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CHAPTER XVIII.

SAN DIEGO PLAN ALVARADO AND CARRILLO.
1837.

BANDINI S MOVEMENTS PLOTS ON THE FRONTIER ZAMORANO, PORTILLA, AND ESTRADA PLAN or MAY SEIZURE OF Los ANGELES DON JUAN AT SAX DIEGO THE ARMY AT ANGELES AND SAN FERNANDO CASTILLERO S COMMISSION OATH OF CENTRALISM IN THE SOUTH ALVARADO AT MONTEREY AND SANTA CLARA RUMORS FROM MEXICO RAMIREZ REVOLT MONTEREY TAKEN AND RETAKEN ALVARADO RETURNS TO THE SOUTH TREATY WITH CASTILLERO ALVARADO SWEARS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS His MOTIVES DIPUTACION AT SANTA BARBARA CASTILLERO SENT TO MEXICO THE CALIFORNIA VALLEJO REFUSES TO ACCEPT CENTRALISM CARLOS CARRILLO S APPOINTMENT ALVARADO S POSITION CARRILLO ASSUMES OFFICE AT ANGELES SAN DIEGO OBEDIENT NOT so STA BARBARA LETTERS OF VALLEJO AND ALVARADO.

JUAN BANDINI had followed the advice of Oslo to "go home and keep quiet," so far at least that the records are silent about him from December 1836 to May 1837. During this period he lived on his frontier rancho, and spent all the time which troublesome Indians left at his disposal in plotting against Alvarado s government, or rather in devising schemes by virtue of which, when Mexican supremacy should be fully restored, his own agency in bringing about that result might be so apparent as to obtain proper recognition and reward. He had an understanding with Captain Portilla and other prominent men at San Diego; while across the line, in full sympathy with Don Juan, was Captain Zamorano, who after his voluntary exile at the fall of Gutierrez, had found his way back to La Frontera. Zamorano, like Bandini

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