"SOOLED" OUT OF THE DOMINION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 226, 24 September 1907, Page 5

"SOOLED" OUT OF THE DOMINION.

* JAP \NESE MINERS TURNED

AWAY

- (Received Sept. 24, 0.17 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. Seventy-seven almost destitute Japanese miners arrived at Atlin, on the Yukon border.

Three hundred whites drove them aboard the river-steamer Gleaner, bidding the officers take the Japanese out of the country immediately.

The Gleaner conveyed the Japanese to Whitetiorse, where it was intended to land them and turn them loose at ■Skagvvay, in United States territory. The mine-owners had engaged the Japanese to continue work during the winter, which the whites refused to do. "-'

The British Columbian authorities are surprised at the expulsion, inasmuch as they believed that the Oriental problem was acute only in Vancouver- ,