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The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
GRAND THEATER TO OPEN.
Now That "Little Pete" Is Dead the
Play Will Go On.

The Grand Theater, 814 Washington
street, which is owned by the See Yup
Company or members of that fraternity,
will open this evening with due oriental
pomp and ceremony. For months past
the doors of the house OF amusement have
been barred. The boycott between the
See Yup and the Sam Yup companies
caused the closing of this celebrated thea
ter.
An occasional Sam Yup man, thirsty
for pleasure. thinking that he would
escape Identification, would slip in and
take seat. In moment, however, q
shrewd spy would scent him, and he
would be dragged in disgrace from the
place and fined for his faithlessness
These disturbances finally resulted in the
closing of tue place, as honest people
were afraid to come-afraid that shoot
ing affray would occur and stray bullet
end an innocent life.
Last evening, however glaring sign
heralding the theater's opening was
posted outside its doors. Coming so soon
after the death of Little Pete" this fact is
satt to have a deep significance; thu
effect after a disturbing cause removed.
''Little Pete" was the aggressor among
tie Sam Yups, and now that he is a
corpse-that his soul has "saluted his
ancestor" See Yups feel safe in
adding the changing of their theater
gongs and the cries of their actors to the
chaos OF Chinatown.
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AT THE MORGUE.
Pathetic Visit of the Widow ar
Her Little Boy.

Pathetic Visit of the Widow and
Her Little Boy.
The officials at the Morgue were be.
sieged by hordes of visitors ali during the
day. Seldom has a murder case attracted
such a multitude of inquirers as that of
this notable Chinaman, and the curiosity.
mongers ciamored to gaze at his body.
In this they were mostly disappointed.
1t was strange aggregation OF human
ity that called at the Clty's charnel-nouse.
They were not all prompted by morbid
curiosity. Hundreds of his Chinese
friends called to gaze at their dead COM
1ade. They made no complaint when
they were informed the body was not on
exhibition. Stolidly they retraced their
steps.
There were white men among the
callers, too, men OF influence and promi-
nence in the community. They mad mad
business dealings with the little nabob of
the Chinese quarter and they were not
ashamed to cal MIN their friend. They
fingered to tell anecdotes of the little
Celest tial, and they illustrated traits In his
character which his public record has not
hitherto disclosed.
II have known Little Pete for year S, 4"
said Robert Ferral. II have prosecu ted
him and he has been my client, but l
have never once known him to break his
word"
1t was a pathetic scene when Fong
Chng's widow, his brother, Fong Shun,
and the decedent's little boy called at
the Morgue. When Pee was stricken he
had on his person gold watch. mag
nifcent diamond ring and few trinkets.
The Coroner did not desire to be the
custodian of these articles any longer
than possible, but. to protect himself he
refused to deliver them to any one but the
widow. Accompanied by TWO women
friends, her brother and her little boy, she
called 10 claim her husbands property.
The widow is not prepossessing from a
Caucasian point of view. She is short of
stature, inclined to heshiness and plain OF
feature.
With the stolidity of her race she ap-
preached the Coroner desk. She watched
with no apparent emotion while one by
one her husbands effects we're counted
out and receipted for. Mechanically she
put her hand to the pen as the Coroner's
deputy guided il to make her mark,
The trinkets were placed in a paper-bag,
all but the diamond ring. Il conlaiued
dazzling brilliant OF extraordinary value.
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TWO BIG COURSES.
Sport at Ingleside Yesterday-Death Of
John p. Dalton.

