October 4, 1937 (4 pages)

Thinking Out Loud H.-M. L. The three runaway narrow gauge cars which catapulted across Sacramento street yesterday were in the nature of a spectacular miracle. No one was hurt and property damage, other than that to the. cars, was probably less than $50. The cars ‘crossed the street and barely nosed into the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Day, smashing a window. Had these cars hit an automobile in the Sunday parade that usually makes Sacramento street a busy traffic artery, there would have been much to pay; damages for life and limb could have run into many thousands of dollars. Some years ago there was a sturdy bulkhead at the end of the track. Barl Taylor, president of the company stated that a new one will beo built immediately. It: is, of course, too early to add the Short murder to the unsolved crimes that have occurred in Nevada county during the past three years. The sheriff and .his deputies are working indefatiguably to track down the man or men who did this coldblooded, atrocious killing. We have always contended that when the sheriff finds himself balked he should immediately call to his assistance expert detective skill to aid in ferreting out the guilty. No one of any intelligence expects a sheriff, elected for every other reason, to function as a ‘trained sleuth. When he chooses to do so, however, he must bear the full responsibility for failure. The Badger Hill murder and the hit and run killing of a WPA worker just south of the city limits, some two years ago could probably have been solved and the killers brought to justice had detectives been employed in time. Whatever we may think privately of the character of Mr. Justice Black, we must grant that he is adroit, clever and intelligent. Some fifteen . years ago, as he admits, he joined the Ku Klux Klan. Evidence that has come to light since his appointment, indicates that he gave full credit for his election to the United States to this organization. But once elected he resigned the Klan membership and burned the Klan bridge behind him. With the same mental agility that characterized his joining the Klan with its night raiders, and Negro, Catholic and Jew haters, with election to the Senate he joined the New Deal and became one of its most vociferous supporters. That won him his place on the Supreme bench. In the course of;a year or two we shall know a great deal more about Mr. Justice. Black. Will he, or will he not, now that he is secure for life in a job that @ields him $20,000 a year, after crossing over on the New Deal bridge also burn this bridge behind him? The American Federation of Labor has definitely snubbed the Secretary of Labor Ma Perkins. It has refused to ask her to address its convention in Denver, thus radically smashing all precedents. Pinky Perkins really is a subject for pity rather than contempt. She was invited, in Shirt waist and petticoats to fill a job that a high-domed and.hairychested male would have found difficult to fill. She does her manful best, but when she fails as she does with’ monotonous regularity, she flies into a feminine tantrum with hysteries on the side. Politically and every other way she is a conspicious New i Deal flop. Her partisanship and outright support for the C. I. O.-sitdowners and communists, her refusal to permit the deportation of proved radical and criminal aliens, and her twittering trivialities in the face of major labor emergencies, have won her the ill will of all reputable labor organizations. Edward McGrady, Madame Perkins’ chief deputy, has quit. Hen-pecked, scolded and browbeaten by Secretary Perkins, who sought in every way'to rob him of credit for the really constructive work he had = accomplished, he has at length resigned. Whether another man Can bea found to serve. this petty tyrant in petticoats with anything approaching . the faithfulness and ability that McGrady revealed, “is extremely doubtful. On merit and accomplishment, McGrady long since should have been made Secretary of Labor, His resignation, wee suspect, will do more substantially to injure the New Deal that that of any other man since 1933. For McGrady had the respect of men of all parties,’ of employers and workers. He was a tower of strength. He,has now joined the New Deal discard where the less worthy Hugh Johnson, Moley, Richberg, Tugwell and Peake are gathered. sacross either street. The street was from about} ‘work crew made every effort ‘to stop Ne ada City Nu: COVERS RICHEST’GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA make ret } een : EEE . This newspaper tries to be herpful in all community enterprises that tend to to stimulate a healthful growth in business. Those who subscribe to, or adver= tise in the Nevada City Nugget join 3 it in this endeavor. this a better place to live, It seeks t The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center Vol. 11, No. 78.