Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-10-13
A LETTER FROM HAWAII.
Mr.. BENEDICK,S STATEMENTS CHAL.
LENGED.

III. BENEDICK'S STATEMENTS CHALr :
LENGED.
|ut His Material Allegations Regard.
ing Shanghaiing and Slavery on q
Vast Scale Remain UncOntrOverted.
We publish to-day a somewhat
engthy letter from an unknown cor
at Hamakuapoka, Maui,
Sandwich Islands. 1t is written IN a
,old, business like hand, on one side
If the page-without a!single mistake
that revealing the author to be
well-educated business man accus-
toned to write for the press. Such
slangy expressions as "the lies make
me tired!" would indicate that, if the
writer has really resided on the islands
for so years, he has kept fully posted
in the most recent Pacific Coast slang.
We regret that lack of time and space
forbids our commenting upon the let
ter at greater length at present. Here
it is:
MAUI, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,
September 10, 1854.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HALEY
OpAHo) TIMES My attention has
been called to an article in the "Pa-
cifc Commercial Advertiser" which
purports to be from your columns. l
am pleased to notice that you did not
publish such statements without see
ing to it that the narrator of such an
incredible story had voucher. Please
let Mr.. w. T. Hall see this.
The writer finds it difficult to begin
to unravel such string Of lies. There
Is abundant reason to doubt all the
first part of the article, but as have
no personal knowle6 &c of those days
l will start at the place marked one
and assert that during residence here
of over 80 years l never heard of a
vessel "casting anchor between" any
1.-TWO of the Sandwich Islands," and
no part of the group is $500 miles from
Honolulu" The extreme southern
point of Hawaii is distant only PSI
miles, and there is no om-hous'
there or anywhere near there. A maj
in bondage, compelled to travel a-foot
,, dragging ball and chain, woul'
= naturally think the distance niue
greater.-ED. TIMES.
There is no plantation in the grou
that is known or can be identified a
the "Missonary Plantation" unless
be one on Oahu, few miles tro'
> Honolulu, belonging to the Mormon
There is no 'plantation owned t
Bishop & JONES' and never has bee'
There is Rev. Mr.. Bishop in Hon'
" lulu. but he is neither banker nor
Methodist. and there was Rev. NJ
- Jones, neither Methodist nor int
ested in plantation. Mr.. Bisho
=. our leading banker, may possibly no
=" stock in some of the chartered plant
=. tons, but he did not ''come out as
" poor missionary few years az
" Judge Zurril of Kentucky was Unit
- States Consul here in 1916, and n
Bishop was his clerk. Then he "
Hawaiian Collector General of &,
70 toms several years, then mercha
or now a banker. He is NOT Il "Meti
i dist" nor is the Mr.. Jones whom p
haps Bened.ck tries to refer to- and
never ''preached the gospel" thou
he tries to live it. He did not co
o. out MS poor missionary, but az
of clerk in the oldest business house
m the Islands, and has been the head
he the house for years. These are m
of details, and do not affect the rella
of itv of Mr.. Benedick's account OF
personal experience, as he mel
mentioned Messrs. Bishop and DO
as being interested in the pla"tat
-Ep.
I'd When Benedick and his compani
arrived at the plantation upon wi
we, they had agreed to work, the mana
received the contracts each OF II
'''- had made. Each man had a dupll'
'er' of this contract. This is false;
''s' the law requires this.-ED.] /
al copies were signed in San Franci
nts receipt for the advance money
signed and witnessed in San r
Is. cisco, and certificate of acknowl
4 l. a.