Show CHINA FILES CLAIM AGAINST UNCLE SAM 1 million for a mistreat Mit treat ant of chinese at blutte the chinese government through minister wu ting rang has filed a claim for indemnity to the amount oi a half million dollare on account of al lebed outrage ua treatment of chinese at butte mont there Is a suggest on of boxer out rages reversed in the presentation oi the case to the state department the treatment inn acted upon the chinese at butte being claimed to have been cruel and oppressive it is charged that some of them were killed that others lost their property that nearly all were ruined in business and that many of them were driven out the claim ants number several hundred the outrages date back to 1886 and it is declared that the city council ol 01 butte upheld the rioters and the boy cotters that the state courts upon ap peal decided in language so as to be itself a subject of complaint that the city council was right and finally that relief could be obtained only measurably through an appeal to the united states circuit court the claim raises some novel and bome extremely interesting points of international law |