September 14, 1936 (4 pages)

. ago in Los.Angeles and was thrown * vices for separating the simple mindJr ore building, into what are ordin=, a8 x “amusement’’ phrase is sheer camouf“through nammeae Thinking Out Loud COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA. evada City Nugget at city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. . . } . — — H. M. L. Currently a plausible stranger has appealed to the city council to per-. mit the establishment in the Nevada City Tavern of a new “skilled amusement’? game. The skill consists in} Pliishing a button in time to stop, on either the red ‘or the black an_electric roulette wheel. The ‘‘skilled lage. It is a gambling game which the state statutes expressly prohibIt was introduced a year or ,so out by the police under public pressure. The same thing happened .to it inmost of the beach resorts of Southern California. This game of “skill” has a malodorous reputation in the ‘‘Southlande’ It is not’ proposed to discuss this matter of gambling from a high moral standpoint;: or to weigh very carefully the glib plea for this ‘“‘innocent’’ game, in which all the merchants will benefit, due to the fact all. winnings are payable in tokens, only redeemable in merchandise over the counters of our local merchants. This generous offer, of course, is only for the purpose of making the reputable business men of this community partners in a purely gambling enterprise. Nor will we discuss the farther offer of the applicant of a handsome license fee to the city, which would also place the city government in partnership in an illegal enterprise. What we wish to comment on is the specious argument that such enterprises, roulette wheels, poker games, shell and pea games, monte, black jack and a host of other deed and their money, bring ity to the community’ which tolerates them.—tIt undoubtedly true that boss gamblers are a medium which flow large sums They: are only a medium, for the reason that only rarel does any gambler keep any considerable sum that he wins, or, if you prefer “earns,’’ and_ settles down to become a solid, substantial taxpaying citizen. He flits in out, hither-end-yon,-ever looking for greener pastures. But as a medium for receiving and disbursimg money he diverts large sums of money from the ordinary bread and butter channels, clothes, furniture, food and prosperof money. however, and arily known as vice channels. That is to say, by his various activities he attracts a following of the ragtag and ‘bobtail, the ner’er-do-wells, the shiftless ,the pan. handlers, and undesirables generally. Any prosjerity a community may base on a class of this kind is more apparent than real. The reason it is more apparent than real, is because of the long term of years that lapses between cause and effect. For aside from your ordinary gambling habitues, who may be any age,. cursed for all time by the gambling fever, the appeal of gambling is mainly to youth. Between youth and old age is a long interval which tax payers generally lose sight of. It has been our observation that very few men look ahead more than five years. ° The greater proportion see no further than one year. Between the interval of a wasted youth and the county poor farm, is too long a time for most tax payers, who must support the county poor farm, to take into account, Now by youth we don’t mean necessarily minors, though law or no law, minors’ will gamble if ‘their elders do. We mean rather the young men who are earning their first dolVol. 10, No. 87. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, aS : 1936 Trial of Two ‘Contrary to the general Eee tion the court room today was not overcrowded when the case of the People vs. Monte and Merritt Newman was called for trial this morning by Judge Raglan Tuttle. Appearing for the people were District Attorney Vernon Stoll and Attorney John Larue. The defendants were represented by ‘Attorneys E. H. Armstrong and W. J. Cassetari. The first division of the 100 persons drawn on the jury venire appeared in ‘court today. Many failed to qualify but at three o’clock this afternoon the following twelve had been provisionally accepted. Charles Genasci, Adam C. Hunsinger, Jos. A. LeDuc, Hilda Sandow, Mrs. Thelma Jackson, John Zunoni, Colonel A. Rowe, Nellie Kitts, Geo. Gildersleeve, Mrs. Maud Bone, Eugene Girou, and Percy Gribble. These twelve are subject to 50 preremptory challenges of which the defense has twenty, the prosecution twenty and the two defendants five each. Monte and Merritt Newman accused of the murder of Chritian Myer on the morning of January 16, did not appear unduly concerned during the questioning of prospectBrothers, Accused of Myer Murder, Opens wife of Monte Newman were present in the court. Newman ive jurymen, Their mother and the From the questioning of groaned jurors by District Attorney Stoll it was apparent that, provided the evidence warrants it, he will ask for a verdict of murder in, the first degree, which carries the death penalty or life -improsinment, depending upon the recommendation of the jury. The district attorney explained that the California law makes no distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence, and that the California law also makes no distinction between those who