July 28, 1941 (4 pages)

# ih see i Ss Lge ead ee SH la Racin RG aie es C= The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per Cva U ” Thi eget Ss paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your Wisnils friends, your neighbors, read { sd COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nugget. moe Vol. 15, No. 60. e __The County Seat Paper_ NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA. ___The Gold Center_-___ MONDAY, JULY 28, 1941. Thinking . Sheriff Tobiassen Overpowers Gun Wielder Heart IIIness Ends In Out eee d Crazed Man Man Fires Shots , Pat Collins attempted to stop him bake ag! Several Ranch ‘ At T: A bil but Collins was told: milies Bef. ‘ By H. M. L. : cL 5 “You obey orders or I’ll kill you.” Capenred — Death For Miss Keenan, A good many years ago, in fact a& few weeks after the great eanthquake which started the big fire in San Francisco, the city editor of the San Francisco Examiner phoned the night editor .of the Sacramento Union that there was job open at $50 per week on tho‘ Examiner, and if the Sacramento newsman wanted it he had better ‘ come quickly. A quick decision was made. The owner of the Union, Alfred Holman, graciously gave his consent to a short-notice resignation, and the young man showed up at the temporary Examiner building on Embarcadero, shortly after midnight the next day. He walked into the great barn like structure and saw a sour looking individual slouched before a large roll top desk. Around man and desk ‘there was a vague aura of authority. He was the smanaging editor. The rest of the city room staff were apparently out fora midnight lunch. The new comer walked over to the desk, stated he © was a new man on the staff and inquirad about a place -to obtain room and board. Att that time during the chaotic aftermath of the great fire, these accommodations were hard to obtain. ‘‘Well’’, said the fellow at the desk, looking out from under the brim of a black fedora hat, ‘I am staying at the Little St. Francis,’ and with that resumed his reading of a piece of copy. The Little St. Francis was a temporary structure the Crockers had been permitted to. build in Union Square, pending repairs on th huge hostelry across Powell street from the square. Rates for poard and room were $8 per day and up. The new staff member’s salary per week was just six dolJars less than the weekly board and reom bill at the Little St. Francis would have been. The chap at the Examiner desk was Charles Michelson, and the young fellow who asked for a little information, was the writer of this column. And from that day to this we have never specially favored Charles Michelson, He has gone a long way since then to become the $25,000 a year smearer of President Hoover and later to hold the post of publicity manager for the National Demecratic Committee at the same salary. He was able to succeed so well in our humble opinion, because early in life he had removed from his bowels all human compassion and lacked congentally any milk of human kindness. However, in today’s mail there arrived a letter. from Charlie Michelson—one of those letters he calls “Dispelling the Fog’’, and the thought expressed there jumps so completely with the views of this writer that we reproduce it herewith, not in the interest of Charlie ‘Michelson’s personal fortunes or for political reasons, but because _ we consider it the sound view of every patriotic citizen who takes the trouble to think: “Bstablishment of an American military base on Iceland is generally applauded as an obviously intelligent element in our defense preparations. “Of course, the isolationists are clamoring that the President should have gone to Congress and gained Con'gressional cooperation in the project before closing up the deal, and there has been much oratory concerning infraction of the constitutional provision reserving to Congress the power to declare war, etc. “Now just suppose the President had gone to Congress with his proposal that Iceland should be garrisoned by Yankee troops as part of our defense program, and particularly to forestall Hitler from seizing that vantage point— Senator Wheeler would have stressed his determination to oppose what he calls an approach to ‘war; Senator Nye would have voiced his variation of the theme and Senator Taft would have conrtibuted his version of the Hmitations on the President's Powers as