Video: 2011-08-18 - Chinese History with Wally Hagaman (66 minutes)

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I'm the advocate of the President of the University of Nevada County Historical Society. Thank you for coming tonight. It's such a beautiful evening out during this wonderful August, we're having this. Thank you for coming inside for a while. We have some great business announcements that we ought to be sure we'd love. First of all, if you recruit somebody to join the Society right now, they get a membership from Clear 3 2012. My membership director, when you meet him, Dr. Rauch, he sure does have a great deal. We've got a few new members joining to take advantage of that. I do encourage anybody to join right now. We do have membership applications in the back tonight. How many saw the drudge out at the fairgrounds last week? Did they meet at the fair? Did they see the drudge out there? That was a nice dish to have the Society and our mining museum represented out there. How many man the drudge? How many volunteers do we have here? Great, thank you for coming. Appreciate that. Priscilla, come on forward and you can tell us about your life. I can just stand here and tell them if they can turn around. I just wanted, some of the old time members of the Society remember Bedford Lampton, who just died about a week or so. He'd been ill with cancer for quite a while, but he's been on the board for years off and on. He spent, I think the last year or so, he was working at, wasn't he while he was working at the Firehouse Museum on Sunday? Yes. So I just, the old time members remember what a loyal member he was. He was the first member who joined the Society and he was very active. He was entered the bulletins for quite a few years. Anyway, if anybody wanted to remember him, I think a donation to the Historical Society would be a nice way to do it. So I just wanted to remind people of that, Bedford Lampton. Bedford. Fast Society president for several years, I believe. He was a NASA engineer for 36 years. Great job. I want to thank the Divins for the refreshments tonight. I appreciate that. He served after the presentation this evening in the raffle. This evening, do you all get to raffle tickets tonight? It's brought to you by the Community Asian Theatre tonight and the Valley County Historical Society. We have two different raffle options tonight. Is that right, money? Yeah. Two tickets to the Cats production of 9,000 needles and then the second drawing was the raffle basket with a nice assortment of the same one in the Firehouse Museum. That's fine. And also a Chinese Careful's book, "Flooring All the Dinos. " Excellent. So you get double, triple the opportunity. You know, oddly enough, we're already starting to think about next year's program. We actually have a committee gathers in October and listed all the options before us. So if you have any ideas of your simple speaker for next year, do get in contact with me. We will add to the mix. Don't guarantee that your recommendation will go forward. But we don't like that lot of opportunities to kind of broaden our presentation a little bit. Reach me at president@nevaticcountyhistory. org or call 477-8056. In September we have Maria Brower. I see Maria with us tonight. She's probably home prepping for the next six months, I'm sure. She can have them at the National Hotel. So that'll be next month in September. And we also have the traditional Red Dog Yuba'a tour. Do you have flyers back there in the back? Yes, there are flyers. There are flyers for that. You're interested in that. So we've never banned that spot. It must do two work. We also are in the process of organizing and sponsoring a costume dance party at the Horseman's Club. Coming up in, do we know the date on that? Any board members here? Do you have a set the date? October 21st. The more information that I'm forthcoming. It'll be a costumed event open off the public. And a fundraiser for the society as well. A lot of money. I believe we have an announcement in Maryland. Where's the Maryland? Do you want to talk about the courthouse at all? I don't mind you. I hope you do. [laughter] I just feel like you want to hear it. I must. Well, you know, in the mail, it's a possibility of demolishing the courthouse. And there are different ways of looking at this from different angles to different people. And whether you would want the courthouse changed, you know, into a more manageable, larger unit, that's one thing. Or close it and use the building for something else. You know, the possibility, even though it might need some work done on it and so forth and so on. But it could stay there. And then the possibility of a new courthouse up here on, by, what do you mean, Cement Hill Road. So these things are in the mail. But the main thrust right now for some of us who don't want our history destroyed in the bad city, we're working to keep the building from being demolished. And that's the first priority. So we have to have our feelings in by the 22nd of August. And that's why Hank was out there with the petitions. And we're hoping to get the state to stop and take a look at our little historic town. I mean, this is a big thing for a little town. This is not like L. A. County or, you know, San Francisco. This is a big part of our town. So that's what we have movement going to try to get them to look at the salvation of the building. Okay. I live in the day, the oldest one for cutting the town and half of the freeway. Yeah. So it's a top down. Sure. I'm John Gibbons. My wife and I are life members, so