Publication Date
9-2010
Abstract
Newspaper references from the Daily Humboldt Times and the Del Norte Record and historical analysis of the feud between Tipsy Frank and Waukel Dave in the late 1800s.
"DHT (1 Jan. 1887) From Alex Dewar, who has just returned from the Klamath country, we learn of the killing of an Indian bearing the sobriquet of 'Tipsy Frank.' During the past four or five years this Indian has killed several of his brethren and has been considered as a very hard character. Recently he stole a horse from another Indian called 'Waukel Dave.' Dave did not relish the idea of losing his animal and resolved to regain him. The only way in which this could be done was to kill Frank, as he was a desperate fellow and would not give up the horse without a struggle. Accordingly, Dave lay in wait for Frank last Monday morning, as he was coming down the trail from Lower Bluff and firing at him, succeeded in killing him. Nothing was done with the murderer, and residents of that section agree that they are well rid of a bad character."
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