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Newspaper Notes (NN-1884-1886)(1884-1886) (292 pages)

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bravely. Asserts innocence. Jail yard yesterday tried to cheat gallows. Small knife, dull blade, cut vein in wrist. Intended to commit suicide. Had hidden steel shank from boot ground sharp as razor was to cut throat. Removed from that cell 200 people admitted including Sheriff Carter and deputies and Sheriffs: Huntley of Placer, Mead of Sierra and Davis of Colusa. S Bi On scaffald 1:10 p.m Reverend Father Dalton, Meagher. He with firm step, wonderful nerve, asked for “glass of of water, spoke of belief in Supreme Being, denied any responsibility in crime, charged conviction and execution caused by oes Lees and Masonic Fratemity who persecuted him. The evidence against came from Gther ci . Complained of treatment in jpil: denied lights, reading matenial, and fuel. Kissed crucifix and prayed. Rope on neck, cap over head at 125 a.m dropped and fell no quiver. 14 minutes pronounced dead. Broief history of his crime Sept J, 1879 murder date and details. Miner's Inch: legal measure: quantity of water flow through lin. square opening, bottom or e of vessel under a pressure or head of 4 in. Has 24.56 cu. in. flow per sec or 538.6 gallon/hr or 129,263 gal/14 hours. Zamloch, Austrian Conjurer, entertainment at Empire Hall 3 Feb Busy year, everything will be jumping, leap year. Girl's motto: If you see what you want, ask for it. No law says men have to say yes. Privilege of ladies, two or more, to go to opera or theater without male escort and pay for their own ticket: "so jolly." Married Auburn Jan 30, William abner and Margaret E. Kneeland, Colfax. Louis Buhring will probably be appainted postmaster of San Juan to succeed A.B. Swan. Agriculture Fair held at GV in Sept, receipts about $1,000. Cash expenditures about fhe same. Indebtedness little over $6000. Cost of fitting up Park and Fair Grounds, enormous over estimate. GV friend of Science wanted Callins' consent to use his body for anatomical purposes. Callins refused. Melville Atwood one of the oaidest mining experts on coast organizing mass meeting to consider J. Sawyer decision, feels only beginning of war. 5 Feb The Arcade popular_saloon camer Main and Mill St conducted by Frank Dulmaine. [fo Sheriff Carter besieged with requests for pieces of hanging rope. Remains buried in Potter's Field (Collins) adjacent to Pine Grove Cemetery at N.C. Truckee enlivened with masquerade ball. Samuel Chambers had fit at ball but.