For a year Jean Salsman was wooed by Sam Kurihara, a Japanese immigrant, who worked on a neighbouring ranch at Dinubia, California, states the "News Chronicle."
Her father was enraged. He ordered the girl to obey California's "unwritten racial law." She refused, One night the lovers met at Jean's window, As they parted she heard shai outside, saw her father return to th house with a shotgun "He has killed him!" she cried to her stepmother, and rushed to her room to take poison. Presently she died.
But her lover had not been killed. He was taken to hospital, wounded in the side.
Now his friends have put him in hiding, as they fear the wrath of the California
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