Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 500, 18 January 1902 — BOW WONGS HOSTILE. [ARTICLE]

BOW WONGS HOSTILE.

Efforts Being Made by Rival Factions to Discredit a Recent Election. From present indications an incipient war is being waged among th-. vv-tkl fact - i s existing among the local Chinese. According to a Celt stial publication of this city the Bow Wong Reform Society srst- s that the attempt made by certain members of the Association to dis- . r*dit the election hold January Ist was actuated solely through petty : ;> amusles. According to the &3W Wongs, there were present at the. election on January' 1 some thirty Bow Wongs thirteen Independ ntt • ■ who voted with the Bow Wongs and four or five of the Conservatives who ! are disgruntled at the tarn cf affaire and now seek rev-nge. It is believed by many prom in- nt Chinese that the entire local cont'n cent wl't be affect, d if. for ar y r rs c.n tne charier fails in its appointed , mission. Th- Flow Wongs declare •that the charge emanating from the followers of the Chinese consulate that the members of that society are backsliding, is & canard, and is not lourd d'upon fact. * "*** 1