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Independence, California declaration of, in
1836, II, 231, 232.

Independence, one of first regular steamers
for Nicaragua, III, 783.
Independence Flat, I, 111, 116.

Independence, United States razee at Monte-
rey in 1847, II, 629.

Independent delegates in constitutional con-
vention of 1878-9, IV, 614.

Indiana Girl," and Indiana House, at Rich
Bar, lil, 106.

Indian Bar, in Northern Mines, II, 103; anti-
foreigner disturbances at, in 1852, 710.
Indian Bar in Southern Mines, II, 130.
Indian Cañon in Yosemite Valley, and "Lost
Arrow," III, 853-

Indian Diggings, III, 110.

Indian reservation system, II, 858, 886, 922,

993.

Indians of Alta California, at Point Reyes, I,
89-94; Santa Catalina Island, 139-141; San
Diego in 1769, 318-321; Monterey, 330, 334,
335; San Gabriel, 344, 345; murder of Father
Luis Jayme by, and destruction of San Diego,
370; San Juan Capistrano, 376, 379; San
Francisco in 1776, 406; Santa Clara valley,
409; destruction of Colorado missions, 426-
433; neophytes at missions in 1783 and 1796,
453, 454; at Santa Barbara, 456; Parísima,
458, 465; La Pérouse on, 467-470; Vancouver
on, 471-473; Petalumas in 1823, 496.

Effect of secularization of missions on, I,
508; Governor Fages' action towards, 532,
538; Borica's treatment, 562-569, 570, 596;
population in 1810, 611, cruelties towards,
attacks upon missions, murder of Father
Quintana, 612, 613; population of 1816, 618;
musicians in 1815, 634, 635, 639, 640; expedi-
tions against "cimarrones" or fugitive apos-
tates, 641; Governor Sola's call for, to serve
against Buenos Ayres insurgents, 643; work-
men, 654; "el mal Galico” among, 661.

Characteristics in general (for particulars,
see Contents, I, xxxiv), 728-745.

Religious notions and superstitions (for
particulars, see Contents, I, xxxiv, xxxv),
746-769.

Domestic relations and modes of life (for
particulars, see Contents, I, xxxv, xxxvi),
770-799.

Outbreak of 1824, destruction of Santa Inéz
and Purísima missions, II, 58-64; difficulty in
giving back their Christianity, 64; execu-
tion of Pomponio for murder, 80; Governor
Echeandia's plans for secularization of mis-
sions, 91-6; outbreaks at San José, 116-118;
Echeandia's action towards, 148-152; dis-
turbances at San Diego in 1833, 169; Figue-
roa's orders in reference to, 174-179.

Secularization of missions and effects, II,
181-221; treatment of horse thieves, 275, 276,
283; William E. P. Hartnell, visitador-
general of missions in 1839, report of number
at San Fernando, 296-298; Santa Barbara,
Santa Inéz and San José, 298, 299; San Rafael
in 1840, 302; San Francisco, Santa Clara and
San José, 303; San Luis Rey, Pala and Te-
mécula, 393; condition in 1843, 323; John A.
Sutter's plan to arm, against Alvarado and
Castro, 348; bad state in 1813, 379-383; Sal-
vador Vallejo's expedition to and massacre
at Clear Lake, 387, 388; horse-stealing forays,
388, 389; attack on Gulnac rancho, 389, 390.
Gente de razon, as distinguished from,
II, 470; tyranny exercised against, 514-520;
rumors of Walla Walla attack upon Sutter's
Fort in 1846, 588; Apache proposition to Gen-
eral Kearny, 612, 613; Governor Mason ap-

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points agent for, 675; statute excluding tes-
timony of, 807; outrages upon, at Murderers'
Bar, and result, III, 77; attack by, at Grass
Valley in 1849, 86; James D. Savage's rela-
tions with, 129, 130; Henry Meredith killed
by, 158; squaws as wives of white men, 188-
190; experiences of Humboldt bay discov-
erers with, 819, 820, 827, 828.

Yosemities, and their fate (for particulars,
see Contents, lil, xxxvi1), 836-865,

Treatment of, in general (for particulars,
see Contents, II, xxxviii, xxxix), 884-936.
Modoc war (for particulars, see Contents,
III, xl, xli), 937-981.

