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August 29. Death of Father Junipero Serra, at the Mission San Carlos, at Monterey.
October 20. San Rafael tract grante l to Jose Maria Verdugo.
1786. December 4. Santa Barbara Msssion founded.
1787. December 8. La Purissima Concepcion Mission founded.
1791. October 9. La Soledad Mission founded.
1794. August 28. Santa Cruz Mission founded.
1797. April 2. The Jesuits expelled from California, and all other dependences of Spain.
June 11. San Jose Mission founded.
June 24. San Juan Bautista Mission founded. July 25. San Miguel Mission founded.
September 8. San Fernando Mission founded.
1798. February 3. Departure of the exiles from Loreto June 13. Mission of San Luis Rey de Francia founded.
1802. Humboldt visits California,
1804. September 17. Mission of Santa Ynez founded. 1806. July 16. Death of Father Vincente de Santa Maria. 1809. San Buenaventura Mission was dedicated and sup- posed to be finished.
September 9. Mission Church at San Buenaventura dedicated.
1810. Santiago de Santa Ana tract granted to Antonio Yorba,
1811. December 8. Lompoc Mission destroyed by an earth- quake. Numbers killed and injured.
December 8. Great earthquake at Santa Barbara.
1812. September. According to "Tuthill's History of Cal- ifornia," Carpenteria and Santa Ynez were de- stroyed by an earthquake.
December 8. Mission of San Juan Capistrano de- stroyed by earthquake.
December 21. Church of La Purissima destroyed by earthquake.
1815. W. Whittle claims to have arrived in Los Angeles, being the first English speaking settler in Cali- fornia
1817. December 18. San Rafael Mission founded.
1818. Bouchard's privateer attacked the coast towns. José Chapman and Thomas Fisher captured and taken to Los Angeles.
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1822. Mexican Independence established. Captain John Hall, of the British Navy, examined, and reported on the Pacific Coast harbors. The New Mission Church was dedicated.
1823. August 24. Death of Father Josè Señan. August 25. San Francisco de Solano Mission founded. 1824. Santiago Mckinley settled in Los Angeles. First Act of the Mexican Government toward secu- larization of the missions passed.
1825. Jedediah S. Smith entered California overland.
1826. Manumission of the Indians declared.
1827. John Temple, George Rice, and J. D. Leandry settled in Los Angeles
First Mexican School established at Santa Barbara. Great drought.
1828. Jesse Ferguson, Richard Laughlin, N. M. Pryor, Abel Stearns, and Louis Bouchette settled in Los Angeles. Continued drought.
1829. Michael White and John Domingo settled in Los Angeles.
1830. Lewis T. Burton arrived at Santa Barbara.
1831. January 17. Death of Father Francisco Suñer.
The number of Indians at the missions in Upper California was upwards of 30,000.
December 5. Romauldo Pacheco and Jose Maria Avila slain, and Governor Victoria severely wounded, in an encounter near the Cahuenaga Pass.
J. J. Warner, William Wolfskill, Luis Vignes, Jo- seph Bowman. John Rhea, and William Day, set- tled in Los Angeles.
The schooner Refugio built at San Pedro.
1832. Manuel Victoria became Governor. Governor Victoria left 'alifornia for San Blas.
1833. Death of Padre Sanchez.
1834 August 9. Complete secularization of the missions decreed. Hijar's expedition. Destruction of the mission property.
Luis Vignes plants the first orange orchard in Los Angeles.
1835. Hijar's insurrection. January 13. R. H. Dana visits Santa Barbara. September 29. Death of Governor Figueroa. Henry Mellus and Hugo Reid settle in Los Angeles. The first lynching.
1836. Census taken. Graham's insurrection. Los Angeles erected into a city.
The value of a fat ox or bull in Upper California was $5.00; a cow, $5.00; a saddle horse, $10.00; a mare, $5.00; a sheep. $2.00; and a mule, $10.00. 1837. Courts established in Territory of California, by Mexican Government.
1838. There is a tradition among the o'd citizens that in this year a drought destroyed nearly all the stock in Santa Barbara County.
Second Mexican school established in Los Angeles.
1839. July 2. First arrival of Captain J. A. Sutter in San Francisco Bay.
1840. Isaac Graham and companions arrested and sent to Mexico.
Indians rebelled while the people were in church.
