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Show SEEKS HIS FATHER IN UNITED STATES Lung Fong, a Chinese Lad, Takes Wrong Boat and Lands in Mexico. IS CAST INTO PRISON After Many Hardships, He Is Allowed to Join Parent at Boise, Idaho. Special to Th Tribune. HOISI5, Idaho. Nov. 22. Sold into slavery in Mexico after being captured by Mexican soldiers when he entered that country believing it was tlie United State?, held for ransom and when freed barred from entrance lo this country. Louie Lung Fong, a Chinese lad 15 years of age, son of Louie Fong, one of the prominent and wealthy Chinese of this city. iR at last to be permitted to scale the barrier thrown up against Chinese and make his home with his father in this city The story of the experiences of this almond-eyed youth Is one of the most thrilling and celestials here are Jubilant over his escape from death. Louie Fong, senior member of the Fong family, and the wealthy Boise Chinese merchant, left his family In China, like all good celestials do when they come to America to make a fortune which they can return to China with and live in peace and happiness In their older days, and Louie Fong. Jr., was a babe when his father left his native shores for the great unknown country. Tho longing to see his father and to al9o carve his fortune In America seized Louie Fong. Jr.. when he grew Into Chinese manhood and he awaited the opportunity lhat would afford him passage pas-sage over the Pacific. This came when ills father sent his mother several hundred hun-dred dollars In American money. The boy managed to lay his hand on $100 of It and he Immediately embarked for the United Slates. Took Wrong Boat. Inexperienced in the manner of taking passage, .Fong left China upon Uic wrong boat, one going lo Mexico Instead of San Francisco. The stormy passage ended, the outh, believing that he was In the United Slates, proceeded to strike for the Interior to find his father. Accompanied Ac-companied by other Chinese whom he met, the party traveled inland, but had not gone far before they were seized, bound and cast Into jail by Mexican soldiers sol-diers Later they were sold Into slavery, taken far back into the mountain fastnesses, fast-nesses, and there forced to perform the hardest kind of work on big plantations and when they complained they were whipped and beaten. It was only after great suffering tliat young Fong managed to find a frlendly countryman who was willing to write to his father here in Boise. To him he poured forth his story. Louie Fong, Sr.. lost no time in conferring with the ted-cral ted-cral officials, setting In operation tlie machinery of the government, especially tlie Immigration department. But here father and son, both working to come together, stumbled across snags that threatened to result in sending the youth back to China.. Tlie boy was located on 'tho Mexican plantation, and after meeting meet-ing the. demands of the officials there, It Is said, and paying a ransom, he was released from slavery and taken to the boundary of the United States Tdung Fong managed to gel through the. preliminary pre-liminary part of the examination" for admittance, ad-mittance, but when cross-questioned became be-came confused. This resulted In' the officials offi-cials at. San Francisco refusing him admission ad-mission to this country. Ruled Against the Boy. The case was then taken before United States Commissioner Halvcston of this clly by the father of the bov and after a showing Commissioner Halvcston decided that the youth was entitled to enter the United States. Ho so ruled. But the commission at San Francisco did not take the same view of tlie case and ruled against the boy. Determined to save his son from returning re-turning to China, If possible. Louie Fong, the father, carried the case to the proper officlnls at Washington There Uic eligibility eli-gibility of the boy to come into the United States from Mexico via San Francisco Fran-cisco was threshed out at length, the matter raising a number of important Issues Is-sues in connection with the admission of Chinese, especially in relation to their coming Into the states from some other North American country, as appeared to be i he case of young Louie Fong. Tlie department of immigration finally idled In favor of the decision of Commissioner Commission-er Halvcston. sustaining him and overruling over-ruling the San Francisco officials. This permitted the passage of the youth Into the United Stales and father and son will soon be Joined, after one of the most remarkable re-markable fights ever carried on in the Immigration courts of the west |