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

i fr dwell-\_ ide shel11 eir chili! -who have not yet rebuilt the ings and until they ean prov ter for their families and th 2 dren no one expects them to “ae money to build churches. In this -respect they follow the Divine precept that “Whosoever neglects to PFO. vide for his own house is worse than ; ‘an infidel, Come up and see for yourself. : ROLDE. ‘ ‘ te i Dear Rolfe: ai I regret exceedingly that you took . my letter so seriously. I merely quoted from the Journal article and! considereq it a joke. I have the, most kindly feeling for the people on 'Nevada and sympathize with them in, their losses. . However, it gives me pleasure to note from your letter the loyalty you! feel for the town and of the improve-_ ment in all things, and I trust the) same will continue until Nevada shall be what it should be—the model city) of the mountains. . Please do not consider me ungrate-. ful or disposed to slander a place or ‘people that I have so many reasons ito regard gratefully. ‘<a Sincerely, etc., “ W. A. HILL. P. S.—Our Calico Ball for the -bene-. fit of the Sacramento Public Schools netted us $2000. Reminded me of your first appearance at a like affair in Grass Valley. i W. <A. Tiill to T. Hi. Rolfe i Sacramento, California. " i : H W. A. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, _ Rebruary 14, 1857, To Horace Rolfe, San Bernardino, California, Dear Brother; We have had a serious calamity in. volving a heavy loss of property, Due jing Saturday night Laird’s big dam} broke and about five o’clock in the . morning an immense volume of water came rushing down Deer Creek! sweeping everything before it. The water raised fifteen feet above high! ‘} water mark. The bridges at the foot of Main and Broad sereets, the of the (Monumental Hotel, Ely'’s feed! store, Waite’s blacksmith shop and’ their night clothes when they heard { the roar, leaving thelr watches and money under the pillows. In less: than a minute their building was floating down the creek, The lower) pridge was carried off ana the Pine’ street bridge is impassable for teams Ne ee Several miners’ cabins quartz mill . ' i i to go below. and the Gold Tunnel were washed away, Bridges Badly Damagea A contract has been made to repair the Pine street bridge for $400, but. unless there is a change in the chartey the other bridges cannot be rebuilt! at present as it will require at least g4000 which, added to the prosent debt, would exeeed the $5000 limit tixed by the Act of Incorporation, . EIN re i ee ieee Boswell and Hanson store, one halt! 1 } ‘ceipt of the President’s Message Congress, its chief ean mame itt as » families; Gur trials are numerous, but as aig can name y i Pioneers we cannot hope for smooth! — sailing although it is discouraging to! . have one disaster follow so closely on the heels of another. We had a little celebration on reto recommendation being toward a railroad to the West. We can get up a celebration on most any subject that tends toward speedier communication from the States, for either mail or passengers. _Alex Hunt, Printer Haye I ever told you of Alex Hunt? He formerly worked for me in the office of the Placer Times, coming four or five other buildings were car. ) . ried away.: t Boswell and Hanson rushed out in! and there 1s no other way for teams! ~~~ here later and when in proper form is a valuable asset to any office. Like the old lady who said when asked to! ;Subscribe for a newspaper, that ‘when! she wanted news she made it herself,’ he uses his eccentricities and vices to create scenes for copy. Living accommodations are difficult here and Alex dislikes to pay rent, so he has in some manner, got hold of a coffin, and uses it for a bed, stowing it in any available place. But TI set out to tell you that he has taken a shine to Jenny ‘Rowe, who seems to enjoy his attentions. Hope the infatuation will keep him sober as he is too fond of “crater juice’ which renders him‘! useless at times. Tae Indian Tribe Moved , Exchanges give accounts of the removal of the Yuba Indians from their ‘old stamping ground near Marysville. In ’49 this tribe numbered five or six , hundred but had dwindled to two ‘hundred in ’50 and now there are but sixty-six. They are to be taken to the Nomee Lackee Reservation, and at first promise to go willingly but as ‘the time comes for their departure ‘they object, and it is necessary for Col. Henly to enforce his orders with police. aid. Their chief, Capt. John is a fine stalwart looking individual, ‘very loath to leave his home. So afflicted were they with the order that they burned. every possession, even to the store of food supplies for the winter. The Indians were once very numerous along the Yubas but some years ago were nearly all carried off by small-pox. The Yubas escaped this scourge for some reason, although whole tribes succumbed, as was evidenced by hundreds of human skulls on the ground of a deserted rancherio ‘a few miles from Yuba City. They 'had probably dieq off so fast there nvere none left to bury the dead. We have some street lights installed, The gas company is experiment-j} ‘ing. Some of the neighbors have been down to San Francisco and tell of the people there carrying lanterns! on dark nights. Improvements cannot cope with the growth of the city and all streets are not illuminated, TALLMAN. REVELATION BY EVELYN COFFEY I stood before a city gate, land my