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He Now Owns Lottriu3, Canneriei,
Towut, Bauchos, Gojd 2finet
Store and a Ktnely Appointed
Hateiit.
3aN FRANCISCO. June $. The
MM ramorkaWe inltltotialre in
1 a Chinaman. His name l
CJiIm Tan Sun. and be In (he rich-at
Chtilataan in America.
Millionaires are not necessarily
But here is a novelty in the
class, Where else on
American toll irtTiy 1 found a millionaire
with a qBNi, who thinks nothing
at all of owning whole towns; who employs
hundreds of white men and women
fn his factories and canneries;
who pay tuxes on ranrhes. city rnl
estate, joW mines niul diainniulsi who
rwim lottery gain: upsets a city charter
wlinil he wants to: import contract
lluren by hundred from China, is a
power In a highbinder tons, conducts
a real utttate business in Hongkong ami
aeyeral mcrcbaudiae store in Sun
Pranolftca. and is a genuine Monte
Christo in hia business methods?
Chin Tan Sun does all these things,
and more. He is a man. He
In wider awake when he is asleep than
many of, the persons with whom he
comes In contact during business hours.
Some thirty years ago a long-legged
lad from the Orient came across the
wins to this coast In the steerage of a
Bteamer. He had first opened his almond
eyas in the province of Sun Xing,
n farming district. Fanners in China
do not live on the land they cultivate.
Space is too precious They bunch their
families into compact little houses
sopnrnted by alleys, and go daily forth
o their tilling of the soil. In
whore ranches cover thousands of
acres, a farmer turns a colt to pasture
In a lot. In Cl'lna a mau who
own3 ton acreu is conslderetl wealthy.
Tho boy farmer had heard fabulous
tales of the New World. They hired
him from the raising of vegetables. He
left his ancestral home and traveled
to Ogden, Utah. Theie ho went to work
in Komobody's kitchen as a cook.
But Chin Tan Sun, amid his new
surroundings, thought of other things
than bread making and stove polishing
and dish washing He dreamed
of wealth and power, though none
would have guessed that he was other
than an excellent household machine,
content to go no further afield than
the slip-slap sandaled feet on a kitchen
lloor would carry him, until he could
save enough from his wages to.iusute
the sending of his bones Kick to China
htiould he die In the land of the white
devils .
A girl of Scandinavian parentage,
good looking and Industrious, Mas employed
aai domestic in a neighboring
family. Chin Tan Sun courted and
married her. They came to San Francisco
and commonced housekeeping on
Jackson street in Chinatown with the
dollars that had been earned in the Ogden
kitchen. Chin Tan Suu. keenly on
tho alert for nn opportunity to bee,ln
the amassing of a fortune, conceived a
clever Idea. This Idea was originating
of the "little lottery" scheme There
were at this time fifteen Chinese lotteries
running In Chluatown Rich
conducted two drawings dally. Chin
put his Idea into immediate practice,
and brilliant success followed. He
opened what he called the American
Lottery Company, selling tickets Vlth
numbers duplicating those of the fifteen
gambliug concerns. He sought
American patronage and white peop'o
began to play the Chinese lottery. He
paid with Instant promptness all
claims, and In a year became a
comparatively rich man.
Chin Tan Sun developed marvellous
business sagacity. He bought a small
Interest In numerous stores. He learned
to speak English fluently. His dealings
were Invariably on a cash basis, no
matter bow large the sum Involved. He
optfaed up a dozen gambling houses iu
Oakland, whose show windows displaced
fans and punk sticks and bazaar
articles in general as a "blind" to
conceal the unlawful operatloua In the
locked rooms back of them. He kept
the police busy raiding his gambling
Joints and himself Uasy lugging coin
Into court with which to deposit cash
ball for his employes who had been
gathered In by the blue-coated arm if
the law. Flues he paid with stoical Indifference.
One day an Oakland Judge Imposed a
fine ten times the usual amount in his
determination to tech Chin a. lessotf..
Then Chin showed fight. Through his
atorney he had tho municipal records
searched, a'hd the result turned Oakland
upside down. for. to relate briefly,
it was discovered that tho charter was
Invalid that the court In which Chins
agent had'been convicted was not even
a Be facto court; nor would Chin consent
to have his man set free, though
tho Superior Court Itself, sitting en
bane on the casean event that had
never occurred there before wanted
to dismiss the troublesome aatter,
ABd ,so(DkJand had to provWe Itself
with abrand new charter, while the
shrewdest Chinese that the law had to
deal with laugked In his flowing Won
sleeve: laughed and went on iJUng up
weallh that could buy every little Kf-den
Datch in his Mtire province, and
still have enough to hem out all the
punk sticks tht Chinatown could
arL .
