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empire with bloody hands, and how restrained
by Governor Sola, 665, 666; one of junta to
swear to independence and empire of Mexico,
II, 44; in favor of waltzing, 75; illegal ap-
pointment as temporary governor in 1825, 80;
quarrel with Luis Antonio Argüello about re-
moval of archives, 80, 81.

Estudillo, Magdalina, at ball at Monterey in
1815 in honor of Governor Sola, I, 637.
Eulalia Callis, wife of Pedro Fages-see Callis,
Doña Eulalia.

Euphemia, brig, hulk of, purchased in 1849, and
used as prison for San Francisco, II, 730;
how inclosed with streets, III, 337; how pur-
chased, 380.

"Eureka" in state seal, II, 773; name pro-
posed by Mariano G. Vallejo for his proposed
state capital, IV, 72, 73.

Eureka quartz lodes, III, 145.

Eureka, town on Humboldt bay, III, 834; mur-
der of Indians at, in 1852, 908; massacre of
Indians near, in 1860, 920-922.

Evans, Charles E., only survivor of Henry A.
Crabb's filibuster expedition to Sonora, III,
811, 812.

Evening Bulletin newspaper-see Bulletin,
Evening.

Evening Journal and Evening News news-
papers, IV, 709.

Everett, Edward, candidate for United States
vice-president in 1860, IV, 273.

Evolution of mining laws (for particulars, see
Contents III, xvii, xviii), 251-271.
Ewell, General Richard S., part as Confederate
in Civil war, IV, 364.

Ewing, Thomas, United States senator from
Ohio, part in land commission act, III, 693.
Exact, schooner, engaged in search for
Edward McGowan in 1856, III, 645.
Excommunication, of Comandante Rivera y
Moncada, 1, 374; of Corporal Miguel Avila,
II, 76, 77; of Juan B. Alvarado for reading
Fenelon's Telemacque, 237, 496.
Executive department, provision in constitu-
tion of 1879 in relation to, IV, 631, 632.
Executive mansion at Saeramento, IV, 444.
Expediente of land grant, first instance of, II,
746, 747; nature of, approvals and certificates,
752.

Exports of gold from San Francisco from 1849
to 1857, III, 377, 378; of gold and quicksilver
in 1853, 414; in general-see Commerce and
Trade.

Expulsion of Jesuits, I, 247-256.

Expulsion of Spaniards-see Spaniards.
Extra session of legislature, Governor Burnett
against, IV, 60; in 1881, 661-664; in 1884,
681-685; in 1886, 694-698; Republican platform
of 1886 on, 700, 701; Governor Bartlett on, 707.
Eyre, Edward E., colonel in California Columin,
services in Civil war, IV, 326, 327

FAGES, Pedro, fourth Spanish governor of the
Californias, lieutenant in 1769, 1, 309; on ex-
peditions in search of Monterey, 318, 329; in
military command, 333, 342; at foundation of
San Gabriel mission, 342-344; also San Luis
Obispo, 345-348; dispute with missionaries,
356; removal determined on. 357; expedition
to and survey of San Francisco, 987; at
ruined missions on Colorado river, 430-432.
Appointment as governor, 1, 433: founda-
tion of Santa Barbara mission, 455, 456; quar-
rels with missionaries, and result, 513-516;
how he became governor, and previous life,
527.

Administration as governor (for particu.
lars, see Contents, I, xxvi), 527-539; quarrel
with his wife Doña Eulalia Callis, 529; re-
tirement to Mexico and death, 539; orders to
seize American ship Columbia, 543; discus-
sion with Father Lasuen as to beards of
Indians, 733-

Fairchild, James, Modoc captives under his
charge murdered by Oregonians, III, 976, 977-
Fairchild, John, part in Modoc war, III, 950-
952, 955, 963-965, 975, 976.

Fairchild's ranch on Hot creek, near lava
beds, III, 946.

Fairfax, Charles S., residence of, in Marin
county in 1861, IV, 279.

Fair, James G., "bonanza king," so called, IV,

549-551.

Fair, Laura D., killing of Alexander P. Crit-
tenden, trial for murder and acquittal, ver-
dict of public opinion, IV, 515, 516.
Fair Oaks, battle of, in Civil war, IV, 316.
"Fall of '49 and spring of '50," III, 230.
Fallon, Thomas, company of Americans in

Santa Clara valley in Bear Flag days, II, 604.
Fallon, William, in Bear Flag revolution, II,
429.

