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GRASS VALLEY UNION JUNE 14 & 15, 1872 143
Buena Vista—P. N. Hansen.
Forest Springs—James Harrigan.
Lime Kiln—Wm. Grubs.
On motion, the report was unanimously adopted. On motion the Grass Valley UNION and
Nevada Gazette were requested to publish the proceedings of the meeting. On motion the meeting
was adjourned. H. DAVIS, Chairman. CHAS. H. MITCHELL, Sec’y.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1872
DEATH FROM POISON.—The Nevada Transcript of the 14th says: “On Sunday, the 9th ins., a
man named Butler died from the effects of strychnine, taken by mistake. His residence is
upon the road leading to Cherokee from North San Juan, about half way distant between
the two places. He left a widow and three children. An inquest was held upon the body of
the deceased on Monday, which elicited the following facts: The deceased had procured
some time previous poison to kill rats, and on the morning of Sunday he told his wife to
get the poison, which he intended to use to kill the gophers that were infesting his place.
Mrs. Butler got the article wanted, and it was put in a tumbler to be dissolved in water. She
early that morning went out to visit a friend with her children, and between 4 and 5 o’clock
in the afternoon she was told that her husband was dangerously ill. She immediately went
back to her house and found her husband at the point of death. At intervals he was able
to talk, and explained how it was he came to take the fatal poison. About 2 or 3 o'clock in
the afternoon he wanted a drink of water and went into the house for that purpose. He
took the first thing to drink out of that he could find, which was the glass he had put the
strychnine into, just about enough to cover the point of a pen knife. He dipped the glass
into a bucket of water and drank the contents. Soon after he began to feel ill, and then
for the first time found out his terrible mistake. He said he made every effort to attract
persons to the house to assist him, but was unable to do so. Finally a young man by the
name of French, happening to pass up the road heard the screams and groans of Butler.
French came into the house, and Butler then told him what he had done, and to go for a
doctor at San Juan. French started for San Juan, and while going down saw Mrs. Butler at
Martin’s ranch. He told her the dreadful intelligence and Mrs. B. hastened home as stated.
Dr. Asay soon arrived, but although everything was done possible to save Butler, it was
too late, and he died in terrible agony. Deceased was a native of the State of Maine, aged
41 years, and had lived in this State many years. The verdict of the jury was, that deceased
came to is death from poison taken accidentally. Butler’s family were left in very destitute
circumstances, and the good people of North San Juan and vicinity, upon hearing of the
destitution of the family, immediately started a subscription, and raised over $150 to
relieve them.
THE EMPEROR IN TOWN.—Mons. Jules Fricot, one of the pioneer quartz miners of Grass
Valley, and who first made the Eureka mine a success, arrived here yesterday from France. He is
called “Emperor” here by his many friends, and it was a good sight to witness the old timers of the
town shaking hands and welcoming their genial and always pleasant companion of the early day.
Mons. Fricot has been absent from Grass Valley about six years, and time has delt [sic] so gently with
him that he is not a day older, to all appearances, than he was the day he left. He knows, by this time,
that he is welcome.
[Fricot, a dual citizen of France and America, traveled without his broken-hearted wife,
Elizabeth Jane Jenkins, a Cornish woman whom he had married in Grass Valley in 1865. He