February 7, 1936 (6 pages)

. ar iat Cy etsesnes ses: Thinking Nevada City Nugget The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and “What meat doth this our Ceasar feed upon that ie hath grown so great?’ This is a question which might well be-asked ofthe Los Angeles police department, which has placed a squad of eight men at Truckee to turn back transients arrit phil 4 ae road ‘or. railroad coming here from the East. Police odinarily do not function outside their own cities and rarely if ever outside thei anon Yet, according to press unts, ‘Los. Angeles proposes to mount. her’ policemen on all roads leading into California, to turn back those who fail to show they have the wherewithal to maintain themselves. The action is predicated on _ the granodise assumption that all poverty stricken~transients coming from any direction into California ultimately dna in the much publicized salubrity of Los Angeles and vicinity. Any intelligent citizen’ with even a casual acquaintance with California statutes knows that this action of the Los Angeles police department is absolutely against all law. The Southern Pacific company, or any other transportation company, or the governor of California, cannot, except for certain reasons specified in quarantine laws, legally halt anyone who seeks ‘admission to this state. Vagrancy laws may apply, to be sure, but these may be applied only by peace officers within their own counties. Strictly speaking, men and women coming to California in a bona fide endeavor to. find work are not vagrants. They are citizens with a right to look for work wherever they please. There is a sharp distinction between worthless vagabonds who avoid work and those men and women who are desperately looking for a job, Policemen delegated Dy Los Angeles ‘to stand guard over California’s gates, are very unlikely to discern this difference. While it is lamentably true that California is now supporting out of its taxes a destitute multitude from other states, it also is true that without-the-so-called. transients, the farmers. of Imperial, San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys would be ‘hard put to it for labor to harvest their yr. As it is these “fruit tramps,” who do the major part of the state’s harvesting are so poorly paid by the farmers that they have only a bare Bubsistence when working, and when idle quickly become public charges. The people at large must make up in taxes the difference. between what ranch owners pay their’ transient’ help, and the “living wage’’ that economic justice demands that they should receive. asa If the Los Angeles police department actually succeeds in posting sentinels at all gates leading into California, and in turning back those whom in the judgment of these sentinels, are undesirable entrants, what will the states of Nevada, Arizona and Oregon have to say about it? By erecting these extra-legal dams on the highways and railroads, it is certain hat transients will accumulate behind the barriers to the detriment of the border states. None of the states mentioned wants these transients anymore than California, not to mention, ‘‘chemically pure”’ Los Angeles. ‘Action of these Los Angeles police might easily put California in a bad spot. The answer would usually be a buck:passing. For nstance: California can ‘say to its neighbors: ‘“‘Why don’t you put up barriers to transients?”’ In time, with every state guarding its borders, transients would cease to be transients and would become settled citizens, working or not,. recipients of charity in their own bailiwick, or paying taxes for the support of home town indigents. But this solution would leave agriculture in the west in a sorry predicament. Tranient labor is necessary economically to California and to several states. Unless it. is permitted to flow where the demand is, we should find our farmers inviting new hordes in from Mexico and advocating changes in the immigration laws to permit Oriental labor importations. The problem of transient labor Bee too large for the city of Los ngeles, or even the state of Califor.nia to solve.What is really needed is* a thorough going ‘federal supervis* jon and regulation,It would seem that if the Federal government has_ the power to regulate, as it does very effectively, interstate commerce, it should have ‘the power to regulate the interstate movement of armies of transients. ‘ ee “T see whar — of las Angels is * puttin 136 ‘ advertising in the Nugget, therefore, : * Out Loud . you help yourself, : COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA —(By H. M. L.) Vol: 10, No 25 te , County Seat Paar: _NEVADA C city, CALIFORNIA _ The GOLD Center _ FRIDAY, manent 7, 1936. FUNERAL SERVICE) FOR LATE MAYOR Funeral services for the late AIfonso Seaman were held in Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday afternoon with services said by officers of the lodge of which he was an active member for over forty years. Ludwig Netz, acted as Noble Grand and Walter ’A. Calanan as Chaplain. The beautiful funeral ritual of the order ‘was read. in the presence of many friends, a large number of whom had come from out of town to pay their last respects to a beloved friend. The casket was draped with an American. flag in “memory of Mr. Seaman’s service in old company C of the National'Guard of California. Mrs._Lyda Talbot sang the hymns “Wace to Face’ and ‘Abide With Me” favorites of Mr. Seaman. Judge George Ib, Jones delivered the eulogy and reviewed many of the characteristics and acts of Mr. Seaman