October 29, 1937 (6 pages)

aa ae ‘ our path. the horizon for. weeks in advance. It. Thinking Out Loud H. M. Li. Hallowe’en is upon us. Time in its flight drops varied anniversaries in Time was when it filled was ushered in with “quips and cranks and wanton: wiles’ and plenty of horseplay andspractical jokes. The goat elevated to the school belfry and tied to the bell, the calf that bawled from beneath the teacher’s desk, the hogs that. blossomed brilliant colors, the bull. whose salient features were gilded, the buggy astride the church roof tree, all these were a manifestation of the witches who ride their splint brooms in the dusk of Hallowe’en. Hallowe’en is as old, possibly, as Christmas. The black folks of Africa celebrate such a night when the spirits of the long dead. roam abroad to be propitiated. The celebration varies slightly through the centuries but its manners are much the same. A millenium ago spirits prowled’ through the kitchen middens. (Nowadays they walk off with the gate and hang it where only a Gulliver could retrieve it. They, the “spirits,’’ roll our garbage can down the hill, the lid flies off and reveals to the eagle eye of neighbors in the early morning just how well or how poorly we live. The frosty rime that Time deposits on the elderly too often strikes in. Many a poet notes the drear encroachment of the years: “Where art thou gone “Light ankled youth, “With wing at either shoulder, *‘And smile that never left thy mouth “Until the hours grew colder.” Really it is one of the major battles of adult years and mentality to keep alive the warmth of youth when the cold of experience chills the enthusiams. Most of us will, without either approving or condemning the “spirts’” that rise in the night and plague us on Hallowe’en, take out a little insurance. Rubbing the show windows with .glycerine will make removal of candle grease easier. Moving the garbage can to the woodshed and locking it up will insure privacy in the matter of the ‘‘table we set.” and hiding the gate, if we don’t.forget where we put it, will insure finding it after the revelry has swept past. A bowl of cookies for giggling tick tackers will some times buy immunity. And above all remember the bucolic humor and pranks that marked our Hallowe’en antics, a generation-ago, and, if it pleases you, comment upon the decadence of the event mowadays. Private charity~is creeping back into practice again even though it has undergone a_ terrific beating from the New Deal. Even though 17 billions have been spent for relief, some of it for houses in Tugwelltown ‘possibly for yard sticks to show what the “‘proletariat’’ should enjoy without earning, that cost upwards of $8,000, we find we still have the poor with us. Those who are not quite so poor are again giving to the poorer. Even though the waste of WPA continues with the brass hats receiving 35 per cent of government funds and the needy 65 per cent, kindly charity, abused and browbeaten, rises again to help those who for one reason or another are not recipients of (New Deal bounty.: Whether charity will survive or not may be debated, but thus far thousands of deficient mentalities have learned to live at the other fellow’s forced expense without doing enough work ‘to produce a healthy sweat. These paupérized legions. seek to ‘perpetuate a system that rises like a dank miasma from the brains of sophomoric theorists and is whirled by the winds of politics into a viscious circle. From this we nor our children shall escape, unless by a modern miracle. One aveue only seems open to beat this New Deal Frankensteiny Let us return to the Red Cross the business of providing relief, if necessary, by government endowment when other means fail. Let us return the business of government to its constitutional domaine. Let us, of course have reforms when conditions demand them. Let us be sure they are substantial remedies and. not the sickening ‘nostrums that have been ‘tried and proved worthless over and over again upon credulous peoples of other races; other civilizations. BUCK STEW The State Employees Association of Marysville held their annual buck stew at Marysville Saturday evening, October 23, F. R. Garrison, president ‘ofthe chapter, was the head cook. in, evada ity u COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA vet This newspaper tries all community enterprises that . . make this a better place to live. It _ to stimulate a healthful growth in ness. Those who subscribe to, or tise in the Nevada City Nugget join it in this endeavor. “ to be tend seeks busi-— or advyer. oin with acme . Vol. 11, No. 85. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 19 57 GOLD BUYER AND ASSAYER TELLS The Rotary club heard a deeply interesting and humorous stary yesterday at luncheon concerning the trials and tribulations of an assayer and a gold buyer. Hal Draper was the speaker. It was announced that next Thursday Congressman Harry Engrebright will give an address. Walter Carlson, member of the scout committee, announced that Wallace Leslie, scoutmaster of the Rotary sponsored troop, had _ set Tuesday evening, November 9, as the date ‘for the presentation of the charter and flags for the new troop at Seaman’s lodge in the park. Members and officers of the Rotary club are especially urged to be present on that occasion. The Rotary --is donating the flags ‘and Andrew Larsen, committee chaggman, stated that they will be here in time for the event. Among the guests were Sheriff Carl Tobiassen and C. O. Brown. Sheriff Tobiassen spoke briefly of his duties as guardian of the peace. He stated that not all those who get into jail are guilty. Some of them are