Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 7848/4.

The Acting Secretary of State to the German Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, December 6, 1907.

No. 663.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 5232, of the 23d ultimo, in which you urge, with reference to the shooting of Mr. Frank Xavier Dick, a German subject, by a policeman of Salem, Oreg., in November, 1906, that the State of Oregon or the city of Salem should, in equity, grant an indemnity to Mr. Dick.

In response I have the honor to say that your excellency’s representations in this regard have been suitably referred, as requested, to the governor of Oregon.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.