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VOL XXXV., NO. 6270. HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1902. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CIRCUIT SEEK INDEMNITY FROM JAPAN PELEPS "
JUDGE NOT FOR LOSS OF 'MARCUS ISLAND TERRIBLE
APPOINTED
President to Name
No One Before
October.
FINE SPEECHES
BY ROOSEVELT
Hawaiian s Buildings Big Check
Coming Extra Session
;v":':-Talk.
After exactly two months' absence;
V. A T : n tt9 Tin i . j !
tb Honolulu yesterday afternoon from
Marcus Island, Captain Rosehill and
party failing to obtain possession. Six
teen armed Japanese marines from the
Japanese warship Kasagi were found
on guard on the island, under com
mand of Lieut. Akinote. The party was
refused a landing except in small de
tachments. Mr. Sedgwick of the Bishop
Museum and three sailors obtained
specimens and samples of the guano
and phosphates which average quite
high. After remaining on the island
six days the little party was ordered
off and instructions given to Captain
Rosehill to sail away, which he did. A
claim for indemnity against the Jap
anese government .will be presented by
the Marcus Island Company through
Action Determined on After the Ar
rival of Schooner Julia
E. Whalen.
Captain Rosehill Stayed on Disputed Island for
Six Days and Was Then Politely Told
to Move Off by Japs.
Lastly, the Julia
sold.
E. Whalen will be
(Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Aug. 2?. By
this mall or that of the following" day
on the Sonoma, the territorial authorK
ties willprobably receive a warrant for
about $140,000 from the federal govern
ment. The Auditor for the Treasury
Department has been casting up the ac
count today and Chief W. P. MacLen
nanj of the division of bookkeeping and
warrants, said this afternoon that he
expected the money due the Territory
in the sum mentioned would reach Ho
nolulu within two weeks.
This is interest due on the bonded
debt of Hawaii, which the Federal gov
ernment assumed at the time of an
nexation. The interest to the amount
of about $150,000 was paid by the Ter
ritorial government and now the Fed
eral government, under the terms of
annexation, has to make reimburse
ment. Gov. Dole applied to the Interior
' Department recently for the payment
of this sum of $150,000 and the mat
ter was referred to the Treasury De
partment, where a decision to settle
partially was reached. .
Mr. MacLennan, who made a trip to
Hawaii last year for the purpose of
settling up the bonded indebtedness,
which the United States assumed, said
today that there remained unsettled of
the principal about $6,000. "When I
was In Hawaii," he added, "I closed out
all these bonds except about $31,000.
Since that time zae remainder of the
outstanding bonds hive been coming in
in ' driblets. Of ths London loan there
remains outstanding only 100, or
about $500, while on the loan placed in
the islands there is still about $5,000
outstanding. We do not know where
these bonds are but as they come in
they are paid and cancelled. Because
of this small sum outstanding, it was
decided not to pay the interest due in
full. We understand here that the
money may be used towards liquidat
ing some of the Hawaiian fire claims."
NO CIRCUIT JUDGE YET.
Circuit Judge Humphreys' successor
will not be appointed before October.
That is the information vouchsafed at
the Department of Justice. President
Roosevelt is keeping informed in a gen
eral way of the press of candidates but,
unless the unexpected happens, he will
not take up the case till after he has
completed his tours of several States,
Including states of the southwest and
not until Attorney General Knox has
returned from . France, where he has
gone to inquire into matters pertain
ing to the purchase of the Panama
canal. The outlook now Is that At
torney General Knox will not return
for six weeks, although he may pos
sibly return a little sooner.
Papers regarding candidates for the
judgeship are still coming in at the
Department, but as I wrote in my last
letter, the strictest secrecy regarding
the names is observed there, follow
ing the general rule. As Hawaiians,
who are often here in Washington, are
now all out of town, it is quite im
possible to get anything definite about
the personality and strength of these
candidates, except that the candidate,
whom the Hawaiian lawyers have gen
erally endorsed, is regarded as the most
probable selection.
President Roosevelt has been holding
up practically all important appoint
ments, during his sojourn at Oyster
Bay, the only exception being the ap
pointment of a justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. For weeks
the business of the District of Colum
bia has been at a partial standstill for
the lack of a third commissioner, in
rlace of Commissioner Ross, lately de
ceased. But to numerous people the
President has indicated that he does
not intend to take up the task of filling
ffices until he has had his summer
vacation.
