Tuolumne County
History
CHRONOLOGY OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY.
1849 - 1881
1849.
May — Boyd murdered by Atkins, at Big Bar, on Sullivan's Creek. On trial before Alcalde Frazier, the murderer was fined $500, and ordered to leave the district.
Nov. 7. Sonora's town organization effected.
Nov. 14. Fire in Sonora. Loss, $30,000 to $50,000.
1850.
June 1. The foreign miners' tax of $20 per month went into operation.
June 1. First term of Court of Sessions held in Sonora June 28. Ford, a native of Massachusetts, murdered and robbed at his tavern, near Keeler's Ferry.
July 4. The Sonora Herald made its first appearance, J. White and J. G. Marvin, editors.
July 15. First sitting of the District Court in Sonora. C. M. Creaner, Judge; W. H. Ford, Clerk.
July 23. George Marshall shot, in self-defense, by McElroy, at Sonora.
San.[?] 27. S. R. Elmendorff shot and killed at Hawkins Bar, by J. W. Seaman, for an assault on the latter's wife.
Nov. 9. E. L. Christman and Dr. L. C. Gunn became associate editors of the Sonora Herald.
1851.
Jan. 25. Elander Boggs, from Baltimore, murdered by Bowen, at Curtisville, by shooting. The murderer was immediately hanged by the exasperated bystanders.
Aug. 25. Tindal Newby, aged 22, native of New York, murdered by A. J. Fuller, at Shaw's Flat, in consequence of a quarrel concerning household articles. Fuller was tried and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and a fine of $100.
Feb. 1. Kelly was murdered at Yorktown.
March 6. William Anderson, aged 25, from Tennessee, died from the effects of a gunshot wound received in a fight with William Mulligan, who escaped arrest.
March 13. The Holden Garden riot. One man—Leven Davis—killed and four wounded, one of whom, George Dangley by name, died a week later.
April 18. George Palmer, a miner, in Sonora, shot and killed in cold blood by Wilson, alias Thornley, who broke jail, but was recaptured in Los Angeles, tried and acquitted.
April 28. William Bowen, aged 22, from Rhode Island, stabbed to death by Mexicans, in a fandango house in Sonora. No arrests.
May 3. Dr. L. C. Gunn became sole editor and proprietor of the Sonora Herald.
May 23. O. A. Byam, from Maine, killed by a cave, near Columbia.
May 26. The Common Council of Sonora held their first meeting.
June 10. Captain George W. Snow murdered at Dragoon Gulch, by three Mexicans, for purposes of robbery. Antonio Cruz and Patricio Janori, two of the assassins, were captured, tried in Shaw's Flat by a " People's Court," and hanged.
June 18. Marshal McFarlane shot and killed a Mexican, who resisted arrest and mortally wounded another. Sonora.
June 24. Cornerstone of Masonic Hall laid in Sonora.
June 28. David (or James) Hill hanged in Sonora by a mob, for outrages committed at Campo Seco and elsewhere.
July 27. William Ford, of New York, killed by R. P. Cardwell, for an unprovoked assault. At the same time and place, Augustus Kaufmann was shot and killed by Officer Evans, while trying to evade arrest. Both Cardwell and Evans were honorably discharged. Sonora.
Oct. 11. Fire in Tuttletown. Store of George Graham burned. Loss, $5,000.
Oct. 24. The Colombia Star first appeared.
Dec. 4. Jose Corrales sentenced to death by Judge Creaner, for horse-stealing. Executed January 7, 1852.
Dec. 9. The Common Council abolished bull and bear fighting in Sonora.
1852.
Feb. —. Thomas H. Dexter and Captain Daniels murdered and robbed at Spanish Bar.
March 11. Wilson, Hilliard and Callahan drowned in the Stanislaus, while attempting to cross during high water.
May 22. W. Murray and 3. O'Sullivan became editors and proprietors of the Sonora Herald.
June 18. Great fire in Sonora. The whole city burned. Loss, probably a million of dollars.
July. 7. Roney shot dead by Edward May, in self-defense, at Columbia.
July 7. First meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Tuolumne County.
July 9. Samuel Malcolmson found dead at Sullivan's Creek. Murdered, and probably robbed.
July 12. Philip Flanders killed at Gold Springs by a cave.
July 14. John Amberson killed at Shaw's Flat by a cave.
Sept. 21. Dr. McGregor, a practicing physician of Sonora, was murdered by stabbing, by parties unknown.
Nov. —. Col. Falconer established the Columbia Gazette.
Nov. 10. Gidding, a German, murdered and robbed near Campo Seco by two Chinamen.
1853.
Jan. 24. Board of Supervisors advertise for bids for the erection of a Court House. Awarded to Bell and McBirnie for $6,500.
Jan. 26. Stanley, a farmer, murdered at Curtis Creek by parties unknown.
Feb. 10. William Jeffreys, engineer at Bennet & Brazee's saw mill, on Wood Creek, was killed by becoming entangled in the machinery.
Mar. —. Samuel E. Slater, a rancher on Curtis Creek, was found, murdered by parties unknown.
Apr. 9. Jonathan Long, killed by the accidental discharge of his pistol, Wood's Diggings.
July 7. Simson B. Merril, from Maine, killed by Indians, in the mountains, 20 miles east of Sonora.
Aug. 6. Dr. L. C. Gunn, again became proprietor and editor of the Sonora Herald
Sept. 5. Adams & Co's express box, containing $25,000, was stolen from the stage about one mile from Sonora. Reward of $10,000 offered for the arrest of the robbers and return of the gold.
Sept. 5. James D. Sawyer, found murdered at Moccasin Creek.
Sept. 21. Court House completed and occupied.
Oct. 1. Leipe, a Frenchman, was murdered by parties unknown, at Curtis Creek.
Oct. 4. Great fire in Sonora. Loss $300,000. E. B. Lundy was burned to death.
Oct. 8. Robert Bruce stabbed and killed a boy of Spanish and negro descent, in Sonora. For this he suffered death Dec. 8, 1854.
Nov. 1. Fire in Sonora. Loss $50,000.
Nov. --. Col. Falconer retired from the Columbia Gazette.
Nov. 19. Capt. John Parrot, of Columbia, murdered by Peter Nicholas. Alter a narrow escape from lynching, the murderer was tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to death; but the sentence was finally commuted to seven years imprisonment.
Dec. 20. Austin S. Bannister, native of Tenn., killed in self-defense by T. Carrington, near Illinois House.
1854.
Jany. 10. James G. Glidden, a miner from Maine, killed by a cave, near Springfield.
Jany. 13. Peter Duer committed suicide at Tuttletown. Feb. 22. Horace Bull, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Sonora, committed suicide by shooting.
Mar. 24. Leander Quint became Judge of the Court of Sessions.
Apr. 1. A gold specimen valued at $4,800 found at Columbia.
Apr. 11. An unknown man killed at Albany Flat by Mr. Houghton in defence of his wife's honor
Apr. 15. An Irishman, name unknown, killed by a cave at Shaw's Flat.
Apr. 22. O'Sullivan & Murray became proprietors of the Sonora Herald.
May 13. Benoit Marcel killed Seron, a Chilian, in a quarrel, at Camp Accommodation. He was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.
May --. The Columbia Clipper made its first appearance. Heckendorn & Gist, proprietors.
June 8. Stringer, proprietor of the " Cold Spring Banco," murdered near James town, Keyes, suspected of the deed, was tried and acquitted.
