October 21, 1948 (8 pages)

a= > “> —> Po ~jpehind a tree, and wounded as he was, he reached for blew out his own brains. «itch while this man, Tommy Dow, was working cleanJ like to work for you.” ae ea my successor at the mine evidently got on "or two later and met the wronged man on the trail. He oe ° 4 9 od -:Gold Digger’s Trail -:(Continued from Page 1) ‘kill him in silence and drag the body off in the bushes, while he went on and picked off the rest of his victims, one by one. But Dobbins was too strong for him. He wrestled with him and grabbed the axe away, and with one swing of its keen blade, lopped 'Nicholl’s hand almost off at the wrist. Then he turned and started down the trail. However, Nicholls had his gun cached it and shot Dobbins dead as he ran. Then he made his way down to Dannenbrink’s*cabin, shouted, “‘I’ve killed Dobbins, but I can’t do any more now,” and And he was as quiet and inoffensive a chap as I ever worked with, under normal conditions. I had another little half breed working for me on Coffte Creek who was a known killer, and who also was inoffensive. One day I was walking along the ing it out. I stopped to pass the time of day with him. Apropos of nothing, he remarked, ‘““You know, “Why is that, Tommy?”’ “Because you never get me nervous and excited, and you never swear at me. I can’t stand having men swear at me.” This from a killer with three men to his credit. is nerves, because after taking a pot shot at him, . Tommy’ ran away and disappeared in the brush for . a year or so. A packer by the name of McNeal was a regular . visitor at our camp. A quiet, thoughtful Scotsman of about sixty, someone told me his story. His wife had run away with a buck negro some three years before, and had died in Redding after the negro had deserted her. McNeaf never mentioned her again, but the negro was foolish enough to come into the country a year died from one shot immediately, and McNeal was never even arrested. The case was clear, and justice had been done—so why bother. : Not all the memories of this country are sinister, however. . remember the pleasure of a visit with former Lieutenant Governor Daggett, who had retired to Black Bear as postmaster. He had originally opened up the Ball mine and the Black Bear—two properties . which had produced milloins. He had lived well while he had it, and had memories of the great ones in the early days which were a pleasure to recall. Genial and kindly, he lived comfortably in his retirement, although the bulk of his money was gone, and until the day of his death, was always going to take another fortune out of the Black Bear mine. (To be continued) house and celebration on Mare Island. They will have an opportunity to board submarine and ship while it is Local Scouts To See Navy Day In Vallejo *GRASS VALLEY: Troop 4, Boy Scouts of this city will be guests of Troop and Explorer Post of Vallejo, Solano County on Navy Day, October 27th. They will be guests at the open For Good a destroyer and to view a large being drydocked. The boys will take their lunches but for the evening meal they will Guests of the Vallejo troop. be HAMBURGERS COFFEE — BEER — SHORT ORDERS . Ruth & Roy’s YOUR BIRTHSTONE AND ITS MEANING. Roots of Culture --OPAL OR TOURMALINE = — ROMANS CALLEDTHE SPLENVy i: DID, FLASHING OPAL ‘CHILD BEAUTIFUL AS LOVE.” THEY CONSIDEREDIT AN i) ies MARK ANTONY (83-308.C) PROSCRIBED ROMAN SENATOR THE OCTOBER-BORN INCLU CTORS, DANCERS, ART CONNOISSEURS, ig INTERIOR DECORATORS . TWO YOUNG MAINE MEN DISCOViE" ERED A FORTUNE IN BEAUTIFUL, t. WMULTI-COLORED TOURMALINES “(1820), SOON SCATTERED B NEIGHBORS IGNORANT OF THEIR VALUE. 