1887
Local Notes.
A detachment of Chinese from the Pacific Slope arrived in the city yesterday.
- August 17, 1887, The Dallas Morning News, p. 8, col. 2.
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Last Night’s Shooting.
A shooting scrape occurred last night at No. 3 Ervay street, between
Main and Elm, between Ching Chung, a Chinaman, and Jim Ravell, a hack
driver. Officer Cliff Scott was promptly on hand and arrested the
participants in the shooting. Both were before the recorder this
morning, and each charged the other with the work, but Ravell finally
made affidavit, charging Ching Chung with being the guilty party.
Yet Lung was found at his place of business this morning, and to a
reporter, stated that the shooting occurred in his place of business,
indicated by No. 3 Ervay. A throng of Celestials were present,
and evidently discussing the occurrence. Lung, who speaks English
intelligently, said the parties came out of the rear of his house,
proceeded down the steps, and when in the back yard, the shooting took
place. He could not say who did the work, as he did not see it,
and he knew of no one else who was an eyewitness. Two shots were
fired in the back yard, and one near the corner of Main and Ervay
streets.
At present, Ching Chung is having an examining trial this afternoon
before Justice Kendall. Seven of his countrymen are in attendance.
- November 23, 1887, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 2.
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1888
Localettes.
A number of the Chinese and negroes occupying the shanties on Ervay
streeet, between Main and Elm streets, were fined by the recorder this
morning for creating nuisances.
- May 23, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 4.
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Recorder’s Court.
Gilbert Lyon, threw rocks at a celestial near Schneider &
Davis’, and was fined $5. “Him rockee me,” said
John.
- July 25, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 1.
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[No Heading]
A Chinaman and a negro had a set-to on Elm street this
morning, in which the Chinaman attempted to smooth his colored brother
out with a hot, flat iron. He was not successful in his attempt,
but dropped the iron after severely burning himself.
- August 17, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 5.
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Got it in the Neck.
Two Chinese living near the Central Hotel, have quarelled for a week
about a 25-cent trade. One of them crept into the house of the
other Celestial, and while his enemy slept, plunged a knife into his
neck, almost severing the jugular vein. The stabber was sent to
jail and the wounded man will probably recover.
- August 24, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 4.
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Localettes.
The Chinaman who had a knife drawn across his throat by a brother
Celestial, is all o.k., and the one who did the cutting has been
released, no complaint having been filed against him.
- August 25, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 2.
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Two Safe Robbers.
...Dysterbach’s
feed store, in East Dallas...Chinaman kept a gold watch and chain in
Dysterbach’s safe for safe-keeping.
- September 11, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 4.
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Personal.
The Chinese who were engaged in a difficulty with Thompson, were
arraigned in recorder’s court this morning. They appeared
by attorney, and had an interpreter. Their statement was that
Thompson and two negro men robbed one, and he went for assistance and
three came with him. They were fined $5 each, and filed notice of
appeal.
- September 12, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 2.
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Opium Joints
No Ordinance Covering Them Under The State Law.
The police last night, arrested A. H. Yan, Tom Quay and Chas. Chung,
all Celestials as their names imply, for keeping a disorderly house on
the west side of Ervay street, near Main...
- September 19, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 5.
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About the Metropolis...
William Wilson tormented a Celestial last night by stoning him, for
which act Bill paid $3 in recorder’s court this morning.
- October 5, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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[No Heading]
“I’ll bet $30 that I can knock that electric light out with
this chair,” remarked one sport to another in the “Q.
T.” saloon on Saturday evening. “I’ll bet $30
that you can’t knock that d--d Chinaman’s head off,”
replied his companion, referring to an inoffensive German of diminutive
stature who stood at the bar, and with this, the German was set upon
and summarily dealt with by the would-be bad men, to the disgust of a
number of people who happened to pass that way.
- November 19, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 5.
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CITY NEWS.