June 10. Stanislaus County, now set apart from Tuolumne, held its first election.
June 18. Henry L. Mahon, killed in a drunken quarrel, Columbia by unknown assailants.
June 19. China woman found murdered near Shaw's Flat. Supposed to have been the victim of her countrymen.
June 20. Carrick, Irish, killed at Shaw's Flat, by falling from a tree.
June 29. Unknown man, killed at Springfield, by a cave in a mine.
July 3. Fire in Sonora, twelve buildings burned, and a Mexican perished in the flames.
July 10. Great fire in Columbia. Loss $500,000.
Aug. 1. John Davis, aged 60, occupation shepherd, found murdered at Sugar Pine.
Aug. 2. Bruce and Hayes broke jail at Sonora. Bruce was severely wounded by pursuers and both were recaptured.
Aug. 7. Jean Snyder, killed by a cave, at Texas Flat.
Aug. 22. Chileño murdered in bed at Poverty Hill,
Aug. 29. Unknown man found murdered at Abbey's Ferry.
Sept. 20. Poverty Hill destroyed by fire.
Oct. —. Woman shot and mortally wounded by a party of Chilenos at Pine Log.
Oct 2. Lyons, Hazleton and Duffield engaged in a bloody affray at Sonora. Lyons arrested for the murder of a Frenchman, but acquitted June 24, 1855.
Oct. 18. Capt. Robt. Holly, of Brown's Flat, killed at Angel's Camp, Calaveras County.
Oct. 25. Danforth Gordon, killed by Isaac Williams, at Hawkins' Bar.
Nov. 3. Thos. Allen, killed by Wm. Knox, at Columbia, K. was sentenced to serve six months in State Prison.
Nov. 14. Robinson, owner of a saw-mill near Springfield, shot and killed by Vaughn in a dispute about a water-right. Vaughn was discharged from custody.
Nov. 14. Unknown Mexican killed by J. M. Escobar, at Salvador.
Nov. 20. Sam. Poole killed at Curtisville, by McCarthy, in a quarrel about the demi-monde. McCarthy sent to State Prison for two years.
Nov. 30. Chas. Sprague, aged 50, native of Maine, killed by a cave at Gold Hill.
Dec. 4. Sentence of Thos. Crooks, who was to have been hanged Dec. 8, commuted to 10 years imprisonment.
Dec. 8. Bruce hanged at Sonora for a murder committed in 1853.
Dec. 20. Fire in Columbia; French bakery burned.
Dec. 24. William Raney, keeper of a dance house in Columbia, murdered by unknown assassins.
1855.
Jan. 16. Martin Hennessey, a vagrant, shot and killed by officer Carder, in Columbia.
Feb. 9. Chinaman shot and. killed in Jacksonville by the Tax Collector, while resisting that officer.
Feb. 15. Wm. Lyons and Samuel Johns seriously injured by the explosion of a cannon at Springfield.
Feb. 18. New Presbyterian church dedicated at Sonora by Rev. Dr. Scott, of San Francisco.
Feb. 24. Suspension of Page, Bacon & Co. and Adams & Co.
Mar. 5. Greenough and D. Hurrey drowned at French Bar, in the Tuolumne river.
Mar. 7. John Thomas, aged 27, drowned at Pine Log.
Mar. 7. Miners' strike against the Tuolumne Water Co.
Mar. 9. Failey shot by Baxter at Jamestown; drink the cause.
Mar. 10. Hanks, storekeeper at Jacksonville, suicided.
Mar. 17. The Talbot Flour Mills, on the Tuolumne river, carried away by a flood; loss $30,000.
Mar. 24. Joseph Riley shot dead by Mc. O'Brien at Cherokee.
Apr. 2. Vote taken on the proposed removal of the county-seat from Sonora to Jamestown; measure defeated by an immense majority.
Apr. 5. Peabody killed at Santiago Hill by a cave; age 25; native of Canada.
May 3. E. Cooligan, Irish, drowned at Don Pedro's Bar.
May 5. John Sheldon, police officer, stabbed to death by Mexicans; Escobar and Sebada were convicted of this murder and hanged.
May 11. Wm. Franklin,, aged 27, native of New York, drowned at Byrnes' Ferry.
May 15. Elliott Higgins, a miner, drowned in a prospect hole at Yankee Hill.
June 21. Swiers, a storekeeper, at Tuttletown, murdered and robbed by Mexicans.
July 7. Judge Brunton, of Yorktown, attacked in his house and robbed of $12,000.
July 10. Kittering charged Justice Worth, of Algerine, with being concerned in the Brunton robbery, whereupon the latter shot him dead.; on trial Worth was acquitted.
July 13. Chas. Cardinell, of Columbia, shot by Ingersoll for resisting arrest; act pronounced justifiable.
July 28. Uriah M. Isgrigg killed by Reuben Bessy in a quarrel, at Columbia; B. was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
Sept. 5. John Howell drowned at Abbey's Ferry.
Oct. 6. Fire in Jamestown; loss $75,000.
Oct. 10. Murder of J. H. Smith and lynching of the murderer, J. S. Barclay, in Columbia.
Sept. 25. Drake, a miner of Shaw's Flat, severely wounded by E. T. Hunter in the streets of Sonora.
Nov. 10. Columbia Gazette and Southern Mines Advertiser first appeared, semi-weekly; Duchow, Cazneau, editors and proprietors.
Dec. —. Division of the county agitated in Columbia, which was to be the seat of the new county.
1856.
Jan. —. Thos. L. Jones succeeded Leander Quint as County Judge.
Apr. 14. Charles Jarvis killed by Patrick Garhety, at Columbia.
Apr. 30. Charles Lewis, aged 30, suicided at Sonora by taking morphine
June 21. The Wesley Columbian first appeared, Oliver & Wilson, proprietors.
July 7. The Daily Sonora Herald first appeared.
Aug. 13. Petition of citizens of Columbia for incorporation granted.
Aug. 18. Two men, names unknown, killed in Matelot gulch by a cave.
Sept. 22. Chilefio killed by an Indian at Springfield, in a gambling quarrel.
Sept. 29. Frenchman accidentally shot at Pine Log.
Sept. 30. A. H. Woodward and Mattison burned to death in the Belvidere House, near Chinese Camp.
Oct. 18. Bond, attacked by Edward McCauley and Andrew J. Carr, killed the latter, but was slain by McCauley, who was hanged in Sonora Dec. 11, 1855, for the offence. The tragedy occurred at Shaw's Flat.
Oct. 25. War among the Chinese at Rock River Ranch—four of them killed.
Nov. 15. John McKenny killed by a blast at Rock Gulch.
1857.
Feb. 21. Blakesley murdered by Lyons and Poer, near Sonora. The murderers were hanged Dec. 11, 1857.
Mar. —. Five murder cases before the District Court.
May 21 Sonora Literary and Scientific Institution organized; Dr. Snell, Chairman.
June 8. Contract let to B. Stout for building County Jail. Price, $13,300.
June 19. Mexican dies at Martinez from the effects of a cave in a mine.
June 20, Tuolumne Courier's first appearance, Columbia, W. A. and J. C. Duchow, and. J. B. Urmy editors and proprietors.
June 25. Yaney wounded by McCarthy, in Sonora, in a quarrel concerning business matters.
June 26. William Davis hanged at Sonora for the murder of a Chinaman in 1855.