commit a crime and those who are accessories. With this preface he asked all prospective jurors if they were prepudiced against capital punishment, and if.they were willing to regard direct and cirmustantial evidence as equal value in coming to a conclusion regarding the guilt or innocence of the defendants. The twelve jurors yrosisionally accepted at three o’clock this afternoon may all be dismissed through the exercise of peremptory challenges on the part of the defense or the prosecution. ROBERT HATHAWAY, 56 SUCCUMBS TODAY Zobert Hathaway, 56, prominent Nevada County millwright and forthat city. He returned three years ago. He was a millwright and supervised the iconstruction of the head frames of the Idaho-Maryland, Fimway. Funeral services are being arranged by the W.R. Jefford and Son Funeral Chapel of, Grass Valley. . BEN SWEENEY TO ENTER : SAN_JOSE STATE COLLEGE Ben Sweeney, employed during the last year by the U. S. Forest Service in this city, will leave Wednesday to enroll in the English department of San Jose State College. A graduate of Nevada City high school, Class of 1934, Ben matriculated at the College of the Pacific as a freshman after which he returned to this city. He also has been employed by the Nevada City Nugget as lars by the sweat of their brow. A certain percentage, a larger percentage than many would guess, fall for! gambling. And when old age comes, like the proverbial grass hopper, they -have nothing saved, and the tax. payers must support them. In Nevada county, for instance, next to;~ the schools and roads, old age pensions are the largest item of county expense Why this load on the tax payers? -Largely because our happy-go-lucky -forefathers permitted, or ecquiesced which ‘tended to destroy the character, the” citizenship qualities, if you please, of the city’s youth a generation ago. We pay the bill today. This in, community conditions good pill under the spur of the nationa f larger. of the indigent on their backs. Of course gambling is only one of _ many contributing causes to old ag tgovernment is feonstantly. growing The sober and industrious citizens are carrying more and more high school reporter during the past year Gooa wisnes of his many friends go with Ben. He was very active in the younger set in this city. Mrs. Charles Genasci and. daughtoga. one thing, namely, wasted 1 proposal ito increase county taxes Instead of that, the prudent thrifty must carry the load ‘in thei e} tax bills. ters, Misses Faye and Josephone Genasci, returned Saturday night from ia weeks’ vacation spent in Stockton, San Francisco and Calisindigency. But they all périain. to youth, This proposal, therefore, to introduce in Nevada City an illegal gambling game, aside from any megral consideration of any kind. is just another If the gambling industry were taxed . to support the human wreckage it creates, there would be no gambling. and LAST RITES FOR LATE MRS. EVALINE WILLIAMS Funeral services ieee tor the late Wes. Nellie Evaline Williams were held Quaker Hill section where she attended the schools. Later the family moved to Nevada City. Mrs. Williams Grass Valley. Deceased was a member of Evangeline Chapter, O. E. S. AUNT OF NEVADA CITY MAN IS 100 YEARS OLD J. F. Dolan of Nevada City was surprised last week to note the following facts in a San Francisco paper of September 10, ahout his aunt. In Ripley’s . Believe. It Or Not carof life dedicated to service. It is Sister Genevieve and Ripley claims she has been a Sister of Charity for 75 years. It was verified by her nephew Officer Arthur Dolan of San Francisco police department. Sister Genevieve and family arrived in San Franciseo on a sailing ship in 1850. The men went to the gold mines and the women opened a miners boarding house. But Aunt Genevieve and sister, Aunt Regina, later took the vows of Charity of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul when they were 20 and 18 years of age respectively. Sister Gennevieve was sent at once to Birmingham, Ala., where she has served as a Sister of Mercy ever since. She is almost 100 years old and still active. Sister Regina died in 1903 aged 91, at the de Paul Retreat House in ‘New Orleans. nephews respectively. Mrs. William Walther and George Dolan a municipal railway employee of San Francisco are also niece and SWIMMING POOL CLOSES TUESDAY The swimming pool in Pioneers park will be closed tomorrow for this season. This was decided upon yesterday by the Nevada City Park Commission following a conference with the life guard, Verle Gray and his report that, owing to the: cold weather and colder water very few, sometimes not more than twenty, patronized the baths during the day. The commission ordered bills amounting to $105 paid, and will retain Gray for a few days everything in order for the winter about the pool, Seaman’s Lodge. THREE BRONZE to put change rooms and PLACQUES READY FOR DEDICATION On October 18 the Grand Officer of N.S. 'G. W., N.