which so endeared him to the community and his friends. Interment was at Pine Grove cemetery with grave side services conducted by the Odd _ Fellows. “Taps’? were sounded by John E. Nettle as the body was lowered to the grave. Pall bearers: were: Dr. C. W. Chapman, John W. Darke, Cary S. Arbogast, C. R. Murchie, Jonothan Pascoe and Thomas Haddy. The Holmes Funeral Home was in charge of the funeral arrangements. REPUBLICAN CLUB URGES REGISTRATION Effort to. enlist the aid of every service club,\.women’s club and association in California to participate non-partisan basis in a camof registering voters was inityesterday by hé* Republican State Central Committee. On-or about February 12, Lincoln’s birthday, club and\association executives are requested by he committee to announce the following: “Owing to the importance \of issues\affecting the general welfare of people, every citizen, regardless of party affiliation, is urged to reg. ister at once, for the primary and general elections in 1936.” Under the state law, it is pointed out, every one must register on 01 before March 26 next. to vote in the May primary. 4 Voters are urged further to pursuade qualified members ‘ef their households to do likewise. Executives of business concerns are also.to pass the! word along to their en ployees, registér at once. TRANSAMERICA PAYS DIVIDEND TOTAL $5,788.268 Piirohasine mower of Californians on a paign iated our was increased by more than $5,000,000 through payment of the regular semi-annual dividend of 15 cents a share and the extra dividend of 10 cents a share on Transamerica Cuorporation capital stock. dividend disbursement lis $5,788,268. More than 90 per cent of the total is paid to stockholders in California. The dividend checks were mailed by Transamerica January 31. Payment of these regular and extra\dividends, aggregating 25 cents a share on Transamerica stock, brings the total amount of dividends paid by the corporation and its predecessor to.more than’ $125,000,000. polismen with. clubs to dew picket dewty on the Californy tine. They. is refoosin to let in\.eny feller who ain’t got money, manely them thet walks or them thet rides brakebeems. I notis in the magaseens thet the Las Angels chamber of Cummers is stilla runnin ads tellin whut a_ saloobrius climt thet town. hes. They aughta say right out in them ‘ads, thet the climit is heven fur the rich but hel fur the poor. I notis the guvner who cums frum down thar ain’t” sayin enythin. Mebbe it’s his bride, mebbe it’s his bred an butter. ‘Phil G. Scadden returned -Wednesday from a'week spent at Richardson’s springs. John Darke motored to the tc to bring Mr. Scadden home. . Sacramento was present at the meetThe total amount of the current! FIREMEN PAY RESPECTS , TO GRASS VALLEY CHIEF Chief Howard Penrose and a’ group of’ the local firemen attended the} funeral services in thé Memorial building, Grass Valley of the date Harold: Whiting, chief of the Grass Valley fire department who succumbed -from injuries sustained Monday morning while fire fighting. Many beautiful floral pieces were sent 'to the services, among them a very large piece sent by the miners of the Idaho-Maryland mine where he-was employed. STOCKTON HILL MINE T0 SINK SHAFT LOWER The operation of the Stockton Hill mine has been taken over by the Lode Development Company, a corporation headed by F. C. Lowrey as president, with John W. Powers, vice president, Lee T. Shunnan, executive vice president and W. F. Krohn, secretary. : Walter R. Woock Has been appointed superintendent. Mr. Woock brings to the company a broad experience as a geologist and metallurgist. To his knowledge of ores and their occurence is due the credit for the discovery and oo of the eye out for the two. Newman bro. Slaughter house, saw the women PRANKSTER ALMOST I PEAKED INTO HEAVEN . . With every body keeping an thers, mistakes are likely, to happen, especially mistakes of. identity.'Two women who live on the ridge above Grass Valley near the old turnpike road last Sunday observed a chap’ coming toward them, who looked very much, in the eyes of one of them, like one of the missing Newmans>-—She7 went inside and got her rifle. The other woman was not’so sure. The man, who lived dowh near the old eyeing him suspiciously, and proceeded to act the part of a figitive. The women trailed him. He would disappear behind bushes, peek out from.around tree trunks. He dodged and he sneaked and he peeked. The women followed him. ‘Every. now and then the woman with the rifle wanted to shoot him, but each time she fingered the trigger her neighbor persuaded her to wait. Finally, wildly excited, they telephoned the sheriff’s office. Deputies arrived in a few minutes and rounded up the prankster in a group of _ pines. They read him a stiff lecture on . deportment and revealed to him how very near he had come to dodging into the’ pearly’ gates. For, it developed, the woman with the rifle was a crack shot. ore bosy. Leo P. Harris has been appointed assistant mine. superintendent in charge of the underground work. Mr. Harris had previously been associated with the development of the Beauty mine. The new company is now engaged in sinking their shaft from the present level. The company is a close corporation and has no stock for sale. RAZING OF OLD CITY HALL BEGINS FEB. 11 The people of Nevada City are glad to learn that’ work on the. new city hall will go forward as planned and will begin under WPA on Tuesday, February 11. As a result of the order from Nils Aanongen, district engineer