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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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