Governor Burnett on, IV, 58, 59; McDougal,
86; decision of supreme court that Chinese
are, 112, 113; Bigler on war debt, 166; John-
son on, war claims, 186; Johnson against
law excluding testimony of, 231, 232; Latham
condemns Weller's Indian war policy, 262;
Dowifey on same subject, 263-265; Stanford
on, 330; efforts to repeal statute excluding
testimony, 341, 401, 402; Low on subject, 404,
405; allowed to testify under codes of 1873,
508.

Indians of Lower California, at Cape San
Lucas, I, 109-111, 118-121; Coras and Guay-
curos, 156, 157; at Loreto, 159-161, 169-175;
Vigge Biaundo, 188-196; Jesuit sway over,
206-218; rebellion, reduction, and pacification,
228-245.

Races, branches, population, habits, prop-
erty, domestic relations, ideas, and language
(for particulars, see Contents, I, xvi), 267-279;
what Jesuits accomplished, 288; as seen by
Junipero Serra on his way from Loreto to
San Diego in 1769, 316.
Indian Valley, II, 102, 146.

Indigent sick, legislation concerning, IV, 162–
165.

Informations, provisions of constitution of 1879
for, IV, 631.

"

Informes" in land grants, II, 751.

Inge, Samuel W., United States district attor-
ney in 1855, III, 474.

Ingots, gold, issue in 1850 and 1851, III, 404.
Ingram, R. Henry, connection with murder of
J. M. Staples in 1864, IV, 389, 390.

Iniestra, Ignacio, comandante of department of
California in 1845, II, 374, 392.

Iniestra, Joseph, discovery of Washington
Islands, 1, 700.

Inquisition, establishment of, advocated by
Fathers Sarria, Duran and others, I, 506.
Insane Asylum, at Stockton, lil, 413, 414; pro-
posed at Vallejo, IV, 73, 77; Dr. Robert K.
Reid's report in 1854 of patients at Stockton,
163-165; Governor Downey on, 282; Low on,
373, 396; Haight, 444; Irwin on new Napa
asylum, 585; Perkins, 648, 659, 665; Stoneman,
688, 707:
Insects, II, 567.

Insolvencies of San Francisco in 1854, III, 433,
434; in 1855, 442.

Insolvent laws, II, 805; act of 1880, IV, 652.
Inspiration Point, Yosemite, III, 847.

Insurance companies, foreign, Governor Pa-
checo on, IV, 538.

Insurance, proposition in constitutional con-
vention of 1878-9, IV, 625.

Insurgentes, Buenos Ayres-see Buenos Ayres
Insurgents.

Insurgents, Chili, at Todos Santos, Lower
California, 1, 664.

Interest, rate fixed by Governor Mason, II, 625;
statutory, in 1850, 800; in San Francisco in
1849 and 1850, III, 344; San Francisco in 1854,
424; paid by Henry Meiggs in 1854, 437;

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Iron, II, 550, ÍV, 266.

Iron houses in San Francisco fire of 1851, III,
355, 356.

Irrigation, at San José in 1777, I, 413; at Los
Angeles in 1781, 433, 525; new plans at San
José, 587; canals and ditches in general, III,
872; Governor Pacheco on, IV, 538; Irwin,
568; West Side district, 574, 585; office of state
engineer, 589, 590; Perkins on, 649; Stoneman,
675; questions of riparian rights, 692-695,
698; Republican platform of 1886 on, 700; Irri-
gation party and Grangers on, 703; extra ses-
sion of 1886, 707; "Wright act" of 1887, 712,
713.

Irrigation by Jesuits in Lower California, I,
281, 282.

Irrigation party of 1886, IV, 703.

Irwin, William, thirteenth state governor, state
senator in 1873, IV, 524; elected governor in
1875, 566; sketch of earlier life, 566, 567; in-
augural address, 567-570.

Administration (ior particulars, see Con-
tents, IV, xxxvi-xxxviii), 567-647; temporary
president of constitutional convention of
1878-9, 615, 616; death in 1886, 718.

