Memorandum from the German Embassy.
Washington, April 10, 1908.
By a note of the Department of State, dated February 26, No. 704, this embassy was informed that the city council of Salem, Oreg., had decided to tender to Franz Xavier Dick the sum of $100 as a full discharge of all claims. According to a report of the German consul [Page 360] at Seattle, this sum has not yet been handed over to Mr. Dick. It appears further from this report that the sum of $100 would cover only partially the losses sustained by Mr. Dick in consequence of the wound he received.
No gratuitous treatment was given to the wounded man in the city hospital and he was obliged to pay the sum of $105 for the treatment alone. Added to this amount his living expenses during the time of his illness amount to about $200, and these have been in part advanced to him by the German consul.
Mr. Dick is still suffering from his wound and will probably remain partially disabled all his life. For this reason also he was refused admittance as a member of the bricklayers’ union, who would not consider him as fully able to exercise this trade.
It would seem only fair if the city of Salem would refund also to Mr. Dick the expenses incurred as explained above to the amount of $200 outside the sum allotted to him as an indemnity for the wound inflicted by an official of the city.