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Subject: Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA -- 23-28 Oct 1871
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 09:56:44 -0700


Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
23-28 Oct 1871
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<Monday, 23 Oct 1871>

BORN -- in this city, Oct. 21st, to the wife of Ed. TRETHEWAY, a daughter.

DIED -- in Bloomfield, Van Buren county, Iowa, Sept. 17, 1871, Mrs. Susan
SWANK, sister of Deputy Sheriff HARLESON, of this city.

DIED -- in San Joaquin county, on the Mariposa road, 16 miles from
Stockton, Oct. 7, 1871, Mary Lizzie, aged 6 months, 7 days, youngest
daughter of Colum. A. and Sarah E. CAMPBELL. [Wisconsin papers please copy]

DWELLING BURNED -- Calaveras ‘Chronicle’ -- On Monday night the 9th inst.,
the residence of an Italian named CUNIO, near Mosquito Gulch, in this
county, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with its contents. We
learn that the fire broke out about 2 o’clock in the morning, and although
the family were all at home at the time, so rapid was the progress of the
flames that nothing could be saved. The fire is believed to have been the
work of an incendiary. Mr. CUNIO is the father of a large family and as
there was no insurance on the property destroyed, the loss falls heavily
upon him.

SEVERELY CUT -- Calaveras ‘Chronicle’ -- Charles WELLS, son of William
WELLS of this place, met with a serious accident on Tuesday last. While
engaged in chopping wood the ax glanced and entered his ankle, cutting a
terrible gash. The young man was some distance from a house at the time the
accident occurred, and the wound was so severe as to necessitate the
rendering of assistance to enable him to reach home.

ADVERTISEMENTS -- [by no means all of them]
-H.L. FARRINGTON, G.C. HYATT, H.S. FARRINGTON; New Foundry & Machine Shop.
Stockton Iron Works, FARRINGTON, HYATT & Co., proprietors, California
street, between Main & Weber avenue, Stockton. Manufacture steam engines,
quartz, saw and grist mill works, mining machinery, agricultural work,
house fronts and iron and brass casting of every description. A share of
the patronage of the public is solicited. Particular attention given to
jobbing and [rest cut off]
-Masonic Notice! The stated meeting of San Joaquin Lodge No. 19, F.&A.M.,
will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 7 ½ o’clock. Sojourning brethren are
cordially invited to attend. By order, Phil B. FRASER, Secretary.
-Dr. E.B. BATEMAN. Office, corner of Main & Hunter streets, over STARBUCK &
Co.’s.

CONVICTED of ADULTERY -- Salt Lake of the 21st -- The jury in the HAWKINS
case came in last night with a sealed verdict, which, on being opened this
morning, was found to be “Guilty.” The Court room was crowded, and the
announcement created much sensation. Counsel for the People moved the Court
to take the defendant into custody, which motion was stoutly resisted by
defendant’s attorneys. The prosecution, however, were firm in their demand
that the case should take the ordinary course, and the United States
Marshal accordingly was directed to hold HAWKINS as a prisoner. Time was
allowed to prepare motion for new trial and arrest of judgment. The penalty
of the Utah statute for the crime of adultery is imprisonment for not
exceeding 20 years and not less than 3 years; or by a fine of not over
$1,000; or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court.
This is a test case, and virtually places all polygamists at the mercy of
the first wife, who, under the Act, is the only part who can institute
proceedings against the husband. The case was contested on both sides with
great determination. The charge of Chief Justice McKEAN to the jury last
night is spoken of as being eminently able.

SAMUEL P. FAIR -- Yreka (Cal.); Oct. 20th --- The mysterious disappearance
of Samuel P. FAIR, Sheriff of Siskiyou county in March, 1859, is familiar
to all residents of this county at that time. A letter appears in the Yreka
‘Union’ of this week from D.A. THOMAS, Aspinwall, C.A., formerly a resident
of Yreka, saying he had met Mr. FAIR there several years ago, under the
name of James W, WIILIAMS, then a resident of Peru. He detailed to Mr.
THOMAS at that time how and why he left and where he went. He took passage
on a missionary ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, from thence to South
America, where he was engaged several years constructing railroads. The
reason he alleged for leaving were litigation, financial embarrassments and
broken health. He declared himself perfectly innocent of the murder of
ROSE, a merchant who was killed here about that time, and expressed a
determination to return as soon as he could and demand an examination. FAIR
died at Illo, Peru, in April last.


