Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-02-05
sp.n,sh,o,yn correspondence.
SPANISH TowN Jan The 81. 1867

GPANISI IOn AhN pA' AN~
Mr. Crossette
Sir Suppose you have heard Ere This
what A Lively Little Town we have up here
La These .Ncfari0uS .HOUntdms In fact 1t
has been quite L.sely here the Last week
more so Than usual that Is in The way of
Stealing Robbing and attempt To murder
and In Place of 1t Getting any Better am
afraid 1t will get worse from Present ap-
perances The fact Of 1t is there Are About
three hundred mexicanans and Chileans
Living here and A Great many Thieves
Among them and There Is also Several of
our own People here that are as Bad as The
Mexicans md they are Well Known ! will
Just Give You List of the Robbers and
fights OF Last week AS wish il TO appear in
Public Print SO as to Let The People know
what we have TO Resort to for our own Pro-
lection on Last Monday Night the Pacific
Express Office was Robbed by three men
Supposed to bc Mexicans on The following
tuesday Night an old Gentleman Hard
NOihluE IllHtT WIS NuuOhth bphh ~ ms
Cabin his head Badly Cut and Robcd of is.
Dolls. the Same night there was A fight
Started In the Dance house Between Some
Mcxicans about a Mexican woman that there
has Been two men Killed here about there
was two Shots fired No one hurt on Wednes-
day Night there was two Cabins Broke Into
D, NJ f,p,I n1 IL rooporo Kitchnn
was Broke in by Two Mexicans they Stoles
Some Entbles when they were heard and
made Quick There Escape on Thursday there
was free fight on that Night there was No
Robbpg on friday Night A young man By
the name of ward was Robbed Of Seven Dol
lars Cash gold watch Chain and knife by
mcxicans on Saturday Night About the
Hours of one or two they tried To Break
Into A french Store but was frightened by
Candle Being Lit in the house above they
ware mexcans and had Almost Succeeded
on Sunday at about Eleven O'clock fighting
Commenced Between two Mexicans one the
Keeper of Dance House the other gambler
When Ii Sort of Became General free and
then it was Sort Of Kept up The Balance of
the Day BY the american And Spanish
town whiskeyl to Cap the Climax that night
two Mcxicans in the Dance House the keeper
of the house was Choaking A Chilean when
another Chian Interfered and he was
Knocked Dead with Pistol when there was
Several Pistol Shots fired there Is not Dollar
in the Town nor hopes Of any until the
Ditch Comes in Mr. Dickey has Been up here
and Put Some one hundred Men to work on
the Ditch and 1t Is going on Lively 1t Is Ex
pected the Ditch will BE finished by first
June then Look out for the orc all we want
is water we have the Diggings but the town
Is gone in you may Say for two Months then
you Oroville folks will have A Sister Village
General Impression Is that we Can Beat
Orovile or any other Location in the County
In Regards to Diggings that will Pay from
one ounce up to three per Day to the Hand
we hope Ere Spring to ged Red Of Some of
our worthless Citizens and Do most Heartily
hope for the Benefit of the Community that
our Present Comeing Grand Jury will be SO
Kind to Iufict A fine on Every Gambling
House in this this town If we have to Drive
out these Mexicans And thieves in this town
Please Put this Letter in Print to Let the
Public know whot 1t was Done for that we
rs Peceable Citizens Did not Begin two Soon
we have Put mp with it all winter tis time
to stop it if we wont to Live.
Yours, PHlLUS JULIUS.
Please Publish this Letter Just as 1t is |
will write you again when their is anything
new.
GREAT PACING MATCH.-A race for $500
came off over the Pioneer Course, says the