BIG VALLEY GAZETTE – BIEBER, LASSEN COUNTY, CAL.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1901
L. C. Herrick is confined to his home with a severe attack of the grippe.
A report of an interview went down from Alturas to the city press in which
Mrs. Perry Summers is said to have stated that she was awakened by the mob
on the night of the lynching in Lookout, and that she dressed, went down and
concealed herself near the bridge and witnessed the hanging. We doubted the
authenticity of the interview at the time we read it, and our doubts were
confirmed yesterday, when Mrs. Summers stated to us that there was not a
word of truth in the interview.
Albert, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wood, returned with his regiment
from the Philippines last week. He is expected to reach here the latter
part of this week.
Deputy District Attorney Francis Carr of Redding, and Constable Kenyon of
Fall City, were here Sunday looking for a couple of men who broke from the
jail in Fall City one night last week.
MONUMENT FOR J. B. STANTON
A handsome monument was unloaded at McArthur’s store the other day, which
we learned is intended to mark the last resting place of John B. Stanton,
who was assassinated at the Cox & Clarke ranch some fifteen years ago. To
the majority of our readers, the story of the murder is a familiar one.
Stanton was foreman for Cox & Clarke and occupied the house and the same
position now occupied by James Snell and family. Among his neighbors,
Stanton bore an unsavory reputation and by many was regarded as a dangerous
man. One dark night I the spring of 1886, Stanton was seated at a table in
his sitting room engaged in reading. The curtains had not been drawn and he
was in full view of anyone who might be on the outside.
Some one, whose identity has never yet been revealed, crept up to within a
few feet of the house, fired a load of buckshot through the window and
Stanton never breathed again.
The monument was presented by C. W. Clarke, of the firm of Cox & Clarke. –
Fall River Tidings
Spencer & Raker sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court
for Albert Colburn, who is held in jail in Alturas, as a witness against the
Lookout Lynchers. The hearing took place last Friday, but the writ was
denied and Colburn will have to remain in jail until he gives his evidence
at the trial.
BORN
BROWNELL – In Bieber, Cal., June 29, 1901, to the wife of D. R. Brownell, a
son
DIED
BROWNELL – In Bieber, Cal., June 30, 1901, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D. R.
Brownell
GARRETT – In Susanville, Cal., June 25, 1901, john Preston Garrett, a native
of Kentucky aged 69 years, 10 months and 22 days
INDIAN MARY – HER HISTORY
The known history of the now famous Indian Mary, mother of the Hall boys,
who met their fate at the hands of the Lookout Lynchers, begins at old Fort
Crook, in 1865. At that time, Mary had an Indian husband and one child –
afterwards known as Frank Hall, and whose life was strangled out at the rope
’s end on the Pit River Bridge. Mary was rather a prepossessing young woman
and soon captured the fancy of Major Mellon, then commanding at Old Fort
Crook. The martial bearing and showy uniform of the handsome Major, soon
won the heart of Mary and giving up her dusky spouse, she formed an alliance
with the gallant Major. The result of this union was a daughter, who
afterwards became the wife of a young man named Lorenz and is now the
respected mother of a family, somewhere in Washington. She is said to have
been a very beautiful girl and was well educated.
When the command was moved from Fort Crook, of Course, Mary was left
behind. Sorrow for the loss of her martial lover did not, however, long
claim her for her own, as she soon formed a third alliance with a discharged
soldier, Calvin hall. To Mary was born by this union, a son and daughter –
Jim and Nora. When the latter was about 15 or 16 years of age, she ran away
with a white man named Bill Wagner. They went to Washington, where Wagner
was convicted of crime and sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years.
What became of Nora is not known.
In 1884, the festive and fickle Mary, tiring of her aged lover, deserted
him for a young buck of her own race. One son, Martin Wilson, was born to
them and was the youngest of the so-called Hall boys.
Time rolled on and Daniel Yantis appeared upon the scene. To him, Mary
again transferred he affections. This union continued up to the fatal night
at Lookout, when all five – Calvin Hall, his half-breed son, Jim Hall and
the two full bloods, Frank and Martin, and the renegade Daniel Yantis were
swung into eternity by the enraged mob.
Mary is now old and fat, but her success in the past in capturing the
affections of the sterner sex of both races gives assurance she will not for
long wear the emblems of mourning, but will wash the pitch and charcoal off
her face and find consolation for her bruised and bleeding heart in the
wick-a-up of some lonely buck.
Such in brief is the history of Indian Mary. Her name and her fame, because
of the awful midnight tragedy at Lookout, is known throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Her life has been an eventful one, and as a husband,
getting Mahala has certainly been a success. – Alturas Plaindealer
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1901
CLIPPINGS FROM THE ARGUS
As we go to press, we learn of the sudden death of L. W. Southard at the
home of his sister, Mrs. E. F. Harvey, yesterday morning at 10 o’clock.
Mrs. Charles Lorenz, daughter of Calvin Hall, arrived here on the Sisson
stage last evening on her way to Alturas to look after her father’s estate.
Hon. T. A. Roseberry, Register of the U. S. Land Office at this place, has
been summoned as a witness in the case of the United States vs. Jesse D.
Carr & Co., and is to appear at Portland, Oregon, on the 10th inst. Mr.
Roseberry will leave here Friday or Saturday in obedience to the summons. –
Lassen Advocate
L. E. Leonard, the tinsmith, has been confined to his bed for several days
with a severe cold bordering on pneumonia.
BORN
MOSELY – In Susanville, Cal., June 30, 1901, to the wife of A. W. Mosely, a
daughter
MARRIED
FITZPATRICK – HALCOMB – In Susanville, Cal., June 29, 1901, Mr. J. W.
Fitzpatrick and Miss Nellie Halcomb of Sonora, Cal.
Season's Greetings
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Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds
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