Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-02
CHINAAEN MAY BREAK OUT IN
 PRESCOTT
Hatchet Men From San Fran cisco on Way and Chinks Are All Armed anI in Fear of Tong War

Prescott, Arizona, which has a large and flourishing Chinese settle ment, is on the verge of a full fleged war of highbinders, according to the Prescott Journal Miner, which csys:
 Deadly fear and donsternation reigns supreme in Chinatown today Momentarily an outbreak of a full fledged Tong war is expected. Every Chinaman and the local colony is sait to be going heavily armed in anttici patton of such an event, and Tongs men in Phoenix, Tucson and Dougla. are being dragged into the local fight Members of the Tong to which tht late Quong Yuen, the aged Chinese merchant who, through fear of the hatchet man who had been sent hert from San Francisco to kill him, com mitted suicide last Saturday morning are preparing to avenge the death pi | their leader and as a consequence the entire ChiaesS settlement here is in turmoil nf excitement.
 Member 2: the Quong l-uen's Tons .:n this city are in the minority, and consequently are afraid 10 make a
 
 inforced by members from Phoenix where the Tong is very strong. Al ready several Phoenix Cinnamon be longing to the above Tong have made trips to this city, but owing to their interests in the Capital city have been forced to return there after a short stay here to acquaint them selves fully with the situation. When the Phoenix Tongs-men are in the city the Quong Yuen partisans are brave and resolute in their determiua tion to wreak vengeance for the death of their leader but when their fol. lowers return to Phoenix they again become the minority and are appar ently afraid of the consequences should they make an open move.
 h substantiation of this it is point ed out that the same Chinese friends of Yuen. whs a few days ago ap preached the police for warrant fol the arrest of a certain Chinaman, a member of the Quong Hing Tong who it Is alleged by members of the local Chinese colony, urged the pass ing of the death sentence on the aged merchant, and even boasted, openly AaASI, Hi8tu luC AdlClCt uldH " ul came here to execute the death sen tence, now fear to divulge the name of this Chink and it is not expected they will do so until their member! are reinforced by Tongsmen iron Phoenix and Tucson.
 In the meantime, the Quong Hins Tong. are not idle, and are making active preparations to resent the first move against them, even to the ex tent of arranging the importation ot some of the most notorious and des l perate hatchet men in the United States. now known to be quarteret i in San Francisco and Los Angeles, il which latter city a Tong war is nov 1 in progress.
 It is even said that efforts are be | ing made by the warning Tongs hert i to bring in Ng Pc and CIV Chick, two | hatchet men whose very names strike terror to the heart of ever! Chinaman who has received wort that his death has been decided upo! 1 and who are now in Los Angeles | Charlie Moe, king of the highbinder in San Francisco is known to be il correspondence with one of the loca Tongs, looking to the sending her of several hatchet men, should tn need arise.
 The hatchet men, or highbinders are nothing more or less than hire assassins, of a professional order
 who, while not necessarily belongin
 to any of the Tongs engaged in tn war, ally themselves with the Ton that hires them and take the Ton
 oath to carry out implicitly all order given them, under the Tong law
 death being their portion should the
 fail. Then it can be seen why tn
 mere mention of a notorious higf
 binder with numerous successful a.
 sassinations to his credit. brings fea
 to the heart of the Chinese who IT ceive the death warning
 While the story of the happening
 which led up to the death seatenc being passed upon Quong Yuen ha
 been told inthese columns, previousl. yesterday ournal-Miner reporter su
 ceeded in securing additional authel tic information concerning the deat of Yuen which throws some intshes ing side lights upan the strange an my sterious why's of shese OTients
 Tongsmen.
 On August I6, 1905, three Chiname
 set fire to a boarding house in Hur
 boldt, from which one of their coul
 trymen, cook, had previously bee
 discharged. These men were Charie
 Lee. now working in a restaurant (
 Cortez street, in this city, Smile
 Lung and Lee Ding All three wsl arrested and Smiley Lung turne
 states evidence. He confessed h
 part in the incendiarism, implicatif
 his two companions. Attorney Lert Anderson defended the other two c namen aud they were declared n guilty by a jury. Quong Yuea look' after the interests of the C1inams who confessed, and since that lay is said he has been looked upoh Vi more or less disfavor by the t5c Chinese who declared that irasmu as he had assisted the Chinamen VI turned betrayer, he was, at neal I. T <.a-