ITEMS OF INTEREST January 19, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Special Agent Clark, in a letter from Japan dealing with the rapid development of that country, points out that the Japanese Government is striving to encourage the establishment of all necessary manufactures in order that the nation may be practically independent. In the same way the Government offers the remission of land taxes to those who will cultivate hillside lands, in order to increase the agricultural resources of the country. Great progress is being made in the establishment of textile factories, and Japan is already exporting coarse cotton cloths.

The Government announces that beginning April 1 there will be a rigid enforcement along new lines of the law, prohibiting the fencing of lands embraced in the public domain. Secretary Hitchcock has made public an order to the effect that on and after the date named all illegal enclosures and obstructions on the public domain will be summarily removed without notice and criminal prosecution instituted in the courts against persons who violate the law.

The Jamestown Exposition opens at noon, April 26, 1907. All States and countries, all cities and manufacturing centers, all professions and creeds, all arts and sciences, all callings and occupations will be represented and afford an opportunity to study the progress of the world in these first years of the twentieth century.

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