The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-02-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
(lSa" Francisco, Feb. IAN, per S.
s. Aidmedd.)
CLAIMING HAWAIIAN LANDS.
A CHICAGO WOMAN AFTER THE Es-
TATE OF QUEEN EMMA.

announced to-day that Chicago
lady claims an interest in large es-
tates in the Hawaiian Islands and
has retained Chicago law firm to
prosecute her claim. 1t is based on
her blood relationship to John
Young, who married into the royal
family of the islands, becoming
Governor of Hawaii and grandfather
of the late Queen Emma. About
the year 1889, John Young, boat
swain of the ship Eleanor, Captain
Metcalf, sailed from Cape Cod. A
year later she dropped anchor at
Hawaii, and after trading with the
natives for few days she went to
Maui, another of the Hawaiian
group. While at anchor there two
native chiefs swan to the Eleanor
one night and stole small boat
which floated astern of the ship,
and in which was sailor who had
fallen asleep. The chiefs pushed
the boat silently ashore, where they
murdered the sailor. They burned
the boat to obtain the nails in it,
which were almost invaluable to
them for making fish-hooks. Capt.
Metcalf offered reward for the re-
turn of the sailors body and any
part of the boat. This brought to
the vessel many canoe loads of ma
tives, bearing the remains of the
sailor and bringing produce for the
purpose of trade. Many came
through curiosity. Captain Met
calf gathered all the canoes on one
side of the vessel, and then suddenly
running out the guns, loaded with
grapeshot, bullets and nails, fired
upon the natives, killing and mangl-
ing over 100 of them. The vessel
then sailed to Kealakekua Bay, in
the island of Hawaii.
At this time small schooner of
twenty-six tons, consort of the
Eleanor, commanded by Captain
Metcalf's son and crew of six
men, lay off the coast of Kauai,
trading with the natives. The crew
knew nothing of the massacre which
had occurred, but the natives did,
and they determined to have their
revenge. A high chief, Kameami-
mokie, went on board the consort
with several men, with apparently
peaceable intentions. Watching their
opportunity they seized young Met
calf and threw him overheard, where
he drowned. All the sailors but
one, named Henry Davis, were
killed with clubs. Davis was car
ried ashore, badly wounded, to be
burned as a sacrifice.
A day later the Eleanor sailed
from Karrakakooa bay, accidentally
leaving on shore John Young, the
boatswain. On discovering this
Captain Metcalf stopped the vessel
a few miles from shore, where he
waited for two days, signaling for
Young, whom the natives had re-
strained. Young and Davis would
have been killed had it not been
that Kavanaeha, high chiefess,
fell in love with Young, and by
intercession with the King saved the
lives of both sailors. Kavanaeha
was the most beautiful woman on
the island of Hawaii, and was the
admiration of the sailors who visited
Karrakakooa bay. She was the only
daughter of Kelumaiki, the favorite
brother of the great King Kameha-
meha |. John Young and HAVANA
cha were soon married.
King Kamehameha appreciated
the superior talents of the white
men and made them high chiefs.
They taught the natives many things
and sowed the seed of Christianity
among them. When the navigator
Vancouver visited the island in 1898
he was entertained by King Kameha-
meha and John Young, who was
then the Kings chief counselor.
Young built the first house on the
island of Hawaii. Its runs are still
to be seen. 1t is of stone. Young
had no tools but Ratchet and a
wooden trowcl. He made the door
with the Ratchet, hewing it out Of a
koa tree slab. He whitewashed the
house with lime made from white
coral fshed from the sea. Here
Young. and Kavanaeha lived and
died, and here their daughter
Fanny Kekelaokalani, was born.
In 1894 each island of the group
was separate kingdom. About
this time Kamehameha made war on
the other islands and eventually
conquered all of them, becoming the
first King of the Sandwich Islands,
In these wars he was greatly aided
by Young, by the firearms and the
military instruction he had received
from Vancouver, and by the vessel
taken from Metcalf's son. King
Kamehameha died on May 8, 1919,
in the presence of John Young and