March 28, 1894 (4 pages)

lals 1ix. eer th a 1. ag ‘ST [IN der. ley INE ‘auam int, nd, lay free 7 ) THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT Brown TT Publishers, _ WEDNESDAY .. MARCH 28, 1894. Saturday. SEs a se pir aaras veeese: 40,061 rene 111 139,739 PAO 52 iE ore a a eee 0k .25,476 Sunday. oe situsiseess Citas 44,8 We 44°294 PUACOR 2 ie aes .26,757 Monday. : ie ses 46,656 Neaae gat Se SE 48,367 PIRCOP ook. cc cee ees -:26,802 Tuesday. = es O06. ae eee 4 128 Need roa ae Wednesday. NevVaen. 6 See 56,547 El Dorado.. (asp os tees ae 52,224 Nevada Ahead. .. eee -. 4,323 An Attractive Exhibit. The window at B. H. Miller’s clothing. store is decorated in a novel manner in representation of mining. In the center of the window is a dummy dressed after the fashion of an early-day miner, with pepperbox revolver and bowie knife stuck in his belt, Leaning against the figure is a pick and shovel and ‘near by @ prospector’s pan quite.a sprinkling of gold dust. . ‘Is front and piled one above the other, are three or -four large imitation gold bars, while specimens-of quartz are-seatterd-about_ with good effect, Miners’ boots, . pants, shirts, hats-and-—other wearing apparel of the miner, completes the exhibit, which is attrdctive and well arranged, and reflects credit upon Marcus Baruh as a windowdresser. oe. Cut Rates. Continue. Owing to the Union P Pacific Railway Company having declined to be a party to the advance in the overland rates on April 1st the Southern Pacific Company has issued notice that commencing Sunday, April Ist, rates for cohtinuous trip first-class tickets and for sixty-day rouud trip excursion “tickets via the direct Ogden or El Paso —_reutes_are_to be to Sienx City, Omaha, _. Monday. Council Bluffs, Pacific Junction, Atchison, Kansas City, Ft. Worth, Houston, or Galveaton, single trip, $20; round trip, $35.50; to St. Luis, $27 50; round trip, $47 650; to Memphis, $30 50; New Orleans, $30 85; to Chivago, $32 50; round trip, $55 50, The round trip tickets will be sold going via El Paso, returning via Ogden or vice verss. These same rates will apply by the Denver and Rio Grande scenic route at those cut-rates: 2OePEAS insonar ens == Marden. Seeds. peruse 5 I. J : Rolfe has received from ‘the United States Agricultural Department atWashington a small lot of vegetable seeds, which he will distribute, while they last, to persone who will agree to plant them and report results either to him or to the Agricultura) Depattment. Each packet of seeds bears the autograph of Senator George C. Perkins. ‘Remember the Sabbath Day. At the Stow mine at Forbestown new rules have heen. adopted by. which in the future all work on Sunday, except that which is absolutely necessary, will be suspended, ‘This-is-done to give the employees a Ghance to rest one day in seven and mests with their hearty oe Another ‘Dividend. Telegraph: There was another dividend declared by the Omaha mining company If is dividend No. 23 and calls for 15 cents per share upon the capital stock. The mine is looking as good now as it has ever looked during its long and successful career, 2 _‘Evgry man having a beard should keep it an even and natural color, and if it is not so already, use Buckingham’ s Dye and appear eae i‘ J Midwinter Fair Souvenirs, Large size Aluminum Souvenirs of the Midwinter Fair, only 10 cents; smaller size, 5 cents; For sale by ©. J, Brand, Broad street, ae Going to the "Midwinter Fair? If you are, ¥60'l need something in the line of of Trunks, Valises, Club Bags, Telesoopés, Shawl Straps, etc, We have em in all qualities and styles. . Finest line ever brought to town, and cheap as dirt. BH. Mitier, tf ‘ The Old Reliable. Piano ) Fualag, W. D. Travers, ‘the the well-known piano. tuner, will be in Nevada City in a few . “days. {23° Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair. unet eer wie A Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Pee from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40. YEARS THE STANDARD, i THE BUILDERS : Of the Féinous South Yuba Canal Company of This County. ~ {Written for the Darty TRANSORIPS, } By E. L. Rios. No. 1. Bayard Taylor calls the African mountain, Kilimandjaro—because of its ‘‘snows feeding forever the fountains” which unite to make the great river—‘‘father of Nile and creator of Egypt.” = "An the like sense may not the high Sierras, whose snows feed ferever the fountains. that flow through that artificial Nile, the South Yuba Canal (name at firat christening, and continued till changed by new proprietors), be said to be—and especially to have been in prosperous mining days—the ‘‘creator” of a good part ef Nevada and Placer Gounties. We know who made Kilimandj:ro, the Nile, the high Sierras; but who projected the South Yuba Canal? When and how began, and when completed? Though a work of but yesterday, I doubt aut there are many-_well-informed people whofrom_—its, waters have slacked their: thirst and caeieet i and are nourishing their . vines i ck fig ren, ander which they so securely and contentedly sit, who cannot tell. . * Ite flow is not in use for mining as extensively as during the first twenty or more years of its existence, owing to the prohibitive anti-slickens law. Butit is yet and always will be very valuable for supplying water for the towns, for “water power and irrigation, and is available in all that extensive wedge of rich’ territory between the ‘South Yuba and American rivers. (§ Doubtless the company's books contain the names of the original shareholders; full recerds of the surveys; cost of construction and many of the