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Year: 1874

DUTCH FLAT, JAM. 18th, 1874.


EDITOR HERALD:-It is well known that crime
is fearfully on the increase in this county. This
is attributable to three causes, but election is
SO remote that it would be waste of time and
space to discuss two Of them. The other and
chief one is, the law denying pay to witnesses in
criminal cases. A man who might become a
material witness, keeps his knowledge Of facts
strictly to himself, having in his mind two trips
to Auburn at his own expense ; one to testify be
fore the grand jury and one to testify in court,
If the accused should be indicted. Approach
him on the subject of the alledged crime, and he
becomes at once as ignorant as mule, and as
and as forgetful as Mrs. Grant, who made
dinner party and forgot to invite her
intended guests. Suppose a crime is COM
mitted at Lake Tahoe. Now the distance
from Tahoe to Auburn is about hundred miles,
by the cheapest and most available route. The
alledged criminal is arrested and held to answer,
and the witnesses-if they can be found, which
is likely to be difficult task while the present
law remains-will have to travel two hundred
miles to testify before grand jury, and if the
accused is indicted they must repeat the journey
to testify in court, and, then, if continuance is
obtained for any cause. they have yet another
trip to make, in all a journey of six hundred
miles to testify in one case. Add to the travel
ing expenses of this journey, necessary inciden-
tai expenses, and you have a sum OF money that
few are able and none are willing to give to the
public.


The law in question throws an undue share OF
the cost of bringing criminals to justice on those
who chance to be witnesses. This is wrong 1t
is unjust, and in many cases it amounts to ty-
ranny and oppression. But it may be said that
Year: 1874

have supposed an extreme case. The only
difference between the supposed case and many
real ones is the distance to be travelled, while
real case, or several real cases, may happen at
any time even more expensive to the witnesses
than the supposed one. The work of bringing
criminals to justice is the work of the people, it
is the business of the commonwealth then LET
the commonwealth be just and foot the bills,
do not throw the chief burden on the few that
chance to be witnesses. Does justice furnish a
reason why witnesses should not be paid the
same as jurors None such occur to nv mind,
Right and justice speak truth when they say :
"All men ought to be paid for services rendered
to the public, and surely the witness in Grim.
mai case is for the time being serving the peo-
pie.


Ihose who can reconcile it to their elastic
consciences to maintain in force the law referred
to, will find refuge in the argument that to repeal
the law would greatly increase the cost of the
county government. / dissent from that pro.
position. The repeal of the law would enable
justice to overtake criminals with much greater
certainty; it would soon materially lessen the
amount of crime committed in this county, and
If You reckon individual losses through criminal
means as a loss to the county, then 30 Ear from
increasing cost it would save many thousands
to the county annually. If am mistaken as to
the chief cause of the alarming increase Of crime
IN this county, let some one point out the cause
with remedy, or let the unjust law be repealed.
1t may be said that this is an old law, and that
there was no increase of ..crime for several years
after its enactment. That may be true. but
thieves are not usually well posted in things not
pertaining to their vocation, and it was probably
some years before they learned that there was
such law, and that it would afford them
degree of protection. However, be that as it
may, the facts remain that the law is unjust,
that men will do all in their power to avoid be-
ing witnesses under such law, and that crime
is increasing at an alarming rate in Placer
county.


Our County Court had to begin the year by
calling an extra grand jury and from the report
of that jury you will see that there was an un-
usually large amount of business before it, al
though 1t has only been two months since the
preceding one sat- The increase of crime among
us is growing serious. l might elaborate this
article, but l have endeavored briefly to touch
the most of the ground embraced in the subject
matter of it, in the hope of calling the attention
OF the people and of our Legislators to it, that
they may act as wisdom and justice may dictate
enact just law, repeating the unjust one and
believe Placer county will soon cease to be the
paradise for thieves that it now is


Yours truly, TITUS.
Year: 1874

MNNo.-We learn from parties from the up-
per part of the county, that they now have
plenty of water, and that miners are busily at
work We have had an unusually hard winter
thus far, and the indications are favorable for
an abundance of water until late in the season.
This is the element that insures prosperity to
miners, and gives renewed life to Placer, in
common with other mining counties.
Year: 1874

