Rogers, George H., assemblyman in 1869, speaker, and remarks on assuming chair, IV, 425; great satisfaction with rejection by leg- islature of fifteenth amendment to United States constitution, 430, 431, 440; state sena- tor in 1875," Rogers' act" authorizing San Francisco to provide public water-works, opposition to, by San Francisco, and repeal of, in 1880, 572; resolutions in 1878 against timber and desert land acts of congress, 588; repeal of "Rogers' act," 652. Rogers, Dr. William H., part in San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856, III, 569, 626. Rogers, William, sheriff of El Dorado county, part in "El Dorado Expedition against In- dians, III, 901.
Rogers, Woodes, voyage of (for particulars, see Contents, I, xi, xii), 102-III. Rogue river Indians, chastised in 1851 by Ma- jor Kenney, III, 905.
Roland, John, arrival in 1839, II, 281; joins in abuse of José Castro in 1846, 412.
Rolfe, Horace C., member of constitutional con- vention of 1878-9, in favor of woman suffrage, IV, 625.
Rollins' Pacific railroad bill before congress in 1862, IV, 460.
Roman Catholic religion-see Religion, Roman Catholic.
Roman, Richard, elected state treasurer in 1849, II, 789; assignee in insolvency of Adams & Co., III, 449; efforts as United States con- sul at Guaymas in 1854 to save life of Raous- set-Boulbon and followers, 754; candidate for lieutenant-governor, in 18;9, IV, 63. Romanzoff, Russian name of Bodega, II, 288. Rome, transport ship, arrival in 1849, II, 699. Romero, José, ordered to lead Mazatlan troops homeward in 1825, II, 78.
Romero, Mariano, defender of Los Angeles vigilance committee leaders in 1836, and quarrel with Governor Chico, II, 223, 226,
Romero, minister of Mexico, paper on forestry, regulations of 1845, II, 364.
Romeu, José Antonio, fifth Spanish governor of the Californias, campaign against Yuma In- dians in 1782, 1, 432; succeeds Pedro Fages as governor in 1790, orders new missions, 460, 537; appointment as governor, journey to Monterey, accession to office, and ill health, 545; council of officers to provide for government in case of his death, 546; death, and respect paid his family, 547, 548. Roney, Frank, part in split of Workingmen's party movement in 1878, IV, 613. Roop, Isaac, project for making "Territory of Nataqua' out of Honey Lake country, and ambitious schemes, IV, 191, 192; subsequent proposed "Territory of Nevada," of which he was to be governor, 192,
Rosa, Indian woman of San Luis Obispo, sen- tence of, for complicity in murder of Kebecca, wife of Silberio, 1, 600.
Rosario, Arroyo de Barrabas 6 del, boundary in 1806 between Alta and Lower California, I,
war, IV, 307, 319, 359-362; candidate for gov- ernor in 1867, but withdraws, 408; elected to congress in 1880, 658; re-elected in 1882, 668. Rose, John, arrival in 1839, II, 281.
Rose, José de la, alleged Mexican grant to, of fifty square leagues of land in Solano county, pronounced fraudulent, III, 701.
Rose's Corral, mining settlement in 1848, III, 84. Rose, Texan, killed by Indians at Big Oak Flat, III, 129, 130.
Rosiere, Jules, trading post at Boston Ravine, III, 86.
Ross, Captain, Kanaka of Kanaka Creek, III, 98.
Ross, Charles L., part in San Francisco vigi- lance committee of 1851, I., 316.
Ross, Erskine M., elected justice of supreme court in 1879, IV, 645; resignation in 1886, 701.
Ross, Fort, built by Russians, situation of, i, 499; Alexander Koskoif, Russian coman- dante of, in 1816, 627; Governor Sola's suspi- cions of, and designs against, 641, 642; com- plaints of Father Gutierrez of San Francisco Solano mission against, in 1833, II, 171, 172; Governor Figueroa's action, 172-174; Mari- ano G. Vallejo's report about, and descrip- tion of mills, ship-building, vessels, manu- factures, population, and buildings, 176; complaints of Father Mercado of San Rafael mission against, and how Figueroa put a quietus upon his clamor, 176; comfortable quarters of comandante, 286; new growth of redwood forests back of, 288.
