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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1935)
Pagai GUILES OF DEER CAUSE ‘TRAGEDY1 IN IDAHO WOODS By J. C. REYNOLDS After working behind a drilling machine in a mine in eastern Ore gon for nearly eight months. I be gan to cough and, fearing I had contracted miner’s consumption, went to Baker and took the lung teat. My lungs were pronounced all right, but I was advised to get away from machines for awhile, as I had been inhaling too much ar senic dust. So I took a prospecting trip to Idaho that summer, 1910, and was all o-k again in a couple of months. Whenever I had a chance to go somewhere I always thought of Idaho first, for be it known that Idaho’s placers, though shallow, were far richer while they lasted than anything California has ever produced. And whenever I went over there I was pretty sure to pick up a few hundred dollars the old miners had overlooked. I went up on a little stream that empties into the Salmon river (never mind the name of it), which little stream had contributed 60.- 000,000 in gold in the old days. And it was only one of many such streams. I had a hunting and fishing li cense as per usual, but it was closed season on most of the wild game and I had no intention of violating the game laws. There were rabbits and squirrels and if a man got too hungry’ for fresh meat, there were fool hens which could be knocked over with a club. Oodles of deer, too, but I had made up my mind to let the deer strict ly alone. But the bears were num erous and bad that year. Several sheep herds had to be moved away from that district on account of their depredations and the herders swore that even the black bears were on the prod and ready to put up a scrap if disturbed, something never heard of before. So I thought it was good policy to carry my rifle along on pros pecting trips. All my life I have carried a rifle on a strap slung over my shoulder, which leaves both hands free and I have sur prised a lot of people here in the west with the celerity with which I can slip it off my shoulder and into action when necessary. And as to the sights, I never use them ex cept for very long shots. I have often been criticized for my meth od of hunting, but what difference does the method amount to just so one brings home the meat. And I always got my share of that, gen erally more. One morning after I had been in the hills a couple of months I started out for a trip into the higher mountains. About a quar ter of a mile from camp I ran onto a yearling doe, 50 feet or so I from the trail. She raised up her I head and looked at me. So I stop- ' ped and began to talk to her. "Look here, young lady,” I said, I "Don’t you know you are doing a very foolish thing to be feeding so ctose to the trail ? Why don’t you run when you see a man com ing with a gun ? What kind of a mama did you have to not teach you better than that?" She just stood and listened for probably five minutes while I talked, then moved slowly across the trail and vanished into a ra vine which ran parallel. During this time I had not even touched my rifle. I had gone maybe a quarter of a | mile farther when she came up out of the ravine, stopped and stood looking at me as before. I sat down on a fallen tree beside the trail and gave her quite a lecture. "I have seen quite a few nitwits,” I told her, "but you seem to be the bead crackpot of the whole bunch. Why don’t you behave yourself and run away somewhere and play? It’s a good thing for you I am not feeling bloodthirsty today or you would be on the way to my frying pan right now.” She listened soberly for a few minutes, then trotted off in the di rection I was going and disap peared for the second time and I was glad of it as she had begun to get on my nerves a trifle. 1 had gone on some distance when I saw her again. She had made a revolution through the woods and now stood squarely fac ing me in the trail a hundred yards away Again I stopped and this time I bawled her out proper. "You darned little fool,” I exploded, “are you trying to flirt with me? Do you think because of your sex you can get away with all this rough stuff? Not one man in a hundred would take what I have taken from you this morning. Just to show you how close you have been to cashing in your chips in the last half hour, I will take this rifle off my shoulder and point it at you. I am in no hurry and you have plenty of time to beat it. Now very slowly I will take a bead Just between your eyes and a little above. "Does that spell anything to you? It don’t? Well, I will pull back the hammer to show you what a dangerous spot you are in What, are you still there? Well, I will give you a good break. I will county twenty slowly and while I am doing that you had better scram. So I counted twenty and some way my finger took a sud den cramp from holding the rifle so long in a strained position and touched the hair trigger and the doe fell with a bullet in her brain.” Which only goes to show how it is possible for even a well-inten tioned man to finally succumb to the wiles of the female sex. Friday, July 5, 1935 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER I ASHLAND WE SELL FOR LESS” Fruits, Vegetables While Stock Lasts 23c each GOLDEN WEST POTATOES, fancy Dakers, 7 lbs 25c LETTUCE, solid heads, each se LEMONS 2 dozen 35c ORANGES, Sunkist 252s, dozen 19c COFFEE MEAT MARKET Glass Jars 29c per pound SHORTENING, 4-lb. pkg. 45c Swift’s—Packed in Sanitary Cartons J CRACKERS Salted or Plain I VEAL ROAST, pound, 12 ic I Best Milk fed Veal 4 3-pound boxes 37 c POTATO SALAD, pound 15e J Limit Two 10 pounds for 49e Death came as a shock to family of Ernest Arthur Purves; well-known resident of Ashland for many years, on Tuesday, July 2, at Jacksonville. He was bom on March 8, 1870, near Ashland on Jenny creek and had lived in or near Aahland all bls life. He is survived by his wife, Car rie E., four daughter. Wanda and Geraldine of Aahland, Mrs. Grace Suich of Anacortes, Wash., and Mrs. Mariea Hanna of Loo An geles. Three sisters, Nell Purves of North Dakota, Mrs. Gertrude Twogood of Idaho, who waa here for some time before hia death. Mrs. Maude Murphy, Suaanville, Calif., and one brother, Roy^^ Purves of Berkeley, Calif. mother, Mrs Arminia Pui^^W Aahland. also survives. Services will be held at the Stock-Utwlllcr chapel on Friday at 2 p m., with Reverend Dunham officiating. Interment will be at Talent. HAROLD WILLIAM BOSTWICK The death of Harold William Bostwick, resident of Valley View for a number of years, came as a surprise to friends and relatlvea July 1. at 3:30 in the morning. Harold Bostwick was bom on May 15, 1901, in Jacksonville, where he met Ketura Garle, who. on October 28. 1930, became hia wife He is survived by hia wife Ke tura. hia father, W. T. Bostwick, Everett and Earl Bostwick, a bi other, Henry Bostwick of Med fold, a sister, Josephine Brown. Funetal services were conducted from the Stock-Litwiller chapel on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Sydney Hall officiating. In terment was at the Mountain View cemetery. -------- » Made Fresh Daily SUGAR Mrs. Florence Campbell died at the Community hospital Tuesday following the effecta of a recent operation. She was 50 years of age. Mrs. Campbell is survived by her husband, E. D. Campbell of Route 1, one son. Sam Shunk, of Ceiling, Oklahoma. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Stock-Litwiller chapel Friday at 11 am., with in terment In the Mountain View cemetery. ERNEST ARTHUR I*URV«^^k Specials for Saturday and Monday BROOMS BACON, half, whole, lb. 32 ic Cudahy Rex I VEAL STEAK, per pound 15c BAKERY PRODUCTS VEAL STEW, per pound - 7 c from Our Own Ovens | SANDWICH SPREAD pint 17c | BACON SQUARES, lb. 22 1 c DB. MARCUS WOODS TO OPEN DENTAL OFFICE IN ASHLAND Dr. Marcus B. Woods, recent graduate of the Pacific Dental col lege, Portland, will open a new dental office in the Swedenberg building the latter part of thia month. 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