Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-04-05
Current News.
CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.


ALAMEDA.
San Lorenzo has progressed to such
an extent that the need of new school
house is recognized as imperative, and
therefore the Trustees have called an
election to be held Monday, April 18th,
Tor the purpose of voting on the issu-
ance of bonds in the sum of $4,000. of
which $4,000 will be devoted to the
erection of the building and the remain
ing $1,000 to furnishing it with the most
modern school utilities.
James Ferguson, "a years old and a
resident of Poplar, Tulare county, was
drowned in the swimming pool at the
Piedmont baths. He was attending a
business college in Oakland and had
gone to the baths in company with
three friends-Ed Cottle, James Gan
non and George Chapman-for swim.
They had been in some little time.
Ferguson had swum the length of the
1OO-foot pool and had started back,
when he began shouting for help and
asking his friends to come to his assist
ance, as he was drowning. His COM
panions thought the drowning man
was jesting and did not respond.
CALAvERAS.
George w. Mathews and his mother
were riding behind spirited horse,
when the animal became frightened
and ran away, going down Carmen
hill, a steep, dangerous piece of road.
Both Mathews and his mother were
thrown out. Mathews was dragged for
some distance and probably fatally in
jured. His mother was badly bruised.
HUMBOLDT.
Mrs. Mary Orr, for two years and a
half employed as teacher at the Gov
eminent Indian School in Hoopa val
ley, died suddenly during the night
from heart disease. Mrs. Orr was ma
tive of Portland, Or, where her family
resides.
John G. Behan, who escaped from
the county Jail at Flagstaff, A. t.,
March Sd, with four other prisoners,
has been arrested at Bakersfield by
Under Sheriff Borgwardt.
George Sandow was killed by falling
down a shaft in the Yellow Aster mine
at Randsburg. He was making sur
vey of the mine when the accident oc-
CURED. SandOw was resident of San
Francisco. A wife and three children
survive him.
LOS ANGELES.
The largest Presbyterian Church on
the Pacific Coast is the Emmanuel
Church of Los Angeles. Its member
ship counts 1900.
On Catalina island lady and gen.
tleman, tourists, walked to the beach
by way of the trail, but seeing a long
stretch of sand, attempted to return by
way of the beach. When they reached
Abalone point they found their way
was closed and they must either retrace
their steps or scale a cliff, and they I'M
dertook to climb it. After laboring up
200 feet they came upon a place more
difficult than any yet encountered.
Rocks and shale were slipping from be-
meath their feet and dashing into the
foaming waters below. 1t was still a
hundred feet or more to the top of the
cliff, and when they tried to return to
the beach the woman became dizzy
and could not move. The man reached
the trail and came to town for help,
leaving the woman on the cliff side.
J. Gardner took his launch, and, with
Al Shade and Gus Knowles, repaired to
the spot. Shade and Knowles climbed
up to the woman and fastened rope
about her, and she was drawn up in
safety The woman refused to give her
name, as did her companion, for she
said she had travelled all over the world,
climbed the Alps and the Himalayas,
and did not like the proposition of be-
ing knocked out on a little 400-foot
climb on Catalina.
MERGED.
A woman who had attained the ex-
traOrdinary age of 1O7 years, died in
MERGED. The decedent was Mrs. Isabel
Villa Senior. She was born in Iapalpa,
Mexico, and came to California in 1850,
and to MERGED in 1870. Her children
numbered eleven, and there survive her
two grandchildren, two great-grand-
children and two great-great-grand-
children.
The trial of Robert McFarlane for the
murder of J. HI. Tucker on February
21st has been terminated, the jury re-
turning a verdict of manslaughter. A
motion for a new trial will be made.
McFarlane took the stand in his own
behalf and claimed that he shot Tucker
in self-defense. Tucker was the keeper
of tenderloin resort and was having
trouble with his former wife over prop
erty matters and other things. Nc
Farlane was living with her in the
tenderloin at the time of the shooting
MENDOCINO.
The juniors of the University of Cali
fornia won in the field exercises at
Ukiah by the score of Y to Sc. This is
the first defeat suffered by the crack
Ukiah High School athletes.
The steamer I.uella went ashore at
Little river, two miles south of Mendo-
cino. She had just completed her car
go of ties and was endeavoring to put
to sea when she ran on the rocks.
MONTEREY.
Mrs. Bontadelli, widow of Kings
City, is accused of numbering her week
old infant by strangling it. 1t is be-
lieved that she is mentally unbalanced.
MARIN.
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