Island, California supposed to be an, I, 37, 51-

53, 183.

Island No. Ten, taking of, in Civil war, IV, 312.
Islands of California, II, 540.
Isothermal curves, II, 541.

Isthmus of Darien, early travel by, III, 246, 247.
Iturbide, Agustin de, empire of, I, 503; in Cali-
fornia, 663-666; his Plan of Iguala and ob-
jects, II, 43-45, 48; execution of, 48, 49; land
claim of heirs, and why rejected, 754, 755.
Iturbide, Salvador, II, 754, 755.
Iturbi, Juan, I, 150, 151.

Iturrigaray, José de, viceroy of New Spain, I,
491.

Juka, battle of, in Civil war, IV, 319.
Iwakura, envoy and leader of Japanese em-
bassy, IV, 506, 507.

JACKASS GULCH, III, 118; mining laws of,
257, 258.

Jackson, mining town, III, 111, 112; organiza-
tion of Native Daughters of the Golden West
at, IV, 537.

Jackson, Claiborne F., governor of Missouri,
part as Confederate in Civil war, IV, 309.
Jackson, General Thomas J.-see Stonewall
Jackson.

Jackson, James, United States captain in Mo-
doc war, lil, 944, 945, 978.

Jackson, President Andrew, refuses to annex

Texas, II, 451; William Walker's attempt to
imitate, III, 766, 767.
Jacksonville, III, 124, 130.

James, George F., life in mines, III, 131, 132;
counsel for Charles Cora on trial for murder
of William H. Richardson, 474, 511; under

investigation by San Francisco vigilance
committee of 1856, 520, 559, 618; counsel for
Charles A. Stovall in Archy fugitive, slave
case, IV, 246.
James, John M., assemblyman in 1867, anti-
reconstruction resolutions, IV, 421.

James K. Whiting, schooner, off Humboldt
bay and Eel river in 1850, KI, 833, 835.
James, Philip (Felipe Santiago), arrival in
1814, II, 70.

Jamestown, mining town, III, 124, 131, 132; min-
ing laws, 258, 259; trouble about digging up
streets, 268.

Janin, Henry, mining expert, examination and
report on field "salted" by diamond swin-
dlers, IV, 546, 547-

Janori, Patricio, lynched at Shaw's Flat in
1851, III, 286, 287.

Jansens, Agustin, arrival in 1825, II, 283; major-
domo of San Juan Capistrano mission in 1840,
393.

Janson, Charles J., murderous assault on, by
James Stuart, III, 312, 313; mistaken identifi-

cation of Thomas Burdue for Stuart, 313, 314.
Japan, commerce with, III, 431, 432; steam com-
munication with, IV, 406.

Japanese Embassy, reception of by legislature
of 1871-2, IV, 506, 507.

Japanese junks cast away on northwest coast, I,
729.

Jarabe, el, Spanish dance, II, 506.

Jarboe, W. S., captain of “Eel River Rangers,"
and so-called "Jarboe war," IV, 264, 265.
Jayme, Father Antonio, in favor of republican
constitution in 1827, II, 87.

Jayme, Father Luis, murder of, by Indians at
San Diego, 1, 370; consecrated hands, 371;
regarded by Junipero as martyr, 372.

Jecker, Torres & Co., banking house in Mexico,
connection with Raousset-Boulbon, II, 732.
Jefferis, Edward D., candidate for state printer
in 1867, IV, 403, 404.

Jefferson, President Thomas, connection with

Lewis and Clarke exploration of way to Pa-
cific, I, 714, 717, 718; plain, unostentatious in-
auguration of, IV, 532.

Jeffries, G. W., plank in Democratic platform
of 1896, IV, 703.

Jelly fish, II, 567.

Jenkins, John, hanged by San Francisco vigi-
lance committee of 1851, III, 319-321; inquest
on body, and result, 321, 322.

Jenkins, justice of the peace at Sonora in 1853,
cases before him, III, 228, 229.
Jenny Lind, mining town, III, 117.
Jenny Lind theater in San Francisco in 1851,
III, 354; burned and rebuilt, 358; again burned
and rebuilt and subject of so-called "Jenny
Lind Theater Swindle," 408, 409; remodeled
for city hall, 409, 410; act of 1852 for purchase
of, IV, 97:

Jerez, Maximo, relations with William Walker
in Nicaragua, III, 779; subsequent opposi-
tion to Walker, 794, 797, 798.