1841. F. P. F. Temple, D. W. Alexander, B. D. Wilson, John Rowland, Wm. Workman and others settle in Los Angeles.
United States exploring expedition examined the California Coast.
June. Captain Sutter declared a Mexican citizen. June 18. Grant of land to Captain Sutter at New Helvetia.
1842. General Micheltorena arrived with the appointment as Governor of California.
Micheltorena Governor.
March. First gold discovered in California, by Francisco Lopez, a Californian, at Franeisquito, about thirty-five miles northwest of Los Angeles. October 19. Seizure of Monterey by United States Commodore Jones.
October 20. Its restoration.
November 2. First gold sent to Philadelphia Mint from California, by Don Abel Stearns.
1843. January 18. Commodore Jones visits Governor Mi- cheltorena at Los Angeles.
1844. Great drought.
Lancasterian school established in Los Angeles.
1845. Continued drought.
February 21. Battle at Cahuenaga between Michel- torena and Alvarado.
1846. It is said the orchard of the Santa Barbara Mission was destroyed by Fremont's troops.
Survey of the town of Santa Barbara by Salisbury Haley.
March. Arrival of Fremont and exploring party.
March 3. Act of Congress to settle private land claims approved.
April. The Donner party start for California.
May 11. War with Mexico declared by Congress.
June 11. First act of' hostility by Fremont's party.
June 17. Sonoma captured, and the Bear Flag raised. July 7. Monterey captured by Commodore Sloat.
July 8. Yerba Buena captured.
July 15. Commodore Stockton at Monterey.
July 27. Fremont's battalion sent to San Diego.
July 28. Rev. Walter Colton appointed alcalde of Monterey.
July 29. Commodore Slaat sailed for the East.
August 1. Stockton sails for San Pedro.
August 4. = captures Santa Barbara.
August 6. 16 arrives at San Pedro.
August 15. Los Angeles City occupied by Stockton.
August 15. The Californian issued by Semple and Colton, at Monterey, the first on the Coast.
September 4. First jury trial iu California at Mon- terey.
September 23. Flores' insurrection against Gillespie. Gillespie surrenders, and embarks at San Pedro.
B. D. Wilson's party captured by Varelas.
October 1. George Heavey, Deputy Sheriff of Santa Barbara County was killed by John Scollan, in supposed self-defense.
The roof of the mission fell. No one hurt.
October 7. Captain Mervine landed at San Pedro and was defeated.
December 27. J. C. Fremont entered Santa Barbara. 1847. January 8. Battle of the Rio San Gabriel.
January 9. Battle of the Mesa.
January 10. Los Angeles re-occupied by Com- modore Stockton.
January 11. Proclamation by Stockton.
January 12. Treaty of peace agreed to by Gen.
John C. Fremont and Gen. Andres Pico at Ca- huenaga.
March 1. S. W. Kearny recognized as Governor.
The bark Masco landed supplies for the volunteers stationed at Santa Barbara.
April. Semi-monthly mails established between San Francisco and San Diego.
April 8. Arrival of 300 men of Stephenson's regi- ment at Santa Barbara.
May 31. Richard B. Mason became Governor.
July 4. Fort Moore named.
July 4. One hundred and eighty of Stevenson's men sailed for southern California from Santa Barbara. July 9. Colonel Burton left Los Angeles for La Paz. December. The guard-house at Los Angeles acci- dentally blown up.
First American Alcaldes appointed in Los Angeles. 1848. January 19. Discovery of gold at Coloma.
February 2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
March 8. First civil marriage in Los Angeles, before Stephen C. Foster.
1849. January 4. Alta California newspaper established in San Francisco.
February 7. First Pacific Railroad bill introduced in Congress.
February 28. Steamer California reached San Fran- cisco.
April 13. Gen. Bennet Riley became Governor.
June 3. Governor Riley issued a proclamation for a convention at Monterey.
October 13. Constitution signed.
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November 13. Constitution ratified by the people. December 15. First Legislature at San Jose. December 20. Governor P. H. Burnett inaugurated. First steamer (Gold Hunter) visited San Pedro.
