Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-31


docket, the Judge would adjourn Court
for fifteen minutes, which meant visit
to the nearest saloon. But Judge Murphy is
good fellow, if he did vote for cleveland,
and so is Postmaster Woodbury., his
brother-in-law, who didn't | suppose
Woodbury. will soon have to take walk,
being an offensive partisan" The stage
for Jacksonville leaves three times week,
and getting in on an off night, l had
twenty-tour hours TO take in all the sights
in the vicinity of Crescent City.
The lighthouse, which twelve years ago,
when first visited the place, stood on a
point of the main land. is now an island
at high tide, the constant beating of the
surf having cut its way through. Taking
the road up the coast passing rough and
rocky point, one and half miles brings
you to
PEBBLE BEACH.
This beach extends down three miles to
another point, and during the winter
months some very pretty and valuable
stones are found, which, after passing
through the hands of the lapidary, become
very beautiful. In going from the bluff
down to the beach you will pass an Indian
rancharie. There are half dozen families
living here, including an old Indian doctor
| was told before leaving the village that
would ind him very uncommunicative, as
he hates the whites. | asked an old souaw
who was cooking mussels where the doctor
lived She pointed to slab-house Just
above. asked her how old the doctor
was. She answered Doctor heap old
| think thousand years" | found the old
fellow in full dress. He had covered his
naked body with red blanket fastened
around his neck, three feathers in a band
round his head, and piece of white shell
some four inches long and the size of lead
pencil, stuck through his nose He was
sitting on a log iii the sun, and as |
approached him he rose up and said. with
grunt, White man no good Heap kill
Injun." gave him a bright two-bit
piece, which had a magical effect.
lie smiled, made room for
me on the log, took me by
the hand and said, Good friend.h
but with that and many signs, l conversed
with him for an hour. Among the many
things he told me was of time when the
water was very high
PROBABLY A TIDAL WAVE
He said: Long time, water heap high-so
high pointing to the marks some 70 feet
above u.s.; kill plenty Injun." I learned
later that at the time he spoke of hundreds
of Indians, old and young, were on the
rocks gathering mussels, when the wave
came In and nearly all were drowned The
doctor gave me some pretty pebbles and
took me to house where found squaw.
some % years old. She was living quite
American fashion. There was q rag car
pet good bedstead covered with a blue
counterpane, pillows covered with slips as
white as soap and water could make them
four chairs, a lounge covered with bright
calico, looklng-glass etc. The woman
was quite dark, neatly dressed in calico
and was at work making dress for little
child four years old. Her husband was
a carpenter, and had been to an
Indian school. l found him quite
intelligent He said the doctor must be
certainly $50 years OLD, for his grandmother
then living at 80 years of age, says the doc
tor was very Old when she can first remem-
Der. The carpenters wife showed me a
book of sea MOSES. The book was large
one, such as IS used for a scrap book. She
had the book nearly full and very artist
cally arranged. She said she sold a book
year ago to some visitor for $25, but this
one she would sell for SO She said there
was any quantity of moss on the beach, but
very little as fine as hers and ONLY one place
where she could get it. l examined some
of 1t with strong glass, and found that 1t
was IKE the hnest thread lace. If you ever
go TO Crescent City do not fail to visit
Pebble Beach, call on the doctor and ask to
see the book of moses.
Il was few miles above Pebble Beach
Point st. George, where the Inflated steam
ship Brother Jonathan went down. over
twenty years ago, with nearly every soul
on board lost. The wreck has never been
found, but the wheel of the pilot-house
came ashore, and can be seen in one of the
saloons in Crescent City. There is also
hanging up in the Office of the Del Norte
Hotel the keyboard, showing the numbers
of the staterooms.