July 28, 1950 (6 pages)

—— sail Nevada County Recreation © Tell’ Your Friends About Unsurpassed in California Cool Nevada City Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c ; Nevada City (Nevada County) California, July 28, 1950 LINDSAY TERMS GRAND CAMPFIRE STARTS Yi f); INVESTIGATION A FIRE IN SCOTT'S FLAT YIGOOKATY JURY BUNCH OF MALARKEY FIVE INJURED WHEN CAR ROLLS 400 FEET . Approximately two and a half acres burned Friday when an unDOWN CANYON BANK a VMN fy Aa “A bunch of malarkey,”’ was extinguished campfire on top of an old sawdust pile spread in the area between the old Scott’s Flat to an announced investigation by dam and the Almquist sawmill, the Placer county grand jury that before it was controlled by supit was prepared to “investigate _pression crews of the state divithoroughly the finances of Lindsion of forestry. say and the Placer soil conservaRanger Don Knowlton and AStion district.” sistant Ranger Joseph Weselsky Lindsay is chairman of the soil directed the suppression crews. district’s board of: directors arid Knowlton asks campers and the description . Assemblyman Francis B. Lindsay, Loomis, gave author of a bill that would set up When we started our weekly a, million dollar revolving fund sportsmen to use extreme caution in use of fire and cigarettes in trips into the Sierras four months for heavy equipment used by the forests and eliminate mdn Five employes of the Cal-Ida Lumber company escaped serious injury Friday night when their ear left the highway near Dépot Hill and rolled 400 feet into the canyon. The car, according to the oetu ! Twenty-Third Year, Number 30 SUPERVISOR TOBIASSEN CHANGES STAND ON PERSONNEL SURVEY AS BOARD APPROVES PROGRAM 301 The Nevada county board of supervisors Tuesday evening took one of its most progressive. steps in many years by adopting the personnel and salary survey pre pared by John England and his staff this past spring. The was crowded off the road by an board excluded from the adopted survey that part which pants, left highway 49 when it oncoming car. Injured were. Pat Conway, 37, and Jack Wright, 52, Nevada City; Edward R. Nunley, 37, and pertained to the county hospital, the road commissioner’s office and the constable of* ment was concerned. Veale stated, Meadow Lake township. his staff had worked out a three ago we assembled a set of maps. farmers in soil conservation prac. made fires. The program is expected to Orville King, 36, Grass Valley, step program and preferred it to On one—the Tahoe national fortices. cost an estimated $15,904 during and Jack Graham, 27, Chico. the survey or the status quo. Lindsay said, “I have no comest map—we trace a black pencil the first complete year of its opGraham, Nunley and King were Loehr led the study of individment other than that I have seeration, and ‘will go into full efline on each route as we cover it. thrown from the vehicle as it ual’ salary considerations with cured an opinion from the legisfect on Jan. 1. ‘ Each trip is a circle tour; we lative counsel and was told my rolled down the embankment. Tobiassén making a big share of The board had turned the sur. rarely retrace a road except to acts were perfectly legal. They crawled up the canyon vey down completely on July 5,. the salary. recommendations. As Starting Tuesday the Nevada wall to the highway and sumby a 3-1 vote, with Supervisors chairman, Rowe presided, and oc“I am.a bonded officer of the ‘enter and leave Nevada City. casionally made a_ suggestion. county: hospital will féed county moned help from passing motorPlacer soil conservation district Carl J. Tobiassen, Jerome CoughAt first there were.short trips Coughlan refused to participate : : and no funds can be spent exjail prisons at an estimated cosv ists. lan and Chairman Warren Odell. and the map looked as though we in the study or discussion. of 45 cents a meal following an. cept with the counter-signature Nunley suffered an almost secasting the thumbs-down ballots. had drawn a set of rough fingers of the secretary Upon completion of the study and approved by order Monday by the board of vered ear, Wright sustained a Supervisor Frank J. Rowe, who . Tuesday afternoon the supervisupervisors. centering in the home town.‘ As the county auditor.” punctured lung and all received cast the only affirmative vote on. sors arrived at tentative recomLast year the, county spent the weather grew warmer the fractured ribs, cuts and bruises. July 5, and Supervisor Henry G.! mended salary increases of $12,$7,312.80 for feeding prisoners loops grew larger. Now the map Loehr brought the issue back into. 372 for the one year they were in the, county jail. Supervisor looks like a great spider web; discussion during Monday’s ses. considering. This figure did not Henry . Loehr said.the county will every radiating road has been sion. The board »wranged until. include the réad department or save about $500 the first two touched. 