The weekly Placer herald., 1854-03-25
NEWS OF THE STATE.

YUBA.-A company has been organized
in Marysviile to build plank road from
that city to Nevada The city of Marys-
vile has agreed to take $3.50, 900 of the
capital stock. From present appearances
this road is likely to be constructed.
The City Council have also determined
to subscribe $800,000 to the Marysville
and Benicia Railroad
The MarysviIe Herald suggests that
the amount of business in fhe District
Court in that place warrants the division
of the District.
Mexican named Charles Guiteras,
native of New Mexico, was shot about
O'Clock, P. NJ. yesterday, with Colts re-
volver, in Mexican Fonda, on First
street, near the corner of Virgin Alley.
The ball passed through the left breast,
killing him almost instantly.
The murderer is known as the Yankee,
and was waiter in the Fonda. coron-
er's inquest was held by Justice Fowler
on the body of the deceased, and the fol-
lowing verdict returned by the jury.
"That the deceased came to his death
by pistol shot wound, inflicted by per-
son known as Yankee, in the city of Ma
rysvlle, on the 9TH of March, 1854, un
der circumstances not justifable by law"
NEvADA.-Mr. Spooner, who was in
jured at Gold Tunnel, Nevada county,
last week, lies in critical situation. Mr..
Draper, who was injured at Mancineta
Hill while in a shaft, some time since, is
recovering.
Judge Fouse of Grass Valley, has found
a lump of gold weighing ten pounds
fgbo -
took out fourteen hundred dollars last
week. The W oodpecker Company OF
nine men, took out $500 for their last
weeks earnings.
On Saturday last lump of quartz was
taken out of the Buena Vista dggings,
which realized $402.
Dixon * Co.'s dggings, about miles
above Little York, have been paying $25
per day to the hand.
On Lowell Hill, the miners are aver
aging from eight to ten dollars per day
At Negro Fiat, Mr.. Montgomery's
claims have been paying from ten to fif-
: teen dollars.
Hurst :, Co.'S diggings at Moore's Flat,
have been paying on an average from one
to two ounces daily to the hand.
The Telegraph states that, next to Mi
ming the heaviest interest of Nevada
county is the Lumber Trade.
The miners at Badger Hill, Nevada
county, held a meeting on the evening of
the 18th inst, and resolved,
That the boundaries of this district
shall be as follows: Beginning at some
point on the dividing ridge between Shady
creek and the Middle Yuba river one mile
west Of Badger Hill, and running north to
said Yuba river, thence east up said river
to point one mile east Of said Badger
Hill, thence south to said dividing ridge,
and thence down said ridge to the begin
ming
That the size of claims in this district
shall be so by so feet-50 feet front eX-
tending back $50 feet.
That all claims in this district in a con-
diton to be worked, shall be regularly
noticed and worked by the performance of
one days labor in every ten. Back claims
or those not in condition to be worked,
may be held by renewal of their notices
every ten days.
That no man shall hold more than one
claim by location.
SAN FRANCIsco.-Raising brick build
ings has become an everyday occurrence
in San Francisco; the buildings are raised
by the patent Hydraulic Screw introduced
here by M essrs. Geo. Gordon u Steen,
and IN every case the work has been done
with comparative ease, and without any
injury TO the building. Sum-
he DIR. }. f. Morse of the Bon Ton
Critic is not the DR.. }. F. Morse of the
California Farmer, and the publishers Of
the two papers are not identical.
The monster who was found guilty Of
a brutal assault few days since upon his
wife and children, has been sentenced to
six months Imprisonment in the County
Jail.
There were over eight hundred persons
present at the Saint Patrick Ball.
The Evening Neacs says that great |
preparations are being made for the fu-
neral of Tom Chung, an upper-crust Chi
naman, who died at the Bay on Tuesday /
SAN JoAqUIN.-The San Joaquin Re-
publican says, a gentleman in Stockton
receiving a teegrap phic dispatch from San
Jose, communicating the intelligence of
the robbery of mule from the latter
place, on the 1th inst, caused a man to
be arrested who was in possession of
property answering to the description
given, wi no, on examination confessed that
he was the identical person who had com
nitted the theft. Thieves getting in the
line of teIegraphic wires stand narrow