Amador ledger., 1901-06-14
CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.

| ALAMEDA.
Miss Augusta Williams, whose home
is at S65 Madison street, Oakland, while
returning to her home shortly after 8
O'Clock in the evening, was attacked by
two men, one of whom seized her and
struck her vicious blow, telling her to
the ground. Without loss of time the
other man grabbed her purse from her
hand, and, extracting its contents,
SL5O, threw the purse on the sidewalk
by the PROSTATE woman. After advis-
ing her to get along and not look back,
the Puffians hurried away into the
shtfsow of the large trees that grow in
that locality. Not long afterward two
young men held up and robbed two
women, one in East Oakland and the
other in Fruitvale, but the robbers were
taken in custody and Sent to a reform
school.
BUTTE.
The people of Chico held an election
to determine whether or not the CITY
should be bonded for $45, 900 for the
purpose of sewering the city and erect
ing plant to supply water for flushing
purposes. Never in the history of Chico
have the residents of that city shown
such an interest in an election. All the
business houses were closed. The bond
issue was carried by vote of 565 to 35.
FRESNO.
j. H. Witt, a morphine fiend, who
was in the Fresno Jail for Vagrancy,
strangled himself to death with a piece
of cloth.
Robert Martin, the nineteen-months-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Martin,
who lives two miles northeast of Han
ford, was drowned in an irrigating
ditch. He was first missed by an elder
sister, who looked for him and found
him in the ditch.
The Keller stage was held up between
MQjave and the Eighteen-mile House
by lone highwayman, who had a
handkerchief over bis face There was
but one passenger beside the driver,
and the robber got $3.50. The driver
was not, searched. This is the first
hold-up on the Keller line, and from
the amount taken it will discourage fI-
ture operations.
LOS ANGELES.
Eight hundred Porto Ricans passed
through Los Angeles on their way to
Port Los Angeles to board the steamer
Colon. They are destined for the sugar
plantations of Hawaii AS in former
cases, great secrecy was maintained in
the movement of the Immigrants. Two
physicians accompanied them, and it
is stated that the health of all was good.
A long since abandoned oil well on
Bartlett street, near Bellevue avenue,
Los Angeles, broke forth afresh the
other day, and, like mighty geyser,
sent forth mixed stream of oil, water,
sand, bricks and tin cans. With roar
that could be heard for blocks the
stream shot fifty feet into the air and
flooded everything in the immediate
neighborhood. At the same time a
mighty volume of gas issued from the
old stump hole and filled the air of the
neighborhood with a sitting stencil.
The well is located on the property of
Elizabeth l.. Snyder, and was drilled
to the depth of 1000 feet about three
years ago and then abandoned.
MoDoC.
Calvin Hall, 70 years of age, was
hanged by.a mob of forty masked men,
with his three sons and friend named
Dan Yantis, at Lookout at midnight.
Hall formerly lived with an Indian
squaw, and by her had three boys, aged
26, 10 and Is years. The family was
worthless and lately had been suspected
of many petty thefts. Finally con-
stable went to the house with a search
warrant and found hay forks, harness,
barbed wire and other things that had
been recently stolen. All were arrested,
but the old man was released on a
charge of simple theft, while the sons
and Yantis were kept in custody on
charges of burglary because they could
not furnish $500 bail. Governor Gage
has offered reward of $4,000 for the ar
rest and conviction of the parties en-
gagged in the lyching, and the District
Attorney is using every means in his
power to discover the perpetrators of
the outrage.
MENDOCINO.
The town of WiHitts has been almost
destroyed by fire, which broke out in a
blacksmith shop. Willitts is the pro-
posed terminus of the California North
western Railway, and has been enjoy
ing quite a boom. 1t has population
of about 800 inhabitants. The entire
business portion of the town is destroyed
including ten residences. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
MARIN.
Rev. r. H. Miller, graduate of the
Theological Seminary at San AnselmO,
has received an appointment by the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions to go as a missionary to Corea.
NEVADA.
Mrs. John F. Kidder of Grass Valley
is president of railroad, and she has
the distinction of being one of the very
few women, if not the only one, who
ever held such bona fide position and
title. Mrs. Kidder was elected to the
presidency of the Nevada County Mar
row Gauge Railroad Company at the
annual meeting of the directors of the
company held in Grass Valley, and
since then she has walked over to her
office every day, has sat down behind
her desk and hoe attaOdad tO the 6utiac