Russian Colonists to Leave Los Angeles
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Associated Press. Los Angeles Herald,
part II, page 2, November 30, 1905 |
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to Hawaii Move on Part of Sugar Plantation Owners to Get White Laborers May Result in Several Hundred Families Removing From Here. HONOLULU, Nov. 29, 8:25 a.m.— Russians who arrived here last week on the steamer Mongolia, representing a colony near Los Angeles, have had numerous conferences with Gov. Carter and Land Commissioner J.H. Castle, representing the sugar planters, regarding a plan to bring a colony here. There are about two hundred families and six hundred persons want to be cane field laborers if given their own homesteads. The scheme is part of a vigorous movement here to secure white laborers, eligible to citizenship, instead of Asiatics. The Makeem plantation on Kauai island will contract all the sugar cane the Russians raise. Commissioner Castle has offered to pay the fares of the entire colony here. The Russian representatives visited Kauai and expressed satisfaction with all the conditions except the method of acquiring lands. The law names a definite price and requires three years' residence before title to lands can be given. The Russian representatives leave today on the Manchuria for Los Angeles to report to their countrymen there. It is anticipated here that the entire Russian colony near Los Angeles will move to Hawaii. The Russians say there are 25,000 of their countrymen at home who want to settle in Hawaii. The planters are said to be anxious to have them come. |
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