Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-11
IN STATE OF SIEGE
japanese and Chinese Quarter Of ,
couver Resembles an Arsenal z Z
SPECIAL C0NsTABLES SWORN Z
Militia Will Be Called Out if The1 :
4 is Further Disorder. =
VARIOUS THEORIES OF THE RIOT
Responsibility of Settlement is Placed
on Canada.
WILL HELP OUT UNITED STATES
Japan ~ Little Exercised and Main
tains Calm in OmcIsI Circles
Newspapers Are Pas
sive.
WILL HELP OUT UNITED STATE

VANCOUVER. p. C., Sept. i0.-'rhe
Chinese md Japanese quarters OF VAN
couver are practically in a state OF sioge
Hundreds Of rcvolvers and guns wore sc'd
yesterday TO the orientals until the police
prohibited the sale Of the firearms Every
Chinese merchant goes about with an
armed bodyguard and beside the enCance
10 every Chinese store stands a Mpnrnlan
with rife. All the Chinese cooks,
min men. laborers and all the Japan
nese working in the cj;y nu1 .'yuntry
wthia a radius Of fifteen miles from Van
couver have been summoned to the oriental
quarter and are flllng all the houses in that
quarter BESIDES the hrearrns, F"ivcs,
stones. bottles and bricks are in stock
ready 10 repel any ATTACK OF mob. Glass
IN every Oriental shop and house in the
city was broken by the mob last Saturday
night except in the japanese church,
which escaped. It Is a question whether
the city or the dominion is responsible .or
the $4,000 damage done
The chief OF police has sworn in 100
special constabes, The military will be
called out II there is sign of further de
turbance.
Day Passes without Disorder.
Everything was quiet today in and about
the orient quarter, and there has been no
luIlnef dltcnlpl 10 ftntW dhli-AbiabN
rotlng. None OF the Japanese have as yet
returned to their work in the lumber mills,
which are stll closed down. but which ex-
peot to resume tomorrow. The strike of the
Chinese cooks bids fair to last longer and
restaurants are closed Hotels clubs and
private families are making shift without
cooks and Vancouver people are receiving
an object lesson on their dependence on
Chinese domestics.
Riots Carefully Planned.
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 1o.-Ihe Greg On
ian today prints the following special from
Seattle, wash:
Every indication Ia that the Vancoucsr
B. c.. riots we're carefully planned TO I'M
press A. Ishi, chief of the bureau OF for
cign commerce. II is significant that the
Japanese immigration are il Vancouver
heading the demonstration. frank " Cot
issslt 2Essiasnt Sf the M"iA T.%n .st srse rs
.Akiry OF the AnuJapanese and Corean lm-
M migration league, and George p, Listman
: a prominent Seattle labor leader, all were
present, together with big delegation OF
American anu-Japanese sympathizers'
The Significance OF the Japanese rlots
was announced that Ishii was coming to
Seattle. II was then decided and teie,
graphed out OF Seattle that the anti-oriental
organlz atoms proposed to present to lshii
while he was In Seattle protest against
Japanese immigration: At the time this
would spend a week in Seattle and then
40 to Vancouver. There was planned at a
conference between Vancouver and Seattle
anti-Japanese leaders all the details for X
big antl-Japanese demonstration in van
colVer September l2. IL developed that
lshn did not have time to spend In Seattle
ana he went Il rough to Vancouver.
simultaneously with his going local lead
ders of the anti-Japenese society went
north. They were in Vancouver when the
outbreak occurred, and though announce
nent is made in private letters from anti
Japancsc leaders that they harangued the
mob not to do violence the society Itself
believes the demonstration had TO do with
their presence.
fused 10 remain long enough for the van
couver demonstration September IL There
is no question whether Seattle, Portland
or San Francisco agit;ssprs took part. Ihe
great bulk OF the marching and rlotin9
throng was composed OF Canadians and
participants in the telegram of protest TO
the ottawa government.
Little said In Toxic.
TOXIC, Sept 10-The most meager ac-
count of the anti-Japanese trouble In Van
couver is published in a special cablegram
TO the Asahi this morning, This is the
only one of the English or vernacular
papers which mentions the affair. While
awaiting details the Asahi refrains from
editorial comment, The published dispatch,
which is from Ishii of the Japanese bu-
the opinion that the trouble is over. The
press and officials generally show no dis
turbsnce over the immigration question.