1850. February 18. State divided, twenty-seven counties. May 4. Second great fire in San Francisco. June 3. Third great fire in San Francisco. September 9. California admitted into the Union. September 17. Fourth great fire in San Francisco.
1851. Second Legislature convened at San Jose.
February 14. Act approved removing capital to Vallejo.
The Irving party massacred by the Cahuilla Indians. Gregory's Atlantic and Pacific Express established.
November 12. Attempt to assassinate Benjamin Hayes.
1852. January 2. United States land commission met at San Francisco.
January 5. Third Session of Legislature at Vallejo. June 14. State census taken.
1853. January 3. Fourth Session of Legislature met at Vallejo.
February 4. State Capital removed to Benicia. Tejon Indian reservation established.
July. Discovery of the "Lost Woman" on the Island of San Nicolas.
Steamer Winfield Scott wrecked on Anacapa Island. December 20. Sam Hudson drowned in the Lagoon near Santa Barbara.
1854. Januar, 2. Legislature convened at Benicia.
February 25, State Capital removed to Sacramento.
July 20. First number of the Southern Californian issued.
Doña de Tavia died, one hundred and twelve years of age.
August 1. The claim filed with the Pueblo Land Commissioners was rejected.
October 1. Loss of the steamer Yankee Blade on the rocks near Point Arguello, in Santa Barbara County.
December 28. Death of Francisco Arrellanes from a pistol-shot inflicted by Francisco Leyba, Jr.
1855. June 2. Gale at Point Concepcion, unroofing some of the buildings of the light-house department.
June 7. Two bodies of murdered men found ou the Rancho Purissima.
June 18. Pablo de la Guerra, Mayor of Santa Bar- bara, resigned on account of ill health.
July 4. This day was celebrated in Santa Barbara by a parade of the Mounted Riffemen, and a ball in the evening.
July 5. First shipment (twenty-eight flasks) of quick- silver from Santa Barbara mines.
July 11. Severe shock of earthquake. Serious drought.
July 25. José Carrillo chosen to succeed Pablo de la Guerra as Mayor of Santa Barbara.
August 9. Horse race at Santa Barbara between Mignel de la Guerra and Antonio Arrellanes. Stakes, $2,000 and horses; distance, 1,000 yards; time, one minute, one second. Won by de la Guerra, by half a length.
August 24. First railroad train in California placed on track.
August 29. Seven shocks of earthquake, cracking the adobe walls in Santa Barbara.
September. The arrival and departure of vessels at Santa Barbara was about ten per week.
October 18. A party of hunters, returning from the islands, brought forty-two otter skins.
October 25. The county debt was estimated at $20,- 000. No county buildings to show for the expense. Light-house two and one-half miles west of Santa Barbara erected.
City ordinance in force at Santa Barbara prohibiting any business on Sunday.
1856. January 9. Severe earthquake. Two persons killed. January 13. Big storm at Santa Barbara.
May 8. Flouring-mill of M. A. R. de Poli com- mened operation.
June 9. John H. Kelly drowned while bathing at Santa Cruz Island.
June 12. Seven dead bodies lying by the roadside near San Miguel. No particulars.
June 13. Twenty-three horses stolen from the rancho of Puiz brothers.
June 15. Patrick Dunne sentenced to two years in the State Prison.
June 18. Sabio, a Sonorian, stabbed to the heart by Domingo, at the San Jose Vineyard.
June 20. Carlos Grimeno fell into an unprotected well in Santa Barbara and was drowned.
September 5. Death of Dr. M. A. R. de Poli, by a fall from his house.
September 22. José Francisco Sorio killed by Jos Romero at Montecito.
A very warm summer.
November 13. Murder of J. H. Moore at Montecito, by persons unknown.
1857. January 9. Heavy earthquake, greatest ever expe- rienced in California.
March 5. A sea lion killed, measuring six feet, seven inches; skin worth $40.
April 23. John T. Burnett thrown from his wagon while descending the Rincon Hill, and killed.
1858. January. Camels used as pack animals by the mil- itary.
Indian depredations.
June. Public records transferred to San Francisco.
July 23. First overland mail left Sin Francisco. General prosperity.
Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company organized. The claim of Santa Barbara to pueblo lands was filed with the Secretary of the Commission.
1859. First flowing oil-well struck.
Silver discovered at Fort Tejon.
