The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-08
Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

A number of the Walls which contain small pieces of wood from the log
which at ne time formed part of the last of the Bonner party cabins, have
been sod 10 different parties, m m will show what getup there is 70
the Truckee people when a monument begins to loom up in the spot where,
forty-six years ago, the Bonner party persisted from starvation. The project
undertaken to raise sufficient funds for the erection of this monument has
created quhe al interest in people all over the country, and the plans for
raising the funds are a follows: There were 5000 walls prepared fr sale
at one dollar apiece, and the net proceeds will be devoted TO the building of
the monument The sites of the cabins are low unmarked, ave in the
lcrudest manner, and all traces of them would be obnerated in a few years.
1t is proposed to chse1 the face of the big Rock by the Murphy cabin
sc IS to form a smooth surface and thereon engrave the names OF those who
persisted The Graves cabin will be permanently marked by granite posts
and coping. The Breen cabin, which is o n a elevated plateau, will be the
site of the principal monument, which will be hewn from granite and de-
signed to Withstand the storms of centuries. Work will be commenced in
1894 and will be prosecuted as rapidly as the funds permit
Printers Ink, a publication of New York, makes this center shot: "Ad-
vertise anyhow. If your business won't pay for advertising. advertise it for
sale"
Willie Dunn, a fun-blooded Pute Indian, who was convicted of man
slaughter in the United States district court at Carson and sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment in the United States pententiary in Ohio has been
pardoned by the President OF account of failing health. Willie Dunn was
raised at Star City, Humboldt county. When a boy he as taken to yisaHa,
California. by a white family. In 1868 his father went to visana and brought
walton. One day he had some trouble with Charlie Wnnemucca, one of the
fnest-looking braves at the agency. Charlie ridiculed Willie. who is a small
Indian, and spoke sightngly of him in the presence of some of the young
women O the tribe. This angered the little Indian, who could not brook such
taunts in the presence of the young women, so he drew a knife and killed
Charlie The old Indians held a council and decided to hang Willie in three
hat hanging a little Indian like Willie Dunn would not make amends for
he killing of a big, fne-looking Indian like Charlie Winnemucca. ". D.
Gibson, who a agent at the Pyramid reservation at the time, ascertaned
hat the Indians intended to hang Willie, whom they held a prisoner, and he
tdegraphed to the United States marshal That officer went to the reserva-
ION and, through the intercesaon of Agent Gibson, a permitted to take
Willie to Carson to be tried "al same as whhem man AS above stated, he
convicted and sentenced in the United States court Prison life is too
confirming or Indians, who are accustomed to living in the open air, and his
health gave way. Some of his white friends petfdoned the President to
pardon him, and he has complied with their request.