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Sacramento Bee
Monday
May 5, 1913
PICKED UP GUN, THE BARREL
FOREMOST
JACKSON, (Amador Co.), May 5 - The
attending physicians fear it may be necessary to amputate the left arm of
George SAMARDZICH, who yesterday received the full charge from a shotgun in
that member between the elbow and shoulder.
Samardzich
was hunting with several companions when he picked up a shotgun from the
ground, the barrell pointing towards him. In some
manner it was discharged, frightfully mangling his arm.
WILLOWS
(Glenn Co.), May 5 - Mystery surrounds the calling together of the Glenn County
Grand Jury this morning by Foreman Leon SPEIR. A number of witnesses have been
called here also, but nothing has been divulged as to the nature of the
testimony expected.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), May 5 -
Reed AMES, a machinist at the local Southern Pacific shops, became violently
insane this morning and armed first with a club, then a butcher knife,
terrorized the employes and guests at the Rudder
Grange Hotel.
He
was finally arrested by Patrolman Moran and securely handcuffed.
MARYSVILLE
(Yuba Co.), May 5 - Rev. John T. VINEYARD of Smartsville,
this county, this morning secured a license to marry
Sarah Eliza WOODRUFF of Mooney Flat, Nevada County. The groom is 75 and the
bride is 63.
PRINCETON (Colusa Co.), May 5 -
Throngs of visitors attended the carnival Saturday. Every event was a great
success and the Sacramento Valley Rose Growers’ Association is well pleased
that the fourth celebration was by far the most successful in the history of
the Association.
Queen Gertrude and her pretty
maids of honor received the homage and admiration of a happy crowd. The Queen
was crowned by R.G. GLIDDEN, Principal of the Princeton High School.
Marshal FLANAGAN was highly
commended for his excellent management of the big assemblage and the promptness
of the events program. Frank BONDURANT was Chairman.
Mrs. Henry L. DUNCAN of Colusa
was awarded the Association’s silver cup for the best decorated automobile in
the parade.
The rose exhibit was not so good as had been hoped because the blooms were damaged by
recent north winds. There was no exhibit for the Louise E. BOGGS trophy cup.
The Mendehall
trophy cup was awarded to Mrs. C.W. COCKERILL of Princeton for winning the
greatest number of rose prizes. Mrs. Cockerill also
won The Bee’s prize for climbing roses.
Thaddeus KERNS of Chico, the
youthful aviator, secured for the occasion by Aviation Chairman Frank GILLIAM,
made the best aeroplane flight ever witnessed in this
section.
In
the Rose Carnival Baby Show thirty-eight entries were made, and prizes awarded
as follows: Handsomest twins, SHUCKMAN twins; most attractive baby under 1 year,
Dorothy CRAIG; handsomest baby, Marjory SHUCKMAN; dark-eyed bay, Joseph
LANOUETTE (first), Helen GEORGE; blue-eyed baby, Loyd
HINE (first), Mildred BARTON; healthiest baby, Elton CASE; youngest baby,
Nellie HARRIS; fattest baby, Jaret MIDDLECAMP; reddest
hair, Evelyn THOMPSON; prettiest red hair, Mildred WARFIELD; handsomest mother,
Mrs. Alva KING, mother of Jackson KING.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 5 - In a
fit of despondency Mrs. Grace LASSON attempted to commit suicide Sunday morning
at the home of her mother, Mrs. Fay LETTERMAN, on Second Street. Mrs. LASSON
swallowed a quantity of lysol,
but her cries brought assistance, and she was pumped out by a physician, and
will recover.
A portion of the acid spilled
over her face, and from her eyes to her neck the skin is raw as beefsteak. The
throat, too, is frightfully burned, and Mrs. Lasson
is unable to talk, and it is only with great difficulty that even liquid
nourishment can be swallowed.
It had been noted by the Letterman
family that Mrs. Lasson had been acting queerly all
Sunday morning, but it was not feared she would attempt to take her life.
D. LETTERMAN, a brother of Mrs. Lasson, recently committed suicide at Chico by shooting
himself in the head with a rifle. Brooding over this is said to have been
partially the cause of Mrs. Lasson’s deranged state
of mind.
Mrs.
Lasson and a sister, her exact counterpart, known to
all Chico as the “Letterman twins,” have often been
before the public eye by reason of their more or less harmless escapades.
SANTA
ROSA (Sonoma Co.), May 5 - Allen B. LEMMON, a member of the Board of Trustees
of the State Library, and for many years one of the best known editors of the
State, lost his third finger on his right hand this week in an accident in his
garden.
APPLEGATE
(Placer Co.), May 5 - Tip BAXTER, pioneer of this place and a veteran of the
Civil War, in which he served on the Confederate side, died yesterday afternoon
a short time after he had fallen from a lumber wagon. Baxter was unloading a
lumber wagon. He fell, sustaining injuries that paralyzed his right side. His
death followed soon.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 5 - James GILLESPIE, a Yuba pioneer, died yesterday in the County Hospital at the age of 75 years. He was a cousin of James G. BLAINE and was a native of Pennsylvania. He conducted a livery stable here for years.
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Sacramento Bee
Friday May 9, 1913
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 9 - After working most
of the day the Chico Constabulary and Assistant District Attorney George F. LE
ROSSIGNOL have been unable to explain the mysterious blood stains on the floor
and wall of the little deserted cottage located in a sequestered orchard back
of the Diamond Match Company’s plant at Barber, a suburb one mile from Chico.
The floor and walls of the house were thickly spotted with fresh blood stains.
The blood stains were discovered by Deputy
Constable Oliver ALLWARDT who was searching for baggage thieves along the
Southern Pacific tracks.
The two rocks found on the floor of one of
the rooms were clean and showed no signs of blood stains.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), May 9 - Reynolds &
Rider, well borers Wednesday bored a well seventy-five feet deep for Hugh
GARNETT, the Glenn County cattle king, in ten hours. It was one of the fastest
jobs ever recorded in the County. The well is twelve inches in diameter.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), May 9 - An automobile in
which Charles LAMBERT and Jack KNIGHT were riding collided with the Fruto train on the Southern Pacific division with the
result that the train was partially wrecked. The accident occurred at the
Walnut Street crossing. Knight and Lambert stopped their machine at the
crossing to let the train, which was backing down, pass. The automobile struck
the rear platform, tearing away the steps of the coach. No one was injured in
the crash.
CHICO ( Butte Co.),
May 10 (sic) - J.R. WILLARD, resident of Chico, pleaded guilty yesterday to
violating the law in order to aid a destitute family in dire distress. He was
arrested by Constable CRUM for the alleged cutting down and taking trees from
the premises of Charles CONROY, eight miles from Chico. Willard appeared before
Justice J.L. BARNES yesterday and pleaded guilty to trespassing.
WILLIAMS (Colusa Co.), May 9 - A fence built
by George W. ROISTER that is said to encroach on a road near here caused a
hearing before the Supervisors one day this week and a trip by the Board to the
scene. A change is being asked in the road between Williams and the Fergeus ranch in Spring Valley, and this dispute has a
bearing upon it.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 9 - L.D. SUMMERFIELD
of Reno, Nev., has been elected next semester’s editor of the Chaparral, the
students’ humorous magazine. Summerfield had charge of the comic during one of
the semesters in 1912 and maintained a high quality of up-to-date stories.
Among the new men elected to the staff of the
magazine if A.M. STANDISH, formerly of Redding.
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), May 9 - Sheriff J.A.
BAILEY, of this County, has bought two bloodhound puppies and will train them
to track criminals. They were purchased from S.D. STEFFY, of the Elk Creek
country, and will be delivered in about four weeks.
ROSEVILLE (Placer Co.), May 9 - H.A. SNOW,
arrested by Constable RUDESUTER for indecent exposure, was sentenced to serve
twenty days in the County Jail at Auburn.
ROCKLIN (Placer Co.), May 9 - The old
roundhouse of the Southern Pacific, abandoned when Roseville was made a big
terminal, is being cleared away and the ground put in shape for a baseball
diamond. A portion of the stone wall will be retained as a back for the
bleachers. It is a central location , and is well
adapted for the purpose.
The Rocklin team will be a strong aggregation
this year.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), May 9 - The will and
petition for probate of the estate of Mrs. Nettie E. Vickroy,
who died recently on the home place near Yolo, where she was born
forty-seven-years ago, were filed yesterday by Albert M. BEMMERLY, the
executor.
The petition shows that the property consists
of 3,500 acres of land in this county, bank stock, cash, livestock, warehouse ,
— implements and jewelry.
By the terms of the will, 160 acres of choice
land are bequeathed to a sister, Mrs. Dora SCHNEIDER, of Oakland, and 627 acres
to a brother, Ernest HELD, of Oakland. The mother, Mrs. Henrietta M. HELD, of
Oakland, is given a monthly allowance from the estate, and there is a contract
between the two latter providing for her for life. All of the
residue of the estate is bequeathed to the executor, Albert M. Bemerly.
The will is witnessed by James L. HARE of
this city and E. CAVANAUGH of Oakland. A.C. HUSTON is attorney for the
executor.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), May 9 - Hon. G. W.
Pierce of Davis has been appointed as Yolo County’s agent to dispose of State
Highway bonds for the building of the west side highway.
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 9 - The Hammond
interests of San Francisco have invaded the Chico district, and it is
authoritatively stated that before they have finished many thousands of acres
of land will have been sold. Sales were consummated yesterday wherein the
Hammond people took over the Robert A. ANDERSON ranch of 1,500 acres, paying
about $50,000, and the Peter HANSEN ranch adjoining of 240 acres. Other sales
are pending. The land will be put into alfalfa for the extensive raising of
dairy stock.
LODI (San Joaquin Co.), May 9 - The Ladies
Athletic Club, composed largely of school teachers, held a picnic at Smith’s
Lake Wednesday afternoon. They enjoyed the afternoon in athletic exercises,
songs, music and boat riding. Mrs. E.E. BREITENBUCHER and Mrs. William INCH
were chaperones for the party.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), May 9 - Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. H.E. Phillips, which occurred Thursday at Los Angeles. The body will be brought to Yolo for burial, arriving here Saturday afternoon at 4:40. The funeral will be held direct from the train. Mrs. Phillips was the mother of Mrs. D.N. BROWN, of this city. She is also survived by three other daughters and two sons.
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The Sacramento Bee
Monday,
May 12, 1913
CHICO (Butte Co.), May 12 - The
engagement of Miss Mattie SPRINGER to Fred D. MONTGOMER, both of Chico, was
formerly announced at a dinner party given in the Diamond Hotel Grill Saturday
evening.
Miss Olive SWIFT was the hostess
at a pretty linen show extended to Miss Mazie E.
THOMASSON, a popular young Chico girl who is to be married in the near future
to Arthur F. CRUM of Oroville.
The
engagement of Miss Glen SHAW, prominent Chico woman, to Wiley W. MATHER,
formerly a member of the Chico High School faculty, but now of San Francisco
was announced at a delightfully appointed luncheon in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
E.J. LEWIS of Chico Vecino Saturday evening. The
wedding of the popular young couple will take place July 3d.
OROVILLE
(Butte Co.), May 12 - Within the nest two weeks the
marriage of Miss Minnie WILLIAMS and Louis FOWLER will be celebrated in this
city. The bride to be is a popular Oroville girl, who has been reared in Butte
County. The groom is the First Lieutenant of Company I, Second Infantry, of
this city, and is a prominent mining man.
OAKLAND, May 12 - Martin V.
TAYLOR, aged 77, Western pioneer and Indian fighter, and great-grandson of John
TAYLOR, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, died in the
Fruitvale district to-day at his residence, 2223 East Fifteenth Street. Acute
stomach trouble was the cause of his death.
Taylor
was the son of John Taylor of Kentucky and his mother was Mrs. Mary HUDDLESTON
TAYLOR, both dead. After attending school in Illinois he went to Oregon in 1852
with his brothers. They remained there, but Martin went to Yreka, Siskiyou
County, California, to engage in mining. During his life there he participated
in the Rogue River Indian wars.
SUISUN
(Solano Co.), May 12 - A J. RICE Company announce the closing of three large
deals which have been pending for months in the purchase of the property of the
BULKLEY Estate of 1,250 acres and the properties of William FARRELL and CAIN
ranches of 800 acres, a total of 2,000 acres at a price of about $150,000.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), May 12 -
K. HATANAKA, a Japanese lies in the City Jail with a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to commit murder, as a result of a murderous attack
made Saturday evening on Ray ALLEN, an inmate of the restricted district.
The Japanese, who it has
developed has been on exceedingly friendly terms with the woman, went to visit
her Saturday evening, and on finding another in her company, went to the back
door of her crib and demanded admittance. When she appeared, he attacked her
with a knife and inflicted a severe wound on each arm as the woman attempted to
guard against the blow.
The
Japanese was arrested as he entered Yuba City after making his escape from
Marysville.
SISSON
(Siskiyou Co.), May 12 - The funeral of Mrs. Almira
WILSON, who died here Thursday, was held under the auspices of Vicino Temple, Pythian Sisters, yesterday afternoon. Deceased was a pioneer resident of this
section, the wife of R.P. WILSON, a veteran of the Civil War. Besides her
husband, two daughters and three sons survive.
COLFAX (Placer Co,), May 12 - A.
KELLY, a teamster employed by the Pacific Gas ans
Electric Company, was killed Saturday night about two miles from Colfax, when
the wagon he was driving overturned. His foot caught in the wheel and he was
dragged a distance of about sixty feet.
He was dead when found. Kelly was
unmarried and about 28 years of age.
QUINCY
(Plumas Co.), May 12 - The Board of Education met Saturday in the office of the
County Superintendent of Schools Mrs. Hall, with a full attendance. On a vote
of 3 to 2 W.H. WEEKS of San Francisco was selected as architect for the new
High School building.
