Amador ledger., 1902-02-14
NEWS Of THE PAST WEEK
Short News Items Of Local
Interest.
A Break in the New Ditch Wednes
day-An Entertainment to be
Given March 18th.


F. M. Whitmore returned Monday
evening from trip to Sacramento.
Homemade bread, pies, cakes, for
sale; Mrs Jennie Larsen, Summit st.
Fresh fish and frozen oysters every
Thursday and Friday at Caminetti' s
Central Market.
c. L. Culbert, county clerk, left
Wednesday for San Francisco, to be
away about a week.
G. F. Nourse, the genial traveller of
the Pioneer Flour Mills, paid Jackson
his customary visit.
E. G. Turner, who has been working
at the Gwin mine for several months,
was in town Saturday night.
c. A. Severance, representing Dodd,
Mead & Co., the school supply house
of Chicago, was in Jackson yesterday.
An entertainment will be given on
the evening of the 18th of March, for
the benefit of St. Patrick's Church.
Announcements will be made later on.
Great interest is anticipated over the
basket social and fishing entertainment
to be given in Pine Grove Saturday
evening, February 15. 1t will be free
to the general public. A literary and
musical program will also be furnished.
You can get better value for your
money at the White House than any
where else in town. Don't take my
word for it, but come and be convinced. E.
The White House.
j. P. Dee, who for more than two
years occupied the position of foreman
at the Mitchell mine near Pine Grove,
spent Monday night in Jackson on his
way to the city. He reports favorably
upon the mining conditions at Pine
Grove.
r. G. Ray, of the Chattanooga Medi-
cine Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
is in Jackson in the interest of their
well known goods. He proposes to
make house to house canvass of the
town in behalf of these medicines.
Mrs. Idam Hintman, died at ANA
Crossing on February II, after brief
illness of typhord pneumonia. De-
ceased was a sister of A. Cammetti
of Jackson. The funeral will take
place this afternoon in Jackson.
We will make to order, fit and
quality guaranteed, an up-to-date
Worsted suit, all wool, from $500 and
upwards. No fit, no sale. The White
House.
Judge Hughes, of the superior court
of Sacramento county, came up We'd
nesday evening for the purpose of
hearing the probate cases of the estates
of John Eagon. P. N. Barnhart, ard
w. Spray, in which Judge Rust is dis
qualified
The Riverside Touring mills at Reno,
Nevada, were destroyed by fire Monday
night. They were valued at $50, 900,
fully insured. W L. Cox, who mar
ried Miss E. Taylor of Jackson, last
summer, and who has made his
home there since, was employed as
superintendent of the mills. 1t is re-
ported that they will be rebuilt at once.
G. 1. Wright returned to Jackso n
last Friday night, after five months
stay in the east. During this time he
placed the larger portion of the stock
in the Del Monte Mining Company,
and by his persistent and untiring
work he has now placed this mine on a
basis which seems to assure its ultima to
success.
Fl. F. Vogt, through his attorney,
Neil A. Macquarrie, has put in a pro-
test against the homestead entry of
Theodore ]. Beauchemin, who offered
final proof in Jackson on Monday. The
protest is on the ground that portion
of the homestead is alleged to include a
part of mineral claim located by H.
F. Vogt.
The board of education of Santa
Clara county passed appropriate reso-
lutions of respect on the occasion of the
death of w. Il. Coleman, late principal
of the AmadOr City school, and who
was resident of Gilroy and formerly a
member of the Santa Clara board of
education. Upon the adoption of the
resolutions the board adjourned out of
respect to his memory.
A break occurred on the line of the
new ditch last Wednesday, which shut
off the supply of water from the mines
for a short time Breaks are unavoid-
able with all new bitches. They are
just getting the water through the new
canal, and mishaps may be expect
ed to occur until banks get thoroughly
packed. The company has a large
working force prepared to fix up a
break on short order.
Mrs. Folger, our postmistress, re-
ceived word last week that a severe
accident befel her sister, Mrs. Lottie
Driscoll, in Seattle recently. She
slipped and fell in her yard, and came
in contact with tub, causing a bad
fracture of rib. 1t will take some
weeks to recover from the accident
Mrs. Driscoll has been in Jackson sew.
eral times. She was visiting her sister
here last September and her many
friends here will be panied to hear o.