Show fifTY LOCAL IN MORTAL fEAR Members of Lee Tong Receive Receive Re Re- Warning From Froni Frisco Chinese That the fifty or more mora members of tho the Yee Yec family living Jiving in Salt Lake City aro are aron in n dan danger cr of a assassination by high high- binders or hatchet men men 11 of tho the On Ou Yick family is tho belief of Ye Yea Luck a well educated member of the Chinese colony in Salt Lake City Yee Yea Luck stated this morning that he ho had r received ei ed a a. letter front from members ol of the tha fa family mil in San Francisco warning warn warn- in log ing every member of the family to beon beon be bo boon on their guard ard a against possible murder by br members of the On lick ick tong Tho The letter Jetter which has been pen sent broadcast to members of tho the YC Yee J famil family throughout the United States is translated trans trans- as follows by Mr Luck This letter Jetter is sent out to all of our brothers and sisters in tho United States to let Jet you yO Imo know of ot tho the trouble that we c are arc having in San Francisco Tho The On Yick is makin making war on the tho Yee fam h- h Tho trouble was started h by Yee ton tong a man who wo we 0 think is a n ba bad man lIo Ho persuaded Bo Kim a n slave slav girl irl in tho possession session of an On Yick man to leave leavo her master and flee with him from San Francisco o to Santa Bar Bar- bara Threaten Every Member I The ho Iho On Yick tOD tong tone men threatened prominent members of 01 tho tha Yee Yec famil family with death and blackmail them into paving money but hut this was was ro re f fused s The Tho On Yick Tick men said that un unleSS unless less leS'S wo we 0 paid a largo large o osum sum of money mone fb fOr tho girl who was s stolen they would woula kill kil kill every member of tho Yee family in th the United Stat States s. s The Tho bi big men of the Tee family i in San Francisco held a meeting and ou our I wise wise men advised that we wc settle tb the matter b. b by paying paving tho the mone money demanded 1 We e e asked for time to make the co co- co col- col lection amon among our people and promised to get Jet tho the girl irl back hack as soon as possible When wo sent font to Santa anta Barbara w wo we found tho the girl Jirl had bad been p placed c d in an American mission and that the tho woman in chargo charge refu refused ed to give o i her up W We could not got get ot tho the girl Jirl and ond wo we begged beJ ed the tho On Yick leaders lenders for time but they refused We We asked for four days daJ's in which t to collect the tho money for the girl This Thi they refused Then wo we 0 asked for but bu four hours and promised them that tha wo we would try to have bavo the tho money fo for the thc girl by that time This four hours hour time was WaR refused us and wo we saw that tha it was wal not a n question of ot mono money wit with them thorn but that they worn were so an angry ry fo for thc of the girl rom From what what fo fol lowed lo wo we 0 have nave reason to believe that they thor intend intond to kill every erv member r o otho of tho the Yee Yea family in in the tho co country Yee ee Fun un Wall a 3 member of ou our fa family mil was as murdered b by bOa Oa a hatchet hatche man roan in this cit city about twenty minutes minute after our last conference A half h hur haur u later Yea Kee Keci another member of on our was kil killed cd in Oakland A few fe days later lung Bing To Toy a prominent men mcm meni- meni ber of our family wa was murdered a at Mountain View Ca Cal Cal The Tho The trouble is not ended We Wo know that the On Yick tong long has sent men t to other cities to murder members of ou our family Watch for them Yea Yee Luck took the matter up with wit with Chief of Polie Police Barlow lato halo yesterday afternoon V e c chief promised that every train eom coming ne to this city would woul be carefully watched for or new arrivals arrival from tho the flower li Kingdom n dom I I do not k that the cr ers era or hatchet men mon w will pa pay us a visit but hut if the they do doTO wo TO will be beon on n th the lookout for them he hc said this a af |