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Dahack
Transcribed by Jenny Williams.


    There has been a lawsuit between two of the citizens of this precinct, Dahack vs. Wilson, over a horse valued at $50, and I understand that the costs already amounts to about $400, and the end is not yet.
"Eagle Point Notes," Valley Record, Ashland, January 24, 1889, page 3



    Asbury Beall and Chris. Beale are in Jacksonville this week as witnesses in the Dahack case.
"Big Butte Blubbers," Valley Record, Ashland, April 25, 1889, page 3


    The Xmas fights commenced last Saturday afternoon between M. S. Woods and Zera Dahack over a cow that Woods had been feeding for about two years without posting. The "lie" was given by Woods and then Dahack began to retreat and Woods followed him up until he raised the Kentucky blood in Dahack, when he implanted his fist into Woods' face, making an ugly cut. No arrests up to date.
"Eagle Point Items," Valley Record, Ashland, December 29, 1892, page 4



    Eli Dahack has been quite sick for the last week but is much better now.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, June 23, 1893, page 1


    John Dahack, an old soldier, who in now suffering from indigestion and partial paralysis of the left side, has applied for a pension.

"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, February 16, 1894, page 2


    Eli Dahack expects to start for Walla Walla, Washington, as soon as the roads get so he can travel with a team. Mr. Morine, of Brownsboro, is going to occupy the house vacated by Mr. Dahack.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, March 9, 1894, page 4


    Eli Dahack has vacated the Howard property and is living in the McNeal house.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, March 23, 1894, page 2

    Zera and Irvin Dahack were indicted for burglary, and a bench warrant issued for their arrest. The grand jury is still in session.
"Jackson County Criminal Notes," Sunday Oregonian, Portland, April 8, 1894, page 2


    State vs. Zera and Irvin Dahack--indictment for burglary, dismissed at the request of district attorney.
"District Court," Medford Mail, April 20, 1894, page 2


    Eli Dahack started for a new country last Thursday in wagons and driving his cattle along with him. The state of Washington is his destination.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, June 1, 1894, page 4


    Mr. Elsia Dahack and wife passed through our town on their way from British Columbia to visit his parents.
"Butte Creek News," Valley Record, Ashland, January 24, 1895, page 3


    E. Dahack and wife, of British Columbia, passed through town last week, on their way to the home of the gentleman's parents, for a visit.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, January 25, 1895, page 2


    Eli Dahack and family returned to Eagle Point Saturday; they have been in Idaho and from there they removed to Harrisburg, Or. and preferring Southern Oregon they have returned to it.
"Items from Eagle Point," Valley Record, Ashland, February 7, 1895, page 7


    Eli Dahack and wife and Frank Nichols came out from Central Point on the stage Saturday. Frank is attending school in Central Point and makes a very favorable report.

"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, February 8, 1895, page 2


    Eli Dahack and wife and Frank Nicholas came out on the stage Saturday. Frank is attending school at Central Point.
"Butte Creek News," Valley Record, Ashland, February 7, 1895, page 7


    Mr. Dahack has been putting a half mile of post and board fence on his place.
"Butte Creek Items," Valley Record, Ashland, March 14, 1895, page 3


    Mr. Dahack is building a half mile of new board fence on his place, north of Eagle Point.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, March 15, 1895, page 2


    Dr. Stanfield reports Mr. Dahack on the sick list. He fell and afterward was taken with a violent pain in his side.
"Butte Creek Items," Valley Record, Ashland, March 21, 1895, page 3


    Dr. Stanfield reports Mr. Dahack to be quite ill, the result of a recent fall. The doctor also states that Mrs. Geo. Apger is ill and in a rather precarious condition.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, March 22, 1895, page 2


    The infant child of Geo. W. Daley, Jr., is quite ill with the whooping cough, as is also a child of Eli Dahack.
"Butte Creek News," Valley Record, Ashland, September 12, 1895, page 3


    Last week mention was made of the issue of a warrant for the arrest of John Doe for killing a hog. While making an unsuccessful search for him they found evidences which prompted the issuing of another warrant for the arrest of his brother for killing deer. Constable A. Pool and posse went out to where the two young men were keeping "batch," but while they were watching the doors the inmates removed a board in the rear, made their exit and departed. The next time the officers went there they found a notice posted on the door warning them to keep away or they might get hurt. Nevertheless Constable Pool succeeded in capturing Irvin Dahack on the charge of killing deer. He called for a jury trial and it was set for Tuesday. Your correspondent went to Medford Monday and brought Judge Stanfield out to prosecute the case. There are more cases on the docket that he will probably handle for the state before he returns.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, January 24, 1896, page 2


    Mr. Dahack was in town Monday.
    In my last I spoke of the arrest of Irvin Dahack for violation of the game law and the sending for Judge Stanfield to prosecute the case. The case was called at one o'clock Tuesday--Judge Stanfield for the prosecution and Mr. Dahack acted as his own counsel. The jury after hearing all the evidence came to the conclusion Irvin Dahack had nothing to do with the killing of the deer, but that his brother had killed it, and as his brother has not been found at yet we are not prepared to tell the finale of the case.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, January 31, 1896, page 2


    A little over a week ago as Eli Dahack, wife and little boy were crossing Butte Creek in a small boat, the boat became unmanageable on account of high water and went over the rapids. In the excitement of the moment Mr. D. lost one of his oars, and the result was that the boat dashed out from under them leaving them in the deep water. Mrs. D. had hold of the child's wrist and just as they went into the water Mr. D. grabbed the other arm and he managed to swim with one hand and take them all out to land safely. Mrs. D. had one of her limbs badly hurt by being dashed against the rocks by the force of the current. Fortunately they landed on the same side from which they started so they could reach their home without much trouble. Had it not been for Mr. D's presence of mind together with his being a good swimmer there is no doubt but that the end would have been fatal.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, June 12, 1896, page 2


    Misses Lizzie Wilson and Dora Dahack were visiting friends in Central Point last Sunday.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, July 3, 1896, page 5


    A Mr. Crane living on the Matthews place, Misses Lizzie Wilson and Dora Dahack were in Medford last Saturday buying goods.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, October 2, 1896, page 5


    Born--On November 4th to Mrs. E. Dahack, an eight-pound boy.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, November 13, 1896, page 5


    This foggy weather brings mind the importance of someone agitating the necessity of enforcing the law with regard to the road supervisors keeping up signboards at crossroads. A short time ago Mrs. Dahack, an aged lady, in crossing the desert north of Eagle Point got lost and was some time in finding the right road, and Constable Frank Lewis in crossing the same desert also got lost and had to "hug" a fence line to find his way out.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, January 22, 1897, page 5


    Zera Dahack, who has been in British Columbia for some time, has returned to his old home near Eagle Point.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, January 21, 1898, page 5


    Last Saturday the Republicans held their primary meeting here and elected H. von der Hellen, Sr., J. A. Jones, J. J. Fryer and Eli Dahack as delegates to attend the convention in Ashland. There was a large turnout, as almost all the members were in attendance. George Brown was chosen as committeeman.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, April 8, 1898, page 5


    M. F. Hanley started last Thursday for Harney Valley with about 900 head of cattle. He went by the way of Dead Indian and was accompanied by several of our local cattlemen.
     Charlie Seefield and Eli Dahack started last Thursday with the teams to meet the Hanley cattle in the Dead Indian Valley.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, May 27, 1898, page 5


    Eli Dahack called on your correspondent last Friday morning to sign his certificate of withdrawal as a candidate for justice of the peace in this district.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, June 10, 1898, page 5


    John Dahack came in from Butte Creek Monday to take the train for Ashland. There he expected to procure a ticket to Buffalo, N.Y., where he goes for medical treatment. But after arriving in this city he thought it best to see the agents in Medford for the various railroad companies before buying a ticket. He was ticketed over the Union Pacific by agent C. W. Palm.
"Purely Personal," Medford Mail, July 1, 1898, page 6


    Eli Dahack has erected a new residence on the tract of land he purchased of Phil. Parliament.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, November 18, 1898, page 5


    The farmers are beginning to plow again after the storm. Speaking of the storm reminds me that we had a whole lot of rain all in a lump and the result was that Eli Dahack had to move out for the night and his chickens had to stay on the roost all that day.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, March 10, 1899, page 5


    There seems to be considerable stir in real estate business. John Daley has traded his Sticky ranch to John Williscroft for his place on Butte Creek, about a mile above Eagle Point, and Eli Dahack traded his property for the Harvey place, now owned by Mr. Poe.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, April 7, 1899, page 5


    Mr. Dahack was in town Tuesday looking after a carpenter, as he is ready to begin the building of his new house.
"Brownsboro Items," Medford Mail, August 17, 1900, page 3


    The first of last week Mrs. Eli Dahack, while leading a colt on which her little boy was riding, by some means had her leg broken. She does not know how it happened, whether the colt reared and struck her with its forefeet or kicked her on the leg. Dr. Cole was called from Central Point and reduced the fracture.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, February 1, 1901, page 5


    Mesdames J. E. Geary and John Smith and Miss Lewis were the guests of Mrs. Dahack one day last week.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, February 22, 1901, page 5


    Jason Hartman and Benton Pool are building a new barn for Eli Dahack.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, October 10, 1902, page 5


    Died--At the family residence, on October 15, 1902, Mrs. Martha M. Dahack, aged forty-three years, nine months and three days. Mrs. Dahack was taken violently ill on Saturday night, when alone, and took a dose of medicine which she supposed to be harmless, but she soon discovered that she had taken the wrong medicine. She suffered all night, and when daylight came she got on a horse and rode to the home of her brother, D. P. Matthews, a distance of two miles, where all the assistance at hand was rendered. Dr. Cameron, of Medford, was called, but nothing could be done for her, and she suffered intensely until death came to her relief. She was buried in the family cemetery, a large number of her neighbors following the remains to their last resting place. Rev. J. P. Moomaw officiated at the grave.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, October 24, 1902, page 5


    Last Saturday night a number of our enterprising citizens met at Heckathorn's hall and made arrangements for having an entertainment and Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. The following committees were appointed: Committee on arrangements--J. R. Cook, S. F. Morine, J. W. Grover, Eli Dahack; committee on program--Mrs. J. R. Cook, Mrs. Lou Ebersole, R. N. Jonas, Miss Edna Charley, A. H. Peachey; committee on music--Mrs. M. Martin, Mrs. W. B. Officer, Miss Bertha Peachey, Carl Ringer, J. F. Brown; soliciting committee--Hattie Cingcade, Lottie Taylor, Anna Nichols, Floy Florey; purchasing committee--Mrs. A. C. Howlett, Mrs. R. G. Brown, Mrs. J. A. Jonas, Mrs. John Daley; committee on tree--I. Smith, Henry Ellis, Jerry Heckathorn, S. Moomaw, Chas. Thomas. The ladies of Eagle Point will comprise the committee on decoration. An invitation is extended everyone to come and have a good time.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, December 12, 1902, page 5


    Several of our citizens have gone to San Francisco to attend the National Convention of the G.A.R., among whom are M. S. Wood, John Watkins, S. A. Carlton and John Dahack.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, August 21, 1903, page 7


    In one of my former communications I spoke of some of our enterprising citizens making a gravel walk in our village, from the corner of D. Matthews' place to the new blacksmith shop, and posting notices warning people not to ride on it. Mr. Eli Dahack concluded he would disregard the warning and so rode his horse over the aforesaid walk. He was requested to desist but still stayed on the walk, and as a result a warrant was sworn out by Harry Smith and he was arrested. He asked for time to get counsel, and the result of this was that last Monday he appeared before Justice of Peace J. R. Cook, accompanied by Gus Newbury, entered a plea of not guilty and called for a jury trial. The state was represented by Deputy District Attorney Clarence Reames. After considerable work the jury was empaneled and the witnesses were introduced and examined. The plea of the defense was that the sidewalk was not within the limits of Eagle Point, as there was a space of 150 yards between Moore's blacksmith shop and the end of the new sidewalk. The result of the trial was the jury brought in a verdict of guilty and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, January 29, 1904, page 7


    James Ringer and son, Chalmer, came out from Big Butte last week and are now engaged in painting Zera Dahack's home.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, May 27, 1904, page 3


    During the last few days of the school there was a petition circulated, requesting the board to re-employ the same teachers, Prof. W. A. Wood and Miss Clara B. Richardson, to teach our school next winter for a term of eight months, at a salary of $60 and $45 per month and signed by the following named taxpayers and patrons of the school: A. J. Florey, A. J. Daley, S. B. Holmes, James Ringer, Wm. Brown, A. C. Howlett, J. Moomaw, G. W. Daley Jr., J. A. Abbott, J. H. Inlow, R. G. Brown, Mary E. McNeal, J. W. Smith, Eli Dahack, M. S. Wood, Mettie Martin, George Brown, Wm. Ulrich, S. H. Harnish, G. W. Owings, J. B. Jackson, J. W. Grover, J. W. Heckathorn, J. H. Carlton, W. B. Officer, Mesdames Allie Daley, Francis E. Jacks, Elsie Riley, Celia W. Holmes, M. E. Cingcade, Sarah E. Howlett, Anna Thomas, Isabella Heckathorn, W. A. Brown, Joseph Riley, Frank Lewis, J. H. Daley (a director), Thomas Coy, W. F. Smith, Frank Stever, S. H. Jackson, J. F. Brown, J. J. Fryer, Charles Cingcade, Wm. Dutton, F. A. Henderson. Forty-six names out of a total number of voters of fifty-eight and when the petition was presented, the chairman, Thomas E. Nichols, was asked by Hon. George Brown if he recognized the petition and was given to understand from Mr. Nichols' reply that the petition would have no weight. The result was that Prof. W. A. Wood was employed for only six months and Mrs. Alice Cook for the primary department, with the understanding that the people were to be allowed the privilege of voting on the question of having an eight-month school next June, and now the question properly comes up: Are we progressing or retrogressing, have we as American citizens no rights of petition, or are we absolutely at the mercy of a school board. I wish to say that John H. Daley positively refused to sign the contract for Mrs. Cook to teach, as he felt that great wrong had been done by the two other members refusing to employ Miss Richardson to teach the primary department.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, May 12, 1905, page 3


    Mrs. John Dahack of Medford met with an accident Monday which resulted in her death. She was driving home with her grandson when the team became frightened and overturned the rig, throwing her out with terrific force upon a pile of rock. She as taken to a house and assistance rendered, but she died soon after.
Capital Journal, Salem, December 25, 1905, page 5



    A. J. Daley, one of our leading business men, and Eli Dahack, one of our prosperous farmers, were at the county seat on Thursday of last week. Mr. Daley went for the purpose of laying in a claim for damages for the digging away of the dirt and gravel in front of his dwelling and destroying his fence in front of the same. The work was done some months ago by order of County Commissioner George Brown, in spite of the protests of Mr. D. and his neighbors. He put in a claim for $150. Mr. Dahack went for the purpose of presenting a protest against changing the county road from where is has been located for many years--along the foot of the hills along the bank of Little Butte from here to Brownsboro. Supervisor Vestal with a gang of men and teams [has been] at work on the new route for several weeks, grading, hauling gravel, etc. A petition was circulating asking for the change, as was also a remonstrance, signed by about seventy of the taxpayers. The court ruled that the petition would not be granted. It does not seem right that the taxpayers should have to pay for the work that was done on private property and in spite of the protests of such a large number of citizens.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, July 13, 1906, page 3


    Eli Dahack has been engaged in this neighborhood, cutting grain with his binder, some of the grain being knocked down by the wind and storm last Saturday, so that he is having a time cutting it. Speaking of the storm, well yes, we had a storm last Saturday afternoon almost all to ourselves, for it reached but a short distance. But right here we had a storm. The first intimation we had was a gust of wind for a few minutes and then a few drops of rain, then an ice storm. It was not like any ordinary hail, but simply chunks of ice, the most of them about three-fourths by one-half inch, and from that up to as large as a quail's egg. In the lower part of town the chunks of ice were larger and south about a mile they fell as large as a hen's egg. L. E. Smith and his brother, Roy, and Fred Green were hauling hay and they report them as large as hen's eggs. One of them struck Lew Smith on the head and knocked him over against the load of hay, raising a lump on his head as large as a nutmeg, and one struck him on the hand and tore the skin off. I tell you there was some hail. It damaged the corn considerably, but I don't think it hurt the fruit very much, as the bulk of the storm missed the orchards. The wind that accompanied the rain and hail tore up some of the old standing oaks, but did but little damage. The storm put a stop to hauling hay for a short time, but did not damage the hay to any great extent.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, July 20, 1906, page 3


    I understand that Mr. Pelouze and wife, who bought the Eli Dahack place, have come and gone on to the place. Mr. Pelouze brought a carload from Los Angeles of household goods and stock and has plans to build this fall and winter.

"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail, October 22, 1909, page 5


    On Tuesday of last week your Eagle Point correspondent was called on to take Mr. Haberling, who has been working on one of the orchards south of Medford, to his homestead on the headwaters of McNeil Creek, and while on the road I was watching for items of interest for the readers of the Mail Tribune, and among the things I noticed was that E. S. Wolfer, our strawberry and tomato man, was preparing to go into the poultry business and has fenced off a tract of land expressly for the chicks, built a neat and commodious henhouse; also has planted the posts for a new wire fence around his place taking in a two-acre tract that he bought some time ago off the R. G. Brown place, and is weaving a fence, thus fixing things up generally. Also that Fred Pelouze is having his home, on the place he bought of Eli Dahack, remodeled and fixed up generally, and getting his ground plowed and preparing to plant it to trees. That the farmers along the route were generally busy putting in their crops, fencing or hauling their produce to Eagle Point market or for shipment. I also found the roads in a horrible condition, and when I enter my protest against the manner in which the people in the outlying districts are treated with regard to the roads by the county court, I feel that I am expressing the views of a majority of the taxpayers of the county. If our county court (now, I hope that this is not treason or contempt of court) would open up their official souls and spend say $100,000 in improving our county roads and let the other fellow that comes later and has the benefit of the improvements help pay for the work, it would be a benefit to those who are now wallowing through the mud and jolting over the rocks, in more ways than one, and would make the country so attractive that the prospective purchaser would fall in love with our country instead of being disgusted, as was a man I was taking up Little Butte Creek not long ago, when he remarked that he would never live in such a country as this when he could find a penitentiary to live in--he was so disgusted with the roads.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1909, page 2


    Mr. Pelouze, the man who bought the Eli Dahack place, took from the P.&E. depot last Saturday a large box of fruit trees to be planted on his farm.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1910, page 2


    Mr. Dodge is busily engaged drilling wells--one for Minter Bros., one for Eli Dahack and one for a lady on the Stoddard tract.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1910, page 2


    Dr. Holt was called on to go out and see Everett Dahack, and upon examination found that he was troubled with appendicitis so he had to be taken to the hospital in Medford and there the appendix was removed and the young man seems to be getting along nicely.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 12, 1912, page 5


    When I reached Medford I made a business call on Mrs. Zera Dahack and while there she gave me her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. I also called on one of our townsmen, Henry Daley, who has been taken from here to Medford for medical treatment. I also met his uncle, George W. Daley, as the car came in from Eagle Point and was on his way to sit up with him that night. On my arrival home I found W. A. (Bert) Higinbotham at the Sunnyside and he paid me for two years' subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. But I find that I am getting this letter too long, so will have to wait until tomorrow to tell something more.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 21, 1913, page 7


    G. Dahack came out from his home beyond Big Butte Creek Friday.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1913, page 5


    . . . I went to see Eli Dahack, found him at home but did no business because he could not find a receipt he claimed he had from the Mail Tribuneoffice, but while I was there he showed me some of his prize onions and he told me that he had sold 3000 pounds off a small tract of land near the house and while we were talking about it, he proposed to measure the piece of land and found it to contain six and a quarter square rods, a pretty good yield for so small a piece of ground. He also had some corn that compares favorably with some of the rest of the corn in the valley.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, October 6, 1913, page 5


