Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1909-11-19 | Page 4 | Tong War in Progress

TONG WAR IN PROGRESS C chinese h ig avs es of borsany San francisco Francis sent bent on J ediew othea 1 san francisco nearly half a hundred uniformed patrolmen pl aln clothes men ind find detectives patrolled atrol leI the streets streeta and alloys of the chinese quarter thursday night in n the effort of at the tha police to prevent a continuation of the tong tone war which has cost live lives since tho the first of the month tho the discovery that two of the cht nese aeao killed wednesday night met their death through mistaken identity one of them thein not cot being an on yick as supposed by hla his assailants but a member of tho bing kongs kongo 1 the most powerful and influential tong on the coast and tho the other one according to the police apparently having baving been ked by gun guit men employed by his own plan clan and the issuance of warrants charging gee kong hong ong president ol of the tie on nick tong and tong king chong secretary of the chinese free Ala masons sons numerically tho the strongest organization among the chinese in america were among tho the developments 0 of o tho day