The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-28
20 HEAVEN AND BACK.
- Fook Bow Describes His
Trip Aloft and New Birth.
rs GORGEOUS OPIUM DREAM.


w1tkosE any flourish Of trumpets and A
= zSf1zfv - be slipped out Of IL . few DAYS
<uesre last Fourth Of July. Lee Fook Bow.
- lsmcus Chinsmsn who is accused Of
erumifting perjury in his attempt 70
6<1px Chinese woman. Chummie Yunr.
10 ths country for immoral purposes,
rs Wrought back 20 this city yesterday at
Soou srd lodged In the county iall to
eusit the action Of the United States
efsnd jury.
per Les is very much broken MP over
lhe fac which has compelled HIM 10 re-
nm 10 answer for bis alleged crime. He
- little doubt that be 10 booked for .
Una IN some government prison, bur be
~ 70 anxiety on that account. for. as he
insis1s. be has died and been born again
<sce iast Saturday. So firm 10 his belief
Is bic new birth that he has changed his
s1me 70 Ten yue San, or THE Man Who
Hm Been to Heaven and Returned
iotr." And in truth there are queer
<Ifsumstances surrounding the ease which
nsY ~ bring Theosophists into court to
he6g lee relate them. Lesss death and
resurrection we're the result Of an at
s<mpf 81 suicide on the way up from San
Frsncisco. and the story Of them told .
f6T.IsTEtIIsEscER reporter at the county
~ yesterday BY him IL - follows. not
loeting Lees poor English exactly:
When ! was on the train with the
United States marshal and feft Alameda
G4turday ] felt very bad. did not want
q come back 20 Seattle; did not want TO
d MP here in prison and never get my
bones sent back to China. And. too. did
pot want to wear the leg irons When Ne
- A. "a - c. - - .
ook out some opium bad in my clothes
end swallowed enough Of IL TO kill me and
zen other men. Then told the marshal
that | was going 60 die. He said:
'oh. you fool me Too much: yon want
10 ret off Of the train
bat he called the conductor and they
talked With me and laughed and joked me.
said:
.syou can laugh, bat I am dead In ten
minutes. want you TO have my bones
sent back 20 my company. in San Fran
cisco. and put In the cemetery away out
n the mountain
They said yes. and laughed some more.
and then they went away out Of the car.
"You zee did not want TO 20 to prison
~ here and DO dead for three, four or
mar be more years In the dark. am 81
years old and would rather be dead than
do IT, That is why wanted 10 be buried
out on the mountain. Then / went tn
sleep. / did not know any more until I
woke up In Sacramento and found myself
81 sore and wet and sick. Ueh. /" and
Lee shrugged his shoulders and shuddered.
rThe marshal told me I bad been dead
Eve hours. but the papers In San Francisco
esid that IL was only three. was dead,
though, am SURF"
At this point Lee seemed disinclinsd to
talk any more. but upon being urged to
tt!i what he saw he continued:
II vent up 10 the gate Of heaven after
took the poison and died. inside IL was
juss Ike the inside of joss house, only q
million times rs big. It was crowded
with people. oh, so manyf I can't count
them. inst like a big street full ! went
up and tried TO get In. but big man with
long beard that came down to his waist,
be said to me: Way do you come here.
ron cant come in
II kept on trying to get In, and asked
him 30 hard. Then another man came
MP. He was dressed In Q big white dress
that covered him down TO his feet and had
. very red face and long beard, too. Just
like the other man. All Of the people
there, the Chinese. white men. negroes
women, but not all white This red-faced
man asked me why ! wanted 20 get in.
He said that 4 was BOT cooked enough
and could not go in.
: Go back, he says. 'you can get in
after awhile"
Il did not want % 20. but he would not
open the gate. And then IL began to rain
and was cold and | feli down to Sacra-
mento, although died In Oakland
II told the marshal about Ii and he said
that had not been dead aud that IL had
not rained, but that the doctor and his
men had been working over me and had
hit me with their fists aud made me sore,
and that he had poured big bucket of
water on my head. which was the rain
storm. That may be, but am sure that
saw the big gods of all kinds and the I'M
side Of heaven. Now l feel young again;
am just a little boy inside of an old man.
] have gone seven days now without Lee
Took Bow coming hack to me. and 50
know he 10 dead. My name nov 10 Ten
ine San. Twill write IL for you. can't
tsil you what il means myself"
The reporter gave Lee leaf from his
notebook. and the latter wrote the name
on itin Chinese characters. These were
translated by an educated Chinaman, who
fave their meaning rs above.
The explanation Of the whole affair Is,
OF course. that Leo had an opium dream.
but the after effects Of IL are rather strange.
Tor Leo feels that he Is no longer his old
self. bat better man. The San Francisco
Papers say that he was unconscious for so
long that he was given up by several ply
saelans. and he was only brought around
~ the most unremitting labor.
Although Lee was bound over by .
taiisd States commissioner in San Fran
eisco to await the action Of the United
states grand jury in this city. Commits
stoner Emery claims that the jurisdiction
- assumed was without any legal excuse.
AID he had Lee arrested by . United States
marshal at the jail yesterday and brought
afiore him FOR preliminary examination,
which was continued 70 Tuesday morning
10 o'clock. Lee has not seen his attor-
hsy In this city and will not discuss bis
esn case without advice