The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1897. HOW A TITLE S HELD IN A SLAVE A Document That Shows Bondage Among the of This City. THE PETITION IS BADLY NEEDED. Stories Told by Those Who Have Worked to Rescue Unfortunates. THE G0OD WORK GOES RAPIDLY ON. | Many People Signed the Petition Yes- terday, and All Gave it Strong Indorsement. | the prison were opened to two Chinese, Those who are interested in having the petition to President McKinley regarding | Chinatown matters put before the people | reported splendid progress yesterday, and | say that more than 100 names were added. | Additional copies will be made atonce | and es many workers placed on it as pos- sible in order that everybody may bave & | chance to sign before it goes to the Presi- | dent. s to be noted in this connection | that so far no person to whom the petition has been presented has failed to affix his {th | inciaents where she had met with opposi- [V CHINATOWN the Actual Existence of Chinese Inhabitants | on the part of the Chinese themselves, | but they have even been greatly ham- pered by the officials of this country who have refused (o give them aid and in sev- | eral instances have gone so far as to openly oppose them. Many stories are | told by the ladies of where they have res- | cued girls and the law would step in ana take them back to the men who claimed | them as slaves. Mrs. Green, who has been for many years connected with the rescue work of t State, tod of several heartrending tion on the partof officials. One instance occurred in KFresno, where she had res- cued a girl who had sent word thatshe was held and subjected to brutal treat- ment. She secured the girl, but before she could get her out of town a warrant was sworn out charging the slave with larceny. She was arrested and thrown into prison, but Mrs. Green went with her. That night at midnight the doors of who forcibly tore the gir! away and car- ried her off despite ber stru:gles. The Judge on the bench had connived with the Chinese, and Mrs. Green afterward learned that he received $100 for his part in the night’s work. Another instance recited by Mrs. Green was where she received word that a girl desired to escape from slaverv. She went atter the poor creature, but could not find her. A watch was kept on the honse, and two weeks afterward it was d scovered that the girl had been kept confined under the flooring of a stable, where she had been compelled to lie during the entire time. When rescued she was almost dead with an imprint of the thumb as a bina- ing seal to the bargain, This document is written on red paper in deep black ink, and bears the date of Quong Sui, twelfth year, which makes it about eleven years old. Following is a translation of the document, which is one of four which were taken with the girl when she was rescued. The girl had been sold four times and in each instance the bills of previous sales went with her. When she was rescuel the owner exhibited these bills in order to prove that she belonged to him, and they were snatched from his hand and kept with the girl, The docu- ment reads: I write clearly to you that I give thisgirl to you because I am very pour. This girl I have borne myself. She is my own child. Her name is Tsau Fa. She is seven years old this year. She was born at 1or2o'ciock on the 4th day of July. I, myself, xsked my relatives, but none were willing to care for her. After- ward one go-between named Chung Shi took me toa woman named Wong Sni. Wong Shi saw my girl and promised to give me $88. Wong Sni gave the $88 to Chung Sni and Chung Shi took it away. Wong Shi took her to her house to use. We three people talked the matier over very clearly, not because I owed her any money nor did she steal the girl. The go-between did not compel me to do it, but I was willing. : If there is any trouble afterward it is clearly understood by the go-between and the woman, this girl must follow this woman, who has bought her, and she is to take care of hier until she is larger. The mother cannot ask any | questions about her and the woman is_not an- swerable to the mother tor what may be done to the child or what happens to her, whether she lives or dies or where she puts her. This PBPer is gotten up by the mother herself. WANG SHL Quong Sui, twelfth year. The thumbmark was imprinted adjoin- ing the signature, and ind.cated that the document was done in legal form. The otuer three bills of sale were of similar character, and a peculiarity in one of them is that the seller claims to be the mother of the girl also. These docu- ments, tozether with many others, will be laid before the committee which comes from Washington should the President take action upon the petition, which he undoubtedly will. — IN A BAD FIX. Gut Lung Must Unde-go the Fate Reserved for All Chinese S aves Here and at Home. Captain M. Thomas of the Salvation Army Rescue Branch, whose headquar- ters are at 815 Sacramento street, is inter- esting herself in the fate of Chinese women who ure brought here as slaves, and is | keeping track of them with a view to their reciamation, many of them having ex- pressed a desire to be saved from the hor- rible life of a slave in the dens of China- town. Miss Thomas, in company with another member of the rescue corps, visited As- -2 =% o< . 