— Two Narrow Gatge self-dumping flat cars loaded with gravel for ballasting the track broke away from a worktrain yesterday morning: about 9 o’clock near the McDonald! crossing. Despite efforts of the train crew, the two cars gathered momentum and speeded down the grade to the Narrow Gauge depot. There they hit a box car standing near the end! of the line with brakes set, tossed one end up, and when it came down again shoved it diagonally across the Adams street, striking the cement’ wall of Lloyd Jenning’s front lawn, . thence across Sacramento where the box car leaped across the side walk and broke a window, in the Lee Day home and glighhtly fractured the outer wall. 2 Fortunately the runaways did -not hit an automobile as they plunged blocked for five hours, 9 o’clock until 2 p. m. while the city and railroad crews with many volunteers cleared away the wreck. The two gravel cars were first unloaded and then with a tractor, yanked back into the railroad yard. They, were badly wrecked. Earl Taylor, president of the railroad company, estimates the damage to the*three cars at approximately $250. The box car had lost one truck and set of wheels and ,jhad to be jacked up before it could be dragged by the tractor back to the ‘tracks in the depot yard. President Taylor states that the accident was caused by a break in a draw. gear, which is a part of the coupling mechanism. The train and the runaways on the down grade, by throwing ties in front of the cars and by setting the hand brakes, but as the cars gathered momentum one by one the crew jumped for safety. One man rode the runaways nearly to the depote, before he, too, leaped off. After the mail train was in, the track had been cleared in. order to give the work train and crew every opportunity to complete much needed ballasting on the line just below Town Talk in the vitinity of MecDonald’s_ crossing. The gravel had ‘been hauled from Bear river and arriveing at the erossing where it was to be dumped it was!found that the train had gone a car length too far. The signal was given the engin-. Runaway Gravel Cars Crash Across Streets eer to pull the train back and it was then that the draw gear broke. An inspection of the iron casting where the break occurred revealed small black spots in the broken casting, which could not possibly have been detected, ‘at the surface. The two gravel cars were purchased from another narrow gauge company some gix years ago. Formerly a bulk head stood near the corner of Adams _ street about where ‘the cement steps leading up to the sidewalk along the Jennings place are now' located. The tracks of the railroad reached across the street. Some years ago however the city covered up the tracks and paved Adams street. President Taylor states that his company will install another bulkhead in the railroad yards to guard against another such accident. Lee Day, who with his wife rent the lower apartment in the Weiss house, sat in a chair in the bay window and found it cold and went back into the kitchen. Before he sat down he heard the roar of the oncoming ears and felt the shock of the crash, for a moment thinking it was ‘an earthquake. Mrs. Day stepped from her bedroom into the living room, thinking truck had turned over from the noise, to see the car crash into the front of the bay window. Her first thought was for her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Browning, an expectant mother, who with her husband rent the upper flat. Mrs. Browning came down stairs thoroughly frightened to ask the cause of the disturbance. Her mother tried to calm her and as she stepped to the door she fainted in her mother’s arms, recovering she fainted again and a doctor was summoned to put her to bed and to sleep. : Mrs. Day said her son in law’s car was in front of the house when the derailed cars sped across the street and it was missed by only 18 inches. A piece of cement broken off the curbing by the impact flew up and bent the fender of the machine. James Ryan of Long street, returning from the post office was within a few feet of the cars as they raced across the street in front of him. He was alarmed for a young lady ahead of him who was in line of the cars as she came from around the Jennings turn. She must have barely escaped on the other side. BIG PETITION TO GAME BOARD TO DROP PROTEST By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE The. next regular meeting of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will be held in the Roseville City Hall on Saturday, October 9, at 2:30 p; m. Among the guests will be the Honorable Harry L. Englebright, the father of the hydraulic mining program. This is designated as Hydraulic Mining Day at the Roseville, Fair and Rodeo in honor of Congressman Harry L. Englebright and the California Hydraulic Mining Association. After the business meeting a sumptous banquet will be served at the Green Lantern Cafe with Judge Don Bass as host. There will be a charge of seventy five cents and the good judge has promised plenty of delicious food. : The California. Hydraulic Mining Association is widely known as the most powerful hydraulic mining or—— BIRTHDAYS! = Send a Greeting 92 to Your Friends. . October 11, 1937 LELAN PAULY Camptonville October 12, 1937 MARTHA HOSKIN Pine Street October 14, 1937 MRS. BESSIE PONTECELLI Main Street Happy Birthday _—~ ganization in the state. It has received information, this last week, that contracts were being let by the California Debris Commission for core drilling at the proposed sites of the Ruck-a-Chucky, North Fork on the American and the Upper Narrows of the Yuba river. The core drillings will supplement geological information secured by tunneling and trenching. Construction of the dams is to proceed by the use of the $1,500,000 now available from the $7,000,000 authorized and additional funds for work at the Upper Narrows is expected to be made available by the next session of congress. W. G. Allen of Smartville, and Director for that district, has issued a giant petition asking that the state game and fish commission withdraw. its protest to the construction of the dams on the Yuba river. Members of the California Hydraulic Mining Association are working throughout the northern section ‘of the state obtaining signatures and personal affidavits to assist in the withdrawal of the protest on the grounds that the sites of the proposed dam are at locations below trout fishing of any importa.e. While on the other hand, the reservoirs to be created by the dams would ultimately provide