one of my girls took her kids to the library and was waiting, this is what she brought me. :o) Janie Shasta Courier Sat Mar. 20, 1852 (Obit) Mr. William Henry Mason on Tues morning the 16th inst., at Milk Ranch, Shasta County, of Panama Fever, Mr. Wm. Henry Mason, formerly of Pougnkeepsie, NY; aged 28 years. [Mr. M. arrived sick on the steamer Golden Gate on her last trip up the coast, and had reached this county, when his spirit was summoned to take it's everlasting flight to that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller has ever returned. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.] ---------- Sat Mar. 19, 1853 Lynching at Colusa - We learn from the Union that on Sunday a week, a worthless fellow by the name of John Boyd deliberately shot a man by the name of Jo Gauthoreaud - and that in exactly twelve minutes thereafter the murderer was suspended by the neck to the limb of one of those magnificent old oaks that adorned that beautiful little town. Served him right -----------