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Shew Hing Association Takes Action.
SEARCHED ROOMS ILLEGALLY
ATTORNEY WILSON HAS BEEN ENGAGED BY PLAINTIFF.
Twenty Thousand Dollars Will Be Asked as Damages for Disturbance Created in the Quarters.
The Shew Hing Benevolent Association will bring suit early next week for $20,000 damages and costs of the action against the city and county of San Francisco, ex- Chief of Police Lees and the Chinatown squad for entering its rooms at 751 Clay street without warrant of law on the 6th day of October last.
Publication Is Falling Off In Country, Figures Show
It said that the publication of Juvenile fiction hits fallen off greatly during the last decade. If this is so, what is the reason for it? And the answer given—the most probable reason—is the moving pictures have pushed boy’s and girl’s books out of the field.
This may very likely be true. The moving picture does what the Juvenile book did, only does it better. Neither of these literary outputs goes deeply Into any analysis of human character, but relies mainly up on action, action, action.
Army Cor. (30th) Cincinnati Commercial.
The work on Green River bridge is progressing slowly. It may be completed this week—but will probably not. It could have been done sooner, but tardiness and inefficiency in other quarters has rendered great haste here unnecessary.