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), may 12 - Deputy Sheriff R.W. WOODS was injured last night
while attempting to quiet a disturbance on a Woodland-bound electric car. A
whisky flask, thrown by one of four Portuguese, after they had left the car,
struck the Sheriff over the right eye, inflicting painful but not serious
injuries.
Stephen
MACEDO, the man who threw the bottle, was this morning held on a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon. Bonds for $2,500 were required. The others are
held as witnesses.
DUTCH FLAT (Placer Co.), May 12 -
Dan McSWEENEY, an employe
of March Bros., while demented, cut his throat with a razor, just missing the
large arteries of the neck. He was taken to the Utah Construction Company’s
Emergency Hospital at Dutch Flat and treated. A brother, Tim McSWEENEY, resided in San Francisco.
NEVADA NEWS
MURDERER SENTENCED TO DIE CHOOSES SHOOTING
CARSON (Nev.), May 12 - Andrew MIRKOVICH, the Tonopah murderer sentenced
to die for the murder of Antone GREGOVICH in Tonopah
about a year ago, will be shot to death in the penitentiary at this place
Wednesday morning. This will be the first legal shooting that has ever occurred
in this State, Mirkovich having chosen that means of
death under the Nevada law.
He is now in the condemned cell, and is almost a physical wreck. It is
believed that he will have to be carried to the place of execution and placed
in the chair in which he is to die.
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Sacramento Bee
Monday May 19, 1913
THIS SNAKE TWO FEET LONG, ONLY 1/8 OF INCH
THICK
CHICO (Butte Co.),
May 19 -
Thomas DOOLEY, hotel proprietor of this city,
has turned over to the Department of Science of the Chico State Normal School a
new specimen of snake discovered in Big Chico Creek Saturday by William
O’CLAIR, a vaudeville actor playing here.
The queerest of wriggling things is nearly
two feet long yet is no thicker than a common white string. It resembles other
snakes in every particular excepting in the girth of its body, which is
slightly over an eighth of an inch.
LAKE TAHOE ROAD IN EL DORADO NOW OPEN
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
May 19 -
Superintendent of the Lake Tahoe State Road,
W.W. HOYT, of Diamond Springs, returned Friday from an inspection of the road, which
he says is now open for vehicles. Charles CELLO, Jr. having
made the trip over the Summit into Lake Valley recently. Though there is
still some snow between Riverton and Phillips, it is not enough to prevent
travel by wagon.
Among the improvements soon to be completed
on the road is one now under way - the blasting out of rock at a very narrow
turn this side of Riverton to allow vehicles to pass each other at this
dangerous point where there is a sheer declivity of several hundred feet to the
American River.
CITY ELECTION IN GRASS VALLEY LIVELY
GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.),
May 19 -
One of the liveliest contests in the history
of this city is manifest in the Municipal Election being held here to-day for
the election of Mayor, City Treasurer, City Marshal, Water Collector and seven
Trustees. The principal fight is for Water Collector, there being eleven
candidates in the field.
The Armstrong forces are conspicuous.
Armstrong, who claims to have been beaten for Secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce by a clever intrigue of a certain clique in this city, is determined
to control the City Trustees so that he can secure the office of City Clerk, to
which he aspires.
Thomas INGRAM has no opponent for Mayor. City
Marshall DAVIS and Night Watchman NORTHWAY are making a spirited fight for City
Marshall, while there is contest in three of the seven precincts for City
Trustee.
SUPERIOR JUDGE GRAY QUITE ILL
OROVILLE (Butte Co.),
May 19 -
Superior Judge John C. GRAY was taken
suddenly ill at the Court House this morning as he was preparing to open Court.
Judge GRAY was removed to his home at once.
His affliction is stomach trouble. His condition is said to not be critical.
All Court business will be put over for a couple of weeks. Judge GRAY is 76
years of age.
5 YEAR-OLD BOY
CRUSHED BY AUTO
KLAMATH FALLS (Ore.),
May 19 -
Bawne HENRY, 5 years old, son of Eugene HENRY, was
run over by an automobile on the main street here Sunday noon.
Alex STRAYAN was running the car. It passed
over the boy’s head, tore off his ear and crushed his head. He is still alive,
but unconscious, and it is believed he will die.
STRAYAN is nearly insane over the accident.
HAMMONTON MAN’S LIFE IN BALANCE
grass valley (Nevada Co.), May 19 -
A further examination of P.A. MOFFIT of
Hammonton, who was injured in a runaway accident below this city, reveals that
his back has been broken and that his chances for recovery are very slim. Dr.
Carl JONES stated yesterday, however, that the cord had not been completely
severed, which gives him one chance in a hundred to improve. The other
Hammonton people who were injured in the accident are improving rapidly.
YOUTH CHARGED WITH THEFT OF TIMEPIECE
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.),
May 17 -
Harry RILEY, a youth 18 years, is in custody,
charged with the theft of a watch from Suel HARRIS
Jr., of Sutter County. Chief McCOY
observed RILEY attempting to dispose of the timepiece before HARRIS complained
of losing his property and had no difficulty locating the young man when Harris
made the complaint. It is a case for Juvenile Court.
MANY REMEMBERED BY PARKS IN HIS WILL
Bank Janitor Gets $500, as Do
Library and Women’s Improvement Club
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.),
May 19 -
The will of the late W.H. PARKS, Jr., was
filed for probate to-day with the petition of J.M. KILGRAIF, a brother-in-law,
of Sausalito, for letters testamentary. Kilgarif is
named as executor to act without bonds.
Remembers Janitor
The will, dated March 18, 1912, makes the
following bequests:
Mrs. Charles HAPGOOD, an
aunt, of Marysville, $500; Bertha HEMPHILL, niece, of Calistoga, $500; J.M.
KILGARIF, brother-in-law, Sausalito, $500; J.M. RODRIGUEZ, janitor at Decker
& Jewitt Bank with which decedent was connected,
$$500.
Library and Improvement Guild
The codicil bequests as follows:
Marysville City Library, $500; Women’s Civic
Improvement Club, $500; Ladies’ Guild of St. John’s Episcopal Church, $500.
The rest of the estate is given to two
sisters, Adelia F. HEMPHILL of Calistoga and
Elizabeth P. KILGARIF of Sausalito, share and share alike.
The value of the estate is given as in excess
of $10,000. It is believed to be between $20,000 and $30,000.
PHYSICIAN HONORED
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.),
May 19 -
Dr. C. F. CLARK returned Saturday from Los
Angeles, where he attended the meeting of the California State Homeopathic
Medical Society. He was elected Second Vice President and was made a member of
the Legislative Committee.
ARRESTED FOR SERIOUS MADERA OFFENSE
WOODLAND (Yolo CO.) ,May
19 -
Johnny JAMES, wanted at Madera on a statutory
charge, was arrested here last night by Deputy Sheriff HILLHOUSE. He is aged *1
years and has relatives in Woodland. He was taken to Madera to-day.
SACRAMENTAN ARRESTED
PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.),
May 19 -
H. JOHNSON, of Sacramento,
was arrested Sunday on complaint of J.B. BLAIR of the J & J Blair Company
on a charge of reckless driving with an automobile. He will be tried next Monday.
NEVADA STATE NEWS
MAYOR RESIGNS WHEN COUNCIL REFUSES ITS
SUPPORT
YERINGTON (Nev.),
May 19 -
G.B. WALDO, elected Mayor of Yerington May 6th,
has resigned.
Waldo was elected on a reform ticket and
supposed that a Council had been elected to support him. The Council failed to
endorse his appointments or actions and he resigned.
WILL TRY SLAYER ON INSANITY CHARGE
RENO (Nev.) May 19 -
Ivan HOCEVAR, in the County Jail here on a
charge of murder and said to be insane, will not be tried on a charge of
insanity. HOCEVAR is a gun worshiper and said that he killed a man because the
gun god told him to do so.
GOES TO U.C.
RENO (Nev.), May 19
-
Prof. Goddon H.
TRUE, in charge of the agricultural experiment station of the University of
Nevada, has resigned to become Professor of Animal Industry in the University
of California. Prof. TRUE was also State Quarantine officer for Nevada.
CONVICT RECAPTURED
CARSON CITY, (Nev.), May 19 -
W.M. DEAL, who escaped from the penitentiary
road gang two years ago with another prisoner, has been captured in Billings,
Mont., and was brought back to Carson.
FINED $500 FOR CARRYING GUN
FALLON (Nev.), May
19 -
Joe MARTINES, who fired a shot through the
hand of C. FRAZZINNI, another Italian here has been fined $50 for carrying a
concealed weapon. Martines pleaded guilty to this
charge when a charge of assault with intent to kill was dismissed against him.
He was unable to pay the fine imposed and is now serving it out.
SYMMES CHARGES JULHIN WITH FRAUD
VIRGINIA (Nev.), May
19 -
Superintendent SYMMES of the Mexican mine on
the comstock, who engaged in a heated controversy
with Herman ZADIG and other San Francisco brokers some time ago has now asked
that Superintendent JULHIN of the Sierra Nevada mine be dismissed. He alleges
incompetency and fraud and has asked the California Courts order him removed
from his position.
BELIEVE DEAD COUNT WAS WIFE DESERTER
RENO (Nev.), May 19
-
Believing that County Max VON BULOW, killed
under a Southern Pacific train west of Reno, who married a young woman in
Pennsylvania fifteen years ago and then deserted her and their infant child,
Rev. Father J.F. KIERNAN, of Newton, Pa., is endeavoring to secure a
description of von Bulow. Count von Bulow was 50 years of age,
and an educated German.
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Sacramento Bee
Monday December 22, 1913
RED BLUFF - The case
of W.L. RAMER vs. Minnie L. RAMER was heard before the Superior Court, and
Judge ELLISON took it under advisement. The cross-complaint was heard on the
original complaint.
ANDERSON - Thomas A. LITTLE has begun an
action against J.C. SPENCER for money alleged to be due. Fred OLIFANT appeared
for the plaintiff, and J.E. ESTEP for the defendant.
The trial was before Justice Cuningham.
COLUSA - Edwin A. RODGERS has brought suit
against R.C. MAVES, his former partner in the dry goods business, for violating
an agreement entered into between them when Rodgers bought Maves’
interest in the store, alleging that Maves agreed not
to follow the same business in Colusa for five years. Maves
became the manager of an opposition store across the street.
RED BLUFF - Sheriff Jud BOYD has returned
with Hale SCHMIDT, who is charged with stealing a bicycle and other things. Schmidt was arrested at Norman,
Colusa County. It is stated that the prisoner admits all the thefts and
wants to plead guilty.
ROCKLIN - Rocklinites
were again the victims of the petty thief Saturday night. A hat, two or more
pair of pants and an overcoat were taken from rooms in the Grand Southern
Hotel. Further down the same street a householder took several shots at an
intruder before the thief could secure anything.
MARYSVILLE - The preliminary examination of
Earl COKLEY, an I.W.W. suspect, was postponed when a witness failed to appear.
The case will probably come up this week.
OROVILLE - Edward THOMPSON, well-known
fisherman and guide who for the past three seasons has conducted the Shady Rest
resort on the North Fork of the Feather River, will manage the resort during
the coming year. He sold his interest in the place to Mrs. PETTYS, of Oakland,
last Fall, but has been engaged to conduct it during
the coming year.
YUBA CITY - The WALTON Company of Sutter
County has been organized and articles of incorporation filed with the County
Clerk. Yuba City will be the principal place of business for fifty years.
S.V.WALTON, of Berkeley, and L.A. WALTON and F.S. WALTON, both of Yuba City,
are the three Directors. The capital stock is $100,000, divided into 1,000
shares of the par value of $100.
MARYSVILLE - To add to the troubles of the
police a thief with a new stunt has appeared in Marysville. His special liking
is the Christmas package delivered by the mail carrier. He trails the carrier
and when a package is left at the door for people absent from home he
appropriates it. Two cases have already been reported.
WHEATLAND - The Board of Health of Wheatland
has been reorganized by the election of A.H. ARMSTEAD as President and W.H.
NIEMEYER as Secretary. The other members of the Board are Dr. LOWELL, Dr.
ELLSWORTH, Dr. KIMMERER, A.C. STAGNER and G.W. MONSON.
COLUSA - Mrs. A. JOHNSON was severely burned
about the eyes and nose when a piece of fat she was frying exploded and landed
on her face.
OROVILLE - That all danger of Miss Lotta HARRIS, a local High School girl and singer in the
Congregational Church choir, losing her sight is past is the statement of her
physician. The girl was struck on the left eye with a cube of sugar and for a
number of days it was feared that the sight of the eye was destroyed.
MARYSVILLE - Two petitions favoring the
proposition of Statewide prohibition upon the ballots next Fall have been filed
here, and during this week there will be a third petition, which is being
circulated in the southern portion of the county by Wheatland proponents of the
cause of “California dry.” The petitions already filed contain the signatures
of people in Marysville and vicinity.
BENICIA - At a
meeting of the Public Library Trustee Saturday, Miss Josie O’SULLIVAN was
appointed Librarian to succeed Nell SCANNELL. There were about a dozen
applicants for the position.
WHEATLAND - Hog cholera has made its appearance
in this part of Yuba County, first appearing in the vicinity of Waldo. The
disease was so pronounced on the C.K. DAM place that the State Veterinarian was
called to work with the local veterinarians. A wholesale vaccination has
followed, with splendid results. The vaccine is being used as a preventive on
other farms.
WOODLAND - A
petition has been filed in the Superior Court by Henry B. and Anna E.
GERMESHAUSEN for the adoption of Sarah SHORT, an abandoned child.