UNFAIR.-Because young man who smokes
happens to 60 to see young lady who does not
smoke, is no reasvn that she should put percus-
sion caps and gun powder in his pipe. Though
this trick was recently perpetrated on the hand
soonest young man in town, by q fair damsel,
whom nothing else would have caused him to
desert. The girl says sho struck on a lucky
Year: 1874

FRAUD.-A man named Evans has been at
tempting to palm of copper slugs on the Truck
eyites for genuine gold. He succeeded in few
cases. but was found out and arrested. Al
though the Republican thinks he will go to jail
for his cheating, there is no telling how long
he will stay there. We would advise our pos
SCISSORS of gold to be careful for what mineral
They exchange it.
Year: 1874

BIrrER CoLD.-Tuesday night was one of the
cold If not the coolest of the season in this part
ofshe country. During the daJ light snow
had fallen and the ground being well soaked,
and the night clear, everything that could freeze
was as solid as iron the next morning. Our
mend Billy Bunce, of Auburn fame, had been
@nnking pretty freely in the early part Of the
evening. and when retiring time came he made
MS bed on the sidewalk, near the Orleans hotel,
and with nothing but common overcoat wealth
cred the storm. He was found Wednesday
morning as stiff as poker. Some friend took
him to saloon and gave him some not whisky,
Oa' he was so completely frozen inside as well
40 out that it was impossible to get anything
uown him for sometime. After several hours
AaWng he finally revived. Friend Billy, you
uust be little careful how you tip the glass
QUO oend the elbow these cold evenings or some
VI 'nese times the effects might prove dangerous
to you. ge So
Year: 1874

The LINCOLN Coal F1ELps.-We learn from
Lincoln that the coal mines are being deyeloned
as last as circumstances will permit, and every
day new evidence is brought to light proving the
permanence of the mines and the value of the
material In speaking Of the prospective value
oi these mines, not only to the people in the
vicinity OF their location but to the whole coun-
try the Sacramento Bee makes the following
sanslole suggestions: A cord Of pine slab-wood
Is worth six dollars to six dollars and half. and
a ton OF the Lincoln coal will make as much
steam as two cords of this wood. 1t is thought
that when the Lincoln mine is we'll opened that
Its coal will be laid down here at not over five
dollars per ton, and perhaps much less. What
a blessing this will be to those who require
steam power? What an encouragement to
manufactures? What an advantage to the city
herself in the cost of pumping her water; and
above all, III the new enterprises that this cheap
fuel must cause to be established among us?
saving OF from fifty-6ve to sixty per cent. in
fuel A profit which would make any business
rich-whch should build up here the Pittsburg
OF the Pacific This coal cannot cost more than
five dollars, but it ought to be sold at four dol
lars per ton-or even three dolars-and then
give great profit to all concerned But say that
the price, delivered, is four dollars and that one
ton OF it is worth two cords of pine slabs for
making steam, there is a saving Of over sixty-six
per cent. In this view will it not be wise in our
people to look out now and consider what kind
OF manufacturing works may be established
hereF 1t may be that this coal mine, open
ing at this particular time, is the light in the
east which shall lead Sacramento up to vast
population and great prosperity, which, if pro-
perly taken advantage of, it most assuredly
will
Year: 1874

A SHABBY TR1CK.-A few days since a friend
was taking stroll over the hills and when in
the edge of town he heard the report of gun.
On looking up he saw a fine large hog fall to the
ground badly wounded. The shot struck her
about the small of the back and broke it.. After
dragging herself around on the sidehill for
about an hour she gave up and died. She had
sl or seven beautiful little pigs which showed
mach feeling in behalf of their dying mother.
lf.his trick was done without provocation, it
~Ss to say the least, mean. More particularly
~ if the shooter was not the owner of the hog.
ANY one who has lost large gray SOW, can thus
account for her disappearance.
Year: 1874