Jernagin, John M., associate of William Walker
in Lower California, III, 763, 770.
Jersey Flat, mining camp, III, 93

Jessup, Richard M., part in San Francisco vig-
ilance committee of 1856, III, 505, 558, 565, 574,
576; protest against discharge of David S.
Terry, 606; report on expenses and finances,
625; part in restoring state arms, 633.
Jesuits, settlement of Lower California by (for
particulars, see Contents I xiii-xvii), 165-
256; results accomplished, 280, 288, 287; part
taken, in their supercession, by Franciscans,
296; Santa Anna's decree of 1843 in favor oi,
II, 326.

Jesus de los Temblores river, I, 342.

Jesus, Father Francisco Rouset de, bishop of
Sonora, 1, 488.

Jesus Maria river, as supposed in 1826, II, 99,
796.

Jewett, William S., portrait painter, Governor

Bigler's bargain with for portrait of John A.
Sutter and John E. Wool, IV, 172.

Jiggers, how remedy against, sent to jiggerless
country, 1, 542.

Jim Crow Cañon, III, 94.

Jim Crow, Kanaka pioneer miner, III, 92-94.
Jimeno, Father Antonio, at wedding of Manuel
Jimeno Casarin, II, 503; neatness at Santa
Barbara mission in 1830, 523.

Jimeno, Father José Joaquin, president of
southern missions, efforts for restoration in
1813, 1, 323; grant to, for college of Santa
Inéz in 1844, 340.

Jimeno, Manuel-see Casarin, Manuel Jimeno.
J. M. Chapman, schooner, proposed piratical
cruise of, IV, 342-347.

J. M. Ryerson, schooner, first to enter Eel
river from ocean, III, 833, 835.

"Jingo," remarkable day at Daby's Ferry on
Mad river, III, 928.

Joaquin Murieta and his banditti (for particu-
lars, see Contents, III, xxxiii), 712-726.
Jocote in Nicaragua, III, 802.

John Adams, United States sloop-of-war, III,
591, 605, 606.

John Bertram, clipper ship, importation of eggs
in 185, III, 882.

John L. Stephens, Pacific mail steamship, III,
616.

John Ritson, British bark, American passen-
gers on, III, 249, 250.

Johns, Thomas D., captain of First California

Guard, in service of San Francisco vigilance
committee of 1856, III, 505.

Johnson, Abraham R., killed at battle of San
Pasqual, II, 613-615.

Johnson, Andrew, president of United States,
IV, 180, 388, 395, 397-399.

Johnson, J. A., secretary of constitutional con-
vention of 1878-9, IV, 616.

Johnson, James, experience with Governor
Micheltorena's soldiers, II, 355.

Johnson, James, state senator in 1865, resolu-
tion that Confederate states were not out of
Union, and Joseph Kurtz' amendment that
they were "out in the cold," IV, 398.
Johnson, James A., elected congressman in
1867, ÍV, 404; lieutenant-governor in 1875,
566; inaugural remarks, 574.
Johnson, John Neely, fourth state governor,
United States census agent in 1851, ill, 43;
relations as governor with San Francisco
vigilance committee of 1856, 496-502, 508, 531-
535; vain attempt of citizens to reconcile him
with committee, 535-542; effort to bring
about a conflict between committee and
United States, 563, 566, 577, 579, 592, 593.

Withdrawal of anti-vigilance proclama-
tion, III, 633; message on subject in 1857,
643; on state indebtedness, 663; agent of
Governor McDougal in 1851 to settle Indian
difficulties, 840, 841, 842; elected governor in
1855, IV, 174.

Administration of (for particulars, see Con-
tents, IV, xxii, xxiii), 181-200; retirement
from office and last message, 230-232; subse-
quent career, and death, 232; on state prison
affairs in 1858, 251; Governor Latham on his
pardons, 258.

Johnson, mining locality, III, 140.

