The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-04-26
NO DISTINCTION
At SAN FRANCISCO
ALL REFUGEES RECEIVING Ex-
AcTLY SAME TREATMENT.
CHINESE ARE NOT M1srREArED
Generals Funston and Greeley Refute
,r implication = California Woman's
Club Override Suggestion
of President Roosevelt.


ing that the Chinese refugees in San
Francisco were receiving every atten-
tion, equal to other unfortunates.
They also added that federal and civil
business in San Francisco is being
rapidly resumed.
The messages came in refutation OF
a suggestion made in latter from
President Roosevelt to Secretary of
War Taft which was published in this
mornings papers. The President
said that reports had reached him
that less charity was being shown the
Chinese who dweIt there than the
whites, and directing that If this be
true to remedy it at once. If the peo-
pie of San Francisco are not In love
with the Chinese it was felt that the
name they have earned in the past
for charity and open heartedness
should be saved from any reflection
that they would have permitted any
human being, white, black, or yellow,
within their reach to- suffer.
Mature reflections, however, brought
the conviction that the truth had not
reached the president, and a special
message was sent TO him signed by
the constituted authorities recounting
the exact facts.
The message was sent and stated
that no distinction was peing made
in dispensing charity and that all were
being treated alike, without regard TO
race, color or creed.
Business Is Resumed.
Oakland, April 25.-Three million
dollars in gold and silver was taken
from the mint at San Francisco to
Oakland and Berkeley banks this
morning to relieve the immediate
needs. Such marts Of trade as re-
main unburned are opening for the
transaction of ordinary business, tenn
porary structures are being run up for
the accommodation Of others, and the
rlearing of the devastated area of its
ruins is well under way. The Uniyer-
sity of California announces that its
regular summer school will be held as
usual June 25 to August 4. Only
three hundred bodies have been re-
covered, but the coroner's estimate Of
one thousand is expected to be more
than filled in the district south Of
Market street and Chinatown, where
it is thought hundreds are buried in
the wreckage that burned. All dan
ger of an epidemic is passed.
Ladies' Act Against President.
New York, April 24.-The California
club of women in executive session to-
day at its club rooms in the Waldorf
Astoria decided to accept donations
from foreigners in opposition to the
stand taken by President Roosevelt.
A resolution to that effect was unanr
mously adopted. In part, it was as
follows:
Whereas, The refusal of the do
nations of the Hamburg-American
line and others in aid of the California
sufferers by President Roosevelt has
caused much adverse comment; and
while recognizing the grounds upon
which the refusal was based, namely,
that Americans are amply able to
take care of the situation to be alb
solutely correct; nevertheless, we
hold that the denial Of the right to
contribute on the ground of national
ity is wrong, harmful ana without pre-
cedent.
"San Francisco is very cosmopoli-
tan city, and while we do not under
stand that the amount was rendered
as a German donation, the donors un-
questionably had in mind the fact that
thousands upon thousands of their ma
tionality will require assistance; fur
thermore, Americans have never been
excluded from giving their aid and
sympathy in cases of European disas-
ters."
The resolution then says the club
will receive foreign as we'll as domes-
tic contributions and see that they
are spent where they will do the most
good.
Dogs Devour Dead.
San Francisco, Cal, April 25.-One
of the gruesome scenes that has fol-
lowed the fire was that witnessed on
Telegraph hill and Russian hill and
along the entire North beach front OF
the city this morning when scores OF
half starved dogs were found eating
human bodies. The animals were
discovered gnawing and tearing at the
corpses half buried in the ruins.
Where only leg or an arm protrud-
ed, the dogs were digging for the rest
of the body. Men who had been sent
into the ruins Of homes to look for
what little property that might have
escaped the white flames came upon
this sickening condition, and immedi-
ately reported 1t to the naval officers
in command of the water front mill
tary districts.