Weekly Searchlight from Redding, California • 3

HOT RU 30 RET EMU TOP Of HR HD TWO FEET DEEP Ft SIK Mining lor Goal on Clover Creek and Along Oak Ron If Thirty-six Miner Employed Twelve at Each of Throe Mines Development Work Being Done One Tunnel Driven 460 Feet Compres sore and Machine Ordered Coal Improves in Quality as Depth Is No At-! tempt Yet Made to Mine Coal on a Commercial Basis 4 Much Injured Rescued His Partner John Nelson and Others GKOKGK PAYNE AGED 7 E8 GAPED WITH BROKEN LEG AT SCHOOL NEAR INWOOD George Payne 7-year-old eon of George Payne Sr fell thirty feet from a tree he waa climbing at the school houao near Inwood Thursday The force of the fall was in part broken by the limbs with which the boy came in contact in his descent A leg waa broken The lad was brought to the county hospital by Rupert 4 The Volcano MARVELOUS new fruit EVOLVED FROM CROSSING PRUNE AND SHASTA BUCKEYE THRILLING ACCIDENT NEAR MOTION TA-KEN TO COUNTY HOSPITAL EKSTRUM IS FOUND TO HAVE A BROKEN LEG POSSIBLY AND HE WILL RECOVER IF PNEUMONIA DOES NOT DEVELOP (Special to The Searchlight) MOTION February 28 Buried in loos earth in the ihaft of a mine on Flat creek that he and his partner Nelson were working Fred Ekstrum remained in an upright position from 11 o'clock this morning until 6 o'clock this afternoon when he was dug from his living grave scarcely more alive than dead neighborhood Ordered Machinery A McCormick superintendent of the mlnea for the owner Cross waa in Redding yesterday as he waa returning from Ban Francisco where he placed an order for compressors and other machinery needed for more extensive mining The order la to be filled right away The coal veins or ledgea are capped by sand dunea Coal Is Bub-Bituminous The all-important point is to determine the character of the coal Superintendent McCormick says it ia not lignite coal but it la sub-bltumlnoua more like anthracite coal than bituminous Coal Doesn't Black Near the surface the first coal encountered slacked when exposed to the air As depth is reached this fault no longer exists Thn coal mined at the innermost point of the long tunnel la hard It la a dust coal and burns without making a clinker or cinder Only Development Going On Bo far no attempt has been mode to mine coal on a commercial basis No mining for the trade will be undertaken until the mines are better developed For Instance in No 1 the tunnel now 460 feet long Is is to be pushed to a length of 1000 feet and then a shaft will be sunk 120 feet to strike the vein in No 2 By this method the 8-foot vein in No I will be struck at a distance of 2400 feet from the surface The vein in No 2 is two feet thicker than the vein in No 1 Mi aft Caves In The partners were pocket hunting along Flat creek where they had sunk a shaft at a promising spot The shaft following the trace of gold was somewhat crooked and they had gone down 54 feet when they realised that the shaft needed timbering They hud concluded to do this timbering after dinner and Nelson had started to the surface to drag out some dirt Before ho could get to the surface however the wails of the shaft caved behind him and burled his partner Ekstrom out of sight in loose dirt two foet shove his head Kdwin Kina When he saw the earth falling on his partner's head and his body fast becoming burled in the avalanche Nelson ran quickly back down tho shaft Digging frantically with hla hands burrowing like a terrier after a rat In fifteen minutes Nelson removed enough dirt to expose head so he could breaths but otherwise ho could not move Goes For Help Immediately Nelson ran to Motion a quarter of a mile away and to Mathcson half a mile away to call help All the men who could be reached readily five or six in number rushed with Nolson to the scene of the disaster but out of this number only one man would dare go down the shaft with Nelson to dig out hla partner Hurled Mx Hours Although It was Just a little after 11 when the cave occurred Ekstrom was not released until 5 o'clock though the two men dye almost without a moment's rest from tho start until Ekstrom was safely on top of earth He was at once sent to the Shasta county hospital in sn automobile Suffered Only From Gold 1 Ekstrom said the only real suffering he endured aside from mental anguish was the cold damp earth which seemed almost to act- ually freeze the marrow in hla bones Leg Probably Broken Dr Earnest Doiier county physician who attended Ekstrom immediately upon hla arrival at the county hospital found that the miner's leg is probably broken but of this he could not be positive because of the Intense swelling An X-ray examination will have to be made before this can be accurately determined Ekstrom is cut about the face by crushed rock and falling atones not body and ia more