good bass fishing. FOREST LOOKOUTS The Tahoe National Forest has two and six tenths time per month off since the heavy rain. Saturday. and will be advisable to close them. since the rain Saturday. City have been retained. fo STILL ON DUTY given about half of their fire prevention and look out crews their However sufficient rain has not fal4+ jen to close the lookouts tions. Mr. J. Rafferty stated it will take another heavy rain before it staThe crew of five men at the state camp at Shady Creek was laid off The full crew of eight men at the State Division of Forestry camp at Nevada CHINAMAN’S ORE DISCOVERY WILL BE EXPLORED A reference. made to ‘Long’s .Lease’’ which appeared in the Nugget October 1 should haye been the CC. Fisher lease, this Long lease having been cancelled some time ago. Louis C. Fisher has done considerable development work on_ the Robert Watson and the O. F. Bettcher properties, both of which he has under lease. An incline shaft has been sunk about thirty two: feet and a test run of thirty seven tons of ore has shown very satisfactory results. A ‘four inch pipe line, has been laid from the Willow Valley road across the Bettcher property to the shaft, a distance’ of about 850 feet. : Mr. Bettcher stated that while this property has never before been worked, it was originally discovered by a Chinaman over fifty years ago. While “placering”’ ‘on Deer Creek he followed a rich deposit of oxides and free gold and at a depth of about ten feet encountered a rich quartz ledge; knowing, however, that Chinese could not acquire quartz claims Ah Woo, with true Chinese eanniness proceeded to bury the ledge and remove all traces of his efforts after, ‘‘blazing’’ two cedar trees to mark the spot. These two trees with the ancient axe “blazes’ are still standing. than twenty five years Woo confided in his friend, Mr. Watson, and entreated him to get possession of the ground; Watson did buy several acres about twenty three years ago, but died shortly thereafter. His widow who still survives him leased the ground to Louis CG. Fisher after relating the Chinaman’s story to him and directing him to the place with the aid of a snap shot picture taken nearly twenty five years ago. Single handed Mr. Fisher proceeded to sink a prospect shaft and ata depth of about nine feet uncovered the ledge which assayed from $50 to $116 per ton. It is Mr. Fisher’s intention to erect a small mill on the property as soon as his working eapital will permit. Samples of the ore taken from the above property are now on display in the Nugget windows. LAGESON HURT IN SKIDDING CAR L. G. Lageson, county horticultural commissioner of Nevada County. suffered severe bruises and cuts to his head and face whena car he was riding in skidded on a turn at four o’clock Sunday morning on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway leading into Bear Valley. His guests, Mr. and Mrs. A. BE. Hodgkins of Los Angeles and owners of the City of Six mine at Downieville, arrived last week for a visit and it was decided the men would go fishing. Mr. Lageson sat in the back seat and as the car skidded in the soft earth from a rain the day before, he was thrown against the front seat and up against the top. As the car went over the bank it struck a tree and then on to strike another tree each time jarring him more roughly. Several stitches were taken by Dr. W. W. Reed to close the cuts about his head and this morning while it is felt he is some improved his face is badly bruised. An X-Ray will be taken today to determine the extent of the injuries. Mr. Lageson is at his home on Piety Hill and his many friends hope no ill effects will result from the accident, and he will soon be about. BUCK STEW SERVED PEACE OFFICERS MEET Congressman and Mrs. Harry Englnebright and Sheriff Carl Tobiassen attended the Northern California Peace Officers meeting at fahoe City last* week. Carl Betchtold was host to the gathering. A savory buck stew was served with Sheriff Gum of Placer county acting as chef. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schiffner and baby left Friday on a months mtor trip to Pittsburgh, Pa., where Mrs. Schiffner will visit relatives and her former home. Mr. Schiffner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schiffner After keeping his secret for more}! Mr.Crampton operated until recentge Slayer of Beaten to death with .a rough slate’ stone in the hand of parties still unknown, was the fate of Theodore T. Short, 65 years Old, retired, sometime Thursday night. A bit of the stone was found in the bed by Sheriff Carl T. Tobiassen and Deputy Bill Woods when they were called to examine the body shortly after six o'clock Friday evening when the body was discovered. Short lived in a cabin on Eureka street in Grass Valley. Friends had warned him against the practice of carrying several hundred dollars in currency about with him. It it believed he was done to: death to obtain the money, probably about $800, which he was known to have in his wallet on his person. The murderer accomplished his purpose by beating the old man about the head. His front teeth were broken where he had been slugged by the rock in the mouth. Death was caused by concussion of the brain or verebral hemorrhage. The funeral: ~ Murdered In — sin i pei po 2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937. Sheriff Searches For by Aged Man was held this afternoon with members of the family attending. Earl Short, son of the murdered man, who resides in Kendall Court, Grass Valley, was the last to see his father about 7 o’clock Thursday eve— ning. Neighbors reported that they heard a disturbance in the Short cabin shortly after 1:00. o’clock Friday morning. Dogs of the neoghborhood