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Show ?IAMC PIP! oLAVt DIAL Chinese Girl, Value $4,- 500, in a 'Frisco Tong Den. San Francisco. Aug. 9. Because pretty little sloe-eyed Lee Seem, slave girl, value S-l.oOU. was rescued from a deu in a raid by the police Wednesday Wednes-day evening and taken to the security secur-ity of a mission home, there Is portent of a strife in San Francisco s Chinatown. China-town. The tongs aro muttering and the hatchet and gun men of tho socle-ties socle-ties are arming, while the police squad in the quarter iw seeking the tons leader who is supposed to have been the owner of the girl The misfortunes of Lee Seem began several mouths ago whon she was confined con-fined in a den and no one was allowed to go near here by her master except to provide hor with food Lee finally got word to the mission, and the police po-lice rescued her though her Jailers escaped. es-caped. She was to have been sold the following da The Four Families tong. of which the girl's former master was a member, mem-ber, accused two others, of the tong of having informed the mission of tho girl's plight and the accused men were served with notice to appear and exculpate ex-culpate themselves or prepare for death. |