2 x AND THE LOVELY TOURMALINE S/ GNIFY, ‘ Street. Goyne was co-ohstess. It was reported that their sale of sugar maple trees was a great success. When the trees mature their foliage turms a bright red color in the fall. semane Miss Gertrude Garden Club’s Sugar Maple Sale A Success NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City Garden Club met last Thursday at 2 P. M. in the home. of Mrs. R. W. Renfree, 310 Geth3210 OIL HEATER “Why not own the QUAKER that your present heater is paying for in wasted fuel.”Nothing like it! Sensational new QUAKER 3210 puts to 4% more heat in your home with the same amount of oil. New QUAKERTROL does it! Delivers just the right amount of air to the burner for perfect combustion .in any weather . with any chimney! Gives economical, smoke-free, soot-free combustion at every flame setting. And this new QUAKER has 79% more primary heating surface to give more heat . . . make your oil last longer. REPLACE NOW’! Enjoy the greater comfort and economy tomorrow and for years to come. See QUAKER TODAY! ALPH A ARDWARE SINCE CO! 1906 PHONE 5 BROAD STREET PHONE 88 MAIN STREET NEVADA CITY GRASS VALLEY WARREN SURE OF G. 0. P. VICTORYSAN FRANCISCO: .Governor Earl Warren returned to Sacramento last’ Saturday after his campaign in 81 states for. the .Dewey-Warren team. The governor appeared supremely confident of the -outcome of the November 2 election as he neared the end of his coastto-coast trip. Following a two day rest he left by plane for Miami, Florida. There, on Wednesday, he addressed the American Legion Convention. On his return trip from Florida the governor’ spoke’ at. Fort Worth, Texas, anti Grand Junction, Colorado. He returns to Sacramento late Thursday. Warren will begin his intensive California campaigning at Sacramento on October 22. He. will de‘vete Saturday to the Stockton Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget, Oct. 21, 1948—5. area,. rest on Sunday and then speak in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties on October 25. The governor will campaign in San Bernardino and _ Riverside counties on October 26 and devote Navy Day, October 27, to San Diego. The next two days he will be back in the San Joaquin valley with appearances at Fresno. Tulare, Visalia, Bakersfield, Merced and Modesto. He will be/in San Francisco the night of October 29 for a Civic Auditorium rally. The Los Angeles area will be the Warren campaign ground on October 30. The campaign will be closed at an Oakland rally on the eve of the eection, November 1. Mrs. Warren will remain in Saeramento until the California campaigning begins. *& BUILD NEVADA COUNTY QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from: STOMACH ULCERS puetoEXCESS ACID FreeBookTellsofHomeTreatmentthat Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing . ; Over three million bottles of the Witraa® ' Treatmunr have been sold for relief of symptomsof distress arising from Stomach and Diiodenal Ulcers due to Excess Acid —< Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomacts, Gassiness, Heartburn, Sieeplessness, due to Exess Acid. Sold on 15 days’ Ask for “Willard’s Message’ which Virginia, eldest of the Warren explains this treatment—free—at children, has made the entire é travels. Fine trip with her parents ana wil!i HARRIS DRUG STORE ed One thing all experienced business men realize is that a properly designed and executed letterhead, billhead or business form is an ambassador of good will and new business for them, wherever it The Nugget Press has for many years specialized in combining, through efficiency, high quality with moderate cost. This has been made possible by the ‘great number of our clients who realize that the primary maxim in buying printing is to order well in advarice. May we “have your printing order today? se rinting is one of the best, cheapest and most ~ effective advertisements for your business. Fine Printing reflects the high standard of quality, taste and efficiency that exemplify your own conduct of your enterprises. PHONE 36 305 Broad St. Nugget Press ~ 12914 BROAD STREET (FORMERLY JACK’S PLACE) (Political Advertisement) : Fore nate Bot toth me . e ' pear . # it would neon sth Jobs Lect. , vl apn te doth He cat oy hiing, 20 Mah awd Jamat 40,000 Yank peor. Ve i 7 yore WO on PROPOSITIONS anoO FACT: — California’s fourth largest industry, commercial fishing, employs over 40,000 people. Thursday, HARRIS CHARLES P. ELLIOTT DRUG PHONE 100 Friday and Saturd ay STORE — accompany the governor to Miamk. ~