were aroused and began to~_ bark according to Mr. and Mrs. Sut— herland and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Alpers, near neighbors, who were arous— ed about that time in the morning. The sheriff yesterday reported that there was nothing as yet for publication regarding the intensive investigation and search which is be— ing made for the murderer or murderers guilty of this killing. Unfortunately scores of persons visited the scene of the tragedy.and viewed -Jays 94] V10Joq ‘URW pelepinum 9q} iff and his deputies arrived. It is believed that valuable clues may have been effaced on destroyed. MR. AND MRS. CRAMPTON PURCHASE HOUSE HERE Nevada City friends will welcome new residents in Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crampton-who purchased through a Veterans Loan the Chauncey Wade property at the end of Jordan street on Piety Hill. They brought their furniture from near Los Angeles by van and arrived at 1:30 Friday morning and were comfortably situ-. ated before the rain started. Mr. and Mrs. Crampton, who lost! a nice home and practically all of their belongings in the~ Glendale FOREST SERVICE TO BUILD GALENA CREEK SKI WAY Fifty additional men will be given employment at the Galena Creek camp according to a report received from DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of . the Tahoe National Forest, effective October 1. This does not indicate any general increase in the WPA program according to Nelson but .was flood about 2 years ago. have heen coming and going from the southern . city to the Remington Hill mine near . Steep Hollow east of this city which . ly, for the last seven years. Mrs. Crampton stated they could not seem to adapt themselves anywhere else. Her husband has named the new home “Sunken Gardens’’. Mr. and Mrs. Wade have made a show place of the property purchasing it several years ago and_ have added many modern conveniences to give a most charming and cosy home and erounds. Grape arbor, fish pond, rock Sardens, barbecue fire place, many shrubs, driveway and other features are found among the beautiful sur-; roundings. Mr. Crampton spent seven years art, some of which will adorn his new home. STATE OFFICIALS BAG SIX BUCKS A hunting party that spent a week near Hobart Mills returned Sunday with six fine bucks one of which had been killed almost in the city limits of Hobart Mills. In the party of eight were Russell B.: Farley, board of equalization agent in this district, Fred Stewart, board of equalization member, Ralph Marron, deputy attorney general, Attorney General U. S. Webb, Sheriff Carl *J. Tobiassen and Sheriff. Dewey Johnson of Sierra county. TO HONOR MRS. LEITER Evangeline Chapter O. E. S. of Navada City. will elect and appoint officers Tuesday night, October 5 in Masonic Sall. This is one of the first meetings since summer and a splendid program is being prepared. On October 12 a special meeting is being planned to honor Mrs. Elizabeth Leiter, Deputy Matron, O. EB. S. . Officers from eight chapters of district and visitors are expected to attend. AT LAST Frank Ghidotti, one Nevada of in the Cardinal market of Nevada City. Fy ‘ days. in China and enjoyed collecting many . rare and artistic pieces of Chinese: . City’s most ardent sportsmen, has been razzed considerably for missing several nice shots at bucks lately so Friday morning accompanied by Dick ‘Lane, he took his trustry rifle and brought in one of the finest bucks seen in Nevada City this season. The]; huntsmen placed the deer on display for several as a result of his pointing out to the Regional Forester at San Francisco the need for additional men to pursue the work program at Galena Creek and because other sections of the country were not able to use the full quota. The Forest Service expects to complete the ski course at Galena Creek in time for the winter. sports accord-_ ing’to Nelson. D. G. MacBean, Forest . Service engineer from Nevada City, recently made an inspection of the project in company with J. W. Craw~ ford and Joe Caffery R,eno Ski club members. Caffery, engineer for the Works Progress Administration, and Crawford, formerly state architect for the administration, made a survey of the hill last year and the jump was partially completed on the basis of that survey. Nelson states that it has been considered advisable to construct the jump on 4 slightly* Cad sos ; the finish ;changed angle so that . will not interfere with the ski hut. Vandalism has been responsible for considerable damage at the Gal‘ena Creek ski hut according to a re. port from DeWitt Nelson, Forest, su . pervisor at Nevada City. This beautiful stone building was built” last year by the forest service and WPA in cooperation, and dedicated to the advancement of snow sports in the vicinity of Reno, and it is a shame that its beauty and usefulness should be marred by the actions of a probable very few irresponsible persons. Nelson reports that names have beenearved in the seats, grille work over the fire place broken, widows brok. ed in the wood. These acts of vandalism could be committted only by two classes of peoule in Nelson’s opinion, those who are at,heart unsocial and those who have not yet reached the mental age to feel a sense of responsibility for. their actions and their effect on the welfare of fellow-beings. Nelson urgés that the true lovers of snow sports cooperate in prevention of further damagé to this building so that it might be permanently enjoyed by them. Sane SCHREIBERS HOME FROM ABROAD __ Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schreiber ant two daughters, Ploise and Elinor, returned home Saturday from a months tour of Europe. They visi many countries and returned 1 in in,’ and even obscene words purn=

