The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-17
NOT ALARMED BY RUM0RS
CHINESE MERCHANTS IN SEATTLE
THINK WAR IMPROBABLE.
Believe Foreign Powers VIII Inter-
fere to Prevent Serious Trouble
In Celestial Empire and to Re-
store the Deposed Emperor.

The alarnist stories which have recently
emanated from the northern provinces
of China have occasioned more or less
OF apprehension among the Chinese mer-
chants of this city, as well as among GER
tain Japanese importers and exporters,
concerning the Oriental trade. AS rule
feeling that the United states. Eng
land and Japan will duly intervene and
restore tho deposed emperor to power
again prevails among the Oriental mer-
chants here The result would be that
the present war cloud would be dissipat-
ed and prosperity in China once more
return.
Woo Gen. manager Of the we'll known
Wa Chons Company. on Fourth avenue
south, said yesterday:
II cannot say that our trade with CHINA
has as yet been affected by reports Of
the impending revolution. In any event.
We are stu shipping our usual average
amount OF -four TO the Hongkong market
Perhaps. however. we are doing this moro
for the reason that we purchased ship
ping space In the transpacifc steamers
several mnths ago, and should we now
neglect TO fulfill our contracts with the
steamship companies we would be obllg-
ed TO pay just the same.
81 would like to say that all OF the
Chinese residing In the United States are
heartily in favor OF overthrowing the
empress and restoring the deposed en-
peror to power. She is bitterly hostile to
foreigners and Christians. while the en-
peror, who is now in his Soth year. is in
telligent, ambitious for advancement and
conversants with the outside world. The
empress dowager is full of the old ideas.
would prescribe every foreigner now with
In the boundaries OF the empire"
Chin Gee Hee, Of the Quong Tuck Com
pany, said: II have been absent from
Seattle in our fishing interests during the
past few days, and perhaps am a little
ignorant regarding the situation at the
that we are sending into China our GUS
tomary 50 per cent. OF merchandise as
against the 20 per cent. that we import.
Just now the Chinese market Il long on
there would be quickly exhausted. and
there would be an opportunity TO readily
dispose OF the surplus from the Pacific
coast. fear that n great deal OF trouble
Is on the tapis In my native country"
Charles T. Takahashi, vice president Of
the Oriental Trading Company. had but
1--WE are Japanese" he remarked, ''and
the majority Of our business Is conduct
ed with the people OF our own nation.
Sun; we are doing quite business with
OF China. II might be interesting to know
that the Boxers OF that country, who
constitute a coterie of secret societies, are
working strenuously among the Japanese
to- induce them to exile all foreigners and
discontinue trade with Christians To
accomplish this end they now have a large
number OF secret emissaries in Japan"
Mark Ten SUE. the well known dealer
In japanese and Chinese curios on Second
avenue, said The disrupted condition
In China Is not affecting our business
What might happen IL naturally a matter
OF conjecture. The trouble lies entirely
with the three northern provinces con-
trolled by the empress dowager. There
are about 100000 people in these partic-
ular districts. They are eccentric and
absolutely uneducated. The three hundred
and odd millions OF Chinese IN the four
teen lower provinces are one and all for
the emperor. With his return to power
the war clouds win vanish. Otherwise
there is great conflict in prospect"
The Centennial and Novelty Milling COM
panies each report that THIS IS the time
OF year when the demand for foreign -four
IS light. Such being the case. trade with
China Is but little affected by war rumors
should a rebellion ensus. the mills on the
Pacific coast would be set running to their
full capacity 10 meet the requirements OF
the Orient.