Herald & News April 24, 1929 OLD MEMORIES OF EARLY DAYS RECALLED AS OLDEST KLAMATH, MODOC MEET AGAIN When Mr. and Mrs. Clyde James recently took Amanda Cowen from Chiloquin to visit Jennie Clinton at her Williamson River cabin, the affair was not only a reunion of two old friends but also a meeting of the oldest living Klamath Indian and the only surviving member of the band of Modocs exiled to Quapaw Reservation, Oklahoma, in 1873. Klamath Amanda and Modoc "Aunt Jennie" had not had a good pow-wow for many years and a mixture of Klamath and Modoc talk flew fast for more than an hour. Like girls the world over they could not agree on which is the younger. Each is somewhere between 93 and 100 and both women remember well the Modoc War and Aunt Jennie's uncle, Captain Jack. Amanda and Jennie are the adopted grandmothers of the sixth and seventh grades of Riverside elementary school in Klamath Falls. Amanda is wearing shoes and galoshes presented to her last year by the children. This spring both women were given cashmere shawls. Amanda has always refused to pose for a picture, but when told it was for her Riverside children she gladly consented. James Young, Riverside coach and seventh grade teacher, was the photographer. With Amanda Cowen on the visit with Aunt Jennie were Mr. and Mrs. Clyde James and children, Patty, Viola and Clyde Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James Young and children, Norma, Neoma and Nancy; and Florence Pielke, Riverside sixth grade teacher. ++++++++++++++++ 1934 Mrs. Jennie Clinton, aged Modoc Indian, whose Indian name is Stimitchuas, lives at Williamson River on the Reservation. She does not know exactly how old she is, but she was born at Tule Lake, was brought to the reservation in 1869, and in 1873 was taken to the Indian Reservation, in Oklahoma. She returned to stay here in 1918. She does beautiful beadwork, but leaves the basketry to the few remaining members of the tribe. The finest baskets, she says, were made by Elvira Blow who is now over 100 years old and was a grown woman with children when Jennie was a girl. But Elvira is now too old and blind to continue her baskets. Jennie is a niece of Captain Jack and remembers well the days of the Modoc War. She and several other girls were sent out to pick up good cartridges dropped by the soldiers. +++++++++++ April 3, 1922 Trial of suit for divorce in the case of Jennie against Daniel Clinton took place this afternoon. _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/