The herald., 1898-09-20
BAD IN BOTH PLACES
SOMETHING ABOUT GEO. HAR-
ADA's DENVER RECORD
He BILKEDl A C0UNTRyMAN
At Least He Is So Charged in Com
munication From the Office
of G. Hara

According 70 a letter received by The
,1.ro,d from the office of G. r. Hara, a
Japanese. of Salida, Col, regarding one
? his ooun.rymen, the hea.hen Chinee Is
80. the on,y one to whom ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain are pecular.
Al least one Japanese has been rubbing
shows, with the inha abitants of the Flow
erv kingdom and acquired few tricks. Ine
letter pretends to exploit the career Oh
former resident of this city. who is now SAID
n he IN Denver Mum Tiki Sekiya is the
rue name of the Japanese rascal, but he Is
better known TO the people OF this city
by the name Of George Harada. Several
Years ago he conducted the Creamerie res
tauraut a. l2s North Main street. and he
runs an eating house at 1928 Lar.mer street.
Denver.
The sallda communication tells some
thing connected with his career here and
later in Denver, taken from an article In
a Japanese newspaper called the New
World Harada established an excelient
trade here, and for time prospered, oui
connection or some other cause made deep
;nroads into his business. and he saw there
was no. enough In the place for himself and
his creditors, so, like some flnanciers. he
decided that it would be his creditors who
must suffer. He stood them off, and ran
bie bills with the grocer, milkman and
other supply houses, and then quietly, al
though he Is Japanese, took Frencn
leave one night before his creditors were
him fnr nnNnhe r
Of suits they had Instituted His place was
sold out 10 satisfy his creditors. Accord
Ing TO the communication, Harada obtained
a gold watch, diamond lockets and other
valuable jewelry on credit before his de-
parture, and the Jeweler was In consequence
numbered among the mourners.
Since his arrival In Denver Harada has
apparently been trying to make some
"easy" money by bilking one Of his coun-
trywomen by means Of worthless note.
The letter gives the details Of this tran
saction, and, while the news Is interesting,
good part of the value Of the letter lies
in is use of English as she Is spoke-by
Japanese. The letter reads:
"Geoge Sekeya has such more bad his
tory, after he came to the city Of Dem
yer, he has been good business. but still
he has bad plot, which Is this: he asked
his lady friend to bother few hundred dol
ors. When he asked her, he said only for
a few days, but he wrote a note for her
and said going bother you three hundreds
dollors for few days but will write note
for your own interest. That Japanese wo-
man hasn't much education so that she
can't read the note. So he had an advan-
tage upon the matter, he read the note be-
fore her as this:
American money $50 much) we owed you
an above account money for our own neces-
sity. and we mortgaged our Oriental res
taurant on 1928 Larimer street City of Den
yer, Colo to you for the money as security.
When you want money any time we will
willingly return, II we could not pay at the
time you ask for It, we grant you an au-
thority to attach this restaurant or what
ever you desire for 1t. Some hing like this
when she asked money to him. he said that
note has sign with my friend so must ask
my partner, or something els. he said and
he didn't pay for 1t at all. So finally she
imploise a collector to get money out Of
him. Collector says "you must translate
this note first then I will work upon this
case for you" So she went some OF her
friend to translate the note. After her
friend translated that, Il was good for
nothing note"
AS for his reasons for exposing his coun-
tryman, the Japanese contributor to The
Herald gives the following explanation:
This is what extracted from New
World. heard nome more his criminal
schame which he going to do, but /. is
my duty to inform you and let you write
on the paper SO that people in your city
might find him in this city Of Denver, and
they could have their old debts Of him
easily, at present time AS long as stand
on the Justice. do not want let such my