May 13, 1932 (4 pages)

by the-name of—Irving Berlin! John Mackay was the miner and he later made a vast fortune out of the Com stock Lode. His son, Clarence Mac/ oxy kay, is today chairman of the board of the Postal Cable and Telegraph company—a field pioneered by his body of a Stanley . day the body. floated in the ditch. He had lived in the:Townsend house and was missed since about the first of April. He was’ a porter for a time at the hotel in Nevada City. Specialty E i known J ——— Mrs. S. P. Cleave Dies— ; Word was received this week that NEVADA CITY CLEANERS W. Cleaning,— -Pressinz.—~ fepairing . Marsh of Sacramento and a native of Nevada City GENUINE FRENCH BREAD William O’Hearn Dies— Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon for the late William QO’Hearn ,who passed away at the county hospital. He was aged 63 years and was a native of Nevada Glazed and Raised Doughnuts Call 76 and we will deliver ~KOPPS BAKERY Alice Hare has commenced action } NEVADA. CITY in the superior court against C. B Coenlin et al, to quiet title to land ituzted near Cherokee. R. L Gilmore of Sacramnto is attorney for Ore and Bullion Purchased plaintiff C. C. Mitchell Home— WILDBERG BROS. SMELTING & REFINING CO. Offices: 742 Market St.,San Francisco Plant: South San Francisco. C C Mitchell has returned from a most delightful trip to Honolulu. He met a former resident of Granite : ‘ille in the proprietor of the hote: he registered in. Robert Lee is doing well in the isiands but gets homesick for a sight of the Graniteville country at times. FRED WL MILEER CONSULTING ENGINEER ib: R D MINING ENCINERKRINS CIVIL AND REGISTERED CIVIL ENGINEER LICENSED SURVEYOR Hydraulics — Irrigation — Survey: Land Classification. LAST OFFICIAL MAP OF NEVAD4 COUNTY Bydraulics — Irrigation —Surveys Office at Residence —Grass Valley ¢€Bob) Jefford,__of Jefford and Son Funeral Home, of Nevada City and Grass Valley, was operated ipon Wednesday morning at Tones Memoriai hospital for appendicitis, More than 60 students from the high -and grammar schools and .dults of Nevada Gity and surrounding district spent the week end in San Francisco viewing the United States mavy anchored in the bay. There were also a. number from Grass Valley. A special excursion train of the Nevada county narrow gauge railroad, was run to Colfax Sunday afternoon to meet them. 262 Auburn Street. Misses Nadine Sutton, Dynes FoOSCAR E. W!INBURN . ley and Heien Chapman, students at University: of California, are home for the summer vacation. ATTORNEY Ay LAW Mrs. W. E .Wright is home from a visit with relatives in Oakland. Suite 1-2-3 City HALL BLDG. GRASS VALLEY. CAL. Phone 47 Mr. sean:Spsrvvotenvenvaeuscsecuesesettecestpenceeetenn snes Berberfeafeateageate fete rteateagieteaterecientesee a te late 2 oofesrates!%resker’Me testeeS teste steste feof GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS and Mrs. T A Lane of San Francisco spent last week end in Nevada City Mr. Lane returned Monday, and his wfe will remain for a longer visit. Miss Clara ed: from a Congressman Joe Crail (Re ground stands the gallows with the thirteen steps leading up to the word from Washing ton he will make a strenuous personal campaign throughout California next summer atter Congress adjourns. His friends are active now, and. confident. — Advertisement. remain here until covers her health. in her Sacramento and its remaining structures going back to the early gold days, is not a ghost town. It is alive and but for the automobiles one could well imagine that time had turned back 60 and 70 years. There it lies at the forks of the river, where the north fork of the north fork of the Yuba flows. into the north fork of the Yuba river. As a.matter of fact the earliest gold seekers who reached Downieville in the spring of 1849 referred to their settlement as ‘‘The Forks.’’ Miajor Downie and his party reached ‘‘The Forks’ in November +849 and stayed throughout the winter. Those who were ambitious dug, around under the snow and delvea into the crevices of the rocks along the river finding from 100 to 200 dollars worth of gold_each day. The following spring hordes of men ficoded “The Forks’’ and as always a suitable name was sought to bestow upon the settlement Major Downie was shonored when the name chosen was ‘‘Downieville.’’ By this time hundreds of. men were reaching Downieville daily. Fach man was allowed a thirty foot claim and these were so rich that men who were making but $50 a day deserted such claims for new ones. At that time Downievi.ile was a city of tents. In the endeavor to get the gold from the lowest point of the river the entire Yuba was carried in flumes. between Downieville and oodyears Bar. A framed drawing of the river being carried in flumes through Downieviile, made by a contemporary artist, may still be seen at Lloyds restaurant and ice cream parlor. The Steamboat company oun Steamboat Bar below Slug canyon for several weeks in 1851 averaged tomary among the early miners to divide the gold each day among the partners so as to avoid complications with defaulting cashiers. Another rich claim was on Durgan Flat, where four men had a 60 foot square mother re Mr. and Mrs Ross Taylor who have been *>Downieville, with its ’49er history. $5000 a day in gold and it was cus San Francisco on business. She is to for a time claim. In eleven days they ‘took out oteete YOUR MOST DAINTY passed thru Nevada City on their $12,000 of which $4,000 came out three.of the partners went back east. FABRICS ARE SAFE . -k? ras HERE ~ next trip credit your phone charges. J. 37 McMahon of nieville are visiting his parents, Mr Sele tet over. will The new company did éven better and in eleven days averaged $1500 per day per man The claim was then bought by the Bennett brothers who took a chance on what was left-— and averaged $1200 each day until they sold out to others. Within six ors recently months it has past into several other Judge Raglan Tuttle presided in hands and between them all over the superior court in Groville Tues$80,000 had been produced from the day. George Waling accompanied surface of this 60 foot square. Tin Cup diggings were so called because him on the trip. reese ' three men in 1850 always stopped Mr and Mrs. Will Carter of Dowtheir days work when each had a aay afternoons at your home We M. D. Coughlin and Miss Lenore Steger attended the funeral of the Downieville were Nevada City visit Will call Monday and Thurs and: deliver on the in one day. Then they soid out and Judge and Mrs. Phone 375 111 West Main — ED. BURTNER, Pispeistar way home to Downieville late Mrs. John Cleve in Oakland. K ELP-O and Mrs. Randolph Carter in Nevadz City Mrs Woe Lavezzola of Downieville was a recent visitors in Nevada City. level tin cup full of gold. And in the fall of ‘that year ‘at Gold Bluff a round nugget of twenty five-pounds was found. Through it ail bacon, salt pork, flour, and other victuals brought enormous prices in gold but whiskey was always comparatively Max Weiss, a retired army man, cheap beacuse each saloon keeper has purchas the service station at made his own whiskey in his own the junction, of Commercial and back room. It was during the 50’s thatared Broad streets, from F B. Burkhart. Mr Burkhart ought the station shirted miner worked in the canyon from E W. Schmidt about a year of the North Fork and sometimes around Forest and’ Alleghany. At the same time there was tthe young widow of Dr. E J Bryant, daughter of Captain Hungerford a popular bar ber of the town. She supported -herself by washing the miner’s clothes Men, women and children find KELP-O-VITA a safe and effi cient treatment for debility, loss of vital powers and glandular impairment. YOU CAN BE OLD AT FORTY OR YOUNG AT SIXTY. QUIT DYING BEFORE, YOUR TIME. KELP-OVITA is a mineralized vegetable, easy and pleasant to take, RICH in not habit-forming. Vitamines and Organic Salts. ’ KELP-O-VITA is a REVITAL1ZPR. a REHABILITATOR. a PBYUVINATOR, sn n INVIGOR' INSTRUC. : pag and TIVE. {NCREASES VI“ TALITY and PEP, VIM and VIGOR. eeLP-O-VITA is for VITALITY, the last word in modern sefence, send this. _with your name, address 5 stam coin for ; and repairing them when necessary. From this start as a washerwoman Mrs. Will Young has as guesis Mrs Wednesday evening her cousin S J Kinsman and John Delbridge of Grass Valley. hl ic My, tion after eighty years of usefulness, almost from the start of California’s colorful Gold Rush days thru all the years to this airplane age. those must have been most strenu ous. sends return has Yuba River Canyon County Bulle. . tin No. 16—By J L Wolff. ator, days spent in Angiolini couple of makes pubician), candidate for U. S. Sen county. Mr. O’Hearn was a cigar maker by trade. He has many Yuba River Canyon.