The veritable Chinese peddler is abroad in the city. He carries
huge baskets of a quaint Chinese pattern suspended by a stout cord from
either end of a five-foot pole upon his shoulder.
- December 20, 1888, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 1.
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1889
City Court.
Three drunks, two petty theft cases and two small negro boys charged
with rocking John Chinaman, engaged the attention of his honor, Judge
Brown.
- September 24, 1889, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 2.
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1890
OPIUM JOINTS.
_______
They Flourish in Dallas and Their
Patrons are Numerous.
“Curious how white folks’ll hit the pipe,
ain’t it,” said a man about town, to a TIMES-HERALD reporter last night.
“Well,” was the response, “in cities
where John Chinaman is numerous, it is nothing unusual to see men, and
women, too, for that matter, coming out of opium joints after hitting
the pipe, as the opium habit is termed. I didn’t, for a
moment, suppose that opium joints had an existence in Dallas,
however.”
“Well, that’s where you are off,” said
the speaker. “Hop fiends are as thick as fiddlers in hades
in this city. They are confined to a certain class, however, and
once the habit gets a hold on one , it is goodbye, Dennis. There
is a joint not a stone’s throw from where we stand, and white men
and women patronize the oily, sleek-looking celestial who bosses the
dive. Why, just the other evening, I saw a pretty little white
girl, not over sixteen years of age, emerging from the places. A
hideous looking old Mongolian with a face the color of tanned leather
and a leer on his mug that was frightful to behold, stopped the young
thing, planted a kiss on her pretty lips, and then shoved her out of
the place. It made my blood boil for a time, I can tell
you. I watched the girl, but she made her escape down a side
street. If you want a first-class item, just get solid with some
fellow that has the run of these places, some ‘hop fiend,’
and you will be surprised at the number of joints running full blast in
the city and more than surprised at the number of poor wretches who go
to these places nightly to enjoy the delicious, damnable effects of the
drug so vividly portrayed by De Quincey.”
“How many places of the sort does Dallas boast of?”
“There are at least ten ‘hop fiend’
dives in the metropolis. Not long ago, a well-dressed and foppish
Chinaman came here from San Francisco. He was the agent of a big
Mongolian merchant of that city and he supplies the Texas trade with
opium. It is shipped over the Southern Pacific under some other
brand, and there is big money in it for the Joss worshipper at
‘Frisco.”
- May 21, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 4.
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CITY GOVERNMENT NOTES.
About noon, the hoodlum wagon, with accustomed pomp and display, rolled
up with two women, one white and the other black, a Chinaman, and two
small children belonging to the white woman. The charge of
vagrancy was fastened against the women, but the flexible code of
ordinances failed to name the Chinaman’s offense and he was set
at liberty. After placing the two women in jail, the
officers’ hearts were touched with pity and the white woman with
the two little innocents was released and told to leave the city, or
she would be sent to the poor farm. She replied that the world
was against her, and that she had no way to leave.
- June 18, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 5.
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“HOP” HOUSES.
_________
A Big Chinese Opium Joint Raided
by Officers Yesterday.
__________
Charlie Chum, One of the Pris-
oners, Fined $200 by City
Judge Brown.
_________
Lou Gee, the Bellweather of the
Flock, Taken in Custody by
the Officers To-day.
A few months ago, the TIMES-HERALD
charged that there were a number of opium dens, or “hop
joints,” in the city, where “hop fiends” resorted for
the purpose of “hitting the pipe.” Many people
laughed and muttered to each other a “fake.”
Nevertheless, recent developments have demonstrated that the Chinese
have a house in this city where they congregate to worship Joss, smoke
the pipe and cater to the wants of white people who are addicted to
smoking opium. The Chinese are devilish[ly] sly, and it is a hard
matter to secure information relative to their doings, or to get one
Chinaman to testify against another, unless they belong to different
factions. Three weeks ago, a Celestial named Lou Frank struck the
town. According to his story, he was prospecting. He talked
English fairly, with the peculiar twang of his race. Lou is a
stolid, dull-eyed Mongolian, but he knows a thing or two.
