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Daily Evening Bulletin, (San Francisco, CA) Monday, March 29, 1858; Issue 145; col A
 
ATTEMPT TO GET RID OF THE CHINESE IN MARIPOSA
The following manifesto, says the Gazette,  is now being circulated for signature in the town of Mariposa:
We, the undersigned citizens and property holders in the town of Mariposa, Mariposa county, California, hereby agree and bind ourselves not to rent, sell, nor permit Chinese to occupy any of our possessions within our town limits.
2. We who now have Chinese tenants in or on our processions, do hereby further agree not to renew any lease to said Chinese after the expiration of such time as we have received rents in advance.
3. The signing of this article shall not be considered binding on anyone who may have signed, unless agreed to and signed by all the property-holders within our town limits.
4. The town limits shall be considered to extend from Chicken Gulch, on the Mariposa Creek, up to Missouri Gulch.
Be if further agreed, That we will consider the citizen who would tolerate their presence, or act contrarywise to the above expressed determination of those whose names are hereunto affixed, to hold the welfare and safety of the community in light consideration.
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Daily Evening Bulletin, (San Francisco, CA) Saturday, April 24, 1858, Issue 14 Col B
A CHINESE TOWN PROJECTED- The Mariposa Gazette says that it is the intention of the Chinese population in its county to build a permanent town near the garden of Allison & Powell, about two miles from the town of Mariposa. Lots have been already staked off, and other preparations made for found a Celestial city, where they can sit under their own canvass, and smoke opium to their heart's content, without being interfered with by "outside barbarians."  Judging from the crowd already in and near Mariposa town, and the numbers daily arriving, it may become a place of note.  It is estimated that the Orientals already in the county, outnumber the white population about two to one.  To supply this people with amusements, a Chinese theatrical troupe has taken up its quarters in the locality. The company number some twenty-five actors, one actress and a full quota  of ___(unreadable).  Their engagement is said to be for the "season."
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Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, CA June 23, 1858
ANTI-CHINESE DEMONSTRATION AT MARIPOSA
On 16th June, a meeting of the citizens of the town of Mariposa was held there, when on a preamble that Chinese residents had caused the late fire in Mariposa, the following resolution was unanimously passed:
That the inhabitants and real estate proprietors in Mariposa, or any of them will not in future lease, sell, or permit to be occupied by any Chinese population, any real estate or buildings between 1st and 9th streets, and between the summit of the east side of the town, and the summit of the hill on the southwest side of the town.
An agreement in terms of this resolution was in circulation, for signature by the citizens.-
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Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, CA, June 04, 1859
THE CHINESE EXPELLED FROM HORNITOS
The Chinese expelled From Hornitos- A fire broke out in the Chinese quarter of the town of Hornitos on the morning of 24th May, which was fortunately extinguished without doing much damage. The citizens having about three weeks before warned them to leave immediately, held a meeting and ordered them to leave at 3 o'clock, P.M., that day. Not heeding this second warning , they were driven out by force. There was but little excitement about it, and a portion of the citizens took no part in it.  They intend building a town on the hill between El Dorado creek and Hornitos- Mariposa Star
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Mariposa Gazette, April 1 1862

Saturday last a fight took place between two companies of Chinese on the
Lower Agua Fria, in which a Chinaman named Ty was seriously if not mortally
wounded by a countryman named Tin SEE. The difficulty occurred about a water ditch
and division of water. An examination of the affair took place before Justice
BRUCE, who,  in default of a $500 bond, committed the said Tin See to prison to await
the action of the Grand Jury.
submitted by Harriet Sturk- Jan 2003
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WEDNESDAY, 26 SEPT 1866
DESPERATE COMBAT in HORNITOS -- E.G. HALL, of Hornitos, killed a Chinaman on Friday night last week, says the Mariposa 'Gazette,' under very peculiar circumstances. He heard a noise in his hen house, and got up and went there, when he met a Chinaman in the very act of stealing chickens. In attempting to seize the fellow, HALL accidentally got one hand in the Chinaman's mouth. With the other he seized hold of his cue, and twisted it around his neck, and hung on. The severe biting of his hand caused HALL to faint. Mrs. HALL thinking her husband was gone rather longer than was necessary, and fearing that something had happened, went to the chicken house where she found HALL and the Chinaman on the ground, the former had fainted, the latter was choked to death. It required considerable of an effort to pry open the dead Chinaman's mouth to relieve HALL's hand. This was one of the strangest deadly encounters we ever heard of. transcribed by Dee S
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