The herald., 1895-03-31

tain Timms had monopoly of the bus-
ness at one time. Captain Timms was
regarded as an institution of San Pedo.
He was gruff but kindhearted old man
in his late years. lie made considerable
money in the freighting business, which
he invested in Los Angeles county real
property, and the estate that he left was
quite valuable one. His partnership
with Goler did not last very long, and
eventually the freghting business that
Of TOmlinson Il Co. The old frame
warehouse at San Pedro is still standing,
but the scenes about it now are vastly
different from what they were in the old
days. Steam has replaced horsefesh.
and where it was once days journey to
San Pedro by the freight route it is now
q trip of less than an hour.
On the southwest corner of Broadway
and Fourth streets lot was sold few
days ago for the handsome sum of $751;
600. This is only one of many lots that have
been purchased of late in that vicinity for
large. sums of money; but it is neverthe-
less true that in the late fifties, this
identical lot was purchase by John
Goler and Lorenzo Leck for the small sum
of $25. This was not the only lot in that
now valuable section that sold for a song,
as it is sung today. The city owned a
large amount of property within its
boundaries that the worthy City Fathers
would in those days sell for almost any
price so as to increase the list Of taxable
property and improve its exchequer. This
is the reason that city property was sold
at such apparently insig nificant prices.
THE FIRST PEDAGOGUE
Mrs. Olive Mann Isbell, now living in
Santa Paula. Ventura county, was one Of
the earliest pioneers, and teacher OF the
first American school in California writes
Mary M. Bowman in the current number
of Land and Sunshine.
October l. 1916, an emigrant train of
twenty-one wagons--escorted by Colonel
John G. Fremont and a detachment Of
soldiers who had met them at Johnson's
ranch-arrived at Suffers Fort. Captain
Sutter welcomed them with characteristic
cordality, and did everything possible
for their comfort This company, COM
manded by Captain John Arman and DR..
[. c. Isbell had left Illinois, in April, for
California, with no definite knowledge of
it's location, except that it was somewhere
on the Pacific Coast They had made their
painless way over plains, desert and
mountains. BY some mischance they
failed to meet the Donner party at the
Mississippi: passed them at Gravelly
thus narrowly escaped their tragic fate.
At Fort Hall they learned from panic
stricken refugees returning to the states
that war with Mexico had been declared.
A council was called to decide whether
they should go forward or back. Women
cried and begged to be taken home; men
were divided in opinion. What shall
we do, Oliver" said DR.. Isbell.
The stout hearted matron of twenty-five
replied, 81 started for California, and l
want to go on" That settled it. Others
took heart and the train went on, undi-
vided. After resting week at Suffers
fort. under order from Fremont they pro-
ceeded to the Santa Clara mission, $50
miles south, and veached it October 10TH
The old adobe. buildings of the mission
were not an inviting shelter to the home
sick Immigrants, ii shelter it could be
called at all. There were no floors but
the hard baked earth, no windows nor
fireplaces, no escape for smoke save a
hole In the roof. The ancient walls were
infested, and the crumbling tiles let the
rain through almost as copiously as it f' !
outside. The section assigned them h.
been previously used for stabling hors'