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Subject: Salinas, Monterey Co., CA -- 2 June 1892
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:57:20 -0800


Salinas Weekly Index
Thursday, 2 June 1892
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Born -- BLACK -- in Salinas City, May 30, 1892, to the wife of V.D. BLACK,
a son.

Born -- SILVA -- in Salinas City, May 29, 1892, to the wife of John J.
SILVA, a daughter.

From last Thursday’s Bradley ‘Mercury’ -- B.P. HUNTER of Hames valley came
into possession of a bouncing 11 ½ pound son Monday last. Samuel REED is
also on the list with a little daughter to his credit, born the following
morning.

Died -- LAU -- at the Monterey County Hospital, May 28, 1892, of
consumption, Seymond LAU, a native of Germany, aged 20 years.

Died -- JONES -- near Santa Rita, May 26, 1892, Lucy M., infant daughter of
Mr.&Mrs. J.P. JONES, aged 9 months, 25 days.

Died -- KELLOGG -- in Salinas City, May 28, 1892, of dropsy, Giles P.
KELLOGG, in the 69th year of his age. [The deceased was a native of
Springfield, Mass., and came to California in 1849 at the age of 26. Like
most pioneers he engaged in mining with various success. He came to the
Salinas valley in 1867 and for many years has been engaged in farming on a
ranch which he purchased near Chualar. He leaves a wife and 3 children
(Delos KELLOGG, F.F. KELLOGG & Mrs. F.M. DUNSHEE) who were all present at
his bedside when he died. Mr. DUNSHEE, his son-in-law, was also present. He
was a member of Alisal Lodge, No. 163, I.O.O.F., Salinas Lodge, No. 204,
F.&A.M., and Reveille Chapter, No. 47, O.E.S. The burial took place with
Masonic ceremonies at the I.O.O.F. cemetery last Sunday afternoon and was
attended by a large concourse of sorrowing friends.

From last Saturday’s Monterey ‘Cypress’ -- Mrs. Emma VASQUEZ, of this
city, died at her residence last Saturday morning.

**A Cow for Sale -- Bill NYE, in advertising his cow for sale, says: “Owing
to ill-health I will sell my residence in town[ship] 19, range 18, west,
according to Government survey, one plush raspberry colored cow, age 8
years. She is a good milkster, and not afraid of the cars or anything else.
She is of undaunted courage, and gives sour milk frequently. To a man who
does not fear death in any form she would be a great boon. She is very much
attached to her house at present, by means of a stay chain, but she will be
sold to anyone who will agree to use her right. She is ¼ shorthorn and ¾
hyena. I will also throw in a double-barreled shot gun which goes with her.
In May she generally goes away somewhere for a week or 2 , and returns with
a tall, red calf, with wobbly legs. Her name is Rose, and I would prefer to
sell her to a non-resident.”

**Brief Mention --
-John GRAVES, George A. GREEN and Chas. JOY have been appointed appraisers
of the estate of Annie MOORE, deceased.
-Ed. GRANDPRE of Castroville was found guilty of battery in Justice
HARVEY’s court yesterday and will be sentenced at 10 o’clock this morning.
-Sister Louise FRANCIS of the Castroville ‘Enterprise’ was elected
assistant recording secretary of the National Editorial association in San
Francisco last week.
-Mrs. Leonora ROGERS has been appointed by Governor MARKHAM a notary public
for Salinas and filed her bond with S.F. GEIL, W.H. WAHRLICH and E.P.
IVERSON as sureties.
-L.F. BUSHNELL, Hugh McDONAGH and Jonathan McCANDLESS have been appointed
as appraisers of the estates of Robert L. SUITS, deceased, and Frederick
Robert POHLICK, deceased.