interesting details. But many very interesting things transpired in its history that found record only. in the minds of men now, alas! forever gone. Of those financially interested in it, and as more or less actively participating in its projection or construction, or both, all of them at that time but bordering upon middle life, and in the very prime of a vigorous manhood—let me call the'roll, and some of them briefly sketch. James WHARTENBY. Secretary and tréasurer. Hailing from Philadelphia, whence he sailed in 1849 for San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Small in person; with full, medium length beard, which with hair was dark brown, Quiet in manner and speech with something of.a nasal twang. ~ Having few intimates; a little reserved, not to say cold. Quite apt to be firm in maintaining his well-considered views; fertile in resources in. enforcing them. Clear-headed in business affairs, conservative, keeping his ewn counsel, So careful a culculator in money matters that what I have heard he sometimes said was doubtless both master and familiar environment by re. tnrning up the ridge Bear “Valleyward, in whieh direction somewhere his bones doth lie. Requiescal. Some years later, when Whartenby might have been tHought to have gotten well over the effect, if not forgotten the incidentals of the coming of the original Phil, it was said he got a letter from his father in which he wrote of faving another dog; concerning whose merits and beauty he discoursed in high praise. The overland telegraph had not then come; the Pony Express was an enterprise yet to be; the continental railway was but a dream, so he posted a letter by the first semi-monthly steamer in which it is said he conceded that the dog might be a most excellent canine; all and more. than he was set forth to be—he would accept his father’s judgment for that—‘‘but, for God’s sake, don’t send him tome!” ‘Twas caution "kin to this that made and kept him rich. The company as a rule paid cash. When the work of constructing the canal was pushed to the utmost—the woods. along the Tine full of ‘itien—ten_ to twenty thousand dollars-was sometitnes borrowed-to carry on, the work as long as the weather permitted. This was soon paid off by the tirst_earnings . of the next water season of the Deer Creek and Rock Creek ditches, and a fund then accumulated for the next season’s operations, The men were given statements of their time with rate of wages by-the-foreman, which were cashed on presentation at the office in Nevada City. One fall the company, instead of borrow}ing-te-pay-for the late-fall work, gave cer] tificates of the amount due, bearing ten per cent interest, I think it was, and. payable only three-or four months ahead.—_t really made little difference tothe-men, unless to an occasional one who wanted to quit and leave, for many of them~—were bothered about their pay for a longer time than that. The company boarded them, and they were at very little expense while on the canal, and so had no use, for money—couldn’t spend it there if they had it. If they wanted to leave almost any man having money would cash the certificates forthey were good as gold. But this did not prevent even some of the oldest hands being disturbed in mind over it. They had always got the gold when they presented their time. They did not need the money, and would not want it before the time the certificates were to be paid. ‘But here was a new policy they could not quite understand. It was no doubt much talked about throughout the several camps A squad-of a desen or-so,; many—of-them eld and well-known hands, get their time and footed it tifteen or twenty miles down to Nevada City. Whartenby happened to come along and, recognizing sone of them, said: “Whi, ‘hello, “boys; when did you come down? How are things going up on the canal?’ And, doybtless surmising what they were down for: ‘Don’t you want some money ?”” dollar”—though not boastful as that might seem to imply. A silversmith by trade, a bachelor by habit, not robust in health, yet by a prudent course of life attaining a good old age. When I last saw him in San Francisco—mid-winter of 1887-8—where as a capitalist he lived many years, his head then silvered o’er, he was looking after himself in a most careful way. E : Brother Tom, mysteriously lost overboard off the Jersey coast on the homeward! passage in 1860, and his constant satellite, or better, shadow, util that time at the little-Nevada City water office up on the Coyoteville spur of the Sugar Loaf ridge, was cast in the like physical mold, . except that the “gray matter’ of the crown piece lacked, perhaps, somewhat in weight. or fibre of resting at ‘‘Jim’s” standard. A familiar sight to Nevadans during the ‘fifties” was the comings and goings of the two brothers, known familiarly and addressed by intimates as “Jim” and ‘Tom,’ between the water effice on the hill and town; looking as much alike in every way as two peas in the same pod, and usually as close tegether and as quiet—keeingin mind if there was any suggestion of one being a pod-end pea, Ton was that pea, ~ I shall hever forget Whartenby's 8 characterization of our mixed; ‘n not to say mysteri. . ous, dishes up in the ditch camps. With black sloutch hat lopping over his eyes, in quiet nasal tones, he would ask: ‘Will you pass the gibben-gobbin?’’ The name was not of Whartenby’s origin, for I heard him say he got it on the voyage around the Horn from no less a personage than Hugh ©, Murray, & young Illinois attorney, also voyaging to the new El Dorado to seek fortune, perchance fame; a measure ef which he achieved in attaining to the Chief Jus‘ticeuhip of the Californiaf Supreme Court. And who, if rumor of his day was true, have a fondness for potions other than those on draught at the fountof wisdom. Alas! that so many brilliant men_have hada like fatal fondness, I don’t know that Whartenby was fond of dogs. His father evidently thought he was, or wished him to become so, At any rate he shipped him a dog by way ot Cape Horn in care of a friend, the captain of the -. ship, “ That part of the affair was well enough, as there was little or no cost attaching. But when the ship arrived in Frisco, and the busy captain put the dog ‘. at-@ hotel at dog rates, and on notification Whartenby sent @ man for him two hun. . dred miles by slow stage coach snd steamboat, paying his way and wages, why it became a canine of « very different color. + But he wasanice dog, of geod breed— remembrance of the place whence he came, I had a son, or grandson, of his, also named tail cut short;" but being very faithful his attendance upon my goings and ! true, that ‘no man ever saw hia bottom . Scotch Terrier—and was named ‘‘Phil” in “Phil,” = companion for two years, and was very found of him. Like the Datehman’s dog his ears were ‘‘cut long and his I did not often have to wobder “O, where can he be?” Except when he finally d&serted me when I quit our old haunts. Fp delity to owner was overmastered by attachment to place. Or, left to roam for « night out on Shingle Hill on the Grass Val-—-Perhaps-the} felt and betrayed in their manner a little embarrassment_at. questioning even to themselves the reliability of the company that have always paid them so promptly, ‘They -hardly knew whether to say they wanted their pay or not—they did not want it if they knew it. was all right, But Whartenby settled it and no doubt surprised them by saying: ‘‘Come up te the office in the morning and get-it.” 2 The boys were on hand, yeu may be sure, and Whartenby set up a candle-box pretty well filled with gold coin. . They opened to cash their time. They didn’t want much now, enough for a little enjoyment of the town for a day or two, and were soon back on the canal contentedly“at work, It was amusing to hear them tell again and. again of the box of “geld” Whartenby set, and it was reossuring to the men in all the camps, where the story was spread, (To be continued.) _Rumored. Sale. adie uierah that the the Champion Miuing Company has purchased the Wyoming mine ing authentic can be learned in support of ‘script is reliably informed that there is no trath in the statement. 2 Received Today. We received today a big’ stock of Spring Goods, which we are now unpacking. Will also say to the ladies ‘that we have just received-a full line of Tennis shoes and Oxford Ties, rubber soles, in all colors and of the very latest novelties. We can fit the ladies, misses, children and the babies, and also the boys, and a full line for men—sizes 6 to 14, ene We have leased the. three stores we are now occupying for two years, with the privilege of five years. We have faith in the town, and now have carpenters at work making one grand establishment of the three stores. _ L. Hyman & Co, Dancing S School, Dancing school and so social at Odd Fellows Hall every Thursday evening. The Berlin Schottische, Prince Polka and Detroit wil be taught. Children’s classon Friday otter . noon after the public schools dismiss. m26 Prov. MIcuEi, Bastern Star. Chapter, No. 9, O. E. S., are requested to meet at their hall on Wednesday evening at 7:80 o'clock. By order of the Worthy Matron, Mas. M. O. Davenport. Mrs, Jenntz Hoimtus, Seo’y. 2 Every Wednesday Evening. Prof: Holland will give instruction in g at Odd Fellows Hall every Wednesday evening, from 8 to 10. Social from 10) a te 12 o'clock. / _ m27-2 Furnished Rooms to Rent. On Pine tne / te near the Suspension ley road, he may have reckoned to recover Bridge. Apply on the premises. nes Maus. Joy, . evening en-their way to-NorthBloomfield, . J. M. Marks and wife of Tacoma, Wis.,. 4 their eyes at sight of it, and his readiness} and will resume operationsere long. Noth-}-. this report, but on the contrary the TRAN. . LOCALS IN BRIEF, Summarized Mention of Minor Home Happenings. The rest of the large locust trees in the Court House yard have been cut down, Remember Prof. Michell’s dancing school and social at Odd Fellows Hall tomorrow evening. At the Curly Bears’ grand ball riext. week anew grand march will be introdueed— something different from anything ever seen here before. Last night, at their meeting, the Curly Bears voted to hereafter dispense with firecrackers as apart of their jollification. In the Superior Court today the case of John Bonney vs. Edwin Tilley was argued and submitted. . “The Street Committee are having some of the rough places in the streets filled with gravel. Pine street, near the Court House and near Frank Auimer’s place, has been put in good shape and Broad street is now receiving attention. on the mineral cup stood this morning: was placed on the bulletin board in front-ef—the, PRANSORIPT office this afternoon, a crowd Great interest is taken in this matter. Francis Hunt, a well-known and wealthy stock raiser of Wheatland, died at that place Saturday night. He leaves a wife and eight children, ~Deceased—ownedthe old Nichols stock range and corral, just abeve Bowman Dam. A man has been solicting orders from our. business men to put in electric clocks, which are set. automatically by electticity every conte at t noon, biteod connected by a current . neh, ~ dolar per weik rent is ae + #@e> PERSONAL POINTERS. A enciss Chronicle of Various Folks Doings and Intentions. Dr. A, Chapman has returned from Vi:ginia City. : W. F. Geary, the drug traveling man of Sacramento, is in town, C. W.’Tozr came down :from Washington yesterday on his way below. J. G. Griffin of Fresno arrived here on last eveuing’s train, Mrs,John Hippert of Graniteville was in town last evening on her way below: Sheriff Douglass returned home last evening from Stockton. 