<Tuesday, 24 Oct 1871>

BORN -- at Tule River North, Oct. 2d, to the wife of James A. KINCAID, a son.

BORN -- at Tule River North, Oct. 13th, to the wife of B.F. BURR, a daughter.

BORN -- at Snellings, Oct. 14th, to the wife of Theodore F. TAUBERT, a
daughter.

MARRIED -- at Kernville, Oct. 12th, N. O’NEAL and Mrs. RICHARDSON.

DIED -- on the South Fork of Kern river, Oct. 12th, Reuben STAMBLER, aged
about 30 years.

DIED -- at Havilah, Oct. 17th, Nathan BALLER.

DIED -- at Cayota Springs, Tulare county, Oct. 8th, Thomas CHAPPILL.

THOMAS V. LOVELL -- Mr. Thomas V. LOVELL, who died suddenly on Sunday, the
15th instant, was born in England in 1830. He emigrated to the United State
in 1854 and came to California in 1865, since which time he has constantly
lived in Stanislaus county, near Knight’s Ferry. Mr. LOVELL’s death has
cast a shadow of sorrow over a large circle of friends and acquaintances in
Stanislaus county and elsewhere. He was a man highly esteemed for his many
virtues, and his place in the family and social circle, so suddenly
vacated, will not easily be filled. He leaves a widow and an only daughter
to mourn his loss, who have the sympathies and kindest wishes of the
community amongst whom he dwelt.

UNDER SHERIFF R.W. STEVENSON, who was severely injured by a horse recently,
has so far recovered as to be able to appear in the streets. He spent a
short time in the Sheriff’s office yesterday.

MARIPOSA COUNTY -- The Mariposa ‘Gazette’ of the 20th instant, has the
following items --
-A German employed at the Mariposa Brewery was examining an old 6-shooter
on Wednesday morning, and not supposing that it was loaded, commenced
snapping the trigger, and to his surprise it went off, the shot taking the
index finger of his left hand clean off at the first joint. The pistol had
been lying around the building for the past 6 months, and no one supposed
that it was loaded.
-Sheriff McERLANE arrested one Tom HERBERT at Clark and Moore’s, South
Fork, on Thursday evening last, on a bench warrant from the Sheriff of El
Dorado county. He was brought to town on Friday and lodged in jail, where
he will remain until an officer from El Dorado comes and takes charge of
him. He is charged with an attempt to commit murder.

ADVERTISEMENTS -- [by no means all of them]
-Masonic Notice! The officers and members of Stockton Chapter No. 28, Royal
Arch Masons, are hereby notified to attend a stated meeting thereof THIS
(Tuesday) EVENING at 7 ½ o’clock sharp. Sorjourning companions are
cordially invited to attend. L.E. LYON, Secretary.
-North British and Mercantile Insurance Company of London and Edinburgh.
Established in 1809...John GAWNE, agent for Stockton. Office at the
Stockton Lumber Yard.

DISPATCHES --
From San Francisco; Oct. 23:
-A man named WEST and another known as Jim both died today when being taken
from the public streets to hospital by the police.
-Thomas COLLINS, who was blown up at the time of the Yosemite disaster and
severely injured, has been of unsound mind since, was sent to the Insane
Asylum today. He threatens people’s lives without provocation, and when
arrested, after knocking down a stranger, had 4 loaded revolvers on his person.
-Joseph AATO, an Italian who insists upon being recognized as Governor of
California, and intends to marry Queen Victoria, was also sent to the Asylum.
-Edward DEMONT, a native of England, aged 24 years, fell overboard from the
ship Corsica on her trip from Liverpool and was drowned.
-Alex. WHITE, arrested for the most infamous crime known to the law, fell
down in an apoplectic fit in the calaboose this evening and died immediately.
-W.B. PARSONS was arrested this evening on a charge of embezzling funds
from his employers.


