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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1934)
-se_-4—.. Today T he J acksonville M iner /*'«« to Volume 3 PLATES STOLEN, MILL SHUT DOWN Workmen, returning to gold mill of the Jacksonville Gold Mining company, limited. Thursday mom- Ing were surprised to see three amnlgum plates of the treating plant had been stolen during the night. The plates were valued at approximately $200, but had been cleaned up prior to end of work Wednesday evening, and no gold values were involved. According to L. Houghton, presi dent of the company, new plates will be installed and the mill re turned to operation by Monday. Amalgum plates are used to catch free gold from ores being milled in the company's 25-ton Straube unit. They first are coated with quick silver, which has an affinity for native gold, passing waste mater ials onto a concentrating table. The Jacksonville Gold Mining company has been operating its mill for more than a year on cus tom ore and ore from their Black- well Hill mine. It is thought bur glars are known to the authorities, who are at work on the case. JOHN KNIGHT RESTING AT MEDFORD HOSPITAL, WORD Becoming seriously ill about midnight Wednesday, John Knight of this city was removed to the Sacred Heart hospital In Medford by ambulance, where he has been under care of Dr. W. G. Bishop. Although an Intestinal obstruction made Knight’s condition grave, he had not been operated on late last night. ----------- •------------ FOUND IN TIIK DKIGIN'S Three freshmen in a huddle. Someone wanting to know if they looked better with their hair be hind their ears or in front. A teacher asking Bud Mit '-.ell if he could make any more noise. Those sweet little notes are in circula tion again For this week the biol ogy class is having fish for their menu, instead of frogs. After look ing the student body over, there are only two redheads to be found this year. A sophomore boy wish ing he rated. What an idea half a football for a hat! Howard Kie- hoefer selling pies for 10 cents each in English class. The Young Printer signs his notes "Me.” w ▼ a a a • •< zni Ww ■ Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, December 21, 1934 ♦ PACIFIC STATES WILL SHUT DOWN FOR 3-DAY REST The soviet government recently shot several farmers for refusing to pick cotton Meblie they were American farmers. • Clara How'» "It" turned out to be seven and one-half [siundx of bouncing "him.” • And when we get to an overpro duction of human life, plowaharea will be beaten back Into swords. • if we could choke the back-seat driver twice ns Ion", few of tin would care If an extru cupful of gaaoline was wanted • Possibly the reason movies are so popular la because on the acre« n we can ace others aa we'd like to aee ouraclvea. • No doubt, with a slogan cam palgn against crime underway. 10,MO ears In Sing Sing are burn Ing. • Americanism: Chicago women seeking to outlaw toy guns and weapons of war und overlooking the menace of toy autos. • One thing In favor of the Town- semi old age pension plan is that It might end the crack. "One is only as old as one feels " • The gold digging business has been on the up-grade, but la noth ing compared to what it would be If every man over 60 were to re ceive $200 a month, and no work to do. • With flood control going for ward In many sections, apparently the government Intends to leave the poor farmer a loam. • A sea serpent seer is merely a viewer with alarmer with nothing else to do. • A person always can talk better sense than they can live. • Consistency: A nation of people who won't care for their own blissl relatives wanting the government to donate $200 per month to every person over 00. • Kight American missionaries traveled to Hankow recently In junks, according to a press dis patch. Evidently flivvers have in vaded the Orient, too. • A lazy woman seldom has a lazy tongue. • She’s A Nugget, Ain’t She Boys! First of Year to See 3-Shift Continuous O|N*rution of Treat Illg Plant Thar may be gold in them thar mountings, but then again, thar's a Manly Claus a-comin, and min ers at Pacific States all 3ft of ’em arc going to receive a three- <luy rest while officials and a few workmen give the entire mine and plant the oncs-over for needed vitamins und repairs. Pacific Htatcs, following the quiet spell, will be groomed for continuous three-shift operation of its orc treating plant ubout Jan uary 1 und Superintendent Mitch ell and Foreman Miller have been eyeing this fnll's steady downpour of ram with smiles und ____________ visions of plenty of wutcr for the next few years ax one of the heaviest rain falls in xeverul seasons continues to fill mill water tanks. With road completed to No. 2 level, and ore bin ready for ma terial. next week will aee move ment of quartz from the mountain- top working to the mill, while tim bering la being completed in No 18-2 winze, where a shaft will be sunk Into ore