-D. G. W. and the Landmarks Committee of the Grand Parlor, N. S. G. W., will dedicate three bronze placques marking the routes of Pioneer trails, and also a tribute to a valiant Nevada county officer who died ‘performing his duty. The trails were traveled by the gold rush and home seekers to this virgin territory as they traveled the weary distances and crossed the land of gold and a promised paradise. On ;two of the placques marking these pioneer trails the insicriptions will read as follows: Pioneer Emigrant Trails Valley of the Sacramento. Tablets placed by dians before the advent of erns now do under tion. has not been completed. Members of Hydraulic Parlor’s actual work of building. Sunday by Bob Tusker Arbogast. NEVADA COUNTY W.H. Griffith, Nevada County again wins His report follows: Placer gold—tfirst. Lode gold specimens—tfirst. Gold bearing gravels—second. Silver and silver ores—third. Apples from the Loma Rica, vada County, received. awards follows: mining men of Washington, r Frank Phelps and Irving Fowler, were Nevada City visitors over the week] second prize. —s He Promised a Reduction more than 50 bureaus in the opera. end. . :tion of the government. the great mountains to the east to reach A branch of the Pioneer Emigrant Trail, leading from Truckee Pass to down through this gap and on to the Landmarks white men took sun baths lying on its hot surface to cure ills much as we mod-= scientific direcThe tribute to Sheriff Dave Doug-— lass is not yet ast as the financing local committee are doing much of.the Cement foundations for the granité pedestal to hold the bronze in the gap west of Sugar Loaf mountain were laid and Carey COLD WINS FIRST PRIZE AT FATR secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and incharge of the Nevada County exhibit at the State Fair reports that first place with its gold-exhibits and also receives some first prizes in fruit. President Roosevelt has added Story of Meeting With Brigham Young Told by California Pioneer mer Sacramento contractor, died. this afternoon at two o’clock in the. the gold mines of Nevada County} bers of*the Methodist church in those this morning’ in Jones Memorial Holmes Funeral Home chapel with; and to the Valley of the Sacramen--. days. In 1892 they were united in hospital in Grass Valley following the Rev. H. H. Buckner officiating. to divided on Harmony Ridge near; marriage, and for 14 years the hapan emergency abdominal operation. Interment was in-the new I. us O. F. the site of Lone Grave. One route} py union has eontinued. Mr. Hathaway, who was to have cemetery. circled the north horizon to Blue Surviving Mrs. Hall are a_ 59H, charge of the construction of the The deceased, 67 years of age,. Tent, down to Selby Flat, up through! Robert Robins Hall of San Frannew Methodist church in Grass Valpassed away at her home on Boulder . this gap and on south. cisco and a daughter, Mrs. Verna ley to replace sthe one destroyed by street Friday evening at eight Tablets placed by landmarks com-. L. Richards of Berkeley. Also surfire recently, was one of the best o'clock after a week of Severe ill-. mittee, Native Sons of the Golden! viving are a niece, Mrs. Clara known. residents of Grass Valley. ness, which followed a prolonged} West. George of Grass Valley and two nepHe was a native of Nevada City period of a health. : A branch of the Pioneer Emi-. hews Alfred Reynolds of Nevada but thirteen years ago left for Sac-. . Mrs. Williams was born in Iowa} grant Trail, leading from Truckee} City and Tom _ Reynolds of Sacraramento to follow contracting in in 1869. When an infant she camé} Pass to the gold mines of Nevada] mento. to this section and lived in the. County traversed Harmony Ridge, During ‘the earlier years of her pire, Old Brunswick and other !mnad # large circle of friends in this} Committee Native Sons of the Gold-. sang with her brother, the late John portant mines in the Grass Valley ote bach aia aah vase loss. Sut} en est. Robins, a noted tenor of his day. aka and the’ Kenton. mine atAlviving her are: her husband, oad The third piece of bronze to mark Throughout her life Mrs. Hall leghany. les Williams, ye sons, Luther. a trail will do double duty. It is al-. took an active interest in civic afa cee. his wife, a daughter Marsh of this city and Carl Marsh. yeady cast and in the hands of L. fairs and the. welfare of the city me real ie eee ae . ie ied eal ee Pave eee of this city, who. she loved so well. At the time of her ried; his mother, Mrs. E. 8S, Hathaate vee ae Carl ui helo e will.set in the large curved boulder . death she was treasurer of the Woway; and a sister, Miss Jessie Hathaele ke. ane ‘Mrs Jack Tawnseta ces s one ee ee ee oes ee cai ; Mica pie? / ‘ rey on East Broad street, where In-. been a very active member and her Neas King David—tirst prize, Delicious MRS. BENJAMIN DEATH SUMMONS Funeral services for the late Mrs. Jennie Hall, min Hall were held this morning at 10:30 at the Holmes Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Washburn oificiating. A —-very-large number of friends came to pay their tribute of honor. ers pieces were mute token of affection for Mrs. been a beloved character in Nevada City and Nevada county and took an alctive party and church affairs. Mrs. Hall had been in poor health for a four weeks had been Her passing was on Saturday at her home on Pine street shortly after noon. band, Mapor Cornwall, 187 her months Gold Flat. lived eity. min life, and was a member choir for many years. earnest every ber leaves a vacancy that cannot be filled. In her quiet gentle way she was a very real help in all those measures that were for the betterment of community. Her sweet welcome to new-memibers will always be rememrbered by them. all her life and was a member of the Ladies Aid Society and St: Agnes Guild of the Episcopal church. been a member and officer of Evangeline Chapter, Eastern Star of this city. At the time of her death she was treasurer of the chapter. ed the funeral services and Evangeline Chapter of Eastern Star conducted the ritualistic service of the order. Interment was at Pine Grove cemetery. Messrs. inson, ards, Calanan. GRAMMER SCHOOL SHOWS HALL ANSWERS wife of Mayor BenjaA great profusion of flowHall. 