The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-04
CHINESE BOYCOTT CASE
Joseph H. Wray Tells What He
Knows About It.
THE WILL HOUSE NOTICES
Witnesses Saw Them Carried About the
Streets = The Notices offered in
Evideuce-Pulled Men Out
of a Restaurant.

Joseph H. Wray was the first wit
mes on the stand yesterday morning
when the Chinese boycott investigation
was resumed before Judge Blake.
wray said he knew of the existence or
the boycott inaugurated against the
Chinese by the labor unions of Butte.
..One day | was walking along West
Park street and hesitated in front of
Hum Fay's Palace restaurant said
the witness. "A man approached me
and said You don't want TO go in
there, ] had not intended TO go in. but
] asked why ! should not. and he said
the place was boycotted because II
worked an injury to laboring men and
the unions told him i had no inten-
ton of going in, but il | had. should
have gone in regardless of the boy
cott.''
In answer to further questions by
Louis Sanders, the witness said he
passed the restaurant daily and saw
the same party standing in front of
the Palace for Is or 20 days Wray
also saw the same thing going on at
a Chinese restaurant on South Main
street. The delegates stopped people
going in the restaurants and talked to
them. The witness told about the vari-
Gus boycott signs and floats carried
about Butte, and saw one of the signs
planted in front of the Will house de-
claring a boycott on that house. The
defense moved to strike out all the tes-
timony of Wray on the ground that 1T
in no wise connected any of the defend
ants with the boycott.
A A. Mcmillan, ex-city clerk, testified
that he knew something about the Chi
nese boycott and had seen the viii
house notices carried about the streets.
He was of the opinion that the signs
were carried for several weeks. Mr..
Mcmillan said he knew nothing of his
own knowledge about a fund being
raised to conduct the boycott.
Did a committee wait on you to So
licit funds for that purpose asked
Colonel Sanders.
No. sir"
Did you serve on such a commit
tee"
mo. sir"
Did you have any knowledge of such
a committee"
Il was told so by another party"
Who told you there was such COM
mittee?"
II was told by Donat Dorais.'
Mr.. Mcmillan was not an important
witness. as he knew little about the
boycott but what was told him.
One of the notices offered in evidence
during the examination of the previous
witness read as follows:
"Boycott--A general boycott has been
declared upon all Chinese and japanese
houses. Also all persons employing
them in any CAPACITY. All friends and
sympathizers of organized labor will
assist us in this fight against the low
ering Asiatic standard of living and of
morals. America VS.. Asia. Progress VS..
Retrogression. are the considerations
involved. BY order of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte
Miners Union"
DR. j. w. Gum. the next witness on
the stand. testified as to his knowledge
of the boycott.
Did you have any knowledge of an
attempt being made to induce persons
not to employ Chinese labor?' asked
Colonel Sanders
My boy picked up card somewhere
and brought it and ] saw that my
name appeared on il as among those
boyeotted for employing Chinese"
Prior to seeing that card had any
one waited on you about employing
Chinese?"
Some time before two men, one of
them Mr.. Geiger. waited on me and
handed me one of those bills. and as |
was busy they said they would call
again. That is all / know OF them or
their business"
Did you hear anything about the
matter afterwards"
One day a man named Hasseiberger
came TO me and said my name had
been brought up in the Clerks assem-
bly,, where ii was said | was employ
ing Chinaman. He said he was sur
prised To hear Ii and wanted me to
discharge the man. l told him | em-
ployed none. but had man doing some
of the house washing and | did not
purpose doing anything with him. We
had our white goods done al the laun-
dry and the others with a Chinese"
Who is this man Hasselberger?"
He was then clerk in a Park street
store. but since then he has been con-
Quoting racing pool shop here"
John Hooper, an eX-policeman. tes-
tilted that he was a special officer dur
ing the boycott activity He said he
saw the walking delegate ON guard in
front of a South Butte restaurant and