The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-09-25
JAPAN'S PECULIAR GAME
SENDING FROOPs DISCUSSED AS
LARORERs INTO HAWAII.
Raln0r That over q thousand Well
Drilled Men Have Landed at
Honolulu.

San Francisco, Sept. 23.-If the stories
told by the passengers and crew of the
steamer City OF Picking, which arrived
Tuesday evening, be true, a state of AT
fairs exists in Hawaii which demands
the attention of the state department.
When the City of Picking arrived at
Honolulu the attention OF the passenger
ON board that steamer was attracted by
the remarkably symmetrical movements
OF la Japanese steerage passengers, who
We're disembarking, Although classel
as laborers, their welLdrilled and mill,
tary appearance was too palpable to es-
cape observation and oecasioned eonsid-
erble comment. The Japanese were
evidently under the command of veter-
an sergeant and divided into squads OF
20 under nOn-eOmmissioned officers. Dur
ing the voyage a military discipline was
observed which created comment among
the other steerage passengers and the
steamers crew and many eonjectures
were hazarded as to the meaning OF their
being shipped TO the island. 1t was
generally believed that they were sent !"
the island for the purpose Of foreibly Ie-
slsting annexation il necessary. Rumors
OF the presence of the mikado's soldiers
are not new ON the islands and it is sal |
that over 1000 well drilled men have al,
ready been landed there and that about
400 veterans of the Japan China war
were expected ON the next steamer
May seI.e n Steamship.
There is report in Japan to the effect
that the Pacific Mail steamship City Of
China may be seized to secure the mika
dos claims against the Hawaiian gov.
eminent. The vessel is nom under the
Hawaiian flag, and in case OF annexation
would sail under the American flag and
be entitled to subsidies for carry mail.
The Japan Mail, commenting on the
prospect OF Japan seizing the ship. says
that the claims against Hawaii will soon
be settled by arbitration. and that the
islands will probably be- able to pay any
award granted to Japan.
In regard to the American naval vessels
at Yokohama, the Mail of September }
said:
"The United States steamship Olympia
IS expected to leave for Chemulpo about
the 18th. The Yorktown will leave for
home in the course Of next month, and
the Maehias will follow during the latter
part CT November. 4 large proportion
Of the Olympia's officers are to be trans
ferred to the Yorktown and Machias.
The possibility OF an alliance between
China and Japan is being talked Of by
military men. Captain Kurooka Of the
Japanese warship Naniwa stated in re-
cent interview that the Japanese orders
procured by American shipbuilders are
merely sentimental. He further said, in
the opinion OF the experts, that the bulls
alone of the two cruisers being built at
the Union iron works in San Francisco
and Cramps shiPyards on the Delaware
VIII cost as much az the hulls and arm.
ament combined would have cost in Eng
land
\ Japanese vineyardist and wine grow
er, Nagasawa Kanae, has obtained a con
eession from the Mexican government to
establish japanese colony in northern
Mexico He il now in Toxic, organizing
the first section Of the colony, and the
japanese papers say that hi. scheme /.
to take not less than 100000 japanese to
Mexico, chiefly to cultivate sugar cane.