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Title: Historical Clippings Book (HC-19A) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Historical Clippings Catalog #: HC-19A Physical Format: Newspaper and magazine clippings # of Pages: 358 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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ig ati The Union Centennial—1864-1964 Murderer Bashed With Spittoon and Captured A murder in Grass Valle i : ‘ y, graphically describe ie a ake (City) Democrat, on Puede Feb. aa ae Pea rival any wild west thriller-to be Pobre tales ate late television show, a hundred MURDER AT GRASS VALLE J : 3 s -LEY—Mr. James M eae Was stabbed and instantly killed, at Grass Te aed evening, by a man named : . ke. As the particulars were At yas a cold-blooded murder. Site right was standing in Terrill’s saloon wi Pes. vith pix eoe, others, when Burke came in and rubbed Seal him. He then turned and rubbed against him second time, and according to some statements, apres his toes. right, speaking very mildly, said, “Go Boe) as much as to tell him to desist. a urke, addressing Wright, said, “I’ you axe 2 ace 8 right, said, “I’ll bet $300 Wright answered, “If I am a gut I can scratch.” ang poe Burke drew a knife with his left hand unged it to Wright’s h i ee ght’s heart, leaving the weapon Wright stood a moment, then graduall ) y settled down upon his hands and knees, when the knife fell from the wound and he fell dead on the floor. He never spoke after receiving the wound. As soon as Burke had accomplished the hellish Tradition. ascribes the rather common but none the less descriptive name to the once Grassy Valley bisected by Wolf Creek. In 1849 a party of emigrants bound for Sutter’s Fort, the base of much early day mining activity, lost their stock -which was grazing near Steep Hollow Creek, a rugged canyon stream several miles to the east of where they were finally located in the beautiful meadow filled valley. They fastened the name Grassy Valley upon the locality and it was passed on to the settlement which soon sprang Up. An effort by the post office department to foist the name “Centerville” on the resident when an office was established in 1851 soon was overthrown. The r ugged settlers preferred a name more descriptive of the terrain than'the geographic location of their growing town. The Union Centennial—1864-1964 deed he grabbed for his pi \ 1 pistol, but before he could e) draw it, Mat. Rinkle, who was standing by knocked ss SON with a spittoon, and he was secured, de was committed to jail the next d waived an examination. eo ie Mr. Wright was about twenty-five years of s age nie aan resided near Ripley, Jackson Co. ia. He was engaged int i Grice Valin, gag he quartz business at. Burke was formerly a resident of Pittsb ur é He came to Grass Valley sometime last seen company with one Harry Blair, alias Thompson and both are said to be escaped convicts. Burke ee acres to the State Prison for the Chico robbery, ad four years to serve. He and Blai sometime since on a scow. ae During the evening of the murder Blair had b L ( } een gambling and lost considerable money, and itis supposed that Burke, aggravated by their losses, came ae a aro the intention of killing some » an right being the first man he cam was made the victim. cee : Nee ae we are informed was a stranger to Burke nd his partner, and had never had i with either of them. ede Centerville was used to denote the location of the new camp as midway between the established towns of Rough and Ready and Nevada (City). Edmund G, Kinyon, long time editor and historian of the ‘UNION said, “The most appropriate name would have been the simple word ‘GOLD’, for the six-mile circle which those wearied emigrants envisioned as they peeredhere and there for their cattle contains a system of gold-bearing quartz veins declared by good authorities to be unsurpassed anywhere in the world. “The circle of mines which—were to surround Grass Valley, the geographical center of the circle, have produced (much more than) $150,000,000 in quartz gold and how much additional should be added from the treasurehouse placers which the first miners found here cannot even be estimated.” @ a.