Mysterious Murders
Two Man Found Killed on Two California Ranches
Sacramento Cal. Sept 2-- The dead bodies of William Taylor and Hansen Rasmussen were found to-day on adjoining ranchers near Folsom Both men had been murdered, Taylor was shot through the head and stomach. Two bullets were imbedded in Rasmussen's head and one in his right side Taylor was an elderly man employed to care for the ranch of Prazzo Brothers, who have taken their stock to the mountains to graze Rasmussen worked on the place of William Carpenter, a mile distant. He was also alone on the ranch. Each man had been killed in his employer's house and neither had been seen since last Thursday, Nothing about the house was disturbed, except a trunk in the Prazzo residence, but it does not appear that anything was taken. There is not the slightest clew to the person of persons who murdered the men and the whole affair is wrapped in the deepest mystery
 [Anaconda Standard  9/3/1900 Contributed by Erica Beatty ]

Schools in California.
    There are fifteen public schools in Sacramento City, with 981 scholars, and an average attendance of 637. The last report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction exhibited the fact that of 48,676 children in the State, of proper ages to attend schools, only 27,601 had been gathered into the educational ranks. [The Campaign Union, Boston, Tuesday Morning, Sept. 18, 1860. Submitted by Candi Horton]

Lecturing in San Francisco.
    The Second Brigade, Second Division California Militia propose a course of lectures the ensuing autumn for the benefit
of the uniformed companies in the Brigade. Among the gentlemen solicited to lecture are Senator Bayard and Gen. Caleb Cushing. This is going a long way for a lecturer.  [The Campaign Union, Boston, Tuesday Morning, Sept. 18, 1860. Submitted by Candi Horton]