June —. Henry M. Funke shot by Mills.
July 4. Two men engaged in a fight at Peoria Flat, and were both killed.
July 26. Gomez shot dead by Alviso, from jealousy, at Columbia. The survivor was discharged from custody.
Aug. 21. Meadows, while robbing a flume at Shaw's Flat, shot dead by Nettles.
Aug. 25. Great fire in Columbia. Loss over $500,000. H. N. Brown, Dennis Driscoll, J. M. B. Crooks, William Toomey and Capt. Rudolph killed by falling walls.
Sept. 8. Kiefer, a German, killed by a falling rock in in a claim at Gold Hill.
Sept. 13. John Rule, killed in Columbia by a runaway horse to which he was tied.
Sept. 14. William H. Cowan, killed by a fall at Pine Log.
Sept. 22. New Jail at Sonora completed and accepted.
Oct. 20. James Kelly, aged 35, killed by a cave at Bensonville
Oct. 21. William T. Pinney, Public Administrator of Tuolumne County, committed suicide in Stockton.
Nov. 11. Fire in Sonora. Sheriff Stuart signalized himself by rescuing a child from the flames at the risk of his own life.
Nov. 20. R. C. Payne acquitted of the murder of Vaughn.
Dec. 11. Lyons, Poer and McCauley, hanged at Sonora.
Dec. --. William Diver drowned in a prospect hole at Campbell's Half Way House.
Dec. 12. J. S. Smiley killed by Irish Tommy in a drunken row at Sonora.
1858.
Jan. 5. Morris murdered by William Pleasant in Sonora; both colored.
Feb. 10. R. C. Hughes, English, age 50, committed suicide, in the County Jail at Sonora, by taking strychnine.
Feb. —. Perley killed by Indians in the mountains east of Sonora.
Mar. 11. Richard Bloome killed by a cave on Wood's Creek.
Mar. 12. E. Linoberg died of apoplexy, Sonora.
Mar. —. John Sedgwick wounded by Geo. Kirk while making an arrest. For this offence Kirk was sentenced to State Prison for five years.
Mar 27. Henry Stankens and M . Reinder killed by a cave at Portuguese Gulch.
May 3. A son of Henry McGlory, aged 4 years, drowned at Gold Springs .
May 8. Daniel Dougherty killed by a cave at Bensonville
May 17. Cum Sow, Chinaman, killed in Columbia; probably by white men.
May 22. George Tim, German, committed suicide in Columbia, with a pistol.
May 22. G. B. Plummer, Albert Gleason, Joseph Osborne, John Simcox and. John Carlyon, killed in a tunnel at Whimtown by an irruption of water.
June 15. Marshall, an ex-convict, killed in an attempt to rob a bank, at Shaw's Flat.
June 17. Hilaire Boirard, Sardinian, aged 40, killed by a cave at Duck Bar.
Aug. 4. Leonard Shoeck and Abraham DeLoew killed at Grand Bar, by two Frenchmen, brothers, in a mining difficulty. The murderers fled, and being pursued by a party, fired upon them from ambush, killing Robert G. Warren and wounding two others, themselves finally evading arrest..
Aug. 7. Fire in the Tigre, Sonora. Damage from $40,000 to $50,000.
Aug. —. Cabott, killed by Olliphan at the Landsdale Sawmill. On trial Olliphan was found not guilty.
Sept. —. $8,000 nugget found in Columbia, by Strain.
Sept. 13. John Renn, killed by a cave, near Columbia.
Oct. 2. Cassiday killed by Dunn, at Cherokee.
Oct. 6. Fire in Jamestown. Loss $16,756.
Nov. 26. Murder of Officer McDonald, in Columbia.
Nov. 30. Murder of Constable John Leary, in Columbia.
1859
Jan. 10. Miller's Soap Factory burned in Sonora. Loss $4,000.
Jan. 11. T. D. Bruce killed by Capt. Buck, at Tuttle-town. Justifiable homicide.
Jan. 23. Marion Shirley, a horse jockey, murdered by Wm. C. Davis. The slayer was acquitted.
April 27. Virgin & Co., at Columbia, found a mass of gold of the value of $7,000.
May —. Irishman killed at Columbia by the fall of a bowlder.
June —. Sonora Herald suspended publication.
June 22. Thomas Murnan, aged 40, committed suicide at Kincaid's Flat.
July 25. William O'Brien, Irish, killed at Columbia by a cave.
Aug. 10. Indian sluice-robber shot, at Bensonville.
Oct. 3. James McDonald died from effects of a shot fired by one Gardner, a gambler. Gardner released from custody.
Oct. 8. Bayard Taylor lectured in Sonora.
Oct. 11. David N. Hunt, of Big Oak Flat, killed in an arastra.
Nov. 14. A Frenchman murdered another, at Texas Flat.
Nov. 21. George W. Chase killed by Deputy Sheriff Hildreth, in Columbia, in the discharge of his duty. He was exonerated.
Dec. 18. Marcellus Butler, aged 28, pawnbroker, murdered by unknown assassins, at Chinese Camp.
Dec. 27. Samuel White, aged 30, murdered at Ward's Ferry, by person or persons unknown.
Dec. 27. Augustus Stevens, aged 27, native of Maine, killed near Columbia, by a cave.
1860.
Jan. 3. Rice killed at Cherokee, in a drunken row.
Jan. 9. Fire at corner of Broadway and State streets Columbia. Loss $1,200.
Jan. —. Alden Carver shot and killed by W. Costello, at Gold Springs, in a quarrel about mining property. Costello was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged, but obtaining a new trial was declared not guilty.
Jan. 26. Isaac S. Dore, aged 17, native of Maine, was killed near Columbia, by a blast.
Feb. 20. Jo. Conner killed in a fight at Poverty Hill.
Feb.--. White, aged 40, from Vermont, killed by a cave at Algerine.
April 11. Sailor Jack killed by James Dayton, in Sonora.
April 16. Kelly and another drowned at Jacksonville.
April —. Campbell suicided at Cherokee with a rifle. Cause unknown.
April 20. Conniff, aged 29, New York, stabbed to death by George Coffelt alias Bob York, at Tuttletown. On trial Coffelt was sentenced to ten years confinement.
May —. Emile Leon, alias "Yankee," shot and killed by Constable Swilling. Verdict, justifiable homicide.
May 7. The Big Oak Flat stage robbed. Wells, Fargo & Co. lost $650.
May 10. Big Oak Flat incorporated.
June 15. John McGlinchy killed by a Mexican in a gambling row. Weapon, a pistol.
Aug. 2. Fire in the Tigre, Sonora. Loss $4,000 to $6,000.
Aug. 3. Dennis Callahan killed by falling into a shaft at Columbia
Aug. 8. James Lownds, aged 50, Irish, committed suicide by taking arsenic.
Aug. 13. Fire in Sonora. Losses by Messrs. Bush, Rulofson, Sewell, and Freund, $8,900.
Aug. 16. John Killen, of Gold Springs, killed by the fall of a tree .
Aug. 16. Camille Caimus, French, aged 45, killed by "Victor," also French.
Aug. 23. A sluice-robber, name unknown, shot dead by Peter Hanson, near Sonora.
Oct. 27. Robert Dickey, aged 42, married, suicided at Poverty Gulch. Cause, family troubles.
Nov. 7. Springfield incorporated.
Nov. 10. Stephen Smith killed by his brother Daniel, because of suspected intimacy with the latter's wife.
