Show > UNDERBLUE COAT PROTECTION I I The Chinese lIners Return to Stock Springs Auotaer Threatened Outbreak I From a private letter of 1 businessman business-man at Rock Springs to his correspondents correspond-ents in Ogden the News gleans the following i fol-lowing penpicture of the serious situation I situa-tion in Wyoming Things at present are blue and hang on a single thread It is too true that the Chinamen have returned here by the protection of soldiers As yet none of j the Mongolians lave gone to work and I seriousiy doubt if any of them ever will I anticipate more trouble there and then it will be worse than before While there is no danger of any property being destroyed de-stroyed in the business part of town it I looks desperate at the best The white j men havo all been discharged I the Chinamen are reinstalled to the exclusion exclu-sion of white people all the businessmen business-men except one firm might as well lotv lotvWhen When reading such semiomciai auu S private reports of the condition of things j at Rock Springs and other places in Wyoming may shortly present a similar situation it is no wonder that the Rock Springs Independent comments as follows fol-lows There is but one thing to do Miners I merchants and railway employees must i nnitft na nnn man against such a high i handed proceeding It is a matter in which every business man and workingman working-man along the line of the Union Pacific is concerned If the labor organizations of Colorado and Wyoming backed up by the business interest and public senti1 meat and public press of the country cannot enforce their demand that the Chinese must go we are much mistaken as to their strength While about this matter we may as well mention that this morning Colonel Bee the Chinese Consul in San Francisco Fran-cisco arrived from the West in company of two Mongolian highmuckamucks in silk petticoats and with eyeglasses They looked very distinguished at first a little frightened until General McCook and some more officers from Fort Douglas Doug-las showed their blue coats and gave the Heathen Chinee assurance of protection protec-tion on their trip to Wyoming Colonel 1 Bee was very reticent having nothing to say that any one could not read out of the snickering countenances of his Mongol Mon-gol mates The whole Celestial embassy went East on a U P way car after having hav-ing been the cynosure of a hundred inquisitive in-quisitive pairs of eyes |