June 21, 1935 (6 pages)

: Girls . Reserve, ' ‘the iine——= Ninise: = — ‘Development — Thinking Out Loud a vada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA me = you advertising in Me en Gee eine ho ion eiipiele + $ The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subsdribing to, and the N ugect, therefore, help yourself. (By H. M. L.) The Woman’s Civic Club tonight is giving’a card party for the benefit of the swimming pool. Evérybody in Nevada City should be interested in this because this club, considering the size of the community, accomplishes more for civic comfort, for improved community conditions, and for progress of the most essential kind, than any similar organization we have observed anywhere. It is well named ‘Civic Club’’, because it is just that. It is a dynamo of unselfish effort for the common good, putting energy into a better library, a more effective Boy Scout organization, planting trees and shrubs in the memdry of.good citizens departed— the list and the community debt to these club women is long. Let us male beings respond tonight to their invitation. Really the Woman’s Civic Club should be courted chivalrously and gratefully. Now what is the Civic Club’s party about this evening? It is something very essential to the safety of our children. A mud sweeper must be had. to take out the sediment that collects in the municipal pool, so that the life guard can see to the bottom of it anytime, in case some careless youngster bumps his head in diving, or has a heart attack (this does happen), or does not know enough about swimming and gets beyond his or her depth. If the water is clear, and our ditch water is never elear enough to see through nine or even five feet of it, there will be time for the life guard to fish the youngster out and bring him back to life. The Civic Club wants to make the pool completely safe for our chi: dren. We are asked to help them do it. Incidentally the state law requires clear water in public swimming pools. The mud sweeper will cost $150. Camp Fire Girls, members of the and mentors, guides and friends are home again at Lake Vera. Camp Celio. is alive with laughter, twinkling legs and near to nature bathing suits. Piedmont Camp ditto and Mills College camp ditto. Any words of censure for the costumes up and down Broad street, in the woods and along the banks of Lake Vera? Not a one. In fact remembering those old bunglesome stockings, Zouave bloomers, and wide heavy skirts that the fair femmes or wore in vacations at the turning of . typewriter . the century, we lift our in cheers for the new freedom. times we have wished that a heavenly dispensation might endow all of these youngsters with the beauty of figure of Grecian nymphs and Peter but doubtless will rejoice Pans, since heaven will never so ordain, we that they come here to live close to and wind and water, and gxrow in sturdy physical strength and spiritual grace. sun When we see an? editor adjuring his people to buck up and put om a real Fourth of July celebration, we are reminded forcibly of the decadence of celebrations in general. We don’t know just why it is that a Fourth of July, or even Christmas does not thrill the youngsters of today as much as it did:a generation ago, but. there does seem to be a great indifference. Broadly speaking, this indifference is probably due to the fact life every day is now much more interesting for everybody than it was, say fifty years ago, when a ten mile trip on horseback or in @ Concord buggy, was a memorable excursion; when. the days were filled with a machineless drudgery from year’s end to year’s end; when a brass band was a rare treat and not a daily commonplace over the radio; when a traveling troupe of actors: ance or twice a year, opened a heavenly vision to young eyes, and daily picture dramas were undreamed. Life for old and young is surfeited with-new interests everyday. Celebrations have not maintained their relative place. Once they were peaks in community life. But now we live on a plateau where they are barely more than hummocks. Tom Mooney has at last. obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the California Supreme Court. He will be able under this writ to show. whether or not perjured testimony was given to convict him, andwhether if so perjured it was -essential to the f is . . . . . Some. . . . . Vol. IX, No. 66. The County Seat Paper NEVABA CITY, CALIFORNIA. The GOLD ne ‘FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1935. Nevada County Now Employs 2344 Miner “Showing Neptune” Is . Pageant Set for July in Municipal Poo} re en “Showing Neptune” the dedicatory water Addison