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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1934)
rage 4 The JACKSONVILLE MINER self whenever he got drunk. Two heard what he had to say about years previously he and I and a me News reached me from time lot of others were working for a to time as to where he waa and I Lig spread in the south. The Curly what he was doing And of the Wolf was a bad actor, always wore bluood-curdling threats he made - two pearl-handled guns, was quick against me. I heard finally he had ns a flash and a dead shot. He helped a Texas cattleman to move ' bad plenty of courage, but every hia herd to northwestern Colorado, body genuinely hated him for two nearly 150 miles from Breckeu- reasons. He was an insufferable ridge and had then gone to work 1 bully for one. and the other was up there But I didn't know he had his everlasting tattling to the boss quit hia job up there and started concerning every little thing that htu k to Texas So If I had bumped (Continued from page three) happened Most of the boys were > into him in Breckenridge, all un- vided, he waa horrified. "Such a leery of him and gave him a wide prejmred hs 1 waa. I would have tiling would not be tolerated in berth. He and I got along because made an easy victim. And I guess China," he declared. "Sooner than he knew I was as fast with a gun I had it coming to me. Only for be see this poor old man buried in as he was, and so made no es ing delayed by the storm, which pauper ground without a coffin, pecial effort to pick on me. And was certain: » none of my manage he would buy a coffin out of his for my part. I regarded him as ment. I would moat likely have own pocket and pay for a decent very bad medicine and didn’t as ended my career right there. funeral himself." Which he did and sociate with him any more than The Curley Wolf rode into the Denver Post devoted a double I had to, but each of us auspi- on a column in large type, on the front ciously watched every move the Breckenridge the day before fine horse and with plenty of page, to the incident. other made. money and after having something And we actually spend vast After a few months I had an to eat proceeded to buy some of sums yearly to convert these so attack of wanderlust quit, the bright colored, flashy clothes called heathen to our ways of Drew my pay. had some and farewell thinking it might work better if drinks with tire boys and pulled he liked so well and an extra large we could take a few lessons on >ut. Everything would have been supply of ammunition. That eve ning he got drunk and became ob certain matters from them. fine and dandy, if I hadn't met I started to give a few instances the Curly Wolf down the road a noxious as usual, but nothing oi of the way in which luck works piece. He was attired in all his any account happened. The resi but got switched from my subject finery and his two pearl-handled dents of Breckenridge probably still remember what happened About 30 years ago, when the guns were much in evidence. On whole top of one of the Canadian his face was a sneer and 1 ima after that. Still drunk the next morning, he Rocky mountains slid off and cov gined I saw him made a threat ered the town of Frank, a coal ening gesture towards one- of his started to ride out of town. Pass ing a livery stable, a young fellow mining camp east of the Crow's guns In a wink I had the drop Nest, to a depth of 90 feet, the on him, made him get off his standing in the door noticed the Wolfe’s flashy make-up and brother of the president of a lum ber company, for whom I worked lorse. unbuckle his belt and drop laughed at him. Instantly the it and his guns on the ground and Wolf pulled his gun and, wheeling some years later, was living there with his wife and two-year-old back away from them. Then I hia horse, dashed toward the sta baby. When the coal miners from nicked them up and told him I ble and through it in pursuit of the the next town, Fernie, rushed up could keep them to remember young fellow who had fled for his there, nothing could be seen of th< him by. I told him little boys life. Falling to find him in the town It was burieu so deep that <hould not be allowed to have such alley behind the stable, the Wolf later the CPR railway laid theii iangerous toys to play with, as raced along, gun in hand, and tracks right on top of the slide hey might get careless and hurt came out on the main street, and no attempt was ever made to somebody with them. Believe me. where the city marshal endeavored dig anyone out. But someone heard he S"“a promised in loud and pro to stop him. Knocking