Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Lassen County California

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September 24, 1882
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta Maine

A fire at Susanville, Cal., Sunday morning broke out in a warehouse in the rear of Blum & Alexander's store and spread and destroyed two entire blocks of the business portion of the town, including the whole of Chinatown, loss $100,000.

August 11, 1883
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

M. Marstella and family, from Susanville, California, are in town, expecting to meet a brother who is in the United States navy, and on his way from Honolulu to the East.

January 28, 1886
The New York Times, New York New York

Two Murderers Lynched
Susanville, Cal., Jan. 27-Holden Dick, an Indian, and Vincente Olivas, a Mexican, both convicted murderers, were taken from jail by a mob last night and hanged to beams in the woodshed of the Court House.

May 12, 1888
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

A Prohibition club has been organized in Susanville, California.

July 2, 1889
The Salem Daily News, Salem Ohio

News from Susanville, Cal., in the Sierra Nevadas, says that slight earthquake shocks continue and the people have become so accustomed to the constant trembling of the earth that they pay no attention to it. These shocks, however, have revived recollections of old settlers, who predict volcanic disturbances in the extinct craters such as took place in 1850.

July 21, 1893
Davenport Daily Leader, Davenport Iowa

Sixty buildings, including every business house, were burned at Susanville, Cal. The loss is about $250,000.

February 15, 1894
Weekly Gazette Stockman, Reno Nevada

A Pleasant Evening at Amedee
Mr. and Mrs. S.M. Sample entertained a number of their friends last Wednesday evening at their home in Amedee in honor of Mrs. Sample's sister, Miss Margurite Burroughs, of Susanville, California. Games, charades and other amusements were indulged in, after which a bounteous repast was served. The host and hostess are recognized as high entertainers. All went home expressing themselves as having a most enjoyable evening.
The following were present: Mrs. Leshe Sexton, the Misses Margaret Burroughs, Maud E. Bental, Ida Mapes, Emma Grass, Ella Sylvester, Maud and Helen Erving, Messrs. H.H. Lemmon, T.A. Kobler, Geo V. Hughes, Jesse M. Rhodes and George Dodge.

June 7, 1900
The Times Democrat, Lima Ohio

Three Blocks In Ruins
Susanville, Cal., June 7-Three blocks of buildings in the business section of this place were swept by fire, only two stone buildings escaping destruction. There were no facilities for fighting the flames, which spread with great rapidity. The total loss is not known.

June 7, 1901
The Arizona Republican, Phoenix Arizona

A Rancher Murdered
A Question of Rights Settled by a Bullet
Susanville, Cal., June 6-Thomas Watson, an old rancher who has been in Honey Lake valley for many years, was shot to death today by Ben Weisenberger. The latter, who is a miner, had a lease of ground from Watson for placer mining about a quarter of a mile from Watson's house. Watson and Weisenberger had a disagreement as to their respective rights. Watson wanting the mining stopped.

February 3, 1902
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

Northern Small-Pox Situation
No Cases at Susanville or Janesville-Honey Lake Indians Quarantined
    Susanville, California, February 3-There is no truth in the report published in the "Gazette" last Friday stating that Susanville and Janesville were under strict quarantine. There is no smallpox in either of these places, in fact none in Lassen county, with the exception of the one camp at the Conkey ranch, six miles south east of Susanville.
    There are several cases at that place and it is confined there, none of the Indians being allowed to come or go from this camp.
    All the Indians in Honey Lake Valley are under quarantine and it will be but a few days now until the disease shall have spent its course.

June 13, 1904
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

M.G. Cohn, a prominent merchant of Susanville, California, went north on the N-C-O this morning.

July 21, 1904
The Arizona Republican, Phoenix Arizona

Children Burned To Death
All the Rest Escaped From Blazing Hotel
Reno, Nev., July 20-The Humphrey hotel at Susanville, in Lassen county, California, caught fire today and was entirely destroyed. With the exception of two children, a daughter of Mrs. L. Parry and a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Miller, the occupants of the hotel, escaped. The children were burned to death. There was but little insurance on the building and the loss can not be estimated.

April 28, 1913
Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport Pennsylvania

Susanville, cal., April 27-Six Indians were placed in the Lassan county jail late today, charged with shooting two officers at Tule Lake yesterday are in danger of being lynched.

June 6, 1917
The Iowa Recorder, Greene Iowa

Clarksville - Mrs. Emma Dodge of Susanville, California, visited her daughter, Josephine from Saturday until Tuesday.

June 15, 1930
Havre Daily News Promoter, Havre Montana

Probe Slaying
Susanville, Cal., June 14-The possibility that Robert B. Martin, 27, Filipino lumber worker of Westwood whose mutilated body was found near the Eagle Lake highway 30 miles west of here Thursday, had been slain because of his purported attentions to white girls, was expressed today by Sheriff Leavitt of Lassen county.

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