January 21, 1970 (12 pages)

~ a & 4 id ee A a . . ey) a ‘te + cl ae the fledgling _ Support to L ~~ Secessionists ‘were so strong that in the federal election . precinct voted 328 to Oagainstthe Emanci"pator. The burning question of the day was ~ ‘where all the electors came from with — ~ only slightly more than 100 persons on the The celebrated "raid" of the Nevada “County courthouse, one of Edwin Bean's “more ludicrous stories in his famous Nevada County directory of 1867, > according to the Nevada Transcript of ae. 20, 1865, “humbug.” Ys ng to Bean, the raid was to. staged by secessionists from “Grass Valley, which during the Civil War“ “was a hot bed of copperheads, with only ‘oln and the Union Cause, of 1864, Allison Ranch poll tax rolls, ° Bean's version of the "paid:" Sheriff K-had received information ~ during the day, from one of his attaches,who had visited the famous locality of . Allison Ranch, that the secessionists of. that place and Grass Valley contemplated . “a raid on Nevada, The direful news was whispered about among the brave and faithful, andthe stifled < ‘ery of "to arms" passed from mouth to Mouth, The sheriff was sure his information was correct. The city was to be sacked, the banks were to be robbed, the arms of ‘the Nevada Light Guard were a prize for lawless men intent on raising the standard of insurrection. on the Pacific coast. Some families were removed to other quarters. It is said a few women and children were urged to flee to the vastness of the Sugar Loaf, and complied in the _ greatest consternation. The sheriff was indefatigable in mustering forces to defend the city to the last extremity. He proceeded without hesitation to fortify -himself with old Democratic whiskey. The Nevada Light Guard assembled at their armory and the sheriff attempted to take supreme command, by not allowing a soldier the privilege of going out to bid his wife the last adieu. He informed the warriors assembled, that like Jackson at New Orleans, he was going to make the property of the city defend it. Captain Kidd, a banker, ss vg for one, pressed into the service, and harnessed with the military accoutrements of Mark Rhineberger. Now, Rhineberger was slightly less than twice the height of Kidd, and consequently as the gallant captain marched to the field of Mars, the cartridge box pendant on one side, at every one of his martial steps, struck the ground. It was probably such an apparition as is rarely to be met with in the light of day. Yet, as the opportunity had come of dying for one's country and fireside, the glory is supposed to be won by expiring with the harness on, and as war harness was scarce, the thought could not be entertained a2 moment, of taking it off, and time would not allow of taking it up. For it was.expected the bugle blast for a charge would be heard at any moment. Guards were set, and the measured tread of sentinels was heard during the suspense of that awful night. The stars shone out as beautifully and bright as if they were not soon to have'their light reflected from a mirror of blood. Silent, unconscious witnesses of many a midnight tragedy! The courthouse was surrounded by a cordon of braves, some prepared for the most desperate encounters with sixteen shooters, revolvers, hatchets and knives. The night slowly wore away. No enemy appeared. fo c— a a he "nage s Valley Union giving any 8 ne Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, January 21, 1970 Damm the countersign, advance with cocktails been in the camp of the enemy, and give him a searching cross examination in private. He returned, shook his head om=inously, and looked unhappy. Scouts, armed ‘to the teeth, were sent out by authority, to examine every foot of ground on the way to Grass Valley, to reconnoiter the enemy and_return, if possible, to. give: warning to the beleaguered city. . The weary guards, chilly with night watching, paced to and fro, the points of ' their bayonnets gleaming in the starlight over their heads, while occasional dialogues. were spoken, one of which is remembered. A new-hand at the trade of death approached an old soldier, both on duty."TI suppose," said he, ‘Uncle Billy, that you have done your share in this. bloody business in your time." "Yes," said the veteran, "I have seen some service,” "You must have killed some men in _ your long military career." "I don't know, I have fired in the direction of the ab: . pevers) times, " said Uncle Billy, os "Well, this will te the first time Iever pointed ‘: gun. at my fellow man, and I would give a great deal that I could wie this night out of my memory!" "Blaze" was kindhearted and consid: erate, as he always is when his race is _in distress. He sent. up to the Courthouse a bottle of cock-tails. 