of. the WPA, that work could not go forward on the Nevada City hall project, city officials and members of the Chamber of Commerce, consisting of Cottncilman Kopp, Penrose and Benj. Hall and R. R. Bennetts, W. 4H. Griffith, and Frank Davies of the Chamber of\Commerce went to Sacramento Monday and conferred with Gene Kenyon ‘and Nils Aanonsen and also communicated with Congressman Harry L. Englebright and J. R. McLaughlin of\ San Francisco, Director ‘of WPA for Califor’™ nia and secured a reversal ofAanonsen’s order. Ny Fred T. Marsh of Auburn, ais rict supervisor for the WPA came to N vada City Tuesday to confer with ths city council and announced that tha city hall project will commence on Tuesday, February 11. The architect, George T. Sellon of ing with the city council) and announced that all plans were ready and ‘work on the foundation can be started as soon as the old building is razed. POSTOFFICE VANDALS AND MISCREANTS ARE WARNED Burglarous attempts to break into mail'boxes in’ the postoffice is likely to lead to arrest and prosecution, according t® Postmaster Betty West, who has employed a special. watchman to _ protect Uncle Sam’s property. Glass in the boxes have been broken from time to time with evident purpose of robbing the boxes of mail. Posters placed in postoffice have been mutilated and disfigured. Whether the damage in the postoffice. has been done by vandals or burglars, the postmaster declares it must stop. A warning hotice signed by her appears in this edition of the ‘Nugget. Tampering ‘with Uncle Sam’s “mail or postoffice is a very serious Fedéral offense. Mr. Frank Ghidotti, local merchant is spending a few days in San Francisco on business connected with his firm. Harry Brown, is in charge of the Black PACKERS store in. his absence. 5 NEVADA CITY CLIMATEIDEAL FOR SANITARIUM Over a third of a century ago, Dr. David H. Reeder, who came to -Nevada City ‘last October, opened and operated the home health club and city hospital in a small city in northern Indiana. : He was at that time editor of the Home Health Club department of the Inter-Ocean. newspaper of—Chicago and his health articles were syndicated and published by over two thousand newspapers and magazines. and book form. He also wrote and published a series of books under the title of ‘‘Home Health Club’’ the sale of which has run through many editions. Some of Nevada City’s people are more or less familiar with the work of Dr. Reeder and have his books in the family library. After four months of careful ‘observation and study of climatic conditions the doctor finds Nevada City an ideal place for a clinie to be carried on with another home: health sanitarium. TAXPAYERS FACE NEW DEAL TAX UPLIFT IN’36 Tax payers of California in 1936 \will be called upon to, pay a number of new etyile New Deal Federal taxes. h tax new or old, according to just completed, adds to the of living for the housewife, businessman, ® and voter of California. Included among the new taxes are: d { Taxes on pay olis of all business concerns having eight or more persons. ~ .Taxes on dividen corporation to another) “Taxes on figts of more than $40,000 to one person. Taxes on the capital business corporations. Taxes on corporation profi in excess of ten per cent of the value of the capital stock. Different rates n taxes on different size corporation incomes, Taxes on estates of persons who died after ‘August 30, 1935. Taxes .on the income of railroad employees after March 1, 1936. Taxes on railroad payrolls effective March 1, 1936. Social security ‘taxes to be levied on payrolls. It is pointed. out that the taxes on business concerns and operations are almost invariably passed along to the ultimate ‘consumer. paid by one stock of MUSICAL PROGRAM SUNDAY Rev. H. H. Buckner of the Methodist Episcopal church announced -yesterday that an excellent musical program has been ‘prepared for this Sunday at the church. The public is cordially invited. City, where she made her residence Many were published in’ phamphlet . MISS MARYETTE “WIDER CALLED BY GRIMREAPER Miss Maryette Wild Wilder passed away Tuesday after a brief illness at the home of her sister Mrs. John W. O'Neill on East Broad streét. The deceased was a_ native of Grass Valley,' born’ on March 21, 1874, and was the daughter of one of Grass Valley’s foremost ‘pioneer settler families. Her 62nd: birthday would have been’ observed next month. Her father was the late Simeon R, Wilder, who witnessed the settling of Grass Valley while he late mother, Mrs.-Selina Bice, held the distinction ‘of being the . first white child born in Grass Valley. The late Mrs. Bice -passed away leaving a youthful family and with the death of the father in 1897, Miss Maryette Wilder moved to Nevada with her sister, Mrs. T. W. Sigourney, where she had endeared herself to all who knew her. Her education in Grass ‘Valley schools was furthered by intensive study in the seamstress art and her ability with the needle was a fidely known fact. : By a strange coincidence, her passing yesterday occurred on the twentieth anniversary of the death of her late sister, Mrs. T. W. Sigourney. Although slight in body she radiated a personality equaled’ by but a few. Her heart expanded with a generosity that reached’ far beyond the boundaries of her immediate circle of friends and her kindly acts and deeds stand as unseen monuments of an unselfish, untiring and tolerant life. ' The illness which resulted fatally was of but a few days duration. Medica attention and every possible care were proffered in vain attempt to prolong the life that had reached its peak. The news of her passing was received with genuine sorrow through out the city yesterday by friend and acquaintance alike. Left to mourn her passing is her sister, Mrs. Virginia O’Neill, a niece, Mrs; Olivia Sumner and a nephew, Ted Sigourney, Jr., all of Nevada City, a niece, Mrs.:Cleo Harris of Grass Valley.'T. W. Sigourney of Nevada City is-a brother in law while Stanley Bice of\North San Juan “is a cousin to the deceased. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30*o’clock from the Holmes Funeral Home-with Rev. H. H. Buckner of the Methodist church officiating. Interment will be made in the family plot in the Oda Fellows cemetery at Grass Valley. MURCHIE, MAYOR: NYE SEATED ON CITY COUNCIL At the meeting of the city council held last. night, resolutions were regard for Alfred Seaman, late'mayor of Nevada City. The council also appointed C. Raymond Murchie as mayor to succeed Mr. Seaman. Mr. Murchie has been a ‘member of the city council for eight years. Mr. Robert ‘Nye. was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Seaman on the city council and will take his place as an active member of the body at once. The matter of delinquent water bills was discussed and it was decided that all consumers who are three months or more arrears with their Water bill ses: be given due notice and if after-notice was iven a satisfactory arrangement, ineluding a substantial payment on the bill was not made with the city, the water would be shut off. The council wishes to be as considerate as possible, with the water consum-ers but it is imperative that they meet the city bills and to do so moneys owed the city must be. paid, After considerable discussion pro and con as to its city council ordered that the city engineer, Ronald Frazer ke survey and plans for a rock crushing plani estimates of cost: \ . There are about forty thousand dollars worth ‘of streets and sidepassed expressing appreciation’ ‘and’ visability, the} at the Murchie mine and to\present . walks to be made-in Nevada City aas. Fi 2 LATEMAYOR OF CITY HONORED BY CITY COUNCIL The following resolution, written by. George Calanan, was adopted last evening by the city council in respect to and in honor of the memory of Mayor “Al’’ Seaman who passed away last:Sunday: Resolution of Respect to the Memory of Mayor Seaman. ‘(Leaves have their ‘time to fall and flowers to wither at the North Wind’s breath, But thou hast all seasons for thine own; O Death.”’ When one of our friends or coworkers is stricken we are appalled, even though we know it is inevitable, and after the passing console ourselves with the realization that’ this was a life well spent, and the hopes of reuniting on the farther shore. As a citizen Mayor Seaman was all that this term “good” implies, the personification of honesty and fairness, as’ a neighbor, a father, a husband sympathetic, loyal and true, never sparing himself, nothing was too much for him to do. This trait had much to do with his passing. His calm judgment was most valuable on any council. He worked faithfully ‘for nearlyeight years on the city council, and neglected “his own business all that while. The members of the city council takes this means of ‘attesting to his. worth as‘a councilman and their high regard for him as a co-worker, Earthly science has its vast domain that it has explored and conquered but far above and beyond science there is a field they never can hope to explore—the immortality of the soul. So wise councillor, faithful friend, honest co-oworker, we bid you a last and fond adieu. NEVADA’ CITY COUNCIL. endous amount of rock is needed and this seems to be the best and cheapest way to get it. Bills were approved and ordered paid as follows: BILLS PASSED FOR PAYMENT Alpha Sto s Ltd. $168.12; W. G. Robson, $4.00; Schreibers. Cafe, $39.59; P. G. & E. Co., $224.95; P. G. & E., 68c; P. G. & E. Co., $4.10;. P. G:'& EB: Co:, $2.853-P. G. eB, Con $9.51; P. G. & E. Co., $39.90; George Brothers, $100; George Brothers, $7.46; B. F. Wright, 02.00; Chamber of Commerce, $15.00;-L.° W. Johnson, $12.00; Nevada County Lumber Co., $71.83; Plaza Super Service Station, $50.33; Howard Penrose, $16.18; Foote Electrical Co., $6.92; Sam Trevethick, $19.00; Calanan and Richards; $11.00; Ed Christensen, $2.00; Western Union, : $2.58; R. E. Harris, $5.20; Builders Supply House, $62.19; Nevada City Garage, $49.80; Miners Supply, Co., $203.08; BE. Garnés, $4.50; Dickerman Drug Co., $22.45; S. Gould, $1.50; City of Grass Valley, $96. 50; Hie OPA Baker, $3.25; Typewriter * Sales and Service Co., 77c; Calif, State Auto Assoc., 90c; Pacific Tel. and Tel. Co., $9.65; W. S. Williamson; $27.52; N. I.'D., $133.04; Geo. H. Calanan, $6.00; Alfred M. Girard, $38.85; A. C. Wallbrecht, $34.50; R. L.Gleason, $13.05; Harry Hilliard, $34.95. Seas FIRE FUND Max Solaro, $51.50; Pacific Tel. and Tel. Co., $3.35; P. G. & E. Co., $3.97. q SALARIES. Frank Wright, $95.00; Garfield Robson, $135.00; Geo. H. Calanan, $20.00; Dr. E. M. Roesner, $40.00; H. M. Brown, $75.00; Mrs. Emmo Foley, ‘$12.50; Miles P. Coughlan, ~— °$12.50; H. S. Hallett, $125.00; Mrs. — Solaro, 51.50; Ronald Trazev,—$200. LABOR ; William Young, $5.57; Thos, White, $16.00; Leslie Sand, $84. 00 Fred Hillerman, $62.00; Geo. Cane, $12.00; Tad Sigourney, $104.00; Walter Niven, $10.00; Nick Sandow, $60.00; Chas. Thomas, $108.00; A. J. Eddy, $38.00; C. W. Towle, $8.00; Max Solaro, $20.00; Wm. Jo $14. sa oe LUCKY JANE MINE A contract was let ‘by he ° der the WPA project and a trem-}

