Note XXV-54 — Chapter XXV · DIVERS PHASES OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. 1819-1863.

Pan. Star, March 29, 1850; Polynesian, vii. 42, 50; Holinski, La Californie, 83; S. F. Alta, Mar. 22, Apr. 3, 1851; S. F. News, Apr. 3, 1851. The most serious one was on the 22d and 23d of Oct., 1851, at Chagres, among boatmen and passengers, in which several lives were lost, and the town was much damaged. Pan. Star, Oct. 28, 1851; S. F. Alta, Nov. 18, 20, 1851; S. F. Daily Herald, Nov. 18, 1851. The official report of the jefe político on the 3d of Nov. said there were two or three killed and a number wounded. Bogotá, Gaceta Ofic., Dec. 3, 1851. The vigilants of the Isthmus had a thief well flogged at Chagres in 1851. S. F. Courier, Jan. 21, 1851. Another case of lynch law occurred on the island of Tabogá in 1855. The carpenter of the American steamship company was one morning dragged out of bed and murdered. As there was no police on the island, the employés of the company captured the murderers, one of whom made full confession, and their captors without more ado hanged them. The state authorities took no notice of the matter, other than issuing, some time after, a full pardon to the executioners. Bidwell's Isth. of Pan., 216; Pan., Gaceta del Est., Sept. 29, 1855.