The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-06-13
JAPANESE TO SUE
San FRANCISCO
ACCOUNT OF DAMAGES FROM
ATTACK OF MOB.
TRAVEL BILL WAS SMALL
President Spends Only One Fifth Of
Yearly Allowance Of $25, ,O00-Civil
Service Employees Must Be Quiet
in Campaign.

in Campaign.
Washington.-The japanese trou-
bic in San Francisco probably will
be settled by a recourse to the law.
Information has been received to tn,
effect that the japanese consul in
San Francisco is contemplating bring
ing a suit against the city of San
Francisco for damages incurred by
the owners of the Horseshoe restau-
rant and Folsom bathhouse, from
the attack by mob on May 20 last
The action if brought, will be under
the State law, and in the name of
the owners of the place wrecked. Ii
is. understood that the japanese will
be perfectly satisfied with a judicial
determination Of the case.
Supplementing his telegraphic reply
to the inquiry of Secretary Root re-
garding the most recent of Japan
ese disturbances in San Francisco
Gov. Gillette of California has sub
mitted a mail report dealing in detail
with the outbreak of the trouble in
the restaurant and its extension to
the bathhouse opposite The Cover
nor's statements are practically the
same as those contained in the news
dispatches.
The State Department also has re-
ceived reports on the same subject
from the Adjutant General of Cali.
fornia and the chief of police of San
Francisco. These reports seem to es-
tablish the fact that the affair was
the natural outcome of the labor
troubles in San Francisco, and that
racial feeling had very little to do
with it, save in the latter stages.
Photographs accompanying the re-
ports show the exact condition of the
two japanese places after the visi-
tation Of the mob, which lasted only
few minutes, stones lying in the
windows and on the floors, and other
evidence of violence being observa
BILE.
1t appears that at the instance of
Gov. Gillette the chief of police had
previously taken special care to pro-
tect the japanese in San Francisco
His force was very much depleted
owing to the necessity of diverting
a large part of it to the protection
of the street car lines, which were
being attacked at many points. But
he did station as many policemen
as he could spare, dressed in plain
clothes, in the neighborhood of the
place where the outbreak occurred.
The suddenness of the affair pre-
\ vented these policemen from acting
In time to save the property of the
japanese. Two white men, who were
said to have worn some kind OF
badges, engaged in an alteration in
the japanese restaurant, and, accord
ing to one statement, japanese cook
threw knife at one of them. The
fight was transferred to the street,
a crowd gathered and the mobbing
followed. Possibly it was more VIC.
lent than if a white restaurant had
been the object of attack, but all
through the reports run evidences
that IN some way the japanese had
offended against the rules of the
labor union, and that racial feeling
was merely an incident to the affair.
Travels in Simple Way.
The appropriation by Congress of
$4,000 year to pay the travelling
expenses of the President has revolu-
tionized, if not altogether destroyed
the custom of making grand swings
around the circle on the part of the
Chief Executive. The legislation has
had an effect directly contrary to
that contemplated by the law-mak.
ers, for the railway expenses of Presi.
dent Roosevelt during the first year
of the operation of the new act will
be only trife over $4,000.
Before President Roosevelt started
on his recent trip of the Middle West
only $4,000 had been expended out of
the $4,000 fund. The expenses of
his last trip will not aggregate $1100.
The President will visit jamestown
on the 10th instant, and shortly after
returning to Washington will leave
for Oyster Bay. The expenses Of
these two trips will be trifing, so that
he will turn back into the Treasury
on July L more than tWo-thlrdS OF
the $4,000 appropriated.
A great change has come over the
character of presidential trips since
Congress decided to make the Chief
Executive independent of the hospi-
talities of the railways whenever he
wanted to make journey. Formerly
these expeditions were elaborate af-
fairs, the travellers being furnished
with all the extreme of luxury that
resourceful railway managers and un.
limited cash could produce. Special
trains, with any number of private
cars equipped with the most skillful
crews, and stocked with all the deli
cacles the market afforded, were at
the disposal of the President and
those whom he selected as his guests.