The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-26
LIFE INCIDENTS Of
VENERABLE LADIES
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tell the Great Father at Washington
that the Pawnees were very good In
diahs, which promise having been given
the party was allowed to proceed.
We saw buffalo by the Thousands
and the Bonner boys had great sport
running them on horses. They wer,
!! people of means and were making {
pleasure trip of it. We spared no Tins
for hunting buffalo for Major Cooper
made it a rule to make some advance
| every day, if it was only FIVE miles.
eve also encountered bands of Sioux
Indians, but they were treated annie
ably. We started in May and reach
ed California in October, having en-
joyed nne weather all the way
Major Cooper said Mrs. thurman,
: located at Yountville, Napa County,
CAL, going thence 70 Benicia in the
summer of 1847. His eldest daughter,
Fanny Cooper, now Mrs. Van Wrinkle,
married DR.. Robert Semple of Benicia
in November of the same year and / am
their only child.
DIR. Semple figured largely in the
early history of California, having
printed THE Californian the first
newspaper published in the state, at
Monterey. The paper was afterwards
merged with the Alta Californian,
published by Cotton and Semple.
" The first number OF The Californian
contained news of the Bear Flag war
and was printed on one side of sheet
of letter paper. Two Tvs, were used
to make a W. and one of the adver-
tisements read like this:
!" John Dow will furnish all bricks
or lumber for the building of San
Francisco-erders filed on short mo-
tice'
"Dr. Semple came around the Horn
to California from Kentucky in 1915.
Hewas president of the first convention,
held at Monterey and helped to frame
the old constitution.
cit might interest some of your read
ers to know how San. Francisco came
by its present name. having first been
called 'Yerba Buena. In the fall of
1845 DR.. Semple and General Vallejo
laid out the present site of Benicia,
calling it francisco in honor of the
general s wife whose name was Fran
cisco Benicia. One dav ships that were |
expected at Francisco landed in the |
safe harbor of Yerba Buena, thinking |
from the written description that they |
were at their destination, unloaded |
their cargo and then the mistake was
"sThe Yerba Buena citizens at once |
saw their advantage and called their
town San Francisco Francisco was
hen changed to fBenieia.' DIR. Semple
,elt so discouraged at this that in 1850
le and his family moved to the beau
iful -vallev where he and his
brother Colonel Semple laid out the
town of Colusa on the Sacramento
liver, one of the most attractive sites
n the valley
In 1854 DR.. Semple passed away leav-
ng his wife and Mary Benicia Semple,
he present Mrs. Mary Turman.
Both leadies are in love with Ha-
vail and it's fine fruit, beautiful scenery
md unsurpassed climate.
Mrs. Truman proposes to give a Sc
les of talks on Honolulu on her re-
urn to California and will do her ut
most with the aid of lantern slides to
ct the people of her section know some
hing of our manifold attractions.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle, although in her
3rd year, is hale and hearty and says
hat she intends to spend all her win
ers in Honolulu.
Mrs. Truman is a member of Veritas
HAPPIER, No. 81, o. E. s. of California
he not only has the distinction of
eing the first girl born in California
f American parentage but is the first
asst grand president of the Native
daughters of the Golden West.