-County Bulletin friends here who will regret his passNo. 15—By J L Wolff. ing-as-he was aiways ofa kindly, cheerful disposition. ae We have entered the Yuba river canyon country through the Grass Andrew Craig Passes— Valley-Nevada City gateway! travelAndrew Craig, 91, passed away at ed up the Yuba Pass highway and the County. hospital Tuesday. He entered the canyon of the north ford has lived in California 61 years and of the Yuba river. After 12 miles unin Nevada county 52 years. A niece, surpassed scenery as we ride along Mary M. Craig of New. York surthe bottom of the éanyon, the dark vives. green curtains have been swept aside to suddenly disclose Downieville at To Quiet Title— our very feet Pies, Cakes, Rolls. today 1852 and is still in perfect condi Mrs Sussanah P Cleave, 74, of Oakland™had passed away. Mrs Robert Steger of Nevada City is a daughter. She was the sister of Mrs. John H. Osborne of The Sierra county court house in Downieville is perhaps the most interesting of ali court houses~ still serving a county in this state Whea it was first completed the board of supervisors held off accepting it for about two years because they claimsd it was not up to specifications. Inasmuch: as it was completed in The man has no relatives so far as M. L: MITCHELL, Poe. : Downieville these memories seem close at hand. ——) drowned himself in Scotts Flat dam snd when the canal was orened Sun “Quality ‘and Respeéctability . The: was found in the Nlw 36; a Russian,’ canal near the Wasley ranch south It is, believed] the man oi town. In the Heart of Nevada City . : father. Kurkul, in Downieville she finally reached the pinnacle of world society, a woman at whose table princes of the reaim wére happy to sit. At ithe insistence of this strong bronze miner ‘Herbert and Henry Paine, mith she finally married him and it was son who disinherited his men of near Lake City were Nevada their —— many years later, for City visitors Wednesday. NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE 'Practical mining tests from 25 to 10 pounds, giving the free = percentage of sulphurets, value of sulp Maia value of sulphurd values of tailings. haa made for gold, silver, lead and eopper. Mati order han ar _work promptly attended to. Agent for New Yo writers, Westchester and. Capital of California Fi panies. Automobile insurance. Se] AL Cet, Proprietor specifications. In the back /yAi rw as {iit CAFE. identified FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932 Vz The badiy decomposed _ tae a Jew from the east side Stanley Kurkul Found Dead— man. : Se JOE CRAIL NeWS IN BRIEF For People Who Care. . Our noe THE. NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA PAGE TWO TTS trap-door which was used on several itil ly occasions when counties were still hanging their own murderers. At the very -edge of the court house tremendous piles of granite boulders fill a large space. It was here that the inconceivably rich river claims of 1850 and 51 were located, when men were disappointed who could FREEZING make but a paltry one or two hundred dollars per day. After they had cleaned upon on what they though worth taking, the Chinese came in and laboriously tooka li the boulders large and small from the bedroek of the north Yuba and piled; them up in pyramid shapes which still stand as a reminder of their almost Herculean labors. The front of the court house grounds have been parked, and here are found some of the old eanncens leading back to the early days and.an arestta which was used by the pioneers in grinding. the quartz. so that the gold with which is was impregnated might be re covered. Every Important Feature You See Advertised Connecting, the court house side of the north Yuba with the business section of Downieville is a _ stee: bridge .It is upon this site that the first bridge was ereeted, and it was along