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NEVADA CITY NUGGET.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936.
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Bt co soso be deco hacecuenao muta ataseedevaucad Editor and Publisher
Hiseloleteieieieteieiete
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Published Semi-Wéekly, Monday and Friday at
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Nevada City Nugget
A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published
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at Nevada City.
Nevada City, California, and entered
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. SILVER DOLLAR BRADY RENTS
PENTHOUSE FOR PRIZE HORSE
Foxen exposed the plan to Fremont of the
neighbors, Don Julian.
Foxen obtained a large grant of Californians, Phillips says that Freland known as Rancho
Tinaquaic mont had exclaimed:
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and built an imposing adobe ranch
“Two days from
here
(‘throu
house at the head of Foxen canyon. Gaviota Pass and the road.is open
An Englishman by bfrth and bound: to Santa Barbara.”
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to the Californians by his marital!
“It is open when you reach the
ties, Foxen held aloof from the con-. Pacific,’ said Foxen, ‘but if our
test of Cakifornia waging . between . friends, the Californians, have ‘their
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the Russians, British and Americ. way you will never reach it, nor one
matter of the second class in the postoffice at
Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 38,
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To Rancho Tinaquaic one dreary}
‘What do you mean?”
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he was called by his friends and the momentous scene when
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battalion
BeisSiteteiieioteieiteietioteieteieteinieion
ein iin hi inicio
iii inion
December,
1846,
Gone .
“Here,. all
of
ragged, starving
buck
the
but through
creek
winds
the
pass,
beside the
trail, the walls are high and straight,
skin-clad soldiers and Indian guid-. There is a defile for more thana
es. Fremont was marching south to) rifle shot where two horses ca
.
Reform At The Capital
in
Lieutenant John C. Fremont with 2! where
capture Santa Barbara. He had been!
travel
directed to the Foxen ranch by Wil
Indian’s
abreast.
Face,
It is worse by ‘the
for the road turns
liam Goodwin. Dana, father of Don. sharply. You could make no speed.’’
Juan Francisco Dana
of
'Nipoma.
“The Indians’ Face?’’ inter Ml a
Juan Dana died last July 27 at the! the soldier.
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; (Contributed)
It's going to be tough on a lot of California legislators at.
the 1037 session in Sacramento-if approval is given the recom:
mendations
of an interim committee for simplifying proced-ure and investing it with a semblance of machine-like pre
‘age-of 98 years.,Only a few weeks
before he had celebrated his birth
A
NATURAL TRAP
:
“Yes, The great profile of a chief
day surrounded by friends to whom . which the Lord has chiseled in the
he recounted memories of Fremont,.
who often had held him in his lap.
cision.
when
he was a
lad
and
Fremont!tops
stopped at the Dana ranch.
AIDS FREMONT
For one thing, they'll have to roll out of bed each morning in time to attend assembly committee meetings at nine
'
It was Fremont’s intention to stop
o'clock,*an hour legislators regard as fit only for the earliest
early bird. For another, they'll@have to be on hand daily at
exactly 2 p. m. for the start of assembly sessions, and remain
until late in the evenings if. necessary.
As though this were not hardship enough, they'll be denied what is by all odds their greatest power, that of -tommaniding time to stand stal. It has always been done to prolong sessions, you know, by the arbitrary device of stopping
the clock. Adjournment will be fixed seven days in advance
by resolution, and when the deadline strikes they'll have ta
at Tinaquaic, rest his troops and the
horses, and fill their stomachs, and
cliffs
are
from
the
displacement
the
hemming
loose
size
you
in
rocks. They
of your head tos.
of
a
fair-sized
bark. There is where. the
jians are waiting for you.”
Californ
through his wife, knew of the plans
try. Messengers haye brought every
south
through
Gaviota
a
hovering
man
Americans in Gaviota Pass.
quit.
the
covered with
of the Californians to wipe out the
march.
Pass to Santa Barbara. Now, Foxen,
Silver Dollar Brady, wealthy cowboy trom Dallas, has the world’s first
of
are
“Those from the north have been
on your flanks,
.as
you
know, since you came into this coun
then
hotel “penthouse corral” 17 floors above Chicago. Brady and his horse
are shown here “at home” looking out over the skyiine.
rock. It sticks out over you like a
ship's figurehead. Well Fremont, the
who can
ride
and
shoot from
“The Pass of the Gulls” then was
Santa Barbara. They line the Pass of
narrow
the Gulls for a mile. Trains of powder will be laid to the biggest rocks.
defile
between
high
rock
cliffs.
A wagon barely could pass
between
the
granite
walls.
