He was against Fremont. He got in a fight with one of the men about Col. Fremont. While trying to break up the fight, Joseph was killed. All the miners who were regular customers of the bar chipped in and Margaret turned the saloon into a bakery. After about a year, the Merced Mining Company's stock went down a whole lot.
Many men quit the company and went south.
Margaret could only make enough to feed herself and to keep her bakery open - she couldn't pay the rent. From now on you can use my building rent free. He left the bakery leaving Margaret speechless. Later a man named Maurice Newman walked into the bakery to buy some of her delicious pastry. Three weeks later Mr. Newman asked Margaret to marry him.