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I" VI v. ii - t Ktabl!shl .July EDE. XXVII., NO. HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THUKSDAY, JUNE 2 5. lSi.. PRICE FIVE CENTS. It irra Ha h a I r a I m i 1 i1. f t i! r 4 ' f i 1 i el. Q. WOOD, Attorney at Law. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE: Corner King and Bethel Streets. DII. C. 15. HIGH, DentiSt Phlladelphia Dental College 1892. Masonic Temple. Telephone 318. A C. WALL. 0. E. WALL. Dentists. OFFICE HOURS 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. IX)VE BUILDING, FORT STREET. M. IE. aiiOSSMAJS , D.D.S. Dentist. 98 HOTEL. STREET, HONOLULU. Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p. m. DB, A, J. DICUliY, Dentist. CORNER FORT AND HOTEL STS., MOTT-SM1TII BLOCIC Telephones: Office, 615; Residence, 789. HOURS: 9 to 4. GEO. II. IIUDDY, D.D.S. Dentist. FORT STREET, OPPOSITE CATHO LIC MISSION. Hours: From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. DII. 1 K. CLAlMv. Dentist. Progress Block, corner Beretania and Fort streets. To til A REMOVAL On WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, we will close our Dry Goods Department to arrange the stock before Removal. IF ooo DON'T BUY" any dry goods until you hear from us. OOO We have a SURPRISE in store for you TTTTlf T j a ml FOR SALE. A Coffee Estate OF 150 ACRES, SITUATED IN THE "WONDERFUL DISTRICT OF PUNA, HAWAII. Twenty-five Acres Cleared and Planted Over a Year Ago, Now in Fine Condition. Adjoining Unimproved Land Com mands $22.50 per Acre. Owner cannot give the Property fur ther attention. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY FOR A BARGAIN. Hawaiian Safe Deposit and Investment Company. GEORGE R. CARTER, Mgr. Office la rear of Bank of Hawaii, Ltd. Again we advertise the Greatest Typewriter in tlie Yorld: The "BLICKENSDERFER H. E. WALKER, Sole Agt. Masonic Block. B Pub C A I C Mix A 1170 m ilJylill i !f a V4 n M LJ? Kf3 QD Annexation "It is All Over Bit the Shouting." RESOLUTION IH THE SEtlATE To the President in a Week Reed's Defeat The Legation The War With Spain and Some Results, The closing days of this week and the first half of next mark the closing of the final and determinative debate on the question of Annexation of these Islands to the United States. This is the word brought by Jas. B. Castle, retiring Secretary of the Hawaiian Legation at Washington. Mr. Castle is back home after an absence and an earnest and valuable service of eight months. So soon as the joint resolution de claring this group a part of the domain of the United States had been adopted by the House of Representatives, it was dispatched to the upper branch of Congress. There was at once re ference to the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee and return to that body with recommendation for favor able action. Discussion opened on Friday last and has been in progress almost one week. Debate cannot con tinue longer than ten days or a fort night at the outside. In all probability there will be a vote within a week from today. Of the color of the ballot there can be no question. It does not ap pear, after due consideration and even conjecture more than half speculative that any power on earth can intervene to postpone a vote or to defeat the resolution. A conservative eastern paper has figured that there will be at the beginning of consideration fifty nine affirmative votes and that the cause will gain strength as facts are understood and the war with Spain progresses. Dewey has done tins, tic made a great conversion. Without the war the joint resolution would have had a rough road. The feature of this great controversy now drawing to a termination is the complete defeat of Speaker Reed by the administration. It is well known that in the matter of shaping legisla tion the man who presides over the House at Washington has a power even greater and more far-reaching -than that of the President himself. Mr. Reed has been doggedly conservative to the degree of unreasoning and un wise stubbornness. Mr. Reed had set his personality against the spirit of the times and the thought of the day and at the clashing of the issue found his position untenable. There was not at Washington when Mr. Castle left much talk of the make up of the commission of five that will supervise the setting up of the new Government or the change of Govern ment in Hawaii. If the three men to represent the United States are select ed from Washington or rather the Senate, Morgan and Kyle would be two of the majority. The man of this country already mentioned as one of the minority of the commission is Associate Justice Frear of the Supreme Bench. Both Minister Hatch and L. A. Thurston will take the first possible steamer for the Islands upon the pas sage of the joint resolution of Annex ation by the Senate. There will not be another appointment of Secretary of Legation. It is expected that the Ha waiian Legation at Washington will be a thing of the past in a week. Min ister Hatch, to use an old but good phrase, has been "the right man' in the right place," according to the popular and official verdict. Neither the value nor the worth of the work that has been accomplished by Mr Thurston can bo measured. It is well known here that