Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Wedding Saves Doe Gum Yip September 20, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 20, 1904
As A Merchant's Wife She Cannot Be Deported
Marriage has saved little Doe Gum Yip from being sent back to China.She was 
taken up by Insoector Barbour in July. The charge was that she was in the 
country without the proper registration certificate.
While the Chinese girl was held for her case to be decided by the United 
States Commissioner,Cupid took a hand.Wong Ty Fook,a wealthy Chnese 
merchant,saw the girl and quickly fell in love with her. Wether Miss Yip saw a 
chance to get ahead of the machinations of Inspector Barbour or whether she 
really reciprocated the merchant's affections is not recorded in the 
Commissioner's office,but at any rate they were married.Therefore when the 
case came up for trial yesterday it wore a different complexion.To be 
sure,Miss Yip was still minus her certificate,but now she is a merchant's wife.
United Sattes Commissioner Sladen finally saw that Cupid had conclusively 
beaten out the Inpsector,the registration laws,in fact,and the whole United 
States Government. Miss Yip,now Mrs.Wong Ty Fook,was s et at liberty,for her 
condition was no longer that of a Chinese here without legal right,but by 
marriage she had asumed her husband's condition and belonged to the merhcant 
class,her husband owning one of the precious "chop-chees."


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