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Jan 3O-The first OF the examinations for the
consular service under the new rules has been
fixed for March Il
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State of California. City and County OF
San Francisco-ss.
I do solemnly swear that I have a
personal knowledge OF the matters cons
tanned in the foregoing statement, and
that every allegation. statement, mat
ter and thing therein contained Is. trua.
to the best OF my knowledge and baS
lief. JAMES r. KELLY.
President
Subscribed and sworn TO before -.
this 7th day OF January, 1907.
GEO. T. KNOX.
Notary Public. in and for the city ana
County OF San Francisco. stata e
California
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and II evidence can be found substan-
tiating this belief they will be de-
ported.
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Causes More Irritation


The recent detention Of a ships
company OF Japanese immigrants at
San Francisco and the resulting pro-
test OF the Japanese Consul to the
japanese ambassador here was an
other matter under discussion.
immigration officials believe the
japanese were imported in violation
of the contract labor law. Further
investigation of these japanese is on
foot for the purpose Of ascertaining
their real destination and business in
the United States. This action is un-
derstood to have caused further Of
fense.
Tonight 1t was rumored that the
Japanese ambassador had called the
matter to the attention Of this Gov
ernment with a suggestion that moth
ing IN the existing treaty contem-
plates the detention of Japanese i'm
migrants TO the United States.
When pressed for further informa-
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HINT AT BOYCOTT
JAPANESE NAY EMPLOY METHOD
Used BY Chinese.
Meaning of Address By Cham
hers of Commerce to Ameri.
cans. AS Interpreted at Wash.
;roton-Beneficial Results of
Chinese Way Noted.

Washington, July l.-Reading be-
.uaan the lines of the statement Issued
Nv the Japanese chambers of com.
u;srce assembled at Tokyo. directed to
President Roosevelt and also to the
american chambers of commerce, the
oaicials in Washington see implied the
threat of boycott against American
GOODS entering Japan. The boycott
directed by Chinese merchants against
American products two years ago in
r0aentment of the treatment accorded
chinese of the better class entering
America in the course of their travels
around the world was productive of
better conditions, for the administra-
tion exerted all of its power to amlior-
ate the rigors of the exclusion laws
and to facilitate the entry Of Chinese
merchants and students.
Therefore it is assumed the Japan
ese merchants have decided to have
recourse to the same method of show
ing their resentment against the treat
ment accorded to their people in San
Francisco. Unlike the Chinese mer-
chants, however, they have first served
notice of their intention upon the
American commercial interests 80 as
to afford them an opportunity to avert
the boycott by bringing to bear upon
the merchants of the Pacific coast,
now supposedly in need Of Eastern as
sistance.
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KlSkA ISLAND PLANS
TO Be ABANDONED

Washington, July 2.-Fory several
months the navy department has heen
planning to establish a great coalina
seation and naval base at Kiaka ialand j
IN the Aleutian chain. It il learned
now that tho project he's been aban.
doned and the decision IL laid to the
difticulty Of defending such station
In the event Of war.
In the summer Of 1904 a naval expe.
d1tion was sent to the Aleutian islands.
soundings were made of the good nat.
urai harbor at Kiska, a storehouse for
tools was established and careful ca.
innate OF the cost of coaling station
was made.
The officers Of the general board
were impressed with the proposition
to establish coaling station having
a capacity Of at least $50, 900 tons Of
coal, with complete modern facilities
for coaling ships of war.
1t now appears that the opinion of
the members of the general board has
changed, and no secret Is made Of the
fact that the project has been aban-
donsd. 1t is believed that the prob
lem of rendering the station defensi-
bic in time Of war was one of the con-
siderations which led to the change of
front.
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GOVERNOR JOHNSON IS
WATTERSONS DARK HORSE

