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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.