Comom + en on Page tires 4for a wild man in the vicinity of that morning stopped at Benjamin Franklin Coffman, 55, lumber worker, was overpowered Friday by Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen on the Mays Ranch near Smartville after Coffman had fired two bullets from a shotgun at passing cars and threatened to kill several families in the vicinity. Coffman has been committed ot a state institution. Sheriff Tobiassen, Deputy Carl Larsen and Game Warden Earl Hiscox were preparing to begin a hunt Purdon’s Crossing when a call came in from Smartville on Coffman’s activities. When -the officers. arrived at Hill Crest they were told Coffman at 5:30 at the Hill Crest Service Station and began kindling a fire in front of the gasoline pumps. Coffman pointed a pump shotgun at Collins. In the meantime, Mrs. Collins went out the back way to the Thomas Ranch. Thomas started his car to go into Smartville to notify the of-. ficers, As théycar passed Coffman, the officers were told, he fired a shot, the pellets penetrating the rear of the car. as An‘ unidentified motorist, driving up the Narrows Dam Road was menaced by the shot®uii wielder. Instead of stépping the motorist speeded up. and continued, despite a flat tire resulting from a blast from Coffman’s shotgun. Coffman then left the Hill Crest the Empire the entire station and went to Raneh, where he routed Tom Mc Mooney family who reside there. He threatened to kill each one but on a sudden whim left and went to the Mays Ranch, where Mrs. Mays resides alone, The officers on their arrival surrounded the Mays home. They saw Coffman sitting on a bench. Tobiassen, behind the protection of an oleandér bush slowly crept toward Coffman. When he got within §fifteen feet of him, Tobiassen jumped Coffman attempted to reach for his gun, Which was. alongside of him, but Tobidssen overpowered him and put the handeuffs-upon him. upon him. Coffman was brought to the county jail here and later committed : to a state hospital by Superior, .Judge George L. Jones. Fifty Seven Feet Total Believed Record By Tunnel Boss A record for a single day’s tunnel work is claimed by Tunnel Boss Harry Scott, picturesque one legged nationally known “sandhog” and his crew of men driving a four mile-long power tunnel for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company near Dutch Flat. Fifty seven feet of progress was made in one twenty four hour day one of the three tunnels being driven. The nature of the ground, ali serpentine, requires timbering every inch of the way. The bore is 10 1-2 11 feet in size. Superintendent J. E. Cooney, speaking conservatively, said he act lieves the fifty feet to be a record, for such projects but Tunnel Boss . Scott is emphatic in his claim of a record. Greater distances have’ been: made in one day on other tunnels but no timbering was required. . There are 185 men ee nee by m tunnel and the one Record Set In Tunnel Driving the tunnel project. The 21,000 foot tunnel will have a. flow of 550 second feet of water. Construction of a power house on the river below the tunnel mouth is Excavation for to be started soon, the power house began last week. The electricity developed by the new plant will be absorbed into the Bo G, a i: At the three headings progress of 100 feet a day is being made. At present the upstream tunnel has been driven 3,300 feet. The downstream in 2,300 feet and 2,200 the third system. tunnel is feet has been made on heading. Superintendent Cooney said most: (of, the men employed on the project ‘are regular P. G. & E. workers who helped build the Dobbins, Yuba Co. completed in . Project Four Mile Long Tunnel To Develop Power For .P. G. & E. System . Stanislaus County before the Dobbins tunnel was started. There are some Placer and Nevada County miners employed in the tunnel work. Despite the encountering of sliding ground, Superintendent Cooney reports the work is proceeding near schedule. Because the serpentine in some spots buckled heavy 10 by 10 timbers gunniting was necessary. Gunnting stops the sliding serpentine . by preventing the air from reaching Lt: The work is expected to be completed by next January. The tunnel will be lined with concrete and steel. The work supervision of O. W. Peterson, enis under the general gineer for tunnel construction for the P. G. & E. CARLT. LARSEN. TO BE ELECTED NFW FIRE CHIEF The annual election