The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-28
seek MONEY
TO DUST THE
f. !. LIEUTENANT
Price DistastefuI to
..: Highbinders:
fHiEE. STOPS THEIR FIGHTING
PARTICIPANTS OF THE LAST
=. FIGHT TO GO TO CHINA.
T1erchants, Disguised at Murder
Over a PaItry Sum of Money,
-. VIII Drive the Guilty Ones
. From the Country.
Ill., STOPS THEIR FIGHTING
PARTICIPANTS OF THE LAST
=. FIGHT TO GO TO CHINA.

While rumors of trouble are rife in Chi
natown and the police are keeping a sharp
lookout for miX-up between the numer-
Gus tOngs, the knowing ones among the
Chinese say that as long as Lieutenant
Price is kept in the district there will be
little danger of shooting. The highbinders
fear him and it is generally known, and
the report was circulated among the mer-
chants last night that the bad men of the
Sam YUps and See Yups are seeking to
have the plucky officer removed. There
Is a general desire to fight, but while Price
remains among them the hatchetmen will
he very careful in all of their actions.
''Eieutenat Plice allie samee likee tiger
. TO. highbinder," said a prominent Sam
Yup last night, and then he went on to
say. that, fearing the lieutenant as the
highbinders co, it is the general desire to
have him taken from Chinatown. The
same informant stated that the different
tQngs were trying to secure money which
, is..to be- expended to that end. A promi-
n@nt lawyer is to be retained, and through
him. an effort will be made to either re-
nloNe Lieutenant Price from the force or
haVe.his district changed. The good work
done by the lieutenant in that portion Of
the city will probably prevent any such
attempt Of the Cinnamon being success
The: merchants. who are all for peace
= and :order, rejoice at the fact that Price
. has been detailed in the Chinese quarter,
and are unanimous in the assertion that if
Pc ne were taken away there would be more
fighting than at present.
= The fact that the Suey Sing-Suey Din
war was Waged in MarySVille instead OF
in this city, where it originated, is at
trIbuted to the fact that the members Of
the tongs feared the wrath Of the lieu
tenant.
The. Sam Yups held a meeting Sunday,
aud although they at first refused to pros
ecute Way Yum Hung, the alleged muir
d6rer of Pom Hung, who was killed last
Saturday night. il is said they now have
decided INT
are very angry at the two tongs which
*O9k part in the fight. The entire trou-
DE started over bill Of 81, and the mer-
clEants are so angry at the fact that a
murder was done over so trivial a cause
- THAT an attempt will be made by them to
SEND hack to China all of those directly
RnG. Indirectly implicated in the affair. 1t
IS. stated that the Bing On men had sent
the money demanded by the 81 On Sears
to the rooms of the latter the night of the
\ shooting. The time set for its payment
5WaS S clock, and when it did not come
the fighting men were sent out to look
for the Bing On men. Cinnamon who
should know say that barely five minutes
b had elapsed after the departure of the
men with guns when the messenger from
fine Bing On's arrived with the money.
There is considerable doubt among the
Cinnamon as to whether Way Yum Hung,
charged with the murder of Pom Hung,
or Chan 81 Wing, as some give his name.
fired the fatal shot. The murderer, it is
stated. escaped into the Globe Hotel, a
few doors below the scene of the shoot
Ing. Ihere We're SIX men IN the war par
ty, three on each side, and all of these
have been accounted for. They are the
dead man, the one under arrest, the one
who entered the Globe Hotel, two who
b escaped into st. Louis alley, and another
who was seen by white man entering a
lodging house on Jackson street near
Kearny. The latter carried a gun up the
sleeve of his right arm, the barrel resting
In the palm of his hand.
lieutenant Price is of the opinion that
he has the murderer under arrest and
hopes to be able to convict him. Way
Yum Hung stated at first that he did not
own the pistol which he was seen to
throw away, which may go against him.
with the wounds in his hands it is very
There was but one exploded cartridge in
his gun, and as it is said by witnesses
that Pom Hung was the one who fired the
have killed the ST On Scar man. Judge
EerraI has been retained for the defense
Of the prisoner.