A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > Sacramento http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=587 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=36007 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: The Saturday Bee Article Date: July 14 1906 Article Description: Death of John Zuver, Mrs. Josephine Murphy, D.R. Jones, Marriage & Divorce Record; and other news items Article Text: The Saturday Bee Sacramento, Cal. July 14, 1906 page 6 FARM HAND GETS INTO TROUBLE Young Man In Marysville Under Arrest Upon A Charge Of Forgery Cashed Check For $27. MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), July 14 - Thomas GORDON, a young man who this week quit the employ of Horst Brothers at Wheatland, is under arrest upon a charge of forgery. When GORDON quit the Horst place Thursday he was given a check in the sum of $5.25 to cover the wages due him. It was signed by S.E. CROWDER, the foreman, and was honored in a Wheatland store where GORDON presented it. On reaching this city yesterday GORDON procured from a storekeeper blank checks of the Rideout Bank and, it is alleged, filled them out in several sums over the forged signature of "Samuel Crowder." He tried to pass one on M. SCHWAB, who does business near the bank, and who consulted the bank before cashing it. He was advised that CROWDER always signed his checks "S.E. CROWDER" and that in all likelihood the check was spurious. GORDON, it is said, then tried in another quarter and received of Joseph WHYLER $27.60. When the latter complained to the police, GORDON was landed in short order by Officers McCOY and BURROUGHS. The prisoner had $17 left when arrested. Miner Killed by Falling Gravel Bank NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), July 14 - Coroner HOCKING was summoned yesterday to Fall Creek, twelve miles above Washington, to conduct an inquest, into the death of John ZUVER, who was killed there by a falling gravel bank. ZUVER was washing down the bank, using a small stream, when the mass gave way beneath tons of gravel. His brave little wife witnessed the accident and all alone went to his rescue. Unable to dig him out, she resorted to the monitor and washed away the pile of dirt beneath which lay her husband. When she finally reached him and dragged the body out to daylight life had fled. He was smothered to death. ZUVER was a young man, aged about 26. He had been in the Washington country about three years and was well liked. Fire Destroys Pasture WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), July 14 - Another big fire yesterday afternoon on the TALBOT ranch destroyed 3000 acres of pasture valued at $3000. The fire started in a cabin occupied by sheepherders, who went to sleep in the afternoon without taking the precaution of taking the fire from their pipes. Two small buildings and all the fences in the line of the fire were destroyed. When the news was telephoned to Willows, S.P. SHERFEY, one of the executors of the estate of J.R. TABLOT, hired six men to go out to fight the flames and just at dark last evening had it under control. CAMPBELL and PETERSON rented the pasture last week from the TALBOT estate, but they had sublet the part that burned to J.R. GARNETT and Oscar CHRISTIAN, who are the losers. Poisonous Weed Kills Many Sheep REDDING (Shasta Co.), July 14 - Frank HENRIQUES has lost 150 sheep during the past two weeks because they have partaken of a poisonous weed that grows on the range along the South Fork of Cottonwood Creek, in Western Shasta County. This is the second season he has met with a heavy loss in that section and he has finally concluded to abandon the range altogether. It is somewhat singular that goats and cattle grassing on the same range are in no way affected. NO CLUE TO THE MURDERER Body of Man Found In McCoby Gulch Believed To Be That Of Turner Palmer, Who Dropped From Sight. HAYFORK (Trinity Co.), July 14 - The inquest held on the body that was found last Sunday in McCOBY Gulch, two miles from hayfork, where coyotes had dug it up from a grave only eleven inches deep, was concluded here yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Coroner RYAN and Sheriff BERGIN arrived here Monday morning from Weaverville and had spent the whole week in trying to run down clues that promised to lead to the murderer, but all to no purpose. It was finally concluded to hold the inquest yesterday on such evidence as was at hand. The jury found that the dead man was probably Turner PALMER, who purchased the bottle of medicine found on the dead, in Weaverville on October 6th last. Dr. TAYLOR, who wrote the prescription, could not positively identify the dead. The clothing was so torn that it was not recognizable as that worn by the purchaser of the prescription. What are thought to be bullet holes were found in the remnant of the shirt. The time of the murder could not be determined. TURNER was never seen in Hayfork. In fact, he was little known in Trinity County, for he was in Weaverville for only one day, and that was when he called on Dr. TAYLOR. It is not even known positively where he came from, although it is thought he had lived either at Sawyer's Creek, Siskiyou County, or along Klamath River. As told in The Bee early in the week it was positively determined that the body was not that of William VIENAS, who disappeared so mysteriously last October while on his way from Hyampom to