The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1897, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. 10 FORECLOSE O FEDERAL LIENS - Suit Filed in the Circuit Court Against the Union Pacific Railroad. DO “LITTLE PETE” MURDERED BY HIS ENEM ~ Chinese Highbinders Assassinate the i Most Famous of Local | Mongolians. THE GREAT JURY-BRIBER SHOT DOWN BY SEE YUP ASSASSINS. PR Millions Due Uncle Sam Will Now Be Collected Without Any Further Delay. Russell Sage .Says That the Chisf Sufferers Will Be the Sm:ll Steckholders. OMAHA, Nesr., Jan. 23.—The Govern- ment of the United States at noon to-day filed a suit in the United States Circuit Court, asking that the Gov ment’s lien on the property of the Union Pacific Rail- way be foreclosed. The papers presented comprise the bill of complaint, the ap- pearance of Attorney-General Harmon in the case, the petition asking leave to make the receivers defendants and the order of Judge Sanborn granting the petition. The bill has reference to the Union Pa- cific alone, the Central Pacific not being included. The bill of the Government is to be $57,581,771 79; the bill for balance due the Government for interent paia on bonds, $20,964,666 28; matured bonds paid in February, 1806, in the amount of $4,- 320,000: matured bonds paid in 1897, in the amount of $3,740,000; bonds t¢ come due in 1898, $15,919 and the bonds to come due in 1899, $3,157,000. The defendants are the Union Pacific Railway and 1ts receivers, F. Gordon Dex- ter and Oliver Ames as first-mortgage trustees; the Union Trust Company of New York as trustee for bonds issued in 1873; J. Pierpont Morgan, Edwin F. At- kins and the Central Trust Company as trustees for bridge bonds. The biil, which covers about forty printed pages, describes the organization of the Union Pacific Railroad, and recites 2t . inetoan Hushah He was interested in several gambling- | the various acts of Congress in relation lowed the footsteps of the murdered Chi- | mettle of ambition by going to a 2| e was & g g | thereto, with the issues of bonds. nese, the peer among his fellow-country- | school at night. It is a singular fact that ‘ houses and other resorts in Chinatown, out | thereto . ; men. Thg rirszclnudg of trouble that Jast | while he spoke his native tongue fluently i of which he made considerable money. Exhibizs are fl"“:b'” >’A°“;nz: the state- evening culminated in Little Pete's assas- | he could not Tead or write & word of | “Little Pete” had about 100,000 worth [ ment of accounts I"“_'ei"_ the rdads and sination obscured the horizon of peace | Chinese except his own name. | of property in Canton, China. This prop- the G;“”;;:‘“'-, l asl ; ”yllufl_nnff:menc about two years ago. | His aptitude and affability miade him | erty consists of fish-ponds and silkworm be "i“_ ‘"‘t (: ‘{Tnl')lr.ffv X :‘: hf";,- l‘h:\(; At that time the See Yup and Sam Yup | friends. He was probably the best known | industries, which netted him from 6 to 8 the lien of the Unil 9‘ Sta j re i" aEcas societies, between which there had always | Chinaman in San Francisco. He seemed | per cent, which is a big interest for the ;0 be ia its ll’m:;;' (b AL I-’_CAIm; existed an ugliriendly feeling, declared a | to have a peculiar faculty for making | Celestial kingdom. r::::;i:e::;m: HPL“':?;’_ESr-hll':{‘l';f‘o.‘wfl!d*“ mutual boycott. This led to no end of | friends among white people. Five vionths ago there was $23,000 on m“m'in_ch“nun}m‘;u;erw-’seu ;m:r > { King Owyang, the Chinese Viee-Consul, Is Said to : Be the Next on the List of the Doomed Sam Yups. § THE GREAT LEADER KILLED IN A BARBER-SHOP FOR A PRICE SET ON HIS HEAD. The Notorious Vietim Was Once Millionaire, Race-Jobber, Importer of Slaves and the Man Who Gave Chris Buckley the Title of “Blind White Devil.” FONG CHING, Alias Little Pete, the Famous Chinaman Who Was Assassinated L] Last Night. * long noted a8 the wisest | the barber-shop, facing Ross alley. In his afforts, and was to get $30.000 more on local Chinese, was mur- | the shop were two barbers and a man who | completion of the work. He | bad just been shaved. Suddenly two men | - entered with a rush, walking rapidly | THE SUSPECTS toward ‘“Little Pete,” who was sitting down in an ordinary chair to be shaved. Before anybody could comprehend what | 4 the visitors meant one of them drew are- | Wong Sing and Chin Poy, the two men volver and fired four times with great |Suspected of the murder, were brought rapidity. One sliot penetrated the right | irom the California-sireet station by Po- and one entered the brain justabove | liceman Murty Callinan, who_arrested Death was instantaneous. | them in their loaging-house on Waverley highbinders last night. red to a barbereshop without his nd his yigilant pursuers did The police at once STORIES.. Those Who Took Flight Pretend Innocenc . ventt r deadly work. two suspect famous M ngolian, whose Teal had lately made r with the See Yup A price of $3000 it R Ar By ey isiantassouE. ¢ ol siike: trouble and murdes upon murder was the | Haying graduated from the errand-boy | BiS shoe factory books owing him by | mast Sh B b Bt o D o whke 1l ygesieibe s BRI LR o s [ stage. he mext became a brokes. it the | White shoe firms. He had s white travel. | o of ail he propersy of he rail- : T Washington street. |t oS e o alimors mirieing | Birdsal. but they. denisd any