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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Illlnklng, RqulntlnK. ttclilng e)e
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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
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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
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children like It.
Plnex Is n special nml hlulilv eoanin
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extract, rich In nualneo), which la so
hrnliiig to the mrmtirnnrs,
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Complete
furnished
five room
bungalow
with garage
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Second door cast of I'irnt National
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003
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Underwear,
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These are beautifully finished. Newest styles.
Russian Green, Purple, Capen Blue, Navy, Black,
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Spring Wash Goods
Seed Voils, dainty figure . '. 19c
Fancy Lace Cloth . . . 15c
Windsor Crepes .... 20c
Witchery Crepes . . . 35c
DEVANSHIRE 20 CENTS "
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Irs a Premium ;
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thousands of beautiful articles
you can obtain fortf stamps.
Spring Coats
White Coats, Special
Covert Cloth Coats
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---New Miht?ary Cuts.
Spring Waist Sale
Organdy Waists
Organdy Waists .
Organdy Waists .
Black Semi Silk Waists
Tub Silk Waists .
$1.29
1.49
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1.75
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