The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1900, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EMBEZZLED TRUST | FUNDS FOR RACE TRACK GAMBLING Father’s Heirs to Squan- der a Fortune on the Course. Victim of the Gamblers Flees From the State to Escape Arrest---The Stolen Money Secured by the American Surety Company. S, 2 Y V== rimes as much inter- rack Gambling. of Racet uld extricate him- ly heavy re- o Tanforan he fol- g @ race. | vy Bettor. | f he would cross Temptation. . ng mind, who that be- of the Litigant. Yher first to public notice by ¢ . to be registered se ha Is he placed to prosecu n to prosecute, } availed him but little, e as the friend - L _ N is still at e. { James R.|°J h before this proceeding Soher | dert & '€ COTPOTA- | o upied the unenviable position of plain- | of some Street. |yt in a unique suit to recove damages, | yught by James King, proprietor of the Francisco, Turk and Taylor streets. | her refused to pay his rent and King sed. Soher, In a cross-complaint, said that the con t d nds of the landlord | Nke t then sough during ; € his_company’s | Shet £08 SN L fe's heart and hed e | . the gam- | 6704 har to her bed for a period of six | he racks r in similar e whom he trusted had | HEED = (Continued on Ninth Page.) found bomes either in prison or in allen | j | peated in another of the Dorie. CONSTERNATION SEIZES THE MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE RING Adolph Soher Robs His Plot of Local Slave-Dealers to Import Women as Wives of Merchants. Ho Yow Promises to Ask His Government to Investigate the Gigantic Frauds Un- masked by The Call. e S S SIrE S *r 0 9 o0 ode IS A APPSR S SPSP S SIS AR G S S e ey *b e SEwof 4 /7750 Sopy= *oeved V- Yy ARE 1oy 4 LR T2 77 (1 A4 O+ st eo 0000000009 HE expose of the gigantic local| } ring dealing In coolle citizens | ¢ made yesterday by The Call| ¢ startled the people of San Fran- | ¢ cisco. The outrageous traffic of * making native-born American cit- izens and voters out of coolies was the ¢ theme of general comment. For mearly | T three years the wretched business has | @ been in prosperous progress, shielded by | 4 the practical secrecy of the Chinese Bu- | o reau, which offers no check or hindrance. | | Month after month ‘“native sons” have | ¥ been admitted, and now after thirty-four | months of service Colonel John P. Jack- | ¢ o ! son has to his discredit the astounding | ¢ FF 28Y b ¢ record of having admitted to a residence | > ind citizenship 3000 Chinese slaves. These | @4,64-04-0-4064+0904+04+@ | are startling, but they cannot belina¢ they are intelligent men, capavle of roverted, and they tell «:u,\ v:n“lvha“' | conducting their business. Yet they bave t0 defeat the exciusion act °"" | been unable to discover anything of un- : | usual interest in the startling fact that the vast majority of the 300 ‘“native | born™ citizens which they have admitted | to San Franctsco left this city before June | | 6. 1852, As men who know their business | Collector Jackson and the officers of the | Chinese Bureau should know that these | coolie slaves, who are now “native sons,” | say they left before June 6, 1882, because after that day the Government has a rec- s | ord of every departing Chinese. Such a their farcical examinations in the after- | palpable fraud would deceive no one. Yet noon. The same simple, absurd routine | the officials are now dealing with over of questioning which was exploited yes- | four score of these same precious ‘“na- terday by The Call was the order of the | tives,” who arrived on the China and the day, but visitors were not welcome. The | Dorie. Nearly all of the “natives” on the tory of the steamer China is to be re- | China left their “native” land before that interesting date. If Collector Jackson no- | Some conception of the tremendous | ticed nothing strange in the fatal date | character of the traffic in “native sons” | the Pippy-Bell-McGowan ring did, and | may be gained from the fact that ths took advantage of it. | Doric has forty-one on board. The China | There is another significant fact in con- had forty-nine, a total of :ineiy “native | nection with the importation of Chinese born” coolle citizens arriving and de- | slaves. as “native sons” that Collector manding admission and citizenstip in ten | Jackson prebably has not noticed. He will days. And yet this mill of scoundreis has | find by inspecting the records of the Chi- been in uninterrupted operation for near- | nese -bureau that 600 of his native-born ly three years. Collector Jackson and the | Chinese citizens and voters