lonely soul, Shivering in a homespun coat, Behind a tattered veil. The city swung an empty heart Upon its gilded door. Ished my longing for earth’s court And looked upon a star, . pavillion has been erected on a vacant . the public. +. Pass and Salt Lake City on to the line _. of camels to whom the Naturalization . Laws need not apply. ‘. They are thriving ana More births ex. . Senerally are doing a fairly good bus‘. town the past week has been unusual. be completed in three weeks, ‘. Prisbie tells me the Nevada theater ‘. will Open next week, the Robinson . amily playing. : February 25, 1857. To H.C, Rolfe, San Bernardino, California, Dear Brother: You will be glad to know that one by one, the Tom Bell gang is being roundeq up. You may recall Jack Phillips who kept the Mountain House between Folsom and Auburn, He was Convicted in Auburn of complicity With the robbers, as his house was the tendezvous of the gang. The testimony revealea the complete system of their Maneuvers, In operation like the Camptonville stage af{fair, eight or ten Men would go out j together, or in the case of peddlers or Single foot travelers two would be sufficient and their style was to do as they did to you—rob, then tie the victim to a tree to get loose as best he could. The Deputy Sheriff of Calaveras county obtained from one of their gang a bullet marked with skull and cross bones which served as a talisman in the party. With this he went to Phillips, got into his .confidence and got enough information to arrest him, more to fear, Mining Was Prosperous I haven’t any rich strikes to report but what is far better, the miners iness, Water is abundant and the Season bids fair to be very prosperous, The amount of gold dust brought into ly large ang business of every sort is looking up. The timber for the new There are not many, bridge is on the ground and work will Mr, Our young men are getting up a lyceum, Guess we are the only town such an organization, The Congregational folks are erecting a brick church to be finished this summer, A lot on Pine street in rear of Harrington’s saloon for the National Circus, I understand that several wonderful performers cater to the amusement of Wagon Road to California -n agreement has been made between the U. S. Senate and the House Committee on ‘Territories to support a bill appropriating $300,000 for a} wagon road to California, The plan {s, to begin at Fort Kearney on the Platte River in Nebraska Territory thence by Fort Laramie, the South of this State. News has reached us Three have been born under the Stars and Stripes. pected, I should judge the camel experiment a success, of any size in the State’ that has not], a AB ~ RS “NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, 7).

i fr dwell-\_ ide shel11 eir chili! -who have not yet rebuilt the ings and until they ean prov ter for their families and th 2 dren no one expects them to “ae money to build churches. In this -respect they follow the Divine precept that “Whosoever neglects to PFO. vide for his own house is worse than ; ‘an infidel, Come up and see for yourself. : ROLDE. ‘ ‘ te i Dear Rolfe: ai I regret exceedingly that you took . my letter so seriously. I merely quoted from the Journal article and! considereq it a joke. I have the, most kindly feeling for the people on 'Nevada and sympathize with them in, their losses. . However, it gives me pleasure to note from your letter the loyalty you! feel for the town and of the improve-_ ment in all things, and I trust the) same will continue until Nevada shall be what it should be—the model city) of the mountains. . Please do not consider me ungrate-. ful or disposed to slander a place or ‘people that I have so many reasons ito regard gratefully. ‘<a Sincerely, etc., “ W. A. HILL. P. S.—Our Calico Ball for the -bene-. fit of the Sacramento Public Schools netted us $2000. Reminded me of your first appearance at a like affair in Grass Valley. i W. <A. Tiill to T. Hi. Rolfe i Sacramento, California. " i : H W. A. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, _ Rebruary 14, 1857, To Horace Rolfe, San Bernardino, California, Dear Brother; We have had a serious calamity in. volving a heavy loss of property, Due jing Saturday night Laird’s big dam} broke and about five o’clock in the . morning an immense volume of water came rushing down Deer Creek! sweeping everything before it. The water raised fifteen feet above high! ‘} water mark. The bridges at the foot of Main and Broad sereets, the of the (Monumental Hotel, Ely'’s feed! store, Waite’s blacksmith shop and’ their night clothes when they heard { the roar, leaving thelr watches and money under the pillows. In less: than a minute their building was floating down the creek, The lower) pridge was carried off ana the Pine’ street bridge is impassable for teams Ne ee Several miners’ cabins quartz mill . ' i i to go below. and the Gold Tunnel were washed away, Bridges Badly Damagea A contract has been made to repair the Pine street bridge for $400, but. unless there is a change in the chartey the other bridges cannot be rebuilt! at present as it will require at least g4000 which, added to the prosent debt, would exeeed the $5000 limit tixed by the Act of Incorporation, . EIN re i ee ieee Boswell and Hanson store, one halt! 1 } ‘ceipt of the President’s Message Congress, its chief ean mame itt as » families; Gur trials are numerous, but as aig can name y i Pioneers we cannot