Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-26
TROUBLE IN YoLo.
POLL-TAx CATERERS sW0oP DOWN
ON CHINESE H0P-PICKERs.
And Sman-Sized Riot Ensues-BoD.
Growers Complain That Crooked
Things are Done.

If what is said be true some of the les
ser official lights of our neighborirg
county of Yolo display more zeal than dis.
cretion in the discharge of their duties.
Recently one of the Woodland papers went
after them vigorously for the alleged man.
ner in which the tramp element was being
worked for the purpose of getting money
out OF the county, and now the local Of
fcers seem to be on another track This
time it is poll-tax NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
enough, when properly done. A RECORD
UNION reporter was told yesterday that on
Saturday man claiming to be deputy
poll-tax and road-tax collector, accom-
panied by two men armed with shotguns
and pistols, presented himself at a hon
ranch couple of miles up the river from
Washington, where there are about 100
Cinnamon employed in picking hops.
Without notifying the proprietor or any,
one else on the place of their purpose
these men set to work surrounding the
gang OF Cinnamon while at their dinner.
On some of the latter attempting to get
away to their work, it is said the head of
the official party struck one of the China
men on the head with his revolver. layipg
him ont. The other Cinnamon started to
the relief of their fallen comrade, when the
officer struck one of them and then re-
treated. In the meantime his shotgun
supporters had skipped. The white men
on the place came to the rescue of the
would-be tax-gatherer, or he might have
suffered harm.
The collector, who had failed to collect
anything, returned to Washington and
laid charges against some sixteen of the
Cinnamon of assault with deadly weapons.
with intent to commit murder. Accom-
panied by Constable and dozen or more
OF the brave residents Of that burg, armed
with shotguns, he went yesterday morning
and arrested eight of the Cinnamon on the
ranch. Before reaching the ranch thew
arrested nine on the road, en- route to Sac.
ramento, whom the tax galherer declared
were among those who assaulted him the
day before, but who proved to be men en-
ployed on another raLch.
The hop-growers on the Yolo side COM
plain that they have great difficulty in get
ting men to work, as every Chinaman that
comes along is subjected to an overhaulins.
and they assert that these men are some
times made to pay for new tax receipts,
even if they have others on their persons.
Mr.. Lovdal, an extensive grower of hops,
says that out of seventy men be had
engaged to go to his ranch, he could not
yesterday get one to go, on account of the
proceedings referred to, and those he did
have refuse to work any longer. He
calls attention to the fact that in Sacra-
mento, Yuba, Suffer and other hop
growing counties the poll-tax collectors do
not annoy the hop-pickers during the har-
vest season, recognizing the fact that it is
an industry that should not be endangered
and because of the fact that they have
eleven other months in the year in which
to push their collections.
1t is said that the men arrested on Satur-
day and Sunday will contest the matter to
the bitter end in the Courts, and the result
will be watched with no little interest by
those concerned.