Ross, William E., wounded by Wintoon In- dians in 1858, III, 918.
Rotschoff, Heléne de, wife of Russian coman- dante, how her saint's day was celebrated at Knebnikoff in 1841, II, 507, 508.
Rough and Ready, mining town, III, 82; Com- pany, 84; vigilance committee of, 279, 280; Brundage's State of, 280.
Round Valley, Mendocino county, alleged In- dian depredations at, in 1860, manner in which Indians were treated, IV, 263–265. Rouset de Jesus, Father Francisco-see Jesus, Father Francisco Rouset de.
Roussillon, Carlos, lawsuit with Isaac Graham
before Alcalde Walter Colton at Monterey, first trial by jury, II, 590, 591.
Rover, American schooner, arrival in 1822, II, 72; purchase and employment of, by Gover nor Argüello, 73.
Rowan, James, captain of American ship Eliza, not allowed to remain in California in 1799, 1, 620.
Rowan, Lieutenant, with Commodore Stock- ton at San Diego in December, 1846, H, 619; wounded on march to Los Angeles, 622. Rowe, E. A., opposition to San Francisco vigi- lance committee of 1856, lil, 568; connection with Henry Bates, defaulting state treasurer, in 1856, 602; proceedings against, for con- tempt in refusing to answer questions, 663; president of Pacific Express Company, and alleged corrupt combination with Bates and George W. Whitman, state controller, IV, 199; indictment by Sacramento grand jury,
pedition of schooner J. M. Chapman in 1863, IV, 343-346; how pardoned, after conviction and sentence, by President Lincoln, 346. Rubio, Francisco, execution of, at San Fran- cisco in 1831 for murder, II, 132. Ruddle, Albert, murdered by Joaquin Murieta in 1853, III, 716.
Rufus, Ernest, arrival in 1841, II, 331; alleged Mexican grant to, of four square leagues of land in Sacramento county, pronounced fraudulent, III, 701.
Ruiz, Francisco Maria, comandante of San Diego, swears to independence and empire of Mexico in 1822, II, 44.
Ruiz, Toribio, roving mason, "enamored of the country," in 1792 works on improvements at Fort Point in San Francisco, I, 551, 552. Rurick, Russian ship, at San Francisco in 1816, I, 627.
Rushes, mining, III, 150-158.
Russell, Horace A., witness against David S.
Terry before San Francisco vigilance com- mittee of 1856, III, 590.
Russell, Joel, candidate for governor in 1886, IV, 703, 795.
Russell, Majors & Co., established "pony ex- press" in 1860, IV, 267.
Russell, William H., peace commissioner at Cahuenga in January, 1847, II, 622, Russ House in San Francisco, ÍV, 290. Russian-American Commercial Company, and its traffic in ice, III, 432, 433. Russian-American Company, how its ships wintered and traded in California, II, 71; disputes and contract with Hudson's Bay Company, 403.
Russian Hill in San Francisco, III, 429. Russian river, and old names of San Sebastian, and Slawianska, II, 288; its drainage, 535,
Russians in California, why came, and how established themselves, 1, 493, 494; San Rafael mission founded as barrier against, 494; their progress as Spanish power de- clined, 495; San Francisco Solano mission founded as additional barrier against, 496- 499; not altogether undesirable neighbors to Californians, 499; M. de Résanofi's visit in 1806, betrothal to Concepcion Argüello, sad fate, and extensive plans, 623-625.
Settlements at Bodega in 1812, extent and enormous profits of hunting in, and trade with, California, 1, 626; Kotzebue's visit, conference with Governor Sola, jealousy, suspicions, and early projects of Sola, 627, 641, 642; Sola's subsequent reply to com- plaints about trading with, 661, 662; how Russian governor of New Archangel sent present to Sola in 1820, and trade continued, II, 71; Argüello's arrangements with, about furs, and results, 73, 81; marriage of Russian José Bolcoff with Cándida Castro and set- tlement, 74.
