The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-21

! SNI0CN atAVh OhANhess labor. have decided to abandon the at
 tempt for fear of fatal results. Tn,
 people are innamed, and would ust l the slightest excuse to precipitats trouble. The bitter feeling agains the orientals is intense. President
 Fowler, of the Exclusion League. i' quoted as saying that the Japanese re sidents here are barbarians and thai there is emminent danger of an unor' ganized mob getting beyond contro and making short work of the Japs. It has been suggested that an army be mobilized at Seattle and that the Japs be disarmed. otwithstandipg the assertions of the Japanese consul tt the contrary, all the Japs are heavily armed, and are in humor to make 8 strong fight. The police have discov. cred the method by which the Japs obtained fire arms and ammunition. Shipments of what purported to be merchandise for the local colony were found to contain rifles. This has evi- dently been going on for some time, so the Japs are we'll armed.
 When the steamer Portland got ready to sail for Valdez yesterday, the white passengers discovered that the steerage contained thirty Hindus who had shipped for Valdez to go to work on the railroads building near there. The white passengers immedi- ately demanded that the Hindus be put ashore, refusing to sail if they re- mained on board. A riot followed, which resulted in the Hindus being pulled from their hunks and forced ashore. The steamer sailed without them.
 Tokio, Sept. 14-Count Okuma, in an interview today, states that there is no comparison between the anti Japanese demonstrations that have occurred recently at San Francisco and those that are now occurring at Vancouver. In the former, he claims the authorities countenanced the ac- tions of the rioters, while the out breaks at Vancouver are supported only by the labor element He also states that Roosevelt acted fairly to- ward the Japanese until the Califor- nia delegation had interviewed him. He compares the Frisco affair to the boxer outbreak in China.
 Tromso, Sept. 14-A message receiv- ed here from Wellman, the air-ship explorer. states that his machine col lided on September 2nd with glacier and was totally wrecked. For this reason the trip has been abandoned for this year, but it is the intention of those interested to repeat the en- deavor next year.
 Washington, Sept. If President Roosevelt has signed proclamation creating the Tongass forest reserva- tion in southeastern Alaska. The re- serve was created at the request of the Ketchikan Power Co. The reser- vation covers about two million acres and the work of laying it out is in charge of Surveyor Langille. Gov. Hoggatt approved the request.
 The new Tongass national forest re- serve created by the president of which mention is made in The Miners cable dispatches today, includes all the mainland of southeastern Alaska, south of the Unuk river lying between Behm and Portland canals and the in- ternational boundary. The pfoclama- tion creating the reserve, was signed by the president on the 10th inst.
 San Francisco, Sept. 1.-The bark Electra has arrived in port from Nu- shagak, Alaska, where she went with cargo of cannery supplies and the cannery crews. On the return voyage, while in mid-ocean. battle broke out between the Japanese and the Chinese over the apportionment of food. The battle was fought with knives and over twenty were severely wounded. The vessel arrived in port with a number of the cannery crew in irons.
 Joplin, Mo, Sept. 1.-The office of the Herald, local paper, was com pletely wrecked last night by the dis charge of a quantity of dynamite that had been placed under the building. The Herald has for some time been making a hard fight against the pres ent municipal government, demanding a cleaner town morally and political ly. The work was evidently done by some of those affected by the policy of the paper or by some one in their em- ploy.
 Washington, Sept. 16-The state department is in receipt of news from Mexico giving notice of the murder by bandits of George Rose, an Ameri- can mining engineer, while driving to the mines near Guanajuato, Mexico The motive for the crime was robbery. Tn 1901 Mr. Rose was employed as an expert by the Cug genheims in con- nection with their Alaska interests ;t Dawson and elsewhere. He is well known in that part of the country.