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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-29

Why pay a big price for cab work2
Mecray Livery will do 4 cheap. Al.
ways ready.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-29

Each evening performance Of the
HlmmeIeIn Stock Company Will start
promptly at s:i5.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-29

The best stock company ever seen
III this city will commence weeks
engagement at the Grand Monday.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-29

A special New Years matinee will
he given Tuesday. The bill will be the
"Parlsian Princess"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-29

Ii costs you nothing to take your
wife or sweetheart 70 Gee aLost Para.
sllseR Al the Grand Monday evening.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-29

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The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04
ELDER MEMBERS OF THE sK1Doo FAMILY

NO phlogst VIII
nor ao how they
S1doo is modern example bu
"here came from and of
ITS development a fuIrounded word
Following partial list
meaning but lack the present novelty
Apsqauae Vanoose
on Beat IT. Retire Get Leave Hike
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The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04

A stately and venerable professor
one morning, being unable to attend TO
his class on account of a cold, wrote
on the blackboard:
DR.. Dash, through indisposftion. is
unable to attend to his classes to-day"
The students erased one letter in this
notice, making it read:
DR.. Dash, through indispositfon, is
unable to attend to his lasses to-day"
But it happened a few minutes later
that the professor returned for box
he had forgotten. Amid the roar of
laughter he detected the change in his
notice. and. approaching the black
board. calmly erased one letter in his
turn.
Now the notice read:
DR. Dash, through indisposition. is
unable 10 attend to his asses TODAY"
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04

Here Amos
telling of
loaded
congressman happened to know where
kindly guided home had
A hah the door thrown husky
i she by and
shook him till fairly into the ha she took him
slammed door
Inc Congressman was descending the
open second TIME and few by
AT the foot the
Very much frightened
don't live ast week.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04
HIS LoRDsHIP's AMIDsHIP

Ambassador Choate tells a story of
the Bishop of Rochester, England, the
divine who was so found of cricket
that he used to play the game with an
expert local team.
1t appears that one day when the
Bishop was batting the bowler pitched
very wide.
Please keep the ball in the parish,"
commanded the Bishop, testify.
The next ball the bowler sent In
caught the right reverend gentleman
full in the waisband, whereupon the
bowler observed:
I think that's somewhere about the
diocese, my lord
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
--
AUKUM.
INQUIRER.

Our burg like many others was
visited by a heavy wind and rain
storm last week, and where ere you
go the cry is mud, mud, but in spite
of poor roads and mud, the roads are
kept warm with people going to Ply
mouth to buy Christmas presents.
Rob. Carter, who has been gone all
summer, returned home last week.
Sam Kasper, who has been working
at the Philips mine, has quit and
moved his family back to his home at
Shenandoah valley.
Frank Goftinett took load of hogs
to Amador Saturday.
Will Burns went to Plymouth Fri
day, to drive several head of his cattle
home that straYed to the Taylor ranch.
Jack French's youngest child, and
also Mrs Farnsworth, who have been
quite sick, are on the improve at this
writing.
Rubie Dillon was the guest uf Flora
Gofiinett Sunday last.
Ed. HarrelI is working for Fritz
wager of Shenandoah.
Laura Votaw and Mrs McCIar,a
we're visitors at Mrs N. Perry's Sun
day.
The W. q. L. US. will have a
Christmas tree at Wrigglesw orth s
ball on the 24th. They will have it
i'll the afternoon, as it seems that
Santa Claus can't be there at night.
The Mt. Aukum W. g. L. US held
mothers meeting at Mrs j. Hum
phrey's Saturday.
Mrs w. Warren was at her mothers.
Mrs Farnsworth of Uno, for two days
last week.
The Pigeon Creek school closed
Friday, and Miss Jessie Brown, the
teacher, gave certificates of honor tc
the scholars that were neither tardy
nor absent during the term. Daisy
Bell was the only pupil that received
either and she got both. The scholars
we're glad of vacation, after their
term of hard study, but sorry to part
with their teacher, as she was well
liked by all of them. Giddy Dick.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Christmas.