or leas bruised all over the body and haa a very bad cut in one hand Pneumonia Feared If pneumonia does not develop Dr Dozier says he can see no reason why the miner should not recover rapidly Ekstrom was resting easy Saturday night Partner Stands By Nelson came to the hospital with his partner and in true fashion says he will stand by' his "pard" until he is out of danger the spot and manufactured almost Tlio tliroo men will not ho held any longer la connection with the mall START UP FIRST FURNACE OF SIX IN HEROULT SMELTER ABOUT FIFTEEN DAYS Fred Ekstrom Not AUoe by Carl Nelson Held In Jail (Ckrl Nelson a iongltudlna young man of Redding and Clark Creek waa arrested Friday on a charge of Issuing and cashing worth-pleas checks Not being able to give the required ball of $500 he ia held in Jail Judge Ross has set preliminary examination for Monday morning at 10 o'clock BREVITIES Gtorge Cochran who on South Fork near Igo wse in Raiding Wednesday to claim bounty on feurteen coyote hides Mies Annie Stanfield teacher of the French Gulch echool la in Redding to spend the better part of Sunday James Burton of Pslo Cedro was in this city Friday and waa accompanied by Eli Addington the Palo Cedro merchant John Meyer of Bella Vista in this city Saturday to cash in on a coyote hide He caught the coyote in a trap Mrs Edith Herrick teachor of the Centerville school district came to Redding Friday evening on a shopping trip Mrs Downing came up from her home near Cottonwood Saturday and spent the day visiting Redding friends Mr and Mrs Frank Rice of Whis-kytown were In Redding Saturday on their way to Anderson Rice Is mining near Whiakytown Mrs Isaac Melton of Oak Run left this city Saturday for San Francisco where she will spend a week with her son Carroll Melton Miss Arleta Hubbard who teaching the Round Mountain school in Oak Run valley was in the county scat Saturday Marvin Daw and John A Fleming Whiakytown miners motored down to ltodding Saturday and brought along some gold duet George Cochran who hoe been living on South Fork near Igo left this city Saturday evening for Modesto where he plans to remain Hans Bue who recently bought buolneee in Ingot arrived In Redding Thursday evening from Seattle where he still haa business interests 8 Fltswater after stopping off In Redding for two days lert Saturday for hla home end business in fall River Mills Fltswater spent the winter down state Mrs Sherman While will leave this morning for the south on an extended visit Sho will visit In Bun Francisco and Sacramento and also go to Modesto to visit her daughter Mrs Fulkerth Monar I) Nicholson who had been in Berkeley to visit his wife and daughter left this city Saturday morning for hla farm near McArthur His daughters are students in the state university Edwards the Weavervllle banker who hod been In Sacramento to attend a meeting of the California Development association left this city Friday for his Trinity county home Frank Myers forest rarger Rationed at Fail River Mills returned Thursday from San Francisco here he spent lost week attending thu state convention of forest inea Myers left at once for Fall Rler Mills Bpargo forest ranger whose atutlon la on Squaw creek above Wlnthrop pussed through Redding Thursday on hie way from the state convention of foresters ia Sun Francisco to his station in the Hhusla National forest A SlSlilYOU COUNTY IS TO DISCONTINUE COUNTY red cross nurse service YKKKA Februury 28 On account of the lHck of funds the Siskiyou County chnplcr of the Ainerl-rnn Red Cross finds It necessury to discontinue the Red Cross nursing program on the first of March No atlcmpl will be made to restore this unless flnanclul backing Is forth coming from the communities demanding It BACK TO ENGIiAND COTTONWOOD February Sirs Ellen June Clark who has been employed on a farm near Cottonwood left thia week for her old home in England to remalq Development of coal In the region of Clover creek ud Oak Run la being pushed vigorously at three different point and thirty-six miner are employed There are twelve men at each mine and they work in eight-hour shifts of four men each Owner of Land Mamed The mining ground ia on the land of Ed Friable Btacher and Milton Hunt Hieing at Three Points For convenience the mlnea may be called Noe 1 and I No 1 ia on the Friable land Thera the tunnel haa been driven 450 feet and all the way in coal The tunnel ia being puahed forward at the rate of 105 feet a week The tunnel la to be driven 1000 feet The ledge of coal in thia mine ia 0 feet thick Dodge Feet Thick In mine No 3 the ledge ia 5 feet thick Here the tunnel in coal all the way haa been driven 150 feet Projecting in No In mine No the tunnel haa been driven only 61 feet Thia ia a prospecting tunnel and ao far no coal development