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Thursday, March 15, 1906
Wounded Four Times
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 15 -
Particulars were received here only last evening of a serious stabbing affray
that occurred at Carrville, Trinity County, last Friday evening, and in which
Jack GRAVES, a prominent mining man of that district, thrust a big dirk knife
four times into the body of Frank SMITH, a miner.
Two slashes were made over the
heart, one in the side and another in the neck. The last was the most serious,
and came near being the undoing of Smith, who nearly bled to death. It was only
yesterday that he had recovered strength enough to come downstairs to his
meals. Graves, who is Constable at
Carrville, has been arrested on the charge of assault to commit murder and will
be given the preliminary examination next Monday before Justice of the Peace
COFFMAN at Carrville. In the meantime, Graves is under $2000 bonds.
The stabbing was the outgrowth
of a quarrel over a dice game. Both claimed to have won. Smith, who was
unarmed, offered to leave the settlement to bystanders, but Graves, according
to reports received here, would not submit to arbitration, and at once flew at
Smith with the dirk knife. The affair
has caused a great stir in Northeastern Trinity County because of the
prominence of Graves in mining circles, and also because he is himself an
officer of the law. Graves is one of the Graves brothers who took out the
$50,000 gold nugget a few years ago from the Bluejay Mine, a find that made the
Coffee Creek mining district famous the world over.
two saloons and endangering at
least one life Tuesday afternoon, Charles FOSTER, the man behind the gun, was
brought before City Recorder CARR yesterday on the charge of discharging a
firearm within the city limits, and then fined $25 or sentenced to serve the
fine out in jail at the rate of $1 a day. Foster chose the latter method.
citizen
of Shingletown, was found dead in his bed in the Goodman Hotel at this place at
6 o’clock last evening, when the landlord went to call him to his supper.
Rheumatism of the heart was probably the cause of the sudden death. Mr.
Whitlock had been suffering several weeks from rheumatism, and had complained
during the last few days that it was affecting his heart. The hour of his death is not known. He was in
the hotel office at 11 o’clock in the morning, chatting pleasantly with his
friends, but soon retired to his room. He did not come down to dinner, but
nothing was thought strange of that fact, for he often omitted the noonday
meal. The body was quite cold when it was discovered and he had probably been
dead for two or three hours.
The deceased was a teamster and
had lived in Shingletown for twenty years.
He came to Balls Ferry when last season closed to spend the Winter here in ease. He was aged 68 years and leaves several
adult sons. One of them, Wade WHITLOCK, is employed on the Northern California
Power Company’s pole-line construction near Tehama.
Coroner BASSETT is an extremely
busy official. A telephone message was sent to him at Redding last night from
here informing him of the death and asking him to come and hold the inquest.
Word came back that the Coroner was not at Manton, twenty miles east, holding
an inquest on the body of Joe BUSH, the Indian who was shot and killed there
the night before by “Firewater” GOULD. This morning word was received from
Manton that Coroner Bassett would come on to Balls Ferry as soon as the inquest
over Bush was completed.
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she had not been ill at all. Being missed by her children, search was made for
her and her lifeless body found. Dr. GATES, who was called, decided that she
had died from heart disease, although she had never been troubled by that
organ. Mrs. Shock was born in Hayfork (rest cut off).
the
JONES tract, west of Lodi. This discovery is interesting, as only a week ago
the same man unearthed the bones of a human being while digging a cellar. With
this latest discovery was found a small nugget of gold, and this has given
credence to the belief that the spot was an old Indian burial ground, and that
each deceased member of the tribe was buried with his earthly possessions.
DAVIS, wife of former Superior
Judge E.A. Davis, of this county, was received from San Francisco yesterday
afternoon. Pneumonia was the cause of dissolution, and the illness was of only
a few days’ duration. The remains will be cremated Friday.
was
instituted in Red Bluff last night, and it was well along this morning before
the work of instituting, installing and initiating was completed. The
institution was under the direction of Mrs. B.E. WILLIAMS, of Lamoine, Deputy
Grand Manager, assisted by her daughter, Miss Ina WILLAMS, and Mrs. George THORNTON, of Sisson.
The new auxiliary to the Knights
of Pythias will be known as Rathbone Castle, No. 92. It starts off with a good
membership and an enthusiastic corps of officers. At the close of the work of
institution a banquet was served in the hall adjoining.
Following are the names of the officers: Mrs.
Elizabeth M. ROGERS,
Excellent Chief; Mrs. K.B. ENGLISH, Excellent Senior;
Mrs. A.A. LENNON,
Excellent Junior; Mrs. Stella WHITE, Manager; Mrs.
Jessie ULLERY, Mistress
of
Records and Correspondence; Miss Bertha ARCHAMBAULT, Mistress of Finance;
Mrs. E. THOMPKINS, Protector;
Miss Sarah SMITH, Guard of the Outer Temple;
Mrs. Eva KARMEL, Past Chief;
Mrs. Barbette FRITZ, Mrs. Margaret WORLEY, and
Mrs. H. ARCHAMBAULT, Turstees.
Redding with Sam ZUCHUR, who was
arrested on a charge of stealing a bicycle from Harry GOEHRING of this place.
Zuchur admitted to the Sheriff that he was the man wanted and will be sentenced
in a few days.
a
first-class, up-to-date creamery, located in the center of town, and fitted
with the latest improved machinery. It has a capacity of 2000 pounds of butter
daily.
The creamery is the result of a
similar institution being started at Orland a couple of years ago. Corning farmers
were induced to ship cream to Orland, and thus found that their cows brought in
an average revenue of over $6 a month, after paying
the freight. This gave rise to the determination to have a creamery at home,
and now one has been installed. Over 600
acres are now planted to alfalfa in this immediate vicinity, and farmers who
have long labored to save a little in the culture of grain now see prosperity
ahead in the dairying business, especially as there is a good market for their
product near home.
of
the oldest and most historic landmarks of the place. The flames broke forth
shortly after 9:30 o’clock in the evening, and in a very few minutes the whole
place was a roaring pit of flames. Citizens rushed to the scene, but already
the fire had gained such headway that an entrance to the building could not be
made. No effort was made to save the house, and a silent crowd stood and
watched till the last timber had fallen. A strong wind was blowing, but the
amount of snow on the ground, and on the tops of the houses, prevented any
spread of the conflagration. The burned
building was originally the property of the famous Isa Bell Mine. Later when that
mine was closed down, and the mill removed, this house was remodeled and became
the residence of Captain William SHAW, upon the burning of the original Alta
Tavern. Captain Shaw lived here until his death, in 1904. Since that time, his
home has been vacant. That no person had occupied the place since Shaw’s death
was largely due to the rapid caving of the mouth of the old mine, which had
left the house upon the very edge of the 150-foot shaft.
The property is said to have
been uninsured. Nothing was saved, so the loss is total. Though some place
credence in the theory of arson, it is probably that the fire was accidently
started by tramps, who may have forced an entrance to the building, seeking
shelter form the blizzard which was raging.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Friday, March 16, 1906
Wife and Son
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), March
16 - Eluding the attendants at the County Hospital last night, aged Thomas HART
made his way to this city to “wipe out his whole crowd,” as he put it when
taken into custody by Sheriff WALKER and City Marshall DEEBLE.
That Hart intended to make his
way up to his home on Washington Hill, where his wife and son reside, and make
an attack on them in his crazy fury there is little room for doubt. He was
observed by the officers as he stepped from the 9:20 car from Nevada City, and
was immediately placed in custody until the car returned, when he was taken
back to Nevada City by the Sheriff and lodged for the night in the County
Jail. During his short stay in town Hart
was furious at times, declaring against his wife and son, especially the
former, whom he accused of having caused him all his present trouble. “I’ll
wipe out the whole crowd yet,” he exclaimed, stamping the ground with his heavy
staff in anger. “They said I was crazy, but I was only starved.” Several times
he broke out like this, showing that the desire to kill had not departed.
Hart, it will be remembered, was
first arrested in the city about two months ago for attempting to brain his
wife with an ax late one night as she lay half asleep. A desperate battle
followed, and she finally escaped, badly injured. Hart came uptown and gave
himself up, saying he had killed her. He did not seem to care. At the time he
was suffering from religious mania.
After a short stay in the County Jail a reconciliation
was effected and the case dropped. Hart’s son came here from Colorado to guard
the old man. For a time all went well. Then Hart broke out anew and was
recently taken back to jail. He was very ill, and to give him proper treatment
he was taken out to the County Hospital.
There is little question now
that he will be placed in a State Insane Asylum.
Spider WELCH had accepted and signed
articles for a twenty-round bout in this city with Jack CLIFFORD, the popular
local lightweight. The Spider is expected here to-morrow to finish training, as
the fight will take place on the 30th.
reported
that one William CHAMBERLAIN was arrested, tried, convicted and fined for
selling whisky to an Indian named Gayhart SNELLING. In this the correspondent
was mistaken, having named the wrong man. He should have stated that the man
convicted was a barkeeper named Charles SWEETLAND, employed in the Miners’
Hotel by Chamberlain. Notice of appeal has been served in the case of
Sweetland.
few
days ago and placed in jail. He is charged with threatening the lives of Al
HYDE and Carl JOHNSON with a deadly weapon. Since his arrival here with the
officers his actions are very queer, and it is feared that he is insane. He is being closely watched at the jail.
Justifiable
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 16 -
It was a great surprise to the people here to learn yesterday that the Coroner’s
jury at Manton, sitting on the body of Joe BUSH, the Indian killed Tuesday
night by “Firewater” GOULD, should return a verdict holding the latter guilty
of murder and recommending that the District Attorney prosecute him for that
crime. The evidence that had come to
Redding by roundabout ways indicated that Bush was an intruder in the Gould
cabin and had threatened to kill mother and son, when the latter picked up his
gun and shot Bush in the back. Coroner
BASSETT, who had got as far as Balls Ferry last night on his way back from
Manton to Redding, said over the telephone that he did not like to repeat the
evidence taken at the inquest until it had been delivered to the District
Attorney. He did say, however, that the verdict of the jury was based on the
evidence given by the mother, who was the only witness to the tragedy. He said,
also, that Bush had the mother by the hair when the son shot to kill. The
bullet went through Bush’s body, piercing the liver. “Firewater” Gould - his real name is Albert GOULD
- is aged 19 years and a cripple. He disappeared after the shooting but was
easily found yesterday after the Coroner’s Jury returned the verdict. He was
taken into custody at Manton by Deputy Sheriff RICHARDSON, who will bring him
to Redding to-day.
Shasta - will be called upon to
contribute territory to a union High School District the people of this remote
region are seeking to establish with the High School in this village.
The proposition is to take Little Hollow District from Modoc County, and Little Valley,
Rocky Comfort and Dixie Valley Districts from Lassen County. These, with sixteen districts in the
northeastern part of Shasta County, would make a respectable High School
District, and Fall River Mills is practically at the center. All the districts
included are remote from the county seats of their respective counties.
Advanced schooling is badly needed by the children of this out-of-the-way
section, and the only way the great majority of them will ever get it will be
by having a High School close at hand.
The proposition is being
agitated with vigor and is receiving hearty support.
place,
which has been closed for two years, has been sold to Sam LEAVITT of Yreka, who
will start up the plant May 1st and keep it running
continuously. As there are about
10,000,000 feet of timber to be sawed before it will be necessary to move the
mill, the revival of the enterprise means a good deal to this little canyon
village and Summer resort.
WHO SENT FAHEY TO FOUL DEATH?
Company vs. the city of
Marysville, Judge McDANIEL has denied the motion of plaintiff for a new trial.
It was just a year yesterday
since the Court rendered an overwhelming decision for the city in this suit and
Judge McDaniel now states that he sees no reason to deviate from the opinion
delivered by him at that time. The sewer
system installed by the city in 1903 is at the bottom of the litigation.
The case will now go up to the higher
tribunal and a final decision is expected by September next.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal
March 17, 1906
Page 6
Numerous Candidates For Position
Of Trustee In City of Redding - All Issues Are Purely Local REDDING (Shasta
Co.), march 17 - By next Monday all the candidates for city offices must have
their petitions filed in order to be entitled to have their names on the
ticket. The city election will be held on April 9th. Three Trustees, Marshal, City Clerk and
Treasurer are to be elected. Apparently
there will be no opposition to the re-election of City Clerk T.B. SMITH and
treasurer R.G. DUNN. L.D. POOLE, who has served two terms as City Marshal, is a
candidate for the same position, but he will have an opponent in C.W. BARKER.
Candidates for Trustee are
numerous. The City Board will have control of the expenditure of most of the
bonds, and for that reason the non-salaried position of Trustee is more
attractive than usual. Trustees W.C. POWELL and Fred HURST go out of office and
have no aspirations to serve another term.
Mayor Abb MERRILL, who is also a Trustee, goes out of office, but will
be a candidate for re-election.
Other candidates for Trustee are
H.V. REAVIS, George GRONWOLDT, W.P. BUCK,
W.J. GILLESPIE, Frank L. LAMMON,
D.N. HONN, J.H. HUNTER, D.R. McCONNELL,
Henry VEDDOR, Samuel T. HILL,
Chris STABLER, M.E. DITTMAN, W.M. HEROR, Frank
SCAMMAN and John ZEIS.
Politics will cut no figure. All
issues are purely local.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 17 -
H.A. GAFFORD, formerly a hotel clerk in Davisville, but more recently
conducting a bicycle repair shop in Redding, pleaded guilty yesterday before
Justice of the Peace CARR of stealing a shirt. He was caught in the act of
shop-lifting in the Chenoweth-Moore Company’s store by one of the proprietors.
He is now in the County Jail awaiting sentence, which will be pronounced
Tuesday.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 17 -
The case of S. SABASTIANI, who is under arrest charged with tampering with the
United States mails has not been examined as yet.
Sabastiani now makes counter charges and claims he is being made the victim of
a conspiracy. On the other hand, the complaining witness is the case is
perfectly willing now to compromise the matter, in fact, he, it is said, would
much prefer that method.
More people are being drawn into
the case and it bids fair to be a spicy affair. The accused will not listen to
any talk of a compromise to effect his release, but
demands a hearing. What the outcome will be is hard to tell. District Attorney
SEXTON and postmaster LEONARD will try and sift the matter out in the next day
or two.
Driver, One Passenger And Eleven
Horses Are Snowbound - Rescue Party Sent In Search LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), March
17 - The recent storm which raged four days was the worst in years. The Boca
and Loyalton Railroad managed by using three engines together and a snow plow
to get through each day, though always a little late.
Word was brought here this
morning that the Sierra City stage, driven by JOHNSON, which runs out of
Sierraville, was lost, and that the driver, one passenger and eleven horses are
all fast in the snow somewhere in the mountains. The stage was left behind and
the eleven horses taken to break a trail and get the mail through.
There was about ten feet of old
snow on the ground and fifteen feet of new snow has fallen since Sunday. A
party left Sierraville this morning with provisions to go to the relief of the
driver.
If they had an ax and matches it
is thought the driver and passenger are safe. The passenger is a brother of
H.B. GOTT, of Loyalton.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.),. March 17 - With the death of Mrs. Angeline SHELTON, of
Linda Township, which occurred in this city yesterday, an entire family has
responded to the inevitable in a very brief space of time, not one member of
which met with accident. The father, “Posey” SHELTON, died about ten years ago,
but it was the other members who followed one another in quick succession. It
is less than a year ago that the eldest son died in Stockton; then in about two
months his sister followed and then came the demise of the youngest son three
months later. Now follows the mother in her sixty-fifth year. Mrs. Shelton
leaves a brother, Washington SMITH, and a sister, Mrs. Josephine BAUMGARTNER,
both of Marysville, to mourn her passing.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 17
- The death is announced from Maxwell, Colusa County, of Cal DENNIS, a former
resident of this section. At one time he owned the tract of land near Lomo now
farmed by Matt SULLENGER. He had reached his seventy-third year. Chas. DENNIS,
of Yuba City, is a brother of deceased.
Nothing Has Been Seen Of Kid
Hulen Since February 23 - Relatives Fear He Has Met With Foul Play DIXON
(Solano Co.), March 17 - William F. HULEN, better known as “Kid” Hulen, the
baseball player who was raised in this town, has been reported missing since
February 23d. He was last seen on that date, when he took the train from
Seattle for Portland, where he told his wife that he was going to attend to
some business.
A letter from his wife, received
here yesterday, states that she has not heard a word from him since.
She is fearful that he has met with foul play, as he was never known to absent
himself from her for such a length of time without writing. The parents of both
Hulen and his wife reside in this town, but none of them have heard from Hulen,
and all are very much alarmed over his disappearance.
“Billie” Hulen, as he is
familiarly known to all the “fans” in this and many other States, was born and
raised in Dixon, where he married the daughter of Dr. UPHAM, of this place. He
has been a successful ball player, and has played in several of the Eastern
League clubs, as well as those on this Coast, and was signed with Seattle for
the coming season. Hulen was a member of
several fraternal societies, among which is the Elks, who have taken up the
search. Nothing is being left undone to locate the missing ball player.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 17 -
County Clerk BLODGETT issued his thousandth marriage license this week. It went
to two parties names HUNTER, who were in no way related. The list of marriage
licenses follows: James HUNTER, aged 38, and Sarah HUNTER, aged 37, both of
Castella; John C. GUISLER, aged 44, and Elizabeth THORN, aged 34, both of
Deadwood, Trinity County; H.P. RUCKER, aged 25, and Viola PHILLIPS, aged 20,
both of Whitmore; Lawrence C. MANOR, aged 27, of Red Bluff, and Jessie E.
LEACH, aged 21, of Redding. Helen C.
McCAULEY has begun an action for divorce from Albert McCAULEY.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), march 17
- Only one marriage license was issued in Yuba County this week, the parties
being: Lea V. SMITH of Lincoln and Mrs.
Elfa HORTON of Sacramento. The nuptial knot was tied yesterday. The engagement has been announced of Homer
HICKS of Bakersfield and Miss Ica MEEK, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.L. MEEK of
this city. The wedding will take place in June.
Benjamin SHELTON, a former
resident of this city, now of Chico, has sent word to his friends here that he
was married in Stirling City last week to Miss Vivian HUSTON of the City of
Roses.
In the divorce case of Mary
BOGARD vs. Chas. BOGARD, the Court found it necessary this week to call the
defendant before him and insist that Bogart pay the alimony fixed. It is said
there is now prospect of a reunion.
SUISUN, March 17 - The following marriage licenses have been issued during the
past week: Bernard F. STRUMBERG, 65, and Jane NASH, 54, both of Vallejo;
Chas. H. WRIGHT, 21, of Cement,
and Edna L. LAMBERT, 20, of Fairfield.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), March
17 - R.H.P. BIGELOW, Forest Ranger in charge of the Shasta and Klamath Forest
Reserves, who has made his headquarters in this place for the last six months,
has received word from Washington that he has been promoted to the position of
Forest Supervisor at a salary of $1600 a year and has been assigned charge of
the Klamath Reserve with headquarters in Yreka. He will remove to Yreka in a
week or two. Bigelow is considered a
very efficient forester. He had several years experience in the Sierra Reserve
before he was sent to Weaverville.
SUISUN (Solano Co.), March 17 -
The election for town officers which will take place on Monday, April 9th,
will be one of the most keenly contested that has ever taken place in Suisun.
For the three vacancies for Town Trustees there are six candidates. Henry BIRD, O.R. SHEPPS, Ernst LUEHNING, A.L. LA SHEILS, G.L.
NELSON and R.C. HALLE. For Town Marshall the fight will be a most exciting
one, the candidates being L.J. CHRISLER, J.F. SHIELDS and R. REESE. Town Clerk
F. Wm. GABRIEL desires to succeed himself and will meet with no opposition.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
17 - The remainder of the life of Thomas HART will be spent in the State Insane
asylum. He was examined before Judge NILON yesterday afternoon by Drs. MILLER
and SAWYER and adjudged insane. Hart is
the aged Grass Valleyan who some time ago tried to murder his wife during a fit
of religious mania, and whose latest escapade was his escape from the County
Hospital Thursday night, as related by The Bee yesterday.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
17 - After an enforced vacation the North San Juan public school has opened
again. Owing to the outbreak of diphtheria in that place among school children
the school was closed by the Board of Trustees several weeks ago. The afflicted
have recovered and as there are no indications of a fresh outbreak the order to
resume studies has been issued.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 17 -
W.R. ROBERTS was brought to town Friday morning by Constable REILLY and lodged
in jail on a charge of burglary on complaint of John CLARK, of Yankee Hill.
Clark resides at Yankee Hill but has another place on the West Branch, where he
stays part of the time. Thursday he went
there and found that some one had broken into the house and ransacked things.
In looking around he discovered that a fire had ben built in the cook house and
pursuing his investigation he discovered Roberts hiding behind a tree. As
Roberts refused to give any account of his actions, Clark compelled him to
start with him for Yankee Hill, from which place he telephoned to Constable
Reilly who drove out and met him as Cherokee taking Roberts (rest of article
cut off).
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), March 17 -
P.C. KING, an employe of the PETERS ranch, was run over yesterday and so badly
injured that it is believed he will die.
King and a companion were hauling some wood and they drove into a
gully. King got out of the wagon and
while trying to start the load, the horse began to move and he was caught and
thrown under the wheel. The load passed directly over his body injuring him severely.
His right hip was almost torn loose from his body. It is not believed he will
survive.
WHEATLAND (Yuba Co.), March 17 -
The expert horse breakers who have been employed on E. Clement HORST’s hop
ranch to break horses this Winter have just finished breaking over a hundred
head of Oregon horses and the last lot will be sent to Sacramento to-day to be
used on the PERKINS hop ranch near that city. For the past few days this
company has been branding stock and taking an inventory of their flocks, herds
and bands at Horstville. Next week it will send from Tehama seven hundred head
of cattle to Wheatland. These cattle
will be fed up for hop picking season, during which time the Horst ranch alone
will consume on an average about two beeves a day.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, March 19, 1906
Page 6
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 19 -
The typographical Union of Salem, Oregon, is anxious to know whether M. HICKEY,
a member of the Union, perished in the landslide at Delta, February 17th,
with J.T. KEISER, the printer of Spokane, whose body was recovered from the
slide and was buried a few days later in Redding.
The Salem Union, through its
Secretary, writes to the Redding Union that Hickey and Keiser left Salem
together with the avowed purpose of going to San Francisco. Hickey has never
been heard from since. It will be remembered
that it was persistently maintained directly after the landslide that three
persons were killed - Engineer Dennis FREEL, J.T. KEISER and a third man, whose body was never
found, search for the dead being abandoned when all railroad property was recovered.
LAMOINE (Shasta Co.), March 19 -
Logging operations in this lumber camp were resumed to-day and the big sawmill
was started up also. The mill will cut $5,000 feet a day and is to be run night
and day throughout the season. The
railroad from the mill into the forests to the west will be extended this Summer five miles nearer the Trinity County line. Eighteen
new fial cars and a second locomotive have been purchased and two trains will
be run this season instead of one, as last season. The large increase in the
number of men employed will add greatly to the general prosperity of the town
of Lamoine.
KESWICK (Shasta Co.), March 19 -
Another landslide occurred yesterday afternoon half a mile south of the depot
at the same spot where the big slide of a week ago blocked the track for
several hours. A crew of forty Greeks and section men cleared the track in a
couple of hours, and the evening north-bound passenger was delayed only a few
minutes. The slide was of much smaller proportions than that of a week ago.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), March 19
- The marriage of Mrs. Mary WINTER, mother of Assessor Louis WINTER, of this
city; W.H. WINTER, of Redding; Mrs. Ruel O. SNELLING, of Paskenta, and John
WINTER, of Truckee, to John C. TIPTON, a wealthy cattle owner of Helena,
Montana, greatly surprised the good people of this community out of their
Sabbath day peace and quiet. The
ceremony was performed Saturday in San Francisco and it is reported that Mr.
and Mrs. Tipton will make their home in Montana. The groom gave his age as 70
and the bride admitted to 50 years. Their many friends in this county wish the
couple a long life and much prosperity in their wedded career.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 29 -
Charles F. GERTH died at his home in this city Saturday, after a long illness
of consumption. Deceased was a native of Germany, 48 years of age. He leaves a
wife and daughter. The funeral services will be held Tuesday from the German
Lutheran Church.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 19-
Judge GADDIS this morning rendered a decision in the case of Dr. J.T. GRANT vs.
the Sunset Telephone Company. Grant was awarded $2500 damages for injuries
sustained in 1902. The original amount sued for was $11,000. The amount awarded
is said to be half what the Company offered Grant on a compromise.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), March 19
- An evidence of the increasing land prices in Northern San Joaquin was
evidenced Saturday when C.E. BUCK and L.J.
THUYMER refused a cash offer of $24,000 - $600 an acre - for their
forty-acre Tokay vineyard in the Acampo district. The vines are four years old,
and will give a good crop this season. The owners base their refusal upon the
fact that this year 5000 crates will be taken from the vines and if these sell
for only 50 cents per crate the owners will realize 11 per cent upon the amount
they turned down for their vine land.
FLORISTON (Nevada Co.), March 19
- This morning an electrician named MORGANICO was instantly killed while
operating a motor in the mill of the Floriston Paper Company.
DIXON (Solano Co.), March 19 - A
petition is being circulated here remonstrating against the application of
George EASTON to the Governor for commutation of the death sentence passed on
him by the Superior Court of this county recently. The horrible nature of the
crime is still fresh in the memory of the people of this town, and they would
consider it a great miscarriage of justice if the accused should escape the
death penalty. It will be remembered
that the crime was committed in a questionable resort of one Josephine QUICK
more than a year ago. Easton crept up behind Charles HORIGAN and cut his throat
while the latter was sitting in a chair reading and, as far as could be learned
at the trial, without any provocation whatever. Horigan was an inoffensive farm
laborer and it is believed here that Easton cannot offer the least shadow of an
excuse why the death penalty should not be executed.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 19 -
Marshal S.H. WILSON, who was assaulted on Saturday morning and received one or
two slight cuts on the hand from a knife in the hands of a Russian tailor, E.M.
BUKOWSKI, declined to place any charge against his assailant, giving as a
reason therefor that he probably had been a little hasty in striking the man
who had angered him by his abuse.
Wilson has come in for much
censure because of this and the further fact that, although Marshal of the
city, he ran away from this assailant instead of attempting to arrest him. He
is criticized for not using his club or even his revolver, as it is believed he
has set a poor example to the officers under him.
The man was arrested on the
river bank by H.B. STEWART, a private citizen, and Officers BURTON and
McDONALD, whom he called to his aid. Stewart reported the matter to District
Attorney SEXTON and asked that a charge be preferred against the tailor. The
matter was also reported to City Attorney GARDNER and Trustee GODFREY, so it is
not likely Buskowski will escape punishment.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), March 19 -
Vallejo is mourning the loss of two of its oldest residents, Judge C.W. RILEY
and Mrs. Margaret WILSON. Mrs. Wilson
died last evening after a short attack of pneumonia. She was born in Ohio
sixty-three years ago. She had resided in Solano County for nearly half a
century and in this city for the last fifteen years. A husband, Joseph, and
three sons and two daughters survive her.
Judge RILEY, who passed away in Alexander Valley a few days ago, was for
twenty years, from 1864 to 1884, the Justice of the Peace of Vallejo Township.
RENO (Nev.), Charles D. HULBERT
and Miss Dorothy M. VARDEN, prominent young people of Auburn, Cal., eloped to
Reno Saturday and were married late in the afternoon, returning Sunday morning
to Auburn, where they were forgiven by their parents.
All day long they waited in the city
for a marriage license, the County Clerk having received notification before
they arrived not to issue the license, as they were not of age. They
immediately telephoned to their parents when told of the circumstance, but it
was not until many hours afterward that the necessary consent was given by
phone. Miss Varden is a beautiful young
woman of Auburn, and is not yet 18.
Hulbert is 21. The bride is
known to a number of the young people of Reno.
RENO (Nev.), March 19 - Allen
TRIMBLE, aged 70 years, a pioneer of Lassen County, California, is dead in
Reno, where he recently located. Mr. Trimble was one of the men that left the
East in 1849 for the gold fields. He lived in the various mining camps for a
number of years, and finally located in Lassen County, of which he was one of
the oldest and most honored residents.
He leaves a number of children and other relatives at Loyalton. The
remains will be interred with Masonic honors at Beckwith.
RENO (Nev.), March 19 - Before
the general assembly of the University of Nevada Friday, Mrs. BERRY, of Carson,
delivered a lecture on Mozart that was listened to with much interest by her
audience. She spoke for an hour, dwelling upon the difficulties he encountered
and surmounted and his final fame, which resulted from his skill as a composer
rather than that of a player, although he was skilled upon several
instruments. Mrs. Berry is quite well
known in Sacramento, where her sister, Mrs. James BERRY, resides. She has
visited there frequently. She is an accomplished musician.
RENO (Nev.), March 19 - F.
VOGLIOTTI, a prominent Italian rancher, left home a week ago, and has not been
seen since. He has a family and a brother, Felix Vogliotti, is a large real
estate owner in RENO. Vogliotti had about $500 in cash with him when he left,
saying that he was going to Genoa Springs. Inquiry at that place and other
points that he occasionally frequents brings to light no news from him.
GARDNERVILLE (Nev.), March 19 -
Francisco ROSSINI, aged 63 years, a well-known Swiss mechanic, was found in the
washroom of the Brown Hotel, where he had frozen to death during the night.
Rossini had been called to the hotel to make some repairs and is supposed to
have become ill and perished from the cold, the thermometer being at 19
degrees.
CARSON (Nev.), March 19 - L.A.
WEINBURG and a companion, claiming to be from Butte, and pretending to be
agents for large wholesale houses who have established a retail department
which is conducted through traveling salesmen, were arrested at Tonopah
Saturday evening, and have been returned to Carson, charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses. They separated here recently and are alleged to
have taken orders for silk dress patterns, collecting half the money. The
orders were never filled. They obtained many hundred dollars in this fashion,
the complaints allege.
CARSON (Nevada), March 19 -
George BACHELDER has brought a mandamus proceeding against District Judge
MURPHY to compel the trial of a suit for divorce which he brought against his
wife, who is confined to the State Insane Asylum at Reno. Judge Murphy had
continued the case indefinitely and Bachelder seeks to force a trial.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, March 20, 1906
Page 6
Leroy Grieve, of Davisville and
Dixon, Meets Sudden Death While In Discharge Of His Duties DAVISVILLE (Yolo
Co.), March 20 - Leroy GRIEVE, well known here and at Dixon, his family being
one of the oldest in this section, was killed Sunday by electricity. He was in
charge of the plant of the Mariposa Mining and Commercial Company and the
accident, the details of which are not fully known here at this time, occurred
either at Bagby or Benton Mills. Leroy
Grieve was about 30 years of age and was born near here, in South Putah
Township. His parents were George N. GRIEVE and wife, who lived on a farm in
the township mentioned. His widowed mother, now living near Dixon, survives
him, residing with her sister, Miss Helen GRIEVE. Filmore GRIEVE, a brother,
lives on the old farm.
Leroy Grieve attended school
here and at Dixon, afterward going to the State University. He then entered the
employ of the Bay Counties Power Company, beginning as a patrolman. His advance
was rapid and at the time of his death he held a responsible position which
paid, it is understood, $2400 a year.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
20 - An unusual complaint in intervention was filed in the Superior Court here
yesterday by Byrom M. WHITE in the case of PEASLEE vs. HIPP et al. Peaslee
recently commenced suit to foreclose a mortgage given by F.H. Hipp and wife of
M.B. Peaslee on over 1000 acres below Grass Valley. White claims that the money
advanced on the mortgage was furnished by him, and
that Peaslee never had nor now has any interest whatever in the note and
mortgage.
Woodland Is Proud Of Her New
Health Officials And Expects Great Things Of Them From Now On WOODLAND (Yolo
Co.), March 20 - Woodland now glories in a Board of Health composed entirely of
women and great things are expected of them.
For three months the city has been without such a body, necessary as it
is known to be. This was owing to the resignation of Dr. BEEBE and the removal
of Dr. PROSE to another town, which left only Dr. Francis L. NEWTON of the old
Board.
She, however, stood ready to
carry on the work whenever colleagues were given her, and last night the City
Trustees concluded to act, appointing Mrs. C.W. BUSH and Mrs. Harriett
BROWNELL. These public-spirited women
consented to accept the appointments, convinced that Woodland should have a
Board of Health, and it is believed they will prove very efficient.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), March
20 - Evidently William GREEN has a lucky star watching over him. Otherwise he
might now be dead. He fell from an apple tree which he was pruning, a distance
of twelve feet, and landed on his back on the blade of a pair of pruning
shears. The bare fact that he struck the blade a glancing blow was all that
saved his life. As it was, a deep wound ten inches long was gashed in his back.
CARRVILLE (Trinity Co.), March
20 - Jack GRAVES was given his preliminary examination yesterday before Justice
of the Peace COFFMAN on the charge of assault to commit murder, Frank SMITH,
miner, being the complaining witness.
Judge Coffman held Graves to answer to the Superior Court on the charge
named, fixing the bonds at $2000. Graves had no difficulty in giving the bonds.
The preliminary examination
lasted four hours, and was a great attraction in this mining camp because of
the prominence of Graves, who is one of the leading mining men of the county.
Five witnesses were called, two of them for the defense. Graves was not put
upon the stand.
Graves is charged with stabbing
Frank Smith four times a week ago Friday night in a quarrel over a dice game.
The wounds come very nearly proving mortal, and Smith has not yet entirely
recovered.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 20 -
The preliminary examination of Mrs. Mary SAUM and C.W. LANGLEY, charged with
the murder of Aser BRAND at Keswick, was continued yesterday by Justice of the
Peace CARR until next Monday. Mrs. SAUM asked for the continuance in order that
she might have more time to communicate with friends in the East and get money,
if possible, to conduct her defense.
PLEASANT GROVE (Sutter Co.),
March 20 - Word from Washington is to the effect that Mitlon HOGLE has been
appointed Postmaster at this place.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), March 20
- Samie ZURCHER, a man about 25 year of age, pleaded guilty yesterday to a
charge of grand larceny and was sentenced to serve one year in San Quentin by
Judge ELLISON. Zurcher stole a bicycle from A. GOEHRING, a barber in this city,
about a month ago.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
20 - The funeral of the late Alexander RICHARDSON, of Columbia Hill, took place
to-day. Richardson, who lived by himself at the mountain town, died late on Sunday
night from acute pneumonia. He was found Saturday evening by a neighbor lying
in a faint by the stove in his house. Dr. ROGERS was summoned from Bloomfield,
but the aged man was beyond medical aid. He was one of the oldest residents of
that section, having located there fifty-four years ago. He leaves a valuable
estate.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 20 -
HARRINGTON and BALL, of this city, telephone linemen, are here and report that
eleven out of nineteen men employed in the Winters
section by the Sunset Company struck Sunday night because they could not put up
with the methods of Foreman DUEHREN. The trouble appears to be over payment for
extra time. The men claim Duehren will have a difficult time keeping a
sufficient force on hand unless he mends his ways.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 20
- In the matter of the Lincoln Rochdale Company, bankrupt, Referee BELCHER has
declared a dividend of 12 ‡ per cent for the creditors.
In the matter of J.W. JEWELL, a
bankrupt of Chico, a dividend of 20 per cent was declared in the Referee’s
Court.
Gruesome Find Made On The River
Bank At Rio Vista And Solano Officers Are Now Investigating RIO VISTA (Solano
Co.), March 20 - While Thomas REESE was walking down the river road from the
Elliott place last Saturday afternoon, he made a most gruesome discovery. A
large cigar box, with a string tied around it, attracted his attention. It was
on the river bank in front of the GARDINER property. Upon opening it he was startled
to find it contained the remains of an infant.
He brought the box and contents
to town and put them in possession of Judge F.J. KAIBU, who at once notified
the authorities at Fairfield, and was instructed to have the remains reserved.
An investigation will be made into the matter.
The infant was of the male sex
and prematurely born. It had been wrapped in an old shirt, put in the cigar
box, which had the brand of the “Silver Eagle” upon it, and, presumably, cast
into the river. It floated down stream and landed on the bank when Reese picked
it up.
From the condition of the
remains when found it is thought they had not been in the water for any length
of time, and the authorities will take immediate steps to ascertain where they
came from. It is thought it will not be a very hard matter to locate those who
are responsible for the throwing of the corpse into the river, and arrest them
on this charge, if not for some graver offense.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
March 20 - Hugh LARKIN, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of El
Dorado County, and for the last ten years one of the leaders of the Democracy
in El Dorado County, died last night of a low fever contracted in exploiting
some mining properties in which he was interested. He was ** years of age, and
was a son of the late Henry LARKIN, formerly State Senator, and a well-known
politician, who was one of the framers of the State Constitution of 1879.
RENO (Nev.), March 20 - Lloyd
BENOIST, the young man who was shot and severely injured at Pyramid Lake by his
sister, Mrs. Geo. BLUNDELL, is in a condition that is considered most grave by
his physicians. A number of the shot lodged in the back of his neck, near the
vertebrae and from these septic poisoning has set in. His face is paralyzed and
he is suffering from an attack of jaundice. To-day he is much weaker.
Mrs. Blundell, who shot Benoist,
still refuses to talk for publication, but her defense will be that she was so
cruelly treated by Benoist that she was rendered desperate. She will testify
that as a result of her quarrel with Mrs. Benoist her brother slapped and beat
her in the presence of the family and then kicked her repeatedly as she fled
into the house. She will say that he followed her into the house and repeated
his abuse and that as he left with a taunt she seized a shotgun near at hand
and fired a single shot that struck him in the face and neck.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
March 21, 1906
Page 6
Takes His Daughter From Her
Mother, Whom He Finds Employed In Woodland Hotel, Running Away WOODLAND (Yolo
Co.), March 21 - Last night about 8 o’clock Jerry HAGAN, of Chico, kidnaped his
little 8-year-old daughter from the Barker Hotel, where the child was living
with her mother, who is employed at that place.
The Hagans have been separated for several months, but have not been
divorced. The wife has been in this city for the past three weeks. Hagan arrived in town yesterday morning and
at once went to see his wife and child. She says that he asked her to return
with him and she refused. Last night he
went to the hotel and grabbing the child ran down the street toward the depot.
The woman, as soon as she learned what had happened, started after him, but he
had disappeared. As the evening train had left and he could not get out of town
by the railroad, the mother thought possibly he had gone to his brother’s, who
lives just north of town. The family, however, denied all knowledge of Hagan’s
whereabouts to her when she asked them about it.
Mrs. Hagan applied to Justice
LAMPTON for a warrant to arrest Hagan for disturbing the peace, but as he had
not done anything that he could be held on it was refused, as was also a search
warrant to examine the premises of Hagan’s brother.
The Hagans have four children,
the three oldest being with their father in Chico.
Early this morning, it was
learned since filing the above, Marvin HAGAN, an uncle, returned the child to
her mother, but offered no explanation of the father’s conduct. The little
girl’s clothing was soaking wet, showing she had been kept out in the rain.
Mrs. Hagan says her husband left
Woodland on the noon train and that he will return to Chico.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 21 -
The case of The People vs. J.B. HUGHES was commenced in the Superior Court in
this city yesterday. Hughes is charged with forging the name of J.B. ANDERSON,
of Davisville, to a note for $450 given to the Bank of Yolo, of this city.
Hughes, it will be remembered,
left his home at Davisville shortly before he was charged with forging the
note, and his whereabouts were unknown for a time. He came home on a visit and
the officers, hearing of his presence, arrested him on the charge.
District Attorney Harry L.
HUSTON appears for The People and Grove L.
JOHNSON, of Sacramento, and E.W. ARMFIELD, of this city, represent the defendant.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 21
- Word has been received from Bremen, Germany, of the death of Miss Dina
KLOCKENBAUM, a former resident of this city. It was in accordance with a wish
which was uppermost in her mind during the half-century which she spent in
Marysville, that Miss Klockenbaum - 80 years a spinster - should breathe her
last in Germany, her native land.
Deceased was an aunt of Enno NESEMAN of this city. She left here about
two years ago with the avowed intention of spending her last days in
Faderland. Although four-score years she
withstood the long journey with remarkable ease. She died at the home of her
sister, Mrs. F. EHLERS.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 21 -
Frederick ROCHON, the man who made the first attempt to float logs down the Pit
and Sacramento Rivers, a pioneer of Shasta County, is now an inmate of the
Sacramento County Hospital. He is a very old man and expects to remain in the
hospital until the end. Rochon
constructed a boat in early days that was to revolutionize river navigation.
The boat was constructed in the old town of Shasta and was launched at the Reid
Ferry, north of what is now Redding. Hundreds of the old residents were at the
launching and for days the craft was run up and down the river loaded with
passengers at excursion rates. Then the boat was taken down the river to the
bay, but it never came back. Neither did it revolutionize river navigation.
That was the first and only
steamboat that ever plied the waters of the Sacramento above Iron Canyon. It
went as far up the river as Middle Creek, four miles above Redding, which is
stipulated by the War Department as the head of navigation on the Sacramento.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 21 -
Charles J. McCONNELL, of this city, died yesterday afternoon in an hospital in San Francisco, where he had lived for the
past twelve years, having been employed as watchman in the United States Mint.
The wife and two sons reside in Redding.
McConnell was a famous stage
driver of early days and will be well remembered by old-timers of Marysville,
Oroville, and throughout the Sacramento Valley. At one time he received $150 a
month for driving and when wages dropped finally to $75 a month, he laid down
the lines forever. He drove stage in Shasta County over fifty years ago.
Discovery Of A Lot of Clothing
Near Deep Pool, By Roadside, Arouses Much Talk But Few Facts GRASS VALLEY
(Nevada Co.), March 21 - In the opinion of some, another tragedy as grim as the
recent VAN HOETER murder mystery has been committed a mile or so south of this
city. The discovery of a heap of clothing on the edge of a deep pool twenty
feet from the road to the Button Mine and the mystery of its appearance has
convinced the miners passing that way that some stranger has been done to
death. A close search of the pool and the wood about will be made.
Sunday morning on their way to
work the miners found a black coat in good condition hanging on a barbed wire
fence half a mile south of the city limits. Nearly a mile farther they were
startled to come upon a pair of trousers to match the coat, a torn and
discolored white shirt and a man’s soft black hat, also in good condition, by
the edge of the pool. Though they
wondered much, the men said nothing until yesterday when the matter was made
public. The men who travel over this road every day, morning and evening, state
the clothing was not there on Saturday night, and how it came to where found
Sunday is a complete mystery. Rains have washed away all trace of possible
scuffle, of footprints and perhaps blood stains. None of the garments have been
examined closely, so it has not yet been determined whether or not they contain
blood stains.
Nobody is reported missing from
this city, but the matter will be investigated, as within the past few years at
least two murder mysteries have developed here to completely baffle the
officers. Some think, however, that a practical joker is at work and that he
placed the clothing where found that it might arouse suspicion of a crime.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), March
21 - Death came to aged john ICARD as he lay alone in his home on Randolph Flat
yesterday. The body was brought to this city late last night and will be held
pending the arrival of Icard’s daughters from San Francisco this evening, when
arrangements will be made for the funeral.
Icard, a veteran of the Mexican
War, had been in failing health for many months. He was a native of North
Carolina, aged 86 years. He served through the Mexican War and was present at
the taking of Santa Ana. He settled at Randolph Flat, near Rough and Ready, a
few miles east of here, in the early ë50’s and followed mining until failing
health compelled him to desist. He leaves two sons and three daughters.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
21 - After attempting to fire the County Hospital, Charles TREANOR proceeded to
“fire” the breakfast dishes at the head of the day nurse and promptly had his
head punched. Treanor, who has been in the county institution for some time,
sneaked away Monday and came to this city, where he filled up on bad whisky. He
returned to the hospital in the night and raised such a row that Superintendent
STEWART was summoned from his bed. He was promptly met by Treanor in a
pugilistic manner, and only after a hard fight was the drunken patient locked
up in the hospital prison.
There he attempted to set fire
to the building, but was caught in time and relieved of his matches. Yesterday
morning he was taken his breakfast by Day Nurse FRIEDMAN. Because he didn’t get
poached egg on toast, and chocolate with thick cream
in it, he proceeded to throw the dishes at the nurse’s head. Friedman gave him
a few swift punches and all the “bad man”oozed out of the bellicose patient.
Last night he reported gently as a lamb.
Treanor is said to be the same patient who escaped some time ago to Grass
Valley, where he fell in a creek while intoxicated, removed every stitch of
clothing and crawled into a lumber yard, where he was found fast asleep and
nearly frozen early the following morning.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
21 - By little less than a miracle were Clyde COLE and W.L. WILLIAMSON saved
from death beneath a mass of falling earth and rock near Washington, this
county, yesterday. News of the accident reached here last night, to the effect
that the men were working in a tunnel in the Giant King Mine, owned by
Williamson, when, without warning, it caved in. Williamson was buried to his
shoulders, but managed to extricate himself after a terrible struggle. He then
dug Cole out. A heavy rack had broken one of Cole’s legs, however, and after
making him as comfortable as possible, Williamson hurried to Washington and
returned with a number of miners, who carried the injured man down the steep
hill on a litter to the home of his mother, where a physician was summoned.
Williamson was badly bruised, but his great strength was probably all that
saved both lives.
10,000 BEES UNDER COUNT
Interesting Experiments In
Progress At Governments Plant Introduction Garden Near Chico CHICO (Butte Co.),
March 21 - As an instance of the character of the work being carried on at the
Government Plant Introduction Garden here an experiment has just been half-way
concluded in which 10,000 bees have to be counted twice. The experiment is for
finding just how much honey is required to feed one bee, and two counts of the
10,000 bees are made during the extreme of temperature so as to get a good
average. The tediousness of the job can
hardly be imagined until it is known that a single glass tube must be watched
for four days, and every bee passing through it must be counted. J.M. RANKIN,
Government Apiarist at the Garden, is conducting the experiment.
Mr. Rankin is also busily
engaged in artificially rearing queen bees to send to the prominent bee men of
this State for breeders. Over 400 orders have been received for the queens,
which are of the Carniolan and Caucasian strains. The wet weather causes the
“workers” to rebel against providing extra food for the cells, and they
frequently destroy them. A choice
foreign plant at the garden which came from China, and goes by the name of “yang
tow” is doing exceedingly well in becoming nearly acclimated in one year, only
the tender tips being frozen this year, while the entire part above ground was
frozen last year.
The fruit, which in China only
the rich can afford, resembles the plum in shape, and the gooseberry in taste
and in size of seeds. The flavor, however, is striking.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 21 -
Tossed around in the ice-cold waters of the Feather River, John CARO, an
Austrian, and an employe of a Western Pacific contractor at Berri Creek,
narrowly escaped being drowned in the raging flood on Monday evening.
Caro desired to cross the river,
although warned not to attempt it. He launched a small skiff and started off.
When about half-way across the skiff turned broadside to the stream and in a
second capsized. Caro grasped the boat
and hung onto it. He was carried down stream fully 100 yards, unable to aid
himself. Luckily the skiff swerved in toward the shore and momentarily stopped.
In that pause a rope was drifted out to Caro and he grasped it and was hauled
in to the shore, more dean than alive.
If it had not been for the fact that Caro grasped the boat and held on,
he would have been drowned, as no swimmer could have stemmed the raging torrent.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 21 -
William JOHNSON, a negro who stabbed Ole HESBOT, a saloonkeeper, about a month
ago for ejecting him from his saloon, had a hearing before Judge WARD
yesterday, was bound over on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to commit murder, waived time for passing of sentence, was taken before
Superior Judge GRAY and given five years in the Folsom State Prison.
LA PORTE (Plumas Co.), March 21
- The remains of Mrs. Emilie J.P. STOUT, who died here on March 11th,
will be buried in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery at Sacramento, and are now on the
way to that city, having left here Monday.
She was born at Windham, Maine, fifty-eight years ago, and was a sister
of Mrs. M.P. BARNES, of this place; Mrs. George H. REED, of Tacoma, Washington;
E. PURINTON, also of Tacoma;
S.A. PURINTON, Longfellow, Texas, and Mrs. C.A.
PLUMMER, Portland, Maine.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, March 22, 1906
Page 6
YUBA COUNTY (Sutter Co.), March
22 - Sheriff WILSON received a telegram from Sheriff MOORE of Lake County last
evening stating that the latter had in custody at Lakeport, Henry MAYERS, who
is wanted in this county on a charge of arson.
About a month ago, it is alleged, Mayers set fire to a large barn belonging to
CORRELL Brothers, on the Sacramento River, near Kirksville. The building,
together with a number of horses and wagons and agricultural implements was
destroyed.
Sheriff WILSON has been
searching for Mayers since the crime was committed but no trace of him had been
found before the telegram was received from the Lake County Sheriff. Wilson
left to-day to bring the prisoner back.
YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.), March 22
- Babetta KELLAR, wife of Franc KELLAR, a well-known resident of Yuba City,
died yesterday. The death is particularly sad owing to the fact that Mrs.
Kellar leaves a week-old child. Deceased became the wife of Mr. Kellar about
two years ago.
COLFAX (Placer Co.), March 22 -
Mrs. Maria WELLS, of Michigan Bluff, died at that place last week. She was one
of the pioneer mothers of this State, and “came around the horn” in 1852. With
her husband she located at Michigan Bluff in the early fifties and a family of
six children was reared to manhood and womanhood, all of whom survive her, and
are as follows: James , John, William and Robert Wells, of Michigan Bluff; Mrs.
ARCHIBALD, of Madera; and Mrs. HOFFMAN, of San Jose. Deceased was a native of
Kalida, Ireland.
COLFAX (Placer Co.), March 22 -
N.T. GILBERT, one of the oldest pioneers of the State, died at his house in Yankee
Jims, this county, last week from natural causes. At the time of his demise he
was 76 years of age. He was the first teamster to ever go into the famous
mining town of Yankee Jims. He landed there in 1850 and resided there
continuously up to the time of his death. He was born in Lincoln County,
Kentucky, and leaves four brothers and two sisters to mourn his loss.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), March
22 - Reports are current of the mistreatment of boy pupils in the Washington
School, this city, by male instructors.
Yesterday, according to what has been learned, Harry COOK was the victim
of a teacher’s rough handling, being knocked senseless. The Cook boy, it is
said, was scuffling in a friendly way with another lad in the school house,
when he was seized by the teacher and thrown violently against a deck. His ear
was cut and he fainted from the shock. The teacher procured cold water which he
sprinkled on his face before the lad recovered. The boy, it was stated last night,
would be unable to attend school to-day.
It is claimed that this is the second case of rough handlings within a
week. The parents of the two lads in question are highly indignant and their
fellow pupils also express themselves in no uncertain terms over the
occurrence.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), March 22
- The Western Pacific operations in this county seem to be followed with a more
than ordinary amount of ill luck. For the past thirty days only four and
one-half days of labor have been performed, due to the wet weather, and on top
of this comes the report from the camp, located five miles west of Lodi, that
influenza has broken out among the horses. There are eighty animals at this
camp, and a number have died lately.
Influenza is not confined to the
railroad horses alone, for in other portions of the county this deadly disease
is playing havoc. The weather conditions are just right for such an epidemic,
and for horses to contract the disease does not mean that they catch it from
other inflicted animals. It is in the
air and all animals are liable.
SUISUN (Solano Co.), March 22 -
William GOOSEN, who has leased his hunting preserve to the Field and Tule Gun
Club has brought suit against the club for $500 damages. He alleges that the
club has maintained flood gates since the close of the hunting season, and let
water in which destroyed his pasture. He also alleges that the club burned the
tule, also destroying the pasture. In addition to the damages, he asks for an
injunction to restrain the members of the club from doing the things complained
of.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), March 22
- Late yesterday afternoon the Grand Jury indicted Peter McNEFF and W.E. SWAIN
on the charge of stealing and killing four hogs belonging to E.J. BLOSSOM. The
men were arrested and released on $500 bonds each. They were to have been tried
to-day before Justice BRANSFORD on this charge, which had been reduced to petty
larceny, but will now not have to appear as the hearing has been postponed.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), March
22 - the Fire Commissioners of Weaverville have called a special election to be
held early in April at which the people will be asked to vote a special tax sufficient
to raise $1300, the money to be used in improving the fire equipment of the
town. The taxable property of Weaverville is assessed at $185,000. A tax of 6
2-3 cents on each $100 will produce the $1300 wanted. The tax will doubtless be
voted.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 22 -
Albert GOULD will not be prosecuted for the alleged murder of Joe Bush at
Manton on Tuesday of last week. Both parties are Indians. The Coroner’s Jury
found that Gould was guilty of murder and recommended that the District
Attorney prosecute him on that charge. Gould was brought to Redding Friday and
has since been held in the County Jail. No charge has been placed against him
and District Attorney DOZIER says he will not persecute him unless some of the
people of Manton who are interested swear to the complaint. The District
Attorney appears to think that Gould shot Bush when the latter was abusing
Gould’s mother, making the killing a case of justifiable homicide. The public
formed the same opinion, the Coroner’s Jury to the contrary notwithstanding.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), March 22 -
Robert FOSTER, a barber, well known here, has been missing for over a week, and
the opinion is that his lifeless body lies at the bottom of some prospect hole
in the Ophir Mining District. Foster has
been an excessive drinker, and it was to recuperate
from one of these drinking spells that the missing man went on a visit to a
friend in Ophir. Foster was in a high state of nervousness and during a heavy
rainstorm in the night he disappeared and has not since been seen. Searching parties have been out, but the only
evidence of Foster that has been found was his hat which was discovered in a
near-by orchard. Foster’s parents reside
in Placerville.
CHICO (Butte Co.), march 22 -
There have been no further developments in the case of the poisoning of Bert
CHESTER, the former Normal football player, except the verification of the
decision of the attending physician in regard to the nature of the poison,
which he stated was cocaine, by the rest of the local physicians.
Chester was upon the street
to-day, but at times was subject to coughing spells in which blood was thrown
out, presumably from the raw condition of the stomach after the violent strain
upon it during the convulsions from the poisoning.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 22 -
Frederick LANGWAY, a rather speedy young man about town, who followed
bar-tending for a livelihood, is wanted by the local officers of the law, but
his whereabouts are not known. Langway
came here from Marysville about a year and a half ago and secured employment
with A.V. REYNOLDS, an undertaker. Being of good appearance and a neat dresser,
he made many friends, and when he left after a few months his departure was
much regretted. About three months ago he returned to Oroville and his friends
were not long in noticing a complete change in his demeanor. He tended bar in various places, mixed freely
with the gambling fraternity and consorted with women in the tenderloin
district. He was going the pace that brings disgrace and ruin.
Something over a week ago $150
was placed in his hands for safe-keeping by a woman with whom he was consorting,
and the next morning he left on the train for parts unknown. The few people who
were aware of the fact kept the matter secret as long as possible, but when the
woman could be kept quiet no longer and appealed to the officers, the affair
leaked out. It is doubtful if anything can be done to Langway for no doubt it
is merely a breach of trust. It is said that a number of Langway’s
acquaintances are also mourning his sudden departure to the extent of various
small sums of money borrowed the night before he left town.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 22 -
W.H. ROBERTS, who entered the house of John CLARK, near Yankee Hill, during his
absence, and who was charged with burglary, yesterday entered a plea of guilty
and Judge John C. GRAY sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment in Folsom. He
declared he had no intention of committing a burglary, but entered the house
merely to rest.
RENO (Nev.), March 22 - Little
Annie, a Piute Indian, and another squaw, each took a drink of China gin in a
Chinese store yesterday afternoon, and within a few minutes Little Annie was
dead. The other squaw became dangerously ill but recovered. The Chinaman has
been arrested.
RENO (Nevada Co.), March 22 -
Roberto SANTICO, who killed G. AIMJANDO in Humboldt County, this State, on
February 15th last, was discharged to-day
by Judge MINER on the ground that the shooting was done in self-defense. The
only witness to the tragedy was a woman, and she cannot be found. Both the men,
who are sheepmen, came from Sierra County, Cal.
RENO (Nev.), March 22 - John
CRUTCHBERRY, a well-known French stockman, was thrown from a wagon in a runaway
at Golconda to-day, and instantly killed, one of the wheels striking his head.
RENO (Nev.), march 22 - F.
THOMS, representing a San Francisco wholesale house, was taken violently ill on
a Southern Pacific train from ptomaine poisoning and is undergoing treatment
here. He said that he was poisoned in an Auburn (California) hotel where he ate
a short time before boarding the train. Several other
who ate at the hotel were taken ill while coming to Reno, but Thomas was the
only one whose condition became serious.
TONOPAH (Nev.), March 22 - C.V.
McIVOR was shot and killed yesterday at Silver Peak by Al COOK, of Goldfield.
Cook was slightly wounded in the neck by a bullet fired by McIvor.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, March 23, 1906
Page 6
ARRESTED BY OFFICERS FOR THE
KILLING OF MESSENGER HASKELL AND STAGE
White Sombrero, Showing Buckshot
Holes, and a Woman Lead to suspicion and Final Capture REDDING (Shasta Co.), March
23 - A white sombrero hat, with two buckshot holes in the crown, found two
months after the attempted hold-up of the De La Mar state and the killing of
Express Messenger HASKELL on October 9th, was the important clue
that has led to the arrest of two men, who the officers believe are the
would-be stage robbers and the murderers of Haskell. The hat was found half a
mile from the scene of the tragedy at a lonely spot in the woods where the
bandits had camped for a day and night, probably.
The men arrested are Charles
WHITESCARBOR and Con C. HARDWICK. The first was arrested at Stockton Wednesday,
and Hardwick, who was supposed to be at Clipper Gap, was arrested in this city
yesterday at the Court House, when he went to the Sheriff’s office to enquire
what he was wanted for. Sheriff RICHARDSON, it is expected, will arrive from
Stockton to-day with Whitescarbor in custody.
Hardwick is believed to be the
bandit who, from behind a shield made of barrel staves, and set up a hundred
yards from the road, ordered Ed DURFOR, driver of the De La Mar stage, to stop.
Durfor and Messenger HASKELL were the only men aboard. The highwayman’s command
was emphasized by a shot from his rifle. Haskell returned the fire, but shot
only once, for the bandit’s first shot wounded the messenger and left him
helpless. Haskell told Durfor to whip up the horses. Durfor did so, and the stage was soon out of
range of the bandits’ bullets. The robber fired seven times in all. Two bullets
struck Haskell and inflicted wounds that proved fatal two days later.
Durfor saw that the masked
bandit behind the barrel-stave shield wore a white sombrero. Only one robber
was visible. It was not until the officers examined the ground that evidence
showed that a second highwayman was in hiding. A hundred yards of strong twine
led from the shield to a point around the hill where the second robber could
see the approach of vehicles and signal to his partner when the mail stage was
coming. This twine was left lying on the ground.
For two months the officers had
little or nothing to work upon. It was in December that a cowboy riding the
brushy range half a mile from the scene of the hold-up found some cast-off
clothing and various articles, indicating that some one had camped there. Among
the articles of clothing was a white sombrero. The crown had been pierced by two buckshot, apparently. The holes indicated it. Express
Messenger Haskell fired once with his shotgun at the robber.
The hat was traced finally to be
that of C.C. Hardwick, a woodchopper living near Bert KRAMER’s, across the
river from Redding and twenty miles from the scene of the tragedy. Five
different parties identified it as belonging to Hardwick, but Hardwick was
gone. He had a partner in the woodchopping business. His name is Charles
Whitescarbor. They were associated
together a great deal, and were steady customers at George WHITAKER’s saloon at
the east end of the Redding bridge. They were in that
saloon a day or two before the robbery, and were overheard talking about hold-ups.
George Whitaker heard them, and after the hold-up he related his suspicions to
the officers. Whitaker was drinking hard at the time,
and little attention was paid to his theories. He since
committed suicide by jumping from the bridge into the river.
Hardwick and Whitescarbor
reappeared in the Kramer neighborhood after the robbery. They went to cutting
wood again, and were again patrons of the Whitaker saloon. They even came to
Redding and had their pictures taken together.
