March 12, 1934 (4 pages)

paper, scribe for it? WE 00 our pane This is Nevada City’s . ONLY Hometown News. It, supports things worth while. Do’ you subevada C ij Nevada City Nugget is a Miember of the United Press ity And California Newspaper Pu ugget blishers Association WE 00 OUR PART Your. Hometown Newspaper helps community. advertisers good builder. to build your Readers. and make it a UI Vol Vil No. 35 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center VIONDAY,-MARCH 12, 1934 Charges of were resisting an bata ~ field Robson, followed a free-for-all, The three under McCarthy, William Walter Cowley. The row started and lunch resort, arrest Joe Anderson are: in, Austin’s beer when Robson ed McCarthy under arrest for placusing young woman who was serving the lunch. McCarthy refused: to accoma fight. Robson drew his club but . before he could use it, Anderson and } Cowley tried to rescue The offieer went to the floor Other patrons of the resort stepped in to assist Robson. He now a time MeCarthy rushed out into Broad street where Night Officer Bill Jones »took a hand in the malee. Between the two McCarthy was finally ushered into jail. Robson then Anderson returned and found and Cowley in’ Muscardini’s. When he arrested them, they both jumped on him and one of them gave him a wallop in the eye. Jones . and Robson plied their sticks with zood effect and finally landed them both in the city jail. Yesterday morning they were removed to the county jail. The chief was. still wearing his.merit badge today. Resisting an officer is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in the county jail. st — All three men, the chief of states, had been drinking to excess. In the county jail the three “mugged and _printed.’’ Robson states that none of them were em-. ployed though he believes that McNEVADA MINING TAKES OVER BIG BUZZARD MINE The Big Buzzard mine, nine, miles north east of Folsom, in which J. W. Howard, formerly of Grass Valley, has been interested, has been taken over by D. Sharpstone of Elko, Nevada. He plans to erect a modern flotation plant on the property. There are approximately 2,000 tons of heavy sulphide ore on the dumps which will average better than. $15 a ton. police were The shaft on the property is 300 feet deep, exposing a vein. everaging from 5 to 30 feet in width. There is about 15,000 tons: of ore blocked out, ‘which will average around $13.50 per ton. This principally sulphide ofe in slate. It contains about 1.7 copper, 5.10 per cent lead, and. from 4 to 17 percent of zine: The silver is closely associated with the tead and runs as high as 30 per cent in value. Ed C. Uren, mining engineer this city, went to Folsom Wednesday and made a report of the property. D. Sharpstone represents Minnesota capital. AUTO BODY WORKS OPENS IN NEVADA CITY Leoore is taleose percent of Samuel L. Gould and his son, nard N. Gould, have opened an auto body works shop in the Nevada City Garage, the only business of it’s kind in Nevada City. The father and gon were formerly in business in Woodland and have removed to Nevada City with their families. The new enterprise provides a complete service in body and fender repairing, auto painting, installing glass, reconditioning. radiators, recovering and painting tops, and upholstering interior parts of cars. —o——-— WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB There will be a business meeting of the Womens’ Civic, Club to-night in the Brand Studio. Plans for the convention of the Northern District Federation, which is 'to be held in Nevada City between April 19 to 21, are being made. rough and tumble fight late Saturday ; night. ‘ McCarthy. with . McCarthy. . finally got to his feet but in the mean-. Railroad Commission. set aside it’s ; : previous order.cancelling the franThree Youths Battle Police, Land In Jail officer ) Cx placed against a trio of rowdies} ¢ this morning by Chief of Police Gar-!three have not been in trouble beand . bert ; when the latter attempted to arrest : . Ala for peace disturbance. Ala got in foul and abusive lanquage toward a! vigorously however with his ‘‘billy’’ ! ‘and pany Robson to the jail and started . before Police Judge Couglin. ; truck line between Nevada City, For. originally heard a year ago and fol-! rthy hes lived im this vicinity for » two yerrs. .So far as known the fore. HERE'S ANOTHER FIGHTER Edward Ala, a miner, 41 years old, _engag sed-in a bout with Officer Her. Hallett yesterday afternoon, . one good punch which knocked Hallett off his legs. Hallett came back soon had ‘the obstreperous customer in. jail. He will be charged FREIGHTING FRANCHISE OF ALPHA STORES OKEY Under a recent decision the State chise of Alpha Hardware and Supply Co., to operate an automobile freight est City and Alleghany and reinstated the franchise. The matter was lowing the original decision a rehearing was granted, as a result of which .the freight line operative right was restored. PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORT FOR FEB. Librarian’s report for February 1934.To the Home Board of Trustees of Nevada City Free Library. rentlemen: I respectfully submit the following of. conditions’ .in the Nevada the month of report City Free Library for February 1934. There 9490 in the are volumes home: use. Fiction, 1190, 218, biography 20, 21, religion 7, poetry 1, fine arts 2, useful arts 9, natural science 8, social science 7, and philosophy 3. Five’ books were borrowed from the State Library. Visitors to . reading rooms 1309. Men 432, women 165, boys 429 girls 28 Borrowers 926, total attendance 22 or an average of 97 daily. 