July 31, 1936 (6 pages)

ls, n= ng “Dear Mr. Collins: According to reports in the San \y Erancisco Examiner, Sacramento » “permission” to paid out of the public funds, } a “ liqguur dealers for or against certain , dal that attaches to your board’s admose to exert. all @ svidence of the political activity. of !ficer in ‘county Democratic Central commit*tee had sponsored whole-heartedly Pow. s ad, Beck’s tivi i liquor dealers, as } understand are aculié . ible to influences your oe supported you, Te again. I feel that many will take the mY same view of this matter that I do. i ; No department of government is entitled to the respect or support of i ax payers and voters, which at/ trust of all honést liquor dealers. ~—raseals-and parasites that. are preyAn Open Letter S ada COVERS RICHEST GOLD ity AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget city and The Nevada City Nugget helps your advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Be and county to grow in population prosperity. By subscribing to, and H. M. L. Nevada City, Calif. July 30, 1936. Mr: Richard Collins, President State Board of Equalization, Sacramento, Calif. e and Union, you have virtually fastructed some. of your’. board's Tiquor enforcement officers in this district to work for the election of Senator Jerrold Seawell and against the election of R.L. P. Bigelow, candidates for the state senate. You have frankly acknowlelged that you have given such: orders, or your employes, but with the provision that they work only ‘“‘before and after office hours’”’ Your evasion, or attempted evasion, of the state law forbidding state emples to engage in ‘improper poli'_uctivity,”. affronts the intellig,of California voters. k. r.bers of the State Personnel Pini 3 report that they have had sevother complaints regarding the “tivity of the Board of Equalization in attempting to influence the t candidates for the State senate and assembly. I sincerely hope that Mr. _ selow~ will force you and other -‘mbers of your.board to a show wn. With the stench arising from liquor law administration in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, and whieh-I am reliably informed is soon to bust out in even more malodorous form in San Francisco, it would seem to the ordinary citizen that your board had enough to do without meddling in, or attempting to influence the. choice of the people in their selection of state senators 1 assemblymen. Your activity to any reasoning mind can only mean one thing, that is, with the almost continuous scanuistration of the liquor laws, you w fearful of what the next legisSature may do to *you; that you proinfluence you can » elect old friends to seats in the snate and assembly, to insure aid and comfort in a session that is bound to be extremely unpleasant. I have before me documentary Tdwin Beck, your earn ofPlacer county. The Placer he candidacy of Mr. Bigelow. Beck anvassed the committee later and stained six signatures to a round i :bin letter to Mr. Bigelow, tempor ri withdrawing their names from sponsorship. Subsequently the repudiated Beck and encandidacy of Mr. Bigehowever, that activity among who as you can well r) heir ymittee rsed the It is reported continues peculiarly board may suscepexert. Two newspaper years ago this but it will not do so ‘empts £0 build up a political machine by using tax money. I think that you are not only alienating the friends that formerly supported you, put that you are arousing the disNot a one of them but must ‘look with misgivings at the vicious power weilded by Mrs. Werner in Los Angeles. The liquor trade’s tax burden is heavy enough without loading on its back such costly corruption as the ‘Los Angeles investigation revealé. Please permit me to suggest, that in the present circumstances especially, it would be far better policy for your board, of its own initative, to ferret out and bring to justice the ing upon the liquor trade, and at the same time destroying public confidence in your organization, than to ttempt to influence the decision of the. electorate in its choice of state senators and assemblymen. In justice to Russel B. Farley, your enforcement officer in Nevada county, I wish to state that I am advised and believe that he is strictly ‘abstaining from partisan political activity. I wish it were possible and I believe it would be possible if your board would ‘put its back into its job, that every county in California could have an enforcement officer as thorough,. conscientious and efficient in the discharge of his duties, as is ‘monial din Vol. 10: No. 1s The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936. [Reno Chamber Praises ork of R.L.P. Bigelow To R. L.,P. Bigelow at the testiee aiven recently on his retirement from the office of Supervisor of the National Forest in the Tahoe Area, came a telegram from the Reno Chamber of (Commerce. The message voices the appreciation of Reno for all,the wonderful planning and work completed by Mr. Bigelow, which made the Tahoe region accessible to the world, and thereby a. greater measure of prosperity to this Sierra wonderland. The Reno chamber undoubtedly expressed vividly the sentiment that the people of this entire section hold for the man who is now a candidate for the state senatorship from the seventh district, Sierra, Nevada and Placer counties, The many friends he has made in this section during his ‘period of service here, since 1908, believe that he should be continued in the public service