8. B. Lusk and wife arrived here from Sacramento last evening on their way to Downieville. on this morning's train on his way to Sierra county. Thomas Veale, who has been to San turned home last evening. J. Reddington; H. Kearns and J, ¥F. When the announcement-of how. the-vote. ‘soon gathered around to get the news. . C.D. Dudley of New York arrived here. — Francisco attending the Midwinter Fuir, re. Dowling of San Francisco arrived here last Mire. H. M. Stover Versailles, Mo, Like Morning Dew Hood’s Sarsaparilla Freshens, Strengthens and Cures Heart Paipitation — Distress — That Tired Feeling. : “Lam glad to state that Heod’s Sarsaparilla has done me lots of good. I was subject to eramps-in_the stomach, liver complaint, indigestion, palpitation of the heart, f and that tired feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilla relieved me wonderfully, and now when f— feel the least uneasiness I resertte Hood's Sar oq oa and it always gives me imme-" diate relief, LT could not do without it, and several of my Fe rape have used it upon my recommendation and found it ’ An Excellent Medicine, doing them good after all other medicines . failed. Iam also highly pleased with the effects of Hood's Pills. As morning dew —Hood’s=. Cures . — refreshes withered grass, so Hood’s Sarbey pas and Pills refresh the human body ofills and pains.” HARRIET M, STOVER, _Versailles, Missourt. Jet HOOD'S. j OTICE. + >} ~f— 0 After the most persistent exertion I have succeeded in . securing the finest BFODaCCO raised in the Island of Cuba. “Wroodpecker” Cigars ay, . OSS of this Tobacoo and I unhesitatingly recommend 4 _, ~ them: as being equal if not superior to those of the most celebrated Factories of the City of —_ The vana Cu ba.By, giving these Cigars a fair trial the Wenn. kKers will be convinced of their True — Wm. Giffin. ‘Merit. ( ) annem re taenreee New Millinery, Hood’s Pills are hand made, and per fect in proportion and appearance. 25¢, * eee Everybody [s bing —TO THE— GRAND arrived here last evening on their way to Sierra county. ‘eis Father James Tanham._. The late Rev. Father Tanham, whose death occurred early this morning, was tember 22, 1857. He came to California in February, 1882, and was first stationed at. Marysville. He came to this city in February, 1886, The at Will take place Friday. — iene PRLS FEO RO TE Do Nor put off taking a spring medicine but take-Hood’s Sarsaparilla now. It will purify your blood, strengthen your nerves ‘and give you a good appetite, Hoop’s Pitis are hand made, and perfect in proportion and appearance. 2h5c. per box. at ttisher ih eet snatch oie. In this city, March 27th, Mrs. Fanny W. Holbrook, aged 72 years, 5 months and 4 days, Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder,— Highatat all in leave: strength,—Latest United States Goren F Report. Royal Baking Powder (o., 106 Wall St., N. Y; 1 D. S. BAKER 8 READY ae ALL TIMES TO ATTEND TO all orders f BRAVING AND HAULING. Particular attention paidto the transportation foecpas for theatrical parties. Assessment Notice. (Anzanrrs one wp ah MINING princi aay a arse, er vag Cal Ree : of wee tee Nevada LA Cal. pow at a mecting of Dledetore eid on gs 4 ag: arch, 1994, assessmen o ne i ent (9 pens) per share was levied upon the pital’ of the corporation, payable ly in United old both, » at his office next door to Count; é * , Broad atteet, Nevada City, whieh ie inegees eee ay of be Dleateest ag sa A TO BE GIVEN BY THE Gurly Bears born at Kells, county Meath, Ireland, Sep. ~~ -OF CAVE NO, +1, Nevada City, —ON— . Friday Evening, April oth, —AT~ ARMORY HALL, Nevada City,-Cal. Committee of Arrangements. Cubs J. M. Foley, F. EK. Brown, J. C. Nilon, C H, Woerner and K, Morrison. Floor Director: . . J. Cc. NILON, Grand ‘Curly Bear. Floor Managers: CUBS M. Foley, F_¥. Brown, C. H. Woerner, R. T: Morrison, Marcus Barub, R, H. Webber, W. H. Smith, F.T. Nilon, M. H. Isoard, J. B. Miller, Phil. Richards, Carl Brand. Reception Committee : CUBS J.J. manly, Jemes Graham; Bs §, Calkins, E ear Hartung, E. Boh t, A Maltman, kK, omas, Dr. C. 1. Muller, John % 8 iatwerte Fred Eilerman. Grand Walk Around at 9 o'clock sharp ! ‘Music by , Goyne's Full Orchestra ! es Culver, L Transcendent Ornamentations! . / / TICKETS: Admitting Que Male and One Female, $1 00 Gallery—Female, 26 cents ; Male, 50 cents Nevada Cily Undertakiog ‘Company. GEORGE A, GRAY, Manager. Funeral Director and Embaimer. 18 Broap Street, NEVADA city. Residence on Coyote Street. Farid “"¥ BROAD ST. MARKET, Moar the City Hall. JANES nano, «= Prop’r. iuopled Beet, Pork, Mutton, Cu atthslowert-prices = Veal, wita the very best of Lemb, saue New Dry Goods : New Trimmings, x ’ +. MISS POWER will be here in a few days with an elegant line of. MILLIN ERY _Now Being Received Daily. Of Her Gwi Selection. 4p TO THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT. Mis. Lester & Grawford. JOB PRIN’TING Township . tice TAX-PAYERS ATTENTION. The tax-payers of Nevada. hereby. notified convenience and the labor of receiving ‘statements I will be at the County Assessor’s Office In the Court House (excepting Sundays) until further noFrom 9 o'clock A. [. till's o’clock P. M. All assessments on personal property (where there is no real estate) are due.and payable at the time of assessment. and vicinity are at for © their © facilitate CAL. R. CLARLE, County Assessor. . Fonwer Brewers of the Celebrated EXTRA PALE, CULMBACHER, FRANZISKANDER, LAGER And Porter. A. ISOARD, General Agent, ; NEVADA CITY, Cal, ENTERPRISE . BREWING Cco., lle 2015-2023 Folsom Street, San Francisco, and STANDARD BEER, Caper gy eS

