A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

One of our Chinamen had long big pears, and made a bet that they would weigh a certain weight. Tried one, which did not weigh up to expectation, he carefully cut the skin and put a spike in, covered up the skin, and won his bet. During the year 1850, forty vessels sailed from Hong Kong for California, bringing the first thousand Chinese emigrants. By the end of 1851, it was estimated that twenty-five thousand pigtailed Chinamen had arrived in the port on San Francisco, In the mining districts, the Chinamen held aloof from the white race, kept to their own religion, customs, language, and heathen ways, smoking dope, also using chopsticks. As the Chinks came down the gang plank of the vessel, of ten, twenty, fifty, labor bosses glanced at each Chinese coolie and assigned him‘to a section, depending upon the province in China from which they had come. All running in single file, carrying bamboo poles, which on each end was their belongings, with the queuse (shining black) hanging down their backs. Also, the Chinamen belonging to certain tongs had to be kept together. Chum Ming arrived in 1848. He was an intelligent Chinaman, finding gold, he wrote a friend, Cheong Yum, who came at once, and the Chinamen came in droves, Many from Canton. It was a pigtail gold rush. Jake, a Chinese miner of Goodyear Bar, murdered Wah Chuck, a brother Celestial, on Sierra City road, two and a half miles from Downieville, October 20th, 1867. They quarreled over a pair of boots. Ah Thing, accompanying Wah Chuck. Excerpt from Ah Jake's examination At Downieville's court was a long drawn-out explanation of what occurred. Such as "He lie, he lie, he talk lie, also talked of gold dust, company six, Josh House at Texas Bar.” Ah Jake had been arrested at Forest City, after the murder. He was sentenced to death, but Governor Waterman commuted it to life. In 1891 he was pardoned. Chinamen claimed trees over placer mining sluice boxes, to watch for gold nuggets washed by the water from pay dirt washed out of the side of mountains by hydraulicing hoses and nozzle. They would jump down and steal the nuggets. The miners would turn the hose on them, and the water forced from hugh nozzles with such force that it would kill them. Chinamen (Yellow Bellies) came to the mining camps early, they got the leavings, working ravines, gullies and creeks, after the white men worked out the pay dirt and gravel, yet Chinamen found gold. They came to San Juan in a long single line, jabbering all the way, having umbrellas, carrying their gold. "Old Faithful" Ah Fang, for thirty years burned Josh sticks, and prayed to a variety of Gods and Goddesses, embracing both Buddhism and Faolism. At the old Grass Valley Josh House, which is now preserved, in 1950, at the Historical Society. Truckee citizens tried in early days to run out 500 Chinamen, Band of Piute Indiands, under Chief Winnamuck, and six hundred braves went on an uprising at Pyramid Lake. Gunsmith Davis ordered 1200 cartridges, Ganorg brought 18,000 percussion caps fron Sacramento oy horse relays, pack train of thirty-five mules, commandered by Captain Google 99 J. Von Hagen, and seventy-five white men starting around the base of Sugar Loaf, heading for Henness Pass, pony express set out volunteered, and fared so badly that complete annihilation was narrowly averted. Lasted one month and two days. Meredith killed in a bloody encounter. Von Hagen and Lieutenant R.B.Mose of the Rifles, June 1860, fought a duel. Unauthorized rummage of Army Chest. Shots fired and both missed. One moonlight night, Chinamen came fron Timbuctoo in a covered wagon to rob the Empire Mine. Moulton heard them and saw then taking nuggets out of the sluice boxes. He shot at them with his old muzzle loaded, . firing two shots, he went back to get some buckshot, returning found some blood and a candle stuck in a tin can for a light. Lum Yum, a Chinaman, caught by Tom Hall, stealing gold from a sluice box, and shot. He was found to be wearing a steel plate Jacket, and five Chinese jackets, and had a gun and knife on him. J.E. and Uncle of Lum Yum, who ren a French Corral store, and also ran an opium den, felt bad over the affair. First shipments of Chinamen came from Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii.) Chinks