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STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — May-June.

December 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 MAY. 1st — The straw sheds of the paper mill company near Santa Cruz were burned. 3d — Soundings show the removal of Blossom Rock to be complete. . . .Surveying parties for Stockton and Visalia Railroad commenced work. 4th — Creed Haymond, John C. Burch and Charles Lindley … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1870, Carral Hollow, celestials, CONTRA COSTA, Downieville, Earthquake, Gilroy, Grass Valley, Guadalupe river, Healdsburg, James Black, Knight’s Landing, Laudanum, Lottery, Masonic, Mexicans, Mokelumne, pistol, riot, San Rafael, Seventeen-mile House, Shasta, Sutter Creek, Wolfskill’s ranch, Zabriskie

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — March-April.

December 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

MARCH. 1st — Particulars of the loss of United States steamer Oneida, by being run into by the British steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, received by the arrival of the bark Benefactress. 2d — Earthquake at Calistoga and Healdsburg. 3d — James Smilie fired four shots at a Mexican woman he had been living with, named … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1870, blind man, Blossom Rock, Calistoga, Earthquake, Fort Tejon, Grizzly Flat, Illinoistown, indecent assault, Insane, Laudanum, Mark West Creek, Mud Springs, Napa, naptha, Oakland, Petaluma, powder, presidio, San Jose, San Leandro, SANTA CLARA, SANTA CRUZ, Spirits of Israel, Sucker Flat, SUICIDE, treasure, Visalia, Yerba Buena

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — January-February.

December 22, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7063, 2 January 1871 RECORD OF NOTABLE EVENTS FOR 1870 (January-February). We subjoin a record of the more prominent events and industries of the State and county for the past year : JANUARY. 1st — A. McGimsey and John Ornbaum quarreled near Cloverdale. McGimsey was killed … Colored people … [Read more…]

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“French Mary”

January 29, 2015 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Daily Alta California, 1 May 1871 Suicide. — About nlne o’clock last evening a woman of the town, known as “French Mary,” committed suicide by taking a dose of laudanum at her rooms in an alleyway running off to Dupont street, near Broadway. She has made several attempts at self-destruction, but was always thwarted in … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers Tagged: 1871, French Mary, Laudanum, SUICIDE

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