February 2, 1940 (6 pages)

Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nugget ' w COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motivés and for justifiable ends. ton. —Alexander Hamil-_, a The Yerba Buena chapter of E Clampus Vitus in San” Francisco is an extremely live, not to say lively, organization. Noble Grand Humbug Lee Stopple was kind enough to extend an invitation to the ‘“‘doings’”’ lakt week to Nevada City Clampers, and four men from William Bull Meek chapter, Saturday attended the historical tour, the ancient and rigorous rites in which neophytes are ushered into membership, and the dinner at a hotel that followed. The historical tour included a study .of the Montgomery Block. built in 1853, and built so solidly with a view to fire and earthquake hazards that it, and other buildings in the vicinity built .on much the same plan, after withstanding many fires and minor earthquakes, also survived the great earthquake and fire of:1906. In fact they acted as a fire-brake to other structures along Jackson, Washington = and Montgomery Streets. It was in one of the rooms in the Montgomery ®Blcok that the editor, James King of ‘William, died, following his fatal shooting by an assassin, later hanged by the Vigilante Committee. In the Fifties the. Montgomery Block was tenanted ‘by prominent attorneys, bankers and gold buyers. °The pbuilding is four stories in height, and its foundation consists: of a mat of redwood logs covered with redwood planking and sunk in what was then the mud and sand at the edge of San Francisco bay. At high tide the sea lapped what is now Montgomery street. On that foundation the thick brick walls, reinforced at each floor by heavy iron rectangles, was erected, in three parts, each part a building / in itself. James “Hall was master of/the Clamper tour among this group of historic buildings, and /among other structures pointed/out the first Ghirardelli building and the original home of Hota@ling’s whiskel._™ this connection he recited the famous quatrain written by Charles Field following the great temiblor of 1906. The verse is as follows: “Tf God spanked San Franciseo For being over-frisky, Why did he, all the churches burn And Spare Hotaling’s whiskey?” “Following -the initiation ceremony at the rooms of the CaliforHistorical Society, in which 23 poor blind candidates became Clampers, was a dinner in the Hotel Einpire, attended by a number of notables. Among them were Wild Bill Hiekok, the younger, a nephew of the original Wild Bill, “Lit’’ Dalton, brother of THE Daltons, and Scotty Allen of Yukon and Wofld War fame. Needless to say “Lit”? Dalton does not share the notoriety. of his elder brothers in anything except name. He is 80 years old,.and was visiting San Francisco for the first time since the eighties. The younger Wild Bill Hickok, is generally accorded the reputation of shooting faster and more accurately than his famous uncle, and was-notably a oneman posse in the enforcement of the law during his younger days in the “Wild West.” nia Seotty Allen was definitely one of the leading pioneers of Alaska and during the gold rush of 189899 served to keep order: on the Skagway. He told racy yarns of his experience on that great trail of tribulation, his acquaintance with Soapy Smith, who was much more generous than generally. is credited, of a bull laden with a 300pound pack that ran amuck on the crowded trail and in three minutes flat,cleared it of all living creatures for a distance of two miles. Scotty is now principally engaged in manufacturing a celeébrated dog food. He proudly exhibits a 29 pound sledge, which, hitched to his swift dog teams won him $75,000 in racing prize money. Scotty’s part in the world war > was to supply trained dogs to the Allies, At’ one time he had 400 canines working behind the lines for the French, English and American troops. While-Alaskan ‘hus; kies have a reputation for fighting, Scotty declared that his dogs never had a fight all the time he was in France, His dogs did noble service in solving the transportation problem ‘of the French military forces in the Alps. Scotty speaks with a rich Scotch burr. He still occasionally earns what he calls “pin money’; by taking part ‘the Norden-Sugar accommodations. The County Seat Paper Mel 14. No. 10. ———_ ~ NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center FI nal FEBRUARY 2, 1940. NEVADA CITY SCOUTS GO TO PAHATSI FEB. 3 Forty scouts from Nevada City are expected to make the trip to Camp Pahatsi for their annual scout snow trip February 3 and 4 according to information from scout +headquarters. The scouts will be under the leadership of the camp staff of Bruce Kimsey and Chef Fred Stephen and the immediate supervision of Cecil Klee, district commissioner of Nevada City, Leland Smith of the district camp committee, Merle Morrison, assistant scoutmaster of Rotary Troop 24, and members of the troop committee of Troops 6 and 24. The group plan to leave Nevada City early Saturday morning and arrive in camp for breakfast and two full days of snow activity. The scout camp is equipped with skiis and facilities for full enjoyment of the program. It is expected that this year’s outing will prove to be one of the most enjoyable in the history of the activities as all groups report excellent snow conditions/at the camp and surrounding country. Scouts also have this year opportunity to pass numerous scouting tests under the direction of the camp _ naturalist, Bruce Kimsey. Use of’the camp. providing leadership, of equipment, preparation and serving of food are furnished by the council as a part of its year round program to the troops of this area. use SPECIAL TRAINS FOR FOLLOWERS OF SNOW SPORTS; The Southern Pacific reports ininterest each week end in Bowl-Soda