, During the years the inflaeace of
Chin Tan Sun had been Increasing na-
til it wade Itself fH with reelect and
fear, not only in the Asiatic quarter,
hat beyond its limits. Hewas a we-
ber of the Chinese Sis Companies. -He.
wm one 9t a. trio at the touek at whow
yellow Jtegera the brfains of their
countrymen wer nwldsd, Iwade and
unmade, Thflw tfcm we Bis Jim,
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i mm SOIL
Chin Tan Sun and the
Millions He Has
Acquired.
THIS BIG JIM h SELF-MADE MAN.
HIS STABT lit LIFE IS 3CADE
AS A COOK WITH A SCANDINAVIAN
WIFE.
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! LIUJc Pete and Chan Cheng. "Big
Jim" was cow tlie name by which Cain j
Tan San Trail hmm Jtineiyhmf ?m !
trancisco. Tne Jong-legged lid from
the Orient had grown into some six
ict of very good loolcing. smooth-
shaven Chfnjunan better proportioned
I than the majority of the Chinese, la
basinets matters he was regarded as
' toe soul of honor. Said a man
i knew him -a til :
j "If Big Jim were to Ml me that he
j wonld meet me at a certain place with-
in me nour to pay me Slvfiw in coin I '
wonld know that he wonfd be thrr r
MRICIN'SJIEW OF BOXERS.
A MERCHANT OF PEKING BLAMES
POWERS AND MISSIONARIES.-
S&ya tbo Chinese, ia Not a Pool md
Cannot be Uambooile I All
the Time.
Mr John A. Reinhardt. who is .in
importer and merchant in Teking, China,
and who Is well Informed as to political
and social conditions in the
Chinese Empire, doesn't regard the
present uprising as much of a storm
He seems to bo inclined to place the responsibility
for tho Boxers' movement
on the powers, and, like most Europeans
resident In the Orient hasn't
much use for the missionaries.
"Tho crisis in China has come since
1 left the Empire," said Mr. Reinhardt,
"aud of the present situation, of course.
I know nothing save what I read. I do
know something, however, of the cir
cumstances which have led up to IL. I
hnvo lived In China for many years,
and have always been as fully protected
ns to my life and property as if I had
lcon in the capital of the United States.
When 1 left Peking several weeks ago
everything was quiet, although we occasionally
heard reports of threatened
uprisings of the so-called 'Boxers.' but
I attached little importance to them.
The whole trouble lies in the fact
that the Europeans and Americans are
pursuing wrong methods with the Chinaman
Tie la no fool, and the man
ft ho takes him to be one will find himself
badly mistaken, to say the least.
He has been aware for a long time that
the powers are but lylne in wait, like
buzzards, to gobble up his country, and
naturally this has engendered an anti-foreign
sentiment. As to the missionaries,
they may be all right, but they
have a very difficult task in attempting
to convert the Chinaman, who has had J
his philosophy, bis religion, his moral
code, and his customs unchanged for
these thousands of years.. He worships
his ancestors, and when foreigners
come to hira and endeavor to persuade
him that they ivere wrong, he refuses
to listen, and reseats the intrusion.
2Cow. this movement is
nothing more; la Tact, It is not as great
as the anti-Semite, actions of nearly
nil the so-called Christian aaUon
They have for ages, even unto our day,
persecuted the Jews, robbed them of
their, prbpecty,. isolated them, aud
driven them from one country to another.
The Jews never went to war.
Now, the Chinamen are In a. leaser de
gree persecuting the Christians, and
thwe. is a terrible otcrjv I am smahle
to sny what tho okoe wiU be. Certain
it ie that the allied powers can
soon put down the insurrection, ns
those composing it ate tsaeqaiped for
modern warfare, aa4even the Calae
army is undisciplined and mW not
long stand against one-fifth its
Af BuroMan or Antarlcan soldiers.
J do not think .the trouble VilScoatinue
JtOng, OUt Oi ill FWfUll A ut !
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i "What swnrlty have jou to offer '"
asked the white merchant
Big Jim drew himself up with scorn.
"I hare no security to offer," ire replied.
-I hare money. I want credit
of no man." From his rcl:et he drew
wis t em.
FREDERICK
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Corporation and Maritime Law,
a wallet, out Of which he eminfwl thr. ' Pnn cnivn -
nS.OOO lit gold notes, and the tritiine TTmmi.il.. r n u Vvt 01c " I
incident of purchase was-closed. ' '-
C. A. Peterson,
Uol Estate, Stock, Bonds, and No-
tiry Public.
