The herald., 1893-07-09
POLITICAL PEACE AND QUIET.
A Quiescent State Of Affairs
at Honolulu.
The Three Arrested Conspirat0rs
Held for Trial.
A Waiting Policy Adopted by the Pro-
visional Government-An Expedi.
tion Sent Against the Re-
bellious Lepers.

By the Associated Press.
Honolulu, July l, (via Victoria, B. O.,
July S.)-Notwithstanding the talk of
treason, assassination and the trial of
the conspiretors, political peace and
quiet reign in Honolulu. The prelimin-
ary examination of the alleged conspirit-
ors, Wakes, Crick and Sinclair, has
been finished, and Judge Carter has re-
served his decision until July Sd, when
he will hold the three men for trial be-
fore higher court. The government
has withheld its strongest evidence un-
til the regular trial, and is confident OF
securing their conviction.
A WAITING POLICY.
Official advices have been received
from Minister Thurston at Washington
concerning the policy which will be pur-
sued by Cleveland's administration.
Secretary Gresham is said on good au-
thority to be in an undecided state of
mind regarding the Hawaiian question.
In conversation with President Dole this
afternoon, and later with Attorney
eral Smith, it was learned that the pro-
visional government intends to follow
waiting policy, in imitation of President
Cleveland. Even though Minister
Thurston's dispatches announced his
failure to get a definite answer from
Cleveland, yet they contained grounds
for hope that his silence would soon be
broken.
"We are fully determined upon carry
out the plan for annexation" said At
torney- General Smith, land until we
know it is q failure we shall not ma
government. 1t will be hard on this
demands that the present oligarchy
shall be continued until annexation is
secured or arrangements with some
other foreign government are made to
insure the stability of Hawaiian institu-
tions."
President Dole stated the same in
substance, and added that, as far as the
new treaty which had been prepared
was concerned, it would not be for
warded until some answer to the ques-
tions submitted through Minister
Thurston had been received from Wash
ington.
THE LEPER UPRISING.
Sheriff Stolz who was shot by lepers
in Kalsku Kauia was buried here June
Goth. The government dispatched a
of regular troops and police
to about so men, with one
Krupp field piece, by the steamer Wal
alela, on June 30th. Martial law has
been proclaimed ia the districts where
the lepere are. Instructions have been
Issued to the commander of the expedi-
ton to remove the % lepers terrorizing
the Kauai leper settlement at Molokai
at all hazards. They will be taken dead
or alive. The lepers have secured arms
and battle between them and the
troops is not unlikely. The expedition
has taken food for three weeks, and will
land from the sea and form camp at the
mouth of the rock-bound valley in which
the lepers are hiding. There the diff
Guilty will begin, as the lepers must be
dislodged from the caves and dense
woods, if they refuse to surrender before
they can be removed. II the force should
prove insufficient, reinforcements will
have to be sent. These lepers have de-
fed the government for the past 10
years, and other officers have been shot
and wounded in previous attempts to
remove them. 1t is feared here that
should the lepers resist this time, and
are shot, as seems probable that they
will, the action of the government
at the present time will turn the natives
more against it than anything that has
vet occurred.