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

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the coroner of Montgomery county,
ILL.,, who has in his possession an es-
tate worth $4,000 for him. Immedi-
ately upon his arrival at Riverside he
secured work picking oranges, but re-
Gently he disappeared. Max A. Rast,
father of the young man, was killed in
a train wreck ON the Big Four Railroad
a few weeks ago. Papers found in his
possession showed that he carried a
heavy life insurance and that his only
heir was a son who, when last heard
from was at Riverside. All efforts to
locate him have thus far proven futile.
SAN FRANCISCO.
An unknown man, about 60 years
old, died suddenly in Golden Gate
Park. He was discovered in an I'M
conscious condition lying on bench,
but before medical aid was summoned
he was dead. The body was taken to
the Morgue.
The Golden Gate Park Commissions
ers have decided to recommend an or
dinance prohibiting the killing of seals
on Seal rocks, which are now under
the Jurisdiction of the Park Commits
sion. Italian fishermen have been in
the habit recently of killing seals and
the ordinance which has been drafted
is for the purpose of stopping these
depredations.
Mrs. S. Worthington Babcock of
Columbus, o., will not christen the
battleship Ohio. She would have been
the first married woman to perform
such a ceremony for a United States
war vessel. In her stead the pleasant
privilege of naming the mighty fight
ing machine will be enjoyed by Miss
Helen Deshler of Columbia, who is a
distant relative of Governor Nash and
the daughter of w. F. Deshler, prom
inent banker and capitalist of the capt.
tai of the Buckeye State.
SANTA CLARA.
A man by the name of Dennis, who
claims to be high priest of the Nor
mon faith, has been preaching in the
vicinity of San Jose and has succeeded
in converting to his views Charles
Goodwin, possessing equal peculiarities
with himself. Goodwin was released
only few months ago from the Agnews
Insane Asylum. Dennis announced
that he had had vision which showed
him that he must make a pilgrimage to
the Great Salt Lake and battle in its
holy waters. He induced Goodwin to
accompany him, and the two, loaded
down with large amount of luggage,
started on long trip to the "City of
Saints"
SAN JOAQUIN.
The body of A. J. McLaren, a farmer,
was found in large reservoir in the
insane grounds at Stockton. A horse
which McLaren had been driving was
standing in shallow water in the reser-
voir and dragging brought up buggy,
leading toward the water indicated that
there were two rigs, and two men were
found who said positively that they
saw McLaren at the same time at
points over mile apart. 1t is believed
to have been a case of foul play.
SANTA BARBARA.
A freight train on the Coast line leav-
ing Santa Barbara was wrecked at Sum-
merland, about six miles south of the
city. The trucks of one of the cars
about the middle of the train left the
rails and before the train could be
stopped six cars had been piled upon
the tracks, all badly broken. No one
was injured, the crew being in the ca
bose, which did not leave the rails.
The rails and ties were torn up for a
distance of 300 yards.
SHASTA.
For the sixth time in four years Kes-
wick has had big fire. A fire broke
out in the Barbary Coast and all North
Main street is in ashes. Fifteen places
of business have been destroyed and
also half a dozen dwellings, entailing a
total loss of about $4,000. The build
ings constituted long frame range and
none of the owners had been able to Sc
cure insurance, so the loss is total, little
or no stock being saved.
SAN MATEO.
The Eureka brewery has been sold by
Frederick Haussler to the Redwood
City Brewing Company for $4,000. The
brewery is among the Oldest establish
ments in the State. The new corpora
ton is composed of San Francisco and
Alameda people 1t is their intention
to enlarge the plant.
SAN DIEGO.
The first of the contracts for the
building of the pipe line which is to
bring the water from the Otay reser-
voir to San Diego has been let to d. G..
Henry & Son of San Francisco by the
Southern California Mountain Water
Company, the price being $4,000 for
the stretch of seven and half miles of
forty and thirty-siX inch pipe. The
contract calls for the completion of the
work by July 25th.
SANTA CRUZ.
The fruit crop this year in Santa
Clara county will be the smallest in
years. On the south side and around
Campbell the shortage is especially
pronounced.
SAN BERNARDINO.
The postoffice at Summit has been
discontinued and the mail will be sent
to Cajon.
The Golden Jubilee mine, on Coffee
creek. now ranks with the big produc-
ers among Northern California quartz
mines.
TULARE.
The floral carnival at Tulare City was
a grand success.
PACIFIC COAST.