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NEVADA CITY NUGGET
MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1938.
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Nevada City Nug
305 Broad Street. Phone 36
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A i.egal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published
at Nevada City.
HH. MM. LEETE Editor afid Publisher
Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at
Nevada City, California, and entered as mail
matter of the second class in the postoffice at
Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3.
1879
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the answer to that question.
desirable trouble makers.
the whirlwind.
puzzled. _
gard for the general public.
Uncle Silas says: “If Henry Ford keeps his promise not
to tell R. F. D. how to run the country, he'll certainly be like
the Irishman’s rooster, all alone in a delegation by himself.”’
—A. MERRIAM CONNER.
I wonder, if a stranger guest
Should come into my home some morning,
To smash my routine into bits q
And break the dishes without warning;
If he should call me lurid names,
With threats and boasts and ribald shout,
Would it be wrong for me to rise,
And very firmly put him out?
I wonder just how far a man may go in defending the
peace, security and honor of his home; . think: we all know.
I wonder what means may be taken in ridding a decent
neighborhood of marauders, brawlers and ‘other types of un-.
in: its
I wonder if it is either ethical or practical, for a bread
winner to fight for his job, the privilege of working where he
chooses and the safety of his loved ones.
I wonder why some of our great daily newspapers do not
appoint fact finding committees. We all like to believe what
we read in the papers, and just lately we have at least—been
I wonder why our law makers now in solemn conclave
do not realize the fact that labor unrest, at the present time
amounting in some parts of the country to small civil wars, .
strikes, coercion, disorder, etc., are doing their great part in
prolonging and deepening the present so-called recession.
I wonder if we may swap the Wagner _ Relations Act, .
which acts lop sidedly—or not at all, for a Mompulsory Arbi-'
tration Act, which would maintain a balance between capital
and labor, act in the interest of both and with some slight reTHIS AND THAT’
We ‘ave a very -acute attack
spring fever.
fusion of blossoms and the warmth
chy, that is, perhaps we should sav
slightly more punch than usual, (Far
ing). What has caused the surrounding orchards ‘to burst into such a
mass of bloom.we are not quite sure
about, unless it is the sun spots, if
every twentieth ‘blossom develops
into fruit there is going to be a simpunchy too, he has come over all
queer about Easter rabbits. We
quote. “Oh I love the bunny rabbits
and their happy little habits, as they
rollick and they frolic in their ‘fun;
for naught is quite as funny as a
bonny little bunny as he rambles and
he gambles in the sun. Thought he’s
silly, and he’s sloppy and his ears
are long and floppy, and his pudgy
little nose is all a-twitch, yet the way
he gives.a shudder when -he wags
his little; rudder, it’s lovable, it’s
laughable, it’s rich.”” Ah. me.’ Spring
blooms and rabbits and one’s fancy
lightly turning to thoughts of the
tummy ache we’ll have from the first
green apples,
is good to smear on weeds. It completely kills the weeds and utterly
ruims the custard.
What is your I. Q.?
One of these is a half-caste. Douloon, quadroon, platoon, monsoon,
of the sun that we are slightly pun-.
! This week’s idiotic item. Custard.
By ROY GRIFFITH DEETER i
f .
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of . Friday
We are so overcome, “aulkner, sister of Mrs. Tuttle was
with the beauty of spring, the pro-. the
be it from us to give you an open-—
ply super epidemic of collapsing. 547 Jose, spent the week end with
trees.
Mr. Keene’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Denis Dunn again: Our pal is. 2. ?: Keene of this city and returnNEVADA CO. A. A. U. W.
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
County Unit of the
Association of University
Women held its April meeting ait the
home of Mrs. Raglan Tuttle on last
evening. Mrs. Frederick
The Nevada
American
guest speaker of the evening.
Mrs. Faulkner in charge of the
South Pacific section of the A. A. U.
W. Elec ion of officers *was also held
Friday evening. Mrs. Joan Cowley of
Grass Valley was elected president
of the associattion, Miss Margaret
Rector, vice president, Mrs. Elmer
Stevens, secretary and Dr. Paula Tobias, freasurer.
is
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keene of
ed to their home today.
spittoon, typhoon.