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES.
The public prints in this section of
(Continued on Pago 4.)
the island has been continually and al-' a country with which Japan entertain
most regularly visited by Japanese fish- relations of sr omviini nihhrrhnnH
the State Department at Washington, ing and hunting vessels; and on all such ! Believe me. dear sir
isils, mc isia.uu va.a iuuhu 10 ub eu- , xours most sincerely,
tirely uninhabited and unoccupied. In I K. ISHII,
1896 these periodical visits were turned Secretary to the Imperial Ministry , of
out in a permanent occupation, more ; Foreifm Affairs.
ithan twenty of our Ogasawara (Bonin) ! To Captain A. A. Rosehill.
Islanders having now resolutely settled
'in the island: and ever since then the A demand was made upon Lieut. Aki
i island has been in the continuous and noe tnat he give to Captain Rosehill
THE VOYAGE OF THE WHALEN.
The schooner Julia E. Whalen which
sailed from Honolulu on July 10 for
Marcus Island arrived there July 30,
losing one day in crossing the meri
dian and making the run of 2800 miles
in nineteen days, actual time. At 2
o'clock in the afternoon a boat contain
ing Captain Rosehill and Messrs. Bryan
and Sedgwick of the Bishop Museum
with two sailors effected a landing.
They were received by Lieut Akinote
of the Royal Japanese navy and sixteen
armed marines drawn up in line at the
landing. Captain Rosehill presented to
Lieut. Akinote, who could speak En
glish, his license under the seal of the
Department '.of State giving him the
right to remove the guano deposits on
Marcus and to occupy the island for
that purpose. Hs also presented a
document in Japanese obtained in Ho
nolulu stating that he visited the island
for the purpose of examining the ex
tent and value of the guano beds and
also to collect specimens of flora and
fauna for the Bishop Museum, and that
no interference would be made with
any rights that the government of Ja
pan or the Japanese fishermen on the
island might have.
The lieutenant received him courte
ously and presented in turn a letter
from Minister Buck, the American rep
resentative at Tokio, which letter Cap
tain Rosehill has mislaid. The sub
stance of the letter was to theeffect
that Captain Rosehill should precipitate
no conflict between the representatives
of the Japanese government and the
officers and crew of the Whalen, and
as far as possible remit all questions
of ownership to the island or his rights
therein for settlement by the State de
partments of the two governments.
Captain Rosehill was also presented
with the following communication from
the Japanese Imperial Minister of For
eign Affairs:
JAPAN'S OFFICIAL COMMUNICA
TION. The Minaml Torishlma, '
July 29th, 1902.
Dear Sir,
Toward the middle of this month Mr.
Takahira His Imperial Japanese Majes
ty's Minister at Washington wired to
his government reporting that accord
ing to some American papers you were
leaving Honolulu on the 11th Inst. In an
expedition to Marcus Island to which
you had just been granted title by your
government.
Immediately on receipt of the above
intelligence, the Imperial Government
on the one hand telegraphed to their
representative at Washington instruct
ing him to inform the United States
Government of the legitimate previous
acquisition by Japan of the Island,
and have decided, on the other hand, to
dispatch to the spot a fast cruiser with
an official of the Foreign Office on
board her, for the protection of their
rights and in order to meet you and
explain to you an account of our ac
quisition of the Island and also in or
der to avoid any possible misunder
standing between the Japanese subjects
on the island and your crew.
It was under such circumstances and
with such ends in view that the "Ka
sagi" of the Imperial Navy -was ordered
to this island under the command of
Captain Sakamoto and that I was com
missioned here on board her.
On the eve of our start. Colonel Buck,
the United States Minister to Japan
under instructions of his Government
asked Baron Komura, the Im
perial Minister for Foreign Affairs, for
the transmission of his dispatch ad
dressed to you through the official he
was then sending. I was accordingly
instructed to hand you the despatch
which I now beg to enclose to you here
with. The "Kasagi" left the Bay of Tokio
on the 23rd Inst, and it was on Sunday
last that we arrived at this island.
