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Show oo "SIDOlTflllL" THE PICTURE ME : STORY H SCREEN It has been learned that the "pie turebrlde" problem now confronting immigration officials on tlu west toast did not originate among the Japanese This was discovered re Cent!) when the research department al Dnivereal City set out to confirm a disputed poinl contslned In "Sun down Trail," a story purchased from the pen of J. G Hawks The story sot forlh that the miners' of Spanish Bar. a gold camp of is-lrt, sent one of thou numbei east to re-1 I urn with a cargo of women to he married upon their arrival to the miners. The messenger who Journeyed Journey-ed to the east advertised for women and collected crayon picture of them. These 'he sent hack to Spanish Bar1 by the fast pony express The pic-1 tures were placed in a box and drawn on chance by the miners The pic tUM ho drew was the wife he married ' when the stage arrived Whether the Japanese adopted the custom In bringing women from the Orient from the miners or whether the miners borrowed the custom "from the Japanese -vres the disputed point It developed that a Japanese ocfont ! et In America heard of the Rpanleh Bar affair and made an account of it io the Institution that Bent him to the Occident as an observer of American customs. Tho Jnpanoeo peasantry adopted thf custom which Is today causing po much discussion on the Ta-clfln Ta-clfln ooait. Tho story of wife-lottery la botng told at the Utah theatre, In "Rundown Trail." oo . |