7s For many years Mrs. Hall has in community, club long time and for the past gravely ill. At her bedside was her husHall. Hall was born in Redruth, England on November 28, 2. She came to this country, with parents when she was but thrée old. Her family settled in some ten years they into this Mrs. For there, later moving was here that she met BenjaHall, both being devout memIt deceased was noted as a singer of the church She often qoo}feration was given to club. project. Mrs. Hall was Ioved by vers memof the club and her passing She was active in church work For, many years Mrs. Hall had Rev. Charles Washburn conductThe pall bearers were Stenger, Garfield RobTom Richand George Joe Charles Ninnis, Alvin Richards "INCREASED ENROLLMENT Principal Walter Carlson of the Washington grammar school reports 399 pupils enrolled this morning, which is 33 more than on the entering date last-year. stated. he last spring. ed the attendance . has Mr. Carlson believed there are many more pupils who -will enter school within the next few days. Forty nine children graduated from the school The principal also statincreased every year since he has been teachThe following story written by the late Henry Homes Bigelow, father of R. L. P. Bigelow . who played a prominent part in the development of California in 1860-80 is of unusual interest since it throws another beam of light across the now romantic, but that time (1868) high realistic, competition between the Central and the Union Pacific Railroads for the huge transportation empire of the Pacific Coast, the Rocky Moun-tain states, and the Salt Lake} Basin. Incidentally the author’s acquaintance and friendship fwith such men as_ Senator Leland Stanford, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and other . figures of the time, are of mut h. historical value. The late Mr. Bigelow’s meeting with Brigham Young, president of the Mormon church and director of that great dependent prindpality which the Mormons had established in the heart of the primitive west, and which Young ruled with all the absolutism of a dictator, deserves.a paragraph in any modern historical commentary of that epoch. The article printed here for the first time, by the courtesy of the late author’s son, R. L. P. Bigelow, follows: It was in August 1868; as General. Agent of the Pacific Insurance Company I made the overland trip to Salt Lake and Denver. The Central Pacific railroad was completed to Minnemucca, Nevada, and the Union Pacific was opened to the Bad Lands at Rollins in Wyoming. I had to fill the gap by stage. I was fully supplied with a Henry rifle, a fishing rod that cost me $50.00, blankets and with letters from General Hallack. The; Bank of California, Sam Brarman and divers other notables of San Francisco, Army Posts, Banks and Churchmen of Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana; and I felt that I was going to have a good time and plenty of adventure, and I found lots of both before I got back from my _ three month’s trip in the Rockies and beyond. ee The Central Pacific was rushing its line across the desert and the Union Pacific had jumped the gap between Rollins Springs and Great Salt Lake, and was grading from Arer Canyon west, seeking to gobble Utah trade by premption or pre-occupation of right of way. At*Winnemucca I took the box seat. beside the driver early in the summer morning and began amy one thousand mile ride across alkali, up the Humboldt River, dark and stinking in its sluggish flow through white wastes of salt and sand to its sink in Humboldt Lake, a most desolate Godforsaken region as eye ever beheld. We passed camps of railroad work-ers largely Chinese, met Strawbridge, that giant grader and railroad rusher who built the Central from start to finish, had a few Indian scares beyond Humboldt Springs and finally one evening passed the lower end of the Great Salt — Lake across big windrows of dead — grass hoppers washed up from its briny waters. We rolled into Salt Lake City tired, dusty and ready to rest at the Mormon Tavern. At t Townsend House, I found Governor. Bagler and Governor Stanford se ed on the piazza, who gave me. hearty welcome as somebody God’scountry, California. The next day after visiting Walker Brothers to whom I was signed, Fred Walker went wit to call on the ‘President, Boe Young at the Lion House. ; walked up Temple street age double line 6f sycamore trees sparkling niver of cold ‘mow water rushing down each side street, with white cottages out of a mass of green follé around, I thought it ‘was tl beautiful city I had eve: I had seen many even then. péd at the foundation o ing in the local school.

