Today in History: from the Redding Record Searchlight June 1900 1st a weeklong show of demonstrations of hypnotism by Sylvain Lee was held at Armory Hall in Redding. 2nd brakeman Frank Curry was badly injured in an accident at Keswick Station. He was struck by a freight car and thrown under its moving wheels but was not run over. 3rd Lon and Thomas Layman struck a good ledge of gold on Morgan Gulch in the Hayfork district. 4th Constable Eldridge left Redding for Round Mountian with a warrant of arrest for H. Griffith, charged with retailing liquor without a licence. 5th Texas Mining Co., bonder of the famous Hart Mine in old Diggins district, was meeting with success in its work on the property. 6th Fred Williams was hit in the abdomen by a piece of wood thrown from a saw at the Pioneer Box Factory in Sisson. He remained uncounscious untill he died nearly two days later. 7th James Gilliand, 18, of Cottonwood was brought to Redding to be examined by the lunacy commission to determine his sanity. 8th the citizens of Redding withdrew their petition to the board of supervisors for a road to Copper City and refused a compromise offer on the grounds that the expense was not justified. 9th trustees of Redding school district met to decide on the corps of teachers for Redding schools for the coming year. 10th Almarin Baker, a pioneer resident of western Shasta County, had a painful accident on his ranch on Duncan Creek, north of Ono. He fell off the sled he was using to move hay and broke a rib. Janie my Shasta Site http://famos.freeyellow.com/cemetery.html my card http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/friend10.html