March 15, 1937 (4 pages)

5 Ba J / “as many believe, the world is pres-, Thinking Out Loud H. M. L, Does it ever occur to anybody to contrast what the people ask for in the way of leadership, and what they actually get. For instance we elected President Wilson 'to keep us out of the world war, and _ very shortly we were in it. We elected President Hoover to put two good cars in every garage and presently there was nothing in the garage but a dilapidated jalope, if that. We elected President Roosevelt to avoid a “domestic revolution,’ and now ‘we are up to our ears in that. We change heroes but we do not change our destiny. The Chinese developed .a_ philosophy of resignation from which in these days of sit down strikes, the quarrel of Green and Lewis, and both of them against our industrial system, the personally conducted war of the President against the Supreme Court, and nearer at -the hand the local foment and agitation, Wwe may draw a modicum of comfort. The Chinese express this philosophy in these words: ‘‘In a thousand years we shall all be bald.” In other words, whyworry? Death makes us all communists, fascists, democrats or anarchists. The green earth revolves, time without end, about the sun, regardless of the battles of the ted ants and black ants upon its surface. We doubt not, however, that for thousands of years the battle for human liberty will continue. Even if, ently to plunge into the abyss of another dark age, history will repeat]; itself, and men will continue to sacrifice their lives for liberty. The governor of a-great state, compromises with the law and the Bill of Rights. His proud boast is that he avoided bloodshed. But there are many things that are far worse than bloodshed and the ultimate sacrifice. For instance there was slavery in the Old South, the German destruction of European civilization, and further away in time, the impressment of American seamen in the British navy, and earlier than that, taxation without representation. For those things liberty loving people of the United States gladly sacrificed their lives. The struggle for human liberty is a continuing battle. Peace, comfort, soft living, lull the vigilance of the defenders, and slavery of one kind of another lays its snares for the peace loving. But the time may ‘be near when they must take up. arms again, : Expropriation of property without compensation to the owner, as it occurred in France over a_ hundred years ago, in Russia, only a few years ago, and in Mexico today, is au invasion of personal liberty. Whether this is done by dictatorial fiat, legislative act, or excessive taxation, makes little difference so far as results are concerned. First the very wealthy are brought low, next the moderately wealthy, third those who are ‘comfortably fixed,’ and. last, anyone who owns an extra pair of trousers. Ultimately the governmental army of bureaucrats and parasites eats up the substance of an industrious people. The appetite of government, centralized, powerful, knows no limits. Once launched upon a vast bureaucatic expansion of power, every horse leech on the payroll industriously sucks the blood of the taxpayers. Witness Hopkins marshalling his nondescript WPA army to bear down on the President to continue in full blast the golden flood of taxpayers money. HYDRAULIC MINERS MET SATURDAY IN N. C. The California Hydraulic Mining: Association met Saturday at fhe National Hotel. It was reported that the You Bet, Red Dog and Browns Hill mines had . . been confirmed to Alpha S tores Ltd., (part ownership resting with the N. I. D.) and that the new owners were willing to include them in the Dog Bar project. W. G. Allen, the association’s lezlislative representative, read a list of about 200 bills pending in the legislature which directly or indirectly affect mining. Almost 80 of them are being opposed and 30 are considered, SCOUT. TRIP POSTPONED Due to bad weather over the past week end the Boy Scouts trip to Camip=2zhatisi was postponed until a later datew.Mr. Ricksecker of Auburn phoned to cancel the trip and will notify the local scouts when they can make the rip to camp. evada U The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in populationand prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA eget you help yourself. nel — — Vol. 11, No. 22. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937 BOY SLAYERS COMMITTED TO Thirteen-year-old Arnold Munchauser was arraigned this morning before Justice of the Peace Walter MBbley on charge of murdering Oscar Jacks, the crime for which his mother, Mrs. Alice Munchauser had been indicted by the grand jury a week ago. This action follows the boys confession of the shooting, made last week to former sheriff, George Carter and Attorney H.Ward Sheldon, counsel for his mother, which was later confirmed by District Attorney Stoll and Sheriff. Tobiassen. Since the boy is a minor he was bound over for hearing before Judge Raglan Tuttle of the superior court. . Fhe hearing, a juvenile court proceeding took place this afternoon. The story told by the boy, briefly, is that Jacks on the fatal Sunday three weeks ago, returned to his home drunk, knocked down his commonlaw. wife, Mrs. Munchauser, beat Arnold and his younger brother, and then went to the car below the cabin, to get his crank, or car jack, and while doing so, was shot by Arnold from the roof. The bullet passing through his heart killed Jacks instantly. Following his examination in the superior court, Judge Raglan Tuttie committed the boy to. Whittier school. : A. W. MeGagin left this afternoon