3o & Ax 0 ER N Fr AR R QRS S E S for S st PAE MR TN .5 B L s I ~ " 0 = Fac-S: A% 42 A 5 3 53 ey e RSk FAR B R B TR e g 2RI RS Qe = & \ 1 ) B3 1 3 5 A 5 PG e HAE P WA PG > 8 e m A 3 2 ay ] = SEErl ESF Rl P R b g & A e\o\' Y —4R3 ¥ RN IR K b R A M5 prudie (i S ,a\d imile of Bill of Sale of Tsau Fa by Her Mother, Wang Shi, to Wong Shi, the FINAL HOORS OF A FAMOTS CASE The Hale & Norcross Liti- gation Before the Su- preme Court, Justices Hear Oral and Closing Arguments in the Big Law Suit, Judge Garber Defends the Comstock Mill-Owners and Attorney Baggett Replies. The lawyers had their closing fling at the famous Hale & Norcross case when the oral arguments of the contending forces were presented to the Justices of the Supreme Court in bank yesterday afternoon. Judge John Garber repre- sented the interests of the mining com- pany and Attorney Baggett was present for M. W. Fox, who brought the action against the corporation on behalf of a number of dissatisfied stockholders. The case is now historical. In the be- ginning it was a dispute as to the bullion returns of Hale & Norcross ore from the Mexican and Nevada mills. These mills were owned by Alvinza Hayward and H. M. Levy, who are in reality the two prin- cipal defendants in the litigation. When the action was originally brought it was sought to recover damages from the mill- owners for excessive charges for milling tne ores of the mining company, and an additional claim was put forward on the charge that vast sums of money had been diverted from the pockets of the stock- holders by reason of imperfect treatment of the ores. In all a sum exceeding a mil- lion aollars was asked for. There were insinuations that the process of treating the ores was such that an ua- necessary amount of the bullion was lost in the tailings which were subsequently worked over again at a profit to the mill- owners. The court records of the big case now fill over 5000 printed pages, and half a score of the most famous lawyers in the State have been engaged on one side or theother. 5 At the first trial the millionaire mill- owners were worsted, and a judgment of §210,197 was entered against them on the issue of excessive charges for milling the ores. In the matter of imperfect milling the Supreme Court on appeal referred again to the lower court for settlement, with the resuit that Judge Hebbard de- cided against the millmen to the amount of $417,000 in round numbers. It is worthy of note that this decision on the part of Judge Hebbard occasioned no little eriti- cism at the time, and out of il grew his celebrated but futile attempt to vindicate his character by bringing a suit for libel to invoke gag law on his merits as a polit- ical candidaie at the expense of the City. In this Jast judgment the estate of the late W. 8. Hobart was included. In reply to the charges of fraud in con- Consideration Being $88 Cash. TRANSLATION: I write clearly to you that I give this girl to you because I am very poor. This girl | have borne myself. She is my own child. Her name is Tsau Fa. She is 7 years old this year. She was born at 1 or 2 o’clock on the 4th day of Ju I myself asked my relatives, but none were willing to care for her. Afterward one go-between named Chung Shi took me to a woman named Wong Shi. the §88 to Chung Shi, and Chung Shi compel me to do it; but I was willing. took it away. Wong Shi saw my girl and promised to give me $88. Wong Shi gave Wong Shi took her to her house to use. the matter over very clearly; not because I owed her any money, nor did she steal the girl. We three people talked The go-between did not If there is any trouble afterward it is clearly understood by the go-between and the woman, this girl must follow this woman, who has bought her, and she is to take care of her until she-is larger. The-mother cannot ask any ques- tions about her and the woman is not answerable to the mother for what may be done to the child or what happens to her, whether she lives or dies or where she puts her. Quong Sui, twelfth year. This pager is gotten up by the mother herself. WANG SHI. sivnature, and all who have been ap- proached have shown much enthusiasm the matter, and many asked for copies | yin order that they might circulate it among their friends. The articles which have appeared in Tre Carn during the past three weeks | have thrown more' light upon the true state of affairs in Chinatown than any publication which has been made in re- cent yeals, and many people who have | Iived in California all their lives say that | they had no idea that such a deplorable condition existed and wondered why it} was that the officials of the