Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-05-17
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CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.

| healIn O1Ilcer emerson mas reported
two cases of smallpox, one at Center
vile and one at Livermore. The Cen
terville sufferer is f. S. Francis, and he
is unable to say where he was exposed
to the disease. The Livermore case, it
is believed, can be traced to Tesla, where
there were number of smallpox cases
recently.
After searching examination before
their friends and the faculty Frank FL
more Ross and Russell Tracy Crawford
were passed by the University of Cali
fornia for the degree of doctor of phllos-
ophy, the highest academic honor in
the gift of the university. Each of the
two candidates has for three years de-
voted himself to study and research
along one special line.
BUTTE.
j. T. Hansen, who made an attempt
at suicide some time ago at Biggs by
cutting the arteries of his wrist, has been
missing from his home since April 18th.
AS he had been very respondent for
some time past, it is feared that he has
| committed suicide. When last seen he
was headed toward the Feather river.
CALAvERAs.
The late storm has placed the miners
ON the mother lode in Calaveras, Tuol-
umne, Mariposa and other counties
through which that wonderful ledge
runs, in an easy frame of mind. The
fall of snow on the Sierra was heavy
enough to remove all fears of failure
of water during the summer. Extraor-
binary activity is consequently visible
on all hands throughout the mineral
belt. Quartz mining was never before
prosecuted with such vigor in Califor-
MIA.
Charles F. Hanlon has sued r. M.
Turner for $500 damages. On October
8, 1899, Hanlon leased his Glenn county
farm to Turner, and he alleged that
Turner did not care for the place. Lum-
Der and other material for the construc-
ton of barn and kitchen were sent to
him by Hanlon, but Turner let them
lie at Nelson, the railroad station, where
tramps and the elements gradually
caused their disappearance.
INYO.
Los Angeles capitalists have organ
lied prospecting party to search for
minerals on the border of InyO county
and in the Providence mountains in
Southwest Nevada.
KERN.
The new 100-stamp mill of the Yellow
Astor mine, in the Randsburg district,
is in operation. 1t is expected to turn
out 100000 a month from now or.
The Monte Cristo's well, No. II, in
the Kern district, yielded in twenty
four hours of April 10Th 1855 barrels of
oil, all of which was actually tanked.
When the pumping ceases the well con-
tinues to flow with the same squirting
regularity as when the pump is in ac-
ton.
LOS ANGELES.
The dead man whose remains were
found on the Southern Pacific tracks in
East Los Angeles has been identified as
Allan Stark, a soldier recently returned
from Manila. Stark called ON E. J.
Dodson of Ell Monte in company with
q negro and another white man. The
three were in buggy and drove away
together, which is the last trace of
Stark alive. Nothing has been learned
of his companions.
The Western Iron Works, near Ely
sian Park, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000. F. r. Kali
loch, who was attracted to the scene by
curiosity, was struck by falling cleo
trio wire and rendered unconscious,
and died on the way to the Receiving
Hospital. Two truck horses also We're
disabled by live wire.
MADEIRA.
A gang of Whitecaps called at the
house of William Sellars, in the lumber
region at Bates Station, twenty miles
above MADEIRA, in the mountains. On
appearing at the door Sellars had pis-
toll thrust into his face, and then the
gang seized him and numerically beat
him with whips. The sou also was
seized and whipped, and with hair
rope around his neck was lifted from
the ground several times. Having sat
isfied their revenge the gang left the
scene. Sellars recognized all in the
gang and has sworn to complaints for
the arrest of the participants in the out
rage. The reason of the assault upon
Sellars and his son was suspicion that
they gave Federal agents information
concerning the subject of the illegal
cutting of timber on Government lands
in the mountains.
MENDoCINo.
The Mendocino Lumber Company
has acceded to the demands of its en-
ployes and. the ten-hour schedule has
gone into effect. The employees of the
various mills on the coast demanded
that their time be reduced to ten hours
per day instead of eleven and half as
heretofore. The-Mendocino company
was the first to grant the demand.
MARIN.
The new $40 600 ,school-house erected
by-.the taxpayers of Mil Valley has
been dedicated before large audience
with appropriate ceremonies.