Hardwick’s
Sweetheart.
When Sheriff Richardson - and it
is to be remembered that he deserves all the credit for the detective work done
- settled to his own satisfaction that Hardwick and Whitescarbor were the men
wanted, his next problem was to locate them.
Hardwick had a tender feeling
for Miss KRAMER, daughter of Bert KRAMER.
The Sheriff learned of this and
surmised that Hardwick would write to her.
The officer was very diplomatic in getting the information he desired.
He finally learned that Hardwick was at Clipper Gap, Placer County, where he
has relatives living. At the same time he learned that Whitescarbor was in
Petaluma.
So on Tuesday a complaint was
sworn to before Justice of the Peace CARR, and
warrants issued for the arrest of the two men. Constable CRUM was sent Tuesday
night to Clipper Gap to arrest Hardwick, but on arriving there he found that
Hardwick had just left, and had probably returned to Shasta County to see his
sweetheart. Constable Crum so informed the officers here yesterday. They
hurried across the river to the Kramer home. Miss Kramer told them that her
brother and Hardwick had just gone to Redding. The officers returned to town
and hunted everywhere, but could not find their man.
Taken at Court House.
In the meantime young Kramer and Hardwick had returned
home unobserved.
Miss Kramer told them that Deputy Sheriff BEHRENS had
been looking for them. The brother was in favor of returning to Redding at once and see
what was wanted. Hardwick demurred. Miss Kramer insisted, and finally Hardwick
consented.
When he reached the Court House
Hardwick soon found what was wanted, for the Deputy Sheriff clapped him into
the strongest cell and there he is now.
Whitescarbor left Petaluma to go to Stockton,
and he was arrested there Wednesday and delivered yesterday into the custody of
Sheriff Richardson. The arrest of the
two causes great excitement in Redding. District Attorney Dozier, who has been
a close adviser of Sheriff Richardson, says he is confident the right men are
in custody.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 23 -
The sudden death of J.W. BANDY, mentioned in The Bee of yesterday, came as a
surprise to his many friends. While not in good health, having suffered from
cardiac asthma, still there was nothing to indicate his death was near. The
immediate cause of his death was pulmonary apoplexy.
Mr. Bandy was a native of
Illinois, 69 years of age. At the age of 15
he joined a party bound for California, and crossed the plains with an ox
team. He located at Sacramento in 1852.
After a few months he went to Placerville, where he was employed in the mines
for three years. He next became a driver on the stage line between Sacramento
and Virginia City. He afterwards freighted between the various mining camps. In
1850 he came to Yolo County and pre-empted a quarter section of land on Oak
Creek, in Hungary Hollow. This small
beginning grew until he owned 7000 acres of land in one body. He also owns
ninety acres of hop land on the Yolo side of the river, five miles north of
Sacramento. In 1888 he removed to a home he purchased in this city, where he
resided until his death. In 1893 he was elected City Trustee and served until
1897. He was elected a Supervisor in 1896, and served until 1900.
On March 26, 1870, he married
Miss Olive Jane ROOT, who survives him, as do three children - Mrs. G.N.
MERRITT and J.E. and Claude BANDY; two sisters, Mrs. Mary GARRETT, of
Marysville, and Mrs. Jane PATTERSON, of Portland, Ore., and two brothers,
Sylvester and Forest BANDY, of Bellingham, Wash.
The funeral services will be
held Saturday at 2 p.m. from the late residence of the deceased.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 23 -
At an “at home” held at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. J.B. GRIFFIN, of near Winters, this
afternoon, the engagement was announced of their daughter Grace to Harry L.
HUSTON, of this city. The wedding will be solemnized at the residence of the
bride’s parents April 26th.
The bride-to-be is the only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. GRIFFIN, and is well known in this city, where she was
educated at the Holy Rosary Academy. Mr. Huston is the youngest son of Mrs. S. A.
HUSTON, of this city, and now holds the office of District Attorney of this
county.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 23 -
E.M. BUTOWSKI, the Polish tailor who stabbed Marshal S.H. WILSON a few days
ago, inflicting a slight flesh wound on his right hand, was to have had a
preliminary examination yesterday, but when the case was called it was
postponed until next Thursday. He has secured the services of an attorney to
defend him. Wilson refused to prosecute him, but pressure was brought to bear
and District Attorney SEXTON swore to a complaint charging the tailor with
assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 23 -
Henry NELSON and M. DESPAIN, who secured the contract for hauling crushed rock
from the city gravel pits to the streets where the rock is used, are tired of
their job at the prices at which it was gained, and have applied to the City
Board of Trustees to relieve them of the work by paying them 85 cents a load
instead of 60 cents, the contract price. The Board was not prepared to grant
the change without first securing the opinion of the City Attorney, who was not
present. The matter was referred to him for settlement. The new price is still
2 ‡ cents lower than the next lowest bid at the awarding of the contract.
CHICO (Butte Co.), march 23 - Dr. C.L. BROWNING, a regular practicing physician
of Chico, has brought suit against the County of Butte to recover $108, the
full amount alleged to be due him for his services when holding autopsies at
four different places in the county. The Board of Supervisors had previously
scaled the bill down to $60 and mileage, as it is in the habit of doing with
all such bills. Heretofore, no contest has been made of such decisions. Dr.
Browning, however, believes that the bill is none too high for the services
rendered.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 23 -
Two of the most popular students of the Chico High School - Earl OPSAL and Miss
Elma BOYDSTUN - were married yesterday at Sacramento, and then took the train
for Loyalton, Sierra County, where the young man is to engage in business with
his brother. The marriage was a surprise to the many friends of the young
people as they were not supposed to be thinking of entering the matrimonial
state at present, although they have been going with each other for nearly five
years. Each is 19 years of age. The consent of the young men’s parents was secured.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 23 -
Three applications have been received so far by the School Trustees of Chico
for the position which will be left vacant by the resignation of C.W.
LEININGER, who was recently appointed Register of the Government Land Office at
Redding, over several competitors, by President Roosevelt. Those applying are
all graduates of the Chico Normal, and are teaching in the schools of this
State and in Oregon. They are Freedom HOFFMAN, Walker KYNOCH and Samuel ROBBINS.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 - The friends in this city of Miss Emily PARKS and Arthur H.
REDINGTON, whose engagement was announced not long since, will not have the
pleasure of attending their wedding, which is to be celebrated probably in the
early part of May at the home of Miss Parks’ sister, Mrs. WILSON, in Ottawa, Canada.
Miss Parks has spent the Winter there. Mrs. Parks, the
mother of the bride-elect, is at present at her home in Marysville, but expects
to go East later to be present at the wedding. After their marriage Mr.
Redington and his bride will have a brief wedding journey, and then will come
to San Francisco to make their home.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 23
- Colonel E.A. FORBES, of this city, publisher of the Appeal, yesterday closed
a deal for the purchase of the Chico Enterprise, told in The Bee of last
Friday, and to-day took possession of the property, B.F. and J. Clem ARNOLD
retiring. Forbes has made inquiries
looking to the purchase of the Oroville Register, but the paper, it is
understood, is not for sale, the BOYNTON estate proposing to run it for a time,
at least. There is a rumor to the effect that he contemplates putting a third
paper into the dredger city field, but how much basis there may be for this is
not known.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
March 24, 1906
Page 6
BUCKEYE (Shasta Co.), March 24 -
John Adams KELLEY, aged 84, died last evening at his home on the Stillwater and
will be buried to-morrow at Houston’s cemetery near by. Kelley was a pioneer of
the county and one of its oldest citizens.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), March
24 - That the California Midland Railroad Company will not have things all its
own way in the condemnation suits which it has instituted against certain land
owners south of this city for rights-of-way is manifest by the defendants
having secured strong legal talent to fight the proceedings.
The attorney for BYERES Brothers
have filed a demurrer to the complaint in the Superior Court, declaring that
the complaint does not contain sufficient facts to constitute a cause of
action, nor does it state whether a road is to be built at all.
Mary Ellen SMITH, John M. THOMAS
and the Metropolitan Trust Company, Thomas SLEEMAN and Dudley DEDMAN have taken
similar action and will make a bitter contest.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 24 -
A wide range of matrimonial business was transacted in this county during the
week just closing. A marriage license was issued to Walter HOFFMASTER, aged 25,
of Stirling City, and Frances GILBERT, aged 20, of Millville.
A finale decree of divorce was
granted to Sadie J. WALKER from James P.
An interlocutory decree of
divorce was granted to Millie L. OSBORN from Edgar L. OSBORN. The couple reside in Redding.
Leornie COCHRANE has instituted
an action for divorce from Alexander B.H.
Emma J. LAWYER, of Old Diggings,
is sorry that she ever got an interlocutory decree of divorce from John W.
LAWYER, and the two joined in asking that the decree be set aside and the
divorce suit dismissed. This was done by the Court.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 24 -
Two marriage licenses were issued from the County Clerk’s office during the
past week. Frank Leland OWEN, aged 20, and May Jane LUTZ, aged 17, both
residents of Thermalito; Ernest Leslie PARRISH, aged 24, and Ann Elisabeth
COOK, aged 22, both residents of Chico.
An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted Ora B. SHIELDS from S.
E. SHIELDS.
Plaintiff was awarded the custody of a minor child of six years of age,
Florence E. Shields, the defendant having the privilege of visiting the child
once a month.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 24 -
Mrs. Helen BREEN was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from her
husband, J.J. BREEN, yesterday afternoon by Judge GADDIS. Extreme cruelty was
alleged in the complaint. The plaintiff and her mother, Mrs. Mary A. BUILOCK,
testified. The defense offered no testimony. Plaintiff was allowed to resume
her maiden name. By stipulation in Court, counsel fees and alimony were waived.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 24
- Although there were no applicants for marriage licenses in this county this
week there is evidence that Cupid is at work on Yuba countyites in other
portions.
The engagement was announced
this week of Miss Jessie WAPPLE, a charming native daughter of Marysville, now
of San Francisco, and Herman BURKHARD, of Santa Monica.
The wedding of Dr. E.W. HANLON,
of this city, and Miss Mamie KELLY, of Napa, took place in New York City
Monday.
The announcement that Arthur H.
REDINGTON, ex-City Attorney of this city, and Miss Emily PARKS, a popular young
woman of Marysville, will be married at the home of the latter’s sister in
Ottawa, Canada, in May, has been made.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 24
- The announcement has been made here that Harry L. HUSTON, District Attorney
of Yolo County, will be married on April 26th to Miss Grace GRIFFIN,
daughter of L.B. GRIFFIN, who lives near Winters.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 24 -
Trouble was occasioned yesterday evening in a local Japanese restaurant when a
penniless stranger put up such a plea for a meal that the proprietor granted
his request. So far, so good; but when the stranger kept ordering more and more
dishes, and then compelled the Japs to bring them to him, the officers were
appealed to for assistance. The man skipped, however, before the officers
arrived.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 24 -
What came very near resulting disastrously for an employe of the Street Railway
Company occurred yesterday afternoon when a piece of trolley wire swung around
in such a manner as to strike a worker just below the eye, cutting a raged gash
in the flesh. The fraction of an inch of hight in the swinging would have
caused the loss of an eye.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 24 -
Two men have been captured in this city by the local officers and they are
being held on suspicion of being the burglars who recently entered the boarding
house at Hamilton. When charged with the crime, neither one, although taken
separately, would talk about the matter.
The men are probably the ones wanted, for it is alleged they were seen
to enter the store and a good description of them was gained. Their names are
Frank KINLEY and Joseph MALONE.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 24 -
Ray MURPHY, a young man in the employ of the Northern Electric Railway Company,
was struck upon his gloved finger by a heavy piece of iron yesterday afternoon,
and his finger was badly broken. Murphy
was at work at an emery wheel, sharpening a knife, and some part about the
machine broke, throwing a lever back upon the spot where his hand was resting.
Dr. MOULTON attended the injury
and stated that if the heavy glove had not been upon the hand, the finger would
undoubtedly have had to be amputated.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 24 -
The transfer of a valuable piece of city realty was made yesterday. P.A.
ANDERSON, of Sacramento, paid over the purchase price of $10,400 for a lot on Myers
Street, nearly opposite the site of the Union Hotel. The property was purchased
from Colonel R.M. GREEN, the two heirs of the HECKER estate, and it is
considered to be one of the most valuable pieces of property in the town. The
purchaser has given out no intimation as to what he intends to do with the
property, but it is not likely he will allow it to remain idle. The lot is now
occupied by a bowling alley, a shooting gallery and a restaurant, all housed in
tents. It is rumored that a hotel will be built on the lot.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 24 -
Yesterday morning Earle D. BLOWERS, dredgemaster of California No. 1, was
ascending the stacker of the boat, and when near the top he slipped and fell.
He threw out his left hand to try to save himself, and his middle finger was
caught in the machinery and so badly crushed that it was found necessary to
amputate it.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, March 26, 1906
Page 6
Mrs. Ledoux Arrested at Antioch
This Morning Believed to be Murderess of A.N. McVicar, Whose
Body Was Found in a Trunk at Stockton.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
March 26 - The all-absorbing topic in Stockton to-day is the trunk murder
mystery - the finding of the dead body of a man in a trunk at the Southern
Pacific railway station Saturday night.
Early yesterday morning it developed that the murdered man was Albert
N. McVICAR, a timber
man in the Rawhide Mine at Jamestown. He occupied a room in the
California rooming house Friday night with a woman registering as A.N. McVicar
and wife, of Jamestown. The police are satisfied that the woman committed
murder, beating the man to death over the head with some such instrument as a
sandbag.
It was learned late last night
that the woman was the ex-wife of McVicar, but last August she was married to
Eugene or Jean LEDOUX, a teamster, whose folks conduct a miners’ boarding house
near Martelis Station, Amador County. As
the furniture purchased at a local store was directed to be sent to Martelis in
care of a man named Ledoux, whom she is said to have designated as her brother,
suspicion was directed to that quarter. Sheriff SIBLEY went to Jackson Sunday
and investigated but found that Ledoux had not been away, and that he was in
Jackson on the day of the murder. This at least relieves him of any direct
connection with the crime. He professed ignorance of it. The woman’s maiden name was Emma COLE, and
her widowed mother, Mrs. HEAD, resides between Jackson and Sutter, in Amador
County. She told Sheriff SIBLEY her daughter had left home two weeks ago for
Stockton or San Francisco. Where she was at the present time she did not know.
SAYS McVICAR WAS KILLED BY
CARBOLIC ACID Mrs. Ledoux Declares One Joe Miller Administered the Fatal Dose
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
March 26 - Mrs. LEDOUX, suspected of the murder of her ex-husband, A.N.
McVICAR, in this city last Saturday, was arrested at Antioch this morning at
the Arlington Hotel by Town Marshal Thomas B. SHARON on information sent from
Stockton. On being arrested the woman promptly admitted her identity and said
she knew what she was wanted for. A special
message to the Mall from Antioch to-day gives the statement of the woman as
follows:
She declares that carbolic acid
was administered McVicar Saturday morning by Joe MILLER, a sandy-complexioned
man with a smooth face. He and McVicar, so she said, came to the room
intoxicated Friday night and McVicar went to bed. She said that she was around
with Miller after that. In the morning about 9 o’clock they went into the room
and Miller administered the poison. She
does not go into details, but declares she had nothing to do with it outside of
assisting in putting the body in the trunk. Neither does she give the reason
for the killing.
She telephoned her mother this
morning in an endeavor to have the latter meet her in Lodi or Galt, and said
she expected to take the Santa Fe train for Stockton.
She admits that much, but told
the Constable she was to wait there for Miller, who had gone to San Francisco
with her Saturday afternoon from Stockton on the 4 o’clock train. They had
started for Stockton last night, Miller leaving her at Point Richmond, and
stating that he would meet her at Antioch, so she says.
Her statement is conflicting, as
she could not leave for her home in Amador and wait for Miller as well.
The woman will be turned over to
Sheriff VEALE, of Contra Costa County, and brought to Stockton this evening.
She takes her arrest very cooly. In so
far as her story mentions Joe Miller and carbolic acid, but little credence is
given her story here. Her statement does not account for the bruises on the
head, and as for carbolic acid, the autopsy surgeons did not discover any trace
of it. There was a slight but unimportant inflammation of the stomach, and it
is being analyzed. A bottle with some whisky in it was found in the room, and
the woman may have given him poison in a drink. It is hardly likely that
anybody would attempt to give another so active a poison as carbolic acid,
which would burn him badly and thus betray itself. A person taking carbolic
acid would not be incapacitated from putting up a hard struggle, and there was
no sign of a struggle.
Dr. HULL, one of the autopsy
surgeons, stated this morning that the blows on the head, causing congestion of
the inner lining of the skull, had caused death, and that there was absolutely
no evidence of poison. There was absolutely no evidence of carbolic acid and no
odor of alcohol, which would be the case had he been very drunk.
There is also a disposition to
doubt the Miller story, and it is thought she is trying to shield herself,
though the possibility of some man being indirectly connected with the crime is
admitted.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 26 -
Charles WHITESCARBOR, the De La Mar stage robber suspect, was brought up from
Red Bluff yesterday and for three hours he was questioned in the Sheriff’s
private office by District Attorney DOZIER, Detective John THACKER, Sheriff
RICHARDSON and Deputy Sheriff HUBBARD. The nature of the story told by the
accused has not been revealed to the public. The people, although interested, are
not curious enough to interfere with the officers in their investigations and
are patient enough to wait the proper time for all the evidence to be made
public. Whitescarbor was returned to the
Tehama County Jail on the southbound overland leaving Redding at 10:30
yesterday morning. There is not the
remotest fear of a lynching and guards at the jail have not been increased, all
published reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
NAPA (Napa Co.), March 26 - A
serious shooting affray occurred on the steamer Napa City, which carries
passengers and freight between Napa and San Francisco, at the wharf at Napa
yesterday. Mate O.B. TORGENSEN, of the steamer Scotland, perhaps fatally
wounded with a revolver Manuel COSTA, a dredger employed on the boat. Costa was
quarrelsome, and Torgensen finally knocked Costa down and carried him on to the
wharf. Costa, who is a powerful man, then attacked Warehouse-keeper J.
PENDERSEN and knocked him down. He then went back onto the steamer and tried to
secure a razor from a man who was shaving himself. Failing in this, Costa
picked up a large pair of scissors and started for Torgensen. After warning
Costa, Torgensen fired two shots. The first ball took effect in Costa’s right
arm near the wrist, and the second ball lodged in his left groin. Torgensen was
placed under arrest.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), March
26 - John Stuart FISHER, of Junction City, a resident of Trinity County since
1852, died here last week at the age of 86. Ever since 1858 he was interested
in the famous Junction City placer known as the Chapman and Fisher Mine. He was
buried by the Masons.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), March 26 -
Mrs. B. McCUZZONS, widow of the late former Senator James McCUZZENS, died
yesterday in San Francisco. She was formerly a resident of Vallejo, and was
well known here. She was the mother of Mrs.
E.B. EDINGTON, of Knights Landing, Yolo County, and of
John and Leo McCUZZONS, of Vallejo.
Louis S. NEWCOMB, an old
resident of Vallejo, died suddenly at his home here yesterday from an attack of
heart failure. He had been a resident of Vallejo for over forty years, and was
well known here.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), March 26 -
William H. HOUCHIN, an old resident of Auburn, died at his home here last
night. He had lived here a number of years, and was well known throughout
Placer County. He was also well known in Sacramento, where he resided some
years ago.
He was a native of Logan County,
Virginia, and 62 years of age. He came to California in 1862, and ten years
later settled in Auburn. He afterward became interested in a stage line between
Auburn and Georgetown, which was then a prosperous mining town. He conducted
the stage line until 1883. He was married in 1886 in Sacramento, and lived
there for two years. He was a prominent Mason and was also a member of the
Knights of Pythias. He leaves a wife and two stepsons, Lafayette and Oscar
HOUCHIN.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), March 26 - C.
GOMES, an aged Portuguese, was struck by passenger train No. 1 Saturday
afternoon and killed. The accident occurred at Bernhard’s crossing in this
city, and the victim was thrown a great distance from the track, his bones
being broken and his body badly crushed.
Gomes was well known here, having lived in this city over forty years.
The inquest was held yesterday. The deceased left a wife, brother and two grown
children, who reside in San Francisco. He was 84 years of age.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), March
26 - Early in May a small colony of homeseekers will arrive at Chicago Park,
this county, nine miles south of Grass Valley, under the leadership of J.F.
SIEMS, who came out from Nebraska and purchased a home at the Park fruit
district. He is now in Nebraska arranging for the trip with a number of
families who are anxious to locate in a more genial climate.
P.D. BARKERMEYER, of Oak Park,
Ill., is now here, also looking into the possibilities of Chicago Park for
settlers of limited means. He is touring California in the interests of people
in his home city, and has already visited Southern California, but is not
impressed with that section for the purposes which his friends desire. He
states that the northern part of the State is more to his liking, land being cheaper and fully as productive as to the South.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 26 -
Barney CONROY, a pioneer of this city and county, died Saturday afternoon in
San Francisco at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary WISEMAN, and was buried
here this afternoon. He was one of the earliest settlers in Redding, building
and owning the old Reading Hotel and later the Golden Eagle Hotel. Of late
years he had resided at Mott, Siskiyou County. He was aged 82 years.
Officers Looking For Suspect
Expected Armed Resistance, But Found Man Beating His Wife REDDING (Shasta Co.),
March 26 - Constable CRUM, who went to Clipper Gap last week to arrest Con. C.
HARDWICK, De La Mar stage robber suspect, who was supposed to be at the home of
his father, a few miles in the country from Clipper Gap relates a remarkable
incident in connection. Sheriff KEEMA,
of Placer County, and a deputy accompanied Constable Crum to the Hardwick home . Leaving the Constable and Deputy Sheriff in the
surrey standing in the road in front of the house, Sheriff Keena walked towards
the dwelling prepared to arrest his man. The three officers did not then know
that the man wanted was already in jail in this city. As he approached the front door Sheriff Keena
heard a woman’s voice from within, saying: “Oh, don’t, John! Please don’t,
John!” The Sheriff retired to the road for his gun and armed re-enforcements.
He thought the Hardwicks, seeing his approach and divining his purposes, had
determined to make resistance, and that the cries of “Don’t John!” etc., were
the pleading of Mrs. Hardwick, mother of the suspected man who sought to
restrain her husband from shooting the officer on sight. Sheriff Keena revealed
the situation and his suspicions to his deputy and Constable Crum. Then the three officers, each well armed,
approached the house in a body. Not
stopping to knock, they entered unannounced. They found only two persons in the
house - a wood chopper, whose name is not known, and his wife. The husband was
beating the wife, and the cries of despair the officers had heard were the
woman’s appeals to her spouse to cease his blows. The officers quickly put a
stop to the wife-beating. Sheriff Keena said he would have arrested the husband
on the spot but for the fact that more important business was in hand. Having
satisfied themselves that Con Hardwick was not about the premises, and being
also assured that there would be no more wife-beating the officers took their
departure.
Developments Indicate That
Gilbert Jones Made Deliberate Attempt To Murder J. Parker LOYALTON (Sierra
Co.), March 26 - Further particulars with regard to the terrible tragedy here
of last Friday morning, as told in The Bee Saturday when Gilbert JONES killed
himself after seriously wounding J. PARKER by shooting him in the arm, indicate
that Jones had deliberately planned to kill Parker before shooting him by
administering poison in his food. A
bottle of strychnine was found on his person, two-thirds of which was used. At
noon on Thursday Parker says Jones ate dinner with him at the West ranch, and
refused to eat any of the potatoes. They tasted bitter, and Parker ate but
little.
Again at night the milk was
poisoned and Parker was made sick by it.
Coroner NUTTER, of Beckwith, viewed Jones’ body Friday night, and the
jury pronounced a verdict of death by suicide. The body was brought here. Parker is doing as well as could be expected.
No relatives of Jones can be
found by the authorities here, and the body was buried Sunday afternoon. Jones claimed to have three sons in Colorado, one (Hiram JONES) in
Pueblo.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, cal.
Tuesday, March 27, 1906
page
2
BELIEVE MRS. LEDOUX WAS UNAIDED
AND ALONE IN MURDER OF McVICAR
Accused Murderess Remains Cool
and Unconcerned in Face of Awful Charge - Grand Jury Will Investigate Matter.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
March 27 - While the public is discussing the cold-bloodiness of the murder of
Albert N. McVICAR in the California lodging house in this city last Saturday
morning the consummate nerve of the one who drugged him and beat out his life,
the coolness and hardihood it must have taken to do the deed, to place the man
in a trunk purchased for the purpose and have it taken to a train for shipment
as baggage, Mrs. LEDOUX, the woman who is in jail here charged with his murder,
is apparently unconcerned and indifferent as to consequences.
Mrs. Ledoux passed a quiet night
in the jail and this morning ate her breakfast with apparent relish. Though on
the way to Stockton from Antioch she inquired whether she could have an
attorney she has made no attempt to secure one since her arrival. It is known
that the morning of her arrest she telephoned to Jackson for an attorney, but
was unable to reach the man she sought.
Was Unaided and
Alone.
It is pretty generally conceded
now that she accomplished the death of McVicar unaided and alone, and District
Attorney NORTON says he is fully convinced of it from all the known
circumstances. Norton denies that the woman has made a confession of the crime;
on the contrary, she has persistently declared that she was not concerned in
the man’s death, but has admitted a knowledge of it, and says she assisted in
putting his remains in the trunk which she purchased. As for the Joe MILLER,
who she says was the chief actor in the terrible tragedy, there is no such man.
She spent last Saturday night with Joe HEALY in a San Francisco lodging house.
Healy establishes a complete alibi covering the time of the murder, says
Norton. It is the belief of Norton that
the woman drugged the man and then beat him to death. He declines, however,
except by inference, to give out anything of the woman’s statement, which was
made to him at length.
Grand Jury to Act.
It was decided this morning to
call the Grand Jury together and the woman will unquestionably be indicted for
murder. This means that there will be no preliminary examination.
The date of the inquest upon
McVicar, whose body was been viewed by hundreds of people at the morgue, has
not been set, as Coroner SOUTHWORTH is in San Francisco getting the stomach
tissue analyzed. The theory of the District
Attorney that the man was first drugged by her and then beaten is borne out by
the finding in the woman’s effects of a small bottle of laudanum, about
one-third full. The report that the woman had made a statement to the effect
that the mythical MILLER had given McVicar carbolic acid is probably a mistake.
At least it is certain that no carbolic acid was administered. The autopsy
surgeons are positive of
that. The evidence of
carbolic acid poisoning are unmistakable and they were
entireyl (sic) absent. It is also pointed out that it would be ridiculous for
anyone to administer that poison to another, the taste and the burning
sensation betraying it at once.
District Attorney NORTON refused
to permit any newspaper men to talk with the woman in the jail. In discussing
his stand in this regard, he said to the Associated Press representative:
“I feel it my duty to protect
the woman in every way possible. There is yet to be a trial, and interviews
would serve to complicate matters. In addition to which there is the liability
that she might be made to say things unwittingly that would be used against
her. While I feel sure that she committed the crime and that she did it without
assistance, I feel it my duty for her sake not to permit her to be talked to.
If I allow one to see her I will have to allow all, and the office is disposed
to treat all the newspaper men alike. She has not yet secured an attorney. If
she does and he is willing to have her talk I have nothing more to say.
Accused Remains Cool.
“As for the woman herself, she
is beyond me. In all my experience I have
never seen her equal. She is a study from a
criminal standpoint. I never saw an accused person more cool or unconcerned.
She seems to take everything as a matter of course, and is as much interested
in what goes on about her as though she were on a pleasure trip or sightseeing.
At first glance she is rather good looking, but a study of the face soon
develops hardness and cruelty there. She seems to give no thought of the
terrible crime with which she is charged. She talks freely and answers all
questions. Of course she sticks to the accomplice story, but that may be set
aside entirely. There was no accomplice.
“Touching the crime, I will not
give out her statement, but I will say that she admitted having married a man
named William WILLIAMS and going to Arizona, either to Globe or Bisbee. While
there he died of some disease peculiar to miners, so she says, miners’
consumption, I think. She says his life was insured for $10,000 and she got the
money. “She then met McVicar and married
him and he spent the money or invested it for her in various ways. At least, he
got rid of it. She lived with McVicar only a few months, when she got a divorce
and married Ledoux, who is her present husband. She denies that she ever
married a man named BARRETT or BARRY.”
Questioned as to the motive for
the crime, Norton said he only had an opinion: it might have been revenge for
his having spent her money, or it might have been robbery - a desire to get
possession of the furniture which had been purchased and partly paid for, or it
might have been jealousy; possibly all three.
McVicar Had Good Reputation.
As for the identity of the
deceased, as suggested by the dispatch from the Cripple Creek Chief of Police,
Norton says there is no question that the dead man was Albert N. McVICAR, of
Jamestown - at least the man so known there for the past year and a half. If he
went under any other name previously it is not known here. McVicar’s reputation
at Jamestown was the best. Captain NEVILLE, of the Rawhide Mine, where he was
employed, as a timber man, says he was one of the best workmen he ever saw, and
could turn his hand at anything. He was handy with tools and thoroughly
conversant with all mine and mill work. He was a quiet, industrious fellow, who
took care of his money, and he was not a drinking man.
It is not believed that there
was any money consideration back of the murder. When McVicar and Mrs. Ledoux
bought the furniture and he paid $100 down, he said he had little money left,
but expected $200 by Wells-Fargo.
Inquiry shows he did not receive this. The woman must have known his
financial condition.
Sheriff SIBLEY, who has been in
Jackson during the past few days investigating the woman’s connections there,
says that the family, her husband, and her mother, are
“a queer crowd,” as the Sheriff expressed it.
When Mrs. HEAD, the woman’s mother, was notified that her daughter was
suspected of murder she received that information without the slightest show of
emotion, and LEDOUX, the husband, seemed undisturbed. He said he knew nothing
whatever about it, and Sheriff Sibley is satisfied
that he had nothing to do with it. He said he had expected her home any day during
the past week. She had been accustomed to go and come when she pleased and he
never worried about her. He knew nothing of the furniture, which at last
accounts was on the road somewhere. Ledoux had not received it, nor did he know
it was on the way; had never heard of it, in fact.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
March 27 - A telegram was received this morning by Chief of Police BAKER of
this city from the Chief of Police BAKER of this city from the Chief of Police
of Cripple Creek, Colo., asking for full particulars of the death of McVICAR,
and to be sure that the dead man was McVicar.
It is believed by the Stockton
Chief that this information is wanted in connection with the shooting some
years ago of a Colorado newspaperman by a Wells-Fargo man named RUSSELL. A card
was found in McVicar’s effects which showed that he had been a Wells-Fargo
agent.
WICHITA (Kan.). March 27 -
Albert McVICAR, who was murdered at Stockton, Cal., worked for an express
company here until several years ago. His mother, three brothers and other
relatives are still here. They are well-to-do and highly respected. The body of
the murdered man will probably be brought here for burial.
CRIPPLE CREEK (Colo.), March 27
- John McVicar, proprietor of the Cripple Creek Laundry, believes that man
murdered in Stockton was his brother Albert, and he has wired the officials of
Stockton for full particulars. Albert
McVicar during 1886-90 was agent for the Wells-Fargo Express (rest of article
is cut off).
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, March 29, 1906
Page 6
Accused Murderess Bought Six
Ounces of Cyanide of Potassium, the Poison Believed to Have Been
used in Murder of McVicar. STOCKTON (San
Joaquin Co.), March 29 - District Attorney NORTON stated this morning that he
had been informed that the discovery had been made in San Francisco that Mrs.
LE DOUX, charged with the murder of her ex-husband, A.N. McVICAR, had purchased a six-ounce bottle of
cyanide of potassium at the Baldwin Pharmacy about the 14th of the
month and traces of the poisoning had been found by the chemist engaged in
analyzing pieces of tissue from the dead man’s viscera.
“If they have found that,” said
Norton, “then they are ahead of us.”
“Isn’t it true,” was asked,
“that a bottle which had contained cyanide of
potassium was found, and also that a knife or
cleaver was also found among the effects of the woman?”
“I am not saying anything about
anything now,” was the reply.
“Will you deny that these were
found?” was the next question.
“I am not denying anything at
all,” replied the official, with a smile.
It is known here, however, that the authorities have
been working on the theory that cyanide of potassium was the poison used. The
chemists have been asked to test for it, and it leaked out to-day that a local
chemist whose name the authorities decline to reveal has been working along
these lines. What he had found has not
been given out. It is admitted, however, that he found no trace of that poison
in some whisky found in a flask in the room where the murder took place.
The officers still at work on
the case here, taking up loose ends of the evidence and the movements of the
man and the woman, have been closely followed with respect to time and other
matters.
The woman is not allowed to see
the newspapers and is notified of the progress of her case. There is no change
to her demeanor to-day and the officers have given up the idea that she will
break down or confess. District Attorney
Norton was shown an Association Press dispatch this morning relating to the
discovery that Mrs. LE DOUX had purchased cyanide of potassium for photographic
purposes at a drug store in the metropolis and was asked for a statement.
“I have nothing to say,”
declared the official.
Deputy Sheriff Carlton CASE, who
has been at work on the case, was also shown the dispatch. He at first denied
that there was any truth in it, but finally reluctantly admitted that it was
true.
Glen Cove Farmer Alleges Damages
To Crops And Pasture Land From The Fumes Of The Smelter FAIRFIELD (Solano Co.),
March 29 - The important case of C.B. DEMING a rancher at Glen Cove, against
the Selby Smelting Company was commenced in the Superior Court Tuesday before
Judge HARRIS at Fairfield. A jury was
secured after four hours. The jury is composed of ten farmers and two business
men of Suisun.
C.B. Deming claims $5200 for
damage to crops by fumes of the smelter, $300 for the loss of four horses and
$368 for loss of pasturage, all from the fumes.
Deming was the first witness and
testified to the damage done by the fumes, and George L. RYERSON, a neighboring
rancher gave the same evidence. The case
will last probably a week, and as many other damage suits depend on this one,
the outcome is looked forward to with interest.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 29 -
The case of H.H. SNOWBALL, of Knights Landing, charged with battery upon his
own son, upon a warrant sworn to by Dr. DIXON, was tried before Justice of the Peace
LAMPTON at that place yesterday. After being out two hours, the jury stood six
to six and was discharged.
It will be remembered, as told
in The Bee at the time, Snowball’s son broke his arm and was taken to Dr.
Dixon’s office for attention. Dixon set the arm, and as soon as Snowball heard
of it he went to the physician’s office and, it is charged, removed the
bandages from the boy’s arm and brought him to this city for treatment.
N.A. Lybeck Gets Judgement
Against S.W. Allen At Corning For Arrest Without Cause CORNING (Tehama Co.),
March 29 - The case of N.A. LYBECK vs. S.W. ALLEN, praying for judgement for
$299 as damages for arrest without cause and defamation of character, was heard
before Justice CROOKS and a jury of eight men. A verdict was awarded in the sum
of $122 to plaintiff as a salve for his wounded pride and damaged business.
The action grew out of the
arrest of the plaintiff by Allen in Red Bluff February 19th. At that
time a habeas corpus proceeding was brought before Superior Judge ELLISON by
Allen to retain the custody of his minor child, a lad of 14 years, who was
employed by Lybeck. The Judge ruled that the boy was free to go with whom and
where he pleased. On stepping from the Court-room after hearing the Judge’s
order, Allen jumped onto his son, and, after kicking him, caught him by the
throat and pinned him to the floor. The
lad, in fright, called for his employer, Lybeck, who intervened and endeavored
to prevent the irate father from continuing his unwarranted assault. Allen then
caused the arrest of Lybeck on a battery charge and the trial which was
conducted here was the result of the arrest at that time.
CORNING (Tehama Co.), March 29 -
Thieves broke into the T.J. McCONNELL jewelry establishment last Tuesday and
made away with a large amount of jewelry to the value of many hundred dollars.
The matter was kept quiet for a
short time in order to allow the constabulary every opportunity for the
detection of the thieves. One suspect,
William BRADLEY, was arrested during the day by Constable GUMBLE, but after
being “sweated,” was released. The stolen property consists of over 150 rings,
twenty-five gold chains, brooches, etc. This is the second time the McConnell
store has been robbed within three months, thieves having robbed the store
during the holidays. Local talent is strongly suspected but no clews have yet
been obtained.
CHICO (Butte Co.), March 29 -
The “Rose City” baseball team (colored) is scheduled to play the
“All-Sacramento” team in this city on April 15th. The local team has
been strengthened by a goodly number of imported players this year and the
members expect to secure the scalps of many of the best teams from the
surrounding towns during the season.
The Sacramento team will be a
hard aggregation to go up against for the first game, as the members are all
well-known players who have been seen here before on the various Sacramento
teams. Among them are the following:
BURKE, McMANUS, LOVERICH, STARLING,
CAMPBELL, McCABE, McCAFFERY and WHITE.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), March 29 -
The body of Robert FOSTER, who disappeared from the home of a friend about a
week ago, where he had gone in an endeavor to recuperate from excessive
drinking, was found last night submerged in an oil tank at the Bellevue Mine in
the Ophir mining district. Foster has
been a porter in a saloon here for several months and was addicted to drinking
heavily. To brace up, he was induced to visit a friend near Ophir, and spend a
few days with him. Foster was suffering from a high state of nervousness and
during a heavy rain storm on the first night of his visit, he left his friend’s
house suddenly and no trace of him could be found. Several searching parties investigated
the surroundings, but without success, and it was thought he had fallen into a
prospect shaft, until yesterday, when the news reached here that a dead body
had been discovered in the oil tank at the Bellevue Mine. Coroner SHEPARD was
notified and, arriving at the mine, Foster’s body was taken from the tank and
an inquest held.
Deceased was a young man, and
had many excellent qualities, his only fault being his weakness for
intoxicants. His parents reside in El Dorado County.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
March 31, 1906
Page 6
Put McVicar’s Body In Trunk And
Left It In Room While She Went To Purchase Rope STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
March 31 - The inquest into the cause of the death of A.N. McVICAR, whose body
was found in a trunk at the Southern Pacific depot last Saturday brought out
some facts that even the authorities did not know. Of course, the man’s death
was laid at Mrs. LE DOUX’s door, and the causes were from chloral, morphine
(probably administered as “knock-out drops”) and asphyxiation by being forced
into the trunk, where there was not enough oxygen to sustain life.
The various acts of the woman
have demonstrated that she had taken great chances and possessed reckless
nerve. In the first place she gave the name of Mrs. A.N. McVICAR when she
purchased cyanide of Potassium in San Francisco. One of her acts, however, nearly
resulted in her being discovered while arranging to have the body carted away.
It was shortly before noon on the day of the murder. The woman had evidently
placed her victim’s body in the trunk, after which she informed Mrs. A.
ENGLEHARDT, the proprietress of the California lodging house,
that she and McVicar were going away on the 3 o’clock train.
She then went down the street to
purchase the rope with which to tie the trunk. While she was away a person
called for a room. Mrs. Englehardt took the prospective roomer to Mrs. Le
Doux’s apartments. The door was open, and directly behind it was the trunk in
which was McVicar’s body. A hasty examination of the room was made, but no
attention was paid to the trunk. McVicar
was then probably breathing his last. The alleged murderess returned in a few
minutes, had the trunk tied and carried to the depot. Now that the Coroner’s jury has charged Mrs.
Le Doux with the murder of her former husband, there are not many more steps in
the case. The Grand Jury will be drawn next Monday from the special venire
summoned a few days ago, and will immediately meet for the purpose of
considering the horrible murder.
There is little doubt but that
the woman will be indicted. Her trial will be held shortly after, as Judge
NUTTER stated to-day to a Bee representative that he has a clear calendar for
the April session, and can take the case up at any date. The District Attorney
and officers have gathered about all the evidence necessary, and are anxious to
get through with the case.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 31 -
Deputy County Assessor PETERSON, making a tour of mines and smelters in his
district, which embraces only one-quarter of Shasta County, to collect poll
taxes, finds the following number of men on the payrolls at the places named:
Mammoth Mine, near Kennett, 214;
Mammoth Smelter, at Kennett, 325; De La Mar Mine and Smelter, at Winthrop, 200;
Afterthought Mine and Smelter, at Ingot, 150; Reid Mine, Old Diggings, 357;
National Mine, Buckeye, 30;
Balkalala Mine, Kennett, 40;
Uncle Sam Mine, Kennett, 36; Friday-Lowden Mine, Kennett, 10.
Other large mines in Shasta
County not included in the above are the Iron Mountain, near Keswick;
Gladstone, at French Gulch; Midas, at Knob or Harrison Gulch; Delta
Consolidated at Delta; Bullychoop, on the western boundary of the county.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), March
31 - Word has reached here of the good fortune of Rev. F.A. KEAST, who was
ordained a Methodist minister in this city several years ago. By the terms of
the will of the late Jemimah PARSONS, who died in San Francisco recently, Rev.
Keast is bequeathed the sum of $5000. His wife is left $400. The minister is
now located at Santa Clara. His life has been an interesting one. For a number
of years he toiled at day’s pay in the mines of this district, but put in his
spare moments studying for the ministry, with the result that he finally
attained his desired end.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), March 31
- William H. DIETRICH, Constable in Township No 1, and proprietor of the
Roseville Livery and Sale Stable and Junction Saloon, died here last night of
quick consumption, aged 37 years. Last Summer, during the haying season, Dietrick contracted a
severe cold which settled on his lungs, and in the early days of last Winter he
was compelled to take to his bed, since which time he continued to decline
until his death.
He was appointed Constable for
the Township last summer to succeed Perry HERRING, resigned, and during his
active term made an ideal officer. He had been a resident of Roseville for ten
years and by his honest and upright dealings made a host of friends. He leaves
a wife and little daughter, and a brother here and another in Humboldt, to
mourn his death. The funeral services will be held to-morrow, and interment
will be in Roseville Cemetery.
Two Rival Lovers Come To Blows
Over Woman Who Is Unable To Decide Whom She Loves Best CEDARVILLE (Modoc Co.),
March 31 - Word was just received here of a fierce hand-to-hand struggle
between Joseph KNUCKS and Edward LAIRD in Warner Valley, which is just across
the Oregon State line.
It seems that ill feeling has
existed between these men for some time, growing out of a jealousy because of a
pretty widow residing in that section. Both men had been paying her attention.
She was unable to decide between them, as she said she loved both. This
assertion fanned to flames the smoldering embers of love-fed hatred, and when
the two men happened to meet at her house war began in earnest.
She tried to separate and pacify
them, but such efforts were in vain.
After brutally hammering each other with fists and chairs for a time,
Laird seemed in a fair way to become victorious in the battle. Fate decreed otherwise,
for Knucks seized a shotgun and leveled it on his adversary and would have
blown him out of existence had the gun been loaded. Finding the gun could not be fired, he used
it as a club, knocking Laird out. During the lively encounter the pretty widow
was screaming frantically for help.
Friends arrived and carried
Laird away to another home, where he regained consciousness in about three
hours. As it is more than sixty miles to Lakeview, Oregon, the nearest Court of
Jurisdiction, it is probable that this mode of settlement will stand as law.
It is thought that Knucks will
soon make the trip to Lakeview with his prize and be married to prevent any
other rivals entering claim to the love of one so dearly won.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), March 31 -
John SWASEY, a well-known horseman, was brought to Yreka last night on the
train from Dunsmuir in what was supposed a dying condition. He was immediately
hurried to the County Hospital. At Montague he was taken off the Southern Pacific
train on a litter, and carried to the depot waiting room, where he was
recognized as the well-known horse trainer. He was then thought to be dead, but
he moved his head a little, which convinced those who surrounded him that he
was still alive. What to do with him was
the next question, and as the Yreka train would not leave for ten minutes,
Frank MILES, a Constable of Montague, telegraphed to the Coroner as what best
to do with Swasey. He was ordered to put him on the Yreka train. The Bee
representative, on hearing that Swasey was in a dying condition, hurried to the
scene to ascertain the correct report of the various rumors about his
condition, but from the passengers, nothing definite could be learned.
Swasey’s wife, who was visiting
her parents in this city, was informed of his condition, and she immediately
went to the hospital, expecting, no doubt, to find her husband in the throes of
death. Such was not the case, however, for Swasey’s time had not come yet.
Dr. McNULTY, the county
physician, last evening was interviewed, and he informed The Bee representative
that Swasey was not badly hurt, and that no bones were broken. He thinks Swasey
fell while intoxicated, and pretended to be badly hurt, in order to get a free
ride to Yreka.
ALTA (Placer Co.), March 31 -
County Superintendent of Schools SHANE, of Auburn, stopped here last night on
his way to Emigrant Gap. The public school at Blue Canyon is about to commence,
and a consolidation is to be effected between that district and the Emigrant
Gap district. The Emigrant Gap school is an old one, but it has gradually
dwindled in size, until there are but two students left. This, of course,
renders the continuance of the school impracticable.
As Many Watches Taken From As
Many Houses By Couple Of Bold Thieves Operating At Dunsmuir DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou
Co.), March 31 - Six gold watches were stolen from as many Dunsmuir homes by
two burglars Friday night. The thieves worked so stealthily that none of the
occupants of the six homes was disturbed in his slumber. The losses were not
known until the next morning, when the owners awakened and found their gold
tickers missing. The burglars made good their escape, and were seen only by the
occupants of the seventh home they attempted to raid. They were frightened away
and disappeared in the darkness.
The parties losing a gold watch
apiece are Harry CARPENTER, chief train dispatcher; A. LEVY, pioneer merchant
of the town; Mrs. James WRIGHT, Charles IBACH, David BAXTER and W.R. TUCKER.
The homes robbed are widely separated, though in the densely settled part of
Dunsmuir. The watches stolen range in value from $200 to $40 a piece.
The thieves were content to take
only gold watches, for in Harry Carpenter’s home they left untouched a purse
that contained $60 in coin, though it lay on the bureau by the side of the
ticker they appropriated. At 3 o’clock
in the morning one of the burglars entered a room in the home of Mrs. Mary
SCOTT, probably the last dwelling they attacked. The room was occupied by R.
BRANSTETTER and Walter SCOTT. They were awakened. They demanded the intruder’s
business. The burglar made a jesting reply, and took to his heels. Branstetter
and Scott saw a second thief on the porch. He had probably stood on guard, for
he flew with his comrade. This is the only evidence that there were two
burglars concerned in the remarkably successful night raid for gold watches.
Deputy Sheriff GONGIVER spent all
day yesterday in trying to get some trace of the thieves, but he got not a
single clue.
The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
March 31, 1906
Page 10
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 31 -
An accident occurred last night at Camp 13 of the Utah Construction Company on
the Western Pacific Company’s line about eight miles above here, which may cost
the lives of John NELSON and James WILLIAMSON. A third man, Olaf NELSON, was
also injured but will recover. The three
men were heating water in a nitro-glycerine can, which had been emptied of the
explosive. It appears, however, that a small quantity of the nitro-glycerine
was sticking to the sides of the can, and when it became hot it exploded with
terrific force. The injured men were blown quite a distance by the force of the
explosion.
John Nelson and Williamson were
brought to the hospital of the Utah Construction Company in this city.
They are suffering greatly, and it is not believed they will recover.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 31
- The Marysville Casting Club was organized last night with the following
persons as the officers: Dr. J.H. BAFF, President; Charles PEEL, First
Vice-President; Wm. FLANNERY, Second Vice-President; Leslie CROOKS, Secretary-Treasurer;
Executive Committee - H.A. NIEMEYER, H.S. STARK, Zan FRYE, Henry BROCK and W.S.
JOHNSON.
A Committee was appointed to
frame a Constitution and By-Laws, as follows:
Sheriff George H. VOSS, J.C.
COLLINS, F.H. McCORMICK, Chas. PEEL and G.W. HOLLAND. A copy of the by-laws of the San
Francisco Casting Club was given them as an aid in their work.
The honorary membership roll was
headed with the names of the late T.J. SHERWOOD and Albert GOLDSMITH, who, during their lifetime took a
deep interest in the sport of casting, as well as all other lines. Arrangements will be made for a field day to
take place shortly after the 1st of June, when the bass season
opens.
The Club has already received a
pressing invitation for the San Francisco Club to attend their outings and
receive instructions in the rules, etc., of casting.
The membership of the Marysville
Club will have Ellis Lake and the grounds of the Marysville Tule Hunting Club
on which to practice.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), March 31 -
The body of an unknown man was found this morning at Pentz, about eight miles
from here. How the man came to his death is not known, and nothing was found on
his body to lead to his identity. A Deputy Coroner has been notified and has
gone to Pentz to take charge of the body and examine into the cause of death.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), March 31 -
Ray E. MURPHY, who was accidentally shot at Esparto by Troy BARR, as told in
The Bee yesterday, died here this morning about 5 o’clock. Barr is a son of Harrison
BARR, of Esparto. The shooting was entirely accidental and the affair is deeply
deplored.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 31 -
In the Superior Court here this morning, Judge HEAD sentenced Sid HORN, who
robbed a sheepherder at Cottonwood some weeks ago, to five years in a State
penitentiary. An effort was made by Horn’s friends to save him from prison and
the Probation Officer took charge of his case. But investigation convinced this
official that Horn’s record was a bad one and that the proper place for him was
behind the bars.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), March 31
- The marriage license bureau in Yuba County experienced a dull week since The
Bee’s last report, no application being received in the seven days.
Word came from North Bloomfield
that Dr. John B. ROGERS, a former resident of Marysville, and Miss Anna TROOD,
of the first-named place, will be married in May.
In the divorce case of Maggie
WILLIAMS vs. J.C. WILLIAMS, the final decree of divorce has been granted. The
parties formerly resided at Rockerby in this county.
William A. HOSKINS, a former
resident of this city, and Mrs. Effie FUGITT formerly of Yuba City, were married in Oakland this week.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), March 31
- Between the unusual rains and the sessions of the Grand Jury, the matrimonial
market is below par and only one marriage license was issued this week. The
contracting parties were William W. THOMAS, aged 45 years, a native of Illinois
and a resident of Orland, and Miss Any Pearl FARNHAM, aged 22 years, a native
of California and a resident of Willows.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), March 31 -
Only one marriage license was issued during the week. It was given to Dr. J.F.
HELMS, aged 24, of Medford, Ore., and Maybelle F. CONNERY, aged 20, of Redding.
Six interlocutory decrees of
divorce were made final. The couples affected were: Sarah J. FOSTER and Henry
Clay FOSTER; Barbara A. ROSE and W.H. ROSE;
Mary G. JONES and Joseph JONES;
Louis DOCKERY and Mamie DOCKERY; Clarence
NEELEY and Winnifred NEELEY;
W.L. HARVEY and Anna L. HARVEY. The plaintiff
is
named first in each instance. It is noticeable that the plaintiffs are equally
divided between the two sexes.
SUISUN (Solano Co.), March 31 -
Marriage licenses were issued during this week as follows: L.D. MARTIN, 27,
Sacramento, and Grace WILLIAMS, 26, Suisun.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), March 31
- Because Curtiss LARAWAY elected to apply local remedies in a wound he
received in his foot by stepping on a rusty nail, he is now threatened with
lockjaw, and is in a precarious condition.
His first act after the accident was to inject with a syringe a small
quantity of turpentine into the wound. He failed to get the looked-for relief
from this operation, and then cast about for carbolic acid. He found it and put
a small quantity into the wound. This caused the man insufferable pain, and a
doctor was speedily summoned. He may recover.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
March 31 - Patrick PAULETTA, who was arrested Thursday and pleaded guilty to
the charge of assaulting Gregoria GOMES, appeared for sentence before Judge
SPENCER yesterday. He was fined $30 with an alternative of thirty days in jai.
Pauletta’s mother paid the fine and he was released.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, April 5, 1906
Page 6
Prove Their Innocence to
Officers and Will Be Released From Jail REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 -
Although proved innocent to the satisfaction of the peace officers of this
county of the murder of Express Messenger HASKELL and the attempted robbery of
the De La Mar stage on October 9th last, Con. C. HARDWICK and
Charles WHITESCARBOR were not released from jail to-day, as it was announced
last night they would be, and considerable criticism of District Attorney
DOZIER is the result, since he left town to look after private legal business,
it is said, instead of remaining here to see that Justice is done as far as is
now possible to two innocent men.
Hardwick was arrested here on March 22d, as told in The Bee at the time,
and Whitescarbor at Stockton. The officers seemed to feel sure of their men and
the public was led to believe that the brutal murderers of brave Messenger
Haskell were at last in custody. But the prisoners have proved by
well-supported testimony and evidence that they were fully forty miles away
from the scene of the hold-up and that while the white sombrero found was at
one time the property of Whitescarbor he had disposed of it three months before
the killing of Haskell. The arresting officers no longer pretend to believe in
the guilt of the men.
Hardwick, Bee readers will
recall, was traced through a love affair he was carrying on with a Miss KRAMER,
and it was at her request, when she learned the Sheriff was looking for him,
that he applied at the Court House to learn what was wanted. He was promptly
placed under arrest, but assured the officers and his sweetheart that a
terrible mistake had been made. He has now proved it.
Whitescarbor was arrested by
Stockton police and turned over to Sheriff RICHARDSON, who brought him to Red
Bluff, where he was kept over night and subjected to a lot of questioning. He
was then brought to this city, where he and Hardwick have since been confined
in the County Jail. The two men will be
released to-morrow beyond doubt. It is felt here that it is adding injury to
injury to keep them behind bars when their innocence is no longer denied.
Driver Badly Injured, Two Horses
Crushed To Death and Freight Scattered Over the Mountain Side OROVILLE (Butte Co.),
April 5 - Another accident occurred yesterday on the Big Bar grade, one of the
most dangerous on the river - so much so in fact, that few teamsters will risk
their lives by teaming on it. R.J.
HASKINS was descending the grade with a six-horse team, having two of the
wheels locked with chains. When half way down, one of the chains broke and the
team was unable to hold the heavy wagon back. It kept crowding on to the
animals, and becoming frightened, they swerved to one side over the grade and
the wagon capsizing, pinning two horses under it and crushing the life out of
them.
Hasking was thrown from the
wagon and narrowly escaped suffering the fate of the two horses.
Luckily when the wagon capsized
it lodged against two large pines, preventing the whole outfit from rolling
into the canyon hundreds of feet below.
The wagon was loaded with picks,
shovels and other tools and about twenty kegs of nails, many of which were
broken open as they rolled down the hill, scattering nails everywhere.
Haskins, with a badly-wrenched
back, managed to get down to the camp and a force of men was sent up to collect
the scattered freight. Five head of
horses have been killed this season in nearly the same spot where Haskins met
with the accident.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 5 -
Rev. J.W. DANIELS, who is canvassing this section for funds in aid of a
Children’s Home Finding Society, has asked the authorities to help him locate
$45 in currency which he says he lost in Wheatland. He was careless enough to
lose his pocketbook containing his treasure. When the pocketbook was recovered
the currency was not in it, and there is no trace of the party who came into
possession of it.
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 5 -
Barney PACK, a well-known resident of Dayton, a small town six miles from
Chico, and a professed Socialist, who frequently speaks on Chico’s streets, is
now in the Chico Jail with a charge placed against his name. Pack was arrested
yesterday on a charge of disturbing the peace, but was released upon securing
bonds for $100. He went to his home at Dayton, and, it is alleged, drove his
wife and daughter out of the house by threatening to kill them if the charge
against him, which was made by his brother-in-law, was not removed. Upon
another complaint he was rearrested and charged with assault. His bonds were
placed this time at $5000.
After Twenty Years English Heirs
of Modoc Estate Demand Returns, Only To Learn Money is Gone ALTURAS (Modoc
Co.), April 5- Had not William T. CRESSLER, of Cedarville, away back in 1885,
taken the precaution to require of Charles MASON, at that time British Consul
at San Francisco, an affidavit as to his power of attorney to act in the matter
of the estate of George MALE, and also secured from him a receipt for certain
money paid over, he to-day would stand responsible for the sum of $2378, with
interest for all these years. By will,
Male left his estate to relatives in England, and appointed Cressler executor.
It required about three years to settle the property,
and when all debts were paid a balance in cash remained of $2378. Cressler took
this sum to Consul Mason, to be forwarded to England, taking a receipt for the
money. He then returned to Cedarville, and thought little more about the
matter.
But now, after all these years,
a demand has come to him from a firm of English solicitors for a settlement. It
is claimed that Consul Mason, who is now dead, having committed suicide, it is
said, never remitted to the heirs of Male, the money having been squandered in
riotous living in San Francisco. But however that may be, Cressler is safe, the
papers he secured from the Consul protecting him amply.
In a case of this kind, it is
said the British Government must stand responsible, since its agent in the
discharge of his official duties proved derelict.
LAMOINE (Siskiyou Co.), April 5
- Oscar LEASON, of 3026 I Street, Sacramento, who fell from a flume near here
last Monday, as told in The Bee at the time, and received terrible injuries,
will not recover, say the doctors at the company’s hospital at this place. His
back was broken and hope has been abandoned.
Leason, with a companion or two,
was walking along the flume on his way from the mill to Lamoine, a distance of
about five miles. He had gone but a little way, when, as he was crossing a
trestle, he missed his footing and fell to the rocks thirty feet below. He lay
there in an unconscious condition until help could be summoned to carry him to
the hospital here. His family was
notified at once, and several of them at once hurried to his bedside.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 -
News has reached Redding of the narrow escape of a stageload of passengers
traveling from Delta to Trinity Center.
The stage left the latter place on its usual run yesterday and had
aboard six passengers besides the driver. When approaching the Tollhouse, about
six miles from Delta, the kingbolt of the vehicle dropped from its place and
immediately the front trucks ran from under the stage. Among the passengers
were three tourists from Kansas and one of them, seeing the need for prompt
action, jumped from the stage and by superhuman effort stopped its momentum
just at the edge of a steep embankment. A serious accident was averted, for
there is a hillside drop of about 100 feet at the spot where the stage stopped.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 -
One more wreck has been added to the long list of Winter
accidents on the railroad through this section. It occurred yesterday evening
at the same point near Cantara where a wreck took place last Friday. Freight
train No. 221 was derailed, tearing up the track for quite a distance and
putting a stop to travel. The southbound Oregon express is ten hours late. No one
was injured.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 5 -
A huge pine tree fell, crashing through the house of Mrs. Mary FRICKEY, near
Shingletown, Tuesday. Nita CUNNINGHAM had just arisen when she saw the tree
falling. Shrieking a warning to Mrs. Frickey and her son, the girl ran to the
door, but could not get out. She sank into a corner just as the tree crashed
through the roof, tearing out the door and smashing the bed on which the girl
had lain. The house is a complete wreck.
Redding Hotel Man Arrested For
Keeping Device In Saloon, And Bitter Fight In Court Is Promised REDDING (Shasta
Co.), April 5 - Henry CLINESCHMIDT, proprietor of the Temple Hotel here, and
one of the best-known bonifaces in Superior California, was placed under arrest
yesterday for keeping a coin-paying slot machine in the saloon of his place of
business. He was released upon his own recognizance, and announces that he will
fight the case to the bitter end. Clineschmidt
makes no denial of the charge, nor does he say that his conduct was not
illegal, but he asserts that, as an example, the town of Kennett is allowed to
run on a “wideopen” basis, and that he objects to being signalled out when such
violations of the law as he is charged with and worse are permitted elsewhere
without protest on the part of officials.
He is not willing to be made a scapegoat, he declares, and will fight
the case from start to finish.
Clineschmidt’s defiance, in
addition to his prominence here, has aroused much public interest in Redding,
and the proceedings in Court will be followed closely, especially by the
gambling fraternity of this and other towns, who see in the promised contest
danger for themselves.
