~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by Norton AntiVirus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <betty@unisette.com> To: <NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:02 PM Subject: [NORCAL] Sac Bee April 24, 1905 > Sacramento Evening Bee > Monday, April 24, 1905 > > CRAZED BY WHISKY, J.P. HOWLETT SHOOTS WILLIAM GAMBLE IN NECK > Physicians Have No Hope of Saving the Life of Wounded Man > WOODLAND (Yolo Co.), April 24 - What promises to develop into a fatal > shooting affray occurred about twelve miles southwest of Capay Saturday > evening about 9 o'clock. > Saturday afternoon William GAMBLE and Frank WELCH met J.P. HOWLETT in > Capay under the influence of liquor. They took him with then to the cabin > on > his son's ranch in the mountains. They also carried a supply of liquor > with > them. > After reaching the cabin they suggested to old man Howlett that he > retire. > Young Gamble started to make up the bed when Howlett pulled a 41-caliber > Colt's revolver and shot him through the neck. He then turned the gun on > Welch and ordered him out of the cabin. > Welch retreated, but secured a gun and returned and stood over young > Gamble all night, as Howlett was prowling around the cabin. > The next morning Welch went to Capay and notified the officers. Constable > EDDY and W.T. MOORE went out to the cabin, and Moore brought the wounded > man > to Capay, while Constable Eddy searched for Howleltt, who had disappeared. > District attorney Harry L. HUSTON and Deputy SHERIFF R.M. BROWN, as soon > as notified started to the scene of the shooting and met Moore, bringing > young Gamble to Woodland, a few miles this side of Capay. District > Attorney > Huston came back with them to the Hospital, where Brown went on to Capay > to > search for Howlett. > Owing to the difficulty in securing saddle horses, Brown returned to this > city and this morning again started out to search for the fugitive. > Gamble was shot through the neck and the ball seared the spinal column, > causing paralysis of the lower part of the body. The physicians say the > would will prove fatal. > Gamble made a dying statement to District Attorney Huston of the facts as > stated in this dispatch and he was corroborated by Welch. > Gamble is only 19 years old, while Howlett is over 80. There had been no > quarrel between the two men and the only cause that can be assigned for > the > deed is that Howlett was crazed from over-indulgence in liquor. > > SLAUGHTERED BY MASKED ROBBERS > Another Band of Sheep Falls Victim to Stockmen's War Along the > California-Oregon Boundary Line > KLAMATH FALLS (Ore.), April 24 - Late Saturday afternoon word reached here > of another outrage perpetrated by men working in the interests of cattle > raisers of the border section. One hundred sheep were shot down and killed > by nine masked raiders, who then set fire to and destroyed the buildings > in > the camps of Dave EDLER. The sheep were property of Creed McKENDREE, and > were slaughtered near the town of Bly, this county. > The war between the sheep and cattle men still rages, and no real effort > on the part of the officers of the law seems to have been made to put a > stop > to the raids. Not only are stock killed, but human life is taken and > buildings destroyed. Cattle will not graze on land once nibbled over by > sheep, and for this reason their owners have made a determined and lawless > effort to drive sheep men from this territory. > Many conflicts have taken place between the rival stockmen, reports of > only a few of which have reached the outside world. As reported in The Bee > last May, 2300 sheep belonging to Sol CHANDLER, and in charge of William > MULKEY, of Modoc County, California, were slaughtered near Benjamin Lake, > in > Lake County, this State, and about the same time a large band of sheep > belonging to a man named McQUEN were shot down by masked men near the > borders of Christmas Lake. > > LOSE LIVES IN McCLOUD > Little Child Falls Into River and Drowns, And Young Man Slips Between Logs > at Mill To His Death > DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), April 24 - While playing on the saw logs at the > Scott-Van Arsdale Lumber Company's mill at McCloud Friday, T. Soardi > PIERTO, > an Italian, aged 23, fell into the water, and though in plain sight of > three > men, he was drowned before help reached him. Coroner O'CONNELL was > summoned > from Yreka, and a jury handed in a verdict of death by accident. > At the Hearst castle, near McCloud, Saturday forenoon, a child of Mrs. > ATLEY, who recently came from near Stockton for a Summer visit with an > uncle > on the McCloud, disappeared from the house, which fronts the river. In a > few > minutes a search was instituted and the dead body of the child was found > fifty yards below, in the water. > The Coroner, who at the time was holding an inquest at a point five miles > distant over an Italian who had been drowned, concluded it would not be > necessary to take similar action in this case, and declined to come. That > the child met death by accident is not questioned, but no one witnessed > it, > while in the case of the Italian, three men saw him drown. > > BODY IDENTIFIED > REDDING (Shasta Co.), April 24 - The body of the child found Friday on the > banks of Pit River below Fall River Mills, as mentioned in Saturday's Bee, > proved to be that of the three-year-old son of James GREEN, as > conjectured. > The body had floated eight miles down stream. When the parents saw it, > they > at once recognized the remains as those of their little boy who had > strayed > away from home on April 3d. > > AGED WOMAN LOST > SISSON (Siskiyou Co.), April 24 - Mrs. R. RUDEN a widow, who has been an > invalid for a year or more, and a constant care to her daughter, Miss > Selma, > took advantage of her daughter's temporary absence from home Saturday > evening, about 8 o'clock, and went out. Upon the daughter's return she > immediately alarmed the neighbors and a search was instituted. Men with > lanterns kept up the search the better part of the night and about 3 > o'clock > Mrs. Ruden was found and conducted back to her distressed daughter. The > aged > woman has been losing her mental balance for some time and it was feared > she > had wandered away and committed suicide. > > HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE MARCH 31ST > BISHOP (Inyo Co.), April 24 - Robert McCLURE, a miner, who has been making > this place his headquarters for the last two years, has been missing since > the first of the month, and his friends are anxious to get information as > to > his present whereabouts. He is a telephone lineman, but since coming to > Bishop worked at the Southern Belle and other mines. He was intoxicated on > the night of March 31st, and was seen the next morning, but no later trace > of him can be ascertained. > McClure is a man of 40 or 50 years, heavy set weighing about 180 pounds, > about 5 feet 11 inches tall, light-colored mustache, hair somewhat gray > and > eyes blue. He was of a quiet disposition. He claimed to come to this place > from Reno and is believed to have a wife and child somewhere in Nevada. > All > of his personal property was left in his room at the Valley View Hotel, > where he stayed until the day that he disappeared. > > SHOT HIMSELF IN A DUNSMUIR SALOON > DUNSMUIR (Siskiyou Co.), April 24 - Last night while drinking in a saloon > in > this place, Arthur COY, a barber and former printer, well known in this > section, accidentally shot himself with a 41-caliber revolver. Two > surgeons > have been unable to locate the bullet and it is feared blood poisoning > will > set in. Coy's wife, who is visiting at McCloud, has been notified of her > husband's critical condition and is expected to arrive here this morning. > Coy is well liked here and much interest is felt in the outcome of his > case. > > MAY HAVE DROWNED > VALLEJO (Solano Co.), April 24 - Andy ANDERSON, a sailor attached to the > tug > Vigilant at Mare Island, left the vessel in a small sailboat for a sail up > Napa Creek Saturday night. A gale sprung up shortly after his departure, > and > it is feared he was drowned, as no trace of him or the boat can be found. > The Captain of the yard sent a searching party out in a launch. > > > ==== NORCAL Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list version, send a message to > NORCAL-L-request@rootsweb.com with nothing but the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > body text. > >