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GRASS VALLEY UNION SEPTEMBER 3 & 4, 1872 199
whether owning property or not. Residents of the town, who are not property holders on the streets
named, have an interest in the health of the place, and rotting planks do not help the sanitary
condition of the burg.
THIGH BROKEN.—Edward Lee, son of Captain S. W. Lee, had his right thigh broken last week,
in San Francisco. Edward was out riding with a party of fellow medical students and the rockaway in
which they were [riding] was upset at the San Jose R. R. depot, throwing Edward out and breaking
the bone about half way between the knee and hip. He will be confined to bed for many irksome
weeks, but he is enduring his misfortune with heroism. Edward’s misfortune is peculiarly a sad one,
since his left leg has been useless for many years.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ELECTION.—The annual election of the M. E. Sunday School took place
last Sunday evening after church with the following result: Supt., Rev. W. Peck (if reappointed to
this charge); Ass’t. Supt., Thos. Earle; Sec’y., J. W. Maddrill; Ass’t Sec’y., Elam Biggs; Treas., J. M.
Thomas. The School officers for the last year report next Sunday, after which we will give the state of
progress in the school.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1872
[DIED] J. Neely Johnson, Governor of California from January ist, 1856, to January ist, 1858,
died at Salt Lake city on Saturday, August 21st, aged forty-seven, and was buried with
Masonic honors on Sunday evening at Camp Douglas cemetery.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT HUNT’S HILL.—Yesterday an accident occurred in Carney & Co.’s
claims, at Hunt’s Hill, by which one man was killed and another had both legs broken. The
men were engaged in blasting cement and the blast was prematurely discharged with the
result above mentioned. Dr. Hunt went up to attend the injured man. We could not learn
the names of the parties injured.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—The Nevada Transcript of the 3rd says:
On Tuesday last Robert Waite left his home in French Corral under circumstances which
lead his friends to think he contemplated suicide. Waite has been a hard working man
highly respected by those who know him. Before starting he wrote a letter to a friend saying
he “was going where no mortal man would ever see him again.” He left an order for $100
for A. Lewis on the Slide Co., his clothing he left for another friend, and the remainder of
his money to another. He had some $400, as his friends think. After he had been gone a day
or two a search was made for him in the shafts and around French Corral, but no trace has
been found of him. His friends are at a loss to account for his strange action as he was doing
well. It is not known that he has any troubles. He has been somewhat reserved but no other
peculiarity has been noticed in him.
DIAMONDS.—A telegram from San Francisco, dated the 2nd, shows that Captain Lee is in luck.
The telegram remarks that “the Pacific Diamond and Ruby Mining Company, capital $10,000,000,
trustees, B. F. Sherwood, Joseph De La Montagne, S. F. Lightner, S. W. Lee, Frank Lawton, O. Dicken
and B. Doro, incorporated to-day.” A few days ago we saw, in San Francisco, some of the stones
brought up by the agent of the above named company. To our uninitiated eye the stones are pure
gems. One ruby in the lot was particularly fine.
LOCAL BREVITIES.—A wrestling match is to come off at the Wrestling Arena on Saturday,
between Jake Coombs and Thomas Banfield—money up on the event.
S. D. Leavitt, contractor for building the Bennett and Auburn street bridges, commenced work
on the Bennett street bridge yesterday.