Fandango, II, 504-506; at house of Juan Ban-
dini in 1829, 506, 507.

Fanega, nearly two bushels, I, 534.
Fanny Major, bark, III, 919.

Farallones, Drake at, I, 96; recognized in 1769
as part of outer bay of San Francisco, 382;
Russian post at, II, 172, 285, 540; position of,
540; Limantour's claim to, III, 697.

Fares and Freights-see Freights and Fares.
Farias, Gomez, acting president of Mexico, II,

190.

Farley, James T., assemblyman and speaker
in 1856, resolution against Nathaniel P.
Banks, IV, 189, 190, remarks on "legislative
honor," 192; state senator and president pro
tempore in 1871, 504; candidate for United
States senator in 1873, 528; action in case of
A. D. Bell, 529, 530; elected United States
senator in 1877, 503; receives two votes for
United States senator in 1885, 690.
Farnham, Mrs. Eliza W., scheme for supply-
ing matrimonial market in 1849, II, 191.
Farnsworth, E. Seymour, second mate of
Pacific mail steamer Golden Gate, charge of
murder against, lil, 560.

Farragut, David G., captain, afterwards ad-
mirel, at Mare Island in 1856, refuses to inter-
fere with San Francisco vigilance committee,
III, 577; correspondence with Commander
Boutwell of United States sloop-oi-war John
Adams, 597-599; report to Washington, 509,
600; part in Civil war, taking of New Orleans,
IV, 313, 314; taking of Mobile, 384, 385:
called "Old Salamander," made admiral,
honors, and death, 384, 385.

Farwell, Edward A., arrival in 1841, II, 331.
Farwell, James D., part in San Francisco
vigilance committee of 1856, III, 505, 589, 599,
604, 648.

Farwell, S. B., member of land commission in
1855, III, 695.

Far West Camp, United States post on Bear
river, II, 782; expedition against Indians
from, in 1850, III, 86,

"Far West, The," Peter H. Burnett's news-
paper in Missouri, IV, 44.

Fauntleroy, D., purser of United States frigate
Savannah in 1846, II, 571, 572.

Faura, Father José, missionary at San Luis
Rey, I, 489.

Favorita, La, Spanish vessel, voyage of, in
1779, 1, 417, at San Francisco, 418.

Fawcett, Eugene, member of constitutional
convention of 1878-9 and at same time dis-
trict judge, Alfred A. Cohen's argument on,
IV, 635, 636.

Fay, Caleb T., candidate for governor in 1867,
IV, 403, 404.

Fayssoux, Callender J., naval officer with
William Walker in Nicaragua, III, 799, 802,
803.

Fazio, American ship, seized and r leased with
apology in 1843, II, 321.

Feasts, festivals, dances and amusem

of

old Californians (for particulars see Contents,
II, xxviii), 499-512.

Feather river, called Sacramento by Gabriel
Moraga, II, 796; forks of, III, 81; outrages
against Indians on Middle Fork of, in 1850,
892, 893.

Feeble-minded children, act of 1885 establish-
ing home for, IV, 691.

Fees, official, act of 1850 concerning, II, 802.
Felch, Alpheus, member of land commission
in 1853, III, 695.

Felis, Fernando, resident north of San Fran-
cisco bay in 1846, II, 428.

Felix, Leonardo, trouble with wife in 1834, and
how settled, II 494, 495.

Feliz, Reves, one of Joaquin Murieta's banditti,
III, 714, 715; hanged at Los Angeles, 717.
Felton, Charles N., elected to congress in 1886,
IV, 705.

Felton, John B., ability in defeating John K.
Moore's vexatious suits for land in San Fran-
cisco, III, 703, 704; trustee of Oakland Water
Front Company, IV, 489.

Fences, legislation of 1850 concerning, II, 802;
Governor Haight against system of "lawful
fences," IV, 443, 444.

Ferdinand VI. of Spain, I, 246.

Ferguson, R. D., assemblyman in 1862, assault

on Speaker George Barstow, and censure
therefor, IV, 302.