the marshal a cry and. tracing it up, found fane language that he would hurt down with a bullet through the that two-year-old baby, without a -ne good and plenty the next time lungs, he spurred his horae up the scratch on him, sitting on a rock we met, at which I simply street and out of town, shooting bawling, the only living survivor laughed. Then noticing he was rid right and left. Not long after he of that terrible disaster. This is a ing a better saddle than I was, I was overtaken by a hastily formed fact and can be vouched for by made him change it to my horse, posse, but shot it out with them reputable residents of Fernie, after which I bade him goodbye and escaped in the thick woods, Cranbrook and other surrounding and rode away, followed by a vol jumping his horse recklessly over towns. But what a good chance ley of the most ferocious threats windfalls where the horses of the this is for some disbeliever in and curses I had ever heard, which posse could not follow. This posse luck to jump up and endeavor to tickled me immensely. In these was reinforced by other posses prove that this infant was saved days such a play as that would and every mountain pass was put by his own good management. Be not be tolerated, but during the under guard. The Wolf was sup fore I ring off. I will relate one settling up of the west's fron posed to be tn a trap, but every instance out of many of my esca tiers. anything on that order was time he was righted he would put pades, showing that luck has play simply regarded as a wild cowboy up a battle and then escape by ed a prominent part in my affairs. prank, which no doubt would be jumping the windfalls. He killed I have never tried to pose as an settled later by themselves (oft- two horses in this way. but suc angel of righteousness. When I' times with hot lead). As I look ceeded in securing others and real came west I had a large crop of back on some of these escapades ly appeared to enjoy being hunted. wild oats to sow and it took quite of mine I see nothing smart In Thia game went on for two weeks a while to complete the job. In them, nothing to be proud of. I and still they didn’t seem to be 1889 I had come over the high and was just like any other high-lifed able to get him. Meanwhile I had taken a con rough Hoosier pass with a spank bov who gets away from under ing good team and covered wagon his mother’s wing and the sound tract. hired three men and started of my own, and was headed for of church bells and has to work to haul the ties they made. I knew the Curley Wolf was loose in the Breckenridge. Colorado. where off steam In various ways. I imagine I hear some mother woods and heard what the rxtaara from $25 to $30 per day could be made by anybody not afraid of who reads this say "Oh, how had to report each day. but didn't work, hauling ties to the railroad shocking. I know MY boy wouldn’t lose any sleep over it, as I was I was rambling right along, in do anything like that." But don't ready for him by then and if we tent on getting there before night kid yourself, little mother. I prob had met. the surprise would have and was only two miles from my ably know a whole lot more about been his Instead of mine. Then one destination when a furious moun what your boy would do in simi day he was gone. Had slipped tain blizzard came up. accompan lar circumstances than you do. through the tightly drawn lines ied by thunder and lightning. It These good boys that one reads was sc severe the horses could not about in Sunday school books do face it and I had to turn them not exist, excepting in the books. around ind let it beat upon their I have been practically all over backs. When the tempest had fin the United States and I never met ally subsided. I saw an empty one of them yet. I would regard frame house close by and noticing him as a natural curiosity if I there was plenty of fine grass for did meet one. The night after I had the run-in the horses. I decided to camp for the night, which I did. In the with the Curly Wolf I camped morning, with the whole country with some friends who had quit soaked with water, I was a little the job on account of his bullying slow about getting started and ways and when they heard what I it was 9 o’clock before I hitched had dune to him. they put on a big up. When I reached town I found celebration in my honor. And the the "Curly Wolf” had left there boys back at the outfit did the only 20 minutes ahead of me and same when they saw the Wolf ride the Curly Wolf would have killed in minus his guns and saddle and me with great pleasure. I had not been looking for