Springs area. The new ski hut at Norden proeating and resting and: entertained thousand skiers last the Sugar Bowl, 1% is the Sugar and 3500 foot named Disney creasing vides warming, more than a week end. At miles from Norden, Bowl Lodge, ice rink, ski lift up the newly Peak. Nearly as many ) Soda Springs on Beacon Hill, the J-Bar lift, the rope tow, and Van Evera’s new>Sitzmark Lodge. A_new rope tow is being installed. The Southern Pacifie will operate three special trains to these areas. . The all coach Snowball Special leaves the bay’ area late Saturday night, arriving Sunday ~morning, equipped with a lunch car and diner. The Sierra, on Friday and Saturday evening, carrying both coach and sleeping accommédations in addition. to a' Ski Hut, offers a special schedulc for the convenience of skiers. Equipment is rented. and sold on all of these ‘trains. Special low fares are in effect for those making. occasional trips, and a specially low _ priced “Skimute” is now available for those ‘who anticipate making five trips or more. SHOVEL PLACERS RESUMES WORK Work has been resumed at the Shovel Placers mine near Columbia Hill with ten men under Thomas Bigelow. Jack Pearson has the lease on the property. It is stated the work will consist chiefly of working tailings left from operations last year and working gravel in a ravine on the property. A load of butane gas for power generating was truck. ed to tthe property this week. wtih his dog teams in the moving pictures. g Last and perhaps most notable of all was Adam ‘Lee Moore, one hundred and one years old, who has succeeded, through Clamper edict, to the title of the late Emperor Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Emperor Adam ‘bears also the title of Noble Grand Clampatriarch of E Clampus Vitus. Following the dinner he delivered a speech of welcome to the new brethren and sang an old time ballad with 37. verses. people plaved at. using . GAME WARDEN WARNS TO KEEP HOUNDS HOME Gane Warden Bari Earl Hiscox warns everyone to keep dogs at home particularly deer hounds that are chasing deer in the nearby mountains as they will be destroyed when found following deer. He saw four hounds chasing deer near Central House on Wédnesday. There is a fine of $25 to $500 for the offense of dogs chasing deer out of season. Hiscox also warns that the season is closed’ for all game animals now. MEAT FAMINE IN “ISRECALLED James A. Hartman; former resident of Nevada County and a visitor here, yesterday recounted some facts about the Washington district during the winter of 1889 and 1990 when there was 18 feet of snow at'the White Cloud hill. There were several mines operating in Washington and as the snow piled up provisions ran lower and lower until the ~ people were out of meat for two months. All the milk cows were butchered in the town. The mine superintendents, Henry Callahan of the Eagle Bird; George Hone of the Yuba mine and Albert Trededigo of the Washington mine, got together and made plans to bring neat to the: camp. Callahan and a partner came to Nevada City and secured James Hartman and John Holbrook to buy cattle and take them into Washington. The men were: given a $400 check and went.to Marysville to purchase the cattle. The cattle were wild as deer to sersons on foot being as ‘they were accustomed to horsemen, but by the time they reached’ the Five Mile House ‘they were as tame as milk cows. Crews of men started shoveling snow from Willow Valley toward Washington. The mines were not able to operate while it was so cold so miners were put to work shoveling a trail from Washington. At the ‘ve Mile House snow was up to the second story windows and was shoveled from the windows before hay was pitched to the cattle from the top of the haymow in the barn. When the cattle reached Washington there was great rejoicing and a beef was butchered in the street by Mr, Hartman, town butcher and distributed to the residents. George Carey of. this city and a_ native. of Washington was a-small boy and—rehuge husky. miner, pass his home on skiis with a quarter of beef strapped to his shoulders enroute to the Washington mine, where there were 60 men living. The old Spanish mine was producing 200 tons of ore per day under the management of Joe Freeman. The ten stamp mill handled hard ore while a Huntington mill took care of the softer ore. Andrew Carey, then a young man and was working in the mill at the Washington mine. COUNTY PLAN BOARD T TO MEET calls seeing a Mike Connell, newly teapelated hie planning commission will meet with the supervisors this afternoon to discuss plans for their work. This group will study county . . roads in Nevada county. The commission of seven was sworn in recently by the supervisors. The new commissioners are Charles Maguire, C. A. Heath, Inter County Title Insurance Company; County Surveyor Joe O’Connor; John Fortier, Bank of America; Herbert H. Hallett, superintendent of streets in Nevada City; Jack Fontz, city superintendent of streets in Grass Valley; -District -Attorney Stoll. Carl G. Genter, who has mining property at Alleghany, and,» Mrs. Genter returned ‘Wednesday evening from a few days visit in San Francisco and other bay cities. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Genter have an apartment at the National Hotel. Miss Navelle, who has been a guest at the National Hotel for some time, met them at Sacramento and also enjoyed a visit fin the bay district. Champion Circle, Neighbors. of Woodcraft held a most enjoyable veeting Tast evening and initiatea three candidates into the order.Nevada : DOLL COLLECTING LATEST HOBBY The latest hobby for Nevada City ladies came to the attention of a Nugget reporter recently when a visit was made to the home of Mrs. Miles Coughlin and her _ beautiful collection of dolls was inspected. She has more or less picked up dolls of different periods from the United States, but last year when Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wright made their trip around. the world she asked them to purchase a doll for her from each country they visited. The fact that friends selected many prized dolls makes them all the more valued. Nearly all the dolls from foreign countries came wrapped in a white cloth sock and: packed inside small wooden boxes. The last box came in December many weeks after Mr. and Mrs. Wright returned home. Mrs. {;Coughlin’s dolls range in size from an inch to over two feet tall. Mr.and Mrs. Wright stated that they visited older sections of foreign cities searching for these dolls that would have been missed in ordinary travel. The windows of nearly all big stores contained American dolls. The first dolls came from Japan where they made their first call. In this collection were a Japanese. dancing geisha-girl in gay costume, a Japanese bride in a beautiful dress, from Yokahama; a Japanese family, mother, tiny babe on her back and boy and girl dolls, from the city of Nikko, also in native costume. From Hongkong come two dancing dolls gracefully poised in costumes; from’ Shanghai were the group, father, mother, son and daughter in native dress. At Manila man.and woman cloth dolls in grass cloth costumes, completely dressed even to satin and suede. slippers At Burma a dancing doll in gay dress, many strands of bright beads, with strings that made her dance like the maroneete of old. At Delhi, India,. was found a bride and groom with gorgeous headdressés from the central province of Nagapur province; another doll with gay headdress, from the northern province of Motum; and _ another from the western province of Rajpurtana. Costumes were bright and the dolls were of cloth; outfits complete even fo ankle bracelets. From Luxor. Egypt, were four dolls in native dress, women with Turkish veils over portion of faces and anklet bracelets. The Italian dolls wore felt costumes with brilliant colorings. A soldier of the king’s guard had long feathers in his hat; a-sharp shooter wore the army uniform; a Cecilian girl and Roman girl each had bright costumes with gay embroidery. Two dolls purchased in Paris have velvet and satin suits. The girl doll from Alsace-Lorraine wore huge felt flaring skirt, tight fitting jacket, white head dress. Holland dolls from Amsterdam, boy and girl, were in native costume. and wooden. shoes. This completes the group purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Coughlin has secured a Matreska or Russian doll of hand painted wood. There are seven dolls nested to make the smallest only an inch tall. Her collection includes boy and girl dolls from Poland are in native costumes, They are from the Lowicz district west of Warsaw and in the y€ay, woolen, striped cloth. Mrs. Anna Tucker presented her with two dolls from Treasure Island fair that came from Shanghai. They are an old Chinese couple. A tiny negro dol carried as a talisman and a gift by Mrs. Chester Barker throughout South America and Mexico ‘is: quite a curio as it is only an in¢h .tall. American dolls -are, China glass head dolls, Christmas costume of 1892; character dolls by Rose O’Neil are, one of the original kewpies; China head doll, long old’ fashioned lawn dress and completly outfitted; the Dionne quints in a ferris wheel, purchased just before Christmas; Sonja Heinie, one of Madame Alexander’s dolls in full skating costume. Other Alexander dolls are, princess, in lovely pink silk dress and Shirley Temple. A hat stand has a tiny Mexican doll at its base; Snow White, of Seven Dwarfs is at the base ofa tiny electrie light;—a small glass kewpie and tiny Dresden lady are in a book case. Mrs. Coughlin recently secured an old kid body doll and one of the first of the baby dolls which shé will have repaired for her collection. There must be about sixty dolls in this boyby group and she is continuing to collect them. An interesting feature ROBT. TAMBLYN BUYS — BUILDING AND BUSINESS It was announced yesterday that Robert Tamblyn, well known insurance milan, has purchased the building at Commercial and Main street, formerly owned by the Carveth Insurance company, and with it the company’s insurance business in Nevada City. Four years ago the building was handsomely modernized with an apartment up. stairs and offices on the ground floor. Mr. and Mrs. Tamblyn will occupy the apartment. DEER AND QUAIL FED AT TAHOE Captain AS H Willa Willard, of the state fish and game commission, stated yesterday some deer and quail are being fed near\Pomins and Tahoe City on the shores of Lake Tahoe. The dzer and birds are more or less resident and refuse to migrate to the lower altitudes when winter starts. Deer are being salted near Floriston along’ the Truckee river, this herd. being the California mule tail that winter there each\year. Warden William LaMar is in charge of that district comprising the ‘east side of the Sierra Nevada in the\ Tahoe national forest, Weber Lake\and Lake Tahoe sections. \ A deer census is being taken in some. concentrated areas in the high Sierra Nevada ranges for Several i months. \ GYMNASIUM OF M. E. CHURCH TO RF REMODELED At a meeting of the board of. trustees of the Methodist church of this city, Ray Murchie was chosen president of the board and R. J. Bennetts, secretary. A plan for remodeling the gymnasium in the back of the church was approved and a committee named to obtain the necessary funds, estimated at $500. Horace A. Curnow, manager of the local branch of the Bank of America, was made chairman of the finance committee, It is proposed to convert the old. gymnasium, which has not been used for any purpose for several years into a social