Show I 1 cy y ang unlucky all ab ping NI lic ii a i tho pacific bac mail steamer city of af 1 nv york armed from panama J A magee a now new york sporting man RIS one ona of the passengers when he got up ho he forgot nine bills in a small pocketbook that he had placed under his pillow the night before and when the tug came alongside while the I 1 steamer was at anchor in the stream he mado hasto haste to land hand no sooner had bad he readied reached the baldwin hotel than he discovered his bis loss and hiring a coupe made for the pacific mail dock which he reached just as the steamer was made do malls fast an inquiry for the lost bills proved that they were wera safe in captain captai n johnstons hands ah ping a chinese in the stewards department while making up mageed berth had found the bills and tr taken ken them to fo the captain mage macco t h andea I 1 his money and called for ali ah pin ping to whom he gave twenty five dollars the chinese had hardly time to appreciate his good luck lack when chief steward cottrell was angry because tho the stray atra Y bills had not been given to him to return to the owner instead of the captain and ordered that ah ping should I 1 be discharged unless the steward rd 1 is s called down by some of the head officers ti e rs of the company ah ping will have hae to leavo leave the steamer for being honest had he chosen he could easily have secreted the val valuable paper bills so BO that no one could havo have found them au and wado mado away with the whole sum sai francisco CL ronicle chronicle |