trouble. My six- gun was in the jockey-box out of reach and I supposed the Curly Wolf waa working on a cattle rtuicn at least 150 miles from FUNERAL PARLORS there Medford, Oregon I will call him the Curly Wolf, as that was what he called him- Great Men Not Busy Boasting Self-Made Puff K lrmiii CONGER Patronizing Home Industry Does the Trick, Jacksonville! Patronizing home industry—reading the home-town newspaper—has given Jacksonville a first-class print ing plant to be proud of. Patronizing ALL home in dustries as far as possible will do as much for other business institutions that you are proud of, too. The dairying industry is one of Oregon’s most far-reach ing and most vital . . . buy dairy products and pass up substitutes which are undermining our march to better times. Snider’s Dairy takes pleasure in con gratulating Jacksonville and The Miner in this new expansion. May you both enjoy the radiant health and growth that goes with proper nourishment. aome way. over Into South Park 17 mi lea. had atolen a blooded horae from a ranch there and waa well on hie way to Texan He waa never heard from again. 1 am glad to say that in time the marshal recovered from hia wound. ----- •----- After Due Reflection By J. C. RIYNOLM We brag to all the world about Our Land of Liberty; And never fail to flash the "front** Of people who are free. But here at home amongst ourselves We drop the Joab, because We know we're slaves In bondage To a million useless laws. * run through a threshing machine, if these legislative Solomons tri«d to abolish liquor becauae a tew got drunk on it. why did they not try to aboliah the ocean be cause a tew are drowned in it? Meanwhile kidnaping la faat b'v- cotnlng the gangater'a favorite pastime and none of theae indif- (««rent lawmakers seem to be able to Invent a law to bead it off. But let ua atate their lawe have proved Of worth In eeverul waya; We’ve grown ao uaod to torment That we dread no future days. No more we feel the ueed of church Or Baton to Ita call, For aftor what wo have endured Wo won't mind Hell at all. Authorities on the money ques tion aren't generally, those who have the money- Weston Leader. ♦ ♦ ♦ Almost every rube who marries Into politics, kids himself with the Idea that he ought to go down In history as the daddy of some new law. Trifling matters like kidnaping, wholesale mur der by the gangster element, or tbe enforced Idleness of several million of our workers interest him not at all. He yearns to be known to posterity as the father of some law that will deprive his fellow creatures of their inher ited liberty. A law that will pro hibit certain articles of their food or raiment, force them to attend church on Sunday, or pay duty for inhaling the same atmosphere as millionaires. ♦ ♦ ♦ Regardless of our bounden rights These wooly-minded skates Usurp the Constitution Of our great United States. Devoid of real humanity They truly constitute A bunch whom everybody hatee But no one daree to shoot. ♦ ♦ ♦ As a sample of the atrocities perpetrated on a long suffering public by theae ambitious politi cians, we need only point to the attempts made by them during the last 14 years, to abolish Sanc tified Spirits of Frumentl from this country, with the result that the nation at large was compelled to pay five prices for a far In ferior article of hootch. In tbe old days when water was regard ed simply as scenery, any guy who bad tbe price, could become lit-up. aplfflicated. stewed or even pickled without any disastrous after-effects. But. owing to the efforts of the aforesaid ambitious politicians, the country’s cellars became stocked with liquid rat polaon, in stead of wholesome bourbon, and one who participated in a hip pocket party, awakened nezt morning feeling as if be had been Frigidaire Service ELECTRICAL WIRING TROUBLE SHOOTING Day Phone 427 Night Phone 930-W LEONARD ELECTRIC Comer Sixth and Holly Streets, Medford PROGRESS BUILDING We take great pleasure in congratulating The Jacksonville Miner on its opening this week of its own plant in Jacksonville ... It is gratifying to watch the growth and development of any southern Oregon in stitution and we know The Miner has earned its advancement—even as we feel we have deserved our place as the “Home of Low-Priced Lumber” of this section. It is the delivery of the goods that puts over healthy growth and expansion. You will read news of our yard in the bigger and better Jacksonville Miner from time to time. I Phone 203 SNIDER DAIRY AND PRODUCE CO. MEDFORD ECONOMY LUMBER CO O. L. “CAP" OVERMYER AND ». O. “STEVE" STEPHENSON North Pacific Highway at Court Phone 594