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EDITOR
SHERWOOD LEFT ESTATE WORTH $12,000
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 2 - The will of the
late Thomas J. SHERWOOD, who for a long time edited the Marysville Democrat,
has been filed for probate.
The estate
consists of $6000 in cash in bank, $4000 life insurance, about $1000 in
household furniture and personal effects and shares of stock of unknown value
in several corporations.
The heirs are Mrs.
Ida Sherwood, wife of deceased, and Mrs. Dora DANIELS, Mrs. May VARNEY and Mrs.
Maud MARCUSE, daughters. The insurance is payable to the widow.
ACTRESS
DANGEROUSLY ILL
DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), January 2 - Miss Georgia
HARPER, leader and head of the dramatic company of that name, has been ill in a
local hospital for a week, suffering from peritonitis. She was considered
dangerously sick last night and her physicians, at Grant’s Pass, Oregon, was
telegraphed for. There are eighteen members in the company which is said to be
well and favorably known in the East and West.
ALLOWANCES
MADE IN ADOLPH WEBER’S CASE
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 2 - Judge PREWETT
yesterday made an order allowing $1400 attorney’s fees and $125 a month family
allowance in the Weber case. The charge of murder against Adolph Weber for the
killing of his mother will come up January 26th. The date of trial of the other murder charges and of the bank robbery
have not been set.
The attorneys for
the defense will ask for a change of venue, and with that end in view have been
sending out letters to prominent citizens in different portions of the county
to ascertain the public sentiment. Most of these letters have been immediately
forwarded without comment to Judge Prewett. The
feeling here is that no change of venue ought to be, or will be granted.
INVESTIGATED
NOISE AND EXPLOSION INJURES FACE
While en route
to the Truckee Lumber Company’s mills he was attracted by a number of sharp
explosions in a large pit. He went to the edge of the pit, and was peering
downward when another explosion occurred, and he was struck about the head and
face by small pieces of brass.
The pieces of
brass were the remnants of a number of dynamite caps that had been thrown into
a fire by three boy tramps that were on the other side of the pit our of
Porter’s view. The tramps took to flight when they saw the result of their
sport.
WELL-KNOWN
MAN DEAD
LICENSES
TO WED ISSUED IN YUBA
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 2 - The last week of
the old year proved a busy one in
Those who were
granted licenses are as follows:
J.D. DOWNER,
Pinole, and Mis Pearl A. WISE, of Marysville
Township; Edward C. FRASER, Wheatland, and Miss Rosalie KUSTER, Erie; William
SANTRY, Marysville, and Mis Laura JONES, of Marysville
Township; Lawrence HILL and Miss Grace HASLET, both of Chico; Fred YORE and Mis Alpha M. WILDER, both of Oregon House; Geo. EVANS and
Miss Hattie PHELAN, both of Oregon House.
FIVE
YEARS FOR TURNER IN SAN QUENTIN PRISON
REDDING (Shasta Co.), January 2 - Clarence TURNER was
sentenced Saturday in the Superior Court to five years in the penitentiary at
San Quentin. He is the man who was convicted three weeks ago of stealing a
heifer calf in the neighborhood of Shingletown, the trial costing
DISCOVERED
RICH COPPER PROPERTY IN MENDOCINO
UKIAH (Mendocino Co.), January 2 - A rich vein of
copper has been discovered twenty-five miles northwest of Willits. A shaft has
been sunk fifty feet, but it had to be abandoned at that depth on account of
water. The owners are now running a tunnel, which is now nearly 300 feet in.
They expect to go about 100 feet more before they strike the main ledge.
The surface
rock is very rich and it assays all of the way from 17 to 40 per cent in
copper, and also carried some gold and silver. The promoters are going to spend
$10,000 in development work.
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), January 2 - The New Year opens
with splendid prospect for the
The great
improvements in deepening the channel; the contract awarded for the completion
of the new dry dock; the new collier to be built; two gunboats undergoing
extensive repairs, the French cruiser Projet coming
here for repairs; the steel training ship Intrepid being completed, and plenty
of other repair work ahead, shows that the navy yard will have in 190 the
busiest year in its existence.
The tannery
here has been enlarged to accommodate increased business, and the new gas plant
(which will sell gas at $1.50 per 1000, instead of $2.50) is rapidly being
completed. Vallejoites look with confidence to an
increased population of 2000 during this year, owing to necessary enlargement
of he working force at the navy yard, and are well satisfied with the new
year’s prospects.
WELL-KNOWN
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), January 2 - A wedding of great
interest to Vallejoites and also to
many people in
The happy couple were made one by the Rev. W. ANGWIN. The church was
crowded with the many friends of the bride and groom. Mr. and Mrs. E.P. ALLEN
left on the 4:30 p.m. train for Southern California, and will reside here on
their return.
FOOTBALL
GAME FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP
CLAFLIN, who
played guard for the Sacramento team when it played here last Monday, has been
engaged by Willows to play with them to-day. Willows also has the services of
REEVES, a tackle on the Suisun team. Calvin HAFFEY, who played with
BRAKEMAN
IS RUN OVER AND KILLED BY ENGINE
SHALL
THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL HAVE ONE BLOCK OF LAND, OR MORE?
Educators Give It as Their Opinion That the School
Should Not Be Limited to One Block.
The
preliminaries of the High School bond issue of $200,000 have been dispatched;
the bonds have been sold, and the money in a few weeks will be in the treasury.
It will then become the duty of the Board of Education to call for offers of
ground for a site: and upon the final choice of this site much depends. Many
people of differing views have been heard from, but all the educators who have
so far expressed an opinion have declared that it would be a grave mistake to
put the new High School building on a single block of land.
