The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-23
Chinese In Chicago.

at the society of anti-ChineSe meeting kear- |
ney was lauded to the skies by some speakers.
A. b. Adair declared that the Chinese ques-
ton would be one of the paramount issues
the coming year and there was no halfway
| about it. The Chinese must 60. That would |
be the effect, and 1t had been demonstrated
in San Francisco that the white man could |
not live on what the Chinese could that the |
white aborer had no show alongside a Chi
nese laborer. Therefore, etherthe working
men of Chicago or the Cinnamon must 60. |
The working classes of this country had built |
up and made it what it was. Should they
be driven out by a mongrel race that was
hardly fit to live under the sun at all? Gap |
plause.) The Chinese would soon be here in
force if the workingmen did not say emphat-
ically they should not come They must
take firm stand, protest vigorously and give
tht authorities of Chicago to understand that
the Chinese cody system could not find habi
tation in this city. That, if they persisted in
encouraging them to locate here, the working
men would not wait six months or year to
erect gallows on the sand lots of Chicago but
would do it the very first day. (Cheers.)
| They did not want to retard the business of
Chicago, to bring the wheels of industry to a
stand still, as they had been brought in San
Francisco, but before Chinese cody labor
should come here they would stop the wheels
of industry from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
| (Cheers.) They want to live and let live.
He did not oppose Chinese emigration to this
country, but they could come as other for
eigners come, seeking livelihood as freemen.
| (Applause.)
Well founded reports indicate that the
San Francisco Six Companies, as matter of
expediency, are distributing their Chinatown
| population among the large Eastern cities,
particularly Chicago, st. Louis and New
York, and that this class of slaves, bound by
law caste, ignorance, prejudice and superstl-
tion to their masters, will be welcomed by
the Southern planters, who formerly paid for
labor with the cash, and by the more greedy
Northern employers, and that for these and
other enumerated reasons they protest against
these slaves and criminals call upon every
man and woman who loves liberty and de-
tests slavery upon every soldier who bore
| the musket to wipe out the shame and curse
OF the republic; upon every mother who
weeps for a son butchered in the noble cause
of freedom upon all haters of retrogresson
and lovers of progress and liberty, to raise
their voices against this Mongolian invasion II
and thus create such an all-powerful public
opinion as will forbid the planting of all
Chinatown and establishment of slavery in
our midst, and demand of the common coun-
Gil that they instruct the department of health
to keep a close watch Oil the Chinese entering
the city and quarantine against them, if such
a course seems necessary, to the end that the
citizens Of Chicago may be preserved from
the loathsome contagion brought by this de-
graded and slavish race.
Reservation Trespassers.
Nv AsH1NGToN, March 16.--The Secretary
of the Interior to-day received telegram
from Los Pinos Agency, dated March l4th,
stating that u number Of palties had already
staked placer claims and taken up ranches on
the Ute reservation, and Others are preparing
to follow. The telegram says: ''The next
Two weeks will see the reservation swarming
with trespassers. and a conflict is inevitable"
The agent concludes with request that
troops be ordered to the reservation for the
purpose of protecting the Utes. This matter
was the subject of consideration at the meet
ing of the cabinet to-day, and later Secretary
Schurz had conference on the subject with
Ouray and the Ute chiefs now here awaiting
the action of Congress on their agreement
with the government to cede their reservation.
II was decided at this conference that in order
to influence their nation against hostilites,
the Ute chiefs should leave at once for Color
adao. This afternoon the following order was
issued:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
: WASHINGTON, March IL, 1880.
1t having been brought to the attention OF
the Interior Department that persons are now
entering the Ute reservation in the State OF
Colorado, for the purpose of locating ranches
3 and mineral claims, notice is hereby given
: that such locations and claims will not be
, recognized by the Interior Department, as the
, lands embraced within said reservation are
t not public lands Of the United States, and no
location made thereon can or will be recog.
t nized as legal except those made after the
| lands shall have been regularly restored to the
! public domain. (Signed)
G. SCHURZ.
l The Secretary has also addressed COM
3 municaton to the Indian committees OF the
e Senate and House OF Representatives inform
+ ing them of the threatened difficulty, and
: urging prompt action upon the pending
: agreement. 1t is said at the War Department
S that troops are now stationed at convenient
u points near the reservation, and if it is neces
0 sary they can be readily called into service tc
C keep off invaders and preserve the peace. L
I is understood that a proclamation will bt
g issued if the invasion continues.
, Indian Excitement.
CHEYENNE, March 15.-The Daily Leader
has received the following special from th'
Big Horn postoilce, dated the 18th instant
S via Fort Mckinney: I" The settlements nortl
l. Of us are in great state of excitement be
i cause of the late news regarding the Indians
1t General Miles sends word from Fort Custe
+ that the commissioners have formed 4 treat.
5 with the Sioux. The settlers to the nortl
: and west OF Tongue river are coming int
Il Goose Creek valley for mutual protection. A
|. the Big Horn postoflice all is excitement
. which increases from the fac that there ar
n only two companies of troops at the post a
Is Fort Mckinney.
Indian Massacre.
Of DENVER, March 15.-The Republican
Alamosa special says that reliable informato
3: of the late Indian depredatons, has jus
30 beer received by private letter dated a
l. Siverton, Colorado, March 9th, containin
s. the following: "We have news of tel
Is rible Indian massacre near the Blue noun
Il tans, Joe Lacome, Joe Chanes, Pat. Kane