The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-17
CHAINED CHINESE.
Detroit Will Send Out a Delegation.
Twenty-FOur to Go Home.

Twenty-four subjects of his almond-eyed
Celestial Majesty will shortly arrive In San
Francisco and temporarily swell the Chi
nese population Of this city.
They will remain but few days and then
leave for home
Some months ago they left the land of
their nativity, and by way Of the Canadian
Pacific managed to reach Detroit with the
obvious intent of getting 10 tile Pacific Coast
In the city of the straits they were ar
rested, and have served about ten days each
in the House of Correction for being lille
gally within the confines of the United
States.
Their sentence did not end with the ten
days Imprisonment, for they were ordered
to be deported to China, whence they
came, and this sentence Is 10 be carried into
execution at once.
This is not, however, TO be done without
some difficulty, for the Chinese in Michigan
are trying 10 raise fund TO release their
fellow-eountrymen on writ o! habeas cor
pus
Unfortunately for the poor wretches now
in custody, the Chinese of Michigan are not
as wealthy nor as powerful as the ) X Com
panies OF san Francisco, and the outlook is
that they will arrive here during the next
few days and be put on board Of the next
China steamer.
Meantime a serious difficulty presents
Itself to The United States Marshal for the
State OF Michigan.
If he oDeys the order of the court and that
order Is imperative it will cost him at least
$1,000 TO pay the expenses of the deputies
and their prisoners, and he has staring him
in the face the fact that a United States
Marshal IN New ork tho obeyed the order
OF q United States Commissioner and de-
ported two Chinese at cost Of $1,000 had
his bill cut down by clerk seized with a
ft OF virtue til he did not know where il
was
United States Marshal Van Buren is
however, not deferred by this and is pre-
pairing to bring the pigtaiied gentry 10 this
city on their way home.
his difficulty lies in the fact that every
man in his office or who has "a pull" In the
Office wants to handle the matter, and
while only five men VIII be needed to guard
the prisoner fifty Deputies want 10 be ap-
pointed as guards on the journey.
Every one wants TO see the Pacific Coast
at the expense of the Government, and
Marshal Van Buren, will have a much
harder time in selecting his deputies than in
the actual delivery of the prisoners TO the
China steamer
Lots of talk is being INDUCED in about
the release of these men, aud one of the
washee-washee men of Detroit named Law
Sam Is trying his level best 10 raise the
necessary funds 20 secure the release of his
brethren.
He is not succeeding 10 any great extent,
and the legal lights of Detroit are not be-
stirring themselves very much.
They want money, and they don't care
whether il comes in the shape Of American
double-eagles or Chinese pesos. What they
are after is money, and before they viii
ask any court for writ the money must be
planked down.
These heathens will be in much better
position than some arrested in the State OF
Washington by Marshal Tom Brown some
time ago, for they have only had to serve
ten days, while the Washington crowd
served three months. They were then de-
ported TO Victoria, b. c., and on being re-
fused landing there were rearrested and
sent back to jail for another three months,
and would have been in danger of spending
three months In the penitentiary with new
suit OF clothing had not the regulations been
changed so that the deportations were made
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