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9
’GATE SCHOOLS
PREPARE FOR
Thia la u great country. Just
when a fellow think» he has things
going hia way, they get him going
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We suppose, too, one of hell's
worst punishments will be the In
evitable greeting. "la it hot enough
for you?”
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More than >0 per cent of Texas’
convicts have been tattoed, accord
ing to a newspaper report which
provea that criminals, and not so
ciety In general, are the easy
marks.
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Yes, and if feminine styles con
tinue their present trend. It won’t
bo long now till we will catch
Grandma struggling into Junior's
sun-suit.
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There’s thia much we can be
certain of: The Blue Eagle Hint no
bird in a gilded cage.
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And speaking of the bin!, moat
of us’d rather have pin money than
pin feathers, anyhow.
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A pessimist la a person who
will overlook nothing to underesti
mate.
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Never let a bald barber get in
your hair,
e
Going on a bender won’t
straighten out the kinks In life.
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Things are coming to such a
pass that the man who gets real
equality in America Is getting spe
cial privilege
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Those midwestem drouth suffer
ers should import a lot of those
brain-trusters from Washington
We have It on good authority
they’re all wet.
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There is a lot of talk about
cleaning up the movies, but wo
know one personable young fellow
In Medford who is much more in
terested in cleaning up in 'em. Eh,
Elno ?
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enactions one day. dejections the
next.
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Every householder knows it is
comparatively easy to make out a
budget, but when it comes to rais
ing the dough, it’s sometimes hard
to budge it.
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Many men carry much weight,
but little oC it above the shoulders
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Talk is cheap, but not half as
worthless as thorn- who use too
much of it.
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No doubt a lot of those drouth-
stricken dirt farmers back cast an-
remembering, with a lump In their
throats, childhood days when they
used to make mud pics with down
right extravagance.
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Art (Hie) Powell of the Central
Point American casta the slur that
we have been apcing Clark Wood
of the Weston I-cader. Mcbbe so.
but about the nearest Art ever
came to making a monkey out of
anyone was the time he bought
himself a sack of peanuts.
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Readers of The Miner comment
ed very favorably on this paper’s
change to white newsprint last
week We suppose the next big
improvement they'll endorse will
be the eradication of thia column
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Applegate’s Social
Whirl Takes Turn
Whether Its a sign of winter ap
proaching or that Applegate folks
simply refuse to let the sizzling
thermometer bother them or
whether its a sign of something
else is hard to determine, but at
any rate the Applegate has been
socially Inclined during the last
week.
Mrs. John Byrne and daughter
Gladys entertained about 40 local
friends with a dancing party at
their home Saturday evening. Mu
sic was furnished by Orval May-
field and Miss Byrne.
Mrs. Harold Crump entertained
with a similar party at her home
on the same evening in observ
ance of the end of harvest season.
About SO guests enjoyed the eve
ning, with dance music by the
Purcel players.
Mrs. W. B. Harlow of Big Apple
gate invited a small group of rela
tives to her home Saturday eve
ning for dinner in observance of
her birthday anniversary. Sunday
members of the Applegate Home
Extension unit held a picnic at the
Star Ranger station, with swim
ming as the main event of the
Afternoon.
Invitations were extended sev
eral days ago for an afternoon
party which was to be given Wed
nesday of this week at the home
of Mrs. John Matney in honor of
Mrs. Lee Matney. Hostesses were
to be Mesdames Ray Offenbacher
and Leon Offenbacher.
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Watkins, Little Applegate
and Beaver Creek Will
Open Doors Monday; All
Others Start Week Later
£on,
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Number 35
Well Water Is
CONSCIENCE OF School
Tested, Found O-K GRAND JURY TO
OLD SOURDOUGH those
Enough scarcity of bugs, at least LOOK INTO LOCAL
with unsocial tendencies, was
Prompted by a reddish glow in
discovered in well water at the
the heavens, the frantic dinging WAS
FLEXIBLE
Jacksonville school to receive a ATTACK CASE
of the village fire bell and a pe
grade A rating from the state
1 Volunteer Firemen
Make Hurried Call
To Ixxal Outhouse
culiar odor permeating the air,
Jacksonville’s volunteer fire com
pany made a hurried call to the
Oscar Knox home on East Cali
fornia street Monday evening
about 10:30. Fire laddies arrived
to discover a backyard edifice en
veloped in flames, threatening
nearby buildings and sensibilities
of neighbors.
With some gusto, and a roaring
stream of muddy water from fire
hose, the volunteers quenched the
blaze .xnd washed the charred
two-holer from its moorings in less
time than it took Fire Chief Ray
Wilson to describe the incident
next <lay. Although the "phone
booth" was adjudged a complete
loss, the hole in the ground was
saved.
