Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-29

that now they propose to send them to
all the leading cooking schools in the
United States. From the efforts al
ready put forth there has been a no
ticeable increase in the sale of prunes.
SACRAMENTO.
The Sempervirens Club and friends
of the big trees at large are rejoicing
that their suspense is over and the
giant redwoOds of the Big Basin are
saved from the shrieking saw of the
lumber mill. Governor Gage has signed
the bill which provides for State ap-
preparation of S250.000 to be paid in five
annual installments for $500 acres in
the Big Basin on which the largest
trees in the world are said to stand.
The tract of land specified is claimed to
be the key of the great crater and the
ambition of the members of the Sem
pervirens Club Is to add to this nucleus
by private subscription from time to
time until the entire forest is a magnifi-
cent State park. The commission pro-
vided for in the bill to complete the
purchase and act as forest guardians
has been named by the Governor in
the persons of Regent A. w. Foster of
the State University; Father Kenna,
president of the Santa Clara College;
William H. Mills and William Russell
Dudley, professor of forestry at STAN
ford University.
SOLANO.
Lieutenant A. n. Mayer of the United
States NAVY died suddenly at the Mare
Island Navy Hospital from apoplexy.
He sustained similar stroke in the
naval collier Brutus, and was sent to
Mare island for treatment. He had re-
ceived orders to proceed to Hot Springs,
Ark, and was about to start when the
fatal attack occurred. Deceased entered
the navy from Iowa in 1876. His wife
resides at Washington, d. c. He will
be buried at Omaha, Neb.
SONOMA.
Mrs. Cora l.. Wickersham has filed a
deed of conveyance transferring all her
right in the estate of the late Frank p.
Wickersham, her husband, to |. g..
Wickersham Jr., her little son. The
deed also conveys her interest in the
estate of the late |. G. Wickersham to
the child.
SAN LUIS OBISPO.
The State appropriation for fair in
San Luis Obispo county has been in
creased from S1400 to $3.50.
The Paso Robles Oil and Development
Company has made three more leases
of their lands in 25-10.
San Luis Obispo took holiday to
celebrate the passing of the Polytechnic
school bill which bacame a law. The
bill provides for the location of poly
technic school at or near the city of San
Luis Obispo and appropriates $4,000
therefor.
SAN JOAQUIN.
An automobile factory is to be estab-
lished just south of the city limits of
Stockton through the efforts of the
Homestead Improvement Club. 1t is
the intention of the company to put on
two lines of automobiles to carry pas
sengers around the homestead and into
the city. The other line will run from
Stockton to Lodi, distance of fourteen
miles. The roads are splendid in the
summer, and very fast time can be
made. 1t is believed that the venture
will prove profitable one.
SANTA BARBARA.
Two members of the family of Nelson
Morris, the multi-millionaire packer of
Chicago, who are of the winter colony
of Santa Barbara, were served with an
attachment issued from a Justices
Court at the instance of dressmaker
named Mrs. Ida Porter. The dress
maker appealed to the court to collect
two bills, one for S13 and another for
$23, in payment for work done. They
were about to leave Santa Barbara and
refused to pay the bill, stating that it
was too high. Rather than appear in
court they settled the bills and paid the
court costs as well.
SAN BERNARDINO.
Because of rapidly failing eyesight
and the knowledge that he would be
totally blind, HI. g. Arbuckle, we'll
known citizen of Redlands, has become
hOpelessly insane, and has been con-
fined in private sanitarium at Los
Angeles.
George G.. Carson, superintendent of
the Boulder mine, has lately been
granted patent on process for desul-
phurizing copper matte.
Mrs. Mary E. Dolan of Dunsmuir has
brought suit for divorce against James
Dolan, on the ground of cruelty, deser-
ton and drunkenness.
SHASTA.
Dick Edwards, an old miner, thought
he saw big gaizzly and took refuge in
a tree near Keswick. All night long
the miner shivered with fear and cold,
and when daylight came he found that
the animal was only his own faithful
burro.
STANISLAUS.
G. McHenry of Modesto has pur-
chased in Arizona 11S0 head of Here's
ford cattle.
TULARE.
The Supervisors of Tulare county
have moved the embargo from grape
slips, and only require proper disinfec-
ton of the vines.
VENTURA.
The new church building of the First
Christian Church of Santa. Paula was
dedicated March 10th. 1t cost $4,000.
PACIFIC COAST.