. ago in Los.Angeles and was thrown * vices for separating the simple mindJr ore building, into what are ordin=, a8 x “amusement’’ phrase is sheer camouf“through nammeae Thinking Out Loud COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA. evada City Nugget at city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. . . } . — — H. M. L. Currently a plausible stranger has appealed to the city council to per-. mit the establishment in the Nevada City Tavern of a new “skilled amusement’? game. The skill consists in} Pliishing a button in time to stop, on either the red ‘or the black an_electric roulette wheel. The ‘‘skilled lage. It is a gambling game which the state statutes expressly prohibIt was introduced a year or ,so out by the police under public pressure. The same thing happened .to it inmost of the beach resorts of Southern California. This game of “skill” has a malodorous reputation in the ‘‘Southlande’ It is not’ proposed to discuss this matter of gambling from a high moral standpoint;: or to weigh very carefully the glib plea for this ‘“‘innocent’’ game, in which all the merchants will benefit, due to the fact all. winnings are payable in tokens, only redeemable in merchandise over the counters of our local merchants. This generous offer, of course, is only for the purpose of making the reputable business men of this community partners in a purely gambling enterprise. Nor will we discuss the farther offer of the applicant of a handsome license fee to the city, which would also place the city government in partnership in an illegal enterprise. What we wish to comment on is the specious argument that such enterprises, roulette wheels, poker games, shell and pea games, monte, black jack and a host of other deed and their money, bring ity to the community’ which tolerates them.—tIt undoubtedly true that boss gamblers are a medium which flow large sums They: are only a medium, for the reason that only rarel does any gambler keep any considerable sum that he wins, or, if you prefer “earns,’’ and_ settles down to become a solid, substantial taxpaying citizen. He flits in out, hither-end-yon,-ever looking for greener pastures. But as a medium for receiving and disbursimg money he diverts large sums of money from the ordinary bread and butter channels, clothes, furniture, food and prosperof money. however, and arily known as vice channels. That is to say, by his various activities he attracts a following of the ragtag and ‘bobtail, the ner’er-do-wells, the shiftless ,the pan. handlers, and undesirables generally. Any prosjerity a community may base on a class of this kind is more apparent than real. The reason it is more apparent than real, is because of the long term of years that lapses between cause and effect. For aside from your ordinary gambling habitues, who may be any age,. cursed for all time by the gambling fever, the appeal of gambling is mainly to youth. Between youth and old age is a long interval which tax payers generally lose sight of. It has been our observation that very few men look ahead more than five years. ° The greater proportion see no further than one year. Between the interval of a wasted youth and the county poor farm, is too long a time for most tax payers, who must support the county poor farm, to take into account, Now by youth we don’t mean necessarily minors, though law or no law, minors’ will gamble if ‘their elders do. We mean rather the young men who are earning their first dolVol. 10, No. 87. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, aS : 1936 Trial of Two ‘Contrary to the general Eee tion the court room today was not overcrowded when the case of the People vs. Monte and Merritt Newman was called for trial this morning by Judge Raglan Tuttle. Appearing for the people were District Attorney Vernon Stoll and Attorney John Larue. The defendants were represented by ‘Attorneys E. H. Armstrong and W. J. Cassetari. The first division of the 100 persons drawn on the jury venire appeared in ‘court today. Many failed to qualify but at three o’clock this afternoon the following twelve had been provisionally accepted. Charles Genasci, Adam C. Hunsinger, Jos. A. LeDuc, Hilda Sandow, Mrs. Thelma Jackson, John Zunoni, Colonel A. Rowe, Nellie Kitts, Geo. Gildersleeve, Mrs. Maud Bone, Eugene Girou, and Percy Gribble. These twelve are subject to 50 preremptory challenges of which the defense has twenty, the prosecution twenty and the two defendants five each. Monte and Merritt Newman accused of the murder of Chritian Myer on the morning of January 16, did not appear unduly concerned during the questioning of prospectBrothers, Accused of Myer Murder, Opens wife of Monte Newman were present in the court. Newman ive jurymen, Their mother and the From the questioning of groaned jurors by District Attorney Stoll it was apparent that, provided the evidence warrants it, he will ask for a verdict of murder in, the first degree, which carries the death penalty or life -improsinment, depending upon the recommendation of the jury. The district attorney explained that the California law makes no distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence, and that the California law also makes no distinction between those who commit a crime