travelled by night, as many as one hundred in a party. The Yellow Bellies were wrongly taxed with a poll tax twice the take $5.00 per head each time. Poorly fed, worked hard. A watchman at a mine, a dig burly man of North San Juan, would get some innocent ‘Chinaman thrown in a sluice box, and collected the $20.00 reward. JOHN CATCHEM LOBBS During the placer mining days of California, Chinamen were more or less legitimate prey of gold dust robbers. Around the Mooney Flat and Anthony House districts, in Nevada County, Chinese were frequently held up along the roads. One outfit in particular of the orientals had been robbed a number of times within a short perlod. They got tired of it, so devised a scheme to put a stop to some of the robbing. Two of them started down the road from the Anthony House, and a third man, a good shot, and game, followed a short distance behind with a double barreled shotgun. When they got to a place on the road, near what is known as the Atwood Place, a man with a rifle and bowie knife, attempted to stop them. The Chinamen started to run down the hill from the road, the robber took a shot at then, wounding one in the side of the head, above the ear. By this time the Chinaman with the shotgun was in close shooting distance. He called to the robber, who whirled to see who was behind him, When he saw the shotgun leveled at him, he threw up his hands and vegged, "no shoot John, I no rob no more." His desire to quit robbing Chinamen came too late. John pulled both triggers, and near decapitated the robber. At the inquest, the man identified as having worked at the mine at Mooney Flat, and been in the vicinity for some time, and had stopped at the hotel there. Further investigation showed he had been sleeping in an old barn, on what is now known as the Landrigean Place. Under his bedding was somewhat over $100.00 in money, with some letters and papers were found. The letters identified him as George T. Fredericks. He was buried near Anthony House, between the end of Deer Creek Bridge, and the road to Mooney Flat. The people of the district did not want him buried in the little cemetéry just above the

One of our Chinamen had long big pears, and made a bet that they would weigh a certain weight. Tried one, which did not weigh up to expectation, he carefully cut the skin and put a spike in, covered up the skin, and won his bet. During the year 1850, forty vessels sailed from Hong Kong for California, bringing the first thousand Chinese emigrants. By the end of 1851, it was estimated that twenty-five thousand pigtailed Chinamen had arrived in the port on San Francisco, In the mining districts, the Chinamen held aloof from the white race, kept to their own religion, customs, language, and heathen ways, smoking dope, also using chopsticks. As the Chinks came down the gang plank of the vessel, of ten, twenty, fifty, labor bosses glanced at each Chinese coolie and assigned him‘to a section, depending upon the province in China from which they had come. All running in single file, carrying bamboo poles, which on each end was their belongings, with the queuse (shining black) hanging down their backs. Also, the Chinamen belonging to certain tongs had to be kept together. Chum Ming arrived in 1848. He was an intelligent Chinaman, finding gold, he wrote a friend, Cheong Yum, who came at once, and the Chinamen came in droves, Many from Canton. It was a pigtail gold rush. Jake, a Chinese miner of Goodyear Bar, murdered Wah Chuck, a brother Celestial, on Sierra City road, two and a half miles from Downieville, October 20th, 1867. They quarreled over a pair of boots. Ah Thing, accompanying Wah Chuck. Excerpt from Ah Jake's examination At Downieville's court was a long drawn-out explanation of what occurred. Such as "He lie, he lie, he talk lie, also talked of gold dust, company six, Josh House at Texas Bar.” Ah Jake had been arrested at Forest City, after the murder. He was sentenced to death, but Governor Waterman commuted it to life. In 1891 he was pardoned. Chinamen claimed trees over placer mining sluice boxes, to watch for gold nuggets washed by the water from pay dirt washed out of the side of mountains by hydraulicing hoses and nozzle. They would jump down and steal the nuggets. The miners would