Christmas tide is, by universal GUS
tom of ChTistendom recognized as the
period of Joy and gladness. 1t is not
merely national holiday season. 1t
is the gala time which all Christian
nations unite in celebrating. This is
the. only idea upon which the various
nations have by common consent
united. Tue custom has survived all
the vicissitudes of time, the rise and
fall of nations, since early Christian
times. And it is apparently as deeply
rooted in the popular mind to-day as
it was thousand years ago. TIE
method of its celebration has IN
doubtedly changed. 1t is variously
celebrated in different countries and
nationalities to-day. And in each
nationality the custom has undergone
repeated change. But the tunda-
mental idea runs through all the ages,
and pervades all people-tne celebra-
tion of the glad tidings said to have
been heralded by heavenly messengers
to the shepherds over the plains OF
Bethlehem at the birth of Christ.
The precise date of that birth Is a
matter of dispute, and hence the
holiday is celebrated at different
dates. according to the opinions held
on this matter.
From an austere religious festival it
has come to be regarded as prominent
ly the chiIdren's holiday. And even
the word" holyday "-now modernized
as holiday carries an entirely
different meaning from that which
prevailed in early times. The fact is
the custom of celebrating Christine as
has broken loose from its original
ecclesiastical bounds, and has be-
come season of general mirth and
merry making apart from. its religious
environments. The churches cele-
brate 1T still, perhaps as saoredly and
fervently as of old.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
A MADOR.

Mrs j. b. Tregloan and daughter,
Dorothy, left for Oakland Saturday.
Will Dunlap is on the sick LIST.
Sam Pierce, the hoteIkoeper met
with a serious accident Saturday
evening, injurlng his spine.
Miss Louise Mclaughlin left for
her home in Shake KIdgesWednesday.
Miss Hattie Hinkson is quite sick.
Miss Alice Jacka is home for the
holidays.
Mrs Osterman of Nevada City, who
has been visiting friends here for the
past few weeks, left Monday morning.
Mr. HoadIey left for his home in
Martinez Thursday morning.
Miss Ella Purcell is visiting her
aunt, Mrs Gordon.
Mr. Burns attended the institute in
Suffer Creek Wednesday.
The Misses Hazel and Idel White
head and Mae Kelly, visited Suffer
Creek Tuesday, being the commence
ment of the teachers inst itute.
Inquirer.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Amad0r Pioneer Passes Away.

Hugh M. LaRue, a pioneer of ANA
dor county, and for many years a
prominent resident of Sacramento.
died in that city on Wednesday of last
week. He was 76 years and months
old, and native of Kentucky. His
parents removed 30 Missouri in 1889.
when that State was overrun with
Indians. In 1919, when boy of 10.
he joined9 the Sublette- Conduct ex-
petition, across the plains for the
Pacific coast. He first settled at
Fiddletown, in this county, now
known as Oleta, and thereafter re-
moved to Willow Springs, and thenoe
to Marysville. From the latter town
he started trading expedition to the
north. In June 1850, he engaged in
the blacksmithing and wagon making
business in Sacramento. He was one
of the pioneer orchardist of the Sacra-
mento valley, planting rs acres in
deciduous fruits in 1857, the most
extensive orchard planted up to that
time. 1t was ruined by the flood of
1868, in which year he again moved
to Sacramento city, where he has
resided ever since. He was a strong
democrat in politics. He was elected
sheriff of Sacramento in 1873. He
was afterwards a member of the
constitutional convention in 1879,
assemblyman in 1884, and speaker
of the house in that session. He
filled the, office of railroad commiss-
Toner from 1891 to 1895. In 1858 he
married Miss Il. M Lizenby of Colusa
county, Three sons survive him
Calhoun Lee, Hugh McElroy and John
Rush.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
The Direct Primary Law.

Inc StaGo conventions OF DOLn the
republican and democratic parties are
pledged to support a change in the
law, providing tor the nomination of
all candidates for election offices by
the direct primary method. OF
course. the republicans having control
of both branches of the legislature,
will be held responsible for any fail
ure to enact such a law. The urgent
need of this reform has been apparent
for many years, but never was it so
forcibly impressed upon the voters
of this state as in the last campaign.
The resentment of the rank and file
at the autocratic methods pursued
was manifest in both state and county
tickets. The party thanks to the
third party movement, won out on
the state issue, but that fact by no
means constitutes an endorsement of
the methods resorted to at the state
convention. On the contrary, an
analysis of the vote shows that the
tactics were emphatically condemned
by the voters. A few such victories
would be costly indeed to the re-
publican party. The remedy for the
evils that forged to the front so
bIazenly IN the late campaign is the
selection of all candidates by direct
primary. This will strike at the root
of the evil. 1t will relegate absolute
ly the selection of candidates to the
majority of the party adherents. If
they fail to exercise their rights to
vote at the primary, that is their
fault. Given the opportunity to ex-
press their choice, they alone are
blamable if they fail to avail them
selves of the right. The main cause
of dissatisfaction the ignor
ing of the masses CT voters-will be
removed.
Already objections are being raised
to the direct primary system. 1t is
urged that it is costly; that 1t Will
entail much greater expense upon
candidates, by requiring them to
make two canvasses, instead of one
under the convention methods. In
the first place, an aspirant for public
position would have to make can
vass within the ranks of the party to
which be belongs to secure the
nomination. If successful IN this, he
would then have to make general
canvass, as at present, TO secure his
election. While this may be all true,
it is a very small matter when
weighed against the benefits likely to
flow from the reform plan. Such
arguments will not satisfy the voters
of either party for failure of the
legislature to pass the proposed law
and therebyyglve the people chance
to test its merits by an actual trial
The bosses-those who manipulate
state and county conventions, do not
want to be shorn of their strength,
and would prefer to stand by the con-
vention methods. We trust the law
makers soon to assemble at Sacra-
mento will heed the imperative
demand of the people for the direct
primary plan of nominating elective
officers
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Hotel Arrivals.

