The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-01
HE'S ROUGH HOUSE
The Chop suey Place Is Invaded
and Things Are Smashed.
POLICE HAVE TO BE CALLED
Customer Says He Lost $4O-NIoy Hee
Says Charge Was Made Only
to Make Trouble.

That distinctively American institution
known as rough house" impresses Moy
Hee, Moy Foo and Coon Sam, three Chi
nese residents of Minneapolis, very un-
favorably. Perhaps they would have
thought differently Of it. had they wit
messed a session" as disinteresteds on
lockers. But they were the principal
participants, and it was their cued heads
that suffered and their furniture that was
broken.
Moy Hee's new chop suey house on
First avenue S was the scene of the
trouble. A party of six, four men and
two women, went into the restaurant
shortly before g. O'Clock this morning.
There were five orders for chop suey and
one for chicken. Each was listed at Is
cents, but the person ordering the chick
en- offered to pay extra for little white
meat This made the total charge SLIGO.
According to Moy Hee's story, the peo-'
pie made trouble from the time they
entered the house, and, in fact, he be-
lieves it was their avowed intention to
create disturbance. First, he says, they
were dissatisfied with the location of the
table they had been seated at, and
changed their places. They complained
of the food without reason, says Moy
Hee, and when they got up to leave
they We're politely asked by Coon Sam,
one Of the WATERS to pay. He was told
that the sextette had no money, and they
started to leave the place. Coon Sam
placed himself between them and the
door and expressed his determination to
stand his ground until payment was
made. After much dickering one of the
men borrowed some change from another
member of the party and paid the $3.50.
3Theyx.then started out.
They had just left the room when one
of the men ran back. yelling to Moy Hee:
"I've lost my pocketbook in your place.
1t contained $40. You must get it for
me, you yellow Chinaman.'
..Wherei you losee it?'' inquired the i'm
perturbable proprietor. "Me helpee you
find it,
you've got 1t. I know you. You must
tgdve nue. $40 or my pocketbook and
money!" yelled the man.
Your money no here" protested the
Chinaman. The patron strobe across the
room to the table where the party had
sat, and made search; overturning the
table and upsetting chairs Coon Sam
stood near him, says Moy Hee, and the
burly patron knocked him down. Moy
Foo, an attentive and busy little waiter,
who is mere boy, hurried in to aid his
countryman who was lying PROSTATE on
the floor, and the stranger, Hee says,
lifted one Of the heavy oak chairs over
his head and yelled:
"Ill knock the heads off of all these
Cinnamon s&2@
With that he struck the Chinese lad
with the chair. The blow cut a cash in
the walters head and he fell to the floor,
crying out in unadulterated Chinese and
probably saying some very uncomplimen-
tary things about his assailant.
Moy Hee, the proprietor, thought the
man was going to smash everything III
his. place. Already he had broken the
glass in the cigar case, had overturned
tables and chairs and had knocked out
two attaches. Dispatching Charley Wing,
a laundryman who was visiting with him,
for policeman down the First avenue s
stairway, he himself went down the
Third street exit, several steps at leap.
Wing encountered Patrolman Flood but
had much trouble explaining what was
going on in the chop suey house, for what
little English he did know was badly
used because of his shortness of breath.
Finally Flood and Lieutenant Ginsberg
started for the restaurant. The trouble
some patrons had wrought as much ruin
to the men and things about the place as
possible and were turning to go when the
officers arrested them They gave the
names Of F. g.. Johnson, F. G.. James and
C. A. johnson. The other man and the
two women had departed when the trou-
BILE started. Coon Sam and Moy Foo were
also taken to the Central station In po-
lice court this morning the trial Of the
trouble makers was set for tomorrow
at g.