The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-28
Was Furnished the EilipinOs By a
japanese Firm.
MAUSEkS ARE NOT USED
RETURNED KANSAS OFFICER
SAYS OTIS IS ovERWoRKED.
Steamship Kinshu Maru, Just From
the Orient, Brings News of a Ter
rible Hurricane That Swept the
japanese Coast-Many Lives Lost
Great Damage Done.

Victoria, B. c., July 27-The steam
! ship kinshu Maru arrived today after
record breaking trip from China
When the Kinshu Maru left Yokoha-
ma the United States cruiser Boston
had arrived from Manila on her way
to San Francisco, also the transport
Hancock. She had 500 Nebraska men
and the Utah batteries aboard. The
transport Relief left on the same day
as the kinshu Maru July Is, for Amer
lea, with 300 sick aboard from Manila.
mostly Kansas men. OF these, Captain
Bradley of the Tenth Kansas has bull
let in the rear of his heart, and DR..
Eastlake says he cannot recover. His
signal man is with him with shattered
jaw, having been wounded three times
before dropping out.
Captain Bradley eulogizes General
Otis management of the campaign, but
says he is overworked. The captain
recommends the pouring in of troops
enough to suppress the rebels. He
speaks in terms of the warmest admir-
alton of the American troops, who, he
says, have displayed the utmost cool
ness and bravery.
He brings a sensational report with
reference to the army of the Filipinos,
saying that the range of the Filipino
illIcS cllli llt Ol the WOUNDS
shows that they are not Mausers. In
the same connection he gives currency
to the rumor that before the outbreak
Japanese firm in Toxic filled a large
order to the Filipinos for the deadly
Murata rife, which has a much longer
range than the American weapon. The
sale is alleged to have been consum-
mated secretly and without the knowl-
edge of the japanese government.
Hurricane In Japan.
The Kinshu Maru had a few white
passengers, among them being DR..
Eastlake of New York, who is intro
ducing the electric trolley system into
Japan. The officers of the ship report
that the plague has been almost stamp
ed out, so far as ships are concerned.
Elaborate arrangements were being
made for the celebration of the revised
treaties coming into force on the 18th.
This will not apply to France. Austria
and Italy, with whom the treaties do
not apply until Aug. 4. United States
Minister Buck has issued a proclama-
ton calling upon all United States cit
liens to Loyalty observe the new ar
rangement, and DR.. Eastlake says the
general impression is that foreigners
will be more leniently treated than the
natives.
A terrible hurricane swept the Japan
csc coast from the Sth to the 18th of
July. In Ushijimammura, Dye district,
Tokushima prefecture, fifty persons
were killed and thirty are missing. In
Saijo-Mura, Itano district, the same
prefecture, over forty houses were de-
molished and many people are miss
ing.
AT Aga Maru. KitamUro district, Mi
yo prefecture. landslide occurred on
the night of July 10. owing to the heavy
rain. Five houses were crushed under
the debris. and twenty-eight persons
were either killed or injured. Railway
traffic east of Yanagii on the Sanyo
railway, is still interrupted in conse-
quence of damage done to the track.
Strong indignation is expressed in
Hongkong over the reported withdraw
al of Great Britain from Shamchim. 1t
is said an indemnity of $4,000 was ac-
copied by Great Britain.