11:30 that evening, adjourned'un-' Meadow Lake township constayears despite a capital outlay of til Tuesday afternoon, spent three ' Some of the ecross-roads, espeble. The board had received a A seven-car caravan containing $1,800 for a pickup truck and more hours in hopeless deadlock,' cially above the 7,000 foot level ruling from District Attorney 26 persons toured the historic hyutensils necessary to transport Leslie D. and Hazel Hughes and met again in the evening “near the heart of the Sierras, look filed a complaint in Nevada coun-. when the survey was finally ac-. Vernon Stoll that a constable as particularly inviting. Our jeep draulic mining country of Nethe meals. an elective officer, could not draw The action was taken followty superior court asking $350,000 . cepted with a 3-1 vote. Tobias-. has been tested on some but much vada county Sunday in the fifth additional compensation as ,an Nethe by conduct trip annual damages from the F. M. Rumbley . ed ing a discussion by the board on sen’s reversal of opposition ended . of the most rugged country still appointed officer. N.F. Dolley, Society. Historic County vada company for injuries alleged to al the present system of supplying the heated discussion which saw beckons with an inviting chalMeadow Lake constable, also. is. have resulted from an automomeals at a cost 89 cents each by Robert D. Paine, leader of the one county official shake a fist lenge. ‘ serving as deputy sheriff without. bile-truck cash on highway 40 o at him. Coughlan automatically. -Most useful are the U. S. geotour, was commentator on the trip local restaurants, which the suApril 7, this year. compensation and the survey rec, pervisors considered out of line cast a nay vote. Loehr motioned ' logical survey maps. We have a and was assisted by Mrs. Isabel ommended. half-deputy pay or Hefelfinger, president of the sowith the type According to the. complaint, of food to adopt the survey as it was fi-' that is beset of six quadrangles covering i $1,392 annually. Mrs. Hughes sustained fractures nally accepted and Tobiassen secthe area for 200 miles out of Neciety; Mrs. Doris Foley, past presing served. With the same deletions the ident, and George Legg. onded. and other injuries and “probably vada City in all directions. One England survey totaled $13,336 will be crippled for life.” She reMonday. Loehr had motioned to The tour through the hydraulic disadvantage is that modern DISMISSED quests $300,000 general damages adopt a blanket increase of $10 increase in county salaries, or a roads are not shown on the surdiggings and the ghost’ towns of difference of $964 from the figure Superior Court Judge James plus medical and hospital exper month for clerks and $5 per arrived at by the supervisors. vey: maps but they are invaluable the county included Blue Tent, ; month for department heads, defor contours, elevations, old landEdwards Crossing, Lake City, Snell Friday dismissed a .charge penses and loss of earnings. Rowe urged the adoption of claring he favored England’s sur-! Hughes charges both legs were marks, and historic names. Most North Bloomfield, Graniteville, of contributing to delinquency of England’s survey in*place of the. a minor filed against Clyde Fisk, injured and that he suffered sevey, and the blanket increase was supervisors’ hasty figures deelarof the surveys were made 50 or Orleans Flat, and Moore’s Flat. 60 years ago and of course there Points of interest along the' on motion of District Attorney vere injuries to his entire body. only a stop-gap. The motion died ing that for $964 the county could is no need to change them in the route included the stage coach Vernon: Stoli. A superior court He asks $50,000 general damages for want of a second. get satisfied employees, with. an The stop-gap motion would "more recent reprints. holdups on the Rock creek grade,. jury earlier in the month failed and medical and hospital exhave cost the county an estimatincentive to keep their positions stage stop: at Mt. Vernon House, to reach a verdict in the case. penses and loss of earnings. see), Ce ed $11,000 annualHy as compared and work for advancement. Edwards Crossing site of a toll Fisk was charged with displaying The plaintiffs are represented Mrs. Jean Rowe Keeny, ac~ to England’s complete survey reccountant in the county clerk’s Real estate men tell us this is bridge near where Barry Connors lewd pictures to a Nevada City by Miller and Kroloff, Stockton ommendation of $17,305. The attorneys. the active season for sales, that wrote “Apple Sauce” and “Dulelementary school student. blanket increase as proposed by office, appeared before the board. cie,’ Kennebec House,:the Malthey are unable to list sufficient Loehr would have excluded the appealing on behalf of the courtproperties of the kind sought. Esakoff, Hegarty’s store in Moore’s district attorney, superior court house employees for: the adoppecially in demand are well-built Flat; the Victor Buck ranch on judge, auditor, and the supervition of the survey. “There is no incentive to work,” Mrs. Keeny> cabins on nice view sites, obviOrleans Flat, and Graniteville. sors. ously the kind of place city folks Rowe called the blanket insaid. “The wage scale is,.some=~ thing to work for and permits us; want for summer vacations. Yet crease