MARYSVILLE - Mayor ROBINSON of Colusa and the
members of his Council were in Marysville Saturday inspecting the newly paved
streets of this municipality as an aid to them in proposed like improvement in
Colusa. They were extended courtesies by the members of the local Council.
WOODLAND - Suit has been filed in the
Superior Court by seven wood choppers against Clinton MILLER, a farmer residing
near Knight’s Landing, for $760, claimed to be due for cutting wood. The
plaintiffs are A. MARCEAS, Y. BERNUDES, A. CORDERO, A. CORALES, A. MADRONE, Y.
COMACHO and F. MARTIN.
WHEATLAND - Amended articles of incorporation
of the Farmers’ Bank of Wheatland, reducing the number of shares of capital
stock from 1,200 to 600, and increasing their value from $50 to $100 have been
filed with the County Clerk. This was the only change made in the articles.
OROVILLE - Five hundred trial jurors for the
year 1914 will set a new record in Butte County. Judge GREGORY has stated that
that is the number he will order to be listed by the Board of Supervisors. The
largest number ever listed before was 450.
RED BLUFF - The funeral
services of Abraham A. DINKEL, who died at the Sisters’ Hospital, was
held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Catholic Church and the services
was conducted by Father BRADY.
OROVILLE - Testimony at the Coroner’s Inquest
held in this city over the remains of the Mexican killed by the “1915"
Western Pacific train late Friday night near Big Bar, was that the name of the
man was L. GARCIA. Testimony given at the inquest was to the effect that the
victim had been about Big Bar in an intoxicated condition.
COTTONWOOD - The Baptist Church of this place
just concluded a two days’ fair and entertainment. A handsome sum was realized.
KLAMATH MUST PAY DAMAGES TO WOMAN
KLAMATH FALLS (Ore.), December 22 -
Klamath Falls must pay Mrs. Catherine
CALLAHAN $2,500 for injuries received in a fall alleged to have been caused by
a loose board in the sidewalk at Eighth and High Streets on November 27, 1912.
This verdict was returned by the jury Thursday afternoon in the $7,000 damage
suit brought against the city by Mrs. CALLAHAN.
SETTLE MORRISON CASE
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), December 22 -
The case of David MORRISON and others against
Reclamation District 817 was compromised here to-day when Morrison agreed to
pay two-thirds of the assessment made against his and his relatives’ land in
the district. He paid over $2,389.90. Morrison and the others objected to the
original assessment which, they declared, was too big for the benefits to be
derived.
GOOD SLEIGHING WEATHER
QUINCY (Plumas Co.), December 22 -
The fall of several
inches of snow here has stopped ice skating but has substituted as a sport for
the young people, sleigh riding and snowballing. Nearly all the sleighs in town are in use.
The fact that the ground is frozen beneath the snow makes the sleighing good. It is expected that toboggan sliding will soon occupy
the attention of many.
MAY DISQUALIFY COLUSA
LAWYER IN CASE.
Colusa (Colusa Co.), December 22 -
A new attorney or a new Judge will probably
be necessary in the case of H. MONSEN against Annie MONSEN to break the will of
F. MONSEN. When the case was called in the Superior Court here the attorney for
the plaintiff raised the point that U.W. BROWN, attorney for the defense, had
no right to try the case before Judge H.M. ALBERY, who is a relative. Judge
ALBERY’s son married Attorney BROWN’s daughter, and
the point is raised on that relationship.
Judge ALBERY will render a decision in the
case this afternoon.
FIFTEEN AFTER JOB OF UNITED STATES MARSHAL
WASHINGTON (D.C.), December 22 -
Fifteen candidates are in the field for the
office of United States Marshalship of the Northern
California District. Marshal Thomas ELHOFF’s term will not expire until June
21, 1914, but the candidates are already besteging
(sic) the Department of Justice and various Congressmen for the position.
Those known to be in the race are: E.F.
RAMMERS, Vacaville; J. Walter GRAVES, Manteca; Larry DOLAN, San Francisco;
Robert McKILLEARN, Oakland; S.M. McGARY,
Lodi; P. COHN, Sacramento; James ADAIR, Mariposa; Taiton
HAWKES, San Andreas; E.W. GRIMM, Red Bluff; J.E. LEWIS, San Rafael; R.M.
RUSSELL, San Francisco; G.W. GRIFFIN, Woodland; Thomas L. SMITH, Yuba City,
R.L. HUTCHINSON, Ukiah; J.B. HOLOHAN, Watsonville.
PROGRESSIVE CONTROL PARTY IN SAN JOAQUIN
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), December 22 -
The Republican County Central Committee, of
which the Progressives obtained control two years ago, met Saturday. The old
Republican Committee was adjourned sine die. Steps were immediately taken to
organize a San Joaquin County Progressive Central Committee. All members of The
Old Republican County Committee are invited to become members of the new
committee.
Organization will be perfected at a mass
meeting to be held soon in Stockton.
PERSONALS
W.H. BARRY, a landowner near Courtland,
arrived yesterday.
W.A. BREWER, of Hillsborough, connected with
St. Mathews Military Academy, is a recent arrival.
THOMAS D. SWIFT and RICHARD A. COLGAN, Forest
Rangers, are in the city.
GEORGE COBB, wealthy Yolo County landowner,
is in Sacramento on business.
REV. W,A, BREWER,
President of St. Mathews’ College at Burlingame, was in Sacramento to-day.
GOVERNOR HIRAM JOHNSON left Sunday for San Francisco, to remain until after Christmas.
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July 1, 1914
Former University
Treasurer in Jail
Wright Confesses
and Asks for Release On Probation.
OAKLAND, June 30 -
Harry L. WRIGHT, former treasurer of the University of California, who was
arrested following the discovery of a shortage in his accounts, this morning
pleaded guilty to the explicit charge of embezzling $666.75 and was remanded to
the county jail for three weeks. He asked probation and a report will be made
from the probation officer within the time set today.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
INCORPORATES.
In the effort to
unite the members of the San Francisco fire department, the articles of
incorporation of the David Scannel club were filed
with secretary of State Franck C. JORDAN yesterday.
The incorporators are: Joseph DOLAN, W.E.
GALLATIN Jr., A.B. BUTTERWORTH, C.J. BRENNAN, Joseph CONNING, L.J. SPEAR,
Eugene MULLIGAN, George F. BROWN and D.J. O?DONNELL.
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Sacramento Bee
Monday October 19, 1914
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), October 19 - William T.
TROXEL, aged 88, one of the original valley pioneers, passed away of old age at
his home at Elk Creek in the Coast Range foothills.
He was born in Illinois and crossed the
plains in 1854 with an ox team caravan to California and settled at Silveyville, Solano county. He
married there Miss Eliza JOHNSON, who still lives. In 1870 they moved into the
wilds of the Sacramento Valley, west of what is now
Willows.
Surviving Troxel
are seven sons and two daughters: Joseph TROXEL of Yolo County; George Troxel of Dixon; Frank Lloyd and Cecil Troxel
of Elk Creek; Albert Troxel of Washington; Delbert Troxel of Sacramento; Mrs. Ernest SCUFF of Yolo County and
Mrs. Fred ELSTICH of Solano County.
The funeral was to-day at Elk Creek.
CHICO (Butte Co.), October 19 - After an
illness of six weeks, Miss Grace M. CLARK, sixteen year old high school girl,
died at the home of her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Homer Clark, 1327 South Chestnut
Street. Miss Clark, who was born in Michigan, had been a resident of this city
for seven years.
The funeral was held this afternoon from the
Engel Undertaking parlors at 2:30 o’clock. Rev.
Josephus SHERRILL of the United Brethern Church
officiated, interment being made in the Chico cemetery.
AUBURN (Placer Co.), October 19 - Mrs. J.A.
LAING, wife of a well known lumberman of this county, succumbed to heart
failure at the family home in this city Saturday. The funeral services were
held in this city this forenoon and the body was shipped to Sacramento to be
cremated and East Lawn Cemetery. Mrs. Laing was almost sixty-six years old.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), October 19 - Word has
been received from Santa Rosa of the death of Mrs. Louise COOK, a former
resident of this city, which occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Daisie READER, also a former resident of Marysville.
Deceased was a native of Ohio, and 63 years of age. Paralysis was the cause of
death.
Beside Mrs. Reader, Mrs. James YOUNG of Santa
Rosa and Mrs. Mary MURKIN of Nashville, Tenn., are surviving daughters, and Ray
Cook of Marysville, Peorge Cook of Sausalito, and
Will Cook of Santa Rosa are sons of deceased.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), October 19 - Attorney
CARLIN, attorney for the defendant in the action of M. WHITMAN vs. C.C. BREEDEN
for $10,000 damages for alleged false imprisonment,
to-day entered a demurrer to the complaint.
He alleges that the complaint fails to show
specifically for what the damage is asked. The suit was brought as a result of
the arrest of the plaintiff’s son on a charge of grand larceny.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), October 19 - A woman’s
love for Maraschino cherries caused her to be temporarily listed as the
champion female imbiber of cocktails by a local hotel-keeper. She is the wife
of a traveling salesman.
During her husband’s absence on a side trip,
the wife ordered eighteen whisky cocktails sent to her rom. When the nineteenth
cocktail was ordered the landlord began to fear the husband’s wrath, and sent
the stewardess to his guest’s room to reconnoiter.
The stewardess found the eighteen cocktails
ranged in a row in the boudoir, untouched save that the Maraschino cherry had
been taken from each. The woman bought the cocktails to get the cherries.
CORNING (Tehama Co.), October 19 - Richmond
Pearson HOBSON, accompanied by Mr. WALTON, representing the Anti-Saloon League,
addressed a meeting Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. It was an audience of about
1,000 people. The meeting was in the open air. Richard B. FRIPP introduced the
speaker.
PARADISE (Butte Co.), October 19 - An unusual
phenomenon is claimed to have been witnessed here by William EDGE at 10 o’clock
in the forenoon when a meteor burst about forty-five degrees above the western
horizon. When it burst, he says there was a streak,
and then a puff of grayish smoke, which remained in the air for several
minutes.
CHICO (Butte Co.), A man giving the name of
Al STEIN, and residence as Thermalito, was struck on
the head by the south bound Northern Electric car here last night on Main
between Fourth and Fifth Streets.
Stein was knocked to the ground and narrowly
escaped death under the wheels. Other than cuts and bruises, he was uninjured.
ALLEGHANY (Sierra Co.), October 19 - D.P.
FERNU, a miner employed by the Lightner Company, was
overcome by gas at the mine. He was found unconscious in the drift at noon and
the supposition is that he had been unconscious for two hours or more.
The unfortunate man was conveyed to his home
and the attending physician worked until 7 o’clock in the evening before any
sign of returning consciousness was observed.
MERIDIAN - County Horticulturist H.P.
STABLER, accompanied by Constable EPPERSON, was in this vicinity enforcing the
farmers to remove the thistle from their properties.
RED BLUFF - Registration figures supplied by
County Clerk H.G. KUHN place the combined registration of the five political
parties in Tehama County at 6,599. This number shows an increase of 299 over
the total registration at the August primary.
GRASS VALLEY - Mrs. M.A. MACKINNIE, the
social worker who has been giving addresses in this section for the past week,
has departed for Auburn, where she will be engaged for a time.
RED BLUFF - That Robert EVANS, the Cottonwood
Creek youth, now being held on a charge of burglary is temporarily insane is
the belief of Under Sheriff C.A. LANGE. Lange and two deputies were compelled
to stay with him the major part of one night to prevent him from an inflicting
upon himself any bodily harm.
PLACERVILLE - Albert E. MAY, General Manager
of the Placerville Gold Mining Company, and George W. ENGELHARDT,
Superintendent of the Rising Hope Mine, have left on a trans-continental trip
over the Lincoln Highway.
YUBA CITY - On motion of his attorney,
Lawrence FISHER, the alleged Oakland Deputy Constable charged with “shooting
up” Sutter City, has been given two weeks further time to offer his plea to the
charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
MARYSVILLE - A burglar attempted to effect an
entrance to the residence of Charles SCHELLINGER on E Street last night, but
was frightened away by Mrs. SCHELLINGER who surprised the intruder at one of
the windows and telephoned the police. No arrests were made.
DAVIS - H.S. MADDOX, Secretary of the Yolo Board
of Trade with headquarters at Woodland, was the principal speaker at the Sunday
evening meeting for the students of the University of California Farm School.
J. SERAL, Farm Advisor of Yolo County, gave a brief outline of the
opportunities that are open for the agricultural graduate of to-day.
CHICO - Jewelry valued at about $100 was
stolen from the home of Mrs. I.D. NIKIRK, 520 Olive Street. The burglar made
his entrance by cutting a hole in a screen door and unlatching the back door.
WINTERS
- The students of the Winters High School held a pie and cake sale on Main
Street. The proceeds of the sale are to go toward the editing of the High
School paper. Miss Maud CHETHAM is Manager of the Paper,
and Miss Velma WYATT is her assistant.
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Sacramento Bee
Tuesday October 20, 1914
Mrs. Anna Gustin,
Former Resident of Butte County, Passes Away in Palo
Alto.
CHICO (Butte Co.), October 20 - In the death
of Mrs. Anna GUSTIN in Palo Alto, Chico lost a former and well known resident.
Mrs. Gustin
was born in Schenectady, N.Y. in 1862. She came to Chico with her husband in
1878, where they conducted a book store located on Broadway between Second and
Third streets. The family left Chico in 1903 to reside in San Francisco.
Mrs. Gustin leaves
to mourn her loss, two sons. Alfred and Warren GUSTIN of San Francisco; two
daughters, Mrs. H.M. MEEKS of Sebastopol, and Miss Ruth GUSTIN of San
Francisco; two brothers, Joseph BURROUGHS of Chico and Judge H.D. BURROUGHS of
Lassen County, and two sisters, Mrs. E. BUCKHOUT of Palo Alto, and Mrs. K.B.
