Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — CELESTIALS SLIP OUT. [ARTICLE]

CELESTIALS SLIP OUT.

Two Hundred Chinamen Suddenly Disappear from Omaha. Two hundred Chinamen brought into the United States for the ostensible purpose of managing the two Chinese villages at the trausmississippi exposition have disappeared. Where they have gone no one knows. The Wong Citing Foo Company, composed of wealthy Chicago Chinamen, had charge of the concession. They gave a bond in the sum of $25,000 to the Government for the return of the Chinamen after the exposition. The Government discovered the situation and orders from the Treasury Departmeht were issued to the Federal marshals throughout the country to apprehend the runaways and hold them for deportation. Many of them were women, and it is charged these were sold to the highest bidders.