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

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> fe Ps THOMAS MARKER FOUGHT INDTaNS (Union) Tells All About the Battle at Bloody Run in Fall of 1851 142 RECALLS BILLY COLE WHO WaS IN COMPANY MARKER'S STORY FULL OF INTEREST AND BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF STIRRING TIMES renee Colley is in receipt of the following letter from Wm. Cole of Lakeview, Oregon, which is self-explanatory: "Tl have sent to Congress my application for a land warrant for fichting tenn in Nevada county in 1851 on Bloody Run on the Yuba River. I joined the party at Selby Flat. Will you be ind enovgh to show this letter to the people who lived in Nevada City in 1851, as I must be identified? Someone who remembers the time we foucht the Indians on the Bloody Run. "Please have them write me. I was working at that time for Davis and Hurst on Broad street. Some old-timers will remember little Billy Cole. I was the only boy in the outfit. I was seventeen years old at that time, Am now in my seventy-fifth year. Hoping to hear from you early." MARKER KNOWS COLE When The Union learned of the above no time was lost during yesterday to look up Thomas ‘Marker, cae the oldest pioneers of this section. The writer was of the belief that if anyone at all knew Cole and had a recollection of the incident Marker would be the man. No mistake was made, as the Coyote eerces pioneer immediately recalled the Bloody Run battle with the Indians and after a few moments of thought Cole came into his mind. The story is an interesting one and is cleverly told by Marker, who is entitled to a land warrant as well as Cole, he having been in the Bloody Run battle too. When interviewed Marker spoke as follows: "Just write and tell little Billy Cole that Tom Marker remembers him well. The last time I saw Billy Cole was at Washington, in 1853, when we were working the Yuba river for the yellow stuff. His letter gives the facts exactly. I was living at Selby Flat when the trouble with the Indians occurred. They were , ee ee te Re ee ne.