of conaequence haa been made Build Houaea For Worker Mine No 1 a bunkhous and boarding house have been erected for the convenience of the minora Like accommodations' will be provided soon at No 3 and No 1 For the present men employed in thoae two campa find accommodations at the homes of farmers of the Mi DAY PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION HAD ELABORATE PROGRAM AND MANY VISITORS (Special to The Searchlight) COTTONWOOD February 26 The most pleasant afternoon in the history of the Cottonwood Parent-Teacher association waa spent Tuesday when Founders' day waa observed with visitors from the Redding Parent-Teacher association members and others from Cottonwood All enjoyed the program After busineaa waa disposed of an entertainment was given It was prepared by the following committee: Mrs Thomas Cordl Mrs John Ogburn and Mra George Carter The program: Mra George Carter Mrs John Owens Mra Thomas Cordl Mra Joseph Roth and Mra Walter Johnston tribute to A' Mra Walter Johnston recitation Melba Staser recitation "America For Virginia Johnston reading Lena Augustlna solo Mra JoseJh Roth and Mra Thomas Cordl Edgar Roth accompanying on the violin violin solo Edgar Roth After the program refreshments were ssrved by the following committee: Mrs Ernest Long Mra Lao Corby and Mra Walter Johnston The lighting of the birthday cake with its twenty-eight candles reminded all that the Parent-Teacher association is Just 21 years old HEAVY CABLE FOR IRANUNE ARRIVES Several reels of inch and an eighth wire cable have arrived at the Redding station for the Riblet Tramway company This is the traction cable for the Ingot-Bully Hill tramline which is to be a trifle less than eight miles in length The smaller cable or haul line ar-rivel several days ego All the cable was mads in the Roebllng works in Trenton New Jersey Cram-Martin Clarence Crum a young man of Shasta and Miss Eva Martin of Red Bluff were married last Tuesday In Reno Nevada the Molding taking place in the home of Mr and Mra Ed Clawaon Clarence Crum son of Mr and Mra William Crum has been emp'oyed in the Nevada mlnea for a year Mr and Mrs Crum arrived in Redding Friday and spent the day purchasing furnishings to go to housekeeping at the Hornet mino Crum worked for the Mountain Copper company there for three years prior to going to Nevada and now goes back to the old camp to return work DEFEATED FOR DIRECTOR IN IRRIGATION DISTRICT BY VOTES AND ALLEGES IRREGULARITIES THAT MADE LESLIE ELECTION POSSIBLE Vern Bergen is to contest- the election of Leslie Franck as a director- of the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation district from the Clear Creek division At the election held on February 4 Franck received 17 votes to Bergen's 14 While the cumplaint has not been filed the attorney who has prepared it has until thirty days after the election results were proclaimed to do so Bergen alleges that six patients in the county hospital who were not registered voters were allowed to vote It is further alleged that Walter A Brown a member of the election board was not even a registered voter and he also voted Brown once owned a farm In the district and even served as a director in the district for a term However he returned to his farm a few months ago but he has not become a registered voter since coming back His name is not on the register STILL AFTER CARTER MARCH 6 IS SET AS DATE FOR LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATION OF TI1E VAIL-WHITE CASE SACRAMENTO February March 6 was set last night by the assembly Judiciary committee as the date on which that body will take first formal action on Assemblyman Roscoe resolution demanding an investigation of the underlying reasons the Shasta county district attorney's alleged refusal to prosecute John Vail federal prohibition agent for the slaying of James White deputy game warden at the Costella Springs hotel in the fall of 1923 The dale was set as that for consideration by the committee of Anderson's resolution Although Anderson sought to have the hearing postponed another week in order that interested persons in Shasta county might be notified and prepared to attend the committee decided to limit the outside witnesses at the hearing next week to Attorney General 8 Webb whom Anderson charges with failure to designate a special prosecutor although petitions have been presented him and members of the state game and fish commission TO TAKEFARM CENSUS FRED FOWLER WILL ON T11E WORK MONDAY MARCH 1 Fred Fowler of Pacheco valley has Just completed taking the farm census of Millville and Round Mountain townships where he found 200 forma No enumerator having been found willing to take the farm census In Burney townahip the department has asked Fowler to cover that