“He created a Good Deal of Excitement Yesterday Turned Out To Be All Right A Missoulian Reporter Ran the Scandal Down and Found There was no Scandal.” This article titled Daly’s Chinaman appeared in The Daily Missoulian on October 10, 1894 – 10 Oct 1894, 1 – The Missoulian at Read More
Sam Tom & Family – Missoula Pioneers Eleven Children in Sam Tom’s Family All Born and Raised in the Garden City Missoula has a Chinese family whose history is very interesting, especially so from the fact that it is closely identified with Missoula’s own since the head of the family Read More
Closing of Sam’s Café Leaves but One Chinese Family in Garden City By Gerald G. Alquist. Ever dwindling through the years, Missoula’s Chinese population became smaller than ever when the last Chinese restaurant in the Garden city, Sam’s café, closed its doors and the owner, H. Dirk Yue, went to Read More
A Short Story – Sam Hing – Brave “Yank” – Chinaman Murdered by a Quigley Mob Why do you suppose almost all of Montana’s Chinese people disappeared? These people played a key role in Montana’s development, beginning with the placer mining era that involved thousands of them as they worked Read More
Chinatown Has Big Fish Dinner Quong Wah Tom Is The Boss Fisherman, For He Catches The Huge Trout. If anybody is giving out prizes for big fish this season, let him hand the trophy to Quong Wah Tom, a Chinaman whose home is on Front street. Then, too, other ambitious Read More
A Threnody for Yum[1] Our distinguished yellow citizen, Yum Ku Ma Tai, is dead. Incidentally it may be mentioned that he is buried. Weep for Yum. Mourn for Ku. Lament for Ma. Grieve for Tai. Thou hast gone, thou Oriental, And no one cares a continental can be said of Read More
Local Chinese Girl Becomes A Bride In Butte – 1915 Miss Lon Tom Is Mrs. Dong Hong, After Ceremony True To Tradition For the first time in five years Butte was the scene of a simon-pure Chinese wedding yesterday when Dong Hong and Miss Lon Tom were joined for life Read More
Lewis Den Visits Old-Time Scenes and Friends Former Chinese Merchant, Now Interpreter For Government, Talks of China Lewis Den, who for the past 10 years has been employed by the government, as Chinese interpreter in the immigration service, is a Missoula visitor. Twenty years ago he conducted a silk store Read More
Skeleton Uncovered Within City Limits Diggers on East Side Make Discovery A skeleton was discovered a few days ago by workmen who were digging the ditch for water pipes for the Missoula Light and Water company, on the alley between Cherry and Poplar streets. The skeleton was enclosed in the Read More
University of Montana’s First Chinese Graduate Ching Han Chen Going [1917] State University’s First Chinese Graduate to Take Public Office Ching Han Chen, the first Chinese student to be graduated from the University of Montana, completed his work at the institution Monday afternoon and is now waiting only for his Read More