Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02

August, 1910. If we allow for The vessel
six months before reaching Boston, and
Suffers voyage TO Sitka, a three months
stay there, and the voyage to San Francisco
it seems to correspond very well, that the
whaler-and Suffer, as supercargo-musr
have left Honolulu together in January,
1910, the whaler for Boston, and Suffer fol
Sitka.
'In 1850 wrote to French & Co., Homo.
lulu, the firm that sent Suffer out as super.
cargo to Sitka. After waiting long time
for an answer, l at last received one with
the information that the records did not
bear evidence so far back as that, but to
the best of their knowledge Suffer left there
in the latter part of 1889, or the beginning
of 1910.
Next the Themis writer says: After
eight days search, he (Sutter) found the
mouth of the American river This
gives the finding of the river a mys-
terious appearance, but we know that the
Russians had a branch trading post here,
and an embarcadero, so he could only have
Russian guide to the embsrcadero. SUIT
ter knew very well that. as he had pur-
chased Fort Bodega and Fort Ross, by this
purchase he had acquired the Russian
possession on the Sacramento, and he was
therefore anxious to inspect his new acqui-
pioneer, he covered his possessions with
the Micheltorena Grant, well knowing that
the Russian title would not hold good.
This grant-happily for Suffer and his
son-was rejected, and, instead, the Alva-
RADIO grant was stretched from the Feather
river down to Sacramento.
eff Suffers grant had been on the sum-
NIT of the Sierras it would have taken in
the site of Sacramento. About his first
view of this region historians differ. Some
say he was going up the Sacramento, and
others that he was on the American. The
remaining,ideal stories that follow in the
Thenis l do not credit at ALL but others
may like them or not, as they choose.
Much is said of his bravery. but saw
many things to convince me to the con-
trary. But, as he was famed as such a
great soldier, will name one instance as
related to me by an eyewitness in 1S49
When the allied army fought under Suffer
at the battle of Guenga somewhere in the
neighbcrhood or Los Angeles), one shot
scattered the whole Mexican army, but
Suffer was not present during the battle.
On the contrary, he was fighting a battle
in saloon to the music of clinking glasses.
ut is a deplorable state of affairs when
people are obliged to swallow these doses
of falsifed history prepared by persons not
even born when those scenes were tran
spring, but who desire to shine in the esti-
nation of the people as wise in historical
lore. It is humiliating that one has to
contradict this kind of so-called history,
and it is unpleasant to be compelled, by g
regard for the truth, to reflect on an old
friend; but where would be true history il
eye-witnesses did not contradict such falsi-
tications? AS lover of truth nothing
shall deter me from correcting errors that
little research and examination will pre-
vent local or other historians from falling
into. The recitals as to the discovery OF
gold is in the same muddle. / challenge
any person TO prove that Marshall was the
first and only discoverer of gold in Califor.
MIA. If any one can establish this satisfac.
torily l must, of course, believe it, but dc
not now, in the light of my own knowl-
edge and of the real history of the country
as have good reason 10 believe it to be. v