Mountain Democrat (Newspaper) - August 3, 2000, Placerville, California Foothill Yan can cook Sports Midget Lites at speedway Auto Volvo equals safety Mountain Froggie plan has warts Nutting says THURSDAY AUGUST 3 2000 Vol 149 No 123 20 Pages 2 Sections 3 Supplements California's oldest Continuous publication since 1851 -I I- j 604 LIJ GIT 940 5 SUNNY VAL P CA oOC includes tax By StalT writer Tlic beginning Mages of the invasion of the California legged frog have begun On Tuesday the HI Dorado County Boaid of Supervisors took heated comments from the public on he U.S Fish and Wildlife Service's recovery plan for the California red-legged frog The U.S and Wildlife ice is planning to recover the species in the southeast portion of the county w hich includes Traverse Creek Weber Creek and the North and Middle forks of the River But according to the maps vided by the service most of the core areas that are set aside for the recovery of the frog are not in their traditional range noted Supervisor Ray Nulling An aica resident agreed Less than 20 percent of the posed core areas arc in the historical range said Elizabeth Churchill an audience member The change of the traditional range raised suspicion in the ence One audience member Connie Snow saw the use of the see FROGS page Hiker injured in drop By BROOKS StalT writer A man hiking near Horsetail Falls fell KM feet down a cliff Tuesday night after slipping on wet locks north of Highway 50 near Echo Summit according to El Dorado County sheriff's deputy Todd Crawford Rescuers worked late into the night to bring the injured hiker to safety He's lucky to be alive said an exhausted Crawford the ing after the rescue Patrick Mann a Indiana resident and four friends set out Tuesday on a day hike to Ropi Lake when heavy storms set in Crawford said and the group turned around to head home The five men are childhood friends four from Indiana and one from Shingle Springs who see HIKER page Democrat photo by William A Scales BARELY VISIBLE in an upstairs window firefighters shrouded in smoke battle a Cameron Park house fire as colleagues lend support from the ground House bums in Cameron Park By BROOKS Staff writer PARK two-story home here Tuesday the garage and two upstairs according to Larry McBride of the Cameron Park Community Services District Firefighters from eight responded to the call battling both the lire and the degree weather in heavy turnout suits It's tough as hell said Scott Lewis of the Dorado County Fire Protection District as he took a break under a shady tree in front of the house We've not hich temperatures outside temperatures exceeding 500 degrees inside high humidity and a stubborn lire in the attic brown smoke billowed in dense plumes Lane on the scorching Tuesday afternoon rolling over crowds of watching crews light the The house was already fully involved by the lime a neighbor called emergency dispatch to report the fire shortly after 2 p.m Units responded from County Fire the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection El Dorado Hills Fire Diamond Spi Dorado Fire and CDF Cameron Park clogging the street with beeping engines and filling the drainage ditches with rivers of brown water see FIRE page North state power shortage affects sawmills operations By JONATHAN Staff writer FOLSOM The people have the power not enough of it The Independent System Operator has declared a Stage II power emergency across the state of California meaning some local businesses have had to halt operation during peak hours of the day California as well as the rest of the U.S is required to carry a certain amount of said Gary Heath executive director of the California Electricity Oversight Board Monday Lumber Co shut clown its Latrobe sawmill from I MO p.m to 7 p.m according to an agreement it has with Pacific Gas Electric Co This agreement allows to tell thai they need to shut off their power to conserve energy then has as little as to prepare their mill for shut-down Cecil president of Oviatt said the company is also taking other efforts such as turning off any unnecessary lights in the offices Sierra Pacific Industries sawmill in has altered its second shift due to power constraints as well A Stage II emergency is called when electricity reserve fall below 5 percent A Stage I emergency is when the state has less than 7 percent reserve and Stage III when there is less than I percent and rolling blackouts occur see POWER SHORTAGE page Author visits Hawaiian mining camp site near Coloma By GEORGE LLOYD Staff writer COLOMA Like a graveyard headstone a single rock wall marks the spot of a Gold Rush mining town about three miles north of Coloma Kanaka Town was home to several hundred Hawaiian miners and was the largest of several Hawaiian ties in the said historian Anthony Belli of Pollock Pines Belli recently visited the site with San Jose State University assistant professor Rona Halualani who is writing a book on Hawaiian immigration Kanaka is a Hawaiian term meaning said Halualani It was a term easily adopted by the white culture to use when referring to Hawaiians Belli said other Hawaiian camps in the county were similarly named We had Kanaka Valley Kanaka Flat and Kanaka Bar But Belli said the site at Kanaka Town was the largest It was the only one that had a church The rock wall sits in the middle of several tures barely distinguishable from the dry bed of nearby Irish Creek Seeing the wall situated in the mid- dle of the other structures which delineate the camp -1 think the wall might be the what's left of the church as it would have served as a community HISTORY BUFF TONY BELLI left shows ruins of Kanaka Town to two Hawaiian Gold Rush Democrat photo by Joanne McCubrey visitors studying Hawaiian immigrants during the said Halualani Halualani who has written a book on Hawaiian migration has also discovered sites in Florida and Oregon When I learned of Anthony's work in mapping ethnic communities in El Dorado County during the Gold Rush 1 got in touch with Halualani said Belli said he was amazed at how little information exists about the Hawaiians The City Map places the site here and a Pre-emption Notice of 1865 used the Kanaka Town burial site as a corner of a mining claim But that's about it White camps with as few as 10 members were recorded on the maps but here we have a camp of several hundred people with not a mention in mining claims or erty deeds Belli said the Hawaiians were in the locale from about 1830 until 1912 when the last member of Kanaka Town Kanaka Jack died in the county tal The first Hawaiians came as bers of ships crews Because of their seafaring skills they the Hawaiians were hired by white who stopped in Hawaii on their way to the California coast But conditions on board those ships were so bad the Hawaiian seamen jumped ship at the first opportunity Belli said much of the community seo MINING CAMP page