    Well, about noon Mrs. Howlett [at the Sunnyside Hotel] was busy putting up fruit when almost every one of them came in for dinner, but she took in the situation and began to place the victuals on the table and by the time the first were served, preparations were made for the second table, and while all this was going on Senator von der Hellen and two of his sons, Carl and George, his wife and their little boy, Donald, Mrs. George von der Hellen, had just returned from Newport where she and her little son have been spending the latter part of the summer. Also among the guests that day for dinner were Robert Kame, Henry Mayer and wife, Walter Wood, Mr. Burdic, Mr. Patrick Ernest Dahack, and John Butler.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, September 8, 1914, page 5


    Mesdames Bellows, B. Clarno, McCabe and Miss Ellen McCabe called at the French ranch Sunday afternoon and in the evening Misses Mary and Anna Robertson, John Caster, Everett and Zera Dahack, Elmer and Louis Robertson came and spent the time in music.
"Along Rogue River," Medford Mail Tribune, September 30, 1914, page 5


    Everett Dahack gave a candy pulling as a farewell party Monday night. Quite a crowd was present and a merry time was had by all. Everett is going to Medford to live.
"Along Rogue River," Medford Mail Tribune, January 25, 1915, page 5


    Arthur D. Moore of Elk Creek came in Tuesday morning and sold to Geo. Brown & Sons 455 pounds of mohair and then I began to inquire of Frank Brown about the goat industry in the surrounding country, and he gave me the following names of persons he had bought mohair from this spring, and he said that he had already bought and shipped to Salem, Or., $2500 worth of mohair this spring. The following is the list of names he gave me: D. Walsh, L. Dorren, F. Luy, Dan Foeller, A. D. Moore, E. Dahack, William Butler, R. A. Tucker, Ed Tucker, A. Bieberstedt, F. Edler, Art Vestal, Sam Coy, W. E. Hammel, T. E. Loomis, George Austin, Charles Veighte, A. McCabe and several others whose names had slipped his memory, so the reader will see that the goat industry is getting to be of considerable importance in this section, and in addition to this Ed Pottenger has been out here buying up all that he could.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 6, 1915, page 9


PUBLIC DANCE
    At Dahack Garage Friday eve., Oct. 8. Everyone welcome. Music will be directed by Prof. H. H. Howell.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 7, 1915, page 3


    Everett Dahack had put on another jitney on the E.P.-Medford route. That makes three jitneys on that route with the P.&E. running two round trips a day. It looks as though we would be able to go to Medford almost any time, but I predict that the last jitney will last quick and Mr. S. H. Harnish seems to have the run of the trade in that and the livery business and Frank Lewis is well known and is in business, and between them two with all the side help they receive and the popularity of the P.&E. railroad one would think that a third jitney would stand a poor show, especially when there is not enough business to justify the keeping up of one good machine.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 30, 1916, page 5


    Thomas Riley and Everett Dahack were guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Friday and later in the day Archie Parker of Central Point, the man who has taken the place of Mr. Brown, the meat market man, called for dinner. It is quite a convenience to have a man that you can depend on come twice a week with fresh meat right to your door.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 26, 1916, page 6


    We had a little sensation created in our town Saturday night. Our town marshal is proving to be a live wire, for he sits up until a late hour to watch the speeders in their autos, and it appears, according to the complaint, that one Everett Dahack was dashing through town about 1 a.m., Sunday morning, and the marshal said he thought he was going about 40 miles an hour, without any lights, so he quietly stopped him, and took him before the town recorder, and Mr. Dahack pleaded that he had an important engagement in Klamath Falls, and the time for the case to come up was fixed for Wednesday, when we will probably have a free display of legal talent.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 28, 1916, page 5


    Charles S. Painter and a man by the name of Gay gave me their subs. to the Daily Mail Tribune Friday p.m. Mr. Gay had his daily addressed to Irvin Dahack, Eagle Point. They are herding a band of sheep belonging to Mr. Lewis of Central Point on the prairie north of here.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 4, 1917, page 7


    Miss Anna Robertson is in camp cooking for her brothers while they are putting in grain on John Winter's ranch. They expect to plow some for Mr. Dahack as soon as they are through with their own corn.

"Reese Creek Riplets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 1917, page 3


    Mr. Robertson and sons had Mr. Dahack's engine and saw a few days last week sawing up some of their wood they cut last winter on Mr. Hammel's place.
"Reese Creek Riplets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 14, 1917, page 6


    W. H. Morgan of Persist came out Friday and spent the night with us [at the Sunnyside Hotel], and one of the Dahack boys came in for bed and breakfast Friday.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 3, 1917, page 5


    Among the callers Sunday
[at the Sunnyside Hotel] were Everett Dahack, Lewis Robertson, Miss Constance Vance, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Vance, Miss Helen Brown, George H. Wamsley and wife, Vern Grigsby, Wm. Lewis, Percy and Glen Haley.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 9, 1917, page 4


    J. C. Frederick and G. G. Cornell have been getting out a fine lot of manzanita wood off of one of the hills north of town and have had Ernest Dahack to saw it into stove wood and are shipping it to Medford.

"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1917, page 6


    Earl Matthews helped Ernest Dahack a few days last week.

"Reese Creek Riplets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 13, 1917, page 5


    C. E. Bellows, H. J. Stewart, Eli Dahack, Walter Wood, C. H. Natwick and D. S. Patrick brought in a fine lot of hogs for George Brown & Sons Friday and Saturday. They were shipped to Portland. Royal Brown accompanied them to the city.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 20, 1917, page 5


    J. C. Findley and son were in town Wednesday morning to get a plow. He is the man who has settled on the old Irvin Dahack place. He intends to put in a crop of corn.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 12, 1918, page 7


    Eli Dahack and J. C. Findley received some four thousand tomato plants Tuesday from the Rogue River country. Mr. Dahack intends to put in an acre, and Mr. Findley two acres this season, besides an acre of squash.

"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1918, page 2


    In my last letter I omitted to mention that I had been out visiting a few of the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, and among them [I] was at the fine farm of Mr. Fred Pelouze, situated about two and a half miles above here on our beautiful Little Butte Creek. I say fine farm, and to anyone familiar with the situation a few years ago when he purchased the farm from Eli Dahack, when it was an effort for one to raise enough feed to keep a cow and a span of horses, and look over it now and see the broad acres of alfalfa growing, where at that time a large part of the land was covered with chaparral and [all] kinds of brush and timber, one can see what scientific farming and water will do; how they will turn an apparently useless tract of land to be among the most productive places in the country, for now his yield is so that he has his large barn filled with hay and sells enough to bring him a handsome return from his investment from the sale of hay but also he is enabled to keep a nice herd of fine dairy cows that are bringing him a handsome return for his labor and investment. While I was there he renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune and Medford Sun combined.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, September 23, 1918, page 5


    I learned after I had written my last letter, Saturday, Nov. 9, that in addition to the hogs reported in that letter that H. E. Webb of Derby, Eli and Irvin Dahack and Chris Natwick had brought in a lot of hogs for Geo. Brown & Sons for shipment to Portland that afternoon. Royal G. Brown went to Portland with them. The two hogs brought in by Thomas Cingcade mentioned in my last weighed 650 pounds instead of six hundred as reported.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1918, page 5


    C. M. Thomas was booked for a speech in favor of the irrigation project that is being considered in the section just north of here Monday night, but as I had other engagements for that evening did not attend. And so am not able to report the result, but suppose that each one had their mind made up how they wanted to vote beforehand. People are learning to think for themselves without having to have paid attorneys and interested bankers to teach them how to vote. The election came off on Tuesday at the Eli Dahack ranch and the result was 22 for the project and 11 against it and W. E. Hammel, Wig Jacks and William Perry were elected as a committee to investigate into the feasibility of the move, the approximate cost of the project and they are to make their report next September and then the people will be called on to vote again on the adoption or rejection of the report.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 19, 1919, page 5


RANCHER HELD TO GRAND JURY FOR HARD CIDER SALE
    The jury in Justice Taylor's court yesterday afternoon was unable to agree on a verdict in the case against Eli Dahack, a rancher residing near Eagle Point, on the charge of having intoxicating liquor in his possession, and the case was dismissed. However, on the same evidence Justice Taylor today bound Dahack over to the grand jury on the charge of selling intoxicating liquor.
    Dahack's arrest grew out of his possession of two and one-half barrels of hard cider, some of which got into the hands of two boys aged 13 and 15 and resulted in both being badly intoxicated. The arrest followed the sheriff's taking possession of the hard cider a week ago on orders from Prosecutor Roberts, who had samples of the cider analyzed by Miss Holt, chemistry teacher in the Medford high school. Miss Holt found the cider to be 11.4 percent alcohol.
    Dahack's main defense at the trial yesterday was that he was making the cider into vinegar. He also denied selling a gallon of the cider, or any other quantity, to the two boys, and asserted that they stole the cider after he had refused to sell them some.
    The boys, however, testified that they bought a gallon of the stuff from him and took a part of it away with them at that time. One of the youths testified that they returned later and got the remainder, but the other testified they did not. It is said that the latter was so intoxicated that he did not remember anything after drinking the cider.
    Prosecutor Roberts represented the state in the case and Porter J. Neff defended Dahack.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 26, 1919, page 6


    Eli Dahack, one of the principal advocates and boosters for the project to bring water from Big Butte into the valley, was in town Saturday. There seems to be some considerable trouble over the project as there appears to be considerable misunderstanding as the question of the elimination of the land unfit for irrigation or inaccessible to the water, and then there is an element among the farmers who seem to want the water brought in but are fearful of the title to the water right, and I would suggest that someone who is versed on the subject write a concise statement of the facts with regard to the claim of the O.&C. Power Company's right to the water in Rogue River and its tributaries as it is claimed by a number that the aforesaid company holds a title to all of the water in said river and it tributaries and if the company hold that title to the water, etc., it is a matter of record and if the title has been tested in the courts that also is a matter of record. In order to enable the voters to vote intelligently on the subject if someone would write an article covering these points and publish it in the Mail Tribune, the most of the voters would understand how to vote on the subject a week from next Saturday, Jan. 17, 1920.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1920, page 5


    Mrs. Ernest Dahack and children, who have been visiting in San Francisco, visiting relatives, returned last Saturday, Feb. 21.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 28, 1920, page 5


    A. G. Bishop and Corbin Edgell, two of our leading orchardists, were in town Tuesday and so were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, and Eli Dahack, who was here having some repair work done on his spraying machine.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 10, 1920, page 7


    Eli Dahack and his son, Ernest, came in early Thursday morning to W. L. Childreth's shop to have him do some repair work on their auto, and it was but a short time before C. E. Bellows came in with his auto for repairs and in the afternoon Mr. John Norris, foreman on the G. M. Wilfley orchard, brought his in, making three cars in one day. In fact, Mr. Childreth has about all the work that he can do in that line.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, October 25, 1920, page 7


    Eli Dahack was in town and reports that he has 8 or 10 tons of squashes out in the field that he is unable to get in on account of the continuous rain, but we have been now without any rain for almost two days, Tuesday and today, Wednesday, so we live in hopes of a letup for a few weeks so that the orchard men and farmers can get their fall work done up. But we are not the only ones who are thus troubled, for I see by the Portland papers that in the Hood River country they are having the same trouble.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1920, page 6


    Ernest Dahack, the new barber, took possession of the shop Monday and opened up for business.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1920, page 3


    Since our barber shop has changed hands and Ernest Dahack has taken possession; he has been making several important changes. He has installed a hot and cold water system so as to have an abundant supply of hot water and is planning to add a bath room so as to accommodate any who would desire a good warm bath, and has also installed an electric hair clipping machine and is arranging to have a complete up-to-date bath establishment.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 13, 1920, page 6


    Ernest Dahack, our new barber, has rented the P. H. Daily home and is moving into it at this writing.
    Zera Dahack, who lives in the hills near the Dead Indian Soda Springs, came in Friday and went on to Medford.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1920, page 7


    Born December 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack, an eight-pound boy.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 7, 1920, page 6


    Our new barber, Ernest Dahack, since he has taken possession of the shop has been making so many changes in the building, both inside and outside, that if the old proprietor should happen to come in he would hardly know the place. He has rearranged the inside, put in a water heating apparatus, cut out the old agate cutting machinery, cut off a nice room for a bath room, put in a neat settee where his customers sit and read, etc., and painted the outside, at least the front part of the building, white and the windows and doors green so that it is quite attractive.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 21, 1920, page 9


    Thursday morning as I was on my way to the post office and making my regular rounds for items to make up the Eaglets I met George Phillips and he remarked that a young cyclone had struck Ernest Dahack's barber shop and carried it across the street, turning it around so as to have it face the street, and when I reached the place where the barber shop stood found that everything had been taken off, even to the rocks for a foundation, but when I came to examine the building I found it was sitting on several round poles. It appears on inquiry that when Mr. Dahack bought the house and fixtures of Mr. Slusser that he bought it with the understanding that he, Mr. Slusser, had a lease on the lot from A. J. Florey, since deceased, and after his death one of the heirs to the estate wanted to sell the lot to Dahack asking what he thought was an exorbitant price, whereupon Mr. Florey notified him, verbally, to buy or get out, whereupon while the said heir was in Medford a party consisting of some say 25 or 30 men tore up the board sidewalk and put the house and all pertaining to it across the street. The barber was working in his shop up to 9 o'clock that night. Mr. Dahack came in and bought the shop and business in good faith and has been to several dollars expense putting it in condition for business, arranged a bathtub, hot and cold water system and had a 1650 [gallon] tank about ready to put up and having everything convenient, and was giving general satisfaction, but his plans were frustrated to a great extent. He is now going ahead fixing up his shop and intends to secure land where he has put the house and make a permanent business of it. He seems to have a large number of friends here and is very popular as a barber.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1921, page 5


    Sunday was a fine day. We had no rain of consequence and there was nothing of special interest transpired unless it was that a number of Ernest Dahack's friends collected together that day and put his barber shop some few feet back so as to have it out of the street. His father, Eli Dahack, had been helping him get the foundation ready, so now he has his shop all leveled up again and the electric wires connected up again so that he can not only have light but power to operate his hair clippers. The electric light men came out Tuesday to connect up the wires that afternoon but found that they would have to put up an extra light pole so postponed the job until this forenoon.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 11, 1921, page 7


    We had a meeting of the town council on Tuesday night, Feb. 8th, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy was appointed as town treasurer in the place of Roy Ashpole, our old treasurer, who refused to act in that capacity any longer, as he has already been in that office for six years. The council also appointed Ernest Dahack to fill the vacancy caused by Mrs. W. C. Clements refusing to qualify as council woman. They also authorized George Holmes to repair the suspension bridge and place two extra bents under the center of each span, and set new posts on the south side of the creek in place of the old ones as they are partially decayed and one of them has given way so as to let one side of the bridge drop down, making it more difficult for a person to walk across on it. The new mayor, H. E. Campbell, has started the move to beautifying the town by planting a row of trees on each side of the street running from the main street (the old county road) to the depot. There was also a move to secure a tract of land just below the wagon bridge for a park and camping ground as the tract of land donated to the town by W. Hart Hamilton has been forfeited on account of the town failing to comply with the contract, i.e., clear up and improve and beautify the tract so as to make it appear like a park.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 15, 1921, page 5


    Henry French, one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen, brought in quite a lot of trees to be planted in our town and our barber, Ernest Dahack, who is also a member of the council, went out with his team and brought in a quantity of young maple trees to be planted along the streets and a tract of land the town expects to secure for a park and camping ground.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 23, 1921, page 7


    Ernest Dahack, our barber, since his arrival and settlement in our town has proved to be a live wire, for in addition to moving his barber shop across the street on a dark and rainy night and fixing it up he also negotiated with W. Hart Hamilton to purchase that part of the tract lying between the old county road, now Main Street, and the creek, and has plowed up quite a lot of it, scattered manure over it and is getting ready to sow to alfalfa and has the wire fencing on the ground ready to fence it. He has also fixed up his bath room and has the foundation laid to put up his 1650-gallon water tank and getting everything ready to carry on business in good shape. In addition to the changes thus made he has purchased what is known as the Roe place of Mr. Schibley and three additional lots and has them plowed up and well manured and fenced and expects to move onto the property about April 15. He is certainly a live wire when it comes to doing things.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 9, 1921, page 6


    There was a little breeze of excitement in our town Thursday, for as I was walking casually along the street I noticed quite a group of men along the water ditch just back of Ernest Dahack's barber shop and on approaching the crowd discovered a small pump had been put over the water to demonstrate what one of the Westco pumps could do, for on turning the faucet the water would begin to flow and found that Mr. Arthur W. Tyo of the Modern Plumbing and Heating Co. of Medford was showing the people something of its working powers.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1921, page 5


    There was considerable moving in our little village the latter part of last week and Sunday. Mr. Schiebly, who sold his home to Ernest Dahack, our barber, moved into the Charley Pointer house the last of the week, and Mr. Dahack moved into his own house. Mr. Hill, who has been living in the Boltz house back of the bank building, moved out onto what is known as the Pool place on the south edge of the desert Sunday, and the same day Clem MacDonald, who has been living in the house belonging to Fred Frideger of Medford, moved into the Boltz house. That is all the moving I have heard of although I met P. H. Daily Monday and spoke of Dahack moving out of his house and he remarked that he had it already rented and a month's rent paid in advance, but I am not ready to tell to whom as yet.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1921, page 6


    Ernest Dahack, our town barber, in addition to fixing up his shop in fine style, has installed a complete water system, dug a well along the side of the irrigating ditch that runs through his place he recently purchased, and walled it up with cement so as to ensure pure water, put up a large tank with gasoline engine with pipe attachments so as to irrigate the land above the ditch. He has also arranged his bathtub so as to give hot and cold baths and has the arrangements made so that he can accommodate his customers to anything in that line.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 18, 1921, page 7


    The Civic Club of Eagle Point held their regular meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. Frank Brown and they not only had a good attendance, but a very pleasant time. Those in attendance were Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mrs. R. S. Brown, Mrs. Mattie Brown, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Mrs. Wm. Hardenberg, Mrs. William von der Hellen, Mrs. Hammond, Miss Hammond, Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Mrs. McNicoll, Mrs. Mittelstaedt, Mrs. Roy Smith, Mrs. Roy Stanley, Mrs. B. F. Fuller, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mrs. Paul Rynning, Mrs. Ernest Dahack, Mrs. Clements, Mrs. Amy Brown and Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the two last named being hostesses. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. W. H. Brown and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. von Hardenberg will serve. They transacted but little business outside of the regular routine, unless it was that they decided to give another dance tonight, May 28, and try to raise funds to finish up the Union Hall that is now used as the town library. They also discussed the subject of lighting the streets, but as they had not heard from the company as to the cost, could not arrive at any conclusion.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1921, page 5


    In looking around for items of news since I have recovered from my little sick spell I notice that our energetic barber, Ernest Dahack, has not only fenced in the long narrow strip of ground he recently purchased along the bank of the creek, but has his 1650-gal. tank up and properly piped so as to supply his shop and bathtub with an abundant supply of pure water but has also extended the pipe on to his house some hundred yards below the wagon bridge and has one of the finest gardens in the entire community. He also is putting up an addition to his dwelling house and has it ready for the roof and in addition to all this, for he does the work himself, he is attending to his barbering business and seems to be doing quite a business in that line. He is surely a human live wire.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 23, 1921, page 5


    Charles Dahack and wife of San Francisco, Calif., were here visiting his cousin, Ernest Dahack, and other relatives Saturday of last week.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 1, 1921, page 5


    Eli Dahack, one of our progressive farmers, was in town Thursday and reported that he had installed a water system and put up a 1650-gallon water tank so that he could irrigate his garden and that after he had filled the tank it sprang a leak and the force of the water was such that it burst one side open all the way down. But he is like his son Ernest, our barber, quite a genius, and will soon have the breach repaired, as he took home with him five pounds of solder in a coil.
    L. A. Howell, wife and son of Medford came up from C.L. Thursday and stopped and visited our barber, Ernest Dahack and family, awhile. Mr. Howell is engaged in the barbering business in Medford and says that he had Ernest work for him for six years in his shop and that is the reason he is such a good barber.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 18, 1921, page 8


    There was two truckloads of shakes came out from Butte Falls Saturday on their way to the valley, and about the same time Mr. Hughes brought out a truckload of shingles, a part for Ernest Dahack, our barber and the rest for David Cingcade, to be used to reroof his house on his farm.
    . . . Ernest Dahack, our barber, gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, August 22, 1921, page 3


