The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-09
OFF FOR CHINA.

The Gaelic sails for the Orient. hut the
Chinese "WiSes'' Remain.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Gaelic sailed for China and Japan
yesterday afternoon, and the alleged CHI
nese husbands are laughing i'm their loose
fitting sleeves at the custom house officials.
Collector Phelps and his associates have
been Tailoring hard since September IL,
when the Gaelic arrived, To send back the
undesirable imp~ortations to the land from
which they came. Their work has been
for naught, for the steamer sailed yester-
day afternoon without n single Chinese
passenger, male or female, VINO came 10
this port on her.
The Chinese secured the release of the
women at the last IN on writs of
habeas rpu Yesterday = there
taken of during the day, One old fellow
was left OH board until half an hour he
fore the steamer sailed when equity
down 10 the ship and carried the lone one
of on q writ, without making n report to
s"nateiy oversaren before he left the
Lin Con, his ticket 81, and the number OF
the writ on which he was released was
II has been a long time since such a
large collection of Chinese has been seen
passengers on the Gaelic. and from 11:aO
o'clock i'm the morning until $40 o'clock
i'm the afternoon "a double line OF coolies
VII W tlbt tNtkh IS
the luggage al the departing ones. Be-
tween IL and I o'clock a panic was created
at the gang plank by a fractions horse at
tached To a.small express wagon driven
by q Chinese. The horse began to rear
and plunge and the coolie lost his reason.
a rec af"Sf behind SEST' , Ss wagons S gathered
abont the Enclosure where the
passcnecrs for the Gaelic were being sx-
amined. The wagon backed into the
crowd. The ~collies scattered i'm all direc-
tions. hut n number were jamIned before
they could get away. A child was knocken
rescue him was caught by the hind wheel
and run over. one of the hind wheeIs
passing over the child's leg at the same
time, breaking il at the ankle. The father
of the child. who had gone to the steamer
To see some uf his Chinese friends of, car
and friends took the wounded man of i'm
a wagon.
A small-footed woman was sent down
the courts. eTi'h "" WOMAN had a child with
her and was evidently respectable: The
custom house officials were suspicious of
The case will he looked into to-day. II is
n well known fact that women of her class
are not sold into slavery, AS II IL q crime
prostitutes. This woman was evidently
DESTROYS of returning to China. and found
no trouble i'm being substituted Tor one OF
the women who were brought htrs. tn he
placed in n brothel and rcmandesi by the
courts.
The Gaelic carried away a large number
Oh saloon passengers, among tnem tn.inG
several missionaries of the Campbellite,
and Methodist orders. DIR.
and Mrs. Draper, of New York. left for
where they will make their
home with their son, who has been n mis-
sionary i'm Japan for several years.
Collector Phelps has very strong hopes
Of ~rcmanding at least twenty of the wo-
who arrived an the G;:.lic. notwith-
.tanding the fact tina all of them sue
reedetl In securing writs of habeas corpus.
of the women have made palpa-
false statements, and the gross frauds.
no thinks, can only result i'm their being
AT present, he agrees, the sit
nation is very discouraging, but he is con-
fident that the evidence in his possession
will be sufficient To send the obnoxious
women back at the final examination
the writs.