Arizona republican., 1900-07-23
A RAID ON CHINESE.
Visit of Health Officers Gives
 Rise to Wild RumOrs
A Chinaman's Story of Blood-A Sup position That Retaliation Was to Be Made for the 0utrages Com mitted by the Boxers.

New York, July 22.-When squad Of
 policemen made a descent upon China
 town today all kinds of rumors flew
 thick and fast about an outbreak there
 were more generality credited by the
 Americans than by the Chinese, how
 ever. one Chinaman, voicing the gener-
 al sentiment when he said: Police man."
 It soon transpired that the policemen
 were no other than the sanitary squad,
 under Acting Captain Geghegan and Sergeant Paulding, who were assisting Assistant Sanitary Inspector F. H. Dal- lingham, Chief Alonzo Blauvelt, of the bureau of courageous diseases, and Dr. Feeney of the board of health. In other words, Chinatown was to be disinfect- ed.
 It was a little early for callers in Chinatown, for the sanitary squad got to work at a. m., and the Celestials usually retire about ? a. m. and awake at 10 or Il a. m.
 The idea is very persistent that the Chinese are not a cleanly people, but there was nothing to indicate this in tOdays visit. Everywhere the floors and stairways were scrubbed white with water and sand, and in one Mott street tenement two wash basins stood side by side and over them eight towels, each hanging on a separate nail, bore much testimony to the cleanly habits of the Chinese. "The Chinese are a good deal cleaner than they look said a wash themselves four or five times a day. and they keep their houses clean"
 Just as the officers reached 20 Mott street Louis Tuck Chan, who lives on the third floor. rear, came rushing up stairs, with terror spread all over his face, and in excited tones told his white wife, who is blind, that three Chinamen were murdered up town last night and one in Brooklyn, on account of the Boxer outbreak in China. The wife re- fused to believe the story, but it was some time time before Chan could be made to believe that the story his cousin had told him was untrue. The incident illustrates the uncertainty and suspicion that prevails in Chinatown at present
 ha of f-irn y4-I,a no officers descended upon the Chinese theater, at Nos. , and Doyers street. Under the theater is a large basement, about forty feet square, with only two small windows, leading to an airshaft The room was dark at monday. and had a musty smell. In the center was a cook stove and all around tables, evil dently used for eating. The proprietor of the theater, Gim Ling, said that the employees of the theater ate there.
 Several doors in frail wooden parti- tions on one side of the room attracted the attention of the officers. Keys were but were not forthcoming, and Officer Alfred Powers, who weighs about 250 pounds, put his shoulder 10 the door. No second effort was needed. Inside was a room less than six feet square. containing two hunks. The only ventilation was an opening two feet square over the door, into the eel lar, and this was covered with a piece of cloth. The second door was burst in as the first was, and another similar compartment found. Here the venti- lation measured four by twelve inches. Inside were two hunks, one above the other. and a complete opium layout.
 Officer Powers was just putting his shoulder to the third door when a faint vail was heard inside. He hesitated, and some one shouted. Come out The next minute a very scared Chinaman at the door and was ordered to vacate. Other rooms followed. seven in all. One on the front side of the building had a window opening out under the sidewalk. It was evidently the guest chamber or parlor, or what ever the principal room in an opium joint may be called. There were hunks for two people. two finely carved pipes and one of the finest opium layouts to be seen in Chinatown.