Court Gives Her Child Whom Good
People Had Cared For, But Without Having Ever Legally Adopted REDDING (Shasta
Co.), April 5 - Even officers of the law, inured to scenes of all kinds, were
affected yesterday afternoon in the Superior Court here when Judge BUSH
directed that little 5-year-old Wilma MORGAN, despite her tears and entreaties,
be returned to her mother’s care, leaving good Orville SMITH and wife, who had
tended her almost since very babyhood, desolate and full of grief.
Some years ago Mrs. Morgan’s husband
was killed. He left her with five children and scanty or no means of support.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith attracted by bright little Wilma, took the child to their
home and there brought her up. But they failed to take out regular papers of adoption, and that is
why Mrs. Morgan, who suddenly
concluded a few days ago that she wanted her girl with her, was given a
decision by the Court.
The woman has all she can do now
to care for her family, and Wilma would be much better off with the Smiths.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
5 - The remarkable spectable of a girl in the pulpit will be witnessed in this
city on Good Friday, when Miss hazel BAWDEN, a charming young woman, born and
reared here, will deliver a sermon. Miss
BAWDEN is an elocutionist of great ability and is at present taking a course in
the Grass Valley Business College. She is an attractive, merry, brown-eyed girl
and the announcement that she is to preach on the occasion stated, has sent
something of a thrill over the town. The sermon which Miss Bawden has chosen
was written and delivered by Dr. John A.B. WILSON many years ago. It is
beautifully worded and gives rare opportunity for elocutionary effect. Dr.
Wilson, pastor of the local Methodist Church, conceived the idea of Miss Bawden
giving the sermon and after due consideration she agreed.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, April 6, 1906
page
6
Men Accused of Holding Up De La
Mar Stage and the Murder of Express Messenger Haskell Prove Compete Alibi.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 6 -
Con. C. HARDWICK and Charles WHITESCARBOR,
who were arrested two weeks ago
in connection with the hold-up of the De La Mar stage and murder of Express
Messenger HASKELL, were released from custody this morning and the charge
against them was dismissed on the motion of District Attorney DOZIER, in the
Court of Justice of the Peace CARR, who issued the warrant of arrest.
The vindication of HARDWICK and
WHITESCARBOR is absolute and complete. The officers admit that the accused men
have established a complete alibi, as was foreshadowed in The Bee several days
ago.
Whitescarbor and Hardwick have
proven that they were at Joe HUFFORD’s place, near Millville, on October 10th,
the day after the robbery, and at the very hour that two men, supposed to be
the bandits, were seen by M. NEDROW crossing his field in the vicinity of the Balls Ferry Bridge
across the Sacramento.
Furthermore, WHITESCARBOR and
HARDWICK have proved that at the very hour of the hold-up and fatal wounding of
Express Messenger HASKELL, they were thirty miles east of Millville, or forty
miles from the scene of the tragedy.
The evidence that led up to the
arrest of the two was the finding of some clothing, blankets, a hat and a few
other articles in an abandoned camp half a mile from the scene of the hold-up.
The hat was identified as once belonging to Hardwick. It bore the marks of
buckshot, presumably fired from Dan HASKELL’s express shotgun.
After HARDWICK and WHITESCARBOR
were brought to the County Jail they were confronted with these articles. They
frankly admitted that they did own them all at one time, but they held that
they had traded them off three months before the hold-up. This contention was
corroborated by the testimony of Mike DAILEY, who was brought up from Red
Bluff.
WHITESCARBOR was arrested in
Stockton Wednesday, March 21st, and HARDWICK
was
arrested at the Court House in Redding the next day. It will be remembered that
HARDWICK, who had heard that the officers were looking for him, went to the
Court House to see what was wanted. It was then that he was taken. The
circumstances were such to indicate at the time that he was innocent.
DE LA MAR (Shasta Co.), April 6
- The Bully Hill Company’s smelter, which was shut down last week ostensibly
because there was no coke on hand, will probably remain closed for several
weeks. Not only are the extensive repairs to be made in the smelter itself, but
at the mine the shaft is to be sunk 200 feet deeper.
The ore bodies above the
800-foot level are pretty well exhausted, and it is necessary to open up to a
greater depth. With the shaft sunk 200 feet more, it will be 1000 feet deep, or
the greatest depth of any shaft in the base ore belt of Shasta County.
The company has other producing
mines than the Bully Hill. The Rising Star near this place and the Winthrop at Copper
City have large bodies of ore. These
mines are also to be opened up more extensively before the smelter starts up
again.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), April 6
- Some interesting experiments made regarding the amount of sugar contained in
wine grapes, recently disclosed that grapes grown at Roseville show the highest
percentage of sugar of any grapes grown in California. Encouraged by these
reports, quite a number of the local people are planting vines, thus adding to
the already large vineyard acreage in this vicinity. It seems probably that
Roseville will soon be a second Vina or Natoma, thus giving employment directly
and indirectly to quite a number of people.
TOWLE (Placer Co.), April 6 - In
preparation for the coming Summer, TOWLE Brothers have
ordered the electric lines of this place connected with a power line to be run
from the Alta power house. A 300-light transformer is to be installed, and this
will be more than adequate for the demands of the town. C.W. HUTTON, of
Sacramento, has been here making arrangements for the installation of the line,
and a contract has already been let for the
poles. Heretofore, TOWLE Brothers have
always furnished “juice” for the town from their own dynamo. Last Fall, however, lack of water forced that dynamo to be
discontinued and since that time the town has been in darkness.
GOLD RUN (Placer Co.), April 6 -
At noon yesterday the staff system for train signaling was formally put in
operation here. For over a month the western terminus of the new system has
been at Blue Canyon. It is expected that by mid-Summer it will be working as
far as Rocklin.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 6
- Mayor BRANSFORD announced yesterday that the town authorities and the
Antelope Creek Water Company had finally agreed upon the third appraiser to
determine the just and equitable valuation of the latter’s plant for a sale to
the municipality. City Engineer W.F. LUNING is the representative of the Town
Board and Philip E. HARROUN was named by the water corporation. The third
member of the Board of Appraisers will be Otto GUELDEN, a civil engineer of
some prominence on the Coast. It is not known definitely if he will accept. The
town appraiser fixed a value of about $45,000 on the Antelope Company’s
property and Engineer HARROUN’s figures were $165,000. It is presumed that the
corrected figure will be in the neighborhood of $100,000.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 6
- The Board of Supervisors at yesterday afternoon’s session decided to approve
Expert MASLIN’s claim for $254.75 for the accounting of the official books of
the Town of Red Bluff, after District Attorney GILL read several sections of
the County Government Act which he held permitted the Board to raise the rate
from $5 a day to $7.50. There was some
little discussion over permitting the county’s law officer to be reimbursed for
his trip to Sacramento for the purpose of having the alleged antedated bonds of
Mayor-Recorder-Justice W.L. BRANSFORD preserved by a photographic negative.
District Attorney GILL presented a claim for $24.45 for this hurried journey,
and after some demur it was also ordered paid.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 6
- The jury in the second trial of Charles BASLER, formerly a hotel man of
Cottonwood, who is accused of having committed a murderous assault on Peter
VONAH in the northern part of the county some months ago, could not agree at
10:30 last night and the members were discharged by Superior Judge ELLISON. It
is understood that the jurors stood on the last ballot nine for acquittal and
three for conviction. The first trial resulted in a disagreement and it now
seems likely that District Attorney GILL will ask that the case be dismissed.
Judge Gray Says The State Should
Not Care For Jap Who Was Insane When He Came Here OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 6
- A Japanese laborer who has been frightening the women and children around
Berry Creek for several days past, was brought here yesterday and lodged in
jail and charged with insanity. He was
examined and committed to Napa. T. MYASOTE is the man’s name and he imagined he
is the Emperor of Japan and will not wear any clothing if not prevented from
disrobing. He also imagines he is a big contractor on the Western Pacific; also
that he is an architect and has several skyscrapers under construction.
Appended to the commitment is
the following note from Judge John C. GRAY:
“The unfortunate has been in the
country about six months, and was sent here from Honolulu. He was evidently
insane at that time, and was simply sent out here to get rid of him.
“He is educated and is a pretty
smart fellow, believing he can do great things in building and managing large
properties.
“The case ought to be reported
at once to the United States authorities and he should be sent back to his own
country. We ought not to be required to keep him.”
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 6 -
Minnie A. ELLIOTT, of this city, some weeks ago commenced suit for divorce from
her husband, J. Frank ELLIOTT, the well-known mining expert. On March 10th
an order of the Court was issued restraining him from interfering with
plaintiff or breaking up any of the household articles, as he threatened to do.
Mrs. Elliott filed an affidavit yesterday alleging that on March 31st
her husband had entered the house and injured a piano in his attempts to
destroy it. Thereupon Judge GRAY issued a citation commanding him to appear in
Court and show cause, if any he had, why he should not be punished for contempt
of Court in violating the restraining order made by the Court.
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 6 -
Ollie SNEDIGAR, the sprinter of the University of California, has been secured as
the official starter for the track events to be held here on April 28th,
and the choice has given universal satisfaction to the athletes of Northern
California. Walter CHRISTIE, the University of California trainer, who was
first asked, could not come to Chico on that date on account of the meet to be
held in Berkeley, and it was upon his recommendation that Snedigar was secured.
The track here has been put in excellent condition.
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 6 - The
home of Mrs. CHESTER was entered by burglars Wednesday night and $83 was taken
from a purse in a bureau drawer. Mrs.
CHESTER heard the noise, but when she endeavored to turn on the electric lights
the current was off, and it is presumed that the man heard her and safely
escaped.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
6 - Rev. F.A. KEAST, a former Methodist minister of this city, must fight a
strong legal battle before he receives the $5000 bequest from the estate of the
late Jemimah PARSON of San Francisco. Her will left
him this amount. Her nephew has commenced suit to break the will, declaring it
was secured through undue influence of the legatees, who plotted against him
and poisoned his aunt’s mind to such an extent that she left him a mere
pittance. KEAST’s many friends here have every faith in his integrity, and do
not believe that he in any way influenced the aged, blind and bedridden woman,
and they will watch the outcome of the case with great interest. Keast is now
located at Santa Clara.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
6 - Over on South Yuba, where a very promising strike was made recently by
“Wess” HOWARD and Robert KEMP, of this place, mining will be under way before
the middle of next week. Teams with loads of lumber and supplies left here this
morning for the scene. Headquarters will
be erected at once for the men. A tunnel will be run on the ledge, which has
been traced for over a mile on the claims owned by HOWARD and KEMP. Rock broken
from the croppings at random shows gold to the naked eye and some beautiful
specimen ore has been found amount these pieces. The claims will be developed
by private capital.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
6 - By to-night the new electric hoist at the Central-Consolidated Mine, a few
miles east of this city, will be ready for operation. It is 1200 feet in a
tunnel, below which is a shaft 200 feet deep. It will be used to hoist ore from
the shaft. An electric pump is on the way from the East and may arrive any day.
When the shaft is pumped out it will be the first time since 1872 that man has
set foot in its bottom. The company is
operating in the upper workings and has a twenty-stamp mill running constantly.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), April
6 - The peculiar case of a man preferring jail to liberty developed here
yesterday, when George CLARK, accused of threatening Principal MARCH, of the
Bloomfield school, with a revolver, as already announced by The Bee, declined
to accept bail. His friends offered to secure his release, and were ready to
put up the money, but CLARKE declared he would remain in the County Jail until
next week, the time for his preliminary examination.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), April
6 - Dollars are stronger than sentiment in Red Bluff. The Fire Commissioners of
Weaverville wanted to buy of Red Bluff an old hand
engine that had been housed in that place for years, though it has been
entirely valueless in that town since the construction of the water works. The
Red Bluff Fire Department at first objected to parting with the old relic,
because of its associations, but the Fire Commissioners here have received word
that the Red Bluff Trustees have smothered their sentiments and accepted
Weaverville’s cash offer for the old fire engine, which will be quite
serviceable here.
Weaverville’s newly-elected Fire
Commissioners are A.L. PAULSEN, C.H.
NEWELL and Charles EDWARDS.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, April 6, 1906
Page 10
WINTERS (Yolo Co.), April 6 -
Mrs. Johanna COCHRAN died this morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. E.S.
GRAF. Deceased was a native of County Limerick, Ireland, and was 88 years old.
She arrived in New York in June, 1846; came to San Francisco via the Isthmus,
and until her marriage made her home with the J.B. HAGIN family. She came with
her husband to Yolo County in 1852, and died on the farm they homesteaded.
Deceased was known to all early settlers, to many of whom she was a friend in
need. She leaves no children, and she is almost the last of a once prominent
Irish family. Her husband died in 1878.
JACKSON (Amador Co.), April 6 -
Mrs. Frank E. DUDEN, wife of Postmaster Frank H. DUDEN, died at her home in
this city early this morning, succumbing to an attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. DUDEN was formerly Miss
Lottie DREESE, and had a wide circle of friends in Amador and neighboring
counties, and was greatly respected for her womanly traits. Her husband is well
known in Sacramento, where at one time he was Assistant Postmaster under J.O.
COLEMAN.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), April
6 - Clyde BENNINGTON is having lots of trouble to square himself with the law.
Last week he was fined $50 in Carrville for violating the game law. He was
brought to Weaverville in default of the fine and was serving the time out in
jail. After serving four days in prison, he raised the money to pay the balance
of the fine and regain his freedom. He was at once arrested on the charge of
resisting an officer.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
April 6 - J.M. AYERS, the well known grocer of this city, is very ill at his
home from an attack of heart trouble. He has been in poor health for several days,
and on Monday he became much worse. The
last reports were that he is seriously ill and there is small chance of his
recovery.
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), April 6 -
Robert YARBROUGH, a well-known butcher of Colusa County, was kicked in the
right leg by his horse yesterday afternoon, and both bones of his right leg
below the knee were broken.
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), April 6 -
Mrs. Samuel KENCE, a respected resident of Sites, in western Colusa County,
died at her home last evening. She was 80 years of age. The remains will be
taken to Spokane, Washington, for interment.
A Terrific Knock-out - In the
contest at San Francisco last night between two heavyweights, Walter KIRCHNER
and Ed HARKINS, both local men, Harkins was knocked out in the first round of
fighting. His head struck the floor with terrific impact, and he was at first
supposed to be very seriously injured, but he soon recovered.
Another Western Pacific Suit - Condemnation
suits brought by the Western Pacific Railway Company have been many during the
past three months, but one that was filed at Oakland yesterday promises to
involve itself in long litigation before judgement is given. This is a suit
brought against the Oakland Water Front Company, an adjunct of the Southern
Pacific, for the condemnation of two parcels of tideland on that arm of the San
Antonio estuary, that is, in fact, the outlet of Lake Merritt.
McNulty Jury Disagreed - After
remaining locked up ten hours, the jury in the second trial of Lester McNULTY,
accused of attempted felonious assault on Dorothy OLSEN, at Berkeley, last
night reported that they were unable to agree on a verdict, and were
discharged. The case will be tried again as soon as possible. On the final
ballot the jury stood seven to five for acquittal.
A Curious Marriage Contract -
Mrs. Louise LEPONT, decrepit and in her 86th years, was married at
Alameda yesterday to Joseph Henry DUFOUR, aged 35, who had been her faithful
servitor and friend. Following are excerpts from the novel marriage compact:
“All the housework, such as cooking, sweeping and cleaning, is to be done by
the party of the second part (DUFOUR) or by some one else at his expense. He
shall always be kind and gentle toward the party of the first part. By this is
meant that the party of the second part shall be in reality that which rarely
exists, a model husband.”
Ten Years in Prison - Frank
JOHNSON, who did a wholesale business in helping ineligible aliens to become citizens,
was sentenced by Judge J.J. DE HAVEN at San Francisco to ten years in San
Quentin and to pay a fine of $400.
Student Gamblers - The State
University authorities have been informed that students are operating a
gambling game called “Klondike” in the basement of North Hall, and summary
action is looked for. The Klondike game is played with dice, and is looked upon
in the sporting world as a good thing for the “banker.”
Horse Farm Sold - W.H. DONAHUE
has purchased “Merriwa,” the former horse farm of Vounty VALENSIN, at
Pleasanton. Frank H. JENSYN sold the property for $31,000.
Missed His Aim - Peter
BORGSTROM, an aged tailor, yesterday walked into Union Square, San Francisco,
with the intention of blowing his brains out. He placed a pistol to his head and fired, but
in his agitation the bullet merely grazed his face.
A Large Purchase - The United
Railways Investment Company of San Francisco, which is the holding company of
the United Railroads stock, has completed its purchase of $121,000,000 of the
stock of the Philadelphia Company, which controls all of the street railroads
of Pittsburg and Alleghany, connecting all the adjoining towns, and having
something like 500 miles of track.
A Warm Day - The highest
temperature for April 5th in thirty years was reached in San
Francisco yesterday when the thermometer registered 76 degrees in the shade.
The nearest approach to this was in 186, when the mercury went up to 70.
Child and Parent - The Supreme
Court has decided that a child is not obliged in all cases to provide for the
maintenance of a destitute parent. Mrs. Sarah J. YORDI appealed from a decision of
the Superior Court which ordered her to contribute $20 a month to the support
of her mother, Mrs. Leonora DUFF, and the Supreme Court overruled the decision.
Mrs. YORDI alleged that she had been deserted by her mother when she was 6
years old. It was proved that two other daughters were taking care of the
mother at the present time, and that they had been able to do so without
outside help.
Petitions for Trolley - The
Greater San Francisco Club is circulating a petition to the Supervisors asking
that a franchise be granted for a trolley line on Sutter Street. Rudolph
SPRECKELS declares the Club is a creation of the United Railroads, and designed
to assist in grid-ironing the city with trolleys, when the only proper system
is the electric conduit.
Honors to Governor-General SMITH
- Preparations are under way for the reception that is to be given in honor of
the return of Governor-General Jas. F. SMITH, who arrives in San Francisco from
the Philippines April 14th.
The welcome to be given the General will surpass anything of its nature
seen in San Francisco for many a year.
A Leg Broken - William
GRANFIELD, while operating an elevator at 167 Fremont Street, San Francisco,
where he was an employe not accustomed to such work, pulled the wrong rope. The
elevator dropped three stories to the pavement and struck with such force that
one of GRANFIELD’s legs was broken in two places.
Automobile Victims - Two boys
were automobile victims in San Francisco yesterday, one sustaining a fracture
of the right leg and the other a fractured collar bone.
“Jim” Orndorff Marries - Dashing
and debonair, despite the seventy-one years he owns up to, “Jim” ORNDORFF, one
of the most picturesque figures in San Francisco, is married again. Wednesday last he was wedded to Mrs. Gussie HALL, a comely widow,
twenty-three years his junior. He was formerly well known in Nevada.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, April 9, 1906
Page 6
SEEKS TO END HIS LIFE AFTER
TRYING TO MURDER WIFE AND FATHER-IN-LAW
Jack Allen Cut Down in Jail Cell
This Morning Just in Time to Defeat Plan to Suicide.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
9 - Crazed from the effects of drink and brooding, Jack ALLEN early last
evening plunged a butcherknife into his father-in-law, Alfred JENKIN, Sr.,
fatally wounding him; stabbed his own wife ten times; severely injured Louis
GUENZA with a hammer, and held officers DEEBLE and PETERSON at bay with an ax
until the arrival of Sheriff WALKER, to whom he surrendered peaceably. Mrs. ALLEN has a
chance to recover.
ALLEN was hurried to the County
Jail at Nevada City. This morning about 9 o’clock he was discovered by Sheriff
WALKER and a deputy in an unconscious condition, with his suspenders, one end
of which had been fastened to a peg in the wall, tightly twisted about his
neck. He was quickly cut down and soon revived, fighting like a tiger as he
came to. He is in a serious condition and is being treated by the County
Physician. ALLEN has been drinking
heavily of late, but Thursday braced up and went back to his employment at the
North Star Mine. Friday evening he complained of illness and left the job,
returning to his home. He and his wife have been residing with his
father-in-law, JENKIN. How ALLEN spent Saturday is not known. Yesterday,
however, he was at the home of his brother-in-law, Harry JENKIN, nearly all day.
He drank several glasses of beer, but not sufficient to render him under the
influence. At 6:10 young JENKIN and ALLEN went to the home of JENKIN, Sr. ALLEN
seemed to be in his senses, but several times asked his brother-in-law to go
home. The young man now believes this was done to get him out of the house to
enable ALLEN to carry out his murderous intentions. Ten minutes after leaving
he was summoned by his little niece, Martha, who came running up the hill to
tell him of the terrible affair.
The wounded man, Alfred JENKIN,
Sr., retained strength enough to tell Assistant District Attorney LARUE of the
stabbing. With his wife and his daughter, Mrs. ALLEN, he was prepared to eat
supper. He went into the bedroom and asked ALLEN, who was lying on the bed, to
join them. ALLEN entered the dining-room, walked to the table, picked up the
pointed, keen-edged knife and said: “We might as well settle this matter right
now.” With that he plunged the blade into the aged man’s left side, narrowly
missing the heart and penetrating the lung. Despite his terrible wound, JENKIN
grappled with his assailant and wrestled with him on to the porch, where he
managed to obtain possession of the knife, though this right hand was badly cut
in the struggle. He threw the weapon aside.
ALLEN immediately rushed at his
wife. He chased her into the yard, knocked her down, and held her until he drew
his pocketknife. With relentless fury he plunged the blade into her body again
and again until ten stabs and slashes had been inflicted. The screams of the
women aroused the neighborhood and men came running from nearby residences. Mr.
GELEARY caught up a shovel on his way, vaulted the
fence and made at the fiend. ALLEN waited until GELEARY was within a few yards
when he broke and ran, climbed the fence and bolted
down Maiden Lane.
Mrs. ALLEN staggered to the edge
of the yard, blood streaming from her wounds, and fell into the arms of William
SUTHERLAND, who was hastening to her assistance. He carried her to his home,
adjoining, where Dr. JONES was called. The surgeon found her suffering from
wounds about the head, neck and bosom, the worst being a wound back of the
right ear a deep stab over the heart. He also dressed JENKIN’s wound, which is
a terrible one.
Meanwhile, ALLEN reached
Richardson Street and walked into the home of R.S. JEWELL. He met Mrs. JEWELL and demanded a
pistol from her. She attempted to push by him to reach her husband outside.
ALLEN shoved her back and again demanded the weapon. She had never seen the man
before and was terribly frightened, but managed to tell him there was no pistol
in the house. At this juncture JEWELL entered and to him ALLEN repeated his
request. “I don’t propose to be wronged” he cried. He said no more, but ran
from the place down Richardson Street and entered the livery stable of W.G.
LORD. Stableman GARCIA was feeding the horses. ALLEN grasped him by the
shoulder and demanded a pistol. For answer GARCIA caught up a pitchfork and
ordered ALLEN from the place. As ALLEN went he muttered something about
“killing the whole bunch of you.”
A block farther west on
Richardson Street, ALLEN entered GUENZA’s saloon and walked behind the bar.
GUENZA came up from the cellar in time to see ALLEN drawing out the money
drawer. He closed with ALLEN and forced him outside the bar, but the money
drawer was pulled out in the scuffle and its contents scattered over the floor.
ALLEN caught up a heavy hammer and flung across the bar, striking GUENZA on the
side of the head, knocking him down and inflicting an ugly gash. The pistol he
sought but did not find was concealed near the till. Several countrymen of
GUENZA took after ALLEN and hurled rocks at him as he dashed across the street
and ran down Auburn Street, where he entered a back yard and sent into A.
MAZZA’s saloon on Main Street. He walked up to the bar and called for a drink
of whisky, which he received. He then walked back to the stove and picked up a
long heavy iron poker, but dropped it for an axe in the corner. With this in
his hand he went out the rear door by which he had entered, but returned a
moment later and took up his position near the stove. He called for another drink,
which was served.
City Marshall DEEBLE and
Nightwatchman PETERSON entered at this moment.
The Marshal did not know what had happened, except that he had been told
ALLEN had hurt his wife. The officer advanced a step, whereupon ALLEN raised
the weapon over his shoulder and announced that the first man to come closer
would be killed. “I’ll give up to the Sheriff, but to nobody else,” he
announced. Not caring to shoot the fellow and knowing that Sheriff WALKER was
then on his way, the Marshal stood with drawn revolver to prevent ALLEN making
an escape. He was still puzzled, having no inkling of the terrible crime.
Sheriff WALKER entered a minute or two later. ALLEN immediately dropped the axe
and threw up his hands saying: “I’ll go with you.” Even the Sheriff was unaware
of the stabbing. ALLEN asked to be taken to see his wife, saying he had one
last request to make of her. He was escorted to the gate of the JENKIN home,
and there called out for a hat and his best suit of clothes. He had fled the
house hatless. William JENKIN, brother of the wounded woman, wild with anger,
made an attempt to get at ALLEN, but was kept off by the three officers. It was
there they learned for the first time what had actually occurred. ALLEN was
hurried to Nevada City for safety, as angry mutterings were heard on all sides.
After his arrest ALLEN declined
to talk. He has been married eight years and his domestic life has been very
happy. Of late, however, he has been acting strangely and brooding over fancied
wrongs, though his condition is believed to be due to drinking. When he left
the mine Friday night he informed one of the men on top that he was sick and
that “this is what booze has done for me.” While at work he is said to have
stopped “Judge” TREBLICOX, his companion on the big power drill, several times,
to inform him that everybody in town was against him. He had taken it much to
heart that his brother-in-law, William JENKIN, had refused to lend him $100
with which to engage in the saloon business here, and from this had become
“grouchy” toward JENKIN, Sr. William JENKIN states that ALLEN had become so
disagreeable over the matter that he had kept away from him for a day or two,
fearing ALLEN might pick a row with him. The wounded man is one of the oldest
and most estimable men in the city. His family was reared here and every member
is highly esteemed.
ISLETON (Sacramento Co.), April
9 - The dead body reported in Saturday’s Bee as seen floating down the river by
this place was rescued from the water later. Justice MEALER held an inquest,
but nothing as to the man’s identity was discovered. Drowning was the cause of
his death.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), April 9 -
The 4-year-old daughter of John MORDHURST, a farmer residing near here, was
drowned Saturday evening. The child wandered from the yard of her home, and
fell over an embankment into a slough which runs through the ranch and was
drowned in a few feet of water.
Marriage and Divorce Record
IN YUBA COUNTY
MARYSVILLE, April 9 - The
following marriage licenses were issued in Yuba County last week.
John S. SOARES, Oroville, and
Cordelia NELSON, Marysville; A.L. REIQUIERD and Lille E. BAHNEY, both of
Lincoln.
Miss Eva LAMME, of this city,
and Andrew WEST, of Oroville, were married at the residence of Miss LAMME’s
cousin, Mrs. MILLER, in the latter place, Thursday. Arthur BAILEY, of Tudor,
has announced to his friends that he was married quietly last week in San
Francisco to Miss NAGLE, a trained nurse.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), April 9 -
The following licenses to marry were issued here last week: John HARRIS, 30, of
San Francisco, and Gertrude LYTTLEKER, 26, of Fulton; Herbert B. DOBBAS, 31, of
Georgetown, and Anna L. LATHROP, 25, of Newcastle.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 9
- Two marriage licenses is the record for last week. Both couples obtained
licenses on Friday and Justice of the Peace BRANSFORD had the honor and
pleasure or performing both ceremonies.
The first happy couple had every indication of being a runaway and the
groom was Samuel FLEISCHMAN, 24 years old, and the bride was Jessie GOODBURN,
aged 18 years, both natives of California and residents of San Francisco.
The second couple was composed
of William GILBERT and Mrs. Ida DE LANEY, both well-known residents of Vina.
The bride is the widow of a former Constable who was shot in a fight at the
“Vineyard Town.”
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 7 - A
marriage license was issued last week to Ralph Miller COLCOUGH, age 22, and
Pearl E. FROMMELL, age 18, both of Broderick.
Judge GADDIS granted two interlocutory decrees of
divorce the past week.
Anna Jane WHEAT from Joseph William WHEAT on the
ground of extreme cruelty.
James McCLURE from Angie McCLURE on the ground of
desertion.
MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD, April 9 -
Electrician Robert STUART, now in charge of the Point Arguello Wireless
Telegraph Station, reports that he had connection with the Lawton 120 miles
out, but only a faint trace at 150 miles. Point Arguello is a Government
station operated by an employe of the Navy Department. Chief Electrician MAXON,
of the Pregle, is now instructing a class of fifteen at the mare
Island yard who are learning to operate the wireless telegraph. As they become
proficient they are sent to various ships and wireless stations of the
Government.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 9 -
Mrs. Rostina E. GILES, of Balls Ferry, widow of J.K. GILES and a resident of
Shasta County since 1873, died yesterday afternoon near Redding at the home of
her son, J.W. GILES, at the age of 71.
The funeral will be held at Balls Ferry Tuesday afternoon.
CORNING (Tehama Co.), April 9 -
Shortly after noon yesterday fire destroyed the residence of Mrs. M. MILLS in
this city. The fire was caused by the accidental overturning of the cook stove.
A rescue brigade was organized by Special Organizer CRAW, who came here to
attend the Woodmen log-rolling Saturday evening, and through his quick
judgement everything in the house was saved. The loss amounts to $1000,
partially covered by insurance.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 9 -
Mrs. Phoebe R. CARD, an old resident of this city, died Saturday afternoon. She
was a native of New York, 74 years of age. The funeral services were held
to-day.
WEED (Siskiyou Co.), April 9 -
The officers are working on a clue which they hope will lead to the capture of
the men who robbed the Wells-Fargo office here early Saturday morning, before
daylight, of $400. As soon as the robbery was discovered word was sent to the
Sheriff at Yreka and to officers along the line, both north and south. Just
what the clue is the officers are working on is not known, but it is believed
here now that the guilty men will be captured.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 9 -
James JOHNSON was found dead in a bed in the Alta House here yesterday morning.
Epilepsy was the cause of his death.
Johnson was a member of Olive Lodge, No. 81, I.O.O.F., of Dutch Flat. He
was a logger.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), April 9 -
The trial of Fred MOHLER, owner of the Drummer Boy Mine at Cherry Hill, who is
charged with using a deadly weapon with intent to kill, came up Friday
afternoon before Judge THOMAS, and the jury, after being out a few minutes,
brought in a verdict of not guilty. It
seems that the Drummer Boy Mine a short time ago was bonded to San Francisco
parties for a period of six months, only a small amount being put up to bind
the bargain. The bonders agreed to pay $40,000 for the property, but this they
failed to do and consequently MOHLER took charge of his property again.
Ever since trouble has been
brewing. Mohler has missed at various
times considerable rich ore, and was at a loss to know where it went. He
commenced to watch at night, and one evening discovered two men in the mine. He
fired two pistol shots to scare away the intruders. For this he was arrested
last week and brought to town, but allowed to go on his own recognizance. His
trial and acquittal yesterday prove his innocent in any intent to commit
murder.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, April 9, 1906
Page 10
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 9 -
School elections were held Friday throughout the county. The Trustees elected
in some of the important districts were:
Redding, William MASTERSON;
Kennett, E.J. MILLER and E. TOBEY; Millville,
W.H. PUTZBACH; Anderson, W.L.
WENTWORTH; Keswick, Dr. G.W. SEVENMAN, Charles
McCUTCHEON and William BASCOMBE;
Shasta, Dr. T.J. EGDECOMBE and William
CRUM; Old Diggings, Edwin WHITE.
TONOPAH (Nev.), April 9 - Excitement
following the killing at Manhattan Saturday (as told in The Bee) of Sheriff
T.W. LOGAN by Walter BERIEAU has died down to a marked extent, but the feeling
against the latter and the gamblers is bitter, nevertheless.
BERIEAU struck a woman who then
called upon Sheriff LOGAN for protection.
The officer threw her assailant into the street. BERIEAU on getting to
his feet stepped to a window and shot at the Sheriff, but missed him. LOGAN
then went out and was shot twice by BERIEAU, but before dying grappled with his
slayer and beat him into insensibility.
Walter BERIEAU, the creole faro
dealer, who shot and killed Sheriff Thomas W. LOGAN at Manhattan, Nevada,
Saturday morning, formerly lived in this city, where he was well known in
sporting circles. He conducted the Pullman Saloon, on lower R Street, but
disposed of it, it is said, shortly before the great railroad strike of 1894.
He has relatives by marriage living here.
BERIEAU once put up a scheme with a Chinaman in this city whereby they
won $20,000 in a Chinese lottery, but the fraud was exposed, and BERIEAU never
got the money. On another occasion he was in the Police Court charged with
having stolen a woman’s jewelry, but the case against him was never pressed and
he was allowed to go free.
GARDNERVILLE (Nev.), April 9 -
Miss Esther TROTOT, the 16-year-old girl who recently moved to this place from
Georgetown, El Dorado County, and who committed suicide by drinking two ounces
of carbolic acid, as already told in The Bee, wrote a note to her sister a
short time before she swallowed the poison saying that she meant to end her
life, but assigned no reason, indicating in the letter that her sister was
acquainted with her troubles.
Investigation by the local authorities brings to light the fact that the
girl was infatuated with Ralph HARCOURT, manager of the telephone exchange,
where she was employed. HARCOURT says that he never made love to her, although,
he admitted that he was in her company a great deal and suspected that she was
devoted to him. Coroner’s jury exonerates every one from blame in connection
with her death.
GOLDFIELD (Nev.), April 9 - The
settlement out of Court of the famous JOHNSON grubstake case, involving $2,000,000
worth of property on Ladd Mountain, does partial justice to a suffering
prospector who had been cheated out of a vast fortune. JOHNSON, formerly a poor
man, is $50,000 better off to-day.
In 1904 H.H. CLARK and Zeb KENDALL grubstaked George
W. LADD and J. Otis
JOHNSON, who went into Bullfrog to prospect, the four
to share equally. LADD
and JOHNSON suffered frightfully from lack
of food and water, and finally,
when
they met BENSON and KENDALL’s brother, JOHNSON and KENDALL went back to
Tonopah for supplies.
While they were gone LADD and BENSON located the claims, leaving out JOHNSON,
who was refused an interest in the rich properties, although he was to share
equally.
EUREKA (Nev.), April 9 - Alfred
HOCKING, a young man of this place, had his left hand torn off Saturday by a
circular saw which he was operating at the Eureka Consolidated Mine. Only a few
weeks ago his younger brother became blind as the result of a dynamite cap
explosion.
Saloon Closing - What the Rev.
E.E. BAKER, of the First Presbyterian Church denounces as “a disgrace to
Oakland” is contemplated by the City Council. It has been decided that the “12
o’clock closing ordinance” is to be repealed, and to enact a new Statute
extending until 1 a.m. the time during which liquors may be sold in saloons and
restaurants.
Rev. L.M. Hartley Very Ill -
Rev. L.M. HARTLEY, Superintendent of the State Anti-Saloon League, and for many
years one of the prominent members of the Southern California Methodist
Conference, is lying at the point of death at his residence in Oakland.
Attacked a Girl - Three
highwaymen attacked Miss Mary WIESENHAVERN, a 16-year-old girl of West
Berkeley, last night as she rode on her bicycle. They dragged her from the wheel, attempting
by force to remove rings she wore from her hand. They failed and she escaped.
New Schoolhouses - The San
Francisco School Board has adopted a resolution asking the Supervisors to
authorize the construction of twenty-two new school houses and to set aside
$2,400,000 for that purpose.
Knocked Down and Robbed -
Charles MASERNS was held up, knocked senseless and robbed last night in Oakland
of a gold watch and money.
Bad Fire in Berkeley - A $45,000
fire which broke out yesterday morning in the Wright block, known also as the
Mason-McDuffie block, threatened for a time to get the better of the Fire
Department of Berkeley and sweep the business portion of the town. The new
gasoline engine was finally effective with its two powerful streams in
confining the flames to the Wright block and its annex on Shattuck Avenue. The
loss was about $45,000.
Suspected of Smuggling - A new
arrival from Mexico is in the San Francisco city prison on a criminal charge
that the police refuse to divulge. His name is Miguel L. CORNEJO. It is thought
the offense of which he is accused is the smuggling of pearls into the United
States.
Beheaded Himself - Despondent
because of his inability to refrain from drink, James O’CONNELL, aged 45 years,
deliberately took his own life by placing his neck under
the wheels of a freight train in the West Oakland yards. He leaves no family.
Gambling Den Raided - District
Attorney LANGDON and a posse raised the gambling joint at 35 Market Street,
known as “The Girl in Blue.” The place was under the management of Mike GOLDEN,
known as a “surething” gambler. GOLDEN
and his four cappers were arrested, also two women dancers and a number of
visitors. He has long flourished in swindling games, with the connivance of the
police.
Funeral of Judge Nye - The
funeral of the late Judge Stephen G. NYE, a pioneer jurist of Alameda County,
who died recently at his home in Visalia, was held in Oakland last Friday. He
was once County Judge in Alameda County, and also represented that county in
the State Senate, in which body he was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
More Owl Cars - Commencing April
14th, an all-night car service will be maintained on the Filmore and
Sixteenth Streets line of the United Railroads in San Francisco.
Boy Saved From
Death - The 6-year-old son of Charles W. HOOD was saved from instant and
frightful death Saturday in San Francisco by Officer Edward STANTON, who
stopped a fractious horse as it dashed down Castro Street, with a fruit wagon,
upon which the little one was seated alone.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, April 11, 1906
Page 6
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 11 -
Charles STALKER, a young man under arrest on suspicion of being implicated in
the theft of a large amount of copper wire from the local power company a few
weeks ago, and of disposing of it in San Francisco, yesterday was denied a writ
of habeas corpus. In his petition for
the writ he averred that he was illegally detained and that he had been refused
an examination. In reply, Sheriff CHUBBUCK made answer that STALKER had never
asked for an examination, that the cause of the delay in the case was due to
the fact that STALKER had informed him that a young man who left Oroville for
Redding some time ago was implicated in the robbery, and that he had been
endeavoring to locate this man for the benefit of the defendant.
LODi (San Joaquin Co.), April 11
- The condition of Jeff THURMAN, a mechanic, is puzzling Lodi and Stockton
physicians. No less than a dozen doctors are working on the case. THURMAN, who
was in apparent good health, fell unconscious yesterday morning just after
kissing his wife and children good-by.
The physicians, who are unable
to revive him, are at a loss to know the cause of his illness. He is in a deep
sleep most of the time, from which it seems impossible to arouse him. His
condition is deemed critical.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 11 -
C.M. PALMER, dredgemaster, while out riding with his daughter, Miss Ida, met
with a peculiar accident yesterday, but luckily, both parties escaped with
slight injury. One of the shafts in the vehicle broke, and the horse, becoming
frightened, started to run, capsizing the rig and pinning the occupants
underneath. With rare presence of mind, PALMER held on to the reins until aid
arrived, and he and his daughter were relieved from their perilous position.
With the exception of a few bruises, neither party was any the worse for the
accident.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 11 -
Jack MASON and Ray FARMER, two railroad laborers, were scuffling in a friendly
manner in the Senate Saloon last night, a crowd watching their actions.
Although he had been laughing a minute before, MASON, who is a powerful man,
reached down and grabbed FARMER’s right ear with his teeth, biting it
completely off. He threw it on the floor and rushed out the back door with an
oath. A charge of mayhem will be placed against him.
W.M. Coward Making Determined
Effort To Get Out Of Institution And The Court Withholds Decision STOCKTON (San
Joaquin Co.), April 11 - One of the most sensational insanity cases that has
been called to the attention of the authorities of this city in many years was
heard yesterday in Judge NUTTER’s Department of the Superior Court. The
proceedings were instigated by W.M. COWARD, the alleged insane promoter, who is
seeking to obtain his freedom from the local State Hospital by the habeas
corpus method.
COWARD has been committed to the
local asylum four times during the past nine years and once was at Napa. He is
a remarkable man in many respects and has succeeded in puzzling the authorities
in numerous ways. His main trouble appears to be over the Souther Pacific
Railroad Company, which he declares has done its best for years to ruin him.
COWARD allegations while on the
witness stand were sensational indeed. He denounced Judge HART, of Sacramento,
who committed him to the asylum sometime ago.
COWARD answered the questions of
Attorney STETSON, of the State Lunacy Commission for fully an hour and for a
time had the attorney guessing as to what he was going to say next. He has been
a well-read man and seems capable of thinking for himself. He acknowledged that
he took an important part in the funding bill and said he was one of the
Committee of three that got the better of HUNTINGTON.
Constable DAVIS, of Modesto, was
present during the proceedings, armed with a warrant charging COWARD with
assault with intent to commit murder.
COWARD nearly killed the Constable at Modesto last December, when the
latter tried to arrest him. He struck him over the head five times with an
icepick. The officer states that if the
man is not crazy he is a criminal. Judge
NUTTER reserved his decision for a later date and in the meantime COWARD will
go back to the asylum.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
11 - The town is resuming its normal condition, after being upset by the bloody
deed of John ALLEN last Sunday evening. Yesterday Mrs. ALLEN had recovered
sufficiently to permit her removal to the home of her father. The latter has a
fair chance to survive, and is being waited on by a trained nurse. The surgeons’ only fear that pus may form in the terrible wound in
the lung.
ALLEN, the knife-wielder, is
coming to himself again. He is still sorry he was not permitted to end his life
Monday, and declares that he would try it again if he had the chance. Yesterday
he was dejected, sick and sore in his bare cell in the County Jail, where he is
closely watched to prevent another attempt at suicide.
The course which the officers
will pursue depends on the outcome of the JENKIN’s injury. Probably no steps
will be taken until he has recovered sufficiently to prosecute.
Railway Laborer Dashes Out of
House With It and Is Blown In Air and Injured By Explosion SISSON (Siskiyou
Co.), April 11 - A. ROSELLE, an employe of the Southern Pacific Company here,
was severely injured this morning as the result of an explosion of giant
powder.
When the section gang went to
work this morning they found the door of the tool house open,
and on investigating found that a box of giant powder, resting on a shelf, was
on fire. The foreman called to the men to flee, but ROSELLE, instead of
running, picked up the box of blazing giant powder and started to carry it out
into the air.
He had hardly gone five feet
from the door when there was an explosion.
ROSELLE was thrown about eight feet by the force of the explosion and
when picked up was found to be suffering from the shock, as well as having had
his face and neck filled with sand.
All of the windows in that
section of the town were broken and the tool house was completely demolished.
GRIDLEY (Butte Co.), April 11 -
The 10-year-old son of Edward MORSE, of Biggs, was taken to a Sacramento hospital
to-day to see if it is possible to save the sight of one or both his eyes.
Yesterday the boy was
experimenting with melted babbit metal, pouring it into empty cartridge shells.
It happened that there was water in several of them and as the molten stuff
touched it an explosion followed. The
melted metal was driven into his face and as a result it is feared the boy will
lose the sight of one eye, if not both.
Peculiar Suit Holds Attention of
Gridleyites, Liveryman and Two Customers Figuring In It GRIDLEY (Butte Co.),
April 11 - Interest in frenzied finance, the rate bill and Mt. Vesuvias will be
secondary matters in Gridley for a few days or at least until Justice J.M.
COFFMAN unbosoms himself and renders a verdict in the case of MYERS &
McDONALD vs. Samuel
and Asahei GRIDLEY. The case came
on for trial in the Court of Justice L.T. ALLEN yesterday and the performance
drew like an Uncle Tom show. Briefly the claims of the contestants were as
follows: MYERS and McDONALD, who are liverymen, alleged that they hired a rig
to the GRIDLEYs and that because of carelessness on the part of the drivers the
team ran away, damaged the buggy, the horses and the reputation of the team as
safe family drivers, and they asked that they be paid the sum of $43.65 to
square the case. The GRIDLEYs filed a counter claim for $299 for personal
injuries, as in the runaway both men were considerably disabled, one sustaining
a fracture of a clavicle and the dislocation of a shoulder and the other suffering
a broken leg. A jury was asked for by
the defendants, and when the jurors were chosen they demanded their fees.
Defendants declined to pay and the jury struck.
Justice ALLEN discharged the tribunal and called in Justice COFFMAN from
Biggs to try the case. COFFMAN came down and heard the evidence, and took the
case under advisement. The plaintiff was represented by W.E. DUNCAN, Jr., of
Oroville, and the defendants by R.C. LONG, of Gridley.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 11
- The Board of Town Trustees Monday night by unanimous vote passed a resolution
granting the Redding and Red Bluff Railway Company the right to construct and
operate a single track railroad, to be run by electricity only, the entire
length of Jackson Street. It is proposed
that poles shall be erected in the middle of the street, with the wire
suspended from iron brackets or arms. The poles are to be of dressed lumber and
painted. If the Trustees prefer to have the poles placed on the curb line and
the wires stretched across the street, this will be done. Suitable restrictions
are made in regard to where the trains shall stop, and it is expressly
forbidden that any making up or switching of trains shall be done on the
streets.
No provision is made as to the
speed of trains, and nothing is said about running freight trains at night. The
ordinance will take effect as soon as published.
Ex-Convict Who Shot Redding
Constable Jailed On Reaching Town and Later Is
Railroaded Out REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 11 - J.W. WOODEN was given a warm
reception when he arrived in Redding yesterday morning. He was locked up in the
city jail within five minutes after he stepped off the train and was kept there
until shortly before the departure of the northbound train in the evening. He
was made to get aboard and be gone. He was warned, too, never to come
back. The strange procedure was because
WOODEN shot Constable SEBRUIG in the leg in this city twelve years ago,
inflicting a wound that has made it necessary for SEBRUIG to wear a cork leg.
WOODEN was concerned in a hold-up of two pedestrians on the outskirts of
Redding. Constable SEBRIUG went to arrest him. It was then that the officer was
shot.
WOODEN was tried and sentenced
to San Quentin for five years. He served his time and also put in a term in the
Washington penitentiary for robbery. He
had not been in Redding since the shooting of SEBRUIG until yesterday. The officers got word that he was coming, and
they decided to take no chances. WOODEN has paid the penalty, so far as the law
is concerned, for shooting Constable SEBRUIG, but, notwithstanding, he will not
be permitted to walk the streets of Redding again.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 11 -
The final payment of $5000 on the $20,000 purchase price of the Reid Mine in
Old Diggings was made yesterday in this city by James SALLEE, who has been
operating the mine for over a year under a bond and a lease. The Reid now
employs seventy men and is a steady shipper of ore to the Mammoth smelter at
Kennett. It is wholly a gold mine and is the most important property in the Old
Diggings district.
KENNETT (Shasta Co.), April 11 -
John POTTS, a miner who has been working for weeks in the Mammoth, was taken to
Redding yesterday to be tried for his sanity. He was adjudged insane and
committed to Napa. POTTS insisted that he had been working in the Black Oak
Mine in Tuolumne County and could not be convinced that he had been working
until yesterday in the Mammoth Mine near Kennett. He had $80 in his pockets
that he had earned in the Mammoth while he was doubtless crazy.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 11
- G.E. WOOTTEN, the former saloon man of this county who some months ago was
refused a continuance of his liquor license because of alleged disorderly
conduct in his place of business, and who was a short time later arrested by
the saloon firm of BURRIS & EPPERSON, of this place, on a charge of
obtaining money under false pretenses, has returned to Red Bluff to fight the
accusation. He was here on election day and did some
quiet work to defeat his accusers, who took an active part in the election, and
he expressed himself as anxious that his trial take place. WOOTTEN, it will be remembered, was kept in
the County Jail on the charge over forty days before his trial was set, and
although not found guilty has already served over ninety days in jail. He is
not out on bail.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, April 12, 1906
Page 6
Divorce Proceedings Punctured By
Furniture-Breaking Episodes And Court Restraining Orders OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April
12 - Developments in the ELLIOTT divorce case have been the cause of much
comment during the past week or two. As
The Bee published at the time, Minnie A. ELLIOTT brought suit for divorce
against J. Frank ELLIOTT, and a few days afterward secured a restraining order
to prevent him interfering with or breaking up any of the household goods,
alleging that he had attempted to ruin a piano. ELLIOTT was rebuked very
severely by the Court although he claimed he had not committed the alleged act,
and did not desire to interfere with the plaintiff in any manner.
A few days later, ELLIOTT turned
the tables and secured a restraining order from the Court to prevent his wife
from removing any of the household property or drawing any money out of a
certain bank account. Yesterday Mrs.
ELLIOTT came into Court again and alleged that ELLIOTT had again interfered
with and sought to damage some of the property. She asked that another
restraining order be issued against him. ELLIOTT was summoned to Court and
again denied the allegation of his wife that he had sought to cause her
trouble, and averred that she merely sought to persecute him. ELLIOTT was again admonished, and both
parties were warned to keep away from each other, and have no communication
whatever until Saturday, at which time ELLIOTT is to answer to the charge of
malicious mischief in attempting to destroy the piano.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 12 -
A saloon has been conducted at Cherokee for some time by one J.A. SHAFFER in
what is known as lower town. There was no objection to the location of the
saloon in that quarter, but a short time ago SHAFFER bought a residence next
door to the Post Office and moved his stock of liquors into it, and established
a saloon there. A protest went up
against this move, but nothing could be done at that time. A few days ago,
however, he applied for a renewal of his license, and a remonstrance was at
once sent to the License Tax Collector. Yesterday was the day set for the
hearing, and a goodly number of Cherokee citizens presented themselves at the
Tax Collector’s office to make good their protest.
After a careful examination Tax
Collector BALDWIN denied the petition on the ground that the petition did not
contain the names of ten of the nearest freeholders, and Cherokee is now a dry
town.
LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), April 12
- A double funeral was held at Beckwith yesterday afternoon in Peck’s Hall.
Last Sunday night on the DEDMON ranch, Allen DEDMON, aged 74, who had lived in
this valley for a great many years, passed away of chronic heart trouble. He
was a member of the Hope Lodge, Beckwith, F.and A.M., and is the fourth one to
die from this Lodge inside of a month. He lived with two brothers on the ranch,
and none of the three ever married.
Monday afternoon Carrie Belle
EDE, wife of Stephen R. EDE, died in an hospital here
in Loyalton. They resided in Beckwith, where Mr. EDE is in business. Mrs. EDE
was a niece of Mr. DEDMON, and was married to Mr. EDE a little over a year ago.
Four months ago she lost a child at birth, and had been an intense sufferer
ever since. She was prominent in this valley as a school teacher, having taught
here about five years before her marriage. She was a member of the Lodge of Eastern
Star, Beckwith, and was 24 years and one week of age. The double funeral was
held under Masonic auspices, Rev. E.J. BRADNER of Loyalton making the address.
Stalker Appeared To Regard Junk
Dealer Lewis Almost As A Ghost, And His Nerve Rapidly Left Him OROVILLE (Butte
Co.), April 12 - Charles STALKER, the party accused of stealing a large amount
of copper wire from the power house of the Oro Light and Power Company several
weeks ago, was given a preliminary examination and held over on a charge of
grand larceny yesterday with bail fixed at $2500. STALKER came before the committing Magistrate
with bold air of assurance, but his mood soon changed, and there was a
different aspect to the case. It appears
from the evidence announced at the examination that STALKER thought the only
witness whose testimony could convict him was dead. LEWIS, a San Francisco junk
dealer, had purchased the wire and some time afterward, while gathering up junk
in the country, was reported drowned. LEWIS’ team was drowned, but he was not,
although the story was never contradicted.
STALKER believed him dead, and when LEWIS’ name was called at the
preliminary, and the man went upon the stand, STALKER was literally paralyzed.
He looked as if he had seen a ghost.
LEWIS positively identified
STALKER as the man who sold him the wire, and there was nothing to be done
after that but bind him over. It is
believed STALKER will now plead guilty.
Jack Allen Who Stabbed Wife and
Father-In-Law Seems Unbalanced But May Be Doing Clever Acting GRASS VALLEY
(Nevada Co.), April 12 - Is John ALLEN shamming, or is his mind actually
affected?
These are the questions which
the officials at the County Jail are asking.
ALLEN, who so fearfully stabbed and hacked his wife and father-in-law in
this city last Sunday, is either a clever actor, governed by the most fiendish
impulses, or else he is mentally deranged.
He sits in his cell, under close
watch, to prevent another attempt at suicide, and stares moodily at the floor.
He claims that enemies are after him, and occasionally he starts from his cot
and glares at unseen plotters, who he alleges are in his cell.
His victims are doing well, but
it is evident that his wife will never prosecute him. JENKIN, however, is in a
different frame of mind, and if the remaining members of his family have their
way, he will swear to a complaint against ALLEN as soon as it is determined he
is out of danger.
LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), April 12
- Election day (Monday) resulted in a great surprise
here. There were two tickets in the field. The Citizens,
which represented the old regime, and the Public Improvement Party ticket,
which came out for good roads, public improvements, etc. The latter carried the day, electing every
one of its candidates. There were 241 votes cast, distributed as follows:
Trustees - W.D. THORNE, 234 (on
both tickets); David CATO, 121; George WEST, 104.
Clerk - W.N. LEWIS, 126; T.F. BATTELLE, 110.
Treasurer - W.S. COLLINS, 237 (on both tickets.)
Marshal - R.H. PARKER, 132; B.L. JONES, 105.
SUISUN (Solano Co.), April 12 -
Daniel DEASY, who works at the stone quarry at Cordelia in this county, was
found dead in a creek near that city yesterday. Marks were found of a struggle
near the creek. The man had been paid off last night.
Mrs. Frank E. Mead, Joseph C.
Brown, and Stephen Lang Answer Final Summons At Yolo Homes.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 12 -
Mrs. Clara Etta MEAD, wife of Frank MEAD, died at the home of her parents, Mrs.
and Mrs. D.R. CLANTON,
in this city, last night.
She was a native of this city,
25 years of age, and was married in 1902 to Frank E. MEAD, who at that time
worked for A.S. HOPKINS Company, of Sacramento. Two years ago their health
failed, and both went to Albuquerque, N.M., but were not benefitted by the
change.
Mr. MEAD is now critically ill.
Mrs. MEAD leaves her husband,
her parents, an infant daughter, a brother, Clarence CLANTON, and three sisters
- Mrs. A.W. FOX and Mrs. W.T. CRITESER, of this city, and Mrs. J.H. BEERS, of
Sacramento.
Joseph C. BROWN, a Civil War
veteran, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer OSBORNE, near this city yesterday. He was a native of
Pennsylvania, 73 years of age, and came to California while a young man. The
whereabouts of his son and relatives are not known.
Stephen LANG died at the
residence of his sister, Mrs. Nancy LAUNER, at Capay yesterday. He was a native
of New York, 74 years of age, and a veteran of the Civil War.
12-Year-Old Boy Leaves His Home
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 12 -
Eddie, the 12-year-old son of Mrs. Mary
PIERCE, of this city, has disappeared from home, and it has been ascertained by
the officers that he took the afternoon train yesterday for Fresno. The
officers at Davisville and Sacramento have been instructed to look out for him.
The boy left home Tuesday and
spent the day with a colored boy by the name of Norman MACHEM, on a trip to
Yolo. MACHEM says PIERCE lost a quarter his mother gave him to make a purchase
and was afraid to return home. MACHEM
also says that he and the boy returned and that the latter slept in a barn on
the MACHEM premises Tuesday night.
As the colored boy had on
PIERCE’s shirt and also had a pocketknife belonging to PIERCE he was locked up,
but later released. Young PIERCE flagged
the train at Merritt Station and paid his fare with a half-dollar given him by
a workman, presumably going as far as that small sum would take him. He
probably will be located to-day and sent home.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 12
- The first case of lockjaw to attract the physicians of this city for a number
of year resulted fatally last evening at the home of Alonzo MITCHELL and wife,
when their eight-year-old son, Albert, passed away of the dread complaint.
About a week ago the boy dell
upon a rusty nail, which entered his hand. Apparently the wound healed, but on Sunday
last the symptoms of lockjaw made their appearance in the form of severe pains
in the back and a rigidity of the muscles in that portion of the body. The jaws
were set during the final illness, but not so rigidly
as is generally the case.
He died in intense pain, the
muscles of the body toward the end contracting so that the patient could not
breathe, producing suffocation.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 12
- Word has been received here that J.M.
CREMIN, who for nine years past has been manager of the circulation
department of the San Francisco Call, has resigned his position, to take effect
May 1st. This news is of interest to Marysville readers of The Bee,
as CREMIN formerly resided here, and is well known. It is said that Edward M. FARRELL and W.P.
O’BRIEN, also former Marysvillians, will shortly sever their connection with
the Call.
Alleged Watch Thief Of Dunsmuir
Given Hearing At Yreka and Strong Case Is Made Out Against Him DUNSMUIR
(Siskiyou Co.), April 12 - The man arrested in Redding last week for the
alleged theft of six gold watches in as many homes in Dunsmuir last Thursday
night was bound over yesterday afternoon in Yreka to answer to the Superior
Court on the charge of robbery.
When he was arrested he gave his
name as Charles GOULD, but he testified yesterday in Judge THOMAS’ Court at
Yreka, where the preliminary examination was held, that his real name is Seth
GOULD. He was held under $1000 bonds, which he could not raise. He was remanded
to the County Jail and will not be tried before May, as other criminal cases
have precedence. A.
LEVY, merchant of this place, identified positively in Yreka yesterday one of
the watches found on GOULD as the timepiece stolen from his residence a week
ago. The case against GOULD is considered very strong. It was shown at the preliminary examination
that he had sent and received telegrams in Dunsmuir under the name of Tommy
DIXON.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 12 -
Barney PACK, a resident of Chico, who is under $5000 bonds on a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon, in threatening the life of his wife and his brother-in-law
by flourishing a knife in a threatening manner, as already told in The Bee,
pleaded guilty to the charge yesterday afternoon and 10:30 o’clock to-day was
set as time for sentence. But later he was brought into Court, waived time for
sentence, and received two years in the State Prison at Folsom.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, April 13, 1906
Page 6
One of Jack Allen’s Victims
Takes Bad Turn For The Worse And Lies In A Critical Condition GRASS VALLEY
(Nevada Co.), April 13 - John ALLEN may have the murder of aged Alfred JENKIN
to answer for after all. JENKIN has taken a turn for the worst, and is very
weak.
It was thought he had a fair
chance to pull though, but now grace fears are entertained for his recovery.
The awful wound in his lung refuses to heal, and every breath is labored. His
condition is now critical. ALLEN is
apparently going mad. Yesterday he was wilder than ever and his condition is
such that he has been removed to the insane cell in the County Jail. He paces
the floor, howling and raving, cursing and supplicating. His great fear is that
somebody is after him to take his life.
He has slept but a few hours since Sunday and all the nourishment he has
taken is a little beef tea. His case is a puzzle.
It is just possible that ALLEN
is suffering from a bad case of delirium tremens.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 13 -
Some time ago William HILEMON after several months of litigation secured
judgement against the Palermo Land and Water Company, the Company having
refused to furnish him with water for irrigation purposes.
The Court ordered that he should
be furnished with water whenever he deemed it necessary during the irrigating
season, and damages were placed at $25.
Now the company has given notice
to KILEMON’s attorney that it intends to move the Court to set aside the
decision and to grant a new trial upon the usual statutory grounds -
insufficiency of evidence and errors of law.
Ear Biter Is Given One Year in
Prison
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 13 -
Jesse HORTON, who bit a piece out of the ear of one Daniel LYONS, and who was
charged with mayhem, plead guilty to the charge and yesterday was sentenced to
serve one year in the State Prison at Folsom District Attorney BOSTON asked the
Court to be lenient with HORTON as he had saved the county the expense of a
trial by pleading guilty. He desired to have it understood that he proposed to
ask for leniency in all cases where the county was saved such expense.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 13 -
It has been decided that Oroville is to have a baseball team this season, and
no pains will be spared to make it one of the best in Superior California.
Major A.F. JONES, O.C. PERRY, C.H.
MATTHEWS and W.J. SHARKEY will manage the club. The ball grounds have
been put in splendid shape, and the first game will take place on April __ when a Sacramento team will be brought
here. It is talked of forming a league of clubs in near-by towns.
GRIDLEY (Butte Co.), April 13 -
After an illness extending over a period of eight months, Cuno CLARENBACH died
here yesterday, aged 72 years. He came
to this county fifty years ago, and during the past three years made his home
in this city.
