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6,755
Elizalde, M. Y.
20,780
Simpson, Robert
5,865
Estrada, J. A.
13.183
Strong, Charles R.
5,425
Eddy, Wm. M.
34,738
Fessenden, Thomas
12,010
Shaw, J. B.
21,360
Santa Barbara Hotel Company
3,000
Farren, Charles
5,077
Stevens, A. T.
5,690
Fressius & Hernster
11,622
Fernald, Charles
20,840
Savings and Loan Society 41,525
Foster, J. G.
6,193
Stone, R. 45,114
Gutierrez, B.
5,047
Sutton, O. P., and others
21,270
Lane, M. H. 5,339
Le Roy, Theodore 104,162
Lillard & Cutlett.
5,530
Mascard, José 10,500
Miller, Isaac
5,137
Mora, Francisco
14,489
Moore, Thomas W 25,627
Cooper, Ellwood. 44,081
Mahe, Gustave. 30,063
Moss, Charles
22,614
Point Sal Wharf Company
8,527
Dibblee, Dibblee, & Hollister
90,137
50,000
Regents' University of California .. Schiappapietra, A.
5,491
55,296
Franklin, R. G.
5,237
Santa Cruz Island Company
Sexton, Joseph
9,195
Hall, F. B.
TAX-PAYERS ON $5,000 OR MORE IN 1880.
Andonagua, J. M. $ 16,685
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Stow, S. P. 36,249
Sturgis, William
12,860
Stow, Mrs. S. P.
14,280
San Francisco Savings Union. 86,634
Thompson, D. W
14,475
Villa, James
9,650
White, A. S. A.
9,245
Weldon, S. R.
10,201
Wickenden, Fred
14,781
Wigmore & Sage
7,374
Young, L.
8,197
Zubala, Annie. 5,639
Zubala, Pedro
6,532
SUMMARY FOR 1880.
Total of property $5,507,727
Deductions on account of mort- gage
769,668
Money.
38,634
Personal Property
1,306,834
Value of improvements on town lots.
515,580
Value of city and town lots.
489,350
Real estate other than city and town
2,785,554
Improvements thereon
339,920
TAX RATES FOR 1880.
State Fund.
$ .64
COUNTY.
General Fund .30
Hospital Fund. .10
School Fund .24
Road Fund .35
Salary Fund. .17
Court House and Redemption Fund. .10
Interest Fund. .06
Jail and Hospital Bonds Fund. .04
Total
$2.00
CONVENTIONS.
Democratic Convention, September 10, 1880 .- Col- onel Heath, Chairman. Delegates :-
Carpenteria-William Anderson, W. Richardson, Thomas Collis.
Montecito-W. A. Haynes, J. J. Ellis.
Santa Barbara (Lower Precinct)-B. F. Thomas, A. Davis, E. Rundell.
Santa Barbara (Upper Precinct)-A. A. Boyce, N.
A. Covarrubias, J. J. Eddleman, Russel Heath, W. J. Tilley, R. B. Ord.
Hope-George M. Williams, William Lavies. La Patera-A. W. Den.
Las Cruces-Edwards Arrellanes.
Lompoc-John Dockery, Charles Irwin, L. Friel. Santa Rita-W. B. Holland (proxy for R. Machin). Ballards-R. de la Cuesta (proxy for D. Oreña). Los Alamos-John S. Bell.
Sisquoc-J. C. Freeman, W. J. J. Foxen.
Guadalupe-J. H. Rice, M. Zederman, J. W. Hud- son (proxy for T. B. Jamison).
The candidates nominated were: For Superior Judge, R. M. Dillard; Sheriff, T. B. Jamison; County Clerk, A. B. Williams; County Treasurer, U. Yndart. The Press commended all the candidates as good men.