Yesterday morning, Officers Martin, Goddard and Dick Beard were visited
at police headquarters by one of the disciples of Confucious. He
was greatly excited and said that Charlie Chung and a woman were
smoking opium in Chung’s room in a house on Pacific avenue, on
the south side of the street, a short distance from Akard.
The officers
proceeded at once to the place designated and surrounded the
house. Goddard entered the dwelling and proceeded at once to the
room occupied by Charles Chung. The door was locked.
Goddard demanded admittance and after considerable partying, Chung
unlocked the door and the blue-coat entered. The fumes of opium
nearly stifled him. A white woman, partially disrobed, was
stretched across a bed, and it is said that she was under the influence
of “hop.”
The woman, Charlie
Chung, Chi Chum, Ah Lee, Ah Sin and Lou Gee, were arrested and taken to
police headquarters. The former, who is the proprietor of a
sporting house, gave bond, and the Mongolian also succeeded in getting
their friends to put up security for them.
Charlie Chum was very much alarmed for fear that his
companions would be led to believe that he gave “a tip” to
the officers, which led to the arrest of himself and his
associates. The members of a secret organization, “Chinese
freemasons,” of which Lou Gee is the grandmaster, held a meeting
last night and Chung was fearful that his countrymen might make it
unpleasant for him. Chung asked that an officer be dispatched
post haste to the temple and try his hand in an effort to pacify the
excited Mongols. The men who made the arrests, having gone off
duty, no attention was paid to Chung’s appeal.
This morning, the
prisoners were arraigned in court, and the case against Charlie Chung,
charged with keeping a disorderly house, was called. Charlie is a neat
dresser, wears a que, talks excellent “pigeon English,” and
oftentimes acts as interpreter when his countrymen are in trouble or
desire to transact business.
Assistant City
Attorney Bradford asked for a continuance and Col. McCoy, who had been
retained by the defendants, objected. Judge Brown ordered the prisoner
to trial.
Officer Martin was
the first witness. He gave the facts of the arrest, and while he
did not catch the prisoners in the very act of “hitting the
pipes,” he swore that the fumes of opium poisoned the very air
and came very near suffocating him.
Officer Goddard,
who forced Charlie to unlock the door and found the proprietor and a
white woman holding forth in the den, testified that the fumes of opium
filled the house, and that all the paraphernalia of an opium joint,
pipes, etc., were scattered about on the tables and chairs.
Lou Frank, a Chinaman with an evil looking face, took the
stand and swore that he came to the city three weeks ago, to hunt a
location for a “washee-washee” house and stopped at the
dwelling on Pacific avenue. The dwelling, he said, was a sort of
a Chinese inn, where perigrinating Chinamen stopped when they visited
the city. It was rented by a “Chinese company” for
the Chinese free-masons. Charlie Chum, who is a member of the
order, rented one room, being an exclusive fellow, and paid the company
$4 a month for the same. The company pays a prominent real estate
agent $31 per month for the house, which contains seven rooms.
Lou swore that the white woman visited the house three times and went
to Chung’s room “to hit the pipe.” The fumes of
the opium annoyed him, and he determined to break up Chung’s
little gatherings. He admitted that other Chinamen “hit the
pipe,” but never saw outsiders, with the exception of the woman,
who was arrested Sunday morning.
One Lung was the
next witness. One Lung looked as if some fellow had kicked two
lungs out of him when he was ordered to the witness’ chair.
He turned a pale yellow, and one would have imagined from his
countenance, that the headsman had already sharpened the sword for his
immediate decapitation. Mr. Lung cannot express himself in
English, and Jim Lee, a bright-looking Celestial, who is a master of
the English and French languages, acted as interpreter. Lung
informed the court that Charlie Chung and Lee Poi rented the building
for the Chinese Freemasons, and that the woman and Charlie smoked opium
in the room occupied by the latter on several occasions. He
admitted that other Chinamen frequented the resort and were transported
to the Flowery Kingdom over and anon by the power of the seductive drug.
