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Important early issue of California 1st newspaper

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 67

Important early issue of California 1st newspaper

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Vol. I, No. 6. 4 pp. In two columns, on single folded sheet; printed so that the fold is at the right. 31.8x21.5 cm (12½x8½"). Rare and highly significant issue of California's first newspaper, published by Monterey Alcalde Walter Colton and his friend Robert B. Semple, printed on the well-used Ramage printing press that Agustín V. Zamorano brought from Hawaii to Monterey in 1834. Printed just over a month after the first issue came out on August 15, 1846, this number, which came out on September 19 though dated September 17 on the first page, is of notable historic import. The issue contains significant early notice of the war between the United States and Mexico, declared the preceding May, including actions in California. More significant, however, are the two pages devoted to the encroachment of the Walla Walla Indians on Northern California. The article consists of the report of the Indian Sub-Agent Elijah White to the Secretary of State dated April 4, 1845, with a lengthy account of the murder of Elijah Hedding, a.k.a. Toayahnu, and also a letter from John A. Sutter to the Thomas O. Larkin, U.S. Consul to Mexican Alta California, dated July 21st, 1845. Toayahnu, educated at the Methodist Mission and christened Elijah Hedding, was the oldest son of Yellow Serpent, the chief of the Walla Wall tribe. In the fall of 1844 an expedition was organized by Yellow Serpent and his son, consisting of around 40 adult males in addition to numerous women and children. Prominent members included Yellow Bird, Elijah Hedding, Young Chief, and Spokane Garry, along with other Nez Perce and Spokane headmen. The goal of the expedition was to reach New Helvetia (Sacramento), and to establish contact with Californians in order to trade for cattle. John Sutter welcomed the expedition to his colony, having become acquainted with Yellow Serpent. In his letter, Elijah White writes that the expedition proceeded very smoothly, without any conflicts. the Indian party was invited to the Sutter house were Elijah Hedding was cruelly killed “while there in an unarmed and defenseless condition, “ as the result of an altercation that arose with Sutter’s employee Grove Cook regarding horses the Indians bought the previous day. This occurred at the beginning of 1845. In his letter Elijah White relates that the Oregon missionary Dr. Whitman, who resided with the Walla Walla Indians, warned him that the Walla Walla and four other tribes planned to raise two thousand warriors for march to California for revenge. Elijah White statest that he was hoping to stop, or at least postpone, this attack. “l wrote through Ellis [the Nez Perce leader] a long and rather sympathizing letter to the chiefs of these tribes assuring them that I should at once write to the Governor of California, to Capt. Sutter and the President of the U. S. respecting this matter… I invited the chief to come down this fall to confer with me on this subject… I likewise wrote them that on condition they would defer going to California until the spring of '47, and assist me in getting a manual labour literary institution for the English education of their sons and daughters, a subject they feel the deepest interest in… I would, of my own private funds, give, to be equally distributed among them, five hundred dollars, to assist them in buying young cows in California, and in the mean time do everything in my power to get the unhappy affair adjusted. I likewise proffered, (as they are so eager for it,) to start the English school next fall, by giving them the services of Mr. Lee, my interpreter…” Much different in tone is the letter from John Sutter, who tried to depict the young chief Elijah Hedding as “ … the terror of the old chiefs, he had the whole rule over them, and no doubt he would have become a great tyrant among his people," who killed a few of his own people during this expedition. He mentioned that “Dr. White says that Elijah was by no means viciously inclined, but we believe her

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 67
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Datum:
22.08.2019
Auktionshaus:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Vol. I, No. 6. 4 pp. In two columns, on single folded sheet; printed so that the fold is at the right. 31.8x21.5 cm (12½x8½"). Rare and highly significant issue of California's first newspaper, published by Monterey Alcalde Walter Colton and his friend Robert B. Semple, printed on the well-used Ramage printing press that Agustín V. Zamorano brought from Hawaii to Monterey in 1834. Printed just over a month after the first issue came out on August 15, 1846, this number, which came out on September 19 though dated September 17 on the first page, is of notable historic import. The issue contains significant early notice of the war between the United States and Mexico, declared the preceding May, including actions in California. More significant, however, are the two pages devoted to the encroachment of the Walla Walla Indians on Northern California. The article consists of the report of the Indian Sub-Agent Elijah White to the Secretary of State dated April 4, 1845, with a lengthy account of the murder of Elijah Hedding, a.k.a. Toayahnu, and also a letter from John A. Sutter to the Thomas O. Larkin, U.S. Consul to Mexican Alta California, dated July 21st, 1845. Toayahnu, educated at the Methodist Mission and christened Elijah Hedding, was the oldest son of Yellow Serpent, the chief of the Walla Wall tribe. In the fall of 1844 an expedition was organized by Yellow Serpent and his son, consisting of around 40 adult males in addition to numerous women and children. Prominent members included Yellow Bird, Elijah Hedding, Young Chief, and Spokane Garry, along with other Nez Perce and Spokane headmen. The goal of the expedition was to reach New Helvetia (Sacramento), and to establish contact with Californians in order to trade for cattle. John Sutter welcomed the expedition to his colony, having become acquainted with Yellow Serpent. In his letter, Elijah White writes that the expedition proceeded very smoothly, without any conflicts. the Indian party was invited to the Sutter house were Elijah Hedding was cruelly killed “while there in an unarmed and defenseless condition, “ as the result of an altercation that arose with Sutter’s employee Grove Cook regarding horses the Indians bought the previous day. This occurred at the beginning of 1845. In his letter Elijah White relates that the Oregon missionary Dr. Whitman, who resided with the Walla Walla Indians, warned him that the Walla Walla and four other tribes planned to raise two thousand warriors for march to California for revenge. Elijah White statest that he was hoping to stop, or at least postpone, this attack. “l wrote through Ellis [the Nez Perce leader] a long and rather sympathizing letter to the chiefs of these tribes assuring them that I should at once write to the Governor of California, to Capt. Sutter and the President of the U. S. respecting this matter… I invited the chief to come down this fall to confer with me on this subject… I likewise wrote them that on condition they would defer going to California until the spring of '47, and assist me in getting a manual labour literary institution for the English education of their sons and daughters, a subject they feel the deepest interest in… I would, of my own private funds, give, to be equally distributed among them, five hundred dollars, to assist them in buying young cows in California, and in the mean time do everything in my power to get the unhappy affair adjusted. I likewise proffered, (as they are so eager for it,) to start the English school next fall, by giving them the services of Mr. Lee, my interpreter…” Much different in tone is the letter from John Sutter, who tried to depict the young chief Elijah Hedding as “ … the terror of the old chiefs, he had the whole rule over them, and no doubt he would have become a great tyrant among his people," who killed a few of his own people during this expedition. He mentioned that “Dr. White says that Elijah was by no means viciously inclined, but we believe her

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 67
Auktion:
Datum:
22.08.2019
Auktionshaus:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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