innocent. Those who behave themselves under jail conditions are kindly treated but “tough’’ conduct receives scant courtesy in the sheriff’s office. . Since he opened his assay office in Nevada City two and a half years ago, Mr. Draper stated, he probably had made 2,090 purchases of gold. Sponge gold which is usually made by pounding the gold out of gold bearing quartz, amalgamating it, and then roasting it until the mercury has evaporated, runs on an average of 840 to 860 fine, as against 1000 pure. Placer gold runs much higher, from 890 to 950 in fineness. The latter figure, however, is unusual and is only found in some of the old gravel channels near Alleghany, where it has lain for thousands of years in the stream and the silver has been oxidized out of it. The longer placer gold lies in the stream bed, the more other metals, principally -silver, tend to vanish under the action of weather and water. In fact, Mr. Draper stated, the difference between 840 fine and‘ the 1000 fine or pure gold is almost entirely due to silver. He called attention to the fact that the Lava Cap is the second largest silver producer in California, that metal being present in the ore in larger proportions than in any other mine of the district. “T am often offered sponge gold,” declared Draper, ‘‘which the seller confidently declares has been pronounced by some other buyer the best in California, and worth every cent of $30 an ounce. To make a dollar an ounce, no more than $27 can be paid for quartz or sponge gold. As a matter of fact my average over the two years has been 63 cents an ounce. But very frequently I am confronted with an argument about the price. Usually I advise them to go where they can get the best price, and usually this closes the argument. “When anyone brings in a: piece of sponge gold I am very likely to take a hammer and cold chisel to ii. I did this with especially an fine sponge brought in recently and discovered a big iron washer right in the middle of it. The washer weighed three times as much as the gold. All is not gold that glitters. Sometimes its brass shacings and sometimes it is a dog license carefully wrapped up in gold. It is best, I have found out to be on the safe side and use a cold chisel on gold offered for sale that looks the least big suspicious.” SERVICES HELD FOR THE ‘LATE ELMER HAWKINS One of the largest funerals ever held in Grass Valley took place yesterday when the remains of the late Elmer Hawkins, young mining engineer who was killed in the Philippines a month ago, were buried. Services were held in Holmes-Hooper Funeral chapel, Rev. Charles Washburn of the Episcopal chureh giving the touching eulogy and graveside services. — At the grave thirty’fraternity brothers, each deposited a rose on the casket as a final gesture to their departed brother, a brilliant young man who made friends wherever he went. Uncles of the deceased are Dr. W. P. Hawkins of Nevada City and Ray Hawkins, Alleghany. His mother is a resident ss Grass Valley. , SECOND NEVADA CITY SCOUT TROOP FORMED In the past month two new scout troops, Roseville No. 21 and Nevada City No 24 have been added to the list of 22 active troops in the Tahoe Area Council according to word received from Lowell L. Sparks, president of the council. Roseville No. 21 is sponsored by the Sciots with M. H. Wiswell as the scoutmaster. Pete Fante, assistant scoutmaster and E. H. Gregory, Jess Lovejoy and Milo Knezovich as cammitteemen. Névada City No. 24 is sponsored by the Rotary Club with ‘Wallace Leslie as scoutmaster and A. C. Larsen J,. C. Scheemer and W. A. Carlson as committeemen. This month numbers again topped last months greatest registration of scouts in the area with 521 active members, More-interest in scouting in the rural.-districts has been expressed by a number of inquiries for troops and home patrols. Only the lack of interested adults for leadership prevents the further increase in the number of boys who are seeking the benefits of the scout program. OSCAR ODEGAARD, JR. . PHOTO CONTEST WINNER Four beautiful pictures are on display in Dickerman’s Drug Store windows and are the exhibitions of enlargements, made by amateur photographers, which.were on display in a recent exhibit in San Francisco Municipal Auditorium They competed with thousands of similar offerings from all western states. It is the fifth annual enlargement exhibit. Oscar Odegaard, Jr., won second in the miscellaneous award. Mrs. Miles Coughlin with two entries, won honorable mention on one. and another picture was entered by Mrs. Tony Rore. CAPSIZED BOAT PERILS ANGLERS When a boat load of Nevada City people capsized on the Feather river Sunday morning it came near being a tragedy and spoiled a gay fishing trip. Glenn Cleland, George Keller and Ed Berger were in the boat when the anchor chain broke just above the rapids where the tide was strong and where a woman had been drowned last year. The boat ‘submerged and all fishing equipment was lost. Berger and Keller scrsmbled ashore but Cleland when -half way over saw the boat come up and swam back to throw himself across it. In a few minutes a line was thrown him and he was brought ashore. It is stated he looked more like a turtle on a whale’s back than anything else as he clung to the boat. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cleland and daughter, Mr. and .Mrs. Ed Berger and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. George Keller and daughter and Mr. ‘and Mrs. I. H. Keller. EIGHT KILLED ON SF. BAY BRIDGE IN 10 MONTHS SACRAMENTO, Oct. 28. —— With 8,283,231 vehicles having crossed the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge in the 10 months since the span was opened, the number of accidents stands at 100, involving 114 Hayurieg and eight deaths. Tabulations compiled by Chief E. R. Cato of the California Highway Patrol show. that. in September, when 705,704 vehicles crossed the bridge, there were five accidents in which one person was killed and 12 injured. In its constant campaign to eliminate accidents the highway bridge patrol during September made 270 arrests which included 114 for speeding 31 for reckless driving and 31 for driving while intoxicated. Fines for these arrests totalled $6,393.50. Chief Cato said: “The bridge detail, under Captain S. M. Flynn, is striving night and day to cut down the accidents until we reach a month when we can report no deaths, no injuries, no accidents.”’ A. G Barmore and O. C. Pauff,’ Los Angeles mining mew arrived MRS. GUENTHER CELEBRATES HER 89TH BIRTHDAY Mrs. Mary Guenther, of Boulder street, is celebrating her 88th birthday today, Friday, October 29. She is remarkably well for her age and has many sweet and sad memories of the past and present to live over and speak of. She has lived in the present home 65 years. Mrs. Guenther was born in St. Louis, Mo., and came to Nevada City: when ‘six years of age in 1856. Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. John Schneider. About six months after their arrival one of Nevada City’s. major fires burned a day and a night to destroy much of the city including her father‘s butcher shop dnd home. The lack of fire fighting equipment and lack of water proved sertous handicaps to the then good _ sized city of several thousand inhabitants. Some buildings thought to be fire proof were destroyed with the rest. ‘Mrs. Guenther is the widow of the late Henry Guenther. Five of her six children are living and are Frank Guenther, Mrs. J.F. Dolan, Mrs. Robert Allen and Miss Kate Guenther, of Nevada City, and Mrs. Ed Johnson of the bay district; besides several grandchildren, great grandchildren and nieces and nephews. Mrs. Guenther’s father died when she was quite a small child and her mother returned to her occupation of seamstress and dress making. All sewing was done by hand. Later the small hand turned: sewing machine was invented. It cost $25 and was considered quite a saving in time even though the wheel had a handle on it and it was turned by -hand. Mrs. Guenther will enjoy greeting many relatives and friends today, who wish her every happiness. P.G.E. LINEMAN HAS CLOSE CALL K. Kingsbury, member of the P. G. & E. crew restringing wires on upper Broad street, had a narrow escape from instant “death Wednesday just before poon. when 4,000 volts, of electricity passed through him. : The P. G. & E. foreman standing on the ground nearby heard 4A, singing noise and was shocked to _ see Kingsbury still clinging to the pole, He suffered a burned arm, leg and heel. The young man was able to return to work yesterday morning. It was done so quickly it seems Kingsbury hardly knows how it happened. PACKED HOUSES GREET ‘WHEN MEN MARRY’ COMEDY Thespians and tersichoreans trod the boards in the Memorial building in Grass Valley Wednesday and last night. to the uproarious laughter and applause of packed houses. ‘When Men Marry’’ was a colossal success, viewed either from a financial or an entertainment. standpoint. The dainty grace with which broad shouldered and broad beamed men donned the habiliments of the fair sex, and their abandoned behamior under the disguise of lip stick and rouge kept the audience gasping in delight. Both Nevada City and Grass Valley talent participated in the big cast of eighty which carried the diversified roles of the program. The beef squad ballet, the school room scenes ‘and fracases, the reception and society soire attended by celebrities and their wives, the wedding itself with ponderous bride in white satin and the wispy bridegroom who enjoying ‘kissing the Herculean bridesmaids, created an entertainment of overwhelming ~hilarity. The Grass Valley Lions club which sponsored the big show are today receiving many compliments on the manner in which it was put on, and congratulations upon the extraordinary success which erowned their efforts. Mrs. Gladys Jones, trained nurse, returned this week from Berkeley and iis now employed at the Nevada City Sanitarium. Her son, Lacy, Jr., Tuesday and ‘are establishing quart/ ers in Nevada City. is attending University of Coliforate asa freshman. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. — Gov. Gifford Pinchot in an address before the State Chamber of Commerce meeting in Los Angeles today said: “T am here to protest against the wanton and persistent attack of Secretary of the Interior Ickes on your interests on the interests of the people of the United States — against his efforts to break up the forest work of the government, divide and ruin the Forest.Service, grab the National Forests (and much else) away from the Department Of Agriculture, and transfer them to his own jurisdiction. “Why? Because he wants moré power. My guess is that he has too much power already. “So does Japan want more power. This Ickes raid upon the Department of Agriculture, the Forest Service, and the best interests of all who use the National Forest, is no more justified than the Japanese raid on China. _ SUBMARINE PIRACY “It is war without the name of war. It is interdepartmental submarine piracy, conducted against an opponent which, like a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean, is in no condition ‘to defend itself. “That is strong language. Can I back it up? If I didn’t think, so, you may be sure I wouldn’t use it. Let’s see. “Iekes is Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Wallace is Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Both are members of the President’s Cabinet. They should be at peace. But almost ever since he came to Washington, Ickes has been making war on his fellow member of the Cabinet and attempting to cut slices off his department. “Iekes attacks, but Wallace cannot defend ‘himself. Wallace ishamstrung by the President’s approval of the Brownlow report on the reorganizatiqn of the government. “This report was transmitted to the Congress by the President dav~ ing the last session. It recommenas the division, and therefore the destruction, of the Forest Service by transferring the National Forests to the tender mercies of the Interior Department. “It proposes that forest research and government aid to private forestry shall remain in the Department of griculture, where they are now; but that the administration of the National Forests, and. much else in other fields of agriculture, shall be transferred to the Department of the Interior, camouflaged under the new name of the Department of Conservation. : A PUBLIC SCANDAL “In other words, as to the National Forests the Brownlow report proposes to return to the precise situation which obtained when the present century began. We had it then, and the way it worked was a public scandal. “At the change of the century the Department of Agriculture had charge of forest research and the promotion of forestry on _ private lands. The Department of the Interior had charge of the National Forests, then called Forest Reserves, which is the exact arrangement the Brownlow report wants to reproduce today. The result was that the Forest Reserves were handled about as badly as it was humanly possible fory any band of’ politicians to handle them. work off on the government as dis(ov. Pinchot Damns Politicos Who Want to Take Over F orests graceful a collection of fseompetens political hacks as ever drew pay from Uncle Sam for work they never did. A os POLLUTED WITH POLITICS “There was nothing strange in ™ that. The Interior Department was permeated and polluted with polities. “It was a mess—a mess that smelled to heaven. The forests suffered. The West suffered. Nobody got anything out of it except the aforesaid politicians and their friends. By grace of the Department of the Interior, the politicians were able to In the public: lands it had control of “a vast treasure house of natural resources which drew the political plunderers in swarms. And the political tradition which grew up in that way is alive and powerful today, as everybody knows who knows anything about it. “The Interior Department turned its responsibility for the Forest Reserves over to the General Land Of-. fice. What that ideally incompetent organization did to them was a fright. Political misfits were given jobs as forest supervisors who never even went into the-forests they were supposed to look after, but sat on the front porches of hotels where, as one of them said to a friend of mine: “I can get the nemeyeycy and have ice.” “The first forest supervisor I saw in California in these good old days came from New Jersey, was a tenderfoot of tenderfeet, utterly ignorant of the West, wore a white tie and a shawl, and was afraid to go farther into the forest he had charge of than the end of the stage line.-As to how he got his job, I give you one guess. POLITICAL RANGERS “Political forest rangers were put on the government pay roll and went right on with their regular jobs as butchers, bookkeepers, or what not. All they did for the government was to draw their pay. One exceptionaa sae supervisor, who was both competent and on the level, found that only three out of more than twenty ransers assigned to him were fit to do their work. “At one time rangers were forbidden to go outside of their districts even to fight a forest fire just over the line. How could such a thing happen? Because, incredible as it may seem, at that time not a single one of the officials in the General Land Office in Washington who had charge of the Forest Reserves had ever seen or set foot on one of them. Yet they were certain that they knew all there was to be known. ; “When a somewhat prominent member of the field force ventured, out of his experience on the ground, to suggest some alterations in the existing regulations, Washington replied: “Your communication of is received. You are advised in reply that it is the duty of forest officers to obey their instructions, not to question them.”’ . “An order came from Washington to a Forest Supervisor with two million acres of the heaviest timberland in America under his charge to buy a rake for himself and another for his ranger, and clean up the forest. And.this was no rare exception. Other supervisors got similar orders. “That. is how centralized bureaucracy works, That was how the Interior Department dealt with t tional Forests when it had over t the same control it ae now r trying to get back.” ‘ ane BLOCK ON BROAD STREET RESURFACED State highway crews and trucks under Superintendent Fred Garrison and some city equipment and men resurfaced Broad street from Pine to Washington yesterday. ‘The egutters were filled in and willbe quite an aid to motorists parking near the curb as in the past it had been quite too far over the edge. This work is ter. an inconvenience when wheels were . ? in preparation for the coming ie a JURY ACQUITS ‘ACCUSED OF James Tenkith, aire owner of an autocourt in Hills Flat, was found ni guilty to the charge of shootin ‘Wilma Bliss, in a row July the disturbance on his — claimed he fired one sho revolver, but stated th was nenideniey “Gus Orzalli,” Jr,, of thi brated nis 34th birthida

