St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-04
ALL QUIET AT APIA.
The Germans VIII Bring Ex-King
MaIietoa Back From the Mar
shall Islands.

shall Islands.
APIA, Samoa, July 20.-Per Steamer
Mariposa. Political affairs at Samoa re-
main quiet. The German gunboat Wulf
left here June 27 for Joluit, Marshall
islands, 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 Malie-
toa back to Samoa of their own free
will, and not as result of the Berlin
conference. They also assert they
will do all in their power to
restore the condition of affairs
that existed here prior to the
time that Malietoa was depOrted, and
they announce they will favor Malle tOa
as king and Tamasese as vice king.
The German corvette Sophie, arrived
recently from Zanzibar via Sydney and
Auckland. She has a number of
wounded men on board who received
their injuries during the campaign at
Zanzibar. Officers of the Sophie state
that the Alexandria will arrive here in
about a month and relieve the Sophie.
Admiral Kimberly. accompanied by
Lieut.. Merriam. his secretary, has gone
to Tutuiia island, seventy-five miles
from here. to inspect Pago-Pago harbor
and the site for storing the coal which
is expected to arrive there daily from
Philadelphia. Lieut.. IL. o. Ritten-
house and six men are the only sur
vivors of the recent hurricane who
STILL REMAIN AT APIA,
and it is thought they will go aboard
the Adams as soon as she arrives from
Honolulu. The police appointed by
Mataafa last June have full charge of
the town, the police who held office
under the old Tamasese government
having been forced to disband. Ma
taafa has also appointed native judges
for the municipality and county dis
trlcts. The natives have not an abund-
ance of food, but it is believed the sup
plv will last until their plantations are
again in working order. A branch of
the London missionary society in Sgd
ney raised $500 for the Samoans on
the strength of private letter from
one gof 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.
as it only tended to pauperiZe the
natives. AS soon as it was known here
that provisions had been received,
number of natives went to the mission
aries and begged for food, saying that
they we're starving. The missionaries,
however, sent them away, stating that
they thought the natives were in no
danger of starvation. Considerable an
noyance is expressed here on account OF
a newspaper argument which has been
started in Sydney between the Roman
Catholics and the London Missionary
oh Y-aIininuc how tho
natives belonged who saved lives dur
ing the hurricane. The Samoans are
divided in their religious belief, and it
is feared the discussion may tend to
.INCREASE THE BAD FEELING
which already exists among the ma
tives. Some of the high chiefs say that
they fear the religious differences may
be carried into the election for king,
which will be held on Malietoa's return,
and that split may occur among the
adherents Of the Malietoa faction, of
which Mataafa is a member, and there
by Tamasese 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 the SamOanS left here
on the steamer Alameda for San
Francisco in charge of an Ameri-
can. Mataafa supposed that the latter
was British subject, and he applied to
the British consul to use his officers in
preventing the Samoans from going.
The British consul referred the matter
to United States Vice Consul Blackjack,
and Mataafa wrote a letter to the latter,
asking him to interfere in the matter.
However, the natives were by that time
aboard the steamer, and. as no boat
could be obtained, it was impossible to
communicate with them. Consul Black
lock has not yet completed the distribu-
ton of gifts from the American gov
ernment, consisting of money, watches,
etc.