Description: March 9-14, 1863

Date: March 1863

Newspaper published in: Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA

>>MONDAY, 9 MAR 1863<<

BIRTH -- at Chinese Camp, March 3d, to the wife of Thomas BUCK, of a son.

BIRTH -- at Mokelumne Hill, Feb. 28th, to the wife of A. STRAUSS, of a daughter.

BIRTH -- at West Point, Feb. 26th, to the wife of Chas. CONGDON, of a son.

BIRTH -- at French Gulch, Feb. 27th, to the wife of W.H. ROBINSON, of a son.

MARRIED -- at Mokelumne Hill, Feb. 28th, Wesley H. BOUCHER to Mrs. Clara H. CUMMINGS.

MARRIED -- at Mokelumne Hill, March 4th, Martin COHLMAN to Mrs. Mary B. DEIDRICHS.

DIED -- in Sonora, Feb. 27th, Mrs. A.W. MEEDS, aged 26 years, 5 months.

DIED -- at Copperopolis, Feb. 21st, of consumption, Mr. Jeff ANDERSON, aged 28 years.

DIED -- at her residence in Cherokee Camp, Tuolumne county, Feb. 17th, Marla, wife of Angelo ANTONINI, aged 45 years.

FROM THE COPPERMINES -- Telegraph City, March 6th, 1863
Obituary -- The death of J.W. SAWYER, news agent of Copperopolis, which occurred on Wednesday night last, is regretted by the whole community hereabouts. Poor SAWYER; "none knew him but to love him." Possessed of all the attributes of a worthy and enterprising citizen, he is cut down just on the verge of manhood. One month ago he was hale and hearty; attacked, it is said, with pleuriy, he has gradually succumbed without ever rallying and today he is in his grave. His friends had him taken to Columbia for interment.

GONE EAST -- Mr. John KEER, for a long time a resident of this city, left on the Cornelia on Saturday afternoon on his way to St. Louis, for the purpose of paying a short visit to his relatives and friends. He was a member of Eureka Engine Company No. 2, and quite a number of his friends and brother firemen escorted him to the boat. When the boat left, 3 hearty cheers were given by the crowd on the wharf, intimating that he had their best wishes for a prosperous voyage and a speedy return.

SUIT FOR PAY -- John STARK, recently a road overseer, but removed by the Board of Supervisors on the ground of being an unsuitable person, has brought suit in Justice Brown's Court to recover 9 days pay for his services while he served. The Board of Supervisors appointed STARK and he sues to recover of its members collectively, as the Board of Supervisors, the amount alleged to be due him.

>>TUESDAY, 10 MAR 1863<<

BIRTH -- in Princeton, March 5th, to the wife of George STUART, of a son.

MARRIED -- at Visalia, March 3d, A.G. REDDICK to Miss P. CURTIS.

HAND CRUSHED -- A son of J.C. GEBHARDT, at Mokelumne Hill, had his fingers mashed in the malt crusher in his father's brewery, on Thursday, March 5th. The boy had sufficient presence of mind to draw his hand out, or his arm would have been drawn in between the wheels and thereby lost his life.

>>WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 1863<<

DIED -- at Copperopolis, March 9th, 1863, William Jarret KING, son of W.A. and Mary M. KING, aged 5 years, 5 months.

INSANE -- A man named Charles MOUNTAIN was brought up on the boat from San Francisco yesterday morning by officer CLARKSON, and taken to the Insane Asylum. This man MOUNTAIN recently killed a man somewhere near the "Hog Ranch," in the neighborhood of the head of Market street, San Francisco, and on his trial for the killing, the jury, a day or 2 ago, considered him insane, and the Judge directed that he be taken to the place where he now is.

>>THURSDAY, 12 MAR 1863<<

COMMISSIONED -- Governor Stanford has commissioned Marvin M. RICHARDSON Swamp Land Commissioner, vice William J. HOOTEN, deceased.

