Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-10
FUNSTON EN- ROUTE HOME
Colonel Of Goth Kansas Regiment Lionised
at Yokohama.
Discharged Sol..fers Cause Trouble
ON Transport Ncwport-Othcr
News From the Orient.

| YOKOHAMA, September %. via San
| Francisco, October 10.-The Goth Kansas
| Regiment has come and gone. adding ma
! terially to the very favorable impression
made by all the American troops who have
| passed through here on their homeward
| way
! The one man who has been the center of
attraction has, Of course been Gen Fun
| ston. His modest bearing and strong per-
sonalfty have made him as great a favorite
! among the citizens he manifestly is
among the men of his own regiment
The Newport on its homeward voyage
! had on board a large contingent of dis
charged soldiers. These men. finding that
they outnumbered the rest of the passen-
gers, and filled with an overw helming sense
OF their Importance, carried things with
nigh hand. Dissatisfied with their accom-
modahons. they practically took possession
| OF the ship, and, driving the officers from
| their quarters, installed themselves therein.
on arriving at Nagasaki. Consul Harris be-
ing apprised of the affair, went on board
with four Japanese policemen and arrested
the rfngleader of the mutineers.
Work the Morgan City.
Work has been begun on the transport
Morgan City, which was wrecked in the
inland sea- The whole of the mail sunk.
1000 bags in all, has been forwarded to
Manila.
An examination of the vessel shows a
large hole in the bow about fifteen feet in
length, high up near the water line. As
she Hes IN sheltered spot, the prospect of
| raising her is deemed very favorable
The japanese government intends to in
tfoduce in the next session of the diet a
law freeing foreigners from all restrictions
| to the mining business in Japan. The ex-
lstlng law prohibits them from becoming
shareholders or partners in any mining
company BY the new law such provision
Will De entirely done with
A fire at Hakodate, September 10 re-
suited in the destruction of nearly 5000
| houses. As it is town of 10000 inhab-
itants. this means the wiping out of about
one-fourth of them. Within a little more
| than month three great fires in Yoko-
mama. Toyama and Hakodate have de-
stroyed upward of 1000 houses. fact
| which has led to serious discussion in the
press as to whether the time had not come
Tor the adoption of an entirely different
style OF urban architecture in order to pre-
vent so frequent a recurrence of these dis
astrous confiagrations.
Victims of the Plague.
Shanghai is excited over the CHASTITY news
from New Chwang where a government
doctor sent to make an investigation dis
covered four Geplts containing 1900 fresh
coffins of plague victims waiting to be sent
to their native provinces. The doyen OF
the diplomatic corps at Pekn has wired the
Tsung Ii famen to put a stop to the ex-
port of collins from New Chwang
A rumor is rife that the Emperor Of
China has succeeded in sending an appeaI
TO the Emperor of Japan to rescue him
from imminent danger of deposition and
death at the hands of assassins.
1t is also said that powerful Influences
have been brought to bear upon the en-
press doWager inducing her to hesitate in
her design to place new incumbent upon
the throne.