The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1904, Page 9

Sswlil)] e himself and not only protected the foreig - i - e o by both the Emperor of Japan and the Government of China for | ® 2 - lives of the hated Japanese from the fury of ore in the Orient is General Lu Harwood Foote, the sub- For this splendid service he received t onal t e e T e St ey SN *Gen, Lucius Harwood Foote| ...z e s & e fi. The present war between Russia and Japan has served g one of the most remarkable demonstrations toward a forei prominence again the lopg and- brilliant. career- of this ever been rendered in the Flowery At the s O.\'I of the few men nmow living who have been signally honored | bra the Golden West since he.crossed the plains.to California more, adjutant general of the California militia for another four years,a delegate to the Republican National Government of China tendered its t became identified immediately with its stirring- public life, Convention in' 1876, Consul to Valparaiso, Chile, from 1878 to 1881, and Charge d’Affaires in Chile until he macy he had shown. while the Em as.been aciive cver since, notwithstanding he is now 78 was sent on a special diplomatic missjon to Central America in 1882, that General Foote was made Envoy letter of thanks to be conveyed to the noted Ame 3¢ le the poem, “The March of the Nomads,” which he re- Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Y.orea in the same year. % ful manner in which he had aided in putting down itly translated from the German of Herman von Lingg for The Call, Here it was that the strong personal qualities 2nd high moral courage that had been the foundation of After resigning his post in the Orient in 1884 ned to Amer- served to call attention anew to the fact that General Foote is himself an his rise to a place of position and honor in the service of his country were put to their severest test. In ce 1800 General excellent poet of long standing. Two of his published works are “Red 1883 the nativist revolt broke out in Seoul, and against it the Korean Government was pfactically powerless. 1}53. am‘:l hasb SlflC:h Rty hm:; :n s r‘relrrfl'iklll‘\i my of Sciences, Letter Day and Other Poems” and “On the Heights.” The lives of all foreigners, and particularly of the Japanese subjects in the capital, were placed in as grave OO0 A% Shen Sk SeUTetaty SN trosat S sareaent oalimiiie Bub It was after being successively a municipal Judge in Sacramento danger as were the small band of Americans and Europeans under Minister Conger during the long siege of which he has been most active in building up to its prese for two termse the Collector of the Port at Sacramento for four years the recent Boxer uprising in China, and it was in this dire extremity that Gencral Foote asserted portance and prominence throughout the world