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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1915)
flfir $& .. ' t i t ,-f fhv . ' r?A0R 8TX OTPFORT) MATT TRTBTTNE. MNDFORR ORKGOtf, TrWKPAY, VHDRUARY 2,1, 1015 : to? Pi ? PIONEER BANKER OF SOUTHERN OREGON JACKSONVILLE'S FIRST CITIZEN PASSER TO A WEI L-EARNED RE ST AFTER HISTORIC CAREER DEAD AI AGE OF 87 Hlstwta Career of C. C. Bcckmnn Is Ended Millions of Gold Passed Through His Hands in Early Days When He Acted as Express Ap,ent Elected Governor, But Counted Out In 1876. C. C. Hcckmnn. uionccr financier. nijtl one or the most htrikiiitf figures! in the early htitory of southern Ore KQn, died nt his family residence in Jacksonville, Mondny night, Kcb ninry 22, 1015, nj;c 87 yenrs nnd 120 ilhyfl, of lumorrhaRc of the bowels. Ilia wife, his son Iknjnntin of Port land, nnj daughter Miss Clnrn, nnd the nttending physiciiin, Dr. Robin jon, were nt hi bedside. Tho,funernl (crxicPH will be Vld in Jacksonville, Tluuxlfty afternoon nt 2 o'clock. In the lousing of this gentle elinr nejtcr, that linked the old With the new, Jackfton county loses one of it most Htorlinjf nnd beloved citizens. His acquaintances numbered most of Ihe old pollers of the state. He was iho best informed man in Oregon upon liMoricnl data connected with the early development of Ibis state, nnd played a lending rolo in the growth of JaoLson county. For 03 years be occupied the hatuo office in the same budding1 in Jacksonville. Two years ago he closed tho Heekman bank, after it had been in operation Mnce 3852, when rith Thoma9 0. Ileanies, he established iL Counted Out for Governor In 1870 Mr. Deckman ran for gov ernor of Oregon. He was beaten by 70 o cs. His friends, to this day charge that ho was counted out bv foes of southern Oregon. He gave liberally to educational work, ami founded the Heekman fund nt the Unix entity of Oregon. Its purpose is to aid struggling students, nnd was n reward fur htudioiiKUcss nnd thrift nnd industry. He was n member of the Jacksonville Presbjtcrian church. Fur years he hns been n regular nt lendnnt nt its sen ices every Sun day evening. He was n member of the Jacksonville lodge uf Masons. Eery Thursday night for yenrs he has attended its sesions. One of tho striking trails of his life was his punctuality in his daily routine. Mr. Ilcektnnn celebrated his- 33d wedding anniversary January 29. His wife survives. Mr. Heekman was born in N.cw York City Jan. 27, 3828, where a brother still resides. In carlv life his par ents moved to New Jersey. Heek man lcunicd the carpenter trade. Otmo West in MO Wben twenty-ono years old, gold wub discovered in California. Fired with ndventure, young Heekman mado his way to San Francisco ia Panama nnd reached San Fran cisco. He mado his to the northern jkrt of California, working ut his RwSaKI iW Hter-V vSl'--'' WkS1-; 'HHBpPF aaBBaBaaMtawaaaal BfOaaHfc 1 ? ,--Tt -BB9BRS-rTkLii ,;1lwLJB5fc. aaBBBafaaaVv .-BaaaUamlBr KltfHiil'BI'rSldlSyHrABtokBillH idBBHHBuaprM IIP-JP I ' byct . Msv- ;Wwitr?i Ivl''I lA'aaaW'-aBBBBBBBBBv JiEaaBBBBBBHaBnaMRBBBiBUISBWE fli lb! I if ;u ml l!lliMdIa?4ffiJF ir t ivMtflRniB6lrQI W Tiff" HagJiiPr ffll I II v Hili !?''lstiHBBayiS& il . nn.ffl 5 ti-iWTL-.iWMi-ggam mttasmt i a anJBftSKniA.?nfmc "' ih:'tmimKRmm immmmm raTBWOK. OF BE'&K.'M'A.'N BATSIK trade at $18 a day, and mining nein Saw.xcrs Har, Yrcka, and Scott V IJnr. Alter a year as muter, lie ac cepted n portion with the Cram. Rog ers company, who detailed hint to Jacksonville as their representative. This marks his entrance into the city where he speut 04 jenrs of his wurthv life. The Cram Rogers company failed to weather business storms, mid yielded to the Wells, Fargo Express coui)auy, who established an overland stage station nt Jacksonville, naming young1 Heekman their ngent. In thin capacity he came in contact with all identified with Jackson county when I Jacksonville was one of the great,' gold camps uf the world. Of those! times nnd the men and women of it h was a spring of ' information, nnd i never tired of telling, in his quiet way, of pioneer happenings. Famous as a Hanker For half n century he conducted a banking- business in Jacksonville, nud the rugged honesty of its management made it famous throughout the west. Mr. Heekman was its president, ensh ier and board of director. It was