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...Yreka, Calif., citizens of five counties "seceded" from Oregon and California, elected a Governor, held a torchlight parade, carried signs reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...
...railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating...
Since Aug. 1, membership in the mighty Associated Press has been granted to the Newport, Ark. Independent; Yreka, Calif. News; Sanford, Fla. Signal and Times; Sterling, Ill. Daily Gazette; Cherokee, Ia. Daily Times; Grand Haven, Mich. Tribune; Charlottesville, Va. Daily Progress; Two Rivers, Wis. Reporter and Chronicle; Mexico City El Universal Grafico...