3. 35, Ten adult cards and one juvenile ecard were issued and four cards surrendered making our present registration 1139. Seventeen books were purchased and eléven books donated; twelve books were discarded; present acces. sion 9490. Following is a list of the purchased: ‘Romance Island,” Frances S. Wees; ‘Separate Star,’’ Mary Wilson; “The Future’ Comes,’’ A. Beard and George. H. E. “Lone Rider,’’ “The World is Yours, “Kindy’s Crossing,’ B. Chas. Smith; Hawthorne; B. Lancaster; Marg W. Jackson; the Mesa,"' Gill; morrow,’ Ruby Ayress; Venus,” “agar R. Burroughs; Thin Man,’ Dashiell Hammett; ers of ine Whistling Skull,” Wm. MacDonalt “Valour,”’ Deeping; ‘Manhattan Love Song,’ Kathleen Worris; “Diamond River Man,’ Eugene Cunningham; ‘‘Murder in the Calvais—€oach,”’ Agatha Christie; ‘“‘High Courage,’ Jackson Gregory; “Shake Hands with the Devil,’’ Reardini Conner; “Women Are Like That,’ Alice Elinor Lambert. G; aret Toof Tom “Always “Pirates “RidCc. Mrs. W. E. Carter, their titles are: “The Desert of Wheat,’ ‘‘Forlorn River,’’ ‘‘The Spirit of the Border,”’ Zane Grey; ‘The Texan,’ James B. Hendryx; ‘‘The Mad Busman,”’ I. A. R. Wylie; ‘“‘Thirty One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains,” Capt. Wm. F. Drannan; ‘‘Caxtin’s’ Book,’’ WwW. HH, Rhodes. We received from Bobby Elkus two, books in return for a book lost; )“Wings of the North,” Harris Pati: ton; and “Dog of Flanders,’’ Ornda. “The Girls of Central High,’’ by Gertrude .W. Morrison. Money collected, fines $2.75; tals $23.30, total $26.05, IVA WILLIAMSON, renLibrarian. . . . . books! “The. Fight books were given to us by ; library, and 1486 were borrowed for . juvenile, . history and travel .IN TR A ANDCCC BOYS Hildegarde , ae tored “Death Rides! . j Warwich . i LEONG KIDDIES WRITE TO OLD FRIENDS HERE . cer wo little ‘children of Eddia E.eong, who last year returned to {tanton, China, sound a bit homesick for Nevada City tn these two letters which they have written to a friend here: The letters, in hemdwriting, astonishingly _go6od for small tads, are as follows: Dear Friend: We received your funny papers and thank you very much for it. 1 am very sorry that I have not wrote to you earlier because we have to go to school and when school is out it is very late. Saturdays haves schools just Sundays hadsnt. We are are the same. is it very quiet? In China there is rio place to go except gojng to school. It ‘is very hot and have to take a bath every day. Our house is near by the ocean and it is very funny to see the fishing boats goes by sometimes; we see big boat’ go by. all fine and—hope-you How is the town, Sometimes we go over to Grandpa and Grandma, which not very far we can go by ourself she gives us banana and thing to take home. Guess that is all I have to say. Hoping to hear from you soon. Sincerely yours, Blanche Leong. Dear Friend, Received your most welcome mews paper. Thank you’ very much every body is fine. In China it is very hot when it is cold it is very cold. I am now wearing Chinese style. I’m now soins to Chindae — and children aa. There are lots of mountain and every morning lots of people to get wood. Herbert is getting very sassy and going barefoot every minute he has lot of. Chinese. Guess that is all I have to say. hoping hear from you soon. From, Eddie Leong, Jr. Paes: Mother give you her best regard. flames { From Madge Pianezzi for book lost, ! BATTLE FOREST FIRE BY JAMES TINDELL NORTH BLOOMFIELD, Mar. 12. The NIRA crews were hastily called to North Columbia Friday night to battle three fires about one mile} northeast of that place, which apparently had an= incendiary Several truck loads of CCC men ieee the camp near Grass Valley finally . relieved them. For a time the fire threatened to get out of bounds, but with the arrival of the CCC boys, the were quickly controlled. MR. AND MRS. A. JACOBS "TO MOVE TO NEVADA CITY Mrs. A. Jacobs and daughter up from Sacramento Sunday to the day with Mr. Jacobs. He mospend has just opened: the new Boston, Mer; by . cantile store, formerly occupied Robert Carr shoe store’ Mr. Jacobs formerly conducted the} Boston Mercantile Store Sacr mento for 23 years. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs are delighted with Nevada City. He and his family will reside here. BLOOMFIELD NIRA MEN CLEARING FIRE TRAILS NORTH BLOOMFIELD, Mar. 12. ——-The NIRA crew working out of North Bloomfield, has been divided. One crew of 14 men under E. S. Canrill, is at work on the Buck Mountain trail, and the other, with about the in DIAMOND MATCH The Diamond Match Company has ; purchased the Grass Valley Lumber company at Hills Flat from Archie If. , whose . towen and R. N. Johnson, partnership will now The Diamond Match company. will operate the yard throgh an arrangement: with Pete Andreotti, owner of land where the yard and, mill are located. . . iing Andreotti is interested in the loggand sawmilf business and sold ithe retail lumber ‘yard to Rowen and Y will { . i . . { . ‘lay off, but they are expected to im-. fight were either \ } ! . Andreotti line. Rowen Johnson over a year ago. continue in that states that he will continue to make’ Grass Valley his home and will soon engage in another business activity. , The ‘Diamond Match took session of the property today. posELKS BOWLERS IN KEEN RIVALRY The teams meetins this week on the Nevada City Elks Club bowling, lalleys are: Monday evening, Clarke vs. Johnson; Tuesday, Mobley vs. Schiffner; Wednesday, Wright vs. Richards; Thursday, Carr vs. Schreiber; Friday, Hoge vs. Tucker. ‘The scores made by the teams so far are rather low due to a two year prove as they settle down to steady practice. The bowling teams now. stand: ja Mobley, 5; Hoge 7; Carr, 9; Clarke: rahe tichards, 6; Wright, 2; Johnson, 8s Schiffner, 7; Schreiber, 1; Tucker,~0. : . \ . The teams of Tucker and Schreiber have only bowled once and this accounts for their low scores. The following is a list of scores made by those playing last Friday ! ‘ ,; evening. . . . . . . . . a-+ . <PRELIMINARY HEARING) a 45 calibre, Johnson 99 143.104 346 largest gun, Sheriff Carter states, he Widauf 144 142 147. 433,ever saw, was found under his bed . Henry 99 150. 65 \314 Saturday night. Williamson 64. 89-63. 216) Bigelow 196 206 153 555 CHAMBER W LT], GAMES 602 730 532 1864 : Schreiber 110 101 115. 326 nes Moore 115 118-115 345 ELECT OFFICERS Skeahan 95-295 96. 285 L. Davies 63. 128-69. 265: E. Davies 95 95 95 285! TUESD AY NIGHT H. Cap Rea as TA 282 GAMES 551 608 563 1728 iba ore origin. ‘PAIR END JAIL TERM AND WALLOP WITNESS Jack Pitts and Cal Linnell, out of the.county jail Saturday, after s ing a 60 day sentence for thievery at ! French Corral, returned to that community and proceede 1d to beat up’ L. yesterday afternoon. iff.Carter now has officers on their trail to bring them back. Sorenson, caretaker for the De Pratti mining property at French Corral, is.allegea to have provided information-regardservSorenson , * a A { ing the thefts for which the two were . sentenced to jail. ‘DRUNKEN DRIVER HAS M. V. Newman, w a wha was. arrested by Captain Joe Blake of the Traffic : Patrol, in connection with the arrest of Frank W. Cowden for drunken driving, pleaded guilty Friday to peace disturbance and was sentenced ito 60 days in jail. Newman attempted a fistic argument with the traffic officer. Frank Cowden had his preliminary hearing before Judge Mobley this afternoon. the same number of men, is engaged ; TWELVE SCOUTS ENJOY in clearing truck trail. SAILOR FLAT CRAVEL MINE IN OPERATION The Saiior “gravel is i; busy at . water from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ditch, . . This company spent several weeks repairing pipe lines and-cleaning ditches this winter, getting ready for a good season of hydraulicking. H. J. Burkhart and Edward Bickel are operating the property. Wiac ‘jnine theSpring «Creek. fire. present hydraulicking with; . . HIKE TO QUAKER CITY Twelve Boy Scouts and Scout Master Edd Addington enjoyed an over-: night trip into the Quaker Hill district last week_end. They left Nevada City Saturday morning and, spent the night at Mar. tin Dellea ditch camp. Sunday the boys had a fine time swimming in a pool of water in the Two of the . old diggings nearby. ‘boys, Fan Robins and Dick Marriott won badges in swimming records. The boys took turns at preparing . meals. be dissolved. ! Sher. BIIYS OUT CRASS ExConvict Murders VALEEViuMerR -_EX-Convict In Brawl Fred Broun, resident of Ivy street, .Grass Valley, accused of murdering James Perry, an itinerant, Saturday . is in the county jail and with him is Ray Turner, another itinerant, held as a material witness. Broun was arrested on the Grass , Valley streets, after being identified by Turner, following a fight and the killing in the ‘‘jungles’’ near the Narrow Gauge cut close to Grass Valley. , afternoon, Turner's story was that all three had been drinking and: returned to the “jungles” with food late Saturday afternoon. An altercation arose over the cooking of the food and . Broun is said to have belabored ,; Perry and Turner with a pick handle. ' According -to Turner, Perry went in. side the small tin hut and lay down, / Broun returned to Grass Valley and ;came. back with a revolver, took a . shot at Turner who escaped in the woods, then entered the hut and fired a bullet through Perry’s head. Another shot grazed’his The body was removed by Coroner A. M. Holmes. An X-ray taken by Coroner Andy Holmes and Sheriff Carter of Perry’s body at the county hospital yesterday revealed