I guess we should come along. A little bit about the courthouse. As you know, it all started last summer when the Board of Education closed NCE due to declining enrollment. Then the Administrative Office of the Court, that's the administrative section of our court system, showed up at town and said, "We're going to abandon your historic courthouse. We're looking for a new location for the courthouse. We've got our eyes set on NCE. What we think we're going to do is to tear down NCE and build an 84,000 square foot two-story building, an underground parking where NCE used to sit. " That's the very kind of city elementary. And that is the elementary. You can imagine the neighborhood in this spot. So the good news is the AOC decided that that was not an appropriate site. We drew that down there at our historic courthouse and to the cement hill site. The NCE signed a contract review room, we charted classes, I think, and then some other orders. And then the third. So it took really, really hard work to do that. Here's where the situation stands. After a new rule of meetings, the draft EIR is out. That is the draft Environmental Impact Report. Comments are due in by 5 p. m. on August 22nd. So I'm so sorry to come to you so late. You can find it on the court's webpage. It takes a bit of hunting and pecking. If that's too much, you can go down to the city hall and they have a copy of the draft EIR. It would be wonderful if everyone in the room could write a letter going through the EIR. But since it's about as thick as the Bible, I think what was really held is to have everyone sign Hank's petition. Organizations who have come in support of this. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, in the January 30th issue online, did a wonderful article on NCEs and the courthouse entitled, "A Trouble in a Gold Rush Town. " Also in their preservation magazine in the March, April edition, it features the Nevada County Courthouse as a significant historical building that's now threatened status. This has now come to national attention. The California Preservation Trust, which is the California affiliate of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is online. They have written a number of articles. They're going to have a detailed article coming in on the draft EIR. It'll be a very nice article about what's been going on. It's going to be in their upcoming newsletter. And also, I just got off the phone with the Art Deco Society in San Francisco, that also noted that Art Deco Courthouse a few years ago gave all sorts of awards. They are up in arms about this. They'll also be writing strongly worded letters to the AOC. I mean, what are you doing? Well, I think the one thing we can do is assign petition because the preservation is all we say. Preservation starts local. You want to come down from the top and up from the bottom, and we want to squeeze them. They want to spend $107 million. The state has evolved into a $5. 8 billion statewide construction project carrying down Art Historic Courthouse. I had no idea the controversy I was walking into. The final meeting, the decision is going to be made in a few months. Our Chief Justice, because of severe budget cuts in the state court budget, over $600 million would cut the state court budgets. She formed a 25-member committee that is now reevaluating all of the construction projects. So what we would like to do is make sure that they understand if there's a project they want cut, it ought to be the Nevada County Workout. And if you don't know it, not only is that an art deco facade, but it wraps up our courthouse in the 1890s. It wrapped up our courthouse in the 1860s. It wrapped up our courthouse in the 1850s. Literally, the history of California in our gold rush is literally wrapped up in that building. That, as we all know, is not just part of California, Nevada City history. That is part of our national side of who we are as an American people. It's wrapped up in the story of the gold rush. So once again, anybody who wants to go down and get the address that you can send in a letter to the AOC, as they say, down there at City Hall, you can get the address and thumb through that EIR. But the most wonderful thing everyone could do is to sign the petition. And again, your family and friends and neighbors assigned the petition so that, from the 22nd, we had literally hundreds of signatures come in. And we're going to be able to save our courthouse. I have no doubt about that. Thank you very much. Oh, I'm sorry. The AOC stands for the Administrative Office of the Courts. The legal governing body, the legal body that runs our courts, is known as the Judicial Council. And they met on July 22nd in San Francisco. And I was actually honored that they allowed me to speak here. You don't mean I didn't mean to say non-attorney was allowed to speak. And I spoke up on the Nevada County Courthouse and evidently they heard me. I had people afterwards talk to me and say, "What are you talking about?" These are some of the most influential people in California. They said, "They want to do what? You're trying to do what?" So finally, the story is getting out. Well, what's happened to our courthouse? So the AOC stands for the Administrative Office of the Courts. If we could have those signatures, bless you. We can't get any information from the city tomorrow because the city is off. Oh, no. A question back here. All right. Let's get it down. Could we send to you to put on the Historical Society website the name of this department and address and a little brief suggestion of what you might say in the letter 0. 