never under the slightest cloud. X financial storm ever shook it. Two jenrs ago, duo to advancing j ears, he closed it, preserving time-wont rel ies, furniture and equipment. At the time of his death be maintained of fices in the building. Thousands of dollars m gold ilu-t have passed through his hands. Two hard and never-broken rules of hi-, bank was that no receipts were given for depos its nnd no one but the original depos itor could receive them. The following extract from a pen sketch by Fred Locksley appeared u few yenrs ago in the Mail Tribune nnd is a fuithful picture of Mr. Heekman. A Ten i'Uturo "As my eye flitted from sigulu sign ls"ii VaR z r When llioy ttt'fd mlvMlivy vhop in and ask for fJO or "ill and say, "Set that down against inV account." Ills Ituulilng S) stent " 'I don't speculate or live t minus ly and my customois know thai their uioiioy is always Item for them. In lHTIt nnd again in IHICI, us well us In 1D07, some of the banks telt pretty uneasy, They didn't have the mone.v In their vaults to pav their obliga tions and if (lovetuor Chatuheihtiit liadu'l estlddished hank holidays theto would have been a lot of banks uo out of business and even with that they had to issue cettificates of de posit and the bankers lost a lot of sleep as well irs-their custoiaeis. I didn't, nor tlid nnv of, my customers. An.vbody who hinjAvHy inoiy hero could eomo and get it, Init none of them did. One of two of;iuv old'time eiLstfsueis nsked me if was idnghl and If I needed any money. 1 told them I could pav everybody and have considerable money left, so the only wav we knew thete wasjt panic hero was by reading itbotit it in the paper. "Yes, nin getting nlnng in vears. I nut 81 j ears old. I was agent for the Wells I'nrgo coinpanv for foity three venrs continuously. was np pointed in IHi;:i. When I was 21 ear old thev discovered gold in Cal ttornia. Xet year I landed in .San rraueiseo. The dnv after I lauded I seemed a job at 518 a day at carpen ter work. In 1H.V2 1 came to Jackson ville piui i nave ueeu Hero ever since. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES E . PARRY NAMEOr ASJEPOBflCAN eye clear nud kiudl, he asl.cd, 'ly d jou wish to seu-met' "I nodded nsscnt and said, 'I thought I would drop in and sec when the stage for California ., due to leave.' Hooking for Stago "He took off his tortoisc-rimmed hse, looked at mo earnestly and jiiid: 'If you want to stop back through the cars you have come to the right place. This is the booking office for Mich it trip. Time has j;one on, but we have let it go. We Jiavo not tried to keep step with it here in I saw someone step from behind the Jacksonville.' massive glnss case containing' the "'Your bank nnd .v our batik fund gold scales. It was as though a pie-, tore, Mr. Heekman, certainly take one tore entitled 'A gentleman of the old back to the old days,' I said, as 1 school,' painted by one of tho old pointed to the gold scales mid tallow masters, had stepped down from out ' candle m its metal candlestick und of its frame. Soberly clad in black' 'he worn counter. BEE.KKA'N with immaculate linen, figure erect, ''Yes, I prcutuo that ou would hair nud beard of stlverj :ra,v, wit'i hardly call the bank or its furniture WASHINGTON', Feb. 23. Pn'si deut Wilson met rumblings of a sen ate fight on his nominations fur the new federal trade commission today by the announcement that he intended to stand by them. Will H. Parry of Seattle, the piesi deut said, had been npivoiutcd ns a republican. Parry hitherto has been desenbed ns a progressive rrpub lien u. It ts lo bo hoped that those who have not coiitiibuted lotvutd tho wotk of this society wilsee II to he both their duty and pleasuie to send In their coiitnbillious at once, us tho so ciely is in debt nud bills must he paid attonci". The. wotk was taken up last full lit ,lhc tcqiiest of a public meet ing and I was asked to take charge of the same, and this I have done gladly and have devoted niniiv hours rivch day in taking cute of the poor, who othciwise would have been de pendent upon the eit.v. I have done this woik without pay and have sign cd' hills for gtocciiiis, etc., and these hills must be honored ut once. It has cost nothing for tent, light, phone, nor for the wmk which the society has done, nud it has done a splendid wink. It is the intention of the