and Pioneer Park picnic of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Department will be held between 6 and 8 p. m. tonight. Deputy Sheriff Carl TJarsen. at present assistant fire chief, will, following years of custom, be elevated to the position of chief but unfortunately Larsen will be unable to be present tonight. Larsen is attending . ’ a police school at Berkeley. Luther Marsh is the retiring chief. Richard Goyne is in, charge of arrangements for the feast to be enjoyed by firemen and guests. TWO OFFICERS . ATTEND SCHOO. During the next two weeks, Chief of Police Max Solaro and Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen will attend an officers national defense school at the University of California.’ in Berkeley. The two left here a. to attend the school, which opened today and will continue until August 9th. Ernest Young will handle the fire department duties in th eabsence of Solaro. Writer Leases Home— David Lamson, short story writer and novelist, and family, have leased a house in Nevada City. Mr. Lamson was formerly a member of Stanford University faculty. He finds Nevada City a quiet spot in which to write. Some of his stories have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. DUTCH FLAT SPEAKER Ed. C. Uren of this city, a native of Dutch Flat, attended the Colfax Lions Club gathering in Dutch Flat last week and gave an interesting talk on some of the early day incidents about. Dutch Flat. delegates on the trip. LOCAL ROTARY DEL ATTENDING DISTRICT CONCLAVE IGATES H. E, Kjorlie, president, and Fred C. Garrison, secretary, of the local Rotary Club, are due to return tomorrow from the district Rotary convention being held in Oakland. Mrs, Kjorlie accompanied the local The: Grass Valley Rotary is represented at the conclave by Ray Pengelly, president and H. W. Robinson, secretary. SLIGHT ACCIDENT ON TAHOEUKIAH HIGHWAY FRIDAY Carl Kitts) patrolman of the California Highway Patrol, was called to the Five Mile House. Friday following the report of an automobile accident. His investigation disclosed a fender of a machine was damaged in a slight accident with a Zeibright Mine truck. Recovering From Injury— William Moulton is from a knee injury. recovering All the fields are barren, All the flowers are dead, The armies of the V. And “‘Victory!”’ And “Victory!” Your armies of the V. VICTORY! There's naught but wild winds crying And storm wrack overhead. But over shell marked roadways And through each trampled vale, Shadowy forms are marching Their faces grim and pale. With hands and bodies shackled But minds still brave and free, They come from every conquered land, In dreams, beloved banners Still float before them there And anthems of the homeland Are whispered as in prayer. We cannot see them clearly, Nor hear their measured tread, They march in grim faced silence By dreams of Freedom led; is the watchword, They cry, ‘Now break the chains by tyrants forged, Our Freedom shall not die;” March on, march on in silence, Await the word, the hour, When Liberty shall rise again And men shall know its power. March on, March on, resistless As strong tides of the sea, We too are of your army, CITY’S FIRST TELEPHONE OPERATORS 2 i Rose Keenan, one women of this area, died at the months heart illness. BRADLEYS SHIP BARYTES FROM WASHINGTON ees or barium sulphate, as it. is commonly called, is being mined . at the Bradley properties, one and a, half miles north of the Spanish Mine at ‘the rate of 7 tons per day. The ore body is from 9 to 12 feet! developed to a depth of 250 feét on’ the steep north side of the South . Yuba, through open cut workings. Three aiffie asante a ‘constant, tonnage, which is hauled through. Washington to the top of the grade! on this side of the river where it is deposited in bins about half a mile from the Tahoe-Ukiah Highway. Two small trucks, hauling about four tons each, make nine.round trips daily between the: mine and thé bins. From the bins the ore is taken by . heavier equipment with trailers, ; . hauling approximately 20 tons, to’ ‘the reduction plant at Stockton. Barytes is very heavy, weighing ! . 