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Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-10-13

In the iftQ OF last SAuuaff
according to Mr. Stevens papers,
1.-THE city gof Honolulu was star
tied by the information that Her
Msiesty Queen Liliuokalani had
announced her intention to arbi-
trarily promulgate 3 new eonstit-
ution, and that three of the newly
appointed Cabinet ministers had,
or were about to resign in conse-
quence thereof. In response to
the call from the Committee OF
Public Safety, a mass meeting
was held on the 10th. We see
by this that it took two long days
to stir the people up to having a
mass meeting, and when 1t met u
was attended by one thousand
three hundred out of nearly one
hundred thousand people. MIR.
Stevens called this in his despatch
"a remarkable uprising. On
the same day, long before tue
mass meeting. the Queen and her
Ministers sent ont the following
proclamation:
Her Majesty's Ministers desire
to express their appreciation for
tie quiet and order when has
prevailed in this community since
the events of Saturday. and are
authorized to say that the posi-
ton taken by Her Majesty In
regard to the PRONUNCIATION Of a
new constitution was under stress
of her native subjects. Authority
is given for the assurance that
any changes desired in the fund
amental law of the land will be
sought only by methods provided
in the Constitution itself. Her
Majesty's Ministers request all
citizens to accept the assurance
of Her Majesty in the same spirit
in which it is given
This proclamation is not only
signed by the Queen, but also by
the Queens Ministers. whom
Mr.. Stevens tells US ARE favor
able to American interests.
This proclamation was sent out
in the morning and scattered
throughout the city, and yet
in the face of it Mr.. Stevens
sends the following letter to
Captain Wilt;
Sir: I'm view of the existing
critical circumstances in Homo
lulu, including an inadequate
legal force, | request-you to land
marines and sailors from the
ship under your command for the
protection of the United States
Legation and the United States
Consulate. and to secure the
safety of American life and pIo-
perty.''
Understand now that it
was two days before that the
Queen tried to promulgate the
new constitution, and up to
the time Mr.. Stevens sent thislet-
ter there bad not been q riot nor
even life lost. The Ministers
whom Mr.. Stevens says were
favorable to American interests
had six or seven hours before
issued a proclamation and
scattered it all over the city
congratulatfng the people on the
peace that had prevailed in the
city. In this proclamation the
Queen withdrew her new Con-
ssitution. the very thing which
nv opponent clairEs was the
cause Of the revolution. The
government was being carried
on By the Queen aad her Mini
stry favorable to American IN
saraSfs nS The n.sSvas are sat-
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-10-13

Hawaiian Government was as
fragrant an outrage OF all the dn-
ties of our Government to another
as was ever committed by civil
lied nation. Can the United
States annex these Islands until
she has made herself right before
the worlil Until she has undone
everything that this Minister has
done
Another reason why l would
oppose annexation under the
present circumstances is. because
the United States has never
received the sanction of the
voters OF those Islands. and It il
a fact known 10 all the world
that sweeping majority Of the
voters of those Islands are strong
" opposed to annexation.
Let few facts be submitted 10
prove this statement
About the time that Mr..
Stevens was asking the United
States Government to overthrow
the monarchy and to use wise
and bold action to overthrow
the monarchy, that is. about
fifty days before athe revolution.
the secret drifted to the Pacific
Coast that the bankrupt sugar
owners were by some hook or
crook going to offer the Islands
to the United States for annex
alton. SO the San Francisco
Examiner sent L. L. Williams
down to the Islands to find out
whether or not the people want
ed To annex. As Mr.. Williams
saws he found the natives strong
" opposed to annexation. The
natives represent almost nine
thousand out of fifteen thousand
voters. In investigating this
question Mr.. Williams sent out
list of questions to both houses
of the Legislature. and one Of
the questions was: How would
your people regard annexation
The answer of these questions
appear in this Examiner (Novem-
Der 2lst) a statement of each
member above his own signature.
Each member expresses the voice
of the people whom he represents
and when we have considered each
letter. we have the most anthem
tic poll of the Hawaiian voters
on annexation 10 existence today
Every one OF the members Of
the lower house who speak def
nitely on the matter at all state
positively that the people whom
he represents are against
annexation. The reason given
is not that they dislike the
United States. but that they
love their own country and
desire 10 remain independent
In this same Era,ainsr appears
the letters from the members Of
the upper house Bear in mind
that to be able to vote for
member of the upper house one
must own three thousand dollars
worth of property or earn six
hundred dollars year. So it
transpires that the members OF
the upper house are elected by
about twenty eight hundred
foreigners Yet among the whole
list elected by the foreign VOTES
we cannot find one who says,
when speaking definitely ON the
matter. that the natives want
to annex 10 the United States
Two Of the gentlemen who we're
COMMISSIONERS from the Proyis-
ional Government TO ask she
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-10-13