Janes, life guard at the municipal pool, will stage and direct sometime during the latter part of July. There will be almost 100 youngsters and a few oldsters in the great cast of the play. Seats will be provided for approximately 1000 spectators’ on the two long terraces immediately above the pool. This is the first event of this kind ever held in Nevada county or in the regions round about, and a capacity audience is expected. Tryouts for the many roles are now going forward. There will be mermaids and mermen, tritons and white bearded Neptune with his trident; there will be gorgeous costuming and a_ great float. Neptune at the conclusion of the show will do a marvelous dive in the vasty deep and will remain there, at least to all appearances, until it is time for his annual visit next year. . Acrobatic and comedy swimming and diving stunts, swimming in formation analogous to the fancy drills of various lodges, and a fast and furious game of water polo, will be among the many spectacular features of the pool dedication pageant under the flood lights, which have just been installed, is the title of . bathers until nine pageant which The new flood lights installed at} the youl now make it available to. o'clock in the evening. Janes reports that average daily attendance remains around 200. Arrangements will soon be made so that the pool will remain open the entire time from 11 a. m. until 9 p. m. The free swimming classes given in the morning from 11 o’clock until noon have proved very popular. Janes states that he has 30 in the beginners class and 20 in the intermediate class. Individual and group instruction for which a small fee is charged. The pool is gradually clearing up but the growth of algae requires introduction of considerable quantities of chlorine to keep the water clear. It is hoped that with the purchase of a sweeper to collect each morning the sediment from the bottom of the pool the water may be maintained in clear condition at all times. The Woman’s Civic Club is giving a card party this evening in order to raise money for the sweeper, an account of which appears in another column. The cement floor at the community house has now been placed: Wiring for lights will soon be completed. A carpenter is) busy putting in the. door and window frames. A fence along Nimrod street from the pool to the gate by the community house has just been installed. CARD PARTY FOR BENEFIT OF CITY POOL TONIGHT Tonight is the The Woman’s big night! Civie this evening for the] ciub gives its card party benofit of the The in the party begins at 8 o’clock this even. ing in Armory Hall. Whist, contract . or auction bridge, and mah. jongg} will be the games offered, and there . will be nineteen prizes contributed by firms and individuals. of the city. Those who have. donated prizes since the last announcement made in these columns, are as follows: A. Hartung, Lloyd Penrose, Nevada County Lumber Co., Betty Jean Shop and Mrs. F. T. Nilon. The use of Armory Hall is donated by the fire department. Fifty tables have been provided to accomodate the great’ throng which has purchased tickets for this evening of amusement. swimming . to equipment municipal pool. money realized is be . . to } The . used purchasing clear water of sediment. ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTUREDIt was reported that’ Howard Lee, an escaped Folsom convict was in the vicinity of Chicago Park Tuesday. Deputy ‘Sheriff Carl J. Larson made a search of that district Tuesday and 18ft satisfied that the convict was not there. ; Lee was captured Tuesday in Walnut Grove, Sacramento county. conviction: There is no doubt that the world at. large believes Tom Mooney innocent, at least of the crime with which he is charged, and no doubt,-on the other hand, that the majority of California people believe Mooney guilty. Four governors, in deciding against Mooney appeals for pardon, have tended to confirm that belief in the popular mind. But at long last Mooney has come to grips with the chief factor in his’ convtcion. If the testimony, without which he could not have been convicted, proves to have been perjured, obviously and eventually,, he must be freed, whether Caltfornia. likes it or not. CHAMPIONSHIP SKEET SHOOTERS MEETING OPENS The Championship Nor he rn Shoot great California Skeet ones north of San Francisco in this state. Here are some facts about tie big shoot: All shooters must be registered with the National Skeet Shooters Association and the Northern California Skeet’ Shooters Association. Both registrations may be made on the field .Variable pull will be used. N. S. S. A. rules will be enforced. Shooters