Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-04 | Page 1 | Anniversary of Dowager Empress

anniversary or OF DOWAGER EMPRESS amoy china nov 1 S thu the eaon ty fourth anniversary of the birth of 0 the dowager empress of ch china ina was celebrated today and the event was made the greatest day of the festivities in honor of the visiting american battleships A national was wae fired at noon in honor of tile the empress birth day prince yo lang propped the health of the empress dowager and a all I 1 I 1 th the e sailors and sold soldiers lers participated as well as other officials of the govern overn ment chinese a and nd foreign at the samo same time there was a pal pandemonium of firecrackers and fireworks on all sides three thousand men were ashore from tile the battleships during the day there were baseball games and foot racing prince yu lang congratulated ted the winners in person A chinaman CD caught aught selling spurious gold ornaments to men of the fleet was summarily punished today and ordered to refund all tile the money he be had bad taken in