U. YNDART.
Ulpiano Yndart, the Treasurer of Santa Barbara County, was born in the city of Fuenterrabia, Prov- ince of Guipuscoa, Spain, April 2, 1828, his parents being Norbirto J. Yndart and Carmen (Arbura) Yndart, both now deceased. Remaining in his native country until the age of sixteen, he was there edu- cated with the intention of pursuing a commercial course of life. He was then offered, which he accepted, a position in a commercial house in the city of Mexico, and left home for that country. The news of the discovery of gold in California reached Mexico in 1848, and, as in other parts of the world, all the people of life and enterprise, who could, were
U. YNDART.
soon preparing to go to the promising land. The young clerk in Mexico was one of these, and early in 1849 he went to Acapulco, and in May of that year, in company with his uncle, the owner of the brig Keoneana, sailed for California. In the following June they arrived at the port of San Pedro, where he disembarked and took up his residence in the city of Los Angeles. There he established a commercial house, which he maintained for a period of five years, when, believing the business of stock-raising the more profitable, disposed of his mercantile establish- ment in Los Angeles and purchased and stocked with cattle the Rancho Najogni, in Santa Barbara County. Upon this rancho he remained and prospered until the year 1864, which was so fatal to the stock grow- ers of California. In 1862, '63 and '64 little or no rain fell in Southern California; the most fertile plains became dry and barren as the sandy desert, and nearly all the stock that depended upon grazing per- ished. This drouth culminated in 1864, a year ever to be remembered by the farmers of California then
RESIDENCE OF S. P. STOW GOLETA, SANTA BARBARA CO. CAL.
BLACK SMITH
R. HART
WAGON MAKER
RESIDENCE, BUSINESS PLACE & CRUSHING MILLS OF REUBEN HART, CENTRAL CITY, STA MARIA VALLEY, STA BARBARA CO. CAL.
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in business. Among the many affected was the sub- ject of this sketch, whom it left financially ruined.
In 1864 Mr. Yndart was elected Treasurer of Santa Barbara County, but this office he resigned to accept the position of manager of the business of John Temple, in the county of Los Angeles. After the death of Mr. Temple he returned to Santa Barbara, where he has since dwelt, occupying many important positions of public trust. In 1867 he was elected a member of the Town Council of Santa Barbara, and was unanimously chosen by the Board its Secretary and Treasurer. This position he retained until 1870. At the first election after the incorporation of the city of Santa Barbara he was chosen City Collector, and re-elected each year until 1877, when he was elected County Treasurer, and re-elected in 1879. Besides the high positions to which he has been elected by the people, he was appointed Notary Public in 1869, and continually re-appointed at the expiration of his term until the present time. Dur- ing these years Mr. Yndart has been a consistent Democrat, prominent and active in his party and exerting a powerful influence over its members. Born and raised in the Catholic faith, he has always been a strict observer of its rights and a liberal con- tributor to its support. Genial and pleasant in soci- ety, and affable in his intercourse with his fellow- men, he has rendered himself exceedingly popular where known and particularly happy in his family relations. Mr. Yndart was married, August 28, 1856, to Feliciana Yndart, daughter of Captain José Do- mingo Yndart and Josefa Rodriguez, in the Mission of Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara County, by the Rev. Cipriano Rubio, priest of the Mission. Doña Felici- ana died in the city of Los Angeles, November 30, 1865, leaving one daughter, who is now the wife of James Maguire and resides in Santa Barbara. José Domingo Yndart, the father of Doña Feliciana, was Captain of the brig Keoneana, sailing and trading between the ports of Mexico, Chili and California long before the latter came under the flag of the United States, and was the same vessel that brought Mr. Yndart to this State.