Sport at Ingleside Yesterday-Death OF
John p. Dalton.
A large crowd was at Ingleside yester-
day to witness the two big courses that
were arranged for the day. Owing to the
mum Der of dogs entered in each only the
preliminaries were run. The courses will
be run off next Sunday. The runs so far
are as follow:
Blue Rock; w. Perry's Gee Whiz beat T. Cox's
Sam; r. Strelik's Skylark beat P. McCabe S
Amesport; T. Buffers Susie beat Grace d
ans Donald; Cupertino Kennels Lady
Campbell beat Dillon & Kelly's sunoi; j.
Tracy's Speed beat NJ. Traynor's Whip Jr.;
Portal & H ggerty's Magnet beat Rams
Deans Said Pasha beat P. g. Curtis
Commodore; P. c.. Curtis Daisy Bell
beat NJ O'Connor's Lady Clifton, Mira Monte
kennels Mercy May beat Cuperiino Kennels
Blackbird, Georg Parkinson's Fireman beat
7. Cox's Bran. NJ. Tray nor's Valley Maid beat
F. Donneily's Reuben Glue, Dillon & Reilly's
Queen B beat F. Cronin's oid Glory, z, G. Cur
tbs, West Side beat E. Campbell's Bend Along,
E. Gearv's Electric beat r. Strehps Jimmy
Cook, Dillon and Reilly's Sir Walter beat P. C.
Curtis Carviniss.
c. S. Apple bees Queen A, g: Wattsons Don
Castor beat H Springs Brimbo ]. Rock s
Myrtle beat Cuperlino Kennels Experiment
Pete, J. Fitzpatrick s Nellie Daiy beat J. Rocks
Restless Cupertino kennels Glenwood beat
r. Rays Roy B, T. Neenan's Fairview
beat Grace ard Deans Lady Jane, P. McCabe's
White Clifton beat J. NJ. Brysn's Articus Gu
pertino kennels Fleetwood beat T. O'Dowd's s
Gypsy, B. Dougherty's Tessie Fair beat NJ
O'Connor's jim Day, J. Trades Babe Murphy
beat J. Lessers Mig, j. Quane's Young Clifton
beat D. Ford's Miss Murphy. n. r. Baldwin's
Tod Sloan beat E. SCOTS Prince Pluto, H. R
Badwin's Grasshopper beat G. Watson's Alice
D, Grace and Deans Rustic beat T. Tracy's
JESSIE
John P. Dalton. late proprietor of the
Ingleside Coursing Park. died yesterday
afternoon at 8 O'Clock. His death was due
to consumption. He had been sick for
three or tour months, and had been con-
fined to his bed for the past iour weeks.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
BREAKING UP THEIR DENS.
The Police Have Started Demolish-
ing the Different Strongholds
or the HighblnderS.


Sergeant Mooney and posse last evening
opened the battle of the police against the
high binders aud as result many fight
ing Mongolian felt twinge of pain with
out the pleasure of seeing the red gore
flow or hearing the bark OF the murderous
revolver.
Early in the evening the headquarters
of the Quong Hon Tong. Brenham place
and Clay street, was raided by the squad.
Here an excited crowd of pagans was
gathered discussing the murder of Little
Pete.
The congregation soon scattered, how
ever when the police arrived. Those who
fingered in the vicinity were helped along
by the muscular officers, and, thoroughly
chagrined, they sought secluded spots to
mediate and ease their aches. The Bo
On Tong headquarters, Stockton and
Jackson streets, and the Lucy Sing Tong
meetlng-room, Jackson and Dupont
streets, were visited in turn and the
gathered celestials were driven and
jammed into the open air, each with a
warning to select spot and occupy it
solely and alone or suffer the conse-
quences. Chief Crowley has placed Ser
geant Price in charge of the Chinatown
! squad in the daytime and Sergeant Cook
at night. Price is the Sergeant who so
successfully broke up the highbinder dens
some months ago, and his presence is
hailed as guarantee of exciting times to
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
WHY HEBRIBED POLICEMEN
Little Pete's Bold AcknoWl edgment
to His Attorney and the
Court.

The extraordinary cleverness of Fong
Ching, the Chinaman who was murdered
Saturday night was never so well evlnced
as upon his trial on charge of bribery as
far back as 1886 when he was but lad OF
81 years of age.
In ose days Little Pete. as he was
better known even among his Chinese ac-
quaintances, was power in that quarter
where the heather most congregate. With
power in those days, as at the present
time, there went a certain element. OF
danger. Pete, realizing this, imported a
notorious highbinder named Lee Chuck
to act as his bodyguard.
Not satisfied with preventing Others
from numbering his master, Chuck went
a-gunning himself one day on Washing
ton street, exactly opposite the place
where Pete was assassinated Saturday.
He killed his man, and after several
years of detention pending numerous
trials he was eventually and satisfactorily
hanged.
Little Pete. stood nobly by his body
guard until the last, bringing to his aid
all his cunning and using his sack quite
literally where it could do the most good.
On August 5. 1886, Policeman John B.
Martin, now sergeant on the force, ar
rested Pete, charging him with attempt
ing to rlbe Polio men Burr Love and
Con O'Sullivan with $400 to assist in clear
ing Lee Chuck. The offer, it was claimed,
was made in the back room OF saloon at
Clay and Stockton streets.
Attorneys Hall McAllister and Bergin
were for the defense and they were as
founded at the declaration made to them
by this bit of Chinese boy.
Now, will tell you, gentlemen" said
Pete, II m no lawyer and that's why l re
tain you. But l do know this: 1 stand
alone against two policemen who will
swear l offered them $400, therefore l will
not be believed. Now, 1 want to go on
the stand and confess that [ not only
offered them the money, but that they
took it."
This extraordinary plea, the most re-
arkableAttorney McAllister had ever had
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The deputy hesltated about placing it in
so fraii receptacle. The woman's hand
rested on his desk and he slipred the ring
on her finger. She cid it up and gazed
al it a moment The ring had been con-
stantiy worn upon her husbands finger.
Perhaps it recalled memories which even
a Mongolian woman cherlshes as sacred.
1t opened the 1oodgate of her tears. She
shrieked her eriei and fell writhing upon
the floor. Her female companions joined
in her wailings, and the brother stood
helplessly by, while tears rolled down his
face At the Morgue the attendants are
accustomed to scenes of grief, but as the
mourning woman was gently urged away
by her friends the conversation did not re-
sumo its usual frothy strain. Such grief,
even in a little woman of an unpopular
race, commanded respect.
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brother, in trust for the widow and chill.
HE LEFT NO WILL.
Little Pete's Estate Goes to HIS
Brother Until His Oldest
Row Ia of Age,