Mr. CLARENBACH was born in
Prussia in 1833, and the next year was brought to the United States by his parents.
In 1854 he started for California and engaged in mining at what is now called
Placerville, then Hangtown. In 1856 he came to Butte County. In 1858 he married
Mrs. Margaret BOLLER, of Dogtown, and until 1864 resided in Sacramento. Later
he went to Newcastle, and then back to Butte.
His wife died in 1902. He leaves
six children and ten grandchildren. The children are - Mrs. Rosa JOHNSON and
Edward, Cuno B. and Frank CLARENBACH, of this place; Mrs. J.M. COFFMAN of
Biggs, and William CLARENBACH of Durham.
Mr. CLARENBACH was an exempt fireman of Engine Company No. 3, of
Sacramento.
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 13 -
Henry SENG, a butcher who recently started a shop in this city, left for parts
unknown early yesterday morning, and his wife turned the keys of the shop over
to the largest creditor, a meat packing establishment of Chico, later in the
day. The condition of the finances of SENG’s shop has not yet been determined
by the experts.
San Francisco Man Awarded
Downieville Mail Privilege, But Is Up Against Transportation Problem.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), April
13 - The contract for carrying mail between this city and Downieville has been
let by the Postal authorities to J.S. WIGGINS for $3973.
The Downieville Stage Company,
which has been carrying the mails, put in a bid $500 higher, declaring that the
work incident to the job was worth that much more.
The most interesting feature
however lies in the fact that WIGGINS is a resident of San Francisco, and to
carry out the terms of the contract will be compelled to go to heavy expense to
procure horses and conveyances. The
distance is sixty miles and six trips a week are called for.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
13 - Mrs. V.I. BLACK passed away yesterday afternoon at the family home near Rough and Ready, west of this city. She was stricken with
paralysis the day before while at work in her kitchen, and being alone at the
time, fell to the floor in trying to reach her bed. There she lay helpless until
5 o’clock, when her son, John, came in from the other end of the ranch. She had
lived at Rough and Ready since 1860. The funeral will
be held Sunday.
MILLVILLE (Shasta Co.), April 13
- The Shasta County Livestock Association, which includes in its membership
nearly all the large stock growers of the county, at a meeting held here
elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, L.C. SMITH;
Treasurer, J.R. HUNT; Secretary C.W. HEREFORD; Executive Committee - Dan GOVER and John SCHULER, Balls
Ferry; T.F. DEMPSTER and Vint STEVENSON, Anderson; John LUTZ and George
THOMPSON, Redding; H.H. OUTTER,
Palo Cedro; Charley OVERMYER, Montgomery Creek; Peter HUFFORD, Whitmore; C.C.
BIDWELL, Cassel; Willis STONE, Manton; J.A. DUNHAM, Fred DERSCH, A.A. SHEARIN
and C.R. HERYFORD, Millville.
WAUGH (Shasta Co.), April 13 -
The only hotel at this place, which is best-known by its railroad name of
Middle Creek, has been sold by Mr. and Mrs. Andy CUSICK to their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dom O’GARA of Red Bluff.
The Middle Creek Hotel has been
a famous stopping place ever since the early ë50s and retained its importance
until the railroad banished the stages.
Mrs. CUSICK is very ill. That
fact alone was the cause of the selling of the old home. Mr. O’GARA is
assistant railroad agent at Red Bluff. Mr. and Mrs. CUSICK will spend their
last days in the old home, notwithstanding they have deeded it away.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 13 -
The Student Body of the Shasta County High School has received a lot of daisy
plants, from Luther Burbank and they have been planted and will receive tender
care. The gift is peculiarly appropriate, because the students recently changed
the name of their school paper from “Purple and White” to “The Shasta Daisy.”
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
April 13 - Colvin H. BROWN, who recently resigned as Secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce, and whose resignation will go into effect the first of next month,
will probably be succeeded by Councilman A.C. OULLAHAN.
A majority of the Directors have
spoken to Mr. OULLAHAN about the matter and have offered him the position. The
Councilman has not given a definite answer, but it is believed he will accept
the offer. The position carries a salary of $200 a month. Mr. BROWN first
received $150 a month and expenses, but when he was offered a better position a
few months ago it was raised $50.
Mr. OULLAHAN has taken an active
part in the business of the City Council and is Vice-President. He is a member
of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and was partly
instrumental in having the Council appropriate $35,000 for a right-of-way for
the proposed diverting canal.
HAYFORK (Trinity Co.), April 13
- The Carter Hotel was destroyed yesterday morning by fire. The two-story building is a total loss, but
most of the contents were saved.
The flames were discovered in
the roof while the guests were seated at the breakfast table and evidently had
been started by sparks from a defective chimney. The fire had gained too much
headway to be subdued by the ordinary bucket brigade. All that could be done
was to save the furniture. The fire burned slowly downward, giving plenty of
time to save the contents. The loss on
the building is $2500 or $3000; insurance, $700. The Carter Hotel, so-called from its builder
and owner, was one of the best-known hostelries in Trinity County and the only
hotel in hayfork. It was under lease to Thomas MONTGOMERY, County Surveyor.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), April
13 - The two-story office building of the Union Hill Mining Company, standing
on the Last Chance Mine, near Douglas City, was burned yesterday morning.
Fire was discovered in the roof
while the occupants were seated at the breakfast table. The flames burned
downward slowly, giving the employes of the company plenty of time to save the
contents, though they could not put out the fire and save the building. They
saved not only all the furniture, but they ripped out most of the doors and
windows. The loss is over $1000, with no insurance.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), April
13 - Justice of the Peace BARBER, at the preliminary examination of Clyde
BENNINGTON, held the defendant to answer to the Superior Court on the charge of
resisting an officer. Bail was fixed in the sum of $2000. This BENNINGTON could
not give, and he is held in jail awaiting trial.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
April 14, 1906
Page 6
BECKWITH (Plumas Co.), April 14
- Allen DEDMON, aged 74, a Sierra Valley pioneer, has passed away after a
prolonged illness. He came to this valley from Missouri in 1857, and has been
here almost constantly since. He came from Missouri.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), April 14
- The local police officers thought they had a good charge of arson against a
South Sea Island negro yesterday, but an arrest was
not made, although the complaining witness was positive that the colored man
attempted to burn his restaurant.
From the reported facts, it
appears that the negro dined at the eating house and
he claimed the cashier charged him 75 cents for the meal. The regular price is
25 cents. The negro left the restaurant greatly
incensed at the proprietor, and made threats of vengeance.
A fire was discovered soon after
in the rear of the eating place, and but for the excited yells of a number of
Chinamen occupying an adjoining lodging house, the place would have been
totally destroyed. The Fire Department was called and quickly extinguished the
flames.
The entire back portion of the
restaurant was found to be soaked in kerosene, and to avoid the plans
miscarrying, the fire fiend placed a great quantity of coal-oil soaked kindling
wood about the place. Close by was found the five-gallon can used
for holding the oil. Had the flames spread they would have exploded the large
can of kerosene, and a most disastrous conflagration would have resulted.
ROCKLIN (Placer Co.), April 14 -
A fire broke out about 1:30 yesterday morning in the frame building owned by
L.L. CROCKER and occupied by R.S. SMITH,
a butcher, and L. WINTON, a harnessmaker. The flames shot high in the air, and
for a time the entire business part of town was threatened. It was only by
heroic work on the part of the firemen that adjoining property was saved. The
building and contents were totally destroyed. The loss will reach several
thousand dollars. The only insurance was that on the stock carried by WINTON.
It amounted to about $200. The fire is believed to have started from the
electric wires.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 14 -
Mrs. Susan MONTGOMERY died at her ranch near
Davisville early Friday morning. On April 1st
she suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, from which she never full recovered.
Deceased was a native of
Virginia, 78 years of age. Her maiden
name was Susan MARTIN, and she removed
early in life with her parents to Marion
County, Missouri, where she was
married to the late Alexander MONTGOMERY. They
came to California and
settled in Yolo County in 1854. MONTGOMERY
passed away in 1885. Fifteen
children were born to this union, of whom five
sons and six daughters
survive. They are W.S., L.J.S., J.C., and J.P.
MONTGOMERY of this county,
and
Andrew MONTGOMERY, of Sacramento; Mrs. Josephine JOHNSON and Mrs. Alice
RALLS, of Woodland; Mrs. Marilla
KING, Mrs. Minnie J. SNYDER and Mrs. Oriena GLOCKER, of Davisville, and Mrs.
Sarah E. JOHNSON, of Lincoln. Thirty grandchildren and twenty
great-grandchildren also survive her.
The funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The interment will
be made at Davisville.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 14
- The fruit canneries in Marysville and Yuba City are preparing for a busy
season. The indications are that the peach crop, which is the one most depended
upon in this section to insure a long run, will be even better than last year,
and at increased prices to the grower. There will be good crops of cherries,
pears and plums, but apricots will fall somewhat short of last year’s crop.
The local cannery has added a
new cooker in anticipation of the increased business.
The two Association canneries
will handle dried fruits this season in addition to the regular business.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 14
- To succeed John U. HOFSTETTER as assistant to Cashier ECKART, of the Northern
California Bank of Savings. F.C. FARRANTS, a
recent arrival from England, who served for a time as shipping clerk at the
Marysville Woolen Mills, has been chosen. He will perform the clerical work,
principally, while Cashier ECKART is to give more attention to the business
management of the concern. HOFSTETTER was President and manager of the
institution and a stockholder when he resigned this week, as already stated in
The Bee. N.D. RIDEOUT, the well-known banker, has purchased this stock.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 14
- To benefit by the experience Marysville has had in installing a sewer system
under adverse circumstances, City Engineer J.L. EVANS, of Bakersfield, is a
visitor here. He says that the people of Bakersfield have decided to expend
$120,000 improving and extending their present sewer system, and as they have
water and quicksand to contend with after digging a certain depth, they want their
engineer to know how similar conditions have been conquered elsewhere. He has
inspected the sewer systems at Stockton and Sacramento, and he believes his
trip to this city has been equally instructive.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 14 -
A monkey-faced owl, the rarest specimen of a bird ever seen in these parts,
flew through a glass window of the school house Friday morning and was captured
alive by the janitor, who presented it to the landlord of the Temple Hotel,
where it is now on exhibition before many wondering gazers.
The owl is of a beautiful gray
color, but its face is the characteristic feature. In place of the usual round
face of the owl, this bird has the features of a monkey. The wings, too, are of
unusual length.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 14
- The marriage license bureau in Yuba County has experienced a dull week, not
one application being made by candidates for Hyman’s shrine.
Louie MANAUGH, of the Live Oak
district, has informed his friends here of his marriage to Miss Amanda BROWN,
of San Francisco, the ceremony being performed in the latter city this week.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 14 -
Not a single marriage license was issued in Shasta County last week, but one
final decree of divorce was granted and two divorce suits were begun. Alice L.
McCARTY received a final decree of separation from John L. McCARTY. Elizabeth
REICHARD applied for a divorce from Joseph L. REICHARD. Etna NICHOLS, of
Copley, also wants to be freed from George NICHOLS.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 14 -
Only one marriage license was issued the past week. Troy HARRISON BARR, age 20,
and Annie Bell LORANGER, age 19, both of Esparto.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), County
Clerk BATCHELDER made five couples happy during the past week, by issuing
marriage licenses as follows: Marion GARDNER, of Darneville, aged 19, and
Minnie Mabel RUFF, of Rackerby; Olive HUNTER, aged 21, of Big Bend, and Ivie
CHRIYLE, aged 18, of Clear Creek; Carey CHAPMAN, aged 60m and Emilia TURNER,
aged 49, both of Chico; Frank MADEROS, aged 25, and Barbara AZEVEDO, aged 20,
both of Cherokee; Manuel CORDY, aged 49, and Isabel AZEVEDO, aged 22, both of
Cherokee.
Annie McGEE was granted a final
decree of divorce from Jos. McGEE. Mary C.
DAWSON was granted an interlocutory decree from John DAWSON. Eva LUTZ
was granted an interlocutory decree from Harrison LUTZ. An amended
interlocutory decree was filed in the case of Ora B. SHIELDS vs. S.E. SHIELDS.
Mary A. DOYELL was granted a final
decree from W.W. DOYELL.
SUISUN (Solano Co.), April 14 -
County Clerk HALLIDAY has issued during the past week licenses for the marriage
of the following persons:
Harvey L. TRISSEL, 34, and May H.
KEITHLY, 31, both of Napa; Arthur WATERFALL, 30, and Mary KOCH, 19, both of
Vallejo; Carl B. BROWN, 26, and Blanche BOOCK, 18, both of Rio Vista.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
14 - Aged Alfred JENKIN, one of the victims of his son-in-law, Jack ALLEN,
still battles bravely with death, and has improved somewhat over yesterday,
when it was feared he could not survive many hours. His condition is still
critical, but the slight improvement is hailed as victory. ALLEN has calmed
down and is no longer tramping his narrow cell, shouting and cursing. The
delirium seems to have passed and it is now thought he will soon regain his
normal condition. He slept better yesterday and took nourishment with a relish.
Appellate Court Denies Motion For New Trial To Miner Convicted of Manslaughter REDDING
(Shasta Co.), April 14 - Word was received here this morning from Sacramento
that the District Court of Appeal has denied the application of George W.
GALLANAR for a new trial. GALLANAR was convicted of manslaughter for killing
Adolph GORMAN in Keswick in 1903, and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
The news that the new trial had
been denied gave general satisfaction in Redding, and
the matter was a common topic of conversation on the streets to-day. GALLANAR
was a Union miner, and he killed GORMAN during the big
strike at Keswick. He was tried twice before convicted. At the first trial the
jury stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal. Since GALLANAR has been
in the County Jail, he has been writing to Unions all over the county asking
for help on the ground that he was being persecuted. It is believed he
collected several thousand dollars.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), April
14 - After carrying a 44-caliber bullet in his thigh for several weeks, Rere
MARDEVICH had it extracted yesterday at the County Hospital by Dr. TICKELL.
This marks the final chapter of a fight among a gang of Austrians at Floriston
the latter part of March, when John DUBROVAS was arrested on the charge of
stabbing a fellow countryman. He was discharged at his preliminary examination
for lack of evidence. In addition to the knife DUBROVAS was accused of wielding
a 44-caliber revolver, but MARDEVICH refused to make a complaint, though it was
evident he had been shot in the battle. He was brought to the hospital
yesterday in a serious condition, his wound having received little attention
since he was shot. Dr. TICKELL operated
at once to save the limb. He found the bullet, badly mushroomed, imbedded in
the thigh bone.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
14 - Senseless, his head under water, and suffocating, James KENNEDY was
rescued yesterday afternoon in the nick of time by his companions, Bennett
PENHALL and Charles SMITH. They were tearing down an old sand plant below the
North Star Mine. A section of roof came down striking KENNEDY on the head,
knocking him senseless. He fell so that his head was immersed in a four-foot
ditch. PENHALL and SMITH rushed to his assistance and saved his life. He was
removed after a time and was given medical attention. He is badly injured, but
the attending physician, Dr. ROBINSON, believes he will recover, though paralysis is
feared.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, April 16, 1906
Page 6
Other Buildings At Brokaw Mine
Destroyed By Fire and Residents Are Much Incensed Over Outrages YREKA (Siskiyou
Co.), April 16 - Several months ago The Bee published a dispatch from this
place telling about the burning of the A.C. BROKAW residence and other
buildings at his mine in Quartz Valley. The fire was supposed to be the work of
an incendiary.
Late Saturday evening, from a
man just in from Quartz Valley, The Bee representative was informed that at
midnight on Friday last the same enemy who has been pursuing Mr. BROKAW
completed his work of revenge - if it may be called that - by burning down the
remainder of the buildings at the mine as well as a large building belonging to
R.A. BYRAM, formerly
publisher of the Fort Jones Miner and Farmer. Mr. BYRAM lost everything
in the building, and in fact, had a narrow escape from the burning
structure. The suspected incendiary is
being closely watched, and if enough evidence can be secured in the next few
days to warrant his arrest he will be taken into custody.
The citizens of Quartz Valley
are much worked up over Mr. BROKAW’s recent loss, and it is hinted on good
authority that when the guilty party or parties are discovered, that “Judge
Lynch” will immediately try the case and save the county the expense of a
trial.
The only building that Mr.
BROKAW now has standing is his mill, and it is understood that a watch will be
kept over this property both day and night.
New buildings will shortly be erected on the site of the ones recently
burned.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 16 -
Frank LAMB, who was sent up from Shasta County to San Quentin to serve seven
years on conviction of cattle-stealing, is seeking release on parole. He has
served over two years of his time.
District Attorney DOZIER says that he will oppose the parole of LAMB.
Taken Into Court This Morning To
Answer To Charge Of Murdering A.N. McVICAR Last Month STOCKTON (San Joaquin
Co.), April 16 - Mrs. Emma LE DOUX, charged with the murder of A.N. McVICAR,
was brought into Court this morning to plead, she having been arraigned several
days ago. After the announcement that C.H.
FAIRALL had been associated as counsel for the defense, Mrs. Le Doux was
ordered to stand up. She did so and pleaded not guilty in a clear voice
hesitating only for an instant.
The ceremony occupied only about
one minute, but the Court-room was crowded long before the hour arrived for
bringing the accused before the Judge.
The crime of which Mrs. LE DOUX
stands charged is the murder by poison of Albert N. VICKAR in a lodging house
in this city on the 24th of March, following which the body was
forced into a new trunk, which the woman had taken to the station, but
neglected to check. The odor of the body was noticed by a baggageman during the
evening and the trunk was forced open by the officers. The trunk was traced to
the woman, who was arrested in Antioch two days later.
Balaklala Mining Company Puts Up
Cash And Secures Undisputed Title To Site For Big Smelter KENNETT (Shasta Co.),
April 16 - By judgements rendered Saturday in the Superior Court at Redding and
by settlements made outside of Court with adverse claimants, the Balaklala
Mining Company becomes the undisputed and indisputable owner of the locally
famous “Section 20,” a tract of land midway between Copley and Kennett on which
the Company will erect a 1000-ton smelter.
When it became known several
months ago that this section had been selected for a smelter site and the
Company located mining claims upon it, jumpers filed claims upon the same
ground. Mining notices were filed three deep on the section located by the
Balaklala, the Company itself putting on one plaster of notices and thus
jumping its own ground. These different sets of jumpers based their right to
their claims on errors made by others as to the dates upon which it was proper
to enter land on “Section 20,” which had been an Indian allotment.
Sixteen claimants adverse to the
Balaklala interests were satisfied with the settlement made Saturday and
judgements were entered accordingly and made of record. The “jumpers” received
a substantial payment in coin. The amount is not known positively, but report
has it that sum paid was $12,000. It was
only Saturday that the copper Company paid $1200 into the United States Land
Office in Redding that being the purchase price exacted by the Government.
The important fact is
established that the Balaklala Company’s title to “Section 20” is now perfectly
clear and no one can lay as much as a straw in the way of building the smelter.
The jumpers caused a delay in the work of several months, for the Company would
not make a beginning while there was a single cloud upon its title.
Crazed Jack Allen, Who Cut Up
Wife and Father-In-Law, Suspected Of Planning Wholesale Wreck.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
16 - Did Jack ALLEN intend to blow up the home of his father-in-law, Alfred
JENKIN, Sr.?
This is the question which is
giving the JENKIN family and the officers considerable worry just now. The
finding of a stick of giant powder in the JENKIN yard,
has caused a feeling of uneasiness among members of the JENKIN family, who are
wholly at a loss to account for its presence.
One theory is that Jack ALLEN, who so murderously attacked his aged
father-in-law and his wife a week ago Sunday, had this stick of high explosive
in his pocket that night, intending to use it, and while making his escape from
the place threw it into the corner of the yard where it was found last
Saturday. Another theory is that ALLEN carried home a supply of the terrible
stuff from the North Star Mine, where he was employed, with the idea in his
drink-crazed brain of putting cap and fuse to it and blowing up the family
residence, and that he hid the stuff somewhere in the cellar, until such time as
he would be ready to use it. If he did hide the explosives, a rat could easily
have carried the stick found to the place where it was picked up.
JENKIN is still holding his own, but he is in a dangerous condition. Mrs. ALLEN is able to
be up. ALLEN has recovered from his recent outbreak, whether real or feigned,
and now is very quiet, but is developing a religious tendency, as he has been
frequently in prayer. If ALLEN is
brought to trial and acquitted, his life will not be worth 2 cents, as William
JENKIN, a determined young man, declares that if his father dies ALLEN will
never leave the county alive. He is a quiet, gentlemanly young fellow, who says
but little, but his words carry a terrible significance.
ETNA (Siskiyou Co.), April 16 -
At the regular election held here last Tuesday there was a full new Board of
Trustees elected to carry on the town’s business for the coming year.
Following is the Board-elect:
A.H. DENNY, Peter BLAKE, E.W. BATHURST. Ef.
Joseph CLARK was elected
Marshal; C.L. WILLARD, Jr., Treasurer, and B.J.
WALLACE, Clerk.
Refused Permission To Wed In
Jail, Prisoner Gives Bond and Weds, Afterward Surrendering To Sheriff
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), April 16 - Clyde BENNINGTON, who is confined in the
County Jail awaiting trial in the Superior Court on the charge of resisting an
officer, as told in The Bee several days ago, was married Saturday to Mrs.
Fannie DOEBLIN.
BENNINGTON had been unable to
raise $2000 bonds and was consequently in jail. He asked permission of Sheriff
BERGIN to be married, although he was a prisoner. The Sheriff, acting under the
advice of District Attorney GIVEN, refused to grant the permit.
But Love found a way to break
through the bars. P.M. PAULSON and J.H. BOYCE, substantial business men, went
BENNINGTON’s bond for matrimonial purpose. They went his bail for $2000 and the
bond was approved by Justice of the Peace BARBER, the committing Magistrate.
BENNINGTON was then released from jail. He at once got the license and then
Rev. W.C. DAY married him and Mrs. DOEBLIN. After the ceremony was over,
BENNINGTON went to the Sheriff and surrendered himself and is once more in
jail.
BENNINGTON and Mrs. DOEBLIN were
arrested over two weeks ago near Trinity Center for violating the game laws,
BENNINGTON for killing a deer out of season, and Mrs. DOEBLIN for having
venison in her possession. Mrs. DOEBLIN was fined $20, which she paid.
BENNINGTON, who pleaded guilty, was fined $50, which he couldn’t pay. So he was
brought to this place to serve fifty days in the County Jail. After he had
served four days Mrs. DOEBLIN paid the rest of his fine and he was given his
liberty. But he was at once rearrested on the charge of resisting an officer
when he was taken up by Deputy Game and Fist Warden HOTCHKISS.
BENNINGTON is having his share
of trouble, but the happy wedding, consummated in spite of iron bars, is a rift
of sunshine in the clouds.
Close To Forty Eight Hours Elapsed
Before Death Of Dr. George G. Willis Was Discovered GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.),
April 16 - An autopsy was performed yesterday on the body of the late Dr.
George O. WILLIS, found dead in bed Saturday night by Drs. JAMISSON and
CHAPPELL. They found the liver in fearful condition and the heart affected, but
as far as their tests could go they failed to ascertain the presence of poison.
It is thought death was due to heart failure.
Dr. WILLIS was last seen alive
on Thursday evening, when he purchased some bakery stuffs. These were found in
the package in which they left the bakery, indicating that he had died soon
afterward, as the stomach was absolutely empty. The body was found lying on the
bed, fully dressed, as though death had come easily during a nap. Dr. WILLIS
lived alone in a little cottage on Church Street, hence the fact that the body
lay for nearly forty-eight hours before being found. It was discovered by T.E.
PHILLPIS, a druggist, who became alarmed over WILLIS’ absence. Strange as it may seem, the body was noticed
Saturday morning and the man who saw it believed Dr. WILLIS asleep and left the
house without investigating. John CONNOLLY entered the cottage to invite Dr.
WILLIS to take dinner with him the following day - Sunday. The room was rather dark, hence he took no particular notice. Believing that
WILLIS was enjoying a nap, he did not step close to the bed, and left with the
intention of returning later when the physician should awaken.
A cable has been sent to the
only living brother, Rev. William Armstrong WILLIS, of the Monmouthshire
diocese, England. The body will be interred here.
Dr. WILLIS came here in 1894,
building up a magnificent practice. Soon afterward he married Miss Clara B.
KING, whose death occurred three years ago. Failing health finally caused the
physician’s lucrative practice to dwindle away, until of late he had a rather
hard time of it. He came of a distinguished family in England and during his
life held several Government positions in England and Australia.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 16 -
The bluejay killing contest which has extended over a period of seven weeks,
closed at 6 o’clock Saturday evening.
The rivalry between the teams recruited from members of the Oroville Gun
Club, became intense toward the last and many wagers were made by friends of
they respective contestants. The two teams were captained by Wm. SCHNEIDER and
August JOHNSON.
Up to yesterday SCHNEIDER’s team
was ahead, but JOHNSON marshalled his forces for the final struggle, and won
out by forty birds. SCHNEIDER’s team killed 1586 birds and JOHNSON’s 1608,
making a grand total of 3176 bluejays killed in seven weeks.
The highest individual score was
by August JOHNSON, who had 490 birds to his credit. Sportsmen claim that the
killing of the bluejays has worked a world of god in the protection of quail.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, April 17, 1906
Page 6
Davisville Section Selected By
Fate Monday To Receive The Grim Reaper And To Suffer
Sorrow DAVISVILLE (Yolo Co.), April 17 - The day following Easter was seemingly
an off one for this community. First, Elmer HARRINGTON, a young man who resides
with his parents in this city, lost the end of the index finger of his left
hand while holding to the handles of a big road plow that was breaking up the
roadbed for grading.
About 4 o’clock came the news of
the death of Charles BECKER, an old resident of Northern Solano, at his home
three miles southeast from Davisville. He was about 80 years of age. He
butchered in Sacramento in the latter 50s, and was there during a big fire.
Later he removed to Berryessa Valley, and about 1864 settled on the land where
he died, having accumulated a large estate.
About 4:30 o’clock Arthur
BRUNSON, who is employed in the shops of the Schmeiser Manufacturing Company as
a machinist, while engaged repairing a belt hammer, was floored by a blow from
the pitman of the hammer, it making a revolution from some unknown cause. He
was unconscious for an hour or more, but is now doing well.
At 5 o’clock Mrs. Deborah Alida
PUGH died at her home in this city after an illness dating over a period of
several months, her affliction being catarrh of the stomach and bowel. She and
her husband, David PUGH, resided at Swingles Station many years. He died a
little more than a year ago at the Sisters’ Hospital at Sacramento.
Mrs. Susan MONTGOMERY, aged 78
years, and one of the very old settlers here, was laid to rest in the local
cemetery Sunday. She crossed the plains in 1854. She and two other women of the
same train were attacked with cholera. The other two succumbed but she
survived, only, however, to be taken down with typhoid fever. In the same house
was a male member of the train stricken with the same disease. The man died,
and she again recovered. She was the
mother of fifteen children, eleven of whom survive her. Together
with a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her
husband, Alexander MONTGOMERY, died in 1884 at Woodland. Her funeral was
largely attended.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 17 -
Judge GADDIS filed a modified decree yesterday in the case of Nettie ANDERSON
vs. Frank ANDERSON. In the original
decree, as was published in The Bee, Mrs. ANDERSON is denied a divorce, but was
awarded $50 for her support and $12.50 for each of the two children. In the
modified decree the wife is not allowed any support, but she is to receive $25
for each of the two children. The
modified decree is a result of a decision to which the Court’s attention was
called since the case was decided. It states that where a wife abandons her
husband a judgment for separate maintenance is unwarranted and will be
reversed. ANDERSON will probably appeal the case.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), April 17
- An important business deal was consummated here Saturday when the interests
of E. OPPENHEIM and the Openheim Fruit Company were purchased by H. KLEINSORGE,
of Sacramento. The deal includes the largest store in Lodi, the immense packing
sheds at Lodi and Woodbridge, and all Mr. Oppenheim’s interests at Florin. Mr. OPPENHEIMER will install a substation of the American River
Power Company at Florin and Elk Grove.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 17 -
As already told in The Bee, Rev. A.L.
MITCHELL, of Redding, has been elected rector of St. John’s Episcopal
Church in Marysville, one of the oldest parishes in the State. Rev. MITCHELL
came to Redding from Ferndale last October and has given excellent satisfaction
in this city. St. John’s, in Marysville, is a much more important charge than
that of Redding, and although the parishioners here regret to see Mr. MITCHELL leave, they rejoice that he is
promoted. He leaves to-day for Marysville.
OAK (Shasta Co.), April 17 -
Frank GEYER, of this place, attended Easter services at Redding Sunday, drove
home in the afternoon, unhitched his horse, went into the parlor of his
father’s house, sat down in a chair, gave one gasp and died. He had not
complained even of feeling unwell. Heart trouble is the assigned cause of his
sudden passing. He was a fleshy man and was aged 27 years. The funeral took
place this morning from the Catholic Church in Redding, where he attended
Easter devotions Sunday.
HONCUT (Butte Co.), April 17 -
The residence on the WOOD place, one mile east of this town, burned to the
ground last evening. The fire started in the attic of the kitchen, while supper
was being cooked. J.F. VANCE and family
resided there and discovered the fire soon after it started. They devoted their
attention to fighting the flames for some time, so that when they decided to
try to save the furniture, the fire had attained such headway that but little
time was left to save household effects. They got an organ and some bed
clothing out, but lost several hundred dollars worth of furniture.
The building was owned by Mrs.
A.E. WOOD, of Sacramento, and valued at $2500. It was completely destroyed, and
no insurance was carried unless it had been places within the past two weeks.
There was no insurance on the contents.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 17 -
George CARLSON, a native of Norway, standing over six feet in his stocking
feet, was brought down from Berry Creek by Deputy Sheriff DUBOSE and a charge
of insanity placed against him. When the
Court House was reached it took six men to land the giant in the padded cell,
so violent had he become. He was at once placed in a straitjacket.
Carlson has an idea that if he
could get rid of his head and his heart he would be all right. He was examined
before a Commission in insanity and pronounced insane and committed to the
asylum at Napa. This is the sixth laborer in the Western Pacific camps up the
river who has gone insane.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 17 -
Fannie ROBE has brought suit for divorce against H.J. ROBE. Both parties are
residents of Chico and were married in Reno, Nevada, May 22, 1900. Plaintiff
alleges that the defendant deserted her at Stirling City in June, 1905, without
provocation, and since then has neglected and refused her with the necessaries
of life.
WHEATLAND (Yuba Co.), April 17 -
The old Board of City Trustees met last evening for the last time, and put the
finishing touches on a successful year’s labor by paying off all bills and then
turning their books over to a new Board, which was organized an
d sworn in at the same meeting. A.
REICHERS was elected Chairman of the new Board, after which he made some
appropriate remarks and then entered at once on the order of business by
appointing the following officers and Committees:
A.K. DAM, S.D. HICK sand (sic)
W.N. RICH were appointed as the Street Committee.
W.H. NIEMEYER, A.K. DAM and S.D.
HICKS as Auditing Committee.
Dr. BYRON, Dr. LUND, E.B.
LANGDON and G.W. MUNSON as the Board of Health.
Attorney E.T. MANWELL was
reappointed Water Clerk. James TAGGART
was appointed to take charge of the City Water Works until new rules can be
drafted and adopted governing the plant.
Attorney E.T. MANWELL was continued as City Attorney.
J.M. HICKS was appointed Fire Marshal, and J.F. DAVIS Night Watchman.
W.N. RICH, A.K. DAM and G.D. HICKS
were appointed as Committee on Rules.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 17
- A petition to remove a saloon business from on site to another, which was
twice refused by the City Council that retired early in the present month, was
granted by the new Administration, after a tie vote of the members of the
Council. It required the affirmative vote of Mayor HALL to decide in favor of
the petitioner, Edmund WALS. The latter will now occupy the two-story frame
building recently erected by him at the northeast corner of First and Oak
Streets, in the tenderloin district.
The petition of Bruce SUTLIFFE
for the removal of his saloon business from the corner of Third and B Streets
to an addition recently made to the DAWSON HOUSE, was granted by a unanimous
vote of the Council, all the property owners in the half block adjacent to the
new site signing the petition of SUTLIFFE.
Home And Champion Mining Trial
Date Set, And Latter Company Suggests An Outside Judge
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), April 17 - It will not be long before the great legal
battle between the Home and the Champion Mining Companies will be under way.
Superior Judge NILON yesterday set the date for May 1st. The Champion’s attorney immediately filed notice
on County Clerk ARBOGAST, requesting him to communicate with Governor PARDEE,
asking that an outside Judge be sent to preside, alleging that the health of
Judge NILON would not permit him to sit through the case, which promises to be
long and very complex. Judge NILON being able to be in Court yesterday, the
County Clerk refused to do as requested.
The suit will be one of the
greatest, if not the greatest, in the history of mining in this county, as it
involves virtually the life of one of the mines in question, the dispute being
over the ownership of the ledge which both companies were working when their
underground forces came together.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
17 - Henry STUART, an employe at the Union Hill Mine, lost one thumb yesterday
and part of the other through an accident. He was adjusting a shooe in the
battery at the mill, when the ponderous steel stamp dropped, though it was
supposed to be held safely, amputated his right thumb at the base and fearfully
crushing the left. Dr. JONES, who
attended the injured man, hopes to save part of the left thumb.
STEWART resides on the verge of
town.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), April 17
- Jeremiah Cash GIVENS, an old and respected resident of Placer County, died yesterday
morning at his son’s home at Rocklin, aged 76 years. Mr. GIVENS had been in
feeble health for many years, and his death was not
unexpected. He was a native of Indiana, but for many years had lived in
California. The funeral will take place to-morrow, and the service and burial
will be under the auspices of the Roseville Odd Fellows Lodge, of which
organization he was a member.
TOWLE (Placer Co.), April 17 -
Charles SCHUNOVER, Southern Pacific agent here, has obtained a leave of absence
in order to accompany the body of his wife to her old home in Wisconsin. Mrs.
SCHUNOVER died here on the first of last December, as reported in The Bee. The
body was embalmed in San Francisco.
During his absence, SCHUNOVER’s
place is being filled by a man named SMITH. Night Operator MARTIN has also left
here. His place has been filled by Operator GIBSON.
TOWLE (Placer Co.), April 17 -
Mrs. Frank WEISMAN, of this place, has been suddenly summoned to the bedside of
her uncle, Rev. SHOEMAKER, of Santa Anna. His condition is reported to be very
critical. Rev. SHOEMAKER is one of the best-known members of the Presbyterian
clergy in this State.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
April 18, 1906
Page 6
Burglars Attempt To Blow Open
Safe In Vegetable Store But Do Not Succeed And Escape
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 18 - Sometime during the night burglars attempted to
blow open the safe in the vegetable store of M. MARTINELLI & Company. The
cap failed to explode.
Nitro-glycerine and soap were
used in plenty, and indications suggest that the men were old hands at the
business. It is supposed, after the failure of the cap to explode, that the
burglars were frightened off. The
discovery of the attempted robbery was made this morning when the store was
opened for business.
The affair was at once reported
to the officers, but at the wiring they do not appear to have found a clue.
LINCOLN (Placer Co.), April 18 -
Early this morning Frederick WASTIER, Sr., died at his home in Lincoln, from
heart failure, being sick only since yesterday morning. Deceased was 76 years old and a native of Germany. About forty years
ago he became a resident of Placer County and thirty years of this were spent
in Lincoln. Mr. WASTIER was well-known and highly esteemed and was the oldest
resident of Lincoln. He leaves a widow and two daughters, Mrs. Ed. FINNEY, of
Lincoln, and Mrs. A.H. PETTER, of Los Angeles, and a son, Frederick, who lives
in San Francisco.
After a long period of sickness,
Asa H. GATES, a pioneer of California, and a native of Massachusetts, passed
away Monday, April 16th, at his home, two and one-half miles from
Lincoln. Deceased had reached the ripe old age of 81 years and 21 days, and was
known far and wide. He leaves two sons still at home and two married daughters
who reside in San Francisco. The Native Daughters will attend the funeral in a
body as it is their custom to this honor all pioneers of the Golden State.
Funeral services from the Congregational Church this afternoon and interment in
Manzanita Cemetery. Following closely
upon this death, Luther JARVIS, another well-known citizen of Placer County,
passed away at his home about three miles from Lincoln. Deceased was a native
of Ohio and was almost 67 years old. He leaves a widow and one married
daughter, Mrs. Silas BERRY, of Lincoln, to mourn his loss. Funeral
at 1:30 o’clock Thursday from the late residence and burial at Manzanita.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), April
18 - Insane, a check for $500 in his pocket, across one corner of which was the
word “Void,” Frank MURPHY was lodged in the County Jail here yesterday by E.T.
WORTHLEY of Washington. MURPHY went to Superintendent MILLER, of the California
Mine, a day or two ago and demanded $500, which he declared was due him. He had
been hanging about the place for some time, and realizing his condition, MILLER
wrote him out the check, but was careful to include the word “Void” in large
letters across one end of it. MURPHY then left in high glee, saying he intended
to cash the check in this city. Officer WORTHLEY was notified and persuaded
MURPHY to accompany him, saying he would take him to Dr. TICKELL, who was the
only man who could cash the paper. MURPHY was so delighted that he failed to
observe where he was until he landed in jail. He will be examined by lunacy
experts.
Aged Charles T. Duval, Ill and
Weary, Drinks Big Dose Of Poison, After Writing Three
Notes GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April 18 - After writing notes to Coroner
HOCKING and to Undertaker HARRIS as to the disposal of his body, aged Charles
T. DUVAL deliberately drank enough
cyanide of potassium yesterday afternoon to kill a dozen men. He fell and
expired, in an instant. The body was not discovered until 6 o’clock last
evening.
Constable C.C. TOWNSEND was
called by a neighbor of DUVAL’s, Mrs. D.E.W.
WILLIAMSON, who said she feared something was wrong at the DUVAL home. TOWNSEND entered and found the body cold in
death, stretched at length by the side of the bed. On a stand near by sat the
glass from which the fatal draught had been drunk, and a bottle consisting a large quantity of the deadly poison. Coroner
HOCKING and Deputy HARRIS were summoned and took charge of the remains.
The Coroner found three notes -
one to himself, one to the public and one to the A.O.U.W. and the undertaker.
In his letter to the Coroner DUVAL stated that to relieve all doubt he would
state that he had ended his life on account of ill health. Had he felt that he
could recover, he wrote, he would not have considered self-destruction. He said
it required more courage to live as he had lived then to die. One of the notes
advised Dr. JAMIESON to make an autopsy, if he so wished.
It was about 2 o’clock that
DUVAL was last seen alive. At that time he was pacing his porch, muttering and
waving his arms, evidently out of his mind.
Mrs. WILLIAMSON spoke to him, but he only threw up his arm and made no
answer.
He was a native of Kentucky,
aged 69 years, and 11 months. He came here in 1855, and was always held to high
esteem. Since the death of his wife he had lived alone in his home on West Main
Street. DUVAL had long been an acute sufferer from asthma, and had threatened
before to end his life. He leaves one son, Lucius, who will arrive
to-day from the Gaston Mine.
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 18 -
Miss Lois STILSON, a graduate of the Chico State Normal School, and who has
been teaching in Paradise during the past term, has been appointed musical
instructor of the Chico public schools.
Miss STILSON takes the place of Miss Frankie NELSON, who had to resign
on account of ill health.
As an instance of the work which
the musical instructor may be called upon to carry through at times, the
services to be given at the laying of the corner-stone for the W.C.T.U.
Convention Hall in Chico Vecino to-day, well illustrates the point. Eight
hundred children must be trained and taught the songs which will be sung by them, and in the past the results of the unison and
part-song work have been very creditable.
In 1882 Knocked A Fellow Employe
In Head With Hammer and Threw Dead Body Into Simmerly Slough MARYSVILLE (Yuba
Co.), April 18 - A notice which was served on District Attorney BRITTAN to-day
to the effect that Matthias BLUMER, a prisoner serving a life term in Folsom
prison on May 1st will make application to Governor PARDEE for a
pardon, recalls the cold-blooded crime of which BLUMER was convicted in the
Superior Court of this county in 1883.
It was on November 16, 1882, that BLUMER with a hammer crushed the skull
of a fellow-employe named J. Fred SCHINDLER at the SCHUMPF dairy while his
victim was milking a cow in the early morning. He hid the remains of SCHINDLER
in a pile of manure until the cover of darkness came on that night and then
hauled the body to Simmerly Slough, weighted it and tossed it off a bridge into
the water. A Japanese who fished in the slough next
day hooked the remains and BLUMER’s crime was revealed.
BLUMER has twice escaped from
Folsom prison, once reaching Omaha, where he became intoxicated and revealed
his identity.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 18 -
Frank STOFER, a young man who was sentenced to undergo a term of ten years’
imprisonment for taking a $20 gold piece away from an aged colored man, named
COLEMAN, was granted a new trial a few days ago by the Third District Court of
Appeal.
It appears very likely now that
STOFER will escape further punishment.
Yesterday he was brought before Judge GRAY, and his attorney made a
motion to set aside the information on the ground that the commitment was
illegal. Judge GRAY overruled the
motion.
District Attorney SEXTON then
made a motion that Judge GRAY vacate the order
disallowing the motion to set aside the information, saying that he believed
the motion was well taken.
The Court took the matter under
advisement until Thursday at 10 o’clock.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 18 -
In the case of the Abietene Medical Company against R.M. GREEN, to recover
moneys received by him while President of the Company, plaintiff has given notice
that on Monday, May 7, 1906, they will move the Court for Judgement on the
pleadings on the ground that the answer heretofore filed by defendant admits
the first, second and third allegations of the complaint, does not deny the
fourth, and that there is no denial by the defendant to the allegation that
defendant at the time of the filing of the complaint was indebted to the
Company in the sum of $1388. Further, that none of the material allegations of
the complaint are denied.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 18 -
The trial of Dean McGREW, who is charged with resisting an officer, is now
being heard before Judge GADDIS. McGREW, as told in The
Bee at the time, had his altercation with Constable HARRISON at Guinda during a
Christmas entertainment held in the church at that place. McGREW, it is alleged, knocked HARRISON down
after the officer had placed him under arrest. District Attorney HARRY L.
HUSTON represents the People and P. BRUTON the defendant.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 18
- The 5-year-old daughter of City Clerk HARE is suffering from severe burns to
her hands, the result of toppling onto a hot stove while seated in a high chair
yesterday.
The screams of the child
attracted her mother to her but too late to save her from the injuries. One
hand is very badly burned, but the patient’s youth is in her favor.
Death Lays a Heavy Hand On Aged
Parents, Suddenly Taking Their Two Children >From Them REDDING (Shasta Co.),
April 18 - Mr. and Mrs. John GEIGER, living in Happy Valley, lost a grown son
and a married daughter, their deaths occurring within twenty-four hours of each
other. Both were sudden, and each was caused by heart disease.
The Bee of Tuesday told how
Frank GEIGER, the son, had died Sunday in the home of his parents after
returning from Easter service. He sat down in a chair, gave one gasp and was no
more.
When the bereaved father came to
Redding the next day to make arrangements for the funeral of the son, he was
given a telegram informing him that his only daughter, Mrs. Josephine LIMACHER,
had dropped dead the evening before in her home in San Francisco. She left two
children, one a babe of two weeks and another that had seen but one birthday.
The two funerals - those of the
son and the daughter - were held at the same hour yesterday afternoon, the one
in San Francisco, the other in Redding. Surely, aged parents like Mr. and Mrs.
John GEIGER are seldom called upon to suffer the double sorrow that has
befallen them. Mrs. LIMACHER and Frank
GEIGER - sister and brother - were natives of Switzerland, though both were
reared in Shasta County. They were universally respected. Strangely, too, both
had always enjoyed apparently perfect healthy, and that both should drop dead
so nearly the same hour and of the same disease is a coincidence most
remarkable.
HONCUT (Butte Co.), April 18 -
Contractor BARRIS, who stopped work on the Western Pacific grade between here
and Palermo several weeks ago, is preparing to resume operation in a few days.
General report has it that Contractor REED is to start work here in a few days,
but is cannot be verified.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), April 18 -
Real estate in Scott Valley, along the line of the proposed railroad, is on the
boom just now. Two of the biggest ranches situated near Fort Jones, were sold
this week. The first sale was made by BILLS Brothers to Emory HUNT for $10,000.
It consisted of 240 acres of rich grain and alfalfa soil. The second sale of
500 acres of grain land belonging to Emory HUNT was made to James WALKER for
$20,000. Word was received here last night that Bob WALKER had sold 320 acres
at the forks of Morritt and Durzel Creeks to George L. CRAMER for $5000.
YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.), April 18
- Attorney A.C. McLAUGHLIN last evening received a telegram from Los Angeles
announcing that J.B. PRICE had decided to pay the fine imposed by Judge MAHON
in the DA SHIELL case several weeks ago, and that a check for $500 had been
forwarded for that purpose. PRICE, it
will be remembered, was adjudged guilty by a jury in the Superior Court, of the
crime of seduction under promise of marriage, Miss Viola DA SHIELL, of
Marysville, being the complaining witness. Judge MAHON sentenced him to pay a
fine of $500.
Notice of appeal was filed, but
it appears that PRICE has abandoned that intention.
The punishment was considered a
light one, although there were mitigating circumstances connected with the
case.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
April 18 - Dr. W.R. RANTZ and Miss Bessie ROSS were married at the home of the
bride’s mother in Uppertown early yesterday morning. The room was very prettily
decorated in white carnations and ferns.
The bride’s gown was a beautiful creation of white chiffon, over white
silk. The couple were
attended by Mrs. F.W. ROHLFING as matron of honor (rest of article cut off).
Husband Loses temper When He
Sees Woman With Another Man, Row Follows And Divorce Is Threatened RED BLUFF
(Tehama Co.), April 18 - When Farmer LANGDON, an industrious young man, who
lives on Red Bank, about twelve miles west of town, came to Red Bluff last
Saturday, he found his wife wearing a new Easter hat, in a buggy with a young
man, the two having enjoyed the field day sports at the race track. He
proceeded to pull her out of the buggy, and taking the
new hat from her head, tore it up and threw it in the street. He then quietly
journeyed home.
He expected his wife to follow him,
but she did not. She started there yesterday, however, with her young male
friend, Charley BARLEY, but met her husband on the road and, after some words
had passed between them, both started for the Sheriff’s office.
The young woman reached there
first, and asking for the protection of that officer, was given a seat in the
inner office. When the husband appeared, a scene ensued between him and the
young woman’s companion, but the Sheriff soon quelled the fray.
There was evidently no fear of
danger on the part of the young woman because she soon left the office, and
with her male companion, strolled around town. When asked her version of the
trouble, she said: “I am not going to tell you a thing. No one will get my side
of the story until the case comes up in Court.”
In the afternoon the scene of
the trouble was transferred to the LANGDON home. Charley BARLEY and Mrs.
LANGDON started for the home place shortly after 1 o’clock to secure Mrs.
LANGDON’s wearing apparel. The husband, hearing of this, started about an hour
later, saying he would burn his wife’s things before he would let her have
them. The race on the road must have been a lively one, and as to what happened
at the LANGDON home when all met there the world is yet in ignorance.
YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.), April 18
- A number of the boys of the Grammar School of this place, went on the warpath
Monday evening, and as a result Professor KIMBALL, Principal of the school, had
a sort of “licking bee” last evening which will undoubtedly have a good effect
on the boys. The trouble started Monday
evening when two of the pupils undertook to settle a difference by resorting to
the :manly art.” The affair was not a draw and the boy
who was worsted collected his crowd, comprising about fifteen youngsters,
ranging from 6 to 16 years of age and followed the victor to his home where he
took refuge behind locked doors. Failing to entice him from the house, the boys
broke down one of the doors and were in the act of entering the building when
their intended victim appeared at the threshold, armed with a shotgun, and
declared he would protect himself. The effect was very quieting and the boys
dispersed, still swearing vengeance.
Prof. KIMBALL dispersed the miniature mob when they first congregated
and informed them he would punish each one if they caused any further
trouble. They separated, but after the
teacher disappeared they re-assembled and created the disturbance. Many of the
boys paid the penalty last evening after school closed by submitting to a neat
little flogging.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
April 21, 1906
Page 6
KENNETT (Shasta Co.), April 21 -
It is doubtful if any town in the State of the size of Kennett has given
anywhere near in proportion to what this place has done.
The Mammoth Copper Company alone
subscribed $500 and every miner in its employ has donated one day’s pay.
This means that over $3500 in
cash will be sent from this small town, in addition to provisions and other
supplies.
And what is more, Kennett is not
yet done, and if need arises will give even more liberally.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), April 21 -
Admiral McCALLA has communicated with the Navy authorities in regard to sending
the hospital ship Relief to San Francisco from Mare Island. The ship can hold
500 homeless ones. It is expected the permission will be given.
Vallejo, up to last night, had
taken care of about 250 of the refugees.
All the Lodges have subscribed to the relief fund, which now amounts to
over $1500.
The Uniform Bank, K of P., has
been called by the Mayor for patrol duty, as many undesirable visitors are
arriving from San Francisco. Strict
precautions are being taken by the Health Board regarding the admission of
anyone afflicted with smallpox, as there are several cases in San Francisco and
no quarantine.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 21 - The
citizens of this city are putting forth every effort
to help relieve the sufferers in San Francisco. Yesterday afternoon a large quantity of provisions were sent, and this morning
another lot will be sent. The bakery in this city is turning out all the bread
it can.
The two Woodland Rebekah Lodges
have appointed Committees to solicit donations. The Chamber of Commerce also
held a meeting last night, and is ready to assist Mayor BEAMER in any way it
can.
Refugees are arriving on every
train from this city in increasing numbers, and are being taken care of by
relatives and friends. Many of them have lost everything except the clothes
they have on.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), April 21
- This place has raised about $2,000 for the afflicted and homeless of San
Francisco. Thursday night the generous residents of Lodi made up a carload of
boiled eggs, bread, cooked chickens and baked beans. It reached Oakland at 10
o’clock this morning.
RENO (Nev.), April 21 - Mrs.
J.N. SHIVELY, a frail little woman with two small children, who arrived here
yesterday from Bucyrus, Ohio, learned last evening that Frank EVERETT, the
smelting man who shot and killed General Foreman M.E. MALONE at the Mina
(Nev.), shops, three days ago, was her only brother.
“I can hardly believe it,” she
said last evening. “Frank was always a good man, and came from a quiet, good
family. He went to Keeler, Cal., to build the smelting plant for the Western
Reduction and Smelting Company, and I was coming out to visit him. Now I will
have to call on him at the jail.” Word comes from Hawthorne that the State will
prefer the most damning evidence against EVERETT. The killing is said to have
been cold-blooded and with no provocation. EVERETT followed MALONE around an
engine, it is claimed, and shot him through the head because MALONE refused to
give him a special train to Goldfield free of charge.
ELKO (Nev.), April 21 - Great
uneasiness has been caused in this vicinity by the strange action of a large
hot water spring, 400 feet in diameter, located in the top of an extinct
volcano, one mile west of Elko. For years the water has been quiet and clear,
but immediately following Wednesday’s earthquake it began to boil furiously.
The turmoil of its waters still continues, and on the north side of the crater
a large section has fallen away. The spring has been frequently sounded and a
depth of 1200 feet reached, but no bottom was ever encountered.
DAVISVILLE (Yolo Co.), April 21-
Coroner KITTO held an inquest here over the body of Jerry HANDLEY, the painter
who was found dead yesterday morning, sitting on the steps back of the paint
shop, as told in last evening’s Bee.
According to the testimony taken, the deceased had been on a spree since
last Saturday and had not worked in the meantime. The verdict of the jury was to effect that he
came to his death of acute alcoholism. A. sister of the deceased, the wife of
E.J. CARRAGHER, of Sacramento, arrived and will care for the remains.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), April 21 -
SEAMAN and MARTIN’s Bonanza mine at Fool’s paradise, mention of which was made
in The Bee a few days since, telling of assays going as high as $850 per ton,
is now richer than ever, according to an interview had last evening with Fred
MAHLER, owner of the Drummer Boy Mine. He informed The Bee’s representative
that the ore now being taken out is believed to be tellurium, and if so would
probably assay $60,000 to $70,000 per ton.
The output strongly resembles
the cripple Creek tellurium ores. The other ores,
which adjoin the supposed tellurium, is a decomposed rock and assays, it is
claimed, $8,500 to the ton, while the first assays only went $850 to the ton.
The owners of the mine now have a tunnel in 150 feet on the vein, which is
about five feet thick. Mr. MAHLER says that the ores now on the dump will be
sacked and shipped to the Selby Smelter for treatment.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), April 21 -
The Sacramento Bee is the only outside paper received here with the news of the
great earthquake in San Francisco and other towns in California, that has given
correct reports of the sad calamity that has befallen the State.
Yesterday’s big bundles of Bees
did not last long after their arrival, and a thousand more copies could have
been sold if they had been on sale.
Yesterday morning’s train was late, but large crowds were ready to
secure a copy of The Bee, with the latest news of the disaster, and as several
hundred copies have been ordered in advance, extra carriers have been engaged
to deliver them on their arrival.
The Bee is much sought after and
it has so far contained the most correct reports of the earthquake. The
citizens appreciate the quick service rendered by its proprietors in the
delivery of this important news ten hours ahead of all other State papers.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), April 21 -
A very pretty wedding took place at McCloud Thursday, at noon, the contracting
parties being Ernest E. HARMON, son of John E. HARMON, the well-known livery
man of Yreka, and Miss Barbara BURKHALTER, the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of M. H. BURKHALTER, the well-known railroad contractor of McCloud.
The happy couple immediately
after the wedding left on a honeymoon trip, and after a couple of weeks’ travel
at sight seeing in Southern California will return to Yreka, where they will
permanently reside.
Is 72 and Husband She Has
Wearied of 82, But Years and Wedded State Seem To Count For Naught REDDING
(Shasta Co.), April 21 - Mrs. Jane PICKETT, aged 72, filed in Court yesterday
an action for divorce from Benjamin PICKETT, aged 82. She alleged failure to
provide and neglect as the cause for the action and asked to be allowed to
retake her former name of Jane HOVEY.
Her aged and decrepit husband who is almost
totally blind, accompanied her to the attorney’s office where the complaint was
prepared, and said he had no objection to his wife getting a divorce if she
wanted one. The story is a peculiar one.
The couple reside in the Whitmore country, a farming
district, twenty-eight miles east of Redding. Mr. and Mrs. PICKETT came to this
city three or four days ago and have been seen on the streets constantly every
day. Their apparent devotion to each other was marked. The husband walked with
a cane and was very feeble. Because of his poor vision the wife led him by the
hand. They were a picture of devotion. No one would have judged by looking at
them that they were any but the happiest of couples. They looked like lovers.
Benjamin PICKETT is a veteran of
the Mexican War and of the Civil War. He has resided in Shasta County since
early days, following mining in the days when the placers yielded heavily. At
one time he was rated the richest man in Superior California. That was when he
was a well-to-do farmer living on Cottonwood Creek, in Tehama County. Reverses
came, and for the last ten years he has owned and tried to work a small tract
in the Whitmore country. He and Mrs.
PICKETT were married twelve years ago, and to all outward appearances they have
lived happily together ever since.
Find Asylum Escape in
Washington, D.C.
RENO (Nev.), April 21 - Mrs.
Patrick WALSH, wife of a Goldfield miner, who escaped from the State Insane
Asylum here last August, disguised as a man, and for whom the authorities have
been hunting since, has been found in Washington, D.C., and placed under
arrest. She may be returned. She claims her husband had her confined because of
jealousy and says she is sane.
FRENCH GULCH (Shasta Co.), April
21 - Albert RICH, a miner aged 40, and employed in the Gladstone, died here
yesterday afternoon of tuberculosis. He is supposed to have a bother (sic) and
sister living in Oregon. He was buried here this afternoon.
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The Evening Bee Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, April 25, 1906
cut
by another colored man named D. MITCHELL, also a resident, on Monday night.
MITCHELL telephoned for CHASE to
meet him opposite a saloon in town, and when CHASE arrived attacked him with a
knife, the blade being four and a half inches long. He made a stab at CHASE’s
heart, but a thick jacket and vest CHASE wore saved his life.
MITCHELL then stabbed CHASE in
the back of the neck, inflicting a wound four inches long and a half-inch deep,
and another lesser wound in the head.
CHASE’s wounds were quickly attended to and the result will not be
fatal. MITCHELL is in jail charged with
assault with a deadly weapon. Jealousy regarding a woman was the cause of the
trouble.
resort,
and Jennie HURLBURT, a girl of 15, planned and executed an elopement in the most
approved style Monday night.
They did not get farther,
however, than Cottonwood, twelve miles north of here, where they were overtaken
by an officer and a warrant and returned here on the noon train do-day.
The warrant was sworn out by the
mother of the girl, who charged CLIFFORD with kidnaping. On their return here
the man was locked up in the County Jail and the girl was returned to her
mother.
between Hayfork and Weaverville
by way of Douglas City in an automobile, the first to be used in the
mountainous part of Superior California for public service.
George REID is the mail
contractor. He sent money yesterday by Walter DAY and Fred HOFFLEY, who left
for San Francisco with a commission to purchase anywhere they could a good
serviceable automobile. The distance
between Hayfork and Weaverville is twenty-seven miles. Some idea of the
remoteness of this place may be gathered from the fact that a San Francisco Sunday
morning paper does not reach Hayfork until Tuesday evening.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 25 -
Charles W. LEININGER and Lloyd W. CARTER
entered
to-day upon their four-year term in the Redding Land Office, the first as
Register, to succeed F.M. SWASEY, and the second as Receiver, to succeed
himself and enter upon his third term. Their appointments were made several
weeks ago, as was told in The Bee at the time, but they have just received
their commissions.
Passes Away
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 25 -
Three times during the last few months has death visited some member of the
ill-fated BARNETT family, which figured so prominently in the Stockton
poisoning case recently. At that time,
the father and two children were killed by poison in a mysterious manner, and
even yet the case has not been entirely unraveled.
inhaling
monoxide gas in her room at the home where she was employed as a domestic.
Now the sad news has been
learned of the burning to death of Miss Lulu RAMSEY, a sister-in-law of the
central figure of Stockton’s case, in San Francisco’s conflagration. The only
particulars received so far in Chico indicate that Miss RAMSEY, who was 17
years old, was at a hotel in San Francisco, where she went soon after leaving
Chico.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 25
- John HOLLAND, a young man who claims to
have
seen six years’ service in the United States Signal Corps, is in jail here
charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Yesterday he made application to the
Western Union people for a position as operator, and later committed the crime
for which he is imprisoned. HOLLAND
visited a house of ill-fame on First Street, and because a woman named Josie
ST. CLAIR would not return a dollar he had given her, beat her over the head
with an iron bolt until she was almost unconscious. He escaped, despite that fact
that several men were attracted to the scene by the woman’s screams, but was
captured later by Officer BECKER.
HOLLAND’s victim was taken to the County Hospital for treatment.
the
damages sustained at the Soldiers’ Home from the earthquake. The shock was felt
most severely in the hospitals, where there were over 100 patients, beside the
numerous attendants.
The drug-room was completely
demolished and every ward in the building wrecked, the plastering falling out
and in some instances entirely covering the beds where some of the most
helpless invalids were confined. The
houses of the officers and the quarters of the men will require numerous
repairs as a result of the terrible shaking up.
the Union Hotel in Chico
yesterday when a young man presented a signed statement asking advanced credit for
himself and two men credit for himself, two men are in the clutches of the law.
(Sic)
G. BAFLER, the man holding the
statement, is accused of forgery. He acknowledged his guilt when questioned.