5 ~ "Who comes there?" said Joe K--, the Senator on guard. "Friend, with a bottle of cock-tails," was the answer. "Advance friend with the cock-tails," said Joe promptly, "damn the countersign!" The "wee sma hours ayont the twal" came and went, but no enemv. -Susvicion crept in that the town was to be spared a day or two longer. As Captain Lancaster of the invincible Guard would not surrender entire command to the Sheriff, the latter announced in stentorian voice that the county was to be deprived of his valuable services as an officer, and retired to a game of "seven up" in superlative disgust, resigning the city of Nevada to a fate deserved by the insubordination of its inhabitants. In the midst of the game, the gas light was suddenly extinguished and the sheriff retired in not very good order to other quarters. And thus ended the "Big Scare" thatwill live in the memory of men of Nevada many generations to come, It passed, leaving an opportunity for some of our people to die quietly in their beds, an opportunity but few have so far availed themselves of, and at this writing (Feb. 10, 1867) while crazed by the clamor for copy, I finish up these concluding lines to the sketch of Nevada, leaving her people undisturbed by war's alarms. The Transcript's version of the raid: Sheriff Charles Kent.received information he deemed reliable that parties from Allison Ranch were going to release Josiah and Robert Dodge and E. W. Garvey from the county jail, with the intention of _lynching Josiah Dodge, but no report was made of the group's intentions for the other two. The three men had been lodged in jail after the coroner's jury "found them guilty of murder and recommended they be held for grand. jury action." They were implicated in the shotgun slaying of Mark T. Hammock in James Ahern's saloon on-Allison Ranch the night of Jan. 8, 1865. Hammock had raffled off a horse and was celebrating with a friendly brew for the boys in the bistro when a shotgun muzzle was pushed through a window and he was ss » blasted witha shot. ++ * +49 97 07 920400000 h Recorder’s office set most documents in 769 The most documents ever rethe county. Kohler broke down corded in Nevada county went the amount of revenue by months: through the recorder's office January $8,353 collected, Febduring calendar-year 1969,Theruary $3,299, March $3, 212, Apodore A, Kohler Jr. stated in ril $4,961, "May $5, 299, ‘June his year-end report. $5,802, July $4,474, August $5,-.The office had 17,294 docu47l, September $5, 578, ei ments to record during 1969, $4, 615, November $5,052, and Kohler reported, 3,732 more December $5,634, than in 1968, The humber of Recording fees and total propsubdivision maps, 28,and survey erty transfer tax collected dur’ maps, 126, also. reached anew ing 1969 amounted to $102,904,high, Kohler said, 40. The fees collected ranged Kohler submitted his annual from March, the lowest month of report to the board of superran. oe ce the highest visors ‘with "my sincere ap™m 5299 preciation for Antal assistThe county had more births, ’ ance: and cooperation (ofhis more deaths and more marriStaff, the board and other counages during ‘the last’ calendar ty officials) in enabling. me to year: 405 births versus 375 in render a service for the bet1968, 267 deaths versus 242 ments recorded were: 9,131 in the pre year and 182 mar“1963; 10,117 in 1964; "10,078 nage ae 174 for .1968. in 1965; 9, 681 in 1966; 13, 059 for. 1969 amounted in 1967 and 13,562 in 1968, to $22,377; $1,344 of which came Revenue collected by the refrom thesale of 687 dog licenses. corder for the year totaled The number of civil and pro$61,610, Of that amount $1,518 bate filings were above the prewent to the two incorporated vious year, but juvenile filings efties and $60,091 remainedwith decreased: 466 civil filings in 1969, 374 in 1968; 135 probate . filings in 1969, ‘120 in 1968; Tirés + 1 for 105 javentie tings last year and K <= the previous year, he recorder's office recar safety catied Me pecmeiet iota and issued 180 marriage licenses. Tires with sufficient tread and air are far safer for driving during rainy weather, Lt. Mel 8 ' DeLay of the local California Park advisory Rigg Patrol office suggests. car with low air pressure in its tires will hydroplane, Lt. group to meet DeLay said, at slower speeds on a wet road, The methodfor The Malakoff ‘Historie State determining the speed at which Park /Citizens' Advisory Coma car will hydroplane is todemission and state park officials termine the square root of the will review the 1969 park seatire pressure and multiply by son, and hear progress reports . 