Thinking Out Loud H.-M. L. The three runaway narrow gauge cars which catapulted across Sacramento street yesterday were in the nature of a spectacular miracle. No one was hurt and property damage, other than that to the. cars, was probably less than $50. The cars ‘crossed the street and barely nosed into the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Day, smashing a window. Had these cars hit an automobile in the Sunday parade that usually makes Sacramento street a busy traffic artery, there would have been much to pay; damages for life and limb could have run into many thousands of dollars. Some years ago there was a sturdy bulkhead at the end of the track. Barl Taylor, president of the company stated that a new one will beo built immediately. It: is, of course, too early to add the Short murder to the unsolved crimes that have occurred in Nevada county during the past three years. The sheriff and .his deputies are working indefatiguably to track down the man or men who did this coldblooded, atrocious killing. We have always contended that when the sheriff finds himself balked he should immediately call to his assistance expert detective skill to aid in ferreting out the guilty. No one of any intelligence expects a sheriff, elected for every other reason, to function as a ‘trained sleuth. When he chooses to do so, however, he must bear the full responsibility for failure. The Badger Hill murder and the hit and run killing of a WPA worker just south of the city limits, some two years ago could probably have been solved and the killers brought to justice had detectives been employed in time. Whatever we may think privately of the character of Mr. Justice Black, we must grant that he is adroit, clever and intelligent. Some fifteen . years ago, as he admits, he joined the Ku Klux Klan. Evidence that has come to light since his appointment, indicates that he gave full credit for his election to the United States to this organization. But once elected he resigned the Klan membership and burned the Klan bridge behind him. With the same mental agility that characterized his joining the Klan with its night raiders, and Negro, Catholic and Jew haters, with election to the Senate he joined the New Deal and became one of its most vociferous supporters. That won him his place on the Supreme bench. In the course of;a year or two we shall know a great deal more about Mr. Justice. Black. Will he, or will he not, now that he is secure for life in a job that @ields him $20,000 a year, after crossing over on the New Deal bridge also burn this bridge behind him? The American Federation of Labor has definitely snubbed the Secretary of Labor Ma Perkins. It has refused to ask her to address its convention in Denver, thus radically smashing all precedents. Pinky Perkins really is a subject for pity rather than contempt. She was invited, in Shirt waist and petticoats to fill a job that a high-domed and.hairychested male would have found difficult to fill. She does her manful best, but when she fails as she does with’ monotonous regularity, she flies into a feminine tantrum with hysteries on the side. Politically and every other way she is a conspicious New i Deal flop. Her partisanship and outright support for the C. I. O.-sitdowners and communists, her refusal to permit the deportation of proved radical and criminal aliens, and her twittering trivialities in the face of major labor emergencies, have won her the ill will of all reputable labor organizations. Edward McGrady, Madame Perkins’ chief deputy, has quit. Hen-pecked, scolded and browbeaten by Secretary Perkins, who sought in every way'to rob him of credit for the really constructive work he had = accomplished, he has at length resigned. Whether another man Can bea found to serve. this petty tyrant in petticoats with anything approaching . the faithfulness and ability that McGrady revealed, “is extremely doubtful. On merit and accomplishment, McGrady long since should have been made Secretary of Labor, His resignation, wee suspect, will do more substantially to injure the New Deal that that of any other man since 1933. For McGrady had the respect of men of all parties,’ of employers and workers. He was a tower of strength. He,has now joined the New Deal discard where the less worthy Hugh Johnson, Moley, Richberg, Tugwell and Peake are gathered. sacross either street. The street was from about} ‘work crew made every effort ‘to stop Ne ada City Nu: COVERS RICHEST’GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA make ret } een : EEE . This newspaper tries to be herpful in all community enterprises that tend to to stimulate a healthful growth in business. Those who subscribe to, or adver= tise in the Nevada City Nugget join 3 it in this endeavor. this a better place to live, It seeks t The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center Vol. 11, No. 78.