The Last Train out of Carbonado

Yesterday morning we published the fact that the miners had come over from Black Diamond and Franklin to Carbonado to drive the Chinese out. On arrival there the miners assisted the Chinamen, 40 in number, on board the train. Superintendent Davies telegraphed to Mr. Huckley asking for the lowest rate the Chinamen could be taken to Tacoma for, but Mr. Huckley was on his way to Helena and did not answer. The Chinamen were brought to Tacoma, where they boarded the steamer North Pacific, bound for Port Townsend. While in Seattle the writer boarded the steamer and found one member of the band who could talk good English. He said the camp shut down on Wednesday, and the Chinamen were paid off. Thursday morning a big crowd of miners, two or three hundred, came to Carbonado. The spokesman said: 'Chinamen, we want you all to leave this camp.' I said to him, 'You bet your life we want to go, but we don't like to pay $2.50 each to ride to Tacoma in a box car.' Finally we found we could not get it any cheaper, so we concluded to go, as we were out of work and so many miners wanted us to leave. We took the North Pacific for Port Townsend, where we will board the Elder for San Francisco. I think we will all go to China. Some of us have not got the money, but by dividing up we can all get tickets.