the location of the bullet which was extracted and held as evidence. j All engaged in the criminals or had been on trial for crime. Broun was . .a three time loser: He was paroled ‘from Carson State prison in Nevada last May. Perry, the murdered man, was also known as Mike Lund, White ‘or Conway and had served a term in I Polson: His identity was established by finger prints taken by the shat and submitted to the state . identification bureau. Turner was re' cently tried for burglary in Modesto j but not convicted. three men Broun’s revolver the {. The annual meeting of the Chami ber of Commerce of this city will be held. at the Chambers headquarters tomorrow. evening at 8 o’clock. election of? officers will be held. . Among the topics to be discussed are . Nevada City Airport, the Ski Club } ; house and other important : President Fred IF, Cassidy and SecLretary W.#H:. Griffith. urge all memattend. the bers to ‘TASKER ODDIE ATTENDS . UTAH MINING CONCLAVE. { bIs. . Bee Sees 9" Tasker Word receive d ee Mr. 'ins of Nevada City from Oddie of Nevada, ‘group of six from that state, who. are ernors in the Utah hotel, City, today in a mining conference ewe led by Governor H. H. Blood of . / Utah. Mr. Oddie is on his way east and . will spend some time in Washington; We es, . business matters pertaining to min: ing. STATE CWA FORCES 10 DROP 39,500 IN MARCH SAN FRANCISCO, Mat. 12.—Coincident with President Roosevelt's announcement of a new work relief plan to supplant the Civil Works, the . number ‘of CWA employees in California, was revealed. Reductions: during March will torevesied. At the end: of the first week, effective March 9, approximately 9,500 will be dropped. The-ei after, for three weeks, 10,000. por t week willbe dropped, until on March 30, but 65,000 of the original 160,000 employees will be retained. These reductions were announced in accordance with instructions from . Washington. ; . ’ shoulder. . ’ The . that he is among aj\ } Salt Lake and New York City on: 'March schedule of reductions in the . a aa tal 39,500 persons, Captain Macauley ; . Foliowing the =< ~ shooting of Perry, jute nessed by another itinerant nam. } ed Alec . ! Thompson jungle where Thompson was cooking his supper. ver weaving about unsteadily in his hand asked: “What did you see down there?” Thompson answered hastily: “T didn’t see nothin;”’ “Well VOR, shave. plaints, ‘ing and . mentary commanded Broun, divided his supper. Perry it developed had re.ceived a frightful wallop in the fight earlier in the afternoon with Broun who weilded the pick handle. head. was laid open across the top. He had retired to his hut and was unable to rise when Broun returned and finished him with his big revol— Thompson, up the Broun wit Broun followed hill from the h his big revolgimme something to eat,’’ and Thompson Perry’s Judge Oscar ROBERT THARP BUSIEST MAN IN TWIN CITIES he has h Robert hana. dees deputy district attorney, is so busy with cases before Winburn in Grass. Valley and Judge Walter Mobley in this city, that He is preliminaires, ad no time ‘to engaged in holding drawing prosecuting amining ‘witnesses in all kinds of misdemeanors and from battery to murder. this town is becoming altogether two metropolitan, up comcases and excrimes, ranging He declares~ —The North Friday evening, ST. PATRICK’S PROGRAM FOR NOR. BLOOMFIELD “NORTH .BLOOMFIELD, Mar. Bloomfield school will entertain parents and friends of the pubils at St. Patrick’s Day party next March 16. There will be a short program followed by dancAn orchestra 'composed of North Bloomfield musicians Will provide the music. refreshments. 12. CWA PROJECT APPROVED. FOR GRASS VALLEY CWA SAN FRANCISCO, March. 12,—Ex— . penditure of $4,606.25 for a suppleproject in Nevada county was approved today by Ed‘ward Macauley, Administrator Twenty-four Fede men ral Civil Works for California. thus find em‘ployment in the city of Grass Valley doing curb and street work including coverage of street sewer extenmatters. . sions and short laterals. GOOD SCORES MADE There was a Skeet Shotters x25; 26; 25.3 Dr. 13x25 . Carter, relli, . i Mrs. tery. turned Shooters were: ie 16-21x25; Myers Mobley, W. W. Reed, Herbert Skeahan, BY SKEET SHOOTERS. “Tare at Dave Richards, 23-22 —-23-29—) re attendance of the Skeet range and some good records were made. John: Tognarelli, 19-2314-12-14-14x 15-18x25; G. Katherine Togna‘BOULDERS ARE BLASTED OUTIN SPRING STREET Herbert Hallett, superintendent of streets, has had a crew blasting and’ removing boulders on lower Spring street for the last few days. When completed, be lengthened and an approach cut to the east property line of Mr. John Tognarelli’s giving a b entrance to their lot and i lot . J. H. Suss. the street will Funeral services were held ternoon at the Holmes Funeral . for the late John Hallett, who p away Friday: The services v ducted by the Rey. Interment was in P Mr. and Mrs, Milo. Saturday from vacation spent in 19-17x25;° attending a meeting of western goy-, Miles Coughlin, 11-10x25; Jack Still, Gene Barkeri, 19-15x25; { 0-11-12-11x25.

