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Mrs. Dacio told Peck yesterday that her
husband was known in Chicago by the name J. Kozlowski at one time, and the
description of the Yolo prisoner corresponds in some respects to that of Dacio.
The
WHEATLAND (Yuba Co.), July 14 - The same
corps of teachers have been selected to teach in the grammar school at this
place for next term. Chris JACOBS will be the principal and the other teachers
are Miss BOWDEN, Miss COPELAND and Miss SHEETS.
Will JESSUP has been elected principal of the
high school and Miss HOLLINGSWORTH will also teach in the local high school. So
far no one has been selected to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Miss
LACY.
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), July 14 - But one
student of the Marysville high school has answered the call of the state
defense board for boys to work in the vineyards and orchards of
So far as known every student of the
Marysville high school is engaged and will be kept busy until school opens.
There are plenty of good jobs open for boys and men and there is absolutely no
need of anyone being out of employment.
A sk Division of
REDDING (Shasta Co.), July 14 - A petition was presented to the board of supervisors yesterday morning from Castella and Sims signed by 167 citizens to divide Delta township into two precincts. The new township to be named Castella township. The dividing line will run on the line between sections 19 and 30, township 36 north range 6, west intersecting the McCloud river. The petition bears the names of 119 citizens of Castella and 48 from Sims. The board of supervisors set Friday, September 7 as the date to hear the petition.
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SALARY
WARRANTS ORDERED STOPPED
OROVILLE (Butte Co), March 20 - Acting on the report
of the
Tuhey reported
his investigation of the books of the
The court
action which will be a test case of the right of a justice of the peace to the
fees paid into his court will be watched with interest by the township officers
of the county.
CLAIMS
LAW ALLOWS RETAINING OF FEES
Prior to
Since then I
have retained these fees, but I have turned in all fines. The 1916 grand jury
investigated this question and decided that I was lawfully retaining fees in
civil cases.
I have
requested Assistant District Attorney Harry DAVIDS to being suit against me on
behalf of the county to test the law.
MANY
MILLER HEIRS MADE DEFENDANTS
Property of Late Millionaire in
RENO (Nevada), March 20 - Sixty-eight additional
defendants heirs of the estate of the late millionaire, Henry MILLER, today
were brought into the suit filed sometime ago by Attorney-general THATCHER for
the purpose of ascertaining the value of the estate in Nevada for inheritance
tax purposes. The additional defendants represent individuals and corporations,
all being beneficiaries under the Miller will.
FORMER
ASSESSOR OF SISKIYOU IS DEAD
YREKA (Siskiyou Co.), March 20 - John F. FAIRCHILD,
who served two terms as county assessor of Siskiyou and was recently appointed
superintendent of the county hospital died this morning at the family home in
this city from acute diabetes, at the age of 45 years.
SAYS
MAN WANTED IN PORTOLA IS IN JAIL
Accused Is Alleged to Have Cashed Worthless Checks in
PORTOLA (Plumas Co.), March 20 - Judge COX of this
place returned from Reno yesterday and brought word from chief of Police
HILLHOUSE of Reno to Marshall MAXWELL of Portola that Carl MERRILL, wanted here
for cashing two spurious checks drawn on the Security Trust company of
Bakersfield, was in jail at Reno for an alleged forgery committed in Sparks a
day or so ago.
Merrill, whose
checks were palpably worthless, made the acquaintance of a shoe drummer at a
local hotel and followed the salesman into the stores of SUDAKA and
They will ask
for the extradition of Merrill from
PIONEER
RAILROAD AGENT PASSES AWAY
COLFAX (Placer Co.), March 20 - Morris LOBNER, who was
on the pension roll of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, after serving
over forty years as agent of the company at Colfax died today at the aged of 70
years. The funeral will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, under the auspices of
the local F. and A.M. Lodge.
Mr. Lobner
took charge of the local railroad office soon after the opening of the Central
Pacific and served continuously until he retired on a pension. He was well
known in
ELVERTA
BEATS
ELVERTA (Sacramento Co.), March 20 - Elverta opened
its 1917 baseball season by taking the long end of a 5-4 score form
Bateries:
Elverta, E. WAITE and HERNANDEZ;
PENRYN
MAN SAVES LIFE BY JUMPING
Leaps as Freight Train Crashes Into Automobile on
Biggs Crossing
BIGGS (Butte Co.), March 20 - A.T.
