Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight May 1900 20th the pupils of the Redding high school gave their teachers a reception at the high school building. 21st J. Wess Moore, a well-known miner of Bragdon in Trinity County, shot and killed Charles Alverson, another miner, at Cherry Flats near Trinity Center. The shooting was the result of a long-existing dispute between the men over a mining claim. 22nd Frank Marble, a young man employed at Minersville in Trinity County, was buried and killed while working in a gravel pit by a slide of dirt and rocks. 23rd the first marriage license for the month of May was issued to Andrew Cantrell and Gracie Bryner, both of Shasta County. 24th a gathering of the businessmen and property owners of Redding was conducted at City Hall to plan construction of a direct wagon road from Redding to Copper City and DeLamar's Bully Hill mines. 25th it was reported in the Morning Searchlight that the party given by Mrs. Swasey of Redding in honor of her guest Miss V. Lauck of San Francisco was a "select and greatly enjoyed affair". 26th Fred Kline, a former Redding resident and businessman, came to Redding from San Fransisco and reported there had been 14 new cases and four deaths from the outbreak of bubonic plague there. 27th Sydney Sprout, Eugene Watson and George Bush returned from a trip to the McCloud River with news that they had selected a site to build an electric power plant. 28th George Jarvis, a well-known former resident of Redding and Shasta, was killed near Fall City, Org., when a tree he was cutting down fell on him. 29th one of the most prosperous farming sections of Shasta County was a small tract of land known as Churn Creek Bottom. It was located between Churn Creek on the east and the Sacramento River on the west. 30th an election in the Redding School District for trustees was to proceed even tho the trustees failed to post election notices in time. The election would be conducted anyway due to an alternative provided in the political code. 31st boxer Frank Eli knocked out Tom McMahon in the fourth round of their long-awaited match at Armory Hall in Redding. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card - http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/friend1.html