The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-10
ALARMING VIEW TAKEN.
Japanese Aiming and VIII Mix 1t
With the Next Mob.

Seattle. Wash. Sept "A special to
the Times from Vancouver. z. c., says:
AS a result Of disorders Saturday and
Sunday evenings the situation here with
regard to Asiatics is increasing in men
ace The japanese have notified Chief of
Police Chamberlain that as police pro-
lection is inadequate they viii take steps
TO protect themselves
Chinese and Japanese employed in no
tells and restaurants have Withdrawn from
work 1t is said that the leaders have
instructed them that they must not work
under penalty of 500. The Japanese are
purchasing firearms and the aspect of af-
fairs Is threatening The steamer Mont
eagle, due to arrive Wednesday or Thurs
day. with many Orientals on board. will
be met By a hostile demonstration. 1t is
freely declared that the Orientals will not
be allowed to land There is growing un-
easiuess IN the city. The feeling Is in
creasing that IN view of the number of
Japanese. Chinese and Hindus in Van
couver. the minister of militia should
eral restaurant keepers met this morn
ing and resolved to employ nothing but
white labor.
Early Reports Exaggerated.
Early reports of disorders Saturday
night were exaggerated. The crowd
amounted to about 10.O00 but the temper
manifested was merely boisterous. The
crowd surged through the streets in the
Oriental quarters. cheering everything
white and hooting and denOuncing every
thing colored. At intervals from in
distinguishable point in the crowd brick
bats would hurtle over the intervening
heads and crash through windows. Chief
of Police Chamberlain, recognizing the
inadequacy of the force at his disposal
relied on diplomacy. Fearful of arousing
the passions Of the mob, he directed his
men 70 lay aside truncheons and exercise
moderation Later the order regarding
truncheons was revoked. but at no stage
did the police and the populace come to
blows.
Personal encounters were limited to the
Japanese quarters. The Japanese resist
ed. arming with knives. dagsers clubs
and bottles. They charged the crowd
with shouts of "banzai. The crowd car
amount of damage. One white man was
badly stabbed in Powell street another
cut by stilettO and another had his
head laid open with broken bottle. The
man stabbed is in the hospital.
All Glasses Represented.
The report that the disorders were
started by a number of Bellingham men
Is not credited. All the arrests were To-
raj They show that the rioting was not
confined to any particular class. Book
keepers, loggers and laborers were among
those arrested. a crowd several thou
tEnd strong gathered last evening. The
4oice succeeded in making nineteen ar
Itsts in all. Hearing Of the charges
against the participators in the anti
Asiatic riots is proceeding in the police
rourt today. The hearing is protracted
the court room is crowded and crowds
line the streets in the vicinity of the
courts
The arming of the Orientals becomes
more alarming. Downtown dealers. In
sluding the secondhand stores. have
been cleared of their stocks of firearms
Oriental labor is suspended entirely and
The restaurants are hard put to carry on
business, Lumber mills report that ORR
bntal laborers going to work this morn
ing were met by pickets of their fellow
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