Ferguson, William I., state senator in 1856, act
for state capitol at Sacramento, IV, 189; reso-
lution in 1858 against admission of Kansas
with Lecompton constitution, 243, 244; duel
with George Pen Johnston, and death, 246-
248; respect for his memory, 248, 249.
Fernandez, Father José Maria, remonstrance
against missionary cruelty to Indians at San
Francisco, and result, 1, 561-567.

Fernandez, José, captain of militia in July, 1846,
II, 578.

Fernandez, José, of Santa Barbara, sentence
for incest, I, 601.

Fernandez, José Perez, ensign at San Fran-
cisco, 1, 548.

Fernando VII., king of Spain in 1808, and alle-
giance to him, I, 628; connection with Itur-
Bide's "Plan of Iguala," II, 43.

Ferral, Robert J., judge of criminal court of San
Francisco in 1877, case of Dennis Kearney
and other sand-lotters before, IV, 606, 608, 609.
Ferrelo, Bartolomé, voyage of, I, 75-78.
Ferrer, Fermin, minister of public credit in
Nicaragua in William Walker's time, III,
779; part in confiscation of Accessory Transit
Company's property in 1856, 786; minister of
relations, 794..

Ferries, legislation of 1850 concerning, II, 802.
Fidalgo, lieutenant, voyage in 1790, 1, 690.
Fiddletown, mining locality, 1, 11.
Field, David Dudley, connection with civil
code, IV, 508.

Field, Stephen J., alcalde of Marysville, II,
780, 783; assemblyman in 1851, IV, 72; at-
tempted impeachment of Judge William R.
Turner, 78; counsel for Joseph C. Palmer before

senate of 1854, 147; United States circuit judge
for California in piracy case, 345, 346: reviser of
codes in 1873, 527; justice of United States
supreme court, and candidate in 1884 for
president of United States, 656.

Figueroa, Francisco, member of departmental
assembly in 1843, II, 328; recalls assembly to
proper business in 1844. 338, 339; votes with
Pio Pico in 1845, 370; on committee for final
disposition of missions in 1815, 380; on war
with United States, 401, 402; joins in abuse of
José Castro in 1846, 412.

Figueroa, José, sixth Mexican governor (gob-
ernador propietario) of Alta California, views
in reference to non-juring missionaries, I,
506; comandante-general of Sonora and Sina-
loa, and services against Yaqui Indians, II,
78; sketch of earlier life, 160; appointed gov-
ernor in 1832 of Bustamante, 161; journey to
California, and incidents, 162-167.

Administration of (for particulars, see Con-
tents, II, xii-xiv), 167-213; failing health, last
sickness, and death, 213; honors to his mem-
ory, 213, 214; burial at Santa Barbara, 214;
widow and children in Mexico, 214; letter to
Nicolas Gutierrez, 215; order in reference to
quarrel between husband and wife, 494, 495.
Figueroa, Isidro de, 1, 189.

Figs at missions in 1834, II, 207.
Filibusters, Californian, Raousset Boulbon (for
particulars, see Contents, III, xxxiii, xxxiv),
727-755; William Walker (for particulars, see
Contents, III, xxxiv, xxxv), 756-806; Henry
A. Crabb (for particulars, see Contents, III,
xxxvi), 806-814.

Fillmore, Millard, president of United States
in July, 1850, II, 823; approves bill admitting
California into Union, 823; candidate for
United States president in 1856, III, 640; ap-
points land commission in 1852, 695; vote for,
in California in 1856, IV, 193.
Finch, arrival of, in 1839, II, 281.
Findley's trading post on Bear river, III, 84.
Fine arts in California, bill to encourage, in
legislature of 1871-2, IV, 692; James Lick's
gifts for, 581, 582; cultivation of, 716.
Fink, Nicholas, arrival in 1832, II, 279; murder
in 1841, 309.

Finney, Charles G., in constitutional conven-
tion of 1878-9, IV, 636-638.

Finney, Seldon J., assemblyman in 1870, in
favor of woman's suffrage, IV, 436; state
senator in 1873, A. D. Bell's charges against,
and result, 529, 530.

Fire department of early San Francisco, III,
360-365; act of 1866 for paid fire department,
IV, 402.

