The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
TONG INCORPORATES.

TONG INCORPORATES.
Between the time of the commence
ment of that action and it's dismissal
the Wee Ong Tong did incorporate, and
! on the 2Sth of September, 1904, it COM
menced another action, and his Honor
Judge Cook issued another restraining
order. An answer was filed, the case
set for trial, and it resulted in judg-
ment being rendered for the defend
ants, and on November I, 1904, the in
junction was finally dissolved
The Police Department was thus
powerless to act between the 2Sth day
of January, 1904, and the 7th day of
November, 1904.
THE evidence produced before us
shows that these concerns run with a
very large profit and that a weekly
contribution is made to two different
funds by each of the said gambling
establishments, S. per fan tan table
per week being paid to a concern
known as the See YIps, which we are
Informed is used for the defense of
any one charged with murder arising
out of the highbinders war, or any
thing incidental to gambling. Another
50 is paid to some other fund, which
we believe to be what is commonly
known as the gamblers association
fund The lotteries paying other
sums, the whole aggregates a large
sum per month.
I'VE are inclined to think that the
final resting place of the money is not
at this time susceptible of legal proof,
but is sealed in the minds of those who
handle it, and they will commit per-
jury about it's disposition out of per-
sonal interest and fear of death at the
hands of their associates, but we be-
lieve some part of it is used for cor
rupt purposes.
In April, 1903, information connect
ed with gambling was given, and we
are informed that it resulted in the
murder of party connected with the
information by reason of rewards Of
fered and we suppose paid therefor by
the eight men who control the gam
bling associations, each of whom was
charged with and one has already
been convicted of murder. The cases
of the others are still pending. One
other was put on trial, which was
stopped in it's midst by the charge of
one of the jurymen that he had been
given $3.50 to bring in verdict for the
defendant.
COURTS ARE BLAMED.
Sporadic attempts have been made
to stop the continuance of the above
gambling. We find that it has been
and can be stopped by the police when
not interfered with by the courts with
out at all impairing police efficiency or
the detection or prevention of crime in
other parts of the city.
THAT it has existed at all is a mat
ter. of public shame and a blot on the
good name of the city 1t seems in
tolerable to US that at this stage of
civilization, where law is supposed to
prevail, the condition of affairs in
Chinatown for years past has existed.
THE evidence before us absolutely
fails to substantiate in any degree
that either his Honor Mayor E. E.
Schmitz Mr.. A. Ruef received any
part of the fund above mentioned or
acquiesced in any way at all in the
gambling in Chinatown, or that they
were in any way connected with the
failure to suppress it.
I'VE find that the reports of the SER
geants who haye been detailed in
Chinatown for the last two years show
surprising uniformity in the number
and character of arrests and the
amount of fines collected, and that
while 95 per cent of the gambling is
carried on in Chinatown by Chinese
and per cent by Caucasians. still not
50 per cent of the arrests were China
men. On the contrary, quite dispro-
portionate large percentage of the ar
rests were of white men, charged with
having lottery tickets in their posses
sion
I'VE find that the Police Department
is hampered considerably in the sup
preston of gambling by the difficulties
of entering the places where fantan is
played and in securing evidence suf-