The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-23
CHINESE Of ZION
FEAR FOR LIVES
On YUck Hatchet Men Said to
Be En- Route TO Salt
Lake.
YEE FAMILY GOES To
POLICE FOR PROTECTION
Trouble Started on the Pacific
Coast Is Extending to
This City.

Imploring protection from tho po-
| lice department. and using every pos
sible prccaution 70 cvadr the hatcher
men Of the On Guck tong. fifty mem
| bcrS of thc N,s family in Salt Lake
City are living in the utmost fear OF
! their lives. according 10 the story told
Chief of Police Barlow Monday after
| noon AT 1870 by Gcc Luke, OF No. l.
Plum alley. lcC Luke has received
| positive adviccs from Wing Hong S1,n
Il Company of San Francisco, waJ are
merchants OF that city. 10 tGc cticcJ
that thirty of the ON Nuok tong hatch
ct men are o. their way "a Salt Lake
| City for the purpose Of kllllag mem
hers of tho Yec family. Tho Or luck
tong is said 10 he one Of the strongest
and most daring highbind'r societies
on the Pacific coast since the pres
eat war was declared on thc Ecc family
by the On YJck tong, ten members
Of the Nec family have paiG toll with
their lives in different parts CT the
west
According 10 the story told g. Chief
of Police Harlow by Yec Luke, the
feud began as follows:
BCo Kim is Chinese girl wis Is
owned hy the members Of tcc On Guck
tong. Ecc Tong. 4 memhcr of til" Ncc
family, fell in love with thc girl and
! persisted in pHyiIg his attentions to
her. Boo Kim then married Ncn Tong
upon the advice of the members OF
! the On Nuck tong ard for the aVowed
intention II cXtorting money trom the
members of tho Ycc family.
Money Is Demanded
immediately after The wedding, the
On Iuck tong served notice on the
members Of the Gsa tom,ly that the
marriage had been against the t0Gg 5
wishes and demanded $3.50 for the per.
son of Boo Kim Ycc Tong lnforIpcd
the fellow members of his family that
he could not pay for the girl and dId
not know when he married her that
she belonged to the On Nuck tong
The members Of the Nec family met
aud decided not 10 pay. AS "A result
Ncc Fun Wah. one of the oldest mem
beGs of the Gce family. called upon
the Gee Hung On, who is the president
of the On Nuck Tong in san Francisco
and asked that the Ncc family be given
seven days time 10 consider the mat.
| ter
Gee Hung On put the matter before
the members of the tong, who were at
that time in session. ana WAS returned
an answer that the tong refused to
grant the time asked. Ncc Fun Wah
then asked for four DAYS time. but the
members of the tong again refused.
Ycc Fun Wah WAS then sent back for
the last time by the members Of the
Ncc family and implorcd tho presi-
dent of the Tong TO use his Influence
and grant the Ycc family four hours
time This was refused and war WAS
declared, with the result that Iec Fun
Wah was murdered As be WAS return
ing from the visit 10 the president and
Just as he had reached the front door
Of his house.
This murder occurred IN San Fran
cisco on November S, at $50 o o'clock,
aud within twenty. minutes another
member Of the Icc family. named lec
kcc. was shot down in Oakland. Two
DAYS later. Gcc Hing Toy, another
member of the Yce family, was mur.
dcrcd at Mountain View, Cal, and
word was sent out from San Francisco
that the On GuclS tong hatchet men
were on their way over the country
One day later, Yee Nuck Wah, another
member of In Ycc family. aud owner
OF "A laundry on Stockton street in San
Francisco, was murdered as he was
stepping out Of the door. The re-
mainder Of the murders were commit
ted at Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland
. and Denver.
, Appeals TO Police,
As soon as Yce Luke of this city re
celved the letter warning him and the
members of the Ycc family that tho
q hatchct men were on their way TO Sail
|; Lake City. he Immediately took the let
t ter TO the police department and placed
. il before Chief of Police Barlow. AZ
A; ter looking into the facts of the case
n Chief Barlow instructed all of the pa
: trolmcn in the vicinity of the depot (,
: arrest all Cinnamon leaving the in
q coming trains. All strange ChinameI
n in the vicinity Of Plum alley and Com
; rhcrcial street will also he arrested,
; Asked as to why the members %
(; the Yec family did not secure permit
; to carry arms and thus have som,
means OF protecting themselves iron
V the murderous attacks Of tho member
q of the tong. Yee Luke said that IN,
Il NeJ family was not an organization
such "a the tong, but a family whicl
g was being blackmailed by the tong
n and It's members did not believe in ear
e ryiug arms
G Under n Sacramento date line. th
F.; Associated Press published Il dispatC
n 10 the effect that lec Sin Lee.
II Chinese luundryman, and another mem
r bcrS OF the Nees. WAS shot through tn
r back in Sacramento on Monday after
n noon rs he emerged from cellar i
!. the Chinese quarter. The police ar
d looking for Cow Hi. II member Of tl
ii On Yuck tong, who is suspected of DC
g. ing the shooting, Throughout IL
- western country reports arc rcachln
4. the public of the killing of Chimes
ll who are members Of the Nse family
and tho peculiar part of the war
n the fact that none of tho membeT
r up to the present time
! success at similar cxpositions in othc