X JACKSONVILLE Vol. 2 SENTINEL Jacksonville, Jackion County, Oregon, Friday, November 4, 1904 No. 25 < ARRESTS ARE MADE Arrests of Horry W. Miller and F. Klntdrl by Government Offi­ cials. With More to follow Causes Ripple of Excitement. ART OPERATING IN THIS VICINITY Government officeraare drawing tighter the web in which they believe they have entangled perpetrators of land frauds in Southern Oregon and announcement was made Monday that Frank E. Kincart had been taken into custody at Roseburg ac­ cording to a dispatch to the Evening Telegram. He is alleged to be implicat­ ed in the wrongful acquring of title to timber lands near Medford. Mr. Kincart has been placed under f 1000 bonds to ap­ pear before the United States Grand Jury in December, which meets in Portland. Harry W. Miller was also arrested and rut three warrants were orginally issued, one remain* to be served. So far the names of no people of promi­ nence have been mentioned in connect­ ion with the alleged timber ring which has been operating near Roseburg, but such a denouement would not be sur­ prising to those who profess to lie fami­ liar with the situation. Harry W. Miller, the first man arrest ed, was taken to Roseburg Monday to go to jail or raise ^1000 bonds. It was ex­ pected lie would lie able to rane the money. For the past two months th«-re has been unusual activity in the timber land bus­ iness in Medford says a recent dispatch to the Oregonian. About September 1st of this year Harry W. Miller dropped into Medford from Myrtle Creek, Or., and won thereafter a great number of titular land filings were made in town­ ships 40 and 41 south, range 2 and 3 west. The fact that these filings were made in almost solid blocks, and the further fact that many of them were made by [arsons who, under ordinary circumstnces, would not lx- able to pay the ex|M-nses of location, advertising and also |4U0 for the land when proofs were made, led government officials to suspect that there was something wrong. Benton Waits for Mill The 40-stamp mill for the Benton mine on Mt. Reuben will not lie installed until next year, the managers of the mine having decided that it is not prac­ ticable to attempt to freight so large an amount of machinery at so late a period in the year. A new road two miles in length will have to I m - built before the mill is taken in. Heavy winter freight­ ing over new mountain roads is a hercu­ lean and expensive task and the mana­ gers are acting wisely in deferring the transportation of the machinery until spring.— Rogue River Courier. Lo Reside at Joes Bar Edward Faucett came in from the Blue Ledge copper district last Friday even­ ing and met his wife who just recently returned from a visit with her parents who reside in Coos county. They re­ turned to Joes Bar on the stage Monday where they will reside this winter and look after the p’are it: the interest of the Blue Ledge Mining Company. It is not their intention to keep a regular “stop- ping place” for people going to and com-1 ing from the district as Mr. Faucett is employed by the company to look after their freighting and [Mick horses which will require his entire attention. Opp modern milling plant will mark a new epoch in Jackson county mining. Many small mills have been erected there in the past, but largely for facilitating de­ Mine Receives Car of Machinery velopment work. At the Opp the large f or Installation in New Mill and ore bodies assure a good reserve, and the Work is Progressing There in mill is being erected on the basis of an Now At îonopdh ultimate capacity of 20 stamps, the ad­ a Most Satisfactory Manner. ditional 10 to be placed after a run has Harry Bozett who wan rm ployed for been marie with the two batteries now notnr time here at the Opp mine is now j being installed and the management has in Tonoimh and according to letters re­ MILL BUILDING IS NOW ENCLOSED demonstrated the adaptability of stamps. ceived from him by friend* here, likes it The owners are confident that the large quite well there. He says that he went A car load of mining and mill machin­ veins of the Opp will ultimately warrant right to work at |3.00 per flay and board ery a,rived in town the first of the week a mill larger than 20 stamps capacity. and that lx>ard is from |35 to fio a from the Joshua Hendy Co.’s works at month. Times are good there and things San Francisco for the new Opp mine now­ To Erect Large Mill at Tolo. are on the boom although all the rush in conrse of construction near this place. seems to lie going on down to the newer The car load embraced a large part of the cauip of Goldfield thirty-five miles to the ' mill machinery to be used in the new The county court of Jackson connty south. Tonopah is the terminus of the' mill altho’ the three electric motors to be Wednesday granted to the Condor Water railroad just completed this summer and used to develop the motive power were and Power Company for 99 years the ex- all the Goldfield freighting is done from not included, not having yet arrived I elusive rights for booming and floating that place, over 1IXM) horses la-ing used from the east. logs on Rogue River above their dam. for the purpose. He states that hay is Dr. Reddy, stopped off in Portland For floating logs ¿1.50, for booming 50 piO a ton there and feed ¿80 which makes ! the first of the week and while there . cents per thousand. They now have cut it quite expensive to keep a team. gave out an interview from which the a half million feet, ar.d will erect a mill at Tolo with large capacity. Telegram gleans the following: Within another two weeks the 10-stamp Search for Ladybugs. mill on the Opp mine will lie in commis­ Friends of Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Arm­ sion. The machinery has all been deliv­ strong, comprising a large part of the M. Prof. A. B. Cordly, of the Oregon Agri­ ered, and being erected rapidly. The E. church and others, gathered at the M. cultural College, was a pleasant caller at mill building is practically complete,and E. parsonage Wednesday evening to this office Tuesday. He made this trip but a short time will be required to put participate in a “shower social” which here to again try to find some trace of the plant in position. was given that already popular young the ladybugs placed in an old orchard of The pole line connecting the mill with minister. A most pleasant social even­ Petrr Britts north of town that ¡»infested the Condor electric plant has been erect­ ing is reported by those who were in at­ with the San Jose scale, perhaps the ed, and wires are being strung. Power tendance an