**Sentence of C.W. HAWES -- Judge DORN Gives the Murderer 50 Years in San
Quentin --
Charles W. HAWES, convicted of murder in the 2nd degree for killing
E.W. WAGNER at Monterey, June 19, 1891, was brought before Superior Judge
N.A. DORN at 10a.m. last Tuesday morning, for sentence. The court room was
crowded with spectators. HAWES occupied the prisoner’s dock apparently
unconcerned. Judge Dorn said: “This is the time set for the sentence of
Chas. W. HAWES. HAWES, stand up.” The prisoner arose. After recounting the
proceedings leading up to conviction, the Judge asked: “Have you anything
to say why sentence should not be passes?” The prisoner cast an appealing
look at his counsel, when Mr. GEIL arose and made a motion for a new trial,
stating grounds upon which he claimed the court had erred during the trial.
Mr. KEARNEY, of counsel for the defense, also argued in support of his
associate’s motion for a new trial. Judge Dorn denied the motion and spoke
as follows:
“Stand up, Mr. HAWES. You have been defended by able attorneys who
have advanced everything in your defense that seemed practical, or in which
there seemed any room for argument. On one of the trials they claimed that
you were drunk, too drunk to be responsible. While the evidence was of
slight weight, and it could not be taken from the instructions to the jury,
yet it fell very far short of sustaining any such plea. In the subsequent
trial such testimony was not produced. At every trial of this case it has
been claimed that you were insane at the time the murder was committed; the
evidence only shows, at the most, that you have been sometimes eccentric
and erratic in your actions. Some of the witnesses formed opinions by
reason of such action that you were insane. The fact remains that you were
shown to be a business man, capable of doing business, and you have been
confined in jail since last June, under circumstances tending to intensify
any mental disorder, if there was one, still you are possessed of your full
mental faculties and have been in your right mind since your first arrest,
immediately after the shooting. The proof falls very short of showing that,
at the time of committing the crime, you did not have sufficient mental
capacity to appreciate the quality and character of your act or that you
did not know and understand that it was a violation of the right of
another, and of itself wrong. It did not show that you did not know that
you were committing an act which was prohibited by the laws of the land and
that its commission would entail punishment and penalties upon you. You
knew enough to deny it when first accused. As a defense in the case, it has
been a naked subterfuge that was at all times to the court and jury its own
disproof.. The other main defense advanced on your behalf was that the
shooting was done accidentally; that in the scuffle for the pistol it was
discharged without any intent that a shot should be fired. The evidence
shows that you went into the drugstore where the deceased was employed to
purchase morphine, which he hesitated to sell you. You claim that he
insulted you, by in some way intimating that you were, in common parlance,
a morphine fiend. So thinking, you seemed to have acted in an offensive
manner yourself; you threw your money on the floor, both of you talking in
a loud, quarrelsome manner, so that those near you heard the noise. The
dying declaration of the deceased shows, then, that you stood back, and
fired the fatal shot, no doubt smarting under what you conceived to be an
insult. You were actuated by the feelings of revenge, the language you used
in the presence of Mr. BRADFORD, in the street, showing that you still held
the same feeling of hatred and malice which actuated you to fire the fatal
shot. In finding a verdict of murder in the 2nd degree, under such
circumstances, the jury have already been lenient, as the evidence would
have sustained a verdict of murder in the 1st degree. Penalties for crimes
are inflicted for several purposes. First, as a punishment to the offender;
second, as an example to others that, seeing the way of the transgressor to
be hard, they may be deterred from like offenses; third, to reform the
defendant himself. In dealing with this case, as I said before, I think the
evidence in the case would have justified a verdict in the 1st degree. A
verdict in the 1st degree would have entailed upon you a punishment for
life at least. It is the intention of the court now to give you such a
sentence that, in effect, will be a life sentence. The sentence of the
court is that you be imprisoned in the State prison at San Quentin for a
term of 50 years.”
HAWES remained stolidly indifferent throughout the judge’s remarks
and manifested no sign of feeling whatever. The general opinion seems to be
that Judge Dorn has done right in banishing a dangerous man form the
community for life, as that in all probability will be the effect of the
sentence.
Sheriff HORTON took the prisoner to San Quentin Tuesday afternoon.

**Serious Accident -- Constable W.J. NESBITT, who came over from Monterey
Tuesday evening, brought the news of a serious accident that occurred that
afternoon on the road just this side of David JACK’s Saucito orchard. A
party of pleasure seekers, consisting of 2 men, 5 women and a girl about 12
years of age, were on their way from Monterey to Salinas in a coach with a
man named MYERS as driver. The horses took fright and becoming
unmanageable, the coach ran against the embankment and capsized. Some of
the occupants were thrown clear of the coach and several were imprisoned
under it. Fortunately the driver held to the reins and managed to stop the
horses. Mr. NESBITT and another man happened along at the time and assisted
the driver to rescue the persons under the coach from their perilous
position. One lady, a Miss CONELY, is reported to have had her arm and
thigh bone broken, while all were more or less injured, but none fatally.
Miss Abbie HUNTER was one of the party and sustained some severe bruises.
Wagons were procured from neighboring farmers, the most seriously injured
placed on mattresses, and all were taken back to Monterey.