complicity | _Tbe ‘eud finally reached th: 5, ~»ni the | cugioms business.. He lsnded a large|ing salesmsn on the rosd and a white|To4d Do lave CRSE b sohiect o S ; |insn almost atriking | e z Chiinoss Esaparos, And an edict ik 1awued.) e . . ? | bookkeeper. o~ “to™"'Bs - (aoldy «ins spraug into theshop und | Lee Kum, a barber, in an adjoining room. | iP the affair, said (hey were in their room | FLIRe%2 o o s 7 amdunt of goods for the Ohiness mer | SORERERIE . Lo o ia o o) ot dven | IAY the value of the sinking fund by hiin, threatening yengeance uniess a0 | chants and also accelerated the landing of amicable settlement was reached. | Chnese in San Francisco, thereby consid- of the n Yup men had in true Chinese Both builets were recovered and held as |8t thetime and did not even hear tne evidence. shots. and a brother in Chidatown. The grief of be ‘determined and provision made for Pete” had two distinet sides to re, 2 Jekyll ana de. 2 merchent and n re manufacturer he was a power e. with unusual intellectual and unscrupulous, he be- once respected and golian, edu- e. be entered battle for money without any re- raints of conscience, though he bore the itation of being steadfast to his nds. He instigated Chinese murders, women, ran gambling games, od people at the races and bribed y that white men would man lived over his shoe- i story of the building sireet. About 9 zht he sent his Chinese 1 errand, and a little later Murray, a white body- rd, to get him a newspaper. I will go downstairs and get snaved ou are gone,” he said. The guard advised him not to be so rash ut alome, but ‘“‘Little Pete” hat's all right, I'll take care of In less than ten minutes the re- markable man was a corpse. After he left his home be walked down through his shoe factory to tne barber. shop at 817 Washington street, conducted by Chung Ching, Wonz Cbung and Wong Kuw. He sat abont four feet from the door of smooth-bore, was recovered by the police, | The assassins ran away, both droppine | their revolvers. One, an cld-fashioned | nd the other was spirited out of the w. by accessories. One of the men ran rapuly Waverly place. Sergeant Mooney and his posse were soon on the scene and Officer Myler arrested one of the barbers as a witness. In a few minutes Sergeant Wollweber and fourteen officers were upon the scene. The streets were crowded with excited Chinese and all who came within reach were searched for weapons, but none were found. Little Pete conducted his shoe business under the name of F. C. Peters & Co., but irm consisted of Little Pete, his uncle, ng Yuen, and bis brother Fong Shun. They employed about forty men. The dead man came here in 1878 and | was 34 years of age. He was born ten miles from Canton and arriving here at an early age acquired a good English educa- tiom. He passed through the Grammar and High schools of this City, married, and leaves three boys and a girl. He leaves & | widow also, in China. | It is said that the murdered man was to toward get $40,000 for destroying the See Yup Society of highbinders, and it pposed that the Chinese Vice-Consaul, | King Owyang, was back of “Little Pote” | and the Sam Yup men in their efforts to | destroy the See Yups and demolish their | ouses. | 'he See Yup men say he got $10,000 for | Chin Poy, who is a cook, and cawe here about two weeks ago from Portland, did the talking. . a he was cook in the service there Folger, an insurance agent, and came bere with him and bis family. Mr. Folger was now living in a botel, but as soon as he got a house Poy said he was going with bim again as cook. The other suspect, Wong Sing, pretended that he could not understana English. Poy said he came here about a month ago from Alaska, where he had been working in a cannery. He is a well dressed | Chinese and does not have the appearance of a man who was used to working.in a | cannery. Wong Lune, & laundryman, who hap- pened to be in the barber-shqp when “Little Pete” was shot, was also brought to the City Prison by P _liceman Callinan, and is being detained as a witness,, He pretended to be entirely ignorant of who the men were that did the shooting. Special Officer George Weich said he saw the (wo men running out of the bar- ber-shop. He chased them, and saw one of them drop the revoiver, which he ked up. He saw them enter the lodg- house on Waverly place, and notified | Policeman Callinan. He identified:Wong Sing and Chin Poy as the two men he saw running out of the shop and followed. C e eting WHY HE WAS MURDERED. Suspected of Having Employed the Men Who Demolished the See Yup Headquarters. For several months past death has fol- LITTLE PETE Lying Dead Upon the Floor of the Shop in Which He Was Murdered. Up to this time Little Pete’s name was | seldom used in connection with the trou- | ble. The See Yunps appeared to| be the most aggressive in the controversy and the Sam Yup| Company finally decided to crash them; | to shatter their society if possible and | scatter them over the face of the globe. | Littte Pete being the geniusof the Sam | Yup Society was selected to general the | battle against the enemy. | All went quietly for a_ while, but finally | Chinatown was shocked to the core by the demolition of the Lee Yup headquarters, corner of Clay street and Waverly place. Ferdinand Callundan, a private detective, and his associates entered the