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Show SMUGGLING ASIATICS. Starving Chinese Found in Sealed Box Car in California Town. San Luis Obispo, Cal. An organized organ-ized plan to smuggle Asiatics into this country may be unearthed as a result of the discovery of twenty-two Chinese Chi-nese in a box car in this city. The most peculiar feature of the discovery was that the Celestials were In a bonded car, sealed with the government govern-ment stamp. The car was billed from Algiers, a town near New Orleans, where it left on February 10, and was billed to San Francisco. Owing to numerous landslides and washouts, the car was delayed on the coast division di-vision of the Southern Pacific. While passing the sealed box car in the yards on Sunday, Conductor Page heard voices in it. In response to a Question who was in the car, he received re-ceived an offer of two dollars for a bucket of water in the pigeon English of Chinese. The sheriff's office was notified, the seals broken and twenty-two twenty-two half-starved Chinese taken out. All had large canteens, but which during the long journey had been drained of every drop of water. |