The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-31
A HIGHLANDER SCARE
Chinese Lottery Backer Says
His Life Is Threatened.
San Franchise Agenfs IN the City to
Collect $500 Debt Due On Ae-
count Of a Woman.

W&s&iTEtNr Street NAS S1f seen 18C1
a. excitement. for mary weeks as tsok
Place Yesterday morning irssse and n
frons % ths cacrs Long Ccrnpany's store
corner 81 Third avenue south Inside tie
store. he doors o wnf1A were locked. wsrs
twenty-five or thl-ty Cinnamon. gesticfs-
iasl1g and taking n a NEST excited nan
nsr. mary lines being en- tie verge o.
general fight Outside sn the street were
crowded together nlae-tHr;hs OF the re-
naming peputa ton OF Chinatown. 20 say
nothing % two or three hundred white men.
drawn 20 the place by curiosity. TIE
racket lasted FOR nfte~n or twenty minutes
and when II was al over there was hardly
a waite man In the crowd who knew any
thing about the real status % the case
The general answer 70 inquiries WAS
We'll. the Cinnamon bad a Big rumpus.
out could not ges head or tail OF II"
The secret oS the row was .'hsxhhinder"
s7are. ard n Detective Williams had not
been rsghs In the thickest CT the raacdle
there might have been a few eorpses 20
figure in the general summary OF the siery.
The principal in the case vas To. LoA.
an old Chinaman who II vel Known as
the hacker Of ere Of tAe notorious Chinese
lotteries. He elairns that Fung Hal. Of 7is
Dupont street San Francisco. came 20
Seattle. accompanied By another China
man. for the express purposs OF collecting
$50 or killing him.
Fung Hal told Detective Williams ana
Sergeant Templston that Lol was liar
he said he was here simply TO get ssoe ow-
ing his company BY a Chinese siri that
Iofs mother had taken away with her
from San Francisco.
The police judged from the stories that
they obtained from the different Cinnamon
that Fung Hal wanted 800 "a the price
OF the young Chinese woman Mrs. loi IL
alleged 70 have taken with her. Some OK
the policemen recall the sudden appear
anee OF an old Chinese woman In this city
not long age, but no information could be
obtained about the mysterious young
woman. yet II Is supposed she Ia at Tol
LoFs house.
Detective williams missed the last car
home. and consequently decided 10 take
q stroll through the tenderleln district.
While standing az the northwest corner
OF Washington and Third avenue south
the detective saw Lois gaunt form APP
preaching from Fourth avenue ST rapid
pace
What's the racket. Tci7' asked Will
fans.
"Hishbinders come from San Francisco
TO kill me. replied Toi. come along with
me, | show you
Williams followed Toi into Quong long
Company's store. which is only few steps
distant. Two Cinnamon were sitting at a
table. and in the back room OF the store
were several more.
Toi opened door which led into a small
room. where a large. fat son OF the land
OF seclusion lay ia q bunk resting quietly.
The fat Chinaman sat up. and TOT imfne-
dlately commenced 10 give him piece or
his mind or at least that was the way
Williams translated II. Toi became stu
more excited. and pulling a big letter out
of his pocket, showed IL under the fat
t-hlnaman's nose Then they both talked
hgA
shook. too. Things were getting not, and
the racket attracted all the Cinnamon that
were Keeping bad hours Just as Toll had
finished an irnpassloned speech. In which
Williams feared he would lab the eye out
OF an innocent bat inauisitise Monaghan
who had approached TO the point OF dam
ger one OF the Cinnamon that had been
seated at the table. jumped I'D and fairly
few out OF the door.
There gloes one Of them" yelled TOT.
zone of what?" cried Williams. who was
becoming interested IN the racket.
High .nder." screeched TOT. He como
aom Fl3sco with this man 10 XIII me TX
not do certain things.
IN tha meantime the alleged hlghblnder
had disappeared IN the mist, and Toi had
70 content himself with the fat hl~n-
binder" Then TOT proceeded 10 put his
letter in front Of Williams. As the writ
ing was In Chinese Williams had 70 depend
man FOR the other
Tol 4rreeched out that the letter was an
equivalent to his death warrant Ii he did
not put Up 500. The crowd had become
too large for convenience row. and 50
someone ln the store turned TIE iock.
Then TOT proceeded. while the crowd OUT
side calculated on The number or eorpSes
that we're s,rewn on the floor inside ths
store. Toi called the fat Chinaman had
man" and. IN fact. exhausted his vocaHu-
larry IN a most sensational forensic effort.
The rat Chinsman did not ges ratified =
little bit but waited until Toi bad let or
steam before doing any talking.
Ahoa. this time Sergeant Tenpleton
toinaa Williams and the court was con-
tin1,esi in session. The fat Chlnau1sn hand
ed out a card. on which was "Fnng Hal
& Co. us Dupont street. san Franc $50.
He sad that he. "a representative or ne
cons-anv had come 70 SeatLe 20 colect
ga owing 10 his company by n woman
that had lef; San Francisco with Tors
vytfa He pointed 70 the letter, and as he
stf 40 The Officers were nesrly bar5ed
bv the bri..Iancy Of a large diamond tho
fst Cshlnaman wore or h.s third niger.
Ths Fat Chinau,an's Grafton. Literally
Translated was something IKE thls'
81 am not a highbinder.
To- fr+arrglps with The assertion that
hts "a friend IS a prevarscatoF. Th!s
rr,.s no figure. ard the Grafton proceeds:
That letter which Toi has n4shes N my
face ard put under my nose. even 10 the
fsoin4 OF DISTURBING ne Ia a most delicious
snoka dream OF forg@tfuiness. - nothing
-r,nra than a business letter Informing him
So =. ire course Of business have bean
ANY appointed "a the agent OF Fung Hal
e 20 OF san F,rzrcisco to collect a car
tagn SEQ. owed the company b woman
shat fsf, san Francisco with the mother
- ToA am not looking for blood. but
ysaa -
rs..owsrr this came q peroratsor, end
- WITH a statement something 20 The
eject that Tol was mad because ef sosne
ALLEGED remark BY the Ia Chlnaussn
a bout TOTS mother.
TOT would have sprung isl argument
n he or.cers had not sdfourze3 tns meet
ting.
To Immediately proceed 20 Police head
quarters ara offered Captain Hog,e four
silver so'a.rs = &c would arrest the "a
Chtnanaaa anE rs comrarioa
rgoeIe secllnea wlth thanks. sni TOT
-xan, 20 bed mighty tired and worried
over he danger threatening - hfe ard
the NH4