The morning call., 1893-09-07
WANT TO COMPLY.
Chinese Now Desire to
Register.
CONGRESS IS PETITIONED.
Los Angeles Asiatics Ask to Be
Given Another Opportunity.
Four Ordered Deported.

Los ANGELES. Sept GA petition
wOrded as follows has been forwarded to
Washington. 1t is signed by 123 Chinese
residents of Los Angeles:
''To the Senate and House of Represen-
tdtiUeS of the United States Of america
The undersigned citizens of China and
residents of he city and county Of Los
Angeles, State of California, respectfully
petition YOUR honorable bodies TO take
action Immediately by appro pirate legisla-
ton to give your petitioners another op-
portunity to comply with the law requiring
us to register, as set forth in the act of
Congress commonly known as the Geary
act. Your petitioners would further say
that they were led 10 believe and did be-
lieve that said Geary act was n violation of
the treaty between China and the United
States. that now the Supreme Court of the
United States has rendered final decision
in the case. and your petitioners are ready
and anxious to comply with said act of
Congress and to comply with all require
ments of the laws of this nation"
Four Cahuenga Chinese laborers were
tried under the Gesry act this afternoon
before Judge Ross in the United States
District Court. They had separate trials.
The men were arrested on complaint of
w. Lintner. who is member of the Ca
huenga Farmers Protective Association,
now intensely interested in getting the
Chinese out OF the country.
The prosecution was represented by
United States District Attorney Denis
and by ex- United States District Attorney
Willoughby Cole, while Colonel Hotch-
kiss and R. NJ. Ling appeared for the
Chinese.
The first case was that of Fong Louie
The witnesses for the prosecution were
Deputy Marshals Hamel and Gard, who
testified to Tie arrest of the accused and
that he admitted at the time that he had
no certificate of registration. Mr.. Lintner
testified that he had seen the accused
shovsing in the fields from time to time.
Colonel Hotchkiss raised the point that
the Chinaman leased land and farms it,
and was not, therefore, laborer under
the act. This was overruled, the defense
noting an exception.
The United States then rested. and the
defense was given brief intermission TO
examine the proof.
The first witness for the defepse was
Feng Louie. the accused Chinaman. He
testified that he came to the United States
nineteen years ago, and is at present so
years old. He has been. he said, farmer
in Cohuenga Valley all this time. He
farms the land with six men, who farm on
shares He has two shares and the others
one each. They farm 128 acres in one
tract and 60 acres in another. They have
in all ten horses and five wagons.
He pays Sc per acre annual rent for the
land. and raises vegetables and barley and
ships the same to the wholesale market.
mostly to San Francisco. The land is
rented from Colonel l. n. Dunkelburger
and Mr.. HAYES.
Colonel Hotchkiss here again raised the
point. without avail. that the farmer who
leased land is not laborer, and the case
will likely be appealed Oh this point.
Judge Ross decided that the defendant
WAS laborer. that he had not registered
and ordered him deported.
The court proceeded with the examin-
alton of another alleged laborer. Three
other Cinnamon were examined and the
same state of facts brought out.
They were all on the same form as the
first Chinaman tried. They were all or
dered deported by Judge Ross.
One of the Cinnamon escaped the clutch
OF the Marshal aud is still at large.
The Cinnamon are becoming alarmed,
and many of those having situations in the
city have quit and gone to the country.
SALEM, Or, Sept. 6.-Nineteen men aud
boys were arrested at Hubbard tonight
for deporting eighteen Cinnamon from Nc
Kinney's hop yard. The City Marshal of
Hubbard was among them. Some of the
Chinese were sent to Corvais and some to
Portland. No violence was done them.