Joe Salas was born on Guam around 1871. He was probably named José at birth.
The 1900 census identifies a José Salas working at the Panoche mine in San Benito, born around 1870 or 71, from the Philippines. Since the Marianas had been a province of the Philippines under Spain, many people from Guam were identified as coming from the Philippines. This could very well be the Joe Salas seen in the photo above.
In 1911, he was sentenced to three years in prison for forgery and was sent to San Quentin State Prison. His prison documents state he was from Guam, but furnish no other details about his family background.
He must have been a good boy at San Quentin because he was discharged a year early, in 1913.
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