Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-12-23
DENIED RIGHT
TO LAND.

merchant, a member of the Leun Sien
Company of this place, who left
Angels Camp about three years ago to
visit his native country, is now, ac-
cording to late advices, quarantine
prisoner at Angels Island, where he
has been detained since October 18th.
pending the unraveling of govern
mental red tape and the Punishment
from his system of some contraband
hook-worms which it is alleged he
caught during his sojourn in the
Flowery Kingdom.
Toy was passenger aboard the
steamship Mongolia which arrived in
San Francisco from China on the
above date. He held ticket emitting
him to passage. and, while to ordinary
morals there was really nothing very
mysterious about the manner of his
coming, it was unusual enough it
would seem to set working the leaven
of endless red tape for one of those
farcical human comedies, the very in
congruity of which must cause the
gods to smile, and even sometimes to
laugh when they look down.
Prior to his departure for the Orient
three years ago, Toy had his identified
ton papers all properly drawn up and
attested by Walter Tryon as notary
public. while his photograph was duly
attached and the signatures of c. H.
Woods, j. A. Ayala Joe Peirano, Geo.
Rose and several other business men
of the town were placed upon the in
strument as witnesses to the fact that
Sam Toy had long been resident and
taxpayer of Angels Camp, and as
such was entitled to return when he
felt so disposed.
After his sojourn and upon his re-
turn to our port, Toy presented these
papers to the port official but that
worthy thought he could see "nigger
in the fence. The fact that the china
manNhsd his credentials and that all
demands for passage had been satisfied
must have created doubt, for stow
always seem to be the rule now instead
of the exception, and Celestial
travelling on the square is at once the
object of suspicion so Toy was de-
tanned. He wrote to his brother, All
Toy of this town, apprising him of the
situation, AMI the latter enlisted the
assistance of Walter Tryon who went
to Angels Island to look into the
manter. He identified the suspicioned
Sam Toy, as well as the papers he held
but that was not deemed sufficient and
Mr. Tryon was told that the investiga-
ton would be carried on in Angels
Camp by corps of government in;
spectors-two white men and a China
arrived in town. They went to
MIR Tryon with official gusto and
solemn dignity and had him reiterate
his identification of Sam Toy and his
papers, and then Intercepted the
other witnesses, learning incidentally
among other things the fact that Sam
was a wellto do merchant and owner
of considerable real estate in China
town. With this the junketeers re-
turned to the port but still Sam re-
NAMED the unwilling guest of his
Uncle Sam at Angels Island. Present
ly All Toy received letter from
Chinaman in San Francisco (not an
Officially urging him to put up certain
tee for the employment of an attorney
to handle his brothers case, volunteer
ing this advice as the only way of
securing the prisoners release expedi
tiously. AS it was palpably apparent
that hungry attorney was on the
watch to profit by the luckless travel
ing dilemma, An Toy had Mr. Tryon
write a, letter of inquiry to the officials.
Then came the astounding reply from
headquarters to the effect that, while
the mans credentials were all right
and he was entitled to land, the afore
said contraband wrigglers had been
found secreted in the intestinal lining
of his anatomy and that he could not
be permitted to land until he was
purged of his worms and received
clean bill of health; that it would fur
ther be necessary, in order to insure
him against deportation, that the sum
of 500 or a certified check for that
amount, be forthcoming at once as a
guarantee that the vermifuge used in
banlshing the worms and the hospital
charges of $1.25 per day during treat
ment. shall be paid. AS there seemed
no alternative but to ''come through