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Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)

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THOMAS MARKER FOUGHT INDIANS a polling about 500 votes then at the Flat and it was a busier place than Nevada City. "Tn the fall of '51 a band of Yuba Indians, who had ‘inet camp on the site where Camptonville now stands, dani down and stirred up a fight with a tribe that were camped on Indian Flat. The two came together and a couple of braves on each side were killed. Neither had many rifles and Bon and arrows were the principal weapons of warfare. Quite a number of white people were attracted to Indian Flat by the fighting. After the fighting ceased the Yuba Indians made again for their up-country headquarters. "The night of the last battle the Yubas were on’the warpath and over near Selby Flat one of them shot a miner named Poor, who was in his oie He used a bow and arrow and fired it through a good sized opening in the cabin, the arrow piercing Poor's shoulder. Then one of them shot and killed a horse ina corral not far from Poor's cabin. Next morning the miners were excited and determined to give the Indians battle. . ‘We thought it was the Indian Flat tribe instead of the Yubas that did the shooting and a posse ete down and waited on them. Old Man Buoyer was their agent here and he intervened. They proved by their arrows that they were not the molestors and that it was the Yubas. Excitement then ran high and old "Betts" Crawford,, who was a Texas ranger and a veteran of the Mexican war, organized a company at Selby Fiat. \ "Crawford was not long in getting forty men feeeoheo) endl among them Little Billy Cole. John McCoy and Vave Sammersfield came from Nevada City. Each brought a rifle and a roll of blankets and Cole was the kid of the bunch. I was only 20 myself at that time. We elected Crawford ere and McCoy lieutenant and the whole proceeding and organization was affected in a few hours. Then {we struck out, going down the old trail by Jones Bar, then across by Shady creek to where Columbia Nill now is. From there we made for.