Views
of David Starr
On December 4th
last President David Starr
“Without
knowing any of the details as to the different sites to which you refer in your
letter, I should say emphatically that you must have more than one block of
land; that if two or four blocks were obtained you would have enough on the
grounds and campus for the High School Athletics.
“A High School
is not going to make itself useful or attractive to young men unless beside
mental culture you have physical culture as well.
“In
“My judgement, therefore, is emphatically in favor of the
grounds, other things being equal, having plenty of room, for without plenty of
room the grounds cannot be satisfactory.”
What
Professor Wheeler Said
Responding to a
similar letter, Benjamin Ide WHEELER, of the
“On the main
point, as to the amount of land to be secured, I should say unhesitatingly:
‘Get two blocks, or even three or four, if you possibly can. You will regret it
later it you now limit your space to one block’. The addition of an athletic
field, or a playground, to the premises of a modern High School is in the
highest degree of desirable.”
Views
of Professor Pond
For many years
Professor J.H. POND, now Principal of the
“The question
of the site is, of course, the first one to settle. Size, environment and
proximity to the center of population must be considered. I have mentioned size
first, because it is necessary, in order that the real requirements of a modern
High School should be fulfilled, to insist upon a site of at least two blocks
in size. In my judgement, it is by far better that
the site should be large (rest of article cut off).
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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HIS
TOUGH LUCK CAME IN BUNCHES
Two weeks ago
he conducted a café and was doing a flourishing business. A fire came and
gutted the premises.
Last Wednesday
his first wife, now a Mrs. NEWBERG, came to
In
Yesterday
papers were filed here by the present Mrs. Harvey, who seeks a legal
separation.
IMPOSED
UPON THE FRIENDS WHO AIDED THEM IN NEED
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), January 11 - A number of
citizens of this city have been cleverly victimized by a couple who claimed to
be man and wife, and who imposed on the charitable nature of their dupes. About
a month ago the man and woman arrived in town, claiming to hail from
The landlady
of the Yreka Hotel took pity on the pair and furnished them with a room to live
in. Several citizens then learned of the case and immediately came forward with
help. The man was given a number of small jobs, for which he was paid in a very
liberal manner. He cut wood for Lawyer COLLIER and received more than the agreed
price, through sympathy. He then was given several jobs by Dr. COLLAR.
The doctor,
having some wood to cut, decided to give him more work, and went to his room to
notify him. The door was locked and no one responded, which aroused suspicion.
The landlady was called and the door broke in. The couple had flown, and the
room was in a demoralized condition. The furniture had been broken to pieces
and used for fuel, and even the pillows and bed clothes were missing, the
couple having taken everything with them that they could carry.
Mr. Collier
became suspicious about his wood pile, and upon investigation found that only a
part of it had been cut and then piled upon the other in a manner to deceive
him. Those who helped the couple are very angry. It is a good thing for the
pair that they got safely away before their true characters were discovered.
CHARLES
SOUTHER DEAD
GAZELLE (Siskiyou Co.), January 11 - Word reached here
to-day of the death of Charles Souther at his home in
BACK
BROKEN BY FALL
LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), January 11 - Frank FIORVANTI,
an Italian, fell from a tree Sunday and it is feared his back is broken. He had
climbed the tree to fasten a rope to it for some purpose, when he lost his
balance and fell some distance, striking the frozen ground with great force. He
weighs about 180 pounds.
DIED
JUST AS FORTUNE BEGAN TO FAVOR HIM
LINCOLN (Placer Co.), January 11 - Humphrey HALEY, an
old and respected pioneer resident of this section, died at his home about five
miles from Lincoln, on Tuesday, at the ripe old aged of 88 years.
It was but a
few days ago that the Sunflower Mining Company bonded his property for $10,000.
The land proved of good value and the Company was preparing to take up the
bond.
The body was
interred in the
TWO
BOYS GO HUNTING AND ONE IS SHOT BY THE OTHER
UKIAH (Mendocino Co.), January 11 - A serious accident
occurred Sunday, due to the careless handling of firearms. Dan WILLS and Ernest
SCHORLING, two school boys, about 15 years of age, who live in the Northern
part of this county, had gone duck hunting. Schorling
was loading his gun, while Wills was standing in front of him, when suddenly a
shell was discharged, the load taking effect in the Wills boy’s leg, near the
ankle. The bones were shattered and the flesh mangled in a frightful manner. He
was taken to his home and a doctor called in. The foot cannot be saved, and
will be amputated.
REDDING (Shasta Co.), January 11 - Not a trace of Mrs.
Jennie V. SMITH, the demented woman who yesterday ran away from the home of her
father in this place, as told in last evening’s Bee, has been found, although
the search has been carried on by scores of people, including officers and
neighbors.
The Sheriff and
his deputies beat the brush until after
This is
considered very remarkable. Mrs. Smith went west from the home of her father, a
Dr. AUSTIN, and not FOSTER, as reported yesterday. People live along the route
she is supposed to have taken, but not one of them has seen the woman.
Presumably she did not invite notice.
Many are of
the opinion that Mrs. Smith, dressed lightly as she was, must have succumbed to
exposure. Last night was bitterly cold, and to have slept out in the open
without covering of any sort, except the clothing she wore, was an ordeal
calculated to have fatal consequences.
As stated in
yesterday’s Bee, Mrs. Smith has a husband and son residing in Marysville. She
came to this place recently from Wisconsin. She entertains extreme religious
views and they appear to have unsettled her mind.
