San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, June 18, 1859, Vol. 1 No.11 MARINE NEWS Arrived June 11 - Schr Harp, Hendrikson, fm San Francisco June 15 - Sloop R.G. Whiting, Gould, fm Sacramento June 16 - Sloop, Roman, Mine fm San Francisco; Schr Harp, Henrikson fm San Francisco; Sloop Souisa Demerit, Hanson, from San Lorenzo Sailed June 12 - Schr Harp, Hendrikson, for San Francisco June 13 - Sloop Roman, Mine, for San Francisco June 15 - Sloop R.G. Whiting, Gould, for Sacramento, 10,500 feet lumber June 17 - Sloop Julia, Hanson, for Napa - 14,000 feet lumber INDEPENDENCE BALL ! To take place in the COURT-HOUSE, REDWOOD CITY On MONDAY EVENING, JULY 4th, 1859 A Grand Ball will be given in the Town Hall, at the Court-house, Redwood City, on Monday evening, July 4th, 1859, in honor of the Anniversary of our National Independence. No effort will be spared to render the festivities in every way worthy of the occasion. Committee of Arrangements: Wm. Callaghan J.M.P. Fessenden J.W. Vanderoef Chas. A. Perkins Reception Committee: D.A. Foulkes Wm. Maxfield Gen. La Pierre A.W. Hunt W.A. Clark Benjamin Fox E. Norris Wm. Brockway Floor Managers W.C.R. Smith E. Graves A. Bronson Rufus Murphy PARRISH'S COTILLION BAND Is engaged for the occasion TICKERS FIVE DOLLARS A Supper will be served up during the evening IMPORTANT DECISION - INTERESTING TO SETTLERS - Judge HOFFMAN has delivered an opinion in the United States District Court, in the case of Bartolome BAJOROGNEZ, on a review of the survey, which settles a most important principle of practice under the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Fossatt Case, make it the duty of the District Court "to review, confirm, or modify the survey's of the Surveyor-General of Lands confirmed to the claimants by the decree of this Court." By the opinion of the Court, we learn that all parties deriving title from the claimant, to whom the land has been confirmed, may, upon the question of the approval of the survey of the Court, intervene by filing therein their objections. Thus, inferentially, no other parties save the United States and the claimant of his assigns can take any part in such proceeding; and the settler desiring to contest a survey, the lines of which embrace his pre-emption, can only do so through the United States District Attorney. MURDER AND REWARD - On last Tuesday, says the Tehama Gazette, two men called on us, and informed us that on Wednesday, the 25th of May, a man known by the name of John JENKINS, committed a most cold blooded murder in Indian Valley, Plumas county, by shooting a person named McCARLY, while he was engaged in plowing, from behind a ditch. It appears that there had been some quarreling between the two during the previous day, and that JENKINS had come off second best, and had gone off breathing threats of killing his opponent, which he did, as related above, and then fled, though hotly pursued. A reward of $1000 was made up by the citizens of the Valley, and will be paid down on the delivery of Jenkins in that place. The men from whom we derived our information were on the track of a person who answered the murderer's description, in some particulars; but upon being overhauled, he proved not to be the individual they were after. Mr. McLAUGHLIN, for some time Deputy Sheriff of Butte county, asserts that JENKINS' description identifies him as one "Hinny," a notorious thief who broke jail in Oroville in the winter of 1857. RAILROAD - At a meeting of the citizens of Auburn, Placer county, held for the purpose of taking measures for the construction of a railroad from Auburn to Folsom, to connect with Sacramento, a committee was appointed, who have since reported in favor of the organization of a company with a capital stock of $850,000 to be issued in shares of one hundred dollars each, so that it will be within the reach of any man to take stock who desires to do so. The committee estimate that $800,000 per annum is paid to teamsters in Placer county for freights. DEFALCATION - S.P. FAIR, Sheriff of Siskiyou, is a defaulter, to the county he had the honor to serve, to the amount of $60,000. He had absconded with the funds, leaving his sureties disconsolate. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php