City and County failed to put a stop to it long ago. There has been a general idea that women were imported for immoral purposes, but it has not been thought that the system ot siavery was 80 far reachingas to in- ciude more than a thousand women and children. { An investigation among the workers who have been trying for years to am«li- | orate the condition of these poor people shows that they have not ouly been com- ypelied to enaure all sorts of obstructions ' | place she was prevented by the officer who | method+ have failed. | Chinese slavery is a regular bill of sale, from the terrible suffering which she en- dured. Mrs. Hull, who has worked among the Cuinese in this City for the past ten years, said that she searched for a girl who was trying to escape and found her hidden away nnder a pile of wood. The girl had been comvpelled to lie down and the wood was piled on her and she was kept in that position for several hours while the search was going on around o . Another girl had been hidden under the sidewalk and kept there for days while the house was being watched. Another was hidlen in a closet, and when Mrs. Hull attempted to get into the hiding- accompanied her and who, it was after- ward learned, had received money from the girl’s owner while the search was being made. These are buta few of the stories which can be heard from the mis- sion workers, and all of them show most conclusively that the petition has not been brought forth until after all other One of the most interesting documents that can be found in connection with not only signed by the seller, but stamped ““THE CALL’ DOING GRAND WORK.” Secretary of State Brown Hits Center and Suggests a Remedy for Chinese SACRAMENTO, CAL., Aug. 10.—THE CALL is doing grand work, not only from a moral standpoint, b! many a youth, in its efforts toward women in California. My remedy would be to petitiof disreputable Chinese women found tion to be borne by the Federal Government, and the total sum would not exceed $75,000. The only oth destroy the valuation of the slave by preventing Chinese immorality, for there can be no question but bartered and sold are made a matter of merchandise for immoral pur- poses only. Destroy their calling and you make them valueless, slavery days the valuation was fixed according to the amount of labor the man or woman in bondage could perform. were sold for their labors. The val pends upon their earnings in disre ter by stringent local legislation, freedom, (Signed) L H. Slavery. ut also as a matter of protection to suppressing the slavery of Chinese n Congress to deport to China all in California, the cost of deporta- er remedy is for local authorities to that all Chinese women that are During In other words, they uation of the Chinese women de- putable houses. Suppress the lat- and the slaves will obtain their BROWN, Secretary of State, ristant United States District Attorney Schlesinger yesterday to inquire about Gut Lune, a woman brought here recently from Texas for deportation. Mr. Schles- ingerinformed Miss Thomas that it was not likely that the woman would escape the sentence of the Texas court and that she would be sent back to China unless some one petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus here. Even then it would not be likely that she coula escape, because the evidence was overwhelming that she was unlawfully in the United Siates. Miss Thomas explained tnat she had had a talk with the unfortunate woman in the County Jail, and that Gut Lung had asked her to save her from the siave-masters. She was fearful thatif she were discharged here a Chinaman who was claiming to have purchased her would seize her anda force her to lead tho same kind of life as before. On the other hand, \f she were sent back to her own country she would be turned over to some one else and would be kept in siavery in China. There is no prospect that the woman wil1 be discharged, and she must meet the fate of all women of her class in the unceles- tial empire. THREE RATTLING FIGHTS. A First-Clasy Entertninment Promised by the St. George’s Club. Tickets for the boxing cont sts which will be held this evening at Woodward’s Pavilion under the auspices of the St. George’s Club, have been seliing like hot cakes, and the directors are consequently happy at the thought thatthe club will realize something substantial in the way of financial returns. There is not any doubt that those who witness the mills will 20 away well satis- fied with the enteriainment, as hard punching and scientific boxing will certainly be seen. The heavy-weights, Baker and Ball, will put “K a game battle, and as both fighters hit hard and fight fast the contest is not expected to last very long. All sporting men who have seen Lon Agnew fight realize that ne is an excellent card, and as his opponent, Casz of Denver, is sald to be a clever boxer and a stiff puncher, a rattling ten-round argument should resnit. Bfily Armstrong is san- guine of whipping