The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01
THE CHINESE CONSULATE.
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ago at the corner of Washington and
Stockton streets, was also a native of the
Cav Gong district, and the butchers, as
well as the rest of the Sam 1ups, have
steadfastly expressed their belief in the
guilt of Nook Tai, who was arrested by the
police half an hour after the murder.
This aroused the indignation of the See
Yups, Nook Tai's company, to such an
extent that many of the leading men have
been drawn into the quarrel, and as a con-
sequence the Six Companies are threat
ened with disruption.
All morning yesterday the Sam Yup
butchers sat in their stores and waited for
the custom which did not come. Most
OF the members of the other companies,
particularly those of the tribe of See Yup,
preferred to go hungry or purchase from
white mans store rather than break the
boycott by buying the goods of the Sam
Yups.
But there are many delicacies that can
not be procured out of chinatown, and
some of the laundrymen were unprepared
for the siege, and had been relying upon
credit at the butchers stores, SO as the day
wore on hungry glances were cast upon
the withering food so temptlngly dis
played under the very noses of the men
who had been forbidden to buy.
AT 3 o'clock the despairing butchers, who
saw their goods going to waste, held a
Chong, S23 Dupont street. No sooner had
the rumor of their assembling spread
abroad than the greater part of China
town surged out of doors and almost
blocked Dupont street.
The adjacent windows were full of yellow
faces, and even the balconies and verandas
that commanded good view of the situa-
ton were filled with interested spectators.
The crowd, that was thickest round the
Vow Chong store, scoffed and ieered at the
butchers deliberations for few moments,
and then suddenly falling upon the cucum-
bers, the pork and the rice, they threw
them into the street and executed a war
dance on the fragments.
Ii was only for a moment, for at the first
indication of trouble the police came rush
ing down the street. The dense crowd,
however. impeded their progress to the
extent of preventing them from arresting
the culprits.
After that began lively game for Sar-
geant Shea, his own posse, and his four
teen extra policemen. Emboldened by the
activity of the police, hungry Cinnamon
belonging to the four companies that are
ostensibly neutral in the quarrel began to
buy pork and rice, timi0ly and furtively.
In all instances this proceeding aroused
the fierce indignation of the majority who
stood firm to starve rather than raise the
boycott, and the police were kept busy
rushing from one store to another to pre-
vent the merchandise being trampled un-
der foot. and the goods snatched out of the
purchasers hands.
Sing Shun, 300 Dupont street, had his
cucumbers and pork very roughly handled
in the exciting game of hide-and-Seek that
took place between the police and the
more aggressive of the boycotters, some
where about o'clock. The police rushed
at express speed. wherever there was
r>f Il h,1ty tLair
bers they were only mere handful in the
throng. Just on the stroke of 4, how
ever, they captured Ah Wong in the act of
striking piece OF pork out OF the hand of
a purchaser, at the Tai Yick store, 727 Du-
pont street. All Wong was arrested, and
this salutary example had the effect of
preventing further demonstrations for the
time being.
Every one acquainted with Chinatown
realized, however, that the strained con-
ditions are very serious.
This is no war of rival tongs; in fact, the
most reputable and wealthy portion of the
Chinese community is involved including
the ConsuI-General. Neither Chong Wal,
the murdered man, nor Nook Tai. the
alleged assassin, belonged to the high
binder class.
1t is common gossip among the Chinese
that if Nook Tai were the culprit the
crime was not entirely unprovoked Chong
Wal, so the story runs, had been paying
undue attention to a married woman OF
the See Yup tribe.
The husband wrote, commanding him to
have nothing to do with the woman, but
Chong Wal still continued his attentions,
and the Sam Yup gossip is that Nook Tai,
who belongs to the See Yup tribe, took the
case in hand.
About a third of the merchants take this
view of the case. The remaining two
thirds would like to see Nook Tai ac-
quilted, and they resent the action of Con-
sui Lai in expressing his neutrality, and
desire to see the law take its course.
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