HOGS
ROOT UP CROPS AND POWER COMPANY IS SUED
A.E. GREENE yesterday filed suit against the Great
Western Power company, asking the court to award him $500 damages from the
company. The complaint sets up that the defendant company cut a fence between
the property occupied by the plaintiff and that occupied by Garrett PYLMAR,
leaving a panel of the fence open, which resulted in Pylmar’s hogs getting into
the land of Greene and rooting up his growing crops.
TEHAMA
FARMER IS DEAD
RED BLUFF (Tehama Co.), March 20 - Tobias KINDLESPIRE,
a large land owner of the Proberta section died at the family home today at the
age of over 88 years, after illness of six years. He came to Tehama county in
1887 and leaves wife, four children, seven grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.
Mr. Blundell
was the first white child born in
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TEACHERS
PLAN SCHOOL FESTIVAL
Several Districts in and Near Gridley Will Join in
Event.
GRIDLEY (Butte Co.), March 22 - At a meeting of the
teachers of Gridley, West Liberty, Butte, Central House, Manzapita, East
Gridley, Woodrow Wilson, William McKinley and the Gridley high school
districts, the following events were planned for the school festival to be held
May 18: Baseball games, school picnic, tilting match, pageant, pig contest, pet
show, cooking and sewing exhibits.
After the
pageant there will be a meeting of the agricultural clubs, with short talks by
Dean HUNT of the college of agriculture, Professor J.I. THOMPSON, University
farm; Dr. J.B. CADY, U.S.D.A., hog cholera expert. Medals and prizes will be
awarded and honors announced at this time.
The following
officers were elected: R.E. GOLWAY, president; C.E. COWEN, secretary and
treasurer, and the following committees appointed:
Executive
committee: R.E. GOLWAY, G.T. KERN, Miss HARFORD, Miss BISHOP, C.E. COWEN, Miss
FLOOD and Mrs. Maxie TURNER.
Games and
sports: Misses BISHOP, CARUS, BOULWARE, BISSETT, CHANNON, MOORE, YANISCH,
WASHBURN, GOLWAY.
Exhibits and
pets: C.E. COWEN, Misses FLOOD, CARUS, CHANNON, BISSETT, BOULWARE, Mrs. TURNER
and Miss MOORE.
Lunch
committee: Misses FLOOD, CULVER, CHANNON, CARUS, BOULWARE, COWEE and SWILHART.
Finance
committee: G.T. KERN, Miss BLOCK, Miss BISHOP, C.E. COWEN, R.E. GOLWAY, Mrs.
TURNER, Miss MOORE and Miss THRESHER.
Arrangement
committee: G.T. KERN, Misses THRESHER, MOORE, SCHMIDT and BLOCK.
Entertainment
committee: Misses HARFORD, CUMMINGS, HENNESSY, CULVER and BLOCK.
Parade
committee: R.E. GOLWAY, Miss BISHOP, E.C. COWAN, Miss FLOOD, Miss THRESHER and
Miss SCHMIDT.
MOTORCYCLE
RIDER COLLIDES WITH WAGON
LIVE OAK (Sutter Co.), March 22 - Vernon THOMAS, club
keeper for San Francisco parties on the tule border west of Live Oak, who was
thrown 40 feet when his motorcycle collided with a hay wagon driven by J.A.
LANDIS and William BLIESTEIN, escaped with a broken arm and minor bruises.
Thomas is said
to have been riding at a high rate of speed. The horses escaped injury by
turning to one side through fright, but Thomas struck the wagon with such force
that he was hurled some distance into a ditch. He was picked up by Richard
CAMPBELL and L.W. SIMPSON, brought to Live Oak and Dr. HIGGINS summoned.
AUTO
SENDS
The latter
disclaims responsibility and the grocery firm insists that it be recompensed
for the damage done. This is not the first instance that this has occurred in
this city, but upon the precious occasion the loss was accepted by the owner of
the store and nothing was said to the man who drove the automobile.
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HIGH
SCHOOL FREE TEXTS ARE FAVORED
Literally in a Cloud of Smoke, Harris Bill Is Passed
by the Assembly
Legislation
providing free text books for the high schools of the state yesterday afternoon
went through the assembly in a cloud of smoke. Literally, there was plenty of
smoke because the assemblymen voted to suspend the rule forbidding the use of
the weed, Speaker YOUNG having betaken himself to
Young took the
train to Berkeley after an acrimonious discussion of the Wishard bill,
requiring a health certificate of both persons applying for a marriage license.
