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Alaska, 284 at military and naval stations abroad, and 24,316 in the United States proper. Of the latter number 23,376 were found in the Western states and territories, California lead. [ ing with 10,151 ; Montana, 2,441. ; Oregon, 2,501, and Washington, 5,617.

The statement shows

A GENERAL Increase of japanese for the past ten years and a decrease of Chin ose for the fame time, although the change in the Chinese is not so widely distributed.

For 1890 the figures were as follows :--

State.

Japanese Chinese. 1,170 73,473

Arizona

California...231

Colorado....

Idaho

Montana

Nevada

New Mexico

Oregon

Washington

Wyoming

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10

1,398

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902.

**One thousand dollars a week each.'

"You should have seen the interpreter's and Li's eyes open when I sprung that ferocious falsehood. I don't imagine that they believed me couldn't have been possible that they did-but both Li and the interpreter appeared to look upon us with can- siderably more respect from that moment on. Maybe it was because they knew that I was lying-the Chineses "diplomats, I understand, think a great deal of a 'first-rate, tip-top, rip- roaring liar.

**What do you do with the money?', was the question the interpreter hurled at me then, at Li's dictation.

"All of us grinned then, of course, as it was 2,007 up to us to do. But I didn't want to be ton 3,532 Ray and thus spoil at least the chance of at

hotels.

THE CONNAUGHT HOUSE,

QUEEN'S ROAD.

The most comfortable family Hotel in Hongkong. EXCELLENT CUISINE, LOFTY ROOMS, CENTRALLY SITUATED, CIVILITY AND ATTENTION.

TERMS MODERATE.

J. H., WAINWRIGHT, Manager.

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GO TO THE

Hongkong, 7th December, 1901.

2,833 length getting an interview from the famous KOWLOON

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Chinaman, and so I made the best reply I 9.540 could to the question. Told the interpreter- 3,260 that such little items as food and drink and

raiment and an occasional smoke and ride,on, the cars managed to consume most of our money that we, waren't-inying!faside for the

46;

J. H. DOWNS, Manager,

HOTEL,

KOWLOON J. W. OSBORNE,

Proprietor.

THE BAY VIEW HOTEL. Very best brands of Wines, Beers and Spirits only kept, Private

Ú. S. TRADE WITH THE ORIENT. purchase of steam yachts, race horses and dinners, a specialty.

The reean commerce of Tacoma for the year 1901 will show an enormous growth along all lines, Trade with Japan and China has been picking "p rapidly during the past few months and seems to be constantly growing. The end of the year 100 will show imports to Tacoma from Japan and China to have increased over $3,000,000 over the year 1900. Total imports to Tacoma to date for the present year amount in value to $5,214,389 as against abour $5,534,626 for the entire twelve months of 1900. One large cargo from China and Japan is ex cepted to arrive set this month, being that of the Northern Pacific liner Glenegle, about Thursday, hes reds which the entire nonth

of December yet remains. May was the

heaviest month in the niatter of imports fron these two countries to Taconia, nearly a million. dellars worth of Chinese and Japanese mer- chandise being brought in that month, The principal imports are, of course, silk, mating. tea, strawbraid, curios and inisellaneous mer chandise of Oriental manufacture.

Imports to Tacoma from China and Japan by months for the year 1901 to date, neart eleven months, have been as follows:-

ORIENTAL IMPONTS [IV MONTHS.

January

February

March

April

May

· June

July ......

August

September...

October

November, (25 days)...

Total

..$449,500

Fifth avenue residences.

"Are you married? Li wanted to know then.

"It happened that we all were, and I repiled to that effect.

"Are you gond to your wives ? was the

next one.

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Under entirely new management..

·J. LACOCK.

BOA VISTA,"

The best ever replied 1, not flippantly (HOTEL SANITARIUM OF SOUTH CHINA),

but more for the purpose of dodging the ques

tion.

Have you children ? came along then "I had to ask two of the others whether they

had any young ones or not, and then I made a Atting reply.

He says that you have not enough.

children,' said the interpreter when I had replied.

"Well, we all had to hang our heads and look sorry, of course, but in view of the fac that I had told the interpreter that one of the crowd had eight children, the criticism appeared a bit unreasonable.