Chicago, July 1.-Gov. John A.
johnson, of Minnesota, is the OZARK
horse" Of Henry Watterson, of Ken
lucky, for the Democratic presidential
nomination, and political movements
are going forward which portend a
lineup Of the anti Bryan forces in the
national convention of 1908 behind
johnson. This information was given
out on high authority following dis
cussion by local politicians of the
action of the Pennsylvania state con-
vention Of Thursday last in declining
to take up a resolution indorsing Will
lam ]. Bryan for the presidential NOM
ination.
A Democrat whose source Of infor-
nation is the best to be had, said:
"When the time comes the states of
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois
will be in line for the man from Min
nesota. There is not much doing on
the surface just now. but the work of
organization is progressing. AZ for a
running mate, if we succeeded, you
can say that Lieutenant Governor
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of New
York, might be the man."
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CHINA ON EVE OF
GREAT UPHEAVAL

Victoria, July 1.-"China is on the
eve of great upheaval that will be
much worse than the TAPPING rebel.
lion," said Capt. w. Smith, master Of
q Butterfeld and Swire river steamer
Of the Yangtse Kiang, in Central
China, who came on the steamer Shi-
napo Maru.
He said the southern revolution was
we'll organized and we'll planned, but
had been launched before the leaders
wished. Probably about the end of
the year the big uprising will begin.
The leaders are educated men and
have been preparing for nearly twenty
years. Great quantities Of arms hav
been smuggled in despite all efforts
Of the government to put down this
traffic.
The revolution il not aimed against
foreigners, said the captain, who while
travelling between Ohangsha and Han
kow on the big Chinese river, has had
great opportunity TO aoquaint him
self with he situation. The leaders
know full we'll that any move against
foreigners will bring the powers into
the field. The rice harvest expected
this month will have much to do with
the rebellion. Rice II dear-about
twice its usual price and great
ahortage IL expected. II the harvest
fails rebellion IL certain.
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AUTOMATIC RIFLE.

EuRoDeAA Armies Experiment WITH
sel1-Loading RaDid-Fire weapons.
The self-loading or automatic musket
Is now being seriously considered az
the infantry arm Of the future. SAYS
the New York Sun. The equipment of
the great armies Of the world with an
improved rife IL hardly completed
when the mechanics begin work on a
new weapon. At the recent examina-
ton Of the German war academy the
automatic rifle was one of the themes
for discussion. The piece now on trial
has a magazine holding ten cartridges !;
the recoil Is utilized to load and cock.
Consequently the soldier can remain
quietly in position, never removing his
eye from the target and fire his ten
shots.
The advantages are that the soldier
with the automatic gun can aim more
quietly and securely, as there Is no re-
coil to the arm. He need not move
his arm or body and his position Is
better screened from the view Of the
enemy. At long ranges now used in
battle the movements Of the musket or
of the soldiers body often convey to
the enemy the only clew to range and
direction.
Finally, the automatic gun insures a
rapid fire similar to that Of machine
guns, with an aim more accurate than
that Of the present gun.
The only disadvantage Is the danger
that the ammunition may be fired away
too soon, but this can be prevented by
proper training In so-called fire disci-
pline or fire control.
Even with the present arm the SOL
der can fire away all his ammunition
in a few minutes. The first battle,
however, usually teaches him the great
disadvantage Of being without ammuni-
ton in an action.
An army with superior weapon Tor
one regarded as superior) has great
advantage In confidence and will feel
itself stronger. For all these reasons
the Introduction of self-loading mus
ket Is only question of time.
France Is reported to have perfected
an automatic gun and Germany has
been at work on one for years. In
Italy an automatic musket holding
twenty-five charges in the magazine has
been proposed. A regiment in defend
ing a position with the present gun Of
six cartridges in the magazine can fire
in two minutes about $4,000 shots,
whereas one armed with the self-load-
ing piece of twenty-five cartridges tn
the magazine could fire In the same
time 1925, 900 shots.
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MORMON Church Sells
ITS mining PROPERTY

