Walter Colton (1797-1851)

Co-publisher with Robert Semple, of the first newspaper published in California, the Californian, published every Saturday at Monterey beginning 15 Aug 1846.

The very first edition is online in the California Digital Newspaper Collection.

A biography of Walter Colton is at this link.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZR6GhjSJ3LoC&lpg=PA28&dq=%22salvador%20vallejo%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=%22salvador%20vallejo%22&f=true

He was Alcalde of Monterey in 1847