The San Francisco call., 1909-01-13
PENCE PACT MADE
BY CHINESE TONGS
Suey DOns and On Yicks Agree
to Postpone HOstiIities Until
February iG
Prosecution of Alleged Murder
ers ito Be Continued Until
After Same Date

Alarmed by the threatening war cloud
which hs ;; been lowering over China
town the asst week the members Of the
Chinese "a X Companies called a special
peace metAing last night and at the re-
quest Of he Chinese merchants and the
consul ge s.eraI the warning Suey Don
and On Sex tOngs agreed TO maintain
peace unit e. February 10. The original
date set W es the Chinese new year. jan
uary 21
An expI xnation OF the reason. for the
absence of the Suey Don tongmen from
the st. eets Of ChinatOwn and the clos
ing of thei / stores was learned yester-
day. Sid Bak Sing. president of the
Suey Don Dng, was informed that the
On Yicks " ere determined to prosecute
the murdere rs Of Lew Hong and Wong
Lung. Jud sse Nusbaumer of Oakland
has been rea aimed by the On Yicks to
assist the prosecuting attorney of Ala
media county,
Sid Bak SING was also informed that
the On Yicks know the identity of i've
men concern ed in the killing of the two
On Yick me.h- Only portion of the
evidence wal given before the grand
jury and as "a result of the testimony
of two with ssses produced by the On
Yicks, Wong Hong was held for triaR
without bail
1t is said shat the On Yicks know
where the 9TH ers concerned in the two
murders are hiding and intend to in
form the poliCss when the cases come for
trial The OaSxland police were unables
to locate the tlurderers Of Wong Lung.
the first On vi tk man killed.
1t has also come to the ears OF Sid
Bak Sing that fthe On Yicks have Amer
lean witnesses Rwho saw the killing and-
that the namesa of the murderers will be.
divulged.
At the pea pc conference held last
week the SutW DOns wanted the On
Yicks TO agree Z to discontinue all blood-
shed and to di scOurage criminal prose-
cution of the ,nen arrested. The On
Yicks refused 10 do this. and told the
Suey Dons thar they intended to prose-
cute and do all in their power to hans.
the murderers.
The Suey Doil then threatened to-
prosecute the tw1 D On Yick men charged
with assault to u lurder a Suey Don man
in a Laundry in lO'Farren street. This
statement did nd alarm the On Yicks.
for the maximum penalty the two On
Yick men can RED Give is "A years. whfles
five Sued Don mt4n may be sentenced to
be hanged Thi.u is said to be the rea-
son why the Sutly DOns want peace I'M E
capital letters To those who under
stand the real ca use of the tong war
and its inner wd rkings it seems that
the or Yicks haSve the better of the
argument thus f; ir and hold the whip
hand
Last night. hoy sever. both the Suey
Don and on Vic. < tongs affixed their
seals to an agreel nent which says that
there shall be no more blOOdshed until
February 10. and shat the court cases
shall also be cont pued until after that
day The Chinatov IN merchants heaved
/ a sigh of relief las night when it be-
came known that the pitched battle
which had been ex peeted between the
two tongs for the L tstfew days. would
not take place for 81 days at least.
| Thus far two On Elck members have.
been killed. one Sueyt tDon man has met
the same fate and al lother Suey Don
man IS in the hospital recovering from
eight knife wounds