Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — SQUANDERED EARNINGS [ARTICLE]

SQUANDERED EARNINGS

Therefore Judge, Refuses to Make a Citizen of the Spendthrift. Redding, Cal., Jan. 15.—Because an applicant for citizenship papers who has resided in Modoc county for six years and has earned $35 a month during that time admitted that he had saved nothing, but had wasted his substance in riotous living, Judge Raker ot Alturas refused to grant him the right to become an American.' The applicant was fully qualified in every other way, but said he had spent his earnings for liquor and gambling. A *• .