lals 1ix. eer th a 1. ag ‘ST [IN der. ley INE ‘auam int, nd, lay free 7 ) THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT Brown TT Publishers, _ WEDNESDAY ... MARCH 28, 1894. Saturday. SEs a se pir aaras veeese: 40,061 rene 111 139,739 PAO 52 iE ore a a eee 0k .25,476 Sunday. oe situsiseess Citas 44,8 We 44°294 PUACOR 2 ie aes .26,757 Monday. : ie ses 46,656 Neaae gat Se SE 48,367 PIRCOP ook. cc cee ees -:26,802 Tuesday. = es O06. ae eee 4 128 Need roa ae Wednesday. NevVaen. 6 See 56,547 El Dorado.... (asp os tees ae 52,224 Nevada Ahead. ... eee -.. 4,323 An Attractive Exhibit. The window at B. H. Miller’s clothing. store is decorated in a novel manner in representation of mining. In the center of the window is a dummy dressed after the fashion of an early-day miner, with pepperbox revolver and bowie knife stuck in his belt, Leaning against the figure is a pick and shovel and ‘near by @ prospector’s pan quite.a sprinkling of gold dust. . ‘Is front and piled one above the other, are three or -four large imitation gold bars, while specimens-of quartz are-seatterd-about_ with good effect, Miners’ boots, . pants, shirts, hats-and-—other wearing apparel of the miner, completes the exhibit, which is attrdctive and well arranged, and reflects credit upon Marcus Baruh as a windowdresser. oe. Cut Rates. Continue.. Owing to the Union P Pacific Railway Company having declined to be a party to the advance in the overland rates on April 1st the Southern Pacific Company has issued notice that commencing Sunday, April Ist, rates for cohtinuous trip first-class tickets and for sixty-day rouud trip excursion “tickets via the direct Ogden or El Paso —_reutes_are_to be to Sienx City, Omaha, _. Monday. Council Bluffs, Pacific Junction, Atchison, Kansas City, Ft. Worth, Houston, or Galveaton, single trip, $20; round trip, $35.50; to St. Luis, $27 50; round trip, $47 650; to Memphis, $30 50; New Orleans, $30 85; to Chivago, $32 50; round trip, $55 50, The round trip tickets will be sold going via El Paso, returning via Ogden or vice verss. These same rates will apply by the Denver and Rio Grande scenic route at those cut-rates: 2OePEAS insonar ens == Marden. Seeds. peruse 5 I. J : Rolfe has received from ‘the United States Agricultural Department atWashington a small lot of vegetable seeds, which he will distribute, while they last, to persone who will agree to plant them and report results either to him or to the Agricultura) Depattment. Each packet of seeds bears the autograph of Senator George C. Perkins. ‘Remember the Sabbath Day. At the Stow mine at Forbestown new rules have heen. adopted by. which in the future all work on Sunday, except that which is absolutely necessary, will be suspended, ‘This-is-done to give the employees a Ghance to rest one day in seven and mests with their hearty oe Another ‘Dividend. Telegraph: There was another dividend declared by the Omaha mining company If is dividend No. 23 and calls for 15 cents per share upon the capital stock. The mine is looking as good now as it has ever looked during its long and successful career, 2 _‘Evgry man having a beard should keep it an even and natural color, and if it is not so already, use Buckingham’ s Dye and appear eae i‘ J Midwinter Fair Souvenirs, Large size Aluminum Souvenirs of the Midwinter Fair, only 10 cents; smaller size, 5 cents; For sale by ©. J, Brand, Broad street, ae Going to the "Midwinter Fair? If you are, ¥60'l need something in the line of of Trunks, Valises, Club Bags, Telesoopés, Shawl Straps, etc, We have em in all qualities and styles. . Finest line ever brought to town, and cheap as dirt. BH. Mitier, tf ‘ The Old Reliable. Piano ) Fualag, W. D. Travers, ‘the the well-known piano. tuner, will be in Nevada City in a few . “days. {23° Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair. unet eer wie A Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Pee from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40. YEARS THE STANDARD, i THE BUILDERS : Of the Féinous South Yuba Canal Company of This County. ~ {Written for the Darty TRANSORIPS, } By E. L. Rios. No. 1. Bayard Taylor calls the African mountain, Kilimandjaro—because of its ‘‘snows feeding forever the fountains” which unite to make the great river—‘‘father of Nile and creator of Egypt.” = "An the like sense may not the high Sierras, whose snows feed ferever the fountains. that flow through that artificial Nile, the South Yuba Canal (name at firat christening, and continued till changed by new proprietors), be said to be—and especially to have been in prosperous mining days—the ‘‘creator” of a good part ef Nevada and Placer Gounties. We know who made Kilimandj:ro, the Nile, the high Sierras; but who projected the South Yuba Canal? When and how began, and when completed? Though a work of but yesterday, I doubt aut there are many-_well-informed people whofrom_—its, waters have slacked their: thirst and caeieet i and are nourishing their . vines i ck fig ren, ander which they so securely and contentedly sit, who cannot tell. . * Ite flow is not in use for mining as extensively as during the first twenty or more years of