that span the only woman ever to be executed by hanging in the state of California suffered the death penalty. She was a little Mexican dance-hall girl who had stabbed an Australian who attempted to force his way into her room, Feeling among the miners ran high; a court was at once instituted, and in spite of valiant efforts to defend the woman she was senenced to death and promptly executed. An early day partner of A’ Meyers of the Meyers and Lusk garage close to the end of the bridge was a witness to this episode. Mr Meyers still remembers distinctly the repeated descriptions of this LY, dy. The business section of Downieville is the new part of town for it was rebuilt about 1860 after one of the frequently recurring fires. However, some of the older buildings still remain, such as the brick building in which Antone Costa’s grocery cabinet, oversize depend absolutely AS LOW AS PAA CASH PRICE DELIVERED AND INSTALLED— ComSEE TRUKOLD. NOTHING MORE TO PAY. ONLY Get FACTS. betore you $1 DOWN. $10 A MONTH. SMALL CARRYING CHARGE SAVE $50 to $100. Store Hours 8:80 to 6:00 PHONE 480 Saturday. . 8:30 to 9:00 EIT EMPLOYMENT : is created only by (er ollars in-action What causes unemployment in California? Principally dollars that refuse to work. Remove large sums of money from circulation, and the entire business and industrial structure is affected. Put all inactive funds back to. work and employment conditions become normal . . . If you want to help your state and your nation—if you want everybody back on the job—join Bank of America’s “back-to-good-times” movement. *Two hundred and eight thousand alert in Californians, who, with their families, represent nearly one million people, are leading this great campaign for a statewide mobilization of all inactive dollars . . Drop your fears. Buy what you need.— and put your surplus in the bank. Every banked dollar releases from 5 to 10 dollars in useful credit. Abundant credit means full-time employment for every worthy worker. You can help. tiag on his hands.”’ “248,000 stockholders throughout the United States Plebe—“I’ve added those figures Open a California Back-to-Good-Times Account in this bank—or any bank sir.’’ TUNE IN.Each ten an Saturday Evening 7:15 to 7:45 t (0). more oper ating Pays for itself, and saves! AUBURN “Murphy got rich quick, didn’t he?” “He got rich so quick that he can’t swing a golf club without spit the capacity, simple MONTGOMER'’Y WARD & CO. The saying is that heaven will protect the working girl, but who will protect the guy she is working? swers.’”’ all-steel price. pare! buy. has no money, and a pessimist won't lend you any. times, cube most written 3-Year Guarantee—the strongest on ANY refrigerator, hnowever high its 0 Prof. —Good boy.”’ Jlebe—“‘And here’s than Definite It stacks up like this: An optimist ten space, insulation, should not be missed by the tourist. 0 visiting ice storage able! barely a coat tail’s length-ahead ot a lynching gang. These seales have weighed several million dollars and Mr. Costa still uses them in buying the several, hundred dollars worth of gold nuggets which are brought into him by river miners each month. The California State seai—-Department oof: Weights and: Measiresnow graces those scales together with a “License to engage in the: business of milling, purchasing, gold _ silver, ete,” Across the street is the eaiing house of Myr. and Mrs. Bill Lloyd where George Bynon, a’ former sheriff of Sierra county has lornea his very extensive collection. of Californian. These early Gold Rush relics together with pictures, and other things belonging to the Lloyds O’Reilly is better greater unit, of town because he manipulated the scales, and when he left, he was Fr. SAVE $50.00 TO $100.00 ‘. , . Sizes For All Families . to Downieville on a pack mule three quarters of a century ago. A beautiful inscription reads, ‘‘Gold Standard Balance—Full Jeweled—Howard E. Davis, Boston, Mass.’’ It was formerly used by the bank. The banker who purchased it was eventually run out Rev Ward’s WHY PAY MORE? new. TRUKOLD, saving you $59 to $100, equals any make, actually thousand dollars and were brought Reno. : in the PRICE ! store is located. This was built in 1852 and withstood all the fires that swept the early town due to the massiveness of its stone walls. Wituin the store can be seen wonderful goid scales which originally cost one . . but what a Difference Subscribe For The Nugget. CLEANING AND PRESSING CASH AND CARRY SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES* KGO-KFI Prelimi work has been started on a $392,000 post office building at Long Beach. —U. S. Department of Labor Demand for farm help increased during February in “Back to Good Times” —U, S. Department of Labor nearly all pire ley of California. Sales of wholesalers in the Twelfth Federal Resérve District (7 western states) increased during February. —Fe deral Reserve Bank *Latoat available data at time information was compiled. $1.00 ae $1.25 BANK of AMERICA LADIES’ AND MEN’S ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS Taylor Made Custom Clothes WATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION $19.50 up PHONE 217-W FORREST B. RISLEY, Prop. Bost Builtding U Street: Broad Nevada City, California » Y a / / A

by the-name of—Irving Berlin! John Mackay was the miner and he later made a vast fortune out of the Com stock Lode. His son, Clarence Mac/ oxy kay, is today chairman of the board of the Postal Cable and Telegraph company—a field pioneered by his body of a Stanley . day the body. floated in the ditch. He had lived in the:Townsend house and was missed since about the first of April. He was’ a porter for a time at the hotel in Nevada City. Specialty E i known J ——— Mrs. S. P. Cleave Dies— ; Word was received this week that NEVADA CITY CLEANERS W. Cleaning,— -Pressinz.—~ fepairing . Marsh of Sacramento and a native of Nevada City GENUINE FRENCH BREAD William O’Hearn Dies— Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon for the late William QO’Hearn ,who passed away at the county hospital. He was aged 63 years and was a native of Nevada Glazed and Raised Doughnuts Call 76 and we will deliver ~KOPPS BAKERY Alice Hare has commenced action } NEVADA. CITY in the superior court against C. B Coenlin et al, to quiet title to land ituzted near Cherokee. R. L Gilmore of Sacramnto is attorney for Ore and Bullion Purchased plaintiff C. C. Mitchell Home— WILDBERG BROS. SMELTING & REFINING CO. Offices: 742 Market St.,San Francisco Plant: South San Francisco. C C Mitchell has returned from a most delightful trip to Honolulu. He met a former resident of Granite : ‘ille in the proprietor of the hote: he registered in. Robert Lee is doing well in the isiands but gets homesick for a sight of the Graniteville country at times. FRED WL MILEER CONSULTING ENGINEER ib: R D MINING ENCINERKRINS CIVIL AND REGISTERED CIVIL ENGINEER LICENSED SURVEYOR Hydraulics — Irrigation — Survey: Land Classification. LAST OFFICIAL MAP OF NEVAD4 COUNTY Bydraulics — Irrigation —Surveys Office at Residence —Grass Valley ¢€Bob) Jefford,__of Jefford and Son Funeral Home, of Nevada City and Grass Valley, was operated ipon Wednesday morning at Tones Memoriai hospital for appendicitis, More than 60 students from the high -and grammar schools and .dults of Nevada Gity and surrounding district spent the week end in San Francisco viewing the United States mavy anchored in the bay. There were also a. number from Grass Valley. A special excursion train of the Nevada county narrow gauge railroad, was run to Colfax Sunday afternoon to meet them. 262 Auburn Street. Misses Nadine Sutton, Dynes FoOSCAR E. W!INBURN . ley and Heien Chapman, students at University: of California, are home for the summer vacation. ATTORNEY Ay LAW Mrs. W. E .Wright is home from a visit with relatives in Oakland. Suite 1-2-3 City HALL BLDG. GRASS VALLEY. CAL. Phone 47 Mr. sean:Spsrvvotenvenvaeuscsecuesesettecestpenceeetenn snes Berberfeafeateageate fete rteateagieteaterecientesee a te late 2 oofesrates!