The morning call., 1893-09-16
CHINESE TRICKS.
Wong Mics Ruse Proves
Unsuccessful.
HE WILL NOW BE SENT BACK.
Two Chinese Women Come In on One
Certificate-TheQ Queries That
This Suggests.

| The case Of the San Jose Chinese. Wong
Nile, otherwise known as All Mike. has at
last been decided by United States Com
missioner Heacock.
The result is that Wong is ordered TO be
deported to China. but from the Commits
soner's findings no action can be taken
against Tyler Beach of the st. James
! Hotel. where Wong worked, doing the
work of a chambermad.
Beach and Heinlen, 1t will be remem-
| bered, signed the affidavits attached to
| Wong's certificate. and Beach himself per-
sonally went to Collector Wise and repre-
sented that Wong was merchant.
Special Agent Noyes worked up the
case, and the outcome is a cause for con-
graduation at the :Custom-house and in
the United States Attorneys Office. Col
lector Wise is very much elated.
Wong Mie represented that he was a
! partner in the firm of Bow Kee & Co., at
''8 Sixth street"-an alley in HeinIen's
Climate wn-and a strong effort was made
by the defense through the circumstance
of his connection with that firm to show
| that he was a bona-fide merchant, not
withstanding the fact that Mr.. Ncyes vir.
tually caught him in the act of making up
beds at the hotel.
The place occupied by Bow Kee & Co.
could hardly be called a store. being
dingy lodging "joint" more than anything
else, and very poor one at that. The de-
fense contended that Bow Kee & Co. sup
piled some ranches with merchandise and
were therefore engaged in a commercial
! pursuit. The firm also supplied labor, and
that was how Wong Mie happened 10 be
| working for Mr.. Beach.
The son of Tyler Beach produced the
! books of the hotel to show just how long
| Wong Mie had been employed by his
| father altogether. The case is best summed
| up In the Commissioners own findings as
! follows:
The defendant was a member of the
firm of Bow Kee d Co. of San Jose. They
| do a small commission business and supply
labor for ranches. At least two years
before going to China Wong Mie did all
manner Uf menial labor at the ST. James
| Hotel. and he continued TO do so from
June. 1890. to November 26, 1892. The
time he so labored aggregated about two
years. and when he returned from China
and was landed be worked at least five
days at similar labor l find that, not
| Wlthstanding he is member of this COM
mission house. he is laborer in the
meaning and spirit Of the exclusion act.
l find that he arrived in the United States
! by the steamer China. June 26, 1898 that
he was discharged by the Collector upon
representation made to him at the time.
and was thereafter arrested for being
illegally in The United States. hold that
he Is illegally in this country, and there
fore order that he be depOrted."
AT the United States District Attorneys
! Office Mr.. Witter, who prosecuted the case,
receives the result with feeling that no W
every such so-called merchant will have to
show that he is one actually, deriving an
| income only from the store in which he
| claims to hold an interest. Wong Nile got
no more than $40 month from the ho-
tel, according 10 the accounts before the
! Commissioner. Had he been landed any
| Chinese who had posed as a merchant but
worked as laborer might have run the
! gauntlet successfully of the Custom-h ouse
and the courts on his return from China.
Attorney Lyman l. MOwry may take an
appeal 20 Judge Morrow
! Marshal Long has received word that
the Sacramento Chinese, Jim Lee, wants
to return TO China. Heretofore it has been
| supposed that Lee was more of myth
than anything else. The Marshal las con-
cluded TO go to Sacramento and ascertain
! If he Is truly reality.
There is still no clew to the missing
shot-tower Chinese, wanted upon Denis
Kearney's complaint
A case of very much mixed-up identity
was before Commissioner Heaeock during
the afternoon. A Chinese woman giving
| bhC ha ulo VI Ouui COeg lRn was Delng eX-
amined on petition Tor writ of habeas
corpus. she having been refused landing
by the Collector of Customs. She had her
| certificate with her and everything seemed
all right Her identity as the wife of
Kong Chew" of the firm of 'Lun Tong
Nee, at 73o jackson street, was verified
by the statements of Contractor ID. j.
O'Brien and Cigar-dealer Joseph L. Hess,
so the commissioner decided to land her.
On August 2. however. woman giving
the name of Cbun Sut Ian, claiming to be
the wife of Chinese doctor named Low
Tung of the drug firm Of Choin Chy Tong
& Co., SO Washington street, was permit
ted by the customs authorities to land
upon two affldavits, one of which was
sworn TO by Ferdinand IL. Calluudan who
Is in the Internal revenue service, and the
other by the supposed husband. Low Tung
himself. She had only the affidavits and
no certificate. The customs officials had
great faith in Mr.. Callundan's knowledge
of Chinese in general ana Low Tung and
wife in particular. for the reason that Mr..
Callundan's connection with the Fish Com
mission and his experience as q special
agent and internal revenue officer gave
great weight TO bis written statement.
But now comes the query: Have these
two women managed to gain an entrance
In 10 the country upon one certificate? The
case also suggests another query: Has DIR.
Low Tung two wives?
Chinese marital customs are rather
strange. The woman examined by Com
missioner Hcacock yesterday testified that
she never saw her husband before her
marriage, and it would not be a matter Of
very great surprise TO these familiar with
Chinese social ideas If it should turn out
that Dr. Low Tuug does really have two
wives, and that the mystifcation of the
identity of thetwo women. along with the
wonderful manner in which one set of pa
pers was made to answer sor them both by
utilizing the affidavlts for the first arrival
and tie certificate for the second, had been
deliberately planned by an ingenious Mon
golian brain. And then, whether DR.. Low
lungs resources are yet exhausted would
remain to be seen. Both women are com
paratiyely young.
The American bark Charles B. Kenney
brought down eighty-seyen Chinese from