On the 30th of October, 1868, he was again mar- ried by the now Very Rev. James Vila, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, to Maria Antonia de la Guerra, daughter of Francisco de la Guerra and Ascencion Sepulveda, both residents of California, and granddaughter of José de Ja Guerra y Noriega. By this marriage there are three children. José de la Guerra y Noriega, at the time of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was the eldest of the foreign born residents of California, coming here in 1801 from Mexico, where he had occupied a position as an officer in the army, when Mexico was under the dominion of Spain. He died in February, 1858. Don Francisco de la Guerra, father of Doña Maria Antonia, and son of José de la Guerra y Noriega, was one of the Commissioners who negotiated with Fremont the Treaty of Cahu-
enga, in January, 1847, after the entry of the forces of Commodore Stockton and General Kearney into Los Angeles, by which hostilities were suspended and the future status of California left to the result of the war then waging between the United States and Mexico.
The Greenback Convention was held in Santa Bar- bara, September 11, 1880. Delegates :-
Santa Rita-Dr. A. F. Childs.
Santa Barbara-Upper Precinct, R. O. Hunt, I. B.
Pierce, F. A. Moore, J. C. Hume, J. A. Blood, Jr. Santa Barbara (Lower Precinct)-T. B. Curley,
J. A. Cleale, Richard Dowell, D. H. Russell.
Carpenteria-J. A. Blood. Sr., Melvin Snow.
Sisquoc-N. H. Wood.
Hope-Marion Lloyd, C. A. Storke.
Lompoc-J. Roofe, E. C. Kelly, C. Sullivan, Wil- liam Jackson.
Montecito-J. L. Barker, Walter Conklin.
Pine Grove-J. R. Norris.
La Patera -- E. Callet, H. H. Kosler, Chas. Brock- lesly.
Santa Maria-Walter Elliot, J. F. Holloway.
Los Alamos, Ballards and Guadalupe not repre- sented.
Resolutions deploring the growth of monied aris- tocracy, the degeneracy of the Democratic and Re- publican parties, producing vicious and corrupt legis- lation, demanding payment of the public debt in greenbacks, denouncing the Dêbris Bill; also recom- mending that the W. C. P. fuse with the Greenback party, and act with it, were passed.
Candidates-Superior Judge, W. C. Stratton; Sher- iff, C. E. Sherman, Santa Barbara; County Clerk, J. M. Burch, Santa Rita; District Attorney, J. H. Kin- caid; Treasurer, J. A. Blood; Surveyor, G. W. Lewis; Coroner, J. H. Finger.
CHARLES E. SHERMAN.
The people are wont to take up from among them- selves those who, by energetic industry, fair dealing, and success in business matters, demonstrate their ability to manage public affairs. Mr. Sherman is a native of Iowa. born in 1836, though he might well pass for a younger man by ten years, so well pre- served, or, rather, so well did nature organize his frame that the responsibilities of middle life press so lightly that youth still claims his allegiance. He has been known for years as the successful butcher whose extensive works were situated up the Sycamore Canon, where he has had his place of business. Mr. Sherman is not a chronic office-sceker, though, un- doubtedly, he felt pleased and even flattered, as any one would at being eleeted to the position of Sheriff by such a handsome majority. In public and private he ever evinces the same regard for the feelings of others, and even in his official business, while dealing with criminals, never forgets the amenabilities of the gentlemen. He is distantly related to the Sher- mans of Ohio, and when genealogy was more studied
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and valued than at present, a connection was traced to the Royal Sherman family of Connecticut, though in the rush of business ineident to the lives of men of such energy the details of the relation have been lost. Mr. Sherman may reasonably look for still higher position at the hands of his fellow-citizens.
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Republican Convention, September 14, 1880. Del- egates :-
Carpenteria-J. M. Smith, E. H. Pierce, Juan Rod- riguez.
Montecito-E. B. Hull, O. A. Stafford, L. Conklin.
Santa Barbara-First Ward, G. C. Welch, C. H. Streeter and W. Haverly one vote; Second Ward, J. N. Sweetzer, S. Bisbee, C. E. Huse, J. T. Richards, W. G. Sproul, David Greenlee; Third Ward, E. F. Rogers, F. N. Gutierrez, W. R. Thompson, J. A. Ma- guire, Mortimer Cook; Fourth Ward, A. C. Ryner- son, John Dunshee, George P. Tebbetts, D. W. Thompson, B. Gutierrez; Fifth Ward, Paul R. Wright, J. J. Perkins.
