The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-06
JAP CONSUL ID SUE
 SAN FRANCISCO For Damages to Restaurants
 By Mob DUE TO LABOR TROUBLES The Governor of California Sends Re- port and Photographs to Secretary Root-Racal Feeling
 Not Factor.
DUE TO LABOR TROUBLES

Washington, June 5.-The Japanese trouble in San Francisco probably will be settled by course of law. Infor- nation has been received to the effect that the Japanese consul in San Francisco is contemplating bringing suit against the city of San Francisco for damages incurred by the owners of the Horse Shoe restaurant and the Folsom bath house, attacked by a 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 It is understood the Japanese will be perfectly satisfied with judicial termination of the case.
 Supplementng his telegraphc reply to the inquiry of Secretary Root regarding the most recent of Japanese disturbances in San Francisco, Governor Gillette of California has submitted a mailed re- port, dealing in detail with the out break of the trouble in the Japanese Horse Shoe restaurant and it's extension to the bath house opposite. The gov ernor's statements are practically the same as those containued in the news dispatches.
 The state department has also received a report on the same subject from the adjutant general of California and the chief of police of San Francisco. These reports seems to establish 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. Photo graphs accompanying the reports show the exact condition of the two Japanese places after the visitation of the mob, which lasted only a few minutes, stones lying in the windows and on the floors and other evidences of violence being observable
 It appears that at the instance of Governor Gillette, the chief of police had previously taken special care to protect 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 po- licemen as he could spare, dressed in plain clothes, in the neighborhood of the place where the outbreak occourred. The suddenness of the affair prevented 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 altercation in the Japanese restaurant and, accord ing to one statement, Japanese cook threw a knife at one of them.
 The fight was transferred to the street; a crowd gathered and the mobbing fol- lowed Possibly 1t was more violent than if white restaurant had been the ob- ject of attack, but all through the reports run evidences that in some way the Japanese had offended the rules of the labor union and that racial feeling was merely an incident to the affair The Japanese account, as it reaches the em- bassy. had from the consul general at San Francisco, Is in conflict with the above mentioned reports in ascribng the incident principally to an outbreak of ra- cial feeling in San Francisco and 1t is possible that the issue thus raised can be met by the report of District Attor- ney Devlin, which is expected to be com- pleted today.