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November 9, 1936 (6 pages)

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‘PAGE TWO . ‘ NEVADA CITY NUGGET. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936. SS BE Leas Bt co soso be deco hacecuenao muta ataseedevaucad Editor and Publisher Hiseloleteieieieteieiete ne Published Semi-Wéekly, Monday and Friday at x Nevada City Nugget A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published $ at Nevada City. Nevada City, California, and entered = Af” Shes eo” “ERs” ——————— . 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: f 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.” ; 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 : mail % 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, = “e 1879. = rs x % ans. 5 . of your men.” To Rancho Tinaquaic one dreary} ‘What do you mean?” “ + Ee as ———_ he was called by his friends and the momentous scene when ‘co SUBSCRIPTION RATES One: year (in Advan¢e) © =:--202--5.5-0-.-8s 4 200. : . day + late 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. ; ; (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 . ———~~_,_—~ e on Page Five) that is a part of the old .Foxen ge : ( Continued 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 4 lg 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 ] ; i {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. 2+ 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 ‘ 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 Tae : 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. : 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 U 1 I 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 ihone 57 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, _ turns’in gold im early days, of the high school faculty. \ The studio that satisfies. Good photos at reasonable x prices—no guess work. 8-° . hour Kodak finishing ser\ niaice: AG = 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 . } GAL TWOO ~s. 1% { aT) . y . . 123456 123456 % . 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 5 af ae