Dec. 2. Judge Thomas C. Brunton, aged 63, native of Massachusetts, married and having a family, was murdered and robbed, near Sonora.
Dec. 17. Alexander Dunlap, aged 45, committed suicide with strychnine, at Barry's Half way House.
1861.
Jan . 4. J. C . Heath, aged 60, suicided with laudanum, Sonora.
Jan. —. County debt was $166,000.
Jan. 10. Death of Waterman from injuries received in the Grizzly Mine.
Jan. 12. S. R. Troby killed in his claim near Columbia by accident.
Mar. 13. Capt. Eben Runnels killed by an Italian, Francisco Lombardo alias Degrei, near Sonora.
Mar. 18. James Foley, aged 32, killed by a cave at Columbia.
Mar. 22. Four Chinamen hung in the jail-yard at Sonora for the murder of another at Big Oak Flat.
Mar. 27. William Turner alias Red Bill suicided at Tuttletown by shooting.
Mar. 27. L. T. Baxter murdered by John Kinney at the Placer Hotel, Sonora. K. was found not guilty.
Mar. —. Freshet throughout the county. Great damage to claims, etc.
April 15. Hugh Canovan, aged 38, stabbed to death in Columbia by B. F. Ryder, who escaped conviction.
April 30. Orrin Waltze run over and killed by a team at Jamestown.
May Body of Reuben Anderson, aged 35, native of Tennessee, found in Stanislaus river.
June 24. Daughter of D. J. Collins drowned in Wood Creek Flume, Sonora.
July 4. Gen. Shields, U.S.A., delivered Fourth of July address in Columbia.
July 6. Jacob R. Giddis, Agent of the Tuolumne County Water Company, found murdered at reservoir near Strawberry.
July 26. Sloan stabbed to death in Columbia.
July 27. Fire in Columbia. Loss $26,000.
Aug. 6. Great Fire in Sonora. Loss $100,000.
Sept. 5. Udo Von Keller run over and killed in Columbia.
Oct. 2. Mexican teamsters murdered in the mountains 45 miles east of Sonora.
Oct. 26. Patrick Farley, a saloon-keeper at Shaw's Flat, murdered by Pat. McCann and others.
1862.
Jan. 11. Geo. E. Deering, of Jacksonville, drowned at Campbell's Flat.
Jan. —. Carroll murdered by Smith and Tinder.
Jan. —. San Francisco newspapers sold in Sonora at a dollar per copy, owing to the difficulty of transit.
Jan. 24. Heavy fall of snow in Sonora.
Mar. 8. Petronilla Belador killed by other Mexicans at Algerine.
Mar. 12. Donnelly stabbed by Tidford, died at Big Oak Flat.
Mar. 15. Theater building commenced, next to the U. S. Hotel, in Sonora.
Mar. 27. John Davis, a miner and capitalist of Sonora, arrested for the murder of a man in Yolo county, 12 years previous.
Mar. —. Copper excitement at Crimea House; miles of country staked off.
Apr. 2. Pedro Martinez killed by falling. into a mining shaft, in Sonora.
May 26. Chinaman stabbed and killed at Chinese Camp by a fellow-countryman, who was committed to jail and there hung himself.
Aug. 9. Andrew Hempfield caved upon and killed at Chinese Camp; deceased was a native of Ireland, aged about 31 years.
Oct. —. Alex. F. Platt committed suicide.
Oct. 21. Thomas Quinn, Irish, aged 28, killed in a claim on Mormon creek.
Oct. 27. Wm. Gray injured by a cave in the Louisiana tunnel, died in the Hospital.
Nov. 11 McAllister murdered by Isaac Dann at Jeffersonville, in a dispute about water rights; Dann was found not guilty.
Dec. 27. John Davis, who was arrested in Sonora, taken to Yolo county and tried for murder, and acquitted, having returned to Sonora, was killed by D. O. McCarthy.
1863.
Jan. 27. Thomas Walsh, aged 30, killed in a claim on Mormon creek by a cave.
Feb. 8. Shooting affray by Italian miners at Moccasin creek; two men killed and five wounded.
Mar. 1. Ando, a Frenchman, hanged himself at Hosmer's ranch.
Mar. 1. Two Chinamen murdered by Mexican robbers at Paris Bar, on the Tuolumne.
June 26. Fire in Jamestown. Property of McPhillips and others, to the value of $10,000, destroyed.
June 27. Daniel Miller suicided at the Rock River ranch.
July 8. Dominique, a Frenchman, stabbed and killed at Pine Log.
Aug. 29. Great Republican mass-meeting at Sonora, addressed by F. M. Pixley and others.
Sept. 13. Charles J. Alderley and Nathan H. Pike murdered at Garrote by parties unknown.
Oct. 20. Big Oak Flat nearly destroyed by fire; loss about $50,000.
Nov. —. Robert Ferral, Esq., retired from the editorial charge of the Democrat.
Nov. 30. Francois Tavais, of French nativity, committed suicide with a shotgun, at Moccasin creek, during an attack of delirium tremens.
Dec. —. E. F. Hunter, formerly of Sonora, acquitted of a charge of murdering a man. in Sacramento, after change of venue to Jackson, Amador County.
Dec. 26. Two Mexicans, Cosme Nunez and Luis Leiva, hanged by a mob.
1864.
Feb. 22. Mortimer J. Smith, aged 50, occupation journalist, a former resident of Tuolumne, died suddenly in Sacramento.
Apr. 5. Ossian E. Dodge, the celebrated vocalist, sang in Sonora.
Apr. —. Numerous outrages on Chinamen by Indians and Mexicans were reported at this time. At the Lacaire ranch a Chinaman was murdered, and Pedro Ybarra and Ramon Velasquez were held for the crime, and the latter sentenced to be hanged, Sept. 23, 1864.
Apr. 23. Pike Bartlett suicided at Carder's ranch, from despondency.
May 10. Pedro F. Silva, native of Portugal, killed at Brown's Flat by a cave.
July —. Peter Stemmer, a German, aged 37, committed suicide at Garrote with a pistol; no cause given.
July 11. William Fleming, of Don Pedro's Bar, murdered, and house robbed of $8,000.
Dec. 9. Larkin Richardson, native of Massachusetts, aged 65, found dead at Garrote.
1865.
Jan. 16. Henry Merle, of Shaw's Flat, run over and killed by a loaded wagon.
Jan. 16. Joseph Snyder suicided in Columbia, with a pocket knife. No cause known.
Feb. 4. Four Chileños died at Italian Bar, from inordinate wine-drinking Their names were: Santiago Molino, J. J. Villa, Isidro Sanchez, and Santiago Godie.
Feb. 18. George Sharratts purchased the Tuolumne Courier of J. Duchow, Esq., and moved it to Sonora.
Feb. 20. William A. Boyce accidentally shot and killed by his son, at Davis' Flat. Deceased was 67 years of age, a native of North Carolina, and left a large family.
May 6. Pierre Mathieu committed suicide at the French Garden, Sonora, by means of a shotgun.
June 17. Fire in Sonora. The "Long Tom," Rudorff's restaurant, and. Livingston's shoe shop destroyed.
July 1. Louis Schiftean, French, aged 40, killed at the Consuelo Mine, by a falling rock.
July 8. Chinese sluice-robber killed by John Mangan, at Brown's Flat.
July —. Sleeper, banker in Columbia, failed.
