The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-23
MORE CHINESE ARRESTED.
Cinnamon Captured While Trying to
Smuggle Themselves into the U. S.


B. Thews succeeded in getting hold
of five more Cinnamon this week
who were trying to evade the pro-
visions of the Exclusion Act and
smuggle themselves into the United
States. The last batch was cap
tured at Standpoint, four of them
being the Cinnamon that evaded
capture on Tuesday night of last
week, when Deputy William Nc
Dermott captured four on the K.
V. bridge across the Kootenai, while
four escaped by jumping from the
high trestle. The fifth was one of
a party of three, two of whom were
captured, but one was found to
have his certificate while the third
eluded the officers.
Mr.. H. Sawyer, of Standpoint,
succeeded in making the last cap
Iure t, .v,
The four captured last week stood
trial before U. S. Commissioner
Chas. O'Callaghan and were ordered
deported. Deputy U, S. Marshal G.
A. Forseman came in Wednesday
and left with them for the coast.
The five last captured will be
given hearing today and will no
doubt get free transportation to
Hong Kong. -.
Among the last arrests was found
an old tffender-one Wong Sang,
who has been deported twice before
to the knowledge of the officers.
Wong Sang firstwon noteriety about
three ago by being linked up in
Chinese elOpement in which he ran
away with the buxom wife of Wah
Chung, a rich Chinese merchant at
Revelstdke. His fight with his
precious charge, through Bonners
Ferry and on to Great Falls over
th Great Northern, aud his arrest
at the latter place, will be recalled,
as well as Charlie Hill's gallantry in
restoring Wah Chung his wife. and
incidentally receiving the old mans
reward of $500 for the restoration
of his recreant spouse. Wong Sang
did not fare so we'll as the lady in
the case, as he was deported to
China. He next turned up last
September when he made another
attempt to break into the United
States, with a number of other
Cinnamon, via the Koo tenai Valley
route. They were all taken in be-
fore they got across the Kootenai
and of course deported. In six
months Wong Sang was back to
Victoria and here in less than a
year he is in the tolls of Officer
Thews again, and just how long he
will keep up this endless chain of
travel is hard to say. Sang claims
to have made a big winning in
Victoria he is a professional gam
bier and used to conduct big
Chinese gambling house il. Olym
pia-and has funds deposited in
China to provide for slch emergen-
cies as this. But of one thing hs
is quite positive-he will never try
to run away with Mrs Wah Chung
again. He says that affair cost him
5000 and deporta ton while she
proved to be a regular Tartar.
1t is not unlikely that Wong Sang
is the ring leader of the present
activity to run Cinnamon across
the border into the United States.
They get into Canada by paving an
entrance fee of $50 each, and then
try to evade the American officers
along the border and get in, which
no doubt they often do, as the
patrols are few and far between
Hon. r V. Cozier, United States
District Attorney, arrived last night
from Moscow to prosecute the cases
against the Chires
Miss Margaret Hood visited
Fort Hill last ednesday. Miss
Hood commences term of school
at Port Hill on the 9th
Mrs. Louis zimmerman was in
Spokane this week.
MIR. Ed. ellison and Mr.. A. J.
Kent are in today from the Buck
horn.
The quarantine against the