Amador ledger., 1901-07-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! CURRENT NEWS |
CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.
Observation-Disclosures

ALAMEDA.
Within year the Merritt Hospital,
long talked of and provided for in the
will of the late Katherine Garcelon,
will be ready to receive patients. This
statement is made by DIR. P. L. Wheel
er, one of the trustees of the hospital.
In DIR. Wheeler's opinion the actual
work of building the hospital will be
begun this fall, or early next spring. 1t
is the intention to make the hospital
one of the finest on the Coast. 1t will
be located on the old Pacific Theologi-
cal Seminary site, off Telegraph avenue,
between Plymouth and Hawthorneave-
nues, Oakland.
CONTRA COSTA.
Preparations are under way for the
County fair which is to be held at Con-
icord on September 25th, 18th, 9th and
18th. This cuts the fair short one day
as: compared with previous years, but
in the opinion of the directors such a
change was wise in view of the fact
that it will enable them to give larger
purses and prizes.
CALAvERAS.
Good progress has been made at the
| IhOh OulCh LlluO ny Ot. 4[OulS dLu Sul-
cago capitalists, who have taken hold
of it. During the past month fifty feet
of sinking have been done and twenty
feet of drifts run. The vein is looking
well.
FRESNO.
Theodore Kearney, president. of the
Raisin Growers Association of Fresno,
speakingof the proposition made to the
packers to take the surplus of 700 car
loads of raisins off the bands of the
association, stated that no bids had yet
been received, but it would take about
$500, 900 to effect the purpose, and w.
M. Griffin of the firm of Griffin &
Sicily, would go East in few days to
seek cooperation in the purchase and
disposal of the surplus raisins. The
matter is of vital importance if good
prices are to be obtained for this years
crop.
The silver-lead output of the Cerro
GOrdo mine from the time of its discov-
cry until 1876, when it was closed by
litigation, has been estimated at $13,-
000,0 900. Some work is being done there
again at present.
LOS ANGELES.
A man in the hospital with his left
hand gone, two other men more or less
bruised and shaken up and construc-
ton train derailed and smashed, is the
record of a run made over the new line
of the electric street railway between
Altadena and Rubio canyon. Amos u.
Clarke, who lost his hand, also had his
shoulder dislocated..
Professor Joseph Metz, a school teach
er at Green Meadows, has been arrested
on the charge of assault and battery
upon the person of Josephine Duncan,
fifteen-year-oId pupil in his school.
According to the testimony Of the girl,
he severely chastised her with heavy
leather strap, and then, angered by her
resistance, knocked her down, sat upon
her and beat her in the face.
MONTERREY.
John Harp, cook by occupation,
was caught in the. act of setting fire to
a dwelling on Pajaro street, in Salinas.
Six alarms in twenty-four hours put the
officers on the alert and resulted in the
capture of the accused. He had at
tempted to burn the residence of G. A.
Daugherty twice.
| "a MODOC.
| The grand jury at Alturas, which adj
journed after having Investigated the
Lookout .lynchings, returned three in
dictments for murder. Robert Leven-
ton, Isom Fades and James w. Brown
are the persons named. The indict-
ments charge these three men with the
murderer Martin Wilson, the thirteen
year-old son of old Mary Wilson, the
squaw. "Old Mary" as she was called,
was formerly the wife of Calvin Hall,
by whom she had one son, James, who
was lynched with his father, his brother
Frank, young Martin Wilson and Dan
Yantis. The evidence against the three
Indicted men is said to be much stronger
in the case of Martin Wilson than in
the case of the other four men lynched
MERGED.
l. Preliminary steps HAYS been taken by
local attorney for ousting from office
E. N. Rector, Superior Judge of MERGED
county, on the ground of technical
'illegality in the election. A request
has been made to the Attorney-Gen
eral for permission to bring suit for this
purpose in the name of the people of
| the State of California. 1t is alleged as
basis of the suit that the notices for
the election last November were not
posted in the several precincts ten days
prior to the date of election, as required
by law; that so far as the election of
Superior Judge is concerned, the cleo
ton was a special one to fill an unex-
pired term, and that in such cases it is
absolutely necessary that notice be
posted ten days prior to election.
MENDoCINo.
Considerable interest has been mani
tested throughout the county of Men
docino by the discovery of large flow
of natural gas upon the ranch of j. b.
Brown, a farmer living about twelve
miles from Covelo. For several years
Brown has noticed that upon the sur
face of a large marsh on his ranch bub-
bles were continually rising and that
there was a peculiar odor in the air
near that place. A large iron caldron
was placed in an inverted position upon
the surface of the marsh and match
applied to hole in the bottom of the
caldron. A flame six feet in height
burst into view, burning steadily and
brilliantly until extinguished. The new
find will be developed at once.
MARIN.
A man giving the name of Frank
Burke was run over and probably ia
tally injured by train on the North
Pacific Coast Railroad at Ross station.
He was frightfully mangled.
| NEVADA.
The new ten-stamp mill of the Jenny
Lind mine near Grass Valley is nearly
completed. A large stock ofOre is ready
for crushing as soon as it begins running.