in the State Senate. The Reno Chamber of Commerce telegram follows: The Reno Chamber of Commerce desires to add its word of tribute to that outstanding citizen, R. L. P. Bigelow, whom you are honoring this day. More than any other one man he has ‘brought the joys of the forests and the mountains to the thousands who have been enabled through the work of his hands and. heart to enjoy a closer acquaintanece with our scenic delights. His work, the devotion of a lifetime, has been a work of love, expressed in a manner which befits his kindly character. Today does not mark the end of his years of service, rather it only marks: the end of an official tenure in which he has been so successful, and affords him an opportunity to reconsecrate and rededicate himself to the service of his fellow men in a broader way to his own community. We hope the entire field in which he has labored will now be enabled to reap the benefit, unhampered, of those years of experience which have _ fitted him to be a leader. Nearby our own community in a beautiful approach and along the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe he has builded his own memorial. For his vision and foresight, not alone the people of our community, but the people of the nation, should be truly grateful, and it is our’ regret that the thousands who will enjoy that wonderful child of his brain, the Mount Rose highway and the scenic Rim of the Lake Highway, cannot know more of the inspjring genius who made these two great works possible. It is our earnest hope that the coming years~-will rest lightly upon his head and that he may enjoy the rich fruits that are so eminently his. RENO CHAMBER OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY SEVERELY BANNED U. S. FOREST SERVICE Regarding aspersions cast upon the United’ States Forest service in this district by the incumbent state senator, the Nevada City Nugget has obtained from Mr. DeWitt Nelson, Supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest Service a statement. This attack upon the integrity and traditional neutrality of the Forest Service personnel in all political matters, will be discussed in Monday’s editorial column of the Nugget. Forest Supervisor Nelson’s statement follows: “To my _ personal knowledge Mr. ‘Bigelow, following his retirement from the office of Forest Supervisor in this district, at two meetings of. the Forest Service personally ‘admonished and warned all members to abstain entirely from any activity whatever in his campaign for state senator. “As Forest Supervisor I have sent out a circular letter warning all Forest Service personnel to observe strictly the Federal regulations which prohibit political activity on behalf of any measure or any candidate. I have never in all my experience in the Forest Service heard of a member of the service even being accused of political activity. One man however, was discharged from the service because he, himself, became a candidate for public office, while in the service.” COMMERCE. TOUR NEY. cIry The last of tne-Gi Girl Reserves of Sacramento camped at Gold Hollow on Lake Vera visited many places of interest in> Nevada City Wednesday. Thirty. girls chartered a bus from Joe Spence and with their counselors visited the Court House. They found the building was built in 1856 on a granite ledge and the native granite was used in the building to the first floor, the rest being brick Bain and Israel were the contractors. Many iron shutters remain at the windows, the big doors being removed years agio. These windows are closed to this day when _ the! court house is closed. h The group called on E. J. N. Ott, assayer, who inherited his father’s plant and office, which assayed the ore that made Virginia City and Tonopah famous, : A call was made at the new Bank . of America building and from there to the basement of the library to visit: the collection of 49’er relics. This is the fourth and last group at Gold Hollow and they will leave August fourth. CAMPFIRE GIRLS TO GO TO CAMP PAHATS! Ahdenah Camp Fire Girls held a meeting last night to make final arrangements for their week’s vacation at Camp Pahatsi. They. will leave for Camp, Sunday. The girls planning to make the trip are, Misses Mary and Jean Martz, Vella and Bonnie Flint, Virginia Carney, Faydene White, Betty Smith, Joyce Henwood, Ruth’ Godfrey, and Barbara Cain. ‘ Miss Bernice Hancock of Auburn ‘will be in charge of Camp Pahatsi this year and a dramatic instructor from. Roseville will instruct the girls in putting on plays;and evening programs, An interesting week-has been mapped out. The girls will take up nature work, craft, swimming and hiking. Mrs. Leland Smith will motor to camp with several of the girls. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Saban and daughters, Margaret and Catherine, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Rore and two children, Betty and Walter, and Leslie Orzalli spent the week end in Reno, Nevada and at’ Lake Tahoe. ter but also the spirit of the law, ‘which forbids those paid out’ of state tical activity. GIRL RESERVES CUBS THIS WEEK tax funds to engage in improper poliENJOY PAHATSI Camp for Cubs of @ of Neveria and Plaeer counties started Sunday with 58 in camp. The Cubs were divided into dens of seven cuvs eacn with «= Scout called a den chief. There are two packs. with three dens in each pack. The camp staff for the cubs consist of H. Ricksecker, camp director, Sam Partridge, assistant camp director; Wm. Burns and Ken Reynolds, cubmasters; Harris Paxton and Robert Keeny assistants; Bob Robinson, nature; Forrest Rupley, waterfront; Russ. Stephen, mess. officer; Bill Cluff, assistant and in charge of the campfires; Bob Wilson, truck; Eric Beckerleg, store and office; Den chiefs: Bruce.Kimsey, Jim Ricksecker, Frank Kengle, John Muscardini and Ken Ricksecker; M.S.Beecher, handicraft, Mrs. Dalby, cook. Tuesday the Cubs were taken in cars up to Laxe Van Norden for a picnic and weinie roast. Other features of the program which they-will enjoy during the week are_ frog hunt and race, marshmallow roast, pack campfires, amateur hour, nature treasure hunt; sail boat making, and races on the lake; fishing, circus,. making of souvenirs, short nature thikes, blue printing, spatter work, boating, swimming, games, instruction in cub tests and campfires. i Six Cubs are learning to having made about ten = feet two: days of instruction. CAMPFIRE GIRLS GOOD PATRONS OF NEVADA CITY Miss Gladys Bennyhoft of Camp . Celio was settling the local bills of} swim, after several thousand dollars are spent in Nevada City by these camps during their camping period, when they patronize the drug stores, meat markets, groceries, candy stores, ice company, laundry and milk man. Some of these, girls have spent the third year at the different camps. They are enthusiastic over the camp and the county and, are good little boosters. Fifteen counselors are at Camp breaking up for the winter. to eome. In a’few days Miss Béennyhoff will go to Lake Tahoe to take charge of a group of between 40 and 50 Camp Fire Girls of Reno, Nevada, who are to spend two weeks at their camp on the lake. Mrs. Anna Godfrey cut her finger Sincerely yours Mr. Farley. He obeys not only the letHARLEY M. LEETE. Wednesday.>Dr. B. W. Hummelt at‘eratic votes to one Republican. These the camp Wednesday. It was revealed . : NEXT PRESIDENT MAY BE ELECTED ‘BY THE HOUSE “The national political situation is spotted for and against either Republican or Democratic candidate” this was the summary of Congressman. Harry L. Engiebright yesterday. ‘It is definitely known now, however, that the New England states are against President Roosevelt. A Republican victory seems assured there. In New York the Roosevelt forces are battling determinedly. They have induced Governor Lehman to rum again with the hope that they will be able to poll a sufficient majority in New ‘York City to offset the majority which the Republicans in the upstate undoubtedly hold there. In Pennsylvania a big steel strike is imminent and the administration is doing everything in its power to avert the .conflict until after the election. If the strike occurs, its effect may be to throw , Pennsylvania either way. The Lempke vote, it is estimated, will be about ten per cent of the total vote in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska, with,a possibility that Wisconsin will also show a considerable vote for the third party. Ten per cent in a close election may mean a great deal. It is estimated that Lempke is taking seven Demostates are normally Republican and the outlook for this party in those states is accordingly very bright. In the Middle -West-generaHy the situa-+ tion is far from clear, Drought relief. and farm relief generally have complicated conditions but the Republican prospects there are not. gloomy by any means. In Illinois the Democratic party is divided in two factions which are fighting bitterly and there is a very good chance of a Republican victory. Michigan is safe for the Republicangi: oe California, as we all. know has registered a great majority under the Democratic banner, but I was told while in San Francisco that there is a statewide swing toward Governor Landon. Of course there is a_ possibility that Lempke will poll enough votes to make the Democratic and Republican race so close that the election of the President will be thrown into the House of Representatives. If this should occur the party maJority in the House-will elect the President. That is.why there is such . an intense fight now going forward in. every Congressional district in tended her. . Should be expedited. He is anxious to {applicants for loans, Englebright See Work Wants To On Debris Dams Begun This Fall ey Congressman Harry L. Englebright returned this week; from San Francisco where he conferred with the members of the California Debris He states that the form, summarized below, properly filled out by owners of gravel prop-. erties and forwarded to the United States Board of Army Engineers, Commission. see work started on some of the debris dams this fall, and urges immeditte action on the part of gravel owners. Appropriations of $6,900,000 are ready, and available for dam construction once the Army Engineering Board has received adequate assurance that the dams will be used. General E. M. Markham, chairman of the board has’ defined exactly whatsthe board means by ‘“‘assurance’’,. It means the same thing that it does in any business agreement, namely, good faith. The board will base its decision upon the good faith of those who fill in the forms. They will.be judged just as bank judges by their character, their financial resources, and by their past record as_ business men. Congressman Englebright called attention to.the fact that the act of Congress leaves no longer any question of policy to be decided by the . California Debris Commission. The . commission is instructed to the dams, once the gravel