This bill caused a three hour battle, and was finally left hanging in the
balance.
The ballot on
the measure resulted in 38 negative votes and 32 affirmative votes. Assemblyman
WISHARD, the author, then requested a call of the house, and after it had been
ordered, changed his mind, also his vote, so that he could move for a
reconsideration. Young waited through this measure to get a vote.
But the tense
discussion only presaged the battle on the Harris free text book bill. It had
been generally agreed between those fundamentally interested in educational
legislation that this bill should go through without any opposition, though
some of the educators were in favor of having the free high school text books
supplied in a different manner than the bill provided.
WILLIAMS of
Inyo, the only former schoolmaster, barring Speaker Young in the Assembly this
year, wants the state to print the free text books, but he is willing to see
this bill passed without amendment, and told the assembly so. He asserted that
his principals could come before the people in the form of the Polsley
constitutional amendment, and therefore urged the passage of the HARRIS measure
as a step in the right direction.
The books are
to be selected by the state board of education in a general way, though high
school districts will be able to choose the specific text in each subject from
the state institution’s general list. Although
Early in the
morning the assembly passed a bill by KYLBERG and WILLIAMS which would exempt
form taxation any right to a mining claim less than $100 in value. There were
but eight adverse votes.
WHITE
SLAVE BILL DROPPED
Assemblyman
KNIGHT of
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SUTTER MAN UNSCATHED, ALTHOUGH TWICE HIT
That his clothing was torn and he was knocked
down by portions of German-fired shells, but that he came through unscathed, is
the word that has been sent here to Gene SMITH by his son, Walter E. SMITH, who
is now with the American Army of Occupation in
Young SMITH, who is with a battery of artillerymen,
writes:
Will say that when we moved in at Chateau
Thierry in July we were given lively reception. The shells started to pour in
on us, and it looked as if we were gone, but when we got those ole six-inch
howitzers to working they let up on us.
We got out of that battle in very good
condition and with very little loss, and moved up on the
OROVILLE SOLDIER MISSING
OROVILLE (Butte Co.), February 3 -
Walter FARROW of Honcut, who enlisted and
went to Camp Kearney with Company T when the
GRASS VALLEYANS
Private Elmer HAWKINS, a clerk, under the
Civic Service in the local Post Office, has been mustered out and has returned
to the postal work.
Private Ralph HARRIS, a rural mail carrier,
has also returned and is once more driving his route.
Private Otis HARDT, who was called to
CAPTAIN SNELL REACHES
Captain Verne C. SNELL, a soldier from this
county, has reached
NILON WINS COMMISSION
William NILON, youngest son of Judge Frank T.
NILON and wife of this city, has been commissioned a Lieutenant in the United
Stated army. He attended the Artillery training school at
Another son of Judge NILON and wife, Frank M.
NILON, is also a Lieutenant in the army, stationed in
YEOMAN IS COURT REPORTER
Chief Yeoman John W. O’NEILL of the
SOLDIER RETURNS TO
Thomas G. CURNOW, who was in the United
States army service at Camp Meade, Virginia, has returned to his home in
PLAN SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL
Laurel PARLOR of Native Daughters had taken
up the proposition of erecting a memorial in honor of the
RETURN TO SHASTA
REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 3 -
These discharged soldiers returned home
Sunday:
Rudolph OBERLACK,
TO OPEN RECRUITING OFFICE
REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 3 -
Word has been received that Matt SAUDERS,
Chief Master-At-Arms, has been assigned to open a navy recruitment station in
Y.M.C.A. MAN RETURNING
Rev. Leander TURNEY, who has been in the
Y.M.C.A. service in England and France, has telegraphed to his wife in this
city that he has arrived in
APPERSON REACHES
Mr. and Mrs. W.G. APPERSON have received a
telegram from their son, Walker APPERSON, Woodland soldier, who has arrived in
SOLDIER TAKES FURLOUGH
Borden WOODS, Woodland sailor, has arrived in
this city form
A committee of twenty-five men and women has
been named to confer upon three projects as a memorial for
One is for a $100,000 hospital; another is
for the purchase of a memorial recreation ground, embodying all the elements of
the public park; the third is for a memorial clubhouse.
