Newspaper Research

The newspaper that I did my research on was The Daily Los Angeles Herald. This newspaper was published on July 9, 1878. Majority of the front page of the newspaper was about indians. In the "Morning Telegram" section, there was an article entitled A Call for Arms. The article said that the governor had received a request from the people of Surprise Valley to provide armed forces to protect themselves against eh Indians. They Governor agreed to this and then ordered 250 stand of arms from the US armory in California. In another article called An Indian Fight, it says that "the boys" had just tough the indians at Willlow Springs. Along with Captain Sperry, 45 volunteers fought the indians all day and night. The casualties were 2 dead and 7-8 were wounded. In the last article that included indians entitled A Dispatch from Governor Chadwick, Major Kress went down to the river one morning on a steamer and passes a crossing at the upper end of Long Island. Kress saw no signs of Indians and so he returned. However, when he returned he cam across large numbers of hostile Indiands passing. Major Kress then decided to make an attack on the indians' entire camp and destroyed it.
     The rest of the articles in the paper did not include much about Indians but the ones that did mostly involved attacks on one another. This shows that they people and the indians did not get along very well at this time and place.