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Show DEPORTED CHINESE ORDERED RETURNED SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 16. A telegram tele-gram received yesterday from Secretary Metcalf says that the department has ordered that LI Wah. Ng Shi and Gi Yok, on board the Coptic, now on the way to China via Honolulu, be transferred trans-ferred at Honolulu and returned to San Francisco, to be held in custody of the steamship company pending appeal proceedings . in the United States Circuit Cir-cuit Court of Appeals. These Chinese were shipped out of the State by the local Chinese bureau on an order of deportation after the bureau had been advised that an appeal ap-peal had been allowed by United States District Judge De Haven. Li Wah and Gl Yok claim to be native Americans, and Ng Shi is LI Wah's wife and demanded de-manded admittance as such. |