**High School Exercises -- Memorial Day exercises were held by the White
Debating society of the Salinas High school last Friday afternoon. Alvin
CLARK, president of the society, presided and the following interesting
program was rendered:
Recitation, Miss Amelia BLACK
Essay by an old veteran (W.H. CLARK), read by Miss Mary WHITE
Piano solo, Miss Laura SHEARER
Vocal duet, Misses Lizzie JOHNSON and Neva GILFILLAN
Recitation, Miss Franie STARR

**Personal & Social --
-Mrs. N.L. BUELL arrived home form Minneapolis last Tuesday evening.
-Miss Clara GORDON is over from Monterey visiting her cousin, Mrs. Dr.
STAFFORD.
-Mrs. WEST (nee Alice STONE) is over from Santa Cruz visiting friends in
Salinas.
-Stephen HAUSER has been confined to his room with sickness for the past 2
days.
-Mrs. Elizabeth STAFFORD is down from Placer county visiting her son, Dr.
H.E. STAFFORD.
-Miss Bessie ALEXANDER went to San Francisco yesterday to meet her father
from Tennessee.
-Miss Victorine LARONGUERRE is down from San Francisco visiting her cousin,
Mrs. J. BERGES, in Salinas.
-W.V. McGARVEY returned Tuesday from a fortnight’s visit to his brother,
Hon. Robt. McGARVEY, in Mendocino county.
-Mr.&Mrs. Chas. K. TUTTLE came over from Pacific Grove Sunday to attend the
funeral of the late Giles P. KELLOGG.
-Harry MILNES is down from the University of the Pacific, San Jose,
spending his vacation with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. C.G. MILNES, in Salinas.
-Miss Mary and Julian NICHOLS, accompanied by Miss Agnes PROFONTAINE, are
down from Oakland spending vacation with their parents, Captain and Mrs.
W.P. NICHOLS.
-J.A. WEBSTER returned from Tassajara springs last Monday. His daughters
and sister-in-law, Mrs. ROBERTS of San Francisco, who accompanied him to
the springs last week, remained there.
-Miss Myrtle BROOKS, daughter of Prof. Elisha BROOKS, a prominent San
Francisco educator, is in Salinas visiting her aunts, Mrs. E.M. HOAGLAND
and Mrs. Mattie McHARRY. Miss BROOKS has just graduated from the Girls’
High school, San Francisco.
-W.A. REYNOLDS, who came out from the Province of Quebec about a month ago
to visit his brother Charley whom he had not seen for a quarter of a
century, will take his departure for home next week. He is delighted with
California in general and Salinas valley in particular, and he would stay
longer, but he observes ominous preparations for the coming harvest and is
afraid that Charley will put him to work on a header.

The Watsonville ‘Rustler’ of the 27th ult says: “Jerome DOWNING gave an
old-fashioned clam-bake at Camp Goodall last Sunday. A large crowd was in
attendance and the hungry multitude did amply justice to the good fare
provided for them. Baked clams and clam chowder were the chief features of
the bill of fare.”

**Tassajara Notes -- The visitors to the Tassajara Hot Springs last week
increased to 39, among whom were John H. VOELL and L. RUTHERINAL, from San
Jose; Mr. McCORMICK and Mr. FRATAS, Watsonville; Mr.&Mrs. H.R. EARDELY
[first initial iffy] and Dr. and Mrs. TRIMMER, Pacific Grove; Hon. H.S.
BALL, wife and child, Mr.&Mrs. Wm. ROBSON and John HUNTER and family,
Salinas; Mrs. Wm. HATTON, 2 children and sister, Mrs. May HARNEY, Laurelles.
An ‘Index’ correspondent writing from the Springs last Thursday says:
“That old patron for the Springs, J.A. WEBSTER, and 4 ladies, have just
arrived.”
The weather is now settled, warm and balmy, and the baths are in great
demand.

[title is blurry] The Mother’s Jury [??]
King City, May 2-, 1892
Editor, Index:
I wish you would print this letter so that people may see I am not
all to blame for protecting my child from the brutal whipping that children
were in the habit of getting in her school at the hands of the teacher,
Miss Emma DAWLEY. The King City ‘Settler’s account of the “Battery Case” of
Emma DUDLEY [spelled 2 ways] vs. Mary NEWMAN does not give all the
punishment inflicted by Miss DAWLEY, so I will give it here. On the morning
of May 3rd the said NEWMAN boy was made take off his coat and whipped with
a leather strap hard. Then his hands were tied all along through the day,
and he had no recess. He was not permitted to read with his class and come
home at half past 3 o’clock with the rest, but was detained till after 5
o’clock in the evening. The teacher then tied a string around his arm and
drove him like a little dog. His mother hearing of other children being
whipped so brutally naturally would make any mother fear for the safety of
her child. My boy was punished for protecting his little sister, not yet 6
years old, from being beaten on the road home by some rude children as they
had to get home at 10 after 4 o’clock or receive a hard whipping from their
teacher, as they had done before, and all through spite of the parents on
account of some children’s lies. As for the defendant using vulgar
language, it is the blackest lie that ever came from human mouth.
Signed: Mary NEWMAN