<Wednesday, 25 Oct 1871>

BORN -- in Mariposa, Oct. 17th, to the wife of W.H. AMES, a daughter.

MARRIED -- at the Weber House, in this city, Oct. 24th, by the Rev. Ben
E.S. ELY; Sylvester COLLIER and Miss Julia MOSHIER.

MARRIED -- in this city, Oct. 24th, by the Rev. Ben E.S. ELY; Edward S.
AMES and Miss Adeline R. CHAPIN.

DIED -- in this city, Oct. 24th, Joseph PECKLER, aged 53 years, 7 months,
15 days. [The funeral will take place tomorrow (Thursday), from the
residence of the family on California street, near Weber avenue. Friends
and acquaintances are invited to attend.]

DIED -- at Coulterville, Oct. 13th, Angela GAZZOLA, aged 8 years, 10 months.

RESCUED FROM DROWNING -- About 5 o’clock last evening, while a number of
small boys were playing on a lot of grain sacks piled upon the wharf near
the steamboat landing, a little 6-year-old son of Mrs. QUINN, whose husband
was killed by a runaway horse some time ago, fell overboard into the slough
and would unquestionably have been drowned had it not been for the prompt
aid rendered by Joseph DIAS, who, upon observing the occurrence, took his
watch from his pocket, laid it down on the wharf, and immediately jumped
into the water, caught hold of the little fellow, took him to the side of
the wharf and clung to a pile until relieved by a boat. The water at that
point is about 12 feet deep.

ADVERTISEMENTS -- [by no means all of them]
-C.F. HUBER, No. 175 El Dorado St., 2 doors North of Savings Bank, dealer
in firearms, etc. This is to inform my friends and the public that I have
opened a store at the above named place, and I am now ready to supply all
customers with Shot-guns, rifles, pistols, game bags, powder flasks, shot
pouches, gun wads, cartridges, shot, powder, caps and everything else in
this line; also fishing tackles, etc., all of which I off on the most
reasonable terms. I shall also attend to the repairing of guns, pistols and
all kinds of locksmith and other mechanical work, which I warrant to do
cheap and in the best style. C.F. HUBER, Gunsmith.

DISPATCHES --
From San Francisco; Oct. 24:
-CRICHTER, the broker, whose sudden disappearance 2 months since under a
cloud of deficits, created great anxiety, first for his fate and secondly
for the fate of his numerous confiding creditors, it is said, has turned up
in Peru with Harry MEIGGS.
-Mathew FINNERTY and James SMITH are under arrest for robbing A. DAVIS, on
Jackson street, of $160.
-Francisco FELIX sues the Central Pacific Railroad Company for $100,000
damages, for personal injuries.
-The will of Stephen L. PIPER was filed today. He bequeaths his property,
valued at $30,000, to his wife.
-The will of the late John SIME, the banker, was also filed. It bequeaths
his estate in Marin county equally to his father and brother; that in
Marysville to his sister, Mrs. Charles STEVENSON, and that in San
Francisco, with his personal property, to his children. His widow is to
have the entire income of the estate during her widowhood.
-George Q. CANNON, a Mormon Elder, is in San Francisco getting counsel in
the polygamy cases. He appears quite downhearted at the prospect ahead, but
says that in case the prosecution continues successfully the Mormons will
do as they did in Illinois -- destroy everything and start out for a new
promised land.
-Bill RUSSELL, one of the escaped convicts, who was sentenced to 6 years in
the Nevada penitentiary, for highway robbery in Storey county, was arrested
on Vallejo street wharf this evening by Officer BOHEN, as he was pointing
for a vessel on which to ship for a foreign port. He owns up to his identity.
-C.W. HOGAN and Thomas DOLE, arrested in San Jose for alleged horse
stealing in Contra Costa county, were brought here this evening, en route
to Martinez.


