Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-07
Then the director in turn appointed his wife to the position.

Japan is evidently thinking of having foreign policy. Not only has che an- nounced to Portugal that she will no lon ger permit the citizens of that nationality resident in the Mikado's dominion to re- main exempt from the jurisdiction of the Japanese courts, privilege which they have hitherto enjoyed in common with all other foreigners established there, but she has also dispatched naval force to the Sandwich Islands with a peremptory de- mand to the provisional and exceedingly shaky government at Honolulu that the large colony of Japanese laborers in Hawaii should be treated in exactly the same manner as the subjects of European nations are and bs permitted to enjoy the same prerogstives and privileges.
 It Is said that a Chinese funeral never proceeds straight from the house of mourn ing to the graveyard. The devil is always on the lookout for funerals and follows them to seize the soul of the dead man, so, in order to outwit the evil one, the bearers take up the body and start with 1t in brisk trot, while packs of 6recrackers and pyrotechnics emitting dense smoke and vile smell are set of just as the procession starts. Having thus deceived Old Nick as to the direction taken by the bearers they run as fast as they can with the body, then suddenly turn 8 corner and stop while more fireworks are burned. The devil cannot turn 8 corner easily, and so, if real ly in pursuit, he shoots on by, and by means of good deal of sudden turning and stopping and lavish expenditure of fireworks, the funeral procession generally gets to the grave in safety, while the old boy, confused by their movements and half suffocated by the fireworks, Is still wandering about the city. The Chinsman who dies in the country Is not in such good luck, for there is less chance ts out wit the enemy, but by many detours 1t can very often bs done.
 Occasionally the town of Alameda, Cali fornta, is stirred up by rumors that one of its citizens is on the eve of finding the treasure which tradition says lies buried near the Encinal, a landing place on the shore front. The legend runs that two robbers in the time of the Spanish occups- tion, having made big haul of gold, dis embarked to hide it. They went several hundred yards from the shore and pro ceeded to bury the coin at the foot of an T. Sr &haS tell the spot upon their return. While one of the robbers was in the act of stopping down he was stabbed by his companion. The dying man uttered curse on his as- terrified that he hurriedly buried the gold and ran from the place, never to return. Years later on his dying bed he told the story, and since that time searchers have been at work, year in and year out, to find the treasure Tradition also says that vasquez. the bandit, returning from his raids in the San Joaquin valley, some- times buried his booty in the region where Alameda now Is. Vague as these stories are, eredulous persons still dig for the gold as their fancy CT investigation directs them. A giant oak tree, acarred with the onsets of many storms, is sup posed to be within the charmed circle of the buccaneers spoils. At aay rate IL Is very much of a landmark, and imagination has done the rest. An snterprising Ger man who recently purchased the property on which the tree stands, is now engaged in digging very deep trench around is in the belief that he must come upon the elusive treasure, and all Alameda Is watch