YEAR 1873

RETURN TO 1870 to 1879

Edward S. Salomon, former Governor of Washington

Governor Frederick Low served as United States Minister to China from 1869 to 1874.

Great Register 1873

Name	Age	Birthplace	Profession	Location	Date
Barlow Bernard Bee	56	New York	Miner	San Jose Township	July 12, 1873

1873 San Francisco City Directory listed "Frederick M. Bee" as a freight clerk for Australia steamship Dakota. It was probably an entry for Frank M. Bee, his son..

Read about campaign to convince China to hire Reverend Loomis as Chinese Counsel in San Francisco, California.
Frederick Low is pictured abvoe.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 44, Number 6788, 4 January 1873
San Francisco market review

Landholders of California
Part One
and
Part Two
and
Part Three
and
Part Four
and
Part Five

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8340, 27 January 1873
Advertisement for Central Polynesia Land and Commercial Company
Part two

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8347, 3 February 1873
Fred A. Bee and the Australian Steamship Company
and
Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8347, 3 February 1873
Colonel Bee and General Burnside

Australian mail service: answer to Gen A. E. Burnside by F. A. Bee

Commerce of the South Pacific: condensed statement of facts by F. A. Bee

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8354, 10 February 1873
Colonel Bee testified on behalf of Mr. Webb's steamships.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 44, Number 6819, 10 February 1873
San Francisco capitalists and Chehalis River, Washington Territory, coal

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 44, Number 6831, 24 February 1873
Webb steamship subsidy bill defeated.
and
Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8625, 9 November 1873
William Webb's Australian Steamship Company ended mail service to Australia and New Zealand.
and
Description of steamship subsidy

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8370, 26 February 1873
Father Bouchard � CHINAMEN OR WHITE MEN WHICH?

March, 1873
Article about A. B. Steinberger's secret mission to Samoa
Constitution drawn up by A. B. Steinberger in August, 1873

March 1, 1873 Catholic Guardian
Copy of Father Bouchard's lecture

Daily Alta California 16 March 1873
Reply to Father Bouchard

Capt F A Bee was in New York City at the Astor House.
New York Times (1857-1922). Mar 15, 1873. p. 12 (1 page)

Colonel F A Bee was in New York City at the Astor House.
New York Times (1857-1922). Mar 26, 1873. p. 5 (1 page)

Colonel Bee was in New York City at the Astor House. Vice-President Henry Wilson was also at the Astor House. President Grant was at the Fifth-avenue Hotel.
New York Times (1857-1922). Apr 2, 1873. p. 7 (1 page)

Vice-President Henry Wilson, " In May 1873, the sixty-one-year-old Wilson suffered a stroke that caused him to lose control of his facial muscles and to speak thickly whenever fatigued. Although doctors ordered him to rest, the advice went against his nature. A friend wrote, 'You know he was never still for five minutes, and it is more difficult for him than for most persons to sit quietly and dream away the time.' After spending the summer recuperating in Massachusetts, Wilson traveled to Washington in December for the opening of the new Congress, but by January his poor health forced him to return home once again. Instead of presiding over the Senate, he spent his time writing a multi-volume history of the rise and fall of the slave power, memorializing his own role in the great events of the Civil War and Reconstruction."

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8448, 15 May 1873
California yellowback currency

May 23, 1873 Daily Oregonian
"Pushing Things � A gentleman from Tenino and beyond informs us that Contractor Montgomery is hurrying things forward on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Harry Davis has the new mill near Tenino running both day and night. Three other large saw mills are in process of construction and will be ready to operate in the course of a few weeks. After the first six miles of railroad beyond Tenino are completed, the track laying will progress very rapidly. For that distance � six miles- the road will require almost one continual stretch of trestle work."

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6912, 29 May 1873
Telegrams from Chinese Six Companies to discourage emigration

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8463, 30 May 1873
People's Protective Alliance eventually was folded into the Mechanics' State Council in 1876.
Daily Alta California, Volume 28, Number 9494, 3 April 1876
Mechanics' State Council

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8475, 11 June 1873
Bee family at Skaggs' Springs
Read about Skaggs' hot springs.

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8479, 15 June 1873
San Francisco Yacht Club formation

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6928, 17 June 1873
San Francisco Yacht Club articles of incorporation

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6946, 9 July 1873
Ghost in the jail?

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8502, 9 July 1873
Central Polynesia Land and Commercial Company shares to be sold at auction because of delinquent assessment

J.H. Turney, Esq. of the Saucelito Land Company invited members of the Bohemian Club and their ladies to a picnic that took place on July 30, 1873. From volume 1 of the Annals of the Bohemian Club, page 57, "One of the features not provided by the Club, or the Sausalito Land Company, was the wind, which was so persistently boisterous that the party was glad to take refuge, on landing, in the pavilion, or huge barn which I had been thoroughly ereccted in Sausalito for the use of picnic parties.."

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6958, 23 July 1873
Frederick Bee vs. San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad decision

July, 1873
Frederick Bee vs. San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad decision
and
Decision in American Railway

California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 39, Number 20, 31 July 1873
John Muir and Yosemite

The North American Review, Volume 165
This article indicated that the North German Federation ordered its consul in Samoa to secure control of the harbor at Pago Pago in 1873.