Echeandia ordered to watch, II, 82; Vic- toria's instructions in reference to, 126; Figueroa's instructions, 161; Father Gutier rez of San Francisco Solano makes loud complaints about, and Figueroa's action, 171-174; Mariano G. Vallejo's report on set- tlements at Fort Ross and neighborhood, their mills, ship building, vessels, manufac- tures, population, and houses, 175; general character of, in California, 175, 176; decline of alarm about Russians, Father Mercado at San Rafael attempts to revive it, and Figueroa's quietus to clamor, 176; final de- parture of, in 1842, 285-288; their establish- ment at Yerba Buena, 593.
Ryan, Arabella (Belle Cora), III, 515, 516. Ryan, Lawrence, associate judge of San Fran- cisco court of sessions, III, 521, 636.
Ryan, William R., account of Governor Mason, II, 677; of how Indians made purchases in mines, III, 897.
Rykman, Robert, arrival in 1841, II, 331. Ryland, Caius T, assemblyman in 1855, report on passes over Sierra Nevada, IV, 169.
SAAVEDRA CERON, ALVARO DE, voyage, I, 41, 80.
Sacalanes Indians, on east side of San Fran- cisco bay, 1, 570; expedition against, by Sergeant Pedro Amador from San José mis- sion in 1797, 736, 737.
Sacks for grain, Grangers' proposition to use state prison labor to manufacture, IV, 518; Governor Pacheco on production of, 648. Sacramento, city, successor to Sutter's Fort or New Helvetia, how laid out in 1848, and progress, H, 733, 731; first charter, 802; population in 1850, III, 44; distributing cen- ter of Northern Mines, 107; sympathy with San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856, 713, 714; conference of citizens with com- mittee, 563, 564.
How settled in 1848 and 1849, III, 669, 670; squatter riot of 1850, 670-677; legislature removed to, from Vallejo for session of 1852, IV, 94, 95; question of capital at, involved in David C. Broderick's struggle to become United States senator in 1854, 149; seat of government removed to, made permanent capital, and removal of session of legislature of 1854 from Benicia to, 149.
First acts for erection of capitol at, IV, 189, 265, 266; legislature of 1862 removed to San Francisco on account of flood, 295; Union county convention at, in 1865, 394, 395; occupation of capitol by legislature of 1869-70, description of building, 424, 425; acts granting rights to Central Pacific Rail- road Company in, 467, 468; scheme of Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad Company to run line from Brighton to Free- port, and cut Sacramento off, 481; contro- versy about California Pacific railroad bridge at, and result, 486, 487; “ 'governor's man- sion" in, report on, in 1874, 532; act of 1878 appropriating money to Howard Benevolent Society of, 591.
Sacramento County, name, II, 796; mining laws of, III, 262; subsidy act for Central Pacific Railroad Company, IV, 468, 469; controversy with company, and sale of stock, 483, 484. Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad Company authorized to sell out to Central Pacific Railroad Company, IV, 468; pur- chased and controlled by Central Pacific Railroad Company, 481.
Sacramento river, discovered by Pedro Fages and Father Crespi in 1772, 1, 388; general description of, II, 538; said to have been first called the Jesus Maria, 796; how early passenger steamboats up and down met at Benicia, III, 536; project in 1858 to turn head-waters of Klamath river into, IV, 240; Governor Booth vetoes bill allowing Central Pacific Railroad Company to construct bridge across, at Tehama without a draw, 510. Sacramento Valley, general description of, II, 533; extent, III, 872. Sacramento Valley railroad, construction, em- ployment of Theodore D. Judah as engineer, and completion in spring of 1856, IV, 452
453; how it eventually fell into hands of Central Pacific Railroad Company, 453; re- port of Judah why it could not be used as part of Central Pacific route, 465; its great business in conjunction with stage and wagon road to Virginia City in Nevada, and opposition to Central Pacific railroad, 475; extension to Latrobe, Shingle Springs, and Placerville, 475; scheme to run opposi- tion to Central Pacific railroad, congres- sional grant of land in its favor, failure to cross Sierra Nevada, or accomplish any of its objects, 481.