10,3, at a meeting at 8 p.m. Feb, 10 A hydroplaning car is riding in the California Division of Foron a film of water, the tires are estry headquarters. not making contact with theroad © The agenda includes a report surface. Even at the best-of: on the recently constructed times, a warm dry day andavewater and fire protection system hicle with good tires, the vehicle for North Bloomfield, according is riding on four hand-sized to Bob Paine; president of. the pieces of rubber. Only a small commission. He said last year portion of the tire are on the the park experienced its greatest pavement at any given moment. visitor increase since its open. During the first rain after a ing. dry spell, not this month cerThe Nevada County Branch tainly, road conditions aremore American Association of Uniber burns have accumulated.on wooden watering trough in keepthe pavement and make it more ing with the pioneer aspect ofthe slippery than on the third-day of Malakoff, according to Isabel a rainy spell. Hedrick, AAUW president. It is. Despite all efforts by a conhoped the trough willbe installed — tract to construct a safe road by May 1, surface often a new road is Mrs, Hedrick said the contrislightly slippery. The slipperibution is in keeping with others hess will disappear when the made by groups and individuals, _ Surface has been chewed upabit which include a hitching post, and by many vehicles, Thenewfreerestoration of apple. orchards, way could havethis disadvantage and donations of me for a month or so. An antique gold rush Another possible reasonfor once the property of Sam the couple of accidents already ee a pioneer Nevada: reported on the Golden Center tyan, is the focal-point of the Ai . Freeway or on other freeways university women's drive to fiwell marked road givestoadrivin charge and Mary Wallace doer. Perhaps they tend togoalitnated the trunk. WANT AUS? tle too fast and brake too severly _at an off ramp. DeLay emphasized his remark about tires, good tires with lots of tread~ and an adequate air icepiptee area CET RESULTS

~ a & 4 id ee A a . . ey) a ‘te + cl ae the fledgling _ Support to L ~~ Secessionists ‘were so strong that in the federal election . precinct voted 328 to Oagainstthe Emanci"pator. The burning question of the day was ~ ‘where all the electors came from with — ~ only slightly more than 100 persons on the The celebrated "raid" of the Nevada “County courthouse, one of Edwin Bean's “more ludicrous stories in his famous Nevada County directory of 1867, > according to the Nevada Transcript of ae. 20, 1865, “humbug.” Ys ng to Bean, the raid was to. staged by secessionists from “Grass Valley, which during the Civil War“ “was a hot bed of copperheads, with only ‘oln and the Union Cause, of 1864, Allison Ranch poll tax rolls, ° Bean's version of the "paid:" Sheriff K-had received information ~ during the day, from one of his attaches,who had visited the famous locality of . Allison Ranch, that the secessionists of. that place and Grass Valley contemplated . “a raid on Nevada, The direful news was whispered about among the brave and faithful, andthe stifled < ‘ery of "to arms" passed from mouth to Mouth, The sheriff was sure his information was correct. The city was to be sacked, the banks were to be robbed, the arms of ‘the Nevada Light Guard were a prize for lawless men intent on raising the standard of insurrection. on the Pacific coast. Some families were removed to other quarters. It is said a few women and children were urged to flee to the vastness of the Sugar Loaf, and complied in the _ greatest consternation. The sheriff was indefatigable in mustering forces to defend the city to the last extremity. He proceeded without hesitation to fortify -himself with old Democratic whiskey. The Nevada Light Guard assembled at their armory and the sheriff attempted to take supreme command, by not allowing a soldier the privilege of going out to bid his wife the last adieu. He informed the warriors assembled, that like Jackson at New Orleans, he was going to make the property of the city defend it. Captain Kidd, a banker, ss vg for one, pressed into the service, and harnessed with the military accoutrements of Mark Rhineberger. Now, Rhineberger was slightly less than twice the height of Kidd, and consequently as the gallant captain marched to the