The morning call., 1893-09-15
STILL THEY COME.
More Japanese From the
Dominion.
CANNOT KEEP THEM OUT.
TWenty-One Brought Down by the
City of PuebIa and Allowed
to Land.

When those Japanese who desire to gain
an entrance into this country fail in one
way they try again. This was Demon
strated in a remarkable manner when the
steamer City of Puebls arrived from the
north yesterday morning.
Twenty natives of the land of ehrvsan-
themums and the jinrikisha we're aboard.
but they did not hail from Victoria, B. c.,
this time. immigration Commissioner
McPhersOn's active efforts TO stop the i'm
portation of contract labor and of women
doomed to vile slavery have made the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company rather
particular about the kind of passengers re-
ceived at the Victoria dock. So the Jap
aneSe arrivals of yesterday represented
themselves as coming from Tacoma, Wash.
Nevertheless. Mr.. Mcpherson and In
terpreter Getfney made a careful examina-
tion of them, and when a certain immi-
grant from Nippon. attired in a conspicu-
Gus green vest aud whose face was famili-
arly pitted, was noticed, a mutual recOgni-
ton took place. He laughed and shook
hands with the Commisso oner. for they had
seen each other before. The last time
they met was when fifty Japanese come
down from Victoria to go TO work upon
the ranches and vineyards of this State at
70 cents per dav, and forty-nine OF them
were sent back on the very same steamer
on which they arrived.
And there were two other familiar
figures among the twenty. One had
shaved off his mustache. but that failed 20
deceive the sharp eyes of Messrs. Nc
Pherson and Geffney, and The other,
who is AZ years old, and wears gray hair.
possessed a passport which called for
man only 27 wears of age.
When the fGrty-nine were sent back TO
Victoria the Commissioner had taken the
pains to stamp obliQuely across the face Of
each of tie passports in bold black type:
DEPORTED
from
PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO
To Victoria.
L. s. IMMIGRATION DEPT.
August %, 1898.
And in red ink was the stamp:
CONTRACT LABOR.
Those PASSPORTS were in three languages
Japanese. English and French-and rep
Tesent ted that the bearer, YamaEuch Kur-
amatSu, tor nStance, a eli zen of the eu-
plre OF Japan, and aged % years and
month was on his way to British Column
bla. ACCOMPANYING each Of the forty-nine
also was diamOnd-shaped ticket from the
ia an Mali Emigration Company" CIV
ing the owners number. MessTs. McPher-
HND anu nHHN htAIENtu the FHettS Gl
each OF the twenty who came yes erday,
but not a passport bearing the deportation
stamp could be found
Inc inference Is that these men bv some
means have succeeded in crossing the
Straits Of San Juan de Ruca to some Puget
Sound port from Victoria anu have come
here on borrowed passports, and this infer
ence is borne out by the fact that S6 was
the biggest amount of money carried by
any one Of them. These passports they
can now return by mail if they have been
really borrowed. When one of the jan
auese was asked what he had done with
his money he said he lost it while looking
al FISH in the water OF 5000 on a
small amount of silver was left. Inter
prefer Gefney asked one how he got into
Tacoma. aud he was just about to tell
when be caught himself, and from that
Time on was very retcent.
Considering that the japanese left Kobe
in July and had to pay their fare Of about
$50 To the Emen kabus heke kwaiSha, the
contract eXpOrtation company there, for
transportation to Victoria, and have been
a. quite an expense in one way or another
since, the reason for the deple ted condition
OF their purses is apparent.
But what could be done with them?
Nothing at all. They could show satisfac-
torily that, on this trlp az least. they
came from domestic port, and that set
tied IT. There was no legal way to prevent
tsEAu NUN tduhlhSs 81 ltCE UtISOn dlIO u tu
them to descend the gangplank into the
hands OF the poll-taX collectors, who "a
sessed each So, which left them still poorer
In pocket.
The man with the face marked by small
pOx whe had recognized the Commissioner
gave the name this time Of ~. E.O." II
was remembered of him that when the
fifty came down last month on tile
Walla Walla and were Informed upon by
1amaguchi kuramatsu he then manifested
a desire 10 assist the infoTmer: and il was
from him and the other two recognized by
the officers, it is believed, that the card Of
h. NaganO, the agent al Victoria of the
big Kobe Emigration Company, and one,
also, Of Omaru Telsutaro of Okayama,
the agent of the Emen Kabushrke
kwaisha, in Japan, were secured also the
address OF the Tacoma agent, viz: ''7l7
Pacific avenue" But they will not be
very likely 10 give any more information
to the Governments representatives..
When the forty-nine were sent back to
Victoria the folio wing letter was sent to
the Collector Of Customs at Port Town
send, Wash:
j. c.: Saunders Esq, Collector of Customs,
Port TOlCnSend. WdSh.-DEAR SIR: We have
this day depOrted 10 Victoria. =. c.. fOrty-nine
japanese who arrived at this port ex steamship
Wala Walla, who came in violation Of section
j OF the contract labor law. Evidence shows
they were sent here from Japan by an organ
lzed immigration society VINO have agents in
Victoria, Tacoma and San Francisco. They
VIII no doubt try 10 enter the United States by
way OF the sound ports, so 1 Inclose a list of
their names that you may take steps TO keen
them out We have stamped all of their pass
DOr1s "DepOrted" with the date August %
1898 Respectfully. r. c. MCPHERSON.
United States Commissioner OF Immigration
Whatever vigilance might have been
exercised by the Port Townsend officials,
ii is about as certain as circumstances can
make it that the City of Pue bias Japapese
passengers yesterday belonged TO the big
horde which has been shipped from Kobe
to Victoria by the Empress line this sum-