— Two Narrow Gatge self-dumping flat cars loaded with gravel for ballasting the track broke away from a worktrain yesterday morning: about 9 o’clock near the McDonald! crossing. Despite efforts of the train crew, the two cars gathered momentum and speeded down the grade to the Narrow Gauge depot. There they hit a box car standing near the end! of the line with brakes set, tossed one end up, and when it came down again shoved it diagonally across the Adams street, striking the cement’ wall of Lloyd Jenning’s front lawn, . thence across Sacramento where the box car leaped across the side walk and broke a window, in the Lee Day home and glighhtly fractured the outer wall. 2 Fortunately the runaways did -not hit an automobile as they plunged blocked for five hours, 9 o’clock until 2 p. m. while the city and railroad crews with many volunteers cleared away the wreck. The two gravel cars were first unloaded and then with a tractor, yanked back into the railroad yard. They, were badly wrecked. Earl Taylor, president of the railroad company, estimates the damage to the*three cars at approximately $250. The box car had lost one truck and set of wheels and ,jhad to be jacked up before it could be dragged by the tractor back to the ‘tracks in the depot yard. President Taylor states that the accident was caused by a break in a draw. gear, which is a part of the coupling mechanism. The train and the runaways on the down grade, by throwing ties in front of the cars and by setting the hand brakes, but as the cars gathered momentum one by one the crew jumped for safety. One man rode the runaways nearly to the depote, before he, too, leaped off. After the mail train was in, the track had been cleared in. order to give the work train and crew every opportunity to complete much needed ballasting on the line just below Town Talk in the vitinity of MecDonald’s_ crossing. The gravel had ‘been hauled from Bear river and arriveing at the erossing where it was to be dumped it was!found that the train had gone a car length too far. The signal was given the engin-. Runaway Gravel Cars Crash Across Streets eer to pull the train back and it was then that the draw gear broke. An inspection of the iron casting where the break occurred revealed small black spots in the broken casting, which could not possibly have been detected, ‘at the surface. The two gravel cars were purchased from another narrow gauge company some gix years ago. Formerly a bulk head stood near the corner of Adams _ street about where ‘the cement steps leading up to the sidewalk along the Jennings place are now' located. The tracks of the railroad reached across the street. Some years ago however the city covered up the tracks and paved Adams street. President Taylor states that his company will install another bulkhead in the railroad yards to guard against another such accident. Lee Day, who with his wife rent the lower apartment in the Weiss house, sat in a chair in the bay window and found it cold and went back into the kitchen. Before he sat down he heard the roar of the oncoming ears and felt the shock of the crash, for a moment thinking it was ‘an earthquake. Mrs. Day stepped from her bedroom into the living room, thinking truck had turned over from the noise, to see the car crash into the front of the bay window. Her first thought was for her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Browning, an expectant mother, who with her husband rent the upper flat. Mrs. Browning came down stairs thoroughly frightened to ask the cause of the disturbance. Her mother tried to calm her and as she stepped to the door she fainted in her mother’s arms, recovering she fainted again and a doctor was summoned to put her to bed and to sleep. : Mrs. Day said her son in law’s car was in front of the house when the derailed cars sped across the street and it was missed by only 18 inches. A piece of cement broken off the curbing by the impact flew up and bent the fender of the machine. James Ryan of Long street, returning from the post office was within a few feet of the cars as they raced across the street in front of him. He was alarmed for a young lady ahead of him who was in line of the cars as she came from around the Jennings turn. She must have barely escaped on the other side. BIG PETITION TO GAME BOARD TO DROP PROTEST By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE The. next regular meeting of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will be held in the Roseville City Hall on Saturday, October 9, at 2:30 p; m. Among the guests will be the Honorable Harry L. Englebright, the father of the hydraulic mining program. This is designated as Hydraulic Mining Day at the Roseville, Fair and Rodeo in honor of Congressman Harry L. Englebright and the California Hydraulic Mining Association. After the business meeting a sumptous banquet will be served at the Green Lantern Cafe with Judge Don Bass as host. There will be a charge of seventy five cents and the good judge has promised plenty of delicious food. : The California. Hydraulic Mining Association is widely known as the most powerful hydraulic mining or—— BIRTHDAYS! = Send a Greeting 92 to Your Friends. . October 11, 1937 LELAN PAULY Camptonville October 12, 1937 MARTHA HOSKIN Pine Street October 14, 1937 MRS. BESSIE PONTECELLI Main Street Happy Birthday _—~ ganization in the state. It has received information, this last week, that contracts were being let by the California Debris Commission for core drilling at the proposed sites of the Ruck-a-Chucky, North Fork on the American and the Upper Narrows of the Yuba river. The core drillings will supplement geological information secured by tunneling and trenching. Construction of the dams is to proceed by the use of the $1,500,000 now available from the $7,000,000 authorized and additional funds for work at the Upper Narrows is expected to be made available by the next session of congress. W. G. Allen of Smartville, and Director for that district, has issued a giant petition asking that the state game and fish commission withdraw. its protest to the construction of the dams on the Yuba river. Members of the California Hydraulic Mining Association are working throughout the northern section ‘of the state obtaining signatures and personal affidavits to assist in the withdrawal of the protest on the grounds that the sites of the proposed dam are at locations below trout fishing of any importa.e. While on the other hand, the reservoirs to be created by the dams would ultimately provide good bass fishing. FOREST LOOKOUTS The Tahoe National Forest has two and six tenths time per month off since the heavy rain. Saturday. and will be advisable to close them. since the rain Saturday. City have been retained. fo STILL ON DUTY given about half of their fire prevention and look out crews their However sufficient rain has not fal4+ jen to close the lookouts