280 pounds to the cubic foot. .o1 . iabout 7 cubie feet to the ton, while quartz weighs 166. pounds tothe foot, or a little over 12 cubic feet to. the ton. The baryte ore from the Bradley property is said to be 96 per ent pure. It is used principally in the/ . aduiteration of paint; the claim ba! ing made that one third baryites, one third’ zinc oxide and one third white lead makes a better paint than pure white lead. It is also used in the making of putty, or pottery, in the mannfacture of calendared paper, in window blinds, and is used extensively in sealing off oil wells far beneaith the surface. The hydrate is used in the refining of sugar where it takes the place of lime, and' the element barium is used in making the green flame in fireworks. There is said to be in the neighborhood of 4000,000 tons of baryte available at the Spanish, although but 60,000 tons have been. contracted for at this time. Four To Leave August 6 For Military Training Nevada County’s selectees for the 16th call under the Selective Service Act have been chosen and will leave here on Wednesday, August 6th, at 7 a. m. for a year’s military training. The men will be sent to an induction station of the United States Army at Sacramento. The four selected are: 802—-Robert Edgar McCallum, 1900 Ohio St., Vallejo. 805—Julius Joshua Self. Gen: Dei. Challis, Idaho. $30-——Rolland Henry Jewett. 1, Box 380, Mt. View. Cal. V-1041—-Robert Lee Byrd. Gen. Del. Grass Valley, Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post Officers Will Be Installed On August 5 Harry French of Florin, sixth district commander of the American Ru —A. MERRIAM CONNER. Legion, will install the new officers of the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post of Grass Valley and Névada City at the Veterans Memiriai Building tn Graés Valley dn August 5tti. Al Burke will be séated a5 new commander, succeeding W. W. Esin width, is in slate, and has Been ijmes of Phoenix, Prominent Local Lady LILLIAN R ROSE KEENAN WAS ONE OF NEVADA of the most widely known family home on the Champion Road at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after a several Miss Keenan was born in the home in which she died. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Keenan, pioneer settlers of this . region. The deceased graduated from the Nevada City’ high school in: 1886. She was one of Nevada City’s first telephone operators, working before the telephone exchange was estah. lished here. She was a frequent visitor in town /and was well liked by every one. The funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock at the St. Canice Cath,Olic Church Wednesday. Rev. Father Patrick O’Reilly will officiate: Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery. A rosary service will be held tomorrow night at the Holmes Funeral Home. Friends \are invifed to call at the Holmes parlors until Wednesday morning, ‘Miss Keenean leaves four sisters, Grace, Maude and Mabel Keenan of Nevada City and Mrs. Hannah GriArizone. Two nephews, Austin and Atherton Grimes of Arizona, and a cousin, Mrs. Rose Means of Nevada City, also survive. Carpenter — Ends Life F, CLUPHF ATTACHES STOVE PIPE TO CAR EXHAUST . Attaching a stove pipe to the exhaust of his automobile and then covering the upper part of his body with canvas to prevent the fumes from escaping, Frank Cluphf, 65, Chicago Park district carpenter, ended his life during the night. The body of Cluphf was found today by Karl Merkle; a neighbor. Coroner A. M. Holmes, who investigated, found two notes. One signed by Cluphf and addressed to Phil Roth read: “Dear Brother: I can’t go any further. See that I am cremated and ashes buried at Burengton, Colo., at the side of my two sisters.” The other note, unsigned but apparenty in Cluphf’s handwriting read: “My Dear Brother Harry: Good bye to you and your family and may God bless you all. Good bye to all my friends.” : Coroner Holmes is seeking the whereabouts of Mrs. Cluphf, who was last seen yesterday afternoon walking down the highway near their home with a suitcase in her hand. The body of Cluphf is at the Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. OLD TIMERS TOBE HONORED The old timers of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce will be honored tonight, by the local booster or‘ganization':at a banquet at the National Hotel. : There are approximately 20 members of the local chamber who have been long time members and the banquet will pay respect to their past and present work. Lloyd Dudley is chairman of the ‘committee arranging for the “Old Timers ean it oe Prec? Blisha.Curtis of this city tished terly, Cael the American River