Historical Clippings Book (HC-A) (49 pages)

=. v= i . ae ae We may have respite from crime, Enters Jennic Rowe ‘are the great engine of love, valor and civilization. May their virtues ex eecd even the magnitude of their}. . CORNIA JEVADA, CALIF ORNITA, pi November 4, 1856. ie f » last 3 ye “us an . i skirts while their faults -be still small-. — The last time Rowe's circus shows "',) porace Rolfe, ' 7 ni ed here, two girls were in the troupe, al . er than their bonnets. S aes lan Bernardino. i fe: 3 Supposedly sisters, 13 and -15 years . } Brother: . 4 A sopiety is ‘being formed: Dy Lown of age. They were both taken iif . heat ie ane yrisoners escap: Bs . — by young ladies designed to induce; . a6 the circus was billed to"adSunday night three P aa at a oe en abstain from all Intoxl-. vince, Rowe arranged for them to . bd. from, OF ge aie Dick ana . ; ‘ eating drinks even ale and cider. Mem-) py oayq with Mrs. Palmer until his reJim Webster, Rattlesnake . Be Sy one Jim Farnsworth. They belong to ithe Tom Bell gang and were brought: here for trial. The watchman on bers are debarred from associating . with those who refuse to sign the a pledge. Now the boys are planning turn next year. They are conyales¢ing now and the town is yioher by tw> pretty girls, Lola and Jenny Rowe. <Jack, the leader of one set of the Dear Horace: a lgang. His headquarters are ina cave, Last night there was wind that whispered AE eae ne AONE me in the mountains, difficult of access,. And a silver-tinted sky.) Johnson, They went out on So a 3 Story. a society requiring the ladies to abandon hoops, paints and silks. Let me hear from you soon, . TALLMAN. i NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, { Oct, 15, 1856. . 'To Sam Rolfe, ’ San Bernardino, Dear Sam: ' I saw, on Monday a lot of golq dust valued at $600 or more which was’ . wushed out of three pans of gravel \jtaken from the claims of the Selby Hill Keystone Company. They have, sixteen men at work excavating and, occasionally washing out a few pans to pay expenses. Mr. Whayler passed through town . Tuesday with 4000 sheep. He left: ‘Santa fe, New Mexico, June 25. The. Indians attacked his train on the’ . Humboldt and yobbed him of his pack! animals, fifteen in number. They . made a clean sweep of his baggage, : , including au carpet bag containing $300 . in money. Whayler started with 5000' sheep and lost 1000. \ We Democrats are preparing a grand; lorchlight procession that promises to" ‘eclipse everything of the kind seen in* Nevada, We expect a glorious vic-. The Know-Nothings are a mongrel combination of fag-ends, about to kick its last and It is the duty ' lof the Democracy to bury it decently, ‘but deep. { A Tom Bell Rumor 4 There can be little doubt that Tom . Bell was executed recently near the Merced River. A posse of nine men . came suddenly on him just after he had crossed the river from a rancho inhabited by.a white woman and her, two daughters. A Mrs. Cullers, who, had kept a public house in this vicin-) \ity where she met Bell, whom = she; knew by the name of Brooks. After, ‘she had sold her inn, Brooks persuad. ed her to go into the cattle business . in the Four Creeks country and she, did not know until his capture that. ‘he was leader of a gang of robbers. . She claims never to have seen Monte, . from which he and his fifty men is-? j}sue in groups to commit depredations, . 1850; was liberally educated in medf-; on his distipated eareer with all the jardor of his temperament. rn The young men are quite interestec, especially in the elder, Jenny, wh» is very attractive—of the Spanish Creole Slightly built and talented to 1 certain degree. The boys are hanging round, a yeritable fringe ov her garments. We look for some ro-~ mantic developments. IT note that the project of Secretary of War Davis for importation of camels is working but to advantage. An appropriation of $30,000 for such a purpose is quite a venture, but we “must experiment in the interest of the West. Lieutenant Beale is quite cnthusiastie and looks forward to the time when all Western mails will be carried by the unsightly brutes and he hus already started his survey of 2 roud ordered by President Buchanan, Of the 34 camels landed at Galveston, only two have died. Time was re‘quired for their recovery from. ths long sea voyage, but tests of the project now seem to give favorable . re‘sults. On one occasion 2 train of two »wagons with six mules each’ and six camels were sent from Cump Verdo tv } San Antonio, sixty miles. The time . require for the camels was about half of that for the wagons, and the load of 8600 pounds equal to that of the two Wagons. The capacity 2 the animals for following steep tral!* and muddy sections is another assent und there is no doubt of the full res)_ization of the dreams of thosq . 