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On June 15 "they ran up a flag sufficiently significant of their intentions a white field, red border, with a grizzly bear eyeing a single star, which threw its light on the motton, 'The Republic of California'. To this flag and its fortunes they pledged themselves in mutual confidence." So the Bear Flag flew over the rude fortress of Sonoma; the new commander, William B. Ide, was preparing for issuance, June 18, the proclamation of the revolutionists, bidding the inhabitants of the District of Sonoma to have no fear staff of the custom house; on July 9 it was raised at San Francisco, and upon the same date had superseded the Bear Flag at Sonoma. On July 10 it waved officially over Sutter's Fort, to the salute of twentyone guns. Sailor's uniforms were sent for the garrison; so that on September 1, when Edwin Bryant, in an emigrant train from Missouri, arrived at the fort he was astonished to see sitting at the gateway several foreign-appearing gentry "dressed in buckskin pantaloons and blue sailor's shirts with white stars worked on the collars. I inquired if Captain Sutter was in the fort. A very small man, with a peculiarly sharp red face and a most voluble tongue, gave the response. He said in substance, that perhaps I was not aware of the great changes which had recently taken place in California;—that the fort now belonged to the United States, and that Captain Sutter, although he was in the fort, had no control over it." So much for New Helvetia and the part it played as a Plymouth Rock for the California pilgrims. With the achievement of the conquest, again; and Sutter's Fort prepared for greater things. Immigration was wondrously increasing, and New Helvetia was destined (in the worthy captain's mind) to multiply accordingly. but to rally to the banner; the prisoners Captain Sutter came back into his own -the two Vallejos, Lieutenant-Colonel Pruden, Jacob Leese-had been turned over to the custody of Sutter's Fort, where, as Leese poignantly records, "we pass'd the next day in the most aughful manner a reflecting on the citation of our familys and property in the hands of such a desperate set of men"; and Fremont, openly announcing his sympathies, drew up his resignation from the United States Army and assigned to the fort his topographer, Edward Kern. The movement for independence that preliminary skirmish termed the Bear War-quickly was merged into another movement. The tide of revolt flowed down to Monterey, where was waiting uncertainly, on his flagship Savannah, Commodore John D. Sloat. Emblazoned by the action in the north, where Sutter's Fort had upheaved through the uneasy strata and had spread a distinct quake, the commodore followed the lead. July 7 the Flag was raised on the flag On How mysteriously and unexpectedly move the shuttling hands of fate, dealing as easily with nations as with individuals. Captain Sutter's thoughts were upon the prosaic; his purpose was to sell lumber and flour, and his soul rose not beyond the hum of his prospective mills; but on January 24 James W. Marshall, the eccentric employe, discovered yellow in the soil of the mill-race at Colma, fifty miles above the post-and at once the feeble plans of Captain Sutter, for the future, aye, and much of his works of the past, were made naught. Who would toil in his mills or in his fields, when gold lay waiting in the hills? Who would care for crops when the Midas touch was free to all? Sacramento City up-sprang almost in a night; that barren waste just below New Helvetia, without a habitation in 1848, in fifteen months swarmed with 12,000 jostling, lawless residents. The Sutter sawmill of yore had become the City Hotel. The fort and everything about it already "showed signs of dilapidation and decay. The corrals of earth had been tramped down; doors and gateways were broken through the walls, and all kinds of building materials carried away." The Sutter dwelling or official quarters, of two wooden stories, still stood in the center of the quadrangle, "and low ranges of buildings around the sides were variously occupied as hospitals, stores, drinking and gaming shops, and dwellings." Here was a hospital, for the gold-seekers thronging the up-river trail; and here they received "nursing and medical attendance for $100 per week." Thus, as a factor, passed Sutter's Fort -or, rather, thus was it merged into the onward surge of events. Sutter was willing to let people dig where they might, if only they would leave him his sawmill, erected, as he pathetically asserted, at considerable expense. By June of 1848, Sutter was able to retain but two mechanics in his employ, and these at $10 a day. Deeming his prospects dulled, although he was getting $100 a month per room, for his store-buildings; thus was Captain Sutter, bewildered by the sudden changes, elbowed aside by the ruthless. influx. At the success of the conquest, he had been one of the leading men in influence and prospects in California; at the Statehood convention of September, 1849, he led the cheering; but so speedily was he dispossessed of his lands and his living, which before the rush of the gold-seeker dissolved like a mound of sand before the roll of a tidal wave, that in ten years he had been reduced to penury. In 1864 the California Legislature granted him an annual pension of $3000, but he never was reimbursed for the loss of his estate, whereupon he had so staunchly founded the Forteleza de Nueva Helvecia. A disappointed and embittered man, who could only see injustice in the treatment accorded him, he died in June, 1880, at Washington, whither he had gone, prosecuting his claims. His home was then in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. THE CERTAINTY OF FORTY (Continued from Page 39) 'Jimmie K.' would do if he wanted anything real badly?" Jimmie nodded half heartedly. All his resolute decisions had suddenly passed into nothingness and his manner changed. "Why do you come over here, Mary Louise? What can you see in that altitudinous dome with no hair? He certainly isn't like Jimmie K." "That altitudinous dome," flared back Mary Louise, "is gentility." Jimmie gasped. "I do believe you like him." "I do!" "But he is old enough to be your grandfather," protested Jimmie. "He's old enough to have good sense, Jimmie Manderstan, and he knows what a woman wants. You're too young. You should be back in school instead of begging to marry me. You haven't been considering me at all, and all that I will have to go through with. How could you take me East on our honeymoon when you haven't even bought me a ring? That is absurd!" She tossed back her head in much the same manner as she had defended him to Jeremiah. "But Mary Louise, I have bought the ring." He produced a purple box and sprung the lid open for her approval. She took it gingerly and examined it while he waited breathlessly for her reply. She paused in her examination and drew the ring close to her eyes. "It look for all the world like Daisy Quimby's." Jimmie moved nervously beside her as she continued to scrutinize the ring. "It is Daisy Quimby's. Do you think, Jimmie Banderstan, I'd wear what some other girl gave back to you?" "But what difference does it make? She doesn't want it and I'll get you another just as soon—” "You don't need to mind. I'm recalling that Daisy liked the ring pretty well herself and there she is." Mary Louise |