Charlie Chung was asked if he wished to make a
statement. He said he did. The woman came to his room and
the other Chinamen became jealous and notified the police. She
did not come to smoke opium. The first time, she came to
“see where he lived;” the second time, for a brass kettle,
and the third time, yesterday morning, about 4 o’clock, to get
“some hop” for her girls. The prisoner said he
informed the degraded creature that two drug stores in the city kept
the article on sale, and that she would have to wait until morning to
make a purchase. She took his advice and concluded to remain in
his room until the business houses where “hipe” is sold,
threw open their doors.
Charlie admitted that 35 or 40
Chinamen belonged to the “company” and visited the
house. He occupied one room, Worshipful Grand Master and First
Hitter of the Pipe, Lou Gee, occupied another, and the middle room on
the first floor furnished shelter to a drove of Celestials.
According to [Charlie], “hitting the pipe” was a common
occurence. Even Lou Gee tackled the “festive hop
bowl.” However, all Dallas’ Chinese colony do not
indulge. Charlie says so, and from the evidence elicited, Charlie
knows.
Judge Brown threw
a bombshell into the ranks of “the company” after the
evidence was all in, and the attorneys submitted the case without
argument. He found Chum guilty as charged and imposed the
heaviest penalty, $200 fine.
The case of Chi
Chum was called, and Mr. Bradford asked for a continuance and Mr. McCoy
objected. Bradford stated that, owing to the fact the arrests
were made on Sunday, no time had been given him to get the witnesses
for the city in court. He mentioned one or two who would swear
that people visited the house to smoke opium. The judge granted
the continuance until Thursday, September 25, remarking to McCoy,
“we officers obey the Sunday law.”
“I’m glad to hear it; it is news to me,” was the retort courteous.
The cases against
Ah Sin and Ah Lee were dismissed, as the officer who made the arrest
had failed to make the proper affidavit. The prisoner, Charles
Chung, was placed in the calaboose in default of payment of fine.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of Lou Gee, the
bell-weather of the flock, who is known as the “grandmaster of
the company,” and he was nailed at his place of business.
Lou Gee is an ancient specimen of the Mongolian race, and might easily
pass himself off in a dime museum as a mummy from the catecombs of
Egypt. His case will be called in the morning.
Many complaints
have been made against the house by the residents of the neighborhood,
who charge that it is frequented by white men and women, who go there
to smoke, and also by all the Chinamen in the city.
At state
intervals, a sleek-looking mongol, who travels for a San Francisco
house, visits Dallas and takes orders for “hop.” The TIMES-HERALD
has it straight that this fellow supplies the trade in Dallas, Fort
Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso, and does a thriving
business.
The woman in the
case was fined $5, which she paid. She is an inveterate hop-fiend
and is said to be the mistress of Charlie Chum.
- September 22, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 2-5.
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CHUM AND HIS PARDS.
_________
He Takes an Appeal to the Dis-
trict Court.
Charlie Chum, who was fined $200 by Judge Brown yesterday,
has appealed the case to a higher court. He did not remain in
jail any great length of time, his friends having rallied to the
rescue. Ah Sin, Sam Lee and Lou Gee, the “high
muckey-muck” [of the] Chinese colony, will be given a hearing
Thursday.
- September 23, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 6.
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OPIUM JOINTS.
_________
Lou Gee, Ah Sing and Others
Will Be Tried To-Morrow.
The cases against Lou Gee, Ah Sin, Sam Lee and Chi Chum, charged with
keeping a disorderly house, will be called in the police court
to-morow. morning. The chances are, however, that they will go
scott free, as a whole box of pigtails will swear that these men
objected to Charlie Chum bringing outsiders to “hit the
pipe.”
