August 21, 1931 (6 pages)

a @ é t § E 6 DERE aS EB RW teen baa ghcsacleees eee agthin he THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA “THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET Published weekly on Friday morning at Nevada City, Calif., and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, pny address in California, in advance ... $2.00 “Jotsiee Comromin, th) U.S. 2.50 Three Months ..0..0. z ; ee One Monti 2. oe EGS mene tee Slee eee oS oa A Legal Newspaper of General Circulation for Nevada City and Nevada County, as defined by legal statute. Printed and published at Nevada City. Elsie P. Willoughby Editor and Publisher Pee A ee Associate Editor Thomas Bessler .. Manager FINE COMMUNICATION been operating and milling on pro. duct from the 100 foot level. : Gain Co 1 are fines FROM RANDSBURG MINES the eae wie ew of a new Denver. mill, located at JohannesRandsburg, Calif., August 20—. burg. In the coming in of Homer L. GibMany options are hanging fire. son, Toront6 mining man, Roy A. With the new corporation laws in Hardy, noted mining engineer of effect the restive promoter, has Reno, Nevada, and lL. C. Main, another think coming. Les Angeles capitalist, into the . SOREN IERCY . eerCalifornia Rand mining “istrict COUNTY 1S SHOCKED BY mining will have a brand new . :, j phase. In takng over the Kelly mine MANY SUDDEN DEATHS a one time world’s record silver; producer, their first work was} starting a general clean-up of. all! A record unbroken for a long equipment; the 400 ton flotation . number of years and probably not mill, never having had a general . in the history of Nevada County, ocflean-up, the job will require some curred over Sunday and Monday weeks to finish. The flotation units when death took five of Nevada will be divided, two hundred units County’s worthy and highly respectfor tht ‘leasers and the same for,ed citizens. company ores. A 200° ton cyanide! Charles Bertonchini of the Green, plant has been purchased from the horn District, was the first, who United Eastern, Oatman, Arizona,. was found dead in bed; Mr. Schroe. and is now being set up alongside/der was second at his English of the big mill. The cmopany is en-. Mountain Camp,. where. he was tering the field with notice that . with friends; Judge Mulroy of Grass they are in the field for the purValley was third; Jerome Geronimi chase of ores, tailings, dumps, 70 lg fourth, he passing away just and gobs ,not only in the Rand dis-. before going to work Monday morntrict, but for all camps and districts . ing, with John Bach of Smartsville of this section of the Mohave desert . making the fifth. Mr. Bach had Shaft .0. 1, has been leased to completed a day’s work and came to one set of thre miners. No. 6 shaft . the house to rest, soon expiring. And oh, I hope while I am there, I, too, may do my humble share To make our home a place Where song and laughter sweetly blend! While I am there I hope to lend Some little touch of grace. \Wou ame ECHARLES S$" KINNISON SUNLIGHT The morning sun smiles down upon "I = Our little home, at peep of dawn, Pe In radiance fair and bright, ~~“ And paints the house with golden cheer, As dusky shadows disappear Before its beaming light! I Mighty Title Borne by Many Unworthy Rulers Caesar was a title asstmed by Octavianus, adopted son of the great dic-’ tator, Julius Caesar, and was by him handed down to his adopted son, Tiberius. It continued to be used by Caligula, Claudius and Nero as mem:bers, either by adoption or female descent of Caesar's family; but though the family became extinct with Nero, succeeding emperors stil! retained the name as part of their title, and it was has been leased to two sets of. leas‘ers and the No. 2 or main shaft, has been leased to zb_ leasers. assigned to blocks of ground on the various levels. One of the big things for the near future is the dewaterAll were deaths from heart dis_ ease and all passed away before help arrived. Each in his own life lived so as to make the world a better place to live in, and will bé missed by their ‘their own stamp mill, makes profits ing of No. 2 shaft, between the 12th and 19th levels. The deeper they find the rich silver, the more the content of gold follows, giving one} te idea that the mine will eventually turn to gold values. many relatives and friends. The five sudden deaths have. been the. subject of much discussion, it being probably one of the most re-; markable