1, 0. 2, and then everybody can go to it and just copy the thing and sign it and send the same thing but with a new signature. You can get it to me and I can have that done. Okay. John? Okay. Early on, there was an architect, I forget his name, I wrote a letter in support of him. There are enough of the outbuildings that surround the courthouse. The courthouse could be modified to maintain and still decor and still have that extra space. But it's really too bad it is a symptom of our society that we have to expand courthouses in that school. Yes. Good point. Okay. We're going to move on. I'd like to introduce our speaker. I'm only going to talk in modern history because we've been around Nevada County for a while. You probably know our speaker. I've only known him recent in the last couple of years because he's our director of the Firehouse Museum. He keeps the Firehouse Museum operating glued together into financial sounds. He's our objective. As you know, Wally has a passion for the Chinese history in Nevada County. We thank him for pinch hitting tonight because we have cancellations in August and he's a great step forward and a Philip for us. Thank you for doing that. We appreciate it. No further ado, Wally Hagem. [applause] Well, let me see. There's something here for me. There. I think that's supposed to help. Before we leave the subject of the courthouse, there's one thing that everybody is overlooking. Yes, it's an important structure. Yes, it's our decor. Yes, it's all of those things. But before that courthouse was there, that was the site of Austin, the home of the Anishinaabek Indian people. That is one of the spots in the village where we know they lived in that spot on that hill. And so that needs to be taken into consideration also. And if you have any questions about that, Shelly Covert and Mother Ginger are here. Shelly is the Anishinaabek coordinator for the Firehouse Museum. She's also a secretary of Nevada City Rancheria, which is a legitimate place. You're right here and here. So that's something also that needs to be in the city. And also the Searles Library right across the street is a good example of an old brick building that's held together in the water. I don't think it's on the foundation. So you're going to have these huge, huge, big gargantuan, whatever the word is, trucks coming in there, taking that rubble off. You're going to have wrecking balls and stuff, and it's going to shake things. And for instance, the Searles building has a foot of sand in the top of the attic. That is one of the ways we fireproofed it. We. Not that old. But they fireproofed it. They filled the ceilings full of sand. And then when the burning roof fell down, the timbers and stuff did not go into the building. And with the iron doors, that prevented a lot of damage. So that sand is going to sit down in there. I know I had two buildings on Commercial Street, and just ordinary traffic that sand sits through. You can't get rid of it, but with a lot of trucks, and with the photographs, the artifacts that are in there that are totally irreplaceable, that's going to do a lot of damage to the community. And across the street is a fine example of a Carnegie library. And it's typical of the small and medium-sized ones, and that would also sound good. So it's more than this beautiful courthouse we have in the history that it's all met corn. And literally, he was not speaking figuratively, but inside that are the shells from the other ones, because they just killed him. It's like one of those, what do you call them? Turduckin. Yeah, turduckin. You know, where you put a turkey and a chicken, and you stuff them. You know, those nasty dogs. And so there is a lot of issues here, and if we can save our government, lots of money might not let them do that. That's their merpin thing. Okay. Let's see how dark we can get it in here. Oh, that's not bad. Let me see if I could sit down. And if this ray goes shooting across you, Larry, let me know. And we'll see if we can get the remote. There is a good production coming up by Katz called "9,000 needles," and it is the story of, in general, Chinese medicine. And Jeanne Woods, who produced it, is in the audience back there, and you can talk to her about specific. Any questions you have? There is also there, in our raffle, our two tickets to attend the performance, which Jeanne and Katz donated to us. So that kind of fits in with what we're going to do today. And let's see how this works. No, this is crazy when people do this. It works the same way as it does on my grandkids. Well, the Chinese, when they came here for Gold Rush, discovered there was a real problem here with the non-Chinese. What is? Our doctors were pretty bad. There were no medical schools, there were no medical boards, and so on. And if you wanted to be a doctor, you just found out a sign and said, "Doctor, you know Leroy. " And you might have studied with somebody. You might have had a veterinarian, or you may have one of those huge, thick, full medical or remedy books. You could be a doctor. And the same way with being an attorney, you just put out a sign. Because we didn't have full-fledged medical schools and things like that. One thing the Chinese noticed was, "Man, if you go over there and see that doctor, he's going to cut some of them off. He's going to bleed. He's going to put leeches on you. Your hand's going to swell up as big as your head, and you're going to die. " And they're looking at this and thinking, "This is ridiculous. We don't see this in China. What's going