The herald., 1897-01-27
LITTLE PETE'S" FUNERAL
Fills San Francisco Streets With
Curious People
CHINATOWN IN A TURMOIL
And Tong Leaders Live In Fear OF
Murder
The State Department Gently But Firm
ly Declines to Interfere in the
fractional Quarrel
Associated Press Special Wire


SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 2s.-Tha f,,.
neral OF Fony Ching, better known as
'Little Pete" the murdered leader of
the sam Yup society, took place today
The funeral procession was about halt
a mile long and the streets were crowd
ed with curious people. After elaborate
ceremonies the body was placed in the
receiving vault at Laurel Hill until fur
ther services which will be held next
Tuesday.
Chinatown is in q tumult. Little
Pete's violent death, the feuds and ami
mosities which led up to it and the con-
sequences, results vaguely conjectured
but instinctively feared, have caused a
state of affairs which the authorities de-
scribe as the worst they ever saw there.
An extra detail Of police patrols the
streets and alleys with the vigilance
that attaches to recognized danger
A force of over twenty men employed
by the Sam Yup association guards the
street corners for several blocks around
Little Pete's shoe factory and narrowly
watches the coming and going of the
Chinese known or supposed to be inim-
ical to Little Pete's faction. The prom
ineht men Of both Sam Yups and See
Yups go about only when accompanied
by strong body guard.
Private Detective John Callundan was
fined 500 or 100 days by Police Judge
Joachimsen for malicious mischief.
On the 18th Of October last, Callundan
in pursuance of instructions from the
Chinese consul, raidedl the club rooms of
the See Yup society in Chinatown and
destroyed over $4,000 worth of property
On the trial his attorney urged that as
Callundan acted by the direction of the
consul there was no malice on his part
The Callundan raid was one of the moves
in the Sam Yup-See Yup warfare which
resulted in the assassination Of Little
Pete"
A gigantic Chinaman is in the secret
cell of the city prison and the police are
confident that they have the murderer
of Little Pete. A white man, whose
name is withheld, was on Washington
street the night the murder was commit
ted, and he claims to have seen a Chinese
over six feet tall, run frccl the barber
shop just after the shooting. Tonight
he saw the same man and pointed him
out to policeman. The Chinese was
arrested ana taken TO Jail, where the
police refused to allow him to be inter
viewed.
POLITELY DECLINED.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The state
department has declined to be drawn
into the great factional fight now going
on in San Francisco between the two
big Chinese secret societieE, the Sam
Yups and the See Yups, which has been
marked already by murder and other
deeds of violence. About two weeks ago,
at the instance of Senator White, As
sistant Secretary Rockhill listened to
statement from San Francisco law
yer, representing the See Yups, who
sought to have the state department in
tervene to prevent the Chinese consul at
San Francisco from taking action hos
tile to that society. 1t was soon made
to the state department that
this was not a matter for action, GER
tainly, at this time, If at all. 1t is held
In the department the aggrieved society
must find it's recourse in the local law,
which can restrain the offending official
if cause is shown. If it is, however, held
by the local or state authorities that this
is case demanding the action of the
government the issue can be
made only by formal complaint by the
governor of California against the Chi
nese consul-general, which complaint,
If made in due course, will be laid before
the Chinese government through its
at Washington or through Mr..
Denby mioister at Pekin.