paper, scribe for it? WE 00 our pane This is Nevada City’s . ONLY Hometown News. It, supports things worth while. Do’ you subevada C ij Nevada City Nugget is a Miember of the United Press ity And California Newspaper Pu ugget blishers Association WE 00 OUR PART Your. Hometown Newspaper helps community. advertisers good builder. to build your Readers. and make it a UI Vol Vil No. 35 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center VIONDAY,-MARCH 12, 1934 Charges of were resisting an bata ~ field Robson, followed a free-for-all, The three under McCarthy, William Walter Cowley. The row started and lunch resort, arrest Joe Anderson are: in, Austin’s beer when Robson ed McCarthy under arrest for placusing young woman who was serving the lunch. McCarthy refused: to accoma fight. Robson drew his club but . before he could use it, Anderson and } Cowley tried to rescue The offieer went to the floor Other patrons of the resort stepped in to assist Robson. He now a time MeCarthy rushed out into Broad street where Night Officer Bill Jones »took a hand in the malee. Between the two McCarthy was finally ushered into jail. Robson then Anderson returned and found and Cowley in’ Muscardini’s. When he arrested them, they both jumped on him and one of them gave him a wallop in the eye. Jones . and Robson plied their sticks with zood effect and finally landed them both in the city jail. Yesterday morning they were removed to the county jail. The chief was. still wearing his.merit badge today. Resisting an officer is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in the county jail. st — All three men, the chief of states, had been drinking to excess. In the county jail the three “mugged and _printed.’’ Robson states that none of them were em-. ployed though he believes that McNEVADA MINING TAKES OVER BIG BUZZARD MINE The Big Buzzard mine, nine, miles north east of Folsom, in which J. W. Howard, formerly of Grass Valley, has been interested, has been taken over by D. Sharpstone of Elko, Nevada. He plans to erect a modern flotation plant on the property. There are approximately 2,000 tons of heavy sulphide ore on the dumps which will average better than. $15 a ton. police were The shaft on the property is 300 feet deep, exposing a vein. everaging from 5 to 30 feet in width. There is about 15,000 tons: of ore blocked out, ‘which will average around $13.50 per ton. This principally sulphide ofe in slate. It contains about 1.7 copper, 5.10 per cent lead, and. from 4 to 17 percent of zine: The silver is closely associated with the tead and runs as high as 30 per cent in value. Ed C. Uren, mining engineer this city, went to Folsom Wednesday and made a report of the property. D. Sharpstone represents Minnesota capital. AUTO BODY WORKS OPENS IN NEVADA CITY Leoore is taleose percent of Samuel L. Gould and his son, nard N. Gould, have opened an auto body works shop in the Nevada City Garage, the only business of it’s kind in Nevada City. The father and gon were formerly in business in Woodland and have removed to Nevada City with their families. The new enterprise provides a complete service in body and fender repairing, auto painting, installing glass, reconditioning. radiators, recovering and painting tops, and upholstering interior parts of cars. —o——-— WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB There will be a business meeting of the Womens’ Civic, Club to-night in the Brand Studio. Plans for the convention of the Northern District Federation, which is 'to be held in Nevada City between April 19 to 21, are being made. rough and tumble fight late Saturday ; night. ‘ McCarthy. with . McCarthy. . finally got to his feet but in the mean-. Railroad Commission. set aside it’s ; : previous order.cancelling the franThree Youths Battle Police, Land In Jail officer ) Cx placed against a trio of rowdies} ¢ this morning by Chief of Police Gar-!three have not been in trouble beand . bert ; when the latter attempted to arrest : . Ala for peace disturbance. Ala got in foul and abusive lanquage toward a! vigorously however with his ‘‘billy’’ ! ‘and pany Robson to the jail and started . before Police Judge Couglin. ; truck line between Nevada City, For. originally heard a year ago and fol-! rthy hes lived im this vicinity for » two yerrs. .So far as known the fore. HERE'S ANOTHER FIGHTER Edward Ala, a miner, 41 years old, _engag sed-in a bout with Officer Her. Hallett yesterday afternoon, . one good punch which knocked Hallett off his legs. Hallett came back soon had ‘the obstreperous customer in. jail. He will be charged FREIGHTING FRANCHISE OF ALPHA STORES OKEY Under a recent decision the State chise of Alpha Hardware and Supply Co., to operate an automobile freight est City and Alleghany and reinstated the franchise. The matter was lowing the original decision a rehearing was granted, as a result of which .the freight line operative right was restored. PUBLIC LIBRARY REPORT FOR FEB. Librarian’s report for February 1934.To the Home Board of Trustees of Nevada City Free Library. rentlemen: I respectfully submit the following of. conditions’ .in the Nevada the month of report City Free Library for February 1934. There 9490 in the are volumes home: use. Fiction, 1190, 218, biography 20, 21, religion 7, poetry 1, fine arts 2, useful arts 9, natural science 8, social science 7, and philosophy 3. Five’ books were borrowed from the State Library. Visitors to . reading rooms 1309. Men 432, women 165, boys 429 girls 28 Borrowers 926, total attendance 22 or an average of 97 daily. 