    Mrs. Victoria Musso, a sister of Mrs. Ernest Dahack, the wife of our barber, has been visiting the Dahack family.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, August 26, 1921, page 7


    E. V. Dahack, our popular barber, had another one of his wife's sisters to visit him from Seattle, Mrs. M. A. Dahack. She only remained a short time and hurried on her journey south to California. Speaking of Mr. Dahack his father Eli Dahack had the misfortune to lose one of his team, a valuable mare, from blood poison. He had a veterinary come out from Medford but found that she was too far gone to help her.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, September 2, 1921, page 7


    Tuesday morning, while I was waiting for the morning mail from Medford, I took a stroll down Riverside boulevard and stopped in to take a look at the unfinished house of our barber, Ernest Dahack. Early last spring he bought a small two room cottage that had been built by a widow lady for a home, during the boom, and people who knew him wondered what he was thinking to buy such a small unfinished house as that for a family of his size, wife and three children, and the house was not even fenced in and no water on it to use or drink, although it was only a short distance to the creek. But the first thing anyone knew he had the material on the ground to fence it and soon had the fence up, the land heavily coated with barn manure and planted in all kinds of garden truck, a water system established and running all over it so as to irrigate it from a 1600-gallon tank he had put up on the tract of land he had secured from W. Hart Hamilton. And then the next move was to begin changing and enlarging his house, and now it is a neat seven-room house with all modern improvements, and by the time he has it completed he will have one of the best arranged houses in this vicinity and the beauty of it all is that he has done all the work himself, the carpentering, brick mason work and painting, everything ready to use, and attended to his barber shop at the same time, but while his neighbors were asleep or otherwise taking things easy, Ernest was up and at work. My object in writing this item is to encourage others to do away with the "I can't" idea and adopt the "I will" thought instead.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1921, page 6


    Eli Dahack, father of our barber, has bought the building standing between the Nichols store and the town hall and I understand that he intends to move it onto the tract of land that Ernest Dahack bought of W. Hart Hamilton near the barber shop, but he has not disclosed to me what use he is going to put it to.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 1, 1921, page 6


    Zera Dahack, formerly of the Derby country but now of Medford, was here Monday visiting his nephew, Ernest Dahack our barber, and attending to business affairs.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1921, page 14


    Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, has started in to build a barn on the sunny side of the creek and by working all day Sunday and Monday has succeeded in getting it in shape so as to cover his corn fodder that has been stacked, and if he is as successful in putting additions to the barn as he has been in adding to the dwelling house he purchased, he will eventually have a very creditable barn. He is one of the few men among us who, if he wants anything done, does it himself without calling on his neighbors.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 28, 1921, page 3


    Among those who were here for dinner Friday were Frank Rhodes of Eagle Point, Wm. Martin of Lake Creek, Fred Cummings, the water superintendent, G. F. Collie, Charles Pettegrew, L. Walters and John Smith, the four last named were engaged sawing wood for Wm. von der Hellen, and at the same time Eli Dahack, etc., were sawing wood in another part of our town.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1921, page B1


    "Agate Jack" Goin has finally arranged to have his house he has rented from Mrs. Nickell wired up, Ernest Dahack doing the wiring of the house and shop for him, and now is about ready to begin business the first of the year, 1922. I heard him telling parties who were here for dinner that he had already on hand about four or five hundred pounds of choice agates all ready to work on, and while he is resting he will replenish his stock by spending a few hours each week gathering more agates.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1922, page 3


    Saturday night there was a grand masked ball, given with the usual prizes, etc., but I have heard but little about it as such little things as that do not seem to act very effectively on the public mind in Eagle Point anymore, although I understand that Ernest Dahack, our barber, took the prize for being the most grotesquely dressed man in the company. I did not learn who took the best prize among the ladies but learned that Mrs. T. F. Nichols and one of the Walch girls each took prizes but was unable to learn who took the first prize. Since writing the foregoing I have found a lady who reports that there was a perfect "mob" there, that they were so thick that they could not dance.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1922, page 2


    Eli Dahack and son Everett came in Thursday morning from Seattle, Wash.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, January 9, 1922, page 3


    Carl Norris, one of our progressive youths, has installed a shoe polishing parlor in a part of the Ernest [Dahack] barber shop, [and] although he does not keep open all the time, only on Saturday nights, he seems to be doing quite well.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 3, 1922, page B6


    Eli Dahack, one of our prosperous farmers, came in Thursday on his way to Medford to consult an eye and ear specialist, as he was suffering with a severe attack on the rim of one of his ears.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 7, 1922, page 4


    Ernest Dahack, our barber, has been making some substantial improvements on the tract of land where he has his barber shop, by removing the old low wire fence and putting up a neat four-foot Page fence in its place.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 21, 1922, page 6


    Alvin Murso of Auburn, Calif. is here visiting his sister, Mrs. Ernest Dahack. He said that he was simply looking over the country and seemed to be favorably impressed with its appearance, although the cold backward spring has kept vegetation back so that the country does not show to advantage as usual.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 31, 1922, page 10


    Mrs. Ernest Dahack and Earl Matthews made a business trip to Medford Saturday morning.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 12, 1922, page 12


    Ernest Dahack, our barber, went up to Butte Falls with the mail Wednesday morning.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1922, page 5


    Among those who took supper at the Sunnyside Sunday were Earl Matthews, Eli and Everett Dahack, Wm. Knighten, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Holmes, Geo. Wehman, bookkeeper for Wm. von der Hellen, and Lucius Kincaid.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1922, page 7


    Alvin Musso, a brother of Mrs. Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, who has been here visiting her sister, left Monday for his home in California.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 3, 1922, page 6


DAHACK RETRIAL FOR GUN TOTING STILL UNDECIDED
    County Prosecutor Moore has not yet announced whether he will have the case against Everett Dahack retried. The case was tried before a jury in Justice Taylor's court the last of last week, the jury failing to agree, standing three to three. The charge was carrying concealed weapons.
    The case grew out of the arrest recently of Dahack at the Soda Springs in the Dead Indian country by Officer Sandefer and deputies, who in that vicinity found a quantity of mash for a still and Sandefer thinking that Dahack might know something about the still, decided to search him and did so, finding on him a revolver.
    The accused was defended in court by Charles Reames. Rawles Moore looked after the state's end of the case. The jurors voting not guilty, it is reported stated after the trial that they deemed it only right for any man to carry a revolver way up there in the hills.
    The members of the jury were Horace Nicholson, James Bowling, O. L. Harmon, A. M. Lofland, John Kirkpatrick and P. C. Bigham.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1922, page 2


     Rudolph Weidman, one of our hustling farmers, dairymen and orchardists, finished filling his silo Wednesday, Sept. 15th and Carl Esch, who has erected a new silo this season, has succeeded in filling his silo also Tuesday, the 19th inst. Raleigh Matthews and Ed Dahack have been filling their silos this week also. The reader can perhaps form some idea of the way the cream industry is developing by the number of silos there are out in our section of the county.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune,  September 25, 1922, page 6

    There is a move on foot to open up another confectionery store and pool room in our little town. The promoters of the move are Thomas F. Nichols and Clarence Pruett. They have closed the old Roy Ashpole hardware store building and are making several changes, tearing out a lot of the shelving and changing the location of some of it, partitioning off a part of the front part of it for a sales room where they will sell their soft drinks, candy, cigars and ice cream, leaving room for one our two pool tables and any other accessories they may think best to put in and they have divided up the front room and cut off a neat room for a barber shop and have proposed to our barber, Ernest Dahack, who is already established here in his own building, to have him vacate his own shop, giving him the use of the building and electric lights free, but he declines the offer as he owns the building where he is and has his hot and cold water system, bath room, tub and all the necessary equipment. Mr. Nichols is furnishing the capital for the undertaking and they are planning to have a large increase in our population in the next two or three years and have business enough to sustain two barber shops, and pay a good interest on the investment. Thomas M. Riley, our handyman, is doing the carpentering work, painting and papering in making the changes and fitting up the rooms.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1922, page 9


    In strolling around town Thursday I discovered a lot of timber, sand and gravel alongside and back of the offices of the Eagle Point and Butte Falls Canal Co., and found Mr. John Miller and Thomas Riley at work and approaching them, learned that they were building a garage for the company 40x20 feet with a sloping front. They had the foundation already made, blocks of cement and were sawing out the timbers, but Mr. Riley remarked that they would have to wait until the cement hardened before they could proceed, but in the meantime they would build an addition to the new barber shop, a room cut out of the old Roy Ashpole hardware store building, now fixed up for a soft drink, cigar and confectionery, pool and billiard and card room for a bathroom for our barber. They are working on it today, Friday, and in a short time, probably by the time this is in print, Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, will be giving those who desire one a good wash-off. Our carpenters are kept so busy that they have jobs always ahead.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 21, 1922, page 6


    Our old contractor, C. H. Natwick, who has a contract to dig 19,000 yards of the main canal, is establishing his camp at the Thomsen homestead and started up with. two loads of machinery; and Jed Edsall, another contractor, who has a contract for digging 10,183 yards of laterals, has established his camp at the Ernest Dahack homestead and I have not learned just where the Wm. von der Hellen camp is being located yet.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 1, 1922, page 6


    It is a good thing for the readers of the Eaglets that the author does not attend the dances here, for if he did he might be compelled to record incidents that take place Saturday nights that would be considered a disgrace to our town; for instance, Sunday morning as one of the late sleepers came into the sitting room another one of the boarders asked, "You had lots of moonshine over there last night, didn't you?" And that after there were several ladies called and in the run of conversation one of them related how she was disturbed by their drunken carousals and could see small groups of men and women walking along the sidewalk and one of the men would take what appeared to be a bottle out from under the sidewalk and he would apparently take a drink, and then they would take a drink all around, ladies and all, and soon act as though they were drunk, at least they seemed to be very boisterous. But what I started in to tell was about someone stealing Eli Dahack's car and running it off of the old wagon bridge. It appears that the man or men or women, for there is no clue to who it was, at any rate the party who did the act deliberately tore the  railing off one side of the bridge and took a long pole and stretched it quartering across the bridge so that when the front wheel would strike it would hit the car so as to run it off the side of the bridge where it would drop twelve or fifteen feet, but whether that can be attributed to the moonshine or to some other cause is a question to be settled, but the car was not so badly damaged as one would suppose. The top was badly smashed, the radiator and shields were badly bent up but the machinery was but little damaged. I would suggest that if this defiance of law is not stopped that when the new council is organized the first of January they repeal the ordinance allowing the promoters of the dancing here to continue the dancing after midnight, for the opinion is very prevalent that some of the people who are doing the mischief go to the dances in Medford and get steamed up and then after the dances close in Medford and Central Point come out here and do their dirty work where they can keep up all night. "A word to the wise is sufficient."
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 8, 1922, page 10


    I also noticed that Eli Dahack and his son Everett were at work raising the old store building standing between the F. J. McPherson store building and the town hall, getting it ready to move. I understand that they are going to move it onto a lot joining the new pool building, but what use they intend to turn it to I am unable to say at present.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 22, 1922, page 7


    Eli Dahack started in the first of the week to move the old store building formerly used as a store by A. J. Daley and later by Mr. Heath, now in the drug business in Medford, and later moved from the upper end of town down to the business part of the town and used by Mr. Heath after he moved into the T. E. Nichols building as a warehouse, and was afterwards sold to the Dahacks, and they started in several weeks ago to move it, but never got really started at the job until the first of the week. They are moving it back up the street again and intend to place it on the lot joining the Eagle Point pool room. What they intend to use it for, they have not given out as yet.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, January 15, 1923, page 4


    Among the callers Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hubbs, shoe dealer of Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Feldman, an accountant of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Nichols, hardware merchant of Eagle Point and family, besides a few of the young men of Eagle Point, A. W. Leebaard, manager of the Columbia Tire Company, Medford, and Everett Dahack. He and his father, Eli Dahack, are fixing the old store building that they moved up beside the Eagle Point poolroom and say they are going into business there handling auto tires.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 1923, page 4


    Eli and Everett Dahack are fixing up the building they moved from between the McPherson store and the town hall for a garage and are installing a gasoline pump and air and water plant and expect to put in a supply of tires and tubes and the necessary accompaniments for a first-class garage and Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, has installed a water system in his dwelling with hot and cold water, bath tub, and in connection with it an irrigation system for his garden and berry vines. He also has the lumber, cement and shingles on the ground to put up a house to install an electric pump in the place of his old gasoline pump and have it arranged automatically so as to ensure a good supply of water for his barbershop and bath room, as well as for domestic use at his home. By the installation of the Dahack gas pump and garage it secures for the town a bountiful supply of gas and auto supplies, as Ashpole & Nichols have a gas pump with their hardware store, F. J. McPherson has one in connection with his general merchandise store, and George B. Holmes has one with his garage and there is also a pump at the Eagle Point pool room, though it is not in operation at present although one of the firm told me when they first opened up that they intended to keep gas when the travel opened up.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 27, 1923, page 6


    G. W. Medley and Henry Maust came out Thursday to connect the new garage of Eli Dahack and son, Everett, with the main electric wire and took dinner at the Sunnyside. They are in the employ of the California-Oregon Power Company. Ernest Dahack has installed a new electric automatic pump that does away with his old gas pump that has been an eyesore to the whole town for some time. It took half a day to get it started to pump.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, March 19, 1923, page 5


    Ray Ulrich of the Associated Oil Co. was out delivering gasoline for our new garage men, the Dahacks, Thursday.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 2, 1923, page 5


    Among the visitors at the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday whose names I secured (for there were between twenty and twenty-five took dinner), were Mr. Willits, representing the Standard Oil Co., S. K. Peterman of the Star Meat Market of Medford, F. L. Bailey and wife, agent of the U.S. General Land Office, J. H. Carter, Harold Van Scoy, our popular and accommodating mail carrier on the Medford-Butte Falls route; Mr. Selsby, representing a Portland hardware firm; Thomas Culler of Rogue River, and B. L. Kingery of Wellen, who was over with a team to take a large 1600-gallon tank and the tower it stood on for Lyle Carlton, also of Wellen, that Lyle bought of Ernest Dahack, our barber, that he installed to furnish water for his shop and garden, as he has installed an electric automatic pump that does away with the necessity of a tank.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 17, 1923, page 5


    I must not fail to mention the fact that the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point have done a neat job while they were at it, cleaning up in our town. I spoke in the former part of this letter about meeting Mattie Brown with her rake and gunnysack on Monday morning and working like a trooper, but the next day she had added to her force some six or eight other women and they were taking everything before them, and I called the attention of Eli Dahack to them and pointed to a lot of rubbish he had along the sidewalk next to his garage, but he did not stop for them to come, but went right at it cleaning the old lumber away that had been left when had been moving his house, and by the time I got around on my way home he had it all nicely cleaned up and put away. I noticed also that they have secured a lot of ceiling lumber and are going to finish up the half done job that the men did on our town hall, that is now used for our town library. With such women as are at the head of the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point, something has to move when they get started.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, April 30, 1923, page 3


    I recently learned that Everett Dahack while up in the Prospect country last Sunday had the misfortune to wreck his car. The steering wheel got out of commission, so he could not control his car, with the result that it capsized, but he was not hurt but damaged the car considerable.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 19, 1923, page 4


    Eli Dahack gave me his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun Monday.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 25, 1923, page 3


    Among the business callers Wednesday were Wm. Pruett, Ed Gomez, J. W. Gilman, a life insurance man who succeeded in inducing our barber, Ernest Dahack, to take out an insurance policy for five thousand dollars, took him over to Central Point, had him examined by a physician who pronounced him physically a perfect man. Mr. Gilman's father, C. M. Gilman of Central Point, was also with him.
    Our popular barber, Ernest Dahack, reports that he was kept busy last Sunday the most of the day, as in addition to the odd jobs in his shops there were five of the Medfordites came out to be shaved and have haircuts.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 6, 1923, page 7


EAGLE POINT FIRE LOSS OVER $3000
    A fire which caused a $3000 or more loss, and which destroyed the Dahack garage and the Dahack barber shop and a pool hall operated by Clarence Pruett at Eagle Point, occurred Sunday night from an unknown cause.
    The garage building was owned by the Dahacks, and the building which housed the pool hall and barber shop was owned by Roy Ashpole of Eagle Point, who this morning estimated the total loss in the neighborhood of $3000.
    The Ashpole building was insured, and it is understood that the Dahack building and the pool room and barber shop equipment were also insured.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1923, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. George Cordano are here visiting Mrs. Cordano's sister, Mrs. Ernest Dahack, the wife of our barber.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 13, 1923, page 7


    About the first thing I heard Monday morning was the alarm of fire, and the rushing around of the four women who were trying to wake Clarence Pruett, one of the proprietors of the Eagle Point Pool Hall, as the fire had started in the Dahack garage and it was on the adjoining lot to the pool hall, but before he was awake and dressed the fire had reached the hall, but the people living on that side of the creek and a few on this side had already reached the scene and were trying to save what they could. Ernest Dahack's barbershop was in a room in the same building as the pool hall and they managed to save his bath tub and about all of his tools and fixtures, but he lost his large mirror, hot water tank, a valuable rug he had in his bath room, beside several small articles, but he is undaunted and has moved into his old stand and opened up business again. The building in which the barbershop and the pool hall was in belonged to Roy Ashpole and it was insured for five hundred dollars and the stock of goods, tables, chairs, etc., was insured for two thousand dollars. And it is hard to tell how much insurance there was on the Dahack property as they are very reticent on the subject and rumor has it that it was insured for twelve hundred to two thousand dollars, but a very close friend of the Dahacks is said to have told that the house was insured for three hundred and the contents nine hundred dollars. There is a great deal of sympathy manifested for Clarence Pruett, for he is a quiet young man and was just starting into business and was building up a fine trade and making a lot of friends, and it is hoped that he will rebuild and open up again for we, as a community, are loath to give up such promising young men as Mr. Pruett seems to be.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, July 16, 1923, page 3


    We have also had an addition to our school of another room, the high school department, which is in charge of J. G. Thompson, and he and his family are living in the Ernest Dahack [omission] has built a house on the highway and is keeping a gasoline stand. Mr. Nat Russel and family have moved into the house formerly occupied by Mr. Denton, and Mr. H. W. Henshaw and family have moved into the Morgan house, the old Pool Hotel, and W. F. Watson has settled among us and is operating the old Snowy Butte Mill.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1923, page 10


    Although this is the third letter that I have written for the Medford Mail Tribune since I reached home, I find that there are several changes in business affairs that have come to my notice that I have failed to chronicle and some of them may be considered of importance, while some would be considered simply items of news. Another change in real estate has taken place that I have heard of since my last is the sale of the lot where the Dahack garage was burned just before I went away up into Washington to Mrs. A. J. Florey and her husband A. J. Florey, although very reticent as to their plans, with regard to their move intimated very clearly that they are thinking quite seriously of building on it and opening a soft drink and candy shop, as it is situated very handy to the dance hall.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, December 21, 1923, page B3


    I notice that Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, who was confined to his home for some time with sickness, has so far recovered as to be able to resume business at his old stand.
    Among those who were at the Sunnyside Saturday for dinner were Roy Stanley, wife and son, and Roy's brother, Lloyd Stanley, Nelson Nye and his son-in-law, C. C. Clark of Prospect, Ernest Dahack, our barber, Miss Frances Greb.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 20, 1924, page 6


    Among those who attended the farm conference in Medford on Wednesday, Feb. 20 were R. A. Weidman, A. C. Huson, Mrs. L. K. Haak, Ernest Dahack and Everett Dahack.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, February 27, 1924, page 3


E. V. DAHACK INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT, CAR IS BURNED UP
    While returning home from a dance Sunday morning about daylight, the Star car driven and owned by Everett V. Dahack of Eagle Point rolled down a three-foot embankment on the Crater Lake Highway between Trail and McLeod when the vehicle skidded in the loose gravel. Dahack was hurled into the windshield and sustained cuts and sprains to every finger, and cut and contusion on the head. He came to this city today to have his wounds dressed.
    Dahack left the car where it rolled and went for assistance. In the meantime two spare tires and the spotlight were removed and the car caught fire and burned up. The car rolled into a barbed wire fence and Dahack sustained scratches and cuts in extricating himself.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1924, page 5