whose averages have not been reported to the N. C. S. S. A. will shoot in class A (95 or over). Ammunition and refreshments will be sold on the grounds, Shells not bought on the grounds subject to examination. Here is the program: Friday— Practice only; Saturday and Sunday —-100 targets for the championship of Northern California in the A-B-CD classes. There will be a trophy and two medals in each class. Then a special .410 event—-50 targets for which a trophy and two medals will be given; next a Ladies Event of 50 targets, for which a trophy and one small medal will be awarded. There will also be events for professionals (100 targets, one trophy and one medal),.a team shoot (100 targets —two prizes). The annual meeting and banquet of the Northern California Skeet Shooting Association will be held in the Elks Building in Nevada City at eight o’clock Saturday evening. Edd Addington and another man left Nevada City for Feather Falls, Butte county, taking more machinery to develop a new property that.shows much promise. Assays in a shallow shaft ran $44.45. . The . situation, opened . ‘ALLEGED WOMAN BEATERS FOUND . NOT GUILTY: Judge Walter Mobiey i found the defendants in the case of . People versus May Lohman and 0. ©. Cassidy, tri¢éd recently in North San Juan Justice court for as-: fault and battery, not guilty. defendants were accused of waylay; George Uhrig in her car on: Mrs. May 9 in San Juan. It was alleged: that Cassidy held her while May Lohman beat her with a sticlr. Ing Judge Mobley’s decision follows’ in full: “This Cause came on regularly for trial on the 18th day of June, 1935 at 10 a. m. on the said day in the court room in the above entitled . court, the testimony having been in-j troduced by the People and by the, defendants and counsel for both sides having argued, the court ordered the cause to be submitted, owing to the fact that the evidence introduced was most conflicting, and the court desired further time to carefully. review the evidence rendering judgment. “The court will not attempt in this brief memorandum to anaylze the testimony given at the trial, but . it very carefully, after considering in detail, the court is not convinced to the degree necessary for viction, but in stating this the court does not in any way wish to criticise } the attitude of any of the witnesses at the trial. After giving careful consideration to the facts before the! court, the court is still doubtful as to the guilt of the defendants on account of the many conflicts in the evidence offered before the court, and being in this state of mind, the court is compelled, by Section 1096 of the Penal Code of California, which provides that the court must be satisfied of the guilt of the defendants to a moral certainty and beyond a reasonable to find the defendants not guilty. “Owing the tenseness which I feel while doubt, of the not help my to could but I was performing this morning at eight o’clock. Skeet} official duties in presiding at the shooters, (about one hundred and. trial of this case, I think I am not fifty) will enter this annual competi-; 0iM8beyond the bounds of pro¢ : priety in expressing the sincere hope tion, held this year on the Nevada . 3 Z : . that this entire matter will now be City Skeet Club’s field on the old) onqed. Cases such as this are diffiRichards ranch. There are two elec. trically equipped fields; the only . . } . . witnesses is where no disinterested produced who has observed the entire situation from beginning to end, and any continuation of court action or ill feeling will result in keeping the difficulty alive. I strongly recommend that the chapter be closed, and that the people of San Juan Ridge work in harmony for the advancement of their section.”’. JUDGE ST. SURE WILL PRESIDE IN MINE CASE The lateral rights suit o the Empire-Star Mines Co., vs. Valley Bullion Mines Co. has been postponed to an indefinite date in August. It is said that it has been difficult to secure a Federal Judge who feels himself competent to preside in a mining litigation case is the main cause of postponement of the case. Word has been received from San Francisco that Judge A. F: St. Sure has now been assigned to the case. cult to solve, PASTOR RE-ELECTED The many friends of Rey. andj; Mrs. H. H. Buckner are pleased to! learn that Mr. Buckner is being returned to Nevada City to fill the pulpit of the Methodist church again the coming year. This is to be the eleventh year for Mr. Buckner in this church. He with his wife take a deep yinterest in their work and have an ative group of members. E. S. Evans, of Standard Oil’s laboratories of San Francisco with Jack