Showing posts with label Alaska (Wrangell). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska (Wrangell). Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2015

Saturday, October 2, 1915. Banditry.

Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato was attacked by around 700 armed men on horseback thought to retreating members of Villa's army.  Locals resisted the attack, which amounted to banditry.

Following a drunken knife assault on Finnish immigrant Oscar Carlson in Wrangell, Alaska, a town authorized vigilance committee drove Mexican dock workers out of the town.  One of them was the guilty party, which had asked Carlson to fight or drink with them.  Ultimately, one was arrested and served time for the assault, but not before Mexicans in general had been driven out of the town.

New dockworkers from Mexico would return the following year.

An interesting aspect of this is that I wouldn't have thought there were Mexican dock workers in Alaska at the time.

It was a Saturday.


The childhood style of sailor suits for children is evident here, and is really odd.  It apparently had been started by Queen Victoria dressing her son in a sailor suit for an 1846 trip on the royal yacht.

Last edition:

Friday, October 1, 1915. Sedicioista raids stop.