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s epithet, and for his temerity receiv- ed a sever thwack on the eye by a Chinaman be- longing to one of the six companies and the only representative of his company in town. Then the row began in earnest, and twenty or thirty Chinamen of other companies endeavored to ( 4 ) make a foot ball of Hop Sing Lee, who gallant- ly beat them back with an iron toothed garden rake, who but for the timely interference of several bystanders would have overpowered and have killed him. At the police court, the innocent was permitted to go free and the guilty assessed a fine of $50 and costs. Burros should not be allowed to run at large. From the February 15, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise Best bread in the city for only five cents per loaf at Cosgrove’s. From ihe February 22, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise TERRIBLE TRAGEDY! John V. Brown Shot Dead By a Woman of the TownOn Tuesday evening at 5 o’clock the start- ling announcement was made on the streets that John V. Brown had been shot at the Cen- tennial by a fallen woman, going by the name of Ada Humes, who had been engaged as a piano player in the Monarch saloon. An Enter- prise man hastened to the saloon in which the tragedy occurred, and found that the rumor was only too true.