Salt Lake City, July 2.-Conflrma-
tory of the report given out some time
ago that the Mormon church had de-
cided to retire from business, is the
announcement made by the Denver
News that the church has sold the
Grass Creek coal mines near Colville
for $3OO,O The purchasers are said
to be Denver and Eastern capitalists.
The purchase includes six miles OF
railroad, by which the mines are con-
nected with the Park City branch OF
the Union Pacific.
The Grass Greek mines have fur
nished coal for the neighboring towns
and for the Mormon institutions In
Salt Lake for many years, but little
has been offered in the open market.
The purchasers expect to spend a mil
lion dollars in developing the property
and in extending the sale OF the pro-
duct.
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the case with bushes and pieces Of wood.
which the boys are always active in
throwing in, for the curiosity Of Wis
1tors, who stand below, and see each
object invariably carried aloft with tho
cataract, in it's rebounding atmospheric
gambols. When the sun Is in the right
position, the rainbows play about tho
fall like the glancing Of supernatural
wings, as II angels were taking show
er bath. II you have ''the head and
the legs of a chamois," you may climb
entirely above this manifcent scene.
and look out over the cliff right Town
into the point where the cataract shoots
like the lightning. to be again shot back
In ten thousand branching Jets Of dia-
mOndS.
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ARRASMITH PREDICTS
BUMPER WHEAT CROPS

Tacoma, July S.-The Washington
wheat crop this year will be from 80,
600. 600 to So, 600, 900 bushels, accord
ing to the estimate made by John w.
Arrasmith, state grain inspector, who
has arrived home from lengthy visit
through the wheat section east OF the
mountains.
GOT course, . he said exceptional
conditions may come between this and
harvest to cut down these figures, but
do not apprehsnd any. Taking the
state over the present conditions east.
" warrant the prediction Of an aver
ace CROP. With dry weather pinchine
"A last year We had 2S, 000. 900 bushels.
Our crop this summer will easily run
<. OOO. 600 bushels more.
washington has between ,6Oo, 0oo
and i. 800. 600 acres Of land In wheat
OF this so per cent is fall sown grain,
the rest being spring wheaat Il the
present cloudy weather conditions pre-
vail until harvest, giving wheat Longer
to riuen, the yield Of grain VIII oe
lareer than the figures ! have given.
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Dows That Can Leap.

DOGS VAot I'm AOoVs
Perhaps the most vigorous and agile
dogs In the world are Russian wolf
hounds Built something like q grey
hound, but with more muscular limbs
and shaggy coats, they are capable Of
feats Of agility truly astonishing.
In a certain show there are six at
these hounds, which have been train
ed to leap over and through barrels OF
great height Two have acquired such
proficiency that one leaps through a
square hole scarcely large enough to
permit the passage Of his body. This
hole Is cut through the barrier, about
twelve feet from the bottom.
A black and white hound, however,
surpasses this performance by leapine
entirely over a fifteen-foot barrier,
clearing it in some instances by at least
yard. The performance is directed
by a woman, whose word Co." the
hounds obey with the alacrity Of foot
racers at the start of a 1OO-yard dash.
A thick mat Is spread on the ground
just beyond the barrier, and the dogs
are allowed to see and smell 1t before
the first order to leap. Without this
assurance Of safety they could not be
induced to leap-so, at least, the train
ers say. The start Is run of about
fifty feet, and the leap Is made from a
short incline covered with soft ma
terial to afford footing for the dogs.
There appears to be no spring In this
device, which Is from eighteen inches
to two feet in height at the highest
part
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Marvellous, = =
Quaint and Curious.


There h q waterfall In Chamouni
which NO traveller should omit eotna
to zee, called the Cascade des Pelef-
inea 1t IL one Of the most curious and
beautiful scenes In Switzerland. A tor
rent issues from the Glacier des Peler-
inea. high up the mountain, above the
Galcier du Blossoms, and descends, By
9 succession Of leaps In q deep gorge,
from precipice to precipice, almost in
one continual cataract; but It ID all the
while merely gathering force. and pre-
pairing for its last magnificent deep
plunge and recoil Of beauty. Spring
Ing In one round condensed column out
or the gorge, over perpendicular Cliff,
1t strikes. at its fall. with its whole
body Of water, into a sort Of vertical
rock basin, which one would suppose
It's prodigious velocity and weight
would split into thousand pieces; but
the whole cataract, thus arrested, at
once suddenly rebounds In a parabolic
arch, at least sixty feet into the air;
and then, having made this splendid
airy curvature, falls with great noise
and beauty into the natural channel
below. It Is beyond measure beautiful.
It Is like the fall Of divine grace into
chosen hearts, that send it forth again
for the worlds refreshment, in some
thing like such a shower and spray Of
loneliness, to 60 winding its life-giving
green pastures. The force Of the recoil
from the plunge Of 80 large q body Of
water, at such a height, IL 20 great,
that large stones, thrown into tho
stream above the fall, may be heard
amidst the din striking into the basin.
and then are instantly careering In the
arch Of flashing waters. The same u
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HAS AN ALLIGATOR FARM.

