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Show WARRING CHINESE. Plot to Assassinate Three Hundred Celestials Has Been Discovered. Two of the four Chinese high-binder societies' presidents arrested in San Francisco for alleged complicity in the killing of Tom Tick, a member of the Chinese Educational soceity, on Friday Fri-day night, have signed confessions in which they admit that a conspiracy ex-. ex-. isted among the different ramifications of the powerful See Yup society to put Out of the way .300 members of the ( Educational organization; that a price of. ?500 was to be paid for 'the murder of each of those suspected of giving information to the -police relative to the plans of high-binders and gamblers; gam-blers; that ?300 was to be forthcoming for every other one of the 300 members mem-bers put out of the way; that 200 in gold would be paid to the gun men and hatchet men for each one maimed; that In the event of arrest and prosecution for the wholesale butchery the society would pay all the expenses of the defense, and that in the event of conviction, ? 1,500 would be sent to the relatives of the convicted con-victed men in China. |