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I am attempting to locate any of my classmates from the
CALLAHAN GRADE SCHOOL, Etna School District, Siskiyou County,
California who were students during the 1946-47 school year.
All eight grades attended a one room school in Callahan back
then.
I was in the first grade that year, and lived six miles down
the Scott River from Callahan, across the road from Clyde
Munsen's sawmill.
On the morning of January 6, 1947, all of us students arrived
at school to see a man hanging from a telephone pole across the
road from the school.  He had a calf hide wrapped around his
body, and had been shot with a rifle after being lynched.
All of us students were ushered into the classroom and told
not to look out the windows.  About 2 hours later, I asked
permission to use the outhouse, and was allowed to go outside.
When I got outside, I saw a black and white police car, a
carry-all type van, two officers in tan uniforms, and several
other men working to lower the body.  As I approached the
outhouse, a very tall man wearing a suit and cowboy hat emerged
from the facility, and I asked him what the other men were
doing.  He replied, "That's to teach you kids what happens when
you rustle cattle."
Later that same day, our teacher told all uf us, "You are never
again to talk about what happened here today."
A few days later, the Etna Gazette carried the story about a
butcher from Weed, California being caught in the act of
stealing a calf, and lynched.
All copies of the Sunday, January 12, 1947 issue of the Etna
Gazette have since disappeared, including the Siskiyou County
Library's copy.
Again, any of my former classmates please reply by e-mail to
<edbegley@halcyon.com>.
Also, any other person who saw, or knows about this incident,
or has a copy of the Jan. 12, 1947 issues of the Etna Gazette,
please reply.