township too He has 'Accepted the duty and will enter on his work next Monday He expects to find at least one hundred farms in Burney township Anderson Mr and Mra Lloyd Smith wa -o called to Sacramento Tuesday by the death of a relative Cody of Wolf Point Montana la in Anderson to vlait hir brother Cody Robert Spann and Miss Mll-lrel Daw of Alameda were guests of hi and Mra Bryan Shanahan over the week-end Spann Is a brother of Mrs Shanahan Mr and Mra Uny Kimball who have been vlslllng various parts of Alaska and Canada were guests of Mr and Mrs Rolla Arbuckle Mon day and Tuesday while en route to their home at Los Angeles FORESTERS TO WEAVEKY1LLE John Gray deputy forest au porvlsor and Graham forest ranger arrived in Redding last evening from the state convention In San Francisco They will leave today for their headquarters In Weavervllle ENTER Dear Searchlight: Since you col lect news from all parts of the country- perhaps it would be Interesting to you and your readers to learn that 'a move' 1 of much importance to the county and state along agricultural lines ia being projected in a section of country that was never believed to be in any way agricultural A few yeara ego several men rf scientific turn of mind conceived the idea of rivaling Burbank by ere sting new and better fruit by crossing species So they set about to cross the Anderson valley prune with the Whiakytown buckeye The prune being a laxative and the buckeye ball an astringent they had rSison to believe that the cross would a healthier and much larger fru't Then again they wished to cross the Happy valley olive with the Quarts Hill monsanita The ilht being tough and woody and the mansanlta berry- dry and brittle the cross would naturally be a little less oily but more digestible and palatable These men have worked scientifically and Industriously for the past two years end now have every reason to believe their efforts will be crowned with success They are very sure that the two new fruits formed by the crosses will in a few years supplant the four parent fruits And since at least two of the parent stock are Indigenous to the county and thrive on poor and arid land there can be no doubt that it will make valuable thousanli of acres of lend heretofore woriMsw It will bring hundreds of families and thousands of dollar into the county Our people out here are very optimistic and enthusiastic over tlic project They believe that thera men and this new Industry should be encouraged so much so that we called a mass meeting at Horse-town end had a full house representative men from every part of the country where buckeyes and man-sanltas flourish We formed ourserves Into a cooperative union wilh the following centers: 1 Horse town 2 Whiakytown Churntown 4 Buckeye 5 Centerville These centors will meet monthly as follows: Horsetown center first Monday of the month Whiakytown first Tuesday Churntown Wednesday afternoon Buckeye at night Centerville on the second Friday On the third Saturday the directors and executive committee will meet at Jackass Flat to discuss ways and means and transact business Now we discussed this cooperative union from every angle and It was the consensus of opinion that we can moke It self sustaining when we get underway It being a new industry that will surely bring great wealth to the county we think it nothing more than right that the board of supervisors should give at least 2000 to these two scientists as a token of appreciation for the wonderful accomplishment they have performed We ought to have an entomologist to watch the scales on us and a doinonslralor to make some optimistic sauce flavored with prune pie on olive oil to eat with buckeye balls and manznnlta berries But we will not sek county aid for this purpose Since the demand for our new products will tbe so great it will be impossible for several years to meet It But with the millions of scions ready for the cross there can be no doubt that in two years we will be one' of the greatest fruit producing sections in the world No we will not ask county aid We will practice economy leave our Fords sit under the treus and hide ourselves sway among our bushes until our now and delicious fruits favor us with fortunes No we will accept no alms our delegates were so Instructed at our Horsetown meeting JAKE SHIPMENT OF IRON ORE SUSPENDED FOR TIME BEING AS RESULT OF RECENT HEAVY RAINS CAUSING SURFACE WORKINGS TO TO MAKE STEEL ONLY FROM IRON ORE The first of six 60-ton furnacesi tho electric iron smelter at He-( roult will bo started up In about flf days according to Mayberry superintendent of tho Shasta and Steel company who was in Redding yesterday The Bhuata Iron and Steel company is operating the Shasta Iron company's iron mines and the Noble Electric Steel company's