LUCILE PAGE WILL WED YUBA MAN MARYSVILLE, YUBA COUNTY, NOV 23, 1931 – At a bridge party held in the home of Mrs. Emma Hutchinson, the engagement of Miss Lucile Page, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Page of Terra Buena, Yuba County and Wilburn Hamm, son of Mrs. C. R. Hamm, of District Ten, Yuba County, was announced. Place cards cleverly arranged when refreshments were served spread the news. The bride-elect is a graduate of the Yuba City High School and her finance is a graduate of the Marysville High School. SQUAW WHO SAW FIRST WHITE MEN IN MODOC DIES With the passing of Lucy Dickens, aged squaw of the Pit River Indian tribe, the back streets of Alturas will miss a colorful and familiar figure. Bowed almost double, Lucy was currently reputed to be over one hundred years old. However, officers of the Indian Bureau state she was somewhere in her eighties, since she was a young woman when the battles of the Infernal Caverns was fought here by General Crook’s command in 1867. The old woman was an expert basket weaver and pursued her occupation almost up to the hour of her death. Her basketry work has been unexcelled among Indians in this locality. Lucy Dickens saw the first white settlers come into Modoc County and well remembered the time when she had never seen a white man. (1:4) Everett and Roland Cavin and Mrs. Thelma Wilbur and son, Jimmie, were visitors at Alturas yesterday. Roland left for the city where he will enter the Legion Hospital for medical treatment. PLUSH WOMAN IS TAKEN SUDDENLY Mrs. P. S. Barry of Twelve Mile Taken During Heart Attack The sudden death of Mrs. Phillip S. Barry of Twelve Mile came as a shock to the large circle of friends in Lake County when the news of it was received here yesterday afternoon. The body was found yesterday about half a mile from the ranch on Twelve Mile Creek, death having resulted from a heart attack. On Monday morning her husband, P. S. Barry, was called to the sheep camp about three quarters of a mile away to see about the sheep, which had scattered during the storm the night before. His partner, Patrick J. Murphy, had previously gone to Plush to purchase hay. On Monday afternoon, Mrs. Barry started toward the camp to learn of conditions there but before she reached there she was stricken with a heart attack. In the meantime, her husband had gone on to Plush and returned Wednesday with Murphy but they did not worry about her absence as she had stated she was coming to Lakeview Tuesday. The fact that there was no note telling definitely where she had gone caused her husband to start for the main road in order to put in a telephone call for Lakeview. In the meantime, Murphy had started toward the camp and on noticing a black object about ten yards off the road, he investigated and on coming closer discovered that they were the rubbers, which she had worn. He then found the body face upwards, where the snow had drifted around it but with no sign of having moved after she had fallen. Word was sent to Lakeview and Coroner A. J. Ousley succeeded in reaching there at one o’clock last night after starting from Lakeview at three. The ambulance had to be pulled through the snow at Camas by the county tractor and the return trip was made by way of Albert Lake. Elizabeth McCulley was born about fifty years ago near Boston, Mass., but has spent about twenty-two years of her life in the West. She was an only child and her parents have preceded her in death. She received nurses training in both Massachusetts and California and held certificates for both states. She spent a short time in San Francisco upon coming west and then journeyed to Lakeview, where she has spent most of her time since having been married to P. S. Barry three years ago in San Francisco. She was widely known and loved throughout the county by many friends she has made during her work. Funeral services will be held Monday from St. Patrick’s Church. – Lakeview Tribune (5:3) MARRIED IN MEDFORD Miss Jacqueline Kistler and Denver Schadden surprised their many friends here when they learned of their marriage in Medford, Ore., which took place last Thursday morning. Congratulations. J. F. Allenwood was brought home from the Hospital at Alturas yesterday, where he has been for the past month receiving treatment. His condition is not greatly improved. NOVEMBER 25, 1931 "SLIM" IS PULLED OUT BY DEPUTY SHERIFF Although we do not have a definite report of just what happened last Sunday morning, rumor has it that Chester (Slim) Colvin, Nevada’s bootleg King, slipped off the grade near the old Raymond Turner ranch, in Cedar Pass. It happened that our popular Deputy Sheriff, Ray Tierney was on his way to Surprise to bag a limit of quail, was the first one by and was hailed by "Slim" to help him back on the grade. Well from appearances, guess the Sheriff did pull him back on the grade, but not only that, he arrested him for having