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Vern D
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The San Andreas Independent
San Andreas, Calaveras County, CA
Saturday, 29 January 1859
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GOT KILLED -- AH LUNG, a Chinaman engaged at work on the claim of MARTIN & WALDEN on Central Hill, got crushed by the caving of a bank, only 8 feet high, on Monday last. He was horribly mangled and died in half an hour after being extricated from the earth and rocks. He was buried in San Andreas on Tuesday evening; and what is very singular, every white man who attended the funeral was importuned by his Celestial friends to accept a dime in American coin. Some cute bummers, we are informed, took occasion to impose on Celestial customs, by retiring and returning several times -- thus realizing from 2 to 4 bits by their sacrilegious avarice.