    EAGLE POINT, June 5.--Mrs. Ernest Dahack left for Bowman, Calif., Wednesday night. She was called there by the death of her father.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 6, 1924, page 8


    Ernest Dahack has moved his barber shop to the Oasis Service Station on the Crater Lake Highway.
"Eagle Point Eaglets," Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1924, page B1


    Mrs. Grace Dahack is in the hospital and had to have an operation.
    An unknown tourist ran into a colt owned by Mr. Dahack and crippled it so badly that it was necessary to kill it. It seems to be the opinion that the car was going entirely too fast to avoid with any degree of certainty such accidents while passing through towns.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, September 12, 1924, page B3


FOUNTAINHEAD MOONSHINE FOUND
    Recent Arrests by Sandefer Involve Many Persons.
    It seems the district attorney's office has at last got the clue which bids fair to break up the gang of moonshiners and bootleggers that have made Eagle Point notorious. From tips picked up by District Attorney N. W. Boren and his deputy, W. R. Gaylord, and supplied to Prohibition Enforcement Officer L. B. Sandefer, that vigilant official arrested Eli Dahack and his son, Everett Dahack, and charged them with the sale of liquor. The prisoners were taken before Justice Glen O. Taylor Tuesday, where upon preliminary examination they were bound over to the circuit court in a bond of $1,000 each.
    This appears simple enough, but it apparently starts an endless chain which links many persons into "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" and meanders through the foothills and mountains beyond Eagle Point.
Fountainhead Discovered
    A rumor here, a drunken man there, a cargo of moonshine, a bunch of canceled checks and much other evidence all leads up and around the same crooked road ending in and around the Dahack neighborhood.
    It has been difficult to link up the evidence, but the district attorney now thinks he has uncovered the fountainhead of the stream of mountain dew that has put so much jazz in the Eagle Point dances and painted the cheeks and noses of scores of people not only in Eagle Point but in Medford and other places as well.
    The case upon which the Dahacks were bound over involves E. O. Bradley, Horace Pech and Earl Akers, a sixteen-year-old boy, all of Medford, and all of whom appear to have been drinking freely at the Dahack fountain. These persons were witnesses in the preliminary hearing, and two of them have answered indictments for the possession of intoxicating liquor. Pech pleaded guilty and Akers, the lad, is now scheduled to answer in the juvenile court. In this case alone, there is apparently enough evidence to establish the guilt of the Dahacks and confiscate from two to four automobiles, but other indictments will follow in fast succession.
Henry McAdams Involved
    Another Medford man, Henry McAdams, brought a carload of booze from Dahacks to the McAndrews ford road near here, and being apprehended has made a clean breast of the transaction and will be a witness to prosecute the Dahacks.
    C. C. Clark is also involved in another transaction said to deal with Dahack booze. Others whose names are withheld for the present will appear later either as accomplices or partners with the Dahacks.
    It may be of interest to learn that Walter Wood, also of the Eagle Point district, who was convicted last July and fined $400, refused to pay his fine and will be committed to jail in Multnomah County, where prisoners are used on public works.
Medford Clarion, September 26, 1924, page 1


NOT GUILTY IS VERDICT RETURNED IN DAHACK CASE
        After 6 hours' deliberation the jury in the Dahack case at 3 p.m. this afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty.
    The circuit court jury in the trial of Everett Dahack of Eagle Point, charged with violation of the prohibition laws, began its deliberations at 10 o'clock this morning, and was still out at noon.
    The chief witness against Dahack was E. O. Bradley, who alleged that he purchased liquor from the defendant last July. A check given to Ernest Dahack, a brother of the defendant, was presented as evidence. Ernest said he remembered the check because Bradley had tendered payment for gasoline and groceries, "including more pigs feet than usual." From Dahack's testimony, it developed that Bradley was fond of them. Ernest could not remember the exact date he gave the check to Everett, and was pressed hard by Deputy Prosecutor Gaylord for a definite answer, who insisted upon one. Finally Ernest said:
    "I don't know for sure, but I gave it to Everett some time after I got it."
    Bradley in his testimony told of issuing the check and buying the rum and Attorney Kelly attempted to show a wide variance between his present testimony and what he said at the preliminary hearing.
    Bradley admitted taking a drink, but said he had reformed since, and interjected uncomplimentary remarks about the quality of the stimulants he alleges he bought.
    Bradley denied that the wound in the head, sustained during the war, made him irresponsible for what he said, but opined that the moonshine he imbibed would result in mental fogginess.
    The witness testified that he often wrote checks, with as "high as $100" in his pockets, but denied that he had told friends "that he didn't need to buy liquor because I am a good bootlegger myself, and have some buried on Ross Lane." Bradley said he never said it and did not know where Ross Lane was.
    A legal flurry ensued when Deputy Prosecutor Gaylord asserted that counsel for the defense "was fishing far afield."
    This aroused Attorney Kelly, who entered a denial that "I am either fishing, or in a field, and demand the withdrawal of the observation of learned counsel for the state."
    The court settled the uprising by ordering the case to proceed.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 20, 1924, page 7


JURY ACQUITS EVERETT DAHACK
    The jury in case of State of Oregon vs. Everett Dahack, after six hours deliberation, brought in a verdict of "not guilty." E. E. Kelly represented the defendant. The moral conviction of many who hear the evidence was that the defendant had undoubtedly been trafficking in moonshine, but the jury was unable to return a verdict of guilty on the evidence. C. C. Gilchrist of Sams Valley signed the verdict as foreman.
Jackson County New, November 21, 1924, page 1


    Ernest Dahack is tearing down the old Morgan house and taking it up to Oasis where he will put up another building out of the lumber.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, November 22, 1924, page 3


ELI DAHACK ON TRIAL IN JACKSONVILLE
    The trial of Eli Dahack, a well-known resident of the Eagle Point district, and father of the well-known Dahack boys of that vicinity, charged with violation of the Volstead Act, is underway in the circuit court today. Monday afternoon was devoted to the selection of a jury and the case is expected to be concluded late this afternoon. The defense is represented by Attorney E. E. Kelly, and the state by District Attorney Newton W. Borden and Assistant Attorney Winfield R. Gaylord.
    This is the third alleged bootlegging trial before a jury at this term of court, the other two resulting in acquittals.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1924, page 4


DAHACK JURY STILL OUT AFTER 24 HOURS
    At 3 p.m. today the jury in the trial of Eli Dahack, well-known resident of Eagle Point charged with violation of the prohibition laws, was still out after deliberating since 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and apparently hopelessly deadlocked. The Medford member of the jury, which contains two women, is J. A. Perry.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 10, 1924, page 3


DAHACK JURY IS DISCHARGED, NO VERDICT OBTAINED
    After deliberating for 27 hours and hopelessly disagreeing throughout, the jury in the trial of Eli Dahack, well-known resident of the Eagle Point district, was discharged Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock by the court. According to courthouse report, the jury stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal from practically the start, and never changed throughout the long session. The jury endeavored to reach a verdict in the early stages of the siege, but in the final hours it resolved itself into a hopeless deadlock.
    Dahack was charged with violation of the prohibition law, and the jury was split chiefly on conflict in the testimony. A son, Everett, charged with the same offense, at this term of court was acquitted after short deliberation. E. C. Woods of Gold Hill, similarly charged, was also acquitted at this term of court.
    While the pondering of the Dahack jury was lengthy enough, it did not break the Jackson County record. A jury in one of the trials of "Shine" Edwards, tried for bootlegging, deliberated 33 hours without an agreement.
    Dahack, who is a well-known resident of the Eagle Point district, was indicted by the grand jury on three counts: sale and possession and giving liquor to a minor. He was defended by Attorney E. E. Kelly, and the state was represented by District Attorney Newton W. Borden and Assistant Attorney Winfield R. Gaylord.
    Trial on the remaining indictments against Dahack has not been decided upon but will probably be deferred until the February term of court.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 11, 1924, page 3


DAHACK FORFEITS $750 BOND, 2 OTHER CASES DISMISSED
    Preliminary hearings of charges against alleged prohibition violators, arrested in a recent cleanup, headed by M. V. McMills, state prohibition enforcement officer, were started before County Judge George Gardner Friday at Jacksonville, and resulted in one acquittal, two dismissals, one plea of guilty, and one forfeiture of $750 bonds. The remaining cases will be heard in February.
    Eli Dahack of Eagle Point failed to appear for trial when his name was called and Judge Gardner, after a 15-minute wait, declared his $750 bond forfeited. Dahack entered a plea of guilty to the second charge of selling liquor and will enter a plea this afternoon to a third and similar charge. At the last session of the grand jury, Dahack was indicted on three counts, charging sale and the jury disagreed after 27 hours' deliberation.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 27, 1924, page 6


ELI DAHACK IS GIVEN 6 MONTHS AND $500 FINE
    Eli Dahack, well-known resident of the Eagle Point district, was sentenced to serve six months in jail and pay a fine of $500 by County Judge Geo. A. Gardner, on a plea of guilty to a complaint charging sale of intoxicating liquor. His attorney, E. E. Kelly, announced his intention of filing a writ of review, which will carry the case to the circuit court. Dahack entered a plea of guilty last Friday and efforts to withdraw it were denied. On Thursday, Dahack's bail of $750 on a similar charge was ordered forfeited for nonappearance. Dahack was ordered remanded to the custody of the sheriff.
    A third case of selling intoxicating liquor is still pending against Dahack, two indictments alleging violation of the liquor laws, returned by the last grand jury. A jury in the circuit court the first of the month were unable to agree, at the trial of Dahack on a similar charge, and were discharged after 27 hours' deliberation.
    The sentence meted out to Dahack is one of the heaviest ever administered in a liquor violation case in this county.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 30, 1924, page 5


DAHACK CASE IS SETTLED BY JAIL TERM AND FINE
    According to latest report today the Dahack case has been settled by a sentence of 6 months in jail and $500 fine, all other charges against him being dismissed.
    A petition for a writ of review, charging a promise of immunity by the district attorney, and "bias and prejudice" on the part of County Judge George A. Gardner, was filed in the circuit court Tuesday by Eli Dahack, sentenced to serve six months in the county jail and pay a fine of $500 for violation of the prohibition laws, to which he pleaded guilty.
    Dahack in an affidavit alleges that he reached an agreement with the district attorney, whereby he was to enter a plea of guilty and the four remaining liquor charges against him would be dismissed. In view of this, Dahack says, he went into court last Friday and pleaded guilty. The court asked "How about the other charges?"
    Dahack answered, the affidavit states: "Why, the district attorney is going to dismiss them."
    The district attorney denied this, and Dahack avers that he then said he would not plead guilty, and thought that he had withdrawn his plea.
    Dahack says that the reason he pleaded guilty was "to save time, money and trouble."
    His attorney, E. E. Kelly, in an affidavit avers that his client told him of the "understanding" and that when an effort was made to withdraw the plea of guilty, after the denial, it was denied and that the court said it was his understanding that some of the cases would be dismissed but not all of them.
    It is further alleged that the court "evinced such a prejudice and bias that it is impossible for the defendant to get a fair and impartial trial."
    The affidavit also charges that the court expressed its intention of giving Dahack a jail sentence.
    Dahack, who is a resident of the Eagle Point district, has been more or less in the legal limelight the last three months. First, he was indicted by the grand jury on three counts, alleging violation of the liquor laws. At a trial at the last term of court, the jury disagreed after 27 hours deliberation.
    In the roundup of alleged liquor violators ten days ago by state authorities, three more complaints were sworn out against him, charging selling, one alleging he was bootlegging a few days after his trial.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1924, page 8


    Lota Henshaw, Ernestine Dahack and Clara Thompson visited with Miss Mary Stanley in Central Point Monday. Miss Stanley has been sick for some time but is improving slowly.
"Much Property Damage," Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1925, page 9


    Ernest Dahack narrowly escaped a broken leg when a heavy motor fell upon him last Monday.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, May 16, 1925, page 6


ELI DAHACK IS SUED BY ATTORNEY KELLY
    Suit was filed in the circuit court Thursday by attorney E. E. Kelly against Eli Dahack, Eagle Point district resident, serving a year in the county jail for violations of the prohibition laws, for judgment for $350 and costs of the action.
    The complaint sets forth that Attorney Kelly defended Dahack in his entanglement with the law, and no financial reward has been forthcoming. In the first trial of Dahack, who was indicted three or four times, the jury disagreed after 32 hours deliberation. Dahack then pleaded guilty, other charges against him were dismissed and he started serving a term that will expire next March.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1925, page 13


    Many young people gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Thompson to attend a birthday party in honor of Ernest Dahack and Clara Thompson.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, June 19, 1925, page 14


    Everett Dahack is carrying the mail now for a few days, as Earl Woods took a little trip to California.
"Trail Items," Medford Mail Tribune, September 25, 1925, page 12


    Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Luy are going to move into Ernest Dahack's house at the Oasis.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1926, page 6


    Ernie Dahack has rented his small house at the Oasis to two men who are working on the Trail bridge.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1926, page 6


    Mrs. Ernest Dahack is in Sacramento visiting relatives there. She expects to return home the latter part of this week.  
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1926, page B2


    Ernest Dahack has been enlarging his camp ground at the Oasis service station.
"Eagle Pt. Sunday School," Medford Mail Tribune, March 12, 1926, page B1


    Fred Slate of Albany, who has the contract for digging the trenches for the Medford pipeline from Eagle Point to Medford, is here and has unloaded the machinery and expects to be ready to start operation in about a week. Mr. Slate expects to move his family here and has leased the Dahack house, now occupied by Prof. Thompson. It is probable that a number of the men in the crew will also move their families here, as the work will take at least six months.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, May 14, 1926, page B5


    Ernest Dahack has returned from a ten days' trip to Newport where he has been learning the art of grinding and mounting agates. He has a very fine display now and is equipped to do all the work of a first-class job right here at home. It has been necessary before to ship your stones to Portland or some other city, and this will be a much more convenient and satisfactory way of dealing. Drop in and see Mr. Dahack's specimens. He has accepted a great many orders already. 
"Nebraska Folks Locate," Medford Mail Tribune, May 29, 1926, page 5


    Mrs. Sam Geary, Sr., and little grandson Jimmy, Mr. and Mrs. E. Dahack and Ben Geary were Sunday visitors at the Forest Service camp at Mill Creek station.
"Trail Items," Medford Mail Tribune, July 2, 1926, page B6


    Ernest Dahack lost a row of four furnished cabins by fire Thursday afternoon. One of the cabins was in use and the occupants left shortly after their noon meal, and while the source of the fire is unknown, it is supposed it started in this cabin. All of the Oasis property is more or less connected, and it is nothing short of a miracle that the fire fighters were able to save the other buildings. Even the barn nearby was saved. Mr. Dahack carried no insurance, so the loss is complete. This is a severe blow to the Dahacks. They have been continuously making improvements in their property and three on the morning of the fire. We are all awfully sorry, but glad it was no worse.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, September 6, 1926, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. James L. Linn and daughter Mary and Ernestine Dahack, who accompanied the Linns on their trip to Southern California, returned to Eagle Point Monday morning. The Linns made a visit into Mexico and other points in addition to visiting in San Diego with relatives.
"Chicken Dinner at Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 6


   Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gorden are moving into the Dahack house recently evacuated by the Slate family.
"Sale Christmas Seals," Medford Mail Tribune, December 1, 1926, page 6


    Girls' basketball emblems were presented to Lota Henshaw, Ernestine Dahack, Emily Jones, Hattie Hannaford, Mary Hannaford and Josephine Hurst.
"Eagle Point To Play Cent. Point," Medford Mail Tribune, May 28, 1927, page 8


    Mr. Dahack has installed a large plant at the Oasis, cooling the refrigerator, root beer barrel and ice cream tubs.
"They're Keeping Cool," Medford Mail Tribune, June 3, 1927, page 6


    At the intersection of the Crater Lake Highway and the Eagle Point road, one-fourth mile from town, is located the Oasis Service Station and refreshment stand conducted by Ernest Dahack. F. J. Sinclair has taken over the garage, repair shop and accessories. One of the finest collections of agates in this section may be seen at the Oasis station.
"Personal Items," Medford Mail Tribune, June 25, 1927, page 5


    I. L. Sinclair is making headway with the building of his new highway garage. Mr. Sinclair expects to occupy it when his present lease is up on the Dahack garage.
"Presbyterians of Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, September 9, 1927, page B3


RESIDENT EAGLE POINT ACCUSED OF COW THEFTS
    Accused of stealing cattle from his neighbors and selling their meat to local meat markets, A. F. Matlock of Eagle Point was bound over to the grand jury yesterday in the local justice court on a charge of grand larceny. Matlock has a wife and three children and is 30 years of age or more.
    Matlock, according to the sheriff's office, sold two butchered beef Aug. 30 at a local market and then is said to have sold another last Monday. While the first two could [not] be identified as to ownership, the last, a heifer, was identified by its owner, Ernest Dahack of Eagle Point, who is said to have found his head and feet in Matlock's car, which had become stalled.
    The stock was sold by H. Johnson, a laborer, who believed Matlock to the rightful owner. He was taking the head and feet to dump them along the road when the car became stalled and the evidence was found by Dahack who recognized the head to be a part of his former heifer.
    Johnson explained to the sheriff that he was told to dump the head and feet because Matlock claimed that the stock was mortgaged and that he had no legal right to sell same.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 15, 1927, page 8


    EAGLE POINT, Oct. 26.--E. P. Dickman of Sherwood, Ore., has become associated with W. C. Clements in the Butte Falls and Eagle Point Telephone Corporation. Mr. Dickman has had many years of practical experience in the telephone business and has purchased a block of stock in the company and will become general manager as soon as he is able to move his family here and get settled. Mr. Dickman's family consists of a wife and daughter, and he has rented the Dahack house and will move his family here in a few days.
"New Manager for Phone Co.," Medford Mail Tribune, October 28, 1927, page B1


    Ernest Dahack cut his face quite badly on a barbed wire just before the meeting, but he was brave enough to stay until he could vote before going to the doctor, who put several stitches in, so we were told.
"Reese Creek Riplets," Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1927, page B5


    The lineup for our girls' [basketball] team was: Lota Henshaw and Mary Hannaford, forwards; Kathryn Philbrook, Isolee Brown, centers; Ernestine Dahack and Freda Chambers, guards. Teen Dahack was put out for fouling and was replaced by Sybil Caster.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, February 2, 1928, page B4


    Several pupils are unable to attend school at the present time because of mumps. In the high school Mary Hannaford, Ernestine Dahack and Margaret Brophy are absent because of them.
"Eagle Point School Notes," Medford Mail Tribune, March 21, 1928, page 4


    The McClelland family moved from the Ashpole apartment to the Dahack house the first of the week.
"Eagle Point Items," Medford Mail Tribune, April 26, 1928, page 8


    The Dahacks have purchased the service station formerly owned by the Groves and will conduct the same in connection with the Oasis. Mr. McLane has moved his family back to California..
"School Directors Are Elected," Medford Mail Tribune, June 19, 1928, page 5


    Our hustling barber, Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station, between shaving men, curling ladies' hair, pumping gas, grinding agates and repairing automobiles, is busy preparing an onion bed.
 
"Grange Election for Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, December 3, 1928, page 6


    Mrs. Bonham's room, play entitled "On Christmas Eve." Characters: The Little Girl--Mary Irene Rogers. Wendy--Hazel Smith. Alice in Wonderland--Victoria Dahack. Crusoe--Robert Cowden. The Bagdad Traveler--Tom Stowell. Hansel and Gretel--Lyle Cingcade, Lucile Hunt. Aunt Polly--Verta Matthews. Tom Sawyer--Dale Cox. Cinderella--Lucille Coy. Red Riding Hood--Verona Davies. Boy from North Wind--Joe Miller. Hush-a-Bye Lady--Syliva Hankin. Mother--Zetta Rigsby.
 
