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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1934)
The JACKSONVILLE MINER Page 2 The Jacksonville Miner Published Every Friday at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF JACKSONVILLE Entered as second-class matter February 19, 1932, at the postoffice at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. LEONARD N. HALL........... Editor and Publisher MAUDE POOL.................. Applegate Editor J. W, PECKHAM ................... Business Manager PHONE JACKSONVILLE 141 Address All Communications to Box 138 Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year ............. $1.00 Six Months---- *......... 50c Let’s Be Good Hosts It is now a certainty there will be 50,000 or more visitors to southern Ore gon during the week from June 3 to 9. The greater part of this number will drop over to Jacksonville seeking scenic and historic pastime. There will be plenty of it here. Coming over the short paved road from Medford, every one of the visitors will be eager to see gold in the process of being mined, to hear of the brilliant past which once made Jacksonville the most famous city on the coast, and to see the many early-day scenes that have been preserved in their original sur roundings and environment. They will have open, inquisitive minds and will come with reserve enthusiasm for what Jacksonville will have to show. It will take a minimum of cooperation and sales talk to put the old town over so well that it will practically “steal the show” during jubilee week, and be the talk of many families for weeks after ward. And all that will be to the good. There is no doubt the people will be here. They will be looking and asking questions. All we of Jacksonville will have to do if we want to put over our part of the anniversary of statehood, 1 will be to tell the folks what they want to hear, and show them what they want to see. There need be no artificiality— we have the real McCoy right here that f>ífcH * COORt IHNIHúS ,^^l. will have a bigger punch than any pag rzt WtfTAHV klvi AHP POSH ruin ARE SW0WIN6/ME prunai eant or stage could ever present. a « a a 'PÜAKH tmw OF M ^ft>RE.CHlXk A« A little local color among the towns j HOPE I maue T he wm team ake people—and we have a natural start in PALL PAVERS (ERPMNLV LI v E I that direction anyway—a smattering of authentic chatter, a few competent, oK courteous guides and we have the mak ings of the best “progress" exposition •y J Oregonians will ever see. It will take comparatively little effort on our part, but that effort must be put forth, and in the right way. The Jacksonville Chamber of Com merce has pledged its support in the venture. Interested townspeople have al ready started working on the jubilee. It behooves all of us to do what we can to create the right atmosphere and to give the visitors a real break not only for the financial betterment of the town as a whole, but for the social and historical prestige that will be the natural result. We have a chance to put our town over in a big way, and all of us make a few dimes on the side. The Chamber of Commerce is the central group, the Med ford chamber is the kingpin and if we don’t kick over the traces and if we will <c«sm«M. w. * oj just jog along and pull a little bit of the load, we—and Jacksonville—can’t miss. There will be another meeting of the when she reached a point directly are still bought and sold. Well, I tfae 'mike'." We've no pel sons I ob Just as he started to you won’t have to go any farther jection to his chewing gum snd chamber Monday night in the old U. S. opposite. snap the picture she caught a view than Siskiyou county, California, wearing a hat. Weston Leader. hotel at 7:30 o’clock. Whether you are of him from the corner of her eye, to find that if you wish to marry a member of the chamber or not, drop realized in a flash what he was an Indian woman, there is only ~LEGA LNOTICES going to do, and leaped into the one way to get her and that is to up and find out what it’s all about. A air so high that when the picture buy her from her father. Even if NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT little effort from all of us will put Jack was developed r.otiilng could be ahe has been educated, wears Notice is hereby given that the sonville’s share of the entertainment seen but her legs from the knees “white” clothes and s|>eaks Eng undersigned, executor of the Ijixt and the running gears of a lish probably better than you do Will and Testament and of the over and perhaps garner no small down wagon that had been left stand- yourself, the old custom of buying estate of John Brownlee, deceased, amount of the money that will be left against the sidewalk across from her from her fathehr Is still in has filed the final account of his in southern Oregon. the barn. It sure made a remark force I say “still is” because I administration of said estate with able picture. Next day her buck saw in the paper a couple of years tiie Clerk of Jackson county, Ore- How’s about it? gun. said ('..mt lias fixed Monday, REYNOLDS PICKS MOHAMMED FAITH AS OWN; PREFERS 100 DEAUTIFUL WIVES TO HARP “Don’t Call State Police if You See Me Bow in Dirt (Or Mud) of Applegate at Eventide,” Advises Sage of Yonder Valley Gold Pans in Dissertations on “Re ligions I Have Met”; Delves Deeper Into Past Fund ------ 4----------------------------------- By J. C. REYNOLDS At last after many years of re search among the more than 500 religions of the earth, I have picked one just about my size and from now on I shall abandon my wicked ways and be known as a staunch Mohammedan. The goal I shall strive for is a beautiful Para dise where the true believer is re warded with a hundred fascinating women, who vie with each other in their efforts to make him hap py, which appears to me as a far more attractive proposition than to spend my future existence siz zling in a lake of fire, or tossing restlessly on a bed of red-hot coals. And as