M.H. HALL whose name was forged
is also in jail because of the tale that FABLER told regarding his method of
securing the “swill” from the local hotels. HALL would brush into a sack silver
articles and butter chips from the tables in hotel kitchens, and would later
sell then. He denies his guilt, but the case seems strong against him.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.),
April 23 - George McDONALD’s dead body was found
in
a cabin located in the rear of a saloon at Banta yesterday. McDONALD had been
in the southern pare of the county for about three years, but very little was
known about him. Coroner SOUTHWORTH sent a deputy after the remains which are
now in the morgue in this city. No one has been found who knows anything
concerning his relatives or family. An inquest will be held in a few days,
death probably having been due to natural causes.
County Jail
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 25
- Confined in the County Jail here is a negro named F.
WALKER, an ex-soldier, who is held on a charge of attempted assault. The
complaining witness is a young woman of 20, who acts as nurse at the home of
John SCHONLAN, nine miles east of town, near the KUPSER place.
She avers that WALKER came to
the SCHONLAN place at an early hour yesterday morning and asked that she go to
the scales near the barn to see that some hay, which he desired to purchase,
was properly weighed by him. Although
her suspicious were aroused through seeing no rig in sight with which to haul
the hay, she came out of the house and had proceeded only a short distance in
the yard when she was struck by the negro in the face, the blow demolishing her
eyeglasses and stunning her. Although
she was overcome and her face was severely cut, she was able to resist and by
screaming she attracted the attention of the SCHONLAN children, who ran from
the house and toward the residence of a neighbor named KUPSER. This frightened
WALKER, who hastily disappeared.
It was not until toward evening
that the young woman made complaint to her
employer
and then a search of the neighborhood was made with the result that
WALKER was found buried in the
hay mow at the KUPSER barn. A young man named
William AVERY routed him from
his hiding place with a pitchfork. Until
the arrival of Sheriff VOSS, who was immediately telephoned for, the colored
man was guarded by the neighbors, who had been searching for him with their
firearms. It was with difficulty that they restrained SCHONLAN from dispatching
him with his rifle. Had the attack been of a more serious nature in the morning
there is no doubt WALKER would now be ornamenting a slab at the Morgue.
WALKER showed to his captors
papers of honorable discharge from the Army.
He was greatly relieved when Sheriff VOSS took him into custody. The
officer found a razor stored away in the fellow’s sleeve on searching him. Two other colored men, supposed to be pals of
WALKER, and who were in the vicinity of the attempted outrage, have proven that
they were in no way connected with the affair.
killed
Monday night by the 7:10 Santa Fe train from San Francisco. The woman was
driving in a cart, accompanied by a little girl, at Oakley, a station just over
the border in Contra Costa County, when the train was coming. She got out of
the cart and was crossing the track to open a gate on the opposite side when
the train bore down on her. Her body was badly mangled.
After Brief Illness
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 25 -
A telegram was received here yesterday afternoon from Fruitvale announcing the
death of Dan McCARTHY in that place earlier in the day. No particulars were
given, though it is assumed that death was sudden, for Mr. McCARTHY was in
robust health. Dan McCARTHY was one of
the best-known men in Shasta County, where he had lived for twenty years up to
three years ago, where he still has extensive property interests. When work was
first begun on the Keswick smelter he moved from Copley, where he had been
running a store, to the new town of Keswick, opening up a store that did not
contain a wagon-load of goods, and he was in debt for them.
He prospered as the town boomed
and inside of five years made a fortune in the hotel business in Keswick. He
built a hotel that cost $32,000 and a two-story brick building, the only one in
town. He made fortunate investments in mines, paying $600 for a half-interest
in a mine that yielded $20,000 inside of six months. Disastrous fires swept
through Keswick but McCARTHY’s property was always spared. He sold most of his
Keswick property just before the decline commenced. He was always called lucky,
but he had great business foresight, as well.
McCARTHY will be remembered in
every mining and smelting camp on the Coast. Leaving Keswick he went to
Oakland, where he opened up a new cemetery, and he is reputed to have been
making a great deal of money there. He
and his family resided in Fruitvale, a suburb of Oakland.
earthquake
resulted in the death of three men at the Great Eastern, a Sonoma County
quicksilver mine.
As the cage was being hoisted
from the mine a giant boulder dislodged by the shaking earth fell down the
shaft. The cage was 150 feet from the top, and the boulder smashed it into the
sides of the shaft, where it partially lodged.
The three men in the cage - John
HANSON, C. GORSKI and John MILLER, - were
instantly
killed.
Their bodies were hurled to the
bottom of the 700-foot shaft, where they were subsequently recovered.
destruction
by fire of the hotel property near Brownsville owned by John PURDY. Very little
of the furniture, etc., was saved. A defective flue was the cause of the blaze.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
April 28, 1906
Page 6
MONTAGUE (Siskiyou Co.), April
28 - At 8 o’clock Thursday evening a freight train from the south arrived here
and the conductor and brakeman put off the train forty or fifty hobos and
toughs. This somewhat enraged the citizens and they concluded that this tough
gang should immediately leave town.
Constable Frank MILES, accompanied by a large number of town people,
went to the conductor and informed him that he would have to take them out of
town, as California at the present time had enough earthquake sufferers to look
after. The conductor opened a box-car door and told the “bunch” to get in, and
shortly after the train pulled out for Oregon.
Montague, since the late calamity in San Francisco and other towns in
this State, has fed a large number of refugees en route to relatives in this
county and others who belong just over the Oregon line, but to be compelled to
feed forty or fifty hobos was asking too much.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April
28 - Jack ALLEN, who so fearfully stabbed his wife and father-in-law in this
city a number of weeks ago, was arraigned before Judge FRANK to-day, charged
with attempted murder. A complaint was sworn to yesterday afternoon by William
JENKIN, son of Alfred JENKIN, who was so dangerously wounded, charging ALLEN
with the attempted murder of his father and sister. Young JENKIN is determined
to prosecute ALLEN without mercy, and should ALLEN be discharged, the young man
is likely to wreak vengeance on him, if he keeps the vows he made some time
ago. JENKIN is now out of danger and able to sit up for a short while each day.
He was not able to appear in Court to-day.
DELTA (Shasta Co.), April 28 -
Mrs. L.C. CREEKS died here yesterday morning and will be buried this afternoon.
She was aged 65 and was long a resident of Shasta County. She had been in poor
health for a long time and her death was not unexpected.
Mrs. CREEKS left a brother and a
sister in Sacramento - Charles FARREN and Mrs. Henry HOFFMAN. Another, William
FARREN, was fatally injured Monday by being struck by (rest of article cut
off.)
UNKNOWN MAN MADE ATTEMPT TO
START CONFLAGRATION IN TRUCKEE
Town Saved From Disastrous Fire
in Nick of Time - Tough Characters Overrun Place
TRUCKEE (Nevada Co.), April 28 -
Between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock Wednesday morning some unknown individual
deliberately took an old coat, wrapped it in several old newspapers, applied a
match to it and threw the parcel in the woodshed at the rear of the Capital
Saloon. But for the night cook for Ben KING, who conducts a restaurant in the
saloon, the town might have suffered a heavy loss by fire.
The range of the restaurant is
close by the rear window, and the cook happened to be preparing a meal when the
light in the woodshed attracted his attention. He rushed out the door and
observed that the fire had not ignited other material in the building, but was
burning only the coat. He stamped out the blaze and returned to the restaurant,
thinking that he had entirely smothered out the fire. Ben KING, the owner of
the restaurant, returned to his place of business about 6 o’clock. He went into
the woodshed and discovered that the fire had not been extinguished. The burned
coat was smoking, and he hastened to stamp out the fire.
The man who threw the coat in
the window is not known, but a certain individual is under suspicion, having
been seen in that vicinity by other people a few minutes before the fire was
discovered. The deliberate act to burn
down the town has caused considerable talk among the business element of
Truckee. At the present time there are a number of very tough characters in
this place.
Friday morning, Charles OCKER,
Chairman of the Relief Committee, was compelled to use force to eject ten
hoboes who insisted upon having hot water with which to bathe their faces and
hands, near the relief headquarters. They were ordered out of town. Mr. OLIVER
caught one man in the act of taking a package of coffee from the supply room.
This man was given a start for the east end of the railroad yards.
There is some talk on the street
of calling a mass meeting to handle the situation as the tough element must be
made to move on.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), April 28 -
The following marriage licenses appear of record this week:
William LUMPKINS, 32, and Lizzie
B. SHORT, 40, both of Los Angeles; Jesse D. MURDOCK, 21, and Mattie E. COLBURN,
17, both of Buillon; John H. JEFFRIES, 32, and Anna Ethel SEAVEY, 28, both of Auburn.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 28 -
Only one marriage license was issued in Yuba County this week. The parties to
the contract are Jose SILVIRA of Oakland and Miss Marie PHILLIPS of this city.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 28 -
Only one marriage license has been issued in Shasta County since the
earthquake, and the lonely document went to Henry ROBERTS, aged 28, of
Whiskytown, and Miss Rosa Mae HALE, aged 20, of Red Bluff.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 28
- Mrs. Blanche HOTCHKISS, of Yuba City, by her attorney, W.H. CARLIN, has
commenced divorce proceedings against her husband, John S. HOTCHKISS, on the
grounds of desertion. The parties were married here in June, 1901. Defendant is
at present a resident of Brush Creek.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 28 -
Three marriage licenses were issued during the week by County Clerk BATCHELDER:
Francis Burnham MOORE, aged 29,
and Georgia Louisa PETERSON, aged 19, both of Chico; James William KITTRELL,
aged 21, and Grace Leona LOTHROP, aged 19, both of Oroville; Newton BALCH, aged
24, of Red Bluff, and Lauretta DAILY, aged 22, of Chico.
CHICO (Butte Co.), April 28 -
Gee Jung HING, the Chinese who cowardly murdered peaceable Mar YE Thursday
evening because he secured HING’s place as cook in a local hotel, was caught by
Constable HINDMAN, of Chico, at Vina yesterday. While the prisoner stoutly
maintains that he is not HING, but Tom Hop SING, the officers believe they have
the right man.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 28 -
The Balaklala Company, which is to erect an immense smelter near Kennett, has
secured offices here, and this morning established itself in what is left of
the old Depot Hotel building on the Souther Pacific tracks.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), April 28
- Josie ST. CLAIR, the woman of the half-world who was beaten about the head
with a heavy iron bolt wielded by an ex-soldier named John HOLLAND, last
Tuesday, has taken a change for the worse. At first her condition was not
regarded as serious, but the Hospital Physician now reports that the chances
are against her recovery. HOLLAND is held at the city prison awaiting the
outcome.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
April 28 - W.A. LEWIS died at Smith Flat about noon
yesterday, aged 79 years. Mr. LEWIS was one of the pioneers of this State,
coming to California in 1852. He lived in Sierra County for a while, but later
moved to El Dorado County, residing at Badger Hill and Smith Flat. He was a miner by occupation and had many
friends among the old-timers in this vicinity. Mr. LEWIS was a native of
Sweden. He began life as a sailor, but gave up the sea life to participate in
the gold rust to California in the ?50s. He was a
single man and as far as it is known has no living relative.
Sandwich Peddler, Insane From
Liquor, Makes Two Attempts To Kill Woman And Fights Officers.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), April 28 -
Constable REILLY and Officer RIPPERY were summoned last night to arrest a
sandwich peddler names Sam STICKLE.
While crazed with liquor, STICKLE chased his wife out of a tent in which
they were living and attempted to cut her throat, first with a butcher knife
and then with a razor.
She escaped downtown and
notified the officers.
STICKLE fought like a maniac when
arrested and had to be beaten into insensibility before submitting to arrest.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), April 28 -
Judge L.G. HARRIER to-day shipped his fine law library from Vallejo to his old
friend, Attorney Charles S. WHEELER, of San Francisco.
Attorney WHEELER lost his
splendid library in the fire, and as Judge HARRIER has one of the best private
law libraries in the State, he was glad to help an old friend.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), April 28 -
A telegram has been received here announcing the death of Thomas M. FORREST, a
former resident of Vallejo, and an old and esteemed member of Solano Lodge, F.
and A.M., in Oakland, as the result of injuries sustained in the San Francisco
disaster. The family
of Mr. FORREST were separated by the disaster, and their whereabouts are
not known.
The remains will be brought her
by his brother Masons and will be interred under the auspices of the Lodge.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, May 2, 1906
Page 6
KENNETT (Shasta Co.), May 2 -
All miners in the Balaklala will hereafter work only eight hours for a shift.
Heretofore they have had to work nine hours. The change was made by the company
yesterday and was wholly voluntary. Fifty underground men are affected by the
change. The Mammoth Mine, the largest mine in the district, has had eight-hour
shifts for three or four months.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), May 2 -
W.G. RIDER, aged 80 years, one of the oldest pioneers of this county, passed
away Sunday at his home on Little Humbug, near here. His remains were brought
to Yreka Monday for burial. Mr. RIDER
came to California in 1849, coming “around the Horn,” and into Siskiyou County,
where he resided until his death. Mr.
RIDER was at one time a wealthy man, having made his money in mining. Through his generosity and advice many placer
mines were opened up in his district that paid handsomely. He was a man of
starling qualities, a friend to the poor and needy, and one whose demise will
long be mourned by his many friends. The deceased leaves a wife, two sons -
Will and Everson RIDER - and one daughter, Mrs. S.R. WHITE.
Pleasure Party Goes Down Into
the Earth and Meets With Fatal Accident on Way Up.
DEADWOOD (Trinity Co.), May 2 -
In the great tunnel of the Brown Bear Mine last night, Thaddeus NICHOLSON was
killed; Mrs. Edward PAULSEN and Miss Gertrude WHITE badly bruised, and four
others injured.
The party consisted of the three
named and Miss Mollie THORN, Miss Roxie
NICHOLSON, Harry CLAYTON and
George NICHOLSON, all of whom had entered the
mine
for a pleasure trip down into its great depths.
The tunnel is 6000 feet long. The party boarded a bicycle car, something like those used by railroad men, and made the
descent in safety, spending some time in the mine and enjoying themselves
without a thought of danger. At last it
was decided to return to the surface. Half the distance was covered in safety,
but at a point where an extra burst of speed was necessary to send the car
along a lot of rock was encountered. In
a twinkling Thaddeus NICHOLSON was caught in the jam and crushed to death. Life
fled at once and he could not have suffered.
Mrs. PAULSEN, wife of the leading merchant of this place, and Miss
WHITE, the schoolteacher here, but a resident of Woodland, were
badly bruised. The others of the party were
much shaken up. All are suffering from the mental shock, in addition.
The scene in the tunnel when it
was found that Thaddeus NICHOLSON had been killed was terrible, so many of his
own family as well as warm friends being present.
The body was brought to the
surface and word was sent to the Coroner. The funeral will probably take place
at French Gulch, Shasta County, to-morrow, where the dead man was well known.
He had resided here a long time and was popular and respected.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), May 2 - The Grand Jury,
when it adjourned in March, did so with the understanding that it would meet at
the call of the Chairman early in May. However, the meeting is to be postponed
indefinitely. It was expected that
Expert MASLIN would have the report of his work on the county records ready for
the May meeting of the Grand Jury, but it is learned he has not yet commenced
on his work here, having been engaged on work in San Francisco since the
adjournment of the Grand Jury. It is not known when he will be able to complete
his work here.
Father of Henry Fuchs Receives
Letter Saying His Son Did Not Die of Appendicitis.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May 2
- Was young henry FUCHS’ death due to cruelty, or is the author of a letter
just received by the father of the decedent seeking notoriety?
Young Henry FUCHS, Jr., had a
longing for the sea. With the consent of his father, a prominent merchant of
this city, he entered the Navy and and then went on a cruise in southern waters
on a training ship with many other embryo Jack Tars.
He died after being operated on
and his remains were shipped home for burial. That was two years ago. The
ship’s surgeon said it was appendicitis.
Now comes a letter from a young man who declares he was a shipmate of
FUCHS, and that the latter was not a sufferer from appendicitis, but died from
an injury received while acting under brutal orders. The writer, whose name Mr. FUCHS has not made
public, states that the lad was very ill, and while in this condition was
compelled to go aloft and perform manual labor, that he fell from the rigging
and was so badly injured that after a few days an operation was determined upon
in the hope of saving his life.
To cover up the true state of
affairs, alleges the author of the accusing epistle, the surgeons gave out the
statement that the boy died from appendicitis.
This informant declares he could
not write this publicly before, being in the service, but now that his time has
expired he is free to say what he chooses.
Mr. FUCHS places little credence
in the fellow’s statements, though the latter seems to court a thorough
investigation.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May 2
- Direct results of the San Francisco catastrophe are rapidly coming to light
here. Within the past few days six new cases of destitution have been reported
to the local Relief Committe, directly traceable to the disaster. At last
night’s meeting the the Committee these cases were reported. Two the sub-Reilef
Committee had already investigated and aided. One more was ordered given relief
and the remaining three were referred for thorough investigation. These families have come here since the fire,
having lost all they possessed, and have until now been cared for by friends.
In every case but one, they are former residents who made a good living in San
Francisco. The Committee still has over
$2300 in cash on hand, and will husband its resources, realizing that other
cases will develop before another week, and that assistance must be extended
over a considerable period. In San Francisco, Fran R. HULL, special
representative, is relieving needy former Grass Valleyans every day, he writes.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 2 -
Among the many other things which the San Francisco earthquake and fire has
brought about, is the transferring of a wedding which was to have taken place
in Ottawa, Canada, Saturday next, to Marysville.
The principals to the affair are
former City Attorney A.H. REDDINGTON and Miss Emily PARKS.
The groom-elect is now a
resident of San Francisco and he was preparing to leave that city for Ottawa on
the day the earthquake occurred. The legal business which has
resulted demands that he stay at home, hence the transferring of the nuptials
to the Pacific Coast.
The Parks home on E Street will
be the scene of the wedding. Miss PARKS is now en route to this city from
Canada.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 2 - A big
swarm of angry bees yesterday afternoon attacked the
3-year-old son of H.S. COBB and wife of Chapmantown, and so terribly did they
injure the little fellow that for a time it was feared he would not survive.
His body was fearfully swollen. The boy approached too near the hive, exciting
the bees to fierce anger.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, May 3, 1906
Page 6
Was Experimenting In High School
Laboratory When Accident Occurred, Inflicting Injures REDDING (Shasta Co.), May
3 - Miss Nelda EATON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James P. EATON, and a student in chemistry at the High School, was
painfully but not seriously burned yesterday afternoon in an explosion in the
High School laboratory, where she was trying to make carbon monoxide. The experiment is one marked dangerous in the
text book and is directed to be made by the teacher, being considered by the
author too risky for pupils to undertake.
Oxalic acid, concentrated
sulphuric acid and lime water were mixed in a test tube and heated over a
flame. The gas rapidly evolved as the heat increases. In spite of the extreme
caution that was to be used the mixture exploded, making a loud report and
scattering the strong acids in Miss EATON’s face and on her neck and dress.
She screamed for help, and the
teacher came from downstairs to her assistance. The application of the usual
ointments relieved the pain. The burns are not deep enough to leave scars, but
Miss EATON’s dress was completely ruined.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 3 -
Shasta County’s newest smelter town will be called Coram, in honor of the
President of the Balaklala Copper Mining Company, which has already begun
construction work on a 1000-ton smelter four miles south of Kennett, close to
the main line of the Southern Pacific.
The smelter will be larger than that of the Mammoth Copper Company at
Kennett, and as the size of the smelter determines the number of men employed
and fixes the size of the town clustered about the plant, it is reasonable to
predict that the town of Coram will in time be larger than Kennett is now.
Other smelter towns in Shasta
County are Keswick, Ingot, De La Mar and Kennett. Thus Coram will be the fifth.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 3 -
Mrs. Rosa M. SEAY, wife of William SEAY, of Trinity Center, died in this city
yesterday. Her death was due to inflammatory rheumatism, but it was hastened by
the nervous shock she received in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake.
She was born in Trinity County, in 1888, and was married less than a year ago.
She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George MILLER, of Trinity Center.
FRENCH GULCH (Shasta Co.), May 3
- The funeral of Thad NICHOLSON, who was killed Tuesday night in the Brown Bear
Tunnel at Deadwood by the capsizing of a velocipede car on which he and seven
other pleasureseekers were riding, was held here this afternoon under the auspices
of the Knights of Pythias and Foresters, to both of which Order NICHOLSON
belonged. He formerly lived in this camp and was a miner who was universally
liked.
WINTERS (Yolo Co.), May 3 - As
the time for operating the cannery on cherries is almost at hand the question
of getting cans becomes serious. The left-over stock was loaned to the
Sacramento canneries, and as the San Francisco fire cleaned up all the surplus
unmade stock there seems little probability of cans being had in time. Manager
NASH is contemplating the use of glass, and it looks like that or wait for Eastern shipments to arrive. If cans can be had, a large quantity of
tomatoes will be handled this season, that branch of the business having been
found quite profitable. Winters would be
glad if some of the refugees looking for work would come this way, as the local
help will not near supply the demand.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), May 3 -
Miss Gertrude WHITE, who was injured in the Brown Bear Mine near Deadwood, Trinity
County, as told in yesterday’s Bee, is a resident of this city. She is the
daughter of W.S WHITE, a prominent contractor and builder. Miss WHITE has been
teaching school in Trinity County for several months. Her friends here rejoice
that she escaped with her life. Their first news of it came from The Bee.
Teamster Almost Bleeds To Death
Before Doctor Could Be Summoned To Stop The Flow GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May
3 - Barney FREDENBURR, after almost severing his left foot from the leg
yesterday afternoon, mounted a horse and rode half a mile to the home of
Charles FOWLER, whither medical aid was summoned. FREDENBURR is employed by
the Banner Lumber Company as a driver. He makes daily trips between
Fowler’s sawmill at Banner and this city, where the yards are located.
Yesterday he stopped his team to chop away a stump impeding traffic by the
roadside.
The ax glanced and struck the
ankle with such force that the tough boot was sliced like paper and the blade
driven through flesh and bone until the foot was left hanging by a shred of
flesh and the small ankle bone.
FREDENBURR, with wonderful nerve, pulled off the boot and tied a
handkerchief tightly above the wound to check the flow of blood.
Then he hobbled to the team,
unharnessed one of the horses and rode for life to the FOWLER place.
A telephone message to this city
sent Dr. CHAPPELL to the scene. He found FREDENBURR almost pulseless, and on
the verge of death from loss of blood.
Only by the most heroic work was the injured man’s life saved. It is now doubtful whether or not the awful
wound will ever heal, though every endeavor will be made to induce the bone to
knit.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 3 -
At the County Hospital yesterday, James BRANNAN, who was struck by a train
Monday, as told in The Bee at the time, passed away. A son resides in
Sacramento County. BRANNAN and two companions were sitting along the railroad
track when the accident occurred.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), May 3 -
B. GERBER and a companion, who were accused by a woman of the half-world here,
of selling millinery and dry goods without a license, were released on the
condition that they would cancel all orders taken.
The woman, known was Phyllis
WENTWORTH, then issued an attachment for one of
GERBER’s trunks, claiming she had been defrauded of $5. The fellow sought
release on the ground that an attachment could not be placed during a legal
holiday, but the Court held it could as a ministerial act, but that he could not
hear a motion to dissolve the attachment while holidays were in force. The matter now awaits the resumption of
business by the Court.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), May 3 - The
mining excitement at Fouts Springs still continues.
BARNETT & DREW, who were the pioneers in the mines there, have six men
working on their claims, and the ore they are taking out is assaying well.
C.H. GLENN, the owner of the
Springs, is also an enthusiastic mine-owner and the assays on the ore taken
from his claims leads him to think that there will be a big strike made.
George SPENCER, who is a
stockholder in a corporation owning mines in the Fouts district, writes from
Silver City, New Mexico, that he has sold twenty-four shares of the stock held
by him for the sum of $24,000, and claims that the purchasers are awaiting a
further assay which will determining whether or not they will take all the
shares he has at the same price.
The purchasers of the SPENCER
stock are the owners of a process which they claim will extract more gold from
ore by 50 per cent than any other process.
They have asked for a contract to work over the ore left from the
Barnett & Drew mines after it has been worked.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), May 3 - A
stranger in town, Al BOURNE, came to Vallejo Tuesday night by steamer, arriving
at 8 o’clock. He visited several saloons, evidently looking for victims. At
once place he wanted the bartender to lend him $3 on a women’s gold watch he
had in his possession, so he could get a room for the night. The bartender
refused. The fellow then entered another saloon, on Georgia Street, and went
into the back room where Walter MEGARRY, a well-known resident, was sitting
alone.
BOURNE got up an argument with
MEGARRY which ended in a wrestling match, and while so engaged he put his hand
into MEGARRY’s back trousers’ pocket and took a purse from it containing $110
in gold. Then, punching MEGARRY in the jaw, he ran out of the saloon.
MEGARRY followed, giving the
alarm, and Officer GEHRMAN chased and caught BROWN hiding in an alley. He was taken to jail. Knock-out drops were
found on him and the $110, but no other cash.
Chief STANFORD thinks the fellow
has a bad record and has sent photographs of him to San Francisco and Oakland.
BOURNE has been arraigned on a charge of robbery and held in bail of $1000 for
preliminary trial.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), May 3 -
The Justice’s Court and the lawyers of Red Bluff are somewhat at
cross-purposes. The lawyers complain that Justice of the Peace BRANSFORD
settles too many cases in his Court and does not give the practitioners a
chance. In many cases it seems the Justice is the advisor on both sides,
besides being the Judge. But this, probably, is not done so much to cut the
lawyers out as to save time. The Justice, perhaps, can make quicker work of a
case than the lawyers, and as his fee is $3 for each case he had rather, no
doubt, devote a few minutes to one than a whole day.
Skull Of Woman Picked Up in
Truckee River Crushed In And Officers Think Crime Was Committed RENO (Nev.),
May 3 - Coroner READ completed his examination in the case of the woman found
floating in the Truckee River last night, and his verdict is that she came to
her death from a fractured skull, inflicted in a manner unknown.
There is promise of a
first-class mystery developing from the case. An examination of the remains
show the body may be that of a white woman, as the skin is too fair for that of
a Japanese or an Indian. The hair is also too fine, although it is intensely
black.
The strangest feature of the
affair is that the skull of the woman is crushed in. The Coroner says the woman
could not have caused this by jumping in the water and striking a rock, as the
blow would not have had sufficient force.
The Police Department is making
an investigation. About a week ago cries for help were heard coming from the
spot where the body was found. Two officers responded and discovered a man’s
colored handkerchief, but no one was to be found in the vicinity.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
May 5, 1906
Page 6
County Surveyor Ashley Returns
to Woodland With Latest Story of Situation at Cache Creek Gorge WOODLAND (Yolo
Co.), May 5 - This morning County Surveyor P.N. ASHLEY returned from the scene
of the great landslide gorge on Cache Creek, having left there at 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, bringing with him the latest authentic account of the
situation.
At the hour he left, the flood
was within ten feet of the top of the day, he stated this morning to The Bee’s
correspondent, and as the big barrier is composed mostly of dirt, with only a
little rock, it is likely to go out with a rush when the crest is reached,
probably about 3 o’clock this afternoon. Should it do so, much damage will be don, but Woodland and this section is not likely to be
inundated. It cannot be predicted, however, what the result of a break will be
with any certainty. Should the dam wear away easily, the damage will not be
nearly so heavy.
The people below the barrier
live in terror. They have taken to the hills, with livestock and such
possessions as they could transport. All
bridges except the one at Rumsey are being watched. No one could be found who
was willing to guard that structure, as it is feared there the flood will come
at any moment and sweep everything before it.
Surveyor ASHLEY is of the opinion that the earthquake between 8 and 9
o’clock Tuesday night sent the side of the mountain into the creek. The dam is 107 feet high, by actual
measurement, 1000 feet wide at the bottom and 175 at the top. Backed above it
as far as the eye can reach is a vast lake of water.
And the people who live in the
country below it are in terror as to what the result will be when this great
volume is turned free to come down upon their possessions.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 5 -
From relatives who went to San Francisco in quest of them it is learned that
John C. CARSTENBROCK and wife, former residents of Marysville, were among those
killed by the earthquake of the 18th inst. They had quarters in the
Corona Hotel, corner Sixth and Folsom Streets, from which building only the
landlord escaped. In all, thirty-three were killed in the Corona.
Mrs. CARSTENBROCK was formerly
Miss Mary WITT, of Live Oak, Sutter County. Two children of the unfortunate couple were
luckily left with friends in Sacramento when they moved from that place to the
bay six months ago. Mrs. William BEDEAU, of this city, is a sister of
CARSTENBROCK.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 5 -
At noon to-day the residence of Mrs. W.H.
PARKS on E Street was the scene
of a May wedding at which Arthur H.
REDINGTON, an attorney of San Francisco, and Miss Emily HAPGOOD PARKS
joined hearts and hands for life.
Rev. MITCHELL, pastor of St.
John’s Episcopal Church, tied the nuptial knot, in the presence of the
relatives of the contracting parties and a few intimate friends of the
families.
The young couple left for San
Francisco on the afternoon train. The groom at one time filled the position of
City Attorney there.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 5 - A
colored man named Sandy HATTON promises to become plaintiff in a suit against
the city of Marysville for the purpose of recovering something in the
neighborhood of $200. He alleges that
his bird dog, an exceptionally apt retriever, was taken by Poundmaster
FAULKNER, and by the latter killed before the three days laid down in the
ordinance for impounded animals to be kept before being shot had expired.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 5 -
To add to her discomfiture, Mrs. Fred KEEGAN, one of the San Francisco refugees
stopping with friends here, received a telegram to-day announcing that her
husband is lying critically ill in a hospital at Tonopah, at which place he was
engaged in a mine at the time of the San Francisco disaster.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 5 -
Marriage licenses were issued in this county this week to the following
parties:
B.F. CHAFFIN and Mrs. Mary J.
DAVIS, both of Live Oak; William H. DONNELLY and Alwilda E. RANDALL, both of
Colusa; H.H. REDINGTON of San Francisco and Miss Emily PARKER of Marysville.
REDDING, May 5 - Five marriage
licenses were issued this week in Shasta County. The couples receiving them
were John H. CREIGHTON, aged 25, and Minnie G. WHIPPLE, both of Glenburn; Frank
CATA, aged 28, of Copper City, and Julia EARLY, aged 19, of Round Mountain;
Cameron L. BRANSTETTER, aged 32, of Dunsmuir, and Mrs. Nellie M. KENDLEBARGER,
aged 26, of Kennett;
Domenico SALVADORE, aged 29, and
Maria MAZZO, aged 23, both of Kennett, Hugh LAMBERT, aged 27, of Ingot, and Ida
GREER, aged 24, of Whitehouse.
John Salsbury, Of Cherokee, Thrown From Buggy To Ground, His Head Striking
With Great Force OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 5 - John SALSBURY, an old residence
of Butte County, met a violent death yesterday in a runaway accident, directly
in front of the Post Office in Cherokee.
He was driving by when his horse
became frightened and started off at a wild gallop. SALSBURY was thrown from
the buggy, falling with fearful force on his head.
Dr. REARDON, of this city, was
summoned at once by telephone, but when he arrived
SALSBURY was dead.
Deceased was about 50 years of
age, and leaves a widow and a 6-year-old son.
An inquest was held last evening and a verdict of accidental death from
injuries sustained by being thrown from a buggy was rendered.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May 5
- With cries of “Keep back! Keep back!” “Black Jack” Richards, a young man with
an unsavory record, defied Nightwatchman PETERSON to take him last night
shortly before midnight and made his escape, while frightened spectators ran
for places of shelter, believing bullets were about to fly.
RICHARDS, who has been in
trouble several times before, poses as something of a “bad man,” created a
scene on Mill Street. PETERSON was informed he was flourishing a revolver. The
officer hurried up and attempted to search RICHARDS, who showed fight. He
received a blow on the head from the watchman’s club, but not sufficient to
knock him down. He sprang back and thrust his hand into his inner coat pocket,
giving vent to the warning. A
peace-maker named KINNEY sprang between the pair and begged RICHARDS not to draw
his revolver. Meanwhile RICHARDS and KINNEY backed across the
street to Bank Alley, down which they ran together. On the way RICHARDS
gave his revolver, a cheap 38-caliber affair, with three loaded chambers, to
KINNEY, who returned and delivered it ti PETERSON, who was outdistanced.
PETERSON will cause RICHARD’s arrest on a charge of resisting an officer. RICHARDS, if captured, will probably get the
limit, owing to his past. Something over
a year ago he was taken into custody on suspicion of attempting to criminally
assault an aged woman residing in this city.
RICHARDS, however, was released, owing to lack of evidence.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May 5
- Yesterday was marked by the passing of two old-time residents of this city -
James FEENEY and James PAULL. Mr.
FEENEY’s death was due to an attack of heart failure. He came here in the early
ë60s and followed mining, being the original locator of the famous W.Y.O.D.,
now part of the big Pennsylvania Mining Company’s property, and a mine which
has made many men wealthy, though FEENEY got little out of it himself.
PAULL was stricken with
paralysis two days ago and lay unconscious until the end. His grandfather
fought in the Revolution for Independence. PAULL crossed the plains in 1850
with five of his brothers and sisters with an ox team outfit. He came here in
1852 and made this city his home until his death. Both men were highly esteemed
and their loss is mourned by a host of old friends.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), May 5
- Suit was commenced here yesterday by Henry RULE and Elisabeth M. THOMAS
against their cousins - Albert and Annie RULE to declare a deed given the
latter by the former’s father null and void.
Around it is quite a story.
Aged William P. RULE, it is
said, offered to deed his residence property at Grass Valley to Albert and
Annie RULE if they would reside with him and give him their care during the
remainder of his life. It is alleged that the son and daughter declined to
leave their home in Berkeley to accept the offer. The deed was made and
delivered to W.D. HARRIS for safekeeping. After RULE’s death it was given to
Albert and Annie RULE, who recorded it.
The plaintiffs in their complaint offer numerous legal objections against
the course pursued in the obtaining of the deed. A bitter fight is expected.
Man Who Made Murderous Assault
On Wife and Father-In-Law Held To Answer By Court GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.),
May 5 - John ALLEN was held to appear for trial in the Superior Court at the
close of his preliminary examination in this city late yesterday afternoon, on
the charge of attempting to murder his wife, Zetta ALLEN. Justice COUGHLIN
placed ALLEN’s bonds at $5000, but no attempt was made to furnish them. The
assault took place early in April. That
temporary insanity will be the plea of the defense was shown at the
preliminary, and from the testimony adduced it is admitted that the prosecution
has little left to combat this plea.
Mrs. ALLEN’s testimony went to
prove that in their married life they had never had the slightest semblance of
a quarrel, nor had any of her relatives ever had words with ALLEN. Up to the
very moment that ALLEN stabbed her father, she declared, this spirit of peace
had never been broken. She stated that her husband had been acting very
strangely for several days, and she did not believe him in his right mind at
the time of the murderous attack on herself and father.
Harry JENKIN, a brother,
corroborated her testimony to the effect that the family had always been on the
very best of terms with ALLEN. At the time of the attack, Harry JENKIN swore,
ALLEN was sober. During the testimony of
his wife, ALLEN nearly broke down. His lips twitched and tears started. He
wiped them away with a white silk handkerchief, and kept his face averted from
her. Their eyes did not meet, though they were within a few feet of each other.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), May 5 -
Constable J. LOCKYEAR brought up from Weed Thursday Joe POUNCHAKI, a Russian,
who lately arrived there from San Francisco. He was adjudged insane yesterday
by County Physician McNULTY, and ordered sent to Napa Asylum. The insane man is
supposed to be an escaped inmate of Agnews Asylum.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 5 -
Charles F. HANLON, defendant in the case of Daniel SULLIVAN vs. HANSON and F.C.
LUSK yesterday filed notice that on July 2d he will ask a a change of venue
from the Butte County Superior Court to the San Francisco Courts.
He bases his demands for a
change of venue on the grounds that he is not and never has been a resident of
Butte County. The original suit was to recover $2350 alleged to be due for
attorney’s fees.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 5 -
News reached here yesterday afternoon of the death in San Francisco of Mrs. Ada
Frances REARDAN, widow of the late Judge T.B. REARDAN, who, with his wife,
resided here for a number of years. Dr.
T.H. REARDAN, of this city, is a stepson of deceased. Mrs. REARDAN was a
highly educated and cultured woman and many friends deeply regret her demise.
The interment took place yesterday afternoon in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, San
Francisco.
The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
May 5, 1906
Page 10
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), May
5 - Only seventeen days remain before the trial of Mrs. Emma LE DOUX, the
accused murderess of Albert N. McVICAR, will take place. Both sides are working
hard gathering evidence, and it now appears that the trial will be one of the
hardest fought in years. Both District Attorney NORTON and his assistant George
McNOBLE, are spending all their time working on the
case. Hugh McNOBLE, Attorney FAIRALL and Attorney CROCKER are as busily engaged
framing up their side. Assistant
District Attorney McNOBLE, who is the brother of Hugh McNOBLE, the leading
attorney for the defense, has been out of town since the 1st inst.,
and it is said he and Sheriff SIBLEY are in Arizona gathering evidence in
regard to the former life of the defendant.
“I know where my brother and the
Sheriff have gone,” said Hugh McNOBLE to a Bee reporter. “I just begin to see
through it. For two or three days I have looked for George but have not been
able to locate him, now I remember seeing him and the Sheriff at the Southern
Pacific Depot last Tuesday night. They
were dressed in their traveling clothes, and I am pretty sure were bound for
Arizona. It won’t do them any good, though, as they will not learn anything
new. I would willingly tell them all they wanted to know about the matter. Yes,
it’s a wild goose chase.”
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), May 5 -
The statement made by Dr. GROSSHAUSER, a local physician, that the death of
Rebecca, wife of J.B. DENNIS, was the result of criminal negligence on the part
of the family, has engendered considerable bitter feeling here toward the
husband by neighbors and a number of others. Mrs. DENNIS died suddenly at 11:30
last night. The DENNIS family are recent
arrivals from Cottonwood, Shasta County, and she was a believer in Divine
healing as taught by the members of Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science Church,
and was treated by Lodi women and Mrs.
FELT, a healer from Stockton.
At the inquest conducted by
Coroner SOUTHWORTH, Dr. GROSSHAUSER testified that had he been called the day
before Mrs. DENNIS’ death, which he said was due to angini pectoris, he could
have saved her life. On the strength of
this statement The Bee correspondent interviewed the aged husband. He found a
lonely white-haired Civil War veteran, who at the sunset of life was bowed down
with sorrow by his great bereavement. To the questions of whether the services
of a physician had been denied his wife during his illness, he sorrowfully
answered:
“No, sir!
She was never refused anything at any time that gave promise of benefitting
her. She has been an invalid for over eight years, and during that time has
treated with the best physicians I could find. Last night she was stricken with
apoplexy and is less than fifteen minutes was dead. I sent a neighbor for a
physician, but before the doctor arrived all was over. That same doctor, when
he testified that he could have saved her, knew better. All the doctors and all the Christian
Scientists in Christendom couldn’t have saved her.”
“I am not a Christian Scientist,
but I must admit that these women who practice that faith gave my wife more
comfort in two weeks than all the doctors gave her in eight years’ treatment.”
Mrs. DENNIS was a native of Ohio, aged 66 years. The funeral will be held to-day.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.), May
5 - S.G. BEACH has twenty-three men at work at his mill at Fresh Pond, getting
the mill in shape for the season’s run.
The framework is up and the machinery is now being set up. Mr. BEACH
expects to begin sawing lumber in about two weeks, and to have the entire mill
in operation by the first of next month.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), May
5 - The people of Tracy were shocked Thursday night upon learning of the tragic
death of one of their most respected citizens - James F. BANTA.
Mr. BANTA did not return to town
from his ranch, a short distance out, at the usual hour, and his family became
alarmed. A son, accompanied by Austin GIBBONS, drove out to the place to
ascertain the cause of the delay. They found the house dark, and striking a
march, saw the body of BANTA lying on the floor, a 45-caliber Colt’s revolver a
foot or so from him, and a bullet hole in his head.
The son and GIBBONS, seeing that
the man was dead, hurried back to Tracy and reported the affair. An investigation
was made and it was ascertained that BANTA had been dead some time, as the
blood had coagulated. The only causes assigned for committing the rash deed
were worry over financial losses due to his ranch, which was flooded last
season, and the wayward actions of this eldest son.
James BANTA was a well-to-do
farmer and had many friends in the southern part of the county. He left a wife
and six children, the youngest being an infant. A brother, H.C. BANTA, is
engaged in the cigar business in the same town.
WHEATLAND (Yuba Co.), May 5 -
Three accidents occurred at the picnic at Waldo yesterday. Deputy Constable
L.D. ANDERSON was watering his horse when the latter pulled away, threw him
down and the buggy passed over him. He was rendered unconscious.
The runaway horse collided with
a buggy in which Miss Lena WALLACE was riding. She was thrown out and
considerably bruised. Luther ALLEN,
while leaving the race-track, was knocked down by a runaway horse and considerably
bruised. All the injured are doing well.
TRUCKEE (Nev.), May 5 - Albert
RICHARDSON, the mail carried between Hobart Mills and this place, says that
there is at least four feet of snow between Hobart mills and Sage Hen Hill. He
has been allowed an extension of fifteen days. Mr. RICHARDSON is supposed to
commence on May 1st to carry the mail from here to Sierraville. He
is of the opinion he will have to make another request for at least another ten
days’ extension of time.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 5 -
John HILL, a young man employed at the Turtle Bay sawmill here, had a
remarkable escape from death this morning. He fell upon a circular saw and his
abdomen was ripped open, but he retained presence of mind enough to lift
himself before being disemboweled. The surgeon called in says HILL’s escape
from death is astonishing.
CARSON (Nev.), May 5 - No appeal
for a rehearing has been filed in the Supreme Court by the attorneys for Johnnie
and Ibapah, the two Montello Indians charged with murder, and they will
probably be executed on June 5th, the time fixed by the Elko
District Court, where they were convicted.
The two young men confessed to killing a one-legged stranger, Johnnie holding
him while Ibapah cut his throat. The man had offended them by refusing to buy
them a bottle of whisky. They are under a death watch, and every precaution
will be taken to prevent them from committing suicide, an Indian characteristic
when death is impending.
RENO (Nev.), May 5 - Henry RHUE,
aged 78 years, one of the most prominent residents of Reno, and for many years
a cattleman who dealt extensively in California and Nevada, is dead of asthma.
He leaves five children, one of
them being Mrs. C. McLAUGHLIN, of Sacramento, where Mr. RHUE lived for a time.
The dead man leaves a large estate, consisting of residence and business
property in Reno.
RENO (Nev.),
may 5 - Mrs. Isaac SEMINARIO, a prominent vocalist and society woman of San
Francisco, who came to Reno about a year ago and afterward filed a divorce
proceeding against her husband, who is supposed to be in Chile, was yesterday
granted a divorce by the District Court, wherein her case was heard in
Chambers. She alleged desertion and non-support. Madame SEMINARO has been a
prominent figure in Reno Social circles since coming here from the Coast.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, May 7, 1906
Page 6
SHASTA (Shasta Co.), May 7 -
Robert LITSCH, 14-year-old son of Postmaster LITSCH, accidentally shot himself through the
foot Saturday noon with a 22-caliber rifle. He was out hunting with another
boy, Joseph WOLL. His gun was cocked. He stood it upside down with the muzzle
on his foot, and in that position the weapon was discharged, the bullet passing
through the foot into the ground. Joseph WOLL carried his wounded comrade on
his back to town, half a mile distant, and a doctor was
summoned.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 7 -
Because he thought he was overcharged for a steak which was burnt, Albert
FISHER, a floating resident of Chico, sent two rocks crashing through a window
at the proprietor of a local chophouse Sunday afternoon, and was placed in the
City Jail for disturbing the peace soon afterwards.
It seems that FISHER had to pay
75 cents for an alleged bad steak Saturday night. The charge caused a quarrel
at the time. Again Sunday morning FISHER ordered and ate a steak. This time the
charge was 40 cents, which was paid without discussion.
But for some reason, FISHER had
put two rocks in his pocket before entering, and as soon as he was outside he
turned, and, cursing the proprietor, threw the rocks directly through the glass
window at the chop dealer, who later swore out the warrant for arrest.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 7 - A man
named DUBBS, foremen of one of the Northern Electric working gangs, became
afflicted by nose bleeding while lying on the city park lawn here yesterday
afternoon. For over two hours he could not stop the flow, and finally fell
unconscious on the floor of a neighboring building. Help was secured and DUBBS
was placed in the city jail’s hospital, but was later transferred to the home
of a brother-in-law. He will recover.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 7 - The
young man who short-circuited the lines of the Sunset Telephone in Chico a few
days ago because he lost his job, has been found by the officers. The boy,
Harold WILLIAMS, is a local youth, about 17 years of age. He can give no reason
for his actions. The authorities were puzzled for a time to discover a charge
to place against the young man.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 7 -
Many people had their lives endangered Sunday by the actions of reckless gangs
of Western Pacific laborers. Several wagonloads of the men were in town and
after filling up on liquor started for camp. The moment they were clear of the
city limits they would pull their revolvers out and commence shooting in the
most reckless way, regardless of where the bullets were flying.
A large number of people were
taking a Sunday outing along the river and the flying bullets were a constant
source of danger. Stock grazing in the pastures was also in danger. Many
parties had narrow escapes, bullets whizzing by them so close they felt the
rush of air as they passed. People sought places of safety behind rocks and
trees and hid until the fusillade had ceased.
If the shooting occurs again the
authorities will make examples of the participants which will deter them in the
future.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 7 -
School census returns are being received from the various districts. The most striking showing is made by Keswick,
which has a population of only forty-five children of school age. These will
give the smelter town only one teacher next year, instead of two, as at
present. Three years ago the smelter
town had four teachers, and children enough to give employment to four teachers
and draw school money on the basis of five teachers.
Anderson returns 204 children, giving
the town only three teachers. Two years ago it had four teachers. French Gulch
has a school population of ninety-four, barely enough to entitle the district
to two teachers again. Kennett has not
yet reported. The district will surely show a gain of at least one teacher.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), May 7 -
Arthur BERG, a young San Francisco teamster, died here Saturday afternoon. His
death was an indirect result of the fearful earthquake of the 18th.
The young man was in the employ of a draying firm whose teams were constantly
in demand. He worked night and day, and did not have his clothes off from the
18th to the 3d of this month, when he arrived from San Francisco
with his mother. He was completely worn out and immediately went to bed. He had
a presentiment that he was about to die, for he told his friends down there
that he wanted to come to Willows to see his father before he died. The body
was shipped to San Francisco and will be buried by the Teamsters’ union, of which
the deceased was a member.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 7 -
An example of the need of the subway which the City Council is insisting upon
at the intersection of Fifth and K Streets, where the three new railways are to
have crossings, was had at the corner of Ninth and B Streets Saturday
afternoon. At this latter point the freighter and passenger trains bound south
over the Knights Landing route back out of the city
over Ellis Lake.
Although the warning bell at the
crossing was ringing and the engine of a passenger train had tooted out the
crossing signal, Louis PADILLA, seated on an ice wagon, drove in front of the
coaches and narrowly escaped with his life. The impact threw him a distance of
twenty feet and he alighted with two severe scalp and face wounds, a concussion
of the spine in the small of the back and an injured leg. The attending
physicians at first feared fatal internal injuries, but now are of the opinion
that there are none. They say the young man will recover.
PADILLA was formerly driver of
the Fire Department engines for the city and is considered an expert with the
reins. He says the noise which his wagon made prevented him hearing the train
which was backing down on the crossing over a curve.
One of the horses was so badly
injured in one leg that it was deemed best to shoot him. The wagon had to be
sent to the repair shop.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 7 -
As Mrs. Josie ST. CLAIR, a woman of the half-world, who on the 24th
ult. was beaten severely on the head by a retired soldier named John HOLLAND in
her crib on First Street, succumbed to her injuries at the County Hospital, the
charge against HOLLAND has been changed from safekeeping to that of murder.
HOLLAND was intoxicated when he
wielded a heavy bolt which caused the injuries. He was angered because the
woman would not return a dollar he had given her.
Owing to the fact that the woman
would at no time during her illness admit that she was in danger of death,
District Attorney BRITTAN did not secure a dying statement from her. There is,
however, a strong case against HOLLAND, who claims to have seen six years’
service in the United States Signal Corps.
Dunsmuir Boy Nearly Killed By
Accidental Discharge Of Gun As He Prepared To Go Hunting OROVILLE (Butte Co.),
May 7 - Hermann BOELMAN, a 16-year-old boy, yesterday afternoon narrowly missed
blowing the whole top of his head off, and that he escaped death is simply
marvelous.
The boy was camping with his
father, George BOELMAN, of Dunsmuir, near the electric company’s power house.
He had prepared to go hunting and picked up the gun with the muzzle pointing
toward him. His foot tripped upon the tongue of a wagon and in recovering
himself the guns was discharged. Luckily he did not receive the full charge or
he would have met instant death. Mr.
BOELMAN hurried to town with the injured lad, where, after an examination, it
was found that the lobe of the left ear had been blown away, one shot had
lodged in the ball
of the left eye and a large chunk of flesh had been blown from the left hand,
making an extremely painful wound. The
attending physician fears the sight of the left eye will be lost.
The lad was game and never
whimpered when placed upon the operating table.
The lad’s father is a traveling prospector and his mother is in
Dunsmuir, where the family make their home.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), May 7 -
This place and immediate vicinity has received a visit from patent medicine
men, or their agents, and as a result there are two seriously sick children in
town. Their illness was caused from eating sugar-coated pills that were wrapped
in pamphlets and indiscriminately scattered throughout dooryards.
Friday afternoon James A. RICE’s
5-year-old boy was discovered in possession of fifteen pellets, three of which
were guaranteed to knock out a case of rheumatism.
Parents in the outlying
districts are much exercised over the matter and are actually afraid to allow
their children out of their sight.
Lodi Man Has Retained Attorneys
And Will Fight Young Girl’s Charge As One of Blackmail LODI (San Joaquin Co.),
May 7 - Blacksmith S.N. FEESE, charged with rape, his victim being an innocent
little girl, in all probability will be indicted to-morrow y the Grand Jury.
Among the witnesses who have been subpenaed to appear before the inquisitorial
body are Editor S.B. AXTELL, of the Lode SENTINEL; Greer McDONALD, who, it is
claimed, surprised FEESE while in the commission of the fearful crime, and the
little victim herself. McDONALD,
to-morrow, will tell the Grand Jury how he learned of the presence of FEESE and
the little girl in a vacant shed at the rear of his place of business; how he
opened the door of the shed and walked into the very presence of the guilty man
and his childish victim; how FEESE afterward came to him and placing both hands
on McDONALD’s shoulders said: “Protect me, Greer, for God’s sake, and for the
honor of my family and myself, protect me;” how McDONALD pushed the guilty man
from him, expressing himself in denunciation of FEESE in terms that will not
permit of publication. S.B. AXTELL will
tell the Grand Jurors, among other things, how he went to FEESE as a brother
Odd Fellow, to get the truth of the matter and to protect him against the awful
charge, if false, and if true, to see that he was expelled from the Order; how
FEESE, in response to the query of guilt, answered: “Before my God, and as a
brother Odd Fellow, it is false;” how half an hour later in AXTEL’s private
office, in the presence of AXTELL and confronted by McDONALD, FEESE finally
broke down and confessed the crime. Then
will be told the sad story of the girl, as confessed to The Bee’s correspondent
and later to District Attorney C.W. NORTON. The little victim herself a mere
child who loves her big doll better than anything else in the world - who says
she is 12, but doesn’t look to be more than 9 - this wronged child will tell to
those stern-faced jurors the story of her ill treatment.
On top of these seemingly
staggering declarations, FEESE has decided to fight the charges on the grounds
of blackmail, and accordingly he has secured counsel.
Another sad feature of this most
miserable affair is the mortgaging for all it will bear of the pretty FEESE
home and other property to pay the attorneys. This, too, in spite of kind and
well-meaning friends who have insisted in vain that Mrs. FEESE refuse to sign
away her little home.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, May 8, 1906
Page 6
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), May 8 - The
water let loose in Cache Creek yesterday by the breaking of the dam in Grizzly
Canyon has subsided materially and the creek will soon assume its normal
aspect.
The damage done was not near as
great as was expected, and it is believed by many that the dam wore away
gradually, allowing the water to escape much more slowly than it would if it
had all gone out at once. Below Guinda
the damage done was no greater than in ordinary high water. Many people from this city gathered at the
different bridges near here to watch the approach of the water and pronounced
it a wonderful sight. It is not believed
that there will be any more trouble.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), may 8 - A young man named Max KURTZ, employed on the new
pipe line, was at Green Valley Sunday, and while trying to secure ferns on the
almost perpendicular rock of the falls, fell forty feet into the pool of water
below.
He struck one of the
sharp-pointed rocks that intersect the pool of water below the waterfall, and
cut a terrible gash in his neck. He was wedged in the water between the rocks
and was unconscious for twenty minutes.
Two friends dragged him out and he was taken to the fairfield
County Hospital where his injuries were attended to. He is still in a precarious
condition.
Schoolboy Sinks To Death In Five
Feet Of Water, And Close To Shore, His Companions Looking On REDDING (Shasta
Co.), May 8 - Willie MARK, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry MARK, of this city,
was drowned yesterday afternoon in Churn Creek, four miles from Redding, in
five feet of water, and seven feet from the shore.
After the close of school for
the day Willie MARK, Wesley MARK, aged 9, and Ivan OLIVER asked and received
permission to go and play for a couple of hours. They never mentioned going to
the creek, but thither they went, and plunged into the swimming hole.
Willie MARK was the only lad of
the three that could swim at all, and he could swim
but indifferently. He swam out from the bank only seven feet,
and probably being seized with cramps, cried for help. The two smaller boys on
shore could render no assistance. Willie MARK sank to the bottom. His younger
brother ran to the home of his uncle, Dave THOMPSON, and summoned aid.
Dave THOMPSON and James BALLOU
arrived at the swimming hole half an hour after the drowning. The body was
speedily recovered, but all efforts to restore life were unavailing.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry MARK live in
Redding. Their little son was living with an uncle across the river, so as to
go to school.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 8 -
Miss Bee TAYLOR, residing temporarily in San Francisco, was in Redding several
days last week looking for some trace of a $20,000 gold mine near this city
that her uncle, James D. TAYLOR, left when he died in San Francisco in April
1903.
Miss TAYLOR spent many hours in
diligent search of the records, and in making inquiries among mining men, but
she found no evidence of the valuable gold mine left by her relative. Her home
is in the East. She came to the Coast only recently to administer upon her
uncle’s estate. While she was in San Francisco, and only a day before the
earthquake, she met a Masonic friend of her uncle. It was from him she got the
information about the gold mine for which her uncle had steadfastly refused
$20,000 cash. This friends could not give the exact
location of the rich claim. He knew only that it was “near Redding.”
The occasion of Miss TAYLOR’s
return to San Francisco was to hunt up this friend and get more information, if
possible. But because of the confusion caused by the fire and the earthquake,
it may be as hard to find her uncle’s friends in the city as it is to find the
$20,000 gold mine “near Redding.”
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 8 - A
large swarm of bees took possession yesterday of the flue in the reading room
of the Temple Hotel, and Landlord CLINESCHMIDT thought to get rid of them by
smoking them out. The bees vacated the flue all right, but immediately took
possession of the next one in the fire wall. As there are over twenty flues in
the Temple Hotel, it may keep Landlord CLINESCHMIDT building fires all Summer to get rid of the honeymakers.
BELLA VISTA (Shasta Co.), May 8 -
Christian Andrew LEMM, aged 85, and the father of ten sons, all but one grown
to manhood, died Sunday afternoon at his home near this village, and was buried
this afternoon in the Houston Cemetery on Stillwater.
Mr. LEMM was a native of
Germany. He came to America in 1853, to California in 1854, and to Shasta
County in 1884. For almost thirty years prior to moving to this county he
resided in Chico. He is survived by the wife whom he married in 1865. For ten
years he had been in failing health, yet he retained his mental vigor to the
very last, and on the day of his death reminded his family that it was the
fifty-second anniversary of the day of his departure from Wisconsin for
California. Eight of the ten sons were
present at the scene of death. Two sons, Harris Christian LEMM, and David C.
LEMM, were in Chico, where the former makes his home and where the latter is a
student in the Normal. The eight sons residing in the immediate vicinity of
Bella Vista are Charles L., George W., Frank P., Henry W., Gustaf F., Ernest
J., Christian A., Jr., and Louis L. The
family was never blessed with a daughter.
Bitter Legal Fight Promised to
Secure Possession of Baby
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 8 - A
case wherein mother love is pitted against the natural maternal instinct of
womankind was the basis of a rather sensational abduction case yesterday
afternoon with the result that the Courts will have to decide in a bitter legal
contest as to the disposition of the infant child. The facts of the case, so
far as made known, are as follows:
A Portuguese family named
LAWRENCE have been living in a wagon at what
is known as the Lava Beds, a few miles below Oroville. W.T. FREDERICEY, a
dredger employe, with his wife, lives near the LAWRENCE camp. Five months ago a
baby girl - the ninth child - was born to the LAWRENCEs, and as they are poor
they expressed dismay at the coming of the infant. Mrs. FREDERICEY had no children, and she took the new born babe and fed and clothed
it. The FREDERICEYs offered to adopt the child, and they aver the LAWRENCEs
gladly assented to it. Within an hour after its birth the babe changed
hands. FREDERICEY paid the bill of the
attending physician and provided a nurse for the little girl.
For five months this continued
and the FREDERICEYs came to look upon the child as their own flesh and blood.
But there came a day when Mrs. LAWRENCE began to pine for her baby,
notwithstanding the fact that there were eight other children for her mother
love to go out to. She determined, if possible, to get her child back. She
consulted an attorney who told her that as the child had never been legally
adopted, in the eyes of the law the right of possession was still vested in
her. At her request the lawyer wrote a note to the FREDERICEYs demanding that
they turn the child over to his lawful parents, or be prepared to stand suit
for the recovery of the child. This note
was given to LAWRENCE to deliver to either FREDERICEY or his wife. Instead of
serving notice upon the FREDERICEYs, LAWRENCE went to their home yesterday
afternoon and saw the child playing on the floor. Mrs. FREDERICEY being busy with
her household duties. The paternal instinct surged through his brain. He
threw the note on the floor, grabbed the child and ran for the door. Mrs.
FREDERICEY tried to bar his way, and he violently
threw her to the floor and escaped with the child.
Such are the facts as they now
stand. Legally the child belongs to the LAWRENCEs, but they gave it to the
FREDERICEYs who have cared for it as they would have for one of their own. Mrs.
FREDERICEY is prostrated over the loss of the child.
The final chapter in the story
will not be written until after a legal contest, the Courts have rendered
decision in the matter.
COLFAX (Placer Co.), May 8 -
Census Marshal Jacob KEUNZLY has just completed the school census of the Colfax
School District and his report shows that the names of 204 children are
enrolled. Of this number, 164 are of school age, being between 5 and 17 years,
while forty of them are under 5 years of age. Seven Indian children were
enrolled, six of whom are of school age.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 8 -
Frencesco ESTHEMNEY, a sheepherder, yesterday was found drowned in a reservoir
near Wyandotte. The body had been in the water about twelve hours. Yesterday
afternoon an inquest was held, the jury returning a verdict of accidental
death.
ESTHEMNEY was 27 years of age, a
native of France, and had relatives in Los Angeles. He was in the habit of
eating lunch near the reservoir, and it is supposed, becoming overheated, that
he decided to take a bath. He constructed a rude raft, which he had evidently
pushed into the water, and jumping in after it, missed it and sank, as he could
not swim. When he did not return to his
flock of sheep, his two faithful dogs started in search of him, located his
clothes, and brought searchers to the spot.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 8 - A
dispute over the possession of a horse has caused a rather peculiar tangle
here.
