Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

less waste of time. No one could sur
pass him in true politeness when de-
manded by the iproprieties of life. His
many and manly virtues completely
overshadowed any foibles he may have
possessed. He was always a leader
among men and a reliable one for his
friends. His every act and word was
marked with candor; he was utterly in
capable of deception of any kind.
THE revenues of the bank were
enormous, yielding to it's stockholders
many millions year. A large share of
the stock-more than one-third-was
owned in England and foreigners were
thus reaping pecuniary benefit direct
ly from the revenues of our govern
ment. This feature was especially
odious to the president and he direct
ed the secretary OF the treasury to
withdraw the government deposits from
the bank. This request was refused
by the secretary. Samuel d. Ingham of
Pennsylvania, whereupon he was re-
moved from office by the president and
Roger B. Taney appointed in his place
to do the work"
Crossing the plains with OK teams in
1S49 the author had much the same ex-
periences as all who came that way,
and after a trip of ninety days from the
Missouri river, reached Suffers fort in
July.
Old and New Sacraments
All who have been in the present-day
Sacramento, with it's miles of beauti-
fully shaded streets and grand build
ings, will read the chapter on that city
with interest
Sacramento then was only spoken of
as the embarcadero, the Spanish for
landing place Along the river bank
large vessels were moored to trees
growing there. Not far from the waters
edge were many tents, and not few
houses, If they might be called such,
covered as they were, top and sides,
with cotton sheeting. They We're vari-
able in size but uniform in style, all
being constructed on slender frames of
wood. The thick growth of underbrush
had been partially cleared away from
the present line of street and some
frail tenements erected on either side.
The vessels spoken of as tied to the
trees were seagoing vessels, much
larger and drawing more water than
the vessels navigating the river in after
years.
I'm Sacramento / stopped at the
house of Orlando Mcknight. genial
gentleman, with whom / became ac-
quainted in after years. His establish
merit was on Front street and extended
back. at right angles with the river, in
the form of a long hall, with hunks, one
above another, from front to rear. His
hotel sign, in time became quite well
known. 1t ran as follows:
REST for the weary and storage for trunks.
A dollar apiece is the price of your hunks.
So up with your bodies and down with your
dust,
For a-devl- a bit will take you on trustv
Leaving the mines for San Francisco
to take up law practice, he describes
the dispenser of Blackstone, Judge AL
mond, as follows:
"Over the highest legal tribunal in
the city Judge Almond presided. He
had a way of disposing of cases in
most summary manner. After listen
ing with unusual patience to lengthy
arguments of the able counsel on
either side he said: Gentlemen, I
don't know just what the law of this
case Is, but know what it ought to be.
And his decisions stood; there was no
higher tribunal to appeal to-"
Whipping Post In California
How many of the Native Sons or
others know that California authorized
the whipping post by law? Hear this
truthful narrative:
my distaste for criminal practice
was augmented by witnessing once,
and only once, the administering. of
corporal punishment. am ashamed to
say lHdl NdihOl iilo ~ NoS d iOliS lliile
ago-authorized the whipping post. For
some offense, trifiing 1t may have been,
a poor man, not young, was given the
sentence Of a certain number of blows.
to be well laid on the bare back BY
some chance 1 saw the punishment in
flicted, or so much of it as / could bear
to witness. 1t was to me a most hor-
rible sight. A big, burly policeman,
whose name | have never forgotten,
was selected as eXecutioner. With some
sort of a CATO -nine-tails he dealt
blows that drew blood at every stroke.
With short intervals between the
blows to prolong the cruelty the police
man laid them on apparently with all
his might. Such a lacerated back from
the shoulder blades down one might
not imagine, but the poor fellow ut
tered not cry "r groan through 1t