1874

William H. Webb
Short biography

Albert Bee's widow worked in the Coiner's Department at the Mint.
Suicide of John M. Eckfeldt
Opening of new Mint

The Chinese Question from a Chinese Standpoint
published in 1874

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7097, 1 January 1874
1873 incorporations – Olympia Railway and Mining Company

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7098, 3 January 1874
San Francisco Market Review

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8696, 21 January 1874
Barlow Bee opposed annexation of land to the City of San Jose.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7118, 27 January 1874
Olympia and Tenino Railroad

California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 40, Number 16, 29 January 1874
1500 people attended demonstration of electricity.

Los Angeles Herald, Volume 1, Number 118, 19 February 1874
John M. Morton, son of Senator Oliver Morton, was married in Wasington, D.C. and moved to San Francisco.

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8733, 27 February 1874
North Pacific Railroad Company vs. F. A. Bee

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 46, Number 7159, 16 March 1874
Samoan Commercial and Land Company was formed.
Sidney Smith, J. Neylan, and J.D. Creigh were investors.
1874 San Francisco Directory
listed the same address for J.D. Creigh and Samoan Commercial and Land Company, pages 731 and 783.
Articles of Incorporation
Sidney V. Smith, attorney (1 share); W. T. Bradbury, physician (30 shares); John Shineberger, clerk, Alta California (100 shares); J. D. Creigh, attorney (1,153 shares); J. Neylan, commission merchant (25 shares); F. A. Bee (100 shares)
NOTE: Fred McCrellish was the owner of Alta California newspaper.
This image is from the articles of incorporation. I cannot determine the last name of the owner of 23 shares; the name may be B.S. Salomon, B.S.Solomon, or B. S. Sussman.

"The Samoan Commercial and Land Company"
The purpose for which said corporation is formed is to transact all kinds of trade and commerce, a general mercantile business together with the procuring of land, wharves and docks by purchase or otherwise on the Navigators Islands in the South Pacific Ocean with power to improve, work and sell the same.

April 2, 1874 Report Upon Samoa: Or, the Navigation's Island, Made to the Secretary of State
The San Francisco stockholders, and one James McKee of the Sandwich Islands, are certainly innocent and highly respectable gentlemen, whose money has been squandered and their reputation stained by adventurers representing them on the islands

Steinberger of Samoa: Some Biographical Notes
THE ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN PREMIER IN SAMOA, 1874-1876
Peerless in the Steinberger report
Yacht Peerless of San Francisco in List of Merchant Vessels of the United States ..., Volume 7, Parts 1873-1874
April 8, 1874 Nevada State Journal
"Olympia,W.T., April 7.
Work on the Olympia and Tenino Railroad commenced to-day in good earnest. Citizens turned out en mass closing up every place of business and devoting the day to hard work on the grade. The ladies provided refreshments for the whole force."

Daily Alta California, Volume 27, Number 9235, 17 July 1875
Yacht Peerless
Jerome B. Ford
Ford, Godeffroy, Sillem and Mendocino Lumber Company in August, 1873
Richard L. Odgen
William Sillem of Godeffroy & Sillem in the 1875 San Francisco City Directory was also the treasurer of the Mendocino Lumber Company owned by Jerome Ford.
The Financial Adventures of J. C. Godeffroy and Son in the Pacific
November 11, 1876, Godeffroy & Sillem had ship under German flag in Samoa.

Charles Duisenberg, consul for German Empire prior to Adolph Rosenthal
and
Duisenberg family
Duisenberg information
from website

I reviewed the National Archives microfilm publication M58, Rolls 9-15 ("Notes From the Legations of the German States and Germany in the United States to the Department of State, 1817-1906") and could only find a notification to the US Dept of State that Adolph Rosenthal was the new consul in San Francisco, CA.

