c a Copy But You Really Should Subscriba Today T he J acksonville M iner “The Sheet That*a in the Pink** Volume 3 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, September 7, 1934 I In u strike-torn region, when some agltutor gets to shooting off lila mouth too much, someone gets ahot. • The government la sending her worat criminals to Alcatraz prison near San Francisco, where It la sincerely hoped the California cli mate will tie had foi 'em • A small town is a place where everyone knows all the dogs by name. , • Radio crooners. to our notion, arc the moat Illiterate when it cornea to saying it with music. • If a political candidate's hat were thrown in diMira instead of In ringa, voters prolsibly would ut leaat get a good kick out of it • Art atch and suffered only a slight bump Must of been that bed of roses we hear about but never see • Some critics arc attempting to paint the New Deal as a dirty one by throwing mud at it. e Columbia river salmon are too pumb to climb fish ladders, say na turalists Which may be another way of aaylng nufn la too dumb to build a ladder the fish will use SPIRIT MINE WAS ONE OF RICHEST TELLS REYNOLDS Prospector Recalls Famous Colorado Mine That Paid Fortune Under Direction of Spirit for 20 Years By J. <’. REYNOLDS From the time when I wax a very small boy, I cherished an am bition to meet n ghost, or at leaat to see one In the country where I got my schooling there wax much talk of ghosts and haunted houaea As I grew up I met a lot of people who could tell interesting ghost stories by the hour. And among the Mexicans and Indians ghosts flourished on every side and haunt ed houses and spooky localities were numerous. All this whetted my curiosity to a fine edge and I began to hunt for ghoats. But my hunting waa all in vain and I felt that In some way I wax being cheated. Why couldn’t I see theae ghosts when others seemed to have no trouble in finding them? Was something the matter with my eyesight, or what ? I laid around graveyards for hours, night after night. I hid myself close to places where ghosts had been seen frequently. I took my blanketa and slept in houses said to be haunted, but to no avail. No ghosts showed up. A lady ghost on a white horse rode right over my head once, as I stood in a doorway and three men and two girls saw her plainly and their pale, terror-stricken faces convinced me they were honest in their belief that they had seen her. But I had neither seen nor felt her. Again she came and knocked on the door when the room was full of men and women. Four of us were playing cards and we heard the knock and looked up as the door was opened, but saw nothing. Outside of us four, every one else saw her standing there and some of the women screamed while the men’s faces turned as white as death and it was quite a long time before they returned to normalcy. These men were sea soned range riders and not afraid of anything in the world except ghosts. And so It went. There was one time in my life when I seriously considered taking up the business of investigating haunted houses for a living. I was reading the Chicago Saturday Blade at the time and every paper was full of accounts of haunted houses all over the United States that people were afraid to live in, or even to go near them. If I could have fig ured out where there was any money in it, I would surely have tried my hand at it. But I didn't have the means to travel all over the country here and there on my own capital and no one seemed to want to pay anything to have their pet superstitions busted up, (Continued on page two) ‘A Century and Costs’ SATURDAY NIGHT Says Justice Coleman CROWDS TO GET to Drunk Driver Tues. EXTRA POLICING Justice of the Peace Ray Cole man Tuesday took a hand in stem ming the wave of drunken driving in southern Oregon by assessing W L Jurgensen, 32, of Chiloquin $100 fine, ¿4.50 costs and 30 days In jail, with the incarceration clause suAjs-nded pending good be havior. Conviction on the charge carries with it automatic suspen sion of Jurgensen's driving license for one year. Jurgensen, according to Btate Police Joe Folsom, was arrested driving while under the influence of Intoxicants near Klamath Junc tion Monday night. The defendant swor* "never again" as Justice Coleman assessed the minimum tine and criticized gasoline as a poor mixer. Chamber of Commerce to Pay Salary of Deputy to Control Crowds Outside Dance Hall on Saturday Although Jacksonville's Satur day night dances have been well- ordered and trouble free In the hall Itself, there has been some complaint raised by residents whose homes bonier the U. 8. ho tel building that too much noise and rowdyism are being Indulged in by late visitors who remain out side the hull. To correct this trou ble, Jacksonville's city dads Tues day night endorsed the local charn- ls-r of commerce’s offer to hire an extra deputy for Haturday night duty to aid Marshal Jim Littell in policing the area. Councilmen were to select an officer of their choice, salary to !»