Boy Is Of Age.
Following the usual custom of the Chi.
nese, Little Pete lett no will.
"That is not strange" stated Attorney
Riordan, when asked aboutsthe matter
yesterday. "As far back as l can remem"
Der, DIR. Lii Po Tai is the only Chinaman
who has ever died here who made testa-
ment according to our laws. That was
PROBABLY on account OF the tremendous
holdings of his estate in these parts.
"The custom of the Chinese is greatly
according to the old English law which
provides that the estate of the deceased
shall go to the eldest child who, if not OF
age. cannot enter into its possession until
the proper time. The estate in such cases
goes to brother or parents of the deceased
in trustn
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
THE AUTOPSY.
Three Wounds, Any One of Which
Would Have Caused Instant


"OQl0 EldVS SdOSS0
Death.
The autopsy, which was conducted by
DR.. Morgan, showed that one more bullet
had entered the body than was at first
supposed. One bullet entered about one
inch from the right eye and emerged at
the back of the neck. Another entered in
the corner of the right eye. These two
wounds met in the brain and, by a re-
markable coincidence, both emerged from
the same hole. The unsuspected wound
was through the heart. The bullet had
entered on the left side, between the third
and fourth RIBS. 1t had passed through
the left lung, the heart and the liver, and
was found imbedded right under the
skin in the small of the back.
Any one of the wounds would have
caused instantaneous death. This is re-
markable circumstance when the usual
erratic style of highbnder shooting Is
considered.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
THE SAM YUPs MEET.
It Is Understood That They Have
Decided to Even Up on
X,nc

the Sae Yups.
Hardly had the warmth died out of the
body of the murdered man when the Sam
Yups held a meeting at the rooms of the
Wan Ting San Fong tong at 800 Jackson
street, the third floor. Scouts we're sent
out to bring as many members to the
meeting rooms as possible, and the place
was crowded.
The conference lasted till daylight, and
resulted in the declaration that some
prominent m ember of the See Yups must
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
IN CONSTANT DANGER.

Little Pete's White Guard Tells of
the Highbinders' Vigilance.
G. H. Hunter has been in constant at
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25

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7S1 MarkeG St., San Erancfsco, Cal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02

poses on salt mackerel and other cured nsh would cause grave injury to the nshermen on the west coast Of Ireland. This note Is dated June IS, 1897. The protests of the German ambassador ana the Austrian minister against the countervailing duty on bounty export sugar have already been published.
 The consul general of Greece protests against the rate imposed upon Zante entrants and raisins,
 flfty-three Irish members of the Brit lsh parliament join in letter to Pres ldent Mckinley saying that the duty on cured mackerel and herring caught on the west coast of Ireland will work a great hardship to the Irish fishermen, and praying the president to secure a modification of the rates in the Ding ley bill. The protest of Argentine against the duty on hides and wool has already been published.
 China made protest on lines similar to those of Japan
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02
CONFERRED UNTrL DAYBRE4K.
Iron Manufacturers and Puddlers Meet to
 Adiust Differences.