Saddle, old Californian, II, 489, 490.
Sagarra, José Eduardo, executed at Monterey in 1831 for robbing warehouse of San Carlos mission, II, 131.
Salaries, under "Plan de Gobierno" of 1824, II, 57, 58; in 1828, 119; under "El Estado libre y soberano de la Alta California," 232; payment of, suspended in latter part of Gov- ernor Alvarado's administration for want of customs, 323; of school-teachers in Michel- torena's time, 340; salaries in 1844, 341; of judicial officers in 1845, 367; members of de- partmental assembly unpaid in 1845, 390, 399,
High salaries voted by common council of San Francisco in 1850, III, 367, 368; under San Francisco consolidation act, and Peo- ple's party of 1856, 652, 653; Governor Big- ler's recommendations in 1853 for reduction of state, IV, 117; Downey in favor of, as against fees, 275; Workingmen's party plat- form on subject, 611; propositions in consti- tutional convention of 1878-9 as to payment of judges, 633; Grangers in 1886 demand reduction of, 703.
Salazar, Father Alonzo, assists in founding Santa Cruz mission, 1, 461, 462.
Salazar, José Tomas, his caravans from Santa Fé to Los Angeles in 1839-40 and 1843, II, 330, 331; joins in abuse of José Castro in 1845, 412.
Salazar, Mariano, executed by William Walker in Nicaragua for alleged treason, III, 798, 799. Sal, Hermenegildo, ensign in 1791, assists in founding Santa Cruz mission, 1, 461; minute record of foundation, 462; instructions to mission guard, 463; survey for San José mission, 476; survey of site for San Juan Bautista mission, 479; in command at San Francisco in 1792, 546; Vancouver's praise of, Point Sal named from, report on military affairs in 1796, death, burial, and sketch of his life, 609; part in arranging California archives, II, 740; how he gave juridical pos- session of Butron grant, 746.
Salinas, city, royal cattle ranch at, temporary refuge from attack on Monterey by Buenos Ayres insurgents in 1818, I, 652.
Salinas y Potrero Viejo, Las, land grant at San Francisco, III, 381.
Salisbury, Edward J., witness against David S. Terry before San Francisco vigilance com- mittee of 1856, III, 590.
Salmon, II, 566; Governor Stoneman on de- crease of, IV, 708.
Salmon river and mines, III, 139, 140; indis- criminate slaughter of Indians on, prevented in 1855 by United States captain Ulysses S. Grant and others, 914, 915; Indian depreda- tions on, in 1864, 934; work of Mountaineer battalion on, 935.
Salmon-trout, speared by Jim Crow with crow- bar at Jersey Flat, III, 93.
Saloschen. Alexander, part in Holden's Garden troubles, ill, 284.
Sal, Point-see Point Sal.
Sal, Rafaela, first wife of Luis Antonio Argüello, II, 55.
Salsonas Indians attack and kill San Francisco Indians in 1776, 1, 406.
Salt Lake, Mormons of-see Mormons.
Salt marsh lands, Governor Bigler recom- mends sale of, in 1856, IV, 179; act of 1868 for sale of, in San Francisco, 423.
Salt-pits of Carmen Island, I, 265. Salvatierra, Father Juan Maria, his work in Lower California (for particulars, see Con- tents, I, xiv, xv), 165-211.
San Agustin, ship, voyage and shipwreck, I, 131, 132; search for, by Viscaino, 142, 143; first mention of San Francisco in connection with loss of, 380.
San Aloysio, mission in Lower California, I,.
San Andreas, mining town, III, 117.
San Andres Valley, near San Francisco, fol- lowed by Portola's expedition in 1769, I, 384; traversed and named by Rivera y Moncada and Father Palou in 1774, 389.
San Antonio Creek and Oakland railroad wharf, IV, 350.
