The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-30

hut neither the cook nor the laundry
man ever gave his confidence concern
ing the feud, ard, as you shall hear,
neither is now available for testimony.
Charley Go Lee, being a washer of
shirts. was rather looked down upon by
Hong Fat, who cooked at the Cheerful
Heart restaurant and rayished the lum-
bermen and sheep drovers with his
stcwed tripe. Hong Fat had a decided
opinion hat any Chinaman who was
a Chinaman would be unwilling to re-
main at the shirt-washing industry any
longer than il would take to negotiate
with some restaurant, and as Charley
Go Lee had been in.thc country IL years
and still purified other peoples clothes
Hong Fat reyiled him. Perhaps this
scorn of the cook had some consider
able part in building up the enmity. 1t
is only a surmise, however, and / do
not guarantee il.
The vickedness Of this story begins
right here. II was Charley Go Lee who,
talking with other Cinnamon from
down the railroad, became inspired, and,
learning where the United States mar
shal was to he found. visited him and
spoke wisely. but in unfriendly man
ner. of Hong Fat, the cook. Bereft of
its liquid pigeoning. Charley's English
was sufficient to notify the official that
n Chinaman without n certificate of res
idence was to be found in the Cheerful
Heart restaurant at Geyserville at any
time a government representative would
care to call. And the very next week
a man with a star and a document called
at Geyserville, and when the down train
pulled out n mournful and
Chinaman was on board. and dinner
was late and poorly cooked at the res
tanrant of the Cheerful Heart that day.
Firecrackers were. however, burned in
the laundry OF Charley Go Lee, and
festi,ify reigned there.
Hong Fat did not want to leave the
country. His devotion to America and
her ,ikable qualities might wei serve
as an example for the instruction of
young persons of lighter complexion
than his own. lie had been foolish in
not registering long ago when the OPP
%portunitv came, but. being a stubborn
Chinaman and also believing that his
remissness would never be discovered,
he had held back. As he looked from
the train and saw the decoration on
Charley Go Lees laundry and more
over saw that Industrious person, who.
with great virtue and foresight. had
obtained his certificate at as early a
date ms il could be issued to him, great
anger came into Hong Fats heart. for
Charley was lcaping and dancing and
Innnhinn NJ lin, Tho t,, IL, x,b.rl.I -,
It's narrow-gauge way down past the
restaurant, the back of which looked
upon the railroad. and Hong Fat saw
the meat man with his package pound
ing mt the rear door. and he knew he
was pounding for him. and that he
would never open the door to that meat
man again. He saw the three chickens
which he had intended that very even
ing to put into a pie-saw them scratch
ing about in the rubbish OF the door
yard. and he realized that many n day
would pass before he would again de-
capitate n chicken to make a lumber
mans holiday. Many a day? why, il
would never be again. He would be
taken before white men, all of whom
hated Chinese. and most of whom would
readily lie glibly about his evil char
acter, and then he would be punched
Into a ship and be sent back in disgrace
md poverty to China-the China from
which he had set out SO hopefully years
before to make a fortune in the new
world.
II Is not given even 80 wise n man as a
deputy United States marshal to know
what is passing through a Chinaman's
"lnd. and SO the official was utterly un-
prepared when the heather, with a
sudden cry. dived through the window
~ The coach In a passion for the liberty
beyond. IL was a dark night, and, al
unough the train was stopped at once.
uhe hurried search revealed no sign of
hong Fat. The conductor was unwill-
ihs to delay longer than was necessary.
ahd' telling the marshal he would bet
yer 90 on to the next town and wait
,or morning. he signaled to pull out.
Inc narrow-gauge train had travelled
many miller from the tOss,r ,SsL. 49,