Amador ledger., 1908-04-03

* Son, are heavy stockholders, met
with n severe loss by fire Monday.
The following account we copy from
Tuesdays Examiners "The Ameri-
can bred ling Company's dredVer,
"Uncle Sam" the largest on the
coast, which has been operating at
the foot of Alice street'in Oakland on
the south side Of the estuary, was
burned to the waters edge at 3
o'clock Monday morning, entailing Il
loss of 500, 900. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but is believed to
have become started from leak in
the oil tank of the engine room.
Whatever its cause only a charred
and blackened skeleton remains to
tell where the big double deck
dredger had been anchored. - Echo.
The American River Electric Co. is
extending the power line from the
Emma Mine, near Campo Seco, 10 the
dredger of the Mokelumue River Min
ing Co., below Camanche. They eX-
pect to have the line ready for the
power to he turned on by the first of
May. i Echo.
Also the town Of Buena Vista, lying
five miles south OF us, has boom
on in the mining of coal. Mr. Fitz-
simmons, who has coal mine near
Buena Vista and has been supplying
some of the local trade, has bonded
his property to K. q. Downs, a MIN
ing man of Suffer Greek, and it is
thought that in the near future the
mine may be operated on an extensive
scale. With the new enterprises al
ready started, and others under way.
lone seems to have good prospects
ahead. Echo.
On the Odd of this month treasurer
Max Mierson made the seventh pay
ment of S2U75 on the city's bonded
indie btedness, making the total sum
paid to date sl4, 525. which leaves
balance of S26,97 still to be paid.
The total bonded Indebtedness was
originally Sl1, 500. -Placerville Mt.
Dem ocrat.
h George y. Wayland met with quite
a severe accident tuesday. While
pruning some fruit TIRE es on his place
just below town, he fell from the lad
der on which he was working, to the
ground, breaking both bones of his
lett arm. Dr. Adams was called and
set the injured mem Der. Mr. Way
land is getting along as we'll as could
be expected. Echo.
Last Saturday at Sheep Ranch Leo
Wells, had pretty close call from
electrocution. There was to be a
dance in the hall that night and
Wells started to fix the electric lights.
As the fuse kept blowing out he knew
there was a "short" somehere and
started out to investigate. He noticed
that several wires we're sagging in
tree and thinking the trouble might
be there climbed up to investigate.
After dlsentangling the wires he start
ed to descend having hold of one wire
when another wire dropped on his
hand. Instantly there was flash,
and he was caught in the grip of 440
volts. The shock paralyZed him for
time, so that he could give no
alarm, nor could he let 60 of the wire
to which his hand was gripped. At
length he succeeded in pushing, the
lower wire from his hand which broke
the circuit and allowed him to fall to
the ground, a distance of about ten
feet. He fell head first but luckily
one SHOULDER struck the edge of a pro
Jecting porch, so that he did not re-
ceive the full force of the fall on his
head, otherwise the fall might have
been more fatal than the shock. The
result was bad enough however, as he
sustained broken shoulder blade,
and a broken lib. He is getting
along all right now however, but
does not care to monkey with the live
wire any more. Prospect.
Clyde Watson had plead guilty to
burglary in breaking into Gobb's
saloon at Mokelumue Hill, and the
Judge sent him to the reform school
at lone. He is but lG years of age
and bad never been really bad up to
the time of the burglary at which he
was caught Sheriff Jones took the
boy prisoner to the lone reform
school on tuesday, returning the
next day. Citizen.
Pete Calenti, an Italian miner, was
instantly killed at Angels on Friday
evening of last week, by falling down