Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-14
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
The ti-Chinese Situation at Tacoma

TACOMA, November 13th.-The twenty
seven citizens of Tacoma, indicted at Van
couver on account of the expulsion of the
Chinese from this city, returned home last
evening in custody of the United States
Marshal arriving at 7:20. They were met
at the depot by larger number OF people
than assembled on any former occasion
here. Nearly half the population were out,
it being estimated that not less than 5000
people crowded the available space at the
depot and its approaches. The streets were
lighted by bonfires, and houses were illu-
minated. A long torchlight procession, the
firing of anvils, the music of brass band
and immense cheering marked the 1ecep-
ton. When the prisoners ahghted from
the train, they were met by a committee
of citizens and escorted, at the head of a
long procession, to the hall of the Grand
Army of the Republic, where banquet
had been prepared. After eating, all re-
paired to the large opera hall, which was
densely packed with people, where the re-
mainder of the evening was given up to
speeches by the prisoners and other citi
Zens, in celebration of the achievement of
removing the Chinese, and denouncing the
false reports sent from Portland to the
Eastern newspapers. 4 committee was ap
pointed to prepare a true account of the
Associated Press for publication. At the
conclusion, the United States Marshal re-
leased the prisoners on parole, to report
this morning, when bonds in the sum of
5000 each conditioned upon their ap-
pearance at Vancouver at the May
term of Court for trial, will be re-
quired During the proceedings a
telegram from Vancouver to Mayor
Wisebach was read, announcing that in
dictments had Just been found against
twenty-three people, residents of Puyallup,
nine miles distant, and Sumner, fourteen
miles away, and indicating the arrange
ments made for their release under bonds
here, without taking the prisoners to Van
couver The indications are that abundance
of security will be forthcoming promptly
for all the parties indicted on this account.
The following analysis of the twenty-seven
Tacoma prisoners was presented in a
speech by T. L. Nixon, civil engineer. and
President of the Young Mems Christian
Association, and sent by request. to show
the character and standing of the men ::
Sixteen Americans, five Germans, four
Canadians, one Irishman and one Swede
All are citizens of the United States.
Eleven were in the army, and six were too
young to go to the war. The foreigners
have been in this country on an average of
ten years, and have been citizens on an
average of seven years. Twenty-Five are
men of families, and have sixty-four chill
dren and eleven grandchildren two are
single, of the average age of Il years and 3
Average time on the Pacific coast,
thirteen years and five months. None were
ever charged with crime before in their
lives, and they are all anti-Chinese"
Three are merchants, three journalists, tw;c;
butchers; six carpenters, three bIacksmiths,
one lla ara :. 1tsman, two plumbers, one pho
one brickmaker, one attorney,
one shoe manufacturer, one civil engineer,
one molder and one farmer