San Antonio grant, in Los Angeles county, II, 749; in Alameda county, 749.
San Antonio, mining town in Lower California, II, 94.
San Antonio mission, site of, how first seen and appreciated, 1, 339; how founded by Jumpero Serra, 340; rite of confirmation at, in 1781, 421; neophytes at, in 1783 and 1796, 454; neo- phyte Macario of, confined at San Francisco in 1794 for cruelly beating his wife, 583; masses at, for soul of Governor Arrillaga, 630; wheaten flour of, celebrated in 1815, 637; place of refuge for families at attack on Mon- terey by Buenos Ayres insurgents in 1818, 652; Father Sitjar's vocabulary of Indians of, 794; pueblo at, ordered by Governor Figue- roa in 1834, II, 206; declared restored by Micheltorena in 1843, 324; ordered to be rented, after debts adjusted, in 1845. 382, 383. San Antonio, ship, sails for California, I, 310; voyage, 315; second arrival at San Diego, 324; supposed miracle connected with it, 325; third arrival at San Diego with ten new missionaries, 336, 337; fourth arrival at San Diego and Monterey, 345, 346, 348, 349; Diego Choquet in command of, in 1775, 375, 376; arrival in 1776 from San Blas with las memorias del rey,' "398; Fathers Junípero and Santa Maria embark on, in 1776, for San Diego, 399.
San Bernardino, Indian outbreak at, in 1834, II, 194, 195; Indians rob chapel there of orna- ments, 195.
San Bernardino mountain, I, 343, II, 536, 537. San Bernardo, General Kearny's military oper- ations and fight at, II, 613-616.
San Blas, proposed abandonment of port of, in 1773, 1, 353; how Junipero saved it, 356; Buenos Ayres insurgents' attempt to take a treasure ship near, and mistake they made, 656-658; troops of, under José Antonio Na- varrete, in California, 658, 659, II, 78, 79; their bad character, and result, 79. San Bruno, Atondo and Kino at, I, 155-161. San Bruno mountains, II, 536.
San Buenaventura mission, site passed by Por- tola's expedition in 1769, 1, 326; Rivera y Moncada ordered to recruit soldiers for, in Sonora or Sinaloa, 423; arrival of recruits at Colorado river, 428; led by Cayetano Li- mon to San Gabriel, 429; foundation of, 435-
437; thought of abandonment, 439, 440; Junipero's delight with its rapid progress, 443; neophytes at, in 1783 and 1796, 454; Vancouver at, in 1793, 471; Vancouver's ac- count of relations of Father Santa Maria with neophytes, 472, 473; battle at, in 1837, II, 249; declared restored by Micheltorena in 1843, 324; Father Duran's donation to Indians of, 382; ordered to be rented for nine years to highest bidder in 1845, 382.
San Carlos mission, foundation at Monterey, I, 331; removal to Carmel river, 334; scenery of new site, 335; Junipero at, when right to confirm questioned by Governor Felipe de Neve, from 1779 to 1781, 420; administers confirmation at, in 1781, 421; Junipero's last days, death, and burial at, 445-451; neo- phytes at, in 1783 and 1796, 454; La Pérouse at, 467-470; Vancouver at, 471-473; Lasuen's labors, death, and burial at, 488, 489; Her- menegildo Sal and Pedro de Alberni buried in church of, 609; celebration at, in honor of Governor Sola's arrival in 1815, Calvary and "via crucis," 639, 640; José Simon Aguilar and José Eduardo Sagarra executed in 1831 for robbing warehouse of, II, 131; under di- rect control of government and not of in- spector Hartnell in 1840, 301; recognized as ruined in 1845, 379; declared a pueblo, and all property, except church and appurte- nances, ordered sold at auction in 1845, 380, 352.