with the boy to take him to Whittier. ED UREN HEADS “COMMITTEE FOR EASTER SERVICE Fred E. Connef, president ‘of the Chamber of ‘Commerce states Ed. C. Uren of this city has accepted the chairmanship of the committee to prepare for the Easter Sunrise service March 28 at the big cross on the Nevada City airport. Local churches are preparing for Easter services with special music, and programs. The Knights Templar or Commandry of the Masonic order will march in a body from their local lodge on Pine street to the Methodist church in Nevada City this year for the morning service. IN MEMORIUM As a loving tribute to a deceased member; the late Mrs. Harriette I. Jones, members of the San Juan Ridge Water Association offer the following resolution: ue Whereas our Heavenly Fath‘er has called from us a dearly beloved and faithful member, and while we bow in meek submission to the will of God, we deeply deplore our loss; and whereas many were unable to attend the last rites on account of the snow storm, yet to those wo knew her best, the snow covered mound was a fit compliment to her beautiful character. Therefore, be it resolved that the members of the San Juan Ridge Water Association extend, to the bereaved family members, their deepest sympathy, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them and, be* fore we adjourn today, we stand in silence for a moment*“in respect to the memory of our beloved Secretary, the late HarTiette I. Jones. SAN JUAN RIDGE WATER ASSOCIATION. ERNEST EVA, WELL KNOWN MINER, PASSES Ernest Eva, a miner aged about 45 years, passed away in Grass Valley yesterday after an illness of several months Mrs Eva was employed in the Empire mine and had worked there about 18 years. He was an ardent church worker taking great interest in the new Methodist church in Grass Valley, annd was also highly esteemed: by all who knew him. Mr. Eva leaves to mourn his passing a wife and son. Used Radios, $5.00 and up. Har-. mony Shop, ‘Grass Valley. WHITTIER SCHOOL NEVADA CITY RESIDENT IS ALMOST SHIPWRECKED Word came today that Louie Gaspari, who left Nevada City March second and embarked from New York sixth on a visit to his parents in Italy came near being in a shipwreck near the coast of Italy, When rough seas prevented the ship going into dock it was anchored at sea and came near breaking away from the anchor so rough and turbulent was the storm. Louie is a nephew of Mrs. Max Weiss of , Nevada City, his mother being a sister to Mrs, Weiss. ‘SEVENTEEN’ IS STUDENT DRAMA ATHI TOMORROW The theatre goers of Nevada City will have something very special in entertainment tomorrow afternoon and evening in the Nevada Theatre. The senior cast directed by Miss Nancy Jones, will give a performance of Tarkington’s ‘‘Seventeen’’, in a matinee at 2:15 and in the evening at 8:15. The play is full of amusing situations and clever dialogues, handled very ably by the following cast, each of whom is the very spirit of his role: Willie Baxter, Carl Tobiassen; Mr. Baxter, John Harding: Mrs. Baxter, Joan Grant; Jane Baxter, Margaret . Gibbs; Lola_ Pratt, Roberta Ostrom; May Parcher,-Ruth Curnow; Mr. Parcher, John Kron; Genesis, Tom Rickard; Johnnie Watson, Bob Graham; Joe Bullitt, Harlath Brock; George Crooper, Bill Bennett; Miss Ethel Boke, Amy Lou MecCraney; Wallie Banks, Marlin Young annd Mary Brooks, Dorothy Thomas, Willie Baxter, would be youngman-of-the-world, impatient of family estraint, in love with romance and finally disillusioned; Lola Pratt, visiting sister, source of Willie’s love pains and of rivalry in the neighborhood; the long suffering Baxter parents; greedy impish little sister Jane; Genesis, itinerant servant full of everybody’s affairs; Willie’s lively companions—all create a lot of fun that nobody will want to miss. Evening prices will be forty cents for all; afternoon, forty cents, twenty five cents to holders of student body cards, and ten cents for elementary pupils. SUIT OF GOLDEN ARROW MINE IS SUBMITTED Litigation which has extended over a long period was closed Thursday in the superior court of Sierra county, when the suit of the Golden Arrow Mines company vs. George . W. Hickman et al was finally submitted to Judge McIntosh for. decision. The company, of which W. Tf. Ortman is president, and George R. Kibbe is secretary, sued for a recovery of the property which, adjoins the Sixten-to-One mine at Alleghany. Fraud. was alleged. WEST MEXICO HIGHWAY BEGUN the road from Nogales, Arizona, through the western states of Mexico . to Guadalajara are assured as a result of the recent conference at Mazatlan, reports the California State Automobile Association. The road will provide an important link in the Internation Pacific Highway, envisioned as extending eventually from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Buenos Aires. ’ The Mazatlan conference of Mexiean officials ‘and good roads enthusiasts adopted a program of action presented by three California engineers who attended as invited representatives from this state. The three} were E. E. East, chief engineer of the Automobile Club of Southern California; T. H. Dennis, maintenance engineer for the California Division of Highways; and Clark C. Cottrell, manager of the Highways Bureau of the Automobile Association. The plan they presented calls for immediate intensive maintenance work on the Nogales-Guadalajara road, with rebuilding and relocation to follow in accordance with the demands of increasing travel. Bonds guaranteed by gasoline tax revenues to be issued to finance the work. Governors of the states of SoCLUB