S.B. JONES, a Western Pacific
employe, yesterday was arrested and charged with grand larceny upon the
complaint of E.E. JONES, another railroad employe. The defendant claims the
horse belongs to him and demands to know how a man can steal his own animal.
The plaintiff strenuously denies this and claims he bought the horse and
payment was made by the cancellation of a debt due him by the defendant. It is
now up to the Court to decide which JONES owns the horse. In the meantime JONES,
the alleged larcenist, was released on his own recognizance and both men are
back at work.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, May 11, 1906
Page 6
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 11 - A
slight shock of earthquake was felt here yesterday morning at 6:55 by many
different persons, who all agree upon the exact time. Most of the persons reporting
the temblor were in bed at the time and more likely to notice the tremor than
those who were on their feet. Miss Edith
ASHFIELD insists that the earthquake made the chandelier in her bedroom swing a
little pendulum fashion.
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), May
11 - An earthquake shock was noticed here yesterday morning a few minutes
before 7 o’clock by a large number of persons. Indeed, a few observers insist
that there were two distinct shocks, the second, which came fifteen minutes
after the first, being very light in comparison.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 11 - C.C.
WHITE, a local furniture dealer, was severely beaten over the head with the
butt end of a heavy buggy whip last evening because he went to the house of one
of his patrons and secured a bureau for which but one payment had been made in
several months’ time. G.W. McFARLAND,
the wielder of the whip, and who owns considerable property around Chico, bought
the bureau several months ago, contracting to pay for it by instalments. Soon
after this he rented his house, with the bureau, to another party and then went
to the mountains. WHITE regained possession of the furniture, for he had
received no money after the first payment.
He was surprised yesterday to
see McFARLAND walk into his store, and soon there were words and then blows.
McFARLAND was arrested, and WHITE had to have several stitches taken in his
scalp.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 11 - The
Chico Normal School building has been settling considerably during the past few
days, and as a result all of the windows and doors will have to be planed in
order that they may be opened and closed easily. The cause of the settling of
the building has not yet been ascertained, but a Committee has been appointed
to make an investigation.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 11 -
Harry BRENNIGAN, the laborer who was run over by an excursion car on the
Northern Electric road last Wednesday evening, died late yesterday afternoon
from the effects of his injuries. His arm was torn off, and he received a bad
scalp wound.
Was Caught In Gearing And The
Flesh On His Chest Was Torn From The Bone - He May Die OROVILLE (Butte Co.),
May 11 - John DONNELLY, a watchman on Couch dredger No. 4, nearly lost his life
yesterday afternoon, and as it was he was fearfully mangled before he could be
extricated from the machinery. He was
caught by the lapel of his jumper in the gearing at the upper end of the
stacker and drawn into the gearing.
The muscular portion of his left
arm was mangled and torn in a frightful manner. The muscles of the chest were
torn from the bone, stripping the bone clean.
DONNELLY’s screams attracted
another employe’s attention, and the stacker drive was stopped as quickly as
possible, and the unfortunate man was rescued. While coming down the stacker
DONNELLY, weakened by loss of blood, lost his hold and fell into the rock dump
fifteen feet below, striking on his head and sustaining a severe scalp wound.
The injured man was carried to a
house near by, and last night his condition was very serious.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 11 -
Effects of the recent earthquake disturbances are to be plainly seen in this vicinity.
On the RIDEOUT place between the Thermalito bridge and
Thompson’s Flat, large rocks and boulders were dislodged and displaced. But the
most peculiar effect is noted in the Western Pacific addition to Oroville. On
Boynton Avenue is a high point upon which a reservoir was cut out of the solid
rock by miners half a century ago to conserve the waters of a spring which
wells up from the rock below. This reservoir is a subterranean chamber, with
its outlet bricked up and reinforced with cement. As far back as the oldest
inhabitant can recollect this reservoir has contained from five to six feet of
water, but now it has suddenly sank, and there is only
a few inches. The inference is that the earthquake opened up a crevice and
permitted the water to escape.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 11 -
The increase of the number of school children to this city by 111 gives the
public schools here ten teachers instead of nine, as heretofore. Under the
State law $550 is allotted for each teacher, reckoning on the basis of seventy
pupils or fraction of seventy per teacher.
According to the census, Oroville has been entitled to but eight
teachers, but a high daily average of attendance brought in a sufficient fund
for the employment of a ninth teacher. By the present census the staff will now
be increased to ten.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), may 1 - The case of P.B. JONES, who is charged by
E.E. JONES with having stolen his horse, was continued yesterday in Judge WARD’s Court. Both parties
desired the presence of witnesses living at Berry Creek, outside of the
township. The law does not allow transportation expenses to the Constable and
with the mileage allowed him he could not hire a rig to go the distance
necessary to serve the papers. Constable REILLY therefore refused to serve the
papers, and when the case was called both sides were minus witnesses. Judge
WARD instructed REILLY to incur the necessary expenses to serve the papers.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 11 -
While a heavy blast was being prepared at Camp 11 on the Western Pacific
construction work yesterday afternoon, the preliminary blast exploded. Jack
GARWIN, one of the Utah Construction Company’s foremen, who was standing near,
was thrown violently to the ground and both hands were badly burned. He was
hurried to the Utah Company’s hospital, and last night it was feared that it
would be necessary to amputate one hand.
CHICO (Butte Co.), may 11 - Harry BALEW and Heine SPECK, two older
prospectors who are now residents of Stirling City, have located a good spot
near that place for taking out small gold nuggets. The hills around Stirling
are dotted with prospectors at this time of the year.
Father Arrested At Auburn For Trying To Get Possession Of His Own Daughter
AUBURN (Placer Co.), May 11 - Joseph CUMBERLAND, a boilermaker of San
Francisco, was arrested here yesterday on a charge of child stealing, for
attempting to get possession of his infant daughter, who has been in the care
of her grandparents. In February last CUMBERLAND swore to a writ of habeas
corpus in an endeavor to get possession of the little one, but Judge GESFORD,
of Napa, who heard the proceedings, denied the writ and ordered the child to be
kept in the custody of the grandparents.
The story of the family troubles
of CUMBERLAND and his relatives is a long one. CUMBERLAND’s wife is the
daughter of Charles Y. WILLIAMS and Margaret WILLIAMS, an aged German couple in
the Ophir district. CUMBERLAND and his wife have never been able to live
together any length of time, and on one occasion when Mrs. CUMBERLAND left her
husband, CUMBERLAND placed the little one in the keeping of its grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAMS, where it has been ever since. Last February CUMBERLAND
and his wife became reconciled, and asked WILLIAMS to let them have the child,
but the latter refused, claiming that the CUMBERLAND’s were unfit people. A
writ was issued setting forth that the parents were being illegally deprived of
their offspring. After hearing the
testimony, Judge GESFORD agreed with this and the child was given back to the
grandparents.
CUMBERLAND and his wife ____ the
Court’s decision and ______ to San Francisco, but were _______ again.
Though Mrs. CUMBERLAND was
indifferent over having her child taken from her, CUMBERLAND still longed for
possession of the little one, and after ______ judgements in Oakland for a
place where the child might be cared for he arrived here yesterday in company
of a friend and hired a team and proceeded to the WILLIAMS homestead. Instead
of going directly to the WILLIAMS house, the men stationed themselves on a near
hill and by the aid of a telescope were able to observe the lay of the
situation at WILLIAMS’. In a short time
CUMBERLAND and his companion saw WILLIAMS leave the place and go toward Ophir.
They immediately went to the house and while CUMBERLAND a friend presented himself at the front door and asked Mrs. WILLIAMS for
something to eat. CUMBERLAND slipped in the back door and seized the child and
the two men hurried to the buggy and started to make a hasty departure. WILLIAMS returned at this instant and became
frenzied with rage when he saw his son-in-law bearing the little one away and a
fierce struggle ensued, in which WILLIAMS badly wounded CUMBERLAND in the face
by striking him with a rock. Neighbors interfered and stopped the combat.
CUMBERLAND was arrested and placed in jail, charged
with child stealing.
It is the opinion of the
officers that the charge will not be sustained, as WILLIAMS has never been
adjudged the legal custodian of the little one, as the denial of the writ was
not a final disposition of the dispute. James D. MEREDITH is CUMBERLAND’s
attorney and will demand a jury trial for his client if the case is taken into
Court.
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black tape line through this page which masked some of the text)
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May
11 - J.N. LAKENAN and Mrs. FRICOT, both heavy
property
owners in this neighborhood, are heavy losers by the San Francisco fire.
LAKEMAN, a capitalist-mine owner, had several valuable business buildings in
the heart of the burned district, as did Mrs. FRICOT. Among her heaviest losses
was the Windsor Hotel, on Fifth Street. George CAMPBELL, a former Grass Valley
man, who still owns property in this place, is also hit hard by the fire. He
was in Germany when news of the disaster was cabled across, and hurried
immediately by fast steamer and train to San Francisco.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May
11 - W.S. BORUN, President of the Empire Mining Company, arrived here early
this morning on a special trip from Colfax over the Nevada County Narrow Gauge.
He comes direct from a tour of Europe, and will probably remain here for some
time, a guest at the Empire Cottage, where extensive additions of stone are
being built.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), May 11
- If Emma LE DOUX, the woman in jail at Stockton charged with murdering her
husband, A.N. McVICAR, and placing his body in a trunk, was ever divorced in
this county, the records fail to show that fact, nor can any attorney remember
it. Sheriff SIBLEY, of San Joaquin,
has written to Sheriff WALKER, of this county, asking if a divorce action was
ever brought here by McVICAR against the woman. She claims that McVICAR
divorced her in Nevada County. There is no record of any such action. Sheriff SIBLEY believes this will have a very
important ______ on the case when it comes to trial.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), May 11
- At the conclusion of his preliminary examination yesterday in this city
before Justice COUGHLAN, A.W. FLANDERS, of Graniteville, was held to appear
before the Superior Court for trial. He furnished bonds in the sum of $2500.
FLANDERS is charged with a crime against nature.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
May 12, 1906
Page 6
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 12 -
Mrs. Geraldine RUTHERFORD, wife of J.M.
RUTHERFORD, of Wyandotte, and one of the oldest and most highly
respected citizens of Eastern Butte, died at her home in Wyandotte last
evening, and the interment will take place Sunday afternoon. Deceased was born
in Wheelersburg, Ohio, and was 63 years of age. Besides her husband, four
daughters and two sons are left to mourn her loss.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 12 - A
petition was circulated yesterday by a large number of women against the
opening of a saloon on the corner of Bird and Huntoon Streets, just opposite
the Court House. The petition for the license will be presented to the Board of
Trustees on Monday evening.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 12 -
The grand larceny charge brought by E.E.
JONES against S.B. JONES, arising over the ownership of a horse, the
facts of which were given in The Bee a few days ago,
was dismissed yesterday by Justice E.B. WARD. When Court was called the
prosecution asked that the case be dismissed, as an agreement had been reached
between the parties, they sharing the costs alike.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 12 - The
merchants who are employers of those Chico young men who belong to the State
Militia, now stationed in San Francisco, are as a rule patiently awaiting the
time when the guards will return. There are a few, however, who are becoming
impatient.
Statements have been made by
some of these, intimating a discharge for the young men if they do not appear
for work soon, but the general sentiment may keep such intentions in the
background. It is expected that the militia will soon return home.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 12 -
W.B. MUNDY, a painter, fell twenty-five feet from a scaffold yesterday morning
in this city, and received injuries that are deemed very serious for a man of
his age. C. HAMMOND, another painter, was on the same scaffold, when the rope
broke while releasing the staging.
HAMMOND had the presence of mind to grab hold of a window casing and
hang on until relief came to him. MUNDY fell head
downwards upon the rocks in the yard below.
MUNDY’s head and face were cut
in five places, in a few instances to the bone. Three ribs were broken, and he
was picked up unconscious. He revived later in the day, but it is feared that
the broken ribs may lead to pneumonia.
About a year ago HAMMOND fell
from the new Catholic Church and received injuries that laid him up for a
month.
KENNETT (Shasta Co.), May 12 -
According to the certified copy of the articles of incorporation of the
American Mining and Development Company, coming up from Secretary of State
CURRY to be deposited with the County Clerk, the Company has a life of only one
day. It was organized in Omaha under the laws of Nebraska. According to the
articles the corporate existence began February 20th, 1906, and is
to terminate February 20th, 1906. Somebody has made a clerical
error, it is thought here. The American
is a new Company that has taken hold of the famous Uncle Sam Mine, which is
five miles west of Kennett.
HARRISON GULCH (Shasta Co.), May
12 - F. WILDER, a farmer living near this mining town, has a unique pet in a
full-grown deer, which takes kindly to civilization and which he has named
Trixie. The deer has the run of the ranch and appears at the home regularly at
meal time. If Trixie is not admitted promptly at the kitchen door, she seizes
the latch string in her teeth, opens the door and walks in.
She enjoys playing with Mr. and
Mrs. WILDER’s two children. If she is molested by strange dogs, she makes
straight for the ranch home, secure in the fact that Mr. WILDER’s stock dogs
will protect her from the strange curs and give the intruders a sound
thrashing.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), May 12 -
Marriage licenses were issued during the week to the following couples: Samuel
GARRETT, aged 47, and Sarah E. KILLI, aged 44, both of Gas Point; Louis J.
DRABECK, aged 35, and Anna WILLIAMSON, aged 20, both of French Gulch; Frank A.
VICKERY, aged 41, of Kennett, and Hettie A. BOYD, aged 34, of Lexington, Ind.
Yreka, May 12 - The following
marriage licenses were issued from the County Clerk’s office since May 1st:
John William JEFFRIES, 34, of Kansas, and Caroline GORDON, 17, of Yreka; Fred
William ENDERT, 25, of Crescent City, Del Norte County, and Annet L. JORDAN,
22, of Ssson (sic); Louis P. KAPPLER, 34, and Clara HOLZHAUSER, 27, both of
Etna Mills.
OROVILLE, May 12 - The following
marriage licenses were issued this week from the County Clerk’s office: Raymond
D. HUNT, of Sacramento, aged 26, and Emma J. PETERSON, aged 16, of Chico, mother’s
consent given; Stephen G. LEWS, aged 20,
of Umatilla, Oregon, and Alberta B. PACK, aged 16, of Chico, parents’ consent
obtained.
Two suits for divorce, both on
the ground of failure to provide, were filed: Daisy E. NOEL vs. Daniel E. NOEL,
and Grace RAAB vs. Clarence RAAB.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 12 -
Licenses to wed were granted the following couples in Yuba County this week:
Thomas N. MOCK and Miss Mabel POZZI, both of Marysville; Nicholas J. MONK, of
French Corral, and Mary E. STREUDER, of San Francisco.
Miss Jeanette WALLACE, a former
resident of Yuba City, was married this week to Ollie DONNELLY, a mining
engineer residing in Grass Valley. He has taken a position in the Tonopah
country and will go there with his bride shortly.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), May 12 -
Since last report marriage licenses have been granted to the following:
Alexander B. BREARCLIFFE, aged 26, and Bessie E. SWEENEY, aged 18, both
residents of Red Bluff; Lester NOLLMAN, aged 21, and Jennie DEEM, aged 23, both
residents of San Francisco; William H. KEY, aged 31, of Cottonwood, and Mary L.
MOORE, aged 20, of Jelly’s Ferry.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), May 12 - Harry
HOWARD, as he calls himself, is in the custody of the Sheriff awaiting a
hearing after the holiday season on the charge of grand larceny. HOWARD hired a
horse in a local stable, went to Orland, where he left the buggy, and then rode
to Red Bluff, where he disposed of the horse. Sheriff BAILEY traced him from
here through Orland, Cottonwood and Anderson to Redding, where he caught him.
Upon his return yesterday afternoon, after placing the prisoner in jail, the
Sheriff started for Chico to search for another man who had played the same
trick on the Butte City stableman. This fellow has a good start, and may get
away, but the Sheriff has a very good description of him.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), May 12 -
Mrs. Lucinda SALING, relict of the late Peter SALING, died at her residence in
this city Friday. Deceased was 80 years of age, and was born while her parents
were en route from Arkansas to Missouri.
She and her husband came to California in 1859. They settled in Yolo
County in 1874. Nine children were born to them, of whom only four survive. Mrs. Isabella TOOTHAKER and Mrs. Estella DAVIS, of Woodland; Henry W.
SALING, of Napa County, and Mrs. Marcella McCABE, of Shasta County. The funeral services will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock. The interment will be made in Woodland Cemetery.
YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.), May 12 -
The funeral of the late Mrs. May YOUNG took place yesterday, the interment
being made in the Sutter Cemetery. Rev. R.E.
WENK, of Woodland, presiding Elder E.D. McCREARY and Rev., Fred. SHELDON
officiating. Deceased was 53 years of age at the time of her death, and was a
native of Ohio. She married Amos YOUNG, of this county, at her father’s
residence southwest of Yuba City in 1881. After a long
residence here, Mr. and Mrs. YOUNG moved to Sacramento, residing on the Lower
Stockton road, at which place she died.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 12 -
Three-score of Chinese refugees from San Francisco have taken up their abode at
the Abbott orchard, nine miles from this city. Of the number thirty are women.
Several of the men are “hello boys” who lost their positions at the Chinese
telephone exchange when the fire came to the metropolis.
The fruit-picking season will
provide work for these people, many of whom have never before had to labor.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), May
12 - The telephone girls of this city will give up patches of their skin next
Sunday in order the Lineman CONNELL, who was so badly injured near Lodi
recently by coming in contact with one of the American River Electric Company’s
live wires, may recover. CONNELL’s right arm is minus quite a quantity of skin,
and Dr. LADD, who will perform the operation, has called upon the patient’s
fellow employes and the “hello girls” for cuticle contributions.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), May
12 - The people of this county are of the opinion that they hold the record for
large men. Their faith in this opinion is placed in Floyd Percy BROWN of 89
West Park Street. BROWN was registered to-day by Deputy County Clerk KNIGHT,
and he put the measuring machine out of commission. The machine registers 6
feet 9 inches, but BROWN raised it one-fourth of an inch more.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), May
12 - Former Congressman James A. LOUTTIT is quite ill in this city. He is under
the constant care of a physician. Mr. LOUTTIT has not been will for some time and
had gone to San Francisco several months ago for his health, leaving his local
office in charge of his son, Thomas. He lost his entire library in the fire,
together with many valuable papers, which worried him a great deal and resulted
in a general breaking down of his nervous system.
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The Saturday Bee Sacramento,
Cal.
May 19, 1906
and
sent to the State Asylum at Stockton. Mrs. HALSEY is the wife of George F.
HALSEY, a well-known Placer County miner.
HALSEY’s home is in Dutch Flat,
but he has been engaged in mining on the American River, several miles from his
home. On Wednesday Mrs. HALSEY, who is rather a frail woman, made the trip to
where her husband was mining, over a hard, rugged country. She was greatly
exhausted but appeared rational and HALSEY thought the trip was only a whim. As
soon as he could travel he brought his wife back to Dutch Flat, and upon their
arrival home the woman attempted suicide by taking carbolic acid. She was
restored, however, but has since been violently insane.
queer
state of affairs in the Tax Collector’s office, and word has been sent to all
taxpayers to pay their taxes as soon as possible to avoid having their names
published in the delinquent list. While the holidays will prevent the penalties
and costs being added to unpaid taxes, as long as they remain in force, the
State Controller has instructed Collector Geo. E. MITCHELL that the
delinquent list must be published on June 2d, the time required by law.
Mr. MITCHELL is bringing this fact to the attention of the taxpayers and
endeavoring to prevent a large number of solvent taxpayers being published as
delinquent. The delinquent list of all taxes not paid must be published even
though the publication occurs on a legal holiday.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.), May
19 - M. PUTMAN, an employe at the Camino
box
factory, got his right hand crushed under a roller at the factory this morning.
He was brought to town to the sanitorium, where his hand was dressed, the fingers being badly crushed.
They went to the following
couples: Charles E. DUNNIGAN, aged 44, of Stirling City, and Nellie Belle ISLE,
aged 46, of McCloud; James SIMMONS, aged 24, of Chico, and Lulu May ROBERTS,
aged 15, of Anderson; Nathan L. BURNER,
aged 35, of Los Angeles, and Violet A. BLODGETT, aged 23, of Sacramento; Henry
T. WALLER, aged 32, of Kennett, and Beatrice WAYN, aged 30, of Kennett; Ralph
BROWN, aged 30, of Kennett, and Flora HENDERSON, aged 26, of Redding; Albert J.
MARTIN, aged 41, of Redding, and Estelle L. LOGAN, aged 17, of Balls Ferry.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), Ma7 19 -
Harry WARD and Miss Alta MILLER, two popular
young
people of Butte City, were married yesterday afternoon, Rev. C.R. ALDRIDGE, of the Christian
Church officiating. The wedding was a quiet affair, only a few friends
of the contracting couple being present. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall MILLER, and the groom is a young business man of Butte City.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), May 19 - John M. PERRY and Miss Jennie E. HOGAN,
two
prominent young people of this city, were united in marriage this afternoon at
1 o’clock at the home of the bride on North California Street. Rev. SINK, of the First Congregational
Church, performed the ceremony in the presence of relatives of the couple and a
few intimate friends. Mr. and Mrs. PERRY received a number of elegant wedding
presents. The bridegroom is a well-to-do grain merchant, and was reared in
Stockton. His wife is a member of the HOGAN family, and formerly lived near
Lodi. Of late she has been engaged in teaching school. Mr. and Mrs. PERRY left
for Mill Valley, where they will remain for a few days, when they will take a
steamer for Tahiti. They will remain in
the South Sea Islands for a month or two.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), May 19 -
County Clerk BATCHELDER issued marriage licenses this week to Charles I. DE
LONG and Abbie M. JONES, both of Chico;
Charles H. FARNCOMB, aged 22,
and Lulu BABCOCK, aged 16, both of Gridley;
Eunice Winifred McGONAGLE and
Ford Seward WETHERBEE, both of Chico.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), May
19 - Two marriages were recorded in the county for the week. Dr. J.B. ROGERS
and Miss Minnie TROD were wedded at North Bloomfield, and A.S. WESTRICH and
Mrs. Matilda (rest of article cut off).
years ago, but who is deprived of his office
by the District Court which
holds that the Acts creating the office are
invalid, has decided to carry
the case to the Supreme Court. He has
employed attorneys to that end. His
action will be watched with interest
throughout the State, as three separate
OGDEN (Utah), May 19 - The
boiler of the engine pulling the second section of Southern Pacific passenger
train No. 6 exploded near Wells, Nev., this morning, instantly killing Engineer
L.F. ZIMMERMAN and Fireman M.S. IRWIN, both of Ogden.
The train was moving at full
speed, but the accident released the air and set the brakes, stopping the train
without further damage.
GOLDFIELD (Nev.), May 19 -
Rhyolite, the principal town in the Bullfrog mining district, was the scene
yesterday of a double tragedy. Steve O’BRIEN, a miner, shot and killed his
wife. Deputy Sheriff McDONALD attempted to disarm and arrest O’BRIEN, who drew
a revolver and was about to shoot when McDONALD fired and O’BRIEN dropped dead.
The shooting occurred at the Hotel Golden on Goldfield Street. Steve O’BRIEN
had been on bad terms with his family for some time, and his wife was about to
proceed to get a divorce. He entered the house, and, after a few heated words,
shot his wife in the face. She was
carried to a drug store, where she died. O’BRIEN came out of the lodging house
where he lived. In the meantime people had head of the shooting and a great
crowd surrounded the place and preparations were made to mob and hang him.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
June 2, 1906
Page 7
WINTERS (Yolo Co.), June 2 - The
fifteenth school year of the Winters Joint Union High School closed yesterday,
the graduating class numbering four, all girls.
Forty pupils were in attendance during the term, in the various departments.
Principal J.R. GRINSTEAD was in
charge, and his assistants were Miss Gertrude W. SMITH and Miss Belva A. DIX.
The Board of Trustees is
composed as follows: President, J.F. GRIFFIN;
Secretary F.W. WILSON; August
BRINCK, William BAKER and J.B. WOLFSKILL. The officers of the High School Literary
Society are: Perry CULTON, President; Ruth HASWELL, Vice-President; Edith
OVERHOUSE, Secretary, and Roy WYATT, Treasurer.
The graduates this year are
Dorothy I. GREEN, Edna H. STARK, Jessie G. HEMENWAY and Evadna FENLEY.
The exercises were held in the opera house here last night and the program was
as follows:
Piano Solo, “Grand Polka De Concert” - Homer BARTLETT
Dorothy Ida GREEN
Salutatory, “Open Sesame” - Evadna FENLEY
Class History - Jessie Geraldine HEMENWAY
Duet, “Oh, That We Two Were Maying,” - Charles A. KINSLEY
Miss FENLEY and Miss GREEN
Class Will - Edna Harriet STARK
Vocal solo, “Winona” - J.C. BARTLETT
Evadna FENLEY
Class Prophecy - Dorothy Ida GREEN
Presentation of Diplomas - J.F.
GRIFFIN, President of Board Address - Prof.
Trio, “Be Glad, Lass and Lad” - Gumbert
Misses CLEGG, FENLEY and GREEN
(Note: a picture of the
graduates accompanied this article)
VACAVILLE (Solano Co.), June 2 -
The school year has all but closed, the gramamr (sic) departments having
completed their work this week, the local school graduating twelve pupils who
will enter the High School in the Fall. With the coming week the High School will
close for the year. The graduating class was entertained at the home of W.S.
GODFREY, Jr., last evening. On Sunday morning the baccalaureate sermon will be
preached by Rev. W.E.
BOBBITT at the Christian Church. On Friday the class will be handed
their diplomas and graduated without any ostentation, they having decided to
dispense with all exercises as an expression of sympathy for San Francisco.
The following young men and
women compose one of the largest classes ever graduated from the Vacaville High
School: Harriet HARBISON, Laura HAGERTY, Fidelia HAGERTY, Edna MARSHALL, Willa
MARSHALL, Mary BURTON, Jane BURTON, Ella RIPPEY, Anna ANDERSON, Minnie
WAGGONER, Barbara REID, Blanche HOLT, Lola DUNN, Maude SHARPE, Genoveva
McFARLAND, William CHUBB, Palmer HOLT, Forest CALLIFAN, Linder DENTON, from the
regular department, and Fillmore DUNCAN from the Commercial Department. Of the foregoing about one-half plan to enter one or the other of
the Universities.
BENICIA (Solano Co.), June 2-
The commencement exercises of the Benicia High School were held last evening in
the Congregational Church, when the Misses Ada and May SMITH and Royal ST. JOHN
were granted diplomas. There was some
dissatisfaction owing to holding the exercises of the public school in a
sectarian church, as the City Hall had been examined and pronounced safe for
all purposes.
Licenses Issued and Decrees Made
In Various Counties During The Week by Clerks and Courts REDDING (Shasta Co.),
June 2 - The following couples received marriage licenses this week: John
QUIZTINI, aged 26, of Redding, and Marie BERTAGINIA, aged 18, of Pineland;
James H. BIDWELL, aged 24, of Cassel, and Hattie E. HOUSTON, aged 18, of
Cayton; Henry SAUVE, aged 26, of Kennett, and Rosie WRIGHT, aged 21, of Mount
Hope, Wash.
RED BLUFF, June 2 - During the
week marriage licenses have been issued to the following: Edwin m. JOBE and
Miss May Bell HARRYMAN, each aged 22 years, both residents of Butte Mountains,
in this county; DeWitt C. CLARK, of Redding, and Miss Lena J. BRAND, of Palo
Cedro, Shasta County; Clarence E. SHIPPEY, of Dunsmuir, and Miss Helen PREUSSER, of Red Bluff. During the month of May only four marriage
licenses were issued, but there are several prospective weddings already on hand
for June and the demand for licenses is likely to be
greater.
WOODLAND, June 2 - One marriage
license was issued last week to Curtis Clifford RAMBO, aged 23, of Sacramento,
and Martha E. SMITH, aged 29, of Woodland.
OROVILLE, June 2 - Clerk
BATCHELDER issued the following marriage licenses this week: John James
MARSHALL, aged 27, and Maggie CONDON, aged 23, both of Oroville; Chester
WATSON, aged 23, and Jessie May HOLETON, aged 16, both of Chico; Frank T. LYON,
West City, Idaho, aged 23, and Alice L. HEINTZ, aged 17, Chico; Wenal Papish
KELLOGG, Idaho, aged over 21, and Grace E. ALLEN, Bangor, aged over 21.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), June 2 -
The marriage record for the week is as follows: Horace O. FARRIS, 36, and Irene
DREW, 29, both of Sacramento;
Daniel S. McCULLOUGH, 36,
Colfax, and Marie UDBYE, 17, Rocklin.
FAIRFIELD (Solano Co.), June 2 -
The following marriage licenses were issued here: Clarence Windsor SMITH, 23,
of San Francisco, and Albertina Sarra PATRICE, 20, of Suisun Valley; Ernest
Frederick DUNCAN, 24, of Mare Island, and Mary Elizabeth MULLEN, 23, of
Vallejo.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June 2
- Only one marriage has taken place during the week in this town, while none has
been recorded at Grass Valley or surrounding places. Miss Eva MASOTE, a popular
and handsome young woman of this city, became the bride of F.C. OVERNDICK, of
San Francisco. They will make their home at the bay.
MARYSVILLE, June 2 - There was a
falling off in business at the marriage license bureau this week as compared
with last week, only two couples making application, as follows: William L.
NEWBERT and Miss Nellie WRIGHT, both of Smartsville; Earl B. HALL, of Hammon,
and Miss May Kimball LOGAN, of Marysville.
Miss Winnie MOON, who was
married this week to Attorney Joseph KENNEDY, of Butte County, was a well-known
resident of Sutter County.
Tablets Also Unveiled to Rear
Admirals Sampson and Stewart, Captain Bainbridge and Others VALLEJO (Solano
Co.), June 2 - A very interesting unveiling of tablets took place this
afternoon at St. Peter’s Chapel, Mare Island, and the pretty sacred edifice was
filled with an attentive audience, including Admiral and Mrs. McCALLA and the
officers of the Navy Yard. Tablets were
unveiled to the memory of Rear-Admiral Charles STEWART and Captain William
BAINBRIDGE, Admiral McCALLA making a short address. Another tablet unveiled was
to the memory of Rear-Admiral SAMPSON, Rear-Admiral CHADWICK making the
address.
A beautiful bronze tablet to the
memory of the men who lost their lives on the Bennington was unveiled. Commander Lucien YOUNG referring in high terms to the bravery of
the men under the command of the fateful morning of the explosion.
On the Bennington memorial is
inscribed:
“In memoriam of those sixty-five
who were killed on July23, 1905, by an explosion on the U.S.S. gunboat
Bennington, in San Diego Harbor, in the line of duty, and under the flag they
loved so well. They died as heroes die. The mourning Nation honors their names
forever, and Death’s angel enfolds them with its wings.”
Tablets were also unveiled to
the memory of Reuben JAMES, John FASSNING and Commander HULL, the rev. Dr.
McCLISH and Commander UNDERWOOD making appropriate addresses.
The Mare Island Band and a fine
choir furnished appropriate music.
WHEATLAND (Yuba Co.), June 2 -
This morning about 3 o’clock Night Watchman DAVIS discovered two men breaking
into CARNEY’s Hotel here. They fled at his approach, and he fired several times
at them, but without causing them to halt. One of the men dropped his hat and
the other a bucket. Charles HARTMEYER states that someone broke into his
residence, also, but no valuables were taken.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), June
2 - news comes from Sierra County that the dead body of S.H. SHAW was
discovered in his cabin sixteen miles above Downieville. He was kneeling at his
bedside in the attitude of prayer. It is thought he had been dead about a week,
as it was several days since he was seen alive.
He was a member of the G.A.R.
and about 70 years of age. He had resided in that section for many years. He
was found by a couple of prospectors who had been to town and stopped at his
cabin while en route to deliver him some mail.
BENICIA (Solano Co.), June 2 -
Professor E.H. MOSHER, who has been Principal of the Benicia Grammar School for
the past nine years, has resigned his position to accept the Principalship of
the Berkeley Grammar School. Professor
MOSHER is an able and conscientious worker in his chosen field and it is with
regret (rest of article cut off).
CHICO (Butte Co.), June 2- Two
bad accidents occurred near here yesterday.
Samuel FISHER, a farm hand or Durham, while mowing fell in front of his
machine and the sickle cut off one foot and ankle. The other leg and one hand
were also injured.
At Nelson, a student brakeman
whose name is unknown, lost both legs. He was taken to
Sacramento.
Western Nevada State news
Claiming To Be Common Law Wife
Of Millionaire Miner, George Wingfield, Woman Files Sensational Suit TONOPAH
(Nev.), June 2 - Unless George WINGFIELD, one of Tonopah’s mining celebrities,
a man who has made several millions since he was grub-staked and sent to the
southern country by Senator George NIXON several years ago, compromises the
suit brought against him by his common law wife, Mae BARIE, the Court House in
Tonopah will soon witness one of the most sensational trials that ever occurred
in Nye County.
Mrs. WINGFIELD, as she styles
herself, has been associated with the defendant for many years. She is still a
young woman, not over 35, and her dashing beauty still clings in spite of the
hardships she underwent when she and WINGFIELD were poor. In her complaint, she
is seeking a divorce and alimony. She claims that she became the common law
wife of WINGFIELD, but that he treated her with the greatest cruelty and
finally divorced her. She has employed A.L. NICKLES to bring her suit, and
NICKLES says it will be vigorously prosecuted, as Mrs. WINGFIELD, or Miss
BARIE, is determined to obtain her full share of WINGFIELD’s property.
The principal effort of the plaintiff’s
attorney will be to establish that she is WINGFIELD’s common law wife. If this
is once proven she can claim a wife’s full share of his vast wealth, as it
would all be “community” property.
HAZEN (Nev.), June 2 - Foreman
P.W. CUNNINGHAM, in charge of a Southern Pacific construction train, had both
his legs cut off at this place yesterday afternoon while sidetracking to allow
the passage of a special train loaded with Southern Pacific officials. He was
taken to Sacramento last night, but there is little hope of his recovery.
A short time afterward a
Southern Pacific passenger struck and killed an unknown man at Gilpin, several
miles westward.
RENO (Nev.), June 2 - Mrs.
Benjamin CURLER, wife of one of the oldest District Judges in Nevada, and
mother of Benjamin E. CURLER, District Judge of Washoe County, is believed to
be in a dying condition from stomach trouble. She crossed the plains to Nevada
in 1859, and walked almost the entire distance with her husband from the
Missouri River.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, June 5, 1906
page
6
Is Accused Of The Murder Of
Albert McVicar, Whose Body Was Found In A Trunk At Stockton Depot STOCKTON (San
Joaquin Co.), June 5 - Judge NUTTER’s Department of the Superior Court was
crowded this morning when the trial of Mrs. Emma LE DOUX, the alleged murderer
of her former husband, Albert N. McVICAR, came up for trial. The case has
attracted widespread attention and reports of the murder have been printed in
the foreign papers.
Last Saturday Judge NUTTER had
his Court-room prepared for the trial, and gave orders to the effect that no
one would be allowed to stand. Forty or fifty chairs were brought in from other
rooms and special tables were arranged for the newspapermen. District Attorney
NORTON and Assistant District Attorney McNOBLE represent The People, while
Charles H. FAIRALL and Charles CROCKER, of Jackson, are fighting for the
woman. Mrs. LE DOUX was indicted on the
charge of murder. The following is a summary of the sensational trunk mystery:
On Saturday evening, April 24th, the body of a man was discovered in
a trunk at the Southern Pacific depot.
The authorities were summoned, and it was soon ascertained that the
remains were those of Albert N. McVICAR, a miner who had been staying at room
No. 97 of the California lodging house. Mrs. LE DOUX was known to have been
with him up to a few hours before the murder was discovered, and officers were
put to work to locate her. The Sunday following, Deputy Sheriff Carlton CASE
went to San Francisco, where he and Detective GIBSON traced the woman to
several of her haunts, and finally learned she had retraced her steps and gone
to Antioch. She was arrested at Antioch on Monday, April 26th, and
was brought to the County Jail in this city.
The District Attorney set to
work on the case that week and in a few days learned where the trunk had been
purchased, and also that poison was the probably cause of the man’s death. A
few weeks later the Grand Jury returned an indictment charging the woman with
murder.
Attorneys CROCKER, of Jackson,
Hugh R. McNOBLE, of this city, and C.H. FAIRALL, the well-known authority on criminal
law, announced that they would defend the woman. Matters then quieted down
until about two weeks ago, when FAIRALL accused H.R. McNOBLE and his brother,
the Assistant District Attorney, of double dealing. H.R. McNOBLE then dropped
out of the case. The whole of the week
will probably be taken up obtaining a jury, as nearly everybody in the county
has heard of the case. The attorneys estimate that the trial will last all of a
month.
What the defense intends to urge
cannot be learned so early in the trial, though it is the general opinion that
it will be contended that McVICAR committed suicide. The prosecution claim to
have a clear case of murder in the first degree. They have eighty-odd
witnesses.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
5 - Charles L. GREEN, Assistant County Surveyor of Sacramento, and Miss
Katherine E. MILLER, of this city, were married Sunday afternoon in the First
Christian Church here. The altar was artistically decorated with roses, lilies
and in green. The bride was gowned in cream silk and carried a shower bouquet
of white carnations and ferns. Rev. C.W.
JOPSON performed the ceremony, while the organist rendered “The Spring Song.”
Miss Mary STROTHER was the ring-bearer, and Messrs. G.T. MOLINA, Ben PAGE, Robert SMITH and George
FAGIN were the ushers. The couple received the congratulations of their friends
and then departed on their wedding trip to San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Los
Angeles and Santa Paula.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 5 -
At his home, two miles north of Yreka, former County Supervisor Constantine C.
O’DONNELL died Sunday afternoon at the age of 52, of cancer of the stomach.
“Con” O’DONNELL, as he was
familiarly known, was one of Siskiyou’s most popular business men, and his
untimely taking off will be mourned by all who knew him.
He leaves a wife, three sons and
one daughter. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the
Postmaster Hawkinsville.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June 5
- A pioneer of ë49 lies in a critical condition at the home of Major B.F.
SIMONDS, this city. His name is Morris HALL, and few men have passed a more
eventful life. HALL was one of the first men to mine on Deer Creek, near here,
going to that place in September, 1849. That he was successful may be imagined
when it is stated that he made three independent fortunes in this county. He is
a refugee from San Francisco, having been burned out in the recent fire.
LINCOLN (Placer Co.), June 5 -
No social event of whatever kind could have filled the True Blue Hall so full of appreciative and wide-awake people as did the
graduating class of 1906 from the Grammar School in Lincoln. School closed in
all rooms last Thursday, except Miss FLEMING’s, which closed Friday. The
following excellent program was rendered last evening:
Invocation, Rev. Huber BURR;
remarks, Professor James HUFFAKER; song, “My Own United States,” seventh,
eighth and ninth grades; piano trio, Anita GLADDING, Bessie KENNEDY and Alma
TOFFT; song, “Message of Spring,” graduating class; vocal duet, “Oh, Tell Us,
Merry Birds,” Marjorie SPARKS and Norma WILLIAMSON, accompanied by Vera McBRIDE
on the violin and Miss FLEMING on the piano.
Valedictory, Beverly ALLEN;
class dialogue, Graduating class; class prophecy, Mildred McCRIMMONS; song,
“None So Gay as We,” graduating class; address and
presentation of diplomas, County Superintendent of Schools C.N.
At the close of the above
program the center of the hall was cleared and fifty girls all dressed in white
went through with perfect ease a magnificent drill and twice saluted the
American flag. The program was followed by a social dance.
For years the school of Lincoln
has been in the background with reference to class graduation exercises, but
now with up-to-date and energetic Professor HUFFAKER at the head, the school is
in a flourishing condition, and parents and guardians have expressed their
hearty appreciation of his work among the children of Lincoln.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 5 -
Through invitations received here, it is learned that the wedding of John H.
FULLER, son of Col. J.B. FULLER and a former resident of this city, and Miss
Betsy MORGAN, of Nevada City will occur at the latter place on Monday, June 18th.
The prospective groom is a graduate of the Marysville High School. His
bride-to-be is the daughter of President MORGAN, of the Citizen’s Band of
Nevada City and Grass Valley.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, June 6, 1906
page
7
Known As John Lang, True Name
Was Walter Marvin Lancaster.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), June
6 - Walter Marvin LANCASTER carried his secret with him to the grave. He lived
for nearly forty years in Bear Valley, this county, under the name of John LANG,
and nobody guessed that it was assumed, until the facts came to light after his
death. He blew his brains out with a big 45-caliber revolver early Monday
morning, as The Bee has already stated.
LANCASTER, for as such he must
now be known, was found dead, stretched across the bed at 8 o’clock by Henry
SCHRIEBER, an old friend who chanced to pass the place. He found that LANCASTER
had placed the barrel of the weapon in his mouth and pulled the trigger. The
top of his head was blown off, blood and brains spattering the wall.
During the inquest held
yesterday morning by Coroner HOCKING of this city, it developed that LANG was
not the correct name of the decedent. A witness stated that a short time ago
LANG called him in and told him that in case anything should happen, he wanted
it known that his true name was Walter Marvin LANCASTER, and that he was a
native of Maine. He did not state which part of Maine he came from. LANCASTER
further said that he had killed a man in Maine many years ago, but had been acquitted.
Fearing the dead man’s friends would take his life, however, he said he had
fled his home and changed his name to John LANG.
It was under that name he
located in Bear Valley, set out a little orchard and built him a cosy home. He
was highly regarded by all his neighbors, with whom he was on very friendly
terms, though of his past life none of them had the slightest inkling. For
years he conducted the Culberston toll bridge at his home, but after it went
out of commission, like many others, he still clung to the valley and seemed
content to spend his days there. He was a man of gigantic build and would have
attracted attention any where by his bearing, giving evidence of descent from
good stock. He left a note stating that illness had driven him to the deed, but
from what has been learned it is believed that medical aid could have saved his
life without much trouble. This morning
at 10 o’clock Walter Marvin LANCASTER was laid at rest near his cottage, and
with him was buried his secret.
Coroner HOCKING returned to his
home in this city last night, after a very hard trip, in which he encountered a
heavy snow storm coming out of the valley. He brought the first news of the
man’s strange life, and to-day it is known to the world for the first time.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 6 -
For disturbing the peace of the young woman by parading in front of the home of
Miss VAN DYNE at regular intervals with his rifle thrown over his shoulder,
L.C. MERRYAND, a colored man, has been fined by Justice MORRISSEY in the sum of
$20.
MERRYAND claimed that the
patrolling of the street in front of the VAN DINE home was a show of affection
for his newly-found Juliet. But the Court thought otherwise.
MERRYAND has been out on bail of
$10 several weeks. He disappeared from the city for a while but returned
yesterday.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 6 -
Miss Elaine WEAVER, of this city, and Benjamin H. FARQUAR, of Oakland, were
married in the latter city at noon Tuesday. The bride is the youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew WEAVER, of this city.
The groom is the son of C.S. FARQUAR, an attorney of San Francisco, and
holds a position with the Western Pacific.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 6 -
The Greek laborers in the employ of the Western pacific contractors who are
minus $3000 in checks, which they turned over to a fellow countryman, George
PALESTRO, to deposit for them, this morning offered $300 for his capture. If he
is not apprehended soon, this sum will be increased to $500 or $800, although
many of the Greeks think PALESTRO may have met foul plat. The officers here,
however, place no credence in the murder theory and are doing their best to
locate the missing man. The Greeks are wild over their loss.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
6 - The work of securing a jury in the trial of Mrs. Emma LE DOUX, who is
accused of having murdered A.N. McVICAR and concealing his body in a trunk,
proceeds slowly. The week is likely to wear away before twelve men are secured.
The suicide theory advanced by the defense is not taken seriously by the public
here, but it remains to be seen how the jury will regard it especially as the
details of Mrs. LE DOUX’s plan are not known.
SPARKS (Nev.), June 6 - J.H.
NICHOLSON, a prominent young man of this city, has fled to avoid arrest upon
charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. He went to Reno yesterday and
cashed a large number of checks at different stores. He then took a train for
the West. Descriptions of the young man have been sent to the California
police. NICHOLSON was a newspaper writer and fell into debt from gambling and
other excesses.
Peculiar Post Office Ruling
Mail Contractor Fined For Using
Train Instead of Stage and Delivering Letters A Day Ahead BULLFROG (Nev.), June
6 - The KIMBALLS, who hold the contract for delivering the mail overland from
Las Vegas to Bullfrog, a distance of 120 miles, have just been fined for taking
it part of the way by rail and getting it twenty-four hours ahead of time.
They protested that they sent it
a part of the way on the Las Vegas and Bullfrog Railway, now in process of
construction, at the request of the people in Bullfrog who wanted their mail
earlier, but the excuse was not accepted.
The fine stands and they will
hereafter stage it the entire distance across the desert,
and it will arrive twenty-four hours later than it can now be delivered.
The Department says it is paying
for stage delivery and that the contract will have to be literally fulfilled no
matter what the delays are.
RENO (Nev.), June 6 - Recently
the report was received here that William Leete HAYES, a graduate of the State
University, had died in Montana.
Services were held in his memory by his fellow students. Word of it
reached HAYES through a newspaper account. He immediately wrote from San
Francisco that he is still alive an that his name was
evidently confused with the death of another person. HAYES was well known in Reno
where he lived for a number of years. He is a mining engineer.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, June 8, 1906
Page 6
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 8 -
Between the hours of 2 and 6 o’clock this morning, two well-known colored
residents of this city answered the final summons.
Charles E. POGUE, who had been
in failing health for about six months, passed away at the last-named hour. He
attended the installation of the Grand Officers of Colored Masons last night,
having been elected to the position of Grand Pursuviant. He partook of the
banquet served in honor of the visitors and remained in the hall until past
midnight. Quick consumption was the cause of his death.
Mr. POGUE was a native of
Marysville and a graduate of the local High School 02. He was bright in his
studies and always popular with all classes.
He had reached the thirtieth year of his age. His parents and several
brothers survive him.
The other death was that of J.N.
WILLIAMS, a well-known barber here. He, too, succumbed to lung trouble at his
home on C Street, where he had been confined to his bed for several months. He
leaves a wife. He was 73 years of age.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
8 - Walter H. DANIELS and Miss Etta Augeste HERMANN were married yesterday at
the bride’s home, No. 529 East Sonora Street. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. LUNDY, of the First Presbyterian Church, and was witnessed by relatives
and a few intimate friends. Miss Ellie ATZEROTH was bridesmaid, and George
DANIELS, the groom’s brother, the best man. The contracting parties are
prominent Stocktonians and have many friends here. Mr.
Daniels is employed in the Western Pacific Company’s local office. After
returning from their honeymoon they will reside here. Rev. LUNDY also performed another wedding
yesterday. The young couple were Frank B. HEWLETT and
Miss Evelyn E. COUNSELL, both of this city. The ceremony took place in the
First Presbyterian Church, which was artistically decorated with flowers for
the occasion. Many friends joined in wishing the couple many years of happy
wedded life.
Bride Of Two Months Raises Money And Bails Husband Out Of Jail In
Order That She May Be With Him
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), June
8 - Clyde BENNINGTON was released from the County Jail yesterday on $500 cash
bail, his wife furnishing the money, and now Mr. and Mrs. BENNINGTON are taking
their honeymoon, although they were married two months ago.
BENNINGTON was held prisoner in
default of $2000 bail to answer to the charge of resisting an officer. He and
Mrs. Fannie DOEBLIN wanted to be married. The Sheriff, however, would not
permit the ceremony to be performed in jail, and temporary bonds were obtained
and BENNINGTON was released for fifteen minutes. In that short time the license
was obtained and the knot tied.
Back to jail he went and there
he has been ever since, his newly-wedded wife being permitted only to talk to
him through the bars once a day. Mrs.
BENNINGTON finally succeeded in inducing Judge BARTLETT to reduce the bail to
$500. She then raised the money and her husband is free, for the time being at
least.
Sovereign Grand Lodge Of Colored
Masons Closes Sessions Of Important Annual Gathering MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.),
June 8 - When the delegates of the fifty-second annual communication of the
Grand Lodge of Colored Masons took their departure for home to-day, each
carried a souvenir of Marysville, being an excellent photograph of the new
Packard Library with the members of the Grand Lodge posed on the steps of the
magnificent building. The session of the
Grand Lodge, which has been a most interesting one throughout, was formally
closed in Turner Hall last night with the installation of the newly-chosen
Grand officers. The following were inducted into office:
Grand Master, R.C. MARSHALL,
Coronado (re-elected); Deputy Grand Master, Charles H. TINSLEY, San Francisco;
Senior Grand Warden, Curtis HAMMOND, Los Angeles; Junior Grand Warden, G.W.
BOYDEN, Stockton; Grand Treasurer, T.A.
HARRIS, Los Angeles; Grand Secretary, G.W. WILSON, Marysville; Grand
Lecturer, Dr. R.J. FLETCHER, Sacramento; Grand Chaplain, Rev. Dr. J. Gordon
McPHERSON, Sacramento; Grand Orator, Rev. J.H. WILSON, Riverside; Grand
Marshal, A.H. HENDERSON, San Francisco; Grand Senior Deacon, D.R. YOUNG,
Oakland; Grand Junior Deacon, E.W. JOHNSON, Redding; Grand Senior Steward, J.W.
MYERS, Hanford; Grand Junior Steward, T.H. LONG, Pasadena; Grand Bible Bearer,
Rev. John M. COLLINS, Stockton; Grand Standard Bearer, F.D. McCLANAHAN, Bakersfield; Grand Sword Bearer,
W.A. MARTIN, San Francisco;
Grand Pursuviant, Charles E.
POGUE, Marysville; Grand Organist, J.C. SPICER, Los Angeles; Grand Tyler, B.E.
ROBINSON, Marysville; Committee on Jurisprudence, Dr. R.J. FLETCHER, Chairman;
Committee on Finance, J.C. RIVERS, Chairman; Committee on Grievance, L. HOWARD, Chairman; Committee
on Foreign Correspondence, George W. WILSON, Chairman. A grand promenade concert followed, being
given by Laurel Lodge No. 6, in honor of the visitors.
During the forenoon session
yesterday several communications from Eastern Grand Lodges of the Order,
bringing greeting and also words of sympathy were read.
One of the important acts of
this session of the Grand Lodge is the adoption of a new constitution for the
governing of the subordinate Lodges of the jurisdiction.
As a token of the respect in which
they hold their Grand Chaplain and in recognition of his faithful services, the
delegates presented Rev. Dr. J. Gordon McPHERSON with a gold pin.
Resolutions were adopted
thanking the local Lodge for their cordial treatment and the press for courtesies
extended.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 8 -
Clyde McDONALD, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.R.
McDONALD of this city, was seriously burned last night by the explosion
of a tin box of powder, which he and three other little boys had together with
a toy cannon and a bunch of firecrackers.
Young McDONALD
was standing over the box lighting a firecracker when a spark dropped into the
powder, setting it off. The little fellow’s clothing caught on fire, and had it
not been for the assistance of his playmates he would have been more seriously
burned.
He was conveyed to his home and
a physician summoned, who found that he was badly burned about the face and
arms, and severely marked by the powder, but no serious results are
anticipated.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June 8
- An unusual suit was commenced in the Superior Court here yesterday by Mrs.
Alice W. SHEBLEY, of Chicago Park, against the Nevada County narrow Gauge
Railroad. Mrs. SHEBLEY alleges that the defendant corporation trespassed on her
land, which she claims was granted to her and predecessors by the United States
in 1870, dug a well, erected a windmill, tank and section house against her
wishes and commands. She sues for $300
damages, the property which stands on the land and $100 for attorney’s fees.
MONO LAKE (Mono Co.), June 8 -
A.D. GASSAWAY, of Nevada City, and John ALBERT, of San Francisco, have been in this locality for the past five days looking
over the old hydraulic mining ground with a view to reworking it. ELBERT and others have been in possession of
this ground for some time. They have spent considerable money in assessment
work and relocation, and have made many efforts to put the property to the
front, but on account of the scarcity of water have been unable to make much
headway. The unlimited amount of snow deposited in the Sierras last winter has
put encouragement in the heart of the owners and renew activity is looked for
in this line of mining for this county.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, June 8, 1906
Page 7
__aring Tragedy At Redding Due
To Jealousy Over A Woman And Death Seems Certain To Result REDDING (Shasta
Co.), June 8 - At 10:30 this morning George DRASSEL was stabbed twice by George
W.F. BORING, and the chances are against his recovery. At this wiring the
District Attorney and Court Reporter are engaged in taking what is believed to
be his dying statement. Jealousy over a
woman is supposed to be at the bottom of the trouble between the two men. The
fight between them was a terrible one, each fighting desperately and viciously.
BORING went to a room this
morning where DRASSELL was to get something. A quarrel followed, and this soon
led to blows. Then BORING, it is said, drew a dagger and thrusted at DRASSELL.
The men fought out of the room and down a flight of thirty-five steps into a
saloon. Here the terrible battle continued, the men ____ working out of the
saloon and ___ an adjoining one. There
DRASSELL ___ the barkeeper for a “gun” but was refused, the barkeeper, instead,
jumping in and stopping the fight.
Then it was seen that DRASSELL
had been seriously wounded. One deep cut was made under his left arm, and
another in his bowels above the left ___.
BORING was placed under arrest and taken to jail. It is only a few days
since he was released from this institution, where he was sent for a
misdemeanor.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 8 -
Word has reached here to the effect that Miss Corinne FLINT, a well-known young
woman of this city, has been married in San Francisco to Afkar GOHRONSON, of
that city. A license was issued on Wednesday, but beyond that nothing is known
at present, or by Miss FLINT’s most intimate friends. It is understood that Mr.
GOHRONSON is connected with a San Francisco hospital, and Miss FLINT herself is
a trained nurse. She has been living of late with her sister, M__ Lee NEWBERT,
of San Mateo, formerly of Marysville.
GRIDLEY (Butte Co.), June 8 -
The marriage of local people within the last week not only breaks the record
for this place, but is a matter of much social interest as well. Last Friday in
Sacramento, Miss Mearl _NSDELL became the wife of Lewis Y-NG, and they will
make their home in Gridley. On Wednesday B_nk McKEON, Superintendent of the
Canning Department of the Gridley Cannery, was married in Oroville to Miss
Agnus GREENE, now of Penryn, Placer County, but formerly a resident of this
place. On the same day in San Francisco, Dr. W.S. LAVY and Miss Eleanor LEAR
became man and wife, the ceremony having been performed by Dr. BAIN of the
How___ Street Presbyterian Church.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June 8
- Four aged, decrepit and penniless Chinese of this place are to be deported to
the land of their birth. Strangely enough, the movement was started by a fellow
countryman, Chung KEE, a local merchant. He is now busy circulating a petition
to obtain sufficient funds to pay their fare to San Francisco and provide them
with $2.50 each on their arrival at that place. Several whites have subscribed.
KEE, an intelligent Mongol, has ascertained from the Chinese Minister at
Washington that the home Government will pay the expense attached to the
steamship trip across the Pacific. The men have resided in this neighborhood
since the early days where they followed placer mining but have spent their
last cent in keeping body and soul together. Their fellow-countrymen are weary
of the burden which has been imposed on them for some time, and this move is
the result.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
8 - Good progress was made this morning towards securing a jury to try Mrs.
Emma LE DOUX, charged with the murder by poison in this city, March 24th
last, of Albert N. McVICAR, eight men being sworn in. Each side exercised two
peremptories. It is thought that the remainder of the twelve will be secured by
the time Court adjourns this evening.
It became evident this morning
that the defense will be largely technical.
When the Court was called to order, Attorney FAIRALL, for the defense,
interposed an objection to the Sheriff and Coroner as being qualified to secure
talesmen, on the ground of bias and prejudice, and an affidavit to that effect
from Mrs. LE DOUX was filed. Judge NUTTER overruled the objections as to the
panel and withheld his ruling as to the qualifications of the officers named
until is should appear that another special panel may be necessary.
BRIDGEPORT (Mono Co.), June 8 -
James A. RAYCRAFT, owner of the stage line between Carson City, Nev., and this
place and proprietor of a large livery stable in Nevada, arrived in this town a
few days ago and purchased from Mr. WEBB
twenty head of draft horses, some for his own use and the balance to be taken
to San Francisco to be used in removing the debris from the city’s stricken
streets. The price paid for the band was $5000.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 8 -
Mrs. J.M. MORRISSEY, wife of Justice of the Peace MORRISSEY, died here at noon
to-day after suffering for a year or more from a malignant case of cancer.
Besides her husband she leaves a brother and a sister and four children. She
was 34 years of age, and a native of Marysville.
WINNEMUCCA (Nev.), June 8 -
Marion NOFSINGER and Al RICHARDSON, who have
been
prospecting in the Manhattan district, have returned to Winnemucca disgusted
with their luck. A short time before they left the camp they located a group of
claims between Jersey Canyon and Round Mountain. As they found only low-grade
ore in small quantities, they relinquished the ground and the HUMPHREY
brothers, who succeeded them in ownership, sold the group for $40,000 cash,
having uncovered a splendid ledge.
Attorney Joseph Called by Death
In opening this morning Judge
J.W. HUGHES announced the death of Attorney Isaac JOSEPH, and said: “It is with
sorrow that I announce to you the death of one of the members of our bar, Isaac
JOSEPH.
“I am informed that he died from
nervous prostration, superinduced by overwork and excitement, occasioned by the
San Francisco calamity. Mr. JOSEPH was an honest and able lawyer,
tenaciously zealous and untiring in his labors for his client, always careful,
courteous and painstaking in the discharge of his every duty. His loss will be
keenly felt by the members of the Bar and by a large circle of friends in
Sacramento. When this Court adjourns it will be out of respect to the memory of
our deceased brother.” Mr. JOSEPH was born and educated in this city, where he
practiced his profession of the law, up to three years ago, when he removed to
San Francisco and established an office there, conducting his affairs in both
cities.
He passed away last evening at
the Livermore Sanitarium after an illness of some six months. He leaves a wife
and two children; his mother, five sisters and two brothers. His sisters are
Mrs. C.P. NATHAN, Mrs. M. GRADWOHL and Mrs. Will ASHER, of San Francisco; Mrs.
H.L. STICH of this city, and Mrs. Charles HEXTER of Marysville. His brothers
are Israel and Jacob JOSEPH of Los Angeles. He was a member of the Masons, Odd
Fellows, Elks and Native Sons. During his lifetime he published several works
on probate matters.
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The Saturday Bee Sacramento,
Cal.
June 9, 1906
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 9 -
Marriage licenses were issued during the week to the following couples: Victor
P. PEUBERTHY, aged 34, of Kennett, and Mrs. Estelle P. WHITE, aged 27, of Redding;
Commodore C. KISE, aged 30, and Clara C. WOOD, aged 20, both of Redding; Lair
A. RALSTON, aged 26, of Round Mountain, and A. Edith JEPSON, aged 20, of
Stillwater; Gus KRAEMER, aged 26, and Belle B. MORRED, aged 19, both of
Castella.
Mrs. Jane PICKETT received an
interlocutory decree of divorce from
Benjamin H. PICKETT, and was
given the right to resume her maiden name, Jane
She received the divorce on the
ground of failure to provide. Mr. PICKETT is aged 80, and almost blind.
A final decree of divorce was
given to H.O. WICKES, of Castella, from Carrie WILKES.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 9 -
Professor Benjamin MACOMBER, Principal of the
Shasta County High School, and
Miss Teresa CARR, primary teacher in the Redding Grammar Schools and retiring
member of the County Board of Education, will be married during the Summer vacation. This pleasing announcement was made public
yesterday.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 9 -
Alonzo JONES and Mrs. Ellen BURKE, both of Grants Pass, Oregon, were married
here this week. It was the third matrimonial venture for each, the bride having
divorced two husbands and the groom having buried two wives. The bride is 29
years of age and the groom is 43.