. ar iat Cy etsesnes ses: Thinking Nevada City Nugget The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and “What meat doth this our Ceasar feed upon that ie hath grown so great?’ This is a question which might well be-asked ofthe Los Angeles police department, which has placed a squad of eight men at Truckee to turn back transients arrit phil 4 ae road ‘or. railroad coming here from the East. Police odinarily do not function outside their own cities and rarely if ever outside thei anon Yet, according to press unts, ‘Los. Angeles proposes to mount. her’ policemen on all roads leading into California, to turn back those who fail to show they have the wherewithal to maintain themselves. The action is predicated on _ the granodise assumption that all poverty stricken~transients coming from any direction into California ultimately dna in the much publicized salubrity of Los Angeles and vicinity. Any intelligent citizen’ with even a casual acquaintance with California statutes knows that this action of the Los Angeles police department is absolutely against all law. The Southern Pacific company, or any other transportation company, or the governor of California, cannot, except for certain reasons specified in quarantine laws, legally halt anyone who seeks ‘admission to this state. Vagrancy laws may apply, to be sure, but these may be applied only by peace officers within their own counties. Strictly speaking, men and women coming to California in a bona fide endeavor to. find work are not vagrants. They are citizens with a right to look for work wherever they please. There is a sharp distinction between worthless vagabonds who avoid work and those men and women who are desperately looking for a job, Policemen delegated Dy Los Angeles ‘to stand guard over California’s gates, are very unlikely to discern this difference. While it is lamentably true that California is now supporting out of its taxes a destitute multitude from other states, it also is true that without-the-so-called. transients, the farmers. of Imperial, San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys would be ‘hard put to it for labor to harvest their yr. As it is these “fruit tramps,” who do the major part of the state’s harvesting are so poorly paid by the farmers that they have only a bare Bubsistence when working, and when idle quickly become public charges. The people at large must make up in taxes the difference. between what ranch owners pay their’ transient’ help, and the “living wage’’ that economic justice demands that they should receive. asa If the Los Angeles police department actually succeeds in posting sentinels at all gates leading into California, and in turning back those whom in the judgment of these sentinels, are undesirable entrants, what will the states of Nevada, Arizona and Oregon have to say about it? By erecting these extra-legal dams on the highways and railroads, it is certain hat transients will accumulate behind the barriers to the detriment of the border states. None of the states mentioned wants these transients anymore than California, not to mention, ‘‘chemically pure”’ Los Angeles. ‘Action of these Los Angeles police might easily put California in a bad spot. The answer would usually be a buck:passing. For nstance: California can ‘say to its neighbors: ‘“‘Why don’t you put up barriers to transients?”’ In time, with every state guarding its borders, transients would cease to be transients and would become settled citizens, working or not,. recipients of charity in their own bailiwick, or paying taxes for the support of home town indigents. But this solution would leave agriculture in the west in a sorry predicament. Tranient labor is necessary economically to California and to several states. Unless it. is permitted to flow where the demand is, we should find our farmers inviting new hordes in from Mexico and advocating changes in the immigration laws to permit Oriental labor importations. The problem of transient labor Bee too large for the city of Los ngeles, or even the state of Califor.nia to solve.What is really needed is* a thorough going ‘federal supervis* jon and regulation,It would seem that if the Federal government has_ the power to regulate, as it does very effectively, interstate commerce, it should have ‘the power to regulate the interstate movement of armies of transients. ‘ ee “T see whar — of las Angels is * puttin 136 ‘ advertising in the Nugget, therefore, : * Out Loud . you help yourself, : COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA —(By H. M. L.) Vol: 10, No 25 te , County Seat Paar: _NEVADA C city, CALIFORNIA _ The GOLD Center _ FRIDAY, manent 7, 1936. FUNERAL SERVICE) FOR LATE MAYOR Funeral services for the late AIfonso Seaman were held in Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday afternoon with services said by officers of the lodge of which he was an active member for over forty years. Ludwig Netz, acted as Noble Grand and Walter ’A. Calanan as Chaplain. The beautiful funeral ritual of the order ‘was read. in the presence of many friends, a large number of whom had come from out of town to pay their last respects to a beloved friend. The casket was draped with an American. flag in “memory of Mr. Seaman’s service in old company C of the National'Guard of California. Mrs._Lyda Talbot sang the hymns “Wace to Face’ and ‘Abide With Me” favorites of Mr. Seaman. Judge George Ib, Jones delivered the eulogy and reviewed many of the characteristics and acts of Mr. Seaman which so