OPPOSES SPEED TRAPS “Ambushing” motorists as a means of catching speed law violators was denounced by the California State Automobile A'ssociation today in a statement opposing ‘a proposed speed trap law sought by Ray Ingels, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles. The association statement endorsed the views on speed traps expressed in a report by the Assembly Interim Committee on Motor Vehicle Legislation, quoting from the report as follows: : “The Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles has caused a bill! to be introduced permitting “the maintenance of speed traps, although it is proposed that the highways where any such devices are maintained shall be signposted advising the motoring public that speed is.subject to control on such highways by speed traps. ‘During many years California, as well as other states, employed speed traps until finally prohibited by. law for two reasons: 1, Maintenance of speed traps was not effective in reduction of traffic accidents. “2. Such traps were generally maintained where conditions were least hazardous, where motorists operated at somewhat more than normal speed by reason of safe conditions. “The system was fruifful only in filling the coffers of municipalities and counties with, substantial fines and forfeitures, “The proposal to reinstate speed traps indicates a lack of fundamental knowledge of the cause and circumstances of traffic accidents. “It would seem appropriate that officers devote more attention to the reckless and hazardous operation of vehicles, such as avertaking and passing on the wrong side, upon the curves, or other places where view is obstructed, and to a more strict enforcement of the right of way rules at intersections.” FORMER RESIDENT _ VISITS FRIENDS HERE George R. Kibbe, a native of Downievilléy-came up from’ Oakland for a few days visit in his old home town. Mr. Kibbe,} who has traveled in Northern Burope, Alaska, Mexico and Panama Canal, enjoys nothing better than to return to this section. He speaks before high schools, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs on many subjects. While in Nevada City he visited his cousins Miss Alice Murchie and Ray Murchie. Mr. Kibbe is interested with associates in the Golden Arrow Mine at Downieville. He stated he remembers visiting in Nevada City in 1864 during the Civil War period. TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS AT SAN JUAN The French Corral Townsend club met yesterday afternoon in Twambly hall, North San Juan. Miles Tilden, president is slowly recovering from a fractured leg. W. N. Baker, another member of the club has recently undergone a serious operation but is now ‘convalescent. ARABIAN HORSES ON PARADE IN BAY CITY POMONA,: March 14.—Part of the animals that, take part in the Sunday afternoon Arabian horse shows at .the University of California’s Kellogg ranch, near here, are in San Francisco. this.week, 'a part of the entertainment Islam Shrine Circus being staged at the Civic Auditorium there. Eight purebred Arabian horses were taken north, the horses comprising what is known as the ‘Liberty Drill team. They execute numerous drills at the command of the trainer; one of them-demonstrates on a teeter board, another executes a Spanish march, and a third does an oriental dance with veil, bells and trappings. John Macari went to Alleghany today taking his brother, Don, home. The latter has been visiting in Nevada City several days. nora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Jalisco, through which the road passes, pledged their states’ shares of gasoline tax revenues to the road bonds. COURT HOUSE FACE LIFTING ALMOST DONE Scaffolding is being removed from the front. of the court house today giving some idea of the immense, beautiful facade of this building. The white finish makes the, handsome building look like new and as it is built on a ledge of rock it should always stand as a monument to the sturdy. pioneers of Nevada county who had confidence in the future of this section of the state. LIBRARY BOOKS TOTAL 10.439 Mrs. Iva Williamson has rendered the following report on the public library for February: Number of books borrowed 1915, fiction 1410; juvenile 374; miscellaneous 131. Books borrowed from state library six.’ Number of visitors to reading rooms 1350; men 384; women 149; boys 467; girls 350; number of borrowers 1248; total attendance 2598; daily attendance 113. Thirteen adult and seven juvenile cards were issued and two cards surrendeded, present registration 1096. Twenty three books were purchased, seven donated and five discarded, present accession 10439. Following is a ‘list of the books purchased: . Murdered One by Oné, Francis: Beding; Fair Company, Doris Leslie; Widow in Heaven, Mar; garet Bell Houston; The Long Quest, Christine Whiting Parmenter; The Star of Midnight, Arthur Somers Roche; Happy Jack, Max Brand; GMan, Charles Francis Coe; The Sheriff of Painted Post, Tom Gunn; Regatta Moon, Ann Stewart; Without Armor, James Hilton; A Roof Aver Their Heads, Ethel Hueston; The Late George Apley, John P. Marquard; Rose Deeprose, Sheila Kaye Smith; Marie Halkeet, Robert W. Chambers; Dotted Line Honeymoon, Joseph. MeCord; Sunrise, Grace -Livingston Hill. Bread Into Roses, Kathleen Norris; The Sisters, Myron Bring; The Road to Needles, Dorothy Spears; Try and Hold Me, Norma Patterson; How to Win Friends and. Influence People, Dale Carnegie; Of Mice and Men, John Stembeck; Honeyball Farm, Ethei F. Dell. Among our gifts are: From the Carnegie Endowment Fund for our] Mind. Aleove, A Wayfarer in . Norway, Samuel Beckett; The Spanish Tragedy, E. Allison Peers; What the International Labor Organization Means to America: edited by Spencer Miller, Jr.; also a copy of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization togéther with the documents effectig the membership of the United States. From the Womans Civic Club of Nevada City we received New Worlds by Irma Skariatine and Victor Blakeslee.’ The Bridal Canopy, by Samuel J. Agnon; from Spencer White, The Ten Commandments applied to modern behavior, by Dr. Frank Crane from’ Mrs. Christie Anderson and Alice in Wonderland by Lous Carroll from Mrs. Belisle. Money collected, fines $5.39; rentals $26.90; total $32.29. : ABATING CALIF. PRISON PROBLEM BERKELEY, March 14.—California’s overcrowded prison problem, a source of public concern for a decade or more, appears to be _ definitely easing off, according to an exhaust-, ive survey made by the Bureau of Public Administration of the University of California at the request of a number of members of the State Legislature. The survey--was made by Milton Chernin, research, associate in the bureau, who states, however that no reasonable predictions can be made regarding future prison population trends. : ee “The most that can be said at present is that the problem of prison overcrowding is not so pressing as it was ‘two years ago,’’ Chernin said. Tabulations in the survey show that the total population of California’s two state prisons dropped from 9,318 in June, 1934, to 7,872 in December, 1936. Of this total the San Quentin count dropped from 5,954 to 4,665, while that of Folsom dropped from 2,861 to 2,816. There was q a distinct increase in felony arrests. . ‘tare put on probation, ‘Quentin and Folsom, and under supADVENTURES OF PIONEER OF 1883 TOLD IN BOOK BERKELEY, March 15.—An eyewitness account of pioneer life in the early west has been published recently »y the University of California Press. under the title of “The Life and Advetures of George Nid ever.”’ oe Nidever was a member of a family that moved to Missouri when that state was still a part of the frontier. In 1830 ne and a man named Sinelair poined a party of frontiers‘men bound for the beaver streams of the Rockies. For the next two years thev traveled the mountains and plains trapping, hunting and fighting Indians. In the spring of 1832 they were at Pierre’s Hole, a famous trapper’s rendezvous in Wyoming, when tiey were attacked by Blackfeet Indians. In the ensuing fight Sinclair, who had.become the leader of the party, was killed. The next summer Nidever and a few others came to California across the plains. ee Nidever soon became well known around Santa Barbara. He hunted grizzly bears and sea otter all along the coast and.on the Channel Islands and became famous as a marksman. One of his outstanding exploits was his rescue of ‘‘The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island,’ who had been marooned for’ eighteen years. Nidever married Sinforosa Sanchez daughter of a California family, and became a property owner in Santa Barbara. He was involved in several of the periodic revolutions which made life. exciting under the Mexican government and campaigned with Fremont when he put down the Mexican rebellion in the southern part of the state. ~ From 1860 until -his death in 1883 Nidever lived quietly in Santa Barbara. He was interviewed there by Edward F. Murray, the assistant of Hubert Howe Bancroft. When the Bancroft Library became the property of the University of California the document passed with it. This manuscript was edited by William Henry Ellison and published by the University Press under the direction of Samuel T. Farquhar, Manager. period, but both the number of felony charges and the number of *felony convictions in the seperior courts decreased. As result of these two last factors, commitments to the state prisons dropped from 2,402 in the fiscal year 1933-34 to 1,861 in the fiscal year 1935-36. The table shows that about 30 per cent of those convicted of felonies are sent to state prisons. The remainder receive jail sentenres or are committed to juvenile institutions. The survey also reviews the labor problem in California prisons and compares it with the situation elsewhere. Comparisons of prison administration in California and other states are also made and the more outstanding administrative systems are described in detail. The chief prison needs, the survey points out, are an adequate segregation ‘program, more adequate road camp facilities, a more adequate work program generally, an institution for the criminally insane and _ feeble— minded and prison farms for youth. ful first offenders. All of these needs have been pointed out by the State Board of Prison Directors, Chernin . states, and indicate that California is over supplied with maximum. security prison facilities such as San plied with medium and minimum security type institutions, such as the _ Tehachapi jwomen’s. prison, road camps and prison farms. Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bolton, son Edward, and daughter, Alberta Bolton, of Nevada City and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sinnock and son of Colfax spent Sunday in Angels Camp visiting “Mr. Bolton’s brother. F, ‘0. _ Bolton. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Burnett. of — this city spent a pleasant two day. visit in Sacramento with Mr, Bur nett’s parents returning home Saturday evening. : Mr. and Mrs. F. R. @ Saturday evening in where they attended the C.S. BE. A. Mr. Garr in the state, however, in the same

