Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-09-13
'IS DRIVEN OUT
Filing WHITE MEMS
At BELLINGHAM, WIN.
!. Were Routed Out Of Town
went North and Some Went
:. Is Feared Trouble Will
International Complications
May Have to Pay Damages

Tfiol
Anant, m - information of an official
tnls Sec !, has reached the state de-
ied the &c vet concerning the sum-
un getB ~ violent expulsion of Hindus
ied Van pollngham, Wash, recently
yes Of .sdpntlv expected that if the
on at i as reported in the press, Am
ne b !, Price will soon be heard
,oaf BID The British government takes
scatter obove all things in protecting
u the y and property of it's subjects,
expected that as soon as the
SWIM consular officer, who is report
iOmll 10 looking into the matter, has
= WhlC ted his investigation and COM
'sulal tod with the summer home of
le was i 'H ambassador at Intervale.
second formal complaint will be lodged
: was he state department.
! u 81 state department is always en-
slalts ced in dealing with incidents of
n Soon S ~" owing tn the fact To
.u,uaE the attention of congress has
,aAes been called, that the national
nv Va nment, and even the United
: aal courts, are not clothed with the
7, gag Fity to enter the confines of a
aan even to protect foreigners in
ua treaty rights.
that the state department can do
HI a case as that at Bellingham
80 follow the well-worn precedents
g rule ished in Wyoming, Louisiana
9, owl rnia and elsewhere in cases
found foreigners have been mohbed OF
Which That is, the department, in the
Il va of the president. may address
aging overnor of Washington. transmit
dding perhaps, the complaint of thu
Is Voi III embassy, if there should b.
un and requesting him to take step
Cd ~ event a recurrence of the trouble
mas appeals have generally been Ell
maHi he and doubtless would be in thi
nTs Probably the claims for dan
osilg sustained by the individual Hill
IS So who were beaten, or driven ava
play lucrative employment, will b
Jams erred.
10 a the aggrieved individuals care t
ard 30 they may bring civil actio
hove INST the municipal authorities q
put ingham in the local courts, jus
mad he Japanese restaurant and bat
reld Be keepers have done in San FraI
om ..
he Report at Seattle.
posi- cattle, Wash.-Practically all {
in Hindus who were driven from Be
the ham have sought new Locations
ling put 40 reached Seattle next day.
BAL be party lett for Los Angeles an
er southern cities, and other
ght protection in British Columbi
BY vices from Bellingham state thu
HoA town does not contain a solitar
oil hdu at this time.
sig Bernard Pelly, British vice consul
q attle, with jurisdiction over the el
5 3 state, has not yet been officiall
tilted of the hostilities toward thes
~ itish subjects, demonstrated at Be
CHAM.
p Considering the method adopted /
8 people of Bellingham to these su
cts of their community, surprise
pressed here that the matter h;
been referred even indirectly
an e British vice consul.
y All that I have heard of the Be
nl ngham incident is what read in Il
" eWspapers," said Mr.. Pelly.
y The party that arrived in Seatt
- ID not make charges of violen,
gainst the Bellingham people, b
aim that they were given to unde
e tand that they should not rema
b mere in competition with white lab
b the mills.
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