endeared him to the community and his friends. Interment was at Pine Grove cemetery with grave side services conducted by the Odd _ Fellows. “Taps’? were sounded by John E. Nettle as the body was lowered to the grave. Pall bearers: were: Dr. C. W. Chapman, John W. Darke, Cary S. Arbogast, C. R. Murchie, Jonothan Pascoe and Thomas Haddy. The Holmes Funeral Home was in charge of the funeral arrangements. REPUBLICAN CLUB URGES REGISTRATION Effort to. enlist the aid of every service club,\.women’s club and association in California to participate non-partisan basis in a camof registering voters was inityesterday by hé* Republican State Central Committee. On-or about February 12, Lincoln’s birthday, club and\association executives are requested by he committee to announce the following: “Owing to the importance \of issues\affecting the general welfare of people, every citizen, regardless of party affiliation, is urged to reg. ister at once, for the primary and general elections in 1936.” Under the state law, it is pointed out, every one must register on 01 before March 26 next. to vote in the May primary. 4 Voters are urged further to pursuade qualified members ‘ef their households to do likewise. Executives of business concerns are also.to pass the! word along to their en ployees, registér at once. TRANSAMERICA PAYS DIVIDEND TOTAL $5,788.268 Piirohasine mower of Californians on a paign iated our was increased by more than $5,000,000 through payment of the regular semi-annual dividend of 15 cents a share and the extra dividend of 10 cents a share on Transamerica Cuorporation capital stock. dividend disbursement lis $5,788,268. More than 90 per cent of the total is paid to stockholders in California. The dividend checks were mailed by Transamerica January 31. Payment of these regular and extra\dividends, aggregating 25 cents a share on Transamerica stock, brings the total amount of dividends paid by the corporation and its predecessor to.more than’ $125,000,000. polismen with. clubs to dew picket dewty on the Californy tine. They. is refoosin to let in\.eny feller who ain’t got money, manely them thet walks or them thet rides brakebeems. I notis in the magaseens thet the Las Angels chamber of Cummers is stilla runnin ads tellin whut a_ saloobrius climt thet town. hes. They aughta say right out in them ‘ads, thet the climit is heven fur the rich but hel fur the poor. I notis the guvner who cums frum down thar ain’t” sayin enythin. Mebbe it’s his bride, mebbe it’s his bred an butter. ‘Phil G. Scadden returned -Wednesday from a'week spent at Richardson’s springs. John Darke motored to the tc to bring Mr. Scadden home. . Sacramento was present at the meetThe total amount of the current! FIREMEN PAY RESPECTS , TO GRASS VALLEY CHIEF Chief Howard Penrose and a’ group of’ the local firemen attended the} funeral services in thé Memorial building, Grass Valley of the date Harold: Whiting, chief of the Grass Valley fire department who succumbed -from injuries sustained Monday morning while fire fighting. Many beautiful floral pieces were sent 'to the services, among them a very large piece sent by the miners of the Idaho-Maryland mine where he-was employed. STOCKTON HILL MINE T0 SINK SHAFT LOWER The operation of the Stockton Hill mine has been taken over by the Lode Development Company, a corporation headed by F. C. Lowrey as president, with John W. Powers, vice president, Lee T. Shunnan, executive vice president and W. F. Krohn, secretary. : Walter R. Woock Has been appointed superintendent. Mr. Woock brings to the company a broad experience as a geologist and metallurgist. To his knowledge of ores and their occurence is due the credit for the discovery and oo of the eye out for the two. Newman bro. Slaughter house, saw the women PRANKSTER ALMOST I PEAKED INTO HEAVEN . . With every body keeping an thers, mistakes are likely, to happen, especially mistakes of. identity.'Two women who live on the ridge above Grass Valley near the old turnpike road last Sunday observed a chap’ coming toward them, who looked very much, in the eyes of one of them, like one of the missing Newmans>-—She7 went inside and got her rifle. The other woman was not’so sure. The man, who lived dowh near the old eyeing him suspiciously, and proceeded to act the part of a figitive. The women trailed him. He would disappear behind bushes, peek out from.around tree trunks. He dodged and he sneaked and he peeked. The women followed him. ‘Every. now and then the woman with the rifle wanted to shoot him, but each time she fingered the trigger her neighbor persuaded her to wait. Finally, wildly excited, they telephoned the sheriff’s office. Deputies arrived in a few minutes and rounded up the prankster in a group of _ pines. They read him a stiff lecture on . deportment and revealed to him how very near he had come to dodging into the’ pearly’ gates. For, it developed, the woman with the rifle was a crack shot. ore bosy. Leo P. Harris has been appointed assistant mine. superintendent in charge of the underground work. Mr. Harris had previously been associated with the development of the Beauty mine. The new company is now engaged in sinking their shaft from the present level. The company is a close corporation and has no stock for sale. RAZING OF OLD CITY HALL BEGINS FEB. 11 The people of Nevada City are glad to learn that’ work on the. new city hall will go forward as planned and will begin under WPA on Tuesday, February 11. As a result of the order from Nils Aanongen, district engineer of. the WPA, that work could not go forward on the Nevada City hall project, city officials and members of the Chamber of Commerce, consisting of Cottncilman Kopp, Penrose and Benj. Hall and R. R. Bennetts, W. 4H. Griffith, and Frank Davies of the Chamber of\Commerce went to Sacramento Monday and conferred with Gene Kenyon ‘and Nils Aanonsen and also communicated with Congressman Harry L. Englebright and J. R. McLaughlin of\ San Francisco, Director ‘of WPA for Califor’™ nia and secured a reversal ofAanonsen’s order. Ny Fred T. Marsh of Auburn, ais rict supervisor for the WPA came to N vada City Tuesday to confer with ths city council and announced that tha city hall project will commence on

