The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-06

y rant on Folsom street. y
Washington. June 5-The japanese trou-
bic in San Francisco probably will be set
tied by recourse to the law. Informal
ton has been received here to the effect
that the Japanese consul general in San
Francisco cOntemplates bringing a suit
against the city of San Francisco for dam
ages incurred by the owners of the Horse
shoe restaurant and the Folsom bathhouse
from the attack by mob on May 20
last.
The action, il brought, will be under the
state law and in the name of the owners
OF the places wrecked.
1t is understood that the Japanese will
be perfectly satisfied with judicial de-
termination of the case.
experimenting his Geographic reply to
the inquiry of Secretary Root regarding
the most recent Of japanese disturbances
in San Francisco, Governor Gillett of
California has submitted a mail report
dealing in detail with the outbreak of the
trouble in the Japanese Horseshoe restau-
rant and it's extension to the bathhouse.
The governors statements are practically
the same as those contained in the news
dispatches.
Outcome of Labor Troubles.
The state department has received re-
ports upon the same subject from the ad-
of police of San Francisco. These reports
seem 10 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 IL. save
in the latter stages. Photographs accom-
panying the reports show the exact con-
Gition OF the two japanese places after the
visitation of the mob, which lasted only
a few minutes, stones lying in the win
dows and upon the floors, and other evil
dances of violence being observable. 1t
appears that at the instance of Governor
Gillett, the chief OF police had previously
taken particular care to protect the Jap
anese in San Francisco His force was
much depleted owing to the necessity of
diverting large part of 1T to the pro-
lection of the street car lines which were
being attacked at many points. But he
had stationed many policemen as he
could SPARE dressed in plain clothes, in
the neighborhood of the place where the
outbreak occurred
Came Up Suddenly.
The suddenness of the affair prevented
the 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. according
to one statement, a japanese cook threw
a knife at one of them. The fight was
transferred TO the street. a crowd gath
cred and the mobbing followed. Possibly
II was more violent than if a white res
taurant had been the object of attack,
but all through the reports run evidences
that in some way the Japanese had Of
Tended against the rules of the labor
union and that racial feeling was merely
an incident TO the affair.
The japanese account. as it reaches the
embassy from the consul general at San
Francisco, is in conflict with the above
mentioned reports in ascribing the Incl
dent TO an outbreak of race feeling in San
Francisco. and it is possible that the issue
thus raised can be met by the report of
District Attorney Devlin. which is ex-
pected to be completed today.