~~~~~~ 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 26, 2005 5:20 PM Subject: [NORCAL] Sac Bee Aug 31 1905 > The Evening Bee > Sacramento, Cal. > Thursday, August 31, 1905 > Page 6 > > SHELDON SAYS BUTTE CANAL WILL ENTER SUTTER COUNTY > Many Original Signers Double Acreage and New Ones Are Coming in. > YUBA CITY (Sutter Co.), August 31 - The people of this section of the > county > are now assured of the building of the Butte County Irrigation Canal from > the Butte County line to the tule basin. > M.N. SHELDON, Manager and Director of the concern, is spending the week > in > Yuba City, closing up all contracts for water and securing as many new > ones > as possible. Nearly every original signer for water in this section has > doubled the amount of his subscription, and this, with what new agreements > the Company's agents are getting, causes Sheldon to think the question of > his Company coming into the county is settled. He expects some trouble in > some instances for rights-of-way, but has little fear of this permanently > blocking the enterprise. > He states that within ten days after the last contract is signed the > Company will begin digging the big ditch, and he expects it will be > completed by next Winter, or, at the latest, early next Spring. He expects > the ditch in Sutter to cost not less than $150,000, but he promises that > this money will be mostly spent in Yuba City and its vicinity. > Mrs. Elmira J. WILBUR yesterday increased her water subscription from > eighty acres to 200 acres, and will at once make arrangements to have her > fine ranch, just north of town, subdivided and sold. This will be probably > the first great attempt at subdivision under the influence of the proposed > ditch. > The BERG Brothers are taking more interest in the ditch proposition just > now, and it is more than likely that the Canal Company and the owners of > the > 4000-acre Berg ranch, just north of town, will soon reach an agreement as > to > rights-of-way. The Company expected to have to condemn the line of ditch > through the Berg property, which would have been an expensive suit. > > BEATS WIFE WHO KEPT HIS MONEY > ALTURAS (Modoc Co.), August 31 - A report reached here yesterday of a > disgraceful affair which occurred in Lake City the night before. > It seems that a man named PAINTERS, who had been away selling fruit and > vegetables, upon returning home gave his wife such money as he had left > after gambling. The good wife hid the money and Painters went uptown to > complete his spree. He soon was in need of coin, and went home to secure > it, > but his wife refused to give it back to him. He became enraged and struck > her a terrific blow with his fist, it is said, which rendered the woman > unconscious. He then jumped on the prostrate form, winding up by tearing > most of the clothing from her body. > She was left in this condition. Upon regaining consciousness she went in > search of the Constable to cause her husband's arrest. The Constable being > out of town could not be found, but Mrs. Painters declares she will > prosecute her husband to the fullest extent. > > PASTOR RESIGNS > AUBURN (Placer Co.), August 31 - Rev. A.K. GLOVER, who for two years past > has officiated as rector of St. Luke's Church in this city, made the > announcement of his resignation from that Church this morning. The > reverend > gentleman is among the ablest divines in the diocese and many regrets are > expressed at his retirement. > > > AUTO EXPLODES > MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), August 31 - Whatever there was in the line of > amusement which the circus did not furnish the visitors to Marysville > yesterday, Sheriff WILSON of Sutter County provided in an impromptu and > costly stunt. > His steam automobile had made several trips to the circus tents and > became > quite warm from constant running. He and a friend had just alighted from > the > machine on the main street, about 4 p.m., when the machinery exploded and > sent the seat flying into the air and fired the cushions and other > inflammables. Excitement ran high and to add to it all, some one turned in > an alarm of fire, which brought the Department to the scene. Several > siphons > of water were used to extinguish the fire, which was accomplished before > the > Department arrived. > > HAY BURNED > MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), August 31 - Word was received her from Wheatland > last > evening that twenty-five tons of baled hay were destroyed by fire at the > C.K. DAM place yesterday. By dint of hard labor the baling crew and the > railroad section hands saved the baling outfit from the flames. > > FIREMEN AND CITY COUNCIL > Department At Grass Valley And Its Chief in Particular, Think They Are Not > Being Treated Right > GRASS VALLEY (Nevada Co.), August 31 - The members of the Fire Department > of > Grass Valley want to be placed on the same footing as those of the Nevada > City Fire Department. In the latter, the delegates have the control of the > funds. In Grass Valley, under the Charter, they have not. > For some time there has been friction between Chief LUCAS, of the > Department, and the Board Of City Trustees, the Chief feeling that he had > been ignored in the appointment of the Fire Committee and in the selection > of apparatus for the use of the several companies even to the extent that > when he had obtained prices on two sorts of fire hydrants, either of which > would have been satisfactory, the Trustees bought another kind. > At a meeting of the members of the Fire Department last night, the > trouble > came to a head, and a resolution was adopted asking for an amendment of > the > Charter. Speeches were made by ex-Mayor C.E. CLINCH, ex-City Trustee J.C. > CONOWAY, John GLASSON, A.F. BRADY and others, and a resolution was adopted > calling for such an amendment of the Charter as would permit the Fire > Department to handle its own funds. > > BIG COTTON PLANT FROM OLD SHASTA > REDDING (Shasta Co.), August 31 - A cotton plant in bloom and bearing > bulbs > almost ready to burst will be one of the Shasta County grown products on > exhibition at the State Fair at Sacramento. The specimen was procured on > the > J.N. LOGAN farm in Churn Creek