The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-01
NO MORE MURDER.
Fifty . Eight Highbinders
Reform"
LAST NIGHTS CIRCULAR.
A Society Formed in Chinatown
for the Suppression of the
Higl1binders.

A f1aring circular was posted on the
dead walls of Chnatow last evening an
nouncing that 1ifty-eight highbnders had
reformed and would never murder and
blackmail any more.
If this be true the Chinese merchants in
this city have much cause for rejoicing,
and many of them interviewed last night
by CALL reporter said If was true.
Some time ago the Six Companies issued
circulars advising the highbinders that
they had about reached the end of their
halters and telling them that they must
either call 1t quits and swear off or stand
the consequences.
The latter were dire. In the future
highbinders who broke the law were to be
either deported to China for the purposes
of decapitation by the imperial headsman,
or be turned over to the tender mercies of
Chief Crowley's men with evidence
enough against them to send them 10 the
gall0ws.
According to the circulars posted last
night which created no little stir in
| Chnatown-this threat Of the Six Com
panies has had very salutary effect.
Not only are the highbinders going to
refOrm-as per flaring circulars-but they
have actually formed the nucleus of a So
| ciety whose chief end shall be TO make
other hghbnders reform.
The Wal Lung Tong is the name of the
new society for the conversion of blood
| thirsty Cinnamon into peaceable coolies,
at least the f1aring posters say so, and the
intelligent merchants corroborate the Con-
| fucian print.
Said a Stockton-street merchant to THE
| CALL man:
/ 1J,a l.. l.; 4 A.
coast is at an end. The Chinese believe
that the Geary law was due in a large
measure to the diSorderly department of
! the highlander tongs, and the Imperial
Government of China itself has sent
! special instructions to its representatives
| in this country to stamp out that feature
OF lawlessness among our people at all
! cost.
And the law-abiding Chinese in Amer
lea are going to stamp these villain out Of
existence. Since the passage OF the Gearv
act the Chinese have become thoroughly
aroused over the atrocities of the high
binders, and at last they have taken con-
certed action to put them down forever"
! This sounds well. at any rate. and it is
surely to be hoped that it is strictly true
! in every particular.
The Wal Lung Tong holds a charter
direct from the SIX Companies, and those
who join it take a solemn oath to become
| honest, abjure from blackmail and an ex-
cessiye use of hatchets or firearms.
They even promise to stop drinking the
white mans frewater, and, If necessary,
compel by force of arms the reformation
| of all other highbinders. In the COnfu-
clan text the latter clause is little am
| biguous, but q liberal translation of it is
! to that effect substantially.
| The circular also contains the names of
the charter members of the new tong.
| There are fifty-eight of them in all, and
] hponnnp6 nf than hopt
slave to a company whose headquarters
are in China.
The slaves of Ming Yong & Co. of
| China. whose names are given on the Wal
Lung Tong circulars, together with the
murderous highlander societies OF which
they were members in good standing, are
as follows:
Yea Wing Scar. Houey Son Be. Kuug
Wal Sheer, Gee Jung ION. of the Hop
S Sdb long; Hum J9e sup: Sue On and and
kung Tong; zee Yong Sing, Quong Ouch
and Joe Lung Tongs; Fong Cheng, Suey
| Sing Tong; Ban Yew, Hop Sing Tong;
Fung King Toy. Suey Sing Tong; Lue
Cheeng Tun, Suey Sing Tong: Wong Gam
Chez, Toohy Lung Tong; Wong Young
Hing, Hop Sing Tong; Yea Pom Chin, Ga
! YIch Tong; Ham Tic Fun and Chin Yum,
Sue Sing Tong; Ju Goo, Max Ten Tong;
Chin Luck, Hong Duck and Lu Kin. Sue
Sing Tong.
| Inc mop No & 20, slaves VINO nave
foresworn murder and blackmail as a
vocation. are:
HON Tan Sing. Hop Sing Tong: Lew
Com and Yich KIN, On Yish Tong; Quong
Him. Hop Sing Tong; Ley Lam Him,
Suey Sing Tong; Lev Mon Chew, Ley Kin
Yew, Hum Fook, Hop Sing Tong; Hum
Hom-Suey On, Ban Kung and Gee Kung
Tongs; Rum Yew Quong. Ban Kung
Tong; Dear Duey, Hip Sing Tong; Hum
Chean, Suey Sing Tong; Hum Kung,
Suey Sing and Suey On longs; Hum Ban
Que. Suey Sing and Joe Lam Tongs; 500
Hoo Wing-Joy Lung, Hip Yin, Suey On
and Jung Gee TOngs; 500 Hoo Wal Fan,
Toohy Lung Tong.
The chattels of Kong Chew & Co.,
China, who have taken the pledge against
human butchering, are:
Tong; 4eun Hang Tong. Gee Kong,
Quong Duck and Suey Sing longs; Lee He
zee, Loo Sing Lin, Jup Qui Dick, Lee
Tall, Suey Sing Tong; Wong HE Yew,
Hop Sing Tong; Jung Ton, Suey Sing and
On Yick Tongs.
Those Of Wo & Co.. China. are: Lee
Yung. Tan YIN and Qnong Yum
Chin Oy. Hum Sen, Wah Yin Tong;
Quin For, Ban King and Wah Yin Tongs;
Lou Tsee Hing, Lee Gam Dung, On Yick
Tong; Tshe Sam, Joe Yum Tong; Dear
Fat. Ban Kung Tong.
If the posting of this circular should
have no other effect it ought at least to
serve as a valuable directory to the police.
1t contains the names of fifty-two high
| binders and the tongs to which they now
or very recently did belong.
Should one of them 90 on the warpath
again the circular ought to be good evil
dence of his association.