recommendation “Just the land must be sufficient to sucker bait,” and was not a satto know where we stand.” Mrs. Keeny said the county employees. provide for a garden, chickens, The first step in the prohibition of slavery in California was isfactory solution to the problem. and pasture, which would inditaken at Rose’s Bar, the first settlement of Nevada county, during “Let’s turn them down cold,” don’t want,a blanket raise ana; have to appear before the board. cate that buyers have in mind the summer of 1849, according to Major E. A. Sherman, who arrived was Tobiassén’s suggestion. Toevery time a raise is in order. Rainfall during the past year eventually retiring to “the little in Nevada county on June 17 of that year. biassen said England’s claim the in Nevada City totaled 51.14 The survey would give a’ county place in the hills.” The slavery question atose when a General Green from Texas survey would place Nevada counemployee a feeling of» security inches, according to Fred Bush, arrived with several Negro slaves and proceeded to stake out claims ty salaries on a comparable basis One broker, knowing he had local weather recorder. It was positive sales opportunities, asked the second wettest year in Nefor each of his chattels, the ownership of the claims being retained with neighboring counties and and permancy, she added. Mrs. Keeny cited the case of several contractors to offer estivada City since the season of by Green as the slave owner. : rid the county of wage inequaliMrs. Anna Tucker, who recently: When the general’s action. became noised about the miners ties, “hasn’t done either.” . mates on the type of construction 1944-45. retired after serving as a county: protested vigorously and advised Green trouble might develop. The he had in niind. But he says he Coughlan moticned that all inThe rainfall during the past general declared he would take up as many claims as he had creases including the welfare deemployee intermittently — since: is unable to interest builders. year was more than double the 1918, and who at the time of reWith increasing interest in Neprevious year when only 21.27 slaves and work as many of them as he saw fit and if interfered partment be turned down, but his tirement from’ her long service: with, would fight. motion also died for lack of a vada county as a recreation parainches of rain fell. am) was drawing only $200, without. A meeting second. was called by the miners and: was held on what dise and as an ideal place for reThe 1947-48 season was the social security and _ retirement. George Lowry, county welfate tirement, it seems to me local wettest during the period when was known as the “Governors’ claim” because the three miners benefits. During her long years: director, who operated appeared before the suit were ex-governors of three eastern states. Joseph construction capital is missing a 54.24 inches were recorded. Other of service to the county she had. good bet. Builders as a rule say season totals included 1946-47, E. Shannon, an exgovernor of Ohio, was the principal speaker. pervisors and pointed out that no incentive to remain at the job. half of the department’: salaries there are too many headaches in34.69; 1945-46, 48.97; 1944-45, Randolph Peters of the Philadelphia company, presided and. James Rowe, who was displaying exis paid from Reynolds , state Rose’s partner, funds and‘ unwas secretary. A resolution was adopted volved in the small cabin jobs to 52.59. asperation at the stalemate, had’ be worth considering. But if capHeaviest precipitation in 101 “that no slave-owneng should bring slaves into the mines and take less the county conformed to the by this time clasped his head in. state schedule claims in their names, nor should slaves be allowed to work for it would be Possiital and labor costs involved are years of recorded rainfall came ble the county would lose state his hands and looked at’ Coughrelatively small, there should be during the 1867-68 season when .any man in the mines.” Coughlan told: aid. Lowry’s recommended inlan despairingly. Sherman, having known Green during the Mexic steady employment for the small115.26 inches of moisture fell. an war, was creases the chairman, “You can’t bull Tofor his department would er contractors. Bush also reports 76% inches a member of the committee appointed to acquaint Gen. Green of biassen into voting your way. have totaled $948. of measure snow covered Nevada the action of the miners. The committee advised the ‘general to You can’t be bulled ‘into voting a, . a, Loehr opened Tuesday’s aftereither send his slaves back to Texas or set them free. The City during the winter. against the way you think, and general noon session with the suggestion was angry and talked~of resisting, but the following day This week’s temperatures: One couple I talked to had you shouldn’t expect anyone else. he sold the board consi der the survey Max. Min. his claims and departed. grown weary of city life and they to do so.” When instructions came from Gen. Bennett Riley, military step by step and consider each 48 spent an entire summer searching Friday, July 21 .. 