December 5. Severe sand-storm in southeastern por- tion of the county, delaying mails for some hours.
1860. Quicksilver was first discovered in Santa Barbara County, by José Moraga.
October 8. Telegraph line between San Francisco and Los Angeles completed.
1861. Two men were injured, one fatally, in the Hot Spring Canon, by a land-slide.
March 6. The decision of the Commissioners in ro- gard to the Pueblo lands was reversed in the U. S. District Court, and confirmed for four leagues. Copper discovered at Soledad.
1862. March 3. Death of Nicolas A. Den. Secession raging throughout the country.
Rain fell in Ventura County for sixty days succes- sively.
1863. Gold mines opened on Santa Catalina Island.
November 9. Enrollment for the draft.
1864. February 11. Rain. End of the two years' drought.
August 13. Watermelon exhibited on the streets of Santa Barbara weighing sixty pounds.
Secession becoming unpopular.
Great drought in Santa Barbara County. Santa Catalina Island occupied by the military.
1865. July 4. It is said that at a celebration only twenty- one Americans were present.
1867. The first Protestant church was organized at San Buenaventura.
1868. May 29. The Santa Barbara Post was started by Boust & Ferguson.
July. First sprinkling cart in Santa Barbara.
July 24. Dominguez Abadie killed by Javier Bonilla.
July 25. Indian near San Buenaventura killed in a drunken brawl.
September 19. Ground broken for Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad.
November 5. Cosmopolitan Saloon, Santa Barbara, burglarized to the amount of $400.
1869. January 5. Man shot at the Suey rancho while try- ing to force his way into a house.
February 4. Death of Geo. D. Fisher, formerly County Clerk of Santa Barbara County.
February 5. Terrific sand-storm.
February 5. William Hampton severely injured by a bear in the San Marcos Mountains.
February 10. Horse distemper prevalent.
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February 29. Death of A. B. Thompson, aged sev- enty-one.
March 28. Hanging of Lucas by the mob at Car- penteria.
April. Rev. T. G. Williams appointed School Super- intendent, vice A. B. Thompson, deceased.
April 24. Steamer Orizaba landed forty tons of freight for Santa Barbara.
May 5. Opening of the St. Vincent School, at Santa Barbara, for pupils.
June. Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad com- pleted.
September 17. The Congregational Church at Santa Barbara was dedicated by Dr. A. L. Stone.
September 25. Hottest weather known in Santa Barbara. Thermometer 9216 in the shade.
October 2. Death of Señora Maria Cota de Pico.
October 17. Steamer Sierra Nevada, plying be- tween San Francisco and San Diego, wrecked be- tween San Luis Obispo and Monterey. Passen- gers saved.
November 1. Extensive fires on the San Marcos Rancho.
Epidemic among cattle.
Silk-worms raised in large numbers.
Strong efforts made to repeal the fence law.
1870. February. The Hon. Reuben S. Fenton, formerly Governor of New York, was a visitor in Santa Barbara.
April 1. Death of Gen. José Maria Covarrubias, aged sixty-one.
June 12. A. E. Chataneuf instantly killed by a fall from his carriage.
August 10. Stage robbed near San Buenaventura.
September 9. Santa Barbara in telegraphic com- munication with San Buenaventura.
September 26. Santa Barbara in telegraphic com- munication with San Francisco.
1871. March 6. American Hotel, Santa Barbara, destroyed by fire. Estimated loss $10,000.
The San Buenaventura wharf was begun.
April 22. The first number of the Ventura Signal was issued.
May. The Santa Clara Irrigating Company was or- ganized.
May 7. Affray at Guadalupe, Juan Olivera and Ramon Zurita, brothers; death of the latter.
May 28. Presbyterian Church at Santa Barbara dedicated.
June 26. Heuston. private clerk of Colonel Hollis- ter, killed by a fall from his horse.
July 25. Death of Jose Carrillo, aged sixty-four.
August 4. Right to construct a wharf at Hueneme granted Thomas R. Bard, C. L. Bard, and R. G. Surdam.
August 25. An attempt was made to burn the Press office at Santa Barbara.
October 1. Extensive fires in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, and burning of buildings at Hot Springs. October 21. A. L. Lincoln forwarded $450 to the Chicago relief fund.
