Amador ledger., 1901-05-24

ehO IOLudllS vi Lee WrlgHC at SAINT:
Ana, that he sent bullet into hi
brain on account of the unreciprocatet
affection for woman named Allie,
Powers.
PLACER.
A carload of machinery arrived al
Colfax recently for the Mountain MaiC
quartz mine, across Bear river. foul
miles from Colfax. The company has
oeen running in on the ledge with the
lower tunnel at the Rawhlde mine
near Towle. A rich pay shoot with
three feet of ledge has been cut.
RIVERSIDE.
Calvary Presbyterian Church, River.
SIDE, reports prosperous year. At the
recent business meeting the ceremony
OF burning the last mortgage of S2543. q
took place.
SAN FRANCISCO.
The sum of $31, 900 was the amount
raised by the people of San Francisco
for the entertainment of the President.
The Bakers Union bought from the
non-union bakeries O large supply OF
bread intended for non-union restau.
rants. To the number of thousands OF
loaves it was stacked up in their head
quarters at III Turk street. Some of il
was sold to private families, but the
larger part was given away to the poor.
The San Francisco schoolboys have
formed union against home study.
The boys wear red ribbon badges and
all are going to leave their books at
school when they 60 home. Bumpers
are to be administered to any union
boy for breaking the compact, which is
nothing more or less than being dumped
in an ash barrel. All the school work
turned in by them bears the union
mark.
SANTA CLARA.
The police of San Jose have verified
their suspicion that the two boys who
came to California looking for an uncle
by the name of De Forest, living in the
Willows, and who finally landed i'm
East San Jose, are no other than the
boys for whom inquiries are being made
from New Yoak city. The boys finally
broke down and confessed that they
wers Cresson de Forest, aged Is wears.
and William Rae, aged IA years, of New
York. The boys say they are deter
to see the world and can take
care of themselves.
SAN JOAQUIN.
Mong Ming, Chinese, was arrested
at Stockton by Detective Carroll and
Officer Walker on warrant from San
Francisco charging him with murder.
The Chinese is known as Wong Fook
Chong and bears a good reputation.
attempts were made by Fres-
no highbinders to abduct his wife on a
trumped up charge of grand larceny,
but he frustrated them with the help
Of his attorneys. There is belief that
the murder charge has been trumped up
by his enemies to get even with him.
SHASTA.
The "blowing inn of the De La Mar
of $50 tons daily capacity, at
Bully Hill, took place May 9th.
A corps of engineers is running lines
for large paper mill that is to be es-
tablished on McCloud river, near the
lumber camp of McCloud. There is an
abundance of raw material for pulp
making and plenty of water and power.
The product of the mill will be sent to
road.
SACRAMENTO.
j. Marshall, section foreman in the
employ of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, was killed near Arcade. There
had been derailment of freight car,
and Marshall had been summoned to
the scene. He started for the wreck on
q railroad bicycle and was run down
and killed by a wrecking train which
had been sent from Sacramento.
SAN DIEGO.
G. HI. Hartuple has brought suit
against DR.. Thomas p. Butler to recover
S13, 900 which Hartuple AYERS he in
vested in the John Tilton Butler mine
in the Grapevine district of San Diego
county. Hartuple alleges that it was
through misrepresentation that he was
induced to invest his money.
SAN BERNARDINO.
A Congregational church of thirteen
members was gathered at Barstow by
Rev. G. s. Billings ON April 9th. Su-
perintendent Male conducted the or
ganizing services and preached. A
chapel will be built at once at cost of
$500. Barstow is a transfer point on
the Santa Fe system, and some ten pas
senger trains are daily made up there
for San Francisco and the East.
TRINITY.
The is tremendous activity in the
copper belt in the north, in which three
counties are directly interested, because
it is in them that the larger deposits of
the belt have been so far found and
partly prospected. These counties are
Trinity, Shasta and Siskiyou. The chief
development thus far has been in Shasta
county, where one company is turning
out II 900 tons year of copper matte
and still increasing its facilities, while
other corporations have fairly started
operations on an equally large scale
TUoLUMNE.
The High Point Company, which
has been operating east of Stent for
two years past, has pulled up stakes
and quit. The machinery is to be
shipped to Lead City, S. D.
TULARE.
Tax Collector Reed of Visalia has re-
ported to the District Attorney that
about dozen users of nickel-in- the
slot machines of Tulare county refuse
to pay license. The District Attorney
collected the licenses.