The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-09

Believe, pray you. Mr.. Minister,
that I am well informed and say moth
ing lightly.
Purpose is DETERMINATION
Religious prosecution is only one OBJ
ject. The real purpose is the extermi-
nation of Europeans. a purpose which
is clearly set forth and written upon
the banners of the Boxers. Their as
sistants await them at Pekin. where
they viii begin by attacking the
churches and finish with the legations
For us here at the Paitang the day
is practically ended. All the city know
it; everybody is speaking Of it, and a
popular outbreak is manifest.
Yesterday evening forty-three poor
women and their children, flying from
the massacre, arrived at the house OF
the sisters. More than 500 persons ac-
companied them, saving 70 them that
if they had escaped IS once they
would soon die with the others
Mr.. Minister, I do not speak 10 you
of placardS without number which are
posted in the city against Europeans
in general Each day new ones appear
more explicit than the others. Those
who thirty years ago were present at
the Tien Tsin massacre was struck with
the resemblance of the situation then
to that of today; the same placards,
same threats, the same warnings and
the same blindness.
Then also as today the missionaries
wrote and duplicated. foreseeing the
horrible awakening
Under these circumstances, Mr..
Minister. I believe it my duty to ask
you kindly 10 send US at least forty or
fifty marines TO protect our persons and
our property. This has been done I'M
der circumstances much less critical,
and I hope you viii take into cOnSidera-
ton our humble prayer.
Please accept. Mr.. Minister. the as
surance of the respects and the pro-
found gratitude with which I have the
honor TO be. your eXceIlency's very
humble and obedient servant,
CALF. FAVIER,
Bishop Apostolic Vicar at Pekin-
$ JARLIN, Bishop CoadJurOr-
&C. GUILLOUX, Vicar General"
Boxers at Doors of Missions.
Enclosure No. -.
Mr.. Killie TO Mr.. Conger:
''Tingsham. San Ho County (thirty-
five miles east of PelIin), May Is, 1900.
Hon. Edwin E. Conger, E. E. & n. P,
Pekin. China:
Dear Sir-I have delayed giving you
where the 1 Ho C'Huan Tor T'Uan) is
in active operation, until could verify
beyond question the statements here
tofOre made concerning the same
am now prepared to show that mem
bers Of that organization practice prac-
Tically daily in each of the following
thirteen places:
1. San .Ho City. the county seat: 2.
Lingshan. a village thirty-five Ii north
=
byterian mission owns twenty i'm
proved native buildings and where two
American missionaries spend the most
of their time; here the Boxers come to
our very doors to practice and l have
personally seen them at il twice; 3,
Chang no Chuang; 4. C'Heng Kuan
Ying; 3. Shi Kuan Ying: 6. TAO Chung
Tsi; Z, C'Hu TOu; 8, Tsung CHA Tien;
9, Siao Sung KO Chuang; 10, SiaO T'Sui
Ko Chuang; II. CHA Kuan Ying; y,
Siao Koo Shien Chuang, where the
boarding school for girls and where
there is also located one of the foreign
lady missionary evangelists.
These places are all in the neigh
borhood of Ling Shang. our headquar-
ters- Is. Pao ii Hsien. the county seat.
100 Ii TO the southeast OF this place.
where we have had a native evangelist
at work for over a year. At this place
great numbe ; of men (said TO be as
many as 200 or 800. practice openly
every day.
Threats Are Openly Made
1T is only recently that open threats
l-of violence have been made againsa
the foreign missionaries here and
against the native Christians, but they
are now almost of daily occurrence.
toned above. eight Ii from this place,
where every evening the people from
| several villages meet to practice the
I Ho C'Huan maneuvers, on the 18th
! inst. Mr.. Wang Ting Hsiang, one of
the owners of the ground where the
practicing is done, forbade one Of our
evangelists. who is native of that
! place. to come where they were D~ac-
ticing, saying to him, among other
threatening things, that they were pre-
| pairing to destroy the foreigners at Ling
Shang. and their followers, the native
! Christians.
'Furthermora yesterday. May "A
when two of our native preachers went
to the San Ho Yamen with a letter
| from me to that official, they were
recognized as Christian evangelists
and followed by the people TO the va
men and repeatedly threatened with
| death There were many calls fol
/ knives to kill them with. The ofhcial
was absent from the city so they die
not see him. They actually suffered
! no physical violence. but that was
| doubtless only because of their OWL
| patience and forbearance-
Put Medicine in the Wells.
'An about us men were actively stir
! ring UP feeling against US, saying tina
/ we are poisoning the wells, and many
/ villages have already purchased native
medicines TO put into the wells L
I counterfeit the effect of the supposed
poison.
THE recent rains which we hav,
1 had in Pekin have not reached thil
part of the country and hence no farm
ing can be done. The people are idl.
and distressed at having no crops anC
are consequently easily misled by III
designing men who are so activel,
propagating this society
The 1 Ho C'Huan is spreading lik
wild fire over all this district. Wher
two months ago il was practically I'm
known. today there are scores Of activ
societies. which are rapidly becomini
aggressive ones and unless your eX
cellency can secure the immediate an
vigorous action of the Chinese govern
ment in suppressing it and in punish
ing a few leaders it is certain (humar
ly speaking), that it is only a questiot
Of very short time when there vii
be a violent uprising in all this dis
Irict 1 believe that it is not yet to
late 10 suppress it if taken hold G
in earnest by the Chinese officials, bu
in my judgment land have passe
} through several such experiences in m
ten or more years in China), there
| not day 10 spare.
Praying your excellency's kind OF
fees in our behalf I am your obedien
servant. CHARLES A. KILLIE.''