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Show . CELESTIAL FE MALES. TRANSIT TRAN-SIT OF VENUS. MURDER. San Francisco, 29. In the halas corpus case ot twenty-two Chinese women, passengers by the steamer Japttn. on her last voyage, and who, it was claimed, were transported here for immoral purposes, the fourth district court, to day, rendered a decision sustaining the constitutionality constitu-tionality of the BtaXe law by which such persons may be prevented from coming here, remanding them to the custody ot the captain of the Japan, which was about to sad. The supreme! court issued a supplemental order and the steamer sailed without them. The whole lot was sent back to jail. Professor Davidson and party, to observe the transit of venus, sailed for Nagasaki on the Japan to day. She took 747 passengers and $270,000 in treasure. Geiger, tried at Santa Rosa, Ca'., for the murder of Mrs. Strong, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the State prison for life. |