San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, August 4, 1860, Vol. 2 No. 18 Benefit Ball A Ball will be given in Concert Hall, Redwood City, on Saturday evening, August 25th, 1860, the proceeds of which will be fro the relief of Mr. John O'BRIEN, who was deprived of his sight by an accident which occurred while endeavoring to perform a disinterested act of kindness. Committee of Arrangements - Denis Martin, John McAvoy, Nicolas Devereaux, John Murphy, John R. Baxter, Lawrence O'Neill. Tickets, including Refreshments $3. Good Music will be in attendance. Dancing to commence at 8 o'clock. The public are respectfully requested to contribute their aid. STOLEN From the Subscriber, a branding Iron for marking Shingles, with the letter "O". Any person marking their shingles with said brand, will be dealt with according to law, for infringing upon my trademark. G.R. MITCHELL Woodside July 28, 1860 Summons State of California County of San Mateo In the Justice's Court, Third Township in and for the County of San Mateo. The people of the State of California, to Robert CAMPBELL., greeting: You are hereby summoned to appear before me, at my office in the Third Township, in the County of San Mateo, on the 25th day of August, A.D., 1860 at 1 o'clock, P.M., to answer unto the complaint of Mrs. C. Underwood, who brings this action to recover the sum of eighty-six dollars and eighty-six cents, on note due from you to the said Mrs. C. Underwood. Also, for an account, which J.V. Diller assigned to the said Mrs. C. Underwood, amounting to $34.50, when judgment will be taken against you for the said amounts, together with costs and damages, if you fail to appear and answer. Given under my hand, this 2d day of August, A.D., 1860. J.W. TURNER Justice of the Peace, Third Township FARM FOR SALE I Offer for Sale, on very moderate terms, my claim on one hundred and sixty acres of enclosed Government land, situated on the west side of the Redwood mountains, adjoining the farm of Lemuel Rice, and near Lapham's Mill, 3d Township, San Mateo county. About ten acres of the inclosure under cultivation, the remainder excellent grazing land. Also, a comfortable Frame Dwelling, a Barn, 30 x 40 feet, outhouses, Farming Utensils, Household Furniture, etc. Also two American Milch Cows, about sixty Fowls, Hogs, etc., etc. The place is well watered by springs throughout the entire year. The whole will be disposed of at half the original cost. JOEL N. BROWN Redwood City, Aug. 4, 1860 JOHN MILLS JOHN FRANKLIN MILLS & FRANKLIN, MANUFACTURERS OF Pine and Redwood Lumber. Having Recently Completed Our New Saw-Mill, in the Redwoods, San Mateo County, we will in future be prepared to furnish the best descriptions of Redwood and Pine Lumber in any desired quantity. BILL LUMER Sawed to Order. Lumber by the cargo, for shipment, will be furnished by the Agent of the firm in Redwood City W.C. CROOK, Agent, Redwood City SMALL POX. - No new cases have come to our knowledge, and nearly all the old ones are recovering. Mr. J.D. Rose, county assessor, we are please to see, is about again, and attending to the duties of his office. Mr. D. Jaggers we are informed is quite ill. THE GRIST MILL. - This establishment is being somewhat delayed in its construction we are sorry to note, owing to the non-arrival of the castings from San Francisco. This is a great injury to the project, as the mill should be in operation by the end of the present month, in order to secure the fall patronage of the farmers, who have been calculating upon obtaining flour from it as soon as their grain is threshed. The fall business of the mill will be the largest of the season, of course, and we regret, for the sake of the proprietors of the mill, that this loss will be incurred by them, on account of its incompleteness. The farmers will suffer some inconvenience also from the delay. FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY. - On Sunday evening last an altercation arose among some of the guests at a wedding in San Jose, during which a Spaniard named Philip Hernandez fired a pistol at John Bee. The ball took effect in his head and killed him almost instantly. Mr. H. Bee rushed into the room, but another desperado named Jesus Flores fired a pistol at him also. The bullet entered the thigh of Bee and shattered the bone so dreadfully that it is doubtful whether he can recover from the injury. Flores was arrested and lodged in jail. Hernandez has fled and has not since been heard from. A GOOD CHANCE. - We would invite attention to the advertisement of Mr. Joel N. Brown in this paper. A fine opportunity is therein offered to a person of small means to purchase a cheap home. There are many persons having the requisite amount of money, who will be glad to hear of this change. We believe $500 will buy the place. ASSAULT AND BATTERY. - C. Prior was up again, after a short respite, before Judge Turner, on Wednesday last, for assault and battery upon his wife, and convicted. Judgment was pronounced, apparently with much regret and feeling by the Judge, but still with commendable firmness. Charlie has so often been up and convicted upon charges of this kind, and small penalties appear to have so little effect upon him that the court felt it a duty to be more severe on this occasion, and imposed a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars, or in default of payment, to go to jail for sixty days. COL. CIPRIANI. - The friends of this gentleman will be pleased to observe in our news columns that from the position he occupies among the notables of France, he is appreciate. He has the good wishes of all who knew him in San Mateo county. THREE MEN SHOT. - Wells, who murdered and robbed a German saloon keeper named Wetzel in Sacramento, a few days since, was pursued and arrested in Virginia City. On Thursday, (26th ult.,) Wm. C. Stoddard, a teamster living near Nicolaus, George Armstrong from Virginia City and Timothy Whorten, Deputy Sheriff of Sutter County, were escorting Wells from Nicolaus to Sacramento in an open wagon. When within two miles of Sacramento, about 2 o'clock in the morning, he, with a pistol taken from Armstrong when asleep, fired on Whorten and mortally wounded him. He then fired on the driver, Stoddard, killing him dead; and next on Armstrong, inflicting on him a wound from which he died in about an hour. Wharton is since dead. The country is flooded with armed men on horseback, in search of the murderer. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com