hall, more adaptable to the needs of the various organizations of the church. AMERICANISM WEEK SPONSORED BY FLKS LONGE » Henry C, Warner, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has sent a communication tio every lodge in the order ‘designating the period: from February 18 to February 24 as “Americanism Week,’’ and urging each lodge of the order to arrange some definite program of Americanization activities during that period. Nevada City Lodge has accepted the proclamation of the Grand Exalted Ruler in its full significance and has set apart February 22, Washington’s ‘birthday, as the day upon which it will put,on a program of Americanism activities, C. B. Merriam, exalted ruler of the local lodge has appointed 'a committee consisting of C. R. Clark, John W. O'Neill and P. G. Scadden, all past exalted rulers of the lodge to take charge of the event. . The committee has decided on a teéntative program, which will consist of a torch light procession on’ the night of February 22sled by the Nevada City high school band. Every organization in Nevada City will be aked to participate in the celebration. After the parade there will be a ceram of in the Elks ‘hall where a program will be rendered. Harry S. Lyon, Grand First Vive President of the Native Sons of the Golden West will be the orator, and will deliver a patriotic address. Mrs, Estelle Fouyer of Sacramento was in Nevada City yesterday and ealled on her.son, Ainsiey Fouyer, who is staying at the home ‘of relatives, Sheriff and Mts. Carl Tobiassen. e is that dolls of different periods have the costumes and characteristics of their time, — ay ee WHITHER BOUND IS REV. RALSTON’S. TOPIC ATROTARY The Rev. David Ralston, pastor of the Methodist church, was guest speaker yesterday at the Rotary club, His topic was ‘‘Whither Bound?” His address in part follows: There never was a time in the history of the world when the way was so dark and uncertain as at this very hour: Not only for one nation, but for all nations. In this thesis we must acknowledge that we are in a marvelous age of advancement. An age of autos, of radios, of airplanes, of television, of institutions for deaf and blind, of hospitals for the siek and feeble minded, of homes for the aged and play grounds for the young people, an age of school, colleges, and universities. Nevertheless, with all our advancement this question is very important: ‘‘Whither Bound?” We might ask ourselves even in America whither bound politically? Are we headed for _ dictatorship which might possibly lead to Communism? To some that is the diréetion we are going. It is just impossible for me to think of any intelligent American with our history and freedom ever voting for or even considering for one moment any encroachment of any other form of govrnment in this the most democratic nation on earth. We are a great cosmopolitan population—a caldron into which. all the representatives of the nations of the earth have been poured, and in that caldron may be \. found some who do not like our form, of government’and our haven of privilege, and opportunity, of equality and rest for all peoples. If they do ot like us, why not go back to the \countries from whence they camey ? We\have no use for nor have we any room for Bonn Societies. We have no use for Nazism, or Stalinism or any sinister organizations in this country. We want our citizens to be one hundred per cent American. We are desirous that every man _ shall have a square deal, and permitted to live honestly, decently and law abiding in this the greatest, of all nations. : The times are serious and we cannot tolerate any within our borders; those who are disloyal to our flag or constitution. We have no use for political dictators. We can differ as to whether we shall vote for a president who is a Democrat, or a ‘Republican. t one thing we must be sure of is that he not a Marxist socialist, oc an ‘admirer of Stalin, but a one-hurndred-per-cent American, I know that there are some who will ask for a definition of freedom and _ liberty, and will quibble about a definition of freedom of the press and freedom of speech. We have our Bill of Rights which. gives us freedom enough. The trouble is that we have been too free in our definition of freedom and liberty and we have allowed radicals on platforms, in our city parks to berate our government, and try to tear our constitution to pieces. They have entered our pulpits, and as religious fanatics would not salute our flag. Rattle brained ministers, and weak minded: relizious fantatics that have become disloyal to our flag and our constitution and the great’ principles for which they stand. The principles of liberty, justice and righteousness. Yes, we have to have a Dies Committee to ferret out the unpatriotic Americans in our country, and they. are finding them. They are finding them in our schools, our colleges and the universities and in governmental positions. It is high time that there. should be a house cleaning. I am for America first and last and all the time, for our flag and our constitution. IT hate war more'and more as I see the havoc in the destruction’ of life and property. In Dante’s Inferno he has seven circles which represent the various places of punishment for the people who have sinned and the peo-ple who have sinned more diabolically than others he places in the nethermost circle. I believe that the man or men who launch:a nation or nations into war that he and they might become all powerful, ought to be placed in the lowest circle. Also would I have owners ‘of gréat daily ‘papers and munition factory owners who stir up the people to” _such a pitch that they cannot see any way ie out of war, and they stand back and laugh at the country, going to war, that millions of our finest young men (Continued On Pape Five)

Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nugget ' w COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motivés and for justifiable ends. ton. —Alexander Hamil-_, a The Yerba Buena chapter of E Clampus Vitus in San” Francisco is an extremely live, not to say lively, organization. Noble Grand Humbug Lee Stopple was kind enough to extend an invitation to the ‘“‘doings’”’ lakt week to Nevada City Clampers, and four men from William Bull Meek chapter, Saturday attended the historical tour, the ancient and rigorous rites in which neophytes are ushered into membership, and the dinner at a hotel that followed. The historical tour included a study .of the Montgomery Block. built in 1853, and built so solidly with a view to fire and earthquake hazards that it, and other buildings in the vicinity built .on much the same plan, after withstanding many fires and minor earthquakes, also survived the great earthquake and fire of:1906. In fact they acted as a fire-brake to other structures along Jackson, Washington = and Montgomery Streets. It was in one of the rooms in the Montgomery ®Blcok that the editor, James King of ‘William, died, following his fatal shooting by an assassin, later hanged by the Vigilante Committee. In the Fifties the. Montgomery Block was tenanted ‘by prominent attorneys, bankers and gold buyers. °The pbuilding is four stories in height, and its foundation consists: of a mat of redwood logs covered with redwood planking and sunk in what was then the mud and sand at the edge of San Francisco bay. At high tide the sea lapped what is now Montgomery street. On that foundation the thick brick walls, reinforced at each floor by heavy iron rectangles, was erected, in three parts, each part a building / in itself. James “Hall was master of/the Clamper tour among this group of historic buildings, and /among other structures pointed/out the first Ghirardelli building and the original home of Hota@ling’s whiskel._™ this connection he recited the famous quatrain written by Charles Field following the great temiblor of 1906. The verse is as follows: “Tf God spanked San Franciseo For being over-frisky, Why did he, all the churches burn And Spare Hotaling’s whiskey?” “Following -the initiation ceremony at the rooms of the CaliforHistorical Society, in which 23 poor blind candidates became Clampers, was a dinner in the Hotel Einpire, attended by a number of notables. Among them were Wild Bill Hiekok, the younger, a nephew of the original Wild Bill, “Lit’’ Dalton, brother of THE Daltons, and Scotty Allen of Yukon and Wofld War fame. Needless to say “Lit”? Dalton does not share the notoriety. of his elder brothers in anything except name. He is 80 years old,.and was visiting San Francisco for the first time since the eighties. The younger Wild Bill Hickok, is generally accorded the reputation of shooting faster and more accurately than his famous uncle, and was-notably a oneman posse in the enforcement of the law during his younger days in the “Wild West.” nia Seotty Allen was definitely one of the leading pioneers of Alaska and during the gold rush of 189899 served to keep order: on the Skagway. He told racy yarns of his experience on that great trail of tribulation, his acquaintance with Soapy Smith, who was much more generous than generally. is credited, of a bull laden with a 300pound pack that ran amuck on the crowded trail and in three minutes flat,cleared it of all living creatures for a distance of two miles. Scotty is now principally engaged in manufacturing a celeébrated dog food. He proudly exhibits a 29 pound sledge, which, hitched to his swift dog teams won him $75,000 in racing prize money. Scotty’s part in the world war > was to supply trained dogs to the Allies, At’ one time he had 400 canines working behind the lines for the French, English and American troops. While-Alaskan ‘hus; kies have a reputation for fighting, Scotty declared that his dogs never had a fight all the time he was in France, His dogs did noble service in solving the transportation problem ‘of the French military forces in the Alps. Scotty speaks with a rich Scotch burr. He still occasionally earns what he calls “pin money’; by taking part ‘the Norden-Sugar accommodations. The County Seat Paper Mel 14. No. 10. ———_ ~ NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center FI nal FEBRUARY 2, 1940. NEVADA CITY SCOUTS GO TO PAHATSI FEB. 3 Forty scouts from Nevada City are expected to make the trip to Camp Pahatsi for their annual scout snow trip February 3 and 4 according to information from scout +headquarters. The scouts will be under the leadership of the camp staff of Bruce Kimsey and Chef Fred Stephen and the immediate supervision of Cecil Klee, district commissioner of Nevada City, Leland Smith of the district camp committee, Merle Morrison, assistant scoutmaster of Rotary Troop 24, and members of the troop committee of Troops 6 and 24. The group plan to leave Nevada City early Saturday morning and arrive in camp for breakfast and two full days of snow activity. The scout camp is equipped with skiis and facilities for full enjoyment of the program. It is expected that this year’s outing will prove to be one of the most enjoyable in the history of the activities as all groups report excellent snow conditions/at the camp and surrounding country. Scouts also have this year opportunity to pass numerous scouting tests under the direction of the camp _ naturalist, Bruce Kimsey. Use of’the camp. providing leadership, of equipment, preparation and serving of food are furnished by the council as a part of its year round program to the troops of this area. use SPECIAL TRAINS FOR FOLLOWERS OF SNOW SPORTS; The Southern Pacific reports ininterest each week end in Bowl-Soda