a= > “> —> Po ~jpehind a tree, and wounded as he was, he reached for blew out his own brains. «itch while this man, Tommy Dow, was working cleanJ like to work for you.” ae ea my successor at the mine evidently got on "or two later and met the wronged man on the trail. He oe ° 4 9 od -:Gold Digger’s Trail -:(Continued from Page 1) ‘kill him in silence and drag the body off in the bushes, while he went on and picked off the rest of his victims, one by one. But Dobbins was too strong for him. He wrestled with him and grabbed the axe away, and with one swing of its keen blade, lopped 'Nicholl’s hand almost off at the wrist. Then he turned and started down the trail. However, Nicholls had his gun cached it and shot Dobbins dead as he ran. Then he made his way down to Dannenbrink’s*cabin, shouted, “‘I’ve killed Dobbins, but I can’t do any more now,” and And he was as quiet and inoffensive a chap as I ever worked with, under normal conditions. I had another little half breed working for me on Coffte Creek who was a known killer, and who also was inoffensive. One day I was walking along the ing it out. I stopped to pass the time of day with him. Apropos of nothing, he remarked, ‘““You know, “Why is that, Tommy?”’ “Because you never get me nervous and excited, and you never swear at me. I can’t stand having men swear at me.” This from a killer with three men to his credit. is nerves, because after taking a pot shot at him, . Tommy’ ran away and disappeared in the brush for . a year or so. A packer by the name of McNeal was a regular . visitor at our camp. A quiet, thoughtful Scotsman of about sixty, someone told me his story. His wife had run away with a buck negro some three years before, and had died in Redding after the negro had deserted her. McNeaf never mentioned her again, but the negro was foolish enough to come into the country a year died from one shot immediately, and McNeal was never even arrested. The case was clear, and justice had been done—so why bother. : Not all the memories of this country are sinister, however. . remember the pleasure of a visit with former Lieutenant Governor Daggett, who had retired to Black Bear as postmaster. He had originally opened up the Ball mine and the Black Bear—two properties . which had produced milloins. He had lived well while he had it, and had memories of the great ones in the early days which were a pleasure to recall. Genial and kindly, he lived comfortably in his retirement, although the bulk of his money was gone, and until the day of his death, was always going to take another fortune out of the Black Bear mine. (To be continued) house and celebration on Mare Island. They will have an opportunity to board submarine and ship while it is Local Scouts To See Navy Day In Vallejo *GRASS VALLEY: Troop 4, Boy Scouts of this city will be guests of Troop and Explorer Post of Vallejo, Solano County on Navy Day, October 27th. They will be guests at the open For Good a destroyer and to view a large being drydocked. The boys will take their lunches but for the evening meal they will Guests of the Vallejo troop. be HAMBURGERS COFFEE — BEER — SHORT ORDERS . Ruth & Roy’s YOUR BIRTHSTONE AND ITS MEANING. Roots of Culture --OPAL OR TOURMALINE = — ROMANS CALLEDTHE SPLENVy i: DID, FLASHING OPAL ‘CHILD BEAUTIFUL AS LOVE.” THEY CONSIDEREDIT AN i) ies MARK ANTONY (83-308.C) PROSCRIBED ROMAN SENATOR THE OCTOBER-BORN INCLU CTORS, DANCERS, ART CONNOISSEURS, ig INTERIOR DECORATORS . TWO YOUNG MAINE MEN DISCOViE" ERED A FORTUNE IN BEAUTIFUL, t. WMULTI-COLORED TOURMALINES “(1820), SOON SCATTERED B NEIGHBORS IGNORANT OF THEIR VALUE. 