The territory was still reeling from the mismanagement of Ballard's predecessor, Caleb Lyon, deeply divided over the controversial decision to move the capital from Lewiston to Boise, and nearly broke because former territorial secretary Horace C. Gilson had embezzled most of the territory's funds while serving as acting governor between Lyon and Ballard's administrations.
So, the territorial governor, Caleb Lyon and the territorial secretary, secretly took the territorial seal, archives and treasury and fled from Lewiston, their territorial capital.
Caleb Lyon (1822-1875) - A noted lecturer, poet, author, writer, and politician, he designed the Seal of the State of California.
Lyon | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Nathaniel Lyon | University of Lyon | Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée | Garry Lyon | Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 | Opéra National de Lyon | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | Second Council of Lyon | Eucherius of Lyon | Council of Lyon | The Lyon's Den | Lord Lyon King of Arms | George Caleb Bingham | Caleb Quaye | Caleb Johnson | Urban Community of Lyon | J. Caleb Boggs | Fort Lyon | First Council of Lyon | Edward Lyon Berthon | Dar Lyon | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon | Caleb Southern | Caleb Lyon | Caleb Followill | Annabel Lyon | 1st arrondissement of Lyon | William P. Lyon |