The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-05

I the fall of Port Arthur were celebrated
IA all the camps.
Forty-five OF the residents of the
] state are located in Salt Lake CITY.
and the headquarters of f d Hashi-
motto, who supplies the japanese labor
! throughout the state, is here This
necessarily brings many japanese 10
the city, and three restaurants con-
quoted by Japanese are entirely sup
| ported by their trade. There are also
tour bamboo and oriental stores run
| by japanese and they do business az
| gregatlng several thousand dollars a
year. The only Japanese rooming
| mouse Is located here and il is also
used as hospital for those who have
no means
E. d Hashimoto is regarded as the
leadlng japanese in the state and one
or the most influential men among his
countrymen in the west His father
mas held governmental position for
| several years in the state of Kee and
I he is also mana ger Of a fishery His
elder brother, Yoso Hashirnoto. was
captain in the japanese army in
I 1876 ana few years later came to this
| country. He started a boarding house
| IN Seattle, and when Z. d. Hashimoto
hnished his education in the grammar
/ schools of Japan he Joined his brother
/ at Seattle. He was educated in san
/ Francisco and later went back TO
| Seattle. where he and his brother with
several other japanese opened the
/ oriental Trading company with a
capital of 800 600. His brother is now
! proprietor of the Great Northern
hotel. He accepted the position of
| furnishing Japanese labor about two
! years ago and Is now engaged in the
| interest of the labOring class
Hashimoto was born in the state Of
kee IN small village a bout 200 miles
south OF Toxic, and he is now % years
OF age he has younger brother. T.
y Hashimoto. who is assisting him
here in his position He was active i'm
commencing the fund for the charit-
able organizations and a great deal of
their success in raising the contribu-
tons are accredited to him.
other Prominent Japanese.
Among the other prominent Japau-
csc of Salt Lake is T. KasUga who is
the proprietor of the Toxic and Yoko-
hama restaurants. He has lived in
this country about seven years. He
was educated in San Francisco and
came here about one year ago. Since
the fund was started he has con-
tributed $500 to the Red Cross society.
T K. Sakuragi runs the bamboo
store on East Third South and manu-
tactures most of his bamboo work. He
came from California about two years
ago and opened his store. He was one
of the leaders in raising funds for the
destitute families and contributed 800.
X Nakahash is proprietor Of a BAN
boo store which he opened about
year ago He came here from Los
Angeles, where he owns restaurant.
short time ago ne returned 70 San
Francisco and brought his family to
this city.
t. Bow came to Salt Lake about
three or four years ago and during this
time saved enough money by laundry
work TO start the Queen City restaur-
ant Since that time he has made
enough money to bring his family
from Japan
T. Asanuma, proprietor of the Jap
anese rooming and boarding house.
came here with Ed HashimotO two
IN the construction camps. About two
months ago he started his rooming
mouse and has been taking care Of the
japanese who nave been sick and have
had NJ means of supporting themselves
Asanuma has sent over 800 to the Red
Cross society fund.
Mort Hashimoto Is well known en-
ploye of the Alta club.
ID. >. Isaka, manager of the japanese
Royal troupe, J. r. Miwa, Y. Tanshina
and NJ Itai. members of the cOmnanv
who were touring the country raising
funds for the Red Cross society are
still in the city They are at present
at the Japanese roOming house. but
expect to go on with their company
throughout the country. They claim
to be experts at jiU jitsu. and were Civ
ing scientific exhibitions on the stage
Most OF the Japanese in the city are
employed as dOmestiCS in private fam
lies or cooks. There are about d dozen
women i'm the city. and they are also
working as domestics. They have fol-