What to see in America . ng saloons. Crowds of people slept wedgedtogether on floors and tables, in rows of cots, or in bunksfastened in tiers to the walls. The streets of sticky clay ordeep sand were thronged with struggling horses, mules, andoxen, and by crowds of men of many nationalities and alllevels of life, who jostled by, laughing, railing, or charged twenty dollars a day, flour was fortydollars a barrel, eggs were a dollar apiece. Forces both of good and evil streamed into the city, andnaturally came into collision. The population found itselfremoved from well-nigh all
What to see in America . ng saloons. Crowds of people slept wedgedtogether on floors and tables, in rows of cots, or in bunksfastened in tiers to the walls. The streets of sticky clay ordeep sand were thronged with struggling horses, mules, andoxen, and by crowds of men of many nationalities and alllevels of life, who jostled by, laughing, railing, or charged twenty dollars a day, flour was fortydollars a barrel, eggs were a dollar apiece. Forces both of good and evil streamed into the city, andnaturally came into collision. The population found itselfremoved from well-nigh all restraints. A series of un-punished crimes rousedthe public. Many fires,doubtless of incendiaryorigin, devastated thecity. Over a hundredmurders occurred in a fewmonths, and not a singlecapital punishment fol-lowed. Presently, in1852, a party of promi-nent citizens organizedthat spectacular popularuprising known as theVigilance Committee, asa defense against the al-lied rabble. The sameMuiR Woods night an ex-convict was. California
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