Fires, at Monterey in 1789, I, 537; forest, II, 557,
558; at Nevada City in 1851, III, 85; at Sonora
in 1851, III, 126, 127; incendiary, at San Fran-
cisco, 311, 317; the six "Great Fires" of San
Francisco, 350-359; squatting on ashes of, at
San Francisco and Sonora, 652.
Firs, II, 654.

First California Guard, and its part in San
Francisco vigilance committee of 1856, III,
487, 505, 506.

Fish, 1, 566; Governor Haight recommends
stocking lakes, rivers and streams with, IV,
426, 444; Pacheco on success of culture of, 539;
Stoneman in 1885 recommends state hatch-
eries, 687.

Fishbourne, Jasper, part in Order of Native
Sons of Golden West, IV, 536.

Fisher's Hill, battle of, in Civil war, IV, 379.
Fish of Lower California, I, 265.

Fish, Russell A., part in San Francisco vigi-
lance committee of 1856, III, 624.

INDEX.

Fitch, George K., appointed state printer by
Governor McDougal in 1851, and appoint-
ment declared void by supreme court, IV,
160; contractor with Vincent E. Geiger of
state printing in 1852, and assignment to
George Kerr & Co., 162,

Fitch, Henry D., land grant to, in 1830, II, 126;
arrival in 1827, 278; elopement and marriage
with Josefa Carrillo, 492, 493.

Fitch, Thomas, assemblyman in 1863, attempt
to exclude E. J. C. Kewen, and how frus-
trated, IV, 334.

Fitzgerald, O. P., elected state superintendent
of public instruction in 1867, IV, 404.
"Five per cent subsidy act" for benefit of rail-
roads of 1870, IV, 439, 440; Governor Haight's
part in, 445; Booth's recommendation and
repeal of, 501, 533.

Flags, royal colors of Spain at Monterey, I,
636; Governor Sola's chart of, in 1816 and
1877, 644, 646; of Buenos Ayres insurgents in
1818, 649, 651; imperial Mexican, 664-667;
Mexican tricolor, 667; change of, at Astoria,
725, 726; of rebel Joaquin Solis, II, 112;
Russian, 286-288; American, raised by Com-
modore Jones and lowered in 1843, 317-322;
American, raised by Fremont in 1846, 395,
419; Bear, in 1846, 432.

Raising of American, by Commodore Sloat
at Monterey on July 7, 1846, II, 463-468; re-
hoisted by Theodore Talbot at Santa Bar-
bara, 603; raised by General Kearny in New
Mexico, 609; in Lower California in 1847, 643,
644; in City of Mexico, 653; French consul
Dillon's hauled down in 1854, III, 746; Wil-
liam Walker's Sonora, 761, 762, 764; United
States, at San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua, 802;
Walker's Nicaragua red star, 804; legisla-
ture of 1863 against display of rebel, IV, 332.
Flap-jacks or slap-jacks, III, 240.

Flax, seed sent to Alta California in 1769, 1, 309;
Governor Borica's encouragement of culture,
597; at missions in 1834. II, 207; adaptation of
country for cultivation, 473, 474-

Fleas, II, 485, 486.

Fletcher, Edward P., Klamath county judge,
leave of absence to, vetoed by Governor Big-
ler in 1854, IV, 171.

Fletcher, Francis, chaplain on Drake's voyage,
I, 128.

Fling, Guy F., arrival in 1827, II, 278.

Flint, Wilson, his pioneer band of fine sheep,

III, 881; state senator in 1855, report in favor
of Chinese, IV, 167; resolution in 1855 for
overland mail service, 169, 170.
Flogging, of Indians in Lower California, and
result, I, 207, 233-237; in Alta California, La
Pérouse's account, 469, 470; Governor Fages'
orders as to, for horse-thieves, 533; common
practice for both women and men, to some ex-
tent stopped by Borica, 563-569; renewed after
Borica's time, 612; of women at San José
mission in 1808, Arrillaga's objections not to
practice but to publicity, 612; Father Quin-
tana's scourge of iron, 613; Echeandia in
1826 limits number of lashes by missionaries
to fifteen, II, 92; reported fatal cases of, 177;
stopped under Figueroa's orders in 1833, and
Father Gutierrez' complaints, 177, 178; of
Indian boys at Mission Dolores in 1835, 210,
211; at San José mission in 1839, 299; Rafael
Telles tries efficacy of, on Micheltorena's
Scoundrel soldiers, and results, 335, 336;
under Father Antonio Peyri, 518, 519.

