Excited Gold Seekers.
March 15, 1889Trouble Brewing in Lower California, and Bloodshed Possible.
Great excitement exists in the lower California gold-mining camps, and thousands of desperate gold-hunters are breathing vengeance against the international company of English capitalists whose agents lay claims to the mines and are trying to shut out Americans and others. When it had became know that the company had sent to San Francisco for 5,000 Chinamen to work the mines, the American and Mexican miners held a mass-meeting and determined not to submit to the engaging of coolies. They also framed a position to the American Congress asking protection. The situation looks threatening and a battle between the independent miners and the English company’s men is imminent. Blood will certainly be shed if the company insists on taking coolies to the camps.
source: The Statesman
location: Marshall, Michigan