"Yule Program Is Scheduled," Medford Mail Tribune, December 19, 1928, page 7


    Among the many people motoring to Medford to do Christmas shopping were Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Smith, C. F. Davies, Mrs. Ray Harnish, Mrs. Nellie Brown, Merritt Brown, Mrs. Anna Brophy and daughters Gwendolyn and Margaret, also Mr. and Mrs. Charley Cingcade, Mrs. Grace Dahack and Mrs. McClelland.
"Eagle Point Yule Festivities," Medford Mail Tribune, December 24, 1928, page 10


    Among the Eagle Point people trading in Medford Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley, Ernest Dahack, Earl Hanscom, Mrs. Pruett, Guy Pruett and son Herbert.
    Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station has been studying for some time the Hawaiian guitar and takes lessons regularly under Mrs. Priscilla Hennessey Meissinger of Gold Hill. Mr. Dahack intends to start an orchestra some time in the near future and expects to soon be broadcasting.
    Once again Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station is hauling lumber from our local yard. Ernest is a jack of all trades and in his spare time enlarges his home..
"Eagle Point City Council," Medford Mail Tribune, January 4, 1929, page B6


    Members of the Civic Improvement Club met at the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday, which was an all-day meeting, and tied a number of comforters and quilted several quilts. The hostesses, Mrs. S. E. Howlett and Miss Hattie Howlett, served one of the famous dinners, which everyone did justice to. Among those  present were President Mrs. Mattie Brown, Vice President Mrs. A. R. McDonald, Secretary Mrs. Cora Smith, Mrs. John Rader, Mrs. William Perry, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mrs. Ayres, Mrs. Amy Brown, Mrs. Elsworth Stowell, Mrs. Karl Esch, Mrs. C. A. Pruett, Mrs. Otto Caster, Miss Cora Crandall, Mrs. Leroy Caster, Mrs. Jack Florey, Mrs. Ernest Dahack, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Van Scoy, Mrs. Tom Cingcade, Mrs. Hankins, Mrs. Roy Smith, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Miss Burt, Miss Aitkens, Miss Jamison, Mrs. Edith Weidman and C. F. Davies.
    Miss Victoria, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station, has been very sick these last few days. It is reported that she is getting better.
"Grange Dance Is Next Attraction," Medford Mail Tribune, January 28, 1929, page 6


    Among the local people trading in Medford Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Gonyon, John Greb, Mr. Hannaford, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Mattie Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pearce, Miss Dorotha Pearce, Miss Hazel Helms, Victoria Dahack, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Caster, Miss Sybil Caster and Mrs. Royal Brown.
"Grange Dance on Saturday," Medford Mail Tribune, February 13, 1929, page 10


EAGLE POINT MAN PLANNING
MODERN VACATION RESORT

    EAGLE POINT, Ore., Feb. 18.--(Special.)--Rumors are in circulation that Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station intends to establish an up-to-date summer resort. He has ample room for campers. There are several cottages already built. There is a tonsorial parlor, Frigidaire and lunch goods, also garage and filling station, and will be ready with a swimming pool for the hot summer days. It will be a regular cozy corner for pleasure seekers. Cabins will be provided, and swimming suits will be loaned. He will have a profusion of flowers and shrubbery surrounding the premises, making it ideal, and with all accommodations at hand.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 18, 1929, page 6


    I. M. Philbrook has a number of cactus plants which he brought with him from California, on view at the Oasis service station. They are eight in number and each one different. Mr. Dahack says that they need a sandy soil and not too much water and they are growing fine. They are quite different from ordinary plants as there are hundreds of little stickers all over them. They can be seen any time at the Oasis service station.
"Granger Meeting at Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1929, page 9


    Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McLelland, who have resided quite a while in the house belonging to Ernest Dahack, opposite the park, have moved into the Mrs. Nichols home for the present. Sam Coy did the trucking.
"Improve Park at Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, March 8, 1929, page 4


    Among the Medford shoppers Saturday from Eagle Point were Mr. and Mrs. William Hurst, Mrs. M. E. Cingcade, Ernest Dahack, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Humphrey.
    Ernestine Dahack is on the sick list yet and is under the care of our local doctor. The doctor's offices are located over Brown's store.
"Mrs. Hurst Given Surprise Party," Medford Mail Tribune, March 12, 1929, page 10


    Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station entertained with a dinner on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock p.m. The invited guests were Mrs. O. Henderson of Portland, Mrs. Bert Hawes of Los Angeles and Mr. Wood of Eagle Point, also Mr. Eli Dahack, Miss Ernestine and Victoria. The time was spent in pleasant conversation and radio entertainment.
"Bible Class Has All-Day Session," Medford Mail Tribune, April 13, 1929, page 3


    Mr. Wood from the Dahack ranch, William Holman, Alex Vestal of Reese Creek and Tom Pullen were in town Tuesday attending to business.

"Much Lumber Is Handled," Medford Mail Tribune, April 19, 1929, page B1


    Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station was among the pupils of Mrs. Priscilla Hanness Meisinger of Gold Hill playing over KMED Friday evening.
"Mrs. Mack Plans To Visit," Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1929, page 8


    Clarence Greb recently purchased a small tract of land from the Eagle Point Irrigation District, fronting on the Crater Lake Highway adjoining the Dahack property, and is busy clearing in preparation for plowing. It is encouraging to see young men start out in life for themselves and make good.
"Crandall Sells Orchard," Medford Mail Tribune, May 2, 1929, page 8


    Millard Robertson, Clarence Greb, Glen Hurst and Ernest Dahack have recently purchased their places, which are under the Eagle Point Irrigation District. Each place has its frontage on the Crater Lake Highway and is being fenced and improved.
"Eagle Point Is Scene of Much Spring Building," Medford Mail Tribune, May 6, 1929, page 7


    Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station has an onion bed which he attends to during the intervals of shaving and pumping gasoline.
"Products Prove Eagle Point Has Prize Gardeners," Medford Mail Tribune, May 20, 1929, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. Richard Landers have moved into the house belonging to Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station.
"Passing Cars Hit Animals," Medford Mail Tribune, July 24, 1929, page 8


    Miss Ernestine Dahack is spending her summer vacation with the Henshaw family near the Mt. Pitt district.
    Mr. and Mrs. Weil of Southern California have rented the house on the Crater Lake Highway belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Dahack.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack went to the Dead Indian Soda Springs Sunday and visited with their uncle.
"Mrs. Howlett of Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, August 14, 1929, page 7


    Carolina Drexler of Central Point, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Winkle, Mr. and Mrs. Verna Matthews and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack returned from the huckleberry patch Friday with 60 gallons.
"Portland People See Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, September 7, 1929, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Myrtle Nick of Aberdeen, Wash., called on Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack at the Oasis service station.
"Harry Cingcade of Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, September 19, 1929, page B1


    EAGLE POINT, Ore., Sept. 20.--(Special.)--The primary department now has an enrollment of 25. There are 12 little beginners, eight second graders and five third graders. Clarke Carlton, Johnnie Ray, Mary Emma Neil and Eddie Dahack have all been unable to attend school recently because of illness.
"Begin Busy Year in Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, September 20, 1929, page B6


EAGLE POINT RESIDENT GETS BIG ONION CROP
    EAGLE POINT, Ore., Oct. 4.--(Special.)--Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station has a fine lot of onions. From less than a quarter of an acre he raised one hundred sacks of one hundred pounds each. One onion alone weighed over two pounds.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 4, 1929, page B8


    Mr. and Mrs. DeGoode, who have been residing in Prospect, have moved to Eagle Point, renting one of the cottages owned by Dahacks on the Crater Lake Highway.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, October 16, 1929, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack and family and Earl Hanscom returned home Saturday evening after a visit to California. A family reunion was held at the home of Mrs. Dahack's parents in Bowman.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1930, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. Adams of California have rented the house opposite the park, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, February 10, 1930, page 4


GIRLS' TEAM HONORED AT EAGLE PT. LUNCH
    EAGLE POINT, Ore., Apr. 1.--(Special)--Elva Caster of Medford entertained with a two-course luncheon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Caster, in honor of the girls' basketball team Saturday evening.
    Those enjoying the evening were Miss Burt, Miss Miller, Sylvia Hankins, Hazel Smith, Vivian Hannaford, Teen Dahack, Freda Chambers, Elsie and Dorothy Wilhite, Mary Hannaford and Sybil Caster.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1930, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Haak have moved into the dwelling house opposite the park belonging to Mr. Dahack.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 8, 1930, page B5


EAGLE POINT SCHOOL PLAYLET IS SUCCESS
    EAGLE POINT, Ore., April 16.--(Special)--The three-act play, "Mary Gold," was presented by the Eagle Point high school students on Friday night. Ernestine Dahack took the leading feminine role and was very shy and sweet as a country girl. The leading male part was taken by Donald Young, who portrayed very well the bashful farm lad. Donna Brown was excellent as a sophisticated coed, while Fred Compton, the villain, assisted well in all her plots. Much honor must be given to Walter Davis, a typical old-time farmer. John Medley did very well as a wealthy motion picture producer, as did Bill Davidson as a member of the picture staff. Much credit need be given to Miss Burt, who coached the play.
    Because the Grange hall burned it was necessary to improvise a stage in the gymnasium. This made the production difficult, but all in all it was very successful.

Medford Mail Tribune, April 16, 1930, page B2


NAME CAST FOR E.P. GLEE CLUB OPERETTA
    EAGLE POINT, Ore., April 30.--(Special)--Eagle Point girls' glee club will present an operetta on Friday evening, May 9 in the gymnasium. Characters as chosen by Miss Miller follow: Bobbie (Mary Hannaford), a bell boy; Mrs. Fussy (Marguerite Marshall), a housekeeper; Rose McCloud (Margaret Brophy) a young society belle; Mrs. Writemups and Miss Putemdowns (Myrtle Rigsby and Donna Brown), reporters; Dora, Flora and Polly (Hazel Helms, Hazel Smith and Gladys Cowden), debutantes; Madame Sewsame (Freda Chambers), a dressmaker; Madame Smellsweet (Dorothy Wilhite), a perfumer; Lady Guy (Alice Davis), playwright; Eleanor Throckmorton; Freda Chambers, Dorothy Wilhite, Verona Davis, Alice Walker, Dorothy Davis, Francis Barnes, Sybil Caster, Sylvia Hankins, Mildred Bellows, Victoria Dahack, Teen Dahack, Geneva Miers and Alice Davis, maids.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 30, 1930, page B1


    Mrs. Grace Dahack and daughter Victoria, of the Oasis service station, and Mrs. Delbert Myers and son Frank, of Centralia, Wash., went to Crater Lake June 3rd and report a blizzard, the weather very cold and blowy and the snow falling.
    Lottie Cingcade, Grace Dahack, Bessie Gonyon and Earl Hanscom motored to Evans Creek last week and gathered azaleas.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, June 11, 1930, page C6


    Teen Dahack attended to the business of the ice cream parlor for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loveland while they visited at Crescent City.
    Mr. and Mrs. Everett Dahack of Klamath Falls called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station Monday.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1930, page 8


    Ernestine Dahack, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dahack of the Oasis service station, and John Henshaw, one of our local youths, were married recently at Medford.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, July 22, 1930, page B6


    Mrs. Frank Hill of Derby was an all-night visitor Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack. Mrs. Hill had been to Medford for dental treatment and was on her way back to Derby.
    Eli and Ernest Dahack returned Thursday from Huckleberry Mountain with about 20 gallons of berries.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, August 29, 1930, page B4


    Mrs. John Henshaw (Teen Dahack) left Saturday for Lake o' the Woods where her husband is employed in the Forest Service. Mrs. Henshaw expects to remain for a several days' vacation.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, September 16, 1930, page 8


EAGLE POINT MAN MURDERED AT STILL
POSSE NABS THREE MEN NEAR SCENE
Everett Dahack's Body Found During Raid on Reese Creek--
Red Smith, Raleigh Matthews and W. A. Goetjen Held

    Death stalked a moonshine still raid in the Reese Creek section this forenoon. Everett Dahack, 34, single, of Eagle Point, is dead as the result of a bullet through the top of his head. His body was found near six barrels of mash containing approximately 250 gallons. Ted Smith, Raleigh Matthews and W. A. Goetjen, all of the Eagle Point district, were arrested near the scene of the killing and are held on open charges.
    The three men were surprised by officers as they were in the act of moving a 60-gallon still from a point near the mash. Joe Cave, deputy sheriff, who with Deputy Paul Jennings was lying in brush west of the still location, surprised the men. Smith stopped immediately, but Matthews is alleged to have started running through the brush. After refusing two commands to halt, Deputy Cave fired in his direction to stop him. The shots did not take effect.
Matthews Captured
    Matthews ran down the hill and was apprehended by Deputy Louis Jennings who, with Roy Parr, was in hiding south of the hill. State Officers Cy Herr and H. H. Hogan were north of the still. Goetjen was some distance behind Matthews and Smith when they were carrying the still and was apprehended by Officer Hogan.
    The officers had arrived at the scene around 9 o'clock and were lying in wait for the alleged owners of the outfit. They saw four men arrive. With three apprehended, they looked for the fourth. Officer Hogan found the body sprawled on the back with legs outstretched and arms at the side. He claimed the blood had already clotted, indicating to him that death occurred before the officers began firing.
    The bullet entered the top of a gray cap and tore off the back of the skull. The cap was found several feet from the body.
Saw Dahack Fall
    Goetjen claims he saw Dahack fall just as he was about to stir a barrel of mash and about the time the officers were firing. However, the officers claim Goetjen was in no position to see Dahack at the point where he was standing. They further claim that they never saw the man until his body was found by the barrels.
    Smith and Matthews were caught with the still around 10:30 this forenoon, and before that time, officers allege, a quarrel was taking place. Matthews is accused of being intoxicated and was in a surly mood. He had nothing to say concerning the affair.
Rifle Found
    A "Krag" rifle was found on the premises, said to be the property of one of the three men brought to the county jail this afternoon.
    The sheriff's office and members of the state prohibition department had located the still several days ago. Sheriff Ralph Jennings with other officers were near the place last night and during the past week had made five trips to the section to complete details for the seizure of the outfit and possible arrest of its operators.
    When the officers went to the scene, leaving Medford at 8 o'clock this morning, it was thought that the still would only be seized and brought to Medford. The alleged operators were not expected to make their appearance.
    An inquest will probably be held tomorrow in Dahack's death.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 14, 1930, page 1


RAID STORY TO BE TOLD AT INQUEST
Slaying of Dahack at Reese Creek Moonshine Camp Will Be Probed by Coroner--Officers Tell Version of Hill Tragedy.

    The coroner's inquest into the death of Everett Dahack in the Reese Creek section yesterday forenoon will be held at 7 o'clock this evening at the Conger funeral parlors. It will be open to the public. Nothing new has developed since the first reports of the shooting.
----
    The hills of Reese Creek held a secret that a coroner's inquest tonight will attempt to learn. An alleged moonshiner, Everett Dahack, died from a rifle bullet through the head. The body was found by a party of raiding officers yesterday forenoon after they had arrested Raleigh Matthews, W. A. Goetjen and Ted Smith, of Eagle Point, following a well-prepared plan to raid a still, alleged to be the property of Matthews.
    Officers claim they fired but twice. Joe Cave, deputy sheriff, fired at Matthews when he attempted to make his escape by running after he had been ordered by the officer to halt. Matthews and Ted Smith were carrying a 60-gallon moonshine still. Matthews tore through brush in an opposite angle from the location of six barrels of fermenting corn mash, where Dahack's body was found after the three men had been apprehended.
    Deputy Sheriff Louis Jennings and Officer Roy Parr were stationed approximately 200 feet away down a hill in a southerly direction. After Cave had fired once, Deputy Jennings fired into the air to bring the fleeing one to a halt. However, Matthews practically ran into the officer's arms and was brought back to the point where he had broken away. Smith did not run.
Suspects Approach
    Deputy Paul Jennings had been secreted in the brush in a westerly direction near Officer Cave when Matthews and Smith were seen walking toward them. Cave arose in an effort to stop them. The officer related that Matthews ran and the former fired at him with a rifle. He shot only once, fearing another shot might endanger the officer located in that direction. Broken brush, [and] branches apparently broken off by Matthews' plunging body, indicated the path he had taken. It was due south. The mash was northeast.
    Deputies Cave and Paul Jennings only saw Smith and Matthews and did not see Goetjen, third member of the trio arrested, until State Officer H. H. Hogan, hidden in the brush with State Agent Cy Herr north of the barrels of mash, had apprehended him in brush near the barrels. The officer said he fired no shots.
    When a search for the fourth man was begun, Dahack was found on his back with a bullet through the head. Evidence at the scene indicated Dahack's head was hardly more than three feet above the ground when struck. He apparently was stirring mash. The leaden missile struck the center of a gray cap he was wearing.
Cap Is Found
    The cap was on the ground several feet from the body. Small pieces of lead were clinging to the cloth when examined by the officers. The caliber of the bullet was not determined. A rifle was found at the scene fully loaded. Officers today are looking for another gun that they think may have been thrown into the brush.
    Deputy Paul Jennings rushed 25 miles to Medford for Sheriff Ralph Jennings, who returned to the scene with Coroner H. W. Conger, District Attorney George Codding, Cal Wells, United States deputy marshal, and a Mail Tribune reporter. Deputy Coroner Joy Walker followed and the group of officers was joined by C. P. Talent and Burrell Baucom of the state traffic department to offer any necessary aid.
    The road to the Matthews still led from the Butte Falls Highway a few miles from the Crater Lake Highway junction. It was a typical hill country road and passed by no farm houses, but went through acres of brush and occasionally cleared areas. Large rocks in the center and along the side made hard traveling. Brush scraped the side of the car and resulted in countless scratches. An old Durant sedan was parked along the side of the road within a few hundred yards of the Butte Falls junction.
    Reese Creek, flowing full with surplus irrigation water, was crossed and then several marshy spots.
Reach Scene
    A short walk was necessary before the actual scene was reached. The prisoners, Matthews, Goetjen and Smith, were standing handcuffed together near a bonfire, with one or two smoking cigarettes. The still, a copper affair, was on the ground a few yards away and was surrounded by other equipment, including a gas burner and tank. Several gallon glass jugs were nearby. The mash barrels were a few yards north of the fire, with bubbles of fermentation making faint noises.
    Dahack's body was on the ground north of the barrels, his feet almost touching one. Blankets and sacks, previously used to cover the top of the barrels, hid the body. Their removal revealed a gruesome sight, and it was first thought the head had been cleft with a sharp ax, but later investigation revealed the bullet hole and small bits of lead in the cap.
    Sheriff Jennings, Coroner Conger and District Attorney Codding carefully took in the situation and listened to versions of the affair from the different officers. The three prisoners said but little, with the exception of Goetjen, who claimed he saw Dahack fall to the ground during the shooting. He was a nervous man, white haired, probably in his sixties.
Presented Typical Scene
    The scene presented a typical moonshine hideout, stuck away in brush, scrub oak and pine that would have been hard to find by a person who did not know its exact location. Officers had been searching for the still for some time but did not gain knowledge of its location until the past week. Five trips were made there by Sheriff Jennings, and he was there the night before the raid. As a result of the visit in the dark, he sustained an injured eye when he ran into brush.
    The mash was destroyed with the exception of two gallons held for evidence and the still and other equipment were moved to Medford. Officers were back at the scene today making measurements which will be given at the inquest tonight.
    Goetjen and Smith were acquitted of a moonshine still possession charge in circuit court here during the past year, and Matthews was arrested several weeks ago on a moonshine sale charge upon which he had been at liberty on $500 bonds. He had been suspected of still operation for some time, but no evidence could ever be obtained on his alleged operations.
    When the officers left for the scene at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, they did not expect to find Matthews in the vicinity. They thought he was too shrewd to make his appearance, but with three others he arrived a short time after the officers hid themselves in the brush.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1930, page 1