How and why Alcalde Field ordered, in
certain cases, II, 782; at Hangtown in 1848,
III, 68, 69; ordered by grim alcalde, 226; on
plains, 242; by lynch-law sentence, 273, 277,

279, 280, 290, 365; adopted to prevent hanging,
305; at Junction Bar, 710, 711, of Joaquin
Murieta, 713; of Indian servants in old Spanish
families, 885, 886; for petty larceny by statute
in 1851, IV, 70, 71.

Flood, James C., "bonanza king" so called, IV,

549-551.

Flood, O'Brien, Mackay & Fair, firm of.
known as "Flood & O'Brien," IV, 549-551;
relations with Bank of California, 555; estab-
lishment of Nevada Bank in San Francisco,
556.

Floods, II, 543, 544; great, in winter of 1861-2,
IV, 294, 295.

Flores, José Maria, in Monterey junta to pro-
nounce against Americans in April, 1846, II,
397; comandante of Los Angeles in 1846,
charges against United States for Bear Flag
movements, 574; captured and released on
parole, 585; heads revolt at Los Angeles, and
counsels Americans to withdraw, 599-600;
commmander of insurrectionary forces,613;
calls himself comandante-general and gover-
nor of California, sends message to Commo-
dore Stockton, and Stockton's reply, 619, 620;
escape into Mexico, 623.

Flores, Manuel de, viceroy of New Spain in
1788, 1, 681, 682.

Florida, Confederate privateer, depredations
in Civil war, and capture of, IV, 361.
Florida, treaty of, I, 726, 727.

Flower, Samuel, assemblyman in 1853, opposi-
tion to water-front extension scheme, III,
417.

Flower seeds sent to Alta California in 1769, I,

309; adaptation of country to, and wild flow-
ers, II, 475, 559.

Floyd, John B., secretary of war in 1861, IV,
285, 305; part as Confederate in Civil war,
307, 311.

Floyd, Richard S., one of James Lick's trust-
ees, IV, 581, 582.

Flügge, Charles W., arrival in 1841, II, 331;
John A. Sutter's letter to, in 1845, 352; com-
missioner for insurrectionary forces at Los
Angeles in January, 1847, 619, 620.

Flumes in mining operations, III, 56; in Feather
river near Oroville, 101; in San Francisco for
water supply from Lobos creek. 425.

Flying Cloud, clipper ship, and its fast run, III,
406.

Flynn, Henry, United States captain, defeats
Indians at Big Bend on Eel river in 1863, III,

932.

Folsom, Joseph L., captain of United States
quartermaster's department, account of gold
mines in 1848, II, 691; presides over anti-
slavery meeting in 1819, 707, 708; story of
man who would not make a "nigger" of him-
self, III, 172; part in San Francisco vigilance
committee of 1851, 315; first filling of water
lot in San Francisco, 337; imported houses
in 1849, 345; part in indignation meeting
against San Francisco common council in
1850, 368; refusal to aid Page, Bacon & Co.
in 1855, 446; troubles with squatters, 684.
Folsom, town, in favor of San Francisco vigi-
lance committee of 1856, III, 495; why Sacra-
mento valley railroad stopped at, in 1856, IV,
453; extension of railroad irom, 475; branch
state prison at, 674.

Folsom, Ira B., settler in Yosemite Valley, act
for indemnification of, IV, 510.

Font, Father Pedro, accompanies Anza on
second overland expedition from Sonora, and
map of route, I, 394.

Fonte, Pedro Bartolomé de, I, 130, 131.
Food of old Californians, II, 486, 487.

Foote, Commander A. H., part in Civil war,
IV, 310, 311.
Foote, Henry S., United States senator from
Mississippi in 1850, opposition to admission
of California into Union, II, 705, 814, 821; at-
tempt to reconcile Governor Johnson and
San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856,
III, 535-539; project of revising state consti-
tution in 1856, 558; candidate for United
States senator in 1856, IV, 185.

Foote, William W., railroad commissioner in
1883, IV, 679, 680.

Forbes, Alexander, his "History of Califor-
nia," II, 293,477, 478, 519.