last week,

# ih see i Ss Lge ead ee SH la Racin RG aie es C= The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per Cva U ” Thi eget Ss paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your Wisnils friends, your neighbors, read { sd COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nugget. moe Vol. 15, No. 60. e __The County Seat Paper_ NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA. ___The Gold Center_-___ MONDAY, JULY 28, 1941. Thinking . Sheriff Tobiassen Overpowers Gun Wielder Heart IIIness Ends In Out eee d Crazed Man Man Fires Shots , Pat Collins attempted to stop him bake ag! Several Ranch ‘ At T: A bil but Collins was told: milies Bef. ‘ By H. M. L. : cL 5 “You obey orders or I’ll kill you.” Capenred — Death For Miss Keenan, A good many years ago, in fact a& few weeks after the great eanthquake which started the big fire in San Francisco, the city editor of the San Francisco Examiner phoned the night editor .of the Sacramento Union that there was job open at $50 per week on tho‘ Examiner, and if the Sacramento newsman wanted it he had better ‘ come quickly. A quick decision was made. The owner of the Union, Alfred Holman, graciously gave his consent to a short-notice resignation, and the young man showed up at the temporary Examiner building on Embarcadero, shortly after midnight the next day. He walked into the great barn like structure and saw a sour looking individual slouched before a large roll top desk. Around man and desk ‘there was a vague aura of authority. He was the smanaging editor. The rest of the city room staff were apparently out fora midnight lunch. The new comer walked over to the desk, stated he © was a new man on the staff and inquirad about a place -to obtain room and board. Att that time during the chaotic aftermath of the great fire, these accommodations were hard to obtain. ‘‘Well’’, said the fellow at the desk, looking out from under the brim of a black fedora hat, ‘I am staying at the Little St. Francis,’ and with that resumed his reading of a piece of copy. The Little St. Francis was a temporary structure the Crockers had been permitted to. build in Union Square, pending repairs on th huge hostelry across Powell street from the square. Rates for poard and room were $8 per day and up. The new staff member’s salary per week was just six dolJars less than the weekly board and reom bill at the Little St. Francis would have been. The chap at the Examiner desk was Charles Michelson, and the young fellow who asked for a little information, was the writer of this column. And from that day to this we have never specially favored Charles Michelson, He has gone a long way since then to become the $25,000 a year smearer of President Hoover and later to hold the post of publicity manager for the National Demecratic Committee at the same salary. He was able to succeed so well in our humble opinion, because early in life he had removed from his bowels all human compassion and lacked congentally any milk of human kindness. However, in today’s mail there arrived a letter. from Charlie Michelson—one of those letters he calls “Dispelling the Fog’’, and the thought expressed there jumps so completely with the views of this writer that we reproduce it herewith, not in the interest of Charlie ‘Michelson’s personal fortunes or for political reasons, but because _ we consider it the sound view of every patriotic citizen who takes the trouble to think: “Bstablishment of an American military base on Iceland is generally applauded as an obviously intelligent element in our defense preparations. “Of course, the isolationists are clamoring that the President should have gone to Congress and gained Con'gressional cooperation in the project before closing up the deal, and there has been much oratory concerning infraction of the constitutional provision reserving to Congress the power to declare war, etc. “Now just suppose the President had gone to Congress with his proposal that Iceland should be garrisoned by Yankee troops as part of our defense program, and particularly to forestall Hitler from seizing that vantage point— Senator Wheeler would have stressed his determination to oppose what he calls an approach to ‘war; Senator Nye would have voiced his variation of the theme and Senator Taft would have conrtibuted his version of the Hmitations on the President's Powers as Comom + en on