9% ‘charge. he climate of Texas ages ‘with the health of the camels and <¢ ‘is thought that they will be easily £c‘climated to all parts of the country type, With regards to youy family and ta : Horace. } Your affectionate brother, TALLMAN ROLEE, SUMMER NIGHT BY GILEAN DOUGLAS Shut the doors and windows tightly, Draw the blind against the pane— (Last, night there was honeysuckle In a little quiet lane. Bind a cloth upon my eyelids Till the moon has ridden by! With a heart like broken stone.) Hold my i areraloke cine and other seience, but embarked p)9 Gonty (rem bling fingers closely, ave me here alone Me esWith the summer knocking—knocking— caped from state's prison at Angel IslAnd a leaf against the pane AN in 1855, when he was serving a Like the sound of lovers’ footsteps ‘ tof sight and the ‘land Ready. A: ‘\ieads the relief committee. ‘. never give ‘his family and lives on at the old place awaiting news. iby . Harbor to duty must have been asleep or out: padlock was picked or unlocked. Nothing was known about it until Monday morning. Cholera at Rough and Ready Cholera has broken out in Rough s usual Hank Sales He has n up hope of the return of ‘Sales went down to ‘San Irrancisco to attend a meeting of the Young Men’s Democratio Club and reports that his party rallied for Bu¢hanan and formed. & procession of 2800 members, which is the bigsest torchlight purade witnessed in California to date. There is considerable anxiety, concerning the returns of the election, The . suggestion of the San Francisco papers that the suiling of the November Sth steamer for the East be postponed a day in order to preyent election day . und steamer day falling together Is . approved and by so doing it is ae ble that the result of the election in this State will be known in New York . December 1st. Election news) from our surrounding territory will! be sent in here by pony and forwarded to Sacramento by the same means. Hopes are centered in the Central Pacific Railroad to the West and Buchanan favors the issue, believing that he has as much authority to ask Congress for an appropriation for that as for fortifications in San Francisco prevent foreign invasion, where indeed, the necessity for such is as great In one case as the other. Word has just come in that Sherift! Wright and Daye Johnson shave been killeq so 1 will close and send particulars later. TALUMAN The Wright-Johnson Tragedy NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, November 6, 1856. To H. C. Rolfe, San Bernardino, California. Flat to hunt party were the prisoners; fired and ct IN ols IRA ch SA? { Kasily Excused.—Willie’s little sister came to the schoolroom door and handed the killed them both, i The news Came in just as the Dewfollowing note in to the teacher: — the escaped prisoners — not knowing that another party Was, Ae Sa ra ey ve year sentence for laveeny. Tet Ina little quiet lane. “Teacher, please excuse Willie—he — wt hope that with the leadey gone, o> is a : . caught a skunk. —The Messenger. gts: j= Vell’s real name was Hodges, his : theré on the same mission. Sorte 1 tage 33. Tle came to California in (Once I walked as cold as winter one of the latter thinking the sheriff's =.

=. v= i . ae ae We may have respite from crime, Enters Jennic Rowe ‘are the great engine of love, valor and civilization. May their virtues ex eecd even the magnitude of their}. . CORNIA JEVADA, CALIF ORNITA, pi November 4, 1856. ie f » last 3 ye “us an . i skirts while their faults -be still small-. — The last time Rowe's circus shows "',) porace Rolfe, ' 7 ni ed here, two girls were in the troupe, al . er than their bonnets. S aes lan Bernardino. i fe: 3 Supposedly sisters, 13 and -15 years . } Brother: . 4 A sopiety is ‘being formed: Dy Lown of age. They were both taken iif . heat ie ane yrisoners escap: Bs . — by young ladies designed to induce; . a6 the circus was billed to"adSunday night three P aa at a oe en abstain from all Intoxl-. vince, Rowe arranged for them to . bd. from, OF ge aie Dick ana . ; ‘ eating drinks even ale and cider. Mem-) py oayq with Mrs. Palmer until his reJim Webster, Rattlesnake . Be Sy one Jim Farnsworth. They belong to ithe Tom Bell gang and were brought: here for trial. The watchman on bers are debarred from associating . with those who refuse to sign the a pledge. Now the boys are planning turn next year. They are conyales¢ing now and the town is yioher by tw> pretty girls, Lola and Jenny Rowe. <Jack, the leader of one set of the Dear Horace: a lgang. His headquarters are ina cave, Last night there was wind that whispered AE eae ne AONE me in the mountains, difficult of access,. And a silver-tinted sky.) Johnson, They went out on So a 3 Story. a society requiring the ladies to abandon hoops, paints and silks. Let me hear from you soon, . TALLMAN. i NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, { Oct, 15, 1856. . 'To Sam Rolfe, ’ San Bernardino, Dear Sam: ' I saw, on Monday a lot of golq dust valued at $600 or more which was’ . wushed out of three pans of gravel \jtaken from the claims of the Selby Hill Keystone Company. They have, sixteen men at work excavating and, occasionally washing out a few pans to pay expenses. Mr. Whayler passed through town . Tuesday with 4000 sheep. He left: ‘Santa fe, New Mexico, June 25. The. Indians attacked his train on the’ . Humboldt and yobbed him of his pack! animals, fifteen in number. They . made a clean sweep of his baggage, : , including au carpet bag containing $300 . in money. Whayler started with 5000' sheep and lost 1000. \ We Democrats are preparing a grand; lorchlight procession that promises to" ‘eclipse everything of the kind seen in* Nevada, We expect a glorious vic-. The Know-Nothings are a mongrel combination of fag-ends, about to kick its last and It is the duty ' lof the Democracy to bury it decently, ‘but deep. { A Tom Bell Rumor 4 There can be little doubt that Tom . Bell was executed recently near the Merced River. A posse of nine men . came suddenly on him just after he had crossed the river from a rancho inhabited by.a white woman and her, two daughters. A Mrs. Cullers, who, had kept a public house in this vicin-) \ity where she met Bell, whom = she; knew by the name of Brooks. After, ‘she had sold her inn, Brooks persuad. ed her to go into the cattle business . in the Four Creeks country and she, did not know until his capture that. ‘he was leader of a gang of robbers. . She claims never to have seen Monte, . from which he and his fifty men is-? j}sue in groups to commit depredations, . 