Sept. 30. Fire in the Tigre, Sonora. Loss, slight.
Oct. 12. William E. Thornburg murdered on Sullivan's Creek, near Algerine, for his money.
Oct. 23. H. W. Williams killed and — Shirley wounded, by W. N. Harris, in a mining claim dispute, near Jamestown.
Nov. 16. Daniel Kane killed by a cave at Columbia.
Dec. 6. Sheriff Bourland killed a Chinaman, at Columbia, while endeavoring to make an arrest.
Dec. 20. County Jail at Sonora burned, and Thos. Horn, a native of Ireland, aged 36, who was confined therein, perished in the flames. The loss to the County was about $25,000.
1866.
Jan. 1. Colonel B. F. Moore, a '49-er, and a well known resident of Sonora in early days, died in San Francisco.
Feb. 2. Attempted murder of William Kelly, of Sonora, at Cramer's ranch, by Cramer and wife.
Feb. 25. Jules F. Cholez, French, aged 33, shot and killed by Indian sluice-robbers, on Sullivan's Creek, near Sonora.
March 20. Patrick Lambert killed by a runaway horse, near Sonora.
April 7. John Morris, of Jamestown, accidentally killed by Walker Howe's pistol, during a fight.
May 12. Antonio Diaz, a Chileño, committed suicide, near Sonora, with a pistol.
July —. Montezuma destroyed by fire.
July 16. The Tuolumne Courier suspended publication.
Aug. 13. Six persons broke jail; four recaptured.
Sept. —. A. A. H. Tuttle, first County Judge of Tuolumne, ex-member of the Legislature, and some time Assistant Secretary of State, died at Donner Lake of hemorrhage. Deceased was one of the first settlers of this county.
Oct. 13. Fire in Columbia. Loss $4,200.
Oct. 15. Geo. Gordon committed suicide while insane.
Oct. 20. Child of William Martin, of Summersville, burned to death.
Nov. —. Geo. McQuade, of Sonora, killed in Bridgeport, Mono County, by being run over by a loaded wagon.
Nov. 28. Sang Hee killed in Sonora by her lover, Ah Tuck, who made his escape.
Dec. 8. Chas. S. Fowler, aged 55, native of Massachusetts, killed by Robert Wallace.
Dec. 19. American Flag newspaper suspended.
1867.
Jan.--. John Gindel, a German, suicided near Columbia, probably through insanity.
Mar. 1. A. N. Francisco, editor of the Democrat, died.
Mar. 11. Isaac Watson shot one Henderson for criminal relations with the former's wife. H. recovered.
Mar. 18. Thos. Dunn killed in a claim near Sonora.
Mar. 21. Juan Gallegillos fell dead at Sullivan's Creek.
Mar. 22. Morgan's Building burned in Columbia. Loss $2,000.
April 10. Adam Backer, German, died of heart disease in Columbia.
May 25. Mrs. Lassa, of Deer Flat, killed by a cow that she was milking.
May 27. Laurel Hill Quartz Mill burned at Cherokee. Loss $3,000. No insurance.
June 5. Henry R. Peterson killed in a mining quarrel at Yorktown, by James Ford.
July 6. O. S. Davis' house burned, in Sonora. Loss $2,000.
July 15. Extensive fire in Sonora. The Tigre burned. Loss $18,000. Origin of fire unknown.
July 29. Fire in Sonora. Houses of Dolores and Sugg burned. Loss $1,000.
Sept. 21. Henry Rowland Maltbie found dead at Marsh's Flat with nine buckshot in his body . Verdict, murder by unknown parties. Deceased was a native of Georgia, 36 years of age.
Sept. 21. Diedrich Michael, aged 40, of German extraction, found dead, having hung himself during a supposed attack of insanity.
Nov. 27. William F. Cooper, of Rock River Ranch, while insane from the effects of a fall, murdered his wife with a pistol.
Dec. 29. Pasqual Rochaz, alias Gonzales, hung himself in the jail at Sonora, when in confinement on a charge of killing Thomas Oljin in the preceding August.
1868
Jan. 29. Henry Williams, of Deer Flat, died from a wound accidentally inflicted by himself .
Feb. —John Murray, alias `Scotty," aged 38, committed suicide with a shotgun. Strong drink, the cause
Mar. 30. United States Hotel and theater building adjoining destroyed by fire and the Episcopal church damaged. Sonora.
June 17. Tuolumne National Guard mustered out of service.
June 27. Mohammed Abdallah, an Arab, died in Sonora from heart disease.
July 4. Lockey Hancock, aged 42, native of Tennessee, killed at Big Oak Flat by the race-horse which he rode, colliding with a tree.
July 26. Pierre Eugene Mitchell killed by a cave in his claim at Columbia. Deceased was a native of France, aged 35.
Aug. 4. Wilson Teas run over and killed on the Sonora and Mono road.
Aug. 21. Fry & Comstock's mill, at Calder's Ranch, burned. Insured for $6,000.
Aug. 21. Wehmeyer & Fuller's soap factory, on Main street, near the foundry, in Sonora, burned. Insured for $2,025.
Sept. 22. Augustus Johnson, aged 52, Swedish, found dead in Sullivan's Creek.
Sept. 30. William D. Kenower, a native of Pennsylvania, suicided at Columbia with a shotgun.
Oct. 3. C. Smith, a German, aged 61 years, died of heart disease in Sonora.
Oct. 9. Cochrane's sawmill, at Garrote, burned by incendiaries. Insured for $5,000.
Oct. 19. August Meyer, a German music teacher, died suddenly of heart disease.
Oct . 21. Earthquake.
Nov. 17. A Chilean killed by his fellow-countrymen at Montezuma. Cause unknown.
1869.
Jan. 16. John Brown, killed by a cave, in a mine on the North Fork of the Tuolumne.
Jan. 28. James Munson, aged 60, of Scotch nativity, found drowned, near Don Pedro's Bar.
Feb. 22. Peter Kelly, aged 2 years, drowned in a flume at Springfield.
Mar. 17. J. A. R. Child, aged 48, native of Mass., killed by accident, in a mine at Garrote.
Mar. 21. Selig Ritzwoller, aged 44, a German dry goods dealer, committed suicide in Sonora by hanging. Cause, despondency.
Apr. —. Railroad agitation.
Apr. 10. Son of James Arthur accidentally killed at Woods' Crossing.
Apr. 22. Harris & Rodden's store burned at Montezuma. Loss $8,000, insurance $5,000.
May 4. Son of L. Jacobs, aged 4 years, drowned at Columbia.
May 9. Gregorio, fatally stabbed by Flores, another Mexican, at Big Oak Flat.
June 3. Hill, aged 19, drowned at Chinese Camp.
June 8. Dashaway Hall, at Brown's Flat, burned.
July --. Stephen Tonkin and Peter Lean, killed by a slide in the Soulsby Mine.
Aug. --. Mrs. Roessler thrown from a buggy and killed, near Chinese Camp.
Aug. 27. Joseph Brothers' store, in Sonora, burned. Loss $15,000.
Aug. 28. Henry Strebling, a Cornish miner, aged 28, killed in the Mount Jefferson Mine, at Garrote.
Aug. 28. Santiago Robles, a horse-thief, hung by a mob, near Don Pedro's Bar.
Sept. 1. Fire in Sonora. C. Burden's shop burned. Loss $1,450, insurance $500.