FINISHED -- Mr. John ECKSTROM has finished his bath-rooms on the Levee, in the old Stockton Restaurant building, next door to the Eureka Saloon. Every department in the house is fitted up in good style, and every desirable and necessary convenience completed.

FUEL -- Yesterday 125 cords of fire wood arrived from the Upper San Joaquin, in Mr. DAMON's barge. He has 1000 cords ready for shipment to this city, and will bring it down as speedily as it can be brought with 2 large barges.

TAKE NOTICE -- All persons knowing themselves indebted to Samuel CRIM, for the services of Chieftain or Columbus, are hereby notified to call at the Stage Office of M.J. DOOLY & Co., Stockton, and settle the same immediately.
Samuel CRIM
Stockton, Feb. 26, 1863

FROM THE MOUNTAINS -- A. RICHEY, from Hermit Valley, 35 miles east of the Calaveras Big Tree Grove, and Robert WILSON, from Big Meadows, paid us a visit yesterday and informed us that G.B. WEBB, of Murphys, contemplates starting a saddle train from Murphys to Carson Valley, twice a week, for the purpose of conveying passengers over the mountains. He will start into the enterprise as soon as the road is passable for horses. They report that the deepest snow now on the road does not exceed 5 feet, and the deep [illeg] at any time during the winter, did not exceed 6 ½ feet. They also state that the Silver Mountain and other mining districts are likely to be busy fields of labor the coming summer, and that the residents of that section are extremely anxious that some demonstration should be made and efforts used to put through the Big Tree Road. The development of the rich mines in that section will force the construction of the road, as a necessary means of convenience for the transportation of ore, and to facilitate the means of securing a supply of goods and provisions. SANDERS & JACOBS are building a quartz mill at Silver Mountain and expect to have it in working order by the 1st of June.

SAN FRANCISCO DISPATCH, March 11 -- A telegram from Visalia says a shooting affray occurred between Thos. M. HESTON and Dr. J.A. ROBERTS this morning. ROBERTS was mortally wounded; HESTON uninjured. The difficulty was about private affairs.

>>FRIDAY, 13 MAR 1863<<

NOTABLE DEATHS --
-Samuel TUSTIN, a Californian since 1849 and a resident on the Pacific coast since 1847, died in Sonoma on the 10th instant, aged 73 years. He was a native of Illinois.
-Another notable death was chronicled by the Nevada ‘Transcript.' He was known as "Uncle Charley ROBERTS," and the ‘Transcript' thus notices him: Uncle Charley ROBERTS, who was one of the celebrities of our county, died on Saturday afternoon at his home in North San Juan. Uncle Charley weighed about 400 pounds. He had not been able to sleep except in his chair for more than 2 years, for fear of suffocation.

INDIAN TROUBLES -- A letter to the San Francisco ‘Journal,' from Camp Independence, Owens river, March 4th, says the Indians of that Valley had again commenced hostilities. They first attacked a mining camp on the 2d inst., killing a Mr. McDONALD, and wounding a man named AYRES. They next attacked the Ioda Camp, were repulsed, but returning on the 3d, they killed a Mr. BELLOWS. On the same day a party of 7 soldiers, out reconnoitering, were fired upon near Black Rock Spring, and 6 of them wounded. One of them died subsequently of the wounds received. The officer in command at Camp Independence, has taken measures to give the redskins a good fight.

>>SATURDAY, 14 MAR 1863<<

ARREST of a DEFAULTER -- J.G. GASS, a defaulting lawyer and agent of Sacramento, was arrested at San Francisco on Thursday morning. He had taken passage on the ship Shawmut, for Shanghea; but the vessel was driven ashore by an accident, and GASS secreting himself in the house of a relative in San Francisco, was hunted up by officer LEES, and conveyed to Sacramento.

DECEASED -- Mrs. J.R. McCONNELL, wife of a former and well known citizen of California, died recently at Virginia City. She leaves 2 young daughters.