Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-10-12
FROM THE ORIENT.
Favorable Impression Made BY the
Twentieth Kansas At Yokohama.
TROUBLE ON TRANSPORT NEWPORT.
An Attempt to Be Made to Raise the
Wrecked Morgan City Destructive
Fire At Hockadate- Ghastly News
from New Chang.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press'l
Yokohama, Sept. 25, via San Fran
cisco, Oct. lO-The Twentieth Kansas
regiment has come and gone, adding
materially to the very favorable i'm
preston made by all the American
troops who have passed through here
on their homeward way. The one
man who has been the center OF attrac-
ton has, of course, been Gen. Funston.
His modest bearing and strong person.
atty have made him as great favorite
among the citizens as he manifestly is
among the men of his own regiment.
The Newport on its homeward voy-
age had on board large contingent of
discharged soldiers. These men, find
ing that they outnumbered the rest OF
the passengers and filled with an over
whelming sense Of the required citizen
ship, carried things with a high hand.
Dissatisfied with their accommodations
they practically took possession Of the
ship and driving the officers from their
quarters, installed themselves therein.
On arriving at Nagasaki Consul Harris,
being apprised of the affair, went on
board with four Japanese policemen
and presently arrested the ringleader.
Work has been begun on the trans
port Morgan City which was wrecked
in the inland sea. The whole of the
mail sunk, 1000 bags in all, have been
forwarded to Manila. An examina.
ton of the vessel shows large hole
on the bow about l5 feet in length,
high up near the water line. As she
lies in sheltered spot the prospect of
raising her is deemed very favorable.
The Japanese government intends to
introduce in the next session of the
diet law freeing foreigners from all
restrictions to the mining business in
Japan. The existing law prohibits
them from becoming shareholders or
partners in any mining company. BY
the new law such provision will be
entirely done away with. A fire at
Hokadate on the 18th resulted in
the destruction of nearly 5000 houses.
As it is town of $4,000 inha bitants,
this means the wiping out of about
one-fourth of them. Within little
more than month three great fires in
Yokohama, Toyama and Hokadate
have destroyed upwards Of 1l,OOO
houses, fact which has led TO a seri-
Gus discussion in the native press as to
whether the time had not come for the
adoption of an entirely different style
of urban architecture in order to pre-.
vent so frequent recurrence of these
disastrous conhagrations.
Shanghai is excited over the CHASTITY
news from New Chang, where gov
eminent doctor sent to make an inves-
tigation discovered four depols con-
tanning 1000 fresh collins of plague
victims waiting to be sent to their ma
tive provinces. The doyen Of the dip
lomatic corps at Pekin has wired to
Tsung Lamen to put stop to the ex-
port of cohins from New Chang.
A rumor is rife shat the emperor of
China has succeeded in sending an
appeal to the emperor Of Japan to res
cue the writer from his imminent dan
ger of deposition and death at the
hands of assassins. 1t is also said that
powerful influences have been brought
upon the empress dowager inducing
her to hesitate in her design to place a
new incumbent upon the throne.