RAID STORY RECOUNTED AT HEARING
Matthews, Smith and Goetjen Bound Over to Grand Jury by Justice Court--New Developments Are Hinted in Testimony.
    Possibilities of new developments in the mysterious shooting of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point, during a moonshine still raid in the Reese Creek section Friday forenoon were indicated this forenoon at the preliminary hearing held in justice court for Raleigh Matthews, Ted Smith, and W. A. Goetjen, Eagle Point men, on moonshine still possession charges.
    The trio was bound over to the grand jury, in session tomorrow, on bonds of $5000, previously set when the men were arraigned in court several days ago.
    Testimony for the state was offered by Deputy Sheriffs Paul and Louis Jennings and Joe Cave and State Prohibition Agent H. H. Hogan, surrounding events during the raid, at the end of which Dahack's body was found on its back near six mash barrels. The defendants waived examination but will probably offer testimony at the grand jury session.
Mystery Man Hinter
    The possibility of a man in the vicinity, in addition to the officers, and alleged still possessors and Dahack, was touched by Deputy Paul Jennings in his testimony presented in court. Efforts of attorney E. E. Kelly, counsel for Smith and Goetjen, to learn more about the shooting that took place during the raid were frustrated by George Nelson, deputy district attorney, who held that a hearing on a still possession charge was hardly the proper place to conduct a shooting investigation.
    The deputy declared every angle of the death will be investigated. Judge Kelly retorted it would be in secret session, as all grand juries are. The district attorney office has requested any person having information on the affair to appear before the jury, which will visit the shooting scene tomorrow morning. The official indicated that whatever transpires at the investigation at the scene will not be shrouded in secrecy. Judge Kelly insinuated efforts were underway to "cover" the matter up.
Cave Testifies
    Joe Cave, holding a deputy sheriff's commission, in his testimony before the court followed the same story he presented at the coroner's inquest Saturday night. He said he fired once and shot in an effort to stop Matthews' escape from the scene.
    "Matthews had chances to submit to arrest but refused to do it," Officer Cave testified.
    He said he was using a 30-30 rifle he had borrowed from Mrs. C. L. Warnock with the probable intention of buying. He declared he did not know Dahack was in the vicinity and shot in a direction leading away from the spot where the body was found. Officer Cave testified the rifle was loaded with soft-nosed copper-jacketed bullets. When Judge Kelly inferred that Smith, apprehended near the spot from which the officer fired, could see the mash barrels, the officer claimed it was impossible to see the barrels through brush and trees.
    The officer said he took several steps before firing at Matthews, who ran in a southerly direction and was apprehended by Deputy Louis Jennings. The attorney also inferred that twigs were seen breaking from the effects of a bullet in line with Dahack's location but the inference was denied by state witnesses on the stand. They also testified they heard no whine that glancing bullets would usually make.
Tell of Shots
    Officers Hogan, Paul Jennings and Cave all told of hearing more than two shots fired by members of the raiding party. One of the shots was fired by Deputy Louis Jennings and the other by Cave. Located about 400 feet south of the barrels, the former said he heard only two shots, including his own.
    A different version of the shooting affair is expected to be told by the three defendants before the grand jury. Some valuable information leading to the solution of the mystery is expected.
    Matthews was represented in court by attorney Charles Reames, who also took part in the cross-examination of the state witnesses.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 19, 1930, page 1


DAHACK DEATH IN STILL RAID IS CONSIDERED
    An investigation of the mysterious shooting of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point man, during a moonshine still raid last Friday in the Reese Creek section was begun by the grand jury this forenoon at the court house. It was planned to take the jury to the scene of the killing, but a court order is necessary and one could not be obtained due to the absence of Circuit Judge H. D. Norton in Grants Pass this week.
    The jury will be taken to the scene following the questioning of witnesses here. Members of the raiding party were being examined this forenoon. Raleigh Matthews, W. A. Goetjen and Ted Smith, charged with still possession as a result of the raid, are also to appear before the jury.

Medford Mail Tribune, November 20, 1930, page 1


SLAYING OF DAHACK IS RECOUNTED
Pair Accused in Still Possession Case Say Shot Which Killed Eagle Point Man Fired by Deputy Sheriff During Raid
    Allegations were made today by Ted Smith and W. A. Goetjen under bonds of $5,000 each on moonshine still possession charges in connection with a still raid in the Reese Creek section, last Friday that may, if substantiated, shed further information on circumstances surrounding the mysterious shooting of Everett Dahack during the raid.
    Smith, Goetjen and Raleigh Matthews, of Eagle Point, were arrested by the raiding party of six officers, and are now at liberty pending developments in the charges placed against them. The grand jury was in session today investigating the raid and shooting.
    Goetjen in an interview with a Mail Tribune reporter made the statement that he was standing next to Dahack when a bullet came through the air striking Dahack in the head. Goetjen charged that the bullet came from the rifle in the hands of Joe Cave, deputy sheriff. Goetjen said further that Dahack was in a stooped position and had a finger in a mash barrel testing the warmth of its contents.
Saw Dahack Fall
    When he saw Dahack fall, Goetjen said he fled from the scene in a southerly direction, fearing more shots. He said he ran until he was apprehended by State Prohibition Agent H. H. Hogan. Goetjen declared that Dahack had no connection with the still outfit on the scene and was only "passing by.'
    Smith, in a brief version of the shooting, claimed that he or Matthews were not carrying any part of a still when Officer Cave made his appearance. He said he could see the mash barrels from the scene. He alleged that the officer was approximately 80 feet away from the barrels when he fired. Smith accused the officer of firing in the direction of Dahack and said he saw him fall.
Deny Still Interest
    Smith said he turned to look at Dahack as Cave fired. He said he had turned in time to see him falling backwards. Smith and Goetjen both claim they had no interest in the alleged equipment seized by the officers.
    Testimony presented by officers at the coroner's inquest Saturday night and the preliminary hearing in justice court yesterday told another version of the affair. In the officers' version, Cave said he could not see Dahack or did not know he was in the vicinity and said he fired at Matthews, running in a direction leading away from the barrels. This testimony was upheld by Deputy Sheriff Paul Jennings, who testified he covered Smith while Cave shot at Matthews and started to chase him through the brush surrounding the scene.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 21, 1930, page 1


DAHACK JURORS WARN OFFICERS FOR RIFLE USE
Hearing on Killing of Eagle Point Man Finished--
Trio to Face Charges of Operating Still.

    After examining 24 witnesses and spending five days in a thorough investigation into the mysterious shooting of Everett Dahack, 34, Eagle Point man, during a moonshine still raid in the Reese Creek section two weeks ago, the grand jury submitted a report on the affair late Wednesday afternoon to the effect that peace officers should use caution in the use of firearms in the performance of duty.
    Ted Smith, W. A. Goetjen and Raleigh Matthews, three Eagle Point men arrested as a result of the raid, were indicted on moonshine possession charges and will stand trial in a short time.
    The report of the grand jury is not final, and the case may be reopened with the submission of new evidence or the matter may be taken up by a new jury, District Attorney Codding said today. The shooting was investigated from every angle and no stone was left unturned to gain a clear understanding of the situation. The jury spent an entire afternoon at the scene of the raid and inspected quite a number of exhibits.
Shot as Man Fled
    Smith and Goetjen, under still possession indictment, charged that the shot killing Dahack was fired by a gun in the hands of Joe Cave, holding a deputy sheriff's commission. However, the deputy states he did not know Dahack was in the vicinity and shot in the direction of Raleigh Matthews in an effort to prevent his escape from the scene. Matthews was running in a direction away from the six barrels of mash, near which the body was found.
    On the Saturday night before Dahack was killed, it was brought out in a recent justice court hearing testimony, Dahack was a visitor at the Medford police station for a short time.
    As the present situation stands, mystery will forever surround circumstances of Dahack's death, and the Reese Creek hills will continue to hold their secret.

Medford Mail Tribune, November 28, 1930, page 1


PETITION SEEKS INVESTIGATION DAHACK DEATH
    Brother of Moonshine Still Raid Victim
Now Circulating Request for New Probe.

    A petition requesting a special grand jury to investigate the death of Everett Dahack of Eagle Point during a recent raid by state and county prohibition officers, on a moonshine still in the Reese Creek district, was being circulated today by Ernest Dahack, brother of the raid victim.
    Close to 50 names from this city and the Eagle Point district appeared on the petition, which was being presented throughout the business district.
    It is understood that relatives and friends of Everett Dahack feel that the regular grand jury investigation, which spent a week hearing 28 witnesses and visiting the scene of the raid, did not make a complete probe. George B. Alden was foreman of that body.
    It was reported that the governor would be asked to conduct a quiz.
    The name of Ernest Dahack appeared as the petitioner in the document.
    Under the Oregon law, the appointment of a special grand jury rests with the circuit judge, when directed to do so by the chief executive.

Medford Mail Tribune, December 3, 1930, page 1


1000 NAMES ON PETITION FOR DAHACK PROBE
No Opposition Reported to Plan for Special Prosecutor
and Grand Jury in Still Death.

   It was reported today that "over 1000 signatures" had been secured to the petitions circulated the past week by Ernest Dahack of the Eagle Point district, asking for appointment of a special prosecutor and special grand jury, by the governor, for a special investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Everett Dahack, during a raid on a moonshine still in the Reese Creek district a fortnight ago. Ernest Dahack is a brother of the deceased.
    It is understood the petitions are ready for presentation to the chief executive, with a plea for early action. No opposition has arisen to the request.
    The regular grand jury, of which George B. Alden is foreman, spent a week hearing 28 witnesses, [and] filed a report cautioning liquor raiding officers to exercise greater care in the use of firearms in the future.
    If the request for a special prosecutor is granted, it is felt that the governor will make his selection from outside the bar of Jackson County, and in this connection the name of L. J. Liljeqvist is mentioned. He is a member of the attorney general's staff, and conducted several special investigations in this county, including the Bank of Jacksonville failure cases and the 1922 night riding cases. He is an experienced and fearless lawyer.
    The special grand jury would be drawn from jury body of the county.

Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1930, page 1


DAHACK SLAYING QUIZ DISCUSSED
       SALEM, Ore., Dec. 17.--(AP)--District Attorney George A. Codding and Sheriff Ralph G. Jennings of Jackson County were here today in conference with Governor Norblad  relative to a petition received by the governor requesting him to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the killing of Everett V. Dahack. Dahack was killed by officers during a raid on a still. The governor has not yet announced his decision.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 17, 1930, page 6


SECRET PROBE WILL BE MADE DAHACK DEATH
    SALEM, Ore., Dec. 18.--(AP)--Governor Norblad's agent who is to investigate the situation in Jackson County growing out of the killing of Everett Dahack in a liquor raid will go to that county incognito, the governor said today. The governor expects him to leave for Medford today or tomorrow. By keeping his identity hidden the governor believes he will be able to avoid local influences that might hamper his operations. On the basis of his report the governor will decide whether he will send a special prosecutor to Medford to conduct the case before the grand jury.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 18, 1930, page 1


SECRET PROBE DAHACK DEATH IS COMPLETED
Special Investigator Will Give Governor Findings
in Investigation for Decision in Case.

    The special investigator assigned to this county by Governor A. W. Norblad, for inquiry into the death of Everett Dahack, 34, Eagle Point, during a raid on a Reese Creek still a month ago, completed his work yesterday and departed for Salem. He will file his findings with the governor within a few days. It is expected the chief executive will make his decision in the case between then and his retirement from office, January 12.
    The special investigator interviewed residents of all sections of the county in the last ten days. On this list were many citizens classed as "neutrals." It is understood that none of the principals in the tragedy were questioned, their testimony being available from the records of the grand jury. Twenty-eight witnesses were called before that body, of which George Alden was foreman. The investigator also spent half a day at the scene of the shooting.
    In a largely signed petition, circulated by Ernest Dahack, a brother of the slain man, the governor was requested to order a special grand jury and appoint a special prosecutor to re-investigate the case. The first grand jury exonerated all members of the raiding party, and in its report cautioned against reckless shooting during raids.

Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1930, page 1


SPECIAL PROBE DAHACK DEATH AWAITS WORD
    No official word has been received from Governor A. W. Norblad relative to any action in naming a special grand jury and prosecutor for a rehearing of the evidence in the death of Everett Dahack six weeks ago during a state-county enforcement officer raid on a Reese Creek still.
    A press dispatch reported Wednesday that Governor Norblad, at his home in Astoria, had announced he would make the appointments. No confirmation of the report was forthcoming today.
    A jury in the circuit court this afternoon was hearing evidence in the trial of Raleigh Matthews, resident of Eagle Point district, charged with possession of intoxicating liquor.
    Matthews was among those present at the Reese Creek shooting. The present case arose a week before the tragic accident.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1931, page 1


NORBLAD TO ORDER QUIZ ON DAHACK
Will Soon Appoint Special Prosecutor to Handle Case Is Word--
Petitions Bring Pressure--Committee Works on Case.

    PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 5.--(AP)--Governor Norblad told newspapermen here today he will soon appoint a special prosecutor to handle the Dahack shooting case in Jackson County.
    Everett Dahack was shot to death. His body was found after a raid on a still in which shots were fired.
    Petitions signed by Southern Oregon people have declared shooting by the raiding officers was unwarranted. An investigation committee appointed by the governor is working on the case.
    Norblad said he has been told Dahack was not criminally implicated in the operation of the still which figured in the raid.
    He was told, he said, that while the raiders declared they fired but two shots, a fusillade of many shots were heard during the raid.
    Members of the raiding party declared the shots they fired could not have reached the point where Dahack's body was found.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 5, 1931, page 1


GRAND JURY TO CLEAR WAY FOR DAHACK PROBE
Convenes Wednesday for Pending Matters--Special Grand Jury
Will Be Called in Raid Death.

    To clear the decks for the calling of a special grand jury to investigate the death of Everett Dahack, 34, of the Eagle Point district, slain during a raid on a Reese Creek still a month ago, the regular grand jury will convene tomorrow to hear three of four matters pending, the district attorney's office said today.
    Governor A. W. Norblad announced yesterday that he would direct the appointment of a special prosecutor and the calling of a special grand jury to re-investigate the raid death.
     The special grand jury will be drawn by the circuit court judge, in the regular manner from the jury list of the county.
    The special prosecutor will be appointed by the state attorney general and the selection will probably be L. A. Liljeqvist, an assistant attorney general who has conducted several special grand jury quizzes and special prosecutions in this county, including the Bank of Jacksonville failure cases and the "night riding' investigations and trials. Liljeqvist is one of the leading lawyers of the state, and from past experience well acquainted with all angles of the Jackson County situation.
Want Local Lawyer
    In some quarters there has been a sentiment for the appointment of a local lawyer as special prosecutor. It is understood that friends and relatives of Dahack favor the appointment of Charles A. Reames, who several weeks ago announced that he would not accept the berth under any consideration. Another lawyer mention has been attorney T. J. Enright of this city.
    It is not expected that any action will be taken in the special quiz until after inauguration of Governor-Elect Julius Meier next Monday.
    At the first grand jury hearing, 28 witnesses were heard, and these will be called again. If the special investigator sent here, who reported for the calling of a special grand jury and special prosecutor, unearthed new evidence and witnesses, they will be called.
    The next regular grand jury is scheduled to be called the last Monday in February. It is thought that in the ordinary course of legal procedure the Dahack inquiry will be completed by that time.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 6, 1931, page 6


DEATH QUIZ FOR DAHACK SET FRIDAY
Willis Moore of Salem to Conduct Prosecution, Announced by Governor--Jackson Officials Not to Participate.
    SALEM, Ore., Jan. 7.--(AP)--To investigate the fatal shooting of Everett Dahack of Jackson County during a raid on a still, a special session of the Jackson County grand jury will meet at Medford Friday of this week at 9:30 o'clock, Governor Norblad said today. The session is being called by Judge H. D. Norton at the governor's request.
    Special action by the governor was requested in a petition from Jackson County signed by about 1700 persons. Following receipt of the petition the governor made an investigation through an unnamed representative whom he sent to Jackson County.
Moore Prosecutor
    The prosecution, the governor said, will be by Willis S. Moore of Salem, assistant attorney general, and will not be participated in by Jackson County officials.
    The still at which Dahack met his death was being raided by state and county officers. It is claimed by friends of Dahack that he had no interest in the still and was present merely by chance.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1931, page 1


GRAND JURY FOR DAHACK QUIZ NAMED
Five of Special Group from Medford, One from Ashland,
One from Central Point--Special Prosecutor Ready to Start.

    A special grand jury, recommended by Gov. A. W. Norblad to investigate the fatal shooting of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point, during a raid on a Reese Creek still a month ago, was impaneled by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton this morning as follows.
    Walter Mundy, Medford.
    R. M. Burnham, Medford.
    J. J. Skinner, Medford.
    Harold Wood, Medford.
    Bob Taylor, Medford.
    J. R. Bilderbach, Ashland.
    A. L. Simmons, Central Point.
    Five of the seven members of the special grand jury are from this city. Mundy, Taylor and Bilderbach are members of the jury hearing the damage suit of Mrs. Martha McClung against John H. Goswick, and the grand jury cannot be sworn until its deliberations have been completed.
    This circumstance will delay the starting of the inquisitorial body.
Prosecutor Present
    Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore was in court and ready to start the investigation as special prosecutor.
    It is not thought that the special grand jury will get under full speed much before tomorrow, as it will take time to call witnesses and arrange minor details.
    It is expected that the sessions of the special body will require the greater part of a week.
    An order was issued by the court discharging the regular grand jury, George B. Alden, foreman, which concluded its labors last evening with the filing of a final report, stating "all matters brought before the grand jury had been considered and that an inspection of the administration of the county prohibition funds had been made 'and found satisfactory'."

Medford Mail Tribune, January 9, 1931, page 1


SICKNESS HALTS QUIZ IN KILLING EVERETT DAHACK
    There was no session today of the special grand jury investigating the death of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point district resident, killed during a raid on a Reese Creek moonshine still six weeks ago, owing to the illness of Assistant District Attorney Willis W. Moore, who is confined to his room at the Hotel Medford, suffering from a severe cold. He was reported as slightly better today.
    The special grand jury, J. J. Skinner of this city, foreman, convened this morning and adjourned until tomorrow morning upon learning that attorney Moore would not be able to be in attendance.
    It is expected that the state official will be able to return to his duties in a couple of days. The grand jury will meet daily and adjourn until his recovery.
    Recent developments will delay the final report of the special grand jury until the middle of next week.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1931, page 5


RESUME SESSIONS GRAND JURY QUIZ IN DAHACK DEATH
    The special grand jury investigation in the death of Everett Dahack of Eagle Point, killed during the course of a raid on a moonshine still in the Elk Creek district a month ago, resumed its sessions this morning without the attendance of Willis W. Moore, assistant attorney-general, confined to the Sacred Heart Hospital with intestinal trouble and a severe cold.
    Joe Cave, Medford policeman and deputy sheriff, a member of the raiding party alleged to have held the gun from which the fatal bullet was fired, was scheduled to be a witness today, completing his testimony started last Saturday.
    The grand jury has held one full day's session since impaneled, there being no sessions this week owing to the illness of the special prosecutor.
    Assistant Attorney General Moore was reported this morning as resting easy.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 15, 1931, page 6


MOORE PLANS REOPENING OF DAHACK PROBE
Assistant Attorney General Expects Health Will Permit
Resumption Within Ten Days.

    As soon as Willis W. Moore, assistant attorney general, is able to return to duty, which is expected within the next week or ten days, the grand jury investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, 34, Eagle Point district resident last December, during a raid by enforcement officers on a Reese Creek still, will be resumed. Contrary to local reports, it was never contemplated to drop the quiz, suspended when Moore was stricken with illness necessitating hospital care.
    In a letter to the court, Mr. Moore states that he is now convalescing and will be able to return to his desk this week, for light work. He has not regained his full strength but is improving rapidly.
    The special grand jury is still operative subject to call. A new term of court opens next Monday and a new grand jury is authorized to be called. The court is debating whether to call a new grand jury to investigate the Dahack tragedy or continue the present special grand jury, under a special order. Two grand juries cannot be operative during the same period.
    Besides the Dahack inquiry there is the routine run of criminal cases to be handled.

Medford Mail Tribune, February 16, 1931, page 1


DAHACK PROBE CHIEF SOON TO RESUME HERE
Assistant Attorney General Moore Recovering Health
Is Report to Judge Norton.