Wolf of Grass Valley, were NeVada City visitors yesteerday. the; The} ! before . ' a con. the Grass} — . Producing Mines Put More Men to Work yester day . j Despite the fact that five of the \ smaller mining properties have closed during the last month, the Nugget’s survey of the mining industry the past month reveals an inof 100.men employed. The total is now 2,344 as compared with 2,240 a month ago. The monthly } for ! crease Sohal has been stepped up from ; $313,600 to $328,160. Substantial increases in employ,;ment are noted in Idaho-Maryland, : Republic Gold (Empress), Spring . Hill, Lava Cap and Zeibright. Relief oa has gone into operation with 20 ‘men employed. Among those proper‘ties in which operations have been resumed are McDonald Ranch, Ragon and Phoenix. Rumors of mining deals are in . constant circulation but few of these can be verified. It is very apparent, however, that. the mining industry . is attracting more and more attention among investors. The following ! reports have been received: i } . LAVA CAP MINE Sinking operations started June 15th at the Lava Cap mine south}east of Nevada City. The shaft is to be sunk to the 1600 level. Work of . enlarging and timbering the 5,000 foot drain tunnel between the Central and Banner shafts on the propi erty is making good progress and will take about a month more to complete. The company has purchased two electric locomotives and a shovel loader which are to be used in the long tunnel when it is finished. 160 men are employed under Superintendent Otto-E, Schiffner. Nr tenn ahaha SPRING HILL have a 125 ton mill. being excavated, buildings for the mine activities have been and the collar of the new . shaft has been cemented for twelve. Foundations are various erected, The Spring Hill. mine is soon to! ROADMASTER RESCUES WOMAN KILLS RATTLER Fred B. Hanson, roadmaster ot Camptonville, is a hero toa party of city campers, who last week occupied a charming bower on the banks of Oregon creek. While at work on the-Pike City road he heard the. frantic screams of a woman. Hurrying toward the sound he saw a woman precariously perched on a boulder in the middle of Oregon Creek. The woman had gone to the creek for water for her party encamped there, and just as she reached her pail into the stream, she heard. the loud song of a rattler. With two swift leaps she reached the top of the mid-stream boulder and Wegan calling for help. Even after Hanson had killed the snake, the woman needed much reassuring that it “was safe to come ashore, feet below the surface, and foundations for the new head frame are in place. Fifty men are employed above and below ground. H. R Plate, man-. ager, states that gold recovery in the new mill will be by the flotation pro-: cess. Every unit of the new plant is designed for efficiency and labor saving. —JIM MINE ! Two large truck loads of machin. ery from Los Angeles were taken to 'the Jim Mine above the Gaston property northeast of Washington in . the last few days. The company con. templates erection of a mill this summer. Mr. Columbus and three grown sons are in charge of the property. Two men worked at the (Continued on Page’ Five) QUARTZ _ MINE OR GRAVE, LOCATION BE ont PAYROLL Ni Signings 9 Pennsylvania Quartz Grass Valley 740 $103,600 “Brunswick and : ees Idaho Maryland Quartz NE Grass Valley 525 73,500 a Murchie Quartz E of Nevada City 300 42,000 Great Northern Quartz» Harmony Ridge 15 100 Golden Center Quartz Grass Valley : 100 14,000 Republic Gold Quartz Newton 82 11,480 A Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley 50 7,000 Lava Cap Quartz Banner Mt. 160 22,400 Ancho Erie Quartz Graniteville 16 2,240 Bullion Quartz E of Grass Valley 55 7,700 ; You Bet Mining Gravel You Bet 9 1.260 . Spanish Quartz Washington 51 7,140 Mattie Gold Co. Quartz S of Grass Valley 6 840 { Zeibright Quartz E of Nevada City 75 10,500 Alta Hill Gravel W. Grass Valley 10 1,400 __ German Bar Quartz N. Bloomfield 4 560 Alaska Quartz N. Nevada City 3 420 Remington Hilt Gravel E. of Nev. City 3 420 Prescott Hill Quartz E. Grass Valley 20 2,800 French Corral Gravel French Corral 8 1,120 Omega Gravel N. Washington " 5 700 Q Gracey Glencoe Quartz S. of Nev. City 6 840 , Icard Ranch Quartz. W. Grass Valley 6 840. t ~ Pennsylvania Quartz Browns Valley 12. 1,680 — ! Salmon Quartz Tyler 6 840 Deer Creek Union Quartz SE Nevada City 4 560. Frederic Quartz NE Nevada City 17 2,380 River Placers Gravel Nor. Columbia . 15 10 San Juan Mine _ Quartz. Nor. San Juan™ —s_— 8 : : McDonald Rach ; “Tailings ‘So. Geaae Valley ; : Ss ey Ragon Quartz , W. Nev. City 5. : Relief Hitt Quartz Nor. Bloomfield _ 20 Phoenix Quartz So. Grass Valley Ee

