San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, December 10, 1859, Vol. 1 No.36 PAID THEIR TAXES - The following named persons have paid their taxes since the first publication of the delinquent tax list: George Bement; Thos. & Wm. Durham; Thos. Frawley; E. Hildreth; Simon Knight; G.B. Miramontez; Ramona Miramontez; B. Robles; R.W. Tallant; J. Tison; Julius Levy; J.H. Richardson; S.S. Simmons; John Schmoll; Wm. Stanley. GRIST MILL - According to the advertisement in another column a grist mill is about to be put up in Redwood City. This time we believe the project will be carried out. Mr. Morrison informs us that the building will be erected on the site of the present lumber yard of Jones and Co., on the east side of Redwood Creek, near J.V. Diller's warehouse. The mill will have two run of stone. Sheriff's Sale By virtue of an execution issued out of the Twelfth District Court of San Mateo County, and to me directed and delivered for a judgment rendered in said Court on the eighteenth day of August, A.D. 1859, in favor of THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, and against HORACE TEMPLETON and CHARLES UNDERWOOD, for the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) with interest on said sum of sum hundred dollars, from the eighteenth day of August, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, together with thirty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents, costs of suit, and accruing costs, I have levied on the following described property, to wit: All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the County of San Mateo, State of California, bounded and described as follows: Commencing at a stake on the summit of the Sierra Morena mountains, near the northeasterly corner of lands enclosed by Joseph D. Hardin, and running southerly in a straight line of a redwood tree blazed and marked with the letters B.G., and standing on the south side of the road leading down the gulch known as the Harding Gulch, thence southerly in a straight line to a stake on the summit of said Sierra Morena mountains, about three hundred yards in a southerly direction from the house now occupied by Benjamin Gardiner, thence along the summit of said mountains in a southerly direction to the northeasterly corner of land enclosed and occupied by Robert Weeks, thence westerly, in a line with the northern boundary of said Week's land to the creek known as the Arroyo Honde or San Gregorio Creek, thence running down said creek to the mouth of a timbered gulch situated on the westerly side of a small tract of land known as the deer pasture, thence following up said gulch in a northerly direction in the summit of the hill, thence in a straight line to the head of a redwood timbered gulch known as the Smith Gulch, thence easterly along the northerly side of said gulch to the said Arroyo Hondo or San Gregorio Creek, thence in an easterly direction, to the place of beginning. Also, one Saw Mill, Mill Fixtures and House, situated on said land. Notice is hereby given that on SATURDAY the thirty-first day of December, A.D. 1859, at 10 o'clock, A.M., I will sell all the right, title, and interest of said defendants or either of them, in and to the above described property, in front of the court-house door, at Redwood City, at Public Auction for cash in hand, to the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said execution, and all costs. SILAS HOVIOUS, Sheriff By John Ames, Undersherrif Dated, Redwood City, December 9th, 1859 ***** FRUIT TREES - Messrs. Sanderson & Co. advertise their "River Bank Nursery," at San Jose, in our columns of to-day. They have on hand a large variety of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs and no better opportunity will probably be presented for our citizens to supply themselves. THE ELECTION - To-day an election is to be held in this and San Francisco counties, for a Senator in place of Mr. C.H.S. Williams resigned. A.C. Peachy and B.W. Hathaway are the candidates. HOME SUMMARY The citizens of the north-western portion of San Francisco have petitioned the Board of Supervisors for a separate municipal organization for that portion of the city. Inattention to their want is ascribed as the cause of the movement. Dennis Mahoney, convicted of murder in the first degree, in Mariposa, has been sentenced to be hung on Friday, the 30th inst. Hay is worth $80 per ton, and barley six cents a pound, in Weaverville, Trinity county. E.G. Paige, Esq., well known as the popular writer "Dow Jr." died in San Francisco on the 5th. Thomas Raleigh, a negro minstrel, was accidentally shot and killed on the night of the 5th, in the Bella Union, San Francisco. The Bensley Water Company, in San Francisco, will commence furnishing the upper portion of that city with water in a few days. Quite a desperate and fatal affray occurred in Sacramento, between the runners for the steamboats, on Front street, between J and K. A man named Hughes, a runner for the Dashaway, and one Roberts, alias San Juan Jack, got into a quarrel, which led to a fight, during which the latter drew a pistol and shot his antagonist through the body, inflicting a fatal wound. On the night of Nov. 17 a bold an daring attempt was made by a large party of Indians who are supposed to be Maricopas, by parties living in that vicinity, to murder the occupants of a mail station, known as Sutton's, located at the foot of the forty mile desert, on the Gila river, besides setting fire to the house and stealing all the valuable stock of the Overland Mail Company, stationed at that point, the particulars of which as we gather than, are as follows: On the above night, about 9 o'clock, the hostler and teamster of a freight wagon, sleeping in the corral, were awakened by seeing the house occupied by Mr. Sutton and his wife, an aged lady, with their young children, wrapped in flames, and supposing it had taken fire through neglect, they started toward the house to alarm the occupants, and extinguish the fire, when