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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

March 25, 1970 (12 pages)

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serene onc . ORE SR EDR MN NRE ISN PEGA TEES As GSN ta Saab REDO ‘ f Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Ki NO. 62 Srna pl rt ae ep ERS PERIODICALS SECTION 5/16/70 CAL. ST. LIBRARY : SACTO. CAL. 95814 I I In, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Cofumbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens, 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, armen seer antenna SCENIC HIGHWAY 49 offers many tourist attractions north and south of the Golden Empire. area. The route has been talked about as @ possible scenic highway. South of Auburn cities in the Mother Lode country have gone all out to make an historic appearance of the golden days that once existed. In this photo is the "Old Raley House” which was built with brick over 100 years ago. 4 COLOMA IS the sight of the gold discovery. The John Sutter Mill has been rebuilt and is on display for the public, A gold » museum, picnic sites and old mining buildings are on display. This part of the Sutter Mill delivered power as water taken from the American River ran into the shute. The Nugget is continuing a «,Series of stories dealing with “the history of elective county * offices and names of Nevada Countyans who have held them. "100 Years of Nevada County” published by The Nugget in 1951 is the soucematerial. Duties _ of the offices and the roster of names associated with them have _ changed since the publication date. Nevada County's sheriff's office forms a complex operation. With a staff composed of six deputies, and a matron, the county sheriff is charged with county law enforcement, maintenance of county jail, service of outside warrants, civil processes and the like. Besides, there are the chores of delivery f of the insane to state mental hospitals and transporting pris= oners to state institutions. Personnel of the staff includes Wayne. Brown, sheriff; Max Solaro, undersheriff; William Mullis, Elmer Oates, Frank Gallino, Harley Frink and Wesley Fair, deputies. Fair serves in Truckee. Mrs. Effie Goering is jail matron.
The county jail houses a daily average of 15, andhasacapacity of 22 to 24.A jail at Truckee serves astemporary restraining quarters until prisoners can be transferred to the county jail in Nevada City. These inmates have to be watched, catalogued, segregated and fed. The kitchen of the county hospital supplies meals for the inmates. Many of the jail chores are carried out prisoner trustees. Brown is the 29th man to serve this area as sheriff. R. B. Buchanan served in 1850 when Nevada County was a part of Yuba County, and John Gallagher was the first sheriff of Nevada County proper when it was formed a hundred years ago today. Three sheriffs were killed in the line of duty. W. W. Wright was mistakenly killed by members of a posse while hunting for a notorious bad man of the early years here, Jim Webster, following his escape from jail. William H, Pascol was killed in Wayne Brown 29th sheriff and his successor was 1894, found slain on the slopes of Cement hill in 1889, A more complete account of the killings appear in another part of this edition. A roster of the sheriffs of Nevada County and the year in which they took office: 1850, R, B, Buchanan; 1851, John Gallagher; 1853, W. H. Endicott; 1855, W. W. Wright; 1856, William Butterfield; 1857, S. W. Boring; 1859, J. B. Van Hagen; 1861, N. W. Knowlton; 1863, Charles Kent; 1865, Richard B, Gentry; 1869, J. N. Dickson; 1871, George W. Smith; 1875, C. R, Clarke; 1877, William H. Montgomery; 1881, E, O. Tompkins; 1883, R. D. Carter; 1889, George W. Dunster; 1893, William H. Pascoe; 1894, D. F. Douglass; 1899, D. B, Getchell; 1903, H. R. Walker; 1915, John R. Martin; 1923, W. G. Robinson; 1927, George Carter; 1935, Carl J. Tobiassen; 1947, Richard W. Hoskins; 1951, Wayne Brown, 1885, George Lord;