The morning call., 1893-04-23
He Was a Pioneer of the
Pioneers.
A LEADER IN THE OLD DAYS.
Here Was Man Who Did the State
Good Service in Every Rela-
tion of Life.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

and his death was net unexpected.
Edward Fitzgerald Beale was born In
Washington, d. c.. on the 4th day of Feb
ruary 1922. The family lad always been
distinguished one in the history of the re-
public, and both his father and his grand
father were officers of the navy and had
received medals of honor from Congress-a
rare mark of especial merit in the earlier
days of the country. Young Beale began
his education in Georgetown College. re-
naming there until he received, in the nat
ural course, an appointment as n cadet to
Annapolis, and from the naval college he
was graduated with high honors in 1912.
During the war with Mexico he distin.
gushed himself by conspicuous gallantry,
and was presented with a sword by his
brother officers of the army and navy in
recognition of his services as a bearer Of
dispatches through the enemy's lines. For
this also ne was officially complimented by
Commodore Stockton.
At the conclusion of the war with Mexico
he resigned his commission, and was ap-
pointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs
for California and New Mexico At this
time, at the request of Major-General Wool
he was commissioned brigadier-geuera and
deputed to finish an Indian war in Calitor-
mia.
During the decade preceding the civil
war he conducted many important explOra-
tions in the far West, and in 1861 he was
appointed Surveyor General by President
Lincoln, but he offered his services in q
military capacity as soon as the war broke
out. In 1876 he was appointed United
States Minister to Austria by President
Grant, but resigned in 1877 to look after his
large sheep and cattle interests in Southern
California.
General Beale was a pioneer Of the
pioneers of California, the warm personal
friend always OF General Grant, and old
graybearded Argonauts speak of him to
this day affectiOnetely simply as Ned"
Beale. His ranch interests in Kern. Ven
tura and Los Angeles counties were among
the largest private land holdings in the
State. As matter of fact, he was probably
the largest individual holder of California
land. owning league upon league of maun-
tain and valley timber grazing and agricul-
tural land.
The Lievra and TETON ranches are the
largest of these bodies, but mile after mile
that is passed by the traveller who goes by
the railroad through Tehachapi Pass be-
long to General Beale Tbs land is all
fenced, aud Beale always keeps up a
lines to prevent the running eff Of cattle,
having suffered greatly from the depreda-
tions of thieves in times past one yaqIero
riding all day back and forth on his beat to
the points where he meets the next man on
watch, ana carrying with him little coffee
pot and a rife and bit of bacon and roll
Of blankets under his saddle that he may
make camp wherever night overtakes him
and resume his watch in the morning
For days and weeks at a time these
watchers see no other human being but
other patrolmen, or perhaps stray rustler
or two lurking about for chance to break
down fences and run off cattle, and they
come to the ranch house only to lay in fresh
supplies of food.
General Beale early saw the value that
land in California would come to have and
he secured all he could of it when Mexican
grants were going a-begging, and when the
Dons were living high and rolling their Mex
lean dollars with a free hand largely to
show their contempt for the closer-fsted
Yaukees-a contempt that eventually lost
them their broad acres.
BeaIe had, too, that rare prescience that
leads men to see into the future and fore
tell the growth OF great cities. an Instinct OF
prophecy that is commonly called luck. He
saw that a great city was 10 grow up here
at the Golden Gate, city that would COM
pand the commerce some day OF Ormus
and the Ind, though it was then but a col
lection of rude tents thronged with rough
bearded gold-hunters and rougher and
more bearded refugees from the Justice of
all lands under the sun, and he wanted
share in this prosperity. Land would be
valuable in such city, and that in few
years.
Accordingly. when young Beale was sent
by Commodore Sloat, then in command in
California waters, as a bearer of dispatches
to the Secretary of the Navy. he had no
sooner delivered himself of his commission
than he repaired to the house of his mother.
then a widow, and with little patrimoDy
left by his father.
Mother" lie said, II want you to let me
have few thousands of dollars"
What do you want with it, Ned?" the
induleent mother asked. ready to give
nevertheless.
"Why," he replied, they are building
town out there called San Francisco, and l
think that it is going TO be Il great city and
want to buy some lots"
The mother grew grave at once. "What,"
she said, "buy land out in that wilderness9
Why, Ned, had sooner give you the money
to throw into the Potomac"
The wilderness was reclaimed, neverthe-
less, and Ned Beale's foresight was borne
out.
He got his revenge later and his land.
He was appointed Surveyor General bv
Lincoln, as stated. in 1861. and it was Just
then that the Mexican ranches we're going
a-beggiDg for buyers, the mortgages having
become due. Beale was in the market as
huu |,
cured leagues upon leagues of land He
secured SO much that the story of il reached
Washington. exaggerated greatly, as such
stories usually are, and President Lincoln
heard it and did not like it,
1t might DE all right you know. and as a
matter of fact it was, but President Lincoln
was too honest of purpose to relish even
hint OF anything that might cast suspicion
oil wrong-doing upon one of his appointees.
1t was this that led him to say to q Califor-
MA Senator, then very prominent in national
affairs, who called at the White House one
day:
Senator. what sort of fellow is this man
Beale of California;
"A pretty good fellow. Mr.. President"
was the ready response. "Why?''
We'll, appointed him Surveyor-General
out there. and l understand that he is
monarch Of all he has surveyed"
Beale was Vindlcated in Lneoln's eyes
after that and he lived TO do his native
land good service under the greatest of
Lincoln's successors.
AIMED AT THE NIHILIsTS.
That Seems to Be the Purport of the
Russian Treaty.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-0nly one more
step remains to be taken before the Russian
extradition treaty goes into effect and that
is the Issuance of the PRESIDENTS proclama-
tion. All efforts to obtain the text of the
treaty from the Department of State have
been futile, but synopsis of its provisions
obtlined from thoroughly reliable source
is as follows: The high contracting parties