San Carlos, fort on Lake Nicaragua at head of San Juan river, repulse of Parker H. French from, III, 777; taken by Sylvanus M. Spencer for Costa Rica in 1856, 799, 800. San Carlos, ship and cargo, sails for California in 1769, 1, 309; voyage, 315; return to San Blas, and voyage with twenty missionaries for Loreto, 336, 337; again in service in 1775, 375; arrival in 1775 at Monterey under com- mand of Juan de Ayala, 390; first ship to enter the Golden Gate, August 5, 1775, 391; arrival in 1776 with "las memorias del rey and supplies for San Francisco, 398; sails for San Francisco with supplies for foundation of presidio and mission, 399; long voyage and anchorage in Drake's bay, 401; sent to Philippine Islands and left there, 585; new ship San Carlos (“El Felipino ") lost at San Francisco presidio in 1797, 585, 586.
San Carlos, steamboat on Lake Nicaragua, III, 800.
San Cayetano, Bolsa de, rancho of, in Santa Barbara county, II, 749.
Sanchez, Father Francisco, missionary at Sol- edad in 1793, I, 466.
Sanchez, Father Francisco Jesus, grant to, for college of Santa Inéz in 1844, II, 340. Sanchez, Father José, president of missions in 1830, 1, 505; member of Echeandia's convo- cation at San Diego in 1826, II, 84; in favor of republican constitution, 87; vicario for- áneo and judge of ecclesiastical court of Cal- ifornia, 120; how he had schooner Guada- lupe built at San Gabriel by American Chap- man about 1830, 156, 157; intelligence and business ability, 522.
Sanchez, Francisco, capture of Lieutenant Washington A. Bartlett at San Mateo in December, 1846, II, 604; how obliged to sur- render, give up his prisoner, and be himself a prisoner on frigate Savannah, 605. Sanchez, José Antonio, daughter of, married to John J. Read, II, 277.
Sanchez, José, ensign, assists in selecting site for and founding San Francisco Solano mis- sion, I, 496-499; did not favor but took no part
against Solis rebels in 1829, II, 110; march against San José and Santa Clara Indians, 117; joins in movements against Governor Victoria in 1831, 137.
Sanchez, Vicente, member of territorial depu- tation in 1830, II, 96; advocate, as alcalde of Los Angeles in 1831, of Governor Victoria, 139; commissioner to treat with Michelto- rena in 1845, 351; nominated fiscal of superior tribunal of justice in 1845, 369.
Sancho, Father Juan Bautista, opposed to re- publican constitution in 1827, II, 87. Sancho Panza, Governor Borica compares him- self to, 1, 559, 560.
San Clemente Island, I, 14, 540.
Sanctuary, right of, and quarrel about, at San Diego in 1776, 1, 373; the Indian vanquech as place of, 760, 761.
Sanders & Brenham, banking house of, III, 443.
Sanders, Beverly C., how he went to Russia to impress the Muscovites, and his bon-mot, III, 433-
Sanders, E. J., associated with William Walker in Nicaragua, III, 802.
Sanderson, Silas W., assemblyman in 1863, frustrates attempt to exclude E. J. C. Kewen from legislature, IV, 334; dissenting opinion, as chief justice of supreme court, on consti- tutionality of "soldiers' vote" statute, 340; his specific contract law of 1863, 346-318; elected in 1863 justice of supreme court, 353; re-elected justice of supreme court in 1865,
San Diego, discovery of, by Cabrillo, I, 74; Vis- caino at, 138, 139; arrival and union of pio- neers of 1769 at, 314; Junipero's account of bay, 316; settlement of, 317-325; Vancouver at, in 1793, 471; condition of presidio in 1793, 551; battery built there by Alberto de Córdoba, 588; how Governor Borica ordered youth of, to be educated, 595; condition of, in 1800, 608; in 1806, 610; affair of American brig Lelia Byrd, and how it passed guns of Point Gui- jarros, 620, 621; condition in 1815, 640; arrival at, in 1819, of one hundred Mazatlan soldiers under Pablo de Portilla, 658; how Indians near, imitated execution of Agustin I.,emperor of Mexico, 734.