Speaking of “hop houses,” a former member of the police force said to a TIMES-HERALD reporter to-day:
“I can point to seven “hop houses” in this city, five
of which are conducted by Chinamen, at any time. You cannot gain
admittance, unless it is known that you are a “hop
fiend.” There is a sort of free-masonry among those who are
addicted to the use of ‘hop,’ and they share willingly with
each other. If one is broke, another, who is in better luck, will
divide with him. Are they numerous? Well, I should
remark. I presume there are 300 or 400 hop fiends, counting
Mongolians, in Dallas. The joints cannot be broken up.”
- September 24, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2.
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A CHINESE QUARTETTE.
_______
Charles Chung, Chy Chum, Ah Lee
and Ah Sam are Charged with
_______
RUNNING AN OPIUM DEN.
______
A White Woman Is Found in the Place and
Others Are Said to Visit It -- Charles
Chung Is Apprehensive
of Danger.
Charles Chung, Chy Chum, Ah Lee, Ah Sam, and a white
woman, were arrested at some Chinese quarters on Pacific avenue, near
Akard street, early yesterday morning by Officers Goddard and Martin.
The woman was charged with disorderly conduct, and the Chinese with
keeping an opium den. Before the arrest was made, the officers
were told by two Chinamen, who went to the house to room, that opium
smoking was being carried on there as a business, and that white women
went there for that purpose. When the officers approached the
place, they were refused entrance to some of the rooms, which they
forced open. In one of the rooms, they found
the white woman. In the same building is the lodge room of a Chinese
secret order, of which one of the Chinamen arrested is grand
master. This, the officers entered and found a wooden image and
tables of all heights and sizes and other things which they used in
conducting their lodge meetings.
Charles Chung speaks English moderately well and sometimes
acts as interpreter for the Chinese in the courts. He gave the
officers, when pressed to do so, some information about their affairs,
which has wonderfully turned the other Chinamen against him.
Yesterday afternoon, all the Chinamen arrested had been released on
bond, and Chung appeared along at the police station in search of
protection. He said that all the members of the secret order were
going to meet last night, and he was afraid that they would do him
harm, and wanted an officer to go over and try to pacify them by
telling them that he was not to blame for giving the information.
The officers who made the arrest were not then on duty and Chung left
the police station apprehensive of the night’s lodge
meeting. He claims that he is only a lodger at this house, and is
innocent of the charge against him.
- September 24, 1890; The Dallas Morning News, p. 8, col. 3.
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Chung Fined $200.
Charles Chung, one of the four Chinamen arrested last
Sunday on a charge of running an opium den on Pacific avenue, was
yesterday, arraigned before City Judge Brown and fined $200 upon being
convicted of the offense. The case against two of the others was
continued, and one was dismissed.
- September 24, 1890; The Dallas Morning News, p. 3, col. 4.
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Lu Gee Will Carry His Case to
Austin.
The motion for a new hearing in the case against Lu Gee was overruled
by Judge Brown. The judge’s motto is “be sure you are
right, and then go ahead,” so when he imposes a fine, it has got
to stick. Lu Gee’s case will be carried to the court of
appeals and, ten to one, Judge Brown’s decision will be
supported. If Lu Gee’s new endeavor is fruitless, the
little germ of bitterness in his breast against the judge will be
fanned into a Johnstown conflagration, which may singe the hair off the
dome of the judge’s thinker. By the time Lue Gee works out
his fine and has become financially able to strike an aggressive
attitude, that same dome of the judge’s thinker may be devoid of
hair.
Three cases have been carried to the court of appeals over Judge Brown’s decisions, but were lost.
- October 6, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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City Notes.
An unknown sends a communication protesting against the
people of Dallas sending their soiled linen to Chinese laundries when
there are hundreds of poor white and black women in the city striving
to keep the wolf from the door.
- November 15, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 1.
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Chi Chum in Clover.