aa ae ‘ our path. the horizon for. weeks in advance. It. Thinking Out Loud H. M. Li. Hallowe’en is upon us. Time in its flight drops varied anniversaries in Time was when it filled was ushered in with “quips and cranks and wanton: wiles’ and plenty of horseplay andspractical jokes. The goat elevated to the school belfry and tied to the bell, the calf that bawled from beneath the teacher’s desk, the hogs that. blossomed brilliant colors, the bull. whose salient features were gilded, the buggy astride the church roof tree, all these were a manifestation of the witches who ride their splint brooms in the dusk of Hallowe’en. Hallowe’en is as old, possibly, as Christmas. The black folks of Africa celebrate such a night when the spirits of the long dead. roam abroad to be propitiated. The celebration varies slightly through the centuries but its manners are much the same. A millenium ago spirits prowled’ through the kitchen middens. (Nowadays they walk off with the gate and hang it where only a Gulliver could retrieve it. They, the “spirits,’’ roll our garbage can down the hill, the lid flies off and reveals to the eagle eye of neighbors in the early morning just how well or how poorly we live. The frosty rime that Time deposits on the elderly too often strikes in. Many a poet notes the drear encroachment of the years: “Where art thou gone “Light ankled youth, “With wing at either shoulder, *‘And smile that never left thy mouth “Until the hours grew colder.” Really it is one of the major battles of adult years and mentality to keep alive the warmth of youth when the cold of experience chills the enthusiams. Most of us will, without either approving or condemning the “spirts’” that rise in the night and plague us on Hallowe’en, take out a little insurance. Rubbing the show windows with .glycerine will make removal of candle grease easier. Moving the garbage can to the woodshed and locking it up will insure privacy in the matter of the ‘‘table we set.” and hiding the gate, if we don’t.forget where we put it, will insure finding it after the revelry has swept past. A bowl of cookies for giggling tick tackers will some times buy immunity. And above all remember the bucolic humor and pranks that marked our Hallowe’en antics, a generation-ago, and, if it pleases you, comment upon the decadence of the event mowadays. Private charity~is creeping back into practice again even though it has undergone a_ terrific beating from the New Deal. Even though 17 billions have been spent for relief, some of it for houses in Tugwelltown ‘possibly for yard sticks to show what the “‘proletariat’’ should enjoy without earning, that cost upwards of $8,000, we find we still have the poor with us. Those who are not quite so poor are again giving to the poorer. Even though the waste of WPA continues with the brass hats receiving 35 per cent of government funds and the needy 65 per cent, kindly charity, abused and browbeaten, rises again to help those who for one reason or another are not recipients of (New Deal bounty.: Whether charity will survive or not may be debated, but thus far thousands of deficient mentalities have learned to live at the other fellow’s forced expense without doing enough work ‘to produce a healthy sweat. These paupérized legions. seek to ‘perpetuate a system that rises like a dank miasma from the brains of sophomoric theorists and is whirled by the winds of politics into a viscious circle. From this we nor our children shall escape, unless by a modern miracle. One aveue only seems open to beat this New Deal Frankensteiny Let us return to the Red Cross the business of providing relief, if necessary, by government endowment when other means fail. Let us return the business of government to its constitutional domaine. Let us, of course have reforms when conditions demand them. Let us be sure they are substantial remedies and. not the sickening ‘nostrums that have been ‘tried and proved worthless over and over again upon credulous peoples of other races; other civilizations. BUCK STEW The State Employees Association of Marysville held their annual buck stew at Marysville Saturday evening, October 23, F. R. Garrison, president ‘ofthe chapter, was the head cook. in, evada ity u COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA vet This newspaper tries all community enterprises that . . make this a better place to live. It _ to stimulate a healthful growth in ness. Those who subscribe to, or tise in the Nevada City Nugget join it in this endeavor. “ to be tend seeks busi-— or advyer. oin with acme . Vol. 11, No. 85. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 19 57 GOLD BUYER AND ASSAYER TELLS The Rotary club heard a deeply interesting and humorous stary yesterday at luncheon concerning the trials and tribulations of an assayer and a gold buyer. Hal Draper was the speaker. It was announced that next Thursday Congressman Harry Engrebright will give an address. Walter Carlson, member of the scout committee, announced that Wallace Leslie, scoutmaster of the Rotary sponsored troop, had _ set Tuesday evening, November 9, as the date ‘for the presentation of the charter and flags for the new troop at Seaman’s lodge in the park. Members and officers of the Rotary club are especially urged to be present on that occasion. The Rotary --is donating the flags ‘and Andrew Larsen, committee chaggman, stated that they will be here in time for the event. Among the guests were Sheriff Carl Tobiassen and C. O. Brown. Sheriff Tobiassen spoke briefly of his duties as guardian of the peace. He stated that not all those who get into jail are guilty. Some of them are innocent. Those