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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

February 12, 1969 (12 pages)

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YE ae ate a ‘ashington District voters avored Douglas over Abe By Rye Slye ABRAHAM LINCOLN When President Lincoln took the oath of office for the second time, in March of 1865, he stood weary and worn from the tragic years of a fratricidal war whose carnage was about at an end. But he knew too well that he stood also at the threshold of a “peace” that would be just as wearying, potentially just as tragic. It was his burden to create “a new birth of free Washington District voters faThe Thompson & West Hisvored Stephen Douglas over tory of Nevada County, 1880, dom”, to unite a shattered people, to dissolve the Abraham Lincoin 208-149 in the mentions Wilson Foster _formhatreds and restore the spirit of brotherhood on which Presidential Election of 1860, ing a partnership with J, Gristhe nation he had guided through its worst crisis could with the following breakdown: sel at Washington: "They own once more take up the challenge of its destiny. Lincoln received 26 votes in Al160 acres of land and have 250 John Wilkes Booth was to relieve Lincoln of that pha precinct, 91 in Omega, and fine bearing apple trees." (This burden, and deprive the bleeding nation of a leader$2 in Washington. Douglas's vote is the R. Collins property-ship it sorely needed. The hates and the problems that was 21 in Alpha, 69 in Omega, grew out of the mangled fields of the Civil War went 23 in Poorman's Creek (where unappeased, unsolved .. shameful specters of man’s Lincoln received nary a vote), Also--"B, Murphy owns 160 weakness which haunt us still today. and 95 in Washington. But neither Booth nor our own intransigence can Two others were on the balacres of land, which contains lot, Breckenridge getting a total a fine apple orchard." (Present destroy the noble heritage that Abraham Lincoln left of 141 votes and the Bell-EvPine Aire Camp Grounds), ‘to us; the abiding faith in the people, the indomitable "Granddad Murphy--Bartho-— assurance that right makes might; the lasting solace of erett ticket 27. a ** * That at a very early date in its existence the town of Washington was chosen to be the site of permannent homes by many miners is proved by the many huge old neglected apple trees growing and still producing fruit around the older houses and sites of former cabins, A good example are the trees around the remains of the cabin of Joe aa lomew Murphy--settled across the river from where the townis now, planted fruit trees, built a five-room house and had anice small ranch. (1853), He had race horses and on the upper side of the ranch a track for training the horses. He took them to the State of Nevada to the fair, where they had a race track. Murphy's ranch joined the McCarthy ranch, the only two ranches on that side of the ri ver." (Myro ‘his faith in God. “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just — lasting peace among ourselves and with all na‘ions. vent rheumatism), Allen Sac As early as 1853, there were well established nurseries in San Francisco and Sacramento, that supplied "yearlings" of the best varieties of apple trees known at that time. NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET) PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, "The soil for tillage is limited, but rich, Messrs, Brimskill, J, Grissel, Millerick and Murphy, have orchards and fine fruits, The potatoes are sweet and mealy. The apples, pears and peaches, have a fine mountain bouquet, juice and flavor, Pork raised here is excellent, The Chinese almost have a monopoly of gardening vegetables, Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjud icated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada The great hue and cry over punitive sections of the 1970 national census regulations has finally been lo ‘le tive form. Two California Congressmen, erry aldie of Concord and Charles Teague of Ojai, are among the 67 authors of a bill that would repeal present penalty provisions designed to force citizens to disclose highly personal information about themselves and their families or suffer a possible $100 fine and 60-day jail sentence. Waldie and Teague feel that mandatory answers should be limited to those concerning the true solar of a census, such as name, address, sex, replicity far ro)daseopartinante ona‘ to the total ina’ \—but ed public every measure of public senti ment those demonstrators of Set ot Oe Ameo cee segment of the can peo— ple and: cemented popular opinion their tactics and their ptive goal. Persistent violence at San Francisco State College, watched more closely out the nation = public stiffening against dlertption and unreasonable demands, ed still further by the ic death of the President of Brandeis University at.a time when he and his school were under Violent assault by .angry young militants. Such violence has been characterized as “the distinte Distinguished men who ve labored pipes Sal gi the ee ne equa p blacker de of all tly for of among stocks lous poste being done the cause ba ara Sage actions. Roy of the NAACP, for example, has a . long record of service to his race which puts his conscience and his concern above qarien. Now he announces t his nization will go to court to kk the creation of autonomous black study
pes and black student lormitories on college camat supported by public SAY IT AIN’T SO, RICHARD! NEVADA CITY Max Min R Feb, 5 48 26 1,57 Feb, 6 38 33 =: 1.30 Feb. 7 41 28 C02 Feb. 8 44 28 Feb. 9 47 29. 1,88 Feb.10 45 340 Feb, 11 55 36s 02 Rainfall to date 57.01 Rainfall last year 20.88 Max Min R Feb. 5 53 31 «1,49 Feb, 6 39 4. 95 Feb 7 44 30. Feb, 8 47 30 Feb. 9° 48 4 CGD Feb.10 45 38.30 Feb, 11 $7 40 = =.05 Rainfall to date 53.15 25.79 Rainfall last year gether” may discover that a solid base of unity already exists on at least one fundamental matter. : A blatant act of disunity may prove responsible for et brought us closer together. In Washi n. on Inauguration Day, violence of a few hundred well organized age, head of household and persons in the home at the time of count. All other responses should be made completely voluntary. ' Federal efforts to invade privacy in the establishment of a “national data ” were defeated by the force of public opinion, and the census bureau would be wise to take heed. As an afterthought, the Congressmen point out that in 1960 the Bureau failed to count 5.7 million Americans. With the additional burden of coercing private information out of reluctant citizens, the census undercount alee be even greater in 1970, the Congressmen predict. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, GRASS VALLEY bringing us “forward to a vast April 2, 1890) NUGGET WEATHER. Telephone 265-2471 The new administration embarking on its task of had the same reaction, the same pepe, effect. There is A RAID ON PRIVACY * * * By ROBERT M. SMALLEY Californians may granddaughter ot B. Murphy. Several other small ranches existed along the flats of the river that still bear the former owners names--Kelleher, etc. Corn, hay and vegetables, with a few cattle and milk cows were raised. A goat ranch was operdrink--"'Apple-jack", The wood ated across the river from the was used for special tools, such present Sam Garner home, as saw handles, butter paddles (1966) for many years. It was and kitchen forks. (Properly reached by a "Dutchman", exaged "Apple-jack" was considcept when the river was low, ered by the early day miner, when a team of horses would be working in icy water, to preused to cross the river. USA today In the glow and warmth of the transiti from Lyndon Baines Johnson to Richard * ; ea Nixon a discordant note was struck which cause d a few taxpa Wilkins said such programs mark a return to “the evil of racial ition (and) to the . lon iting confines of its demeaning prison.” yer-voter to jar their a bit sharply to see if the old hearing aid was heads working. Prior to his return to the Pedernales, that islative wrangler LBJ told a joint session of old legess how he would run the country this year if Congr he were going to be around to do it. In the te ing he said the 10% federal tax surcharge would have to stay, either in part or in whole, as people were firing up the infla tion wagon by spending too much and there the ala dot hae continue to take more fore of their y away for a year and spend it for couldn’t spend it or save it doe cipenbclriewi aad Then that rascal LBJ said Beach i White House. Mr. Nixon, felt abou the incoming boss of rn-' the t as he did conce harge, and Mr. Nixon gave credence to Say it ain’t so, Richard! balanced which lead an she Coverage: of traditional Ame out of diversity. But’ si violence, is abhorrent to. the.