GAVE
PRISONER LIMIT UNDER JURY’S VERDICT
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 11 - In the Superior
Court here yesterday Thomas Galland DODGSON, an old
man living near Weimar, was sentenced to three months in the county jail for
assault.
Dodgson, on December 1st, quarreled with a
neighbor named Louis BLUM about some books and charged him with stealing them.
The old man in a rage procured a gun and fired upon Blum, the bullet narrowly
missing him. The Grand Jury indicted Dodgson for
assault with a deadly weapon, but the trial jury brought in a verdict for
simple assault.
The Court, in
sentencing the prisoner, stated that he was fully convinced that his intentions
were to kill Blum, but that he was not able to inflict any severer punishment
than the limit of the penalty for simple assault, which is three months.
Dodgson is an eccentric character and quarrelsome by
nature. His appearances in Court have attracted considerable attention. It is
believed by some that he is mentally unbalanced. Up to the time of his trial he
has always borne the name of Ernest B. JORDAN, but insisted at his arraignment
that his true name was Dodgson.
` WHITE GIRL TESTIFIES AGAINST CHINESE
LOVER
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 11 - Ah WOON was on trial
to-day in the Superior Court, on the charge of rape. The Bee heretofore has
told the story fully.
Daniel HEALY,
of Sacramento, an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, was the first witness. He told of the defendant’s admission to him in
regard to his relations with May LUCAS, the 15-year-old girl who is the central
figure in the ugly case.
The girl
herself followed Healy on the stand. She said Ah Woon
had given her many presents, and that he had asked her to marry him before he
had ever sustained criminal relations with her. She had consented to the union,
as had her mother.
The case was
still in progress when The Bee went to press.
THE
WEBER ESTATE
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 11 - Coroner W.A.
SHEPARD, who is in possession of the $5500 found in the Weber barn, presumed to
have been buried there by Adolph Weber, now charged with robbing the Placer
County Bank, yesterday filed a bill of interpleader. This
brings all the parties claiming the money into Court and relieves Shepard of
all liability. The fight is now on between the bank and the Weber estate. If
the bank wins, Shepard will claim the $1000 reward offered for the recovery of
the money.
UNKNOWN
MAN FOUND DEAD ON RIVER BANK
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 11 - Coroner KELLY was
called to the NORTON farm in Linda Township last evening to take charge of the
remains of an unknown man whose body was found in the brush near the bank of
Yuba River. A letter dated Spinks Corners, and addressed to “L.E. ANDREWS,
Marysville,” also a receipt for dues paid by Luther E. Andrews to January 1,
1905, to the Odd Fellows Lodge at Bainbridge, Michigan, were found in
deceased’s pockets. These papers will probably lead to his identification.
The local
Lodge of Odd Fellows will interest themselves in the case that the dead man’s
relatives may be apprized of his passing. Deceased wore a dark suit of clothes,
was sandy complexioned and had curly hair.
CARRIED
TO HIS DEATH BY A SWAMPING SEA
UKIAH (Mendocino Co.), January 11 - Another drowning
occurred near Fort Bragg Monday, the details of which are similar to those that
attended the drowning of Eugene HENDRICKS a short time ago.
John SILVERIA
and Antone LIMOS were fishing from the rocks on the
beach, and, as in the former case, an extra heavy sea came in and washed them
both into the ocean. As Silveria was carried from the
rock he called “good-by” to Limos, and was never seen after that. The body has
not been recovered.
Limos, being a
good swimmer, managed to save himself from a watery grave. Silveria
leaves a wife and daughter to mourn his loss.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Evening Bee
WANT
INJUNCTION ON BUTTE MINE DISSOLVED
SAN FRANCISCO, January 12 - In the suit of Dix W.
SMITH against the Sunset Mining Company, in which it was charged that the
management (next line not legible) out of the receipts of treasury stock and
permitted judgements for debts to be taken against
the Company in order to gain possession of the Old Glory Mine in Butte County,
affidavits were filed yesterday by G.W. RUMBLE and H.A. HARDINGE in support of
a motion for the dissolution of an injunction and against the application for a
Receiver for the property. The two deny the allegations and charges of
conspiracy and say that the injunction, which prevents the working of the mine,
has occasioned a loss of $800 a month and that had operations continued the
profits would have been $4000 a month by now. It is declared that the workings
are being ruined by the inactivity.
IMPORTANT
WITNESS IN WEBER CASE GOES AWAY
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 12 - Nothing so far has
occurred to indicate that there will be any change of the date set for the
Weber trial - January 26th. The illness of Grove L. JOHNSON, who is
chief counsel for the defendant, may cause a delay in the commencement of he
action, but probably for no other cause will the date be deferred.
The prisoner
has attracted but little attention of late, because but few have been allowed
to see him. He spends most of his time writing, as his reading matter is limited.
“I shall be a good attorney myself,” said the prisoner the other day, “when I
come out from this trial.”
Although he
has not said so, it is evident that Weber believes he will be acquitted. His
attorneys are about the only ones who are allowed to see him. The Sheriff and
District Attorney of an adjoining county recently were being shown through the
Court House, and during their inspection of the Jail were introduced to the
noted prisoner. He was not pleased with the introduction and complained of attention
being drawn to him.
The Court has
not yet passed upon the defendant’s demurrer to the indictment in the charge of
bank robbery.
Application
has already been made to the Board of Supervisors by the District Attorney for
compensation for his assistant counsel in the prosecution of the case, but as
yet the Board has taken no action.