and those who are accessories. With this preface he asked all prospective jurors if they were prepudiced against capital punishment, and if.they were willing to regard direct and cirmustantial evidence as equal value in coming to a conclusion regarding the guilt or innocence of the defendants. The twelve jurors yrosisionally accepted at three o’clock this afternoon may all be dismissed through the exercise of peremptory challenges on the part of the defense or the prosecution. ROBERT HATHAWAY, 56 SUCCUMBS TODAY Zobert Hathaway, 56, prominent Nevada County millwright and forthat city. He returned three years ago. He was a millwright and supervised the iconstruction of the head frames of the Idaho-Maryland, Fimway. Funeral services are being arranged by the W.R. Jefford and Son Funeral Chapel of, Grass Valley. . BEN SWEENEY TO ENTER : SAN_JOSE STATE COLLEGE Ben Sweeney, employed during the last year by the U. S. Forest Service in this city, will leave Wednesday to enroll in the English department of San Jose State College. A graduate of Nevada City high school, Class of 1934, Ben matriculated at the College of the Pacific as a freshman after which he returned to this city. He also has been employed by the Nevada City Nugget as lars by the sweat of their brow. A certain percentage, a larger percentage than many would guess, fall for! gambling. And when old age comes, like the proverbial grass hopper, they -have nothing saved, and the tax. payers must support them. In Nevada county, for instance, next to;~ the schools and roads, old age pensions are the largest item of county expense Why this load on the tax payers? -Largely because our happy-go-lucky -forefathers permitted, or ecquiesced which ‘tended to destroy the character, the” citizenship qualities, if you please, of the city’s youth a generation ago. We pay the bill today. This in, community conditions good pill under the spur of the nationa f larger. of the indigent on their backs. Of course gambling is only one of _ many contributing causes to old ag tgovernment is feonstantly. growing The sober and industrious citizens are carrying more and more high school reporter during the past year Gooa wisnes of his many friends go with Ben. He was very active in the younger set in this city. Mrs. Charles Genasci and. daughtoga. one thing, namely, wasted 1 proposal ito increase county taxes Instead of that, the prudent thrifty must carry the load ‘in thei e} tax bills. ters, Misses Faye and Josephone Genasci, returned Saturday night from ia weeks’ vacation spent in Stockton, San Francisco and Calisindigency. But they all périain. to youth, This proposal, therefore, to introduce in Nevada City an illegal gambling game, aside from any megral consideration of any kind. is just another If the gambling industry were taxed . to support the human wreckage it creates, there would be no gambling. and LAST RITES FOR LATE MRS. EVALINE WILLIAMS Funeral services ieee tor the late Wes. Nellie Evaline Williams were held Quaker Hill section where she attended the schools. Later the family moved to Nevada City. Mrs. Williams Grass Valley. Deceased was a member of Evangeline Chapter, O. E. S. AUNT OF NEVADA CITY MAN IS 100 YEARS OLD J. F. Dolan of Nevada City was surprised last week to note the following facts in a San Francisco paper of September 10, ahout his aunt. In Ripley’s . Believe. It Or Not carof life dedicated to service. It is Sister Genevieve and Ripley claims she has been a Sister of Charity for 75 years. It was verified by her nephew Officer Arthur Dolan of San Francisco police department. Sister Genevieve and family arrived in San Franciseo on a sailing ship in 1850. The men went to the gold mines and the women opened a miners boarding house. But Aunt Genevieve and sister, Aunt Regina, later took the vows of Charity of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul when they were 20 and 18 years of age respectively. Sister Gennevieve was sent at once to Birmingham, Ala., where she has served as a Sister of Mercy ever since. She is almost 100 years old and still active. Sister Regina died in 1903 aged 91, at the de Paul Retreat House in ‘New Orleans. nephews respectively. Mrs. William Walther and George Dolan a municipal railway employee of San Francisco are also niece and SWIMMING POOL CLOSES TUESDAY The swimming pool in Pioneers park will be closed tomorrow for this season. This was decided upon yesterday by the Nevada City Park Commission following a conference with the life guard, Verle Gray and his report that, owing to the: cold weather and colder water very few, sometimes not more than twenty, patronized the baths during the day. The commission ordered bills amounting to $105 paid, and will retain Gray for a few days everything in order for the winter about the pool, Seaman’s Lodge. THREE BRONZE to put change rooms and PLACQUES READY FOR DEDICATION On October 18 the Grand Officer of N.S. 'G. W., N.-D. G. W. and the Landmarks Committee of the Grand Parlor, N. S. G. W., will dedicate three bronze placques marking the routes of Pioneer trails, and also a tribute to a valiant Nevada county