coincidences of many long years. ; BUTTE MINES TO The Kelly mine, was fully peed ped, modern machinery, good sub-. stantial buildings, mine, mill, office, blacksmith shop, change rooms, TISED warehouhe, ‘assay office, etc., not BE ADVER close together, well spread out, (oy aaa eee : roomy and large, juht the plant for. Butte County will carry a page the present owners. Oh yes! guests’ advertisement in the new California the practice to prefix’ it to their. own names, as Imperator Caesar, Domitianus Augustus. When Hadrian adoptAelius Verus, he allowed the latter to take the title of Caesar, and from this time, though the title Augustus continued to be confined to the reigning emperor, that of Cuesar was also granted the second person in the state and the heir presumptive to the throne. After the death of Nero, his name was adopted as a kingly title by succeed{ng Roman emperors. This practice continued, and the same title was used in modern times, as in the case of kaiser and czar, Source of Fabled River Styx Merely Waterfall Solos, a village on the slopes of Mount Helmos, not far from Akrata houhe, two of them, a pleasure and, Mining Journal next month, advercomfort for the tired arrivals over/. tising Butte County’s mining indus, . a 40 miles ride across the desert. /try, and the magazine will be de-, Any day thee good news of the Voted largely to exploiting mines of! W. P. Hammon Company, coming, Butte and Yuba Counties. The board . in with their engineers to plan out . of supervisors voted to take the ad_! the test run of 1000 tons of mas . Vertisement at st cost of $50. & terial taken from the Yéllow Aster; ‘‘This is the first time this. board company’s famous glory hole, ig has ever been asked to do anything looked for. This test is to be run/for the mining industry of Butte through 10 stamps of the com-, County”, Rohr said. pany’s 50 stamps and will take . Ss. L. Ledford, Alex Wilson and some 7 weeks. With the returns! Charles Belding, county clerk, spoke complying with the assays taken and. favoring the action. made, say, $1.50 to the ton, the! Ae ie 0 deal is on forthwith. Observe All Saints Day With Light and Music In case any are further interested {n the manner in which All Saints day is observed in Philippine cemeteries, we append the following additional This deal would mean tne taking up of a number . of options on desirable groups adjacent to the Yellow Aster workings, and there is no doubt whatsoever but the option holders would soon start activity om characteristics of the annual celebrathe west portion of the soldfields . tion: The poor burn candles on the of the Randsburg, a territory that . graves, while those who are finanhas but little chance ever since the cially able install electric lights. At gold was discovered 38 years ugo. night the cemeteries are seas of lights. Two shifts are now going goud Pictures of the departed persons are on the 200 of the Bender mine, set up on the graves, and roving bands z : z Re of musicians wend through the prewith the intention of cutting a cross cincts and play pieces for them on the vein that shows well from the surpayment of 50 centavos (450 cents) face. In this drift they have a vein! by sorrowful relatives, The mausowhen first picked up showed 20} leums of the rich are opened to the inches in width at 90 feet it shows Public, and long lines of persons 6 feet it carries all of the looka . course through them throughout the ee day and night. and signs of the good milling ore : dene different ki era The custom of playing lively rather 2 PE CACOrGOs WOCRINGS DUC It) gs fie annate “ta the cemeteries will not pan enough for any pur-. here js obscure, but it occurred during pose. Spanish times. One story fs. that {t The Bender mine, the property of} originated during an appulling epithe Operator Consolidated Mines, a. demic. People were dying by hunSan Francisco listed mining stock, dreds. The Spanish authorities, feari ing the bad psychological effect of is the first new gold diesovery in. dirges, prohibited the playing of them. many years. It has paid for itself} North China Standard, Peiping, pnd ali of the equipment.’ OwningMental Test ‘An agent recently called on a north side mother trying to interest her in a set of books. Junior was peering through the pages so the caller showed him some pictures under ‘Mental Test.” One picture was that of a Wagon without the “handle.” After asking Junior several questions the woman enlightened him by saying that the wagon didn’t have a handle. Turning to a picture of a pig without a tail the youngster studied it intentiy for a few moments and said, “Why, the' pig doesn't have a handle, either.” —Indianapolis News. better for: the company. Another find in the Bender would cause a lot of prospectors to flock in that territory for a possible lease Leasers on the King Solomon, thaving their use of the company mill, are making good money on their output. Sunshine leasers, the W. H. Williams claim and the leasers on the Minnehaha mine, all have runs of ore that brings them $20 to the ton. The Windy mine and mil has ; beea replaced, in the division.of southern Greece known as Achae, {fs near the supposed site of the fabled River Styx. In Greek mythology the Styx is a mighty river, the tenth part of the water of Oceanus, which flows in the lower world. It is described by Homer andHesiod as the terrible black water falling from a high precipice and dashing itself upon a lofty rock, through which it passed and then fell into the Crathis. The fabled waters of the Styx have been identified by students of antiqwity as the two slender cascades fallImg over a high perpendicular precipice of Mount. Helmos, near Solos. After winding among a labyrinth Of . rocks the water unites to form a mountain torrent which eventually joins the River Akrata (Crathis). Superstitious feelings of dread still attach to the water, which is considered of a peculiarly noxious character. Pliny Stirred to Wrath Those who have watched some volumteer fire companies in action will be amused by the fact that Pliny got all wrought up about this matter of fire-fighting back In 106 A. D., writes Joseph T. Armstrong in the New Orleans Item-Tribune. In a letter to the Roman emperor ‘Trajan, Pliny described a fire at Nicomédia, which consumed several homes, the town house and the temple of Isis. Pliny indignantly blamed this damage in part to “the indolence of the people, who manifestly stood idle and motionless spectators of this terrible calamity.” He said there were in the town “neither engineers, buckets por any single instrument suitable for extiaguishing fires,” and recommended that a company of 150 firemen be formed. White House Baths~ “Charming Dolly Madison,” one of the most gracious of/ White House mistresses, set aside vooms for bathing, and instituted the first Presidential bathtubs. These bathtubs remained im the White House only until the entrance of Andrew Jackson, first plebetan President, who promptly chucked them out of doors for representing something decidedly undemocratic, and therefore offensive to the common people. However, the bathtub returned with the fastidious Fillmore te remain evermore enshrined, although the Fillmore tub has long since World Slow to Acclaim Possessors cf Genius If some of those long-dead authors whose works are now universally honored could come back today they would conclude either that the world’s sense of values have been completely upset or that they had been disgracefully cheated of their dues. . The Golden Book Magazine discloses ‘the early history of some of the famous manuscripts which recently have sold for fabulous sums to wealthy collectors, and the result is a startling contrast in literary values. For example, the manscript of Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” was sold for $200,000. But the poet himself sold it for $10 to the American Whig Review, after other publishers had refused it. In fact, the poem was held in so little regard that more than a year passed between its writing and publication. But its appearance made the author the outstanding poet of the day. When Edward Fitzgerald translated “The Rubaiyat” in the 1850s he could “not find a publisher, although one magazine held the poem for two years before rejecting it. Fitzgerald then published it himself. But instead of the $1.25 a copy which he had hoped to get, the price dropped to two cents before it began to sell. A first edition was sold in 1929 for $8,000. Long Controversy Over Death of Mind-Reader Washington Ifving Bishop died In a coma following a cataleptic trance soon after giving a strenuous demonstration of mind-reading at the Lambs’ club, New York, May 13, 1889. An tutopsy was performed by several doctors less than four hours after the death had been pronounced and without the consent of relatives. His relatives stated