Remember When

120 years ago   

Frank Splan was tried for petty larceny before Justice Blake and sentenced to pay a $30 fine or spend 30 days in jail.   

The evidence shown Splan borrowed a mule from Jim Elledge to ride to town. When he got to town he forgot to whom the mule belonged and sold it to Hi Saskin.   

When the latter found out the mule did not belong to Splan, he had him arrested with the above result.

120 years ago   

Three short, fat and jolly tourists came over the mountains on buckboards and made Susanville lively for a few hours. Messieurs Lowenburg, Vascellin and Berstein were all shorter than five feet and each weighed more than 200 pounds.

120 years ago   

A live blackbird with clipped wings was placed on the floor before Harry Cain’s young wild cat the other day, and the little savage killed the bird and ripped it open in about 10 seconds.  

A fine lot of trout from the headwaters of the Dutch Hill ditch came into town Tuesday and sold like hotcakes at six pounds for a dollar.

120 years ago   

Milt Cain is doing the public a service by blasting out the rocks in the road near the bridge over the Susan River.   

Long Valley Creek is a nasty piece of water to cross when it is high.   

The bottom is all quicksand and the stream rushes along like a millrace so that it is very hard for horses to keep their feet.