OCR Text |
Show Chazv Dick," a well known Chi- naman ol Urass Valley, having lost some $oO or $60 in a Chinese gambling house, procured tome opium, retired to the cemetery aud there laid himself down to die Sunday afternoon. Ho was (buud beibro he had succeeded in making a die oi it, and various means were resorted to by hi countrymen for his resuscitation, but without avail, lurst that Celestial cure-all, the blood ol a chicken, was given him, then two or three bottles of castor oil; and as a last resort to induce the necessary om etic, some of his friends jumped up and down on the pit of his stomach; but Dick wanted to die, would not stomach any such efforts to defeat his desires, aud die ho did. Grass Yallnj Republican, April 2. |