that on his person. he carried papers at all times prohibiting . ap autopsy or the use of electricity to revive him should he be thrown into a trance, Blectricity was used. A second autopsy was ordered and later an inquest was held, due to the statement of his mother and others that the first autopsy had been performed while he was still alive. The jury’s verdict, however, was that the death Was due tw . coma and had occurred before the autopsy. Later the grand jury indicted the doctors for violation of the sanitary code. A hook was published by his mother. giving his biogruphy, and also her view: of the case, g Ancient Roman Racketeer Dr. William Stearns Duvis, the late historian, dug up from the records of ancient Rome a man whose ideas were dozeus of centuries ahead of his time. He was Crassus, a wealthy real estate operator. His~ racket was this: He drilled a score or so of his Slaves as fire fighters. Then, picking out a handsome villa, he would have one of his mob set fire to it: As the flames mounted Crassus would appear and make a small offer for what looked like a total loss. At the owner’s word “Sold,” Crassus’ visiting firemen would rush out of the shrubbery and save the property—New York Herald Tribune. Teo Big to Lose Billy Brown was dreaming of the slorious game of football he was goimg to have as soon as he got out of school. He wasn’t a bit interested in the elephant, which was the subject ef the lesson to which he ought to have been listening. The teacher sa this and pounced on him. e “Brown, where are elephants found?” he demanded siernly. Billy was staggered for a moment, but rose gallantly to the occasion. “P-please, sir,” he stammered, “‘elephants are so big that they’re hardly ever lost!" : FRIDAY, AUG. 21, 1931 '109J. += Phones 109M JOHN W. DARKE NEVADA CITY CLEANERS Upholstermg . W.-H. Osborne MAPS FOR SALE ; Cleaning,— Pressing,— Repairing — NEVADA CITY NUGGET OFFIOS NEVADA CITY SANITARIUM * . Miss Elizabeth McD. 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a @ é t § E 6 DERE aS EB RW teen baa ghcsacleees eee agthin he THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA “THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET Published weekly on Friday morning at Nevada City, Calif., and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, pny address in California, in advance ..... $2.00 “Jotsiee Comromin, th) U.S. 2.50 Three Months ....0...0.. z ; ee One Monti 2.. oe EGS mene tee Slee eee oS oa A Legal Newspaper of General Circulation for Nevada City and Nevada County, as defined by legal statute. Printed and published at Nevada City. Elsie P. Willoughby Editor and Publisher Pee A ee Associate Editor Thomas Bessler ... Manager FINE COMMUNICATION been operating and milling on pro. duct from the 100 foot level. : Gain Co 1 are fines FROM RANDSBURG MINES the eae wie ew of a new Denver. mill, located at JohannesRandsburg, Calif., August 20—. burg. In the coming in of Homer L. GibMany options are hanging fire. son, Toront6 mining man, Roy A. With the new corporation laws in Hardy, noted mining engineer of effect the restive promoter, has Reno, Nevada, and lL. C. Main, another think coming. Les Angeles capitalist, into the . SOREN IERCY . eerCalifornia Rand mining “istrict COUNTY 1S SHOCKED BY mining will have a brand new . :, j phase. In takng over the Kelly mine MANY SUDDEN DEATHS a one time world’s record silver; producer, their first work was} starting a general clean-up of. all! A record unbroken for a long equipment; the 400 ton flotation . number of years and probably not mill, never having had a general . in the history of Nevada County, ocflean-up, the job will require some curred over Sunday and Monday weeks to finish. The flotation units when death took five of Nevada will be divided, two hundred units County’s worthy and highly respectfor tht ‘leasers and the same for,ed citizens. company ores. A 200° ton cyanide! Charles Bertonchini of the Green, plant has been purchased from the horn District, was the first, who United Eastern, Oatman, Arizona,. was found dead in bed; Mr. Schroe. and is now being set up alongside/der was second at his English of the big mill. The cmopany is en-. Mountain Camp,. where. he was tering the field with notice that . with friends; Judge Mulroy of Grass they are in the field for the purValley was third; Jerome Geronimi chase of ores, tailings, dumps, 70 lg fourth, he passing away just and gobs ,not only in the Rand dis-. before going to work Monday morntrict, but for all camps and districts . ing, with John Bach of Smartsville of this section of the Mohave desert . making the fifth. Mr. Bach had Shaft ..0. 