its existence, owing to the prohibitive anti-slickens law. Butit is yet and always will be very valuable for supplying water for the towns, for “water power and irrigation, and is available in all that extensive wedge of rich’ territory between the ‘South Yuba and American rivers. (§ Doubtless the company's books contain the names of the original shareholders; full recerds of the surveys; cost of construction and many of the interesting details. But many very interesting things transpired in its history that found record only. in the minds of men now, alas! forever gone. Of those financially interested in it, and as more or less actively participating in its projection or construction, or both, all of them at that time but bordering upon middle life, and in the very prime of a vigorous manhood—let me call the'roll, and some of them briefly sketch. James WHARTENBY. Secretary and tréasurer. Hailing from Philadelphia, whence he sailed in 1849 for San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Small in person; with full, medium length beard, which with hair was dark brown, Quiet in manner and speech with something of.a nasal twang. ~ Having few intimates; a little reserved, not to say cold. Quite apt to be firm in maintaining his well-considered views; fertile in resources in. enforcing them. Clear-headed in business affairs, conservative, keeping his ewn counsel, So careful a culculator in money matters that what I have heard he sometimes said was doubtless both master and familiar environment by re. tnrning up the ridge Bear “Valleyward, in whieh direction somewhere his bones doth lie. Requiescal. Some years later, when Whartenby might have been tHought to have gotten well over the effect, if not forgotten the incidentals of the coming of the original Phil, it was said he got a letter from his father in which he wrote of faving another dog; concerning whose merits and beauty he discoursed in high praise. The overland telegraph had not then come; the Pony Express was an enterprise yet to be; the continental railway was but a dream, so he posted a letter by the first semi-monthly steamer in which it is said he conceded that the dog might be a most excellent canine; all and more. than he was set forth to be—he would accept his father’s judgment for that—‘‘but, for God’s sake, don’t send him tome!” ‘Twas caution "kin to this that made and kept him rich. The company as a rule paid cash. When the work of constructing the canal was pushed to the utmost—the woods. along the Tine full of ‘itien—ten_ to twenty thousand dollars-was sometitnes borrowed-to carry on, the work as long as the weather permitted. This was soon paid off by the tirst_earnings . of the next water season of the Deer Creek and Rock Creek ditches, and a fund then accumulated for the next season’s operations, The men were given statements of their time with rate of wages by-the-foreman, which were cashed on presentation at the office in Nevada City. One fall the company, instead of borrow}ing-te-pay-for the late-fall work, gave cer] tificates of the amount due, bearing ten per cent interest, I think it was, and. payable only three-or four months ahead.—_t really made little difference tothe-men, unless to an occasional one who wanted to quit and leave, for many of them~—were bothered about their pay for a longer time than that. The company boarded them, and they were at very little expense while on the canal, and so had no use, for money—couldn’t spend it there if they had it. If they wanted to leave almost any man having money would cash the certificates forthey were good as gold. But this did not prevent even some of the oldest hands being disturbed in mind over it. They had always got the gold when they presented their time. They did not need the money, and would not want it before the time the certificates were to be paid. ‘But here was a new policy they could not quite understand. It was no doubt much talked about throughout the several camps A squad-of a desen or-so,; many—of-them eld and well-known hands, get their time and footed it tifteen or twenty miles down to Nevada City. Whartenby happened to come along and, recognizing sone of them, said: “Whi, ‘hello, “boys; when did you come down? How are things going up on the canal?’ And, doybtless surmising what they were down for: ‘Don’t you want some money ?”” dollar”—though not boastful as that might seem to imply. A silversmith by trade, a bachelor by habit, not robust in health, yet by a prudent course of life attaining a good old age. When I last saw him in San Francisco—mid-winter of 1887-8—where as a capitalist he lived many years, his head then silvered o’er, he was looking after himself in a most careful way. E : Brother Tom, mysteriously lost overboard off the Jersey coast on the homeward! passage in 1860, and his constant satellite, or better, shadow, util that time at the little-Nevada City water office up on the Coyoteville spur of the Sugar Loaf ridge, was cast in the like physical mold, . except that the “gray matter’ of the crown piece lacked, perhaps, somewhat in weight. or fibre of resting at ‘‘Jim’s” standard. A familiar sight to Nevadans during the ‘fifties” was the comings and goings of the two brothers, known familiarly and addressed by intimates as “Jim” and ‘Tom,’ between the water effice on the hill and town; looking as much alike in every way as two peas in the same pod, and usually as close tegether and as quiet—keeingin mind if there was any suggestion of one being a pod-end pea, Ton was that pea, ~ I shall hever forget Whartenby's 8 characterization of our mixed; ‘n not to say mysteri. . ous, dishes up in the ditch camps. With black sloutch hat lopping over his eyes, in quiet nasal tones, he would ask: ‘Will you pass the gibben-gobbin?’’ The name was not of Whartenby’s origin, for I heard him say he got it on the voyage around the Horn from no less a personage than Hugh ©, Murray, & young Illinois attorney, also voyaging to the new El Dorado to seek fortune, perchance fame; a measure ef which he achieved in attaining to the Chief Jus‘ticeuhip of the Californiaf Supreme Court. And who, if rumor of his day was true, have a fondness for potions other than those on draught at the fountof wisdom. Alas! that so many brilliant men_have hada like fatal fondness, I don’t know that Whartenby was fond of dogs. His father evidently thought he was, or wished him to become so, At any rate he shipped him a dog by way ot Cape Horn in care of a friend, the captain of the -. ship, “ That part of the affair was well enough, as there was little or no cost attaching. But when the ship arrived in Frisco, and the busy captain put the dog ‘. at-@ hotel at dog rates, and on notification Whartenby sent @ man for him two hun. . dred miles by slow stage coach snd steamboat, paying his way and wages, why it became a canine of « very different color. + But he wasanice dog, of geod breed— remembrance of the place whence he came, I had a son, or grandson, of his, also named tail cut short;" but being very faithful his attendance upon my goings and ! true, that ‘no man ever saw hia bottom . Scotch Terrier—and was named ‘‘Phil” in “Phil,” = companion for two years, and was very found of him. Like the Datehman’s dog his ears were ‘‘cut long and his I did not often have to wobder “O, where can he be?” Except when he finally d&serted me when I quit our old haunts. Fp delity to owner was overmastered by attachment to place. Or, left to roam for « night out on Shingle Hill on the Grass Val-—-Perhaps-the} felt and betrayed in their manner a little embarrassment_at. questioning even to themselves the reliability of the company that have always paid them so promptly, ‘They -hardly knew whether to say they wanted their pay or not—they did not want it if they knew it. was all right, But Whartenby settled it and no doubt surprised them by saying: ‘‘Come up te the

office in the morning and get-it.” 2 The boys were on hand, yeu may be sure, and Whartenby set up a candle-box pretty well filled with gold coin. . They opened to cash their time. They didn’t want much now, enough for a little enjoyment of the town for a day or two, and were soon back on the canal contentedly“at work, It was amusing to hear them tell again and. again of the box of “geld” Whartenby set, and it was reossuring to the men in all the camps, where the story was spread, (To be continued.) _Rumored. Sale. adie uierah that the the Champion Miuing Company has purchased the Wyoming mine ing authentic can be learned in support of ‘script is reliably informed that there is no trath in the statement. 2 Received Today. We received today a big’ stock of Spring Goods, which we are now unpacking. Will also say to the ladies ‘that we have just received-a full line of Tennis shoes and Oxford Ties, rubber soles, in all colors and of the very latest novelties. We can fit the ladies, misses, children and the babies, and also the boys, and a full line for men—sizes 6 to 14, ene We have leased the. three stores we are now occupying for two years, with the privilege of five years. We have faith in the town, and now have carpenters at work making one grand establishment of the three stores. _ L. Hyman & Co, Dancing S School, Dancing school and so social at Odd Fellows Hall every Thursday evening. The Berlin Schottische, Prince Polka and Detroit wil be taught. Children’s classon Friday otter . noon after the public schools dismiss. m26 Prov. MIcuEi, Bastern Star. Chapter, No. 9, O. E. S., are requested to meet at their hall on Wednesday evening at 7:80 o'clock. By order of the Worthy Matron, Mas. M. O. Davenport. Mrs, Jenntz Hoimtus, Seo’y. 2 Every Wednesday Evening. Prof: Holland will give instruction in g at Odd Fellows Hall every Wednesday evening, from 8 to 10. Social from 10) a te 12 o'clock. / _ m27-2 Furnished Rooms to Rent. On Pine tne / te near the Suspension ley road, he may have reckoned to recover Bridge. Apply on the premises. nes Maus. Joy, . evening en-their way to-NorthBloomfield, . J. M. Marks and wife of Tacoma, Wis.,. 4 their eyes at sight of it, and his readiness} and will resume operationsere long. Noth-}-. this report, but on the contrary the TRAN. . LOCALS IN BRIEF, Summarized Mention of Minor Home Happenings. The rest of the large locust trees in the Court House yard have been cut down, Remember Prof. Michell’s dancing school and social at Odd Fellows Hall tomorrow evening. At the Curly Bears’ grand ball riext. week anew grand march will be introdueed— something different from anything ever seen here before. Last night, at their meeting, the Curly Bears voted to hereafter dispense with firecrackers as apart of their jollification. In the Superior Court today the case of John Bonney vs. Edwin Tilley was argued and submitted. . “The Street Committee are having some of the rough places in the streets filled with gravel. Pine street, near the Court House and near Frank Auimer’s place, has been put in good shape and Broad street is now receiving attention. on the mineral cup stood this morning: was placed on the bulletin board in front-ef—the, PRANSORIPT office this afternoon, a crowd Great interest is taken in this matter. Francis