Johnson, Reverdy, counsel in New Almaden
quicksilver mine case, IV, 287.

Johnson, R. P., IV, 297.
Johnson's Cut-off, pass in Sierra Nevada
mountains, IV, 169, 481.

Johnson, Theodore T., account of John Green-
wood's family, III, 889-891; account of pio-
neer miners, IV, 51.

Johnson, William, arrival in 1840, II, 281; ranch
on Bear river, 679.

Johnson, William Neely, III, 500.
Johnston, Albert Sidney, United States general
in command in California in early part of
1861, IV, 284-286; superseded, return east,
joins Confederacy, and death at battle of
Shiloh, 286; part as Confederate in Civil war,
311.

Johnston, General Joseph E., part as Confed-
erate in Civil war, IV, 307, 316, 357, 360, 364,
381, 383, 386.

Johnston, George Pen, United States commis-
sioner, issues warrants in 1856 against Durkee
and Rand for alleged piracy, III, 641; dis-
charges alleged fugitive slave Archy, IV,
246; quarrel with William I. Ferguson in
1858, duel, and death of Ferguson, 246-248;
assemblyman in 1855, advocate of more strin-
gent laws against dueling, 248; trial, acquit-
tal and subsequent regrets, 248, 249; death,
249.

Jones, Dr. Alexander, associate with William
Walker in Nicaragua, III, 772.

Jones, Edward, connection with Adams &
Co.'s affairs, III, 449, 450, 451; opposition to
San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856,
537-539.

Jones, Edward D., member of San Francisco
vigilance committee of 1856, assaulted by
John Stephens, III, 618.

Jones, J. M., quarrel with Henry A. Tefft in
constitutional convention of 1849. II, 760;
other appearances, 768, 771; early resident
of Sonora, III, 126.

Jones, John Coffin, captain of American bark
Volunteer, bill of lading for Solis conspir-
ators, II, 113.

Jones, John P., state senator in 1865, resolu-
tions on reconstruction of rebel states, IV,
398, 399.

Jones, Thomas, Ap C., United States commo-
dore, seizure of Monterey in 1843, II, 317, 318;
how he relinquished it, 319; Governor Mich-
eltorena's demands, 321, 322; in command
in the Pacific in 1849, 676; connection with
"Baron" Steinberger, 720; visit to Governor
Micheltorena at Los Angeles, III, 179.
Jones, W. A., part in San Francisco vigilance
committee of 1851, III, 316.

Jones, William Carey, son-in-law of Thomas
H. Benton, counsel for Fremont at court
martial trial, II, 639; report on California
land titles, 743, 744.

Jones, William, candidate for state controller
in 1867, IV, 403, 404.

Jordan, Alejandro, colonization scheme in 1792,
I, 549.

Jordan, Louis, joins in abuse of José Castro in
1846, II, 412.

Jordan, William H., assemblyman and speaker
in 1887, IV, 706; remarks on university of
California, 713.
"José, el Cantor,'
1831, II, 137, 138.
José Maria, killed at San Diego in 1769, I, 320.
Josephine Mine, III, 133, 134.

Soledad mission Indian in

Journal of Commerce newspaper, IV, 709.
Joven Guipuzcoana, Mexican bark, II, 267
Joyas, "execrable y maldita gente," I, 773.
Juan de Fuca, I, 129, 130, 133.
Juan de Fuca Straits, I, 130.

Juan Fernandez Island, Woodes Rogers at, I,
103; Shelvocke at, 114, 115.
Juanita, Mexican woman, lynched at Downie-
ville in 1851, III, 307-309.

Juanito, precocious Indian boy of Lower Cal-
ifornia, I, 174, 175.

Juan José, Indian servant in Estudillo family,
III, 885.

Juan Rodriguez Island, I, 75, 76.

Juarez, Benito Pablo, president of Mexico, how
entitled, IV, 413, 414; "war of reform" in
1860, 414; elected president in 1861, suspen-
sion of payment of public obligations, armed
intervention of European powers, 414; Louis
Napoleon's schemes, and Emperor Maxi-
milian, 414, 415; Maximilian's collapse, and
execution, 415-418; at the head of Mexican
affairs and successfully so, 419.

