The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-04
WAS WAR In CHINA
OFFICER FISHER ACTS AS UMPIRE
AND RESTORES PEACE
Charlie Lung Gets . Black Eye for Accom-
wildered with Chinese Bookkeeping
Beiiigerant Chinaman from Anthony
Ordered to Keep Quiet or Go Homs-It
was All About . Deposit la the State
National Bank-why Chinamen Send
A1oney Home.

There was war in Charlie Sings do
| miniol on East Douglas avenue yester-
day. II would perhaps. be more cor
rect TO say Il was rebellion.
When Officer John Fisher succeeded
in gaining entrance to Charlie Sings
laundry and residence. all combined.
the lighter articles OF furniture were
sailing through the air and two China
| men were lodging their heads like
ducks in a thunder storm, and por-
ton of the blood OF Asia had already
been spilled
Chinese cuss words came thick and
fast. which reminded one of the deaf
ening, quacking OF a whole flock OF
geese when you put your hand 10 your
ear and try to hear what the man on
the next block is saying.
When the officer entered there was
immediate quiet, and two Cinnamon
smiled hlandiy- Charley Sing. with a
lump as large as a hulled walnut over
his eye and several scra tches on other
parts Of his face. intimated by word and
GESTURES that he had nothing, while
Ku Lee of Anthony wiped the blood
from his nose and tried 10 assume an
injured air.
officer Fisher wanted an explanation
of all this racket, and the two men
from the celestial cline both began to
explain the situS. ton in a way perfect
ly satisfactory 10 themselves. They
both talked at once.
: They determined to make the MATTER
perfectly plain 10 the officer and laid a
card containing lot OF Chinese charac-
ters down by the side OF square
frame. There were wires across the
fran and they were full OF little wooden
balls.
The two Cinnamon talked and pointed
to the characters on the card. and then
to the balls on the wires. officer Fish
er could understand Enid and Anthony
and Skinner, but the rest OF the talk
only bewildered him and he finally stag
gered back against the wall and held
the palms of his hands over his eyes
TO drown the noise.
He could not tell what Ii was all about
but he inferred that Ku Lee lived at
Enid or Anthony, and he told him 10
go home or keep quiet. Ku Lee sup
posed that Officer Fisher was a man
having authority and ne took him az
his word and left for Anthony.
A reporter for the Eagle who knows
a good deal about the Chinese language
tried TO get the truth about the riot and
here il is:
Ku Lee and another Chinaman went
q
and We're doing thriving business. ku
Lee sent up one hundred dollars to
Charlie Sing to keep for him. Charlie
said IL he would put the money in his
bank that somebody would come in and
break the dock and take the money.
If he put it in in the inside pocket
of his vest somebody would hit him on
the laft side of his head and then the
money would he gone.
in his mind and then put the money in
SINNERS bank. That was on Friday
and the next Monday the bank suspend
ed. y few days later Ku Lees bus
mess partner had a dispute with COW
boy at Enid about a "washee" bill. The
COW boy could not understand much OF
what Ku Lees partner said, but he just
shot Ii! on suspicion.
Then Ku Lee turned his back upon
Enid and went to Anthony. When he
came to Wichita Charley Sing told him
that he had put his money in the State
National bank. but Ku Lee reckoned
that his money was not in the bank.
and he demanded that Charlie Sing pay
him 500.
Charlie Sing would not DO that but
when the first dividend was declared he
sent Mr.. Lee SIS. Yesterday Ku Lee
came UP from Anthony to get the other
Sb1, and Wnen CnarIle sing refused 10
pay it he proceeded Immediately 10 de-
clare war and hostilities commenced.
When Charlie Sing told the reporter
his story be was particular 70 have
America 10 know that he had been hon.
est. He held in his hand a certificate
signed by the receiver OF the State Ma
tional which showed that the bank
owed Charlie Sing 500.
He tenderly pressed the lump over his
eye and snoothed the scra tches on his
face while he talked, and he seemed 70
feel tly relieved when the reporter
told him that he had done what any
prudent business man would have done
to protect his friend, and that he was
rot to blame for the loss.
Charlie Sing said that he once loan
ed Ku Lee money to send TO China.
When asked why so many Cinnamon
sent money back 70 their native land
he said that il was not because they
did not want to hold money in this conn
try, but because the men who sent Il