Springs area. The new ski hut at Norden proeating and resting and: entertained thousand skiers last the Sugar Bowl, 1% is the Sugar and 3500 foot named Disney creasing vides warming, more than a week end. At miles from Norden, Bowl Lodge, ice rink, ski lift up the newly Peak. Nearly as many ) Soda Springs on Beacon Hill, the J-Bar lift, the rope tow, and Van Evera’s new>Sitzmark Lodge. A_new rope tow is being installed. The Southern Pacifie will operate three special trains to these areas. . The all coach Snowball Special leaves the bay’ area late Saturday night, arriving Sunday ~morning, equipped with a lunch car and diner. The Sierra, on Friday and Saturday evening, carrying both coach and sleeping accommédations in addition. to a' Ski Hut, offers a special schedulc for the convenience of skiers. Equipment is rented. and sold on all of these ‘trains. Special low fares are in effect for those making. occasional trips, and a specially low _ priced “Skimute” is now available for those ‘who anticipate making five trips or more. SHOVEL PLACERS RESUMES WORK Work has been resumed at the Shovel Placers mine near Columbia Hill with ten men under Thomas Bigelow. Jack Pearson has the lease on the property. It is stated the work will consist chiefly of working tailings left from operations last year and working gravel in a ravine on the property. A load of butane gas for power generating was truck. ed to tthe property this week. wtih his dog teams in the moving pictures. g Last and perhaps most notable of all was Adam ‘Lee Moore, one hundred and one years old, who has succeeded, through Clamper edict, to the title of the late Emperor Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Emperor Adam ‘bears also the title of Noble Grand Clampatriarch of E Clampus Vitus. Following the dinner he delivered a speech of welcome to the new brethren and sang an old time ballad with 37. verses. people plaved at. using . GAME WARDEN WARNS TO KEEP HOUNDS HOME Gane Warden Bari Earl Hiscox warns everyone to keep dogs at home particularly deer hounds that are chasing deer in the nearby mountains as they will be destroyed when found following deer. He saw four hounds chasing deer near Central House on Wédnesday. There is a fine of $25 to $500 for the offense of dogs chasing deer out of season. Hiscox also warns that the season is closed’ for all game animals now. MEAT FAMINE IN “ISRECALLED James A. Hartman; former resident of Nevada County and a visitor here, yesterday recounted some facts about the Washington district during the winter of 1889 and 1990 when there was 18 feet of snow at'the White Cloud hill. There were several mines operating in Washington and as the snow piled up provisions ran lower and lower until the ~ people were out of meat for two months. All the milk cows were butchered in the town. The mine superintendents, Henry Callahan of the Eagle Bird; George Hone of the Yuba mine and Albert Trededigo of the Washington mine, got together and made plans to bring neat to the: camp. Callahan and a partner came to Nevada City and secured James Hartman and John Holbrook to buy cattle and take them into Washington. The men were: given a $400 check and went.to Marysville to purchase the cattle. The cattle were wild as deer to sersons on foot being as ‘they were accustomed to horsemen, but by the time they reached’ the Five Mile House ‘they were as tame as milk cows. Crews of men started shoveling snow from Willow Valley toward Washington. The mines were not able to operate while it was so cold so miners were put to work shoveling a trail from Washington. At the ‘ve Mile House snow was up to the second story windows and was shoveled from the windows before hay was pitched to the cattle from the top of the haymow in the barn. When the cattle reached Washington there was great rejoicing and a beef was butchered in the street by Mr, Hartman, town butcher and distributed to the residents. George Carey of. this city and a_ native. of Washington was a-small boy and—rehuge husky. miner, pass his home on skiis with a quarter of beef strapped to his shoulders enroute to the Washington mine, where there were 60 men living. The old Spanish mine was producing 200 tons of ore per day under the management of Joe Freeman. The ten stamp mill handled hard ore while a Huntington mill took care of the softer ore. Andrew Carey, then a young man and was working in the mill at the Washington mine. COUNTY PLAN BOARD T TO MEET calls seeing a Mike Connell, newly teapelated hie planning commission will meet with the supervisors this afternoon to discuss plans for their work. This group will study county . . roads in Nevada county. The commission of seven was sworn in recently by the supervisors. The new commissioners are Charles Maguire, C. A. Heath, Inter County Title Insurance Company; County Surveyor Joe O’Connor; John Fortier, Bank of America; Herbert H. Hallett, superintendent of streets in Nevada City; Jack Fontz, city superintendent of streets in Grass Valley; -District -Attorney Stoll. Carl G. Genter, who has mining property at Alleghany, and,» Mrs. Genter returned ‘Wednesday evening from a few days visit in San Francisco and other bay cities. Mr. and

