The Daily Tombstone., 1886-02-17
Large and Enthusiastic Anti Chinese Meeting Held
 Fast Evening.
The Tombstone Anti-Chi- nese League Formed and
 Officers Elected.
Thirty Days Time Given yHeEn- bers 10 Discontinue the EIn- pIOy1ment and EsatrOn- izing of Chinese in
 TElis City.
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 At ' 30 o'clock last evening thc time announced for the meeting e citizens to take action in the matter of the influx of Chinese to this city, the City Hall was packed with our citizens.
 County Recorder A. T. Jones was elected temporary chairman and D. B. Immell, temporary secretary.
 Mir. Jones addressed the audience and stated that the time had come when it was necessary to take some steps to stop the further influx of Chi nese into this city, and to get rid of those we now have, but he desired it to be understood that he was opposed to violent measures being taken, and was positive that if all our citizens would unite and cease employing the Chinese, they would he forced to leave for want of means to make livelihood. Mir. Jones then thanked the vast assemblage for the honor they had conferred on him in elect ing him chairman, and announced that he was ready to hear the views of all those assembled-on either side of the question. His remarks were re- ceived with great applause.
 Col. Lewis was then called for and reiterated what the chairman had said in regard to using peaceable meas ures for the expulsion of the Chinese from this Territory, and more espec- ially from this city. He stated fur ther that he had lately been in Cali foruia and had witnessed the mode of procedure of the apti-Chinese clubs in that State, and urged upon the audience the necessity of organiza- ton, not alone in this city, but throughout the whole county. He stated that if the Chinese were driven out of Tombstone they would go to Benson, Wilcox, Charleston and other places in Cochise county, and he urged the necessity of organiza- ton here and the appointment of committee to correspond with the citizens of the different towns in this county and ask them to perfect an organization in their towns, and then he felt sure that the Chinese problem, so far as this county was concerned, would be solved. Applause
 Judge R. E. Wilson, of Benson, was then called upon. Mr. Wilson stated that Benson would fall right into line as soon as Tombstone, which took the initiatory. He stated that Portland was now in a bad condition through the influx of Chinamen that have been refused llrelihood ia other towns, and thPt now as Port land is being flooded with these Mon golians, the people of that city are up in arms to drive them out, and un- less the gates of Arizona are closed against them we will soon be overrun with them.
 Dan Immel here offered to sub scribe $1, 1,000 for the purpose of send ing one hundred Chinamen to Bos- ton, as he believed that there was where they belonged.
 On motion of W. A. Nash, it was decided to form an anti Chinese or ganization, to be known as the Tombstone Anti-Chinese League" !" and to open rool for signatures of members.
 c. D. Reppy, under-sheriff, being called upon, stepped forward and stated that he was in sympathy with the movement to oust the Chinese by peaceable means, and as the other speakers had stated, he believed that the means to be employed, was the re- fusal to patroniae the Chinese, and