    A telephone message was received yesterday from Salem by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton stating that Willis Moore, assistant attorney general, assigned to the special grand jury investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point, last December during a raid on a moonshine still on Reese Creek, was convalescing rapidly.
    No definite date has been given for the resumption of the quiz, but at his present rate of recovery attorney Moore will be able to return to active duty within two weeks at the latest. He is now able to do light work at his desk daily.
    No new grand jury will be drawn for the inquiry, but an order will probably be made Tuesday next, when the new circuit court term starts, continuing the special grand jury of which J. J. Skinner of this city is foreman. This grand jury has already heard a number of witnesses.
    It will also act as the regular grand jury, before and after the Dahack investigation, as the law prohibits two grand juries being operative at the same time.
    Circuit Judge Norton will clear the legal decks so the special investigation can proceed without delay whenever Assistant Attorney General Moore's health will permit.
    There will be no session of the circuit court Monday, Washington's birthday and a legal holiday.

Medford Mail Tribune, February 20, 1931, page 7


DAHACK PROBE WAITS ORDERS OF GOVERNOR
Expect Action Following Adjournment of Legislature--
Grand Jury Continued by Judge.

    The grand jury investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point, during a raid on a Reese Creek moonshine outfit last December is still marking time, and any further move rests with Governor Julius Meier and the attorney general's office.
    As soon as the storm and stress of the legislature has ended, Governor Meier is expected to take action and reorder the quiz, abruptly halted after two days of the original session by the illness of Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore.
Moore Recovering
    Assistant Attorney General Moore has about completely recovered from his sickness and returned to his desk at Salem two weeks ago. He is also awaiting orders to proceed to this city and resume the inquiry.
    The special grand jury empaneled to hear the case was continued through the present term of court by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton and is now subject to call. The grand jury is composed of J. J. Skinner, Medford, foreman; Walter Mundy, Medford; Robert Taylor, Medford; Harold Wood, Medford; J. R. Bilderbach, Ashland; A. L. Simmons, Central Point, and R. M. Burnham, Medford.
    This grand jury heard half a dozen witnesses before adjournment came.
    Jackson County officials have no part in the proceedings except to follow out the instructions of the state officials who have jurisdiction in the case.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 5, 1931, page 1


DAHACK DEATH QUIZ RESUMED BY GRAND JURY
Special Prosecutor Moore, Recovered from Illness,
Returns to Continue Still Raid Probe.

    The special inquiry into the slaying of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point district resident, during a raid on a Reese Creek still last December, will be resumed this afternoon after adjournment last January because of illness of the special prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore. Mr. Moore, completely recovered, arrived this morning.
    The grand jury, of which J. J. Skinner, Copco employee, is foreman, was ordered to report this morning.  The first session will be held this afternoon. Moore was appointed special prosecutor at the request of Jackson County residents.
Review Testimony
    When the January adjournment was made necessary, the grand jury had been in session for two days and had heard four or five witnesses. The inquisitorial body will probably devote this afternoon to a review of previous testimony and start tomorrow hearing new witnesses.
    It is expected that the investigation will take a week or ten days and many witnesses will be called. All details of the quiz are in the hands of state authorities.
    Dahack, well known in the county, was killed during the raid conducted by county enforcement officers. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy have never been fully explained. The county grand jury investigated the case and returned no true bills, though enforcement officers were cautioned to be more careful in the use of firearms.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 9, 1931, page 1


DAHACK PROBERS GO TO SCENE OF MOONSHINE RAID
    The grand jury investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point district resident killed in the course of a raid on a moonshine still in the Reese Creek section last December, got under full swing this morning. The inquisitorial body spent the forenoon at the scene of the tragedy, making a close and first-hand inspection of the death spot and surrounding terrain.
    The investigation is under the direction of Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore, assigned to the task by the governor of Oregon.
    Close to 30 witnesses will be called to testify before the grand jury, of which J. J. Skinner is foreman. These include the members of the raiding party and the three men found on the scene when Dahack was killed. Every phase of the happening will be thoroughly shifted.
    It is expected that the quiz will require ten days, with no final decision ere the middle of the week.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1931, page 4


DAHACK KINFOLK TO BE WITNESSES
    The grand jury investigating the death of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point resident, slain last December during the course of a prohibition raid on a Reese Creek still, is making good progress.
    Cal Wells, deputy United States marshal, and the father and brother of Everett Dahack were among the witnesses scheduled to appear before the quiz body today.
    It is expected that the grand jury will take the remainder of the week and a portion of next before concluding its investigation.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 12, 1931, page 6


JURY EXONERATES DAHACK RAIDERS
NO EVIDENCE TO WARRANT INDICTMENT
Jackson County Quiz Under Special Prosecutor Returns Terse Finding
in Death of Everett Dahack of Eagle Point.

    The Jackson County grand jury, under the direction of Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore, special prosecutor, shortly before noon today filed its report in the investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, 34, Eagle Point, killed during the progress of a prohibition enforcement raid on a Reese Creek moonshine still last December.
    Exoneration is granted to all raiding officers in the following terse sentence:
    "…. we find that such evidence is not such as in our judgment to warrant the indictment of any person or persons for the killing of said Everett Dahack."
No Recommendations
    The report, consisting of only one paragraph, mentions no names and makes no recommendations. It is signed by J. J. Skinner of this city as foreman and Walter J. Mundy, Medford, Harold Woods, Medford, A. L. Simmons, Central Point, J. R. Bilderbach, Ashland, and Robert L. Taylor, Medford, as members.
    The tragedy that resulted in the death of Dahack occurred November 14, 1930, when a raiding party visited a Reese Creek still. They came upon Raleigh Matthews, Eagle Point, and two or three companions. Matthews is alleged to have fled and a shot was fired to halt him when he ignored commands to halt. A short time later Dahack was found a short distance away, with a bullet in the top of his head.
Stray Bullet Claim
    Members of the raiding party were not aware of his presence in the vicinity, and it was maintained that Dahack was killed accidentally by a stray bullet.
    The regular grand jury investigated the death and filed a report exonerating the officers but recommended that more care be used in the use of firearms.
    Following this action, Ernest Dahack of Eagle Point, a brother of Everett, and friends and relatives circulated a petition throughout Jackson County, asking the governor to appoint a special prosecutor. Governor Norblad acceded to the request after sending a special investigator to this county. Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore was appointed and started the quiz January 9. Two days later he was stricken with illness and the probe was suspended. Last Monday the hearings were resumed. The present probe was in session a week and heard 30 witnesses.
Full Report
    The report of the grand jury in full is as follows:                   
    "We, the grand jury for the county of Jackson, state of Oregon, charged with the matter of the investigation of the cause of death of Everett Dahack, have to report that upon consideration of all the evidence before us taken together, we find that such evidence is not such, as in our judgment, to warrant the indictment of any person, or persons, for the killing of said Everett Dahack.
    "Dated at Medford, this 16th day of March, 1931."
    The grand jury, with Special Prosecutor Moore absent from the room, spent this morning preparing its report.
    The additional expense of the extra grand jury sessions and the services of a special prosecutor will be borne by Jackson County.
    Another chapter in the tragedy will be enacted at the present term of the circuit court when Raleigh Matthews, W. A. Goetjen and Ted Smith, indicted and charged with the operation of the raided still, will be brought to trial.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1931, page 1


DAHACK FINDING CLOSES INQUIRY IN STILL DEATH
Thorough Investigation Fails Find Evidence Warranting Indictment--
Cost to County $400.

    Assistant Attorney General Willis W. Moore, detailed by former Gov. A. W. Norblad to conduct a special investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, 35, Eagle Point, killed during the progress of a raid on a Reese Creek still last December, has returned to Salem and the case is officially closed. The grand jury reported yesterday, holding that insufficiency of evidence precluded any indictments.
    The expense entailed by the assistant attorney general will be borne by the state and the costs of the grand jury and witnesses will be borne by the county. This will amount, according to County Clerk Delilia Stevens Meyer, to close to $400. The principal item is for witness fees.
Thirty Witnesses Heard
    The grand jury made a thorough and exhaustive investigation and heard 30 witnesses, visited the scene of the tragedy and followed every possible angle of the case. It is still as mystifying, in many respects, as the day it happened.
    The grand jury sifted several versions of the affair without finding any definite conclusion. The most plausible theory seems to be that a bullet fired to halt the flight of Raleigh Matthews during the raid glanced from a rock or tree and hit Dahack in the head as he stood or stooped.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 17, 1931, page 1


    Mrs. Ernest Dahack has just returned from a two weeks' visit with relatives in Sacramento and Bowman, Cal. Mrs. Dahack motored to Sacramento with her brother, Elwin Musso, who had been visiting in Eagle Point.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, March 20, 1931, page 10


    Harry Irving and family have moved into the residence in Eagle Point belonging to Ernest Dahack. This house was formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Luther Haak.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, March 26, 1931, page 9


DAHACK DEATH PARAMOUNT IN STILL DEFENSE
Officer Cave Quizzed on Reese Creek Shooting
As Trial Goetjen and Smith Opens in Circuit Court

    Joe Cave, local policeman and a member of the raiding party on the Reese Creek still last December when Everett Dahack was killed, was the first witness called in the trial of Albert Goetjen and Ted Smith, defendants, charged with possession of a still and mash.
    Cave is alleged to have fired the shot that struck Dahack in an effort to halt Raleigh Matthews, another defendant.
    From questions asked Cave by Defense Counsel Attorney T. J. Enright, it was predicted that the fatal shooting would be a paramount issue. The state's objection that the shooting was no part of the possession charge was overruled by the court.
Will Probe Death
    The shooting is expected to come to the fore prominently in the trial of Raleigh Matthews, and it is predicted that his attorney, Charles Reames, will seek to delve into every angle of the tragedy.
    The regular and special grand jury heard the evidence in the affray and failed to return a true bill.
    Smith and Geotzen are represented by Attorney T. J. Enright and the state by District Attorney George A. Codding and assistant George Neilson.
    In the twelve names drawn appeared two women--Mrs. Louis Ulrich and Mrs. Gene Vilm. Mrs. Ulrich was excused at the morning session.
    The state will call as witnesses members of the raiding party who introduce as exhibits liquor-making paraphernalia found at the scene.
    The Matthews trial is expected to start tomorrow.

Medford Mail Tribune, April 2, 1931, page 1


VERDICT IS GUILTY FOR STILL PAIR
Goetjen and Smith Found Guilty in Less Than Hour's Deliberation--
Matthews Faces Trial Monday--Shooting Evidence Barred

    Deliberating less than an hour, a circuit court jury this noon returned a verdict of guilty against Albert Goetjen and Ted Smith, Eagle Point district residents charged with possession of the Reese Creek still where Everett Dahack was killed last winter during the progress of a prohibition enforcement raid. The jury retired at noon and returned at 12:30 p.m.
    Raleigh Matthews, similarly charged, will go on trial next Monday.
    The crime of which Smith and Goetjen were convicted is a felony and carries a minimum sentence of one year and a fine.
    Efforts of the defense to inject the fatal shooting as a basic part of the testimony was blocked by a ruling of the court, who held "the defendants, not the officers, are on trial." The defense was allowed to introduce evidence pertaining to the finding of the body only.
    District Attorney George A. Codding made the closing argument for the state. He declared the case was ‘simply whether the jury was going to take the word of the defendants against the word of tried and true officers."
    Smith and Goetjen claimed that the day before the raid they had killed a deer and were bringing in the deer when they came upon the still and happened to be present when the raiders arrived. The district attorney characterized this as "a flimsy defense, indeed."
    There was one woman, Mrs. Gene Vilm, on the jury.

Medford Mail Tribune, April 3, 1931, page 1


OFFICER CAVE TELLS VERSION OF STILL RAID
Matthews Attorneys Attempt to Show Testimony Differed from Previous Hearings--Slow Progress
    Joe Cave, Medford policeman and member of the prohibition enforcement party that swooped down last December on a Reese Creek still, was the first witness called by the state in the trial of Raleigh Matthews of the Eagle Point district, charged with mash and still possession.
    The defense centered its efforts in an attempt to impeach Cave's testimony by showing from the records that his testimony differed from what he gave at the preliminary and other hearings.
    Cave testified that he fired a shot when Matthews failed to heed a command to halt, and that he recognized Matthews as soon as he saw him. Everett Dahack, a cousin of Matthews, was found dead after the excitement of the raid had passed.
Had Conversation
    It was brought out that Cave and Matthews had a conversation in which Cave expressed regret that "Everett had been shot," and Matthews had said: "This was Everett's first visit."
    The defense attempt to bring out details of the shooting was blocked by an objection of the state sustained by the court.
    From records of previous hearings it was brought out that when raiders estimated the still as "a 50-gallon pot," Matthews corrected them and said: "It's a 65-gallon pot."
    The trial proceeded slowly at the morning session, and to speed up the proceedings the court dispensed with the usual recess. Then 10 of the 12 jurors requested permission to leave the room.
Lengthy Examination
    The defense is going into the case with great detail and its examination is minute. At the present rate the case will not be given to the jury until late tomorrow.
    The court room was filled with spectators this morning.
    Selection of a jury was completed as follows: H. F. Butcher, Medford; J. R. Pittinger, Ashland; W. F. DeFord, Ashland; S. E. Hitzler, Medford; M. P. Kearney, Central Point; C. C. Harwood, Medford; J. W. Lively, Medford; John Ely, Medford; A. A. Madden, Medford; Marion Lance, Rogue River; William C. Mitchell, Ashland, and John B. Renault, Jacksonville.
    H. H. Hogan, state prohibition agent, testified when raiders and prisoners stood near the mash barrels, where lay Everett Dahack, dead from a bullet in the head, somebody said, "Who is this?"
    According to the witness, Matthews replied:
    "It's Everett Dahack. It's a shame, because he is innocent. If it was one of us it wouldn't be so bad."
    Hogan and C. A. (Cy) Herr, another prohibition agent who preceded him, gave corroborative testimony to that offered by Officer Joe Cave at the morning session.
Still Nevertheless
    Attorney Charles Reames, for the defense, in questioning Herr, endeavored to show that the still, as exhibited, was not a complete still, because parts of it were missing. The court ruled that "if a nut or screw is missing, I am not going to instruct the jury that the still is not a still. The component parts are present. The defendant is charged with possession--not operation."
    The court also held that questions asked Herr relative to his knowledge of "the theory of distillation were argumentative."
    Attorney Reames contended that a hole in the top of the still made it impotent as a still and "that some part is missing."
    The state will close its case today.

Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1931, page 8


    EAGLE POINT, Ore., April 9.--(Special)--Ernest Dahack has been kalsomining and making other improvements at the home of Mrs. Fred Dutton.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 9, 1931, page 7


    Ernest Dahack has been doing some kalsomining at the Roy Smith home.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1931, page 11


    A. K. Grondahl of Portland has moved into the house owned by Ernest Dahack.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 24, 1931, page 7


    Ernest Dahack is remodeling his house here.   

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, June 18, 1931, page 11


    Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodrich will move into the house on the Lake Creek road owned by Ernest Dahack.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, June 21, 1931, page 11


    Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodrich moved July 11 into the Dahack house on the Lake Creek road.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, July 15, 1931, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack and son Eddie, Eli Dahack and Mrs. H. J. Merklee left recently for Crescent City, to remain for several days.
    Victoria Dahack attended a swimming party August 19 at the Rogue River bridge by employees of Snider's Dairy.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1931, page 9


    Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack and son Eddie and Eli Dahack returned Sept. 3 from a trip to Crescent City. During their absence Mrs. Edith Weidman attended to business at the Oasis service station.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, September 9, 1931, page 9


    Ernest Dahack returned home December 24 from San Francisco, where he took a load of turkeys for the Christmas market.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, December 28, 1931, page 3


    Ernest Dahack left February 16 for Newport, Ore., for a week's visit.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, February 25, 1932, page 9


    Ernest Dahack arrived home from Newport, Ore., March 1.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, March 9, 1932, page 7


NEW GRAND JURY PROBE IN DAHACK DEATH UNPLANNED
    Petitions asking for a new investigation into the death of Everett Dahack, November 14, 1930, during the course of a raid on a Reese Creek still were reported in circulation today.
    No immediate action is contemplated by the district attorney's office into the slaying of Everett Dahack during a raid on a moonshine still on Reese Creek, November 14, 1930, and which played a prominent part in the Parr-Fehl libel suit, which ended yesterday.
    "All evidence produced at the Fehl-Parr trial, and a lot more, was before the two regular grand juries and the special grand jury," said District Attorney George Codding today. "They failed to return a true bill. There is no new evidence, and nothing for a grand jury to consider save what has been told before. The case is still open, however, and subject to investigation if public interest or new developments warrant. It is simply a question whether a grand jury is going to believe Ted Smith or Paul Jennings, or, in other words, the moonshiners or the officers."
    The case was investigated by the regular grand jury at the time, and later by a special grand jury of which J. J. Skinner was foreman. The special grand jury was conducted by a special prosecutor appointed by Governor Julius L. Meier, and a month was spent in investigating and hearing evidence.
    William A. Aitken of this city is foreman of the present grand jury, impaneled at the opening of the present term of court. Any citizen, under the law, has the right to request the court to call for an investigation and to introduce any new evidence he may have.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 9, 1932, page 8


DAHACK'S WIDOW ASKS ARREST OF POLICEMAN CAVE
District Attorney Requested Take Action Against Officer As Result of Slaying in Prohibition Raid.
    Mrs. Everett Dahack Hood, widow of Everett Dahack, found dead following a raid November 14, 1930, near the mash barrels of a Reese Creek still, appeared before District Attorney George A. Codding late yesterday afternoon and read a statement in which she requested that a warrant be issued for the arrest of Joe Cave, Medford policeman, on a murder charge, and that the other members of the liquor raiding party be held as alleged accessories before the fact, they being Deputy Sheriff Paul Jennings and Louis Jennings, and State Prohibition officers Cy Herr and Harry Hogan.
    The statement presented by Mrs. Dahack Hood asked that the murder complaint be issued, in the light of evidence adduced at the trial of libel suit of Roy Parr, game warden, against the Pacific Record-Herald, and its editor Earl H. Fehl, in which Parr was awarded $15,000 general punitive damages.
Witnesses with Widow
    The widow was accompanied as witnesses by Miss Alva Geary, 113 West Eleventh Street, Will H. Wilson, merchant, and Arthur LaDieu and Moore Hamilton, attached to a local paper. Mrs. Dahack Hood informed the prosecutor that the statement had been prepared by her attorney, E. E. Kelly.
    The statement also requested that a special grand jury be drawn to reinvestigate the death of Dahack.
    District Attorney Codding said today that he was considering requesting that Circuit Court Judge H. D. Norton make the decision, relative to the calling of a special grand jury. He declared he would take no action, at this time, towards reopening the case.
    District Attorney Codding informed the delegation that as far as he was able to ascertain, no new evidence was brought out by the Fehl-Parr suit, but that as soon as the transcript of the testimony was prepared, he intended to search it.
Previous Probes Cited
    He informed the group that there had been a coroner's jury, a justice court preliminary hearing, a regular grand jury, a special grand jury, with a special prosecutor and a special investigation of Governor Meier had delved into the case without finding facts warranting arrests or complaints being found, and that further cost of investigation was not warranted unless new and tangible evidence was produced. The district attorney declared that no evidence was brought out at the libel suit trial which had not been presented to all the previous inquisitorial bodies.
    The burden of the defense in the libel suit alleged that Cave fired the fatal shot on the day of the raid, and the defense counsel in its closing argument stressed these allegations. The request for a new investigation was generally expected by the public as a natural backwash of the result of the libel trial.
    It is understood that petitions are now being circulated throughout the county asking that a new special grand jury be called, and requesting that the governor appoint a special prosecutor.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1932, page 1


WIDOW OF DAHACK AGAIN REFUSED IN ARREST REQUEST
Justice of Peace Taylor Refused to Issue Warrant
for Policeman Cave on Old Raid Evidence

    Following her failure Thursday to induce District Attorney Codding to issue a warrant for arrest of policeman Joe Cave on a murder charge, the former's action being based on the ground that the Dahack shooting case had been thoroughly investigated by two grand juries without recommending such action, and that such an arrest now, without new evidence of merit, would be a useless expense to the taxpayers. Mrs. Everett Dahack Hood, widow of Everett Dahack, killed in a liquor still raid Nov. 1, 1930, met with a similar refusal from Justice of the Peace Glenn O. Taylor yesterday.
    Accompanied by another woman, Will H. Wilson and a young reporter of a morning newspaper and holding in her hand a document which was presumably the same statement of the case she had presented to the district attorney, Mrs. Hood stated that inasmuch as Mr. Codding had refused to act she now asked Judge Taylor to issue a warrant for Cave's arrest on the murder charge.
    The court explained to Mrs. Hood that he could not legally grant her request; that the law gives him only discretionary power whenever the district attorney or county prosecutor was not available in a murder case, to swear out the information himself and issue such a warrant.
    The present situation, he further explained, did not legally justify his granting her request.
    Even if he did issue such a warrant, he said, the district attorney could come into court and have the case dismissed at once, as the law gave the latter official full control in such matters.
    Judge Taylor thereupon advised Mrs. Dahack Hood that if she possessed any new evidence bearing on the case she could present it to the next regular grand jury when the latter convened, for consideration.
    Neither Will H. Wilson nor others accompanying Mrs. Hood uttered a word in court. The group was only in the room a few minutes.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 13, 1932, page 1


    Ernest Dahack of the Oasis service station, who has had an agate grinding apparatus for some time, is now building a separate shop for his agate business.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, March 27, 1932, page 9


    Ernest Dahack has been kalsomining Mrs. Lottie Ayres' residence the past week.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 4, 1932, page 7


    S. K. Barnes left April 16 for Crescent City for several days visiting with his family. He was accompanied by Victoria Dahack, who will visit friends there.  

