The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-23
THE BOW WONGS
AND The CONSUL
THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICIAL
WILL VINDICATE YANG WEI PIN
SAY LOCAL PATRIOTS.

For ways that are dark" the Chi
nese Imperial Government appears to
be making a record in the matter of the
4 charges of opium smuggling against
Yang Wei Pin, consul to the Hawaiian
Islands, but now on a vacation which
may become permanent. San Frances
co Consul General Chow Yu Kwan is
thought by the Bow Wongs to be
charged with the mission of making an
investigation, but says that he has no
such business on hand. AS a matter
of fact, when the last investigation
was made, it was not known to the
Bow WOngs who had much to do with
bringing the charges, until after re-
port had been made.
I The Bow WOngs do not hesitate to
charge that the last report sent to Chi
ma yindicating Yang Wei Pin, was paid
for. The man who made the report
generating Yang Wei Pin has since
complained that Yang did not pay him
enough for it," said James w. Girvin,
who, aside from Collector Stackable, is
the man most mixed up in the case.
GlrVin occupies a unique position in
the local Chinese situation. He was
connected with the custom house for
number of years, in the immigration
department, and became familiar with
the Chinese and for several years he
lltlo itltu DIS duNlSeI 10 many Oh lneIn.
The Bow Wong Wui has often secured
his services to assist in writing Eng
lsh documents of various sorts, and
GlrVn is an earnest sympathizer with
the Bow Wong cause. Anyone who
wants to see China progress and take
the great place she ought to have in
the world, cannot help, but be a Bow
Wong sympathizer," said Girvin.
Among others, many of them Chi
nese, who have watched the unending
controversy, it is thought that if a
commissioner comes to Hawaii at all
to make an investigation, he will come
practically with instructions how to re-
port in advance. If it is desired to sus-
tain the counsel, the commissioner VII
know it, and he will act accordingly.
Perhaps he may have to be grossly in
suited" after the manner of the Japan
csc official of the "MikadO."
The evidence in the case, it is stated,
is so indefinite that positive decision
is matter of great of great difficulty.
There were efforts for a time to pro-
coed against the consul criminally in
the courts here, but it was decided that
there was not enough evidence to con-
vince a jury. Those on the trail of the
consul traced a lot of boxes which
they had some reason to believe con-
tanned opium, from a steamer to the
consulate, and one package of opium
they claim to have traced definitely.
Another circumstance alleged which is
held to be significant is that at the
time when the smuggling is supposed
to have taken place, the consul was
sending large sums of money to China
by draft. His balances ought to have
been the other way say the Bow
Wongs, and the money must have gone
to pay for opium. 1t is known that
there were large quantities smugglei
into Honolulu.
The Bow Wongs declare that Yang
Wei Pin is not coming back to Homo
lulu. His friends say that he viii re-
turn at the end of his vacation, and
they promise some disclosures which
will make a sensation among whites as
well as Chinese in Honolulu, and some
proceedings against those who have
been attacking the good name OF the
consul.