4
Witt In which be says:
I'm view of the critical cir
eurnstances = i request You
10 land marines and sailors
Where were these critical
circumstancesY' Not in the gov
eminent. or among the natives
Where then did they exist Why,
over here among the foreign
sugar conspirators- Indeed il was
critical circumstance " There
was the little flock OF foreigners
trying to overthrow the eonstitu-
! tional government so that they
could offer the Islands to the
United States for annexation.
aud at the same time they did
not have soldier in arms. Here
then were the foreign conspira-
tors without an armed soldier
trying to overthrow the Hawaiian
Government, which had FIVE
hundred men In arms. 1t was
critical circumstance. wasn't
| it? The Queen could have de-
stroyed the conspiracy in no
time, bat Mr.. Stevens landed the
United States troops and held
the Queen and the army at bay
until this conspiracy which was
organizing against the govern
ment could organize an army to
overthrow the government. And
| even when Blount went over
there, the Provisional Govern
ment which was offering itself to
the United States was still under
the protection of Mr. Stevens
and the army and with reluctance,
did President Dole see the q. S.
marines march ont OF the city.
We see then. that Mr.. Stevens
landed force of United States
marines, marched them into the
capital city of the islands, and
the Queen, seeing that she could
not resist the United States for
ces, quietly laid down her arms
and surrendered-to whoml To
the Provisional Government No,
the Provisional Government
could not at that time have over
powered corporals guard. She
surrendered to the United States.
and declared in the following
words:
Il. Liliuokalani, by the grace
of God, and under the Constitu
ton of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Queen, do hereby solemnly pro-
test against any and all acts
done against myself and the Con-
stitutional government of the
Hawaiian Kingdom by certain
persons claiming to have estab-
lished a Provisional Government
of and for this Kingdom; that
yield to the superior force Of b,e
United States Of Amsriea, whose
Minister Plenipotentiary, his
Excellency John L. Stevens. has
caused United States troops TO be
landed at Honolulu and declared
that be would support the said
Provisional Government
Let Us bring this home to
America. Suppose that at the
time the people OF the South were
working up conspiracy to divide
the Union. that large Union
army was in readiness &c squeich
the conspiracy Suppose that at
this time England with
much larger and stronger
army had landed and marched
between the forces OF the North
and the limited resources Of the
South. and had held the army OF
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Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-10-13

