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Title: 1872 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 281 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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172 JULY 28 & 30, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION in the communication referred to, that the Superintendent employed a Chinaman as a “boss.” They say that white men do not like to work under a Chinaman boss. Hence the strike. The miners also inform us that the Chinaman hired to boss them received the magnificent sum of one dollar a day and his services in the bossing line. The miners ask us “What the country is coming to?” We can not answer that question, but it would seem that John Chinaman is the coming man. ARM BROKEN.—Last Thursday the little daughter of James Edwards, who resides on Winchester Hill, broke her right arm above the elbow. It seems that the little girl, who is only about four years old, was playing with several other small children on the sidewalk on Mill street, just opposite Taylor’s foundry, at which place the sidewalk is some twenty feet above the road. A rough railing has been placed along the sidewalk to prevent persons from falling off. The little children began, child-like, to hold on to this rail and swing out over the sidewalk. In doing this Carrie lost her hold and fell into the street below, with result we have named. Surgical aid was immediately summoned and the little sufferer is now in a fair way of recovery. REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTION.—Yesterday afternoon the Republicans of Grass Valley held a primary election for the purpose of sending delegates to the County Convention which is to be held at Nevada city next Tuesday, the 30th instant. There was no contest here, and as a consequence the vote was light. The following named are the delegates to the convention: H. U. Ivens, William Daws, F. G. Beatty, Ed. Holden, Henry Scadden, L. J. Rowland, J. P. Stone, E. W. Roberts, Reuben Leech, Wm. George and S. D. Bosworth. THEATER.—The members of the Ellerton troupe have tendered a complimentary benefit to our worthy citizen D. F. Dodge, Esq. The Ellertons will leave Grass Valley on Wednesday next for an extensive tour, and they do not propose to forget, before their departure, the many merits of Dodge, their amateur friend. Monday night “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” and “Two Bonnycastles” will be presented at Hamilton Hall, and the house should be crowded. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1872 BORN. In Grass Valley, July 26th, 1872, to FRANK TREVILLIAN and Wife, twins—both boys. THAT STRIKE AT MURCHIE’S MINE.—We were called upon yesterday by Mr. S. Murchie, Superintendent of the Lone Star mine situated near Nevada city. We had said in Sunday morning’s paper that a miners’ strike had taken place at that mine, and we did so on the authority of a communication sent us by the miners. ... Mr. Murchie informs us that he had no Chinaman boss, but that he bosses his mine himself. He has a Chinaman employed to attend to a car, and this said Chinaman passes a clock at the mouth of the tunnel every fifteen or twenty minutes. This Chinaman was instructed to tell the men working in the mine when the time arrived for them to knock off work. The men may call that bossing. The object was to save the men the trouble of coming out of the works to see the time for themselves. The miners in that mine work ten hours shifts, and the Chinaman simply announced the time the shift was out. This was done because the Chinaman had regular and ready access to the clock. Mr. Murchie says he has no Chinaman boss and wants none, as there are plenty of intelligent white men he can get to act as bosses. At the present he says he will boss his own mine. Some of the men struck at the time we mentioned and Mr. Murchie talked with them. They complained of the Chinaman’s manner of asking them at what hour they wanted to be called out in the morning, and after a talk the men seemed satisfied and went into the mine as if to work. They came out in a few minutes, however, and quit work. The places of the men who quit have been filled by others, and mining is still going on.