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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
7
Commissioner of Immigration Powderly in his annual report likely to urge re enactment of the Chinese exclusion law and new restrictions to curb Chinese entry via Mexico. He notes many Chinese are landed at San Francisco under contract to work on Mexican plantations and pass through the United States.
The note lists diverse facts: 426 U.S. colleges with invested capital of 250 million dollars, Hungary offering the cheapest railway fares, about 8,000 miners near Cripple Creek, U.S. electrical motor earnings around 150 million annually, Britain’s wealth rising by 460 thousand pounds daily, 30,000 Fall River textile workers with three million spindles, Kansas convicts earning 41 thousand dollars more than their upkeep last fiscal year, Eben Ezer's 1,000+ pounds of silk exported from the German colony near Savannah in 1749, patenting of machine made horseshoes by Henry Burden in 1835 and further patents, Virginia poultry farms amid poor land, poultry operations in Salem Rivington Riverton, Austrian labor law reform for miners on May 24 1901 following last year’s mining strike, Frank Duffy succeeding P J McGuire as secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America after deposing McGuire for insubordination.
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