School buildings of the Apple
gate are undergoing repairs and
thorough cleaning In preparation
for the opening of school within
the next two weeks, Seats and
desks at the Applegate school have
been reflnlshed. for which the
school Improvement club there wus
res|M>nslble, and a pump has been
Installed on the grounds by the
school board, which also expects
to place u fountain on the grounds
The Little Applegate school build
ing Is receiving repulrs, and the
floor at the Beaver Creek school EVANGELIST SELTZER SETS
house has been enameled. The ma REOPENING NITE FOR LOCAL
jority of the schools here begin
September 10, although Watkins. MEETINGS SEPTEMBER 9TH
Little Applegate and Beaver Creek
Opening date for meetings which
open Monday.
Three new teachers have been will be held in Jacksonville by
employed here this term: Miss Evangelist L. M Seltzer at the
Mary Beatty of Ashland at Ruch, Norris store building has been set
Carl Ayres of Ashland at Little for Sunday, September 9, in the
Applegate, and William Ludwig hope that turning point in hot
will teach the upper grades at weather will have been reached by
Applegate. Mrs Ludwig will re that time, and to extend to those-
tain her position in the school as working in fruit harvest a greater
to be in attendance at
primary teacher Teachers reem opportunity
meetings.
ployed are Min Ina Purcel at Wat all Mr
Seltzer will play and preach
kins, Miss Lucille Reeder at Beav
five nights a week, beginning
er Creek. Miss Eleanor Maull at here
Uniontown. Mrs. George Brownlee the 9th, and will continue his se
at Sterling, Miss Mary Davies at ries of gatherings which preceded
Forest Creek and Miss June Rudd his departure for religious camp
meeting in northern part of the
at Thompson Creek.
state a few weeks ago. Mr. Seltzer
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• Blackberry pickers are busy in is a noted pianist, and his playing
has been one of the attraction in
the Little Applegate region.
hia local meetings.
• Mr ii <’ Luton of Medford
made u business trip Wednesday to NEW BEAUTY OPERATOR
Seattle. Washington.
JOINS STAFF BOWMAN’S
• Bill (Screwball) Turner, broth
BARBER SHOP, MEDFORD
er of Mrs Arthur Van Galder, got
a rock in his eye while mining
Miss Marie Hammerley, recent
on the Jack Green place a few ly <>f the Brookside beauty shop in
<lays ago, but no serious Injury Kansas City. Mo., has joined the
resulted.
staff of operators at Bowman's
• "If the big guys can do it, we beauty shop, announced Mrs. Carl
can too." said Arthur Johnson as Bowman a few days ago Miss
he and Donald Lish mo|*cd up the Hammerley comes to Medford
main street of Jacksonville with thoroughly experienced in all lines
a shovel, a pick and a couple ul f of work, having served Kansas
gold pans They were headed for City’s country club district for sev
Jackson creek to |>an out some of eral years. Spiral permanent waves
that "yellow stuff" that has been and manicures are among Miss
flowing so freely around this city. Hammerley's specialties.
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They're just a couple of kids but
they got a pretty good piece Wed • Word has been received from
nesday afternoon, so let's all wish the Rev. S. H. Jones that he will
them lota of gold and no poverty. not be back from his vacation trip
(Bill Johnson, reporter.)
in time to fill his pulpit next
• Miss Lirraine Offenbacher is Sunday, but there will be preach
spending the week visiting friends ing services held at the local Pres
and relatives in Rogue River val byterian church nevertheless, it
ley, Including her grandmother, was announced yesterday, with the
Mrs. Daniels, at Medford; her Rev. E. Iverson filling Rev. Jones’
aunt. Mrs. Emmett Klingle, of Ea- place for the day.
gle Point, and Miss Helen Knadler • Mr. and Mrs. Jack Green of
of Central Point.
this city, Victor Del Mazo, repre
• It is thought that Farmer Bill sentative of the ArgenUne govern
Car) is going to do a little farming, ment inspecting fruit handling in
as he was seen passing through southern Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. B.
Jacksonville with a roll of barbed Daly and Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Keel
wire on his auto.
er of Medford spent Sunday on the
• Some of Jayville's sidewalk ex- Rogue fishing.
perters might find employment at • Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lusk and
Ruch, where a siphon just com son Gail and Ken Purcel of Jack
pleted refuses flatfootedly to sonville motored to Applegate Sun
siphe.
day.
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S’MATTER POP
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board of health, reported Stella
W. Beach, secretary of the district. J. Noel Colby, 30, Bound
Samples of the drinking water
Over to Grand Jury As
were sent to Portland recently for
analysis as a precaution by the
Judge Coleman Hears
local board in anticipation of open
Preliminary Arguments
ing of school here one week from
Monday, September 10.
By J. C. REYNOLDS
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Accused of criminally attacking
As I have stated before, I have
local 14-year-old girl „«.J
July o,
3, .J.
