Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-05
THE DEPOSED KING.
The Germans Send a Ship for Malietoa-WhO
They will Place on His Throne

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APIA, SAMOA, July 20.-Per steamer
Mariposa. Political affairs at Samoa re-
main quiet. The German gunboat Wulf
left here June p for Joliut Marshall s is
lands for the purpose of bringing back the
deposed king, Malietoa, and three
chiefs who were taken there
by the Germans two years ago.
| The Germans state they are bringing
Malietoa back to Samoa of their own free
will and not as q result of the Berlin
conference. They also assert that they
will do all in their power to restore the
| condition Of affairs that existed here
prior to the time MaiIetoa was deposed,
and they announce that they will favor
Malietoa as king and Tamasese as vice
| king.
The German corvette Sophie arrived
recently from Zanzibar via Sydney and
Auckland. She has q number of wound
ed men on board who received their inju
ries during the campaign at Zanzibar.
Officers OF the Sophie state that the Al
exandua win arrive here in about a
month and relieve theSophie.
Admiral Kimberly, accompanied BY
Lieut.. Merriam, his secretary, has gone
to Autuila Island, seventy-five miles
from here, to inspect Page Page har5or
and q site for storing the coal which is
expected to arrive there daily from Phil
adelphia.
Lieut.. Il. O. Rittenhouse and his men
are the only survivors of the recent hur-
ricance who still remain at Apia. and it
is thought they viii go aboard the Adams
as soon as she arrives from Honolulu.
The TOIipn nnDoiufp6 nv Mat0q IN ST
June have full charge Of the town, the
police who held Office under the old
Tamasese government having been forced
to disband. Mataafa has also appointed
native judges for the municipality and
county districts.
The natives have not an abundance of
food, but it is believed the supply will
last until their plantations are again in
working order. A branch of the
London missionary society in Sydney
raised S250O for the Samoans on the
strength of private letter from one of
their missionaries here and sent $3.50
worth of rice and biscuits to Apia, but
the chief missionary in Samoa at once
wrote to Sydney and asked that no more
provisions be sent us it only tended to
pauperiZe the natives As soon as it was
known that provisions had been, received
q number OF natives went to
the missionaries and begged for
food, saying they were starving.
The missionaries, however, sent them
away, stating they thought the natives
were in no danger Of starvation.
Considerable annoyance is expressed
here on account OF a newspaper argu-
ment which has been started in Sgd
new between the Roman Catholics and
4ba TcOIOn missionary cOoinfyr 4o
which religious body the natives belonged
who saved the lives during the hurricane.
The SamOaus are devoted in their re-
ligious belief and it is feared
the discussion may tend to increase
the bad feeling which already exists
among the natives. Some of the high
chiefs say they fear the religious
differences may be carried INTO
the election for king, which will be
held on Malietoa S return and that a
split may occur among the adherents of
the Malietoa family, of which Mataafa is
a member, and that thereby Tamases
may be elected king, in which event the
Germans would have as full power as
they had two years ago.
Considerable excitement was caused
here month ago by the fact that a
number of Samoans left here on the
steamer Alameda for San Fran
cisco in charge of Americans.
Mataafa supposed the latter were
British subjects and applied to
the British consul to use his Office in pre-
venting Samoans from gong. The
British consul referred the matter to the
United States vice. consul, Blackjack,
and Mataafa wrote a letter to the latter
asking him to interfere in the mat
that time aboard the steamer and as no
boat could be obtained it was impossible
to communicates with them.
Consul Blackjack has not yet COM
pleted the distribution of gifts from the
American government, consisting of
money, watches, etc.