Hunt, a well-known and wealthy stock raiser of Wheatland, died at that place Saturday night. He leaves a wife and eight children, ~Deceased—ownedthe old Nichols stock range and corral, just abeve Bowman Dam. A man has been solicting orders from our. business men to put in electric clocks, which are set. automatically by electticity every conte at t noon, biteod connected by a current . neh, ~ dolar per weik rent is ae + #@e> PERSONAL POINTERS. A enciss Chronicle of Various Folks Doings and Intentions. Dr. A, Chapman has returned from Vi:ginia City. : W. F. Geary, the drug traveling man of Sacramento, is in town, C. W.’Tozr came down :from Washington yesterday on his way below. J. G. Griffin of Fresno arrived here on last eveuing’s train, Mrs,John Hippert of Graniteville was in town last evening on her way below: Sheriff Douglass returned home last evening from Stockton. 8. B. Lusk and wife arrived here from Sacramento last evening on their way to Downieville. on this morning's train on his way to Sierra county. Thomas Veale, who has been to San turned home last evening. J. Reddington; H. Kearns and J, ¥F. When the announcement-of how. the-vote. ‘soon gathered around to get the news. . C.D. Dudley of New York arrived here. — Francisco attending the Midwinter Fuir, re. Dowling of San Francisco arrived here last Mire. H. M. 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Jet HOOD'S. j OTICE. + >} ~f— 0 After the most persistent exertion I have succeeded in . securing the finest BFODaCCO raised in the Island of Cuba. “Wroodpecker” Cigars ay, . OSS of this Tobacoo and I unhesitatingly recommend 4 _, ~ them: as being equal if not superior to those of the most celebrated Factories of the City of —_ The vana Cu ba.By, giving these Cigars a fair trial the Wenn. kKers will be convinced of their True — Wm. Giffin. ‘Merit. ( ) annem re taenreee New Millinery, Hood’s Pills are hand made, and per fect in proportion and appearance. 25¢, * eee Everybody [s bing —TO THE— GRAND arrived here last evening on their way to Sierra county. ‘eis Father James Tanham._. The late Rev. Father Tanham, whose death occurred early this morning, was tember 22, 1857. He came to California in February, 1882, and was first stationed at. Marysville. He came to this city in February, 1886, The at Will take place Friday.. — iene PRLS FEO RO TE Do Nor put off taking a spring medicine but take-Hood’s Sarsaparilla now. It will purify your blood, strengthen your nerves ‘and give you a good appetite, Hoop’s Pitis are hand made, and perfect in proportion and appearance. 2h5c. per box. at ttisher ih eet snatch oie. In this city, March 27th, Mrs. Fanny W. Holbrook, aged 72 years, 5 months and 4 days, Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder,— Highatat all in leave: strength,—Latest United States Goren F Report. Royal Baking Powder (o., 106 Wall St., N. Y; 1 D. S. BAKER 8 READY ae ALL TIMES TO ATTEND TO all orders f BRAVING AND HAULING. Particular attention paidto the transportation foecpas for theatrical parties. Assessment Notice. (Anzanrrs one wp ah MINING princi aay a arse, er vag Cal Ree : of wee tee Nevada LA Cal. pow at a mecting of Dledetore eid on gs 4 ag: arch, 1994, assessmen o ne i ent (9 pens) per share was levied upon the pital’ of the corporation, payable ly in United old both, » at his office next door to Count; é * , Broad atteet, Nevada City, whieh ie inegees eee ay of be Dleateest ag sa A TO BE GIVEN BY THE Gurly Bears born at Kells, county Meath, Ireland, Sep. ~~ -OF CAVE NO, +1, Nevada City, —ON— . Friday Evening, April oth, —AT~ ARMORY HALL, Nevada City,-Cal. Committee of Arrangements. Cubs J. M. Foley, F. EK. Brown, J. C. Nilon, C H, Woerner and K, Morrison. Floor Director: . . J. Cc. NILON, Grand ‘Curly Bear. Floor Managers: CUBS M. Foley, F_¥. Brown, C. H. Woerner, R. T: Morrison, Marcus Barub, R, H. Webber, W. H. Smith, F.T. Nilon, M. H. Isoard, J. B. Miller, Phil. Richards, Carl Brand. Reception Committee : CUBS J.J. manly, Jemes Graham; Bs §, Calkins, E ear Hartung, E. Boh t, A Maltman, kK, omas, Dr. C. 1. Muller, John % 8 iatwerte Fred Eilerman. Grand Walk Around at 9 o'clock sharp ! ‘Music by , Goyne's Full Orchestra ! es Culver, L Transcendent Ornamentations! . / / TICKETS: Admitting Que Male and One Female, $1 00 Gallery—Female, 26 cents ; Male, 50 cents Nevada Cily Undertakiog ‘Company. GEORGE A, GRAY, Manager. Funeral Director and Embaimer. 18 Broap Street, NEVADA city. Residence on Coyote Street. Farid “"¥ BROAD ST. MARKET, Moar the City Hall. JANES nano, «= Prop’r. iuopled Beet, Pork, Mutton, Cu atthslowert-prices = Veal, wita the very best of Lemb, saue New Dry Goods : New Trimmings, x ’ +. MISS POWER will be here in a few days with an elegant line of. MILLIN ERY _Now Being Received Daily. Of Her Gwi Selection. 4p TO THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT. Mis. Lester & Grawford. JOB PRIN’TING Township . tice TAX-PAYERS ATTENTION. The tax-payers of Nevada. hereby. notified convenience and the labor of receiving ‘statements I will be at the County Assessor’s Office In the Court House (excepting Sundays) until further noFrom 9 o'clock A. [. till's o’clock P. M. All assessments on personal property (where there is no real estate) are due.and payable at the time of assessment. and vicinity are at for © their © facilitate CAL. R. CLARLE, County Assessor. . Fonwer Brewers of the Celebrated EXTRA PALE, CULMBACHER, FRANZISKANDER, LAGER And Porter. A. ISOARD, General Agent, ; NEVADA CITY, Cal, ENTERPRISE . BREWING Cco., lle 2015-2023 Folsom Street, San Francisco, and STANDARD BEER, Caper gy eS