were born in authorities of the Chinese Bureau insist | a single house in Chinatown, and it is not. of the operations of the o <pi The members of the ring were not in their accustomed haunts yesterday. There was dullness and inactivity in the Chinese Bureau, and no coolie laden wagons were speeding from the Mail dock into China towr. A lull had come In the disgraceful business and the ringsters were tem- porarily under cover. At the dock of the F c Mail Steamship Company the in- tors of the Chinese Bureau resumed dedeiea THE TooRiTI) AND STEDENTY @rivivisrebeeeieise Byyenns f,fl;,, : THE [RonT WERE fREQUENT HE STARTLING EXPOSE OF THE T OCAL RING ENGAGED IN LAND- ING THOUSANDS OF COOLIES IN THIS CITY AND MAKING AMERICAN CITI OF THEM CREAT A DAY. THE PA- MAIL DOCK WAS DESERTED AND NO COOLIE-LADEN WAGONS LEFT IT FOR CHINATOWN. THE SCHEMERS WERE NOT AROUND THEIR USUAL HAUNTS AND THERE WAS A LULL IN THE TRADE. AND NOW UPON THE FIRST EXPOSE COMES ANOTHER. THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS DE- CIDED THAT MERCHANTS' WIVES HAVE A RIGHT TO LAND WITH THEIR CHINESE HUSBANDS. ON THE FIRST DAY OF THIS MONTH THE SLAVE DEALERS OF THIS CITY SENT AN AGENT TO HONGKONG TO SECURE A HORDE OF “MERCHANTS" WIVES.” mfl//@f’fimt];fl/” ,m@*@—o—wmww 0 0-0-0006000000000000 2 lying-in hospital at that. These 600 “na- | tive sons,” like the remaining 2400 of Colo- | nel Jackson’s other native-born citizens, all remembered the house they were born in, the street and the number and the floor. It is strange that not one of them should forget this important fact. It might puzzle some Americans to remem- ber a similar fact in connection with- their own lives, but the Chinese have good memories and careful parents. Collector Jackson has not noticed either that nearly all of his “native-born™ citi- zens divide their birthplaces among three | houses in Chinatown, one of which is 913 | Dupont street, where Colonel George H. Pippy’s “native son” Lee Woo first saw the light of day, but not with his eyes. The | other two houses are the Globe Hotel. on the northwest corner of Dupont and Jack- | son streets, and the bullding on the south- | east corner of Commercial and Dupont | streets. It would seem that Chinese did not breed in any other part of Chinatown. If Collector of the Port Jackson had re- membered these things and associated with them facts that usually suggest themselves to intelligent men, the people of San Franciseo would not now be dis- | cussing the deeply significant fact that in thirty-four months over 10,000 Chinese have forced the barriers of the Exclusion act, and that among them and the very dregs of them all, the most degraded la- borers and debased coolles, are 3000 na- 2 £NSo 4N OTHER LAy Lo THE _(HIP N e e e o Y ] L R R R R R R R R R e EER R R . vivb e e tirbeae v i e EST/ery 7 - THE (fl//ygf W oy NOT ReAL THE AL Gzep N Tae— /"//72/,95 LR R R R RS R bededetededeieieire® tive born citizens of the United States, entitled each to a vote and all the priv leges of a cf en. Collector Jackson Insists gives him the right to do as in connection with Chin No one has ever dispt Collector Jackson d also has the power as he has not done. r born” cases to the courts, w ough investigation made men can be had to determine of nativity. Collector Jacksor over a year ago that he intended to re all “native born” cases to the determination. He said he knew the ger of handling them. He probab a reason for not doing as he In outlining and chara ng with dealt: th: nese slave dealers and some mer expected soon to have more work hem to do. It was to be w own pecullar sphere—the n slaves in 3 The ¢ ence was has mis. zing the ring as Not long ag of Chinese lawyers yesterday the name of | Court rendered a decision in one preclous member of the gang was the wives of merchants are omitted. It was not mentioned because its anding i owner bears no relation to that official | was the very opportunity f circle which gives power and capacity for | Chinese slave dealers in this cou traud. Colonel George H. Pipp years. The most Frank V. Bell and George A. McGowan . powerful friends and are deservedly ranked as the leaders In the outrageous traffic that not only mendces the city has already injured it. They are the con- spirators in chief, but in the odium that attaches to their wretched business Gas- ton Straus, the partner of Bell, should not be forgotten. Straus works among the Chinese, speaking their language and | Is in men scruples. but been easier to land women. Hordes of “me: " been landed and now the Supreme Court Continued on Ninth Page.