iron under an option Elect rudu Solved LABORS ARE ENDED HERMAN HUEL8MAX AGED 71 DIED FRIDAY FUNERAL IN IGO SUNDAY (Special to The Searchlight) ONO February 27 Herman Huelsman Sr blacksmith and stockralscr at this place for yeara died this morning after a long 111-nesa The funeral under the direction of the Odd Fellows will be held in I go at 2:80 Sunday afternoon Herman Huelaman born in Germany waa aged 71 years He came to this country when a young man and was employed first at Igo as a teamster and horseshoer luter he moved to Gas Point where he opened a blacksmith shop but for the last thirty years or more the decedent mode his home in Ono where he followed his trade as a blacksmith He was a man of wonder-0 ful strength and was always in perfect health until a few months ago The decedent leaves the widow Mrs Emma Huelsman formerly Miss Emma Lcschinsky and two sons and a daughter Huelsman Charles Huelsman and Mra Howard Marx HAD NO DEPOSIT TO MAKE CHECK GOOD Taber arriving in Redd'ng from Orovllle Friday was arrested on a complaint charging wilh cashing a spurious check A check for 5 was cashed by him at the Baltimore restaurant on Februsry 14 it is alleged and he had no money to make it good When Taber arrived in Redding he cim plained of not feeling well Ross released him over night on producing 100 in cosh bail but after being arraigned SaarUy morning ball was raised to $500 Taber could not give this bail So he was token to the county Jail Taber returned to Redding from Orovllle in company of Mra Hud-dleson DEEDED TO LKIX1NGER On June 80 1823 Archer deeded to Ldnlnger the east half of northeast quarter east half of west half of northeast quarter section 8 township II north range 5 west ICO acrca The deed waa filed Friday for record BUYS IS AC11ES Abel Bourgee of Anderson for $2500 haa bought from Mra Nellie Reading IS acres in the Nellie Reading portion of the Washington section of the Reading grant The deed waa filed for record Saturday FAMILY FROM SPOKANE Mrs Gilmore end children arrived in Redding Thursday morning from Spokane They came to Join their husband and father Gilmore foreman in the Riblet Tramway company's shops in teen Iron smelter When tho electric steel smelter dries at the bay until quite recently was operated several years ego one The heavy rains caused the iron of the causes of the failure to make mine to cave in for the workings it pay was the great cost of theirs near the srface This difficulty elect rodcs That difficulty has been' will be overcome by running a tun-overcome according to Superintend- nol to the ore body lower down tho ent Mayberry by acquiring the ex-j mountain side This will be elusive right to use the Scdcburg small task as the distance ia not electrodes which will be made on great Men Arrested In Mexico Are Not The Bandit Brothers Chief Special Agent of Southern Pacific Reports Hs Is Ready to Turn Loose Three Men Held at Sonora Town-Men May Be Held by Mexican Police for Examination KAN FRANCISCO February 26 resulled in Uie death of four of Dan OTnuiicIl rtilcf sixvial agent' tho train crew in Oregon near Um for tho Sotlimi Pacific railroad lias California border October 14 1828 automatically as they are consumed Mako Steel Only Steel will be made direct from the iron ore The ore is rich ia magnetite but the percentage of magnetite will be raised from 45 and 55 per cent to CS and 70 per cent by a magnetite separator Stop Shipping Iran Ore The company haa been shipping a carload of iron ore a day to foun- sent tho coniNiny a iiiCNNOgu from EHiieranxa Mexico saying lio is con- vlnml that three minmc4s held lliere roblwry it waa said at Southern Fa- aro not tlio d'Aiitremout braUicrsj dMc headquarters hero and waiUMl for murder and robbery in llie ilex loan authorities have connection with the dynamiting of thing against them they wfll ba rail io Southern Pacific mall car that leased jinnnnnmmn-n imwwwa ALMOX WIXON PASSES Alinon Wixon aged 74 a pioneer of Diinsmulr died In tho Yreka hospital Tuesday after a lingering illness 7 FROM WINTHROP TO IDAHO Mlse Susan Hosao after spending two montha 'in Wlnthrop with bar parents lfr and Mra Harry Hoaae waa in Redding Thursday morning on her way beck to Boise Idaho PIONEER STRICKEN 8 Childs pioneer settler at Manlon was stricken by paralysis Tuesday He is aged 81 years und a veteran of Ihs Civil war Childs has lived in Menton for forty years He conducted a storo there until recently when ho retired Childs' store is in Tehama county but his residence Is on the Shasta county side of Digger creek tho county boundary DEEDS QUARTER SECTION The Pacific One and Electric company has deeded to II Ward the northeast quarter of section 21 in township 80 north range east There are several email exceptions in the land deeded.