Forbes, James A., arrival in 1829, II, 278; Brit-
ish vice-consul at San Francisco in 1846, and
administrator of Hudson's Bay Company
affairs, 402, 403; correspondence with Gov-
ernor Pico about Fremont, 403, 404; efforts
for British intervention, 459; efforts on behalf
of Lieutenant Bartlett when captured in
18,6, 605.

Forbestown, and its quartz lodes, III, 16.
Forcible entry and detainer law of 1850, II, 809.
Ford, William, clerk of Tuolumne county in
1850, assists in foiling lynchers at Sonora, III,
282, 283.

Ford, William, rescues William Todd from
Californians in 1846, 1, 443; military talent,
443; opinion of Ide, 444; expedition against
guerrillas, 444, 445.

Ford's Bar, mining camp, III, 76, 78, 79; Al-
calde Graham of, 274-276.
Foreigners, in Spanish and Mexican times,
Russians, I, 493-499; treatment of Vancou-
ver, 619; feelings against Americans, 619;
toleration of Russians, 623-628, 641, 642; ves-
sels of, at Monterey in 1816 and 1817, 643-
647; residents, John Gilroy and others, II,
70; jealousy of Russians and Americans, 70;
Mexican legislation against, 71; William
E. P. Hartnell, William A. Richardson and
John Rogers Cooper, 72, 73.

Mercantile houses and business of, II, 73,
74; marriages with, 74; heretical ideas, books
and papers of, 74, 75; further legislation
against, 97; naturalization and colonization
laws, 100, 105; action in 1830, 126; in 1832,
153; trade with, 154-156; Chapman, builder
of schooner Guadalupe, and others, 156-159;
employment to hunt otters, 171; complaints
against, by missionaries, 171-176; fulmina-
tions of Governor Chico against, in 1836,
220, 221; numbers in 1840, 275-288; move-
ments against, in 1843, 329, 339; overland
immigration from 1841 to 1844, 330-333; Gov-
ernor Micheltorena on, 342.

Outrages against, by San Francisco
"Hounds" in 1849, II, 724-727; how foreign
miners treated in 1819, 736, 737; efect of
foreign miners' license tax, III, 128, 129, 131;
characteristices of old foreign residents, 173-
181; prejudices against, in mines, 262-264.

Anti-foreigner movements by Americans
(for particulars, see Contents, III, xxxiii),
705-711.

Anti-Chinese prejudices and movements
(for particulars, see Contents, IV, xix), 98-

113.
Foreign miners' license tax. II, 128, 262-261;
provisions of statute of 1850, 706-709; new
statute, 709, IV, 187, 188.

Forest City, III, 100.

Forest Hill, mining camp, III, 80.

Forestry, Minister Romero of Mexico, and reg-
ulations in 1815, II, 364; act of 1885 creating
state board of, IV, 691.

Forests, II, 551-558; redwood, in Humboldt

county, III, 820-823; legislature of 1875-6 on
timber-land act of congress, IV, 574.
Forestville, mining town, III, 91.

Forman, Ferris, against San Francisco vigi-
lance committee of 1856, III, 578, 579; secre-
tary of state in 1858, assists Governor Weller
in taking possession of state prison, IV, 251;
judgment against, which state had to pay,
251, 252; pay for anti-vigilance-committee
services, 269.

Forni, José, legal execution of, at San Fran-
cisco in 1852, III, 462.

Forrest, General Nathan B., part as Confeder-
ate in Civil war, IV, 362.

Forrest, J. B., captain of United States cor-
vette St. Louis, correspondence with Gov-
ernor Alvarado in 1840, II, 269-273, 310.
Forsyth, John, United States minister to Mex-
ico in 1857, III, 812-814.

Fort, Bald Mountain, Indian, III, 931; de-
stroyed in 1863, 933, 934-
Fort Bragg in 1864, III, 935.

Fort Donelson-see Donelson, Fort.
Fort Gaston, III, 924, 933, 934.

Fort George, name given by British to Astoria,
I, 725, 726.

Fort Gunny-bags, III, 548, 549, 628.
Fort Humboldt, III, 913.

Fortifications at San Francisco, III, 431.

Fort Larkin, squatter stronghold in San Fran-
cisco in 1854, III, 684, 685.

Fort Miller, III, 857.

