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ALLISON GANG’S
HIDEOUT FOUND
BY SOURDOUGHS
Friday, July 20, 1934
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
Eugenites Go Hairy-Scarum
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Prospector-Poet and Pal
Uncover Loot of Early-
Day Bandits in Colorado
Mountain Stronghold
talli.'S, one nn an error, while Min • Mr and Mrs. Oscar C. Ix'wis
ers started bridging a seven-run and Miss Alice Morgun were din-
! ncr guests at the V. J. Bench home
handicap.
A last inning rally, with gold Wednesday evening.
diggers four runs behind, netted • Miss Violet Olsen, formerly of
throe scores and left Tooley Wil i this city, has found employment
liams on second base ready to ' at the C. C. Lemmon homo in Med
come home for dear old J’vllle and ford,
tie the gume. Miners gathered 18 • Charles Hamilton win employed
hits off Wilmer Bailey, while Ham- I recently for several days nt the
mersley surrendered 14 safeties, Sunny Side service station build-
>ne a home run by Gardner. Wil I Illg new shelving and a cooling
iam:!, formerly of Medford Rogue room.
inriest
nme, was signed lust week by O Hr and Mr* Walter Armpriesl
'diners, and will be seen cavorting uid son spent the Fourth at
‘ j the celebra
1'iuts enjoying
wound third sack for balance of Grants
tion and a
n picnic lunch
h
on the
the season,
Ilojuo.
Score by innings:
• Mis Walter Bell entertained a
R H E I group of friends and neighbors at
lold Hill
410 410 100 11 14 8 her home Thursday. Dinner was
Jacksonville 003 004 003 10 18 4 served guests and the afternoon
Stick work for Miners was led was s|>cnt ouilting.
by Williams, Runts, Ivan Harring • Ed Smith, Ivan McDonough,
ton. Von Balder and Ferra, with Horace Turpin, Bill Fruit and
three each, while Gold Hill slug Martin McDonough motored to
gers included L. Foley, Seth Coy Graves creek Sunday, where they
scanned mining prospects
ind Gardner, with three clouts
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• Mr. and Mrs. John Baker, who
each.
have been visiting with their son
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• John Hueners and crew have
*en busy the past week threshing
wheat and barley.
• Mr. and Mrs Ike Coffman spent
Sunday at Star gulch visiting Mr
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Horace Gunderson.
• Mr and Mrs. George Hollings
worth of Medford recently visited
Fri-Sat
relatives here. Mr. Hollingsworth
is an Airways radio operator and
was recently transferred here from
Seattle.
• J. H. Patrick of Jacksonville
has started a second-hand store
in the old John Renault place next
ioor to the meat market He will
be open for business Monday
morning with all kinds of mining
equipment.
» tHQUlAHO OUM - tó LIVI >O» Hit IONI
• Mrs. Debb McKee of Jackson-
ville. mother of Mrs. Tom Dun-
nington, Mrs. Albert Hackert of
Jacksonville, and Leonard McKee
of Big Applegate is ill with pneu
monia at the Albert Hackert
home.
• Laura Pastorina, of Medford,
Sun-Mon
visited Margaret Norvell of thia
city Wednesday, enjoying a swim
in Big Applegate during the after-
noon.
• Mrs. Julia Osborne and Miss
Alice Morgan, both of thia city.
made a business trip to Medford
Thursday
• Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bel) and
family spent the Fourth of July
at Fish lake with Medford friends
iuek
By J. C. REYNOLDS
It was in Durango. Colorado,
during the first year of its rapid
growth, that I met the notorious
Charlie Allison, who was for a few
months the most feared bandit and
stage-robber in that section of
country. I had come to town just
AU men of Eugene are letting their whiskers grow and many now
for a visit and had found it over
flowing with strangers, attracted have them trimmed in elaborate styles for the Oregon Trail, an event
set for July 26, 27 and 28. Here is W. N, Wintier submitting to a
by the marvelously rich gold dis
“de-cootle" process for his brush.
coveries in the San Juan moun-
tains.
