The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-24
.LOGGtR'S JAG
INTERNAT IONAL
INCIDENT
THE LAST "ANTI-JAPANESE OUT
RAGE" IN SAN FRANCISCO NOT
VERY SERIOUS.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 15.-Be-
cause Joseph King, a logger, was un-
steady on his underpinning as a re-
suit of too much celebrating, San Fran
cisco has another "anti-Japanese out
rage" to answer for.
King was lurching his way unsteadlly |
down Fell street at o'clock last even |
ing when an unexpected tack to |
starboard carried him through a pane
of glass in T. Umgekubos laundry at
422 Fell street An exciting half hour
followed this mishap and when the
smoke of battle cleared away Umke-
kubo and H. Omura, a compatriot were
in the receiving hospital, the front Of,
the laundry was a wreck and a scoi e
of white citizens were nursing welts
inflicted by the clubs of policemen and
detectives
When Lobber King went through the
window he was pounced upon by UNI
kekubo and Omura and dragged into a
rear room of the laundry, where
young Japanese armed with a piece
of gas pipe was placed on guard over
him while another Japanese went to
summon the police. Three of King
friends, also intoxicated, had witnessed
his capture and decided to effect his
rescue. They invaded the laundry
which was manned by about a dozen
, brown men, and in a twinkling a free
, fight was in progress. Other whites,
! attracted by the noise of combat has
! tened to join in the fray, and by the
| time Policeman Thomas F. Collier,
/ whose beat is on Hayes street arrived
! at the laundry crowd of 600 men
packed the street in front, many OF
its members being engaged industri-
Ously in making a wreck of Umke-
/ kubo's place of business.
! Policeman Collier charged the mob
but could do little single handed. He
was reinforced in a few minutes by
Policeman James Olsen, whom an au-
tomobilist had brought from his beat
on McAllister street, some blocks away
Riot calls were sent in to the central
and Bush street stations and Detectives
! Tom Ryan, Driscoll Ward and Lord
were hurried to the scene of the dis
turbance at the head of two squads
OF policemen, augmented by Mounted
Patrolmen Dolan and Hawkins, who
had been summoned by citizens.
When the police force arrived the
mob showed fight and was not dis
persed until clubs had been used in
| discriminatory upon the heads of the
leaders. Even after it had beer &eaten
back, the mob amused itself by shout
ing japanese lovers" and other appro-
brious epithets at the guardians of the
peace.
During the attack upon the laundry
( Umkekubo and Omura had been badly
beaten. They were removed to the
emergency hospital the former suffer-
ing from a scalp wound and deep cuts
above and below the left eye and the
latter from a fracture of the left Shout
der, One Of the attacking hoodlums
had aimed a blow at Omuras head
with a piece Of gas pipe and barely
missed his marx, the weapon breaking
the bones of the shoulder
/ During all this strenuous period the
J cause of the trouble Logger King,
had remained in his temporary prison
in the rear room of the laundry. When
the police entered the place he was
found sound asleep and unaware
that there had been a riot He was
booked at the Bush street station on a
charge of malicious mischief.
Attorney Walker representing the
Japanese Society of America, visited
the laundry after the riot and took an
inventory of the damage done. He as.
serted that the attack had been pre-,
arranged and that an express wagon
laden with bricks had been drawn III
in front of the place to provide the
mob with ammunition. Policeman
Collier, who was on the scene within {
few minutes after the first invasion o
the laundry, said that there was NJ
- wagon near the place.
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