Fort Point in San Francisco selected and forti-
fied by Governor Arrillaga in 1793, 1, 550-552;
"el castillo" at, 583; raising of American
flag at, II, 467; American fortification of,
III, 431.

Fort Ross-see Ross, Fort.

Fort Yuma-see Yuma, Fort.
Fortuni, Father Buenaventura, in favor of re-
publican constitution of 1827, II, 87.
"Forty-niners," III, 162, 163.

"Forty thieves" of Nevada City, III, 280.
Foss, Clark, driving over Hog's Back on road
to Geysers, III, 864.

Foster, Captain, killed at battle of Salinas
river in 1846, II, 602.

Foster, "Cut-eye," III, 92.

Foster, Juan, arrival in 1832, II, 279.
Foster's Bar, mining camp, III, 82, 91, 92.
Fountain-heads of gold, question of, III, 149.
Fourgeaud, Victor J., "Prospects of Califor-
nia," II, 688.

Fowler, George, murder and mutilation of, in
1846, II, 442.

Foxen, William D., arrival in 1825, II, 277:
sketch of, III, 177, 178; his "golden age," 178.
Foxes, II, 561.

Foxon, Benjamin, tried for murder in 1848, II,
664.

France, war between Spain and, in 1793, I, 570-
574; claims and possessions of, in America,
609; king of, prevented from aiding Spain in
1790, 686, 687; war with Mexico in 1839, 260,
261; Micheltorena's trouble with, II, 336, 337;
attitude towards United States in Civil war,
IV, 306, 322; armed intervention in Mexico,
and Maximilian's empire, 414-418.
Francisca, city of, afterwards Benicia, II, 597.
Franciscans, Order in America, I, 296; part
taken in expulsion of Jesuits, 296; how led by
Junipero Serra to California, 297; division
with Dominicans, 352-365; settlement of
Alta California (ior particulars, see Contents,
I, xix-xxv), 314-508.

Francisco de Paula, Don, of Spain, connection
with imperial crown of Mexico, II, 43, 194.
Franklin, battle of, in Civil war, IV, 383.

Fraser, James, alcalde of Sonora, III, 224, 225.
Fraser, George, associate of Isaac Graham, II,
273.

Fraser river, mining excitement and rush, III,
153-155

Frauds, statute of, passed in 1850, II, 800.
Fraudulent land claims, II, 754-

Freaner, James, fight with David C. Broderick,
IV, 143-

Freaner, John A., deputy sheriff in San Fran-
cisco in 1853, III, 683.

Fredericksburg, battle of, in Civil war, IV, 317.
Free Baths in San Francisco, giit of James
Lick, IV, 581.

Freeholders' charter, under constitution of
1879, IV, 629, 630; repeated failures in San
Francisco to adopt, 652.

Freelon, Thomas W., judge of county courts of
San Francisco in 1856, III, 521, 636; IV, 246.
Freeman, Abraham C.. on second commission
to revise codes, IV, 647.

Freeman, F. S., assemblyman in 1873, report
on public extravagance, IV, 532.
Freeman & Co.'s Express, III, 444-
Freeport, on Sacramento river, railroad proj-
ects for, IV, 481.

Free Public Libraries, IV, 589.

Freights and Fares. in legislature of 1854, IV,
171; Governor Haight on, 445; Booth on,
591; legislature of 1873-4 on, 533; Pacheco on,
538; Lieutenant-governor Johnson on, 574;
effect of "Granger cases on, 585; act of
1878 on, 590; railroad commission under
constitution of 1879, 628; Irwin on, in 1880,
646, 647.

Fremont, Jessie Benton, marriage, II, 415;
character and position, 626.

Fremont, John C., in California in 1845, II, 394;
in 1846, and ordered off, 395, 403, 404; mar-
riage and expeditions of 1842, 1843-4 and
1845, 415-418; movements in 1846, 418-422;
connection with William B. Ide, 422-425.

Part in Bear Flag revolution (for particu-
lars, see Contents, II, xxiv, xxv), 435-452; at
Monterey in July, 1846, 571, 572; mustered
with "Battalion of California Volunteers"
into United States service, and sent to San
Pedro, 579, 580; at San Diego, 583; at Los
Angeles, 585; intention of Commodore Stock-
ton to make him governor, 587; march north-
ward, 588.