WILLIAMS of Chico Vecino.
Funeral services here
held at San Francisco.
BENICIA (Solano Co.), October 20 - Death came
suddenly to Mrs. John LOPAS, one of the best known women of Benicia. The
deceased was aged 26 years and leaves besides her husband a 4 year-old
daughter, Loraine, and mother, Mrs. Jeannette JENSEN, the following brothers
and sisters: Mrs. Annie UNKS, Stockton; Miss Amelia JENSEN, Vantrent,
Placer county, and William Fred, Louise, Jacob, Paul and Frank JENSEN of
Benicia.
MARYSVILLE - On
motion of its attorney, the case of the Esther Mundell
Detective Agency vs. Yuba County, in an action to collect on the detective bill
incurred in connection with the Wheatland hop field murder, was dismissed. The
company compromised with the county and accepted $1,450 instead of $1,801.65 as
asked for.
WOODLAND - George SIMS and T. KAMOTA, both of
Winters, have commenced suit against the Pacific Fruit Exchange for $369 and
six per cent interest from July 1, 1914, claiming that the plaintiffs have that
amount due them for the alleged delivery of fruit according to contract.
COTTONWOOD - The local Lodge of the Fraternal
Brotherhood attended memorial services at the Baptist Church. Rev. CRANE,
himself a member of several fraternal societies, preached the sermon, the
subject being “Fraternity.”
COTTONWOOD - Constable George MARTIN of this
place earned a $25 reward offered for the arrest of Glen COLLARD an alleged
escape from a Reform School in Montana. Collard was arrested at the home of his
mother and will be taken back to serve out his term.
GRASS VALLEY - A
personal letter addressed to Andrew CARNEGIE, philanthropist, which will leave
this city to-day, marks the initial step of the Trustees of the Grass Valley
Free Library to secure a Carnegie building for Grass Valley.
VACAVILLE - The plans for the Carnegie
Library for Vacaville have been accepted and bids will be called for as soon as
the architect can prepare specifications. The building is to cost $12,500.
WOODLAND - It is expected that Judge HAWKINS
will render a decision shortly in the case of Maybrey
McMAHON vs. W.W. BROWNELL in a suit to collect
$42,550.12, alleged to be due plaintiff for the sale of certain tracts of land
belonging to defendant. The case was begun November 17, 1909, and was tried in
1910 and taken under advisement but has never been brought up since.
COLFAX - In conformity with a movement going
on all over the county, the four general merchandise stores of Colfax has
signed an agreement to close their place of business the first five evenings of
the week after November 1st. At the present time the clerks are
compelled to work fourteen hours a day.
MARYSVILLE - The
barn and chicken house connected with the residence of Rev. M. COLEMAN on Oak
Street, near Seventh, were destroyed by fire of an unknown origin last night.
The Fire Department protected St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, located to the
south of the blaze. The loss was nominal.
COLFAX - Howe Bros., proprietors of the
Hillcrest Farm and Dairy, west of Colfax, have
purchased the Hanby ranch and will enlarge the plant.
AUBURN - The reorganization meeting of the
Auburn Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Hotel Auburn to-morrow evening,
when plans prepared for changing the form of its government will be submitted
and discussed, and officers for the ensuing term will be elected.
CHICO - A valuable
dragon pin set with a ruby was carried away by burglars form the residence of
A.S. JONES, on South Chestnut Street.
MARYSVILLE - Timothy SHEA, accused by
District Attorney STANWOOD with burglarizing the cabin of Thomas RELS, near
Brownsville, has entered a plea of not guilty .The date of the trial will be
set next week.
OROVILLE - A
demented man was brought here form Gridley, where he was arrested by Constable
MILLER. As nearly as could be learned form his
incoherent talk, his name is Chester WEIGHT, and it is thought that he may have
escaped from the home for feeble-minded at Glen Ellen.
WOODLAND - Reclamation District 150 is soon
to enjoy electric lights and power. The Great Western Power has been granted
eighteen rights of way into this District.
ROSEVILLE - Superior Judge J.E. PREWETT of
Auburn, addressed the Women’s improvement Club at its regular meeting. He gave
a nonpartisan talk on most of the forty-eight amendments to be voted on at the
November election. He was followed by the Rev. F.H. ESSERT of Denver, Colo.
WOODLAND - Henry SHARPNECK who terrorized the
home of his brother, John, was declared an inebriate and will be sent to Ukiah
for treatment.
ARBUCKLE - John GAPPEN, a ranch hand,
employed at George DEBOLT’s ranch, met with a painful accident when he stepped
from a moving harrow into a hole and broke his leg at the ankle.
FRENCH GULCH - Notice is posted in the Post
Office here that a civil service examination of applicants for the position of
Postmaster of French Gulch will be held in Redding on Saturday, November 14th.
The office earned a salary of $672 last year.
COLUSA - Ted NEIL, employed on the woodsaw belonging to E.E. WHITE, met with a painful
accident when he had two fingers and thumb of his right hand cut off.
REDDING - Fred ROGERS, new arrival here from
Klamath Falls, was arrested on a charge of insanity. He took lodgings in a
hotel and in the night tore the room all to pieces hunting for a woman that he
declared was hidden somewhere about the place.
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Sacramento Bee
Monday February 15, 1915
RAILWAYS INDICTED UNDER REBATE LAW
CARSON CITY (Nev.), February 18 - Indictments
have been returned in the United Stated District Court here against the Western
Pacific and Southern Pacific Companies, charging violation of the laws
prohibiting rebates.
The Western Pacific is charged with rebating
to the Simmons Manufacturing Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on shipments of
iron beds and springs to San Francisco by furnishing a warehouse location in
San Francisco.
The Southern Pacific Company is charged with
giving rebates in ten instances to the Depue Elevator
Company, of San Francisco, by assuming warehouse charges of 40 cents a ton on
grain.
Efforts to obtain indictments before the
Federal Grand Jury at San Francisco failed in both cases, it is stated.
RAILROADERS AS DETECTIVES
A.L. SCOTT, Depot Agent and John W. **** ,
claims Agent for the Northern Electric, proved detectives Saturday afternoon
and arrested Earl PROUTT, who is said to be one of three pickpockets who have
been robbing passengers at the Northern Electric depot for several weeks.
PROUTT is alleged by SCOTT to have placed his hands in the breast pocket of a
Hindu and tried to rob him. PROUTT will be tried to-morrow in the Police Court.
KNIGHTS TO VISIT STOCKTON
Members of the Knights of Columbus will go to
Stockton to-night on a special train over the Central California Traction
Company’s line to pay an official visit to the Stockton ladge.
It is expected that 200 members of the order will make the trip. Ed RYAN is in
charge of the excursion. The special will leave at 6:30 p.m. and the return
will be made starting from Stockton at 1 a.m.
GERMAN ASKS PROTECTION FROM JAPANESE ENEMY
Race hatred is being aroused even in
California by the European war if a letter written in mixed German and English,
which reached Secretary Edwin F. SMITH of the California Senate to-day, may be
taken as an indication of sentiment. The letter was signed by Mackie PLATE of
Los Angeles, and, as near as it was possible to make it out, the missive read
as follows:
Dear Sir, Mr. E.F. SCHMITH - If you, in Honor
of the Senate in the State of California. Please now give me more protection
from the Japanese. German colonies in Ameriken make
revenge on the Japanese: want to drive them from California. That is the
trouble with China, neutral.
Please, German colonies kan not forget the Japs.
German Proclamation Japanese must leave California to (next line not legible) mit a flying bomb:
Thank you for the favor, I am
Respectfully Markie Plate.
ASKS FOR RELEASE
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), February 15 -
Attorney WETMORE made application in the
Superior Court this afternoon for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of The
People against Lionel GAINS, colored chauffeur, charged by 16-year-old
Henrietta BRADLEY, mother of a two-weeks-old babe born out of wedlock, with a
statutory offense.
The application is heard on the ground that
the evidence adduced at the preliminary examination does not warrant the
detention of GAINS.
Judge MAHON has ordered Sheriff McCOY to provide GAINS in Court
Wednesday morning. February 17th, at 10 o’clock at
which hour the application for the writ will be heard by him.
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Sacramento Bee
Tuesday February 16, 1915
FIVE BLOCKS WILL BE ASPHALTED; WORK TO BE
DONE BY CHICO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 14 -
Enough property owners in the business
district have signed up to assure that Redding will have at least five blocks
of asphalted streets.
Anton JAEGEL, who owns 209 feet of Market
street frontage, signed up last week. Thee streets to
be asphalted are Yuba, from the depot to Market, and Market from Placer to
Tehama, the Temple Hotel corner.
The improvement will cost $20,000. The Chico
Construction Company, which has just about completed the Reid Ferry Bridge,
will do the work.
NEW NAPA GRAND JURY
NAPA (Napa Co.), February 16 -
A new Grand Jury was drawn by judge GESFORD
in the Superior Court yesterday afternoon consisting of the following well-known
citizens:
W.D. FRENCH, F.A. GOLDS, W.H. WELLS, J.L.
BROWN, M.L. SCRIBNER, George CHAPMAN, A.J. LAURENT, A.E. BURGE, John DEVLIN,
Fred LUBBEN, C.L. TEALE, J. MORGAN, William ELLIS, L.D. WOLFS, J.E. CHRISTIAN,
A.I. VOORHEES, A.H. SHEPARD, C.H. SMITH AND F.L. HUNT.
F.L. HUNT was appointed Foreman by Judge
GESFORD.
SHASTA JURY MEETS
REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 16 -
The Grand Jury is in special session to-day.
Its principal business being to hear from the county officers who think their
salaries ought to be raised.
The Grand Jury is expected to make some
recommendation to assemblyman McCRAY as he has said
that he will not urge any increase unless they are recommended by the Grand
Jury.
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
A.C. BINGHAM, Marysville banker and his step-son,
Billie BYRNE, have gone to San Francisco to attend the opening of the
Exposition.
E.E. BRYAN, Marysville lumber dealer, and
MRS. BRYAN, are in San Francisco to attend the
Exposition opening.
GODWIN SWIFT, a Stockton
attorney, is in Marysville to settle up the estate of his father, the late Dr.
S.B. SWIFT.
FRANK VANCE, of Portland, Ore., is in
Marysville, his former home, attending the obsequies of his mother-in-law, the
late Mrs. Sue A YOUNG, who died in Oregon.
MR. AND MRS. A. SANDROCK (nee EKEHAN), of
Marysville, are home from a honeymoon trip to the Southern part of the State.
MRS. E.B. STANWOOD and infant daughter, of
Marysville, are home from an extended stay at the Bay.
MRS. G.A. MOULTON is in Stirling
City for a few days* visit from Hilt, after which she will move to Portland,
Ore.
$200,000 DISTRIBUTED
WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), February 16 -
Joseph BILLIOU*s estate of $200,000 was
distributed in Superior Court here yesterday to the heirs. They are Mrs. Mary
BILLIOU, the widow; Joseph BILLIOU, Jr., of St. John, and Mrs. J.H. HOEVER and
Mrs. Ed. M. SEHORN of Williams and Richard BILLIOU of Santa Clara County.
SENATE CONFIRMS NEW POSTMASTERS
By Ernest G. WALKER
WASHINGTON (D.C.) February 16 -
The Senate confirmed these Postmasters:
Joseph GALEWSKI, St. Helena; Owen KENNY, Calistoga; Henry W. NASH, Stirling City; John R. SNEAD, Dixon ;W. WARE, Fort Bragg.
SAWMILL STARTS
STIRLING CITY (Butte Co.), February 16 -
The Diamond Match Company*s saw mill in Stirling City began sawing lumber Monday afternoon. The
mill had been closed since last November.
CHRISSINGER - In
Willows, Glenn County, February 14, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. E.P. CHRISSINGER, a
daughter.
CRANDALL - In Marigold, Yuba Co., February 6 ,1915, to Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt CRANDALL, a son.
LEOUHARDT - In
Marigold, Yuba Co., January 23, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. James M. LEOUHARDT, a
daughter.
BIGGERSTAFF - In Hammonton,
Yuba CO., February 7, 1915, to Mr. And Mrs. Eugene BIGGERSTAFF, a
daughter.
SILVA - In Meridian,
Sutter Co., February 12, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. Manuel SILVA, a daughter.
TRUAX - In Yuba
City, Sutter Co., February 15, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. C. TRUAX, a son.
BETTENCOURT - In
Lincoln, Placer Co., February 5, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank BETTENCOURT, a
daughter.
SAUSTABY - At Ventrent, Placer Co., February 5, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs.
A.L. SAUSTABY, a son.
RAFFELLO-STERN - In San Francisco, February
15, 1915, Paul RAFFELLO, 22 and Ellen STERN, 21, both of Benicia.
TROXEL-HULL - In Oroville, Butte County,
February 15, 1915, Guy B. TROXEL, 26, and Vera Mildred HULL, 24, both of Chico.
KURRY-RUDOLPH - In
Oroville, Butte County, February 15, 1915, Henry KURRY, 32, and Nellie Bell
RUDOLPH, 29, both of Chico.
HEARING - In Oroville, Butte County, February
15, 1915, Rose E. HEARING from James L. HEARING; ground wilful
neglect; interlocutory decree.
RUDOLPH - Oroville,
Butte County, February 15, 1915, Nellie Bell RUDOLPH form Christian H. RUDOLPH;
ground, cruelty; final decree.
VEAZIE - In
Marysville, Yuba Co., February 15, 1915, Harry PARKER VEAZIE, brother of George
T. VEAZIE of Marysville and Mrs. Grace Du JARDIN of Alameda, a native of California,
aged 40 years.
