Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-17

East and also to reduce the rate on
crude Oil. The matter of supplying
more cars to the citrus fruit growers
will also receive attention. A commit
tee has been appointed to open up cor
respondence with all the leading COM
mercial bodies in the State, with this
object in view.
RIVERSIDE.
There is amovement ON foot to organ
lze syndicate to be composed of River
side and Los Angeles capitalists for the
purpose of developing the inter beds 10
Gated In the northwestern portion of
San Bernardino county. Several weeks
since, after months of hardships, Fritz
Overholtzer, an old prospector, located
three inter claims near the California
Nevada line. Upon bringing samples
to Riverside tests were made, and it
was soon ascertained that he had rich
lind. Tons of the mineral are in sight,
so Overholtzer declares, and already he
has given an option ON his property for
comfortable fortune. The men in the
new company now being formed have
ample means, and they will develop on
an extensive scale.
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Treasure Trove Wrecking Com
pany has been incorporated by James
T. Dempsey, George H. Stevens, A. r.
Peterson, Alex H. Gruggel and F. d.
Spaulding. Its object is to recover
wrecked vessels in Pacific Coast waters
and the treasures IN those vessels.
Mrs. A. Josephs of 419 Union street
was arrested and taken to the insane
ward of the Receiving Hospital. She
had started a fire in the cellar of her
house, which necessitated the calling
out of the Fire Department. She con-
fessed her incendiary act, but showed
herself mentally unbalanced On June
4, 1896, in the same house, the woman's
husband committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head. He was small
politician and had been q driver of a
police patrol. His suicide was due to
family dissensions and to poverty.
SAN BERNARDINo.
j. d. Sherry, switchman, and w.
ID. Norton, a brakeman, both in the
employ of the Santa Fe Pacific Railway
at Needles, quarreled over trivial mat
ter. Sherry made remark that pro-
voked Norton, who pulled from his
pocket pistol and fired, the bullet en-
tering Sherry's right breast. The lat
ter fingered until morning, when he
died. The murderer is in Jail.
SAN BENITo.
Representatives of fifteen oil compa-
mics owning land at San Benito have
formed an association. The purpose of
the organization is to bring that dis
frict before the public. G. IT. Dean was
elected president and D. L. DAVIS sec
rotary. The Fresno-San Benito Dis
trict Association was adopted as the
official name.
SANTA CLARA.
Melvin V. Dodge has been appointed
associate librarian in the Stanford Uni
versity. His work will commence in
September. He is a graduate of Ham
ilton College, Clinton, N. Y, and of
the Albany Library School. Since 1894
he has acted as librarian of the former
institution. Professor Bobine, former
associate librarian, is to go East per-
manently at the close of this semester
SANTA BARBARA.
Veterinary Surgeon J. HI. Hester re-
turned from Arroyo Honda, where he
was called to investigate the mysterious
death OF sixteen goats. A herd of TWEEN
ty-one goats was turned out in the
morning to pasture, but before noon
sixteen were found dead. The cause is
unknown, but the theory is that they
ate poisonous roots or hemlock, which
the rains had made accessible by soften
ing the ground.
SACRAMENTO.
Governor Gage has accepted the res
ignation of F. w. Lougee as trustee for
the Home for the Care and Training of
Feeble-Minded Children.
Chris Evans, the train robber, under
sentence of life imprisonment at Fol-
som Prison, has announced through his
attorney, F. J. Kinds of Fresno, his in
tention of applying for a parole under
the amendment to the parole law adop-
ted by the last Legislature allowing
life-termers to apply for parole after
seven years imprisonment. He is go
years old and has been model prison.
er. His wife is living in Visalia, sup
porting herself and family by washing.
SAN LUIS OBIsPO.
The general merchandise store OF De
0OIlaru1 " hlgneCul OF CayucOSs mas
been closed by Sheriff WINS ON an at
tachment issued by the Commercial
Bank of San Luis Obispo for $500.
This is the firm from whose safe it was
claimed over $4,000 was stolen by bur-
glars two nights before. There were no
clews to the burglars.
SIERRA
The seven-year-old daughter of M.
Langford, who resides near Milton was
bitten ON the right hand by rattle
snake. The parents brought the child
to town at once for treatment, and the
attending physicians pronounce their
patient out of danger.
SHASTA.
The Mullen and Poorman gold quartz
claims, partially developed, in the
Lower Springs district, three miles
west of Redding, were bonded by John
Pfeffer, veteran miner of Shasta coun.
ty, to M. ]. Graham, mining man of
Montana, for a 5000 option which re-
quires the development of the property
continuously and endure to January l,
1902.