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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 un- known.
Nov. -. Col. Falconer established the Columbia Gazelte.
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 be- coming 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 dis- charge of his pistol, Wood's Diggings.
July 7. Simson B. Merril, from Maine, killed by Indians, in the mountains, 20 miles east of Sonora.
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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 Span- ish 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. After 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 So- nora, committed suicide by shooting. Mar. 24/ Leander Quint became Judge of the Court of Sessions.
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Apr. 1. A gold specimen valued at $4,800 found at Col- umbia.
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 Ranco," murdered near Jamestown. Keyes, suspected of the deed, was tried and ac- quitted.
June 10. Stanislaus County, now set apart from Tuol- umne, held its first election.
June 18. Henry L. Mahon, killed in a drunken quarrel, in 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.
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Aug. 2. Bruce and Hayes broke jail at Sonora. Bruce was severely wounded by pursuers and both were re-captured.
Aug. 7. Jean Snyder, killed by a cave, at Texas Flat.
Aug. 22. Chileno 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. Mc- Carthy 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.
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Dec. 8. Bruce hanged at Sonora for a murder com- mitted 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; meas- ure 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.
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May 5. John Sheldon, police officer, stabbed to death by Mexicans; Escobar and Sebada were con- victed 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 & Caz- neau, editors and proprietors.
Dec. -. Division of the county agitated in Columbia, which was to be the seat of the new county.
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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 Weekly Columbian first appeared, Oliver & Wilson, proprietors.
July 7. The Daily Sonora Herald first appeared.
Aug. 13. Petition of citizens of Columbia for incorpora- tion granted.
Aug. 18. Two men, names unknown, killed in Matelot gulch by a cave.
Sept. 22. Chileno 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 An- drew 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.
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May 21 Sonora Literary and Scientific Institution organ- ized; 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 Ben- sonville.
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Oct. 21. William T. Pinney, Public Administrator of Tuolumne County, committed suicide in Stockton.
Nov. 11. Fire in Sonora. Sheriff Stuart signalized him- self 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 sui- cide, 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 Benson- ville.
May 17. Cum Sow, Chinaman, killed in Columbia; proba- bly by white men.
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May 22. George Tim, German, committed suicide in Co- lumbia, 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.
.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.
23. Marion Shirley, a horse jockey, murdered by Wm. C. Davis. The slayer was acquitted.
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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 & 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 re- leased 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 Hil- dreth, in Columbia, in the discharge of his duty. He was exonerated.
Dec. 18. Marcellus Butler, aged 28, pawnbroker, mur- dered 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.
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Jan. -. Alden Carver shot and killed by W. Costello, at Gold Springs, in a quarrel about mining prop- erty. 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. Kelly and another drowned at Jacksonville.
April 16.
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 Tuttle- town. 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 gam- bling 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, $8,000.
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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 lat- ter'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 Halfway 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, Fran- cisco Lombardo alias Degrei, near Sonora.
Mar. 18. James Foley, aged 32, killed by a cave at Co- lumbia.
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 Tuttle- town by shooting.
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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 con_ viction.
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 Co- lumbia.
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.
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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 Chi- nese 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 Jefferson- ville, 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 ac- quitted, having returned to Sonora, was killed by D. O. McCarthy.
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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 Hos_ mer's ranch.
Mar. 1. Two Chinamen murdered by Mexican robbers at Paris Bar, on the Tuolumne.
- Jnne 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, ad- dressed by F. M. Pixley and others.
Sept. 13. Charles J. Alderley and Nathan H. Pike mur- dered 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. François 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 journal- ist, a former resident of Tuolumne, died sud- denly in Sacramento.
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- 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, mur- dered, 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 San- tiago Godie.
Feb. 18. George Sharratts purchased the Tuolumne Cou- rier 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.
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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 de- stroyed.
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 con- fined 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.
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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 Massachu- setts, killed by Robert Wallace.
Dec. 19. American Flag newspaper suspended.
1867. Jan. -. John Gindel, a German, suicided near Colum- bia, probably through insanity .
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