hope for smooth! — sailing although it is discouraging to! . have one disaster follow so closely on the heels of another. We had a little celebration on reto recommendation being toward a railroad to the West. We can get up a celebration on most any subject that tends toward speedier communication from the States, for either mail or passengers. _Alex Hunt, Printer Haye I ever told you of Alex Hunt? He formerly worked for me in the office of the Placer Times, coming four or five other buildings were car. ) . ried away.: t Boswell and Hanson rushed out in! and there 1s no other way for teams! ~~~ here later and when in proper form is a valuable asset to any office. Like the old lady who said when asked to! ;Subscribe for a newspaper, that ‘when! she wanted news she made it herself,’ he uses his eccentricities and vices to create scenes for copy. Living accommodations are difficult here and Alex dislikes to pay rent, so he has

in some manner, got hold of a coffin, and uses it for a bed, stowing it in any available place. But TI set out to tell you that he has taken a shine to Jenny ‘Rowe, who seems to enjoy his attentions. Hope the infatuation will keep him sober as he is too fond of “crater juice’ which renders him‘! useless at times. Tae Indian Tribe Moved , Exchanges give accounts of the removal of the Yuba Indians from their ‘old stamping ground near Marysville. In ’49 this tribe numbered five or six , hundred but had dwindled to two ‘hundred in ’50 and now there are but sixty-six. They are to be taken to the Nomee Lackee Reservation, and at first promise to go willingly but as ‘the time comes for their departure ‘they object, and it is necessary for Col. Henly to enforce his orders with police. aid. Their chief, Capt. John is a fine stalwart looking individual, ‘very loath to leave his home. So afflicted were they with the order that they burned. every possession, even to the store of food supplies for the winter. The Indians were once very numerous along the Yubas but some years ago were nearly all carried off by small-pox. The Yubas escaped this scourge for some reason, although whole tribes succumbed, as was evidenced by hundreds of human skulls on the ground of a deserted rancherio ‘a few miles from Yuba City. They 'had probably dieq off so fast there nvere none left to bury the dead. We have some street lights installed, The gas company is experiment-j} ‘ing. Some of the neighbors have been down to San Francisco and tell of the people there carrying lanterns! on dark nights. Improvements cannot cope with the growth of the city and all streets are not illuminated, TALLMAN. REVELATION BY EVELYN COFFEY I stood before a city gate, land my lonely soul, Shivering in a homespun coat, Behind a tattered veil. The city swung an empty heart Upon its gilded door. Ished my longing for earth’s court And looked upon a star, . pavillion has been erected on a vacant . the public. +. Pass and Salt Lake City on to the line _. of camels to whom the Naturalization . Laws need not apply. ‘. They are thriving ana More births ex. . Senerally are doing a fairly good bus‘. town the past week has been unusual. be completed in three weeks, ‘. Prisbie tells me the Nevada theater ‘. will Open next week, the Robinson . amily playing. : February 25, 1857. To H.C, Rolfe, San Bernardino, California, Dear Brother: You will be glad to know that one by one, the Tom Bell gang is being roundeq up. You may recall Jack Phillips who kept the Mountain House between Folsom and Auburn, He was Convicted in Auburn of complicity With the robbers, as his house was the tendezvous of the gang. The testimony revealea the complete system of their Maneuvers, In operation like the Camptonville stage af{fair, eight or ten Men would go out j together, or in the case of peddlers or Single foot travelers two would be sufficient and their style was to do as they did to you—rob, then tie the victim to a tree to get loose as best he could. The Deputy Sheriff of Calaveras county obtained from one of their gang a bullet marked with skull and cross bones which served as a talisman in the party. With this he went to Phillips, got into his .confidence and got enough information to arrest him, more to fear, Mining Was Prosperous I haven’t any rich strikes to report but what is far better, the miners iness, Water is abundant and the Season bids fair to be very prosperous, The amount of gold dust brought into ly large ang business of every sort is looking up. The timber for the new There are not many, bridge is on the ground and work will Mr, Our young men are getting up a lyceum, Guess we are the only town such an organization, The Congregational folks are erecting a brick church to be finished this summer, A lot on Pine street in rear of Harrington’s saloon for the National Circus, I understand that several wonderful performers cater to the amusement of Wagon Road to California -n agreement has been made between the U. S. Senate and the House Committee on ‘Territories to support a bill appropriating $300,000 for a} wagon road to California, The plan {s, to begin at Fort Kearney on the Platte River in Nebraska Territory thence by Fort Laramie, the South of this State. News has reached us Three have been born under the Stars and Stripes. pected, I should judge the camel experiment a success, of any size in the State’ that has not], a AB ~ RS “NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, 7).