on?" And so, in various communities, the Chinese would get together, and they'd send back to China, and get a Chinese doctor to come here. And the Chinese doctor came with over 2,000 years of medical knowledge, a document. The -- I lost -- I'm going to lose things from time to time here. The medical classic is the Yale Emperor's Medical Book. And that, at the time that it was written, almost 2,000 years before this -- it's 2,500 years now -- has -- I always remember what's -- 18 volumes of disease. And it tells you about -- I just can't see you in the back. Okay, thank you. They understood the process from the beginning to the end. They understood where the disease came from. They understood the course of the disease. They understood prevention. They understood the cure. They had the whole picture, you know, that we are just barely beginning to get today. And one reason we're just barely getting it is we are ignoring what is known as energy medicine, which is the system that they have. So, these guys came over here with literally 2,000 years of medical knowledge of medicine. And the guys here were lucky if they had, you know, a couple weeks. One of them that was in grass valley was Dr. Waukee. And one thing that they did were -- they would have testimonials in the newspaper, and that would announce the presence. Dr. Waukee was a very prominent member of the grass valley community. Whenever there was -- he was temple of the -- he was keeper of the temple, and he spoke English well. He was educated, articulate, and a good PR person. So, anytime something was going on in the Chinese community in grass valley, he would go over to the union, which was right around the corner from Chinatown, and say, "Look, we're having this big festival about it. You guys all come down and I'll explain it to you. " And he carried on traditional southern China festivals at the temple. He became known for his herbal medicine as all these guys. And in talking to a couple of modern herbalists, he said, "You know, as near as they can figure, just looking at this description, what he had was something like Lysol. " And we're talking -- Walling? Sixties. Walling? Yes. When they turn their head, they can't hear you. Your face has to be near the microphone. Okay. Well, we'll figure this out. Thank you, David. So, there are all kinds of remedies like this, and we're going to mention those again for a minute when we get to visit another doctor. And here's another doctor. Dr. Wing came for a short period of time, and in his near as I can tell through my research, he was a doctor. And he was a doctor. And he was a doctor. And he was a doctor. So, he had a lot of people like this who used their title "Doctor," and they would bring in an Indian micro-medicine show and promote themselves. Now, one of our most famous doctors was Dr. Mao from North San Juan. And there was a large Chinese community in North San Juan, and they really needed a doctor. So, they sent for him, and he came over from China, where the Chinese came from. And he set up a place up there, and his family likes to say it was the first Chinese hospital. And it certainly was the first Chinese hospital in California, or in Nevada County. And what he did that was different was he knew the nature of men. Who among us can get to the doctor without being dragged there to scream? Not very many of us. And then when we get the "you do this, you do that," yeah, so we don't do it. Well, he knew the nature of that, and he knew that men, looking for gold, they would come in and get treated and then go back to work. But in Chinese medicine, you need to monitor your medication. It's not like we do here, where we have low-sized bill fits everywhere. And you need to check their pulses, and they aren't the pulses that they feel from your heart, but they are energy pulses that run throughout your body. And you need to do that hourly, daily, monthly, seasonally, and you adjust the medication. And so he built like a bunkhouse, and if you were going to be treated by him, you had to stay there for a long enough time that he could treat you. And he did that. And he had a grocery store and a place where he sold herbs. Is this need turned up, or? It's always, it's always. Oh, yeah, no. Okay. I enjoy your messaging, man. All right. And his wife worked alongside him. Now look into the eyes that will. . . Is that somebody you want to mess with? No, thanks. Well, in the '20s and '30s, when the hard times were hitting California, the tongs in San Francisco divided up the gambling, the prostitution, the drugs, and so on, and said, "Okay, these will be our jurisdiction, and you stay out of prostitution. We'll take care of gambling and so on. " And they came into the hinterlands to extort money from the small town Chinese businesses. Now just as a sign, the word "tong" just means "haul," like the lodge hall. We go down to the lodge hall. We go down, and instead of being called masons, we're called a tong. So a tong is not a bad word, as we have come to believe that the tongs were all evil. So they showed up in North San Juan, and they went to Dr. Mao and his wife and said, "Look, pay up or we're going to burn you down. " She called a meeting at the store on these guys. She took out a pistol, and as near as I can tell from talking to her granddaughter, it was one of those big old cults right after the Civil War that, you know, you drop it on your foot, you'd be immobilized by the body, and said, "Look, you guys get out of here. We don't go for that here in Nevada County, or I'm going to shoot somebody. " Well, they