field of Mars, the cartridge box pendant on one side, at every one of his martial steps, struck the ground. It was probably such an apparition as is rarely to be met with in the light of day. Yet, as the opportunity had come of dying for one's country and fireside, the glory is supposed to be won by expiring with the harness on, and as war harness was scarce, the thought could not be entertained a2 moment, of taking it off, and time would not allow of taking it up. For it was.expected the bugle blast for a charge would be heard at any moment. Guards were set, and the measured tread of sentinels was heard during the suspense of that awful night. The stars shone out as beautifully and bright as if they were not soon to have'their light reflected from a mirror of blood. Silent, unconscious witnesses of many a midnight tragedy! The courthouse was surrounded by a cordon of braves, some prepared for the most desperate encounters with sixteen shooters, revolvers, hatchets and knives. The night slowly wore away. No enemy appeared. fo c— a a he "nage s Valley Union giving any 8 ne Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, January 21, 1970 Damm the countersign, advance with cocktails been in the camp of the enemy, and give him a searching cross examination in private. He returned, shook his head om=inously, and looked unhappy. Scouts, armed ‘to the teeth, were sent out by authority, to examine every foot of ground on the way to Grass Valley, to reconnoiter the enemy and_return, if possible, to. give: warning to the beleaguered city. . The weary guards, chilly with night watching, paced to and fro, the points of ' their bayonnets gleaming in the starlight over their heads, while occasional dialogues. were spoken, one of which is remembered. A new-hand at the trade of death approached an old soldier, both on duty."TI suppose," said he, ‘Uncle Billy, that you have done your share in this. bloody business in your time." "Yes," said the veteran, "I have seen some service,” "You must have killed some men in _ your long military career." "I don't know, I have fired in the direction of the ab: . pevers) times, " said Uncle Billy, os

"Well, this will te the first time Iever pointed ‘: gun. at my fellow man, and I would give a great deal that I could wie this night out of my memory!" "Blaze" was kindhearted and consid: erate, as he always is when his race is _in distress. He sent. up to the Courthouse a bottle of cock-tails. 5 ~ "Who comes there?" said Joe K--, the Senator on guard. "Friend, with a bottle of cock-tails," was the answer. "Advance friend with the cock-tails," said Joe promptly, "damn the countersign!" The "wee sma hours ayont the twal" came and went, but no enemv. -Susvicion crept in that the town was to be spared a day or two longer. As Captain Lancaster of the invincible Guard would not surrender entire command to the Sheriff, the latter announced in stentorian voice that the county was to be deprived of his valuable services as an officer, and retired to a game of "seven up" in superlative disgust, resigning the city of Nevada to a fate deserved by the insubordination of its inhabitants. In the midst of the game, the gas light was suddenly extinguished and the sheriff retired in not very good order to other quarters. And thus ended the "Big Scare" thatwill live in the memory of men of Nevada many generations to come, It passed, leaving an opportunity for some of our people to die quietly in their beds, an opportunity but few have so far availed themselves of, and at this writing (Feb. 10, 1867) while crazed by the clamor for copy, I finish up these concluding lines to the sketch of Nevada, leaving her people undisturbed by war's alarms. The Transcript's version of the raid: Sheriff Charles Kent.received information he deemed reliable that parties from Allison Ranch were going to release Josiah and Robert Dodge and E. W. Garvey from the county jail, with the intention of _lynching Josiah Dodge, but no report was made of the group's intentions for the other two. The three men had been lodged in jail after the coroner's jury "found them guilty of murder and recommended they be held for grand. jury action." They were implicated in the shotgun slaying of Mark T. Hammock in James Ahern's saloon on-Allison Ranch the night of Jan. 8, 1865. Hammock had raffled off a horse and was celebrating with a friendly brew for the boys in the bistro when a shotgun muzzle was pushed through a window and he was ss » blasted witha shot. ++ * +49 97 07 920400000 h Recorder’s office set most documents