Juarez, Cayetano and Marcos, residents north
of San Francisco bay in 1846, II, 428.
Juarez, José, leader of Chowchilla Indians in
1850, III, 839.

Judah, Henry M., United States captain at
Fort Humboldt in 1854, services in Indian
troubles, III, 913–915.

Judah, Theodore D., engineer of Sacramento
Valley railroad, IV, 453; services in and for
railroad convention of 1859, 453-455; part in
organization of Central Pacific Railroad
Company, 455-457; chief engineer of road,
surveys and reports, 456-461; services at
Washington in procuring act of July 1, 1862,
461-464 construction of road, 464-466; last
visit east, and death, 466; accuracy and
excellence of his work, 484.

Judas Iscariot, yearly hanging and burning
of, in old California, II, 502.

Judicial Department, in Spanish times, I, 544,
545; Governor Borica as magistrate and
judge, 600, 601; Arrillaga, 618.

In Mexican times, under "Plan de Go-
bierno" of 1824, II, 54; in 1830, 120; Echeandia
as magistrate and judge, 123; in 1836, 258,
259; in 1840, superior tribunal of justice, 264,
309, 310; in 1845, 367, 369.

Under American military governors,
Kearny and Biddle's prize court at Monte-
rey, II, 637; Governor Mason's excellence as
judge, 665, 666; condition in 1849, 714, 715;
election of judges in 1849, 727; discussions
about, in constitutional convention of 1849,
769; under de facto government 777-784.

Under state government, election of judges
by legislature in 1849, II, 789, 790; act of 1850,
organizing new courts, 797; Governor McDou-
gal's notions about, IV, 85; Bigler's recom-
mendations in 1853, 117; reforms by constitu-
tional amendments of 1862, 299, 339, 340, 352;
Governor Haight in favor of judges holding
during good behavior, 412; question of law's
delays in legislature of 1873-4, 533: questions
in constitutional convention of 1878-9, 625;
provisions of constitution of 1879 concerning,
632, 633; Stoneman on, 694.

Judicial election, under constitutional amend-
ments of 1862, IV, 299, 339, 340; election of 1863,
353; of 1867, 404; Governor Low recommends
abolishing, 405; election of 1871, 499, 500; Booth
on, 502; election of 1875, 519, 520; abolished by
constitution of 1879, 632.

Jueces del campo (judges of the plains), II, 483;
retained by legislature of 1850, 800.

Julia, schooner, United States arms taken from,
by San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856,
III, 567.

Junction Bar, mining locality, and anti-foreigner
movements at, III, 710, 711.

Junipero Serra-see Serra, Junípero.

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Juntas, to take oath of independence and swear
allegiance to empire of Mexico, II, 44; to
select members of first provincial deputation,
45; provided for by "Plan de Gobierno" of
1824, and powers, 57, 58; departmental, 263-
328; José Castro's, of military officers of Mon-
terey in 1846, 396-398; proposed, at Santa
Barbara to take measures against United
States, 401, 402; its failure, 406.

Judicial possession, first instance of, II, 746, 747;
what it was, 752.

Jury, Alcalde Walter Colton calls first, in Cali-
fornia, II, 590, 591; Governor Mason on, 664;
Alcalde Field on, 781, 782; Weller's recom-
mendations as to, IV, 253.

Justices of the peace, under Mexican law of
1836, II, 259; accountable to prefects, 261, 263;
to hold courts of first instance in certain
cases, 368; how to be named, 369.

Under state laws, Uncle Zeke of Nevada,
Barry of Sonora, Jenkins and Olney of Marys-
ville, III, 226-230.

Jute bag manufactory at San Quentin state
prison, IV, 648; pronounced a success by
Governor Perkins, 665; Bartlett vetoes bill of
excessive appropriation for, 713, 714.

KAHWOOKUM, attempt in 1866 to change
name of Monte Diablo to, IV, 402.
Kalloch, Rev. Isaac S., nomination for mayor of
San Francisco in 1879, strictures by San Fran-
cisco Chronicle, reply, shooting by Charles
De Young, and election, IV, 656.
Kalloch, Rev. Isaac S. Jr., how and why he
killed Charles De Young, acquittal of murder,
IV, 657.