Tuesday, February 11. The architect, George T. Sellon of ing with the city council) and announced that all plans were ready and ‘work on the foundation can be started as soon as the old building is razed. POSTOFFICE VANDALS AND MISCREANTS ARE WARNED Burglarous attempts to break into mail'boxes in’ the postoffice is likely to lead to arrest and prosecution, according t® Postmaster Betty West, who has employed a special. watchman to _ protect Uncle Sam’s property. Glass in the boxes have been broken from time to time with evident purpose of robbing the boxes of mail. Posters placed in postoffice have been mutilated and disfigured. Whether the damage in the postoffice. has been done by vandals or burglars, the postmaster declares it must stop. A warning hotice signed by her appears in this edition of the ‘Nugget. Tampering ‘with Uncle Sam’s “mail or postoffice is a very serious Fedéral offense. Mr. Frank Ghidotti, local merchant is spending a few days in San Francisco on business connected with his firm. Harry Brown, is in charge of the Black PACKERS store in. his absence. 5 NEVADA CITY CLIMATEIDEAL FOR SANITARIUM Over a third of a century ago, Dr. David H. Reeder, who came to -Nevada City ‘last October, opened and operated the home health club and city hospital in a small city in northern Indiana. : He was at that time editor of the Home Health Club department of the Inter-Ocean. newspaper of—Chicago and his health articles were syndicated and published by over two thousand newspapers and magazines. and book form. He also wrote and published a series of books under the title of ‘‘Home Health Club’’ the sale of which has run through many editions. Some of Nevada City’s people are more or less familiar with the work of Dr. Reeder and have his books in the family library. After four months of careful ‘observation and study of climatic conditions the doctor finds Nevada City an ideal place for a clinie to be carried on with another home: health sanitarium. TAXPAYERS FACE NEW DEAL TAX UPLIFT IN’36 Tax payers of California in 1936 \will be called upon to, pay a number of new etyile New Deal Federal taxes. h tax new or old, according to just completed, adds to the of living for the housewife, businessman, ® and voter of California. Included among the new taxes are: d { Taxes on pay olis of all business concerns having eight or more persons. ~ .Taxes on dividen corporation to another) “Taxes on figts of more than $40,000 to one person. Taxes on the capital business corporations. Taxes on corporation profi in excess of ten per cent of the value of the capital stock. Different rates n taxes on different size corporation incomes, Taxes on estates of persons who died after ‘August 30, 1935. Taxes .on the income of railroad employees after March 1, 1936. Taxes on railroad payrolls effective March 1, 1936. Social security ‘taxes to be levied on payrolls. It is pointed. out that the taxes on business concerns and operations are almost invariably passed along to the ultimate ‘consumer. paid by one stock of MUSICAL PROGRAM SUNDAY Rev. H. H. Buckner of the Methodist Episcopal church announced -yesterday that an excellent musical program has been ‘prepared for this Sunday at the church. The public is cordially invited. City, where she made her residence Many were published in’ phamphlet . MISS MARYETTE “WIDER CALLED BY GRIMREAPER Miss Maryette Wild Wilder passed away Tuesday after a brief illness at the home of her sister Mrs. John W. O'Neill on East Broad streét. The deceased was a_ native of Grass Valley,' born’ on March 21, 1874, and was the daughter of one of Grass Valley’s foremost ‘pioneer settler families. Her 62nd: birthday would have been’ observed next month. Her father was the late Simeon R, Wilder, who witnessed the settling of Grass Valley while he late mother, Mrs.-Selina Bice, held the distinction ‘of being the . first white child born in Grass Valley. The late Mrs. Bice -passed away leaving a youthful family and with the death of the father in 1897, Miss Maryette Wilder moved to Nevada with her sister, Mrs. T. W. Sigourney, where she had endeared herself to all who knew her. Her education in Grass ‘Valley schools was furthered by intensive study in the seamstress art and her ability with the needle was a fidely known fact. : By a strange coincidence, her passing yesterday occurred on the twentieth anniversary of the death of her late sister, Mrs. T. W. Sigourney. Although slight in body she radiated a personality equaled’ by but a few. Her heart expanded with a generosity that reached’ far beyond the boundaries of her immediate circle of friends and her kindly acts and deeds stand as unseen monuments of an unselfish, untiring and tolerant life. ' The illness which resulted fatally was of but a few days duration. Medica attention and every possible care were proffered in vain attempt to prolong the life that had reached its peak. The news of her passing was received with genuine sorrow through out the city yesterday by friend and acquaintance alike. Left to mourn her passing is her sister, Mrs. Virginia O’Neill, a niece, Mrs; Olivia Sumner and a nephew, Ted Sigourney, Jr., all of Nevada City, a niece, Mrs.:Cleo Harris of Grass Valley.'T. W. Sigourney of Nevada City is-a brother in law while Stanley Bice of\North San Juan “is a cousin to the deceased. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30*o’clock from the Holmes Funeral Home-with Rev. H. H. Buckner of the Methodist church officiating. Interment will be made in the family plot in the Oda Fellows cemetery at Grass Valley. MURCHIE, MAYOR: NYE SEATED ON CITY COUNCIL At the meeting of the city council held last. night, resolutions were regard for Alfred Seaman, late'mayor of Nevada City. The council also appointed C. Raymond Murchie as mayor to succeed Mr. Seaman. Mr. Murchie has been a ‘member of the city council for eight years. Mr. Robert ‘Nye. was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Seaman on the city council and will take his place as an active member of the body at once. The matter of delinquent water bills was discussed and it was decided that all consumers who are three months or more arrears with their Water bill ses: be given due notice and if after-notice was iven a satisfactory arrangement, ineluding a substantial payment on the bill was not made with the city, the water would be shut off. The council wishes to be as considerate as possible, with the water consum-ers but it is imperative that they meet the city bills and to do so moneys owed the city must be. paid, After considerable discussion pro and con as to its city council ordered that the city engineer, Ronald Frazer ke survey and plans for a rock crushing plani estimates of cost: \ . There are about forty thousand dollars worth ‘of streets and sidepassed expressing appreciation’ ‘and’ visability, the} at the Murchie mine and to\present . walks to be made-in Nevada City aas. Fi 2 LATEMAYOR OF CITY HONORED BY CITY COUNCIL The following resolution, written by. George Calanan, was adopted last evening by the city council in respect to and in honor of the memory of Mayor “Al’’ Seaman who passed away last:Sunday: Resolution of Respect to the Memory of Mayor Seaman. ‘(Leaves have their ‘time to fall and flowers to wither at the North Wind’s breath, But thou hast all seasons for thine own; O Death.”’ When one of our friends or coworkers is stricken we are appalled, even though we know it is inevitable, and after the passing console ourselves with the realization that’ this was a life well spent, and the hopes of reuniting on the farther shore. As a citizen Mayor Seaman was all that this term “good” implies, the personification of honesty and fairness, as’ a neighbor, a father, a husband sympathetic, loyal and true, never sparing himself, nothing was too much for him to do. This trait had much to do with his passing. His calm judgment was most valuable on any council. He worked faithfully ‘for nearlyeight years on the city council, and neglected “his own business all that while. The members of the city council takes this means of ‘attesting to his. worth as‘a councilman and their high regard for him as a co-worker, Earthly science has its vast domain that it has explored and conquered but far above and beyond science there is a field they never can hope to explore—the immortality of the soul. So wise councillor, faithful friend, honest co-oworker, we bid you a last and fond adieu. NEVADA’ CITY COUNCIL. endous amount of rock is needed and this seems to be the best and cheapest way to get it. Bills were approved and ordered paid as follows: BILLS PASSED FOR PAYMENT Alpha Sto s Ltd. $168.12; W. G. Robson, $4.00; Schreibers. Cafe, $39.59; P. G. & E. Co., $224.95; P. G. & E., 68c; P. G. & E. Co., $4.10;. P. G:'& EB: Co:, $2.853-P. G. eB, Con $9.51; P. G. & E. Co., $39.90; George Brothers, $100; George Brothers, $7.46; B. F. Wright, 02.00; Chamber of Commerce, $15.00;-L.° W. Johnson, $12.00; Nevada County Lumber Co., $71.83; Plaza Super Service Station, $50.33; Howard Penrose, $16.18; Foote Electrical Co., $6.92; Sam Trevethick, $19.00; Calanan and Richards; $11.00; Ed Christensen, $2.00; Western Union, : $2.58; R. E. Harris, $5.20; Builders Supply House, $62.19; Nevada City Garage, $49.80; Miners Supply, Co., $203.08; BE. Garnés, $4.50; Dickerman Drug Co., $22.45; S. Gould, $1.50; City of Grass Valley, $96. 50; Hie OPA Baker, $3.25; Typewriter * Sales and Service Co., 77c; Calif, State Auto Assoc., 90c; Pacific Tel. and Tel. Co., $9.65; W. S. Williamson; $27.52; N. I.'D., $133.04; Geo. H. Calanan, $6.00; Alfred M. Girard, $38.85; A. C. Wallbrecht, $34.50; R. L.Gleason, $13.05; Harry Hilliard, $34.95. Seas FIRE FUND Max Solaro, $51.50; Pacific Tel. and Tel. Co., $3.35; P. G. & E. Co., $3.97. q SALARIES. Frank Wright, $95.00; Garfield Robson, $135.00; Geo. H. Calanan, $20.00; Dr. E. M. Roesner, $40.00; H. M. Brown, $75.00; Mrs. Emmo Foley, ‘$12.50; Miles P. Coughlan, ~— °$12.50; H. S. Hallett, $125.00; Mrs. — Solaro, 51.50; Ronald Trazev,—$200. LABOR ; William Young, $5.57; Thos, White, $16.00; Leslie Sand, $84. 00 Fred Hillerman, $62.00; Geo. Cane, $12.00; Tad Sigourney, $104.00; Walter Niven, $10.00; Nick Sandow, $60.00; Chas. Thomas, $108.00; A. J. Eddy, $38.00; C. W. Towle, $8.00; Max Solaro, $20.00; Wm. Jo $14. sa oe LUCKY JANE MINE A contract was let ‘by he ° der the WPA project and a trem-}