weren't used to that kind of tong. One from a woman, and the other is that nobody had ever said that to them before. So they left, and evidently they had some time when they were thinking over. And they were in Sacramento, that was before Hawaii, and picking up somebody from the train station, their sons, who owned businesses in Nevada City and North San Juan. And while they were gone, these guys came back, and they poisoned all the animals, they tore out all the herb garden, and then they burned everything to the ground. Well, she was just totally brokenhearted, and she committed suicide, and in those days the preferred method of Chinese was a pellet of eloping, just what they called the black pill. And she died, and he sent her remains back to China. He left shortly thereafter. And their last descendant that I knew, who gave me all this history, just passed away last year, at age 90 plus. Okay, I just picked one out of my file that's pretty typical. And this is a place that you can visit in Oregon. It's John Day, Oregon. And I will leave some brochures out there for those of you that want to read about it. This is Doc Hay. And he became one of the more famous doctors in the Northwest. And he was typical of a Chinese doctor, or a China doctor they called him, that could cure things that the regular doctors couldn't. People would just flat up and die. And he became very famous for his concoctions. In 1917, there was a big fluid epidemic in Oregon, killed a bunch of people. And in 1918, they were building a stretch of road between two of the big cities up there in Oregon. And the fluid started to break out. Well, somebody remembered old Doc Hay, so let's go over and see what he can do. Well, he went over to him, told him what the problem was, and he came back literally with buckets. I can't even describe it from what people said and they said it isn't. It smelled nasty, it tasted nasty, it looked nasty, it looked like the absolute worst thing you could ever imagine. And they presented it to the road crew. The road crew took it. And they had nobody out completely with a full case of the fluid. They had a couple people that had mild cases, but it wasn't a day's work loss because of that. And that was just one of the early things where people were in trouble. They went to him and said, what can you do? Now, he had a partner. And Long Long, or Leon as they call him, which I really love, was an educated man in a Chinese photo like this that you see from that period. He holds books which shows he was a scholar, and he wears a scholar's cap and a fan. And those were some things that were a symbol that you were a scholar. Leon was also a playboy and businessman. And so he paired up with Da Ke and bought a store. The other thing about Long Long was that he was a playboy. The women loved him. He was a charmer. He had a good command in English and cultural English and Chinese. And he was an exotic male, and he had girlfriends all over the place. And even the women that were interviewed in the '60s remembered, oh yeah, my mom said, you know. And so he was a good businessman and just a good PR. He also had the first automobile dealership in John Day, Oregon, because he saw the future. And he figured, oh, like Halloween. So here's an early picture of their store with a car out front which they are, you know, 99% sure it had to be his. And over there is the temple. And this is the Kung-Kum-Wang-Chung building before the restoration. And businesses were often given names that were prosperity and things like this. And that then roughly translated to Golden Flower. And when Doc Hay finally died, he left his practice in the building to nephew, who in the '50s deeded it over to the city. And in 1966, the city's looking at property taxes and stuff, and they discovered they owned that building. Well, it had been sealed up since the 1940s when Doc Hay died. So there was a time capsule. And so in 1967 or so, they went through an inventory of everything. And we will see what's in there in just a minute. And this is the way it looks today as one of the state parks. The Chinese, as is many people, our grandparents, decorated their homes with free pictures, you know, from calendars and things like that. You know, the Chinese always have had a fascination in these stores for whatever reason, calendars. And I did this presentation, a version of it at UC Berkeley last winter. And one of the Chinese women stood up and said, "Oh my God," she said, "You should--my grandfather's place is like this, all over the garage. " And I said, "Well, you mean like, Stavong, you know, early ones?" She said, "No, like those. Pretty pictures or big numbers?" And my grandparents decorated them with calendars. And we're going to look at a lot of little corners and so on. Doc Hay liked cigars, a lot of Chinese smoked cigars, and that was one of the gifts that they would give you. And there's a little tea cozy there, which, you know, is fairly modern, probably from the '20s. And the peanut butter kisses. That was a famous candy in the old days in Oregon. And the Bachelor Society loved children. And everywhere you go and you interview people and read the histories, they would always give children something when they came to visit, and of course during the holidays. But these were some peanut fingers that I believe are just beginning to be manufactured again. But that was things that people remembered that they had done. Here's the restored kitchen where he cooked his herbal pork portions and where he did his cooking for himself. This, of course, is after it's been