DIVISION ONK — PRE-PASADKNIAN. 9I 



dore Stockton at this time, and to Fremont in July previous, and without 

 which they could not have reached Los Angeles at all, have never been 

 paid for.* 



Wm. Heath Davis, who was an intimate friend of the Arguello and 

 Bandini families, in his book, "Sixty Years in California," p. 438, says: 



" Don Santiaguito Arguello furnished large quantities of army supplies 

 to Stockton from his extensive rancho eleven or twelve miles from San Diego 

 — several hundred head of cattle and horses, and for which he had a claim 

 against the government amounting to $14,000. The claim was sent to 

 Washington by Major Lee, commissary-general for the Pacific coast. Stock- 

 ton's attention being called to it [he was then U. S. Senator from New 

 Jersey] he exerted himself effectually in its settlement, and in a few months 

 Arguello received his money." 



The ranch referred to by Davis was that of Tia Juana, which had been 

 granted to Arguello's father in 1829. 



Of this Bandini family, Don Juan died at Los Angeles, November 2, 

 1859. Dona Refugio died there June 28, 1891. The little Dolorosa whose 

 dress furnished the red for that historic flag, is now [1894] Mrs. Charles 

 Robinson Johnson of 433 South Main street, Los Angeles ; little Margarite 

 whose dress furnished the white for that flag, is now Mrs. Dr. James B. 

 Winston (widow) of Los Angeles ; and little Juan de la Cruz, whose 7-year 

 old boy suit furnished the blue for the flag, is now engaged in the cattle 

 trade between the United States and Mexico. Mrs. Col. R. S. Baker, (wid- 

 ow) of Los Angeles, was an older sister, and not with the family on that 

 occasion ; and Arturo, so well known in Pasadena, was a younger brother, 

 not born until 1853. t Three of the Bandini girls married American hus- 

 bands ; and one of the boys, Arturo, married an American wife. 



BATTLES OP SAN GABRIEL FORD, AND "THE MESA." 



On December 29, 1846, Commodore Stockton marched out from San 

 Diego with an army numbering in all 607 men, six cannon, 87 mounted 

 riflemen, ten ox carts to carry the baggage, and a band of beef cattle from 

 Bandini for army rations. Among Stockton's officers were Capt. Santiago 

 E. Arguello and Lieut. Luis Arguello, brothers of Dona Refugio Bandini 

 who made the famous flag, and therefore uncles to our Pasadena Bandini 

 family. Kit Carson, though not an officer, had charge of a squad of 

 mounted riflemen who served as scouts and skirmishers. [For full list of 



*August 31, 1852, Congress finally authorized the appointment of three armj' officers as a board ot 

 commissioners, to examine and report on the California war claims; and their final report was made 

 April 19. 18s5. In this I find that Arguello, [Bandini's brother-iu-law,] made, claim for f2i,68.S, and was 

 allowed J6,Soo. The total of these California claims before the commission was fgSy.iSs; and $28,570 

 more were filed after April 19, making over a million in all. The commission allowed a total of 1157,365 

 ot these claims, and Congress provided for their payment. A total of $157,317 were rejected ; and the 

 rest were suspended, to wait further evidence. One claim of $10,000 was cut down 200 per cent., and just 

 $50 was allowed the man. — See Bancroft, //^zj/. Cal., Vol. s, P- l^J'l- 



tMr. Arturo Bandini has now [1894] a silver cup presented to his father, and bearing the following 

 inscription : " To Don Juan Bandini, from Captains H. Day, S. Casey, H. W. Wessels, H. S. Burton, and 

 G. C. Westcott, r S. Army, as a token of friendship and high esteem." These were officers with Com- 

 modore Stockton. They procured the cup and had their names engraved upon it in Washington, and 

 then shipped it around Cape Horn to Don Juan, in 1850. 