DR. MOULTON RETURNS
Dr. and Mrs. D.H. MOULTON and children have
returned from Washington, D.C., to their home in this city. Dr. MOULTON, who
has been a Lieutenant Commander in the
PILOT HILL BOY RETURNS
PILOT HILL (El Dorado Co.), February 3 -
Thomas K. BURNETT, who was stationed at Camp
Kearny with the Sixteenth Division, has received his honorable discharge. He is
now visiting in
Private John SILHAVY, a member of the famous
Fortieth Division, which saw active service in the last memorable battles along
the Flanders front, returned to his home here form France, where he spent weeks
in a hospital convalescing from a severe shrapnel wound sustained October 31st.
SILHAVY was wounded in the back and fought
for more that three hours without realizing he was wounded until his Lieutenant
called his attention to the fact that the blood was oozing through his coat.
He then was sent to a first aid station and
later sent to a base hospital, where he was for nearly a month.
SILHAVY enlisted in June, 1908, and was only
in the service a month when he was sent to
WRITES OF INTERESTING SIGHTS IN
Sergeant Jason L. FRYE of Downieville, in
writing to his folks at Downieville from
We could have had a piano here if Lieutenant NORDSTROM
had a truck to haul it. The other day they found it in one of old Hindenburg’s
dugouts. They had iron beds and electric lights in their dugouts, and from all
appearances intended to stay there for quite a while.
We were in a big cathedral recently that was
built over 1,000 years ago. You would laugh at the French railroads,
four-wheeled affairs with a brake on only one wheel.
I don’t believe there is any automatic
coupler in either
COLUSAN ENDING SEVENTH ROUND TRIP OF
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), February 3 -
Glen H. JACOBSON of Princeton, this county,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. JACOBSON, has written to his parents, saying he spent
several days in Paris, had seen President Wilson and a large number of French,
British and Italian dignitaries and was now on his way home.
He made seven round trips across the
Dr. W.F. CORBETT, who served in the British
army, is visiting relatives at
Byron LANDRIGAN has returned from Camp Mead,
Virginia, having been mustered out of the army.
GLENN
Mr. and Mrs. William HEINTZ received a letter
from their son, Jack, who is in an army training school in New York, that he
would return home with a bride, having married in
STIRLING CITY SOLDIER HOME
Clarence THOMAS has received his honorable
discharge from the army and is visiting his parents here.
Melvin MILLER has returned to his home here,
having been honorably discharged from the service.
Sergeant Lester HOFF has received his
honorable discharge from the army and is visiting his relatives here for a few
days.
THREE COLUSANS RETURN
COLUSA (Colusa CO.), February 3 -
Grover BAKER of Sycamore and his
brother-in-law, Lawrence JEFFREYS of
BAKER is the husband of Mrs. Mary JEFFREYS
BAKER, member of the
G.G. MARTIN arrived home from Camp Kearny,
honorably discharged.
MAXWELL SOLDIER WRITES
COLUSA (Colusa Co.), February 3 -
A.K. HARBISON of Maxwell has just heard from
his son, John A. HARBISON, who is driving a big “caterpillar” with the 347th
Field Artillery in
He says rain falls nearly all the time and he
never saw a country so muddy as the district he is in.
“We are on the go all the while” he wrote.
TRINITY YOUTH RETURNS
WEAVERVILLE (Trinity Co.), February 3 -
Sergeant Horace LEAVITT, who has been
enrolled in an officers training school at St. Mary’s, has returned home with
an honorable discharge. The soldier is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William J.
LEAVITT of this place.
YUBANS COMING HOME
MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), February 3 -
Abe SCHNEIDER and John LUCERO, Marysville
young men who were attached to the 346th **old artillery, are among
the overseas boys who will be dismissed from service at the Presidio,
Sergeant Thomas F. BURNS, son of W.F. (“Dad”)
BURNS of this city, and who was invalided from
Others who have arrived home from
MODOC SOLDIER RETURNS
Merrill MARTIN, oldest son of Fred MARTIN of
this place, has returned home. He left here about a year ago and spent several
months in
SOLDIER IS DISCHARGED
MONTGOMERY CREEK (Shasta Co.), February 3 -
Walter CHASE, who was discharged at Camp
KEARNY, has returned home. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S.F. CHASE of this
place.
SAILOR RETURNS TO
REDDING (Shasta Co.), February 3 -
Dalice SMITH, having been released form the
navy at San Pedro, returned home Saturday evening.
