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Subject: [CAShasta] Today in History - November 1-10 1901
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:57:28 -0700
this is a daily article in the Redding Record Searchlight for Novemer 1901
1st Ira Cannon of Modoc County was in Redding bearing a load of butter. He
was headed for San Francisco to visit former Modoc Superior Court Judge
C.L. Clafton, Cannon's brother-in-law.
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2nd the Southern Pacific Co. paid the first installment of taxes on its
land in Shasta County. The bill totaled $7,908.79
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3rd no more passengers would be given accommodations on freight train
lines between Dunsmuir and Red Bluff, said Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
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4th a runaway team of horses attached to an unoccupied wagon collided with
a brick outhouse at the edge of an alley behind the Frank Yung Saloon.
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5th the old Eaton farm on Stillwater, a 200-acre property owned by Elmus
Nickolas of Anderson, was sold to the Kelly brothers, stockmen of Bully
Hill, for $1,500.
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6th it was discovered that an earlier report of a robbery made by the free
press was nothing more than a practical joke. John M. Basset of Redding
reported to the paper and to police that he was robbed of $3.50. His
assailant was described as a tall light and short dark man.
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7th attorney F.P. Primm rode his horse out to Quartz Hill and returned to
report he had seen more quartz than he'd ever seen before. He said, "If all
that quartz were as rich in gold as most of Shasta County's quartz, the
owner of a mining claim thereon would be a veritable Croesus."
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8th the thugs who had earlier murdered a fellow traveler were identified as
Frank Moran, Mike Gratz, and Edward Silva. Silva was reported as being from
Anderson and having a hard reputation. The men were brought into Shasta
County Court, though they had no council, for the murder of Harry Conway,
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9th a small child in a Redding family was reported to have an advanced case
of scarlet fever, The family members were quarantined against their wishes
and said they would come and go as they pleased, allowing others to do the
same.
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10th Tom Fitzpatrick shot John Hall at the Market Street Saloon in Redding.
The bullet passed through Hall's right breast and exited under his arm,
leaving him with a painful but not serious wound.
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Transcribed by Viola Patton
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