Los Angeles Herald, Volume 2, Number 31, 7 May 1874
Adolph Rosenthal recognized as consul.
Godeffroy Firm
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 1, Number 88, 4 June 1875
Consul Rosenthal and the frigate, Arcona
Biographical information of Adolph Rosenthal
Courtesy of Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts

May 11, 1874 Morning Oregonian
"The Courier says, ' A letter from a prominent member of the Coal Company who own the Skookum Chuck mines to E. S. Salomon gives the gratifying intelligence that it is the design of that company to begin work up on those mines shortly. It was expected that Col. Bee would come on the last steamer from San Francisco to superintend the work. Should this design be carried out and large quantities of coal be offered for transportation at any time the road should be ready to receive the same the effect would be magical upon the fortunes of the Olympia Tenino Railroad. No one would then be found at all skeptical in regard to its early completion and prosperous future. Everything is moving well now but this would give a renewed impulse to the undertaking.'"

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 47, Number 7209, 13 May 1874
Ex-Governor Low accepted Presidency of Anglo-California Bank.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 47, Number 7212, 16 May 1874
Colonel Bee expected to supervise coal mine. This article also mentioned Edward S. Salomon.

May 21, 1874 Puget Sound Dispatch
Col. F. A. Bee came up from San Francisco on the last steamer, accompanied by experienced engineers, superintendents, and coal miners. They will commence work on the Tenino coal mines in a few days, and it is hoped this will be the inauguration of a great industry within our borders. Olympia Courier.

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 47, Number 7220, 26 May 1874
HR 3464 and Samoan Commercial and Land Company.
This bill died in the Committee on Foreign Relations.

June 2, 1874
Mr. Windom asked and, by unanimous consent, obtained leave to bring in a bill (S. 885) to authorize the purchase of harbor-privileges and lands for the establishment of a naval and coaling station in the Samoan Islands; which was read the first and second times, by unanimous consent, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
On February 10, 1875, Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred the following bills, reported them severally without amendment, and that they ought NOT to pass: S. 885. A bill to authorize the purchase of harbor-privileges and lands for the establishment of a naval and coaling station in the Samoan Islands.
House Bill 3464
Senate Bill 885
Senate Bill 885 died.

United States v. Bee started with events in June, 1874. The correct name of the consul to Samoa was S. S. Foster

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 47, Number 7239, 17 June 1874
Colonel Bee opened coal mine in Tenino, Washington with 50 laborers.

THE SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. FREDERICK A. BEE and E. LATAPIE
E. Latapie was the Sheriff of Sonoma County.

F. A. Bee's appeal to California Supreme Court
THE SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. FREDERICK A. BEE and E. LATAPIE

Los Angeles daily herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]), 01 Aug. 1874
Rumor of American to be Chinese Consul
Yung Wing was Chinese Commissioner.
The reason the Chinese Government hired F.A. Bee from "Huang chao zhang gu hui bian / Zhang Shouyong deng bian]"
Original report
Find out more about the book.

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8892, 6 August 1874
Funeral of Joseph Washington Stow, shareholder of Samoan Commercial and Land Company

In 1874, Frederick A. Bee and William Bell became bondsmen for S. S. Foster, American Consul to Samoa.

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8912, 26 August 1874
Women detained at landing of steamship, Japan.
Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8939, 22 September 1874
Decision of Justice Field

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 47, Number 7305, 2 September 1874
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company vs. Bee decision

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8919, 2 September 1874
Decision in a railroad case [North Pacific Railroad Company vs. F. A. Bee]

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 48, Number 7326, 26 September 1874
FA Bee sues San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad to enforce judgement.

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8949, 2 October 1874
Business plans of John M. Morton

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8960, 13 October 1874
Colonel Bee gave speech about Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Mrs. Bee went on an excursion with many others.

October 14, 1874 Morning Oregonian - column 8
200 tons of coal from Tenino mine

From Coal and Coal Trade Journal, Volumes 9-10 "The Tenino and Skookum Chuck coals, on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, are rather lighter and more sulphurous than those of Seattle. "

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 8965, 18 October 1874
Great Britain annexed Fiji.
Fiji: our new province in the South seas(1875)

December 4, 1874 Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States
Benjamin Parke Avery's separate audience with Chinese Emperor

Daily Alta California, Volume 26, Number 9029, 21 December 1874
Coal mined by the Olympia Railway and Mining Company would be acceptable for use by steamships.

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