November 6. Franchise for wharf at Santa Barbara granted to W. W. Hollister, Albert Dibblee, and Thomas B. Dibblee.
Improvements of the year made in Santa Barbara estimated at $100,000.
1872. January 6. Pat Byrne killed a California lion measuring thirteen feet in length.
February 7. Earthquake at Santa Barbara; bells rung, barrels rolled, and things generally trembled. February 10. Death of José de la Guerra, formerly Sheriff of Santa Barbara County.
February 20. Santa Barbara streets lighted with gas.
March 14. Captain Brennan and four men, of the schooner Minnie Bell, perished while attempting to land in a boat near Point Sal.
March 23. The First National Gold Bank was or- ganized. Mortimer Cook, John Edwards. S. B. Brinkerhoff, Eugene Fawcett, G. W. Williams being named as Directors.
April 5. Row among the Indians on the Santa Ynez, in which three lost their lives.
July 7. Death of J. E. Hartnell, of Santa Barbara County.
July. First gold brought to Santa Barbara from Sespe Mines.
August. The citizens of Santa Barbara presented three petitions in favor of granting assistance to a railroad company.
August 29. Thomas Scott was at Hueneme.
September 16. First vessel (Annie Steffer) unloaded at Stearns' Wharf, Santa Barbara.
September 16. The corner-stone of the High School building at San Buenaventura was laid. This was the first public building erected in the county. The total number of school children in Ventura couuty was 809.
October 19. James Mullan killed by John HI. Hare. The trespass law was agitated in Santa Barbara.
The estimated increase of population for the year was 2,500.
1873. January 1. Death of Guadalupe Elwell by a fall from his horse.
January 29. Quarrel between Liberato Garcia and Junipero Lopez, result, death of the latter.
February 1. Severe storm. Both the lighters of the P. M. Steamship Co. were driven ashore.
February 1. Work on the Southern Pacific Rail- road commenced.
February 22. Lobero's Theater opened with native talent. Mostly Italian music.
March 3. George Martin, of the Colonia Rancho, Ventura County, was murdered by George Har- gan, who was lynched by the citizens.
April. Santa Barbara County was re-districted.
April 3. A son of José Maria Pico accidentally and fatally shot by a playmate.
April 14. Death of Frank Molleda. He was born in Spain in 1832; came to California in company with A. G. Escandon in 1849.
April 26. Extensive bodies of gypsum found on the Ojai Rancho.
April 27. Hon. Amasa Walker, of Massachusetts, was in Santa Barbara.
May 6. Albert Wicks committed suicide by taking arsenic.
June. John Scollan appointed collector of the port of Santa Barbara.
June 13. The new steamer Ventura made fast at the wharf, bringing from San Francisco seventy tons of freight, and a great many passengers.
June 14. A man, wife and child were treed by a bear at the mouth of the Matillaha Canon for three hours.
June 23. The Ventura Reading Club was organ- ized.
June 28. William McCarty drowned at Hueneme while bathing.
July 17. An enormous bear, which had for years been preying upon the stock around Montecito. was killed by Callis andHubbard, of Carpenteria. He weighed over 1.000 pounds.
September. Destruction by fire of Russel Heath's drying-house at the Carpenteria. Loss 83,000.
September 11. Death of John II. Bradley, formerly a resident of Santa Barbara, and founder of the Ventura Signal.
October. Chas. Nordhoff in Santa Barbara.
October 13. Concert in Santa Barbara by Madame Anna Bishop.
December. Chinese Mission, Santa Barba a, founded. 1874. Murder of Mrs. S. J. Shedd, of Santa Barbara, by her husband while in a state of intoxication, fol- lowed by his suicide.
January. Fire company organized at Santa Barbara. January 10. Pleasant Valley Grange wasorganized. February 5. Death of Pablo de la Guerra.
February 16. Dr. F. W. Upson committed suicide at Santa Barbara by jumping into a well.
February 24. Mrs. A. W. Hickok's store, on State Street, Santa Barbara, destroyed by fire.
February 28. San Pedro Grange was organized.
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March. Franchise for street railroad granted Judge T. W. Freelon.
March 13. Sespe Grange was organized.