A.D. FELLOWS,
one of the important witnesses in the case, has gone to Iowa on a visit, and it
is not likely that he will be here to give his testimony. Mr. Fellows had not
been subpoenaed and his departure was unexpected. Fellows is the only witness
who heard outcries at the Weber home the night of the tragedy. His testimony is
quite important, as it fixes the exact time at which the shooting occurred.
AH
WOON GUILTY
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 12 - Ah Woon, the Chinaman on trial yesterday for committing rape
on the person of May LUCAS, a 15-year-old girl, was found guilty as charged by
the jury. The jury were but a few moments in arriving at a conclusion.
WESTERN
NEVADA STATE NEWS
Made Money In Early Days But Died Broke
HAWTHORNE (Nev.), January 12 - George ELDER, one of
the oldest freighters and stage drivers in Nevada, is dead, having passed away
at the poor farm here. At one time he was wealthy, having owned many teams,
stages and freight outfits in the days before the war. He first ran between
Washoe City and the Comstock, and later transferred his work to the Bodie district during the excitement there. He did a
thriving business, and amassed a comfortable fortune, which he lost in mining
investments as he grew old. He was known to all the old-time residents of
Western Nevada and Eastern California.
Killed
In Mine
LOVELOCK (Nev.), January 12 - F.L. QUILLIELI, an
Italian employed at the Humboldt Sulphur Mines, was
instantly killed yesterday by an immense fall of mineral which he was mining.
He was chipping sulphur off a ledge when a fall took
place which buried him. He was recovered after considerable difficulty, but not
until after he had expired.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Evening Bee
MORPHINE
WAS WILSON’S RUIN
Death of Ex-Army Doctor And His Experiences At
Marysville and Colusa
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), January 13 - News of the death of
Dr. Henry Raxter WILSON at Colfax, in Placer County,
was received here with interest, notwithstanding the fact that the man was a
stranger in this community, where he served a long term in jail for the theft
of surgical instruments. It was his life story that appealed to the public,
particularly to those who came into contact with him, for the man possessed
education and kindly instincts.
Just how much
can be believed of the stories he told is hard to determine. While he claimed
to have served with Roosevelt in Cuba, the Rough Rider failed to bear him out.
But it is probable that Wilson was an army doctor, and that he saw service on
the island. He was wounded there, according to his story, and contracted the
use of morphine from taking the dangerous drug to alleviate his pain. The habit
stayed with him to the end.
Four or five
years ago the doctor drifted into Marysville and opened an office. He did not
do much business, and didn’t seem to care to, particularly. He had a little
money, and spent it freely. Shortly after he had established himself, the
Marysville officers received word that he was wanted in Chicago for the theft
either of a trunk or of its contents. He was arrested and returned to the Windy
City. Just how he got out of what looked like a very serious scrape was never
clearly explained out here. But in time he again appeared on the Coast, finally
getting into trouble in this town.
He was buried
by the local Lodge of Odd Fellows at Colfax. Whether or not he left a family
anywhere, or friends to mourn his loss, is not known, but those out here who
knew Dr. Wilson best, freely admit that morphine ruined a good man when it got
its deadly hold upon him.
MRS
SNOWDEN WAS NERVOUS
Frightened by Finding a Loaded Pistol In Her Dooryard,
Near Weber’s
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 13 - A sensation was
spoiled yesterday afternoon when Sheriff KEENA’s
deputies investigated a hasty summons. The Sheriff’s office was rung up by
telephone and the request made to send two deputies to E.S. Snowden’s house
immediately. Mrs. Snowden is Mrs. Julius Weber’s sister. Visions of another
murder hastened the deputies’ feet up the steep hill to the Snowden house.
Mrs. Snowden’s
nerves have been badly shaken up by her sister’s murder and finding a pistol
outside of the house concluded danger was abroad and sent for the officers.
They ventured the opinion that the pistol was Mr. Snowden’s, but she said not
and declared that when he brought it downstairs he always told her about it.
Snowden was on a jury in a Chinese criminal case and not until he identified
the pistol and said he took it down to clean it would she dismiss her fears.
The papers in
the bill of inter-pleading were served to-day on Vice-President LUBECK of the
Placer County Bank and Adolph WEBER. The latter laughed when served and said:
“I see they are still after me. Well, I shall be aggressive hereafter and they
will find I have plenty of fight left before they get through with me.” He
looks in better health than a month ago.
Attorney
-General WEBB arrived yesterday afternoon and has been in close consultation
with the Sheriff and District Attorney this afternoon and evening concerning
the Weber case.
PLACER
COUNTY BANK FILES CIVIL SUIT AGAINST WEBER
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 13 - This morning the
Placer County Bank filed a civil suit against Adolph Weber for the recovery of
the $5600 found concealed in the yard of his father’s home, and which he is
suspected of having stolen from the bank in question.
It is
persistently rumored about town that the prosecution in the Weber murder cases
has found new and damaging evidence against the youthful prisoner, but if this
is to, no word of it can be obtained from any of the official or attorneys
concerned.
CHINAMAN
MAKES WEAK DEFENSE IN UGLY CASE
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 13 - The case of rape
against Ah LUNG, the second celestial who was charged with Ah WOON, convicted
on Wednesday of the same offense, was before the Superior Court yesterday. The
defendant is charged with having assaulted Hattie LUCAS, a sister of the Lucas
girl whom Ah Woon was convicted of having raped.
The
prosecuting witness against Ah Lung is a girl but 12 years of age, and her
testimony against the Chinaman was revolting in the extreme. The case was tried
behind closed doors, and about the same witnesses were used as against Ah Woon.
