"Hindoo wants a job"
Short note from the October 26, 1907 edition of the Oregonian describing the story of Schawa Singh, who had previously been stationed in Nankin as a marshal of the consular court.
F.G. Moorhead, "The Foreign Invasion of the Northwest" (1908)
An article by F.G. Moorhead published in the March 1908 issue of The World's Work, which describes the increased labor force from southern Europe and Asia in the Pacific Northwest as a problem.
"Guilty of Murder Charge"
An article from the January 23, 1908 edition of Oregonian, describing the verdict of the Sikh murder case. William Dickenson, John Dickenson, J.M. Dickenson, Walter Sinclair, John Riley, Earl Ransier, Vernon Hawes entered a plea of guilty for the murder charge. The article describes the man killed as Bigswan Singh (instead of Harnam Singh, as the other articles reported).
"The Hindu, The Newest Immigration Problem" (1910)
October 1910 article in The Survey reporting on the influx of "Hindu" laborers on the Pacific coast. The article mentions that an estimated 5,000 Hindus had entered San Francisco during the past twelve months.
Hindu laborers
Hindu laborers. [Indian farm laborers tending field.]
Mary Singh Rai and her mother Ernestine Singh
View of Mary Singh Rai and her mother Ernestine Singh in ca. 1930's; photograph was taken in Arizona before they moved to Yuba City (Calif.)
Thumbu Sammy
Identified in Peter Mesenhöller, "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c. 1905) from another print that bears a caption: Thumbu Sammy, aged 17, Hindoo, ex S.S. Adriatic, April 14, 1911.