Amador ledger., 1908-06-12

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Glaughlin to 40 and VIM. Recarte to
so days in the county jail. Echo.
A disarrangement of the machinery
at the App hoist last Friday night
allowed the skip to crash into the
sheaves with such force as to wreck
the gallows frame. To repair the
damage required four days. banner.
Henry Schmidt, the miller at the
Amador County Flour Mills, met
with painful accident last Friday.
While cleaning a small rife, with a
metal rod, his hand slipped and he
drove the rod clear through the fleshy
part of his hand inflIcting very
painful wound. lone Echo.
A SIN sized cyclone visited this
section on Tuesday noon. Starting
near the Gold CilH mine, it broke
down tree; then going through the
yard OF Mrs Harris, it carried away a
large chicken house, dropping it on
top of the canvas plant about 800
yards distant. 1t also tore down
several lengths of the fume leading
to the plant. Angels Record.
Frank Grillo has received notiflca-
tion from Washington, that President
Roosevelt appointed him postmaster
of Angels Camp on May Doth, for n
term of four years, with a salary of
sixteen hundred dollars per year.
0Iillo gives a bond of twelve thou
sand dollars, which he will forward
to Washington at once. He will
enter upon his duties about June
18th. Citizen.
On last Saturday a cyclone caught
a woodshed on the ranch of Jacob
Tower at Salt Spring Valley, and
carried the building distance of
about thirty feet. A lot of hay which
had been cooked was also distributed
over an area of ground half mile
square. Angels Record.
Secretary Demming of the state
hoard of examiners is somewhat
puzzled over letter he has received,
says the Bee. The communication is
from Giles Otis Pearce of Murphys,
Calaveras county. Pearce presents a
claim against the state for $1,000. He
declares that 9. M. Webber and e.
j. Thompson, directors of the Big
Tree Mining Company, and Judge A.
l. McSorley of San Andreas have I'M
lawfully and teloniously stolen his
house from him and are keeping him
from taking possession again by force
of arms. He demands that the state
pay him for his losses. Aside from
cleaning the information that Pearce
wants $4,000, Secretary Demming
has not made head nor tail Of the
letter. -Calaveras Chronicle.
A San Francisco dispatch of the
29th ult. says that in the divorce suit
brought by l.. w. Fisher, against
Margaret Fisher, which has peen
pending for some time, several letters
were introduced in which it is alleged
that the Ingomar mine in Calaveras
county in which Mrs Fisher alleges
her husband is a partner, was to be
''saIted" for a sale. The property
is owned by the Ingomar Consoli-
dated Mining Company. Fisher
alleges he was only an empioye. The
letters were written to M. Fay, in
structing him to put some rich ore in
the shaft or the tunnel in anticipation
of the visit of purchasers. -Calaveras
Chronicle.
Last Thursday morning a greatly
agitated woman arrived in town liz
search of her l5-yeaT old daughter,
whom she feared had been enticed
away from home by a married man,
who has been living on a ranch above
Sonora. She enlisted the services OF
Judge Opie and Marshal Sweeney and
the latter soon located the couple at
a rooming house in town. The man
whose name is Patrick j. Driscoll
arrived in town Wednesday and was
assigned a room, which he stuck
strictly to, having his meals sent tC
him from a near by restaurant, com
planning of feeling i'll. The girl, who
is under 10 years of age, arrived the
following day and was assigned to {
room nearby her paramour. Marsha
Sweeney was on the alert and abou
10 O'Clock that night found thu
couple in one room and prompt!
put the man under arrest, taking hin
to the county Jail at once. The girl
who refuses to return to her mother
will be taken care of until her father