89 The meeting adjourned at 5: case indiv idually. governor of California, to hold an election for delegates to the 47 p.m., and reconvened at 7 o’clock. for the country place they wantSaturday, July 22 . 93 conTobiassen objected’ to the surstitutional convention in Monterey, the miners of the area electe 45 for the evening session that saw-. ed. They traveled from San Diego Sunday, July 23 .. 94 d vey on the grounds that the acthe survey adopted. Shann on as 49 one of the delegates with instructions that the consticounty to Vancouver, and finally Monday, July 24 .. 93, tution should provide that slavery -would be forever prohibited in companying expense would come 52 The board adopted Veale’s plam found just the spot they wanted Tuesday, July 25 . 95 at a bad time, with a sharp rise the state of California. 95 50 for. the’county hospital and apnear Nevada City. Though their Wednesday, July 26 in taxes due through the increasproved $25 ' The news of the action taken at Rose’s Bar 51 children are grown, these folks Thursday, July 27 . 92 monthly salary in-. spread all over the ed load in the welfare depar t-. creases to the civil engineeringmining camps and when the provision came before are still active and 4énterested in the convention it ment. He added a supervisor has assistant, engineering aid, and ac-was adopted without debate. Sherman voted many things and they find just for the consti OFFICERS INSTALLED in Sacramento on Nov. 13, 1849, before he was 21. Sherm tution to consider both sides of the count clerk of the road depart-. the righ. measure of town and an exquestion. The public officials and ment.These actions take effect: country life here. Clarence E. Martz, District plained that youths of 15 were permitted to vote at that election &mployees are on one shoulder immediately. Their decision to locate here Deputy Grand President of the on the grounds that any youngster who had made his*way to Caliand the taxpayers are on the England’s survey is\a guide by~ hinged on two things: exactly the Native Sons of the Golden West fornia was conceded to have attained manhood. ‘ other. Sherm which the county can equitably: an docked in San Francisco on May 24, 1849, and found right elevation for pine forests installed officers of the DownieRowe interjected the taxpayers reward employees on the basis of and the mountain vegétation they ville Parlor No. 92, NSGW, and the town celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday, He and several know of the increase and are willthe difficulty and responsibility — love and an abundance of good Mrs. Rachel Kuhfeld of Alleghaother men each paid $16 for the privilege of rowing an open boat ing to share the burden. of the work they are performing. water. Many areas which fitted ny, District Deputy Grand Presto the embarcadero of Sutter’s Fort (now Sacramento) the trip of Tobiassen asserted he was still their pattern in other respects ident of the Native Daughters, 120 miles taking three and a half days. dissatisfied with the survey. MRS. NAFFZIGER CALLED Hundreds of men were prospecting the Yuba river when : had either too much or too little installed officers of Naomi Parlor SherRowe claimed that if the asWord has been received in Neman and his party arrived, but they staked out claims and went sembled super water. The coastal valleys of No. 36, NDGW, at Downieville visors considered vada City of the death of Mrs. to work. ? southern California are on a strict Monday .evening of last week. each individual case in the surLizzie Naffziger in San FrancisThe miners celebrated their first Fourth of July in Nevada vey they The meeting was held in the water allotment and there is no would know what Toco. Her parents were in business — hope: of immediate relief. And lodge hall in Downieville and was county by paying a visit to the first white woman they ever saw biassen’s dissatisfaction was. in Nevada City during the latter the verdant river valleys of Oreattended by about 75 members. in the mines. She was an Oregon woman, in a Boomer costume Charles W. Veale, county hospart of the 19th century. She had Charles Veale assisted Martz as made entirely from buckskin, and she had accompanied her husband pital superinten gon are fertile and pretty. but dent, who attendmade her home with her son, there is too much rain for commarshal and Mrs. Esther McClusin an ox-cart. She baked biscuits for the miners and received gened both sessions, decl ared he preHoward Naffziger, eminent Dr. sur. — fort. Nevada county offers the key performed the same service €rous payment, many miners often giving her a sack of flour or ferred the status quo to the salgeon on the staff of the tor Mrs. Kuhfeld. : specimens of nuggets for payment. Univer. _ happy medium. ary survey as far as his depart COUNTY HOSPITAL WILL FEED PRISONERS HISTORICAL CARAVAN TOURS MINING AREA PAST SEASON SECOND WETTEST IN 5 YEARS $350,000 DAMAGES — ASKED IN COMPLAINT ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA AS A FREE STATE RESULTED FROM INCIDENT AT ROSE'S BAR IN NEVADA COUNTY DURING SUMMER OF 1849 sity of. California i} f ig OF

