Chinese Must Go: Idaho Miners Expel Chinese Laborers

IDAHO SPRINGS, Col., Jan. 22.—An installment of Chinese miners arrived recently for the Argonaut mine, 3 miles from Idaho Springs. Eight men were in the gang, with one white boss. Work was commenced, but the Chinamen were waited upon by a committee of twenty-five white miners, who ordered them to leave the camp by the next morning.

They did so and came here where they camped, awaiting orders from the white boss, who went on to Denver to invoke the aid of the federal authorities. The mine is owned by the Argonaut Mining Co., of Denver, but has been leased to a boss Chinaman who has charge of the Chinese gangs working in the Rock Springs coal mines.

The miners are determined that Chinese laborers shall not come in here while there are idle men and cut wages to $1.50 a day, the rate the Chinese admit they are to receive. If officers come to prevent the white men from interfering with coolie labor there will be trouble. At this time it is hard to tell what will be the outcome, but in the first demand the miners have won, and if the Chinese win in the next movement it is the intention of their boss to bring in many more of the same class.