JAPANESE ADMIT THEY HAVE RIFLES

Bell Boys at Hotel Donnelly, in Tacoma, Confess They Brought Over Guns Which They Used in Russian War.

MIKADO HAS EQUIPPED MANY NOW IN AMERICA

The Times Special Service.

TACOMA, Friday, Feb. 7. -- Employed as bellboys in the Hotel Donnelly, two young Japanese admitted yesterday that they have in their room at the hotel the rifles and equipment they used in the war with Russia, through which they served with distinction as members of the Japanese army.

This announcement has created a decided sensation locally, as it is stated by many who are well informed on conditions of the Japanese on the Pacific Coast that the two bellboys are merely representatives of a body of many thousands of soldiers, who, equipped with guns and uniforms, have been sent to the Pacific Coast by the Japanese government.

It is also stated that the discharged Japanese soldiers, with the exception of those sent to the United States and Hawaii, were all compelled to return to the government their guns and army equipment.

Fearing trouble with the United States, the Japanese veterans sent to this country, it is said, were all equipped with weapons.

The bellboys refuse to discuss the probability of others of their countrymen in the United States being armed with Japanese government rifles and armament.