Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-01-29
A pOTENTATE EXPIRES.
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS KING
is DEAD.
In the Midst OF Strangers. at San Fran
cisco, the Hawaiian Monarch Passes
Away, the Victim OF Painful Disorder
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cisco, the Hawaiian Monarch Passes
Away, tho Victim of Painful Disorder
Succession TO the Throne.
[san Francisco dispatch.l
King Kalakaua died here this after
noon after day and half of terrible
agony, I'm which all the forces of this
unusually strong man rallied TO resist
ieath. He lay through the early morn
ing hours In semi-conscious state, occa-
slonally seeming to recognize what was
said TO him. He seemed to improve q
trife after sunrise, but about 10 o'clock
, collapse occurred and a report got out
that he was dead. The news was made
known at the hotel Office and bulletins
rushed East, but soon this intelligence
was denied by the physicians. They
kept the King alive by stimulants exact
ly as tho doctors sustained Grants
strength He would have died early last
evening except for liberal hypodermic
injections Of liquor.
The question of the succession Is very
simple. and will be peacefully settled.
Kalakaua succeeded Lunalilo, the last
of the Kamehameha dynasty. When
Kalakaua was elected he named as his
successor Princess Lilliuokalani, his
sister, who is married to an American
named John Odominis. She is now Re-
gent, having been appointed such just
before Kalakaua sailed on his visit to
this country last month. All she will
have to do is to take the oath OF Office
and be crowned as Queen.
Kalakaua l., the deceased King OF the
Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, son Of
Keohokalole and Kapaakea, a native
Hawaiian OF the original royal blood,
was born Nov. Is, 1886. After the death
of King Kamehameha in 1873, without
natural or appointed heirs, Prince
Lunalilo was elected to the Hawaiian
throne, and at his death a year later
High Chief Kalakaua was elected over
Queen Emma to fill tho place on Feb.
13, 1874, though his coronation, with
that of his wife, the late Queen Kapio-
lani. was deferred to Feb. IL, 1883.
Kalakaua's reign was characterized by a
large influx Of foreigners and outside
capital into the kingdom. Through the
immigration of Portuguese and Chinese,
early encouraged by him, the country
has been opened up and its resources
largely developed In 1876 Kalakaua
visited this country, and during his
stay here the reciprocity treaty
with Hawaii was contracted, which
proved of immense profit to
the realm. Before this in the
early portion of his reign Kalakaua had
permittedsthe native element to relapse
almost to its original state of barbarism,
and had himself reverted to paganism
and heathen rites, manners and customs
and resisted missionary advice in the
management OF his affairs. In 1881 the
King had quite changed his views about
10 go owL Ax IL
a tour of the world, with a view to en-
strange one, and partly through the
novelty OF the spectacle OF barbaric roy
atty errant and partly for more polite
reasons, his receptions here and in
Europe were marked by most fiatter-
ing display. Thus, while he failed in
his original object, he became imbued
with passion for royal forms that has
since nigh pauperiZed his realm. In the
many changes of his ministry, which oc-
CURED through the vicissitudes accom-
panying his numerous levles upon his
mixed and restless subjects, a few
shrewd Americans have managed sue
cessively to control him by pampering
his taste for extravaganza and display,
while they have collected private for
tunes for themselves.
A few of his eccentric acts were the
SIS, 900 celebration of his fiftieth birth
day, a $4,000 obsequy for a relative, and
the expenditure of $4,000 for the fitting
out of an embassy to the Samoan King
to induce him to accept Hawaiian
"Tutelage."
Through sinecures, licenses and bribes,
revenues from the Queens lands, and his
regular income. the annual Hawaiian
appropriations for the royal family came
to about S50O,OO0 In 1887 the white
residents, upon whom the burden of his
extravaganza fell, plotted and success
fully carried out bloodless revolution,
by which Kalakaua was forced to re-
pudiate his ministerial favorites, and in
a new constitution to yield the legisla-
tive powers to an elective assembly,
while the principle of ministerial re-
sponsibility was adopted. King Kala-
kaua always entertained the highest re-
spect for the United States, as well as a
prediction for Americans. Through
this disposition on the dead Kings part,
this country has become by the new
treaty of 1884 possessor Of exclusive
rights to the fine harbor of Pearl River
in Oahu. and he had frequently mani
tested wish for ties still closer between
the two nations.