Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-04-26
CALIFORNIA.
ALAMEDA.

| ALAMEDA.
Alameda will have woman on the
Board of Health. She is DIR. Kate Post
Van Orden. Never before has a wom-
an served on any official board in that
city.
John NJ. Whitworth of the San Fran
cisco law firm of Whitworth & Shurt-
leff, and twice president of the Alumni
fornia, died at his home, 220S Fulton
street, Berkeley, from the effects of
ptomaine poisoning caused by eating
CLAIMS.
With hope and ambition dead at IS,
Richard B. Potts stranged himself with
knotted sheets attached to the grating
of his cell in the Alameda County Jail
at Oakland. In the beginning life
promised the best of its fullness for him.
He was the only child and heir of Rich
ard e. Potts of Oakland, who is reputed
to be worth 100000.
CONTRA COSTA.
The special election for the purpose
of forming a hight school district at
Concord was carried almost unani-
mOusly. The work of building the
school will be begun as soon as possible.
Concord will have the first high school
in Contra Costa county.
The Contra Costa Supervisors have
again adopted plans for a courthouse.
This time those of Ravens 4 Toepke
have been accepted. The plans resem-
BILE closely those which were rejected
under a storm of disapproval. The
building, it is estimated, can be con-
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S145,0 900. Bids will be called for as
soon as the necessary preliminary ar
engagements can be complied with.
CALAvERAS.
Christ Held, a peddler, committed
suicide at Camanche.
Ell DORADO.
One hundred bonds, aggregating over
$40, 900, issued by the City Council to
refund old outstanding bonded indebt-
edness of the city of Placerville, have
been sold. The entire issue has been
sold to local bidders at fair premium.
FRESNO.
Excavations made at various points
about the town of Fresno for the founda-
lions of new building have deter
mined the fact that water is plentifully
found at depth of nine feet below the
level of the street curb. The belief has
long been entertained that the city is
located on great subterranean lake.
The finding of water so close to the sur
face has added to the cost of business
house construction on account of pump
ing and the use of concrete foundations
and wall and floors to keep the water
out of easements.
M. F. Fox, employed at Monte Cristo,
a well known Kern river oil field, was
struck on the head by block that fell
from the top of derrick. His skull
was fractured. The outcome of the ac-
cident is in doubt. Fox resides in San
ia Ana
The electric alarm at the Sheriff
office connecting with the Treasurer's
office in the courthouse, 800 feet away,
was set going and the jailer notified by
telephone all the deputies of the Treas
urer's office in Bakersfield. Officers sur
rounded the building, but no intruders
were found. A careful search of the
courthouse was made, but no robbers
were found. In the morning it was
ascertained that the safecrackers had
crawled under the courthouse to the
Treasurer's office on the other side of
the building. In some way they come
in contact with the wires, setting the
alarm in operation in the Sherif7s
office. The officers did not think that
the alarm could be given by any one
under the house, and made no effort to
search that part of the building. Foot
prints made by two men were found
underneath the courthouse.
ORANGE.
Harold Crowley of Lockport, n. Y,
son of eX-Congressman Crowley and an
employee of the Postal Department, who
was recently arrested on a charge of
misappropriating postal funds, was ar
raigned at San Juan and found not
guilty.
LOS ANGELES.
United States Examiner of SURVEYS
w. o. Owen is in Los Angeles to exam
inc lot of recent surveys in Southern
California. Government land is sur
veyed by contract, and until it is Off
cially examined and reported upon
cannot be approved and opened to set
Element. Mr.. Owen has just completed
the examination of the surveys in the
Grand Canyon district of Arizona. He
has work planned that will take him
all over California and will occupy HIM
for period of six months.
1t is now claimed that the man and
woman under arrest at Los Angeles for
stealing jewelry from the home of Nor
itz Meyberg are old hands at the bust
ness and are wanted in San Francisco.
The real name of the man is Francisco
Gardella and that the woman is known
as Julia Ganzaliski. There are four
charges of grand larceny against them
in San Francisco. The woman was re-
Gently engaged as cook in the Mey-
berg home, ann one day suddenly dis
appeared. At the same time about
$1,000 worth of jewelry also disappeared.
LAKE.