The ORLEANS MINE.-This mine, which is To-
Gated about mile and half OF two miles west
Of Auburn, has recently been bonded by T. H.
Gordon of this place, who has commenced work
on it with that energy and determination which
eharacterizes the man. They have ledge about
three feet thick of most excellent looking rock
There has never been much noise made about
this mine, but we have seen specimens from it
which, to use the miners expression, were
LOUSY with gold and we have heard it whis-
pered around that this mine has the finest pros
pective value of any in the district, the st.
Patrick included An expert from San Fran
CISCO recently estimated the rock now on the
dump as high as 500 per tom large portion
OF which he said would go off in the sulphrets;
thus showing the urgent necessity of erecting
ehorinaton works in this quartz district.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: - Leaving the
beautiful and interesting city of Los
Angeles by the half-past eleven o'clock
train, we whirled across the beautiful
San Fernando valley to the rising
town of San Fernando, which is rap
idly growing in size and Importance,
and taking the stage after few miles
began the ascent of the San Fernando
Pass, which-is cut quarter of mile
long and one hundred feet deep through
the mountain. We soon arrive at
Lyon Station, which is quite a resort
for tourists and is beautiful place,
surrounded by groves of oak and syca-
more trees, and which is destined to
become


A PLACE OF NO LITTLE IMPORTANCE.


There is store and telegraph office
here, besides the hotel and the oil re-
fnery, which at present is not ref lining
any oil, the new process having done
away with the old method. After
leaving here, we emerged into the val
ley of the upper Santa Clara river,
which is splendid valley about eight
miles long and six miles wide, and is
covered with heavy growth of white
oak timber The Santa Clara river
runs through the middle of this valley,
making it desirable place to settle,
Year: 1874

BY the provisions of an ordinance
passed by the Council at its last regu-
lar session, the regular hack stands
are designated as Main street in front
of Temple & WOrkman's bank, and
in front of each bank and hotel in the
city. Hackmen will be liable to ar
rest who keep their vehicles standing
in other localities, unless waiting
specially for passenger.
Year: 1874

ne The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2%o
Year: 1874

We have to dispose of our immense
Stock of Clothing, Dress Goods, ETC., etc., to
make room for a very extensive Stock of Fall
Goods, just purchased in New York, and en-
route for us. We have reduced the prices, and
you will find 1t to your advantage to call a
the
Year: 1874

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Year: 1874

can American from New York" is.
according to a Paris correspondent, the
attraction at the Folies Bergeres. The
name of the attraction is Latin, and
his theatrical nature is to attitudinize.
He is reported to be an admirably built
fellow, tall and symmetrical, who, clad
in white tights, and lit up in the fore
ground by an electric light, and re-
leved in the background by a claret-
colOred velvet curtain, represents Her
cules brandishing his club, Cincinnatus
lacing his sandals, and Achilles hunt
ing a shield for his vulnerable heel.
Before entering the show business it is
stated Latin was a model for the ar
lists at the Royal Academy in London.
He also has high repute as boxer, and
his abilities as an Oarsman are so
marked that veracious chronicler tells
us he carries with him several trunks
full of medals, which he has won in
different contests. His poses are said
to be very beautiful, and a witty re-
mark is reported 10 have been made
concerning him by an amateur of the
fine arts to this effect "The next time
| give party I shall invite him it will
be as good as an expensive collection of
statuary TO see him standing around the
room.


-Pelu thinks she will be able to pay
off all her debts and have handsome
surplus out of the rich guiana deposits
which she is now known to possess.
Year: 1874

Representative in congress from to-
bacco raising sections of the country
have by persistent effort induced the
committee of ways and means to report
a bill exempting from tax 500 worth of
tobacco sold by producer to con-
sumner. But there seems to be a strong
opposition to this exemption from the
commissioner of internal revenue and
marufacturers-the one on the ground
that it weakens the revenue law on the
sales of tobacco, and the other because,
as they declare, it will encourage frauds
in selling the leaf, and the use of un-
manufactured tobacco for chewing.


