NEW PINE CREEK NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Porter and J. C. Cloud, father of Mrs. Porter were visitors at the state line town last Sunday from Davis Creek where Mr. Porter has a ranch. Dr. E. H. Amsen, who has been at the Belmont apartment in Fresno for sometime is reported very ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Anna Gallagher received a letter from the doctor’s daughter, Alice, which stated she was asked to come at once but she was sick and could not go. Since then word has been received regarding the doctor’s condition. WEATHER PUTS TWO IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY HOSPITAL Two patients were recently taken to the Humboldt County general hospital due to the weather. Harold Parman, formerly of Reno, was treated for a broken ankle. He came to Winnemucca from the IL ranch, where he is employed, stepped from his car to the icy street and turned his ankle, resulting in a broken bone. James Moore from the Upper Clover ranch had both feet frozen while feeding cattle on the ranch. Wes Steele, about 50, an Indian died last week at his home near Alturas of cancer. He was the husband of Daisy Steele, who died last August in an automobile accident on Cedar Pass. (4:6) Jay Gould, manager of the Club pool hall in Alturas was hit by a machine, while walking west of Alturas early Sunday morning. He received a fracture of one leg and slight concussion of the brain. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937 FULCHER IS NAMED ON ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES Clinton J. Fulcher of Lookout, representing Lassen, Modoc, Shasta and four other counties in the Legislature, has been appointed chairman of the mines and mining and a member of additional committees of the State Assembly. County Government: Drainage, Swamp and Overflow Lands; Fish and Game; Insurance; Motor Vehicle. BREAKS HAND Buddy Simson is getting around these days with his right hand bandaged and it seems that Buddy thought his fist harder than a buck sheep’s head. The buck started to butt him and he up and popped it one on the head. The buck didn’t come back for more but the fact proved that the buck’s head was harder than the fist. LAKE CITY ITEMS L. F. Streif and H. G. Ward came over Thursday from Alturas. The county road has been impassable so they came over the hills and far way route. SEEN THRU SMOKED GLASSES: Maggie Jones, Alice and Marion Carter seeking refuge in the Muzzy yard due to cattle or what? Most everyone with a shovel trying to et out after the hi-wind. Elder T. E. Griffith trying to get water to irrigate or something. Marion Steward and Grover Wimer auto riding on tractor and snow plow. Harry Painter trying to put on a wild west show. Joshua Streif playing with a hand sled. Prof. Fowler in skiing costume but no skiies. Phillip Largent trying to burn the house up, melting bees wax in a can without a bottom. L. N. Pabst is in the bay region this week undergoing medical treatment. his condition is somewhat improved. NEW PINE CREEK NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Nallie green received a phone call one day last week from Medford, Oregon, stating that Mrs. Theresa Jennings, sister of Mrs. Green, was very ill with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Green left immediately. Later reports from Medford state that Mrs. Jennings was better. Mr. Jacques Weber, of this place, is reported critically ill this week. He is at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jane Wallace. FORT BIDWELL HIGH-LIGHTS Mrs. Dodge left for San Francisco last week to attend the wedding of her son Charles Dodge. The two-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harris broke the bones in her arm when she fell from her high-chair this week. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1937 SURPRISE MAN DIES IN L. A. Funeral services were held recently for Perry McDaniels from the chapel of Snyders Southwest Funeral Home in Los Angeles. Born in Harrisburg, Oregon, in 1865, he spent several years in Alturas and later went to the _______, west where he had made his home with a nephew, Joy O. Kiess for the last eight years at 1141 West 104th street. Mr. McDaniels was landscape gardener with a keen interest in flowers. His hobby was that of raising dahlias and chrysanthemums of many varieties. He leaves a host of friends, a sister, Ella Haviland of Grants Pass, Oregon, three nephews, a niece, Mrs. J. B. Schueller and a brother-in-law, D. W. Kiess all of Los Angeles. (1:1) PATRICK W. BARRY RITES HELD THURSDAY An autopsy was performed Wednesday on the body of Patrick W. Barry, well known stockman, who died at the Lakeview Hospital January 22, following a throat infection and pneumonia. No foreign body was found in the mouth or throat, according to Dr. Charles E. Leithead, one of the surgeons, who performed the operation. (1:2) CLARA B. BANISTER FUNERAL HELD SATURDAY Clara Baldwin Banister, 77, well known resident of Paisley died at her home January 21, following a prolonged illness. She was born in Holt County, Missouri, March 6, 1859 and married to Samuel Banister March 18, 1875. Her husband died December 23, 1930. She is survived by two daughters, Edna Hanah of Paisley and Lula Woodward of Alturas; four sons, Frederick L. and Ross M. of Paisley, Ora S. of Alturas and Albert E. of Portland; 24 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Pioneer church of Paisley with Rev. F. L. Cannell conducting the services. (1:2) MRS. SLINKARD NOW IMPROVING Mrs. Newton Slinkard of Eagleville who has been seriously sick for sometime is now much improved in health. Those who arrived here to be at the bedside of Mrs. Slinkard from other parts of the country are: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Wintzell of Roseville; Mrs. Charles Page of Marysville; Mrs. Alice Cranston of Riverside; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Slinkard of Portola; Mr. and Mrs. Kip Slinkard of Reno. An application for a marriage license has been filed by Jessie Fay Rinehart and Gearney Goodwin, both of Cedarville. TOMMY BEESON IS IN HOSPITAL Tommy