Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight April 11th Mrs. N.W. Williams was thrown from a buggy into the rocks by a roadside. She was unconscious as she was dragged for 25 feet. 12th Littleton T. Dryden, a pioneer resident of Redding, died at his residence of an illness that lasted several months. 13th Charley Shay of French Gulch was arrested by constable Eldridge on a charge of assault by means capable of producing great bodily harm. Shay leveled a gun at neighbor miner Walter Richards with intent to shoot him, but another man took the weapon away and hurried Shay back in the house. 14th a prospective source of a town water supply was found a short distance west of Keswick. A large volume of water was pumped from the shaft of a mine there and could have been piped into the town with little expense. 15th a railroad accident occurred five miles south of Cottonwood resulting in the death of three and the serious injury of four. All the men were members of the train's crew and railroad employees in section gangs. 16th Anthony Thierkoff, an employee at the Nordyke & Newsome meat market in Redding, got patents on two items. One was a mechanical bill-carrying apparatus and the other a clasp by which bills were held in place in the machine. 17th William Irwin, an employee of the Terry Lumber Co., seven miles east of Bella Vista, slipped and fell 20 feet to the ground from a high lumber flume. His injuries were serious and probably fatal. 18th Buckeye Township finally had a justice of the peace. At their March session, Shasta County supervisors appointed A.R. Bowler to the post. 19th an meteor that witnesses said looked as large as the moon was seen over Redding. It was also seen in the Sacramento Valley below and up into Dunsmuir. 20th a Redding youth and two of his friends were in trouble with the law for stealing $10 from his father. They each bought a target rifle and started out with plans to walk to Sacramento before being caught. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card - Romans br Dr Suess http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/drsuess.html