The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1899, Page 24

THE SUNDAY CALL. pe Qaliforpia’s Immense Areas arms. : R s ¥ ¥ I « ¢ i k i Wha « u sa he called to where he ¢ & and T B i ed at the time, o \ T hesitati of m F - R o wocden : o Strlcture P G | QalifORMTAL ooden structure in Cali- Allen homestea h was built in house, a most appearance out- homelike and com- y very substantial. the house, and 1‘.. fortable Even in | There are tw s in ou in every one is a large open fireplace. The rence:s weather boarding has become very hard from climatic action during the years it ood, and when several years ago s. Allen engaged a carpenter to re- u one in- | weather board a portion of it it was found or he was | jmpossible to drive nails into the old boards. The house looks ready to fall to pleces at very slight provocation, but is | closer examination shows it to be in really ¥ 1! a remarkable state of strength and pres- ptown hotel which | ervation. D z"o'”“;fif"élfiff? The landing of the Allens at Monteray remember it, | Was an accident, their intention being to ) d-room there and | 80 on to Yerba Buena (San Francisco), fond of sitting and watching | but their vessel sprang a leak as she 1y name CRES OF ONIoON< LNDRED A NS T SANTA CLARA: \ RS = = \ T BLES IN THIS STATE GROWN IN GREAT STRETCHES OF ACRES PAp Industry Ghat Promises plendid Returps. Westminster, in Orange C y, whe tt eget r not there are ebout 2000 acres product ar ¢ e broad count : but long. de through the black The pea grower nd seeks the dry = he of the sea coast wet; moistened b the after which he plo crop; usually there r falling upon it from until it is veste the moisture is in the soil F v ing their leaves thickly over vers at the same t i from the a strong leav m k The allu ver present singie varieties o duct being mostl the growth of the plar i growth being sheared off ever surface of the soil, ther spot from which it was cut are good fertilize 1 hurt the plant, w The great cabb; 1s Olema, near San Rafac There is a strong, coi ge distri te more reaches it market for ——— = / \ LN WTar 4 AN | the subj 1 posted about the news in Eng- n't you? old him that T th cou dered how my name I said. ‘I supp: : got knocked off b 1tions ago. he answered med shy of the me all the more S0 many new in- t I had zot opean news wding k rest ratted about a mulu- told me that he was tem; v. He was him, he = trying to ind in what direction nd that mac ) nue i that tenden would strike ou )f course we got to be on pretty a natior 1l an- terms after that. I saw him again t ‘Are_you a iglishman san and_the morning at Bit I noticed that the more E to we t together the more he seemed arl nt on to troubled or embarrassed about something 1 lived nearly ten vears he had on his mind, i itry, and then he asked if I At last, one night in the smo thought of going back to England at all he suddenly said to me, soon ‘T fancy a good many Englishmen in th “'I don’t know.' I sald been country want to cover up their troubles, ind for fifteen year: eh? seemed rather “pleased with that *** lishm 8 please him partic explain that T he ng, 'and ie I said, ‘a good many of them y pressing information. I thought. And then he went have to, I'm afraid.’ at last we on to ask, with a_rather evident effort to ‘"Well, look here,’ he went on. ‘T don’t ly seem uncon rned. ‘I suppose you keep want to be taken for a fugitive from jus- Allen Homestead in Monteray, Built in 1849. \/E \ / | \V/ | my name a re you more ‘Did you ev e coal mine sized Gerrn d keep two hequer b s —books they isn't a and even If yoi ¢ it he wouldn't try to t ““It is a nice thing money, 1 have no doub to be hard up myself—sor devils that are. But there is the way of incom and that's what I've got at present—my share as a younger br: - only brother. And I n up my r long ago to Stop at that. “Just let me tell you—Jim's he has to »f sharps medium in a om India T foun tic ex ov tic fall in 1 of the Greatest Historical think I'd run away in® ge him to and her passenge 3 cluded the frame #nd lum len house and their barnyard fowls) were landed at Monterey Allens finding Monterey what pected Yerba Buena to be, deci main where they were. This house was connected 4 manner with the celebrated Cu: robbery that occurred about Allen, having become a widc necessary to Increase hep rented a portion of her house, th being a family of whom she Knew ing. A short time after they moved the Custom-house was robbed of and the crime was the name of King, then Collector of the Por King was liberated be f lack of evidence to prove his guilt and soon aft.r left the countr Mrs. 1 howe became suspicious of her tenant cause of thelr strange behavior, and com- municating her suspicions to the officer a search was made, resulting in the ing of the whole amount hidden in t house—$800 in silver In the door under a table and $30,00 In gold divided into Ce was more sta Is one point where I'm n id I. ‘You in the Countess the mother of 3 partic > , insur enormous r. William Fitz Cl € things and res Charles Fitz W smaller sums and placed in boxes uncer a | 0K OF Whether he is still afte Qight of etairs, a box under each stal | loarpeg s0CKY M”fi{‘éf»’l‘fi have =