there is no fighting al lowed in this Paradise among the women, it will be quite an im provement on the conditions ob taining here on earth where no two women were ever known to get along together for a week without a quarrel. Possibly, as a special favor to a new convert, Mohammed may throw in a few extra charmers for good measure. SUH, 100 will do very nicely for a starter till a fellow can get onto the ropes and learn methods of acquiring more. You may be inclined to turn up your nose at my choice of relig ions, but let me tell you that seven hundred million of our earth’s population are headed in the same direction. You wouldn’t try to convince me that seven hundred million people could all be wrong, would you? It wouldn’t make sense. Another highly at tractive feature is that it does not require nearly as much “back sheesh," “pourboire,” “dinero,” or, in other words, good hard cash money to be a Mohammedan as it does to belong to some other de nominations I could name. So if you happen to be around about sundown and see me prostrate my self with head in the dust (or mud) and hear me mumble “Allah Allah Allah,” don’t send for the state police. I will simply be performing my devotions and most likely endeav oring to picture in my mind the hundred beautiful females who are waiting so impatiently for my ar rival. And my fervent prayer will be that there will be no mistake made In the count. However, you are probably no more interested in my religious affiliations than I am in yours, so I will proceed to early days and the man whose slogan, “Go west young man and grow up with the country,” did more to people this great section than any other one thing. Horace Greely was the man and he was big enough to win the nomination for president, even though he never secured it. A great journalist and a clever, resourceful person was Greely, •with an eye constantly on the advancement of his country. He was a powerful writer and his editorials always attracted wide attention. Unfortunately he was a tremendously poor scribe and I have heard could not read his own writing after it had got cold. Type writers had not then been invented and editors generally used goose quill pens. It seems there was only one man on his office force who could decipher Greely’s writing and of course the hieroglyphics made by his superior when dash ing off literary effusions were al ways left to him to be translated into something readable. In the of fice was a bantam rooster which the boys had for a mascot and one day, thinking to have a little fun, they put ink on this rooster’s feet and made him walk around on several sheets of foolscap. Then they called the translator and bade him hurry as Greely had an edi torial that must be deciphered in time for the next edition. When at last he came and had had a look at the rooster tracks, he swore profoundly. “That damned Greely is getting worse all the time,” he declared. But it is recorded that after quite a lot of hard figuring, he succeeded in making a fairly good editorial from the inky foot prints after all. A friend of Greely’s was Induced to come west and take the job of civilizing the Utes. He was ap pointed Indian agent of the White River Utes and did his noble best to teach them farming and other pursuits of the white man. After a short time the Utes rebelled, raided the agency, killed Meeker, his wife and everybody else but Josephine, his daughter, who was then about 19. She was carried off by a chief who had taken a fancy to her and held prisoner by the tribe for a long time. Finally she was rescued and in course of time had a baby. This occurrence caused more discussion and argument for a long time than anything that ever happened in Colorado. All of Hot Stove Center and some another Some claimed she was a lewd woman, while others stoutly denied it. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them are not still battling about it over in the mile-high city of Denver. Knowing Indians as I do, I would say she was a lucky girl to get out of it at any price, with her life. I don't think the government ever did teach the Utes to farm The last time I was on their res ervation I noticed some of them with plug hats and tailor-made coats and vests, but from the waist down it was the same old buckskin leggins and moccasins as of old. The Kaw tribe in the Indian nation were another hard- boiled bunch. The government built fine little stone houses for them to live'in, but they persisted in living in the open as per usual, and used the houses to stable their ponies in. Around Pendleton, Ore gon, one can see the wealthy Uma tilla Indians dressed in the height of fashion come riding to town in high-priced cars where they hire white men to work for them on their hay ranches I know a lot of fellows who make a specialty of hiring out to the Umatillas every year during hay season They say they get better wages also are paid every night and the food and accommodations are good. Only one drawback, they say. The squaws are fine cooks but don’t wash their hands more than once a week. If one’s stomacn is not too squeamish in that respect, everything else is “jake.” I think of all the Indian tribes I like the Navajos a little the best, though I find much to ad mire in the Cheyennes. I have been around in the Nez Perce country quite a lot, but don’t care much about them. They are a very disagreeable lot even now, and a half-century ago were pretty hard to get along with. Finally they got to going too strong altogether and General Custer dragged a few cannons over the Lolo pass down to the Clearwater and gave the Nez Perces such a drubbing that they have been rather decent since. I used to visit with old Yellow Bull often. He was getting along in years and his eyesight was not so good when I knew him. He had learned to like the white men and their ways, but every time I shook hands with that old rascal, I al ways remembered that the hand I was shaking had scalped many a white man. The Bannocks