Hope Precinct-J. Mayhew, E. Billington.
La Patera-E. C. Durfee, G. H. Roderhaver, D. Culver.
Lompoe-G. W. Frick, George Roberts, W. H. Austin, L. Landsell, C. L. Saunders.
Guadalupe-H. J. Laughlin, C. H. Clark.
Ballards-W. E. Harvey.
Las Cruces-R. J. Broughton.
Resolutions were passed reaffirming the early prin- ciples of the party, the payment of the national debt, and calling for greater protection to Republican voters of the Southern States, and a greater diffusion of education among all classes.
The candidates nominated were: For Superior
Judge, D. P. Hatch; Sheriff, R. J. Broughton; County Clerk, C. A. Thompson; District Attorney, Clarence Gray; County Treasurer, Benigno Gutierrez; Coro- ner, A. Ruiz; County Surveyor, John Reed.
All of the Northern States have furnished a por- tion of the population for Santa Barbara County. The Maine Yankee jostles the Michigander or the Minnesotian, and the Pennsylvanian and native of Ohio, as well as those of the other States, all dropped into this pleasant corner to stay, and are making farms and building houses with the intention of making themselves comfortable and getting rich, if possible.
D. P. Hatch was born, November 22, 1846, on what is known as Kent's Hill, in Dresden, Maine. His parents were of English descent, though one of his remote ancestors was of German origin. His fam- ily had generally followed farming, but the younger portion of the family had revolted against an occu- pation which presented nothing better for the future than a constant war with frost, snow, ice, and gran- ite rocks, which makes up, to a great extent, farm- ing in the State of Maine. At the age of sixteen he went to Boston to learn a trade, but, his health fail- ing, he returned home. The symptoms of consump- tion became so apparent that his family determined to have him spend a period in the forests camping and hunting. At the age of eighteen he went to the Rangeley Lakes and Dead River, where he com- menced trapping, hunting, 'and fishing, with such good success that he not only restored his health, but became an athlete in person. The business
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suited him so well that he determined upon remov- ing to the far West, to make hunting a profession. This was the result of an intense love of nature in the guise of woodland, lake, river, and mountain, a taste or love which led Thoreau to abandon society and take to the woods-which leads such men as Muir to abandon libraries and the luxuries of cities to wander in the frozen regions of Alaska, or climb such places as Mounts Whitney and Lyell. He was turned from the Rocky Mountain life only by the urgent solicitations of his mother, who induced him to attend the Wesleyan Seminary, from which insti- tution he graduated in 1871. After this he spent some time in the Michigan Law School at Ann Ar- bor, which he left in February, 1872. From thence he went to Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he finished his apprenticeship to the law in the office of Bige- low, Flanders & Clark. He was admitted to practice in the Superior Courts, March 28, 1872, and was soon after appointed City Attorney. The same year he was elected District Attorney for Otter Tail County, which position he held until March, 1875, when he resigned and came to California, making Santa Bar- bara his home. Here he soon acquired a respectable practice. He was appointed City Attorney in April, 1880. In the autumn of the same year he was nom- inated by the Republican party to the position of Judge of the Superior Court, to which position he was elected the following November. Judge Hatch is of a judicial turn of mind, and weighs evidence without prejudice. He is a pleasant and sensible, but not brilliant speaker, candor and good sense being his prominent traits. He is a safe counselor, and is likely to fall into an extensive and remuner- ative practice. He is married, his wife, who was Miss Ida Stephens, being, like himself, a native of Maine. His love of nature, acquired, or rather developed, in the woods of Maine, finds an outlet in the keeping of bees, which he has pursued as a diversion with his law studies.
JOSEPH M. GARRETSON.
