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In times past it was a stop on the way to the Calaveras Big Trees, but after the railroad diverted the traffic to the Mariposa Group, Farleys was left to pursue its tranquil way undisturbed by stage or tourist.
I regret that I cannot recall his exact words, but it appeared that never before, in the history of the "Record," had the pressure been so great upon its columns. Matters of paramount importance, deeply affecting the material progress of Sierra, questions touching the absolute integrity of Calaveras and Tuolumne as social communities, were even now waiting expression.
Down the great gorge of the Yosemite, Valois rides past the giant Big Trees of Calaveras. He finds no hidden treasures, no buried deposits. The camps near Lagunitas disclose only some concealed supplies. No arms, valuables, and treasures, torn from the murdered travellers, in the two years' red reign of Joaquin, the Mountain Tiger.
No mystery THERE; nothing to clear up; subsequent revelations only impertinence. Nothing for any ghost to do who meant business. More than that, over forty murders, same old kind, committed every year in Calaveras, and no spiritual post obits coming due every anniversary; no assessments made on the peace and quiet of the surviving community.
Put up your feet on that winder, and sit here beside me. Thar's whisky in that jug." Mr. Hamlin did not avail himself of the information. Brown of Calaveras turned his face to the wall and continued: "If I didn't love the woman, Jack, I wouldn't mind. But it's loving her, and seeing her, day arter day, goin' on at this rate, and no one to put down the brake; that's what gits me!
"Let it out and we'll make it easy for you." "Prisoner," said the Judge, with a return of official dignity, "remember that your life is in peril. Do you refuse?" And as it was here that the Sheriff of Calaveras made a precipitate entry into the room, the mystery remained unsolved.
A gratuitous and purely imaginative description of a great religious revival in Calaveras, in which the sheriff of the county a notoriously profane sceptic was alleged to have been the chief exhorter, resulted only in the withdrawal of the county advertising from the paper. In the midst of this practical confusion he suddenly died.
Great anxiety was exhibited by the Indians to have the employes perform the service as expeditiously as possible." An interesting cave in Calaveras County, California, which had been used for burial purposes, is thus described by Prof. "The following is an account of the cave from which the skulls, now in the Smithsonian collection, were taken.
It is near the Stanislaus River, in Calaveras County, on a nameless creek, about two miles from Abbey's Ferry, on the road to Vallicito, at the house of Mr. Robinson. There were two or three persons with me, who had been to the place before and knew that the skulls in question were taken from it.
The first military post was established at Calaveras, and the arrival of the officers made quite an addition to the society on the Santa Cruz. Incident to the arrival of the military on the Santa Cruz was a citizens' train of wagons laden with supplies, twelve wagons of twelve mules each, belonging to Santiago Hubbell, of New Mexico.
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