Lancaster Gazette in Lancaster, Ohio

California notes and military movements in 1849 era

From San Francisco E C Mann reports earning eight hundred fifty dollars a year as a non journeyman worker on the Atle Californian and saving thirty dollars weekly. Across the bay a port city population of about seventy eight thousand strains housing with many tents and overflow on the hills. Five American ladies in San Francisco noted. News from Port Kear tod May 30 says rifle regiments move toward Oregon with Col Barnes and Lieuts Boots and Davis taking command of posts while pilgrim wagons progress. total wagons 4 403. Minnesota Governor Ramsey divides territory into three judicial districts with courts at Stillwater and St Anthony Falls. Governor Lane reaches Oregon City and proclaims as governor on the march.