The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-30

San Francisco, Nov. 2s.-(Special CORE
sDondencc of the United Associated
Presses. )-Tokio. Nov. l5.-The grand
old man. of China, whose return to
Pekin was expected to be the signal for
his restitution TO power and honor. is
now in the hands of the board of punish
ments, awaiting the infiiction of
penalty. 1t appears that some one sug-
gested to him the pleasure of little
trio into the palace park. which lies in
the immediate vicinity of his lodging in
Pek,n. He innocently adopted the sug-
gesticn and was carried through an I'M
TreCuented part OF the park in his court
chal., the keepers AID eunuchs bowling
otseGueously TO him as he passed The
lex day he received an official 1ntma-
ton that he had been guilty or a
breach or etiquette, and was 10 De
handed over Tor punishment. The incl
Gent is said 10 nave led to a sharp DIS
pute between the emperor and the en-
press dOwager, who has always been
LIS warm friend. 1t has also evoked
some thoughtlesS remarks from local
foreign journals, which regard Ii
treatment as an insult to the crowned
heads and potentates by whom he was
recei.ed on his recent tour. and go even
so far as 10 suggest that protest should
be lodged by the foreign representatives
in Pekin, as if foreign interference in
such a matter could be justified on any
pretext.
some embarrassment exists with regard
to the revised treaty between Japan ana
Germany The treaty provides that,
from the date of the exchange of ratIn-
cations, German subjects in Japan snail
enjoy the privileges conferred by the
Japanese law of patents, trade marks
and designs. But no provision has been
made with reference 10 the administra-
ton of the law. Punitive clauses are, of
course embodied IN the law. and should
he nj
fractions. but the German consular
courts have no competence to enforce the
observance of such a rule. and the
japanese courts will not acquire JurlSdlc-
ton over Germans until 1899 when the
revised treaties are to go into operation.
In practice the omission is Of no great
consequence, since German subjects are
most unlikely TO violate Japanese patents
or trade marks. But the affair viii in
Volve the resignation or recall OF VS.
count Aoki, the Japanese minister IN
Berlin. who negotiated the treaty
The Japan diet is convoked for its tenth
session on Dec. y.
The Ur.ted States cruiser Boston ran
aground on a sand spit some u miles
outside Chemulpo harbor on Nov. ., put
foated off without damage on the high
tide next morning.
Some American newspapers appear to
be provided, just now, with corre-
spondentS in Japan who forward informa-
tor made out of the whole cloth. Re-
Gently the American public was informed
that the town of Kobe had been wiDed
cut by a confiagration, but Kobe stands
to this day unframed by any such
catastrophe. A later tale represented
japan in the clutches OF such a terrible
famine that the japanese government
had issued permission to the destitute
peasants TO sell their daughters The
fa br.cetor of this v-llainous lie went on
10 deAail the provisions of a law said to
have been enacted on the subject ana
gave the prices for which girls were
arfO OF
false. The only way of accounting for
this extraordinary series OF falsehoods Is
that their concoctor confounded Japan
with a province of China. where the sale
OF girls is said to have been resOrted to
recently by parents reduced to the verge
of starvation. Even that hypothesis,
however, does not cover the correspond
ent's deliberate inventions about She De
tails OF the so-called law.
AS the text of Japan's new commercial
treaty with China contains nothing re-
lating TO the formers abandonment OF
the manufacturing privilege secured by
the Shimonoseki treaty, it was at nrst
supposed that the Shimonoseki treaty
would hold after all. and that articles
manufactured in China by Japanese or
other foreigners would rank with I'M
ported goods and would consequently be
free from any special taxation. But
protocol has now been published, in
which the Japanese government distinctly
comedies China's right to tax articles
manufactured by Japanese SUBJECTS IN
China, provided only that such tax shall
rot differ from, or exceed, the impost
paid by Chinese manufacturers
The Japan Mail says: Hong Chong-
Wo, who murdered King Okkyun in
Shanghai, thus practically opening the
recent war. has been promoted from the
position of secretary of the royal house
hold department in Korea to that OF
master of ceremonies. That is one of
the sublimest burlesques on record
foul assassin discharging the functions
OF master of ceremonies at kings
court. No wonder that the monarch OF
Korea has to hide for his life in foreign
LEGATIONS To round off the savage
comedy, vi Se-Chik. VINO attempted to
kn PAX Wong Ho in Toxic three years
ago. succeeded his more successful master
in the post of secretary of the royal
household The king of Korea ought TO
irnrnrt q hanoman to he grnnm of the