—— sail Nevada County Recreation © Tell’ Your Friends About Unsurpassed in California Cool Nevada City Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c ; Nevada City (Nevada County) California, July 28, 1950 LINDSAY TERMS GRAND CAMPFIRE STARTS Yi f); INVESTIGATION A FIRE IN SCOTT'S FLAT YIGOOKATY JURY BUNCH OF MALARKEY FIVE INJURED WHEN CAR ROLLS 400 FEET . Approximately two and a half acres burned Friday when an unDOWN CANYON BANK a VMN fy Aa “A bunch of malarkey,”’ was extinguished campfire on top of an old sawdust pile spread in the area between the old Scott’s Flat to an announced investigation by dam and the Almquist sawmill, the Placer county grand jury that before it was controlled by supit was prepared to “investigate _pression crews of the state divithoroughly the finances of Lindsion of forestry. say and the Placer soil conservaRanger Don Knowlton and AStion district.” sistant Ranger Joseph Weselsky Lindsay is chairman of the soil directed the suppression crews. district’s board of: directors arid Knowlton asks campers and the description . Assemblyman Francis B. Lindsay, Loomis, gave author of a bill that would set up When we started our weekly a, million dollar revolving fund sportsmen to use extreme caution in use of fire and cigarettes in trips into the Sierras four months for heavy equipment used by the forests and eliminate mdn Five employes of the Cal-Ida Lumber company escaped serious injury Friday night when their ear left the highway near Dépot Hill and rolled 400 feet into the canyon. The car, according to the oetu ! Twenty-Third Year, Number 30 SUPERVISOR TOBIASSEN CHANGES STAND ON PERSONNEL SURVEY AS BOARD APPROVES PROGRAM 301 The Nevada county board of supervisors Tuesday evening took one of its most progressive. steps in many years by adopting the personnel and salary survey pre pared by John England and his staff this past spring. The was crowded off the road by an board excluded from the adopted survey that part which pants, left highway 49 when it oncoming car. Injured were. Pat Conway, 37, and Jack Wright, 52, Nevada City; Edward R. Nunley, 37, and pertained to the county hospital, the road commissioner’s office and the constable of* ment was concerned. Veale stated, Meadow Lake township. his staff had worked out a three ago we assembled a set of maps. farmers in soil conservation prac. made fires. The program is expected to Orville King, 36, Grass Valley, step program and preferred it to On one—the Tahoe national fortices. cost an estimated $15,904 during and Jack Graham, 27, Chico. the survey or the status quo. Lindsay said, “I have no comest map—we trace a black pencil the first complete year of its opGraham, Nunley and King were Loehr led the study of individment other than that I have seeration, and ‘will go into full efline on each route as we cover it. thrown from the vehicle as it ual’ salary considerations with cured an opinion from the legisfect on Jan. 1. ‘ Each trip is a circle tour; we lative counsel and was told my rolled down the embankment. Tobiassén making a big share of The board had turned the sur. rarely retrace a road except to acts were perfectly legal. They crawled up the canyon vey down completely on July 5,. the salary. recommendations. As Starting Tuesday the Nevada wall to the highway and sumby a 3-1 vote, with Supervisors chairman, Rowe presided, and oc“I am.a bonded officer of the ‘enter and leave Nevada City. casionally made a_ suggestion. county: hospital will féed county moned help from passing motorPlacer soil conservation district Carl J. Tobiassen, Jerome CoughAt first there were.short trips Coughlan refused to participate : : and no funds can be spent exjail prisons at an estimated cosv ists. lan and Chairman Warren Odell. and the map looked as though we in the study or discussion. of 45 cents a meal following an. cept with the counter-signature Nunley suffered an almost secasting the thumbs-down ballots. had drawn a set of rough fingers of the secretary Upon completion of the study and approved by order Monday by the board of vered ear, Wright sustained a Supervisor Frank J. Rowe, who . Tuesday afternoon the supervisupervisors. centering in the home town.‘ As the county auditor.” punctured lung and all received cast the only affirmative vote on. sors arrived at tentative recomLast year the, county spent the weather grew warmer the fractured ribs, cuts and bruises. July 5, and Supervisor Henry G.! mended salary increases of $12,$7,312.80 for feeding prisoners loops grew larger. Now the map Loehr brought the issue back into. 372 for the one year they were in the, county jail. Supervisor looks like a great spider web; discussion during Monday’s ses. considering. This figure did not Henry . Loehr said.the county will every radiating road has been sion. The board »wranged until. include the réad department or save about $500 the first two touched. 