HOME FROM
Fred H. BECK, who enlisted in the American
army a month following the entry of the United States into the European was,
has received an honorable discharge and returned to his home “on Gold Flat.”
Beck was on duty most of the time in the
Alfred EDDY and John WEBSTER, who were
recently mustered out of the army as Camp Kearny, have returned home. WEBSTER
recently was ill with pneumonia.
RETURNS TO DUNSMUIR
DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), February 3 -
Ellsworth WHITE, son of Mrs. J.M. WHITE, has
been discharged from the navy and is home again.
SOLDIER IS FARM ADVISER
C.E. SULLIVAN, graduate of the University of
California and recently of the officers’ training school at Fort Scott, has
assumed the duties of Farm Adviser of Sutter County, succeeding J.E. STILES,
who resigned the position to engage in farming the
SULLIVAN was Farm Adviser of
BACK FROM
Daryl BLEVINS has returned to Woodland after
several months at the naval station at Hampton Roads, Va., as second-class
signalman.
He tells that Shirley DREVER, another
Woodland sailor, is still at
NAVY MAN IN SUTTER
Eddie PATTERSON, after a year of service in the
United States navy, has been released and is home. He was a member of the crew
of the Koningan der Nederlanden, a German ship seized by the Government. He
made several trips across the
Paul ESENMAN, son of Mr. and Mrs. John ESENMAN, of this county, is home form an Eastern training camp, with an honorable discharge.
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BRUSH IS SUED
Receiver of Now Defunct Bank of
Suit for accounting has been filed against J.H.
BRUSH and names as co-defendants Receiver Robert D. GARRETT of the defunct
Santa Rosa National Bank and all others interested in the closed institution.
J.H. GRAY and F.W. MADDOCKS are plaintiffs, and as a cause for action produce
an agreement whereby BRUSH, GRAY and MADDOCKS were to purchase a large acreage
in Capay Valley, Yolo County, for which BRUSH paid one-third, a little over
$32,000, the balance bearing interest at 6 per cent, for which he gave his
personal note.
The profits were to be applied to the
settlement of the note, and BRUSH was to receive 7 per cent for his money. GRAY
and MADDOCKS were to arrange for the subdivision of the property and its sale,
for which they were to get a commission on all sales at the rte of 5 per cent,
to include all costs, traveling expenses and advertising.
It is alleged that some sales were made, and
the claim is made that somewhere between $8,000 and $10,000 is the amount due
the two other partners in this transaction.
BRUSH says that the deed to the Capay Valley
land was included inadvertently in the deeds of property made to the National
Bank. Receiver GARRETT declares that he can not surrender the property, and all
is involved in the bankruptcy proceedings.
SEEK MISSING MAN
Ten-Day Search for
Jake PHILLIPS, an elderly resident of this
place who disappeared ten days ago, is still missing, although several
searching parties have been looking for him.
He left here to walk to Twelve Mile Creek and
never reached that place. For a time the searchers found his tracks, but wind
has now covered these with snow.
TURNED DOWN PALACE HOTEL SITE AT $100
OAKDALE (Stanislaus Co.), February 6 -
That he once was offered the site upon which
now stands the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for a paltry $100, is the
statement of Lewis VOYLE of Knights Ferry. VOYLE says he refused to enter the
deal. The site now is worth more than $1,000,000.
Instead of remaining in
FARMERS WILLING TO
Farmers owning land that is wanted for the
right of way for the State Highway between Yolo and Zamora were visited by C.C.
McDONALD, District Attorney; M.H. STITT, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors,
and Asa G. PROCTOR, County Surveyor, who told what land was wanted for the
highway, and that the county had decided that a fair price for the land would
be two and one-half times its assessed valuation.
Practically all of the farmers interviewed
were satisfied, and all property for the right of way, it is expected, will be
deeded to the county by February 15th.
JURY TO INVESTIGATE
Solano Supervisor Claims He Was Branded
Pro-German By His Political Opponents
Upon the representations of Supervisor
Charles E. CLAUSEN of Dixon that the had been grossly and unjustly accused of
being pro-German by his opponent in the lat election campaign, the Superior
Court has ordered an investigation by the Grand Jury.
CLAUSEN asserts the opposition showed various
people a letter purported to have been written by CLAUSEN, which stated
sympathy for the German Government and against the
BUYS EXTENSIVE RANGE