Page tires 4for a wild man in the vicinity of that morning stopped at Benjamin Franklin Coffman, 55, lumber worker, was overpowered Friday by Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen on the Mays Ranch near Smartville after Coffman had fired two bullets from a shotgun at passing cars and threatened to kill several families in the vicinity. Coffman has been committed ot a state institution. Sheriff Tobiassen, Deputy Carl Larsen and Game Warden Earl Hiscox were preparing to begin a hunt Purdon’s Crossing when a call came in from Smartville on Coffman’s activities. When -the officers. arrived at Hill Crest they were told Coffman at 5:30 at the Hill Crest Service Station and began kindling a fire in front of the gasoline pumps. Coffman pointed a pump shotgun at Collins. In the meantime, Mrs. Collins went out the back way to the Thomas Ranch. Thomas started his car to go into Smartville to notify the of-. ficers, As théycar passed Coffman, the officers were told, he fired a shot, the pellets penetrating the rear of the car. as An‘ unidentified motorist, driving up the Narrows Dam Road was menaced by the shot®uii wielder. Instead of stépping the motorist speeded up. and continued, despite a flat tire resulting from a blast from Coffman’s shotgun. Coffman then left the Hill Crest the Empire the entire station and went to Raneh, where he routed Tom Mc Mooney family who reside there. He threatened to kill each one but on a sudden whim left and went to the Mays Ranch, where Mrs. Mays resides alone, The officers on their arrival surrounded the Mays home. They saw Coffman sitting on a bench. Tobiassen, behind the protection of an oleandér bush slowly crept toward Coffman. When he got within §fifteen feet of him, Tobiassen jumped Coffman attempted to reach for his gun, Which was. alongside of him, but Tobidssen overpowered him and put the handeuffs-upon him. upon him. Coffman was brought to the county jail here and later committed : to a state hospital by Superior, .Judge George L. Jones. Fifty Seven Feet Total Believed Record By Tunnel Boss A record for a single day’s tunnel work is claimed by Tunnel Boss Harry Scott, picturesque one legged nationally known “sandhog” and his crew of men driving a four mile-long power tunnel for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company near Dutch Flat. Fifty seven feet of progress was made in one twenty four hour day one of the three tunnels being driven. The nature of the ground, ali serpentine, requires timbering every inch of the way. The bore is 10 1-2 11 feet in size. Superintendent J. E. Cooney, speaking conservatively, said he act lieves the fifty feet to be a record, for such projects but Tunnel Boss . Scott is emphatic in his claim of a record. Greater distances have’ been: made in one day on other tunnels but no timbering was required. . There are 185 men ee nee by m tunnel and the one Record Set In Tunnel Driving the tunnel project. The 21,000 foot tunnel will have a. flow of 550 second feet of water. Construction of a power house on the river below the tunnel mouth is Excavation for to be started soon, the power house began last week. The electricity developed by the new plant will be absorbed into the Bo G, a i: At the three headings progress of 100 feet a day is being made. At present the upstream tunnel has been driven 3,300 feet. The downstream in 2,300 feet and 2,200 the third system. tunnel is feet has been made on heading. Superintendent Cooney said most: (of, the men employed on the project ‘are regular P. G. & E. workers who helped build the Dobbins, Yuba Co. completed in . Project Four Mile Long Tunnel To Develop Power For .P. G. & E. System . Stanislaus County before the Dobbins tunnel was started. There are some Placer and Nevada County miners employed in the tunnel work. Despite the encountering of sliding ground, Superintendent Cooney reports the work is proceeding near schedule. Because the serpentine in some spots buckled heavy 10 by 10 timbers gunniting was necessary. Gunnting stops the sliding serpentine . by preventing the air from reaching Lt: The work is expected to be completed by next January. The tunnel will be lined with concrete and steel. The work supervision of O. W. Peterson, enis under the general gineer for tunnel construction for the P. G. & E. CARLT. LARSEN. TO BE ELECTED NFW FIRE CHIEF The annual election and Pioneer