Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-30
THE GOLDEN STATE.
AOME or TBE sfGHTs sND DaN.
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Road Agen,s-Camping and Hunting.
! Correspondence To the GLonE-RErunLiC
! CLovERDALE, Cal, Aug. 10 This is writ
ten from "A farm house. where summer
boordcrs are received and entertained sit
uatol in Oat Creek valley, where there are
no oats, though it Is said that, at the first
settlement of the region, the hills were GOV.
er d with the wild variety Of that cereal,
| growing SO luSuriantly as to bide the ami
mails that fed upon it--a mile and a half
| from Cloverdale, where there Is no clover
San Francisco is warm in winter and. except
an occasional sultry day, cold in summer
the latter with chilly, foggy mornings,
windy, dusty afternoons and irigid mig hts
! Consequently, the most of those who are
not comielld to remain are apt to seek
! places in the interior, where the climatic
alternations are in better conformity with
the terms whereby the four seasons are
commonly indicated
| Cloverdalc, Sonoma county, whereof
Santa Nora is the seat of such justice as is
! formally administered in this region, is
| port town of 800 inhabitants situated
In the valley of the Russian river, which
varies with the time of year from
broad AMI turbulent in winter and spring to
narrow and insignificant in summer and
autumn, and which torrent or rivulet, rs
the case may he, delivers its contents to the
| bay OF San Francisco, "A short distance from
that promontory-guarded deLouchment
which is somewhat pompously compliment
| ed with the title of Golden Gate" Clover
! dale is the terminus of a line Of railway
about seventy five miles in length, running
| northeasterly from the little town Of Theron
on the Bay of San Francisco, and connected
1 with the city by ferriage. Ii is, therefo fore
the place OF departure for an extensive
coaching business, public and private. and
the point of transfer from wagon to Lurden
cars of the products of the country from
long distances above Here one meets. en-
bazohel on the panels of substantial COW
cred coaches, with the old names celebrat ted
IN star-route proceedings and history, the
/ Saundersons and the Ahlmans: and at noon
and al evening the town is lively with the
! loading up and departure of these vehicles
with their hand iome teams of four and six
horses, and their hardy drivers-rolus ust
/ yuun. mon who look as it all were turned
out of the same mold, were clad by the
same tailor, and bought their cigars at the
same establishment
Climbing up PERCEPTIONS declivities with
yawning canon frequently hundreds of
feet IN depth upon one side and an inacces-
slble mountain on the other, by tracks upou
which for long distances it looks impossible
tor one Nehicle TO pass another, these stout
dillGencc', with their temperate teams and
discreet drivers, continue to make their trims
! III regulation time and with seldom an acci-
| dent, though there are understandable
after the spring raius-of frightful pIunges
! INTO horrid ravines, with indiscriminate a l.
mixtures of coach horses and Passengers
many bumps and bruises a few broken limbs
and now and then fatality. However a.
according to some practical villain,
The earthquake may be- bud To snors
| he man who's stranglcd bv a hair:
| And fate steals on with silent bead
Found oitnes in what least we dread
So who according to a recent blstor;,,
Of long past evont--whose sketch DESIGN
at some time in the hereafter more com.
pleteIy to REPRODUCED was once capsizel in a
mail coach on dead level knee deep in the
mud, In Ohio, along with future president
and future chief justice of the Unit. N
states, future general of the army. a I'm
ture congre sman and future millionaire.
am compelled to admit that there is no
stage in life that can be accounted free
from perils and casualties.
! The competition between star-routers ont
| and star-routers in-that is to saw betwean
| The old contractors who have been dronnad
| out and thosc who have been retained -bo-
| recently become aCdve and intense The
roaIs t. Lnk"pOrt and Ukiah are not uuit.
| perlend Cular, and if the horses do not pive
out IN the ascent nor ths break blocks in the
| descent the transit may be effected with n
! reasonable degree of safety. The ordinary
! fare is four and two and half dollars ra
spectivcly. Now it is proclaimed -four bitsn
| iifty cents to Ukiah and return; four bits
to Lakepcrt and return, and if YOU are not
satisfied with that we will carry Won for
nothing and give your dinner besides. II
brings back the old staging days of New
England and New York.
The representatives of the fraternity y,
Jack ShepI ard and Jesse James ar. sniff
ciently abundant in this region and vicinity,
the country along the roads being sparsely
settled and peculiarly well adapted by its
steep and narrow roads, thlckety hills and
deep rayncS for the encouragement of their
| pecuIia industry. Since NAV there have
been several-four or flve-mail coach rob
berries and attempts to rob within this i'm
mediate vicinity, one OF them within "A
couple OF miles of the house where am STAY
ing. and there is u whisper of one that has
happened near the same place within two or
three DAYS, the particulars of which, througb
the caution of the interested parties and the
detectives, have not been publicly disclosed
Road agents here, however. do not in gem
eral gothrough the passengers nor disturb the
mails, their attention being mainly directed
To the small green painted, IRON bound
strongly padlocked boxes of the express
companies, II number of which, with the
tops brok en- in, may be seen at the office in
| Cloverdale. The process is brief and simple
Ol an ascending grade two or more of the
footpads se,ze the horses by their brides;
another points gun at the driver and
orders him to throw out the express box
| which is carried in the forward boot, which
command, under the circums tances, he feels
himself incapable of disobaying; and on
compliance with this the conveyance is al
lowed to proceed. A day or two after Que
OF the recent rubberies the captured box was
found unopened in a thicket near the road
The roGues presumably fearing that the
| coach was loaded with detectives, who would
speedily be upon them, abandoned their
boo,y, fed, and could not muster he courage
" return. AT an attempt made some two
months ago, guard, who was sitting be-