Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-16
BLO0DsHED IL CHINATOWN.
Lee zee Shoots All Chez and All Goone
Trouble Among Honu;c,kers

Trouble Among Hoppickers.
Reference was made in the RECORD
UNION of Friday last to the disagreement
among the Chinese hop-pickers, assembled
here at present in great numbers, relative
to the rate of pay they shall demand for
their services. The hop-growers, week
ago, held a meeting, and resolved to pay 20
cents per 100 pounds for gathering their
crop but the Chinese determined to ask 90
cents. There is such number of them
out Of employment, however, consequent
upon the fields of industry being closed to
them, that contracts were soon made for
the services of gangs at the rates the hop
growers were willing to pay. The willing
ness of a minority of the pickers to take the
wages offered angered those who stood out
tor greater remuneration, and on Thursday
night, and at other times, riots were immi-
nent. Yesterday about noon a gang of
Celestials, who had agreed to pick for 20 or
10 cents per hundred pounds, loaded their
baggage into the wagon of All Lone, in
front of zee Yunes store, | street, two or
three doors above Fourth. A large crowd
of the Cinnamon who are holding out for
more pay surrounded the wagon, and en-
in it to desist, and finally removed some of
their baggage. In the end the owners of
the baggage concluded not TO go, and there
was a dispute as to who was to pay All
Lone, and what was to be done generally.
The high priced men celebrated their vic
tory by haunting Lee zee and others who
had made contracts for cheap labor, and
carried it so far that Lee zee, greatly ex-
asperated, rushed to the door of the store
and fired two pistol shots into
the dense and jabbering crowd
in front of il. One bullet
struck All Goong just below the left
shoulder, passing entirely through The
other hit Chinaman's hand, scratching it
severely, and then passed into the left
breast of All Chez, inflicting a wound
which is thought to be necessarily fatal
The pistol was held so close to Goopg and
Chez that the powder burned their flesh
Great excitement was caused by the shoot
ing, the crowd of Cinnamon being in
creased in a brief space of time by several
hundreds while many white men hurried
to the scene Local officer Tucker had
been on the ground while the Cinnamon
were loading the wagon, but supposed that
the trouble was all over when it was I'M
loaded, and moved away. He soon heard
the report Of the pistol and returned. Of
ECtT OulllN1n anu Olll6I IlGinDcIS Vi lllO
force were soon on hand, but their number
was so small that it seemed impossible for
them to preserve the peace if the Cinnamon
had resolved upon general fight; but they
apparently had not done so, and, though
many of them were armed, they remained
quiet Sullivan finally learned who had
done the shooting, and after while found
him concealed in a bed, with his head COW
cred up. He was removed TO the lookup,
to which place the wounded men were soon
afterwards taken and placed in the receiv-
ing hospital. There Lee zee was taken be-
fore them. and they identified him as their
assailant Their wounds were attended to
by physician, and they stolidly bore the
pain attendant upon his operations. Mean
while, directly after the shooting, Judge
Henry saw q Chinaman driving furiously
through Fifth street, and arrested him for
fast driving, between and K streets. Di-
rectly afterwards the Judge heard of the
trouble that had taken place, and, conclud-
ing that the Chinaman might have had
something TO do with it, paid more atten-
ton to him, especially as he was armed
with self-coclling pistol. He proved to
be All Lone, the owner of the wagon in
which the hop-pickers were to have been
taken into the country. He claimed to be
innocent of any connection with the shoot
ing, but was locked up to await further de-
velopments.