If you were sent a yashmak you
would wear it e,at it, feed it, plant
it?
Majeilea was, Sappho’s god mother, a famous whippet, MHannibal’s
aunt, a celebrated soprano?
For whot is Oberammergau famous? Sausages, Nazo demonstrations,
wood carving, Hitler’s birth place, a
play, wine?
A midinette is, a small damsel, a
small dustbin?
The old gold miners were called,
Plumiduffs, Ricepuds, Cheesecakes,
Sourdoughs?
:
ackgammon is,-a game, a piece
out of a pig,a member of the stock
exchange?
Would you rub a little mussolini
on a raw place?
We have to go now and see how
many: maple leaves have come. out
since.we came in. Cheerio everybody.
I wonder if a community, town or city, builded and main-.
tained by the industry of home loving:citizens, has any. -recourse when invaded by those who have no interest
growth and welfare; but on the contrary have as their avowed purpose the disruption of orderly processes, the destruction
of satisfactory conditions by the crude methods of coercion,
threats, strikes and cereval intimidation. ; oe
I.wonder why the average malcontent who is so eager to
sow the seeds of strife and disorder, is surprised When he reaps
. structed at the t'me of the creation .
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By H. M. L. Jr. .
8 .
In the late fifties, when Aunt Kate
Sullivan came from San Francisco
who had been deprived of their livings by the importatio& of. Chinese
laborers resented the presence of the
Celestrials. Soon, tthe sight of yellow
men became nauiseous to the hairy
chested miners, pioneers of the ridge
country. They banded together and
met one day in front of a saloon~‘n
French Corral. Bearing ‘an American
flag, and preceded by 'the North San
Juan band, several hundred miners
marched to the camp of the Chinese to Sebastapol, with ‘her parents, San
Juan Ridge’ ‘was speedily becoming .
one of the largest and most prosper-}
ous mining centers in California. It.
was one of the most pleasing and at-;
tractive communities in the state, .
when Aunt Kate spent most of her .
childhood in Sebasapol, one of the.
gix pretty little towns that were,
young and bright. along the road)
from French Corral to North San
Juan. Now there is scarcely a trace}
of Sebastapol. A few thick rose bush-j.
es, grown scrubby and wild, mark}
the place where pleasant homes.
were surrounded by luxuriant gar-.
dens and neat family orchards. .
—— .
Along the winding dirt road that!
leads from the Downieville hie'iway .
to French Corral, there are few re,
minders of the towns of Birchville.
'and Buckeye. Fruit 'rees with trunks .
gnarled and blackened by age, blossom all along the road. A few seatj tery shacks and harns, all ef tiem
. looking as old as the hills around
them, a brick structure that was once
the Wells Fargo office in French
Corral, a few schools, and a church
or two are all that remain s. anding
of the buildings that were once thick .
along the road from French Corral
to North San Juan. © .
——— .
It is remarkable tiat some of thess .
wooden frame struc ures have laste d .
so long. Of the buildings that were .
cons‘ructed ‘in the fifties with the .
use of wooden pegs for na‘ls, sove.
are still ‘standing and in use. The.
Pine, Grove Reservoir, built in 1852,
had a wooden gate tha. was conof the reservoir. It is still in gooa.
condition and is in use. Many of the
wooden buildings thar: are still stand-!
ing are sadly sway-backed and lepsided. They look as if the next hard
wind Would destroy them. Though
Frene2 Corral was at one time the
third largest town in Nevada ‘county, .
.
i iss more
‘came later than that of French Cormuch larger than San Juan, San Juan
imposing in its decadence,
It has been more ‘largely occupied
since the boom days, and so better!
. houses
Sweetland, Sebas*apol, Empire Flat . men are. gone with the whites. Only .
and told them that théy would have
to leave the district. At this time V.
