New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-26
MINISTER BLOUNT'S REPORT.
TT IS NOW on IT'S WAY TO WASHINGTON.
THE ANNExATIoNIsTs SAY HE DOES NOT or
POSE THEIR MovEMENT-TRoUBLE WITH
THE LEPERS Ar AN END-A NEW
COMMISSIONER
iyRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or rHs re'boNh.

i,,ov spyctA CORRESPONDENT OF THE rnIBrSy
Honolulu. July ls-Minster Blount forwards his
renort bv the Australia 1t Is voluminous docu-
ment aving been transcribed from the shorthanu
notes OF his private secretary by hahu IL :,
hoped that the Administration at Washington VIII.
be able to act upon 1t before the speo''' 'e''''" "
Congress meets in August.
pa,u Nsumann the attorney for the ex-Queen,
has addressed an open letter to President Dole re-
viewing the political situation. giving the frovs'oa'
Government advice and then asking that p'eo.'.
tum be held. II has not caused much co''
interest excepting that inquisitive persons "o"''
like to know Who got MIN 10 "r'e IT, anu INV
large a fee he received
The sensational report that muroer soceV
had been formed within the ranks OF 'he "'',,eN
ton party for the killing Of Royals's Is en',eS
without foundation. How the report orisnia'e' 70
past finding out but the supposition Is 'ha' u "a'
created in the brain of the correspondent VINO LOT
warded 1t. , H.,
A. n snecial session OF the Advisory ana fN-
ecutive Council held on July II. 1t was decide" 10
send Professor w. d. Alexander to Wasn"euo"
as a co-commissoner to act with Hawaiian Hi'''
ister L. A. Thurston The selection OF rroies'o'
Alexander as a commissioner Is to be comhehoe''
He Is the best-nformed man in the ISLANDS OH
Hawaiian affairs and his high literary attain
ments have won great esteem for him In hawaii
His history Of the Hawaiian Islands which was
published a few years ago. Is the best ana most
authentic history extant Being very cohser'a-
tive ne has not entered rashly into politics. and
there is probably not a man in the islands WHO
&c more highly esteemed by both natives and
whites than he. The professor will start for
Washington on the Monowai, leaving here on
July p.
The only excitement In the Islands since
the last mail has been furnished by koo-
Ian the leper outlaw. who has Killed three more
men and has had a price OF slVO set on MS heao
Koolan seems to be like Evans and Sontag OF
California for he has retired to the mountains
and has shot down three of the soldiers sent out 10
capture him. After his murder OF Deputy -on"i'i
stoItz Koolan fed to the mountains back OF ksia-
r,lu Valley With his wife and child hooiah at
first sent in word that he would surrender II as
sured OF fair treatment but later ne chahse" ~
mind and warned the officers that he would never
he taken alive He selected cave on the sue VI
a mountain precipce about three miles from the
valley and waited for his pursuers. The pathway
along IN. cliff is never more than two feet wide'
and In MANY places II Is rugged That one mas
70 Use both hands in climbing. On one side is the
almost perpendicular mounnjn Of black lava on
the other sheer precipice Of 800 feet 80 tha' one
falling drops into the sea, unless caught p' 'ie
sb,,bs growing along the face OF the Gill;
ON JuIy Ave soldiers tracked Koolan to his lar.
As they neared his cave, Private Johnson S"eoe'
reconnoitered and when near the cave ne was sho'
dead in his tracks. The next day hVe men at
tempted to rush up the steep tran 10 the ca'e,
when Koolan used his winchester with such sood
effect that Privates McCabe and Hirsberg EEL
dead and their bodies nearly carried over the CHI
their three comrades. A few days after entrance
wos gained to the outlaws den. but he had dsap-
peared
The Royalists have tried TO make capital against
the Annexationists for removing these lepers. put
!, 10 ,.orrsd that the man who urged the transfer
10 I O. Carter president OF the Board OF Heaith
who IS an ardent Royalist Whether he pressed
the removal as political device Is uhHho""' ou'
the surrender of all the lepers except the murderer
has robbed the incident of all its FORCE. oh July
"A the dead soldiers received public burial In Homo
lulu which an impressive spectao'e' do an wv
Provisional officials attended
..rbe Hawaiian star" the organ OF the fro-
visonal Government. yesterday printed the ioi-
lowing leader, prominently displayed:
..erhe star wishes to say. for the benefit OF the
American readers who follow IL III the hosp'aoe
columns of the United States annexation press
THAT the dominant party here is stronger in po-
utical and financial way than 1t has been at any
i'm. since January H. 2. That Minister Blount,
for from giving any sign of opposition to the re-
form movement or any desire to restore the mon
archy. has shown sympathy and lrlendliness 70
the Government which al Tba us ali eforts to create
republican sentiment apart from that when IN,
disoreanize or diminish the strength of the An
nexation party, have failed T. That the condue.
| of the eX-Queen y cdlHpdlSH ior -
largely and so far as the newspapers manifesto
| ton Of 1t is concerned, entirely In the hands OF
| british subjects. s. That murder society or
ANYTHING equivalent to It has been or Will be
| formed or countenanced by the Annexation party.
6 That all reports of danger 10 the peace OF these
islands either present or prospective, are without
basis In fact. These are the plain truths OF the
| Hawaiian situation II exists to-day. and those
| American papers which use them as the basis Of
their news and comment will serve their readers
| wisely"
From who is high in authority 1t Is learned
that the Provisional Government VIII adopt more
fuse the Hawaiian offer of annexation. The first
step in such a will be to warn the ex-Queen
that she must leave the islands. The'Provisionai
| leaders declare that they can carry on the Gov
| eminent without foreign aid but they cannot do
this If the ex-Queen remains and furnishes head