TENA
JANE
BROWN OF RUCH a-----
worked underground first, last and
Noel Colby, about 30, of Grants
between times, 14 years altogether, PASSES WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2» Pass, was bound over to action of
in mines all over the west.
the grand jury by JusUce of the
Tena Jane Brown, wife of Ray Peace J. B. Coleman at prelimin
I have become acquainted with
thousands of miners who follow W. Brown of Ruch, died at the ary hearing late yesterday after
mining for a business and with Sacred Heart hospital in Medford noon Bond was set at $1500, which
numbers of prospectors, many of early Wednesday morning, August was not fumsbed.
whom work in mines for a change, 29, after an illness of the past
According to testimony by the
or to make a stake to finance eight years. Mrs. Brown was bom
them through another prospecting in Pike county, Kentucky, April complaining witness and her par
trip, and I have yet to meet a man 7, 1884. and had been a resident of ents, Colby had taken three young
who would not "high-grade” under Ruch for the past five years. She children for an automobile ride and
certain circumstances
leaves her husband, Ray W., and had given the two younger ones a
three
children, Arpha Gibson, Mrs. nickel each to go up town for an
There may be men somewhere
C.
L.
Clark, Klamath Falls, Mrs. ice cream cone while he and the
who would not high-grade I simp
14-year-old Jacksonville girl drove
Dixie
Crawford
of Medford.
ly wish to state that I never hap
Last rites will be held at the to the cemetery. Testimony re
pened to meet one. I have heard
vealed that the crime was sup
men everywhere declare up and Perl funeral home today, Friday, posed to have been committed in
down that nothing could induce at 10 a m., the Rev. W. H. Eaton a period covering not more than
them to do such a thing, but these officiating, with interment in Log about 10 minutes.
men had never been up against Town cemetery.
Colby, who first met the com-
temptation when they said it and
plaining
I have personally seen numbers of turned loose high-grading (as hap-1 previous witness several weeks
to July 3, had not been
2.3m fall and fall hard when the pens frequently) it would be just
right opportunity was presented. a drop in the bucket compared to seen in Jacksonville until about a
The statement of anyone who has what the mine was producing. I week ago, when he was identified
arrested on complaint signed
not been up against the real thing have seen miners in a fairly rich and
by the girl's father.
is not. worth listening to. He does- '___
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mine like the Atlantic, which pro-
Principal witnesses taking the
n’t know what he will do when j duced about two hundred thous-
brought fare to face with tempta- and in a short time, who, if they stand fo rthe state were local chil
tion. He thinks he knows, but he ran across a particularly fancy dren, who identified Colby. Con
doesn't.
chunk of gold quartz they wanted.
wanted, viction on the charge carries a
The majority of these men were would turn it in at the office and penalty, under Oregon law. of not
as honest as could be wished for offer to buy it out of their wages less than three or more than 20
in everyday life So were millions And I have seen these same men years imprisonment in state peni
of p«-oplCj in J.hese^United^ States ¡n a mine like the Camp-Bird in tentiary. and is considered a se
until hard
gripped
them on Colorado, which sold for $13,000,- rious offense.
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the one hand, while on the other 000, after having produced much
Colby, a married man, now in
the attempted enforcement of un more than that, where the tunnels carcerated in county jail awaiting
welcome
. . prohibition offered a way and stopes resembled jewelry next session of the grand jury, did
for making quick and easy money stores, who would get away with not take the stand in his behalf.
by dealing in the illegal business much more than their wages every Mrs Colby appeared in court with
of making and selling liquor.
day and think nothng of it. And her husband.
Honesty is a virtue that, like there were plenty of mines where
Testimony also brought out the
everything else, can be overdone. one would either have to play fact that the 14-year-old girl is
Take the fellow who recently sent along with the gang and receive not mentally developed or compe
to the conscience fund in Washing his share of the cut. or he wouldn't tent, possessing the mind of a
ton the price of a cancelled post stay long. If he refused to stand much younger child.
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age stamp he had unlawfully used ; in with the bunch, some fault
a second time 25 or 30 years ago. , woulds shortly be found with his
¡Armorv G rappiers Vie
That kind of honesty is painful, wurk
wurk land he would be ^^¿
discharge
If T I had to do business with 1 All
s it mine owners knew this was
and if
:•Ä.'S:
a guy like him, I would be sus going on and some mines
displayed for Chance to Jitter
picious of every move he made. A large signs at the entrance to
man with a conscience like his their mines offering good sized re Jumping Joe Savoldi
ought to see a specialist and have wards for the apprehension of any
With a big name and big money
it fixed.
