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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some one ask me if I could prove my Matney's were
messing with the Modocs.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Answer - Yes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> When Capt Canby was in battle, my Matney was
there too as well as the Modoc Shirrif Joe Marks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When they had 13 shots into Smoke Creek Sam - he
was still urging on the battle. Canby was shot, Sam was talking to Marks about
the fatal 14th shot. Sam took Smokes scalp, after a few years sold
it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They found a couple papooses on boards and leaned
them in the shade letting them live, Sams comment is on record.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now all this was just about the very same time
Walter J Matney got the divorce and dissapeared, never to be found - the probate
is all thats left - I figure Walter was in either that battle or went out on a
booze frenzy and got him self dropped in a ravine or something. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All that I am seeking is wrapped around these
times, the Matney's also had a personal grudge because the indian agent gave
their ranch to the modocs, before that, the Modocs stole the horses Walter was
plowing a field with, I guess he was lucky they let him live that
time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SO, its my Hardy boy mystery novel, What happened
to Walter and Julia later.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We know where Tuledad is.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dan M</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>