STAGE HOLDUP
BRINGS DEATH
Reynolds, at Murder Scvne,
Pens Tribute to Fallen
Stage-Driver Hero
Friday, January 18, 1935
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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est on said judgment from the date Oregon, at the hour of 10 o'clock,
of the decree herein, which judg a.m.. on Friday, February 1, 1935,
ment was enrolled and docketed in said date being more than four
the clerk’s office of said court in weeks after January 4, 1935, the
said county on the 12th day of date of the first publication of this
January, 1935,
Mid i llation, and then and there
Notice Is hereby goven that, pur show cause. If any there be. whv
suant to the terms of the said Louis I’ulil. the duly appointed,
execution. 1 will on the 23rd day qualified and acting administrator
Among my most prized keep of February, 1935, at 10:00 o’clock, of the above entitled estate, should
sakes, which I look at occasionally am.. at the front door of the court not be authorised, licensed, em
with a lot of satisfaction, is a house in the city of Medford, in powered and ordered to sell all of
telegraphic dispatch from Klka, Jackson county, Oregon, offer for the il;;ht. title, estate, lien and in
Nevada, to a Twin Falls pajier. sale and will sell at public auction terest that he as such adminis
reading as follows : Elko. Nev., for cash to the highest bidder, to trator, or said estate may have or
Octolier 8- To The Times. Twin satisfy said judgment, together claim to have In and to the follow
Falls, Idaho. "Guilty murder first with the coats of this sale, subject ing described premises lying and
degree." verdict of jury in Kuhl to redemption as provided by law, being Hituute In Jackson County.
case. Jarbidge murder. Sunday all of the right, title and interest Oregon, to-wit:
morning Penalty death, either that the defendants herein, George
l-ot 7 of Block 2 of Palm Ad-
shooting or hanging Beck, second Schumacher and Marie Schumach
er. husband and wife; Howard
dttion. City of Medford, Ora*
murder suspect, on trial today.
gon.
Hill; L. A. Banks: W B. Bar
Elko Free Press.
num; O. B. Morrow; L. D Harris;
C. H. Taylor; W H Norcross; Ikin
Lot 7 of Block 29 in the Town
JIM GETS TOLD PLENTY!
of Jacksonville, Oregon, less
Newbury; George B. Carpenter;
1 Say, Jim. was you at the Marble J R. F.
those* certain premise's de
Wortman, trustee of the es
Comer last Sunday night? No? tate of
L. A Banks and Edith
scribed in deed recorded In
Boy. you missed plenty. That Sally Banks. bankrupts;
Volume* 189 of the* Deed Rec
also all other
really knows how to put on a show persons or parties unknown
ords
of Jackson County. Ore
claim
they had it in honor of that kid ing any right. title, estate, lien or
gon.
at page 284 thereof, to-
PegK.v McNeill’s birthday
Man.
wit: Beginning at the South
I’m telling you they was so many interest in or to the real estate
west comer of said Ix»t 7 on
folks there I got my feet tangled described herein, had on the 18th
First Street, thence East 100
up in the crowd They was miners, day of June, 1930, or now have in
feet: thence North 59 feet,
to the following described
aviators.
schoolmama.
society and
thence West 100 fe»et; thence
property, situated in the county
dames, old and young, lean anil of
South 61feet to the pluce of
Jackson, state of Oregon, to-
fat. Boy, what a night!
wit:
beginning.
The aviators had such a dum
good time, they flew back the next
at private sale for cash, or one-
Lots 4 and 5. block 1. First
half cash ami the balance in ne
day and circled right low over
Extension of South Sea Addi
gotiable security, as prayed for In
Jacksonville to see if they was
tion to the city of Medford,
the petition for sale on file herein,
more of that there party. Yes. sir,
Oregon.
specifically referred to hereby and
that’s the way it is, they alius
want to come back to Marble
Dated this 14th day of January, by this reference made a part
hereof.
Comer for more.
1935.
Witness the hand and seal of the
And say. Jim. did you know that
SYD I. BROWN,
our leadin' official is a natural on Sheriff of Jackson county. Oregon County Court of Jackson County.
pickin' presents for the ladies?
By HOWARD GAULT.
Tm bad about our ex-official's
Deputy
I
havin’ to check in so early now. (Jan 18 25 Feb 1 8)
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Sort of spoils the party not to have
him here until the last dawg is In the County Court of the State
hung.
of Oregon for the County
Jim. didja know what I heard
of Jackson
the other day listenin’ around cor- IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
n«rs? That they’re gonna change
TATE OF ELIZABETH COUL
Fri-Sat
Marble Comer into something
TER, DECEASED
prety excitln! In just a week’s
CITATION
NANCY CARMXl
time, the hull dum place will be
To
Gretchen
Schneider, Fred C.
changed so you’ll never recognize Puhi and Kenneth
Puhi, the heirs
it Better prospect around and find at law and next of kin
of the above
it -she’s a dandy!
named decedent:
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You, and each of you, are hereby
Prevue Saturday Night
DEPRESSION
summoned, cited, ordered and re
quired to appear in this said court
By MISS B. F. H.
and cause in the County Court
Sun-Mon
room at Medford, Jackson County,
Nothing to eat. nothing to wear.