the men who have .been on guard for the Islands at Wash 'ton during the past year have ! urivatelv sacrificed a great deal. I Mr Cnst.le found vesterday that A GLEA R OUTL lin there were a great many demands upon him for interviews and that he had the pleasant duty of answering to the satisfaction of the numerous question ers a good many pointed inquiries in relation to annexation. The Moana, the steamship that carried the good news, was in bunting on approaching the harbor and Boys in Blue gossip was superseded in all quarters by the more important thing of the confirm ation, strong and sure, of the hopes of so many who have worked so hard and persistently in the direction of the goal now about to be touched. There were congratulations and cheerings and handshakings and settlements of wagers, more premiums on stocks and heavy advances in real estate. It is the belief of Mr. Castle that the new American policy will bring about in that great country, as well as in this small group, most astound ing and progressive changes. For in stance, it is now held quite generally that the United States as a Govern ment will construct and maintain the Nicaragua canal. There will be prac- The Annexation Resolution Passed the (.) United States House of Representatives on t 0) I June 15 By a Vote of tically two navies one for the Atlan- j tic and one for the Pacific. There will ( be a quite large standing army. There I will be a reconstructed or reorganized state militia under .national control and drilled by educated officers. There will be expansion and widening in the industrial world. And for another thing there will be more of President McKinley as chief magistrate of a great nation. It is the proposal of the leading army men and their advisers and con fidants to have a standing corps of more than 100,000 men. The bill re cently enacted placed the figure at 61,000.- The need of a large trained force has been keenly felt. There was real embarrassment in the fact and the law that the President could not handle or use the States militia of the various commonwealths without con sent of the Governors. This must be remedied, for the United States has entered upon a new policy. Mr. Castle says now that personally he is of the opinion that the war with Spain will have ended before this year is done. When the ultimatum went out Mr. Castle thought the peace settle ments would be under way by July 1. That is still thought by many ob serving and important men in the States. There is a most striking thought in the realization of the un- preparedness of the American Govern ment when hostilities opened. A peo ple who harbor no idea of fighting till their liberties are trenched upon or their sense of right tested were sud denly called upon to do battle. There existed no smouldering ambition to conquer people and acquire territory. There was no standing army and it had to be made and has been made magnificently. Courage and intelli gence and purpose have combined to contrive wonders. But the lesson has been learned and there will be in the equation hereafter the factor of war footing. One of the men whose com mand has the eager and willing ear of every wearer of the blue has said that had this war been with a certain con tinental power, the foreign govern ment, being one of famous prepared- ... .1 e ; v-. ness, would nave naa an mmy in vasion 250,000 in number on American soil. The chief dependence of the generals of the United States is upon the small regular forces. Cuba now seems well in hand, though there will be much fighting yet in and around the Pearl of the Antilles. There remains to dispose of yet the fleet of Cervera and the city of Havana. The fieet is being corded and the next news from the States will tell of ap proaching investment of Havana. At the capital of Cuba, Blanco has gather ed an army of 50,000 of the best sol diers he can get. He has called forces from the other cities and the other provinces and has fortified Havana and mined the harbor. His resistance will be a determined one, but Havana must succumb as must Santiago and the whole of the Island. It is said that in the army of Blanco the men average six years younger than, the there are in the Spanish farce many boys between the ages of fourteen and seventeen. Mr. Castle says the United States have been given the best use of the Islands in the entertainment of troops here as arranged by the citizens. The health of the men in transit has been and will be saved by the opportunity afforded here of giving them a few hours ashore. Without this halt, traveling in crowded ships, they would for the rest of the journey be fine sub jects for the cruel fevers of the tropics. Happily Muted. A very pretty wedding ceremony was performed yesterday morning at the Methodist Parsonage, in this city, Rev. C. E. Winning of Pearl City officiating. Dr. C. W. Blake, Govern ment physician at the Oahu plantation and Miss Lillian McKibben of San Francisco, who arrived on the Moana, were the contracting parties. The ceremony was witnessed by only a few 209 to 91. S friends of the popular groom. After a few days they will occupy a beauti ful new cottage which has just been builded on the Oahu plantation. 