owners have complied with Army Engineering Board’s requirements. _In fact the Debris Commission has been asked by the United States Board of Army Engineers—to assist the gravel owners in every way. It is easy to understand, said Mr. Englebright, why there has been considerable confusion regarding what the hydraulic mining men should do under this' new set-up. There were no precedents to guide either the Debris Commission or the mining men. It has been fifty years since all the hydraulic mines were closed down completely, and 1874 saw the shutting down of several of the largest gravel holdings. In this connection it is interesting to note that while the Relief Hill and Omega properties have satisfactorily met the governments requirements, owners of the largest holding on the Ridge, are demanding that they be accorded one. million cubie yards of storage in the proposed Narrows dam, in order that they may give their financial backers the guarantees they feel necessary. Since the Narrows dam will hold only approximately 1,500,009 yards, the Debris Commission cannot entertain this request. : On the American river a somewhat similar_-situation.exists. The-owner of one of the largest gravel deposits there refuses to play ball. Congressman Englebright remarked that if these owners continue to stand out, making demands which eannot be justly considered, the United States Board of Army eee may proceed with building” of such smaller dams as will be adequate to accomodate .yardage of owners who are ready to proceed, and when these are filled, to construct other dams as the need may arise. If the Board of Engineers should take this action, and they have ample authorio do so, it may be some years before owners of two properties mentioned will have another opportunity to stdre their debris'in government ‘built dams. The form which owners of gravel deposits are new filling out requires these fact to be set forth: What property, or properties, owned with maps submitted, estimates of yardage, as determined by surveys made, with time of survey, water rights owned and the quantity of water available, the amount of yardage that can be moved annually, the gold content of the gravel per yard at $35 per ounce, a description of all water works connected with the property, into which stream the tail water will drain, and an estimate of the 50m of operation. —The owner of gravel deposits must make-a statement of capital expends. itures proposed in ditch construction and repairs, flume construction and repairs, reservoir construction and repairs, also for road, pipe lines and power lines,’ quarters, shops, warehouses, telephone lines and transportation units. He must list whatever buildings and. equipment are now on the property. In addition to this he must file a list of assets consisting of lands, water rights, dams, diitches, tunnels, ‘machinery and cash on hand, less outstanding obligations and mortgages. Subject to causes beyond his control he must promise to mine annually a given amount of gravel following the construction of the debris dam into» which his tatlings will eventually drain and guarantee the payment for yardage so mined. MRS. JACK WOLFE WILL SING WITH OPERA CO. Mrs. Jack Wolfe, former resident of Grass Valley, now residing in San Francisco, has become a member of the San Francisco Opera Company. She will sing in several operas in that city with the beginning of the season in November. Mrs. Wolfe has a splendid voice and often sang in public in Nevada City and Grass Valley. She is a student of Mr. Marshal! Giselman of Nevada City and her wide circle of friends wish her every success. SUES FOR $10,262 FOR AUTO CRASH DAMAGES Frances C. Dunn and W, R. Dunn, San Francisco attorney, filed a damage suit in the superior-court Wednesday against Lloyd K. Hillman, asking $10,262.50 for injuries Mrs. Dunn incurred in an automobile accident near Soda Springs on August 5, 1035, The complaint charges Hillman ‘was operating a caravan of twentyfour automobiles and two of the machines drove into the Dunn automobile; causing damages to the car and injuries to Mrs. Dunn. : posed in this district. I think it probable that a majority of Republicyear,” concluded Mr. Englebright. ° the country] That is .why I am opans. will be elected to the House this . . BOYS, GIRLS WANTED FOR WATER PAGEANT Verle Gray, life pragewey and mane er of the swimming pool in Pioneers park has issued a call for fifteen or twenty boys and the same number of girls, to take part in the Water Pageant cast which is to be given during the third week in August. Rehearsals for this event begin within a few days. Committees of the park commission in charge of this annual event follow: Mrs Leland Smith and Mrs. George Gildersteeve, script, cast and costumes, H. M. Leete, seating accomodations, and publicity, R. J.Bennetts and P. G. Scadden, ushér— ing, parking and admissions. Verle’ Gray wishes to call attention to the fact that all boys and girls under twenty one years of age are admitted free, unless they desire to rent a towel and locker, for whic there is a charge of ten cents. Re= cently a” youngster reported to his mother that he had been charged ten cents for admision, whereas, the fa was, he spent his dime for ice cream cones. of BIG OAK TREE MINE Crews are taking out ore to { east and west of the shaft on 300 foot level at the Big Oa fmine south of the Idah property. Two shifts are and 20 tons of ore per day are trucked to the Idaho-Marylar . Frank Channing supe in

