The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16

SEEK TO STAY
INTERPRETERS
Government Employees Are
Threatened by Emissaries
OF Six Companies
Chinese in Federal Employ Are
Menaced With Death by
COuntrymen
HatChetmen Warned by lmmi-
grafton Commission Not to
Trifle With Uncle Sam ]

XlOfdblNDEfsS IN CHINATOWN
~ backed by the six Companies.
i i have declared. war against the
federal government of the United
States by threatening to kill three Of
fetal Chinese interpreters in the Chinese
bureau OF the immigration department
Open hostliities may be expected at
any moment as Commissioner OF inn
migration Hart North. speaking for
Uncle Sam. has sent word back TO the
silk CARRIED gentry of Sponord alley
that the immigration authorities are
not to be dictated to by hatchetmen
/ and. that the men Who have been
marked for slaughter will continae
under the protection of the govern
ment as interpreters in the service.
Marked for Slaughter
The men on whose heads price has
been placed are Edward Park. chin
Jack and Young Kay. native born
Chinese. who have been in the imnli-
grafton service for many years. Notice
was served on Edward Park Friday
night in Chinatown as he was return
ing home from the immigration Offices
4 in the custom house He was told
by Highlander. who dragged him .nto
black doorway as he was passing
Sullivan alley on his way up Washing
ton street that he would be killed If
he continued in the service Of the United
States. He was also instructed to in
form his associates in the department
that they might expect similar treat
ment if they did not sever their con
nections with the government.
on learning OF the threat Commits
sioner North detailed several men from
his Office to make thorough investi-
cation of the case, with the idea in
view of furnishing the department at
Washington with full report of the
affair
Girls Were Substituted
1t is believed that the threat made
against the interpreters is the direct
outgrowth of Commissioner North re-
Gently detecting several frauds in the
attempt TO land Chinese girls for i'm
moral purposes. The girls were brought
to the United States Oh certificates OF
departure of other Chinese girls who
intended remaining in China. The
highbinders who had imported the
slave girls had found. through agents
in China. replicas of the departed girls
and in this way attempted to deceive
the authorities. In every case Com
tion and the girls were all denied
landing.
In making these discoveries Com
missioner North has been aided
materially by the Chinese interpreters.
They have detected false evidence and
perjury. In some of the cases the
highbinders have been indicted for
/ perjury, while others have been either
deported or sent to the penitentiary for
importing women for immoral purposes.
Young Kay was waylaid Thursday
night by two Chinese in front Of his
home in Prospect place and it is now
believed they intended warming. Kay
at that time but they were frightened
away before they had time to execute
their plans.
Interpreter Is Menaced
Park did not know the man who
grabbed him. He had the appearance
of a highlander and said that he spoke
with the authority OF the Six Com
panies. After rushing Park into the
darkened recess. he first asked him if
he were Chin Jack. having evidently
mistaken him for the other Chinese
interpreter
He was excited and told Park in a
few words that the three interpreters
had been marked by the highbinders
and they would be killed II they con
tinued in the service OF the govern
ment His remarks were emphasized
by the display OF a gun of unusually
large caliber.f The warning having been
given the Highlander slipped of into
the narrow way of Sullivan alley and
Park hurried to report what had hap
Darad To the limited States authorities.