The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-19
HILL CANNOT
LOSE THE JAPS
They Will Be With Him
Three More Years.
JAPANESE HOSPITAL
With japanese Doctor, Completed-Every-
thing Modern = Patients Doing
Well With Jap Nurses.
JAPANESE HOSPITAL

/ NiSoe A>oA eiiSiA W Tie OlueF are pup
fishing statements to the purport that
the days of the Japanese laborers
on the entire railroad system, are
numbered. The latest comes from
the Great Falls Tribune, which SAYS:
several weeks ago the Tribune was
authorized to make the statement that
the Great Northern would not employ
any more Japanese laborers and that
those then employed would be re.
placed by white men as rapidly as
possible. The reasons for this were
given and it was shown that many
Japs had been discharged But
representative Of the Oriental Trad
ing company. which imports the Japs
and farms them out, denied these
statements and asserted that more
laps would be employed on the Great
Northern west Of me Rockies than
ever before"
The st. Paul Pioneer Press now
says:
At the Great Northern general Of
fees yesterday it was learned that
President Hill has acceded to the
demands of the labor unions in the
northwestern states and will dispense
with Japanese labor in the shops and
on the road. There were about q.
600 Orientals thus employed, and of
these about 1900 have been displaced
by white men. It is said that Mr..
Hill did not employ these men from
choice, but because it was impossible
to find white labor. The Japs per-
formed less labor in day than their
white companions, but they received
less pay. and there was no objection
on this point, but the little brown
men," as Mr.. Hill calls them, were
poor workmen and great destroyers
of raw material.
A story is told of an accident that
occurred to a locomotive. The Jap
anese machinists were called on to
make the repairs. There were doz-
en- workmen. Each man examined
the fracture and then they all ell
to discussing how it could not be. re-
paired. Two hours were thus occu-
pied each working man demonstrate
ing how utterly impossible it would
be to make the repairs if they pro-
pnndn1 toi ioOc ~
OF them offered suggestion as to
how the damage could be mended."
In all the published statements rep
resentatives of the Oriental Trailing
are quoted with making de
mails, but that is as far as their side
OF the case gets. In fact that COM
panys statements have been passed
up as though they were not party
to the contract entered into between
the Great Northern and the Oriental
Trading company two years ago and
which still has three years to rum.
Kalispell is one of the principal
headquarters of the Oriental Trad
ing company, and from this point the
Jap laborers are sent, both east and
west, to places where they are placed
at work on the lines of the Great
Northern and it is from Kalispeil
that the little fellows secure most of
their supplies.
The company occupies a large two
story building at The corner of First
avenue and Fourth street west, the
ground floor of which is used as an
office ana general store, from which
every needed article of wearing ap-
parel, as we'll as food supplies. are
issued to the Japs
The second story of the building
is occupied as hospital, which Is
in charge of T. Shoami, a Japanese
physician who speaks very Oriental
English and who has but recently
arrived in. the United States from Yo-
kahoma
The hospital is kept what can be
said to be painfully clean," and ut
the time visited by the Bee reporter
had eleven Japanese under treat
nent, every one of whom was shin
ing with cleanliness and seemed to
be in the best of spirits. Or. Shoami
was found in his Office and labora-
.ory and from his surroundings must
nave considerable knowledge of med
cine as it is known in the states. In
.act every thing had the appearance
II a laboratory in one of our modern
hospitals and his desk was covered
With books on medicine in German
and French as we'll as the English
language.
The doctor said that only Japanese
patients were treated who were suf-
ering with slight diseases and that