The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-10
STATE OF SIEGE.
OrientalS at Vancouver Are
Armed and Organized.
In Preparation for Further
Attack by the Mob.
WITH WINCHESTERS.
TIL WINCHESTERS.
Chinese Merchants Stand Guard
Over Their Stores.
Clubs and Restaurants Cannot
Serve Meals.

Vancouver, B. c, Sept. 1O-The Chi
nese and Japanese quarters of Van
couver are practically in a state of
siege. Hundreds of revolvers and guns
were sold yesterday to Orientals until
| the police prohibited the sale of fire.
| arms Every Chinese merchant goes
about with an armed body guard and
beside the entrance to every Chinese
store stands a Mongolian with a Win
chester rifle. All the Chinese cooks,
m1llmen, laborers and all the Japanese
working in the city and the country
within radius of Is miles from Van
couVer have been summoned to the
oriental quarter and are filling all the
houses in that quarter. Besides the
bricks are in stock ready to repel any
attack of a mob
Glass in every Oriental shop and
house in the city was broken by the
mob of last Saturday except in the Jap
anese church. which escaped. 1t is a
question whether the city or the Do
minion is responsible for the $4,000
damage done.
The chief of police has sworn in 100
special cOnstables. The military will
be called out if there is a sign of fur
ther disturbance. Hardly a home il
the city has domestic servant, the two
thousand Chinese employed being con-
centrated in Chinatown and clubs and
Toxic Takes Little Notice.
Toxic. Sept. 10-The most meager of
accounts of anti-Japanese troubles In
Vancouver is published in a special ca
blegram to the Asahi this morning.
This is the only one of the English or
Vernacular papers which mentions the
affair. While awaiting the details the
Asahi Iefrains from editorial comment.
The published dispatch. which is from
Ishii of the Japanese bureau of COM
I
ion that the trouble is over The press
and officials generally show no disturb
ance ever the immigration question.
They Say 1t Was All Planned.
Portland. Ore, Sept 10.-The Greg
gonian today prints the following spec
ial from Seattle, WASH:
Every. indication is that the Van
couver. B. c., riots were carefully
planned to impress Ishii, chief of the
bureau of foreign commerce. 1t is sig
nificant that the leaders of the Seattle
organization against Japanese immigra-
ton were in Vancouver heading the
demonstration. Frank w. Cotterill.
president of Washington State Fedora
ton of Labor; A. e. Fowler, secretary
of the anti-Japanese and Corean Immi-
grafton league; George P. Listman, a
prominent Seattle labor leader, all were
present, together with big delegation
of American antf-Japanese sympathiz-
ers The significance of the Japanese
riots dates back to q programme
evolved when it was announced that
Ishii was coming to Seattle. 1t was
then decided and telegraphed out of
Seattle that the anti-oriental organiza-
tions proposed to present Ishii while
he was in Seattle a protest against
Japanese immigration. At the time
plans were formulated 1t was believed
Ishii would spend week in Seattle and
then go to Vancouver. There was
planned at a conference between Van
couver anti-Japanese leaders all the
details for big anti-Japanese demon
stration in Vancouver September II. 1t
developed that Ishii did not have time
to spend in Seattle and he went
through to Vancouver. simultaneously
with his going, the local leaders of the
anti-Japanese society went north. They
were in Vancouver when the outbreak
occurred, and though announcement is
made in private letters from anti-Jap-
anese leaders, that they harrangued the
mob not to do violence the society it
self believes the demonstration had to
do with their presence. It was imDos-
sible to present a big anti-Japanese pc
tition to Ishii here, and he refused to
remain long enough for the Vancouver
demonstration September II. There is
no question whether Seattle, Portland
or San Francisco agitatOrs took part
The great bulk of the marching and
rioting throng was composed of Cana
dians and the Japanese officials ignor-
ed American participants in the tele-
gram of protest to the Ottawa govern