Sept. 16. Joseph Fordal, from Portugal, aged 30, killed by a slide near Columbia.
Sept. 19. Chinese riot in Jamestown. One Chinaman killed and several wounded.
Oct. 2. Dr. A. C. Bratton and Thomas J. Evans engaged in a quarrel at a ball in Jamestown, and both received serious wounds.
Oct. 26. William Arthur, editor of the Union Democrat, found dead in his room, at the Sonora Hotel.
Nov. 9. Frederick Schwilk, a German brewer, committed suicide at Shaw's Flat, by severing an artery.
Dec. 6. William G. Heslep, died in Arizona.
Dec. 17. Dr. Perez Snell, died, aged 87 years.
1870.
Jan. 21. William Whitto, a Cornish miner, aged 50 years, hanged himself in Sonora.
Mar. 27. A China woman, murdered and robbed near Jacksonville, by unknown parties.
Apr. 11. Christisen Mosbrogan, a Norwegian, aged 45, found dead at Mountain Brow.
Apr. 18. Walter Griffin, aged 5, drowned at Columbia.
Aug. 30. Fire at Chinese Camp. Loss $28,000.
Sept. 20. Orrin R. Harrison, aged 62, murdered near Hyde's Mill. The weapons used were an axe and a rifle. Hiram W. Poole, accused of the crime, committed suicide in jail.
Sept. 21. Spencer Blair, aged 50, a farmer residing at Summerville, fell dead.
Sept. 29. Judge J. N. Stone, died in San Francisco.
Oct. 17. Christian Reist, native of New York, aged 50, killed by a slide at Mexican Flat.
Dec. 21. J. C . Scott, severely wounded by Thomas Newton, alias " Texas," who was sent to State Prison for three years for the offense.
1871.
Jan. 18. Bernard Tanzi, aged 50, native of Italy, killed in his claim, near Sonora, by a slide.
Jan. 24. Hyppolite Bonnard, a French miner, aged 45, found murdered.
Feb. 13. Robert Bigsby, native of N. B., aged 45, died suddenly, at Jeffersonville.
Mar. 11. Henry Thompson, a Scotchman, aged 50, fell dead from intemperance, at Algerine.
Mar. 11. Hiram W. Poole, held for the murder of O. R. Harrison, suicided in jail.
Apr. --. Large fire in Sonora; the Riffle Saloon, and other buildings burned. Loss $21,000, insurance $14,000.
Apr. —. Prentice Mulford was a contributor to the Union Democrat at this time.
June 9. M. H. Hyde's dwelling house burned. Loss $800.
June 13. Chinese sluice robber killed, at Columbia.
July --. Fire at corner of Washington and Hospital Streets, Sonora, caused by explosion of kerosene. Oppenheimer's store burned. Loss $8,000, insurance $4,000.
Aug. 11. John S Anderson, a Swede, aged 50, toll-keeper on the Sonoma and Mono road, murdered by two men.
Sept. —. J. R. Hancock, aged 40, native of Tenn., murdered at a point fifty miles east of Sonora. Doubtless by Indians.
Oct. 15. John F. Rebstock, known as " Peg Leg," killed in Columbia, by William Jones, who was sentenced to State's Prison for 14 years.
Nov. 7. Charles Thompson, killed by Jacob Oliver, east of Sonora, in a drunken fight. They were both Swedes, and were partners in farming. Oliver was convicted of murder and sent to State Prison for 12 years.
Dec. 2. J. M. Hernandez accidentally killed by Henry Morgan, in a drunken fight at Columbia.
1872.
Jan. 15. John M. Loring, of Shaw's Flat, found dead.
Jan. —. Joseph Perano and wife, Italians, killed near Sonora by a runaway team.
Mar. 26. Earthquake.
Apr. —. Ah Mow killed by Ah Bun, a gambler, at Jamestown.
Apr. 3. Earthquake.
Apr. 26. Richard Inch drowned in the Tuolumne.
May 5. Josiah S Kimball committed suicide with a pistol; he was a native of Maine, a miner, and aged 45 years.
May 7. Jacob Betzer, a German living at Big Oak Flat, killed by a fall.
July 29. W. H. Engles killed by Thomas Willis, who was tried for manslaughter and acquitted.
July 29. Banks Winton, aged 92, the oldest resident of Tuolumne county, found dead in his room, at Shaw's Flat.
Sept. 22. Louis Lefevre, a Frenchman, aged 70, fell dead in Sonora from natural causes.
Oct. 8. James W. Coffroth dropped dead in Sacramento.
Oct. 19. William Hill, aged 48, of Irish descent, killed by a cave at Brown's Flat.
Nov. 2. Nicolo Blatcovich killed by the falling of a flag‑staff at the City Hotel, Sonora.
Dec. 19. Geo. F. Wright, aged 41, miner, native of Ohio, died of apoplexy at the Excelsior mine.
Dec. 24. Captain Henry Smith, of Brown's Flat, suicided in the County Hospital.
Dec. 30. Manuel Inas, a Portuguese miner, killed by a cave at Spring Hill, on Woods' Creek.
1873.
Jan. 18. William Logan, from Pennsylvania, drowned.
Jan. —. Eudora Pope, aged 11 years, killed while skating in Columbia.
Feb. 7. B. A. Mardis died suddenly at Sacramento.
Mar. —. James McLean, a former well-known resident of Columbia, died in Stockton.
Mar. 6. Ali Bun found guilty of the murder of Ah Mow, and sentenced to be hanged April 25.
Mar. --. Floyd R. Cowles, aged 46, from New York, froze to death near Northrup's.
Apr. 7. Thomas Hodge died suddenly of heart disease at Confidence.
Apr. 13. Ah Bun, under sentence of death, hung himself in jail at Sonora.
Apr. 30. Henry Vail died suddenly of heart disease at Northrup's; deceased was a native of New York, aged 66.
May 8. Henry Howard found dead at Quartz Mountain; cause debility.
May 15. Chinaman killed in Shine's claim, in Columbia, by a cave.
May —. Ah Fook murdered in Columbia.
June 24. Charng Wy, a Chinese desperado, of Chinese Camp, attempted murder, resisted arrest, and committed suicide.
July 8. Burns, aged 8, run over and killed at Columbia.
July 14. Daniel Walker killed at Deadman's Bar, on the Stanislaus.
July 18. Thomas N. Cazneau died in San Francisco, aged 64. Deceased had been a prominent resident of Tuolumne in early days.
July 31. Joseph Rademacher killed by a falling building, at Columbia.
Aug. —. Henry P. Barber died in San Francisco of paralysis. At one time he held the position of District Attorney in Tuolumne county, and took a prominent part in public affairs.
Aug. 15. Lot Carmell, aged 68, killed at Pine Log by falling over a cliff.
Sept. 8. John H. Richards stabbed to death by William Grundy.
Sept. 18. Ali Kew murdered and robbed at Soldiers' Gulch, probably by Indians.
Sept. 22. Torgar Olsen killed by a boy of 17, named John Gillen.
Oct. 11. Armand. Hincelin, French, aged 48, painter by occupation, committed suicide by shooting, at Chinese Camp.
Oct. 17. The shaft of the great Soulsby mine burned out; loss $3,000 to $4,000.
1874.
Jan.--. Yo Hung hanged himself at Campbell's Flat.
Jan. 9. Son of Joseph Daigle, aged 9, drowned in a well at Jamestown.