Hayfork. He has never been heard from since, but the finding of this body has revived interest in his case, and on next Monday morning a party of eight men will leave Hayfork to scour the country between here and Hyampom and try to find some trace of his body. The body of Turner PALMER was taken to Weaverville last night by Coroner BRYAN and it will be given a second and deeper burial in the Weaverville Cemetery. BABY DROWNED IN A DITCH Little Girl Toddles Into Water Only A Foot Deep And Loses Life - Was Found By Mother BELLA VISTA (Shasta Co.), July 14 - Mary, the 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. MANTER, of this place, was drowned yesterday afternoon in an irrigation ditch that flows near the family home. Water in the ditch was not a foot deep. The little girl barely able to walk was playing with other children about the MANTER home. She toddled off by herself, and was soon missed by Mrs. MANTER, who was inside the house but reasonably watchful of the little children playing in the yard. At 3 o'clock she missed little Mary from the happy throng. She went outdoors to hunt for the little one that she had seen only ten minutes before. She did not have to go far to find her baby daughter lying face downward in the water in the irrigating ditch. Life was not wholly extinct. The mother, assisted by neighbors, worked for two hours to resuscitate the child. A physician was summoned from Redding, ten miles away. He arrived before all signs of animation had passed away and it was not until 5:30 in the afternoon, two hours and a half after the little girl had fallen into the water, that hope was abandoned and she was pronounced dead. Left Without Paying His Bills MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), July 14 - C.E. FINNEY, of Lincoln, was in Marysville last night looking for a Greek named CACHAREA, who is mourned in the pottery town because of the fact that a number of the merchants extended him credit and were left in the lurch when he skipped. The search here was unavailing, notwithstanding the fact that a partner of CACHAREA came here and was supposed to be taking up the trail of the fugitive. Dead Man's Name Was Not Learned REDDING (Shasta Co.), July 14 - Coroner BASSETT was unable to determine at the inquest held yesterday afternoon the name of the man whose badly decomposed body was found Thursday afternoon on Pit River, a mile below Wyndham Ferry, as told in The Bee of Friday. It was determined that the man was white and that he had been dead for three months, probably. He was very tall and aged between 30 and 40 years. The only clothing on the body was a heavy blue flannel shirt and an undershirt. One foot was encased in a No. 9 shoe. There was no evidence that the man had been foully dealt with. Burial was made on the spot, a blanket being the winding sheet of the dead. It would be almost impossible to convey a coffin to the rocky gorge where the body was found. First Will Broken in Yolo County WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), July 14 - The jury in the Julius H. CLARK will contest rendered a verdict last night in favor of the contestant. Two ballots were taken in the jury room and the jury stood 8 to 4 the first time, 9 to 3 the second time and when polled in Court the jury stood 10 to 2. CLARK died several years ago in this county. Until his death he was thought to be a bachelor. After his death a will was found in which he willed a son who lives in Minnesota $5 and the remainder of his property to his sister. The son contested the will with the result as above stated. The attorneys for the proponent of the will say they will appeal. This is said to be the first will ever broken in the county. Case of Forgery WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), July 14 - The local officers have received no word as yet on the whereabouts of T. BRYAN who forged the time checks on the Yolo Orchard Company and cashed them in Woodland, as told in yesterday's Bee. It now transpires that they were forgeries, as the name of the Superintendent of the ranch was forged to them. Died at Willows WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), July 14 - Mrs. Josephine MURPHY, relict of Matthew MURPHY, who was one of the pioneer business men of Jacinto at the time that town was booming, died at her home in Willows last night. Chronic malaria fever is given as the cause of her death, she having been a sufferer with that malady for many years. Deceased was a native of Dunn County, Wisconsin, aged ** years. Two daughters survive her. Death of D.R. Jones OROVILLE (Butte Co.), July 14 - D.R. JONES, the owner of the well-known mountain resort in Plumas County known as Buck's Ranch, died suddenly yesterday. JONES was well known in both Butte and Plumas counties and also in Wheatland, where his family resides and where the funeral will take place. JONES is reputed to be a very wealthy man. To Shoot at Woodland CHICO (Butte Co.), July 14 - Sergeant C.A. RICE, Sergeant S.C. SALISBURY and Private F.E. STAPLETON of Company A departed for Woodland yesterday morning to enter the contest between the different squads of the various companies of the Second Regiment, N.G.C., in the shoot to-day and to-morrow. Page 7 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE RECORD Licenses To Wed Issued And Decrees Of Separation Granted In Superior California Counties REDDING (Shasta Co.), July 14 - Marriage licenses were issued during the week to the following couples: Carl SHIREK, aged 28, of San Francisco and Laura I. LOWDON, aged 28, of Redding; James S. FULLER, aged 32, and Jean A. SYME, aged 23, both of French Gulch; Thomas DODSON, aged 35, and Mary RUSSELL, aged 22, both of Oakland; Kirby P. STOW, aged 25, of Old Diggins, and Olive STEVENS, aged 17, of Buckeye; Fred B. MAXWELL, aged 32, of Kennett, and Hattie CORDRAY, aged 19, of Redding; William H. HALLETT, aged 26, and Grace M. ALFORD, aged 23, both of Oakland. Six final decrees of divorce were granted to the following couples, the plaintiffs being first named: Mary D. NASCIMENTO and Manuel NASCIMENTO; Luella BACON and Richard Pratt BACON; Fred B. MAXWELL and Annie G. MAXWELL; Pearl THOMAS and James THOMAS; Chauncey W. BLAKE and Eva F. BLAKE; Albert A. WOODS and Mary WOODS. IN YUBA COUNTY MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), July 14 - Marriage licenses were granted to two couples in this county since the last report, as follows: Jose F. TRIGUIERO and Mary NEAL, both of Sutter County; H.G. WILSON and Miss Flora HADDEN, both of Chico. The engagement is announced of Miss Blanche CARSTENBROCK, of Marysville, and William MEREDITH, of Sacramento. The wedding will take place July 25th. IN SISKIYOU COUNTY YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), July 14 - Marriage licenses were issued during the week, as follows: Warden Downing HANAN, age 40, and Ione DAVIS, aged 29, both of Callahan; Nathaniel BRIGGS, age 25, and Augusta HICKEY, age 31, both of Gazelle; Leon LUCEN, age 27, and Anna McGUINNESS, both of Sisson; Frank P. HENDERSON, age 28, and Belle YAGOR, age 18, both of Algomat. IN YOLO COUNTY WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), July 14 - The following marriage licenses were issued the past week: Charles A. BARNES, of Humboldt County, and Loretta PRITCHETT, of this county; John H. MITCHELL, of Oakland, and Miss Gertrude NOE, of this county. IN BUTTE COUNTY Oroville (Butte Co.), July 14 - The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk during the past week: Charles I. EDWARDS, aged 35, and Mabel Laura JONES, aged 24, both of Nelson; Pearl STETSON, aged 31, and May L. RIGHTMIRE, aged 18, both of Chico; Louis H. McLAIN, aged 28, of Paradise, and Maud E. TAYLOR, aged 26, of Magalia; Charles E. BRADBURY, aged 26, and Alice R. McCLURE, aged 20, both of Chico. IN NEVADA COUNTY GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), July 14 - The following weddings took place during the week: At this city - W.J. FORD and Miss Evalyn CARLYON, at the home of the bride's mother, Dr. G.W. BEATTY of the M.E. Church officiating. At Nevada City - William H. SCHRADER and Miss Florence BRAYTON, at the home of the bride's parents, Rev. Francis A. LAMB officiating. Divorces - Mrs. Frances G. DAY, of Truckee, was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from W.H. DAY. The custody of a minor child was given to the mother. Hollis P. COX, also of Truckee, was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from Agnes E. COX. SURPRISED THEIR FRIENDS NAPA (Napa Co.), July 14 - Hartwell D. JACKSON of this city and Miss Beatrice GALT of Red Bluff were married in Sacramento last Wednesday by Rev. J.T. WILLS at the Presbyterian parsonage. The news leaked out here to-day and was quite a surprise to the many friends of Jackson in Napa. The groom is a well known druggist of this city. Mrs. JACKSON is the daughter of J.A. GALT, a well known lumberman of Red Bluff. The pair will make their home in Napa, where a cozy little home has been prepared for them. IN SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY LODI (San Joaquin Co.), July 14 - To-day before the Superior Court, Mrs. Mabel PEARSON, a well and favorably known young woman of Lodi, brought suit for divorce from her husband, Lincoln L. PEARSON, on the ground of failure to provide. The complaint alleges that in February, 1905, the young couple arranged to attend church; that Mrs. PEARSON did attend the church, but PEARSON left the house and has never returned. Cannot Secure a Duplicate Tag GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), July 14 - No matter how a dog loses its collar and tag, the city will not issue another license tag free of charge. This question came up again at last night's meeting of the Board of Trustees, as it has at almost every meeting for months and by looking back over the minutes it was ascertained that in March, by unanimous vote, the Board decided that once having sold a dog owner a tag, it was under no obligation to give him another in case the one purchased was lost or stolen. It was decided to stand by the March decision. The question was brought up by Mrs. J.R. THOMAS, who stated that the tag which she had purchased had been lost or stolen, presumably stolen, and she did not consider it just to compel her to buy another. Back of this is an interesting story which ended at a late hour yesterday afternoon, when City Poundmaster Samuel MITCHELL was acquitted by a jury of a charge of removing the collar and tag from the neck of the dog owned by Mrs. THOMAS. MITCHELL empounded the animal two weeks ago, and was accused by Mrs. THOMAS and her son of taking the collar and doing away with it. Fred THOMAS swore to a complaint charging MITCHELL with petit larceny. MITCHELL denied that the dog had a collar when lassoed on the street. Mrs. THOMAS