who behave themselves under jail conditions are kindly treated but “tough’’ conduct receives scant courtesy in the sheriff’s office. . Since he opened his assay office in Nevada City two and a half years ago, Mr. Draper stated, he probably had made 2,090 purchases of gold. Sponge gold which is usually made by pounding the gold out of gold bearing quartz, amalgamating it, and then roasting it until the mercury has evaporated, runs on an average of 840 to 860 fine, as against 1000 pure. Placer gold runs much higher, from 890 to 950 in fineness. The latter figure, however, is unusual and is only found in some of the old gravel channels near Alleghany, where it has lain for thousands of years in the stream and the silver has been oxidized out of it. The longer placer gold lies in the stream bed, the more other metals, principally -silver, tend to vanish under the action of weather and water. In fact, Mr. Draper stated, the difference between 840 fine and‘ the 1000 fine or pure gold is almost entirely due to silver. He called attention to the fact that the Lava Cap is the second largest silver producer in California, that metal being present in the ore in larger proportions than in any other mine of the district. “T am often offered sponge gold,” declared Draper, ‘‘which the seller confidently declares has been pronounced by some other buyer the best in California, and worth every cent of $30 an ounce. To make a dollar an ounce, no more than $27 can be paid for quartz or sponge gold. As a matter of fact my average over the two years has been 63 cents an ounce. But very frequently I am confronted with an argument about the price. Usually I advise them to go where they can get the best price, and usually this closes the argument. “When anyone brings in a: piece of sponge gold I am very likely to take a hammer and cold chisel to ii. I did this with especially an fine sponge brought in recently and discovered a big iron washer right in the middle of it. The washer weighed three times as much as the gold. All is not gold that glitters. Sometimes its brass shacings and sometimes it is a dog license carefully wrapped up in gold. It is best, I have found out to be on the safe side and use a cold chisel on gold offered for sale that looks the least big suspicious.” SERVICES HELD FOR THE ‘LATE ELMER HAWKINS One of the largest funerals ever held in Grass Valley took place yesterday when the remains of the late Elmer Hawkins, young mining engineer who was killed in the Philippines a month ago, were buried. Services were held in Holmes-Hooper Funeral chapel, Rev. Charles Washburn of the Episcopal chureh giving the touching eulogy and graveside services. — At the grave thirty’fraternity brothers, each deposited a rose on the casket as a final gesture to their departed brother, a brilliant young man who made friends wherever he went. Uncles of the deceased are Dr. W. P. Hawkins of Nevada City and Ray Hawkins, Alleghany. His mother is a resident ss Grass Valley. , SECOND NEVADA CITY SCOUT TROOP FORMED In the past month two new scout troops, Roseville No. 21 and Nevada City No 24 have been added to the list of 22 active troops in the Tahoe Area Council according to word received from Lowell L. Sparks, president of the council. Roseville No. 21 is sponsored by the Sciots with M. H. Wiswell as the scoutmaster. Pete Fante, assistant scoutmaster and E. H. Gregory, Jess Lovejoy and Milo Knezovich as cammitteemen. Névada City No. 24 is sponsored by the Rotary Club with ‘Wallace Leslie as scoutmaster and A. C. Larsen J,. C. Scheemer and W. A. Carlson as committeemen. This month numbers again topped last months greatest registration of scouts in the area with 521 active members, More-interest in scouting in the rural.-districts has been expressed by a number of inquiries for troops and home patrols. Only the lack of interested adults for leadership prevents the further increase in the number of boys who are seeking the benefits of the scout program. OSCAR ODEGAARD, JR. . PHOTO CONTEST WINNER Four beautiful pictures are on display in Dickerman’s Drug Store windows and are the exhibitions of enlargements, made by amateur photographers, which.were on display in a recent exhibit in San Francisco Municipal Auditorium They competed with thousands of similar offerings from all western states. It is the fifth annual enlargement exhibit. Oscar Odegaard, Jr., won second in the miscellaneous award. Mrs. Miles Coughlin with two entries, won honorable mention on one. and another picture was entered by Mrs. Tony Rore. CAPSIZED BOAT PERILS ANGLERS When a boat load of Nevada City people capsized on the Feather river Sunday morning it came near being a tragedy and spoiled a gay fishing trip. Glenn Cleland, George Keller and Ed Berger were in the boat when the anchor chain broke just above the rapids where the tide was strong and where a woman had been drowned last year. The boat ‘submerged and all fishing equipment was lost. Berger and Keller scrsmbled ashore but Cleland when -half way over saw the boat come up and swam back to throw himself across it. In a few minutes a line was thrown him and he was brought ashore. It is stated he looked more like a turtle on a whale’s back than anything else as he clung to the boat. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cleland and daughter, Mr. and .Mrs. Ed Berger and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. George Keller and daughter and Mr. ‘and Mrs. I. H. Keller. EIGHT KILLED ON SF. BAY BRIDGE IN 10 MONTHS SACRAMENTO, Oct. 28. —— With 8,283,231 vehicles having crossed the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge in the 10 months since the span was opened, the number of accidents stands at 100, involving 114 Hayurieg and eight deaths.