%resker’Me testeeS teste steste feof GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS and Mrs. T A Lane of San Francisco spent last week end in Nevada City Mr. Lane returned Monday, and his wfe will remain for a longer visit. Miss Clara ed: from a Congressman Joe Crail (Re ground stands the gallows with the thirteen steps leading up to the word from Washing ton he will make a strenuous personal campaign throughout California next summer atter Congress adjourns. His friends are active now, and. confident. — Advertisement. remain here until covers her health. in her Sacramento and its remaining structures going back to the early gold days, is not a ghost town. It is alive and but for the automobiles one could well imagine that time had turned back 60 and 70 years. There it lies at the forks of the river, where the north fork of the north fork of the Yuba flows. into the north fork of the Yuba river. As a.matter of fact the earliest gold seekers who reached Downieville in the spring of 1849 referred to their settlement as ‘‘The Forks.’’ Miajor Downie and his party reached ‘‘The Forks’ in November +849 and stayed throughout the winter. Those who were ambitious dug, around under the snow and delvea into the crevices of the rocks along the river finding from 100 to 200 dollars worth of gold_each day. The following spring hordes of men ficoded “The Forks’’ and as always a suitable name was sought to bestow upon the settlement Major Downie was shonored when the name chosen was ‘‘Downieville.’’ By this time hundreds of. men were reaching Downieville daily. Fach man was allowed a thirty foot claim and these were so rich that men who were making but $50 a day deserted such claims for new ones. At that time Downievi.ile was a city of tents. In the endeavor to get the gold from the lowest point of the river the entire Yuba was carried in flumes. between Downieville and oodyears Bar. A framed drawing of the river being carried in flumes through Downieviile, made by a contemporary artist, may still be seen at Lloyds restaurant and ice cream parlor. The Steamboat company oun Steamboat Bar below Slug canyon for several weeks in 1851 averaged tomary among the early miners to divide the gold each day among the partners so as to avoid complications with defaulting cashiers. Another rich claim was on Durgan Flat, where four men had a 60 foot square mother re Mr. and Mrs Ross Taylor who have been *>Downieville, with its ’49er history. $5000 a day in gold and it was cus San Francisco on business. She is to for a time claim. In eleven days they ‘took out oteete YOUR MOST DAINTY passed thru Nevada City on their $12,000 of which $4,000 came out three.of the partners went back east. FABRICS ARE SAFE . -k? ras HERE ~ next trip credit your phone charges. J. 37 McMahon of nieville are visiting his parents, Mr Sele tet over. will The new company did éven better and in eleven days averaged $1500 per day per man The claim was then bought by the Bennett brothers who took a chance on what was left-— and averaged $1200 each day until they sold out to others. Within six ors recently months it has past into several other Judge Raglan Tuttle presided in hands and between them all over the superior court in Groville Tues$80,000 had been produced from the day. George Waling accompanied surface of this 60 foot square. Tin Cup diggings were so called because him on the trip. reese ' three men in 1850 always stopped Mr and Mrs. Will Carter of Dowtheir days work when each had a aay afternoons at your home We M. D. Coughlin and Miss Lenore Steger attended the funeral of the Downieville were Nevada City visit Will call Monday and Thurs and: deliver on the in one day. Then they soid out and Judge and Mrs. Phone 375 111 West Main — ED. BURTNER, Pispeistar way home to Downieville late Mrs. John Cleve in Oakland. K ELP-O and Mrs. Randolph Carter in Nevadz City Mrs Woe Lavezzola of Downieville was a recent visitors in Nevada City. level tin cup full of gold. And in the fall of ‘that year ‘at Gold Bluff a round nugget of twenty five-pounds was found. Through it ail bacon, salt pork, flour, and other victuals brought enormous prices in gold but whiskey was always comparatively Max Weiss, a retired army man, cheap beacuse each saloon keeper has purchas the service station at made his own whiskey in his own the junction, of Commercial and back room. It was during the 50’s thatared Broad streets, from F B. Burkhart. Mr Burkhart ought the station shirted miner worked in the canyon from E W. Schmidt about a year of the North Fork and sometimes around Forest and’ Alleghany. At the same time there was tthe young widow of Dr. E J Bryant, daughter of Captain Hungerford a popular bar ber of the town. She supported -herself by washing the miner’s clothes Men, women and children find KELP-O-VITA a safe and effi cient treatment for debility, loss of vital powers and glandular impairment. YOU CAN BE OLD AT FORTY OR YOUNG AT SIXTY. QUIT DYING BEFORE, YOUR TIME. KELP-OVITA is a mineralized vegetable, easy and pleasant to take, RICH in not habit-forming. Vitamines and Organic Salts. ’ KELP-O-VITA is a REVITAL1ZPR. a REHABILITATOR. a PBYUVINATOR, sn n INVIGOR' INSTRUC. : pag and TIVE. {NCREASES VI“ TALITY and PEP, VIM and VIGOR. eeLP-O-VITA is for VITALITY, the last word in modern sefence, send this. _with your name, address 5 stam coin for ; and repairing them when necessary. From this start as a washerwoman Mrs. Will Young has as guesis Mrs Wednesday evening her cousin S J Kinsman and John Delbridge of Grass Valley. hl ic My, tion after eighty years of usefulness, almost from the start of California’s colorful Gold Rush days thru all the years to this airplane age. those must have been most strenu ous. sends return has Yuba River Canyon County Bulle. . tin No. 16—By J L Wolff. ator, days spent in Angiolini couple of makes pubician), candidate for U. S. Sen county. Mr. O’Hearn was a cigar maker by trade. He has many Yuba River Canyon.-County Bulletin friends here who will regret his passNo. 15—By J L Wolff. ing-as-he was aiways ofa kindly, cheerful disposition. ae We have entered the Yuba river canyon country through the Grass

Andrew Craig Passes— Valley-Nevada City gateway! travelAndrew Craig, 91, passed away at ed up the Yuba Pass highway and the County. hospital Tuesday. He entered the canyon of the north ford has lived in California 61 years and of the Yuba river. After 12 miles unin Nevada county 52 years. A niece, surpassed scenery as we ride along Mary M. Craig of New. York surthe bottom of the éanyon, the dark vives. green curtains have been swept aside to suddenly disclose Downieville at To Quiet Title— our very feet Pies, Cakes, Rolls. today 1852 and is still in perfect condi Mrs Sussanah P Cleave, 74, of Oakland™had passed away. Mrs Robert Steger of Nevada City is a daughter. She was the sister of Mrs. John H. Osborne of The Sierra county court house in Downieville is perhaps the most interesting of ali court houses~ still serving a county in this state Whea it was first completed the board of supervisors held off accepting it for about two years because they claimsd it was not up to specifications. Inasmuch: as it was completed in The man has no relatives so far as M. L: MITCHELL, Poe. : Downieville these memories seem close at hand. ——) drowned himself in Scotts Flat dam snd when the canal was orened Sun “Quality ‘and Respeéctability . The: was found in the Nlw 36; a Russian,’ canal near the Wasley ranch south It is, believed] the man oi town. In the Heart of Nevada City . : father. Kurkul, in Downieville she finally reached the pinnacle of world society, a woman at whose table princes of the reaim wére happy to sit. At ithe insistence of this strong bronze miner ‘Herbert and Henry Paine, mith she finally married him and it was son who disinherited his men of near Lake City were Nevada their —— many years later, for City visitors Wednesday. NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE 'Practical mining tests from 25 to 10 pounds, giving the free = percentage of sulphurets, value of sulp Maia value of sulphurd values of tailings. haa made for gold, silver, lead and eopper. Mati order han ar _work promptly attended to. Agent for New Yo writers, Westchester and. Capital of California Fi panies. Automobile insurance. Se] AL Cet, Proprietor specifications. In the back /yAi rw as {iit CAFE. identified FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932 Vz The badiy decomposed _ tae a Jew from the east side Stanley Kurkul Found Dead— man. : Se JOE CRAIL NeWS IN BRIEF For People Who Care. . Our noe THE. NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA PAGE TWO TTS trap-door which was used on several itil ly occasions when counties were still hanging their own murderers. At the