Jimmy Whalen owing to hissplendid physical condition. If Arm- strong is successiui bis many friends will conclude that Billy is still in the race for championship honors. Billy Gallagher is anxious for a match with either Lon Agnew or Actor Eimer, ——————— Willis Poik’s Insolvency. C. Hirsch has been appointed assignee in the case of Wiilis Polk, an insolyen! A on L e o) 'vent debtor, nection with the treatment of the ores of | the mining company, it has always been | the contention of the owners of the mills that the milling was honest and that the bullion returns were all that were secured. There were numerous witnesses cailed upon this poirt on both sides. The mart- | ter of car samples and tkeir reliability as a test of the true value of the ore wasa matter of much discussion. The com- plaining stockholders of the mining com- pany insisted that this estimate should be taken as the output of the mine. The mill-owners, on the other hand, intro- duced evidence to prove that the proper tests of the value of a car of ore was by | means of a battery test at the mill when | the ore had been crushed and submitted to a thorough assaying. The matter of the loss in the tailings was another rock upon which the lii- gants split. The stockholders declared | that not less than 14 per cent-of the origi- nal estimate of the car sampling should | be the basis of the expense of waste in the | tailings. The mill returns were but 62| per cent in many instances of the car esti- mate, and it wes upon this condition of affairs that the charge was made that the treatment of the ote was so arranged that much of the bullion went into the tail- ings, which were sub-equently worked over again at a big profit 1o the owners of the reduction milis. There were other matters to be adjusted which are familiar to all mining men. Among them were the escape in slime, the loss due to mois- ture and the subject of the discount to be allowed for the silver portion of the bul- | lion returns. The briefs in anaop-al from Judge Heb- bard’s decision have been filed in the Su- preme Court, and the Justices listened 1o the ciosing arguments pending the consid- | eration of the voluminous history of the | case. Tnereare some nice points of law to be deeided, It happened that at the time Fox brought the action he was not a bona fide stockholder in the company, but wus ecting in the interest of a number of the | dissatisfied. Subsequently he purchased about 200 shares witn the idea of bridging this technicality, and the court will be called upon to pass upon his standing as a bona-fide litigant. Then there are miles of the opinions of many witnesses on the subject of the treatment of ores and the elemental character and ingredients of those peculiar to the Comstock. the principal witnesses in the case in the lower courts was John W. Mackay, the bonanza king. In his argument yesterday Judge Gar- ber contended that it was unfair to Hay- ward, Hobart and Levy that they should be heid guiity of fraud in the face of all the evidence to the contrary given at the triat of the case. It was charged, =aid Judge Garber, that the defendants had conspired to bring about unusual waste in tue tailings, which was equivalent to a direct accusation, it migut be said, of theft. The matter of the value of car samples as a sure test of the value of the ore was not reliabie. Even Judge Heb- bard admitted this and had deducted $8 from 1he estimated value of $36 on eacu ton. Mackay bad said that $10 would be a better and more impartial deduction aiter an experience of many years on the Comstock. The decree of Judge Hebbar. practically imposed upon the mili-owners the obligation to return 86 per cent of the car sample, which was unfair aad unjust considering the wide divergence of opinion among mining men on this subject and the ever changing character of ores in general on the Comstock. “‘Witnesses have testified,” continued Judge Garber, ‘‘that these mills were equipped with the best machinery to be obtained in the market and that these ores were worked (o the best possible ad- vantage. There is no conflict of evidence on this point. Even the finding of the lower court declares that these ores were well handled and treated in the most ap- proved manner and that there was no un- nec ssary waste in the tailings, yet the aefendan:s, Mr. Hayward and his com- panions, are put in the position of having worked the ore proneriy and at the same CASTORIA For Infants and Children, ’.