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Lola Montez in Grass Valley (PH 17-1)(Undated) (40 pages)
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Page: of 40
LOLA MONTEZ -= LoTTA CRABTREE ms
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said,
'This is my own, my native land? a
For the past eleven weeks, your narrator has taken his listeners on a
long trip over rugged terrain, through vale and dell, over mountain tops, sliding
and slipping into deep ravines and gullies, we have wandered through great forests
and as we went along,ve tried to present a picture of days of long ago, passed
but not forgotten.
We lave mentioned the names of men and women who with blazing courage and
undeniable physical strength, mastered the hardships only found in virgin territory
of a great nation and state that bears the name California.
The enforcement of law in the gold rush days was man's own conception of
lay and order. It was the Barclay Affair that shocked even the most extreme
vigilante. It was J. W. Cofforth who incited the mob. A Mr. Oxley defended the
culprit. Sheriff Stewart demanded that the law should handle the matter. Stewart
was a real officer, fought with courage, but was overpowered. Barclay was jerked
into the air,while fiery torches lit up the surroundingarea, grasping the rope
with both hands to relieve the pressure on his neck, when an onlooker shot him in
the hands and he swung to his death. Men who were inflifferent to lynch law saw
that if this type of justice continued no man could be sure of a fair trial. The
reaction was salutary. The administration of justice by the courts improved rapidly
and with the growing assurance of regularized punishment for minor and major
crimes, the foothill towns swung solidly toward law and order.
Now there were saner outlets for mz minerst energy. Wives and children
were no longer a rarity in the hillse A man had his home to look out for, his
family to support, his membership in 4 fire company to occupy him with one regular
meeting a week. As the camps grew to Villages and then to towns, there were
dozens of fresh mx occupations to anchor the miner to respectability. He was
growing a little older for one things He had his lodge, his church, there were.