The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-02-18
A, PROTEST FROM CHINA.
THE TREATMENT OF. CHINESE AT
BUTTE OCCASIONS A KICK.
ssidenss Of the CITY Said TO Be Out
.ragsousIy MISUNDERSTANDING Blains's
Attention Called to the MatterTRs-
fsfred to Governor TooIe.

Attention Called to the MatterTRe-
fsfrad to Governor TooIe.
HELENA, Mont, Feb. 4.-Pung
Kwang Yu, Chinese, charge ad interim
at Washington, has complained TO the
secretary Of state Of the treatment of.
Chinese residents of Butte, and the mat
ter was referred by Mr.. Blaine to
Governor Toole.i s-'9 =
For some time boycott has been In
force In Butte against the Chinese and
all who employ them, and the inforn,a-
ton upon which the complaint is made
comes from the Chinese consul general
at San Francisco. It is that various
citizens of Butte ..have been obstruct-
ing in their lawful business and out.
rageously treating. the Chinese subjects
resident in that place. In November
last various labor unions Of Butte City
passed a regulation prohibiting the peo-
pie in the said city against trading and
dealing with the Chinese subjects resi-
dent there, and at the same time placed
guards at the front of the Chinese stores
to arrest and s
Punish ANY Native
who should be found to infringe the
regulations. Subsequently the labor
union forbade the native landlords to
hire any more of their houses to the
Chinese, and ordered them to raise the
rents of the houses already tenanted by
them. They further required the Chi
nese laundrymen to register their names
and attempted to extort from them SO
each for the same. Upon their refusal
to comply with their demands the law
less people fred at them and assaulted
some Of them about the head with their
pistols, SO grievously wounding them
that their lives were imperiled." The
newspapers of Butte have published
isolated cases of outrage upon China
men by hoodlums, but it is not credit
able that they were instituted by the
reputable citizens of that place.
! A few days ago a burly rough in
Butte assaulted Celestial on one of
the main streets, knocking him down
and cruelty beating him,
Knocking Him Through a window
then dragging him out again across the
broken glass. Wednesday night All
Sam, a suburban labndryman, and his
crew came to Butte to participate in the
new years festivities and left the wash
house unguarded and when they re-
turned the establishment was a total
wreck. It had been visited by a gang
of boys and men and bombarded so Of
fectively that the doors and furniture
were smashed and the clothes scattered
and ruined. During the proceedings a
large crowd of lockers on cheered the
work of destruction and announced that
the Chinese must go, perceably if they
would. but go they must.
The laboring men of Butte are circu-
lating memorial to congress in which
they say: "Your petitioners, represent
ing the wage workers of the state, are
especially and vitality concerned for the
prompt solution of this most important
question. The immigrants are forced
upon US IN great multit4des; 4hs sitqr
alton ia alarming, We are being de-
prived Of the opportunity to earn our
daily bread. The conditions are too
hard to be patiently withstood. We
therefore pray your honorable body to
give us prompt relief by the enactment
Of lays clearly designated to restrict ind:
migration and exclude Chinese. =