JAPANESE COMING IN NUMBERS

Steamship Kanagawa Bringing More Than 1,100 Passengers From Orient.

More than 1,100 passengers will reach Seattle the latter part of this month on the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Company's steamer Kanagawa Maru. The vessel has sailed from Yokohama for this port. Her list is one of the largest reported on the vessels of that line for a year or more.

Inspector Estell of the United States immigration service will meet the vessel at the Great Northern dock, where passengers will be inspected before they are permitted to go ashore.

Recently there have been numerous cases of the eye disease called trachoma reported in this city. Every Japanese will be examined by a physician and any on the boat infected will be returned. From the fact that so many Japanese are coming to the United States the belief is general that they do not feel their services are needed in the Far East.

Should the majority of the passengers on the Kanagawa be Japanese it is likely that it will be more than a week before the immigration officers complete their work, after the vessel ties up at the dock.