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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1934)
The JACKSONVILLE MINER Qreat Men Never Point at Selves As Self-Made, Retorts Cowboy Reynolds 4 4 reived any news oi this accident | biting a little girl. (If they had from Frank’« partners, and other hod a good lawyer, this might witnenx« ». Now I do not suppose' not have happened and they might it is, any worse for a grave to be huve been «ent to the pen for submerged under water, than for life.) a body to be buried at sea The And any reader of the news, Incident was closed nearly a year I ago and I simply mention it ax an ’ no doubt, remembers the cele- example to my old sourdough brated case of the wealthy wo- fl lends ux to the kind of a adfid- ' r an who, when dying, left gWi.OfX) •ill they may expect li they are no ‘ to her pet bitch dog, to provide unfortunate uh to end theii livoo for It and a nurse, as long ax it without the necessary funds for lived. The bitch died and the nurse burial expenses. Respect shown the I thought she ought to have the di nd in this enlightened and civi money, but a pup turned up a« llz.'-d country depends wholly on | heir and after a long, heated ses- the amount of money posxexxid Sion In court, during which sev- by the one to be buried. No money, ernl learned jildgex deliberated feverishly on the evidence, the no respect. The main thing about dying money wax awarded to the pup. these days ix co rnnke sure the j In matters of such extreme im- authorities ore not put lo any; portam <•, it ix easy to see our au unnecessary expense in the mat thorities have no time or money to ter. us they need the money for devote to trivial affairs Jike the other more worthy purposes. Jt is | not reasonable to expect them to appropriate money co be wasted i in burying the carcass of Horne busted prospector, when it is so badly needed »or the apprehension : and conviction of dangerous crim- i Inals Not long ago a desperate character who had stolen a loaf of bread wax captured and sentenced to the penitentiary for a year. An-1 other bandit who stole a dollar's worth of nickels under the plea that he wax hungry also wax sent up for a year. Quite recently, four dogs were arrested, tried, con-1 victed and sentenced to death fori Il.v .1. <’. REYNOLDS Speaking of the survival of the»- out all right, as the dredgi fit text, iix compared with the «ur- come 1 vlvul of the luckiest. I will men win «wept against a reef in the tion Frank Ixiwe, whom I wasp center of the river, whgre it lodged with a long time, a» one of. the and hung for weeks ami from flttext men I ever knew. He wax which he could hnvo been escucd nt leaxt 10 times ax fit ux I mn later II has b<m provec. thou« but he Ix dead now while I am umlx of times that tb<- fellow who xtill alive. I could get an argu stays with his outfit «lands far ment out of Frank any time by less chance of being hurt or killed bringing up the topic of luck He than the one who d< xertli The river wax drugged for did not believe in luck Good man agement wax the only thing, in Frank's lardy but It was not found, his opinion And lie talked u lot in nine or 10 days I as is usual nlaiut xclf-mnde men, a subject I with drowned bodies) his corps« abominate, because I a I way« have floated to tile surface in the eddy claimed, and do yet, that there Ix when- it I iik I lain anil wun found no xuch animal. If you will take by a bear, which dinggcd II about the time and trouble to look up tit) feet from th<- rivei umi pio- the history of any of them* self Ceeded to COnsuHie most of It, the made men. you will find that in face being so badly chewed up as every cuxr they »Imply got the to be unrecognizable and hardly breaks ami took advantage of anything bring lelt of one «Ide, Including the leg All garments them. Without xnid break» they would had been torn away except the not have done any better than upper shreds of his shirt and he unyonc elec There are thounandx was identified by a magnifying of men who, given the same glass I hud given him which was The break«, would have done equally attached to a buttonhole. ux well, if not better. A self-made coroner of Josephine county, Mr. man ix »imply one who hax suc Virgil Hull, declared It was the ceeded in amaxxlng more wealth worst munglcd corpse he had ever than hlx fellow creatures 111« seen ami it was buried on the spot achievement can lx* reckoned In Afterward, attention wax called to dollar« an<l cents alone, Dint he the fact that at the next rise of Attorney at has appropriated to hlx own per the river there would be several sonal benefit and no one else'« feet of water over the grave, but Having accomplished this, he as what few dollars Frank had swells up like* a pouter pigeon, were lost when his overalls were puts himself on the track ami in torn away, the coroner de< ided forms the world that he ix self- not to put the county to any fin made I have often wondered why ther expense in the matter and the self made man. while he was no effort was made to remedy this .Medford Bldg. at It. didn’t give lilmmlf a batter unfortunate occurrence It was looking face ami u stronger set of about 10 days later before I re- intestines, as he generally Is a slave to indigestion or some like complaint We never see the great men of the world pointing to themselves as self-made. Great men who have been of real benefit to the human race, nut mere dollni -chusers. do not need to sing their own praises. 1 do not envy nnylxxly the money they make, or the fume they win But I certainly do like to »<•<■ thorn iieetow the credit for It where the credit is due. Frank Ixiwe left here the first part of last May to do some work on a placer claim he hail leased on the Rogue river, below A la mella At thyt time he was 34 years old and in his prime. In three weeks he was dead very dead, Indeed On Decoration day Upon the Opening of Your New he and his partners started to move a dredge, with a ton and a Jacksonville Miner Plant in half of machinery on it. a short distance down the river The cur Jacksonville Saturday, March 10 rent proved too strong, the dredge broke loose and Frank, who wax on it. apparently became rattled and jumped and the hip-boots he wore dragged him to destruction in the Argo rapids Now if Frank had followed one of the oldest precepts in the west, "no matter what happens, stay with your outfit." he would have » Law Congratulations! Leonard Hall .W. Peckham MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE I Good Luck 11 ? To The JACKSONVILLE MINER We have been well pleased with Miner advertising service during the past year and have used it consistently for Lumber burying of Mime old duck who has outlived hi» usefulness and who likely han gone to hell any way. It docs seem kind of raw though to have pups going around with money in the bank while unem ployed American workingmen are standing in the breadline. Inci dentally, they do these things bet ter in China, which we regard as a heathen country I the 410 s. an influential Chinaman was »ent over here to look our country over and acquaint himself with the cus toms obtaining in the United States. In Denver, Colorado, where he spent some time he wandered into the morgue one day and not iced an old man, cold and «tiff on a stone slab. Inquiring who he was, he was told it was «orm old prospector, who had died nav ing no friends or money and that he would be buried in the potter'» field next day. Discovering that not even a coti in had been pro- (C'ontinued on page four) r TYPEWRITER SERVICE • TRY THE NEW MODEL I 'DERWOOD TYPEWRITERS • Taylor and Bi erm a 31 N. Central—Telephone 112 ■Medford j Congratulations to The Miner’s New Plant Harry (’. Skyrman * Page 3 We congratulate The Jacksonville Miner in its ability to install a new, modern printing plant in historic old Jacksonville—southern Oregon's first banking cen ter. Today, with time’s changes and developments, the First National Bank has become southern Ore- gon’s center of banking, serving—like The Miner—the southwest side of Jackson county. There has never been a substitute for the home-town paper or a safe, dependable banking institution. The FIRST NATIONAL BANK A DEPARTMENT!ZED INSTITUTION DEPOSITS IXSI RED WE CONGRATULATE THE JACKSONVILLE MINER On Its Opening SATURDAY, MARCH 10 In Jacksonville Newspapers have long been recognized as bulwarks in any community and it is with pleasure we offer our sincere wishes for the success of The Jacksonville Miner in its ef- forts to be of service to Jacksonville. The publishers are to be congratulated on the establishment of a first-class printing plant in Jacksonville. 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