Arkansas Man Breeding Reptile
Which II Now Becoming Scarce.
It is not so very many years ago that
our southern swamps and rivers were
fairly infested with alligators, and
though they were hunted it was almost
entirely for sport. In the state OF
Florida alone 100000 alligators were
killed in ten years, and although the
reptile is unusually prolific In propa-
eating It's species it can not long resist
so heavy a tax on its numbers; so that
unless something Is done for Its pro-
lection there will be no alligators IN
America except the farm-bred reptile,
and not enough Of him.
The alligator is longlived and his
growth Is Of the slowest. An alligator
two feet long is at least Is years old,
while a twelve-foot specimen may be
anywhere from Is to $50 years old,
and, as it Is only the larger specimens
that have any commercial value, their
need Of protection against wholesale
slaughter will be readily seen.
Realizing the above conditions, b. L.
Campbell, who Is widely known as Al
ligator Joe," conceived the idea Of es-
tablishing an alligator farm for the
purpose Of breeding the reptile. His
life has been spent among alligators
and crocodiles in our own southern
swamps, and he Is thoroughly familiar
with the habits and characteristics Of
the reptile, It's nesting places and the
best manner of trapping it that the
skin may not be injured.
The farm Is not far from HOT
Springs, Ark, the famous health resort.
A small mountain stream runs through
it, forming numerous little ponds ana
lakes, which are just what u needed
for the various breeding and STOCK
grounds OF the farm. Here the allisa-
tors are distributed according to size,
ranging from the huge, old monsters
Of twelve feet In length to the babies
no larger than lizards just hatched
from the shells. The separating Of the
reptiles according to size IL made neces-
sary By the fact that the alligator y Z
cannibalistic amphibian with q weak
ness for devouring his own young. But
when they are pretty nearly equal In
sixe and strength they live together In
.n,,,,. - two Y,oaca
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Don't be greedy!'' said Lefty; "if
you are, l shan't give you anything at
ALL"
"But, please, we cannot help It,
hfssed all four geese at once.
That's just nonsensel" said Lefty,
severely: Nov, listen. l will call
you each In turn by a number. One,
two, three and four. When I say your
number you must put out your head
and I'll give you a spoonful. Do you
understand"
Apparently the geese understood
quite plainly. For while all went
well. Each goose came when Lefty
called It's number and she stuck the
spoon through the netting and give it
its share.
But when the basin was nearly
empty each greedy goose wanted to
have the last spoonful. They began to
push each other rudely and to hiss
loudly.
Lefty grew angry. BE quiet, you
bad birds! Not one Of you shall have
any more" she cried. And when the
noisiest goose Of all put his head out
and Kissed rudely at her she raped
him hard on his beak. Now this made
the goose lose his temper and he flew
right up in the air and tried to scram-
BILE over the netting.
Lefty was frightened. You see, she
was quite little girl and geese are
big, strong birds. She called for help,
but there was no one near, and the big,
angry goose kept trying to scramble
over the fence.
Then Lefty had bright idea.
"Why, it's the food he wants, not me,
of course! What silly girl 1 am to be
frightened Of greedy old goose!"
So she just threw the basin, which
was a wooden one and could not break,
over the fence. All four geese rushed
toward it and began to squabble and
fight over it.
And Lefty stood and watched them
and quite forgot her fright. They look
ed 50 funny and foolish.
But when she went home and told
daddy and mother all about it they
kissed her and said she had been a
brave and sensible girl. So she was
glad that she had not screamed and run
away from foolish goose, but had
tried to be brave and use her wits
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More Valuable than Gold.
Many persons think Of gold as the
most valuable Of metals, but there are
sixteen or seventeen more valuable
than it Is. Among them are the follow
ing: Iridium, which IL worth about
$500 pound, troy; osmium, $500 4
pound; barim, $1,4OO a pound; yttri-
um. $3.50 q, pound, and vanadium, the
most valuable, $&625 pound.
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me amelioration Of the situation. "a.
lylng at the same time upon your per.
sonality and wisdom for q speedy and
satisfactory solution Of existing diaa.
culties, and We respectfully appeal to
you for your friendly spirit."
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Washington, July 8.-Clark HcKer-
cher, Of the state Of Washington, has
been appointed an assistant attorney
in the ONCE Of the attorney general at
. salary Of o, 500 . year.
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.What," asked the sweet giri grad
nate. .was the happiest moment Of
your lifsr
..The hsppiest moment Of my life"
answered the old bachelor, was when
the 1eweler took back the engagement
rinr ana Saye me collar studs n ex-
change London Tribune.
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BETTER DONE IN ENGLAND.