HANSEN - In Round
Mountain, Shasta County, February 14, 1915, Mrs. Annie HANSEN, mother of Alex
HANSEN and Mrs. Ida SPEER, native of Sweden, aged 73 years.
DUNSMUIR MAN NAMED
Eugene Kruger and
Charles F. Cooke, of Siskiyou County, Petitioners in Bankruptcy.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), February 16 -
To-day the creditors of Eugene KRUGER,
restaurant keeper at Dunsmuir who is a petitioner in Referee BELCHER*s Court of
Bankruptcy, named Chester A. LIPP, of Dunsmuir, Trustee of the property.
In the case of Charles F. COOKE, also of
Dunsmuir and petitioner in bankruptcy, Referee BELCHER approved the sale of the
plaintiff*s stock of groceries. T.W. WITHOFT was appointed trustee.
STRIKING SIMILARITY OF BANKERS* NAMES IN
SHASTA
REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 16 -
A strange similarity of names is connected
with Shasta County Banks. It was noted when the First Savings Bank of Shasta
County bought out the Anderson Bank of Anderson, this county, that Alden
ANDERSON, President of the Redding National Bank was instrumental in swinging
the deal. The cashier of the Anderson branch of the Shasta Savings Bank is J.W.
ANDERSON, who is no relative to Alden ANDERSON.
Some time ago E.L. BAILEY, Cashier of the
Bank of Northern California ended his life by shooting. A few days later
another E.L. BAILEY, no relation to the suicide, appeared in Redding and took
up the duties of Cashier in the reorganized Redding National Bank.
FORMER MARYSVILLE MAN REPORTED ILL
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), February 16 -
According to word which has been received
here, Colonel Jesse B. FULLER, former Wells-Fargo agent here, and at one time
member of the City Council, is seriously ill at San Francisco.
After leaving this city FULLER for some time
was State Bank Examiner at San Francisco and later was appointed Government
Pension Agent, which position he held until the office was abolished.
ROAD FILES ANSWERS
Sacramento Valley Electric Denies All Charges
of Fraud and Misrepresentation
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), February 16 -
The Sacramento Valley Electric Railway, in
answers and cross-complaints filed here, has made general and specific denials
of the charges of misrepresentation and fraud made against the road by John
COMONTOFSKI, John J. VAN BUREN, Adelbert SCHAPP and
Herman HACKMAN.
The cross-complaints state that each of the
plaintiffs endorsed notes in favor of the company which have not been paid. The
railroad asks for judgements and costs.
GRIDLEY WINS CASE
Contractor Loses Suit to Recover Check for
$400 After Throwing Up Contract
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), February 16 -
Judge GREGORY has decided the case of F.F.
MOORE vs. the city of GRIDLEY in favor of the defendant municipality.
The action was brought by MOORE, a
contractor, to recover $400, the amount of a certified check which accompanied
a bid on a sewer contract.
Later MOORE threw up the contract and then
brought suit to recover the check. Judge GREGORY assessed the defendant*s costs
against the contractor.
MISSING SOLONS BACK
Nine Senators Who Fled to Prevent Action on
Divorce Bill Ready for Fight
BILL RULINGS VOID
CARSON CITY (Nev.), February 16 -
On convening to-day, the Nevada Senate
declared the legislative day of yesterday ended, and Lieutenant Governor
SULLIVAN declared all rulings on the Divorce Bill null and void. The regular
order of business followed.
CARSON CITY (Nev.), February 16.
After the State Senate adjourned at 1:16 this
morning, until 1 o*clock this afternoon, eight of the nine Senators who fled
from the chamber late yesterday afternoon to prevent the indefinite
postponement of action on the divorce bill, showed up at the Hotel Arlington,
in this city. The ninth, Senator THATCHER, turned up in Reno at midnight.
PASSAGE OF BILL PREDICTED
Senator BALZAR, Chairman of the Committee on
Railroads who took the divorce measure with him when he disappeared, returned whth the bill in his posession
and predicted its passage, the twelfth vote having been obtained.
The retreat of Senators ARNOLD, HUSKEY,
HUSSMAN, THATCHER, FULMER, CARPENTER, KENDALL, KEDDIE and KINNEY followed the
recall of the bill from the Railroad Committee by a vote of 11 to 9. With two
of the Senators favoring the bill absent, an attempt was made to adjourn, but
this move failed. The nine, thereupon, withdrew, when indefinite postponement
was mentioned.
The Sergeant-at-arms was instructed to arrest
the missing members.
BILL INTRODUCED TO OUT WASHOE COUNTY
CARSON CITY (Nev.), February 16 -
Assemblyman MURDOCK, of Northern Washoe County,
has introduced a bill in the Assembly to cut Washoe County in two, carving Roop County out of the northern portion by running a line
between Townships 26 and 27.
The bill would place the new county in the
Sixth Judicial District with headquarters at Winnemucca.
NEVADA EDUCATOR DIES AS RESULT OF STROKE
RENO (Nev.), February 16 -
E.F. WINFREY, District Deputy Superintendent
of Schools, died to-day as the result of a stroke of apoplexy last Sunday
morning.
He has resided in Nevada since he was a youth
and was 62 years of age. He was formerly City Superintendent of Schools in
Reno, Sparks and Winnemucca, and at the last primary election made a strong
race against State Superintendent John EDWARDS BRAY for the Democratic
nomination.
POSTMASTER ADMITS $300 EMBEZZLEMENT
RENO (Nev.), February 16 -
Fred HAYES, Postmaster at National, who
reported the robbery of his office ten days ago, has been arrested by inspector
MEANS for the embezzlement of $165 of Government funds. HAYES admitted the
charge in the Court of Justice HATCH of National. Private funds included make
the total missing $300.
Submitted
by Betty
Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Union
Wednesday,
July 7, 1915
Officers Unable to Find Highwaymen
Mining Superintendent’s
Change of Mind Saves Company Nearly $10,000
NEVADA
City (Nevada Co.), July 6 - The highwaymen who held up Superintendent W.R.
PEARSON and W.L. CARTER on their way form the Plumbago to this city have made their getaway and it seems
now that they will never be caught. The dogs put on the trail by Game Warden
R.C .O’CONNOR followed the trail of the men about eight miles and into Sierra
county, where they gave up the scent. Another report had it that the dogs
followed the scent to the cabin of a prospector in the hills, who was suspioned of a holdup, but the officers do not confirm the
story.
Superintendent PEARSON of the Plumbago had intended to bring out the bar of bullion with
him, but changed his mind at the last minute. His change of mind saved the
company between $8000 and $10,000.
Joyriders
Remove Street Auto Signs
CHICO
(Butte Co.), July 6 - Hilarious joy riders last night removed two of the new
street intersection warnings recently placed on the streets by the city and
arrests may follow if they are not returned, according to the police. The
owners of the car are known to the officers.
One of the warnings was removed from Second
and Broadway, chain and all. Another was taken from Fifth and Main streets,
either by cutting the chain with wire cutters or else by striking it with an
automobile. According to Desk Sergeant FISHER a machine struck the wooden ball
squarely, breaking the chain. City Superintendent of Streets HUPP says it was
cut loose.
Amador Man to Be Corning Principal
Parents
Sign Petition Asking Trustees to Appoint Kindergarten Teacher
CORNING
(Tehama Co.), July 6 - The Corning grammar school trustees have engaged Joseph
WHYLIE as principal of the grammar schools here for the ensuing year. Whylie comes from Jackson, Amador county,
and is a man of many years’ experience. The other teachers have all been
reappointed with the exception of Miss Lucia BLISS, who taught music, as music
will not be taught this year.
It is possible, however, that a kindergarten
teacher will be employed this year, as the number of signatures necessary have
been made by parents, and, according to the law, this is sufficient and
obligatory upon the trustees.
Well-Known Miner Charged With Murder
WINNEMUCCA
(Nev.), July 6 - “Rawhide Jack” DAVIS, one of the best known prospectors and
mining men in Nevada, is being held for the murder of W.H. FORKUER, a well
known resident of this city, who was shot while feeding his rabbits. Grant
TAYLOR, a chauffeur, found the body late yesterday afternoon near the rabbit
pens on the ranch half a mile from Winnemucca.
FORQUER had been having trouble with several
persons in this section. His assailant hid himself behind a pile of ties in Forquer’s barn. The slain man evidently tried to shield
himself with his arm, as the bullet which entered his breast went through the
arm. Two bullet holes found in the floor near the body indicate Forquer was shot through the head after he fell.
GALLAGHER GETS NEW TRIAL
NEVADA
CITY (Nevada Co.), July 6 - Judge JONES granted a new trial to-day to Joseph
GALLAGHER, who was convicted by a jury last week of a serious charge. The time
for the new trial was set for Tuesday, July 27. Some ugly rumors were afloat
regarding what happened during the trial, and it developed that these things
were true. Judge Jones decided that a new trial was due the defendant and so
decided. Gallagher was convicted of an assault upon Dan MERRIFIELD, a saloon
man of Grass Valley.
RECOVER YOUNG MAN’S BODY
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), July 6 - The body of young Leonard BODY was found this
afternoon in a deep pool of water at the bottom of Deer Creek Falls, where it
had lain since Sunday. It was raised by blasting, several sticks of dynamite
having been thrown into the water before it came to the surface. The search has
been continuous since it was known that the young man was missing.
Woman, Born Blind, Sees Mother’s
Face
Both
Break Into Tears When Bandages Are Lifted From
Pasadena Girl’s Eyes
PASADENA,
July 6 - Miss Tomsyna CARLYLE saw her mother, Mrs.
E.R. Carlyle, today for the first time in her life. The young woman, who was
born blind, was given vision recently by an operation performed at Berkeley and
arrived here today after a trip down the coast aborad
a steamship.
A closed motor car met the young woman when
she was escorted off the steamer at San Pedro by her mother and members of her
family. Both eyes were bandaged, but the bandages were lifted in the darkened
motor car so that she might glance for an instant at the face of her mother.
Both the girl and her mother broke into sobs.
Vision, it was said, had been given only to
one of Miss Carlyle’s eyes. The other remains sightless.
AUTO ACCIDENT VICTIM IS SHOWING
IMPROVEMENT
Lester WOLCOTT, injured Sunday in the Stockton
road automobile accident in which his bride was killed, will recover unless
unforeseen setbacks occur. He is suffering from a broken clavicle and a
fractured skull. At the White hospital he is reported doing well. According to
members of the Wolcott party the direct cause of the accident was the collapse
of a wheel while the machine was going over a bad stretch of road.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Bee
Wednesday,
April 5, 1916
PEPPER MAY BE CLEW
Death
of Atlanta Rancher Still Puzzling San Joaquin Officers
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), April 5 - Investigation of the mysterious death of Albert DUREE, the Atlanta farmer, whose body was found Sunday night on the French Camp Road with the skull fractured in several places, has been resumed.
Sheriff RIECK admits the mystery is more
baffling than ever, but expressed some doubt that Duree
had been murdered.
Chili
Pepper Found
The half cup of chili pepper found by the dead
mans side is still one of the most puzzling features
of the case. The cup of pepper may prove a valuable clew.
PLUMAS SERB WOUNDED IN EUROPEAN
BATTLE
QUINCY
(Plumas Co.), April 5 - Bringing the first definite news of the party of Slavs
who left here more than a year ago for the European battlefields, Mike JASICH
has arrived home with thrilling stories of his experiences while serving in the
Serb army as an interpreter.
Only one member of he
Plumas County contingent was seriously injured. Nick NORO, formerly employed in
the Tewis mill, near Quincy, was struck by fragments
of shell in four places while with the Serb army on the famous retreat into
Montenegro. He was carried by comrades on the march and is now convalescent in
a New York hospital.
The local Serbs were taken aboard a British
war vessel in the Adriatic sea and later landed in
England. There they were paid off and given transportation to the United
States.
JAMES MAILER CHOSEN MAYOR OF SANTA
ROSA
SANTA
ROSA (Sonoma Co), April 5 - As a result of an election held here yesterday,
Santa Rosa will have a salaried Mayor at the head of its municipal government.
James C. MAILER was elected Mayor,
and an amendment to the charter was carried providing him with a salary.
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
J.F. MOREHEAD, rancher and bank president of
Chico, accompanied by Mrs. MOREHEAD, left Chico this morning for Jackson,
Miss., where they will visit with the latter’s parents.
Jean Redmond OLIVER, son of Dr. and Mrs. C.A.
Oliver of Chico, has been promoted from the post of instructor of pathology at
Stanford University to the position of assistant clinical professor of medicine
at the Stanford Medical College in San Francisco.
Miss Eleanor BEVAN, daughter of County Assessor
T.E. BEVAN of Yuba County, has returned to her home in Marysville after
spending four years as a nurse in St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco, where
she graduated.
Mrs. M.A. BROWN of Marysville left to-day for
Loveland, Colorado, on account of the death of her brother, John H. SADORUS.
Mrs. Gertrude BONNELLE of Placerville has
been chosen to represent the Placerville Shakespeare Club at the State
Convention of Women’s Clubs, to be held at the Hotel Del Monte April 25th.
CHICO
(Butte Co.), April 5 - Evidence surrounding the death of W.M. Skelley, who died in the City Jail from a fractured skull,
is being gathered by Special Assistant District Attorney Warren NEVILLE and
Constable J.A. PECK.
The case probably will be presented to the
Grand Jury for consideration. Jack DUNN, brother-in-law of Skelley,
knocked him to the pavement on the day before he died.
It is believed by the District Attorney’s
office that a fall from his bed to the floor of the cell in the jail would not
be sufficient to make a fracture several inches long on Skelley’s
skull. There is evidence that Skelley fell from his
cot in the jail.
Tells About Fight
Otto HARTWELL, who witnessed the street fight
between Dunn and Skelley, told Constable Peck, he
says that Dunn had struck Skelley without
provocation. In the fall to the pavement Skelley’s
head struck heavily, the sound being heard across the street. Dunn is being
held in the city jail.
