The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-17
OUTLAW2Y At SEATTLE

An anti-Chinese meeting was held at
Seattle, w. T., ON February 9th, al which
a committee was appointed for the os-
tensible purpose of visiting Chinatown
and ascertalning whether the city sani-
tary regulations were being properly
observed by the Cinnamon. This COM
mittee commenced its work at Z o'clock
in the morning, and headed by Acting
Chief of Police Murphy and accompanied
by an enormous crowd, which had APP
parently come together by previous
understanding, it proceeded to China
town. The mode of procedure was
simple. The committee would approach
a Chinamans house and knock at the
door when the occupants appeared
they asked questions concerning cubic
air and other city ordinances, and while
the conversation was i'll progress a crowd
would enter the house and begin pack
ing the contents upon wagon, which
would appear at that juncture. 1t was
useless for the Cinnamon to resist, and
they generally acquiesced with as good
grace as possible When the movable
goods were loaded in the wagon the
Cinnamon were also placed on board
and driven to the ocean dock, where the
the steamer Queen of the Pacific was
lying ready to sail for San Francisco.
the mob became so large that the
police were powerless and the mayor
was obliged to call upon the governor to
preserve oldcr. The governor at once
sent out proclamation, which was re-
ceived with derisive shouts and howls of
defiance. The home guards were order
ed out and the Pres ident requested to
order the regulars to the scene. For
two days this excitement continued I'M
abated until the home guards were
ordered to fire upon a crowd of not
headed assailants four men fell, one
killed, the others wounded. Finally the
steamer got away with 1875 Cinnamon
bound for San Francisco, and after the
arrival of the regulars the mob retired
vowing vengeance upon the governor
and his militia. Tacoma, as many know,
has been for several months an I'M
healthy place for Cinnamon to reside
For some time after the Chinese were
expelled the papers dared not boast of
the outrageous proceedings coupled with
the Chinese exit. But lately they have
let no opportunity pass to proclaim that
every man in the city is employed and
that more are wanted to take the place
of the expelled heather. Seattle, few
miles distant, rival town, has for long
time been the abode Of several thousand
Cinnamon AS in all other places where
they abound in great numbers the white
laborer is not ON fair footing. All
public work is done by the quiet, IN
offensive cheap John, who is satisfied
and happy with IS cents per day, one
fifth of which will support HIM. Men
with families starve while these pests
thrive, save a few hundred dollars and
finally return to the flowery kingdom, to
live in ease from American money.
Congress sits idly by and does nothing
that Will mitigate this great and growing
evil. Workingmen becoming desperate
and urged on by labor agitators and un-
worthy leaders commit deeds of violence
that are shameful to witness. Then
again, many workingmen have been
seduced to the shores of Puget Sound by
its4false attractions, and disappointed,
penniless, discouraged and unable to
procure labor, do you wonder that they
become desperate We, of Montana,
cannot conceive the full measure of their
suffering.