officer who died ‘performing his duty. The trails were traveled by the gold rush and home seekers to this virgin territory as they traveled the weary distances and crossed the land of gold and a promised paradise. On ;two of the placques marking these pioneer trails the insicriptions will read as follows: Pioneer Emigrant Trails Valley of the Sacramento. Tablets placed by dians before the advent of erns now do under tion. has not been completed. Members of Hydraulic Parlor’s actual work of building. Sunday by Bob Tusker Arbogast. NEVADA COUNTY W.H. Griffith, Nevada County again wins His report follows: Placer gold—tfirst. Lode gold specimens—tfirst. Gold bearing gravels—second. Silver and silver ores—third. Apples from the Loma Rica, vada County, received. awards follows: mining men of Washington, r Frank Phelps and Irving Fowler, were Nevada City visitors over the week] second prize. —s He Promised a Reduction more than 50 bureaus in the opera. end. . :tion of the government. the great mountains to the east to reach A branch of the Pioneer Emigrant Trail, leading from Truckee Pass to down through this gap and on to the Landmarks white men took sun baths lying on its hot surface to cure ills much as we mod-= scientific direcThe tribute to Sheriff Dave Doug-— lass is not yet ast as the financing local committee are doing much of.the Cement foundations for the granité pedestal to hold the bronze in the gap west of Sugar Loaf mountain were laid and Carey COLD WINS FIRST PRIZE AT FATR secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and incharge of the Nevada County exhibit at the State Fair reports that first place with its gold-exhibits and also receives some first prizes in fruit. President Roosevelt has added Story of Meeting With Brigham Young Told by California Pioneer mer Sacramento contractor, died. this afternoon at two o’clock in the. the gold mines of Nevada County} bers of*the Methodist church in those this morning’ in Jones Memorial Holmes Funeral Home chapel with; and to the Valley of the Sacramen--. days. In 1892 they were united in hospital in Grass Valley following the Rev. H. H. Buckner officiating. to divided on Harmony Ridge near; marriage, and for 14 years the hapan emergency abdominal operation. Interment was in-the new I. us O. F. the site of Lone Grave. One route} py union has eontinued. Mr. Hathaway, who was to have cemetery. circled the north horizon to Blue Surviving Mrs. Hall are a_ 59H, charge of the construction of the The deceased, 67 years of age,. Tent, down to Selby Flat, up through! Robert Robins Hall of San Frannew Methodist church in Grass Valpassed away at her home on Boulder . this gap and on south. cisco and a daughter, Mrs.. Verna ley to replace sthe one destroyed by street Friday evening at eight Tablets placed by landmarks com-. L. Richards of Berkeley. Also surfire recently, was one of the best o'clock after a week of Severe ill-. mittee, Native Sons of the Golden! viving are a niece, Mrs. Clara known. residents of Grass Valley. ness, which followed a prolonged} West. George of Grass Valley and two nepHe was a native of Nevada City period of a health. : A branch of the Pioneer Emi-. hews Alfred Reynolds of Nevada but thirteen years ago left for Sac-. . Mrs. Williams was born in Iowa} grant Trail, leading from Truckee} City and Tom _ Reynolds of Sacraramento to follow contracting in in 1869. When an infant she camé} Pass to the gold mines of Nevada] mento. to this section and lived in the. County traversed Harmony Ridge, During ‘the earlier years of her pire, Old Brunswick and other !mnad # large circle of friends in this} Committee Native Sons of the Gold-. sang with her brother, the late John portant mines in the Grass Valley ote bach aia aah vase loss. Sut} en est. Robins, a noted tenor of his day. aka and the’ Kenton. mine atAlviving her are: her husband, oad The third piece of bronze to mark Throughout her life Mrs. Hall leghany. les Williams, ye sons, Luther. a trail will do double duty. It is al-. took an active interest in civic afa cee. his wife, a daughter Marsh of this city and Carl Marsh. yeady cast and in the hands of L. fairs and the. welfare of the city me real ie eee ae . ie ied eal ee Pave eee of this city, who. she loved so well. At the time of her ried; his mother, Mrs. E. 8S, Hathaate vee ae Carl ui helo e will.set in the large curved boulder . death she was treasurer of the Woway; and a sister, Miss Jessie Hathaele ke. ane ‘Mrs Jack Tawnseta ces s one ee ee ee oes ee cai ; Mica pie? / ‘ rey on East Broad street, where In-. been a very active member and her Neas King David—tirst prize, Delicious MRS. BENJAMIN DEATH SUMMONS Funeral services for the late Mrs. Jennie Hall, min Hall were held this morning at 10:30 at the Holmes Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Washburn oificiating. A —-very-large number of friends came to pay their tribute of honor. ers pieces were mute token of affection for Mrs. been a beloved character in Nevada City and Nevada county and took an alctive party and church affairs. Mrs. Hall had been in poor health for a four weeks had been Her passing was on Saturday at her home on Pine street shortly after noon. band, Mapor Cornwall, 187 her months Gold Flat. lived eity. min life, and was a member choir for many years. earnest every ber leaves a vacancy that cannot be filled. In her quiet gentle way she was a very real help in all those measures that were for the betterment of community. Her sweet welcome to new-memibers will always be rememrbered by them. all her life and was a member of the Ladies Aid Society and St: Agnes Guild of the Episcopal church. been a member and officer of Evangeline Chapter, Eastern Star of this city. At the time of her death she was treasurer of the chapter. ed the funeral services and Evangeline Chapter of Eastern Star conducted the ritualistic service of the order. Interment was at Pine Grove cemetery. Messrs. inson, ards, Calanan. GRAMMER SCHOOL SHOWS HALL ANSWERS wife of Mayor BenjaA great profusion of flowHall. 