The two cases
have been the most depraved that have ever been heard here, and the Chinamen’s
defense was very weak. The case was not concluded yesterday, but continued
until this morning and is now in progress. Ah Woon
will be sentenced on Monday next.
COULDN’T
STAND THE STENCH
CHICO (Butte Co.), January 13 - The Cramer Meat and
Packing Company’s slaughter house, which was adjudged a public nuisance on
account of the stench arising therefrom, will soon be
removed three miles from the suburbs of the city. The Company has a new
establishment in course of construction. The slaughter house had become so
offensive to residents in that neighborhood that notice was served upon the
Company. The buildings will now undoubtedly be burned to the ground.
ADVANCE
PRICE OF BEER TO TEN CENTS A GLASS
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), January 13 - Nevada City is
to have a Beer Trust. For years the price of beer has been 5 cents, but the
dealers have got together and decided there was no money in the foaming
beverage at that price, and on Sunday the price will be 10 cents a glass. The
dealers state the cause of the raise is the increased tax levied by the
Government.
CASHED
FORGED CHECKS AND THEN WENT HENCE
BENICIA (Solano Co.), January 13 - The Benicia Brewery
and D.J. QUINN mourn the departure of Benjamin C. PROCTOR, late cook of the
Union Hotel, and forger of two checks that he passed on them, the amounts being
$23.50 and $24.50 respectively. The name he used was that of J.W. HAINLINE,
proprietor of the hotel at which he was employed. The job was a bungling one,
and would have been detected but for the fact that Hainline’s
writing was not known about the town. He went to San Francisco on the Stockton
boat at 2 o’clock yesterday morning. Constable HYDE followed him at 9, but at
last reports had not caught his man. Proctor owed his employer $20 also.
CHAMPION
MINE IS TO RESUME WORK AT ONCE
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), January 13 - The Champion
Mining Company has filed with the Superior Court a bond for $25,000. It has
been approved, and the attachment levied on the Champion’s personal property in
the $200,000 suit brought by the Home Mining Company has been released. The
sureties on the bond are Nicholas OHLANDT and Charles NONNEMAN, millionaires of
San Francisco. There will be no loss of time in working the undisputed
territory. The Home will take similar action at San Francisco and will soon resume
work in that mine.
SIERRA
PIONEERS DIE
NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), January 13 - Two old
pioneers of Sierra County have passed away within the past few days. Mrs. W.D.
NOLAN, familiarly known as “Grandma” Nolan, was eighty-eight years of age and
in full possession of her faculties up to the day of her death. Lawrence
NESSLER, eighty years of age, was the other old-timer. He was a prominent
brewer of Sierra County, and was stricken suddenly.
SHE
STABBED HIM WITH BLADE OF POCKET KNIFE
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 13 - Frankie SMITH, an
ebony denizen of that portion of the tenderloin district known as “Barbara
Coast” plunged the blade of a pocket-knife into the breast of a Mexican
sheepherder named I. SANCHEZ at 2:35 o’clock this morning in an effort to reach
a vital part.
While the stab
is not a serious one, the parties to the affair, all of whom are under arrest,
are quite reticent as to details. It is known that Sanchez and the woman had a
war of words earlier in the night. He was standing outside her window when she
reached through and stabbed him.
One W.H.
DOURDEIL is held as a witness.
SACRAMENTO
BARBER JAILED
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 13 - Dan HARMON, who
claims to be a Sacramento barber, is in jail here for some light-fingered work
he did in one of the saloons a few night ago. He is accused of grand larceny, viz, extracting $5 from the pocket of an old man who was
drinking at the bar beside him. There are several responsible witnesses to the
act.
DEAD
STRANGER IDENTIFIED
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 13 - The remains of the
man found on the NORTON farm in Linda Township Tuesday last have been
identified as those of L.E. ANDREWS, of Benton Harbor, Mich. At the request of
a brother of deceased, Coroner KELLY shipped the remains to Michigan to-day.
PLEAD
GUILTY TO ROBBING FREIGHT CARS OF CIGARS
WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), January 13 - Frank CLAY and
Robert JORME, the two young men arrested at Davisville
on the suspicion of being the robbers who have been responsible for many of the
car robberies reported there, especially for one on the night of January 6th,
yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge of second degree burglary and were
sentenced by Judge E.E. GADDIS, of the Yolo County Superior Court, to three
years in the State Prison at Folsom.
As both are
young, Jorme being only 17 years of age, the charge
of first degree burglary was reduced to that of the second degree. When
arrested Clay and Jorme had a large quantity of
cigars in their possession which they had stolen from a car at Davisville. As the evidence against them was conclusive
they very wisely pleaded guilty to a minor charge.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Saturday Sacramento Bee
WILL
SUMMON MANY CITIZENS
Selection of Weber’s Jury a Hard Task
Judge Prewett Will Examine
Personally the Scene of the Four Awful Murders
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 14 - Attorney Benjamin P.
TABOR brought up the question yesterday, before Judge PREWETT, of jurors to be
summoned in the Weber case, and requested the drawing to be made as soon as
possible. The attorney thought 150 would be the least number that would be
adequate from which to choose the jury, as he did not think men who lived in
the vicinity of Auburn could qualify.
Judge Prewett, however, stated that he believed the number of
prejudiced jurors would be much smaller than anticipated.
Mr. Tabor
referred to a large number of letters of inquiry he had sent to different parts
of the county, asking for an opinion as to whether his client might receive a
fair and impartial trial in Placer County, and said that with few exceptions he
had received a large number of negative answers.
