Last Monday night the Mongolian portion…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

Last Monday night the Mongolian portion of our population, forgetting the cares of the restaurant, laundry, junk shop, and fan tan, de- voted their time and energies, in the attempt to solve the problem whether the next deal at faro would be single or, double out, or three one. The game ran smoothly for a time and each of the pig tails was betting his favorite system, until one who had no fear of a hereafter, pur- loined a bet belonging to another. A dispute arose and it was finally decided by arbitration. The would be thief objected and indulged in an opprobious epithet, and for his temerity receiv- ed a sever thwack on the eye by a Chinaman be- longing to one of the six companies and the only representative of his company in town. Then the row began in earnest, and twenty or thirty Chinamen of other companies endeavored to