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Show OBJECT TO THE HEATHEN. British Columbia Laborers "Want the Mongolians Mon-golians Shut Out. Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 24. Advices from British Columbia are to the effect that great excitement exists there among the white laborers over the refusal of the dominion do-minion government last session to adopt legislation restricting the. immigration of Chinese laborers. Chinese arrive in hundreds hun-dreds by everj' steamer from Hong Kong and although hundreds have made their escape es-cape across the boundary line into the United States, a considerable number remain re-main in the Pacific provinces. The presence of the battery at Victoria and the militia on the main land is said to have prevented riots which otherwise would have occurred w ithin the last few months. A bill is now before the British Columbian legislature, making it illegal to employ Chinamen in the Iowa mines. |