ls, n= ng “Dear Mr. Collins: According to reports in the San \y Erancisco Examiner, Sacramento » “permission” to paid out of the public funds, } a “ liqguur dealers for or against certain , dal that attaches to your board’s admose to exert. all @ svidence of the political activity. of !ficer in ‘county Democratic Central commit*tee had sponsored whole-heartedly Pow. s ad, Beck’s tivi i liquor dealers, as } understand are aculié . ible to influences your oe supported you, Te again. I feel that many will take the mY same view of this matter that I do. i ; No department of government is entitled to the respect or support of i ax payers and voters, which at/ trust of all honést liquor dealers. ~—raseals-and parasites that. are preyAn Open Letter S ada COVERS RICHEST GOLD ity AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget city and The Nevada City Nugget helps your advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Be and county to grow in population prosperity. By subscribing to, and H. M. L. Nevada City, Calif. July 30, 1936. Mr: Richard Collins, President State Board of Equalization, Sacramento, Calif. e and Union, you have virtually fastructed some. of your’. board's Tiquor enforcement officers in this district to work for the election of Senator Jerrold Seawell and against the election of R..L. P. Bigelow, candidates for the state senate. You have frankly acknowlelged that you have given such: orders, or your employes, but with the provision that they work only ‘“‘before and after office hours’”’ Your evasion, or attempted evasion, of the state law forbidding state emples to engage in ‘improper poli'_uctivity,”. affronts the intellig,of California voters. k. r.bers of the State Personnel Pini 3 report that they have had sevother complaints regarding the “tivity of the Board of Equalization in attempting to influence the t candidates for the State senate and assembly. I sincerely hope that Mr. _ selow~ will force you and other -‘mbers of your.board to a show wn. With the stench arising from liquor law administration in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, and whieh-I am reliably informed is soon to bust out in even more malodorous form in San Francisco, it would seem to the ordinary citizen that your board had enough to do without meddling in, or attempting to influence the. choice of the people in their selection of state senators 1 assemblymen. Your activity to any reasoning mind can only mean one thing, that is, with the almost continuous scanuistration of the liquor laws, you w fearful of what the next legisSature may do to *you; that you proinfluence you can » elect old friends to seats in the snate and assembly, to insure aid and comfort in a session that is bound to be extremely unpleasant. I have before me documentary Tdwin Beck, your earn ofPlacer county. The Placer he candidacy of Mr. Bigelow. Beck anvassed the committee later and stained six signatures to a round i :bin letter to Mr. Bigelow, tempor ri withdrawing their names from sponsorship. Subsequently the repudiated Beck and encandidacy of Mr. Bigehowever, that activity among who as you can well r) heir ymittee rsed the It is reported continues peculiarly board may suscepexert. Two newspaper years ago this but it will not do so ‘empts £0 build up a political machine by using tax money. I think that you are not only alienating the friends that formerly supported you, put that you are arousing the disNot a one of them but must ‘look with misgivings at the vicious power weilded by Mrs. Werner in Los Angeles. The liquor trade’s tax burden is heavy enough without loading on its back such costly corruption as the ‘Los Angeles investigation revealé. Please permit me to suggest, that in the present circumstances especially, it would be far better policy for your board, of its own initative, to ferret out and bring to justice the ing upon the liquor trade, and at the same time destroying public confidence in your organization, than to ttempt to influence the decision of the. electorate in its choice of state senators and assemblymen. In justice to Russel B. Farley, your enforcement officer in Nevada county, I wish to state that I am advised and believe that he is strictly ‘abstaining from partisan political activity. I wish it were possible and I believe it would be possible if your board would ‘put its back into its job, that every county in California could have an enforcement officer as thorough,. conscientious and efficient in the discharge of his duties, as is ‘monial din Vol. 10: No. 1s The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936. [Reno Chamber Praises ork of R.L.P. Bigelow To R. L.,P. Bigelow at the testiee aiven recently on his retirement from the office of Supervisor of the National Forest in the Tahoe Area, came a telegram from the Reno Chamber of (Commerce. The message voices the appreciation of Reno for all,the wonderful planning and work completed by Mr. Bigelow, which made the Tahoe region accessible to the world, and thereby a. greater measure of prosperity to this Sierra wonderland. The Reno chamber undoubtedly expressed vividly the sentiment that the people of this entire section hold for the man who is now a candidate for the state senatorship from the seventh district, Sierra, Nevada and Placer counties, The many friends he has made in this section during his ‘period of service here, since 1908, believe that he should be continued in the public service in the State