Los Angeles Herald, 2 October 1900 SANTA ROSA’S MUDDLE The City Officials May All Be Turned Out City Recorder Prindle Claims Their Election Was Illegal and Proposes to Sue Them in the Name of the State (By Associated Press.) Santa Rosa, Oct. 1. — City Recorder Henry Prindle today served notice upon members of the … [Read more…]
Keyword – MISSING:San Francisco Call, 2 October 1900 MISSING PRINCE IS FOUND. PARIS, Oct. 1.— Prince Ikanthor, son of the King of Cambodia (French IndoChina), who was recently a guest of France at the Exposition and who disappeared somewhat mysteriously, has been found in Brussels. A dispatch sent in his behalf says he did not … [Read more…]
CUBS COME FROM BEHIND TO WIN WITH BOMBARDMENT IN EIGHTH HAD MADE ONLY ONE HIT IN FIRST SEVEN INNINGS, BUT WILD BILL WEAKENS UNDER STRAIN Los Angeles Herald, 12 October 1908 Chance’s Champion Balltossers Pile Up Six Tallies and Win Game by Sensational Rally, Which Netted One Home Run, Triple, Double and Three Singles, in … [Read more…]
SYMPATHETIC. — The Stockton Independent relates the following anecdote: On Saturday evening, at the theater, during the performance of the “Drunkard,” while Mr. Courtaine was acting the part of “Edward Middleton,” and while performing that portion of the play which represents him as suffering the torments of delirium tremens and pleading most piteously but in … [Read more…]
A new and picturesque bicycle costume appeared on our streets on Sunday last. Miss Blanchard, accompanied by her brother left Oakland to visit the family of John Mahar, of San Rafael, and took the road at Tamalpias station. From that point to this city they made the trip by wheel, visiting the cemetery and other … [Read more…]
Immense Operations.— During this season it has become fashionable for the miners instead of going to spots where the water is, or waiting for it to come, to bring it to rich localities where it is needed. Many heavy operations in turning the beds of streams, have recently been entered into and carried successfully through. … [Read more…]
TRINITY DIGGINS, NEAR THE MOUTH OF WEAVER CREEK, May 2, 1851 A short time since some forty-seven mules belonging to miners on Big Bar were taken from the corral and driven off. On the discovery about the corral of numberless bare feet tracks a considerable excitement ensued, and every body was soon armed and prepared … [Read more…]
At Fort Madison, Iowa, a Rev. Mr. Hummer has been arrested for an at- tempt to murder his wife, by suffocation, under pretense of driving the devil out of her. She was rescued from his hands by neighbors. A strong desire was shown to lynch the reverend gen- tleman. Marysville Daily Herald,8 May 1851
Daily Alta California, 17 June 1851 Ever since California changed her national allegiance, the southern section of it, especially the Los Angeles Valley, has endured all manner of oppressions from wild Indians and dissolute white men with far less conscience and much greater capacity and taste for evil than the untaught savage. The Mexican rule … [Read more…]