The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-13
Clay CHUNG YUEN
The Strange HallucinatiOn Of a Wan
dering Celestial.
TAKEN BEFORE THE JOSS
He Came From Bannaok. Where.
He Claims. He Departed In the
Form of q Tiger-Now He
Says He Is Dog.

A strange Chinaman wandered into
anaconda yesterday. Most OF them
avoid this city, but Chung Yuen, II he
ever heard of the cold shoulder given TO
his countrymen in Anaconda, had for
gotten 1T. He was not here long when
his people began to inquire into the
fact of his coming. and it was not long
before they discovered that Chung was
a abttle off in his upper story. He had
not come TO see any of them, and spent
mis- time in wandering about the street.
He begged for something to eat in one
of the stores and was given two ginger
cookies with frosting on them. Yuen
departed without eating of them. and
straig.htway sought DR.. Spelman, whom
he told that everyone was trying to
poison him. A woman. he said, gave
him coffee, fun of poison. the cakes, he
said. We're covered with poison, and he
pointed ito the white coating of sugar
and egg as an evidence of the fact.
DIR. Spelman turned the patient over
to Colonel O'Leary for diagnosis. and
Louie Yam was sent for to talk to the
China boy dn his native tongue.
Louie sung him a monotone song and
he responded in like manner, which,
being translated. was to the effect that
Chung Yuen had been working in the
DHdcer mines HORSE fTdlIIt near
Bannack, but "a few weeks ago he
walked from there ITO Butte, and Satur-
day he walked from Butte to Anacon-
da. He could not tell where he had
slept over night, but At was somewhere
in the hills Chung said that he is not
a man, he is a dog. When he left
Horse Prairie he was a tiger, but while
he was i'm Butte a man shaved off his
mustache, and now he is dog; that
folks are trying to poison him.
Loui took Chung in charge and led
him away ito Chinatown, where the
members of the colony bestirred them
selves to drive the bad devil" out of
poor Chung Yuen. At the JOSS house
he was almost smothered in redolent
incense; he was fed upon the dainties
which usually are brought out only on
New Years day. and every possible eff
fort made to appease the bad spirit
which possesses the body of Chung
Yuen. They hope to cure him, and if
the strange idea which he has arises
from too muchee hop" or 'dhnk," they
will probably succeed in time. If not.
the Chfnee, who Is harmless, will be
sent to Warm Springs, where DR.. Mus
sigbrod will try modern arts in conjur-
ing back the lost mind.
w. r. H. Edwards, the well-known
old-timer, was present at the semi
official investigation, and he waxed
reminiscent after 1t was over.
THE biggest scare that 1 have ever
had in long and checkered career in
these mountains was given me by
gang of Cinnamon in German gulch.
For about three months 1 never ex-
pected to see sunlight again. Jim Kerr
was with me. Most of the boys know
Kerr. He was a big husky chap,
weighing 240 pounds, and strong as
bull, but me shook like a leaf.
Headquarters for the Chinese who
are working in German gulch, is a
little cabin; that is, a store where they
keep all sorts of supplies for mines. and
il stands in the midst of the placer
ground Sam 10y, who kept it in those
days, had fuse, powder, picks, shovels
and all such stuff, beside supply of
hop and tea, for which he had many
customers. There were probably so
Cinnamon working there. and Sans
store was always full of them. They
sat about on the boxes and slept under
the counters and in hunks along the
wall
Kerr and I had been there for sew
eral minutes when we started out the
door just as half a dozen more China
men came tumbling in. They seized
Kerr and me by the coat tails 1t
seemed like every Chinaman in the
house had hand on us the way we
were hurled across the cabin. Some
jumped to the door and barred IT.; 9TH
ers put great chunks in the windows
and made them fast, all the while Kiyi,
Kiyi in their language, which we did
not understand, but thought meant
death to us. 1t all happened in less
than 80 seconds, when blast went off
that blew in the door and knocked out
the window plugs.
Their rough handling had saved our
lives, for we would have been blown to
atoms had we been outside, for we
could not have gotten out of range of
that blast which the fellows had just
set off as we started out.
I've had a kind feeling in my heart
for the Chinese ever since, and 1 hope
that that Chung Yuen amt as crazy as
he seems. 1 thought my life wasn't
worth a yen; tina / was to
be tortured by yellow devils, but
l found that they were golden angels
instead and had saved me and my
partner from an awful fate"