high-grader, but that was all it
But take these high-graders. If amounted to. In one mine in Colo in prospect for Mack Lillard's ar
I owned just an ordinary mine and rado there were many Italians and mory show next week. Sad Sam
they were working for me, I would all were high-grading and the com Lethers and George “Wildcat" Wil
trust them to the limit, and my pany knew it. There was also a son were scheduled to sink fangs
trust would be well placed. But big reward sign at thia mine, too, in this Thursday night’s bill to
put them in one of the rich gold but it was never enforced. An Ital decide which will be the better
mines, producing millions, with ian would generally work till he man to pit against Jumping Joe
gold staring them in the face at had high-graded from $1500 to Savoldi, big-time wrestler sched
every turn, working in it, handling $2000 more than his wages came uled to appear in Medford within
it. living with it for eight hours to, with which he could go back a few days. A series of elimination
every day and receiving the lim to Italy and be a rich man in that bouts at the armory “russle ring”
have been held recently, with
ited sum of $3.50 for each day’s country.
hard toll, while the one or two, or
Then he would quit and hit di Jumping Joe as the Big Chance
three, owners of the property were rectly for Pueblo, where was a for the eventual elimination win
becoming filthy rich without turn large Italian banking house which ner.
Although fans have been warm
ing a hand, it is expecting too looked out for their welfare, trans
much of human nature to believe ferring their money, obtaining ing their palms an drasping their
a miner will not high-grade a little passports and directing them as to vocal cords over Sad Sam Lethers.
now and then.
the best way of getting home. The the rubber-legged giant from
And in one of that kind of mine, company knew they would go Texas, last week they saw their
even if the whole gang of miners there the first thing they did, so champion villain, old Al arasick,
when one quit the information was stay with the rolling-scissors cut
telegraphed ahead to the com up for a full hour to open fans’
pany's detectives in Pueblo, who eyes, and their hearts, to the old
simply waited till he had cashed warrior s wares. Al and Billy New
in his boodle, then would take from man, last week’s referee who irked
him all the extra money he had the Russian to a face-slapping de
above his wages and let him go on. gree, were to appear as first per
No effort was ever made to prose formers on this Thursday night’s
cute the offender. With white men bill of fare, while Lethers and
though it was a far different mat Football Hero W’ilson were dated
ter and many thousands of dollars for the top spot.
Capacity crowds have been
disappeared through the conniv
ance of clever assayors and in packing armory ringside and bal
other ways. But bless your heart, cony lately, and Promoter Lillard
in spite of all that, the four indi has taken the cue to import big
viduals who owned the property ger. better and badder performers
became
multi-millionaires,
so for his Thursday night embroglios,
or wrestles, as an old-timer naive
what?
I once worked at a mine high ly puts it. Shows starts promptly
up in the Rocky mountains, which at 8:30, with low ringside rates
for the purposes of this story I and get-'em-while-they-last re
will call the SP. The owner’s name served seat sales continuing.
I will also allude to as Skinner.
Big Business will have to make
This Mr. Skinner had never done
a day's work in his life. He had big money again .seems like, be
been born in the lap of luxury and fore little business makes a little
at his dad's death inherited the old money.—Weston Leader.
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man's wealth. Workingmen, to his
Us Americans cannot say we
mind, were a necessary evil and
ought to realize that he was doing haven’t a supporting government.
them an immense favor in allow —Weston Leader.
ing them to work for him. Bascom, f~ ------- ------------------ —
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the old prospector who had dis
covered the rich ore body of the
Harvey Scott
SP, had tried hard to avoid selling
it. being fully aware of its possi
Great long ago editor
(Jw3>e.T2
bilities. But it was too big a thing
Of The Oregonian.
for any person of moderate means
Said Oregon
4-fE
to handle. In some way Skinner
Was the Fool of the Family.
had discovered the straits the old
Oregon needs Capital
prospector was in and took a large
To develop
advantage of them.
Her vast resources;
His first efforts to buy the SP
Yet foolishly, she
S+iOO»-H <ST
claim were turned down, but fin
Drives Capital away,
MG., MpiT+tfT?
ally it came to such a pinch that
That would gladly employ
Bascom was forced to sell. So
Thousands of men.
Skinner cleverly beat the old man
Why not BE FAIR
down little by little until he parted
To Capital—
with his bonanza for $2000 cash
Develop and BE GREAT?
and retained a quarter interest in
the property to boot. He was soon
Farmers
relieved of his quarter interest and
the greater part of his $2000 cash
and
Fruitgrowers
by the astute Mr. Skinner, who
simply “froze him out,” and got
Bank
his share for practically nothing, i
This
is
what
is
called
LEGAL
rob-|
(Q The Bell SynJune, Inc
(Deposits Insured)
(Continued on page eight)
'
y
Honored Trade of High-
Grading Was Event in
Every Gold-Chasers Life
Says Applegate Scribe
By C. M. Payne