Amador ledger., 1901-04-12
UNITED STATES.

Leandro Costello, who shot and killed
Jose Lopez near Benson, A. T., few
days ago, has been arrested at the Mills
ranch on the San Pedro river.
All of the Delaware witnesses in the
trial of Mrs. Botkin for poisoning Mrs.
Dunning and Mrs. Deane are preparing
to go to San Francisco to attend the
trial
A fire in tenement house in Will
iamsburg, Brooklyn, n. Y, resulted in
the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Mari and
boy named Benjamin Levy. The other
tenants, 100 in number, had narrow
escapes.
A terrible explosion occurred in the
Weaver mine, Gallup, N. M. Three
men are known to have been killed and
many Others are supposed to have been
suffocated. Giant powder caused the
explosion.
Fire destroyed the warehouses and
elevators of Page & Co. at Ionia, Mich,
entailing loss of 500, 900, half of which
falls upon the Grand Trunk Railway
Company, which owned the elevator
building.
Petroleum in large quantities has
been discovered at Greenville, Clay
county, Iowa. Many people are flock
ing to that locality, and many locations
have been made. This is the first oil
discovered in Iowa.
The Bank of Columbia, of Columbia,
s. c., forwarded to the Bank of Com
merce of New York $1,000 in paper
money. When the package arrived at
its destination it was discovered that
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brown paper substituted.
A gold strike of good proportions has
just been made in the Maricopa range
of mountains about nine miles south of
Phoenix. The strike is in no way of a
sensational nature, but dozen long
lodges, bearing rock assaying at an
average of $50 per ton, are being uncov-
cred.
The Imperial canal, the largest irri-
cation canal in the world, has been
opened and the waters of the Colorado
turned in at the head gates below Yuma.
The canal is sixty miles in length and
is navigable to small boats, which will
be used for carrying freight to ranchers
along the route.
AS result of quarrel over the right
to Craze sheep on strip of practically
worthless ground near Cisco, Grand
county, Utah, John Sellnan of PaysOn,
Utah, is dead and E. E. Campbell, Sur
veyor of Grand county, is under arrest
at Moab, awaiting preliminary hear
ing on the charge of murder.
Andrew P. Hill, the artist, who took
the leading part in the effort to secure
legislative action for the preservation
of the redwoods of the Big Basin forest,
has been appointed official photogra-
pher of the Southern Pacific Railway.
He will begin work in Oregon with one
of the largest lenses in the world.
Carrie Martin and Fannie Brown,
cOlOred, fought duel in a street of
Cheyenne, Wyo. Razors were used and
both women were badly cut. One is in
the hospital and the other in Jail. The
Brown woman had supplanted Carrie
in the affections of hotel porter, and
the latter swore she would cut Fannie's
heart out.
Detective Morris and Policeman Bres-
singer attempted to arrest two negroes
suspected of the murder of a marshal at
Gulfport, Miss. One negro named Davis
resisted and shot Morris and Bressinger,
probably fatally. He in turn was killed.
The other negro was captured. The
negroes were convicts who had escaped
from Jenkins Camp, near Monroville,
Alabama.
The Chicago Evening Post has been
sold by H. II. Kohlsatt to company
headed by J. G. Shaffer of Evanston,
who will be president and publisher of
the paper. Samuel T. Glover, for sew
eral years managing editor of the paper,
will be its editor. The publication,
which will be known hereafter as the
Chicago Post, appears in an entirely
different form. The pages have been
reduced one-half their former size, but
increased in number from eight to six
teen.
William A. Watkins of San Jose, CAL,
brother of H. H. Watkins, who is man
ager of the Arizona National Bank and
a prominent business man of Kingman,
committed suicide at Kingman, A. t.,
by placing a large caliber revolver in
his mouth and blowing off the top of
his head. No reason is known for the
rash act. The dead man leaves a
mother and brother in San Jose, where
his remains were shipped for interment.
The Hendrix Hudson Hotel at Park
Hill, Hear 1OuherS, IN. l., udS Uccn
burned. The building was to have been
ready for occupancy on May LIST and
part of the furnishings had been put in.
The cost of the structure and furnish
ings was $15O,0OO, and the building was
so thoroughly damaged by the fire that
the walls had to be pulled down. The
building is said to have been the largest
hotel on the Hudson and stood on the
top of hill $50 feet above the water.
1t was stone and brick, and had been
lavishly decorated.
There will be shipped from New
Haven, Conn.,, 1000 bushels of two-year-
old seed oysters to be planted in the
harbor waters of the Pacific as an expe-
riment in oyster culture. The consign-
ment will go to Willapa harbor, Oregon.
1t is said oysters have never been planted
there. The oysters will be packed in
barrels and shipped in refrigerator. cars,
the cost of the bivalves being 81 bushel.
The freight charges will be about the
same, and transplanting will be another
dollar. Oregon capitalists say there
will be big profit even with these
expenses.