Amador ledger., 1908-08-14

Oohp3 WuiCu was uesbIOyeu ny nfe
few days ago, was one Of the historic
landmarks of the state. It was two
story bric.s building built over fifty
years ago and for many years was
conducted by Count Solinsky, a
Polish nobleman driven into exile by
the Czar of Russia and the father of
the we'll known attorney, Frank
Solinsky. For many year the Big
Oak Fiat road was the leading route
to the Yosemite and tourists from all
over the world made this house a
stopping place. The hotel in those
days had a world wide reputation. -
Prospect.
While camping in the mountains
last week on Silver Creek, Horace
Mann, the son, of j. f.. Mann and
wife OF this city, was bitten by a
rattIesnake on the ankle. Henry
Giebenhain was one of the party and
was installed as surgeon. lie opened
he wound, withdrew some of the
poison by sucking it, bound tobacco
on it, and gave the boy plenty of
whisky to drink. Horace came down
with a swollen leg, but did not suffer
much Republican.
Joseph Lyon, the Grizzly Flat mer-
chant, has bought the poles and wires
of the Capital Telephone Co., which
we're used between Placerville and
Grizzly Flat when that company was
in existence. He paid $75 for the
property and this will give him
good chance for profit notwithstand-
Ing limited population. Mr. Lyon is
talking of taking down the upper
part of the line and relocating along
the county road where repairs can be
made more conveniently. The line
serves Smiths Flat, Pleasant Valley,
Sly Park, Blalrs' Sawmill and Grizzly
Flat. Ell Dorado Republican.
At McKinney's resort on Lake
Tahoe, last Friday, death occurred
which was the result of scuffle be
tween Eugene Kipp and Ed Vincent,
two young men who had previously
been friends. Kipp had heard insult
ing remarks Vincent had made about
him, and they went outside to fight
it out. Kipp struck Vincent the
blow telling him to the ground.
Vincent was dead when picked up,
the fall, 1t was thought, having more
to do with the fatal result than the
blow. At the examination Klpp was
released and the case dismissed
Mountain Democrat.
K. g. Eason of Oakland, w. h.
Carlin of Los Angeles and L. q.
huxley of Centerville, Cal, have
been registered at the Leger hotel
during the week. The gentlemen
mentioned are interested in the Chill
Gulch Dredging Company, which
will work the extensive deposits of
taIliugs in Chilli Gulch about a mile
from this place. The failing deposits
in Chilli Gulch, which in some places
are over IS feet IN depth, are the
debris from some of the richest
hydraulic mines in this state, and by
the dredger process, where large
are economically handled
daily, are bound to yield the precious
metal in paying quantities to the
operators. We have been informed
that all the machinery, lum ber and
other material will soon be on the
ground and with the advent of water
things will boom in that locality
Chr onicIe.
The latest reports from the fire
above Murphys are to the effect that
about two miles of the Utica's hume
near Avery has been destroyed. All
the mines at Angels dependent upon
the water supply have been closed
down and only water for household |
purposes can be used. This supply is
drawn from the Ross reservoir and is |
1t is reported thut con
siderable fiction exists between the
forest rangers and the local fire |
fighters, and some arrests have been
made. The local men who are
accustomed to fighting fires in that
locality object to the methods of
rangers who have assumed the
direction of affairs. The rangers it
is said insist on following the law, -
that back fires must not be started
more than 60 feet from the fire line,
which In the high timber is of little
or no use and almost impossible to
do on account of the heat. The