<Thursday, 26 Oct 1871>

MARRIED -- at Sonora, Oct. 15th, Fleming ROMANS and Rebecca BOLTER.

MARRIED -- in Sonora, Oct. 18th, Rev. David F. OVERTON and Mrs. Sarah TYLER.

DIED -- at Castoria, Oct. 25th, John BOWMAN, aged 58 years. [Funeral will
take place today (Thursday) at 10 o’clock a.m., from Visher’s School House.]

NEW TODAY --
-Masonic Notice -- There will be a Special Meeting of Morning Star Lodge
No. 68, F.&A.M., THIS (Thursday) EVENING, at 7 ½ o’clock. Sojourning
Brethren are cordially invited to attend. By order of the S.W.; M.H. BOND,
Secretary pro tem.
-Attention, Pioneers! The regular monthly meeting of San Joaquin Society of
California Pioneers will be held at their Hall, El Dorado street, Stockton,
on Saturday evening, Sept. [as written] 30, 1871, at 7 ½ o’clock. By order,
R.E. REID, President. Julius STINEY, Secretary.

ADVERTISEMENTS -- [by no means all of them]
-Medicinal Oxygen Treatment. Cures consumption, dyspepsia, bronchitis,
heart disease and all nervous disorder. Correspondence in relation to this
new treatment will be promptly answered by addressing Dr. W.R. REUD, Corner
of Fourth and J., over Capital Savings Bank, Sacramento.
-Fall Style Silk Hats! “Grand Duke!” Have just received a large invoice of
hats and caps of the latest styles and finest qualities at Isaac LOTHROP’s,
Hatter, Kidd’s Block, 171 Main street, Stockton.
-Buy you vegetables and fruit at G.N. MILCO’s Mountain Fruit Depot,
Independent Block, Corner El Dorado and Levee Sts., Stockton.
-Dr. Heop WOO, Chinese Physician. Warrants to cure all kinds of diseases.
[rest cut off]


<Friday, 27 Oct 1871>

BORN -- in Hunter’s Valley, Oct. 16th, to the wife of Mark WYATT, a daughter.

BORN -- in Mariposa, Oct. 18th, to the wife of S. FREEMAN, a son.

MARRIED -- in this city, Oct. 26th, by the Rev. Ben E.S. ELY; H.S. BARNES
and Miss Kate CANAVAN.

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ESCAPED CONVICT ARRESTED -- On Wednesday evening last, Officer KERR
arrested a colored man, believed to be Francis PRUETT, one of the convicts
who made their escape from the Nevada State Prison. He was at once conveyed
to jail and locked up. He at first stoutly denied ever having been in
Nevada, or of having any knowledge whatever of the outbreak. Eventually,
however, he was identified by Chief of Police FLETCHER and another
gentleman, both of whom knew him in Nevada several years ago. When he found
that further denials would answer no good purpose, he voluntarily made a
clean breast of it. Following is, in substance, the prisoner’s statement.