The attorney
stated that his client did not want to move the Court for a change of venue,
and had no intention of doing so at the present time.
Judge Prewett said he desired both sides to choose an attorney
form each side to consult with him on excuses for releasing jurymen. He said in
view of the case being a very exceptional one he would be disposed to be
liberal in excusing jurors. The selection of the Weber jury will probably take
three days for examination, and for this reason no foreign witnesses will be
summoned to appear before January 30th.
Attorney F.P.
TUTTLE, one of the Weber attorneys, asked that an order be made by the Court,
allowing defendant’s attorneys to see a certain shorthand statement made by
Weber to the Sheriff and District Attorney before his arrest, which statement
is now in the possession of those officers. He also asked to be allowed to see
a map of the grounds and surroundings of the Weber home which is being made by
the County Surveyor.
Judge Prewett suggested that not only a large map of the scene of
the tragedy be made, but that twenty smaller blue prints of the same be issued
so that each juror could be supplied with one, as well as the officers of the
Court.
This morning
the Court took up Attorney Tuttle’s request for a copy of Weber’s statement
made to a shorthand reporter and now in possession of the prosecution. A long
argument followed during which the opposing attorneys - Tuttle and Tabor -
became excited and used strong language in addressing each other.
Tabor claimed
he was not permitted to enter the Sheriff’s private office when Weber made his
statement to the shorthand reporter. Tuttle denied the truth of Tabor’s
remarks. Then followed a second spat between them. The Court finally put a stop
to the wrangling and served notice on the lawyers that he would not stand for
such conduct. He will impose fines if necessary.
Judge Prewett then announced that he would take Attorney Tuttle’s
request under advisement. He did not believe, he said, that he had the right to
order a copy of Weber’s statement made, as the paper belonged to the
prosecution. However, he suggested, the shorthand reporter could be put upon
the stand and asked to tell what the statement contained.
Judge Prewett asked if either side had any objections to his
making a minute examination of the Weber premises. Each side entered no
objection.
NEW
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FAILS WHEN MOST NEEDED
REDDING (Shasta Co.), January 14 - Redding has a new
fire alarm system, of the Gamewell pattern. It was
completed about four months ago, but it doesn’t work satisfactorily when put to
the test.
It has ben chiming off the mid-day hour and ringing the curfew in
a delightfully charming manner, but when it is called upon to sound a fire
alarm it bucks.
There was a
fire yesterday morning in Judge BUSH’s residence. An
alarm was turned in at the box directly in front of the Judge’s home. The
system did not respond. A run was made to the next box up town. The bell was as
silent as the dead. A third box was tried, but no alarm followed. As a last
resort, a run was made to the fire house and the bell was rung in the good
old-fashioned way by pulling the rope.
Chief KEENEY
has given notice that he will give the system a try-out to-morrow afternoon,
between 1 and 2. He will turn in an alarm from every box in town. He has given
the notice in order that people may not be frightened when they hear the alarms
ring.
Judging by
yesterday’s experience with the Gamewell, there is no
danger of the people being frightened, notice or no notice.
DEATH
CLAIMS ANOTHER PIONEER
CHICO (Butte Co.), January 14 - Yesterday D.B.
COLEMAN, one of the oldest pioneer miners of Butte County, died at his home at
John Adams, southeast of Chico, at the ripe old age of 80 years.
The deceased
crossed the plains for California in 1854 and since that time resided on Butte
Creek, where he was engaged, alternately, as a miner and a merchant.
Residing in
this locality for fifty years, Mr. Coleman was well known among the
mountaineers.
The cause of his
demise was pneumonia and paralysis. He leaves an aged wife and seven children.
DIVORCED
WIFE MAKES LOT OF EX-HUSBAND MISERABLE
REDDING (Shasta Co.), January 14 - The troubles of
W.L. HARVEY continue to pile thick and fast upon him The Bee of Wednesday gave
an account of several that had come upon him in less than two weeks, the last
being a struggle he had in San Francisco to get possession of his daughter,
Helen, aged 11, who had been kidnaped, it was
alleged, by Mrs. Alameda M. NEWBERRY, his wife of years ago and mother of the
child.
Judge LAWLOR,
in San Francisco, awarded the little girl to the father, and Harvey returned to
Redding Thursday happy in the possession of his little daughter. But Mrs.
Newberry followed on the next train and yesterday she filed a suit in the
Superior Court asking for a modification of the Court’s original decree of
divorce, whereby Mr. Harvey was awarded the custody of Helen, the divorced
wife, now Mrs. Newberry, to be allowed only to visit Helen occasionally.
Mrs. Newberry
alleges all manner of things in her complaint, all of which will be ventilated
when the case comes up on January 21st. In the meantime Mr. Harvey
is prevented from removing Helen and Mrs. Newberry is to be permitted to call
upon her at all reasonable hours without hindrance from Mr. Harvey.
WIFE
FOLLOWS HUSBAND
SUSANVILLE (Lassen Co.), January 14 - The funeral of
Mrs. Sarah JOHNSTON, widow of Otis Johnston, whose death was recorded in The
Bee some months since, took place here this afternoon, and was largely
attended.
Mr. and Mrs.
Johnston were among the oldest residents of Lassen County. While they had no
children of their own, they raised, educated and started in life three or four
poor children. They were a part of the “salt of the earth,” and their places
will not soon be filled.
HIS
FILE MADE TOO MUCH NOISE
Prisoner at Vallejo Sought to Saw His Way Out of
VALLEJO (Solano Co.), January 14 - David BOND, the
negro, who during Thursday night, a week ago, broke into the Orphan Asylum here,
as told in The Bee of January 6th, attempted to escape from the
county jail yesterday afternoon about 4:20 o’clock. His purpose was discovered
by the merest accident, and, as a consequence, the prisoner is now confined in
a steel cell, the officers declining to take any chances in his case.