Park picnic of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Department will be held

between 6 and 8 p. m. tonight. Deputy Sheriff Carl TJarsen. at present assistant fire chief, will, following years of custom, be elevated to the position of chief but unfortunately Larsen will be unable to be present tonight. Larsen is attending . ’ a police school at Berkeley. Luther Marsh is the retiring chief. Richard Goyne is in, charge of arrangements for the feast to be enjoyed by firemen and guests. TWO OFFICERS . ATTEND SCHOO. During the next two weeks, Chief of Police Max Solaro and Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen will attend an officers national defense school at the University of California.’ in Berkeley. The two left here a. to attend the school, which opened today and will continue until August 9th. Ernest Young will handle the fire department duties in th eabsence of Solaro. Writer Leases Home— David Lamson, short story writer and novelist, and family, have leased a house in Nevada City. Mr. Lamson was formerly a member of Stanford University faculty. He finds Nevada City a quiet spot in which to write. Some of his stories have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. DUTCH FLAT SPEAKER Ed. C. Uren of this city, a native of Dutch Flat, attended the Colfax Lions Club gathering in Dutch Flat last week and gave an interesting talk on some of the early day incidents about. Dutch Flat. delegates on the trip. LOCAL ROTARY DEL ATTENDING DISTRICT CONCLAVE IGATES H. E, Kjorlie, president, and Fred C. Garrison, secretary, of the local Rotary Club, are due to return tomorrow from the district Rotary convention being held in Oakland. Mrs, Kjorlie accompanied the local The: Grass Valley Rotary is represented at the conclave by Ray Pengelly, president and H. W. Robinson, secretary. SLIGHT ACCIDENT ON TAHOEUKIAH HIGHWAY FRIDAY Carl Kitts) patrolman of the California Highway Patrol, was called to the Five Mile House. Friday following the report of an automobile accident. His investigation disclosed a fender of a machine was damaged in a slight accident with a Zeibright Mine truck. Recovering From Injury— William Moulton is from a knee injury. recovering All the fields are barren, All the flowers are dead, The armies of the V. And “‘Victory!”’ And “Victory!” Your armies of the V. VICTORY! There's naught but wild winds crying And storm wrack overhead. But over shell marked roadways And through each trampled vale, Shadowy forms are marching Their faces grim and pale. With hands and bodies shackled But minds still brave and free, They come from every conquered land, In dreams, beloved banners Still float before them there And anthems of the homeland Are whispered as in prayer. We cannot see them clearly, Nor hear their measured tread, They march in grim faced silence By dreams of Freedom led; is the watchword, They cry, ‘Now break the chains by tyrants forged, Our Freedom shall not die;” March on, march on in silence, Await the word, the hour, When Liberty shall rise again And men shall know its power. March on, March on, resistless As strong tides of the sea, We too are of your army, CITY’S FIRST TELEPHONE OPERATORS 2 i Rose Keenan, one women of this area, died at the months heart illness. BRADLEYS SHIP BARYTES FROM WASHINGTON ees or barium sulphate, as it. is commonly called, is being mined . at the Bradley properties, one and a, half miles north of the Spanish Mine at ‘the rate of 7 tons per day. The ore body is from 9 to 12 feet! developed to a depth of 250 feét on’ the steep north side of the South . Yuba, through open cut workings. Three aiffie asante a ‘constant, tonnage, which is hauled through. Washington to the top of the grade! on this side of the river where it is deposited in bins about half a mile from the Tahoe-Ukiah Highway. Two small trucks, hauling about four tons each, make nine.round trips daily between the: mine and thé bins. From the bins the ore is taken by . heavier equipment with trailers, ; . hauling approximately 20 tons, to’ ‘the reduction plant at Stockton. Barytes is very heavy, weighing ! . 