Upon your arrival which we estimat
ed would soon follow ours, supposing
you had left the Hawaiian port on the
11th as reported, I was particularly in
structed to see you and explain to you
our title to the island based as it does
on the following facts:
"The island popularly known as
Marcus Island has been, since compar
atively early times, not unfrequently
spoken of among the Japanese sailors
of the adjacent regions; and since 1S79
undisputed occupation of Japan.
a translation of the instructions left;
In view of such continued activity on with him by Captain Sakimoto of the
the part of our enterprising people and Imperial Japanese snip Kasagi, and a
of the growing importances, and copy of these Instructions was accord-
considerable dimensions assumed by.
our interests in these waters, the Im
perial Gov't felt the necessity of tak
ing certain official and formal steps so
as to prevent any international compli
cations which long negligence on their
part in this respect might possibly give
rise to. And In fact such official and
formal step was taken in 1898. In the
Tokio Prefectural Ordinance under date
of the 24th July of the same year, the
island was incorporated in the Ogasa
wara (Bonin) Group and put under the
jurisdiction of the Tokio Prefecture,
and official name of the Mlnami Tori
shlma (South Birds Island) was given
to it. Encouraged by this Government
al1" measure, the Japanese settlers set
firmer foot in the soil and the con
sequence was gradual and steady prog
ress of the colonization and extention
of the industry in this Japanese posses
sion beyond seas."
It is now about three days that we
have been staying off the island vainly
waiting your arrival. We were finally
led to suspect that you might not have
left Honolulu on the 11th Inst, as re
ported. The coal, moreover, beginning
to fall short, it was with much reluc
tance that we decided to return for
coaling without being able to meet with
you. I accordingly have to recapitu
late in this note what I should have
personally pointed out to you.
I sincerely hope that you will agree
with me in thinking that the facts of
the case as above stated would
conclusively establish the validity . of
our title. Should they however fail to
secure your adhesion, I need scarcely
call your attention to the fact that the
matter should be negotiated through
the diplomatic channel between the two
Governments and that no measure in
compatible w-ith our right of prior pos
session and occupation should be taken
in the meantime. I have to ask you
for the sake of precaution that you
should take necessary steps against
your crew resorting to any hostile acts.
On this side Captain Sakamoto and
myself have not failed to give order
both to the inhabitants and the men
whom the Captain temporarily leaves
on the island that confident upon
your sense of justice "they (Should under
ingly furnished. The instructions read
as follows;
"Order Jto the Second Lieutenant Aki
note: Our ship shall return to the
naval port Yokosuka for the purpose
of coaling. I will remain you here; you
shall do your duty fully according the
order which is written after.
(Signed) Captain Sakimoto. Mina
mitorishima, July 27, Meji 25.
"1. When Captain Rosehill arrive at
this island give him the letters of the
American ambassador and of Mr. Ishii. !
2. If you see that he will not leave
the island after you gave two letters
to-tho-Captain, ask him to. leave there
as soon as he can, but give him your
maximum facilities and kindness to;
him when he ask you to mend the
wrecksof his ship. 3. If he ask to land
on the island do not permit it, but
when he ask you the landing of his
crew for. tie health,, permit it five men
at a time with some responsible man.
4. I will stay here fifteen seamen un
der your control."
After some conferences the Japanese
lieutenant, who seemed disposed to be
accommodating, agreed to allow Messrs.
Bryan and Sedgwick to stop on the isl
and for a short time, but would not
permit any of the sailors or officers of
the Whalen to remain. The lieutenant
gave them a small wooden house in
which to reside. They had their own
provisions and were allowed to pur
chase water from the Japanese fisher
men. :
Two days later further representa
tions being made the Japanese lieuten
ant permitted three of the sailors to
land and remain for the purpose of
aiding Mr. Sedgwick in the work of
examining the guano deposits. The
men and Mr. Sedgwick were attended
during their subsequent labors by one
or more of the guard of marines. The
work of drilling and blasting holes
through the rock phosphate deposits
down to the coral required considerable
time. A few holes were sunk in dif
ferent parts of the island and deposits
no circumstance provoke the citizens of i of crown mould guano averaging about
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REPUBLICANS WILL RATIFY
THE PARTY NOMINATIONS
Centra! Committee Completes Its Organization
and Prepares for a Great Mass
Meeting.
The Republican Central Committee
last night perfected its permanent or
ganization anu got down to work. The
first plan perfected was that for a
great ratification meeting Monday night
next, when there will be such a pro
gram as promises to attract more than
enough Republicans to fill the Orpheum.