Senate. The Reno Chamber of Commerce telegram follows: The Reno Chamber of Commerce desires to add its word of tribute to that outstanding citizen, R. L. P. Bigelow, whom you are honoring this day. More than any other one man he has ‘brought the joys of the forests and the mountains to the thousands who have been enabled through the work of his hands and. heart to enjoy a closer acquaintanece with our scenic delights. His work, the devotion of a lifetime, has been a work of love, expressed in a manner which befits his kindly character. Today does not mark the end of his years of service, rather it only marks: the end of an official tenure in which he has been so successful, and affords him an opportunity to reconsecrate and rededicate himself to the service of his fellow men in a broader way to his own community. We hope the entire field in which he has labored will now be enabled to reap the benefit, unhampered, of those years of experience which have _ fitted him to be a leader. Nearby our own community in a beautiful approach and along the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe he has builded his own memorial. For his vision and foresight, not alone the people of our community, but the people of the nation, should be truly grateful, and it is our’ regret that the thousands who will enjoy that wonderful child of his brain, the Mount Rose highway and the scenic Rim of the Lake Highway, cannot know more of the inspjring genius who made these two great works possible. It is our earnest hope that the coming years~-will rest lightly upon his head and that he may enjoy the rich fruits that are so eminently his. RENO CHAMBER OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY SEVERELY BANNED U. S. FOREST SERVICE Regarding aspersions cast upon the United’ States Forest service in this district by the incumbent state senator, the Nevada City Nugget has obtained from Mr. DeWitt Nelson, Supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest Service a statement. This attack upon the integrity and traditional neutrality of the Forest Service personnel in all political matters, will be discussed in Monday’s editorial column of the Nugget. Forest Supervisor Nelson’s statement follows: “To my _ personal knowledge Mr. ‘Bigelow, following his retirement from the office of Forest Supervisor in this district, at two meetings of. the Forest Service personally ‘admonished and warned all members to abstain entirely from any activity whatever in his campaign for state senator. “As Forest Supervisor I have sent out a circular letter warning all Forest Service personnel to observe strictly the Federal regulations which prohibit political activity on behalf of any measure or any candidate. I have never in all my experience in the Forest Service heard of a member of the service even being accused of political activity. One man however, was discharged from the service because he, himself, became a candidate for public office, while in the service.” COMMERCE. TOUR NEY. cIry The last of tne-Gi Girl Reserves of Sacramento camped at Gold Hollow on Lake Vera visited many places of interest in> Nevada City Wednesday. Thirty. girls chartered a bus from Joe Spence and with their counselors visited the Court House. They found the building was built in 1856 on a granite ledge and the native granite was used in the building to the first floor, the rest being brick Bain and Israel were the contractors. Many iron shutters remain at the windows, the big doors being removed years agio. These windows are closed to this day when _ the! court house is closed. h The group called on E. J. N. Ott, assayer, who inherited his father’s plant and office, which assayed the ore that made Virginia City and Tonopah famous, : A call was made at the new Bank . of America building and from there to the basement of the library to visit: the collection of 49’er relics. This is the fourth and last group at Gold Hollow and they will leave August fourth. CAMPFIRE GIRLS TO GO TO CAMP PAHATS! Ahdenah Camp Fire Girls held a meeting last night to make final arrangements for their week’s vacation at Camp Pahatsi. They. will leave for Camp, Sunday. The girls planning to make the trip are, Misses Mary and Jean Martz, Vella and Bonnie Flint, Virginia Carney, Faydene White, Betty Smith, Joyce Henwood, Ruth’ Godfrey, and Barbara Cain. ‘ Miss Bernice Hancock of Auburn ‘will be in charge of Camp Pahatsi this year and a dramatic instructor from. Roseville will instruct the girls in putting on plays;and evening programs, An interesting week-has been mapped out. The girls will take up nature work, craft, swimming and hiking. Mrs. Leland Smith will motor to camp with several of the girls. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Saban and daughters, Margaret and Catherine, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Rore and two children, Betty and Walter, and Leslie Orzalli spent the week end in Reno, Nevada and at’ Lake Tahoe. ter but also the spirit of the law, ‘which forbids those paid out’ of state tical activity. GIRL RESERVES CUBS THIS WEEK

