~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier" Modoc County, California --- Our outgoing mail is checked by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <betty@unisette.com> To: <NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:05 AM Subject: [NORCAL] Sac Bee Feb 23 1906 > The Evening Bee > Sacramento, Cal. > Friday, February 23, 1906 > Page 6 > > MAY PROSECUTE YOUNG MORRIS AND SUE MacDOUGALD'S ESTATE > Death of Truckee Constable Recalls Wells-Fargo Robbery and Peculiar Mixup > BOCA (Nevada Co.), February 23 - The death of Constable William > MacDOUGALD, > of Truckee, without repaying to the Wells-Fargo Express Company the $300 > which was recovered after the robbery there about a year ago has caused > the > Company to set its agents to work looking for Mrs. CORBY and her son, > Henry > MORRIS, Morris having been charged with the crime. > The young man was arrested at Reno several days after the robbery and > upon > being returned to Truckee led the officers to the spot where he had buried > the treasure, consisting of about $300 in money and several hundred > dollars > worth of jewelry. Satisfied with the recovery of the jewelry and > believing > that the money would be turned over by Constable MacDougald, the Express > Company declined to prosecute young Morris, and after a brief > incarceration > he was released. He is said to have gone to San Francisco, while the > mother, > Mrs. Corby, is believed to be at Chilcoot, a Western Pacific construction > camp north of Reno. > It is believed that the Express Company will prosecute the charges > against > Morris if he fails to make good the missing money, and that it will then > bring an action against MacDougald's estate to recover the money which he > held. > A short time before his death MacDougald said that he would never > surrender the money to the Company unless they prosecuted Morris or else > sued him for the amount. > > MINERS RUSH TO LEWISTON > Nuggets Valued At $500, One Alone Being Worth Nearly Half That Sum, Picked > Up In White Cloud Mine > REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 23 - Henry EHRMANN and E.S. KISE, miners, > have struck a pocket in the White Cloud placer mine, near Lewiston, > Trinity > County, taking out $500 in gold nuggets, one of which weighed over $200 > and > another $50. > The men have a bond on the mine and had been working but two days when > they struck the big pocket. Great excitement was caused in the Lewiston > section and miners and prospectors are rushing to the district to stake > out > claims. > The White Cloud gravel mine is located one mile above Lewiston on the > Trinity River. It was worked over twenty years ago by the White Cloud > Mining > Company of Ohio, which took out $30,000 in one pocket. The mine was > abandoned as worked out many years ago, after it had given up many > thousands > of dollars to the Company. > It is thought by many that the new strike will prove to be a big one. The > gold taken out so far is all large, the nuggets ranging from $1 to $10 in > value. The big nugget found is almost the shape of a man's clenched fist > and > is entirely free from quartz or foreign matter. It is smooth channel gold. > > Is Suspected of Stealing a Watch > WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), February 23 - A one-armed man who gives the name of > Henry WHITE, and who has been peddling peanuts around town for several > days, > was arrested by Marshal GWINN yesterday, charged with entering the home of > Miss Hattie LEE and stealing a watch. > White was seen by neighbors to enter the residence about 10 o'clock, it > is > said. The family were not at home. Some time later Miss Lee went to her > room > and found her watch missing. > In the meantime White is said to have tried to dispose of a watch similar > to the missing one at Gorman's saloon, but failed. He also told Geo. > SCHLOTZ > that a friend of his had a watch for sale. The watch was not on White's > person when he was arrested. > Last night Officer TOBIAS learned that a man tried to dispose of a watch > at McNeil's saloon about 7 o'clock. It is believed that the man was a pal > of > White's and left on last night's train north. White denies taking the > watch > or trying to dispose of it. He says he has no partner. > > DRANK POISON AND MAY DIE > Well-Known Citizen Of Modoc County Wearies of Life and Seeks to End It > After > A Prolonged Spree > CEDARVILLE (Modoc Co.), February 23 - As the result of a drinking spree > and > brooding over trouble, James MILLER, better known as "Uncle Jim," > attempted > suicide a few nights ago at this place, in the Golden Eagle Hotel. > Miller arrived here from Lake City, where he had been drinking, to > continue his spree. Evidently the thought of suicide had been studied over > by him for some time, as he intimated to friends in Lake City that such > was > his intention. But the matter was treated lightly because he was drinking. > After being in this place for a few hours he engaged a room at the hotel, > then went out and purchased eight ounces of laudanum. Upon returning to > his > room he drank the contents of the bottle and went to bed. This quantity of > laudanum together with the liquor that he had imbibed, caused him to > become > nauseated, and repeated vomiting caused most of the drug to be expelled. > Enough remained in his system, however, to render him unconscious, and > the > doctors worked over the case all night. It is feared Miller will not > recover. He has many friends and relatives in this valley. > > Form Company to Mine at Manhattan > GRIDLEY (Butte CO.), February 23 - The mining fever has struck Gridley, > and > the lure of the Nevada deserts is calling to at least two of the citizens > of > Butte. A company has been formed in this place, and will send two > prospectors to Manhattan to search for gold. It is composed as follows: > E.E. > BIGGS, of the Rideout Bank; J.H. JONES, the well-known warehouseman; C.W. > MILLER and A.M. MILLER, of the firm of Miller Bros. They have selected as > their representatives