August 9, 1972 (12 pages)

10 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1972 From the files of The Nugget *1932 JANUARY: Fred J, Kepner was the fourth area victim of "parrot fever" during a sudden outbreak of psittacosis. His wife died of the same ailment two weeks earlier, Other victims were Mrs. Hepner's two sisters who were visiting the family here, During the previous November the Hepners bought two love birds from an itinerant bird vendor. One bird soon died and later the infection appeared in members of the local family. * kK OK FEBRUARY: Sixteen weary men brought the body of Louis C. Clark, retired Oakland policeman out of the mountains from his cabin 16 miles east of Downieville. It was surmised Clark had frozen to death in a heavy storm. * OK OK OK OK MARCH: The Pifle, Rod and Gun Club of Grass Valley killed slightly more than 1,500 blue jays in one day's competetive hunt. The hunt was staged on the theory that the blue jay is a menace to other forms of bird life, especially Quail. * * KK * APRIL: The M. L. & D. Marsh Company of Nevada City sold its retail lumber business on Boulder Street to a newly formed corporation headed by Fred E. Conner of Sacramento. Luther Marsh and Charles "Buck" Williams remained with the new organization. * * kK * The body of Hans Butten, 48, a miner, was found in the snow a half mile from Old Colony Mine. Butten had gone to Forrest City to purchase Christmas tree decorations several days prior to Christmas 1931. It was believed he had become exhausted on the return trip and died of exposure when one of his skis broke. When found, Butten had some of the Christmas decorations clutched in his hand, . * kK kK * MAY: Sierraville sources reported that the Yuba Pass road opened to motor travel mid-month for the first time since the onset of winter more than six months previously. A total of 15 vehicles came thru without chains and minus major prob_ lems, Very little snow was encountered at any point. * * Kk OK * A headlined item told of the discovery (May 13) of the badly decomposed. body of the infant son of Col. and Mrs, Charles Lindberg. The remains were found in a dense wooded area near the Lindberg home. * * * *K * JUNE: Would-be prospectors were greatly excited and encouraged by the news of the finding of a 52-pound gold nugget, assayed at $9,000 value, in a strike at the Diltz Mine near Mariposa. * KOK K JULY: Presaging a gold mining boom eclipsing that of the days of 1849, George Wingfield and his engineers, all of Nevada, spent several days in a survey of possibilities around Nevada City. " * OK OK KO AUGUST: J. N. Becker, former superintendent of the old Mountaineer Mine, who left Nevada City in 1911 to accept a position in South Africa with Crown Mines at Johannesburg, returned for a visit with old friends in Western Nevada County. On his return to Africa, in September, he met Mrs. Becker in London and they spent some time in a tour of the European continent. * ok OK KOK SEPTEMBER: Albert J. Ismert, for 75 years a resident and sometime businessman in Nevada City, died in Buffalo, N.Y. He was a native of the eastern city, born in 1856. He and his brothers and sisters spent the previous summer at their old home place in Glenbrook Park and held a family reunion at Lake Olympia. * * * *K * OCTOBER: Bill Rodda, son of James "Queenie" Rodda of Grass Valley, was "sold" to the baseball league of Minneapolis. The story was of much interest to his many sportsminded friends and acquaintences in Nevada County. * * Ke K * NOVEMBER: Several hundred Nevada City residents drove to Colfax in the wee small hours of a chilly morning to greet President Herbert Hoover former local resident on a whistlestop at the railway depot in that city. They presented Mr. Hoover a galvanized lunch bucket filled with gold ore specimens from the county. * * * OK * DECEMBER: All Nevada City schools were closed midmonth for the rest of the year due to a heavy incidence of illness. One day alone saw 35 pupils absent from the grammar school and 40 students missing from their respective classes at the high school. imenady Hough 4h re. na @ uw Ss By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 For those of you who get your Nugget in time there is a Social Event you might enjoy this evening, Wednesday August 9, at 8:00 p.m, at the Grange Hall, ‘ * OOK KK OK Tomorrow night, Thursday August 10, at 7:30 p.m. there will be Board meeting at the Hall. Discussion, current problems-yours! : * KK OK OK _ Next Tuesday August 15 the Grange ladies meet there at 9:30 a.m. to work on items for their Gift Fair due November 18. Ladies please bring your sandwich and your hostesses will provide dessert at 12:00 noon, A short business meeting will be called at 1:00 p.m, by Chairman Mary Burns. Bring your 12 inch quilt blocks! Mmes Rose Hodge and Alice Licht are ready to complete the first quilt when just a few more blocks are provided. tor you who are thinking of pur chasing, its filled with this lovely new soft light washable batting. * * KKK * Maudie Shaw Antiques in Nevada City has a picture of the men of early Rough and Ready who instigated the Secession. The pictures appear to have been taken in New York. If you have any knowledge of the 1849-50 settlers here please call Maudie or me. If the picture can be authenticated and the men really identified Mrs. Shaw wishes to present the picture to the new Historical Library. The library is across from the County Court