The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-01-20
CHAPTER vllI.

CHAPTER Viii.
Had either Mr.. Gibney or McGuffey
been watching Captain Scraggs after
he had left them they would have
been much puzzled to account for thai
worthy's actions. First he lodged
around the block into Drumm street
and then ran down Drumm TO Califor
mia, where he climbed aboard cable
car and rode up into Chinatown. Ar
irving at Dupont street he alighte6
and walked up that interesting thor
oughfare until he came to No. TIA
He glanced at sign over the door and
was aware that he stood before the
entrance to the offices of the Chinese
Six Companies, so he climbed upstairs
and inquired for Gin Seng, who pres
emily made his appearance.
Gin Seng, a very nice, fat China
man, arrayed in a flowing silk gown
begged, In pidgin English, to know In
what manner he could be of service.
Me heap big captain, alice same
Ship" began Captain Scraggs. "Or
board ship two China boys have got
(Here Captain Scraggs winked know.
ingly) "China boy no speak Eng
| lish-"
'That being the case" interposed
Gin Seng, 81 presume that you and
understand each other, so let's cut
out the pidgin English. Do l under.
stand that you are engaged in evading
the immigration laws?"
Exactly" Captain Scraggs managed
| TO gasp, as soon as he could recover
from his establishment '.They showed
me your name an address, an they
won't leave tn ship, where I got 'em
locked up In my cabin, until you come
an take 'em away. Couple o. rela
tives of yours, should imagine"
Gin Seng smiled his bland Chinese
smile. He had frequent dealings with
ship masters engaged in the danger
Gus, though lucrative trade of SNUG
Cling Chinese into the United States
and while he had not received advice
of this particular shipment, he decided
TO go with Captain Scraggs to Jackson
street bu1khead and see if he could
not be of some use to his countrymen
| AS Captain Scraggs and his Chinese
companion approached the wharf the
skipper glanced warily about He had
small fear that either Gibney or Nc
Guffey would show up for an hour, fol
he knew that Mr.. Gibney had money
in his possession. However, he decided
to take no chances, and secuted the
vicinity thoroughly before venturine
aboard the Maggie. These actions
served but to increase the respect OF
Gin. Seng for the master of the Maggie
and confirmed him in his belief that
the Maggie was smuggler.
Captain Scraggs took his visitor in
side the little cabin, carefully locked
and Lolted the door, lifted the zinc
flap back from the top of the crate OF
"Oriental goods" and displayed the
face OF the dead Chinaman Also he
pointed to the Chinese characters or
the wooden lid of the crate.
"What does these hen scratches
/ IUodI. ueIlldHutu SCIdSSS.
"This man is named All Chow and
he belongs to the Hop Sing tong"
"How about his pal here!''
"That man is evidently Ng Chone
Zip. He is also a Hop Sing man."
Captain Scraggs wrote 1t down. "All
right he said cheerily; "mucf
obliged. Now, what l want to know
is what the Hop Sing tong means by
shipping the departed brethren by
freight They go to work an fix EN-
up nice SOS they'll keep. packs ZEN
away in zinc coffin, inside nice
plain wood box, labels 'em Oriental
goods an consigns 'em to the Cir
Seng company, ia Dupont street, Sar
Francisco. Now, why are these two
countrymen o. yours shipped by freight
where. by the way, they goes astray
| for some reason that don't know
nothin about, an / buys 'em up at 9
old horse saleg'
Gin Seng shrugged his shoulders and
replied that he didn't understand.
'You lie," snarled Captain. Scraggs
"You savoy all right, you fat old idol
you It's because If the railroad com
pany knew these two boxes contained
dead corpses they'd a-soaked the rela
tives, which is you, one full fare each
from wherever these two dead ones
comes from, just the same as though
they was alive an well. But you has
'em shipped by freight. an aims t.
spend a dollar an thirty cents eacf
on 'em, by marxin' 'em 'Orienta
goods Helluva way to treat rela
ton. Now, looky here, you blood!
heather. It'u cost you just five hun
bred dollars to recover these TIVE
stiffs, an, close my mouth. If yot
don't come through I'll make a belcf
t. tn newspapers an they'll keel hau
an, skulldrag tn Chinese Six Compa
MES an the Hop Sing tong through the
courts for evadin' tn laws o. tn inter
I state commerce commission, an max,
'em look like monkeys generally. An
then tn poliee1l get wind of it. Savoy
policeman, you fat old murderer
Th' price I'm askin' is cheap, Charley
How. do know but what these tw,
/ poor boys has been murdered in coli
blood? There's somethin' rotten Il
Denmark, my bully boy, an you'll
save time an trouble an money b.
fdiggin up five hundred dollars"
Gin Seng said be would go back I,