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It has long been a question in San Francisco what should be done with Chinatown, and moving the Chinese in the direction of Colma has been agitated. Now they are without homes and without prospects of procuring any. They can get no land. The limits of Oakland's Chinatown have already been extended, and the strictest police regulations are in force to prevent further enlargement.
"Think of that!" he concluded. "That's the Amazon river in flood time in South America. And the world's full of places like that everywhere, most likely, except Oakland. Oakland's just a place to start from, I guess. Now that's adventure, I want to tell you. Just think of the luck of them boys!
But say, d'ye know, they'd clean slipped my recollection. Oakland's a thousan' years away from you an' me, an' ten thousan' miles." "Then this will bring you back to it," Saxon said, opening Bud's letter and reading it aloud.
The cheer would have sounded, no matter which submarine had won. Then Eph cut a wide circle, coming back close to the gunboat. "You win!" shouted an officer at the "Oakland's" rail. "Of course," nodded Lieutenant Danvers, "But what distance?" "The board allows you half a mile and a furlong."
There was recently a war of secret societies in Oakland's Chinatown. One of the "tongs" quarreled with another, and three or four Chinese men were shot on the streets of Oakland, one fatally, named Lee Bock Dong, in his own house. Lee Bock Dong had a slave girl who saw the shooting, so she was taken into custody by police officers.
"'Well, madam! I replied, 'some things are rather delicate er for single men like me to mention, but I do know that er a lady very like remarkably like you, has in her pocket at this moment a rattle which she bought and paid for in Oakland's late last night. And as, madam, Mr. Bater has been dead over two years let me see yes, two years yesterday one can !
It was a hunting knife and he was not a hunter. The light at the end of the second row was growing gradually brighter. The needle traveled slowly across the dial, 68.2, 68.4, 68.6.... King called over to the audio controller. "They all report in yet?" The controller nodded. "Squirrel Hill's got your signal on, same reading as you have. Bloomfield thinks they may have it. Oakland's not too sure.
The Captain of Police went through the brothels of Oakland's Chinatown, accompanied by some missionary ladies, in order to discover if possible any girls who would acknowledge that they wished to come away. Every girl was questioned, in the absence of the keepers, and not one, or perhaps only one, said she wished to come away.
The gunboat was now cruising leisurely over to where the "Hastings" waited. Danvers signed to the officer on the "Oakland's" bridge to keep an especial eye on the floating torpedo. As the "Oakland" slowed up, a cutter, in charge of an ensign, put away from the gunboat's side.
By this time the fast gunboat "Oakland," which had a safe speed of twenty-four knots an hour, under forced draught, lay to, some two miles further out. The "Oakland's" task was to stick close to the leaders, and, at the end, to decide which craft had won. Boom! The first gun sounded over the starboard side of the "Chelsea."
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