Kamehameha, king of Hawaii, and Vancou-
ver's negotiations with him, I, 707, 708; how
he ceded his kingdom and became brother to
King George, 708.

Kanaka Creek, mining locality, III, 98.
Kanakas, employed by John A. Sutter, II, 282;
taken by him to mines, 686; Jim Crow and
his mining, III, 92-94; movement against them
at Ballard's Bar, 705, 706.

Kane, Thomas, state senator in 1880, alleged
attempt to bribe, and result, IV, 653.
Kane, Tina L., part in Order of Native Daugh-
ters of the Golden West, IV, $37.

Kansas, question in congress in 1857. IV, 215;
"squatter sovereignty," "border ruffianism
and Lecompton constitution, 215, 216; contest
in congress, 216, 217; resolutions for and
against, 243, 244.

Kaweah Indians, III, 839; captured by Captain
Kuykendall, 852.

Kayser, Sebastian, arrival in 1841, II, 331.
Kearney, Dennis, leader of sand-lots in 1877, IV,
594, 599; character, 599; interview with United
States Senator Sargent, 599; Union Hall meet-
ing, 600; president of Workingmen's party,
600, 601; split in party, 601, 602; manifesto
that "Chinese must go," and threats of vio-
lence, 602, 603; meeting on Nob Hill, 603, 604;
speech at Irish American Hall, 604; arrest of,
605; how he "squealed," 605, 606; discharge,
re-arrest and re-discharge, 606; Thanksgiving
day parade, and incendiary threats, 666-608;
prosecution for riot, and acquittal, 668, 606;
expulsion from Workingmen's party, and
result, delegates to constitutional convention,
613; presides over Workingmen's state con-

vention of 1879, 642; exclusion from assembly
chamber and committee rooms of legislature
of 1880, 654.

Kearney, Philip, major, headquarters at So-
noma, II, 427.

Kearney, William ("Woolley"), banished by
San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856,
III, 525; supposed custodian of fraudulent
ballot-box, 526; deportation, 527, 530.
Kearny, General Stephen W., third American
military governor, in charge of "army of the
west" in 1846, II, 606; sketch of earlier life,
606, 607; instructions to, 607, 608; in New
Mexico, 608-610; march to California and
battle of San Pasqual, 610-616; relations with
Commodore Stockton, 618-627; voyage to
Monterey, governor, proclamation, San Fran-
cisco beach-and-water-lot grant, 627-637; rela-
tions with Fremont,637-641; views in reference
to American alcaldes, 656, 657; grant before
legislature of 1851, IV, 71.

Kearny street widening in San Francisco, IV,

402, 572.

Kearsarge, United States war steamer, how it
sunk Confederate cruiser Alabama, in Civil
war, IV, 361, 362.

Keith, William, painter, IV, 716.
Keler, Father Ignacio, I, 247.
Kelley, Terence, ordered to leave state by San
Francisco vigilance committee of 1856, III,
530, 560; deportation, 565.

Kellogg, H. B., assemblyman in 1854, opposition
to Chinese immigration, IV, III.
Kellogg, J. G., Kellogg, Hewston & Co. and
Kellogg & Co., private gold coinage, III, 405,

444, 445.

Kellogg, W. W., state senator in 1886, opposi-
tion to David S. Terry's attack upon supreme
court justices Morrison and Sharpstein, IV,
696.

Kelly, John, alias Barbier, on black list of San
Francisco vigilance committee of 1856, III,
559.

Kelly, killed in Sacramento squatter riot of
1850, III, 676.

Kelsey, Andrew, arrival in 1841, II, 331.

Kelsey, Benjamin, and wife, arrival in 1841, II,
331.

Kelsey, Samuel, part in Bear Flag revolution,

II. 429.

Kelsey's, mining town, III, 75; nugget, 144.
Kemble, E. C., visit to and report on gold fields
in 1848, II, 687, III, 52.

Kendrick, John, his ship Columbia ordered to
be seized in 1789, I, 543; voyage of, and how
killed in a salute, 696-698.

Kennedy, Captain, of British bark John Ritson,
how taught his duty to California-bound
passengers in 1849, III, 249, 259.