5 Ba J / “as many believe, the world is pres-, Thinking Out Loud H. M. L, Does it ever occur to anybody to contrast what the people ask for in the way of leadership, and what they actually get. For instance we elected President Wilson 'to keep us out of the world war, and _ very shortly we were in it. We elected President Hoover to put two good cars in every garage and presently there was nothing in the garage but a dilapidated jalope, if that. We elected President Roosevelt to avoid a “domestic revolution,’ and now ‘we are up to our ears in that. We change heroes but we do not change our destiny. The Chinese developed .a_ philosophy of resignation from which in these days of sit down strikes, the quarrel of Green and Lewis, and both of them against our industrial system, the personally conducted war of the President against the Supreme Court, and nearer at -the hand the local foment and agitation, Wwe may draw a modicum of comfort. The Chinese express this philosophy in these words: ‘‘In a thousand years we shall all be bald.” In other words, whyworry? Death makes us all communists, fascists, democrats or anarchists. The green earth revolves, time without end, about the sun, regardless of the battles of the ted ants and black ants upon its surface. We doubt not, however, that for thousands of years the battle for human liberty will continue. Even if, ently to plunge into the abyss of another dark age, history will repeat]; itself, and men will continue to sacrifice their lives for liberty. The governor of a-great state, compromises with the law and the Bill of Rights. His proud boast is that he avoided bloodshed. But there are many things that are far worse than bloodshed and the ultimate sacrifice. For instance there was slavery in the Old South, the German destruction of European civilization, and further away in time, the impressment of American seamen in the British navy, and earlier than that, taxation without representation. For those things liberty loving people of the United States gladly sacrificed their lives. The struggle for human liberty is a continuing battle. Peace, comfort, soft living, lull the vigilance of the defenders, and slavery of one kind of another lays its snares for the peace loving. But the time may ‘be near when they must take up. arms again, : Expropriation of property without compensation to the owner, as it occurred in France over a_ hundred years ago, in Russia, only a few years ago, and in Mexico today, is au invasion of personal liberty. Whether this is done by dictatorial fiat, legislative act, or excessive taxation, makes little difference so far as results are concerned. First the very wealthy are brought low, next the moderately wealthy, third those who are ‘comfortably fixed,’ and. last, anyone who owns an extra pair of trousers. Ultimately the governmental army of bureaucrats and parasites eats up the substance of an industrious people. The appetite of government, centralized, powerful, knows no limits. Once launched upon a vast bureaucatic expansion of power, every horse leech on the payroll industriously sucks the blood of the taxpayers. Witness Hopkins marshalling his nondescript WPA army to bear down on the President to continue in full blast the golden flood of taxpayers money. HYDRAULIC MINERS MET SATURDAY IN N. C. The California Hydraulic Mining: Association met Saturday at fhe National Hotel. It was reported that the You Bet, Red Dog and Browns Hill mines had . . been confirmed to Alpha S tores Ltd., (part ownership resting with the N. I. D.) and that the new owners were willing to include them in the Dog Bar project. W. G. Allen, the association’s lezlislative representative, read a list of about 200 bills pending in the legislature which directly or indirectly affect mining. Almost 80 of them are being opposed and 30 are considered, SCOUT. TRIP POSTPONED Due to bad weather over the past week end the Boy Scouts trip to Camip=2zhatisi was postponed until a later datew.Mr. Ricksecker of Auburn phoned to cancel the trip and will notify the local scouts when they can make the rip to camp. evada U The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in populationand prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA eget you help yourself. nel — — Vol. 11, No. 22. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937 BOY SLAYERS COMMITTED TO Thirteen-year-old Arnold Munchauser was arraigned this morning before Justice of the Peace Walter MBbley on charge of murdering Oscar Jacks, the crime for which his mother, Mrs. Alice Munchauser had been indicted by the grand jury a week ago. This action follows the boys confession of the shooting, made last week to former sheriff, George Carter and Attorney H.Ward Sheldon, counsel for his mother, which was later confirmed by District Attorney Stoll and Sheriff. Tobiassen. Since the boy is a minor he was bound over for hearing before Judge Raglan Tuttle of the superior court. . Fhe hearing, a juvenile court proceeding took place this afternoon. The story told by the boy, briefly, is that Jacks on the fatal Sunday three weeks ago, returned to his home drunk, knocked down his commonlaw. wife, Mrs. Munchauser, beat Arnold and his younger brother, and then went to the car below the cabin, to get his crank, or car jack, and while doing so, was shot by Arnold from the roof. The bullet passing through his heart killed Jacks instantly. Following his examination in the superior court, Judge Raglan Tuttie committed the boy to. Whittier school. : A. W. MeGagin left this afternoon with the