FreWhen your army is inside the de
mont’s mounted men would have had
file, the powder will be lighted above
to pass two abreast
through
the. and below,
blocking it with
—
. gorge. The Californians and’ their . ———~~_,_—~
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on Page Five)
that is a part of
the
old
.Foxen
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Indian supporters were assembled
, here in hiding. They planned to let . Fifty four years ago, Robert Wec. Fremont’s battalia enter the pass and
the
These changes, plus some others, will come about. IF
the legislators decide to discipline themselves, as the conmittee headed by Assemblyman Lyon will suggest they do. And
. kenden was a choir boy in the little when by blasting with gunpowder
it is a rather big “‘if’’. After all, it’s not often that a lawmaker
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chuerh at Sisquoe which his hurl the cliffs down upon them. Had
voluntarily votes to upset habit and precédent and_ bring
. grandfather conceived. He recalls the Gringo soldiers gone this way to
hardship upon himself.
ithe
visits made to the chapel by the Santa Barbara they would have been
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{padres of Santa Ines
Mission and wiped out to a man.
Seriously, public opinion could force the reforms of simhow, when automobiles replaced the .
Foxen was well aware of this plan. .
plification, speed, action, and eliminate red tape. But public
horse and buggy a new parish church lTorn between love for his wife and
opinion, despite all the periodic talk, has never kept up a sus(Continued from Friday )
was erected at Santa Maria the misher people and what he believed to
tained clamor for reform in legislative procedure. We forget
sion priests ‘ceased to make their be his duty to the doomed Fremont,
FOXENS ERECT CHURCH
between sessions.
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his
Lumber for it was hauled 35 miles long trips to Sisquoc and the people . Foxen kept the Americans
:
In any case, the coming legislature will be offered some inland from Points Sal by Fred Foxof the valley drove into Santa Maria ranch for days, feeding them well
fine recommendations. Perhaps they'll surprise us and act on en, a son of Benjamin, and he and to, attend mass and religious servicand providing them with hides and
his
brother,
Thomas,
and Chris es. The automobile sounded a note
‘ . material wherewith to fashion new
a few. At least we can hope for the unexpected.
Clausen, a carrénter, erected the. of doom for Sisquoc chapel and it . clothes and foot gear. A sincere afKe
church
The
The Bay Bridge Opens
whales
ov
M
foljowing year,
the
Boffin
containing the remains of Benjamin
Foxen
was taken
the: valley
and
was abandoned for more than a quar) fection for each other sprang up beter of a century.
itween Fremont and the pioneer.
The story of Benjamin Foxen, inpart
of the
history
of
two British
grave in
removed
to
Fremont and his conquest of CaliBarbara and historians say that ne
the
a
Somewhere off shore
from its
extricably
men-of-war were heading
for Santa
church cemetery
overlooking
the fornia, is one of absorbing interest gotiations had been entered into be(Contributed)
and always will bear repetition.
tween the Californians leaders and
Among the many wonders of the world within the borvast domain that once was his. Fox.
en had been a seafaring man before
@ers of California, another takes its place this week—a new.
he settled
in
California,
and
a
_the British for the surrender of San
CAME AS A SAILOR
‘ta Barbara and California. It is dif
tall
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y
Prompt Delivery
man-made colossus of steel and concrete that brings realizamarble shaft carved to represent 4
Foxen came to California as a sail-j ficult to over estimate the disaster
tion, at last, to a dream decades old.
broken ship's mast, was placed at the or from England in 1827 and settled to American ambitions that would
STANDARD COAL
It is the bridge that spans San Francisco Bay, the greathead of his last resting place,.On the at Goleta on ‘the. Santa 3arbara have resulted had Fremont and his
men
been/amnnihilated
tin
Gravfota
a
°
‘is this simple inscription: . coast not far from where the San
est bridge in the world; and the bay cities, with all California tombstone
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Mined in Utah
ass.
“Penjamin Foxen. Born in Eng-! Marcos state highway leaves El Camparticipating, are observing its opening in a celebration apland iy 1796.
Finally, Fremont was.
ready to.
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Died February 19, ino Real for the route over the Sanpropriately immense. From Wednesday through Saturday it 1874.”
. ta Ynez mountains. Here, as a part. Start for Santa Barbara. He was not
Dawn
canyon,
winding) Der of Don Jose de la Guerra y Noaware of the fate that awaited him.
lasts, with the U. S. battle fleet and its air squadron taking
Fexen
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part, with three parades and a pageant of light, with regataway from the little church to Zaca riega,, he engaged in trading and jin Gaviota Pass. He believed that
its junction
with
the
Coast. Ship building. He married Eduarda i there was no other way to reach
. and
tas and speeches and ballroom festivities.
highway, is a monument of another
. Osuna, descended_from the Counts . Santa Barbara, which he expected to .
Co.
What a bridge this is!