PRISONER’S STATEMENT -- “My name in Francis PRUETT. I am a native of
Clinton county, Missouri, and am 23 years old on the 21st day of next
August. I came to Nevada in 1853, and lived at Genoa about 16 years. I have
been twice in the penitentiary - the first time in 1867, when I was
sentenced for 1 year for grand larceny; and the second time I was sentenced
for 5 years for burglary, and had served 13 months and 10 days of my time
when the outbreak occurred. About 3 weeks before the break, MORTON came to
me and asked if, in case there should be a break, I would take a hand in
it? I answered, “No.” I heard nothing further until about an hour before
the break took place, when Tom HEFFRON asked me if I would take a hand in a
break, and said that some of the boys had told him (HEFFRON) that I would
take a hand. I told him that I had never promised anything of the kind. I
said that I had only 3 more years more to put in and I would rather put it
in than take any chances. HEFFRON then said that the boys said I had said I
would take a hand, and if I went back on my work, and they got away, they
would kill me. I then told him I would take a hand in it, and when I told
him so I did not mean to do it. About an hour afterwards he came to me and
told me I had better go up and cut my irons if I was going. I told him I
had plenty of time to do it. Then COCKRELL and JONES came down and told me
to get ready and cut my irons now, d__d quick, and I went and cut them.
They watched me and saw that I did it. After I got them cut, JONES said,
“Have you them already to take them right off?” I told him “No. I am going
to take part of them along with me.” Then they all got ready and went up
over the guard room, but me and Tom HEFFRON. I tried to wait as long as I
could to get HEFFRON to go first so that I wouldn’t go. He saw I was
staying and said he would stay and see that I would go. I said well, if
I’ve got to go I may as well go first as last. I then went up and him right
behind me. Then I tried to hide in the ceiling to keep from going, and he
kept behind me and told me to go on. Then after we were up there, about 20
minutes before the break, I said, “If you do not go pretty soon I’m going
back.” Then ROBERTS pushed CHAPMAN out of the way and said, “I want PRUETT
to go down with me.” Tom HEFFRON staid behind and gave the signal when to
start. As soon as they got me close up to the hole where they were going
down, the signal was given and HEFFRON said, “Now, boys, is your time for
freedom; go on.” They all went down but me and HEFFRON, who kept telling me
to go, and I would not. After 15 or 20 shots were fired, I went down, and
HEFFRON behind me, telling me to go on. Just when I got down to the head of
the stairs, PIXLEY and ROBERTS were shooting at each other through the
window. ROBERTS shot PIXLEY right through the head, as I was standing about
10 feet from him. ROBERTS said “I’ve got one of the sons of ____.” ROBERTS
then went back to the armory and I never saw him afterwards. JONES came
running out of the Governor’s office with a 6-shooter in his hand and
commenced shooting at one of the guards, who was about 20 steps from the
prison. After firing 3 or 4 shots, he hit the guard and said “I’ve got
another of the sons of _____,” and then turned around to one of the guards
who was lying on the floor and said, “I’ll finish this son of a __ __, so
that he will never swear against me.” I said, “No, you won’t, either.” He
then turned and ran to the armory, when NEWHOUSE, the wounded guard, said,
“PRUETT, don’t let him hurt me.” I told him to lay still where he was and I
would not let any of them hurt him. NEWHOUSE then crawled up behind the
door and I pushed the door back so that they could not see him. I turned
around and saw BURKE and JONES coming with a Henry rifle apiece. Governor
DENVER just then came to the head of the stairs, and JONES said, “There’s
the Governor shooting down upon us; I’ll kill the son of a ____.” I said,
“No; you won’t shoot up there,” and just as I said that, they both fired. I
said, “Don’t you shoot up there any more,” and they looked at me very mad.
I turned away and ran to the armory and catched a shot-gun. Then JONES came
following right behind me. MORTON said, “Hold on, Charley JONES.” I then
ran to the iron door opening out to the front of the prison and JONES
hollered out, “Let that door rest,” and I did not pay any attention to him,
but opened the door. As soon as I opened the door they all rushed out
behind me. After I got outside of the fence I set down the shot-gun and
ran. JONES and BURKE both hollered at me to stop, they wanted to see me;
but I never stopped, but kept right on and left the prison, and have seen
nothing of them since. I had a notion 2 or 3 times of stopping and going
back; but when I had got a quarter of a mile from the prison I heard 5 or 6
shots fired, and then I thought I would not go back any more, as I did not
want to shoot anybody, nor be with them. I went straight to Carson, then to
Genoa, and kept along for California, traveling in the night-time till I
got 20 miles from Woodford’s canyon, and after that I traveled in day time
right long the Big Tree road.”

