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THE COURIER, PETALUMA, SONOMA COUNTY, DCEMBER 17, 1890. COURIERLETS. the place formerly occupied by the Argus, below the First National bank. Go to the City, Store for tiller, which is convenient. kerosene oil.

Finch can has an Excelsior low. A new skating rink is occupying quarters recently vacated by the Salvation Army. Good exercise for frosty evenings. When in San Francisco visit the panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg museum, corner market and 10th street, the only panorama on exhibition in city. Mrs.

Woodworth, the self-styled evangelist, in Indiana, throwing young women of feeble intellect into trances. and working upon their hysterical pensities. On December 29th taxes will become delinquent. The new sheriff will have collect them. The present sheriff and deputies will be collecting taxes up the day they go out of office.

This morning's passenger train from San Francisco was delayed by a slight accident to the preceding freight train at the bridge near the Patent brick yard. It reached Petaluma at twelve o'clock. Ed Ardell, the young man shot by Chas. Worth at Cloverdale, in a trifling quarrel, died Wednesday night from the effects his wound. Worth, who was admitted bail in the sum of $3,000, cannot be found.

tice's Patrick Tremble was tried in the court yesterday for assanlt and found guilty. He left Santa Rosa this morning to spend the winter. Five months is none too long for some slight offences. See notice in our advertising columns of meeting next Saturday afternoon the purpose of organizing a local Farmers' Alliance. A large attendance is earnestly desired.

State organizer, J. W. Hines, will be present. A very perceptible earthquake shock was felt in Sebastopol last Wednesday morning at 10:30. In Santa Rosa it created a sensation.

It must have been very slight here as we have heard no one speak of having felt it. The new channel being cut in marsh below town with the proposed embarcadero will be of value to Petaluma's commerce. The efforts of the who are pushing these enterprises will be duly appreciated by the citizens, and we hope will result in much good. Wm. H.

Jackson, night watchman for Kohler Frobling's wine cellar at Windsor, fell through an open hatchway on the roof of their fermenting house into fermenting tank. Wednesday night, and sustained injuries from which he died soon after. A man who has practiced medicine for years ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says: TOLEDO, JAN 10. 1887. Messrs.

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The postoffice at Zem Zem, Napa counhas been discontinued. Jos. Naylor. For good goods in contectionery he can't be beat. Murphy's barber-shop, next door to Ellsworth's furniture store.

Counterfeiters are turning out silver dollars at an alarming rate in San Francisco. The Reflector, a daily published at St. Helena, has given up the ghost. Lack of support. wotharley, a Hall falling received a ladder severe Monday scalp morning.

The masquerade ball on New Years eve promises to be one of the events of the season. Christmas goods. Before buying call and examine our line at Treuholtz drug store, Petaluma. Frank Kauffman of Sebastopol secured the one hundred and thirty-eighth choice in the Eraminer drawing. J.

Harris is moving his tin store to City Trustees. The trustees met Saturday evening, all present but Mr. Torr. The minutes were read. The city clerk was instructed to readvertise for bids for the construction of the Washington street sewer, as no size of pipe was mentioned in the former request.

A communication was received from the dredger company, asking pay for work done in the creek. It was referred to the city attorney. The report of the city treasurer in to the apportionment of the city moneys received from taxes, was received. The funds were replenished by the following amounts: General fund, 30 cents on $100. $5,597 50 Street fund, 30 cents on $100 5,597 46 Sewer fund, 5 cents on 8100....

932 91 Bon I fund, 20 on $100.. 3,731 64 River and Water front fund, 10 cents on $100 1,865 82 School 25 on $100........ 4,664 56 Library fund, 5 cents on 932 91 Total. $23,322 80 The treasurer also reported that city bonds numbers 16, 17. 18 and 19 have been called in and will be cancelled on the first Monday in January, 1891.

Interest coupons on bonds numbered from 16 to 80 will be paid at the same time, which will leave less than $300 in the bond fund. The sum of $5,500 was transferred from the street fund to the sewer fund. A warrant was ordered drawn in favor of C. B. Williams for the city's half of the cost of construction of the and Post streets sewers.