chute. Removing of good milling orc from No. 18-1 winze has been continuing at a steady rate, while other stopes of the mine have been yielding a good supply of rock tor mill bins. Pacific States' 12th lot of con centrates will be shipped to smel ter Monday, said Superintendent Mitchell yeaterday. Treatment of orc continues at about 70 tons per two-xhift day, with output ex pected to average 100 tons or bet ter when three-shift operation is inaugurated Junuary 1. Although workmen at the mine will thank Santa Claus for one of their very few short vacations, they look to Mother Nature with appreciation for having Jotra at all and the Pacific States property, formerly known as Opp mine, is fast being recognized ax an actual producer emerging from the lar vae form of promotion and de velopment -into a proven, full- grown adult. Pacific States minea, if sucees»• ful in present development and operation, will do more than any other one thing to prove the en tire Jacksonville and southern Ore gon mining district. • WINNER OF SILVERWARE TO BE NAMED MONDAY AT CHITWOOD’S STOKE, 3 P.M. The winner of a set of silver, complete service for six. will be de termined Monday afternoon at 2 pm., said Mrs lean Gillis, man ager of the store. The Christmas gift, a present from the store, will be awarded the person holding a number to be drawn at that time. Chitwood's yesterday received another large shipment of special holiday merchandise which has aroused much interest among local people, said Mrs. Gillis. The re- modeled store, formerly the Jack sonville pharmacy, will be open evenings. S’MATTER POP SEEN In A Daze 4 By Ol II KEYHOLE EXPERT WATER SEEKERS NAME CANTRALL AS GROUP HEAD ------ ♦ Next Move Will Embody JUDGE WILLIAM COLVIG tell ing TOD PORTER today is a bar ber’s holiday observing invention of the safety razor. LEM WILSON waving back at the animated Santa Claus in RAY COLEMAN’S window and remark ing that it wax the first time St. Nick has spoken to him in many years. DON DOROTHY agrin behind the wheel of JEAN GILLIS’ car JACK REYNOLDS, of the west ern yam fame, receiving so many Christmas ties he shudders a poem about them, while the KEYHOLE EXPERT won't even get a two-for handkerchief. BUD REINKING and ANDY SMITH in a furniture store want ing to cedar presents. GEORGE MERRITT with a couple chuirs suffering from dropsy. AUDRINE WHITE looking at her medicined puppy and wonder ing if the worm had turned. EMil. BRITT with a lot of weather to observe. II G. MITCHELL and PETE MILLER, bosses at Pacific States mine, busy making a mill-run. • ‘Backyard’ Miners Find Placer Gold at Skirts City Limits For years early-day placer min ers confined their activities to hills adjoining Jacksonville, and bed of Jackson creek. which flows through the town, but neglected to place any value on ground un der the city, or in gold flows car rying on out into the valley proper. Ax a result, miners today are em ployed in large numbers digging out gold from under the pioneers’ be<|x and kitchen tables. According to Gold Buyer G. W. Godward, shafts sunk recently as far out into the va.ley as the L. M. Wakefield ranch are producing good placer gold in paying quan tities, pay streak in some places running as high as $20 per yard, with a good sprinkling of values through overburden. Considered “mined out" years ago, limits of Jacksonville still continue to yield a large, steady payroll of new money. Godward himself buying an average of $1500 a week in his local grocery store. ----- •----- IOHN DEVLIN. BROTHER OF MRS MILES < VNTKALL. DIES LATE THURSDAY EVENING John Devlin, brother of Mrs Mlles Cantrail of Applegate, died at the latter's home last night about 7 o'clock, according to a re port to The Miner. Mr. Devlin had been in poor health for the past eight years, last two of which he spent at the Applegate ranch. Body was taken in charge by Perl funeral home. Medford. Mr. D< vlin also is survived by another sister, Mrs. Agnes E. Hines of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Plans, Estimates for Proposed Dam Number 51 f———------------------ — ——-------------------------- •GATE DROP TO SPEND NIGHT IN TEN NIGHTS IN A BAK ROOM' The sign-covered curtain at the Applegate hall, which has served the stage there for 12 or 1ft years, has received a new glorification in the request of the Medford American Legion to use the curtain tn their old- time “mellow drammer," Ten Nights in a Bar Room," to be presented tonight. Bedecked with advertisements of Medford and Grants Pass firms now out of existence, in some instances owing to the death of the proprietor, the old curtain presents an air of an tiquity. Nevertheless, the ads meant the financing of the cur tain at the time of its purchase by the Community league. JAIL SENTENCES METED BRITES FOR FISTIC HABIT Sale Intoxicants to Minors Being Watched Warns District Attorney A temporary organization, for John Law, through Justice of the purpose _ of furthering _ a