Historical Clippings Book (HC-04) (198 pages)

ee, ———— Dig . s Started At Chinatown site . In Vyeka ‘ Legendary Japanese Girl Will Be Honored In Gold Run Ceremony— i “ Shrub hae 0G Sane crew, working under the ar in the day’s events. There, commemorative The day-long observance gold memento coins will be will begin on the Gold Trail entrusted to members of the School ground about 300 Japanese-American Citizens feet from the grave of Okei League for presentation to Ito. She was the first JapaPresident Richard M. Nixon nese girl to die in the United and Japanese Prime MinisStates. A monument will be ter Eisaku Sato. William Hosokawa, assodedicated to her .and the Wakamatsu tea and silk colciate editor of the Denver ony of which she was a Post, will be the main member. It was established speaker at the banquet. The celebration is being in Gold Hill on June 8, 1869. The dedication will be foldirected by the Wakamatsu Centennial Committee of the lowed at noon by a luncheon at the E} Dorado Royal JACL to commemorate the Country Club in Cameron first Japanese colony in Park where dignitaries will America. The 40-member gather. Mementos will be colony came to America to * presented to Reagan and escape civil turmoil in the city of Wakimatsu. . Shima. Division of Parks and Recrea tion, is digging in Yreka’s old OVS TL 7 They discovered, “Be their arrival in Gold Hill to establish a tea and silk i = dustry, that climactic’ co i 4 tions were unsuitable. The business failed and the colony with it in less than ip. years. Okei was a member of the a colony and was left alone = after it failed. She was cared for by the Veerkamp family, Z. but she soon became ill and 3 died. The Veerkamp family will be represented at the Saturday observance. ~ Celebration chairman Bil — Tsuji says Okei represents— much of the history and— what has been accomplished wet BS GOLD HILL, El Dorado In the evening, the JapaCo. — -A_ Japanese girl nese-American Citizens whose story has become a League will hold a Japanese legend will be honored as a Centennial commemorative symbol of Japanese history banquet in the Hotel El Doin the United States in cereTrado, Sacramento, where monies here Saturday. State Treasurer Ivy Baker Gov. Ronald Reagan and Priest will represent CaliforJapanese Consul General nia and Shima will represent Seiichi Shima will take part the Japanese government. _chaeological section of the State’ by the Japanese in America, particularly by the Wakamatsu colony. The monument, which consists of four large stones representing the Japanese home islands, set in the center of a Japanese garden, will be unveiled by Mrs. Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Shima. Chinatown section, seeking relics and historical data on the Chinese residents of the community’s early mining days. The archaeological project is A crew of six is at work, under the direction of project leader Donald Wood of Sacramento. They are working from old photos and other information’ which has been supplied by the} Siskiyou County Historical So-, ciety Museum in Yreka. . Photos taken of the area about 1890 show small shrubs where the workmen are digging around today's large locust trees. The workmen have exca/vated the foundations of several ican, pottery pieces and an old ! 1 i PF During the Gold Rush days of the mid-1800's in the Northern California town of Marysville, Chinese miners, farmers and merchants comprised a community second only in size to San Francisco’s Chinatown. In this era of gold, they continued a traditional event known as the Bok Kai Festival, an annual celebration in honor of the Chinese god believed to be capable of banishing evil, controlling rains, Wyk ela, R Gen’ ys ; ‘old buildings, finding old bottles, coins both Chinese and Ameri @, Bok Kai Festival Chinatown community lies in the path of the intended routing) of Interstate 5 through Yreka. fs flooding and irrigation waters. The festival Opens with the “eyeing” of the dragon, a ritual of putting a red dot in the dragon’s eye so that it secs only what is good; then, a parade of exotic sights and sounds. The climax of this centuries old tradition takes place on the second day, or “Bomb Day,” as 100 giant firecrackers, or ‘‘bombs,” are set off. A lucky ring is sent into the air from each explosion, and as . }§\ _ it falls to earth people scramble for possession. cellar which was lined with sand-filled, five-gallon kerosene’ ‘cans, Additional workmen, some 15 . i According to legend, those who catch a ring a), will enjoy good fortune for the coming year. The Bok Kai Festival will be held this year in college students, are expected to’ gilt join the crew this week. The digging will continue until th site has been completely gone over or until freeway construc tion through the area begins. B24 : being financed by the State Division of Highways. The old, M27 Marysville during the weekend of March 22 and 23. Pacific Telephone D\\ Sf iG rete.