The view of his place given in this work indieates a man of cultivated tastes and a lover of nature in all its forms-trees, orchards, and animals. He was born in 1836, in the State of Indiana, of sturdy, industrious, and honest stock, and has done credit to his family by his straightforward and honest career since a resident of this State. He has held several important and responsible offiees, having been twice elected to the position of County Assessor. He is a clear-headed, common-sense man, or as a Western man would say, has no foolishness about him, but gets at the gist of a subject without circumlocution. He is comfortably and pleasantly fixed in life, with enough of worldly goods to insure him against want, but not enough to provoke the envy of his neighbors.
THE ASSASSINATION OF THEODORE M. GLANCEY.
This was one of those crimes which, from the posi- tion of the parties concerned, and from the principles
involved, affected society at large in its responsibili- ties and consequences. When the news flashed over the wires that an editor had been slain for an act done in the line of duty, an expression of horror arose from the whole community. Editors have been slain before for words or sentiments uttered in print. We have the killing of Gilbert by Denver, in a duel, for ridiculing the procession of the emigrant relief party; of Mansfield, who was shot by Taber, at Stockton, and others which might be mentioned. In this instance, Glancey had no personal animosity, having been in Santa Barbara but a short time. Gray had an unsavory record, running through a period of twenty years or more, which will have to be related to some extent, as well as the circumstances of which the final crime was the logical sequence.
CIRCUMSTANCES.
Those who have read carefully the previous his- tory of Santa Barbara, will have remarked from the first the presence of a rough element in the popula- tion, which was at all times ready to override law and justice in their projects for political or other ob- jects. Many of the class of people who were reck- oned among the opponents of law and order in an early day, had become the nucleus of a political power in later times. The gamblers and sporting men generally, with the habitnes of saloons, formed the solid basis of this element. Altogether, their number would not exceed two hundred, and in early days, perhaps only as many dozens. This was not a ruling element; but when held together, was formid- able, as holding in many instances the balance of power.
Clarence Gray came to the county in 1870, and was immediately recognized by that element as a natural leader. But little is known of his past history. Some assert that his right name is Patriek McGinnis, and say that he had been engaged in lawless acts in Pennsylvania, and was obliged to leave the State. He was reckless, unscrupulous, audacious, brilliant, enterprising and witty. If a public meeting was called, he was the first to arise to his feet, and gener- ally made himself prominent in every gathering. Though a lawyer by profession, his knowledge of law consisted mostly in a good understanding of its de- fects and weaknesses, whereby he became the nat- ural defender of those who had violated the laws. Like all men of that class, he relied upon personal prowess for security in his personal rights, and had an exaggerated and morbid sense of personal honor. It is said that he had been arrested some twenty times or more for breaking the peace. He had, on numerous occasions, drawn his pistol and commeneed shooting, or had pounded the objects of his wrath most unmercifully with clubs. For these offenses he generally escaped with a trivial fine. Though nomi- nally a Catholic, he beat a Catholic priest to a condi- tion of insensibility for a reproof justly administered. For this he was fined $20. In all these cases the fines
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were so trivial as to encourage rather than deter him in the repetition of them. When the fire occurred in the Press office, suspicion was directed against him so strongly that he left the State for a year or two, but returned and resumed his original eareer. His rep- utation became so bad that on one occasion when he was nominated for District Attorney by the Republi- ean party, a publie meeting was held to consider the means of preventing his election, the community generally considering the election of such a man to the position of District Attorney as likely to result in serious disaster. If severe language was an excuse for assassination, he had plenty of reason for shoot- ing hundreds of respectable eitizens; for neither eiti- zen or paper, not in his interest, spared him. As it was, he eame within seven votes of being elected.
RESPONSIBILITY OF SOCIETY.
Clarence Gray, without the endorsement of numer- ous friends, would have been squelched in a short time, like any other insignificant violator of the laws; and the historian would have had no occasion to write the story of the awful tragedy which has dark- ened the record of the fair fame of Santa Barbara.