• paid from dance revenue by the chamber of commerce. Chamber Secretary Joe B Wetterer repre sented his group and repeated hfx offer to cooperate with city offi Little Red School House cials in removing objectionable Doors to Yawn for An features of the week-end dances, I which have been attracting un nual Resumption Mental usually large crowds to thi; town Machinery; Roster Up each Saturday night. City council, without u dissenting vote, granted Half apprehensive and half the chamber usual 30-day license, permitting dancing until 2 am. eager, Jacksonville's students will The lute hour closing recently wax march down the familiar, weed- a bone of contention in Medford grown paths to school Monday dance and beer parlor circles, and morning, announced Principal M. an effort originating in that city E. Coe yesterday, to plunge almost to close the affairs at midnight headlong into the annual business here was definitely out as a result of disturbing gray matter and the teachers. Grade students should of this week's action. City dads discussed the .local conic prepared to spend the enUre water shortage and decided to con day monday, said Coe, while hlgu tinue water service to paid-up school students will be let off with users for a short time further half a shift. John Heckert, who was recentiy Should rains not be forthcoming within two weeks, however, prob awarded contract for student abilities are that all users will be transportation, will start his run shut off in the interests of fire from Provolt, covering Sterling protection. About 18 feet of water ami Griffin creek sections as weU. remain in the city's large reser Mr. Heckert has equipped a large voir. Users will be given a week's and small truck with passenger notice, however, according to’coun- bodies for the work and expects a cilmen. before shutoff will become I>eak load increase over last year's haul of about 15 students. effective. Other schools of this section ' Scoutmaster Earl White offered councilmcn help of his troop for opening Monday include Apple any emergency involving first aid, gate, Uniontown. Sterling, Forest fire patrol or lookout duty. Jim Creek and Thompson Creek, while IJtteil Jr. waa hired by city of Watkins, Little Applegate and ficials. at suggestion of Fire Chief Beaver Creek schools opened early Ray Wilson, to keep all-night vigil this week. Some county schools, Tuesday and Wednesday as the however, will not start till Septem forest fire smouldered a scant mile ber 17. Lunch baskets, apples for teach from city limits. The Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce volunteered er, classroom tittering and note throwing will be in vogue by Tues to pay Littell's salary. Mayor Wealsy Hartman, Coun day, so far as this side of the cilmen E 8. Severance. Jim Can county, is concerned, and assign trall and Paul Godward and City ments. homework and hookey will Recorder Ray Coleman were pres fill young minds, replacing the ent at the regular monfhly meet cherished, fleeting liberties of va- ing, Councilman Peter Fick being cation However, few students are there who have not pictured the the abac nt member. ------ •------------ many pleasures of school, ax well Bananas are to be sold in the as its torments, in preparing for P i ni of powder. First they threw Monday's opening. us down and now they'll blow us Dublin has had no newspapers up. Weston Leader. Iowa has adopted the sales tax. for five weeks because of a print but at any such proposal here Ore ers' strike, but it doesn't seem to matter much. They were daily gon gets pale around the Gills. newspapers. Weston Leader. I Weston Leader. LOCAL SCHOOLS OPEN DOORS TO STUDES MONDAY S’MATTER POP VJ i L l NUM , -H0XA7 COMIE -A S+OW4E. FUL UA- 401 » 5 L b «7. MA-Y®à I ITtw '«HAIM IT T© YA- Number 36 Warren Coffman I Marble Corner to Be Passes, Victim of I Remodeled as Result of Long-Time Lease Lobar Pneunioniaj Warren Eugene Coffman, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike L. Coff- rr in of this city, passed away sud denly at the Community hospital in Medford Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock after a week's illness of lobar pneumonia Warren Coff man was bom at Ruch, Oregon. June 4, 1915, and had lived in southern Oregon throughout his lifetime. His death waa sudden and unex pected and came ax a great shock to his parents, relatives and many friends Warren was known for his generosity and kind-hearted ness. having on numerous occas ions extended aid and help to strangers discovered in dire cir cumstances. He was a hard-work ing youth, with an inherent love for mining and hunting, and Jack sonville folk knew him as an ar dent outdoor lover, much of his time having been spent in the hills and forests of southern Oregon. Besides his parents he leaves two sisters. Geneva and Helen, and three brothers. Alfred, Donald and Melvin, all at home. Funeral services were held from the Perl funeral parlors Wednes day afternoon at 2:30 with inter ment in the Jacksonville cemetery. W. R. Baird read