The stump by the roadside had so
far decayed as to have fallen over; but it needed little imagination to
picture the whole tragedy. In Sacramento I looked up the files of the
_Daily Record Union_, which on Sept. 3, 1879, two days after the event,
gave a brief account of it. There was newspaper enterprise for you! An
atrocious crime reported in a neighboring city two days afterward! Were
such things too common to excite interest? Or was it felt that the
recital of them did not tend to boom the great State of California?
CHAPTER II
The Graniteville Stage
On that fateful first of September, 1879, the stage left Graniteville,
as usual, at six o'clock in the morning. Graniteville, in Eureka
Township, Nevada County, is the Eureka South of early days. The stage
still makes the daily trip over the mountains; but the glamour and
romance of the gold fields have long since departed. On the morning
mentioned traffic was light, for people did not travel the twenty-eight
miles through heat and dust to Nevada City for pleasure. Too often it
was a case of running the gauntlet from the gold fields to the railroad
terminus and safety.
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