All the cupboards stark and bare:
Plenty to love us. plenty to care.
But hell! that don’t get you any
where!
IlVfl ■
Children 10c
Plenty of grub in all the shops
Saturday Only
Waiting for money we ain’t got:
Plenty of clothes, pretty and neat.
KEN MAYNARD In
But flour sack pants cover our
seat.
By J. C. REYNOLDS
When the big gold stampede .it
Jarbidge came off a couple of
years or so before the great war.
I did not go at once, for the rea
son that I was tied up to a job
in the Blue mountains in eastern
Oregon, running a tunnel to devel
op an ore body of gold quart*.
Everything was looking favor
able ami a freight team had been
engaged by the owners of the
property to haul in our winter’s
supplies. including
_ wood and min-
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ing timbers when. a whole month
ahead of time, it started to snow continued on towards town There
and gave us four feet of the was a little snow falling and it was
stickiest, heaviest white mucilage turning dusk. There was only one
imaginable And a strong wind house to be passed and that was
whirled this into drifts 10 feet set back from the road a piece. A
deep in places That put a capper woman looked out of the window
on that job and if I had not split and saw the stage pass on time,
up some old boards and put in a with two men in the front seat,
couple of days dressing them down one of whom was driving and at
into skiis, I hardly believe the four the same time supporting the other
of us could have got out of there. one, who seemed to her to be
As it was. we put in 12 hours either drunk or sick, but thought
of as hard work as ever men did nothing of it till questioned some
in traversing seven miles, to where hours later.
Just before reaching Jarbidge.
the snow was only two feet deep
and could be waded. It is such the road forked, one going right
trips as that which make a man up through town, the other turning
old before his time.
into a river bottom where no one
Then I decided the sign was lived and where all was quiet and
right to hit the trail for Jarbidge. dark. Leaving the outfit there.
After getting as far as Twin Falls, Kuhl possessed himself of the pay
Idaho, where I had friends. I heard roll and slipped into town where
so much about this new mining he mingled unnoticed with the
camp from them and from dozens crowds of miners on the street and
of other reliable mining men that around the rooming houses.
I never did go there. Jarbidge lies
In a couple of hours those who
on the Nevada side of the line but had been waiting for the payroll
all supplies at that time were to show up became alarmed and
freighted in from Twin Falls.
started out to hunt up the stage.
A cattleman riding up the trail Finding out from the woman up
on the Nevada side picked up a the road that the stage had gone
bunch of quartz float that assayed by, they took the back track and
$200,000 to the ton. I have seen a soon located the bloody mess down
chunk of that quartz and it was in the river bottom. Then there
enough to set a man crazy, being was hell to pay.
An intensive search was begun
nearly half pure gold. Incidentally,
no more of that has ever been right there and though it was quite
found, though those old hills have a while before these three mur
been nearly torn up by the roots derers were apprehended, they fin
in hunting for it. However, several ally were run down and had to pay
tremendous bodies of low-grade a bitter price for that day’s work.
I went to the morgue where
gold ore were discovered and a
number of paying mines began to Fred’s cold, stiff body was laid
operate within a short time, and out and looked at him for a long
quite a sizeable town was estab time. He appeared to be asleep,
lished on the Jarbidge river in a instead of dead. On his lips was
rather narrow canyon, surrounded the same half-smile he always
by steep mountains covered by wore. The dirty murderers had not
pine and fir trees. Jarbidge is an been able to erase that
Then I went home and wrote Plenty of gold in the ground
Indian name meaning "dirty
the following tribute of respect, Waiting
water .JL.
for nothing but to be
After leaving the edge of the that was printed in the morning
found
paper
the
following
day:
mountains in which Jarbidge is
Lots of silver in all the banks.
situated, the rest of the 70 miles
But our checks are just blanks
TO EKED M. SEARCY
or so to Twin Falls consists of
bleak, barren, rolling hills and
Some have money, some have none
THE LAST TRIP
when I first came west this was
And thè rich guys have all thè fun,
part of what was known as the
a© - I’m telling you. -
if - I - had my
Great American desert, though in The Stage speeds down, towards
way,
later years, under the vast irri
Jarbidge town
l’d spread out the dough and de
gation projects introduced along And the
’s heart is light;
.... Driver
_
mand fair play.