1KOOPS ON THE WAY. Left San Francisco on June 15 and Will Soon Arrive. The second expedition to Manila, carrying 4,200 troops, sailed from San Francisco at 1:30 o'clock p. m. on June 15. The fleet is made up of four ships; China (flagship), Zealandia, Colon and Senator. Assigned to the China, Major-Gen-eral Greene's flagship, and the largest, fastest and finest vessel of the fleet, says the Chronicle, are the First Regi ment Colorado Volunteer Infantry, 1022 men; half a battalion of the Eigh teenth United States Infantry, 150 men, and a detachment of United States En gineers, twenty men. The Colon took four companies of the Tvventy-thord Infantry and two companies of the Eighteenth Infantry, both of the Regular Army, and Bat tery A of the Utah Artillery. In the battery wrere 121 men and in each of the infantry companies seventy-five men besides the officers, making less than COO military passengers. The control of the ship was given to Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence M. Baily of the Eighteenth Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel John W. French was in com mand of the battalion from the Twenty-third and Captain R. W. Young commanded the Utah artillerymen. On the Zealandia are the Tenth Penn sylvania Volunteers and part of Bat tery B of the Utah Volunteer Artillery. With the gunners went two Maxim fighting machines, which, as a pre cautionary measure, were placed, ready for action, in the bow of the ves sel. In all there were 640 privates and sixty officers on board. Nebraska Regiment of Voluntters, numbering 1,023 men, under Colonel Bratt. A military hospital, with a corps of four surgeons, three stewards, an act ing steward and twenty-five privates, has been established on the China in connection with about 4,000 pounds of medical supplies and dressings calcu lated to last six months. In addition to these, there were sent aboard by the Red Cross Society twenty cases con taining medicines, brandy, claret, canned peaches and other things for patients. 1 UNPRECEDENTED BARGAINS. J For one week, L. B. Kerr offer ! sheetings, table linen, pillow casings, 1 napkins, dress goods, ribbon, laces, I embroideries and millinery at one-half the cost price. Not only this but the ' whole stock goes at half price. j ON ICE California Fruit Co., i George Andrews. Cherries, Peaches, j Apricots, Plums, Oranges, Lemons, ' Celery, Cauliflower, New Potatoes, j Eastern and California Oysters, Sal 1 raon, Crabs. New Crop Nuts, Raisins, ; etc. Tel. 4S4. MADE A LANDING United States Flag Floats Over Man Soil. 600 MARINES ARE FICHTIIIQ Four Men Are KIMed-15,000 Men Have Sailed From Tampa to Aid Sampson. WASHINGTON, June 10. The Navy Department today posted the follow ing bulletin: "On June 7th Admiral Sampson ordered the Marblehead, Commander McCalla, and the Yankee, Commander Brownson. to take pos session of the outer bay of Guanta namo. These vessels entered the. har bor at daylight on the 7th, driving a Spanish gunboat into the inner har bor, and took possession of the lower bay, which is now held by the Marble head." Dispatches of the 11th say: Six hundred marines have pitched their tents among the smoking ruins of the outer fortifications of Guantanamo and the Stars and Stripes for the first time float on a Spanish flagstaff in Cuba. To Captain Clark and the battleship Oregon belong the honor of accom plishing the first successful .landing of the war. The forty marines from the battleship went ashore this morning and occupied the left entrance of the bay until the troopship Panther arriv ed with COO marines. The whole operation of silencing the guns and landing the forces was aa easy as placing a Sunday , Scool pic nic, ine Marmeneaa nad, backed uy the Vixen and Dolphin, opened on the earthworks. The shores to the right of the entrance were lined with guns and rifle pits, but the Spaniards stampeded after firing a few shots. The Marblehead, Dolphin, Vixen and two colliers have been off the en trance of the harbor for several days and yesterday morning they sailed in to the channel. A mile further up they opened fire, sending fifty shots at the fortifications on the left. The hills on the right of the entrance were deserted. There are no defenses on the right side of the harbor. No attempt was made to land until the Oregon steamed in early, this morning, (japtain Clark immediately sent forty marines ashore and twenty rom the Marblehead followed. They found evidence of a very hasty depart ure by the Spaniards. Watches, ham mocks and ammunition were scatter ed among the earthworks and a Span ish flag was found in one of the rifle pits. The little detachment or ma rines held the place until the Panther arrived, when they were recalled and the work of disembarking began. Guantanamo is about forty miles east of Santiago de Cuba, and is a splendid location for a base of supplies for the blockading fleet. UNITED STATES CAMP (entrance of Guantanamo Bay), Sunday, June 2 (via Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, June 13. 8:40 a. m.) The Spaniards who last night attacked the camp of the First Battalion of Marines under Lieutenant R. W. Huntington were re pulsed with heavy loss. Four Ameri cans were killed, namely: Surgeon J. B. Gibbs of New York (Continued on Page 2.) 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