For centuries it will stand as a. sort, an imposing granite pile. On it; Of Osuna of Spain. They were ma . take in pitched battle. Determined.
to
prevent
the
impending
slaughter
. Tied in Mission Santa Barbara and
testament to the genius and determination of man, and as. is a bronze plate with these stirring
words:
. Foxen was baptized in the faith~of i Foxen at last revealed to Fremont
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Plaza
another of California's wonders of the world.
patna
pti
gear
his wife, the padres
giving him the. . the scheme of the Californians.
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
BY
&
.
Fremont was discouraged. Mich-.
Its towers of steel surpass the height of skyscrapers. Its
Nevada City
Dedicates This Monument To
baptismal fname of William Domin
;ael
J. Phillips has written of that .
igo
Foxen.
But
throughout
his
life
sweeping cables gracefully suspend a roadbed 200 feet above John C. Fremont
Beujamin Foxen
The Pioneer
the surface of the largest navigable body of water vet spanThe Pathfinder
Near this site on the Foxen Ranned. In it there is enough concrete and steel to rebuild all the
eho in 1846 eneamved an. American
large office buildings of downtown San Francisco, or thirtyforce under Lt. Col. Fremont. Warnfive Los Angeles city halls, and the wire in its cables alone. ed by Foxen of an ambush in Gaviowould encircle the earth three times. Its eight and one-quarter ta Pass and guided by him on Christmile length is three times that of famed Firth of Forth bride mas day over the San Marcos Pass,
the Americans todk Santa Barbera
in Scotland, and it dwarfs such other engineering triumphs as without bloodshed. Three weeks latthe George Washington and Brooklyn Bridges across _ the er, January 13th, 1847, California
Here’s to the oven heat
Hudson, and the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit.
was ceded to the United States.
Erected by the Pioneer Section of
The rest of the world, outdone. looks on as the Bay
regulator on the modthe Minera Literary Club. Susan E.
Bridge opens. So, perhaps, does the astonished ghost of Don Lincoln,
Chairman,
Santa
Maria.
ern gas range — the
Gaspar de Portola, who discovered the bay in 1769: and perCalifornia, 1926.
haps looking on also are the ghosts of those dreamers who
In Santa Barbara County today.
trusty little servant that
first envisioned such a bridge more than half a hundred years are many deseendants of Benjamin
Foxen. All revere his memory. His
watches the temperaago, and were laughed at for their dreams.
grandson, Robert Wickenden, and
.
!
.
Occidental Gas Ranges
.
COMMERCIAL DEPT. IN’
HI ASSEMBLY PROGRAM
the lattere’s wife, Mrs. Ida Wicken
' NORAMBAGUE MINE
den delight to relate stories about
R. Potter
Campbell,
‘associated
the pioneer hero which they heard
with New York interests. has taken
as
children
from
Grandpa
and
_over the Narombague property south
Grandma Foxen. Wickenden has a
of. Grass Valley. Marshall Draper,
faded diary and account book kept
The Nevada City High School
cousin of H. D. Draper of Nevada
by Foxen. Unfortunately, most of
City, is superintendent. Plans are to Commercial Department, under the
the writing in it is not legible. Wicdirection of Miss N. B. Baggley, enprospect the property.
kenden’s father, doubtless unaware
tertained the student. body Friday
of the treasure for posteritty he posKENNEBEC CONSOLIDATED
with their
interpetation
of
the
sessed, erased most—of the writing
H. D. Draper, local assayer, made “Congo” a study in voice choir of
and kept a diary of his own on the
an inspection of Paine Bros. propthe negro high spirit.,
same pages on which his father beerty, the Kennebee\Cons., near Lake
The choir number was well receivfore him had written.
One entry
City last week. He \is quite pleased ed by the students and faculty memreads:
with it. As the property has been bers as something new in the way of
FAMILY TO HELP EACH OTHER
developed a mill could start reducentertainment,
“All the members of the Wicken“tion at once. A large ‘porphyry de-/.
When the commercial department
den family should help each other
posit assays well and shallow shafts. program
was
over,
the
assembly
_. on the ground have yielded good re-. sang songs, lead by Mrs. M. Libbey,
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turns’in gold im early days,
of the high school faculty.
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The studio that satisfies.
Good photos at reasonable
x prices—no guess work. 8-° . hour Kodak finishing ser\
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eye and keeps it where
you want it. It is worth
its weight _in .gold—
considering the freedom
from anxiety “and
watching and the cakes
that are saved from the
garbage can.
and if possible, never let. any of the
branches wither and decay into poyerty.
This
is -not
family pride.’
a
ture with an unfailing
an
infirmity
of
«:
Well, the branches have not withered or decayed, as is attested by . }
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. the legion
of Foxen and Wickenden
progeny in Santa Barbara county,
Wickenden’s father, Frederick, liv
.
120 Main Street, Grass Valley
ed to be 92 years ‘old.
The Wickendens reside on a ranch
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