ee, ———— Dig . s Started At Chinatown site . In Vyeka ‘ Legendary Japanese Girl Will Be Honored In Gold Run Ceremony— i “ Shrub hae 0G Sane crew, working under the ar in the day’s events. There, commemorative The day-long observance gold memento coins will be will begin on the Gold Trail entrusted to members of the School ground about 300 Japanese-American Citizens feet from the grave of Okei League for presentation to Ito. She was the first JapaPresident Richard M. Nixon nese girl to die in the United and Japanese Prime MinisStates. A monument will be ter Eisaku Sato. William Hosokawa, assodedicated to her .and the Wakamatsu tea and silk colciate editor of the Denver ony of which she was a Post, will be the main member. It was established speaker at the banquet. The celebration is being in Gold Hill on June 8, 1869. The dedication will be foldirected by the Wakamatsu Centennial Committee of the lowed at noon by a luncheon at the E} Dorado Royal JACL to commemorate the Country Club in Cameron first Japanese colony in Park where dignitaries will America. The 40-member gather. Mementos will be colony came to America to * presented to Reagan and escape civil turmoil in the city of Wakimatsu. . Shima. Division of Parks and Recrea tion, is digging in Yreka’s old OVS TL 7 They discovered, “Be their arrival in Gold Hill to establish a tea and silk i = dustry, that climactic’ co i 4 tions were unsuitable. The business failed and the colony with it in less than ip. years. Okei was a member of the a colony and was left alone = after it failed. She was cared for by the Veerkamp family, Z. but she soon became ill and 3 died. The Veerkamp family will be represented at the Saturday observance. ~ Celebration chairman Bil — Tsuji says Okei represents— much of the history and— what has been accomplished wet BS GOLD HILL, El Dorado In the evening, the JapaCo. — -A_ Japanese girl nese-American Citizens whose story has become a League will hold a Japanese legend will be honored as a Centennial commemorative symbol of Japanese history banquet in the Hotel El Doin the United States in cereTrado, Sacramento, where monies here Saturday. State Treasurer Ivy Baker Gov. Ronald Reagan and Priest will represent CaliforJapanese Consul General nia and Shima will represent Seiichi Shima will take part the Japanese government. _chaeological section of the State’ by the Japanese in America, particularly by the Wakamatsu colony. The monument, which consists of four large stones representing the Japanese home islands, set in the center of a Japanese garden, will be unveiled by Mrs. Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Shima. Chinatown section, seeking relics and historical data on the Chinese residents of the community’s early mining days. The archaeological project is

A crew of six is at work, under the direction of project leader Donald Wood of Sacramento. They are working from old photos and other information’ which has been supplied by the} Siskiyou County Historical So-, ciety Museum in Yreka. . Photos taken of the area about 1890 show small shrubs where the workmen are digging around today's large locust trees. The workmen have exca/vated the foundations of several ican, pottery pieces and an old ! 1 i PF During the Gold Rush days of the mid-1800's in the Northern California town of Marysville, Chinese miners, farmers and merchants comprised a community second only in size to San Francisco’s Chinatown. In this era of gold, they continued a traditional event known as the Bok Kai Festival, an annual celebration in honor of the Chinese god believed to be capable of banishing evil, controlling rains, Wyk ela, R Gen’ ys ; ‘old buildings, finding old bottles, coins both Chinese and Ameri @, Bok Kai Festival Chinatown community lies in the path of the intended routing) of Interstate 5 through Yreka. fs flooding and irrigation waters. The festival Opens with the “eyeing” of the dragon, a ritual of putting a red dot in the dragon’s eye so that it secs only what is good; then, a parade of exotic sights and sounds. The climax of this centuries old tradition takes place on the second day, or “Bomb Day,” as 100 giant firecrackers, or ‘‘bombs,” are set off. A lucky ring is sent into the air from each explosion, and as . }§\ _ it falls to earth people scramble for possession. cellar which was lined with sand-filled, five-gallon kerosene’ ‘cans, Additional workmen, some 15 . i According to legend, those who catch a ring a), will enjoy good fortune for the coming year. The Bok Kai Festival will be held this year in college students, are expected to’ gilt join the crew this week. The digging will continue until th site has been completely gone over or until freeway construc tion through the area begins. B24 : being financed by the State Division of Highways. The old, M27 Marysville during the weekend of March 22 and 23. Pacific Telephone D\\ Sf iG rete.