pro- the Peace Ray Coleman, struck a posai to build a 100-foot dam on blow himself in the weekly fisti Applegate river at the Barr ranch, cuffs prevalent In Jacksonville was definitely formed Wednesday Tuesday when John and Coke night at Applegate community Brite, local brothers engaged in hall The new group will be known mining, received stiff jail sent ax the Applegate Valley Irrigation ences. and Improvement District. John Brite. who pled guilty to a During the meeting, which was disorderly conduct charge sworn widely attended, officers were to by Amy Dow last Saturday named ax follows: President, Mlles night, was handed a 60-day jail Cantrail; secretary, William Carl; sentence and was ordered to either board of directors, E. H. Taylor, pay a suspended fine of $50 or to George Herriott and C. R Hill. Ed "lay it out" for 25 days. His win Taylor explained to the meet brother. Coke Brite. was tried ing that next step In the formula Tuesday before Justice Coleman tion of plans would be for the after entering a not guilty plea to group to prepare preliminary esti By J. C. REYNOLDS the same charge. He was found to mates of cost of the dam, and to Once again has SCOPOLAMIN, have taken part in the disorder prepare a survey of virgin land the recently discovered, truth-com | and sentenced to serve five which would be developed by the pelling drug, demonstrated its ! days was in the county jail and to pay improvement. This information sterling qualities. or serve out a fine previously sus would be worked out and prepared For long, has our conscienctious pended of $50. in collaboration with C. C. Hock The trouble started last Sat ley, state engineer and Oregon rep little neighborhood resented the resentative for PWA, through assertions of an individual, hailing urday evening when the brothers which Applegate valley ranchers from Arkansaw, that mosquitos in allegedly cursed and misbehaved hope to finance an estimated $200.- that state were as large as our when refused beer by Mrs. Dow, crows. Many doubters have point later in the evening John Brite 000 cost for the project. Next meeting of the group wax edly inquired whether this was a admittedly striking a drummer in Mt for Thursday night, December i true lie or a damn lie, but as no the face, knocking out two teeth real proof was at hand, the gent which. Amy Dow told the court, 27, at the Murphy schoolhouse. from Arkansaw stuck to his story were being held as corpus deiecti at her cafe. They were placed un and got away with it. Then SCOPOLAMIN, the won der arrest by City Marshal James derful thruth-producing discovery Littell and turned over to state By FRED M. LAW of science, was discussed quietly police. Ike Coffman loved to hunt and among a few of us and a couple of The Brite brothers .although grains procured at considerable ex peaceable, hardworking boys dur shoot And knock the high jumps down, pense. These were at once turned ing their sober moments, had been So he took and built a place to over to our local bootlegger, who an almost weekly source of trouble without delay proceeded to insert for Marshal Littell and others. sleep them • into a bottle of the horse Their arrest Saturday night about Some ten feet from the ground. liniment he sells around here for 11 o’clock was the fourth in re And he whispered to his partner moonshine. cent months, one occasion result One mom at half past two This in due time fell into the ing in the loss of a pair of Lit- There is a cougar in the camp hands of the degenerate prevari- tell’s handcuffs when prisoner And I don't know what to do. cator from Arkansaw who was 30 John Brite headed for the tall heartlessly endeavoring to rob a timber with the links binding his It was that next dark evening grand and noble state of the glory hands behind him. That cougar called again; that should be hers—and transfer Ike whistled for his dog. The state of Oregon was repre it to his own. But he whistled all in vain. sented Assistant District At Under the influence of the SCO torney by George Nielson. A large For underneath his partner's bed POLAMIN the true facts came to crowd of interested spectators His dog had cuddled down light. In Arkansaw, mosquitos are mingled with nuts and bolts of the And. with all of Ike's a-calling, seldom seen larger than quails. hardware store, where court was He never made a sound. But in Missouri, where this truth held, and witnesses called included twister lived for a year or two, Mrs. Dow. Mack Brown, Wayne So in the morn at sunrise they attain to enormous size, many Combest. Elliott Rhoten, George Ike takes his gun in hand weighing fully a pound after hav Mellon. James Littell, James Can And says. when daylight _ _ shines ing been skinned. In Missouri trap trail, Henry Wilkerson, Floyd I will these hills aommand. are compelled by law to pre Pence and Albert Johnson. So Ike takes faithful dog and gun pers sent the pelt and both forefeet in And strode the hills