adding: 81 am candidate for sheriff
of this county, and I think by ajudicious
use of five pounds OF good tobacco can
secure two hundred majority"
Year: 1874

It is in the logging camps that a


stranger will be most interested on this


coast, for there he will see and feel the


bigness of the red-woods. A man in


Humboldt county got out of one tree


lumber enough to build his house and


barn, and to fence in two acres of


ground. A schooner was filled with


shingles made from a single tree. One


tree in Mendccino whose remains were


shown to me made a mile of railroad
ties. Trees fourteen feet IN diameter
have been frequently found and cut
down; the saw-lOgs are often split apart
with wedges, because the entire mass is
too large to float in the small and mar
row streams, and have often seen them
blow log apart with gunpowder A
tree four feet in diameter is called un-
dersized in these woods, and so skillful
are the wood choppers that they can
make the largest giant of the forest fall
just where they want it, or, as they say,
" drive stake with the tree"


The choppers do not stand on the
ground, but on stage raised to such
height as to enable the ak to strike in
where the tree attains its fair and regu-
lar thickness, for the redwood, like the
sequoIa, swells at the base near the
ground. These trees prefer steep hill
sides, and grow in an extremely rough
and broken country, a d their great
height makes it necessary to fell them
carefully, lest they should, falling with
such enormous weight, break to piece.
This constantly happens, in spite of
every precaution, and there is little
doubt that in these forests and at the
mills two feet of wood are wasted for
every foot of lumber sent to market.
To mark the direction line on which the
tree is to fall, the chopper usually
drives stake into the ground 100 or
$50 feet from the base of the tree, and
it is actually common to make the tree
fall on this stake, so straight do these
stand and so accurate is the
skill of the cutters. TO fell tree eight
feet in diameter is counted days work
for maD.-HarpeT's Magazine.
Year: 1874

may live long. but some old days


OF dear, deep joy akin TO pain
Some suns that set on woodland WAYS
VIII never rise for me again:
BY shining sea, and glad, green shore


That frolic waves ran home to kiss.
Some words heard that nevermora


VIII thrill me with their mystic bliss.
. love still throbs your living heart


You have not crossed deaths sullen tide.
deeper deep holds us apart:


We were more near if you had died
If you had died in those old days,


When light was on the shining sea,
And all the fragrant woodland ways


Were paths Of hope for you aud me.
Dsa leaves are in those woodland ways
Cold are the lips tlat used to kiss:
'Iwere idle to recall those days,


Or gh for all that vanished bliss
DO yOu su wear your old-time grace,
And charm new loves with ancient wiles.
Could but watch your faithless face,
I'd know the meaning of your SIN les.
Year: 1874

the men say they are stubborn, and will resist 70
the utmost. There is considerable feeling in
Springfield, aud Judge zeane will be called upon
for habeas corpus to take the prisoners from
the custody Of tie House.
Year: 1874

The most injudicious form of charity is that which rewards idleness and fosters crime by giving assistance to the numer- ous tramps that infest the country in the winter season. Last week we spoke of a fel- low caught in thls village trying to obtain money on the plea of having had a hand wounded which turned out on examina- to be perfectly we'll We clip the follow ing from the Nepaug correspondence of the Winsted Herald:

 Last Wednesday selectman Franklin Watson was sent for to care for female tramp near Bakerville, with an alleged broken leg. He took his team and carried her to the poor house, and with the help of another man managed to get her into the house. Not being waited on as promptly as she desired she caught a knife from the table and started for the mistress. Next morning she walked off without limping.

 We hear. too, of recent instance in which tramp who was furnished lodg. ing in this village at town expense, was found. on examination, to have $1O 1T cash on his person. We hear of another instance. still, in which an able bodied young fellow applied to citizen of tn, place for work. claiming to have famil, actually starving He was shown core of wood, given a saw, and told to cut tn wood and take his pay. He started witt considerable apparent alacrity, but short time afterwards. the proprietor o the wood pile found it deserted, with tn @aw in the first stick, which was not quit ent through. It was aims, not work, tn fellow wanted, and the starving family wa no doubt a myth. Half the petty crime committed in our country towns are tn work of these very tramps who almost in variably combine the profession of thiev ing with the profession of beggaYy.
Year: 1874

law and his fortune is made.