Stockton Youth Tells Official He Ran
Down Italian Laborer With Auto
STOCKTON
(San Joaquin Co.), April 5 - In the confession of Melbourne MALLET, son of Dr.
Albert Mallet of this city, that he had run down and killed an Italian laborer,
on the Lower Sacramento Road on March 3d a baffling mystery has ben solved.
Young Mallet told Assistant District Attorney
RANDON that he was out with a party of friends when the laborer, whose name was
J. CRETO, suddenly stepped form the side of the road
directly in front of the automobile.
Mallet declared he applied his brakes, but
was unable to stop the car until after the pedestrian had been struck. He
stated that he hurried to a nearby saloon and reported the accident to the
bartender.
“We were all excited,” said Mallet, “and the
bartender told us to beat it.”
Nevada State News
WASHOE
SHERIFF WANTS MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN TO RUN DOWN AUTOISTS
RENO
(Nev.), April 5 - Sheriff C. P. FERREL will ask the County Commissioners to be
given a motorcycle policeman to run down and capture unlicensed autoists.
A large number of auto owners have failed to take
out 1916 licenses.
YREKA
ACCIDENT CAUSES DEATH OF PIONEER RENO WOMAN; HAS LEG BROKEN
RENO
(Nev. ), April 5 - After an illness of several months
brought on by an auto accident Mrs. Elda A. ORR, a resident of Reno for 46
years, is dead at her home on Virginia Street.
Last December Mrs. Orr visited a married
daughter, Mrs. Alameda S. Orr, in Yreka, Cal, for the purpose of spending the
Christmas holidays in California.
While in an auto driven by her grandson, the
machine collided with another and Mrs. Orr was thrown heavily to the ground,
breaking a leg in two places and fracturing her nose.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. John
S. ORR and Mrs. Elda GILCREASE of Reno and Mrs. ORR of Yreka. She was 69 years
old.
SEVEN TROUGHS MINER INJURED BY BLAST
FALLON
(Nev.), April 5 - Barbour LEWIS of the Sheekler
district was badly hurt then he failed to ger far
enough away from a blast at the Seven Troughs Mines and was literally peppered
with rock fragments.
His father-in-law, D.S. BROTHERSON of this
city, was notified, and with Mrs. Lewis has gone to the scene of the accident.
ELKO MAN KICKS RABID COYOTE TO DEATH
ELKO
(Nev.), April 5 - Jack MATTISON, who is working in the Antelope Spring
district, claims distinction of being the only man known to have kicked a rabid
coyote to death.
Mattison and a
partner were resting when the animal crept up to within ten feet of the former.
The partner sought safety in flight, but Mattison
decided to fight.
He first dazed the coyote with a small stone
and then kicked it to death.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Bee
Friday,
April 7, 1916
WOODLAND WOMAN ATTACKS BABY THEORIES
Dr.
Leila Beebe Declares Time-Honored Notions All Bosh; Grass Valley Orphans
Banqueted
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April 7 - One hundred and fifty convent children were
provided with a banquet to-day by the California manufacturers, who are
exhibiting pure food products here in connection with the Banner Baby campaign.
Decrys
“Old Lady” Advice
Dr. Leila BEEBE of Woodland yesterday’s
principal speaker, ruthlessly attacked several
time-honored and long cherished theories concerning babies.
Dr. Beebe stated that babies do not become ill
from teething, but the permitting of children to eat unsuitable and
miscellaneous foods at that period was the cause of so-called teething
troubles.
Allowing the “old lady” of the neighborhood
to prescribe and advise instead of a competent physician is responsible for
many infantile troubles, declared the speaker.
NOW BELIEVES DUREE MURDERED AND
ROBBED
San
Joaquin Sheriff Working on New Theory; Stranger on Train, Conductor Says.
STOCKTON
(San Joaquin Co.), April 7 - That Alfred DUREE, the Atlanta farmer, who was
found dead on the French Camp road with his skull fractured
was murdered by a mysterious companion, is the theory on which the sheriff is
now working.
The conductor on the Tidewater train, who had
Duree for a passenger, told the Sheriff that a man
got off the train with Duree. The man had a ticket
for a point beyond Atlanta.
Duree had a
considerable sum of money which was missing from his body, as was also his
watch.
INDICTMENT TO BE SPECIFIED NEXT
TUESDAY
District
Attorney Silent on Question of Second Trial of Rev. Slaughter
OROVILLE
(Butte Co.), April 7 - District Attorney Raymond L. LEONARD to-day stated he
would not announce the indictment upon which the second trial of Rec. Madison
SLAUGHTER, charged with wronging Gertrude LAMSON, would be based until next
Tuesday morning, when the matter comes up in the Superior Court.
The prosecution has not as yet decided which
indictment will be presented.
The District Attorney knows nothing of the
reports of a Grand Jury investigation of various matters developing in
connection with the case since the discharge of the jury in the first trial.
VETERAN TO RETIRE
Charles
Henry Weatherwax, Nine Years City Clerk of
Placerville, Seeks Rest
PLACERVILLE
(El Dorado Co.), April 7 - Charles Henry WEATHERWAX, for nine years City Clerk
of Placerville, but who because of failing health, declines to be a candidate
for re-election, was born in Homer, Calhoun County, Michigan, July 30, 1940,
and came to Placerville, El Dorado County, in the fifties.
He served as commissary in one of the
California regiments during the Civil War, and until lately was Adjutant of
Placerville Post No. 1692, G.A.R. He was Postmaster in Placerville during the
administration of President Benjamin HARRISON.
For many years Weatherwax
was a hardware merchant in this city. Since early days he has been actively
identified with several secret societies, having been installed 145 times in
different offices in the various Masonic lodges.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Bee
Wednesday,
April 19, 1916
DECLARE NEW PEAK ON LASSEN IN
ERUPTION
WILLOWS
(Glenn Co.), April 19 - What apepared (sic) to be a
double eruption on Mt. Lassen was viewed at 11 o’clock to-day by dozens of
people here. It appeared that a new crater had formed on the smaller peak on
the mountain for the first time, and that both peaks were in eruption, the
column of smoke and steam being evidently seven or eight thousand feet high.
The two columns were entirely separate at the
base, just as two pencils might be placed vertically side by side, but at the
top the smoke from both merged among the clouds.
Dr. C.W. LUND was the first to notice the
supposed eruption. He used a pair of powerful field glasses.
STOCKTON MURDER CASE GOES TO JURY
TO-DAY
Mrs.
Chambers Cries as She Protests Innocence; First Read of Crime in The Bee
STOCKTON
(San Joaquin Co.), April 19 - Arguments are in progress to-day at the trial of
Charles HOLMAN, accused of the murder of W.C. CHAMBERS. The case probably will
go to the jury to-day.
Casting about for a motive for the killing of
Chambers by the defendant, the District Attorney alluded to Ray MILLER’s
evidence that Mrs. Chambers threatened to bring a white slave charge against
her husband, if he did not leave the country, and was willing to give $250 to
$500 to be rid of him, and to the fact that she and Holman were in love with
each other and contemplated marriage.
Woman In
Tears
Mrs.
Chambers broke down on the witness stand at the close of the trial and with
tears streaming down her face emphatically denied she had murdered, or
conspired with Holman to murder, her husband., W.C. Chambers.
She admitted authorship of a note found on
the murdered man’s body, in which she suggested a midnight meeting at a lonely
corner in the outskirts of the city, but denied she had anything to do with her
husband’s death, or even know of it until she read about it in a newspaper.
Saw It In
The Bee
“I saw in the Sacramento Bee an account of my
husband’s body being found, and in the paper I saw a note which I recognized. I
was on my way from Marysville and I saw the paper on the train some time after
we left Sacramento. I went on the electric line.”
The copy of the Sacramento Bee, in which the
woman claims she first read of the finding of her husband’s body, was
introduced in evidence and read to the jury.
BUTTE MAN BUYS
E.P.
Hilborn of Wyandotte Purchases Von Balveren’s Shasta Ranch
REDDING
(Shasta Co.), April 19 - Baron Von BALVEREN’s farm of 635 acres east of the
Sacramento River, two miles form Redding, has been
sold to E.P. HILBORN, olive grower of Butte County, living at Wyandotte.
The price is not made public, but the place
has always been held at $27,500. Three hundred and fifty acres of it consists
of fine river bottom land.
Baron Von Balveren
recently went to Holland, where he a few months ago inherited a fortune.
Baroness Von Balveren, who stayed behind to sell the
farm, will now join her husband in the old country.
SHERIFF GETS CLUE
Nevada
County Officers Trying to Apprehend Gold Dust Robbers
NEVADA
CITY (Nevada Co.), April 19 - Sheriff John R. MARTIN and his deputies are busy
in an endeavor to trace the footpads who robbed Hee
KEE, a local Chinese gold dust buyer, of more than $1,500 in gold dust and
jewelry Monday night.
Kee declares one of
the men who robbed him bears a strong resemblance to a man from whom he bought
gold dust earlier the same evening. The officers are working on this clue.
The Chinese was able to furnish a good
description of this man and the officers are on the lookout for him.
Ben A. BOST, an assayer on Broad Street,
reports that his place was broken into last Friday night, but the intruders got
nothing for their trouble as there were no valuables in the place at the time.
$14,200 PRICE FOR CARMICHAEL SYSTEM
SAN
FRANCISCO, April 19 - The Railroad Commission has issued an order fixing $14,200
as the compensation to be paid by the Carmichael Irrigation District to D.W.
CARMICHAEL for the water distributing systems in Carmichael Colony No. 2 in
Sacramento County.
The original cost of the system a year ago
was $15,000.
FREITAS WILL CASE HOTLY FOUGHT IN TEHAMA
Expert
Says Document Is Forgery; Illegitimacy Is Issue in Fight for $8,000
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.) April 19 - The suit contesting the alleged will of Eli FREITAS, who
left an estate of $8,000, is under way in the Superior Court here.
Frank PERRY asked for and was issued letters
of administration. A few weeks later he produced a document consisting of an
ordinary sheet of writing paper, as the purported last will. The will was
supposed to have been written by Freitas. The
signature was not witnessed. Perry claimed to have found it among other papers.
All to Perry and Sister
As administrator of the estate Perry had made
plans to divide the property among the heirs. The will bequeathed all the
property to Perry and his sister, Mrs. Mary MENDOSA. Perry then asked to have
the administrator proceedings set aside and offered the will to probate.
The other heirs immediately questioned the
validity of the will, even declaring it a forgery.
Calls Will Forgery
All of yesterday was spent presenting the
contestant’s bids of the case. A few witnesses were called to establish
relationships, but the principal part of the contestant’s case was based on the
testimony of Theodore KYTKA, San Francisco hand-writing expert. He declared the
will a forgery and the work of Mrs. Mendosa.
Illegitimacy Issue
In establishing relationships of the
contestants of the deceased, the counsel for Perry and Mrs. Mendosa
attempted to show that one of the contestants, a niece of the deceased, was an
illegitimate child and that her mother had died without ever marrying her
father. When the counsel for the defense made clear that they wished to bring
out that point, the counsel for the contestants stated that if that were to be
an issue they would prove that grandparents of Perry and Mrs. Mary Mendosa were illegitimate children, and that as far as
legal status was concerned they were “all in the same boat.”
It is rumored that the counsel for the
defense will introduce another handwriting expert in their side of the case who
will declare the will to be the work of Freitas.
YUBA CITY RANCH BRINGS $16,930 AT
SALE
MARYSVILLE
(Yuba Co.), April 19 - The 480 acre ranch in Linda Township, known as the
COSTELLO place, has been sold at Sheriff’s sale to satisfy a decree in a foreclosure
of mortgage suit brought by the Rideout bank against
the Equitable Building Syndicate and C.W. BURGESS.
The property was bid in by the Rideout Band for the amount of the mortgage and the
penalties, $16,930.70.
PIONEER PASSES AT EIGHTY-TWO YEARS
YUBA
CITY (Sutter Co.), April 19 - William B. GREEN, a pioneer carpenter of Yuba
City, died early this morning as the result of general breakdown due to old
age.
He was 82 years old, and a native of New
York. Surviving him are his widow, Phirza J. GREEN,
and five children, Mrs. N. ROBINSON, Mrs. Becky PELHAN and Annie GREEN, all of
Yuba City, and Mrs. Albert WOLTHERS and Mrs. Phirza McRAE of San Francisco.
DIES IN CABIN
YUBA
CITY (Sutter Co.), April 19 - Martin KANE, a laborer, died in his cabin on the
N. ROBINSON place during the night. He was a native of Ireland and 72 years of
age. He had no known relatives in this State.
D.M. BOONE PASSES
JACKSON
(Amador Co.), April 19 - Daniel M. BOONE, known as “Doctor,” died here from
heart failure last night at the age of 61 years. He was a native of this State,
and a brother of Joe BOONE, the Mountain View rancher. He also leaves a sister,
Mrs. Sally DOUGHERTY of Jackson.
WIDOW OF JUSTICE DIES
JACKSON
(Amador Co.), April 19 - Mrs. Mary MEEHAN, widow of the late Justice of the
Peace Meehan, died of heart failure while sitting in a chair writing postcards
to friends in the East. She was 75 years of age, and came to Jackson in 1847.
NORTH STAR MINE PRODUCES MILLION
Annual
Report Shows Dividends of $250,000 Were Paid During Last Year; Improvements
Completed.
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April 19 - The annual report of the North Star Mines
Company, just made public, give the year’s revenue at $1,294,084 from gold
produced. Dividends totaled $250,000. The results to date are 1,358,394 tons,
averaging $12.84 per ton and giving a total revenue of
$17,450,527 of which $4,787,040 has been paid in dividends.
