October - 1900 1st the board of city trustees entered into a contract with the city's electric light company to furnish eight 2000 candle-power arc lamps, under a schedule permitting the use of the lights on all dark nights for the sum of $80 per month. 2nd two train wrecks occurred in the Sacramento River Canyon near Mott. Traffic was delayed for several hours, but no people were killed. 3rd 24 area Republicans met in Redding to organize a William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt Club. 4th Republican candidate for Congress Frank L. Combs of Napa was given a "fine reception" when he came to Redding for a public meeting at Armory Hall. 5th members of the Redding First Presbyterian Church were making vigorous efforts to have extensive and much needed repairs made to their church, Redding's oldest. 6th 140,000 pounds of machinery for a dredger to be operated near Weaverville by C.D. Galvin was stacked at the train depot in Redding awaiting shipment to Trinity County. A force of carpenters were at work building a boat for the dredger that was expected to be operational by thanksgiving. 7th a sudden and unexpected rise in the Sacramento River swept away a boom stretched across the stream at Keswick Station by Buck & Wengler and about 1,700 cords of 2-foot wood and 50,000 feet of mining timber with it. The loss amounted to about $9,000. 8th the Shasta County Board of Supervisors opened bids for the building of a stringer bridge across Squaw Creek on the road to Bully Hill. 9th Peter O'Brien and Lorrigan Dooney, workers on the railroad being built from Pit River to Bully Hill, were seriously injured by a premature explosion at the construction site. 10th Henry Frickenger was appointed health officer of the city of Redding. Janie