Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-08
QUEEN ILLS HEALTH
Hawaii's Dusky Sovereign III
Danger of Dissolution.
Heart Failure May Carry Her
Off Any Moment.
A Regent Selected to Act in Case
She Should Die.
Hawaiian Residents of San Francisco
saw There is No Cause for Alarm.
The Washington Authorities
waking Up.
Associated Press DISPATCHES.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. THE pub
lished reports of the illness of Queen
Liliuokalani, who is stated to be suffer-
ing from organic disease of the heart,
are not wholly credited by the Hawaiian
residents OF this city, and by others
who are supposed to have full and au-
thentic advices from the islands.
Consul General Mckinley, in an inter-
view, said: 81 have received no infor-
nation regarding the queens illness,
and l believe her majesty to be well.
Letters by the last steamer do not indi-
cate anything to disturb harmony at the
islands. The queen has never given
any indication of preference for the
British, and the members of her cabi-
net are Americans, except one, and he
is a native son of an American"
John D. Spreckels, of the well-known
shipping firm, said he had learned when
visiting the islands some time ago, that
Queen Lihuokalani had some disorder
of the heart, and he was informed that
the queen had designated person to be
regent during the minority of Princess
Kaiulani, heir to the throne. He de-
clined to give the name OF the person
designated as regent, but stated that
the latter was we'll disposed to the
American element on the islands. The
Americas residents, he said, outnum-
bered those of any other foreign nation
atty, and the natives are inclined to-
ward and desire annexation to Amer
lea.
Ex-Attorney-Genera Thurston under
stood that the queen had been afflicted
with slight touch of heart disease for
several wears, but she had never been
what is termed a sufferer from heart
disease, and no fears of serious results
have been apprehended.
The wife of wealthy Honolulu mer-
chant, at present in this city, received a
letter by the last steamer from one of
Queen Liliuokalani's most intimate at
PENDANTS, in which it was stated that the
qeen felt deeply the death of the late
King Kaakaua, and was pretty we'll
weighed down under the burdens of her
new office, but there was no suggestion
of serious illness intimated, as would
have been the case had it existed at the
time the letter was written.
New Zealand government, said his adj
vices contained nothing to the effect
that the queen was ill., He stated that
from what he knew OF the affairs of Mr..
Cleghorn, father of Princess Kainlani,
he would gain nothing from conspiring
in favor of English control of the islands.
The balance of trade was decidedly with
America, and by the withdrawal of the
d. IL, III - h.,
sibility of preserving peace and good
order in the islands rests on this coun-
try.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Reports OF the
seriousness illness of Queen Lilliuoka-
lani, of Hawaii, and Of serious political
complications almost sure to follow her
death, have convinced the administers
ton that it must be up and doing if the
efforts Of the English to secure suprem-
acy in those islands are to be circum-
vented. Just at the present time there
is no vessel that can be sent to join the
Pensacola at Honolulu. The Mohican
and Thetis, if they are not too badly in
need of repairs, will be available upon
their return to San Francisco, about
October 10th from Boring sea. What
the department would really like to do
would be to send Rear Admiral Brown
with the San Francisco, and at the
earliest possible moment his vessel can
be spared from Chile it will be sent
there. Admiral Browns popularity
with the people of the Sandwich islands,
coupled with the display of two or three
good ships, would, tits believed, be of the
greatest possible assistance in bringing
the United States to the front in the
matter of control of the much coveted
islands.