Francisco Maria Ruiz comandante of, in 1822, II, 44; arrival of Governor Echeandia at, in 1825, 83; convocation of missionaries, and result, 83-85; Echeandia's removal to Monterey, weddings of Romualdo Pacheco and Agustin V. Zamorano, 89, 90; trade at, in 1829, 98; Echeandia's return to, in 1831, 124; movement and pronunciamiento against Gov- ernor Victoria in 1831, 138, 139; meeting of territorial deputation at, in 1832, 149-154; school at, ordered by Governor Figueroa, 212; Micheltorena establishes school at, 340; made a port of entry in 1845, 363; bay of, 539.
Held in 1816 by Lieutenant Minor against insurrectionary Californians, II, 617; condition of, at end of 1846, 617, 618; placed in command of Lieutenant Philip St. George Cooke, 629; made a port of delivery by congress in March, 1848, 706; pueblo claim of, allowed, 751; first charter of, 802; Southern Pacific railroad of California incorporated to run to, IV, 485. San Diego mission, foundation, I, 318; uprising of Indians, attack upon, and result, 319, 320; removal of, to valley of San Diego river, 370; second Indian outbreak, and destruction of, 370-372; march of Rivera y Moncada and Anza to, 372; rebuilt by Junipero, 375, 377; neophytes at, in 1783 and 1796, 454; a neophyte attempts to poison missionary in 1811, 613;
olives of, celebrated in 1815, 637; Indians of, espouse cause of Echeandia in 1833 against Governor Figueroa and reasons therefor, 740; Ylario Garcia, major-domo of, convicted of flogging Indians so severely that one died, II, 177; Hartnell's visit to, as inspector of mis- sions, in 1833, and report on, clamor of Indians against administrator Ortega, 297; declared restored by Micheltorena in 1843, 324; recog- nized as ruined in 1845, 379; ordered to be rented, after debts adjusted, in October, 1845, 382; attempt to give it away for debts, and how it failed, 383.
San Dieguito, Indian pueblo, organized by Gov- ernor Figueroa, II, 184; visit of Inspector Hartnell to, in 1839, and Indian complaints against Juan Osuna, alcalde of San Diego, for driving them from their lands, 297. "Sand-lots" of San Francisco, manufacture of anti-Chinese thunder for, IV, 574, 575; Gov- ernor Irwin on disturbances of, 583-585; agita- tion of, mainspring of anti-Chinese move- ments, 587; cries against capital and land monopoly, 587; agitators assume name of Workingmen's party-see Workingmen's party.
San Domingo mission, founded by Dominicans in Lower California, I, 553.,
Sandoval, Doña Josefa, wife of Governor Romeu, 1, 547, 548; return with her children to Mexico, 548.
Sandoval, Gonzalo de, first account of Califor- nia, 1, 37.
Sandwich Islands-see Hawaiian Islands.
San Fernando de Vellicatá mission in Lower California, foundation of, I, 311.
San Fernando, college of, in Mexico, I, 296; approves Father Junipero's work, 440; unable in 1784 to punish any more missionaries, 446; Father Palou becomes guardian of, in 1786, 452; resumes work of spiritual conquest, 460; failure to furnish missionaries in 1817, trans- fer of half the missions to college of Orizaba, 501; its willingness in 1826 to relinquish charge of temporalities of missions, I, 84. San Fernando mission, site passed by Portolá's expedition in 1769, 1, 326; selection of site, place called Achois Comihabit by Indians and Parage del Encino by Spaniards, 484; foundation and progress, 484, 485; proposal in 1826 for Indian pueblo at, II, 84,91; complaint of Indians against Antonio del Valle, bad state of affairs in 1839, 297; illiterate Juan Perez administrator and unreliable Mada- riaga his secretary, 297; declared restored by Micheltorena in 1843, 324; capitulation of Micheltorena at, 354; story of misery at, by Father Blas Ordaz, ordered rented for nine years to highest bidder in October, 1845, 382. San Fernando mountains, II, 537; pierced by tunnel of Southern Pacific railroad, IV, 671. San Francisco and North Pacific railroad, how built from Tiburon to Ukiah with branches to Guerneville and Glen Ellen, IV, 487. San Francisco and San José railroad, what it was, link in transcontinental line, subsidy acts for, construction, completion in 1864, IV, 470, 471.