Jan. 17. A. J. Mussche, a Belgian miner, aged 60, killed by a slide at Jamestown.
Mar. 19. Simon Marque, a Frenchman, aged 50, died of heart disease in Sonora.
Mar. 23. Martin Barry, aged. 50, killed in the White Rock claim, Brown's Flat, by a cave.
May —. Prof. Denton delivered a course of six lectures on scientific matters, in Sonora.
June 1. Andreas Yanderwerff, alias Tom Potter, crushed to death in his claim at Experimental Gulch.
June 2. J. D. Murphy's flour mill, near Big Oak Flat, burned.
June —. M. B. Duffield, a former well-known inhabitant of Tuolumne, murdered in Arizona.
June 15. William H. McLarty killed by a fall at Montezuma.
June 28. Fire in Sonora; John Wolfling's house burned; loss $1,500, insurance $600.
July 8. Fire in Soulsbyville; August Authemann's store and contents destroyed; loss -----, insurance $2,000.
July —. George Washington Haver found dead at Campbell's Flat from old age and debility.
Aug. 1. William Morgan, formerly of Columbia, killed by Indians.
Aug. 7. Fire in Catholic church, Sonora; loss $3,000.
Sept. 1. Jose Baracca murdered by Henry Rhodes at Campbell's Flat. R. was convicted of manslaughter and sent to State Prison for two years.
Sept. 11. Thomas Ripley, a miner, native of Massachusetts, fell into a shaft at Chinese Camp, and was instantly killed.
Oct. 1. G. H. Ashe's house in Sonora burned; loss $2,000.
Oct. 9. S. M. Comfort crushed to death at Bradford & Way's saw-mill
Oct. 26. Thomas Cunniff died suddenly in Columbia, from the effects of intemperance.
Nov. 7. The Sonora and Milton stage, Miller's line, robbed of the express box, containing $341, at Salt Spring Valley.
Nov. 14. Adolph Parou, aged 50 years, killed in Columbia by Thomas Hays, for debauching the latter's daughter.
1875
Jan. 25. Chinaman killed at Montezuma, by a cave.
Jan. —. Donald Davidson, a well known miner, died in San Francisco. Deceased was at one time principal owner in the great Soulsby mine.
Feb. 10. G. H. Ashe's house again burned.
March --. U. S. mail stage robbed at Reynolds' Ferry, by three men, and over $6,000 taken.
March 27. John McCoole, miner at Table Mountain, caved on and killed. Deceased left a wife and three children.
March —. Cinnabar discovered at Marsh's Flat, on the Tuolumne River.
May —. Catholic Church in Columbia burned.
May —. Dr. J. J. Franklin died from the effects of an accident.
May 13. Catherine Long, of Jacksonville, chastised by her brother, Patrick Harney, from the effects of which she died.
June 18. Chinaman murdered near Jacksonville.
June 19. Another one murdered and robbed near Montezuma.
July 4. Ernest Adolf Krause thrown from a horse and killed, in Columbia.
July 8. Fire at Chinese Camp. Loss, $ -----; insurance, $9,000.
July 16. Fire at Sonora. H. L. Street's residence burned. Loss not given; insurance, $1,600.
July 24. Joseph Antoine found dead. in Springfield.
July 25. Harvey Briggs killed at Northrup's by a team.
July 26. Fire at Shaw's Flat. Dwelling house of Dickinson burned; loss, $5,000.
July 31. Robbery of Sonora and Milton stage, at Reynolds' Ferry. One man engaged. $160 taken.
Aug. 20. Paulo Demartini drowned himself in a mining shaft near Jamestown.
Aug. —. W. H. Roberts and E. H. Clough became proprietors of the Union Democrat.
Aug. 22. J. Barbetas murdered an Indian woman at Montezuma.
Sept. 19. Peter Nelson, aged 50, miner by occupation, found dead in Sonora.
Sept. 27. George L. Barker, or Booker, died. suddenly at Jamestown, aged 48.
Nov. —. Heavy rains this month. The Phoenix reservoir burst, and carried away the bridge over Sullivan's Creek, and drowned three or four Chinese miners living below.
Nov. 30. Mrs. Bridget Gaynor shot and killed by Patrick Shine, at Columbia.
Dec. 1. The Sonora and Milton stage robbed, near Union. Bridge; $600 taken.
Dec. 1. John Podesta's distillery, at Yankee Frill, burned.
Dec. —. John S. Nugent, of Columbia, said to have been a natural son of George IV, by Mrs. Fitzjames, died in the Insane Asylum.
1876.
Jan. 17. Abner Murray found dead near Sonora, having committed suicide with strychnine.
Jan. 20. William Von Stein, German storekeeper, found dead at Pine Log.
Jan. 29. E. M. Hampton's house burned, at Roach's Camp.
Feb. —. Religious revival in Sonora.
Feb. 15. Captain Henry Bacon, of Summerville, an old '49-er, died of paralysis; aged 72.
March 7. John Sharwood drowned in Sullivan's Creek.
April 25. Ernest Stocker, a Dane, aged 45, suicidal at Mountain Pass.
May 1. O. C. Gunn shot and killed by John Conlin, in self-defense, at Experimental Gulch.
May 5. Sloan killed by Hyde, in Sonora. Hyde, Burns and Richards were held for the murder; of whom one, Hyde, was convicted, he receiving a seven-years' sentence.
May. 7. W. H. Smith, once Lieutenant in Stevenson's Regiment, suicided with morphine, at the Hospital in Sonora.
May 15. J. M. Ayres committed suicide with a rifle, at Deer Flat. Supposed cause, despondency.
May 15. John Wagner, aged 14, accidentally killed by his brother Charles, with a shotgun, at Chinese Camp.
May 28. John Hyde's building burned; loss, $1,000.
June 20. F. Bacinta, aged 16, killed by a cave at Martinez.
July 3. Jack Swindells, an Englishman, and old resident of Tuolumne, found dead on Sullivan's Creek.
July 19. Alfred Warren Stearns died suddenly at Shaw's Flat.
Sept. 22. Fire in Sonora. House of Cuevas, on Hospital street, burned. Loss, $2,200; insurance, $900.
Sept. 29. Quin Sing murdered at Central Ferry, by parties unknown.
Nov. 3. Edward Connolly, charged with robbery, broke jail at Sonora.
Nov. 15. Unsuccessful attempt to rob the Sonora and Milton stage, at Brown's Flat.
Dec. 2. M. W. Brooks, aged 66, an old resident of Sonora, killed by the fall of a tree.
Dec. 11. Earthquake.
1877.
Jan. 4. Henry Pilon, known as "Bibi," died from exposure .
Jan. 17. John McCabe, once Justice of the Peace at Brown's Flat, suicided at San Jose.
Feb. 10. Peter Olsen drowned in Tuolumne River.
Feb. 17. Jean, or Victor, Belli, French, aged 45, suicided with a pistol at Peoria Flat.
Mar. —. Robbery of the Sonora and Milton stage at Reynold's Ferry. $108 taken.
June 17. T. Brodigan's Sonora Hotel burned. Loss, $14,600. Insurance, $5,500.:
July 9. Asa Timmons from Michigan, aged 42, shepherd by occupation, died in the hospital at Sonora, from the effects of injuries received from a bear.
July 14. Fire in Sonora. Reitz's saloon burned. Loss, $1,100.