: Girls . Reserve, ' ‘the iine——= Ninise: = — ‘Development — Thinking Out Loud a vada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA me = you advertising in Me en Gee eine ho ion eiipiele + $ The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subsdribing to, and the N ugect, therefore, help yourself. (By H. M. L.) The Woman’s Civic Club tonight is giving’a card party for the benefit of the swimming pool. Evérybody in Nevada City should be interested in this because this club, considering the size of the community, accomplishes more for civic comfort, for improved community conditions, and for progress of the most essential kind, than any similar organization we have observed anywhere. It is well named ‘Civic Club’’, because it is just that. It is a dynamo of unselfish effort for the common good, putting energy into a better library, a more effective Boy Scout organization, planting trees and shrubs in the memdry of.good citizens departed— the list and the community debt to these club women is long. Let us male beings respond tonight to their invitation. Really the Woman’s Civic Club should be courted chivalrously and gratefully. Now what is the Civic Club’s party about this evening? It is something very essential to the safety of our children. A mud sweeper must be had. to take out the sediment that collects in the municipal pool, so that the life guard can see to the bottom of it anytime, in case some careless youngster bumps his head in diving, or has a heart attack (this does happen), or does not know enough about swimming and gets beyond his or her depth. If the water is clear, and our ditch water is never elear enough to see through nine or even five feet of it, there will be time for the life guard to fish the youngster out and bring him back to life. The Civic Club wants to make the pool completely safe for our chi: dren. We are asked to help them do it. Incidentally the state law requires clear water in public swimming pools. The mud sweeper will cost $150. Camp Fire Girls, members of the and mentors, guides and friends are home again at Lake Vera. Camp Celio. is alive with laughter, twinkling legs and near to nature bathing suits. Piedmont Camp ditto and Mills College camp ditto. Any words of censure for the costumes up and down Broad street, in the woods and along the banks of Lake Vera? Not a one. In fact remembering those old bunglesome stockings, Zouave bloomers, and wide heavy skirts that the fair femmes or wore in vacations at the turning of . typewriter . the century, we lift our in cheers for the new freedom. times we have wished that a heavenly dispensation might endow all of these youngsters with the beauty of figure of Grecian nymphs and Peter but doubtless will rejoice Pans, since heaven will never so ordain, we that they come here to live close to and wind and water, and gxrow in sturdy physical strength and spiritual grace. sun When we see an? editor adjuring his people to buck up and put om a real Fourth of July celebration, we are reminded forcibly of the decadence of celebrations in general. We don’t know just why it is that a Fourth of July, or even Christmas does not thrill the youngsters of today as much as it did:a generation ago, but. there does seem to be a great indifference. Broadly speaking, this indifference is probably due to the fact life every day is now much more interesting for everybody than it was, say fifty years ago, when a ten mile trip on horseback or in @ Concord buggy, was a memorable excursion; when. the days were filled with a machineless drudgery from year’s end to year’s end; when a brass band was a rare treat and not a daily commonplace over the radio; when a traveling troupe of actors: ance or twice a year, opened a heavenly vision to young eyes, and daily picture dramas were undreamed. Life for old and young is surfeited with-new interests everyday. Celebrations have not maintained their relative place. Once they were peaks in community life. But now we live on a plateau where they are barely more than hummocks. Tom Mooney has at last. obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the California Supreme Court. He will be able under this writ to show. whether or not perjured testimony was given to convict him, andwhether if so perjured it was -essential to the f is . . . . . Some. . . . . Vol. IX, No. 66. The County Seat Paper NEVABA CITY, CALIFORNIA. The GOLD ne ‘FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1935. Nevada County Now Employs 2344 Miner “Showing Neptune” Is . Pageant Set for July in Municipal Poo} re en “Showing Neptune” the dedicatory water Addison Janes, life