turn the hose on them, and the water forced from hugh nozzles with such force that it would kill them. Chinamen (Yellow Bellies) came to the mining camps early, they got the leavings, working ravines, gullies and creeks, after the white men worked out the pay dirt and gravel, yet Chinamen found gold. They came to San Juan in a long single line, jabbering all the way, having umbrellas, carrying their gold. "Old Faithful" Ah Fang, for thirty years burned Josh sticks, and prayed to a variety of Gods and Goddesses, embracing both Buddhism and Faolism. At the old Grass Valley Josh House, which is now preserved, in 1950, at the Historical Society. Truckee citizens tried in early days to run out 500 Chinamen, Band of Piute Indiands, under Chief Winnamuck, and six hundred braves went on an uprising at Pyramid Lake. Gunsmith Davis ordered 1200 cartridges, Ganorg brought 18,000 percussion caps fron Sacramento oy horse relays, pack train of thirty-five mules, commandered by Captain Google 99 J. Von Hagen, and seventy-five white men starting around the base of Sugar Loaf,

heading for Henness Pass, pony express set out volunteered, and fared so badly that complete annihilation was narrowly averted. Lasted one month and two days. Meredith killed in a bloody encounter. Von Hagen and Lieutenant R.B.Mose of the Rifles, June 1860, fought a duel. Unauthorized rummage of Army Chest. Shots fired and both missed. One moonlight night, Chinamen came fron Timbuctoo in a covered wagon to rob the Empire Mine. Moulton heard them and saw then taking nuggets out of the sluice boxes. He shot at them with his old muzzle loaded, . firing two shots, he went back to get some buckshot, returning found some blood and a candle stuck in a tin can for a light. Lum Yum, a Chinaman, caught by Tom Hall, stealing gold from a sluice box, and shot. He was found to be wearing a steel plate Jacket, and five Chinese jackets, and had a gun and knife on him. J.E. and Uncle of Lum Yum, who ren a French Corral store, and also ran an opium den, felt bad over the affair. First shipments of Chinamen came from Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii.) Chinks travelled by night, as many as one hundred in a party. The Yellow Bellies were wrongly taxed with a poll tax twice the take $5.00 per head each time. Poorly fed, worked hard. A watchman at a mine, a dig burly man of North San Juan, would get some innocent ‘Chinaman thrown in a sluice box, and collected the $20.00 reward. JOHN CATCHEM LOBBS During the placer mining days of California, Chinamen were more or less legitimate prey of gold dust robbers. Around the Mooney Flat and Anthony House districts, in Nevada County, Chinese were frequently held up along the roads. One outfit in particular of the orientals had been robbed a number of times within a short perlod. They got tired of it, so devised a scheme to put a stop to some of the robbing. Two of them started down the road from the Anthony House, and a third man, a good shot, and game, followed a short distance behind with a double barreled shotgun. When they got to a place on the road, near what is known as the Atwood Place, a man with a rifle and bowie knife, attempted to stop them. The Chinamen started to run down the hill from the road, the robber took a shot at then, wounding one in the side of the head, above the ear. By this time the Chinaman with the shotgun was in close shooting distance. He called to the robber, who whirled to see who was behind him, When he saw the shotgun leveled at him, he threw up his hands and vegged, "no shoot John, I no rob no more." His desire to quit robbing Chinamen came too late. John pulled both triggers, and near decapitated the robber. At the inquest, the man identified as having worked at the mine at Mooney Flat, and been in the vicinity for some time, and had stopped at the hotel there. Further investigation showed he had been sleeping in an old barn, on what is now known as the Landrigean Place. Under his bedding was somewhat over $100.00 in money, with some letters and papers were found. The letters identified him as George T. Fredericks. He was buried near Anthony House, between the end of Deer Creek Bridge, and the road to Mooney Flat. The people of the district did not want him buried in the little cemetéry just above the