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Subject: [News] !!San Benito Co., CA -- 8 Aug 1878
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:32:44 -0800
Hollister Telegraph
8 Aug 1878
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Born -- at Tres Pinos, July 24th, to the wife of Manuel WALKER, a son.
Born -- at Hollister, Aug.1st, to the wife of Thos. McMAHON, a daughter.
Born -- near Hollister, Aug. 4th, to the wife of Dan. McMULLEN, a son.
Died -- in Santa Ana Valley, Aug. 5th, infant child of Mr.&Mrs. Rowland
WILLIAMS. [The remains were buried yesterday in the Odd Fellows cemetery
at this place, Rev. J.W. ATKINSON officiating at the grave.]
DEATH OF MARSHAL McBROOM -- Last Tuesday we received the sad intelligence
from Santa Barbara announcing the death of Marshal McBROOM, at that
place. Deceased for several months had been ailing, the most of the time
being unable to attend to his official duties. On the 23rd of July he
started for Santa Barbara, thinking a change of climate might prove
beneficial. On arriving there, in consequence of the fatiguing voyage,
his condition became worse. He was placed in the City Infirmary,
conducted by the Sisters of Charity, where everything possible was done
for the sufferer, but to no avail; he gradually sank till death relieved
him of earthly pain. Friends here were kept almost daily advised
respecting his condition, the last message received being on Tuesday
about 5pm, as follows:
Santa Barbara, Aug. 6, 1878
E.J. RECTOR,
McBROOM died; wife starts with body Thursday morning per steamer.
Signed: F. ANDONARGUA
The body will perhaps arrive here Saturday for interment.
Deceased was a native of Tennessee, aged 38 years. He served in the
Confederate army during the war encountering many hardships and trying
scenes. From his native home he immigrated to this State in 1872,
settling in Santa Clara county, when, after the elapse of about 1 year,
he came to Hollister. He followed farming and gunsmithing for a
livelihood until May, 1876, when he was elected Town Marshal, succeeding
himself at the elections of 77 and 78. As an officer he merited the
praise of foes and friends alike. Active, vigilant and untiring in his
efforts to fulfill the arduous duties of his position, no candidate
however popular could successfully compete with him before the people.
Possessing a heart warm and responsive, a better friend could not have
been desired. While it is the lot of man to yield to the inevitable, it
seems hard indeed for us to remember him among the departed. He leaves a
devoted wife and babe who share the sympathy of the whole community. The
remains are in the hands of Odd Fellows, of which Order he was an honored
member.
Sing VAUGHN, of Slacks Canyon, was in town last week.
Mr. A. SALLY had a valuable horse to kill itself last Saturday.
Mrs. CLARK, principal of the Young Ladies Seminary in Colusa, is visiting
at Dr. HOWARDs.
Prof. Arthur JOHNSON contemplates going to Oakland in a few weeks, to
reside permanently.
Mrs. H.P. ENGLAND has opened a dress making establishment. Her ability in
that line is too well known to need any comment from us.
R.H. SMALL and Niles PETERSON, of Bitterwater, were in town last Monday
and Tuesday. Mr. SMALL reports crops in that portion of the county as
yielding from 20 to 25 sacks per acre.
W.S. TAYLER, of San Jose, has been engaged as 1st assistant of our public
school. Mr. TAYLER is a very agreeable gentleman, and, we have no doubt,
as a teacher, will give good satisfaction.
The biggest Irish potato we ever saw was one shown us by Wilse CHAPPELL.
It grew somewhere near San Felipe, and weighed 3 pounds, 2 ½ ounces; the
longitudinal circumference was 32 ½ inches.
Every Sunday a rush is made for the Eagle Hotel for dinner. Mr.&Mrs.
ROSS, with the aid of their new cook from the city, get up an excellent
Sunday dinner. Proof of the pudding is chewing the bag.
Messrs. R.H. BROTHERTON and P.B. TULLY, attorneys, and Wm. MATTHEWS, of
counsel, for Greg SANCHEZ, are a strong team and warrants the conviction
that our able District Attorney will find in them opponents fully worthy
of his steel.
Mr. H.M. SAUNDERS met with a painful, but not serious, accident a few
days ago. He was on a hay stack about 18 or 20 feet high, and in
attempting to move a bale, his hook pulled out from the hey, and he fell
to the ground. The result was fortunate, as he landed on his feet,
experiencing nothing more than a rough jolt and painfully bruised foot
Last Tuesday about half past 11 oclock, a fire, originating from DUNCAN
& BAKERs steam threshing machine, broke out on the ARQUES place in Santa
Ana Valley. Strenuous efforts were made to stay the flames, but to no
avail until great damage was done to the neighboring fields of grain and
feed. Mr. Rowland WILLIAMS lost 3 settings of wheat and 1 stack of hay;
Mr. H. GOULD lost 2 settings of wheat and 1 of barley, and Jose SANDI,
upon whose place the fire started, lost 1 setting of wheat. The damage is
estimated at from $1,200 to $1,500. When the fire first made its
appearance, the whistle of the thresher sounded the alarm, but not in a
way to attract attention, until the flames had got well under way. Had
one continued sound of the whistle been given instead of short toots,
the opinion prevails among the neighbors that attention would have been
attracted almost instantly, bringing to the scene a sufficient number of
men to have arrested the conflagration in its incipiency. The sufferers
have our sympathy.
The case of the county vs. Greg SANCHEZ, for the murder of WILCOX, was up
before the District Court last Tuesday, and the indictment set aside, on
account of the Grand Jury that found it not meeting the requirement of
the law, one of the jurymen having a preconceived determination of his
guilt. His case will be considered again by the next session of the Grand
Jury.
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