Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-04-23
From Our Exchanges.

tain quail, grouse or sage hen before
September i, 1911. The bag limit on
valley quail was also reduced to 20 in
any one day for one individual. The
closed season for valley quail extends
from February lst to October LIST of
each year. Nugget.
Among the recent candidates in the
Rortola contest who have caused a
great deal of favorable comment Ia
Mrs Ida Casey, daughter of Colonel
VIM. Robinson. we'll known mining
man of Mokelumne HILL Mrs Casey
has on many occasions taken import
ant parts in amateur theatricals aud
won a reputation as an amateur
actress of more than ordinary ability.
The contest closes April II, 1909, and
the winner will be proclaimed the
most beautiful woman in California.
She will be the "queen of Beauty" at
the big carnival in October and her
likeness will be sent throughout the
world as the "Portola poster girl. -
One hundred dollars in gold will be
given to the winner in the contest. -
Prospect.
The bill of exceptions in the suit
involving the Royal mines at Hodson
which was tried IN the superior court
here some time ago was settled Mon
day by Judge McSorley and the csse
is now on its way to the appellate
court. The bill of exceptions was a
formidable document of over 600
pages of type written matter. Pro
speot.
The supervisors will on Tuesday
May 4th, 1906, at ~ O'Clock NJ, meet
with the board of supervisors of the
county of Amador, at the site of the
Big Bar bridge, for the pun pose of
comforting with the said Amador
board of supervisors in relation to
the purchase of the Big bar bridge,
by the counties of Amador and Gala
veras. Prospect.
A hundred men arrived in Sonora
Thursday night, bringing the total
for the week up to over $50. All are
bound for the construction camps and
cav mills in the mountains. at which
about two thousand hands will be
employed throughout the summer
Union Democrat.
The lone Creamery turned out, in
the month of March. IA. 1884 pounds
OF butter. That is a big output for
March, especially this season, when
green feed has been so backward.
The butter made here has a fine re-
putatlon abroad and finds ready sale.
Echo.
Joseph Hyde and Miss Margaret
Keefe we're quitely welded in San
Francisco Wednesday forenoon. The
groom is the oldest son of w. j.
Hyde and lived in jackson Valley for
a number of years, and for the past
three years has been clerk at the
Western Hotel in Sacramento. His
many friends wish them long and
happy married life together. lone
Echo.
The growth of the Christian
churches of the United States in the
year 1908 was not so rapid as in any
one of the preceding five years, ac-
oording to statistics of all the re-
ligious bodies just complied by DIR.
Ii. K. Carroll, of New York. In the
report are included only church
mem bers in the United States. In
all Christian churches in this country
and CathoIlc-there are
now "a, 292, 543 membe or this
total 1904, 6o6 are credited to the
Roman Catholic church. Ia all the
churches 720, CAT communicates were
added III 1908, far less than was the
gam in 1907, which was reported as
l, al, 2S6, hut more than half Of that
total was credited to the Roman
Catholic church. -Atchieson Globe.
Explorers have been trying TO- get
into Thibet for a million years, and
failed. until recently, apparently,
but maps on the walls of the Doge's
palace at Venice show the countries
visited by the early Venetians, and
prove that they visited aud mapped
parts of Thibet many centuries ago.
aud that recent discoveries in Thibet
were really made by the Vene ians.
1t was from Thibet, hythe-way, that
the game of polo came. The English
officers quartered on the borderIand
OF Ihibet learned the game from the
natives, and it became so popular