the Snake river, a great part of In the iron rack. Is the money-sack
this desert was transformed into With the mail, secure and tight;
Automobiles have never reached
a veritable wonderland where any And-he feels content, and confident
thing that would grow could be That he’ll land it in town by night. the once-predicted point of sat
uration. It is known, however, to
raised in profusion. And at the
time I speak of, the whole of that The road is rough and the going the pedestrian in a mud puddle.—
Weston Leader.
country was one of the most pros
tough,
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perous places I have ever lived in. Through hills that are bleak and
At the time I reached Twin
bare;
Falls the country around Jarbidge But he feels like one with work
LEGAL NOTICES
was all snowed up and could not
well done
be prospected. And by the time the And is glad he will soon be there; NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE
snow was gone in the spring, I And he gives no heed, as he gath
By virtue of an execution in
was making so much money where
ers speed,
foreclosure duly issued out of and
I was that I didn't want to go.
To the treacherous, waiting snare under the sea lof the circuit court
It was that winter I became ac
of the state of Oregon, in and for
quainted with Fred Searcy, as fine Foul Murder’s head looms grim the county of Jackson, to me di
a lad as ever walked on two feet.
and red,
rected and dated on the 12th day
A nice, clean, genial dispositioned And close behind stands Greed:
of January. 1935. in a certain suit
fellow, with no bad habits and not The crack of a gun and the deed therein, wherein J. H. Butler as
only a willing worker, but the
is done—
plaintiff recovered a judgment
major part of all his earnings A soul from a body freed;
against the defendants, George
were regularly sent to his wid And thieves with ease, the booty Schumacher and Marie Schumach
owed mother back east, Ohio, I
sieze
er, husband and wife, for the sum
think.
And scurry away with speed.
of $2500.00. plus interest at the
Fred took a great liking to our
rate of 7% per annum from the
bunch between trips to Jarbidge, And the murdered boy. the pride 17th day of December, 1932, plus
spent most of his time with us I
and joy
$200.00 attorney’s fees, plus costs
should have stated that he drove Of his mother, as all men know,
and disbursements taxed herein in
the stage and was well liked by his Lies cold and stiff, neath a beet the amount of $47.80, plus inter-
employers for his cleverness with
ling cliff
horses and for faithfulness to his While his life blood stains
duties. I don’t think Fred had an
snow;
enemy in the world, but for weeks And the night-wind stirs, in
in one of the pool halls of Twin
pines and firs,
Falls three shiftless, no-good And sobs at the sight below.
would-be toughs had been plotting
to grab the Jarbidge mines pay The hills look down and darkly
roll, which went over there on a
frown
certain day each month on Fred’s On that piteous, gruesome sight;
stage and, knowing from a couple For they feel the breath of the
of incidents which had occurred
Angel of Death
previously that Fred would put up And they hear her footsteps light,
a desperate resistance, it was de As she comes to him in the twi
cided that he would have to be
light dim
bumped off.
And bears him into the night.
One of the bunch, named Kuhl,
was eelcted to do the dirty work, Farewell, old Pal, so genial,
while the others would establish
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an alibi for him and help in other
ways.
I must explain that most of the
road being bare, during the winter
months when the snow was en
countered a few miles from Jar
bidge, the stage load had to be
transferred to a sleigh for the re
419'/. EAST MAIN
mainder of the trip. So finally it
Clothes cleaned by the Pan-
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came payday and the Jarbidge
torium retain the quality of
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payroll was made up and given
new clothes, for the im
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into Fred’s hands as usual. I little
proved methods cannot In
thought that would be the last Permanent Wave ............... $2.00
jure even the most delicate
time I would ever see Fred alive, Finger Wave ......................... 25c
fabrics. There’s real econ
omy in dressing well when
but it was.
He made it safely and on time Comb Wave ........................... 25c
quality cleaning can be had
to within less than two miles of Shampoo ................................. 25c
so reasonably at Medford’s
his destination and was slipping Haircut ................................... 25c
finest—the PANTORIUM.
along merrily when suddenly Kuhl, Marcel ..................................... 25c
who had been hiding along the
road, jumped on
footboard and Manicure ................................. 25c
shot Fred in the back of the head. Eyebrow Arch ..................... 25c
Climbing quickly into the seat, he Scalp Treatment ............... 50c
Dye Works
grabbed the reins, at the same Hot Oil..................................... 50c
time throwing one arm around the Facails ..................
50c
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slumping form to steady it, and V - - -
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Oregon, thia 3rd <l*v of January,
So faithful, tried and true;
We hope and pray, when comes
the day
On which we are summoned too
At our post we’ll be, found stead
fastly,
As staunch to our trust as you.
J C. REYNOLDS
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