Regarding developments at the Champion Mine
in Nevada City, owned by the North Star Company, the report states that
although 5,529 feet of work was completed in the Champion, no shoot of
importance was discovered above the 2,400 level. The result was disappointing. The Champion, during the year, yielded $205,324 rom
38,350 tons.
Improvements costing $100,412, including the
construction of the structural steel head-frame hoist, bins and assorting plant, and a threatened suit with the Empire Company over
extra-lateral rights were prominent features of the company’s operations during
the year.
MAN MANGLED IN FALL UNDER TRAIN
Victim,
Believed to Be A.J. McCarroll of San Francisco, Dies
in Auburn From Injuries
AUBURN
(Placer Co.), April 19 - A man, thought to be A.J. McCARROLL,
died to-day in a local hospital a few hours after having been run over and
fatally injured by a train between Colfax and Cape Horn. He was found early
this morning lying by the railroad tracks, it being evident that he had fallen
from the train while beating his way.
Arm Severed From Body
The victim was badly mutilated. The right arm
had been cut off at the shoulder, part of the shoulder also being amputated,
and the left foot was cut off. The head was badly bruised. McCarroll
died soon after reaching the hospital, without regaining consciousness.
Deceased appears to have been an office man.
He was of good appearance, about 20 years of age. He carried a letter addressed
to himself at 1034 Polk Street, San Francisco, from a girl signing herself
“Grace”, written in Denver, Colo. The writer told of attending the Grand Opera
in Denver, but shed no light on McCarroll’s identity.
He also carried a bill from the Postal
Telegraph Company, no town being given. The amount was 51 cents, and the
message was for Mrs. McCarroll, in San Francisco,
evidently his mother. His own address at the time was not given.
TO REGULATE DANCING
District
Attorney Preparing Ordinance at Suggestion of Club Women
OROVILLE
(Butte Co.), April 19 - At the suggestion of the Women of the Monday Club of this
city, District Attorney Raymond LEONARD will shortly submit to the Oroville
City Trustees an ordinance for the regulation of public dances.
If adopted it will compel every public dance
to pay the salary of a matron, who will be appointed by the City Marshall and
whose duty it will be to stop indecent dancing.
It is declared that the ordinance will not
place any particular dance under ban. The ordinance may be submitted to Chico
Trustees.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Bee
Saturday,
April 22, 1916
BREAKS LEG IN CRASH
YREKA
(Siskiyou Co.), April 22 - Everett HOWARD, son of Ed S. HOWARD, local hotel
man, sustained a broken leg last night when a motorcycle on which he was riding
crashed into an automobile drive by District Attorney James M. ALLEN.
The motorcycle was driven by L. COUSINE and
was traveling at a rapid rate.
PORTERVILLE DOES NOT WANT TO HEAR OF
CASE
PORTERVILLE,
April, 22 - The Rev. James BERRY, formerly a bartender
of Porterville and now a traveling evangelist, will not be permitted to deliver
a lecture here Saturday on the Rev. Madison SLAUGHTER case if any legal way can
be found to stop his meeting.
This announcement was made last night by city
officials after dodgers had been distributed advertising that the Rev. Mr.
Berry would lecture at a local theater on “The Truth About
the Slaughter Case.”
Fought With Pastor
While Slaughter was pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Porterville and engaged in an active campaign against the saloons,
Berry was tending bar for a local liquor dispensary. One of the sensational
features of the campaign was a street fight between Berry and Slaughter.
YOLO W.C.T.U. WILL MEET AT WINTERS
WOODLAND
(Yolo Co.), April 22 - The thirtieth annual convention of the Yolo County
W.C.T.U. will be held in Winters next Thursday. Mrs.
Sara J. DORR, State President of the Association, will be present.
Delegates from Woodland will be Mrs. E.C.
LAUGENOUR, Mrs. E. CROWLEY and Mrs. C.H. WATSON. Alternates are Mrs. Lottie
SMITH, Mrs. S.E. GALLUP and Mrs. P.H. SHAFFER.
Addresses will be made by Mrs. L. SACKETT,
Mrs. Asa MORRIS, Mrs. Mary SANBORN, Mrs. COPPAGE,
Rev. H.C. CULTON, Mrs. Anna Marden De To, Mrs. Emma
CROMLEY, Mrs. S.A. HUSTON, State President Mrs. Sara J. DORR, Dr. Frances L.
NEWTON and Mrs. HAYES.
NEW RURAL ROUTE FOR SHASTA COUNTY
ANDERSON
(Shasta Co.), April 22 - Commencing June 16th a rural route from
Anderson to Balls Ferry will be established by doubling the run of the
Redding-Anderson routes carrier.
The new route of fifty-four miles will be
virtually a Redding-Anderson-Balls Ferry route. Thomas MULLEN, carrier, will
have his salary advanced from $1,200 to $1,608.
TWO HELD ON CHARGES OF BLINDPIGGING
RED
BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 22 - Tom ROBINSON and Guy DILLABOO were bound over to
the Superior Court by Justice E.F. LENNON after a preliminary hearing on a
charge of blind pigging. They were arrested in a recent raid. Each furnished
$500 bonds.
FREITAS DEPOSITIONS COME FROM
PORTUGAL
RED
BLUFF (Tehama Co.), April 22 - Depositions have arrived from Portugal in the
Eli Freitas will contest. The trial of the suit may
be continued next week instead of being postponed in May. The depositions
consisted of birth records to show the contestants were legitimate heirs and
throw doubt on the legitimacy of Frank PERRY and Maria MENDOSA, named as sole
heirs in the alleged will.
SECRETARY MADDOX TO CRUISE IN AUTO
WOODLAND
(Yolo Co.), April 22 - Secretary H.S. MADDOX, of the Yolo Board of Trade, is
finding his duties so arduous that he has placed an order for an auto, which
will enable him to cover the county in his development work.
SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA BREVITIES
AUBURN
- D.D. DAVIS, aged 72, Civil War veteran and hero of many battles, has written
President WILSON, endorsing the actions of the administration in affairs
dealing with Mexico and Germany and offering his services at the front in case
volunteers are needed to fight for the Stars and Stripes.
SUSANVILLE
- The manufacturing plant and storage building being
built by R.E. SHAW for W.H. WHORTON, Manager of the Susanville Bottling Works,
is being rushed.
MARYSVILLE
- Herman B. CRAWFORD, wanted at Nevada City for defrauding an innkeeper, has
been arrested in Marysville by Patrolman James MOCK.
SUSANVILLE
- The New Lassen County Court House is being rushed. The concrete work is being
laid and stone cutting is under way.
WOODLAND
- A strange feature is the deaths of R.H. BEAMER and
A.H. BRINTON, well-known men, within a few hours of each other, is that the
former’s name was the first and the latter’s name the second on a list of
twenty-five “minute men” chosen to boost the Court House bonds.
COLUSA
- J.F. CAMPBELL, rancher and prune grower, seriously cut his left forearm while
pruning a tree. The gash required four stitches to close. Darrel,
three-year-old son of F.C. McENESPY, fell from a
wagon and broke both bones below the elbow in his left arm.
LIVE
OAK - Special Agent MADISON of the Home Insurance Company and a companion going
to Chico went into a ditch in an auto on the Todd Lane, three miles south of
Live Oak. The men made flying leaps and escaped being caught under the machine.
OROVILLE
- Following complaints District Attorney Raymond A. LEONARD has issued an order
directing the police officers throughout the county to see that all vehicles,
motor or otherwise, display lights at night time in strict accordance with the
State law.
RED
BLUFF - Wong GEN, a Chinese man, high up in the Hop Sing Tong, is dead here.
Tong members from Marysville, Chico, Vina and Tehama
attended the funeral.
RED
BLUFF - Mrs. J.H. MARQUIS, former resident of Red Bluff, was stricken with
paralysis at Walnut Grove. Her condition is extreme. A daughter, Mrs. W.C.
MONET, has left here for Walnut Grove.
HEN HATCHES CHICKENS IN TREE, 20
FEET ABOVE GROUND
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April 22 - Fred WASLEY, chicken fancier of this city, had
the surprise of his life yesterday. His attention was attracted to a number of
tiny chicks peeping from the branch of a willow tree, twenty feet above the
ground. Investigation showed one of Wasley’s valuable
hens, which disappeared over a month ago and which he had given up as lost had hatched
out sixteen young chicks in the hollow of the tree high above the ground.
RABIES SITUATION IN SHASTA COUNTY TO
BE INVESTIGATED
Before deciding whether an extension of the rabies
quarantine against coyotes to the Fall River district in Shasta County is
justified, the situation will be investigated and reported upon by Sanitory Inspector E.T. ROSE of the State Board of Health,
it was announced here to-day by Secretary SAWYER.
The request for the extension of the
quarantine comes form the
Health Officer of Shasta County. It is based upon the fact that the Fall River
district is adjacent to the district in Lassen County where there has been a quarantine in effect for some time. The extension would
afford means for better control, it is declared.
Many people in Shasta County are in favor of
the action asked by the Health Officer, it is reported.
ARGUMENTS CONCLUDED IN MAGRI CASE
REDDING
(Shasta Co.), April 22 - Arguments in the case of A. Magri,
charged with killing Peter DELLA at Motion, this county, were concluded at noon
to-day. A decision will be reached this afternoon as to whether the case will
be submitted this afternoon or continued over to Monday.
MANY CHILDREN FOUND PHYSICALLY
DEFECTIVE
COLFAX
(Placer Co.), April 22 - Mrs. Bertha THOMPSON, State District School Nurse, has
completed her work here.
Out of 117 school children examined, only 38
were perfect. Fifty-four had defective teeth, 37 had enlarged tonsils, 10 had
defective eye sight, 4 were troubled with their hearing ,and
others were affected with the ringworms and adenoids. Thirteen had adenoids and
enlarged tonsils removed.
$350 FOR ROYAL ROBES
Williams
Celebration to be Featured by Crowning of Queen
COLUSA
(Colusa Co.), April 22 - The Queen of the Williams Highway Completion
Celebration, and her three attendants, will be given $350 to spend on their
royal robes, the committee in charge decided last night.
Mrs. E.A. BRIM, Miss Tena
ABLE and Mrs. Steve EAKLE were appointed a committee to arrange for the
crowning of the Queen with instructions to make the crowning one of the
features of the celebration.
Three Ball Games Planned
The committee also decided to offer cash
prizes of $50 each for the winners of the three ball games, which will be
played during the two days of the celebration. The losing teams will have their
expenses paid. Colusa and Willows will be two of the teams that will play. The
other have not yet been decided upon.
Contract for Barbecue
A contract has been signed with Ed CAGE for
the cooking of the four beeves for the barbecue.
For the purpose of advertising the
celebration, an automobile excursion will visit Willows and several Colusa
County towns to-morrow, accompanied by the William Band and the Girl’s Ukulele
Club.
PRINCETON CANDIDATE AHEAD IN
WILLIAMS QUEEN CARNIVAL VOTE
WILLIAMS
(Colusa Co.), April 22 - After the first count in the contest for Queen of the
Williams celebration May 5th, the vote stands as follows:
Miss Olive COCKERILL of
Princeton, 7,040; Miss Alma MACKFESSEL of Arbuckle, 5,600 and Miss Cordelia STOVALL of Williams, 1,755.
The vote will be counted every Wednesday and
Saturday. The voting places outside of Williams will close on April 28th
and at Williams on Saturday, April 29th, in order that the
committees may be able to announce the winning candidate Saturday night.
CHICO WOMAN SAYS HUSBAND IS BRUTAL;
ASKS FOR DIVORCE
OROVILLE
(Butte Co.), April 22 - Charging her husband with the most
cruel brutality, Mrs. Zaira MAGRI of Chico has
instituted suit for divorce in the Superior Court against James Magri.
The couple were
married in Oroville on December 28, 1911, and have three children.
The complaint states that on April 3, 1916,
the defendant kicked the plaintiff while she lay in bed and that as she
attempted to get up he knocked her down, threatening to kill her.
Magri is employed
by the Northern Electric Company.
ELK, 81, WILL ATTEND BALTIMORE
CONVENTION
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), April 22 - Former Mayor James C. CONAWAY, only surviving
member of Nevada County’s original Forty-niner Society, is as active and
wide-awake to-day as he was twenty years ago. This feat was more forcibly
impressed upon his friends yesterday when he announced he would accompany the
California Elks to Baltimore in July to attend the Grand Lodge.
Conaway is a member of Grass Valley Lodge of
Elks. He was born in Baltimore on the 19th of March, 1835, and is
eagerly anticipating a trip to his boyhood home, which he left in ‘49. Conaway
has just celebrated his 81st birthday.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Union
Saturday
September 9, 1916
Demands
$5000 Amount of Policy Held by Husband Who Died at Walker Lake
RENO
(Nev.), Sept 8 - Wilba Decking WEBER, widow of Frank
Weber, who died on the Walker Lake Indian reservation last November under
mysterious circumstances and following an altercation with Dr. Frank McKINLEY, physician on the reservation, and E.R. BALLOU, an
Indian policeman, started suit in the district court here yesterday to recover
$5000 on an accident insurance policy her husband held in the Occident
Insurance company.
It was charged that McKinley was responsible
for the death of Weber, but the coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he died
from natural causes. Then McKinley was formally charged with murder, and
exonerated after a preliminary examination. The case was then taken before the
Mineral county grand jury, which refused to indict McKinley on a charge of
murder.
Buys Large Acreage for Sheep Range
ELIMRA
(Solano Co.), Sept 6 - Henry PETERS has bought the MUZZI ranch near Elmira for
$120,000, paying at the rate of $20 an acre. This place was under rent by
Messrs. MARSHALL & ELBE, who recently bought all Muzzi’s
sheep at $25,000. Mr. Peters desired this place for sheep range for his
increasing flocks. Messrs. Marhsall & Elbe find
themselves somewhat embarrassed for range, as sheep ranges are very scarce in
this part of the state.
