THE DAILY PROVINCE
NOVEMBER 5, 1907

p.11

HINDUS LEAVING EVERETT TO-DAY
------------------Express Regret at Being Forced Out of Town--Some
Returning to British Columbia, Others Are Going
South.

------------------Everett, Nov. 5.--Every Hindu who owns a medal sported it to-day as the
Asiatics walked the streets in the safety of daylight making preparations to
leave for British Columbia and Portland, where they intend seeking new and
friendly pastures. Tall, erect, decorated with medals for signal bravery while
in the British military service in India, the Hindus went down under mob rule
with colors flying, bowing to the inevitable, uncomplaining, voicing no
expression of anger against their enemies, speaking nothing but regret that
the white man to whose free country they came refuses to permit them an
opportunity to make a living.
Several were in favor of staying a few days more and were inclined to be
belligerent. One bombastic Hindu told the police today if he had been given
ten guns Saturday he would have brought the whole mob handcuffed to the
station. He became indignant when the police laughed at him.
That the attack made by the mob Saturday night was not altogether an
innocent demonstration is learned to-day from the fact that at least five shots
were fired through the Hindu quarters at the Weldauer-Lansdown mill. The
man behind the gun was careless, for he left the empty shells on the ground.
These shells have been collected and carefully saved, and it is said they are the
ammunition used by the militia. The assertion is further made that shortly
before the firing a man was seen sneaking from Company K Armory carrying a
rifle.