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Title: Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Tramps
Publisher: New York, G. W. Carleton & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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deavored to stop him the more he beat his horses,which soon began rearing about, when one or two officersattempted to spring into the wagon and effect the huckstersarrest. That irate individual then transferred his attentionsfrom the horses to the police, whom he cracked over thelieads at a livelj^ rate. For some time he hotly defendedhimself, until other police sprang forward to assist theircomrades. This was the signal for the rioters, who hadbeen crowding the saloons and streets in the vicinity, tocome to the rescue of the plucky Dutchman. The desireto take him from the police seemed to be electrical withthe mob, and its members rushed down the streets in everydirection. More police were called on, and, for a few min-ntes one of the liveliest and most laughable tussles of thegreat strikes was in full progress, the old German toppingall and laying about him right and left with his whip,never caring whether he hit policeman or rioter, and swear-ing like a trooper as an accompaniment.
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410 THE END. Finally the mob was repulsed, its leaders arrested, andthe poor old huckster borne to durance vile, where he waskept for a short time, and then permitted to depart, aftera lecture upon the enormity of his bloodless crime. On Wednesday, July 25th, the subsiding wave of riotreached the Pacific Ocean and stirred San Francisco to itsvery center. In all California could not be found one goodreason for excitement and disturbance, and all that cameoriginated in the general public alarm and the inveteratehatred of the Chinese population by the lower classes ofthe whites. This subject has been too generally discussedto require touching upon here. It is merely necessary torefer to it, as the chief and only cause for a riot in SanFrancisco at this or any other time. Mayor Bryant had issued his proclamation recountingthe troubles in Eastern States, and appealing to the betternature and the patience of all citizens, while intimating thatriot and disorder would be put down with a stron

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