Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-12-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Attempt on Cars Life--Terrible
Storm on Great Makes.

Redding, Calf, has voted Sl45, 600
bonds for streets, sewers and a new
city hall. Every proposition carried
by a vote OF ten to one.
Five deaths from drinking Chinese
gin have occurred in Portland within
the past three months. Two drinks
OF the stuff usually renders the
drinker temporarily insane.
A dispatch from London this week
contained the startling news that one
Of the Grand Dukes had attempted
the life Of the Car. 1t was claimed
that the Gar was wounded in the
right hand.
Over $40 lives have been sacrificed,
over seventy ships wrecked and a
loss of nearly 81, 600, 900 has been
sustained in the three big storms on
the Great Lakes this season. This
is the most disastrous season in the
history of shipping on the lakes.
William B. Ridgely, Comptroller of
the Currency, will be married to Miss
Catherine Deering Of Washington
next month. Mr.. Ridgely's first wife
was Miss Cullom, daughter OF United
States Senator Cullom of Illinois.
She died three years ago.
Ex-C Councilman ]. p. Davenport OF
Los Angeles was instantly killed in a
collision of trolley cars in that city
last Saturday. Davenport gained
considerable prominence last year
through bis constituents having him
removed from Office through the
operation Of the "recall" law.
The point practically has been
reached in Russia where the attempt
to steer a middle course between the
demands OF the reactionaries and
those OF the proletariat must be
abandoned. The time seems close at
hand, indeed, when the dethronement
Of Nicholas by one side or the other
will bring a final crisis in Russia's
fate.
Four young Indian girls ran away
from the Indian School at Carson a
few days ago and were not found
until an old-time trailer was put on
their track. He followed their foot
prints through the snow to the sum
init Of Lake View. When found the
girls yer unconscious from cold and
exhaustion. They were lying in the
open under the trees with the Their
mometer three degrees below zero.
Miss Grace Berheimer and NJ.
Robert Guggenheim were welded in
New York last Saturday, thus unit
ing two Of the wealthiest Jewish
families in the United States, and
with the exception of the Rothchilds,
the richest in the world. After tour
ing Europe for a few months, the
young couple will make California
their home, as Mr.. Guggenheim will
have charge of his fathers smelling
works there,
Courtenay Bennett, the British
consul stationed in San Francisco,
spent a few days in Carson this week
investigating the alleged confession
OF t, r. German, who was hanged
last month. On the gallows Gormar
said that he committed a crime il
San Francisco several years ago foi
which a mar named Barker is serv.
ing a life sentence. Barker is 6
British subject, hence the Interest
shown in the case by the British
CONSUL.
The Selby Smelling and Lard Com
pRny has put a force Of men to work
constructing c%ondensers for the sui
phuric acid and lead gasses, at theil
plant near Benecia. The people o
that section claim that the fume.
constitute a deadly nuisance and ar,
greatly pleased at the prospect OF it,
being abated. The cost of the i'm
provements will be in the neighbor
hood Of $75, 900 and will include /;
house twenty-four feet square, filled
with conical shaped bags of a heavy
cloth through which the fumes will
pass.
Governor Pardee OF California re
Gently received a letter from H.. c