cleaned up. You'll see some where before that. He had lots of, you know, regular grocery items. And he sold a lot of them in bulk because there were mines and miners up there and people doing construction. And he could sell them, you know, a case a lot or a case of this and that. But you see a lot of cases of stuff talk about in different places. This is an early picture after they opened the place up. And when they inventoried it in the '60s, of course, they tried to put things right back where they found it. This is his sleeping quarters. Those stains on the wallpaper got there years after it was all just boarded up from moisture coming through the ruins. Here's the way it looked when they restored it. Got some nice Martha Stewart authentic wallpaper in there. But he slept with a cleaver. Not June cleaver. Because there were, you know, basically were a racist country. There was a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment at different times. And he was alone out there, alone on and off in the Central and South. And so the cleaver was there for obvious reasons. Thunderbug, claw, claw. Just kind of the general thing. And he lived very simply. This is a picture of his store when they opened it up. I just got an inventory from the man who's doing the inventory of these things. He's been working on them. He's at 475 herbs identified now. He has about 125 that he's trying to figure out what they were. Now these aren't mixtures or concoctions or anything. These are just herbs. And in his later years, Doc A complained that the herbs he was getting from China didn't have the potency that they had in the old days. Because the soil was getting tired and all of those sorts of things. Now the Chinese were healthy for another reason. In Chinese medicine, food is medicine. And it's medicine before you get sick. You know, you want to eat well. And it can also be soups and other things that you eat when you're sick. And that's one reason that the Chinese were healthier in those days. They were eating practically the same diet as they ate in China. Because they knew how to pickle, dry, salt, smoke, preserve things. And there were all ships going back and forth between San Francisco and China. By the way, that's how the Chinese knew about the Gold Rush first. There were women in San Francisco. Not enough of them. So, you know, we don't do laundry. We don't know what a washing machine is with guys. So they would send their laundry from San Francisco to Hawaii and to China. Well, so there's boats going back and forth. The Caucasians had to go from San Francisco down around the Horn, South America, and up to the East Coast. And then they had to get from the East Coast back around San Francisco. They did take a shortcut by walking across the isthmus of Panama. But that was not done very often because of disease. So they were the first to know. So they were really early. The Hawaiian also who were known as the Kanakans. I see things called Kanaka. Kanaka. K-A-M-K-A. And the Hawaiians were known as the Kanakans. The Hawaiians were known as Kanakans. K-A-M-A-K-A. I think I spelled that right. The Hank Meals who's with us here knows a great deal about Kanakans. [ audience laughs ] Can I put this thing to my lip? [ audience laughs ] I guess I--is that focus good or not? I can't tell where I'm supposed to go. This is a shot of his cage, you call it. His egyptus herbs. His herbs. His herbs locked up in there. And also that's where he would weigh and store gold. So that's basically what that thing was. Another shot. And you can see different things that he had in there. The stupid Paris preparations and so on. And you know the sign in your doctor's office that says the expect payment at the time of service. They had the same problems then, except for then it was worse because if I make a concoction for you that's something that's just for you, which it is, then I can't really give it to anybody else. This little stone was a heating stone and it was about a 30 by 30 building with a little bit of things added on to it. And the building was built in about 1860 and Dokke took it over in the middle of the 1880s. Dokke was a religious man and it appears that he was like many Chinese at that time. Daoist but also was hedging his bets with Buddhism. And for the Chinese it worked because their deities are people who were mortals and became deities through their works and accomplishments. And so they can understand when the Christians came, they could have said, "Oh yeah, Jesus we know that story. " And when Buddhism was brought to China they said, "Oh, just a thought, we understand that. " And so it wasn't unusual that he would have those things. And this is a little shrine that he had behind his stove and it was well known that he took care of that every day even when he went blind. And up to the time he had to leave. There's a lot of equipment hanging around. They chose to display some of it by hanging it on the wall, which of course we do today. There's a cartridge belt there because guns are a very big part of the West. A crowd cutter, some metal things that you could use with your walk. Some things you don't want to use metal in. So you have bamboo spoon thingies. I'm sorry, I'm really tired. Okay, this is how it looked when they found the kitchen. The one thing they did find that was a surprise to everybody, except for those that really knew Doc A, was underneath the table here was a hatch and in there were cases of booze. That means it salted away during the Depression. And it was a complete surprise to the people that were