Articles of incorporation Mendocino Lumber Company

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6968, 4 August 1873
Articles of incorporation for Mendocino Lumber Company
Jerome Ford, Alfred Godeffroy and William Sillem were trustees.
and
Daily Alta California, Volume 21, Number 6905, 13 February 1869
Lumber mill owned by Jerome Ford and Godeffroy & Sillem.
and
34 California
was the address for Mendocino Lumber Company, Godeffroy and Sillem, C.L. Taylor, Charles Sutton (manufacturer of rubber goods and Cape Ann Oil Clothing), in the 1875 Langley San Francisco City Directory.
From March 19, 2013 email, "Thank you for your inquiry and research request of Kelley House. You wanted to know if Jerome Bursley Ford , the Mendocino Lumber Company and their associates were working with the German government and companies to buy land in Samoa. You referenced several names and companies in your request and were interested in the time period of 1868-1878. Search of Mr. Ford's diaries and journals did not indicate any connections. The originals of those diaries are archived at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley. There is no reference to any German connections either. Our other records do not mention the names and companies you asked about except Godeffroy and Sillem. Godeffroy and Sillem represented the Fords and the Mendocino Lumber Company to obtain absconded funds from Henry Meiggs, the original mill owner. When Jerome Ford was involved, Mr. Meiggs left town with $400,000 in assets without paying Mr. Ford. That debt was subsequently paid through negotiations with Godffroy and Sillem and John Alder Saknas Freundt Freundt. Jerome Ford was also a founder of the Bank of Mendocino and the Mendocino Discount Bank. As a matter of note, a mill town north of Eureka California is named Samoa and they had a thriving mill there. Perhaps that is your link. Nancy Freeze, Executive Director, Kelley House Museum"

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 44, Number 6973, 9 August 1873
Important conspiracy trial that involved Chinese community
Conspiracy trial
Conspiracy trial concluded

August 7, 1873 Morning Oregonian (column 6)
Interesting article about Chinese miners who went to Coos Bay Oregon to mine coal

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6978, 15 August 1873
Olympia Railway and Mining Company
Foreign corporation in Washington and California articles of incorporation
"The Olympia Narrow Gauge Railroad"
in Washington Historical Quarterly, October, 1925
Death of George S. Dodge
1873 San Francisco City Directory
Charles N. Felton, United States Assistant Treasurer, resided at Lick House.
Frederick M. Bee, resided at Lick House.
Gardner Lawton
Wikipedia
Edward S. Salomon
Northern Pacific Railroad: book of reference for the use of the directors
John N. Goodwin, special agent, mentioned 3 times

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 45, Number 6984, 22 August 1873
Bee and Salomon -Article about railroad planned for Olympia, Washington

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8547, 23 August 1873
Bee and Salomon - Article about railroad planned for Olympia, Washington

August 26, 1873 Morning Oregonian
"The people of Olympia were to meet en masse on Monday night of this week to appoint a committee to confer with the agents of the Washington Transportation and Mining Company in regard to a line of road to Olympia. Col. Bee, agent of the Company, assures the Courier that above operations will be commenced on their coal mines within a few weeks and they hope to supply Portland with next winter's stock of coal."

September 4, 1873 Puget Sound Dispatch,page one, column 6
Olympia Railroad

September 11, 1873 Morning Oregonian
"The Kalama Beacon of September 8th says: 'We understand that Colonel F. A. Bee, for the Olympia Railway and Coal Mining Co., previous to leaving for San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, made arrangements for four lots fronting the river in the vicinity of the car shop, where he intends to place a coal wharf for his company.'"

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8571, 16 September 1873
F A Bee of the Olympia Railroad and Coal Mining Company made arrangements to buy four lots to erect coal wharf � Kalama Beacon newspaper Washington Territory
and
Website about this railroad, Edward S. Salomon and Frederick Bee

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8574, 19 September 1873
Panic of 1873 began..
and
Description of panic

Cornelia (Bee) Jobes, sister of Frederick Bee, died on October 12, 1873.

North Pacific Railroad Company sued the Sheriff of Sonoma County and Frederick Bee to stop the Sheriff from selling railroad bed. The Sheriff wanted to sell the railroad bed because the Sheriff and Colonel Bee had been awarded $4,427.85. San Francisco Chronicle (1869-Current File). San Francisco, Calif.: Oct 15, 1873. p. 3 (1 page)

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8605, 20 October 1873
Central Polynesia Land and Commercial Company went bankrupt
J.D. Creigh was trustee in bankruptcy.
History of Samoa
Albert Steinberger, President Grant's Man in Samoa

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7042, 29 October 1873
Tenino coal to be shipped to San Francisco

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7042, 29 October 1873
Directors of coal company

October 29, 1873 Morning Oregonian
"Tenino, W.T. Oct 28 � Gov. Salomon yesterday completed arrangements for opening and working coal mines here. The coal is to be shipped to San Francisco. Work commences in a few days."

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7060, 19 November 1873
Coal from Tenino to San Francisco

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7091, 25 December 1873
Excellent coal at Skookum Chuck coal mine in Washington Territory

Daily Alta California, Volume 25, Number 8676, 31 December 1873
Embezzlement charge against J. B. M. Stewart of the Central Polynesia Land and Commercial Company dismissed.


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Lick House dining room
Lick House, Dining Room, J.W. Lawlor & Co., Proprietors, San Francisco, Cal, by Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Lick House, J.W. Lawlor & Co., Proprietors, San Francisco, Cal, by Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916