House and is to be dedicated Sunday August 20. Of course history provides us with most of the names of the possible secessionists. . There was said to be about a hundred active supporters of our Colonel. Certainly Col E.F. Brundage was the leader and spokesman of the group. Certainly too Wm. G, Ross Justice of the Peace and Stephen S. Ford Constable, who needed support for their "law and order" proa Chamber of Commerce gram, were there aiding and abetting. Their grievance was that they had no support for their offices under the government of the Territory of California or even from the government of the United States. Unfortunately this was very true particularly due to the problem of distance in those days. One of the movements enthusiastic supporters was the Reverend James Ss. Dunleavy who was annoyed with the lack of organized growth of the county. Don't both of those complaints still have a familiar sound? Messrs A.A, Townsend, Rev Pope, Putnam and Carpenter, Peter Vanmeter, John Richards, holt, Colgrove, Hardy, and Dunne all of the Rough and Ready Company which built and conducted the Rough and Ready Trading Post were undoubtedly members of the Mass Meeting. Captain Townsend had only recently returned from a trip to the East to recruit ‘more workers. On his return he found his little mining camp had increased, with the spring -influx of miners, to about 1500 population. The Trading Companys claims had all been jumped by "outsiders" and he didn't have use for any of the new workmen. That must have provided jolt enough to make anyone want to seceed. The men of the Randolph Company, Messrs William Gambrel, James Patterson, William D, Malone, two Damerons, and others also needed the protection of law and order so it was a popular movement. What Maudie Shaw wants now is someone who had relativesor knew someone from the past and pictures of them so she can be sure this picture really belongs to the names given. * * KK KK One more bit about our little mining camp whose history is actually more glamerous than the wild stories credited to it. I just read a line which backs up this contention and I quote "The company prospered here, and finding rich ground, removed their camp from Slate Creek to this place. Two of the men were dispached with a wagon to Sacramento to procure provisions, the route chosen by them being the same afterward known as the Telegraph Road." This was the trading route followed for many years by Stage Coaches and Freight Wagons. The company referred to was the Rough and Ready Company and "this place" was Rough and Ready. This was the first trade between Nevada County and other parts of the world. It was by and through our little community. The first mail to Nevada County came in over this route through Rough and Ready by mule back out of Sacramento, The mule driver known to history (at least what I have read of it) as Burch or Barnes, He was a member of the Bowers Express Line. To my mind this bit of history is far more glamerous than the story of Joe Swiegart and the man from Massachusetss or the Nuggets in the newly turned earth at the grave of the unnamed deceased which nearly created a riot. I am sure both stories are based on actual happenings. Hope some day I shall come across proof. * kK K KK You know me and history. I could go on and on but expect I better recount a bit of current happenings. Many Rough and Ready people attended the Luau at Condon Park yesterday. It was political so I shall be especially careful to generalize but politics aside it was lots of fun. Nearly worked myself to death! Strange sense of fun I guess but it seems to me what you get out of things about equal what you put into them. No wonder I had such a good time. It was my first experience with Condon Park, The huge pines provide lots of shade and it was lovely in spite of the heat. The picnic facilities there are good. One of our members Mr. Joe Slober of Sunset brought his sprinkler early in the morning so we had a cooled dust layer under foot. Mr. Brock of the Park did all he could to cool things off for us. The food, and since my diet this has lost SOME of its importance, was out of this world, Our local Cantonese Dinner House sure knows how to make delicious fried rice. Women of this area all seem to be good cooks. Mrs, George (Evelyn) Burcham supervised Teriyaki Chicken and Fruit Bowls that were excellent. I understand fresh Mint was the secret of the fruit bowl. Can't say about the Chicken except that it was as good as the pork and beef. The little Stuart girl from North San Juan did several Hawaiian dances and was darling. She danced ona picnic table decorated with polished wooden Tiki gods and other Hawaiian atmosphere. Our speaker LaCoste was very brief. He is an Assemblyman now and aspires to be a State Senator. Seems to me he would be good for our District reguardless of his or our political persuasion. * OK KK The sun is just coloring the eastern sky. The air is wonderful. I am out in the breezeway writing because the old typewriter would waken our guests. "God's in his heaven and all's right with the world". If I don't get a-cup of coffee soon again I shall go to sleep trying to copy this. We're off for Reno as soon as I can get this to our Editor. No I don't gamble I just lose. Actually I am going with our guests to visit my three grand nephews in Lemon Valley which is just outside the city. May use the old arm a couple of times just to prove my record.