tions. Mr. J. Rafferty stated it will take another heavy rain before it staThe crew of five men at the state camp at Shady Creek was laid off The full crew of eight men at the State Division of Forestry camp at Nevada CHINAMAN’S ORE DISCOVERY WILL BE EXPLORED A reference. made to ‘Long’s .Lease’’ which appeared in the Nugget October 1 should haye been the CC. Fisher lease, this Long lease having been cancelled some time ago. Louis C. Fisher has done considerable development work on_ the Robert Watson and the O. F. Bettcher properties, both of which he has under lease. An incline shaft has been sunk about thirty two: feet and a test run of thirty seven tons of ore has shown very satisfactory results. A ‘four inch pipe line, has been laid from the Willow Valley road across the Bettcher property to the shaft, a distance’ of about 850 feet. : Mr. Bettcher stated that while this property has never before been worked, it was originally discovered by a Chinaman over fifty years ago. While “placering”’ ‘on Deer Creek he followed a rich deposit of oxides and free gold and at a depth of about ten feet encountered a rich quartz ledge; knowing, however, that Chinese could not acquire quartz claims Ah Woo, with true Chinese eanniness proceeded to bury the ledge and remove all traces of his efforts after, ‘‘blazing’’ two cedar trees to mark the spot. These two trees with the ancient axe “blazes’ are still standing. than twenty five years Woo confided in his friend, Mr. Watson, and entreated him to get possession of the ground; Watson did buy several acres about twenty three years ago, but died shortly thereafter. His widow who still survives him leased the ground to Louis CG. Fisher after relating the Chinaman’s story to him and directing him to the place with the aid of a snap shot picture taken nearly twenty five years ago. Single handed Mr. Fisher proceeded to sink a prospect shaft and ata depth of about nine feet uncovered the ledge which assayed from $50 to $116 per ton. It is Mr. Fisher’s intention to erect a small mill on the property as soon as his working eapital will permit. Samples of the ore taken from the above property are now on display in the Nugget windows. LAGESON HURT IN SKIDDING CAR L. G. Lageson, county horticultural commissioner of Nevada County. suffered severe bruises and cuts to his head and face whena car he was riding in skidded on a turn at four o’clock Sunday morning on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway leading into Bear Valley. His guests, Mr. and Mrs. A. BE. Hodgkins of Los Angeles and owners of the City of Six mine at Downieville, arrived last week for a visit and it was decided the men would go fishing. Mr. Lageson sat in the back seat and as the car skidded in the soft earth from a rain the day before, he was thrown against the front seat and up against the top. As the car went over the bank it struck a tree and then on to strike another tree each time jarring him more roughly. Several stitches were taken by Dr. W. W. Reed to close the cuts about his head and this morning while it is felt he is some improved his face is badly bruised. An X-Ray will be taken today to determine the extent of the injuries. Mr. Lageson is at his home on Piety Hill and his many friends hope no ill effects will result from the accident, and he will soon be about. BUCK STEW SERVED PEACE OFFICERS MEET Congressman and Mrs. Harry Englnebright and Sheriff Carl Tobiassen attended the Northern California Peace Officers meeting at fahoe City last* week. Carl Betchtold was host to the gathering. A savory buck stew was served with Sheriff Gum of Placer county acting as chef. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schiffner and baby left Friday on a months mtor trip to Pittsburgh, Pa., where Mrs. Schiffner will visit relatives and her former home. Mr. Schiffner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schiffner After keeping his secret for more}! Mr.Crampton operated until recentge Slayer of Beaten to death with .a rough slate’ stone in the hand of parties still unknown, was the fate of Theodore T. Short, 65 years Old, retired, sometime Thursday night. A bit of the stone was found in the bed by Sheriff Carl T. Tobiassen and Deputy Bill Woods when they were called to examine the body shortly after six o'clock Friday evening when the body was discovered. Short lived in a cabin on Eureka street in Grass Valley. Friends had warned him against the practice of carrying several hundred dollars in currency about with him. It it believed he was done to: death to obtain the money, probably about $800, which he was known to have in his wallet on his person. The murderer accomplished his purpose by beating the old man about the head. His front teeth were broken where he had been slugged by the rock in the mouth. Death was caused by concussion of the brain or verebral hemorrhage. The funeral: ~ Murdered In — sin i pei po 2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937. Sheriff Searches For by Aged Man was held this afternoon with members of the family attending. Earl Short, son of the murdered man, who resides in Kendall Court, Grass Valley, was the last to see his father about 7 o’clock Thursday eve— ning. Neighbors reported that they heard a disturbance in the Short cabin shortly after 1:00. o’clock Friday morning. Dogs of the neoghborhood were aroused