The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-18
MONGOLIANS WITH MONEY
Chinese Arrive From San Francisco
to See the Minister.
They Desire His Influence With the
Emperor to Have the Sentence
Of Death Removed.

The distinguished party of Chinese mer.
| chants from San Francisco who have beea
expected here for several days are ct the
Ebbitt House. They arrived last night al
$50 O'Clock on a limited train from New
York over the Pennsylvania road. The
party consists of ten merchants and inn
porters from the famous Six Companies.
Every Celestial son OF them is rolling in
wealth. Their Individual fortunes range
from $500 900 to So. 900, 900, but they are
all dressed exceedingly simple, Just as they
live. They Travelled from the Pacific Coast
to New York in private car, but from
there OH they travelled after the fashion Of
ball team, except that they rode in the
hotel bus and lined up in the office to
register III "a more orderly manner.
Their attorneys, j. C. Campbell and
Thomas A. Keough, who came with them,
steered them to the hotel, and up to q
late hour they had not spoken except in
Chinese among themselves, and they had
not kicked at the office. Keough, who
is a clever young lawyer from the Golden
Gate City, made the financial arrange
ments, and Lu Fook, a young, womanisf-
looking millionaire, registered for the
push" Keough also carried a big iron
box, which he guarded closely and de-
posted In the hotel safe, for it's contents
mean life or death to the Celestial mil
lionaires. 1t does not contain their money.
as the crowd in the hotel lobby supposed,
but it contains the papers by which they
expect to show the Chinese minister that
the see-Yups are not guilty OF high
treason This is what the Sam Yups
charged them with, and il the latter fac
tion could "swipe" that box they wouldn't
do a thing TO its contents.
In the party are two Chinese giants,
standing over six feet, and weighing about
$50 pounds each. They are the biggest
menin the party, physically, mentally, and
financially, but over their respective heads
hang sentences of death. They compare
fayorably to our milIionaires, showing
plainly the burden of their riches in mas
sive, careworn features. Like sober,
virtuous men OF means, they got their
room keys and filed off to bed as soon
as they arrived Mr. Keough said they were
well received by all their countrymen
along the route, but they arrived here IN
noticed and unobserved by the residents OF
our Chinatown. He said also that their
car was the rendezvous for all the tourists
on their train, who were surprised at their
education, etiquette, and refinement. All
of them speak excellent English, and one
of them was born here.
He is only twenty-five years old, hand
some, and as rich as prince The party
will be here probably ten days. They will
do the town and its environments and the
Chinese minister If they can
Kcough said the minister has heard only
the story OF the Sam Yups Upon that he
recommended that the emperor pass sen
tence upon the See Yups He sentenced fiji
teen to Imprisonment and two to death If
they return to China. Their relatives there
were imprisoned, but some have been re-
leased
Last night Mr. Keough told The Times
the true story Of their difficulties and their
mission here. 1t illustrates the great jeal-
ousy and rivalry between the rich Chinese
of the West. Lee Kan Chow said Mr..
Kcough, lis the biggest man in the party
'He has stores all over the world. He is
worth So 600 900 He is the head Of tie
great wah Lung Kee Companys He is a
leader in the See Yups. Yup means dis
tiict. and See means four. The See Yups
represent four of the famous Six Com
panies. The Sam Yups, the two companies
or two districts, call the See Yups traitors
Since tie two societies split the Sam
Yups through the Chinese consul at San
Francisco, have had the See Yups SEN
fenced by the emperor, through the minister
here, upon false charge of treason. They
claim the Sees are trying to overthrow the
emperor But that is all rot.
both societies are form ed for charitable
and beneficial purposes.
The Wee Hal Lung Society, q sub
society, was formed to prevent crime and
vice among the See and Sam Yups. The
Sam Yups appointed inspectors to run
down Chinese criminals here The See
Yups objected TO the inspectors who were
appointed because they were ex-convicts.
Upon this point the Sans and Sees
split Then the Sans went to the consul
and he, for some reason unknown, sided
with TENN.
He went to Chief of Police Crowley, and
the chief has sworn before a court that
he was offered $4,000 to destroy the
quarters OF the Sees. Crowley refused.
but the Sans hired white detectives and
laid waste to the Sees quarters Judge
McKenna, the present Attorney General
of the United States, was then circuit
court judge, and he presided over the
trials that followed. We have Crowley's
deposition that an attempt was made
to bribe him by the Sans, although the
consul, Fung Yung Hing, denies it.
The minister has heard but one side or
the case, and now he will hear the other.
He sent the emperor word when the Sees
were sentenced that they we're all ''vaga-
bond boys and they have come on per-
sonally to show him who they are We
expect to win his grace and succeed in
having the sentences set aside by the
emperor"