July 18. Fire in Sonora. Losses to John Perano, F. Conrad, Parsons Wise, H. H.Rowell, Mrs. Lopez, Steinmetz, and Van Harlingen. Gross amount, $5,350, with insurance of $950.
Aug. 9. Robbery of the Sonora and Milton stage by three men. Amount taken, $800.
Aug. —. Frank Gomez killed by a cave at Columbia.
Aug. 15. Ohio Mining Company's Works burned. Loss, $3,000.
Aug. —. The Sonora and Milton stage again robbed at the usual place, and $600 taken. Two men, Odum and Benson, were arrested for it.
Oct. 1. Francis D. Cook, miner, native of Maine, aged 44, drowned in the South Fork of the Stanislaus, near Northrup's.
Oct. 6. Fire at Knickerbocker Flat. L. Donder's store burned. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $3,000.
Oct. 12. Albert Schwilk kicked to death by a horse in Columbia.
Dec. 27. James Morrison, aged 9, accidentally killed at Jamestown .
1878.
Jan. 15. Robbery of the Sonora and Milton stage at Brown's Flat, and over $5,000 taken.
Jan. --. Capt. Buck, aged 75, '49er, died at Rawhide of paralysis.
Feb. 2. Fire at Chinese Camp. Dr. Lampson's office and drug-store burned. Loss, $3,000.
Mar. 16. Bernard Martin, Irish, miner, aged 42, died suddenly of apoplexy in Sonora.
Mar. 18. The house of John Atbers, at Big Oak Flat, was burned, and the owner fatally injured in the fire. A. was a native of Maryland, 78 years of age.
Mar. 19. W. D. Davies' house, near Columbia, burned.
Mar. 23. Bradford & Way's planing mill, in Sonora, burned. Loss, over $5,000, with no insurance. The mill was rebuilt and running again within a month.
April 13. Dunster murdered at Yankee Hill. D. Bolero was arrested for the crime, but escaped conviction.
May --. Christopher J. Brown, aged 10, accidentally shot himself, at Spring Meadows, the wound proving fatal.
May 14. A. H. Colburn, aged 64, native of Massachusetts, fell dead at Kincaid's.
May 15. Marie Guitonneau, French, aged 54, found dead at Pine Log.
Aug. 23. Michael Ryan killed by a fall in the New Albany mine.
Aug. 30. Ah Chung killed at the Halfway House by a cave.
Sept. 6. Col. Thomas R. Stoddart died. in Sonora.
Oct. 1. Thomas Mahoney died of injuries received in his claim at Brown's Flat.
Oct. 19. Per Johnson, of Sonora, a Swede, aged 54, suicided, leaving a wife and family.
Oct. 29. Joseph E. Kenniston died of heart disease at Garrote.
Nov. 2. W. H. Rulofson killed in San Francisco by a fall. Had been one of Tuolumne's prominent citizens in early days.
Dec. 31. Fire at Confidence. Mrs. Harms' hotel burned.
1879.
Feb. 27. Valentine Hahn, aged 69, suicided in Sonora by means of a shotgun.
Mar. 16. Tuolumne Brewery damaged by fire. Loss $2,600, partly insured.
Mar. 27. Samuel J. Brown, of Columbia, a carpenter by occupation, suicided by poison, owing to ill-health.
Apr. 7. John McCarty, Irish, aged 59, shot and killed by Thomas Maguire, aged 80, at Byrne's Ferry. At his trial Maguire plead guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to two and a half years in State's Prison.
May 27. Fire in Columbia; Louis Levy's residence consumed, with a loss of $1,600.
May 30. S. R. Lucas, Irish, aged 52, found dead near Deer Flat. Verdict, murdered by a Chinaman.
June 16. Daughter of Michael Wilson, aged 7, drowned at Chinese Camp.
July 14. Thomas Newton, alias " Texas," killed by George Sandoval, at Wolfling's slaughter house, in Sonora. Sandoval was released.
July 23. Fire near Columbia; house of John Williamson burned.
Sept --. Discovery of the great bonanza, by Divoll & Co.
Sept. 1. Fire in Sonora; Baptist church damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars.
Nov. 14. Francis Terry, accidentally killed near Chinese Camp.
Nov. 30. James Calder died suddenly, at a point east of Sonora.
1880
Jan. 5. Judge Rooney became Superior Judge.
Jan. 17. Ephraim A. Harlow, killed by a runaway at Chinese Camp.
Jan. 19. Fire at Columbia. P. B. Bacon's house burned. Loss —, insurance $500.
Feb. 1. Michael Brown, of Brown's Flat, a miner of Scotch descent, aged 71 years, committed suicide by shooting.
Mar. 14. Flour mill of James T. Padderson, at Mountain Brow, destroyed by fire. Loss not given; insurance $1,000.
Apr. 28. Thomas Taylor, aged 34, English, found dead at Bald Mountain.
May 16. Thomas Belton, from Chili, aged 75, found dead in his cabin, on Curtis Creek.
June 20. Accident at the Olsen mine; the cage containing four men fell forty feet, severely injuring all of them.
June 24. L. D. Bond, a United States surveyor, drowned in the Tuolumne River.
July 17. Ah Hong. murdered on Ward s Ferry road by unknown persons.
July 28. John Gibbons, aged 22, stage-driver by occupation, shot himself dead, by accident, at Milton.
Sept. 1. Fire in Chinese Camp; property of Egling, Wilson and Morris, destroyed; loss not stated; insurance $3,800.
Oct. 1. Fatal stage accident near Priest's Hotel; Father Treinor, a Catholic Priest, was mortally injured.
Oct. —. George Scammell found dead near Northrup's; verdict of coroner's jury, death caused by parties unknown.
Oct. —. Fire in Sonora. J. C. Duchow's residence burned; loss $3,000. Barry and wife, of Columbia, arrested as incendiaries.
Oct. 22. James Maclean, accidentally killed in Auburn. A much respected former resident of Tuolumne. His age at the time of death was 49.
Nov. 31. Niels Nelson, a Norwegian miner, found dead at Mountain Brow.
Dec. 28. Charles Grant, aged 21, shot himself with a pistol, at Quartz Mountain. Supposed suicide.
1881.
Jan. —. Wm. H. Ford, once County Clerk of Tuolumne, died in Martinez, Contra Costa County.
Mar. --. Dominico Antonioli, aged 72, found dead at Italian Camp.
Mar. 21. Philip Mathews died at Fallon's Hotel, Columbia. Probable suicide.
Apr. 25. Ah Chee killed by Ah Own, in Sonora. The assassin was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment.
May 7. Fire in Sonora. Thomas McGee's house situated on Washington street, burned.
May 27. E. W. Cordero and Treney C. Marshall found guilty of abducting Helen Armand for purposes of prostitution.
July 14. Sam Smith, miner, aged 59, native of Sweden, killed by a blast, at Cherokee.
July 28. Frank Way's lumber-mill burned. Loss $30,000; no insurance.
Aug. 18. Wm. Bruskie, Jr., suicided at Peoria Flat, by taking poison.
Sept. —. Fire on Drew's ranch, near Garrote, causing a loss of $3,000. John L. Morrison, aged 56, native of N. C., died from overexertion on this occasion.
Sept. 21. Attempted assassination of E. A. Rodgers, at Sonora, by unknown parties.
Sept. — Railroad agitation.
File donated by Carolyn Feroben. Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
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History of Tuolumne County, California - San Francisco: B.F.
Alley, 1882, 581 pgs.