Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-21
EYADrSe THE Law.
How chinamsn Are Being Quietly Snug
gied Across the Border.

gied Across the BORDER.
New York special to the San Francisec
Chronicle: 1t has been a matter Of news,
paper comment for several weeks hat
tnere were many strange Cinnamon in this
city who were without occupation and I'm.
familiar with the ways and conditions
which here obtain. The natural copclu.
SION from these facts seemed to be that the
exclusion law was being broken and men
allowed to enter United States territory
who had not the right to do so. Various
theories more or less wild have been put
forward in explanation Of the appearances
OF these Cinnamon, but in NO case has a
theory been backed by anything more sub.
%stantial than the anonymous statements
OF some fruit dealers or minor officials.
These suspicious may have considerable
pasis, n an occasional Chinaman may
drop into New York port without attract
ing the attention OF the customs officials.
These theories, however, are inadequate to
account for the number OF strange China
men who are here. There are several hun
dred OF them who know no language but
their own and the slightest smattering Of
English.
1t has long been suspected that Chinese
came from British Columbia over the
Canadian Pacific and were smuggled into
this country across the border, but the
Chronicle correspondent now for the first
time has authority for this statement,
which will doubtless end in an invsstiga-
ton OF the facts by the Federal authori-
ties. Gnu Fong is probably the leading
Chinese merchant OF this city. He is re-
ferred to by some as the lay Gould OF Mott
street. Besides being q member OF the
Wholesale importing house OF Quong Kong
Kwong q Co., which has two New York
houses, one on Broadway and the other
on Mott street, and which has q branch in
San Francisco, he is interested in the new
Chinese theatrical enterprise here and in
various other schemes Of some magnitude.
For several years he was in the employ of
Howe & Hummel, leading criminal LAWYERS
OF this city. and has acted as interpreter in
all the courts.
Fong is a man OF exceptional keenness,
and, having been here for many years, has
adopted the American mode OF dress and
speaks our tongue about like q native. He
yesterday revealed to your correspondent
the source Of Chinese supply by confirming
the suspicion that they were brought in
from Canada. This bringing in of Chinese
he declared to be a regular business, and
daily the work is carried on.
1t was only after the greatest urging that
Fong would tell more fully OF the method
which is in vogue, but this is what he said:
''Several Cinnamon have told me how they
got here. They told substantially the
same story, and I believe it to be perfectly
true. They came overland from British
Columbia on the Canadian Pacific railroad,
and when they got neal to the United
States the train stopped at q station and
the Cinnamon all alighted. They were told
to do so by the railroad men. Then they
were put in boats and crossed q river OF
small lake and were landed in this coun-
try"
'You see," said Fong, illustrating with
his hands, "here is the English land and
here is the United States land; the water is
in here between. All they had to do was
to get over hat water and they were all
right. There were men with them to tell
them what to do, and each Of the China
men paid well for the job. Most OF them
paid $25, but l think one said he paid
$5O."
.How did it come that they were not
caught?" asked the correspondent.
sit was all done at night" was the reply.
1.-THE train stopped late at night and the
men were carried over at once. When day
light came the men were in this country
and on their way to this CITY,"
"Do you think that many came that
way2"
.iYes. I think a great many, y said Fong,
with a significant shake OF his shoulders
and raising OF the eyebrows.
What was the name OF the station on
the Canadian Pacific where they got off"
1.-THE Cinnamon don't know themselves,
but think it was near Montreal"
DO you think chat more Cinnamon
come that way than from Cuba?"
"Oh, l don't know any that come from
Cuba to stay. Some might, and | do not
know, though that would be likely"
Many ether Cinnamon Of much less i'm
portance than Fong were interviewed on
the same subject and all seemed to have
some knowledge OF this Canadian scheme,
though they would make no direct state
ment. There can be no doubt that the
large influx OF Chinese can be accounted for
as related, and these facts will bring to the
Federal authorities more forcibly the
necessity for extra precaution on the
border line.