tax funds to engage in improper poliENJOY PAHATSI Camp for Cubs of @ of Neveria and Plaeer counties started Sunday with 58 in camp. The Cubs were divided into dens of seven cuvs eacn with «= Scout called a den chief. There are two packs. with three dens in each pack. The camp staff for the cubs consist of H. Ricksecker, camp director, Sam Partridge, assistant camp director; Wm. Burns and Ken Reynolds, cubmasters; Harris Paxton and Robert Keeny assistants; Bob Robinson, nature; Forrest Rupley, waterfront; Russ. Stephen, mess. officer; Bill Cluff, assistant and in charge of the campfires; Bob Wilson, truck; Eric Beckerleg, store and office; Den chiefs: Bruce.Kimsey, Jim Ricksecker, Frank Kengle, John Muscardini and Ken Ricksecker; M.S.Beecher, handicraft, Mrs. Dalby, cook. Tuesday the Cubs were taken in cars up to Laxe Van Norden for a picnic and weinie roast. Other features of the program which they-will enjoy during the week are_ frog hunt and race, marshmallow roast, pack campfires, amateur hour, nature treasure hunt; sail boat making, and races on the lake; fishing, circus,. making of souvenirs, short nature thikes, blue printing, spatter work, boating, swimming, games, instruction in cub tests and campfires. i Six Cubs are learning to having made about ten = feet two: days of instruction. CAMPFIRE GIRLS GOOD PATRONS OF NEVADA CITY Miss Gladys Bennyhoft of Camp . Celio was settling the local bills of} swim, after several thousand dollars are spent in Nevada City by these camps during their camping period, when they patronize the drug stores, meat markets, groceries, candy stores, ice company, laundry and milk man. Some of these, girls have spent the third year at the different camps. They are enthusiastic over the camp and the county and, are good little boosters. Fifteen counselors are at Camp breaking up for the winter. to eome. In a’few days Miss Béennyhoff will go to Lake Tahoe to take charge of a group of between 40 and 50 Camp Fire Girls of Reno, Nevada, who are to spend two weeks at their camp on the lake. Mrs. Anna Godfrey cut her finger Sincerely yours Mr. Farley. He obeys not only the letHARLEY M. LEETE. Wednesday.>Dr. B. W. Hummelt at‘eratic votes to one Republican. These the camp Wednesday. It was revealed . : NEXT PRESIDENT MAY BE ELECTED ‘BY THE HOUSE “The national political situation is spotted for and against either Republican or Democratic candidate” this was the summary of Congressman. Harry L. Engiebright yesterday. ‘It is definitely known now, however, that the New England states are against President Roosevelt. A Republican victory seems assured there. In New York the Roosevelt forces are battling determinedly. They have induced Governor Lehman to rum again with the hope that they will be able to poll a sufficient majority in New ‘York City to offset the majority which the Republicans in the upstate undoubtedly hold there. In Pennsylvania a big steel strike is imminent and the administration is doing everything in its power to avert the .conflict until after the election. If the strike occurs, its effect may be to throw , Pennsylvania either way. The Lempke vote, it is estimated, will be about ten per cent of the total vote in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska, with,a possibility that Wisconsin will also show a considerable vote for the third party. Ten per cent in a close election may mean a great deal. It is estimated that Lempke is taking seven Demostates are normally Republican and the outlook for this party in those states is accordingly very bright. In the Middle -West-generaHy the situa-+ tion is far from clear, Drought relief. and farm relief generally have complicated conditions but the Republican prospects there are not. gloomy by any means. In Illinois the Democratic party is divided in two factions which are fighting bitterly and there is a very good chance of a Republican victory. Michigan is safe for the Republicangi: oe California, as we all. know has registered a great majority under the Democratic banner, but I was told while in San Francisco that there is a statewide swing toward Governor Landon. Of course there is a_ possibility that Lempke will poll enough votes to make the Democratic and Republican race so close that the election of the President will be thrown into the House of Representatives. If this should occur the party maJority in the House-will elect the President. That is.why there is such . an intense fight now going forward in. every Congressional district in tended her. . Should be expedited. He is anxious to {applicants for loans, Englebright See Work Wants To On Debris Dams Begun This Fall ey Congressman Harry L. Englebright returned this week; from San Francisco where he conferred with the members of the California Debris He states that the form, summarized below, properly filled out by owners of gravel prop-. erties and forwarded to the United States Board of Army Engineers, Commission. see work started on some of the debris dams this fall, and urges immeditte action on the part of gravel owners. Appropriations of $6,900,000 are ready, and available for dam construction once the Army Engineering Board has received adequate assurance that the dams will be used. General E. M. Markham, chairman of the board has’ defined exactly whatsthe board means by ‘“‘assurance’’,. It means the same thing that it does in any business agreement, namely, good faith. The board will base its decision upon the good faith of those who fill in the forms. They will.be judged just as bank judges by their character, their financial resources, and by their past record as_ business men. Congressman Englebright called attention to.the fact that the act of Congress leaves no longer any question of policy to be decided by the . California Debris Commission. The . commission is instructed to the dams, once the gravel owners have