MARYSVILLE, June 9 - The one
marriage license to be issued in Yuba County this week resulted in the union of
William L. NEWBERT, of Smartsville, and Miss Nellie WRIGHT, of Waldo. The
nuptial knot was tied at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. RAMSEY,
Wednesday.
Miss Alice WARD, a former
resident of this city, and Eugene GRANDJEAN, a San Francisco merchant, were married at the metropolis this week. Mrs. Daisy M. FIELDS has commenced divorce
proceedings in the Superior Court of this county against her husband, T.W.
FIELDS, on the grounds of desertion. The defendant has left the State and an
order for publication of summons has been made.
WILLOWS, June 9 - A marriage
license was granted this week to Warren Robert SUTHERLAND and Alma Grace
PENHALE, both of Willows.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 9 -
The following marriage licenses were issued the past week: Melvin Samuel
ANDERSON and Louise Marie BECKWITH of Sacramento; Calvin G. KERR, of Richmond,
and Miss Mabel Maude WITHAM, of Woodland.
OROVILLE, June 9 - The County Clerk issued the
following marriage licenses this week: Calvin JACKSON, aged 24, of Honcut, and
Della YANDELL, aged 19, of Gridley; Henry Erwin WAGNER, aged 21, of Oakland,
and Ruby Luella HART, aged 18, of Chico; Samuel Allen BATEMAN, aged 24, of
Petaluma, and May Edith CRANDALL, aged 17, of Magalia; Agnes Mary GREEN, aged
18, of Penryn, and Frank McKEOWN, aged 21, of Gridley; Fred Magnus PLEIFFER,
aged 18, of Chico, and Nettie VAN ORNUM, aged 17, at Chico.
part
of the county during the past week. Miss Maud KRENGLE became the bride of
Robert WEAR in this city, Dr. George W. BEATTY, of the M.E. Church, officiating. They will reside here.
At the home of the bride’s
parents in Penn Valley, west of this place, Miss May DAVEY and William FRASER
were united in marriage, Rev. H.C.
RICHARDSON, of the Fernley M.E. Church, having the honor to unite them. Miss Hattie ROWE and Cornelius J. CLAUSON
assumed the holy bonds in this place, the nuptial knot being tied by Rev. F.E.
DELL, of the Congregational Church.
of
Mariposa County, arrived in Keswick yesterday morning. He was a disappointed
man. He had heard a few years back that Keswick was the liveliest town in
Superior California, which was a correct estimate of the town at the time
FOLGER received his information. However, he had not since kept well informed.
He had not learned that the smelter had been closed for nearly two years and
the entire pay roll of the Mountain Copper Company at Keswick now included
twenty-five names.
About a week ago he became
disgusted with Mariposa County and concluded to make a jump to Shasta County
and strike the liveliest town within its borders. Without stopping to get more
recent information he bought a ticket to Keswick and had his baggage checked
accordingly. When he alighted from the
stage in front of the Post Office he could not see a man on main
Street. He got his bearings before the day was far advanced and went on to
Kennett on the evening train.
days
previous to the earthquake, and charged with grand larceny. Owing to the weeks
of legal holidays the case had to be postponed. Yesterday the prisoner was
brought into Court to be tried. To save the county considerable expenses he was
allowed to plead to the charge of petty larceny, and was sentenced by the
Justice to 100 days in the County Jail.
place and one of the finest dwellings
in Scott Valley, was destroyed yesterday afternoon by a fire that is supposed
to have originated in a defective flue. But little furniture was saved. The
residence was a total loss of $3500, partially covered by insurance.
RENO (Nev), June 9 - Yesterday
afternoon in the District Court, Mrs. Joseph W. WASSELL, the wife of a
prominent Chicago physician, was granted a divorce. The divorce was obtained
without opposition on the part of the husband, whose attorney appeared in Court
and stated that WASSALL was satisfied with the wife’s petition.
Mrs. WASSALL, who alleged
desertion, is a musical composer. She is a beautiful woman, and was married to
WASSALL about fifteen years ago. They lived unhappily and parted three years
ago. She came to Reno about eight months ago and filed a petition for divorce
as soon as she had gained residence. Her complaint was sealed and as her
attorney maintained secrecy, her identity was not learned until yesterday.
Sam Davis Scores Supreme Justice
CARSON (Nev.), June 9 - Sam
DAVIS, State Controller and formerly editor of the Carson Appeal, has written a
scathing letter in which he takes ex-Supreme Judge CHENEY to task for scolding
newspaper men at a banquet given to the press on commencement night at the
State University. After reproaching CHENEY for repeating a slander against him,
DAVIS says: “I can only submit the following:
“Nothing can be a worse
exhibition of bad breeding, of which I trust you will never be guilty, than the
trespassing upon the hospitality of the host by criticizing his guests. If you
are ever tempted to do so remember that the usages of good society forbid it -
Chesterfield’s letters to his son.
“Nothing so outrages the customs of society as the criticism of a guest
in the presence of the host - Beadle’s book of etiquette, page 18.
Fear Escaped Man May Commit
Crime
RENO (Nev.), June 9 - J.H.
FREEMAN, the demented violinist who escaped from the asylum, is still at
liberty and the peace officers as well as the asylum Superintendent are greatly
worried for fear that he will commit some serious act of violence, sane, made
an unsuccessful effort to sane, made an unsuccessful
effirt to kill several persons. (Sic) He imagines that everyone is his enemy and
for this reason was kept in constant close confinement, usually in a heavily
barred cell. A reward has been offered for his capture and several men are
hunting for him. The asylum officials say they are in dread lest they learn
that he has precipitated some fearful tragedy.
Fisherman’s Remains Found in
River
SPARKS (Nev.), June 9 - The
partially decayed remains of a stranger believed to be R. LOWENBURG, formerly
of Elko, Nev., were found in the Truckee River a mile
below Sparks last evening. There were but a few small pieces of silver in his
pockets, but the dead man carried a check book which showed that at one time
last Summer he had many thousand dollars upon deposit in the Henderson Bank at
Elko. One deposit entry was for the sum of $5000. The body was dressed in a
fisherman’s outfit. A dispatch from Elko says LOWENBURG probably committed
suicide, as a letter received from him by David CASPER a few days ago told of
financial losses and indicated melancholia.
LOWENBURG lived in Elko County for thirty years and was well known. He
was an expert bookkeeper and was formerly Deputy County Clerk.
Fear He Lost Life in San
Francisco Fire
RENO (Nev.), June 9 - Nothing
has been heard in this city of Robert BLITHER, the young laundryman who left on
April 5th for Oakland to accept a position in a laundry there. He
has disappeared as completely as though swallowed up. His relatives at this place and at Florison,
Cal., are greatly worried and have requested the police to aid in the search. A
short time before leaving Reno, BLITHER was arrested upon a charge of petty
larceny. He always protested that he was not guilty, and it is feared that his
punishment, a light jail sentence, so preyed upon his mind that he fled to some
section of the country where he would not be known. His relatives think he was
injured or killed during the San Francisco fire, but this occurred two weeks
after his departure, since which no tidings have been received from him.
Denies Charges
GOLDFIRELD (Nev.), June 9 -
Gordon CAMPBELL, one of the most prominent mining brokers in the city, whose
departure for the coast recently gave rise to stories that he was heavily in
debt and would not be able to meet his obligations, has returned to Goldfield
to deny the stories. He says his dealings in Goldfield have always been
strictly legitimate and that he expects to continue in business, meeting all
obligations as they fall due. He
denounces the rumors that he had embezzled stocks belonging to other brokers
and mining operators.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Monday, June 11, 1906
Page 7
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 11 - For
firing two shots on May 25th at James QUAILE in the Grass Lake
construction camp of the California & Northwestern Railroad, Byrl DUNLAP
will spend two years in San Quentin prison. He was sentenced Saturday noon by
Judge BEARD in the Superior Court and was started for the penitentiary in the
afternoon.
QUAILE is foreman of the
construction on the railroad at “the front.” DUNLAP was a laborer under his
employ. DUNLAP was drinking heavily on May 25th and while crazy
drunk he fired twice at QUAILE and would probably have emptied his revolver at
the foreman had not bystanders interfered promptly and disarmed him. One of the
bullets passed through the sleeve of QUAILE’s coat.
DUNLAP pleaded guilty. He said
he had no realization of what he had done.
When he was sober he had no malice against QUAILE and he could not
understand why he should have fired at him when he (DUNLAP) was drunk. QUAILE joined in asking the Court to be
lenient in passing sentence.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 11
- The annual picnic and prize shooting of the Red Bluff Rifle Club was held
yesterday at the Dibble Creek Grove and many excellent scores were made. The
occasion was made more enjoyable by the presence of a dozen members of the
Redding Scheytzen Club, and many of the Shasta County officials accompanied the
party.
The highest score was made by
Sheriff J.E. RICHARDSON, who was tied with Tony JAEGEL for the first prize, and
the Shasta official won out when it came to the second shooting. An elaborate
dinner was served on the grounds and all the leading city and county officials
were present as guests of the club, which has these officers: Paul BEUTHE,
President; Wm. A. FISH, Secretary.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 11
- The body of late Richard TONEY, who was killed at Bryant’s Camp, near
Lyonsville, while working for the Sierra Lumber Company, was brought to this
city Saturday and shipped to his former home in San Jose, where his widowed
mother resides. He had his neck broken by being struck on the head by the wire
rope slipping in the act of hoisting a log and death was instantaneous. TONEY
would have received a fortune of about $10,000 if he had lived another month.
This fatal accident occurred Wednesday afternoon, as already related in The
Bee.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 11
- Mrs. Margaret CUSICK, an old and widely respected resident of Shasta County,
died yesterday afternoon in this city at the residence of her son-in-law, Dom
O’GARA, after a long illness of cancer of the stomach. She was 56 years of age
and formerly conducted a hotel near Redding. The body will be taken to this
later city Tuesday afternoon and the funeral will be held from the Catholic
Church, Rev. Father NUGENT officiating.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
11 - Congratulations are being extended Rev.
Francis A. LAMB, pastor of the M.E. Church of this city, whose
engagement to Miss Grace M. HART of Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, has just been
announced. The minister will leave
during July to return with the young woman as his bride. The wedding will be
performed on August 15th at the home of Miss HART’s parents.
A pretty romance is connected
with the approaching wedding. They met several years ago while Mr. LAMB was
attending the Boston Theological Seminary, Miss HART being a student in the
Boston University. They graduated the same year. From that acquaintanceship
ripened friendship and finally love, which is soon to lead to a pretty wedding.
LAMB is a very popular pastor, and after his wedding will return here with his
fair bride.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
11 - Out at the County Hospital lies W.
HINEICH with his skull probably fractured. He was brought here from
Truckee, near which place he was injured while beating his way on a freight
train. While riding on top of a car his
head struck against a beam in one of the snow sheds, cutting a deep and ragged
gash. That his brains were not dashed out is miraculous. He is from Oakland,
and his mother, who was notified of his condition, has arrived to be at his
bedside.
NAPA (Napa Co.), June 11 -
Further steps have been taken by the District Attorney to close up the nine
saloons at Yountville. Complaints were sworn to before Justice McKNIGHT at
Napa, charging E.A. BARNARD and D. McVICKER with selling liquor within a mile
and a half of the Veterans’ Home. McVICKER has been conducting a social club at
Yountville in a building formerly used by E.A. BARNARD as a saloon,
and the authorities claim that he has been selling beer and other liquors in
his clubrooms. BARNARD has been occupying another building at Yountville, and the authorities state that they have
evidence that he has been selling liquor in violation of the State law. Several cases already tried have resulted in
acquittals, but George GIBBS and Theo WHITTON have pleaded guilty at recent
hearings.
DUTCH FLAT (Placer Co.), June 11
- Chin Mow, a member of the Quong Hong Sing Company, of this place, was badly
bitten by a dog about the face. The injured man was visiting a Chinese camp
close by and was told, by a Chinaman in charge of the place, that the dog would
not bite, and proceeded to enter the house, when the dog jumped and caught him
by the lip, making an ugly wound.
Aged Pioneer of Stage Days Dead
LOVELOCK (Nev.), June 11 - James
SAY, aged 70 years, known to thousands of old Californians as the man who
conducted the overland stage station at the southern point of Humboldt Lake, in
Nevada, is dead. He passed away in this city, where he lived during his last
days. SAY owned valuable mining property in Churchill County,
Nevada. He came west in early days and when the argonauts crossed the
plains he entertained thousands of them at his stage station, which was located
upon the overland road. The construction of the Central Pacific Railway took
away his occupation, and he then took up mining with good success.
GOLDFIELD (Nev.), June 11 - H.F.
CHURCHILL, of New York, and T.F. BONNEAU and O.F. MATKIN, of Goldfield, have
just closed an important mining deal, taking over the Spokane and Frisco groups
on Gold Mountain. The claims lie on the northeastern slope of the mountain, and
adjoin the famous Mitchell group, which are now being opened up by a strong
syndicate.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, June 12, 1906
Page 5
SAN JOSE, June 12 - The autopsy
held this morning on the body of Mrs.
Salvador SANFELIPE, who was mysteriously shot to death last night just
as she stepped outside her home on Lincoln Avenue, showed that she was shot
from the rear, and not from the front, as had been supposed.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, June 12, 1906
Page 6
St. Helena Man Quarrels With
Companion at Napa and Double Tragedy Ensues NAPA (Napa Co.), June 12 - Roy
STURR, of St. Helena, an employe of the Napa Valley Railroad, and a woman known
in the under world as Carrie CLARK, is dead in the Morgue here - one murdered
and the other a suicide. STURR has been
mixed up with the woman for some time. He visited her house in this place last
night, and a quarrel ensued. What it was about no one now seems to know. It
precipitated the tragedy, however, for high words were soon followed by two
pistol shots, and then, after a little interval, by three more.
Other women of the Clark stripe
heard the shooting and rushed into the room where it took place. A terrible
sight met their gaze. On the floor, with blod (sic) oozing from ghastly wounds,
in the back of her head, lay STURR’s mistress, and near by her, stretched upon
his back, was the man, with wounds in the head and body.
STURR had shot the woman and
then himself. Death apparently came to him instantly, but life lingered in the
woman for several minutes after her associates broke into the room.
The nightwatchman was summoned
and took charge of the remains. The Coroner will hold an inquest to-day.
Roy STURR was the son of
Nightwatchman STURR, of St. Helena, a respectable family. He had been in the
employ of the Napa Valley Railroad for some time as a lineman, and appeared to
be fairly industrious, but was addicted to evil ways. The news of the tragedy
has caused a sensation at St. Helena, where he was well known.
Officers Now think Three Other
Japanese In Addition To One Found Perished In The Water STOCKTON (San Joaquin
Co.), June 12 - A searching party is engaged in looking for the bodies of three
Japanese, who, it is thought, met their death with another of their race -
Elichi GOKESHIGE - whose body has been recovered.
GOKESHIGE’s remains were brought
to Stockton from the Fabian Tract and an inquest into the cause of his death
was held. It was through the inquest that the full story of the tragedy was
learned. It seems that the deceased and three other Japs were engaged in the
contracting business with their fellow-countrymen on the Fabian Tract on Old
River. Last Monday they decided to go to Tracy and see someone in regard to a
business matter. The land between the Fabian place and Tracy is flooded to a
great extent and it is possible to go by small boat. The Japs took a duck boat
and started for the town. That was the last seen of them.
Wednesday another
Japanese discovered the rowboat half-filled with water and debris. He
summoned his friends and the boat was towed to shore. The debris was removed
and the body of GOKESHIGE was found under it. The Coroner is of the opinion
that the quartet were thrown out and that GOKESHIGE was the only one who
managed to clamber into the craft again. He probably died in the boat.
The Japanese who found the body
cannot speak English, and did not know what to do with the body. They waited a
day or so and then sent word to a fellow countryman in San Francisco, who
telephoned to this city last Saturday.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
12 - C.M. RITTER, Principal of the Stockton High School, has presented his
resignation to Arthur TATTERSON, of the Board of Education. The resignation is to
take effect upon the election of his successor. He states that he will be glad
to be of any assistance to his successor from the present time to the 22d of
the month, or even later, if he does not go East.
It is possible he intends to go
East to attend to business matters connected with his father’s estate, but
there is a rumor to the effect that he has resigned because he is opposed to
Mr. TATTERSON’s recent change in the High School curriculum, making it optional
with a student to choose either a business education or a preparatory course
for college. Principal RITTER came to
this city during the term of 1902-3 to accept the place of D.A. MOBLEY.
According to a rumor, Frank B.
WOOTEN, the former Principal of the Lodi High School, has been slated for the
position.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
12 - Dr. S.E. LATTA, who helped conduct the autopsy on A.N. McVICAR’s body, was
given a rigid cross-examination after the 2 o’clock recess in the LE DOUX
murder case yesterday. Attorney FAIRALL used more technical terms than the
physician. The witness finally asked the Court for assistance.
“Why didn’t you take the
temperature of this man?” asked FAIRALL.
“Because he was dead,” answered
the witness.
“You assumed so.”
“I know it,” was the emphatic
reply.
The defense is making a strong play with the technical
side of the case and is evidently trying to confuse the professional men in the
testimony. Attorney FAIRALL said during
the noon recess that he would have physicians and chemists to testify when he
puts in his case.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 12 -
Judge GADDIS yesterday denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus by Charles
WAUGHTEL to secure the possession of his little 4-year-old daughter Mabel.
The child, as told in The Bee
several days ago, has been in the keeping of August SILBERSTEIN, an uncle,
since the death of the mother. He fought the granting of the writ.
William F. DAVIS, of Sacramento,
has petitioned to be appointed guardian of the little girl. The estate consists
of $2000, life insurance. The petition also says that WAUGHTEL was to pay $7.50
per month for the support of the child from the time of his divorce from the
little girl’s mother and he has failed so far to do so. The hearing of the
petition is set for June 18th.
Man Who Killed His Wife And
Wounded Her Cousin Meets Rebuff At Hands Of The
Supreme Court
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), June 12 - William H.
TREBILCOX, of this city,
must die on the gallows for the murder of
his wife, which took place here on
March 14, 1905. Late yesterday afternoon the Supreme
Court reaffirmed the
decision of the Superior Court of this county,
thus ending all hope for the
condemned man. He is now in San Quentin, but will
be brought back for
re-sentence
at Nevada City.
The killing was most brutal and
coolly planned. The couple had been living apart for some time, on account of
TREBILCOX’s habits. His wife declared she would not live with him again until
he quit drinking. He promised, but did not make good. On the fatal morning
TREBILCOX, who had slept very late, having a room in the Holbrooke House,
purchased a 38-caliber revolver from a local dealer, saying he wanted one that
would shoot straight. The salesman loaded the weapon and gave it to the
purchaser, who seemed in his usual mental condition. Prior to making the
purchase he had two drinks of whisky with the proprietor of the place in a
saloon.
TREBILCOX then headed straight
for the home he had not been allowed to visit for weeks. On the way he stopped
at the Antlers’ Saloon and had another drink. He walked on down the street to
the dwelling. At the front door he was confronted by his wife’s cousin, Charles
ALLEN, who had been boarding and lodging there. TREBILCOX ordered him from the
place, according to ALLEN’s testimony at the trial, under pain of death. The
lad, just 19, was driven through the house to the kitchen door. There, he
testified, TREBILCOX again threatened to kill him, drawing his revolver, and
also announced that he had good notion to kill his wife, too. She had stepped
outside, having been warned by her cousin as he hurried through the house. As TREBILCOX drew, ALLEN did also. TREBILCOX
shot his wife in the back of the head at distance of ten feet. She fell dead in
her tracks. ALLEN, who was a few feet at one side, fired at the murderer, but missed. TREBILCOX fired from behind the door, putting a
bullet through ALLEN’s left thigh. ALLEN
ran from the place to a near-by saloon, followed by two more shots from
TREBILCOX’s weapon, which missed.
Meeting City Marshall DEEBLE on
his way to the scene, TREBILCOX gave him self up, handing his revolver to the
officer with the remark that he had killed his wife. On the way to the County
Jail he spoke bitterly against young ALLEN, whom he accused of breaking up his
home. This, however, was given no credence by people who knew the dead woman
best. Both TREBILCOX and his wife had
resided here from childhood, and up to the time he began drinking he was well
regarded, being a hard-working miner. The dead woman was aged 20 years.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 12 -
Miss Margaret E. SMITH and L.E. HUTCHINGS will be married at the home of the
bride-elect in this city Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Wenk, pastor of
the M.E. Church will perform the ceremony. The bride was a teacher in the
grammar schools in this city last term. Mr. HUTCHINGS is a prosperous rancher
near this city.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 12 -
Captain J.G. LEE of Company ___ , this city, visited
Adjutant-General LAUCK in Sacramento yesterday. LAUCK expressed a desire that
the preliminary rifle shoot before the California team goes to ____, new
Jersey, be held near this city, and Captain LEE has been authorized to look for
a suitable range. He will again coach the California team this year.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), June
12 - Jack CLIFFORD, the pride of this city, will fight either Toby IRWIN or
HERRERA at Sacramento on July 3d. He had a long talk last night with Manager
CONLEY, of the Sacramento Yosemite Club, over the phone, and agreed to take on
either of these men, allowing them to name their own terms in order to get the
match. CONLEY said he could have the date mentioned, and CLIFFORD declared it
just suited him. He further stated that if IRWIN or HERRERA backed out, he
stood ready to meet any man of his class.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 12 -
As the result of being kicked in the abdomen by a horse, Gus NICHOLS, a
hostler, who was employed at MOCK’s livery stable in this city, occupies a slab
at the morgue. So far as known the deceased has no relatives in California. He
was a German, 57 years of age. The physicians who conducted the post mortem
examination state that internal hemorrhages caused death. An inquest will be
held to-night. NICHOLS served during his lifetime in the German and American
armies.
MANTON (Shasta Co.), June 12 -
Charles BAKER, who was found dead in his cabin in the woods last Friday, was
aged 80 years. At the inquest held Saturday the physician to the Coroner stated
that from appearances BAKER had been dead eight of ten days when his body was
discovered by the stockmen who accidentally sought shelter in the cabin from a
passing storm. Up to last October BAKER
owned a good ranch and several head of stock.
Realizing that he had but a few years at best to live, he deeded his
entire estate to Mrs. E.A. STONE, of Manton, who had cared for him in several
spells of sickness. The only consideration mentioned in the deed was gratitude.
Mrs. STONE, grateful for the substantial gift, paid all the expenses of the
funeral, which was held here yesterday afternoon.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 12 -
The funeral of Mrs. Andy CUSICK, of Middle Creek, whose death occurred Sunday
in Red Bluff, as told in yesterday’s Bee, was held here this morning from the
Catholic Church. Mrs. CUSICK was a
pioneer of the county, all of her life but the first eight years having been
spent within its borders. For fourteen years she and her husband conducted the
Tower House, between Shasta and French Gulch, a famous stopping place in the
days of stage coaches. For the last nineteen years Mrs. CUSICK was Postmaster
at Middle Creek (Waugh), and resigned only a little over a month ago. No one
could be found in the small settlement to take the position she had held so
long, largely as a matter of public accommodation, and so the office was
abolished.
Mrs. CUSICK was survived by her
husband and eight children, among whom are Mrs. Dom O’GARA, of Red Bluff, James
CUSICK, of Dunsmuir, and Mrs. Maggie PLUMMER, of Seattle.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 12 - The annual examination
of applicants for
licenses to teach school is in progress this
week. Of the thirteen
applicants not a single one is of the sterner sex.
Those taking the
examination are Josie MULLEN, Mabel HOUSTON, Helen
BEATTIE, Katie JOSEPH,
Burney BIDWELL, Nellie BIDWELL,
Emma KELLEY, Bessie FIRLOTTE, Maud ROBINSON,
Donna DENNIS, Pearl PETTY,
Frankie FITZWATER and Minnie JAMES.
BALLS FERRY (Shasta Co.), June
12 - Veterinary Surgeon G.C. TAYLOR, of Redding, condemned three horses here
Saturday because they were affected with glanders. As they had been running for
some time in the pasture with other animals, he looks for more cases from
infection.
CHICO (Butte Co.), June 12 -
Archie M. NASH, business manager of the Enterprise-Post of this city, has
received word of the death of his grandfather, John G. MERRIAM, at Lake Mills,
Wisconsin. Mr. MERRIAM lacked a little
over two months of being 100 years old. He was born at Paris, Oneida County,
N.Y., 1806, and in 1829 located in Wisconsin.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 12 -
Thomas PARTRIDGE, a young man about 19 years of age, and a resident of Chico,
was committed to the Napa Insane Asylum yesterday.
With his father, mother and
sister he was driven out of Zion C___ a short time ago on account of statements
made by the elder PARTRIDGE which cast reflections upon DOWIE’s character. The
family originally came from Australia to enter the zionist
colony.
PARTRIDGE’s mania is of a
religious nature. He talks incessantly, and imagines he is holding
communication with the angels.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), June 12 -
Francis J. LINDGREEN, a sailor on the Independence, on Sunday evening took
several tablets of potash with suicidal intent in a house of ill-fame in this
city. By quick treatment at the Emergency Hospital at the Police Station his
life was saved. At 1 o’clock Sunday
morning a guard came over from the Independence, but LINDGREEN got very
violent, and had to be handcuffed and bound before being taken to the ship. On
the boat going over he tried to jump into the bay, and when put in the brig on
the ship he tried to tear his shirt up to hang himself. He is undoubtedly
insane, and will be sent to an institution.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 12 - H.B.
STEWART, who conducts an employment office here, had seventeen Greeks arrested
yesterday and brought before Justice WARD.
STEWART avers that he paid their
railroad faire, and furnished them with meals and beds. They were given
positions on the Western Pacific but worked only a day and quit, failing to
recompense STEWART for the outlay he had made in their behalf.
The parties were discharged upon
their promise to go back to work and refund STEWART his money.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, June 12, 1906
Page 7
QUINCY (Plumas Co.), June 12 -
It is reported that the Sparks-Humphrey Meat Company, which has the contract to
furnish the Utah Construction Company with meat, and which has several cold
storage plants and distributing points along the line between Oroville and
Beckwith Pass, is negotiating for the purchase of the Plumas Meat Market, in
Quincy. It seems to be the police of the Sparks-Humphrey combination to buy out
all small competitors in this section. Recently they purchased the Beckwith
butcher shop, paying therefore a handsome figure.
QUINCY (Plumas Co.), June 12 -
Last Friday morning a drunken character named MORGAN at New Mohawk, indecently
exposed himself in the presence of women.
He was immediately placed under arrest and taken before the Justice of
the Peace. He was tried by a jury the same day, found guilty, and Justice FLYNN
sentenced him to six months in the County Jail. Constable THRALL arrived in
Quincy with the prisoner at 12 o’clock the same night. This was swift justice,
indeed, for a country Court.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 12 -
For the second time in the short space of a week, the stork has brought twin
babies to this community. Last Thursday, as announced in The Bee at the time,
two girl babies arrived at the home of John H. BOOTH, who eighteen months ago
became the proud daddy of a son and a daughter in one night.
Yesterday it was the home circle
of Edward HELLMAN which was enlarged by twin girl babies, the first children to
arrive to the couple. A strange
coincidence in connection with these births is that both fathers are engaged in
the ice business - HELLMAN engaged being the manager of a plant which turns out
the artificial article, while BOOTH drives the ice wagon for an opposition
concern, which has the natural article.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 12
- Gus DEVERAUX and Robert MOULLIN are two young Englishmen who formerly
conducted a poultry farm in the rich Antelope Valley on the east bank of the
Sacramento River, and a few months ago they were accused by a neighbor, G.G.
STICE, who occupies the St. Mary’s Park property of Judge N.P. CHIPMAN, with
having killed a calf belonging to the last-named.
The case was set for trial
yesterday in the Superior Court, the two men having been held by the Justice’s
Court. MOULLIN made his appearance with his counsel, Attorney N.A. GERNON, but
the partner could not be found. DEVERAUX
put up a cash bail of $500, and the case was postponed until next Friday, when
the money will be declared forfeited unless the missing man appears.
It is alleged that the hide of
the calf, together with some of the veal, was found in the house formerly
occupied by the Englishmen. The poultry farm was sold to obtain money for the
bail, and pending the sale of the property, one of the partners languished in
jail for a few weeks.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 12 -
Eli POPEJOY was arrested Sunday at Copper City by Constable KINYON, of Fall
River Mills, on suspicion of being connected with the attempted hold-up of the
De La Mar stage on October 9th last and the murder of Express
Messenger Dan HASKELL. Strictly speaking, POPEJOY was not arrested, but was
simply taken into custody, for no formal complaint has been sworn to. POPEJOY
was put into the County Jail Sunday evening. The fact was kept secret by the
officers, and leaked out accidentally late yesterday afternoon.
Constable KINYON declines to
make public the evidence upon which he bases his suspicions. He says he will
swear to a complaint some time to-day.
It is reported that a second arrest has been made at Copper City, but
the officers are non-communicative. They are working very secretively and the
public does not care it they do, if they will only run down the real stage
robbers.
Eli POPEJOY is a son of the late
Theodore POPEJOY, pioneer of the Copper City region. He is a half-breed and a
man of fair reputation. He is aged 31, and a miner. He was at work in the Bully
Hill Mine Sunday when Constable KINYON took him in charge. POPEJOY wept like a
child and stoutly protested his innocence. He would make no statement.
Copper City is about six miles
from the scene of the attempted stage hold-up. POPEJOY has lived in the region
all his life. People here are not
disposed to believe POPEJOY guilty. They have certainly no evidence against
him, and therefore await with interest for the
officers to show their hand. People are
particularly slow to jump at conclusions in view of the fact that the officers
made a mistake March 32d (sic) when they arrested Con HARDWICK and Charles
WHITESCARBOR for the crime. Circumstances were against HARDWICK and
WHITESCARBOR, yet on April 6th they were discharged from custody and
completely vindicated. To their credit, too, be it said, they have since
remained in this vicinity and have done all in their power to help the officers
run down new clues. It is possible that they have given evidence that has led
to the arrest of POPEJOY. This is all conjecture, however.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), June 12
- At noon to-day, Tom THOMAS, nightwatchman at the big steam shovel working
below Antelope, was run over here by freight train No. 216, and received
injuries that probably will prove fatal.
He has been suffering from rheumatism and was on crutches. The train was
switching, and he attempted to cross behind it, but was caught by backed-up
cars. His left foot was cut off above the ankle and part of his left hand, and
his right leg was broken above the knee and his head terribly cut. He was hurried to the Railroad Hospital at
Sacramento. Mr. THOMAS is a resident of
Roseville and was well-known here, where he has many friends.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12 - National
Guardsman Laurence N. BECHTEL was held to answer to-day after a preliminary
hearing for the killing of Frank RIORDAN, the young athlete, who was shot down
during the progress of the fire last April.
A charge of manslaughter was
placed against BECHTEL.
Bonds were fixed at $5000.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, June 13, 1906
Page 5
Where is Philip EPSTEIN? - Chief
of Police DENNY has received a letter inquiring as to the whereabouts of Philip
EPSTEIN, formerly a shoemaker in San Francisco. The letter was written by Mrs.
EPSTEIN and states that she will be in this city to-day or to-morrow.
E.L. CHIOPECK, Executive Officer
of the Law and Order League, was married yesterday afternoon at the Church of
the Advent in East Oakland, to Miss Grace BRUCKMANN of San Francisco. The
ceremony was a quiet one, and Rev. G.E.
SWAN of the Trinity Episcopal Church of Sacramento,
officiated.
The extra session of the
Legislature which adjourned yesterday cost $83,696.20, divided between the two
branches as follows:
Senate, per diem, $4528.90;
Assembly, per diem, $9118.40; Senate officers and clerks, $2307.50; Assembly
officers and clerks, $2604; Senate contingent expense, $2737.40; Assembly
contingent expense, $4000; legislative printing, $8400.
This was the date set for
sentencing Edward JOHNSON, the youth who pleaded guilty last Monday to a charge
of grand larceny. JOHNSON had been arrested on a charge of having robbed a man
named KRAFT, of $7. Judge HART said he was not ready to pass sentence this
morning and continued the matter until next Saturday morning. JOHNSON is only
20 years of age. He told the Court of his wanderings over the country since he
left his home in Michigan and wept when he referred to his sister back in the
old home.
Mrs. Lucy UPSON HANCHETT passed
away this morning in San Jose. The news of the death was a sad shock to the
relatives of Mrs. HANCHETT in this city,
for although they knew she had been ill, it was not believed her ailment was of
a serious nature. Deceased was born in Sacramento, and resided here until her
marriage about ten years ago to Lewis HANCHETT, when she took up her residence
in San Francisco. She was held in high esteem by the young people of
Sacramento. A few months ago she moved to San Jose. She was the sister of L.S., Miller, Burchell,
Nellie and Marian UPSON, of this city, and Mrs.
W.R. ORMSBY, of San Francisco. She leaves two
daughters. The funeral will take place
Friday morning from San Jose, and the interment will be made in the Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland.
PASADENA, June 13 - Ned L.
CHAPIN of Pasadena, who was recently expelled from Annapolis Naval Academy for
hazing, has declined to go back under reappointment, according to a statement
by the father of the young man. The offer of reappointment came,
it is stated, through United States Senator ___KINS to the elder CHAPIN. Young
CHAPIN states that he does not care to enter the United States Navy now.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 - The residence of Mrs. E.C. HARRISON, on Buchanan Street was
robbed in a daring manner at 10 o’clock this morning by an unknown man who rang
the bell and asked to see the lady of the house. Mrs. HARRISON’s little boy, who had answered
the bell, went to call his mother. When she reached the door the man had gone,
and an examination showed that he had taken a handbag containing jewelry and
other articles valued at $150.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal
Wednesday, June 13, 1906
page
6
Not Only Reappointed Principal But
Given Larger Salary, As Were Teachers Who Stood With Him CHICO (Butte Co.),
June 13 - The climax of the trouble in the Chico High School, as told in
yesterday’s Bee, was reached last night at the School Board meeting in the
Council Chambers of the Chico City Hall, when, instead of dismissing him from
the school Principalship, the Trustees reappointed W.W. MACKAY for the ensuing
season, with an increase of $100 per annum in his salary.
Professor Bert B. TUCKER, who
was charged with having been at the bottom of the trouble, and who was accused
of working to gain the Principalship for himself, was left off the list
entirely.
All the other teachers were
given an increase of $50 in this year’s salaries.
Professor MACKAY was notified by
the Board to select another man to fill Professor TUCKER’s position, subject to
the approval of the Trustees. Since one of the other six teachers resigned
unconditionally, a vacancy has been left in the teaching force for next year,
which must also be filled. The original
charges against Professor MACKAY, which induced the Board to ask for his
resignation, are still an unobtainable as ever, and may never be definitely
known, although they still appear to have been merely charges against his
enforcement of discipline among the school boys. So great was the opposition to the proposed
action of the Board in dismissing Professor MACKAY, among the High School
scholars, that two lengthy petitions were written and sent to the Trustees, one
signed by Committee’s representing student enterprises, and the other signed by
practically every member of the school. These petitions protested against the
dismissal of Professor MACKAY and against the proposed installation of
Professor TUCKER as Principal.
The meeting-room of the Board
was crowded last night with citizens and students who expected some sensational
disclosures.
CHICO (Butte Co.), June 13 -
With her hip broken, jawbone dislocated, nose broken, and bruises and cuts over
her entire body, Mrs. SMITH, and aged woman of this place died at 1 o’clock
this morning. Mrs. SMITH was standing on
the corner in front of her home when a runaway horse with a buggy attached
dashed upon the sidewalk, and before she could get out of the way she was run
over and frightfully injured. Bystanders
rushed to the aged woman’s assistance, and she was tenderly conveyed to the
home of her sister, Mrs. Charles NELSON, where she died.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 13 -
The charge of larceny against Joseph BECK, charged with stealing a small amount
of provisions from one of the railroad contractor’s camps, where he was
employed, was dismissed this morning and BECK released from custody. BECK
refused to accept the services of a lawyer and intended to defend himself had the case gone to trial. The reason for the
dismissal is that two of the principal witnesses have left the State and
without their testimony it would be impossible to secure a conviction.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 13 -
The residence of E. GILMAN, at Thermalito, was destroyed by fire yesterday.
Three years ago a residence on the same site was also destroyed by fire. The
fire yesterday was caused by the explosion of a coal oil stove, the flames
spreading so rapidly that GILMAN was unable to save anything. The loss is about
$10,000, covered by a moderate insurance.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 13 -
Announcement is made of the marriage to-morrow of Miss Orma BROWNING and
William G.H. STEPHENS, both of this city. The wedding
will be solemnized at St. Luke’s Church, Woodland, at
2 p.m. Rector D.E. HOLT will officiate.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R.W. BROWNING, and the groom the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. STEPHENS,
both prominent families. Another wedding
announced for to-morrow is that of Miss Mary BROWNING, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W.Y. BROWNING, of near this city, and Peter F.
McLAUGHLIN, of Los Angeles. Mr. McLAUGHLIN is connected with the Arrowhead, a publication of
that city. The wedding will occur at the beautiful country home of the bride’s
parents at 2 o’clock. Professor A.M. ELSTON, of Berkeley,
officiating. The couple will leave on the afternoon train for Los
Angeles, their future home.
It is a coincidence that the
brides of these two weddings are cousins, and both are favorites in local
society.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
13 - H.J. IRVINE and Miss Ethel YOUNG were married yesterday at the home of the
bride’s mother, Rev. LUNDY, of the First Presbyterian Church, performing the
impressive ceremony. Only relatives and a few intimate friends witnessed the
wedding. Mr. IRVINE is engaged in the express business and is well known in the
city. His bride is an attractive young woman and also has a large list of
friends who wish her success in her new venture.
CORNING (Tehama Co.), June 13 -
The wedding of Bion MILLS and Miss Clyve ADKINS, which took place at the home
of the bride’s parents, one mile southeast of Corning last night, was witnessed
by a number of the friends and relatives of the contracting parties. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Eugene CLARKSON, of Red Bluff. The contracting parties are
very favorably known in Corning where they have a host of friends.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 13 -
Coroner KITTO received word late Tuesday afternoon that an unknown man had been
killed by a train near Webster Station, between Sacramento and Davisville,
Monday night, the body being hurled into the water. It was not found. As the
current is very swift where the accident occurred the body will probably be
carried far down stream before being recovered.
His Attorney Lays Blame On
Mother-In-Law, But Says Defendant Did Not Mean To Shoot And Kill Her AUBURN (Placer
Co.), June 13 - The trial of John A. JOHNSON, charged with attempting to kill
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Andrew SMITH, in the Rock Creek district, a few months
ago, was begun in the Superior Court here yesterday. JOHNSON’s defense is temporary insanity. He
disclaims having had any intention to kill his mother-in-law.
L.L. CHAMBERLAIN, the
defendant’s attorney, in his opening statement said he would show that his
client had been badgered and unjustly accused of crime by Mrs. SMITH; that she
had done everything she could to estrange the defendant from his wife; that
this continual hostile attitude of his mother-in-law had so preyed upon his
mind that he became irresponsible and that, though he fired the shots, he had
never intended to kill his mother-in-law.
The defendant’s wife and four
children were in Court yesterday. Mrs.
SMITH, the defendant’s mother-in-law, testified to the stormy interview between
herself and the defendant on the night of the shooting, in which vile and
opprobrious names were exchanged between the warring parties.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 13 -
The trial of the case of The People vs. John R. McCLELLAN is now in progress in
the Superior Court. The defendant is charged with burglary, in entering the
house of F.C. CAKE, at McCloud, in this county, with intent, as a matter of
fact, to commit a rape. Mr. CAKE is
bookkeeper for the McCloud Lumber Company at San Francisco, and the defendant
is cashier for the same Company at McCloud.
A jury was selected yesterday,
and one witness, Mr. CAKE, was examined.
The prominence of the parties and the nature of the charge have
attracted much attention to the case.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 13
- No arrests have yet been made because of the action of Marshal SLATER
officially notifying the women of the tenderloin district on upper High Street
that hereafter they must refrain from selling intoxicating liquor without a
license, it seeming, so far, to be the intention of the women to obey the law,
unless they are evading it in a way not yet known to the Marshal. Many of the
legitimate saloons are pleased with SLATER’s action, and the temperance element
think he has done a wise thing in ridding the town of the source of a great
amount of the drunkenness here.
SUSANVILLE (Lassen Co.), June 13
- “Indian Charley,” living near this place, was frightfully cut yesterday
afternoon at Reno by an unknown Mexican who the Indian said carried off his
wife several days ago. The Indian followed him to Reno, and when they met the
Mexican assaulted him with a knife. One cut laid open the Indian’s flesh from
his temple to his chin, the knife cutting entirely through the cheek. The
Indian is in a serious condition. The Mexican
escaped with the girl.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 13 -
This city is to lose a popular attorney and story writer of whom she is proud.
Arthur W. NORTH, who went to Lower California some time ago for the benefit of
his health, returned yesterday long enough to look after some affairs and to
announce his permanent departure from Woodland, to take up legal work and story
writing. He left to-day and will settle, eventually, either in San Francisco of
New York.
Former Sacramentan, The
Convicted Slayer Of Adolph Garman, At Last Faces San Quentin’s Open Door
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 13 - Word was received here yesterday afternoon that
the Supreme Court had denied George W. GALLANAR a rehearing. GALLANAR appealed
from the Appellate Court, which had denied a second trial and confirmed the
judgement of the Shasta County Superior Court, finding GALLANAR guilty of
manslaughter in killing Adolph GARMAN at Keswick, February 22, 1903.
The remittitur from the
Appellate Court is expected almost any day, for yesterday was the last day of
the sixty days allowed for the appeal to the higher Court. When the remittitur
arrives, there will be nothing for the Sheriff to do but to take the prisoner
to San Quentin. It will be a great
relief to Shasta County to be rid of GALLANAR and his case. He has had two
trials, the first resulting in a disagreement of the jury, which stood 11 to 1
for murder. At the second trial he was found guilty of only manslaughter - a
compromise verdict - and was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. He has been
in the County Jail over three years and was sentenced over two years ago.
GALLANAR’s attorney says he will
appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. This will not prevent
GALLANAR going to prison, unless the State Supreme Court will grant a writ of
probable cause, which is not likely to be done, inasmuch as no Constitutional
point was raised during the trial.
GALLANAR years ago was well-known in Sacramento. He resided in
Washington, across the river, but worked in the Southern Pacific railroad shops
in the Capital City. During the great strike he gained much unenviable
notoriety.
Arrest Of
Alleged Stage Robbers And Haskell Murderers Not
Instigated By Sheriff, But He Is Helping
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 13 -
William RANDALL was arrested yesterday afternoon at Copper City by Constable
H.F. WILLIAMS of De La Mar, who claims to have evidence connecting RANDALL with
the De La Mar stage robbery of October 9th, when Express Messenger
HASKALL was fatally wounded. RANDALL is now in the County Jail, keeping company
with Eli POPEJOY, also of Copper City, who was arrested the day before, in the
same connection, as told in The Bee of Tuesday.
Constable WILLIAMS is as
mysterious about the arrest of RANDALL as Constable KINYON, of Fall River Mills
is about the arrest of POPEJOY. WILLIAMS
has sworn to no complaint, neither has KINYON, though he said he would do so
yesterday.
Both Constables profess to have
evidence in hand, but they refuse to divulge it to the newspapers. They jointly
say they will swear to complaints when the District Attorney has time to take
up the matter. Sheriff RICHARDSON and
his deputies are not working on the case along the lines followed by Constable
WILLIAMS and Constable KINYON, and should the prisoners prove to be the real
stage robbers the glory of making the capture will be wholly that of the
Constables. On the other hand, should the prisoners prove to be innocent, the
disappointment will be that of the Constables. Sheriff RICHARDSON is anxious, however, to have it understood that he is not
throwing cold water on the investigations made by the Constables. He, in common
with every citizen of Shasta County, is anxious to see the murder of Dan
HASKELL avenged.
RANDALL, who was arrested
yesterday, is a miner and prospector. He has lived in Copper City for many
years and has been associated a good deal with Eli POPEJOY.
It is singular how suddenly
Constable KINYON became connected with the case. He lives at Fall River Mills,
eighty miles from Redding. He came to the county seat last Saturday, bringing
down an insane suspect. On Sunday, the next day, he went to Copper City and
arrested POPEJOY. He had never been in Copper City in his life before, nor had
he ever seen POPEJOY. Constable WILLIAMS, living near the scene of the
attempted hold-up, has been working on the case, off and on, ever since the
crime was committed.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 13 -
The preliminary examination of Mary SAUM and Charles W. LANGLEY, both of
Keswick, is in progress, before Justice of the Peace CARR. They are alleged to
have murdered Azor BRAND in the Old Miller saloon at Keswick after midnight on
February 18th. They have been in jail ever since, Mrs. SAUM in solitary
confinement because there was no other woman prisoner to keep her company. The
preliminary examination was continued several weeks, waiting for the accused to
employ counsel. Then came the holidays which called for
further delay. No new evidence is being developed at the examination,
which will probably be concluded to-day.
KENNETT (Shasta Co.), June 13 -
Work was begun to-day on the first church in Kennett. The Methodists are the
builders and the edifice will be ready for occupancy by July 4th.
The Catholics are contemplating building a church some time this year.
DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), June 13
- Silas GOULD, who is charged with stealing six gold watches from six Dunsmuir homes
one night a couple of months ago, will have six trials in the Superior Court at
Yreka - one for each watch - according to his program as outlined. He is
charged with six distinct burglaries and is entitled to have six distinct
trials, if he wants them, and through his attorneys he has said that he does
want them. Two of the trials have been
set down for next week, and two more for the week following. The dates of the
last two trials of the series have not been fixed because the preliminary
examinations have not been held. GOULD
will have a monopoly of the Superior Court for the rest of the month,
commencing with next Monday. It is estimated that it will take the first three
days of the week to secure a jury and try him for stealing A. LEVY’s gold watch.
The next trial will involve C.W. IBACH’s timepiece. The first half of the week,
beginning with June 25th, will take up the alleged theft of H.H.
CARPENTER’s ticker, and the last half of the week will be consumed in trying to
determine judicially whether he really stole Harry WILLIAMS’ gold watch.
MONTAGUE (Siskiyou Co.), June 13
- Two of the three men arrested for the burglary of the WALBRIDGE store in this
place on May 6th last, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court at
Yreka. J.C. REYNOLDS and James BRADLEY acknowledged their guilt and will be
sentenced some time to-day. Fred FLORES,
who appears to have been the leader of the gang, pleaded not guilty and stands
out for trial, which will probably not come until July. As REYNOLDS and BRADLEY
made a clean breast of the affair, FLORES can hardly escape conviction. In the
burglary they robbed the Walbridge store of razors, guns and ammunition.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), June 13
- Thomas S. THOMAS, who was fatally injured here at noon yesterday by a freight
train, as told in The Bee of last night, died a few hours later in Sacramento,
to which place he was hurriedly taken for treatment. His death causes sincere
regret here, where was his home and where many warm
friends reside. Funeral arrangements are not yet completed.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 13 -
Thomas W. HIGGINBOTHAM died at the County
Hospital last evening in the
fifty-fourth year of his age. His sister, the
only relative in this section, is en route from Ogden, Utah, in response to a
message announcing his serious illness. Coroner KELLY has taken charge of the
remains pending her arrival. Deceased was a Virginian.
NAPA (Napa Co.), June 13 - Death
claimed one of Napa’s pioneers yesterday when Felix BORREO passed away. He had
resided in Napa County since 1866. For years the deceased was engaged in the
grocery business here. He also owned and conducted the Bay View vineyard near
Napa Soda Springs. He was born in Italy sixty-nine years ago. A widow and five
children survive him.
AGER (Siskiyou Co.), June 13 -
Word was received her last night that the President yesterday appointed Judson
A. AGER as Postmaster here.
ADIN (Modoc Co.), June 13 - A fire
occurred Sunday at the HOYT ranch about four mils south of Adin. A building
which was used as a storehouse was consumed, and only by hard work were the
flames kept from spreading to the adjoining buildings. The fire was probably
caused by a coal oil lamp which was being used in an incubator. The loss
amounted to about $300. Several hundred pounds of flour and about 50 chickens
were burned.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), June 13 -
Byron O’CONNOR, the railroad section foreman in this city, fell down a stairway
at his home yesterday and fractured his skull quite badly, besides breaking the
thumb on his right hand. The attending physician reports O’CONNOR’s injuries to
be quite serious though the injured man will probably recover.
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The Evening Bee Sacramento, Cal.
Friday, June 15, 1906
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 15 -
Cupid was busy here yesterday, and as a result four couples were made happy and
started on the pathway of matrimonial life.
In the afternoon at 2 o’clock
Miss Irma BROWNING and William G.H. STEPHENS
were
married at St. Luke’s Church in this city, Rector D.E. HOLT officiating. They
left on the afternoon train for a Southern trip.
W.Y. BROWNING, near this city,
Miss Mary BROWNING and Peter F. McLAUGHLIN,
of
Los Angeles, plighted their vows. Professor A.M. ELSTON, of Berkeley,
officiated. They left on the afternoon train for Los Angeles, their future
home.
Last evening at the home of the
bride in this city Miss Margaret SMITH and L.E. HUTCHINGS were joined in holy
wedlock, Rev. R.E. WENK tying the knot. The fourth marriage was that of Miss Villa
HIATT and Elmer Edward BYRNS, both of this city, at the home of the bride’s
mother, Mrs. I.B. LEE. Rev. T.G. PICTON performed the ceremony.
High School were
held at the Opera House last night. The address was made by Professor A.M.
ELSTON, of Berkeley. Diplomas were given to the following eighteen students by
Professor W.M. HYMAN, of the High School faculty:
Glennie Barbara EISELSTEIN,
Julia G. BAKER, Gladys Rae HODGE, Hazel Leone
TORBETT, Aileene LAUGENOUR,
Chester Wayne BROWN, Frank Alson SCOFIELD, True
H. DeLAP, Grover Cleveland
JULIAN, Jo BEAMER, Jay T. COOPER, Roy E. COLE,
had
followed BUKOWSKI but which belonged to WILSON, came up yesterday in the
Superior Court, and the whole
day was taken up in efforts to secure a jury, but to no avail. The attorney for
the defense insisted upon knowing every man’s politics, questioned each one
closely regarding his views as to what rights an officer had to assault a
private citizen, and was very careful to bring out the fact that WILSON did not
appear as a prosecutor but as a witness. WILSON did not want to prosecute the
case and refused to swear to a complaint against BUKOWSKI, admitting that he
had been rather hasty in striking him, but such a pressure was brought to bear
that District Attorney SEXTON took the matter up and swore to a complaint. The
case will be hotly contested on both sides.
company
has purchased twenty-five acres of land situated on north beach and
construction of the necessary buildings has been commenced. S.W. WEST and F.M.
KNAPP, Salt Lake capitalists, are receptively President and Secretary of the
Company, which has a capital of $100,000, nearly all subscribed. Machinery to be installed will be up to date
and it is expected when the plant is ready it will turn out 100,000 bricks
daily. Vitrified paving brick will be the kind of brick made. The main building
will be 300 feet long by 140 feet wide. About 100 men will be given employment.
robbing Patrick McGOWAN in a saloon here in the
first part of April, came to
a close last night without a verdict.
McGOWAN was reluctant to appear
against the defendant from the first and
recently left for Tonopah, so that
nothing but the testimony of bystanders was
brought out at the trial. SPARKS
was caught by the barkeeper in the act of
taking money from McGOWAN’s
pocket, and the defendant freely admitted this,
saying that McGOWAN had told
him a few hours previous that if he needed
money to put his hand in his
pocket and take it. McGOWAN was asleep when
SPARKS took the money. The
defense made no attempt to deny any of the
testimony of the case, but claim
the
act was simply an understanding between SPARKS and McGOWAN, who are old
friends.
The jury after being out five hours failed to agree and was discharged. It
stood five for conviction and seven for acquittal.
affair,
Rosa SANCHEZ, a beautiful young woman whose husband keeps a restaurant in this
city, attempted to take her life by swallowing an ounce of laudanum. She was
discovered in her room by friends, who sent for a physician. After working on
her for quite a while, the doctor pronounced her chances of recovery good. She
refused to tell what prompted her to attempt the deed further than it was a
love affair.
recently for Nome, Alaska, has reached that
place safely. A cable was that
the men enjoyed the trip and weer that the
men enjoyed the trip and wert
well. (sic) They
were employed by a large hydraulic company to operate that
system of mining near Nome. In the party are
George F. TAYLOR and John
SCOFIELD of Downieville; W.H.
HUSITER and James GODFREY, of Columbia Hill;
Edw. BRIGHAM, James TAYLOR and
George OSTERMAN, of this city, and R.P.
ROSEN, of North Bloomfield.
for
letters of administration upon the estate of Nettie A. CROCKETT, who died in
Alameda a few days ago. Deceased left property in the City of Chico valued at
about $2600. The heirs-at-law are the petitioner, W.M. PRICE, father of the
deceased, and Mrs. C.C. ATKINS, a sister, all of whom reside in Chico.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 15 -
George W. HAMMERLY, at one time a member of
Marysville’s Common Council, now
a resident of San Francisco, is reported seriously ill at the latter place.
Dropsy is the cause of his indisposition.
He for a number of years conducted a cigar factory here.
STRANGE, 47 years of age, and
formerly a resident of Chico, where his father now resides, was killed in
Oakland by being run over by a train. The remains will be sent to Chico, where
interment will be made.
was
sold this week by Francisco B. ROSSI to H. LACEY of New York for $60,000. The
property has been under bond for a few months, $1000 being paid at the time the
bond was taken. In Redding this week, $39,000 in cash was paid on the purchase,
a mortgage being given to secure the payment of the $20,000 remaining within
six months.
The Brunswick is an old mine -
one that was supposed to have been “worked out,” after it had produced several
fortunes for different owners. Several other of the
so-called “worked-out” mines in this district have lately developed into
valuable properties. This is true of the American and the Washington, which are
now deemed more valuable than they ever were.
haul
the bridge timber for the Western Pacific in this vicinity yesterday, sold his
outfit to PALMER & McBRIDE. There were fifty head of good work horses, a
number of wagons, harness, etc., included in the deal, and about $10,000 is the
price paid.
The purchasers will take a
portion of the outfit to San Francisco at once, though enough of it will be
left here to complete the contract for hauling the Western Pacific bridge
timers from Honcut to the bridge sites.
special
features of the program for the Fourth of July. The intention is to celebrate
the day in such a manner as will be in keeping with former years. The Program Committee has not yet completed
its arrangements, but promises a program attractive to all.
will
bring $60 per ton to an orchard’s output of which the owner may well feel
proud. That is the price Ford HAUSS, the well-known fruit grower and promoter
of Oswald, has secured for his fruit on a contract.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 15 -
Eli POPEJOY and William RANDALL, who were
arrested early in the week for supposed
connection with the De La Mar stage
robbery, are still prisoners in the County
Jail, although no complaint has
been lodged against them. Constable KINYON,
who arrested POPEJOY on Sunday,
has returned to his distant home in Fall
River Mills, and Constable
WILLIAMS, who arrested RANDALL
on Monday, has gone to Kennet. The situation
is
peculiar, to say the least.
and
1016 children under 17 years of age, according to the reports of the Census
Marshals, as summarized by Miss Lizzie FOX, County Superintendent of Schools.
The school census population is 701, which is a decrease of twenty-four from
last year. There are more Mongolian than Indian children, the numbers being 9
and 5, respectively. Twenty-four teachers are employed, but next year there
will be only twenty-three, owing to the loss in Weaverville. Lewiston and
Hettenpome showed the largest gains. Owing to the sparsely settled communities
a large proportion of children did not attend any school. There were 485 who
attended a public school; private school, 28; no school at all, 188.
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The Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
June 16, 1906
Page 7
Licenses To Wed Issued And Decrees
of Separation Granted In Superior California Counties MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.),
June 16 - The only marriage license issued in Yuba County this week made happy
J.N. WEBB and Miss Mary GILL, a Chico couple.
Bert BALL, of San Francisco, and Miss Liberta RICH, of Wheatland, will
be married at the home of the latter to-morrow. Several form this city will
attend the wedding.
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), June 16 -
Two marriage licenses were issued by County Clerk CRUTCHER during the past
week. The first to John O. CLASBY, a native of California, aged 21, to wed Miss
Gertrude E. SIMCOE, a native daughter, aged 18. The groom comes from Arbuckle,
where he is engaged in the well-boring business. The bride is a San Francisco
refugee. The second license was granted
to Cary Steele MITCHUM, a prominent hardware dealer of Colusa, to wed Miss
Maude Emma HARDEN, daughter of ex-Tax Collector George B. HARDEN, of Maxwell.
Both are natives of Colusa County, where they have a host of friends. They were
married at the home of the bride’s parents at Maxwell Tuesday, June 12th,
and are spending their honeymoon in Southern California.
The engagement is announced of
R.E. BLEVINA, one of Colusa County’s most prosperous and prominent young
business men, and the present County Treasurer, to wed Miss Lulu HARDEN,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B.
HARDEN, of Maxwell, on June 21st.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 16 -
Two marriage licenses were issued this week, and in each instance the prospective
bride is a widow. The couples receiving the matrimonial permits are: William P.
CECIL, aged 27, and Mrs. Lillie M. YANCEY, aged 22, both of
Copper City; Charles E. GSELL, aged 32, and Mrs.
Addie M. KEITH, aged 32, both of
Redding.
Mrs. Maud WARD has instituted an
action for divorce from William J. WARD.
GEORGETOWN (El Dorado Co.), June
16 - A pretty double wedding took place at the home of George BEHRN son (sic)
Dry Creek, near this place, Thursday, when his two remaining single daughters
became brides. Miss Anna BEHRNS, the well-known teacher, became the bride of
Hugh McDOUGAL, a prosperous young mining man of this place, and at the same
time Miss Lizzie BEHRNS, of San Francisco, was united in marriage to Harvey
VAUGHN, a young business man of Walla Walla, Wash. The ceremonies were
performed by Rev. Thomas P. BOYD, of the Episcopal Church of Placerville.
Mr. and Mrs. McDOUGAL will make
their home in Nevada, where the groom has mining interests, and Mr. and Mrs.
VAUGHN will reside at Walla Walla.
OROVILLE, June 16 - Deputy
County Clerk BELDING issued the following marriage licenses during the past
week: Fred Magnum PFEIFFER, aged 30, and Nettie VAN ORNUM, aged 17, both of
Chico; Gustave P. WEISCHKE, aged 28, of Chico, and Sadie M. OSTRANDER, aged 26,
of Paradise; William CHAPPELLE, aged 17, and Mar PHILLIPS, aged 31, both of
Paradise; F.D. MURRELS, aged 31, and Nina J.S. REECE, aged 26, both of
Sacramento (colored): Jesse A. BROWNS, aged 33, and Mary Melvina HAM, aged 21,
both of Corning. Two divorce suits were
filed; Lillie GREGG vs. Milton GREGG and Rube SMITH vs. Ellen SMITH.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), June
16 - One marriage was solemnized here this week. Miss
Isabelle BENNALLACK became the bride of William JENKINS, Rev. F.E. DELL of the
Congregational Church officiating. Both are natives of this city. They
will reside here.
At Nevada City, Jennie OWENS was
granted a final decree of divorce from Archie OWENS.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), June 16 -
Marriage licenses have been issued this week as follows: John H. FAGG, of Alta,
23, and Maud B. HUNT, of Auburn, 23;
Francis E. PUFFER, 23, Effie M.
GRANT, 17, both of Penryn.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 16 - The following marriage
licenses were issued
by County Clerk HADSELL the past week:
L.E. HUTCHINGS and Margaret SMITH,
both of Woodland; D. FARNHAM and Mrs. Sarah
SMITH, both of Woodland; Peter
T. McLAUGHLIN, of Los Angeles,
and Mary BROWNING, of Woodland; William G.H.
