Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-19

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number of families, at present residing
IN Minnesota. have addressed a letter to the
Secretary of the State Immigration Asso-
citation, asking for information as to the
possibility of securing suitable land in
California for the formation of a colony.
The letter states that the heads of the
families are all experienced farmers. and
that each is the poSsessor OF from 81 900 to
5000, which they are anxious to invest.
Exclusion House Interpreter John Il.
Nrooman, who has returned from a visit ia
British Columbia, says there is much suf-
fering among the Chinese in Victoria.
where there are 5000 to a total population
OF 1900, and 1900 III the entire province
Many are reduced To beggary, and the Chi
nese merchants, aided by the Mission
Church people, have been compelled to
open three soup-houses. Robberies are of
almost daily occurrence and efforts are
being made to ship the surplus population
TO Mexico.
At meeting of the RiggerS and Steve
dores, held on Tuesday evening last, they
refused to pass the San Francisco Typo
graphical Union resolutions boycotting the
Cal and Bulletin. This was done after ex-
aiming into the merits of the controversy
and finding that the union was not justified
III its action. At the meeting of the Car.
penters' and Joiners' Union of Oakland
Monday night, q motion TO boycott the Cal
and bulletin was introduced, but the union
refused To entertain it, and consideration
was deferred.
The printing presses i'll the Chinese
quarters were in full operation on Tuesday
until late at night the cause of the unusual
activity being the fact that the railroad war
has been carried into Chinatown. MANY
thousands cards in Chinese characters were
issued from the presses and scattered broad
cast by the trans-continental railroad
agents. The cards gave the information
that the fare was lower than ever before. or
likely to be in The future; that the sixteen
wheel cars were perfectly safe, and that
although boveotted here the Chinese could
get plenty Of work in New York, Chicago
Boston or Washington.
The regular monthly report of the Mar.
ager OF the San Francisco Benevolent Asso-
clauen says this society last month Feb
ruary) was called on to aid over 700 per
sons: but OF this number nearly coo men
women and children were found deserving
and were promptly assisted During the
month OF February just passed 40 new
families were assisted. In some of these
new cases there were from six to ten chill.
dren. many of them too young to help sun
port themselves and others older unable 10
lind employment The amount of provi-
sions daily distributed is large, some davs
thirty and forty baskets of groceries and
provisions are given out from the rooms
of the society.
A recent Act of Congress authorizes tho
collection of a duty or tax of fifty cents 4
head on all aliens who enter as passengers
by sea, the funds so collected to be demos.
tied in the treasury, and according to de.
cislons oil the Secretary of the Treasury,
tress- Recently two children named Cen.
pert arrived from Australia, moneyless and
friendless, bound to their father. who Is ;
settler in Washington Territory. An an.
plication was made to the special officer an.
pointed TO collect the funds TO assist the lit.
tie fellows to reach their father. but ii i,
stated that he not only refused positively
but even threatened to have the little fel
lows arrested as paupers