The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-29
How the Bing Kung Tong Got
Desperate
CHINESE FRACTIONAL FIGHTS
Warning Heathens Degrade the Courts
for Private Revenge
The Expense TO the County Taxpayers Is Heavy
and the Willy Rascals Calculate How
to Shift the Burden

The majority of the citizens OF the SOW
ereign state of California never could
overaw" the Celestials whom they are
to.eI. n 4 their midst and that ma
jority 49,, been so often laughed to scorn
and dragged in the dust by those same
Celestals that their ongs are looked
upon as under the On of heaven
and Washington and eli II. not to be
questioned with impunil..
But why they should be allowed to
carry their ia tiona fghti lg into the
courts at the 1ountry's expense is the
question that is agitating official circles
especially the police who were compelled
10 go to San Bernardlno as witnesses for
Charley All Coon, the leader OF the Hop
Sing tong. who was there on trial for an
arson commi jted in July. 1893, and of
which he was readily proved innocent by
white witnesses, although eighteen Chi
nese swore regularly, similarly and posi-.
lively, but not over the warm head and
body of decapitated chicken, that they
were standing around there i'll the dark
ness watching Coon touch the blaze off
with the lighted match and saw him fee
chucklng horribly into the . a. NJ. gloom
of San Bernardino's Chinatown.
They cannot be arrested for perjury tit
would be waste of time, anyhow be-
cause their evidence was given thu olgh
an interpreter but that they lied was re-
marked by Judge and court. 1t was
proved positively that Coon was in Bak-
ersfield interpreting for Constable III ID
belts. The Substance OF 1t is, the power
full Bling ing tong, represented here
by Wong Chez and hrs leutenants, was
beaten on every point by the small but
shrewd Fop Sing tong, headed by Coon,
and after me arrest of Chez and Chuey
and Wing for Lou. Suey's murder. the
Bling kung 10 6 OF desperate.
,On SuPV. Jew Lem OH. WOO
Suey and Lee Din actively assisted the
police when their crusade against the
Chinese prostitutes ard their keel ers be-
gan. I heir few friends were all run in.
out the bulk of the slave trade i'll the
Chinese quarter is conducted by the Wong
family Of the Bing Kung tong, and
the latter were wild when they saw their
chief source of revenue threatened.
Suey's murder f, owel. Then Wong Che
was jailed ana to this place hurried Wong
Tn Eye of San Francisco III repute, and
Wong Foy and Wong Coon of Fresno.
ton of war, but the willy leaders knew
the easy extravaganza of the foreign
devils" the Americans, and quelled the
turbulent hatchetmen. Wong Coon
hurried to Fresno. murder two years
old was resurrected and Woo Suey was
kidnapped from his bed and II shed in a
carriage to Burbank; thence to Fresh o.
Legions of Wongs swore they saw the
murder. and Woo was held. They could
have found him any time before. Coon
was next arrested fol a two-year old
arson in San Bernardino, of which he
has just been acquitt d, Lem You has
an ancient grand larceny suspended over
his head from San Luis Obispo, place
he never has seen, and Lee Din is expect
ing arrest for something-he knows not
what-in Santa Barbara
The Wo1gs Simply swear by. the --
o ly, not by the bleeding chicken that
they fear, and the people of the state of
California pay their bills, incidentally
fighting their battles by exhausting the
purses of the Hop Sing tong rivals. The
schemes of the Bing kung tong have
been seen through by the Los Angeles
district ATTIC rney' 5 Office, the members of
which are familiar with the bloody and
vexatious warning in the h nese quar-
ter. so the foxy heathens play upon the
courts and attorneys of other counties to
secure their ends. 1t is the general opin-
ion that the people of the state of Califor-
mia she uld net bemean their sovereign
dignity by partaking in vicious Chinese
faction quarres, and that their ser, ants
should protect the state from such I'M
seemly conduct.