Some bills were allowed and the board adjourned till Saturday, December 20th, at 7 P. M. The reapportionment bill, based on the representation of 856 members of the house of representatives, as originally proposed by Frank of Missouri, was fav. orably aeted upon by the house committee on the census, and Dunnell subsequently reported the bill to the house. The report notes changes, and says that from the population of the United States the committee subtracted the population of the District of Columbia, Oklahoma and Utah.

The remainder was 61,008,906. With this number different ratios were I obtained by taking as a divisor any proposed number. Each number WaS taken from 882 to 875. Trials were made until a number was found which give a ratio which, in application, would secure each state against any loss in membership, and in no instance leave a major fraction. This number was found to be 356.

The ratio was 173,901. The number of members obtained on an even division was 339. The additional 17 needed to make 356 was seenred by giving another member to each of the states havleft to it a major fraction. These states are: Alabama, California. Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Is.

land, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. This apportionment gives the Republican states a small advantage. This could only be expected from a partisan house. The oscillation of the census may preclude any apportionment this time. It is to be hoped it will, as the census will not be certainly known for at least a year yet.

Special Correspondence to the Petaluma Courier. BODEGA ITEMS. BODEGA, December 14, 1890. L. S.

Goodman has gone, to San Francisco to lay in his supply of holiday goods. Chick Doody, the genial proprietor of the Altamont hotel of Occidental, was in town yesterday. Dr. J. J.

Hackett of Markham's is in town. T. B. Joy spent Saturday in Santa Rosa. H.

Smith of Coleman valley was in town today. A few weeks ago the Native Sons organized a parlor at Occidental with a membership of about thirty. There is some talk of organizing a parlor here. Miss Joy was the guest of Mrs. A.

Fletcher, nee Kuffel of Santa Rosa, last week. Lee Hakes and wife of Nevada are visiting in Freestone. Maggie. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

P. Roach, died very suddenly Tuesday of heart failure at their residence near Valley Ford. Mrs. Furlong, mother of roadmaster Furlong, died at the residence of her son John, near Tomales, last week. The body was interred in the Catholic cemetery here on Friday.

Rumors reached here Saturday of a fight on a load of hay. which took place between McCarty's saloon and Bodega Roads station. For obvious reasons the names of the participants are withheld. If the unlucky party had not imbided so freely of whisky he probably would not felt so frisky He gave the driver an unlooked for blow in the mouth, whereat the driver laid down his reins and proceeded to retaliate. The wagon and hay proved that he did his work with a vengeance, as they were copiously sprinkled with human claret.

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Court Proceedings. DEPARTMENT 1, PROBATE- -PRENALEY, J. Estate of Weiler- Administrator appointed, bond $2,600, Estate of George Green- -Error confessed; 10 days to amend petition for homestead. Estate of Charles Thomas--Account settled and allowed. Estate of Robin and Stewart Vance, minors Order extending time to and including December 25th, to prepare and present bill of exceptions, Estate of Rhynearson- -Order of sale of real estate; no additional bonds required, Estate of Drummond Continued to December 22nd.

Estate of Caroline Beeson -Account settled and allowed; distribution ordered. Estate of John McAllen Brown et minors- Order confirming sale of real estate Estateof Edward Teevin-Account settled and allowed. Estate of Richard Comerford--Account settled and allowed, and decree of final discharge Estate of Charles Fox--Account settled and distribution ordered. of of John sophronia admitted to probate. Estate Administrator appointed; bond tate of Cook--Order setting aside homestead and personal property, Estate of December Walker, an Incompetent person--Continued to 22.

Estate of Carrie Sterling et minors -Continued to Decemder 22. E. tate of Wm I Rector--Continued to December 22. CRIMINAL AND CIVIL. The People vs.

Donovan--Set for January 7th. In re writ of review against justice court of Mendo cino town.ship--Court adjudges that the justice's court has no jurisdiction and that the judgment thereof is null and void. The People vs. Frank Colby, -Case dismissed on the ground of insufficient evidence to warrant a con viction. The People vs.

James Ocker- Defendant plea set for Decemder 19. Patrick Rafferty et al. vs. John Giviin--Set for Decetoer 24 Manford va Luttrell--Set for January 6, 1891. DEPARTMENT 2 CIVILMarion Solomon -V8 Barn hardt- Set for trial December 24th.

