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GRASS VALLEY UNION MAY 21, 22, 23, 1867 145
ACCIDENTS.—Francis Polkinghorn, a miner, met with quite a severe accident, last Saturday night,
in the Eureka mine. He was in the act of reaching for a pulley, when his feet slipped, and he fell down the
inclined shaft, which pitches at an angle of eighty-five degrees, a distance of between forty and fifty feet,
landing on his feet. He struck with such force that in the rebound he fell to a greater depth, in all perhaps,
eighty feet, being thrown in a doubled up position against a lot of lumber and rocks. He sustained a spinal
fracture, which has resulted in paralysis of his lower extremities. Frank Carter, another unlucky one, was
yesterday kicked in the left arm by a stallion, producing a comminuted fracture of the elbow-joints. To
Dr. James Simpson, who is attending both Polkinghorn and Carter, we are indebted for these items.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1867
CULTIVATING SILK WORMS.—Our townsman, Mr. J. E. Marshall of Winchester Hill, has
received about ten thousand eggs of the silk-worm, from Mr. Prevost of San Jose, and proposes to try the
experiment of cultivating the worms and cocoons in this region, believing that the situation and climate
is favorable to the enterprise. He will first prepare a room for the special purpose, and then by artificial
heat will hatch the eggs. After hatching the work of feeding commences, the feed being the tender leaves
of the mulberry or [illegible] orange trees. The feeding process continues for six weeks, at which time the
worm commences spinning its cocoon, which is its habitation during the hours of [illegible] and its tomb
when the task is completed. Before obtaining these worms Mr. Marshall ascertained that there were at
least one hundred mulberry trees in this vicinity, upon which he could depend for food, a number more
than sufficient for the worms that he will cultivate... .
DIED. At the residence of the parents, between Grass Valley and Nevada, on the 20th inst., JOHN,
oldest son of Nicholas and Julia Petterger, aged 2 years, 7 months and 20 days.
DISTRESSING CASUALTY.—On Monday, the little son of Nicholas Petterger, who resides on the
road between Grass Valley and Nevada, was drowned. The child, who was in his third year, was playing
out of doors by himself, and having been absent perhaps half an hour, his mother instituted search and
found him lying in a pool of water, near the house, dead. The pond of water was shallow, but the child,
from recent illness, is supposed to have been too weak to extricate itself upon falling. This is truly a sad
bereavement to the parents, as the child was the only remaining one of seven children that had been born
to them.
RECORDER’S COURT.—This Court was occupied all of yesterday in the case of the People vs.
Coch Heng, the defendant being accused of assaulting with deadly intent, one Ah Pooh, who, from his
appearance seemed to have received severe punishment. The Court room was filled during the day with
opium-scented Celestials, who were present as witnesses or interested spectators. At the hour of going
to press only the witnesses for the prosecution had been examined. The case will probably consume the
greater part of today.
THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1867
THE PIUTES [sic] FOR PEACE.—The Carson Appeal of May 18th says that “Natchez,” the wellknown Piute, came into town yesterday, with a message from the elder Winnemuca [sic] to the effect
that the latter wanted to make peace with the whites and go and live on the Truckee Reservation. He
was assured that he and all of his warriors could come here safely. He will probably come in early in the
coming week. This will doubtless end all troubles with the Humboldt branch of the Piute men.