Amador ledger., 1908-10-23
From Our Exchanges.

number of years and who moved to
Hemet, Riverside county i'm January,
were burned out last week, lost their
dwelling house and most of their
household goods. Echo.
Mrs Milton leihn while working at
her residence slipped and fell fractur-
ing one cf the ZONES in her left arm,
while not being a serious accident it
was quite painful and will place her
under the doctor care for few days
Echo.
Thursday morning as Mrs Arthur 1.
Prouty. who teaches the school at
the Mountain Spring house, was driv-
ing toschool, she met with an acct
dent, which might have proven seri-
Gus, but fortunately, she escaped
with only few bruises. When near
the point where the Huena Vista
road joins the main road to jackson. =.
one of the clips on the singletree
slipped off and struck the horse
causing him to become unmanage-
able. Mrs prouty was able to keep
him IN the road but in making one
of the sharp curves the buggy was
overthrown, and she was caught in
the top. After being dragged about
fifty yards, the top was wreuched
from the buggy and Mrs Prouty was
freed from her dangerous position.
The horse was captured at Miller's
station badly bruised and cut, with
the buggy very mnch damaged. 1t
seems an act of providence that Mrs
I'routy was not seriously injured. -
Echo.
q. M. &. Peters and G.. n. Corwin
have become proprietors of the
Mother Lode Magnet, jamestown
newspaper. Al z. Hoyt is business
manager. Banner
Standard com pany's saw mill at
Cold Springs will begin the manu-
tacturo of lumber next week. There
are 5000, 600 feet of logs to be saved
before closing for the winter.
Banner.
Learning by experience of last
year, the Union Construction Com
pany made no attempt to harbor
men at Camp Relief for this winter.
All employees, save two, are out and
they will remain to act as guards for
the property. banner.
Yesterday evening the driver OH the
Placerville and Auburn stage dis
covered the tracks of a huge bear
along the road near the historic town
Of Coloma. lie measured the tracks
and found them to be 816x515 inches
IN size, with indications of heauti-
tul outfit Of immense claws. lie
reported the matter upon his arrival
at Coloma, and this morning most
organized a bear hunt and set out
with guns ana dogs on the trail of
bruln. No report as to the outcome
had been received up till | O'Clock
this afternoon. Several bears have
been seen in the low foothills recent
ly, and it Is supposed that they are
either following the sheep out from
the mountain ranges or else have
been driven out of their usual haunts
by the forest fires. Nugget.
4 crossed wire of the main line of
the Stanislaus power company with
the Vallecito and Murphys telephone
line caused considerable damage
Monday. Ihe heavy cable or the
power company sagged down till it
came in contact with the telephone
line. The current set fire to the
Sanguinetti store in Vallecito and
Murphys. Both fires were eXtin-
guished without much damage
Prospect.
One hundred and five years old,
but in good health, ''old man"
Simon Harris of New York. as he is
tamiliarly known on the East side,
comes all the way from Jerusalem
to vote at every presidential election,
and he was one of the first to register
Monday. Prospect.
We learn that the Robinson's Ferry
school has been closed indefinitely on
account of the prevalence of diph-
liberia in that little community.
There have been two deaths there
from the dread disease and several
cases are reported. The extent OF the
infection is not known. Prospect.
Undertaken McElhany was called to
Railroad Flat Tuesday to conduct
the funeral of Curry DIckerson, an
old resident of that section and a