Chi Chum is in a cell in the city prison. A white
woman, well-known in police circles, sends the delicacies of the season
to him, and Chi is living on the fat of the land. The woman has
engaged a lawyer and will endeavor to secure Chi’s release.
- December 13, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 6.
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AN INTERESTING SESSION
______
Of the City Council-- A Needed
Reform Started in the Man-
ner of Appropriating
Charlie Chung’s petition to have his fine of $200
for running an opium joint remitted, was a lengthy document, including
bulky affidavits purporting to be evidence, etc.
Mr. Cole moved to grant the prayer of the petition.
Mr. Cone wanted to know why all that evidence was not
carried before the court. He said he did not think Charlie was no
better than an Irishman, a Frenchman, Dutchman or anybody else, and he
thought he should pay the fines.
Charlie skipped the town and went to Galveston and the city went to the expense of sending after him.
Mr. Loeb said the fellow was no good on the streets; he would eat every day and be a dead expense.
Charlie was ordered released after paying his board bill
and all other expenses incurred by the city in prosecuting and bringing
him to justice.
- December 15, 1890, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 3-6.
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1891
Proceedings of the Courts.
COUNTY COURT.
Lous Saul
and Sam Soy, alias Lee Young, aggravated assault and battery;
continued by the state.
- February 28, 1891,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 3.
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1892
LOCAL ROUND UP OF
NEWS
Tank Kee,
the eminent Chinese lecturer, will appear in this city shortly.
- January 5, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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[No Heading]
Tank Kee
will lecture tonight at the First Baptist church on the religion
and gods of China.
- January 25, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 5.
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[SOCIETY NEWS]
Tank Kee,
the noted Chinese lecturer, scholar and philanthropist, has won
renown the world over as an exponent of Chinese art, literature,
customs, etc. He is a graceful, fervent and eloquent talker, and
his lectures are most interesting and instructive. His collection
of Chinese curios, etc., is the most complete in the country.
Tank Kee will lecture at Turner Hall next Monday evening for
the benefit of the Catholic Orphans' Home at Oak Cliff, a most
worthy cause, and a most worthy institution. The good ladies
of the Home should be assisted liberally, and the TIMES-HERALD trusts
that the attendance will be large.
- February 12, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 4.
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City Notes.
Five Chinamen
embraced the Christian religion at the Central Christian church,
Elder M. M. Davis, pastor, last night.
- February 29, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 7.
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Wah Lee and Ah Sing.
Ah Sing is, as his name indicates, a native of the Flowery
Kingdom. He came to Dallas and entered the employ of Wah Lee, hailing
from the same country. Now, Ah Sing had eighty good hard dollars
of the realm, and when he offered to put it in the bank, Wah Lee
offered to take care of it. The money was turned over to him, and
now comes Ah Sing to the grand jury and asks them to recover his $80
and $40 that Wah See owes him for having rubbed the dirt out of diverse
and sundry clothes. About twenty Chinamen are being examined, and
the impression prevails that Wah Lee is in a bad row of stumps.
- June 25, 1892, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 2.
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1893
CITY NOTES.
Fines to the amount of $1987 were assessed in the city
court this morning. Among the frail women fined were Chew Yum and
Yum Lung, two Japanese prostitutes.
- March 1, 1893, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 2.
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CHEW QUON’S TRIP.
______
He Will Go to China and Wed a Lovely
Maiden.
Colonel Chew Quon (he has been in Texas fifteen years)
called at the office of the county clerk to-day. Colonel Quon has
lived in Dallas a number of years and in Texas fifteen years. He
owns six laundries in Dallas, two at Fort Worth and one at
Corsicana. He is a well-heeled and opulent-Chinaman and he is
wifeless. He desires to go to Pekin, China, to contract for a
female Pekinese to come to Texas and share his home, his wealth and his
laundry business.
- May 18, 1893, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 2.
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DALLAS CHINESE.
