South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-30
SOCIAL STAR NOW
CAVE GIRL UPON
HOMESTEAD RANCH
Eileen Young Lives Among
Indian Tribes in Hills
of California.

san FRANCISCO. July 2s.-(By
7. y sJ-Its far cry from a fash
iouabls ball room 10 a lonely noun
tain homestead. hut pretty EAeen
Young just q has brldged the gap.
Just recently Miss Young won hrst
costume prize FOR Mono County, her
adopted county. AZ fashionable
civic bah given here she wore
cave wOmEn's costume fashioned
from furs of animals she had trap
ped herself IN the wilds or the noun
tainE
Now she<e back in Mono COUNT
completing the last OF q months
residence on $40 acres Of wild land
which stretches from The High Ser
ras to the Moiave desert which she
took Up three years ago at the age OF
ia as a "homesteader.
Her principal nelgnbors are Piute
Indians and one or her best friends
f. the vsnera BILE -Four Fingered
JACK ch!euaIu Of the Piu,es. who
has been her protector from the mo-
ment of her arrival three years ago.
lie gave her the name OF Lonely
Deer Word went out that anyone
who so much as lifted finger
against the little pale face pioneer
wko had come 70 the Lake Mono
district would answer 20 -Four Fin
gered Jack. for Lonely Deer" Is the
niece OF George Dorm. homesteader
and fast friend OF rae Chief.
Home I'm san jose.
s'T-uc1e George'E' homestead Is 30
miles from the cabin OF the intrepid
Eileen Young. Homesteader. 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 swift mountain
stream tears it5 way down toward
the sea-otherwise they are close
neighb1rs."
on her last trip TO civilization
Lonely Deer" had some pictures
taken in her ball costume to show
Chief "Foug- Fingered Jack her con-
quest Of society" for Mono County.
The Chief has never seen city.
much less a fashionable ball, and the
only Jazz he has ever heard Is that
AFFORDED by the mOurnful chant or
the coyotes that gather on the shores
OF Lake Mono at night to voice their
saxophone means for the edihcation
OF the bears. mountain lions, timid
mule deer and stately elks that in
habit the region and to throw terror
into the hearts OF the thousands of
sheen chat g-aze on the hills over
hanging the lake.
Miss Young does not know the
meaning OF the word fear.
"Afraid7" she was asked.
A laugh was her answer.
ct don't know what il means 20
be afraid. Thres 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.
ssHe was sad because he r. too old
TO homestead any longer. and said
Il was too bad there was no boy In
the family TO 90 Up there and take
up the land.
"I asked what was the matter with
my going Father and mother were
hard 20 persuade, but I had the
nerve 20 do anything a boy could do
and finally won out. We lived on a
ranch when we were youngsters and
I learned how 20 ride as we'll and
shoot as straight as a boy
my uncle helped me put up my
cabin and for seven months OF each
OF the last three years have lived
I'D there with saddle horses. pack
mules and dogs for companions.
And I Ike r. or course I'm glad 70
get back 20 civilization. but after 1ve
months IN the cities ~ glad when
the time comes 20 80 back to the
mountains"
But the Mono County cave girl
IS not looking for a cave man" with
out sufficient gumption TO strike out
and get a homestead O. his own with
whom 70 share her hard-earned
acres. And she - not looking for
any sort OF a man just now.
when marry" she said IN ans
wer 70 a question, eft viii be a man
who loves the wilds-but who Is
equally at home IN civilization. ]
want a man who Is broke 20 city
paveuents as we'll as mountain
climbing. He must be az home any
where. But I guess III never ind
that kind OF chap"