Luigi Damico vs Casassa-Continued to January 5th. John Walker vs Pietro Cottini- -Demurrer withdrawn; ten days to answer. Bank of Sonoma county vs Sarah Ann Curtis-Default of defendant entered; judgment for plaintiff for Rosa A Behmer vs John Behmer -Demurrer overruled. City of Petaluma vs Conrad Poehlmann et al -Demurrer overruled; twenty days to answer. Altha Marie Millett v9 Alfred Richard Millett -Submitted.

Henry Holler vs Laura Holler- Divorce granted. Mary Webb vs Wm Webb--Divorce granted. In the matter of the estate of Simpson Taylor deceased--Motion for a new trial denied. Frances Kidd vs Kidd--Default of defendant entered; case referred to court commissioner. In matter of Paul Green, insolvent--Stay of execution for thirty days.

Rachel Snyder vs Sears--Stay of execution for twenty days. In re Chas Faber, insolvent debtor PH Rickliff appointed assignee; bond 8500. John Sargent vs Eftie Sargent--Motion for alimony denied without prejudice. Santa Rosa bank vs James Licking et al--Stricken from calendar. Nancy Hardin, executrix, ete vs Thomas MeagherContinued to December 22d.

Catherine Tuomy VS to December 22d. Thomas Rutledge vs Crawford--Continued to December Geo Wilkes ve Tarleton L. Crane--Continued to December 22d. John Traver vs Edwards et al--Default of defendants entered; order of judgment for piaintiff for 81,930 96; attorney fees $130; decree of foreclosure of mortgage. Sarah McChristian vs John Faught et al --Default of defendant Keser entered; continued to December 22d.

Frances A Cullen vs John Cullen--Submitted. NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. Sausalito is making a move to incor- porate. Exaniinations of applicants Tor ten certificates were held in San Rafael yesterday. a Mr.

Bennett, who designed the Sonoma county courthouse, died at Sacramento Tuesday week. A fire in Westport early Friday morning destroyed four buildings, all having some insurance. A week ago Sunday night Healdsburg was visited by the heaviest frost ever experienced in that locality. Adolphe Flamant shipped last Thursday a carload of olive trees to an olive company in Sonoma county. -Napa Journal.

Santa Rosa merchants say they are doing a very good business; fully one hundred per cent better than last year at this season. The steamer South Coast went ashore at Fort Bragg during the gale of December 3rd, and the schooner Abbie went ashore at Caspar the same day. Bruce Cockrill, a horseman well known throughout the state. was thrown from his st Salinas on the 1st. and died from injuries received.

On Monday Judge Hunter sentenced Nelson W. Greenman. the slayer of Sissul, to imprisonnent in San Quentin for the term of his natural life. Rohnerville Herald. It is said that the bonds on which Worth, the Cloverdale man, was allowed freedom, pending the result of Ardell's wounds, are illegal and cannot be collected.

Four Chinese in Marin county, charged with illegal fishing, were discharged Thursday on account of inadequate complaint; four more were arrested and held for trial. There is reason to believe that a branch of the Donahue railroad will be built between Sanel and Lakeport. Five thousand dollars have already been subscribed by Lake county people without any canvas. Evans Jackson, a mill hand at Rider's sawmill near Westport, sustained injuries by getting his hand 10 the machinery Wednesday. with the result that the thumb and first three fingers had to be amputated.

A St Helena Chinaman has bought his bride, in for the her approved celestial fashion paying $500 and two fat hogs. They are going to have a tony wedding after, built which for they them. will live in a new cottage Over $48,600 worth of dried grapes have been shipped from Cloverdale by Cook Langley of Riverside, this year, and the same parties bought over $48,000 worth of prunes from Miller Hotchkiss of -Revublican. Rafael, John Duetsch, committed a Bavarian suicide living in San by taking strychnine Wednesday, at the residence of. his was brother man, about Matthew fifty Hart.

years old, and said to be a little unsound in mind. Messrs. McKay and Flood have about completed a system of canals to drain thoroughly the stretch of marshdand between the old toll road and the San Quentin hills, extending from San Rafael to Simms Island. This piece of fertile land is to be turned to agricultural account. One Dr.

