Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-03
CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.

ALAMEDA.
Joseph Hume, the millionaire salmon
packer of the Pacific Coast and the
millionaire owner of the big Alaskan
corporation of Hume Bros. & Hume,
died Unexpectedly at his home in Berk.
eley.
}. E. H. Brown and Frank B. Glib
son, who have had experience with
crematorles, are attempting to revive
the old Oakland Crematory Association
and if successful it is said crematory
and columbarium will be erected in
OAKLAND. 1t is the intention to eXpend
about 500, 900 in the venture if it is I'M
dertaken.
CONTRA COSTA.
After number of futile attempts, the
Supervisors of Contra Costa county
have accepted plans for the new court
house, and as soon as the necessary pre-
| liminaries can be complied with bids
for constructing the building will be
called for and the work commenced, as
money is now in the county treasury in
sufficient amount to pay for the con-
struction of the building, which will be
erected on the site occupied by the pres
ent courthouse. Ravens & Toepke of
San Francisco are the architects of the
new building, and it is said that it can
be constructed for $150,000. The mate
rial of the exterior will be granite and
sandstone.
CALAvERAS.
An exceedingly rich strike in quartz
has been made on French hill, near Mo
kelumne Hill. The quartz is nearly all
gold, one small piece upon which there
is scarcely any quartz weighing over
three ounces. The ledge, which was a
blind one, is about three feet in width
and has every indication of being per-
manent. French hill was in early days
one of the richest placer spots in the
West, and it is believed that the feeder
to these gravel deposits has at last been
found, as the specimens rival those of
the Klondike.
HUMBOLDT.
The Humboldt County Union of Sun
day Schools voted in 1900 to present a
banner to the school reporting the
largest prOportionate increase of men,
bership in 1901. The banner was given
to the Congregational Snnday-school at
Ferndale.
The safe at Roberts & Grail's butcher
shop, Bakersfield, was cracked and $500
worth of valuable papers and jewelry
taken. The burglars escaped with the
plumber.
The pOstoffice and village store at
Del Rev, on the Visalia branch of the
Valley road, sixteen miles from Fresno,
was entered by burglar who made
way with 1892 in postal money, 80
cents in special delivery stamps, and
general goods valued at $25. He used
a skeleton key, for everything was
found locked in the morning.
LOS ANGELES.
E. V. Methever, convicted of the
murder of Dorothy Mckee, having APP
pealed to the Supreme Court and been
denied a new trial, and having eX-
hausted every legal resource save exec
utive clemency, is now endeavOring to
cheat the gallows by starving himself
to death. For three days he has eaten
nothing. Medicine has to be forced
down his throat, and he is already be-
ginning to show the results of his absti-
nence. He has appealed to the Gov
ernor, but so far has received no reply
to his appeal, and evidently has aban-
doned hope. The crime of which
Methever stands convicted was COM
mitted in a fit of jealousy at Long
Beach. Methever is an elderly man
and married. His victim was young
girl. Methever endeavored to force at
tentions upon her, which she declined,
and he shot her to death.
MENDoCINo.
Fourteen miles west of Ukiah, at Orr
Hot Springs, infiammable gas is found
in a few places. A company has been
formed to look for oil in the neighbor-
hood, but no definite action has yet
been taken. Still nearer Ukiah land
has been acquired by the Russian River
Oil Company, with view to drilling a
well. Thirty locations were made last
month in the neighborhood of Round
valley, in the northern part of the coun-
ty, by persons living there, all on the
theory that oil exists in large guam
titles.
MONTERREY.
Within the past three months the
railway mail service has been particu-
larly unfortunate on the division GEN.
tering in Bradley, having within that
time lost five postal cars by fire on ac-
count of wrecking trains. In the last
wreck, near Bradley, on the Southern
Pacific coast line, one of the new fifty
foot cars was burned, but fortunately
all the contents, except six registered
packages and twenty sacks of newspa-
per mail, was saved. Four of the miss
ing registered packages originated at
Santa Barbara and were destined re-
spectively to San Francisco, Sacramento,
Alameda and Stanford University. The
other two were from Ventura for San
Francisco. The twenty-siX sacks of
newspaper mail originated at various
southern points west of New Orleans.
No letter mail was lost.
Charles Wilson, the San Francisco
architect, against whom a charge of
assault to commit murder was placed by
James McCue, the Corte MADEIRA CAPT.
talist, appeared before Justice of the
Peace Belrude of Sausalito and formally
surrendered himself to that official.
Accompanying Wilson was his attor-
ney, Joseph X. Hawkins, and two men,
who declared their intention of becom-
ing the architects bondsmen. Justice
Belrude placed the bonds at $4,000, which
amount was promptly forthcoming
| from Wilson's bondsmen, and the arch
| itect secured his release.
NEVADA.
John McGrath, a miner, was instantly
killed in the Donlan mine at Grass Val.
| five feet from the bottom of the shaft,
footing and fell into the chuckhOle be-
meath Ha woo aIooa of tho time but