**Bradley Items -- from last Thursday’s ‘Mercury’ --
-John GILMORE filled himself up with whiskey yesterday but was arrested and
fined $10 before he painted the town very red.
-M.M. GRAGG, notary public here, was engaged the greater portion of last
week taking testimony in the land contest case of C.E. LANTHIER vs. Jose A.
RIOS. The claimant was represented by G. WEBSTER of San Miguel, and the
contestant’s case was attended by Geo. DUDLEY of San Ardo. The contest is
over a choice piece of land.

**King City Items -- from last Saturday’s ‘Settler’ --
-The FILLMORE funeral train ran into a herd of cows belonging to REED &
FRISBEE, killing 5 of them.
-”Doc” LONG and Joe PUGH have been playing havoc with the squirrels in this
vicinity lately. Yesterday they sent to the county seat 2500 tails.
-Miss Stella ODELL, who was in King City for some time visiting her
parents, (her father being our school teacher) left last Thursday for
Salinas where she will spend a time in visiting.

**Pacific Grove Notes -- from last Saturday’s ‘Review’ --
-Mrs. CASE, who lives on 18th street, was stricken with paralysis on
Friday, since when she has had but little use of her entire right side. She
is under the care of Miss Kate McGEORGE.
-W.F. COLE, one of the proprietors of the Mariposa hall, of New Monterey,
swore out a warrant last Tuesday for the arrest of the squid fishermen, who
are making the lives of the residents in that vicinity decidedly
burdensome, by drying their fish almost in the private grounds of the
parties. 10 Chinamen were arrested.
-The HOPKINS Seaside Laboratory, a branch of the Leland STANFORD, Jr.,
university of California, located on Lovers’ point at Pacific Grove, is
being rapidly pushed to completion by a large force of workmen under
Contractor BOSWELL. The site could not have been more satisfactorily
selected, as it commands an unbroken view of the sweep of coast line from
Santa Cruz to Point Pinos and Monterey.

**San Lucas -- from last Thursday’s ‘Herald’ --
-H. JOSLIN shipped to the county clerk last Monday 2,005 squirrel tails,
for which he will receive the bounty.
-M. GOLDWATER of San Francisco and Miss Frances GOLDWATER, daughter of J.A.
GOLDWATER of Los Angeles, are here visiting Marcus GOLDWATER’s family.
-Wm. NANCE, Sr., has been seriously ill for several days, but his many
friends will be glad to hear the he is rapidly recovering and will soon be
out again.
-Last Saturday forenoon an immersion took place at the banks of the river
under the charge of the visiting pastors assisted by Rev. MOHN, RICE and
ARMSTRONG of this place.

**Monterey Items -- from last Saturday’s ‘Cypress’ --
-Jake ASHLEY charged F. GAJIOLA with entering his room and stealing a sum
of money and other articles. GAJIOLA was held to answer before the superior
court for grand larceny.
-F.M. HILBY imported another clerk, a graduate of a college of pharmacy,
but he got gloriously drunk the first day in town and had to be taken to
the cooler. HILBY is now without a clerk.
-J. BLACK was brought from Redwood City Wednesday by Constable ALLEN for
beating C.D. CASPER out of a $40 board bill. BLACK worked on CASPER’s
sympathy and induced him to board him until he got pay for work he was
doing, but left without settling his bill.

**Castroville Items -- from last Friday’s ‘Enterprise’ --
-Henry RILEY’s residence came near being burned last Thursday by the
spontaneous combustion of some phosphorous in a tin can.

**Nicknames of European Nations -- Englishmen have accepted the name of
John Bell as suited to the national character. A Scotsman is Sandy; the
Irishman derives his name of Paddy from his national patron suit; while an
ancient nursery rhyme records that Taffy is a Welshman. English sailors
call the Frenchman in contempt Johnny Crapaud, but in France he is Jacques
Bonhomme. Cousin Michel is the name by which the German is known to the
continental nations. Mynheer Closh, an abbreviation of Nicholas, sums up
the Hollanders, who are often simply known as the Mynheers, while the
Switzer rejoices in the name of Colin Tampon. We have all heard of the
Russian Bear and the Infidel Turk, but these are hardly real nicknames. Don
Whiskerandos is almost a national nickname for the Spaniards, dated from
Elizabethan times. Italians are known as Lazzaroni, and the Danes are
called Danskers.




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