3. 35, Ten adult cards and one juvenile ecard were issued and four cards surrendered making our present registration 1139. Seventeen books were purchased and eléven books donated; twelve books were discarded; present acces. sion 9490. Following is a list of the purchased: ‘Romance Island,” Frances S. Wees; ‘Separate Star,’’ Mary Wilson; “The Future’ Comes,’’ A. Beard and George. H. E. “Lone Rider,’’ “The World is Yours, “Kindy’s Crossing,’ B. Chas. Smith; Hawthorne; B. Lancaster; Marg W.. Jackson; the Mesa,"' Gill; morrow,’ Ruby Ayress; Venus,” “agar R. Burroughs; Thin Man,’ Dashiell Hammett; ers of ine Whistling Skull,” Wm. MacDonalt “Valour,”’ Deeping; ‘Manhattan Love Song,’ Kathleen Worris; “Diamond River Man,’ Eugene Cunningham; ‘‘Murder in the Calvais—€oach,”’ Agatha Christie; ‘“‘High Courage,’ Jackson Gregory; “Shake Hands with the Devil,’’ Reardini Conner; “Women Are Like That,’ Alice Elinor Lambert. G; aret Toof Tom “Always “Pirates “RidCc. Mrs. W. E. Carter, their titles are: “The Desert of Wheat,’ ‘‘Forlorn River,’’ ‘‘The Spirit of the Border,”’ Zane Grey; ‘The Texan,’ James B. Hendryx; ‘‘The Mad Busman,”’ I. A. R. Wylie; ‘“‘Thirty One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains,” Capt. Wm. F. Drannan; ‘‘Caxtin’s’ Book,’’ WwW. HH, Rhodes. We received from Bobby Elkus two, books in return for a book lost; )“Wings of the North,” Harris Pati: ton; and “Dog of Flanders,’’ Ornda. “The Girls of Central High,’’ by Gertrude .W. Morrison. Money collected, fines $2.75; tals $23.30, total $26.05, IVA WILLIAMSON, renLibrarian. . . . . books! “The. Fight books were given to us by ; library, and 1486 were borrowed for . juvenile, . history and travel .IN TR A ANDCCC BOYS Hildegarde , ae tored “Death Rides! . j Warwich . i LEONG KIDDIES WRITE TO OLD FRIENDS HERE . cer wo little ‘children of Eddia E.eong, who last year returned to {tanton, China, sound a bit homesick for Nevada City tn these two letters which they have written to a friend here: The letters, in hemdwriting, astonishingly _go6od for small tads, are as follows: Dear Friend: We received your funny papers and thank you very much for it. 1 am very sorry that I have not wrote to you earlier because we have to go to school and when school is out it is very late. Saturdays haves schools just Sundays hadsnt. We are are the same. is it very quiet? In China there is rio place to go except gojng to school. It ‘is very hot and have to take a bath every day. Our house is near by the ocean and it is very funny to see the fishing boats goes by sometimes; we see big boat’ go by. all fine and—hope-you How is the town, Sometimes we go over to Grandpa and Grandma, which not very far we can go by ourself she gives us banana and thing to take home. Guess that is all I have to say. Hoping to hear from you soon. Sincerely yours, Blanche Leong. Dear Friend, Received your most welcome mews paper. Thank you’ very much every body is fine. In China it is very hot when it is cold it is very cold. I am now wearing Chinese style. I’m now soins to Chindae — and children aa. There are lots of mountain and every morning lots of people to get wood. Herbert is getting very sassy and going barefoot every minute he has lot of. Chinese. Guess that is all I have to say. hoping hear from you soon. From, Eddie Leong, Jr. Paes: Mother give you her best regard. flames { From Madge Pianezzi for book lost, ! BATTLE FOREST FIRE BY JAMES TINDELL NORTH BLOOMFIELD, Mar. 12. The NIRA crews were hastily called to North Columbia Friday night to battle three fires about one mile} northeast of that place, which apparently had an= incendiary Several truck loads of CCC men ieee the camp near Grass Valley finally . relieved them. For a time the fire threatened to get out of bounds, but with the arrival of the CCC boys, the were quickly controlled. MR. AND MRS. A. JACOBS "TO MOVE TO NEVADA CITY Mrs. A. Jacobs and daughter up from Sacramento Sunday to the day with Mr. Jacobs. He mospend has just opened: the new Boston, Mer; by . cantile store, formerly occupied Robert Carr shoe store’ Mr. Jacobs formerly conducted the} Boston Mercantile Store Sacr mento for 23 years. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs are delighted with Nevada City. He and his family will reside here. BLOOMFIELD NIRA MEN CLEARING FIRE TRAILS NORTH BLOOMFIELD, Mar. 12. ——-The NIRA crew working out of North Bloomfield, has been divided. One crew of 14 men under E. S. Canrill, is at work on the Buck Mountain trail, and the other, with about the in DIAMOND MATCH The Diamond Match Company has ; purchased the Grass Valley Lumber company at Hills Flat from Archie If. , whose . towen and R. N. Johnson, partnership will now The Diamond Match company. will operate the yard throgh an arrangement: with Pete Andreotti, owner of land where the yard and, mill are located. . . iing