working on the site. Here it is after it has been cleaned up and things put on display. Everything's pretty exaltive, it's mandatory. All the certain kitchen items you would find in most any Chinese kitchen at that time. Now he was known for a couple of things. One was blood poisoning because off of barbed wire and working with equipment and stuff, people were always getting caught and hurt. And it was not unusual for him to receive an urgent call to go treat somebody. The first time that happened it was a rich rancher who lived a long ways from John Day. And he said, "I will send a team of horses and we'll bring you out there. " And he said, "Well, you know," and they convinced him to go. He went, this young man, who was this rancher's son, was just about dead. And the regular doctors said, "You know, just letting go. " Well, Dok He cured him and he lived. And that was one of the things that kept him in business was blood poisoning. He knew how to treat it and he was successful. And he would even treat people by mail. They would give them their symptoms. And those that he recognized, he would make up the formulas and send them to them. But the best thing was to show up at his place. In Chinese medicine, in order to treat a person, you read your pulses. And it's not the pulse that comes from your heart, it's the pulse that comes from your energy system. And he became known as one of the best pulseologists, is a word that we Westerners coined for him. Oops. Speaking of drinking. And he could read pulses very well. Even among the Chinese was known as the man they go to. And that was one of the secrets of his success was that he could diagnose you real easily, quickly, and accurately. [ Inaudible ] And he corresponded with people all over Idaho and diagnosed them by mail, sent them their prescriptions. When he died, I'm going to look because I always switch numbers. I just can't see you. He had in his store, he died, he had $23,000 in the late '30s of uncashed checks. Now, in what he said to his nephew, when the nephew initially found those things just before his dad, he said, "These are hard work for people. They don't have anything. I won't take the payment. " But can you imagine how much money that was in those days? So that gives you some kind of insight as to what kind of man he was. What is the right place here? Okay, this is one of the bunk areas in his store. And they smoked opium there. There's nothing wrong with opium. It wasn't illegal until after the turn of the century. We always considered it as evil because anything some culture is doing that we aren't doing has to be more wicked than what we're doing. So over here on this side of the tracks, we're drinking alcohol and we get into fist fights and a lot sort of thing at the end of the day. The Chinese guy goes and smokes opium. And he goes to sleep, basically. You just get really mellow. And so there's no violence there. But it was really wicked and evil. However, on this side of the tracks, we have what the women called euphemistically, and it was used during the 19th century, our secret friend. And that was Lydia Bicumson. All of those women's remedies that are for female disorders. And what were they? They were tincture opium. They were opium dissolved in alcohol. But it was wicked for the Chinese to be using that, but it was okay for us. The other thing about that double standard was that we sold peregrine, which is tincture opium, which is opium dissolved in alcohol. Okay, there's some labels at the museum there, but you can look it up online or wherever. Or maybe check your medicine cabinet. And it says, "Birth of the three days, two drops. " And it gives you dosage for all the way up through adults to call a colic-ly baby, a fussy baby that can't sleep. I'm thinking about a 13, 14-year-old, you know, so you give them 40 drops. And opium's addicting. So I'd like to believe that nobody ever did that. But having rice to kill my own, and I have three grandchildren, man, I would give anything for a bottle of paragorn some days. If it didn't work on them, I would drink all of it. So you have the same sort of system here. These were used for smoking opium, but they also were places where you could keep track of his patients. Was it paragorn? It was something sold in this country in the '40s and '50s? Oh, yes, yes. And when I was in the service, you could get it. You'd have to lie to get it, but you got to know what symptoms you had to tell them you had. So that's kind of an overview of a typical China doctor. Oops, I got to point it at the right thing here. Oops, where'd that go? Oh, a rasp. Okay, hold on a second. I can take a second. Yes, I know. But I have to change it at the computer. I need to move up. I have to tell them to move up. Yeah. I'm going to get like this moving up. Okay. Okay, we'll try. Are you guys passing a bottle of paragorn? If you're bringing a bottle of stool, you got to bring it up for the rest of the boys and girls. There it is. I thought they were wrong. That was a typo. I just discovered that this morning. He went blind and he continued to live in the store. He had friends in the community, Caucasian kids, friends who would bring him soup and things like that. As he was going blind, he was a great kidder, and he would tell children and adults who didn't know any better that he could tell the color of a flower by just the smell. Evidently, from the description of his vision, he had macular degeneration, so he had just a little tiny spot in there that he could see something. He would cut the flower in his hand, put it up