OREGON PIONEER LEAVES A SON IN
HAMMONTON
ASHLAND
(Ore.), Sept 8 - John S. HERRIN, prominent Oregon pioneer and former member of
the state legislature, died here today. He was born near Lexington, Ky., on
November 15, 1827, and came to Oregon in 1853. Mr. Herrin is survived by the
following children: WIlliam F. Herrin, San Francisco;
John W. Herrin, Ashland, Ore.; Mrs. Silas KILGORE, Salem, Ore.; David C.
Herrin, Portland; Edward W. Herrin, Hammonton, Cal.; Mrs. A.C. DIXON, Eugene
Ore.; and Fred Herrin, Ashland, Ore.
EXPECT OPENING OF LARGE ACREAGE
Reclamation
Service May Open 5000 Acres in Klamath to Entry
KLAMATH FALLS (Ore.), Sept 8 - Hint of a great land
opening in Klamath county sometime during the coming year is evidenced by
notification to residents in the territory now leasing from the government that
their leases may be canceled between now and next spring.
The land mentioned constitutes the old bed of
Tule lake, which is now being reclaimed and irrigated
by the United States reclamation service at the rate of 2500 acres per year.
Approximately 5000 acres are now available and when this land is thrown open to
entry it will be one of the greatest opportunities for settlers ever offered in
the United States. The land in this section is proving to be the most fertile
in this entire region, lies as level as a floor and will require no clearing.
A very large part of it will have been
cultivated by present tenants, although by terms of the leases any improvements
made may be removed when the land is opened. The territory will be irrigated by
the United States reclamation service at $30 per acre in graduated payments
covering 20 years, in addition to the maintenance charges. For the first four
years no payment except the maintenance charge is required.
It is believed that when the drawing is made
it will be in tracts of 80 acres, which is all one man can possibly take care
of in a proper manner. This land now lies 30 miles from a railroad, but the
possibility of the early completion of the Modoc Northern railway, whose survey
runs near it, and the probability of the installation of a large beet sugar
factory in that neighborhood next year makes the proposition double inviting.
The lake bed will be drained until approximately 60,000 acres are available.
Charges Wife With
Throwing Hot Coffee
Former
Columbia University Professor Is Granted Decree of Divorce
RENO
(Nev.), Sept 8 - On grounds of cruelty, E.E. MYERS, formerly a member of the
faculty of the Columbia University of New York, was granted a decree of divorce
in the district court here yesterday. Myers charged his wife with throwing a
cup of hot coffee in his face three months after their marriage, which took
place in New York city in June, 1914. He said his wife applied vile epithets to
him, and told him she would ruin his practice and reputation. He said she
assaulted him on Broadway and knocked him to the sidewalk.
Myers’ father is a millionaire resident of
Texas. Shortly after his marriage he sued his wife’s mother for $100,000,
alleging that she had alienated his wife’s affections.
Butte Gives Money to Valley Boost
Body
Supervisors
Appropriate $750 for Year to Development Association.
OROVILLE
(Butte Co.), Sept 8 - The board of supervisors of Butte county
today decided by unanimous vote to renew its allegiance to the Sacramento
Valley Development association, making the annual appropriation to the support
of that body amounting to $750.
The appropriation of this amount to the funds
of the valley development body was urged by a delegation of prominent citizens
representing various parts of the county, the spokesman being Assemblyman B.B.
MEEK, W.W. GINGLES, banker, and Editor George C. MANSFIELD, all of Oroville,
and H.S. BRINK of Biggs.
W.A. BEARD, general manager of the
association, was present, representing that body, and outlined the purposes and
methods of the association.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento
Union
Sunday
September 10, 1916
COMMITS SUICIDE IN HORRIBLE WAY
Mrs.
Grauberger Sets Fire to Oil-Soaked Clothes and Jumps Into Pit.
GIRL FINDS CHARRED BODY
Woman
Believed Temporarily Insane From Care and Worry.
FAIRFIELD
(Solano Co.), Sept 9 - Mrs. Bertha GRAUBERGER committed suicide in a horrible
manner yesterday by pouring kerosene over her clothes setting fire to them and
jumping into a pit.
Her
charred body with the flesh literally cooked was found in the afternoon by one
of her young daughters. She is supposed to have become insane through worry
over the financial condition of herself and four children.
Missing her mother in the afternoon, one of
the young girls went to the barn to see if her parent had taken the horse and buggy
for a trip to Fairfield, about a mile and a half from the Grauberger
home. The child happened to see smoke coming from the old dry well and in
making an investigation as to the cause of the fire saw the body of her mother
in a sitting position with the arms folded at the bottom of the pit.
The girl gave an alarm and when physicians
and the officers arrived they found difficulty in lifting the body out of the
pit as flesh fell from the body.
The woman’s husband became insane after
worrying over financial reverses and it is believed the mother lost her mind
temporarily through care and worry. She had been working in the Fairfield
bakery and seemed in good spirits Thursday when she left for her home. As her
wedding ring was found in the clothes of her husband, it is thought the suicide
was premeditated.
Mrs. Grauberger
leaves five children, two of whom are working in the Union Iron Works in San
Francisco. She and her husband are Russians.
Siskiyou Teachers’ Institute
Adjourns
Educators
Are Tendered Banquet and Ball at Close of Sessions
YREKA
(Siskiyou Co.), Sept 9 - At the close of the teachers’ institute yesterday the
instructors were tendered a banquet and dance by the Siskiyou Agricultural
society under the management of R.S. TAYLOR, which proved one of the most
successful affairs ever given in the county, as there was a large attendance,
and the occasion was a most enjoyable one.
The attendance at the institute was the
largest ever known in Siskiyou. There were more faces than ususal.
About 90 per cent of the teachers are women. The program of the institute was
an instructive one, and was closely followed by the teachers.
DEATH FOLLOWS OPERATION
NEVADA
CITY (Nevada Co.), Sept 9 - Mrs. Nellie Brown of this city, who died at the
Grass Valley sanitarium following an operation, will be buried in this city.
Her death was a sad one. She was 34 years of age. She was born in Weaverville
and leaves five brothers and two sisters at that place. One brother, Henry Vitzthum, resides in this city. She has lived here with her
husband, Jerry Brown, for many years.
GRASS VALLEY RATE IS 90 CENTS
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), Sept 9 - The city tax rate has been fixed at 90 cents on
the $100 assessed valuation by the city trustees. This is the same rate as last
year. The assessment roll has been increased so that the same rate will bring
in a larger sum of money. The city liquor licenses were rated at $40 a quarter
as at present.
MAY SUE SHERIFF OF BUTTE FOR $10,000
Chinese
Will Ask Damages for Alleged False Imprisonment
MARYSVILLE
(Yuba Co.), Sept 9 - Asking $10,000 damages for alleged false imprisonment.
Attorneys MANWELL and MAHON of this city, retained by the Hop Sing tong, will
file a complaint Monday on behalf of Gee LOUIE against Sheriff William RIDDLE
of Butte county in the superior court at Oroville.
Louie was arrested on suspicion of knowing
something of the murder of Ah GOW at Honcut, Butte
county, whose charred body was found in the burned ruins of his store, with a
knife sticking in the neck. Louie, on furnishing an alibi, was released from
custody. Soon after his release, Louie was again taken into custody by Riddle.
The Chinese was lodged in the jails in
Oroville and Gridley, Butte county, Yuba City, Sutter county, and Placerville,
El Dorado county, although attorneys engaged by his Chinese friends tried to
ascertain his whereabouts to obtain his release by a writ of habeas corpus.
Riddle returned the prisoner to Butte county and give
him his freedom.
The sheriff says he discovered evidence
showing Louie knew something about the murder of Ah Gow
and, believing the Hop Sing tong would endeavor to obtain his release and take
him away, kept him in custody and out of the way of writs by placing him in
different jails while running down the clews.
TO CONFER WITH RAILROAD OFFICIAL
Klamath
Committee Will Urge Building of Modoc Northern
KLAMATH
FALLS (Ore.), Sept 9 - To confer with President William SPROULE of the Southern
Pacific company and urge the immediate completion of the Modoc Northern railway
from Klamath Falls, 35 miles southeast of Malin, the
Klamath Commercial club appointed a committee of R.A. JOHNSON, president of the
Klamath Manufacturing company of Klamath Falls, and William DALTON and Frank
ADAMS, prominent stockmen of Malin and Merrill.
It is
expected that the committee will confer with Sproule
at San Francisco within the next few days. Recent intimation by Chief Engineer
HOOD to the effect that he would recommend the construction, should the matter
be referred to him by his superiors, and the fact that T.A. GRAHAM, general
freight and traffic manager of the company, is now here, going over the
district, causes many to believe that naming of the committee will bring good
results.
Set Hearings for Irrigation
Districts
Farmers
of Two Glenn Sections Containing 38,000 Acres Ask Elections.
WILLOWS
(Glenn CO.), Sept 9 - The hearing on the petition of the farmers of the Jacinto
and Princeton-Cordora-Glenn sections for an election
on the organization of two irrigation districts has been set by the supervisors
for October 2, when it is expected the report of the state engineer on the
feasibility of the propositions will be filed with the board.
A copy of the resolution ordering the hearing
was forwarded to State Engineer McCLURE, with whom
Civil Engineer D.W. ROSS, who has taken an active part in solution of water
troubles in the county, conferred today and discussed plans.
The Princeton-Cordora-Glenn
district contains an area of about 18,000 acres, the Jacinto having an area of
more than 20,000. These lands are the best in the Sacramento valley and with
irrigation their value will be greatly increased and they will be capable of
supporting a dense population.
FRAUD ALLEGED IN MAKING LEASE
Plaintiff
Asks $4302 Damages and Expense From the Wealthy Owner
OROVILLE
(Butte Co.,) Sept 9 - Alleging fraud in the making of a lease for 350 acres of
land in Butte and Tehama counties, H. YORI, formerly of Modesto, Stanislaus
county, has filed a complaint in the superior court asking the cancellation of
the lease and the return to him of $4302.25, which includes $1802.25 alleged to
have been paid out for improvements and $2500 claimed as due for a year’s loss
of business.
A peculiar feature of the case is the ranch
in question was recently involved in a suit filed by several Potruguese against W.J. PAVERT to have the deed set aside
on the ground of alleged fraudulent representation. Judgement
was rendered in favor of the Portuguese, and WAHL purchased the farm and made
the lease with Yori.
The complaint sets up 16 alleged counts of
fraud, which allege misrepresentations as to fertility, water conditions, water
rights, machinery and stock. Yori says Wahl took him
to the middle of a 60-acre alfalfa tract, stating to him all of the land was
the same as that in alfalfa. The plaintiff states he entered into a lease of
the land for $3000 a year, and after discovering conditions demanded the lease
be rescinded and he be paid the money he spent, which he says was refused.
Heavy Bond May Kill Jitney Business
Grass
Valley Trustees Pass Ordinance to Favor Local Traction Line
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), Sept 9 - The city trustees sounded the death knell of the
jitney business between this city and Nevada City or other cities at their
meeting last night. A license of $20 per quarter was placed upon every person
operating jitney buses and in addition they must file a bond with the city
clerk in the sum of $10,000, to insure indemnity in the event of an accident.
The business of these jitney operators has not
been heavy and none can stand the license. One automobile has been running
between here and Nevada City and another between here and Auburn and
Sacramento. There is a sentiment in favor of the Nevada County Traction company’s electric line that prompted the ordinance.
Prisk Will
Assist Move for Clear Water
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), Sept 9 - A letter received by Mayor HOSKING from W.F.
PRISK in relation to the turbidity of the city water, owing to cultivation on
the Prisk ranch states that Prisk
and his brother are willing to go the limit to accommodate and please the
people of this city and will grant the Pacific Gas and Electric company all the
rights possible for the purpose of piping the water through their land.
There seems to be no reason now why there
should be any delay on the part of the company to commence laying the pipe, and
the people are waiting to see whether there will be any attempt at quibbling on
the part of the corporation. It is an expensive job, but it must be done, as
the water is very muddy through the rainy season.
Boy Scouts Making Last Hike for Year
NEVADA
CITY (Nevada Co.), Sept 9 - The Boy Scouts of this city took what will probably
be the last “hike” of the season to Banner last night. There were thirty of
them in the party and they were in charge of Scoutmaster D.A BAILEY, who has
accompanied the boys on all their trips. This is the fourth they have taken for
the season. The first was to Lake Vera; then they went to Bowman’s dam, where
they spent a day or two; the third trip was as far north as Sierra City and the
fourth to Banner. They plan to walk to Lake Tahoe next summer and are
enthusiastic at this early stage for the trip. They have an excellent drill
team and are taught many things that will make them good citizens.
Officers Enforcing Traffic Ordinance
GRASS
VALLEY (Nevada Co.), Sept 9 - J.M. WHITE of Chico was charged with a violation
of the traffic ordinance today as he drove through the city and failed to obey
the rule that an automobile must not drive past a street car discharging and
taking on passengers. The warrant has been sent to Chico to serve upon White.
A.A. SCHELL of Auburn, manager of the Schell
Music company, was arrested on a similar charge and must answer to Justice
MULROY. The officers have agreed that the law must be obeyed on account of the
narrow streets and the attending danger and are arresting every violator.
FORMER RESIDENT DIES
WOODLAND
(Yolo Co.), Sept 9 - Word reached here today of the death in Oakland of Mrs.
George C. MALLETT, an old-time Woodland resident. She and her sons, Will and
Levi, and daughter, Carrie CONGRAVE, lived in Woodland for years. She was a
noted temperance worker.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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