Part in recovery of California after revolt at
Los Angeles (for particulars, see Contents,
II, xxx-xxxii), 598-628; position at end of
hostilities, arrest, court-martial and sentence,
637-641; elected United States senator in
1849, 786; efforts for admission of state into
Union, 814, 818-820.

Connection with Mariposa grant, III, 133-
135; proposed land commission act, 692, 693;
draws short term as United States senator,
IV, 96; candidate for United States president
in 1856, 193; part in Civil war, 309, 316, 322;
Thomas H. Benton's remarks about, in con-
nection with overland roads, 448.
French Camp or Gulnac grant, II. 734.
French Corral, mining camp, III, 82, 90, 91.
French Hill, mining locality, III, 115.
French, Jenny, III, 509.

French, Parker H., in Nicaragua, III, 777, 779,
788-791.

French, quarrel between Americans and, at
Mokelumne Hill, III, 115; part in San Fran-
cisco vigilance committee of 1856, 493; fili-
busters (for particulars, see Contents, III,
xxxiii, xxxiv), 727-755;,

French Ravine nugget, III, 143.
Fresno City, IV, 671.

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Fruits, production of, III, 873-876; act of 1885
to prevent pests and diseases, IV, 691; Gov-
ernor Stoneman on, 708.

Frye, Jacob, state senator in 1852, IV, 107.
Fuca, Juan de, I, 129, 130, 133; discovery of
straits of, 678.

Fueros, Pedro, in campaign against Yuma In-
dians in 1782, I. 432.

Fuen-Clara, Conde de, viceroy of New Spain
in 1746, I, 246.

Fuentes, José Maria, grantee of fraudulent
Mexican land claim, II, 700.

Fugitive slave law of 1852, ÍV, 97, 98; repeal of,
in 1868, 423.

Fuller, A. J., trial for killing Tyndal Newby,
III, 285.

Fuller, John C., arrival in 1827, II, 268.
Funding of San Francisco debt in 1851, III,
396-398.

Funding of state debt in 1857, and previous
acts, III, 659-661; act of 1860, 661.
Funeral, of child at Santa Barbara in 1835, II,
504; discovery of gold at, III, 195.

Fur trade, Northwest Coast, Russian, I, 626;
English and French, 668-670; Cook's voy-
ages, and effect on, 670-674; La Pérouse's
voyage, 674-677; Portlock and Dixon, 677;
Meares, Colnett and Berkeley, 678-681;
Nootka imbroglio, 681-695.

Americans on northwest coast, I, 695-710;
Hudson's Bay Company, 712; Northwest
Company of Montreal, 719; Alexander Mack-
enzie and his scheme, 718, 719; Missouri Fur
Company, 720; John Jacob Astor, and projects,
720, 721; story of Astoria, 721-726.

Governor Argüello's trade, II, 738; Jede-
diah S. Smith's expedition, to California,
101-103; Victoria's report on, 133, 134; Figue-
roa on, 162, 171; collections by Russians,
285, 286; in 1841 and 1842, 478, 479; days of, in
California, over, 564.

Fuster, Father Vicente, I, 364; at San Diego in
1775, 370, 371; excommunication of Coman-
dante Rivera y Moncada, 374; at San Juan
Capistrano, 438, 440.

GABILAN MOUNTAINS, John C. Fremont on,
in 1846, II, 417-419; how formed, 536.
Gabilondo, Hilario, commander of Mexican
forces at Cavorca when Henry A. Crabb
surrendered, and his promises, III, 811.
Gadsden, James, United States minister to
Mexico in 1853 and purchase, III, 742.
"Gag-law of 1877-8, IV, 609.

Galbraith claim, to land in Marin county, pro-
nounced fraudulent, III, 700,

Gale, William A., arrival and establishment of
mercantile house in 1824, II, 73; supercargo of
ship California, 170.

Galiano, Dionisio Alcalá, voyage of, 1, 692,
693; account of missionaries, II, 516, 517.
Gálico, el mal-see Mal Gálico.

Gali, Francisco. I, 127.

Galindo, José Antonio, grant to, of "Laguna
de la Merced," II, 204, 205.

Gallagher, Charles, friend of James P. Casey,
III, 516; a black list of San Francisco vigi-

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