Andreotti is interested in the loggand sawmilf business and sold ithe retail lumber ‘yard to Rowen and Y will { . i . . { . ‘lay off, but they are expected to im-. fight were either \ } ! . Andreotti line. Rowen Johnson over a year ago. continue in that states that he will continue to make’ Grass Valley his home and will soon engage in another business activity. , The ‘Diamond Match took session of the property today. posELKS BOWLERS IN KEEN RIVALRY The teams meetins this week on the Nevada City Elks Club bowling, lalleys are: Monday evening, Clarke vs. Johnson; Tuesday, Mobley vs. Schiffner; Wednesday, Wright vs. Richards; Thursday, Carr vs. Schreiber; Friday, Hoge vs. Tucker. ‘The scores made by the teams so far are rather low due to a two year prove as they settle down to steady practice. The bowling teams now. stand: ja Mobley, 5; Hoge 7; Carr, 9; Clarke: rahe tichards, 6; Wright, 2; Johnson, 8s Schiffner, 7; Schreiber, 1; Tucker,~0. : . \ . The teams of Tucker and Schreiber have only bowled once and this accounts for their low scores. The following is a list of scores made by those playing last Friday ! ‘ ,; evening. . . . . . . . . a-+ . <PRELIMINARY HEARING) a 45 calibre, Johnson 99 143.104 346 largest gun, Sheriff Carter states, he Widauf 144 142 147. 433,ever saw, was found under his bed . Henry 99 150. 65 \314 Saturday night. Williamson 64. 89-63. 216) Bigelow 196 206 153 555 CHAMBER W LT], GAMES 602 730 532 1864 : Schreiber 110 101 115. 326 nes Moore 115 118-115 345 ELECT OFFICERS Skeahan 95-295 96. 285 L. Davies 63. 128-69. 265: E. Davies 95 95 95 285! TUESD AY NIGHT H. Cap Rea as TA 282 GAMES 551 608 563 1728 iba ore origin. ‘PAIR END JAIL TERM AND WALLOP WITNESS Jack Pitts and Cal Linnell, out of the.county jail Saturday, after s ing a 60 day sentence for thievery at ! French Corral, returned to that community and proceede 1d to beat up’ L. yesterday afternoon. iff.Carter now has officers on their trail to bring them back. Sorenson, caretaker for the De Pratti mining property at French Corral, is.allegea to have provided information-regardservSorenson , * a A { ing the thefts for which the two were . sentenced to jail. ‘DRUNKEN DRIVER HAS M. V. Newman, w a wha was. arrested by Captain Joe Blake of the Traffic : Patrol, in connection with the arrest of Frank W. Cowden for drunken driving, pleaded guilty Friday to peace disturbance and was sentenced ito 60 days in jail. Newman attempted a fistic argument with the traffic officer. Frank Cowden had his preliminary hearing before Judge Mobley this afternoon. the same number of men, is engaged ; TWELVE SCOUTS ENJOY in clearing truck trail. SAILOR FLAT CRAVEL MINE IN OPERATION The Saiior “gravel is i; busy at . water from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ditch, . . This company spent several weeks repairing pipe lines and-cleaning ditches this winter, getting ready for a good season of hydraulicking. H. J. Burkhart and Edward Bickel are operating the property. Wiac ‘jnine theSpring «Creek. fire. present hydraulicking with; . . HIKE TO QUAKER CITY Twelve Boy Scouts and Scout Master Edd Addington enjoyed an over-: night trip into the Quaker Hill district last week_end. They left Nevada City Saturday morning and, spent the night at Mar. tin Dellea ditch camp. Sunday the boys had a fine time swimming in a pool of water in the Two of the . old diggings nearby. ‘boys, Fan Robins and Dick Marriott won badges in swimming records. The boys took turns at preparing . meals. be dissolved. ! Sher. BIIYS OUT CRASS ExConvict Murders VALEEViuMerR -_EX-Convict In Brawl Fred Broun, resident of Ivy street, .Grass Valley, accused of murdering James Perry, an itinerant, Saturday . is in the county jail and with him is Ray Turner, another itinerant, held as a material witness. Broun was arrested on the Grass , Valley streets, after being identified by Turner, following a fight and the killing in the ‘‘jungles’’ near the Narrow Gauge cut close to Grass Valley. , afternoon, Turner's story was that all three had been drinking and: returned to the “jungles” with food late Saturday afternoon. An altercation arose over the cooking of the food and . Broun is said to have belabored ,; Perry and Turner with a pick handle. ' According -to Turner, Perry went in. side the small tin hut and lay down, / Broun returned to Grass Valley and ;came. back with a revolver, took a . shot at Turner who escaped in the woods, then entered the hut and fired a bullet through Perry’s head. Another shot grazed’his The body was removed by Coroner A. M. Holmes. An X-ray taken by Coroner Andy Holmes and Sheriff Carter of Perry’s body at the county hospital yesterday revealed the location of the bullet