The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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the hides and they would give us' back. Not many wore returned, (Mar 23 30. Apr
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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.
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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. Everybody of high es
tate in Virginia is always trying
to discover a drop or two of Po
cahontas blood in the family. Have
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son's second wife was so proud of
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her descent from Pocahontas? In
California right today there are
hundreds of half-breeds, many of
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them highly educated and mixing
in the highest society. One has to
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be rather careful about speaking
disparagingly of “breeds” down
there. He might be talking to one
of them.
I presume you will thinlk I am
trying to kid you when I say that
Comer Sixth and Holly Streets, Medford
bl a free country like this, women
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