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 21, 1932, page 9


    Ernest Dahack recently purchased the house belonging to Mrs. Ida Burdahl and has torn it down and moved the lumber near the Oasis service station, where he will erect another cottage. Mrs. Sarah Coy purchased the lot on which the Burdahl house stood.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, May 13, 1932, page 15


The Dahack Case
    The Dahack case is brought up as the first evidence of miscarriage of justice--Exhibit No. 1--to show the complete downfall of law and order.
    In a raid on a still in the Eagle Point district there is no doubt that Dahack was killed. The Mail Tribune at that time maintained, as it had on previous occasions, that to violate the prohibition law was not a capital crime, that taking shots at suspects was not justified, EXCEPT in self-defense, that we were tired, and we believed the people were tired, of enforcement officers shooting FIRST and investigating AFTERWARD.
    A CORONER'S jury was called but was unable to secure sufficient evidence to identify the party guilty of this killing. A grand jury was called, the entire matter was investigated and still sufficient evidence to justify an indictment was not secured. Local feeling continued strong, however, so an appeal was made to Governor Meier, the matter was taken out of the hands of local law enforcement officers entirely, and the Governor appointed Willis Moore, deputy attorney general, to make a complete investigation and as special prosecutor bring all evidence available before a SPECIAL grand jury.
    Attorney Moore came to Medford, spent several weeks in investigating the case from every angle, every individual involved in the case in any way was called in and all TESTIFIED, and still, in the opinion of Mr. Moore and in the opinion of the members of that special grand jury, the identity of the man who fired the fatal shot could not be clearly enough established to justify an indictment.
    Can such a procedure be termed a WHITEWASH! The truth as we see it is that during the confusion and excitement of a raid on a still, when with five or six officers and as many moonshiners milling around, many shots were fired, one of those shots killed Dahack. Which shot probably killed him it was impossible for two local juries and one special grand jury, under the direction of both the local district attorney and a special state prosecutor, to establish.
    Now if any new evidence has been unearthed, which was NOT considered by these three juries, which strongly points to the guilty party or parties, we see no objection to bringing this case up for the FOURTH TIME before the present grand jury and submitting that evidence.
    If that new evidence justifies an indictment, then no one will be more gratified than the Mail Tribune, for we strongly feel that the sooner the mystery of this Dahack killing is cleared up and the guilty parties punished, the better for all concerned.
    But if new evidence does NOT, in the opinion of the grand jury, justify placing the expense of another long drawn-out trial on the shoulders of the taxpayers, then we certainly feel that decision should be regarded as final, and this Dahack agitation dropped until more convincing evidence is available.
    For we agree that every honest citizen should be willing to abide by the law, and the law determines that whether evidence justifies or doesn't justify further action, rests not with the newspapers or the politicians, but with the GRAND JURY!    

Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1932, page 4


    Ernest Dahack purchased lumber August 9 to complete construction of his agate grinding shop.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, August 11, 1932, page 9


    At the dance in the Oriental Gardens October 1 were: Hazel Smith, Victoria Dahack, Gladys Nichols, Mary Hannaford, Rudy Weidman, Clarence Tingleaf, Beulah Tingleaf, Donald Ashpole, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ward.
    Ernest Dahack and Cliff Hickson brought a load of shakes from above Butte Falls October 2.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, October 5, 1932, page 9


MRS. DAHACK IN NEED OF SHELTER
    The district attorney's office has received a letter from Mrs. Irvin Dahack, recently married, asking the right to live in an empty furnished house on a ranch on Lake Creek belonging to an estate. The administrator of the estate objects to granting the privilege.
    Mrs. Dahack came here a month ago from San Francisco, with her five children, at the alleged request of the Dahack brothers--Ivan [Zera?] and Irvin--in response to an ad in a matrimonial paper. She was receiving $100 per month, she claims, from San Francisco County, for the care of herself and children. Lest she become a public charge here, the district attorney's office insisted the Dahack brothers render aid. Later, a marriage license was taken out by Irvin Dahack, who is an uncle of Everett Dahack, killed in a Reese Creek still raid two years ago.
    According to Mrs. Dahack, she and her flock are now living in a hall at Lost Creek. The structure has no doors or windows, and she requests the right to move into the estate home. Deputy District Attorney George W. Neilson said today it would be denied.
    The Dahack brothers are stockmen and mountain ranchers.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 28, 1932, page 3


ELI DAHACK HURT IN FALL FROM CAR
    Eli Dahack, old-time resident of the Eagle Point district, was brought to the Sacred Heart Hospital last night in an unconscious state, resulting from a fall from an auto near his home.
    Details of the accident were not learned, but it was stated that he fell from a moving car when the door was accidentally opened. Harry Ward of the Eagle Point district brought the injured man to Medford. He had regained consciousness late last night and was believed to be resting easily. The extent of his injuries was not determined.

Medford Mail Tribune, November 6, 1932, page 1


DAHACK IN COMA AFTER ACCIDENT
    The condition of Eli Dahack, 70, rancher of the Eagle Point section, who sustained injuries in an auto wreck Saturday night, was reported unchanged at the Sacred Heart Hospital today.
    He is still unconscious and a thorough examination therefore impossible, but is believed suffering from a fractured skull. Mr. Dahack was driving with his son, Ernest Dahack, and stepped from the car before it stopped. He was thrown on his head.

Medford Mail Tribune, November 7, 1932, page 7


ELI DAHACK DIES FROM INJURIES
    Eli Dahack died at the Sacred Heart Hospital Thursday afternoon from a skull fracture received Saturday evening. He and his son Ernest were returning from doing their chores and Mr. Dahack stepped from the car before it had stopped.
    Mr. Dahack was born at Bloomington, Ill., July 31, 1862, and had resided in Eagle Point for the past 50 years. He leaves one son, Ernest Dahack of Eagle Point, also three sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Ida Matthews, Eagle Point; Mrs. Dora Niepagen, Bloomington, Ill.; Mrs. Minnie Casebeer, Los Angeles; Elsia Dahack, San Francisco, and Zera and Irvin Dahack, Medford; four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
    Funeral services will be held at the Perl Funeral Home Sunday at 2:00 p.m., Rev. E. H. Malkemus officiating. Interment in Central Point cemetery.

Medford Mail Tribune, November 13, 1932, page 3


SUE HEIRS OF DAHACK ON $6750 MORTGAGE
    Suit was filed in circuit court late yesterday by W. E. Thomas of this city against Ernest Dahack, Mrs. Everett Dahack and Frank Dahack, a minor, as heirs to the estate of the late Eli Dahack, pioneer resident of the Eagle Point district, for the foreclosure of a $6750 mortgage, interest and attorney's fees allegedly due. The mortgage was issued, the complaint sets forth, in 1930.
    T. J. Enright appears as attorney for Thomas.

Medford Mail Tribune, December 7, 1932, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack left for Portland December 19, where Mrs. Dahack expects to receive medical treatment for throat trouble.
    Miss Victoria Dahack visited with Delbert Tingleaf at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Medford, December 18.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, December 25, 1932, page 3


    Mrs. Grace Dahack returned home from Portland January 1, where she had undergone a minor operation at the Good Samaritan Hospital.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, January 11, 1933, page 5


EAGLE PT. WILLS UP FOR PROBATE
    The last wills and testaments of two former well-known residents of the Eagle Point district have been filed for probate this week.
    One was the will of Eli Dahack, who passed away last December. The will was made in July, 1907. It left the estate of an estimated value of $10,000 to his two sons.
    The other was the will of Gus. F. Nichols, stockman and member of a pioneer family. He bequeathed $5000 worth of California-Oregon Power Company stock to his son, and the same bequest was made to his daughter, Ruth Nichols Natwick. The balance of the estate is left to his widow, Alice Nichols.

Medford Mail Tribune, January 26, 1933, page 8


Mrs. Hoffard Heads Banks Party in E.P.
    EAGLE POINT, Feb. 18.--(Spl.)--At a meeting of the "Good Government Congress" held in Eagle Point last Tuesday, Mrs. Paul Hoffard was elected president, Ernest Dahack, secretary and Kermit Thiede, treasurer. The meeting was held as part of the organization campaign of the "Good Government Congress."
Medford Mail Tribune, February 19, 1933, page 4


Officer Cave Indicted for Slaying of Dahack in Raid on Still
GRAND JURY SAYS DUE CAUTION NOT USED IN GUNPLAY
Involuntary Manslaughter Is Charged in Reese Creek Still Raid--
Bond Fixed at $1500 in Old Raid Case

    Joe Cave, Medford policeman, was indicted by the Jackson County grand jury Saturday, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, for the death of Everett Dahack of Eagle Point on the morning of November 14, 1930, during the progress of a raid on a still in the Reese Creek district.
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    The indictment charges "that said Joe Cave in the commission of a lawful act, but without due caution or circumspection, fired a rifle in the proximity of Everett Dahack, causing his death."
No Criminal Intent Seen.
    No criminal intent is embodied in the indictment. Judge William M. Duncan of Klamath County, who presided at the session, fixed the bonds of Cave at $1500. It was the second involuntary manslaughter indictment returned by the grand jury, which was formally discharged yesterday. Reinhard A. Rolfe of Central Point was indicted for the killing of his hunting companion in mistake for a bear. Rolfe was found guilty and now on parole.
    Dahack was killed on November 14, 1930, at a still on Reese Creek, during the progress of a raid of which Cave was a member. The fatal shot was fired, according to report, in the air, to halt Raleigh Matthews when he attempted to flee. Afterwards Dahack was found dead near a mash barrel. It was the theory that the bullet ricocheted.
Reopens Old Case.
    Two previous grand juries--one ordered by the governor with a special prosecutor--heard the evidence in the case, without being able to return a true bill.
    Raleigh Matthews, a cousin of Dahack, Ted Smith, and William Goetjen, were arrested and found guilty of operating the raided still. Matthews and Goetjen served prison terms. Smith was paroled, on promise to support his family and mother-in-law.
    The death of Dahack became a political issue and was used effectively as campaign material, particularly in the country districts. It was also widely used as "copy" in the fevered journalism that has kept the county in a turmoil for the past two years.
Only Indictment Found.
    The indictment against Cave was the only indictment returned at the farewell appearance. Goetjen and Smith, now residents of Portland, were brought here as witnesses. Each drew fees of $62 on county warrants yesterday.
    Seventeen witnesses were examined by the grand jury, including all the officers of the law engaged in the raid. It required most of the week.
    A number of matters were examined by the grand jury since it started its session last October. Many of the matters presented had to do with local conditions.

Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1933, page 1


The Dahack Case Again
    From several anonymous communications received today we cull the following:
    "Your paper gets all excited about lawlessness and violence, but you don't say nothing about the dastard that shot down Everett Dahack in cold blood; you get all excited about the disappearance of ballots in the court house, but you don't say nothing about the disappearance of liquor from that same court house. Explain that, Mr. Editor!"
    Gladly!
    If this correspondent will examine the files of this paper he will find we have said a GREAT deal about both the Dahack and the liquor disappearance case. Not only once but many times. As to the Dahack case in the past few years, we have often said what we repeat now.
    The Dahack case has been examined by a coroner's jury, two grand juries, by a special prosecutor and a special grand jury, but to date none has been able to secure sufficient evidence against the man responsible for Dahack's death to secure an indictment. If anyone has any new evidence which will throw any new light on this case, bring the guilty party or parties to justice, THEN NO ONE WILL WELCOME SUCH ACTION MORE WHOLEHEARTEDLY THAN THE MAIL TRIBUNE. It is the duty of those who claim they have such evidence to present it at once to the proper authorities so this case my be cleared up once and for all."
    Only yesterday a prominent member of the Good Government Congress visited this office and declared the Dahack case was evidence of the breakdown of law and order in this community, and he has evidence to prove it.
    The reply of the writer was "THEN GO BEFORE THE GRAND JURY, NOW IN SESSION, AND GIVE THAT EVIDENCE. If you can clear this case up, bring about the conviction of the guilty party or parties, you will have rendered a genuine public service. We believe NO ONE would more gladly place the slayer of Dahack behind bars than District Attorney Codding himself."
    The reply was "I have already appeared before the grand jury and presented my evidence."
    FINE!
    Now if there is new evidence on this case, which will allow the PRESENT grand jury to do what the other grand juries failed to do; will allow District Attorney Codding to secure an indictment where a special prosecutor appointed by Governor Meier FAILED--then all good citizens should rejoice. For this case has been a thorn in the flesh of the body politic LONG ENOUGH, and the sooner it is cleared up once and for all, the better for all concerned.
    As to the liquor disappearance case, on which this paper is also accused of saying "nothing," if our correspondent will again consult the files he will find this disappearance plastered all over the front page under a black face banner the day it was announced. He will find a score of references to it, also the report of the grand jury concerning it.
    Our comment upon that is the same as our comment on the Dahack case.
    Anyone with evidence on this case should go before the grand jury and present it. If the system of records renders the tracing of liquor difficult, then let that system be IMMEDIATELY changed. If the person or persons guilty of this crime CAN BE FOUND and brought to justice, no one will welcome such action more wholeheartedly than the Mail Tribune.
    This paper doesn't care what the case is. If a crime has been committed, let's get to the bottom of it and punish those responsible just as soon as guilt can be legally established.
    But for the sake of all that's sane and decent, let's STOP trying these cases, or any other cases, in the newspapers.
    That's not a newspaper's job. It's the job of our public officials, our police, our courts and our juries.
    Get behind them. Support them in the proper performance of their duties, run down the guilty, protect the innocent, in short, maintain this FREE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF OURS, as it was handed down to us, and as we trust it will endure long after we are gone!
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    P.S.--The above was written early Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon the grand jury returned an indictment in the Dahack case. The editorial above thus becomes even more pertinent and timely than the writer ever suspected it would be. Now this case CAN BE CLEARED UP ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1933, page 6


CLARA DAHACK HOOD SUING FOR DIVORCE
    Suit for divorce was filed today in circuit court by Clara Dahack Hood against Elton Hood, alleging desertion as grounds. The couple were married a year ago. The complaint alleges that after a month of married life the husband deserted and has since failed to support.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 29, 1933, page 1


    Mrs. Monia and daughters, Mrs. Mary Charley and Mrs. Velda Dahack, returned home last week after having spent several days at Hilt, Cal., with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Monia.
"Brownsboro," Medford Mail Tribune, April 14, 1933, page 11


    Mrs. Grace Dahack went to Portland Monday morning with Mr. A. J. Tingleaf and son Delbert for treatment at the Good Samaritan hospital.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, April 27, 1933, page 5


    Dorothy Coy, Victoria Dahack and June Stowell are picking apricots on the James Linn orchard. They report a fine crop this year.

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, August 2, 1933, page 7


DAHACK FINED $50 FOR SLAYING DEER
    Zera Dahack, aged member of a Jackson County family, was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in the county jail, upon his plea of guilty to possession of fresh deer meat, by Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman. Dahack resides in this city.
    Dahack admitted that he went to his place beyond Eagle Point Thursday to attend to some sheep and shot two deer. He claimed he did this "because I had nothing to eat, and the deer ate me out last winter." He also said he had a sick wife, who required his attention.
    Deputy Warden Ed Walker testified that complaints had been received since last December of Dahack killing deer and selling the meat in this city. When Dahack returned last night, he was arrested at his home with three sacks full of deer meat in his possession.

Medford Mail Tribune, March 23, 1934, page 1


    EAGLE POINT, May 18.--(Spl.)--Thirteen students of the Eagle Point high school will receive diplomas at the graduation exercises tonight at the Oasis. There are eleven girls and two boys in the class. Mary Jacks, Hilda Rein, Freya Rein, Cora Crandall, Helen Sellers, Hazel Smith, Victoria Dahack, Lucile Hurst, Florence Putman, Eileen Grow, Doris Houston, Gerald Hansen and Maurice Jacks. Dr. Redford of the Southern Oregon Normal School will deliver the main address. A special musical program has been arranged and will consist of numbers by the Girls' Glee Club, high school orchestra and a ladies' trio.
"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, May 18, 1934, page 19


Oasis Cabaret To Open Sat. Night
    The only spring dance floor in Southern Oregon will be one of the many features of the new Oasis Cabaret, located 11 miles north of Medford on the Crater Lake Highway, which opens Saturday night, according to Jack Grove, floor manager. The dancing space is held up by twenty-eight heavy springs and covered with cushioned flooring. The big feature of the new cabaret will be Al Stewart and his Eleven Nite Owls, who will play all evening. A special stage has been built for the orchestra.
    There will be a two-acre parking space. The building, which is one hundred five feet by ninety-five feet, is owned by Ernest and Grace Dahack, who have promised some unusual food treats for the opening night.

Medford Mail Tribune, May 30, 1934, page 5


MARY DAHACK, 80, TAKEN BY DEATH
    Mary Dahack, wife of Zera Dahack, passed away at their home, 547 Marie Street, at 1 p.m. Wednesday, following an illness which confined her to her bed for the last two years. She had been in poor health for the past six years.
    Mrs. Dahack was one of the oldest pioneers of this locality, being born at Eagle Point nearly 81 years ago.
    She leaves besides her husband, two sons by a former marriage, Paul and Garland Randall of Washington. Also two brothers and one sister, Green and Grant Matthews of Eagle Point, and America Fitzgerald of Los Angeles.
    Funeral services will be held at the Conger chapel at 10 a.m. Saturday, with interment in the Central Point cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 18, 1934, page 5


MARY DAHACK RITES AT 10 A.M. SATURDAY
    Mary Ellen Dahack passed away at their home, 547 Marie Street, at 11 p.m. Wednesday, following an illness which confined her to her bed for the last two years. She had been in poor health for the past six years.
    Mrs. Dahack was one of the oldest pioneers of this locality, being born at Eagle Point nearly 81 years ago.
    She leaves besides her husband, three daughters, Viola Randell of Malone, Wash., Bell Daley of British Columbia, and Daisy Standley of Iowa; also two brothers and one sister, Green and Grant Matthews of Eagle Point and America Fitzgerald of Los Angeles.
    Funeral services will be held at the Conger chapel at 10 a..m. Saturday, with interment in the Central Point cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 19, 1934, page 2


EAGLE POINT SCHOOL TO PRESENT OPERETTA
     EAGLE POINT, Nov. 23.--(Spl.)--Under the direction of Miss Wilda Darneille, the Eagle Point grade school will present the very successful and popular operetta, "Little Red Riding Hood." The play will be given in the Oasis hall the night of December 7th, starting at 8 o'clock. The play is a magnificent spectacle of three acts, with beautiful costumes and a cast of 40 members. Maria Davidson plays Little Red Riding Hood, Enid Ward, grandmother and Eddie Dahack the Big Bad Wolf.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 23, 1934, page 7


    The primary grades of the school are sponsoring an operetta, "Red Riding Hood" to be held at the Oasis Dec. 7. 

"Eagle Point," Medford Mail Tribune, November 30, 1934, page 13






 
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