‘Mrs. Genter have an apartment at the National Hotel. Miss Navelle, who has been a guest at the National Hotel for some time, met them at Sacramento and also enjoyed a visit fin the bay district. Champion Circle, Neighbors. of Woodcraft held a most enjoyable veeting Tast evening and initiatea three candidates into the order.Nevada : DOLL COLLECTING LATEST HOBBY The latest hobby for Nevada City ladies came to the attention of a Nugget reporter recently when a visit was made to the home of Mrs. Miles Coughlin and her _ beautiful collection of dolls was inspected. She has more or less picked up dolls of different periods from the United States, but last year when Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wright made their trip around. the world she asked them to purchase a doll for her from each country they visited. The fact that friends selected many prized dolls makes them all the more valued. Nearly all the dolls from foreign countries came wrapped in a white cloth sock and: packed inside small wooden boxes. The last box came in December many weeks after Mr. and Mrs. Wright returned home. Mrs. {;Coughlin’s dolls range in size from an inch to over two feet tall. Mr.and Mrs. Wright stated that they visited older sections of foreign cities searching for these dolls that would have been missed in ordinary travel. The windows of nearly all big stores contained American dolls. The first dolls came from Japan where they made their first call. In this collection were a Japanese. dancing geisha-girl in gay costume, a Japanese bride in a beautiful dress, from Yokahama; a Japanese family, mother, tiny babe on her back and boy and girl dolls, from the city of Nikko, also in native costume. From Hongkong come two dancing dolls gracefully poised in costumes; from’ Shanghai were the group, father, mother, son and daughter in native dress. At Manila man.and woman cloth dolls in grass cloth costumes, completely dressed even to satin and suede. slippers At Burma a dancing doll in gay dress, many strands of bright beads, with strings that made her dance like the maroneete of old. At Delhi, India,. was found a bride and groom with gorgeous headdressés from the central province of Nagapur province; another doll with gay headdress, from the northern province of Motum; and _ another from the western province of Rajpurtana. Costumes were bright and the dolls were of cloth; outfits complete even fo ankle bracelets. From Luxor. Egypt, were four dolls in native dress, women with Turkish veils over portion of faces and anklet bracelets. The Italian dolls wore felt costumes with brilliant colorings. A soldier of the king’s guard had long feathers in his hat; a-sharp shooter wore the army uniform; a Cecilian girl and Roman girl each had bright costumes with gay embroidery. Two dolls purchased in Paris have velvet and satin suits. The girl doll from Alsace-Lorraine wore huge felt flaring skirt, tight fitting jacket, white head dress. Holland dolls from Amsterdam, boy and girl, were in native costume. and wooden. shoes. This completes the group purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Coughlin has secured a Matreska or Russian doll of hand painted wood. There are seven dolls nested to make the smallest only an inch tall. Her collection includes boy and girl dolls from Poland are in native costumes, They are from the Lowicz district west of Warsaw and in the y€ay, woolen, striped cloth. Mrs. Anna Tucker presented her with two dolls from Treasure Island fair that came from Shanghai. They are an old Chinese couple. A tiny negro dol carried as a talisman and a gift by Mrs. Chester Barker throughout South America and Mexico ‘is: quite a curio as it is only an in¢h .tall. American dolls -are, China glass head dolls, Christmas costume of 1892; character dolls by Rose O’Neil are, one of the original kewpies; China head doll, long old’ fashioned lawn dress and completly outfitted; the Dionne quints in a ferris wheel, purchased just before Christmas; Sonja Heinie, one of Madame Alexander’s dolls in full skating costume. Other Alexander dolls are, princess, in lovely pink silk dress and Shirley Temple. A hat stand has a tiny Mexican doll at its base; Snow White, of Seven Dwarfs is at the base ofa tiny electrie light;—a small glass kewpie and tiny Dresden lady are in a book case. Mrs. Coughlin recently secured an old kid body doll and one of the first of the baby dolls which shé will have repaired for her collection. There must be about sixty dolls in this boyby group and she is continuing to collect them. An interesting feature ROBT. TAMBLYN BUYS — BUILDING AND BUSINESS It was announced yesterday that Robert Tamblyn, well known insurance milan, has purchased the building at Commercial and Main street, formerly owned by the Carveth Insurance company, and with it the company’s insurance business in Nevada City. Four years ago the building was handsomely modernized with an apartment up. stairs and offices on the ground floor. Mr. and Mrs. Tamblyn will occupy the apartment. DEER AND QUAIL FED AT TAHOE Captain AS H Willa Willard, of the state fish and game commission, stated yesterday some deer and quail are being fed near\Pomins and Tahoe City on the shores of Lake Tahoe. The dzer and birds are more or less resident and refuse to migrate to the lower altitudes when winter starts. Deer are being salted near Floriston along’ the Truckee river, this herd. being the California mule tail that winter there each\year. Warden William LaMar is in charge of that district comprising the ‘east side of the Sierra Nevada in the\ Tahoe national forest, Weber Lake\and Lake Tahoe sections. \ A deer census is being taken in some. concentrated areas in the high Sierra Nevada ranges for Several i months. \ GYMNASIUM OF M. E. CHURCH TO RF REMODELED At a meeting of the board of. trustees of the Methodist church of this city, Ray Murchie was chosen president of the board and R. J. Bennetts, secretary. A plan for remodeling the gymnasium in the back of the church was approved and a committee named to obtain the necessary funds, estimated at $500. Horace A. Curnow, manager of the local branch of the Bank of America, was made chairman of the finance committee, It is proposed to convert the old. gymnasium, which has not been used for any purpose for several years into a social hall, more adaptable to the