so ciety to close its work at the end of this tiiouth, us conditions me favor able to doing this, Many men have ohtumed woik tliiotu'li tho effotts of the society and neatly a hundred families lutvc been Iic'mciI and getter oiislv cared for. This is the last ap peal I shall make on behalf of a work which should be liberally supported by nil. DR. J. UW.tl.NVI. llll.li. ; : How To Get Rid at a I : ; Had Cough I :: 1 ' A Ilomf-Mnilr Jtrmr.lr hnt XVIII T ! , llu l( Uulekl), fhrap nml 1 Umilly MhiIk If you have it bud coiifth or clieitt told wlilcli ii'funtM lu jli'lil lo orillimry rcme (I lei, net from any tlinuulnt -i4 ournert of Pluex (AU renin wottlil. pour Into it, plat tKittle and nil the t.ottlo with plulu Kiiinnlitti'il Miigitr syrup. Hliut tnklnir a IcuHpooiifiil vtrry hour ot two. lu 2i hoiim jour eotigli will Ihi eoimiiereil or very marly no, tin a wlmoping cough Ik gii'ittly telloved In tliU wuy. i m iiimvo mixture nuisii n inn nine a fumlly mipplv of the llnciit couglt HtniP iiiiii iiuuiny ioiiiii buy ifnivtbjj JO modern. That henoh beside you I made in 18.VJ (JO 3 ears ago. It is ducked and whittled .and wont. Thou sands of passengers hau sat there ( wliilo waiting Tor tlic stage to leave. If that old bench could tell all it tins heard and witnessed it could tell some pretty interesting things. Fiequently strangers bustle in here, glance at the old registers of p.isxcnjjers nr the old Wells Fnrgo n'cunW, sec the old sigtth nud the wont furniture and think they have gotten in. the wrong place nud that this is uot1u bank, but thev nre new coiners i-tranyers. Whnt they think doesn t inntler. I neither solicit nor desire thotr custom. Many of my customers hitvo been o;i m books for more thuikJTiftv vcar, and yet if they were asked to thev could not fill out a check. They come hero J and hand me their nioucv to keep. K?1 "MESS r-sV7 ' vx iKs AIM A Hint fer Coming Maternity Tn n. llltlfl Xfook rtMlitnfil for rxpocUnt mothers more coraplrto InMructloa U Klvrn In thn un at Xlothtr'd Krien! ' ThU l nit extcrnnl cmbroratlon nppllsl to III ntxlomliul muaclc) for tho pur Xoo of rolucliic thn train on lltfn mrnti. conli anl tendon". It tv, to a$a the mini). Indirectly tiM a moit bcnrdcUl elts:t upon th nrrvoua syitem and thnunN of wnmn have ilclljthtctlly toM how thy wer tre of nauKra, lutil no mornliiir lckno nrxl went tliroimh Iho orttral with moit re mnrkablo micccnn. "Afother'n Krlend" Iwii txsn growing In popular favor for mom than forty yrara. In nlmoat nvcry com munity nro Rrnndmothrrn who unml It thfmsclvrn, their dauKhtrrn hava uwil It nnd they ccrtnlnly rriuat know whnt n, Mtialnir It In when tliy rcommend It 0 warmly. It I utrd vrry successfully to prevent raklne of brrast. "Mothrr'a Krlrnd" has been preparrd In the Uhoratory of Ilradneld ItrKulator Co, 301 I-nmar Hide.. Atlanta, Ga., for aiorn than two fenerations and can to had ol almost any drucRlst from coast to coast. Write to-day for tho llttlo Look. America's Greatest Cigarette sFzm PSwII UKAl'TIIVI. i:yils Illlnklng, RqulntlnK. ttclilng e)e nro never lHnuttful. Why iirwIerKo pnlu nml mortifica tion when relief In at hand? My npeclally ground leimcn will roRiilnto tho slKht, nnd nmtoro to )our eyes tholr urlRtual beauty, See DR. RICKERT hi: knowk how Kultc 11! Over Detiel'H -ut 11 rust of itiily at (ciiIk. Iwtstly iiri'imriii lu a iiilnuteN. lull ilirivtlmiN with I'lurx. this IMiinx ami Nuuitr rvnii iirepu rntlon tnkes right hold of a cuuuh and gives nliuiMl iiuiiicdlittu relief. It Iinis ens the iliy, lumrse or lllit cough lu n. way tlmt 1 iciilly rriiiiirknlilo. Also lUlk'klv Ileitis till! IiiIIuiiiihI liKiiilirntifnt P which nrcoiapitny a painful cough, nml nniin 1 no 1 inillMl lllirull III tun throat nml limnrlilnl tutic, thus ending Jho persistent loc.su rotijtli, Cxccllrnt (or liroiiohltls, spnsimslle croup nnd winter coup is. Keens perfectly nml tustes good, children like It. Plnex Is n special nml hlulilv eoanin trntnl compound of urmilno Norway plim extract, rich In nualneo), which la so hrnliiig to the mrmtirnnrs, To Avoid dlsapiHilalinent, nk your drtiRglst for 'ii oiincra of Plnrx," dn tint accept n ti t Itltiir else. A guarante of absolute satisfaction, or miinnv pninipt ly refunded oe with this preparntlou, Tho I'lncx Ho, Ft. Wayne, lnd. 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