on the ground, Frank KELLEY, of Gridley, and C.W. > SLATER, of Bangor, this county. These two men are experienced miners and > prospectors, Kelley having prospected in Nevada some years ago. The > advance > guard will start for the gold county about March 1st. > > Many New Building > GRIDLEY (Butte Co.), February 23 - A building program of considerable > proportions will be started in Gridley this Spring. In the near future > Edward FAGAN will let the contracts for four fine modern residences on > Hazel > and Vermont Streets in West Gridley, and C.H. BROWN intends to begin the > erection of an up-to-date dwelling for his own occupancy on the east side. > Among others who contemplate building is C.W. MILLER, who plans to erect a > fine home on the outskirts of town later in the season. > > WOULD LIKE TO SEE WOMAN DIE > Lodi Physician Aroused To Indignation By Words And Acts Of Husband Of One > Of > His Patients > LODI (San Joaquin Co.), February 23 - Not far from this place there lives > a > man who would fain poison his wife, it appears. Deep down in his heart he > has a conviction that he would be better off without the one who has > labored > for him and with him for a score of years. So he has declared, says Dr. > GROSSHAUSER. > His name is Jacob HOFFER. He is the father of a young boy who was > recently > sent to the Preston Reform School, having been convicted of stealing > bicycles. The Hoffers have a twenty-acre tract of land south of town, > which > cost them $6000. > Dr. Grosshauser was called to attend Mrs. Hoffer some time ago. He left > medicine and directed the husband to administer the doses. But Hoffer was > too zealous in his construction of the physicians instructions. No sooner > had the physician left the house than he ground up all the tablets and > dissolved them in water, it is said, and then with brutal force endeavored > to force his wife to swallow the drugs. But she was not so weak that her > voice failed her. Her lusty calls brought assistance from neighbors and > Hoffer for the time was forced to desist. > When the doctor made his next visit to the house, Hoffer, he says, > declared that he wished his wife would dit, at the same time pointing > towards the cot upon which his helpmeet lay suffering. Then Dr. > Grosshauser > commenced a rapid fire of questions, and the old man again repeated the > statement, he says. The attending physician now has a trained nurse at the > home of the German couple and makes daily calls to see that his directions > are carried out. > Mrs. Hoffer is critically ill, and it is presumed that her sickness was > superinduced by too strenuous work upon the farm. As is the custom with > the > North Dakotans, the women perform the lion's share of manual labor on the > ranch, and Mrs. Hoffer is no exception to this rule. From morning until > night she has tilled the soil as any hired hand and received less > consideration than such a menial. > Under no circumstances will the poor woman make an incriminating > statement > that her husband may be jailed for his alleged attempt at ending her life. > She holds him in mortal fear. The neighbors are also fearful lest Hoffer > will do them bodily harm, and Dr. Grosshauser is stumped. > Supervisor NEWTON has been asked to provide a cot for the woman at the > County Hospital. > > Noted Violinist in Guise of a Tramp > MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), February 23 - A stranger, who easily proves himself > a > violinist of no mean ability, is spending a few days in this city, wearing > the habiliments of a tramp and posing as a hobo in the way of diversion. > The man claims to be Rudolph RABENHORST, of San Francisco, known as one > of > the best concert masters in America. He claims that for a long time he was > the leader of the famous Damrosch orchestra, and later the instructor of > Eugene SCHMITZ, now Mayor of San Francisco. He displays a receipt for a > $10,000 violin which is stored in a San Francisco bank pending his return > to > the bay, which will be by a circuitous route. > > Taken to Oroville > CHICO (Butte Co.), February 23 - W.H. BAZELY, of Chapmantown, who recently > tried to commit suicide by hanging himself with a wire, as told in The Bee > at the time, was taken to Oroville to-day, on a complaint sworn to by his > son, to be examined by a Commission in Lunacy. > > Plunders a Valise While a Prisoner > MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), February 23 - After serving 100 days in the County > Jail for the theft of a pistol in this city, Harry GILMORE now finds > himself > in a fair way to go to the penitentiary to expiate a similar offense > committed within the confines of the jail during the period of his > incarceration. > From Sheriff VOSS it is learned that Gilmore, with a number of other > offenders, spent several days last month in the attic of the old portion > of > the jail while some repairs were being made to their usual quarters by the > plumbers and carpenters. While in that apartment Gilmore extracted from a > valise which is stored there, awaiting the return of its owner from State > prison, a number of articles. Some of the property he gave to other > prisoners, but shortly after being released yesterday he was seen to offer > for sale a pair of physician's scales. > Officer McCOY heard of this, and the investigation which followed > revealed > the true state of affairs. If the prior conviction is pressed he will > become > the State's guest. > > Died in Scotland > NEVADA CITY (Nevada Co.), February 23 - News of the death of her aged > mother, Mrs. Margaret FOWLER, was received by Mrs. W.M. HOLMES, of San > Juan. > The end came at Portobells, Scotland. Five daughters are left. The late > County Treasurer of Placer County, John CHISHOLM, was a brother of Mrs. > FOWLER. James CHISHOLM, the well-known merchant of San Juan, is the only > surviving brother. > > > ==== NORCAL Mailing List ==== > Visit the NORCAL Lookup Library NORCAL Library > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/norcallib.html >