The Bay of San Francisco Volume 1; The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its Suburban Cities a History (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...seat the sheriff was often obliged to stand guard over his prisoners, or lock them up in a room at the Brooklyn Hotel. According to Halley's statement, "to save trouble, sometimes the sheriff would be relieved of his charge, and the prisoners taken out in" the salt-marsh and lynched."5" He assures us, however, that such instances were rare, the people being on the whole law-abiding. It has been stated that under an act of April, 1855, a board of supervisors was created for the county. The gentlemen "School facilities were very inferior; there were only two or three churches; the streets were not macadamized; Iraudulent titles were abundant; litigation appeared endless; the city had a debt already, and her prospects w-re not then as promising as they had been at first. The opening of the creek, the establishment of an opposition line of steamers, the construction of the local railway, and the prospect of the terminus of the transcontinental railway being established in the city, caused the change for the better. 25 The city of Oakland had a case of " lynch" law on the 30th of January, 85. A man named G. W. Sheldon, accused of stealing a horse, was taken by a mob from the civil authorities, carried to Clinton and hanged on an oak tree. elected were; Henry C. Smith, for Washington; J. W. Dougherty, for Murray; S. D. Taylor, for Eden; J. L. Sanford, for Clinton; James Millington, for Alameda, and J. L. Sanford, for Oakland. J. W. Dougherty was chosen chairman of the board for 1855. Other county officers were to serve for two years. The tax levy ordered was $1.50 on the $100, to be applied as follows: 60 cents for State purposes; 50 cents for county purposes; 5 cents fo. school purposes; 25 cents for building a courthouse, ...