It was quite a time before a quorum
could be obtained and finally sixteen
votes were found. Secretary Atkinson
reported that the registration commit
tee had secured the services of C. B.
Wilson to watch registration and list
the voters. He also reported from the
campaign literature committee tnat the
speech of Senator Thurston had been
translated and that certain other mat
ter sent down by Chairman of the Con
vention Holstein was being edited.
W. C. Achi suggested that a circular
be used instead of a pamphlet, as the
Hawaiians would read these before
throwing them away whereas a book
would be put away and never read.
This was contrary to the idea of Mr.
Holstein and the committee was grant
ed further time to complete its work.
Coming to the election of officers C.
L. Crabhe, nominated by J. W. Jones,
was elected by the unanimous vote of
the members present. J. H. Fisher
was nominated by Keen and elected
unanimously and A. L. C. Atkinson
nominated by J. P. Cooke was chosen
secretary, the same course being fol
lowed as to Assistant Secretary J. D.
Avery and Treasurer George R. Carter.
Senator Crabbe said he(realized the
importance of the position. He said
he would take hold and be in the office
each day and do all in his power to
elect every one from the Delegate down
to every representative. He said he
would bespeak the assistance of every
orne for without unity there could be
no success for the party. i
J. W. Jones suggested that now per-
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forty per cent, and of rock phosphates
averaging something over seventy per
cent, were found. They had been en
gaged in this work about five days and
desired to make a camp and land four
more men so as to push the work at
different points at the same time, when
they received from Lieut. Akinote the
following communication:
"Mlnimotorishima, Japan,
August 5, 1902.
"Captain A. Rosehill, Dear sir: j
"I do not like to write to you such
matters as follows, but I must tell you
that from iriy duty. I permitted two
gentlemen to stop on this island for
one week that is tomorrow, and to
your crew a week on this island for
their health. Now it Is the time to
please you that you and your crew will
not land on this island and two gentle
men will return to your ship, and also
you will leave this island as soon as
you possible because the people of this
island are so ignorant that they are
anxious for seeing foreigners and now
they do net do their industry.
"Please tell me the date on which
you will leave this island. I knovy a
little about Engiisa as you know, there
fore, there may be some impolite words
in this letter. Please excuse me if there
are such words.
"Your obedient servant,
"(Signed) H. AKINOTE."
Captain Rosehill upon receipt of this
last communication informed Lieut.
Akinote that it would take several
weeks' time to make a satisfactory ex
ploration of the guano deposits of the
island and that no idea of their ex
tent or value could be obtained from
the limited amount of work he had been
able to do with three men in five days.
He asked the lieutenant what he would
consider it his right or duty to do in
the event that he (.Captain Rosehill)
would insist upon remaining. The lieu
tenant shrugged his shoulders, glanced
significantly at the sixteen armed
marines drawn up in line and indi
cated that he would be compelled to en
force the orders left' With him by the
captain of the Japanese warship not
to permit the Captain and his party
to land or to remain on the island. As
there were sixteen men beside the lieu
tenant and about nfty stalwart Jap
anese fishermen. Captain Rosehill con
cluded that his instructions from the
company which were to yield to a
superior force, required him to depart.
So gathering wnat few samples they
had been able to obtain, the Whalen
party rejoined their vessel and she sail
ed for Honolulu stopping one day at
Midway Island and making the return
trip in twenty-eight days.
The officers of the Marcus Island
company, Col. Thomas Fitch and W.
C. Peacock, will at once report the cir
cumstances with the papers to the
State Department at Washington with
a claim against the government of Ja
pan for indemnity,, and a demand that
the possession of Marcus Island be
restored. Captain Rosehill says that
the statement of Secretary Ishii that in
1896 the periodical visits of Japanese
fishermen there were turned into a per
manent occupation, is incorrect, for he
last visited the island in 189" and at
that time It was still unoccupied.