all 'round; Attorney Nielson brought out, to obtain the bounty paid by He is searching for that varmint order during the trial, that there has the state. That screams that horrid sound. After another drink of the SCOP been sale of intoxicants to minors Ike broke his way through buck had been administered, further in recently, and that his office in formation was secured. Shame tends to prosecute vigorously any brush facedly the man from Arkansaw violations of the Knox law. He also And hiked the hills all day And says I'll get that cougar admitted that it was in Missouri stated that Earl Johnson, named where he had rescued a baby from defendant in an assault and bat Because I know the way. three mosquitos who were drag tery charge sworn to by Ike Coff So he started hard to running, ging it toward a swamp. He also man, would be brought to trial The cat picked up his trail detailed how the natives of that within the next few days. Johnson And gave a scream at Ike and dog tornado-infested region often dived had been given liberty with the Oh! that terrifying wail. for the safety of their storm cel understanding his father, a Med So Ike came running to the camp, lars at the approach of a black, ford man. would be responsible for Says I got that cat, indeed. swiftly whirling cloud, only to dis his son's appearance. Johnson was Ike brought that cougar home that cover later it was nothing but mos ordered to appear more than a day. quitos in such numbers as to dark week ago for trial and failed to do so and Nielson said the sheriff’s But Ike was in the lead. en the sun. Never, he stated, during mos office was then given a warrant quito season in Missouri, could and instructions to bring Johnson anyone obtain a night's rest un in. The defendant, accused of as less the bed was tightly inclosed saulting Floor Manager Coffman at a local dance, is a truck driver in heavy chicken-wire. Due to the with out of town run. Three effects of this wonder-working other an of the same inci drug, many other important facts dent. defendants listed as John Does, have were disclosed which cannot be de warrants awaiting their identifi tailed here on account of space, but it has been definitely estab cation in hands of deputy sheriffs. ------------•------------ lished at last that Missouri, and not Arkansaw, is entitled to the honor of being the hunting ground Mary Wendt, Pioneer, of the most gigantic and blood thirsty mosquitos in America—if Passes on Wednesday not in the entire world. Mary Wendt passed away at the Further experiments will shortly be made with this wonderful drug home of her daughter. Mrs. J. H. and the results carefully noted. Issott. at 25 Windson avenue in SCOPOLAMIN is without doubt Medford Wednesday evening, fol the most marvelous discovery of lowing two months illness Mrs. Wendt was bom in Germanv June the age. 13, 1855. She spent her girlhood in Germany and .at the age of 17, the year 1872, she with several Wrestling Matches to in other young friends came to the United States, taking up her resi Be Resumed January dence near Clatonia. Nebraska, and Because of the great number of In 1873 she was united in marriage social functions during the holi to Henry Wendt. days. Promoter Mack Lillard said They lived in Clatonia until 1884, this week he would not bring his at which time they came west to wrestling talent to the Medford Santa Cruz. Calif., living there for armory for a few days, but would four years, and in 1888 came to resume his regular weekly sched Jacksonville, living here until seven ule about the first of January, years ago, at which time she one week from next Thursday. went to Medford to be with her ----------- •------------ daughter. Her husband. Henry They call the 1920 to 1930 period Wendt, passed away in 1916. the “Mad Decade." As yet we There were nine children bom to haven't seen anyone in the 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Wendt, six of whom to 1940 period who is any too well are living, three daughters, and pleased.—Weston Leader. three sons. Mrs. Frank Obenchain ----------- •------------ of Bly, Oregon: Mrs. J. H. Issott When a man's trousers get full of Medford: Mrs Arthur Chase of at the knees, it’s a sure sign he's Wenatchee. Wash.: Henry Wendt holding the bag.—Weston Leader. of New Pine Creek. Ore.; George W. Wendt, of Jacksonville, and A $243,000 gas plant at Marsh Chester Wendt of Medford, also 18 field. Oregon, was sold the other grandchildren and six great-grand day for ten bucks. Looks as though children. congress ought to come cheaper.— Funeral services will be con Weston Leader. ducted from the Perl funeral home Saturday, December 22 at 2 p.m., The difficulty in negotiating[ with Rev. S H. Jones officiating. with Japan is to determine what Interment will take place In the she wants from what she says.— family plot in the Jacksonville Weston Leader. cemetery. MAGICAL DRUG BRINGS TRUTH Ike Coffman By C. M. Payne ----- •-----