_______
They Will Register Now When Told to
Do So.
A TIMES-HERALD reporter called on Foo Chew, a Main street Chinese, this morning.
“When are you going to register, John?” was asked.
“You pleacher?”
“No, John, no preacher. Appearances are deceptive.”
“Llawyer, then?”
“No, no lawyer.”
“Ilishman, mebbe?”
Foo was informed that his caller was a humble reporter,
and to make himself solid with the Celestial, he added that the Geary
law was, in his opinion, a “d---d outrage.” The
Celestial smiled, and in broken English, made known that the consul of
the Six Companies in San Francisco had the matter in charge, and that
only those of his race who desire to visit their native land and
return, will register and be photographed. Foo said that
fifty-four Chinese lived in Dallas. The principal recreation of
these children of Cathay is obtained when they leave their humble homes
for a spin around the block to get a whiff of fresh air. Then,
they are rocked by the small boy of the Caucasian race. This is a
luxury that no other foreigner enjoys in America. Foo said also
that the charger that Chinese operate opium joints in Dallas is untrue.
Many are regular attendants at Sunday School. Foo did not care to
discuss the effect of the Geary law in his native country. He
believed, however, that if Uncle Sam deports the Chinese, that his
country will bounce missionaries and American adventurers. The
latter have been enjoying many privileges in that country for years
past.
- May 19, 1893, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 3.
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CITY NOTES.
Quo Lung Wah, a Chinese laundryman, complained to the
police [last] night, “that Sing wing Sing belted him in the
jaw” with his fist. Wah had a Bible in his pocket and
intimated that the difficulty occurred because Sing Wing Sing had not
attended church since Sam Jones’ meetings. Wah argued the
point with Sing, and Sing hit him. Another version is that the
Mongolians had been playing fantan and Wah won Sing’s dust.
No arrests were made. Wah promises to make Sing Wing Sing
howl one of these fine American days.
- June 26, 1893, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 4.
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1894
Added
February 17, 2004:
DANGER IN INFERIOR LAUNDRIES.
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Dallas Customers
Cannot be too Careful
Where They Send Their Soiled Clothing.
The white
laundries of Dallas are complaining that the patronage of many
of the people who can afford to patronize institutions giving
work to white labor, is sent to the twenty-two inferior Chinese
laundries of this city, or to a concern that advertises on its
wagons that it is a Dallas institution, but is, in fact, an agency
for a Fort Worth concern. It is claimed that the Chinese are
given $1100 a week, and that, as much more, is sent to Fort Worth.
One of the communications received
by the TIMES HERALD states that the leading white laundries of Dallas
have more money invested, pay more wages to their employes, and
do better work than any others in the state, and ask that they
be given the home custom. They deserve encouragement. They
are, in reality, a part of the Dallas factory system and contribute
largely to the sustenance of the "bucket brigade."
One Dallas laundry employs thirty-six men and women, and has
an annual pay-roll of more than $40,000.
The patrons of laundries should
not keep their money out of the channel which carries wages to
poor, but honest white employes, principally women and girls.
More than that, the employes of the inferior laundries referred
to, run the risk of contracting some vile disease.
The Cigar-makers' Union imposes
a fine of $5 on any of its members who patronize a Chinese cigar-maker,
their object being as much to protect the public from filthy
and badly made cigars, as to benefit the white workmen. The people
should give the white laundries a chance. They are perfectly
safe in doing this, as all of them use the best and clearest
of artesian water, and the most thorough general system of cleansing,
which is not the fact with the Chinese and outside concerns.
- May 11, 1894, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 5.
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PERSONAL.
Ah Jone Yet, of Dallas, who has been absent in
China for three years, returned home yesterday via San Francisco. Mr.
Yet had some difficulty in landing at Frisco, but telegrams from Dallas
fixed him all right. He was accompanied on his return by a cousin, who
lives at Corsicana.
- May 12, 1894, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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