proved that a license had been purchased, and there the matter rested for the jury to decide. It promptly brought in a verdict of not guilty. Judge COUGHLAN, who tried the case, declared that it should never have been brought into Court as there was no evidence against the accused. COUGHLIN, a Nevada City Justice, sat for Justice FRANK, who was otherwise engaged. Both Defendants Held to Answer STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), July 14 - May CLARK and Tony ROSSI have both been held to answer on felony charges. The CLARK woman is accused of having robbed a man named William O'BRIEN of $70 in gold coin. She is an attractive woman, 19 years of age, and recently came from San Francisco. The money was found in the possession of a man named PATTON with whom she had been consorting. He was discharged, however, as he was not directly connected with the case. ROSSI shot Paul DE MARTINI, a saloon keeper, because the latter rushed to the assistance of a women the defendant was beating. His attorneys offered no evidence, evidently keeping it from the District Attorney. The Justice fixed his bail at $2000, which was furnished. Landmark Destroyed AUBURN (Place Co.), July 14 - The old historical Grizzly Bear House, about twelve miles north of this place, on the Forest Hill Road, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is about $3000 on the building and contents. John HUTINSON, the pioneer stockman who owns the ranch on which the notable building stood, lost $455 in greenbacks, which he had just received for the sale of some property. About 150 chickens were burned up in a shed which adjoined the house. No cause is known for the fire. The Grizzly Bear House was a prominent stopping place for travelers in the early days before the advent of railroads. Farm Sold NAPA (Napa Co.), July 14 - Olive Hill Farm, one of the most picturesque places in the Napa Valley, has been purchased by I.Y. ECCLESTON, Cashier of the Oakland Bank of Savings, who has moved with his family to the place. A large part of the large farm is planted in olives, fruit and vines. Finds Brother After Many Years LODI (San Joaquin Co.), July 14 - Through the untiring efforts of Mrs. H. BENTLEY, of Woodbridge for the past forty-five years she has found her brother, James WELCH, from whom she has been separated since childhood. WELCH joined the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil Way, enlisting with a Maine regiment. At the close of the war he returned home to find the family broken up and scattered. Mrs. BENTLEY, then a young woman, came to Woodbridge and married Dr. H. BENTLEY. Since leaving home she had not heard from her brother. On a recent trip to Washington, D.C., she enlisted the aid of the Pension Bureau and her brother was located in Arizona where he has mining interests. WELCH arrived in Lodi Thursday evening. A family re-union will be held next week, at which two other sisters, Mrs. Anna WILLIMG, of Ukiah, and Mrs. Celia SMITH, of Palo Alto, will be present. Charge Against Driemer Dismissed AUBURN (Placer Co.), July 14 - The case against Louis DRIEMER, charged with taking a watch and chain and $25 in money from Nana CLAIRBORNE, a colored woman, has had more difficulty in getting into a trial Court. DRIEMER was first charged with grand larceny, but the value of the property did not equal enough to sustain such a charge. The District Attorney then asked the committing magistrate to hold DRIEMER on a charge of burglary, but Justice McCANN, after some deliberation, declined to hold the prisoner on this and dismissed the charge against him, intimating that petty larceny was as serious a charge as could be prosecuted. The District Attorney, however, declined to consent to the lesser charge, and a complaint was sworn to before the Superior Court again charging burglary against DRIEMER. The defendant was asked if he would consent to plead guilty to petty larceny, but he stoutly declined to do this, and considerable comment was made as to the man's guilt or innocence. The variance in the statements of the prosecuting witness caused the sentiment to be somewhat favorable to the defendant. Yesterday the defendant was brought before Judge PREWETT. The defendant's demurrer to the complaint was sustained, and leave given until 4:30 to file a new complaint. As no subsequent complaint was filed against DRIEMER, the Court ordered him released from custody and he was discharged. No Principal Yet LODI (San Joaquin Co.), July 14 - No Principal has as yet been selected by the Trustees of Salem District to fill the vacancy at the High School left by the resignation of J.B. WOOTTEN. Miss Fanny C. STONE, who has taught her several years will retain the Vice-Principalship. Miss Jettora E. WATKINS, of Sacramento, and Miss Gertrude McGAIN have been selected to teach this year. Another teacher will probably be added in the commercial department. Severely Injured PLACERVILLE (El Dorado Co.), July 14 - While driving along the Pleasant Valley road Thursday afternoon, Jas. M. ANDERSON was thrown from his buggy and severely injured. His horse became unmanageable and turned in the road, the force of which threw ANDERSON from the buggy. The buggy was turned over and ANDERSON received cuts about his head and face. He was brought down to Placerville yesterday morning, where his injuries were dressed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com