‘,‘.,"fi'W__k ] sigaature every K] A ‘M{ iR, One of | time a judgment is entered againstthem { which is to the effect that they must re- jturn to the stockholders of the mining company the value of the ore thus lost in the tailings. Surely this is a peculiar find- ing of law and self-contradictory. On these lines the charge is practically made that these defendants have stolen this money, althongh the court admits that they made full returns of the bullion and that the ores being treated to the greatest advantage, there was no unnecessary waste or 10ss in the tailings.” ; Judge Garber then began a review of the evidence gciven at the trial in the lower court. The car-sample estimate of the value of the ores was not a criterion o the returns that should be expected from milling. Expert C. W. Maxwell, who had been called in behalf of the other side, declared that 80 per cent of the car-sample estimate was a fair return for ore safter reducticn, and moreover there was plenty of evidence to the effect that car-sample assays did not give a re- liable estimate of the value of the gold and silver in the ore. There was no con- flicting testimony on this point. “When you come to convict these men,” he continued, “‘of theft, what kind of tes- timouy has been produced to bring about such a veraict? “‘Here, according to all the evidence, was a perfect mili equipped with perfect machinery. The ores were well worked, there being only 14 per cent lost in the operation. The conditions forbid fraud. There were too many people engaged to pernmit it. Every phase of the case shows that there were honest milling and honest returns. All the doors were opened. The books of the Bullion Exchange ana Wells- Fargo banks were opened and examined, and not a scintilla of evidence to show fraud was obtained. In 1892, when a re- form board gained control of the Hale & Norcross Company, and these so-called ‘conspirators’ were ousted from office, it was shown that 6000 tons of the same ore were worked at the Brunswick mill and a 1€¥s percentage of the assay value than that returned from the mill of the de- fendants was obtained. Surely then this is a positive denial of the charges of fraud imputed to the working of this mill.”’ Continuing, Judge Garber declared that the battery assay was the only proper estimate of the real value of ore. Attorney Baggett, in reply, enumerated some of the early history of the case. In all about 86,000 tons of ore were mixed up in the fight. At a value of $36 a ton the total vaiue of this ore would be §$3,224,000. The battery samvles at the mill reduced this figure to §2,224,000, or a million less. He declared that at one time it was pro- posed to split the difference as an ami- cable adjustment of the d:fficulty, but the judgment of Judge Hebbara allowed the mill-owners a much better settlement than this. Hesaid that at least 85 per cent of the value of the ore should have been returned from the mill, whereas but 67 per cent was the actual sum realized. He repeated the charge that there had been unnecessary waste in the tailings. H. M. Levy had declared that the Hale & Norcross ores were easy to handle and that there were no elements in them to prevent their amaigamation. According to Baggett there s:ould bave been re- turned at least $2,100,000 from the ore, when in reality the value of the Bullion secured was but $1,628,000. A dissertation on the value of car sampling followed. In conclusion Judge Garber maintained that the physical facts forbade the exist- ence of any iraud among the mill-owners. Here was a case where men charged witn fraud bad done everything any good citi- zen could do to justify themselves. This charge had been made on a lot of vague tesumony. Every single grain of the gold and silver obtained from the ores had been returned. OLYMPIC CLUB DIRECTORS. The Nominating Committee Pledged to the New Athletic Association. The Olympic Club elected on Monday anominating board to name the directors of theclub for the ensuing year. These are five in number: Amos Burr of the Vanderbilt system of railroads; C. H. Gruenhagen, merchant; W. J. Birdsall, cashier of the American Type Founcers’ Company; Wallace Taylor, clerk of South- ern Pacitic Company, and Thomas F. Spillane, with J. C. Wilson & Co. Upon the recommendation of W. P. Lawlor the nominating board was instructed to name for directors only such members as are in sympathy with the new American Athletic Association of the Pacitic States. The el.ction of directors will not be held untii the first Monday in September. There are several reasons why the new association is favored. Its charter mem- bers were the Olympic Club, Fresno Ath- letic Club and the Acme Athletic Ciub. | Itis in opposition to the Pacific branch of the American Athletic Union of the| United States, from which 1t departed on | account of the former’s control. The new | organization favors general athletic sports, | and claims that the older body runs to one branch. Another objection was that the | one-branch clubs had the same representa- tion as those devoted to all-round sports, Still another point was a desire to dis- associate amateur sports from the profes- sional. —_————— Labor's Great Diy. District Council, Carpenters and Joiners, are prepariug for a gigantic celebration of Labor day at the Chutes, The sports wiil commence at 9 o'clock in the morning and will be con- tinaed throughout the day. 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