The Washington times., 1922-07-29
Social Light Turns 'Cave Girl"
And Takes Up Wild Homestead
Eileen Young Lives Among In
dian Tribes in California
Sierras Best Friend Is
Piute Chief.
By ELLIS II. MARTIN,
international News Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 90
It's far cry from a fashionable
ball room to a lonely mountain
homestead, but pretty Eileen
Young, Just twenty-five years old,
has bridged the gap.
Just recently Miss Young won
first costume prize for Mono coun-
ty, her adopted county, at a fash
ionable civic ball given here. She
wore a "cave woman's costume"
fashioned from furs Of animals
she had trapped herself in the
wilds of the mountains.
Piute NeighbOrs.
Now she is back in Mono county
completing the last Of twenty one
months residence on $40 acres of
wild land which stretches from the
High Sierras to the Mojave desert
which she took up three years ago
at the age of nineteen as a home
steader"
Her. principal neighbors are Piute
Indians and one Of her best friends
is the venerable -Four Fingered
Jack" chieftain of the Piutes. who
has been her protector from the
moment Of her arrival three years
ago. He gave her the name Of
Lonely Deer" Word went out
that anyone who so much as lifted
finger against the little pale face"
pioneer who had come to the Lake
Mono district would answer to -Four
Fingered Jack" for Lonely Deer"
is the niece Of George Dorm, home
steader and fast friend of the chief.
Home in San Jose.
Uncle Georges" homestead is
thirty miles from the cabir of the
intrepid Eileen Young. homestead.
er." as she calls herself on her visits
to civilization and the home OF her
parents in San Jose. A mountain
range rears itself between the two
sections" and a swift mountain
stream tears its way down toward
the sea-otherwise they are "close
neighbors."
On her last trip to civilizat ton
Lonely Deer" had some pictures
taken In her ball costume to show
Chief -Four Fingered Jack" her con-
quest OF society" for Mono county.
The chief has never seen a CITY.
much less a fashionable ball. and the
only Jazz he has ever heard Is that
atforded by the mournful chant OF
the coyotes that gather on the shores
or Lake Mono at night to voice their
saxophone means for the edification
or the bears, mountain lions, timid
mule deer and stately elks that
lnhabit the region and to throw
terror into the hearts of the thou
sands or sheep that Craze on the hills
overhanging the lake.
Miss Young does not know the
meaning of the word fear.
Afraid?" she was asked.
A laugh was her answer.
L don't know what il means to
be afraid. Three years ago my old
bachelor uncle visited us and told
my family of the great sheep coun-
try in Mono county the Government
was opening up for settlement.
Uncle Was Sad.
He was sad because he is too old
to homestead any longer, and said
1t was too bad there was no boy in
the family to go up there and take
up the land.
II asked what was the matter
with my going. Father and mother
were hard to persuade, but l had
the nerve to do anything a boy could
do and finally won out. We lived
on ranch when we were youngsters
and ] learned how to ride as we'll
and shoot as straight as a boy.
my uncle helped me put up my
in nd TO he 80 IL,
of the last three years l have lived
up there with saddle horses, pack
mules and dogs for Compa mons.
And I like it. OF course I'm glad to
get back to civilization. but after
five months in the cities I'm glad
when the time comes to go back to
the mountains.
But the Mono county cave girl"
is not looking for a cave man"
without sufficient gumption to
strike out and get a homestead OF
his own with whom to share her
hard earned acres. And she is not
looking for any sort Of man just
sow.
when I marry" she said in an
swer to a question, at will be man
who loves the wilds-but who Is
equally at home in civilization.
want a man who is broke to city
pavements as well as mountain
climbing. He must be at home any.
where. But l guess I'll never find
that kind of a chap"
POINCARE TAKES STEPS TO
PROTECT SELF FROM HARM
PARIS. July 29.-Premier Poin.