THE MURDER.
When the New Constitution was adopted, in May, 1880, the country was in doubt whether there was to be a new election for officers or whether those elected the preceding year should hold their usual terms. While the question was pending the Repub- licans held a convention and nominated a set of can- didates for the supposed vacancies. Among the candidates nominated was Clarence Gray, for Dis- trict Attorney. When the Supreme Court decided that no election was necessary that season, the nomi- nations were of course without use. The Press, of which Mr. Glaneey had recently become the editor, gave several reasons why the people would welcome the decision, and remarked :-
"Not the least of these in this county is the fact that the Republicans here will be relieved of the necessity of defeating the candidate for Distriet Attorney. The nomination was disgraceful in every respeet, and while it is extremely disagreeable for earnest Republicans to take such a course in a Pres- idential year, there is no difference of opinion among those who have the good of the party at heart. They are convinced that all such candidates should be beaten, and Republiean Conventions taught, if they do not realize it already, that the deeent peo- ple of Santa Barbara County will not submit to having the officers for the administration of justice ehosen from among the hoodlums and law-breakers."
It was urged by Gray's friends that as there was no election to take place the allusion to Gray's ehar- acter was a gratuitous insult. Whatever may be thought in that respeet, the language was quite moderate compared to what had been printed many times before.
Soon after the publication of the article Gray com-
menced hunting the responsible party. He first met John P. Stearns in the office of Judge D. P. Hatch. Several other persons also were present. He inquired of Stearns if he was responsible for the article, and was met with a prompt "I am, sir." Something in the appearance of Stearns, or the parties present, induced Gray to postpone the shooting to a more convenient season. He again met Stearns at his house and had respect enough for womanhood not to bring on a contest in the presence of Stearns' wife and daughter.
The evening following the issue Gray met Glancey, the editor of the Press, and inquired if he was respon- sible for the article in question. Upon being answered in the affirmative, Gray drew a revolver and attempted to shoot Glancey, but his wrists were caught by the intended victim, who remarked, "You shall not draw a revolver on me. I am unarmed." A bystander separated them, but a second time Gray pointed his revolver at Glancey and fired while he was retreating through the door of the Occidental Hotel, with fatal effect, striking Glancey in the right arm near the wrist, the ball continuing its course and going into the abdomen near the navel and passing out of the body on the left side, a little above the hip. Glaneey was able to walk to the Morris House, on the same block, where he fell, Gray, in the mean time, following him, endeavoring to obtain another shot. Glancey was waited on by Drs. Bates, Win- chester, and Woods, but he was past help, and died the following day in the presence of his friends.
PUBLIC OPINION.
If the lawless element justified the act, the better portion of the community throughout the State denounced it in the most unequivocal terms. Not a paper justified the act. To have done so would have led to the suppression of journalism. The pulpit also united in condemning the act and fixing the respon- sibility where it belonged, i. e., on society at large, which hid tolerated the man with his law-breaking proclivities in times past. A few extracts from the papers will show the tendency of publie opinion :-
[From the Sacramento Record-Union.]
" The sketeh of the murderer of Mr. Glaneey which we publish this morning show that the victim had ample justification for the strietures which the nomina- tion of Gray gave rise to. It appears that he is what Mr. Glaneey called him, a man of decidedly bad char- acter-a brawler, swash-buckler, slanderer and law- breaker. That such a man should have been nomi- nated for District Attorney was disgraceful to the Republicans of Santa Barbara, and Mr. Glancey, as an upright member of the party, and as a public-spirited citizen and journalist, was entirely warranted in denouncing the nomination as unfit, and in appealing to honorable Republicans to combine against it and defeat it. The presence of such a man as Gray, if that be his real name, in the position of Distriet Attorney, would evidently been most dam- aging to the interests not alone of the party he represented, but of the community. And we do not hesitate, in the light of the facts, to express our
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