1, has been leased to completed a day’s work and came to one set of thre miners. No. 6 shaft . the house to rest, soon expiring. And oh, I hope while I am there, I, too, may do my humble share To make our home a place Where song and laughter sweetly blend! While I am there I hope to lend Some little touch of grace. \Wou ame ECHARLES S$" KINNISON SUNLIGHT The morning sun smiles down upon "I = Our little home, at peep of dawn, Pe In radiance fair and bright, ~~“ And paints the house with golden cheer, As dusky shadows disappear Before its beaming light! I Mighty Title Borne by Many Unworthy Rulers Caesar was a title asstmed by Octavianus, adopted son of the great dic-’ tator, Julius Caesar, and was by him handed down to his adopted son, Tiberius. It continued to be used by Caligula, Claudius and Nero as mem:bers, either by adoption or female descent of Caesar's family; but though the family became extinct with Nero, succeeding emperors stil! retained the name as part of their title, and it was has been leased to two sets of. leas‘ers and the No. 2 or main shaft, has been leased to zb_ leasers. assigned to blocks of ground on the various levels. One of the big things for the near future is the dewaterAll were deaths from heart dis_ ease and all passed away before help arrived. Each in his own life lived so as to make the world a better place to live in, and will bé missed by their ‘their own stamp mill, makes profits ing of No. 2 shaft, between the 12th and 19th levels. The deeper they find the rich silver, the more the content of gold follows, giving one} te idea that the mine will eventually turn to gold values. many relatives and friends. The five sudden deaths have. been the. subject of much discussion, it being probably one of the most re-; markable coincidences of many long years. ; BUTTE MINES TO The Kelly mine, was fully peed ped, modern machinery, good sub-. stantial buildings, mine, mill, office, blacksmith shop, change rooms, TISED warehouhe, ‘assay office, etc., not BE ADVER close together, well spread out, (oy aaa eee : roomy and large, juht the plant for. Butte County will carry a page the present owners. Oh yes! guests’ advertisement in the new California the practice to prefix’ it to their. own names, as Imperator Caesar, Domitianus Augustus. When Hadrian adoptAelius Verus, he allowed the latter to take the title of Caesar, and from this time, though the title Augustus continued to be confined to the reigning emperor, that of Cuesar was also granted the second person in the state and the heir presumptive to the throne. After the death of Nero, his name was adopted as a kingly title by succeed{ng Roman emperors. This practice continued, and the same title was used in modern times, as in the case of kaiser and czar, Source of Fabled River Styx Merely Waterfall Solos, a village on the slopes of Mount Helmos, not far from Akrata houhe, two of them, a pleasure and, Mining Journal next month, advercomfort for the tired arrivals over/. tising Butte County’s mining indus, . a 40 miles ride across the desert. /try, and the magazine will be de-, Any day thee good news of the Voted largely to exploiting mines of! W. P. Hammon Company, coming, Butte and Yuba Counties. The board . in with their engineers to plan out . of supervisors voted to take the ad_! the test run of 1000 tons of mas . Vertisement at st cost of $50. & terial taken from the Yéllow Aster; ‘‘This is the first time this. board company’s famous glory hole, ig has ever been asked to do anything looked for. This test is to be run/for the mining industry of Butte through 10 stamps of the com-, County”, Rohr said. pany’s 50 stamps and will take . Ss. L. Ledford, Alex Wilson and some 7 weeks. With the returns! Charles Belding, county clerk, spoke complying with the assays taken and. favoring the action. made, say, $1.50 to the ton, the! Ae ie 0 deal is on forthwith. Observe All Saints Day With Light and Music In case any are further interested {n the manner in which All Saints day is observed in Philippine cemeteries, we append the following additional This deal would mean tne taking up of a number . of options on desirable groups adjacent to the Yellow Aster workings, and there is