7s For many years Mrs. Hall has in community, club long time and for the past gravely ill. At her bedside was her husHall. Hall was born in Redruth, England on November 28, 2. She came to this country, with parents when she was but thrée old. Her family settled in some ten years they into this Mrs. For there, later moving was here that she met BenjaHall, both being devout memIt deceased was noted as a singer of the church She often qoo}feration was given to club. project. Mrs. Hall was Ioved by vers memof the club and her passing She was active in church work For, many years Mrs. Hall had Rev. Charles Washburn conductThe pall bearers were Stenger, Garfield RobTom Richand George Joe Charles Ninnis, Alvin Richards "INCREASED ENROLLMENT Principal Walter Carlson of the Washington grammar school reports 399 pupils enrolled this morning, which is 33 more than on the entering date last-year. stated. he last spring. ed the attendance . has Mr. Carlson believed there are many more pupils who -will enter school within the next few days. Forty nine children graduated from the school The principal also statincreased every year since he has been teachThe following story written by the late Henry Homes Bigelow, father of R. L. P. Bigelow . who played a prominent part in the development of California in 1860-80 is of unusual interest since it throws another beam of light across the now romantic, but that time (1868) high realistic, competition between the Central and the Union Pacific Railroads for the huge transportation empire of the Pacific Coast, the Rocky Moun-tain states, and the Salt Lake} Basin. Incidentally the author’s acquaintance and friendship fwith such men as_ Senator Leland Stanford, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and other . figures of the time, are of mut h. historical value. The late Mr. Bigelow’s meeting with Brigham Young, president of the Mormon church and director of that great dependent prindpality which the Mormons had established in the heart of the primitive west, and which Young ruled with all the absolutism of a dictator, deserves.a paragraph in any modern historical commentary of that epoch. The article printed here for the first time, by the courtesy of the late author’s son, R. L. P. Bigelow, follows: It was in August 1868; as General. Agent of the Pacific Insurance Company I made the overland trip to Salt Lake and Denver. The Central Pacific railroad was completed to Minnemucca, Nevada, and the Union Pacific was opened to the Bad Lands at Rollins in Wyoming. I had to fill the gap by stage. I was fully supplied with a Henry rifle, a fishing rod that cost me $50.00, blankets and with letters from General Hallack. The; Bank of California, Sam Brarman and divers other notables of San Francisco, Army Posts, Banks and Churchmen of Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana; and I felt that I was going to have a good time and plenty of adventure, and I found lots of both before I got back from my _ three month’s trip in the Rockies and beyond. ee The Central Pacific was rushing its line across the desert and the Union Pacific had jumped the gap between Rollins Springs and Great Salt Lake, and was grading from Arer Canyon west, seeking to gobble Utah trade by premption or pre-occupation of right of way. At*Winnemucca I took the box seat. beside the driver early in the summer morning and began amy one thousand mile ride across alkali, up the Humboldt River, dark and stinking in its sluggish flow through white wastes of salt and sand to its sink in Humboldt Lake, a most desolate Godforsaken region as eye ever beheld. We passed camps of railroad work-ers largely Chinese, met Strawbridge, that giant grader and railroad rusher who built the Central from start to finish, had a few Indian scares beyond Humboldt Springs and finally one evening passed the lower end of the Great Salt — Lake across big windrows of dead — grass hoppers washed up from its briny waters. We rolled into Salt Lake City tired, dusty and ready to rest at the Mormon Tavern. At t Townsend House, I found Governor. Bagler and Governor Stanford se ed on the piazza, who gave me. hearty welcome as somebody God’scountry, California. The next day after visiting Walker Brothers to whom I was signed, Fred Walker went wit to call on the ‘President, Boe Young at the Lion House. ; walked up Temple street age double line 6f sycamore trees sparkling niver of cold ‘mow water rushing down each side street, with white cottages out of a mass of green follé around, I thought it ‘was tl beautiful city I had eve: I had seen many even then. péd at the foundation o ing in the local school.