 In reply to our statement that the read ing space of the Winsted Herald was cer- tainly lessened by it's recent change to the quarto form, that paper says:

 Truth is lovely-more lovely than the above assertion regarding our reading space. The reading space of our former sheet was 2, ,1O3k square inches; that of our present sheet is 2, TO square inches. The Enquirer is the best paper in the temperate zone.

 A moments consideration will convince anyone that the quarto form is not so economical of space as the folio for a newspaper. Fold any quarto in the folio form and considerable belt of blank pa- per will be seen running through the mid dle of each page as thus folded. In the case of the Herald, this waste more than counterbalances the increase in size of it's sheet as a measurement will show; and this brings us to an examination of the foregoing figures of the Herald, in which, we claim, there is manifest error." The size of the Herald page in its old form we make 20 inches by 26i, or 525 square inches; total reading space, 2,10O inches nearly the Herald's own figures. The present size of page is 19l by 13l inches, or 260 square inches; total 2,O80 inches, or nearly an hundred inches less than the Herald computation. If the editor of that paper will re-exsmine his own figures we think he will discover an error of just an hundred in his total, which will prove the correctness of our statement and the incorrec,ness of his own.

 Inasmuch as this is not matter of feel ing, or veracity, but of mere arithmetic and, as Solomon somewhere remarks, Figures won't lie," we still refer with some confidence to the multiplication ta- bIe as furnishing us complete justifca. tion. Should we be found ourselves ir error, however, we promise the Herald the lovehest puff it can ask on its enlargement" whereas, should the ed itor of that paper find mistake in hi: footings. we ask nothing in addition tt his generous acknowledgement that s'THI ENQUIRER IS THE BEST PAPER IN THE ITEM PIRATE ZONE"
Year: 1874

folded her legs upon her body and was
at rest. He then put into the bottle
the young ones, who, of course, mani
tested acute pain. What was his sur
prise to see the mother arouse herself
from her lethargy, dart around 10, and
gather her young ones to her bosom,
fold her arms round them, and again
relapse into insensibility, until at length
death came to her relief, and the limbs,
no longer controlled by this maternal
Instinct, relaxed their grasp and became
dead. The effect of the exhibition upon
him is a lesson to our common human
ity. He has applied chloroform before
immersion. Judging from the above,
the spider is superior to the human
animal, in the fact that alcohol does not
destroy her natural affection.
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seription is out OK unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take grest pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone win pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of szch 8
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


g We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1874

Nh Act Concernlng Assessments for Highways

 e enacted by the Senate and House of Renrosen ta

 tIves in General Assembly convened:

 SECTION l. Whenever any assessment of damages CT benehs or bOth in consequence of the lay out or construction of any highway, or other public work ny any town, city ar borough in this state has been ar shall hereafter be made upon, in respect of any land or interest in land which has belonged to per son lately deceased, whose estate is in process of settlement in the court of probate, of which cs- tate no distribution has been recorded it shall he sufficient if the report schedule of such asse menf describe the property assessed land of the estate of such deceased person, describe the cs tAfe of such deceased person being assessed and any lien or claim upon said property resulting from sad assessment, otherwise legal and formal may he forcclosed or otherwise enforced against said prop erty, or the amount of said assessment collectod rum any person claiming said land under the title of sucn deceased person. -

 Sec. 2. In all cases of assessments of damares or benefits for the lay out construction of public works m this sate the superOf court or any other appellate or revising tribunal to which such cases may be removed, may, by re-asssessment or otherwise, correct any errors which may be shown to exist in the report or schedule of said assessments: provided resonaole notice be given to any person not before sad court or tribunal who may be njuriously affect ei by the correction of said errors, to appear and show cause why said correction should not be made But said court or tribunal may, without special notice, correct manifest clerical errors and nisdes crptiCns when is evident that no person interested las been misleti thereby.

 Approved July IT, 1874