no doubt whatsoever but the option holders would soon start activity om characteristics of the annual celebrathe west portion of the soldfields . tion: The poor burn candles on the of the Randsburg, a territory that . graves, while those who are finanhas but little chance ever since the cially able install electric lights. At gold was discovered 38 years ugo. night the cemeteries are seas of lights. Two shifts are now going goud Pictures of the departed persons are on the 200 of the Bender mine, set up on the graves, and roving bands z : z Re of musicians wend through the prewith the intention of cutting a cross cincts and play pieces for them on the vein that shows well from the surpayment of 50 centavos (450 cents) face. In this drift they have a vein! by sorrowful relatives, The mausowhen first picked up showed 20} leums of the rich are opened to the inches in width at 90 feet it shows Public, and long lines of persons 6 feet it carries all of the looka . course through them throughout the ee day and night. and signs of the good milling ore : dene different ki era The custom of playing lively rather 2 PE CACOrGOs WOCRINGS DUC It) gs fie annate “ta the cemeteries will not pan enough for any pur-. here js obscure, but it occurred during pose. Spanish times. One story fs. that {t The Bender mine, the property of} originated during an appulling epithe Operator Consolidated Mines, a. demic. People were dying by hunSan Francisco listed mining stock, dreds. The Spanish authorities, feari ing the bad psychological effect of is the first new gold diesovery in. dirges, prohibited the playing of them. many years. It has paid for itself} North China Standard, Peiping, pnd ali of the equipment.’ OwningMental Test ‘An agent recently called on a north side mother trying to interest her in a set of books. Junior was peering through the pages so the caller showed him some pictures under ‘Mental Test.” One picture was that of a Wagon without the “handle.” After asking Junior several questions the woman enlightened him by saying that the wagon didn’t have a handle. Turning to a picture of a pig without a tail the youngster studied it intentiy for a few moments and said, “Why, the' pig doesn't have a handle, either.” —Indianapolis News. better for: the company. Another find in the Bender would cause a lot of prospectors to flock in that territory for a possible lease Leasers on the King Solomon, thaving their use of the company mill, are making good money on

their output. Sunshine leasers, the W. H. Williams claim and the leasers on the Minnehaha mine, all have runs of ore that brings them $20 to the ton. The Windy mine and mil has ; beea replaced, in the division.of southern Greece known as Achae, {fs near the supposed site of the fabled River Styx. In Greek mythology the Styx is a mighty river, the tenth part of the water of Oceanus, which flows in the lower world. It is described by Homer andHesiod as the terrible black water falling from a high precipice and dashing itself upon a lofty rock, through which it passed and then fell into the Crathis. The fabled waters of the Styx have been identified by students of antiqwity as the two slender cascades fallImg over a high perpendicular precipice of Mount. Helmos, near Solos. After winding among a labyrinth Of . rocks the water unites to form a mountain torrent which eventually joins the River Akrata (Crathis). Superstitious feelings of dread still attach to the water, which is considered of a peculiarly noxious character. Pliny Stirred to Wrath Those who have watched some volumteer fire companies in action will be amused by the fact that Pliny got all wrought up about this matter of fire-fighting back In 106 A. D., writes Joseph T. Armstrong in the New Orleans Item-Tribune. In a letter to the Roman emperor ‘Trajan, Pliny described a fire at Nicomédia, which consumed several homes, the town house and the temple of Isis. Pliny indignantly blamed this damage in part to “the indolence of the people, who manifestly stood idle and motionless spectators of this terrible calamity.” He said there were in the town “neither engineers, buckets por any single instrument suitable for extiaguishing fires,” and recommended that a company of 150 firemen be formed. White House Baths~ “Charming Dolly Madison,” one of the most gracious of/ White House mistresses, set aside vooms for bathing, and instituted the first Presidential bathtubs. These