boy to take him to Whittier. ED UREN HEADS “COMMITTEE FOR EASTER SERVICE Fred E. Connef, president ‘of the Chamber of ‘Commerce states Ed. C. Uren of this city has accepted the chairmanship of the committee to prepare for the Easter Sunrise service March 28 at the big cross on the Nevada City airport. Local churches are preparing for Easter services with special music, and programs. The Knights Templar or Commandry of the Masonic order will march in a body from their local lodge on Pine street to the Methodist church in Nevada City this year for the morning service. IN MEMORIUM As a loving tribute to a deceased member; the late Mrs. Harriette I. Jones, members of the San Juan Ridge Water Association offer the following resolution: ue Whereas our Heavenly Fath‘er has called from us a dearly beloved and faithful member, and while we bow in meek submission to the will of God, we deeply deplore our loss; and whereas many were unable to attend the last rites on account of the snow storm, yet to those wo knew her best, the snow covered mound was a fit compliment to her beautiful character. Therefore, be it resolved that the members of the San Juan Ridge Water Association extend, to the bereaved family members, their deepest sympathy, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them and, be* fore we adjourn today, we stand in silence for a moment*“in respect to the memory of our beloved Secretary, the late HarTiette I. Jones. SAN JUAN RIDGE WATER ASSOCIATION. ERNEST EVA, WELL KNOWN MINER, PASSES Ernest Eva, a miner aged about 45 years, passed away in Grass Valley yesterday after an illness of several months Mrs Eva was employed in the Empire mine and had worked there about 18 years. He was an ardent church worker taking great interest in the new Methodist church in Grass Valley, annd was also highly esteemed: by all who knew him. Mr. Eva leaves to mourn his passing a wife and son. Used Radios, $5.00 and up. Har-. mony Shop, ‘Grass Valley. WHITTIER SCHOOL NEVADA CITY RESIDENT IS ALMOST SHIPWRECKED Word came today that Louie Gaspari, who left Nevada City March second and embarked from New York sixth on a visit to his parents in Italy came near being in a shipwreck near the coast of Italy, When rough seas prevented the ship going into dock it was anchored at sea and came near breaking away from the anchor so rough and turbulent was the storm. Louie is a nephew of Mrs. Max Weiss of , Nevada City, his mother being a sister to Mrs, Weiss. ‘SEVENTEEN’ IS STUDENT DRAMA ATHI TOMORROW The theatre goers of Nevada City will have something very special in entertainment tomorrow afternoon and evening in the Nevada Theatre. The senior cast directed by Miss Nancy Jones, will give a performance of Tarkington’s ‘‘Seventeen’’, in a matinee at 2:15 and in the evening at 8:15. The play is full of amusing situations and clever dialogues, handled very ably by the following cast, each of whom is the very spirit of his role: Willie Baxter, Carl Tobiassen; Mr. Baxter, John Harding: Mrs. Baxter, Joan Grant; Jane Baxter, Margaret . Gibbs; Lola_ Pratt, Roberta Ostrom; May Parcher,-Ruth Curnow; Mr. Parcher, John Kron; Genesis, Tom Rickard; Johnnie Watson, Bob Graham; Joe Bullitt, Harlath Brock; George Crooper, Bill Bennett; Miss Ethel Boke, Amy Lou MecCraney; Wallie Banks, Marlin Young annd Mary Brooks, Dorothy Thomas, Willie Baxter, would be youngman-of-the-world, impatient of family estraint, in love with romance and finally disillusioned; Lola Pratt, visiting sister, source of Willie’s love pains and of rivalry in the neighborhood; the long suffering Baxter parents; greedy impish little sister Jane; Genesis, itinerant servant full of everybody’s affairs; Willie’s lively companions—all create a lot of fun that nobody will want to miss. Evening prices will be forty cents for all; afternoon, forty cents, twenty five cents to holders of student body cards, and ten cents for elementary pupils. SUIT OF GOLDEN ARROW MINE IS SUBMITTED Litigation which has extended over a long period was closed Thursday in the superior court of Sierra county, when the suit of the Golden Arrow Mines company vs. George . W. Hickman et al was finally submitted to Judge McIntosh for. decision. The company, of which W. Tf. Ortman is president, and George R. Kibbe is secretary, sued for a recovery of the property which, adjoins the Sixten-to-One mine at Alleghany. Fraud. was alleged. WEST MEXICO HIGHWAY BEGUN the road from Nogales, Arizona, through the western states of Mexico . to Guadalajara are assured as a result of the recent conference at Mazatlan, reports the California State Automobile Association. The road will provide an important link in the Internation Pacific Highway, envisioned as extending eventually from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Buenos Aires. ’ The Mazatlan conference of Mexiean officials ‘and good roads enthusiasts adopted a program of action presented by three California engineers who attended as invited representatives from this state. The three} were E. E. East, chief engineer of the Automobile Club of Southern California; T. H. Dennis, maintenance engineer for the California Division of Highways; and Clark C. Cottrell, manager of the Highways Bureau of the Automobile Association. The plan they presented calls for immediate intensive maintenance work on the Nogales-Guadalajara road, with rebuilding and relocation