**Are your wives pretty and domestic?' the interpreter inquired then, after his little talk with Li Fung Chang,

"I don't rembember just how I evaded that

one..

"Do all of your families live together, " Li wanted to know then through the interpreter. 81,115 replied 'No' and then he wanted to know 320,950 why not. When I said that our wives had 219 259 rever even met, and that the five of us only Józ,400 happened to be together accidently, Li-wanted 460,000 to know if we didn't like each other, and if $35,000 aur wives wouldn't like each other if they 670,000 met; if there was anything unsatisfactory in 342,260 the conduct of any of us or

our wives 522,783 that caused us to desire. to hold aloof 634,033 from each other. I had to hum and hah out of all this. the best way I could, and ..$5,214,389

TOLD OF EARL LI.

Whatever else Li Hung Chang may have been-and there are a million stories about him, one of which, you'll recall, was that he wasn't a Chinaman at all, but a Swede, who had landed in China as a young cabin boy from a merchant ship he was decidedly the most monumental walking interrogation point that I eveź came across, and. I've mét, some mighty inquisitive men," said a New York. newspaper man who is now stationed in Washington, says the Star,

*H.

all the time two of the newspaper men behind me were kicking me on the leg from the rear to urge me to hop in ind. get that talk out of Li about the Chinese foreign polley, I was spur ring around for an opening, when the inter preter came at me again, after a whispered conference with his master.

"He wants to know,' said the interpreter, if your friend to the left of you, does not drink to excess-he says that he looks as if he did."

"Now, the good, kindly fellow on my left. one of the best newspaper men that ever worked in New York, had a very florid countenance, but he scarcely ever touched a drop of drink. He went pretty red over this jolt, but he spoke up to me in an undertone.

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The strictest supervision as to food and cleanliness is exercised by.a. European Manager.

Telegraphic Address: BOA VISTA"

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NOTICE.

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us Tellbim that just eat whisky,' said he to me, but I didn't say anything of the sort. I replied that the man on my left was a total abstainer.

"And that's the way that interview went for HON, J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G., fully half an hour. There never was a minute

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"With four othar newspaper men. I in terviewed L in his apartments when be arrived in New York five years ago received. us with his entourage about him and harpermitted his interpreter to do the talking, although Li spoke good English. The information that we went after and that we didn't get out of the celestial statesman would have filled a large book, but the points relative, to the public and private history of five unpre-ent to our mission in seeing Li Hung-chang tentious newspaper reporters that Li.picked up Every time that I started a question along the in the progress of that queer seance were sure ways the interpreter would gazed blandly at me a-plenty. I observed that one of Li's-sulte'was and ask me another questions, and I had to re. writing. rapidly on tablets during the progress ply to it some odd way or be looked upon as a of the talk, and when Linquired, afterward of boon After I'd been under the gun in this the interpreter what the man

was writ

magner, for half an hour Li made a nice litle ing the interpreter blandly Informed me smiling bow to each of us in turn again, exacut- that he had taken notes of the entire interview. ed a sweeping gesture with his right hand and in. binese shorthand, so that the records of the we were immediately surrounded by the bunch five of us are probably now on file in archives of richly-arrayed, stolid-looking China sttend- of the flowery kingdom.

ants and geeily ushered into the hall. That's how, we didn't interview Li Hung Chang. It was a put-up job on his part, of course, and he worked it all along the line while in this country."

.

"We were under instructions from our editors to get, if possible, a talk out of Li rela tive to the Chinese foreign policy, with partlou lar reference to Russia; but we might just as well have asked such a question of the Sphinx, 1 was elected spokesman by the other re porters, and I had my little list of questions,) neatly tabulated in my mind when we were. presented to China's great individual. I started. to put one of the queries,, when Li inter Kupted me with a wave of his hand, and then he nodded amiably to all of us in turn. Then he turned to his interpreter and said something

to him in Chinese,....

He wishes to know,' said the interpretor, addresing us, 'how old sich of you is?

“I asked the other four in turn how old they. were, and when they told me I told the Inter; preter, giving also my own age, and the inter preter conveyed the information, to Li-while that scribs fellow with the tablets,and the Chi-

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