Col. Fitch says that the questions
presented for diplomatic consideration
are not many or complicated. The con
tention of Col. Fitch is that when Cap
tain Rosehill put up the American flag
on the island in 1889 and made formal
claim in writing to it on behalf of the
United States, built a house and left a
member of the crew there with a year's
supply of provisions, two rights were
created; one a right of sovereignty In
the United States which became per
fected upon the Secretary of State sub
sequently filing in the Department of
State at Washington copies of the
claim of Captain Rosehill made in the
name of the Uniteu States to the isl
and, and that this rignt of sovereignty
thus vested' coula not subsequently be
divested by any failure or delay on the
part of Rosehill. j
The other right created by the notice
of acquirement of the island was an
Inchoate right which Rosehill might
have lost through neglect and that was
a matter between the United States and
Rosehill, the United States having sub
sequently accepted as proof of the no
tices by exacting of him a bond of $50,
000 and issued him the papers which he
carried with him to Marcus Island,
fully recognizing his right, and that it
cannot honorably fail to protect both
the rights of its citizen and its own
sovereignty over the island; that if it
be possible for a nation to lose terri
tory by non-user of It, and such non
user or abandonment should continue
for at least as long a time at would
be required by the statute of limitations
to create adverse title by possession to
real estate, and that at common law is
twenty years, there would be much In
ternational trouble. If the contention
of the Japanese government that It
made formal proclamation in 1897 of its
acquirement of Marcus Island be sus
tained, there are hundreds of unoccu
pied islands in the Aleutian group
which have never been occupied by
men and it could lose the title to these
by Japanese settlement and claim for
any Japanese who should choose to
occupy them.
The matter will now go to Washing
ton and there being no further use for
the Whalen she will be sold.
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Volcano Again De
stroys Human
Lives.
REIGN OF TERROR
ON AMRTINIQUE
Latest Eruption Covers Wide Area
and Is Worse Than the
First Ones.
CASTRIES, Island of St. Lucia, Brit
ish West Indies, Sept. 1. The British
steamer Korona arrived here yesterday
evening from Fort de France, island of
Martinique. She reports that a terrible
eruption of Mont Felee occurred at 9
o'clock Saturday night and people who
arrived at Fort de France from the
northern part of the island reported
that the village of Morne Rouge, near
1. he district previously devastated, had
been entirely destroyed and that Le
Carbet, a village on the coast, which
was destroyed at the time of the great
eruption, had been swept by a tidal
wave. About 200 persons lost their
lives.
. Mont Pelee has been in constant erup
tion since August 15. There was an
enormous fall of ashes from the volcano
the night of the 25th. There was a
very severe eruption the night of the .
28th, when the volcanic rumblings were
heard at a great distance. The moun
tain burned fiercely that night . The
night of the 30th there were three sep
arate eruptions. .
It is impossible to approach the ruin
ed town of St. Pierre from the sea.
The people of the village of Le Carbet,
on the coast, are terror-stricken and
fleeing to the Interior. Hot water is
pouring down on Lorraine and Basse
Pointe, villages to the northeast of the
crater. Horrib.e detonations were
heard, the ground rocked and quaked
and articles on tables were thrown to
the floor.
At 8 o'clock in the evening of Satur
day, the 30th, the sky was cloudless.
Suddenly and without warning one-half"
of the horizon was obscured by a pitch
black cloud of dust. This cloud was
the center of most magnificent electric
effects, the flashes of. light surpassing
the most elaborate fireworks. Flames
and flashes continued to burst from the
cloud until nearly nidnight. Columns
of flames shot out of the crater of Mont
Pelee to explode about the cloud in
showers of balls of golden fire, which
fell through the darkness in myriads
of sparks.
A tidal wave rushed upon Fort ue
France and the terrified inhabitants
fled in large numbers to the interior.
The wave was not severe and did but
slight damage.
FURTHER DETAILS.
PARIS, Sept. 2. The Havas agency
has received an undated dispatch from
Fort de France announcing that about
1000 persons were killed and several
hundred were injured as a result of a
violent eruption of Mont Pelee on Sat
urday, August 30, which destroyed
Morne Rouge and AJoupa Bouillon, two
villages near Mont Pelee.
PRAYING FOR SALVATION.
POINT A'PITRE, Guadaloupe, Sept.
2. The steamship Canada which touch
ed here today from Martinique brings
news of the destruction of Morne
Rouge, Carbet, Ajoupa Bouillon and
Grand Riviere by an eruption of Mont
Pelee at 9 o'clock Saturday night. One
thousand were killed, according to this
report, and so many were injured that
It has been necessary to convert Saint
Louis, at Fore de France, into a tempo
rary hospital to give them care.
La Soufriere has again given warn
ing that it is in ug!y mood, and the re
sult is that a panic is everywhere. All
the dwellers In the mountains have left
their homes and are herding Into the
towns.
Ir. several cases starving families
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