bathtubs remained im the White House only until the entrance of Andrew Jackson, first plebetan President, who promptly chucked them out of doors for representing something decidedly undemocratic, and therefore offensive to the common people. However, the bathtub returned with the fastidious Fillmore te remain evermore enshrined, although the Fillmore tub has long since World Slow to Acclaim Possessors cf Genius If some of those long-dead authors whose works are now universally honored could come back today they would conclude either that the world’s sense of values have been completely upset or that they had been disgracefully cheated of their dues. . The Golden Book Magazine discloses ‘the early history of some of the famous manuscripts which recently have sold for fabulous sums to wealthy collectors, and the result is a startling contrast in literary values. For example, the manscript of Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” was sold for $200,000. But the poet himself sold it for $10 to the American Whig Review, after other publishers had refused it. In fact, the poem was held in so little regard that more than a year passed between its writing and publication. But its appearance made the author the outstanding poet of the day. When Edward Fitzgerald translated “The Rubaiyat” in the 1850s he could “not find a publisher, although one magazine held the poem for two years before rejecting it. Fitzgerald then published it himself. But instead of the $1.25 a copy which he had hoped to get, the price dropped to two cents before it began to sell. A first edition was sold in 1929 for $8,000. Long Controversy Over Death of Mind-Reader Washington Ifving Bishop died In a coma following a cataleptic trance soon after giving a strenuous demonstration of mind-reading at the Lambs’ club, New York, May 13, 1889. An tutopsy was performed by several doctors less than four hours after the death had been pronounced and without the consent of relatives. His relatives stated that on his person. he carried papers at all times prohibiting . ap autopsy or the use of electricity to revive him should he be thrown into a trance, Blectricity was used. A second autopsy was ordered and later an inquest was held, due to the statement of his mother and others that the first autopsy had been performed while he was still alive. The jury’s verdict, however, was that the death Was due tw . coma and had occurred before the autopsy. Later the grand jury indicted the doctors for violation of the sanitary code. A hook was published by his mother. giving his biogruphy, and also her view: of the case, g Ancient Roman Racketeer Dr. William Stearns Duvis, the late historian, dug up from the records of ancient Rome a man whose ideas were dozeus of centuries ahead of his time. He was Crassus, a wealthy real estate operator. His~ racket was this: He drilled a score or so of his Slaves as fire fighters. Then, picking out a handsome villa, he would have one of his mob set fire to it: As the flames mounted Crassus would appear and make a small offer for what looked like a total loss. At the owner’s word “Sold,” Crassus’ visiting firemen would rush out of the shrubbery and save the property—New York Herald Tribune. Teo Big to Lose Billy Brown was dreaming of the slorious game of football he was goimg to have as soon as he got out of school. He wasn’t a bit interested in the elephant, which was the subject ef the lesson to which he ought to have been listening. The teacher sa this and pounced on him. e “Brown, where are elephants found?” he demanded siernly. Billy was staggered for a moment, but rose gallantly to the occasion. “P-please, sir,” he stammered, “‘elephants are so big that they’re hardly ever lost!" : FRIDAY, AUG. 21, 1931 '109J. += Phones 109M JOHN W. DARKE NEVADA CITY CLEANERS Upholstermg . W.-H. Osborne MAPS FOR SALE ; Cleaning,— Pressing,— Repairing — NEVADA CITY NUGGET OFFIOS NEVADA CITY SANITARIUM * . Miss Elizabeth McD. Watson ee : Equipped to handle Obstetrical, Surgical, Medici : and X-Ray Cases ; Modern Equipment Nevada City —> TA Hideeieieiete LEITER’S RADIO SHOPHOLBROOK REFRIGERATOR Lowest Priced Refrigerator on the market. Complete in your home at $207.50. less extras. Demonstration given at our place of business. We welcome you at all times. We also carry Atwater Kent and Clarion Radios. . We demonstrate in your home. 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