STEPHENS and Irma BROWNING, both
of Woodland; Elmer Edward BYRNS and Villa
HIATT, both of Woodland.
VACAVILLE (Solano Co.), June 16
- Rev. W.E. BOBBITT, pastor of the Christian Church, was married in Portland,
Oregon, June 12th, to Miss Edith I.
METCALF, of Payette, Idaho.
This is the culmination of a
romance of the days of Mr. BOBBITT;s pastorate at
Payette, where Mrs. BOBBITT was teaching in the public schools. They will reach home to-night and will be
gladly welcomed by their Church people.
NAPA (Napa Co.), June 16 - A
final decree of divorce was granted to Mrs.
Mamie J. SIMPSON from Newton SIMPSON, on the ground of wilful desertion.
The plaintiff will get $25 a month alimony and will
resume her maiden name of CASSIDY. The interlocutory decree was granted April
15, 1905.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 16 -
The following named persons have secured marriage licenses to wed since June 1st:
Fremont C. McCAULEY, 22 years, and Miss F.A. GOSNEY, 1_ years, both of Oak Bar;
Henry O. MURRAY, 25 years, and Edith __CRY, 20 years, both of Callahans; Harry
LIVELY, 28 years, and Vida E. BERY, 19 years, both of Scott Valley; Alonzo
JONES, 48 years, and Lizzie E. BURKE, 29 years, both of Grants Pass, Oregon;
Carl VOSS, 24 years, and Florence A. NICHOLS, 19, years, both of McCloud.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
16 - Good news was received yesterday from the Zeibright Mine in Little Bear
Valley. A telephone message came to Vice-President SEARS of the Company that a
rich strike had just been made in driving the upper tunnel. The body of ore
encountered was reported large and with every indication that it will continue
with depth. The tunnel has been running through barren rock for the past 130
feet and the news is decidedly reassuring to the local stockholders.
This is the mine around which is
woven a mystery. Former Superintendent Fred ZEITLER became despondent because
he could not find the ledge he felt certain would enrich himself and the
Company. He finally disappeared without warning, over a year ago, and from that
day to this not a trace of him has ever been discovered.
DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), June 16
- L.S. PRATT, Master Mechanic, and A.J.
GILSON, Master Car Repairer of Sacramento, were
in Dunsmuir from Wednesday to Friday, inspecting the railroad shops. After a
careful examination they commended those in charge in very high terms as to
excellent work and conditions, also for the neatness and expediency with which
work is handled.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), June 16 -
H.D. RICHARDSON, a well known resident of Vallejo, has been appointed Secretary
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. For nine years he has been Chief Clerk of
the Yard and Dock Department of the Navy Yard, which position he will give up
to go to San Francisco to assume his new duties, he has been a member of the
Odd Fellows for thirty years.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 16
- When the case of The People against Gus DEVERS was called his attorney stated
that he had not seen him for two weeks and did not know his present
whereabouts.
Judge ELLISON declared his bail
forfeited and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. He was under $500 cash
bonds. DEVERS was arrested some time ago on a charge of grand larceny, and he
preferred flight to being tried.
DIXON (Solano Co.), June 16 -
Much complaint is being expressed by the farmers in this locality over their
inability to get grain sacks from the San Quentin Prison to harvest their crop
this year. The dealers in sacks appear to have an abundance of sacks for sale,
but hold them at about double the rate fixed by law to farmers at the prison.
The question arises as to what methods the dealers use to get the bags and
corner the market. It is believed that some people, under the guise of farmers,
make false affidavits to procure the bags, and then turn them over to the
dealers. Before any one can get the sacks from the prison he is required to
furnish an affidavit that he is a farmer, and that the bags are for his own use
for the season’s crops. Affidavits are kept on file at the prison. Farmers are
talking about laying the matter before the Attorney-General.
Skeletons Found In Cave Believed
To Be Those Of Man And Woman Who Mysteriously Vanished Forty Years Ago ELY
(Nev.), June 16 - Walter S. CLAYTON, one of the oldest residents of this part
of the State, offers what seems to be a reasonable explanation of the discovery
of the remains of a man and woman, together with a discharged rifle, in a cave
in Egan Canyon, several weeks ago. He is confident the woman’s skeleton was
that of Mrs. Fred MEARS and the man’s skeleton that of a stranger who
disappeared along with the woman forty years ago.
“At that time,” says CLAYTON,
“MEARS lived with his wife, to whom he had been recently married, thirty-five
miles south of Egan Canyon on Duck Creek.
One day they started in team for Wells to get some provisions and on the
way met a stranger who camped with them that night. Next day MEARS proceeded
alone to Wells and thereafter no trace of either his wife or the stranger was
ever seen. He refused to answer questions, and as he was a dangerous man he was
not pressed very hard for an explanation. Finally, however, he was indicted by
the Grand Jury upon a charge of murder, but conviction was impossible as there
was no evidence that he had killed them. He was released and the only explanation
he offered was the statement: ‘When you find my wife you will find more.’
“Several years ago MEARS died. I
am certain that MEARS, through jealousy or for some other reason, murdered both
his wife and the stranger, and carried their bodies and the rifle with which he
dispatched them to the cave which finally gave up its secret.”
RENO (Nev.), June 16 - George D.
JAMES, one of the most prominent mining engineers in the West, who is here from
Buckskin, Douglas County, where he has been at work for several weeks, says the
camp is certain to become one of the largest producers in the entire State of
Nevada. The values, he says, are not deposits but are found in true fissure
veins that run from three to twelve feet in width. He says that while gold
predominates on the surface, Buckskin will become a copper camp and will soon
be attracting the attention of the biggest copper operators in America. As the
ledges go down the copper values will increase until the ores will have to be
smelted. He says, however, that it will pay to mill the surface ore for its
gold values and several operators are acting upon this advice by ordering stamp
mills.
VERDI (Nev.), June 16 - Several
persons have gone from this place to the point in the Sierras where several
large fissures rent in the mountain side by the earthquake of April 18th,
have been discovered. The fissures vary in length from 100 feet to 150 yards
and in width from a few inches to eight feet. In several places the bottom
cannot be discovered on account of the great depth. The discovery was first
made by John MENENTI, a merchant of this place, who had been out prospecting.
His report of the fissures, which are located about three miles from Verdi,
created considerable excitement.
RENO (Nev.), June 16 - C.G.
DEGMAN, who has returned to Reno after inspecting a placer mining property near
Bald Mountain, White Pine County, says the earthquake of April 18th
wrecked the dam which his Company had built to impound water for the current
season. The base of the dam was thrown out by the strain when the quake
occurred and the escaping water completed the ruin. All the water was lost,
amounting to many million gallons.
CARSON (Nev.), June 16 - Warden
CONSIDINE, of the Nevada penitentiary, is now having the prisoners construct their own cells. The old cells in the prison have
become unsanitary, and the State has found it necessary to provide new ones.
Laborers were employed to do this work, but Warden CONSIDINE has decided that
it is good work for the prisoners, and as a result the convicts are now busily
engaged in constructing cages in which they will later be confined.
RENO (Nev.), June 16 - The Grand
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias has closed after electing the following new
officers for the ensuing term:
Grand Chancellor, H.H. CORYELL,
of Elko; Grand Vice-Chancellor, William U. MACKEY, of Carson; Grand Prelate, W.C. PITT,
of Lovelock; Grand K. of R. and S, A.B. STODDARD , of Virginia; Grand M. of E.,
Moritz SCHEELINE, of Reno;
Grand M. at A., W.W. BOOTH, of
Tonopah; Grand Inner Guard, P.J. MURRAY, of Goldfield; Grand Trustee, G.P.
RANDELL of Dayton. The Nevada Domain voted almost
unanimously against the proposed statue to reduce the age limit in the Supreme
Domain of the world from 21 to 18 years.
CARSON (Nev.), June 16 - The
story leaked out this morning that a bloody fistfight occurred yesterday afternoon
between Attorney-General SWEENEY and District Attorney ROBERTS in the latter’s
office at the Court House. SWEENEY called upon ROBERTS in regard to some legal
matters and a dispute resulted in which the lie was passed by SWEENEY. ROBERTS
struck him and in a few moments they were pounding each other and wrecking the
furniture. The combat aroused the other officials, who dragged them apart with
difficulty. Both men were bloody and presented bruised and lacerated faces.
They declined to shake hands, but their friends are trying to establish a
truce.
RENO (Nev.), June 16 - Dr. P.T.
SINSON, formerly of Hanford, California, where he practiced and where he leaves
a wife and several children, fell from a freight train while riding from
Tonopah to Reno this morning. He died two hours afterward. He was fearfully
crushed. He had been in Tonopah about a year.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Tuesday, June 19, 1906
Page 6
Special Freight Carrying Oil and
Threshing Machinery Comes To Grief In The Redding Yards REDDING (Shasta Co.),
June 19 - A special north-bound freight was wrecked in the Redding yards by
running in on the oil tank spur. A section man ran a handcar on the spur to
keep out of the way of the special, but he forgot to throw the switch back for
the main line and the freight followed the handcar, jumped the rails at the derailing
switch and came to a stop when it had run into the bank.
The engine, No. 2262, new and
one of the heaviest on the division, was wrecked, as were the oil cars and a
flat car loaded with threshing machines.
One of the threshing machines was rolled down the embankment. The oil
cars sprang leaks, and the creek near by became a
running stream of oil. The mechanism of the locomotive was not damaged, but the
tender will have to be rebuilt.
Conductor JANAK, who was in the
cabooses, was slightly injured by the sudden stop, being thrown against the
stove. Engineer Henry WENTZ and Fireman A. RADER did not jump. Their escape
from injury was remarkable, considering that the tender was jammed into the cab
part way. The wreck being on a spur, the main line was not blockaded.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 19 -
Of the thirteen applicants who took the teachers’ examination in this city last
week, only five will receive certificates. Their names and addresses are: Miss
Donna DENNIS, Redding;
Miss Pearl PETTY, Sisson; Miss
Nellie BIDWELL and Miss Burney BIDWELL, Burney Valley; Frank FITZWATER, Dana.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 19 -
At a meeting of the City Council last evening, letters were received from Chief
Engineer CONKLIN and Attorney A.F.
JONES, of the Northern Electric Company, relative to the failure of the
Company to put High Street into condition as promised. It was alleged by these
representatives that the Company was unable to get the men or equipment to do
the work, and they asked that the public be lenient until they could secure
help. Attorney JONES alleged that property owners were obstructing the street,
and asked that such obstructions be removed before the Company was compelled to
improve the street. The letters were placed on file and the Clerk instructed to
ask the attorney the nature of the obstructions existing.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 19 -
Hammon, the new dredger settlement, on the Yuba River, ten miles east of
Marysville, experienced its first conflagration yesterday. The first reports to
reach this point were to the effect that six of the new cottages owned by the
company were destroyed. Investigation
proved, however, that only one of the cottages was destroyed, that occupied by
James BENNETT and family. They lost most of their effects. The building was fully insured.
Long Fight To
Escape Penitentiary Results In Failure And Loss Of Time To No Purpose REDDING
(Shasta Co.), June 19 - At last Shasta County is rid of George W. GALLANAR - for ten years,
at least. He left for San Quentin prison this morning in charge of
Deputy Sheriff BEHRENS to enter upon the ten-year term imposed for his killing
Adolph GARMAN at Keswick, February 22, 1903. In the Superior Court yesterday
afternoon Judge HEAD stated on the bench that he had received official notice
from the State Supreme Court that GALLANAR’s appeal had been denied and he
directed Sheriff RICHARDSON to execute the judgement.
GALLANAR wrote a farewell letter
to the Sheriff thanking that officer for courtesies and the like,
notwithstanding that in all these years GALLANAR has been a constant grpwier at
the Sheriff and the rules of the jail. The last sentence of the letter struck
the Sheriff’s funny bone. “It would give me much pleasure,” wrote GALLANAR, “to
be present in the coming campaign and labor for your re-election.”
Mrs. GALLANAR has been faithful
to the interest of her husband. For over three years she has visited him at
least once a week in the jail and many weeks much oftener, always bringing with
her something in the way of food or clothing. Her devotion to him, even when
the hand of the law was heavy against him, has shown a beautiful trait of
character that is seen only in woman.
Strange Sight Probably Due to
Vapor From Hot Sulphur Springs On Top Of The Big Mountain SISSON (Siskiyou
Co.), June 19 - Regarding the dispatch in last evening’s Bee telling of “smoke
hovering over Mt. Shasta’s top,” it is true that the great mountain appeared in
a peculiar haze and caused some uneasiness here among Sisson residents.
What appeared to be a white
cloud of smoke evidently was something else.
It arose from one particular spot and floated away to the southward.
This remarkable phenomenon is accounted for by some of the fact that there is
known to be a hot sulphur spring in the old crater just to the east of the
extreme summit, as seen from Sisson, and it is claimed that vapor or steam
arises from this spring, or well, at all times.
When the wind is in a favorable
direction, this vapor assumes the shape of dense fog or steam cloud, and for
hours has been known to rise and float away to the southward. This has given
rise to repeated stories about old Shasta being on the verge of eruption.
From the foothills to the summit
the mountain is covered with snow, and the people here reason that if there was
sufficient heat to cause an eruption, the snow would surely disappear.
The cloud that attracted
attention Sunday evening resembled steam and was as white as the snow
surrounding the crater. Most of the local citizens look upon it as a somewhat
common occurrence, and are by no means alarmed.
Since the recent San Francisco shake-up, and
the many prophesies of direful calamities elsewhere, everyone is ready to look
with suspicion on anything out of the ordinary about the old mountain.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 19 -
The trial of Cyrus GOULD before Judge BEARD in the Superior Court commenced
to-day. As The Bee is already told GOULD is accused of six burglaries at
Dunsmuir, the theft of that many watches.
Afterward he left for Redding, where he was arrested and returned to
Dunsmuir for examination. The Justice held him for trial in the Superior Court
on each of the six charges filed against him. A jury will be secured to-day.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
19 - The students of the High School next year will have nine courses to select
from. A plan has been arranged wherein students can take a two-year course of
arithmetic, grammar, penmanship, etc.
This plan was no doubt that cause of Principal RITTER’s resignation, as
he was opposed to anything but the college preparatory course of studies. Six of the courses prepare pupils for the
universities and three do not. The
two-year course does not entitle a student to a diploma, but he can return and
finish his four years’ work and will then be given his sheepskin. Heretofore the commercial student received
only five months’ instruction in arithmetic. Now he can have a year with two
years’ review of the subject. The
graduates of the grammar schools have been presented with printed slips of the
courses of study, containing thirty-three subjects, from which they must
choose.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
19 - Justice of the Peace SPURRIER yesterday filed a bond in the sum of $1000,
to meet one of the points raised against him by Attorney Chas. LIGHT, who is
seeking to oust him from office - alleging that SPURRIER had failed to give
additional bonds, one of his bondsmen having died on October 14, 1904. LIGHT’s
main contention is that SPURRIER has neglected to do his duty by failing to be
present at various times to hold Court. Judge SMITH has set the Justice’s
hearing for to-morrow afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. The members of the legal
fraternity are greatly interested in the proceedings.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June 19 - S.N. FEESE, the
Lodi blacksmith, accused of wronging a 12-year-old girl of that town, was
released yesterday on $2000 bail. His bondsmen are Mrs. S.B. WILLIAMS, of
Stanislaus County and J.W. STAFFORD, G.P. STAFFORD, C.C. GARNER and B.F.
WOODSON, of Lodi. The defendant’s home has been given as security for the
bonds.
Indian Woman Accused Of
Murdering Mrs. Beale’s Infant Child Caught By Officers At Bonanza YREKA
(Siskiyou Co.), June 19 - Dora CHIPP, an Indian woman, wanted here to answer a
charge of murder, has been arrested at Bonanza, Klamath County, Oregon. She is
accused of killing the baby of Mrs. William BEALE and wounding the mother.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 19 -
The report has reached here that Mrs.
William BEALE, who was shot by the Indian woman, Dora CHIPP, is in a
serious condition.
A new version of the killing of
the 17-months-old baby of Mrs. BEALE is given. It seems that the white woman
did not jump from the buggy and run, leaving the infant in the vehicle. Mrs.
BEALE, it appears, was holding the child in her arms when the first shot was
fired. The noise alarmed the horse, and the animal sprang forward, running off,
the sudden movement throwing the baby to the ground. There Dora CHIPP found it,
and with a rock beat out its brains, it is said.
It is thought here that the
murderess escaped into Oregon.
KLAMATH FALLS (Ore.), June 19 -
The officers here were notified early yesterday of the
attack made on Mrs. William BEALE and the murder of her infant child by Dora
CHIPP, an Indian woman. Steps were taken at once to learn if the murderess
crossed the line into Oregon, and every effort will be made to co-operate with
the officers in Siskiyou and Modoc, who are now in pursuit of the fiend.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 19
-The hearing of the petition of William F.
DAVIS, of Sacramento, for letters of guardianship and custody of the
4-year-old daughter of Charles H. WAUGHTEL has been continued to June 28th. WAUGHTEL, through his attorney, A.C. HUSTON,
has filed an opposition to the granting of the petition. The case will be heard
before some Judge other than GADDIS.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
19 - Following close on the heels of the rich strike reported in the Zeibright
Mine last week comes another and of far greater importance, from the same
property. Last night work was sent to
this city from the mine that in the upper tunnel a ledge eighteen feet wide had
been struck, full of high grade milling ore and containing many beautiful
specimens hanging with gold. This is the greatest piece of news from the
Zeibright in years and insures its future as a paying proposition. Mining men
will realize the importance of this strike whin it is said that it gives 400
feet of backs from the point where the ledge was encountered.
Republicans of Sutter Hold
Primaries Under Crawford Plan, and Poll A Large Vote YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.),
June 19 - At the Republican primaries held in Sutter County yesterday a large
vote was polled. Considerable interest was shown in the candidates for Sheriff,
and it was for this office that the principal fight was made. The election was
held under the Crawford plan. It proved satisfactory as far as can be learned.
Each voter had the privilege of designating his choice for county and township
officers, and the candidates receiving the highest number of votes for their
respective offices received the nomination. The Convention will be held in Yuba
City on Thursday, June 21st at which time the delegates will meet at
the Court House and ratify the candidates elected at the primaries.
Fourteen out of seventeen
precincts heard from show the following vote, the three small precincts from
which no returns were received not being material:
For Sheriff there were three
candidates in the field - F.B. NOYES, F.E.
LUYSTER and R.A. CARPENTER. CARPENTER was not
in the race, and NOYES received seventy-seven votes more than LUYSTER, which
gives him the nomination.
D.D. GREEN, for County Clerk,
led F.B. RAUB by 311 votes. Albert
GRAVES, for Treasurer and Tax Collector, defeated L.V. BEST by 106 votes. BEST,
the present Treasurer and Tax Collector, has only held the office since April
10th last, having been appointed to fill the unexpired term of L.J.
COPE.
Arthur BAILEY received the
nomination for Auditor and Recorder. Lawrence SCHILLIG was renominated for
District Attorney and L.L. FREEMAN for County Superintendent of Schools.
A.A. McRAE’s name was not
printed on the ballot, but was written in by the voter, and he will receive the
nomination for Assessor. P.W. ROWE was the only one of the ticket for Coroner
and Public Administrator. Richard WALTON
will receive the nomination for Supervisor in District No.
1; W.E. TUCKER for Justice of
the Peace, and I.W. SMALLWOOD for Constable. For Supervisor in District No. 3, J.C.
ALBERTSON will receive the nomination.
George OHLEYER, Chairman of the
Democratic County Central Committee, informed a Bee correspondent to-day that
the Central Committee will call a meeting this month and set the date for
holding the Democratic primaries and Convention. They will not adopt the
Crawford plan.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 19 -
A number of the members of Company D.N.G.C., of this city, have formed
themselves into a Hall Association.
Their first step was to secure a lease on Hopkins’ Hall, which is on E
Street, one block south of their present armory, and rent the quarters to
Captain DIVVER for a drill hall and assembly room. The move is in anticipation
of Turner Hall, the Company’s present quarters, being converted into a theater.
The officers of the Hall Association are: President,
H.L. WYRICK;
Vice-President, F.H. WOODS; Secretary, E.H. WHITE;
Treasurer, G.B. BAKER;
Trustees - E.T. MANWELL, W.O. SUTFIN and C.O. TAYLOR; Executive
Committee - E.H. WHITE and G.B. BAKER.
The lease of the premises covers
a term of five years.
MAGALIA (Butte Co.), June 19 -
Emmit MILLER, aged 80 years, dropped dead here this morning while at the
breakfast table. So far as known he had never had a day’s illness. He was
always hale and hearty. While eating breakfast he complained of pains about the
heart and the next moment fell to the floor dead. The Coroner has been
notified. Mr. MILLER lived in this section between thirty and forty years.
The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
June 19, 1906
Page 7
Suspended For Non-Payment Of Dues and Sierra Athletic Club Now Faces An Acute Crisis
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), June
19 - A ship without a rudder, an engine without an engineer - this describes
the condition of the Sierra Athletic Club of this city at present. The
President and the entire Board of Directors have been suspended for non-payment
of dues and with them many members. In all it is said twenty-five have been dropped
in a bunch. As a result the remaining
members have engaged an attorney who will pilot them through the shoals
attendant upon the election of a new President and Board of Directors. A demand
will be made on the officers who have been dropped for all the books and the
money now on hand. This club has had a
somewhat stormy career during the past six months. It was duly incorporated
under the State laws over a year ago, and for a time everything was lovely.
Monthly boxing contests were pulled off and prosperity caused the club treasury
to wax fat. The club, by the way, is an amateur affair. Then dissensions began
to creep in and finally two strong factions faced each other. Matters came to a
head when the Directors gave themselves and invited guests a banquet with the
club funds. This roused the ire of the other faction, and for a few days there
was considerable talk of legal action against the banqueters to compel the
return of the money. Nothing came of it,
but the feeling only increased.
The time for annual election
passed, it being impossible to obtain a quorum. Several meetings resulted and
still no quorum. Now that wholesale suspension has taken place unless President
STRAIGHT and the Directors conclude to renew their membership, a complete reorganization
will take place. Under the direction of the attorney, who has been engaged,
notice of the meeting and its purpose will be published and at the appointed
time a Justice of the Peace will be called it to sit as Temporary President
until the officers are elected. The club once had over 140 members. It now has
about fifteen in good standing.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
19 - One of the most fashionable weddings of the year took place here last
evening when Miss Betsy MORGAN became the bride of J.M. FULLER of San
Francisco. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John T. MORGAN, residing on Main Street, in the presence of many
relatives and friends. Rev. Francis A. LAMB of the M.E. Church officiated.
The bride was attended by Miss
Lenore CALKINS as bridesmaid and Miss Elizabeth MORGAN, niece of the bride, as
maid of honor. The ribbon bearers were Edith, Alice and Rachel MORGAN and
Adelle NILON. E.S. LIVINSGTONE of Oakland performed the office of groomsman.
The bride is a native of this
city, one of the most prominent society belles, handsome, cultured and gifted
with a sweet personality, which has endeared her to a host of friends. Recently
she accompanied her parents on a tour of Europe. Mr. FULLER is a rising young
business man of San Francisco. They will
make their home in Alameda.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 19 -
John CRAMSIE and Miss Anna McGANNEY, a well-known and popular Smartsville
couple, came down from the mining camp last evening, procured a marriage
license from Cupid EASTMAN and were quietly married at the Catholic Presbytery,
Rev. COLEMAN tying the nuptial knot.
The groom is well known
politically and socially. “Jack,” as he is familiarly known, is a member of
several of the local Lodges and at all times takes an active interest in the
workings of the Republican Party, being a recognized leader in his (rest of
article cut off).
Mother Of
Defendant Faints In Court And Daughter Rushes To Her Aid In Great Distress
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
19 - The defense is putting in its testimony in the LE DOUX murder case to-day
and when the noon recess was reached Attorney FAIRALL, for the accused, said
that he would probably close this afternoon. The prosecution will then put in
its rebuttal. During this morning’s
session Mrs. HEAD, the mother of the accused, startled the Court-room by
fainting away, and falling upon the floor. Her daughter, the accused, sprang to
her aid and gave her some water from a glass, after which the prostrate woman
was carried from the Court-room by the bailiff and others. As Mrs. HEAD
groaned, Mrs. LE DOUX burst into tears and was almost beside herself. She was
soon herself again, however, and assumed the air of unruffled calm which has
characterized her demeanor throughout the trial.
The witnesses this morning were
physicians, who testified regarding the relative action of various poisons,
ante and post-mortem bruises, the blood and other matters of a like character.
This testimony was introduced to support the contention of the defence that the
deceased came to his death from cyanide poisoning, self-administered, and that
he was dead when placed in the trunk.
The Court-room continues crowded
with spectators, some of whom come in two hours before Court convenes and
remain throughout the day.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), June 19 -
A. HENDRICKSON, 17 years old, son of E.
HENDRICKSON of this city, was drowned at
Martinez yesterday afternoon while bathing.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), June 19
- The family and friends of A.G. VASSAR, who mysteriously left Lodi on the
morning of March 9th last, have been anxiously, but thus far vainly,
seeking his whereabouts. The missing man
was a carpenter by trade at the time of his disappearance and was engaged in
building a cottage of his own in East Lodi. Mystery is added to the case by the
fact that VASSAR had no bad habits. He was of a pleasant disposition and in his
home life seemed happy and contented. VASSAR is 44 years old, medium hight, rather dark complexioned and
weighs about 170 pounds. The family including five children moved here
from Jackson about two years ago. They are highly respectable and well thought
of.
RENO (Nev.), June 19 - Governor
John SPARKS is suffering from a badly bruised arm, hip and head as the result
of an accident yesterday afternoon while driving from the city to the Alamo
farm in company with J.H. NEVIN, the State bouillon tax collector, who had his
right hand injured and his head cut also. The two were driving a young colt
belonging to the Governor, when an automobile appeared coming
up the road at a rapid clip. Not wanting to take any changes of the colt
bolting the Governor drove the animal to one side, and in doing so one of the
wheels went over an embankment and almost at the same time broke, throwing the
occupants of the rig down the embankment on their heads.
RHYOLITE (Nev.), June 19 - The
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway, which is being extended into the
Bullfrog country, which later, so the company says, will enter Tonopah and
Goldfield, has ordered several auto coaches, which are to be given a test on
the new line as soon as the gold center is reached. The coaches will be used
for passenger traffic only, and will run with either electric or gasoline
power. The company expects to establish a frequent and rapid passenger service
between the various mining camps.
RENO (Nev.), June 19 - One of the
first matters taken up by the Grand Jury which met yesterday afternoon in this
city was the Sparks school scandal. It is claimed that the Trustees and
contractor connived to extort about $8000 from the school fund, and that such
an amount was taken by the payment for extras.
TONOPAH (Nev.), June 19 - H.H.
CLARK, the Bullfrog millionaire miner, says the defalcation of Thomas C.
DOBBINS, formerly manager of the United Manhattan Mining Company, instead of
amounting to $6800 will run to the sum of $12,000.
An investigation of the books
has just been completed which shows that DOBBINS is guilty of embezzlement as
well as forgery. DOBBINS is well known in the southern
country, where he has been connected with the mining business for several
years.
CARSON (Nev.), June 19 - In
spite of Governor SPARKS recent announcement to newspapermen that he would not
be a candidate for re-election as Governor, it is reported that he has
intimated to close political friends that he may again consent to his
nomination by the Democrats. Governor SPARKS, when he made his announcement of
retirement, said his business interests had suffered since his election in
office, but there is a possibility now of his name going before the Convention
in spite of this excuse. Conservative politicians say there should be no
surprise if the Governor followed the course he took two years ago, when he
declined to become a candidate for Senator and a few weeks afterwards entered
the fight.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, June 20, 1906
Page 7
Dead Body of Missing P.O.
Westman Found This Morning, He Having Ended His Own Life RED BLUFF (Tehama
Co.), June 20 - About 10:30 this morning, at a point two miles below this city,
the dead body of P.O. WESTMAN was found, with two bullet wounds in his head, he
having ended his own life. WESTMAN
disappeared Monday morning. At first nothing was thought of his absence, but as
it continued without word of any kind from him, his friends became alarmed, and
yesterday began to look for him, with the result that his dead body was found
this morning.
WESTMAN leaves a wife and
mother-in-law here, the latter having furnished the money with which he
embarked in the saloon business on Main Street. She holds a chattel mortgage on
the place. Monday he went from his home to the saloon, and then walked out,
that being the last seen of him alive, except the report of an acquaintance,
who saw him on the Corning Road. WESTMAN
was a prominent member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the local Lodge was
much interested in ascertaining the whereabouts of the missing member. He was
said to have been very happy in his domestic arrangements and was a man with no
bad habits, spending his leisure hours at home. He had been suffering from
despondence of late on account of his poor business prospects and had been troubled
with insomnia.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 20 -
The case of The People vs. John HOLLAND, charged with the murder of Josie ST.
CLAIR in the tenderloin district on April 24th, is on trial in the
Superior Court, Judge E.P. McDANIEL presiding.
The following jury has been
accepted by both sides: J.H. SCHULTZ, Thomas GORMAN, A.E. FITTS, Frank GRASS,
D.C. CUDDEBACK, D.Z. LOOK, M.V. HENDRICKS, Ed WILLIAMS, N. WEBER, H.D.W. WULFF,
R. POZZI and Cornelius SLATTERY. To
secure the twelve men it was necessary to subpoena a special venire, the
original having been exhausted.
Thus far the evidence introduced
covers the same ground as was detailed in The Bee at the time of the crime.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), June 20 - A
wedding of popular interest was solemnized here
yesterday morning when G.C. COWART, a prominent young business man, and Miss
Mary Emily SWARTOUT were joined for life by Rev. A.M. RUSSELL, of the Grimes
Baptist Church. The ceremony was performed at the beautiful residence of Mr.
and Mrs. I.S. JENKS, in the presence of the relatives of the bride and groom
and a few intimate friends. The newly married couple departed for the South on
their bridal tour.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
20 - William D. BLACK, for forty years a resident of Lake City, died here late
yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Randolph CARTER. He was brought
here a month ago for medical treatment, but despite every attention he
continues to sink. He had been in business at Lake City for many years.
Deceased was a native of Missouri, and 63 years. Funeral arrangements will be made to-day.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), June 20
- Mrs. E.J. ATKINSON, one of the oldest and most highly-esteemed residents of
Placer County died here yesterday afternoon of paralysis, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. R.E.L. LEAVELL. She was
stricken about a year ago, and while she has appeared to improve at times, the
state of her health has been very feeble for many months. Mrs. ATKINSON was a pioneer
woman, she having come to California in 1852 by way of the Isthmus of Panama,
landing at San Francisco in September of that year. She was born in
Canada, December 23, 1830, but was brought to the United States when a child,
and settled in Illinois, coming from that State to California, she being at the
time a widow. In 1854 she was married to George HILL, at Sacramento, from which
union six children were born. She was again left a widow in 1861, and some
years latter married a man by the name of ATKINSON, whose name she bore at the
time of her death. She possessed rare executive ability and accumulated a large
fortune, at the time of her death being one of the three largest individual
taxpayers in the county. Four children
survive her, they being Mrs. R.E.L. LEAVELL, John A. HILL and Walter FIDDYMENT,
of Roseville, and Mrs. Dr. W.N. FINNEY, of Lincoln, besides relatives living at
Sacramento, Courtland and Santa Rosa. Funeral arrangements have been made for
to-morrow at 2 p.m., and interment will be in the Roseville cemetery.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
20 - There is one less teacher on the salary list for the new school year,
which will begin with the first Monday in September. At last night’s meeting of
the Board of Education one teacher was dropped, owing to the falling off in the
number of pupils during the past year. The recent census returns showed a
startling decrease in children of a school age, many families having moved away
of late months, hence the action of last night. The following teachers were
appointed:
E.E. ARMSTRONG, Principal of the
city schools, $160 per month; G.W. OGDEN and Mrs. McMORMICK, seventh grade
instructors, $90 per month; Miss S. POWER, Miss Lizzie KEENAN, Lizzie RICHARD,
Maude MURCHIE, Gertrude GOYNE, Mrs. Cora WADSWORTH, Mrs. Millie MORGAN and Miss
Helen RANSOME, $70 per month; E.H.BARKER, Principal of the High School, $150
per month; Miss Florence KIMBALL, High School, $105; Miss Shirley WARD, of
Woodland newly appointed, $100, to teach English and French. There will be no
special French teacher this year, owing to lack of funds.
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), June
20 - The novel spectacle of an attorney going to jail was witnessed here yesterday
when George D. BUCKLEY, of this place, went up for thirty days in lieu of a
fine of $30. He was given his choice, and said he would go to jail.
BUCKLEY, an attorney, raised a
disturbance one night recently, and when arrested demanded a jury trial. He was
accommodated and after hearing the testimony of several witnesses, the jury
quickly brought in a verdict of guilty. BUCKLEY conducted his own case, but
failed to make much of an impression on the jury in the face of evidence
offered by the prosecution. District
Attorney GEORGE L. JONES prosecuted the case.
CHICO (Butte Co.), June 20 -
Early this morning shortly after midnight, in fact, Miss Ray FRANCIS and Dr.
McGAUGHEY of Oroville were married here by the Rev. L.M. WILKINS, of the
Episcopal Church. For some reason the
couple desired the issuing of the license and the ceremony be kept secret, but
they were unsuccessful. They left to-day for Southern California.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 20
- J.A. DAVIS, of San Francisco, who was the local representative of the
Turnbulls, millionaire lumber men of Minneapolis, in their deal for the
purchase of the holding of the Sierra Lumber Company, arrived here last night.
It has been reported that the old deal fell through, and of this there seems
little doubt, but DAVIS’ return here leads to the report that the Turnbulls
seek to reopen negotiations.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 20 -
The fortieth annual conference of the Methodist Church South, Colusa District,
opened here this morning. Presiding Elder M. HODGSON, of Chico, occupied the
chair. Rev. G.B. NEEDHAM, of Yuba City, was elected Secretary. Twelve pastors
were present. Committees were named this morning and this afternoon various
pastors made reports.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 20
- George T. ROOT, a laborer, committed suicide yesterday in the Sutton House,
near the Butte County line. Insanity was the cause.
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), June
20 - The taking of testimony in the LE DOUX murder case concluded at noon
to-day, when a recess was taken, and the Court announced that argument would
begin at 1 o’clock. It is expected that to-day and to-morrow and possibly part
of Friday will be taken up with the argument. The trial has lasted about two
weeks and a great many witnesses have been examined, and for that reason it is
thought that the argument will be long, at least on the side of the
prosecution.
While the prevailing sentiment
is that the accused is guilty, there is some feeling that the jury may
disagree, for various reasons, such as the fact that the accused is a woman and
the evidence is largely circumstantial.
NAPA (Napa Co.), June 20 - A strong
effort will be made by the local Parlor of Native Sons, at the Convention in
Ventura of that Order, to have the next Grand Convention meet in this city. The
delegates from Napa Parlor are: J.M.
PALMER, A.C. AMATUTZ, E.L. WEBBER and Frank M. SILVA, and they have been
instructed to do their utmost to bring around this end. Superior Judge
H.C. GESFORD and Frank L. COOMBS will
also attend the session of the Grand Parlor as Past Grand Presidents of the
Order.
CHICO (Butte Co.), June 20 - Charles
A. ALBRIG, of Ono, Shasta County, died here yesterday. He had been in bad
health for some time. The body was sent to Ono for burial. His sister, Mrs.
Alice BAKER, resides here.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, June 21, 1906
Page 6
LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), June 21 -
Sunday was the first real Summer day that has come
this season to this part of the mountains. The day was warm and since then the
weather has been ideal. Owing to the cold weather, the ranchers became quite
discouraged. They say that alfalfa was especially injured by being frozen.
Although the season will be a month late, the prospect for bunch grass hay is
quite good, except where high water will interfere with harvesting, as is the
case at the head of the valley near Sierraville. There is considerable snow,
much more than usual, on the mountains, and consequently much water is still
coming down. It is definitely known now
that fruit was very seriously damaged by the last freeze, even late fruit. H.H.
ROBINSON, who has an orchard near here, says he will have only a few boxes this
year. Usually he has hundreds of boxes. This is the first total fruit failure.
A strange thing about it is the fact that fruit in the valley fared better than
in the canyons. The reverse is the usual order, as it is colder in the valley
than in the canyon. Garden truck suffered accordingly.
LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), June 21 -
C.W. ANDERSON, editor of the Loyaltonian, the only paper published here and
which he has been running under lease, announced that he has acquired a
half-interest in the Roseville Register, which, beginning July 1, he will
publish in conjunction with U.G. FREEMAN, its present editor.
This means that a new man must
be found to take charge of the Loyaltonian.
As yet ANDERSON’s successor has not been announced. The Loyaltonian is
in good condition. It is understood that ANDERSON and its owners could not
agree on a price, hence the Roseville purchase.
LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), June 21 -
The new electrical fire alarm system is being installed here by R.W. BENDER, by
order of the Board of Trustees of the town. The fire alarm boxes are being
placed at convenient points about town, and are connected by wire to a gong in
the power house, where the fire pump is located. When the knob is dropped the
alarm is turned in. Heretofore there was no way to give the alarm to the
watchman except by messenger and sometimes valuable time was lost by the delay.
Last year a special water reservoir for fire purposes was constructed and
connected with the fire pump. The fire companies will receive all the profits from
the celebration here on the Fourth and they will use this money to further
equip and improve the service.
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
June 21 - John ELLIOT, charged with battery upon Carmelita SYLVIA, who lives
near Georgetown, was brought over from that place to this city yesterday. He
put up a bond of $100 for his appearance in Court on July 9 and returned to
Georgetown in the afternoon. Miss SYLVIA
has the charge of Mr. ELLIOT’s little girl and it was while he was paying her a
visit that the trouble occurred, resulting in the arrest. ELLIOT says that he did not attack the woman,
but that she attacked him with a hatchet, which, after a struggle, he took away
from her. A few years ago ELLIOT was in
Court on a suit for the guardianship of his daughter, Genevieve ELLIOT.
Considerable attention was attracted by the act at the time.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), June 21 -
Vincent MAY, a sailor on the Lawton, was paid off with $2064 for seven years
service on May 16th, and went for a couple of days to the Naval
Y.M.C.A. here. Then thinking he would like to buy an interest in a saloon
called “The Palm” he strolled in there and after being liberally treated to
drinks, he bought a half interest from one of the partners, SWARS, for $1500.
The other partner, A.S. AMARAL,
however, refused to let him have anything to do with running the place and
after a protracted spree of ten days, the remainder of MAY’s savings went. Then
AMRAL offered him $250 for the half interest he had bought for $1500 ten days
before, an offer accepted by MAY, but he only received $20 of the $250, it is
said.
Chief of Police STANFORD and
District Attorney GREGORY, at the request of the Naval Y.M.C.A., took up the
case, and AMARAL was arrested for getting property under false pretenses.
Yesterday he had his preliminary trial and after the District Attorney had
characterized is as a heartless swindle, AMARAL was held to answer before the
Superior Court. MAY has re-enlisted and has to begin all over again to save
money.
CORNING (Tehama Co.), June 21 -
Asa E. SAMPSON, for the past ten years a respected resident of this city, died
of old age at his Fourth Avenue home Tuesday night. Mr. SAMPSON had been in
failing health the past year and owing to his advanced age, 74 years, death was
not unexpected. He was a survivor of the
Civil War, enlisting as private in Company G, 49th Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteers, in February, 1865, and was honorably discharged May 18 of
the same year.
The funeral services were held
from the family residence yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
He is survived by a wife.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), June 21 -
Mrs. Abbie Glisson HADLEY died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. PETTIT in this
city yesterday. She had been ill since last December, having suffered a stroke
of paralysis. Deceased was a native of Ohio, 62 years of age. She was married
in 1874 to J.T. HADLEY and they immediately came to California, settling in
this county. Mr. HADLEY passed away in 1902. She since made her home with her
only daughter, Mrs. PETTIT. Two
step-children, Mrs. Lena PROCTOR and Will HADLEY, also survive her. The funeral
was held this afternoon from the PETTIT home.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 21 -
The Oroville bowling team last night defeated the Chico bowling team on the
local alleys. Three games were bowled. First Oroville 524 points to Chico’s
492; second Oroville scored 624, Chico 496; third, Oroville scored 620, Chico
532.
The Oroville team was composed
of McNAB, PATTERSON, BRANDT, HARVEY and
JOHNSON. Chico team, M.C.
WALKER, R. HEIMBECK, J.W. McCULLEY, J. GREENE and
J. BENOSKY. A return game will
be played in the near future.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 21
- Yesterday was the day of sudden deaths in this county. Last evening’s Bee
told of two of them - Peter O. WESTON, here, who committed suicide, and George
T. ROOT, of Sutton House, who also put an end to his life.
Last night, at Vina, there was
another sudden death, but it was from natural causes. Miller WARREN, aged 65,
an employe on the great Stanford ranch, was found dead in his bed in the little
town. Justice of the Peace HENDERSON held an inquest, bringing in a verdict as
indicated.
Rifle In
Hand Of Sister Of One Of Them Discharged, Each Little Victim Shot In Leg
OLINDA (Shasta Co.), June 21 -
Two girls narrowly escaped death here to-day, and as it is, while neither will
die, both are suffering from painful bullet wounds. Ruth WALKER, aged 15,
daughter of Rev. A.L. WALKER, and Grace WALKER, aged 2, granddaughter of the
minister, were the victims. The accident was most peculiar. Grace WALKER
was sitting on the lap of her sister, Alice, and Ruth was
standing near by. The latter’s elder sister held in her hands a rifle used by
her father, Otis WALKER, to kill hogs with. She attempted to pass it to her
father, but as she did to its contents were discharged, the bullet striking
Ruth and Grace. Both were wounded in the left leg, the former above the knee
and the latter below. Singular as it may seem, Alice WALKER, who was holding
Grace on her lap, was not harmed, although badly frightened. The bullet struck
and passed through the left leg of the baby and then on to Ruth, who was in
line, serving her in the same manner.
A physician was promptly
summoned and everything was done to put the little sufferers out of misery.
They will soon recover.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 21 -
J.J. GUENTHERODT, miner and newspaper correspondent, who was arrested on a
charge of setting forest fires near here, was released yesterday upon his own
recognizance, through the intervention of friends. He has retained an attorney
to defend him. The trial is set for Monday.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 21 -
Howard REED, the Yuba County orchardist who has earned the title of “pear king,” will
receive some of the city’s good money because certain of the tracts he holds
leases on for the Bartlett pear crops are needed for railroad rights-of-way.
The fact that he had contracted
the crop of Bartlett pears growing in the KERTCHEM orchard, several acres of
which were bought by the city recently, means that about $200 must be paid him.
REED also owns the pear crop on the PETERS place which was purchased by the
Western Pacific this week. He has also control of the P. GEORGE pear orchard
south of town, the THRESHER orchard near Gridley, all
the heavy bearing trees in Sutter County and one or two Bartlett pears orchards
in Yolo County.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), June 21 -
An unusual accident occurred at the home of William TURNER last night. His two
little girls, aged 10 and 8 years, retired to their bedroom and one went to the
land of Nod, while the other sat up in the bed to trim her toenails with a
manicuring scissors. Presently the sleeping girl changed her position, and in
so doing threw one of her ankles against the sharp point of the scissors in her
sister’s hand. The scissors severed an artery, and if older and cooler heads
had not been near to act promptly, pending the arrival of a physician, the
result would have been serious.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), June 21 -
All through the hours of Tuesday night searchers scoured the hills about Ophir
in quest of Hattie JONES, a little 12-year-old girl, who was reported lost. The
disappearance of the little one caused intense excitement and the Sheriff’s
office here was appealed to for aid.
The child has been living with
her grandmother, and on Tuesday afternoon became angered at something and left
her home, and no trace of her could be found. The supposition was that she had
wandered into the forests in her pique and was unable to find her way back
again.
After an all-night search it was
learned that instead of being lost she had gone to the house of her uncle, a
few miles from her home, and when found declined to return to her grandmother.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 21 - No
clue has ever been found as to the whereabouts of George PLASTERAS, the Greek
interpreter, who skipped out with $1000 belonging to fellow countrymen a few
weeks ago, notwithstanding the fact that descriptions of him were sent
broadcast and the services of the Pinkerton detective agency enlisted.
At the time of his escape it was
thought he had confederates who aided him and who are now believed to know his
whereabouts. Within the past few days the Greeks have shown a strange desire to
let the matter drop and not prosecute him, and the officers are inclined to
believe that PLASTERAS had been in communication with his confederates, who
have brought about this change of feeling among the men who were robbed.
Notwithstanding this fact, however, the officers will not let the matter drop.
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), June 21 -
Near the Hendrix Mine on the Magalia Ridge yesterday, the body of a dead man
was found in the branches of a tree overhanging the Feather River. The body was
found by a fisherman. From all appearances the dead man was a laborer. He was
dressed in overalls and rough shoes. Deputy Coroner REYNOLDS, of this city, was
notified and Coroner PETTIT left here this morning for Magalia, where an
inquest will be held.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), June 21 -
Another pioneer, L. TURLEY (better known as “Tobe”), who for the past
forty-five years mined on the Klamath River, from Beaver Creek to Orleans Bar,
at times alone and also in partnership with the late Dan CALDWELL, of Hamburg,
passed away here Tuesday. Paralysis and old age caused his death. The deceased
was a native of Missouri, and aged 78 years. It has been claimed, and proven,
that during his younger years he was the best rifle shot in Siskiyou County.
While not leaving any known relatives, he leaves friends here, old and young,
who revere his memory. The interment took place yesterday.
YREKA (Siskiyou Co), June 21 -
James BRADLEY and J.C. REYNOLDS, who pleaded guilty to burglarizing J.M.
WALBRIDGE’s store at Montague will not receive their sentence until their
alleged partner in crime, Fred FLORES, who pleaded not guilty, has had his
trial, the District Attorney holding them over as witnesses against FLORES.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), June 21 -
Professor Benjamin MACOMBER, Principal of the Shasta County High School, and
Miss Teresa A. CARR, long a teacher in the Redding schools, were married in
this city yesterday afternoon, Father CARR, of Dunsmuir, solemnizing the
ceremony. Professor and Mrs. MACOMBER left on the evening train for Carrville,
Trinity County, where they will remain until the opening of schools.
KENNETT (Shasta Co.), June 21 -
Charles HOFFMASTER and Miss Hattie SMITH, both of this place,
were married yesterday at the county seat. After making a short tour they will
return to Kennett to make their home. Mr. HOFFMASTER, recently a resident of DE
LA MAR, where he was long in the employ of the Bully Hill Company, is
storekeeper here for the Mammoth Copper Company. The bride is the only daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C.H. SMITH, also recent residents of De La Mar.
SIMS (Shasta Co.), June 21 - The
two-story farm house of A.L. RABE, across the river from this station, was
destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The building and contents were a total
loss of $2000 with no insurance. Mr. RABE has been foreman on the section for
several years and the dwelling was only recently completed from his savings.
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), June 21
- In this city yesterday, at the home of the bride’s mother, Miss Mabel REARDON
was united in marriage to Herbert L. HAND, a Southern Pacific Employe and resident of Dunsmuir, where
the couple will make their home. They left for Los Angeles on the
afternoon train.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Wednesday, November 28, 1906
Page 6
CONVICT VAUGHAN IN
SUPERIOR COURT
The Eureka Editor Called At The
Herald Office And Fired Three Shots At That Paper’s Business Manager EUREKA
(Humboldt Co.), November 28 - M.M. VAUGHAN was convicted of an assault with a
deadly weapon by a jury last night, in the Superior Court. VAUGHAN is editor of the Californian, a
weekly paper, and last March got into a controversy with the Evening Herald. He
is a paralytic and the Herald referred to his infirmity in one of its articles.
VAUGHAN sent word that a retraction must be made or the editor of the Herald
must fight. A retraction not being made,
he went in a buggy to the Herald office and asked to see the editor, Niles O.
HYATT, the business manager of the Herald came out and VAUGHAN fired three
shots at him, none of which took effect.
VAUGHAN was arrested and charged with an assault with a deadly weapon. When convicted VAUGHAN was recommended to the mercy of the Court.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), November 28
- Word was received in this city at 2 o’clock this morning of the death of Mrs.
J.R. McCRODAN in San Francisco. No particulars were given. His husband is a
cigar dealer in this city. Mrs. McCRODAN’s death is a surprise to the
residents of this city, as it was not generally known she was ill.
Thomas Collison, Western Pacific
Contractor, Whose Family Live At Grass Valley, Meets Awful Fate OROVILLE (Butte
Co.), November 28 - At what is known as Sumsion Camp No. 1, on the Western
Pacific, Thomas COLLISON, a concrete contractor, was instantly killed yesterday
by falling from a concrete wall forty feet high. He was directing the construction of the wall
when he slipped and fell over the edge, death resulting instantaneously.
The dean man was about 50 years
of age, and had a family residing in Grass Valley, where the remains will be
shipped for interment.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.),
November 28 - Word reached here late yesterday that Thomas COLLISON, whose
family resides here, had fallen from a forty-foot stone wall in the Feather
River Canyon, breaking his neck and crushing his skull. Death was
instantaneous. This morning his body was removed to Oroville, where an inquest
was held. It will be shipped here for burial.
COLLISON, for many years a
highly esteemed resident of this place, had been in the employ of the Western
Pacific for several months, carrying out concrete contracts. He had undertaken
to erect a high stone wall in the canyon of the Feather, fourteen miles from
Oroville, and had it reared to a hight of forty feet. Yesterday morning, as he
stood on top of the wall, he suddenly lost his balance or became dizzy and
plunged downward headforemost to the hard, rocky ground before a hand could be
stretched out to save him. At 1 o’clock
this morning The Bee correspondent at this city received the information that
as far as was known at Oroville, the body was still at Sumsion?s Camp, where the fatality occurred, but that the Coroner
had long since departed for the scene.
COLLISON leaves a wife and a
large family. They are heartbroken over the sad news, which has cast a gloom
over the community as he was a man who enjoyed a wide friendship, and was held
in the highest esteem. He was aged about 50 years.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), November 28
- A large hay warehouse belonging to D.
BALFOUR and leased to George OGDEN, located near the depot, caught fire
about 8 o?clock last night and burned to the ground.
There were 1296 tons of hay in the warehouse,
all of which was destroyed. It is
estimated that the loss on the hay is about $13,000, and on the building $4000.
It is thought that there is about 60 per cent insurance. The origin of the fire
is a mystery.
ALTURAS (Modoc Co.), November 28
- A very familiar landmark in the center of Alturas has just been demolished
and removed. Ever since the destruction of the Nichols building, on the corner
of Modoc and Main Streets, its thick stone vault has stood as a monument. The
structure was sold this week and the stone removed to the sidewalk of the lot
to be used for curbing. The old vault had an interesting history, having served
for many years as the county Treasurer?s strong box.
Afterward it was utilized by the Post Office and for many years protected the
stamps and property of Uncle Sam.
Had Choynski Defeated Him, Kane
Wound Have Lost The Girl Who Wedded Him At Auburn Yesterday AUBURN (Placer
Co.), November 28 - William R. KANE, a young Grass Valley pugilist participated
in a ring contest in that city on Monday, but the spectators were not aware
that the young man was fighting for more than mere stakes of money. KANE
thought but little of the pecuniary benefit of the contest, and nothing but a
knock-out blow could have caused him to give up the fight, which, by the way
was declared a draw.
KANE was fighting for the hand
of the woman he loves, as she had placed a condition upon the contest, and that
was that to win her he must not go down in defeat.
KANE had already agreed to the
match before his lady love knew anything of the affair and on hearing it she
made strong objections, declaring she would never marry him if he entered the
ring. But the young pugilist?s word had been given to
meet CHOYNSKI and he could not cancel his obligation. So he pleaded with the
young woman, showing her how impossible it would be to decline to enter the
ring, after he had agreed to do so. For a time she was obdurate. To marry a pugilist was not to her liking.
However, she could find it in her heart to love a victorious pugilist, but a
defeated one, never. So the young woman made this the essence of her promise
and William must not be among the fallen, else he could not lead her to the altar. As the contest was a draw, the young man
claimed his bride, who is Miss Delia M. BORLACE, of Nevada City, and yesterday
the young couple, accompanied by KANE?s mother, arrived in this city and were
married by Justice Henry McCANN. Mrs. KANE, the groom’s mother, filed her
written consent to the marriage, her son being but 19 years of age. The bride
gave her age as 18.
After the ceremony and happy
congratulations among the Court House officials the young couple left for their
home in Grass Valley. While the groom did not meet defeat in his ring contest,
he bore evidence of considerable punishment. A blackened optic was one of the
prominent marks of his opponent.
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.),
November 28 - Since the KANE-CHOYNSKI fight on Monday evening all the boxers in
town have caught the fever the worst way.
Jack CLIFFORD challenges KANE and CHOYNSKI for the same night, declaring
he will knock them both out in twenty rounds, taking CHOYNSKI on first. CLIFFORD recently knocked out LUNDY and
CORDELL, but there are many who doubt if he could put these two husky lads away
in eh same night, as they would both merely fight on the defensive, though
CHOYNSKI, before leaving said he was willing to meet CLIFFORD himself for twenty
rounds. CLIFFORD has the offer to fight
Adam RYAN, the crack Eastern lightweight, at Tonopah on New Year’s Day, as the
main preliminary to the GANS-HERMAN go. This he will accept.
?Fighting
Dick? TROUNCE has also challenged KANE and CHOYNSKI. KANE gave CHOYNSKI the surprise of his life.
He not only stayed the required ten rounds, but made the San Francisco boy
fight his fastest all the way. At the end neither was in distress, though KANE
was getting weak in the legs. This is his first real fight, as hitherto he has
never met any but local lads, who have been easy picking.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), November
28 - The marriage of Elmer A. HUMPHREY and Miss Ruth W. HOPE, whose engagement
was announced in The Bee some time ago, took place Monday at the home of the
bride’s sister, Mrs. A. FOX, in West Lodi, at noon. Only immediate friends and
relatives were present. Mr. and Mrs. HUMPHREY left after the wedding dinner for
a tour of the south after which they will visit at the home of Mr. HUMPHREY at Winters. Mr. HUMPHREY is a prominent fruit man, having full
charge of the Earl Fruit Company?s packing and
shipping quarters at this place.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), November
28 - The death is announced from Oakland of Mrs. R.M. FORD, who for a number of
years was engaged in the millinery business in Marysville. She was well known
in Yuba and Sutter Counties. She leaves four daughters - Mrs. William O?BANION, of Oakland, Mrs. William THARP, of Sutter City, and
the Misses Grace and Carrie FORD, of Oakland.
Mrs. FORD had reached her sixty-fourth year.
IONE (Amador Co.), November 28 -
S.T.SEAMANS and wife on Monday celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at
their home, three miles from Buena Vista.
The two daughters of the aged
couple - Mrs. George HANLEY of Julian District and Mrs. J.COBURN of Penryn,
Placer County - and their husbands were present. There were also many members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in attendance. SEAMANS and wife are members
of that church. Many beautiful presents
were received and the day was made a happy reunion of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. SEAMANS were
married in Michigan, November 26, (not legible). They resided in that State until about 1892,
when they came to California, for the past twelve years making their home on
their ranch in Buena Vista Park, about eight miles from Ione.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), November
28 - The funeral of Mrs. Jane BUCHANAN, mother of Mrs. Charles E. PICKERING, of
this place, was held from her late residence. Mrs. BUCHANAN was aged 49 years.
She died of pneumonia. She had been ill for over two weeks prior to her death
but would not consent to have a doctor until beyond help. She was a believer of
the doctrine of Christian Science. She leaves two daughters to mourn her death.
Interment was made in Lodi Cemetery.
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The Evening Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
Thursday, November 29, 1906
Page 7
Mrs. S.H. Laugenour Answers Last Call
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), November 29
- Mrs. S.H. LAUGENOUR, a pioneer resident of this county, died this morning
after several weeks’ illness, at the age of 82. The interment will be in the
College City Cemetery Saturday, Rev.
W.F. REAGOR, of Sacramento, officiating. She
leaves several children and numerous other relatives.
Her children are: Mrs. S.A.
HUSTON, editor of the Home Alliance, Woodland; ex-Supervisor J.H. LAUGENOUR,
Rufus LAUENOUR, Miss Lillie L. LAUGENOUR, County Superintendent of Schools,
Misses Bertha and Nan LAUGENOUR, of Colusa, and Mrs. Ella McCOY, of Red Bluff.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), November29
- Jacob BARMAN, who arrived here when the Russian cruiser, Lena, was brought to
Mare Island during the Russo-Japan War, was arrested this morning on a charge
of bigamy. When the Lena left for a home port, BARMAN remained behind, securing
a small place near the edge of town. Recently he married a San Francisco woman
and a few days ago his wife and family arrived from Russia. Hence
the charge of bigamy.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), November
29 - A telegram from San Francisco to the effect that Rev. W.P. GRANT
successfully underwent a dangerous operation yesterday, was received by his
wife last evening. Rev. GRANT is the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of this place and has been in poor health for some time.
Bust of Le Conte - The Le Conte
Grammar School of Berkeley will have a handsome bust of the late Professor
Joseph LE CONTE, known to educators and men of science all over the world. The
presentation of the bust was made by Miss LE CONTE at the meeting of the
Berkeley Board of Education Tuesday night. A pedestal for the bust will be
provided by the Board.
Jealous Wife - Albert MARTIN was
married to Jessie MARTIN four months ago.
Yesterday he obtained a divorce it being shown that she had so
frightened Martin?s relatives that they locked the
door of his room to protect him from the threatened vengeance of his bride, who
was insanely jealous of him.
Hosmer Files Contest - J.A.
HOSMER, whom the Election Commissioners have declared defeated in his recent
race with Police Judge Edmund P. MOGAN, filed a contest with the County Clerk
of San Francisco yesterday, alleging that he had been counted out by false and
inaccurate canvassing of the returns.
Denicke Acquitted - The jury in the case of Ernest DENICKE, charged with
manslaughter on April 20th, in having killed an unknown man during
the excitement following the earthquake, after deliberating six hours last
night rendered a verdict of not guilty.
Try Twice to Kill Themselves -
Apparently despondent because of having been detained at the Oakland Police
Station, Anita RIVESTA and Mamie SILCOVITZ, aged 15 years, attempted for the
second time to end their lives by inhaling gas, having carefully closed the
door of their room and sealed up all the apertures possible.
Dies in Baths - James F. DEVLIN,
a well-known contractor of San Francisco, died last evening at the Kadee Baths
on Gough Street, presumably from pneumonia. Deceased left a wife and two
children.
Assaulted by Thugs - Ernest
LINDNER, a linotype operator, last night was held up and severely beaten by
three unknown men in the shadow of the Palace Hotel ruins in San Francisco. The
would-be thugs were frightened away before they had a chance to search LINDNER,
but not until they had vented their spite for his resistance by striking him
several times upon the head with a blunt instrument, inflicting numerous
lacerations of the scalp and face.
Refugees Suffer - The first real
test of the refugee cottages in San Francisco came yesterday, and scores of
them, after the hardest rain of the season, were found wanting. The hundreds
still sheltered in tents suffer intolerably.
Powell Won Fight - Lew POWELL
won his fight with “Cyclone” THOMPSON last night at Colma on a foul in the
tenth round.
Robbed the Dead - While A.
SCHWINN and his wife lay dead in their home at Erie and Howard Streets on April
18th last, Oliver LIND entered the house, stepped over the two dead
bodies, and robbed the house of all the jewelry it contained. LIND has
confessed.
Hurt by Cars - Two men were
injured in car accidents in San Francisco last night. James BANKNER fell to the
street at Thirteenth and Mission Streets, and at the City and County Hospital
it was found that he had severe concussion of the brain. James McALLISTER, a
mail wagon driver, was struck buy a car at Mission and Spear, scalp wounds
being inflicted.
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