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Show HINDUS NOT WANTED IN THE NORTHWEST Salt Lake July 27 That East In dlans are undesirable, citizens and should not be allowed to land at Vancouver, Van-couver, B. C , at any time, is the feeling of the people of that city ac-coiding ac-coiding to W T Htreen. who Is a guet of the Hotel Utah Mr Htreen said that the people of Vancouver had taken a decided stand against the importation of Hln doos to Canada, and that so far they hod been backed up by the govern- ment. The 360 Hindoos who arrived at Vancouver a short time ago were not allowed to land and were later provided by the citizens of the city with provisions enough to last them until they reached their homes. Mr. Hireen said that the people of Canada, Can-ada, at least the western part of It, had decided that it should be a "white man's country,'' and that from) the expressions of the people they , intended to live up to this plan. The people of British Columbia do not I want a cheap class of labor such aa the Hindoos furnish. The Hindoos; will not only work for less than a i white man. but they will save money and send it to their native land, I where a white man with a family would Rtarve. Mr Hireen Is a real booster for the northwest and especially that part of the country In which he resides He said : "Already capitalists are planning a pipe line from the oil wells to Vancouver, a distance of about 700 miles it haH been demonstrated that the oil wells are on a stratum and not from a pocket, and with the bui'dlng of the pipe line It will mean that the 6hips of the English navy, as well as those of the United States may secure oil Instead of coal It also will mean that the engines of the Canadinn Northern and the Canadian pacific, at least in the western pan of the dominion, can be operated wltn oi! instead of coal " h Sneaking of the opening or tne far,nma canal, Mr Hireen MM . If will mean so much for J , w Btern part of the United BUtMJ British Columbia that few u8 IK its full extent. One of M W Sat it win mean iHU bo that the-people the-people ol northern Europe those from tho countries thai have done so m , to develop the United States and Canad,. will have an opportunity oi reaching the great possibilities of the western world at a cheaper rate Ufl over before it also win mean a re notion in some of the freight ratefl from the old world to the es tern coast, and, I may say, the West . already awakening to the opportunities opportuni-ties It will have' That the bulldlne of a government railroad In Alaska will mean much to the United States, and especial to l.e northwest, is tho opinion pi M t Hireen, who spent three yeare n Viaska, it is a roost wonderful country, the possibilities of which 00 man knows," he said oo |