Adjust Differences.
 Youngstown, O., Aug. Tt was day. light this morning before the iron man ufacturers and the puddlers of the Amalgamated association conference committee agreed on scale for pud- ding. There were twenty-five pud- dlers on the amalgamated committee of one hundred, and the puddlers had the say about accepting or rejecting the proposition directly affecting them.
 The puddlers made several attempts to affect a compromise but the manu- lecturers positively refused to recede from their demand for a reduction from S4.S0 to S4. When the puddlers held their last secret meeting to consider the matter the vote stood 13 to 12 in favor of taking the whole reduction and this portion of the difficulty was at at an end
 The new scale adopted is as follows: $4 a ton on one-cent card rate; $425 on a one and one-tenth card rate; S4.75 on one-and three-tenths rate; $5 on a one and four-tenths rate, and $5.25 on a one and fve-tenths rate, one-cent card rate meaning when bar iron is selling for one cent a pound, etc.
 An adjournment was taken at o'clock this morning until 10 o'clock Monday morning. when it is expected the finishers scale will be adjusted and the whole trouble brought to an end.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02
MUST oBSERYE 4 s4BB4rH.
Dealers May Keep Places of Business Open Saturday or sunday, but Not Both.

Dealers May Keep Places of Business
 Open Saturday or sunday, but Not Both.
 No violations of the law which per- mits Hebrews to keep open their places of business either Saturday or Sunday but not both days, were reported by the police yesterday. Saturday note was taken of the places which were open, and none of the proprietors of those places which were open was found doing business yesterday. It is said that during the past year evasions of the law in regard to this matter were frequent. The law allows those who for conscientious religious reasons observe Saturday as Sabbath to keep open their places of business on Sun day. but forbids keeping open both Sat urday and Sunday. This provision Is made in the old law in regard to Sun day observance, and is in no way changed by the new Sunday law which recently went into effect, and which will not be rigidly enforced in this city unless complaints are made, when pros- ecution must necessarily follow.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02
MURDER OF JOHN GALLO.
An Inquest Will be Held on the Case To
 Iay

Lynn, Mass, Aug. 1.-The murder of John Gallo at his shanty in Wakefield last week will be the subject of the in- quest to be held in Lynnf1eld Center tomorrow. Officers Neal and vannah have been following up some of the peo- pie who knew Williams, the suspected murderer. iii Lynnfield and Wakefield, and have tried to find out what be- came of Williams watch which, Ae says, was stolen at the time he was as saulted near Wakefield farm, but so far they have been unable to find any trace of it.
 Williams says that the money he found in the road in a handkerchief was divided into different bundles each wrapped around with yellow band of paper. Antonio Gallo, the brother of the dead man, has since told the po- lice that his brother kept his gold and bills in separate packages and that he also separated his fives and tens. This Is looked upon as confirmation of the circumstantial evidence against Will Hams as to how he came by the money found in his room.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02
PRoBABLY MORTAIIY HURT.
Hiram Burlfngame. Aged 96, Shot by 8
 Young Man

Young Man
 Westfleld, Mass, Aug. Hiram c. Burlingame, aged 96, was shot and probably mortally wounded at noon to- day at his hut on Hampton Plains, about three miles north of Westfield Center by Edward Fitz, aged twenty Three shots were fired, two taking ef- feet, one In the breast and the other in the abdomen. The miscreant fled and the wounded man managed to crawl about half mile to the house of his nearest neighbor.
 Medical aid was summoned and an examination showed the wounds to be probably fatal Chief of Police Mullen found Fitz at the farm of Ebenezer Hastings in Middle Farms, where he was employed and placed him under arrest. He was brought to the police station in this town where he admitted doing the shooting and told the cir cumstances leading up to 1t.
 His only reason for seeking to take the life of the old man, he says, was to get possession of revolver. He went to Burlingame's hut and asked if he would sell him a revolver. Burlin- game gave a favorable reply and pro- duced the weapon. Fitz then sprang upon the aged man and wrenching the revolver from his grasp shot him twice Burlingame defended himself as best he could and managed to get his assailant out of his hut. Fitz then went to a window and fired the third shot into the hut, but failed to hit his mark Fitz will be arraigned in court to-mor- row morning charged with assault with intent to kill unless Burlingame dies in the meantime, in which case the charge Twill be changed to murder.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02
COMING '. .A. ". MEET.
Fastest Professionals and Amateurs in the
 Country to Contest.

