~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by avast! AntiVirus. Avast! Is Free To Home Users. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <betty@unisette.com> To: <NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:10 PM Subject: [NORCAL] Sac Bee Aug 11 1905 > The Evening Bee > Sacramento, Cal. > August 11, 1905 > Page 6 > > RATTLER CAUGHT BY STRATEGY IS QUICKLY KILLED > OROVILLE (Butte Co.), August 11 - J.G. CURTIS, the well-known olive grower > of Rentz, a few days ago killed a rattlesnake in a novel manner. > His little daughter started to enter the cellar, but just as she got on > the steps she saw the rattler beneath her, escaping it by good fortune. > She > promptly told her father. Shortly after Mr. Curtis saw the tail of a > rattlesnake projecting from under a plank and set his foot down on it > firmly. The snake could not get out, and, as Mr. Curtis' foot was on it, > could not crawl further into the hole under the board. > Curtis called to his wife to bring him a wire. This he tied tightly to > the > snake, and to make sure it would not slip and release it he tied the other > end to it also. After capturing the snake in this manner, he worked for > some > time to get it out from under the plank, and then placed it on a block and > chopped its head off. > Rattlesnakes are said to be quite numerous in the Pentz section this > year, > more so than for some time past. > > ABOUT $35,000 A MONTH DISBURSED AT BULLY HILL > WINTHROP (Shasta Co.), August 11 - Three hundred men received their > monthly > checks yesterday from the bully Hill Copper Mining and Smelting Company. > About five-sixths of the number drew a full month's pay. The other fifty > are > what is known as "ten-day" men - a class that drift from camp to camp, > never > working but a few days at a place. > From $2.50 to $3.50 are the wages paid. The checks of the $2.50 day men, > getting in full time, will average $2.75 for thirty-one days, or $82.25 > each > a month, making a total of $21,312. About $8000 a month is paid for > hauling > coke; also a large amount for mining timbers and other supplies, making > the > total monthly disbursements of the Bully Hill Copper Mining and Smelting > Company about $35,000. > The general offices of the Company are at De La Mar (Winthrop, Post > Office). J.B. KEATING is Superintendent and J.W. SCHOONOVER accountant. > The > Company's checks bear the signatures of both. > > SHERMAN IS IN JAIL AND HIS MOTHER ILL > WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), August 11 - Earl SHERMAN, who was arrested by > Constable > PARKER Wednesday night in the act of setting fire to SPARKS' warehouse, is > locked up in jail. No charge has been placed against him yet and it is > probable his preliminary examination will not be held until next week. > C.W. > THOMAS, who is the attorney for the family, will defend the young man. > Sherman's mother is ill in a San Francisco hospital, recovering from an > operation. The news of his arrest has been kept from her, as it is feared > a > reaction would occur if she was told. > The citizens do not condemn Sherman for his alleged acts, as it is > recognized that he is irresponsible when the mania to set fires seizes > him. > He has been around Woodland for two years, but this is the first time > since > he was convicted in Sacramento that this mania has been manifested. He has > been drinking quite heavily the past few weeks and it is supposed this > fired > his mind to commit the crimes. > > PRACTICING WITH PISTOL, A GIRL SHOOTS HERSELF > DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), August 11 - Miss Clara SCHERRER, daughter of the > owner of the electric light plant at Dunsmuir, shot the big toe of her > left > foot off Wednesday while handling a pistol preparatory to practicing to > protect herself form the insults of hoboes who are infesting Dunsmuir. The > pistol was discharged accidentally and the ball took off her toe. Dunsmuir > women are arming themselves against the attacks of hoboes. Yesterday a > tramp > was caught stealing in Mrs. G.H. GRAHAM's orchard and refused to vacate. > Mrs. Graham took two shots at him and slightly wounded him. He escaped. > > SUES IN GLENN, ALSO > RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), August 11 - The Central Canal and Irrigation > Company > has also brought condemnation proceedings in Glenn County against the H. > KRAFT Company for rights of way for the big ditch it desires to build. The > Bee a few days ago told of the suit filed here against the Krafts. > > MULE'S FOOT CAUGHT HIM IN THE FACE > REDDING (Shasta Co.), August 11 - Andrew Jackson OLIVER, of the United > States Geological Survey, who arrived here from Grant's Pass, Oregon, a > few > days ago, and was preparing to leave here this morning for a trip to the > mountains, was kicked in the face by a mule about 9 o'clock and rendered > unconscious. At 1 o'clock his condition had not changed and his friends, > despite the hopeful assurances of physicians, are greatly worried. > Oliver entered the corral where the mules were kept and attempted to > hasten his departure by taking a hand in getting the animals in line. > Suddenly one of them shot out a hind leg and caught him square in the > face. > Had the mule been shod, Oliver's life would have paid the forfeit. As it > was, he was knocked head over heels, falling heavily. Assistance was close > at hand and the unfortunate man was saved from further molestation by the > mules. He was picked up unconscious and so remains. Strange to say, no > bones > of the face were broken and the skull was not injured. > > YOUTH STUMBLES ON RICH MINING CLAIM > FT. BIDWELL (Modoc Co.), August 11 - A lucky strike has been made by a > fifteen-year-old sheepherder. He broke a piece of quartz-rock, saw the > metal > in it, did not know what the metal was, but