Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-09-19

proprietor, Ping Lung, an old and
emaciated Chinaman, nearly 20 years
old, and bis assistant, All Sam, had
retired for the night They were
aroused by the breaking in of the
door; two men entered and com
manded them to leave at once, and
accompanied their orders with a
rain Of blows on the heads of the
Cinnamon when they demurred and
asked for little time. This, how
ever, was not given them, and they
were jerked out into the road and
half led and half dragged they we're
taken to point a mile and half
west of town, and after being made
to give up their possessions they
were told to 90 out into the night.
All Sam made pretense of going,
but after short while he took the
back track and made his way to
town. Ping Ling, however, suffer
ing, bleeding and bewildered, and
probably thinking that his torment
ors were still after him, con tinued
his course in the direction Of Soda
vile, sometimes keepin to the road,
and then staggering off into the
brush, almost every step he took be-
ing marked by splotches Of blood
This course be followed nearly three
miles, till nearly exhausted, and
probably totally unconscious of his
actions, he wandered of into wash
to the right Of the road, and there
fell, face downward, alongside Of a
big rock, which he clutched and
spattereu with blood in his death
struggle. Here Thursday morning
the body was located by Constable
Scott Hickey, who had tracked him
almost to the place of his death by
the pools of blood along the road and
! trail.
While the six or eight members of
the mob were escorting the Chinese
down the canyon, those who re-
manned behind put in their time ran
sacking and looting the Cinnamon S
/ houses, the Cinnamon remaining hav-
ing deserted their homes and sought
places of safety. In this manner the
marauders secured several hundred
dollars in money and valuables.
All the time that the outrages were
occurring in Chinatown the balance
Of the town slept in ignorance of
what had happened, which was prob
ably due to the fact that the one or
two whites who had been witnesses
to the outrage failed to appreciate
its magnitude, and to the further
fact that the Cinnamon were so badly
frightened they did not dare to open
their heads.
However, by eight o'clock Wednes-
day morning the rumors and reports
began to assume some shape and
Investigation followed. A visit to
Chinatown and to the wash house of
Ping Ling proved conclusively that
something awful had transpired. At
the latter place the bed from which
the Chinamau had been pulled was
matted with blood, and clothes, bed
ing and washing were strewn all over
the floor, and from the house down
the rocky path to the street was
trail of blood At the other houses
the Chinks had returned and were
sitting around in numerous knots
with bandaged heads and mud-p las-
tered faces. They were nearly all
beaten and bruised but none seriously.
As soon as it was stated definitely
that Chinaman was missing, search
ing parties were sent out, but they
were unable to find any track of him,
though word was brought to town by
teamster coming in that on the
road he met teamster going toward
Sodaville who said he saw the body
of a Chinaman lying off the road a
few miles back, but from the meager
description given, the place could not
be located by the parties who went
out to look for the body.
The failure to find the body served
in a measure to relieve the strain
under which the town was laboring,
and it began to look as if the reports
had been somewhat exaggerated.
Nevertheless the officers and citizens
were busy in trying to ferret out
the perpetrators OF the outrage, and
by noon had three suspects under ar
rest, among whom was AL Arandall,
president of the Labor Union. War
rants without number were also out
for John Doe and Richard Roe and
/ before night three or four more were
locked up.
During the afternoon a citizens
meeting was called, with T. R. Ban