in 769 The most documents ever rethe county. Kohler broke down corded in Nevada county went the amount of revenue by months: through the recorder's office January $8,353 collected, Febduring calendar-year 1969,Theruary $3,299, March $3, 212, Apodore A, Kohler Jr. stated in ril $4,961, "May $5, 299, ‘June his year-end report. $5,802, July $4,474, August $5,-.The office had 17,294 docu47l, September $5, 578, ei ments to record during 1969, $4, 615, November $5,052, and Kohler reported, 3,732 more December $5,634, than in 1968, The humber of Recording fees and total propsubdivision maps, 28,and survey erty transfer tax collected dur’ maps, 126, also. reached anew ing 1969 amounted to $102,904,high, Kohler said, 40. The fees collected ranged Kohler submitted his annual from March, the lowest month of report to the board of superran. oe ce the highest visors ‘with "my sincere ap™m 5299 preciation for Antal assistThe county had more births, ’ ance: and cooperation (ofhis more deaths and more marriStaff, the board and other counages during ‘the last’ calendar ty officials) in enabling. me to year: 405 births versus 375 in render a service for the bet1968, 267 deaths versus 242 ments recorded were: 9,131 in the pre year and 182 mar“1963; 10,117 in 1964; "10,078 nage ae 174 for .1968. in 1965; 9, 681 in 1966; 13, 059 for. 1969 amounted in 1967 and 13,562 in 1968, to $22,377; $1,344 of which came Revenue collected by the refrom thesale of 687 dog licenses. corder for the year totaled The number of civil and pro$61,610, Of that amount $1,518 bate filings were above the prewent to the two incorporated vious year, but juvenile filings efties and $60,091 remainedwith decreased: 466 civil filings in 1969, 374 in 1968; 135 probate . filings in 1969, ‘120 in 1968; Tirés + 1 for 105 javentie tings last year and K <= the previous year, he recorder's office recar safety catied Me pecmeiet iota and issued 180 marriage licenses. Tires with sufficient tread and air are far safer for driving during rainy weather, Lt. Mel 8 ' DeLay of the local California Park advisory Rigg Patrol office suggests. car with low air pressure in its tires will hydroplane, Lt. group to meet DeLay said, at slower speeds on a wet road, The methodfor The Malakoff ‘Historie State determining the speed at which Park /Citizens' Advisory Coma car will hydroplane is todemission and state park officials termine the square root of the will review the 1969 park seatire pressure and multiply by son, and hear progress reports . 10,3, at a meeting at 8 p.m. Feb, 10 A hydroplaning car is riding in the California Division of Foron a film of water, the tires are estry headquarters. not making contact with theroad © The agenda includes a report surface. Even at the best-of: on the recently constructed times, a warm dry day andavewater and fire protection system hicle with good tires, the vehicle for North Bloomfield, according is riding on four hand-sized to Bob Paine; president of. the pieces of rubber. Only a small commission. He said last year portion of the tire are on the the park experienced its greatest pavement at any given moment. visitor increase since its open. During the first rain after a ing. dry spell, not this month cerThe Nevada County Branch tainly, road conditions aremore American Association of Uniber burns have accumulated.on wooden watering trough in keepthe pavement and make it more ing with the pioneer aspect ofthe slippery than on the third-day of Malakoff, according to Isabel a rainy spell. Hedrick, AAUW president. It is. Despite all efforts by a conhoped the trough willbe installed — tract to construct a safe road by May 1, surface often a new road is Mrs, Hedrick said the contrislightly slippery. The slipperibution is in keeping with others hess will disappear when the made by groups and individuals, _ Surface has been chewed upabit which include a hitching post, and by many vehicles, Thenewfreerestoration of apple. orchards, way could havethis disadvantage and donations of me for a month or so. An antique gold rush Another possible reasonfor once the property of Sam the couple of accidents already ee a pioneer Nevada: reported on the Golden Center tyan, is the focal-point of the Ai . Freeway or on other freeways university women's drive to fiwell marked road givestoadrivin charge and Mary Wallace doer. Perhaps they tend togoalitnated the trunk. WANT AUS? tle too fast and brake too severly _at an off ramp. DeLay emphasized his remark about tires, good tires with lots of tread~ and an adequate air icepiptee area CET RESULTS