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,
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-
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;
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-
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.
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.
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,
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,
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,
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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