The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-22
IE THE JAPANESE GET IN.
xnaRY ROADS NEAR BLAINE
rsrD FREELY At NIGHT.
..,.. Come in UnIawfulIy and
a.. seldom Found Out, Although
r~.,v Precaution In Taken-Few
Cninese Also slip In Unobserved.

l., r,isnatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
R 's,,sr WHATCOM, May 21.-That Japan
nd Chinese laborers are unlawfully
r..,nu the United States through What
- - eo,,rty by the hundreds is now a well
~ .s,,shed fact There are two customs
s.srs on the international boundary line
y no eounty--one at Blaine and the
:, sumas. But between the two
80 ls nearly twenty-five miles of terri
~. not under the surveillance of the
.,s.srs Along the unfrequented roads
~ -, cross the boundary line in the TWEEN
= sve.mfle strip the Asiatics swarm at
-, Nearly every farmer from that
.'s,,,tv has stories TO tell of fleeing
.srnses OF groups of men hurrying to-
sss-d the south In the dusk. The immi-
s.,ts seem to be well guided or have ex-
.nrst Instructions. They make a detour
rrhsn the small towns are reached or else
80 through IN the night. The railroad
sAdee at Ferndale Is favorite crossing
,,,ee. and II Is in use. according TO resi-
ants Of the town, nearly every night
V gang or two who have been hiding
4 the woods waiting for nightfal.
The most Travelled route for the Mongo-
,sns who come In VIA Ferndale is to turn
ssst at the county poor farm, four miles
rnnlfdtt
v55e berth and then, by unfrequented
,sads reach skagit county. Once: south
4 here they are comparatively safe, as
hey can mix with the Asiatic laborers
nov employed in various localities.
once In while a squad or two is caught
by the officers Twenty-six japanese were
d,porfed from Whatcom within the last
week. The customs and immigration Of
scsrs are working, however, under the dis
advantage of having too small force to
eepe with so great an evil. Beside this.
he government furnishes no place I'm
Which TO keep violators of the alien i'm
migration laws when captured here. The
ety fail has been heretofore used bur
he city council has now refused to per-
nit It's crowdlng with government pris
onefs any longer. The county TAIL IA
Wiling to take a few at time, but OBJ
tcis to going into such business on the
Wholesale scale.
me majority OF the immigrants are jap
tnese, but not a few Chinese are
iso making their way into the country.
me latter, however. are In more or less
&nser Of being detected later by reason of
their having forged registration certificates
Z else none at all. The Chinese lodging
haues at the Fairhaven canneries are fire.
quantity ralded and the officers seldom fail
= Ind several Cinnamon who cannot show
proper papers.
TWO Chinese were arrested yesterday at
verndals by Customs Inspector ]. II. Sar-
gnt, on Information telephoned from that
rAfe. The Mongolians It is believed. were
eades. on their way to the boundary line
pilot In a gang OF their fellow country
mn. One had papers, The other did net.
me opinion IL freely expressed here that
nefe Is an organized association or ring
Ack Of this influx OF Asiatics. Several CT
he laps captured here lately had yaccin-
uion or other papers showing that they
Nd landed In Vancouver only a few days
who're, and IL is the common talk in Brit
sA Columbia that the great numbers OF the
Japanese who arrive In Vancouver by
Mery steamer from the Orient mysterious
y disappear within few days. There is
u open door to this country for them
W the highways of Whatcom county and
nne one Is undoubtedly on hand In Van
talyer to point II OUT to thu new arrivals.