El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-12
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double clue of the tong factional war
fare and supposed robbery, in an effort
to locate the murderer.


fare and supposed robbery, in an effort
to locate the murderer.
The Tong war.
The Chinese trouble, which is sup
posed to have eliminated in the death of
the stanton street restaurant keeper, is
said to have originated several months
ago when a Chinese secret society was
formed, presumably 10 help China boys
in distress, but in reality, the opposi-
tlon elan say, 70 levy a tax of SIS a
head on all Chinese who did not be-
long to the organization. The SNUG
cling Of Chinese across the river at this
point is also said to have entered into
the unWTitten bylaws of the organiZa-
ton, it being openly charged by the
enemy of the new society, that unless
one belonged to the tons, society, or
whatnot organization, it would be nee
essary for him to give up SIS, or the
equivalent, in Chinese yen, for this
privilege, the money TO be paid to the
society.
The first intimation the officers had
of the presence of bad blood among
the otherwise peaceable residents of the
oriental quarter was when one unkind
Chinese pulled little Mat Wing KEGS
pigtail
Mar Wing being mayor pro tenn of
Chinatown, this precipitated a tempest
in Chinese teapot and wee Mar Wing
has cen sleeping on the north side
since that time
Other Serious Trouble.
Las. week Mar Chew, the proprietor
of tile Eastern Grill and one of the
Chinese bigbugs of Ell PasO, had a peace
warrant sworn out against one zee
Choey, ii being charged in the COM
plant that zee had threatened muir
der" Previous to this, Chinese paper
in/San Francisco printed a long story
with Mar Chew as the principal sub
ject under discussion. Mar vas ciiara5e d
with everything on the calendar and
reply was made by a number OF mis-
friends to the attack. which was signed
by 2 number Of the Chinese residents Of
Juarez.
To-Day Leung Mon Don, past 90 years
Of age, and a resident of Ell Paso's Chi
nese quarter. for the past decade, is
lying in the undertaking parlOr of Nc
Bean, Simmons & Car, cold in death,
while his uncles and his cousins and
MS aunts are burning JOSS and scatter
ing bits of paper in apartment Il, of
a B. c. Alley 10 keep the evil spirits
away. A Chinese funeral with the
usual brass band and roast pig attach
ments Will follow, as as was the case
of Doc Sing, fellow restauranteur with
Leung Mon don, who was laid to rest
by his oriental friends in the Chinese
Concordia cemetery last Sunday.
Lived IN Ell 'PasO Many Years.
Leung Mon Don was a native OF
China, but Rad been q resident of the
United States for many, many years.
even before tlle time or the "chock
ghee'' and the olive coated immigration
inspector. In the old Gays before he
sailed for the west he was an engineer
of no small repute in his native land
For 10 years he had smoked his pipe
and talked chicken tracks with the
merchants and artisans of South Ore
gOn street He was member of the
Chinese Freemasons lodge, which has
loss house in the center of Chinatown.
and had tiny footed wife back among
the rice fields of the emperor's land To
quote his cousins of the Leung family,
the deceased was homes, good and had
10 family"