Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Johnson Field;George Congdon Gorham
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expenses of the campaign. How great those expenses were may be
imagined from the following bill, one of a large number sent to me after the election. I had told the saloon-keepers in the vicinity of the polling places in the different precincts to be liberally disposed towards my friends on the day of election. They took me literally at my word, as this bill from the keeper of a saloon where the polls were opened in Downieville precinct will show: Mr. S.J. FIELD, TO ORLEANS HOUSE. To 460 drinks................................ $230 00 275 cigars................................ 68 75 ------ Downieville, _October 9th, 1850_. $298 75 [Endorsed:] "We hereby certify that the within account is correct. "P.L. Moore. "Wm. S. Spear." "Received payment of the within bill in full from Stephen J. Field. "J. Stratman. "_October 14th, 1850_." |
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