National-E Ii Stock, Warren S
Reed, f ID p Teller, w Nj Jones. San
Francisco; G Prouty, lone; W o Man
son, Chicago; N Il Denend, ID Shealor.
K Shealor, Volcano; David FuIah. Nj
Bensabat, Chicago; A Jones. Pine
Grove; l Cook, Volcano; Myron Dun
ston, Louis Ferry, Ii Ferry, L Carr. s
q Hoffman, San Francisco; W
Matthews. New York; A q Ormsba,
New York; j S BIowsky, Oakland !:
John Kanter, Louisville, Ky; W III
Weaver, San francisco; j S Miller.
t'osteria; Ethel H March, Pine Grove;
ii S Hoor, San Francisco; j V Wood
cock, West Point; Chas j Gall. Stock
ton; b X Ralph, San Francisco; Grant
z Merrill, San Francisco; Chas See
mon, l Houston, Railroad Flat; A
Wilcox, S Nj Millard, A Friedrich.
San Francisco; W Doe. Railroad Flat:
Guy Francis, San Francisco: r L.
Gibbons, l. E Atkins, Stockton; J G.
Cheney, GoIdfeId; j S Renwick.
Sacramento; e d Novel;, Juneau
Alaska; & Webber, Berkeley; b B
Smith, San Francisco; MIS- S Hoss,
Hearst, Ii Van Ogden, San Francisco:
b y Boydston, Volcano; j \ BIttel,
NJ MaIchant, lone; Miss B Coolidge,
lone; Miss W ID Wheeler, NJ Harri-
field, San francisco; John e Harker,
Chico.
Globe-W LampeIt, Sacramento; G
N Thoms, Sutter; W McLane, De-
fender; A Jones, Pine Grove; l. A
Cook, Volcano; y z Daley, Gilroy;
Carl Koch, Sacramento; W w Plum
mer, Sacramento; Ii Adams, San
francisco; Mike Hetfren, lone; w L.
Rose, Suffer Greek; Lucy e Smith,
Mabel H Phillips, Defender Mrs w A
McKenney, Alice j Berry, Pine Grove;
b d Gail, Clinton; q Cheney, San
Francisco; j Ii Hoffman, Stockton;
Q A Clinton, San Francisco; Grant P
Merrill, Woodfords; Ray VaIlern,
Electra; Mrs A Richardson, Ante
lope; VIM H Yeager, Mrs freeman,
Electra; j Adams. Middle Bar; w Ii
Campbell, Chicago; L 4 Clark, San
francisco; w Il Nichols, Antelope;
Geo Luse, lone; Capt Glenn, Aque-
duct; A + Griffin, Volcano; J E Cate,
Chicago; g w Edwards, Sacramento;
j q Finck, San Francisco; f Mar
mon, j E Harmon, Tuolumne; A Il
SullingeI, San Francisco; Bird and
wife, Electra; Mrs 2 Clarke, Electra;
Con O'Neil Del Monte; j Ii Merrill,
San Francisco; J G Weriey, Defender;
Tony Levaggi, West Point; Grant 2
Merrill, Woodfords; 0 l. Webster, &
Bradshaw, Pine Grove; CasseiIs,
Suffer Creek; Il B Joyce, Defender;
David Fisher and son, Wieland; James
Fullen. Amador City; M Fourier,
New York; Jos Datson, Plymouth;
G W Randall, BerkeIly; Jas Mcbride,
Sacramento; g Parsons, Stockton;
q II johnson, ! j Mcbride, Placer
Vile,
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Notice of Assessment.