10 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1972 From the files of The Nugget *1932 JANUARY: Fred J, Kepner was the fourth area victim of "parrot fever" during a sudden outbreak of psittacosis. His wife died of the same ailment two weeks earlier, Other victims were Mrs. Hepner's two sisters who were visiting the family here, During the previous November the Hepners bought two love birds from an itinerant bird vendor. One bird soon died and later the infection appeared in members of the local family. * kK OK FEBRUARY: Sixteen weary men brought the body of Louis C. Clark, retired Oakland policeman out of the mountains from his cabin 16 miles east of Downieville. It was surmised Clark had frozen to death in a heavy storm. * OK OK OK OK MARCH: The Pifle, Rod and Gun Club of Grass Valley killed slightly more than 1,500 blue jays in one day's competetive hunt. The hunt was staged on the theory that the blue jay is a menace to other forms of bird life, especially Quail. * * KK * APRIL: The M. L. & D. Marsh Company of Nevada City sold its retail lumber business on Boulder Street to a newly formed corporation headed by Fred E. Conner of Sacramento. Luther Marsh and Charles "Buck" Williams remained with the new organization. * * kK * The body of Hans Butten, 48, a miner, was found in the snow a half mile from Old Colony Mine. Butten had gone to Forrest City to purchase Christmas tree decorations several days prior to Christmas 1931. It was believed he had become exhausted on the return trip and died of exposure when one of his skis broke. When found, Butten had some of the Christmas decorations clutched in his hand, . * kK kK * MAY: Sierraville sources reported that the Yuba Pass road opened to motor travel mid-month for the first time since the onset of winter more than six months previously. A total of 15 vehicles came thru without chains and minus major prob_ lems, Very little snow was encountered at any point. * * Kk OK * A headlined item told of the discovery (May 13) of the badly decomposed. body of the infant son of Col. and Mrs, Charles Lindberg. The remains were found in a dense wooded area near the Lindberg home. * * * *K * JUNE: Would-be prospectors were greatly excited and encouraged by the news of the finding of a 52-pound gold nugget, assayed at $9,000 value, in a strike at the Diltz Mine near Mariposa. * KOK K JULY: Presaging a gold mining boom eclipsing that of the days of 1849, George Wingfield and his engineers, all of Nevada, spent several days in a survey of possibilities around Nevada City. " * OK OK KO AUGUST: J. N. Becker, former superintendent of the old Mountaineer Mine, who left Nevada City in 1911 to accept a position in South Africa with Crown Mines at Johannesburg, returned for a visit with old friends in Western Nevada County. On his return to Africa, in September, he met Mrs. Becker in London and they spent some time in a tour of the European continent. * ok OK KOK SEPTEMBER: Albert J. Ismert, for 75 years a resident and sometime businessman in Nevada City, died in Buffalo, N.Y. He was a native of the eastern city, born in 1856. He and his brothers and sisters spent the previous summer at their old home place in Glenbrook Park and held a family reunion at Lake Olympia. * * * *K * OCTOBER: Bill Rodda, son of James "Queenie" Rodda of Grass Valley, was "sold" to the baseball league of Minneapolis. The story was of much interest to his many sportsminded friends and acquaintences in Nevada County. * * Ke K * NOVEMBER: Several hundred Nevada City residents drove to Colfax in the wee small hours of a chilly morning to greet President Herbert Hoover former local resident on a whistlestop at the railway depot in that city. They presented Mr. Hoover a galvanized lunch bucket filled with gold ore specimens from the county. * * * OK * DECEMBER: All Nevada City schools were closed midmonth for the rest of the year due to a heavy incidence of illness. One day alone saw 35 pupils absent from the grammar school and 40 students missing from their respective classes at the high school.