2 x AND THE LOVELY TOURMALINE S/ GNIFY, ‘ Street. Goyne was co-ohstess. It was reported that their sale of sugar maple trees was a great success. When the trees mature their foliage turms a bright red color in the fall. semane Miss Gertrude Garden Club’s Sugar Maple Sale A Success NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City Garden Club met last Thursday at 2 P. M. in the home. of Mrs. R. W. Renfree, 310 Geth3210 OIL HEATER “Why not own the QUAKER that your present heater is paying for in wasted fuel.”Nothing like it! Sensational new QUAKER 3210 puts to 4% more heat in your home with the same amount of oil. New QUAKERTROL does it! Delivers just the right amount of air to the burner for perfect combustion ..in any weather .. with any chimney! Gives economical, smoke-free, soot-free combustion at every flame setting. And this new QUAKER has 79% more primary heating surface to give more heat . . . make your oil last longer. REPLACE NOW’! Enjoy the greater comfort and economy tomorrow and for years to come. See QUAKER TODAY! ALPH A ARDWARE SINCE CO! 1906 PHONE 5 BROAD STREET

PHONE 88 MAIN STREET NEVADA CITY GRASS VALLEY WARREN SURE OF G. 0. P. VICTORYSAN FRANCISCO: .Governor Earl Warren returned to Sacramento last’ Saturday after his campaign in 81 states for. the .Dewey-Warren team. The governor appeared supremely confident of the -outcome of the November 2 election as he neared the end of his coastto-coast trip. Following a two day rest he left by plane for Miami, Florida. There, on Wednesday, he addressed the American Legion Convention. On his return trip from Florida the governor’ spoke’ at. Fort Worth, Texas, anti Grand Junction, Colorado. He returns to Sacramento late Thursday. Warren will begin his intensive California campaigning at Sacramento on October 22. He. will de‘vete Saturday to the Stockton Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget, Oct. 21, 1948—5. area,. rest on Sunday and then speak in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties on October 25. The governor will campaign in San Bernardino and _ Riverside counties on October 26 and devote Navy Day, October 27, to San Diego. The next two days he will be back in the San Joaquin valley with appearances at Fresno. Tulare, Visalia, Bakersfield, Merced and Modesto. He will be/in San Francisco the night of October 29 for a Civic Auditorium rally. The Los Angeles area will be the Warren campaign ground on October 30. The campaign will be closed at an Oakland rally on the eve of the eection, November 1. Mrs. Warren will remain in Saeramento until the California campaigning begins. *& BUILD NEVADA COUNTY QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from: STOMACH ULCERS puetoEXCESS ACID FreeBookTellsofHomeTreatmentthat Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing . ; Over three million bottles of the Witraa® ' Treatmunr have been sold for relief of symptomsof distress arising from Stomach and Diiodenal Ulcers due to Excess Acid —< Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomacts, Gassiness, Heartburn, Sieeplessness, due to Exess Acid. Sold on 15 days’ Ask for “Willard’s Message’ which Virginia, eldest of the Warren explains this treatment—free—at children, has made the entire é travels. Fine trip with her parents ana wil!i HARRIS DRUG STORE ed One thing all experienced business men realize is that a properly designed and executed letterhead, billhead or business form is an ambassador of good will and new business for them, wherever it The Nugget Press has for many years specialized in combining, through efficiency, high quality with moderate cost. This has been made possible by the ‘great number of our clients who realize that the primary maxim in buying printing is to order well in advarice. May we “have your printing order today? se rinting is one of the best, cheapest and most ~ effective advertisements for your business. Fine Printing reflects the high standard of quality, taste and efficiency that exemplify your own conduct of your enterprises. PHONE 36 305 Broad St. Nugget Press ~ 12914 BROAD STREET (FORMERLY JACK’S PLACE) (Political Advertisement) : Fore nate Bot toth me . e ' pear . # it would neon sth Jobs Lect. , vl apn te doth He cat oy hiing, 20 Mah awd Jamat 40,000 Yank peor. Ve i 7 yore WO on PROPOSITIONS anoO FACT: — California’s fourth largest industry, commercial fishing, employs over 40,000 people. Thursday, HARRIS CHARLES P. ELLIOTT DRUG PHONE 100 Friday and Saturd ay STORE — accompany the governor to Miamk. ~