Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-03-12
Gaila1 gress aua 9akotaiaa
HER FLAG STILL AYES
No Official Intelligence of the Sink:
ing OF the Nipsic.
THE REPORT DIsCREDITED.
The Excitement Caused nv the Alarming
R,mnrs from Samoa at san Francisco
Has Abated-Gossip on Affairs
at the Island.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE past
week there has been talk OF an early
converting of the Fifty-trst congress-.
1t is not unlikely that President Harri-
IN would call congress together should
the reports from Samoa prove to be cor
iect.
The executive departments have not
yet received anything to change their
opinions respecting the reported engage
ment between the German steamer Olga
and the United States steamer Nipsic
MT Apia, Samoa, The reports from San
Francisco did not create much excite
ment at the capital. as the people here
who are interested in the matter are
familiar with the fact that, telegraph
ically speaking. Washington is nearer
than San Francisco to the Samoa
Islands. Editors of all the principal
papers directed their correspondents to
interview public officers on the situa-
ton, but there WAS nothing but negative
matter obtainable, and the situation
bShC tliiicu SithIAc 4uilSll SOll6 OiilCldl
intelligence is received at either the
state or navY department. 1t is known
at the latter department that four Ger
ma iron-clads sailed from Geneva
some eight or ten days ago. 1t is ex-
pected that these vessels will require at
least sixty days to make the voyage
Speaking on Samoan affairs, a gentle
man :amiliar with the country and its
customs said il the commander OF the
Olga fired on the Samoan troops from
the llerbor OF Apia, it could only be
done by firing directly over the neutral
territory where the Americans live and
have property. The commander of the
Nipsic would naturally feel justified,
under these circumstances, in protesting
and in following the protest, il disre-
garded, by action; and that his protest
would say that a shot from the Olga
over the neutral ter: tory, endangering
the lives and property of Americans,
would be regarded as an act OF hostility
towards this country. Another reason
for making che protest M following it
up would be that he had received news
from this country and knew what pub
lie sentiment here was. He would also
know OF the approach of Admiral Kim
befly with reinforcements. The Ameri-
can naval officers at Apia nave been
subjected tn many humiliations and are
likely to welcome the opportunity to re-
yenge themselves. They are men of
spirit, and Tho fact that the. Olga was
.%iea aszsis IS iiiss N;..si.s w.,..ta il. the
opinion of the gentlemen be rather an
argument for than against the prob
ability of the report.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.--Naval
Constructor Fernaid says he has received
no orders from the secret,sry of the
navy about the Charleston, but received
a telegram from the chief OF coastruc-
ton, asking when the vessel will be
ready for triel. He replied, in five
weeks. but if necessary in two weeks.
In the latter case her armament could
be mounted in ten days additional. She
could he made ready for active service
in twenty-five days.
The report that the steamer City of
Pueblo had been chartered by the gov
eminent az q dispatch boat between
Samoa n Auckland il denied by her
owners.
None of the alarming rumors about
events in Samoa nave been confirmed,
and the excitement caused by them has
abated. The Alta urges TINT the Berlin
conference, set down for the 18th inst,
should be deferred until the arrival here
on the 10Th, Oh the steamer Ieafandla,
from Auckland, which may bring inn
portant news.
LONDON, March IL. Robert Louis
Stevenson, the novelist, writes from
Hawaii commenting vigorously on the
gh-handed action Of the Germans In
Samoa. By what prowess, he asks, did
Consul Knappe become the Bismarck of
Polynesia, and what is the spell over the
English and American cabinets that
Consuls Blackjack and Coetiogen remain
unsupported
CHICAGO, March ia dispatch from
San Francisco says: 1t is said that the
first Breslau cablegram, which origin.
ated the present Nipsic agitation, was
sent from this city. The story goes that
one of the passengers who came up on
the steamer Mariposa brought news of
al important character, commercially,
relative to the Samoan troubles, to d
local German mercantile house. This
house, for the purpose of influencing
trade in u certain channel, cabled the
story to its Breslau correspondent, with
instructions to give it a wide circula-
ton. The present agitation was the re-
suit. This statement of the case receives
credence AMONG merchants.