The San Francisco call., 1898-04-14
HE COT HIS CHINESE BACK A Search on the Front for a Shanghaied
 Celestial. M. Hart Lost His Cook and Brought Out the
 Police. Louis Yum Sing Made His Disappear ance Because He Owes
 Money

Mark Hart has lost and found his Chi nese cook. and thereby hangs tale or 'm- pressment, shanghai and nocturnal Wan- derings on the water front with cordon of police in vain endeavor to recover pos session of a son of Asia Louis Yum Sing Is the Celestial in question. and his mys- terious disappearance has been the cause of it all
 Without warning of any kind Louis Yum Sing left the Hart household on California street late in the afternoon last Monday, and since that time care full and well planned search was in- stituted. Yum Sing did not disappear Of his own free will. When he left the California street house he was escorted by another Asiatic, who called for the very purpose of carrying the servant away with him. The fact of Yum Sings leaving the Harts so uncere- moniously is attested by neighbors who saw the two Chinese walk down Califor- mia street together. They also say that Yum Sing was very excited, shouting vo- ciferously and gesturing like man who saw impending evil ahead, but could not avoid 1t.
 At the time of his departure Yum Sing was in the midst of his culinary duties. A dinner was in preparation and that IS house returned home for the evening he found his wife and children scattered about, searching for the departed. Louis found. Dinner at the Hart house hold was late that night, and 1t was hardly finished before Mark Hart determined to report the matter to the police, and with their cooperation at tempt to track his elusive chef de cul- sine.
 The day following Hart was surprised by visit from two sons Of Confuclus. With weird and mysterious manner they inquired if he had lost his. cook. They knew all about 1t and out of mere friend, acquaint Hart with full details of his abduction and impressment. Their story is this: Louis Yum Sing, owed an other yellow skinned Oriental SIS and had at all times refused and still refuses to pay the same. For this persistent de- termination to avoid his obligations the scheme which has proved to be coup de grace. He fell upon the credulous Yum Sing at an opportune moment and by the cogency of his reasoning induced the latter to go with him. The two in formers say that Yum Sing was carried aboard the Indiana, steamer that will sail for Alaska this morning. The cred itor is according to their story the boss of Chinese gang got together for Yu- kon service.
 After listening to, this, plausible tale delegated. to accompany him in the search of the steamer lying at Spear street, and on Tuesday evening the Chi nese hunters took the field. At the liar bor Police Station an additional force was attached to the squad and the hunt proceeded.
 The party went direct to the Indiana. and the officer in charge of the moonlight expedition demanded admittance. This thority was displayed sesamic results followed; All through the ship the party searched with Hart in vain. To his re- peated cries of Louis" no response was given, and after little blasphemy the disappointed band returned to the liar bor Police Station, weary and wharf stained
 Yesterday morning Hart received an- other visit from Chinese. The tenor of his story is that Louis Yum Sing was on the ship, but that the boss, expecting a search, sequestered him in Chinatown. and that just before the ship is to sail to-day the shanghaied Celestial will be carried aboard.
 Late yesterday afternoon MT. Hart, with two police officers. found the China man locked in a room back of a butcher shop on Dupont street. He was released and taken home. He said he had been on board the Indiana, but had been sent ashore when the search was made.