The San Francisco call., 1901-12-07

TT the presence of at least half a
dozen white men Wong Get, a Chi
nese laborer, was fatally shot on
II Commercial street near Kearny, at
o'clock yesterday afternoon, dying
a short time after receiving his wounds.
Four shots were fired at him at close
range, all of which took effect. Sergeant
Conboy, Detective Tom Gibson and Off
Ger Herlihy arrested three Cinnamon on
suspicion of being implicated in the muir
der. One of them, who gave his name
as Yee Loon, was identified later by Dan
ME Love, a 14-year-old boy, who lives
at 1710 Stockton street, as the man who
fired the fatal shots. Loves story of the
shooting is as follows:
I was walking along Commercial street and
when near Kearny 1 saw two Cinnamon fol-
lowing another. When within a few feet of
the Chinese who was alone one of the men
who were following him drew a long revolver
and fired four shots at his victim AS he fell
to the sidewalk the man who did the shooting
threw the smoking revolver away and ran into
4 house a few feet from where his victim lay
breathing his last
I stood in front of the murderer hoping to
force him to run down the street, where a
number of white people were standing, but he
brushed me aside and ran up the stairs.
called to several police officers who had
of what had seen They quickly entered the
house into which the murderer ran, and lying
on bed partly undressed, they found Yee
positive that he is the murderer.
Witnessed by Whites.
At least twenty white people were
crossing Commercial street on Kearny
when the murder was committed. Many
of them, after the first shot was fired,
erai % fusiiiade Vas was about bout II to Toll follow sel As
soon as the police reached the scene they
found the wounded Chinaman lying in
the doorway of a house at I'll CONNER
a n1 III
q q
members of the former committee are
out of the State, Chairman Cooper will
announce their successors in a few days.
N. w. Motherall of Hanford, on behalf
of the Supervisors Of Kings County, ex-
tended an invitation to the convention to
meet in that city next year,
ID. G. McCallum Of OroVille presented
the claims of the northern citrus belt, and
John Dore of Fresno named Los Angeles.
Several of the delegates named San Fran.
cisco. A vote was taken by the showing
of hands and the result was announced
as follows: Hanford 9, Los Angeles Z,
Oroville 2 and San Francisco IT, AS the
State Board of Horticulture has the Sc
lection of the place of meeting the result
of the vote will be sent to that body.
The chair announced the appointment
of the following committees:
Awards on fruit exhbits-E. Berwick Pro-
fessor Hausmann and Edward NJ Ehrhorn.
NlCdI Sdlldi-FI@s DeIWlSh, T AQduS
and B. n. Rowley.
H. p: stabler in his paper, County
Have tso AccomplsRed, com Which H was si read nb by
Secretary John Isaacs, said that there
were boards in twenty-nine of the coun-
ties of the State, and that they were con-
pests and diseases and enforcing quaran-
tine laws.
J. w, Nelson's paper on "The Fruit
Grower and His Work" was also read
h1y Snnnnforxy IL coid ,it
industry at present brought to the State
$40 900 OO0 annually, and soon would reach
800 900 900.
An Interesting history of fruit pests
parasites and insect life was read by Ed
ward M. Ehrhorh. The paper showed a
deep research and close acquaintance with
the habits, habitats and enemies of the
baEe of the orchardist.
Professor c. w. Woodworth of the de-
partment of entomology of the Univer-
sity of California gave history Of the
lecture by a series of charts.
Food Adulteration," by Professor M
E. Jaffa of the University of California
vas an able argument for the establish.
ment of a State bureau of inspection
which would have power to examine all
samples submitted to it, declare the re-
suit and publish the name of the offend
ing manufacturer. He said such a plar
had been followed in many Eastern States
and productive of much good. He
devoted considerable attention to the use
of preservatiyes and explained their ac-
ton on the human stomach.
Alexander Craw's paper dealt with
What California Has Done for Agrioul.
ture." He gave a history of the efforts
to exterminate insects and enforce quar-
antine laws.
w. o. Emerson closed the programme
by an entertaining essay on birds in their
relation to horticulture and agriculture.
The final business of the session was
the passage Of votes Of thanks to the
State Board of Horticulture for the ex.
eellent programme presented, to the press
for its reports, to Chairman Cooper .and
Vice Chairman Wickson for their fair.
ness and courtesy and to B. n. Rowley
chairman of the committee of arrange
ments, for his work
The convention then adjourned without
dau