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

Some went to other parts or the state,
many to Anaconda, and were in turn
driven out from there. The witness
said he was very familiar with the
conditions i'm Chinatown. because he
used to collect licenses from them. The
general business Of the city and the
population az Butte was rapidly in
creasing. and therefore the decrease I'm
the business of the Chinese and their
removal from the city was due To the
boycott. Many fiourishing gardens
around the city. formerly conducted by
the Chinese, have been abandoned. n
the only green spots about Butte have
vanished. The witness was asked as
to his knowledge of the strength and
size of the labor organizations. but he
said he knew nothing about that ex-
cept that the unions were generally re-
garded as very strong and that nearly
every laboring man i'm Butte belonged
tn some organization. Mr.. Meikeljohn
said the defendants la very little to
say when he served the injunction pa
pers on them. Some made light of II.
but others regarded IL seriously and
said they had had nothing To do with
the boycott and had no connection with
IL. A few were very hostile.
What. IL anything. was done by the
mayor or chief of police In reference to
the boycott?" asked olbnel Sanders.
After the mayor had received let
tiers from Washington regarding the
Japanese. he insisted that the city at
torney issue warrants for the arrest of
the persons interfering with the bust
ness of the Japanese and Chinese. An
officer was put on duty in front of the
japanese place of business. but moth
ing was lone about the Chinese"
on cross-examination by MI. Wines.
the witness testified that he knew most
of the defendants from one To eight or
ten years. and he could not say that
apxs ~ thann had nnVthipR Ia do with
the boycott i'm force IA years ago. to
which hei testified on Wednesday.
He said he did not pretend to say that
any of the defendants had anything to
do with the murders of the Chinese In
and about Butte during the past few
years. He said that the man Fred
ericks. who killed a San Francisco bank
cashier and was hung for il, was gem
orally believed to have killed the three
Chinese gardeners at Columbia Gar
dens. as he was in Butte at the time
and was known to have been implicated
i'm other crimes here.
ITO which one of the unions did he
belong?" asked Mr.. Wines.
Il don't know that he belonged to
any"
mo suspicion ever rested on any
man known to belong tn Butte labor
organizations"
mo, sir"
we are glad we got these men out
OF that scrape." observed Mr.. Wines.
You haven't yet" said Colonel Sand
ers.
The witness was questioned about
some of the assaults on Chinese. re-
parding which he testified the previous
day. and was asked If he meant To say
that any of the defendants or any
members of labor organizations had
anything Ia do with 1t. and he replied
that he knew that many members OF
labor organizations encouraged IL. but
he could not say THAI the
or any of them lid. He was asked If
the alleged boycott was not only the
Withholding of patronage from the Chi
nese by labor organizations
They wanted to compel everybody
else to withhold their patronage also.
I nave been ordered tn do So myself"
Mr.. Meikeljohn was asked IL IL was
not a fact that similar tactics We're OBJ
served by all commercial travellers who
tried to obtain trade at the expense OF
rival houses.
Colonel Sanders objected To MIR.
Wines assault on the commercial
travellers and the witness then an
swered that he did not know that COM
mercial travellers used ~boycottlng tao
ties to ecure trade.
w. II. Crabtree of Helena. one of the
compliments, was the next witness,
and testified that he spent about two
months I'm Butte during the boycott and
observed it's workings during portions
of February, March and April of 1897.
He saw all the signs carried and cart
ed about the city, and became acquaint-
ed with a number of the defendants
who were engaged i'm prosecuting the
boycott. He saw the big float which
caricatured Chinese cooking. The pic
ture represented a Chinese in the act
of dropping a rat into a kettle upon "A
stove.
That was rough on rats" observed
Mr.. Wines.
The inscription on the float gave no.
tice of "A boycott on all Chinese and
japanese and all who ~patronized them
by order of the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor assembly and all other labor or
CARNATIONS" Mr.. Crabtree said he was
in Butte al the time to collect evidence
against the boycotters.
Quon 10y, better known as Louie, the
~well-known Chinese, was called as "a
witness. and testified that he was born
in China 40 years ago and came to
Butte about 20 years ago, n has been
i'm Butte about 10 years. He first en-
gagged i'm the laundry business. and for
some years has been I'm the produce and
provision business. He said that when
he first came to Butte there were about
300 Chinese i'm the city. Louie told about
the Christian mission being maintained
In Chinatown under the direction of
Mrs. Whitmore, n said IL was regu-
larry attended by about 80 Chinese.
Prior to the boycott his people i'm Butte
were engaged in business and occupa-
tons as tailors, restaurant keepers,
gardeners. peddlers. laborers. domes-
ties, cooks, laundrymen. merchants and
provision dealers. Between 1891 and
1892 the boycott was especially de-
clared against the Chinese and the city
council passed a resolution ordering all
employees of the city TO cease p%atroniz-
ing the Chinese. The witness said there
were public records of The part the city
government took in the boycott. The
boycott by the labor organizations was
announced i'm the newspapers and by
hand bills distributed and posted on
fences and walls. The boycott was re-
newed in the latter part Of 1896.
VIVA effect did the boycott have on
the business OF the Chinese I'm Butte?'