a fizzle of It. turned to Portland, he might re- and ready to burst forth with their Ik«-, whose thigh had been shut- move his water-soaked boots, re MINER message of balmy weather. With tere.I by a bullet from the sher- lax hfa cramned muscles and re blossoming buttercups on Apple-, By the way, the picture WE like Iff’, gun when he refused to sur- mark, with Thomas J. Dryer, that gate, lambtongues near here and best Is the one that little yellow rerder, was taken to the smelter, “there are a surprising number of the usual run of weeds way ahead ’ slip on your paper paints when a itrong building at the edge of settlers and towns scattered of schedule, southern Oregon pro the expiration date shows you're to'«n and his leg amputated, hut through the state that do not come mises to nut to shame California’s j paid upl dl»d that night from loss of blood. to the attention of us In the city tropical boasts. (Continued on page four) of Portland.” FIND EVIDENCE Tough Hombre Hanged With Grin Beaming PRICEBROTHERS RUN AFOUL LAW FOR ACTIVITIES