Keeler, who has been employed in Dr. Biddle's office in Healdsburg, skipped out last Thursday and left an unpaid board bill, and neglected to account for 8200 of his employer's money. He went in answer to a telegram purporting to come from a sick wife. When in San Francisco he purchased goods to the amount of $50 on Dr. Biddie's account.

He has been arrested Fresno, and will return to Healdsburg, for a hearing before its court. The amount held against him is about 8400. The corner stone of the new insane asylum at 1 Mendocino was laid Tuesday week. Geo, Tompkins, a drunken logger at Marysville, fell from a second story hotel window with such force as to break a plank sidewalk, but miraculously escaped injury. Assistant Engineer McElroy, of the cruiser San Francisco, was dining at a Vallejo restaurant recently, when a lamp, hanging above his head exploded, injuring him seriously.

The safe of the Wigwam theater was looted by masked burglars recently and $1,900 in money and jewelry were stolen. The watchman was tied and gagged, and remained so for five hours. Harry Baldwin of San Francisco, a young man from the east, took chloral three times with suicidal intent, and jumped into the bay, all within a week, but fate was against his wish and he was saved. J. G.

Kittle Co's oil aud lead works were consumed by fire early last Wednesday. Loss about $100.000. Insurance 875.000. The same works met a like fate last June, and were not entirely rebuilt when swept away again. The San Francisco and North Pacific Improvement company has determined to sell its property at Ukiah and don that town as a field of operation.

The reason assigned by the company for this step is that the people of Ukiah do not extend reasonable support in the works proposed; but the local press declares that the true reason is that the death of J. M. Donahue extinguished the moving spirit of the company. Donahue was the principal stockholder, and thought liveliest, he could make Ukiah one of the most prosperous cities in -Enterprise. Card From Mr.

Puckett. EDITOR COURIER. -Will you as an act of justice give place to the following corrections of statements made in your last issue in regard to the shooting of my son. Alfred J. Puckett, by Billy Cook? First, the shooting took place after dark.

Second, there was no strayed calf then or any other time, on my premises belonging to James M. Todd. Third, I had no hired man then. I have a small boy living in my family, who used no rough language to James M. Todd or his stepsons.

All the bad language used was Billy Cook and his two brothers. Billy Cook shot at me and the bullet whistled by my head, and he shot at my son before my son tried to disarm him. He fired four shots at us in all. The first shot went over his head. the second went through his coat and took the skin off his shoulder.

The last bullet passed into his body. While Billy Cook was shooting my son, James M. Todd, his two stepsons. Melvin and Adelbert Cook. John Crilly and a man whose identity is still uncertain, were assulting me at the same time in a most ferocious manner, which prevented from assisting my son to the house after he was shot.

Neither my son nor myself was armed never carried arms. though we were warned over a year ago to look out for Billy Cook, but paid no attention to it. which was very near being fatal neglect for us. Next, Billy Cook will be twenty years next month. Melvin's and Adelbert's ages are eighteen and sixteen years respectively.

old. He John took Crilly is active also sixteen years a very the affair, he and Melvin Cook telling Billy Cook to shoot old Puckett, after the shooting of my son, but either his revolver would not work or he had no more bullets with him. They did their best to kill me, however. Billy Cook and the others are out under bonds. I hope those papers that copied your article will do me the justice to copy this also.

E. H. PUCKETT, VALLEJO TOWNSHIP, December 14, 1890. BORN. HOOD--In Santa Rosa, December 12, 1890, to the wife of L.

E. Hood, a son. MARRIED. STREET-DAVIS--In East Oakland, December 4 1890, by Rev. E.

C. Chapman, Walter Street and Miss Gracie Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, formerly of Petaluma.

DIED. SITTON ---In Sacramento, December 14, 1890, Mrs Sitton, a native of Illinois, aged 47 years and 8 days. SCANNELL--In Petaluma, December 16, 1890, Jeremiah Scannel, a native of Ireland, aged 72 years. LAWRENCE-In this city, December 16 1890, James Lawrence, a native of Tennessee, aged 58 years. ROACH--Near Valley Ford, December 9, 1890, Maggie, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Roach.

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