MADERA   MERCURY Madera, Madera County, California November 17, 1904 CHASED BY A CRAZY MAN _________ Sheriff Jones and Constable Hollister returned this morning from the YEE CHUNG RANCH where they went to look for an alleged crazy man who has been causing the people who are camped there a great deal of alarm. They reported to the officers that a crazy man chased two little girls, who are cutting fruit at the place, badly scaring them last Thursday. A number of men working about the orchard gave chase to the man but he ran away. He has been seen near the place since, and when anyone approached would conceal his features behind a parasol he carried, and then run away. The officers made a search in the vicinity but could not find anyone that would answer the description of the supposed lunatic. They were all told that a man answering his general description was seen on his way to Firebaugh. _________ Bill Coate comment: There are several things that come to mind here.  First, this article confirms an earlier understanding that people would go to Yee Chung's place to pick fruit and then pay Mrs. Yee Chung.  Second, It is obvious that everyone in town knew where Yee Chung and his family lived (assuming they lived on the "Yee Chung Ranch.").  There ought to be a residue of memory that would point us in the correct direction today. I spoke with the District Attorney about court records, specifically about the Chock Chee that was surrendered to the court in 1903.  He is interested in helping, but is not encouraging. As we already know, the remnants of the county records are in disarray. Darryl Chong comment: Yee Chung's Chock Chee was used in support of Bing Chong's application for return certificate from his trip to China in 1929.   Since his father had died in 1902, the document was turned over to the INS, which forwarded the certificate to INS headquarters in Washington, D. C.  Requests to the NARA staff in Washington failed to find the old certificates.  Bill Greene of NARA San Bruno wrote on September 23, 2002 that he had been trying to find out what happened to all the copies of Certificates of Residence issued in the U.S. during the 1892 to 1894 period.  The copies were stored at the INS headquarters in Washington, D. C. up through the 1940s at least.  After that he has no idea what happened to them.  He spoke with the staff of the National Archives there and they have no idea where they are either. _________