Bottom, three miles from Redding. > The cotton plant is not designed to advertise Shasta County as a > cotton-growing district. It is not for a moment presumed that the Southern > staple can be produced profitably in Churn Creek Bottom, but the exhibit > is > designed to impress forcibly the fact that the climate of Shasta County is > semi-tropical, and not cold, as many misinformed people imagine because it > is situated in the northern part of the State, almost at the base of Mount > Shasta. > Another bit of climatic advertising will be a full-grown olive tree - one > of a thousand growing in an orchard in Happy Valley - bearing ripening > olives in abundance. The tree will be transplanted bodily. > > YOUNG BOYS KILL TWO GREAT BEARS > CASSEL (Shasta Co.), August 31 - Paul OPDYKE, aged 17, and living twelve > miles up Hat Creek from this place, killed the first bear he ever saw one > day last week, while he was out hunting alone. He came across a she bear > and > two cubs, which were large enough to wean. He fired one shot, aiming at > the > mother bear, and killing her. > Returning home, he got his younger brother, Ben, aged 10, to accompany > him > with a pack horse to bring in the carcass. When they reached the dead she > bear, the two cubs had returned to the spot. Ben begged that he, too, > might > be permitted to take a shot at a bear. The elder brother handed over his > rifle. The little fellow took careful aim and one of the cubs fell dead at > the shot, the second one ambling off into the forest and disappearing for > good. > > HIP SMASHED BY 100 POUND ROCK > IRON MOUNTAIN (Shasta Co.), August 31 - Because Guiseppi SPARANZONI > misunderstood a warning shouted to him by his companions in the mine > yesterday afternoon, he walked right into danger instead of stepping into > a > place of perfect safety. > He was working at the bottom of a two-compartment chute - one compartment > for dumping ore from above to the level below, the other for a runway. The > miners on the upper level were about to send some ore tumbling down the > chute. They cried out to SPERANZONI to step on the man-way side. Instead, > he > stepped on the ore-way side and told the men above to send down their > rock. > A big chunk weighing a hundred pounds or more was the first to arrive. It > struck Speranzoni in the thigh, breaking the bone in two places. He cried > out in pain. The ore stopped coming. His companions carried him to the > hospital where he will remains for a month or two. > > SOLANO DOCTORS AT MARE ISLAND > VALLEJO (Solano Co.), August 31 - The Solano County Medical Society met > here > to-day. The Navy Yard was visited at the invitation of the Rear-Admiral > McCALLA and several demonstrations were made at the naval hospital under > the > charge of Medical Director SIMON. At a banquet attended by 130 persons, > Mayor RONEY welcomed the physicians and addresses were made by P.M. JONES, > Doctors LEHMAN and RIXFORD and others. > > THROWN FROM TRAIN AND BADLY INJURED > LODI (San Joaquin Co.), August 31 - Little Clarence THORP attempted to > catch > the caboose of a freight train southbound yesterday afternoon, and is now > hovering between life and death, with a dozen cuts on his head and > shoulders. The train was moving swiftly when the 10-year-old lad attempted > to ride a few blocks, as has been his custom daily. This time he missed > calculations, and instead of remaining on the steps, was hurled with great > force against one of the rails. He was picked up in an unconscious state > and > carried to his home, where two physicians sewed up the abrasions on his > body. He may recover. > > WESTERN NEVADA STATE NEWS > Jailed For Forgery > PALISADE (Nev.), August 31 - James ROGERS, employed in the offices of the > San Francisco Construction Company, which is building the irrigation ditch > in the Carson Sink, is in jail here to answer to a charge of forging a > $400 > check with the name of R.L. DOUGLASS, President of the Fallon Bank, > attached. The check was taken up by A. SARSERRO and the forgery was > discovered when he attempted to cash it. > > Two Trains of Ore > GOLDFIELD (Nev.), August 31 - The first two trains out of Goldfield on the > new Goldfield and Tonopah railway will be loaded solidly with ore from the > REILLY lease on the FLORENCE claim. Each trainload of ore is estimated to > be > worth not less than $100,000. The ore will be sent to Reno for reduction. > > Sheep Foreman Shot by Angry Cattleman > ELKO (Nev.), August 31 - Daniel WALLACE, a prominent cattleman, is under > arrest, having given himself up for fatally injuring a Mexican foreman on > the WILLIAMS sheep ranch, after a duel on Coon Creek, near the Gold Creek > country, far to the northward yesterday. > The two men quarreled about some matter, presumably about feeding > territory, and both reached for their revolvers. The Mexican was slow and > he > fell with a heavy ball through the body. Wallace at once left for Deeth > and > told his associates that he would there await the arrival of the Sheriff, > to > whom he wished to surrender. > > Young Is Again Locked in Jail > RENO (Nev.), August 31 - President J.B. YOUNG, of the defunct Goldfield > Bank > and Trust Company, was arrested again at Goldfield this morning and placed > in jail to answer a fourth indictment for embezzlement. District Attorney > DAVIDSON preferred the charge. Young claims he is being made the scapegoat > by Cashier BOAL. It will be remembered that young was released from prison > only a few days ago through the action of friends and relatives who came > to > his (article cut off) > > Dies in Poor House > RENO (Nev.), August 31 - Alone, and apparently without a friend in the > world, James DALY died at the poorhouse in Virginia City yesterday. Old > age > was the cause of death. Daly was 76 years old. Years ago, on the Comstock, > he accumulated a fortune of about $1,000,000, the greater portion of which > was made in the manufacture of hats. Such men as FAIR, MACKAY and FLOOD > are > among his patrons. Later he invested in mining stocks and bought fast > horses. Reverses came and his fortune was swept away. > > > ==== NORCAL Mailing List ==== > To contact Yvonne Bowers, Listmom, send email to > <NORCAL-admin@rootsweb.com> >