Kennedy, Commodore, of sloop-of-war Pea-
cock, in California in 1836, II, 317, 318.
Kennedy, James, arrival in 1831, II, 279.
Kenney, Major, chastisement of Rogue river
Indians in 1851, III, 905.

Kent, J. Horace, coroner of San Francisco in
1856, III, 636.

Kern County, Governor Booth vetoes bill for
re-locating county seat of, IV, 511; James B.
Haggin's immense holdings of land in, 588.
Kern Lake, II, 538, III, 138.

Kern river and mines, III, 138; mining rush,
138, 153; story of "the Mexican physician,'

153.
Kewen, Achilles, associate of William Walker
in Nicaragua, II, 772; lieutenant-colonel,
killed at first battle of Rivas, 773.
Kewen, E. J. C., attorney-general in 1849, II,
789; action in reference to San Francisco

ayuntamiento sales of town lots, III, 389;
named as friend of Duncan W. Perley in
challenge to Broderick, IV, 222; imprison-
ment in 1862 for secession utterances, and
release, 333, 334; assemblyman in 1863, and
attempt to exclude him for treason how irus-
trated, 334.

Keyes, E. D., United States captain, lease of
government reserve property in San Fran-
cisco, III, 419, 420; drastic measures with
squatters in 1850, 678.

Keyesville, mining town, III, 138.

Key, Francis Scott, author of "Star Spangled
Banner," James Lick's monument to, IV, 582.
Keysburg, one of Donner party, horrible sus-
picions about, II, 680, 681.

Keyser, Philip W., state senator in 1852, IV, 82.
Keystone mine, III, 112.

Kibbe, William C., quartermaster-general in
1856, III, 497, 632; part in Wintoon Indian
war, 919; method of conducting Indian war
condemned by Governors Latham and Dow-
ney, IV, 262; his "Tehama County Indian
war," and bills for it, 262, 263.
Kientepoos-see Captain Jack.
Kilburn, of Napa valley, onion crop in 1851 and
enormous profits, III, 867.

Kimbail carriage factory of San Francisco, IV,
553.

Kimball's directory of San Francisco in 1850,
Ill, 424.

Kindness of early miners, III, 182-184.

King, A. J., assemblyman in 1860, action on
proposed act against "lobbying and log-
rolling," IV, 269.

King, Clarence, exposure to diamond swindle,
IV, 547, 5:8.

King, Henry, brother of James King of Wm.,
III, 463.

King, James L., elected to state board of equal-
ization in 1879, IV, 645.

King, John, saloon keeper of San Francisco,
exhibition of head of Joaquin Murieta, III,
725.

King, lieutenant of Fremont's party in 1846,
part in Bear Flag revolution, II, 424.

King of William, James, banking house of, in
San Francisco in 1851, III, 355, 443; connec-
tion with Adams & Co., 445; Evening Bul-
letin newspaper, 462, 463; sketch of earlier
life, 463, 464; action as foreman of San Fran-
cisco grand jury in 1853, 464; financial losses,
464; contract with Adams & Co., 464, 465;
quarrel with Alfred A. Cohen and refusal to
fight duel, 465-467; connection with Henry
Reed, 467.

Start of Evening Bulletin, attack upon
Palmer, Cook & Co., III, 467-469; newspaper
attack upon David C. Broderick, 469; influ-
ence and power, attempts to get him out of
the way, 477; preparations to resist assault,
477, 478; article about James P. Casey, 478;
interview with Casey, 478, 479; assassination
by Casey, 480, 481; what he said of John
Nugent, 490, 491; announcement of death,
512; circumstances of death, 513, 514; lying
in state and funeral, 514, 515; "King testi-
monial," 621, 622; monument, 622.
King's River Cañon, III, 861.

King's river, Governor Booth vetoes bill in
reference to booms in, IV, 510.

King's River Indian reservation, United States
peace commissioners at, in 1851, III, 856, 857;
troubles about land, and murders at, 858, 859;
Indians at, in 1856, 916.

King, Thomas Buchanan, candidate for United
States senator in 1849, II, 786; how sent,
while congressman from Georgia, as special

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