Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-10
Many IntrigueS Going On
in Chinese Empire.
THE EMPRESS D0WAGER
Still Holds the ReinS of Office But
There is Liable to be an Outbreak
al Almost Any Time-Of officials are
Great Thieves.

Vancouver. B. c., Aug. 9.-The follow
ing Chinese and japanese mail advices
have been received by the steamer En-
press of Japan. The British, Belgian and
Mexican governments have applied to the
Japanese government for the conclusion
of an agreement relating to eXtrad.tion
and negotiations will be shortly COM
menced. Under the new treaties Japan
will seek to control foreign religions.
Hitherto Christianity has been left unmo-
Tested.
france IS pressing her demands on
China in the Yang Use valley. The
French authorities in Indo-China have
conceived the idea of converting the Chi
naman into a soldier, and. following the
example of the British at We Hal Wei,
they are forming a regiment of celestial
tirailleurs, who, it is believed, will be
more efficient soldiers than the Anana-
mites now m the French service.
On the surface Pekin is quiet, but be-
meath there is a ferment. The empress
dowager still holds the reins Of office, but
the palace is a very hotbed of jealous in
trigues. Prince against minister, eunuch
oSdlIS .DOLhy ollu llS NJ uONdSCI
and her favorites against the world. The
empress dowager has issued an edict at
Pekin in which several sweeping reforms
are ordered to take place IN all the state
departments of the empire. The edict
opens with a TRADE upon the whole
Of the officials in all the provinces con-
corning their duty in order to prevent
what is stated to be a perpetual ''squeez-
ing among those who are in charge. The
edict proceeds to say that the directors of
the Pekin stations and salt department
had been guilty Of squeezing, and that in
order to remedy these wrongs it would
be necessary in the future that the vice.
roys, Tartar generals and governors
should take notice of the condition Of
things, which is deplorable.
The Pekin and Tien Tsin railway, the
edict goes on to state, has made a hand
profit, but there will be no further
construction of railroad lines until the Lu
Han system has been completed. When
that is done and it has been found to be
profitable other lines will be laid down.
The japanese press makes charges of
vice and immortality against the Buddhist
priests.
The steamer Nurobiki Maru, LAO tons
gross, formerly belonging to the Kitsui
kwaisha, sunk in the vicinity of the Sad
archipelago III the mouth Oh the rang.
Use kiang, 20 miles from Shanghai. OF
the crew, II only were rescued by the
BIRTHS steamer Kyuuchiang. 1t is sup
posed that there must have been 1870 or 1870
passengers on board, almost all of whom
were drowned. The steamer was built in
England in November, 1874.
The text of a treaty between Russia and
Siam is published IN Hong Kong. The
treaty expires December l next The
chief clause reads THAT in everything
and navigation Russian subjects in Sia-
Russian territory will enjoy henceforth
until the expiration of the present ar
rangement, all the rights and privileges
accorded to the subjects of other nations
in Russia or in Siam by treaties that may
be made in the future.
For a considerable time the Manila
newspapers have been making outspoken
references to the shipments of arms and
ammunition to the F%ilipinos from Hong
Kong. A proclamation of the governor
prohibits such traffic in arms, but it still
goes on. Hong Kong is also sending arms
into China at an alarming rate. Revolt
vers are common articles among the CHI
nese ruffians who infest the Canton river
delta and kowloon hinterland, and who
plumber British vessels and murder Brit
ism subjects.
News has been received of the murder
at Vladivostock Of c. Wahling of the
Vacuum Oil company. He was murdered
at night by a Chinese servc mt who, with
a hatchet, smashed in the head of his
master.