About six years ago several Chinamen were…
source date: 1889
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About six years ago several Chinamen were killed near Fort Bayard, by Mexicans, who were subsequently captured. One of them was afterwards killed with the escaped train rob- bers, and the rest got light sentences in the penitentiary. Since that time the Chinese gar- deners at Lone Mountain have several times been held up and robbed, until it would appear that these renegades from Mexico consider the Chinamen their especial prey. Had the* Mexi- cans who killed the Chinamen at Fort Bayard been hung for their crime, it would have had a salutary effect, and would have saved the