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■ •Mrs. Veal is a cousin of George] ■ W. Bailey of this city. ; ‘ ;j *Following the Mexican /War,, the ;fi clash of arms had scarcely ceased and 'r V— . T uj. ■ fJk. *■ * . |» v- . '**1'^ ^ Hjjjy ^ * flk rthe sound of cannons might still be v said to be reverberating through the J1Canyons and chaparrals \of Mexico f.^hen all the country, including Linn E $buhty; was astounde^^jjfiil new^otL\ the discoveity' of ejid in California F which earner in fitful gusts from ,the v Pacific Coast. The report was that gold had been found in that western lartd, e . that the wraters of the Pacific actually c washed!’ the, golden shore and that, s arhdng, mountains and on the plains, ! on hill top and hi,gulches, the goldep 1*qre\was foiiJ^ .iAll utfiis*. came to the.’:ears of tHe jSeoples and by and by; twhen’' corroborated, created the wdldSst ' excitement. Talk of frenzy* the *mad- , n£ss of the; hour, the - surging *of the J wild Sea Wayes when the storm king 1iashes thehi ter rage\ listen to the djam- lt;W%t contending hosts, when the gocfM of battles urges on thfc.* serried ranks i I to slaughter and to death! Thinking -of all these combined in one terrible d onset, one can have only a faint con-; lt;ception of that mighty throng who -; proved the madness of the hour and 1 I whose pathway became a charnel-house of sorrow' and death, w’hile the | .road became whitened with the bones 1 of the-victims who had failed td realize their dreams and never reached the golden shore. In that far distant land where the white capped waves j kissed the pebbly beach on the Paci-
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Brookfield Linn County Budget Gazette
Brookfield, Missouri, US
Fri, Feb 26, 1932
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