The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-04
CALIFoRNIANs IN WASHINGTON


CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON
MAIL CLERK-G. d. A, Berkeley, Cal
The age limit for clerks in the Postotnce
Department is minimum 81, maximum no
limit. In the railway mail service the
maximum age is 80 years. For informa.,,
ton about the examination ADDRESS or c ca
at Postffice or Railway Mail Service Or
| fee in San Francisco.
A COPPER CENT-R M. c.. City. A
/ copper cent of 1S43 may be purchased
from dealers at from cents to 81 %. The
cent of the same type of the preceding
year brings the lowest price, while the oI In
| that is of the type that was issued III
1874 brings the highest price
MONKEY WRENCH-R. R. A, City.
The tool that is commonly called a mon :
key wrench was invented by a mechanic
named Muncka. 1t was at first called,
| in honor of the inventor, Muncka wrench
The transition from Munka to monkey
was easy. and as no, one took the troupe re the
! to make the correction, the fame OF the
| inventor has been lost.
SOLDIERS AT ST MIcHAELs-M. n.
P. City. Mail for soldiers at st. Michaels
! is sent by every vessel that sails from
| San Francisco for that point If you de.
| side to send Christmas box for any OF
the soldiers at that point, communicate :
with the Quarternaster'S department at
the corner of New Montgomery and Jes-
sic streets, San Francisco.
WEARING MALE ATTIRE-M. C..P.,
| City. There is an ordinance of the Board
| of Supervisors of San Francisco which I
prohibits any one from wearing attire
| not belonging to his. or her sex. There
| is no one who has the authority to give
| a woman the right to violate the ordi-
nance, even though 1t were for the pur-
pose OF allowing her to do a mans
work"
WATER RIGHTS-F d. N, Pacific
Grove, Cal. Until the Supreme Court
passes upon the validity or inYalidity Of
a law as to water rights for irrigation
purposes it cannot be said that such law
| is null and void, notwithstanding that
] one Judge of a Superior Court may have
SO decided. If an individual, acting under
| that law and 1t being the indiSputed law
| at the time. sold certain water rights.
under false pretenses. 's
sIxPENCE AND NINEPENCE-H
D., Lone Pine. Cal. Not being furnished
with description of the par
ticular sixpence and ninepence men
! toned in the letter of inquiry
| 1t is impossible to know what country
| they were minted by, but it can be said
that the United States Of America never
coined any such coins. If you will send
| a description of each, together with the
inscription, It will be possible to inform
| there were circulated in the colonies Eng
| fish and Spanish coins that passed as 121a
| NCAAto e1AA0 % VA NOASos
PROTECTED CITTZENs-P. s., oeci-
dental, CAL 1t is a well-established rule
of international law that a country re-
eeiving into citizenship citizen of an
| other country, will not protect him in the
matter of any obligation he owes to the
| country of which he renowned allegiance
| and which was incurred prior to change
of citizenship. If British subject desert
ed from the army, came to the United
States, lived there five or more years, be-
came a citizen of the United States and
after having acquired such citizenship
should visit England and be arrested for
| the desertion, the United States would
| not protect him, as the offense ante-dated
! his United States citizenship.
A CENT OF 1S54G.. Station B, City.
] A copper cent of 1858 is a valuable. one
! from hurnfsnatist's standpoint The
selling price of a pure copper cent of that
| year, with small letters, is from S. to 81 50, e
while a pure copper cent of that year hav-
| ing an Indian head in profile on one side
and the value in an olive wreath on the
other sells from So so to 81 80. There were
quite a number of issues of cents that
year. number being of copper nickel.
Such sell at prices varying from 10 cents to
81 80 Dealers do not, however, make any
offer for any of the issues. Had you sent
a self-addresed and stamped envelope
the other part of your INQUIRY would have
been answered. This department has !:
often announced that it will not advertise
the business address of any firm.
INDIAN OUTBREAK OF 1S62-M., Mil
ler Mendocino County, Cal. During the
spring and early summer of 1862 there
were frequent reports of dissatisfaction
and threatened trouble among. the In
dian tribes of Minnesota and Dakota The
causes of the discomfort were complaints
that annuities were not paid, that an at
tempt was made to- pay in greenbacks.
instead of gold, and there were minor
complaints. The first attack was made 3
nv SiOTX Under little ROW IN fha
Yellow Medicine Agency, August IS, 1862, 3
where nearly all the whites, old and
tackled August % and amany whites
were killed. but the citizens banded for
defense and repulsed the Indians The
relief Fort Ridgley was besieged. for
nine days, and its small garrison re-.
pulsed three attaclxe before reinforce.
ments came. The Indians then went
northward toward Fort Abercrornbie.
massacreing and plundering as they went.
In the meantime Governor Ramsey called
out all the militia, a special session of
the Legislature was summoned. and an
appeal was made to the General Govern
nlerit General Pope was detailed to COM
mand the department and the United
States soldiers We're sent from various
points The Indians made two assaults /.
on Fort Abercrombie in September, but s
were repulsed with heavy loss They re-
treated westward, were followed by the
soldiers and forced to make a stand at
Wood Lake where they were utterly de-
feated About 500 were taken prisoners and
were ordered hanged, but the President
COMMITTED the sentence of all but thirty
eight. the remainder being placed in CON
finement and given lighter punishment. q
There were about 1000 of the Minnesota
Sioux who took part in the trouble, and
it is believed that the greater part were
captured and the remainder killed It
was estimated that about 500 whites were
killed by the Indians or died from sick ..
ness or exposure caused by their hastv
flight from their homes. For several
months several thousand people were de.
pendent on charity for food and shelter.
The loss Of property through the out
break was estimated at from two to three
millions of dollars.
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