and began to~_ bark according to Mr. and Mrs. Sut— herland and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Alpers, near neighbors, who were arous— ed about that time in the morning. The sheriff yesterday reported that there was nothing as yet for publication regarding the intensive investigation and search which is be— ing made for the murderer or murderers guilty of this killing. Unfortunately scores of persons visited the scene of the tragedy.and viewed -Jays 94] V10Joq ‘URW pelepinum 9q} iff and his deputies arrived. It is believed that valuable clues may have been effaced on destroyed. MR. AND MRS. CRAMPTON PURCHASE HOUSE HERE Nevada City friends will welcome new residents in Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crampton-who purchased through a Veterans Loan the Chauncey Wade property at the end of Jordan street on Piety Hill. They brought their furniture from near Los Angeles by van and arrived at 1:30 Friday morning and were comfortably situ-. ated before the rain started. Mr. and Mrs. Crampton, who lost! a nice home and practically all of their belongings in the~ Glendale FOREST SERVICE TO BUILD GALENA CREEK SKI WAY Fifty additional men will be given employment at the Galena Creek camp according to a report received from DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of . the Tahoe National Forest, effective October 1. This does not indicate any general increase in the WPA program according to Nelson but .was flood about 2 years ago. have heen coming and going from the southern . city to the Remington Hill mine near . Steep Hollow east of this city which . ly, for the last seven years. Mrs. Crampton stated they could not seem to adapt themselves anywhere else. Her husband has named the new home “Sunken Gardens’’. Mr. and Mrs. Wade have made a show place of the property purchasing it several years ago and_ have added many modern conveniences to give a most charming and cosy home and erounds. Grape arbor, fish pond, rock Sardens, barbecue fire place, many shrubs, driveway and other features are found among the beautiful sur-; roundings. Mr. Crampton spent seven years art, some of which will adorn his new home. STATE OFFICIALS BAG SIX BUCKS A hunting party that spent a week near Hobart Mills returned Sunday with six fine bucks one of which had been killed almost in the city limits of Hobart Mills. In the party of eight were Russell B.: Farley, board of equalization agent in this district, Fred Stewart, board of equalization member, Ralph Marron, deputy attorney general, Attorney General U. S. Webb, Sheriff Carl *J. Tobiassen and Sheriff. Dewey Johnson of Sierra county. TO HONOR MRS. LEITER Evangeline Chapter O. E. S. of Navada City. will elect and appoint officers Tuesday night, October 5 in Masonic Sall. This is one of the first meetings since summer and a splendid program is being prepared. On October 12 a special meeting is being planned to honor Mrs. Elizabeth Leiter, Deputy Matron, O. EB. S. . Officers from eight chapters of district and visitors are expected to attend. AT LAST Frank Ghidotti, one Nevada of in the Cardinal market of Nevada City. Fy ‘ days. in China and enjoyed collecting many . rare and artistic pieces of Chinese: . City’s most ardent sportsmen, has been razzed considerably for missing several nice shots at bucks lately so Friday morning accompanied by Dick ‘Lane, he took his trustry rifle and brought in one of the finest bucks seen in Nevada City this season. The]; huntsmen placed the deer on display for several as a result of his pointing out to the Regional Forester at San Francisco the need for additional men to pursue the work program at Galena Creek and because other sections of the country were not able to use the full quota. The Forest Service expects to complete the ski course at Galena Creek in time for the winter. sports accord-_ ing’to Nelson. D. G. MacBean, Forest . Service engineer from Nevada City, recently made an inspection of the project in company with J. W. Craw~ ford and Joe Caffery R,eno Ski club members. Caffery, engineer for the Works Progress Administration, and Crawford, formerly state architect for the administration, made a survey of the hill last year and the jump was partially completed on the basis of that survey. Nelson states that it has been considered advisable to construct the jump on 4 slightly* Cad sos ; the finish ;changed angle so that . will not interfere with the ski hut. Vandalism has been responsible for considerable damage at the Gal‘ena Creek ski hut according to a re. port from DeWitt Nelson, Forest, su . pervisor at Nevada City. This beautiful stone building was built” last year by the forest service and WPA in cooperation, and dedicated to the advancement of snow sports in the vicinity of Reno, and it is a shame that its beauty and usefulness should be marred by the actions of a probable very few irresponsible persons. Nelson reports that names have beenearved in the seats, grille work over the fire place broken, widows brok. ed in the wood. These acts of vandalism could be committted only by two classes of peoule in Nelson’s opinion, those who are at,heart unsocial and those who have not yet reached the mental age to feel a sense of responsibility for. their actions and their effect on the welfare of fellow-beings. Nelson urgés that the true lovers of snow sports cooperate in prevention of further damagé to this building so that it might be permanently enjoyed by them. Sane SCHREIBERS HOME FROM ABROAD __ Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schreiber ant two daughters, Ploise and Elinor, returned home Saturday from a months tour of Europe. They visi many countries and returned 1 in in,’ and even obscene words purn=