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[Imprint] illustration of Native American Chief: TECUMSEH
CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEES

PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT
H. L. A. BATES, GENERAL AGENT 240 SANSOME STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
The Shawnee Fire Insurance Co.
Of Topeka, Kansas

the dredger, that is, he stands in the cabin, or
Pilot-house & works the levers that operate
the boom & bucket. He is a swell fellow & was
just calling the watch at six o'clock in the
morning, when he was shot. He went & knocked
at the cook's door & getting no answer thought he
must have died during the night, so he went
& got a screw-driver & took the screen off the
window & started to climb in. Two shots
rang out, one bullet catching him in the
arm, & the other missing him. He said, "What
did you shoot for," & the cook shot again getting
him through the stomach. The other fellows
got Henry and put him in a boat & towed
him to the survey wagon & I drove him to
town, where we put him on a steamer & took
him to the hospital in Sacramento. They say
he will live. They turned steam into the
cook's room, from the boilers, through a
hole in his floor & he came out so
fast that he forgot his gun, & they caught
him, & gave him to the sheriff.

Yesterday the sheriff captured a chinese
burglar, & was taking him to his house
to search it. I followed to see what was
going to happen, & when we got to the
levee, on the river, the chinaman, hand-cuffed,
jumped to the ground & ran down in
the river & drowned himself. We got his