The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-10-12
DID NOT APPRECIATE
MISSIONARIES EFFORTS
Undesirable Japanese Citizens Try to
Drive Fellow Countryman from
Town, and Trouble Follows.

The attention of Police Judge Lynch
was given Monday afternoon to untangl-
ing the difficulties arising Sunday night
among a number of Japanese in Front
street lodging mousse. There were two
sides to the story told the court, that
of the boarding house proprietors. who
seem to have gotten the worst of the
mix-up. being substantially as follows:
T. Okiyoshi. a Japanese who had pre-
viously studied theology in the United
States and who is highly educated int he
English language, recently returned from
the land of cherry blossoms and chrys-
anthemums to take up his theological
studies again. He was making his way
east to enter school, and stopped here
to build up his depleted pocketbook.
Seeing a chance to make little money.
he leased the lodging mouse referred to,
and was conducting it with the help of
James Smith, also a Japanese, who is a
naturalized American citizen. Upon TAX
ing possession of the place. Mr.. Okiyoshi
found that it was in portion of the
city occupied by the demi-monde, and
that prominent among this class were
several Japanese women whose husbands
forced them to live the loathsome life of
the moral outcast while they lived lives
of luxury and ease on the earnings of
the women. 1t is stated that Mr.. Oki
yoshi went to the husbands of the wo.
men and to the women themselves and
pleaded with them to abandon their lives
OF shame and live decently. The advice
was not taken kindly, and in fact was
strongly resented by all the japanese
interested except one. who is said to have
reformed. Saturday evening. after Mr..
Okiyoshi had renewed his efforts at lead
ing his misguided countrymen and wo-
men into the better way, it is alleged he
and his assistant. Smith, We're attacked
in the lodging house, where the furni-
ture was broken up and the veriest kind
of disorderly conduct engaged in. Mr..
Okiyoshi and Mr.. Smith intimate their
belief that the sympathies of the police
are with their assailants.
The opposing parties to the suit tell a
different story-and incidentally a far
more improbable one. They say that Mr..
Okiyosni came to them Saturday night
and endeavored to borrow money. Being
refused they say. he began breaking up
the furniture. smashing articles right
and left and persisting in his work of de-
struction until they were forced to enter
into combat with him to protect them
selves. Fearing further molestation. NJ.
Okiyoshi and Mr.. Smith left their house
and spent the night at the home of Rev.
James. local pastor of the church OF
which the former was a member.
The japanese among whom the mis-
sionary had labored in vain, swore out
warrant Monday morning charging
Okiyoshi and his assistant with disor
derby conduct. Judge Lynch heard the
case Monday evening. and found the de-
PENDANTS not guilty. They were dismiss.
ed. to the chagrin and disgust of TIE
plaintiffs. After the trial the police
Judge was approached by a well known
japanese who expressed his qualification
at the outcome. and remarked: "All the
good japanese men here do not like these
men and women; they ought to be sent
out of town.