B:. Bell, superintendent of the Milton Mining Company, made a speech
that was like the crack of doom for
French Corral. He upbraided the
miners for their attitude, and proA ; .
claimed that because of their action,
grass would soon be growing in the
streets in front of their homes. He
. later brought the Chinese, who fled
in terror, back to French Corral, and
had leaders of the white miners arrested. After this episode, which is
known as the “Chinese riot’ in the
. history of French Corral, the American miners departed from the Ridge
in great numbers.
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Now the grass does grow in what;
were once streavs in front -of the}
of. the pioneers, and Chinaabout.a undred ‘people live ‘nr
French Corral and the vicinity of the
once neat and gardened —-towns of
Birchville, Sweetland. . Sehastanol
Empire Flat and Buckeye. The inhabitanis subsist by raising a few
cows, farming a little, and some. by
sniping along the Yuba. Most of them
are. people like Aunt Sultivar
who have grown old with the town,
and-donot wish to leave it in their
Kate
FOR SALE—1935 Plymouth Coupe.
A-1 condition. Call 456 R or wri «
Box 253, Nevada City. 4-22-1t:
FOR SALE — Kelvinator Electric
Refrigerator, used. Good condition ~
Just overhauled. Priced for quick
sale. Alpha Stores Ltd., Nevada
City. 4-22tf
preserved. Its period of affluence
ral, resulted in the building of a
number of sturdy brick edifices that
FOR SALE—2 hp. Fairbanks-Mors
gasoline engine; 1-1144-incn MeyRACE TRACK AND TEXAS
RANGER. PROPERTIES
appreciaje the green roll. ing hills of the Ridge, with their
i.cturezrque adornments of tired,
“‘owering fruit trees and wild rose
bushes. And they appreciate the surprisingly warm and snowless climates of the lower Ridge, which is one
of California’s rare unpublicized
, climate paradise. The towns ‘along
the Ridge are old and tired like the
; loyal inhabitants. The old Mississippi
steamboat bell in the-ancient school. house in French Corral has a mourns
i ful note of reminiscence as it sum. mons the few children to school. The
weeds overgrowing the forty foot
jage. They
Between 800,000 and 1,000,000
cubic yards of gravel are available
for dragline or hydraulic operations
at the Race Track and Texas Ranger
properties near Camptonville, Andrew Thickstun is in charge of operations. It is reported 697 cubic yards
eo
26 ounces of gold or an average-.of
$1.18 per yard. The company has a
water right of 2,200 miners inches
and tailings are deposited behind the
Bullards Bar dam.
treated recently yielded more than »
‘circle of flat
!
. French Corral’s wheat was once sep; arated from the chaff by the tramp
ers double action pump, 1500 to}
2000 gals. hour. Very little use.}
was hung up;grandiloquent speeches were made by the dozen, liquor
found a happy home in every male
stomach, bands marched and played,
and after all the day’s festivities a
dance was held. On one of these occasions, When Senator Cross was running for re-election, a well
town character, a Prussian immigrant who was known as Charley
Bradford, hadconsiderable trouble
tamiping the powder in the cannon
which he had had construq‘ed especially for Fourth of July and political celebrations. The cannon had a
known
have resisted disintegration with Price for both $55. Sofge, 1 mile}
great success, from County Hospital, Willow Val.
panies ley. 4-18-4te
When. politicians came along the rs eed
Ridge in the old days, celebrations. FOR. RENT — Six room furnished
were always held, Colored bunting house. Three bedrooms, Central
location. For particulars call 521.
: 4-11-tfe
FOR RENT—Small cottage suitable
for bachelor, furnished. $10 per
mo. H. F. Sofge, Willow Valley .
Road, one mile from County Hospital. 4-114te
MADAM FAY—Palmist, and advisor!§
on all-affairs of life. Gives names, . &
dates, facts. Confidential readings. . @
1% mile . &
west of Grass Valley, Hwy. No. 20. . +
Apr. 11-2tp,
m.-9 a.
Cot.
Daily 1 p.
Auto Cabins.
m.