they were welcomed by a shower of arrows, fired by the Indians hid from sight behind a deep embankment; they escaped being hit, but the light enabled the Indians to see them, while they could not be discovered, they made for the house on the opposite side. Upon entering they found all were up, and making every exertion to extinguish the fire, which, however, was almost impossible, through the danger of being shot by the black rascals in front. Mr. Sutton's son George, a young man, was seriously injured, receiving an arrow in his thigh, and also one in the left arm. Mrs. Sutton succeeded, after much effort and danger, in covering up the children; but in doing so, her clothes were filled with arrows - she, however, escaped uninjured. With the aid of the hostler and teamster, they at last succeeded in subduing the fire, and being well armed, the Indians finding they couldn't take the house, or kill the inmates, concluded to leave with the stock of the Company. They opened the corral, and drove out seven of the finest California horses and four mules, all belonging to the Company, but only got away with five of the former and three of the latter. This is certainly the boldest attempt yet made by Indians to destroy valuable property, besides stealing stock, and murdering women and children, and the perpetrators are supposed to be Maricopas. We hope they may be ferreted out, that the guilty ones may be known. ** BY DEFAULT - On Monday morning last the citizens of San Francisco were stricken as by a thunderboldt, by the announcement of a decision in the District Court of the U.S., confirming the Sherebeck grant. This is a grant made in 1845 of pueblo lands, and comprises eight hundred varas square, including South Park, and the lands and splendid residences in the vicinity. It seems the claim was rejected before the Land Commission, an appeal taken to the District Court, and there the case has rested for the last four years, in almost undisturbed repose. From time to time the claimants have been introducing testimony, making up for the deficiencies before the Commission. All this has been known to the U.S. District Attorney, and others interested in opposing the grant, nevertheless they have paid no attention to it. Have allowed the claimants to make out a case on their side, and then have submitted it without argument of any kind, without evidence, without raising any one of the nice legal questions which might have been raised, and which would unquestionably have controlled the decision. Judge Hoffman tells us in almost so many words, that the case has been permitted to go by default, that the District Attorney and parties interested have grossly neglected their duty, and that his decision, made as it is, was a matter of necessity on his part. The result is that the owners of much of the finest property in San Francisco find themselves virtually turned out of doors and their property given to others, and that too to persons who but a few days before would have sold their entire claim for a song. It is true, the property may not actually change hands, but at what a sacrifice will it be saved, compared to the little trouble and expense of properly presenting the case to the court. The city papers censure the District Attorney in bitter terms, and he is evidently not blameless, but we think the property owners themselves may lay much of this misfortune at their own doors. LETTERS OVERLAND - The Butterfield Overland Mail stage left this city yesterday, for St. Louis and Memphis, carrying the unusually large number of six thousand two hundred and nineteen letters. This is the greatest number by nearly two thousand, ever yet conveyed at one time overland, and gives promise of the early employment of the Overland Mail, exclusively, for the carriage of all those letters the postage on which will not exceed three cents. - S.F. Herald, 3d RIVER BANK NURSERY San Jose The Subscribers invite the attention of their former patrons and the public to their large and varied stock of Fruit and Ornamental Trees. The coming seasons of 1859 and '60 they offer a very great number and variety of Pear (on Pear and Anger's Quince stock), also Apple, Peach, Plum, Cherry, Appricot, Nectarine and Quince Trees. Also Lawton Blackberry, Gooseberries, Currants, Raspberries, Grape Vines, &c. The stock of Ornamental Trees is very large and fine, consisting of American Elms, Slippery Elms, Silver Maple, Mountain Ash, European Flowering Ash, Chestnut, Chinese, American and California Arbor Vitae, California Redwood, California Laurel, &c., with a fine variety of Flowering Shrubs. Catalogues sent on application. Terms Cash, and prices as low as any responsible Nursery in the State sells at. Agents in San Francisco - KENDRICK & SMITH, No. 16 Clay street wharf, where the Trees can be seen. The Nurseries are situated on the Road leading from San Jose to Alviso, about three-quarters of a mile north of Beaty's Hotel. L.F. SANDERSON & CO., Proprietors ** MOUNTAIN DELL DIVISION, No. 74, S. of T The Division meets every Saturday Evening, in their Hall at Woodside. Members of sister Divisions are cordially invited. OFFICERS - William Lasswell, W.P.; John Grier, W.A.; J.S. Bollinger, R.S.; A. Hamlin, A.R.S.; Chas. Peterson, F.S.; L. Williams, T.; Thomas Beebe, C.: M.H. Jennings, A.C.; Andrew Teague, I.S.; James Gibbs, O.S.; A.S. Kent, Chaplin. ** WOODSIDE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The Association meets on the first Mondays in January, April, July and October, at Greer's Schoolhouse, Woodside. OFFICERS - D. Jaggers, President; J.D. Rose, Secretary. Board of Directors - D. Jaggers, J.D. Rose, R. Greer, W. Whitlock, A. Teague, D. Ross ** NOTICE The Undersigned begs leave to inform the inhabitants of San Mateo County that he has already purchased a lot in Redwood City, and has made arrangement to build a GRIST MILL, And expects to have it completed by the 1st of July. JAMES MORRISON To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php