The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-03-19
Jap MAN AND WHITE GIRL
AGAIN SEEK MARRIAGE in
GOLDFIELD--ARE REFUSED
Especial to The News)

Especial to The NeWs)
ToNoPAH, March 16.-The Jap
anese man and white girl who arrived
here from Goldfeld yesterday after
noon. have not been able to find any
one who would marry them, and at a
late hour his afternoon were staying
in a cheap hotel in this city.
Judge Somers, when interviewed last
night upon the subject of his Fefusai
70 perform a marriage ceremony FOR
the benefit of the white girl ana Jap
anese man who made application for
such service Tuesday afternoon, SAID:
dyes. a full blooded Jap and a white
woman called on me at my courtroom
and requested me to unite them
in marriage. l told them under no cir
cumstances would / marry them. The
woman demanded why ] refused when
they had secured a license. BY the
wav. the woman was doing all the talk
ing. as the Jap could not speak English.
"I said it would be a mesallianee,
and / would not encourage the mis-
cegnation. l believed it would be un-
wise and immoral and a g%rievous and
irreparable injury to society. My Amer
lean blood revolts against such a union
and / am glad the law permits me to
exercise my discretion against it. The
law prohibits the intermarriage OF
white and black, and white and yellow
and yellow and black. l believe the
C~hinaman is superior to the japanese,
and in this case the greater evil in
cludes the lesser, and japanese must be
included in the Chinese statutory
designation.
"Further, / stated that union be-
tween black and white is prohibited.
Black is more or less a relative term.
If / were asked to distinguish whether
a Jap was white or black, ] would un-
hesitatingly say he was black, in the
interest of morality and society. L
might be charged with color blindness,
preiudicial to the Jap. God and nature
have placed a ban upon such MAJ
riages.'
After the couple had been escorted
to the Goldfeld depot by a member of
the sheriff s staff they took the train
to Tonopah, and of their arrival ana
doings that evening, the Bonanza
which had been notified by The News
that the couple was on the way, gives
the following story:
They Arrive in Tonopah.
When the train arrived here last eve
ming Nasaki left the coach ahead of
his bride-that-is- to- be. He started up
toward town as if he was only a casual
visitor in our midst. After passing the
Wittenberg warehouse, he appeared to
have forgotten something, and in a
roundabout way returned to the depot.
The lady was waiting for him in the
waiting room, and after a short confer
ence Nasaki walked slowly up tha
street. The woman followed at 4 dis
tance of about a hundred yards. When
opposite one of the Chinese noodle
Joints on lower Main street Nasaki
halted and when the woman came along
the two entered and dined On noodles.
At the conclusion of the evening meal,
which originally was intended to be the
wedding supper, rooms were engaged
at the Capitol lodging house and Mr..
Nasaki and Miss Schawm retired to
separate rooms during the night.
Later in the evening a Bonanza re-
! porter sought an audience with Miss
Schawm and was informed concerning
the true state of affairs. She is by
occupation a chambermaid, and was
employed at the residence of j.. c. M.
Marble, a prominent attorney of that
city. The Jap was employed AS
gardner at the same place. After
an acquaintance of two years the son
of the land of the Mikado popped the
question and was accepted on the spot
Legal advice, as furnished by their en-
ployer, was that the two should come
to Nevada, Arizona or New Mexico,
where the ceremony could be performed
and no questions asked. Hearing of
the success of the Japanese ana white
girl, who were successful in being mar
ried at Goldfeld about two weeks ago,
they procured tickets and landed at
their destination with the success as
above stated.