imenady Hough 4h re. na @ uw Ss By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 For those of you who get your Nugget in time there is a Social Event you might enjoy this evening, Wednesday August 9, at 8:00 p.m, at the Grange Hall, ‘ * OOK KK OK Tomorrow night, Thursday August 10, at 7:30 p.m. there will be Board meeting at the Hall. Discussion, current problems-yours! : * KK OK OK _ Next Tuesday August 15 the Grange ladies meet there at 9:30 a.m. to work on items for their Gift Fair due November 18. Ladies please bring your sandwich and your hostesses will provide dessert at 12:00 noon, A short business meeting will be called at 1:00 p.m, by Chairman Mary Burns. Bring your 12 inch quilt blocks! Mmes Rose Hodge and Alice Licht are ready to complete the first quilt when just a few more blocks are provided. tor you who are thinking of pur chasing, its filled with this lovely new soft light washable batting. * * KKK * Maudie Shaw Antiques in Nevada City has a picture of the men of early Rough and Ready who instigated the Secession. The pictures appear to have been taken in New York. If you have any knowledge of the 1849-50 settlers here please call Maudie or me. If the picture can be authenticated and the men really identified Mrs. Shaw wishes to present the picture to the new Historical Library. The library is across from the County Court House and is to be dedicated Sunday August 20. Of course history provides us with most of the names of the possible secessionists. . There was said to be about a hundred active supporters of our Colonel. Certainly Col E.F. Brundage was the leader and spokesman of the group. Certainly too Wm. G, Ross Justice of the Peace and Stephen S. Ford Constable, who needed support for their "law and order" proa Chamber of Commerce gram, were there aiding and abetting. Their grievance was that they had no support for their offices under the government of the Territory of California or even from the government of the United States. Unfortunately this was very true particularly due to the problem of distance in those days. One of the movements enthusiastic supporters was the Reverend James Ss. Dunleavy who was annoyed with the lack of organized growth of the county. Don't both of those complaints still have a familiar sound? Messrs A.A, Townsend, Rev Pope, Putnam and Carpenter, Peter Vanmeter, John Richards, holt, Colgrove, Hardy, and Dunne all of the Rough and Ready Company which built and conducted the Rough and Ready Trading Post were undoubtedly members of the Mass Meeting. Captain Townsend had only recently returned from a trip to the East to recruit ‘more workers. On his return he found his little mining camp had increased, with the spring -influx of miners, to about 1500 population. The Trading Companys claims had all been jumped by "outsiders" and he didn't have use for any of the new workmen. That must have provided jolt enough to make anyone want to seceed. The men of the Randolph Company, Messrs William Gambrel, James Patterson, William D, Malone, two Damerons, and others also needed the protection of law and order so it was a popular movement. What Maudie Shaw wants now is someone who had relativesor knew someone from the past and pictures of them so she can be sure this picture really belongs to the names given. * * KK KK One more bit about our little mining camp whose history is actually more glamerous than the wild stories credited to it. I just read a line which backs up this contention and I quote "The company prospered here, and finding rich ground, removed their camp from Slate Creek to this place. Two of the men were dispached with a wagon to Sacramento to procure provisions, the route chosen by them being the same afterward known as the Telegraph Road." This was the trading route followed for many years by Stage Coaches and Freight Wagons. The company referred to was the Rough and Ready Company and "this place" was Rough and Ready. This was the first trade between Nevada County and other parts of the world. It was by and through our little community. The first mail to Nevada County came in over this route through Rough and Ready by mule back out of Sacramento, The mule driver known to history (at least what I have read of it) as Burch or Barnes, He was a member of the Bowers Express Line. To my mind this bit of history is far more glamerous than the story of Joe Swiegart and the man from Massachusetss or the Nuggets in the newly turned earth at the grave of the unnamed deceased which nearly created a riot. I am sure both stories are based on actual happenings. Hope some day I shall come across proof. * kK K KK You know me and history. I could go on and on but expect I better recount a bit of current happenings. Many Rough and Ready people attended the Luau at Condon Park yesterday. It was political so I shall be especially careful to generalize but politics aside it was lots of fun. Nearly worked myself to death! Strange sense of fun I guess but it seems to me what you get out of things about equal what you put into them. No wonder I had such a good time. It was my first experience with Condon Park, The huge pines provide lots of shade and it was lovely in spite of the heat. The picnic facilities there are good. One of our members Mr. Joe Slober of Sunset brought his sprinkler early in the morning so we had a cooled dust layer under foot. Mr. Brock of the Park did all he could to cool things off for us. The food, and since my diet this has lost SOME of its importance, was out of this world, Our local Cantonese Dinner House sure knows how to make delicious fried rice. Women of this area all seem to be good cooks. Mrs, George (Evelyn) Burcham supervised Teriyaki Chicken and Fruit Bowls that were excellent. I understand fresh Mint was the secret of the fruit bowl. Can't say about the Chicken except that it was as good as the pork and beef. The little Stuart girl from North San Juan did several Hawaiian dances and was darling. She danced ona picnic table decorated with polished wooden Tiki gods and other Hawaiian atmosphere. Our speaker LaCoste was very brief. He is an Assemblyman now and aspires to be a State Senator. Seems to me he would be good for our District reguardless of his or our political persuasion. * OK KK The sun is just coloring the eastern sky. The air is wonderful. I am out in the breezeway writing because the old typewriter would waken our guests. "God's in his heaven and all's right with the world". If I don't get a-cup of coffee soon again I shall go to sleep trying to copy this. We're off for Reno as soon as I can get this to our Editor. No I don't gamble I just lose. Actually I am going with our guests to visit my three grand nephews in Lemon Valley which is just outside the city. May use the old arm a couple of times just to prove my record.