brought it to town and showed > it > to a prospector named KAFADER, who went with him to the spot where it was > found. In twenty minutes Kafader discovered the vein from which it came. > The vein is a small one running into a four-foot quartz ledge about > thirty > feet away. The ledge has been traced for a half-mile. A piece of the rock > picked up at random assayed $2552 a ton. Gold has been panned from dirt on > top of the mountain about 1000 feet above this quartz ledge. A number of > other ledges have been staked, and at the present time it looks as if a > very > important new mining district had been found. > > FELL FROM WAGON SEAT AND DEATH MAY FOLLOW > COTTONWOOD (Shasta Co.), August 11 - John DAVIDSON, one of the oldest and > best-known teamsters in Shasta County, seized with a dizzy spell, fell > yesterday afternoon from his wagon seat and received injuries that may yet > prove fatal. > He was driving towards Shingletown and was at the very spot in a the road > where, about a month ago, Perry MARK, of Redding, was crushed to death in > coupling his loaded wagons together. > Three of Davidson's ribs were broken and his face was so badly scarred up > it was at first thought that his jaw had been broken. > He is past 70 years of age, and his recovery is doubtful. His condition > is > so serious that his wife, living here, and his daughter, Mrs. Bert ELKINS > of > Red Bluff, have been called to Down's place, where he is being cared for. > > FOSTERIA'S BIG FIRE > MOKELUMNE HILL (Calaveras Co.), August 11 - The town of Fosteria was > partly > destroyed by fire yesterday. The fire originated in the Paloma Hotel, > owned > by SCHRAG & McSORLEY and leased to J. PALMER. Mrs. Palmer was opening a > refrigerator when the top struck a lamp in her hand and caused it to > explode. The following buildings were destroyed: The Paloma Hotel, the > Pitto > Saloon, the Carmelo Saloon, a blacksmith shop, Late's general merchandise > store, Stocker's saloon and Green's barber shop. The loss will amount to > about $25,000. > > ISSUED BOGUS CHECKS > LOYALTON (Sierra Co.), August 11 - This morning word reached here from > Reno > to the effect that William NEWTON, a well-known attorney of this place, > had > issued a number of fraudulent checks on people living in Nevada's > metropolis, among his victims being S. JACOBS & Sons, Constable William > WILSON and Mart JOHNSON. > > DIVORCED COUPLE REMARRY > WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), August 11 - David P. WEBSTER and Anna M. WEBSTER, > both > of Plainfield, secured a license and were married in this city Thursday. > They were married twenty-seven years ago, but afterwards divorced. Webster > is 50 years of age and his wife 47. > > SIX INCHES SAVED UREN FROM DEATH > REDDING (Shasta Co.), August 11 - How long does it take a body to fall six > inches? > In that small space of time William UREN, yesterday afternoon, slipped a > block of wood under a 2800 pound pile-driver hammer and saved his own > life. > He was at the top of a thirty-foot ladder that leaned against the gallows > frame of a pile-driver at the Turtle Bay sawmill. The hammer was resting > on > top of a pile and within six inches of the highest point it could be > raised. > Uren wanted the 1800-pound piece of iron raised so that he could slip a > two-by-four block under it. He signaled the engineer, who started the > engines. Before he could stop it, the (not legible) had been drawn up into > the schrive block, which tore lose from its fastenings in the gallows > frame > and fell upon Uren, pinning him to the ladder. > While the scrhive block was falling the six inches, Uren slipped the block > under the hammer. But for doing that the hammer, weighing over a ton, > would > have been added to the strain of the cable and Uren would have been cut > squarely in two. > He said afterwards that he thought the hammer had hit him. He fainted > away, he now believes, more from fright than from the injuries he > received. > He was pinned against the gallows frame by a weight of 150 pounds and was > rescued from the top of the ladder by two fellow laborers with > considerable > difficulty. The surgeon who examined him found that his collar bone was > broken and his back black and blue from bruises. > > FINED FOR USING WATER DURING FIRE > REDDING (Shasta Co.), August 11 - Adam HIRSCH was fined $10 yesterday by > City Recorder ISAACS for not turning off the hydrant in his lawn during > the > fire that destroyed the HERSINGER and ALPAUGH homes two weeks ago. Hirsch > himself had lost a valuable warehouse by fire only a few days before. > Hirsch paid the fine, which was the lightest that could be imposed. Of > course his failure to turn off the hydrant was due to neglect rather than > any intention of blocking the efficiency of the Fire Department. > There have been many violations in the past of the City ordinance > requiring all domestic hydrants to be closed during the progress of a > fire. > The Fire Chief had issued public warnings. It was deemed time to make a > public example. Hirsch was the first offender discovered. It was pretty > hard > lines for him to have to pay $10 fine for such an offence so soon after he > had suffered a heavy loss by fire on his own premises. > > LOOKING FOR BONDSMEN > WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), August 11 - Al SIMMONDS, the traveling salesman who > was > rearrested on the charge of robbing the Racket Store in this city, was > brought up form San Francisco last night. He was taken before Judge > LAMPTON > and his bond fixed at $1000 or $500 cash, which he was not able to raise. > Simmonds was under the surveillance of Deputy Sheriff W.H. HUSTON last > night and will be taken to San Francisco to-say where he hopes to secure > bondsmen. > > > ==== NORCAL Mailing List ==== > Do NOT post virus notices to the list. >