the final rites before a large group of friends and relatives who gathered to pay their last respects to the youth who was called when just reach ing his prime, and to mourn his loss There were many floral offer ings from friends and admirers. Pallbearers were David Win ningham. Paul Winningham, Charles Shannon, John Brite, Aar on Rhoten and Floyd Pence. ----------- •------------ SELTZER TO GREET OLD FRIENDS AGAIN SUNDAY The Marble Corner, a traditional landmark of an historic town, will be completely remodeled, reno vated and redecorated, according to plans being formulated last night by owners of the property and Miss Sally Cole, a Medford businesswoman, who seeks lease on the building. The one-time sa loon, now a card room and bar, is owned by S. C. Dunnington of this city. According to C. B. Dunnington, long-time lease is being prepared, and remodeling of the structure will include installation of plumb ing, addition of a kitchen, the tear ing out of a room and the laying of new floors, as well as redecora tion. Miss Cole, formerly of Port land and San Francisco, and who operates the Gnome Inn in Med ford, plans to make the popular comer one of southern Oregon’s smartest and most unique beer parlors, carrying out the theme of old-time fixtures, swinging doors and location at the intersection of California street—the town's main thoroughfare— and the old stage road. HOP PICKING TIME HITS ON 225 Workers Gather Yield from 90 Acres on Clute Yard; Harvest to Flavor Famous Eastern Beer As beautiful a scene of harvest activity as the imagination could L M Seltzer, preacher-pianist conjure is being enacted at the from Chicago, will continue his B. M. Clute hop yards on Apple meetings at the Norris store build gate, where 225 pickers are en ing in Jacksonville starting Sun gaged in gathering the yield from day evening, September 9, at 7:30 90 acres of ground. Fifty families o’clock Hix first subject will be: are occupying the camp ground at "If a man is led astray by a false the yards, and not only are the teacher, will God hold the teacher pickers, time keepers, yard boss responsible and let the man go and truck drivers kept busy with the process, but carpenters will free?" Mr. Seltzer also will conduct remain busy throughout the pick meetings on Tuesday, Thursday ing season completing final details and Friday nights for the next of new buildings _ erected this ...... __ year. several weeks, with old-fashioned “During the last year Mr. Clute prayer meetings on Wednesday spent $8000 in planting additional evenings AU gatherings will be acreage, and building new equip featured by special music, and Mr. ment which includes two new dry Seltzer promises short, interesting kilns, a three-story storage room, sermons at all times, interspersed 12 new cabins for the pickers, and with thrilling, beautiful music All a sawmill. Jacksonville and Applegate folk hops are trucked on a ramp are invited to attend, said the to The the dryers and placed directly evangelist. into the kilns, eliminating the ----------- •------------ former method of carrying the CARD OF THANKS sacks from the elevator. By this We wish to thank our many system a 24-foot kiln is filled with friends for the kindness and sym 4500 pounds of hops from the field pathy shown in the bereavement in half an hour. After drying, the of our beloved wife and mother, hops are run on a track to the and also for the beautiful floral storage room, where they are ele vated by tractor power to the offerings cooler to await baling. A new baler RAY W BROWN MRS. O. E CRAWFORD is being installed in the storage room and will operate with a MRS C. L CLARK counter weight which also serves JACK GIBSON ----------- •------------ as an elevatdr. The buildings are Mrs E. S. Severance was a lighted with electricity, including the pickers’ cabins and the sur- Medford visitor Wednesday. I rounding grounds. The foundation of the storage room consists of timbers from the old Applegate bridge tom down last spring. In erecting his own sawmill on his ranch Mr. Clute not only has dodged the high price of lumber, but is utilizing thousands of feet J T+|1 MW rr MU47 of pine timber being cleared from t L e . B ecause it his land, which otherwise would be -q-Ava_ -Houti, burned. Houk'S \WOUL1> h '-T This year’s crop has been con ibtLitx/e. it xa > a 3 tracted at a good price with Hart ft'PoWii.t- and Williams, for the Pabst brew ing company at Milwaukee, mak ers of a famous beer. Pickers ob tain their grocery supplies from the small store Mr. Clute has es tablished at his home for the two weeks season. Mr. Clute knows the hop busi ness, having been engaged in that industry for 24 years. Even during the lean, discouraging 13 years of prohibition, he remained on the job and his was the only yard in Jackson county to survive. At the present two other yards exist in the county, George Truax and John Herriott, both of the lower Applegate section, having planted smaller acreages last spring. Horace Bromley of Medford will be at the Clute yards in a few days to snap scenes of the har vesting for the Copco moving pic ture reel. This will complete Mr. Bromley’s series of pictures on hop growing here, which he started last spring with scenes of planting and cultivating. ----------- •------------ We've never felt that Mr. Hoo- ver authored the depression, but regret to say he's confessed to a book.