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Our Historical Archive
San Francisco Morning Call
July 10, 1906. This article is reprinted below.
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errors, or omissions.
Mutinous Greeks Attack Bosses
Armed With Picks and Knives the Foreigners Force Men From Camp
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
OROVILLE, July 9. - Mutinous Greeks broke out into open riot yesterday afternoon at the Western Pacific construction camp about seventeen
miles from this city and armed with knives, guns, picks, and murderous weapons of various kinds, drove four men out of the camp. The Greeks,
according to Henry Roylance, head of the camp, who came to this city post haste to invoke the aid and protection of the Sheriff, are
determined to shut down the work at the camp and have resorted to violence to accomplish their purpose. Just exactly what the trouble is
could not be learned.
It is said that the fury of the Greeks was directed particulary against the timekeeper, but what special grievance they had against the
Official Roylance and the other men who were driven from the camp with him they refused to state. That the trouble is a serious one is
evidenced by the murderous wrath of the foreigners. Roylance and Deputy Sheriff O'Conner tried to settle the difficulty over the telephone,
but at 3:30 this morning all the overtures for peace were unsuccessful. The Greeks announced that they would not work and would kill the
first man who attemped to force them to labor.
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