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1a Portiens Str. I.

Dresden, Saxony, Dec. 22nd 1885.

Judge Loranzo Sawyer,

San Francisco, California.

My Dear Sir:

My German daily paper announced this morning that a conspiracy had just been discovered in your state which aimed at the extermination of the Chinese in the commonwealth and the destruction, at the same time, of several of the foremost citizens. Among the latter, I recognized your own name and that of Senator Stanford as proscribed and assigned for slaughter. Happily, the same dispatch announced the detection and arrest of the conspirators. I hope to hear of such a disposition of them as will affectively discourage all