to follow in accordance with the demands of increasing travel. Bonds guaranteed by gasoline tax revenues to be issued to finance the work. Governors of the states of SoCLUB OPPOSES SPEED TRAPS “Ambushing” motorists as a means of catching speed law violators was denounced by the California State Automobile A'ssociation today in a statement opposing ‘a proposed speed trap law sought by Ray Ingels, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles. The association statement endorsed the views on speed traps expressed in a report by the Assembly Interim Committee on Motor Vehicle Legislation, quoting from the report as follows: : “The Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles has caused a bill! to be introduced permitting “the maintenance of speed traps, although it is proposed that the highways where any such devices are maintained shall be signposted advising the motoring public that speed is.subject to control on such highways by speed traps. ‘During many years California, as well as other states, employed speed traps until finally prohibited by. law for two reasons: 1, Maintenance of speed traps was not effective in reduction of traffic accidents. “2. Such traps were generally maintained where conditions were least hazardous, where motorists operated at somewhat more than normal speed by reason of safe conditions. “The system was fruifful only in filling the coffers of municipalities and counties with, substantial fines and forfeitures, “The proposal to reinstate speed traps indicates a lack of fundamental knowledge of the cause and circumstances of traffic accidents. “It would seem appropriate that officers devote more attention to the reckless and hazardous operation of vehicles, such as avertaking and passing on the wrong side, upon the curves, or other places where view is obstructed, and to a more strict enforcement of the right of way rules at intersections.” FORMER RESIDENT _ VISITS FRIENDS HERE George R. Kibbe, a native of Downievilléy-came up from’ Oakland for a few days visit in his old home town. Mr. Kibbe,} who has traveled in Northern Burope, Alaska, Mexico and Panama Canal, enjoys nothing better than to return to this section. He speaks before high schools, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs on many subjects. While in Nevada City he visited his cousins Miss Alice Murchie and Ray Murchie. Mr. Kibbe is interested with associates in the Golden Arrow Mine at Downieville. He stated he remembers visiting in Nevada City in 1864 during the Civil War period. TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS AT SAN JUAN The French Corral Townsend club met yesterday afternoon in Twambly hall, North San Juan. Miles Tilden, president is slowly recovering from a fractured leg. W. N. Baker, another member of the club has recently undergone a serious operation but is now ‘convalescent. ARABIAN HORSES ON PARADE IN BAY CITY POMONA,: March 14.—Part of the animals that, take part in the Sunday afternoon Arabian horse shows at .the University of California’s Kellogg ranch, near here, are in San Francisco. this.week, 'a part of the entertainment Islam Shrine Circus being staged at the Civic Auditorium there. Eight purebred Arabian horses were taken north, the horses comprising what is known as the ‘Liberty Drill team. They execute numerous drills at the command of the trainer; one of them-demonstrates on a teeter board, another executes a Spanish march, and a third does an oriental dance with veil, bells and trappings. John Macari went to Alleghany today taking his brother, Don, home. The latter has been visiting in Nevada City several days. nora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Jalisco, through which the road passes, pledged their states’ shares of gasoline tax revenues to the road bonds. COURT HOUSE FACE LIFTING ALMOST DONE Scaffolding is being removed from the front. of the court house today giving some idea of the immense, beautiful facade of this building. The white finish makes the, handsome building look like new and as it is built on a ledge of rock it should always stand as a monument to the sturdy. pioneers of Nevada county who had confidence in the future of this section of the state. LIBRARY BOOKS TOTAL 10.439 Mrs. Iva Williamson has rendered the following report on the public library for February: Number of books borrowed 1915, fiction 1410; juvenile 374; miscellaneous 131. Books borrowed from state library six.’ Number of visitors to reading rooms 1350; men 384; women 149; boys 467; girls 350; number of borrowers 1248; total attendance 2598; daily attendance 113. Thirteen adult and seven juvenile cards were issued and two cards surrendeded, present registration 1096. Twenty three books were purchased, seven donated and five discarded, present accession 10439. Following is a ‘list of the books purchased: . Murdered One by Oné, Francis: Beding; Fair Company, Doris Leslie; Widow in Heaven, Mar; garet Bell Houston; The Long Quest, Christine Whiting Parmenter; The Star of Midnight, Arthur Somers Roche; Happy Jack, Max Brand; GMan, Charles Francis Coe; The Sheriff of Painted Post, Tom Gunn; Regatta Moon, Ann Stewart; Without Armor, James Hilton; A Roof Aver Their Heads, Ethel Hueston; The Late George Apley, John P. Marquard; Rose Deeprose, Sheila Kaye Smith; Marie Halkeet, Robert W. Chambers; Dotted Line Honeymoon, Joseph. MeCord; Sunrise, Grace -Livingston Hill.. Bread Into Roses, Kathleen Norris; The Sisters, Myron Bring; The Road to Needles, Dorothy Spears; Try and Hold Me, Norma Patterson; How to Win Friends and. Influence People, Dale Carnegie; Of Mice and Men, John Stembeck; Honeyball Farm, Ethei F. Dell. Among our gifts are: From the Carnegie Endowment Fund for our] Mind. Aleove, A Wayfarer in . Norway, Samuel Beckett; The Spanish Tragedy, E. Allison Peers; What the International Labor Organization Means to America: edited by Spencer Miller, Jr.; also a copy of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization togéther with the documents effectig the membership of the United States. From the Womans Civic Club of Nevada City we received New Worlds by Irma Skariatine and Victor Blakeslee.’ The Bridal Canopy, by Samuel J. Agnon; from Spencer White, The Ten Commandments applied to modern behavior, by Dr. Frank Crane from’ Mrs. Christie Anderson and Alice in Wonderland by Lous Carroll from Mrs. Belisle. Money collected, fines $5.39; rentals $26.90; total $32.29. : ABATING CALIF. PRISON PROBLEM BERKELEY, March 14.—California’s overcrowded prison problem, a source of public concern for a decade or more, appears to be _ definitely easing off, according to an exhaust-, ive survey made by the Bureau of Public Administration of the University of California at the request of a number of members of the State Legislature. The survey--was made by Milton Chernin, research, associate in the bureau, who states, however that no reasonable predictions can be made regarding future prison population trends. : ee “The most that can be said at present is that the problem of prison overcrowding is not so pressing as it was ‘two years ago,’’ Chernin said. Tabulations in the survey show that the total population of California’s two state prisons dropped from 9,318 in June, 1934, to 7,872 in December, 1936. Of this total the San Quentin count dropped from 5,954 to 4,665, while that of Folsom dropped from 2,861 to 2,816. There was q a distinct increase in felony arrests. . ‘tare put on probation, ‘Quentin and Folsom, and under supADVENTURES OF PIONEER OF 1883 TOLD IN BOOK BERKELEY, March 15.—An eyewitness account of pioneer life in the early west has been published recently »y the University of California Press. under the title of “The Life and Advetures of George Nid ever.”’ oe Nidever was a member of a family that moved to Missouri when that state was still a part of the frontier. In 1830 ne and a man named Sinelair poined a party of frontiers‘men bound for the beaver streams of the Rockies. For the next two years thev traveled the mountains and plains trapping, hunting and fighting Indians. In the spring of 1832 they were at Pierre’s Hole, a famous trapper’s rendezvous in Wyoming, when tiey were attacked by Blackfeet Indians. In the ensuing fight Sinclair, who had.become the leader of the party, was killed. The next summer Nidever and a few others came to California across the plains. ee Nidever soon became well known around Santa Barbara. He hunted grizzly bears and sea otter all along the coast and.on the Channel Islands and became famous as a marksman. One of his outstanding exploits was his rescue of ‘‘The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island,’ who had been marooned for’ eighteen years. Nidever married Sinforosa Sanchez daughter of a California family, and became a property owner in Santa Barbara. He was involved in several of the periodic revolutions which made life. exciting under the Mexican government and campaigned with Fremont when he put down the Mexican rebellion in the southern part of the state. ~ From 1860 until -his death in 1883 Nidever lived quietly in Santa Barbara. He was interviewed there by Edward F. Murray, the assistant of Hubert Howe Bancroft. When the Bancroft Library became the property of the University of California the document passed with it. This manuscript was edited by William Henry Ellison and published by the University Press under the direction of Samuel T. Farquhar, Manager. period, but both the number of felony charges and the number of *felony convictions in the seperior courts decreased. As result of these two last factors, commitments to the state prisons dropped from 2,402 in the fiscal year 1933-34 to 1,861 in the fiscal year 1935-36. The table shows that about 30 per cent of those convicted of felonies are sent to state prisons. The remainder receive jail sentenres or are committed to juvenile institutions. The survey also reviews the labor problem in California prisons and compares it with the situation elsewhere. Comparisons of prison administration in California and other states are also made and the more outstanding administrative systems are described in detail. The chief prison needs, the survey points out, are an adequate segregation ‘program, more adequate road camp facilities, a more adequate work program generally, an institution for the criminally insane and _ feeble— minded and prison farms for youth. ful first offenders. All of these needs have been pointed out by the State Board of Prison Directors, Chernin . states, and indicate that California is over supplied with maximum. security prison facilities such as San plied with medium and minimum security type institutions, such as the _ Tehachapi jwomen’s. prison, road camps and prison farms. Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bolton, son Edward, and daughter, Alberta Bolton, of Nevada City and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sinnock and son of Colfax spent Sunday in Angels Camp visiting “Mr. Bolton’s brother. F, ‘0. _ Bolton. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Burnett. of — this city spent a pleasant two day. visit in Sacramento with Mr, Bur nett’s parents returning home Saturday evening. : Mr. and Mrs. F. R. @ Saturday evening in where they attended the C.S. BE. A. Mr. Garr in the state, however, in the same