Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-01-08


Three companies of soldiers are at
Duncan One Lieutenant had in his
command fifty scouts. and on account
of their refusal to obey any of his orders
and their insurbordination and mutin-
GUS conduct, he has been compelled to
abandon all attempts to control them.
Orders from the department com
mander were telegrahed him to the
effect that Lieutenant Mcdonald was
to take ten of his scouts. When he
attempted to give Lieutenant McDo-
nald the scouts they positively refused
to go with him unless the whole num-
Der went. They are not under any
control and are camped away from the
soldiers, refusing to obey the orders
given to them. Telegrams have been
sent to General Crook, asking for in
structions as to what to do. The scouts
are armed and the officers are afraid to
disarm them. Lieutenant McDonald's
command will camp here until instruc-
tions can be received from Crook
When the trail Of the hosties was
struck and the scouts were ordered to
follow it they told the officer that they
would not do SO, and upon his endeav-
oring to enforce his orders they left his
command, walked to the top Of a high
rocky hill, placed cartridges in their
guns and deffed the officer to compel
them to follow the trail AS there were
not enough soldiers to compel obedi-
ence the trail was abandoned and the
scouts brought in here by persuasion,
where they are now camped by them
selves, under no orders whatever.
The military have been notified that
twenty bucks left the reservation on the
24th, coming this way. The soldiers
report that twenty-four bucks were seen
about twenty miles northeast of Car
Isle with siximules in pack train. The
band of Indians trailed by the rangers
have in the past month killed over
thirty men. The official report is that
thirty-three persons have been killed
Their success has SO emboldened them
that it is unsafe to 60 mile from
home. The whole country is exposed
SO that every man. women and child
feels as if they were constantly men
aced and threatened with death from
the Indians.
The Stars Prescott special says
Governor Zulick pronounces the Wash
ington dispatch of December goth in
the San Francisco papers, saying that
he had asked that troops be sent to
protect the San Carlos reservation
against the lawless white element, a
willful and deliberate forgery. The
Governor has never asked for troops
for any purpose other than to hunt
down and destroy the hostile renegade
Indians, and for this purpose two
troops of cavalry and eight companies
of infantry are ordered to the Territory
and authority given for raising a hun
dred additional scouts. The dispatch
referred to was received by the
Chr0nifle upon good authority from
Washington, and is borne out by Gen
eral Crooks, action in the premises and
the departure of troops from this city
Tuesday for Fort Bowie, A. T.-Ed. |
PREscorr, Dec. 3o.-The proclama-
ton recently issued by Governor
Zulick of this Territory proclaiming
citizens as a lawless white element has
created the greatest excitement in the
Territory, and indignation meetings are
being called to protest against it. The
arrival of papers containing the tele-
gram asking the authorities at Wash
ington for troops to protect the Indians
has increased the excitement and in
dignation. The position taken by the
Governor is false, as no movement on
the part of the citizens against peace
able Indians has been contemplated.