Applying that night for a room watched feverishly. By hard riding
in a hotel, I was told the best they this decoy met the three bandits
could do for me was a bed in the over a mile from town, and riding
“ram-pasture.” The ram-pasture is up to them, halted and spoke cor
a large room in the attic of hotels dially. "Hello, boys," he said “Did
and rooming houses with a num you come down the valley road?"
ber of cot beds in it. and is used They replied in the affirmative.
only as a last resort when the “Well," he continued,” did you see
anything of a small bunch of
rooms below are full.
There is no privacy about it and horses almost like the one I am Gold Hill Defeats Home-
one takes a chance on being rob- riding?” They said they had not.
Towners 11-10 in Close
bed by some sticky fingered gent The horse he was on was a thor
Game, Leaving Teams
while he is asleep. But it was oughbred. worth $1000, picked es
either that or stay out in the pecially for the occasion. He went
Tied 2 to 2 for Season
streets all night, so I took it. on to explain that he owned about
Sometime in the night Charlie 30 head of valuable horses which
Jacksonville’s Miners will jour-
Allison had come in and, not being he wished to drive to Texas, but ney to Prospect Sunday forenoon
foolish
enough
to
turn
had
been
able to secure a room, had been
given a cot in this same ram-pas them out the day before, and now for second game of the season with
ture. His two forty-fives he had they had hid out on him. though Jack Balding’s nine of that city
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meeting
the two teams
taken into bed with him. There probably had not
were about a dozen of us in that Then he inquired if they were open resulted In an overwhelming vic
room, but the first I knew about for a job to help him take his i tory for Miners, but Sunday's
Charlie Allison being there was in horses south? They looked at each game may result in a close con
the morning when I was dressing other and winked. What a snap test. with many fast players avail
that would be. to start for Texas, able from teams which have com
myself.
All of a sudden I saw a man right where they were headed for. pleted their schedules for the year.
raise up in a cot not far from with 30 fine thoroughbreds, shoot Dewey Hill, all-star catcher for the
mine and the next I knew, he was the owner on the way and take Prospectites, will be the guiding
pointing a six-gun at the bunch of possession of the bunch. What a hand of the outfit, and the game
us and in a harsh voice barked. nice start for a cow ranch. So they will be played on his cow-lot dia-
, mond, which has since been made
"Not one of you sons-of-b------ will hired out to the gent at once.
"We ll let the horses go then for famous when Dewey slid into what
leave this room till I find the b------
who stole one of my guns last today,” he told them. “I am tired he thought was second base.
night.” "By Gawd, fellers, it’s of riding anyway. We'll go back
Miners to date have won eight
Charlie Allison himself.” exclaimed to town and you boys can put your I and lost nine games, and Sunday's
a roomer who knew him. And then horses up in the livery stable tilt will give them a chance to tie
I realized that some one of us was where I hang out, and tomorrow their standing again. Medford's
in a tight place, for most of us we can round up the bunch and be , Gilmore Lions will be played on
knew his record as a gunman and on our way.” Talking sociably, but the J’vllle lot one week from Sun
is king no impertinent questions as day, July 29. and may be final
killer.
His gun continued to sweep the to where they came from, he led game of the season unless Gold
room as he rustled around in bed the way to the livery stable. None Hill players consent to play off the
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preparatiry to stepping out on the of the citizens they met on the 2-2 tie standing following week
floor, but all at once his demeanor itreet appeared to pay any atten end.
Saturday Only
changed and he said, “It's all right tion to them and their suspicions,
Last Sunday Bill Hammersley,
now; guess I must have kicked the if any, had been overcome by his returning to the Miner mound af
KEN MAYNARD in
damn thing down to the foot of geniality. "Ride right in. boys, and ter an absence of two weeks, ex
the bed while I was rolling around make yourselves at home,” he in perienced difficulty in handling
last night.” And believe me, it was vited. So in they went and in a his fellow townsmen and former
quite a relief to us to hear that. flash at least 50 rifles had them teammates and surrendered 10 hits
Shortly after that episode Charley covered from each door, from and nine runs first four innings.
