Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-12
TIE LIE CIR
The Chinese Companies
TO the Government.
THEY CLAIM THAT THE MoHao.
ilAAS ARE WRoHeED.
Specimen Silver Dollars
Coined.
INDIAN TROUBLES IN the
BLACK MILLS.
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communication WAS delivered TO the State
Department yesterday BY J.. @. Kennedy.
representative in this city Of the Six Chi
nese Companies Of California:
CHINESE MERCHANT EXCHANGE. San
FRAscIsco. November 50. ls77.-To Hon.
william N. Evarts, Secretary OF State
Sir The letter Of Senator Sargent. bear
ing dats Of yesterday. demands . reply
from us. that We may briefly call your at
tentiou 10 facts undeniable why. after
long Year, Of suffering. we finally appealed
10 the Government Of the United States
for that protection accorded IA by exist.
Ing treaties and nothing more. We frst
desire 70 call your attention to the fact
that the Government Of the United States
has, since the adoption Of tho treaty with
the Imperial Government Of China. de-
handed aud received nearly $sOO,OOO
Indemnity for outragcs committed upon
American citizens residing In China and
thar property. In no instance OF out
r.pes has the government failed 10 pay.
FOR a long series Of years u people have
submitted 10 robberies, m~araudings,
arson and assaults. and In not o case
In fifty have the perpetrators been
brought 10 ~punishment. With mo ono
until recently TO plead for US, wa have
suffered these insults In silence. Hun
drcds Of our countrymen have been muir
dered, and can senator Sargent deny that
ninety.hve psr cent. Of the perpetrators
escaped punishmentr The recent mas
sacrs Of four u our countrymsn at Chico
met with prompt action. because tho good
citizens VI this country came forward
with money and influence and demanded
that Justice should he done In vindication
OF their good name. This Is an exception
10 our long list Of expressions, not the
least of which are tile unjust and dis
eliminating laws passed against us deny
| ing US that protection which we are taxed
for. Senator Sargent says the Law officers
Of the counties Of this State have sought
diligently to punish outrAers against onr
people, and have succeeded to = great
extent. We reply by asking what has
been done 10 punish this class In the
Vicinity Of his own home for outrages so
recent that they must bc fresh in his men,
ory. Our people were driven from Antioch
and their property destroyed In open day.
Who was punished or even arrcstedf Has
| the Senator forgotten that q few weeks
| .inee our people were driven from Penryn.
Eocklin, Pine Grove and Locust Rsvine.
their houses burned and property de-
stroyedr Hundreds were driven from
their mining claims, purchased quite re-
| Gently from CancAsians, and not an arrest
wa. made. And. again, the July riots In
| this fair city, when upwards oil hlr'y,
| Chinese laundries and dwellings werc
raided and some burned. n of our
countrymen killed and his body thrown
into the flames. and not an arrest made by
| the authorities. Stats or municipal. We
appealed to the Governor Of this common
wealth and 10 the Mayor Of this city to
stop these outtages, and we have repeat
edly Askcd thar protection. We do not
| question that the courts are honest, but
! Ne know that tho officers who surround
| the Judiciary are pledged to persecuie Us
before they can Ill their posts. Regarding
Id. fears which ths Senator expresses to you
| that this coast will either be Mongolian or
American, We answer that for twenty-five
years the excess Of immigration over emi-
grafton has not averaged 1000 annually.
II il q sAd commentary ~ US when = a
| ted States senator volunteers the ASSURANCE
| that the municipality Of San Francisco Is
liable to US for damage TO our property,
when he Is so fully aware OF our surround
ings. In conclusion. w-desirc to reiteratc
what We said to the Chairman OF the Con-
giessional Chinese Commission, the late
Senator Morton, In . communication adj
dressed 10 him. that II restricting the i'm.
migration Of our people to this free oun
try would have = tendency to allay the
fears Of the timid and protect our people
in their Just rights VI would give our
countenancc To any measure to this end.
We stili adhere TO that determination.
The foregoing are . lew Of our grievances,
whereupon We have finally appealed 10
this great and free Government for aid.
and We only ask Of II what the Imperial
Government Of China was requested 10 rs
sent 10 on account Of Americans.
ISigned BY the six officers OF the Chinese
Companies Of California;
Our Iadisu Treables.
OxAHA, Neb., Dec. li.-General Crook.
who has returned from the East, says the
withdrawal Of regiments from the North
west 10 the Mexican border diminishes Its
available military to q mere skeleton COM
mand. necessiiAting partial redistribution
Of the troops. The menacing movements
Of several bands Of Indians just at this
time tends TO still more embarrass tho
department commander. In regard 10 the
alleged depredations Of Indians near Dead
wood. he thinks the reports exaggerated.
Tho Sioux Indians, numbs ring 100 lodges.
who separated from tho agency bands
have gone out with honest purposes. and
not TO pillAge and plumber, although they
may commit some eutragos II = good OPP
portunity IL Afforded. The Indians now
at large are going north. Their enforced
abode with the Red Cloud aud Spotted
Tail bands Was distasteful 10 them. Gen.
eral Crook has no fears that those wander
ing Sioux will form an alliance with the
ArapAhoes. The latter are now being set
tied near old Fort Casper. and are at peace
with the whites. The Indians who have
separated from their hands will be pun.
ished In due time aud before Spring. so ~
To prevent all possibility Of their starting
out ON the war path.
Father Martin. the Catholic missionary
who spent several weeks In Sitting Bull's
camp beyond the Canadian line. called ON
General Crook recently In Omaha and said
that the experience VI n cool Winter
north Of the line would cure Sitting Bulls
Indians Of their loyalty 10 their leader,
and they then would b, glad enough to
return home either ~ ho-tiles or willing
to surrender. Father Martin ~pronounces
Sitting Dull an arrAnt demAgogue. and In
no senss . leader. but shrcwd In antici-
pAting tho wishes, plans and schemes Of
bis band.