Amador ledger., 1908-10-02
From Our Exchanges.

The Board of supervisors this week
fixed the tax rate, for the GOTH fiscal
year, at 50. 10 on each slOO of assessed
valuation of property. y.-Citizen.
The state fish car will arrive in
Valley Spring next Wednesday, the
23d inst with 5000 fish to be planted
in the Middle and North Forks of the
Mokelumne river, near West Point.
The fish will bo hurried to the
streams aud planted by Dave Porte
ous, Arthur Wilson. Waldo Hansoom,
Claude Smith and Mark Cook. --
Citizen.
Mokelumne Hill is free of that
dread disease diphtheria. the quarnn-
tine having been declared off Monday
last Night and day guards we're
maintained for is days, during which
time no one was allowed to enter
or leave the house except the doctor
who had the case IN charge. Since
it first broke out there has been four
cases of the dread disease, one of
which resulted in death. Citizen.
= At the little town of Newman last
Monday was celebrated pretty we'd
ding at which one of the contracting
parties was quite we'll known in lone
Miss Irene Boone, who made lone her
home tor IA few months and Alvin M.
Driskell were married and will reside
IL, Nomp,on Eobo
Statistics of the employees in the
executive civil service Of the United
States have just been published by
the census bureau. Exclusive of the
consular and diplomatic service there
are 2SG, 902 classified employees, of
whom only 1921 are women. In the
District of Columbia three women
are employed to every seven men; in
the country at large, one woman to
20 men. AT the national capital the
average wage for men is SITS, for
women S766.
The Sierra Daily Times has been
sold ty Grant u Zimdars to the
Calkins Newspaper Syndicate of San
Francisco. The Syndicate lost no
sime in treating the Times erstwhile
democratic white complexion to a
heavy coat of ebony -hued republican
ism. The paper came out Monday as
a straight republican sheet. with A.
Wyatt as editor, that gentleman
superceding G. NJ. jackson. The
purchase price of the paper has not
been made public 1t was offered for
sale few months ago at figure con-
siderably less than $4,000 and it is not
likely that the purchase price exceed
ed that amount. democrat.
The state fish commission this week
sent consignment of young trout to
CaIaveras county. The fish arrived at
Valley Spring Wednesday afternoon
and were then taken in charge by y.
W. Getchell, proprietor of the Pros
pect and assessor VIM. M. Nuner,
each having team to convey the fish
to their destination. The consign-
ment comprised 1000 young trout
and the main portion was taken by
Getchell and Nuner to West Point,
where they we're distributed to the
waters adjacent to that place.
small portion we're sent here con-
signed to Mat Zwinge and George
Stewart for distribution in local
streams. Prospect.
Charles Gardiner of the government
forest service has been engaged this
week III gathering sugar pine seed, at
the lumber camps above Avery. he
has with him two men and two teams
and the purpose is to gather two hum
dIed pounds of pine nuts. This is
portion of the assignment OF lOOO
pounds to be furnished by the state
to the department to be used in re-
foresting sections of the national
reserve. Prospect.