also ’Fighting With Kit ( arson*
and his gang, which consisted of stalls and from openings above. From then on, however, Hammers-
three young Texas cowpunchers Charlie, old campaigner that he ley hit his stride and weaned the
Sunday and Monday
who had gone bad, started out to was. simply laughed and said. Cement Makers down to two more
do things up on a grand scale. "Serves me right for being fool
Stages and banks were robbed in ?nough to ride into a place like over them in many places. And as
rapid succession. Even small stores this.” But the young Texas cow it was shortly after the date of
with EDMUND LOWE
where the “take” would be only a boys took it pretty hard, even to the last Gazette when the gang
few hundred dollars, were held up. the extent of shedding tears, to had left the country, we knew we
Tuesday und Wcdnenday
And horses were stolen every- we their well-laid plans all had stumbled onto one of their
knocked into a cocked hat in a
where.
hideouts, or perhaps their only
The scant number of officers in jiffy.
one, and that all this stuff was
All three were sentenced to 33
the district at that time didn’t
ours just for the taking. Dan and
seem to be able to cope with them. years in the pen and there were I put in the rest of the day. pack
Posses could never discover where two other indictments hanging ing the loot off and hiding it in
they disappeared to between times over Charlie as soon as he had different places where no one
and the whole country was served his term for banditry. Have would ever find it, outside of an
and
wrought up to an extremely ner never heard from him since.
accident, reserving a big load
vous pitch by reason of their con
Some months later Cherokee apiece of the best of it to take
tinual raids in every direction. Fin Dan and myself were returning along with us. All that fall we
ally they got together so much from a hunt on a mountain eight made trips back up there, when
Thursday and Friday
money that they felt they had miles above Durango. I caught a ever we could get away from our
enough to set each one of them up flash of something from the corner work, to bring back what we could
in some lawful business and de of my eye and stopped. "What did carry. A great deal of it was near
cided the slide out quietly, go back you see?” inquired Dan. I told him ly as good as new and a little
with RALPH BELLAMY
to Texas and establish a cow I thought I had seen the dirt roof patching on saddles and guns was
ranch. Not a soul in the world of a cabin some distance away. all that was needed to put them in
JUNE COLLYER
knew of this plan except just these
"You're crazy as hell,” said Dan. shape for trading or selling to
four outlaws. And they were going "Who would have a cabin in a
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somebody.
to strike due south across over place like this? However, I deter
Quite a few articles like the fine
200 miles of desert and sparsely mined to have a look-see and wool blankets we kept for our
settled country to Albuquerque, started over that way, followed by
selves. On many occasions we vis
New Mexico, and be gone a long Dan, who kept up a steady grum ited the cabin while on our way
time before anybody knew a thing bling about going out of our way up or back, but no one had ever
about it. And this plan would have so far when we ought to be on our been there except ourselves after
worked out like a charm, but for road home.
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the Allison gang had left It.
one little thing. One of the young
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Then all at once we saw the
outlaws had a girl in Kansas City cabin, quite a sizeable little shack,
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took the train for the east.
the upper end and this pretty
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Finally we decided to have a
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way to Texas. Immediately the of ook inside and, opening the door
ficials at Albuquerque were noti vhich was not locked, we got the
fied by telegraph and for days turprise of our young lives. There
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before the outlaws hove In sight '.vas at least a dozen rifles and re
many keen eyes were looking for volvers laying around, and enough
(D.M.D.)
them through powerful telescopes immunition to outfit a small
and a plan had been formed for a army. Watches, razors and trink
bloodless capture. Feeling safe and ets of all kinds, most of which
secure on their trip, Charley and had been slightly damaged, belts,
his pals had taken things easy and scabbards, saddles and parts of
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11.65 and $1.10 Tax Ine.
eventually they were spotted on blankets, chaps, discarded hats
the road with long distance glasses and clothing, playing cards, maga
Opposite Post Office
and a decoy was sent out to meet zines and a big stack of Police
them, while dozens of citizens Gazetes dated up to July 3, with
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trail's swimming hole Sunday on
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Baughman and sons James and
Frederick of Ashland, Mr. and
Mr*. Crawford of Mudford, Mis*
Avadna Ayers, Donald Forbes and
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