needs of the various organizations of the church. AMERICANISM WEEK SPONSORED BY FLKS LONGE » Henry C, Warner, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has sent a communication tio every lodge in the order ‘designating the period: from February 18 to February 24 as “Americanism Week,’’ and urging each lodge of the order to arrange some definite program of Americanization activities during that period. Nevada City Lodge has accepted the proclamation of the Grand Exalted Ruler in its full significance and has set apart February 22, Washington’s ‘birthday, as the day upon which it will put,on a program of Americanism activities, C. B. Merriam, exalted ruler of the local lodge has appointed 'a committee consisting of C. R. Clark, John W. O'Neill and P. G. Scadden, all past exalted rulers of the lodge to take charge of the event. . The committee has decided on a teéntative program, which will consist of a torch light procession on’ the night of February 22sled by the Nevada City high school band. Every organization in Nevada City will be aked to participate in the celebration. After the parade there will be a ceram of in the Elks ‘hall where a program will be rendered. Harry S. Lyon, Grand First Vive President of the Native Sons of the Golden West will be the orator, and will deliver a patriotic address. Mrs, Estelle Fouyer of Sacramento was in Nevada City yesterday and ealled on her.son, Ainsiey Fouyer, who is staying at the home ‘of relatives, Sheriff and Mts. Carl Tobiassen. e is that dolls of different periods have the costumes and characteristics of their time, — ay ee WHITHER BOUND IS REV. RALSTON’S. TOPIC ATROTARY The Rev. David Ralston, pastor of the Methodist church, was guest speaker yesterday at the Rotary club, His topic was ‘‘Whither Bound?” His address in part follows: There never was a time in the history of the world when the way was so dark and uncertain as at this very hour: Not only for one nation, but for all nations. In this thesis we must acknowledge that we are in a marvelous age of advancement. An age of autos, of radios, of airplanes, of television, of institutions for deaf and blind, of hospitals for the siek and feeble minded, of homes for the aged and play grounds for the young people, an age of school, colleges, and universities. Nevertheless, with all our advancement this question is very important: ‘‘Whither Bound?” We might ask ourselves even in America whither bound politically? Are we headed for _ dictatorship which might possibly lead to Communism? To some that is the diréetion we are going. It is just impossible for me to think of any intelligent American with our history and freedom ever voting for or even considering for one moment any encroachment of any other form of govrnment in this the most democratic nation on earth. We are a great cosmopolitan population—a caldron into which. all the representatives of the nations of the earth have been poured, and in that caldron may be \. found some who do not like our form, of government’and our haven of privilege, and opportunity, of equality and rest for all peoples. If they do ot like us, why not go back to the \countries from whence they camey ? We\have no use for nor have we any room for Bonn Societies. We have no use for Nazism, or Stalinism or any sinister organizations in this country. We want our citizens to be one hundred per cent American. We are desirous that every man _ shall have a square deal, and permitted to live honestly, decently and law abiding in this the greatest, of all nations. : The times are serious and we cannot tolerate any within our borders; those who are disloyal to our flag or constitution. We have no use for political dictators. We can differ as to whether we shall vote for a president who is a Democrat, or a ‘Republican. t one thing we must be sure of is that he not a Marxist socialist, oc an ‘admirer of Stalin, but a one-hurndred-per-cent American, I know that there are some who will ask for a definition of freedom and _ liberty, and will quibble about a definition of freedom of the press and freedom of speech. We have our Bill of Rights which. gives us freedom enough. The trouble is that we have been too free in our definition of freedom and liberty and we have allowed radicals on platforms, in our city parks to berate our government, and try to tear our constitution to pieces. They have entered our pulpits, and as religious fanatics would not salute our flag. Rattle brained ministers, and weak minded: relizious fantatics that have become disloyal to our flag and our constitution and the great’ principles for which they stand. The principles of liberty, justice and righteousness. Yes, we have to have a Dies Committee to ferret out the unpatriotic Americans in our country, and they. are finding them. They are finding them in our schools, our colleges and the universities and in governmental positions. It is high time that there. should be a house cleaning. I am for America first and last and all the time, for our flag and our constitution. IT hate war more'and more as I see the havoc in the destruction’ of life and property. In Dante’s Inferno he has seven circles which represent the various places of punishment for the people who have sinned and the peo-ple who have sinned more diabolically than others he places in the nethermost circle. I believe that the man or men who launch:a nation or nations into war that he and they might become all powerful, ought to be placed in the lowest circle. Also would I have owners ‘of gréat daily ‘papers and munition factory owners who stir up the people to” _such a pitch that they cannot see any way ie out of war, and they stand back and laugh at the country, going to war, that millions of our finest young men (Continued On Pape Five)