—Weston Leader. ----------- •------------ The makers of cotton garments turned down a White House order, but it wasn't for goods.—Weston Leader. By C. M. Payne BURNS^VERWN ACRES TUESDAY Five Homes Wiped Out in Dense Forest; Flames Threaten Jacksonville from Burn Within Mile Starting from unknown origin along the Jacksonville-Ruch high way near the intersection of the Forest creek road, fire Tuesday afternoon whipped itself into a wild fury that abated only after cool of night, leaving a charred 5000 acre ruin of timber, brush and five homes, including several barns, that extended into the Grif fin creek section on the east and Miller gulch on the north. About 400 CCC fire fighters were poured into the section late Tuesday afternoon and night, and by early Wednesday morning workers under the leadership of Ranger Lee Port, had surrounded the 15-mile fire line, successfully controlling the blaze. Main burn, extending some five miles in length, with a two-mile front in places, raced over the mountain sides in about two hours, accord- ! ing to residents of the section. The blaze crowned in fir timber, throw ing spot fires as much as half a mile in advance of the flames The Carl Mankins home was de stroyed by flames, as was the Dal ton brothers' house, garage and other buildings, the Ben Coffman place, Ashley’s house, barn and fence, the McGrater place and sev eral log cabins on the Poor Man's creek slope. Barn and 60 tons of hay, as w U as other smaller build ings. were destroyed on the Henry Mankins place, but quick work of members of the Jacksonville vol unteer fire company and others saved house from fire. Jim Littell Jr., Jeff Clogston, Dan’l Shuss and C. N. Culy drove through flames to the Man kins home, wh^re Dan as cended roof of the two-story struc ture and quenched more than 15 different spot fires caused from heat and sparks of the surround ing inferno. More than 1400 acres of timber owned by Henry Mankins was completely burned during the fire, all rail fences were a total loss and there was some loss of live stock Tuesday, according to re port. A small passenger car was burned when its driver, named Oden, was forced to abandon the stalled vehicle in path of the flames. Ben and Ed Coffman, who attempted to save the former’s home by backfiring as the fire approached in the distance, were forced to flee for their lives when wind changed suddenly. Even as every tragedy has its touch of laughs, did Tuesday's dis astrous forest fire furnish con trasting bits of humor. Ben Coff man. whose family escaped to safe ty with a few personal effects, found that turkeys and chickens fled to a -5pfe spot and returned to their charred home Wednesday morning after having very appar ently spent a sleepless, worried night, and dozed all next day with heavy eyelids. The Coffman house, garage and chicken houses were complete losses, while the "tele phone booth” stood in mocking, unscathed dignity after the fire, resting unmolested in a clump of oaks. There were many other rib tickling sights for those who had eyes for such things. Dan’l i Boone) Shuss returned from the bonfire with an amusing tale of a jackrabbit, scared into the Henry Mankins yard by flames, that ran smack into the family cat. backed up. wiggled its ears, eyed the rushing flames and the sputtering cat again, and struck out for parts beyond. Numerous deer and other animals of the forest crossed with in Shuss' line of vision just ahead of flames. At one point the fire reached within a mile of Jacksonville city limits and. had wind altered, would have invaded the town, connecting timber extending almost to back doors of several dwellings here. It is the second fire of the season to scar nearby hills, other burn ex tending over a small plot of ground from Jackson creek east toward the old hill road about a month ago. A forest fire said to have cov ered over 1200 acres burned in the Missouri flat section early this week, endangering several homes there. The fire, which was on state land in Josephine county, became serious Tuesday, and a large num ber of pickers from the Clute hop yards were sent to assist in sav ing homes. A call for additional men from the Star Ranger station was futile, however, all available men having been sent to the Poor Man’s creek fire. Road hogs bring home the bacon for the doctor, the repair man and the tombstone-maker. — Weston (Oregon) Leader. ----------- •----------- At all events, recovery medicine Raw whiskey is said to be aged has pepped us up to an extent that in three minutes by a new process, enables us to criticize the doctor. although we’ve had no inner con —Weston Leader. viction.—Weston Leader.