11:30 that evening, adjourned'un-' Meadow Lake township constayears despite a capital outlay of til Tuesday afternoon, spent three ' Some of the ecross-roads, espeble. The board had received a A seven-car caravan containing $1,800 for a pickup truck and more hours in hopeless deadlock,' cially above the 7,000 foot level ruling from District Attorney 26 persons toured the historic hyutensils necessary to transport Leslie D. and Hazel Hughes and met again in the evening “near the heart of the Sierras, look filed a complaint in Nevada coun-. when the survey was finally ac-. Vernon Stoll that a constable as particularly inviting. Our jeep draulic mining country of Nethe meals. an elective officer, could not draw The action was taken followty superior court asking $350,000 . cepted with a 3-1 vote. Tobias-. has been tested on some but much vada county Sunday in the fifth additional compensation as ,an Nethe by conduct trip annual damages from the F. M. Rumbley . ed ing a discussion by the board on sen’s reversal of opposition ended . of the most rugged country still appointed officer. N.F. Dolley, Society. Historic County vada company for injuries alleged to al the present system of supplying the heated discussion which saw beckons with an inviting chalMeadow Lake constable, also. is. have resulted from an automomeals at a cost 89 cents each by Robert D. Paine, leader of the one county official shake a fist lenge. ‘ serving as deputy sheriff without. bile-truck cash on highway 40 o at him. Coughlan automatically. -Most useful are the U. S. geotour, was commentator on the trip local restaurants, which the suApril 7, this year. compensation and the survey rec, pervisors considered out of line cast a nay vote. Loehr motioned ' logical survey maps. We have a and was assisted by Mrs. Isabel ommended. half-deputy pay or Hefelfinger, president of the sowith the type According to the. complaint, of food to adopt the survey as it was fi-' that is beset of six quadrangles covering i $1,392 annually. Mrs. Hughes sustained fractures nally accepted and Tobiassen secthe area for 200 miles out of Neciety; Mrs. Doris Foley, past presing served. With the same deletions the ident, and George Legg. onded. and other injuries and “probably vada City in all directions. One England survey totaled $13,336 will be crippled for life.” She reMonday. Loehr had motioned to The tour through the hydraulic disadvantage is that modern DISMISSED quests $300,000 general damages adopt a blanket increase of $10 increase in county salaries, or a roads are not shown on the surdiggings and the ghost’ towns of difference of $964 from the figure Superior Court Judge James plus medical and hospital exper month for clerks and $5 per arrived at by the supervisors. vey: maps but they are invaluable the county included Blue Tent, ; month for department heads, defor contours, elevations, old landEdwards Crossing, Lake City, Snell Friday dismissed a .charge penses and loss of earnings. Rowe urged the adoption of claring he favored England’s

sur-! Hughes charges both legs were marks, and historic names. Most North Bloomfield, Graniteville, of contributing to delinquency of England’s survey in*place of the. a minor filed against Clyde Fisk, injured and that he suffered sevey, and the blanket increase was supervisors’ hasty figures deelarof the surveys were made 50 or Orleans Flat, and Moore’s Flat. 60 years ago and of course there Points of interest along the' on motion of District Attorney vere injuries to his entire body. only a stop-gap. The motion died ing that for $964 the county could is no need to change them in the route included the stage coach Vernon: Stoli. A superior court He asks $50,000 general damages for want of a second. get satisfied employees, with. an The stop-gap motion would "more recent reprints. holdups on the Rock creek grade,. jury earlier in the month failed and medical and hospital exhave cost the county an estimatincentive to keep their positions stage stop: at Mt. Vernon House, to reach a verdict in the case. penses and loss of earnings. see), Ce ed $11,000 annualHy as compared and work for advancement.. Edwards Crossing site of a toll Fisk was charged with displaying The plaintiffs are represented Mrs. Jean Rowe Keeny, ac~ to England’s complete survey reccountant in the county clerk’s Real estate men tell us this is bridge near where Barry Connors lewd pictures to a Nevada City by Miller and Kroloff, Stockton ommendation of $17,305. The attorneys. the active season for sales, that wrote “Apple Sauce” and “Dulelementary school student. blanket increase as proposed by office, appeared before the board. cie,’ Kennebec House,:the Malthey are unable to list sufficient Loehr would have excluded the appealing on behalf of the courtproperties of the kind sought. Esakoff, Hegarty’s store in Moore’s district attorney, superior court house employees for: the adoppecially in demand are well-built Flat; the Victor Buck ranch on judge, auditor, and the supervition of the survey. “There is no incentive to work,” Mrs. Keeny> cabins on nice view sites, obviOrleans Flat, and Graniteville. sors. ously the kind of place city folks Rowe called the blanket insaid. “The wage scale is,.some=~ thing to work for and permits us; want for summer vacations. Yet crease recommendation “Just