a gallon of "jackass" in his car, also for carrying concealed weapons. Tierney missed out on a good hunt, but nevertheless lodged another "legger" in the County Bastille. ARRESTED FOR GAME VIOLATION Last Friday afternoon, Game Warden, A. A. Jordan and Deputy Sheriff, Ray Tierney arrested Ed and Chester Davis for having venison in their possession during the closed season. They were hailed before the local magistrate and given the minimum fine of $25 each, upon their plea of guilty. Payment of this fine is to be made within six months. Born at Lakeview, Oregon, Nov 10th, 1931 to Mr. and Mrs. G. Wimer, a son – Lynall Loyal Wimer, weight 7-3/4 pounds. RELIC IS FOUND OF INDIAN FIGHT IN MODOC COUNTY Alturas, NOVEMBER 18TH, While performing his duties as assistant ranger of the North Warner Districts of the Modoc National Forest, Donald M. Davison recently picked up an old fashioned cap and ball pistol near the west end of Fandango Valley. Through the years, which the pistol has lain in the woods, all of the woodwork had rotted away, leaving the iron part only. Around the spot where the pistol was found, a desperate battle was waged by the Piute Indians, in the summer of 1866. The Indian band, sweeping in from Nevada on to the newly formed settlements of Northern Surprise Valley, drove off a number of the settlers livestock and made a determined attack on the log cabin home of R. F. McConnaughy. Although McConnaughy was badly injured, he succeeded in driving off the Indians. The following morning a band of settlers, accompanied by a detachment of soldiers from Fort Bidwell, which had just been established, took up the trail of the Indians. Although there were not over a dozen citizens and a score of soldiers, the punitive expedition called themselves "The Grand Army of the Republic." Crossing the summit of the Warner range, the white force came up with the Indians, who immediately broke in to war-whoops and rushed on the white men. In the battle, which followed, several Indians were killed and an unknown number wounded. The white loss was two killed and several wounded. The marksmanship of the white men was too much for the Indians, which sullenly withdrew after several hours of fighting. Pistol found recently by the Forest Ranger must have lain where it was dropped by one of the white fighters for upwards of sixty-five years. Several relics have been picked up on the battlefield in the past, but the old pistol found by Davison is the first find of the kind in over a quarter of a century. PIONEER OF LAKE COUNTY IS CALLED BY GRIM REAPER FUNERAL SERVICES HELD TODAY FOR BELOVED PIONEER RESIDENT OF LAKE COUNTY FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS G. F. Arthur, for nearly fifty years, a prominent figure in the affairs of Lake County, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon following a heart attack at his home. He was aged seventy-three years at the time of his passing. Tuesday afternoon the news of his death spread through the city circles, where only a few hours before he had been a welcome caller. Mr. Arthur was a native of the state of Missouri, being one of a family of five sons and two daughters. The family came to Lake County in 1883 and over a period of fifty years have taken a leading part in the development of the valley. Mr. Arthur until recent years engaged in farming though he still retains valuable farm property at Westside and at New Pine Creek. Besides the sorrowing widow there are left to mourn his passing, his brother, C. D. Arthur, president of the Commercial Livestock Loan Company, who is now in Dakota on business, a sister, Mrs. Annie Sargent, who is a resident in the city of Oroville and two sons, Roy and Lester and two daughters, Mrs. William Woods and Mrs. Arthur Hoyt. Funeral service were held this afternoon from the Ousley Funeral Chapel, where a large concourse of friends gathered to pay their last respects to a departed friend and neighbor. The services were held under the auspices of the Odd Fellows, which Mr. Arthur was one of the oldest members of the local lodge. The Rev. W. W. Switzer delivered the eulogy. – Lakeview Examiner (5:1) MISS BARBARA McGRATH WEDS AT RENO The marriage of Miss Barbara McGrath and Gustave Steffin was performed Saturday evening at Reno, Nevada, at the Baptist Parsonage by the Rev. Brewster Adams. Sunday morning the happy couple left for Ogden, Utah. The groom business is livestock buying which will necessitate almost constant traveling for the next few months. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGrath of Alturas and educated in the public schools here. She was a popular member of the Younger set and for several years employed in the local telephone office. Friends in Alturas and Surprise Valley extend congratulations and best wishes. – Plaindealer ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by avast! AntiVirus. Avast! Is Free To Home Users.