1850; was liberally educated in medf-; on his distipated eareer with all the jardor of his temperament. rn The young men are quite interestec, especially in the elder, Jenny, wh» is very attractive—of the Spanish Creole Slightly built and talented to 1 certain degree. The boys are hanging round, a yeritable fringe ov her garments. We look for some ro-~ mantic developments. IT note that the project of Secretary

of War Davis for importation of camels is working but to advantage. An appropriation of $30,000 for such a purpose is quite a venture, but we “must experiment in the interest of the West. Lieutenant Beale is quite cnthusiastie and looks forward to the time when all Western mails will be carried by the unsightly brutes and he hus already started his survey of 2 roud ordered by President Buchanan, Of the 34 camels landed at Galveston, only two have died. Time was re‘quired for their recovery from. ths long sea voyage, but tests of the project now seem to give favorable . re‘sults. On one occasion 2 train of two »wagons with six mules each’ and six camels were sent from Cump Verdo tv } San Antonio, sixty miles. The time . require for the camels was about half of that for the wagons, and the load of 8600 pounds equal to that of the two Wagons. The capacity 2 the animals for following steep tral!* and muddy sections is another assent und there is no doubt of the full res)_ization of the dreams of thosq . 9% ‘charge. he climate of Texas ages ‘with the health of the camels and <¢ ‘is thought that they will be easily £c‘climated to all parts of the country type, With regards to youy family and ta : Horace. } Your affectionate brother, TALLMAN ROLEE, SUMMER NIGHT BY GILEAN DOUGLAS Shut the doors and windows tightly, Draw the blind against the pane— (Last, night there was honeysuckle In a little quiet lane. Bind a cloth upon my eyelids Till the moon has ridden by! With a heart like broken stone.) Hold my i areraloke cine and other seience, but embarked p)9 Gonty (rem bling fingers closely, ave me here alone Me esWith the summer knocking—knocking— caped from state's prison at Angel IslAnd a leaf against the pane AN in 1855, when he was serving a Like the sound of lovers’ footsteps ‘ tof sight and the ‘land Ready. A: ‘\ieads the relief committee. ‘. never give ‘his family and lives on at the old place awaiting news. iby . Harbor to duty must have been asleep or out: padlock was picked or unlocked. Nothing was known about it until Monday morning. Cholera at Rough and Ready Cholera has broken out in Rough s usual Hank Sales He has n up hope of the return of ‘Sales went down to ‘San Irrancisco to attend a meeting of the Young Men’s Democratio Club and reports that his party rallied for Bu¢hanan and formed. & procession of 2800 members, which is the bigsest torchlight purade witnessed in California to date. There is considerable anxiety, concerning the returns of the election, The . suggestion of the San Francisco papers that the suiling of the November Sth steamer for the East be postponed a day in order to preyent election day . und steamer day falling together Is . approved and by so doing it is ae ble that the result of the election in this State will be known in New York . December 1st. Election news) from our surrounding territory will! be sent in here by pony and forwarded to Sacramento by the same means. Hopes are centered in the Central Pacific Railroad to the West and Buchanan favors the issue, believing that he has as much authority to ask Congress for an appropriation for that as for fortifications in San Francisco prevent foreign invasion, where indeed, the necessity for such is as great In one case as the other. Word has just come in that Sherift! Wright and Daye Johnson shave been killeq so 1 will close and send particulars later. TALUMAN The Wright-Johnson Tragedy NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, November 6, 1856. To H. C. Rolfe, San Bernardino, California. Flat to hunt party were the prisoners; fired and ct IN ols IRA ch SA? { Kasily Excused.—Willie’s little sister came to the schoolroom door and handed the killed them both, i The news Came in just as the Dewfollowing note in to the teacher: — the escaped prisoners — not knowing that another party Was, Ae Sa ra ey ve year sentence for laveeny. Tet Ina little quiet lane. “Teacher, please excuse Willie—he — wt hope that with the leadey gone, o> is a : . caught a skunk. —The Messenger. gts: j= Vell’s real name was Hodges, his : theré on the same mission. Sorte 1 tage 33. Tle came to California in (Once I walked as cold as winter one of the latter thinking the sheriff's =.