Tabulations compiled by Chief E. R. Cato of the California Highway Patrol show. that. in September, when 705,704 vehicles crossed the bridge, there were five accidents in which one person was killed and 12 injured. In its constant campaign to eliminate accidents the highway bridge patrol during September made 270 arrests which included 114 for speeding 31 for reckless driving and 31 for driving while intoxicated. Fines for these arrests totalled $6,393.50. Chief Cato said: “The bridge detail, under Captain S. M. Flynn, is striving night and day to cut down the accidents until we reach a month when we can report no deaths, no injuries, no accidents.”’ A. G Barmore and O. C. Pauff,’ Los Angeles mining mew arrived MRS. GUENTHER CELEBRATES HER 89TH BIRTHDAY Mrs. Mary Guenther, of Boulder street, is celebrating her 88th birthday today, Friday, October 29. She is remarkably well for her age and has many sweet and sad memories of the past and present to live over and speak of. She has lived in the present home 65 years. Mrs. Guenther was born in St. Louis, Mo., and came to Nevada City: when ‘six years of age in 1856. Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. John Schneider. About six months after their arrival one of Nevada City’s. major fires burned a day and a night to destroy much of the city including her father‘s butcher shop dnd home. The lack of fire fighting equipment and lack of water proved sertous handicaps to the then good _ sized city of several thousand inhabitants. Some buildings thought to be fire proof were destroyed with the rest. ‘Mrs. Guenther is the widow of the late Henry Guenther. Five of her six children are living and are Frank Guenther, Mrs. J.F. Dolan, Mrs. Robert Allen and Miss Kate Guenther, of Nevada City, and Mrs. Ed Johnson of the bay district; besides several grandchildren, great grandchildren and nieces and nephews. Mrs. Guenther’s father died when she was quite a small child and her mother returned to her occupation of seamstress and dress making. All sewing was done by hand. Later the small hand turned: sewing machine was invented. It cost $25 and was considered quite a saving in time even though the wheel had a handle on it and it was turned by -hand. Mrs. Guenther will enjoy greeting many relatives and friends today, who wish her every happiness. P.G.E. LINEMAN HAS CLOSE CALL K. Kingsbury, member of the P. G. & E. crew restringing wires on upper Broad street, had a narrow escape from instant “death Wednesday just before poon. when 4,000 volts, of electricity passed through him. : The P. G. & E. foreman standing on the ground nearby heard 4A, singing noise and was shocked to _ see Kingsbury still clinging to the pole, He suffered a burned arm, leg and heel. The young man was able to return to work yesterday morning. It was done so quickly it seems Kingsbury hardly knows how it happened. PACKED HOUSES GREET ‘WHEN MEN MARRY’ COMEDY Thespians and tersichoreans trod the boards in the Memorial building in Grass Valley Wednesday and last night. to the uproarious laughter and applause of packed houses. ‘When Men Marry’’ was a colossal success, viewed either from a financial or an entertainment. standpoint. The dainty grace with which broad shouldered and broad beamed men donned the habiliments of the fair sex, and their abandoned behamior under the disguise of lip stick and rouge kept the audience gasping in delight. Both Nevada City and Grass Valley talent participated in the big cast of eighty which carried the diversified roles of the program. The beef squad ballet, the school room scenes ‘and fracases, the reception and society soire attended by celebrities and their wives, the wedding itself with ponderous bride in white satin and the wispy bridegroom who enjoying ‘kissing the Herculean bridesmaids, created an entertainment of overwhelming ~hilarity. The Grass Valley Lions club which sponsored the big show are today receiving many compliments on the manner in which it was put on, and congratulations upon the extraordinary success which erowned their efforts. Mrs. Gladys Jones, trained nurse, returned this week from Berkeley and iis now employed at the Nevada City Sanitarium. Her son, Lacy, Jr., Tuesday and ‘are establishing quart/ ers in Nevada City. is attending University of Coliforate asa freshman. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. — Gov. Gifford Pinchot in an address before the State Chamber of Commerce meeting in Los Angeles today said: “T am here to protest against the wanton and persistent attack of Secretary of the Interior Ickes on your interests on the interests of the people of the United States — against his efforts to break up the forest work of the government, divide and ruin the Forest.Service, grab the National Forests (and much else) away from the Department Of Agriculture, and transfer them to his own jurisdiction. “Why? Because he wants moré power. My guess is that he has too much power already. “So does Japan want more power. This Ickes raid upon the Department of Agriculture, the Forest Service, and the best interests of all who use the National Forest, is no more justified than the Japanese raid on China. _ SUBMARINE PIRACY “It is war without the name of war. It is interdepartmental submarine piracy, conducted against an opponent which, like a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean, is in no condition ‘to defend itself. “That is strong language. Can I back it up? If I didn’t think, so, you may be sure I wouldn’t use it. Let’s see. “Iekes is Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Wallace is Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Both are members of the President’s Cabinet. They should be at peace. But almost ever since he came to Washington, Ickes has been making war on his fellow member of the Cabinet and attempting to cut slices off his department. “Iekes attacks, but Wallace cannot defend ‘himself. Wallace ishamstrung by the President’s approval of the Brownlow report on the reorganizatiqn of the government. “This report was transmitted to the Congress by the President dav~ ing the last session. It recommenas the division, and therefore the destruction, of the Forest Service by transferring the National Forests to the tender mercies of the Interior Department. “It proposes that forest research and government aid to private forestry shall remain in the Department of griculture, where they are now; but that the administration of the National Forests, and. much else in other fields of agriculture, shall be transferred to the Department of the Interior, camouflaged under the new name of the Department of Conservation. : A PUBLIC SCANDAL “In other words, as to the National Forests the Brownlow report proposes to return to the precise situation which obtained when the present century began. We had it then, and the way it worked was a public scandal. “At the change of the century the Department of Agriculture had charge of forest research and the promotion of forestry on _ private lands. The Department of the Interior had charge of the National Forests, then called Forest Reserves, which is the exact arrangement the Brownlow report wants to reproduce today. The result was that the Forest Reserves were handled about as badly as it was humanly possible fory any band of’ politicians to handle them. work off on the government as dis(ov. Pinchot Damns Politicos Who Want to Take Over F orests graceful a collection of fseompetens political hacks as ever drew pay from Uncle Sam for work they never did. A os POLLUTED WITH POLITICS “There was nothing strange in ™ that. The Interior Department was permeated and polluted with polities. “It was a mess—a mess that smelled to heaven. The forests suffered. The West suffered. Nobody got anything out of it except the aforesaid politicians and their friends. By grace of the Department of the Interior, the politicians were able to In the public: lands it had control of “a vast treasure house of natural resources which drew the political plunderers in swarms. And the political tradition which grew up in that way is alive and powerful today, as everybody knows who knows anything about it. “The Interior Department turned its responsibility for the Forest Reserves over to the General Land Of-. fice. What that ideally incompetent organization did to them was a fright. Political misfits were given jobs as forest supervisors who never even went into the-forests they were supposed to look after, but sat on the front porches of hotels where, as one of them said to a friend of mine: “I can get the nemeyeycy and have ice.” “The first forest supervisor I saw in California in these good old days came from New Jersey, was a tenderfoot of tenderfeet, utterly ignorant of the West, wore a white tie and a shawl, and was afraid to go farther into the forest he had charge of than the end of the stage line.-As to how he got his job, I give you one guess. POLITICAL RANGERS “Political forest rangers were put on the government pay roll and went right on with their regular jobs as butchers, bookkeepers, or what not. All they did for the government was to draw their pay. One exceptionaa sae supervisor, who was both competent and on the level, found that only three out of more than twenty ransers assigned to him were fit to do their work. “At one time rangers were forbidden to go outside of their districts even to fight a forest fire just over the line. How could such a thing happen? Because, incredible as it may seem, at that time not a single one of the officials in the General Land Office in Washington who had charge of the Forest Reserves had ever seen or set foot on one of them. Yet they were certain that they knew all there was to be known. ; “When a somewhat prominent member of the field force ventured, out of his experience on the ground, to suggest some alterations in the existing regulations, Washington replied: “Your communication of is received. You are advised in reply that it is the duty of forest officers to obey their instructions, not to question them.”’ . “An order came from Washington to a Forest Supervisor with two million acres of the heaviest timberland in America under his charge to buy a rake for himself and another for his ranger, and clean up the forest. And.this was no rare exception. Other supervisors got similar orders. “That. is how centralized bureaucracy works, That was how the Interior Department dealt with t tional Forests when it had over t the same control it ae now r trying to get back.” ‘ ane BLOCK ON BROAD STREET RESURFACED State highway crews and trucks under Superintendent Fred Garrison and some city equipment and men resurfaced Broad street from Pine to Washington yesterday. ‘The egutters were filled in and willbe quite an aid to motorists parking near the curb as in the past it had been quite too far over the edge. This work is ter. an inconvenience when wheels were . ? in preparation for the coming ie a JURY ACQUITS ‘ACCUSED OF James Tenkith, aire owner of an autocourt in Hills Flat, was found ni guilty to the charge of shootin ‘Wilma Bliss, in a row July the disturbance on his — claimed he fired one sho revolver, but stated th was nenideniey “Gus Orzalli,” Jr,, of thi brated nis 34th birthida