The County
Auditor late yesterday afternoon had his attention attracted by a noise that
sounded like some one filing underneath the room he occupied. His suspicions were at once aroused and he
hastened to tell the officers that he thought one of their prisoners was
endeavoring to regain his liberty. They immediately investigated, going to
Bond’s cell.
The negro, who
had heard their approach, pretended to be asleep when his cell was reached, but
the officers were not deceived. They entered and a search of the room revealed
a file hidden away. It was at once confiscated and the prisoner removed to a
steel cell.
Bond appeared
in the Court here yesterday and was held to answer on the charge of burglary.
He has not yet been given a hearing on the heinous charge of having attempted
to rape one of the little girls in the Orphans’ Home on the night he is said to
have committed the burglary.
George DEEN
and E.W. HAWKINS, the two men accused of having robbed barber shops and other
places, were also bound over to the Superior Court yesterday.
GRASS
VALLEY COUPLE WED SECRETLY, BUT NEWS LEAKS
FAIRFIELD (Solano Co.), January 14 - William B.
ROBINSON and Lyda D. CROSETT, of Grass Valley,
arrived in Fairfield Tuesday evening, obtained a marriage license and wended
their way to the M.E. parsonage, where they were united in marriage by Rev.
J.F. KELLOGG. Mr. Robinson pledged Deputy Clerk J.N. WATSON and the officiating
clergymen to secrecy, but there was a leak somewhere along the line and the
news became public.
NEW
DISEASE FASTENS ON HORSES IN
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), January 14 - A new disease
has fastened its death grip upon the horses of this county. The disease has
characteristics of its own and has yet to be named. It is something entirely
new and is not mentioned in the text books. The first cases to be noticed
occurred in this city, and since then horses all over the county have fallen
victims of the disease.
The immediate
effect of the disease is paralysis of the throat. When an animal first feels
the clutches of the sickness there is a slight discharge from the head similar
to ordinary distemper. The next condition is that of paralysis of the vocal
chords and the epiglottis. It soon becomes impossible for the horse to breathe,
and he literally chokes to death.
A peculiar
thing about the affliction is that there is no swelling in the neck of throat.
If fact the throat is inclined to waste away.
SALOON
ROBBED
COTTONWOOD (Shasta Co.), January 14 - Some time
Thursday night, between the hours of 10 p.m. and daylight, the saloon building
belonging to Joseph ROTH was entered through a window and about $40 in gold was
taken from the cash register, which was carried behind the store owned by Geo.
M. BUTTERWAY and robbed of its contents.
It is Roth’s
custom to take all cash home with him every night, but Thursday night he forgot
it. There is no clue to the burglar, but it is thought to have been done by
someone from this place.
Submitted by Betty Loose betty@unisette.com
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Sacramento Evening Bee
CHARGE
REDUCED
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), January 16 - The charge of
grand larceny entered against Dan HARMON, the Sacramento barber accused of
extracting $5 from the pocket of an old man in a saloon, has been reduced to
petty larceny. The prisoner has demanded a jury trial and the case will be
heard in the Police Court on the 24th inst.
SHIPMENTS
OF GREEN
Butte County Growers Condemn Practice and Plan to
Effect Organization
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), January 16 - A.R. SPRAGUE, of
the California Fruit Exchange, addressed the orange growers at their meeting
here Saturday, the proceedings of which have been partially told in The Bee. He
scored the growers for submitting to the evil conditions from year to year and
making no attempt to improve them. R.M. GREEN, E. TUCKER, BARTLEY, TRAVERS,
CRANE, REPPERT, KERR, BITLEY, SANCOMB, GINGLES, WATERHOUSE, BOLT and FITZGERALD,
also made interesting remarks on the subject of organization.
All agreed
that organization must be perfected to prevent the marketing of green citrus
fruit, or Butte County’s reputation will suffer. It is an undisputed fact that
green oranges were shipped from here this year, and this, too, when there were
plenty of ripe ones to fill the orders. The growers do not want this to happen
again, and the speakers urged it as one strong reason why they should organize.
They also argued that the organization would be of vast importance to them in
marketing the fruit; full benefits from their groves would then be realized.
Mrs. Smith
told of how her crop had been shipped by a packing Company. She received no
returns for the oranges but instead was confronted with a bill for the expense
of handling same.
Mr. Sprague
said that Superior California oranges ripen six weeks earlier than those of the
south, and, by organization of the growers, can be made to pay handsomely. He
suggested that enough acreage ought to be secured to conduct a local packing
house where all growers could receive equal and just treatment, and that, if
the growers of Butte have courage enough to stand by such an organization and
put competent people at the head of it, there is no reason why an organization
cannot be kept up among the orange growers here just as well as in the southern
part of the State or elsewhere.
A Committee,
as mentioned in Saturday’s Bee, was appointed to canvass among the growers and
secure the necessary acreage. Your correspondent interviewed a number of
prominent growers and gave it as their opinion that the required acreage would
be easily secured. In fact, the Committee already has a large acreage
subscribed, and will not let up until it secures the desired amount.
The orange men
are considerably worked up. They believe they have not got all they should out
of their holdings and also that Butte County’s reputation as a citrus fruit
section is liable to suffer, if something is not done immediately.
Consequently, they say they must have an organization and stop trying yo go it alone, in competition with each other.
