Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-01-08
The F0RTY-NINERS.
Californians Who Nevor Tire Of
Talking ofthe Days OF 40"
The fnterrst Which Attaches to the Orig
ina ArgpnRuts-Chr MsthDds of
Those Who Take Their Lives
I'm Their Hands.
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we CilifOrliIl, lsvsr .lrs Jt taking
abou: the ev'l.ful d W Of 10, when ths
great gJl fsv'r sprsa1 ovsr the State"
- d a OIL pisisss IN n. o1s o the ori =
ntl Arsp1 tut3. tho o her day. "Tnere
" - son '.h.hs abIus tlat life that a man
X part in itnsv,r fot E5ts. Iwas on 3
whi hal IN, 'soll fever at that time
and 'ruu eel IT, with nun lreis OF others
~ the eXcit NJ hlns for the glittering
m til. A. n result every hing about 40
becomes o. plr icular in crest to u.s." The
'e tker bad IA his han an cc1unt Of n
visi - m Iie to tho locality VIII re gold
was hrst disc " d in ths State. Tho re-
gIon IS the divide" between the north
an mi Idle irSs Of tls A American RIVER.
IL is "A arsa OF not IN IRA than tsn miles
SOU ,re. yss in it - me- WITH every form
OF goi l-b3tr'n, d spo5it found In the State,
nm within limits have occurred slnIe
OF ths most romantic in ridsnts and tragic
evsnts c1in ,ct Bd W tl the mining history
o. Cali briias pio1esr DAYS. ore o. the
IN iltsrestin spots Is TodI's Valley.
which belIig TO tn p Irt,o1 o. the dlvid ,
know as FIr,,t II Il. The writer was
one n tie s1li-ss X, ,rs wh1 vis!t,i the
l.c l " IN ~ and had personal &C.
qInI ttl . with tho charac ers be speaks
Of. H. say,:
Lon; Will the pace T anil others. who
IN 'i9 trav,l'1 up anl down this div lie.
h1v rolspn e. rem 'mber TodI's Valley,
not Tor ths reason tat any sp ,ciaI good
luck "r q r. calamity thnrs happe1eI to
IN. Tut bee ,uso this was the only p nc q
wn'ro a whit, wo nan an frolickin. chill
dren, aud dOys, and cats, anI COWS coull
To- seen. aud n sqIsre meal obsaInsI nt
ihai dty. These ware conf irts all male
20 s'hle. a1d 50 brou yht within reach OF
the 4D'r. by jim Williams, WIN, in tho
sun'n r o. '4S. leaving Sa1tI Cruz and
tok 4 a., W, h hi n his amily and domestic
nu ma 3, pure to tn > va,isy an there
put M n st icl al, cabin. W le.eat man and
heast were n tsrwar entertained in ROY al
stvle. ii "a Williams was Miss )1rian by
hirth, ius, bav NJ He'd a mau in h $ ma
'iv' Stat, found expelieIt 70 emigrlte.
Ihis o DID. first g)ing to Ind an Terri
tory and later coming to California In
t1is killing hs was not altogether TO
blam', hu enough to b anne to render
fur her silence in his ow1 HON, un-
comfortable; hence his removal. But I'm
coming away, Williams was not tn, man
q leave hs ia nly bshind. He gathered
them u even e his m0ther-in-l1w and
bis " fe's two s!'ters. very coms'y ma d =
ens all bruu It them out into 20 wilder
ness with him. His cabin being thu onl /,
place IN the whole country whore a Chri,-
tiau IN nj ca III be IN I. few Going up or
down ho riig, ever ptssel witho it ciIl-
iu-. The result was t1at W lliams mats
money, 81 mu IA - that tho next year hs
sol ont tue place TO ono DR.. Toll"
TIc writ,r pa i 4 V sit to several OF the
his oric sp1's ia the vict1.ty. Re erriny
70 them, n y; 'L1ci'oI o. the mil n,
fork ne lts ct o. W ~ IA ml n -ivs +
l. Mur lor'rs bar. o. this six yoIngm IN
from Ore-pI w're k lie by ths Il iiaus
IL VI y, lSi Firtlrr NJ OF tle sauth
fork, netr k'ls VS. dts .inss. oie oi X l.
ssy's hrD.hers W IS in I k m1ua,. killed
the sam yAnr. BY rSaspn OF thrss IN |
her mIr lore CON nit.sl bT II / 4 ana,
party mt pus from Suffers IN n, and
having cor ale n lot o. tho sqvlces
brouy yht them IN 20 tn, mill VIII nra, at eT
n = 'rt Of tr NJ, sons dlz,n or more were
sho'. Near here, ii.tle fursh sr s1usl. Is
IN srens II ths famous oil mill wlers
col was tlrso d.scov re in California.
Thsre s also the town Of Greenwood. in
GreauwpnP5 Valley, both namei after
old LIN Gree wo 81, about ths bes. sp,cl-
mel of a mJunt1inser AMI trappsr tha.
ever warS buckskin hunt ,-shirt and
mocca' n. In the sp Ing o, 40 Grcen wood
was liv n with his family which coa-
SIS ed many o. mum arouB horses, a re 4 :
nue. o d igs and several boys at the ol
mi Z, where ho was a po,el character bot "a
because ol his str king persp tal apoe1r-
10 T. II,
ue was cipab . of colsu ming W tl ut any
v,-i lie elfsc-. lie had Ia { his hom, ia
Missouri, whoa youth aud spsut MS wloie
after life in the service of the various fur
comuanies huntia, and trapping Ia the
Rocky Mount ans, having also s,rv,d as q
gu de to some Of me expeditions sent out
BY the q nerai Governms 1t to explore the
regions OF tia .rstt northwsst Thou h
over seventy ye1rs OF a o WI n living at
tue mill. no got ab )us W th the agility o.
youth. an coull still handle his rife with
u efrirg pre- iHou. lis boys 10y his In.
dial wife. Crow wo nal. wore haad.
some, br git little fellows. Tho town o.
Gree wj "a has shared the fate common e
so many o. the early settlements in the
mining regionA"
A nu nber OF the graves o IN IN who liel
in 40 IN that regi IN we're visite by tn,
writer "a lhtls below T dis Valley
he writ =, IS Jack Grsary's grave. Po
/ fellow, he cam Of r,ch fam ly som !,
/ where in tn East was highly educated
o gen lsmanly aidrsss All good appslr-
nnce; b It h d o p1Ir aud al iue s.ar yet
TO death in hts cabin hard bv tho mi ldl
rk, where We founl his remains and in
/ ter el them as vel as we could. pittin.
/ up aruds cross IN h, spot. BIs neithe
tie grave nor the cabin Is the . my more
/ They occup 9 I fatal grlu1d-gt IN that
/ coutu in; goll, has sincS bsen wash
or and With it all ia re was lie. { to mari
the las stin .-nlacc AID perpesuate III