Show unloading thousands of bales of cotton seattle wash aug 10 when the kanagawa maru left kobe on her last voyage to seattle there were more than 80 ships cither at the docks of that port or lying in the offing awaiting their opportunity to discharge their cargoes which for the most part consisted of cotton this commodity according to captain wale of the kan adwa is crowding every warehouse along the water front of kobe and Is overflowing into the fields which extend back from the town shortly before the departure of the kanagawa a alre started in athla vast amount of cotton and before it could be extinguished had destroyed some bales captain wale states that the loss was scarcely noticeable to the casual observer and that the space which the burned cotton had was filled almost immediately by other bales which were discharged from the many ships the greater part of this cotton Is american product although a small per cent comes from india captain wale stated that a large amount of cotton weaving machinery Is being installed in jaan and that the manufacture of cotton fabrics Is rapidly becoming a great industry in the land of the mikado new york august 10 A bill was passed by the chilean congress yesterday according to a new york herald dispatch from valparaiso subsidizing suar su ar beet root |