guard at the municipal pool, will stage and direct sometime during the latter part of July. There will be almost 100 youngsters and a few oldsters in the great cast of the play. Seats will be provided for approximately 1000 spectators’ on the two long terraces immediately above the pool. This is the first event of this kind ever held in Nevada county or in the regions round about, and a capacity audience is expected. Tryouts for the many roles are now going forward. There will be mermaids and mermen, tritons and white bearded Neptune with his trident; there will be gorgeous costuming and a_ great float. Neptune at the conclusion of the show will do a marvelous dive in the vasty deep and will remain there, at least to all appearances, until it is time for his annual visit next year. . Acrobatic and comedy swimming and diving stunts, swimming in formation analogous to the fancy drills of various lodges, and a fast and furious game of water polo, will be among the many spectacular features of the pool dedication pageant under the flood lights, which have just been installed, is the title of . bathers until nine pageant which The new flood lights installed at} the youl now make it available to. o'clock in the evening. Janes reports that average daily attendance remains around 200. Arrangements will soon be made so that the pool will remain open the entire time from 11 a. m. until 9 p. m. The free swimming classes given in the morning from 11 o’clock until noon have proved very popular. Janes states that he has 30 in the beginners class and 20 in the intermediate class. Individual and group instruction for which a small fee is charged. The pool is gradually clearing up but the growth of algae requires introduction of considerable quantities of chlorine to keep the water clear. It is hoped that with the purchase of a sweeper to collect each morning the sediment from the bottom of the pool the water may be maintained in clear condition at all times. The Woman’s Civic Club is giving a card party this evening in order to raise money for the sweeper, an account of which appears in another column. The cement floor at the community house has now been placed: Wiring for lights will soon be completed. A carpenter is) busy putting in the. door and window frames. A fence along Nimrod street from the pool to the gate by the community house has just been installed. CARD PARTY FOR BENEFIT OF CITY POOL TONIGHT Tonight is the The Woman’s big night! Civie this evening for the] ciub gives its card party benofit of the The in the party begins at 8 o’clock this even. ing in Armory Hall. Whist, contract . or auction bridge, and mah. jongg} will be the games offered, and there . will be nineteen prizes contributed by firms and individuals. of the city. Those who have. donated prizes since the last announcement made in these columns, are as follows: A. Hartung, Lloyd Penrose, Nevada County Lumber Co., Betty Jean Shop and Mrs. F. T. Nilon. The use of Armory Hall is donated by the fire department. Fifty tables have been provided to accomodate the great’ throng which has purchased tickets for this evening of amusement. swimming . to equipment municipal pool. money realized is be . . to } The . used purchasing clear water of sediment. ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTUREDIt was reported that’ Howard Lee, an escaped Folsom convict was in the vicinity of Chicago Park Tuesday. Deputy ‘Sheriff Carl J. Larson made a search of that district Tuesday and 18ft satisfied that the convict was not there. ; Lee was captured Tuesday in Walnut Grove, Sacramento county. conviction: There is no doubt that the world at. large believes Tom Mooney innocent, at least of the crime with which he is charged, and no doubt,-on the other hand, that the majority of California people believe Mooney guilty. Four governors, in deciding against Mooney appeals for pardon, have tended to confirm that belief in the popular mind. But at long last Mooney has come to grips with the chief factor in his’ convtcion. If the testimony, without which he could not have been convicted, proves to have been perjured, obviously and eventually,, he must be freed, whether Caltfornia. likes it or not. CHAMPIONSHIP SKEET SHOOTERS MEETING OPENS The Championship Nor he rn Shoot great California Skeet ones north of San Francisco in this

state. Here are some facts about tie big shoot: All shooters must be registered with the National Skeet Shooters Association and the Northern California Skeet’ Shooters Association. Both registrations may be made on the field .Variable pull will be used. N. S. S. A. rules will be enforced. Shooters whose averages have not been reported to the N. C. S. S. A. will shoot in class A (95 or over). Ammunition and refreshments will be sold on the grounds, Shells not bought on the grounds subject to examination. Here is the program: Friday— Practice only; Saturday and Sunday —-100 targets for the championship of Northern California in the A-B-CD classes. There will be a trophy and two medals in each class. Then a special .410 event—-50 targets for which a trophy and two medals will be given; next a Ladies Event of 50 targets, for which a trophy and one small medal will be awarded. There will also be events for professionals (100 targets, one trophy and one medal),.a team shoot (100 targets —two prizes). The annual meeting and banquet of the Northern California Skeet Shooting Association will be held in the Elks Building in Nevada City at eight o’clock Saturday evening. Edd Addington and another man left Nevada City for Feather Falls, Butte county, taking more machinery to develop a new property that.shows much promise. Assays in a shallow shaft ran $44.45. . The . situation, opened . ‘ALLEGED WOMAN BEATERS FOUND . NOT GUILTY: Judge Walter Mobiey i found the defendants in the case of . People versus May Lohman and 0. ©. Cassidy, tri¢éd recently in North San Juan Justice court for as-: fault and battery, not guilty. defendants were accused of waylay; George Uhrig in her car on: Mrs. May 9 in San Juan. It was alleged: that Cassidy held her while May Lohman beat her with a sticlr. Ing Judge Mobley’s decision follows’ in full: “This Cause came on regularly for trial on the 18th day of June, 1935 at 10 a. m. on the said day in the court room in the above entitled . court, the testimony having been in-j troduced by the People and by the, defendants and counsel for both sides having argued, the court ordered the cause to be submitted, owing to the fact that the evidence introduced was most conflicting, and the court desired further time to carefully. review the evidence rendering judgment. “The court will not attempt in this brief memorandum to anaylze the testimony given at the trial, but . it very carefully, after considering in detail, the court is not convinced to the degree necessary for viction, but in stating this the court does not in any way wish to criticise } the attitude of any of the witnesses at the trial. After giving careful consideration to the facts before the! court, the court is still doubtful as to the guilt of the defendants on account of the many conflicts in the evidence offered before the court, and being in this state of mind, the court is compelled, by Section 1096 of the Penal Code of California, which provides that the court must be satisfied of the guilt of the defendants to a moral certainty and beyond a reasonable to find the defendants not guilty. “Owing the tenseness which I feel while doubt, of the not help my to could but I was performing this morning at eight o’clock. Skeet} official duties in presiding at the shooters, (about one hundred and. trial of this case, I think I am not fifty) will enter this annual competi-; 0iM8beyond the bounds of pro¢ : priety in expressing the sincere hope tion, held this year on the Nevada . 3 Z : . that this entire matter will now be City Skeet Club’s field on the old) onqed. Cases such as this are diffiRichards ranch. There are two elec. trically equipped fields; the only . . } . . witnesses is where no disinterested produced who has observed the entire situation from beginning to end, and any continuation of court action or ill feeling will result in keeping the difficulty alive. I strongly recommend that the chapter be closed, and that the people of San Juan Ridge work in harmony for the advancement of their section.”’. JUDGE ST. SURE WILL PRESIDE IN MINE CASE The lateral rights suit o the Empire-Star Mines Co., vs. Valley Bullion Mines Co. has been postponed to an indefinite date in August. It is said that it has been difficult to secure a Federal Judge who feels himself competent to preside in a mining litigation case is the main cause of postponement of the case. Word has been received from San Francisco that Judge A. F: St. Sure has now been assigned to the case. cult to solve, PASTOR RE-ELECTED The many friends of Rey. andj; Mrs. H. H. Buckner are pleased to! learn that Mr. Buckner is being returned to Nevada City to fill the pulpit of the Methodist church again the coming year. This is to be the eleventh year for Mr. Buckner in this church. He with his wife take a deep yinterest in their work and have an ative group of members. E. S. Evans, of Standard Oil’s laboratories of San Francisco with Jack Wolf of Grass