Briton Tells Of Superiority Of Grin.
fnal Procedure I'm HIS Country.
IL have no criticism to make Of your
mode Of conducting criminal trials. but
we manage them very differently in En-
gland" said Robert Harding, London
barrister, to Washington Herald
man.
This Thaw trial, that consumed
weeks in it's hearing, would have been
concluded in less than a week before
our tribunals. Honestly, / think our
procedure the best. In trying to up
hold the rights Of accused men your
American system goes to extremes and
serves no good end. Before an English
court much that was allowed in the
Thaw case would not have been toler-
ated.
1.-THE greatest difference, however, In
the two systems Of Jurisprudence IL
that In England, when q verdict Of
suilty In q criminal case II reached,
that settles the matter permanently.
There is no appealing the case to .
HIGHER tribunal. The only possible way
to secure relief, then, b by getting the
home secretary to intervene, which II
about a. easy a. the camel going
through the nesdle's eye. For all that.
there 10 no more danger Of an innocsnt
man being convicted in England than
in the United States, but It II Infinite
" more dif1cult for guilty person to
escape punishment in Great Britain
than In America. Neither wealth, nor
nosition, nor the influence Of powerful
friends will get malefactor out Of ths
tolls In our country, and the son Of the
greatest nObleman win b sent to jail
lust a. certainly as the son Of peas
ant should his guilt be proved"
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pilfus, and means little boy or little
girl. A dog Is called q pup. perhaps,
because it is pet.
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my boy, like you, and I want you
% marry my daughter. but have yuu
npoken to her mother about itf'
mo, SIR"
sThen. to cinch II for Jon, III ops
rone the match."-Demver Post
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Are Pupils .sPups ~

It has become the custom, among Ill
bred people, to apply the word pup"
or puppy" as q term of reproach. but
there ik nothing In its derivation to
warrant such q use. The editor might
apply the term to all school children
In not only an inonensive, but perfect
u legitimate way, for Il II merely 4
contraction Of the word pupil" which.
In its turn, comes from the Latin pu-
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No, Aonzo, barrelmaker Isn't 10
eagarily Z bungler.
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Dust I'm the Eyes.

You all know the saying. throw
dust In his eyes," which 10 a figure Of
speech for binding some one to your
acts or intentions to the end that you
may outwit him. The people who hunt
up the origin Of such sayings trace this
one back to a military expedient re-
sorted to by the Theban general,
Epaminondas. 400 years B. @. Desir-
ing to steal q march on the Lacedae-
monians, and seize the hills beyond
them. he ordered sixteen hundred Of
his cavalry to move on In front, and
ride about In such way as to raise
q cloud Of dust. The wind carried the
dust into the eyes Of the enemy, and
Epaminondas executed the movement
successfully. 1t Is said that Caesar
once defeated Pompey In q similar
manner
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wife-Karl, when 50 to the Riviera
I viii dream Of you every night
Husband-I would rather you 49,
"A here and dreamed Of Tho Riv1ora.
MeGgendorfer Blaettef.