are a queer lot and the most supersti tious bunch of all. They are ter ribly afraid of a camera and be lieve it charms the soul away from the body In some magical way that can be used later to work harm on the one whose picture is taken. On their reservation any one possess ing a camera will have it taken from him and smashed. I was much amused in Challis, Idaho, once. A squaw was coming down the street across from a livery barn in which stood a fellow with tell a bit more about the west In society took sides, some one way a camera waiting to snap her came into the livery barn and ac ago where the Indian agent had April 23rd, 1934, at the hour of cused the hostler of taking his sent word to a young man that he ten o’clock, a m , as the time, and squr.ws picture, but the hostler had better get married if he In I the County Court room in the denied it. .The buck stormed tended to keep on living with a I County Court house in Medford, around and demanded that it be certain young Pitt river squaw, Oregon, ax the place, for hearing given to him. The hostler finally which sounds just like what used 1 objections thereto and the allow told him he had really tried to to happen in 1905 when I was ance and settlement of said final take a picture of her. but that she prospecting all over that country. I account. All persona interested In said had jumped so high that he had The price of young squaws then failed to get one. and eventually was $25 for the ordinary ones and estate are hereby notified to pre their objections, If any they succeeded in making the buck be $40 for the best grade. This in I sent have, in writing, to said final ac- lieve it. In the Bannock country cluded a contract with her dad ' count or any item or part thereof we always were in a jangle with that she could tie taken on trial on or before said day. them about the deer. They claimed for a month, or in some cases two Dated-this 23rd day of March, all the deer and other game be months. If it was found that she 1934. CARL FITCHNER. Executor. longed to them and we thought didn't fill the bill, she could be re differently. However when we turned at the expiration of that I W G. TRILL, Attorney for Estate. killed the deer, we always saved time and the money would be paid (i 13) the hides and they would give us' back. Not many wore returned, (Mar 23 30. Apr ---- ®———— a dollar apiece for them. The but in a few instances that I heard EXECUTOR’S NOTICE squaws tanned them and made of where they were, it was gener TO CREDITORS gauntlet gloves, which they sold ally discovered that the old Indian NOTICE is hereby given that for $1.50 per pair, and they wAre j dad had blown the money in for the undersigned has been appoint • well worth the money. Almost any - booze, so there was none left to ed by the County Court of Jackson squaw could make six pairs of return. County. Oregon, ax Executor of gloves from one skin, but there As this was recognized ax being the Estate of Alice A. Sargent, were some who could make seven married by the Indians, they us deceased • All persons having claims against said estate are pairs from any average deer hide. In many instances these gloves ually didn't bother with any fur hereby notified to present the are beautifully ornamented with ther ceremony unless the Indian same, duly verified, to the under Executor, at his office. 301 fine beadwork and are much in agent got wise and notified them signed Liberty building, Medford. Oregon, demand by the women in that sec to get wed in white man's way. on or before six months from the The Klamath squaws on the date of this notice. tion of the country. Speaking of lower river are very good looking squaws, I would say I have found Dated ami first published thia them to be very efficient, ingen ax a rule and the Hoopax used to 23rd day of March. 1934. ious and capable. This applies to raid across the dividing mountains ALLISON MOULTON, the squaws of every tribe in the and steal a bunch of them now Executor of the Estate of Alice A. Sargent. Deceased. west. I have known hundreds of and then, 40 or 50 years ago The white men who have married them Klamath Indians never forgot or (Mar 23, 30. Apr fl, 13) and who declare that a squaw is forgave. When I wax down there the best pal a man can get. I they were always after poison guess from what I have seen that which they imagined every pros for a man who lives his life in the pector had. They would offer any open, they do. They can go with a thing they had for a little strych man everywhere, hunting, pros nine. If they ever succeeded in pecting, exploring, and stand up getting hold of any, they would under the same hardships that he start being nice to the Hoopa buck does. They can live anywhere a who perhaps had stolen their ■ man can and are raised to believe squaws, make him believe that that they should do all the work. they harbored no hard feelings It a man is a hunter, all they ask and induce him to attend a feast of him is to kill the game They given in his honor. Then they do all the rest. If it be a deer, would slip him a little strychnine they dress it, tan the hide and and call everything square. Two make of it whatever is needed. got bumped off in that way the They do not like for a man to offer year I wan there, but they didn't to help them In any way. They be get any poison from me, as I had lieve a man who would do that been posted about this revenge must be a sissy. On a trip, they stuff before I ever went down hunt the horBes and bring them there. FUNERAL PARLORS ------------•------------ in, rustle all the fuel for the fires, “Bing Crosby chews gum and do all the cooking and move the Medford, Oregon camp. They are nearly always wears a hat while crooning over cheerful, laughing and singing. Along the coast in California there will come a time when peo ple of high society will endeavor to trace their lineage back to the Indians, same as they do in Vir ginia now. 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