San Francisco bay, unknown until 1769, I, 381; discovery of, circumstances, 383; survey by Pedro Fages and Father Crespi in 1772, 387; survey by Ayala and assistants in 1775, 391- 393; description by Ayala, 393; general de- scription, II, 533, 534, 539.
San Francisco Blues, armory of, how taken by San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856, III, 829-833.
San Francisco de Asis-see St. Francis. San Francisco de Borja mission in Lower Cali- fornia, 1, 258.
San Francisco, city and county, march of Juan Bautista de Anza with settlers from Sonora for, I, 372, 373; unknown until 1769, 380; wreck of San Agustin, Viscaino's search, Cabrera Buena, 380; Governor Portolá's expedition in search of Monterey, 381; discovery of, cir- cumstances, 383; what St. Francis had to do with discovery, 385; Spanish and Mexican inappreciation of, 386; survey by Pedro Fages and Father Crespi in 1772, orders of Viceroy De Croix about, 387; new survey ordered by Bucareli in 1774, expedition of Rivera y Mon- cada and Father Palou in same year, 388; Anza ordered to recruit settlers in Sonora and Sinaloa for, 390; march from San Miguel de Horcasitas, and arrival at Monterey, 394; march from Monterey, 398; route and first camp at, 399.
Preparations for presidio, I, 400; arrival of San Carlos, work at presidio and mission, 401; formal foundation of presidio, September 17, 1776, 402; formal foundation of Mission Dolores, October 9, 1776, 405; first visit of Junipero to, 410; second visit of Junipero, 415; third visit, 421; Junipero's fourth and last visit, 443, Vancouver at, in 1792 and 1793, 471; defenseless condition in 1792, and how Governor Arrillaga fortified Fort Point, work of Toribio Ruiz, a roving mason, 550-552; survey of neighborhood for new pueblos, 576; bad condition in which Córdoba and Alberni found it in 1796, 582; “el castillo" at Fort Point, 583; repairs and improvements in 1796, 583-585; Black Point fortified in 1797, 585.
British ship Raccoon at, in 1814, 1, 622; Governor Sola at, in 1818, 648; aborigines of, 731; how Luis Antonio Argüello, while coman- dante of, built launch and navigated bay, and result, II, 51-55; Argüello's departure from, on becoming governor in 1822, 55; return to, as comandante in 1826, 80; trade of, in 1829. 98; Captain Morrell at, in 1825, 98; Captain Beechey at, in 1826, 98, 99; rumors of seizure of, by Americans, 103, 104; Solis and rebels at, in 1829, 110; Victoria visits, in 1831, 135; Father Quijas' petition to have boundaries of Mission Dolores fixed in 1834, how and why denied, 185.
Yerba Buena, foundation of, II, 201; reasons for foundation, description of site in 1829, 202; how Governor Figueroa was founder of future city of San Francisco, and William A. Rich- ardson first settler, 203; "La Calle de la Fun- dacion" original foundation street, 203, 204; José Joaquin Estudillo's petition for land grant in 1835, and what was done about it, 204; José Antonio Galindo's petition for "Laguna de la Merced" rancho, recognition of "Pueblo de Dolores," 205; inventory of Mission Dolores property in 1835, 208; Pueblo de Dolores rec- ognized in 1835 by territorial deputation, 209; Russian warehouse at, 286; Inspector Hart- nell's proposed pueblo of San Francisco In- dians at San Mateo, 304; question of pueblo or no pueblo, no proper organization, 305; desire of United States to possess, 317; Micheltorena establishes school at, 340.
American flag raised at, July 8, 1846, II, 467, 468; preparations to defend it in case of attack by British war-ship Juno, 573; name of Yerba Buena changed to San Francisco by Alcalde Bartlett, January 30, 1847, 597, 598; Governor Kearny's grant of beach-and-water lots, 634; Edwin Bryant succeeds Washington A. Bart- lett as first alcalde, urges Kearny grant, and
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