No. 6,
vent for the tamping over which one
of the people assisting in firing the
gun had to hold his hand until the
gun went off. Bradford had a very
hot temper, and became angry after
several unsuccessful attempts of an
assistant’ who failed to keep tamping
in the vent. ‘“‘We’ll blow the damn
cannon to hell,” said Bradford plac-. .
ing his own hand over the vent and :
FOR SALE — 314 ACRE RANCH)
' HOME; located in foothills of .
Placer Co., on Highway No. 408 miles above Auburn. §8-room
frame house; 2 chicken houses:
hot and eold water; plenty cf
shade. Terms $1600; 1% cash. Bal.
on easy terms. Write to owner, Box
54, Applegate, Calif. * 12-27-rt
cobblestones where
of horses hooves, are a symbol of
the triumph of Nature over the men
who: gouged and tore the hills with
‘Caring streams of water in hydraulie mining.
in the parlors
church on
Jo Alyn Clark will display her arts
and craifts. Members will be privileged to bring.a guest who is interested in the subject.
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CIVIC CLUB
The Women’s Civic Club will meet
of the Methodist
Monday evening. Mrs.
COLFAX
TUES.
MAY
TWICE DAILY, 2 and 8 P. M.
Door Open 1 and 7 Q'm.
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Quartz and placer claim jtocation
notice blanks at the Nugget office
Subscribe tor The Nugget.
YARDLEYS
English Complexion
Treatment
YARDLEY POWDER—a new
powder of extra fine. texture
especially suitable for dry skin
$1.10
Foundation Creme, Complex.
ion Cream, Toning Lotion, Milk .
of Lavender, Lip Sticks of all .
shades. .
We are Nevada City agents for .
Yardley English toiletries and .
always have a fresh, complete .
stock, .
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MOTHERS DAY
May 10th .
GREETING CARDS—+to Mother .
—other Mother — Mother of .
some one dear—like a mother.
5c to 50c
Mothers Day Candy—Beautiful .
Boxes— .
50c and up
Margaret Burnham Candy with
detachable Whistler Mother .
Picture for Framing. }
DICKERMAN .
Drug Store
NEVADA CITY
ED NOT TO APPEAR,
DATE.
JURORS
ATTENTION
ALL JURORS WHO HAVE BEEN SUMMONED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE SUPERIOR COURT ON APRIL 25TH, 26TH
AND 27TH ARE EXCUSED AND ORDERWILL BE POSTPONED TO SOME. FUTURE
R. N. McCORMACK,
AS THE: TRIAL
Clerk of Court.
little realizinggwhat an excellent
prophecy he had made. The cannon
exploded with a roar that was heard
clear in Nevada ‘City. Bradford’s
head was blown neatly off his shoulders, from where it ixecuted a curve
in the air, and after striking the
ground rolled down the hill.
French Corral had a considerable
Chinatown in the sixties and early
seventies. The Chinese in California
were at that time completely unAmericanized. They appeared about
the mounitain towns clad in native
black pajamas, smoking their little
opium pipes, or carrying goods in
baskets suspended from shoulder
poles. They were clever and industrious workers, and worked for a
standard wage of six-bits a day. The
Milton Mining Company, chief operator of the diggings near French
Corral at that time, brought large
groups of Chinese laborers up from
San Francisco to work the company
properties. This importation of coolfie labor occurred shortly before the
decline of French Corral, and there
are many old-timers who think that
this cheap labor was, with’ the antihydraulic legislation, one of the chief
causes of the decline of the Ridge.
icé ee The studio that satisfies. Good
eid A PHONE 67 _ photos at reasonable prices —
: a no guess work. 8-hour Kodak
: _ Grass Valley finishing service.
"GIVEABLES”
2-WAY STRETCH-TOP STOCKINGS
Women drivers know nothing’s
harder on stockings than motoring. ‘‘Giveables’’ give and take
at the point of strain. That’s
why they wear longer. Whatever your activity, you'll enjoy :
“Giveables’’’ easy knee-action
and appreciate their extra mileage.
BERT’S DRY GOODS STORE
116 Mill Street,
SHEER or seat
$125
Pr.
Grass Valley
Naturally the home-owning miners