The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-08

but would go somewhere else. and the
delegates followed them all owe town,
How frequently did this happen"
Pretty near every day"
The witness said the boycott practi-
Cally ruined the business of the Chin
csc. He named some OF the watkins
delegates engaged In prosecuting the
boycott. among them w. n. Martin.
Martin. the biped bundle OF forget
fulness?" asked Colonel Sanders.
That's the fellow" SAID louie.
Did you know George IL. Walters
during his lifetime?"
Yes. / know him. He was chief on
foreman of the boycott. and Martin
was assistant foreman"
Hum Jim. the next witness. only tes-
titled that he circulated the petition IN
Intervention which was filed i'm the
United States court yesterday and said
every signature was genuine. Those
who could write nglish signed their
names in that language, and theirs
signed i'm Chinese.
Don Len. the next witness. testified I'm
very good English and said he was a
Christian Chinese and "a IN of the
Presbyterian church. He for "A Ions
time attended night school and came Ia
Butte i'm 1890. There were about 1.0O0
Chinese i'm Butte at that time. and were
engaged in all kinds of pursuits. Many
vi llf1h Nflt tlIiBipAt h % to'ho "coe
the hotels n were getting high wages.
A cook at the Southern hotel was get
ting S25 "A week. All Chinese at that
time were employed n prosperous.
The first boycott. he said. was inaugu-
rated in 1892. and the head worker In
il was &. NJ. Colman.
He was afterward elected justice
of the peace" said Don Len. Il guess
he was elected because he vas a great
man i'm the boycott on the Chinese"
He said the boycott broke out again
In the fall of 1892. and since then hun
dreds Of Chinese have left town and
business generally had been ruined.
Since the injunction was issued bust
ness has been picking up again. The
witness said he was a member of the
firm of Wah Chong Tai, dealers i'm
Japanese and n goods and gen.
eral Chinese Merchandise
How were the Chinese doing here as
to work in 1890 and 1892"
They We're prosperous"
How about their business i'm 1896
97?"
Judging from my own business it
was much decreased and was getting
worse rapidly"
The last boycott. he said, was like
the first, only worse.
They not only do like i'm 1892. but
they also have the walking delegate
and they stood in Chinese restaurant
doors like policemen n scattered
hand bills about the city"
Don Len related an instance about
George X. Walters and Charles Stay
ton, two Of the walking delegates, fol-
lowing n wash man to see where he de-
livered his washing. Len saw them and
called the Chinaman into his house i'm
order to throw Walters and Stayton off
the track. but they hid somewhere and
waited till the wash man came out and
then followed him to the house where
he delivered his clothes. and notified
the lady of the house that they were
representatives of the Trades and La
Dor assembly and that she would have
TO stop ~patronizing the Chinese or she
would be boycotted. She called on Don
Len and instructed hin to tell the wash
man to call for the wash next door in
future and she would leave it in her
neighbours back yard. Don Lens ex-
animation had not been concluded when
the hour for adjournment arrived.