The prisoner further stated that he had, since his arrival in California,
been at work about a month cooking at Milton. He was assaulted at the
latter place by a man who struck him on the head with brass knuckles, and
cut his head so that he had to have the wound bandaged. He arrived in
Stockton only 1 day before he was arrested. He says that he does not dread
returning to the Nevada State Prison, as he did not injure any person when
the break took place, but believes that he was instrumental in saving the
life of one of the guards. He says that he is now sorry for having made his
escape; that he was in a measure forced to run away and that the course he
took was not one of his own voluntary choosing.
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TRIAL JURORS -- The following named persons were drawn in the Clerk’s
office yesterday as trial jurors for the November term of the County Court,
to appear Nov. 11th:
J.J. ATHERTON, Castoria
H.F. WOODS, Elkhorn
L.G. ALLEN, Elkhorn
W.E. WHIPPLE, Elliott
N.C. CULVER, Stockton
Uriah MARTIN, Castoria
Freeman MILLS, Elkhorn
S. DUNHAM, Douglass
J.C. PARSONS, Stockton
Thos. J. DUNCAN, Douglass
Wm. ESTEIN, Stockton
Bennett ANGEL, Stockton
Lemuel WILCOX, Tulare
Jas. F. EDWARDS, Stockton
C. SPERRY, O’Neal
S.C. FISHER, O’Neal
Phillip CAHILL, Elliott
H.S. HOWLAND, Castoria
Adam McNEILLY, O’Neal
W.D. YOUNG, Stockton
Albert WOODS, Elkhorn
H. BROWNELL, Stockton
Jas. A. RICH, Stockton
W.H. CROW, Castoria
John ENGLAND, Stockton
Edward GRIGGS, Stockton
Chas. G. HUBNER, Stockton
J.H. FARWELL, O’Neal
Abiel ABBOTT, Stockton
W.H. GANN, Dent

THE COURTS
*District Court; Hon. S.A. BOOKER, Judge
-List of regular jurors called. L.H. BRANNOCK was excused for the term on
account of sickness.
-GILES vs. BUDD; case tried and continued for argument
-McCONNELL vs. S.&V.R.R. Co.; defendant allowed to withdraw demurrer and
file answer to plaintiff’s complaint
*County Court; Hon. W.E. GREENE, Judge
-People vs. Joseph CHURCHILL (found guilty of grand larceny); defendant
sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for the term of 2 years and 6
months.
-People vs. Thomas CARR (found guilty of housebreaking); defendant
sentenced to the State Prison for the term of 2 years.


<Saturday, 28 Oct 1871>

BORN -- at Woodbridge, Oct. 24th, to the wife of Edwin B. SHERMAN, a son.

MARRIED -- in San Joaquin City, Oct. 24th, by Elder George WOLFE; D.A.
FRASER and Matilda P. HOXIE.

BADLY INJURED -- Dr. HOLDEN, Mayor of this city, was on the train when the
accident occurred on the west side of the San Joaquin river last Thursday.
He was in the smoking car when the catastrophe took place, and he received
a few bruises which, at the time, he considered trifling, but which have
since assumed a more serious character. He was quite unwell yesterday and
was confined a greater portion of the day to his bed.

HOMICIDE -- Shasta ‘Courier’ -- From Abijah CAHOW, of Buckeye, we gather
some particulars of an affray near Churntown, on the night of the 19th
instant, by which a man named BOLAN lost his life by the hands of Noah
MAGEE. MAGEE’s version is to the effect that BOLAN attempted to break into
his house, and he supposing it to be a housebreaker or robber, fired and
killed him. BOLAND [spelled 2 ways] has not lived at Churntown long, but
was employed there lately at well-digging. He is said to have lived at
Cottonwood before coming there. An inquest will be held by Justice KNOX,
when he will doubtless be able to get at the truth of the matter.

MARITAL and HISTORICAL -- The Marysville ‘Standard’ of Oct. 26th has the
annexed: “We publish this morning the marriage of Miss Mary Ellen
COVILLAUD, daughter of Charles and Mary COVILLAUD, 2 of the pioneers of
this city. The bride has a romantic history. Her mother was one of the
survivors of the unfortunate Donner lake party, who perished in the snows
of the Sierras, and in honor of whom our city derived its name. The bride
was also the first white child born here, who so appropriately bears the
name of Mary. The happy couple took the 1 o’clock train yesterday afternoon
for San Francisco.”


Transcribed by Dee Sardoch
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