very -edge of the court house tremendous piles of granite boulders fill a large space. It was here that the inconceivably rich river claims of 1850 and 51 were located, when men were disappointed who could FREEZING make but a paltry one or two hundred dollars per day. After they had cleaned upon on what they though worth taking, the Chinese came in and laboriously tooka li the boulders large and small from the bedroek of the north Yuba and piled; them up in pyramid shapes which still stand as a reminder of their almost Herculean labors. The front of the court house grounds have been parked, and here are found some of the old eanncens leading back to the early days and.an arestta which was used by the pioneers in grinding. the quartz. so that the gold with which is was impregnated might be re covered. Every Important Feature You See Advertised Connecting, the court house side of the north Yuba with the business section of Downieville is a _ stee: bridge .It is upon this site that the first bridge was ereeted, and it was along that span the only woman ever to be executed by hanging in the state of California suffered the death penalty. She was a little Mexican dance-hall girl who had stabbed an Australian who attempted to force his way into her room, Feeling among the miners ran high; a court was at once instituted, and in spite of valiant efforts to defend the woman she was senenced to death and promptly executed. An early day partner of A’ Meyers of the Meyers and Lusk garage close to the end of the bridge was a witness to this episode. Mr Meyers still remembers distinctly the repeated descriptions of this LY, dy. The business section of Downieville is the new part of town for it was rebuilt about 1860 after one of the frequently recurring fires. However, some of the older buildings still remain, such as the brick building in which Antone Costa’s grocery cabinet, oversize depend absolutely AS LOW AS PAA CASH PRICE DELIVERED AND INSTALLED— ComSEE TRUKOLD. NOTHING MORE TO PAY. ONLY Get FACTS. betore you $1 DOWN. $10 A MONTH. SMALL CARRYING CHARGE SAVE $50 to $100. Store Hours 8:80 to 6:00 PHONE 480 Saturday. . 8:30 to 9:00 EIT EMPLOYMENT : is created only by (er ollars in-action What causes unemployment in California? Principally dollars that refuse to work. Remove large sums of money from circulation, and the entire business and industrial structure is affected. Put all inactive funds back to. work and employment conditions become normal . . . 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The California State seai—-Department oof: Weights and: Measiresnow graces those scales together with a “License to engage in the: business of milling, purchasing, gold _ silver, ete,” Across the street is the eaiing house of Myr. and Mrs. Bill Lloyd where George Bynon, a’ former sheriff of Sierra county has lornea his very extensive collection. of Californian. These early Gold Rush relics together with pictures, and other things belonging to the Lloyds O’Reilly is better greater unit, of town because he manipulated the scales, and when he left, he was Fr. SAVE $50.00 TO $100.00 ‘. , . Sizes For All Families . to Downieville on a pack mule three quarters of a century ago. A beautiful inscription reads, ‘‘Gold Standard Balance—Full Jeweled—Howard E. Davis, Boston, Mass.’’ It was formerly used by the bank. The banker who purchased it was eventually run out Rev Ward’s WHY PAY MORE? new. TRUKOLD, saving you $59 to $100, equals any make, actually thousand dollars and were brought Reno. : in the PRICE ! store is located. This was built in 1852 and withstood all the fires that swept the early town due to the massiveness of its stone walls. Wituin the store can be seen wonderful goid scales which originally cost one . . but what a Difference Subscribe For The Nugget. CLEANING AND PRESSING CASH AND CARRY SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES* KGO-KFI Prelimi work has been started on a $392,000 post office building at Long Beach. —U. S. Department of Labor Demand for farm help increased during February in “Back to Good Times” —U, S. Department of Labor nearly all pire ley of California. 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