The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-11
SUBJECT OF PACE SKETCH
Billings Chinese Woman Compliment
ed by Artist and Writer Of
Prominent Daily.
From Mondays Daily Gazette.

south side this morning it was
to find herself famous. A copy of the
Anaconda Standard was thrust into
her hand and she was confronted by
a halftone picture of her real self and
several chalk plate sketches, more or
less ideal and the fancy of the artist.
The picture, together with the write
up" filled an entire page. So much
attention from a leading newspaper
would have caused am ordinary wo-
man to have gone into e%cstacies of de-
light. But instead Of tickling her van
ity and causing her to tread on air,
Annie took the matter the other way
and felt inclined to resent what she
considered unwonted liberty with her.
self by a man or men she did not
know and had never heard of. For
Annie is not an ordinary woman
To begin with she is a pure blood
ed Chinese, Notwithstanding that she
was born in this country and claims
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Beside being known under the name
she says is her rightful appellation,
she has also sometimes been known
as Yute Ho. But this was when a
mere child, the pet of wealthy old
Foy 10y Ty, who kept a store in New
Orleans and dealt in the wares i'm
ported from his own home across the
Pacific. She was educated in the
schools of this country and her moth
er being American born, she was
more or less A~mericanized and the
name of Annie Lewis was given to
her when baptized, for Annie was
reared a Christian.
When old enough to become mar
ried she was given to a fellow coun-
tryman of her father, who had no use
for anything American and whose
name is Ching Ping Tin. Ching prov
ed to be about an average "chink"
and it vas not long before he decided
that in his wife he had an easy way of
gaining a livelihood and attempted to
induce her to submit to the customs
moral purposes. To this she demur-
red and left him to make her own
living in accordance with her %civiliz-
ed and Christianized notions of true
womanhoo1 She came to Billings
and secured employment as a waitress
in a restaurant. Ching followed her
and in order to rid herself of him en-
tirely and escape his prosecutions she
last January filed under the name of
Art Tin, a bill for a divorce, which
was granted her. Since then she has
continued in the city and is still en-
ployed as a waitress.
Fooled, but not utterly defeated,
Ching is now attempting to bring
about her deportation to China. He
alleges hat she is here .unlawfully
and is not a moral or fit person to be
permitted to remain in the country
under the provisions of the exclusion
act. To circumvent the sinful and de-
signing Ching is now her endeavor
and she has appealed to Clerk of the
Court Williams to aid her.
She says her identification papers
given to her over 10 years ago by the
collector of customs at the port of
New Orleans, have become lost and
she desires copies of them. Mr.. Will
liams wrote the collector and in re-
Spouse to several letters is finally in
receipt of an answer, but not of an
encouraging nature. The collector de-
clares that after a careful and thor
ough search of the records of his Of
flee he has been unable to find any
Identification entry pertaining to a
person named Annie Lewis or Annie
Loui. But Annie has not yet given
up her struggle against her erst-
while husband.
When she saw the copy of the news
paper that made her the subject of
so much illustrating and wordy at
tention she fastened to the office of
Mr.. Williams, paper in hand, and
wanted to know what it all meant,
saying she had never been divorced
at San Francisco, as the clerk we'll
knew, and a~nxiously desired to be
informed il the thing was not a part
Of the scheme Of Ching to make her
trouble and cause her to be deported.
Her fears in that respect were quiet
ed and she left. but not in the hap
piest frame of mind.
Meanwhile Mr.. Williams will write
New Orleans once mor and ask
hat the record concerning Foy 10y
81 and Yute Ho be looked into. as
annie thinks that very likely her
ather gave his and her Chinese