MI s1sCtNAAo s1ert"AA
IA that. previous to the revo-
luton. the Minister. in coniuction
with American citizens. was
working Cd conspiracy to over
throw the Hawaiian Islands and
annex them TO the United States
Let us read from this con-
fidential letter, and see whether
or not a conspiracy actually
existed. Minister Stevens after
speaking of the loss to the Amer
leans in the Islands on account
of the Mckinley Bill and It's ex-
cessive taxation says wise and
bold action Of the United States
will restore the property owners
from great loss, give the Islands
a Government that will put an
end to useless expenditure OF a
large portion of the revenues.
Mr.. Stevens simply proposes
to overthrow the Government
and rescue the property
owners. He then continues
and proposes bold and vigorous
measures for annexation. A
little farther along in this letter
be says, having for many years
extended a helping hand to the
Islands and encouraging the
American residents we cannot
refuse now from aiding them
with vigorous measures
I'VE cannot refrain from aid
ing the American residents In
the Islands, which shows that
the Americans are intending to
do something and he proposes to
aid them with vigorous mea-
sures. What to do7 to ''use
wise and hold action" to over
throw the Government. Then
what9 ''to use bold and vigorous
measures for annexation. Mr..
Stevens then brings climax by
expressing the opinion that 1.-The
golden hour is near at hand "
Remember that this letter was
written about fifty days before
he aided the American residents
with vigorous measures.
In this despatch Mr.. Stevens
publishes to the whole world that
he is chief among the conspira-
tors, and in plain language shows
his desire to overthrow the Ha-
waiian Government and rescue
the property owners. Can the
United States in consistency with
past principles annex these
islands until she has made herself
right before the world by undo
ing everything that this Minister
has dones Can the United States
afford to have the annexation of
the Hawaiian Islands 60 down
into history as having been pre-
viously worked up by the United
States Minister and American
citizensl
SECOND. l oppose the annexa-
ton of the Hawaiian Islands
under the present conditions.
because. it is nothing less than
a military conquest The des-
patch from which / read few
moments ago. was sent from
Hawaii about fifty days before
the revolution. In ii. Mr.. Stevens
asks for wise and bold action
to overthrow the monarchy and
rescue the property owners.
Let Us now read the dispatches
sent by Mr.. Stevens just after
the revelation. and see what part
be actually took in overthrowing
the monarchy and rescuing the
ownsrs- 1t is GER
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30
III WAS RESURRZCIbD.
The Novel Scheme of a Montana
Man.
HE DECEIVED HIS WIFE.
Seht Letters Notifying Her of His
Death.
The Mystery Unraveled by Sheriff BE-
Queen-A Stolen Horse and Buggy
Recovered-Lisht Day in the Po-
lice Court-Criminal News.

A remarkable case Of criminal duplicity
was brought to light by Sheriff Mcqueen
yesterday morning.
Some two months ago H. D. Hoeye, a
barber, left his home in Thompson's Falls,
M1ssoula county, Mon, and came to Salt
Lake, leaving his wife and children behind
him. Being man of good appearance
and some education, he succeeded in OBJ
tanning employment with the Consumers
Trading company, and seems to have
done we'll. Whether he intended to
abandon his family when he left Montana
is not known, but he certainly made up
his mind to get rid of them soon after ar
irving here, and he hit upon a novel
scheme to accomplish it.
About two weeks ago he wrote letter
to the sheriff OF Missoula county, sign
ing it I'll. H. David, and representing
himself as a deputy sheriff. In it he
| stated that man named IL. ID. Hoeye,
claiming to be from Thompson's Falls,
had died here recently and been buried by
the Knights OF Pythias. He wanted the
! sheriff to inform Hoeye's wife of the fact,
but to make sure that she would receive
the Information, wrote hera letter to the
same effect. After considering the matter,
the Montana officer reached the conclu-
sion that there twas colored gentleman
in the wood pile, and at once commune
Gated with Sheriff Mcqueen, stating the
facts and intimating his belief that Hoeye
and "David" were one and the same person.
He furnished the Salt Lake officer with
an accurate description of the supposed
dead man, who was speedily resurrected
by Sheriff Mcqueen.
I The Montana authorities forsaw the re-
suit, and yesterday Deputy Sheriff Goode
arrived from Thompson's Falls. He at
once identified ''David" as Hoeye, and
stated that the man was wanted in Mon
tana for embezzlement. The prisoner
did not have the nerve to deny his
identity, and said that he was willing to
accompany the officer back without re-
quiring him to procure papers.
During his residence in Salt Lake,
Hoeye has made a good many acquaint-
ances who were greatly surprised at the
sensational developments yesterday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30
Indian Sign Language.

