Amador ledger., 1909-04-09
From Our Exchanges.

In the party we're Charles and II. Il.
Erickson, f. j. SoliDsky and Henry
". Rooney of oakland, and f.. j.,
Solinsky jr. of San francisco. They
went to Canine yesterday, their
object being to purchase tunnel
timbers to be used on the Southern
Pacific cutoff now being built be-
tween Colfax and Truckee. f.. A,
Boole met them at the lumber town
and made arrangements to supply
their wants. - Nugget.
Last evening the lumber cruisers
who have been taking stock of the
standing timber of the El Dorado
Lumber Company around Pine
Grande, came into town, having com
pleted their work. Nothing in the
way of news could be obtained from
any of them except that they found
some of the finest timber they ever
saw, and a great deal more of it than
they had anticipated. They were
also surprised that such favorable
conditions exist for falling this tim
Der and getting it Tito the sawmills
This party of eight do nothing but
cruise timber. aud their headquarters
is in Chicago. N ugget.
"Uap" Calvin Zwinge recently
had quite an experience at Jackson.
lt seems that some mau wanted for
assault committed at Angels, was
supposed to have gone towards Jack
son and Instructions for his arrest
accompanied by his description had
been sent to the officers there. The
description fitted leap" pretty we'll,
who though young in years has in
herited all the Zwinge length of limb
and is a pretty husky lad. He drove
one of O'Connell's teams over to
Jackson one day last week, and being
hungry, stepped into a restaurant
for meal. He was hardly seated
however, before in marched the
sheriff and constable and placed him
under arrest. as the man wanted. 1t
took all of Caps eloquence to per-
suade them that be was not the dan
gerous character wanted. Prospect.
Lonis Armand for many years en-
ployed by Mrs Rollerei of Angels as
foreman of the cattle business. re-
ceived injuries last Sunday from the
&c - iob hn hot MI
He was riding after cattle on the
Ridell ranch near Carson, where his
horse took him against a tree strik
ing it with great force. The deceased
was we'll known in this county, es
pecially among the cattlemen and was
respected as a trusty and reliable
man. He was about forty-six years
Of age and leaves relatives in Stock
ton. The funeral which took place
Tuesday, is said to have been one of
the largest and most impressive seen
there for long time. The deceased
was very popular in that town and all
turned out to show their respect. The
fayorite saddle horse of the dead man
which was almost as we'll known as
Its rider, was led in the procession
with its housings draped in mourning
and all the pail bearers we're mount
I'D. Prospect.
State Controller Nye has figured up
the expenses of the recent legislature
and finds that the same we're about
$40, 600 less than those of the 1907
session. They were as follows: Per
diem. etc., senator's s4l, 628. 50; pay of
officers senate, s22, 096; contingent
expenses, senate, s36, 2hO. 80. Total,
500, 1880. Per diem. etc.. bly,
man, S83.042 pay of officers, assem-
blymen, s2s, 1873; contingent ex-
penses, assembly. s34, 807.65. Total
sl45, 975.65. Grapd total, s245, 95l. %.
The authorities of the state are
calling the attention of the hardware
dealers of the state to the following
passed by the last legislature: Every
person engaged in the business of
selling at retail pistols shall keep
register in which shall be entered the
name, age, occupation and residence
tif residing in city then the street
and number of such residence) of
each and every purchaser OF such
pistols, together with the number or
her mark of Identification, if any,
on such pistol, which said register
shall be open to the inspection of all
peace officers at all times. Every
person violating any of the provisions
of this act shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall on convic-