The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-14
HLNDUS FOR OTTAWA
VANCOUVER TO SHIP TRAIRLOAD
TO DOMINION CAPITAL.
Hundreds Arrive on Steamer
Monteagle, and Will Be Sent
East By Special Train--Money
Raised By Subscription for
This Purpose.

Seattle, Sept. IA special to the
Post Intelligencer from Vancouver, B.
G.. says:
With subscription list started to-
day by Mayor Bethune with purse of
500, and which up to tonight had
grown to 81, 500, Vancouver citizens
will charter train and, placing at
least 500 of the Hindus which arrived
in this city today by steamer Montea-
gle aboard the train will ship the Ind
ians. bag and baggage, to Ottawa, the
seat of the federal government. This
is the plan evolved this morning and
will he carried into effect tomorrow,
providing the necessary amount can
te raised.
On board the Monteagle were hun
dreds of japanese and Hindus. Hin
dus formed the greater part of the
human cargo and the plan to ship
the Hindus to Ottawa with the compli-
ments of Vancouver is the outcome of
recent Oriental disturbances which
have torn Vancouver from center to
circumference.
That the steamship company feared
trouble landing its Orientals is shown
by the fact that all of the Japanese
but thirty we're landed at Victoria.
When the Monteagle arrived the
wharves were barricaded and roped off
for a distance of two blocks and en-.
frances were surrounded by special off,
GERS of THE steamship company as
we'll as special officers provided by the
city.
Diseased Are Rejected
From 4 O'Clock until O'Clock Do
minion Medical Inspector DR.. Munro
made examinations of the new ar
rivals.
All we're passed with the exception
of 100 Hindus found suffering from
diseases and one Japanese who was
also afflicted. They will be deported.
The Hindus are almost to a man ex.
soldiers and bring with them a total
of $50, 600 In gold.
At Z o'clock this evening the Hin
dus we're marched off the ship, but by
that time an immense crowd had col
lected around the depot building. The
steamship officials as we'll as the city
officials we're afraid Of permitting the
Hindus to make their way alone in the
face of the crowd. and the Indians
we're again turned back to the steamer,
where they huddled together and chat
tered over the prospects Of landing.
Officials Help Labor Men
The civic authorities broke into
the game today by backing white labor
unions in unique plan. For two days
the health authorities and deputies
have been plscarding every empty
house, barn, shed and ramshackle
building in the city as''unfit for habi-
tation," in order that the Hindus may
not be allowed to enter. Special guards
are also assigned to those habitations
which the Hindus in great numbers
flocked to on the first tide of immigra-
tion of Sikhs and Singhs which en-
tered Vancouver year ago.
The Chinese and Japanese mill
hands and domestics who went on a
strike yesterday have returned to work
Coincident with this determination on
the part of the Orientals, white labor
ers, supported by the unions, have
given notice to all places where Orien.
tails are employed that they will be
given thirty days to replace Oriental
labor with white labor. Refusal to
comply with this demand will be met
by strike and boycott.