Valley, were NeVada City visitors yesteerday. the; The} ! before . ' a con. the Grass} — . Producing Mines Put More Men to Work yester day . j Despite the fact that five of the \ smaller mining properties have closed during the last month, the Nugget’s survey of the mining industry the past month reveals an inof 100.men employed. The total is now 2,344 as compared with 2,240 a month ago. The monthly } for ! crease Sohal has been stepped up from ; $313,600 to $328,160. Substantial increases in employ,;ment are noted in Idaho-Maryland, : Republic Gold (Empress), Spring . Hill, Lava Cap and Zeibright. Relief oa has gone into operation with 20 ‘men employed. Among those proper‘ties in which operations have been resumed are McDonald Ranch, Ragon and Phoenix. Rumors of mining deals are in . constant circulation but few of these can be verified. It is very apparent, however, that. the mining industry . is attracting more and more attention among investors. The following ! reports have been received: i } . LAVA CAP MINE Sinking operations started June 15th at the Lava Cap mine south}east of Nevada City. The shaft is to be sunk to the 1600 level. Work of . enlarging and timbering the 5,000 foot drain tunnel between the Central and Banner shafts on the propi erty is making good progress and will take about a month more to complete. The company has purchased two electric locomotives and a shovel loader which are to be used in the long tunnel when it is finished. 160 men are employed under Superintendent Otto-E, Schiffner. Nr tenn ahaha SPRING HILL have a 125 ton mill. being excavated, buildings for the mine activities have been and the collar of the new . shaft has been cemented for twelve. Foundations are various erected, The Spring Hill. mine is soon to! ROADMASTER RESCUES WOMAN KILLS RATTLER Fred B. Hanson, roadmaster ot Camptonville, is a hero toa party of city campers, who last week occupied a charming bower on the banks of Oregon creek. While at work on the-Pike City road he heard the. frantic screams of a woman. Hurrying toward the sound he saw a woman precariously perched on a boulder in the middle of Oregon Creek. The woman had gone to the creek for water for her party encamped there, and just as she reached her pail into the stream, she heard. the loud song of a rattler. With two swift leaps she reached the top of the mid-stream boulder and Wegan calling for help. Even after Hanson had killed the snake, the woman needed much reassuring that it “was safe to come ashore, feet below the surface, and foundations for the new head frame are in place. Fifty men are employed above and below ground. H. R Plate, man-. ager, states that gold recovery in the new mill will be by the flotation pro-: cess. Every unit of the new plant is designed for efficiency and labor saving. —JIM MINE ! Two large truck loads of machin. ery from Los Angeles were taken to 'the Jim Mine above the Gaston property northeast of Washington in . the last few days. The company con. templates erection of a mill this summer. Mr. Columbus and three grown sons are in charge of the property. Two men worked at the (Continued on Page’ Five) QUARTZ _ MINE OR GRAVE, LOCATION BE ont PAYROLL Ni Signings 9 Pennsylvania Quartz Grass Valley 740 $103,600 “Brunswick and : ees Idaho Maryland Quartz NE Grass Valley 525 73,500 a Murchie Quartz E of Nevada City 300 42,000 Great Northern Quartz» Harmony Ridge 15 100 Golden Center Quartz Grass Valley : 100 14,000 Republic Gold Quartz Newton 82 11,480 A Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley 50 7,000 Lava Cap Quartz Banner Mt. 160 22,400 Ancho Erie Quartz Graniteville 16 2,240 Bullion Quartz E of Grass Valley 55 7,700 ; You Bet Mining Gravel You Bet 9 1.260 . Spanish Quartz Washington 51 7,140 Mattie Gold Co. Quartz S of Grass Valley 6 840 { Zeibright Quartz E of Nevada City 75 10,500 Alta Hill Gravel W. Grass Valley 10 1,400 __ German Bar Quartz N. Bloomfield 4 560 Alaska Quartz N. Nevada City 3 420 Remington Hilt Gravel E. of Nev. City 3 420 Prescott Hill Quartz E. Grass Valley 20 2,800 French Corral Gravel French Corral 8 1,120 Omega Gravel N. Washington " 5 700 Q Gracey Glencoe Quartz S. of Nev. City 6 840 , Icard Ranch Quartz.. W. Grass Valley 6 840. t ~ Pennsylvania Quartz Browns Valley 12. 1,680 — ! Salmon Quartz Tyler 6 840 Deer Creek Union Quartz SE Nevada City 4 560. Frederic Quartz NE Nevada City 17 2,380 River Placers Gravel Nor. Columbia . 15 10 San Juan Mine _ Quartz. Nor. San Juan™ —s_— 8 : : McDonald Rach ; “Tailings ‘So. Geaae Valley ; : Ss ey Ragon Quartz , W. Nev. City 5. : Relief Hitt Quartz Nor. Bloomfield _ 20 Phoenix Quartz So. Grass Valley Ee