The herald., 1895-05-12
LAST OF THE REAL ARGONAUTS

dians. Between the Arkansas an CimaI-
ron rivers the whole party suf cred Sc
verely from the burning south wind and
lack OF water. There was neither guide
to lead nor trail to follow. 4 few days
later Mr.. Smith, one of the managers of
the company, was killed by the Indians
The expedition arrived at Santa Fe with
out further accident,
At Santa Fe an expedition to California
to buy mules for the Louisiana market
was fitted out by DR.. David Waldo, Ewing
Young and Mr.. Soublette of the fur
company.
Mr.. Warner Joined the e1pediJ ION and
set out for California with ten O ther men
on oeptemb Der 6, 1881.
Each man was mounted on mule,
and there were seven pack mules, the
loads of five of which consisted OF Mexi-
can silver dollars. The party travelled
down the Del Norte river, passing Albu-
querque and the Santa Rita copper
mines, crossed the San Pedro river near
its source in the San Pedro rancho,
passed the abandoned mission of San
Zavier de Tubac, Tucson, then a military
post and small town. and the Pima vii
lagos, crossed the Colorado river few
miles below the mouth of the Gila,
reached the Pacific at San Luis Rey, and
arrived at San Diego in the early part of
November, 1881. On December 9th they
came to Los Angeles.
Mr.. Warner remained at Los Angeles
with one member of the party while Mr..
Jackson, one of the traders, went with the
balance of the party as far north as the
bay of San Francisco for the purpose OF
purchasin: mules. Mr.. Jackson returned
10 Los Angeles in the latter part OF the
following March with much smaller
number of mules than was expected.
Here he was Joined by Ewing Young,
who had arrived with party to assist in
driving the mules to Louisiana but, as
the number of mules was so small, it was
resolved that Jackson should return to
New Mexico over the route by which he
came, taxing the animals that had been
purchased about 800 mules and 100 horses.
Mr. Warner and Mr.. Young went with
the returning party as far as the Colorado
river, then came back to Los Angeles
During the remainder OF the year 1882
Mr. Warner was engaged with Mr.. Young
and others in seal and otter hunting
among the islands along the coast as far
north as San Francisco bay.
Mr.. Warner wrote detailed history of
the southern part of the state from 1881
to 1916. and gave the writer OF this sketch
n full account OF the early American set
noted OF the latter were John Rowland.
who came from Morgan county, Ohio, in
1929. and William Wolfskill of Kentucky
who came here in 1880. after exploring
all the southwest including Mexico, in
search OF place to settle. John Temple,
Abel Stearns, Samuel Prentice, Mi chael
White. Louis Nignes, John Domingo,
Captain Cooper, David Spence, }. P.
Leese. Samuel Carpenter and John Ward.
all came to Los Angeles about the year
1880.
William Workman. Francisco Temple,
John r Wolfskill. Dr. Richard S. Den,
stephen Smith, John T. Thompson. John
Rect. b. S. Wilson, Henry and Francis
Mellus. d. W. Alexander and Alexander
Bell came here between the years 1885 and
1919. OF these John Il. Wolfsbkih and
DIR. Richard S. Den are still living.
During the winter OF 1898 Mr.. Warner
was one of a party of fourteen who
trapped beaver in Northern California and
Oregon. In 1884 he settieu down in Los
Angeles and kept a store on Main street.
between the present site of the St. Elmo
hotel and the Downey block.
An exciting episode occurred at his
store in 1888. Some fifteen soldiers were
sent down from Monterey to arrest the
Pico brothers and Jose Antonio Garlic
and take them north These soldiers
cams to Mr. Warner store and asked
him where the Picos were. He replied
that ho did NOT know. w'c'e"- -, tho