the land must be sufficient to sucker bait,” and was not a satto know where we stand.” Mrs. Keeny said the county employees. provide for a garden, chickens, The first step in the prohibition of slavery in California was isfactory solution to the problem. and pasture, which would inditaken at Rose’s Bar, the first settlement of Nevada county, during “Let’s turn them down cold,” don’t want,a blanket raise ana; have to appear before the board. cate that buyers have in mind the summer of 1849, according to Major E. A. Sherman, who arrived was Tobiassén’s suggestion. Toevery time a raise is in order. Rainfall during the past year eventually retiring to “the little in Nevada county on June 17 of that year. biassen said England’s claim the in Nevada City totaled 51.14 The survey would give a’ county place in the hills.” The slavery question atose when a General Green from Texas survey would place Nevada counemployee a feeling of» security inches, according to Fred Bush, arrived with several Negro slaves and proceeded to stake out claims ty salaries on a comparable basis One broker, knowing he had local weather recorder. It was positive sales opportunities, asked the second wettest year in Nefor each of his chattels, the ownership of the claims being retained with neighboring counties and and permancy, she added. Mrs. Keeny cited the case of several contractors to offer estivada City since the season of by Green as the slave owner. : rid the county of wage inequaliMrs. Anna Tucker, who recently: When the general’s action. became noised about the miners ties, “hasn’t done either.” . mates on the type of construction 1944-45. retired after serving as a county: protested vigorously and advised Green trouble might develop. The he had in niind. But he says he Coughlan moticned that all inThe rainfall during the past general declared he would take up as many claims as he had creases including the welfare deemployee intermittently — since: is unable to interest builders. year was more than double the 1918, and who at the time of reWith increasing interest in Neprevious year when only 21.27 slaves and work as many of them as he saw fit and if interfered partment be turned down, but his tirement from’ her long service: with, would fight. motion also died for lack of a vada county as a recreation parainches of rain fell. am) was drawing only $200, without. A meeting second. was called by the miners and: was held on what dise and as an ideal place for reThe 1947-48 season was the social security and _ retirement. George Lowry, county welfate tirement, it seems to me local wettest during the period when was known as the “Governors’ claim” because the three miners benefits. During her long years: director, who operated appeared before the suit were ex-governors of three eastern states. Joseph construction capital is missing a 54.24 inches were recorded. Other of service to the county she had. good bet. Builders as a rule say season totals included 1946-47, E. Shannon, an exgovernor of Ohio, was the principal speaker. pervisors and pointed out that no incentive to remain at the job. half of the department’: salaries there are too many headaches in34.69; 1945-46, 48.97; 1944-45, Randolph Peters of the Philadelphia company, presided and. James Rowe, who was displaying exis paid from Reynolds , state Rose’s partner, funds and‘ unwas secretary. A resolution was adopted volved in the small cabin jobs to 52.59. asperation at the stalemate, had’ be worth considering. But if capHeaviest precipitation in 101 “that no slave-owneng should bring slaves into the mines and take less the county conformed to the by this time clasped his head in. state schedule claims in their names, nor should slaves be allowed to work for it would be Possiital and labor costs involved are years of recorded rainfall came ble the county would lose state his hands and looked at’ Coughrelatively small, there should be during the 1867-68 season when .any man in the mines.” Coughlan told: aid. Lowry’s recommended inlan despairingly. Sherman, having known Green during the Mexic steady employment for the small115.26 inches of moisture fell. an war, was creases the chairman, “You can’t bull Tofor his department would er contractors. Bush also reports 76% inches a member of the committee appointed to acquaint Gen. Green of biassen into voting your way. have totaled $948. of measure snow covered Nevada the action of the miners. The committee advised the ‘general to You can’t be bulled ‘into voting a, . a, Loehr opened Tuesday’s aftereither send his slaves back to Texas or set them free. The City during the winter. against the way you think, and general noon session with the suggestion was angry and talked~of resisting, but the following day This week’s temperatures: One couple I talked to had you shouldn’t expect anyone else. he sold the board consi der the survey Max. Min. his claims and departed. grown weary of city life and they to do so.” When instructions came from Gen. Bennett Riley, military step by step and consider each 48 spent an entire summer searching Friday, July 21 .... 