Amador ledger., 1900-03-23
MOTHER OF AUS. HEPBURN DIES IN CHICAGO
The Promoters of the Jackson and
lone Railway Inspected the
Line This Week.
lone -four is Peerless.

A11orHoy w LII. y. McOeo Is Here bnlS
week trying cases in court.
w. B. Horr has completed the JUS
tue house in the Peek Addition.
William Jones was passenger on the
incoming stage Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will. A. Newcum are
visiting friends in Suisun this week.
We call attention to Peterson's clos
ing-out sale. See advertisement in this
paper.
E. c. McWayne and Miss Edna Nc
Wayne, of Drytown, visited jackson
Monday.
lone Flour Mill is home industry
and makes the best -four. Why not
patronize it? 3-16-tf
Late dispatches indicate that the
Beers are preparing to make overtures
for peace.
John Jelletich, who has been sick
about two months, is reported at the
point of death.
DR.. Gibbons kindly requests those to
whom he has kindly loaned books to
kindly return them.
Among our new advertisements of
this week is that of M. Newman, the
old reliable liveryman.
We understand that a party of.seven
men from West Point and vicinity are
now enroute to Cape Nome.
w. P. Peek has arranged for water
for his addition, the pipes for which
service are to be laid at once.
A slight fall of rain occurred here
last night accompanied by heavy
thunder and vivid lightning.
Mr.. Alfonso Ginocchio is in San
Francisco purchasing stock of goods
for the firm of E. Ginocchio & Bro.
Andrew Noce, formerly of the Key
stone, has been installed as under
ground foreman of the Oneida mine.
Several of our Democratic townsmen
are anticipating trip to Sacramento,
next Monday, to seq and hear Wn. j.
Bryan.
Mrs. F, A. VOORHEES,, wife OF Land-
lord VOORHEES, of the New National, has
been quite i'll of late, but is now i'm
proving.
Mr.. Gilbert Boon, clerk at the New
National, went to Angels Wednesday.
George Dornan took his place in the
hotel during his absence.
Mr. Willard Calkins, the well-kpown
versatile writer, is in poor health and
is now rusticating in this county, with
headquarters at Sutter Creek,
D.. Gutmann, General Manager
Woodard and Chief Engineer Feusier,
of the Jackson, Sutter & Amador Rail-
way Company, were in jackson
yesterday.
Owing to q misunderstanding, the
advertisements of DR.. G. 81. Gibbons
were omitted in the last two issues of
the LERGER. They will be found in
this issue.
A very interesting article by WILL A.
Newcum, on dredging for gold appears
in this issue Of the LEDGER. Mr..
Newcum has treated the subject ably
and thoroughly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard P. Calkins of
Oakland, accompanied by the young
son of H. M. Calkins, were passengers
on the incoming Sutter Creek stage
Sunday evening.
John F. Davis and L. A. Kent were
elected as delegates to represent Ex-
celsior Parlor No. 81, at the Grand
Parlor, N. S. G. W., which meets at
Oroville on April 23d.
Lloyd Brubaker, of the Standard
Electric Go. returned from a visit to
Angels and vicinity the first OF the
week. He expects to go to Bear River
Monday or Tuesday next.
w. F. Detert, president of the Argo-
naut and Bunker Hill mines, and su-
perintendent of the leila mine, went to
San Francisco and other places where
he has business interests, last week.
!. 4. Godfrey, the well-known cabi-
net maker, now in his sd year, has
just completed an office desk for
George w. Brown that 'knocks the
socks' off anything hereabouts. 1t is
a fine piece OF workmanship and is val |
ued at SIS. Mr.. Godfrey is hale and |
hearty and apparently good for many |
years OF hard work.
F.. M. Whitmore, one of the pioneers
OF the county, in speaking of the un-
usually warm weather and advanced |
condition of vegetation, remarked to
the Writer, the other day, that, in the
spring OF 1864, he had stand of grain |
over foot high in March, and the |
yield that year was enormous. Unless
all signs fail the yield this season will
be heavy,
Many charming stories of the great
English critic who recently passed
away are told in "Ruskin Remis-
cences," an extended review in the
Argonaut for March "a, 1860, of M. H.
Spiel lmann's recent work, "John Rus
kin: A Sketch of His Life, His Work,
and His Opinions. A number of the