The Committee
is hard at work and expects to be ready in the near future with a sufficient
acreage subscribed to call a meeting to perfect the desired organization.
SHRINERS
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), January 16 - An accident which,
luckily, did not prove very serious, occurred a few miles from here last night.
T.J. KELLY, the well-known stove dealer and plumber of this place, and
Professor GRACE, principal of the Oroville schools, were driving along ahead of
a four-horse team hauling a load of passengers, all returning from the Shriners’ Conclave at Chico. Kelly and Grace were a few
yards in advance of the four-horse team, which was in charge of Frank ATKINS,
when, for some reason, their horse stopped and before Atkins could check his
team there was a smash-up. For an instant it was thought someone had been badly
injured, but an investigation showed that the only damage done was a badly
smashed up buggy.
WEBER
MAKES DRAWINGS OF HIS RUINED HOME AND THE GROUNDS
Prosecution Says Disappearance of Witness Fellows Is
Not Material
AUBURN (Placer Co.), January 16 - The report of the
clash between the attorneys in the Weber case on Saturday, as published in The
Bee, was in error in naming Attorney F.P. TUTTLE as one of the irate
barristers, the trouble was between Attorney TABOR and District Attorney
ROBINSON, and it was the attacks of the latter that caused the Court to
announce his intention to heavily fine any attorney in the future who should
make similar charges.
Besides minute
maps which are being made of the scene of the great tragedy, photographers were
busy yesterday taking pictures of various points about the Weber home, and view
points along the route which Weber is said to have followed the night he left
his home to take his accustomed walk. Every part of the barn and calf pen where
the money and bloody revolver were found has been photographed to be used
during the trial.
During the
imprisonment of Weber he has made an elaborate plan and drawings of his home
and surroundings which his attorneys declare are as accurate as could be made
by an experienced surveyor.
The departure
of A.D. FELLOWS is now declared by the prosecution to be of on (sic) importance
to their case, as his testimony does not bear on the importance of the facts
they propose to prove, the prosecution is confident of conviction. They expect
to connect several important links of evidence at the trial by testimony which
was not brought out at the preliminary.
The
announcement that an Oakland pawnbroker would identify Weber as having
purchased from him the 32-caliber revolver which killed the Webers,
has been known for some time, but the officers have also intimated that this
important witness is not a pawnbroker. They have declined to state, however,
what his real vocation is.
Nothing in the
way of evidence has developed to show that young Weber was on amicable terms
with his family. Young Weber was ambitious to embark on business for himself,
but those schemes were always opposed by his father, who urged that he go to
school and finish his education first.
Some time ago,
it is related, Weber visited friends who were engaged in the cattle business
and remained on the stock ranch for quite awhile. When he returned home he was
eager for his father to invest in stock, but his father again reminded him that
his education was of more importance.
The theory
that Weber killed his family because it is presumed they discovered him to be
the bank robber does not gain general credence, as there has been not the
slightest evidence to show that the Webers thought
the boy a bank robber.
This morning
100 jurors were drawn, and a copy of the list containing their names was given
to each set of attorneys. Each juror’s name is numbered, and in any case where
the opposing attorneys return the same number as objected to, the man so
enumerated will be dropped. This procedure is something new here, and it will
be watched by lawyers and the public with interest.
CLAIM
HARRISON GULCH TOWNSITE
Mine Locators Want Possession of Little Shasta County
Settlement
REDDING (Shasta Co.), January 16 - Possession of
$25,000 worth of Harrison Gulch town property is the issue that is being tried
in the case that was called in the Superior Court this morning.
The case
arises from the conflict between SHERK, FLETCHER and LARGE, who located the
Bonanza mining claim several years ago, and the Townsite
Company. The latter applied for a patent on the ground, claiming that the
Bonanza was not mineral ground. The issue was tried out in the Land Office last
Summer in a six weeks’ investigation. The townsite
people lost, and later the Commissioner of the General Land Office sustained Sherk and partners.
To complicate
matters still more, the townsite people, claiming
that assessment work had not been done on the Bonanza for the year 1903, jumped
the claim, locating as mineral ground the very land that they had all along
maintained contained no mineral at all.
Sherk and partners have not yet received the patent which
they expect, but having had every decision in their favor so far, they want
possession of the goods. They want the greater part of the business portion of
the mining town of Harrison Gulch, in the extreme southwestern corner of Shasta
County, and damages from those who have been occupying their premises for
several years and paying them no rent.
That is the issue
that is now being tried in the Superior Court. The best part of the population
of Harrison Gulch is here as witnesses, and it is expected that the case will
last about two weeks.
WESTERN
NEVADA STATE NEWS
SPARKS (Nev.), January 16 - The people of this city
are furious over the fatal assault committed by Daniel REGAN upon his aged
mother-in-law, Mrs. Harriett HESS, a respected woman of this city. When the
first news of the crime broke upon the place the people would hardly credit it
and when they learned of the deed in all its horror their anger knew no bounds.
It is fortunate, indeed, that Regan has been removed to the Reno jail, a strong
structure, where there will be no chance for the prisoner to fall into the
hands of his former neighbors. In the meantime the family of the dead woman is
prostrated over the terrible death of the aged mother.
Regan is a
cigar dealer. He came home drunk about 12 o’clock Saturday night. He was in
company with Ernest VonKoch, a roomer. When he
knocked at the back door, he was asked to enter by the front door, which was
unlocked. This angered him and he broke down the door, after which he entered
the house and began to smash the furniture.
Mrs. Hess ran into the room in her night clothing to see what the trouble was. Regan knocked her down wi