Amador ledger., 1901-04-19
CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.

train before reaching Ogden and was
taken in charge by the railroad officials.
She was brought to Oakland and an at
tempt made to find her friends.
i When the members of the First Uni
tartan Church of Oakland gathered for
the Easter service a debt of S23, 900
hung over their handsome church edi-
flee. When they departed for their
homes two hours later the debt had
been practically wiped out by the
pledged subscriptions of members and
friends
Clayton Graves, a native of Germany,
was killed at Colusa by the accidental
discharge of his gun.
FRESNO.
}. NJ. Bond was sent to San Quentin
for one year for having stolen $75 BIZ
cycle. He pleaded guilty.
NJ. NJ. Parsons and his associates have
bonded 5000 acres of land for $40, 900,
and their contract is that they COM
mence work within ninety days, but
they are making arrangements to be-
gin drilling in thirty days. The land
lies near Lanes Bridge and belongs to
a Mr.. Miller.
HUMBOLDT.
The City Council of Eureka, by a
vote of 4 to l, passed the franchise of
the California and Northern Railroad
Company, a corporation of which John
l.. Roster of the California Barrel Com
pany is the leading spirit. This COM
pany is now building between Eureka
and Arcata, and intends to extend the
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road is completed to Arcata. The fran
chise allows the company to lay track
along the water front.
After two attempts at suicide Dan
Dillon, an employe of the Vance Red
wood Company at Eureka, ended his
life. The first attempt was made with
a dull pocket-knife, but the wound was
not serious, then razor was used. Dill
Ion was taken to the county hospital,
where he died soon after his arrival.
He is believed to have been insane.
KERN.
| Harry Scott, carpenter of Bakers
field, reported that he had been stabbed
by Mexican. The wound is in the
back on the left side and is serious, and
several days must elapse before any
thing more definite can be learned.
The Mexican has not yet been appre-
hended. Scott is in the hospital.
LOS ANGELES.
George Ford, an eX-convict, escaped
from the city Jail at Los Angeles and
has not yet been recaptured. Ford was
placed in an old unused cell in which
one of the window bars had been par
TALLY sawed through. The bar was
easily bent, and Ford dropped to the
ground and escaped. He was in jail
charged with an assault with deadly
weapon.
The deputy constable at Claremont
was notified by two boys that they had
discovered the skull and leg of hui
man body in the brush northwest of
that town. The member was wrapped
in cotton and inclosed in newspaper
dated March Is, 1901. Alta point where
the leg was found was hole about ten
inches deep and eighteen inches long,
indicating that the package had been
buried and afterward dug up by some
animal.
MENDOCINO.
A new stock company, to be known
as the Mason Hardware Company, has
incorporated in Ukiah with capital
stock of $4,000 of 1000 shares. The
company will conduct general hard
ware business
! A frightful accident occurred at Glen
Blair, when little Nellie Sherwood,
aged 10 years, was hurt on the hand
car. Her long hair got caught in the
gearing and was drawn in until half of
the scalp was torn asunder, leaving the
denuded half skull.
MARIN.
The first batch of convicts released
from San Quentin prison under the
provisions of the act passed by the last
Legislature and known as the "Mon-
day law" left the prison April 18th.
Their departure was the cause of much
excitement among the convicts, nearly
all of whose terms will be shortened
from one to thirteen days through the
provisions of this law. In the future
instead of being released on the day
upon which their sentence expires,
they will be released on the Monday
preceding that date. By this means all
of the convicts whose terms expire in
any sp ecifid week will be released on
the first day of the week, even if their
sentence does not expire until six days
later. If a Monday happens to be a
legal holiday the prisoners who would
be released ON that day will be released
on the preceding Monday, so that it
will be possible for convict to secure
his release thirteen days before his SEN
tence expires.
| NEVADA.
Edward TuIley, a pioneer resident TO
Nevada City, found a letter in his
yard addressed to himself and wife de-
handing that $4,000 be placed in the
vicinity of where the letter was found
or he and his wife would be murdered.
The letter bore the date line of San
Francisco, but was undated. 1t did
not pass through the mails. Tulley,
who is about 50 years or age, has quite
fortune. He did not pay any atten-
ton to the letter. He suspects local
person of being its author, but will not
mention any name. The letter was
written on typewriter and also threat
ened to burn his home.
| SAN FRANCISCO.
Paul Warren, a discharged trooper of
the First Cavalry, fired bullet into his
brain at the Cliff House and died in
stantly. No cause is assigned for the
act.
A floating exposition, carrying SAM
piles of our merchandise around the
world and putting our merchandise in
touch with those of all nations, is re-
ceiving the hearty Endorsement of rep
resentative business men of San Fran
cisco
Two little girls were robbed of their
iewelry by a pleasant thief. Edith
| Rach ford oUad & wears and her little