280 pounds to the cubic foot. .o1 . iabout 7 cubie feet to the ton, while quartz weighs 166. pounds tothe foot, or a little over 12 cubic feet to. the ton. The baryte ore from the Bradley property is said to be 96 per ent pure. It is used principally in the/ . aduiteration of paint; the claim ba! ing made that one third baryites, one third’ zinc oxide and one third white lead makes a better paint than pure white lead. It is also used in the making of putty, or pottery, in the mannfacture of calendared paper, in window blinds, and is used extensively in sealing off oil wells far beneaith the surface. The hydrate is used in the refining of sugar where it takes the place of lime, and' the element barium is used in making the green flame in fireworks. There is said to be in the neighborhood of 4000,000 tons of baryte available at the Spanish, although but 60,000 tons have been. contracted for at this time. Four To Leave August 6 For Military Training Nevada County’s selectees for the 16th call under the Selective Service Act have been chosen and will leave here on Wednesday, August 6th, at 7 a. m. for a year’s military training. The men will be sent to an induction station of the United States Army at Sacramento. The four selected are: 802—-Robert Edgar McCallum, 1900 Ohio St., Vallejo. 805—Julius Joshua Self. Gen: Dei. Challis, Idaho. $30-——Rolland Henry Jewett. 1, Box 380, Mt. View. Cal. V-1041—-Robert Lee Byrd. Gen. Del. Grass Valley, Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post Officers Will Be Installed On August 5 Harry French of Florin, sixth district commander of the American Ru —A. MERRIAM CONNER. Legion, will install the new officers of the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post of Grass Valley and Névada City at the Veterans Memiriai Building tn Graés Valley dn August 5tti. Al Burke will be séated a5 new commander, succeeding W. W. Esin width, is in slate, and has Been ijmes of Phoenix, Prominent Local Lady LILLIAN R ROSE KEENAN WAS ONE OF NEVADA of the most widely known family home on the Champion Road at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after a several Miss Keenan was born in the home in which she died. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Keenan, pioneer settlers of this . region. The deceased graduated from the Nevada City’ high school in: 1886. She was one of Nevada City’s first telephone operators, working before the telephone exchange was estah. lished here. She was a frequent visitor in town /and was well liked by every one. The funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock at the St. Canice Cath,Olic Church Wednesday. Rev. Father Patrick O’Reilly will officiate: Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery. A rosary service will be held tomorrow night at the Holmes Funeral Home. Friends \are invifed to call at the Holmes parlors until Wednesday morning, ‘Miss Keenean leaves four sisters, Grace, Maude and Mabel Keenan of Nevada City and Mrs. Hannah GriArizone. Two nephews, Austin and Atherton Grimes of Arizona, and a cousin, Mrs. Rose Means of Nevada City, also survive. Carpenter — Ends Life F, CLUPHF ATTACHES STOVE PIPE TO CAR EXHAUST . Attaching a stove pipe to the exhaust of his automobile and then covering the upper part of his body with canvas to prevent the fumes from escaping, Frank Cluphf, 65, Chicago Park district carpenter, ended his life during the night. The body of Cluphf was found today by Karl Merkle; a neighbor. Coroner A. M. Holmes, who investigated, found two notes. One signed by Cluphf and addressed to Phil Roth read: “Dear Brother: I can’t go any further. See that I am cremated and ashes buried at Burengton, Colo., at the side of my two sisters.” The other note, unsigned but apparenty in Cluphf’s handwriting read: “My Dear Brother Harry: Good bye to you and your family and may God bless you all. Good bye to all my friends.” : Coroner Holmes is seeking the whereabouts of Mrs. Cluphf, who was last seen yesterday afternoon walking down the highway near their home with a suitcase in her hand. The body of Cluphf is at the Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. OLD TIMERS TOBE HONORED The old timers of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce will be honored tonight, by the local booster or‘ganization':at a banquet at the National Hotel. : There are approximately 20 members of the local chamber who have been long time members and the banquet will pay respect to their past and present work. Lloyd Dudley is chairman of the ‘committee arranging for the “Old Timers ean it oe Prec? Blisha.Curtis of this city tished terly, Cael the American River last week,