to his eye, and make like he was sniffing it. He would move it around until he got a flash of color. The children and the adults believed him because he was capable of all these other mystical things. Dokke fell and broke his hip. As you know, even today, that can be a fatal accident. He went to the hospital and eventually to a nursing home. When he died in 1952, it was a very sad death. He was an old man in a nursing home, hospital combination. They took him down to X-ray, put him on a stainless steel table and stuff, and forgot that he was there. Granted, he could have been ready to go, but it was a tragic way for him to die. So the medicine that they brought to America was really good stuff, and way ahead of its time. And just in closing, gee, somebody will be out of here by 8 o'clock. I want to mention a very important person to the history of acupuncture. This is Dr. Miriam Lee. She came to this country, a full-fledged, really good acupuncturist. She had to work in an assembly plant in Palo Alto because there was no such thing as acupuncture. Very little was known about her. She's a passionate person. If you can ever get a copy of her book, it's well worth reading. They come up occasionally, but it was very limited printing. So she found out that her people, fellow workers on the assembly lines were having all these different kinds of sicknesses, that she allowed a treat with acupuncture. So she'd say, "Well, why don't you come over to my house and I'll do something for you?" So she would do acupuncture. Well, then people discovered that, "Whoa, this woman can cure you. " And so they began coming to her house. Well, she couldn't handle individual patients. So she opened up her living room, dining room, and she would treat as many as 10 people at a time. It was like going to the hair salon, you know, and people could talk back and forth. Which we know in energy medicine is really helpful if you have somebody reinforcing what you're going through and reinforcing that energy in your system. And she talks in her book about one time her porch collapsed because there were so many people there. It literally fell down. Well, then someone decided she was practicing medicine without a license. And they took her to court. And, you know, our government, which knows best for us, is going to take care of this little situation. Well, when she appeared in the federal court, or in the state courts, the court rooms were packed with people, not only who agreed with the idea, but people who had been treated and cured by her. So as a result, Governor Reagan pushed through legislation that made acupuncture okay as an experimental process. Well, she found a local doctor in the Palo Alto area who had led her practice in his office. So she had like a medical umbrella. A year or so later, Governor Brown got the legislation passed legalizing acupuncture. That was 1967, I think. 1976. And she taught many of the people that learned acupuncture in those early days. And she taught the teachers that taught several generations later, even today, there's some that can claim a connection in one way or another to her. She, the stories of her, you look at her face, she's kind, she's sensitive. And that's the work of one person, got something as seemingly ridiculous as acupuncture, brought it to the forefront of medicine today. And I'd just always like to mention her. And again, Janie is here, and she can tell you a little bit more about 9,000 needles and their interviews in the union. And that kind of concludes it, and I'll answer whatever questions I can. [applause] And the reason that happened is that in 1906, they had some sort of incident in San Francisco. Earthquake and fire that destroyed all of the records. Well, the law at that time provided that you could bring a son, various cell of daughters, but sons over here. And so you could get somebody to, for money, say, "Oh yeah, he's my son. " And you'd testify to it, and he would come over and he would have my family name instead of the family name that he was born with. At the time, these men were alive, and I know that was not a big thing. Dake had two children in China, and he turned his back on the family when he came here. And his father told him, "You know, we're the old people in the old ways. You go and do the new ways. " And so in the end, the son was dead by the time Dake died. The daughter was still alive and went through the probate process and so on, trying to get the money. And it was promised to her and, you know, tied up in the courts, and she never did receive any of it. And his partner was just a playboy, and that wasn't anything of great concern to him. And the paper son sort of thing was more common in California because we were right here. We had the Chinese Council, we had the family associations. We had all the things in place we needed to do the paper sons. And Chinese ships. What? Chinese ships, too. Oh, yes. Well, we know that the Chinese, even before Columbus, explored the coast of California and so on. They didn't find anything here. But they could fly. They could come over in their Chinese junks from China to the San Francisco coast. And right here. Did he try to heal himself? Well, that's really a problem if you get left in a cold room with broken head and so on. No, but when he was becoming boring, I mean, he didn't become sick overnight. No, I don't know. But I would imagine he would because he would know. But there are some ailments that can't be cured after a certain point. And maculae degeneration is one of the macular promissurists today with the P OK.