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Show WEST INDIAN NEGROES ARE STOWAWAYS WaBlngton, July 29. All stowaway records wore smashed when tho Royal mall liner Atroba recently arrived at Colon with sixty West Indinn negroes who had secreted themselves aboard to secure free passage to tho isthmus, where the attractiveness of work on tho Panama canal had led them. Fifty-eight of the men had stolon ' aboard at Trinidad and the remainder remain-der at Barbadoes. The Isthmian authorities wore surprised sur-prised when the extraordinary free paBsonger list was reported to them by the angry steamship captain who was made to give a bond of $6,500, as none of the Btowaways bad tho 15 required to permit tliem to land. While being transferred to shore, soven escaped, but the steamship company forfeited $700. Tho remaining re-maining 58, after being held under police surveillance for several days, woro given employment by the canal commission. rn |