Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-07
CHINESE RAIDERS IN 5AIL.
Sheriff Knight Brings in 4 Squad of
Pig Tail Haters.

On Tuesday Sheriff Knight was
called to the hop district, in the viciu-
ity Of ButteviIle TO protect the Chinese
against threatened riot The sheriff
appointed two deputies, Allen and
Grim, farmers and hop growers in that
vicinity to see that no violence be done
the Cinnamon.
Yesterday he received word from the
deputies TO come and take charge of
some prisoners they had captured while
interfering with the Chinese lsborers.
1t seems that quite q number of
young men had come up to Butteville.
from Portland, expecting to get wOk in
the hop fields. Most of them had Sc
cured the promise of work sid were
waiting for the picking season to ooen.
A few yet had no jab. and they knew
that there were more hop yards near
Hubbard, and were aware that China
men had been employed.
The ''hurrah" spirit was started and
those without jobs and those who had
work set out for the Hubbard yards to
drive the Mongolians out.
This they did. They went TO Mr..
Mckinney who has his yard leased to
Chinamen telling him they had white
meI to pick bis hops, Mr.. Mckinney
told them he had no objection to the
white men doing his work but his yard
was leased to Cinnamon.
The crowd then went to the China-
men and gave them orders to leave.
They did not do it roughly however.
A number that lived in the vicinity of
GerFais were sent home by team and
six or eight that came from Portland
were given tickets and put aboard the
tram. The arrested men claim the
tickets were purchased by 3 collection
in the crowd that had assembled Cd
the platform at the station.
When Deputy Grim and his posse
arrived and demanded arrest, no re-
sistance was made and out Of the
crowd of about 80 they arrested IS and
locked them in the Armory until the
sheriff arrived last night and brought
IL of them to the county Jail on the 8
O'Clock train. The remaining two are
held to indentify others that took sn
active part in the crusade against the
Chinese.
OF the IL men in Jail there il but one
Marion county boy, the rest belonging
TO the Portland crowd where they were
gathered from all quarters of the globe.
Two Of these are from Sweden, one
from FINLAND, one from England, one
from Norway, one from ireland. two
from Scotland and the rest from va
rions parts Of the United States. They
are all young men, some only IS. and
without families. The names are 81.
A. Whitman, J. Held, Fred Thompson,
Harry Williams, John Peterson, VIM.
Collins, Joe King, Thos. Duff, F.Wells,
Gus Smith, Pat McGraw, ]. Eaton,
Gus School, w. Briggs, NJ. Whittle,
Fred Petzell and VIM. West.
The men held in jail can not be
classed IS hoodlums by any means.
They claim never TO have been In jail
before, and some are very anxious to
know their fate The leaders seem to
be Whitman, who Is in custody and
s lm Miller, marshal of Hubbard, who
b As not yet been arrested. 1t is devel-
oped that Whitman and Miller and
perhaps two or three others went from
Hubbard TO ButteviIle aud ssked the
crowd there to join in and rOut the
Chinese from the vicinity Of Hubbard.
That some who joined the party did 50
ignorAntly is evident One prisoner
claims that he was urged to join with
the promise they were going to Hub
bard 10 have SINE beer and a good time
generally and he didn't know the
purpose was. to drive the Chinese
out. Another when asked why he
took part when he had all the work he
cOu d do, answered that he expected TO
have a good time. The sentiment Of
the captured ones is not strongly against
the Chinese though the more intelh-
gent are opposed In principle to having
Chinese labor In competition with
white labor.
This crusade against the Chinese has
been very orderly and such actions will
serve TO crystalizs pubic sentiment
against the Chinese until the GeAry Law
IL fully enfOrced- The prisoners in jail
viii be disposed Of as soon As two wit
sess from Hubbard arrive