which was extracted and held as evidence. j All engaged in the criminals or had been on trial for crime. Broun was . .a three time loser: He was paroled ‘from Carson State prison in Nevada last May. Perry, the murdered man, was also known as Mike Lund, White ‘or Conway and had served a term in I Polson: His identity was established by finger prints taken by the shat and submitted to the state . identification bureau. Turner was re' cently tried for burglary in Modesto j but not convicted. three men Broun’s revolver the {. The annual meeting of the Chami ber of Commerce of this city will be held. at the Chambers headquarters tomorrow. evening at 8 o’clock. election of? officers will be held. . Among the topics to be discussed are . Nevada City Airport, the Ski Club } ; house and other important : President Fred IF, Cassidy and SecLretary W.#H:. Griffith. urge all memattend. the bers to ‘TASKER ODDIE ATTENDS . UTAH MINING CONCLAVE. { bIs. . Bee Sees 9" Tasker Word receive d ee Mr. 'ins of Nevada City from Oddie of Nevada, ‘group of six from that state, who. are ernors in the Utah hotel, City, today in a mining conference ewe led by Governor H. H. Blood of . / Utah. Mr. Oddie is on his way east and . will spend some time in Washington; We es, . business matters pertaining to min: ing. STATE CWA FORCES 10 DROP 39,500 IN MARCH SAN FRANCISCO, Mat. 12.—Coincident with President Roosevelt's announcement of a new work relief plan to supplant the Civil Works, the . number ‘of CWA employees in California, was revealed. Reductions: during March will torevesied. At the end: of the first week, effective March 9, approximately 9,500 will be dropped. The-ei after, for three weeks, 10,000. por t week willbe dropped, until on March 30, but 65,000 of the original 160,000 employees will be retained. These reductions were announced in accordance with instructions from . Washington. ; . ’ shoulder. . ’ The . that he is among aj\ } Salt Lake and New York City on: 'March schedule of reductions in the . a aa tal 39,500 persons, Captain Macauley ; . Foliowing the =< ~ shooting of Perry, jute nessed by another itinerant nam. } ed Alec . ! Thompson jungle where Thompson was cooking his supper. ver weaving about unsteadily in his hand asked: “What did you see down there?” Thompson answered hastily: “T didn’t see nothin;”’ “Well VOR, shave. plaints, ‘ing and . mentary commanded Broun, divided his supper. Perry it developed had re.ceived a frightful wallop in the fight earlier in the afternoon with Broun who weilded the pick handle. head. was laid open across the top. He had retired to his hut and was unable to rise when Broun returned and finished him with his big revol— Thompson, up the Broun wit Broun followed hill from the h his big revolgimme something to eat,’’ and Thompson Perry’s Judge Oscar ROBERT THARP BUSIEST MAN IN TWIN CITIES he has h Robert hana. dees deputy district attorney, is so busy with cases before Winburn in Grass. Valley and Judge Walter Mobley in this city, that He is preliminaires, ad no time ‘to engaged in holding drawing prosecuting amining ‘witnesses in all kinds of misdemeanors and from battery to murder. this town is becoming altogether two metropolitan, up comcases and excrimes, ranging He declares~ —The North Friday evening, ST. PATRICK’S PROGRAM FOR NOR. BLOOMFIELD “NORTH .BLOOMFIELD, Mar. Bloomfield school will entertain parents and friends of the pubils at St. Patrick’s Day party next March 16. There will be a short program followed by dancAn orchestra 'composed of North Bloomfield musicians Will provide the music. refreshments. 12. CWA PROJECT APPROVED. FOR GRASS VALLEY CWA SAN FRANCISCO, March. 12,—Ex— . penditure of $4,606.25 for a suppleproject in Nevada county was approved today by Ed‘ward Macauley, Administrator Twenty-four Fede men ral Civil Works for California. thus find em‘ployment in the city of Grass Valley doing curb and street work including coverage of street sewer extenmatters. . sions and short laterals. GOOD SCORES MADE There was a Skeet Shotters x25; 26; 25.3 Dr. 13x25 . Carter, relli, . i Mrs. tery. turned Shooters were: ie 16-21x25; Myers Mobley, W. W. Reed, Herbert Skeahan, BY SKEET SHOOTERS. “Tare at Dave Richards, 23-22 —-23-29—) re attendance of the Skeet range and some good records were made. John: Tognarelli, 19-2314-12-14-14x 15-18x25; G. Katherine Togna‘BOULDERS ARE BLASTED OUTIN SPRING STREET Herbert Hallett, superintendent of streets, has had a crew blasting and’ removing boulders on lower Spring street for the last few days. When completed, be lengthened and an approach cut to the east property line of Mr. John Tognarelli’s giving a b entrance to their lot and i lot . J. H. Suss. the street will Funeral services were held ternoon at the Holmes Funeral . for the late John Hallett, who p away Friday: The services v ducted by the Rey. Interment was in P Mr. and Mrs, Milo. Saturday from vacation spent in 19-17x25;° attending a meeting of western goy-, Miles Coughlin, 11-10x25; Jack Still, Gene Barkeri, 19-15x25; { 0-11-12-11x25.