Jose Gulch Mining Company. a COR
poratlon, duly organized and existing
under aud by virtue of the law of the
state OF California. having its office
and principal place of business at
Butte Basin jackson post otfice1
Amador county, California, and its
property and works at the same place.
Notice is hereby given that, at a
regular meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Jose Gulch Mining
Company, held on the 3rd day Of
December 1906, an assessment of five
-(5) cents per share was levied on the
subscribed capital stock of the above
named corporation, payable on or
before the 18th day of January, 1907,
to the secretary of the said corpora
ton, j. p. Little, at Butte Basin.
jackson post office), Amador county.
California.
ANY stock on which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the 10Th day
OF january, 1907, will be delinquent
and will be advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment
is made of the assessment with accrued
costs Eefore the 4th day of February,
1907, said delinquent stock will be
sold on that day FEB. 4th. 1900, to
pay the delinquent assessment to-
gether with costs OF advertising and
expenses of sale.
j. z. LITTLE,
Secretary of the Jose Gulch Mining
Company.
Office at Butte Basin, jackson post
othce), Amador county, California.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

E. G. Dewitt & Co., of Chicago, at
whose laboratory Kodol is prepared,
assure us that this remarkable digest
ant and corrective for the stomach
conforms fully to all provisions of
the National Pure Food and Drug
Law. The Kodol laboratory is a very
large one, but if all the sufferers
from indigestion and stomach troubles
could know the virtues of KodoI it
would be impossible for the manu-
facturers to keep up with the de-
mand. Kodol is sold here by F. W.
Ruhser.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Notice
To Taxpayers.
Office of the Tax Collector
County of Amador Stat1

County of Amador, State of California.
NJ Office is HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
~ taxpayers of Amador county. that l. IT K
NORMAN. Tax Collector of Amador county
did on the Sth day of October, 1906. receive
from the County Auditor of Amador county the
original assessment books for the year 1909
containing list of the persons assessed for
real and personal property, and the amount of
year,
That said taxes are now due and PAYABLE IN
me at my office in the Court House. in The town
fornia.
That the taxes on all personal property Sc
cured by real property, and one half Of the
taxes on all real property were due and PAYABLE
on the second Monday in October, 1905, and will
be delinquent on the last Monday In November
next thereafter, at O'Clock p. m. and that uu-
less paid prior thereto, fifteen per cent will be
ADDED to the amount thereof, and if said one
half be not paid before the last Monday in
April next, at O'Clock p. m an additional five
per cent will be added thereto.
That the remaining one-half of the taxes on
az a, real property Will be payable on and after
the hrst Monday in January next, and will be
delinquent on the last Monday in April next
thereafter, at O'Clock p. m, and that unless
to the amount thereof.
That all taxes may be paid at the time the
payable,
First instalment, one half real estate and ell
personal property. due October sth 1906
First instalment, one BALI real estate and all
personal per- property, delinquent November Goth,
1906, at O'Clock p. m.
Second nstalment, one-half real estate. due
January 18th, 1907.
Second instalment one half real estate, de-
linque7t April 29th. 1907, at O'Clock D. m.
All the taxes may be paid in full at the time
the first installment is due.
~. taxes not paid according to law will be de-
nnquent and Is per cent and per cent and
other costs will be added thereto.
Positively no Checks received for the pay
ment of taxes.
T. K NORMAN,
lay Cnllnctnr Of Ia. a.......-
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
CITY of JACKSON
DELINQUENT
TAX LIST
FOR THE YEAR 1906.
FOR THE YEAR 1906.
Office of the City Tax Collector,
City of jackson,
County of Amadnr

City of jackson, S..
County of Amador.
Public notice is hereby given that
the following is the delinquent tax
list of the city of jackson for the year
l9O6, containing the names of the
persons and description of the pro-
perty delinquent, and the amount of
taxes and costs due opposite each
name; with the taxes due on personal
property added to the taxes due on
real estate, where the real estate is
liable therefor, or where several taxes
are due from the same person, to wit !:
Taxes &
Costs
ID. DORNAN-A house and lot
in the city of jackson, design
ated on official TOWNSHIP map
as being lot No. Is, in block
No l. also personal property
consisting of household furnl-
ture. $500
GOOD HOPE MINING COM
PANY. = The Good Hope
Quartz Mine in the city of
jackson, being in section %,
L. N, K. IL E., according
to the official map of the town
site on file in the office of the
county recorder of Amador
county. 1897
G. BRlGNARDELLI.- Interest
created by mortgage executed
by j. z. Little on lot Az in
block 2 of subdivision of lot
in block 2 in the city of
jackson. Original and pre-
sent value of mortgage $500.
Dated the 9th day of July A.
ID. l9Ol. Time to run years. So. 80
And further notice is hereby given
that unless the said taxes delinuuent.
together with costs and percentages.
are paid, the real property Above
described, upon which such taxes are
lien, will on SATURDAY THE 18th
DAY OF JANUARY, 1907, at the
hour of l O'Clock p. M, in front of
the City lax Collectors office, in
Marelia Building on Court street,
jackson, California, be sold to the
City of Jackson, under the provisions
of Ordinance No. IA entitled, IAN
ordinance providing a system for the
assessment levy, and collection of
city taxes" passed and approved on
the Sth day of February, 1906.
Dated, December IA, 1906.
+. &. JACKSON,
City Tax Collector.
First publication Dec. IA. 1906. At
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