 Philadelphia, Aug. 1.-The eighteenth national meet of the League of Amer ican Wheelemn, for which preparations have been going on for over three months, will be held in this city during the coming week and the largest influx of out of town wheelmen ever attend, ing national meet is expected. An unusually large number of entries, pro fessional and amateur, have been made for the two days of racing, Friday and Saturday, and the crack riders from all parts of the country have entered in their respective classes
 The races will be held on Friday and Saturday at Willow Grove track This | is three laps to the mile and is con- | structed of board. The preliminaries will be run off in the morning and the | finals in the afternoon. The one mile professional championship will be de- cided on Friday and on Saturday the big race for $500 will be contested by | the stars of the professional ranks. The | amateur championship also promises some bitter struggles between repre- sentatives of the various states The entries closed last night for all events | and among them some of the leading out of town professionals entered are as follows: H. R. Steenson, Dayton; Teddy Goodmon, New York; Major Tay- Tor, Cambridgeport, Mass; Fred Titus, | New York; W. I. Becker, Indianapolis, 1 last years five mile champion; How ard H. Mosher, Boston, Watson Cole man, Boston; Fred Longhead, Saran- cia, Ont; Tom Cooper, Detroit; Frank J. Jenny. Utica; Homer Fairmon, Chi cago; ]. w. Parsons, Australia; w. w. | Hamilton, Denver; Walter Sanger, Mill | waukee; J. c. Tinkhorn, Grand Rapids, | and many others.
 | The prominent amateurs in all parts of the country have also entered for the two days racing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02

the powers of darkness hold jubilee, pandemonium rejoices and hell cannot retain Its satisfaction, but hark! voice from heaven echoes through the sepul- chre, the words Awake! Arise!' re- sound, and in an instant without the help of human hands the cerements are loosed, the napkin falls from His face, the limbs that were stiff and stark in
 death begin to move, and the Son of God arises by His own and by His Fathers power, triumphant over death, | and the conqueror of the grave. The keepers shook and became as dead
 men, earth became tremulus, for was
 not it's king triumphant?
 If you have nay doubt of this you
 need go no farther to demonstrate the lie of His adversaries They claimed that the disciples came and stole the body away. Is 1t likely that company
 of Roman soldiers were overcome by band of eleven disciples? Or even
 that, how could they have carried the body unnoticed through the streets of Jerusalem at a time when the great crowds were there In the Passover sea- son? Or granting that, would the Ro-
 man soldier sleep at his post when death was the penalty, or would the whole detachment fall asleep at the same time? And how, then if we grant that can it be said that Ills disciples
 carried Him away? No! No! He is
 risen, as He said.
 However can man forbear loving Him | who loved us first best of all? Time
 was when Paul glorified in his ances- try, in his sect-the Pharisees--fn his morality, in his fearing, in his Roman franchise, in the seal of the Abrahanic covenant, in his citizenship. in his per- scouting zeal, when once his eyes were opened his heart was renewed, he found
 grace and the ground of his glorying
 was changed God forbid that should glory save in the cross of our Lord
 Jesus Christ
 How are we to show our love for Him? We are to think of Him, to be- lieve in Him, to take the cup of saliva tion and keep His n 9mory green, to call
 on Him and respond to His voice, to obey His commands, to observe the Lords supper as memorial of His death, and to keep holy His Sabbath
 In that and many other ways we may glorify His name among the sons of men. An! life Is fast passing away. As 500. as we reach the summit we begin to descend the hill. Heaven gives our years of falling strength indemni flying f1eetness. Dread not death ye be- lieve in Me, but dread the great death; dread not the grave, ye believe in Me who accomplished resurrection there from! Dread not hell, He conquered it, but dread sin!'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-02
NARROWLY ESCdPED LFNCHING
Citizens of Greens Farms Prevented from Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands,

Citizens of Greens Farms Prevented from
 Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands.
 Bridgeport, Aug 1.-Luther D. John- son. aged thirty-nine, narrowly escaped lynching to-day by number of indig- nant residents of Greens Farms for an assault he is alleged to have committed on the eight-year-old daughter of John Meacham, a hostler at the Beachside Inn
 The girl is in critical condition. The assault was committed about two weeks ago, but the circumstances con- nected with it were not made known until last night, and the girls descrip- ton of her assailant tallied so closely with that of Johnson, whose actions for some time have been suspicious, that Thomas Ouigley took him into custody this afternoon. When the news of his arrest spread a large crowd gathered about the house where he was detained nrenaratory to taking him to South mort and threats of lynching were so erao,y made that word was hastily sent to Sheriff Buckley of this city, who at once repaired to the scene and brought the man here for safety.