headquar. ters, sacred to the See Yups, and with keen-edged axes smasned, cut and broke | the furnishings and paraphernalia into | splinters. The joss pictures and carvings were wrenched from their fastenings and added to the scene of chaos. The detectives then left, but as a Chinese society’s de- cree or an Emperor’s edict are not re- spected by the courts, Callundan was ar- rested and enjoined from committing further demolition. It was reported that Little Pete, operating with King Owyang, Vice Consul, were behind Callundan and that | Little Pete received $10,000 for having the | job committed. It was also reported thathe was tore- | ceive $30,000 more, or $40,000 in all, when the See Yups were an extinct people. A reward for Pete’s and King K Ow- yang's assassination was promptly offered. First $1000 was offered by un- known Chinese, but as the amount was too small to benefit the fighting men, | when it came to killing the most influen- tiel Chinese in America, the price was raised to $2000. Even these did not have the desired ef- fect and Littie Pete lived on. Friday night the reward was raised to $3000 and | the highbinders began to stalk the streets, looking for the man who was doomed to die. Last night they found him alone, his guard was absent, and in an instant two | bullets had pierced his brainand he feli to | the floor dead. | T S LITTLE PETE’S CAREER. First a Poor Boy, Then a Manu- | facturer, Next a Capitalist. | Fong Ching, or “Little Pete,” as he was | better known, was one of the prominent | business men of San Francisco, though a | Chinaman. He was shrewd, tactful and' | successful, and was probably as noted a Chinese characteras there is in the United States. At the time of his death he was posi- tively known to be worth not less than $100,000, and the total value of his estate in San Francisco is estimafed by various | white men connected with him in a legal and representative character to be any- where from $100,000 to $500,000. The fact has always heen notic d during the last fifteen years that if Fong Ching had occasion to use anywhere from $1000 to $25,000 in cash he had ths money ready, Fong Ching, or ‘‘Little Pete,” was not born in San Francisco, as has been com- monly supposed. He came to this shore when 5 vears old, and was between 32 and 33 years of age at the time of hisdeath. He was born in Kow Kong, China. He first started in to made his fortune in America as an er- rand-boy in a shoe factory on Sacramento street. He vjas a very quick and apt “Chi- nese kid."” While an errand-boy he showed the | in prison, but the case was reversed by the erably ewelling the populatiou of China- town., While yet only a boy he was looked to for legal and general advice by the Chinese. Later, baving made considerable money | in the brokerage business, he went into the business of shoe manufacturing on | his 6wn account, and at the time of his | death was one of the largest shoe manu- facturers in San Francisco. The English name of the shoe firm is F. C. Peters & Co., the Chinese name, Hung, Yuen & Co. His first escapade which brought him prominently to public notice was when he was arrested for bribery in connection with the killing of Lee Chunk, some years ago, as a result of a feud between the Boe Sin 3ay and Guy Sin Say societies, | “Little Pete” Leing & member of the latter. Burr Love and another pbliceman | claimed that “Little Pete” triea to bribe | them for $400 for testifying to certain | things, while “‘Little Pete” claimed that | the policemen had heard that $2000 had been raised to acquit Lee Chunk, and that they wanted $400 of the swag. ‘“‘Little Pete” was convicted and served a few days Suoreme Court, and on the second trial he waa acquitted. About this time Little Pete wrote a let- | ter which became public, in which he re- | ferred to Chris Buckley as the “blind | white devil,”” a name which bas stuck to | him in Chinatown and out ever since. | the widow and children last night was pititul. Under the Chinese Iaw and cus- tom the property goes to his oldest son; lacking an oldest son it goes to his oldest brother. “Little Pete’’ carried an accident policy of $10,000 and a jife policy of $15,000. Ow- ing to this insurance the estate will in all probability go in the probate court. He importea the Chinese show at the Midwinter Fair. Among the property and other posses- sions he is said io have left in this City | the Jackson-street Theater, three fantan | games, a retail shoestore at 314 Montgom- ery avenue, a retail grocery-siore on Du- | pont street. He made but one visit to China since he came here. Captain Lees said last night that Fone Ching, or “Little Pete,’ was arrested about eight years ago for jury-tribing and forgery. Stewart Menzies was foreman of the Grand Jury at the time, and it was Menzies who secured the warrants from Judge Coffey for “Little Pete’s” arrest. The warrants were given to Captain Lees, and he detailed Detective Hogan to accompany Menzies and serve the war- rants on “Little Pete.,”” They had search warrants aiso with them, and they broke open ‘‘Little Pete’s” safe and found docu- ments incriminating him and exposing Chris Buckley's methods. It wasthrough Continued on Eighth Page. i WONG SING and CHIN FOY, the Two Men Under Suspicion of Having Murdered Little Pete. 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