Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-04-10

Wnere ne Will stay ABOUT year. lie
is going to take special course in
optics. - lone Echo.
The uncertainty of life was tragical-
ly shown on last Wednesday afternoon
when Ben II. Lewis, ir., working for
the Melones Mining Company, started
to carry piece of iron pipe to where
some men we're working in the
tunnel. Lewis was joking with the
men when he stopped down and lifted
the pipe to his shoulder. AS he
Strengthened up one end of the pipe
came in contact with the overhead
trolly wire, carrying high voltage
of electricity and with short fgasp
Lewis was dead, falling in his tracks.
Angels Record.
Mr. Robinson has finished cleaning
the lone water ditch and has cleaned
one of the reservoirs that supplies
lone with water; he intends cleaning
the other reservoir soon. Echo.
The drill that is in operation near
the lone Coal and Iron Company's
coal mine is down over 200 feet; they
have passed through 135 feet of clay
and are still in that formation-E Echo.
The party who left Plaoerville a
little over week ago, intending to
go over the summit by way OF the
Lake Tahoe and Placerville stage
highway with pack train were com
PEELED to turn hack because of the
deep snow which they encountered.
William Martin returned from his
resort at Strawberry last evening.
This is forty five miles distant from
this city and some miles this side of
the summit Mr. Martin reports three
feet of snow at awberry, and be-
tween eight and ten feet on the sum-
NIT ridge. There is stiff crust on
the snow, but not strong enough to
bear up the weight of horse or pack
animal.
A company recently bonded the
Peasley mine near Nashville in this
county, and are proceeding with de-
velopment work in most encourag
ing manner. A sixteen inch pay
streak has been found which assays
$500 per ton, and ore in sufficient
quantity is being taken out to keep
five stamps going night and day. The
little mill is grinding 500 worth of
ore per stamp daily, just as the rock
comes from the mine, and without
any sorting whatever. The parties
who have the property bonded are de-
lighted. Nugget.
Beginning last Wednesday the cost
for filing complaints was increased
from s. to So; answers thereto from
81 to So, and where there are several
defendants in action each answer will
be 81. In defaults 81 will be levied.
These taxes are to be assessed against
the persons who indulge in the ex-
pensive trouble of trying to knock
some other person by use OF the law.
The advance in fees will be for the
buying of books for a court house
library. The Iitigants will maintain
the institution and to them it will be
of no benefit. Sonora Democrat.
A hoodoo Ioafed around the Times
Office Yesterday and put the whole
force up against the real thing To
ctort fha pooYniD0 vrOno fba I;notuDo
burner wouldn t keep the metal hot
and In attempting to keep one eye
anchored on that and do several other
things, Harry LamoreauX got zone
finger crushed in the machine. Ibis
practically finished him. The delay
caused them to miss the Jamestown
mail, and Charles jackson took it
down on his wheel, breaking the bike
in the attempt. Tapes flew around
promiscuous in the folding machine
and after fixing them a monkey
wrench was left on the feedboard of
the press. 1t fell into the cogs of
the cylinder aud broke the rod work
ing the gauge fingers. The rest of
the day was passed in silent commun-
Ion with spirits. Sonora Democrat.
Sunday Chicago Tribune: Dun's
and Bradstreet's commercial agencies
compile statistics regarding the pro-
portion of success and failure in
business. OF 100 people starting in
business, all lines, all amounts of
capital considered, % fail and drop
out. The other five, one-twentieth
of the whole number, stay in bust
ness, and of this number all average
of one, or a proportion of to 100,