Messrs. Painted Horse, Standing Bear,
Flat Iron, and Horse Comes Last, all
prominent citizens Of the Sioux nation,
showed the Folk Lore Congress last night
how easy it is to carry on a conversation
without speaking. Lieutenant II. L.
Scott, U. S. a, Fort Riley, Kan, stSod
by and interpreted the words exchanged
by the gentlemen from Dakota.
Lieutenant Scott has devoted his leisure
time during the years he has been sta
toned at frontier army posts to the study
of this subject. He has been with the In
dams on their hunting trips and excur-
slonS. using the sign language until he
has become thoroughly familiar with it.
Among other things Lieutenant Scott
said:
lit has been asserted and denied that
such thing exists as the sign language
of the Indians, but it is thought that this
issue would have been avoided by limit
ing this statement to the nomadic tribes
Of the great plains. AS to the unity of
the sign language used by the praire
tribes it will be instructive to compare it
with Professor Whitney's answer to the
question What, then, is the English
language?' We answer that it is the i'm
mense aggregate OF the articulate signs
for thought accepted by and current
among certain vast community.
Indians of all tribes unite in saying
that the sign language is ofvast antiquity
and that it was handed down to them as
We're their spoken languages. Those
who do the most travelling and meet the
greatest number of people Of different
! tongue have the greatest necessity for its
use. The Comanches are less versed in
its use than any other plains tribe, be-
cause the Comanche is the court language
of the Southern plains and all need of any
other means of communication was con-
sequently but little felt. While many of
the signs are Immediately suggestive of
the object they are intended to represent,
others are greatly abbreviated and conven-
tionalized beyond recognition. Most of
them are made with graceful and flowing
gestures, for the Indian, never being
crowded for time, prefers grace of motion
TO rapidity of execution.
''There are few postures or facial ex-
pressions in the sign language, most of
the Thoughts being expressed by the
hands. 1t is a living language, for new
signs are constantly being brought into
use to describe new objects and associa-
tions. 1t is a copious language and is
capable OF entirely supplanting the
spoken language.
Lieutenant Scott, when he had finished
reading his paper, seated himself beside
the red men and carried on sign CONVEX
sation with them lasting ten minutes,
in which each Indian gave his name and
4 genealogy, told where ne lived, and ex-
changed compliments with General Miles
who was seated on the platform. - Chi
cdqO Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30
Talent in the Royal Family.

A few weeks ago a full length statue OF
Queen Victoria was unveiled at Kensing
ton. The statue was the work of the
Princess Louise who, exacted her fee of
81, 500 as any professional sculptor would
have done. The Marchioness of Lorne
desired it to be understood that the statue
was the work not of a princess, but OF an
artist. The payment of the money was
the test of her success in her profession.
A few weeks ago an English journal pub
lished a number of original drawings by
the queen. They were simple, unpre-
tending sketches of her children
when they were young, and Of her dogs,
but had character, feeling, and gave evil
dence of talent that under other cir
cumstances might have become more i'm
portant. The reproduction OF the painting
given, which is called "War, " was painted
by the Empress Frederick when Princess
Royal. so long ago as 1850. The drawing
can scarcely render the melancholy senti-
ment of the vast plain hghtened by the
last rays OF the sun, which enforces the
meaning of the pathetic group in the
foreground. The devotion of the En-
press Frederick to art leads her into
strange paths, and has recently been
a source of annoyance to the Eng
lish people. 1t seems that during
her present sojourn she has made
frequent VISITS TO Lady wallace, -Che
widow of Sir Richard Wallace, whose
collection of works of art equipped the
Bethnal Green museum among the poor
of the East end of London, notwithstand-
ing some violation of some social ordi-
nances there held to be insurmountabie.
Not only has the Empress Frederick done
this, but she has engaged herself in tea
drinklngs at the home of Sir Francis
Cook, whose collection of works of art is
I've 70 hot Of oh r1f oil
lace. The wife of Sir Francis Cook, it
will be recalled, was once better known
here as Miss Tennessee Clafiin.-Nel0
! York EveDin1 SIM
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30
PERSONAL ITEMS.