March 15. St. Vincent's Institute destroyed by fire. Loss $20,000.
March 19. The Ojai Grange was organized.
April 22. The Ventura Division Sons of Temper- ance was organized.
April 24. First trains from Los Angeles to San Fer- nando and Spadra.
May 15. The bandit Vasquez captured.
Library Association organized, San Buena Ventura, with the following officers: President, B. T. Wil- liams; Secretary. J. J.Sheridan; Treasurer, Mrs. C. L. Sturtevant.
August 13. Odd Fellows Library at Santa Barbara opened to the public.
September 19. The Bank of Ventura was organized with a capital of $250,000.
October 17. Peter Warner accidentally shot near Santa Paula.
October 24. Sale under execution of the Ex-Mission lands to Vassault, subject to redemption.
November 6. Fire engine received for Santa Barbara from Watertown, N. Y.
November 23. The Ventura Library Association was incorporated.
November 27. Jerome Harper found dead in his bath at the Hot Springs.
Death of Benjamin Foxen, a resident of Santa Bar- bara since 1826.
Four of the men of Stevenson's regiment were liv- ing in the county,- Henry Carnes, John Scollan, John W. Haskell, and Mr. Stephens.
Gen. J. H. Shields, of Ohio, was in Santa Barbara. December 15. The Hueneme Light-house was com- pleted, and the light first exhibited.
The town of Nordhoff was laid out.
1875. Total funded debt of county, $58,073.52.
January. The rain-fall in San Buenaventura for one week was 9 32-100 inches.
The "Monumentals," a fire company, was organized in San Buenaventura.
The town of Santa Paula was visited by a snow- storm.
The Ventura Gas Light Company was organized.
March 10. Shooting of F. J. Garnier by Casper Belmont, in Santa Barbara. Domestic difficulties. April. Steamer Ventura ran on a point of rocks near Monterey, and was a total loss. . No lives lost. April 10. The Lompoc Record was started by W. W. Broughton.
June 15. J. C. Allen shot and killed by R C. Stub- blefield.
July 11. Difficulty between natives, at Montecito; result, one death and one severely wounded.
July 31. Julius Erfurt, book-keeper for Edwards, Smith & Boeseke, committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol.
August 3. Jack Cotton sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Mr. Norton, at Rincon Point. August. Sisters School of St. Vincent, at Santa Barbara, completed and reopened.
August 10. H. Wilburn, on the Sespe, was attacked by a grizzly bear and seriously injured.
August 15. E. Graham installed pastor of the Pres- byterian Church at Santa Barbara.
August 21. Death of J. W. Maxwell.
August 23. Benedicto Vanegas shot and instantly killed, at Ventura, by Manuel Vallegas.
September 3. Frank Wittell found in Santa Bar- bara in a dying condition. Cause, whisky.
September 14. The big grapevine was shipped East to be exhibited at the Centennial.
September 16. Mrs. Norton sentenced to State Prison for life.
September 19. Destruction of the Union House, Santa Barbara, by fire. Loss $6,000.
September 27. Occidental Hotel closed on account of financial embarrassment and litigation.
September 27. Dibblee's Artesian Well, on the mesa 930 feet deep, finished.
September 30. Park Hotel, Santa Barbara, opened by Ramon J. Hill.
November. 16,000 sacks of barley shipped direct from San Buenaventura to Amsterdam.
November 2. Rain-storm, accompanied with high winds, leveling trees and compelling vessels in the harbor to slip their anchor and go to sea.
November 3. Death of Father Gonzales, aged sev- enty-three.
November 9. The cross, which was erected by the missionaries in 1786, fell.
November 13. The Ventura Free Press was started, with O. P. Hoddy as editor and publisher.
December 3. The brig Lucy Ann, loaded with lum- ber, anchored near the wharf at Ventura. parted her lines and drifted on the beach and went to pieces. All saved but Simmonds, the mate.
December 6. Raid on Chinese gamblers in Nigger Alley, Santa Barbara, and forty arrested.
December 8. Death of J. Ross Brown, at Oakland, formerly a resident of Santa Barbara.
December. Big clock bell at Santa Barbara erected. Cost $1,450; weight 1,337 pounds; weight of pen- dulum 75 pounds.
Arlington House erected.
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