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The San Francisco Daily Morning Call, December 11, 1863

Dispatches by the State Line
(SPECIALLY TO THE DAILY MORNING CALL.)

ASSASSINATION IN CARSON.

CARSON, December 10. - Joe magee was assassinated in the St. Nicholas Saloon, at four o'clock this morning. The gun was fired through the window, from the street. The murderer is not known. It is thought Magee assassinated Jack Williams in Virginia last Winter.

MARK TWAIN.

[text from Mark Twain's Western Years, Ivan Benson]

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