GEORGE w. THATCHER, of Logan, was
seen on our streets yesterday.
P. J. QUEALY, manager OF the Rock
Springs coal mines, Is guest OF the
Knutsford.
w, G. HENNEBERG, of Omaha, is here
in the interests of the E. NJ. Hulse COM
pany, manufacturers of lounges.
MRS. d. P. ADKINS, OF Platt City,
Wyoming, is visiting her son, E. r. Ad-
kins, of the Union Pacific hotel.
E. E. NICHOLS, proprietor of the Cliff
house ut Manitou, and his son, W. w.
Nichols, are stopping at the Knuts1ord.
MRS. VIM. SKYRME and Misses Addie,
Mabel and Bessie Skyrme, family of the
foreman of the Ontario mine are at the
Walker.
Al. SMITH, Butte, W. Gage, Poca-
tello, A. B. Potter, Denver, and O..
North, Evanston, are quartered at the
Walker.
THOMAS J. BURKE, a prominent CAPT
talist OF Denevr, IS passing through here
on his way from Honolulu. He is at the
Knutsford.
VIII. VAN CL1EF, of Denver, repre-
senting the great Topeka Lithographing
company-Rall & O'Donaid-is guest OF
the Templeton.
w. ". WOOD, OF Omaha, general west
ern agent of the Cudahy Packing COM
pany. dropped into the Templeton yester-
day and registered.
PROF. KINGsBURY has returned from
an eastern trip whose itinerary included
the fair and several of our great national
colleges and universities.
r. G. THURsTON, manager of the Rail-
way and Hotel Gazette Publishing COM
PAW arrived last evening from Denver
and put up at the Templeton.
HON. DAVID EVANS, the staunch Demo
cratic leader of the upper house of the
last legislature, graced the corridors Of
the Walker last night with his presence.
He is down on business.
B. A.. McMILLEN, of Ogden, A. A. Ca
hoon, of Mt. Pleasant, G. S. Dyer and ii.
G. johnson, American Fork, w. HI. Kie-
gan, Deseret, NJ. Dusseldorf, Park City,
are at the Walker.
MRS. A. TRAvERs, of New York, came
in yesterday with the intention OF staying
only few hours, but after leaving the
Templeton soon came back and took {
room with the intention of stopping some
time in our sbeautiful CITY,"
F, G. PITCHER leaves this morning fol
his home in Maine. Since his arrival il
Salt Lake about two months ago Mr.
Pitcher has been engaged in the erection
of a handsome brick business block OF
Commercial street.
HAVE your watch repaired by j. II
Leyson company, 12S Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30
WHY HE WAS CHEERED.
Took Him for the Brother of the Man
Who Was Hanged.


Some persons find it very difficult to
distinguish whether they are being
laughed at or s'laughed with, - as the
expression goes, and many public
speaker and actor has appropriated ap-
plause that was meant for some other
person or for some incident wholly apart
from his speech or acting.
Mr.. Wilson Barrett, the English actor,
relates to Harpe1's Young People, a story
of his enthusiastic reception by Dublin
audience soon after Fenian outbreak:
Little did / expect he said, .'the
cheers which greeted my first appearance.
Every speech was greeted with torrent
OF applause, and, being at that time a
young man, certainly felt myself per-
son OF considerable Importance before l
got through the first act
Finally he said to the property man OF
the theatres:
Ga very warm AUDIENCE
Yes, sir; very warm
s'Are Irish audiences often as warm?''
'sNot Often"
"They seem to like my acting very
much?''
s'The actin'?O returned the property
man; lit is not that at all. They are af-
ter taking you for relation of Barrett
that was hanged