Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-05
MURDER AND PLUMBER At FARM HOUSE;
Life il Hst Safe While AIiaticS Are Out Of
the Mines
NINE OWNERS DENY STORIES CIRCULATED
Say Ossliss Are bet ABUSED snd Are Net
Leaving Camps.
GOVERNMENT TAKES HAND IN MATTER
~ViII supply white People with Arms
and Ammunition and Keep
closer watch on the
AsIatics.

AsIatics.
ANNE5BURG, Nov T. - Especial
Cablegrsm TO The Bee.)-The Transvaal is
fghtng its own peculiar yellow peril. For
the moment at least it is land under the
shadow Of the Chinese danger. Away in
the country districts men manufacture
weapons Of defence and bsrricade their
houses by night and women dread TO be
left alone. They fear the Chunchuses of
the Rand.
East west north-always Chinese. The
matter Is serious. Chinese loot a lonely
farm and murder the occupants: Chinese
raid stores and kill the proprietors with
knives and butchers ceavers: Chinese fight
Kaffirs away on the vedt and get killed;
murdered Chinese are found in out-of-the-
way spots; mounted police organize drives
against Chinese; mobile columns sweep the
country rounding up Chinese; thirty-eight
Chinese get buried Cby mlstake) on some
one's land at Durham, whereupon follow
claims for $500 and legal action. Travellers
report wandering Chinese at the Victoria
Falls: Delagca Bay complains in fluent
Portuguese English of immigrant Chinese
(1ndesred). high veldt, low veldt wood.
bush-still Chinese. Heading for Barberton,
heading for the sea, heading for Cairo, APP
parently heading the furried Chinese brain
only knows where.
Argus-eyed writer's to the newspapers re-
port Chinese holding a blockhouse "n mill
tary fashion" from which sentinels spy
upon the passing traveller; others assert
that the limitless lime caves in the Sterk
fontein district. on the West Rand give
refuge TO bands of Chinese bandits. The
thing goes on orescendo Always Chinese"
Daily the Rand expects to hear the Chinese
) are occupying the forts that command the
capitals
How many wanderers are there? No one
knows. Oficial figures report only 5A miss
ing from the mines at given time out of
total of 1900 The unofficial world thrusts
it's tongue in it's cheek and talks In four
figures "Anti-mines' newspapers hint at
murders never made public. An indignant
Chamber Of Mines member denounces all
reports as exaggeration--defends Chinese
temporary troubles - agitators-repatriate
bad characters-all we'll. Unofficial world
scoffs openly-hints Chinese not fit for
nines-calIs for moro police-calls for strict
compound system. Who is right? No one
knows.
some Undisputed Facts.
But amid all the dust of controversy
certain grim facts cannot be denied. In
less than month there have been the
following undisputed, indisputable happen
inKs:
Twenty Chinese attack the house of Mr..
I.unn, a farmer, on the East Rand One
coolie killed and two wounded.
In the same district Chinese attack the
house of Mrs Sullivan, a widow and bind
her and her children while they ransack
the place Before leaving they try to fire
Piet Jouberts farm at Moabs veldeu
attacked by Chinese Joubert murdered
and baby of is months injured Believed
Jtthe coolies would have massacred the en-
tire family had not the alarm been given.
Homestead of Mr.. Jackson, sterkfonteln,
near Krugersdorp, held up and looted. Mr..
jackson overpowered and threatened with
Fight between wandering Chinese and
Kafflrs on a farm I'm the Pretoria district.
Chinaman found dead on the veldt having
been hacked to death with butcher S
cleaver.
European storekeeper in the Pretoria dis
trict murdered by Chinese, who Rre said
to have come down from the hills"
Chinese attack a Chinese store near
= Krugersdorp butcher one of the proprietors
and nearly kill another.
Twenty Chinese attack an Indian hut on
the Kleinfontein estate near Beksburg on
the East Rand. Two OF the Indians muir
dered and three others Injured.
These things do not look nice on paper
They do not read well even in the security
OF johannesburg. But they are terrifying
when related at lonely farm houses OF
dark nights Ugly phrases are used
At Boksburg on the end, and at Krugers
dorp on the west, the word lynch has
been uttered though some OF the paper,
have not printed ii. The heart OF the Boel
grows bitter. This then is your boasteC
British rule" he murmurs.
All Against AsiatIcs.
Yet with all this one cannot help feeling
some pity for the Chinese Every man,
hand is against them. To wander in ignor
ance from the mines is to enter an enemy'i
country. In the native kraals it is whisp
cred that the yellow men eat babies. anC
the Katirs hunt them down with relentless
vigilance.
But why this leakage from the mines
Did these men know when in China tha
their work lay "A thousand odd feet belov
the surface of the earth. or did they thinl
that the gold mines of the Rand were lik
the tin mines of the Straits? The Chambe
of Mines say they knew. Are they beaten
The Chamber OF Mines say that they ar
not. Then why do they desert? No on
knows But by fours and fves and fifteen
and twenties. they wander away across IN
great uplands going they know no
whittier. living they know not how. Hiding
in dongas by day. sinking across the farm
by night, lodging South African eonstabu
larry patrols, chivied by Boer farmers
chased by Kafirs, stealing fowls robbin
lonely homesteads. barefooted half
starved. desperate with Asiatic contempt O
life in their blood, Chinese cruelty and cal
lousness i'm their hearts. No one can un
derstand them, they understand no mar
Is It strange that the end is sometimes vic
ienCe ana muTdeTy
But something must be done. The Ian
between the Vaal and the Zambesi canno
he left at the mercy OF the Chunchuses o
the Rand,
south Africa stirred.
The recent epidemic OF crime has stirre
the whole South African world. The or
of the country districts near the Rand hav
reached the heights. Lord Selborne ha
adopted dras-ic measures. The South Al
rican constabulary posts near the mines ar
20 be strengthened and rearTanged; a mobV
column, eighty strong, is To sit at a STRAIT,
Eical pofnt Just outside ~ Johannesbur
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