Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-12-20
FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENTS
PLYMOUTH.

The rains shut off so suddenly last
spring that there was no dry grass to
fall back on during the dry summer,
and it was dry so long that every
thing was eaten up clean, and now
there is neither dry nor green feed.
The green feed is just starting up,
but the chances are that it will be SO
cold that we Will not have any good
pasturage until midwinter, and stock
must be fed or suffer, and a great
many will die if not fed.
Madame Rumor has it that the old
Pacific mine is going to start up
again, but the people about here
have heard that story SO long that it
has become the old thing, and. they
pay no more attention to the rumor.
When we see them go to work in
earnest we will begin to think that
there is something going to be done.
1t seems that the coroner's jury in
Mrs Boyson's case we're unable to
ascertain the cause of her death. By
the way, what we're the doctors call
ed for if not to get their opinion as
to the cause of death, so as to help
the jury make comprehensive YER
dict.
In regard to this matter we will
state that the ambiguity of the jury's
verdict is responsible for the differ
ence of opinion that exists on the
subject. AS we are informed, there
was no doubt whatever as to the
cause of death. The Medical men
were unit, SO far as we have heard
on that point. Death was caused
from cerebral meningitis. If the
verdict had so stated it would have
been incapable of being miscon-
strued. But the point that could
not be determined-or rather was
not determined was as to the cause
OF the fatal disease. Ii might have
resulted from many causes, so that
the jury, as a matter of fact, even
with the expert medical testimony
before them, they were unable to say
whether or not anyone was blamable
for that death. And an autopsy
would probably not have aided them
on this point in the least. We have
not read the testimony taken at the
inquest, but this is probably the DOR
rect version. a little more care in
training the verdict would no doubt
have avoided the ing.
Ed.
Our pioneer temperance advocate,
W. D. Clark, returned from Ell
Dorado county last week. where he
had been preaching temperance in
order to get the people in line to
vote on local option in that county
in the near future.
Our supervisor, l.. Burke, has been
on the sick list, but is improving.
John McGregor's family has been
increased by the entry of an embryo
woman.
The M. E. church have duly in
stalled their new minister.
The Rev. S. II. Phillips has left
the church work here, and is now
building houses in the capital city
and Oak Park. The Phillip brothers
are selling out preparatory to leaving
their place in the spring.
Our jolly little friend, MIR Barbe
has moved to the Central House.
Pioneers are very scarce in this
part of the county. Only four. two
men and two women, remaining here.
By the way, will you please give
your readers a synopsis of the treaty
understanding, bargain or agreement,
or whatever it was, written or I'M
written, between president Roosevelt
and the Mikado of Japan in relation
to the exclusion of Japanese from the
United States There are about So
900. 900 people in the country that do
not know what the terms are. The
Japs must go. Old Pub.
Dec. 1e.-Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Burke, and the latter's father, Thomas
Silva, are all confined to their beds
with colds and fever. They are all
under the care of DIR. W. A. Norman.
George Clark, who has been the
victim of typhoid fever, is improving.
Earl Doty is husily engaged erect
ing porches to the large corrugated
irouSwarehouse of Rosenwald & Kahn.
Monroe Wilson, an old man OF
about &c years of age, who, was buried
in Oleta today. is stepfather of W.
Weston of this place; undertaken Ii.