Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-11-17
nARAUDERS LOOT CABINS
OF MINERS In HILLS

nat owners of well-suppliet
0aoins in the mountains should i,
on the lookout for marauders is eyi.
dent from several recent experience.
'ep0r'ed from the Siskiyou range
south of Waldo.
horace Stevens, who is interested
- group OF quartz claims in the
fss'on Peak region, arrived here
IRON Waldo Saturday afternoon and
says that within the past ten DAYS
MS capin was raided during his ap-
Sence and about everything il con.
tanned Of value taken to parts nm
known.
from the free-handed manner In
which the thieves operated said
stevens last night, "a person would
suppose that l had given a potlach.
Inc lock was broken from the door
eariy In August, evidently by some
one driven to distress in some way.
as ne took nothing of any conse-
Quence outside of few provisions
ieaVing an unsigned note behind say
ing 1t was case Of hard luck.
Ray Briggs and R. A. Jordan. Of
Grants Pass, and Glenn and Elzie
6asley and Chester White, of Takil-
ma who were at my cabin on a
hunting trip. August 9, found mat
ters in this condition, with the cabin
door left wide open and everything
inside left at the mercy of woodrats
and othey varmints. Later Robert
Bagley and Charles Barcus went out
tnere and put on new lock, finding
everything safe inside with the ex-
ception of numerous evidences of
woodrat invasions.
ABOUT ten days ago Elzie Bagley
and Dan Pfeferly visited my camp
and remained all night. having the
Keys still In their possession then.
Ihey locked the door again upon
their departure, delivering the keys
to me a week later, when went TO
my cabin and found almost every
thing gone with the exception of a
rev things that might lead to the
identification of the perpetrators.
The latter list included two fine new
indian blankets, which brought
in with me when returned TO
Waldo. They also left my type
writer, probably considering 1t such
giveaway that they were forced
Of necessity to resist temptation to
that extent.
While have no clues at pres
ept, a survey OF the situation i'm
presses me with the idea that the
robbery was committed by someone
bent upon that mission alone. as
conservative estimate of the weight
Of the articles stolen leads to the
conclusion that at least twoi pack
animals would be required to trans
port the loot, and no prosepctor or
hurter Is likely to be touring that
country with unpacked horses, as II
is fully IS or 20 miles from any set.
tlement.
My loss will aggl egate more than
$lOO, and includes a Tiki silk and
cotton tent an Eastman SKI folding
target kodak, dozen No. double
spring Newhouse steel traps, a heavy
piece of new Sx15 root canvas, prac-
tically all my tools, besides proyis-
ions, ammunition and other articles
OF minor Importance. They even
took my razor, tortoise shell comb
and a tooth brush, although just
why they made away with the latter
is a matter Of conjecture
81 met John Sanger on the trall
when went out TO my cabin and
he told me that the Reeves cabin,
situated four miles north OF me, and
now owned by c. l.. Mangum, Of
Grants Pass, had been looted IN
pretty much the same way as mine,
although not such a large quantity
taken. In view OF the circum-
stances, II strikes me that some
gang has gone into this mining cabin
thieylng business on an extensive
scale. and II behooyes miners TO
keep their weather eyes open for
vistations Of this character"
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