The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-18
RICH CHINAMEN IN TROUBLE.
They Come to Appeal From Sentences of
Death or imprisonment.

New York, March H. Ten anxious
Cinnamon arrived from San Francisco
yesterday in IL private car on their way to
Washington. 1t is their purpose to try
and induce the Chinese minister there to
persuade his Celestial majesty. the en-
peror, to release two of them from the
sentence of death. which had been passed
upon them, and to free the others from
the danger of being imprisoned should
they revisit the land of their birth.
The party contains Lee Kaing Chow.
who is said to have gathered Il fortune of
s., 000,000; Lee Fook, who has made $500, :
COO in the tobacco trade; Chan See Doom,
n rice and tea merchant; Wong Shat
Shung, whose fortune is estimated at
S5C0,000; Loui Shook, Ching Wang Way,
zee lIo Chung, zee Hop Wu, Fang Ye
Kaing and Moy Bing Fun, the interpre-
ter. j. G. Campbell and Thomas a.
Keough, of San Francisco, are with the
rarty TO pilot them through the nt,ica-
cies of the law and see that their case is
properly presented.
Fong 70 Kaing is the president of
the See Yup Society, mutual benefit
organization incorporated under the laws
of California. His companions are all
members of the society, and this is what
got them into trouble. The See Yups
are the rivals of the Sam Yups Both
have close relations with the powerful
Six Companies.
AS Mr.. Campbell explained it, the Six
Companies maintains Il sort of society
for the suppression of vice and crime.
This is the Wee Hui Lung. Its business
is to keep the run of all the dark doings
OF tile Chinese in this country, and to
give testimony against lawbreakers when
it is needed. The Sam Yups got control
of this society, Mr.. Campbell says, and
had several Cinnamon who had been con
victed of crime and had ''done time AID.
pointed on the board of inspectors. These
men act as its agents.
The See Yups protested against these
appointments to the Chinese consul at
san Francisco, Fung Yeong Heng, but
he refused to interfere The controversy
ended in Il boycott between the societies.
The consul ordered this to be declared
of, and the See Yups obeyed, but told
him that there would he trouble while the
inspectors remained
The See Nups were particularly ag-
erieved nj the appointment of the agent
because, it is alleged. they We're most Ger
tain to convict See Yup and to exoner-
ate Il sam Yup.
The consul then sent to Minister Yang
Hu, in Washington, history that the see
\ ups We're rebels, full of treason, and
that they were plotting the overthrow OF
the emperor, for which purpose they were
collecting munitions OF war. The min
lister prepared an indictment containing
the charges and sent it home. The re-
suit was the emperor caused the property
of seventeen of the See Yllps To he seized,
imprisoned many of their relatives, con
demncd Lee Kning Chow and Ching
Wang Way to he behea bed and sentenced
the others to imprison bent for life if
they ever set foot in the Sempire again
IL is tC secure the rcle. Ne of their rclu
tiveS and 10 get their proNrty back, as
well rs to secure the revo>Vtion of the
sentences, that an appeal wilT1e made to
Minister yin. The delegates wii.~charge
before him that Consul lIcng, aftesNDthe
boycott, offered Chief of Police Crowl,--
OF san Francisco. $4,000 indemnity if he
would break up the See Iup hcadquar
tcrs, and that when the chief refused lac
hired bar of white men To 90 at them
and do $1,000 worth of damages. One
man has been tried anu convicted of this
o.rcnsc.