Beeson, son of Homer Beeson of Willow Ranch arrived in Alturas Tuesday morning on the Southern Pacific after having spent more than 24 hours enroute from his home. Young Beeson was operated on for appendicitis recently and had returned home when he took a turn for the worse. He was put on the train at Willow Ranch at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon and the train did not arrive in Alturas until 7:30 Tuesday a.m. The train was snow-bound and when it did arrive two engines that had been sent to its aid had "died" and the third was just about out of water, when it reached Alturas. However, young Beeson is none the worse for his long trip and was reported much improved today. NEW PINE CREEK NEWS San Vilet received a telegram one day last week advising that Eddie Sparling, who played the piano at the Green Garden for sometime, died of pneumonia in Nevada. Mr. and Mrs. Sparling left here last fall for Seattle. Mr. Vilet states that Mr. Sparling had worked for him about six years. Mr. Sparling made many friends while here, who will regret to hear of his passing. (2:2) Harry Aldridge of the H. H. Fleming store has been having a lot of trouble with one of his legs. He has a bad case of rheumatism in one of his knees, which has now settled in his foot and back. MARASCHINO CHERRY CAKE 2/3 cup shortening 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar 3 eggs 3 cups cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ¾ cup maraschino cherries (drained and chopped) Cream shortening, add sugar slowly and beat well. Separate eggs, beat egg yolks and add. Mix and sift all dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk and vanilla extract. Fold in the maraschino cherries. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Pour in greased tube pan and place in cold electric oven. Set temperature control at 350 degrees and switch oven for baking. Bake approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. PIONEER’S NOTE BOOK Boilers were so thick at Cedarville in Surprise Valley when the whites settled there in 1867, it was really dangerous night or day to move without a stout stick in your hand. a local was made a drawing with the label welcome to our city long before that slogan was known generally throughout our land. The picture was of a scared woman calling for help, a rattlesnake spitting through its mouth and singing with its tail and grew out the following episode. One day Mrs. Cressler, wife of a local merchant opened the trap door from the kitchen to the cellar under the house and started down after some supplies, it being the custom in Indian Countries for protection sake to have your cellar under your house. She found a rattlesnake had found an opening under the foundation of the house and was there spitting at her. Screaming, she ran to the store near by and her husband killed the snake and by putting a stone foundation under the house kept them out after that though for years it was dangerous to move around in the open especially at night. Telling the snake stories on the round up in Massacre Valley east of Surprise and in Nevada, the cattleman rested around the campfire. As they drove their herds from the Nevada desert to the pleasant well watered meadows of Surprise Valley in the fall of 1897. Included in the number was William Cressler of the banking and stock raising firm of Cressler and Bonner. Extremely nervous the stories worked on him until he left the crowd and got into his blankets away from the fire but on the dry ground. A cattleman in the crowd had placed the dried up skin of a rattlesnake around a horse hair rope at the farther side of Cresslers’ bed and as Cressler began to doze and the fire and conversation died down, he carefully approached Cressler’s bed slipped his hand under the covers and judiciously worked that old horse hair rope back and forth until Cressler reaching out felt the snake skin and with a yell three the covers back and beat it for a safer place on the top of a wagon. Is friends passed the bedding to him and he slept on the top of the chuck wagon all night and never could be persuaded to sleep on the ground again. Rattlesnakes live in the earth and when the earth moves by earthquakes or blasting or anything else snakes move. Railroad contractors know this as do highway and reservoir builders. Modoc Indians claim the snakes not the soldiers won the Modoc War. In this they may be right but it was the cannonading made the snakes move to after all it was white man’s magic won the war. When Modoc County built the new grade up Pit River Canyon north of Alturas, snakes were so thick and the crew lost so much time by men throwing down their tools to kill the snakes that finally a man known as the snake man was hired, whose sole duty was to kill the snakes while others worked. That man did not like the term snake killer nor snake man and finally quit to get rid of the name and left the country. Jules Monchamp, came out from France. He was a splendid gardener. He started the French Hotel in Cedarville at the corner of Main and Townsend streets in Cedarville, which had a good business, as he and his wife knew how to handle a hotel. He had a fine garden and ran particularly strong to watermelons, which caused his down fall for it was all his life was worth to protect them. Stealing got good or rather bad for him, he finally armed himself and slept in the midst of the patch. About the fifth night, some of the boys filled him up with French wine and when he dropped off into slumbers proceeded to rifle the patch piling the melons up on his front porch to show their good wishes and then to carefully draw his pillow from under his head and substitute a small watermelon covered with sacks. The language used by Jules in the morning was like the language used by Cappy Ricks in abusing his son-in-law to be before outwitting him in the Panama deal and not fit to be used in the presence of good members of the church. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier" Modoc County, California --- Our outgoing mail is checked by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus.