{"id":959,"date":"2016-12-24T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T01:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=959"},"modified":"2016-12-24T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T01:09:54","slug":"statistics-of-california-1870-september-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/24\/statistics-of-california-1870-september-october\/","title":{"rendered":"STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA\u2014 1870 \u2014 September-October."},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871
\nSEPTEMBER. <\/strong><\/p>\n

2d \u2014 Hon. Wm. H. Seward and party sailed from San Francisco for China…. J. S. Emery jumped from the steamer Chrysopolis, about twenty miles below Sacramento, and was drowned.
\n4th \u2014 A fire in Colusa destroyed the Warden building; loss, $3,000.
\n5th \u2014 Northern District Fair opened at Marysville.
\n6th \u2014 Juan de Dios Sepulvela was hung by a mob of native Californians near Bakersfield. He was accused of horse-stealing and murder. … Patrick Klernan fell from the front of a horse-car in San Francisco and was killed.
\n8th \u2014 Election in San Francisco; the Democrats elected Tax Collector and Fire Commissioner, and the Taxpayers the rest of the general ticket … George D. Marshall, living near Pacheco, was shot dead by \u2014 Donavan.
\n9th \u2014 Pioneer excursion to Mare Island from various parts of the State, in honor of the anniversary of the admission of California.
\n13th \u2014 James M. Brown was robbed and murdered near Silver Mountain on the Big Tree road.
\n14th \u2014 Thomas Mooney, banker, insurance man, historian, anti-Chinese leader, etc., absconded.
\n15th \u2014 Great ball at the Lick House in San Francisco, in honor of Generals Sherman and Schofield.
\n16th \u2014 The Mexicans celebrated the anniversary of Mexican independence in various parts of the State.
\n18th \u2014 James Farroca, while sick and delirious, jumped from the third story of the Western Hotel, Marysville, and was killed.
\n19th \u2014 Sacramento Union entered on its Fortieth volume… .Lewis C. and George C. Brotherton were found guilty at San Francisco of forging Treadwell & Co.’s name for $15,000.
\n20th \u2014 The Empire Mining Company’s mill, etc., at Grass Valley, burned ; loss, $140,000.
\n21st \u2014 At San Francisco Mary F. Baker recovered judgment for $10,000 against California Stage Co. for killing her husband near Haywood’s, a year ago. Mary Grady, injured at same time, recovered $3,000. ..Daniel Sizer was killed by foul air while digging in a well near San Diego.
\n22d \u2014 Wm. Williams, alias McCarty, was shot and killed by Constable Bailey, who was trying to arrest him, near Drytown.
\n23d \u2014 A freight train on the California Pacific Railroad was thrown off the track near Junction terribly injuring Conductor Henry Briggs and Jones, a fireman. . . . .N. Gray was hanged near Fort Tejon by a mob.
\n28th \u2014 Mrs. Champion suicided at Los Angeles by severing a main artery of the arm. <\/p>\n

OCTOBER<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

2d \u2014 The office of the Santa Clara News burned, loss $10,000.
\n3d \u2014 Bernard McFarland was run over by a sand cart in San Francisco and killed … Sonoma County Fair opened at Petaluma.
\n7th \u2014 Mary Murray confessed to setting fire to her mother’s house in San Francisco for the insurance of $700.
\n10th \u2014 Patrick Quill was crushed to death by a falling boulder in a quarry near Oakland.
\n12th \u2014 Murray’s Hotel and other houses burned in Stockton ; loss $8,000. .. .Gasper Ursich suicided in San Francisco with strychnine.
\n14th \u2014 Jas. Turner was run over by the cars and killed at Pino. . . Grand Lodge of California F. and A. M. elected officers in San Francisco.
\n15th \u2014 A fire at Oakland destroyed the Washington and City Hotels, Congregational Church and five other buildings.
\n17th\u2014 The stock of the Saratoga Straw Paper Mills burned; loss $10,000 to $15,000.
\n20th \u2014 A fire on the block bounded by Mission, Fremont, Beale and Market streets, San Francisco, destroyed property valued at over $400,000.
\n21st \u2014 James McCrory blew off half of the head of Manuel Barates at Visalia with a shot-gun.
\n22d \u2014 John Petit was caved on while digging a well in San Francisco and killed. . . .First passenger car arrived by railroad in Santa Rosa.
\n23d \u2014 The occupation of Rome was celebrated by the Italians in San Francisco by procession, etc.
\n24th \u2014 The dwelling of H. S. Maddox burned at Forbestown ; loss $2,000.
\n26th \u2014 The body of W. C. Schuyler was found in the bay at San Francisco. He had committed suicide.
\n27th \u2014 Hon. Tod Robinson, Supreme Court Reporter, died suddenly near Crystal Springs, San Mateo county.
\n31st \u2014 Mercantile Library Lottery drawing commenced in San Francisco; great excitement prevailed in that city and elsewhere. Theodore Hellman, of New York, drew the $100,000 prize . ..Marshal W. C. Warren and Constable Dye had a shooting bout in Los Angeles ; Warren was killed and Dye and three witnesses of the affair were wounded. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 SEPTEMBER. 2d \u2014 Hon. Wm. H. Seward and party sailed from San Francisco for China…. J. S. Emery jumped from the steamer Chrysopolis, about twenty miles below Sacramento, and was drowned. 4th \u2014 A fire in Colusa destroyed the Warden building; loss, $3,000. 5th \u2014 Northern District Fair opened … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,17],"tags":[229,411,442,473,583,704,839,1035,1082,1257,1298,1471,1559],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-959","7":"format-standard","8":"category-california-history","9":"category-california-newspaper-archive","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"category-thinking-about","12":"post_tag-bakersfield","13":"post_tag-chrysopolis","14":"post_tag-colusa","15":"post_tag-constable-bailey","16":"post_tag-drytown","17":"post_tag-foul-air","18":"post_tag-horse-stealing","19":"post_tag-mare-island","20":"post_tag-mexican-independence","21":"post_tag-pacheco","22":"post_tag-pioneer","23":"post_tag-sacramento","24":"post_tag-silver-mountain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}