complied with Army Engineering Board’s requirements. _In fact the Debris Commission has been asked by the United States Board of Army Engineers—to assist the gravel owners in every way. It is easy to understand, said Mr. Englebright, why there has been considerable confusion regarding what the hydraulic mining men should do under this' new set-up. There were no precedents to guide either the Debris Commission or the mining men. It has been fifty years since all the hydraulic mines were closed down completely, and 1874 saw the shutting down of several of the largest gravel holdings. In this connection it is interesting to note that while the Relief Hill and Omega properties have satisfactorily met the governments requirements, owners of the largest holding on the Ridge, are demanding that they be accorded one. million cubie yards of storage in the proposed Narrows dam, in order that they may give their financial backers the guarantees they feel necessary. Since the Narrows dam will hold only approximately 1,500,009 yards, the Debris Commission cannot entertain this request. : On the American river a somewhat similar_-situation.exists.. The-owner of one of the largest gravel deposits there refuses to play ball. Congressman Englebright remarked that if these owners continue to stand out, making demands which eannot be justly considered, the United States Board of Army eee may proceed with building” of such smaller dams as will be adequate to accomodate .yardage of owners who are ready to proceed, and when these are filled, to construct other dams as the need may arise. If the Board of Engineers should take this action, and they have ample authorio do so, it may be some years before owners of two properties mentioned will have another opportunity to stdre their debris'in government ‘built dams. The form which owners of gravel deposits are new filling out requires these fact to be set forth: What property, or properties, owned with maps submitted, estimates of yardage, as determined by surveys made, with time of survey, water rights owned and the quantity of water available, the amount of yardage that can be moved annually, the gold content of the gravel per yard at $35 per ounce, a description of all water works connected with the property, into which stream the tail water will drain, and an estimate of the 50m of operation. —The owner of gravel deposits must make-a statement of capital expends. itures proposed in ditch construction and repairs, flume construction and repairs, reservoir construction and repairs, also for road, pipe lines and power lines,’ quarters, shops, warehouses, telephone lines and transportation units. He must list whatever buildings and. equipment are now on the property. In addition to this he must file a list of assets consisting of lands, water rights, dams, diitches, tunnels, ‘machinery and cash on hand, less outstanding obligations and mortgages. Subject to causes beyond his control he must promise to mine annually a given amount of gravel following the construction of the debris dam into» which his tatlings will eventually drain and guarantee the payment for yardage so mined. MRS. JACK WOLFE WILL SING WITH OPERA CO. Mrs. Jack Wolfe, former resident of Grass Valley, now residing in San Francisco, has become a member of the San Francisco Opera Company. She will sing in several operas in that city with the beginning of the season in November. Mrs. Wolfe has a splendid voice and often sang in public in Nevada City and Grass Valley. She is a student of Mr. Marshal! Giselman of Nevada City and her wide circle of friends wish her every success. SUES FOR $10,262 FOR AUTO CRASH DAMAGES Frances C. Dunn and W, R. Dunn, San Francisco attorney, filed a damage suit in the superior-court Wednesday against Lloyd K. Hillman, asking $10,262.50 for injuries Mrs. Dunn incurred in an automobile accident near Soda Springs on August 5, 1035, The complaint charges Hillman ‘was operating a caravan of twentyfour automobiles and two of the machines drove into the Dunn automobile; causing damages to the car and injuries to Mrs. Dunn. : posed in this district. I think it probable that a majority of Republicyear,” concluded Mr. Englebright. ° the country] That is .why I am opans. will be elected to the House this . . BOYS, GIRLS WANTED FOR WATER PAGEANT Verle Gray, life pragewey and mane er of the swimming pool in Pioneers park has issued a call for fifteen or twenty boys and the same number of girls, to take part in the Water Pageant cast which is to be given during the third week in August. Rehearsals for this event begin within a few days. Committees of the park commission in charge of this annual event follow: Mrs Leland Smith and Mrs. George Gildersteeve, script, cast and costumes, H. M. Leete, seating accomodations, and publicity, R. J.Bennetts and P. G. Scadden, ushér— ing, parking and admissions. Verle’ Gray wishes to call attention to the fact that all boys and girls under twenty one years of age are admitted free, unless they desire to rent a towel and locker, for whic there is a charge of ten cents. Re= cently a” youngster reported to his mother that he had been charged ten cents for admision, whereas, the fa was, he spent his dime for ice cream cones. of BIG OAK TREE MINE Crews are taking out ore to { east and west of the shaft on 300 foot level at the Big Oa fmine south of the Idah property. Two shifts are and 20 tons of ore per day are trucked to the Idaho-Marylar . Frank Channing supe in