The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-06
THE CHINESE .MlXUP.
MRS. C. H. KING IS ON TRAIL
OF zee SING.
Will Make Him Prove His State
ments-She Sends a Typewriter
Letter to the Herald in Refuta-
ton of His Charges.

A warrant for the arrest of Yee
Sing, accusing the big Frisco CHINA
man with libel, was issued last night
at the instigation of Mrs. c. H. King,
a relative of zee Yen. The charge is
only another phase of the acrimonious
difficulty in the Chinese colony, arising
from the Yen, embezzlement.
Mrs. King has assumed the initiative
in the stubborn defense waged by in
fuential Chinese merchants in behalf
of their erring countryman. Her clever
stratagem to offset the prosecution be-
gun by Wong Chong Ling & Co. has
aroused the antipathy of zee Sing,
who is at the head of the firm with
which Yen dealt falsely. He has shown
a marked aversion to the little Ameri-
can born Chinese woman whose more
civilized wit has been pitted against
his cunning.
On several occasions while in court
and again in the privacy of his tenn
porary residence in Plum alley, this
Chinaman who brought some prestige
With him from San Francisco has
commented upon her interference in no
complimentary terms. Mrs. King re-
SistS these imputationS. The Herald is
not aware that the insinuation of zee
Sing has the least foundation, nor is
this paper in possession OF any facts
regarding what Mrs. King has done in
the past. 1t has had cogniZance of
the current talk among the Chinese
mixed up in the zee. Yen wrangle and
among other things it develops that the
little Chinese woman has been the tar
get for the inuendoes of that portion
of the colony arrayed against her rela-
tive. That she is, at least, no ordinary
Chinese has come to the knowledge of
The Herald in a rather unexpected
manner. for in refutation of zee Sing
she has addressed herself to this paper
in a form rather foreign to the meth
DDS of communication used by her peo
pie. Her remarks have been couched
in the up-to-date form of a clearly
constructed typewriter document that
reveals a history more uncommonplace
than that which zee Sing and some of
his ill1 attribute to her. 1t would seem
from this statement that Mrs. King is
a educated woman with an apparent
trait of sincerity not expected in the
citizenship of China.
In refuting the language of zee Yen,
she states that she has been in the
world for % years, having been born
near Sacramento of respectable Chi
nese parents and living under their pro-
nine wears. when her father went to
China because of blindness. To defray
the expenses of the trip he borrowed
funds from Chin Git of the firm of Sin,
Gun, Wah & Co., proprietors of one of
the most reliable Japanese bazaars in
this country. Mrs. King was pawned
to the family of Chin Git as security
for the debt. Mrs. King paid the obli-
cation by remaining as security for
f,arO rat n
living under her guidance for another
year, when she went to work in the
family of Tom Bing Ju, a, mill owner
ard lumber dealer of repute. Then she
became engaged with the family of
Jee Gam. a teacher who has held the
responsible position of interpreter IN
the Oakland court for the past 20 years,
and is now a Christian minister.
Tracing herself further, she finds
employment under Miss Wooley, SUI
rerintendent in a Chinese school and q
daughter of a former city attorney in
San Francisco. Under her care Mrs.
King continued until her marriage,
about seven years ago, although for IS
months she mentions an absence at
Darlington, Pa, where she was do
nestle in the family circle of Rev. H.
A. Griffith, an Episcopal minister Later
she performed services in The family of
Mr. Moffatt, a retired contractor, and
still later in the family OF Mr.. p. Lewis,
a commission buyer.
This is what my life has been, and
not otherwise" she continued. She de-
MES that she has ever been in a house
of the character impugned to her In
raging her resDects to zee Sing, she
disclains any acquaintance with him,
but on the other hand, is ready to say
that he is not a Chinese consul general
land holds no public office" Last night, !
in conversation with The Herald, she
said the man was an imposter and
nothing more than an ordinary Chinese
policeman in San Francisco, a class of
there who were held in no spec |
ial regard.
This morning one of the attachment |
suits filed against zee Sings firm. or
the one in which he has interested him
self. is to be tried in a Justices court of
the city. zee Sing does not relish the |
in which he finds himself, |
and says that the latest move of Mrs. /
King is simply play to keep him from /
testifying in the pending civil case. He
is DISPOSED to fight the libel case and
is now engaged in gathering evidence /
TO support his assertions.
Mrs. Kings statement at least con- I
mans out her past, and she |
ray be able to make it unpleasant for
the visiting merchant