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P. O. BOX 385. Telephone 188.
Amoricnn nnd" British Again.
The Louisville Courier-Journal llnds
"an interesting coincidence" in the
fact that American and British soldiers
are again lined np together for a fight
with the Chinese on the very spot
where Commodore Tatnall backed the
liritish so eiteeUvely in 18o9. It says:
'Tatnall was a Georgian, the son of a
revolutionary soldier, governor and
United States senator. When he was
made flag otticer at the Asiatic station
in 1S57 he hud served in the war of
1812, in the, Algerian. war, against the
Vet Indian pirates, and iu the Mexican
war. For hours he stood on a Chinese
junk, watching the Chinese forts
in Pei-Ho river pour a heavy fire on
the British gunboats. At last he could
stand it no longer. 'Blood is thicker
thtm water,' lie said, and, flinging out
the stars, and stripes, he gave thesigual
for action. He rowed to tho British
flagship, and, with his crew took active
part iu the battle, which ended in defeat
for tbe Chinesaf Tatuall's conduct
whs in violation of the laws of
neutrality, but it was heartily sustained
by public opinion in the United
btatesand by the government at Washington."
The gallant commander was
afterwards captain of the Confederate
irouclad Virginia at Norfolk, but he
wasnot austained by the same public
opinion and government in that position.
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Uncle Allen.
uThe trouble about onions," philosophized
Uncle Allen Sparks, Is that
when you eat them you have to take so
many "into Tour confidence about it."'
From the Chicago Tribune.
No Door at all.
The 'open-door' question is gravitating
toward a proposition to take the
door otf IteUbdngea. From tbe Chicago
JVsmv&L
It Saved Hia Baby.
Mybaby waa terribly eickr with the
diarrhoea, ws were usable to care Mm
with tbe doctor's assistance, and as a
last resort we tried Chamberlain's Colic
Cholera aatlDiarrboea Hewedy,"
says Mr. J. IL Doak, of Williams. Or.
"I aw happy to say itgav immediate
relief, and a complete cure." For salt
hy all 4elTi and draggkts, Benson,
'SmHlC i Co.rwral aewts, Hawaiian
Tarritety,
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Big Jim Town, a Chinese settlement , TTT a rnNTTTIrt ! ?
near San Jo? was at one tirn& W A II H H .Si i '
by Chin He also has ranches fcatterd
over the Stale and contemnlates start
ing a steamship Hn- along the Chinese
coast. His wealth is declared to reach
the multi-millionaire mark. A rich Chinaman
lives his allotted time. His bous
inherit hib wealth and they do not
abuse the trust Obeying the commands
of Confucius, they must nar all
and any debts contracted by the father,
but the father is not liable for debtH
Incurred hy his sons. A rich Chinaman
attends banquets, where he drinks
and eats birds' nests, sharks' 0ns.
seaweed aud other impossible delicacies
dear to the Chinese palate. H
attends the continuous performance
Uuaten. He employs several v.ilets .t
care for his wardrobe, which is ,
licnt. Sometimes lie is m fastidious '
that he has three bets of coats and
trouhrs embroidered in the same
er rich display of buds for morning.
hlosMima foi the afternoon and '
blown flowers for evening. Incidental- i
ly, ho acquires a harem. Such are the
opportunities improved by Chin Tan
faun not excepting the harem.
And what of the white wife? She is
tho white wife still. Sho Is living In
v muuiown in ner own establishment,
provided with money and servants in
plenty,. But she has never borne any
children by her husband. The calamity
is paramount to all others in Chinese
eyes. Confucius has established
a law that each family must have sous
to perpetuate it, name. So a wife who
is childless gives her consent to the
taking of other wives, who, however,
are not recognized as such, for her
place is never usurped officially. The
number of concubines is optional with
her master. The children or these women
address tho childless wife as
"mother " For their own mothers they
have only a pet name. The second
"wife" of Chin returned recently from
a visit to China, She has two fine sous,
of whom the father is exceedingly
proud. And tho women of Chin's harem
dwell together in such peace as
passeth the American feminine understanding.
Everybody remembers the kiiline of
Little Pete when the See Yups and Sam
Yups were at war. Because they were
members of rival tongs, although
friends, the enraged associates of
the murdered one suspected Big Jim.
he being a Seo Yup man. hnd put a
price upon his hend. Between two days
ha discreetly started on a visit to his
native land, from which he is expected
to return next month.
Chinatown is the habitat or demons
that never sleep in the demons of hatred
and revenge, talking wherever the
foot of a highbinder treads. Who ran
roretell tho fate of the richest China
man in America"
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