89 The meeting adjourned at 5: case indiv idually. governor of California, to hold an election for delegates to the 47 p.m., and reconvened at 7 o’clock. for the country place they wantSaturday, July 22 .. 93 conTobiassen objected’ to the surstitutional convention in Monterey, the miners of the area electe 45 for the evening session that saw-. ed. They traveled from San Diego Sunday, July 23 .... 94 d vey on the grounds that the acthe survey adopted. Shann on as 49 one of the delegates with instructions that the consticounty to Vancouver, and finally Monday, July 24 ... 93, tution should provide that slavery -would be forever prohibited in companying expense would come 52 The board adopted Veale’s plam found just the spot they wanted Tuesday, July 25 .. 95 at a bad time, with a sharp rise the state of California. 95 50 for. the’county hospital and apnear Nevada City. Though their Wednesday, July 26 in taxes due through the increasproved $25 ' The news of the action taken at Rose’s Bar 51 children are grown, these folks Thursday, July 27 .. 92 monthly salary in-. spread all over the ed load in the welfare depar t-. creases to the civil engineeringmining camps and when the provision came before are still active and 4énterested in the convention it ment. He added a supervisor has assistant, engineering aid, and ac-was adopted without debate. Sherman voted many things and they find just for the consti OFFICERS INSTALLED in Sacramento on Nov. 13, 1849, before he was 21. Sherm tution to consider both sides of the count clerk of the road depart-. the righ. measure of town and an exquestion. The public officials and ment..These actions take effect: country life here. Clarence E. Martz, District plained that youths of 15 were permitted to vote at that election &mployees are on one shoulder immediately. Their decision to locate here Deputy Grand President of the on the grounds that any youngster who had made his*way to Caliand the taxpayers are on the England’s survey is\a guide by~ hinged on two things: exactly the Native Sons of the Golden West fornia was conceded to have attained manhood. ‘ other. Sherm which the county can equitably: an docked in San Francisco on May 24, 1849, and found right elevation for pine forests installed officers of the DownieRowe interjected the taxpayers reward employees on the basis of and the mountain vegétation they ville Parlor No. 92, NSGW, and the town celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday, He and several know of the increase and are willthe difficulty and responsibility — love and an abundance of good Mrs. Rachel Kuhfeld of Alleghaother men each paid $16 for the privilege of rowing an open boat ing to share the burden. of the work they are performing. water. Many areas which fitted ny, District Deputy Grand Presto the embarcadero of Sutter’s Fort (now Sacramento) the trip of Tobiassen asserted he was still their pattern in other respects ident of the Native Daughters, 120 miles taking three and a half days. dissatisfied with the survey. MRS. NAFFZIGER CALLED Hundreds of men were prospecting the Yuba river when : had either too much or too little installed officers of Naomi Parlor SherRowe claimed that if the asWord has been received in Neman and his party arrived, but they staked out claims and went sembled super water. The coastal valleys of No. 36, NDGW, at Downieville visors considered vada City of the death of Mrs. to work. ? southern California are on a strict Monday .evening of last week. each individual case in the surLizzie Naffziger in San FrancisThe miners celebrated their first Fourth of July in Nevada vey they The meeting was held in the water allotment and there is no would know what Toco. Her parents were in business — hope: of immediate relief. And lodge hall in Downieville and was county by paying a visit to the first white woman they ever saw biassen’s dissatisfaction was. in Nevada City during the latter the verdant river valleys of Oreattended by about 75 members. in the mines. She was an Oregon woman, in a Boomer costume Charles W. Veale, county hospart of the 19th century. She had Charles Veale assisted Martz as made entirely from buckskin, and she had accompanied her husband pital superinten gon are fertile and pretty. but dent, who attendmade her home with her son, there is too much rain for commarshal and Mrs. Esther McClusin an ox-cart. She baked biscuits for the miners and received gened both sessions, decl ared he preHoward Naffziger, eminent Dr. sur. — fort. Nevada county offers the key performed the same service €rous payment, many miners often giving her a sack of flour or ferred the status quo to the salgeon on the staff of the tor Mrs. Kuhfeld. : specimens of nuggets for payment. Univer. _ happy medium. ary survey as far as his depart COUNTY HOSPITAL WILL FEED PRISONERS HISTORICAL CARAVAN TOURS MINING AREA PAST SEASON SECOND WETTEST IN 5 YEARS $350,000 DAMAGES — ASKED IN COMPLAINT ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA AS A FREE STATE RESULTED FROM INCIDENT AT ROSE'S BAR IN NEVADA COUNTY DURING SUMMER OF 1849 sity of. California i} f ig OF