There has been great deal of talk
because of the discharge without
honor of three companies of coIored
soldiers. Do you know why it was
done? There was a good deal of fric-
ton between white citizens and the
colored at Brownsville, Texas. One
day colored soldier was knocked
down by white citizen for jostllng
his wife. The same day a colored
soldier rudely treated another white
woman on the streets. This caused
so much excitement that the soldiers
were confined to their barracks.
That night twelve or fifteen of them
escaped and fired ten shots into
house containing two women and five
children. The lieutenant of police.
man universally respected, rode
toward the Shooting. Although he did
not even draw his revolver, the
raiders, whom he estimated to be
about fifteen in number, fired upon
him, killed his horse, and shot him
i'll the right arm, which afterwards
had to be amputated below the elbow.
Then they fired seven or eight shots
into hotel, killed the bartender of
saloon, slightly wounded a Mexican,
fired five or six shots into another
private house, two of which went
through the mosquito bar over a bed
in which a woman and two children
were sleeping. and then apparently
ran back to the barracks. The officer
at first thought that the firing had
come from the town side, and the
men had no trouble in getting back
and cleaning their rifles. When the
soldiers were questioned, not one
would admit any knowledge of any
trouble. Globe.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

United States Land Office at Sacra-
mento, CAL, State of California.
10 whom it may concern Notice
is hereby give that the State of Cali
fornia has filed in this office its State
School Indemnity Selection, No. 1884,
A. b. q. D., applying to select as
indemnity the following described
tracts of land, to wit: S f a of N b
sec. D; S + a of SW a sec. % Up.
Z N, r. IA E, M. ID. Mer.
A copy OF said list by descriptive
subdivisions has been consplcuously
posted in this office for the inspection
of persons interested and the public
generally.
During the sixty days. period of
publication of this notice this office
Will receive protests or contests as to
any of the tracts applied for, claimed
to be more valuable for mining than
for agricultural purposes.
Dated, Sacramento, California,
November 20. 1906
JOHN +. ARMSTRONG, Register.
WILL A. NEWCUM, Receiver.
Date of first publication Decembe
7, 1906.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

A contract has just been award ed
for printing the United States postage
stamp for the next four years. 1t
calls for 81, 900, 600 stamps daily. The
American people do very consider
able amount of letter writing and
stamp licking, fact more clearly
understood when little illustration
is used. If one tongue had to moisten
all these stamps it would have to
move 426 miles day, or 155, 400 miles
a year, allowing one inch for each
stamp.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Makes Reduction In Charges.

twenty-five per cent reduction has
been made by the government in
charges for patenting mining claims,
the order being now in effect. This
schedule of prices will remain in
force until further orders: Placer
claim, $50; lode claim, s25; millsite,
SIS; millsite included in survey with
lode, $15; lode claim within and in
cluded in survey of placer claim. SIS;
several lode locations included in
one survey first location named, s25 :;
all other locations included, each,
$40; several placer locations included
in one survey, first location named
$50; all other locations included, each
s25; certificate of $500 improvements
after approval of survey, S..
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

For chapped and cracked hands
nothing is quite as good as an appli-
cation of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Put it on before going to bed, use
an old pair of gloves, and see what
difference the morning Will bring.
Sold by +. w. Ruhser.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

TURKEY FOR SALE-A fine lot
OF turkeys for sale. Mis- Driscoll.
Scottsville, near Jackson, Cal. 1t
Ledger and Chicago Week Y Inter
ocean, both papers for one year, 81. 80
in advance.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21

Ladies' Attention! Send your name,
address and size of ress-shieIds, also
name of dry goods store where you
trade and receive free sample pair
"Canfields" Hicks Brand Gossamer
Weight Shields. Address "CanfieId"
care of the S. Fl. and M. Co, % South
ST., San francisco, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1906-12-21
Notice of Selection Under Sections
2275 and 2276.

U. s. Statutes, as amended by Act
OF Congress, February %, 1891.